Missionaries: in parishes in neighbour-
hood of Montreal complain of neglect and indifferent treatment, ii. 485. Missionaries, British; few sent by col- onists among Indians, ii. 416. Missionary priests [French]: appeal to jealousy of Indians, ii. 375; their devotion to duty, 396; their presence a comfort and consolation to the Indian, 416.
Mississippi: discovery of, i. 399; at- tracts attention, 401; descent by Jolliet and Marquette, 401-404; de La Salle's descent of, 484-486; early Spanish expeditions to, 487; mouths of, iv. 214; fort upon, 225; country north of attracts attention, 252; first settlements made north of the Illinois, 270.
Mobile: established, iii. 221; furs stored there, 223.
Mohawk river: description of, iii. 537 ;
the carrying-place, 538. Mohawks attack Dupuy, i. 235; at- tack island of Orleans, 236; carry off prisoners chanting song of victory before Quebec, 236; demand incor- poration of Hurons, 239; their ag- gression, 264; offer peace [1663], 312; their treachery, 312. Monceau, de: [see d'Anteuil the younger].
Monckton, Robert, brigadier: ordered
to attack fort Beauséjour, iii. 495; sent to Boston to complete organiza- tion, 495; detached to the Saint John, iv. 151; ascends the river and destroys settlement, 152; appointed second in command at Quebec, 223: his services, 225; takes possession of Point Levis, 244; severely wounded at Quebec, 284. Mondelet, Dominique, judge: his de- scription of the regne militaire,"
Money early currency, i. 155. Monroe, lieutenant-colonel : defends fort William Henry, iv. 24; sum- moned to surrender by Montcalm,
34; will defend his fort, 35; sends messages to Webb, 55; strength of garrison, 56; his capitulation, 63, [see William Henry].
Monseignat, de: reflections on Phips' attack, ii. 248; 340n. ; clerk of Con- seil Supérieur, 420.
Montagnais: the tribe of, i. 33; 71. Montcalm, Louis Joseph, de: his young years and character, iii. 551; his memory not esteemed in Canada, 552; organizes attack of Oswego, 562; leaves fort Frontenac, 562; arrives before Oswego, 563: attacks fort, 564 its surrender, 565; prison- ers taken, 565; his conduct Oswego, 569; song in his honour, 570; returns to Montreal, iv. I; his success made complete by Webb's proceedings, I; proceeds to Carillon, 6; unsatisfactory relations with de Vaudreuil, 6; objects to la petite guerre, 7; opposed to marriages of young officers, 16; recommends men be encouraged to marry, 17; his dis- like of high play, 17; arrives at Ticon- deroga, 49; advances against William Henry, 51; joins de Lévis before fort, 53; sends summons of surren der, 54; his letter, 54; difficulty in absolving him from blame for subse- quent proceedings, 54; strength of his force, 59n.; character of Indian force, 60; sends Webb's intercepted letter to Monroe, 61; opens his bat- teries, receives order of Saint Louis, 61; his judgment in dealing with the Indians, 62; surrender of fort, 62; terms granted, 63; massacres by Indians, a stain on his character, 67; his subsequent conduct, 68; his letter to de Moras, 79; his description of Canada, 86; arrives at Ticonderoga, 162; passes to left bank of river, 163; his force at the intrenchment, 166; repulses assault on his position, 170; leaves for Montreal, 190; op. posed to maintenance of forts at far distances, 217; orders grain to be
gathered in, 219; arrives at Quebec, 221; rejects money sent by Wolfe to grenadier for saving Ochterlony, 255; proceeds to Dechambeau, 258: sends a battalion to Sillery, 267; hears of Wolfe's landing, 277; orders forces to Quebec, 277; no alternative but to fight, 279; French losses, 28on.; 286; mortally wounded, 285; his death, 286; his monument at Quebec, 304. Montigny, de: with de Ramezay's ex- pedition, ii. 448.
Montigny, de, Sieur: [see Laval]. Montmagny, Charles Huault, de: gov- ernor, i. 158; traces plan of Quebec, 159; visits Three Rivers, 160; op- poses settlement at Montreal, 182; accompanies de Maisonneuve, 183; builds fort on Richelieu, 185; at- tempts to make peace, 187; retires from his office, 190. Montmorency: taken possession of by Wolfe, iv. 246; Indians under de Repentigny, from ambush, attack detachment from, 251. Montmorency, de: appointed to vice- royalty, i. 60 ; writes Champlain, 61; executed, 104. Montorgueuil, captain: Chedabucto, ii. 346. Montreal [Mont Royal]: selected by Champlain for settlement, i. 37; traces of Indian cultivation, 37; spoken of by him as "le sault," 39; several vessels at in [1611], 39; Champlain may be considered the founder, 54; first settlement, 176; the site named by père le Jeune, 177; foundation of the city, 183; settle- ment escapes notice, 183; first Iro- quois attack, 184; first marriage and birth, 225.; fort attacked, 247; defended, 248; affected by Indian hostility, 249; described in [1661], 268; parish church established, 278; Albany traders frequenting, iii. 287; employment given on fortifications, owing to distress, 288; fortifications extended, their cost, 358; surrender
Montreuil, de: second in command
attack of Johnson, iii. 524; his ne- glect of Dieskau, 534. Monts, de: i. 14; expedition leaves France, 23; prejudiced against Canada, 24; proceeds to St. Croix, Acadia, 25; abandons settlement, 26; returns to France, 27; arrives at Port Royal to carry back settlers to France, 29; resolves on new explorations, 29; determines to pro- ceed to the Saint Lawrence, 29; joins Champlain at La Rochelle, 40. Moody, colonel: arrives at Placentia,
Moody, Rev. Mr. : his grace at banquet capture of Louisbourg, iii. 318n. Moore, governor of south Carolina : attacks saint Augustin, iii. 222. Moranget, nephew of de La Salle : sails on expedition, ii. 128; attacks Indians, 141; desires stores to be brought from Martinique, 141; starts with de La Salle for Canada, 153; murdered, 156.
Morel: an official friend of de Seignelay, ii. 127.
Mornay, Duplessis de: appointed co- adjutor bishop, iii. 262; succeeds de Saint Vallier, 262; sends authority to de Lotbinière to administer diocese, 262; resigns his see, 284.
Morris, major sent to Cape Sable, iv. 151.
Mortmain law enforced, iii. 359; its conditions, 360.
Mosquito, the i. 156 and n.
Moulton commands attack against Norridgewock, iii. 190.
Moxus, Indian chief: ii. 355- Murders near Montreal: i. 381. Murray, James, brigadier [son of lord Elibank] appointed to a command, iv. 227; his service, 227; letters shew unfriendliness to Wolfe, 227; in command of troops sent up the Saint Lawrence, 257; attacks Pointe aux Trembles, beaten back, 257; estab- lishes himself at Saint Antoine, 257; attacks Dechambeau, 257; appointed governor of Quebec, 293; his want of money, 298; obtains it from the troops and navy, 298; position of his government, 356; deficiency in firewood, 356; prisoners of war embarked, 357: fleet sails away, 357; his arrangements with regard to cord- wood, 357; fortifies Saint Foy, 357; discipline maintained, 358; garrison suffers from cold, 359; regulates markets, 359; establishes value of coin, 359; hears reports of intended attack of garrison, 360; takes pos- session of Point Lévis, 360; sickness of garrison, 361; his want of money, 361; expects attack to be made, 364; fortifies Cap Rouge, 364; orders Canadian inhabitants to leave town, 365; story of the gunner on the ice, 365; refuted by Murray's diary, 365; hears of landing of French, 366; with- draws his outposts, 366; trying con- dition of weather, 366; marches his force outside the walls, 368; numbers of British troops present, 368; 369n.; battle of 28th April, 368; British retire, 369; British losses, 369; de- fends city, 371; sends "Racehorse" to Halifax, 372; in letter to Halifax explains his reasons for fighting out- side of walls, 372; days of the siege, 373; arrival of "the Lowestoff," 373; other ships follow, 373; Col- ville's ships two days later, 373; ascends the Saint Lawrence, 383; with his force advances to Montreal by water, 394; issues proclamation, 394; lands at Sorel, burns place,
395; feels "cruel necessity," 395; arrives at Contrecœur, 396; receives proposal of surrender from de Vau- dreuil, 396; preparations for opposi- tion to his advance, 402; lands on island of Montreal, 402; appointed governor of Quebec, 441; governor- general, 463; reports distress at Quebec and its relief, 464. Musgrave, Dr.: iv. 496. Muys, de, governor of Louisiana: his death, iii. 224.
Natchez: visited by d'Iberville, iii. 216; children thrown into flames, 216; fort built by de Bienville, 232; shew bad spirit, 237; outbreak, 238; massacre of French, 238; defeated by de Loubois, 240; conquered by Perrier, 241.
Naudière, Mde. de la: mentioned from the pulpit, ii. 288.
Naxouat, fort: erected by de Villebon,
ii. 355; chiefs called upon to attend here, 367; attacked by colonel Haw- thorne, 383.
Negroes laws regarding, iii. 237n. Nelson, John taken prisoner to Que- bec, ii. 350; kindness of to de Meneval, 364; gives warning to Boston of proposed attack of, 364. Nesmond, marquis de: sent with fleet to attack Boston, ii. 316; returns to France, 318.
Neutral tribe: attacked by Senecas, i. 204.
Newcastle, duke of: iii. 164; his neglect of Nova Scotia, 165; his ignorance of American affairs, 327: attempts to find support in the house of commons, iv. 92; selects sir Thomas Robinson, 93; administra- tion affected by Braddock's defeat, 94; resigns, 96; dismissed by Bute, 487; his dignified conduct, 487. New England colonies: their activity,
i. 114; their foundation, 191; felt power of New France, ii. 445. Newfoundland: taken possession of by Dumont, i. 285; squadron arrives from France [1697], iii. 32; d'Iber- ville's campaign, 33; attack of by French, iv. 493; Bute's sacrifice of the fisheries, 498. New France: opinion in France un- favourable to [1630], i. 102; fear that colony would drain France of its population, 103: value of its fisheries and mines recognized by Richelieu, 104.
New Orleans: founded, iii. 233;
visited by Charlevoix, 233n.; gender of the word in French, 233n.; seat of government, 236. "New subjects," the: Gage's opinion concerning, iv. 441; the king's in- structions regarding, 450; difference of treatment to that of former times, 451; estimate held of the habitants under French rule, 451; their politi- cal education by the proclamations made, 451; first raised to independ- ence under British rule, 451; their treatment by Gage, 455; no brighter passage in imperial history, 466. New York: an English colony, i. 355; taken by Dutch, 413: feeling with regard to attack on Schenectady, ii. 442; difficulties with provincial troops, iii. 328; currency, 330n.; 449n.; province would attend to her own Indians only, 449; legislature attempts to conciliate Six Nations,
Niagara, falls of: supposed early allu-
sion to, i. 22. Niagara, fort: traced out by de Tonty
and Hennepin, i. 457; established by de Denonville, ii. 85; abandoned, 86; construction recommended by Joncaire, 436; built by Joncaire, 512; visited by Charlevoix, 512; complained of by Burnet, 513; com- menced by de Léry, 516; placed in condition, iii. 202; its situation, iv.
311; attacked by Prideaux, 322; meeting of Indians there, 323; de- fended by Pouchot, 324; advance of reinforcements from Ohio forts, 325; defeated by Johnson, 325; prisoners taken and losses, 325; surrenders, 326; terms of capitulation, 327; French losses and prisoners taken, 327; consequences of its loss, 328 and n.
Niagara, river: de La Salle constructs fort at Lewiston, i. 453. Nicholson, colonel Francis: appointed to command expedition against Que- bec, ii. 444; his career, 445; ad- vances to lake Champlain, 446; arrives at Boston, iii. 96; operations against Port Royal, 97-101; cour- tesies with de Subercase, IOI ; names place Annapolis, 102; his letter to de Vaudreuil, 103.; his rancour against Vetch, 128; summons meet- ing of inhabitants, 133. Nichols, colonel: at Half-way brook, iv. 177.
Nicollet, Jean: an interpreter, i. 175; his discoveries, 212; his career, 213; marries Marguerite Couillard, 213; first white man who reached lake Michigan, 214.
Nicolls, colonel Richard: governor of New York, i. 354.
Nika: Indian hunter with de La Salle, ii. 153; murdered, 156.
Niverville, de: sent to the Saskat chewan, iii. 413; a canoe with ten men ascends river, they report hav- ing reached les montagnes des roches, 413.
Noble, colonel in command at Grand
Pré, attacked, iii. 347; killed, 348; his troops without snow-shoes,
Noblesse of Canada: their condition as described by de Denonville, ii. 65. Norridgewock attacked [1722], iii. 182; attacked [1724], 190. Norris, sir John: fails to attack French fleet, iii. 299.
Norton, Rev. John: at fort Massa- chusetts, iii. 333; his history, 333n. Notaries: the duty of, iii. 359. Notre Dame des Victoires: church of, ii. 248.
Nova Scotia: severed from New Eng- land, ii. 374; possible design of jacobites to restore to France, iii. 121; contrast of the conduct of the French and English ministers with regard to, 140; meeting of council [1720], 142; failure of Great Britain to establish sufficient garrisons, 145; condition of [1721], 148; uncared for by the politicians at home in the time of George I., 148; with pro- tection, settlement would have come from New England, 149; estab- lishment of garrisons recommended, 151; attention directed to, owing to cession of Louisbourg, 418; Halifax, foundation of, 419; settlements of Acadians, 420; council offer reward for Indian scalps, 428; no Roman catholic settler permitted, 441. Noyan, Payan de: commanded at fort Frontenac, iv. 184n.
Noyau, de: duel with de Lorimier, ii. 219.
Noyelles, de: attacks Sakis, iii. 278; grants peace, 278.
Noyrot, de, recollet father: sent to France, i. 77; returns to Canada, 79.
Oath reign of William III., altered, iii. 154.; administered to French Canadians on submission, iv. 371n. Ochiltree, lord: i. 101n.
Ochterlony, captain: his death, iv. 255.
Ohio French claim to, iii. 297; attracts attention of de la Galisson- nière, 390; no claim for pretensions of French sovereignty, 396; expedition of de Céloron, 396-408; four British traders arrested, 416; Gist's explora-
tions, 446; Croghan's explorations, 447; description of, 447; influence of English traders, 449; the Indians pass to side of French, 451. "Old Killick": iv. 241n.
Olier, M. founder St. Sulpice, i. 178; sends priests to Montreal, 240. "One hundred associates": company established by Richelieu, i. 92; re- duced to forty-five, 284; abandon their charter, 293. Oneidas: send deputation to Mont- real, iv. I.
Onion river [Ouinoisqui]: ii. 414. Onondagas: apply for jesuit mission, i. 226; send deputation, 233; destroy tribe of Eries, 239; danger of de- tachment sent, 242; French escape from, by stratagem, 242; wait upon de Tracy, 335; agree to mediate between Senecas and French, ii. 50; terms accepted by de la Barre, 56; send embassy to de Frontenac, 296; sent deputation to Montreal, iv. I declare themselves neutral, 4. Ononthio: meaning of, ii. 105n. Orleans, island of: attacked by Iro-
quois, i. 195; notices on church door, iv. 242, description of, 242. Orme, captain Robert: aide-de-camp of Braddock, iii. 465; his journal, 465n.
Oswego, established by Burnet : ii. 514; protested against by Christian Iroquois, 515; reinforced, iii. 468; Shirley arrives there, 538; weak condition of garrison, 550; attacked by Montcalm, 564; its surrender, 565; depressing influence arising from its loss, 567; conduct of French Indians at siege, 569; consequences of its capture, iv. 2; 3n.; Indian massacres on taking, 19n.; its im- portance admitted, 27; 28; provis ions arrive in bad condition, 28; its recognized importance, 312; attack- ed by Saint Luc de la Corne, 321. Ottawa river rapids to Portage du Fort, i. 45n.
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