Dawson thinks that the merit of originating the active measures cannot be taken from Benedict Arnold, and in his chapter (_Battles of the United States_, i. ch. 2) on the subject traces minutely the sources of each step in the progress of events, and in his Appendix (p. 38) prints the protest (May 10th, p. 38) of the Connecticut committee against Arnold's interference and Arnold's report (May 11th, p. 38) to the Massachusetts Congress.[629] There are some of the current reports preserved in Moore's _Diary of the Amer. Revolution_ (i. pp. 78-80), and the account, which ignores Arnold, of the _Worcester Spy_ (May 16th) is given in the _Amer. Bibliopolist_ (1871, p. 491). There are other contemporary accounts in the _American Archives_ (vols. ii. and iii.); a journal by Elmer is in the _New Jersey Hist. Soc. Proc._, vols. ii. and iii.; a Tory account in Jones's _New York during the Revolutionary War_ (vol. i. pp. 47, 546), with a letter of May 14th.[630] Narratives by Caldwell and Beaman are in the _Historical Magazine_, August, 1867, and May, 1868, respectively.[631]
=H.= THE CANADA CAMPAIGN, 1775-1776.—Washington in New York, June 25th, entrusted to Schuyler the command in the North (Lossing's _Schuyler_, i. 330; Jones's _N. Y. during the Rev. War_, 58), and Congress issued (May 29, 1775) an address to the Canadians (_Journal of Congress_; Pitkin's _United States_, i. App. 19). In August it was reported that this address was left at the door of every house in Canada. Schuyler reached Ticonderoga July 18th (Lossing's _Schuyler_, i. ch. 21; Palmer's _Lake Champlain_, ch. 6; Irving's _Washington_, ii.), and pushed on to the foot of Lake Champlain in September (Lossing, i. ch. 23).
Among the early reports, inducing the project of invading Canada, were the letters of Maj. John Brown (Aug. 14, 1775) and Ethan Allen (Sept. 14th) respecting the condition of the Canadians (Sparks's _Corresp. of the Rev._, i. 461, 464). There are other letters on the state of Canada at this time in the _N. H. Prov. Papers_, vii. 515, 547, 561-62, 569. The Schuyler Papers, with the letters which they contain of Montgomery, Arnold, Wooster, and Sullivan, are a main source of information respecting the whole campaign.[632]