[159] _Abstract of the Journal of the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay._
[160] _King to Secretary St. John, 25 July, 1711._
[161] The number demanded from Massachusetts was one thousand, and that raised by her was eleven hundred and sixty. _Dudley to Walker, 27 July, 1711._
[162] Walker prints this letter in his Journal. Colonel King writes in his own Journal: "The conquest of Canada will naturally lead the Queen into changing their present disorderly government;" and he thinks that the conviction of this made the New Englanders indifferent to the success of the expedition.
[163] The above is drawn from the various lists and tables in Walker, _Journal of the Canada Expedition_. The armed ships that entered Boston in June were fifteen in all; but several had been detached for cruising. The number of British transports, store-ships, etc., was forty, the rest being provincial.
[170] Compare Walker, _Journal_, 45, and _Ibid._, 127, 128. He elsewhere intimates that his first statement needed correction.
[171] _Report of ye Soldiers, etc., Lost._ (Public Record Office.) This is a tabular statement, giving the names of the commissioned officers and the positions of their subordinates, regiment by regiment. All the French accounts of the losses are exaggerations.
[173] Vetch, _Journal_. His statement is confirmed by the report of the council.
[174] _Report of a Consultation of Sea Officers belonging to the Squadron under Command of Sir Hovenden Walker, Kt., 25 August, 1711._ Signed by Walker and eight others.
[175] _Vetch to Walker, 26 August, 1711._
[176] Walker, _Journal, Introduction_, 25.
[178] Schuyler, _Colonial New York_, ii. 48.
[179] _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 25 Octobre, 1711._
[180] _Déposition de François de Marganne, Sieur de la Valterie; par devant Nous, Paul Dupuy, Ecuyer, Conseiller du Roy, etc., 19 Octobre, 1711._
[181] _Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier et l'Histoire de l'Hôpital Général de Quebec_, 209.
[182] Juchereau, _Histoire de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec_, 473-491. La Ronde Denys says that nearly one thousand men were drowned, and that about two thousand died of injuries received. _La Ronde au Ministre, 30 Décembre, 1711._
[183] Some exaggeration was natural enough. Colonel Lee, of the Rhode Island contingent, says that a day or two after the wreck he saw "the bodies of twelve or thirteen hundred brave men, with women and children, lying in heaps." _Lee to Governor Cranston, 12 September, 1711._