Their going on in that manner is
worse than open war."
[Footnote 47: _Le Ministre a la Galissoniere, 14 Mai, 1749_.]
[Footnote 48: _Memoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760_. The charges made here
and elsewhere are denied, somewhat faintly, by a descendant of La
Jonquiere in his elaborate _Notice biographique_ of his ancestor.]
[Footnote 49: _Le Ministre a La Jonquiere, Mai, 1749_. The instructions
given to La Jonquiere before leaving France also urge the necessity of
destroying Oswego.]
[Footnote 50: _Ordres du Roy et Depeches des Ministres; a MM. de la
Jonquiere et Bigot, 15 Avril, 1750_. See Appendix A. for original.]
[Footnote 51: _Ordres du Roy et Depeches des Ministres, 1750_.]
[Footnote 52: Chalmers, _Collection of Treaties_, I. 382.]
[Footnote 53: _La Jonquiere a Clinton, 10 Aout, 1751_.]
[Footnote 54: Deposition of Morris Turner and Ralph Kilgore, in
_Colonial Records of Pa._, V. 482. The deponents had been prisoners at
Detroit.]
The French on their side made counter-accusations. The captive traders
were examined on oath before La Jonquiere, and one of them, John Patton,
is reported to have said that Croghan had instigated Indians to kill
Frenchmen.[55] French officials declared that other English traders were
guilty of the same practices; and there is very little doubt that the
charge was true.
[Footnote 55: _Precis des Faits, avec leurs Pieces justificatives_,
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