were practically no
residents in what became the Province of Upper Canada and is now the
Province of Ontario. The letter is to be found in the _Canadian
Archives_, B. 217, p. 21: as no further record appears, it is to be
presumed that an order was made for sale by the Sheriff.

The Report of James Monk Attorney-General at Quebec about to be
mentioned is to be found in the _Canadian Archives_, B. 207, p. 105.

[17] In the same year a much wronged Negro petitioned Haldimand. His
petition dated at Quebec, October 17, 1778, reads: "To His Excellency
Frederick

Haldimand, Governor & Commander in Chief of all Kanady and the
territories thereunto belonging,

The Petition of Joseph King humbly sheweth that Your Petitioner has
been twice taken by the Yankys and sold by them each time at Public
Vendue: he has made his escape and brought two white men through the
woods: he was a servant to Captain McCoy last winter in Montreal and
came here (Quebec) last spring. Your Petitioner has gone through many
Perils and Dangers of his life for making his escape from the Yankeys.
He hoaps that Your Excellency through the abundance of Your
Benevolence will grant him his liberty for which your poor Petitioner
as in Duty bound will ever pray." _Canadian Archives_, B. 217, p. 324.

[18] In the Petition referred to _post_, Mrs. La Force states that her
husband was "late of Virginia."

[19] I have followed the Powell MSS. in spelling, capitalization, etc.

[20] They were taken in an expedition nominally under Captain Bird but
he had little control over the Indians and had only a few men of his
own British Regulars. He had had bitter experience of the cruelty and
unreliability of the Indians in 1779 but had to go with them in 1780.
This was not one of the two large Forts which Bird took in his 1780
expedition, Fort Liberty and Martin's Station, but a smaller
fortification. It was taken June 26, 1780 (_Can. Arch._, B. 172, 480);
that there were several small forts is certain; that some of the
prisoners brought to Detroit were from the small forts and that they
(or some of them) were not rebels appears from the letter from De
Peyster of August 4, 1780 (_Canadian Archives_, B. 100, p. 441): "In a
former letter to the Commander in Chief," said he, "I observed that it
would be dangerous having so many Prisoners here but I then thought
those small Forts were occupied by a different set of people."

[21] The well-known so-called Renegade, is in