Freshwater Passages: The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond

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317 NOTES introduction 1. Mackenzie,“General History,” 128. 2. Franklin, Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, 203. 1. provincial soldier 1. Federal Writers’ Project, The History of Milford. 2. Estate of Zachariah Hubbart of Fairfield, 1769, Probate Records, csl. 3. Old Milford Families, Pond Collection, box 7, folder 6. nhm. 4. The elder Peter Pond’s name appears on an undated list of Episcopalian parishioners in West Haven and Derby under the care of Reverend Jonathan Arnold, who between 1737 and 1739 was an Episcopalian missionary serving West Haven, Derby, and Waterbury.“West Haven and Derby Episcopalian Paper,”in Ecclesiastical Affairs, ser. 1, 10:328a&b, csl. 5. Old Milford Families, Pond Collection, nhm; Second Society Milford–Baptisms, Old Milford Families, 1639–1907, Bryant Collection, nhm. 6. P.Pond,“Narrative, ”18.The best published version is“The Narrative of Peter Pond, ” in Gates,Five Fur Traders of the Northwest.The original journal is in the Pond Family Papers ms 638, sml. While both the Gates version and the original have been consulted,all citations refer to the Gates edition.Most of Gates’s editing has been preserved,but I have added punctuation,eliminated capital letters and spaces that appear in the middle of words,and added clarifying words and letters in brackets. 7. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 18. 8. Milford ct, Town Meetings, 1696–1827, vol. 2, p. 11, csl. 9. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 18–19; Pond’s name appears in the surviving muster roll of the company, Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755–1762, I, chs Coll. ix, 105. 10. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 18. 11. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 18. 12. P. Pond,“Narrative,”18. On Peter Pond the elder’s trade see Peter Pond, Inventory of Estate, May 1765, Probate Records, csl. Useful genealogies include S. Abbott, 318 ∙ notes to pages 14–27 Families of Early Milford; N.Pond,“The Ponds of Milford, ”161–76; M.Pond,Pioneer Pond People. 13. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 19; Selesky, War and Society, 149. 14. P. Pond, “Narrative,” 19. The population of Milford in 1756 was 1,633 (Federal Writers’ Project, History of Milford, 44). 15. R. White, The Middle Ground, 50–93, 223–48. 16. Anderson, The Crucible of War, 33–85; Steele, Warpaths, 179–96. 17. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 18. 18. Anderson, A People’s Army, 196–223. 19. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 19. 20. P. Pond,“Narrative,”19. The fort on Lake George was named Fort William Henry in 1756. It was destroyed in 1757 and rebuilt in 1758 as Fort George. 21. Charles Lee to Miss Sidney Lee, June 18, 1756, Lee Papers, I, n–yhs Coll. 1871, 3. 22. Captain Edmund Wells Diary, 1756–1757, csl. 23. Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755–1762, I, chs Coll. ix, 105. 24. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 20. 25. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 19–20. 26. Rockey, History of New Haven County, 222; Selesky, War and Society, 151–52; P. Pond,“Narrative,” 20. 27. Anderson, Crucible of War, 240–49; Charles Lee, “Narrative,” in Charles Lee to Sydney Lee, September 16, 1758, Lee Papers I, n–yhs Coll. 1871, 9. 28. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 21. 29. Quoted in Gipson, The Great War for the Empire; The Victorious Years, 222. 30. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 21. 31. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 22. 32. Charles Lee,“Narrative,” in Charles Lee to Sydney Lee, September 16, 1758, Lee Papers I, n–yhs Coll. 1871, 11. 33. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 23. 34. Bougainville, Adventures in the Wilderness, 231–34. 35. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 23. 36. Charles Lee,“Narrative,” in Charles Lee to Sydney Lee, September 16, 1758, Lee Papers I, n–yhs Coll. 1871, 13. 37. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 23. 38. Charles Lee to Sydney Lee, September 16, 1758, and enclosed “Narrative,” Lee Papers I, n–yhs Coll. 1871, 8–13; Hollister, The History of Connecticut, 84. 39. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 23. 40. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 24. 41. New York Colonial Muster Rolls, 1:947. 42. P. Pond,“Narrative,” 24. notes to pages 27–35 ∙ 319 43. This was likely New York provincial Captain Tobias Van Zandt of New York City. An orderly book from the expedition records an order issued on June 29 at Oswego: “A sergeant of Capt. Holmeses Company or potters to Join Captain Van Zandts Company” (“The Prideaux and Johnson Orderly Book”pswj, 3:58). Pond had enlisted as a member...