. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. ity. After seeing things in train here, Nicholsonand Vetch went round to New York by water, callingat Newport and New Haven on their way, in order tohasten matters to the utmost. Finding everything working to theirwishes, they contin-ued their voyage toNew York. Here they weredoomed to meet withdisai^ York, indeed,no longer hesitatedto cast off the tram-mels of a (/^iasz-neu-trality, and throwher whole weight in-to the contest. Wellshe might. Subju-gated Canada woulddivert the Indiantrade of th
. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. ity. After seeing things in train here, Nicholsonand Vetch went round to New York by water, callingat Newport and New Haven on their way, in order tohasten matters to the utmost. Finding everything working to theirwishes, they contin-ued their voyage toNew York. Here they weredoomed to meet withdisai^ York, indeed,no longer hesitatedto cast off the tram-mels of a (/^iasz-neu-trality, and throwher whole weight in-to the contest. Wellshe might. Subju-gated Canada woulddivert the Indiantrade of the greatNorthw^est fromMontreal and Que-bec, to Albany and New York. With New Jersey andPennsylvania it was different. Kecently settled, largelyPennsylvania ^7 Quakers, wlio ablioiTcd the very nameand New Jersey of war, the former colouy would vote onlya money grant of X3,000, while the latterrefused aid of any sort. The loss of men in this quarterwas, however, made good, in part, by six hundred Iroquois 1 As the treasury was empty, New York for the first time issued bills of TEE TEE NEEN HO GA RON, EMPEROR OP THESIX NATIONS. 1709-1710] INVASION OP CANADA FAILS 253 warriors, whose wives and children were maintained atthe public expense during the campaign. Nicholson wasput in command of this force, reckoned at 1,500 men,which took up its line of march for Lake Army at Champlain, cutting roads and building Wood Creek,forts as it slowly advanced over ground destined to be-come the scene of far more momentous events in thefuture. At Wood Creek the army halted to wait fornews of the sailingof the other branchof the expedition,before resuming itsforward movementupon Montreal. Meanwhile, thetransports andtroops assembled atBoston lay waitingfrom May to Sep-tember, in daily ex-pectation of the ar-rival of the prom-ised squadron andregiments Royai aidout of *^^- England. They wait-ed in vain. It wasnot until Octoberthat a ship arrivedwith the unwelcome news that the royal troop
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