as a thing we are to expect" - N.Y. Assembly votes money for extensive defence works Clarke says that though French claim all land in Great Lakes watershed, boundary through Lakes is more than they can expect Clarke says "peopling" of country north of Saratoga with recently arrived British families will strengthen frontier and trade Clarke warns of need to resist French settlement of property between Crown Point and Albany long since purchased from Indigenous people Governor of Canada insists on claim to Great Lakes watershed, but gifts local claim near Crown Point to "Mohawks and his own Indians" New Hampshire lieutenant governor warns of province's "very defenceless condition," including fort that can't even keep cattle out Arthur Dobbs thinks discovery of Northwest Passage might make possible intercepting Spain's Acapulco ships from California to Panama References Canada 39