----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Friends: I am trying to help a researcher who needs to locate L'Isle aux Sonnettes or Rattlesnake Island in the Richelieu River, Quebec, and we seem to have exhausted our own resources. The researcher's reference is from Baroness Friederike von Riedesel's LETTERS ANd JOURNAL RELATING TO THE WAR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION . .(1867 ed. of English translation from the German). Riedesel was traveling south in 1776 from Trois Rivieres to met her husband, General Friedrich von Riedesel. She describes the party stopping for the night on an island where they could find nothing but a deserted, half-finished house. This was L'Isle aux Sonnettes. Next day "We crossed Lake Champlain and arrived in Fort John [Saint Jean] at noon." This is confusing, because they would still be on the river, not having reched the lake yet. If anyone can help us find the island, we would both be most grateful. Reidun ****************************************************************** Reidun D. Nuquist E-mail: [log in to unmask] Documents & Maps Department Tel.: 802-656-3028 Bailey/Howe Library University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405-0036 ******************************************************************