The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, October 7, 1756, Page 3

attempt surprizing those Tndians at that Time, left if one should escape the Town might bé alarmed: so Licut. Hogg with twelve Men, was left to watch them, with Orders not to full upon them till Day break : and our Forces turned out of the Path, and passed by without ditturbing them. About three in the Moruing, having been guided by the Whooping of the Indian Warriors at a Dance in the Town, they reached the River, 100 Perches below the Body of the Town, near a Corn Dield, tn which a Number of “the Enemy lodged, as it was a warm Night. As soon as Day appear’d, and the Town could be seen, the Attack began in the Cornfield, through which our People charged, killing several of the Enemy, and entered the Town. Cupt. Jucobs, Chict of the Indians, gave the War Whoop, and detended his House bravely. thro” Loop- holes in the Logs. And the Indians generally refusing Quar- ters, which were offered them, declaring they were Men, and would not be Prisoners. Col. Armftrong (who received a Wound in his Shoulder) ordered their Houses to be set on Iire, which was immediately done. When the Indians were told they would be. burnt it they did not surrender, one of them teply’d, he did not care, as he could kill four or five be- fore he died; and as the IHecat approached, some began to sing, some however burft out of the Houses, and attempted to reach the River, but were shot down- - . - Capt. Jacobs in getting out of a Window was shot, and scalped, as also his Squaw, and a Lad called’ the King’s Son. The Indians had a Num- ber of spare Arms in their Houses, loaded, which went off as the Fire came to them; and Quantities of Gun powder which had been ftored in every House, blew vp from time to time, throwing some of their Bodies a great Height into the Air. ... A Body of the Encmy on the opposite Side of the River, fired on our People, and being seen to cross the River at a Diftance, as if to surround our Men, they colletted some Indian Horses that were near the Town, to carry ofl’ the wounded, and then retreated without going back to the Cornfield to pick up the Scalps of those killed there in the Beginning of the “Action. Several of the Enemy were also killed in the River as they were attempting to escape: And it was computed that in all between thirty. and forty were Jeflroycd though ie- brought off but r2 Scalps- .- - Eleven English Prisoners were released and brought away, who informed the Col. that besides the Powder ( of which the Indians boafted they had enough for ten Years War with the - English) there was a great Quantity of Goods burnt, which the I'rench had made them a Present of but ten. Days before. The Prisoners also informed, that that very Day, two Battoes of French Men, with a Jarge Party of Delaware and French Indians were to join Capt. Jacobs, to march and take Fort Shirley; and that 25 Warriors had "set out before them the pgeceding Evening, which' proved to be the Party that had kindled the Fire Night before; for our People returning, found Lieut. Hogg wounded in 3 Places, and Jearnt he had in the Morning attacked the suppos’d Party of 3 or 4 at the Fire, according to Order, but found them too numerous for him. He kill’d 3 of them however at the firft Fire, and fought them an Hour, when having loft 3 of his beft Men, the reft, as he lay wounded, abandoned him and fled, the Enemy pursuing them. Lieut. Hogg died soon after of his Wounds.: . . Capt. Mercer being wounded in the Ation, was carried off by his Ensign and 11 Men, who left the main Body in theiz Return to take another Road, and were not come in when the Express came away. He had 4 of the re- covered Prisoners with him, and some of the Scalps. On the whole, it is allowed to be the greateft Blow the Eucmy have received since the War began, and it well follow- ’ ed may soon make them weary of continuing it. The Con- duét of Col. Arfuftrong in marching so large a Body thro’ the Enemy’s Country, without being discovered, is deservedly ad- mired and applauded, as well as the Bravery of both Ofhicers and Men in the Aétion. - And we hope their Example may have all the good Effects that are naturally to be expeted from it. In the whole we had 17 killed, 13 wounded, and 19 missing. Since recciving the above Return from Fort Littleton, we are informed Capt. Mercer, and 23 Persons, are returned sate, which makes up the Number of the Missing, and the four released Prisoners. Capt. Bryce, arrived in’ Maryland from Barbados, advises, that on thte gth ult. between the latitudes 21 and 22, he was chased by 1o Sail of Men of War six Hours (whether French or English he could not tell) but he outsailing them, they ftood to the Northward. NEW-Y OR K, September 27. g Captain Dwight came up laft Wednesday Evening, in the “Prize Ship Chavalmarin, Mons. Despasarius, late Mafter, taken the 3ift of Auguft, by the Privateer Brig Prince George, Capt. King, of this Port, as mentioned in our laft. A Saturday Evening laft Captain Ashfield arrived here in a Sloop (Alexander Hope late Master) from Africa, but laft from Santa Croix, in 11 Days, and acquaints us, That about two Months ago, 100 Leagues from the Coaft, 6 or 7 Slaves that were upon Deck, watch’d an Opportunity when he and some more of the Crew were in the Hold, rush’d into the Cabbin, knocked Capt. Hope’s Brains out, wounded Mr. Charles Duncan the second Mate in several Places, secured all the Arms, and kept Possession of the Cabbin for four Hours. Charles Duncan with Difliculty got out of the Cabbin, and with the Assistance of Mr. Ashfield and the Cooper got the Door shut upon the Negroes; they then discharged all the Mufkets and Blunderbusses at the Crew, thro’ the Door, but hurt none of them. The Negroes having discharged all their Pieces, Mr. Ashfield and the Cooper rush’d into the Cabbin upon them, disarm’d the Slaves, and recovered the Vessel. The Ringleader of the Slaves jump’d over board and was drown'd. Mr. Ashfield received several Wounds as did the Cooper, but are both pretty well. _ We expeét in about 6 Weeks to have 25 Privateers cut from this Port. The same Day, Captain James White, of the Ship Prince- Galley, arrived here from Waterford, in Ireland, with Pro- visions for his Majesty’s Forces in this Province. Yefterday Morning Capt. Pell in the Privateer Sloop Mary, of this .Port, returned here from a Cruize of 8 Weeks, from whom we have the following Particulars, viz. In Lat. 33, 56, Lon. 61, g0. Capt. Pell spoke with Capt. Bickers, in the Bradftreet Privateer, of this Port.- Auguft 29, he spoke with a Sloop from- Antigua for Newfoundland, who informed him, that two Days before he spoke with Capt. Grantham, in the Privateer Sloop Hardy, of this Port also, all well on board, but had met with nothing. Auguft 30, at Day break, Capt. Pell found himself in the midft of ‘seven French Vessels, one of which he immediately took, man’d and brought off, and after having her in Possession four Hours, was (firft taking out- his People) obliged to quit her, being chased by two - French Men of War, one of 74 Guns, and the other of 64, their Convoy: A Frigate of 36 Guns, was then in.Chace of a Sloop, which Capt. Pell imagined was Capt. Grantham. Sept. 2d, Early in the Morning, Capt. Pell fell in with the same Fleet; The Irench *Commodore immediately gave