The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 2, 1757, Page 3

‘brdered out 500 men 1o meed and cover our flying * Parties. I left Fort Edward, laff Fridayat 11, | away, fome of our gen were dropping in. Poor Y . Doétor Colboun wilyyet amongft the miffing ; Co- pincer, and feveral Officers, are not yet beard of. Bme that are come in [ay, they [aw them go back grd throw themfelves under the Protefiion of WMontcalm and the Regulars 5 but the Lord knows bat French Treachery will do. ve Revenge ! Fuft as I was coming away, the Army was d¥rawing up tomarch from Fort Edward towards il;’a Lake 5 but one who left it about two Hours: awere Orders to balt, on what Account we bave lifbed the Fort, and are gone, for on Wednefday we faw a great Smoke afcend above that Place. Sundny. Half after One. Julf now I bave « beard that Col. Monro and Young, with feveral Officers, are l‘afe with Montcalm, and about 300 men, [everal of whom be took from the Indians, awbichare allgone. Perbaps Dofior Colboun is “with them. This Town is now inclofed. Thofe -who were made Prifoners at Fort William Henry, aregoing to Tork to guard the Fort, as they by Capitulation, are not 1o be employed in the Ficld agains} the French thefe 18 months. FORT‘ William Henry, being on the 3d Inft. befieged by a great Army of the French, . was on the ninth Inftant, after a vigorous Re- fiftance, obliged to yield to the fuperior Force vef the Enemy. Thus far is certain, but as to fome Circumftances attending what follows, we wait for Confirmation. What at prefent 1s ge- nerally rcceived among us, as Truth, is, That * the Enswy confifted of at leaft Eight Thou- fand Men ; fome make the Number much greater, and carry it even to Fourteen or Fif- teen Thoufand : That the greateft Part were Regular Troops, to thefe were added about a _ Thoufand French- Indians, and that the reft * of their Army were Canadians. That our Gar- . rifon confifted of between two and threeThou- v Tl T Rcthey ofoned: the ' Liege il they - could Kold @t no longer, and had burft the greateft Part of their Cannon, and fpent almoft ] ) all their Ammunition. How many.of the Gar- rifon were loft in the Siege is not yet known ‘(fome fay abb@ne Hundred ;) nor the Num- ber of the Enemy that were flain (but it is faid about Fourteen or Fifteen. Hundred :) That the Fort fubmitted upon a Capitulation, with 1:=ave to march out with their Arms ahd Bag- Kage, fome Ammunition, oné¢ Piece of Cannon, and. all the Honours of War. That the French immediately after the Capitulation, moft petfidioufly, let their Indign Blood-Founds, loofe ypon our people ; whereupon a few run off with their Arms and light Cloathing that ‘- they had upon their Backs during the Siege, .and were purfoed by the Indians fix or feven .. Miles on their Way to Fort-Edward ; all the reft were defpoiled of their Arms ;—The moft were {tript ftart-naked ; many were killed and fcalped, Officers not excepted. All the Eng- Jith Indians and Negroes in the Garrifon were ftized, and\ either captivated or f{lain. The T hroats of moft if notall the Women were cut, their Bellies ript open, ' their Bowels torn out ~and thrown upon the Faces of their dead and dying Bodies ; and ’cis faid, thar all the Wo- men were murdered in“one. Way or another : That the Children were taken by the Heels,and their Brains beat out againft the Trees or Stones, " and not one of them-faved. Some of the Fu- gitives that reached New-York on this Day, af- .. firm this, as what they faw in ¢the whole or in *great Part executed before they =(caped | The y .~ " Report of fuch Cruelty and Harbarity could . “hardly be believed,were we not affured of the horrible Maffacre of feveral Hundreds of Ge- neral Braddock’s wounded Men 3 of whom we ¢ "hear not of one that furvive: the Carnage ; ‘were we not alfo affured of. t".c Murder of all “the Sick and wounded of the Garrifon at Ofwe- - 7 P o * and arrived bere Xefierday at 10, and when I came Jonels Monro and Young, with Williams tke En- Shall we never: affter, fays, that a fcouting Party coming in, there ; mot yet beard 5 but I am afraid they bave demo . ‘o, notwithftanding the previotis Capitulation: *Tis certain that the Growth of che Britith Colonies has long been the grand Obje& of French Eanvy ; and ’tis faid that their Officers have Orders from their Superiors, to check it at all Events, and to that End, to make the prefent War as bloody and.deftrutive as pofii- ble ! *Tis evident, that all their Meafures tend this Way. Whe can tell, that One of theT wo Hundred that fell into their Hands in the laft Month near Ticonderoga, has been fpared ? And is not every News Paper ftill ftained with the innocent Blood of Women and Children, and of unarmed Sufferers, who were plowing their Land, or gathering in the Harveft, on our Frontiers ? To what a Pitch of Perfidy and Cruelty is the French ‘Nation arrived | Would not an an- cient Heathen thudder with Horror, on hear- ing fo bidious a Tale ! Is it the Moft Chriftian - King that could give fuch Orders ? Or could the moft Savage Nations evir exceed fuch French Barbarities | Befides this, was it ever ' konown in ‘the Pagan World, That Terms of Capitulation were not held inviolably Sacred ! Surely if any Nation under the Heavens was ~ever provoked to the moft rigid Severities in the Condu& of a War, it is ours |—I¢ is bard for an Englith-man to kill his Enemy that lies at his Feer begging bis Life : But will it not be ftrictly juft, and abfolutely neceflary, from henceforward, that we (for our own Security and Self preftrvation, and to prevent. the fur- ther fthedding of innocent Blood) make fome fevereExamples of our inhuman Enemies when they fall into our Hands ¢ Will not our armed Men be obliged for the future to rejeét all Terms of Capitulation, and not to afk Quarter ? but on the contrary, to fell their Lives as dear as they can | Co#ifider of it, my Country Men, rake Advice and fpeak your Minds. [Prinied by Or- der.] p ® Saturday laft Capt. Topham, in the Snow Earl of Loudon, arrived here in 28 Days from Savannah La Mar, in the Ifland of Jamaica, and informs us, That a Ship was juft arrived there in 6 Werks from Icodon, the Mafter whereof reported, that as he came by Spithead, a French 44 Gun Ship and two Tranfports, were going in there, that had been taken by -fome of our Men of War, on their Voyage to Canada, and that off the Start, he met with his Majefty’s Ship the Dunkirk, and another Eng- lith- Man of War, who had a French Ship, mounting two Tier of Guns, in Tow. Next Morning Capt. Caron arrived here in 13 Days from St. Kitts, and fays, that two o- ther Veflels belonging to Philadelphia befides thofe before mentioned, " are taken by the French. : Extra& of a Letter from St. Kitts, dated Auguft 3, 1757, \ ¢ The Fleet colleéted from all the Englifb Ca- ribbee Iflands, confisting of more than a 100 Sail, Jailed from bence on. Monday Fuly the 25th, un- der Convoy of bis Majefly’s Ships the Stirling- Caftle, Briflol apd Woolwich, and the Saliafb Sloop. On Friday laft we bad & Shock of an Earthguake, which was felt in Antigua about balf an Hour after, viz. alitile paft 12 at Noon. Prowifions, as Bread ard Flour, are now plenti- ful, by the Arrival of feveral Veffels from New- By a Veeflel arrived here on Saturday Night laft from St. Kitts, we have the following Lift -of Englifh Veflels taken by the French in the Welt Indies, viz. ; A Sloop from Bofton, Capt. Loring. A Schooner from Pifcataqua, Capt. Butler. A Sioop, Capt. Fitch from New London. A Snow, Capt. Bray from Guinea. A Brig, Capt. Fergufon, from Ireland. Brig Molly; Capt. Tucker from Virginia. A Snow from New-London, Capt. Dufhon, Snow from Philadelphia, Capt, Vinning. Schooner from. Ditto, Capt. Bible. . A Schooner from New-York, €apt. Dehart, A Scheoner from Salem, Capt, Pattifen, A Schooner fromVirginia,for Antigua,M’Intofh A Schooner from Salem for Barbados; M’Coy. Sloop from Philadelphia, for St.Kitts, Pindléton. A Sloop from Pifcataqua to Antigua. A Sloop from Rh-1fland to ditto, Capt. Trip, ! Sloop from N.London to ditto, Capt. Bumoar, A Sloop from Pifcataqua, Capt. Cops. : A Sloop from St. Euftatia. : A Doggar from Barbados, Capt. Hubbard. As alfo the Privateer Ship Hallifax, of and from Bofton, Capt.——, mounting 24 Carriage Guns taken by two frigates. (In all 21 Sail.) There are now a Subfcription on foot in' this City for purchaling a Number of Fire-Arms to be ready on any Emergency ; and we hear there - are upwards of 1300 already fubfcribed for; and we make no Doubt, but a Propofal of that ~ Kind, which is calculated with no other View than to ferve the Publick, will-meet with a ge- nerous Reception, from all thofe whofe Cir- cumftances will permit them to contribute their Mite that Way. A NN APOLIS, Auguft 4. On the 27th of July, near Tom’s Creek, within 16 Miles of Frederick-Town, Alexan- der M’Keafy, was fhot near his own Houfe by an Indian, in the Knee, and the Bullet lodg- edin the Calf of his Leg ; his Knee being fhattered to Pieces, tis th tic will kill him. - At the fame Time his Son was carried away Prifoner ; and a Negro Girl, whoman Indian bhad by the Hand, leading off, efcaped by the Afiiftance of two Dogs, whom fhe fet at the Indian, but he flung his Tomahawk at her, and cut her very much in the Neck, tho’ it is thought the will recover. About three Weeks ago one Samuel Wil< fon, a young Man about 17 Years of Age,was thot and fcalped, near the Houfe of George Pow, not far from Anti Eatam. Pow, with his Wife and eight Children,made their Efcape 3 but his Houfe,and every thing in it,were burat,, Next Day they went and buried Wilfon. PORTSMOUT H. " Sunday laft arrived here the Privateer Prince- Edward, Capt. John Seaward, from 2 Cruize of two Menths, not -having met with any thing. —A Man belonging te faid Privateer, whole Name was Sweney, fell from the Bow- {prit, while at Sea, and was drowned. ; Next Day failed his Majefty’s Ship Nightin- gale, Capt. Campbell, for Halifax : As alfo the Maft-Ship, Capt. Hugget, for the fame - Place, under Convoy of the Nightingale. By Lieutenant Col. Goffe, who came to this Town laft Tuefday from Albany, and was at Fort William Henry the whole' Time of the Siege, informs, That the Colonels Monro and Young, Williamfon and Collins the Engineers, the Adjutant Mr. Cockborn of the 35th Regi~ ment, and 24 of the New-Hampthire Regi- ment came in with them, who had been taken by the Indians, before he left that Place. Col. Goffe fays 8o of the New-Hampfhire Regi~ ment are mifling, but fuppofes fome of them are in Captivity. 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