The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, September 9, 1757, Page 1

P 2 , 3 - o 4 : g 2 FRIDAY, St P}I‘ E‘M'BER 9, 1757. ‘ THE 2 Mfi. 4."' » (%] 1(‘ ~ P16 NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, Containing the Frefbef} Advices Foreign and Domeflick. R bW bbb bbb bbb dddd bttt bd b b hd Sh e b b e bbb bbb bR e LR PP PO LbIbL oL . ba N E WY O R K, Aduguff 29. /- Various hawe been the Accounts delizvered to the Pul-%e, of 2he Attack, Siege and Surrender of Fort William Heary to #0 the French, not fearcely one agreeing awith the other, all taken from common Report, and from Letters fent down from Albany, &y People avkho bad their Intelligence no otherways, whilft none were to be depended on. The following awe give as the moft exalt that can yet be got, having madeit our Bu- {inels to procure it from Gentlemen who awere in the Sicge from Jirft tolaft, either in the Fort or Breaft- Work, and from fuck awho were put to Flight by the Indians. If any other or more « particular Account can be bereafter obtained, it foall have a Place in this Gazette 5 but we look upon this to be a Fournal of the Siege, or, at leaft, next akin toit, and therefore may be efteemed the mare autbentick. We bawe only to obferwe, that Sfrom the moff exalt Judgment made of the Number of the French and Indians, their Body confified of gooo flrong. . N the Night of the 2d Inftant, about T'welve o'Cléek two Boats that were fent out from the Fort o re- connoitre, were fired upon by the Enemy, and in about two Hours after fome of the Crew belonging to the Boats returned, and reported, that they had feen a vaft Number of French upon the Lake, and fome landed. Asfoon as Day began to appear, on the 3d, we could fee upwards of 150 Batteaux, nearly within Cannon Shot of our Fort, when we immediately fired the Alarm Guns, and likewife fome Shot, at the Enemy, but could perceive they fell moftly fhort : The French upon this fired fome Shot from their floating Batteries, but did no Mifchief. Col. Monro then fent out a Party of 150 Men to poflels the rifing Ground (if poffible) that leads to Fort- Edward, but the Indians and Canadians had taken Poft there the Night before, as we were afterwards informed, {o that our Party were obliged to return to the Camp with fome Lofs. During this Time the Enemy Indians fur- rounded the Breaft Work ata Diftance, and thus prevent- ed any Parties from the Englith molefting the French while they were making 2n Intrenchment, and forming a Batte- ry ; but the Cannon from the Fort was kept playing, and with great 8uccels. About Ten o’Clock a Flag of Truce was fent to our Camp from Monf. Montcalm, with a Letter to Col. Monro,. in the following Words : ¢ Sir, I hawve this Morning invefted your Place with a “mumerous Army, a fuperior Artillery, and all the Savages Jrom the bigher Parts of the Country, the Gruelty of avbich, a Detachment of ysur Garrijon hawe lately too much experi- enced. 1 dm obliged, in Humanity, to defire you to Jurrender your Fort : Ihawe it yet in my Power to refirain the Sava- ges, and oblige them to oblerve a Capitulatior, as hitherto wrone of them bawe been killed, awhich will not be in my Power " inother Circumflances : and your infifting on defending your Fort, can only retard the Lofs of it a few Days, and mufl, of Neceffity, expole an unlucky Garrifon, who can reccive no Suc- cours confidering the Precautions 1bave taken.” I dimand a decifive Anfasr immediately, for which purpofe I have fent you the Sieur Funtbranne, one of my Aids de Camp = Yon miy credit what be will inform you as from me. 1 am, with Re/pec, Sir, your moft bumble, moft obedient Serwant, MONTCALM.” To this Col. MONRO anfwered, he ¢ awas deterinined & to defendthe Fort to the laft Extremity 5 and according- ly began to fire very brifkly into the Trenches which the Enemy had begun to throw up, and it was generally tho’t with great Succefs, as the French fired but few Cannon at the Fort all the A” >rnoon of that Day, and feemed to be in fome Diforder. But, eagly the next Morning, ( Aug. 4th) they opened a Battery of nine Pieces of Cannon,and three Mortais,which continued playing all that Day,whilft the Indians and Canadians never ceas’d with their {mall Arms from feven in the Morning until Dark ; and this they did every Day during the Siege, which obliged our Trocps to be conftantly under Arms, even whillt they were employed in making up the Bret Work whith was only half finifhed when the Enemy appeared. And lealt they fhould attempt to attack the Fort in the Night, Col. Monro cordered Fires to be made every Evening about a hurdred Yards from the Camp, all round, the better to enable him to difcover the Enemy’s Approach before they came near enough to do any great Mifchief.—On the Fifth the French opened a new Battery of Ten Pieces of Cannon, from which fome of the Balls fell into our Camp, but to little Purpofe. From this to the Eighth ‘Day, the Fire continued extreamly hot on both Sides, when, at Night, feveral Shells and Cannon Shot wete thrown into our Works, which did fome confiderable Da- mage. And in the Morning of the Ninth, ‘the Enemy having bro’t their Approaches very near to the Fort, and all our Ammudnition being moftly expended, and the grea- teft Part of our Cannon and Mortars being rendered unfit for Service, we were obliged to capitulate on the follow- ing Terms. A R T I C LE Sof Capitulation granted to Lieut. Col. Monro, for bis Britannick Majefly’s Garrilon of William Henry, rbe ritrench’d Camp adjoining, and all their Depen- dencics, by the §larquis De Montcalm, General of bis moft Chriftian Mr/z’ 7y's troops in Canada, 9thIAugujI 17.67% P B 1A R SR ) Ry HE Gary ’ which cin the retrenclled Camp being joined, R !:*ui Fort William Henry, and the Troops vall meach 2 their ArmmAand the ufual Honors of War, with the Baggage of the Officers and Soldiers only, they fhall retire to Fort Edward, efcorted by a De- _tachment of French Troops and by {fome of the Officers or Interpreters attach’d to the Savages, and to march To morrow Morning early. 1I. The Gate of the Fort fhall be delivered up after the Capitulation is figned, to the Troops of his moft Chriftian Majefty, and the retrenched Camp immediately on the Departure of the Britifh Troops. IIL. All the Artillery, warlike Stores, Provifion, and in general every Thing, except the Effefls of the Officets and Soldiers, fhall upon Honor, be delivered to the Troops of his mot Chriftian Majefty, as is already fpecified in " the firft Article ; and for thas Purpofe there fhall be de- livered with the Capitulation, an exact Inventory of all the Stores mentioned in this Article ; grovided always, that this Articie fhall extend to the Fort, Retrenchment, and Dependencies. IV. The Garrifon of the Fort, Troops in tle Re- trenchment, and Dependencies, fHall not ferve for the Space of eighteen Months, to commence from this Ddy, neither again#t his moft Chriftian Majefty, or his Allies. And there fhall be delivered with the Capitulation, an ex- a& State of the Troops, in which fhall be fpecified, the Names of the Officers, Staff Officers, other Officers, En gineers, Artillerifts, Gommiffaries, and all employed. V. All the Officers, Soldiers, Canadians, Women and Savages, which have been made Prifoners by Land fince the Commencement of this War in North- America, thall be delivered in the Space of Tltree Months at Carrillon ; and according to the Receipt which fhall be given by the French commanding Officer, to whom they fhall be deli- vered, an equal Number of the' Garrifon of Fort William Henry fhall be capacitated to ferve, agreeable to the Re- turn given in by the Englifh Officer of the Prifoners he has delivered. VI. An Officer fhall be given as an Hoftage till fuch Times as the Detachment retarns, which fhall be given as an Efcort to his Britannick Majefty’s Troops. VII. All the Sick and Wounded that are not in a Condition to be tran{ported to Fort Edward, fhall remain under the Prote&tion of the Marquis de Montcalm, who will take proper Care of.them, and retutn them as foon as recovered, VIII, Provifion for the Subfitance of the Britith Troops, fhall be ifluéc for tiis Day, and To-morrow only. IX. The Marquis De Montcalm being willing w0 fhew Col. Monro and the Girrifon under his Command, Marks of his Efteem on Account of their honourable De- fence, gives them one Piece of Cannon a Six Pounder. Done inthe Trenches before Fort William Henry. gth Auguft, 1757 at Noon. Geo. Mowro, Lieut. Col. of the 35th Regiment, and Commander of his Majeity’s Forces in and near Fort William Henry. Agreed to in the Name of his moft Chriftian Majefty, agreeable to the Power invefted in me, by the Marquis De Voudreuill, his Governour Gengral and Lieut. Gene- ral of New France. MONTCALM. ‘The Articles being figned on beth: Sides, the French took Pofleflion of the Fort, and the Englith (agreeable to the Articles) were preparing to move off, when fome Chiefs of the Indians went and accufed the French Gene- ral with having deceived them, in that he had promifed them the Plunder of the Englith, which they found they were now deprived of by the Capitulation : And the un- fortunate Garrifon had {careely « Fort, e’er the voracious Blood- Hounés fell to frippin plundering them of all their Clothes, Arms, and Basgage, killing and fcalping every one that refifled, not®ven ‘paring the Wouanded or Sick, and privately carrying off Prifoners all fuch as they could, notwithftanding ali the Oppofition of the French to the Contrary. Many of the Englifh, {ee~ ing their Danger, took to their Heels and fled 5 and of this Number upwards of 600 arrived foon after at Fort- Edward, giving out, that they fuppgfed !l who dia not efcape as they did, were either mafiacre’d, or carried off by the Indians : But 300 and bett?_ perceiving the Cra- ige, ng « elty of the Indians, chofe to furrender themfelves ; and accordingly retarned tosthe Frencl, who not otly pro- te€ted them, but did their utmoft Yo refcve fuch of the others as were taken, or going to be carried off by the Indians : All thefe were preferved there by the French five Days, in which Time both French and Indians were employed in deftroying the Fort, and {uch Things as they cotild not cairy off. ‘The Oxen, the Indians deitroyed in general ; but the Provifions, Stores, Negroes, and Horfes found there, they carriad off to Ticonderoga. 'This being compleatly finithed, they difmiffed their Englith Prifoners, with one Piece of Cannon, and then embhrked in order to return, telling fome of the People, they intended to be back to Quebec Time enough to receive Lord Loudoun. Our People foon after got fafe into Fort-Edward ; and we hear, as yet, that no higher Officer than the brave Captain Waldo, was kill’d either during the Siege, or ia the Indian Slaughter. About 120 Englifh yere killed in the Siege, and near as many more wounded, moft of which latter were kill’d and {calp’d by the Iadians; but their Names, or to what particulsr Companies, or Coun- try they beloug, we have not( yet obtained. As to the Prifoners, Monf. Montealm pimifed to uie Lis utmoft Endeavours to recover all that were cafried off by the In- dians, and to reftore them. What Number the French loft, no Certainty can be procured ; but, moderately computing, they could not haveloft iefs than 800, or 1000 Men. Thus reLL ForT-WiLLiam-HEeNrY. It is faid there were but little better than 2000 Men in our Fort at the Time of its Surrender. Some of the French told the Englifh, that of the Party under Col. Parker, which had been furprized and ronted on Lake George the 23d of July laft, (which is kinted at by Montcalm in his Letter) upwards of 100 of thofe mif- fing at that Time, were taken Prifoners and {ent to Mont- real, amongft which they difcribed, ‘tis thought, both Capt. Shaw, and Capt. Hunt of the Jerfey Torces. PHILADELPHIA, Augap zs. Laft Week arrived here, from Sauth-Carolina, one Ni- cholas Birmingham, who informs us, that he was Paflen- ger on board"the Sloop Prince William, Capt. Richard Moore, bound to this Port from Jamaica ; which Sloop was taken on the 16th of June laft, off of the N. Weft End of Cuba, by a French Privareer, that belonged to the Miffifippi ; and that on the z5th of the fame Month fhe', alfo took 2 Sloop from Rhode Ifland for the Bay of Hon- = duras, Capt. Robefon, off of the Havannah, avd fent Loth | Veflels to the Miffifippi, with Part of the Prifoners ; but that he, with fome others, were put athore at the Havan- nah, and from thence got to Carolina. . By Letters dated the zoth Inftant, from Bethlehem, in'® Northampton County, there is Advice, That within a tew Days paft a Mohawk difcovered the Trafs of 2bout 100 Indians, about zo Miles from Fort Augufta, and by their Courfe he imagined they were goiog to Schuylkill ; whereupon he fet out for Fort- Allen, and within fix Miles of that Fort he met with fome Indians, one of whom im - mediately went with the Intelligence the Mohawk had brought to the Fort ; from whence an Indian and Lis Wife brought the Account to Bethlehem. And by a Gentleman juft come to Town, we hear, that fix Perfons were taken away by the Indians from Lan- cafter County on the 17th Inftant. St. Fago De La Vega, in Famaica, May 28. Dodtor Lyle, who was convicted laft February Court of the Murder of his Partner Do&tor Robinfon, late of Lucea, was, on Wedne{day laft, executed on the Gallows near this Town. Jeft before his Departure from Goal, he tranimitted the following Lines to the Printers hereof, requefling they might be publithed to the world. i ERE I to blame fecond Caufes for that uniucky Accident, I muft needs fay, that having had perhaps rather too delicate Notions of what is called Ho- - nour, I was apt to feel too paflionate a Refentment, when grofsly affronted, altho’ I have put up with almoft- as grofs Affronts, as the above mentioned, without taking much Notice of them ; however, [ imagine there is a Fatality in thefe Events, therefore I defire pariently to {fubmit myfelf to the Will of Providence, which (as we are taught to believe) orders all Events, fo a3 te anfwer the beft Ends and Purpofes. ; I hope my unhappy Fate will be a fuiticient Warning, to all others, never to give Way to Paflion, when injured, fo far as to allow it to overcome their Reafon, it being certainly true, that the Forgiving of Injuries’done us by others, is a God-like virtue, however the World may fometimes brand fuch Forgivenefs with the Name of Cowarpice. I wifh I may likewife warn others; never to drink {pirituous Liquors, to inflame their Refentment of an Injury ; and to endeavour to gbolith the pernicions Cuftom of Duelling ; but much rather to preferve their Lives for the Service of their King and Country, and when their Safety requires them, then only to venture Life, or even to lofe it bravely in Defence of their Laws and Liberties, and of their religious and civil Rights aorl Privileges.” KinasTon, in Jamaica, Tuly o. Tuefday laft arrived from Cape Francois, the Brig. Se. Fernando, a Flag of Truce, George Cunningham Com- mander, on board of whom wa: Robert Rhoddam, Xig: late Captain of his Majefty’s fhip Greenwich, and 165 of that thip’s Company, including Officers and Seamen. The Purfer, being very weak, died the third Day atcer leaving the Cape. Mr. Perkins is recovered of his Wounds, re- ceived in a Duel with Mr. Wallace, (as mentioned in our Journal of June 4th) but Mr, Wallice is fill dangerovily ill in the Hofpital. The Captain fays, ‘all the fhips he could difcover at the Cape were, aa old 74 Gun fhip,with herlower Tier of Gans in her Holf, fhe having been fent from Old France, laden with Provifions for the Fleet, of which fhe carried for one Article 10,000 Barrels of Firur; the Greenwich, (which they ar¢ fitting ow with all Ex- pedition) two Frigates, always ready for failing Orders ; and about 3o fail of Merchant Veficls. Th: Capram further Remarks,that there daily arrives at the Cape [ ¢le Veflels from Old France, und that they carry on theie Trade without the leaft Fear of lntersuptica fiom our cruizing Veflels. | ; Fuly 16. We have laiely had two Flags.of Trose from [lifpaniola, with Prifoners : The French Fave taken a great Number of our Vefiels ; and althongh we have four or frve Men of War craizivg to Windward, the s are two o theeg fsall Privuseers 'ruizinig to Windwi: 2 = : of