The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, May 11, 1759, Page 2

PHILADELPHIA, April 26, We have Advice from the Wefltward, thet fixteen Horles were lately carried off by a Paity of French and Indians, near Fort Ligonier (lately Loyal Haoning) and that four Men were zlfo carried off, and a Fifth Lilled and fcalped by the fame Party. The Party is thought to be from Venango, and came out after a white Prifoner, and had made his Elcape from thence. Extraét of a Letter from Virginia, April 19, < Our Affembly (now broke up) have gone thro’ the Supply Bill, amountirg to 78,0001, and the Bufinefs of the Country recommended to them, with Chearfulnefs and Alacrity 5 they parted with the Gover- nor in great good Humour.—The Levies go on pretty fuccefsfully ; ina little Time, it is to be hoped, the Men wanting will be raifed, fo as to make the whole 1500.” Extrat? of a Letter from Pittfburgh, April 2. ** The 25th of March Col. Mercer with 200 Men marched from this Piace for Ve- nango, in order to remove the French from that Poft. At the fameTime he fent Capt. Clay:on, with 50 Men inTen Bartoes with Provifinns and ocher Stores to proceed up the River and join him at Venango. The 26¢th it rained exceflively and raifed the Wa- er {fo much that Caprtain Clayton was only 20 Miles up the River the 28th, about 10 in the Morning, when he was fired on from the Banks of the River, and ali the Men in one of the Battoes, were killed,or wounded, the others pufthed to an Ifland, where they landed, and heard Hoopingand Firing of Guns on both Sides of the River ; this,with theHeighth of the Waters,obliged them to return, and left one Battoe with 5 Men. The zoth the Battoe came floating down the River with 5 Men in it all fcalp’d, one of them was alive when we took up theBat- toe, and lived fome Hours. An Exprefs was fent after the Colonel to inform him of Capt.Clayton’s Difafter. The Exprefs over- took him 45 Miles from this Place, where he was ftop’d by theWaters being fo high, and was obliged to rerurn to this Place.— The Day before Col.Mercer marched Eight or Ten Indians came here, who faid they came to fee if the Englith wereangry. The Colonel told them we were not angry at them, and gave them fome Prefents, but they feemed difpleafed, and went fpying & looking at every Thing a%our this Place until the 26th in the Evening, they then wanted to go away, and the commanding Officer ordered twoMen to carry them over the Ohio : but the Indians feized the two Men and tyed them, put-them in the Boat, and carried them down the River to a De- lawareTown,at the Mouth of BeaverCreek, where they parted, one Party going down the River, the other with one of the white Men went up Culfcufcoas, where the Dela- wares ftopt them, and after a long Council, the Delawares took the white Man from them and fent him _to this Place, with one Indian by way of Efcort. They told the Indians that had taken thefe Men, that the Delawares had made Peace with the Eng- lith, and would not fuffer them nor the French to take any Englith Prifoners thro’ their Towns. NEW-Y0RK, April 30. Tuefday laft Capt. Cort arrived - lLere from Anguilla, in 24 Days. A few Days before he failed, one Capt. Richards came into that Ifland from the Margaretes, on the Spanifth Main, and gave Information, That the Spaniards were very buly in raif- ing and fending of Men to the Aflitance of the French on Martinique 3 and that 1500 of them were actually failed for thatPurpole. They were every Day, in the Welt-In- dies, looking for the Return of Capt. Tyrrel (who was fest Home to folicit Reinforce- ments as foon as our Troops landed on Guadaloupe) from England. Wednefday lalt Capt.Brown arrived here from Monto Chrifto, in 23 Days. The Spaniards at that Place gave out, that there were two Privateers at Fort Dolphin, and one at the Cape, which were defigned and ready to fail on a Cruize off this and the neighbouring Ports. EightDays before he came out, a Ship from Philadelphia, bound for the Mount, was caft away on the Plate Wreck 3 the Veflel was entirely loft 3 but theCrew got fafe to Monto Chrifto in their Long Boat. Friday laft arrived here the CrownTran- fport, Neal Maxfield Mafter, one other of Commodore Holmes’s Fleet,which the left the 2oth Inflant, April, in Lat. 35. 50. it then confifted of 52 Sail, fo that they may ve hourly expected. Capt. Maxfield acquaints us, That on the 2 5th Inftant, he fpoke to a Sloop bound to Nantucket,from St Kitts,out then 11Days, the Mafter of which told him, that the In- habitants of Guadaloupe,had, at laft,furren- dered to his Britannick Majefty’s Forces. Saturday laft about three o’Clock in the Afternoon His Excellency General AM- HERST fet out for Albany,and on his go- ing off was faluted with the Cannon on Fort George. His Excellency dined with his Honour our Lieutenant Governor, at his Seat in the Bowery,and in the Evening took Water at Greenwich. Colonel Frazier’s Regiment of Highlan- ders, which lately came down from Fort Stanwix, on the Wood Creek, on Friday laft were embarked on board the Tranfports ly- lying in the N.River, to proceed to Halifax. Since our Jaft Lord William Blakeney’s Regiment came toTown from Burlington, inNew- Jerfey,where they kept their Winter uarters 5 and are gone forward toAlbany. This Day fails for Halifax, his Majefty’s Ships the Nightingale and Lizard, taking under theirConvoy the following Tranfport Ships, having Col. Frazer’s Highlanders, &ec. on board, viz. the James and Henri- etta, Mache 3 the Jane, Garnet ; the Eden and Mary, Langdon ; the Three Sifters, Miller ; the Lyon, Smith ; the Two Bro- thers, Stockton ; the Prince of Wales,Potts; the Hopewell, Mafterman ; the Fortunate Induftry, Scarf ; the Crown, Maxfield ; and two New-York Trarnfports. We have erquired in the affair of Major Rogers, who, it was faid, with a party of »2 men, on the 11th inftant, who was dif- covered and fired upon by a body of 130 French and Indians, on his way to Wood- Creek, at the fame time taking 7 priforers and 4 fcalps 5 and find, that there is no foundation for any thing of the kind ; on the contrary Rogers had not been out, when the laft accounts came away, fince his late {cout. NEWHAVEN, 4pril 28. The following Account, is, as it was related to us, by aPerfon belonging to the Place where it happen’d. “NNE Mr. Dyar of Stafford, in this Colony, and his Wife, had lived together Jume Years without hav- ing any Children, which [eemed to occafion fome little Difiafie beteween them. He was fomewbat violent in bis Temper, and frequently difcover'd a natural Morofe- nels of Difpsfition, which hewever, be kept ander a to- lerable Refiraint ; fbe had much of a religisus Turn, and was reckoned a Weoman of remarkable Pisty, T ey lived together reputatly, and be was one of the Selel He lately fell under the Sufpicien of having floles fome Hay from fome of bis Neighbours, Jeweral of thews met ot bis Houfe on Sunday Evening the 8th Infi. in order ta clear up 47 accorsmadate the P den of the Totun. iinf? bim, kis Wife feem'd to join with tke reft in the / He fpow'd a gloomy Difpleajure, and utter'd Jeme unkind Refloétions upon ber Barrennefs.. -- Intke Evemng's Converjation, jbe faid fbe had the Night be- fore, avery remarkable Dream, ber Hufband ofecd what it was ? fbe replied, fbe had dreamed jbe was in Para- dile, and bad bien greatly délighted there, well, faid be, your Dream fball be wverificd befire Morning. Tk Neighbours took na Notice of the Speech at that Time, but left the Man azd bis IVife alone, there being ne otber Perfon in the Houfe, The next Morxing, one of the Neighbours baving Bufine(s with Mr. Dyar, went to the Houfe, and find- * ing the Doors [but, knock'd, but kbeard none flirring.--- He flay'd t:/] late in the Fsrenoon, and the Doors flill continuing fbut. be went again, and after knecking, and bearing No bsdy, open d the Door and went in 5 when being frighted he ran out and called bis Neighbours, Jeveral of them went back with bim to the Houfe,wbere they found the Man and his Wife both dead. She was hing in a Corner of the Room, murdered in a m:off cruel and fbicking Mazner 5 [be feem'd to bave been beat to Death with a Maul, [uppofed ts bave been made for that Purpofe the Evening before 5 her Flefb, efpecially about the Neck and Head, appear’d beaten alwoff to a Jelly, ber Skull broke alwoft to Pieces, ber Blood and Pieces of ber Brain was befpatter’d upon the Wall all reund the Room, and aljo upon the Ceiling, fbe feem'd to bave been dragg’d over the Room, and beaten after Jbe was dead ; the Beads of ber Necklace were beaten into the Flefb of her Neck, and one of the Drops of ber Ear- Ring was buried a confiderable Way under ber Jaw. The Man bad taken cut a Sheet and feme Head Clothes, and laid them on a Table near his Wife, which frem'd as if be interded to have wrap'd ber in the Skeet. The Print of his bloody Hand appear’'d on the Sheet, on the Clothes he pack'd up, and feveral other Things in the Rooms 5 and it appears, that after the Fall, be went ints the Bed, where be likewife left bis Print in B odd 3 and whcther bs could not bear the Horror of bis own Confcience, or hadover flept bimfelf, Jo as to difpair of Elcape,-- is ancertain, but be bad fafiened a Cord to the Ceiling near 4he Side of the Bed, in which be bang’d kimfelf, one of bis Leggs beivg on the Bed, in 4 kneeling Poffure, the otber off. axd brs Body leaning Sorward. His Scull was broke, and the Maul lying by bim, fo that it appear’d, before be bire upon the Cord to firangle bimfelf, ke broke bis Scull with the Maul. NEW-POR T, May 1. Yefterday arrived here Capt. Deane in eight Days from Halif:x,which givesus the Opportunity of informing the Publick, and we do it with the greateft Pleafure, of the Arrival of Admiral Saunders, with the fin- eft Squadron of His Majefty’s Ships that have ever yet appeared in North- America, Capt. Deane has favoured us with a Lift of the Ships juft arrived, and of thofe already at Halifax and Cape-Breton, which fellow in Order. . Ships Names. Neptune, Royal William, Terrible, Shrewfbury, Warfpite, Dublin, Northumberland, Somerfet, Orford, Sterling-Cattle, Intrepide, Trydon, Alcide, Windf{or, Medway, FRIGATES, &c 36 20 20 18 18 Men 900 goo 700 700 700 700 550 550 550 550 550 500 550 450 450 Guns. go 4o 74 74 74 74 70 300 200 200 100 100 Diana, Sea Horfe, Race Horfe, Firethip, Strombolo, Cornet, Baltimore, Bomb, 18 100 Pelican, 18 100 In all 15 Ships of the Line ; and of Fri- gates, Fire-fhips, and Bomb Ketches, 7. Tke Circumflanzes appear'd very Jufpicious a- +* * - - - A, SHIPS - 0 <