The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 2, 1759, Page 3

tenants'Mc Daniel, Archibald Campbell, Alex- ander Campbell, John Dougla:, Alexarder Frafer, fen. Enfigns, Mc Kenzie, Gregorfon, and Malcomb Fraler, 7 ferjeants and 131 Raok and File.. i E : ; WhaitMmoRE’s Grenadiers, Killed, Lieut. Jones and 2z privates, Wounded, 26 Rank and File. ‘ Horson’s Grenadiers. Killed, 1 private. : \ WarsurToN’s, Grenadiers.) Woaunded, Capt. Cofpan, Licuts. Pintorn and Nevin. 3 T be following is Jaid to be the Difpofition of . the Englifb. drmy the Day of the Engagement. 1600 under Major Scott and Capt. Gorham, , ravaging and defroying the Country. . 1500 encamped on the Ille of Orleans. zoco escamped on Point Levy, under Colonel : Burton. . i P!, 5000 under the Generals, WOLEE, Town- : senD, and Monckron, 1z Miles above : Quebec. .| Movtcalm's Army, 'tis faid, confilted of above "‘ 10,000 Men, and his fitnation fo advantageous, I that he often faid 100,000 Veterans could not force his Trenches . Buz alas for thee Montcalm, and thy Troops | tho’ happy for Quebic, and its Inbabitants | That not only thy Body was aot in- ! wulnerable 3 but alls the Entrenchmints not im- | | pregnable againfi ome tawenticth Part of the Nuin- ber of Troups,who were animated not by a French, but by a far mire noble Spirit, wiz. a Britifh. May thai Country enjoy.1he Liberty, to which they bawe hitherts beer Strangers ! \ ¢, Thurfday Afiernoon returned here an Ex- refs, who was difpatched from hence with the t' ‘Advice of the Surrender of Quebec : By him 3w learn that he left Crowr Point the 18th [aft. ¢ jn the Evening, and furthee informs, That Bri- gadier Ruggles commanded there ; and that ¢ar {* Men in general were hearty, and were ftill eni- ployed in building the new Fort.~—That they had received no Acccunt from Major Rogers | fince he went cut with a large Party into the \* Enemy’s Country, but expe&led td hear in 15 . Days.—That juft before he.came away,aWhale Boat frem General Amherft arrived there with an Account, That the Troops which had fail’d ' {fom thence, were arrived at the l{lands called the Three Brothers in Lake Champlain, about 40 Miles from Crowh Point, where they had been detained By contrary Winds ; bat that on the 18:h Ioftant they procesded forward ; but i where defigned, the General kept in his own Breaft ; tho' it was generally thought for St. John's,and fo on.—That on the Tuelday Morn- -ing befdre, Capt. Loring, with the armed Vel- fels; difeovered and purfued thiee of the Ene- ., my’s Veflels, being armed Sloops,two of which “3 the Enemy run into a Creck and fcdttled them, ¢4 and went off teaving the Guns on board, which bur People took out foon dfterwards ; the other Veflel was taken, and being mann’d, join’d our #. | Fleet. They alfofell in fight of another of the' Eaeimy’s Veflels, a Schooner, which they went in purfait of ; and, ’tis faid, this'Schooner, and a Ship, if launch’d, were the only Vcilcls of Force the French have on the Lake. We hear that Capt. Ruflel in a Schoorer { from this Place bound up to Quebec with Cat- tle, &c. was lately calt away ncar 'the Ifle Le- beck, in the River St. Lawrente ; Veflel and 'y Cargo loft. : : (/+ ¢ Iathe North Ealt Storm we had here about “ " three Weeks fince, feveral Veilels bound hither " from the Southern Provinces,which had, aDay or two before it came on, put out irom Mar- tha's Vineyard, were drove out towards the . SouthChanue!, two or three of which were from | Philadelphia ; and laR Thur{day Night a young ', Man belonging to on¢ of them, (a Slowp, Ed- . mund Morton, Mafterjcame to Town by Land /1 . from Wood’s Hole, and intorms, that their f &\ Veffel founder’d in Lat. 38. having her Rud der broke- off, her Sails torn, and 7 Feet of A Water in her Hold, when being in the utmoft |« Danger of perifliing, they happily fell in with ; Capt. Dimaock, alfo from Philadelphia,who'was & drove oat with them ; and the People being " ¢ taken on board his Veilel, arrived' at Wood's Hole laft.Monday. The other Philadelphia Veficl was a Schooner, William Dobe!l, Mafter, who parted from them in the -Storm, and of { 3 |i AT RSV e e whom we have yet no Account. On board Capt. Morton’s Veifel were about 500 Barrels of Flour, befides other Effeéls, which fuak foon after the People left her. And lat Friday Afterncon Capt. Riffoud in a Brig from Pifcatagna for Brifloi, put in here to refit, having in the above Storm fprung a Leak, and the People.on board not being able to kecp her free, had five Feet of Water in her Hold when fhe came in : Capt. Riffsud, fail’d from Pifcataqua about 20 Days ago, and had been driven by the Violence of the Storm as far 10 the Southward as the Capes of Virginia. The Schooner mention’d in our laft tobe fcen lying asa Wreck between Cape Sables and Boon Ifland,we fince hear was from Pifcataqua bound here, and that all the Hands were drowned. Capt. Lawton who arrived at Rhode-I{land laft Week from New-York, informs, that in coming thro’ Long Ifland Sound - he faw. a Schooner of about 6o Tons, bottom upwards ; fhe is fuppos’d to be a Schooner’ belonging to Halifax, which fail’d from Rhode-Ifland for New York, jult before the late N. E. Storm, without Ballaft, By YN i ? Saturday laft two Deferters from St. John's wer bro’t to this Town ; they were taken up near No. 4. onc. of them js named Themas Shiennit, and was a Serjeant in the Battalion of Bern, which svas ftatiored at Quebeck, but him- {elf with a Detachment of faid Battalion was or- der’d fomeTime ago to St. John’s. The other is named John llor, and fays he is a Native of Geneva, and a Proteftant, and c2me over to Canada about 4 Years and an half ago with a new raifed Company, in which he was a Ser- jeant: They report, that they left-St. Joha’s the 224 of Septemsber, at which Place there was 2560 Men, who were working upon an En- trenchment there under'the Command of Monf. Bourlamare :—That at about 6 Leagues Dif. tance from St. John’s the French had an ad- vanced Poft upon the Meadows of Boileau, and Nut Ifland, guarded by about 1000 Men :— That they had but about 40 Pieces of Cannon in all, from 6 to 12 and 18 Pounders, at St John’s and the Meadows ; about 18 of which were at St. John’s :—That they had 7 Barks upen the Lake, mounting from 6 to 8 Guns : <=That they had been very well {upply’d with Provifions ; and that of the 3500 Men at the sforefaid Pofts, goo were Regulars, the reft Canadians, and that at Montreal there were n@ Topupa Rt Bl - 5 vh e ou ; Iflor fays, That he was at General Braddack’s Fight, and at that wherein Mzjor Grant was defeated; and has been all along spon the Ohio, and the Parts adjacent, and had arrived at St. John's but 7 Days before he deferted. ; . Shiennit alfo fays, That he was at Fort Du- Queflne at the Time of Braddock’s Defeat, and was alfo there at the Time when General Forbes came near it, on which they blew up the Fert, and fent down the Canncn, 14 in Number, fix 6 Pounders to Orleans, and the other eight to Fort Cherokee ; moft of the latter were 4 Poun- ders : This is an Indian Fort, and has Barracks for 40 or 50 Men, is made of Logs, and has four Baltions : —Shiennit was zl{o at the Battle before the Fort at Niagara, and efcaped after they were defeated, with 6oo others and 7 Offi- cers, and retreated (o Prefque Ifle, from thence the People belonging to the feveral Parts of Louifiana difpers’d to, their refpeCtive Pofls : — That he in Company with 350 others came acrofs Lake Erie and Huron, crofs'd the Carry- ing Place for 30 Miles,and came into the River St. Lawrence oppofite La Galette, by the lictle River Miamis, and arrived at Montreal about the Beginning of September :—That he was at Montreal 3 Days,and that there was no Troops at that Place,no Worls made, nor Gtins mount- ed i there was fome Guns, bat no Carriages, : We hear from Beverly that one Day laft Week as a Man was riding along, by fome Ac- cident he fell from off his Horfe, broke his Neck, and died in a few Moments, We alfo bear from the fame Place, that the fame Day a Man brioging a Boat Load of Fith from a Veflel to the Sliose, the Boat fuck and the Man unfortunately loft his Lile. We hear from Philadelphia, ' lately arrived there from Ireland brings Advice that the thisteen Thoufand French Troops that That a Veflel were feparated from Marfhal Contades’s Army at the late Battle at Thornhaufen, have been all either kill'd or taken Prifoncis by Piince Ferdinand's Army. . ; Exura& of a Letter from Crown- Point, O&. 16. ——* Four Captains of theRanging Compa#irs have been miffing for a confiderable {i1me pafl,and *lis feared are all either kill'd or taken, viz. Burs bank, Tute, and the two Facehs's. Friday laft a Bear was kill’'d on - Col. Quin- cey’s Farm at Braintree, by oneJofiah Giover, which weigh’d upwards &f 17 Score. And, _ We hear that within Six Weels paft near a Hundred of thole voracious Animals have been Eilled only in South Hadley Diftri& in the County of Hampfhire ; fome of which weigh'd 20 Score. ; X PORTSMOUJg H, Jult as the Poft left sSofton, after the News Papers were publifhed, it was carrently report- ed there, that Msjor ROGERS had burnt and deftroyed. St. Francis, a confiderable Town be- tween Montreal and Quebeck. Lafl funday arriv’d bere Capt. CLARK in 2;4. < days from St. Martins, and informs, that a Packst aas-arriv'd at Barbadosin 28 days from Fal- mouth, and Reporty, that the King of Pruffia bas kad a Battle with the Ruffians,—cat the Army to Picces with the Lols of 15000 of bis Men—totally defeated the Aufirian Army,— taken Count Daun Prifoner,— immediately after, Jent bis Brother Prince Henvy with a Detachment of 25000 Men to jein Prince Ferdinand— and bad obtained a compleat Vidory over vhe Freach, Jo that they could mot rally 8co Men. Capt. Hopkins and Redficld came PafJengers with Capt. Clark, and confirms the abowe, and who Jailed from Barba- das in Company with the Packet for Guadaloupe, List were takeni by a Pertiaugre; known by the Name of tre Fly. N formation is hereby giver; = That the Foundation for fetting the rew Goal on, is to be let out—Any Perfon inclining to'take the Jobb, may treat with the Commit- tee at the Houle of Mr. Fames Steodly, lnn- holder in Portfmouth, on Thurfday the 15th of November Inftant. 63 in Bebalf of Mmas Packer ; Tuomas Pa ’{lblCflmmH:e. s e T —T— s e . LI, Perfons indebted to, " or that have any Demands on the Eftate of Capt. Pbilip Reed, late of Portfmouth in the Province of New Hampthire, deceafed, are de- fired to bring in their Accounts to Dorothy Reed of Porifmoath aforefaid, Adminiftratrix’ of faid Eftate, in order for Settlement. 63 s AJOTICE is bereby given to thé Creditors to the Efiate of Jeremiah Leavit, late of Excter in the Province of New- Hampfbire, Gent. deceajed, Inteflate, that fix Moanths further is granted for receiving their Claims 3 and that ave awill attend that Service at the late Manfion Houfe of faid Deceas’d oh the Jjirft Monday of this, 4nd the five following Months. 63 November 1, i759. Tobe Sold at public Vendue Y {bomas Simpfon of Nottingham-EaRt, & B commodious Farm in faid Nottingham, about half a Mile from the Meeting Houle, joining to the main Road that leads to Durham, containing about one Hundred and ten Acres, very well accommodated with good Mowing Ground, Pafturing and Planting, a likely young Orebard, Houfe and Barn. Above one Half of faid Land is bro’t to fit for Englilh Grafs. Con- ditions of fale to be feen on the Day of fale, which will be on Tuef{day the zoth Day of November, at the Dwelling Houfe of Mr. Robert Kalfa, in faid Nottingham. 63 R e o e e e Strayed away from Exeter on Wednelday Morning, a dark Bay HORSE, about 13 and balf Hands bigh ; bas a Star n bis Forchead, and three wbite Feet, paces pretty avell, W hoewver fball find Jaid Horfe,” and con- wey him to Mr. Charles Hight. of Part/miouth, Jball be well Rewarded for their Lrouble,