The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, August 29, 1760, Page 1

i é ' ¢ § ' ‘ THE - New-Hampfhire et S s Containing the Fre]be/? Advices, N e e PHILADELPHTFA, Avguft 14 ' Qnday lat Capr Rench wrrived here, in 20 days M paffage from &;bcc. By him we leaxg as tollows, ¥iz. Thac s wesk before he faied, General Murray, " with between 2z and 3000 troops. snd abut 40 kil of trasipotic, lefc Quebee for’ Montregl, having likewile wicth him s 40 gup fhip, a, frigate, and & floop of war, with feveral Hoating batieries, fome of which mounted 24 pounders : That about 10 leagues up ke rivcr, he Tanded his men, snd took, after & good deal of oppofiiion from the Enemy, 8 16 gun batery, which is feid 10 be the dnly gggg%tion of chat kind ha has to mee:. Wik ia i T et going up: I ) 10 000 men ) defizned to give Gen. Amherft battle, to binger his joining Gen. Murray. —Thsi ap exprels of rygers had asrived from Gen. Am bexlt, who wete 20 days trom Crown Point 5, butin croffiug the river St. Francia o § raft, they were cartied down the falls, by hich th’éxh&. their packet, and all their arms ; fo that Geperal Myrray could receive by litde information fifgmlhgm : Tha one of our fhips above Quebec had x@éi;qfl‘ fome 14‘113&3 from fome of the French floating bauigries, spd loft [ome men +_That a Frignd Indian in from .aois,g csme ivictes, and (2@, the French tqfid him, that Msj, Rogers bad burnt two villages on the kl;%b']ghs; witlfin i%v,e_l_c,‘guc\g of Mo.ptr‘ql : And that .q'gc'ziocpa ‘went off from Quebec in_ high (pirits, the 9 ers, 1t is faid, Rriving and pelidoning for legve to g0 on the ¢xpedition. ‘ E.Q‘?P.{i (EPW Y O R K, Auguft 18 The 26¢h of July, in lar. 39, Jon. 68, Capt. Hogan faw a fnow, which by her motions, he had rea'on to think was a privateer. Some days after, Capt. Hogan fpoke with s whaling floop from Rbode Ifland, the mifksr of which acquainted him_that ¢ French priva- teer (mow had been offthiscozlt. " Thuriday 1ak was found in & barn in this city, the body.of s woman very much disfigared, and the flch . off in fevaral places : The coroner’s inqueft being fammoned, i appeared to them that fhe lisd been a lewd woman, and that about fix weeks 180 fhe went $mo the f1id barn, snd there died, s the faid barn had been lock’d up for that fpace of time. i Friday the body of a failor. was, found floating in the north river. 'The coroner’s inqueft found that he loft ‘bis lile by atrempiing to efcape from his Maj:iy’s fhip Wincheftér, hzving a'hangkerchict tied round his body, with a large pair of Glver buckles, ofe guiuca, and 3 doller in i, and by a Jeiter found in his pocket, it sp- pi!axcd his name was ?Aichszl"f‘hor_p,» and that_ he hasl’g g fiter married to ong John Mitchell, i’cmon:c,. in Sou hamp on building Grey's inn London. ‘ Y “Wefterday Capiain Mogoia, in tife Barl of Eeicelter { , aaxived here from Bofton, packet, axive ;Q R " Extrall of & Letter from & Gentleman at the Weff End of Ongida Lake, dated July 22. 1760. : « Ap Indian who -was taken i Capt. Jaceb’s 2d- wre, lafk year, snd bas, bsen ever fiage 2 prifoner :fi:ut O yregatehe, found mesns &t length to.clcape, and axxived here lafk nighe 3 he brings advics thay the troops. as Mle Gallop are fruck with fuch a panic, that they have their baggzga and moft v,ilu,a_b:e. éff2éts em- basked on board Battoes, which they aave for that pur- pofe, in order to puth off on our fizly @ppesrence. The troops st Montreal, bg f1ys are thoroughly corr‘vmlc?q . oF their insbili:y to make s long Rand, as Maudreuils has de:ermined wo make the beft terms in b;s power, o5 the fi-fy approach of our army ; be haying ?cgrd that one of the chiaf pilots “taken by i;fqrd Colyill, has a&ually ¢ngaged m. oux ntgrslt; havieg undert_ak;n ‘t0. copdu& any veflel of 3G guns vp fo the very walls of the. town. Gl « 1 imazined yon might have 2 curiofity to know the furength of the aymament Wita Gen, AMHERST ‘on the prefent expedition, | have theiefore "gnfcxed an acoount thercof, wrhich- T dure fay, differs bur litde from truch, 95 [ hsve been more than commonly cu ious to, afcertain the frength of each corps, that have paffed this Seafon, viz. 42d, or Royal Highland Regiment, . » . 1300 " 44th, - . o . ¢ 900 455, d : . . : % 600 e 114 y 3 4 3 s s 6ao. 6oth, or 4th Battalian Royal Amerians, 500 y7th, Montgomery’s Highlanders, . . « 799 . 8oth, ’ £ SR g 5 . 500 New Ferfey Rigiment, with their Rangers, 1000 Neep, Yorkers, that bave. paffed this Station, 3000 . 3000 =~ Connellicut: Regiments, - "« - - . Total; vr100 men. 1 have nat included Indians, &3 Sir William Johnfon told me himfelf, thathe was uncertain of their numbers bt belived they would not be lefs than 1500 or 2000 warriors, which, in conjunéion with aut other troQps, atit was reporced a Fierich army (about - <will make an army, who with the divine protdiion, will fhortly " have it in their power to prefeibg fuch terms 6o “onr peifidious and barbarous encmies, as to them fhall feem molt advantageous for dur country, 20d have the greateft tendency to lecure our futare prace and tranquility. — Carmp at Lake Ontaria, July 29 1760, “ We emba k’d on boaid our boats at Schenc&ady 24+h June, and arrived hese the 221 of July, continging - our march all the time ; the navigetion was bad in the Mohawk river,the water being (wiftand in maby places - fo dow that we ware obliged to get our battoes. over by lifting by nmiuin frengths the Wood Creek Was fill worfe, it was full oflogs, and the water (o law, that we were obliged to'lit over the logs: 1 was ¢ight days . gotng the length of the Creek, which is 40 milés ; that brings us to the Oneida Lak:, whichis a moli nesuiful water, in length about 30 miles, from that the Onondago river leads to this Lake, the diftance about 60 niiles. *Tis 2 wide rapid river, full of riffs, and difficult of pavigation, efpecially now, as the water is very low. The country in general from Scheneétady is very good, e'pecially on the Mohawk river. The Jand - bere zbout is poor and broken, but the view of the Lake is very p'eafant, the fight is bounded by the water, which is 150 miles broad, and 270 lenigth, and in time cf a ftarin the ‘waves run as in the main ocean. — We hear the. Frehch army are entrench’'d on an ifland rear La Galette. — T'wo French vefftls appeared off the forr, sbout a forinight dgo, st which they fired feveral fhor, which was returned by thefort, when they fheered off ; about 4 days after they sgain appear’d off the furt, but’ two, of qur vellels coming trom Niagara they were purfued and came in fight of one another near Fromt énack, but it being ‘calm our veffels could not come up with them, {o they efcaped and got into the river to wards La Galette. —— We have here about 6 or-700 Indians ; Gen. Johnfon is gone to the three Rivers, there to wait the arrival of the Senccasyand Cayugas.” By the return of an Exprefs from. Albany, who came to town on Friday laft, we have intelligence, that the troops under General Amherft had embarked from Of- wego in three divifions ; the firlt commanded by Col. William Ambherft fat off the 7th ioft. the General with the fecond on the 1o:h, and Col. Gige with the third proceeded the next day : The Numbser of troops the General has with him, we can’c yet learn, fome fay 10,000, others not guite fo miny.—Alio that Col, Haviland, and B-igasicr Gensral Ruggles of the Pro- vincials, with §600 men procceded from Crown Point on the 11:h.—~We have no sccougt where the main body of the Frenchare ; nor can we tell the particular routs and floppages cither of cur armies will make : Taere is no doubt, confiiering the great shilities of tire commanders, with troops that have” gone thro’ many difficulties, snd ‘behaved with courage and conduét be: coming Britifh'foldiers, but that the well laid plan will be executed in fuch & manner, as that by “the bl:ffing of Heaven, all Candda will foon be under the Dominion of his Britannic Miajefly. We learn from Albaoy that Col. John Bradftreet; Deputy Q_arter-Mafter, was dangeroufly ill of a Fever at O.wego. By Capt. Gardner who. arrived at Calco Bay laft Week ic 25 Diys from Qyebec, and who came 0 Town from thence on Saturday laft, we.have the foillawing Advices, viz. That General Murrgy, with about 2309 Men, in a Number of Slocps, Schooners, &c. with the Disns,” Penzance, and Porcuping Frigates, left Qaebeg on the 14'h of July, and on the 22d st Night, an Ex: prefs came from them with the following Intelligence, viz. That on the 1rgth the whole Anchored between Point Platon and De Chambgay :—The 16¢h the Por: cupine with the Floating Batteries, and the grestelt part of the Fleet went thro® the rapids of Richlien, without any damage, tho® a Snow and s Brig went afhore, but got off again ; that Liieut. Campbelk of the Highlanders (the only Man ‘hurt) was killed by a Cannon Shat as they pafs’d De Chambeau : —The 17h inthe Evening, Major Carry with z00: Men and 70 Rangers, were or- dered down the River; to land on the Sautli Shore, op- pofite Jaques Quarticrs, from whence he, was to detach a Captain'and roo Men, with ali theiL&sm to. fyr- ptize a Guard at the Platon, about § Miles sbove where they landed 5 Capt. Leflic was detached for this Sgrvice, and landed the fame Night, and marehed them about Day light ; but Mohf., Harret, who commanded the French Party had recéived the Alzrm and gave a Strag: gling Fire o onr People, and run off, but our Men werg, fo clofe upon them tHat they. kill'd two upon thie, Spot, and took Capt. Harrett and” two othiers” Prifgners, the former was"woufi;gq}('iq the Belly, and died the famg Night 3 the Tropps, fince that Gpard was ‘removed, land daily, and the Inbabitznts of the Paiithes of St. Croix and ® Larbinere have ‘come in with thefr Arms, and have taken the Oathg of Fidelity, which its tho'y . Foreign and Domeflick. will be the ae with all the South Shore, a3 our Pso- ple advaneg i —They bring Greens and Refrefhments af all kads (o ous P;op"c, who are all in high Spiriis.— ie gurival of the Lo fhourg Troops is impariendy !Of‘k'd lor, w};:g they are inmediaely to proceed to join. Gengral Murray, and donbt not but they will thea be able to do (omething. — ; Captain Gagdner ailo informs, that abouta fortnight before the troops embaiked, 2 large. body of French hotfe appeared in fight of Quebec, wha after riding about fometime, went off :—That the troops from Loufbourg were arrived at the 1fl: of Coudre, the 29'h ]QAZETTE: of July, and would procecd uip the fisft favouiable cp- - - portunicy : —That Cspe. Barbut of the 48:h regimear, died there the beginning of lall month, of "the wounds he recsived in the gftion with the enemy near that piace laft {pring. —Tnat Capt. Inglithing Eip from this place, in whom went a number ot officers that wintered here, was arrived at Quebec, and the ofiicers joined their refpe@ive regimen:s : —That & number of trading veflels have been taken into his M:j=8y’s fervice sfcer their arrival there, befides thofe waich ware hired here. —That no more of the veflels from rhe Con‘incnt haye been taken by the enemy, than thofc 7 or 8 men‘ioned fome time fipge, which were taken by thie Frerch fri gate an.i fRlorcthips from France, and cefiroyed with them is the Bay of Chalcurs:—That ’twas publickly reporied st Quebec, that the French had ftrongly en- trencied themelves at the 1fle of Way, a lile below L3 Galstte, wherc *:is {aid they have 130 pieces of can non, z2nd where General Amberdt mult pals in his wa'y to Moutieal :—That fometime belore the army embark ¢d, the chief Bithop among the French, died at Mont real, upan which the Religious Order there, fent to (3eneral Marray for leave (0 bury him in the cathedral chu;ch at Qucbec, which was granted them ; and ac- cordingly hiscorps was brought snd depofited under the altar of that crcn with all the fupe:ftitions pomp and ceremony ufual in Roman Catholick countries on fuch occefions: —That provifions of all kinds was in the greateft plenty, and Rum ia particular, chesper than in Bofton : —That Col. Frafer commanded at Que- bec : —Arnd, that in coming down the river he metwith a great number of Traniports, with Cattle,&c. going up. In the sbove veflel were bro’t 6 French foldiers of ke regiment of Lorraine, who with a number of others were taken prifoners near Quebec fome time ago ; fome of them s faid are put on board every veflel which fails from thence. ; Laft weck a fithing {chooner srrived at Cape Ann from the Banks, the fk:pper of which informs, that laft Saturday fe’nnight he met with a 6o gun ihip bound from Quebec to Virginia ; one of the Licuts of which came on boatd him, snd informed, that they lete Que beg about a fortnight before, and that they bad reccivid - acvice that General Murray, with the troops under his command, had gotup as far as Trois Rivieres, without oppofition, on his way to join General Amherft at Mont- real ; and that g great pumber ot French deferters daily some i and lay down their arms. v ; By Capt. Hill who was lately taken ina Schooner from. hence for the Weft Indies, and carried in'o Mar- tincco, we are favoured with the following lift of the Names of the leveral Mafters remsining in goal there when he came awsy, which was the 2gth of May laft, iz, A Peter Greer, taken in a Sloop from Marblehead. Jonathan Boothby, ina Ship from Pilcataway. William Kirkby, in 8 Brig from Liverpool. Welch Cooper,in & Schooner frem Virginia. Solomon, Johnfop; in & Brig from Paole. Dsvid Jones, in a Ship from Yarmouth. Daniel Bucklaine, in a Slopp fram Proyvidence: Hdward Draper Alford, in a Sloop. fram St. Euftatia. Asrgn Ward, in a Sloop from New London. Joleph Qlivg, in a Brig from Pocle. — Mg Carty, in a Snow from Cork. —=— Caxdle, in a Schooner from Salem. - John Tailor, ig a Sloop from St Chiriftophers Walier Sirowd, in g Ship from Briftal. . Stephen Heyror, in.g Sloop, from Boffon. . Havfon. Mefervey, in a Schooner from Ditto. Henry Bave, in a Ship from London. ‘ Jafeph Gardngr, “in 8 Brig from Lancafter. . Jofeph. Frip, in 3 Snow fram Norwalk in Virginia. . John James, in a Ship from Scarborough. Befides two. Sloops, a Ship apd Snow. going into Ss. Riece’sihe day Caps. Hill camg. aury apd eighe others. . We hear irom Newport, Rbode Ifl:nd, that on Thus(day laft, $amuel Parks and Benjamin Hewking were, executed therg agrgeable to their fentence, fof the fea robbery. perpeisated op Capy. Honey, of the Ichoon- er Francis, as, formerly mentioned; : - We heer irom. Newbnry, That cp Thurfday 1a& died there very, fuddenly, the Flon, Jann Greaniiar, Bigs farmesly one of Eis M:jslty's Couneil for this Fiovipee . Thisisto forbii any Perlon har. Portfmoathh, A3g. 29, 1760 e of fome evil minded Peoplz ¢ 1end is by the Advic 1 i 3 * T will not payany D we §n ,. HEREAS Euflace my Wife, threateps to leave me, which I appre bouring or trufling her cn mv Accow w ks Daie; bts fhe may centrali from this Day,