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Journal of Occurrences
in Canada
(Oct., 1755 to June, 1756)
In: New York Colonial Docs.
(Paris Docs.: XII): X,
pp. 401-406.
p. 401.
Journal of Occurrences in Canada from October, 1755, to June, 1756.
1755, October. By a letter from Detroit dated the 18th, all the Indians of that quarter appeared inclined to attack the English. The Miamis and Poutoamis are equally so disposed. The latter have had parties out constantly, and have killed or captured, up to the date of this letter, 120 English.
M. de __kau (illeg. copy) has been removed from Orange to Boston; no news have been received from him for a considerable time.
110 Acadian families have been removed to the Island of St. John, and 40 to the river of that name, notwithstanding the efforts of the English to the contrary.
1756, January. Spies have been sent to Minas and Port Royal, who have reported that there were 400 Regulars at Chibouctou, now Halifax, and 80 at Port Royal.
The English have burnt a barn on us filled with hay, in the neighborhood of Carillon, and have taken on prisoner.
February. The English, 'tis said, are making great preparations and considerable levies in all the New England Provinces. At Orange they have organized a company of Rangers composed of Dutchmen, and other people of the same sort, who are familiar with the woods.
March 18th Received information that Mr du Mas, commanding at Fort du Quesne, has defeated the English on the same ground where they were beaten last year, and that the Indians have committed great ravages on the enemy's territory.
20th 200 bateaux, designed to transport our troops in the next campaign, are just completed.
April 11 Some Englishmen, who came to the neighborhood of Fort St. Frederic, have burnt 4 barns. A sergeant and soldier, who went to hunt from Fort Carillon, have been attacked by a party of Mohawks; the sergeant has been killed and scalped; the soldier escaped.
May. A party of Iroquois took some English prisoners, among whom was a Major and another officer; the first was bearer of what are considered important despatches, but nothing has transpired respecting their contents.
3d We learn from Mr de Klerec,1 Governor of the Mississpi, that the Indian Nations within his government design to make an attack on the English of the Beautiful river, where we have taken a considerable number of prisoners, amounting to 600, since the battle of Fort de Quesne, where Mr Braddock was killed.
6th A letter, written from the country of the Wiatanons, states that the Illinois have attacked the Kickapoux and Miamis of St. Joseph, on the River of the Iroquois;2 they have killed two women and taken five children prisoners.
23d We have taken three English prisoners in Lake St. Sacrament.
This moment news arrives that three deputies of the Five Nations have come
to Montreal to demand that the road from us to Chouaguin be open. They have
been very coldly received by the Marquis de Vaudreil, and 'tis in consequence
of this proposition that Mr de Villiers has been detached, with 1100
Frenchmen and Indians, to intercept all communication with the English, and
prevent the transportation of their provisions, ammunition and artillery to
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1 Supra, p. 281, note.
2 The Iroquois river rises to Indiana, runs westerly by Concord, Montgomery and Iroquois city, Iroquois county, Illinois, from thence northerly and falls into the Kankakee.- ED.
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