That Orders were immediately given for every Man on board the Vessells to lay down their Arms take 1 Blanket and 2 Shirts and march Prisoners into the old Fort,

all

the Indians came in with him.

That Shirley's & PeppereU's Regiments were ordered to march to Fort Ontario, to be sent Prisoners to Frontenac (500 Indians being to guard them) in the Vessels which they took from us in our Harbour, being 2 Sloops 6 Guns each, besides Swivels, and 2 Hoies 2 Schooners, one of them with ;

Swivels ; and a Brig lately built, with 14 Carriage Guns, and the same number of Swivels

Schuyler and his Regiment were carried away Prisoners also.

That Col. That by the best accounts he could :

collect there were but five Men Killed besides Col. Mercer.

CHARLES HARDY TO THE BOARD. [

Lond. Doc. XXXIII. ] Fort George N. York Sep 5th 1756.

My Lords --I enclose for your Lordshipps information the Declaration sent me from Albany of the Soldiers who were originally Deserters from the French, & had taken on in Generals Shirley & PepereUs Regiments this paper did not come to me from any publick authority, as Lord Loudoun could n not then have time to copy papers. One of the Sailors that belonged to the Ontario Capt Lafory, I

have seen he gives this information that to the best of his memory on the morning of the 10 th of August a small Schooner was sent from Oswego to make discovery, that she returned off of the Harbour again in about two hours, informing them that they had discovered a large incampment of the