command upon

PAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO.

taken possession of by the French, during the siege was killed Lieut Coll. Mercer apt" Hind of the Train of Artillery and eight or nine private men, and one Engineer wounded, he further says that the Enemy's force was reported to be three thousand Regulars & a great numafter

These two accounts tho' not materially different are greatly so from an account An Onandaga Sachem came to them the 25 th in the evening sent me from Gen: Willi's Camp That two of their young men that had been sent to with strings of Wampum and declared. ber of Indians,

Oswego returned to their Castle & reported that Oswego was not taken till six days before, that the enemy had put the whole to the sword, except 150, sailors carpenters & artificers included, That they had demolished the works and evacuated the place, carrying away the shipping Guns ammunition &c, That they had laid the Dead in Banks with their heads in the Water, & scatThat they told the Indians upon their tered a great quantity of Provisions about the Place. Lands, only to drive the English away your want to seize we do not see place, You leaving the Artillery & Tools which we were in want whom we are much obliged to for supplying us with of to take their Forts, the Sachem added that those that gave us the former accounts were deserters

who went away before the affair was decided,