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,

These are

all

the particulars I can furnish your Lordpp 3 with, with respect to the loss of

Oswego.

Declaration of a Soldier in Shirley's Regiment. Albany Aug the 21, 1756.

Past 8 o clock

The following account is given by 5 other men who had deserted from the French and were in Generals Shirley & Pepperel's Regiments and escaped with the Declarant.

Claude Frederick Hutenac of Major Gen Shirley's Reg' declares that on Monday^the 9 th of Aug 1 a Prow Galley went out of the harbour of Oswego, and discovered the French Camp about a mile from

Fort Ontario, the next day two sloops sailed out of the Harbour who were fired upon from that Camp & brought in two of the Bullets one of them an eighteenth and the other a twelve Pounder. That