Fort, opened the doors and asked for quarter.

M. de Belletre lost no time in repairing to the second, the third, the fourth and fifth which were not less intimidated than the first by his intrepidity and the cries of the Indians. They all surrendered at discretion, and were entirely burnt. During this time a party of Canadians and Indians ravaged and burnt the said 60 houses of the Palatines, their barns and other out buildings as well as the Water Mill.

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killed or drowned. The number of prisonmen, women and children, among whom is the Mayor of the Village, the Sur-

In all these expeditions about 40 English perished ers is nearly 150

geon and some Militia Officers.

We had not a man killed; but M. de Lorimer, officer, was

wounded by a ball, and three or four Savages slightly. The damage inflicted on the enemy is estimated according to the representations of the English themselves, To wit in the right side

In grain of all

sorts,

a muGh larger quantity than the Island of Montreal has produced in

years of abundance.

The same of hogs. 1 This fort, to which so much reference is made in a subsequent paper describing the Valley of the Mohawk, was situate on the South side of the Mohawk River, nearly opposite the mouth of the West Canada Creek, in what is now the Town of

German Flatts. It is alluded to by Lt. Gov. Delancey (see post p. 334) as " Fort Hareniger," and is now known as Fort Herkimer. The settl«ment destroyed" by the French was on the opposite, or North side of the Mohawk.