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The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 63 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] That they told the Indians upon their leaving the place, You see we do not want to seize your Lands, only to drive the English away whom we are much obliged to for supplying us with Artillery & Tools which we were in want of to take their Forts, the Sachem added that those that gave us the former accounts were de-serters who went away before the affair was decided, These are all the particulars I can furnish your Lordpp3 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.