Benjamin Sutton and one Rude, two of Goshen militia, were killed at Minnisink Morgan Owen was killed and scalped about four miles from Goshen a woman, Philip Swartwout's ;

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taken prisoner at Minnisink, was killed and her body cut in halves

and left by the highway ; Silas Hulet's house was robbed and " From about the drowned lands he himself narrowly escaped.

down the Wallkill, where fifty families dwelt, save four abandoned their fields and crops." *

for fifteen miles all

Meanwhile General Edward Braddock, whose defeat has bee/i incidentally noticed, had arrived in Virginia with two regiments of English troops, and at a conference with the royal governors,

on the 14-th of April, had planned four expeditions against the French ; the first was to effect the complete reduction of Nova Scotia, the second was to recover the to expel the French from Fort

Ohio valley, the third was

Niagara and form a junction with the expedition to the Ohio, and the fourth, under the com

mand of Colonel Johnson, was to have for its object the capture of Crown point, for which purpose he was to have the militia of

New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and the warriors of the Six Nations under his command. To aid in securing the services of the latter, as well as to effect a more complete organization of the Indian alliances, he was appointed superin

tendent of Indian affairs, with full power to make treaties in the interest of the crown.