Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I

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

on Wednesday & Thursday the enemy continued to fire with Small Arms only from the tops of the Trees & behind bushes upon a rising ground which commands Fort Ontario, which is no more than stockaded with a ditch of 14 feet wide and 10 deep but not quite finished. That on Thursday night the enemy opened Trenches within Pistol shot of the Fort, & on Friday the 13 th between one & two in the afternoon, the whole Garrison consisting of 300

men of Pepperells commanded by Capt n

Barford of that Regiment haveing first spiked their Cannon consisting of two Six Pounders and six

--abandoned

their Fort & embarked aboard

Whale Boats and got into the old Fort any loss, that during the time they remained in Fort Ontario, they had Oswego, ls only 3 men killed & Ensign Ting of Major Gen Pepperells Regiment, wounded,. that they neither