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Escape the same Night we Came Right West of Tianarago about three Miles and upon a Mountain in plain sight of their fort & see large Incampments Round it & heard a vast number of smal arms fired Judged there To be Two Thousand men at Tianarago & on the Twenty first Day Got To Our Canoes about Eight of the Clock in the Morning & found all safe & about Nine of the Clock in the Evening Arived all well at our Encampments where we set out. '

The above account is the Cheif Discovery that we made at Crown point & Tianaragoe. To the Honourable William John- ] son Esq? Commander in Cheif of

Rozert Ropeers

the Forces at Lake George this JONATHAN BUTTERFIELD presented By Your Honours Most 1 P Harb leSecut J SRAEL PuTNaM

(Endorsed) Capt Rodgers & Cs Acct of Scout to Crown Point rec'd 22 Octo® 1755

CAPT. DOLITTLE'S JOURNAL OF HIS SCOUT TO TIONDOROGO.

Octobt 24th 1755 after a tedias march over hills and holes we Indeavoured to Disscover ye french on this side of ye Carrying Place but Could not hear any of ye Choping or Shooting or Druming we went Down To ye Lake but Could not Disscover them Then we Proceeded farther To Tiondaroga where we had a fare View of y® french a little before son set They ware at work Clearing of Lahd and Choping of Timber they have Cleared a Pint of Land that Looks East a Cross the Water that Runs from Lake George and ye South Bay which is To appearance but little more than Quarter of a Mile a Cross they have built no fort as I could Disscerne neither have they any Great Guns that I could see we Lay all night within about a mile of them saw them Light up y° fires and Beat ye Drums there appears to be about 150 Tents some small Boarded Housen there may [be] about 100 men as near as I Can Gess we Design' to view y™ ye next morning but'