Pursuant to your Orders of ye 29th of October Last I set off with ye Party to me ordered and Went Down ye Lake and ye 31st made a Discovy ofa nomber of fires By night Scituated on a Point of Land on y® West Side of ye Lake, upon Which we Landed and Secured our Battoes upon ye Same Side of ye Lake about a mile & half Distance from their Encampment, Next morning Sent out Spies for further Discovery, in y® Evening Capt Fletcher one of y® Spies return'd Leaving 2 of ye Spies there, and made Report yt there was four Tents and Sundry Small fires on Sd Point,and upon yt after Consultation it was Concluded advisable to acquaint your Honour of our Discovery and Reinforce us if you thotight advisable in order to Proceed further and Make a Push upon our Enemy, accordingly Capt Fletcher. was Dispatch¢ to you with Six men in ye Battoe and Six being return'd as Invaleeds Leving me with nineteen men only, but being un Hasie with the Report, I took a Battoe with 5 men and went Down within 25 Rods of their Fires Discovered a Small Fort with Several Small Log Camps within ye Fort which I Judged to Contain about } of an acre Said Fort being open towards ye Water The rest Picketted. Made no further Discovery there and Returnd to My Party, found all well except Capt Putnam and ye Spie with him, who was not returned, The next Morning about 10 0 the Clock Capt Putnam return'd and ye Spie with him who Gave much the Same acct ag above Saving yt ye Enemies Centrys was sett 20 Rods from yt Fires and for a more Crittical examination of y® Enemies Proceedings he went forward till he Came so nigh yt he was fired upon by one of ye Centeries within a Rod of him, But unfortunately upon Preparing to Fire upon him fell into a Clay Pit and wett his Gun made ye Best retreat he was able, hearing y® Enemy Close to their Heels, yy made a Tack & Luckely escap4 Safe to our Party;Soon after there was a Discovery made of two Frenchmen upon a Hill a Small Distance, who Called to us, said Hill overlooked our ambush, in a few minutes they retreated, and Two Canoes appeared and went by us & Lay in