July 7 about 10 in ye Morn. 30 Boats Passed towards Supose part of those CANda also a Light Schooner of about 35 or 40 Seen the day before. tung--Set out again in ye Evening & went 15 miles farther Down and went ashore about 1 oClock a. m. upon a Point on y® East Side of & Immediately Sent a party farther Down the Lake for Discovery. who Saw a Schooner at Anchor Some Distance from ye Shore about a mile from us And upon this Intelligence lightned our Boats & prepared to Board them but were prevented about 3 of ye Clock by two Lighters Coming up the Lake who we found intended to Land in ye Place Where we Were which Vessels we fired npon immediately and atterwards hailled them & offered them Quarters if they would Come ashore which they said they would Comply with but Instead thereof put off in their Boats to ye opposit Shore but we followed them in our Boats & Intercepted them & after taking them found twelve men three of which were killed & two wounded one of the wounded Could not March therefore put an end to him to Prevent Discovery--as soon as y® prisners were Secure we employed our Selves in Destroying & Sinking Vesels and Cargoes-- Which was Chiefly Wheat & flour Rice Wine & Brandy except-

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ing Some few Casks of Brandy & Wine which we hid in very secure: Places with our Whale boats at Some Distance on ye opposite Shore the Prisners informed yt about five hundred men of which they were foremost, were on their Passage at about two Legs Distance which occasioned us to set forward on our Return y® Morning of the 8t* Currant & persued our March till ye 12tb Where we arrived on the West Side of Lake George about twenty five miles from Fort Wilm Henry & Sent Lieut Rogers to said fort for Battoes & Provisions to Carry us by water the 14th in ye evening y® Lieut Returned to us with thirty men and ten Battoes & y® 15th at two of the Clock we arrived safe With all my Party & Prisners at Fort Wil™ Henry.