It also gives the names of a number of people who died from disease and were buried at the " Half -Way Brook." He describes the leturn of the English and Colonials from Ticonderoga, and under date of July 8th, being at the head of the lake that day, there is the following entry in his book : " Saturday, Post came from the Narrows ; and they broug'ht Lord How to ye Fort, who was slain at their landing; and in ye afternoon there came in 100 and odd men, French prisoners into the Fort." These were Langy's men captured at the fatal Trout Brook skirmish. This testimony by an eye witness would go far to disprove the

"Among these may be mentioned the Journals of Rufus Putnam, cousin of Israel Putnam, and afterwards a Revolutionary General ; the " Diary of Lieut. Samuel Thompson, of Woburn, Mass." (for which I am indebted to Dr. Sherman Williams, of Glens Falls) ; the Journal of an Unknown Provincial Officer in Col. Preble's Regiment of Massachusetts; "The Memoirs of John Stark," and " Rogers' Journals."

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theory of recent times, that Lord Howe's remains had been discovered at Trout Brook ; and it tends to confirm the statements of older historians, that his remains were probably taken to Aibany fof burial. On July 20th occurred one of the many skirmishes for which the " Half-Way Brook " is noted. One of the several scouting parties sent out by Montcalm to attack and harass the soldiers and convoys on the " Lidius " (Fort Edward) road and to take scalps and provisions, made one of their usual hawk-like descents, falling upon Col. Nichol's regiment, then quartered at the " Half-Way Brook " block house. Pouchet says, the detachment, five hundred in number, was made up of Canadians and Indians, commanded by M. de Courte-Manche, and that it succeeded in taking twenty-four scalps and making ten prisoners.