Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names
We have also an account that there are seven of our men carried into Ticonderoga, which make up the number of those that were missing." "21 -- Friday, in ye afternoon, a party of about 150 went out to find more men that were missing, and we found 4 men who were scalped, and we buried them, and so returned ; and at prayer this evening we were laromed by a false outcry. Nicholas Brown died and was hurried ; and Moses Haggit died." This account thus corroborates in detail the French official dispatches and Pouchet's description of the attack. Under date of Friday, July 28th, Lieut. Thompson, who that day had been down towards the Narrows, " to peal bark for to make camp," returned to Lake George and says : " In the evening there came news that the Indians had killed a number of teams and their guard below ye Halfway Brook, and there was a scout fitting to go after them." As this massacre to which the Thompson Diary so briefly refers, is probably the most important event which took place at the "Half-Way Brook," we quote fully from Holden's History of Queensbury, concerning it: " On Thursday the twenty-seventh of July, a detachment of four hundred men, consisting of Canadians and Indians, under the command of M. St. de Luc la Corne, a French-Colonial officer, attacked an English force of one hundred and fifty men consisting of teamsters and an escort of soldiers, while on their way from the station at the Half-Way Brook, to the Camp at the head of the lake. The account here given is as nearly as can be remembered in the language of a Mr. Jones of Connecticut, who was a member of Putnam's company which arrived on the ground soon after the afiFrav took place. in the year 1822 he related the circumstances