In passing the writer wishes to state that the committee in charge of the erection of the memorial tablets, have chosen to give the block house, back of the Parker residence, the name of " The Seven Mile Post," applied to it in Knox's Military Journal under date of June 28, 1759, and to the fort on the " brickyard road," now called Glenwood Avenue, the name of " Fort Amherst." The remains of the ditches on this road were in evidence up to the early seventies, but in building up and remaking the highway at that point, they were covered over and no vestiges of them now remain. General Rufus Putnam, ^at that time orderly sergeant, during the month of June, 1759, describes in his Journal the forwarding of the troops and supplies from Albany, as far as Fort Edward, where he encamped until the i8th, when the regiment with which

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he was connected, was marched to the " Half- Way Brook," where they were occupied in making roads and keeping the highway secure for the passage of troops and supphes. Under the dates of July 1st and 4th he writes the following, which is an epitome of the events going on at that time : " From the time that we came to this place till now, nothing remarkablbut e ; bateaux, cannon and all kinds of stores carrying up, forces marching daily to the Lake and duty exceeding hard." " The Artillery was carried from Fort Edward to Lake George and was guarded by Col. Willard's Regiment of the Massachusetts. There was carried up 1062 barrels of powder. Col. Montgomery's Regiment marched up as a guard for the Artillery." Towards the close of June the army, amounting to six thousand men, came up to the " Half-Way," and headed by Rogers' Rangers, marched northward, " formed in two columns," to the head of Lake George, where they pitched their camp, near the ground occupied by Abercrombie the year before.