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. The captures of Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point, late in July, and the subsequent surrender of Quebec, brought in a great degree, a peace, quiet and safety to the northern frontier to which it had long been a stranger," Some time between 1759 and 1762, at the period following the conquest of Canada, General Amherst granted a permit to ona Geofifrey " Cooper," or Cowper, as his name is spelled in Colonel Montresor's Journal, to whom he was a sort of messenger or servant, to occupy the small post at " Half-Way Brook," between Fort Edward and Lake George, for the preservation of the barracks, etc., that had been erected there, and for the convenience of travelers. General Amherst, according to his despatches, deemed it unnecessary after the reduction of Canada, to leave a garrison at that post. This Cowper was probably the first white inhabitant of the town of Queensbury.