Today Col. Ingersoll
& Major Willard & 4 capts & 300 men, were sent up the lake in
order to cut timber to finish the works.1 To day I am of duty; went
to see the detachment imbarque. This day the prisioner that were sent hear by
the enemy went off for New England & N. York.
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1 Col. Joseph Ingersoll and Major Caleb
Willard. Holden's Journal makes a trifling difference in the numbers sent. See
2 Proceedings, vol. iv. p. 393.
SOURCE: Samuel
Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks
During the French and Indian War, 1760, pp. 7-8
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