This day the train
are carying the shott & shells in great numbers out of the fort down to the
wharfe, in order to ship on board the vessels; & great numbers are at work
in preparing cartriges & other necessarys for the expedition which I bleive
will be formd her against the fortifyed island & St. Johns. This day I
wrote several letters to be ready to send by sum of the prisioners that are
going home to New England. This after noon a whale boat was sent off with
dispatches to Major Rogers, &c.
SOURCE: Samuel
Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks
During the French and Indian War, 1760, pp. 6-7
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