This day was very
rainy & wet. I kept in my tent most of the day. Toward night it cleard of.
Sum of Major Rogers party arivd from a scout. At nine oclock in ye evening the
Major came in himself, & 26 French prisioners with him, taken about 3 miles
from St. John's Fort. He has destroyd a small pequited fort & several
houses, & a great quantity of provisions. This was effected without any
blood shed or fireing a gun.
SOURCE: Samuel
Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks
During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 7
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