Sunday, October 11, 2026

Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Saturday, June 14, 1760

Remaind incampt at the mills. Here great numbers of the camp ladys came down from Crown Point on their way to Albany; sum of them interceding to be taken back. Here we are like to draw arms, haveing marcht all the way hither without. Expect to march for Crown Point to morrow, having detacht Lieut. Pope & 12 men to tarry at Ticondaroga with L. Col. Miller, who has a detachment of 300 men to stop there.

SOURCE: Samuel Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 5-6

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