This morning Capt
Harris's company came up to ye incampment; brings no news or letters. This day,
about 9 oclock A. M., a flag of truce arivd from Canada. There is a general officer
in the flag of truce, & they was sent down directly to Genl Amherst, who we
hear set of 3 days agon from Shenaetada.2 I hear, by Capt Harris,
that Mr. Sam1 Berry is stationed at Fort Edward; is got so far promoted as to
have a second lievtenancy with Cap Henry Brown.
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2 Probably Schenectady.
SOURCE: Samuel
Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks
During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 7