Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Friday, May 30, 1760

Rec'd orders from Genrall Amherst to proceed to Fort Miller with a number of battoes loaded with provisions & a com'd of 50 men.

SOURCE: Samuel Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 4

Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Tuesday, June 3, 1760

Recd 240 barrells flour & drew 2 days allowance to carry to Fort Miller.

SOURCE: Samuel Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 4

Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Wednesday, June 4, 1760

Arivd at Fort Miller at night & landed the provisions, & am here stationed for the transportation of provisions from hence to Fort Edward.

SOURCE: Samuel Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks During the French and Indian War, 1760, pp. 4-5

Journal of Private Lemuel Lyon, Sunday, June 25, 1758

We got 2 Battoes¹ to carry our packs up to Salatogue² and we went a foot & 8 of our men were draun out to stay at Salatogue — Captain Lewis shot at an Indian and kild him & sot in the Battoe — from Salatogue we marched on to Fort Miller³ and Lodged their.

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¹ A batteau is a kind of scow or flat-boat, used on shallow streams like the Hudson above Waterford.

² Saratoga. This settlement was near the mouth of the Fish creek, on the south side. The village of Schuylerville is just across the stream, on the north side. On the plain, in front of the village of Schuylerville, was a regular quadrangular fortification, with bastions, called Foil Hardy. It was erected in 1756, and named in honor of the governor of New York at that time.

³ On the west side of the Hudson, six or eight miles below Fort Edward. The river is there broken by swift rapids. During this campaign, Major (afterward General) Putnam was here surprised by a party of Indians, and boldly descended the rapids in a canoe, and escaped. It was a feat they never dared to attempt, and they felt certain that he was under the protection of the Great Spirit. Here a stream called Bloody Run enters the Hudson. It is so named because a party of soldiers from the garrison, in 1759, went there to fish, were surprised by the Indians, and nine were killed and scalped.

SOURCE: Abraham Tomlinson, Editor, The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, p. 16