This morning we drew
our arms & six cartriges a man. After delivering out the arms & ammunitision
we imbarqud on board battoes, 32 in each, for Crownpoint; set off, & pasd
by the fort at Ticondaroga, which is very pleasantly scituated on ye Lake
Champlain, & commands the Narrows and the entrance of South Bay. Here lay
the Great Reddoe & 2 sloops waiting for a wind to proceed to Crown-point.
It being late in the day, we could not reach Crownpoint. The Colo
ordered the regiment to incamp near a block house, which is 2 miles from the
main fort. The land on each side this lake is level, & looks like good
land, & all looks pleasant & agreable.
SOURCE: Samuel
Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks
During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 6