This day I was off
duty. At the evening we espyd a fire1 made on the west side the lake
about 6 miles down. Imediately a party & sum of our pequit gaurd was sent
in 2 battoes & a whale boat for to discover who they be. As Rogers is out
with a large party tis supposed it is sum of his returning.
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1 See Sergeant Holden's Journal, 2
Proceedings, vol. iv. p. 392.
SOURCE: Samuel
Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks
During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 6