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, 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

Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Friday, June 6, 1760

Capt Smith arivd to releive me & for me to proceed forward with my own company. This day proud wet, & a sorry party of the Massachusetts troops arivd We were hurried in transporting the provisions & battoes across the carrying place.

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

Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Monday, June 23, 1760

This day was very rainy & wet. I kept in my tent most of the day. Toward night it cleard of. Sum of Major Rogers party arivd from a scout. At nine oclock in ye evening the Major came in himself, & 26 French prisioners with him, taken about 3 miles from St. John's Fort. He has destroyd a small pequited fort & several houses, & a great quantity of provisions. This was effected without any blood shed or fireing a gun.

SOURCE: Samuel Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 7

Journal of Private Lemuel Lyon, Monday, June 26, 1758

Rainy and wet — I come up the River in a Battoe to Fort Edward to the incampment — their we drad ½ a pound of powder and 10 Bullets a peace and 8 days provision in order for to march to the Lake¹ — Barnabas Evings was very poor with fever nago² and was forst to stay behind & David Bishop with him — we Lodged in Bush tents and very wet it was.

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¹ Lake George.

² Fever-and-ague.

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