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JOURNALS OF SIR WM. JOHNSON’S SCOUTS.
REPORT OF CAPT. PUTNAM.
SENT BY CAPT. RODGERS AS A SPY TO TIONDEROGO.
Oct r 9 th 1755. Then lift Cap 4 Rogers upon a neck of Land upon the west side of Lake George and Set out towards tycondorogue to see what Discoveries we Could make and after we had march* 1about 7 or 8 miles we came upon a Large Mountain near the Heither end of the narrows, andwhen we came there we Could make no Discovery at all but after sometime wee espyed three BarkeCannoes Drew upon the Shore upon a point of Land that Ran into the Lake , and then wee espyedtwo Indians Comeing out of the Bushes toward the Cannoes, after water, and after sometime weespyed several french and Indians on the East side of the Lake and soon after that we heard the noiseof Cutting, hewing, adsing, and sawing, as tho there was a Large Company of men at work, and bytheir talking and Laughing their was amongst them, and then we Espyed about thirty IndiansCame out of the Bushes on the west side of the Lake on the point within a large musket shot ofus, and played a spell on the Beach, and then Returned into the Bush, and from the point East-ward, their was almost a Continual fireing and barking of Doggs and talking so we tho 4 it was notsafe to proceed to Tycondarogue and so Concluded to tarry there all knight and see what furtherDiscoveries wee Could make by the fires in the knight, and just at the Dusk of the evening theirCame four Cannoes from the East and went to the west side of the Lake and landed on the pointwhere the others were incamped, and Drew up their Cannoes on y e Shore and by this time weebegan to Discover the fires on the point and on the East side of the Lake , but Could not Discoverwhat number their was, because the Bushes were so thick by the Lake but as near as we Couldbest Judge we tho 4 there was six or seven hundred by the fires and Guards set on both sides theLake and about Day Brake, they mustered their men to work and then wee Left the mountain andReturned to Cap 4 Rogers on the point and when we Came within sixty or seventy Rods of the pointwe Espyed thirteen Indians pass by within ten Rods of us, towards the point where we left Cap 4 .Rogers, and after they had passed by us, we Came to the point where we left Cap 4 Rogers, and foundall well this is the Chef of the Discovery and best acovnt that I am able to give
To Cap 4 Rodgers
The Report of Captain Putnen
(Endorsed) Cap 4 Pitmans Report who was sent by Cap 4Rodgers as a Spy to Tiondorogodeliv* 1 12 Oct r .
REPORT OF CAPT. HUNT.
Laike gorge October the 9 th 1755.
Left Cap 4 Rodgers by His orders to go to tiandrogo and the Careing place and macke Discoversthen and had two men with me and Cap 4 putnom went with me with one man moore and we traveldDown the Laike gorge within two miles of the Narros or Careing place and se where the frienchwere at work one the Eas Side of the Lake gorge and one the west side there was an Eincampmentof Abovt one Hundred Indiens A gainst the friench Eiucampments and the whole that wase oneboth sids of the Laike we Jvded to be about 7 or 8 Hondred men Heard the shoot sevrel (Jons and