XIII.

FORT STANWIX.

CAPT. green’s OBSERVATIONS ON a PLAN OF a FORT ORDERED TO BE BUILT AT THE ONEIDA CARRYING PLACE.

Being ordered by Brigadier General Stamvix to give my opinion in Writting of a Plan ordered for aFort at the Oneida Carrying Place, paying a Comparative attention to a letter from His ExcellencyGeneral Abercrombe Dated from the Camp at Lake George July 16 1758.

“ HEADS OF THE ORDERED PLAN.

“A good Post to be made at the Oneida Carrying Place capable of Lodging 200 men in the Winterand for 3 or 400 men in the Summer for its Defence, with Loggs—A Parrapet of such a thickness asthe Engineer shall think necessary according to the scituation.

“A Ditch to be made to serve to thicken the Parrapet—Barracks to be made underneath theRampart, with Flues of the Chimneys to come through the Top.

“The Square will be Cheapest Form to be made use of for this Work.

“The Bastions in Like manner can be made Use of for Storehouses or Magazines.

“In the Square may be made Lodging for Officers, and the rest of the Quadrangle clear—Thewhole to be Logged.

“And opposite the Officers Barrack may be made a Store house for the Deposite of Indian Goods.”

By a good Post—I understand to be meant, such a one, as will contain with ease, the said numberof Men, To be executed in such a manner, as to protect them from a Coup de main and to be ofsuch a Size, as will admitt of a proper Defence by such a Garrison—y e Exterior Side of whichSquare, cannot possibly be less (if so little) than 300 fl wc h procures but a verry small Defencefrom its flank, & will make an Exterior Circuit of Logging of nearly 1420 ft by at the veryleast 14 ft high, according as the Scituation may be, & in order to admitt of Barracks under theRampart, to which the Retaining & Bracing Logg Works, as well as the Logg work fronting theInterior Area, must in course be considered, as Likewise the Logg Work to cover the Barracks , Storehouses & Magazines that are proposed to be made under the Rampart of the Curtins and Bastions ,by wch it will appear, that the greatest part of the Rampart round this Post, must be forhied &Supported with Loggwork.

As I am ignorant of the Scituation conceive that any form of a Work, that does not take up morein its Exterior & Interior Circuit, Attention, being made to an equal Flank Defence must be ascheap and as good as a Square, as it might not be in my power strictly to adhere to that Figure—As to the thickness of the Parapet , being informed Cannon can be brought there by the Enemy it.cannot be less than 12 ft. if so little, 18 ft. being the standard in such Cases.

Tiie Rampart for the Manceuver of Cannon, and likewise to admitt of a Reasonable Breadth forthe Barracks underneath cannot be less than 20 ft.