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AWM.744.018
1-8 Nov 1744:22, 31 (1296)
We learn from Capt. Hertell who arrived last T[ ]day from
Georgia. That on the 28th of August, Indians were sent from
Frederica, in that colony, to Florida. On the 2d of last
month, they were landed on St. John's beach, and two days
afterwards marched towards St. Augustine. . . [17 lines,
engagement in the Sand Hills area] they killed in the
pursuit, a trumpeter, eight men, and seven horses, and took
one man prisoner; they also took two horses. After they had
intirely routed the Spaniards, they went to their camping
place, and found some jugs of rum, which they carried to the
boats, with seven horses, a trumpet, the bridles and saddles
belonging to the men, whom they had either killed or taken.
. . [7 lines]
The party of horse, as the three prisoners say, consisted
of a captain, an ensign, a trumpeter, and 30 men; they had
marched to St. John's but the boats firing upon them, they
retreated.
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