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BG.757.014
18 Apr 1757:12,13 (107)
New-York, April 14. Extract of another letter from Albany,
dated April 2. . .[4th para.:]
This morning an account was bro't to town, that a large army
of French and Indians were seen at a small distance from the
German flats, but few here believe it. Sir William Johnson
is still in readiness, with 1500 of the militia.
Every man in the French army that came against Fort
William Henry, was equipped in the following manner, viz.
With two pair of Indian shoes, 2 pair of stockings, 1 pair
of spatterdashes, 1 pair of breechees, 2 jackets, 1 large
over-coat, 2 shirts, 2 caps, 1 hat, 1 pair of mittins, 1
tomakawk, 2 pocket-knives, 1 scalping knife, 1 steel and
flint, every two men an ax, and every four a kettle and oyl
cloth for a tent, with one blanket and a bearskin, and 12
days provision of pork and bread; all which they drew on
little hand-sleighs."
P.S. Three o'clock in the afternoon. Just now another
express came to town from the German-Flats; the particulars
I cannot learn; but it is reported the French were near by,
and consisted of 2000 men. The militia beat to arms again."
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