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PG-P.744.066
8 Nov 1744:23,31 (830)
We learn from Capt. Hertell who arrived last Tuesday from
Georgia, that on the 28th of August, 30 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. . . [22
lines, engagement on beach;] They killed in the pursuit, a
trumpeter, eight men, and seven horses, and took one man
prisoner. 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 they
had either killed or taken. . . [9 lines] The party of
horse, as the three prisoners say, consisted of a Capt. 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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