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b CONNECTICUT
KINGSTON, Odober 6.
Ihtrafl of a Letter from A/bany, dated Sep
tember 2.7, 2777.
'' THE Savages who have been a week
I with our army bad taken at several
times, abour4Oprifoners,Tories,Britifh&Ger
man foldters, with the lots of only one In
dian wounded. Our brave humane General
d (countenances leaping, and prevents it to
pre utmost of his p >wer. The Indians, since
they have joined us in alliance, aid taken
up the hatchet in our common cause, have,
I think scalped but three : The General will
not give them one farthing for a fealp, but
buys all the prfrers they bring in alive, ex
eept any noted Tories. As all the prisoners
tho? take are of right their own, the Gene
ral declines buying those Tories who have
diftingulhed themfewes as enemies to Ame*
rica, by joining and affiftmg those who are
endeavoring to enslave ic. Two of these
Tories, who are known here, one of them
having lived near this town, the other, on
the Mohawk River, were brought down
this day by the Indians, and are to be carri
ed to their castle as prisoners of war, and
treated according to their custom. One of
these Tories, if I miflake not, was on his
way to Burgoyne with a Jetter. This may
be a warning to the Tories, 'who must allow
,he measure to bejuil—fince at least they
^ould have been made slaves as soon as o
thers, by those they have endeavored to af
fitt—and the difference is not much whether
they a<e slaves to an Enghfhman or an In
dian; and at waft they can but be fubjeft
ed by the Indans to the fame distresses, they
have endeavored to bring upon their coun
try by assisting its enemies."
Letters from Albany, darod Sunday the
zßth advise, that General Burgoyne still re
niained in the encampment he has occupied
for tome time, and was busy in ere&inga
chain of redoubts on the hills, along the
farms of Swords, Tafor, &c. where it was
.thought he designed to remain till he could
either tire out our militia, or by lulling our
attention, and watching every occurrence,
find a favourable moment to retire, or to at
tack us to advantage: By the best intelli
gence we can obtain from prisoners, deser
ters, and observation, his army is rather un
der than over 6000 meQ fit tor action, and
he wed knows that General Gates's army is
more than doub'e that number. Our r He
inen and Indians, now give his army, as
much d flurhance as he gav^ours at Mofeds
Creek; if any of them advance out of camp,
they feldoro escape. ’ Friday night our ride
men and Indians brought iq 15 prifoner o ,
and not a dav passes. but we fake five, fix,
seven or eight of'theoi CH Thursday
morning dur people attacked and drove in a
picket guard, killed fix, and took two of
them prisoners, with the packs cf most of
the pu^d.
The enemyb lofi in the late action, by the
tnoft cer^in„account •we could obtain, was
'744 of thSrchoices troops. 'lt is said feme
pt $ dr loman-bad taken and brought in two
officers wrih a letter from Gen, Burgoyne,
Containing th# Frelheft ADVICE S,
TUESDA Y. O^er 14, £7)7.
WREKLY
AND
to the commanding officer at Ticonderoga,
wherein he acknowledges that our troops
behaved gallantly, and that he had 300 kil
led besides 744 wounded. By th s.letter it
appea s, that he was entirely unacquainted
with Col. Brown's expedition,
We have had no late accounts from Col.
Brown. Hs objeds, as we are i formed,
iwere firft the taking Ticonderoga and Inde
pendence, and next, if these should prove
too strong, the taking of Five Mile I(land
in Lake George, where the enemy had their
batteries heavy cannon, &c. H s success
in either of these, would greatly diftfefs the
cn+my, and render the r retreat' extremely
d fficult,
It is not doubted but that General Gates
will.de every thing in hi power to bring on
an engagement, which * ill probably happen
in consequence of an attempt that we hear
he intends making, to dive off a number of
cattle which the enemy have on the fly.
A person from Albany, reports, chat Col.
Brown was returned to Gene al Gates's camp,
but had not heard the particulars of the ser
vice he had performed.
A gentleman from Albany reports, that
advice was received thee, thlt a party of
our northern array,, had ^(boyed two mills
possessed by the enemy, near their camp, one
a grist mill, containing a large quantity of
grain and flour; the ojher 4 saw mill, with a
great quantity of boards, plank and timber.
And by another pe son, we are informed,
that our aim? had destroyed all the bridges
erected by General Burgoyne, between his
camp and Lake George, so that Should he
be worsted in a general engagement, h:s re
treat wou'd be extremely difficult.%
„ On Thursday lift one Captain, two Lieu
tenants and forty (even privates, were taken
at General Schuyler's mills, and brought in
to Head Quarters. Also a number of Hes
sian deserters, came in the fame day.
We hear from New Jersey, that last week
Another party of the enemy landed there
from New Yoik, and General Varnum, .
with his brigade, and some other forces,
were gone against them.
FI SH -KI LL, October 9
Last Friday a few of the enemy's vessels.
appeared standing up the Norih River ; and
the next morning about 30 fail, great and
small, with a number cf flat bottomed boats
come up as far as Tarry-Town, where they
landed some of their men, with a view, no
doubt, to draw our forces at Fecks-K 11 that
way • ,the next morning they re Thipped
them, and, with afieffi formerly breeze,
proceeded up the river, till nearly opp^fite
Pecks Kill,where they again landed a few of
their troops',but their main body they land
ed on the oppofce Chore; 'and on Monday
those at Pecks Kill crossed likewise. The
enemy then, to the amount of near 4000
men, marched towards forts Montgomery,
.and Clinton, which were garrisoned by about
' 600 men, and between- the hours of one and
two, P. M. attacked th^m. Our fire, which
was very hot, put them intneonfufion several
times; but about tfe dusk of the evening,
feral ^M, Ok® ^4^%^
through the superiority of their numbers
they git our breast works, and possessed
themselves of the forts. Many of the garri
son taking the advan age of the night, made
their escape, even after the enemy had been
some time master of the forts. It is said the
enemy refufed to give quarter, and conti
nued firing onrour peo[le after they had
fca erf the lamparts, but being favoured b,
the night, our men received little damage
from their fire Our men faught th sur
prising bravery, made a gallantDefence, .a nd
nothing was wanting but more men. His
Excellency General Clinton narrowly made
his efe^pe; as did the General hs brother,
who is wounded. Colones Dubois and
Lamb, anddeveiai other officers got fifeoff.
The enemy know ng but too well our weak
ness, and theta dy march as our militia,
evaded then selves of these advantages by a
nioft sudden attack ; for had the torts been
able to hold out but two or three hours
longer, they had been supplied with a rein
forcement fully fufficient to. defend them.
Our toss at these fortsis confideable; and
we were under the difagreable necefficy of
destroying Fort Conflitution, after removing
part of rhe dores, and of burning the frigates
Cmgiefs and M nigomery, to prevent their,
falling intojhe enemy's hands the wind and
tide being Unfavourable to their moving far
ther up the river.
The eqemy sent in a flag to demand the
fore, which the Governor refuted in themoft
peremptory terms ; at the lame time they
were meft <li4nnt)uf ably fuitourd ng ic.
By a geniltihan lately arrived from Gene
ral Woffington's army, we learo, that by
various movements of tle epemy, they were
drawn up r^e Schuylkill abpdt thirty-five
miles from Philadelphia that the.enemy tak
ing the advantage of the nigh-, sassed the
rivbf at a ford, ahd by that means got be
tween General Wash ngfon aid the city ;
that Lo ? d Cornwall's, with twothoufand men
entered the city, to the great joy of the Tory
QUAKERS, wh°, tho' their fcrupuloui
c nfcie cfs forbade them (as they pretended,
to take up arsns in our cause, His lad, jhat
with ARMS, they patro ed Phhdelp%i&.
Greets with the redcoats .helping them p
take up the Whigs, and shewing them the
Whigs houses. However, their tenure was
rendered uneasy 6v our galleys, who fired
on the city and drove them out of it ayaih.
Ever since Gen. Howe landed in Ameri
ca, it has Fen hs aim to trepan and erimare
our army : Ou Fabian General saw his foils
and b^ffbd them. On LongTfland, at New-
York, K ngfoudge, and the White Plains,
the enemy tried their u,moft ^T res 'to hem.<
in our army. From.the tme Huwe,landed
at the Elk, he endeavoured to get above, or
the country wide ofourarmv ; by various ma
nfeuvres, and by the def erity of his guides,
he has more than once nearly efre^ed his
design. Oar brave General was awarb cf
his.intrigues. Howe bright have posse ffed
himfelf of the city sooner, bad that been his
principal design. His aim was to get Ge
, neral Washington in .the trap he is now i^
INTELLIGENCE^.
Both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.,
COURANT,
HARTFORD
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