The American gazette, or, the Constitutional journal — Salem, Mass., 1776-07-02 00:00:00, page 4

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In Provincial Cong
Resolved, That u
any goal in this colony, by
bf any commitee thereof auu.
commitment, or of any of the c
escape from the custody of the g&i
by design or negligence of the said go
ers, to whom thoy may refpedively be Co
she said goaler or goalers shall receive th^
ment due to the offence wherewith the perlon
so efCapitig flood charged, And to the end that
the said goalers may have all necessary affiance in
securing their said prisoners.
Refolded, That the county committee of the
several counties be, and they are hereby autho
rized and required to infeed, and canfe the goals
in their several and refpedive counties to be made
fafe and secure, and that this Congress will pay
the expence thereof, and charge it to the account
of the said county. Extra& from the minutes,
ROBERT BENSON, Secretary.
The following authentic Account is cmmunicated by
an officer of the detachment it principally concerns.
On advice a reinforcement was necessary, at the
Cedars, a small fort 45 miles $□ W, from Mon
treal, where a party of 400 men, under the com
mand of Major Butterfield, were polled ;on the
96th of May, 140 men under the command of
Major Sherburne, were detached from Montreal.
He met with great difficulties at the lake, which
after crossing, he was obliged to repafs and cross
again, so that it was the doth before he could
proceed from thence with 100 men, including
himfelf,( the rest being left for guards and other
meceffary services.) About 1 1 or 12 o'clock they
set out for the Cedars, distant 9 m ; les, and having
marched about 5, they were attacked by a large
body of Savages and Canadians, who undercover
of a wood, fired upon' them; our people, tho'
entirely exposed, without Ihelter, maintained an
obstinate engagement for 1 hour and 4® minutes ;
when the Savages having furipunded, r^fhedupon,
and disarmed them; then a feere of fayage barbari
ty ensued, and many of our people were facrificed
to their fury, butchered with tomahawks and other
instruments of murder. The enemy confided of
about roo Canadians, and 400 Savages, who im
mediately stripped the| prisoners almost naked,
and drove them to the fort, where they were deli
vered to Capt. Foster, of the B.h regiment, who
had with him about 40 regulars, and then com
inanded the fort, which had been the day before
surrendered to him, with little if any resistance,
by Majqr Butterfield, an event which was neither
known, nor in the lealt fufpeded, by Mdjor
Sherburne.
Capt. Foster and the regulars, kept within the
lines, and were not of the party who surrounded
and so barbarously used our poeple ; but after
being brought to the so t, they were repeatedly
again stripped of the small remainder of their
cioaths,until many of them had not fufficient to hide
their nakedness. Our loss in the whole a^ion was
about 28, viz. killed and wounded in the a^ion,
and killed afterwards in cold blood about 20, car
ried off by the savages 7or 8. Of the enemy
were killed 22, whose deaths were afeertained,
and among them a chief warrior of the Seneca
tribe, on whose account, our prisoners were pro
bably used with the more cruelty, infult,and abuse.
Major Sherburne and the other officers, were sent
to an Indian town called Connafadoga, at the
lake of the two mountains ; the private men to a
desolate island in the middle of the lake, where
they were very scantily supplied with provision,
barely fufficient to keep them from flarving,
and tho' the weather was cold, without any cloaths,
and without any covering but the canopy of hea
ven, for eight days, when they were released on
a cartel agreed to between General Arnold and
Capt. Softer, viz, That there should be ^n equal
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Tuesday L
gates ran in ..
broadfidei into Anu
as the lay becalmed ne§
one man, and cut some of ht,
as the wind struck the Columbus, Lv, ~ vVnipplt
returned the Compliment with a broadlide; when
the frigate sheared off,
BOSTO N, June 27.
By an Express arrived last Night from Albany, we
have the following, extracted from a Letter to
General Schuyler, Sorrel, June 12, 1776.
" On the 6th inftarit, about 2000 men, under
the command of General Thompson, marched to
attack the enemy at Three Rivers—they design
ed to have surprised them at day break on the
Bth ioftant, but the guide led them into a morass,
returning from which took them two hours ; they
then had to pass through a log swamp, in the
face of the enemy, who had a large reinforcement
arrived very unhappily that evening, and landed
in fight of our men ; Being well equipped they
gave Gen. Thompfun's party To warm a receip
tioo, he thought prudent to retreat; in the mean
time, a body of 600 were feot off from the enemy
to cut off out reateat, and deftoroy oar batteaus,
uhich they could not effect, and our bating
were all saved but one, out of v
caped Gen. Thomson; Col. 1
Kennie Parson McAuley, Lieut
rey, and about 156 more a,e
“ It is supposed that Gen. Bur>
the whole reinforcement defig
Our army are more than one ha
small-pox, the other part have,
than three times their number—
Cruited, but I fear the usual flowi.^ ..^ prevent."
'WA TERTOW N, July /.
By an Express last Friday Evening, in j Days
from Albany, we have Advice that the Norrhertr
Army had fafely retreated to the Ille of Noix, a
bout 15 Miles on this fide St, john's, together
81th all their Artillery, Baggage, &c.
Part of the Ministerial Ficet which had been
plying off and on the Harbor of Boston for 8 or 10
, Days past took their Departure from thence on
Saturday last.
In the House of Reyrefentativ*
rryHEßEASbya'late a&0
intitled, " An Adt for.
lasing the Militia, within the
SeleA-Men of each and every t t
provide at the expence of the
spades or iron foeveis, narrow a,
and the fame to depoft, and beep
for the &fe of the militia upon
Whereas it may be found exptdie
fach tools in erecting fortifications, or for other ne
cefcry purpojes. Therefore,
Resolved, That the Select Men of each, and
every town within this colony, be, and they here
by are fevcrally impowered and diri&d, upon
application being made, to deliver the whole, or
ay part of the tools provided, agreable to the
a<t afoiefaid, to any commi tfioned officer com
manding any number of foldicrs employed in for
v Rum, said to 0^
^ .lingua to Ireland which he took:
in his Parfage for the Wed-Indies. This is the
second Prize he has taken and sent home. When
the above Sloop left him, he was in Chace of
'I wo other Vefiels.
A gentleman in Newport, last week meafuted
and weighed very accurately, 4 gallons of Tea
water, which weighed just 331 b. which he evapo
rated over a lire, and obtained therefrom exactly
one pound and three quarters of good Salt.
By several Perfotis who Have arrived in this
Place and at Newbury-Port since our last, we
arc informed, That they left Halifax about Thir
ty Days ago ; that the Troops were all em
barked on board the Transports, hid to be de
fined for New-York or Boston, but it was ge
nerally believed for the former ; that they had at
that Time no Reinforcements, except about
Three Hundred from the Weft-Indies, who were
blown eff this Coast last Fall ; that Prpvifions
were very scarce ; that he saw Master / AMEs
LOVELL, who was cruelly confined in Goal
at Bolton Ten Months, by Order of General
Gage, and from thence taken with the Bunker-
Hill Prisoners and carried to Halifax, and com
mitted to Pfifon, where he remained when our In
formant came away ; that he kept up his Spirits
with surprising Firmness, araidft the accumulat
ed Insults and Injuries he had received, and had
petitioned General Howe for Tryal or to be li
berated, or sent to England for Tryal; that Ge
neral Brattle and Simon Tufts messed together in
a little Chamber over a Grog-Shop; and that
Sir Francis Green was busy in distributing the
Aims treacherously detained from the. Inhabi
tants of this Town, to the Refugees and others
of the Core, in Case of being called upon to as,
fill in the diabolical Purpose of butchering and
er.fldving the good People of these Colonies.
By the above Persons we are further informed.
That it was the Opinion of People in general
at Halifax, and even of the Enemy themselves,
that had the Continental Provifion-Veflels, been
Popped several Months ago, the Ministerial
Fleet and Army mult have given over the Cam
paign, at leaftfor this Year, as odr taking a
Number of their European Provision /effels had
greatly dilbeffed them ; and that they would
have felt the Loss of them much more severely
had not a l^rge Number of American Veflels
felt info their Hands.
TO BE SOLD,
id The Schooner
Industry, with her
Appurtenances, about Six
^Lj tv-five Tons burthen, nine
Years old, and a prime
Sailor."—For further Par
ticulars, inquire of
"BURRILL D E,VEREUX:
Marblehead, July 1, 1776.