History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654;

1755.] FOURTH FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. 263
Saturday, 2. Tliis morning a detachment of 200 men
went forward to mend the roads and about CO back to
mend some that were not finished ;
before the remainder of
the army landed the battoes and took them up the falls,
all the battoes got up tliat carrying place which is 4 or 5
miles above Saratoga.
Sabbath y\ 1755. Our army set out from that landing
above these falls at half an hour after 10 of the clock and
came to Fort Nicholson about 6 at night, with our battoes
and the stores but the two field pieces that we brought all
that way with us were not able to arrive there that day the
way not being all repaired.
Monday, 4**", at Fort Nicholson. A very rainy night last
night and this morning till noon. Our stores received considerable
damage in landing so late last night, but took
good care of them in the morning ; this is a pleasant well
situated place here at the carrying or Fort Nicholson.
Tuesday, 5*'\ A fair pleasant day. A scout of 30 men
sent to Wood Creek and another scout of 10 men sent to
Lake St. Sacrament.
Wednesday, G"'. A fair day. The scout sent out yester-
day returned today bring no news of the enemy ;
there is
a considerable number of our army now that are sick. I
myself have been ill these two days but not confined. I
hope it will wear off. We have made a thorough search in
our bread cask, and find much damage in the bread, the
cask being poorly made. A soldier one Bickenstaff was
whipt for profane swearing, a sodomitical attempt 100
lashes and drummed out of the army with a rope about his
neck, and ordered to be sent to a convenient place there to
be kept and placed till the Crown Point expedition was
over.
Thursday, Aug. 7"'. A fair day, orders given to build
two store houses—hands sent to cut and hew timber, peal
bark and a considerable number of sticks of hewn timber
was drawn by men with a rope. A scout of men came in
today who had discovered the tracks of about 20 Indians
about a mile to the East, travelling to the South.
Friday, 8"'. We are now a great number of hands bringing
timber, pealing bark and framing store houses, A
scout of about 30 men sent to the drowned lands to see
what discovery can be made that way.