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

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1756.] FOURTH FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. 287
Dupuis " as written by himself, "but inscril)ed on tlie town
books as " Sylvine Dupee," was the name. The family
was composed of nine persons :
the man, wife and seven
children. He was employed by different people, who paid
him in clothing and provisions. From the town he received
4s. per week and the nse of a house. These payments
seem to have continued from 1760 to 17(i5, after
which date no further record concerning him has been
found. *
Having bccu appointed commander-in-chief
Gov. Shirley Plans
another Cam- q^ ^lie death of Gcu. Braddock, Gov. Shir-
ley—before his failure in the Niagara expedition
was known in England— planned, in connection with
the colonial Governors, a campaign for the following year
so comprehensive as to be beyond the capacity of the colonies
to undertake. It involved the employment of upwards
of twenty thousand men upon the same lines as that
of the previous year. But Massachusetts refused to do
more than enlist three thousand five hundred men for
another movement against Crown Point, and Gen. Winslow
was recalled from Nova Scotia to take the command.
War Declared and In May, 1756, England formally declared
New Commanders ^ar agalust Fraucc, and the Earl of Lou-
don was appointed commander-in-chief in
America, Gov. Shirley was superceded in June bj^ Col.
Webb, who was to serve till either the newly appointed
commander-in-chief or Gen. Abercrombie arrived. Some
time elapsed before Loudon left England, and the command
devolved on Gen. Abercrombie. He did nothing, however,
but await the arrival of his superior officer, who did not
reach lieadquarters at Albany till the last of July.
The French Cap- lu the meantime the Marquis de Montcalm
ture Oswego. j^^d been invested with the command of the
French forces. He led an army of five
thousand men in August against Oswego, which was garrisoned
by fourteen hundred soldiers under Col. Mercer.
The death of the commander, together with the exhaustion
1 Hadley appropriated £.3 in 1768, to remove the French Neutrals to Canada, and
the Northampton family may have gone there previous to that date.