Thursday, January
29, 1756
Robert
Rogers “started to look into C
Sunday, February 29, 1756
-Agreeable to orders from Col. Glasier, (then commanding at Fort William Henry) I this day marched with a party of fifty-six men down the west side of Lake George. We continued our route northward till the fifth of March. -Rogers the Ranger.
Friday, March 5, 1756
We
continued our route northward * * * and then steered east to Lake Champlain,
about six miles north of Crown Point where by the intelligence we had from the
Indians we expected to find some inhabited villages. We then attempted to
cross the lake, but found the ice too weak.
-Robert Rogers, the Ranger.
Dunbarton, N.H., 1727 -England, abt. 1800.
Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
-Judges, 17. 6.
Wednesday, March 17, 1756
We returned
and marched round by the bay to the west of Crown Point, and at night got into
the cleared land among their houses and barns. Here we formed an ambush,
expecting their labourers out to tend their cattle and clean their grain, of
which there were several barns full. We continued there that night, and
next day till dark; when discovering none of the enemy, we set fire to the
houses and barns, and marched off. -Rogers the Ranger.
-the only scout of fame, who after Lexington loved the King
of England better then his country.
-W. H. H.. Murray.
Saturday, July 3, 1756
Rogers the Ranger arrived at South Bay.
Sunday, July 4, 1756
Rogers and his fifty men in five whale boats passed by Ticonderoga and Crown
Point undiscovered and concealed thier boats about ten miles distant from the
latter place.
Wednesday, July 7, 1756
In the morning Capt. Rogers, out on a scout
with 50 men and 5 whale boats ( for 2,000 French had been employed all the
season in building the fort afterwards called Carillon), secreted his party on
the east side of the lake about 25 miles north of Crown Point. They had
drawn their boats over the mountain and passed Ticonderoga in the night.
While lying there Rogers counted 30 boats passing towards Canada.
Thursday, July 8, 1756
"Two lighters, manned with twelve men and loaded with wheat,
flour, rice ,wine and brandy for the French forts, were captured and sunk, and
four of the men killed' by Rogers and his men.
Our 6 regiments are at present arrived at Carillon with 1,000 to 1,200 Colonial troops, 300 Canadians and nearly 700 Indians, and should the enemy set out to attack us, 2,000 Regulars and Canadians will, on the first signal, be commanded to repair to St. John, where bateaux will be in readiness to transport them.
* * From Fort Chambly the portage is made with carts about 30 arpents, and thence in bateaux to St. John * *
Fort Carillon is completed; it is represented as a great affair and capable of being rendered bomb-proof; 'tis provided with 30 pieces of cannon and a year's provisions for a garrison of 1,000 men.- Paris Doc
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