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JOURNAL OF COLONEL JOHN WINSLOW. |
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Corporals with Lievt Buckley Going to Cobequid. Ensn Gay one Serjant and 30 men Privates at Forte Edward, Lieut Peabody and Two Serjants & one Corporal with the Annapolis Deputys Gone to that Place. Lievt Wheeler one Corporal and Twenty Private out on Parties Getting Cattle &c. have upwards of 500 men Prisoners 230 of which I have Shipt. So that on the whole, I have Two French men to an Englishman, which I never Could have Kept had it not been for my Precaution of Picketting in My Camp, am really Distressed for want of men, when I Cant but think you abound. Provissions also I am obliged to Conjure for & what Detains Mr. Saul and the Transportes with you, I Cant Tel Long these things Should be at an End, and that there might be a Junction of the Troops, we here really Live well for Eating but No Bung Save Honest Flipe, you will be so Good as to Give my Complements to Majors Frye, Gouldthwaite, Bourn, the Parson and all the Gentelmen, am Sir your Verry Humble Servt.
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JOHN WINSLOW.
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To Majr Jedidiah Preble of His Excellency General Shirley's Regiment at Chignecto.
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Camp at Grand Pre, 19th September, 1755. Orders of the Day Parole Sandwich.
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J. WINSLOW.
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GRAND PRE CAMP 19 SEPTEMBR 1755.
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DR. JOSH.
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This accompanys Several Letters Directed you, one of which Came by Capt Davis who Told me it was for me & I without Ceremony opened it and found Dear Brother in an Unknown hand, and Examining the Superscription found the Mistake and So had not Curriosity to Brake throh the Rules of Frindshipe nor to See the Contents, but only the Subscribers name to whome Give my Complements & ask pardon for My Inadvertancy. I Should be Glad you would Send me an account of the Supplys of the First Battallion, as to rum & Molasses or other Provissions not fully Issued that Matters may be Sett right with ye Partie with me, whome I Look upon my Self obliged to See Justice Done. We have in Confinement here Two French men to an English man, Since the Parties I am Ordered to Detach are Sent out Nothing but our Musquetry to Protect our Selves & Secure them. have 507 men in Custody which with their wives & Children Included amount to more than 2000 People in my Districk. Exclusive of the Out Portes & Several from Piziquid, near 6000 Neat Cattle 8000 Sheep, 4000 Hoggs & 500 Horses, why the Transportes remain at Chignecto & I without Provissions is Misterious, have Constant Demands to Supply the Parties and Air only to Ballance, Saving what I get from the French, and as to the article of Bread, it is not be be
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