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JOURNAL OF COLONEL JOHN WINSLOW. |
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and Thirty men more as I Shall be Obliged to Send to Some Distant Rivers where they are not all Come yet. your answer as Soon as Possible will Greatly oblige Dr Sir your most obliged
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obedian Humble Servant,
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A. MURRAY.
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P.S. I have Sent Pierre Leblancs Son to you to Go with his Father as you have Taken him under your Protection. at the nearest Computation it will Requier 360 Tun Shiping. Davis thinks that Computation too Small therefor I belive 400 Tuns will be Better.
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I am Most Truly yours
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A.M.
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Since I wrote the above one or Two is Come in.
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To Colo Winslow Commanding his Majty's Troops at Grand Pre.
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GRAND PRE, SEPTEMBER 5TH 1755.
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DEAR SIR,
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I have the Favor of yours of this Day and Rejoyce at your Success and also for the Smiles that has attended ye Party hear. The Number of Men I have now in Custody I Cant think Falls Much Shorte of 500 Men. I began to take the List but Night put me of. I have permitted 20 men (for whom the rest is responsable) to Give Intelligence to their Familys and they all Say ye whole will Come in.
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Am Exstreemly Sorrey Capt Murray Could ask any thing that I Cant Grante as is the affair of the officer & men as I must Send partys to the remotest parts of these Districts here in Case they Donte Come in. and not only So Majr Handfield Presses me Exstreemly for help, as the People of that River have Left their Habitations and I am Directed to Give both partys assistance and have here Near Two French Men to an English man in my Camp and have Nothing to Keep them in Subjection but my Musquetry. and the out Commands if not willing to Submit Must be Let alone till a Further Day. as to Transportes Shall Send you as they Come would Embarke the People here had I Provissions &c to Ship them. Why Mr. Saul is not here nor my Boat returnd from Chignecto I Cant tel. Things are Now Very heavy on my harte and hands, wish we had more men, but as it is Shall I Question not be able to Skuffell Throh. Complements to the Gents and am with Great regards your Most Obediant & Most
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Humble Servt,
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JOHN WINSLOW.
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To Alexandr Murray Esqr, Commanding his Majesty's Troops at Piziquid.
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