The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a letter from Crown Point, July 3.

We left Sorel the 14th ult. and arrived at the Isle au Noix the 8th, after having burnt and destroyed two gondolas, two schooners, and a sloop, which we could not get over the rapids, together with forts Chamblee and St. John's, likewise Col. Hazen's house. While we lay at the Isle au Noix, eight officers and four privates of the sixth battalion, went without their arms to a French house on the opposite shore, about one mile from the encampment, in order to get spruce beer, when they were attacked by a number of Indians, who killed and scalped Capt. Adams, Ensign Colberton, and two privates, took prisoners Capt. M'Clean, Lieutenants M'Pherson, M'Callister, Hogg, and two privates. Capt. Ripley and Ensign Ruth made their escape. As soon as the firing was heard, a boat was sent to their assistance, though too late.

By accounts from Canada we learn, that our troops a few days after the battle at the Three Rivers retreated to the Isle au Noix, but finding that an extreme unhealthy place, were obliged to retire to Crown Point, where they are repairing that old fortification. That the English had got to St. John's, where they would have to build boats before they could cross the lakes, and that we had a schooner of 6 carriage guns, and four other armed vessels, with which it is hoped, the English will be prevented crossing the lakes.