The New Hampshire Gazette

NEWPORT, Rhode Island, July 15.

On Saturday arrived here by land, Mr. Joseph Pike of this town, who was at Oswego in the year 1756, when that place unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy. He, with thirteen more English prisoners, were, by order of the French General, St. Luke, delivered to 25 Savages (natural Allies of the French) twelve made their escape. Pike and another were conducted into the woods by the Indians, who employ'd them in hunting for six months, in the fall and winter. After which, those two unhappy persons were conducted to a town called Conaatego, inhabited by part of an Indian nation. The next season their exercise was hunting. The third they were commanded to perform the same duty, but were obliged to return in four months, beaver proving so scarce, as not to afford the Indians sufficient game; during their return, their only sustenance was bark of trees and roots. In the summer of the fourth year, their business was to clear land, and raise corn. In the fall, Pike and his fellow sufferer were sold for 3 years to two French merchants, for 150 piastres each; one of which died in two months; when they were conducted to a prison at Montreal, where they continued in a miserable condition, upon a nauseous and slender allowance, till a flag of truce was prepared to receive them and 128 other English prisoners, who were safely landed at Crown Point.