The New Hampshire Gazette

BOSTON, February 12.
A Person who came to this Town last Wednesday, and has been a Prisoner in Canada above four Years, gives the following Account, viz. That in August 1754: as himself and another Man were in a Field at Stephen's Town in this Province, making Hay, they were taken by 17 Indians, together with two more Men, one of whom and a Woman they kill'd ; this Person and the other two were carried to Canada, and there sold Servants to the French: He return'd from Canada with Col. Schuyler : As the Service assign'd him was in Montreal, he had an Opportunity of knowing and hearing many Things relative to the State and Condition of Canada. The City of Montreal is enclos'd with a Wall about 15 Feet high, and on the East Side is a Hill where 28 Cannon are mounted, which is all he could learn they had to defend it: By a Gentleman of Montreal, who well knew the State of the Country, he was inform'd, that in all Canada they could not raise above 25,000 Men, Regulars included : Wheat was sold for Ten Dollars per Bushel, and scarcely to be had for that : a Pound of Beef one Pistereene, Pork one and half: a Sheep from 30 to 40 Pistereens : In the City of Montreal only between four and five Hundred Horses were killed last Winter, for the Inhabitants to subsist on : notwithstanding he was credibly informed by the French, that great Numbers of People died at Quebec for Want of Provisions.