The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a Letter from Fort-Pitt, Feb. 22.

"The Indians have Opened the campaign:
On Wednesday the 22d inst. a corporal, four
men and two waggons, were sent to the hill (the
Highlanders encamped on) for wood; whilst
they had laid down their arms, and were loading
the carriage, a party of Indians attacked them
(they saw six) first sending a shower of Arrows,
and then firing their rifles; they killed one high-
lander on the spot, took the whole skin off his
head, ripped him open, and took out his heart:
Another Highlander was wounded in the breast
with an arrow; he was the only man that got
to his arms and fired at the Indians, which having
done, they immediately run in upon him, and he
was obliged to throw himself over that vast pre-
cipice towards the Monongahela, and made his
escape with the rest, but much bruised. The
corporal had several balls through his coat, That
morning four men came in from hunting; they
lost one Royal American in the woods, and
doubtless the Savages have got him. Its likely
several straggling people on the road will fall in-
to their hands."

Other letters mention that the panic occa-
sioned by the above account was very great.