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Title: Cape Vincent and its history
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Casler, Nelie Horton
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Publisher: Watertown, N.Y. : Hungerford-Holbrook Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rebels coming there from Fort Stanwixwith an intention to destroy that Castle and that three hun-dred of a thousand of the Rebels intend to attack this Post:for want of a proper Interpreter, I do not rightly understandwhether ye Indians mean that three hundred or a thousandare coming: to this Island. I should have sent one of theseIndians that brought in these accounts to Montreal, butthey are gone on the opposite side of the River for theirfamilies, and it blows so hard neither a boat or canoe cancross with safety, and I was unwilling to detain the Expiess,which I have sent to give your Excellency the earliest Intelli-g-ence of the Information I have received from these Indians. The Caldwell arrived here last night from Niagara and Iam told by Colonel Bolton of his having heard that the Rebelsintend to attack this Post in the Winter and Niagara in theSpring. Since I sent a state of the fortifications of this Postto your Excellency, planks have been laid upon another of 40 re >3 S
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Cape Vincent and its History the Bastions and two guns have been mounted upon it andI am in Hope that two Guns will be able to be mounted uponthe other Bastion to-morrow. Captain Aubrey to General Haldimand. Dec. 6, 17T8. Sickness Among the Troops. Rm. Reynolds— a volunteer in the Royal Yorkers— isjust returned from Oswego where he has been with a Scout-ing Party, and I am informed by him that there is not anyof the Rebels at that place. The Soldiers at this Garrisonare much more sickly than what they were for some time af-ter we arrived here, as there is now above sixty men in thesick Reports, and some of them are so bad with the scurveythat they are not able to get out of their beds. I am in-formed by the Surgeon that a jill of Rum or more a dayfor each man properly mixed with water would be the meansof preventing that, and other disorders which he is apprehen-sive many of the men here will be liable to in the Spring.Upon the Surgeon having represented it to me that it wasabsolu

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