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AFFIDAVIT OF MILES WHITWORTH, SURGEON OF THE
MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT, TAKEN BEFORE GOVERNOR
POWNALL 17 OCT.1757.
_Public Record Office. (Extract.)_
"Being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists doth declare ... that
there were also seventeen Men of the Massachusetts Regiment
wounded unable to March under his immediate Care in the
Intrenched Camp, that according to the Capitulation he did deliver
them over to the French Surgeon on the ninth of August at two in the
Afternoon ... that the French Surgeon received them into his Custody
and placed Centinals of the French Troops upon the said seventeen
wounded. That the French Surgeon going away to the French Camp, the
said Miles Whitworth continued with the said wounded Men till five
o'clock on the Morn of the tenth of August, That the Centinals were
taken off and that he the said Whitworth saw the French Indians about
5 O'clock in the Morn of the 10th of August dragg the said seventeen
wounded men out of their Hutts, Murder them with their Tomohawks and
scalp them, That the French Troops posted round the lines were not further
than forty feet from the Hutts where the said wounded Men lay, that several
Canadian Officers particularly one Lacorne were present and that none,
either Officer or Soldier, protected the said wounded Men."
MILES WHITWORTH.
"_Sworn before me_ T. POWNALL."
Appendix G
Chapter 20. Ticonderoga
The French accounts of the battle at Ticonderoga are very
numerous, and consist of letters and despatches of Montcalm,
Levis, Bougainville, Doreil, and other officers, besides several
anonymous narratives, one of which was printed in pamphlet
form at the time.
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