This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... way they are gon, their Tracts being many ways. We think they are gon downe ye River. Or last discovery was of a Considerable Tract upwards. Or indeavors here are to secure ye houses & Come yl is-left. Providence hath obstructed or goeing out wlh ye Army & wl can be done I am at a great loss: Or People are under grt discouragement, Talk of Leaving ye Place; we need yr orders & direction about it. If it be deserted, how wofully doe we yield & incourage or insolent enymy, & how doth it make way for ye giving up of all ye Towns above: If it be held, it must be by strength & many soldiers, and how to have provision, I meane bread, for want of a Mille, is difficult: ye Soldiers here already complaine on yl accl, although we have flesh enough; & this very trouble, I meane noe Mille, will drive many of or Inhabitants away, especially those y1 have noe corne, & many of them noe houses, wch fills & throngs up every Roome of those yl have to go there wlh ye soldiers (wch yet we cannot be w, hout) now increasing or Numbers: so yl indeed it is very uncomfortable living here, & for my owne pticular, it were far better for me to goe away, than bee here where I have not any thing left, I meane noe come, neither Indian nor English, and noe means to keepe one beast here, nor can I have Releife in this Towne, because so many are destitute. But I resolve to attend what God calls me to, & to stick to it as long as I can, & though I have such grl loss of my comforts, yet to doe what I can for defending ye Place. I hope Gd will make up in himselfe what is wanting in ye creature, to mee & to us all. This day a Post is sent up from Hartford, to call off Major Treat w, h a p1 of his soldiers, from Intelligence they have of a ply of...