Thomas Hartley to the Pennsylvania Delegates in Congress
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Crown Point, July 3, 1776: In the engagements near Three Rivers
on June 8 the sixth Pennsylvania battalion, of which I have the
honor to be lieutenant colonel, lost Colonel Irvine, Lieutenant
Edie, and almost eighty privates, most of whom are prisoners.
On June 21 Captains McLean, Adams, and Rippie, Lieutenants
McKerran, McCallister, and Hogg, Ensigns Lusk and Culbertson,
and four privates crossed from Isle aux Noix to the west shore to
fish in sight of the camp; they carried no arms. When they went
to a house on the shore they were surrounded by Indians. Adams,
Culbertson, and two privates were killed and scalped; McLean,
McKerran, McCallister, Hogg, and two privates were captured;
Rippie and Lusk escaped when a party of our men arrived.
The battalion has suffered much from these accidents. The officers
captured are the best we have, and we need their immediate
release. The ones most recently seized were undoubtedly “carried
directly to the Regulars at Montreal,” and I beg you to make some
arrangement for their prompt exchange.
p.s. It is the army’s wish that General Thompson should be
restored to us at once.>
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