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October 5th we marched at the dawn of day (last evening
a house and another vessel was burnt by the British at
the place of our encampment we saved a house from
fire with upwards of one thousand stand of arms).
in three miles still marching up the river we came to
a deep ravine with a bridge across it which was thrown
down beyond which was a large frame house, in sight
below this in a boat at the bend of the river we got
twenty British regulars & took a one masted vessel which
they had just set fire ro which was extinguished by Capt
Watson, my company soon filled the ravine with fence
rails and passed over with Genl, Harrison and in going
two miles farther we got another large boat loaded with
women and children and ten or fifteen boats and
canon with soldiers and plunder in them and in
three miles we came to a Mill owned by Theophilus
Arnold when we took a British Capt and eight men
who was bringing his wife out of the way of a battle
they meant to give us in a few miles as she said the
Indians were found in thick woods over the river, we
immediately formed a line of battle with my company
and waited for the comeing [&?] of the foot as