to this which we repaired as fast as they could tare
up as they only had time to throw off the planks or
logs and have the (ills which we soon could repair.
we discovered the smoke rising from the last mill before
we we approached it and pushed on to save it but could
not we expected a fight at this place, in two miles
from this place we came to a large farm where 8 or
10 Coke ovens had been erected very lately to supply the
British with lead, and the owner of the place was the contractor
and expected the British to make a stand &
that his place was to be laid off in a [tower?], he
met us and said that the Indians had almost ruined
him by camping in his farm last night. but his
duplicity was soon discovered by one view of his bake
ovens; from several carts being left in the road we
strongly suspected him of concealing the Indians
plunder and from the number of canon left we
generally believed that they did not mean to fight
us as some our spies had [ran?] some of the
British dragoons for two or three miles. we from the
place pushed on in in a fast trot close in the rear
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