Serjeant Stiles, returned this morning From the Isle Aux Noix where he was sent this Day weeks, says he left it last Night, at Sun Set, that their Appeared to be upwards of Two Thousand Men on the Island, In Tents, That he saw a Schooner Mounting Twelve Guns Two Gondolas Compleated with thre Guns in Each & a Square Sail, One Gondola Launched & Not Compleated. & Two on the Stocks one of them Just set up, that a Number of People were encamped at Rives a Cote where they have Erected a Battery of heavy Cannon ー He also Saw Many Tents on Hospital Island & on the West Shore between that & Isle Aux Noix ー that he passed Windmill Point in the night & believes there was Four hundred Indians there, & that on the Bay Opposite he Saw many lights & fires & suposes the Regular Troops were encamped thereー

Valcour 1 Octo 1776