Sunday 24 [September 1775]
Dispatch'd Lieutenant [Archibald] Steel with six Men in two birch Canoes to Chaudiere pond, to Reconnoitre, & get all the intelligence he possibly can from the Indians, who I am informed are hunting there & also Lieutenant Church & seven men with a surveyor & pilot to take the exact courses & distances to the Dead River. ー
1. John Hancock Papers, III, 312, LC.