2 04 *}'une 1749. 



Fort Anne derives its name from 

 Queen Anne j for in her time it ferved as a 

 fortification againft the French. It lies on 

 the weftern fide of the river Woodcreek, 

 which is here as inconfiderable as a brook, 

 of a fathom's breadth, and may be waded 

 through in any part, during this feafon. 

 The fort is built in the fame manner as 

 the forts Saratoga and Nicholfon, that is to 

 fay, of palifades, within which the fol- 

 diers were quartered, and at the corners or 

 which were the lodgings of the officers. 

 The whole confirmed of wood, becaufe it 

 was erected only with a view to refift ir- 

 regular troops. It is built on a little rifing 

 ground which runs obliquely to the rivei* 

 Woodcreek. The country round about it is 

 partly flat, partly hilly, and partly marfliy, 

 but it confifts merely of earth, and no 

 {tones are to be met with, though ever fo 

 carefully fought for. General Nicholjon 

 built this fort in the year 1709 ; but at the 

 conclufion of the war, then carrying oh 

 againft the French, it mared the fame fate 

 with Saratoga and Fort Nichclfon, being 

 burnt by the Englifo in lju. This hap- 

 pened with the following cifcumftance : 

 In 1711 the Englijb refolvcd to attack Ca- 

 nada, by land and by fea, at the fame time* 

 A powerful EngHJli fleet failed up the river 



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