320 THE FIGHT OF BLOODY BRIDGE. [1763, Sept. 



attack ; and on the following morning she sailed 

 for the fort, which she reached without molesta- 

 tion. Six of her crew escaped unhurt. Of the 

 remainder, two were killed, and four seriously 

 wounded, while the Indians had seven men killed 

 upon the spot, and nearly twenty wounded, of 

 whom eight were know^n to have died within a 

 few days after. As the action was very brief, the 

 fierceness of the struggle is sufficiently apparent 

 from the loss on both sides. " The appearance of 

 the men," says an eye-witness who saw them on 

 their arrival, " was enough to convince every one 

 of their bravery ; they being as bloody as butchers, 

 and their bayonets, spears, and cutlasses, blood to 

 the hilt." The survivors of the crew were after- 

 wards rewarded as their courage deserved.^ 



And now, taking leave, for a time, of the garri- 



1 MS. Letter — Gladwyn to Amherst, Sept. 9. Carver, 164. Relation 

 of the Gallant Defence of the Schooner near Detroit, published by order of 

 General Amherst, in the New York papers. Penn. Gaz. No. 1816. MS. 

 Letter — Amherst to Lord Egremont, Oct. 13. St. Aubin's Account, MS. Pd- 

 tier's Account, MS. Relation of some Transactions at the Detroit in Sept. and 

 Oct. 1763, MS. 



The Commander-in-chief ordered a medal to be struck and presented 

 to each of the men. Jacobs, the mate of the schooner, appears to have 

 been as rash as he was brave ; for Captain Carver says, that several 

 years after, when in command of the same vessel, he was lost, with all 

 his crew, in a storm on Lake Erie, in consequence of having obstinately 

 refused to take in ballast enough. 



As this affair savors somewhat of the marvellous, the following evi- 

 dence is given touching the most remarkable features of the story. The 

 document was copied from the archives of London. 



Extract from " A Relation of the Gallant Defence made by the Crew of the 

 Schooner on Lake Erie, when Attacked by a Large Body of Lidians ; as Pub- 

 lished by Order of Sir Jeffrey Amherst in the New York Papers." 



" The Schooner Sailed from Niagara, loaded with Provisions, some 

 time in August last : Her Crew consisted of the Master and Eleven 

 Men, with Six Mohawk Indians, who were Intended for a particular 



