Just arrived from Albany Major Abercrombie and General Webb arrived
one on the 25th of June and the other the next morning with great
part of Otway’s Regiment and with all the Highland Regiments, &c.
In a letter from Abercrombie to London dated Albany, 3d August,
1756.
Col. Schuyler’s New Jersey Regiment and four North Carolina
Companies are barely sufficient to Garrison Oswego and keep the
communication open to Schenectady and there remains the 48th
Regiment together with Otway’s and the Highlanders to Garrison Fort
William Henry, &c., &c.
M.205-1 p.
[Sidenote: 1756. June 21. New York.]
James Abercrombie to ----. On the 15th of April sailed from
Plymouth and arrived here on the 16th June with General Otway’s and
Lord John Murray’s Regiments, &c.