File 128/1 - 13. - Letters from John Bradstreet, the Deputy-Governor of St John's, Newfoundland, to Charles Gould concerning the military operations against the French ...,

Letters from John Bradstreet, the Deputy-Governor of St John's, Newfoundland, to Charles Gould concerning the military operations against the French and Indians in North America, where Bradstreet was serving. The contents include details about pay and allowances for the garrison of St John's, matters of a social and personal nature, references to the numbers and quality of the colonial troops, to the building of vessels and preparations for the defence of Oswego, to the work of supplying the garrison of Oswego with arms and provisions, which had been entrusted to Bradstreet, and an account of an attack by the French and Indians on Bradstreet and his boatmen in July 1756.