Inscriptions at Fort Moncton: James WHITCOMB, killed by Indians, July the 24th, 1755; Increase ROBINSON, Died Oct'r. Ye 5th, 1755, aged 28 years; Nathaniel HODGE, Died Sept. 1755 Aet. 32; Here Lyes Ye (Body) of Serjt. MacKAY & 8 Men Kill'd (And) Scalp'd by Ye Indians in bringing in f(ire) wood, (Feb. 26) 1756; Here lieth Ye Body of Capt. Joseph WILL(SON), Who died Oct. 9th, 1755, aged 50 years. - Joseph ALLEN of Cape Tormentine, now about 77 years of age (whose grandfather was present at the taking of Fort Beasejour) says that his father, many years after the occurrence, saw at Baie Verte the Indian who killed James Whitcomb, and who related the particulars of the affair. It appear the Indians lay in ambush on a wood knoll in the marsh, since called Birch Island, and as Whitcomb rode by from the village, where he had been sent for milk by the Fort, bade him stand and he would give him good quarter. The soldier refused to surrender whereupon the Indian shot him.