Excerpt from Captivity of Richard Bard, Esq., And His Wife, Catharine Poe Bard: Collected From His Papers by His Son, Hon. Archibald Bard, Together With an Interpolation by Joseph Pritts The following account of Hugh Mercer's experience in the expedition of General Braddock against the French and Indians in 1755, is from Blake's Biographical Diction ary, 1838. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.