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��NEW HAMPSHIRE AT SARATOGA.

��The whole of the British line was broken. It was commanded by Gen. Burgoyne in person. It gave way, and made a dis- orderly retreat to their camp, leaving two brass 12-pounders and six brass 6-pounders on the field, with the loss of more than 400 officers and privates killed, wounded and prisoners. Gen. Frazar was killed, while Maj. Ackland, Wil- liams, Clarke and many other officers were wounded and prisoners. The bat- tle thus far had been between the two camps, which were located about two miles apart and at right angles with the Hudson River. After the retreat of the British to their entrenchments, then came the furious attack upon their de- fences. In this general charge upon the British works Generals Laniard, Ratter- son. Nixon, Ten Broeck, Colonels Brooks and Marshall, urged on by Arnold, all participated. Many of the Militia from New England and New York also lent essential aid. Col. Breyman, at the head of his troops, Was killed, and a decisive victory was gained. Subsequently, Bur- goyne undertook to extricate himself from his perilous position, but was baffled in his efforts, and finally surrendered his army on the 17th of October. The Amer- ican Army, or the Returning Officers thereof, failed to furnish a correct state- mentof the loss in killed and wounded in this last battle. The New Hampshire troops suffered severely. Many of the new levies, or militia, belonging to Gen. Whipple's Brigade, shared in the dan- gers of the conflict in common with the regular soldiers. One of their most wor- thy officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Connor of Pembroke, was killed. Also Captain John McClary and Ensign Tuck were mortally wounded, and Captain Na- than Sanborn of Deerfield was severely wounded. In Poor's Brigade, Scam- mell's Regiment, Scammell himself was wounded. Also Lieutenant Thomas Simpson of Orford, Lieutenant Joseph Huntoon of Kingston, Lieutenant Joseph Hilton of Deerfield and Ensign Nathan- iel Leavitt of Hampton were wounded ; while Lieutenant Amos Webster of Capt. Livermore's Company, and a resident in Plymouth, and Ensign Lieman of Hollis weie killed, In Col. Reid's Regiment,

��Lieutenant James Crombie of Rindgeand Ensign William Taggart of Hillsbor- ough were wounded.

Our inspection of the Rolls of the New Hampshire Continental Regiments en- gaged in both battles enables us to con- firm Wilkinson's list of the killed and wounded and missing of the battle of September 19th, and to render the other fact quite certain, that our loss in the battle of Oct. 7th was quite equal to that of September 19th. We give a compara- tive statement of the killed in both bat- tles, embracing the names of subalterns and privates, with their places of resi- dence, so far as we could ascertain them, commencing with Col. Cilley's Regi- ment, September 19th, 12 killed :

Serg't Benjamin Dike, Amherst. • k Rawlings Coburn, New Ips- wich. Private Orson Locke, Kensington. " Benjamin Neally, Meredith. " John Watts, Londonderry. —

hired by Sutton. " Luther Wheatley. Lebanon, — died of wounds Sept., 1777. John Bartlett, Kingston. Benjamin Parker, Swauzev. Wm. Goffe, Bedford. Nathaniel Bates, Dublin. William Dodge. — died of his wounds Sept. 30, 1777. " Wm. Vinton,— died of wounds Sept. 27.

List of killed in the same Regiment, October 7th, 1777 ; 16 killed :

Private Ebenezer Sinkler, Weare. ■■" John Berry, Chester. James Russ, " Amos Kenney, Hudson. Joel Judkins, Kingston. Charles Lynes, Claremont. Jeremiah Smart, Dunbarton. Jonathan Smith, " died

of his wounds Oct. 26. Timo. Hutchinson, Milford. Moses Brown, Rochester. John Dore, "

Peter Brewer (Negro), New Boston. ik Eph. Severance, New Ipswich. " John Elliott. » Ebenezer Collins, Hopkinton,—

died of wounds Oct. 26. " Joseph Eastman, do., Oct. 30.

We give next the killed, subalterns and

privates, in Col. Geo. Reid's Regiment,

Sept. 19th :

Serg't John Demeritt, Madbury.
 * l Andrew Bearce, Portsmouth.

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