He served during the French and Indian War. In 1744/45 he enlisted in Capt. John Light’s Company and Col. Samuel Moore’s regiment, which proceeded to Cape Breton for the purpose of taking Louisburg, that stronghold of the French on the North American coast.
After destroying the warehouses containing the naval stores of the enemy and capturing the “royal battery” they spent 14 nights dragging the cannon over a deep morass where oxen could not be used. The gound was under the fire of the enemy’s guns and the cannon could have been moved and placed in position no other way.
From this time, no trace of him appears until early in the winter of 1819, when the complier of thses memoirs, while on a professional visit to his son, Jonathan Prescott, in Giflord, NH, learned that his father, then considered to be about 102 years old, was still lving, and in the house. On proceeding to his chamber we found a small wrinkled and withered old man, with but one leg; the other, we were told by his son, was lost during the siege and capture of Louisburg, in the “Old French War.”1187