 In January 1759 , Captain McCurdy was killed when a tree felled by one of his men fell on him ; Hazen was given command of the company . Later in 1759 , his company was at the siege of Quebec , where the company was primarily engaged in scouting and raiding in the countryside ; he was away on one of those raids during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham . In another notable atrocity that may have involved Hazen 's company , a priest and thirty parishioners in a parish near Quebec were killed and scalped . 
