THREE MILITARY DIARIES

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

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THREE
MILITARY DIARIES

KEPT BY GROTON SOLDIERS
IN DIFFERENT WARS

Wiitii Kntrotructfons BY
SAMUEL A. GREEN

GROTON, MASS.
1901

mntbwsttB latess:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

TO
9rf)E piemorg OF
THE GROTON SOLDIERS
WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION,
AND TO THE VALOR OF THEIR SURVIVING COMRADES,
THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED

Preface

TN this volume are printed the Diaries of three Groton sol
diers, who served in different wars. They have already
been published in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, but now for the first time they are
brought together.
The first Diary was kept by Lieutenant Dudley Bradstreet
at the siege of Louisburg, during King George's War; the
second by Sergeant David Holden, during the latter part
of the French and Indian War; and the third by Amos
Farnsworth, during the early part of the Revolutionary
War. From time to time in these pages interesting facts crop
out, which illustrate military customs at different periods
of time, such as modes of punishment in the army, and
manner of life in camp and on the march, etc. Some of
these customs are so trifling in their character that they
have escaped record in the more formal histories of cam
paigns. In the lapse of years they either have been for
gotten or by gradual changes have been lost ; and they can
be traced best by contemporaneous narratives, such as are
found in these Diaries.

viii Preface
The writers were plain men leading quiet lives in a rural
neighborhood. At home they were farmers, but when their
country needed their services, they were soldiers. Men of
this class made up the yeomanry of New England who
kept alive the religious and political principles brought to
these shores by the Pilgrims and the Puritans. Austere
in their belief, they practised those homely virtues which
lie at the base of all civilization ; and we of to-day owe much
to their memory and example.
March i6, igoi.

DIARY KEPT BY
LIEUT. DUDLEY BRADSTREET,
OF GROTON, MASS.,
DURING THE SIEGE OF LOUISBURG,
April, 1745 — January, 1746.

First printed in the
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
June io, 1897.

Dudley Bradstreet s Diary

THE following Diary, kept by a soldier during the first
siege of Louisburg, gives many interesting episodes of
that eventful period. It begins on April 22, 1745, and ends
on January 17, 1746. Unfortunately the writer's name does
not appear anywhere in its pages, but the authorship is learned
both from family tradition and internal evidence. For several
generations the Diary has been in the keeping of the Kemp
family, of Gorham, Maine; and among the various members
it has been believed generally that the author was Dudley
Bradstreet, whose daughter Mary married an ancestor, Eben
ezer Kemp, and through this channel it is supposed that the
Diary came into their possession. On page 6 is written in
an old hand " Mary Kemp her Book," which seems to bear
out this supposition ; and the same name appears also in
another place.
The little book in which the journal was kept now con
tains eighty-eight pages, and was made probably by folding
sheets of folio writing-paper twice, and then stitching them
together through the back; and this supposition is borne
out by the water-mark, which is not the same on each half-
sheet. It is interesting to note the fact that similar paper
with the same water-marks is found scattered through the
manuscripts among the Pepperrell Papers and Belknap Papers
relating to the siege pf Louisburg now in the possession of
the Massachusetts Historical Society. The outer fold (4
pages), which made a leaf at the beginning and end of the

4 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
book, is gone ; and presumably the name of the diarist was
written on the missing page. Another fold near the middle is
also gone, and the gap is found between the entry of Wednes
day, June S, and that of June 20. The first leaf of this miss
ing fold contained the record of June 5 (in part), 6, 7, and 8
(in part) ; and the corresponding leaf contained that of June
18 and 19. According to this statement the book had ori
ginally 96 pages, and was made from six full sheets of blank
paper. Of Dudley Bradstreet, the diarist, but little is known. He
was the second son of the Reverend Dudley and Mary (Wain-
wright) Bradstreet, of Groton, where he was born on March
12, 1707-8. His father was the settled minister of the town
from the year 1706 to 1712, when he was dismissed from his
pastoral charge, which had not been entirely harmonious with
the parish ; and soon afterward he went to England to apply
for orders in the Anglican church. On April 28, 1727, Dudley
Bradstreet, the son, was married to Abigail Lakin; and they
had six children, namely : Abigail, born on June 27, 1728,
and died probably in November, 1745, while her father was
at Louisburg; Mary, born on August 7, 1730, and married
Ebenezer Kemp; Ann, born on May 18, 1735, married Samuel
Hobart,^ on March 26, 1755, and died at Hollis, New Hamp
shire, on May 20, 1773; Lucy, born on April S, 1738, and
married Jonathan Pratt, on February 26, 1756; Sarah, born
on September 26, 1740; and Hannah, born on August 13,
1743. From the fact that all these children were girls, it is
easy to see why the name of Bradstreet disappeared from the
annals of Groton, as at that period the father was the only
male representative of the family in town.
From internal evidence it is clear that the writer was a
Groton soldier, and a member of Captain John Warner's
company in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment (Colonel
1 At a later period Samuel Hobart, a. native of Groton, removed to Hollis,
and afterward to Exeter, N. H., where during the Revolution he was engaged in
the manufacture of powder for the army.

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 5
Samuel Willard) ; and from contemporary records it is known
that Dudley Bradstreet was an officer in this company. From
time to time he mentions various Groton men who were then
serving in the army, and, under date of December 6, he
alludes to Samuel Shead, a recent arrival at Louisburg, who
within a short time had seen his wife at Groton ; and through
him he heard from his whole family. Captain Warner was a
resident of Lancaster, and presumably his company was
made up of soldiers belonging there and in Groton and
neighborhood. In "The New-England Historical & Genealogical Regis
ter" (XXIV. 371) for October, 1870, it is said that Dudley
Bradstreet was commissioned at Louisburg by Governor Shir
ley, as Second Lieutenant, on October 2, 1745 ; and before
this time it is likely that he was holding a lower rank, per
haps that of Ensign. There is some reason to think that he
was serving in the Commissary department, perhaps as a
non-commissioned officer, as, on May 4, he gave a receipt
for two barrels of bread and one barrel of pork; and, on July
18, he delivered to each mess six days' allowance of meat,
etc. There are several other entries in the Diary, which
bear out the same supposition. This theory would explain
why on various occasions he was placed in command of small
squads of men, and furthermore would account for his social
intercourse with other officers. While the compiler of the
article in the Register gives no authority for his statement
in regard to Bradstreet's commission, doubtless it is based
on a letter found among the Pepperrell Papers (I. 319) in
the library of the Historical Society, of which the following
is a copy : —
To His Exelency W^ Shirley, Esq5
This is to inform your Exelency That my Regiment is not
Settle? so as to be in any Capassity of doing their duty, as they
aught to do — and it is by Reason of y= Companys being Very
much Broke : and in order for the Settlement of the Companys In

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my Regiment, and for the Peace and Quietness of the Soldiers : I
shall take it as a Grate Favour Done to me : if your Exelency would
See Cause To Commitionate Those Gentleman Hereafter Name =
John Huston,
James Fry John Fry Nath" Pettengill To be the officers over the
men that belong'? To Levi Coll" Chandlers Company & Cap* James
Stevenss Compi Joni Hubard Benejah Austin & Elisha Strong To
be the officers over the men belonging To Maj- Pomroys Comps &
Cap' Millers — Ephariam Hayward and John Bell & Dudley Brad
street To be The officers over the men that are Left of Cap^ War
ners Comps & Cap: Omsteds
In So Doing you will Oblige you most ohediant and Humble Servant
Sam^"- Willard
LOVISBOURGE, Octt the 2"^^^ 1745 Louisbourg 2? Octo. 1745
We the Subscribers the Officers to the four Companys within men
tion'd humbly proposed to Your Excellency by CoP Samuel Willard
for the settlem? thereof ; unnll the Spring ensueing, or the first of
May next desire the favour of your Excellency that we with our
respective Companys may be joyned to the Regiment of Brigadier
Generall Waldo ; and that your Excellency orders or Commissions
may Issue accordingly,
Jn5 Huston
James Fry
Jon- Hubbard
Ephraim Hayward
To His Excellency William Shirley Esq'
Captain Generall of His Majesties Forces
att Louisbourg, &c?
Cap- Fry fr" y= i2':'' July has done the Duty of a Captain to 2
Companys
Cap' Hayward fr° d?
[Indorsed] Sam" Willards Petition
The following extract, taken from Benjamin H. Hall's
"History of Eastern Vermont" (p. 37), throws a little light
on Lieutenant Bradstreet's later career, though I cannot find

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 7
the writer's authority for his statements. A long search
among the Massachusetts Archives at the State House fails
to reveal it; but Mr. Hall, doubtless, had access to other
papers, which gave him the facts as mentioned in the quoted
paragraph. More effectual measures for the defence of the country were taken
at the beginning of the year 1747, than had been adopted for some
time previous. On the 17th of March, Governor Shirley presented
to the General Court a message relative to the state of Fort Dum
mer, and the importance of its position, and advised that it should
be garrisoned with a larger force than was ordinarily stationed there.
That body having voted in accordance with this recommendation,
Brigadier-Gen. Joseph Dwight, by order of the governor, requested
Lieut. Dudley Bradstreet to take the command of forty men, and
with them garrison Fort Dummer, in place of the guard then sta
tioned there. The request was obeyed, and the fort with its stores
was, on the isth of April, delivered by Col. Josiah Willard into the
hands of his successor. Bradstreet retained the charge of the fort
for five months, at the end of which time it was again placed in the
care of its former commander.
Near the end of July, 1748, Dudley Bradstreet belonged to
a company of thirty-six men that for two days scouted in the
neighborhood of Groton, under the command of Captain
Thomas Tarbell. They were sent out by Major William
Lawrence, of Groton, under orders from Colonel Samuel
Willard, of Lancaster, during an Indian alarm. (Massa
chusetts Archives, XCII. 156.) This is the last trace of
Lieutenant Bradstreet that I am able to find. Neither the
town records nor the files of the Middlesex Registry of Pro
bate give any hint or clew as to his later history ; and the
epitaphs in the Burying-ground are equally silent. He dis
appears from view so completely that he may have died soon
afterward. In the church-records, between August 16, 1771,
and September 9, 1774, there are allusions to a "Widow
Bradstreet," probably his widow. (See Groton Historical
Series, IV. 12, 13.)

8 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
Jonathan Hubbard, of Groton, was Adjutant of Colonel
Willard's regiment, and he is mentioned several times in the
Diary under the name of Hobart. These two surnames are
often used interchangeably in the early Groton records ; and
in Mr. Butler's History (page 409) he is called " Lieut.
Jonathan Hubbard," and in "The New-England Historical
& Genealogical Register" (XXV. 259) for July, 1871, the
same form is found, which agrees with his own signature.
Probably the pronunciation of the two words was nearly
identical. In Colonel Willard's letter just given, the name is
written " Hubard," showing a want of uniformity in spelling
which was common in those days.
According to an entry in Joseph Farwell's note-book,
printed in the first volume (No. XIV. p. 29) of the Groton
Historical Series, the Groton soldiers who took part in the
siege of Louisburg left town on March 10, 1745; and this
squad of men, doubtless, included Lieutenant Bradstreet
within its ranks. His regiment sailed from Boston on March
24, a fortnight later, and landed on April 30, at Chapeau
Rouge Bay, known to the English as Gabarus Bay.
For the use of this Diary I am indebted to the courtesy of
Miss Sarah Colburn Kemp, a native of Gorham, Maine, but
now a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire, who is a
descendant in the fifth generation from the writer. Her an
cestor Ebenezer Kemp, of Groton, was married about the year
1748 to Mary, eldest surviving daughter of Lieutenant Brad
street; and they had nine children, of whom a son was named
Dudley Bradstreet. Their eldest child, Ebenezer, Jr., was
married on August 31, 1773, to Relief Phillips, of Groton;
and they had seven children. Soon after the Revolution this
son removed to Gorham, where he died in the year 1833 ; and
members of the family still continue to live in that town.
David Kemp, their sixth child, was married to Anna Hum
phrey; and they had five children, of whom Willis Bradstreet
Kemp, the eldest son, was the father of the lady, whose kind
ness I wish to acknowledge.

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 9
The Diary is written in a clear and distinct hand, and shows
that the author had received a better education than the aver
age yeoman of that period, which is not surprising, as he was
a lineal descendant of Governor Simon Bradstreet. The ink
on the first page is so faded that the manuscript for the most
part is illegible, and only here and there can words be made
out, — though among such are the names Jacob Nutt[ing],
Peletia Bourn, and John Parker, — but on the last page it is
still good. Perhaps moisture or an exposure to sunlight has
wrought the change, or possibly another kind of ink was used.
On this account the printed copy begins with the second page
of the journal; and it opens at the time when Pepperrell's
forces were lying at anchor in the Gut of Canso, a place pre
viously arranged by Governor Shirley as a rendezvous for the
fleet. For other similar journals relating to the siege of Louis
burg, see " Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society "
(I. 131-161) ; " Historical Collections of the Essex Institute"
(VI. 181-194) for October, 1864; " The New-England His
torical & Genealogical Register" (XXVII. 153-160) for
April, 1873; and "The Journal of Captain William Pote, Jr.,
during his Captivity in the French and Indian War, from
May, 1745, to August, 1747" (New York, 1896). Among the
Parkman Papers belonging to the Massachusetts Historical
Society is a manuscript journal (1745-1748) kept by the Rev
erend Stephen Williams (H. C. 1713), first minister of Long
meadow, who was a chaplain in the Louisburg expedition, and
is mentioned several times in the following Diary. See also
" A Letter from William Shirley, Esq ; Governor of Massa
chusett's Bay, to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle : with a
Journal of the siege of Louisburg," etc. (London, 1746;
Boston, reprinted), which is in the nature of an official report
on the military operations.
The Maine Historical Society has a type-written copy of
a journal kept by Colonel John Storer, of Wells, Maine, an
officer in the expedition against Louisburg, which gives some

IO Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
entries in regard to preliminary matters connected with the
siege. It begins at Wells, on March 8, 1745, and ends ab
ruptly at Louisburg, on April 30. The diary was printed first
in the Lewiston Journal in the year 1854, though all trace
of the original manuscript now is lost. A copy has recently
been made from the newspaper by the Honorable Joseph
Williamson, of Belfast, Maine, and by him given to the
Historical Society at Portland.
The expedition against Louisburg, all things considered, is
one of the most remarkable campaigns in modern history.
The plan was organized by civilians and successfully carried
out by men of little military experience. The army was
made up largely of raw recruits, but what they lacked in dis
cipline and technical knowledge was offset by their will and
determination. It was to a great extent a religious crusade
against a foe who believed in a different creed. Louisburg
was the strongest fortified position on the continent, and was
defended by a strong force ; yet circumstances so conspired
that it fell before an army of undisciplined militia.

Diary

[April 2 2, 1745.] About 6 aClock in the aftnoone there Came
in a Sloop Major Hodge on Board Came out of Boston with us But
not haveing a good Pilate Suffered verry much att Sea
att night Came Orders for Cap' Warner to go on Board of CoP Rich-
monds Vessel to Consult Expecting to Sail on the morrow for Cape
Breton [2] 3 The man of war with other Vessels went in Expectation to
find Coihodore Warrin Commodore Warrin Came in Sight with
Three men of war with him Sent Some men in with Letters
Came in Two Scooners with a Small french Sloop : One of the
Scooners Chasd a Small Sloop and She run aground and our men
went on Board and the french and Indians from y? Land fird upon
them and Wounded Several of our men one in the forehead One in
the arm One in the thigh One of y? Scooners Landed her men and
Burned Three houses y! Belonged to the french One of which a
verry fine house : But Took no Plunder Being in a Hurry
Wrote Letters home
Rec? Orders To Sail att Two of the Clock in the morning Sent
twenty She Lin ^ To Col° Willard Sealed up in a Letter which were
Delivd he Thakfully Rec? them
24 Connecticut fleet Came in and Brought News y' they Saw a
Sloop One of their Company w".'' mounted 16 Carriage guns : in an
Ingagement with a french Ship which we Expect is the man of war
y' our Privateers Ingaged with on y^ i8'I' Instant But they had fird
Several Broad sides Our Sloop Strove to get away But it is to be
fear'd They are Taken &c att night went on Board of Major
Guilman ^ Shillings are here meant, but why the diarist saw fit to use this expression
it is not easy to conjecture. In another place (December 27) he writes the word
out correctly.

12 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
25!^ Clouudy and Rained Some in the morning A Snow Came
in &c which Was a Privateer from Rhoad Island She Came from
Luisbourgh Harbour and Brought News that yf Ice is all gone. Be
fore noone Came in the before mentioned Sloop She is a privateer
Sloop and Informs us That She Got away from yf french man By
Turning To windward and that french Vessel had four Broad Sides
att her But Did them no Damage Excepting Cutting their jib
Halliards Before Came in y= Perscattua Privatteers from S: Peters.
They fird Several Shots att the fort and Several Shots Through a
house and Saw the woman and Children run out of their Houses
the Rev;' [M]'' Baulch ^ Din'd with us
2(f^ Rain'd all Day att Times The Commodore Rouse with
Two Privateers went out Commodores Boatswain Bury'd Cap'
Dudley with Divers Other Gen5 Din'd with us : Cap! Swan Came in
and Inform'd us that he was On Board of Comodore Warrin and yf
the Commodore had Three french Vessels in Toe &c Likewise yf
s? Comodore Warrin Had Lost Seven of his men att margarets Bay
he apprehends the Indians have kill'd or Taken them We heard
Comissary Prout Being on Shore went from his men Two Days ago
and they was afraid yf Indians had Taken him But his men this
Day found him : and he Being so far Spent haveing no Susti
nance that he Could not Speak But after he had Taken Something
was able To Travel & is got on Board This Day we killd our
hogg 27'.'' Apr'. 1745 Rainy weather a man was Bury'd but I know
not who he was. Sent for yf Doc' To Some Sick People after
Dinner he w'!' Other Gen'f Came and yf Cap' with Several of us
went on Board Col^ Willard and when on Board Rec- Orders To go
on Shear w"' the whol Company which we did and Divers Other
Companys and Immediately after we were Imbody'd Rec? Orders
To go on Board allso Rec? Orders To Carry yf first Orders we
Rec? after we Came to Canso To yf' Gen! which Cap! Warner Per
formd att night went on Board Major Guilman and Rec? Pay for
a Quarter of Pork we Sold to his Lieu! Rec? for yf same 0 = 8 = 3
Ap'.' f. 2%'-'^ Sunday. Cloudy misty and foggy weather in the
morning heard a Great Gun out att the Harbour : went To meeting
on Board Col? Willard the Rev? m! Baulch Preached from 2 Tim-
1 Thomas Balch (II. C. 1733), minister of the Second Parish in Dedham, now
Norwood.

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 1 3
othy first Chap! and yf first Clause in yf i8 or Last Verse. The
121 Psalm was Sung m! Crocker preacht on Buring Island after
Came On Board Rec!" Orders For Cap! Warner to go on Board
Col? Richmond att 3 of yf Clock and Carry the orders he Rec? Ap!
yf igf which Cap! Warner Perform'd
In yf afternoone Cap! Warner was att meeting On Board Col? Rich
mond and heard the Rev'' m! Warlter ^ The Lieu! and I w'!' Some
Others went on Board Col- Chandler and heard the Rev'' m! Baulch
from Mathew VIII 21 & 22? Versres Sung first yf 2 first Staves &
¦J- in yf 34 Psalm and -J- Stave in Doc! Wats's hyms M! Newmarch ^
Preacht in yf afternoone on Burying Island from i Kings 20 Chap
& II Verse
The Perscatua Privateer Lying near us our People heard the Text
which was from Acts 3 & g'?
29'? Came To Sail for Cape Breton about 6 in yf morning wind
att N- W 100 and Odd Sail in Company: a Brisk Gale a While
and then Calm till about Sunset and Then yf wind freshend up.
Spy'd Several Whale &c Looks Like Settled weather: The wind
in yf Evening att N N W Took up a Letter floating
30?' about 10 Clock Came To anchor in Chappeau Rouge Bay
and Ordered To Land yf men as Quick as Possable : But in yf morn
ing as Soone as they Spy'd our fleet y^ fir'd att all their Batterys
Imediately on Anchoring Landed But before we Landed Saw an
army Sally out of yf Town in order To Defeat us in Landing but
our Privateers Play'd with Great Guns But our men y! first got on
shore kiUd four frenchmen one a Lieu! and Took Captive One Col?
& a Cap! & Three of our men wounded yf money &c Coifiitted to
Cap! [David] melvin Left five men on Board : and this Day killd
and Took Captive that we know off 17 frenchmen Three of our
men wounded But None killd y! we know off Took five Cows killd
Three of them
May f. i! 1745 Breckfasted on milk where we Lay which was
within Two miles of y!' Citty of Louisburgh
Last night about Sunset I went on The Top of y= hill where we fird
1 Nathaniel Walter (H. C. 1729), minister of the Second. Parish in Roxbury,
and chaplain of the Second Massachusetts Regiment.
2 Probably John Newmarch (H. C. 1690), minister of Kittery, Maine, though
I find no record that he served in the Louisburg expedition. Sir William Pep
perrell was a member of his church.

14 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
about 14 Shots att y'' french and they fird from yf Citty Battery att
us the Shot flew over our heads They fird Several Guns in yf Night
Last night our watch Last night killd Several French men and
Took Some Captive They Burned Several of their owne houses
May f. i! 1745 Several Horses killd By our men and Some Took
alive a Great Number of Cattle killd and Taken by our men: The
Gen! Came on Shore a Number of French Taken '^ our men
Some of our men went into an house and Plundred yf Same This
Day The french Sunk Several of their owne Vessels and Burnt
Some Their Boats Continually Passing as we Think To Carry off
their Treasures : in yf afternoone an army of our men of about 500
went into yf woods 17 of our Company went with them Plundred
Several houses : I Saw a french men Ly Dead y! was killd 'W our
watch Last night
May y". 2? Our Army Returnd that went out yesterday with the
following Success they went To a Village at yf head of a Cove &
Burnt all yf Dwelling Houses & Waer Houses and a Vast Deal of
Treasure Some Treasure they Brought home Took Two french
men Several french men Taken this Day and Two french women
and a Verry Handsom Child about 12 months old Several horses
Taken This Day Took yf Grand Battery The french had Remov'd
and Stopt all yf Tutchholes of their great guns and Cast their Pow
der into the water The Enemy in yf Town and Island Battery kept
Throwing their Bums att our People in yf Grand Battery Surpriz'd
in yf night By Several Shots in the night which we Supposed were
from y:= Enemy Imbody'd & Drawd up near The Generals Tent
Rec? Orders To Remove about a mile further off from yf Town Least
we Should be Distroy'd by Bums or Shots out of The Town before
night we Removed & Incamped between The Gen! and Col!' Willards
Camps in yf Night Surprizd by Several guns That was Shot att one
of our Centrys and four Bullet holes mades in his Blankit
May The 3? 1745 Several french men Taken Our men Put One
of the Cannon in yf Grand Battery To Play and fird Several Shots
att yf Citty walls yf Enemy keep Condnually Fireing with their
Cannon Morter Pl' &c: from yf Citty & Island Battery Our men
keep Continually Plundering Several Horses Cows &c Brought in
The morter pfJ Carriages &c Carry'd this Day and Planted against
the Citty we are Informd that Comod^ Warrin has Taken Two
Storeships we are Informd y! One of our men fefl on yf Rocks and

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 15
was kill'd in the after noone those of our men y! were fixing yf Bat
tery for our morter pSi were Surprizd by the Enemys Sallying out of
yf Town when the News Came about 500 of us marcht To yf Re
leif of our men and when we Came The Enemy had Retreated
about 1 of the Clock at night Col? Willard Came To our Camp
and Orderd us To Send 10 men with an officer To join w'l' others in
Guarding yf Artillery Serg! Goodfrey & others sent we hear y! old
[Captain] morepang is in yf woods w"' a Guard of Thirty men & he
is woundedMay f. 4'? Ordered To muster on yf hill at 8 o'clock in yf morn
ing mustered w'!' yf whole Batalian Ordered Cap! Warner To Take
6 men out of every Company in Col? Willards Regim! To Guard yf
People Sent To Carry Powd! to yf Grand Battery 6 of our Com
pany Ordered To- go To yf Guard of*yf Artillery in the afternoone
Our men from the Grand Battery fir'd 92 od Cannon and the En
emy in the meane Time fir'd Two Bums about yf middle of yf after
noone Our morter P— Began To Play flung Sume Bums into yf
Citty One french man Taken this Day not One of our men killd
that I know off Several more Captives Taken fird from the Grand
Battery this Day 91 in yf night 15 of our men Sent To The Artil
liry I gave a Receipt for 2 barrels Bread & one of pork
may y'. s'.*" Sunday I with 5 more went To the Artillery To yf
Releif of our men while I was there our men fird Several
Bums 2 went Direct into yf Citty The Enemy fird att us But did not
hurt any of us Our men from yf Grand Battery Began before night
to fire To the Citty yf Eney from yf Island Battery flung their Bums
But they Cheifly Broke in the air : one of yf Cannon in our Battery
Broke and wounded yf Gunner and 4 men more Several Captives
Taken this Day They Inform us That morepang headed the army
y' Came against us at Landing and was Shot Thro' yf Thigh and
Thirty men Took into yf woods and Tarry'd with him Till he Died
[But he is not Dead yet \_These last six -words -were added after-ward?^
One of yf Gen"? men Died who went into an house To plunder
and killd himself with Drink Eleven Captives Taken Some men
Some women Two frenchmen -killd Our men Came upon them
in the woods where they had Carryd their Goods out of yf Citty
our men Inform us that their is goods Sufficient To Load 2 Vessels
Besides Two Bags of gold They Left above 20 men To Guard the
Goods and?

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may f. 6"^ In yf morning mustered & Sent 15 men To yf Artil
lery N B when we Saild from Canso part of our fleet went To S!
peters & S' Johns Last Night they Came To us & Informd us that
they had Taken SI Peters The People Cheifly fled and made their
Escape the Rest they Took Captive They Loaded all their Vessels
and Then Burned the Buildings and they Burn'd 1000 Bushels of
wheat in One house Cap! Jaquis was Killd & one more. The man
that was wounded the 23? of Ap! Dead. Several french killd att
S^ Peters \Four lines in the Diary here crossed out.]
Several Captives Taken &c we heard Several Guns in yf Town
May y. 7'!' in the morning news Came To yf Camps y! yf Enemy
had Issued out of yf Town yf Army Rallyd but when we Came yf
Enemy had Retreated when we Returned I went To y'r Comissary
c Q lb
Winslow and got One hogshead of Bread weighed 3-2 . o
One Barrel of pork
I gave a Receipt for yf Same in yf afternoone I went w'? Some
Others To yf Head of yf Bay on Board our Transport : This Day
we Sent a Flag of Truce But the Enemy Refuse Delivering yf Citty
but by the Point of yf Sword The Cannon Bums Cohorns &c Con
tinually Roaring on Boath Sides Women and Children heard to
Screach and Cry out in yf Citty when our Bums Came amongst
them Yesterday Comodore Warrin Came on Shore and offer'd us
600 men well Disciplind To Join us in Scaleing yf walls : he was
Pleasd To tell us y' yf Day we Entred the Citty of Luisburgh he
£ £
would Expend on yf Land army 500 and on yf Sea forces 500 more
out of his owne Estate : Took a Small Town and 25 french Captives :
Cap! Warner Taken Sick
8"" Wrote home mustered in the Forenoone Two of our men
Listed To go att night To help Take yf Island Battery I gave a
Receipt to M! Winslow for 6 gallons of Rhum
9'!" in yf afternoone yf Enemy Came out of yf Citty and Ingaged
with our men wounded Three of our men But our men Proved
too hard for the Enemy and I3rove them into yf Citty
J/oy jvf 9'? T 745 Serg! Willson and I went into Several houses:
the Cannon Bums & Cohorns Continually Roaring on Both Sides
Three of our men wounded att yf Green hill By a Cannon Ball
One mans Leg Broke by an Axidental Shot in the afternoone Beat

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To arms in Order To Scale yf Citty Walls : The army mustered But
fearing the Enemy was Sensable of the Attack : Did not Proceed :
the Three of our men that was wound? with a Cannon Ball One
Both Legs Cut of One Lost p! of thigh Leg and all One Lost one
Arm yf man y! Lost Both Legs Died in a Short Time One man
wounded by his Serg! Axidentally 6 inches of the main Bone of
his Leg Carry'd away it is Thought by the Doctor he will not Re
cover. One of our Company viz! Ephraim Proctor had his Gun Cut
in Two by a Cannon Ball : The Cannons &c Roaring all Day
May yi Io'^ 1745 In yf morning I went To Commissary Winslow
and gave a Receipt for 5:^ gallons Rum. Last night 19 of our
men Killd by the Indians Twenty five french Captives Brought in
this Day by our men Some men Some Women Some Children The
Cannon Roaring all Day the Cheif of yf Bums fird by the Enemy
this Day Broke in the Air.
N B there was 21 or 22 killd Eleven of them was Taken and
after was killd Scalped and Chopt and Stab'd & Prodigiously
mangled our men Bury'd yf Bodys of 17
May y. I I'l' I y ^5 a Verry Cold night Last Night Snow'd This
Day Exceeding Cold Snow'd Some I Gave Commissary Winslow
a Receipt for 6 gallons of Rhum and One Bushel of peas Seventeen
of yf men killd yesterday Buried To Day Two Villages Burnt V
our men with all yf Goods &c:
May y. 12'? Sunday: Somewhat Cold and windy: in yf after
noone went To meeting heard yf Rev? M! Baulch from these words
& thou art weigh'd in yf Ballances & found wanting we were Ex
horted to be allways Ready allways To have ace'? even the Bums
Cannons &c Continually Roaring night and Day
13'? monday : Two Guns att y'' Fa Sheene [Fascine] Battery Burst
five men wound? one his Leg Carry'd away &c : I was Taken w'?
Fever and flux a french Snow Came in above 100 Cannon fird in
ab! half an hour
14 Tuesday Not any Thing Remark"^' The Cannon Continually
Roaring a Verry Cold Boisterous Day
15 Wensday above 300 Cannon fird one man wounded by a
Bum One of our Cannon allmost spoilt by a Cannon Ball sent ^
yf En? and Struck her in yf muzzle, one man killd Cap! Hale of
Newbury Dead Occasioned by a wound Rec? by a Bum
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Tent about i mile nearer yf Citty Remov'd Sever' of our men To
y!^ Hospital Isaac Kent Jonf Lakin ' & Stephen Barron ^ Came on
Shore yf man Died y! was wounded w'^ a Bum Serg! Woods Put
in Irons and Confind all nigt I Took working Phuysick
17 Fryday we had about 50 men Building a Battery near yf Light
house and 100 french Came upon them and killd one of Col? Gore-
hams Indians our men Boldly fac'd them and wounded their Cap!
and Took him they Crossed yf water in yf night But our men got
their Canoes and keep yf Ground Several Rec!" Letters from their
wives but I Think I Did not Receive any
18 Saturday. The fasheene [fascine] Batf^ near viz! within 40
Rods of yf west Gate and Divers 42 pound'.= wf" were brought from
the Grand Battt mounted y'=. Began to Play Beat Down yf Gate
and Draw Bridge our men get under yf walls & when ever yf Enemy
Look over they fire them Down : Cap! Peirce ^ killd this Day by a
Cannon Ball ThrS his Bowels he Livd a Qu! of an hour and then
Died his Death is Greately Lamented Severel 5 killd this Day I
had yf fever all Day
We have Thirty Sick in our Com''
19 Sabbath Above 500 Cannon fird this Day Several men killd
Several wound? Some killd by Splitting of a Cannon Some Burnt
Badly by a barrel of Powders Catching fire.
in yf after noone a french man of war Appeard a 64 gun Ship Coino-
dore Warrin with his Ships went out and met her they were heard
by us To fight yf Bigger part of y" night we Saw the first of it
a Bad fever all Day
20'? Nothing Remarkable but yf Seige StiU Continues : I had an
Exceeding ill Day
21 Cap! Tyng Came in and Brought the Joyfull Tydings that yf
Comodore had Taken the french man of war without yf Loss of a
man : and that the Coihodore had fitted her out and they were in
Pursuit of yf Rest of the French fleet : Some French and Indians
1 Jonathan Lakin was a Groton soldier, born on April 28, 1719, and a kins
man of Lieutenant Bradstreet through his wife, who was a Lakin. H'e died at
Louisburg on September i, 1745, where the diarist watched with him to the last,
2 Stephen Barron also was a Groton soldier, and is mentioned several times
in these pages.
° Joshua Pierce, the senior captain of the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, in
which Lieutenant Bradstreet vvas serving.

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Spy'd Driving of Cattle our men are gone in Pursuit Some of our
men Came in with Ten French Captives and they Inform us that y?
Enemy had Dugg up the Bodys of yf 17 persons Bury'd the Tenth of
this Instant and Burnt them : Towards Night Notice being given
their was Three Huzzas att yf Gen! Tent Three att each of yf
fashines Three att yf Grand Battery and Coihodore Warrin att yf
Same Time Came in the Prize man of war into the mouth of Louis
burg Harbur under french Colours and then Hoisted English Col
ours above yf french and gave Three Huzzas
22 This Day Serg! James Carley Died and a 60 gun Ship Came
in and jion'd our fleet wf*" was verry Rejoycing
The man of war Taken yf 21 instant had 4 months Provision for
yf Citty of Louisburg 300 Souldiers 1000 Barrels of Powd! 20 Brass
Cannon Rigging for a 70 gun Ship that is Building att Canady and
Ord'.^ were when ever their forces were got Together To Settle Canso
and then Take Port Royal and Drive yf Eastward Parts as far as
Perscatua 23? This Day The Cap! and I were So well we went as far as
Col- Mooers and Cap! Easmans
It is Thought 1* the Cap! that the L! is Become a Right Tippler
24 The People Return'd y! went Last Night To yf Attack of the
Island Battery This is yf 6"" attempt of y! Nature To no Purpose
firing off att Sea this day The french Cap! Died this Day that was
wounded & Taken yf 17 Day he offered Ten Thousand Pounds for'
a fryar To Pardon his Sins before he died and I would have done it
my Self as well as any fryar or Priest Living for J yf money This
Day went To Cap! Stevens and Drink't New England Cyder and
Eat Toast & Cyder Exceeding Cold I was Taken w"' yf Bloody
flux 25'? Pleasent Day the woods got on fire which had Like To have
Distroyd many Tents The Cannon Play Briskly on our Side But
But [sic] few from the Enemy
Cap! [David] Melvin with a Comp? went a Scouting after Indians
at Night. Returnd with yf folF Success They Came on a Camp
of Six french men they killd One Took 3 Captive one of w'? was
wound? They had Some Cloaths Catridge boxes and other atcutre-
ments that they had Taken from our men that were Killd yf Io'^ of
this Instant one that was Taken Informs us That he was a Serv!
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Turn'd him out To Look for his owne Susdnance haveing nothing of
his owne To Support him
WE Thof Drunk
26 Sunday a Pleasent Day in yf forenoone M"! Balch Preacht
from yf 3? verse of yf Epistle of Jude Sung yf 2 Last Stanzies & \
in yf 118 ps. in yf afternoon Preacht from Prov: 12 26 : Sung z
Last Stanzies & J in yf 11 Ps : yf men of war all Came along in a
Line of Battle The men y! were Inlisted went in Order To attack
the Island Battery in the morning a Comp? of about 150 went a
Scouting after Indians 290 went To yf attack of yf Island Battery
Cap! melvin headed the above Scout
27 monday in the morning we had the malencolly news of the
overthrow of our men that went Last night To yf attack of the
Island Battery when they Came they found yf Enemy Prepard for
their Coming alltho it was Between 12 & i at night w'^.'' gives Cause
To think yf Enemy were Appriz'd of their Comeing the Enemy
playd with Cannon upon the Boates which Distroyd Several Boates
and Left the men floating on the water Several Boates Landed
their men But y" Enemy being Prepard Slew them at a Strange Rate
Some of our men after they fir'd all their Catridges Retreated got
into their Boates and made their Escape but Some were killd after
they had got into y! Boates Some Boates Stove against yf Rocks
Some run a Drift Some of our men fought manfully Till about
Sunrise and it is generally Thought their was 150 of our men Lost att
yf Least pray g? Sanctify this heavy frown of his Providence To us
all Cap! Noble and Company Came in this Day with 9 french Cap
tives they had Taken and found One of our men they had Taken
Some time ago Lying Dead verry much Cut and mangled he was
but Just Dead the Enemy had murdered him : and by Examination
we are Inform'' that y^ Ene? were 8 Dayes in killing one of our
men and when he was Dead Obligd One of our men to eat a part
of him.
28 Tuesday Foggy a Great Part of the Day our Canon Play
Briskly One of our men had the end of his yard Shot off. yf
Bloody flux Still Continues
29'." Wensday a miserable Election : ^ But yf Pleasantist Day we
1 Alluding to Election day at home in Massachusetts, which fell on the
last Wednesday of May. '

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have had Since we Left N : England The Cannon &c play verry
Briskly But we have this Day yf malencholly news of yf Loss of
Several of our men their was 400 of them in the woods They
Came upon 100 french & 80 Indians they had Several Shallops
Loaded with fresh Beef and they Intended Last Night to have
Brought it Down to yf Citty But our men Came upon them and they
fought 6 hours and killd Several viz! 6 or Eight of our men Two
Cap".'^ and in all their is 30 killd and wounded Several mortally
wounded they Rcov? yf Bodies of 12 french men & Saw where yf
Indians had Drag'd away their Dead Took One frenchman
30'.'" Thursday Foggy Cloudy &c : This Day our men fird Briskly
& Cut Down yf french flag The Comodore Sent Two Letters To yf
General I went Down To yf water Side and bought a fresh Cod
wf'' made a fine Supper and Breckfast : The Bloody flux Left me
One of our french Captives Inform us that The french & Indians
are forming into a Body To Come upon us : Several Bums This Day
hove into yf Citty Two of their Ambosheres [embrasures] Beat
Down The Enemy keep Continually Digging within yf walls att
Night Isaac Kent went upon the Grand Guard which is yf first Duty
he has Done Col? Chandler Sent To me for an Ace! of yf Number
of the Sick in our Company which was 23 and the N? on Duty which
was 4 at yf furthermost fasheene
¦^1 Fryday Foggy in yf morning I gave Col? Chandler an attested
ace! of the Sick in our Company which was 19 The Number on
Duty 2 One att yf fasheene One with Cap! Melvin going on a Scoute
with him after Indians Cap! Melvin Defers going till tomorrow
morning I'en Captives Brought in 7 men and Three women
They had eat no Bread for Ten Days They Inform us that there
was 32 French & Indians killd in yf Ingagement The 28".' Instant
and 40 wounded Our People found 12 Guns on the Ground where
the Ingagement was : they Likewise Inform us that Their was 6 of
their men killd in yf Ingagement with Col° Gorha"' the 17'^ Instant
This Day made an Apprizal ofthe Effects Serg! James Carley Died
Seizd off. an Irish man Taken this Day it is Thot he had bin in
yf Citty he Belongs To One of our Companys and it is Thot he
has Practis'd going into yf Citty every Oppertunity Since he has bin
here he is now in Irons
Juney 1 'i.'ji^t, Saturday. Foggy Cloudy Thick weather a Ves
sel Came that was Sent by yf General To Port Royal but when they

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Came to yf Narrows the Indians fir'd att them above 200 Shots and
9 Canoes Came off So that they were Oblig'd To Run : a Ship aud
Snow Taken by our men of war Cap! Melvin went out with a
Company on a Scout 3 of our Company with him The Cap! and I
went To Cap! [Ebenezer] Easmans House which is within Musket
Shot of yf Citty we Tarry'd all night
2"! Sunday Cloudy we went To Several Houses then Returnd
To Cap! Easmans and he went with us and we went into I Beleive
above 20 Houses Then we went To the Grand Battery and heard
a Sermon from Amos 4-12 Those words Prepare To Meet thy god
O Israel The Grand Battery is the Strongest Place that ever my
eyes Beheld Stephen Barron Drunk Strawberrys full in yf Blow
A Brigganteen Taken by our men of war
3 Monday Rainy Cloudy &c in the morning then Pleasent
weather Cap! Dunahew^ Brought a morter and 2 Beds for yf same
from Boston at night yf morter and One bed were Carry'd To Cap!
Easmans fasheene Battery : a Sloop from Canada Loaded with Pro
visions had Like To have got into yf Harbur But one of our Ves
sels Came So hard after her that She Run a Shore near yf Light
house and yf men got on Shore w'? their arms and fird att our men
when they was getting off yf Vessel but To no porpose our m.en
got off yf Vessel Safe : and Brought her in the Others are gone in
Pursuit of the Enemy wrote home
4 Tuesday Fine weather as Soone as Day Light Appear'd we
were Surpriz'd by Several Vallyes of Small Arms Down att yf Citty
but it Prov'd To be our owne men Shott Two Vallyes & the Enemy
One Two Vessels Taken this Day by our Shipping :
Cap! Melvin Returnd with following Success : They killd Two french
men and Brought in Seventeen Captives I went To yf Coihissarys
and gave a Receipt for a Barrel of pork and 80 weight of Bread this
Day our men Began To fire hot Bullets To the Citty. their was
Letters on Board the french Sloop y! Came from Canada y! was
Taken yesterday That gave an Ace! that their was 1000 french and
Indians gone To Attack Anappolis and Cap! Rouse Cap! Tyng Cap!
Snelhng are gone from us To their assistance Last night a french
man Came out of yf Citty & Deliv? himself To our men and Upon
Examination he Declares that their is 106 of our men y! was Lost
att yf Island Battery Prisoners in yf Citty &l that their is about 800
fighting men in the Citty and that their is Divers in the Citty would
1 David Donahew, of Marblehead, who commanded a sloop in the fleet.

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be Glad To Del; themselves to our men if they knew they should
have Quarter
5 Wensday fine weather Till Towards night and att night Rain''
This Day Came in a Small Sloop from Canso and Inform us that
on the 25'!' of may 800 french and Indians Came from Anappolis To
yf Assistance of Cape Breton att night I went Cap! of y.° Grand
guard with 19 men Three of yf men being found asleep on yf
gaurd we Took their guns
\_One leaf of the Diary here missing.]
\_June 8] ... Ship and yf Gov! Knowing the Hand writeing
were Exceeding Sorrowfull and he heard Divers of Souldiers and
Comon Sort of people Say we are gone : the men women and Chil
dren followed him in Droves : he Saw 360 Souldiers on the Parade
in arms he Likewise Informs us that above 100 of our men y! were
att yf Island Battery were Prisoners in yf Citty and that their is no
Such thing as Scaleing yf walls But gives Great Incouragement
Concerning our Takeing the place if we have a Stock of Powder
In yf morning the French fird out of their Barracks verry fast a
man was Rideing yf Road and Had his heel Taken away by a Can
non Ball and the horses Guts Lett out
9'.'' Sunday Rain'd in the morning I watched -J yf night Last
night The Enemy Cast Three Bums att our People but Did not
hurt any of our men : Last night Two Zwits [Swiss] Came out of
the Citty with their arms and Delivered themselves To our men and
they Inform us that yesterday One of their Souldiers had a Design
To have Disserted and Come to us and had a Letter from One of
our men that is a Prisoner in yf Citty To Bring to his friends But
he being Discovered they Hanged him Directly they Likewise In
form us that the Enemy have but 150 barrels of Powder: they In
form'd Likewise that many in the Citty would be Glad To Come
Out and Deliver themselves to us : they Likewise Inform us when
we Came they had 600 Sould" when we Came and now they had
but about 500 they Says that if our Bumaneer had held On Cast
ing his Bums into yf Citty a Fryday and they att. Major Titcoms
Battery had fird Briskly he Beleives they would have Delivered up
the Citty in about an hour more This Day we Carry'd Casks from
the Old Stores to wall in Our Citty Occasioned by News from yf
Zwits That their was an Army of french and Indians Comeing upon

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us a Verry Cold Day this Day. they yf Zwits Inform us That had
all our Boates Landed att yf Island Battery they would Surrend''?
them Selves But Seeing Some of our Boates Retreat Incouraged
the Enemy It is Thought our men of war are in an Ingagement
The Zwits Inform us that they in the Citty had not had their
Cloaths off Since we Came
June io'? monday fair weather Early in the morning Cap!
Warner Cap! Willard Clerk Patterson & I went Down to yf Grand
Battery and Major Titcoms Battery and into 'Sundry Houses we
went into the Towers in the Grand Battery Saw Several Beautifull
women Taken Some Time ago : wee went above the Grand Battery
To the Village That our men Burnt The first Day of may a man
Cut in Two by a Cannon Ball att yf Light house Battery and an
other wounded
Yesterday a fifty Gun Ship Came & Joind our men of war they
Brought with them a french Privateer they had Taken and Three
Dayes ago they parted with Two 6d gun Ships Comeing To our
Assistance Two men wounded by a Small Shott att yf fasciene Bat
tery next yf wall went up the Bay and Got a boat and 2 beds we
found The Strawberrys full in the Blow
June 1 1'? fair weather : & Coronation Day in the morning The
whole Batalia was Calld by the Beat of yf Drums To prayers att
Twelve we were Rally'd by the Beat of yf Drums and Excercised
and Drank the Kings health the Gen! went on Board the Com
odore before night Return'd att night all Rally'd by yf Beat of yf
Drums To Prayers : Comeing Back from pray''." Saw men Burying
a Young man.
June y 12'J' fine weather Col? Willard Sent forme and Ordered
me to go w'? yf Adjatant Hobart^ To yf Advance Battery and To yf
Several Cap""' there and Take an Account of all yf able Bodyd men
that were there and Besides The Sick & wounded we found Be
longing to Col? Willards Regim! 158 we were Setting Divers of us
By Cap' Easmans fire I was writeing and there Came a Cannon
Ball and Struck yf Chimney and made yf fire and Soot Fly att a
Strange Rate Adjatant Hobart got up & Run. A man wounded
by a Bum this Day yf flesh of his Buttock Carryd away
1 Jonathan Hobart, a Groton soldier, was the adjutant of the Fourth Massa
chusetts Regiment. For a reference to him, see the Introduction (p. 6).

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\_June~\ 13 I Lay att Cap! Easmans in yf morning Our Bumaneer
Cast Three Bums into or Near the Ambzciers Belonging To yf Enem?
after Breckfast we went into our Advance Battery which is within
about 30 Rods of yf Citty and The Enemy fird with Small Arms.
The Bullets flew on Every Side : I had a verry fair Shot att One of
yf Enemy : in the afternoone L! Webster Came with us To our
Camps : Three men of war viz! 2 60 Guns and One 40 Gun Ship
Came and Joind our fleet they Took Three Ships and Brought in
w'."* them Removed our Tent this Day Within our walls : the Enemy
fird from their Barracks with small arms : the morter Remov? To yf
Light House in Order To Play upon yf Island Battery
14 fine weather L! webster with Some of our Company went
afishing Catchced a fine parcel of fish a man Died that was
wounded By a shot from yf Enemy Before Night went Down To
wards y? Citty To Cap! Easmans and .A Switzer Came Back w'? me :
Three of our men went on Board one of the men of war 5 Zwits
in a Shallaway Disserted and went on Board Our Comodore
The 15'? Day. our Bumaneer Cast from yf Light House 8 Bums
into yf Island Battery yf People viz! yf Enemy Run out of yf Bat
tery into yf water up to their middles : The Enemy in yf Citty were
Drawd into a Body and our People from Titcoms Battery fird 5
42 Pounders and Cut Down Two Ranks of yf Enemy
15 Went in yf morning To yf Advance Battery and Returnd be
fore noone On the Return the whole Army Drawd into a Batalia
the Comodore and Gen! Came and Veiwd us & the Coihodore made
a Speech and Told us we Could not Take yf Citty with yf Land forces
neither Could he w'."* yf Sea forces without yf assistance of each
Other and Advised us To Join and yf first Easterly wind he would
Come in by Sea and we by Land and Try it out : Before Sun Set a
Flag of Truce Came out of yf Citty Last night The Enemy Cast 45
Bums att our People But To no Porpose The Flag of Truce Came
with a Request in Writeing for a Cessation of arms Till they might
hold a Council of War for they s? the English Play'd So Smart that
they Could not hold a Council yf Gen! and Admiral gave them Till
To morrow morning 7 or S.oClock
16 Sunday: Cloudy Foggy weather After Prayers The flag of
Truce Came out of the Citty about 12 of y^ Clock the flag of Truce
Returnd after they had agreed on yf following Articles viz if yf
Enemy would Surrender up yf Citty To give them their Goods and

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To furnish them with Vessels To Carry Them to Old France and
in Case they Comply'd they were to Send Hostages by Six oClock
in the after noone they ask Liberty To Settle on this Island or
Canady or Some of the Adjacent Islands But it was not Granted
and in Case they Do not Comply The fleet To go in by Sea and all
our forces by Land Iihediately & To have a fair Tryal The Gen!
went off Crying : Before night A Gen! Came out of yf Citty and
Deliv? himself as a Hostage & The Citty To be Deliv? on y?
morrow yune 17'!' monday Cloudy in the fore part of yf Day in the
Latter part Raind : in the morning after prayers Rally'd &c
Rallyd a Second Time and then Several Regim'.' with yf Gen! L!
Gen' Brigadeers &c Advanced Towards the Citty To Take Pos
session N B : Admiral Warrin went into the Harbour with all his Ships
in yf morning and Saluted yf Citty By flreing our People Took
Possession of the Island Battery Last Night
When our Army Marcht To yf Citty the Colours were flying the
Drums Beating Trumpets Sounding Flutes & Vials Playing Col?
Bradstreet ^ att yf Head of the Army The Gen! L! Gen! and Gentry
in yf Rear, yf French men and women & Children on yf Parade
they Lookt verry sorrowfull I went into yf Citty and then Re
treated and Came Back To our old Citty:
[ One leaf here missing.]
20 Thursday Rainny Cloudy and foggy weather W- Thomas
was Drunk I went allround yf Citty walls and Saw all y? Cannon
Bum Morters &c
21 Fryday Cloudy Rainny & Foggy weather Remov'd our Sick
To an house near yf Citty & Two men To nurse them
22 Saturday Rainny Cloudy & foggy weather Eighteen French
men made their Escape out of yf Citty Cap! Warner Cap! Willard
Clerk Patterson and I went into yf Barracks or Cittydal and when
we were in yf Chappel there was a man aloft and yf upper part
Being verry much Broke by our Cannon Balls it gave way & and
\jtc] a Cannon Ball with Boards Came Down and had Like To have
Struck Clerk Patterson & my Self and the man hung by his arms
By a Joyce
1 Colonel Bradstreet was an Englishman by birth, but probably not akin to
the diarist.

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23? Sunday Rainny Cloudy & foggy weather The i8 french
men that made their Escape yesterday Brought in with their arms
Snap-Sacks Provision &c and were Cothitted To Prison M! Moody "^
Preacht in the forenoone att yf Camps from Prov : 8 : 6 M! Lang-
dalP Preacht in the afternoone from Heb:3:i3 The Artillery
Removd from yf fasciene Batterys
24'? Monday Rainny Cloudy & Foggy weather Cap! Rouse
Came in but Did not know yf place was Taken till he Sent his
Boates on Shore att yf Camps
25'!' Tuesday Rainny Foggy & Cloudy weather Cap! Rouse
Came into Louisbourg and Brought 2 Bum Morters and 250
Cannon :
26'? We?isday fine weather :
27'? Thursday Cloudy Foggy & Rain'd Exceeding hard Some
Time we Remov'd Down To yf Houses
28- Fryday Foggy &c Oliver Green ^ Died and was Buried
Five mareens was whipt I wrote home
29'? Saturday Wet weather : I went into The Citty
30"" Sunday M' Moody Preacht att yf Chappel in yf fore Part
of the Day and m! Crocker in the after part in yf fore part I wrote
To my wife in yf after part went To meeting the Text was Psalm
56: 12.
jpuly I monday Fair weather
yuly 2? Tuesday Cloudy &c : A Comp>' Came in and Some of
them Came to our house before they knew yf place was Taken I
went into yf City with them
3 Wensday : a man of war Came in w'.'' 200 Souldiers To Carry
To Annoppolis To Release our men Sent there Last Summer Yes
terday W- Tho! being in yf Citty in Drink and Threatened a woman
that he would knock her Down if She would not give him Liqf he
was Put under a guard and kept all night in the morning brought
Before Col'? Willard and Ordered into yf Citty To be Tryed by a
Court martial
1 Samuel Moody (H. C. 1697), minister of York, Maine.
2 Samuel Langdon (H. C. 1740), afterward President of Harvard College.
^ A Groton soldier. According to "The New-England Historical & Genea
logical Register" (XXV. 266) for July, 1871, he was a private in Captain
Jonathan Smith's company in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment (Colonel
Joseph Dwight). Judging from the familiar names, there were other soldiers
from Groton and neighborhood, who belonged in that company.

2 8 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
Several Vessels went out Some for france with Transports & Some
to New England
July 4'.'^ Thursday Several Vessels went out Some for France
with Transports &c : I went a Strawbering
July 5'-^ Fryday a wild Cow and Calf Came out of yf woods
Several went in Pursuit I went Till I was Out of Breath and then
Returned : Cop! Lakin Ordered Stephen Barron To Guard yf Arms
and he Told him To Kiss his ass for which he was Ordered To Ride
the Pickets an hour
the men That went after y' Cow Return'd and Brought yf Cow but
Lost y'= Calf Col? Choate Came from New England with Two Com
panys of men
July 6'.'' 1 745 Fine Growing weather In y? Morning Several of
us went in Pursuit of yf Calf y! Belonged to y'' Cow y! was Brought
in yesterday But Could not find it : heard Several Guns Towards
yf Head of yf Bay
Cap! Rouse Saild for London for Recruits and yf Council Sent for
£ S D
9555 = 2 : 6 Sterling To Repair yf Breaches our Cannon Bums &c
had made in yf Walls Barracks Store Houses & Hospitalls and
magaziens : Upon his Sailing the men of warr fir'd a Great Number
of Guns Cap! Snelling Came from N England with Souldiers
July 7'.'' Sunday fine weather M- Moody Preacht in the forenoone
in yf Chappel in yf Barracks in yf Citty in y? afternoon M! Williams
Preacht m! Baulch Preacht in yf Suburbs in yf afternoone From i
Pet! 3:19:20 Sung 2 Last Staves in yf 84 Ps : Sung 2 Last Staves
in yf 73 Ps : Two men of Warr went out on a Cruse Some Vessels
Came in
8 mo7iday fine weather Nine Cap'.^ viz One out of a Regiment
Being a Com'f^ went To Search yf Vessels : I went w'? them : we
found in Iron Brass &c : To yf Vallue 7 or 8 Hundred pounds &
Brought it On Shore : Cap! Dunnahews Vessel Came in with yf fol
lowing Sorrowfull Tydings : Viz They were in yf Gut of Canso And
Seven Indians Discover'd themselves with a Flagg of Truce and Cap!
Dunnahew with all his officers Save One : Their Being Twelve in
all went on Shear and their Started up about 200 Indians and fir'd
upon Cap! Dunnahew & Company and Distroyd them all and Burnt
their Bodys : The above was Done June 29"'
<f^ Tuesday fine weather yf Reg! mustered and marcht Towards

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 29
the South gate as far as yf Powder plott and their Dismiss'd this
Day Came a french man from S! Johns and had Cap! Dunnahews
Ring on his finger and Brought News that alltho' Cap! Dunnahew
was killd and four more yet there was Seven alive : But they was
wounded Began To work at yf west gate in Order to Rebuild the
Same io'? Cloudy went a Searching Vessels and found Considerable of
Iron &c : I wrote home Last month I wrote home Twice But Did
not Enter yf Same
11'!' Thursday fine weather a Number went To Raising Vessels
I went w'? them we Raisd a Scooner new : y! never had bin to Sea
She is about 40 Tuns This is yf Third vessel has bin Weighed : a
Number w'? our Com'f^ which Consists of nine Cap'f^ viz One out of
a Regiment our Cap! being One of yf Com'f^ went To yf Grand Bat
tery and in Searching they found of Iron Clothing &c Considerable
\2 Fryday fine weather One Vessel Rais'd Considerable Plun
der brought from On Board yf Vessels : Several Shallops Came in
w- french &c :
13 Saturday fine weather went in Search of Plunder and brought
Several boat Loads of Barr Iron Cables Spikes &c on Shore out of a
£
Vessel 30 Sterling found by One of yf Com'f : Several Shallops
of french Came in Wood Sloops Came in
14 Sunday Cloudy Rainny &c: in the morning : afterwards fine
weather : in the forenoon m! Williams Preacht in yf Chappel from
I Chron : V 18 : 19 : 20 : 21 : & 22 : Sung The 20'? PS : In yf after
noone mf Fair weather-' Preacht from i Chron: 11 & 13 verses
Sung 2 first staves & | in yf 18 Psal : News Came in this Day that
Cap! Fletcher who went in his Privateer To Guard our wood Sloops
hath Taken a french Privateer y! Came out of Canada & they In
form us y! yf Ship that was Chast by our Privateers when we Lay att
Canso Apl 18 19 &c Came into Cauda 32 Days ago & had Taken
Cap! Smothers : Several Shallops of french Came in :
ic, monday fine weather in yf morning Cap! Warner Cap! Willard
& mySelf with Others went To yf N E Harbour I went Round To
y"; Light House went up into yf Lanthorn it is a magnificent
building: from yf Bottom To yf Lanthorn is 72 Steps yf Lanthorn
1 Samuel Fayerweather (H. C. 1743), chaplain on board of the frigate " Mas
sachusetts," Capt. Edward Tyng. See Sabine's " Loyalists of the American
Revolution" (I. 419).

30 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
is 14 feet Glass a Bason of Copper in the Lanthorn full of oil 23
Wicks in y= Oil the Bason will hold above J barrel the Light house
Excepting yf glass is Bum Proof We Took up 2 Shallops : Cap!
Tyng Came in : Sev! of us found a C f & I eat a fine Supper of V— 1
16 Tuesday : the Sun arose Clear : but Soone Clouded and foggy
Several Vessels Came in from N England with Soulds goo in afl
I Rec? a Letter from my D- wife
17 -wensday fine weather 8 of our men Dismissed viz L! En^
2 Serg'r^ I Cop! i Stew : 2 more The Com^ss & \ went with them
in Search after Cattle found 5 horses 3 Cows Dealt allowance of
Rum for four Days Exclusive of this Day
18 Thurday Thanksgiving m! williams preacht from
I Deliv? 6 Days allowance of meat To every mess & One Days
allowance of Peas : a Sheep Deliv'' to each Comp? and pint of winfe
to Each man ^ Our Sheep would have bin (after yf Guts had bin
Taken out) more Suitable for a Lanthorn then for Eating ; Some
Companys Came in
19 Fryday Fine weather Cap! Warner and I Din'd w"" Cap!
James Fryy we had Boild Lamb Pork & Veal Rost Lamb & Veal
good wine good phlip 5z: punch : at Night we Supped on a Stew of
mutton & pork & wine To Drink : a Ship flag of Truce Saild for
france with Captives
20 Saturday Cloudy Rainy &c Nothing Remarkable a Snow
Flag of Truce Saild For France with Captives
2\ Su7iday Rainny: in yf mor? m! Williams Preacht att yf Chappel
att yf Barracks from John 20 : 31 in the forenoon & yf Old Eng
land Chu'' People met att yf Chappel Att yf Hospital in yf after
noone the old England Church minister preach! from 116 Ps : 12
att yf Chappel by the Barracks a Vessel Came in with women &
Children from N Eng?
22? Monday fair weather I went into yf Citty To Take an Ace'.
of the men y! worked in Col? Willards Regi at Carrying wood &
Took w'.i me out of our Comp? Jnf Rand Jn? Wright W^ Tho^ John
Peirce Gideon Sanderson Eph'- Proctor Aaron Boynton y! worked
yf whole Day ^
1 The wine served out to the men at this time undoubtedly was loot taken
from the enemy.
2 John Pierce, Gideon .Sanderson, and Aaron Boynton are known to have been
Groton soldiers, and perhaps also some of the others were. Sanderson died on
November 13, and Boynton on December 24.

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 3 i
att night Rec? Orders To Send a Corp! & 5 men To go on board yf
man of war Occasioned by a Large Saild Lying off yf mouth of yf
Harb! Suppossed To be an East Indeaman or a man of war this
Day Cop! Benj^ Randal Died & was Buryed. : we Sent Cop! Lakin
& 5 more but they Came on yf Parade to Late
23 Tuesday Two men of war went out against yf Ship & gave
her a Broad Side & Several Bow Chased and Took her :
24'!' Wensday I went To Oversee the men Carrying wood att yf
Kings Gate : in yf afternoone the men of war Came in with yf Prize
Taken Yesterday She is a Vessel of about 700 Tun an East India
man Judged To be worth One million & \ money : yf Cap' & I &
Sev! more moved into yf Citty
25 Thursday fine weather Took an Inventory of yf Effects of
Cop! Randal & Oliver Green : I went to yf Comissarys & Took 3
gall- \ of Brandy & Dealt out 3 Days allowance : Three Gallons of
Molosses To yf Three messes in the Suburbs : Three Days allow
ance of meat To yf mess= in yf Suburbs
26 Fryday fine weather Last night Came in Cap! Wetherbe &
his Comp? with Part of Cap! Davis's Compan? This Day I Rec"! a
Letter from my wife which was pleasing &c went a Strawherrying
27 Saturday Rainny &c
28 Sunday fine weather in yf forenoone the C- min! Preacht
from Rom : 12 : 18 in yf afternoone m! Williams Preacht from prov :
20: 27 in the morning a Large Ship Came in Sight Supposd to be
an East India man : and Two of our men of war went out after her
29'.'' Monday a Gen! Muster and in yf afternoone arose a Great
Disturbance betweene yf men of wars men & our men which was
Exceeding hot in yf afternoone yf men of war y! went out Yester
day Came in with yf Ship they went after She is a Rich Prize an
french East India man
30'? Tuesday Rainy Last night Came in 250 Sould'? from N Hamp
shire : we had a pint of wine allowed To each man To Drink yf
Kings health Serg! Woods Took y". Stewardship ^ I Din'd w'!' Cap!
Frie 31 Wensday foggy Cloudy weath! Serg' Woods has not Chang'd
Guns this Two Dayes a thing verry Remarkable :
August i! 1745. in yf morning Col- Willard Sent for me & Ord'^
1 Sergeant Woods was probably a Groton soldier ; and without doubt the stew
ardship included the duties of a commissary-sergeant.

3 2 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
me to Oversee his Reg' y! worked in Repairing yf Citty walls : ac
cordingly I went 14 of yf Reg! work'd
2 Fryday fine weather I went To Oversee yf People Clearing
the Store yard : A Large Ship Came in Sight Our men of war went
out & Took her She is a french South Sea man a Rich Prize has
been out Three years
3 Saturday I went To Oversee yf workmen Ten men Bury'd
this Day 4 in Arms : I wrote home
4'? Sunday Mf Williams^ of Longmeadow Preacht in yf fore
noone at yf Hospital Chappel from 55 Is : & 6'? a Seazonable
Lively affectionate Sermon In yf afternoone Mf Williams ^ of New
haven preacht from Dut: 32: 29 One: man Bury'd after meeting
Several Small Vessels Came in
S'."" Cloudy foggy &c : I went To Overseeing &c
6'? Tuesday An Exceeding Rainny Day One Hubbard Died
y! Liv'd with part of our Company out of yf Citty
7'? Wensday a Rainny Day Last night about 12 O' yf Clock
Died in the Hospital Isaac Kent he Lay but a few Dayes Sick
about 6 in yf afternoone we Bury'd him a man Rid yf wooden
Horse on yf Parade
8'? Thursday fine weather I overseed the workmen Cleaning the
Kings Bake House Last night the wooden horse Torn in peices
9'? Cold weather. I went To Oversee Last night Stephen Bar
ron Imbarked &c
10'? Saturday a Cold Day a Gen! muster fird Plattoones: yf
martial Laws Read att yf head of every Reg! a Souldier whipt 39
Lashes for Robbing a Dead Corpse & Leaving yf Body u[n]buried
1 1 Sunday Cold Cloudy weather Last Fryday a Scooner was
going after wood with about 30 men & by a mischance as they was
going out of the Harbour near yf Light house Run upon yf Rocks
and Split yf men Lost their guns Cloaths &c But yf Boates Has
tned out & Sav'd all yf men in yf forenoone yf Rev- Mf Williams
of Longmeadow preach't at yf Hospital Chappel from Luk: IX 62
Sung yf 3 part of yf 50 Ps : in yf afternoone M! Williams of New
haven Prea' from Dut 32 29 : a Stormy Day Wind at NE.
Monday Aug'. 12'." Stormay Day This is y!= 4'.'' Day yf wind has
1 Stephen Williams (H. C. 1713), first minister of Longmeadow, where he
died on June 10, 1782, aged 89 years.
2 Elisha Williams (H. C. 17 n), who had been President of Yale College.

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 33
Blowd Strong & Cold at N E I Took 3;^ 7 Sterling in pei'=.' 8 &
Pistareens of yf Brgadeer To pay yf workmen for On Loading of
wood :
13 Tuesday I went to Overseeing Serg! David Barker Died this
Day One Briant Sentenced To have 5 Lashes on his naked Back
3 Dayes Running
14 Wensday fine weather I went To Overseeing four men
Buryed this Day One whipt 5 Lashes for Prophane Swearing &c
& Drawing Sword and threatning a man
15 Thursday fine weather I went To Overseeing the man that
was whipt yesterday whipt again To Day five Lashes and is To have
five more To morrow: one man whipt 21 Lashes at the whipping
post on the Parade for Strikeing his Superiour officer. John Phillips
washd and Shirted himself O mavellous
16 Fryday Pleasent weather I went To Overseeing his Excel
lency Govl Shirly his Mad"!" yf Commodores mad"!" with Divers other
Gent? 17'? Saturday Fine weather the Gov! Came on Shore a Gen!
Muster The whole army was mustered & Placed in the most Gen
teel manner To Receive the Gov! the Gen! walk't foremost the
Governors Lady at his Right Then his Excellency &c
The men Stood on Each Side with their arms Rested from yf Gate
By yf Comodores To y? Barracks att y? Goverf Landing yf Cannon
fir'd from y° Batterys & from yf men of war : when the Battallian
was Dismissed there was fireing with Small arms for Two Hours
His Excellency's arrival was verry Rejoycing To us all : he
Brought with him Several of his Children I Overseed yf workmen
18 Sunday Rainny weather Last night Died W- Thomas about
10 of yf Clock Buryed after Meeting: in yf afternoone m! Wilhams
preacht from i Cor: 2: 2: his Excellency was at meeting Cap!
Tyng Came in with Two Companys of men Col- Berry Came with
him 19 monday Rainny weather John Dakin ^ Died a man Rid
yf wooden Horse with 2 muskets at his heeles
20 Fine weather I went To Overseeing
21 Fine weather I went To Overseeing Serg! Joseph Woods "
Died His Excellency went To yf Grand Battery They Saluted him
by fireing ^ A Lancaster soldier. ^ A Groton soldier.
3

34 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
22? fine weather I went To Overseeing Several Lay Dead in
yf Hospital and Thro' a mistake another Company Buryed Serg!
Woods in yf Stead of their owne man : & we Buryed their man his
Excellency went to yf Island Battery he was Salluted by fireing
23 Went To Overseeing We Bought i Quarter of Beef Exceed
ing good
24 Fine weather I went To Overseeing A Gen! muster his
Excell!^ Veiud us his Speeches made in yf Court at home Relateing
To yf Prosperity of yf army Read his Excellency gave yf army 2
hogs- Rum To Drink the Kings health
25'? Sunday Rained Exceeding hard
26'? Monday I went To Overseeing
27'.'' Tuesday: I went To Overseeing
28 Wensday I went To Overseeing
29 Thursday I went To Overseeing Cap! Warner Taken Sick
30'? Fryday I went To Overseeing I wrote home ¦$ Col? Berry
Sent Two Three Pistareene pf5 To my wife
31 Saturday I went To Overseeing
Sep': i! 1745 a Rainny Day Two Privateers went out after a
Ship that was Discoverred and Lookt upon to be a french Ship
2? monday Last night between 8 & 9 o' y? Clock Died Jon?
Lakin * in yf Hospital I Glossed his Eyes Before night Buryed
Joni" Lakin
3? Cap! Richardson Brought in a French Ship he had Taken &
Brought news of Several French men of war that was in yf offal
Six of our men went on Board the Sloop Union Cap! mayhew
Commander 4 Wendsday Fine weather Goold ^ Died Cap! Warner Exceed
ing Bad :
5 Thursday fine weather
6'? Fryday about 8 in yf morning Died Cap! Warner The
Lord Sanctify his holy hand att 5 O'the Clock we Buryed him
with a Great Deal of honour & Respect a Part of all or Cheif of
y!' Comf in yf Regiment attended yf' funer! Under arms the Soul-
^ A Groton soldier.
2 Probably a Groton soldier, and perhaps the same as Benjamin Gould, a cor
poral in Captain Smith's company, Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, mentioned
in "The New-England Historical & Genealogical Register" (XXV. 266) for
July, 1871.

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 35
diers warlk foremost with their arm in funeral Posture next yf
Drummers next yf CapS-' next y? Corp[se.] Behind walkt yf Gen
eral Col? Willard at his Left hand next all the Col"-'

I was Taken Sick yf night after yf Cap! Died & have not kept any
Journal To this Day
Thursday Nbv'i y'. 14'!' Last night Died Gideon Sanderson : ^ in
yf afternoon we Bury'd him
Fryday 15 Rain'd & Snow'd Some :
Saturday 16 in yf morning Snow'd Some
Sunday 17 fine weather the Rev? m! Williams Preacht out of
Canticles from those words I Sleep but my heart waketh it is yf
Voice of my Belov? &c in yf afternoon from Esther IV four Last
verses Monday 18 Sev! Vessels from Boston
19 Tuesday Nothing Remarkable
20 Wensday a Vessel from Boston with Several women
2 1 Thursday :
22 Fryday
23 Saturday I went into the Burying yard & there Beheld a
Malencholly Sight : Hundreds of new Graves
24"^ Sunday m! Newmon^ Preact in yf forenoone from those
words Acquaint now thy Self with him & be at peace thereby shall
good Come unto thee
in yf afternoone mf Fareweather preacht from those words O that
they were wise y! y? understood this that y^ would Considf yf Latter
end 25'? monday Sev! Vessels Came in from New England
26".' Tuesday Sev! Vessels Came in from N: England Sev!
famyly's Benj? Stearns Drunk in yf Royal Hospital
2 7 Wensday Verry Cold Some Snow Sent Benj? Stearns und!
y? main Gaurd : Last night yf Cap'!' moved To Live with me : a gen
eral Muster Governour Shirly Embarkt for N: England I headed
the Company
28 Died Corp! Jn? Crooffoot »
1 A Groton soldier.
2 John Newman (H. C. 1740), born at Gloucester, on March 14, 1716, and
ordained at Edgartown in 1748, where he died on December i, 1763.
¦< A Lancaster soldier.

36 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
29 fryday Bury'd Peter Carley & Jn? Crooffoot in One Grave
30 Saturday nothing Remarkable
Deif: I Sunday mf Newmon Preacht from those words in Job
Acquaint now thy Self with him &c
In y? afternoone from those words in Prov: fooles make a mock
at Sin
2? monday Last night John Green ^ Died in yf Royal Hospital
4 of our men went a Hunting Yesterday the Gen! told Cap-
Hubbard their was S or 6 Thousand ffrench and Indians Comeing
upon us :
3!' Ttcesday I was Tak'n Exceeding ill on yf Rampers
4'? -wensday a Snow about an inch Deep Severall Vessels
Came in
^^ Thursday Some Snow
6'? Fryday in yf morning all yf Comission Officers were Orderd
to meet at yf Admirals accordingly we met and yf Admiral made a
Speech and Exhorted us To many things Especially To Suppress all
Vice & lihorallity and See that all the men under us keep a good
Look out for he Inform'd us That yf Canadeens were in a Great
Stir : after yf Admiral had finished a Long Speech yf Gen! made a
Short One and then we Drank Every man a Glass of wine But
Before I went there I sent for Sam! Shead ' & he Told me he had
bin at Groton & Saw my wife at mf Sheples ^ and She was well and
my whole family was well which was Rejoycing news To me : But
Imediately I went To Cap! Smiths I had no Sooner Entred the
Room But he Told me he had Verry Bad news for me I asked
what it was he Show'd me a Letter which Come to One of his men
which an Ace! of yf Death of my Eldest Daughter O fatal news
pray God Sanctify his holy hand
7'? Saturday Nothing Strange
8'? Sunday Nothing new
g'!' monday Sev! Vessels Came in from N England
10'!' Tuesday Securd our Coal
1 1 Wensday I wrote home
12 John Wright * Died Nath! Smith ^ & Mathew Wyman ^ were
put under yf Grand gaurd for atempting to Cut Pickits
1 A Groton soldier.
2 This may have been John Sheple, whose brother Jonathan married Lydia
Lakin, a kinswoman and perhaps a sister of Lieutenant Bradstreet's wife.
3 A Lancaster soldier.

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 37
13'? Fryday I got a Pardon for Smith & Wyman that was Corhit-
ted yesterday in y? afternoon Buryed Wright :
14'? Saturday an Exceeding Rainny Day Joseph Trumbel Died
IS'."" Sunday Last night Died in the Royal Hospital Jn!" Rams
dell : allso JonS Fletcher of Groton : The Rev'^ m"' Preached
in yf afternoone from Dut : 30-19 a Proclamation for a Fast Read
the fast to be on Wensday yf 18'.'' Curr!
16'? monday Bury'd Jn? Ramsd'
17'!' Tuesday Last night Came a Snow about 4 Inches Deep
winter Like weather :
18'? wendsay fast Day
19'? I went to Cap! Smiths To make an Aprizal of yf Effects that
Jn? Green ^ & Jon? Fletcher ^ Died Seiz'd off in y? Afternoone Died
in yf Royal Hospital Serg! Jn? Stratton : made an Inventory of yf
Effects off Jn^' Croffoott Jnf McClentuc Peter Carley Jn? Wright
Gideon Sanderson & Joseph Trumbel & Jnf Ramsdell
20'!" Fryday Ten men of our Comp? inlisted to go a wooding
21 Saturday Last night Came a Snow about Two Inches : Mf
Speer ^ yf Chaplain of yf Island Battery was Buryed
22? Sunday the Rev? mf Newmon Preacht from Luk 2 : 10 : 11 :
23? Monday Last night Died in yf Royal Hospital Jonf Shead '
of Groton : a Verry Stormy night of Snow
24'!? Died in yf Royal Hospital Aaron Boynton : ^
25'? Chirstmas Died in the Royal Hospital Serg! Ws Holdin *
in yf after noone Buryed Aaron Boynton
26 Thursday I Din'd at mf Crafts paid nine Shillings for my
Dinner &c Two of our men ord'^ in yf Hospital '^ Gen!
27'!" Fryday Dind at Crafts p? 8 Shillings for my Dinner
Phinehas Parker^ Died
28'.'' Saturday Din'd at L! Fries a verry Cold Day
1 A Groton soldier.
2 Samuel Spear (H. C. 1715), born at Braintree, on July 6, i6g6.
^ Jonathan Shead (or Shedd) was a kinsman of Samuel Shead, who brought
news from home concerning Lieutenant Bradstreet's family, as mentioned on
the preceding page.
* Without doubt William Holden and Phinehas Parker were Groton soldiers.
According to " The New-England Historical & Genealogical Register " (XXV.
266) for July, 1871, Holden was a sergeant, and Parker a corporal, in Captain
Smith's company. Ninth Massachusetts Regiment.

38 Dudley Bradstreet's Diary
29'^ Sunday the Rev? mf Bacchus ^ Preacht from Deut : 30 :
& 19'!?
30*!? monday Died in yf Royal Hospital George Norcross ^
31 Tuesday I mounted gaurd at yf Cittydal : a Stormy Snowy
Day & Exceeding Cold
Jan'- first Wensday an Exceeding Cold Day and verry Boisto-
rous much Damage acrew'd to yf Shipping in yf harbour Last night
by Reason of yf Storm allso many windows in yf Citty Distroy'd
by yf wind
2? Thursday nothing Remarkable
3? Fryday Cold Died in yf Royal Hospital Rowland Black
mir & Jacob Proctor
3? made an aprizal of yf Effects of Serg! Stratton George Nor
cross & Aaron Boynton
4'^ Saturday I went To Cap! Hubbards to make an apprizal of
yf Effects of Seven Dead men about Sun Set Bury'd Rowland
Blackmir & Jacob Proctor in one grave Eighteen Bury'd this Day
5* Sunday Clowdy Snowy misty weathi M^ Newman Preacht
from Genesis 19 Chap 15 16 & 17 verses
6 monday pleasent weathef Last night Came in a man and
Informs us that he was on his passage from London to this place
and was Cast away Last fryday was Seven nights at Scattaree [island]
about Four Leagues to Eastward of Louisbourg & all the men Lost
Save five which were washt on Shoar on the Quart! Deck and Three
' Days before Christmas they Parted with Sev! Sail Bound for this
place this Day a Comp? of men Sent To the Rack [wreck] :
7 Tuesday One Returnd that went yesterday To the Rack and
Informs [ ] that they had found Two men [ j French
house verry much froz and the other Two it is thot are dead they
Found at yf Rack many [ ]les of Broad Cloaths and Silks [ ]
other English goods there was [ ]teen Drownd This Day I
[mou]nted gaurd
[8 JVed]nsday Exceeding Cold and Slippery
[9] Thursday Nothing Remarkable
[10] Fryday I Bought a pig that weigh'd an 100 lb which Cost
me Ten Dollars which is 50/ Sterling
1 Simon Backus (Y. C. 1724), minister of Newington, Conn. During the
winter after his arrival at Louisburg, he fell a victim to the prevailing sickness
of the army, and died on February 2, 1745-6, aged 45 years.

Dudley Bradstreet's Diary 39
[11]'.'' Saturday not any Thing Remarkable
12"' Sunday a Verry Cold Day
13"? monday I mounted Gaurd
14 Tuesday I attended yf Court martial for yf Tryal of
He[ ] Burchwood a private Centinel for Refusing to go on Duty
when Ordered we Ordered the Prisoner Receive Ten L[ashes] on
his Bare Back at the whipping post on yf Publick pl[ace] in Louis
bourg 15 wensday the man whip[ped] that was Tryed yesterd[ay]
le"" Thursday Cold weath[er]
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DIARY KEPT BY
SERGEANT DAVID HOLDEN,
OF GROTON, MASS.,
DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE FRENCH AND
INDIAN WAR,
February 20 — November 29, 1760.

First printed in the
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
June 13, 1889.

David Holden^ s Diary

DAVID HOLDEN, the writer, was the First Sergeant in
Captain Leonard Whiting's company. He was a son
of John and Sarah (Davis) Holden, and born at Groton, on
December lo, 1738. His family, in both its branches, had
suffered much from Indian warfare. His grandfather, Stephen
Holden, with his " two biggest sons," — one of them David's
father, — was taken by the Indians during the summer of 1697,
and held in captivity for nearly two years ; and his mother was
a niece of John Davis, who was killed by the Indians, in his
own door-yard, on October 25, 1704. The site of this tragedy
is in the neighborhood of the Groton School.
On July 13,1761, David was married to Sarah, daughter of the
Reverend Phinehas and Sarah (Stevens) Hemenway, of Town-
send, who was born on October 25, 1739. There is a tradition
in the family that the first time he ever saw his wife was while
drilling a squad of men at Groton for the campaign of 1760.
After his return from the army he lived during some years at
Townsend, where most of his children were born. At the
outbreak of the Revolution his sympathies were with the
Crown ; and so strong was the feeling in his neighborhood
at that period against the tories, that he was obliged to leave
his home, when he took up his abode in Hollis, New Hamp
shire. His military service had laid the foundation for a
loyalty to the King which did not swerve even at the cost
of his personal popularity.
Captain Whiting, the commander of Sergeant Holden's com
pany, was a native of Billerica, where he was born on March

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27, 1734; but at the time of this campaign he was living at
Westford. The company was recruited from Middlesex
County, largely from Littleton, Westford, Billerica, and
Dunstable; and the muster roll is still preserved among
the Massachusetts Archives (XCVIIL) at the State House,
in the volume marked "Muster Rolls, 1760-1761 " (VIH.
313-315)- During the Revolution Captain Whiting was a
resident of Hollis, and he, too, was a tory. An account of
his adventures with some patriotic women of the neighbor
hood is given in Caleb Butler's History of Groton (pages
336, 337)-
Mr. Holden died at Hollis, on August 8, 1803, aged 64
years, and his widow at the same place, on April 7, 1830,
aged 90 years. He left a " Register " of his children, hand
somely written by himself and framed, which is now in the
possession of a great-grandson, William H. Bunton, of
Boston. His children were as follows : — ¦
David, born June 28, 1763, died July 12, 1763 ; Sarah, born De
cember 17, 1764, married Lieutenant Benjamin Cummings, of Brook
line, N. H., July 20, 1786, as his second wife, and died in the year
1835 ; Betsey, born September 18, 1766, married David Hale, June
3, 1787, and died November 18, 1842 ; David, born July 31, 1769,
married Bridget Atwell, January i, 1789, and died October 13,
1823; Phineas Hemenway, born May 8, 1772, married Betsey
Jewett, January 31, 1799, and died January 29, 1856 ; Lavinia, born
June 30, 1774, married Andrew Bunton, of Pembroke, N. H., March
13, 1800, and died November 17, 1836 ; Artemas, born September
13, 1776, lived in Lowell, and died August 8, 1863 ; Sylvanus, born
April 3, 1779, and lost at sea, February 5, 181 1 ; and Joshua, born
April 3, 1781, lived in Boston, and died December 17, 1852.
After the death of Sergeant David Holden, the Diary
passed into the hands of a son, Phinehas Hemenway Holden,
who left it to a daughter Mary, wife of Dexter Greenwood,
of Hollis, by whom it was given, perhaps thirty-five years
ago, to her cousin, Dr. Sylvanus Bunton (son of Andrew and
Lavinia) ; and after Dr. Bunton's death the book came into

David Holden's Diary 45
the possession of his son, Henry Sylvanus Bunton, who has
since given it to the Massachusetts Historical Society.
According to an advertisement in " The Boston Weekly
News-Letter," July 3, 1760, forty-one companies had been
mustered into the service of the Province during the cam
paign of 1760, up to July I, either at Worcester by Com
missary Anthony Wheelock, or at Springfield by Ensign
Campbell, and then marched westward from those towns.
The Diary consists of 64 pages of a small blank-book, writ
ten in a legible hand ; and 104 remaining pages are filled with
the ordinary notes, usually found in a memorandum book,
and extending through a period of twelve years. From these
entries it appears that Sergeant Holden was a farmer and a
cooper; and occasionally he let his horse or his cart and oxen
to some of his neighbors to do work. In July, 1765, he has a
charge of one pound for a " Pigg " against Archibald Mcin
tosh, who ten years later was taken prisoner at the Battle of
Bunker Hill, and who died in Boston jail. On September 2,
1765, he carts a " Load of Cole from the Battrey ^ to Tarbells
mills," whichwere situated in Squannacook Village, now West
Groton. In January, 1772, he opens an account with Henry
Price, the first Provincial Grand Master of Masons in New
England and North America, and he sells him some turnips
and does some " hooping " for him. There is also given " A
List of the Schoolars in yf year 1772," at Townsend, which
then had a population not far from 750 inhabitants. The list
is as follows : —
Isaac Kidder David Patt
Lucy Kidder Joshua Smith
John Kidder Benj:" Ball
Jon? Patt Rachel Ball 10
James Patt Rebeca Proctor
Sybel Patt Rachel Proctor
1 The neighborhood of Battery Hill in the western part of Townsend, near
the Ashby line. The hill was so called from a garrison house, which once stood
near its base.

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David Holden's Diary

Nathan Conant
Jeremiah Ball
James Ball
Molly Ball
Betty Ball
Isaac Proctor
Elisabeth Proctor
Jacob Baldwin
Rachel Read
Patty Read
Levi Read
Howard Read
Joel Read
Benjf Read
Jon? WaUis
Suse Wallis
Sybel Wallis
Isaac Wallis
John Stevens
Sam'.' Stevens

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W2 Stevens
Molly Stevens
Abel Gillson
Daniel Gillson
Henry Turner
Benj? Abbot
Polly Price
Sam'.' Wyman
Anna Wyman
Huldy Wyman
Uzziah Wyman
Polly Holdin
Sally Holdin
Betey Holdin
Ruth Baldwin
John Bauldwin
Jonas Baldwin
Joseph Willson
Jn° Willson
Sarah Willson

40

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In connection with this Diary, see one kept by Lemuel
Wood during the same campaign, and printed in the Essex
Institute Historical Collections (Vols. XIX.-XXI.) ; and also
another by Samuel Jenks, in the Proceedings (second series,
V. 352-392) of the Massachusetts Historical Society for
March, 1890.

Diary

DAVID HOLDIN,S
BOOK BOUGHT
AT BOSTON
APRIEL Y? x^-J 1760
PRICE 14/
David Holdin his Booke If I it Loose and you it find, Restore it
me for it is viine 1760 A Jurnal
of What* was Transacted In the Expedition For the Total Reduction
of Canada In the Year. A : D. 1760
On Thursday Febuary y 20'!" 1760 I David Holdin Inlisted with
Cap' Leonard Whiting In the Expedition for the Total Reduction of
Canada March y lo'!" Past Muster Before Colonel John Bulkley ^ at Groton
A Jurnal of what was Transacted in the Expedition For the
Total Reduction of Canada In the Year A : D : 1 760
On Thursday Feb: 20'!" 1760 I David Holdin Inhsted with Cap'
Leonard Whiting in the Expedition For the Total Reduction of
Canada March y lo"" Past muster Before Lieu! Colo : John Bulkley @
Groton Apriel y 16'."^ Orders Came from Capt. Whiting that I should
warn all the men that I had Inlisted, and March them to Harvord
1 Colonel Bulkley was a prominent inhabitant of Groton, who died on
December 3, 177;, aged 69 years.

48 David Holden's Diary
the Next Thursday where I should Joyn his Company on their
march to Worcester
On Thu7-sday Apriel y 24 1760 I Sat out from Groton & marched
With the men to Harvord To Capt Samuel Harskels where we met
with Cap! Whitings Company, Here we tarried all Night
25 We marched with 82 men to Cap! Curtices in Worcester
Where we Tarried all Night
26 We was all Billited out at Worcester tho at Sundry Places.
I with my Party was Billeted at John Curtices about Two miles from
the Town.
Sunday 27 & 28* Companys Kept Coming in & Some Going out
29 Orders Came that Cap! Whitings Company was to Muster
Tomorrow morning at 8 o Clock
30 Cap! Whiting Marched to Worcester Town with 85 men offi
cers Included out of which 75 Past muster & Ten only was Rejected.
We Musterd Before Anthony Whelock a Regular officer
may y i. & 2!' Companys Coming in & marching out Towards
Albany 3 A Create Commotion among the officers Some they Estab
lished Some they Ground & Sent Home Took their men and Put
them under other officers Sonie they Sent Home Recruting till the
20 of may.
Orders Came that Cap! Whitings Company Should Be in Redi-
ness to march the Next morning accordingly the Cap! payed of all
his Company their Billiting & ordred them to Prepair for their
march the Next morning
Sunday May -f 4* Cap! Whiting Sat out for Westford and Leiu!
[Nathaniel] Comings took the Command of the Company with Leiu!
[Joseph] Boynton. Took a Teem to Carry our Baggage & Provis
ions and Be Gan our march with 74 men officers Included & Come
about five miles & half To Lanlord Serjeants in Lester where we
went to Dinner & afterwards marched about Ten miles to Lanlord
Woolcuts in Brookfield where we tarried all Night.
5 We marched about [12] miles to Lanlord Shaws in Palmore
& tarried all Night. This Day Some of Cap! Hutchins,s Company
abused a woman & a young Child wounding both the woman &
the Child.
6 We Marched about [9] miles To Landlord Persons on Spring
field Plain where we tarried all Night & a woman belonging to Cap!

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Hutchings,s Company was Brought a bed with a Statly Soldier for
the king
7 We marched to Springfield by 8 o Clock in the morning which
was about Six miles. Here we tarried all Day Cap! Whiting Came
up to us.
Four of Cap! Hutchings,s men was put in prison for abuseing
the people by the way
8 Past muster this morning before Leiu' Campbell, Drew Seven
Days Provision Took a Team to Carry our Baggage in and Marched
about [io] miles to Lanlord Cap! Claps in Westfield where we
tarried all Night
Here we Left Jonas Butterfield [of Dunstable] Lame at the wid-
dow Ingolsons under the Care of Df Clapum
9 We Marched 4 miles & half to the foot of the mount of Glas
gow [Blandford], where our Team left us & we was obliged to
Carry our Packs on our Backs to Shuffield, So we marched Seven
miles to Landlord Pees,s in Glasgow where we tarried all Night.
here we Left Freeborn Raimond & Thomas Hildreth [both of
Westford] Sick.
10 Marched Through the Green- Woods to Ns one [Tyringham]
to M! Jakson which was about 20 miles & tarried all Night.
II Sunday We Sat out & Came 10 miles to Landlord Burgats
in Shuffield & tarried this Night where Cap! Hutchins,s Company
Tarried 12 Was Detained till afternoon Before we Could Empress
waggons to Carry our Baggage after which we Sat out with Cap'.
[Thomas] Bemans Company and Came about Eleven miles to
Landlord Lovejoys where we Tarried all Night.
13 We marched about [15] miles To Landlord Folhcumburrers
in Kinderhook where we Left Benj5 Pollard [of Westford,] Sick
with the Chiken Pox & Abraham Taylor & Caleb Hustone [both of
Westford] to take Care of hira Cap! Hammonts Company Came
up & tarried with us.
14 It being a wet wet Day Did not march till 12 o'Clock Then
Sat out & Came about 10 miles to the Half way House Where Capt
Whitings & Cap! Hamments Companys Tarried all Night. My self
& Two others Sat out for Greenbush in order to Git Quarters for
our Company & Came about Seven miles & tarried at a Dutch
Tavorn. 4

50 David Holden's Diary
15 We Came in to Greenbush & Provided a Place, & Barn for
our Company about 3 miles Below the City of Albany about one
o'clock our Company Came in here we tarried all Night
16 Orders Came that we should March up the River to Colo:
Ransleys accordingly we Did & there was about 600 men all as
sembled of the Massachusetts Troops whereupon a Detachment
was sent to Half moon Consisting of one Leiu! Two Serjeants 30
men of which 5 went out of our Company, viz. Leiu! Cumings took
the Command of the party Serj- [Peter] Procter Josiah Procter
[both of Littleton] Samuel Fassetts [of Westford] Andrew Farmer
[of Billerica].
After which we was Ferried over the River to Albany Drew Two
Days Provisions Took 79 Battoes Loaded them with 20 Barrills
provisions in each Boat with Seven Hands on Board of each &
Sat Sail with a fair wind up the River & Came about Six miles to
Cap! Vanornoms where we Landed & tarried all all Night & it was
very wet
17 We Sat Sail in the morning & Came up the River about 9 miles
& Encamped it Being a wet Night.
18 Sunday We Sat out & Came up very Bad Falls about Two
miles and- half to the Head of the falls where we was obliged to
wade up all the falls & Draw the Battoes here we Encampt, it Being
a wet Night.
19 We Sat Sail & Came about one mile & half where we unloded
our Boats & tarried Cheif of the Day. Towards Night we Hoisted
Sail & Sat out with a fair Wind & Came down to Half moon in an
hour & half This was 9 miles here we Drew a days allowance &
tarried all Night, here we left Simeon Cumings [of Dunstable]
y" Leiu!
20 This was a wet morning We Stowed 40 men in a Boat & Came
down to albany & Drew 4 Days Provisions.
Was ordred to Load other Boats & Go another Trip up the River
with Provisions accordingly we did & came up about a mile above
the City & Encamped. Abraham Taylor Benjamin Pollard & Caleb
Hustone Came up to us, that we Left At Kinderhook. also Samuel
Hawood [of Billerica] & Timothy Twist [of Woburn] that we Left
at Worcester.
21 We Sat Sail & Came about a mile above the fort at Half moon
& Encamped

David Holden's Diary 5 i
22 We Came up the falls and Encamped.
23 Sat out & came to the Landing Place unloaded our Boats
Came Down to half moon & tarried all Night
24 Here we Left all our Boats only Just enough to Carry the men
in, & Sat out Came down to albany where we Landed Below the
Town & was forbid going into the City by Reason of the Small Pox.
orders Came that the massachusetts Troops Should march, accord
ingly 10 Companys Marched upon the Hill above the City, Con
taining 564 men officers Included where Three other companys
of the same Coar was already Encampt. Here we Drew our Tents
& pitched them in order a man of the Second Battallion Royal
Hiland Regiment Rec? 999 Lashes for Leaving his Poast when on
Sentry 25 Sunday A Detachment of 100 men was Sent out into the
woods to Look up Kings oxen, Seven Sloop Loads of men arived
here of the New York Rhod Island & Jersey Troops, A party of
about 30 men were Sent to Crown Point under the command of
Lieu' Clark two of which Belong,d to our Company, viz. David
Kemp [of Groton] & John Heald [of Townsend] Jonas Butterfield
[of Dunstable] that we Left Lame at westfield Came up to us A
Detachment of men was orderd to look up oxen But it Being a wet
Day they Did not Go
26 Drew Six Days Provision, Serj! Craggitt [Cragin, of Acton] of
Cap! Ws Barrens Company was taken Sick with the Small Pox
2 7 The SerjJ was Carried into the Hospide. Orders Came that
Cap! [Daniel] MS'falings & Cap! [John] Clapums Companys Should
March with a Detachment out of each of the Remaining Companys
To Fort Miller & Saratoga (12 of which went out of Cap! Whiting
Company) Under the Command of Major Hawks viz. David Trull
[of Littleton], Jonathan Hartwel, Joseph Hartwell [of Westford],
Benjf worster [of Littleton], Thompson Maxwell [of Bedford],
Timothy Priest [of Lincoln], Benj- Allen [of Lincoln], Jon* Peirce
[of Woburn], George Hiber [of Littleton], John Robinson [of Dun
stable], John Walker [of Lincoln], & Jon? Lawrence [of Littleton]
They ware all Paraded after which they was all Dismisst and ordred
to appear upon the Parade tomorrow morning at Day Brake.
28 General Election at Boston The men that was Detacht yes
terday Marched off about 250 of them, a Detachment were sent out
after oxen The officers Drew Lots to see which of them should go

52 David Holden's Diary •
down the Country to Look for Disarters & it fell to Cap! Whiting &
L! King & they sat out This was a Showrey Day
29 Nothing Remarkable.
30 Cap! [Thomas] Ferringtons^ & Cap! Jinks Marched with
their Companys & a Detachment out of the Remaining Company in
Camp, Some ware Sent back after they had Sat out a Corprol & 4
men went out of our Company viz. Corp! Benj? Baulding [Baldwin,
of Billerica], Joseph Pollard [of Westford], Jona'? Pollard Ephraim
Johnson David Rumrill & Ephraim Johson — Freeborn Raimond
& Thomas Hildreth Came up here that we Left Sick at Glasgow
[Blandford]. Took 4 Days Provissions
31 Orders that all the massachusetts Troops Should be Draw,d
up at the Head of their En-Campment at 4 o'Clock this evening. &
at 5 o'clock his Exelency General Amhurst with a Number of other
officers Came to View us after which we ware all Dismisst.
A Return of all the fire arms was made that Belonged to to the
Massachusetts Troops & amonition was Drawn
Sunday if jFune a man Belonging to Cap! Martins Company
Receiv'd 50 Lashes for Not Doing his Duty orders that 300 of the
Rhode Island Troops March up the River this afternoon, & that all
the Massachusetts Troops Now Encampt Should Strike their Tents
tomorrow morning at Day Brake. & that the Regment of 1000
should be allowed Provision or the four Pence,s in Leu of it for
four Women ^ Company and those of 700 for Three Women ^
Company A Weekly Return was made our Company at this time
was Reduced to 48 men officers Included.
2 Struck our tents & Sat out for Fort Edward, took one Battoe
to a Company to Carry the Tents & officers baggage & Camp aeque-
page & Came up as far as Half moon & Encamp!
3 We Took Battoes to Compleat the Whole with 7 men to a
Boat with Provision Corn.& hay & Came up as far as the foot of the
falls below Still water unloaded our Boats & Encampt.
4 Sat out & Came up Two pair of Falls & then arived at Still
water where we Loaded our boats with 30 Barrils of flower. Or 25
of Pork Pees or Rice, this was a very Rainy Day & a tedious time
we had of it & the men Cheifly tarried here all Night But I with my
1 Captain Thomas Farrington commanded a Groton company, of which a
"Returrt of Men" is given in the Appendix (pp. 117-119).

David Holden's Diary 53
Boats Crew Came about 5 miles farther to the great fly so called
& encampt.
5 We Sat out & Came as far as the falls above Saratoga, this was
a very Tedious Rainy time & we Encampt
6 This also was a wet Day unloaded part of the Boats & took
them up the falls Carried the provisions in waggons one mile &
half 7 It Still Remains Wet Unloaded the Remainder of the Bat
toes & took them up the falls & Encamp!
8 Sunday Dull Lowrey Still hangs over our heads. Loaded our
boats & came up Two miles & half to the Carring place opisite Fort
miller where we unloaded the Battoes Drew them out put them on
wagon & Carried them half a mile by land & the provisions, &
Lanjt them into the River again. Cap! Whiting Came up to us
this Day.
here we Left Freeborn Raimond in the Room of Jonathan
pollard. 9 Loaded our Battoes as Usual And Sat out for fort Edward & on
the way we meet a Number of the Hiland Troops Coming Down the
River in Battoes who was a going to Joyn General Amhurst arived
at Fort Edward & unloaded our Battoes & Encampt. Lieu! James
Conch was Broke & Sent Home. Several Shours this Day Here
we Left Moses Shattuck [of Littleton].
\_One leaf of the Diary here missing.]
16 Sat Sail & Came to Crown Point Fort where we Landed &
Pitched our tents. Had Intillegence of Major Roggers,s '^ Fight
within about 50 miles of S! Johns Where they had a very warm En
gagement a party of about 5 or 600 of the Enemy fell upon 300 of
our Rangers & Proventials fought them for Considrable Time &
Killed Nine of our men on the Spott Sz: wounded 13 more 10 of
which Died soon after Cap! Noah Johnson was Killed at the Same
Time. Tis thought they Killed a Large number of the Enemy but
Never Could find out how many for they being so Numerious they
Carried off their Dead. John Heald & David Keemp Joyn,d our
1 Major Robert Rogers, an officer of the French and Indian War, who com
manded a famous body of troops known as the Rogers Rangers. He was a
native of Dunbarton, N. H., where he was born about the year 1730, and died
in England about 1800, after a life of singular adventures and vicissitudes.

54 David Holden's Diary
Company again that was Sent from albany the 25 of June [May]
Last. We had Several very Smart Thunder Showers here this Day.
17 Four of Cap! Ferringtons men Joyn,d our Company viz
David Sawtell Jonathan Holdin Nath!-' Green & Ephraim Keemp
[all of Groton].
Likewise Peletiah Whittemore [of Dunstable] & henry Foster [of
Billerica] that we Left at Green bush Sick Came up to us Detach
ments of men for Fatigue till there was Scersly a man Left in Camp.
A Number of Rhode Island Troops arived & Encampt here
18 A Small Light was Discoverd on the other Side of the Lake
Just Before Sun Sit Whereupon Maj£ Skeen, Cap! Brewer, & Cap!
James Roggers of the Rangers with about 30 men went out in Two
Battoes & one whale Boat on the Discovery & was gone all Night.
Cap! Hutchins of the Proventials also went out
19 This morning the Party Came in. Brought in Two English
Prisoners that was Taken Last Winter who Ran away from the
Indeans & Built a Light that they might be Discovred By the
Garrison. This Day Cap! Foot Came in with about 116 other Prisoners in
the Brigg with a Flagg of Truce from the french who Give account
that y? French are So Short of provision they Could Keep them no
Longer Two Companys of the Massachusets Troops arived here.
viz. Cap! Wintsworths & Cap! Jaksons.
20 An Express went to Ticonderoga a Small Party of men went
Down the Lake with Major Skeen
21 Wet Day Cap! Whiting Inlisted Carpenters to work in the
Fort Capt Jeffords Company arived here
22 Sunday. Nothing Remarkable
23 This was a wet Day, Major Roggers arived here from his
Scout at Saint Johns, Brought in 25 Prisoners
24 A man of the massachusetts Received 100 Lashes for his
Insolent Language to his Ensign the Cremonal,s Name was John
Bunker [of York].
25 A Party was Sent Down the Lake to Bring in the Remainder
of the Prisoners Five Companys of the Massechusetts Troops arived
here 26 Orders that a Party Should be Sent Down to putnums Point
for Cutdng Timber
27 Colo : [Joseph] IngersoU Major [Caleb] Willard 3 Cap'.^ 9

David Holden's Diary 55
Subs. 9 Serj'-' & 300 of the Massechusetts Troops Embarkt for Put
nums Point, a Return of the Gunners was made, a Rany Day.
28 Cap! JonaSjS Company with a Detachment from the massa
chusetts & Rhode Islanders was ordred away as Gunners & marcht
Down to the water side & Encampt
29 Sunday. The Three Whale Boats Came in that went Down
the Lake after y'r Prisoners.
30 A Command Consisting of one Cap! Two Subs Four Serj'.' &
a 100 proventials To proceed to the Saw mills with 16 Battoes for
provisions in 8 of them & 8 to be Loaded with Boards. Two men
Carried out of Camp Sick with the small Pox.
if July. A party Consisting of Two Subs Four Noncomision,d
officers and 58 Proventials, were order,d Down the Lake to Releive
the Same Number of Regulers on Board the Sloops. Leonard But
terfield & Jonas Butterfield [both of Dunstable] went out of Cap!
Whitings Company
21 Orders that No Sutler Should [sell] any Liquor after gun
Fire. Ensign Emerson Willcutt & [Joseph] Hatfield [both of Brook-
field], Joyn'? Cap! Whitings Company.
3 Cap! Silas Brown with a 100 men were Sent up to Joyne Colo
Ingersol at Putnums Point.
George Morris of the market & the Ranging Sutler had their
Liquor Stove for Disobeying orders, orders that the Sutler of the
Rangers & George Morris of the market that had their Liquor Stove
this Day. To Quit Crown Point Emediately. if they hereafter are
found in the Camp or in any Post Between this 8: Albany they will be
whipt & Drum,d out a very Smart Thunder Shower this Evening
4 One of Cap! Baileys men was Carried out of Camp with the
Small Pox Brigadier Ruggles arived here this Day. Peter Jones
[of Boston] of Cap! Martins Company Receid 50 Lashes for Re
fusing to Do his Duty & for Insolent Language Confin,'' By Capt.
Abiel Peirce
5 A Bark Conoe was Brought in with 6 Indians, & Said they
Came from General Johnson across the Woods from Oswego. & had
a french Sculp
6 Sunday. Sent the 6 Indians in a Battoe with a Serj'- & 7 men
to the Landing Place at Ticonderoga
7 A Party Consisting of i Cap! 2 Subs 4 Serj'.' & 100 men of
the Proventials ware Sent up to the Saw mills with 16 Battoes for

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Provisions and to Return again as soon as Possable This was a
very hot Day
8 This morning about Sun Rise a Party of the Rangers Being
at work was fir,d upon by the Enemy & in y! Scurmage i man was
Killed & Six wounded it Lasted about half an hour Major Roggers
with a Party of the Rangers & Light Infantry went in persuite after
them. Being Regimented Cap' Whitings Company Comes into the
2I Battallion in Brigadier [Timothy] Ruggles,s Reg! Com'? by Lieu!
Colo : IngersoU mov'! & pitcht our tents in Regimental order
9 Major Roggers Came in with the Party But Could find Nothing
of Nor any Sines of them.
10 one of the Proventials Receiv,d 100 Lashes for neglect of
Duty. II A man Rec"! 50 Lashes for Using the word to one of his
Sergeants Dam ye to hell & wishing him there
12 A man of -y". Massachusetts Troops Rec"! 500 Lashes for
Inlisting twice & Disarting after wards
13 Sunday. One of the Regulars was Confin, d to our Quarter
Guard by one of the Provential officers for his Misbehavour to him
& passing the Sentry with out order, where upon Emediately A
mobb was Rais,"* By the Regulers & Came to Repleive the Prisioner
at the Guard house & Knockt Down the Sentrees at the Guard house
Dore & Let out y" prisner Whereupon Emediately the Piquet was
all RaiSjd & persued them & fird Two guns upon them took some
prisoners the Rhode Islanders Caught the prisner
14 This morning 4 of Cap! Jenks,s men Confin,d by their Cap!
for forging orders against him & 111 Treatment was Brought to the
Post one Rec'! 250 Lashes one 150, one 50 the other was Sat free
by the Brigadier
15 An Exceeding Dry Time for -y". Season one of yi Regulars was
flog,d for Striking one of the Proventials at y'r Spring and Braking
Two of his Ribs
16 Nothing Remarkable Happen, d this Day, The Train Threw
Several Bumbs to P[r]actise at a mark
17 A Dull Time for Nues in Camp
18 A very Smart Thunder shower was Draw,d up & after Role
Calling Had Prairs of one of y*: Provential Chaplins which was y".
first Prairs We have had Since we Came in Camp
19 Major Hawks,s Party arived here 12 of which Joynd Cap'
Whitings Company that was Draughted from it at albany

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20 Sunday Began to Do Serj' Majors Duty
21 The Brigg & Sloop Came in from Ticonderoga
22 150 men Were Sent to Ticonderoga in Battoes for Provisions,
Came Back this Evening.
23 A Boat Came in from y? Sloops.
24 A Rainy Day. Two sloops Came in from y? advance Guard.
Cap! Hutchings arived here from Gen! araherst & Joyn,'' the
Rangers. 25 A Detachraent of 400 Regulers, Proventials & Rangers Ex
cluding officers wers Sent to the Saw Mill in Battoes for Provisions
26 A Rainy Day.
27 Sunday. Had Preaching.
28 No Extroydonaries Hapend this Day
29 A Command of about 80 Proventials & 40 Rhode Islanders
Excluding officers were Sent Towards N? 4 With 2 Days Provisions
in order to meet y? N: Hampshir Reg! who By Intilligence of Two
men that Came from them & ariv,'' here Last Night was Like to
Suffer for want of Provision.
30 A party of one Serj! & 24 men were Sent to Ticonderoga for
Sheep 31 The Party Came in with y? N Hampshir Reg! & Encamp'
Near the Grenadiers Encampment
Aug^. yf I Very wet in yf morning, orders that all the Boats to
be Delivered to the respective Reg'.' of Regulers, as well as Proven
tials in order to Examin the Sarae & fitt them Better if Possable,
Notwithstanding no orders yet ariv,d Determining the Time of Era-
barcation, therefore the following Detachment was orderd out to fit
& Secure them, viz. 6 Cap'? 19 Subs, 52 Serj'f & 523 men from all
the Corps L! W- Holdin arived here
A follower of the army Rec'! looo Lashes^ for Stealing & was
Drum*! out of Camp with a Halter about his Neck & his Crime wrote
& Pind upon his Brest & So Sent to Albany.
2 A Detachment Consisting of 1 Cap! 3 Subs, 5 Serj'f & iii Sea
men of the Massachusetts & Rhode Islanders to Embark on Board
his Majestys Brigg the Duke Cumberland.
3 Sunday A party Consisting of 200 raen Excluding officers
1 This number seems incredible, but the figures are perfectly plain. See
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went with Maj! Burk over to yf other Side yf Lake to Cutting Tim
ber Yf New Hampshire Reg! Past muster Before L! Small
4 Peter Linsey [of Boston] of Cap! martins Company Rec"! 250
Lashes for making an atemp'' to Disart Rich"! Gattoway ^ [of Bos
ton] of yf afores'! Company Rec'! 40 Lashes for making a Disturbance
in M.'. Hubby,s Markee & using y'= Adjeant with Insolent Language
one of Cap! Harts men Rec'i 20 lashes for Refusing to go on
Duty when orderd by his Serj!
5 A Detachment of 100 men was Sent to falhng trees towards the
Block Houses with Major Hawks a man Carried out of Camp with
y'! Small Pox.
6 An Express Came in from Generel Amherst to Colonel Haver-
land, also money to Pay of the Soldiers Part of their Wages.
7 Making Ready as fast as Possable for an Embarcation in order
for a Trial at Isle au Noix or S! Johns
8 Orders that the army Should hold them Selves in Rediness for
an Embarcation at the Shortest Notice. Maj' Burks Party Came ih,
& Colo : Ingersols from Putnams Point. 3 Indians Seen on the
other Side the Lake
9 Several Detachments was orderd out this Day. 40 men of
the Massachusetts Joynd the artillery. Was in the greatest Prepa
ration for an Embarcation
10 Sunday. Rich"! Galloway of Cap! Martins Company Rec'i 900
Lashes for fighting Striking & threatning officers & for abusefull Lan
guage to them &c. The Recrutes Came in viz Colo : Whitcombes
Reg! from yf Massachusetts An Express Came in from the Brigg.
Orders that the army Should Strike their Tents Tomorrow morning
& Embark in order to pass Lake Champlain, also how they Shoufd
Proceed, & in what form they Should Go & in what Posicion they
Should form to Land.
II Loaded our boats with 5 Barrills of flower & 3 of Pork, &
upon yf Sygnal of a Gun from the artillery Park the General Beat,
upon which the army Struck their Tents & put them on board their
Battoes, & upon the Sygnal of a Second Gun, the army assembled &
march,d Down to their boats & Embarkt But Not put off from y'.
Shore And the Sygnal was made on board the Leginear Rideau
[Radeau] upon which the Array Sat Sail But with a Contarary wind
The Number of Vessals and Boats the fleet Consisted of is as fol-
1 See entry under August 10, where the name is written Galloway.

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lows viz. One Brigenteen 4 Sloops, 3 Rideaus [Radeaux], 3 Prows,
2 Large Boats, 263 Batteaus Large & Small, 41 Whale Boats, 12
Canoes & Proceeded about Six miles & Landed on the west Shore,
advancd a Piquet according to former order & Encamp!
12 Embarkt in yf morning Sat Sail with a Contarary wind &
Came about 8 miles & Came too in Butten mole [Button Mould]
Bay & Encampt on yf Shore
13 This morning a Councill was held upon Cap! Shores & he
was Broke & Sent Back to Crown Point for his miss Conduct in
times Past, altho the Sentence was Past upon him Before, yet it
was not Reveald to him till now
Sat Sail But the wind Still holdes very Conterary & we Came
about 10 miles & Encampt Near Legenier [Ligonier] Bay Harbour
on the west Side the Lake
14 We Sat Sail with a very fair wind But Stormy & very Ruff
wether & Ariv,'' at Schyler Island which Days Sail was about 30 odd
miles & on our Voyage this Day one man was Drownded another
axedentally Shott himself & tis to be feard very Mortally wounded.
had further Intillegence of Several Boats Being Cast away And
the men Lost Some of which Belonged to yf Rangers
15 The wind Still Holds fair but not So Boistrious as Yesterday.
Yet Several Boats was Cast away & Some Stove on the Shore we
Came about 35 miles &. Encampt on Isle La : Motte. Orders Came
how the army Should Proceed & in what form they Should go and
how they Should form to Land, and above all it is highly Recom
mended that we Should pay no Regard to Popping Shotts from yf
Shore & that no man Should fire out of any Boate also it is Recom
mended that Nothing be Done in a Hurrey which will Prevent
Confusion Clean"? our fire Locks, & Compleated yf men with
ammunission 16'?* About 3 o'clock this morning we all Embarkt & Sat Sail for
Isle au Noix which was about 10 miles & Came & Landed on the
Est Shore about i o'Clock within about 2 miles of the Fort without
any greate matter of mollistation The french fired Several Shotts at
our Rideau [Radeau] & Sloops & our People fir"? Some at them We
Encampt & made a Brest worke, half yf men up &c yf other to Lay
on their arms this Night, we hove Several Bumbs in the night.
17 Sunday. Pritty Calm this morning about firing. About 8
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Artillery Rideau, Bore away Towards the fort whose orders was to
go on till fir,d upon, accordingly he Did & By a Six Pounder had
Both his Legs Shott off after which yf Cap' soon Died, 5 more
wounded, one of which had Both his Legs Shott off, the other 4
one Legg apeice Soon after one or Two Dy,d Corp! Majery of Cap!
Baileys Company was Broke & Whipt 300 Lashes for Denying his
Duty. Keept on fortifying Clearing a Rhode, &c. Very Calm &
but Little firing the Remainder of this Day one man Carried to
Crown Point with yf Small Pox.
18 Fired Several Cannon at the men at worke oppisit yf fort. But
to Little Purpose also fired upon our Rangers & Kill,d one with
their Small arms in a Boat
Pritty Calm & But Little firing
Began to build our Battries for Burab & Cannon
19 Moved our Encampment & Encampt oppisit the Fort, in
about half a mile of it, in a very thick Place of woods & raade a Brest
work Both in front & Rear was fir,d upon from the fort But Rec'i
no Damage
20 A Disarter came from the french & Resin, d himself to our
guard this morning about Day brake. He gives us an account that
there is about 1500 raen in the fort & that they are Short of Ararao-
nission & have but Nine Peaces of cannon in the fort fir,d very,
hot on our men at work at the Battries Detachments v/are Sent to
work at the Battrys all Night this was a Rainey Day
21 Landed Part of our Artillery Was fired upon at the Battries
had 7 or Eight men wounded Two fals alarams in the night one of
which was a LitUe before Day brake & our men fir,d from one End
of yf Lines to the other But no Enemy was near to oppose us
22 A man carried out of Camp with yf Small pox. Keept on
building & Repairing the batry,s as fast as Possable in order for a
warm Reception 3 French Prisoners was bro! in that was taken
Between S! Johns & Montreal, for which the men that Took them
had 50 Guineas Reward y!= Party Consisted of a Serj! & 6 men
23 Open,d Three of our Battries at 3 o'Clock this afternoon
upon the Sygnal of a gun from the artillery & which Time the Drums
& fifes Beating a Pint of war from one End of yf Lines to the other,
after which we Blazed away very Smartly from our Battries one
man was Kill,d & Sculpt by yf the Ingans, 2 more Kill,d & 2
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24 Sunday. Began to Errect a new batry Below yf fort to Pre
vent the french going off, as we Preceiv,d they was making Ready for
an Escape, the Party that was at worke at the New battry was fir,d
upon from the fort By their Cannon wounded 15 of our raen. Some
tis to be feard mortally this was a Lowry wet Day
25 Cleared off We Blazed very hot upon them all this fore
noon. Took three Vessals from them viz one Rideau one Topsail
Schooner & a Sloop and 30 odd men on Board of them who gave
Intillegance that there was about 150 raen Kill,d this Day by our
Cannon Bumbs & Small arms & that there was a Reg! of Brigaids
Joynd them Had one man killed at yf Lower battry this Day with a
Cannon ball from yf french he Belonged to Cap! Barrons,s Company
made a Trial Last night to Cut away the Boam that the french had
fix"? across the Lake from the fort to the Est Shore to Prevent our
Shipping going Past the fort.
26 Orders for a Number of men to go on bord the Prize Vessals
Consisting of 165 men officers Included to go Voluntiers from the
Proventials, also for 41 men to List out of the Massachusetts Reg'.'
to Joyne Major Roggers as Rangers in Lieu of that Number of the
New hampshires that was not fit for Rangers Thompson Maxwell,
of Cap! Whitings Company Listed a Ranger. & Serj! [Jonas] Parker
[of Chelmsford], Sam'.' Treadwell [of Littleton] Thaddeus Read
[of Westford] & John Robinson [of Dunstable] wint on Board
the Prizes.
27 This was a thick foggy morning & the more so By the
Smoake of the Cannon & bumbs Both of the french & English for
they Played very Smartly on Both Sides But y" french threw no
Shells at us But the Cannon Crackt as tho the Heavens & Earth
was Coming together for Cheif of the Day
A Ball from the Enemy Came through one of our Amberzoers
[embrasures] & into a Magazean Where was many Shells & Car
tridges & Sat it on fire and Brew it up Broake about 20 Shells
which Killed 2 men & wounded 2 more very bad, one of those that
was killed Belonged to the Massachusetts, the other to the 17'''
Reg! The french Played very Smartly with their Cannon all this
Day 28 Last Night the french Disarted the Fort, Took of all their
Baggage which they Could Carry on their backs & made their
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wounded but the Exact number I cannot tell, about 20 french Regu
lars Came & Resin,d themselves. We took Possesion of their fort
& hoisted King Georges Colours on the Walls, Sent our Flower to
be Bak'? in their ovens, had French Bread & Pork to our allowance
Seven of the Rangers Persu^ the army & took one from their Rear
& Got Considrable Plunder Four of the Light Infantry Brought in
2 french Prisoners that they took near S- Johns Began to Embark
our ardllery & fix as fast as Possable in order to make a Push upon
S! Johns
As to the Cituation of yf Isle Au Noix it is cituate & Lying very
Low in the Center of the Lake & has a very Strong Fortress on it
& is very Strongly Piqueted in all Round & Contains about acres
tho very Low & Swampy Greate Part of it & Cheifly Cleard up
29 Embark"? all our artillery that was thought Necesary to Carry
along with us Orders that Boats Should be took over to the Island
& Loaded with 5 Barrills of Provisions & Brought Back again to
the Side next our Encampment & that yf Tents Should be Struck
Tomorrow morning half an hour after Reveillie Beating & the army
to be Redy to Embark when orderd
30 Struck our tents this morning & Put them with our Baggage
on board the Battoes After which the army soon Embarkt & Sat
Sail with a fare wind for S! Johns Our orders was to Keep in the
Same Posision as former orderd & to form a Line to Land in the Same
manner when orderd, which was to be Told us & Which Shore we
Should Land on Left all our Sick & wounded at the Island with
officers & Soldiers Draughted from the Proventials in order to
Keep the Fort
When yf Front of our army Came in Sight of S! Johns, Fort, &
the grand Jeoble [Diable] that we took at Isle au Noix had fir,d
one or 2 Shotts at it, the french Sat it all on fire & made their Escape
as fast as Possably they Could, Major Roggers with his men over
took Some of them & had a Scurmage with them. Lost 2 men
& one or Two more wounded one of which was L! Stone who
was Shott Through the foot the Rear of our army Landed about
2 o'clock & En Camp^
31 Sunday. Major Roggers Took & Brought in 17 Prisoners
araongest which was one Major & i Cap! of yf french army Orders
Came Last night for the army to throw up a Brest work in the front
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after which orders Came to the Conterary S! Johns is Cituate on
y° west Side the Lake [River] & according to Apperance it was a
Prity Stro'ng fortres & Butifully Cituated Before it was Consumd
there is Considrable Clear"? Ground But few Emprovenients
Orders Came that the army Should Strike their Tents Tomorrow
morning a Quarter after Revallie Beating in order to go to S! Therese
Colonel Haverland Sent a Packit to General Murrey Very Cold
for the Time of Year
if SeptemV Struck our Tents according to orders & Put them on
board Orders that as the Army is now going into the Inhabitant
Part of the Country, therefore it is order,d that none of the Inhabit-
ance are Plundred or 111 Us,d on- any Pretence. Whoever are De
tected Disobeying this order will be Hanged & that we Should
Take nothing without being Regularly Paid for This is Done to
Induce the Inhabitance to Stay in their Villages, & good Usuage will
Prevent their men from Joyning their French Army The Army
Embarkt About 3, o'Clock in the afternoon & Sat Sails & as our
Battalion is the Rear Guard we Came about 2 Miles to the head of
the falls & Encampt But yf Regulars & those in yf front went Down
yf falls & ariv,d at S! Therese this Night
2 Sat out this morning & Came Down yf falls without much
Difoculty & ariv? at S! Therese which is about 6 miles from S!
Johns Here was on the West Side the Lake a Little Snugg For
tress Before it was Consum,d but there was the Stockad & Pikets
Standing, and a ButifuU Little Trench Round it Here we Encamp!"
on the west Shore & Began to throw up a Brest work at the front of
our Encampment Maj! Roggers Brought in 2 french Prisoners
3 This was a wet Day, We finesh'? our Breast work Here was
2 or 3 french familys who Came in & Traided with us & Past & Re
past without any mollistation they Exchang,d Green Peas & other
Comodities for Salt Pork and Salt which was very Scerce amonge
them & hard to be got Bought Horses from them & had their
assistance in Drawing our Artillery
4 Clear,d off A Detachment of about 200 men were Sent to
Fort Chambelle [Chambly] in order to Lay Siege & Take it with
Some Artillery Accordingly This Day about 2 o'Clock in the after
noon they Surrendred only at yf Discharge of 2 Cannon & 2 Shells
being hove into yf fort They Sent in this Night about 120 Clock
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5 A Detachment of 400 men were Sent Down to Joyn them at
Charable a Detachment Consisting of i Cap! 4 Subs 5 Serjf & 60
Rank & File Took Ten Battoes & Sat out for yf Isle Au Noix for
Provisions A Party of Cap! Hazens Rangers came in with an Ex-
peres from Genrol Murrey they Left the army Last Night in about
12 miles from Montreal Some french officers Came in with them
with Horses
6 A Detachment was Sent to meet those at S! Johns that went
to the Isle au Noix Yesterday for Provisions & meet them & Re
turned here with yf Provisions All the french & waggon they Could
Raise were Sat to Carrying the Provisions to Charabalee all this
day & have Been Three Trips & Seem to be very Chearfull in Serv
ing their new Master The Battoes was all Sent to the Island
oppisit the Stockaded Fort & moor,d of in the Streem Drew Six
Days Provisions
7 Sunday Orders Came & the army marched for Montreal Ex
cepting the Sick & them we Left on the Island Some was Sent to
Chambale, The French Carried our Baggage & artillery with their
Carrages & horses we marched to Chambale which is 4 miles from
thence we marched till about 10 oClock at Night & Encamp'? in the
woods as to the Cituation of Chambale & the fort it is Finely
Cituate on the South Side the River Surrell [Sorel] & a Little Snug
Fortress wholly Built with Stone & Lime, & many fine Suttlements
round it. one thing more I shall Just Remark w"; is Some thing
Strang tho of but little Consiquen which is that there was Ice at
Chambale near 8 Inches thick which has been Since Last winter
8 We marched & arived at Montrol which is about 25 miles
from Chambalee & Encam"? on the East Side the River S' Lawrence
Oppiset the City of montreal which was Surrendered to Geni Amherst
this very Day ; Here was Gen: Amhersts Army Encamp"! on the
West Side the River Above the Town, & Gen! Murreys Army on the
Same Side Encampl below the Town, But the Town Surrendered
without much Blood Shead for I Beleave they thought it was But
litde worth their while to Stand any Rangle with us Gen! Amhersts
army had a Spat with the Light Horse about 15 miles above the City
of montreal oppisit the Town of the Cocknawagon [Coughnawaga]
Indeans, But Received But Little or no harm from them
On our march from Chambalee to Moreal there was very fine
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them ; The Town of Deprare Ly,s on the East Side the River about
6 miles from Montreal The French Treat us on our march with
the Utmost Sevelity, More over our army was very Cautious in Not
abuseing any of them or their Substance General Amherst Returns
the Troops under his Com"? Abundance of thanks for their So
Strictly observing his orders
9 A man Belonging to Cap! Baileys Company Died very Sudden
after he had Eat his Dinner
as to yf Cituation of montreal yf City Lyeth on the west Side yf
River and is very Butifully Cituated Close along upon yf water &
the Surburbs or other Settlements Lay up & Down the River for
many miles in Length & a very Butifull Leavel Place as Ever I Saw,
& appears to have many very fine farms on Both Sides the River &
fine Churches
10 Orders Came that the Provential Troops Proceed as fast as
Possable to Crown Point under yf Command of Brigadier Ruggles,
Accordingly the army marched But the Sick was Sent in Battoes By
water to Chambalee where they was to meet the army I Being un
able at this time to march went By water So we Sat Sail lo Battoes
of us & Came down the River about 6 Leags & Landed & tarried
all Night at a French Village & they Us'd us very Cively
1 1 We Sat Sail this morning with a fair wind & a very Brisk Gail
& Came to a Place Called Surrell [Sorel] where we Took in an Eng
lish Prisoner that had Been Two years with them this Surrell Lyeth
1 5 Leags Below montreal, here the River Surrell Emtys it Self into
yf River S! Lawrence St Lawrences River from Montreal to this
Place Runs a N N: East Pint, & all the way upon Both Sids the
River there is very fine Villages & Churches We Sat Sail up
the River Surrell & Came 5 Leegs & Encampd. St Franciways
[Frangois] Lies 5 Leags Below Surrell
12 Here we took in a Little Girl of 5 years of age, (a Daugh
ter of the widdow Johnsons that was taken with her But was
Parted) & Brought it along with us, & Came about Six Leags and
Encamp"? ^
13 Sat out & Came up the river about 4 Leags & arived at Cham-
1 Susanna Johnson, daughter of James and Susanna Johnson, who was cap
tured with her parents by the Indians at Charlestown, N. H., on August 30,
1754. At this time she was ten years old, but her mother was not a widow.
5

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balee where we Joynd the army again who Lay there wating for us,
here we Put our Baggage into waggons & marched to S! Therese &
Encamped 14 Sunday Embarked & Came to S! Johns where Sam'! Herrin
of Cap! martins Company was very much Hurt By his Powder horns
Cetching a fire full of Powder about his neck Embarked & Sat out
with a very Conterary wind & ariv,d at yf Isle au Noix & Encamped,
this was a wet Night
IS Took in our Sick People, & Left a Detachment, Colo:
Thomas Tarried here to Keep the Fort : And we Sat out But
the wind Still holds Conterary & Encamped on the west Shore
16 Sat Sail with a fair wind & Came about 30 Leags & En
camped on the East Shore
1 7 Sat Sail, But a very Foggy morning & Came about 4 miles
& arived at Crown Point & Encamped on our old Encamping
Ground 18 400 men was Detacht and Sent to work on the other Side
yf Lake under the Command of Maj^ Burk A Number of men Sent
for Fatigue
19 The New Hampshires threaten to Disart for which Reason
all the Serjeants of the Proventials was ordred as a guard all
Night 20 The Rangers arived here from Moreal in order to take Bat
toes Down the Lake for the Regulars to Come in Very Cold for
the Season
21 Sunday. Nothing Remarkable
22 The Rangers Sat off Down the Lake in Battoes to fetch the
Regulars over
23 The Royals arived here this Night
24 Nothing Remarkable Hapned this day
25 Very Rainy Last Night & to Day The Grand Deoble arived
here this morning
26 Men Carried out of Camp with the Small Pox more or Less
Every Day
27 A very Sickly Time in Camp.
28 Suttday. A Detachment of Proventials & Rangers was Sent to
the Saw Mills in Battoes for Provisions.
29 A very Could Storm, a very Sickly & Dying Time, Fatiguing
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30 A Party was Sent to Ticondaroga. The Rangers Joyn,d
their Respective Corps
Oct if A Party was Sent to Ticonderoga or Saw mils
2 Some Regulars arived here from Montreal One of the
Proventials Receved loo Lashes for Disarting a Fatiguing
Party 3 Colo : Haverland Arived here with a number of Regulars.
4 Sir Williams men arived here that Came with General amherst
A mighty Discord amongst the Regulars this Night Disputing
who had the best Right to a woman & who Should have the first
Go at her even till it Came to Bloos, & their Hubbub Raised
all most the whole Camp.
Some men Disarted from the Proventials this Night
5 Sunday. Had Preaching. Nothing Remarkable.
6 7 Major Schean Sat of in a whale Boat for montreal with a
Serj! & 8 Proventials to Carry Two French Laides Down there.
8 Some men Disarted from yf Proventials
9 Some of the Disarters was Brought Back & Confind to the
Pervoo Guard
10 A Number of Sick was Sent home By the way of Albany.
Men Die very fast in the Hospitle.
1 1 Nothing Remarkable.
12 Sunday. Had Preaching. The Small Sloop arived here from
S! Johns. Very Pleasent for the Season.
13 Nothing Straing.
14 General Amherst arived here from Montreal this Evening
15 A Sickly Time & many Die.
16 More men was added to the works untill all Got on Duty.
Nine of our Provintial Disarters Inlisted with the Regulars in the
Inniskilling Reg! to Clear them Selves from other Punishment.
17 A man of Cap! Martins Rec"? loo Lashes for Insolent
Language to his officer & Posisting in it after he was Confin?
& Calling his officer a Black Guard.
18 Nothing Remarkable.
19 Sunday. Very Rainy & Could.
20 Two Sloops arived here from the Isle au Noix.
2 1 all the Sick was View"? By M' MunRow.
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23 A Large Number of Invaleads was Sent Home by the way of
Nf 4 [Charlestown, New Hampshire.] ^
24- More Sick was Sent Home by the way of Albany
25 Two men Carried out of Camp Sick with the Small Pox. :
26 Sunday All the Rangers was Sent Home only. Cap! Ogdens
Company. 50 of them went byN'? 4, & the Rest by the way of
albany. 27 WE Matthews of the New Hampshire Reg! was Sentanst 500
Lashes for Mutiny & Disobediance of orders which was Proved
against him, & to Receive them this Day Before the Mounting of the
Guards this morn : 100, at whitmores, 100, at the Inniskilling, 100,
at yf Massachusetts, 100, at yf Rhode Islanders, 100, at the New,
Hampshire Reg! & to be Drum"? out of the army with a Halter about
his neck & to be Sat over on the other side the Lake with Provisions
to Carry him to N"! 4 a Surgeon was also to attend accordingly
the Prisoner was Brought to the Poast to Receive his Punishment
and Rec'i 20 odd Lashes & was taken with fitts that he Droped for
Dead that they Could not Proceed to Give him his Punishment So
the Prisoner was Conveyed to the Guard
28 General amherst wento winter Quarters. Could wether comes
on amain.
29 Fatigues are very hard, to that Degree we Cannot Compleat
the Partys Required.
30 Colo : Thomas with a Detachment that was Left at the Isle
au noix arived here this Day
31 A very Tedious Time for Colds & Caughs in Camp.
Nov: if Finished Raising the New Wooden Barrak in the New
fort of 120 feet in Length.
2 Sunday Nothing Remarkable Hapned
3 Colo Willard Sat Sail in order for home Colo Ingersol Sent
Part of his Baggage
4 I Took Sick with a Tedious Cold
5 Gun Powder Treason [Guy Fawkes's day.]
1 At the period of the French and Indian War the four townships on the east
bank of the Connecticut River, before they received their names, were numbered
in their geographical order, and known by their numbers alone. They come
now within the State of New Hampshire, — Township No. i being known
as Chesterfield ; No. 2, as Westmoreland ; No. 3, as Walpole ; and No. 4, as
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A mighty firing throughout the Camps this Night. A Corprol was
Sent with a file of men Through the Lines to Patrole the Camps in
order to Confine the men that fired.
6 & 7 Nothing Remarkable
8 Dull Lowry wether & Looks Like a Storme of Rain
9 A Very Rainy Day Sunday
10 Fired 21 Cannon in Honour to the Day it being King Georges
Birth day
II The Sick was all Drawed up & Viewed By M! Munrow
12 A Large Number of Invelads was Sent Home By the way of
N''4 13 A Number of the feebelest of the Inveleads was Sent Home
By the way of Albany
14 A Snow Storm Began Last Night & Snowed about 3 Inches
Deep, after which is Tedious Could Blustering Wether 2 7 Cannon
was fired
15 As the Carpenters was Shingling the Stone Barrak one of
the Stages Broke & three men fell from the Roof & was very much
Bruised A Party was Sent to Ticonderoga for flower
16 Sunday Orders that all the Carpenter Should Return in all
their Tools Tomorrow & was Paid off for their work the Same Day
A Party was Sent to Ticonderoga for Flower Cap' Page with 60
men Sat off for N"! 4
17 Orders that the Massachusetts & Rhoad Islanders Should
Strike their Tents Tomorrow morning at Day Brake & Return them
in to the Commassary ; & march to Ticondarog where we are to Re
ceive Provisions to Carry us to Nf 4. this was Joyfull Nuse to us,
as the weather was then Cold Brigadier [Timothy] Ruggles with
his attendance marched for home by the way of Nf 4.
18 We Struck our Tents according to Order & Began our march
for Ticondaroga (L' Col? Ingersol took the Command of the first &
Second Battallion's) & we arived there the Same day & Drew Eight
Days Provisions to Carry us to Nf 4. & was Carried over the Lake
& Encampt on the other Side Cap' Whiting Sat Sail for Albony
19 We Began our march through the Woods.
23 Sunday arived at the Connecticutt River about Sun Sett &
was ferry'd ouer & Encampt on the other Side
24 Marched into the Town of Nf 4. where the Regulars abused
Some of our men We was Drawed up ; & Drew Allowance and
Every man took their own way home this was a wet Day

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25 Two men that was Confin'd for Burying a man alive in Nf 4
woods Rec? their Punishment, one Rec? 500 Lashes, the other 100
Sat out from N"! 4. & Came 18 Miles & Encampt in the woods till
the moon arose & then Sat out & Came to Keen about Day Brake ;
which is 30 miles from Nf 4.
26 Tarried here till afternoon and Came about 10 miles & En
campt till the moon arose ; & then Sat out and arrived at Lanlord
Elexanders in Doublin where we Slept till Day this was a very
Snowy Night
27 Sat out & Came to Peterborough & tarried at M' Swans this
was a Rainy Day
28 Sat out & Came to Townshend & tarried all Night at Jonas
Stevens's 29 Sat out & arived at Groton.
And Blessed be God who has Preserved me in health this Cam
paign also; who has Covr'd My Head in the Day of Batde &
Return'd me in health to My Friends Again
FINIS

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The following orders, found on loose sheets, have since been
placed in the Diary, where they originally belonged. One sheet
or more is gone, which will account for the abrupt beginning.
Campany,s, and will Send in a Return of What Ammunision they
Want that they may Receive Carabine ball, Powder, Paper &
thread to make up 36 Rounds Compleat f man
The Provoss Guard to be Reduced to a Corprol and of four men
The 2;' Batt'? Royal Highland Reg! and Montgommery,s to Receive
Three Days provision Which will Compleat them to the 2 7 Inclusively
Allex^ Donaldson adj?
2!" Battl? R : H Reg! & of the Day
Albany may y" 25 After orders
Parole Crown Point
The Twelve Company,s of the Massechusetts Troops Encampt to
Receive Provisions To Morrow morning at five OClock to the 29':
Inclusively Monday May y" 26'!" Parole, Rockinggum.
Tusday May y= 27'!'' Parole, Dartmouth
Camp Near Albany Thursday May y' 29'!"
Parole York Sheir
The Company,s of Montgumry,s Regiment To March To morrow
Morning at 5 o'Clock, They Will Receive Their Waggons in Pro-
pourtion to their Number allowed To Carry Camp Aequapage and
Baggage to Schenactada by applying To Colonel Bradstreet, All the
men on Duty of that Regiment to be Releived this evening & their
Colours To be Lodged in the Fort in the Same manner as Those of the
Royal. Major Campbell will Receive his Orders from the General.
The order Given the fifth of may Last Year at Albany, Relating
to the Granediers & Light Enfantry Telling of the Battallions &
Posting of Officers the Serjeants takeing Fire Locks in Stead of
Holbords. And only one Drumer Being Allowed ^ Company The Rest Put
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No Women Being Permitted to go with the RegS or to Follow
them. The Method of Marching the Regiments are To Practize the
orders for the Front and Flanque and Rear and Flanque. Plat-
toons are to be all the Duty Observ'd this Campaign, and as more
Baggage then is absolutely Nessecary for the officers Is an Encum
brance to officers and men and must Be an obstruction to an army
in this Country. Each officer Must take a Small Tent, Blanket,
Bair Skin and Port Mande, They will Take no Sashes Into the
Feild. The Regiments that have Gorgats will ware them when on
Duty, and Each officer will take Care that the men Dont Load them
Selves With any Thing more then is Nessesary.
A Koknawago [Caughnawaga] Indean is Suspected to Be Strool-
ing about the Town or Camp, Every officer or Soldier who Sees any
Indean who is not known or Cannot Give an account of Him Self
Will Bring him to Head Quarters. The Massachusetts Troops to
Receive four Days Provisions to the Second of June Inclusive A
Return of the State of Each Company to be Given in Emediately.
May y" 29'? Regimental Orders.
The Commanding officer of Each Company in Camp will take
Care that no Strong Spirits Even Syder are Sould by the Soldiers
nor Small Beer, unless Liberty first obtained from the Quarter
Master. The Role of Each Company to Be Call'd every Morning in the
Presence of a Commison"? officer @ Six o'Clock, and @ Sun Set.
What Ever Soldier Shall Be Found Easing Hira Self in Camp will
be Severly Punisht. The New York, New Jersey and Rhoad Island
Troops Will Receive Provisions to Compleat them with what they
have allready to the Second of June Inclusive.
Friday May y" 30'!' 1760 Genral Orders
Parole, Albany
The Cort Martial Ordred this Morning To Set at the orderly Room
So soon as the Prisoners is marched in forthe Triol ofthe Soldiers of
Montgumry,s accused of Burning M^ Tinbrooks 1 out House.
M' Graham Presidant : Cap! Montereef Debuty Judge Advocate.
all Evidance to attend in Case the Cort Martial Should Not be over
1 Ste postea, where the name is written TimBrooks.

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by the Time. Sir Allen MfLain,s Company Marches. Which Com
pany is to march at Two o'Clock this afternoon. The Evidances a
Corprol and Six Men to march the Prisoners.
The Commanding Officers ofthe Company,s of Montgumrys Regi
ment having Desired to take their Colours into the Field they are to
take them accordingly. All the Regiments are emediatly To Clear
their men to the Twenty fourth of Apriel. after wards at the End of
every Two months agreeable to Former orders. One Serjeant Two
Corprols Guard of Six men Each, are to be Posted By Leiu! Coven
try alonge the Fence which Runs at the Bottom of the Hill to Hol
land House ; To Prevent that Fence Being Distroyed and the Cattle
Gitting out. Two Serjeants & 36 men to be ordred from the Proven
tials for the Service of the Scows & to Remain till further orders.
After Orders
Cap! Baker.s, Cap! Hawkton,s, & Cap! Plats,s Company,s of the
Second New York Regiment to be Compleated with arms according
to the Returns Given in this after noon by applying to Colo : Wil
liamson Tomorrow morning at five o'Clock.
The first and Third Regiments of New York to be Compleated
with arms To morrow morning according To the Returns Given in
By applying to Colonel Williamson.
The first Regiment to Receive theirs at half after Five The third
at Six o'clock. Saturday May y'^ 31'! 1760
General Orders. Parole Barlin
The Field Officers of the Provential Troops Who are arived here,
& have Comraisions to Send a Return of their Ranks, & Dats of
Comisions To the Adjetant General at orderly Time.
Colonel Thomas or officer Comraanding the Massachusetts
Troops will Send in a Report from what Company,s The Several
Detachments of the Massachusetts Troops Sent up Hudson River,
are taken as the Companys are not forra,d in Battalions, he will
Give in this Return at Five O'Clock this Evening.
The General will See what Provential Troops are in Camp, at the
Head of their Encampment at five O'Clock this Evening They are
to be drawn up in Two Ranks, all those that have arms are to
appear with thera, and those that have Powder Horns and Bullet
pouches will Put Thera on.

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A Cort Martial of Enquiry Consisting of one Major and Four
Cap*? of the New York Troops To Set at the Court House at Eight
o'clock Tomorrow Morning to Examin into the accustions against
Peter MfCoy who is Confined By Leiu! Muyncher on Suspition of
Heaving a man over Bord And Drownding him.
Leiu! Colonel Ingalson is to Remain here to Receive the massa
chusetts troops as they Come in which he will Report as they Come
in The Regiment of looo will be allowed provisions or the four
pences in Leiu of it for four women ^ Company, and those of 700
for Three Women ^ Company
This allowance to Be paid to the Women By Leiu! Coventry at
Albany and the Commanding officer of Each Regiment is to Send in
a List of the women of Each Company of the Regiment who are
Recommended for this provision, which he will Sign & Transmitt to
the Major of Brigade who will Give the List to Leiu! Coventry
& give in their Names to the Mattron of the Hospide.
That if they Should Be Required for the attendance of the Sick
they may attend or otherwise be Struck off the Allowance.
The General Cort Martial of which Major Graham is Presedent is
Disolved. and Donald MfKinson private Soldier of Montgomries Regiment
Tried on Suspition of having Malisiously & willfully Sat Fire to
M! TimBrooks ^ out House is found Not Guilty of the Crime Laid
to his Charge & is acquited Capt. Cameron will take him to Joyn
the Regiment. ' See ante, where the name is written Tinbrooks.

DIARY KEPT BY
LIEUT. AMOS FARNSWORTH,
OF GROTON, MASS.,
DURING A PART OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
April 19, 1775 — May 6, 1779.

First printed in the
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
January 13, 1898.

Amos FarnswortFs Diary

THE following Diary, kept by Amos Farnsworth, of Groton,
during a part of the Revolutionary War, contains some
facts of local interest and historical value. Mr. Farnsworth
was a member of Captain Farwell's company of minute-men,
who marched on the memorable Nineteenth of April from
Groton to Lexington, where they bivouacked for the night,
and the next forenoon pushed on to Cambridge. He was a
good type of the Middlesex yeomanry, and both by kinship
and social intercourse was connected with some of the best
families in the neighborhood. His deep religious nature
crops out continually through the pages of the Diary, and,
as there seen, shows the spirit which animated him in his
opposition to the mother country. He was a fair representa
tive of the average soldier of the period, being more of a
patriot than a scholar ; and during the times that tried men's
souls this quality was of greater importance than a knowledge
either of spelling or writing. The Diary contains many little
entries which throw much side-light on certain events. It is
the only contemporary record which tells where the company
bivouacked at the end of the first day's march, a fact of some
interest to the descendants of the soldiers.
Amos Farnsworth, one of ten children, was a son of Amos
and Lydia (Longley) Farnsworth, and was born at Groton,
on April 28, 1/54. He was a lineal descendant in the third
generation from Matthias Farnsworth, one of the earliest set
tlers of the town. During his youth the facilities for giving a

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boy in the country a common-school education, as it is now
understood, were very limited. In the main a child's ele
mentary instruction was received by the fireside at home,
where the three R's were taught; and whatever else he
acquired beyond these rudiments was generally given during
a few weeks' schooling in the winter. This statement seems
to be needed in order to explain the writer's deficiencies in
style and spelling, which were no greater than those of the
average well-to-do farmer of that period.
On May 7, 1782, Mr. Farnsworth was married to Elizabeth,
daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth (Adams) Rockwood, of
Groton, who was one of ten children ; and they were blessed
with four sons and one daughter. He belonged to a race long-
lived as well as prolific. At the time of his death, which took
place on October 19, 1847, he was aged 93 years, 6 months,
and I day ; and his widow survived him less than two months,
as she died on December 1 1, 1847, aged 90 years, 7 months, and
24 days. At the date of their death each one of this vener
able couple was, respectively, the oldest person in town. Of
their five children two reached or passed the age of ninety
years, and two others the age of eighty years or more, while
the fifth child lived well beyond the period allotted by the
Psalmist, of threescore years and ten.
The leaders of the American Revolution showed much
wisdom in the strict attention paid to the preparatory details
of their work ; and every move on the board was made with
reference to something that was to follow. The final success
of the military struggle was due as much to their foresight
and sagacity in this respect as to the deep feeling of the
people. The alarm at Lexington on the memorable Nine
teenth of April aroused almost simultaneously the whole
country for miles around, so carefully had the region in the
neighborhood been allotted to special messengers, whose duty
was assigned beforehand for such a purpose. On the side
of the patriots the skirmishes of that day were fought by
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recommendation of the First Provincial Congress of Massa
chusetts, in a Resolve passed at Cambridge on October 26,
1774. At that time it was recommended to the field officers
of the various militia regiments that they should enlist at
least one-quarter of their respective commands, and form
them into companies to be held in readiness, at the shortest
notice from the Committee of Safety, to march to the place
of rendezvous. Such soldiers soon became known as " Min
ute-men " ; and at the first signal of hostilities they were on
hand, armed and equipped, ready for any emergency that
they might be called upon to meet. At this critical period
in many ways they proved to be of great help to the popular
cause. The existence of such a body of drilled men seems
to have been prompted by the practice of nearly twenty years
before, during the French and Indian War, when there were
bands of men, known as " Alarm lists," who were to be ready
for military service at a minute's warning. And in their
turn these Alarm lists followed the precedent set by the
Suffolk and Middlesex regiments, which at the beginning of
Philip's War were ordered by the General Court to " be ready
to march on a moment's warning." Even before this time,
as early as August 12, 1645, in anticipation of trouble with
the Indians it was ordered that thirty men out of every hun
dred in the militia should be ready " at halfe an bowers
warning " for any service that they might be called upon to
perform by their commanding officers.
These various instances all contain the germ of the system ;
and they show that, for a period of a hundred and thirty years
before the Revolution, the minute-man was a prime factor in
both the Colonial and Provincial militia.
The news of the advance of the British troops on Lexing
ton and Concord reached the village of Groton early in
the morning of the Nineteenth, when word was sent at once
to all parts of the town calling on the minute-men to rally
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probably, was a continuation of the one sent from Charles
town just before midnight, and reached Groton soon after
sunrise. There is some reason to think that this intelligence
was expected at that particular time, and that messengers
were ready to carry it to the out-lying homes of the farmers.
On April 17 it was voted by the Committees of Safety and
of Supplies that the four six-pounders should be transported
from Concord to Groton, and put under the care of Colonel
Oliver Prescott ; and on the next day it was also voted that
certain ammunition, as well as a large number of tents, and
two medicine chests, should be sent there for safe-keeping.
As open hostilities began so soon afterward, there was prob
ably no time to make the removal. The community was
much agitated, and men were thoroughly aroused. The air
was full of rumors, and nobody knew their source. They
seemed to come by " grape-vine telegraph," — as the expres
sion was in the Union army during the War of the Rebellion.
Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Congress, two
companies of minute-men had been enlisted in Groton.
According to a printed sermon preached before them, on
February 21, 1775, by the Reverend Samuel Webster, of
Temple, New Hampshire, their officers at that time had been
already chosen, and while there had been " heats " — as the
minister expressed it — in other towns over the choice of
officers, there had been none at Groton. Unfortunately, at
a later period " heats," or contentions, did break out in one
of these companies, as appears from an entry in the following
Diary, on April 26, 1775.
These two companies of minute-men had been expecting
the call, and, true to their designation, were ready to march
at short notice. On that eventful Nineteenth both com
panies — one of them under the command of Captain Henry
Farwell, and the other under that of Captain Asa Lawrence
— rallied on the Common, where ammunition was given out
to the soldiers. It is probable that by the middle of the
forenoon they started for the scene of action. One of these

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companies bivouacked that night in Lexington, and it is very
likely that the other did also. The intense excitement of
a forced march, due not only to what they saw on the way,
but to what they heard, speeded their steps, and there was
no lagging on the road. They left their homes as British
subjects, but came back as independent citizens, who never
again knew the authority of a king.
The events of the Nineteenth brought political matters to
a head. The hasty assemblage of military companies, which
then rushed to the neighborhood of Boston, by no means
formed an effective army. While the men and officers
had the true martial spirit, they were undisciplined as well
as inexperienced.
The need of a thorough re-organization of these various
bodies was felt both by the Committee of Safety and by the
Provincial Congress; and steps were taken at once by the
authorities to consolidate the detached companies and skele
ton commands, and to bring order out of chaos. According
to the Muster-roll of Captain Henry Farwell's company,
printed on page 13 of " Groton during the Revolution,"
re-enlistments began in his command on April 25, and pre
sumably also in the other companies.
At this time a consolidation was made of Farwell's com
pany with Captain James Hosley's company of minute-men
from Townsend, an adjoining town. Probably a similar con
solidation took place with other companies of like character
as to neighborhood of homes, mutual acquaintance, etc. The
minute-man had enlisted for a short and indefinite term of
service, and when the emergency was over, his part of the
contract was fulfilled. The men whose names appear on
the Muster-roll as having served only six days were those,
presumably, who re-enlisted in Farwell's company, or in
some of the other companies, arid remained in the field
near Boston. In the new formation Farnsworth was made
a corporal; and during the campaign of 1776 he was com
missioned as an officer in Captain Shattuck's company.
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It is known that a few of them joined either Captain Asa
Lawrence's compkny or Captain Joseph Moors's, which were
enlisted for a period of eight months, or until the end of
the year 1775. The men who are accredited on Farwell's
roll of minute-men with seventy miles' travel are those,
doubtless, who returned home soon after the reorganization.
After the consohdation of Farwell's company with Hosley's,
the roll includes the names of a few men from other towns
besides Groton and Townsend. Timothy Stone enlisted from
Ashby ; Peletiah Russell from the Coos Country in New
Hampshire, and later was a resident of Groton ; Jonathan
Sawtell, a native of Groton, from Rindge, New Hampshire ;
and Jeremiah Wier, from Limerick, the old name of Stoddard,
New Hampshire.
In the year 1776, at the defence of Ticonderoga, Mr. Farns
worth served as Ensign in Captain Job Shattuck's company,
Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment. Later, on October 19,
1778, he was commissioned as First Lieutenant in a company
of Matrosses, commanded by William Swan, of Groton, in the
Sixth Regiment of Militia under Colonel Reed. At the end
of the war, on July 9, 1783, he was commissioned as Captain
of a company of Matrosses, which is an old name for artillery
men. This company was organized on October ig, 1778, and
for a long time was known as the Groton Artillery. After an
existence of nearly a century, for one reason or another, its
former prosperity seemed to desert it; and by an order from
the Adjutant-General's office, under date of August 15, 1878,
the company, together with several others at the same time,
was disbanded.
In conclusion I wish to thank Mr. John Prescott Farns
worth (H. C. 1881), of Providence, R. I., the owner of the
Diary, for his permission to copy it. Mr. Farnsworth is the
eldest child of the late Claudius Buchanan Farnsworth (H. C
1841), the eldest child of Luke Farnsworth, the eldest child of
Major Amos Farnsworth, the writer of the Diary.

Diary

AMOS FARSWORTHS JOURNAL.
Wednsday morning. April ig. 1775. was Alarmd with the news
of the Regulars Firin At Our men At Concoord Marched and Came
thare whare Some had Bin ciled Puled on and Came to Lexing
ton whare much hurt was Done to the houses thare by braking glas
And Burning Many Houses : but thay was forsed to retret tho thay
was more numerous then we And I saw many Ded Regulars by the
way. went into a house whare Blud was half over Shoes.
thursday Aprel 20 Came to Cambridge in the fore noon, thare
was Some men wanted to go to Charlston I went for one and
Vewed the regulars And found thay was intrenching on Charlston
hill Friday Aprel 21 nothing meterial hapned in the fore noon
About Sun set marched with the rigiment in Compony with Co!
Larnards rigiment to Roxbury.
Saterday April 22 Cep' in mothon. mooved from that hous
that we was in to Another this night was Alarraed by the Regulars
firing at our gard on the neck turned out And marched towards
them but nothing more Ensued Soon turned into our barrocks and
Slept quiet.
Sunday Aprel 23. lay Stil in the fore noon in the Afternoon
the Regiment to the meeting hous And herd a fine Sermon from
Timothy 2. 3 thou therefore Endure Hardness as a good Solder of
jesus Christ.
monday April 24 in the forenoon I went round on the Marsh
below our Gards within about Sixty rods of the Regulars, this night
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Tusday Aprel 2i,. lay Sdl in the forenoon in the afternoon we
went up to the Genarals And Receved ordars and marched to
Cambridge Again, oh the goodness of God in Preserving my
life from Danger.
Aprel 26. 27. 28. and 29. Days. Was A Strugling with the offisers
which shold be the hiest In offist Finaly Farwell ^ got ordars to
List And listed Some And then gined with townshind Company
And made out A Company. I myself Listed with the rest
Sunday April 30 Retired alone in the morning for Secret Prayer.
Preaded the Sun half a Nour hie for Prayers And then About Ten
oclock went to a Barn And herd the Re'' M' Emerson ^ from the first
Book of Samuel 30. 6. and Daved was gratly Distressed &c
And in the afternoon herd the Re' M' Goodridge From those words
in judges 20 C 22 & 23 Verses more Porticuly the last Claus in
the 23 Varse And the Lord Said go Up Against him. An Exelent
Sermon he incoridged us to go And fite for our Land and Contry :
Saying we Did not do our Duty if we did not Stand up now.
Mondy May ye i in the morning Etended Prayers in the meet
ing hous Soon was Cawled upon main Gard marched to leach-
mors Point * stayed thare 24 hours And returned back to the Barn
AgainNow from Mondy till Saturday night Nothing Meterial hapned. Did
my turns of duty And we mooved A Saturday to a hous Oppersit
the Collig &c
Sunday M 7 Was upon Piquit this Day But got leve to go on the
Comon And herd Prayers and Preaching all Day By the Re' Docter
Langdon* Presedent And the Rt M' thatcher.^ o this was fine
Preaching. Monday tus wedens May 8. 9 & 10 days Etended Prayers Morn
ing And night there was Several gons Discharged about this time
Kiled one or two others Escaping narraly Blesed Be God that
my life is Preserved
1 For the Muster Roll of Captain Farwell's company of minute-men, as well
as that of the consolidated company, see " Groton during the Revolution "
(pp. 11-15).
2 Rev. Joseph Emerson, of Pepperell. See Butler's History of Groton (p. 317).
' Lechmere's Point, in what is now known as East Cambridge.
* Dr. Samuel Langdon, at that time President of Harvard College.
5 Probably the Rev. Joseph Thaxter (H. C. 1768), chaplain of Colonel Pres-
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Thursday May ye w This Day was By us As a fast And had
the opertunity to hear Preaching And was Entertained by the
R' M' Adam in the Forenoon from Psalms 50 15 this was An
Exelent Precher And At night atended A funaral df A Man that
died with A wound of A Bawl. For these two Days nothing hapned
More then Usal only that two Men Died out fo the Camp : A
Saturday the Battalion marched to Charlston to Shoe themselves
to the Regulars
Sunday May ye 14 felt Calm And Serious Went to meeten at
the Church hous And Herd the R'^ M"' Nobol : ^ in the forenoon from
Isaiah 59. i. Behold the lords hand is not Shortned that it Cannot
Save &c. And in the Afternoon herd the Same man in the Meeting
hous from Exedus 32. C from the Bigining of ye 9 virs to ye end of
ye 13. And an Exelent Sermon both forenoon and Afternoon as I
Ever I herd : And I was filed with Wonder at the goodness of God
in Using means with his People to Reform thera. And I Was filed
with Anchous Desires After Holiness And I Resolved Afresh to live
and Devote my self more Strictly to Gods service then ever Yit I
have Done God Enabel me to keep this Rezerlution
Mondy May ye -i-t,. Nothing hapned to Day more then Usual
only At night we was Alarmd with the newe of Regulars which
Proved the Grand Rounds that our men Shot At Being Scart.
Tusday May ye 16 Nothing Done But Our Usual Preadings
which Are At Six oclock in the morning And at ten : And at fore
At night, and I mounted Piquit at Night And went the Grand
Rounds Wedensday May ye i-j Did But little to Day. At Night A Fier
Broke out in Boston And burnt Considerabel Store houses and
Barrocks And we hear that two Regulars was Burnt And now
thursday friday And Saturday Nothing meterial hapned
Sunday May 21 Etended Pray on the Common in the morning
After that retired for Secret Prayer. And about ten went to the
Chapel And herd the revent Docter Langdon from Hebrews 2 10
for it Became him, &c , And he encorridge us to Enlist our Selves
under the Great Jeneral of our Salvation : And in the atternon Went
to the Meting hous and herd M' Havery from Second Chronicles
C 15. 14, 15 Varses And thay Sware Unto the Lord with a loud
1 Rev. Oliver Noble (Y. C. 1757), chaplain of Colonel Little's regiment, who
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Voice, &c O the Goodnes of god in Promiting me the liberty of
Prayer And to hear Preaching, there was many guns herd to Day
which we hear was by Regulars going to Waymouth After Some of
our Cattle And hay But thay was Defeted By our Men : And thay
was mad and fired Along the Shore.
Monday May ye 22 Felt Considerabel calm : Etended Prayers
morning And Night : Blesed Be God for Such a Seson
Tusday May ye 23 Nothing more then Common to Day only at
night went a Scout Down to Leachmors Point About three milds
from Cambridge : in the morning returned to Cambridge Again.
Alas it is A Day of grate trouble and Confusion : Grant Blesed God
that I may Consider of my ways And repent And return unto the
Lord. And O Blesed God owne me in Jesus Christ.
Wedensday May ye 24 nothing more then Common to Day
thursday May ye 25 Nothing more then the usal Dutys
Friday May ye 26 in the morning I Etended prayers And at
night : i hope that I Git Good in this Day of grace. At night I and
about ten of our Company march! with A party of men betwixt
two and three hundred for Noddels island [East Boston] ; heded
By Col Nixson ^ we marched throu Mistick [Medford] Moldin and
to Chelsea
Saturday May ye 2-]. went on hog island And Brought of Six
hoses twentyseven horn? Cattel And fore hundred And Eleven Sheep
about the midel of the afternoon went From hog island to Noddles
island and Sot one Hous and Barn on fiar kil? Some hoses and
Cattel Brought of two or thre Cows one horse I with five men got
of the horse And Before we got from Noddels island to hog island
we was fir*? upon by a Privatear Schooner But we Crost the river
and about fiften of us Squated Down in a Ditch on the mash and
Stood our ground. And thare Came A Company of Regulars on
the marsh on the other side of the river And the Schooner : And
we had A hot fiar untill the Regulars retreeted. But notwithstand
ing the Bulets flue very thitch yet thare was not A Man of us kil?
Suerly God has A faver towards us : And He can Save in one Place
as well as Another we left the island about Sun-Set and Came to
Chelsea : And on Saturday about ten At night March'', to Winni-
simit ferry whare thare was A Schooner and Sloop Afiring with
1 Colonel John Nixon, who commanded a regiment enlisted in Middlesex and
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grate fury on us thare But thanks be unto god that gave vs the
Victry at this time for throu his Providence the Schooner that Pla?
upon us the day before run Aground and we Sot fiar to hur And
Consumed hur thare And the Sloop receved much dammage. in
this ingagment we had not A man kild : But fore wounded but we
hope all will Recover, one of the fore was A tounsing [Townsend]
man '¦ belonging to our Company the bulet went throu his mouth
from one Cheek to the other, thanks be unto God that so litde
hurt was Done us when the Bauls Sung like Bees Round our
beds. Sunday May 28 Left Winnisimit ferry About ye middle of ye
fore noon And Came to Chelsea And About two in ye afternoon
Receved ordars to march and Came to Cambridge, By ye way of
Penny ferry. '^
Monday May 29. Etended Prayers At ye Usal times in ye
afternoon Etended A funeral A man ^ of our own Company
Tusday May 30 Etempted to Preforrae Some Privit Duties But
was Cold And Ded in duty. O that God would make me more
livey in his Servis And forgive my Backwardness to Duty, thare
was two men Buried to Day out of our Regiment.
Wed^ May ye 31. felt Calrae And Serious to Day God enabled
me to wat on hira three or fore times today in Secret Blesed be
God for Such A Ceson. thare was three raen belonging to the
Armey Buried to Day
Thursday June ye i thare was Sheep And Catel and horses we
hear to ye Amount of fore or five hundred Sheep twenty or thurty
Cattel And A number of horses brought along that our Peopel took
from the Regula.rs of noddles island. Blesed be God for the inter
position of his Provedence on our Side in that He has Delivered
into our hands So much of thare goods or Substance And in Saving
of us in ye late Battle when in Such Ement Danger Suerly God
fote the Battle And not we
Friday June ye 2 Felt Lively to Day in Sperital things : Blesed
be god for such A Ceson. I was troubled about this time with a
1 William Smith, of Townsend, who died on May 29, and was buried on the
same day. See " Groton during the Revolution " (pp. 7, 8), for facts concerning
him and the skirmish at Chelsea.
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Pane in My hed : thare was A Tounshind man ^ Belonging to our
Company Buried to Day
Saterday June ye 3 had A Sense of my Dependance on god and
Gods right to me. Abought fore in ye afternoon Peraded with the
Battallion And Saw two men whipt for Stealing and Another Drom'?
out of ye Camps. O what A Pernitious thing it is for A man to
Steal And Cheat his feler nabers And how Prevocking is it
to God.
Sufiday June ye 4 Etended Publect worship And in ye forenoon
herd ye Re? M' Whitcome from Isaiah : furst Chapter : from ye
twentyfirst verse to ye end of ye 24 verse. And in ye afternoon
herd ye Re? M' Avery : from Stockbridge : who Spoke Exelenty
from Job 35 C and 9 10 11 12 13. Oh this is a fine man
Monday and Tusday June 5 And 6th Days Preformed Some
Privet Duties But not with Life to ye Degree As I wished for. oh
God do not Leve and forsake me Althoe I forsake the on monday
my Brother [Benjamin] ^ Came and took my Plase And on tusday
about noon I Sot out on my jurney for home And Arived about ten
at night found my Parance And frlnds well. Thanks be unto God
that has Preserved our Lives and helth for these Seven weeks :
althoe Some of ye time we have bin in Emraent Danger. I was
Fil? with love to God as I Rode Along And Lifted up my Sole to
God in Ejackculation Prayers and Prase
Wedensday June ye 7 To Day I Visited my Frinds in ye forenoon
oh what A mersifull Father God is. how Stooped And mad must
A man be to Continue in an unrenued State in this wonderfull day
of Grase.
Thursday June ye 8 In ye afternoon I Etended A Lecter and
herd M! Faxter [Thaxter] from John 15. 8 herein is my father
glorified, &c
1 John Burge, of Townsend, who died at Cambridge, presumably from
disease, on June 3, according to the Return of Captain Farwell's company. See
" Groton during the Revolution " {p. 8). He enlisted on the same day as Smith,
and his term of service, according to the muster roll, was five days longer.
2 This entry and the one under date of Wednesday, June 14, show that a
man in the army, during the early days of the Revolution, could have a tem
porary substitute when absent ; and the muster roll of the company furthermore
shows that it could be done without loss of pay.
See entry of December 5 for particulars of a sad accident by which this
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Friday Saturday and Sunday June 9. 10. 11. days Diferant
Exersises of mind these Days
I went to meeten on Sunday And herd ye Re! M' Commens : in
ye forenoon : from Pauls words : But Put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ. And in the afternoon from Some of S Peters words in i
of Peter 5. 7. Casting all your care upon him : for he careth for
you. the Church purtook of the Sacrement to Day : oh that God
would Prepare me for Such near Communion with him
Monday Tusday Wedensday And Thursday. June y. 12. 13. 14.
15 days Alas ray Backsliding hart : Oh how have I Revolted from
the Liven God Alas Alas when I am left of God I Do Soon fall
into Sin Oh that God would Glorify his grace in Parding my
many-Fold Sin and gilt: Althoe I am A grate And very wicked
And Vile one
on wedensday I Took Leve of Frinds And Rode to Cambridge
And my Brother Came home
Friday June. 16. Nothing Done in ye forenoon in the afternoon
we had orders to be redy to march At Six Agreable to Orders our
Regiment Preadid and about Sun-set we was Drawn up and herd
Prayers : And about Dusk Marched for Bunkers hill ; under Com
mand of our own Co! Prescott. jest before we turned out of ye
rode to go up Bunkers-hill ; Charlestown we was halted ; And about
Sixty men was taken out of our batallion to go into Charlestown ; I
being one of them : Capt Nutten ^ heded us Down to ye town
house ; we Sot our Centres by y" waterside ; the most of us got in
the town house But had orders not to Shut our eyes Our Men
marched to Bunker-Hill And begun thair intrenchment And Careed
it on with the utmost Viger all Night, Early in the Morning I
joined them
Saturday June f 17. the Enemy appeared to be much Alarraed
on Saturday Morning when thay discvered Our operations and im
mediately began a heavy Cannonading from a batery on Corps-Hill
Boston and from the Ships in y" Harbour, we with little loss Con
tinued to Carry on our works till i o'Clock when we Discvered
a large Body of the Enemy Crossing Charles-River from Boston.
thay landed on a Point of land about a Mile Eastward of our
Intrenchment And immediately disposed thair army for an attack
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previous to which thay Set fire to the town of Charlestown. It is
supposed that the Enemy intended to attack us under the Cover of
the Smoke from the burning Houses, the Wind favouring them in
Such a Design ; While on the other side their Army was extending
Northward towards Mistick-River with an apparant Design of sur
rounding our Men in the Works, And of cutting of any Assistance
intended for our Relief, thay ware however in some Measure,
counteracted in this Design, and Drew their Army into closer Order.
As the Enemy approached, Our men was not only Exposed to the
Attack of a very numerous Musketry but to the heavy Fire of the
Battery on Corps-Hill, 4 or 5 Men of War, Several Armed Boats or
Floating Batteries in Mistick-River, and a number of Field pieces.
Notwithstanding we within the intrenchment, and at a Breast Work
without, sustained the Enemy's Attacks with [g]reat Bravery and
Resblution, kiled and wounded great Numbers, and repulsed them
several times ; and after bearing, for about 2 Hours, as severe and
heavy a Fire as perhaps ever was known, and many having fired
away all their Araraunition, and having no Reinforsement : althoe
thare was a great Boddy of Men nie By : we ware over-powered by
Numbers and obliged to leave the Intrenchment retreating about
Sunset, to a small Distance over Charlestown Neck. N. B. I Did
not leave the Intrenchment utill the Enemy got in I then Re
treated ten or Fifteen rods, then I receved a wound in my rite arm
the bawl gowing through a little below my Elbow breaking the little
shel Bone Another bawl struk my Back taking of a piece of Skin
about as big as a Penny But I got to Cambridge that night, the
Town of Charlestown supposed to contain about 300 Dwelling-
Houses, a great Number of which ware large and elegant, besides
150 or 200 other Buildings, are almost all laid in ashes by the Bar
barity and wanton Cruelty of that infernal Villain Thomas Gage
Oh the goodness of God in Preserving my life Althoe thay fell on
my Right hand and on my left : O may this act of Deliverance of
thine oh God lead me never to Distrust the, but may I Ever trust
in the and put Confodence in no Arm of flesh. I was in great Pane
the first Night with my wound
Sunday June 18 I and Phinias Hobord ^ Came to M' Watsons
1 A son of Nathan and Mary (Patterson) Hubbard, of Groton, who" was a
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on Monday June 19 M' Hobord and I Sat out for Home Came as
far as Lincol, met our Honered fathers Got as far as Concord
that night
Tusday June 20. we got home
Now for a Conciderable time Pas I Could not keep my Jornal
for my wound in my Arme But Now I begin to Rite a little
Monday Augus 14* Sot out For Cambridge Got thare that Day ;
found our Company perty well :
Now from monday to Saterday nigt Nothing hapned worth noteis
Lords Day August 20'" in the morning I Etended prayers about
10 We went And herd the Re' Doct' Langdon on the Common From
S Luke 7 Cha' from the 36 Varce to the end of the Chapter And
in the afternoon from S John 7. 17. Hee spoke Excellently from
the words
Monday August the 21 Nothing meterial
Tusday. Wedensday august 22. 23. Days Only our Usal Dutes. I
went to Watertown to see M' Devens, About Some Cast but Could
not Git it
Thursday August th 24 Etended prayers as usal : About twelve
Oclock I had my arme Dres! And Docter Hart ^ Opened it nigh 2
Inches Down to the Bone : About 3 in the afternoon Co! Prescott
Gave orders to March to Sewels ^ Pinte and thay marched But I
Did not Go with them bcause of my wound
Friday Satterday August 25. 26. Days A little Firing from the
Enemies works to Day But Did but little hurt
Lords Day august 2 7* Etended Meeten and herd the Revent
D'' Langdon from furst of Luke 74. 75. Varces : in the forenoon he
Shew, our Natteral Depraveity and Enmety to God and Gods way
whilst in our unrenewed Estate : in the afternoon Shew us that
we Should Sarv him in holiness and fear. O that I might Practis
accordingly
We was alam? several times to day : by reson of our Men Begining
to intrench on Ploud Hill : ' thare was Considarable firing we had
1 Dr. John Hart, of Georgetown, surgeon of Colonel Prescott's regiment.
^ Sewall's Point is in that part of Brookline now known as Longwood.
2 Ploughed Hill, known later as Mount Benedict, stood in that part bf
Charlestown which afterward became Somerville. In very recent times it has
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2 Men kiled and 2 wounded : our People Sunk one of the Enemies
Floting Batteris
Munday and Tusday August 28. 29. Sum Firing these days one
of our men was kil? by the floting Batteries in Mistick River tusday
night one of the Riful Men was buried under armes Church way :
with great decency and Solemnety
Wedenday Thursday August 30. 31. Days the Enemy has Bin a
Cannonading and Buming of us : But du little hurt : Thanks be to
God for any tokens for good I found a young Gentleman that I
Could Freely Convers with on Sperital things I find God has a
Remnant in this Depraved and Degenarated and gloomy time
Friday and Saturday September i. 2. Days Nothing Strange
hapned these Days
Lords day Sepfi 3 Etended Prayers and Preaching in the fore
Noon the Revent M' Lenard^ from Deuteronomy 20. i. 2, 3, 4. In
the Afternoon a Gentleman unknoon by me spoke from Esther
9. I, 2.
Munday Sept^ 4 Sum firing to Day
Now from the forth Day to the Seventeth Day nothing of Great
Consequence hapned in the Armey we Carried on our works on
Ploud hil with great sped
Lords Day Sep', the 1 7 Etend? meeten And heard the Re! M! Len-
nard from jeremiah 15. 16. Thy words ware found and I Did eat
them, &c he spoke Excelenty And the Church Purtook of the
Sacrament in the forenoon oh thet I was made alive unto God
and Prepared for such near Communion with Christ in the Afternon
the rev D! Langdon Preach! from Revelation 21. 3. Behold the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will Dwell with them, and
thay Shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them,
and be their God. this was good Preaching
From Sabarday \'] D to Sabarday 24 Day of Sep'. Nothing of
Consequence hapned only the enemy fired Sume And wounded 2 or
3 men. Lords Day Sep'. 24. Etended Prayars half after 6 in the morning :
and Preaching at 10 oclock, — D! Langdon Preached in the fore
noon from I of Peter 5. 10. 11. In the afternoon R! D! Appilton^
1 Rev. Abiel Leonard (H. C. 1759), °£ Woodstock, Conn., chaplain of Colonel
Putnam's regiment.
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a good old Minister in his 8i or 2 year of his Age he took his
Text out of I of Timothy. 6. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, Lay
hold on eternal life,
Monday : sep'. 25* one man was whip? and Drummed out for
Stealing : he was a bold and unshamefasced wrech. o that men
was wise thet thay understood that thay would Consider on thare
latter End
Tusday and Wedensday Sept^ 26. 27. Days our men went from
Roxbury And Took from Gage 12 Cattle and 2 horses And Burnt
a Bulding Thursf Friday Sepf: 28. 29. ^ Nothing worth notes
Saterday Sept: 30'!" One of our Regi! was Buried : And one Man
Belonging to Cambridge was taken Poorly of a Sudden and Died
Amediately Alas upon what a Slender thread do our lives hang on ;
yet we are as Carles as thoe we was to live always.
Lords Day October 1* I her? the Re! DT Appleton he Preach?
again from 1 timothy 6. 12 : He Shew what Puting on the hole
Armer of God was in its several Peaces of armer. having our lins
gurt about with truth : And having on the brest plate of Righteous
ness and your feet shod with the Preparation of Peace : Above all
taking the Sheld of faith wharewith ye shall be able to Quench all
the fiery Darts of the wicked and take the helmet of Salvation
and the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Praying
always with all Prayer And Supplication in the spirit. Ephesians
6 C. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. in the afternoon her? the Re' M? lennard
from Isaiah 40. 28. Nothing of Consequence hapned from the
Furst of Oct^ to the end of the Seveneth Day Only A number of
boats are Making : and Sum Cannaiding from Boston neck But did
but little hurt
Lords Day Ocf: 8- I herd the Revent M' Lennard From Isaiah
30. 18 ; he is a God of Judgment : Blessed, are all thay that Wait
on hira And in the afternoon A Gentleman Unknown to me : From
S': Matthew V.'^' 5.^' Blessed are the meek : for they shall inherit the
earth Munday Ocf-. 9- the Carpenter are Giting Timber and Frairaing
Barraks as fast as thay Can by the generals order
Tusday Wedensday Thursday and Friday Ocf: 10. 11. 12. 13 Days
The Armey lies without much Bisnis Carried on only Bulding Bar
rocks and fordfying a little : we Act in the Defensive more than
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Saterday Ocf 14'^ Nothing of Consequence
Lords Day Oct^ 1$'^ Her? R! Mf Lenard in the forenoon From
Psalms 48. 8. God will establish it for ever in the afternoon a
Stranger to me Precht From Nahara i. 7. the Lord is Good, a
Strong hold in the Day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust
in him. he Treated upon the Power And goodness of God he Sed
his Power Shone Conspicious in the Creation : and in Saving and
leading the Childrin of Israel through the Sea and wilderness Sav
ing the three from the Rage of the fire &c
Monday Ocf: \&\ Nothing more then Common
Tusday Ocf: I7!^ Our People Went this evening with two Float
ing Batteryes Down Cambridge River to fire on Boston : thay went
within About A Mile and half: fired Sum time, when one of thare
Cannon Split : wounded Eight Men whareof One Died. O the Sad
Efect of wor : when will the time Com when we need larn war No
more Wedensday Ocf iS'.!" Nothing Meterial : my Honnered Father
Came Down to See me and the armey
Thicrsday Ocf 19'."! and Friday Ocf 20'!" A Great talk of more
troops being Sent to Boston But our Men ant Scart at trifels. I
would to God that our People had as good Courage in the Speritual
warfare as thay have in the Temporal one
Now from OctT Friday 20'-'' to thirsday 26. of great noteis
friday Oct: 27 I got a Furlow and Rode home to groton I
was Not very well when I left Cambridge and when I came home
the Docter Said I had the Camp Fever which verily Apered and
was true.
Saterday Def 2? I left my Jurnal at Cambridge that I could not
keep it for Six Weeks I have bin unwell all this time and am Still
so. Alas I have bin Ded the most of this time to Speritual things
oh that God would quicken me by his grace
Lords Day Defi 3''? I Stay? at home all Day I have such a
Hedake that I Cannot Read but Very little, I feel for the most
Part very ded and dul in Releguon at this time.
Monday Dec:. 4'-!; Nothing of Consequence
Tusday Dec: 5?' I Rode in the forenoon to the Docters returned
about Noon ; my Father and Brother Benj''- went Down to Nasha-
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God in his holy and Riteous Provedence Suffered them both to
Drowned O ! how Awfull is Death Espesually when it is sent in
such a sudden and Suppriseing Mannar. But when I Consider it is
the Hand of God I must and Desire to be Resined to Gods will : oh
grant blessed God to thy Sarvant that I may make a wise and Re-
ligous improvement of every Dispensacion of thy Providencees
Wedensday Dec: 6'.'' our frinds and Naighbors all Day Sarched
the River and found my Brother
Thirsday friday Saterday and Lords-Day Dec: 7. 8. 9. and lo'?
Days People Sarch? for the Body of my Father but found it not
Monday Dec: 11. the Funeral was and the R! Mf Bigalow-' was
sent for he Prayed with us
Tusday Dec: 12'!' I hope was a good Day to my Sole at Night
I Prayed in the famerly and God seemed to give me boldness to the
Throne of grace
Wednesday dec: I3'^ God has of late frouned on our Enemies
and Given into our hands much warlike stors : And at Newfound
land the Kings Fishermen Amounting to more than 4000 Men Was
Lost in a mighty Storm on the 9'.'' of September. And two Vessels
was struck with Lightining Belonging to our Enemies.
Thursday DecT. 14'!' O how Marvelously good is God to me in
keeping me from the Flames of Hell and Death When the arrers of
Death and of Gods rath flies so thick.
Friday Dec', is'.*" Alas what a backward Hart have I and how
SlothfuU that, before I am aware My Hart is Sat on the things of
this world and Deceives me.
Saterday De/f: i6'? O ym dulness to Duty oh that I did take
more delite in the ways of Godliness : Quicken me oh God of thy
own mear good Pleasure because I ara dul of understanding.
Lords-day Dec: 1 7'^ I went to Gods Houss in the afternoon and
heard the Rev. M! Biggalow from S. Matthew 24. 44.'^ Therefore
be ye also ready : for in such an hour as you think not, the Son of
man cometh.
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday Dec: 18. 19. 2o'^ days, our
1 Rev. Isaac Biglow (H. C. 1769), who was preaching at this period as a can
didate for the vacancy caused by the dismissal of Mr. Dana. He was born
at Weston, on May 13, 1750, and died on April 18, 1777. He studied for the
ministry, but never was settled over a parish. The father wrote his surname
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westorn Forses are very Sucsesfull in Subdueing our forron and
Domistick enemies : Providence seems to faver us, O that we might
Eye the hand from whence Comes all our Help.
Thirsday Dec: 21? O my backwardnes to Duty; oh bring me
out of my Self and may I see the Necessity of Puting of the old
man With his Deeds and of Puting on the New.
Friday Dec: 22? Lord thou hast I acknowledge bin good and
rought out our Deliverance from time to time Thou didest Plant
us hear in this good land and thy Right hand hath saved us ever
since But Alas what a bad improvement have we made of these
things Saturday Dec: 23? And now o Lord we are in treble Boston is
a seat whare our Unnatteral Enemyes are in Prosession : the People
of the Town of Boston that are our frinds have bin forsted to leave
the town or be shut up and Confined thare amoungst our foes And
alas o God we have Sined as a Continant we have Sined as A
Provence we have sined as Connected with a town and a Famerlyes
and Privets : But oh God do not Cast of this thy Land that thou
hast garded so long
Lords-day Dec: 24'.'' felt two Dul in duty : good God take away
this acused hard Hard of mine and give me a soft Hart one that
may be esely Impresed upon by thy word
Monday Tuesday, 25, 26'!^ of Dec: I fell dull in Duty and yet I
dont se my sin so as to foliar it as I ought : I am a great sinner yet
I Dont se my Sin aright.
Wednesday Def 27'.'" Two Carles in watching over my Conduct
for I git into the world and Depart from God.
Thirsday Dec: 2 8'^ Lord I find it a hard Peace of work to deny
myself oh that thou Lord would make it more easey by granting
thy Holey speret to thy unworthy servant.
Friday Dec: 29"' I Thought on a life of Religion ; But with two
much Coldness
Saturday and Lords-day Dec: 30, 3I'^ Alas what gloomy time is
this to my Sole : oh that God would Cause light to arise out of the
midst df darkness and Shuew to me his Salvation
Monday and Tuesday January i, 2? Days, Being the year of our
Lord Christ 1776. oh How unprofitable have I bin this Year Past
in the Servis of God.
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the time to come : For I se that mortals must dy : This Day Aunt
Longley ^ of Shierly was buried. And another Woman of the same
Town was at hur work : Instantly fell Down and died in an Hours
time ; grant blessed God that I may not Loose the improovment of
these Despencations of Devine Providence, But may my Sole be
filed with Admiration for thy Distinguishing goodness to me.
^ Thursday Friday Jan^ 4. 5'!* alas what a sinner I am, my sins
are of the blackest Die Alas thay are inhanst because when I had
akened in some Degree to a sence of my duty I have fell into Car
nal Security again : Oh will the Lord help me out of the Deep mier
in which I am fallen
Saturday and Lords-dad January, 6. 7 two dul in duty: I went
to Meeten all Lords-day and hear? the Rev. M! Biggalow from,
S, John 3. 16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begoton Son, &c. he shue the Method of Salvation by Christ Jesus.
Monday Tuesday Jan". 8. g. I am unworthy of a plase in the
world : it is a wonder of the Lord's mercy that I am not Consumeed.
Wednesday Jan^ 10'!' alas the degeneracy of the times
Since Godly men deca O Lord,
do thou my cause dend :
For scarse these wretched times aford,
one jest and faithfull frend.
[Some pages of the Diary here missing.]
Monday Tuesday F'ebr" 19. 20'.'' [1776] Alas the Divel has great
hold of me I am under his laws and am secure
Wednesday Thursday Feb" 21. 22. How have I got into the
world o Lord keep me from the sin of the world
Friday Saterday 23 24'!" Febl I indulge Security and am blind
Lords-day Feb". 25'.*! Went to Meeten and herd Rev. M! Emerson
of Concord from Isaiah in forenoon 3 Chap. 10. 11 Verses Say ye
to the righteous that it shall be well with hira : Wo unto the wicked
it shall be ill with hira ; Afternoon from S Luke 18. 7. And shall
not God avenge his own elect, which Cry day and night unto him,
though he bare long with them ? felt dul in duty : I Pray God
grant that by the Preaching of this Worthey Man I may be sdred up
to my duty and to a holy walk with God
1 The wife of William Longley, of Shirley, who was Mary, eldest child of
Joseph and Abigail (Sawtell) Parker, of Groton.
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Monday Tuesday Feb". 26. 27'!' Security and backwardness to
duty Wednesday Feb". 28 I went to a funeral of Dec[on] Colyars^
Thursday Feb" 29 Security
Friday March y i'.' I went to se Abigail Stone ^ who was very
sick She was in great consern about hur sole
Saturday and Lords-day March 2. -^ I have two much cause to
lement my Past life I went to meeten herd Rev. m! Bigelow fore
noon 2 Corinhians 4. 18. While we look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which ' are not seen : for the things
which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen
are eternal, he set forth the Excelency of things unseen to things
seen: Afternoon from Psalms 16. 11 in thy presence is foolness
of Joy, at thy right hand thare are pleasures forevermore.
Monday Tuesday March 4. 5'!" oh Lord Ifift me out of the Pit of
Security : and save me for I am a sinner
Wednesday March, 6, I her? that Father was found near Pepperil
Bridge. I took my hors and rode there ; and found that he had bin
seen on the top of the water near shore but was not stoped : I Pray
God grant that His body may be found If Consistant with thy will
for it is a living sorrow But why should I be so anxious about the
body when the sole is gon to its place, oh that I was more Anxious
to secure the immortal part which nither Dies nor dcays.
Thursday March 7'." was sot apart for Fasting and prayer : but
we had no Preaching : I was at the fun of m! Dodges Child, Decon
[James] Stone made the Prayer ?
Friday March 8"" Show to me my security O Lord most High?
Saturday Ma''. 9'^ I with two or three others sot out in order to
go down by the side of Nashawa River to the mouth of the same
we got to the lower bridge then left the river : being dark, for lodg
ing : Part of us stayed at Esq! Lovels I and Brother Holden ° went
further to William Luns
Sabath-day Mr''. 10'!" went quit to the mouth of the river then
back for home Came to Holis : Betwixt Longleys Island and
1 Probably alluding to the funeral of some one in Deacon Collier's family.
2 A daughter of Deacon James and Mary (Farwell) Stone, born on Decem
ber 2, 1736.
^ Jabez Holden, who married Rachel Farnsworth, an elder sister of the
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Jacho Mill ^ about a Mile below s? Mill thare we found the Bodey
that we was looking after took out the same and Brot it home
Monday March i x? the funeral was set and M! Bigelow Came
and went to Prayer : oh that I might think on his words and be
ready for a suden Chang ?
For the most of this Week I was thoughtless and Blind ; and
have not don my duty : and I never shall if god does not help ;
and Quicken me and oh Lord Put within me a right Hart and
temper of mind?
Lords Day March 17'!" I her? the Rev! M! Bigelow from James
2. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18'.'' He incested most on the 18 verse : he sed a
ded faith without works is ded? this day y' British troops left
Boston March Monday 1 8'? I am Exercised with an exceeding Hedake :
o the troubels of this life. Yisterday the British Troops left Boston
Tuesday Wednesday March 19, 2o'^ Alas I have not the Presence
of God Good God Help me to disern my Blindness and Dedness
in matters of Religion
Thursday Friday March 21, 22"? Coldness in duty
Saturday March 23? I went to see Abigail Stone who was sick
and very low : Prayed with hur But was Two Cold and lifeless ; oh
warm my Hart Blesed God ; and may I be more Earnest in Beging
for mercy?
Sabath-day March 24'? Her? Rev! Ml Bigelow forenoon Philip-
pians, 2, 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus ;
Afternoon Psalms 44 the six first Verses. We have heerd with our
ears, O God, our fathers have told us what work thou didst in their
days, in the times of old. &c He sed that our fathers Coming hear
being in the Year 1620 on the 11 of December; was similer in
many instances to that of God bringing his Ancant People the Jews
into Canan, out of Egypt : for he has sufered no Enimy to Destroy
us : for when France Sent a
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I went to meeten and heerd Rev! M! Daniel Emerson ''¦ From i
1 Longley's Island is probably the island near the mouth of a small brook,
in what is now Nashua, N. H. ; and " Jacho's Mill " is the same as Jaquith's,
later known as Runnells's, in Hollis, N. H.
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Corinthians ii. 26 For as oft as ye eat this bread and drink this
Cup ye do shew the Lords death til he come
The Church of Christ in this Place Purtook of the Sacrament O
that I had Grace to fit me for such near approch to Christ at his
Table But now I turn my back But as I turn Such Thoughts as
these sugest to my mind ; Ah thou ungratefull retch to slight the
ordiance of the Supper see my Children feed there Sols Richly :
whilst thine is a Starveing : Wouldest thou not pay more regard to
the last words of a Dear and dying frind if by so doing you would
Reep so much advantage as you might by this ordiance. As I
walked out with what shame did I skulk for Rev, m! Emerson spoke
Close to those that turn thare backs
Lords-day May 5 [1776] I her? Rev! M' Adams from Romans
12. II Not slothful! in business A meen Sermon afternoon M''
Whiteraore from Mathew 6. 10 Thy will be done in Earth as it is
in Heaven, he Spoke little better
Thursday May g'!' was sot Apart by the Town for fasting and
Prayer that God would be Plesed to send Us a man for a teacher
that will be faithfull Over the flock Rev. M! Whitney of Shirley
Preached in the forenoon from Colossians, i. 7 Afternoon Rev!
M.' Emerson from S Luke 10. 2 Pray ye therefore the Lord ofthe
harvest that he would send forth labourers into his Harvest this was
preaching he had no nots oh that I might treasher up the truths
Lords-day May \2 went to meeten in the afternoon her? M' Bige
low from Ecclesiastes 9. 10 felt Cold and dul in duty
My Brother Jonas Came hom from Mechias [Maine.]
Friday May 17'!' this day was sot Apart by the Grand Congras
as a day of fasting and Prayer throughout the Continent I went to
meten and herd Rev, Mr B. from 2 Chronicles 20 from the fifth to
the thirteenth Verse : But O Coldness in duty Help good Lord
and forgive
Sabboth day May 26 oh dedness in duty I went to Meten herd
MT Fisk forenoon from Psalms 4'^ 6 Afternoon Mathew 22. 5 But
they made light of it A Smart Young Precher
Lords-day. June 2 I went to meeten herd R[ev.J M! B. from i
Corinthians 10. 31. Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or what
soever ye do do all to the glory of God was sleepey and dul in the
forenoon O that I was more lively in duty : But Alas Coldness in
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Monday June 17'." on this day of the month was Charlestown
fight a year ago I was wounded by our
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Groton March 20'.'' 1778 I being prest with a sence of my Duty
in Coming to the Lords table and being Convinced that it was my
Duty : it being an absolute Command of my dying Saviour I went
to our Paster the Rev. Daniel Chapplin ^ to offer myself to the Com
munion But Alas what oppertions did I meet with from the Divil
and my Corrupt and wicked Hart to that degree that I had thots of
turning back but Considering how unsoldierlike it was to turn the
back I went forward, and I was I hope in some Mesure anabled
to lay open my Hart and desire to him and he Delt faithfully &
kindly with me
22 Lords day I was Propounded for Communion now for this
week my mind was diferantly Exercised Some times A glimpse of
hope and other times overwhelm? with fear
29 Lds was afected with the Preching
April I Wednesday herd a lecter by Rev. Daniel Emerson from
Zepheniah 3. 17 he will rest in his live
Thursday April 2°? Etended our Privit Meeten But was dull in
duty oh God Parden and forgive
3 fr was Meloncoly
\ S. I hope I enjoyed some of the Presence of God : O God
make me thankfuU
5 Lds. I went to Meetin & herd y!' Rev. M! Chapplin from Luke
14. I7'^ Come for all things are Now ready I was Adraited to Join
with the Church of Christ in this place : and O how did I long to
love God, and do my duty and live up to my Sacramental Engage
ments O God I beg that thou wood Increase my faith & love &
Repentance and obedance and O God may I never fall into Secu
rity And it was Communion day &c and we was Entertained in
the afternoon from Romans 4. 16 Therefore it in [is] of faith that
it might be by Grace
6 Mi injoyed Some freedom in famerly Duty thanks be to God
1 Rev. Daniel Chaplin (H. C. 1772), minister of Groton. He and Mr. Bige-
. low, previously mentioned, had preached as candidates for the vacancy caused
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T Tu O God grant Me thy quickening Spirit & O may I prase
and love the
8 We, I herd d- Parker * an Anabapds preacher he spoke from
Exodus 17'^ 6 and thou shalt smite the Rock &c
9 Th, I am two luke warm : O Lord Shoe to me my true State
& Condition and if there is any Sin that I have never Repented of
Discover it unto me & give me repentance and O God give me a true
hatred of Sin and a Grater love to Religon.
10 Fr, dull in Religon S: Stuped
II Sa, had Som sence of Sin; & I was a plowing, and .these
words Came often to my mind, and the Plowing of the Wicked is
Sin : now thinks I it may be I am sining in Every furrow I turn and
if that is the Case what a load of Sin and gilt awaits me. But O
God if I am a wicked Man in the sence of the words wilt thou dis
cover unto me my Sin and O God wilt thou Give me Repentance
and sarch me O God Shoe rae the Plage of my Hart
1 2 Ld, I Heard M': Thatcher. Lord Make me to know my duty
and give me love and faith
1-^ M, d, O security, and dulness, and slothfuUness to duty oh
may I see my self and Repent.
14 T, u, O Lord may I grow in Grace and in the knowledge of
the truth & O Lord may my Coruptions be Subdued.
15. 16. W, Th, my mind was sumthing Composed I went to
Privit meetin on Th we Red a sermon of M! Davis, oh Jeruselim
Jerusalm who kileth the Profets and stoneth them that are sent unto
you how often would I have gathered you together as a hen gath-
ereth hur Chickings under hur wings and you would not.
IT F, I feal Cold and dul & feal I want a sence of the love of
God &c
18 S, Lord lift upon me the light of thy Countance and be my
God 19 L, d, went to Meetin M! Chaplain Preached in the forenoon
from S! Mathew ro.'.*" 33. But whosoever shall deny me before men,
him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven. After
noon Luke 14. 22. And the servant said Lord it is dun as thou hast
Commanded and yet there is room, oh the hardness of my hart
that I cant Moorn more for Sin. But I moorn that I Cant moorn
1 Dr. Isaiah Parker, who had previously studied medicine, and who two
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and (desire to) Pray that I might moorn, and may I be thankfull
that I Can see myself in any degree
20 M, I seemed to be presed to secret duty by my Consiance,
but felt a strange backwardness O that I did love Religion.
[Some pages here missing.']
S, 6, 7 [May, 1778,] T, W, Th, had some asistance in Prayer
for which I desire to be thankfull : but am two lukewarm and Dull
and hfeliss in Duty
8, 9 F, S, on F went to a funeral of M^ Wilham Grean's ^ but
was dul when the duty of Prayer was Proformed : in the Evening
love was somewhat in Exercise by Conversing with Christions friends
oh that I was thankfull for favors Resieaved and that I did live
near to God & in the way fo my duty
10 L,d M'. Chaplain Preached at Shirley and I heard him from
Revelation 22. 17. And whosoever will let him take the water of
life freely afternoon from Amos 4. 12. &c but althoe the Preech-
ing was powerfull yet in the afternoon I was dul and Cold oh that
God wood warm me with his spirit Even me who am a ded dog and
oh forgive forgive and power out thy Sperit and quicken me by thy
divine Grase and shed abroad thy love in My Soal in the Evening
was Melted with a Sence of my hard hart & was led to join with
D! Wats
Dear Saviour, Steep this rock of mine in thine own crimson sea !
Noone but a bath of blood divine can melt this flint away.
17 X (/, during the last week I was much terapted to Sin and to
backslide from God & was in a Cold frame for the most part I
went to a privit meeten & Church meeten this day I heard M!
Chapplin from Luke 10. 42 But one thing is needfull ; and Mary
hath Choson that Good part &c Afternoon Colossians 3. 2. Set
your affections on things above &c Alas I git from God my guide
and so am tempted by the Divil and my wicked hart to Sin of the
blackest nature
18, ig, M, T, oh how am I Urged on to Sin by the flesh and the
Divil : oh Lord subdue my Corruptions and may I see more of the
plage of my own hart & hate Sin with a parfect hatred and turn to
the Lord who will pardon
1 According to his epitaph, William Green died on May 7, 1778, in the
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Now for the remainder of this Week I was Exersised with temp-
tadsion to Sin and was foild by Saton and fell into great sin ; for it
was my Constitutinal sin : & I thought I had got the victory over it
and was of my guard But oh the blackness of my Crime it being
comited deliberately and knowingly how do I deserve Hell and
misery & Everlasting banishment
24 Z, d, M! Chaplain Preached from Colossians 3. i. If ye
then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above after
noon y" same chapter & 3 verse : for ye are ded and your life is hid
with Christ in God But was Cold and dul having no Sense of of \sic]
my danger or my Duty the six next days was followed with temp
tations to Sin ; and alas I have no strength to withstand with that
farmness as I ought
3T Z, d, Atempted secret Prayer in the Morning But O I dont
meet with God Alas I fear He has withdrawn wholey from me and
well he may on account of my late sin in in \_sic] particular O was
Ever any Creature Porsed with such a hard Hart as I am ; did ever
a Creature stand it out against there Creatore as I do O that God
wod humble me on that acount I herd M! [Moses] Adams of Acton
from Luke 14. 18 And thay all with one Consent began to make
excuse Afternoon Mathew 9. 12. But when Jesus heard that he
said unto them thay that be whole need not a physician but thay
that are sick.
Monday, T, June i, 2. 1778 O the dulness & indiferance that
has seas? my hart : art Thou quite gon O Lord O return unto thy
unworthy Servent ; thou wood be jus I must confess if thou was to
tak away the Strivings of thy Spirit from me. But oh God do not
withdraw and give me up to hardness of Hart and a Reprobate
mind But wash me in the great fountain But O Lord I have noth
ing to plead as to worthiness But I have much to Plead as to ray
Nesesity & want
3 W, went to lector and herd, M^ Newel from Colossians i. 27
which is Christ in you the hope of Glory
4 Th, was dul in Religion was Riding with a Christion frind ;
had agreable Conversation on the rode, herd a lector at Luning-
burg by M' whitney ^ from Acts 3. 26. in turning every one of you
from his iniquities. I was furnished with mater of self Examation
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by the reading of M. Flavels life But O how do I come short of
his example and how infinitely short of the Example of Christ
5, 6, F, S, had some inlargment in duty But mostly cold and
dul in duty
7 Z, d, this was Communion day with our Church & there was
Seven persons taken into the Church M! Chaplain Preached from
Romans 6. i, 2. What shall we say then shall we Continue in Sin
that grace may abound God forbid how shall we that are ded to
sin live any longer therein Afternoon Colossians 3. 4. When
Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear him
in glory, his Proformance was Extraordany I had something of a
vew of the odaous nature of Sin and some cuting Reflections on the
Acount thereof
8, 9, M, T, was slothfull in duty for the most part
10 W, rod to Harvord to an Ordanation of D.' Parker of the
baptis order ; Dr Stilman gave the discorce his text was in the 2,
Timothy 2. 2. And the things that thou hast heard of me, among
many witnesses the same Commit thou unto faithfull men who shall
be able to teach others also. M' AUin gave a lector towards night
in the sarae place from Mathew 5. 6. let your light so shine before
men &c
II. Th, went to Privit meetin why oh my Sole dont you love
your redeemer more and hate Sin more
12, 13, F, S, had some inlargment in the duty of Prayer and
meditation make me thankfull o Lord
14 Z, d, herd M! Chaplin from Hebrews, 6. 7, 8. For the
earth which drinketh in the rane that Cometh oft upon it, &c En
joyed some Comfort in duty and was asisted in Spakeing in the
famerly on important truths.
15, 16 M, T, was tempted to Sin even to my right hand Sin.
17, 18 W, Th, went to Westford to an ordonation ^ But it was
put By til the nex wek on acount of some Dificualtyes and divisions
in the Church had opertunity for meditation by the way
19, 20, F, S, had some freedom in prayer But alas at what a
low rate do I live with God and in religion ; oh that God wold
revive the things that begin to die in me
1 June 17, 1778, was the day appointed for the ordination of Mr. Jesse Read
at Westford, which, owing to dissensions in the church, did not take place.
See Hodgman's History of Westford (pp. 269-271), for an account of the
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21 Z, d, herd MT Thatcher from Corinthians 13. 5. Examin
yourselves whether ye live in the faith how apt I am to Rest secure
and live in the neglect of duty ; and sin at a high rate ; oh God
shoe to me my Sins and foly and Grant me new obediance
For the three next days I Enjoyed somthing of the Divine Pres
ence was with a Christen that spoke on the power of religion : oh
that I did live near to God and Duty the Sun was in an Aclips on
Wednesday 24 Day which aforded me mater of Medation
25 Th, went to privet meeten O that I was more thankfull
26 F the Wather was Exceding hot & I was much exposed to it
which led me to reflect on the State of the finerly impenant who will
be forst to bare the scaldings drops of Gods wrath without any
toleration or mixter of mercy
27 S, O that my hart was in Heaven while my hands is Engaged
about my lawfull buisness.
28 Z, d, herd M' Chaplin John 6. 44. No man can come to
me except the Father which hath sent me draw him ; &c After
noon Mathew 5. 6. Blesed are thay which do hunger and thurst
after righteousness : for they shall be filled. O how dull am I un
der the Breeching of the word : for which I am to blame quicken
me O Lord by thy Spirit
Now for three days I was two dul in religion and duty
2 July Th, Sot out Early in the morning & went to Worster &
saw fore Persons Hung for the murder of M' Spooner of Brook-
fieald : Viz, W- Spooner his wife M! Buchanan. Brooks & Ros all
young persons ^ and O what a solam sean it was : to Behold Per
sons lanching into the world of sperits O Lord keep me from fall
ing into Sin which Exposes life to to \_sic] publick Justis : But Alas
how have I Exposed my life temporal & Etarnal to Divine Justis
thou oh God would be Just to make rae Miserable and Cast me of
for ever
3 F, went to Church meeten O at what a low rate do I five
4 S, was Enabled to use fervency in Prayer in the morning
5 Z, d, herd MT Chaplin from Colossians 3. 4. When Christ
who is our life shall appear, then shall ye Also appear with him in
1 This case had caused great excitement in central Massachusetts on account
of the social standing of Mrs. Spooner. Her accomplices were James Buchanan
and William Brooks, who had been soldiers in Burgoyne's army, and Ezra Ross,
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glory. Afternoon Proverbs 8. 17. I love thera that love me and
those that seek me early shall find me. Lord cause thy word
preeched this day to be profitable to all that herd it ; Especily to
my Sole and the Youth in special Now for the Past week I was
much in the world ; But Enjoyed some Comfort in God in the way
of duty
12 L, d, herd Mr Thatcher from Jeremiah 13. 23. Can the Ethio
pian chang his skin or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do
good that are accustomed to do evil. Afternon Luke 10. 29. But
he wiling to Justify himself said unto Jesus and who is my neighbor
19 Z, d, the last week I was in a dul frame in Relig" herd M?
Thatcher &c
26 Z, d, O how was I the week Past ded and liflis in Duty
taking little or no delight in secret Prayer O Lord Pluck me as a
brand out of the burning & deliver my sole from the pit of dis-
truction herd M! Chaplin from Acts 3. 19. Repent ye therefore
and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the
times of refreshing shall come from the Presence of the Lord, he
Pointed out Repentance as the way to life in a strikeing point of
light O that I could feel this true repentance which would afect a
true refermation in my hart and life
2 Z, d, August herd M! Chaplin from John 7. 37. In the last
day that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying if any
man thurst let him come unto me and drink, afternoon Ephesians
6. 4. And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath : but
bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord this was
Communion day with our Church but I was Exceeding dul and
stuped 16 Z, d, herd M! Chaplin from Romans 16. 27. God only wise
afternoon Ephesians 6. 4.
30 Z, d, herd M! Chaplin from Ephesians 6. 4. his Preeching
was powerfull. addressing Parents and Children with a mooving
afection O that it might proove of real benefit to all and to me in
particular. this week I was Exersised with temptation oh the fountain of
Corrupttion and Sin that loges in my Brest
6 September L, d, herd M^ Chaplin from Romans 8. 9. Now if
any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is noone of his he shew
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5. 22, 23. oh Lord work in and for me thy good Pleasure & help
me in the neglected duty of Self examanation and O that thou wood
sharch me and discure to me the Plag of my own hart
13 Z, d, herd M! Brick from Isaiah 40. i Comfort ye comfort
ye m[y peopjle saith your God afternon Malachi 3. 14. Ye have
said it is vain to serve God : he spoke with a feealing sense of what
he sed
27 Z, d, herd M! Perry ^ from James i. 2. Mybretherin Count
it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations Afternon Genesis
23. 2 And Sarah died in Karjath-arba the same is hebron in the
land of Canaan and Abraham came to morn for Sarah and to weep
for hur.
4 Z, d, herd M! Thare Mathew 5. 13. ye are the salt of the
earth : but if the salt have lost his savor wherewith shall it be salted
it is henceforth good for nothing but to be Cast out and to be troden
under foot of Men Afternoon Zechariah 9. 12. Turn ye to the
stronghold ye prisoners of hope
8 T, October Was on a Jorney to Boston & was tempted to Sin
and I indulged the thought to two great a length and was burred on
to the wounding of ray sole and dishonor of God Lord Convince
me of sin and convert me unto thy self
18 Z, d, herd M! Chaplin Matthew 6. 10 Thy kingom come.
Afternoon Romans 8. i. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which is in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but
after the Spirit. O that I Could feel the water of this preaching
25 Z, d, herd M^ Chaplin from Mathew 6. 10. thy will be dun
on Earth as it is in heaven. Afternoon Ezekel 18. 31 for why will
ye die
I November Z, d, herd M! Powars'^ of Cohors from Proverbs 18.
10. the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into
it and is safe [ ] Powerfull [ ]
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Blessed is the nation whos God is the Lord ; and the people whorae
he has chosen for his own inheritance
1 Perhaps the Rev. Joseph Perry (H. C. 1752), of East Windsor, Conn., who
on October 23, 1755, had married Sarah Lawrence, of Groton.
2 Rev. Peter Powers (H. C. 1754), of Haverhill,' N. H., which was then
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3 [January, 1779], Z, d, herd M- Chaplin from Luke 9. 23?
And he said to them all, if any man will come after me let him deny
himself and take up his cross daly and follow me Afl* Philippians
4. 5 The Lord is at hand. I am wofully stupid and in a lithargick
state and seem to be left of God & given up to Hardness of hart
oh that God wold apear for me in much mercy & awaike ray drousey
powers to obediance for if thou Lord dost not apear I shall be lost
forever 24 Z, d, herd M^ Chaplin from Mathew 6. 33? But seek ye the
kingdom of God and his rightoness & all thess things shall be added
unto you
31 L, d, herd M- Chaplin from i John 4. 9. in this was mana-
fested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only
begoting Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Afternoon Luke 9. 23. and take up his cross daly and follow me
7 Z, d, February this was sacrament day herd Mf Chaplin from
John 6. 56. he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwell-
eth in me and I in him Afternoon Psalm no. 3. Thy people
shall be willing the day of thy power in the Beauties of holiness for
the wome of the morning : thou haish the dew of thy youith oh
that I had a hart to sarve God but how do I live secure and dull
in the injoyraent of Gospel ordinances ; O the the [sic] wickedness
of the hart
21 L, d, herd M! Chaplin 2 Corinthians 6. 2 behold now is the
excepted time behold now is the day of salvation : afternoon S,
John Verily verily I say unto you He that believeth on me hath
everlasting. Lord return unto me who has bacsliden from the &
grant that I may never back slide from the more ; help lord for
vain is my own help, and atemps to Chang my own hart for Sin
brakes out, and love groes Cold
28 Z, d, herd M! Chaplin i Peter 5. 6. Humble your selves
therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt yoy in
due tim
7 Z, d March herd M! Chaplin from Hebrews 6. 18. That by
two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we
might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope set before us
14 Z herd M! Chaplin from Galations 2. ig'!' For I through the
law am ded to the law that I might live unto God. Time lost and
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25 Z, d, April [1779,] herd M! Chaplin from i'' Corinthians C.
10. nor dronkards shall inherit the kingdom of God oh hardness
without a Parrial
2 Z, d. May herd M! Chaplin from i Timothy 6. 10 For the
love of money is the root of all evil
6 Th, this was a day set apart by our honerable Contanental
Congras as a day of Publick fasting and Prayer herd MJ Chaplin
from Lamentations 3. 40, 31. Let us search and try our ways and
turn again to the Lord. For the Lord will not cast of forever. O
the stupidity of my mind and dedniss in duty o that I was truly
awakened to my duty which must be by an almity power or else I
shall be dead still
The following entry also appears on a page of the Diary.
Amos Shed, mentioned therein, was the eldest child of Wil
liam and Lydia (Farnsworth) Shed, and was born on April
17, 1766. His mother was a sister of the diarist; and pre
sumably the paper was drawn up when the young man became
of age.
To all whom it may concern know that I Amos Shed of Groton in
the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massechusetts
Labourer Have this day reed of Amos Farnsworth of the afores?
Groton Gentlemen my guardian Nineteen Pounds nine shillings and
one farthing in full of one right or double pordon or share in the
real Estate of my late Grandfathers Amos Farnsworth deceas- Es
tate accrued to me in right of my late mother Lydia Shed deceas?
In consideration of the above sum I do for my self Heirs and
assigns acquit all my right in my late Grandfathers Estate to him
and his Heirs forever
The following two or three pages are found in a separate
note-book, and contain entries made during the campaign of
1776, while Mr. Farnsworth was in Captain Job Shattuck's
company, of which he was Ensign.

Amos Farnsworth's Diary

III

o " 3 " o
John Parker o " 3 " o
Lent M! Gilson o " 3 " o
o " 2 " 6
.<4«^«.f/ Ticonderoga 27 1776 Lent Thomas Baker o " 4 " o
August Ticonderoga 29'^ 1776 Lent Levi Parker twelve Dollars
Sept: 7 Lent Ephraim Robins five Shilings York
Sept: 17 lent Elisha Hoit one Dollar
John Nutten d' 0:2:5:0
lent William Colburn o : 1:6:0
Sept: 2^"^ Lenard Taylor Money Payd at Several times, o : 12 : 4 : o
Sept: Lieu! Connant D! 0:2:3:0
Sept: 26'^ Pay? for washing for the Deceasd in
Capt. Shattuck Comp. o : 10 : 9-0
Lent Sarg! Parker one Dollar.
Lent Sargt Sawtell five Dollars
Cap! Shattuck to sause 0:1:10:0
Lenard Taylor Dr 0:1:8:3
Lent Thomas Baker o - 2 - o
Lent Joseph Taylor Seven Dollars
Lent Amasa Gilson One Dollar
Lent Amasa Gilson 0:7:6:0
lent Joseph Taylor Seven Dollars
lent Thomas Baker Two Dollars
Oct: 1776 Isaac Warren D! for a Pare of Stockens 0-7-0-0
Spencer Dec: 6'^ 1776 Lent Isaac Williams two Dollars & Six Pence
Some remarks to help the Memerry
July Tuesday 23? 1776. I sot out on my march for Canada Got
to Charlstown New hampshire
Saturday July 27. Marched from Charlstown.
Monday August s'^ Arived at Ticonderoga
Saturday August i o
Sunday august 11 we went to a Mount South of Ty known by
the name of Mount Independence
Tuesday August 20'!* we mooved acrost the lake and Pich? our
Tents on Ticonderoga
Thursday Sept: 12 Eight of us went upon the Generals Bisness
8 mils Below Crown-Point

112 Amos Farnsworth's Diary
friday Sept: 13 Returning back Stopt and supt at a Widow
woman's hous in Aderson [Addison, Vt.] whare the Smal Pox hod
bin the day before Stay? at Adderson all night
Saterday Sepf 14'.'' we Returned back to Tie
Friday OctT II'^ our fleet and the Enemy had a batde. And
Condnured till Sunday Oct! I3'^ and we lost twelve Sail & five
Retreeted to Ty
Monday Octr 28'^ the Enemy Apeared in Site on a Point of land
and in Battucks [Batteaux] advancing towards us we was Alarmed
and Expected an atack we was in high Sperits
Sunday Novr. 3? the Regulers left Putnam and Crown Point
and went to winter quarters
Tuesday Nov: 26'^ we Set out for home by the way of Albany
arived at Fort Gorge Wednesday : & Fort Edwood Thirsday and
fort An & Saratoga & Stilwater Friday
Saterday lay near Albany
Sunday Decenber i'!' Eat brakefast in Albany I went to Meeten
in the fore noon her? Preeching from Acts 2. 36, 37, 38 Crosed
Hutsons river in the afternoon lay at Green Boosh
Monday Dec^ 2 Came to Canterhoock [Kinderhook, N. Y.] &
Barrenton [Great Barrington, Mass.] & westfieald & Springfieald &
Brookfieald & Worsister & Lankister & Shirley & Got to Groton
Saterday Dec' 7"'
Ticonderoga An acount of the Persons that has dyed Since the 2o'^ August
1776 in Colo" Jona! Reads Regiment
Lieu! Tomson of Capt Toys Comp Died with the Small pox at
fort Jorge
Corporil Spoldin of Cap'. Fords Comp^ ^ died at fort Jorge Small
Pox. Wednesday Sept:_ 4 M^ Baker Cap! Parkers C Dy? And M! Dam-
mon of Cap, Bancroft
Wednesday Sept: io'> 1776 Joshuea Shattuck of Cap! Shattuck
Conpany Di?
Saterday Sept: 14 W, Walker of Capt. Parkers Comp, Died
M': Goodil of Capt, Mils Com James Graham of Capt. Shattuck
1 This company was commanded by John Ford, of Chelmsford.

Amos Farnsworth's Diary 113
Comp? Died on Friday Sept! 20 with the blody-flux Elazor Whip
ple of Cap! Shattuck Comp, Died on Saturday Sept' 21'.'
Sunday Sepf. 22? Jonas Blood of Cap! Shattuck Comp.
Monday Sep'. 23'? John Graves of Cap! Shattuck.
Wednesday Sept: 25?' M! Rice of Cap! Wheelors Comp
A fue Days ago Lieu! Prat of Capt. Toys Comp? Dyed at fort
Jorge with y'r Small Pox
Sunday Sept: 29'^ M! Shattuck of Cap! Gats Comp.
Oct: 2".'' Wednesday Benj? Jewet of Capt. Shattuck Comp.
Ocf M! Gates and M! Prest of Cap! Gates ComP
Ocf 12 Ens!" Underwood of Cap! Wheeler Com?
Ocf 15 M! Goodale of Cap! Gates Comp.
fore of Cap! Bancrofts ComP
M! Kingman of Cap! Parkers Company Died on Thursday Oct!
I7'^ M' toy of Cap! Toys Comp Died Oct! 21
Nehemiah Parker of Cap! Shattuck Comp? Died on Oct! Tues
day 22
Saturday Ocf 26 Will"." Colburn of Cap! Shattucks M! Under
wood of Cap! Whel
Not/. 17'!" M! Leason of Cap! Whelors Comp.

Appendix

THE following Message, sent by Governor Shirley, is
found in the printed Journal (p. 158) of the Massa
chusetts House of Representatives for January 16, 1745-6.
As Captain Samuel Tarbell, mentioned therein, was a Groton
man, probably the ^'fifteen Men inlisted for the Expedition
against Cape-Breton" were also Groton men. The state
ment is of some interest, as it furnishes the only record, so
far as I know, which gives the number of those who went
from Groton to Louisburg, under Pepperrell. Among the
items recorded in Joseph Farwell's note-book, and printed in
the first volume of the Groton Historical Series (No. XIV.
p. 29), is the following entry: —
March y" lo'*" 1745 Our men went out of Groton for Cap
Prtoon [Breton] and the City was taken y^ 18 day of June 1745
It is interesting here to trace the attempt to give the
French pronunciation to the name of the Cape, a custom
which has survived even within my mem.ory.
Snow'shoes were first used by soldiers in Dummer's War ;
and, under a Resolve passed by the General Court, on De
cember 8, 1724, as applied to various towns in the Province,
Groton was ordered to raise forty men who were to be pro
vided " with a good suitable pair of Snow-shoes & Moggasins
fit for Service." They were to be drilled in marching and
running on the snow, and, on the discovery of the enemy,
were to go at once in pursuit. These soldiers became known
as " snow-shoe men," and formed a kind of pre-Revolutionary
minute-men.

ii6 Appendix

Presumably Captain Tarbell's company is the same one
that was organized in Dummer's War, though under different
officers. It was engaged at times in scouting around the
country after the Indian enemy. (See Journal of the House,
December 20, 1745.) The man killed, " and another disabled
by Wounds," as I infer, were not in the Louisburg expedition,
but received their injuries elsewhere.
A Message from His Excellency by Mr. Secretary, viz.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
/Am to inform you that of the Company of Snow-Shoe Men
under the Command of Capt. Samuel Tarball, fifteen Men
inlisted for the Expedition against Cape-Breton, and one Man
was killed, and another disabled by Wounds ; and of the Company
of Snow-Shoe Men under the Command of Capt. Joseph Wilder,
twelve inlisted in the said Expedition ; so that for making the said
Companies compleat, it will be necessary thai twenty-nine Men more
should be a-new inlisted. And therefore I desire you would provide
for their being furnished with Snow-Shoe's and Moggazines, as others
have been. W. SHIRLEY.
Council Chamber
Jan. 15. 1745.
The Journal of the Massachusetts House of Representa
tives for the year 1745 contains many entries in regard to
the expedition against Louisburg, besides numerous allusions
to the event, which oftentimes give useful hints.

Appendix 117

Captain Farrington' s Company
The following " Return of Men," etc., mentioned in the
note on page 52, is found among the manuscripts of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, given by me, on October
I, 1895. The papers came into my possession from General
A. Harleigh Hill, of Groton, Vermont, a descendant of Cap
tain Ephraim Wesson, who more than a hundred years ago
carried the name of the Massachusetts town into the Green
Mountain region.
The men were enlisted by Captain Thomas Farrington, who
raised a company in Groton and neighborhood, which served
during the campaign pf 1760. In the copy of the return, here
-given, I have omitted some of the headings, such as " When
Inlisted," " By whome," and " What Rigment." With the ex
ception of James Frye and Philip Barker, both of Andover,
who joined a company in Colonel Osgood's command, they
were all enlisted in the regiment of Colonel William Law
rence, of Groton. The date of enlistment covered a period
extending from February 14 to April 9, 1760. "Barzzealer"
[Barzillai] Lew, son of Primus, was a negro, and belonged to
a well-known colored family of that day, somewhat noted for
their musical attainments. In early times the sturdy yeo
manry of Massachusetts often stood in military ranks shoulder
to shoulder with the black man; and it was never thought
that this juxtaposition lowered their dignity. The surnames
Kemp and Kendall are written "Kimp" and "Kindall," show
ing how the words then were generally pronounced.
The Return is found on two separate sheets, each bearing
the indorsements of the mustering officers. There is reason
to think that there is still a sheet missing, which made up the
complete Return.

ii8

Appendix

A Return of Men Inlisted for his Majestey Service for the Totall
Reduction of Cannada 1760.

Names of Fathers of son
Mens Names
Whear born
Whear Resedant
Age
under age and Masters of
Servants
Silous Kimp
Groton
Groton
18
Hezekiah Kimp
Sampson Blood
D"
D"
27
Abijah Parker
D"
D°
17
the Scelectmen
Lemuel Ames
D°
D"
17
William Lawrance
Zachreah Parker
D"
D°
21
John Gragg
D°
D"
19
Jacob Gragg
Aaron Blood
D"
D"
21
Joseph Page
D°
D°
20
Joseph Page
John Boyden
D"
D"
25
Stephen Pirce •
D"
D°
21
James Fisk
D°
D°
22
Joseph Gillson
D»
D°
21
William Parker
D"
D"
19
William Parker
Nathaniel Green
D"
D"
18
William Green
Hezekiah Kimp
D"
D"
22
Robert Blood
Pepperall
Pepperall
25
John Trowbridge
Groton
Groton
21
John Erwin Jui;
D°
D"
21
John Erwin
D°
D"
42
Andrew M^Farland
D°
D"
18
Margrat M'^Farland
Abel Kimp
D"
D"
17
Hezekiah Kimp
Oliver Hartwill
D°
D»
20
Scelectmen
Jon^ Boyden
D"
D°
17
Josiah Boyden
Josiah Blood
D"
Pepperall
18
John Shattuck
Abijah Warren
Weston
Groton
22
William Hubart
D"
Pepperall
18
Sheb: Hubart
Ebenez^ Nutting
Groton
Groton
17
Thol Farrington
James Frye
Andover
Andover
20
Co' James Frye
Philip Barker
Dover
D"
19
Isaac Blunt
Isaac Nutting
Groton
Groton
21
William Lasley
D"
DO
18
Robert Parker
Jonathan Holden
D°
D°
24
Ruben Woods
D"
D°
18
Ruben Woods
33
[Indorsed " Farringtons Roll."]
Appendix

19

A Return of Men Inlisted for his Majestey Service for the Totall
Reduction of Cannada 1760

Names of Fathers of son
Men^ Names
Whear bom
Whear Resedant
Age
under age and Mastrs of
Servants
William Brown
Ireland
Stow
31
Obidiah Perry
Weston
Groton
3S
Josiah Stevens
Townshend
DO
18
Martha Stevens
David SartiU
Groton
DO
33
Moses Keazer
Haverall
Groton
45
John Archerbill
Groton
DO
i8
John Archerble
William Pirce
D"
Do
17
Elijah Rockwood
Joseph Parker
D"
Do
16
Ephream Ware
Jonas Nutting
D°
DO
16
Scelectmen
Joshua Pirce
Weston
DO
18
Jonas Stone
Benj? Willson
Groton
Townshend
19
Benj? Wilson
Nathan Harrington
Lexenton
Shirley
19
Richard Harrington
John Farnsworth
N94
Groton
18
David Farnsworth
William Farwill
Groton
Do
17
Olever Farwill
Richard SartiU
D"
DO
22
William Stevens
Stow
Stow
29
Jabez Kindall
Groton
Pepperall
18
Jabez Kindel
Ephream Kimp
D°
Groton
18
Sam'.' Kimp
Ebn^ Woods
DO
Pepprall
31
Josiah Fish
DO
Do
26
Oliver Shead
Do
Do
21
William Shead
Do
DO
22
William Farnsworth
DO
DO
22
Jonathan Williames
Peprall
DO
22
Lemuel Patt
Townshend
DO
18
John Patt
John Avery
DO
Do
17
Edmand Bancroft
Barzzealer Lew
Groton
DO
18
Primous Lew
Oliver EUott
DO
Do
24
Henery Willord
Lancester
Do
30
Solomon Parker
Suresbury
Groton
17
Simon Parker
Peter Gillson
Groton
DO
27
Abner Turner
Lancester
DO
16
Eliab Turner
James Lasley
Groton
Pepperall
25
Benj* Rolf
DO
DO
18
Benj? Rolf
Stephen Gates
Canterbuary
Litleton
17
Stephen Gates
35
Index

Index

A.
Abbot, Benjamin, 46.
Acton, Mass., 51, 104.
Adam, Rev. Mr., 85.
Adams, Elizabeth, 78.
Adams, Rev. Mr., 100.
Adams, Rev. Moses, 104.
Addison, Vt., 11 2.
" Alarm lists," 79.
Albany, N. Y., 48, 50, 51, 54-57, 67-69,
71,72, 74, 112.
Allen, Benjamin, 51.
Allen, Mr., 105.
Ames, Lemuel, 118.
Amherst, Gen. Jeffrey, 52, 53, 57, 58,
64, 65, 67, 68.
Andover, Mass., 117, 118.
Ann, Fort, N. Y., 112.
Annapolis, N. S., 22, 23, 27.
Appleton, Rev. Nathaniel, 92, 93.
Archerble [Archerbill], John, 119.
Archerble [Archerbill], John, Jr., 119.
Ashby, Mass., 45, 82.
Atwell, Bridget, 44.
Austin, Benejah, 6.
Avery, John, iig.
Avery [Havery], Rev. Mr., 88.

B.

Backus, Rev. Simon, 38.
Bailey, Captain, company of, 55, 60, 65.
Baker, Captain, company of, 73.
Baker, Mr., 112.
Baker, Thomas, m.
Balch [Baulch], Rev. Thomas, 12, 13,
17, 20, 28.

Baldwin [Baulding], Corp. Benjamin,
52-
Baldwin, Jacob, 46.
Baldwin [Bauldwin], John, 46.
Baldwin, Jonas, 46.
Baldwin, Ruth, 46.
Ball, Benjamin, 45.
Ball, Betty, 46.
Ball, James, 46.
Ball, Jeremiah, 46.
Ball, MoUie, 46.
Ball, Rachel, 45.
Bancroft, Captain, company of, 112,
113-
Bancroft, Edmund, 119.
Barker, Sergt. David, 33.
Barker, Philip, 117, 118.
Barron, Stephen, 18, 22, 28, 32.
Barron, Capt. William, company of,
51,61.
Battery Hill, 45.
Bedford, Mass., 51.
Belfast, Maine, 10.
Belknap Papers, the, 3.
Bell, John, 6.
Beman, Capt. Thomas, company of, 49.
Benedict, Mount, 91.
Berlin, 73.
Berry, Colonel, 33, 34.
Biglow, Rev. Isaac, 95, 97-100.
Billerica, Mass., 43, 44, 50, 52, 54.
Blackmir, Rowland, 38.
Blandford [Glasgow], Mass., 49, 52.
Blood, Aaron, 118.
Blood, Jonas, 113.
Blood, Josiah, 118.
Blood, Robert, 118.
Blood, Sampson, 118.
Blunt, Isaac, 118.

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Index

News-Letter, The,"

Boston, Mass., 8, II, 44, 51, 55. 5^. 81,
89, 94, 96, 99, io8-
Boston Harbor, 89.
Boston Neck, 93.
"Boston Weekly
45-
Bourn, Peletia, 9.
Boyden, John, 118.
Boyden, Jonathan, 118.
Boyden, Josiah, 118.
Boynton, Aaron, 30, 37, 38.
Boynton, Lieut. Joseph, 48.
Bradstreet, Abigail, 4.
Bradstreet, Abigail (Lakin), 4, 7.
Bradstreet, Ann, 4.
Bradstreet, Colonel, 26, 71.
Bradstreet, Lieut. Dudley, diary of, 1-4,
11-39; ancestry of, 4; marriage of,
4 ; children of, 4 ; military record of,
4-8.
Bradstreet, Rev. Dudley, 4.
Bradstreet, Hannah, 4.
Bradstreet, Lucy, 4.
Bradstreet, Mary, 3, 4.
Bradstreet, Mary (Wainwright), 4.
Bradstreet, Sarah, 4.
Bradstreet, Gov. Simon, 9.
Breton, Cape, 11, 13, 23, 115, 116.
Brewer, Captain, 54.
Briant,  , 33.
Brick, Rev. Mr., 108.
British troops, the, 79.
Brookfield, Mass., 48, 55, 106, 112.
Brookline, N. H., 44, 91.
Brooks, William, 106.
Brown, Capt. Silas, 55.
Brown, William, 119.
Buchanan, James, 106.
Bulkley, Col. John, 47.
Bunker, John, 54.
Bunker Hill, 45, 89.
Bunker Hill, the Battle of, 45.
Bunton, Andrew, 44.
Bunton, Henry Sylvanus, 45.
Bunton, Dr. Sylvanus, 44.
Bunton, William H., 44.
Burchwood,  , 39.
Burgat, Landlord, 49.
Burge, John, 88.
Burgoyne, Gen. John, 106.
Burk, Major, 58, 66.

Burying Island, 13.
Butler, Caleb, "History of Groton,"
by, 8, 44, 84.
Butterfield, Jonas, 49, 51, 55.
Butterfield, Leonard, 55.
Button Mould [Butten Mole] Bay, 59.

Cambridge, Mass., 77, 79, 83, 84, 86-
94.
Cambridge [Charles] River, 94.
Cameron, Captain, 74.
Campbell, Ensign, 45.
Campbell, Lieutenant, 49.
Campbell, Major, 71.
Canada, 22, 26, 29, 47, iii.
Canso, the Gut of, 9, iz', 16, 19, 23, 28,
29.
Canterbury, N. H., iig.
Carley, Sergt. James, 19, 21.
Carley, Peter, 36, 37.
Caughnawaga ||Cocknawagon], Indians,
64, 72.
Chambalee [Chambale, Chamble], 64,
65.
Chambly [Chambelle], Fort, 63.
Champlain, Lake, 58, 59, 62, 66, 68.
Chandler, Lieutenant Colonel, 6, 21.
Chandler, Colonel, 13.
Chapeau Rouge [Gabarus] Bay, 8, 13.
Chaplin, Rev. Daniel, loi-iio.
Charles River, the, 89, 94.
Charlestown Hill, 83.
Charlestown, Mass., 80, 83, 85, 89, 90,
91, lOI.
Charlestown Neck, 90.
Charlestown, N. H., 57, 65, 68, 69,
III.
Chelmsford, Mass., 61, 112.
Chelsea, Mass., 86, 87.
Choate, Colonel, 28.
City Battery, the, at Louisburg, 14.
Clagg, Captain, 59, 60.
Clap, Captain, 49.
Clapum, Doctor, 49.
Clapum, Capt. John, company of, 51.
Clark, Lieutenant, 51.
Colburn, William, iii, 113.
Collier, Deacon, 98.

Ind
Comings, Lieut. Nathaniel, 48.
Commens, Rev. Mr., 89.
Committee of Safety, the, 79, 80, 81.
Committee of Supplies, the, 80.
Conant, Nathan, 46.
Concord, Mass., 79, 80, 83, 91.
Connant, Lieutenant, iii.
Connecticut Historical Society, " Col
lections " of the, 9.
Connecticut River, the, 68, 69,
Continental Congress, the, no.
Coos Country, N. H., 82.
Copp's Hill, 89, go.
Couch, Lieut. James, 53.
Coventry, Lieutenant, 74.
Crafts, Mr., 37.
Craggitt [Cragin], Sergeant, 51.
Crocker, Mr., 13, 27.
Crooffoot, Corp. John, 35, 36, 37.
Crown Point, 51, 55, 60, 65, 66, 71, in,
112.
Crown Point Fort, 53.
Cumings, Lieut Simeon, 50.
Cummings, Lieut. Benjamin, 44.
Curtice, Capt. John, 48.
D.
Dakin, John, 33.
Dammon, Mr., 112.
Dana, Rev. Samuel, 95, loi.
Dartmouth, 71.
Davis, Captain, 31.
Davis, John, 43.
Davis, Rev. Mr., 102.
Dedham, Mass., 12.
Deprare, Can., 65.
Devens, Richard, gi.
Dodge, Mr., g8.
Donahew, Capt. David, 22, 28, 29.
Donaldson, Adj. Alexander, 71.
Dover, N. H., 118.
Dublin, N. H., 70.
Dudley, Captain, 12.
" Duke Cumberland," the brig, 57.
Dummer, Fort, 7.
Dummer's War, 115, n6.
Dunbarton, N. H., 53.
Dunstable, Mass., 44, 49-51, 54, 55,
61.
Dwight, Brig.-Gen. Joseph, 7, 27.

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125

Easman, Capt. Ebenezer, 19, 22, 24, 25.
East Boston, Mass., 86.
East Cambridge, Mass., 84.
East Windsor, Conn., 108.
" Eastern Vermont, History of,"
Hall's, 6.
Edgartown, Mass., 35, 84.
Edward, Fort, N. Y., 52, 53, 112.
Elexander, Landlord, 70.
EUott, Oliver, 119.
Emerson, Rev. Daniel, gg, 100, loi.
Emerson, Rev. Joseph, 84, g7.
English, the, 54, 61, 65.
Erwin, John, 118.
Erwin, John, Jr., 118.
Essex Institute, " Historical Collec
tions " of the, g, 46.
Exeter, N. PI., 4. F.
Farmer, Andrew, 50.
Farnsworth, Amos, 77, 88, 94, 95, gg,
no.
Farnsworth, Major Amos (son), mili
tary record of, 77, 8i, 82 ; ancestry
of, 78 ; marriage of, 78 ; children of,
78; diary of, 83-113.
Farnsworth, Benjamin, 88, 8g, 94, 95.
Farnsworth, Claudius Buchanan, 82.
Farnsworth, David, iig.
Farnsworth, John, iig.
Farnsworth, John Prescott, 82.
Farnsworth, Jonas, 100.
Farnsworth, Luke, 82.
Farnsworth, Lydia, no.
Farnsworth, Lydia (Longley), 77.
Farnsworth, Matthias, 77.
Farnsworth, Rachel, g8.
Farnsworth, William, iig.
Farrington [Ferrington],Capt. Thomas,
company of, 52, 54, 117, 118.
" Farrington's Roll," 118.
Farwell, Capt. Henry, company of, 77,
80-82, 84, 88.
Farwell, Joseph, 8.
Farwell, Mary, 98.
Farwill, Oliver, iig.
Farwill, WilUam, iig.

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ex

Fascine Battery, the, at Louisburg, 17,
18, 22, 24, 27.
Fassett, Samuel, 50.
Fayerweather, Rev. Samuel, 2g, 35.
First New York Regiment, the, 73.
First Provincial Congress of Massa
chusetts, the, 79.
Fisk, James, 118.
Fisk, Josiah, ng.
Fisk, Rev. Mr., 100.
Fletcher, Captain, 29.
Fletcher, Jonathan, 37.
Follicumburrer, Landlord, 49.
Foot, Captain, 54.
Ford, Capt. John, company of, 112.
Foster, Henry, 54.
Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, the,
4, i8, 24.
French, the, 11, 14, 18, 20, 21, 23, 29,
36, 54, 59-65.
French and Indian War, the, g, 53, 68,
7g ; Sergt. David Holden's diary
kept during, 41-74.
Fry, Capt. James, 6, 30, 31, 37.
Fry, John, 6.
Fr.ye, Col. James, 117, 118.
Frye, James Jr., 118.

Gabarus [Chapeau Rouge] Bay, 8, 13.
Gage, Thomas, go, 93.
Galloway, Richard, 58. See Gattoway,
Richard.
Gates, Captain, company of, 113.
Gates, Mr., 113.
Gates, Stephen, 119.
Gates, Stephen, Jr., ng.
Gattoway, Richard, 58. See Galloway,
Richard.
George, Fort, 112, 113.
George IL, King, 4g, 62, 6g.
Georgetown, Mass., gi.
Gillson, Abel, 46.
Gillson, Daniel, 46.
Gillson, Joseph, 118.
Gillson, Peter, ng.
Gilson, Amasa, in.
Glasgow [Blandford, Mass.], 4g, 52.
Glasgow, Mount of, 49.
Gloucester, Mass., 35.

Goodale, Mr., 113.
Goodfrey, Sergeant, 15.
Goodil, Mr., 112.
Goodridge, Rev. Mr., 84.
Gorham [Goreham], Colonel, 18, 21.
Gorham, Maine, 3, 8.
Gould, Corp. Benjamin, 34.
Gragg, Jacob, 118.
Gragg, John, 118.
Graham, James, 112.
Graham, Major, 72, 74.
Grand Battery, the, at Louisburg, 14,
15, ig, 22, 24, 2g.
Grand Diable, 62, 66.
Graves, John, 113.
Great Barrington, Mass., H2.
Green, John, 36, 37.
Green, Nathaniel, 54, 118.
Green, Oliver, 27, 31.
Green, William, 103, 118.
Greenbush, N. Y., 4g, 50, 54, 112.
Greenwood, Dexter, 44.
Greenwood, Mary (Holden), 44.
Green-Woods, 4g.
" Groton, History of," Butler's, 8, 44,
84.
Groton, Mass., 4, 5, 7, 8, 27, 36, 37, 43,
47. 48, 51. 52. 54, 7°, 77-82, 90, 94,
97, no, 112, 115, 117-ng.
Groton, Vt, 117.
Groton Artillery, the, 82.
"Groton during the Revolution," 81,
84, 87, 88.
Groton Historical Series, 7, 8, 115.
Groton School, 43.
Guilman, Major, 11, 12.

H.
Hale, Captain, 17.
Hale, David, 44.
Half Moon, 50, 52.
Hall, Benjamin H., " History of East
ern Vermont " by, 6, 7.
Hammond, Captain, company of, 4g.
Harrington, Nathan, 119.
Harrington, Richard, ng.
Harskels, Capt. Samuel, 48.
Hart, Captain, company of, 58.
Hart, Dr. John, gi.

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Hartwel, Jonathan, 51.
Hartwell, Joseph, 51.
Hartwill, Oliver, n8.
Harvard, Mass., 47, 48, 105.
Hatfield, Joseph, 55.
Haverhill, N. H., 108, ng.
Haverland, Colonel, 58, 63, 67.
Havery, Rev. Mr., see Avery, Rev.
Mr.
Hawks, Major, 51, 56, 58.
Hawkton, Captain, company of, 73.
Hawood, Samuel, 50.
Hayward, Ephraim, 6.
Hazen, Captain, Rangers of, 64.
Heald, John, 51, 53.
Hemenway, Rev. Phinehas, 43.
Hemenway, Sarah, 43.
Hemenway, Sarah (Stevens), 43.
Herrin, Samuel, 66.
Hiber, George, 51.
Hildreth, Thomas, 4g, 52.
Hill, Gen. A. Harleigh, 117.
Hobart, Ann (Bradstreet), 4.
Hobart, Jonathan, see Hubbard, Jona
than.
Hobart, Samuel, 4.
Hodge, Major, 11.
Hodgman, " History of Westford," by,
105.
Hog Islatid, 86.
Hoit, Elisha, in.
Holden, Artemas, 44.
Holden [Holdin], Betsey, 44, 46.
Holden [Ploldin], Sergt. Davad, ances
try of, 43 ; marriage of, 43 ; death of,
44 ; children of, 44 ; diary of, 45-74.
Holden, David (son i), 44.
Holden, David (son 2), 44.
Holden, Jabez, 98.
Holden [Holdin], Jonathan, 54, 118.
Holden, John, 43.
Holden, Joshua, 44.
Holden, Lavinia, 44.
Holden, Mary, 44.
Holden, Phinehas Hemenway, 44.
Holden, Rachel (Farnsworth), 98.
Holden, Sarah, 44.
Holden, Sarah (Davis), 43.
Holden, Sarah (Hemenway), 43, 44.
Holden, Stephen, 43.
Holden, Sylvanus, 44.

Holden [Holdin], Lieut. William, 37,
57-
Holdin, Polly, 46.
Hollis, N. H., 4, 43, 44, 98, 99.
Horley, Capt. James, company of, 81,
82.
Hubart, Sheb., 118.
Hubart, William, 118.
Hubbard,  , 32.
Hubbard, Captain, 36, 38.
Hubbard [Hubard, Hobart], Adj.
Jonathan, 6, 8, 24.
Hubbard, Mary (Patterson), go.
Hubbard, Nathan, go.
Hubbard, Phineas, 90, 91.
Hubby, Mr., 58.
Hudson River, the, 73, 112.
Humphrey, Anna, 8.
Huston, John, 6.
Hustone, Caleb, 49, 50.
Hutchins [Hutchings], Captain, com
pany of, 48, 4g, 54, 57.

I.

Independence, Mount, in.
Indians, the, n, 12, 18, ig, 21, 22, 23, 28,
36, 54, 55. 58, 64, 65, 79-
Ingalson, Lieutenant Colonel, 74.
IngersoU, Lieutenant Colonel, 54, 55,
56, 58, 68, 6g.
Ingolson, Widow, 4g.
Inniskilling Regiment, 67, 68.
Ipswich, Mass., 106.
Island Battery, the, at Louisburg, 14,
15, 16, ig, 20, 22-26, 34, 37.
Isle au Noix, 58, 5g, 62, 64, 66-68.
Isle La Motte, Vt, 59.

J-

Jacho's MUl, gg.
Jakson, Captain, company of, 4g, 54.
Jaquis, Captain, 16.
Jaquith's, 99.
Jefford, Captain, company of, 54.
Jenks [Jinks], Capt. Samuel, company
of, 52, 56 ; diary of, 46.
Jewett, Benjamin, 113.

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Index

Jewett, Betsey, 44.
Johnson, 39.
Johnson [Johson], Ephraim, 52.
Johnson, General, 55.
Johnson, James, 65.
Johnson, Capt. Noah, 53.
Johnson, Susanna, 65.
Johnson, Susanna (daughter), 65.
Jonas, Captain, company of, 55.
Jones, Peter, 55. K.
Keazer, Moses, ng.
Kemp family, the, 3.
Kemp [Kimp], Abel, 118.
Kemp, Anna (Humphrey), 8.
Kemp [Kaemp], David, 8, 51, 53.
Kemp, Dudley Bradstreet, 8.
Kemp, Ebenezer, 3, 4, 8.
Kemp, Ebenezer, Jr., 8.
Kemp [Kimp, Keemp], Ephraim, 54,
ng.
Kemp [Kimp], Hezekiah, 118.
Kemp, Mary (Bradstreet), 3, 4, 8.
Kemp, Relief (Phillips), 8.
Kemp [Kimp], Samuel, ng.
Kemp, Sarah Colburn, 8.
Kemp [Kimp], Silas, 118.
Kemp, Willis Bradstreet, 8.
Kendall [Kindall], Jabez, 119.
Kent, Isaac, 18, 21, 32.
Kidder, Isaac, 45.
Kidder, John, 45.
Kidder, Lucy, 45.
Kindel, Jabez, Jr., ng.
Kinderhook, N. Y., 4g, 50, 112.
King, Lieutenant, 52.
Kingman, Mr., 113.
Kittery, Maine, 13.

L.
Lakin, Abigail, 4.
Lakin, Corp. Jonathan, 18, 28, 31, 34.
Lakin, Lydia, 36.
Lancaster, Mass., 5, 7, 33, 35, 36, 112,
ng.
Langdon, Dr. Samuel, 27, 84, 85, gi, g2.
Larnard, Colonel, regiment of, 83.

Lasley, James, ng.
Lasley, William, 118.
Lawrence, Capt. Asa, 80, 82.
Lawrence, Jonathan, 51.
Lawrence, Sarah, 108.
Lawrence, Col. WiUiam, 7, 117, 118.
Leason, Mr., 113.
Lechmere's Point, 84, 86.
Leonard, Rev. Abiel, 92-94.
Lester, 48.
Lew, BarziUai, 117, 119.
Lew, Primus, 119.
" Lewiston Journal," the, 10.
Lexington, Mass., 77-79, 81, 83, 119.
Lighthouse Battery, the, at Louisburg,
24.
Ligonier [Legenier] Bay Harbor, 59.
Limerick, N. H., 82.
Lincoln, Mass., 51, gi.
Linsey, Peter, 58.
Little, Colonel, regiment of, 85.
Littleton, Mass., 44, 50, 51, 53, 61, ng.
Longley, Lydia, 77.
Longley, Mary, g7.
Longley, William, g7.
Longley's Island, 98, gg.
Longmeadow, Mass., g, 32.
Longwood, Mass., 91.
Louisburg, the Siege of, Lieut. Dudley
Bradstreet's diary kept during, 1-39,
115, 116.
Louisburg Harbor, 12, 19.
Lovejoy, Landlord, 49.
Lovell, Esquire, 98.
Lowell, Mass., 44.
Lower Coos, N. H., 108.
" Loyalists of the American Revolu
tion," Sabine's, 29.
Lunenburg, Mass., 104.
Luns, William, 98.

M.
McClentuc, John, 37.
McCoy, Peter, 74.
McFaling, Capt. Daniel, company of,
51-
McFarland, Andrew, 118.
McFarland, Margrat n8.
Machias, Maine, loo.

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Mcintosh, Archibald, 45.
McKinson, Donald, 74.
McLain, Sir Allen, company of, 73.
Maine Historical Society, the, 9, 10.
Majery, Corporal, 60.
Maiden, Mass., 86, 87-.
Manchester, N. H., 8.
Marblehead, Mass., 22.
Margaret's Bay, 12.
Martin, Captain, company of, 52, 55,
58, 66, 67.
" Massachusetts," the frigate, 29.
Massachusetts Archives, the, 7, 44.
Massachusetts Historical Society, the,
3, 5, 9, 45 ; " Proceedings " of, 46,
117.
Massachusetts House of Representa
tives, Journal of the, 115, 116.
Matthews, William, 68.
Maxwell, Thompson, 51, 61.
Mayhew, Captain, 34.
Medford, Mass., 86.
Melvin, Capt. David, 13, ig-22.
Middlesex County, Mass., 44.
Middlesex Regiment, the, 7g.
Middlesex Registry of Probate, the, 7.
Miller, Captain, 6.
Miller, Fort, 51, 53.
Mills, Captain, company of, 112.
Minute-men, 78-81.
Monroe [MunRow], Mr., 67, 69.
Montereef, Captain, 72.
Montgomery's Regiment, 71-74.
Montreal, 60, 64-67.
Moody, Rev. Samuel, 27, 28.
Mooer, Colonel, 19.
Moor, Capt. Joseph, 82.
Morris, George, 55.
Murray, General, 63, 64.
"Muster Rolls, 1760-1761," 44.
Muyncher, Lieutenant, 74.
Mystic [Medford, Mass.], 86.
Mystic River, the, 90, 92.
N.
Nashua, N. H., 99.
Nashua River, the, 88, 98.
"New-England Historical & Genea
logical Register, The," 5, 8, 9, 27, 34,
37-

New Hampshire Regiment, the, 57, 58,
61, 66, 68.
New Haven, Conn., 32.
New Jersey Troops, the, 51, 72, 74.
New York Troops, the, 51, 72.
Newbury, Mass., 17, 85.
Newcastle, the Duke of, 9.
Newell, Rev. Mr., 104.
Newington, Conn., 38.
Newman, Rev. John, 35-38.
Newmarch, John, 13.
Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, the, 27,
34, 37-
Nixon, Col. John, regiment of, 86.
Noble, Captain, 20.
Noble, Rev. Oliver, 85.
Noddle's Island, 86, 87.
Norcross, George, 38.
Norwood, Mass., 12.
Nutten, John, in.
Nutting, Ebenezer, 118.
Nutting, Isaac, 118.
Nutting, Jacob, 9.
Nutting, Capt. John, company of, 89.
Nutting, Jonas, ng.

O.
Ogden, Captain, company of Rangers,
68.
Omsted, Captain, 6.
Osgood, Colonel, 117.
Oswego, N. Y., 55.

Page, Captain, 6g.
Page, Joseph, 118.
Page, Joseph, Jr., 118.
Palmer, Mass., 48.
Parker, Abigail (Sawtell), 97.
Parker, Abijah, 1 18.
Parker, Captain, company of, 112.
Parker, Dr. Isaiah, 102, 105.
Parker, John, 9, iii.
Parker, Sergt Jonas, 61.
Parker, Joseph, 97, 119.
Parker, Levi, in.
Parker, Mary, 97.

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Parker, Nehemiah, 113.
Parker, Phinehas, 37.
Parker, Robert, 118.
Parker, Sergeant, in.
Parker, Simon, 119.
Parker, Solomon, 119.
Parker, WiUiam, 118.
Parker, WiUiam, Jr., 1 18.
Parker, Zachariah, n8.
Parkman Papers, the, 9.
Patt, David, 45.
Patt, James, 45.
Patt, John, 119.
Patt, Jonathan, 45.
Patt, Lemuel, ng.
Patt, Sybel, 45.
Patterson, Clerk, 24, 26.
Patterson, Mary, go.
Pees, Landlord, 4g.
Peirce, John, 30.
Pembroke, N. H., 44.
Penny Ferry, 87.
PeppereU, Mass., g, 84, 8g, 118, ng.
Pepperell bridge, 98.
Pepperell minute-men, 89.
Pepperrell Papers, the, 3, 5.
Pepperrell, Sir William, 13, 115.
Perry, Rev. Joseph, 108.
Perry, Obadiah, ng.
Perry, Sarah (Lawrence), 108.
Perscatua [Piscataqua], ig.
Perscatua privateers, the, 12, 13.
Person, Landlord, 48.
Peterborough, 70.
Pettengill, Nathaniel, 6.
Philip's War, 79.
PhUlips, John, 33.
Phillips, Relief, 8.
Pierce, Capt Abiel, 55.
Pierce, Jonathan, 51.
Pierce [Pirce], Capt Joshua, 18, 119.
Pirce, Stephen, 118.
Pirce, WiUiam, ng.
Plats, Captain, company of, 73.
Ploughed HiU, 91, 92.
Pollard, Benjamin, 49, 50.
Pollard, Jonathan, 52, 53.
Pollard, Joseph, 52.
Pomroy, Major, 6.
Portland, Maine, 10.
Port Royal, 19, 2i,

Pote, Capt. William, Jr., " Journal "
of, g.
Powers, Rev. Peter, 108.
Pratt, Jonathan, 4.
Pratt, Lieutenant, 113.
Pratt, Lucy (Bradstreet), 4.
Prescott, Col. Oliver, regiment of, 80,
84, 89, 91.
Prest, Mr., 113.
Price, Henry, 45.
Price, Polly, 46.
Priest, Timothy, 51.
Procter, Josiah, 50.
Procter, Sergt. Peter, 50.
Proctor, Elizabeth, 46.
Proctor, Ephraim, 17, 30.
Proctor, Isaac, 46.
Proctor, Jacob, 38.
Proctor, Rachel, 45.
Proctor, Rebecca, 45.
Prout, Commissary, 12.
Provincial Congress, the, 80, 81.
Putnam, Col. Israel, regiment of, 92.
Putnam, N. Y., 112.
Putnam's Point, N. Y., 54, 55, 58.

R.

Radeau [Rideau], Ligonier, 58.
Raimond, Freeborn, 49, 52, 53.
Ramsdell, John, 37.
Rand, John, 30.
Randal, Corp. Benjamin, 31.
Ransley, Colonel, 50.
Read, Benjamin, 46.
Read, Howard, 46.
Read, Jesse, 105.
Read, Joel, 46.
Read [Reed], Jonathan, regiment of,
82, 112.
Read, Levi, 46.
Read, Patty, 46.
Read, Rachel, 46.
Read, Thaddeus, 61.
" Return of Men," the, 117.
Revolutionary War, the, 4, 8, 78, 79;
diary of Lieut. Amos Farnsworth
kept during, 75-113.
Rhode Island, 12.

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Rhode Island troops, the, 51, 52, 54-57,
68, 69, 72.
Rice, Mr., 113.
Richardson, Captain, 34.
Richmond, Colonel, n, 13.
Rindge, N. H., 82.
Robins, Ephraim, 1 n .
Robinson, John, 51, 61.
Rockingham, 71.
Rockwood, Elijah, 119.
Rockwood, Elisha, 78.
Rockwood, Elizabeth, 78.
Rockwood, Elizabeth (Adams), 78.
Rogers, Maj. Robert, 53, 54, 56, 62, 63.
Rogers Rangers, the, 53-57, 60-62,
66-68.
Roggers, Capt. James, 54.
Rolf, Benjamin, ng.
Rolf, Benjamin, Jr., 119.
Ross, Ezra, 106.
Rouse, Captain, 22, 27, 28.
Rouse, Commodore, 12.
Roxbury, Mass., 13, 83, 93.
Royal Highland Regiment, the, 51, 53,
57, 71-
Royal Hospital, the, 36-38.
Ruggles, Brig. Gen. Timothy, company
of, 55, 56, 65, 69.
RumrUl, David, 52.
Runnells's mill, gg.
Russell, Peletiah, 82.

Sabine, " Loyalists of the American
Revolution," by, 2g.
St. Franfois [Franciways], 65.
St Johns, Can., 53, 54, 58, 60, 62-64,
66, 67.
St Johns, N. S., 16, 29.
St. Lawrence River, the, 64, 65.
St Peters, N. S., 12, 16.
Saint Therese, Can., 63, 66.
Sanderson, Gideon, 30, 35, 37.
Saratoga, N. Y., 51, 53, 112.
SartiU, Richard, 1 19.
Sawtell, Abigail, 97.
SawteU [SartiU], David, 54, ii9-
Sawtell, Jonathan, 82.
Saiytell, Sergeant, in.

Scattaree Island, N. S., 38.
Schenectady, N. Y., 71.
Schuyler Island, N. Y., 59.
Second Massachusetts Regiment, the,
13-
Second New York Regiment, the, 73.
Serjeant, Landlord, 48.
Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment,
the, 61.
Sewall's Point, 91.
Shattuck, Capt. Job, company of, 81,
82, 110-113.
Shattuck, John, 118.
Shattuck, Joshua, 112.
Shattuck, Mr., 113.
Shattuck, Moses, 53.
Shaw, Landlord, 48.
Shead [Shedd], Jonathan, 37.
Shead, OUver, ng.
Shead, Samuel, 5, 36, 37.
Shead, WUliam, 119.
Shed, Amos, no.
Shed, Lydia (Farnsworth), no.
Shed, William, no.
Sheffield, Mass., 49.
Sheple, John, 36.
Sheple, Jonathan, 36.
Shirley, Mass., g7, 103,104, 112, ng.
Shirley, Gov. William, 5-7,9, 33-35;
message of, 115, 116.
Shores, Captain, 58.
Shrewsbury, Mass., ng.
Sixth Regiment of Militia, the, 82.
Skeen [Schean], Major, 54, 67.
Small, Lieutenant, 58.
Smith, Capt Jonathan, 27,34-37.
Smith, Joshua, 45.
Smith, Nathaniel, 36, 37.
Smith, WUliam, 87, 88.
Smothers, Captain, 29.
Snelling, Captain, 22, 28.
"Snow-shoe men," the, 115, 116.
Snow-shoes, first used by soldiers, 115.
SomervUle, Mass., 91.
Sorel [Surrell], 65.
Sorel [Surrell], River, 64, 65.
Spalding [Spoldin], Corporal, 112.
Spear, Rev. Samuel, 37.
Spooner, Bathsheba, 106.
Spooner, Joshua, 106.
Springfield, Mass., 45, 49, 112.

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Springfield Plain, Mass., 48.
Squannacook Village, Mass., 45.
Stearns, Benjamin, 35.
Stevens, Capt James, 6, 19.
Stevens, John, 46.
Stevens, Jonas, 70.
Stevens, Josiah, 119.
Stevens, Martha, ng.
Stevens, MoUie, 46.
Stevens, Samuel, 46.
Stevens, William, 46, ng.
Stillman, Rev. Samuel, 105.
StUl water, N. Y., 112.
Stockbridge, Mass., 88.
Stoddard, N. H., 82.
Stone, AbigaU, 98, gg.
Stone, Dea. James, 98.
Stone, Jonas, 119.
Stone, Lieutenant, 62.
Stone, Mary (FarweU), 98.
Stone, Timothy, 82.
Storer, Col. John, 9.
Stow, Mass., ng.
Stratton, Sergt John, 37, 38.
Strong, Elisha, 6.
Suffolk Regiment, the, 79.
Swan, Captain, 12.
Swan, Mr., 70.
Swan, William, 82.

Tarbell, Capt. Samuel, 115, 116.
Tarbell, Capt. Thomas, 7.
Tarbell's mills, 45.
Taylor, Abraham, 49, 50.
Taylor, Joseph, in.
Taylor, Leonard, in.
Temple, N. H., 80.
Thatcher, Rev. Mr., 102, 106, 107.
Thaxter, Rev. Joseph, 84, 88.
Thayer, Rev. Mr., 108.
Third New York Regiment, the, 73.
Thomas, Colonel, 66, 68, 73.
Thomas, WiUiam, 20, 26, 27, 30, 33.
Ticonderoga, N. Y., 54, 55, 57, 66, 67,
69, 82, in, 112.
Tinbrooks [TimBrooks], Mr., 72, 74.
Titcom, Major, 23, 25.
Tomson, Lieutenant, 112.

Townsend, Mass., 43, 45, 51, 70, 81, 82,
87, 88, 119.
Toy, Captain, company of, iiz, 113.
Toy, Mr., 113.
Treadwell, Samuel, 61.
Trowbridge, John, 118.
Trull, David, 51.
Trumbel, Joseph, 37.
Turner, Abner, 119.
Turner, EUab, 1 19.
Turner, Henry, 46.
Twist, Timothy, 50.
Ty [Tie, Ticonderoga], in, 112.
Tyng, Capt Edward, 18, 22, 29, 30, 33.
Tyringham, Mass., 49.

U.

Underwood, Ensign, 113.
" Union," the sloop, 34.
V.
Vanornom, Captain, 50.

Waldo, Brig. Gen. Samuel, 6.
Walker, John, 51.
Walker, Mr., 112.
Wallis, Isaac, 46.
Wallis, Jonathan, 46.
WaUis, Suse, 46.
WaUis, Sybel, 46.
Walter, Rev. Nathaniel, 13.
Warner, Capt. John, company of, 4-6,
n-13, 15, 16, 24, 26, 29, 30, 34.
Warren, Abijah, 118.
Warren, Isaac, in.
Warren, Commodore Peter, n, 12, 14,
16, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26.
Watertown, Mass., 91. •
Watson, Mr., 90.
Webster, Lieutenant, 25.
Webster, Rev. Samuel, 80.
Wells, Maine, 9, 10.
Wesson, Capt Ephraim, 117.
West Groton, Mass., 45.'

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Westfield, Mass., 49, 51, 112.
Westford, Mass., 44, 48-51, 61, 105.
" Westford, History of," Hodgman's,
105.
Weston, Mass., n8, ng.
Wetherbe, Captain, 31.
Weymouth, Mass., 86.
Wheeler, Captain, company of, 113.
Wheelock [Whelock], Commissary
Anthony, 45, 48.
Whipple, Eleazor, 113.
Whitcombe, Colonel, company of, 58.
Whitcome, Rev. Mr., 88.
Whitemore, Rev. Mr., 100.
Whiting, Capt. Leonard, company of,
43. 44, 47-49, 51-56, 61, 69.
Whitmore Regiment, the, 68.
Whitney, Rev. Phineas, 100, 104.
Whittemore, Peletiah, 54.
Wier, Jeremiah, 82.
WUder, Capt Joseph, 116.
WUlard, Maj. Caleb, 54.
Willard, Captain, 24, 26, 29.
WiUard, Henry, 119.
WiUard, Col. Josiah, 7.
Willard, Col. Samuel, 5-8, n, iz, 14,
IS, 24, 27, 30, 31, 35, 68.
Willcutt, Ensign Emerson, 55.
Williams, Rev. Elisha, 28-33, 35-
Williams, Isaac, in.
Williams, Jonathan, ng.
Williams, Rev. Stephen, 32 ; manu
script journal of, 9.

Williamson, Colonel, 73.
Williamson, Hon. John, 10.
Willson, John, 46.
Willson, Joseph, 46.
Willson, Sarah, 46.
Willson, Sergeant, 16.
Wilson, Benjamin, 119.
Wilson, Benjamin, Jr., i ig.
Winnisimit Ferry, 86, 87.
Winslow, Commissary, 16, 17.
Wintsworth, Captain, company of, 54.
Woburn, Mass., 50, 51.
Wood, Lemuel, diary of, 46.
Woods, Ebenezer, ng.
Woods, Sergt. John, 18, 31, 33, 34.
Woods, Ruben, 118.
Woods, Ruben, Jr., 118.
Woodstock, Conn., 92.
Woolcut, Landlord, 48.
Worcester, Mass., 45, 48, 50, 106, 112.
Worster, Benjamin, 51.
Wright, John, 30, 36, 37.
Wyman, Anna, 46.
Wyman, Huldy, 46.
Wyman, Matthew, 36, 37.
Wyman, Samuel, 46.
W>Tnan, Uzziah, 46.

Y.

York, Maine, 27, 54.
Yorkshire, 71.

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