the 1. This day nothing remarkable.
the 2. Ditto.
the 3. Nothing Remarkable this day.
the 4. Ditto.
the 5. The Lobsters came out almost to copple hill and took 3 cows and
killed them and were fired upon from copple hill and they were obligd
to mak of Leaving their Booty behind them.
the 6. The melitious men[206] marched from Wrentham and arived in camp
at Dorchester.
[Footnote 206: Militia-men.]
the 7. Nothing very remarkable this day.
the 8. Their was a number of our men went a Scating on the Bay near
Bosston common and the Enemy fired upwards of a hundred small arms
that did no damage.
the 9. Nothing very remarkable at night their was thre of our Amarican
Boys made their escape from the Enemy in Boston and were taken up by
our men who were Patroling on Dorchester Point to and they brought of
things to considerable value.
the 10. Nothing Strange this day.[207]
[Footnote 207: Here the Journal ends abruptly, and
we have no clew to the writer afterward. As he had
enlisted for the campaign of 1776, he doubtless
remained with the army until after the expulsion of
the British from Boston, in March following, unless
he was killed in some of the skirmishes that
frequently occurred, or was obliged to leave the
army on account of sickness. Whatever was his fate,
the veil of oblivion is drawn over it, for he was
one of the thousands who with warm hearts and stout
hands struggled in the field for the liberties of
their country, lie in unhonored graves, and have
had no biographers. If he lived until the conflict
ended, and died in his native town, no doubt his
grave is in the old churchyard at Wrentham. His
family was among the earliest settlers there, for
Daniel Haws was a resident of the village when it
was burnt, in the time of King Philip's war, almost
two hundred years ago; and on a plain slab in that
old burial-place is the name of Ebenezer Haws, who
died in 1812, at the age of ninety-one years.]
SUPPLEMENT,
CONTAINING
OFFICIAL PAPERS ON THE SKIRMISHES AT LEXINGTON AND CONCORD,
AND A LIST OF REVOLUTIONARY ARTICLES IN THE POUGHKEEPSIE MUSEUM.