lighted.]

the 21. I went upon the creek guard[173] and it rained all day nothing
remarkable hapned.

[Footnote 173: The creek referred to is Stony
brook, northward from Roxbury fort.]

the 22. Being Sunday nothing remarkable this day.

the 23. Nothing remarkable hapned at night I went upon the piquet and
nothing hapned worth a mentioning.

the 24. Nothing remarkable hapned this day onely we heard that the
french were a going to join us upon conditions that we would trade
with them.[174]

[Footnote 174: As early as July, 1775, Dr. Franklin
had suggested the propriety of a political
confederation of all the colonies, and the
establishment of governmental relations with
foreign powers, especially with France, which, it
was well known, hated England. In November of that
year, Benjamin Harrison, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Johnson, John Dickenson, and John Jay, were
appointed a committee to open and carry on
correspondence with foreign governments; and in
March following, Silas Deane was appointed a
special agent of Congress to the court of France.
Rumors of such intentions appear to have reached
the army, according to our Journalist, as early as
the 24th of October, 1775.]

the 25. We turned out and went to the Larm post and it was very cold
and we came home and there was a high go of Drinking Brandy and
several of the company were taken not well prety soon after[175]
nothing more this day.

[Footnote 175: A very natural consequence.]

the 26. This morning early their was several Laidies came down from
wrentham and they went to cambridg and the rest of their acts are they
not writen in the Lamentations of Samuel Haws, finis.

the 27. This day I went upon fatigue and we got our Stents done about
noon.

the 28. Nothing remarkable this day onely I was chose cook for our
room consisting of 12 men and a hard game too.

the 29. Being Sunday the officers had hard work to get hands for
meting it was so cold nothing more this day.

the 30. This day nothing remarkable hapned.

the 31. Nothing remarkable.[176]

[Footnote 176: During the whole of Octobe