89: New militia recruits from the
country, who had never seen service.]

the 11. This day I past muster before general Spencer[190] nothing
more this day.

[Footnote 190: General Joseph Spencer, of East
Haddam, Connecticut. He remained in service until
1778, when he resigned, left the army, and became a
member of Congress. He held rank next to Putnam in
the army at Boston. He died in 1789, at the age of
seventy years.]

the 12. This day it was very cold and the melitia had to mount guard
that is good for them.

the 13. This day I went to cambridg and viewed the works on
copple[191] hill.[192]

[Footnote 191: Cobble.]

[Footnote 192: These, it is said, were the most
perfect of any of the fortifications raised around
Boston at that time.]

the 14. This day I went to Watertown[193] with Lieutenant Bacon and a
number of others in order to get some coats but we could not find any
that suited us and so we returned.[194]

[Footnote 193. Seven miles northwest from Boston.
It was then the seat of the revolutionary
government in Massachusetts.]

[Footnote 194: Washington issued a notice, on the
28th of October, that tailors would be employed to
make coats for those who wished them.]

the 15. This day nothing very remarkable.

the 16. This day nothing strange at night their was an atempt made to
blow up A Ship but it failed also this night we heard that Quebeck was
taken.[195]

[Footnote 195: This was a mistake. On the 13th of
September, Colonel Benedict Arnold left Cambridge
with a detachment to cross the country by the way
of the Kennebec, to invade Canada and capture
Quebec. Arnold's army suffered terribly on the
march, and arrived at Point Levi, opposite Quebec,
on the 9th of November, and prepared to attack the
city. He was obliged to postpone his attack, and
Quebec never fell into the hands of the patriots.]

the 17. Being Sunday it was foul weather nothing remarkable hapned
this day onely the enemy fired at our men on Lech