of cannons, mortars, lead, balls, flints, &c. By
the close of January, powder became quite plentiful
in the American camp.]

the 20. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 21. Ditto.

the 22. Nothing strange.

the 23. Nothing remarkable.

the 24. This day capt Pond came from Wrentham Nothing remarkable.

the 25. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 26. Nothing very remarkable.

the 27. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 28. Nothing remarkable.

the 29. This day we moved to Dorchester into the widow Birds house.

the 30. Nothing strange this day.

the 31. Ditto.

FEBRUARY.

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