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Title: An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut
detailing the distressing events of the expedition against
Quebec, under the command of Col. Arnold in the year 1775

Author: Abner Stocking

Release Date: November 21, 2008 [EBook #27306]

Language: English

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AN
INTERESTING
JOURNAL
OF
ABNER STOCKING
OF
CHATHAM, CONNECTICUT

DETAILING THE DISTRESSING EVENTS OF THE EXPEDITION AGAINST
QUEBEC, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. ARNOLD IN THE YEAR 1775

_Published by the relatives of Abner Stocking, now deceased_

CATSKILL, N.Y.
EAGLE OFFICE
1810

TARRYTOWN, N.Y.

REPRINTED

WILLIAM ABBATT
1921

BEING EXTRA NUMBER 75 OF THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES

EDITOR'S PREFACE

We have already reprinted three journals of members of Arnold's famous
expedition to Quebec, (Dr. Senter's, Captain Topham's and Private
Morison's) and now present a fourth, written by Private Abner Stocking,
which has not before been printed since its original appearance in 1810.
Mr. Codman in his most valuable book on the Expedition, justly says of
these and similar journals: "They constitute an invariably interesting
body of historical material, which preserves unimpaired the quaint
individuality of their widely-diverse authors, and the unmistakable
color and atmosphere of a period which must always be of particular
importance to the students of American history."

INTRODUCTION

The reader cannot enter on the succeeding journal to advantage without
first being acquainted with the object of the expedition, the
circumstance