24th.—Saturday. Clouday. The Surgeon came on bord, and Capt. Baker of our service gave me an order to make a minute of what would be necessary for the sick on our passage to Boston.
25th.—Sunday. Clouday. I and the sick were ordered on bord the 406. The men paid——Here the diary abruptly ends.
The "Quebec Mercury" of 29th Oct. 1812 contains the following:
"The prisoners taken at Detroit and brought down to Quebec are on the point of embarking for Boston for the purpose of being exchanged. Five cannon are now lying in the Chateau Court taken at Detroit."
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Cuyahoga. Cayahogo according to Kingsford.
[2] Maumee or Miami River of the Lakes to distinguish it from two others of the same name.
[3] Maumee Bay where Toledo now stands.
[4] Lossing says that Reynolds and his party of sick sailed from the Maumee in an accompanying sloop and that the latter reached Detroit in safety. This is evidently a mistake. The sloop, or as Reynolds calls it schooner was also captured and it was this schooner that contained the stores.