[457] Sparks's Washington, iii. 230; Corresp. of the Rev., i. 106, 112; John Adams's Works, ix. 370.
[458] Lee's instructions in Sparks's Washington, iii. 230. Cf. Duer's Stirling, p. 123; Johnston's Campaign of 1776, p. 49; Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., i. 570, 593.
[459] Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., i. 124, 135, 139; Life of Gouverneur Morris, i. 74-88. Already, on Jan. 6, 1776, the provincial congress of New York had organized a company of artillery to defend the colony and guard its records; and March 14, 1776, a student in King's College was made its captain. That organization still exists as Battery F, Fourth Regiment U. S. Artillery. (Asa Bird Gardner, in Mag. of Amer. Hist., 1881, P. 416.)
[460] Letters to and from Lee during his movements from Connecticut to Charleston (S. C.) are in the Lee Papers. (Sparks MSS., xxv., January, 1776-July, 1776, for copies, and N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1871 and 1872, for the print. There are letters from Lee during Jan.-March, 1776, from Connecticut and New York, in the Sparks MSS. xxix.) Cf. Sparks's Gouv. Morris, i. ch. 5.
[461] Works, ii. 431.
[462] Knox's instructions are in Sparks's Washington, iii. p. 160; Knox's letters from the Lake, in the Corresp. of the Rev., i. 86, 94.
Knox's diary is in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1876, p. 321; and an inventory of the cannon, made Dec. 10, 1775, is in Drake's Soc. of Cincinnati, p. 544. Cf. Drake's Knox, pp. 22, 128, 129. A roll of men whom Knox enlisted in his artillery, 1775, is in Mass. Archives; Rev. Rolls, vol. xlix.
[463] N. Y. Archives in Sparks MSS., no. xxix. Curiously enough, Franklin was at this time urging a resort to bows and arrows. (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1871, p. 285.)
[464] His headquarters here were in the Roxbury parsonage, a house still standing, and delineated in the Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 115. On the 2d of March Washington gave notice to Ward, then commanding in Roxbury, of his intention. His letter in fac-simile is given in the Boston Daily Advertiser, March 17, 1876.