[579] Military Journal (Boston, 1823). Others are the following: Diary of Jeremy Belknap, Chaplain, in Life of Belknap and Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., June, 1858. Diary of David How, ed. by H. B. Dawson (Morrisania, 1865). A journal of Solomon Nash (beginning Jan. 1, 1776) is included in the series (vol. i.) edited by C. I. Bushnell, called Crumbs for Antiquarians, 2 vols., 1862-66 (Sabin, iii. 9,538). Journal of David McCurlin, beginning at Cambridge, Aug. 9, 1775, and ending May, 1776, in Papers relating to the Maryland line, ed. by Thomas Balch (Philad., 1857). Diary of Lieut. Jonathan Burton, of Wilton, N. H., on Winter Hill, Dec., 1775, to Jan. 26, 1776, in N. H. State Papers (1885), vol. xiv., and N. H. Rev. Rolls, i. 667-689. Diary of Aaron Wright, June 29, 1775, to March 11, 1776, in Boston Transcript, April 11, 1862, and Hist. Mag., vi. 208. He was a private in a rifle company from the South. Diary of Lieut.-Col. Experience Storrs, June 13, 1775, to Feb., 1776, in Mag. of Amer. Hist., Feb., 1882, p. 124. Journal of Crafts, June 15, etc., in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., iii. Diaries in the Hist. Mag., Oct., 1864; Aug., 1871, p. 128; March, 1874, p. 133, by Ensign Clap. Diaries in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Nov., 1863 (by Ezekiel Price); Feb., 1872 (by Paul Lunt, May 10 to Dec. 23, 1775); March, 1876 (by Samuel Bixby); Sept., 1882 (by Paul Litchfield, at Cambridge and Scituate). A diary of Caleb Haskell, beginning May 5, 1775, was published at Newburyport in 1881. There are some rather vague reminiscences in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xv. 390; and others in Elkanah Watson's Memoirs.
[580] In Sparks's Washington; in W. B. Reed's Life of Reed; in the Chas. Lee Papers (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1871); in Lee's R. H. Lee (vol ii.). A letter to his brother, July 20, 1775, is in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., x. 353. His appeals for powder are in the N. H. Prov. Papers (vii. pp. 571, 572, 581), as in other places. Two letters (July 23 and Dec. 4) are in the Gen. Thomas Papers. His correspondence with Josiah Quincy about fortifying the harbor is in the Quincy Papers in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Cabinet.
John Adams tells of dining with Washington and the Caghnawaga sachems (Familiar Letters, p. 131). From near headquarters there are letters of Charles Lee (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1871; Lee's Life of R. H. Lee, i. 281; Memoirs of Charles Lee; one of July 23 in the Gen. Thomas Papers); of Horatio Gates (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1871; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 281; several in the Thomas Papers); of Gen. Ward (many in the Thomas Papers); of Lewis Morris (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1875, p. 433, etc.); of Joseph Trumbull (Hist. Mag., vii. 22; Hinman's Conn. in the Rev., 554); of Asa Fitch (Hist. Mag., iii. p. 6); of Samuel B. Webb (Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 284; Sparks MSS. no. xxv.); of Thomas Brown (Trumbull MSS., iv. no. 75). Other letters of more or less interest will be found in the N. Jersey Archives, x. 606-608; in the Memoirs of General Heath; Drake's Life of Knox; Bicknell's Barrington, R. I. (p. 190); and others of Richard Devens and Richard Gridley are in the Thomas Papers. Letters of Robert Magaw, in August, are in the Mag. of West. Hist., Sept., 1886, p. 674.
[581] There are others in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. p. 282 (Joseph Ward to John Adams); in Mag. of Amer. Hist., March, 1884, p. 221 (by Stephen Johnson); and by W. T. Miller, of the Rhode Island camp, in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1857, p. 136.
[582] Amory's Life of Sullivan; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. pp. 275, 283; others from the Langdon papers are copied in the Sparks MSS. (no. lii., vol. ii.; see also Ibid., no. xxi.). There are also letters of Scammel (Hist. Mag., xviii. 129); of John Stark and others (N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 528-29, 531, 557, 565, 581, 612, 616, 675; viii. 30; one of Aug. 23 is in the Thomas Papers); of Samuel Sweat (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Dec., 1879); and some in R. A. Guild's Chaplain Smith and the Baptists (p. 166, etc.). Others from Medford are in N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 530, 555, 565.
[583] There is a letter of Thomas Mifflin in the Thomas Papers (Aug. 26). Others of W. T. Miller in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg. (1857, p. 137); and of William Thompson in the Life of George Read of Delaware (pp. 112, 128).
[584] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 277, 279, 280. Various letters of Joseph Warren, James Warren, and Mercy Warren are in the Thomas Papers. A book of contracts for supplies for the army, 1776, kept at Watertown and in part in the handwriting of Elbridge Gerry, is in the Boston Public Library [H. 90 a, 7].
[585] Col. Ephraim Doolittle's, April 22 to Aug. 19, 1775; an anonymous one, Sept.-Oct., 1775; and another, written at Roxbury and Cambridge, July 29, 1775, to Jan. 12, 1776; Sergeant Isaac Nichols's, Sept. 5 to Dec. 11, 1775, and Col. William Henshaw's, Oct. 1, 1775, to March 12, 1776, and March 19-27,1776. A book of Henshaw's, preceding this one, and covering April 20 to Sept. 26, 1775, as edited by C. C. Smith, was printed in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1876, and separately with additions (Boston, 1881).
[586] In the library of the Mass. Hist. Society, and unprinted, Maj. William Lee's orderly-book (Cambridge); and, in Harvard College library, that of Jeremiah Fogg (Winter Hill), Oct. 28, 1775, to Jan. 12, 1776. In the Penna. Hist. Society is one kept at Cambridge, July 3 to Sept. 11, 1775; and another, also at Cambridge, Nov. 5, 1775, to Jan. 1, 1776, is in the Boston Public Library [H. 90 a, 9]. Two were sold in F. S. Drake's sale, Boston, Nov., 1885, nos. 1,073, 1,074: one covering Feb. 1 to March 31, 1776; the other, Nov. 5 to Dec. 31, 1775. Glover's (June 29, etc.) is printed in the Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., V. 112. That of Col. Israel Hutchinson, Cambridge and Winter Hill, Aug. 13, 1775, to July 8, 1776, is in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., November, 1879. Baldwin's, Jan. 5 to March 28, 1776, is at the State House, Boston, with a large mass of rolls, commissary and other papers. Sullivan's brigade-book is in the library of the Mass. Hist. Soc. (Proc., Oct., 1884, p. 250). There are in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., iv. 67, papers on the rank of the field-officers at Cambridge, Nov., 1775; and in Ibid., xxviii. 259, a list of the bodies of troops near Boston in 1775. The state of affairs in and about Boston in 1774-75 is cleverly sketched in Winthrop Sargent's Life of André, ch. iv.,—that young British officer being there at the time.