[801] The Calendar of the Lee MSS., p. 8, shows a letter, Dec. 20, of Robert Morris, on the campaign's misfortunes, which is printed in the Diplomatic Corresp., i. 225.
[802] The Journal of Samuel Nash, Jan. 1, 1776, to Jan. 9, 1777; diary in Hist. Mag., Dec., 1863, covering Aug.-Dec., 1776; N. Fish's account in Ibid., Jan., 1869 (iii. 33). Rufus Putnam's journal in Mary Cone's Life of Rufus Putnam (Cleveland, 1886); Moravian Journals in N. Y. City, in The Moravian, 1876; Penna. Mag. of Hist., i. 133, 250; Johnston, p. 101. There is in The Evelyns in America (p. 319) a "Journal of the operations of the American army under Gen. Sir William Howe from the Evacuation of Boston to the end of the Campaign of 1776", by a British officer. Cf. Gent. Mag., Nov. and Dec., 1776. The letters of Maj. Francis Hutcheson are in the Haldimand Papers (Brit. Museum). Howe's letters to Germain are in the Sparks MSS., lviii., part 2. The military movements near New York are chronicled in papers in the London War-Office, "North America, 1773-1776."
Respecting New York city during this period, there are data in New York City during the American Revolution, being a Collection of original papers, now first published from MSS. in the possession of the Mercantile Library, with an introduction by H. B. Dawson (N. Y., privately printed, 1861), which includes an account by William Butler; and in papers in Valentine's Manual (1862, p. 652). Cf. Harper's Mag., xxxvii. 180, and Scribner's Monthly, Jan., 1876.
[803] Sparks's Washington, iii. 433; Corresp. of the Rev., i. 225; Wilkinson's Memoirs, i. ch. 2.
[804] 4 Force's Archives, vi., and 5, vols. i., ii., and iii.; Lossing's Schuyler, ii. 92; John Adams's Works, iii. 47.
[805] Various letters of this period about the army are in the Persifer Frazer Papers (Sparks MSS., xxi., from July 9 to Nov. 18, 1776); in the Gates Papers (copies in part among the Sparks MSS., xxii.); in the Schuyler Papers as used in Lossing's Schuyler, and as existing in the N. Y. Archives (copies in part in the Sparks MSS., xxix.). A letter of Thomas Hartley (Ticonderoga, July 19, 1776) in Mag. West. Hist., Sept., 1886, p. 677; one of Wayne (July 31) to Franklin in Sparks MSS., no. lvii. The N. H. State Papers, viii., 311, 315, 325-6, 329, throw light on the feelings of the adjacent country,—Col. Asa Potter seeking to throw the people upon Burgoyne's protection against the Indians. The N. H. Rev. Rolls, ii. 2, 22, show how troops were sent to Ticonderoga as the spring opened.
Orderly-books and army diaries of the period have been noted as follows: Col. J. Bagley's, Lake George (Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., new ser., i. 134). Col. Ruggles Woodbridge, Ticonderoga, Aug. 25 to Oct. 27, 1776 (Sparks MSS., lx. p. 317). Col. Wheelock's, Aug.-Nov., 1776 (in Mass. Archives). Anthony Wayne's Orderly book of the northern army, at Ticonderoga and Mt. Independence, from October 17th, 1776, to January 8th, 1777, with biographical and explanatory notes, and an appendix (Albany, 1859, being no. 3 of Munsell's historical series). It gives the daily orders issued by General Gates and himself. Letters of Wayne from Feb. to April, 1777 are in the St. Clair Papers, i. 384, etc. Moses Greenleaf, Ticonderoga, March 23 to April 4, 1777 (among the Greenleaf MSS., in Mass. Hist. Soc.).
Journal of Rev. Ammi R. Robbins in the northern campaign of 1776 (New Haven, 1850). It extends from March 18 to Oct. 29, and covers a part of the retreat from Canada. Diary of Lieutenant Jonathan Burton, Aug. 1 to Nov. 29, 1776 (New Hampshire State Papers, xiv.).
[806] The original is among the Gates Papers (cf. Sparks MSS., xxii. and xxxix.). They are printed in Wilkinson's Memoirs (i. 83) and Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev. (i. 537).
[807] They are printed in 5 Force's Amer. Archives (ii. 1102); Dawson (i. 171, 172); Arnold's Arnold (p. 118). See also Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev. (i. App.), and 5 Force (vols. i., ii., iii.).