Col. Thaddeus Cook's, of Wallingford, Conn., Stillwater, September 6 to October 6, 1777. Weekly Returns of the Regiment, September 13, 27, and October 21, 1777.
Capt. William Gates's Company, of Col. Timo. Bigelow's Regiment, Weekly Returns, various dates from October, 1777, to September, 1778. Also in same covers, Orderly Book of Lieut. David Grout's Company, of Timothy Bigelow's Regiment, February 15, 1779, to June 15, 1779, and Weekly Returns of Capt. Peirce's Co., same Regiment, in 1780.
These are all in the library of the Amer. Antiq. Soc. at Worcester, Mass. An orderly-book of James Kimball, of Croft's regiment, June, 1777, to Dec., 1778, has been published by the Essex Institute (Salem, Mass.).
The following diaries may be named:—
The journal of Henry Dearborn, Aug. 3-Dec. 3, which was in the J. W. Thornton sale, 1878, no. 501. It is now in the Boston Public Library, and is included in Dearborn's journals as printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1886, edited by Mellen Chamberlain, and separately as Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1776-1783 (Cambridge, 1887).
Chaplain Smith's diary, July and Aug., 1777, in R. A. Guild's Chaplain Smith and the Baptists, p. 197; Ralph Cross's journal, beginning Aug. 29, 1777, at Newburyport, and ending there on his return, Dec. 5th, in the Hist. Mag. (vol. xvii. pp. 8-11); diary of Ephraim Squier, Sept. 4 to Nov. 2, 1777, preserved in the Pension Office, Washington. Extracts from the diary of Capt. Benj. Warren are preserved in the Sparks MSS. (no. xlvii.). A copy of the journal of Samuel Harris, Jr., of Boston, during the campaign of 1777, after he joined the army at Stillwater, Sept. 20th, and describing the fight of Bemis's Heights, Oct. 7th, and the surrender of Oct. 17th, is in the Sparks MSS. (xxv.). Cf. McAlpine's Memoirs, published in 1788.
The British journals of Burgoyne's campaign by actors in it, which have been printed, are Roger Lamb's Original and authentic journal of occurrences during the late American war (Dublin, 1809), and his Memoir of his own Life (Dublin, 1811),—he was sergeant of the Royal Welsh Fusileers,—and Thomas Anburey's Travels through the interior parts of America (London, 1789 and 1791; French versions, Paris, 1790 and 1793; German, Berlin, 1792). Anburey was attached as a volunteer to the grenadier company of the 29th foot. (Cf. Rogers's Hadden Journals, explanatory chapter.) There is an English diary in the Mag. of Amer. Hist. (Feb., 1878).
For other personal records of the campaign, reference may be made to the brief summary of Maj. Hughes, one of Gates's aides (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Feb., 1858, iii. 279); the autobiography of Col. Philip van Cortlandt, of the second New York regiment (N. Y. Geneal. and Biog. Rec., July, 1874, vol. v. 123, and Hist. Mag., 1878).
Similar records on the British side are Maj. Edward M'Gauran's Memoirs, privately printed in London in 1786, in two volumes, and The narrative of Captain Samuel Mackay, commandant of a provincial regiment in North America; by the appointment of Lieut.-Gen. Burgoyne (Kingston, 1778). The author gives an account of his services as a royalist in command of a company of provincials attached to General Burgoyne's army, and complains of the refusal of the British generals to recognize him as an officer.
The British Museum has recently acquired a contemporary military critique of the campaign, by one of the actors in it, Lieut. Digby, of the British army.