FRENCH and INDIAN WAR]. Autograph manuscript journal and account book, kept by an American officer (possibly Samuel Laughton of Dummerston), during the Lake George-Ticonderoga campaign, entries made at Lake George and unspecified campsites, 24 August 1758 - 24 November 1758. 40 pages, small 12mo, 155 x 96 mm. (6¼ x 3¾ in.), disbound and several pages detached, browning, one leaf with portion torn away (but present). A DIARY OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS The diarist (an indifferent speller) was apparently an officer: in one entry he writes that he had "ordered that each Capt. or commanding officers...in my Regt. emeadiately send in to me a count of all the arms that are lost..." Many entries simply commence "Campt Lake George"; late entries, when the army disbanded, are made at Canaan, Welford and other places. "Towards night a company of Rangers came from the Lake and a cannon was sent...Orders came for our Regmt. to march to the Lake, three hundred of reglars came...and two hundred of provinshels." On march, the supply wagons are attacked "by about 500 indians," who "keld or took about 20 women and 30 or 40 men." Later, he writes, "good nues came from Majr. [Robert] Rogers that he had a fight and had got about 50 skelps...Mager Rogers came in from Fort Edward..." An expedition to "south Bay" under Rogers is described, during which the detachment is discovered by a party "of French and Indians...in wood creak"; in an ambush, the Indians "took Majr. [Israel] Putnam and sum more and carr[i]ed them to ticontoro [Ticonderoga]." This is apparently the famous occasion when Putnam was captured, tied to a tree and rescued moments before he was to be burned alive. In one place the diarist records the exact command sequence for musket drill "for the exercise of foot [infantry] armed with fire locks [muskets]." On many pages he records debts and supplies purchased, including such commodities as "chease," "muton," wine, "Rumb" and "clove water," "half a pound of coffee," a "silk handkerchief," and, "tobacho." Diaries of this war are quite scarce.
FRENCH and INDIAN WAR]. Autograph manuscript journal and account book, kept by an American officer (possibly Samuel Laughton of Dummerston), during the Lake George-Ticonderoga campaign, entries made at Lake George and unspecified campsites, 24 August 1758 - 24 November 1758. 40 pages, small 12mo, 155 x 96 mm. (6¼ x 3¾ in.), disbound and several pages detached, browning, one leaf with portion torn away (but present). A DIARY OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS The diarist (an indifferent speller) was apparently an officer: in one entry he writes that he had "ordered that each Capt. or commanding officers...in my Regt. emeadiately send in to me a count of all the arms that are lost..." Many entries simply commence "Campt Lake George"; late entries, when the army disbanded, are made at Canaan, Welford and other places. "Towards night a company of Rangers came from the Lake and a cannon was sent...Orders came for our Regmt. to march to the Lake, three hundred of reglars came...and two hundred of provinshels." On march, the supply wagons are attacked "by about 500 indians," who "keld or took about 20 women and 30 or 40 men." Later, he writes, "good nues came from Majr. [Robert] Rogers that he had a fight and had got about 50 skelps...Mager Rogers came in from Fort Edward..." An expedition to "south Bay" under Rogers is described, during which the detachment is discovered by a party "of French and Indians...in wood creak"; in an ambush, the Indians "took Majr. [Israel] Putnam and sum more and carr[i]ed them to ticontoro [Ticonderoga]." This is apparently the famous occasion when Putnam was captured, tied to a tree and rescued moments before he was to be burned alive. In one place the diarist records the exact command sequence for musket drill "for the exercise of foot [infantry] armed with fire locks [muskets]." On many pages he records debts and supplies purchased, including such commodities as "chease," "muton," wine, "Rumb" and "clove water," "half a pound of coffee," a "silk handkerchief," and, "tobacho." Diaries of this war are quite scarce.
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