{"1": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF COLONEL\\nISRAEL ANGELL\\n1778 -1781000000\\nEDWARD FIELD", "height": "3447", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\ntnap. Co|)yriglit Xo.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF\\nCOLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "BOOKS BY EDWARD FIELD\\nTax Lists of the Town of Providence during\\nthe Administration of Sir Edmund Andros,\\n168^1689\\nSq. Svo. $1.00 net\\nRevolutionary Defences in Rhode Island\\nWith Mats, Plans, and 1 lustrations\\nSvo. $2.25 net\\nThe Colonial Tavern A Glimpse of New\\nEngland Town Life in the Seventeenth and\\nEighteenth Centuries\\nSvo. $2.00 net\\nEsck Hopkins Commander-in-Chief of the\\nContinental Navy during the American\\nRevolution, 1775 to J778\\nIllustrated. Svo. $3.00 net\\nDiary of Colonel Israel Angell: Commanding\\nthe Second Rhode Island Continental Regi-\\nment during the American Revolution,\\nJ 778-1 781.\\nIllustkated. Svo. $2.50 net", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Diary of Colonel\\nISRAEL ANGELL\\nCommanding the Second\\nRhode Island Continental\\nRegiment during the\\nAmerican Revolution\\n1778-1781\\nTranscribed from the Original Manuscript\\nTogether with a Biographical Sketch of the Author\\nand Illustrative Notes by\\nEDWARD FIELD, A.B.\\nHistorian 0/ the R.I. Society of the Sons of t lie American Revolution\\nILLUSTRATED\\nPROVIDENCE, R.I.\\nPRESTON AND ROUNDS COMPANY\\nI 899", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "TVVO Co Pits t^- f-;. c:\\nOffk\u00c2\u00ab of no\\nRegister of Copyrlj^hts,\\n50940\\nCopyright, 1899\\nBY\\nEDWARD FIELD\\nSECOND COPY*", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED\\nTO\\nTHE MEMORY OF MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER\\n\u00c2\u00a9arius Eijurtrr\\nA FIFER AND PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN WILLIAM TEW S\\nCOMPANY\\nCOLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL S REGIMENT\\nAND TO HIS COMRADES\\nIN ARMS", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nTHE diaries here printed are in six separate parts, five\\nof them being the property of Malcolm H. Angell,\\nEsq., of Etna, Bergen County, New Jersey, while the\\nother (Part Two) is the property of a descendant of\\nColonel Angell in Rhode Island. The pages on which the\\nentries are written are about three and one half inches wide\\nby six and three quarters inches long. The sections or\\nparts of the diary vary as to the number of pages, and are\\nstitched together without covers.\\nTheir general appearance is indicated by the fac-simile\\npage accompanying this work. The whole diary has been\\ncarefully transcribed and copious notes added. It is hoped\\nthat these annotations will add to the interest of the diary\\nitself, and be found useful in identifying and describing\\npersons and places briefly referred to by the diarist.\\nIn preparing the great number of notes which is contained\\nin the work, I have been aided by many persons, but to\\nname all would be beyond the possibilities of this preface;\\nto all such persons, however, I return grateful thanks. I\\ndesire to particularly acknowledge my obligation to Malcolm\\nH. Angell, Esq., for permitting me to have in my custodv", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "viii PREFACE.\\nthe parts of the diary owned by him, and to Mr. Harris W.\\nBrown for the use of the other section under his control.\\nTo His Excellency Elisha Dyer, Governor, and to the Hon.\\nCharles P. Bennett, Secretary of State, I am indebted for\\ncourtesies extended in securing for the work the illustration\\nof the standard carried during the war by Colonel Angell s\\nregiment.\\nIn addition to the diaries here printed Colonel Angell\\nhas left two others: one of them describes the happenings on\\na journey to the Ohio Valley in 1788, the other a trip to\\nPhiladelphia in 1792 both these are of peculiar interest\\nfrom the notes which the writer made on the condition of\\nthese localities at that early period.\\nEDWARD FIELD.\\nProvidence, R.I., October 4, 1899.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL\\nISRAEL ANGELL was a descendant in the fifth gen-\\neration of Thomas Angell, who came to Providence\\nwith Roger Williams he was the son of Oliver and\\nNaomi (Smith) Angell, and was born in that part of the\\ntown of Providence now included in North Providence,\\nAug. 24, 1740.\\nHe received more than the usual education afforded the\\nyouth of that period, for his mother had been a teacher in\\none of the country schools and was thus able to give her son\\nmany advantages of learning. He seems to have been con-\\nversant with scientific subjects, was particularly fond of natu-\\nral history, and in his later years made many notes on this\\nbranch of science as he travelled through sections of the\\ncountry on public business. He is also said to have been an\\nenthusiastic student of astronomy.\\nAt the very beginning of the troubles with the mother\\ncountry Israel Angell took an active part. When the army\\nof observation was ordered raised by the General Assembly\\nof Rhode Island in 1775, he was commissioned Major of the\\nregiment commanded by Col. Daniel Hitchcock. The regi-\\nment to which he was attached formed a part of the Ameri-", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "X COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL.\\ncan armv laying siege to Boston and bore its part in the\\nevents which subsequently transpired.\\nThere is a letter yet preserved among the manuscripts of\\nthe Rhode Island Historical Society written bv Israel Angell\\nto his brother, dated at Prospect Hill, Dec. i, 1775. It\\ngives a clear idea of the character of the man who was des-\\ntined to bear so conspicuous a part in the struggle for inde-\\npendence, and for that reason it is here printed\\nProspect Hill, December the ist 1775.\\nDear brother\\nI take this oppertunitv to inform you that I Still Enjoy that\\nBlessing which is mv health. God be Praised, and I hope\\nthat you and all yours Receves the Same blessing. I was in-\\nform by Our brother Elish that there was no nails to be had\\nin Providence but that you thought likely there was Some in\\nNewport, and If there is Pray Brother. Send and git them\\nand See that one Room is furnished this winter otherwise I\\nShall be very Discontented about my familey. and only Send\\nto me and let Me know what Sum of money you Shall want\\nto Carry on the Business and I will Send it as Soon as Possi-\\nble, there is no Nails to be had in this Part of the world\\nand what news We have I Suppose you will hear of long be-\\nfore this reaches You the Privatears from Marblehead have\\ntaken a brigg from England to Boston Loded with war like\\nStores one Brass 13 inch Morter Bead and all Com pleat 2\\nBrass Six Pounders 2000 Kings Arms a great Quantity of\\nCannon Shoot And cartridges for both Cannon and Small\\narms a Number of Carbines and in Short Every war like\\narticle that Can be Mentioned all which is a Comming out\\nto Cambrig and other Places from the Sea Shore, there was a\\nmalenculv Aflair happened a few days Past at deadham", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "COLOXEL ISRAEL ANGELL. XI\\nCol Huntingdon Wife from Conneticut hanged her Self there\\nShe was Governer Trumbels Daughter of Conneticut 5c Sis-\\nter to our Commisarry general in Cambrig Brother 1 am\\nmuch allarm^ At the News of the Conduct of the People in\\nProvidence And the towns adjecent to hear that they are\\nlikely to Rise in mobs on the account of Salts rising and Some\\nother Small Articals I begg of Every honest and well ment\\nPerson both in town and country to Exert them Selves to\\nThe utmost of their Power to Surpress aney riotous Proceed-\\ning Among your Selves Especily at this time for God Sake\\nLet us unite all as one in America if we dont. but tall at\\nvarance among our Selves, of all Gods Creation we Shall be\\nthe most Miserablest So no more at Present\\nYour c\\nTo Hope Angell Israel Angell\\nEsqr of North\\nProvidence Brother I am afraid you Can Never\\nRead the above lines as They was\\nwrote in a few minutes And with a\\nbad Pen and poor Ink.\\nUpon the formation of the Second Rhode Island Regi-\\nment Daniel Hitchcock was elected Colonel and Israel\\nAngell Lieutenant-Colonel, and the regiment was despatched\\nto join the grand army under Washington.\\nUpon the death of Colonel Hitchcock the command o^\\nthe regiment was given to Angell, his commission bei:r;\\ndated Jan. 13, 1777; this position he held until the First\\nand Second Regiments were consolidated.\\nIn August, 1777, his regiment was at Peekskill, N.Y.,\\nfrom which place he wrote the following pathetic letter to\\nthe Governor of Rhode Island:", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "xii COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL.\\nCamp No z August 27\u00e2\u0080\u00941777\\nGentlemen, Pure necessity urges me to trouble you this\\nonce more in behalf of ye Troops under my command you\\nwill easily recollect that I haye repeated mv Solicitations\\nbefore you on ye Subject of their cloathing as far as was\\ndecent.\\nI did, indeed expect when I came from Home to find my\\nmen poorly Habitted nor was I disappointed their Dress\\neven exceeded for badness what I had imagined to myself.\\nNot one half of them can not be termed fit for duty on\\nany immergencv; Of those, who of them went with me\\non a late expedition near to Kings bridge many were bare\\nfoot, in consequence of which its probable they vyon t be fit\\nfor duty again for many week 5 of them there deserted to\\nye enemy which I haye reason to beleiye was principally\\nowing to ye non fulfillment of engagements on ye part of ye\\nState and what may be expected better than this that more\\nwill follow their example while they daily experience that\\npublick faith is not to be depended on. In fine ye Regi-\\nment is scandallous in its appearance in ye view of every\\none and has because of this incurred from surrounding\\nregiments from ye inhabitants of Towns thro which they\\nhave lately passed, ye disagreeable and prov oking Epithets\\nof the Ragged Lousey Naked Regiment. Such treatment,\\ngentlemen, is discouraging dispiriting in its tendency it\\ndoes effectually unman ye Man and render them almost use-\\nless in ye Army I am sorry to have occasion to .continue my\\ncomplaint in their behalf but as I look upon it, a matter, not\\nof Empertinence but of Inportance I cannot retrain in justice\\nto them.\\nI pray gentlemen you would as speedily as possible inform\\nme of ye result of your Deliberation on the Matter and let", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. XIU\\nme Know whether they are likely very soon to have relief.\\nIf this is not ye case I shall look upon myself in Honour\\nBound to make my Application some where else\\nI am gentlemen with all due Respect Your Honours hum-\\nble Servant\\nIsrael Angell Colo.\\nTo his Honour ye Gov. Council State R. I.\\nColonel Angell participated in the battles of the Brandy-\\nwine and Red Bank and was with the army during the\\nterrible winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge.\\nHis regiment bore a conspicuous part in the battle ot Mon-\\nmouth, and soon after this engagement he with his regiment\\nwas detached from the main army and sent to Rhode Island\\nto unite with General Sullivan in the operations against the\\nenemy at Newport, R.I. For distinguished services at the\\nbattle of Springfield, June 23, 1780, he was the subject of\\nspecial mention by General Washington in a letter to Gov-\\nernor Greene ot Rhode Island.\\nUpon the consolidation of the two Rhode Island regi-\\nments Colonel Angell retired from the position he had held\\nso long.\\nBy the Act of Congress of Oct. 3, 1780, this was\\nnot to take effect until the first of January following, but it\\nseems that it was some months later than this before he\\nwrote in his diary that his days as a military commander\\nceased,\\nUpon retiring from military life Colonel Angell returned\\nto his home in the town of Johnston, where he carried on his", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "XIV\\nCOLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL.\\nfarm and followed his trade as a cooper; at the same time he\\nwas granted a license to keep a public house.\\nHis tavern was a popular place of resort and was widely\\nknown for its excellence and hospitality.\\nLate in life he moved into the town of Smithfield, where\\nhe died May 31, 1832, in his ninety-second year. He is\\ndescribed by one who remembered him as of medium\\nheight, light complexion, auburn hair surmounted bv a wig,\\nblue eves, a strong Roman nose, and straight as a ramrod.\\nColonel Angell was three times married and is said to\\nhave contemplated a fourth venture when death terminated\\nhis life. In love and in war Colonel Angell was a conspicu-\\nous figure.\\nStatement in a sketch of the life and services of Col. Israel\\nAngell read before the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the\\nAmerican Revolution, Feb. 22, 1897, t y Robert P. Brown, Esq.\\nHis first wife was Martha Angell, his second cousin, who died\\nMarch 16, 1793. By her he had eleven children:\\nMary\\nJune 17, 1766.\\nElizabeth\\nApril 27, 1768.\\nSarah\\nOctober 17, 1769.\\nAsa\\nAugust 24, 1 771.\\nAbner\\nFebruary 21, 1773.\\nIsrael\\nSeptember 12, 1775\\nMartha\\nAugust 23, 1779.\\nNaomi\\nSeptember i, 178 1.\\nRuth\\nMay 10, 1785.\\nStephen\\nJuly 4, 1787.\\nOliver\\nDecember i, 1790.\\nHis second wife was Susannah Wright and by her he had six\\nchildren", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AXGELL.\\nXV\\nHe had seventeen children, eleven bv his first wife and\\nsix by the second, and of the seventeen, thirteen reached\\nmaturitv and eight became octogenarians.\\nHe was buried in the familv gravevard on his old farm\\nin Johnston on the South Scituate road. For years this\\nancient burying-place has been abandoned and neglected, and\\nthe mutilated marble stone which marked his last resting-\\nplace, when the writer visited the spot a vear or so ago was\\nlying broken upon the ground. An iron marker of the\\nSons of the American Revolution has been placed over the\\nspot by the Colonel s great-grandson, Harris W. Brown, Esq.\\nHis military record as compiled by Heitman in his\\nOfficers of the Continental Army is as follows\\nAngell, Israel (R.I.), Major of Hitchcock s Rhode\\nIsland Regiment, 3d May to December, 1775. Major iith\\nContinental Infantry, 1st January to 3 ist December, 1776.\\nLieutenant-Colonel 2d Rhode Island, ist Januarv, 1777.\\nColonel, 13th January, 1777; retired ist January, 1781.\\n(Died,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 May, 1832.)\\nSuch in brief is the history of the man whose diaries are\\nhere presented. His conspicuous service, his gallantry and\\nBorn.\\nLuther May 11, 1794.\\nInfant son February, 1794, died young.\\nSusannah January 23, 1798.\\nMehitable January 31, i8oo.\\nHenry May 21, 1802.\\nIsaac January 20, 1809.\\nThe third wife was Sarah Angell, the widow of Richard Angell.\\n(Angell Genealogy, page 80.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "XVI COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL.\\nbravery, demand more recognition than is now or has here-\\ntofore been given him. No adequate history of his life has\\never been written, but fugitive sketches have, from time to\\ntime, appeared in various publications in which his ser-\\nvices have been briefly told. Some years ago a descendant\\nsecured from various sources most of his private papers, the\\nservice sword which he had carried so honorably through\\nthe war, and many other relics and mementoes, for the\\npurpose of using them in preparing a proper record for\\npublication. They were all taken without the country, but\\nere they could be put to this purpose the person in whose\\ncustody they were died, and all this valuable material has\\nbeen lost. No portrait exists to preserve the features and\\nappearance of this striking personage in the history of the\\nWar for Independence.\\nHon. Anson Burlingame.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "DIARY\\nOF\\nCOLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL\\nSECOND RHODE ISLAND REGIMENT OF THE\\nCONTINENTAL LINE.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "The standard of which this is a photographic reproduction\\nwas borne by AngelPs Second Rhode Island Regiment during\\nthe American Revokition until its dissolution. It is preserved\\nwith that of the First Rhode Island Regiment in the State House\\nat Providence, R.I. When these two regiments were consoli-\\ndated, January i, 1781, both became the colors of the Rhode\\nIsland Regiment. On February 28, 1784, Jeremiah Olney, the\\nlast Colonel of the Regiment, in behalf of the officers deposited\\nthese standards with the State for preservation. The proceedings\\nand correspondence relative to the matter may be found in the\\nRhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. X., p. 14.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "PART ONE.\\nTHE diary of Colonel Angell begins with\\nthe twentieth of August, 1778. The regi-\\nment which he commanded was then encamped\\nat Tiverton, R.I., and formed a part of the army\\nunder Gen. John Sullivan, then engaged in the\\noperations against the British forces on Rhode\\nIsland.\\nIt details the happenings from day to day\\nduring the siege, and terminates September 23,\\n1778, when Colonel Angell was at his home\\nin Johnston on leave of absence by reason of\\nsickness.\\nThe regiment had then taken up quarters\\nabout a mile above Warren, where it was en-\\ncamped.\\nAugust 20th, 1778. A cloudy foggy\\nmorning but broak away by nine o clock and\\nthe Canon begun to play. Gov. Bradford\\nCome to my quarters this day and Dind with\\nWilliam Bradford, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island from\\nNovember, 1775, to May, 1778.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "2 THE DIARY OF\\nUS. I was ordered on duty to day and Marched\\nof with a detachment of 500 men as a Cover-\\ning party at five oclock P.M. and Releaved\\nColonel Wigglesworth, the french fleet not\\nbeing yet heard of Spread great consternation\\nin the Army.\\n21st. A pleasant Morning but Some foggy\\nthere was an Exceeding heavy fire from both\\nArmys to day, with Cannon and Hoitzers we\\nhad but one man hurt and he had the Calf of\\nhis leg Shot away by a Cannon Shot as he was\\ngoing to Carry his mesmates Some Vittles I\\nwas Releaved by Col. Jacobs about 8 oclock in\\nthe evening.\\nAugust 22d, 1778. A Clowdy thick\\nEdward Wigglesworth (Mass.), Captain Company of Massa-\\nchusetts Matrosses, 29th June, 1776; Colonel Massachusetts Militia\\nin 1776 Colonel 13th Massachusetts, 1st January, 1777 resigned\\nloth March, 1779. (Died 8th December, 1826.) (Heitman s\\nOfficers of the Continental Army.\\nDiary of Fleet S. Greene, written in Newport, in Historical\\nMagazine, i860, Vol. IX., under date August 20, notes, At 11\\no clock this morning a Fleet appeared standing off about W. N.W.\\nwith the wind at S.W it is thought to be the French. The same\\nperiod covered by this diary of Angell s is also covered by the\\nGreene diary, and being an account of the happenings within the\\nBritish lines is of peculiar interest in connection with Angell s\\nstatements. See Historical Magazine, i860, Vol. IV., 1-34, 69,\\n105, 134, 172.\\n^Heitman mentions a John Jacobs, Massachusetts, who was\\nLieutenant-Colonel of the 23d Continental Infantry. Colonel\\nJacobs is mentioned in the After Orders of August 15 as one\\nof the Field Officers.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 3\\nmorning with a North East wind and Cold we\\nhad a great Number of Cannon Carried to the\\ndifferent Batteries last Evening in order to\\nopen upon the Enemy this morning, but the\\nweather being thick prevented our beginning\\nthe fire so soon as we Should had the weather\\nhave been clear, on Circumstance I forgot to\\nmention the night before last after I had fin-\\nished my journal for that Day there was an\\nExpress come to headquarters from Count D^\\nEstaing the french Admiral who had arived\\nand lay without the light hous and yesterday\\nwe saw the Ships two of them had ben Dis-\\nmasted in the late Storm one was the Admirals\\nship she was totally dismasted the others had\\nher Mizen mast Carried away, and her main\\ntop one Simmons from Providence was badly\\nwounded by the Bursting of a Shell there was\\nbut litt firing to day to what there was yesterday.\\nAugust 23d, 1778. A thick morning\\nand Cool, the Enemy flung Shells the Greatist\\npart of the night past, and this morning the\\nBatteries on our Side was opened on the Enemy\\nand a most terrible Cannonade kept up during\\nthe day.\\nBeaver Tail Light-house at southern end of the island of Conani-\\ncut (subsequently destroyed by the British).\\nThe Languedoc.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "4 THE DIARY OF\\nI dind with Gen Greene to day, the French\\nfleet Left us to day bound to Boston and I\\nthink left us in a most Rascally manner and\\nwhat will be the E.vent God only knows we\\nhad one man kill d and one or two wounded,\\none Eighteen pounder and one Brass ten inch\\nmorter was split to day but kild no man.-\\nAugust 24th, 1778. A Smoking thick\\nmorning the Enemy Continued throwing Shells\\nall the night past, and to day the Cannonade\\nContinued very Sevear I and Col Olney was\\nCurious Enough to measure all the Covered\\nway which was 1512 yards, in the afternoon\\nwe got our thirteen inch morter to play and\\nflung three Shell but did no execution they\\nbroak in the air as the fues was two Short.\\n25th. A clear hott morning and a sevear\\nCannonade and Bumbarding Still kept up and\\nContinued the whole Day, we got off some of\\nour heavier Baggage to day in order to make a\\nRetreat of the Island in Case necessity required\\nGen. Nathanael Greene, who had been detached from the main\\narmy to cooperate in Sullivan s expedition.\\nRev. Manasseh Cutler, Chaplain of Ti :comb s Regiment, says in\\nhis diary under this date, One man Killed by a cannon ball at one\\nof our guns; another died of the wound he received yesterday by\\nthe bursting of a shell Our people split one eighteen\\npounder and one nine and a half inch mortar.\\nThe covered way is shown on the battle map of Sullivan s\\nexpedition accompanying this work.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 5\\nit Major Blodget came to Camp to day from\\nthe westward but brought nothing new I sent\\noff my marque and went and took quarters with\\nCol. Livingston and Major Huntingdon at\\nnight we mustered all the teams we had and\\nproceeded to the lower works in order to git\\noff all the Cannon and morter as a Retreat was\\nDetermined upon.\\nAugust 26. Clear and Exceeding hott\\nabout Eleven o clock there was a Allarm it be-\\ning Reported that the Enemy was a Coming out\\nbut proved falls and we rested in peace this day.\\nLivingston, Henry Beekman (N.Y.), Captain 4th New York,\\n28th June, 1775. By the act of 12th December, 1775, it was Re-\\nsolved, that this Congress will make a present of a sword of the\\nvalue of $100 to Captain Henry B. Livingston, as a testimony of\\nhis services (at Chambly, S.C.) to this country, and that they will\\nembrace the first opportunity of promoting him in the army.\\nMajor 3d New York, December, 1775, to rank from 2d August,\\n1775; Aide-de-Camp to General Schuyler, February to November,\\n1776; Colonel 4th New York, 2ist November 1776; resigned 13th\\nJanuary, 1779. (Died 5th November, 1831.)\\nEbenezer Huntington (Conn.), served in the Lexington alarm,\\nApril, 1775 ist Lieutenant 2d Connecticut, 8th September to loth\\nDecember, 1775; ist Lieutenant 22d Connecticut Infantry, ist Jan-\\nuary, 1776; Captain, May, 1776; Brigade-Major to General Heath,\\nAugust, 1776; Major of Webb s Additional Continental Regiment,\\n1st January, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel, loth October, 1778; trans-\\nferred to 3d Connecticut, 1st January, 1781 transferred to 1st Con-\\nnecticut, 1st January, 17S3; retained in Swift s Connecticut Regi-\\nment, June, 1783, and served to 3d November, 17S3; Brigadier\\nGeneral United States Army, 19th July, 1798. Honorably dis-\\ncharged, 15th June, 1800. (Died 17th June, 1834.) (Hcitman s\\nOfficers of the Continental Army.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "6 THE DIARY OF\\n27th August, 1778. Cloudy and rained\\na little this morning but Soon broke away and\\nwas hott we met with som misfortune last\\nEvening. I had one Ensign and 14 men\\ntaken prisoners by the British troops as they\\nwas a Setting their sentries the Ensign was\\nJohn Viol. Genl, Varnum formed an ex-\\npedition against a picquet which lay near our\\nright wing, which proved unfortunate being\\ndrove off with the Loss of one Lt and 3 pri-\\nvates I was the officer of the Day to day.\\nthree large Ships arrived in the harbor about\\nMrs. Williams, in her Biography of Revolutionary Heroes,\\nProvidence, 1839, page 93, gives another version of Vial s capture,\\nin which she relates, He fought at the battle of Rhode Island in\\nSullivan s expedition, and was left on the island by mistake.\\nBeing on picket guard, they forgot to notify him at the retreat,\\nand he fell into the hands of the British, and was kept for a time\\nin one of the prison ships lying in the harbor of Newport.\\nThese details are inconsequential, yet perhaps the diarist s ac-\\ncount is more worthy of belief.\\nJames Mitchell Varnum (R.I.), Colonel Rhode Island Regi-\\nment, 3d May to December, 1775; Colonel 9th Continental Infantry,\\nist January to 31st December, 1776; Colonel 1st Rhode Island, 1st\\nJanuary, 1777; Brigadier-General Continental Army, 27th February,\\n1777; resigned 5th March, 1779. Was also Major-General Rhode\\nIsland Militia. (Died loth January, 1789.) (Heitman s Officers of\\nthe Continental Army. Also Colonel of the Kentish Guards, 1 774.\\nSee Greene s History of East Greenwich, pages 179 to 185; also\\nsame 169-176 for biographical sketch.\\nSee also Cowell s Spirit of 76 in Rhode Island, page 256. A\\npoor portrait of Varnum in Stone s French Allies, page 84.\\nUpdike s Memoirs of the Rhode Island Bar. Boston, Thos. H.\\nWebb Co., 1842. Page 145.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "r^\\nf", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2522", "width": "4807", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 7\\ntwo o clock Suppos d to be from New York\\nI din d with Col. Greene thro day and spent\\nthe Greatest part of the afternoon in Visiting\\nthe Guard.\\nAugust 28th, 1778. A Clear Morning\\nand very Cool. Several Accidents happened\\nduring the night past, in the first place we was\\nordered to strike our tents and march of by\\nEight o clock in the Evening to the North\\nEnd of the Island, and the Order of March\\ngiven out. but the order was Countermanded\\n1 Christopher Greene was the son of Judge Philip Greene and\\nElizabeth Wickes Greene, and was cousin to Gen. Nathanael Greene.\\nHe served as Major in Arnold s expedition against Quebec in 1775,\\nand was made a prisoner.\\nDuring the period of captivity he was, upon recommendation\\nof General Washington, appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Htst\\nRhode Island Continental Regiment.\\nHis military services, as compiled by Heitman, are as follows\\nGreene, Christopher (R.I. Major of Varnum s Rhode Island Regi-\\nment, 3d May, 1775; Lieutenant-Colonel; taken prisoner at\\nQuebec, 31st December, 1775; Colonel 1st Rhode Island, 27th\\nFebruary, 1777, to rank from 1st January, 1777.\\nBy the Act of 4th November, 1777, it was Resolved that Con-\\ngress have a high sense of the merit of Colonel Greene and the\\nofficers and men under his command, in their late gallant defence\\nof the fort at Red Bank, on the Deleware river, and that an ele-\\ngant sword be provided by the Board of War and presented to\\nColonel Greene.\\nHe was killed 14th May, 1781, by Delancey s Tories in West-\\nchester County, N.Y. For a particular account of the battle of Red\\nBank and illustration of his magnanimity on this occasion see\\nChristopher Greene, Hero of Red Bank, by Mary A. Greene in\\nthe American Monthly Magazine, Vol. II., No. 5, page 521.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "8 THE DIARY OF\\nand we were ordered to tarry on the Ground\\ntill further orders last evening I had one man\\nkill d by our own people a Sentrie on the\\nright of one of the picquets discovering one\\nof the Sentries on the left of the other picquet\\nwhich formed the line of Sentries and chaling-\\ning him he either did not hear or refused to\\nAnswer and the other Sentrie fired on him\\nShott him through his knee and he Expired\\nvery Soon there was a Considerable of firing\\nbetween the sentries.\\nAugust 29th, 1778. A Clear morning\\nand Very Cool the Reed orders last\\nevening to Strike their tents and march to the\\nnorth end of the island, the advanced piquet was\\nto come off at 12 oclock the enemy finding that\\nwe had left our ground pursued with all possible\\nspeed Come up with our piquet about sunrise\\nand a smart firing begun, the piquet repulsed\\nthe Brittish troops 2 or 3 times but was finily\\nobliged to retreat as the Enemy brought a\\nnumber of field pieces against them the Enemy\\nwas soon check t by our Cannon in coming up\\nto our main body and they formed on Quaker\\nHill and we took possession of Buttses Hill\\nQuaker Hill and Butts Hill are two hills in Portsmouth, R.I.\\nThey were both strategic points in the battle. For view of fort on\\nlUitts Hill see my Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island,\\nopp. page 140.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN G ELL. 9\\nthe left wing of the brittish army was Compossed\\nof the hessians who Attackt our right wing and\\na Sevear engagement Ensued in which the hes-\\nsians was put to flight and beat of the ground\\nwith a Considerable loss our loss was not very\\ngreat but I cannot assertain the number. I\\nwas ordered with my Regt to a Redoubt\\non a Small hill which the Enemy was a\\ntrying for and it was with Difficulty that we got\\nthere before the Enemy. I had 3 or 4 men\\nkill d and wounded to day at night I was or-\\ndered with my Reg to lie on the lines I had not\\nSlept then in two nights more than two or\\nthree hours the Reg* had eat nothing during the\\nwhole Day this was our sittuation to goe on\\nguard, but we marched off Cheartully and took\\nour post.\\nAugust 30th. A Cloudy morning and the\\nwind very high it rained a Considerable in the\\nnight the Enemy Remained on their Ground\\nthis morning two English friggats Came up\\nyesterday to prevent our retreat but could do\\nbut little they Still Remained here. I was Re-\\nlieved this morning and got Some provisions\\nand being much worn ou* for the want of sleep\\nwent to a hous and took a good knap there was\\na Cannonade kept up to day and Some small\\narms from the Sentries at nig-ht we Reed orders", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "lO THE DIARY OF\\nto Retreat off the Island which we did without\\nthe loss of anything, this Retreat was in Conse-\\nquence of an Express from Genl Washington\\ninforming Gen Sullivan that the Brittish Ships\\nof war and transports had sailed from New\\nYork Some days before.\\nAugust 31st, 1778. Our retreat off the\\nIsland was completed by three o clock this\\nmorning it is Supos d that the Enemy at-\\ntempted a Retreat last Evening but after find-\\ning that we Had Retreated they Returned to\\ntheir ground as it was late in the morning\\nbefore they took possession of the torts we\\nleft one accident happened yesterdav was for-\\ngot to be mentioned in that days journal L\\nArnold of the artillery was killed accidentally\\nas he had fired his Piece Stept off to see where\\nthe Shot Struck and Steping before the mussel\\nof another Gun as the ofiicer gave the word\\nfire the ball went through his body blo d him\\ntoo peaces his Body hung togeather by only\\nSee General Sullivan a Vindication of his Character as a\\nSoldier and a Patriot, by Thomas C. Amory, Esq., of Boston.\\nHist. Magazine, 1866, Vol. X., Supplement No. VI.\\nThe Military Services and Public Life of Major General John\\nSullivan, by Thomas C. Amory, Boston, Mass., 1868.\\nBiographical Sketch in General Sullivan s Indian Expedition,\\n1779, Camden, N.Y., 1887.\\nHeitman s Officers of the Continental Army mentions Noyes\\nArnold (Mass.), 1st Lieutenant 3d Continental Artillery, 1st P ebru-\\nary, 1777. Died 23 August, 1778.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL.\\nthe Skin of his belly, one Arm was blown Clear\\noff After we had Crost at howlands ferry we\\nEncampt about a mile from Sd. ferrv where we\\ntarried this day at Night Rec d orders to Strike\\nour tents next morning and Embark on board\\nour Boats and Land near Warren as Genl\\nVarnums Brigade was to be stationed Between\\nwarren and Bristol. Genl Cornells at How-\\nlands ferry Genl Glovers at Providence Col.\\nCom Green at Warwick and Greenwich.\\nSeptember 1st, 1778. We embarked\\non board our Boats this morning at Seven\\noclock Agreeable to Last Evenings Orders\\nand landed about ten o clock at Kickamuit\\nbridg near warren where we lay waiting tor\\norders untill 4 oclock P.M. then marched to\\nwarren and pitched our tents and tarried that\\nnight this Day was Cloudy and Rained a little.\\nSeptember 2d, 1778. A Cloudy Cold\\nEzekiel Cornell was a native of Scituate, R.I. In 1775 he was\\nLieutenant-Colonel of Hitchcock s Regiment in the Army of Obser-\\nvation. He subsequently was elected Brigadier-General, and was\\nactively engaged in the military affairs of the State up to May, 1 780,\\nwhen his brigade was mustered out of service. He was subse-\\nquently elected to Congress and served with the same honor in civil\\naffairs as had characterized his conduct in the military atTairs of his\\nnative State.\\nGen. John Glover, of Massachusetts. He remained at Provi-\\ndence until July 7, 1779.\\nKickamuit River lies to the east of Warren and Bristol. Kicka-\\nmuit Bridge crossed the river within Warren limits.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "12 THE DIARY OF\\nmorning it rain d very hard part of the Night\\npast we Rec d orders last Evening to march\\nthis morning at 7 oclock but our waggons not\\nGumming up prevented our marching untill\\nthe Afternoon then we Struck our tents and\\nmarched off to Bristol there Encampt on Brad-\\nfords hill.\\nSept. 3d. A very Cold morning for the\\nSeason Col Olney was much unwell with the\\nague in his face I sent a Boat to providence\\nto day for Cloathing and at night I took com-\\nmand of the piquet Nothing Extroardinary\\nhappen d Except my writing this days journal\\nin the manner I have jumping from one thing\\nSeptember 4th, 1778. An Exceeding\\nCold morning but Clear Col Olney set off tor\\nProvidence soon after breakfast as he was Ex-\\nceeding much unwell with ague in his face But\\nnothing of consequence happen d Dureing the\\nday.\\nJeremiah Olney (R.I.) Captain of Hitchcock s Rhode Island\\nRegiment, 3d May to December, 1775; Captain nth Continental\\nInfantry, 1st January to 31st December, 1 776; Lieutenant-Colonel 2d\\nRhode Island, 13th January, 1777; transferred to 1st Rhode Island,\\n1st January, 1781; Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, 14th May,\\n1781; served to close of war. (Died loth November, 181 2.) The\\n1st Rhode Island Regiment, after May, 1781, was also known as\\nOlney s Rhode Island Battalion. (Heitman s Officers of the\\nContinental Army. P or biographical and historical sketch and\\nsilhouette see Olney Genealogy, page 32; Stone s P rench\\nAllies, pages 448, 449.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "COLOXEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 13\\nDo 5th, 1778. A cool morning Q;; Master\\nCarpenter Came into Camp last Evening with\\nSoine Cloathing for my Reg and this, morning\\nit was delt out to them, he allso brought 4\\nChists of Arms for my Reg. which we delt out\\nto the troops and Returned in our old ones\\nthere was a flag went from providence to Rhode\\nIsland to day and another from our Encamp-\\nment went in by the way of Bristol ferry.\\nthere was Several Cannon fired to day but what\\nfired at is not known.\\nSeptember 6th, 1778. Clear and hot\\nthis morning there was a firing of Cannon\\nheard the night past and this morning there\\nCame an Express from beadford informing\\nA ferry formerly connected the mainland to the south of Bristol\\nand the island of Rhode Island. The island end is now called Bris-\\ntol ferry.\\n^The attack on New Bedford was made on the evening of\\nSeptember 5, 1778, and before twelve o clock the next day the\\nBritish had destroyed about seventy sail of vessels, many of them\\nprizes taken by American privateers and several small craft;\\nburned the magazine, wharves, stores, warehouses, vessels on the\\nstocks, all the buildings at McPherson s wharf, the principal part of\\nthe houses at the head of the river, and the mills and houses at\\nFairhaven opposite.\\nThis expedition against New Bedford was instigated by Sir Henry\\nClinton, and was carried out by General Grey, who landed with a\\nsufficient force upon Clark s Neck at the mouth of the river.\\nAfter completing the depredations at New Bedford the marauders\\nturned their attention to Martha s Vineyard, where they inflicted\\nsome damage and obtained large quantities of provisions for the\\narmy and fleet.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "14 THE DIARY OF\\nUS that the brittish troops had landed and burnt\\nbeadford I dind with the Marquis de La\\nffiat and while we was at the table there Came\\nanother Express with four Deserters from bead-\\nford informing us that all the houses and\\nStores and Shipping were Destroyed at Bead-\\nford and that the troops were all Embarked on\\nboard of their Ships while I was at the Mar-\\nquises my brother Jason Came to me and\\nbrought the agreeable news that my family and\\nfriends were all well he set off for home in\\nthe Evening.\\nSept. 7th, 1778. fine pleasant weather\\nthis morning I sent all my spare guns to the\\nStore at providence in a boat by water allso\\nsent a Serj and a file of men to pawtuxet and\\nCranston after some Deserters who Deserted\\nfrom me at the westward wrote Several letters\\nwhich took up the forenoon I din d with Gen\\nVarnum and in the afternoon went on Duty\\ntaking the Command of the piquet at night we\\nReed orders to Move Boats enough round\\ninto warren river to move the Brigade over at\\nonce this order Come from Genl Sullivan and\\nby the time we had got the men paraded the\\norder was Countermanded.\\nJason Angell, born Oct. 7, 1748; married Caroline Jenckes,\\ndaughter of Dr. John; their children were Oliver, Jenckes, Naomi,\\nand Jason.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 1 5\\nSept. 8th, 1778. Clear hot and Dry\\nweather. A number of Cannon was heard to\\nday and last night at a great distance to the\\nEastward but no intelligence where Col.\\nGreene Came here to day from Greenwich but\\nbrought no news, neither was there any thing\\nExtraordinary happend during the Day L\\nDexter of my Reg. was Tri d to day for dis-\\nobediance of orders.\\nSept. 9th, 1778. A thick Cloudy Morn-\\ning Master Carpenter went for providence\\nthis morning to procure some Cloathing for\\nmy Reg it begun to rain about noon and was\\nan Exceeding Rainy afternoon and Rained\\ngreat part of the night but Cleared off before\\nDay and was pleasant I din d yesterday at Genl\\nYarnums.\\nSept. 10th, 1778. A Clear and pleasant\\nmorning the Boat returned from Providence\\nearly in the morning but got but few of the\\nArticals sent for. I took the Command of the\\nPicket this Evening 4 or 5 of my men who\\nwas taken prisoners on Rhodeisland Returned\\nthis evening and Brought word that they were\\nall Exchanged and the remainder were at Prov-\\nidence and Ensign Viol was with them.\\nSept. 1 1th. A Clear and pleasant Morn-\\ning but nothing Remarkable happened the fore-", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "1 6 THE DIARY OF\\nnoon I sent Benjamin King who had been\\na prisoner to my hous in Johnston and to\\nmajor Fenners on business in the afternoon the\\nbrigade turned out and marched to Bristol\\ntown and manouvered on the Common by the\\nMeeting hous one of my Regt and one of Col\\nSherburnes Reg was flog d this Evening.\\nSept. 12th, 1778. A Coald raw morning\\nCap Hughes Came to Camp last Evening and\\nBenjamin King, Corporal in Major Thayer s Company of\\nAngell s Regiment.\\n^Tliomas Hughes (as the name is invariably spelled in the Family\\nBible), only son of Joseph and Mary Hughes, was born May 3,\\n1752. The place of his birth is not now known, but family tradition\\nstates the family was of Scotch-Irish descent. In the Rhode Island\\nColonial Records (Vol. X., pp. 412 and 413) he is mentioned as of\\nFreetown, Mass. There is some evidence to show that his father\\nmay have been Dr. Joseph Hughes (or Hewes), who removed from\\nAttleborough, Mass., to Providence shortly before the Revolution.\\nThomas Hughes name first appears upon the public records in\\nOctober, 1776, as Second Lieutenant of Col. Israel Angell s Battal-\\nion (Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. VIII., p. 11), and he was\\namong the officers recommended by General Washington to the\\nRhode Island General Assembly for the new establishment of the\\nContinental Army, in the same month and year. (Rhode Island\\nColonial Records, Vol. VIII., p. 36.) He was chosen, in February,\\n1777, to be First Lieutenant, and at sometime between August and\\nOctober, 1777, was raised to the rank of Captain. He served with\\nColonel Angell s Regiment throughout the war. In 1791 the Rhode\\nIsland General Assembly appointed Col. Jeremiah Olney and Capt.\\nThomas Hughes agents for the Proprietors of the Anaquacut Farm\\nin Tiverton, which was set off to the officers and soldiers of the late\\nContinental Battalion, commanded by Colonel Angell. These agents\\nsuccessfully petitioned the General Assembly to make up a con-\\nsiderable deficiency demanded of them by the purchasers to whom", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 1/\\nlodged with me the night past. We all turned\\nout this morning at Revele Beating agreeable\\nthey sold the land, and a resurvey was consequently ordered.\\nRhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. X., pp. 412, 413, and 437.)\\nCaptain Hughes married Feb. 27, 1782, Welthian (born Nov.\\n19, 1757, died 1844), eldest child of Col. Christopher and Anne\\n(Lippitt) Greene, of Centreville, Warwick, R.I.\\nThe children of Thomas and Welthian Hughes were:\\n1. Mary, born Jan. 4, 1783; married Burrovys Aborn and had\\neight children., all of whom died unmarried.\\n2. Christopher Greene, born July 9, 1785; died at New Orleans,\\nLa., July 22, 1815. (A sea captain.)\\n3. Phebe, born Sept. i, 1787; married her mother s own cousin,\\nJeremiah, son of (Judge) William and Welthian (Lippitt) Greene,\\nof Occupasnetuxet, Warwick, R.I. Her issue are the only living\\ndescendants of Thomas Hughes.\\n4. Katy, born Aug. 16, 1789; died in infancy.\\n5. Sally, born Dec. 15, 1790; died unmarried.\\n6. Elizabeth, born Feb. 2, 1792; died in infancy.\\n7. John Luther, born Nov. 2, 1 795 died Jan. 14, 1863.\\nJohn Luther Hughes was u prominent merchant and manufact-\\nurer in Rhode Island, and as a member of the Common Council of\\nthe city of Providence was actively instrumental in devising, fram-\\ning, and establishing the present public-school system of the city.\\nHe was the first Secretary of the Rhode Island Mutual Fire Insur-\\nance Company. His residence, at the corner of Washington and\\nGreene streets, has recently been demolished in order to place the\\nnew Public Library upon its site, a fate most certain to have been\\npleasing to one of his retined literary taste and public spirit. He\\nmarried Eliza Whiting, and had several children, all of whom died\\nyoung.\\nThomas Hughes served throughout the War of 1812 with the\\nrank of Major. He died Dec. 10, 1821, at his home at Centreville,\\nR.I., in the northwestern part of the town of Warwick, and was\\nburied in the family burying-ground on the farm of his brother-in-\\nlaw. Col. Job Greene, near by.\\nIn April, 1896, this burying-ground was abandoned and the bodies\\nremoved to Greenwood Cemetery, Phenix, R.I., including the re-", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "1 8 THE DIARY OF\\nto Gen Orders M Consider Luther came to\\nCamp this day a little past Noon and brought\\nme word from my family that they was all well\\nthe Evening before and Saw old M Richard\\nWaterman at my hous Who informed him\\nthat their family was well M Luther Din d at\\nmy Marquee then went home nothing Extraor-\\ndinary happened during the day.\\nSept. 13th, 1778. A Cloudy Cold raw\\nmorning with the wind at Northeast but soon\\nbroake away and was a pleasant Day the Bri-\\nmains of Major Hughes, his wife, and maiden daughter, Sally. A\\nmarker of the Sons of the American Revolution has been placed at\\nhis grave, his being among the first fifty names drawn by lot by the\\nRhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution for\\nthe purpose of marking the graves.\\nThomas Hughes was a small, wiry man, with reddish hair and\\nblue eyes, of great energy and considerable executive ability. No\\nliving descendant is left to bear the name of Hughes, three grand-\\nchildren and six great-grandchildren of his daughter Phebe being\\nall that remain of the family.\\n(Contributed by Miss Mary A. Greene, one of the great-grand-\\nchildren of Phebe Hughes Greene.)\\nHughes, Thomas (R.I.), 2d Lieutenant nth Continental In-\\nfantry, 1st January to 31st December, 1776; ist Lieutenant 2d\\nRhode Island, ist January, 1777; Captain, 23d June, 1777; trans-\\nferred to 1st Rhode Island, 1st January, 1781, and served to close\\nof war. (Heitman s Officers of the Continental Army.\\nConsider Luther was a near neighbor; he died in 1814.\\nProbably Richard Waterman, Jr., a great-grandson of the\\nfirst Waterman and son of Esquire Richard and Abigail (Angell)\\nWaterman, of Providence. He was born June i, 1 701, and lived\\nin Cranston; the date of his death is not known, but in 1763 he\\nwas serving his fifth term as a member of the Town Council of\\nCranston.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. 19\\ngade marched to bristol town to the Meating\\nhous to attend Divine Servis when M\\nThompson ChapHn to the Brigade preached\\na sermon to the same, in the afternoon there\\nwas a funeral near the Camp at the hous where\\nProbably the Congregational Meeting-house, the Baptist Meet-\\ning-house having been destroyed by the British May 25, 1778.\\nFor more than thirty years this church was under the pastorate of\\nthe Rev. John Burt. At the time of the British attack on Bristol,\\nOct. 7, 1775, Parson Burt, with others of the inhabitants, fled from\\nthe town; on the following morning he was found lying dead upon\\nhis face in the midst of a held of ripened corn.\\nRev. CharlesThompson, the valedictorian of the first graduating\\nclass of Rhode Island College (now Brown University), and of which\\nclass General Varnum was a member, was ordained to the pastoral\\ncharge of the Baptist Church at Warren, July 3, 1771. He was born\\nat Amvvell, N.J., April 14, 1 748, and was thus at the time of taking the\\npastorate twenty-three years of age. His ministry was eminently\\nsuccessful and the church increased in membership until the break-\\ning-out of the war, when its effect was sorely felt. He was appointed\\na Chaplain in the Continental Army, which position he held until the\\nyear 1778, when, being at his home on the occasion of the British\\nattack on Warren, he was captured and taken a prisoner to New-\\nport, where he was confined for about a month and then released,\\nbut for what reason he never knew. A Discourse delivered at the\\nDedication of the New Church Edifice of the Baptist Church and\\nSociety, Warren, by Rev. Josiah P. Tustin, p. 129. Charles Thomp-\\nson, A.M. ordained Baptist clergyman, 1771; preacher, Warren,\\nR.I., 1770-71; pastor, 1771-75; Chaplain Continental Army, 1775-\\n78; preacher, Ashford, Conn., 1778-79; pastor, Swansea, Mass.,\\n1779-1802; resident, Charlton, Mass., 1802-03; trustee Brown Uni-\\nversity, 1 795-1803. Born Amwell,N.J., April 14, 1748; died Charl-\\nton, Mass., May 4, 1803. (Historical Catalogue, Brown University,\\n1 764-1894, p. 27.) Among the prisoners (taken at Warren) were\\nthe Rev. Mr. Thompson, of Warren; Major Martindale, Mr. Edward\\nChurch, and a number of young men belonging to this town. (Fleet\\nS. Greene s Diary, in Historical Magazine, Vol. IV., p. 70.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "20 THE DIARY OF\\nGen Varnum Quartered it was an Antient\\nWoman mother of Capt Bradford who owned\\nthe land we were Encampt on\\nSept. 14th. A clear morning and noth-\\ning l\\\\xtraordinary happened during the Day at\\nnight I was the officer of the picquet and had\\na plesant time to Visit the Guards Col. Ol-\\nney s boy Come into Camp to day the Col set\\noff but meeting Col Sherburne Maj Hunt-\\nington turned back as I had sent a boat for\\nCloathing.\\nSept. 1 5th. A Clear Cool and plesant\\nmorning and Nothing Extraordinary happened\\nDuring the day. I spent part of the Afternoon\\non poposquash in the Evening L Col Olney\\nCome into Camp from Providence and brought\\nMrs. Priscilla Bradford died Sept. 12, 1778, at the age of\\neighty-five years.\\nHenry Sherburne was appointed Major of the first battalion\\nof infantry raised in October, 1776, agreeable to an Act of Congress.\\nSoon after he was recommended by General Washington to the Gen-\\neral Assembly of Rhode Island for a commission as Major for the\\nnew establishment. In May, 1777, he was Colonel of one of the\\nsixteen battalions raised by order of Congress, Dec. 27, 1 776.\\nThese regiments or battalions were known by the name of their\\nrespective colonels.\\nThis name, Poppasquash, like all Indian names, has been\\nspelled in many ways. In various books and deeds we find Pop-\\npasquash, Pappasquash, Pappossescpiaw, Pappasqua, and Poppy-\\n.Squash. The weight of authority seems to be in favor of the first\\nform. Respecting its derivation, no satisfactory information can be\\ngiven. (Note in Munro s History of Bristol, p. 66.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL,. 21\\nnews that it was Supos d that the Enemy was\\na coming this way and that three Brigades of\\nour troops was on their way here.\\nSept. 16th. A pleasant morning OJ\\nMaster Whittlesey Returned from Providence\\nthis morning with 30 Blankets for the Regt\\nand a quantity of Shoes and Stockins and\\nwestcots which we Imeditly Delt out to the\\ntroops there was one Chist of Arms Come\\nwhich supplied Each man in the Reg with a\\ngood fire lock we Rec d orders this day to\\nmarch from the Ground we were now En-\\ncamped upon and Encamp about one mile and\\na half above warren but it being late in the\\nday before the Ground Could be Laid out we\\nRec after orders to remain in our present En-\\ncampment.\\nSept. 17th. It begun to Storm last Even-\\ning and has bin an Exceeding Stormy Night\\nwith the wind at Northeast and this morning\\nthe Storm rather seemed to increase the wind\\nrising and raining Exceeding hard and Con-\\nNathan Whittlesey, Q.M.S. in Capt. William Tew s Com-\\npany, 1779.\\nOne regiment was encamped upon the field immediately south\\nof the rocks, upon the summit of Windmill or Graves Hill, where\\nare still to be seen the levelled and graded places where their tents\\nwere pitched. The following winter the troops stationed in War-\\nren were quartered in stores upon the wharves and in private dwell-\\nings. (Fessenden s History of Warren, 1845, p 98.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "22 THE DIARY OF\\ntinned Stormey all the Day Which prevented\\nour marching to the Ground alotted for us by\\nyesterdays orders I din d with Gen. Varnum\\nand Spent Great part of the afternoon with the\\nGeneral.\\nSept. 18th. A clear morning but Soon\\nClowded over we Struck our tent about 7 or 8\\no clock in the morning and marched off it Soon\\nthickened up and rained a little we marched\\nthrough Warren about one mile to the ground\\nwe entended to Camp upon and it set in to\\nraining very hard but we Soon had all our tents\\npitched this proved to be the Clearing up\\nShower for it soon cleared off and was fine\\nweather during the afternoon.\\nSept. 19th, 1778. A Clear morning and\\nvery pleasant 1 was much unwell this morning\\nbeing taking last evening with Cold Agurey fits\\npain in my head I kept in Camp this day.\\nSept. 20th. A Clear pleasant warm morn-\\ning I was Some better this morning thin I was\\nyesterday and after breakfast sent a billet to the\\nGen to know if he would let me go home for\\na day or two which he granted and after Dining\\nset off taking Doctor Cornelius and my boy\\nElias Cornelius (R.I.)i Surgeon s Mate 2d Rhode Island, ist\\nJanuary, 1777; taken prisoner at Staten Island, 22d August, 1777;\\nescaped from prison ship in March, 177S; rejoined his regiment and\\nserved to ist January, 1781. (Died 13th June 1823.) (Heitman s\\nOfficers of the Continental Army.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 2$\\nwith me and ariv d at my own hous before Sun-\\nset and found my family all well.\\n21st Sept. A fine plesant morning Ben-\\njamin Luther Came to my house very early\\nthis morning for the Doctor to come and see\\nhis child which was very sick the Doctor went\\nand returned by a little after sunrise and got his\\nbreakfast then went on for Providence from\\nthence to Camp where he had Engaged to be\\nby ten o clock in the forenoon my Riding hurt\\nme I was not so well as I was yesterday Benja-\\nmin Luthers child was thought to be a dying\\nabout twelve o clock the neighbours was Calld\\nin, my wife and myselfe went over but the\\nChild had fits and lived the day out, in the\\nEvening I sent my hors and boy to Doctor\\nSlacks^ to git him to Come and see M Luthers\\nChild.\\nSept. 22d. A warm morning and Some\\nfoggy about half past 4 oclock Mrs Usher\\nCome and called up me and my wife to go over\\nto Benjamin Luthers for their child was a dying\\nwe went as soon as possible but the Child was\\nHe was a son of Consider Luther.\\nDr. Benjamin Slack came from Massachusetts about 1750, and\\nwas a physician of considerable note in the towns in northern\\nRhode Island. He commanded the Captain General s Cavaliers\\nduring the Revolution.\\nMrs. Freelove Usher, daughter of Consider Luther.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "24 THE DIARY OF\\ndead before v/e got there I went home and tar-\\nried there the forenoon after dinner went to\\nLandlord Fisks from thence to Mr Luther\\nthen home I saw Doctor Fisk at the Land-\\nlords who informed me that Byrans fleet had\\narrived part in Newport he himself was there.\\nSept. 23d, 1788. A Cloudy morning and\\nRained some in the forenoon but the Storm\\nbegun to increase about noon I and my wife\\nwent to burying at Benjamin Luthers and ime-\\nadetly after we got there it set in to raining very\\nhard and Stormed all the afternoon and after\\nBuring was over we returned home and Elder\\nSamuel Windsor Com to my hous and tarried\\nall Night he and Elder Hopkins both Spoke\\nat the funeral.\\nJoseph Fisk, son of Joseph, kept a tavern for many years in\\nthe town of Johnston, on the Plainfield Pike, near the Scituate\\nHne. During the war he was a Corporal in the Captain General s\\nCavaliers, a military company made up of men mostly belonging to\\nthe town of Johnston. He died June i8, 1793. An inventory of\\nthe tavern furnishings is in Providence Probate Records (Johnston),\\nVol. I., p. 268.\\nCaleb Fisk was a prominent physician and landholder in Cran-\\nston, R7I. He lived on the Voluntown road, near Bald Hill, in\\nScituate, in a house still standing. He was the son of John and\\nElizabeth Fisk, and was born Feb. 24, 1753^ He was President of\\nthe Rhode Island Medical Society, and left that Society a bequest\\ntif $2,000.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 25\\nPART TWO.\\nTHE time included in the second part of\\nthe diary is from December 12, 1778, to\\nFebruary 11, 1779, and details the happenings\\nduring the severe winter while the regiment\\nwas encamped at Warren, Rhode Island.\\nDecember 12th, 1778. A Clear Cold\\nmorning after breakfast I sett of for the Camp\\nat Warren Stopt Some time in Providence.\\nArrived in Warren in the Evening and found all\\nwell N.B, Ingaged to take the paper one Q\\nDecern. 13th, 1778. A Cold Stormy\\nmorning and Continued Storming all the day\\nbut Nothing Remarkable happened During\\nthe Day.\\n14th. it wet a little this morning but Soon\\nCleared off and was Cold nothing Remarkable\\nhappened this Day.\\n15th. Clear and Very Cold there was one\\nCircumstance I forgot to mention in yester-\\ndays Journal That is Birans Fleet Sail d that\\nProbably The I rovidence Gazette and Country Journal.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "26 THE DIARY OF\\nday from Rhode Island Lt Col Olney\\nMajor Simeon Thayer^ Sett off this afternoon\\nfor Providence, attended a general Court Mar-\\ntial of the Line. The G^Vi Gave orders yes-\\nterday for a number of men to be furloughed\\nto day which kept me employed part of the\\nday in writing furloughs thus Ended the day\\n16th Dec. 1778. A fine and pleas-\\nant Day A garrison Court Martial Set this\\nday for the trial of two villains for attempt-\\ning to Commit a Rape upon a ould woman\\nOn the sixth of January, 1779, Admiral Byron s fleet, which\\nhad been so long expected, arrived at St. Lucie, just eight days after\\nthe departure of Count d Estaing; and had it not been detained in the\\nharbour of Newport at Rhode Island by contrary winds and stormy\\nweather for fourteen days after it was ready to sail, it is probable,\\neither that the retreat of the Count d Estaing to Martinique would\\nhave been cut off, or that a general engagement must have been\\nrisked in order to effect it. (Stedman s History of the American\\nWar (Brit.), Vol. II., p. 91.)\\nThayer, Simeon (R.I.), Captain-Lieutenant of Hitchcock s\\nRhode Island Regiment, 3d May, 1775 taken prisoner at Quebec,\\n31st December, 1775; exchanged, ist July, 1777; Major 2d Rhode\\nIsland, to rank from 1st January, 1777; wounded (lost an eye) at\\nMonmouth, 28th June, 1778; retired 1st January, 1781. (Died\\n14th October, iSoo.) (Heitman s Officers of the Continental\\nArmy. For account of his services in expedition to Quebec,\\nwhere he was captured, also a roll of his company, see Rhode\\nIsland Historical Society Collection, Vol. VI., pp. i, 102, and\\nAppendices, where his death is stated October 21. See also Cow-\\nell s Spirit of 76 in Rhode Island, p. 283; Providence Town\\nPapers in possession of the city of Providence; Military Papers in\\nRhode Island Historical Society; and Revolutionary Rolls in office\\nSecretary of State, Rhode Island.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAKL AXGELL. 2^\\nnear four score their names were Perce Pil-\\nlars my Sergt Maj Proctor was to be trid\\nallso for forging a pass in my name the Court\\nmett and adjourned untill the next day So the\\nday ended with Nothing remarkable.\\n17th Dec. A Clowdy morning and Soon\\nbegun to Storm and was an Exceeding Stormy\\nAfternoon, the Court finished the trials of\\nRichard Perce who was ordered to Receave lOO\\nStrips John Pillar to Receive 37. John Ex-\\nceen 20 but he was forgiven there Come\\nNews to day That U. Chapin with Six Men\\ntook a Brigg From Rhode Island laden with\\nForrag and Some Small matter of Spirits, the\\nBrigg was about one hundred and thirty or\\nforty tuns burthen and 13 hands on board.-\\nbeer. 18th, 1778. A Clear and Pleas-\\nant morning and was a Remarkable warm day\\nfor the Season Nothing Remarkable happened\\nWillianj Proctor. See Cowell s Spirit of 76 in Rhode Island,\\np. 191; also Revolutionary Rolls in office Secretary of State.\\n2 John Exceen, private in Capt. William Tew s Company of Col.\\nIsrael Angell s Regiment.\\n3 This was the exploit of Lieut. Seth Chapin, of Col. Henry\\nSherburne s Regiment, in capturing in Rhode Island waters a British\\nbrig bound to New York. The expedition, consisting of Lieutenant\\nChapin and six men, embarked in a whale-boat from Little Compton,\\nand by a bold stroke, without the loss of a life, took in the east pas-\\nsage the vessel and all her crew, including a lady passenger, the\\nwife of Sir Guy Johnston. The whole party was safely landed at\\n.Seaconnet.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "2 8 THE DIARY OF\\nat Roll Call those prisoners under Sentance of\\npunishment reed it Agreeable to the Sentence\\nof the Court Except the last who I pardoned.\\nDeer. 19th. A fine pleasant\\nas ever was known at the Season of the year\\nand nothing materal happened I dind with\\nGenl Varnum s Lady there was a Small Dis-\\npute happened between Lt Thomas Water-\\nman of my Reg and a L in Col Webbs\\nThe general form of punishment in the army was with the lash,\\nalthough in some cases offenders were hung and others shot. In\\nchastising a culprit he was iirst stripped to the waist and then\\nsecurely tied to a tree or post, then the chastiser stepped forward\\nand with a whip, formed of several small knotted cords, applied the\\nprescribed number of lashes. It was always the duty of the\\ndrummers and fifers to inflict the chastisement, and the drum-majur\\nwas required to attend and see that the duty was faithfully per-\\nformed. (Thatcher s Military Journal, page i86.)\\nGen. James M. Varnum married Martha Childs, the eldest\\ndaughter of Cromwell Childs, of Warren, R.I. She died at Bristol,\\nOct. lo, 1837, of eighty- eight years. They were married\\nby the Rev. James Manning, Feb. 8, 1770.\\nThomas Waterman (R. I.), Ensign 2d Rhode Island, 1st Jan-\\nuary, 1777; 2d Lieutenant, nth February, 1777; Regimental Adju-\\ntant, loth August, 1777; dismissed ist May, 1780. (Heitman s\\nOfficers of the Continental Army. A list of officers and privates\\nin Colonel Angell s Regiment who have died or been honorably\\ndischarged contains the name Thomas Waterman, lieutenant.\\n(See Cowell s Spirit of 76 in Rhode Island, p. 195.) He was a\\nson of Lieut. John Waterman, Quartermaster of (general Varnum s\\nBrigade, who died at Valley Forge, 1778; his grave is the only\\nmarked grave now remaining in that historic locality a commission\\nhas been appointed by the General Assembly of Rhode Island, and\\nan appropriation made, to erect a monument at the spot.\\n^Samuel Blatchey Webb (Conn.), ist Lieutenant 2d Connecti-\\ncut, ist May, 1775; wounded at Bunker Hill, 17th June, 1775; Major", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. 29\\nRegt concerning Rank on which Lt waterman\\nwas ordered to Consider himself under an arrist\\nby Capt Williams of s Regt. but they con-\\ncluded to leave the matter to me and Maj\\nHuntingdon.\\n20th Dec. A fine pleasant morning and\\nand Aide-de-Camp to General Putnam, 22d July, 1775; Lieutenant-\\nColoneland Aide-de-Camp to General Washington, 21st June, 1776;\\nwounded at Trenton, 2d January, 1777; Colonel of one of the six-\\nteen additional Continental regiments, llth January, 1777; taken\\nprisoner on the expedition to Long Island, loth December, 1777,\\nand was a prisoner of war on parole until exchanged, December,\\n1780; transferred to 3d Connecticut, ist January, 1781; Brevet\\nBrigadier-General, 30th September, 1783, and served to 13th Novem-\\nber, 1783. (Died 3d December, 1817.) (Heitman s Officers of\\nthe Continental Army. If he was not in service during the time\\ncovered by this journal the regiment still bore his name.\\nThe sixteen additional Continental regiments were raised by\\nthe resolve of Congress, Dec. 27, 1776, and were known by the\\nname of their respective colonels. Webb s Regiment, which was\\nat this time a part of Varnum s Brigade, had the following field\\nofficers\\nCol. Samuel B. Webb, 1st January, 1777, to 1st January, 1781;\\nLieut. -Col. William S. Livingston, 1st January, 1777, to loth October,\\n1778; Lieut. -Col. Ebenezer Huntington, loth October, 1778, to 1st\\nJanuary, 1781; Major Ebenezer Huntington, 1st January, 1777, to\\nloth October, 1778; Major John P. Wyllys, loth October, 1778,\\nto ist January, 1781. This regiment was transferred to the Conti-\\nnental line Jan. i, 1781, and was known as the Third Connecticut\\nRegiment.\\nSamuel W. Williams (Conn.), 2d Lieutenant 6th Connecticut,\\n1st May to i8th December, 1775; 1st Lieutenant of Webb s addi-\\ntional Continental Regiment, 1st January, 1777; Captain, 23d\\nMarch, 1778; transferred to 3d Connecticut, ist January, 17S1;\\nretired ist January, 1783. (Heitman s Officers of the Continental\\nArmy.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "30 THE DIARY OF\\nvery warm but soon Clouded over and con-\\ntinued the greatest part of the day after break-\\nfast I rode to Bristol with Gen Varnum after\\nlooking round and Viewing a Ship of war which\\nhad come up against the upper End of the\\nIsland Supposd to have come to releave one\\nof the Enemys Ships that had Lain there some\\ntime but she had not gone they lay both to-\\ngeather I arrived at my own Quarters by one\\noclock Dined with Capt Stephen Olney\\nnothing Remarkable happened further this day.\\nDeer. 21, 1778. A very fine day and\\nnothing Remarkable happened Gen Varnum\\nwent for Providence in the morning we Got\\nStephen Olney (R.I.)\u00c2\u00bb Ensign of Hitchcock s Rhode Island\\nRegiment, 3d May to December, 1775; ist Lieutenant nth Conti-\\nnental Infantry, ist January to 31st December, 1776; ist Lieutenant\\n2d Rhode Island, ist January, 1777; Captain, nth February, 1777;\\nwounded, at Springfield, 23d June, 1780; retained in Consolidated\\nor 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 1st January, 17S1; wounded at\\nYorktown, 14th October, 17S1; resigned ist May, 1782. (Died\\n23d November, 1832.) (Heitman s Officers of the Continental\\nArmy. Also Ensign in John Angell s Company, Army of Obser-\\nvation, 1775. See also Lives of Barton and Olney, lay Catherine\\nWilliams; Cowell s Spirit of 76 in Rhode Island, pp. 236, 237\\nStone s French Allies, pp. 440-444, where is also a muster roll of\\nhis company at Yorktown, p. 445, and a portrait, p. 440; biographi-\\ncal and genealogical sketch and portrait in Olney Genealogy, p.\\n42. His grave is in the old family graveyard on the farm where\\nhe died in North Providence, and is marked by a handsome slate\\nstone on which is inscribed at length his service during the war.\\nAn iron marker of the Sons of the American Revolution was\\nplaced upon his grave in September, 1895, by the editor.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL. 3 I\\none guard hous finished to day At night it\\nClowded over and in the Evening begun to\\nrain.\\n22d Dec, 1778. A Cold and uncomfort-\\nable Morning it cleared of in the night with\\nSnow about over Shoe it Continued an Exceed-\\ning Cold day and Nothing remarkable hap-\\npened Gen Sullivan Sent an order for all the\\nMusicians to attend at Providence as the Band\\nbelong d to Col. Webbs Regt. Major Hun-\\ntington put himself in a most violent passion\\non the mater Swore the order was a dam d ras-\\ncally one if the Gen did give it.\\n23d Dec. it still Continues Extreme Cold\\nGeneral Order, 22 December, 1778. The Musicians\\nof General Varnum s and Colonel Jackson s Bands to repair immedi-\\nately to Head Quarters with their Instruments, Blankets and neces-\\nsary Baggage for Tarrying one Week.\\nThe Commanding Officers of General Varnum s Brigade, and\\nof Colonel Jackson s Detachment will send with them the best\\nDrum and Fife from each Band. General Glover s Brigade to fur-\\nnish two good Drums, and Fifes.\\nThe Barrack Master immeaditly to furnish a good convenient\\nRoom for those Musicianers.\\nMajor Flagg will attend them at such Times as he may think\\nproper; and instruct them in Musick.\\nThe Commissary will supply them with Provisions, and One\\nJill of West India Rum per Day and more when he may find it\\nNecessary.\\nThe Quarter Master will immeadiately furnish the necessary\\ncooking Utentials for the Bands.\\nThe Adjutant General to forward Copies of these Orders to\\nWarren, and Pawluxet immeadiately.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "32 THE DIARY OF\\nI Sent a boat to Updikes new town today for\\nto get 200 pair of Shoes.\\n24th Deer., 1778. This morning was\\nExtreme Cold the river in Warren was all froze\\nover I sent to the barracks as soon as it was\\nlight to inform them that they need not turn\\nout, as I was sure that they must freeze I had\\norders from the Genl to send a boat to Provi-\\ndence but the river being froze over was\\nobliged to send a waggon won fortunate circum-\\nstance happen d a Gentleman from beadford\\nCome to Camp and brought 288 pair of shoes\\nWhich I bought for my Reg* at 25 shillings\\np Pair, which Amounted to 1 200 Dollars So\\nended the Day as Sevear as it begun on cir-\\ncumstance I forgot to mention that is Two\\nof Col Livingstons men froze to death two\\nnights past on Prudence Island they got lost\\na coming from Providence in a boat bound to\\nBristol in a Snow Storm there was Six in the\\nBoat two perished the others survived.\\nDecember 25th, 1778. An extreme Cold\\nDay I dind with Parson Thompson the day\\nEnded with nothing Remarkable Capt Tew\\nand lady arrived in Garrison.\\nThe present village of Wickford, in North Kingstown.\\nWilliam Tew (R.I), Captain nth Continental Infantry, ist\\nJanuary to 31st December, 1776; Captain 2d Rhode Island, ist\\nJanuary, 1777; retired ist January, 1781. (Heitman s Officers of", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. H\\n26th Dec, 1778. A most tremendous\\nStormy morning with dry Snow and a Violent\\nhigh wind from the N. E, which continued the\\nwhole day and if I Ever saw one Storm\\nworse than another this was the worst it being\\nExtream Cold, never known Colder.\\n27th Deer. Sevear and Cold but the\\nStorm had Ceast in the night and it cleared away\\nto day the Soldiers barracks many of them\\nwere almost blown full of snow the Day Ended\\nwith nothing Remarkable Except\\nwas Drifted so there was no stiring.\\n28th Dec., 1778. A fine clear morning\\nthe Continental Army. Captain Tew was a son of James and\\nAnne (Arnold) Tew, of Newport, R.I., and was born April 5, 1745.\\nHe married Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Wilson, and died Oct. 31,\\n1808. At the time of his death he was a member of the Legisla-\\nture of Rhode Island, President of the Newport Town Council, and\\na member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He followed the\\nbusiness of a clothier in Newport.\\nThis was the storm known then and since as the Hessian\\nsnow-storm, during which a great many German and British sol-\\ndiers were frozen to death; the date of its occurrence is given as\\nDecember 12 and 22, but from this journal it appears that this\\nextreme weather continued until the 28th.\\nDec. 28 (177S), upwards of fifty people are said to have per-\\nished, chiefly soldiers, in a very heavy snow-storm which begun on\\nthe 25th, in the evening, and continued to morning; among which,\\none Hessian captain, two of the Anspach soldiers, and others.\\n(Diary of Fleet S. Greene, Newport, in Historical Magazine, i860,\\np. 136, Vol. IV.) Abiftl Weaver, a private in Captain William Tew s\\nCompany, was badly frozen while on sentry duty and was an invalid\\nthereafter.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "34 THE DIARY OF\\nbut very Cold Col Olney arrived in Camp\\nabout ten o clock after freezing his feet some\\nhe left Providence yesterday about 9 oclock\\nand had likd to have perished in crossing the\\nferry Maj Thayer arrived a little after Sunset.\\n29th Dec. A Pleasant day and nothing\\nRemarkable happened.\\n30th Dec. Pleasant this day being a day\\nSet a part for thanks Giving I and Major\\nThayer went out into the Country to Capt\\nEbenezer Pecks in Rehoboth there Din d\\nand returnd to Camp in the Evening.\\n31st Dec, 1778. A fine day and nothing\\nRemarkable happened I was president of a\\nCourt martial,\\nThe lower ferry, or the ferry at Tockwotten, as it was more\\ngenerally known, was the most in use at this time it was operated\\nby Caleb Fuller, and was sometimes called Fuller s Ferry. For\\nsometime previous to 1777 it was closed to the public, for the\\nsmall-pox was raging in the town and one of the hospitals was\\nlocated near the ferry. But at this period it was in operation, and\\nhad been for some time. (See Providence Town Papers, 1205, 1207,\\n1353. 15059)-\\nIn 1778 Congress appointed both a spring fast, April 22,\\nand an autumn Thanksgiving, December 30. This day (Decem-\\nber 30) was observed, also, as a day of thanksgiving by the\\nauthorities in the States of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode\\nIsland, Connecticut, and Vermont. (See Fast and Thanksgiving\\nDays of New England, pp. 344 and 504.)\\nEbenezer Peck, a man of public influence and distinction,\\nthen living in the northeasterly part of Rehoboth, near Great\\nMeadow Hill, on a branch of the Palmer River. He had a son,\\nEbenezer, who died in the army. (Peck Genealogy, p. 49.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. 35\\nJanuary 1st, 1778 [1779]. fine weather\\nstill continues the Court martial met to day at\\n9 oclock agreeable to adjournment Proceeded\\nto business this day we received the Melen-\\ncully news of a great number of Semen a per-\\nishing in the late Storm on the Eastern shore\\none privateer from this place was lost one man\\nand his team of five cattle all perished on Boston\\nNeck and three French gentlemen who had\\nbeen out into Roxbury and returning to boston\\n2d January, 1779. A fine plesant day\\nthe Court Martial finished their business and\\nadjourned without time.\\n3d January. A Clowdy day my Regt\\nwas mustered to day at Eight oclock in the\\nmorning Nothing Remarkable happened it\\nrained a little in the afternoon\\n4th January. A Clowdy raw day in my\\njournal of the first day of this month is men-\\ntion d the news of a mellencuUy affair happen-\\ning to the Eastward in the late Storm Since\\nwhich we have got the Porticulars of what Suf-\\nfered on board the General Stark Priveteer\\nThis does not refer to Boston Neck in southern Rhode Island,\\nbut at Boston, for under the date Dec. 28, 1778, General Heath, in\\nhis Memoirs, writes A waggoner, his horse and four oxen were\\nfound frozen to death near the dyke, on Boston Neck they perished\\nin the severe cold storm on the preceding Saturday evening.\\nIn a statement of the shipping lost during the war, up to Jan. I,\\n17S3, belonging to the inhabitants of Warren, is mentioned Sloop", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "36 THE DIARY OF\\nand the prlveteer Called Gen xlrnold the\\nfirst mentioned vessel lost 19 men the last 73\\nwho all froze to death 1 furnished mv Regt to\\nday with their new hatts all bound and they\\nmade a grand appearance on the Parade being\\nas well cloathed as any troops in the Servis.\\n5th January, 1779. A Clowdy Cold\\nmorning after breakfast Lt Col Olney went of\\nfor Tiverton being warned there for Court\\nMartial but nothing remarkable happened dur-\\ning the Day.\\n6th Jany. Tolerable good weather for\\nwinter Maj, Thayer went tor Providence today\\nand about 8 o clock in the evening Lt Col\\nOlney Returned having finished the Business\\nhe went upon\\n7th Janry. This day the proceedings\\nof the Court Martial where I was president\\nGeneral Stark (privateer) Pearce 120 tons. (See History of\\nWarren, Fessenden, Supplement, p. loi.) This vessel, in 1778,\\nwas the property of Nathan Miller antl others (see Rhode Island\\nColonial Records, Vol. VIII., p. 434).\\nThe privateer General Arnold drove on shore near riymouth,\\nand bilged eighty of the crew perished the survivors were much\\nfrost bitten. (Heath s Memoirs, p. 200.)\\nGeneral Orders Providence 5th Janry, 1779. At\\na Brigade Court Martial held at Warren by order of Brigadier-\\nGeneral Varnum, of which Colonel Angell was President. Ensign\\nHamlin, of Colonel Samuel B. Webb s Regiment, Try d for neglect\\nof Duty, and absenting himself from the Garrison, without leave\\nFound Guilty, and sentenced to be discharged the service. The", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGEL.L. 37\\nwas made known as the Gen had approv d\\nGeneral approves the sentence and orders it to take place immeadi-\\nately.\\nEnsign PVothingham, Try d by the same Court, for absenting\\nhimself from the Garrison, without leave: Found Guilty, and sen-\\ntenced to be discharged the Army. The General approves the\\nsentence: but upon the recommendation of the Court, restores him\\nto his former Rank.\\nLieutenant Price of Colonel Elliotts Regiment Try d by the\\nsame Court, for absenting himself from the Garrison three Days\\nwithout leave, and for associateing with the Waggon Master, and\\nForage Master of the Brigade Found Guilty, and sentenced to be\\ndischarged the service. The General approves the sentence, and\\norders it to take place immeadiately.\\nCaptain Loiseaux, and Lieutenant West of Colonel Living-\\nstone s Regiment, Try d by the same Court for behaving unbecoming\\nthe carracter of Gentlemen in fighting before the Soldiers, and for\\nbeing Drunk: Captain Loiseaux found Guilty by the Court, and sen-\\ntenced to be discharged the service. The General approves the\\nsentence, and orders it to take place immeadiately. Lieutenant West\\nis found not Guilty. The General orders him releas d from his arrest.\\nCaptain David Dexter of Colonel Angell s Regiment Try d\\nby the same Court, for leaving his Post on the 25 of De-\\ncember 1778, and not returning till the 29 for behaving unbe-\\ncoming the Carracter of an Officer, and a Gentleman, in frequently\\nassociateing, with the Waggon Master of the Brigade P ound\\nguilty by the Court, and sentenced to be discharged the service.\\nThe General approves the sentence, and orders it to take\\nplace immeadiately.\\nThe Court Martial in consideration of Captain Dexter s long\\nServices, and sufferings in the American cause, and the sense they\\nhave, of his bravery, and. activity, have recommended him, to be\\nentitled, to the same priviledges, as those who are left out in the\\nnew arrangement of the Army. The commander in chief is sen-\\nsibely mortified that he cannot by complying with the recommenda-\\ntion of the Court, evince the regard he has for that Officer s former\\nServices, Activity, and Bravery. The sentence being for a dismis-\\nsion, and the recommendation, not for a restitution to his command.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "38 THE DIARY OF\\nthe Same Capt David Dexter was Discharg d\\nthe Service, Capt Lorsoiux of Col James\\nLivingstons Regt was allso Dischd Lt Whillys\\nof the same Regt Acquitted Ensigns Hamhn\\nhe cannot possibly be intitled to any future Advantages; and the\\ndeclareation of it in orders would be deem d a nullity, and could\\nhave no good effect in his favour.\\nAll the Field Officers in Town are desired to be at Head Quar-\\nters this evening at Six o Clock.\\nDavid Dexter (R.I.), Ensign of Hitchcock s Rhode Island\\nRegiment, 3d May to December, 1775; Captain of Babcock s\\nRhode Island Militia Regiment, 15th January, 1776; appointed\\nBrigade-Major, 9th October, 1776; Captain 2d Rhode Island, nth\\nFebruary, 1777; deranged 1st April, 1779. (Heitman s Officers\\nof the Continental Army.\\n2 From General Orders, 5th December, 1778. At a General\\nCourt Martial of which Colonel Angell was President was tryed,\\nCaptain Augustus Loizcan, for Cutting a Tent, of Public Property,\\nand making Knapsacks of it; for exchanging bad Firelocks for\\ngood ones out of Public Stores, and selling them, for stealing\\nSoldiers Provision, speaking defamatory of the Officers, of Colonel\\nLivingstone s Regiment; and for threating Lieutenant Nichols s\\nLife; found Guilty, in part, and Sentenced to be dismis d the\\nService But, in consideration of his former sufferings, and Services\\nin the American Cause, his Bravery, and former good Conduct,\\nand upon the recommendation of the Court Martial, the Com-\\nmander in Cheif, Orders him to be releas d from his Arrest, and\\nOrders him to return to his Duty.\\nLoisau, Augustine (N.Y.), Captain ist Canadian (Livingston s)\\nRegiment, i8th December, 1776, to rank from 20th November,\\n1775; dismissed 5th January, 1779; name also spelled Loizeau and\\nLoiseau. (Heitman s Officers of the Continental Army.\\n^Daniel Hamlin (Conn.), Sergeant of Webb s additional Con-\\ntinental Regiment, 24th May, 1777; Ensign, i6th May, 1778; dis-\\nmissed January, 1779. (Heitman s Officers of the Continental\\nArmy.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 39\\nand Frothingham both of Col S B Webs\\nRegt Discharged the Servis but froathingham\\nwas Restored U Price of Col Elliots Reg* of\\nartillery Discharged in the Afternoon I set off\\nfor my own hous where I arrived just in the\\nEvening\\n8th January, 1779. Spent the Greatest\\npart of the Day at home went and spent a few\\nhours with Major Richard Fenner-^ Returned\\nand in the Evening Ointed for the Itch which\\nI had bin so unfortinate as to catch but where\\nwas unknown to me thus Ended the Day with\\nthe Devil of a Stink\\n9th Janry. Clowdy raw and Cold to day\\nand Soon begun to Storm and Snow d Exceed-\\ning fast the greatist part of the afternoon at night\\nEbenezer Frothingham (Conn.), Sergeant of Webb s Addi-\\ntional Continental Regiment, 25th May, 1777; Ensign, 1 6th May,\\n1778; Lieutenant, 26th May, 1779; Regimental Quartermaster, 27th\\nMay, 1779, to June, 1783; transferred to 3d Connecticut, ist Janu-\\nary, 1 781, and served to June, 1783; Lieutenant United States In-\\nfantry Regiment, 15th July, 1785; Lieutenant 1st Infantry, United\\nStates Army, 29th September, 17S9; killed, 22d October, 1790, in\\naction with Indians at the Miami Towns, near Old Chillicothe, Ohio.\\n(Heitman s Officers of the Continental Army.\\nEdward Price was 2d Lieutenant in Captain Sayer s Company,\\nin Col. Robert Elliot s Regiment of Artillery. (Rhode Island Colo-\\nnial Records, Vol. VIII. p. 355.)\\nRichard Fenner, Jr., Major of the first regiment of militia in the\\ncounty of Providence; commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of same\\nregiment May, 1779. (Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. VIIL,\\nP- 533-536.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "40 THE DIARY OF\\nturned to rain I spent the day in the Neighbour-\\nhood.\\n10th Janry. A Rainy morning and Con-\\ntinued thawing weather all the day I was not\\nout of the Neighbourhood this day Nothing\\nRemarkable happened this Day.\\n1 1th Jany 1779. it Cleard ofF last night\\nand was very Cold this morning Continued\\ngrowing Cold all the day I was to have\\ngone to Providence to day but a number of\\npeople Comming in who had business with me\\nprevented my going So Spent the day at home.\\n12th Janry. A Clowdy Raw Cold morn-\\ning but much warmer than it was the fore part\\nof the Evening past After I got my Breakfast\\nset of for Providence by the way of Wainscoot\\nand tarried at my fathers the night following\\nWhere I had the Pleasure of seeing all my\\nBrothers and Sisters togeather Except my\\nsister Whipple^\\n13th Jany. A Tolirable pleasant morning\\nfor winter after Breakfast I and my Brother\\nJason Sett of for Providence where I spent the\\nWanskuck, near Providence.\\nColonel Angel! had three brothers and two sisters: Hope An-\\ngell, Jason Angell, Elisha Angell, Ruth Angell, and Naomi Angell.\\n(Angell Genealogy, p. 80.)\\nNaomi Angell married John Whipple. (Angell Genealogy, p.\\n39)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 4 1\\nday. Capt Allen of my Reg*, was here and\\n1^!^ men with him from my Reg* there was a\\nhundred from the Brigade a going on Some\\nprivat Expedition Suppos d with Talbut to\\nStick Another feather in his Capp I heard no\\nnews of Consequence this day, at night I Re-\\nturned to my own hous by 9 o clock P.M.\\nJanuary 14th, 1779. An Exceeding\\nPlesant day I Spent the day in the Neighbor-\\nhood and nothing Remrkable Happened Isaac\\nAngel 1 Come to See me today and I agreed\\nwith him to finish my hous\\nJanry. 15th. An Exceeding Cold and\\nClowdy morning with Snow as it had Snow d\\npart of the night I went in Serch of Some\\nWilliam Allen (R.I,) ^t Lieutenant nth Continental Infantry,\\nist January to 31st December, 1776; ist Lieutenant 2d Rhode Island,\\n1st January, 1777; Captain, 13th January, 1777; transferred to 1st\\nRhode Island, ist January, 1781 Brevet Major, 30th September,\\n1783; served to 3d November, 1783. (Heitman s Officers of the\\nContinental Army.\\nCol. Silas Talbot. In 1775 he was Captain in a company of the\\nArmy of Observation; October, 1777, promoted by Congress to the\\nrank and pay of Major in the army, for merit and services in a spirited\\nattempt to set fire to one of the enemy s ships-of-war in the North\\nRiver, last year. Nov. 14, 1778, recommended for a commission\\nas Lieutenant-Colonel in the army for bravery and good conduct in\\nboarding and taking the armed schooner Pigot of eight twelve-\\npounders and forty-five men in the east passage between the island\\nof Rhode Islam! and the main. This exploit was performed Oct.\\n17, 1778.\\nIsaac y\\\\ngell was the son of Colonel Angell s brother Elisha,\\nand was a house carpenter, and is said to have been a verv good\\nworkman. (^Angell Genealogy, p. 85.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "42 THE DIARY OF\\nGrain to day, but found none thus Ended the\\nday with nothing Remarkable\\nJanuary 16th, 1779. This Day was\\nColder than it had been for Severall days be-\\nfore, I went to Providence and after finishing the\\nbusiness I went upon Returned to my own hous,\\nit was reported in Providence that the party\\nthat was a going on the privat Expedition was a\\ngoing to attack a Sixty Gun Ship of the Enemys\\nJany. 17th. Clear and Very Cold I Spent\\nthe day at my own hous Capt Wm Arrow\\nSmith who lived in my house Come from\\nBoston to day and Brought News that one of\\nour friggats had Returned to that port having\\ntaken Six prizes he also informs that m Andrews\\nClothier General of Boston Shot himself dead\\na few days before by handling a pair of pistols\\nThe Providence town-meeting, March 2i, 1777, remitted the\\ntax of Edmund Arro Smith, amounting to 6s. 6d. In a bill of\\nthe town-sergeant, rendered to the town, there is the item under\\nthe date Dec. 26, 1785 To taking charge of the things Lock-\\ning up the house of Mr. Edmund A. Smith, -0-1-6. Mr, Smith\\nprobably died about this time, for Jan. 6, 1786, a bill is ordered\\npaid by the town of Providence for Board of Mr. Edmund Arrow\\nSmith s family, Mrs. Smith and four children, two weeks 3-0-0.\\nJoseph Smith, a son, was bound apprentice to Ephraim Clemence;\\nThomas Smith to Daniel Davenport. Another son, Edmund Smith,\\ndied at sea on board the brigantine Polly, Zephaniah Graves,\\nmaster, in 1799. At the time of his death he was a minor, and an\\napprentice to Ephraim Clemence. In January, 1777, Edmund\\nArrow Smith was a private in the Independent Company of Light\\nInfantry of the town of Providence. The similarity of names\\nand the fact that no other reference is found to William suggests\\nthat the diarist might have been in error.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. 43\\nhe had bought and one of them went of acci-\\ndentaly and the Ball went through his head\\nhe instantly Expired.\\nJanuary 18th, 1779. Cold and Raw\\nI was much unwell this morning and Spent the\\nday at home Isaac Angell Come to work for\\nme to day.\\nJanry 19th. Extreem Cold but nothing\\nRemarkable happened.\\nJanuary 20th, 1779. Clear and Cold\\nafter Breakfast I and Capt Edmund Arrow\\nSmith Set off for Providence by the way of\\nJohn Waterman s Esq and Daniel Thorntons\\nI went to major Thayer s there fell in with\\nGen. Varnum Maj Thayer and Maj Box\\nDaniel Box was Brigade Major of General Varnum s Brigade;\\nhis left arm was rendered useless by a fall from his horse in De-\\ncember, 1776, when the army was quartered at Neshamany Ferry,\\nPenn. In a list of invalids resident in Rhode Island, receiving a\\nmonthly pension for disabilities occasioned by the war, reported to\\nthe General Assembly of Rhode Island in February, 1786, it is\\nstated the wound so fractured the arm that several pieces of the\\nbone have been extracted, and the wound is still open and the hand\\nentirely useless. He died in 1801, leaving a widow, Mary Box,\\ncalled also Polly, a daughter of James Field, son of John, 4th, of\\nProvidence, and great-great-grandson of the first John Field of\\nProvidence. The town of Providence frequently appropriated money\\nfor his support, stimulated, no doubt, by the following quaint appeals\\nTo the Honourable the Town Council of Providence.\\nThe humble Petition of Daniel Box Sheweth.\\nGentlemen\\nOn the 22 of Feby., 1 7S6 I was admitted on the list of Conti-\\nnental Invalids, by a Committee appointed by the General Assem-", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "44 THE DIAKY OF\\nand L* Carpenter, after Dining went on for\\nWarren where I ariv d about seven o Clock\\nin the Evening and found all well it Continued\\nGrowing Cold all this day and by night was as\\nbly for that purpose, with an allowance of Ten Dollars per Month\\nand aproved of by the General Assembly then sitting in Providence.\\nAs I have never yet received anything, there is due nie on that\\naccount 150 Dollars to the 22 of May, 1787. And having ob-\\nserved a late resolve of Assembly requesting the town Councils in\\nthis State to supply their Invalids with specific articles, and pay-\\nment to be made for the same out of the continental Taxes, but not\\nhearing of anything in this Town having taken place in consequence\\nof said resolve, 1 am induced to lay my distressed circumstances\\nbefore you. Praying you to take them into your serious considera-\\ntion, and if possible to grant me some reliefe.\\nI have been rendered uncapable for near two years past, to pro-\\ncure my self and family even the common necessaries of life, during\\nwhich period necessity has obliged me to dispose of all my little\\nmoveables, my beding and wearing apparrel not excepted, to pro-\\ncure necessaries for the support of nature; I have nothing more to\\npart with, and am absolutely suffering both in want of foode and\\nraiment, not having a single shirt to shift my self. To innumerate\\nall my sufferings is to cutting for a man of feeling, and what is re-\\nlated already I hope will be sufficient to induce the Honourable\\nCouncil to do something in my favour. I rely. Gentlemen, on\\nyour goodness, beging God to keep poverty from the door, both of\\nyou and yours, will ever be the fervent Prayer of your Humble\\nPetitioner\\nDaniel Box\\nProvidence June 4 1787\\nProvidence Town Papers, Xo. 42J6.\\nProvidence Novm 1787\\nTo the Hon.* the Town Council\\nThe Humble petition of Daniel Box. Sheweth\\nGentlemen\\nIt is with the greatest reluctance and sorrow, my necessitys\\nobliges me to crave your farther assistance, respecting my Contin-", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. 45\\nSevear as Ever known Capt Smith who Come\\nto providence with me went for Boston and\\nbound to\\n21st January, 1779. As Cold a morn-\\ning as Ever was known and Remained so the\\nDay but Nothing Remarkable happened.\\n22d. it Still remains Sevear Cold Some\\nDifficulty arose in the Reg. Occationed by the\\nSerg going out of their Quarters Contrary to\\nnental allowance as an Invalid. But when I consider your readiness\\nto assist me on a former like occasion, I have not the least reason\\nto doubt, but the same spirit of Benevolence, is still predominant.\\nEspecially when you consider the Inclemency of the approaching\\nseason. Heavens what a prospect for a man every way unpro-\\nvided for the onset. The approach of winter makes my necessitys\\nthe greater, as it requires many expensive articles in a family, nec-\\nessary to its comfort, that is not so much wanted in the more clement\\nseason, likewise a number of small debts, which is reasonable to\\nsuppose, I must have contracted, during a two years indisposition,\\nwhich I want very much to satisfy. Upon these considerations, and\\nmany others to numerous to mention, tho of equel weight; I in the\\nmost humble manner beseech the Hon Council, if it is not in\\ntheir power to grant me an order for the whole ballance due, they\\nwill let it so far exceed tl e former grant, as the Summer exceeds\\nthe winter, or in that proportion.\\nUpon your goodne--s Gentlemen rests all my hopes.\\nIn the meantime be pleased to except the unfeigneil thanks of\\na heart full of gratitude and love fur your past favour, and that the\\ngates of plenty, honour, and happiness, may be ever open to you\\nand yours, will ever be the constant prayer of your much obliged\\nhumble petitioner. c.\\nNote/ there will be due me the 23 of Novm 210 Dolhirs.\\nReceived by your last order on a Count 30\\nBallance iSo\\nProvidence Town Papers, No. 461 j.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "46 THE DIARY OF\\nOrders, at night my self and Col. Olney\\nSpent the Evening at Gen^ Varnums Q with\\nGovenor Bradford and a Number of Gentle-\\nmen\\nI Reed a letter in the Evening informing me\\nthat there was a movement of the Enemy the\\nletter was from Col Shearburne.\\nJanuary 23d, 1779. Much warmer this\\nmornino; then it had been before in Several\\ndays about 5 o clock this morning there was a\\nfiring heard on the Western Shore, the flashes\\nof the Guns was seen from this post, but what\\nwas the occasion or what has been Done is not\\nyet known Gen Varnum Maj Thayer Come\\nto the garrison this Evening from Providence\\nbut had heard no news of the above S firing\\nthus Ended the day.\\n24th. A Clowdy wet morning and warm\\nbut Nothing Remarkable happened Col. Olney\\nwent to Providence to day.\\nJanuary 25th, 1779. Clowdy weather\\nand Raind hard in the afternoon.\\n26th. A Clear morning And warm but\\nsoon Clowded over Lt William Littlefield\\nWilliam Littlefield (R.I.) Ensign 12th Continental Infantry,\\n1st January to 31st December, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 2d Rhode\\nIsland, 1st January, 1777; Captain-Lieutenant discharged\\n20th June, 1780. (Heitman s Officers of the Continental Army.\\nThe office of Captain-Lieutenant, so frequently found mentioned", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "V i-?- r r t I\\n4\\nJ\\n-f yf -9) V /^//Sl\\np^^ y/^^^^^^/ X^ ^Ar^ yXaS^^~\\n^\u00e2\u0082\u00acr rj j", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL.. 47\\nReturned this Evening from the Grand Army\\nbut brought no news of Consequence\\n27th. A Snowy Morning and had Snow d\\nGreater part of the Night past but was not very\\nCold it remained Clowdy all the day but ceast\\nStorming about Noon nothing Remarkable\\nhappened this day Col. Olney Returned from\\nProvidence today.\\n28th January, 1779. A fine Clear and\\nPlesant morning in the Afternoon Col. Webbs\\nRegt. Mutinied and turned out under Arms\\nin the rolls of the Revolutionary War, is here explained for the\\nreason that its significance is not generally understood. Gen.\\nHoratio Rogers, in his explanatory chapter to Hadden s Journal\\nand Orderly Books, 1776-1778, discusses the office and its rank\\nin the British army, and as the American army was organized on\\npractically the same plan, his statements apply equally well. Each\\nof the three field officers, he says, was supposed to command a\\ncompany, so that a regiment of ten companies would have but seven\\ncaptains; but as the colonel rarely or never served with the regi-\\nment, there was an officer styled a captain-lieutenant who com-\\nmanded the colonel s company. Prior to 1772 this was a distinctive\\ngrade between lieutenant and captain; but in that year an order\\nwas issued giving a captain-lieutenant the rank of captain; though\\nthe Captain-Lieutenant and Captain, as he was afterwards desig-\\nnated in the Army Lists, was always the junior captain. Such was\\nWilliam Littlefield, of Angell s Regiment, in 1779; unlike the prac-\\ntice in the British army. Colonel Angell served almost continuously\\nwith his regiment.\\nMutinies among the Continental troops were not of infrequent\\noccurrence. The troops were mostly incited to this disorder by the\\nlack of pay and rations. May 29, 1780, two regiments of Connecti-\\ncut troops mutinied while in camp near Morristown, and a brigade\\nof the Pennsylvania line was called out to quell the disturbance.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "48 7 HE DIARY OF\\nbut was with Some Difficulty Desperst but at\\nNight they all paraded and Marched to the\\nBarracks where my men was and about forty of\\nmy Regt Joined them after talking some time\\nwith them they all Disperst and Remained in\\npeace the night.\\nJanuary 29. A fine pleasant morning\\nand at Roll Call I ordered fore of my Men\\nWhipt for attempting and Robbing a Corporal\\nfor Informing the officers that they were a\\nturning out with their Arms, in the afternoon\\nI and Gen Varnum went to Providence from\\nthence I went to my fathers there tarried the\\nNight.\\nJany. 30th, 1779. A pleasant morning\\nand after breakfast I set off for Providence but\\ncould do no business with the Council of war\\nin the afternoon I set off for my own hous and\\na violent Stormy time I had as it snow d all\\nthe way home I got to my own hous about\\nsunset found all well.\\nThe fourth of January the next year the Pennsylvania troops mu-\\ntinied, some blood was shed, and a serious state of affairs was averted\\nonly by the prompt and firm action of General Wayne. A few\\ndays later the New Jersey line cantoned at Pompton, N.J., mutinied,\\nand left the camp, closely pursued by General Howe (American),\\nwho suppressed the revolt and executed some of the ringleaders.\\nMay 6, 1782, another mutiny among the Connecticut troops occurred\\nnear Fishkill, which was promptly surpressed. (Thatcher s Mili-\\ntary Journal, pp. 198, 246, 251, 310.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL.\\n49\\nJanuary 31, 1779. It had Cleared off\\nand was good Weather this morning I spent the\\nDay in running about the Neighbourhood to\\nday on busines and tarried at my own hous the\\nNight following.\\nFebry. 1st, 1779. A fine pleasant morn-\\ning after Breakfast I set of for Camp at Warren\\nit Remained Exceeding Plesant over head but\\nthaw d So as to make it bad traviling I arrived\\nin Camp by Sunset and found all well Col\\nPeck and Doctor Hagan was at my Q\\nProbably William Peck (Conn.), Adjutant 17th Continental\\nInfantry, ist January, 1776; Brigade Major to General Spencer,\\n28th July, 1776; Major and Aide-de-Camp to General Spencer,\\n14th August, 1776, to January, 1778; served also as Colonel and\\nDeputy Adjutant-General of Forces in Rhode Island, 20th May,\\n1777, until he resigned, about October, 1781. (Ileitmau s Offi-\\ncers of the Continental Army. See also Providence Town Papers,\\nNos. 1452, 2145.\\nThere was a Francis Hagan, of New Jersey, who was Hospital\\nPhysician and Surgeon, Oct. 6, 1780; he resigned the service May\\n25, 1 781.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "50 THE DAIRY OF\\nPART THREE.\\nA PORTION of this section of the diary\\nhas been lost, the first entry, which was\\napparently for the eighteenth of June, 1779,\\nbeing incomplete, it refers to the engage-\\nment at Charlestown Neck, South Carolina,\\non May 11, 1779, news of which had only\\nthen been received.\\nThe part concludes with the fourteenth of\\nAugust, 1779, when the regiment was en-\\ncamped at Barbers Heights, in North Kings-\\ntown, Rhode Island.\\nArmy being Defeted in an Action\\nagainst Charlestown, South Carolina, the En-\\nemy was Pressing on to gain the town Gen\\nLincon was in the Rear the Enemy was\\nRepulsed and Retreated then Rallied Come\\non the Second time and was totally defeated\\nthus Ends the Day with this Glorious News.\\nIn this engagement General Lincoln sustained a loss, according\\nto Gordon (British), of killed and wounded, 146, besides 155 miss-\\ning.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANCELL. 5 1\\n19th. Nothing Remarkable this Day.\\nJune 20th, 1779. Fine weather and\\nnothing remarkable untill Evening when we\\nhad the grand news of the Brittish armys being\\nEntirely Defeted in georgia.\\n21st. Good weather, this Day I sent to\\nCoxet to divide the prize taken by the weasel\\nand nothing Remarkable happens\\nJune22d, 1779. This day all the offi-\\ncers of my Rest and Colo Sherburnes met at a\\nplace called Pecks Rocks where they had a\\ngrand Entertainment I did not attend my self\\nwith them, in the afternoon Reed an express\\nfrom General Gates Desiring me to attend\\nhead Quarters. I set off immediately, when I\\nCome to Providence the Gen informed me he\\nwas going to Remove my Regt to Boston neck\\nand Col Jackson s to Warren. I went to my\\nBrother Whipples and tarried the night.\\nJune 23, 1779. Left Providence this\\nmorning after waiting on the Gen arrived at\\nAcoxet, a part of Dartmouth, Mass., also spelled Coaksett.\\n(^See Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. IV., p. 65.)\\nThe place called Peck s Rocks is located at the mouth of the\\nWarren River, nearly opposite Rumstick Point, in the town of Bris-\\ntol, R.I. It was near here that the British forces landed when\\nthey made the attack on the towns of Warren and Bristol, May\\n25, 1778.\\nGen. Horatio Gates held command of the troops in Rhode\\nIsland from April to November, 1779.\\nN-", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "52 THE DIARY OF\\nCamp about ten oclock AM went to preparing\\nfor a move.\\n24th. This morning we packt up all our\\nbaggage and begun to Remove it to warren, I\\nrode out into Swansey to Mr. Hills Tavern\\nto take my leave of them. Returned and dined\\nwith Gen. Miller then went to the camp and\\nGen. Nathan Miller was born in the town of Warren, R.I.\\n(then Swansea, Mass.), March 20, 1743. He was the oldest son of\\nNathan and Patience (Turner) Miller, being sixth in line of descent\\nfrom John Miller, one of the early settlers of Rehoboth, and fifth in\\nline of descent from Capt. William Turner, who lost his life during\\nPhilip s War, while in command of a volunteer company at Turn-\\ner s Falls. His paternal great-great-grandmother was Elizabeth,\\ndaughter of William Sabine, a Huguenot refugee of wealth and\\nculture, whose name appeared upon the Rehoboth records as early\\nas 1643. His grandfather, Samuel Miller, was a large landed pro-\\nprietor, and was among the first in Warren to engage in ship build-\\ning. The Miller family were prominent members of the social,\\npolitical, and religious circles of their native town, and gave their\\nname to one of its principal streets.\\nAt the outbreak of the Revolution General Miller and his brother,\\nWilliam Turner Miller, at once embraced the cause of liberty, and\\nthroughout the war both labored diligently in defence of their\\ncountry. In 1775 Nathan Miller was chosen Commissary to Gen-\\neral Hopkins troops. In 1777 he was appointed a recruiting offi-\\ncer. In 1778 he became a member of the Council of War. In\\nthe spring of this year, he, in connection with Le Baron Bradford,\\nSamuel Pearce, Samuel Brown, and Cromwell Child fitted out the\\nprivateer sloop General Stark, of fourteen guns, which captured\\ntwo or more prizes, though eventually falling into the hands of the\\nenemy. During the battle of Rhode Island he was in command of\\na regiment. In 1779, after having been advanced through various\\nmilitary grades, he was appointed Brigadier-General of the counties\\nof Newport and Bristol. Throughout that and the following year\\nhe served on various committees. So arduous were his many duties", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 53\\nfound a man there who had brought a load of\\nthe goods from our prize at Coxet the goods\\nwas at Kickemuit Bridg we went imeadetly to\\ncarting it to warren and at three o clock all the\\ntents was struck loaded into the waggons a little\\nafter four the Reg* marched off the Ground\\nwent to Warren where they tarried the night\\nin my Journal of the 22 forgot to mention\\none Mellencully Accident which happend two\\nyoung men of my Reg* Benjamin Bird and\\nthat in 1781 he decided to withdraw from public life, but at the\\nrequest of the General Assembly reconsidered his determination,\\nand in August of that year was placed in command of the flag-of-\\ntruce Nancy and proceeded to New York for the purpose of\\nnegotiating an exchange of prisoners. In 17S2 he was chosen one\\nof a committee to sell certain confiscated estates, and was also a\\nmember of the committee of ways and means. He continued his\\nactive participation in public affairs until his death, which occurred\\nMarch 20, 1790.\\nGeneral Miller represented Warren as a Deputy to the General\\nAssembly for a period of nine years. In February, 17S6, he was\\nelected a delegate to the United States Congress, the Rev. James\\nManning, D.D., President of Rhode Island College, being his col-\\nleague.\\nWith the French officers stationed in Rhode Island General Mil-\\nler was on most intimate terms, his Huguenot blood forming a bond\\nof union mutually agreeable. General Lafayette, while encamped\\nat Warren, was his frequent guest, and a warm friendship existed\\nbetween the two. General Miller was also greatly attached to Count\\nRochambeau, with whom he exchanged swords. The Rochambeau\\nsword is a handsome rapier, the blade ornamented with gold and\\nblue, while the hilt and guard are of silver. It is owned by a de-\\nscendant of General Miller, and is a highly prized heirloom.\\nThe personal appearance of General Miller was very striking,\\nowing to his remarkable size. His weight was above three hun-", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "54 7 //i5 DIARY OF\\nJames Lobb were both drowned in Kickemuit\\nRiver the first men lost out of the Regt Since\\nthe action on the Island by Death\\nJune 25th, 1779. This morning I turnd\\nout by two o clock and before four had all the\\ntroops embarkt and on their passage. I tarried\\nmyself till after Breakfast then went on by\\nland in Company with Lt Jeruald and his\\nwife to Providence as I was a member of a\\nCourt Martial to set there by adjournment for\\nthe trial of Col Vose arrived in Providence\\ndred pounds. His boots were said to have held a bushel of corn\\napiece, while four boys were easily buttoned into his vest.\\nThe Maiquis de Chastellux, in the narrative of his travels\\nthrough America, alludes to the great corpulency of the general,\\nand also to the remarkable size of his sister, Mrs. Burr, wife of the\\nlandlord of the famous Warren hostelry, Burr s Tavern.\\nGeneral Miller married his cousin, Rebekah Barton, daughter of\\nSamuel and Lillis (Turner) Barton, Jan. 8, 1764. She survived him\\nseveral years, dying Aug. 21, 181 7. By this marriage there were\\ntwo children a son, Caleb, who died in early youth, and a daughter,\\nAbigail, who married Charles Wheaton, of Providence.\\nThe old Miller homestead is still standing in Warren, at the foot\\nof Miller street. Many years ago it passed from the Miller family into\\nstranger hands. Though somewhat decayed, it preserves its colo-\\nnial appearance, and forms one of the most interesting of Warren s\\nancient landmarks.\\nDutee Jerauld, recommended by General Washington and\\nappointed 2d Lieutenant of the Second Battalion raised by the\\nColony of Rhode Island, October, 1776. (See Rhode Island Colo-\\nnial Records, Vol. VII., p. Ii.) Appointed 1st Lieutenant, Feb-\\nruary, 1777. (Same, Vol. VIII., p. 127.)\\nHead Quarters July 9** 1779 Field Officer Major Trescott\\nThe Gen Court Martial held the 2 June 1779 and Continued\\nby adjournment until the 6 Julv of which B Gen Starks was Pres-", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 55\\nhalf after nine but the president was gone into\\nthe Country and I Went to Johnston to see\\nmy family where I arrived by two oclock\\nfound all well but was much unwell myself\\nent Col Joseph Vose Commander of the 4th Regiment from the\\nState of Massachusetts Bay was Tryed for a Complaint Exhibited\\nfrom a number of his officers for fraud for Taking a Quantaty of\\nRum Drawn for the Reg for his own use Sec in Defrauding the\\nUnited States of a Number of Shirts out Major Shipherdes Store at\\nAlbany thir^^. for Selling a Horse belonging to the United States to\\nan Inhabitant Near Valley Forge 4th for Drawing pay for being on\\nCommand while on Furlough 5th for keeping the Taylors employed\\nby the United States to work for the army and alowed extra Pay\\nthere for. at work for those of his famaly that did not belong to the\\nService 6 for Drawing pay for a Serjeants Doing Q Mafters duty\\nand keeping all the mony But Seven Dollors h. P Month in his\\nown hands Converting it to his own use 7 for Sending home\\nBlankits Drawn from the Store for the Regiment 8 for using Cloth\\nDrawn for the Regiment to make his hired men Clothes. 9 for\\nGen^ UnGentlemanlike behavour to the officers of his Regiment.\\nThe Charges being Read to Col\u00c2\u00b0 Vose he pleaded not Guilty the\\nCourt upon a Mature and full Consideration of the Respective\\nCharges, and the Evidences for and against Col Vose and of\\noppinion on the first Charge that Col Vose was by no Means\\nTustifyable in Taking the Rum which it appeared he did but on the\\nContrary is highly Repremandable yet in Consideration of the\\nTrifelling Quantaty he Took and the Necessity he appears to be\\nunder for the Rum The Commissary not having any at that Time\\nand his Charractor as an Officer acquit him of any Intintion of\\ndefrauding the Soldiers in this Instent on each and every other of\\nthe Charges the Court are of oppinion that they are not Supported\\nthat Col Vose is not Guilty of any one of the Instinces of which\\nhe is Charged there for acquit him the Gen Confirmes the\\nJudgement of the Court, and orders CoK Vose to be Relesed\\nfrom his arrest to Take Command of his Regiment. The Gen\\nCourt Martial of which B. Gen Glovers is president is Desolved.\\nOrderly Book, /LeaJ(/uar{ers, Providence.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "56 THE DIARY OF\\nJune 26, 1779. Clowdy and foggy after\\nBreakfast went .on to join my Reg^ went to\\nEast Greenwich there Din d. then went on\\nto Barbers Hill where I found the Reg*\\nEncampt when I had got to the Regt was all\\nmost Sick it being an exceeding hot Day and\\nI had not been well for Several Days before\\nCol. Greene Maj Flagg were both at the En-\\ncampment when I came there,\\nJune 27, 1779. I was in a shocking situ-\\nation of health this morning, but got some bet-\\nter in the afternoon and Road to updike\\nNewtown and Reconitered the Shore betwixt the\\nencampment and the above said town then\\nwent to Maj Gardners there Drunk tea and\\nReturned to the camp thus ends the day\\nJune 2\u00c2\u00a7th. A clowdy Raw windy morn-\\ning this being the day that the battle was at\\nMonmoth I prepaird and Entertainment for all\\nBarber s Height is a commanding eminence in North Kingstown\\ntwo hundred feet above the sea level; from its highest point a\\nview can be obtained of the whole lower bay (Narragansett) and\\nfor many miles off to sea.\\nFlagg, Ebenezer (R.I.), Captain 2d Rhode Island Regiment,\\n28th June to December, 1775; Captain 9th Continental Infantry,\\nist January to 31st December, 1776; Captain 1st Rhode Island, 1st\\nJanuary, 1777; Major, 26th May, 1778; killed, 14th May, 1781,\\nby Delancy s Tories in Westchester County, New York. (Heitman s\\nOfficers of the Continental Army.\\nThe battle of Monmouth took place June 28, 1778; in this\\nengagement Angell s Regiment bore a conspicuous part, being in\\nthe division commanded by General Lee.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AX CELL. 57\\nthe Officers of my Reg^ and all Dind togeather\\nthere Came a brigg in from Sea this afternoon\\nI orderd a piece of artillery down on the shore\\nand brought her too. it proved to be a Brigg\\nfrom Sandy Cruze bound to Providence with\\nRum and Sowering on board thus Ends the\\nDay William Jacobs master of the abovesd\\nBrigg.\\nJune 19th, 1779. Clowdy Morning\\nCapt Humphrey a Sergt and four men was\\nsent to Greenwich this morning at Sunrise on\\nBusness. Nothing of Consequence happened\\nthis Day.\\n30th. This Day we had an Invitation to\\nDine with a Number of Gentlemen and ladies\\nat one M Gardners who lived upon the farm\\nthat was Rooms. I and Col Olney went,\\nHumphrey, William (R.I.)\u00c2\u00bb Lieutenant of Varnum s Rhode\\nIsland Regiment, June, 1775; taken prisoner at Quebec, 31st De-\\ncember, 1775; 1st Lieutenant 2d Rhode Island, ist January, 1777;\\nCaptain, 22d October, 1777; transferred to ist Rhode Island, 1st\\nJanuary, 1781, and served to close of ar. (Heitman s Officers of\\nthe Continental Army.\\nA journal of the expedition against Quebec, kept by him, is in\\nthe possession of his great-grandson, George Humphrey, Esq., of\\nProvidence, R.I.\\nGeorge Rome, a gentleman of estate and a merchant from\\nEngland, came to Rhode Island in 1761, as the agent of the house\\nof Halsey Hopkins.\\nHe resided in Newport winters, and in Narragansett summers.\\nHis estate was located on Boston Neck, in North Kingstown, and", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "58 THE DIARY OF\\nand spent the Day very agreable being a very\\nrespectable company of the most principal In-\\nhabitants for Several miles around.\\nJuly 1st, 1779. An Exceeding Raney\\nconsisted of about seven hundred acres, bounding easterly on the\\nNarragansett Bay.\\nThe mansion house was highly finished and furnished. The\\nbeds were concealed from view in the wainscots the rooms might\\nbe traversed throughout, and not a bed for the repose of the guests\\nbe seen.\\nWhen the hour for retirement arrived, a servant would just give\\na touch to a spring in the ceiling and the visitor s bed, by means of\\na self-adjusting process, would protrude itself, as if by the effect of\\nmagic, ready prepared for the reception of its tenant.\\nHis grounds were elegantly embellished, and he entertained with\\nsumptuous hospitality.\\nIn the Stamp Act excitement he wrote a letter to a friend in\\nBoston in which he reviled the Legislature, the Courts, and juries\\nof the Colony, and charged general corruption therein. It aroused\\nthe most intense excitement.\\nHe was summoned before the Legislature at its session in Octo-\\nber, 1773, in South Kingstown, and questioned as to his expressions;\\nbut he evaded all the questions and was adjudged in contempt, and\\nby order of the House was committed to the common gaol of South\\nKingstown, where he remained until the House rose. After his re-\\nlease from prison, realizing the extent of popular feeling against him\\nand fearing that it might work him still more bodily harm, he fled\\non board of the Rose, man-of-war, then lying in the Narragansett\\nbay.\\nHis estates were later seized by the Colony, and at a session of\\nthe General Asseml)ly, in October, 1775, a committee was appointed\\nto sell at public auction all the effects of George Rome in possession\\nof the State and pay the money into the State Treasury.\\nFor Acts of the General Assembly relating to this affair, see Vol.\\nXII., Rhode Island Colonial Records, pp. 376, 394, 421, 499, 520,\\n549. See also my Esek Hopkins, Commander-in-Chief of the\\nAmerican Navy, p. 53.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "COLOXEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 59\\nmorning with Thunder and Showers Lt Cook\\nof Col. Greenes Regt. Come from the Meroon\\nfrolick. last night and Tarried in Camp\\nBreakfasted with me and after Dinner Set off\\nfor Greenwich where we arrived in the after-\\nnoon and after Drinking a glass of wine with\\nthe Governor went on for my own hous\\nwhere arrived by Sunset found all well.\\n2d. it Storming this Day I tarried at my\\nown hous the Day and nothing Remarkable\\nhappened.\\n3d. Clear and pleasant I set off with Mr\\nStevens this morning for Providence Mr Luther\\nwent with his team to bring up Some Stores for\\nme that the Weasel brought and nails for a barn\\nI waited upon the Genl for liberty to tarry until\\nthe Court Martial Set which was on Monday\\nthis was Saturday the request was granted me\\nafter doing what business I had to do returned\\nto my hous in Johnston by two o clock Joseph\\nCooke, John (R.I.) Ensign 1st Rhode Island, 1st Jan-\\nuary, 1777; 2d Lieutenant, ist June, 1778; Regimental Quarter-\\nmaster, 1778, to was in service May, 1780.\\n(Heitman s Officers of the Continental Army.\\nA hunting or fishing trip, or- excursion, in Southern United\\nStates, to camp out after the manner of the West Indian Maroons;\\na pleasure excursion of some duration, with provisions for living\\nin camp. Marooning Cases are frequently mentioned in old\\ninventories. See Prov. Probate Records, Wills, No. 11, p. 38.\\nWilliam Greene, Jr., Governor from May, 1778, to May, 1786,\\nwho lived near East Greenwich.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "6o THE DIARY OF\\nThrasher a deserter from my Regt. was taken\\nnear Providence Confined in the Main guard\\nyesterday by Capt Joab Sweeting an inhabi-\\ntant.\\nJuly 4th, 1779. fine weather this being\\nSunday I tarried at home untill after noon then\\nwent to Meeting at Samuel Angell s returned\\nwith a number of ladies and Spent the afternoon\\nvery agreable.\\nJuly 5th. Clear and pleasant morning my\\npeople begun this morning to make prepara-\\ntions to raise a barn I went to Providence to at-\\ntend the Court Martial but it being a day for the\\nSelebrating our Independence the Court stood\\nadjourned until tomorrow morning Six oclock\\nSo I returned home and attended on the Rais-\\ning of my Barn which was rais d in the After-\\nnoon without Aney Accident happening.\\nJuly 6th, 1779. I set off By Sunrise this\\nmorning for Providence to attend the Court\\nwhich did not meet untill near nine oclock when\\nwe proceeded to business and finished before\\nJoseph Thrasher, of Capt. William Tew s Company.\\nJob Sweeting, appointed Dec. 24, 1774, with others, a com-\\nmittee for resisting the Act of the British Parliament imposing a duty\\non tea, and for otherwise raising a revenue in the American Colonies.\\nFebruary, 1776, appointed, with others, a committee to procure as\\nmuch gold and silver coin as they can for the operations in Canada.\\nHe does not appear to have been engaged in any military service.\\nMany references to him are in Providence Town Papers.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL. 6 1\\nSunset as Genl Glovers Brigade was ordered to\\nmove it became necessary for the trial to be\\nended as soon as possible therefore the Court\\nset in the Afternoon, which is not Agreable to\\nthe Articles of war Except in cases of Necessity\\nlike this, this day we reed the news of the death\\nof Capt Joseph Olney of North Providence,\\nwho departed this life this morning very Sudden\\njust before day. his wife observed him to fetch\\na Sigh and a groan She spoke to him but he\\ndid not answer her, and died imeadietley without\\nspeaking another word I returned to my own\\nhous this Evening.\\nJuly 7th, 1779. This day I expected to\\nhave gone to Boston Neck to join the Regt. but\\nmy wife had a mind to go to see her mother so\\nafter Dinner I and my wife set off for her\\nmothers and I returned in the Evening in\\norder to sett off for the Camp Early in the\\nmorning.\\nJuly 8th. This morning I got up very\\nEarly in order to set off on my journey for\\nthe Camp but my horse had run away and took\\nme all the forenoon to look for him in the\\nafternoon I set off for Camp went to Green-\\nwich there Col. Greene Desired me to tarry\\nwith him until next day and he and Major\\nFlagg would both go with me. I tarried and", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "62 THE DIARY OF\\nbetween two and three o clock in the morning\\nwe were allarmed by the firing of small arms\\nbelow towards New Town on which the Allarm\\nGuns were fird at New Town and Warwick.\\n9th. I immediately on the Allarm set off\\nfor Camp arrived at New Town before Sunrise\\non my way there mett some Militia who in-\\nformed me that there was three Boats with\\nabout one Hundred men landed at Quonset\\nabove new town Plundered John Dyer s\\nHous of Some Small matter of goods he him-\\nself crept out on the Rough (roof of the hous\\nand made his Escape, then I tarried at New-\\ntown untill Ensign Pratt Returned as he was\\ngone to Col Dyers to see what intelligence he\\ncould get but he returned with no more than I\\nhad heard before we then Set off for Camp it\\nhad rained Considerable in the morning, and\\nimeaditely set in to raining Exceeding hard by\\nwhich means I got as wet as water would make\\nme by the time I got to the Camp it Cleared off\\nby noon nothing more Remarkable happened.\\nUpdike s New-town, now Wickford.\\nQuonset Point or Seconiquonset Point (see Harris Map State\\nof Rhode Island, 1795), to the north-east of the village of Wickford,\\nin North Kingstown. The Rhode Island State Militia camp-grounds\\nare located there.\\nWilliam Pratt appointed Ensign by General Assembly of Rhode\\nIsland, Tune, 17S0, commission to date from May I, 1779. (Rhode\\nIsland Colonial Records, Vol. IX., p. 90.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "COLOXEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 63\\n10th. This Day being pleasant I with five\\nor six of my officers went to Col Sands Tower\\nHilP to dine with him and spent the day I\\nforgot to mention that on the 8^ Reed the\\nDisagreeable News of the Enemys having\\npossession of new Haven we Daily have in-\\ntelligence from them Yesterday we heard that\\nthey had burnt fairfield and to Day it was\\nConfirmd we further heard that they were of\\nagainst New London.\\nJuly nth, 1779. This Day I went on\\nDutch Island Returned by Two oclock and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Ray Sands lived at Tower Hill and in 1775 was appointed\\nPostmaster at the office there estabUshed. In October of that year\\nhe was chosen Captain of the Third Company in South Kingstown,\\nand again in 1776. In July, 1776, he was chosen Major of the\\nSecond Regiment of Militia in Kings County, holding this position\\nfor a few months, when he was advanced to the position of Colonel,\\nin the room of Samuel Seagar, who is gone to sea.\\nColonel Sands was stationed at Boston Neck and Point Judith in\\nDecember, 1776, in command of detachments sent there for guard\\nduty. At the March session of the General Assembly, 1777, it was\\nmade known that the election of Sands in place of Seagar was to\\nthe office of Lieutenant-Colonel instead of Colonel, the Secretary hav-\\ning erroneously made the record and issued a commission. This mis-\\ntake n.ade necessary several changes, all of which may be found\\nexplained in Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. 8, pp. 179, 180.\\nTo the south-west of Barbers Heights and east of Boston Neck,\\n178 feet above tide water.\\nThese were the raids made by Tryon against the towns on the\\nConnecticut coast.\\nNew London was spared an attack, the raiders being called to\\nNew York on account of the Stony Point engagement.\\nDutch Island lies to the south of Barbers Heights, and against\\nthe western shores of Conanicut Island.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "64 THE DIAKY OF\\nit soon Set in to Storming thus Ended the\\nDay.\\n12th. Last Night was as Stormy a Night\\nperhaps as Ever Known with rain wind and\\nThunder numbers of the Marques and tents\\nblow Down and the greatest part of the troops\\nwas as wet as the water would make them it\\nCleared off this Day by a little after 12 oclock.\\na Court Martial Set at Mr. Moreys in New-\\ntown to try two Deserters from my Regt John\\nDeruce and Joseph Thrasher a further Confir-\\nmation Come this Day of the Enemy s burning\\nfairfield.\\n13th. Nothing Remarkable this day\\n14th. The Same to Day as yesterday\\nJuly 15th, 1779. This Day Reed news\\nthat there was nothing in the Report of the\\nAction at Charlestown South Carolina but\\nthink it all most impossible that Lying Could\\nbe Carried to such a pitch I went to Newtown\\nMajor Thayer to Warren.\\nAt a Brigade Court Martial held at Updike Newtown on the\\n12* Instant (July 12 1779) of which Lt. Col Olney was Presid\\nJohn Deruse of Col\u00c2\u00b0. Angills Regiment was Tryed for Desersion to\\nthe Enemy and Carrying with him a Guard Boat The Prisoner\\nbeing Brought Before the Court Pleads Guilty The Court therefore\\nSentence him To Suffer Death The Gen approves the Sentence\\nof the Court Joseph Thrasher of CoK Angells Regiment Tryed at\\nthe above Court for Desertion found Guilty and Sentenced to Re-\\nceve one hundred lashes on his Bare Back The Gen approves\\nthe Sentence and Orders the punishment inflicted immeadiately.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 65\\n16th. Clear Cold and windy weather I\\nCol Houg( and Capt. Allen went round\\nwhat is called Boston Neck below where we lay\\non Barbers Hights Returned and found Col\\nGreene in Camp this Evening Major Thayer\\nReturned from Warren\\nJuly 17th, 1779. Clowdy and Exceeding\\nWindy and Cold but nothing happened ex-\\ntraordinary\\n18th Nothing Remarkable this day\\n19th. This Evening we Read a hand bill\\nfrom Providence that General Wayne with 1200\\nof the light troops had taken the Brittish fort\\non Stoney Point at Kings ferry on North\\nRiver he took the fort on Surprise Carri d it\\nwith the loss of four men killed and Eleven\\nwounded, the garrison Consisted of five hun-\\ndred Brittish troops who were all killd and\\nmade prisoners to a man it is said lOO of them\\nwere killed and wounded.\\nAlien, William (R.I.), ist Lieutenant nth Continental Infantry,\\n1st January to 31st December, 1776; ist Lieutenant 2d Rhode\\nIsland, 1st January, 1777; Captain 13th January, 1777; transferred\\nto 1st Rhode Island, ist January, 1 781 Brevet-Major 30th Sep-\\ntember, 1783 served to 3d November, 1783. (Heitman s Officers\\nof the Continental Army.\\nCaptured by Gen. Anthony Wayne, July 16, 1779; but after\\nholding the Point for three days, the works were all destroyed,\\nand the garrisons with the cannon and stores withdrawn into the\\nHighlands. It required a greater force to hold it than could be\\nspared from the army.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "C6 TIIF. DIARY OF\\nJuly 20, 1779. Nothing Remarkable this\\nDay.\\n2 1st. This day we had a fu-de-joy on the\\noccation of Stoney point fort being taken bv\\nfiring thirteen peaces of Cannon I with a\\nnumber of gentlemen Dind with Peter Phillips\\nKsqr thus ends the day.\\nJuly 22d, 1779. Nothing Remarkable\\nthis Day.\\n23d. This morning a fleet appeared off\\npoint Judath of 37 sail and by night were all\\nin the harbor of Newport Except one or two\\n24th. This morning I sent L Thomas\\nWaterman an Express to head C) with the re-\\nturns of my Reg and a number of letters and\\nin the afternoon had the Mortification to finde\\nthat Two thirds of the Serg in the Reg had\\nconspired togeather and ript the bindings of\\ntheir hatts Contrary to orders 1 issued an\\nPeter Phillips was a Deputy to the General Assembly of Rho(]e\\nIsland in May, 1772, 1773, I774- lie was appointed on a connnittee\\nto make enumeration of the inhabitants of the colony in 1774;\\nan Assistant in May, 1775. In 1775 he was appointed Commissary\\nof the Army of Observation and held commission as Deputy Com-\\nmissary under I runibuU for some years thereafter. In 1776, 1779,\\nand 1780 he was an Assistant and appointed one of a committee to\\nmanage confiscated estates. lie later held the position of Justice of\\nthe Superior Court for several years. A letter from Jonathan Trum-\\nbull, dated Hartford, Jan. 20, 1777, to Capt. Asa Waterman, says:\\nYou will find Mr. Phillips an exceedingly good man, lend him\\nany assistance in your power.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL. ANGEL.L. 6/\\norder for them to put them on by next morn-\\ning by guard mounting or they should be re-\\nduced to the ranks with out the formality of a\\nCourt Martial and tried for a willful Disobedi-\\nence of orders.\\n25th July, 1779. This morning by\\nEight oclock the Sergt^ had all their bindings\\non in the afternoon yesterday I reed a muti-\\nnious paper from one of the Soldiers wrote by\\none Hazzard and brought by one Twitchel and\\nlast Evening Two Deserters John Deruce and\\nRobert Albro both made their Escape from\\nthe Q Guard Deruce was in Irons and under\\nSentence of death, he is supposed to have\\nbeen taken out of his irons by one P owler who\\nwas confin d with him. I set out for to see\\nthe Genl at providence on business this after-\\nnoon half past 4 oclock went to my own hous\\ntarried the night.\\n26th July. A Raney morning after break-\\nfast went off for providence Din d with Gov-\\nernour Bowen finished my business and\\nreturn d to Camp before nine o clock in the\\nevening had news to day of the Enemy going\\nup North River with all their force.\\nRobert Albro, of Capt. William Tew s Company. (See my\\nRevolutionary Defences in Rhode Island, p. 126.)\\n*Jabez Bowen, Deputy-Governor of Rhode Island from May,\\n1778, to May, 1780, and from May, 1781, to May, 1786.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "6cS J ifi n/.iA v OF\\nJuly 27th, 1779. Clowdy and wet morn-\\ning after breakfast I went a fishing the Day\\nEanded with nothing remarkable happening.\\nJuly 28th, 1779. This morning half after\\nSeven oclock I set off in a boat with five men\\nfor warren arrivd there by half after two in\\nthe afternoon Dined at Mr Luthers and\\nTarried there that night.\\nJuly 29th. This morning it Rained the\\nwind was Northeast I should have Set off for\\nthe Camp, had the Boat Returned from prov-\\nidence which I sent up the evening before, and\\nI got my busness done but the boat did not\\nreturn till near night which obliged me to Stay\\nin warren this night.\\n30th. This morning I got up before sun-\\nrise Went up to where the Artillery was\\nencampt there staid and breakfasted then re-\\nturn d to warren but the wind shifting from\\nN. E to S W could not set off untill the tide\\nturn d as the wind was ahead about 9 o clock set\\nsail beat out of warren River gaind the Bay but\\nthe tide running against the wind, and the wind\\nblowing very heavy Caus t so great a Swell\\nthat the Spray of the See broke over us so that\\nwe Should soon ben as wet as water would\\nmake us I ordered the boat about and Run\\nback to warren landed on Barrington Shore", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "CO I. GIVE f. ISRAFJ. ANGEL!.. 69\\nwhere I fell in Company with Capt Tew went\\nhome with him and Staid the afternoon and\\nnight with him as the wind Continued to blow\\nhard.\\nJuly the 31st and last, 1779. After\\nBreakfasting at Capt Tew went to warren there\\nReed the Disagreeable news of my Reg* mu-\\ntinying on which I set off to try to reach the\\nwestern shore though the wind was a head we\\nbeat out of warren river Stood over to Warwick\\nneck and after trying to beat Down to Barbers\\nhights, was obliged to put away for Greenwich\\nharbor there Left my boat and men got a hors\\nand set off for Camp arriv d there by Eight\\no clock found all in peace on my way met Genl\\nStark and a number of other Gentlemen who\\nhad been down to the Regt at the Request of\\nGen Gates, and ordered the Regt to parade\\nand march by the Column they all Reed the\\ngenl pardon except George Millamen who was\\nordered to be Sent prisoner in irons to provi-\\ndence and was imeadetly sent off. y^\\nAugust the 1st, 1779. A Raney morn-\\ning and Continued Storming the greatest part\\nof the Day but nothing Remarkable happened.\\nHere was an important military post, and a garrison was main-\\ntained during the years of the war. For a more particular account\\nsee my Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "70\\nTHE DIARY OF\\nAugust 2d. Clowdy and raw after Break-\\nfast I Col. Olney Capt Hughes L^ Sayls all\\nSet off for Providence went as far as Greenwich\\nthere heard that the Council of War was upon\\nbusness and could not attend to do the busness\\nwe were a going upon. So I and L Sayls\\nwent on L Col. Olney and Capt Hughes\\ntarried to dine in greenwich I parted with Lt\\nSayls at Greens Bridg I come home and\\ntarrid at my own hous\\nAugust 3d, 1779. This morning was\\nvery Raney but held up a little before noon\\nand I went to Catch my hors to go to Prov-\\nidence but he broke out of the pasture into the\\nwoods and I was not able to catch him till near\\nthe middle of the afternoon then went to Prov-\\nidence found it necessary for me to be in\\nCamp by the next morning So set off imea-\\ndetly went to greenwich There tarried the\\nnight.\\n4th August. Left Greenwich this even-\\ning at day break arrived in Camp the\\nsun an hour high. Sent Major Thayer off\\nThis is sometimes called Major Greene s Bridge, and is referred\\nto in records as ye bridge called Major Greene s bridge. In May,\\n1 77 1, the town of Warwick petitioned the General Assembly of\\nRhode Island to grant a lottery to repair this bridge, it having been\\ncarried away by a freshet. It is described in the petition as over the\\nPawtucket River, about six miles above the falls. The present\\nbridge at Pontiac, R.I., serves to mark approximately its location.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "COLOA EL I SUA EL AN CELL. 71\\nwith Capt Coggeshall OIney and Ensign\\nWheaton for Providence as Evidence against\\nGeorge Milliman who was to be tried this day\\nfor Mutiny in the afternoon there Come a\\nman to my Marquee who informed me that he\\nbelonged to the galley which lay below Provi-\\ndence and had been out by Block Island in the\\nGalleys boat and taken three fisherman boats\\nwho were all on their way to Providence and\\nhad Calld at the Shore to give me intelligence\\nI went and one of the prisoners who in-\\nformed me that the Tory fleet intended to\\nCome off a plundering on point Judath this\\nnight or tomorrow night Thus ends the\\nDay.\\n5th August, 1779. Last night I Rec d\\nan Express from the Adj General that the\\nCourt to try Millamen wanted Eight non com-\\nmissioned officers and Soldiers of my Regt as\\nEvidences which I sent off about midnight this\\nwas a Clear and pleasant morning and the\\nTory s Did not trouble us last Night as we had\\nReason to Expect by the ace* Rec d the Even-\\nJoseph Wheaton, appointed Ensign by General Assembly of\\nRhode Island, June, 1780, commission to date from May i, 1779.\\nGeneral Sullivan s Orderly Book, Headquarters, Providence,\\nMarch 3 1779, contains this entry:\\nLieut. Joseph Wheaton (of Lieutenant-Colonel Peabody s State\\nRegiment) is appointed Ensign in Col. Israel Angells Continental\\nRegiment.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "]2 THE DIARY OF\\ning before I tarrid in Camp till after Dinner\\nthen Rode all round the neck called Boston\\nneck Returned to Camp before Sun Set,\\n6th August, 1779. Early this morning\\nMajor Gardner Come to Camp and brought\\nnews that our fleet that went down to the East-\\nward to penobscot had landed their Land\\nforces and taken the Brittish Batteries at the\\nsame time the fleet had block t in their shipping\\nand the enemy had Sunk all their Ships and\\nSurrendered themselves prisoners to the amount\\nof Two thousand men Maj Thayer Returned\\nto Camp from Providence last night about ten\\no clock nothing remarkable happened till in\\nthe evening there came a Deserter from ofl^\\nConanicutt Island from the enemy who Swam\\nover to Dutch Island from thence to the neck,\\nhe was so weak when he landed that he could\\nnot stand for Some time having Swam near\\nthree miles [all this days journal to the mark\\nhappened the morning before but was omitted\\nbeing Entered through mistake] This day\\nended with nothing More remarkable than\\nwhat has been related.\\nAugust 7th, 1779. Clowdy morning\\nand begun to rain and rained very hard and\\ncontinued raining all the Dav and was as Rainv a\\nnight as was Ever known with very hard thunder.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AA GELL. 73\\n8th. A Raney morning and perhaps never\\nmore rain fell in one night than there did last\\nnight it cleared off to day L Col. Olney Com\\nto Camp to day nothing remarkable happened\\nduring the Day.\\nAugust 9th, 1779. Clowdy and foggy\\nthis morning Col Olney Set off tor providence\\nto attend the Court Martial the fogg broke\\naway it was a fine day I Spent part of this day\\na fishing at night we Reed news of Col Tal-\\nbutts having taken Stanton Hazzard the Tory\\npirat from Rhode Island and Carried him into\\nNewlondon\\n10th. Nothing Remarkable this day.\\n1 1th. Nothing remarkable.\\nAugust 12th, 1779. Continues the\\nSame as yesterday.\\n13th. Peace and Quietness.\\n14th. This Day sent a boat to Point ju-\\ndath for a wounded man Jacksons\\nReg* to carry him to his father havin\\ncome after him living in Dighton Showering\\nwet weather Eand this journal.\\nFor portrait see The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, 1635-\\n1894, by Caroline E. Robinson, also genealogical account.\\nThe historical statements in this volume relating to Stanton Haz-\\nard are criticnlly considered by Sidney S. Rider, A.M., in Book\\nNotes, Vol. XTII., No. 10, where is also a letter regarding this event,\\nfrom Silas Talbot to General Gates.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "74 THE DIARY OF\\nPART FOUR.\\nTHE period covered by this part of the\\ndiary is from October 3, 1779, to De-\\ncember 13, 1779.\\nDuring this time the Rhode Island Regiment\\nwas encamped on Barbers Height, in North\\nKingstown, in Rhode Island, until after the\\nevacuation of Newport by the British, when all\\nthe Continental troops in Rhode Island were\\nordered to the westward.\\nBefore taking up the march, however. Colonel\\nAngell spent a short time with his family at\\nhome, and joined his regiment at Danbury,\\nConn., from which place the regiment marched\\nto Morristown, New Jersey. The diary is\\nprefaced as follows\\nA Journal Continued from 2 of October 1779\\nEncamped on Barbers Hights North kingstown\\nEanded 13* December\\nIn Morristown Mountains\\nOctober 3d, 1779. Plesant weather and", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 75\\nNothing Remarkable happend Except the\\nStopping of two Small Sloops in Newtown\\nloaded with Rum Sugar and wine, bound to\\nConnecticutt, and as there was an Embargo\\nlaid on those articals, and not to be Carried\\nout of the State, it was my Duty to Stop them,\\nuntill they had a pass from that authority that\\npast the non Exportation act, I wrote a letter\\nto the Governor, Sent it by one of the Gentle-\\nmen.\\nOctr. 4th. Warm and plesant weather,\\nthe Gentlemen I Sent to the Governor Re-\\nturned with a permit from govenor, or rather\\na Recommen for them to pass on in their\\nvoige, this afternoon I was obliged to Stop a\\nSloop going from this port to Seaconk with\\ntwelve thousand weight of Chease, but the\\nGentleman produced an order from the board\\nof war in boston to purchase Chease for the\\nNavey, on which I let him proceed on with\\nSaid Chease, Ebenezer West Formily a Lieu-\\nEbenezer West was chosen Ensign of the 2d Rhode Island\\nBattalion, October, 1776. Of this battalion Israel Angell was\\nLieutenant-Colonel. (Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. VIII.,\\np. II.)\\nIn February, 1777, West was chosen ist Lieutenant in the same\\nbattalion, Israel Angell being advanced to the rank of Colonel.\\n(Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. VIII., p. 126.) Ileitman\\ngives his military record as follows: Ensign iith Continental In\\nfantry, ist January to 31st December, 1776; ist Lieutenant 2d\\nRhode Island, ilth February, 1777; cashiered 9th July, 177S.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "-jG THE DIARY OF\\ntenant in my Reg Came to Camp this Even-\\ning to See his two Sones in my Reg\\nOctober 5th, 1779. A Stormy morning,\\nwith the wmci Northeast, and had Raind, the\\nJratist part of the Night, and Continued\\nStorming the whole Dav\\nOctober 6th, 1779. A Clowdy weet\\nmorning. I had an Invitation to dine with\\nGovenor Bradford, General Varnum and Col\\nThomas Potter and a number of Gentlemen\\nof the Superior Court at Little Rest. I Col.\\nOlney Capt Coggeshall Olney Capt Stephen\\nOlney. Set off and dind with them and Re-\\nturnd in the Evening, and perhaps it never\\nraind much harder, we received News of Count\\nCol. Thomas Potter, chosen Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2d\\nRegiment of Militia in Kings County, December, 1776. In March,\\n1777, his appointment was revoked for the reason that it had been\\nmade by mistake; at the same time he was dismissed from service\\nas Major, the time of the enlistment of the regiment to which he\\nwas appointed having expired. (Rhode Island Colonial Records,\\nVol. VIII., p. 180.)\\nAt the March session of the General Assembly, 1777, he was\\nappointed to represent South Kingstown on a committee for num-\\nbering all persons able to bear arms. In August of the same year\\nhe was appointed one of the recruiting officers for South Kings-\\ntown. (Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. VIII., p. 180.)\\nIn May, 1779, he was chosen Colonel of the 3d Regiment of\\nMilitia, in the County of Kings. Probably the same Thomas Potter\\nwho was 1st Lieutenant of the Independent Company in South\\nKingstown, called the Kingstown Reds, in 1776.\\nLittle Rest Hill, in South Kingstown, w here the Courts were\\nheld.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. yy\\nDe Estaing being at georgia, and had landed\\nfive thousand troops the lo Sept\\nOctr. 7th, 1779. This morning it cleard\\noff, and after Breakfast I and Doctor Fenny\\nSet off for greenwich Dind there, and after\\nfinishing my busness, went to Judg Northupts,\\nfor Shoes for my Reg from thence to Camp,\\nthey informd me in Camp, that there had\\nbeen three large Ships Seen off, without block\\nIsland but before night Disapeard\\nOctr. 8th, 1779. Cold and Windy I Sent\\na boat to warren this Day.\\nIn the Afternoon we Rec a report that\\nCount DEstaing was at Sandy Hook, and had\\ntaken all the Brittish Shippen and men in\\nGeorgia, and that there was one hundred and\\nfifty Sail Comming Down the Sound from New\\nYork, Doctor Tenny^ Come from Greenwich\\nthis Evening and brought me a letter from\\nCol Ward that the plan of the Barracks was\\nJohn Northup, one of the Justices of the Court of Common\\nPleas fur Kings County, R.I. He was one of the Committee of\\nSafety, a member of the General Assembly, and actively engaged in\\nthe affairs of the State during the war.\\n^Tenney, Samuel (R.I.), Surgeon s Mate of Gridley s Regiment,\\nMassachusetts Artillery, June to December, 1775; Surgeon nth\\nContinental Infantry, 1st January to 31st December, 1776; Sur-\\ngeon 2d Rhode Island, 1st January, 1777; transferred to ist Rhode\\nIsland, 1st January, 17S1, and served to close of war. (Died 6th\\nFebruary, 1816.) (Heitman s Officers of the ConlinentrJ Army.\\nLieutenant-Colonel Samuel Ward (born Nov. 17, 1756; died", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "78 THE DIARY OF\\nCome and Desired me to Come up to green-\\nwich as Soon as possible. Thus Eand tlie day\\n9th October, 1779. A plesant Morning\\nand after breakfast I and Col. Ohiey Set off\\nfor greenwich to Consult on building the bar-\\nracks, but Col Greene was unwell and Could\\nnot attend, after we had been at Greenwich, I\\nwent to Col\u00c2\u00b0 Greens Dind with him, then went\\nto my own hous found all well.\\nOctr. 10th, 1779. This morning after\\nbreakfast Set off for Providence to See the\\nGeneral, Concerning the barracks from thence\\nup into Wainscott to my fathers, from thence\\nhome where I arrived by 9 Clock\\nOctr. nth, 1779. This morning after\\nbreakfast I set off for Camp when I come to\\nGreenwich heard that there was A fleet got into\\nRhode Island from New York, when I Come\\nto Camp found there had 57 Sail arrivd, among\\nwhich were 34 Ship, they appeard to be all\\nEmpty, two of the privateer boats boarded one\\nof the vessels the men imeadetly ran down into\\nthe hold, but before they Could git her away.\\nCome two barges and they were forst to\\nLeave her, the muster Master Come to Camp\\nAug. 16, 1832) of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment. He was retired\\nwhen the two Rhode Island regiments were consolidated. He com-\\nmanded a battalion of colored troops at the Battle of Rhode Island,\\nAugust, 1778. A portrait is in Stone s French Allies, opp. p. 86.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "COLO A EL ISRAEL ANGEI^L. 79\\nwith me and Cap^ Hughes. Thus Eands the\\nDay\\nOctr. 12th, 1779. This Morning after\\nbreakfast my Reg* was Mustered and I Set off\\nwith the mustermaster and Major Thayer for\\nGreenwich where I expected to meet the Gen-\\neral from Providence, but he did not Come,\\nand after Dining with the Governor, I Returned\\nto Camp Maj Thayer went on for providence.\\nOctober 13th, 1779. Clowdy weet morn-\\ning, as it had Raind the greatest part of the\\nnight past. L* Col Olney went off for provi-\\ndence this morning after breakfast, in the\\nafternoon I Sent a boat to Reconiter along\\nConnanicutt to see what discoveries they Could\\nmake the people landed below Dutch Island\\nand none come to molest them, then they\\nlanded above and went Near half a Cross the\\nIsland Drove down Some horses with a view of\\nbringing Some of them off, but the Enemy\\nfired on them with a field peace, and imeadetly\\nSent a party of light troops, which obliged them\\nto Come off without aney of the horses, they\\nRowed along up the island keepeing in with\\nthe Shore, the Enemy pursued and begun a fire,\\nwhich was Returnd by the boats Crew but at\\nSuch a distance that no Execution was done on\\nEither Side, there was imeadetly another party", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "8o THE DIARY OF\\nof the Enemy Come up the Island of Near loo\\nmen, but our people Come off with their boat\\nand thus they had a march of Six or Seven\\nmiles for nothing, I Rec an Express from\\nGeneral Gates, Desiring me to keep a good\\nlook out, and give him the Earliest information\\nof any movement of the Enemy, the Express\\ninformed me of an accident that befell one of\\nmy men who Was Sent after one Clefford a\\nDeserter, Serj^ Chaffe, and John Gould were\\nSent to take S Clefford, they took a boy an\\nInhabitant with them to show them the hous.\\nthey knocked at the Door but Could not be\\nAdmitted Enterence, they imeadetly broke\\nopen the Door, this Clefford run up Stairs,\\nGoold followed him Clefford fird upon Gould\\nwith a pistol, the boy that was with them run\\noff Screeming. Chaffe followed as is reported,\\nin the morning Goolds hat was found in the\\nhous with a ball fired through it but gould\\nwas not found when the Express Came away.\\nChaffe was gone to the General to know what\\nfurther to Do. Thus Eands the Day.\\nOctober 14th, 1779. This Day we\\nRec Several accounts Concerning Goulds being\\nwounded or killd, but before night we heard he\\nProbably Sergeant Noah Chaffee, of Capt. Coggeshall Olney s\\nCompany.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL. 8 1\\nhad got to providence, and at Night Major\\nThayer Returnd and brought the news of Chaf-\\nfey and Gould Returning. Gould had Rec a\\nball in his head as we had heard, but not to\\nbreak his Skull, Maj Thayer allso informd me\\nthat we were under Marching orders, and\\nbrought an order from the General to me for to\\nCall in all my out Commands, Col Olney\\nReturned from providence this Evening, thus\\nEand the Day.\\nOctober 15th, 1779. Clowdy and Cold\\nwith a high wind from the Northeast, Lt.\\nMacomber and Ensign Roggers^ with a party\\nof men landed on Connanicutt last night, and\\nwent over all the upper part ot the Island, but\\nCould not take aney of the Inhabitants Except\\nOld men and women, without it was one\\nHegron whome they brought off, we have\\nMacomber, Ebenezer (R. I.), ist Lieutenant of Richmond s\\nRhode Island Regiment, 19th August to November, 1776; 1st Lieu-\\ntenant of Tallman s Rhode Island State Regiment, 12th December,\\n1776; 1st Lieu enant 2d Rhode Island, 12th June, 1777; transferred\\nto 1st Rhode Island, 1st January, 17S1 Captain, 17th March, 1782,\\nand served to i 7lh March, 1783. (Died 5th April, 1829.) (Heit-\\nman s Officers cf the Continental Army.\\nRogers, John (R. I.), Ensign 2d Rhode Island, Ist May, 1779;\\nwounded at Connecticut Farms, 23d June, 1780; transferred to ist\\nRhode Island, ist January, 1781 Lieutenant, August, 1781, and\\nserved to close of war; Military Storekeeper United States Army,\\n9th March, 1819; honorably discharged Ist June, 1821. (Heit-\\nman s Officers of the Continental Army.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "82 THE DIARY OF\\nbeen Employed the Day in making Every\\npreparation tor marching\\nOctober 16th, 1779. This morning was\\nwindy and Cold as had ben before, one M\\nCole an inhabitant Come with a Complaint to\\nme this morning that he had ben Abused by\\ntwo of my Soldiers the night past, by their\\nlaying Violent hands on him throwing him\\ndown, and falling upon him the Regiment was\\nimeadetly paraded and the Villins found and\\nConfind, a Court Orderd to try them, and\\nwere both trid one of them ordered to be whipt\\none hundred lashes, viz, John Thomas, the\\nother Daniel barney a Corprol, was Reduced\\nand floggd fifty Stripes\\nOctober 17th, 1779. This day was very\\nfine weather I was Exceeding busily employed\\nall the forepard of the Day with pay abstracts,\\nfor both Continental and State, and after fin-\\nishing my busness, went with CoP Olney and\\nMajor Thayer to dine with Col\u00c2\u00b0 John Gardner,\\nthere was a Ship of 28 or 30 guns, a brigg of\\n16 went into Newport Harbour and a Schoner\\nSupposed to be a prize to the brigg one of the\\nbrittis Friggats went up the river towards the\\nEand of Conanicut thus eands the Day.\\nDaniel Barney, formerly private in Capt. William Humphrey s\\nCompany.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL. 83\\n1 8th October, 1779. No movements of\\nthe Enemy this Day to be discovered Major\\nThayer Capt. Hughes, and Sayles all went\\nto providence this Day, Hews and Sayles went\\nin the Morning Major Thayer went after Din-\\nner with me as far as the ten rod road, Where\\nCol Dyers Reg of Militia met for a review,\\nas this Day was a Day that the Militia were\\nmustered in every County in the State I re-\\nturned to Camp in the Evening.\\n19th October. Nothing Remarkable hap-\\npened this Day, a forty Gun Ship went up the\\nRiver towards the upper Eand of Connanicut\\nOctober 20th, 1779. This Day I Sent a\\nboat to Reconiter Connanicut, to See what Dis-\\ncoveries was to be made Ensign wheaton went\\nin the boat, and brought off one Jonathan\\nGreene a very Sincible young man who lived\\nwithin the lines, who informed us that the\\nEnemy was a going to avacuate the Island, had\\ngot all their heavey baggage and Cannon on\\nThe ten-rod road is a well-known highway in North Kingstown.\\nIt derives its name from being originally laid out ten rods wide, but\\nsince its original lay-out it has shrunk considerably in width, for\\nabutting owners have been unable to resist the temptation to extend\\nfront walls and fences, and what was once a part of the common\\nhighway is now included in the front yards of abutters.\\nThe road was laid out from Updike s Newtown (Wickford)\\nwesterly through the town of Exeter into Voluntown, Conn.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "84 THE DIARY OF\\nboard, had burnt their platt forms in the North\\nbattry, I saw the Smoak yesterday but forgot to\\nmention it Imeadetly Sent an Express to Gen-\\neral Gates, by the movement of the Enemys\\nShips it was thought they were a going, this\\nEvening.\\n21st Octr. 1799. The Enemys Ships\\nRemain in their former position, this Day Col\\nOlney Set off for Providence being So lame\\nas to be unfit for Duty, but meeting the Gen-\\neral, who informed him that the Reg^ would\\ngo on the Island before they Marched to the\\nwestward, he Sent back his Servant went to\\nprovidence, the Gen Stark Come to the\\nCamp just before Sun Set, there was a very\\nheavey firing off at Sea this Afternoon, an-\\nother was a brigg lay off point judath firing\\nSignal Gunns till Dark there was a Great num-\\nber of the Inhabitants in Camp this Dav\\nOctober 22nd, 1779. This Day being\\nthe Day that we defeated the Hessians at Red\\nbanks in 1777, the officers of the Regiment\\nprovided a Dinner and all Dind togeather,\\nwith a great number of the Inhabitants, as\\nthere was Some hundreds of people out of the\\nCountry, on the hill looking out to See the\\nfleet go off but the wind not being fair pre-\\nPoint Judith, at the entrance to Narragansett Bay.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGEL.L.. 85\\nvented their Sailing, they Continued burning\\nthe platforms in their forts, and Some hay\\nthey had on Conanicut, yesterday they Set the\\nlight hous on fire about Eleven Clock, though\\nI forgot to mention it in my journal the troops\\nburned the Effigy of Count Dunop this Day\\nand raised a liberty pole near fore Score feet\\nhigh.\\nOctober the 23rd, 1779. A Strong South\\nWind this Day and the fleet Remained the\\nSame as Yesterday, and the hill all Covered\\nwith people Looking out to See the fleet Sail\\nOctober 24th. Cloudy and weet, with\\nthe wind Northerly, there appeard a great\\nMovement among the fleet, this morning but\\nthe wind Soon Died away and begun to weet,\\nStephen Phillips and Thomas Hearrendeen,^\\ntwo Villins Deserted from my Reg last Even-\\ning, and was Sent after this Morning a great\\nmultitude of the Inhabitants Assembled here\\nthis Day to See the fleet go off^ their Signal\\nGun was fired and the fleet made preparation\\nfor Sailing but the wind died away and they\\nremained at their Station, I sent a boat to\\nConanicut, and two of the Inhabitants Come\\nBeaver Tail Lighthouse, at the southern end of Conanicut\\nIsland.\\n-Thomas Herenden, of Capt. Coggeshall Olney s Co.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "86 TJIE DIARY OF\\noff, who informd us that they Enemy was to\\nhave saild to Day, had the wind admited of it,\\nin the afternoon there was a heavy Cannonade\\nup the Sound, and before Night there Came\\nfive Ships Two briggs and one Schooner out\\nof the Sound and went into Newport harbour\\nOctober 25th, 1779. A fine Plesant\\nMorning and the fleet Remains the Same as\\nyesterday, about the middle of the Day the\\nEnemy begun to burn their Barracks and great\\nmovements was Seen among them, there was a\\ngreat number of people in Camp to See the\\nfleet Sail, among the Crowd was Governor\\nGreens lady and daughter, the Britans was\\nbusy in Imbarking all the afternoon by Sunset\\nwas all on board, and the fleet Set Sail just\\nafter Sunset before Eleven Clock in the evening\\nwas all without the light hous and we making\\npreparation to take posession of the town\\nOctober 26th, 1779. This morning at\\nfour o Clock all the troops paraded and\\nmarched for Roome point Where they were\\nto Embark on board their boats, the wind\\nbeing very high and a Great Swell in the bay\\nI Expected the boats would all have ben lost\\nNewport, R.I.\\nRomes Point is north of Barber s Height, at the entrance to\\nBissels Cove, in North Kingstown. It lies nearly opposite the\\nnorth end of Conanicut Island.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN G ELL. 8/\\nwith the men in them but With Great Diffi-\\nculty the boats got to Conanicut, where two\\nof them filld and were wrackt, in deed they\\nwere all nearly full of water when they Landed.\\nI my Self was in a large boat with a deck more\\nthan half her length, and it was with great Dif-\\nficulty that we kept the boat above water, un-\\ntill we turnd the North Eand of Conanicut,\\nthen we run nearly before the wind, and arrivd\\nin Newport harbour half past Eight Clock in\\nthe morning but the regiment marched on Co-\\nnanicut to the ferry where I provided boats to\\nbring the Same off and all Got Safe into the\\ntown before Night; the Shops was all Shut,\\nand ordered to be kept So after the General\\nCome in. the Inhabitants flockt in in great\\nmultitudes. Thus Kands this Day\\nOctober 27th, 1779. A fine plesant\\nMorning, and Continued So the day. I Spent\\nthis Day in Reconitering the Town, and\\nworks which was destroyed by the Enemy, and\\nSending to get over the Remainder of my\\nbaggage.\\nOctober 28th. a Clear plesant morning\\nbut Cool, after breakfast I road with the Gen-\\neral Round all the Enemy Lines where I Saw\\nThe date of the evacuation of Newport is erroneously staled by\\nStone, in his French Allies, as occurring un the 27th.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "88 THE DIARY OF\\nSome of the Beautifullest works that I Ever\\nSaw in my life, all my Camp equipage arrived\\nthis afternoon\\nOctober 29th, 1 779. A plesant Day and\\nNothing Remarkable happend this Day: I\\nwas the Officer of the Day.\\n30th. Remarkable warm and Plesant,\\nNothing Remarkable happend this Day. I\\ndind with General Stark\\n31st. Plesant Weather, this Morning I\\ntook my boat*and went over to Conanicut there\\nReconiterd th;e Island viewd the forts Which\\nthe enemy had built found them Strong but\\nSmall, after Dining with Col Levingston Re-\\nturnd to Newport thus Eands the Month and\\nDay,\\nNovember 1st, 1779. fine plesant\\nweather for the Season, Nothing Remarkable\\nhappened this Day\\n2nd. Cold this morning and raind a little,\\nwind very high, at north, I was the officer of\\nthe Day went to Brintons neck viewed the\\nSod and Turf prepaird there by the brittish\\ntroops to burn in lieu of wood, there was two\\nA detailed account of the fortifications in and around New-\\nport may be found in my Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Is-\\nland.\\nBrenton s Neck, the present neck of land which terminates at\\nFort Adams, Newport, R.I.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSLiAEL ANGL J.L. 89\\nSorts, one Cut in Strips out of a bog Swa,mp.\\nthe others was dug out of a pond place, workt\\nthe Same as morter, then made into three\\nSquair peaces about one foot h)ng Laid on the\\nground in rows and dryed then Set up on eand\\nfour togeather and one a top of them, after that\\nthey were pilkl in roos from whence they were\\ntaken and Carted Some Distance and there\\nCorded up in rows to Stand till they were\\nwanted for use. the Day l^anded with nothing\\nRemarkable\\nNovember 3rd, 1779. Cold raw and\\nuncomfortable this morning Col Greens Reg\\nwent over upon Goat Island. to take thier\\nOuarters theere, Joseph Congdon a Deserter\\nwas brought into the Garrison last Evening and\\nwas Sent to the main (iuard this Morning, he\\nwas taken up near Newlondon, the Day Con-\\ntinued Cold, I and Col Greene went over to\\nGoat Island and Returned by Kvening\\n4th. Nothing Remarkable happend this\\nDay\\nNovember 5th, 6th, 1779. This morn\\ning we Rec orders for all the Continental\\nGoat Island is in Newport harbor; the Naval Torpedo Station\\nis located on the island.\\nJoseph Ciongdon, of Lieut.-Col. Jeremiah Olney s Company.\\nHis name a|)pears in the roll of Capt. Stephen Olney s Company,\\nat Yorktown, as having participated in that engagement.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "90 THE DIARY OF\\nTroops to March to the westward, but the\\nwind blew So hard that we Could not Cross the\\nbay, in the afternoon, I Set off for home, got to\\nbristol ferry and the wind blu So hard that I\\nCould not Cross, went to M Durfeys there\\nStaid the night, in the morning Crost went to\\nWarren breakfasted, then went to Providence\\nthere Dind then went to my own hous found\\nall well\\nNovr. 7th. Still and Plesant Morning\\nNothing Remarkable happend this Day I\\ntarried at home\\nNovr. 8th 1779. this Morning\\nafter breakfast I Set off for Camp, arrivd in\\nGreenwich by twelve Clock Dind with Gen\\nStark, then went to the Reg*, which lay about\\none Mile and half from Greenwich westward\\nfound all well,\\n9th. This morning Rec Orders for Col\\nLivingstons Reg Col Webbs and Col Jack-\\nsons, to march the Next morning at Sunrise.\\nMy Reg^ Col Greens and Col. Sherburnes the\\nday after at Sunrise, this Day we were all a\\nmaking out our Returns for Cloathing blankets\\nc.\\nNovr. 10th, 1779. This morning Col\\nWebbs Reg*, marched off, Col\u00c2\u00b0. Levingstons\\nAt the northern end of the island of Rhode Island.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL.\\n91\\nDid not march till the afternoon Col Jack-\\nsons marched the Day before from providence\\nthis Night we Spent till two Clock next\\nmorning delivering out Clothing to the Officers\\nNovr. llth\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1779. This Morning was\\nExceeding Cold wc finished Delivering out the\\nCloathing to the Soldiers by Eleven Clock,\\nand Marched off the Ground, by twelve I tar-\\nried untill all the waggons were got under way\\nthen Gave the Charge of the Reg^ to the Major,\\nand went to Greenwich Dind with Col Greene,\\nthen went to See my familey, the Major re-\\nturnd yesterday from Visiting his familey, and\\nCol Olney wen* for providence, for nine or ten\\nDays\\n12th November, 1779. This Morning\\nEnsign Roggers Come to my hous going in\\nSearch of benoni Bishop and Robert Gilley-^\\ntwo Deserters, after breakfast Ensign Roggers\\nSet off, and before Noon Returnd with the\\nAbove Said Deserters, and went on after the\\nReg*, with them Carried them to Vollentown\\nthere Deliverd them up to the Reg*, and re-\\nturnd\\n13th Novr., 1779. this Day Ensign Rog-\\nJohn Rogers, appointed Ensign by General Assembly of Rhode\\nIsland, June, 1780, commission to date from May i, 1779.\\nBenoni Bishop, of Major Thayer s Company.\\nRobert Gilly, of Major Thayer s Company.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "92 THE DIARY OF\\ngers Rcturnd, and went on for Smithfield, I\\nwent to Scituate for to buy Some beef Returnd\\nat Evening Serj^ Noah ChafFe Come to My\\nhous this Day after Some Deserters, and went\\nto providence, by water and a Young man\\nSaw Samuel Grant a Deserter from my Reg^\\nI Sent them imeadetly in Search after him and\\nthey took him brought him to my hous by\\none oClock the Next Morning, freelove water\\nman and husband was at my hous her Sister\\nand Sweetheart.\\n14th Novr., 1779. fineWeather and a great\\nnumber of people Come to My hous this Day.\\nSerj Chaffe Come to me for Orders as he\\nwas Directed by Maj Thayer, and I Sent\\nGrant to providence to the Goal, he allso\\nbrought News that William Edmans,^ a deser-\\nter was taken up and brought to the furnice in\\nScituate,^ and Col Olney had Sent for him to\\nProvidence Goal,\\n15th November, 1779. This Morning\\nSent my Servant to providence to get Some\\nSalt, and got help to kill my Beef, but the\\nladd returnd and got none, as they would not\\nSell aney without they Could have provisions\\nSamuel Grant, of Col. Angell s Company.\\nWilliam Edmunds, of Col. William Humphrey s Company.\\nScituate Furnace, the site of the present village of Hope, on\\nthe Pawtuxct Kivcr, near the line between Coventry and .Scituate.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL.\\n93\\nfor it. theire was a great number of people at\\nmy hous this Day\\nNovr. 16. fine weather, I was to have\\nSett off for the Army this morning but as I\\nCould not git no Salt yesterday, Sent by M\\nLuther this Day and was determind Not to\\ngoe forward untill I Could get Some, he Re-\\nturnd at night, and had not got a handfull, thus\\nbeing Disapointd Did not go forward\\nNovember 17th, 1779. Clowdy and\\nSnowed very fast this morning I Sent my boy\\noff for North kingstown to Peter Phillips Ksq\\nto See if he Could purchase me Some Salt,\\nNothing Remarkable happend this Day\\nNovr. 18th. My boy I Sent to Northkings\\nTown Returnd this forenoon with two bushel\\nof Salt, which my frind Peter Phillips Esq let\\nme have. John Usher and Thomas Smith both\\nCome to my hous this Day.\\nNovr. 19th, 1779. Sevear Cold this\\nmorning. I was to have Set off for Camp but\\nmy Cloathes not being Ready concluded to\\ntarry until the Next day morning.\\nNovr. 20th. A fine plesant Day, but I\\nwas So much unwell that it prevented my Set-\\nting off for the army So I spent the Day at\\nhome\\n21st. This morning it raind very hard,", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "94\\nI III: J l \\\\NV or\\nwliu li Siill |)icv(iil((l iiic Iroiii yu\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\!^ loiward,\\niliul I Spciil llic (l;iy Willi my l.iinilcy\\nNovember 22iul, 1779. Clowdy mid\\nluiiid :i lilllc (Ins iiionnnj, l)iil Soon hrouk\\n;iw;ty. and aflt-r hrrakfasi I Sd oil on my\\njouiiicy lo )om llic Army and wcnl lo Volcn-\\n(own (o m I )oii an( cs iIktc l)in(l. llicn wcnl\\nOil as far as Scoil.md fo M I orlx-s lavcin\\nwho married llic widow I linl (lu-rc put up (or\\nllial Nit-Ill.\\nNovr. 2,^rd. I .c(i my lodt ,int ,s I .arly I his\\nniornin|.f wiiil ihroutdi Windham lo M ilijls\\n(here hrcaklaslcd (hen wcnl lo l ollcn ihcre\\ndiiid from liiencc wcnl lo llaillord ihcn jiul\\nn|) al one M Lords a jnival lioiis. Where\\nl)o(lor oriicims was uarlci d. altciidiiifi: on\\nSoiiu- Sick which was lell hehind o( ien\\nSiarkcs hriL ,adi\\n2-1111 Novr., 1779. Allcr hrcaklasl lliis\\nmormnt I wcnl on my journey (o larminglown\\njM miles. Irom thciuc lo Soul hi-iiiii^lon miles\\nllicre l)in(l. llicii wcnl (o Walerhuiy i.( miles\\n(here pul up loi llu- Nij^hl. a( one M judds\\nI lie liiH ir, ,il liicli .liilis wcrf .iiililc serve III iiic|i :!i(c oiienl\\nllie liiii H |nllipw((| li\\\\ liiivelleiH lliroil^li onn i li( ill in r:irly limes.\\nJHiiii Vciliinliiu n, .li llie casleril etid nl chiihm Ik iit, llie (innse\\nurt llnv c ili-i ly iiiilil II.iiIIokI WIIS rfllcilci I, where llie ((iiiisc-\\nI li.iii)Mil lo t.diiliiwi- .1, eiKJiiij^ Ill I );iiil)iiry, all lie uislein einl nl\\niiiiiii li( III.\\nIUiIImii, (inii.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "co/.ox/:/. isN.uj. .-lAu; ,^5\\nlavcT/i, licTc I g,,( iiilclli^rcncr of my v^\\niH-in^r in ,la;.l),n-y l)y a Cai, (,Vn (;|,,v(Ts\\nlingadc-. who was on liis way liom,- ,,1, (mlont li\\n25th November, (779. l,,-f( ,ny lodg-\\nings ihis Morning l)dorc Sunrise went lo one\\nM Mc-llcrics Tavern Seven miles on a New\\nroad row:irds Woodhury (here Mreak/as(ed,\\nthen went through Wo(,d liury South hury to\\nnew Town there Dind i\\\\ Mih-s th.n went to\\nl):inl)ury where I found the Reg C,,!. ()|\u00e2\u0080\u009e(y\\nand Major Thayer were f^iarlered in a (,rand\\nll ifs ()((U|)id |,y the widow Wolls v of I ouK\\nIsland\\n26th. Clowdy and Snr;wed this Day, In\\nHie Afternoon Col Creene and (.rilfm (.n-m.-\\nArrived m town from Kliod, -island, on (Inir\\nway to head (Juarfers, an l I Set o/f with th.-m\\nin as had u Snow Storm as dencraly I .ver om.s\\nRode ahout: 9 miles there put up at a Pul.lic\\nhous in the State (A Newyork\\nNovember 27th, 1779. it Cleard off m\\nthe night and we L f( our lodgings I .arly this\\nmorning it was I-lxceeding hacj riding on aect of\\ntile Snow, though not /nore then Aneic Deep\\ninlln, fin.-.,,,, \u00c2\u00abom of JuImv., Jr., uuA Su:,;.,,,.;.!., l,-,n, I-cbTTo\\nmr, chosen I ayrnaHlcr, Au\u00c2\u00abUHt, ,777; Major of K.nlish (iuardn\\nMay, ,778. V.y or-ler isHuH Aug. i M77S. C.niU-.u Cuu-n Kso is\\nto a..t as Ai,I l ra\u00e2\u0080\u009e,. Major C.n. (;ree\u00e2\u0080\u009ee. (Col. Sl.crhurn. s\\nOrderly IJook m Newport Historical Society.)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "96 THE DIARY OF\\nas it raind part of the night which made bad\\ntraveling we arrivd at the River opposit west\\npoint about Day light Dawn, and Crost over\\nto the point, where We found great Difficulty\\nin gitting our horses out of the boat, and Climb-\\ning the rocks, to git on the plain at the foot of\\nthe Mountains which when we had Accom-\\nplished Enquired for the Adj*. General, where\\nwe found maney of our frends, Supt with the\\nAdj Gen then I went with Major Peters\\nlodgd with him and Major Nicholson Col\\nGreene tarried with the adj General. M\\nGriffen Greene went with Gen Patterson, we\\nrode this Day 12 or 15 miles and Could get\\nnothing for our [horses]\\nNovember 28th, 1779. This Morning\\nI got up by break of Day went to view the\\nforts the first was fort putnam on a high\\nThis may refer to Peters, Andrew (Mass.), Captain of Read s\\nMassachusetts Regiment, May to December, 1775; Captain 13th\\nContinental Infantry, 1st January to 31st December, 1776; Major\\n2d Massachusetts, ist January, 1777; Lieutenant-Colonel 15th\\nMassachusetts, ist July, 1779; resigned 26th November, 1779.\\n(Died 5th February, 1822.) (Heitman s Officers of the Conti-\\nnental Army.\\n^Nicholson, George Chadine (X.Y.), Major ist Canadian\\n(Livingston s) Regiment, 6th May, 1777; retired 1st January, 1781.\\n(Heitman s Officers of the Continental Army.\\nFort Putnam was located at the top of Mount Independence,\\nnearly five hundred feet above the river.\\nIt was built of stone in 1778 to complete a system of works to", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "COI.OXEL ISRAEL AX CELL. 97\\nMountain, which may be properly Called the\\nAmerican Giberalter, the next I went to was\\nfort Arnold in both these forts was bumb proof\\nSuficient to hold what men it would take to\\nman the lines there was a fort on Every Emmi-\\nnence Some Distance round, after breakfast We\\nwaited on his Excellency, had an Invitation to\\ndine with him but gitting nothing for our horses\\nwent on for New Winsor, over the Mountains\\nthrough the High lands, over the highest\\nmountain I ever was upon we was about two\\nhours Climbing up the mountain. Some part\\nof the way I was affraid my hors would fall\\nbackwards in Climbing up, was obliged to Stop\\nat Every opportunity when the land would\\nAdmit of it to git breath, we got to New\\nsecure the river from the passage of the enemy s ships. It was\\nnamed after the commander of the post, Gen. Israel Putnam.\\nThis fort had an armament, Sept. 5, 1780, consisting of five iron\\neighteen-pounders, two iron twelve-pounders, three brass pieces of\\nsmall calibre, and four brass 5i-inch mortars. It had two bomb-\\nproofs. Lossing.\\nFort Arnold was one of the outposts in the line of defences at\\nWest Point. It was situated upon a commanding eminence above\\nthe road leading to Buttermilk Falls.\\nFrom Remarks on Works at West Point, a copy to be trans-\\nmitted to his Excellency General Washington, Sept., 1780, written\\nby Benedict Arnold, it appears that Fort Arnold is built of Dry\\nFascines and wood, is in a ruinous condition incompleat and subject\\nto take fire from Shells or Carcasses its armament consisted of one\\niron tv/enty-four pounder, six iron eighteen pounders, one iron\\ntwelve pounder, three iron three pounders, one brass four pounder\\nand eleven brass mortars of various calibres. Lossine:", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "98 THE DIARY OF\\nWinsor a little after Sunset but Could git noth-\\ning for our Selves or horses to Eat. went\\non for Newbourgh. Applyd to Quartermaster\\nMitchel for forrige for our horses who furnished\\nus with a little, then Sent a boy to get lodgings\\nfor us which he did at an Old Dutch mans hous\\nCol Green and I applyd to the Cloather Gen\\nand finished our business with him which was to\\ngit Cloathing for our Reg\\\\ or an Order for it\\nthen went to our lodgings\\n29th Novr., 1779. this Morning after\\nbreakfast I got My horses Shodd Crost the\\nNorth River over to fishkill Went on for Dan-\\nbury Col Greene and M Griffin Greene went for\\nSpringfield So we parted about Six miles from\\nfishkill but Still Could git nothing for our\\nhorses, till riding ten or twelve miles, there\\nDind and fed our horses then went to Col\\nLuttentons Tavern among the Mountains 2i\\nMiles from fishkill there put up for the Night\\none of Col Levingstons Officers Came to this\\ntavern in the Evening on his way home on fur-\\nlough\\nNovr. 30th, 1779. Left my lodgings\\nthis morning after breakfast went on for Dan-\\nbury Arrived there by one o Clock found all\\nwell, the Gen. had Sent an Officer to Stamford\\nand along the Sea Coast to See if there was an", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL. 99\\nEnglish fleet in tlie Sound and if there was not,\\nhe had orders from his Excellency by me. to\\nmarch on the Brigade to join the grand Army\\nin the Jerseys\\nDeer. 1st, 1779. Fine Plesant weather\\nand Nothing Remarkable this forenoon in the\\nafternoon one of the Serj Viz. Serj^ Hight\\nbrought a very handsom patch Gound to my\\nQuarters which he had taken from one NE^\\nThomas a Soldiers wife in the Regiment, which\\nShe had Stolen from a woman at Updikes\\nNewtown in the State of Rhode Island. I\\ntook the Gound in order to Send it to the\\nowner, and ordered all the Drums and fifes to\\nparade and Drum her out of the Reg with a\\npaper pind to her back, with these words in\\nCappital letters, /A THIEF/ thus She went\\noff with Musick\\nDecember 2d, 1779. An Exceeding\\nStormey Day which Detained us this Day from\\nmarching\\n3rd. This Day we was Making preparation\\nfor marching the next morning when there\\nSergt. Jonathan Iloight, of Cap. Thomas Hughes Company.\\nWaity Brown, of Updike s Newtown (Wickford), as stated in\\na memorandun at end of this part of the diary. There was a Waite\\nReynolds, of North Kingstown, who married Benjamin Brown, also\\nof North Kingstown, Oct. 17, 1771, who may have been the person\\nreferred to.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "lOO THE DIARY OF\\nCome news that the bridg over Croton River\\nwas broak down which detaind us another Day\\n4th. This Day Major Thayer Set off for\\nProvidence State Rhode Island on busness And\\nwe Remaind at our present Quarters\\nDecember 5th, 1779. This morning\\nthe Brigade marched we had not marched far\\nbefore it begun to Snow and was Exceeding\\nCold and tedious I marched my Reg^ about i8\\nor 20 miles there got my Reg all into houses\\nand good Quarters for my Self, but my wag-\\ngons did not get up by Seven miles\\nDeer. 6th 6: 7th. A fine Clear morn-\\ning, but Very Cold, and the Snow about ancle\\nDeep. I got the troops Under way by a little\\nafter Sunrise, marched as far as within half a\\nmile of kings ferry there lodged in the woods\\nthat Night Next Morning Turnd out at Break\\nof Day marched to the ferry Crost hudsons\\nRiver marched on to Kakaat there got the\\ntroops into houses. I went on a head and took\\nmy Quarters at Col Sherrads this Day we took\\nup Samuel Dyer a Deserter from my Reg*,\\nand was trid by a Court martial, ordered to be\\nwhipt one hundred lashes on his Naked back\\nDecember 8th, 1779. Marched this\\nMorning by a little after Day light went to\\nSoverens tavern in Ranomapough, there halted,", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. loi\\nand drew Some flower then went to Pumpton\\nthere barracked the troops, after Marching ii\\nMiles\\nDeer. 9th. This Day we lay Still for\\nour waggons to Come up, Col Levingstons\\nReg c Col Sherburnes marched by us and\\nwent in frunt and took Quarters, Gen Stark\\nGot up with the troops to Day\\nDecember 10th, 1779. A Rainey Day\\nand we lay Still thier I went to Dine with Gen\\nStark our Baggage Come up to Day.\\nDeer. nth. A Clear and Cold morning.\\nthe brigade Lay Still this day waiting for the\\nbaggage to Come up\\nDeer. 12th. A Snowy morning, we Rec*^.\\nOrders not to March this Day on account of\\nits Storming, there Came Two Deers by my\\nQuarters, and was pursd By the Soldiers but\\nthey Could not Ketch them.\\n13th Deeember, 1779. This morning\\nit Raind but broak away and was Clear about\\nEleven oclock and the Brigade Marched for\\nMorristown my Reg^ went about i6 miles,\\ngreat part of the way over Shoe in mud and\\nSome places up to the mens knees in water we\\nmarched very fast untill Some time in the\\nEvening before we got to the place of our Dis-\\nPompton, N.J.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "102 THE DIARY OF\\ntination I put up at Col Courtlands a Gentle-\\nman from Newyork and proprietor of Court-\\nlands Mannor\\nScituate, 22d Novr., 1779. This Day Settled\\nand ballanced all Accounts between M Na-\\nthaniel Lovel and Col Israel Angell up to this\\nDay\\nWittness our hand\\nNathaniel Lovell\\nI Angell\\nExpences Greens o\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lo-o\\nDorrances -----3-6-0\\nForbes\\nWeighty Brown of Updikes Newtown North\\nKingstown gound found by Serj Hight\\nPhilip Van Courtlandt was a Colonel in the American army,\\nhaving been appointed in 1776.\\nHe served at the battle of Stillwater, and against the Indians on\\nthe frontier in 1778. In 1779-80 he was a member of the court-\\nmartial which was convened for the trial of Arnold.\\nFor gallantry and meritorious conduct at the battle of York-\\ntown, he was raised to the brevet rank of Brigadier-General.\\nHe accompanied General Lafayette on his tour through the\\nstates in 1824. He died at the Manor House, Nov. 5, 1831,\\naged eighty- two.\\n*The Van Courtlandt Manor was erected in 1773, and was an\\nelegant brick mansion. A cut of the Van Courtlandt house may be\\nseen in Lossing s Field Book of the Revolution, Vol. II., p. 623.\\nThe house is yet standing, and occupies a site in the present\\nVan Courtlandt Park in the northern edge of the city of New York.\\nIt has recently been placed by the authorities in the care of one\\nof the hereditary patriotic societies, and has been converted into a\\nmuseum and repository of relics, to which purpose it was dedicated\\nwith public festivities.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 103\\nPART FIVE.\\nTHE events which transpired between\\nAug. 10, 1780, and Sept. 30, 1780, form\\nthe subject of the fifth part of the diary. It\\nfinds the army encamped in Northern New\\nJersey, and from whence it moved to West\\nPoint, in New York. Here the regiment was\\nlocated at the time of the treason of Arnold,\\nand the diary terminates with the events follow-\\ning this monstrous affair.\\nAugust 10th, 1780. Clear and hott,\\nthis morning, the Brigade was Inspected by\\nBaron Stuben my Reg*, was the first for In-\\nFrederick William Von Steuben, Major-General in the Revolu-\\ntionary Army, was one of the best educated and most experienced\\nsoldiers of Germany. He held the rank of Lieutenant in the Seven\\nYears War, and had also held a position on the staff of Frederick the\\nGreat.\\nHe arrived in America on the first day of December, 1777, and\\nimmediately addressed letters to Washington and to Congress offer-\\ning his services in the American cause.\\nHis superior military training and knowledge of tactics was of\\nthe greatest value to the American army, and through his efforts the\\ntroops were brought to a high grade of discipline.\\nIn August, 1779, Baron Steuben, then Inspector-General of the", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "I04 THE DIARY OF\\nspection, and the Baron was Exceedingly pleasd\\nwith the mens array being in the best Order.\\nNothing Remarkable.\\n1 Ith. The Division Court Martial where-\\nof I was President was ordered to Assemble in\\norder to finish the trial of U Boss of the 4\\nPennsylvania Reg\\\\ but Some of the Members\\ndid not attend by which Reason no business\\nwas Done, there has ben a firing from one of\\nthe Enemys Gunboats in North River at our\\nGuards but no harm done. Two Battallions\\nparaded for Manoevering one of which I Com-\\nmanded\\n12th. Clowdy dark Morning, and abun-\\ndance of Thunder, but little rain. Nothing\\nremarkable this day. I was much unwell.\\nUnited States Ajrmy, arrived in Providence on an official tour to in-\\nspect the corps of General Gates.\\nHe compiled for the use of the army a work on miUtary tactics,\\nwhich was in use by the army of the United States for many years.\\nCopies of it are now rare, the edition being limited to three thousand\\ncopies.\\nThe story of his life and service in the cause of the Colonies is\\ntold in The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben, Major-General\\nin the Revolutionary Army, by Friedrich Kapp, New York, 1859.\\nHis services as briefly stated by Saffel in his Records of the\\nRevolutionary War are as follows Joins the army at Valley\\nForge; made Inspector-General; commands at Monmouth, June 28,\\n1778; made Major-General commands at Virginia and Yorktownin\\n1781: receives 16,000 acres of land in Oneida County, N.Y. Con-\\ngress, per act June 4, 1790, grants him an annuity of ^2,500 for life,\\nto commence Jan. i, 1790. Died at Steubenville, N.V., Nov. 28,\\n^795-", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. 1 05\\nAugust 13th, 1780. Extreem hott, T\\nwas Exceeding Sick in the afternoon took a\\npuke, and by not attending to the Doctors\\nDirections in taking it all at a time, when I\\nwas to have taken only a part, it had like to\\nCarried me out of the Land of the living a\\nlarge fatague party went to dobbs Ferry to\\nfortifying, a Number of Cannon was fir d at\\nour people from a brigg and a Galley in North\\nRiver\\n14th. As hot as ever. I am much weller\\nthan yesterday, though but in a poor State of\\nhealth. Nothing Remarkable this day\\n15th. This was thought to be the Hottest\\nDay Ever known, no Circumstances Relative\\nto the Army worth Mentioning\\n16th. the Extreem heat Continues. I\\nwas officer of the Day, Nothing Remarkable\\n17th August, 1780. Heat Continues.\\nDind at Head Quarters this morning 4, Clock\\nthe Brigg and Galley belonging to the Enemy\\nup North River went down past dobbs ferry\\nSix Cannon and Hoitzers was fired at them but\\nwhat Dammage they received is not known,\\n18th. This Day I went down to See the\\nLight infantry, and went as low as E.nglish\\nNeighbour Hood about 12 miles from Camp.\\nReturnd by Sunsett, the officers presented me", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "I06 THE DIARY OF\\nwith a request this morning that I might have\\na Court of Inquirey into my Conduct at\\nSpringfield, as a report was Spread very preju-\\nditious to my Character\\n19th. Much Cooler this day then it had\\nben I was Scarce able to Sett up one hour,\\nbeing So much unwell\\n20th August, 1780. This morning\\nSeemd like October and Continued Cool the\\nday, Each wing of the army was ordered to\\nparade togeather. as they had had two Seperate\\nparades before, news from Congress this day\\nthat was disagreable they having reduced the\\nOfficers wages 50 percent, and to pay them in\\na new omition of paper Money.\\nAugust 21st. The report of the Officers\\nwages being Reduced, provd a mistake. Dind\\nat Gen Greenes. Nothing Remarkable\\n22d. Cool Morning Two Battalions Man-\\noeverd this morning one of which I Com-\\nmanded the Barron was present himself Rec.\\norders this Afternoon to march to tomorrow\\nmorning Seven Clock, went to prepairing\\nAccordingly.\\n23d. the Revelle beat as usual the Gen\\nat 5 Clock when the tents were Struck, the\\nAssembly at Six when they troops all paraded,\\nthe March at Seven when they all Moved", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 107\\nforward Marching by the right, towards English\\nNeighbour hood, after Marching about 3 Miles\\nthe Right Wing took a road leading to\\nSlaughtinburgh, the Left a road to tennec and\\nEnglish Neighbourhood where the road that\\nthe right wing marched in fell in with the\\nroad that the left took, these roads met on a\\nLarge Plain at a place Calld Liberty poll in\\nthe vicinity of English Neighbourhood, here\\nthe Arm y Encamped, this was an exceeding\\nhott Day\\n24th. Clear and hott. All the waggon\\nof the Army was Collected this day and in the\\nEvening went down to bergin^^ to bring off all\\nthe forrage The light Infantry all went down\\nin frunt, and Gen Clintons Brigade marched\\nto fort Lee at burdetts ferry part of the Right\\nProbably Schraalenburgh, N.J.\\nThe original Liberty Pole, set up in 1765 and from which tlie\\nplace took its name, was located near the spot where the present\\nLiberty Pole, set up by the Daughters of the Revolution, is placed,\\nat the intersection of Palisade avenue with the road leading from\\nFort Lee, at Englevvood, NJ.\\nHere in the days of the Revolution was the Liberty Pole Tavern,\\na famous place of resort for the patriots of the neighborhood. For\\nmany years, down to the middle of the present century, this tavern\\nwas the voting-place for the whole township of Hackensack. The\\nhouse was destroyed some twenty years ago. A carefully made\\nsketch of it, showing the original Liberty Pole, is in the possession\\nof Miss Elizabeth Sedgewick Vaill, of Demarest, N.J.\\nBergen, N.J.\\nThis fortification was situated upon a sort of plateau, about", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "lOS THE DIARY OF\\nwing marched all so, I went off with a number\\nof Gentlemen to fort Lee where 1 had a view\\nof the Enemy\\nAugust 25, 1780. Exceeding hott, there\\nwas a Considerable firing this day towards New\\nYork but nothing remarkable Come to hand\\n26th. Extreme Hott. the Regiment was\\nMustered this Morning for the months of\\nJune and July, the waggons that went a forrag-\\ning begun to return this morning, an*d in the\\nafternoon I and L Jencks of my Regiment\\nwent down to the Infantry Camp, to See Major\\nThayer and the officers as I had Rec a letter\\nfrom the State Inclosing an Act of the General\\nAssembly, offering the Officers and Soldiers of\\nthe Continental Battalions Land for their De-\\npreciation but the troops had not Returnd.\\nSo we rode to meet them which we did in ber-\\ngin about Seven miles from their Camp, they\\nhad just hanged a man for plundering the in-\\nhabitants, he was a Pensylvanian one of Col\\nthree hundred feet above the river, at the present landing and\\nvillage of Fcrt Lee, N.J.\\nA little above was a redoubt opposite Jefferys Hook to cover\\nthe chcvatix-de-frise in the river. f.ossing^s Field Book of the\\nRevolution.\\nProbably the soldier referred to by Thatcher under the same\\ndate as being executed for robbery. He was one of five who broke\\ninto a house with their arms and rolilied tlie inhabitants of a .sum\\nof money and valuable articles. He conducted, says Thatcher,\\nwith fortitude at the gallows.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 1 09\\nHumptons Reg he was hanged by orders of\\nthe Commanding Officer without a trial, I\\nReturnd back to my Quarters about Ten\\nClock in the Evening.\\nAugust 27th, 1780. Violent hott and\\nDry after breakfast went in Company with a\\nnumber of the Gentlemen Officers across the\\nwoods to north River to a place Called Spiten\\nDevils Creek against king bridg. from thence\\nDown the river to burdeets ferry at fort Lee.\\nwe had a grand prospect of all the Enemys In-\\ncampments on York Island returnd to Camp\\nbefore Eleven Clock, there found Maj Thayer\\nand Some of the officers of the Infantry.\\n28th August, 1780. Clear and hott I\\nSet off into the Country this morning on busi-\\nness went to hackensack/ Acquackanack^ and\\nSpringfield about i,c^ miles I Suffered greatly\\nwith the heat this day it being the driest time\\nin this Country I ever See, lodged at M\\nLanarcnus.\\n29th. Set of this morning for Newark,\\nfrom thence to Hackensack, in Newark fell\\nin Company with Cap\\\\ Higgens who was a\\nHackensack, N.J. Aquakinunk, N.J.\\nHeitman mentions a Higgins, Robert (Va.), ist Lieutenant\\n8th Virginia, 12th March, 1776; Captain, 1st March, 1777; was a\\nprisoner in September, 1778; transferred to 2d Virginia, 12th\\nFebruary, 1781, and served to who may have l)een\\nthe ofFicer referred to.", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "no THE DIARY OF\\nprisoner out on Parole, he was agoing to head\\nQuarters and rode in Company with me to\\nhackensack. where I was taken So 111 that I\\nCould go no further where we halted and Staid\\nat a Dutchmans\\n30th August, 1780. Left our lodgings\\nEarly this Morning went to Camp and Break-\\nfasted, found all well.\\n31st. Cooler then it had ben, and look\\nlike for rain, there was a heavy firing of Can-\\nnon towards the hook, which Continued all the\\nday, and at Night there was a heavey thunder\\nShower with Extreem hard thunder and Sharp\\nlightening, which was the first Shower that had\\nben in a longe time here and the Earth was\\nthe most perched that I Ever Saw it in any part\\nof the world that I was in, I Saw tobaco here\\nthat was killd with the Drouth\\nSeptember 1st, 1780. Cool and\\npleasant this Morning. I was exceeding much\\nnot well. The firing of Cannon Still Con-\\ntinued at the hook the Same as yesterday but\\nNothing Remarkable this day,\\nSeptr 2nd, 1780. Clowdy and Cold\\nwith the wind in the Northeast and had raind\\na Considerable in the Night, Continued raining\\nthe Day, in the afternoon Rec Orders for the\\nArmy to march tomorrow morning 5 Clock,", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSL^AEL ANGELL.\\nthis order was Countermanded and the Army\\nwas to march at Eight oClock Instead of 5,\\nSeptember 3rd, 1780. An Exceeding\\nRainey Morning, which Prevented the Army\\nfrom marching Agreable to the Orders of yes-\\nterday. L Col Olney was the Officer of the\\nday yesterday, and got lost in going the rounds\\nLast night, lay in the woods till day Light.\\nCleard off this Afternoon plesant. Orders Came\\nagain for us to march tomorrow morning\\nSeptember 4th. Clear and Cooler then\\nit had ben for Some time past, the Army got\\nunder way by ten Clock, but met with Some\\nObstructions by Bridges breaking, which de-\\ntaind the rear till Eleven when the whole moved\\noff the ground, we marched by the right, Crost\\nwhat is called New bridg. over hackensack\\nRiver, turnd to the right up the River towards\\nToppan and Encamped on a high Ridge of\\nland in a place Calld Stenrappie\\nSeptember 5th, 1780. A Gold morn-\\ning. I Still Remaind unwell Nothing Re-\\nmarkable happend this Day till Evening when\\nthere Came News that all our Army to the\\nAt the time of the Revolution this was called the New\\nBridge. The locality is now New Bridge, NJ.\\nSteenraupie, a local name signifying Stony Arabia, reaching\\nalong the ridge near Oradell and towards Kinderkamack, N.J.\\n(j?. K. Bind, in New York Evening Posty)", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "112 THE DIARY OF\\nSouthward was killd taken and Disperst, Gen\\nGates who Commanded had by Some means\\nmade his Escape,\\nAnd rode i 80 Miles in three Days before he\\nStopt, and then Could not tell what had become\\nof his Army, but had Sent back a flagg to En-\\nquire after them Thus Eands the Day with\\nBad news\\nSeptember 6th, 1780. Cool weather\\nfor the Season, Nothing Remarkable this Day,\\nmy Illness was more Sevear then Yesterday.\\n7th. Co l. I was freer from pain this\\nmorning then I had ben for Several days past.\\nNothing Remarkable happend this Day, Ex-\\ncept Gen Sullivan arrived in Camp on his way\\nto Congress being a member of that body\\n8th. Clear and Plesant. I was Officer of\\nthe day but Could not attend to the Duty being\\nSo much Unwell,\\nSeptember 9th, 1780. Clear and Very\\nCool. Rec News this morning of the Death\\nof the Honourable Brigadier General Poor. who\\nThis refers to the disastrous battle of Camden, N.C., and the\\nignominious flight of Gates, \\\\vho, says Fiske, caught in the\\nthrong of fugitives at the beginning of the action, was borne in\\nheadlong flight as far as Clermont, where, taking a fresh horse, he\\nmade the distance of nearly two hundred miles to Hillsborough in\\nless than four days.\\nHiig.-Gen. Enoch Poor was a native of New Hampshire.\\nHe was a Colonel in the Continental army in the expedition against", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL ANGELL. II3\\ndeparted this life Last Evening after a Short\\nIllness of the putred feavour, the News from\\nthe Southward. Came more favourable this\\nday then it had ben it is Said there is a letter\\nfrom the Governor of Virginia that the Marry-\\nland Troops With one regiment from North\\nCanada in 1776, where he served with distinction. He was after-\\nwards at Crown Point and was one of the twenty-one inferior offi-\\ncers who signed a remonstrance against the decision of a council\\nof officers there, consisting of Generals Gates, Schuyler, Sullivan,\\nArnold, and Woedtke, when it was resolved that the post was unten-\\nable and that the army retire to Mount Independence.\\nHe was appointed Brigadier in 1777 and served in that capacity\\nin the battles in which Burgoyne was defeated and captured. He\\nsoon afterwards joined the army under Washington in Pennsyl-\\nvania. He was in the camp at Valley Forge, and with his brigade\\nwas among the first troops that commenced a pursuit of the British\\nacross New Jersey in the summer of 1778.\\nHe fought gallantly in the battle of Monmouth which succeeded.\\nHe commanded a brigade of light infantry in 1780, in which service\\nhe died, near Hackensack, in New Jersey.\\nHis funeral was attended by Washington and Lafayette and a\\nlong line of subordinate officers and soldiers. On account of the\\nvicinity of the enemy the usual discharges of cannon were omitted.\\nKev. Israel Evans, Chaplain to the New Hampshire brigade, de-\\nlivered a funeral discourse.\\nGeneral Poor was buried in the churchyard at Hackensack,\\nwhere a humble stone, with the following inscription, marks his\\ngrave In memory of the Hon. Brigadier-General E .noch Poor, of\\nthe State of New Hampshire, who departed this life on the S^ i day\\nof September, 1780, aged 44 years.\\nGeneral Poor was greatly esteemed by Lafayette, who, it is said,\\nwas much affected on visiting his grave when in this country in\\n1825. Notes in Lossing s Field Book of the Revolution, Vol. IL,\\npp. 122-123.\\nOf the gallantry displayed by the Second Maryland Brigade,\\nunder command of General Gist, at the battle of Camden, Fiske in", "height": "3355", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "I 14 THE DIARY OF\\nCarolina Stood their ground fought with Chargd\\nBayonetts 15 minuts, that they Cutt the brittish\\nhors nearly all ofF. the los on our Side was be-\\ntween 3 and 400 Men.\\nlOth Septr. 1780. Raind a little this\\nMorning, but Soon Cleard oif, and was hot I\\nwent down to the Infantry, from thence to\\nGen Greenes to talk with him upon the un-\\nhappy affair of mine, he advised me Call a\\nCourt of Enquirey imeadetly. Returned to\\nCamp, in the afternoon the Remains of Gen\\nPoore was Intered at hackensack Church yard,\\nadmidst a Numerous Concours of People\\nhis American Revolution says The Second Maryland Brigade,\\nafter twice repelling the assault of Lord Rawdon, broke\\nthrough his left with a splendid bayonet charge and remained victo-\\nrious upon that part of the field until the rest of the fight was\\nended; when being attacked in flank by Webster (the right division\\nconsisting of a small corps of light infantry and the 23d and 33d\\nRegiment), these stalwart troops retreated westerly by a narrow road\\nbetween swamp and hillside and made their escape in good order.\\nThatcher in his Military Journal describes more minutely this\\nmilitary funeral and procession A regiment of light infantry in uni-\\nform, with arms reversed; four field pieces; Major Lee s Regiment\\nof light horse; General Hand and his brigade, the major on horse-\\nback; two chaplains the horse of the deceased, with his boots and\\nspurs suspended from the saddle, led by a servant; the corpse,\\nborne by four sergeants and the pall supported by six general\\nofficers. The coffin was of mahogany, and a pair of pistols and two\\nswords, crossing each other and tied with black crape, were placed\\non top. The corpse was followed by the officers of the New Hamp-\\nshire Brigade, the officers of the brigade of light infantry, which the\\ndeceased had lately commanded. Other officers fell in promis-", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AXGE/^L. II5\\nSeptr. nth, 1780. This day 1 applyd\\nto the Commander In Chief for a Court of\\nEnquiry which he was pleasd to order\\nNothing Remarkable this Day\\nSeptr. 12th. A Soldier in CoP Stewarts\\ncuously, and were followed by His Excellency General Washington\\nand other general officers. Having arrived at the burying yard, the\\ntroops opened to the right and left, resting on their arms reversed,\\nand the procession passed to the grave, where a short eulogy was\\ndelivered liy the Rev. Mr. Evans. A band of music with a number\\nof drums and fifes played a funeral dirge, the drums were muffled\\nwith black crape, and the officers in the procession wore crape\\nround the left arm. The regiment of light infantry were in hand-\\nsome uniform and wore in their caps long feathers of black and\\nred. The elegant regiment of horse commanded by General Lee,\\nbeing in complete uniform and well disciplined, exhibited a martial\\nand noble appearance. No scene can exceed in grandeur and\\nsolemnity a military funeral. The weapons of war reversed and\\nembellished with the badge of mourning, the slow and regular step\\nof the procession, the mournful sounds of the muffled drum and\\ndeep-toned instruments, playing the melancholy dirge, the majestic\\nand solemn march of the war horse, all combine to impress the\\nmind with emotions which no language can describe and which\\nnothing but the reality can paint to the liveliest imagination.\\nGeneral Poor was from the State of New Hampshire. He was a\\ntrue patriot, who took an early part in the cause of his country,\\nand during his military career was respected for his talents and his\\nbravery, and beloved for the amiable qualities of his heart. But it\\nis sufficient eulogy to say that he enjoyed the confidence and\\nesteem of Washington.\\nHeadquarters Steenrapie Sept. \\\\2^^. 1780.\\nDavid Hall, a soldier in Col. Steward s Battalion of Light\\nInfantry, convicted, at a Genl Court Martial, whereof Col. Court-\\nland is President, of plun i\u00e2\u0082\u00acring an inhabitant of money and\\nplate, and being condemned to death, is to be executed at half past\\n4 o clock this afternoon\\nFifty men properly officered frome very Brigade in the Army,", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "Il6 THE DIARY OF\\nBattalion was hanged this day on the Grand\\nParade for Plundering the Inhabitants agreable\\nto the Sentence of a Gen Court Martial the\\nOrder for my Court of pjiquirey was in\\nOrders, a Number of Savages of the Onido\\nNation Came to head Quarters this Day.\\nthere was the hardest thunder this Evening I\\never knew)\\nSeptr. 13th, 1780. The whole Army\\nwas Ordered yesterday in After orders, to\\nparade on their Brigade Parades at open Order\\nto make as Great a Show as possible, to be re-\\nviewed by the Commander in Chief, and the\\nIndian Chiefs of the Onido Nation, the Brigad\\nof Gen Starks was Reviewed about 9 in the\\nMorning with a Ratinue of all the Gen Offi-\\ncers of the Army and Great part of the field\\nOfficers and all the Savages of note, after which\\nto attend in the rear of Genl. Patterson s Brigade: It has been\\nmuch the Gen ls desire to prevent enormities of this kind which\\nare as repugnant to the principles of the cause in which we are\\nengaged as oppressive to the inhabitants and subversive of that order\\nand discipline which must characterize every well regulated Army.\\nThe Gen l again exhorts officers and soldiers of every rank to\\npay the closest attention to the conduct of their men and to use\\nevery precaution to prevent the soldiers from rambling and com-\\nmitting such outrages, the subject of daily complaint and represen-\\ntation to him. It is highly incumbent on them to do this, to pre-\\nvent the consequences which will follow as he is determined to\\nshow no favor to soldiers who are convicted of these pernicious\\nand disgraceful offences. Rev. Order of Gen. Washington, p. 102.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 117\\nwe attended at the Court, but one member not\\nComming no business Could be Done. It was\\na very Rany afternoon but Nothing Remark-\\nable happened\\nSeptember 1 4th, 1 780. Clear and Cool\\nthis Morning the Court of Enquiry Met and\\nproceeded to Enquire into my Conduct on the\\n12^^ of June and Examined all Evidences\\nagainst me and adjurned til the next day 9\\nClock Nothing Remarkable.\\n.Septr. 15th, 1780. Clear and Cold. I\\nattended the Court this morning, but Major\\nReid one of the members was through mis-\\ntake Sent on Command and no business Could\\nbe done. I applyd to the Adjutant Gen to\\ngit him Releaved. which he promist me Should\\nbe done the next day we got news this day\\nthat the french fleet was on the Coast. Noth-\\ning more remarkable\\nSeptember 16th, 1780. A fine Plesant\\nday the Court not meeting I went down to the\\nInfantry, we had news that Admiral Rodney\\nwas Come to the hook, and that the french\\nfleet was in his rear it was reported that there\\nis 13 Sail of the Line English and 25 french\\nthis I think is news enough for this day\\n17th Septr. Plesant weather, the Court of\\nEnquiry out this day and finished the Business,", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "Il8 THE DIARY OF\\nHis Excellency Set off it is Said for hartford\\nthis Morning maney repoarts Concerning the\\nFrench fleet but Nothing to be depended upon\\nwrote to the Governor\\n18th Septr. Fine weather, and Nothing\\nRemarkable this day, till the Orders of the\\nday Come out, when the proceedings of the\\nCourt of Enquiry Come to light in the fol-\\nlowing words. At a Court of Enquiry Calld\\nby desire of Col Angel to Enquire into a Re-\\nport Relative to his being absent from his\\nRegiment in the Action at Springfield the 23\\nof June last. Col Nixon President The Court\\nhaving heard and duly Considered the Evi-\\ndences, are unanimously of Opinion that Col\\nAngell was in the Action at Springfield on the\\n23 of June last with his Regiment, and in the\\nExecution of his duty, and Behaved like a\\nBrave and Good officer Thus Ends the day\\nUnder date of the 20th Thatcher notes, His Excellency Gen-\\neral Washington, with the Marquis de la Fayette and General Knox,\\nwith a splendid retinue, left the camp on the 17th instant, bound to\\nHartford in Connecticut, to have an interview with commanding\\nofficers of the French fleet and army which have lately arrived at\\nRhode Island. The army, during the absence of General Wash-\\nington, was under command of Gen. Nathanael Greene, of Rhode\\nIsland.\\nUnder the date June 29, 1780, from his headquarters at Rama-\\npaugh, General Washington wrote to Governor Greene of Rhode\\nIsland, The gallant behavior of Coll. Angells regiment on the\\n23 i inst, at Springfield, reflects the highest honor upon the officers", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. II9\\nSeptember 19th, 1780. A Raney wett\\nmorning, by an After order which Came to\\nhand last Evening the army was to hold them-\\nselves in Readiness to march at a moments\\nwarning, it Clard off before noon or left raining\\nSteadily, but was Showery till near night. I\\nwas Appointed a member to Settle a dispute\\nbetween Baron Stuben, and Col hazen, the\\nand men. They disputed an important pass with so obstinate a\\nbravery, that they lost upwards of forty in killed, wounded and\\nmissing, before they gave up their ground to a vast superiority of\\nforce. R.L. Col. Records, Vol. LX.,p, i^i.\\nAn account of the battle of Springfield, written by Wm. Maxwell\\nto His Excellency Governor Livingston from Jersey Camp near\\nSpringfield 14^^ yutte, 1780, may be found in Historical Maga-\\nzine, 1859, Vol. HI., p. 211.\\nThis dispute probably grew out of the affair for which Colonel\\nHazen was tried by court martial Sept. 17, 1 780,\\nIt appears from the Revolutionary Orders of General Washing-\\nton No. 73, Colonel Hazen was tried for Disobedience of orders\\nand unmilitary conduct on the march from Tappan to the Liberty\\nPole, in halting the brigade under his command without any orders\\nfrom the general commanding the division; this produced a\\nvacancy in the left column of near half a mile; he was also\\naccused of falsely asserting he had received orders from General\\nStark ordering him to do so.\\nColonel Hazen was acquitted of the charges, and the finding of\\nthe court martial was approved by General Washington, and Colonel\\nHazen was released from arrest. No special mention is found\\nof a controversy between the colonel and Steuben in the Orders of\\nthe Commander-in-chief. See Rev. Order of Gen. IVashingion,\\np. 103.\\nMoses Hazen was appointed Colonel of the Second Canadian\\nRegiment in 1775. He commanded at Montreal for a short time.\\nAfterwards he was appointed Colonel of a regiment called Con-", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "120 THE DIARY OF\\ndisput was Left to the 7 oldest Officers Com-\\nmanding the 7 lines from the 7 States here in\\nService Newhampsheer, Col Cilley, Massachu-\\nsetts Genl. Glover, Rhodeisland Col Angell.\\nConnecticutt Gen Persons New York Genl\\nClinton, New Jersy Col Dayton, Pennsylvania\\nGen St Clair, a troublesom world this, as Soon\\nas one gits out of trouble them Selves, are\\nCalld upon to Settle Disturbances with others\\nall the Gentlemen met but did no business,\\nand Adjurnd till the 2 1 as the whole Army\\nwas ordered to march to-morrow morning, to\\nbe under way by ten Clock at furthest,\\nSeptember 20th, 1780. A Clowdy\\nmorning, the General was beat this morning at\\nSeven oClock, the baggage fild off at Eight, the\\nAssembly beat at 9 the troops marched a little\\npast ten went to Tappan and Encamped upon\\nthe Same Ground we went from the 23 of\\nAugust past, it Raind Some this Day, and\\nRemaind Clowdy the whole Day.\\ngress s Own. He was in the battles of Germantown and Brandy-\\nwine.\\nHaving charge of prisoners in Pennsylvania, he was ordered to\\ndesignate, by lot, a British officer for retaliation in the case of Huddy\\n(which may be found treated at length in Lossing s Field Book,\\n2-160).\\nHe died at Troy, New York, Jan. 30, 1802, aged sixty-nine\\nyears. Lossing s Field Book of the Revolution, Vol. II., p. iJ4-\\nHeitman gives the date of his death as Feb. 3, 1803.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 121\\nSeptr. 21st. a Rany morning but Soon\\nbroak away the Gentlemen met again this day\\nto Settle the dispute between Barron Stuben and\\nCol Hazen, but did not finish the business,\\nwent to dobbs ferry in the afternoon on our\\nway back a merry Scean happened Gen Stark\\ngoining to water his hors at a place Call d the\\nStole, mired him, and got him into the mud and\\nmire, the Gen Got out without aney damage\\nExcept bedaubing himself with mud, the adj.\\nGen allso mired his hors. but he got out with-\\nout difficulty. Gen Stark was drawd out by\\nthe Soldiers\\nSeptr. 22nd, 1780. Foggy, but Soon\\nbroak away hot. the Gentlemen met this day\\nat Gen S Clears and Setteled the dispute be-\\ntween Major Gen Barron Stuben and Col\\nHazen, to the Satisfaction of both parties there\\nwas a heavey Cannonade this morning Supposd\\nat kings ferry but Soon heard it was at tallows\\npoint a little below, a british fregit lying there\\nGen Arnold ordered two heavey peaces down\\nwith one or twohoitzers in the night and opend\\nhis Batterey on her this morning when She was\\nobligd to tow of, after having near loo Shot at\\nher.\\nSeptr. 23d, 1780. A foggy morning but\\nSoon Cleard off hott. Nothing Remarkable", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "122 THE DIARY OF\\nthe French Minister Came into Camp yester-\\nday morning and Sett off this morning for\\nRhode Island\\nSeptember 24th, a Clowdy, but\\nSoon Cleard away hot and Remaind Exceeding\\nhot for the Season of the year till the afternoon\\nwhen it began to thunder and was a Considerable\\nof thunder and lightening, and rain The Enemy\\nlanded from their Ship and Sloop in North\\nRiver this morning, a little below haverstraw\\nand bunt Maj Smiths hous and all the Grain\\nand hav he had he had his barn hay and Grain\\nburnt last year by the brittish privats I Capt\\nTew and Hews Rode up along Side of North\\nRiver 6 or 7 Miles, then turnd over the Moun-\\ntain in a Valle or low place Came into the\\nRoad leading from Charles Town to Toppan,\\nArrived in Camp before Sunset just as it began\\nto rain hard.\\nAnne Caesar de la Luzerne was born in Paris in 1 741. He\\nfirst entered the army and was engaged in the Seven Years War,\\nduring which he obtained the ranlc of Colonel. He afterwards\\nturned his attention to diplomacy and became distinguished as an\\nambassador to various courts of Europe. His official relations with\\nthe United States Government were of four years duration, and by\\nhis friendly services he gained the strong approbation of Congress\\nand the warm regard of Washington. In 1781 Harvard University\\nconferred upon him the degree of LL.D. In 1783 he returned to\\nFrance and was sent ambassador to London, where he died Sept.\\n14, 1 791. He cam* to this country in the same ship with John\\nAdams, then the American Minister. Stone.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAFJ. ANGELL. 123\\nSeptember 25th, 1780. Rec Orders\\nyesterday, or last Evening for all the whole\\nArmy to be under Arms this day at ten Clock\\nA.M. and formd in line of battle on a Ridg of\\nhigh land west of orrang Town, then Changed\\ntheir frunt to the right, this Manoever was per-\\nformd by Signals, the first Cannon was a Signal\\nfor the troops to assemble on their Brigade\\nparades, the 2 Gun for them to march off, and\\nform the line, 3 Gun for them to Change their\\nfrunt to the right 4 gun for the Brigades to\\nmarch off to their Camps, all this was per-\\nformd with great precision, the troops was dis-\\nmist by three Clock we had a Cool day for\\nour Manoevering there being So much thunder\\nyesterday and Last Evening\\nSeptember 26th, 1780. The most Ex-\\ntraordinary affair happened yesterday that P er\\nhas taken place Since the war, General Benedict\\nArnold who Commanded at west point went to\\nthe enemy, His Excellency the Commander\\nin Chief ha ving ben to Hartford to meet the\\nArnold s treason is too well understood to need any account of\\nit here. It certainly is invested with a peculiar vividness and new\\ninterest by reading these lines written by a man of such high patriotic\\nimpulses as the writer who was at hand when this most horrible\\nepisode of the Revolution took place. For an account of a Pro-\\ncession in Honour of Arnold? through the streets of the city of\\nPhiladelphia, Sept. 30, 1780, see The Historical Magazine, 1861,\\nVol. v., p. 276.", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "124 Tli^ DIARY OF\\nFrench Gen and Admiral, was on his way to\\njoin the army and yesterday the Adj^ General\\nof the Brittish Army was taken at Tarry Town\\nas a Spye by three Militia men the news Soon\\nreached west point, and on the Appearence of\\nHis Excellencey Comming to the post. Gen\\nArnold went down to the River Side with Six\\nmen with him got into a boat went down the\\nriver to the English Friggat that Lay there\\nand went on board of her, and She Imeadetly\\nSet Sail for New York, and by the best informa-\\ntion he had ben Carrying on a treacherous\\nCorrispondence with the Enemy, and had agreed\\nto Sell them that post with all the men, but\\nHeavens directed it otherways. on Receiving\\nthis intelligence, the whole Army was ordered\\nto be readv to march as Soon as possible, we\\nMaj. John Andre, Adjutant-General of the British army. An\\ninteresting account of Major Andre by Colonel Tallmadge is in\\nHistorical Magazine, 1859, Vol. III., p. 229.\\n2 John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac Van Wert. Congress\\nsubsequently directed that each of these receive annually two hundred\\ndollars in specie, or its equivalent, during their life; a silver medal\\nwas also av/arded each, one side of which shall be a shield with this\\ninscription Fidelity, and on the other the following motto Vincit\\namor PatriccP These Washington was directed to present to them\\nwith a copy of the resolution of Congress. A letter reflecting on the\\npatriotism and integrity of the captors of Andre, written by (Jen.\\nJoshua King, a Lieutenant in Colonel Sheldon s Regiment of Light\\nDragoons, and who first had charge of Andre, is printed in The\\nHistorical Magazine, 1857, Vol. L, p. 293; see also pp. 313-375.\\nBritish sloop-of-war Vulture.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 125\\nall turnd out went to Cooking and packing up\\ntheir Baggage the Pennsylvania line marched of\\nand left their Baggage to follow it being Expected\\nthat the Enemy would attempt to take west\\npoint this night the News Come to us alittle\\nafter midnight, had not this horrid Treason ben\\ndiscovered America would have Rec a deadly\\nwound if not a fatal Stabb.\\nSeptr. 27th, 1780. Clowdy and Cold\\nwith a high wind from the Northeast, begun to\\nStorm about the middle of the day, and was a\\nCold rany Afternoon, we had News Come this\\nday that on Joseph Smith was taken up as a\\nSpye from the Enemy and brought to west\\npoint where the Commander in Chief was, he\\nCame out of New York with M Andrew the\\nBrittish adjutant General and it was thought\\nthat they would both Grace a halter togeather.\\nSeptr. 28th, 1780. It Cleard away this\\nMorning and was cold, after dinner I with\\na Number of the Officers of the Army road\\nout to Meet His Excellencey on his return to the\\nArmy, but after riding Six or Seven miles heard\\nThis was Joshua Smith, a confederate of Andre s. He was tried\\nby court martial, but there being no positive proof against him, he\\nescaped death, but was ordered into confinement, but after several\\nmonths, either from lacl of vigilance on the part of his keepers or\\nfrom indifference, he was allowed to escape to New York.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThatcher.", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "126 THE DIARY OF\\nhe had taken another road, therefore turnd\\nanother way back without Seeing him, M\\nSmith and the Brittish Adj Gen was allso\\nComming on with a Guard of draggoon\\nSeptr. 29th. The two prisoners Come to\\nCamp last evening, a flagg Came this day from\\nthe Enemy Sir Hary Clinton made a demand\\nof M Andrew the Kings adj Gen Saying he\\nCame out as a flagg and ought not to be de-\\ntaind.\\nSeptr. 30th, 1780. A board of Gen\\nOfficers Sat this day on M Andrew and con-\\ndemnd him as a Spy, to Suffer death, the Com-\\nmander in Chief approvd the Sentence and\\nordered it put in Execution tomorrow five\\noClock in the afternoon, a flagg was Sent from\\nhead Quarters by the way of Elizabethtown to\\nthe Enemy, and one Came from the Enemy to\\ndobbes ferry, and brought a number of things\\nfrom the Enemy to Maj*^ Andrews his Servant\\nCame in the flagg. I was Officer of the Day.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "COLOXEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 12 J\\nPART SIXTH.\\nTHE concluding part of the diary begins\\nwith Feb. 14, i78i,and ends April 3, 1781.\\nIt details the last days of Colonel Angell s\\nservices in the army, of his journey from his\\nhome in Johnston, R.I., to West Point and re-\\nturn, and also includes a few days of retirement,\\nafter long years of faithful and conspicuous\\nservice with the Rhode Island Continental line.\\nFeby. 14th, 1781. Left my hous this\\nMorning went to Mr Dorrances in Voluntown\\n16 Miles then breakfasted went to Mr Reppley\\nin Scotland 16 Miles tTien Dined then went to\\nM^ Hill in Lebanon 10 Miles there put up\\nfor the day 42\\nFeby. 15th, 1781. Left my lodgings\\nearly this morning went to Mr white Break-\\nfasted then went to Hartford but could get no\\nDorrance s Tavern was a popular place of resort. It was not\\nunlike most of the public houses at this period, and it is related\\nthat fast young men of most respectable families drank Geneva rum\\non a wager at Dorrance s Tavern till all were drunk, and then started\\noff for a Voluntown frolic. Larned, Windham County, Vol.\\nIL,p.23S.", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "128 THE DIARY OF\\ndinner then rode about three miles on towards\\nFarmington there Din d then went to Farming-\\nton there tarried 42 miles\\nFeby. 16th, 1781. Left my Lodgings\\nthis Morning went on about Six miles then\\nBreakfasted and got one of my horses shod then\\nwent to Waterbury there Din d then went to\\nSouth Bury Doctor Grahams then put up for\\nthe Night I met a Number of the men of my\\nRegt a going home this Day.\\nFeby. 17th, 1780 Left my Lodg-\\nings this morning went on to Newtown from\\nthence to Danbury there Din d then went on\\nfor Cam.p but missing my way and being be-\\nnighted put up at a log hous tavern in the\\nmountains where for fear of being Rob d could\\nsleep but little.\\nFeby. 14th, 1781.\\nPaid at Dorrances Tavern X^~ 4~\\ndo at Rippleys in Scotland o\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3-10\\nPaid for Oats o- i o\\nPaid Mr Hills 0-6-0\\ndo at Mr White 0-4-5\\nDo for Oats o i o\\nDo for ferriage o\u00e2\u0080\u0094 i o\\nDo 3-6\\nDo for lodgings o- 8-4\\nDo for Oats and Breakfast 0-3-0", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. I 29\\nDo for Dinner and hors\\nBaiting\\n4-\\n6\\nDo Lodgings Suppers hors Keep-\\ning Doctor Grahams\\n0-\\n9-\\n4\\nDo Breakfast\\n0-\\n3-\\nDo Dinner\\n0-\\n5-\\n10\\ncarried over\\n18-\\n1 1\\nSupper and lodging\\nHors keeping c\\nBreakfast\\n0-\\n0-\\n9-\\n_\\n6\\nSum brought over\\n2-\\n18-\\n1 1\\nTotal Expenses to Camp 3 i i 5\\nTo my Expences from Camp to\\nWest Point and back from the\\n21 of Feb to the 22 \u00c2\u00a30 9, o\\nTo my Expences in paying of\\nthe men and going to west V 0-12- o\\npoint from the 24th to the 27 J\\nMarch 10-1781 To my Ex-^\\npences from West Point to o- 7- o\\nNew Winsor J\\nTo my Expenses while at West\\nPoint paid M Mandaill j\\nTo Cash paid Rufus for the\\nExpences of get ing the horses V o-io- o\\nto Camp J\\n6- 6- 4\\nRufus Chapman.\\nI- 7-", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "o 9 o\\n130 THE DIARY OF\\n16 March To Cash paid Rufus X^~ 9-0\\n18 To Cash for my Expences ._\\nwhile at West Point j\\n19 To Cash paid the widow\\nBrewer 2 1 1 9\\n20 To Cash paid o 8-0\\n1 1 To Cash paid for myself and\\nhors keeping j\\nDo To Cash for Oats o 1-6\\nDo To Cash for Dinner and\\nbaitings for Horses o 5 i\\nTo Cash paid Coles Tavern^\\nfor his hors keeping and V o\u00e2\u0080\u0094 10- 6\\nlodging J\\nfor hors hire o 4 6\\nfor hors keeping o 6 o\\nFor hors keeping and lodg-\\ning\\nFor hors keeping and break-\\nfast\\nTo Dinner and baiting\\nTo hors hire in getting the\\nWaggon along\\n6- 18- 10\\n24 March 1781.\\nPaid for hors Keeping and\\nlodging L^~ 16 6\\no- I I o\\n0-\\n8-\\n3-[;\\n5-[]", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL AN CELL. 131\\nTo Cash for baiting o i 6\\nTo Cash for do 1-2\\n25 To Cash for Entertainmt 11 6\\nTo Cash for Dinner an\\nbaiting 8 6\\nBrought over from the other\\nPages 13- 5- 3\\nTo Cash for hors hire o 4 6\\nTo Cash paid Peleg Peck for\\nhors hire o 3 o\\nTo Cash paid Elesha Barns\\nfor hors hire o 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nTo Cash paid Crage for\\nhors keeping o 9\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\nTo Mony paid Rufus for\\nExpences 1-4-0\\n17- 7- 5\\nMy Baggage was twelve days in Comming\\nfrom West Point\\nFeby. 18th, 1781. Left my lodging this\\nmorning went to Camp found all well the men\\nwas so Rejoist at seeing me that they gave three\\nChears I immeditly went to paying off the\\ntroops\\n19th. Continued Close to my hutt paying\\nthe men Col Greene Sent me a billet desiring\\nme to Come to his Quarters this Evening but", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "132 THE D/.IA Y OF\\nI could not attend on account of paying the\\nmen ofF.\\n20th. This day I finished paying all Ex-\\ncept the light Infantry which marched off the\\nday I come into Camp the Regt. had orders to\\nmarch tomorrow for west point.\\n21st. The troops marched this Morning\\nagreeable to the Orders of yesterday 1 set off\\nwith them went to Colo Greene Quarters there\\nDin d then went to west Point Crost the River\\nbut could not get my hors over Returned after\\nDark Recrost a Miry Marsh to a hous where\\nwe got lodgings but nothing for ourselves or\\nhorses to Eat.\\n22d. This morning it Storming 1 and Col.\\nGreene sett off to go the Point or Fort but\\nmet the Greatest part of the troops a Re-\\nturning Againe having lain on Constitution\\nIsland all the night in the Storm as they Got\\nbut one boat load over after I and Col Greene\\nCrosst before the boats was carried away by the\\nIce with five men in it the Men nor boat Could\\nnot be heard of this day. by Eleven o clock\\nConstitution Island lies opposite West Point; a substantial work\\ncalled Fort Constitution was located on the island. One end of the\\nimmense chain which was stretched across the Hudson, May, 1778,\\nto prevent the passage of the enemy s ships, was anchored on this\\nisland just below the present steamboat landing. Links of this\\nchain may yet be seen at West Point.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "COLONEL LSRAEL ANGELL. 133\\nCol. Green and myself went to his Q from\\nthence I went to the hutts found Capt Brown\\npreparing for to Defend the baggage by making\\na block house of one of the huts\\n23d Feby. A Stormy Day I remaind\\nthis Day in the hutts.\\n24th. This Day went to Col\u00c2\u00b0 Greens Qrs\\nthere tarried all Night the Troops that marched\\nfor the point the 21 and Came back to the New\\nHampshire hutts Marched again to Day.\\n25th. Col. Greene and myself Sett of for\\nthe point Early in the Morning went to M\\nMandavils there left our horses then went to\\nCross the ferry but found it all Blockt up with\\nthe Ice we then Crost the flatts upon the Ice\\nto Constitution Island where we Crost just be-\\nfore Night on our way Cros the Ice Ensign\\nJohn Rogers fell through over a deep Creek\\nketched and hung by his arms we Indeavored to\\nget rails to throw to him but could find none\\nbut some short peaces at length I thought of\\ntying my Great Coat and Col Greenes together\\nand then tying them to a Stick with the help of\\ntwo little boys got it to him Drawed him out\\nbut I would not have run the risk I did for all\\nthe State of New York had it not been to save\\nlife Storm d near all this Day.\\n26th Feby. We Spent this day in trying", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "134 THE DIARY OF\\nto Cross the ferry which we Effected just at\\nSunsett tarried at M Mandavils\\n27th Feby, 1781. Left M Mandavils\\nthis morning after Breakfast went to Col. Law-\\nrences O^^ Peeks kill there met L Joseph\\nWheaton and paid the money for the Infantry\\nto him then went to the hutts and there dined\\nlodged at the Widow Brewers.\\n28th Feby. This day was plesant as\\nSummer I spent the Same at the hutts at night\\nwent to the Widow Brewer there tarried.\\nMarch 1st, 1781. After Breakfast went to\\nCol Greenes Quarters there Spent the Day it\\nbeing Clowdy and Cold and allso tarried this\\nnight with Col Greene in the Evening there\\ncame a letter from Gen Heath Informing Col.\\nGreene that the French Ships that went from\\nNew- Port had taken the Romolus of fifty guns\\nand Nine sail of privateers and transports of\\nChesepeck Bay.\\nMarch 2d, 1781. Clowdy weet and Cold\\nafter Breakfast Col. Greene and I went to the\\nhutts the man I had Sent after my horses re-\\nturn d this day without them the Order being\\nfrom Col. Greene and not from the D. Q. M\\nGeneral was Obligid to Send off again Din d\\nat the hutts then went to the Widow Brewers\\nwhere I proposed to stay Col. Greene went to\\nhis Quarters", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. I 35\\nMarch 3d, 1781. Good weather and\\nNothing Remarkable Spent the Day at the\\nhutts tarried at the widow Brewers\\n4th. Clear and plesant the Baggage of the\\nReg that was left at the hutts was ordered on\\nfor west Point as was all the troops Except a\\nGuard of 42 men I sent Rufus Chapman after\\nhorses\\n5th. Clowdy before breakfast Rufus re-\\nturn d from fishkill and had got no horses upon\\nwhich I set off Imeadetly for west point It\\nsoon began to Storm and stormed very hard I\\narrived at M Mandavels by 12 oclock where I\\nput up for this day and night Col Green Come\\nfrom the point in the evening.\\nMarch 6th, 1781. This morning after\\nbreakfast 1 Col Greene went over to the\\nPoint he being president of a Court Martial\\nafter dining on the point Returned to M Man-\\ndavils and went to the hospital at Robinsons\\nRufus Chapman, tenth child of Stephen and Leuriah (Sanger)\\nChapman, was born Oct. 26, 1744, and died in May, 1848. He was\\nmarried May 19, 1770, to Dorcas Sewall, of Exeter; they had one\\ndaughter. He is said to have charged his wife with being a witch,\\nand he separated from her. He was a member of Capt. Stephen\\nKimball s Company, in Col. Daniel Hitchcock s Regiment, of the\\nArmy of Observation, 1775. See my Revolutionary Defences in\\nRhode Island, page 6. Rufus Chapman was pensioned June 26,\\n1819, as a private of the Rhode Island Line. Senate Documents\\nPension Roll.", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "136 THE DIARY OF\\nHous returned to our Quarters in the Evening\\nthis Day was Clowdy but did not storm.\\nMarch 7th, 1 78 1 A stormy morning with\\nSnow Rain after breakfast Col. Greene went\\nfor west Point but it stormed so that I thought it\\nbest to remain where I was which I did the Day.\\n8th March, 1781. Went over to the\\nPoint this morning after breakfast in the after-\\nnoon went for New Winsor in a Boat where 1\\narrived about Eight o clock in the Evening.\\n9th March. Clear Breakfasted with the\\nAdj. General then paid off what men there was\\nhere then went to Newburgh in the Gen\\nReturned in the Evening.\\n10th. Left winsor this morning after\\nBreakfast in a Boat with some Country people\\nwent to west point it Snowed the great part of\\nthe passage which made it very Dissagreable\\nthe Distance being about 8 miles I arrived at\\nThe Robinson House was the headquarters of Generals Putnam\\nand Parsons in 1778-9. It took its name from Col. Beverly Robin-\\nson, its owner. What gives it more historic interest, however, is the\\nfact that it was here, while at breakfast with his family and military\\nguests, Benedict Arnold received the note from Colonel Jameson\\napprising him of the capture of Major Andre, and from whence he\\nfled to the British sloop-of-war Vulture. From this house\\nGeneral Washington wrote, Sept. 26, 1780, to General Heath in-\\nforming him of the treason of Arnold. Heath s Memoirs, p. 2jj.\\nThatcher, in his Journal, under the date of April 12, 1781, writes\\nthat he crossed the Hudson to the hospital at Robinson s House\\nand passed the night with Dr. Eustis.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "CJLONEL ISRAEL AXG^LL. I 3/\\nthe Garrison about Two O Clock Dined then\\nwent over to M Mandavells there tarried.\\n11th March, 1 78 1 Clear plesant weather\\nover head but bad under foot after breakfast 1\\nand Col Greene went to the point where we\\nspent the Day in the afternoon Come over and\\nwent up upon the Mountain to the North\\nRedoubt then to our Quarters.\\nMarch 12th, 1781. Good weather after\\nBreakfast I sett of for the hutts where I din d\\nspent the Day.\\n13th. Cold and windy this Day there was\\nan Allarm on which the Militia was called to-\\ngeather but it proving to be a false Allarm\\nthey were Dismist.\\n14th. Clowdy and raind this Day nothing\\nRemarkable\\n15th. A pleasant Morning but Soon\\nClowded over and raind in the afternoon the\\nhorses Sent for to Carry my Baggage to Rhode\\nIsland. News came this evening Arnold and\\nhis party was taken.\\nThe North Redoubt at West Point had an armament of three\\niron eighteen-pounders and three iron twelve-pounders. It is tliu-;\\ndescribed in the Remarks on Works at West Point North Re-\\ndoubt, on the East side, built of stone 4 feet high above the stone,\\nwood filled in with I]arth, very Dry. No ditch a Bomb Proof,\\nthree Batteries within the Fort, a poor Abattis a Rising piece of\\nground 500 yards So. the approaches Under Cover to within 20\\nyards. The work easily tired with Faggots dipt in Pitch c.", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "138 THE DIARY OF\\n16th. Good weather my Baggage Set off\\nthis morning for Rhode Island after Breakfast\\nI set off for west Point went to Mr, Manda-\\nvills where I tarried.\\n17th riarch, 1781. Good weather a\\ngreat parade this day with the Irish it being St\\nPatariclvs. I spent the day on the point and\\nTarried with the Officers.\\n18th. After Breakfast I set off on my\\nJorney for New England went to Mr Manda-\\nvills there Dind then went to M Brewers my\\nold Quarters this day was more like April than\\nMarch\\n19th. Clowdy and Rained a little after\\nBreakfast I set off went to the hutts there\\nhaving some business which detained me till\\nafter Dinner. When I set off for Danbury\\nwhere I arrived in the Evening it rained all\\nthe Afternoon very hard and worse riding could\\nnot be.\\n20th flarch, 1781. Clear good weather\\nover head but muddy under foot after break-\\nfast set forward went as tar as Bostic there put\\nup for the night having overtaken my waggon.\\n21st. Clear and Good weather after Break-\\nfast went on as far as Southerington there dined\\nat Curtisses Tavern then went to Mr. Coles in\\nFarmington there put up for the night.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AXGELL. 139\\n22d March, 1781. Left my lodgings\\nafter Breakfast went to hartford met with Capt\\nHumphrey tarried there was obliged to hire a\\nhors to help me on as far as hartford.\\n23d. A Stormy morning Crost the ferry\\nto East Hartford, breakfasted went on to Hill s\\nTavern 8 mile there Halted for the waggon to\\ncome up which did not Arive till 3 o clock the\\nhorses being tired out I hired a man to help\\nme on as far as bolton where I halted that\\nnight.\\n24th. This morning being Clear there\\ncome two teams early a going to Canterbury\\nand hired them to help me on upwards of twenty\\nmiles I rode on as far as Canterbury Stopt and\\nDin d in Scottand Put up at Landlord Back-\\nuses but the waggon Didnot git up till the\\nmorning following.\\n25th riarch, 178L Clear and Cold My\\nwaggon Come up this Morning after breakfast\\nI set forward after having hired Capt Cacon\\nto help me on as far as Dorrances in Vollen-\\ntown where I arrived and Dined then went on\\nto my own hous found my family well, left\\nmy waggon to come on as fast as possible and\\nthus Lands the Service with me.\\nBy the Act of Congress of Oct. 3, 17S0, the two Continental\\nRegiments of Rhode Island were reduced to one, to take effect\\nJan. I, 1 781. By this arrangement Colonel Angell reiired, and", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "140 ///A DIARY OF\\n26th riarch. Clear and Coid but soon\\nClowded over 1 hired Peleg Peck to go help\\nmy waggon on which arrived in the Evening.\\n27th March, 1781. After Breakfast I\\nset off for Providence where I spent the Day\\nat Evening went to my fathers and tarried\\nnews Come of the french fleet returning.\\n28th. Spent the forenoon at my fathers it\\nbeing Exceeding Cold and unpleasant after\\nDinner went to Providence was informed that\\nthe french fleet was actually return d and had\\nhad an Engagement with the English fleet but\\nthe particulars was not known one Circum-\\nstance in my journal of yesterday I forgot to\\nmention that is I had the Pleasure of seeing\\nUncle James Angell, at my fathers who had\\nnot been there in 22 years before on acct. of\\nsome misunderstanding between him and my\\nfather.\\n29th March, 1781. Cold and Clowdy\\nSnowed some but cleared off in the afternoon\\nwith a severe March wind and cold.\\n30th Harch. Clear and Cold with a vio-\\nlent high wind Nothing Remarkable.\\n31st. A toUerable pleasant day after\\nChristopher Green succeeded to the colonelcy of the consolidated\\nregiment, who was succeeded a few uioiiths later by Lieut.-Col,\\nCommandant Jeremiah Olney.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "COLONEL ISRAEL AN CELL. 141\\nBreakfast I went to Providence where it was\\ncurrently Reported that the French fleet behaved\\nGallantly in the action with the british and\\nthat the English fleet ran away from them\\nReturned in the Evening.\\nApril 1st, 1781. Clear and Springlike\\nweather this morning but Soon Clowded over\\nand the wind blew up at South very raw and\\nCold there was a meating held at my hous this\\nday\\n2d. A violint Storm Set in last night and\\nContinued this Day the Storm begun with\\nSnow but before the middle of the Day turn d\\nto rain and by night had carried off the Greatest\\npart of the Snow.\\n3d. It Still Continued Storming and had\\nSnowed the Greatest part of the night and was\\na Considerable of Snow on the Ground but\\nthere being so much water made it Shocking\\nTraveling.", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nACOXET, 51, 53.\\nAlbro, Robert, 67.\\nAllen, William, Capt., 41, 65.\\nAndre, John, Major, 124.\\nAndrews, Major, 126.\\nAndrews, Mr., 42, 125, 126.\\nAngell, Isaac, 41, 43.\\nAngell, Israel, Col., 102, 118,\\n120.\\nAngell, James, 140.\\nAngell, Jason, 14, 40.\\nAngell, Samuel, 60.\\nAquakinunk, 109.\\nArnold, 137.\\nArnold, Benedict, Gen., 123.\\nArnold, Fort, 97.\\nArnold, Gen., 121, 124.\\nArnold, Noyes, Lieut., 10.\\nArro Smith, Edmund, Capt.,\\n42, 43-\\nBackus, Landlord, 139.\\nBarber s Height, 56, 65, 69.\\nBarnes, Elisha, 131.\\nBarney, Daniel, 82.\\nBarrington, 68.\\nBay, Chesapeake, 134.\\nBeaver-Tail Lighthouse, 85.\\nBergen, 107, 108.\\nBird, Benjamin, 53.\\nBishop Benoni, 91.\\nBlock Island, 71, 77.\\nBlodget, Major, 5.\\nBolton, 94, 139.\\nBoss, Lieut., 104.\\nBostic, 138.\\nBoston, 4, 35, 42, 45, 75.\\nBoston Neck, 35, 51, 61, 65, 72.\\nBowen, Jabez, Gov., 67.\\nBox, Daniel, Major, 43.\\nBradford s Hill, 12.\\nBradford, Priscilla, Mrs., 20.\\nBradford, William, Gov., i, 46,\\n76.\\nBrenton s Neck, 88.\\nBrewer, Widow, 130, 134, 135,\\n1 38.\\nBridge, Greene s, 70.\\nBridge, Kickamuit, 11, 53.\\nBridge, Kings, 109.\\nBridge, New, iii.\\nBristol, II, 12, 16, 19, 30, 32.\\nBristol Ferry, 13, 90.\\nBrown, Capt.. 133.\\nBrown, Waity, 99, 102.\\nBurdett s Ferry, 107, 109.\\nButts Hill, 8.\\nCacon, Capt., 139.\\nCanterbury, 139.\\nCaroHna, North, 114.\\nCarolina, South, 64.\\n143", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "144\\nINDEX.\\nCarpenter, Lieut., 44.\\nCarpenter, Qr. Master, 13, 15.\\nChaffee, Noah, Serg t, 80, 8 1 92.\\nChapin, Lieut., 27.\\nChapman, Rufus, 129, 130, 131.\\n135-\\nCharlestown, 64, 122.\\nChesapeake Bay, 134.\\nChurch Yard, Hackensack, 1 14.\\nCilley, Col., 120.\\nClefford, 80.\\nChnton, Gen., 107, 120.\\nCUnton, Harry, Sir, 126.\\nCole, Mr., 82, 138.\\nConanicut Island, 72, 79, 81,\\n82, 83, 85, 87, 88.\\nCongdon, Joseph, 89.\\nConnecticut, 75, 120.\\nConstitution Island, 132, 133.\\nCook, John, Lieut., 59.\\nCornelius, Elias, Dr., 22, 94.\\nCornell, Ezekiel, Gen., 11.\\nCranston, 14.\\nCreek, Spitting Devils, 109.\\nCroton River, 100.\\nCurtis Tavern, 138.\\nDanbury, 95, 98, 128, 138.\\nDayton, Col., 120.\\nDeEstaing, Count, 3, 77.\\nDeLafayette, Marquis, 14.\\nDeruce, John, 64, 67.\\nDexter, David, Capt., 38.\\nDexter, Lieut., 15.\\nDighton, 73.\\nDobb s Ferry, 105, 121, 126.\\nDorrance, Mr., 94, 102, 127,\\n128, 139.\\nDunop, Count, 85.\\nDurfee, Mr., 90.\\nDutch Island, 63, 72, 79.\\nDyer, John, Col., 62, 83.\\nDyer, Samuel, 100.\\nEast Greenwich, 56.\\nEast Hartford, 139.\\nEdmunds, William, 92.\\nElizabethtown, 126.\\nElliott, Col., 39.\\nEnglish N eighborhood, 105,107.\\nExceen, John, 27.\\nFairfield, 63, 64.\\nFarmingtown, 94, 128, 138.\\nFerry, Bristol, 13, 90.\\nFerry, Burdett s, 107, 109.\\nFerry, Dobb s, 105, 121, 126.\\nFerry, Holland s, 11.\\nFerry,. King s, 65, 100, 121.\\nFeri-y, Tockwotton, 34,\\nFenner, Major, 16.\\nFenner, Richard, Jr., Major, 39.\\nFishkill, 98, 135.\\nFisk, Caleb, Dr., 24.\\nFisk, Joseph, Landlord, 24.\\nFlagg, Ebenezer, Major, 56, 61.\\nFlint, Widow, 94.\\nForbes, Mr., 94, 102.\\nFort Arnold, 97.\\nFort Lee, 107, 108, 109.\\nFort Putnam, 96.\\nFowler, 67.\\nFrothingham, Ebenezer, 39.\\nGardner, John, Col., 82.\\nGardner, Major, 56, 72.\\nGardner, Mr., 57.\\nGates, Horatio, Gen., 51, 69,\\n80, 84, 1 12.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n145\\nGeorgia, 51, 77.\\nGilly, Robert, 91.\\nGlover, John, Gen., 11, 61, 95,\\n120.\\nGoat Island, 89.\\nGould, John, 80, 81.\\nGraham, Dr., 128, 129.\\nGrant, Samuel, 92.\\nGreene s Bridge, 70.\\nGreene, Christopher, Col., 7, 15.\\nGreene, Col., 56, 59, 61, 65, 78,\\n89, 90, 91, 95, 96, 98, 131,\\n132, 133 134, 135. 136, 137-\\nGreene, Col. Com d t, 11.\\nGreene, Gov., Mrs., 86.\\nGreene, Grififin, 95, 96, 98.\\nGreene, Jonathan, 83.\\n(ireene, Nathaniel, Gen., 4, 106,\\n114.\\nGreene, William, Jr., Gov., 59.\\nGreenwich, 11, 15, 57, 59, 61,\\n69. 70, 77. 78, 79. 90. 91-\\nGreenwich, East, 56.\\nHackens.\\\\ck, 109, no.\\nHackensack Churchyard, 114.\\nHackensack River, in.\\nHagan, Francis, Dr., 49.\\nHamlin, Daniel, Ensign, 38.\\nHartford, 94, 118, 123, 127, 139.\\nHartford, East, 139.\\nHaverstraw, 122.\\nHazard, 67.\\nHazard, Stanton, 73.\\nHazen, Moses, 119, 121.\\nHeath, Gen., 134.\\nHegron, 81.\\nHeight, Barber s, 56, 65, 69.\\nHerenden, Thomas, 85.\\nHiggins, Robert, Capt., 109.\\nHill, Bradford s, 12.\\nHill, Butt s, 8.\\nHill, Little Rest, 76.\\nHill, Mr., 52, 94, 127, 128.\\nHill, Quaker, 8.\\nHill, Tower, 63.\\nHoight, Jonathan, Sergt., 99,\\n102.\\nHopkins, Elder, 24.\\nHowland s Ferry, 11.\\nHudson River, 100.\\nHughes, Thomas, Capt., 16, 70,\\n79, 83, 122.\\nHumphrey, William, Capt., 57,\\n139-\\nHumpton, Col., 109.\\nHuntington, Ebenezer, Major,\\n5, 20, 29, 31.\\nIndependence, Mount, 97.\\nIsland, Block, 71, 77.\\nIsland, Conanicut, 72, 79, 81,\\n82, 83, 85, 87, 88.\\nIsland, Constitution, 132, 133.\\nIsland, Dutch, 63, 72, 79.\\nIsland, Goat, 89.\\nIsland, Long, 95.\\nIsland, Prudence, 32.\\nIsland, York, 109.\\nJackson, Col., 51, 90, 91.\\nJacobs, Col., 2.\\nJacobs, William, 57.\\nJerauld, Dutee, Lieut., 54.\\nJencks, Lieut., ic8.\\nJohnston, 16, 55, 59.\\nJudith, Point, 66, 71, 73, 84.\\nJudds, Mr., 94.", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "146\\nINDEX.\\nKakaat, 100.\\nKickamuit Bridge, 11, 53.\\nKickamuit River, 54.\\nKing, Benjamin, 16.\\nKings Bridge, 109.\\nKings Ferry, 65, 100, 121.\\nKingstown, North, 93, 102.\\nLanarcnus, Mr., 109.\\nLawrence, Col., 134.\\nLebanon, 127.\\nLee, Fort, 107, 108, 109.\\nLiberty-Pole, 107.\\nLighthouse, Beaver Tail, 85.\\nLittle Rest Hill, 76.\\nLittlefield, William, Lieut., 46.\\nLivingston, Col., 32, 88, 90, 98,\\nloi.\\nLivingston, Henry Beekman,\\nCol., 5.\\nLivingston, James, Col., 38.\\nLobb, James, 54.\\nLoizcan, Augustus, Capt., 38.\\nLong Island, 95.\\nLord, Mr., 94.\\nLovell, Nathaniel, 102.\\nLuther, Benjamin, 23, 24.\\nLuther, Consider, 18.\\nLuther, Mr., 59, 68, 93.\\nLuttenton, Col., 98.\\nLuzerne, Anne Caesar de la,\\n122.\\nMacomber, Ebenezer, Lieut.,\\n81.\\nMaiideville, Mr., 129, 133, 134,\\n135. 37, 138-\\nMassachusetts, 120.\\nMelleries, Mr., 95.\\nMiller, Nathan, Gen., 52.\\nMilhmen, George, 69, 71.\\nMitchel, Quartermaster, 98.\\nMonmouth, 56.\\nMorristown, loi.\\nMount Independence, 97.\\nMowry, Mr., 64.\\nNeck, Boston, 35, 51, 61, 65,\\n72.\\nNeck, Brenton s, 88.\\nNeck, Wanvick, 69.\\nNeighborhood, English, 105,\\n107.\\nNewark, 109.\\nNew Bedford, 13, 14, 32.\\nNewberg, 98, 136.\\nNew Bridge, 1 11.\\nNew England, 138.\\nNew Hampshire, 120, 133.\\nNew Haven, 63.\\nNew Jersey, 99, 120.\\nNew London, 63, 73, 89.\\nNewport, 24, 66, 82, 86, 87, 88,\\n134-\\nNewtown, Updike s, 32, 56, 62,\\n64, 75 95- 99 102, 128.\\nNew Winsor, 97, 129, 136.\\nNew York, 7, 10, 77, 78, 95,\\n108, 120, 124, 125, 133.\\nNicholson, George C, Major,\\n96.\\nNixon, Col., 118.\\nNorth Carolina, 114.\\nNorth Kingstown, 93, 102.\\nNorth Providence, 61.\\nNorth River, 65, 67, 98, 104,\\n105, 109, 122.\\nNorthup, John, Judge, 77.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n147\\nOlney, Coggeshall, Capt., 71,\\n76.\\nOlney, Col, 4, 20, 34, 46, 47,\\n57. 70. Ih 76, 78. 82, 84, 91,\\n92, 95-\\nOlney, Jeremiah, Col., 12.\\nOlney, Joseph, Capt., 61.\\nOlney, Lt. Col., 20, 26, 36, 70,\\n73, 79, 81, III.\\nOlney, Stephen, Capt., 30, 76.\\nOiangetown, 123.\\nPatterson, Gen., 96.\\nPaulding, John, 124.\\nPawtuxet, 14.\\nPearce, Richard, 27.\\nPeck, Ebenezer, 34.\\nPeck, Peleg, 131, 140.\\nPeck s Rocks, 51.\\nPeck, William, Col., 49.\\nPeekskill, 134.\\nPennsylvania, 120.\\nPenobscot, 72.\\nPersons, Gen., 120.\\nPeters, Andrew, Maj., 96.\\nPhillips, Peter, 66, 93.\\nPhillips, Stephen, 85.\\nPillar, John, 27.\\nPoint Judith, 66, 71, 73, 84.\\nPoint, Quonset, 62.\\nPoint, Rome s, 86.\\nPoint, Stony, 65, 66.\\nPoint, Tallow s, 121.\\nPoint, West, 96, 123, 124, 125,\\n129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 136,\\n138.\\nPompton, loi.\\nPoor, Enoch, Brig.-Gen., 112,\\n114.\\nPoppasquash, 20.\\nPotter, Thomas, Col., 76.\\nPratt, William, Ensign, 62.\\nPrice, Edward, Lieut., 39.\\nProctor, William,Sergt.-Maj.,27.\\nPrudence Island, 32.\\nProvidence, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14,\\n15, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26,30, 31,\\n32, 34, 36, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46,\\n47. 48, 51. 54, 57. 59. 60, 65,\\n67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 78,\\n79, 81, 83, 84, 90, 91, 92, 100,\\n140, 141.\\nProvidence, North, 61.\\nPutnam, Fort, 96.\\nQiTAKER Hill, 8.\\nQuonset Point, 62.\\nRamapaugh, 100.\\nRed Banks, 84.\\nRehoboth, 34.\\nReid, Major, 117.\\nRhode Island, 13, 15, 26, 27,\\n73 78. 95,99, 100, 120, 123,\\n137, 138.\\nRipley, Mr., 127, 128.\\nRiver, Croton, 100.\\nRiver, Hackensack, iii.\\nRiver, Hudson, 100.\\nRiver, Kickamuit, 54.\\nRiver, North, 65, 67, 98, 104,\\n105, 109, 122.\\nRiver, Warren, 14, 32, 68, 69.\\nRoad, Ten- Rod, 83.\\nRocks, Peck s, 51.\\nRodney, Admiral, 117.\\nRogers, John, Ensign, 81, 91,\\n13.3-", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "148\\nINDEX.\\nRome, George, 57.\\nRome s Point, 86.\\nRoxbury, 35.\\nSands, Ray, Col., 63.\\nSandy Hook, 77.\\nSanta Cruz, 57.\\nSayles, Lieut., 70, 83.\\nSchraalenburgh, 107.\\nScituate, 92.\\nScotland, 94, 127, 128, 139.\\nSeekonk, 75.\\nSherburne, Col., 16, 20, 46, 51,\\n90, lOI.\\nSherrads, Col., 100.\\nSimmons, 3.\\nSlack, Benjamin, Dr., 23.\\nSmith, Capt., 45.\\nSmith, Edmund Arro, Cap t,,\\n42, 43-\\nSmithfield, 92.\\nSmith, Joshua, 125.\\nSmith, Major, 122.\\nSmith, Mr., 126.\\nSmith, Thomas, 93.\\nSouthbury, 95, 128.\\nSouth Carolina, 64.\\nSoutherington, 94, 138.\\nSphting Devil s Creek, 109.\\nSpringfield, 98, 106, 109, 118.\\nStamford, 98.\\nStark, Gen., 69, 84, 88, 90, 94,\\nloi, 116, 121.\\nSt. Clair, Gen., 120, 121.\\nSteenraupie, 1 1 1.\\nStevens, Mr., 59.\\nStewart, Col, 115.\\nStole, 121.\\nStony Point, 65, 66.\\nSullivan, Gen., 10, 14, 31, ii?.\\nSwansea, 52.\\nSweeting, Job, Capt., 60.\\nTalbot, Silas, Col., 41, 73.\\nTallow s Point, 121.\\nTarrytown, 124.\\nTavern, Curtis s, 13S.\\nTenney, Samuel, Dr., 77.\\nTen-Rod Road, 83.\\nTew, William, Capt., 32, 69,\\n122.\\nThayer, Simeon, Major, 26, 34,\\n36, 43, 46, 64, 65, 70, 72, 79,\\n81, 82, 83, 92, 95, 100, 108,\\n109.\\nThomas, John, 82.\\nThomas, Mrs., 99.\\nThompson, Charles, Chaplain,\\n19. 32.\\nThornton, Daniel, 43.\\nThrasher, Joseph, 60, 64.\\nTiverton, 36.\\nTockwotton Ferry, 34.\\nToppan, III, 120, 122.\\nTower Hill, 63.\\nTwitchel, 67.\\nUpdike s Newtown, 32, 56,\\n62, 64, 75, 95, 99, 102, 128.\\nUsher, Freelove, Mrs., 23.\\nUsher, John, 93.\\nVan Courtlandt, Philip,\\nCol., IC2.\\nVan Weit, Isaac, 124.\\nVarnum, James Mitchell, Gen.,\\n6, II, 14, 15, 20, 22, 30, 43,\\n46, 48, 76.", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n149\\nVamum, Martha, 28.\\nVial, John, Ensign, 6, 15.\\nVirginia, 1 13.\\nVoluntown, 91, 94, 127, 139.\\nVon Steuben, Frederick Wil-\\nliam, Baron, 103, 104, 119,\\n121.\\nVose, Joseph, Col., 54.\\nWanskuck, 40, 78.\\nWard, Samuel, Col., 77.\\nWarren, 11, 21, 22, 25, 44, 49,\\n51, 52, 53, 64,65,68,69, 77,\\n90.\\nWarren River, 14, 32, 68, 69.\\nWarwick, 11, 62.\\nWarwick Neck, 69.\\nWashington, George, Gen., 10.\\nWaterbury, 94, 128.\\nWaterman, Freelove, 92.\\nWaterman, John, 43.\\nWaterman, Richard, iS.\\nWaterman, Thomas, Lieut., 28,\\n29, 66.\\nWayne, Anthony, Gen., 65.\\nWebb, Samuel Blatchey, Col.,\\n28, 31, 39, 47. 90.\\nWest, Ebenezer, 75.\\nWest Point, 96, 123, 124, 125,\\n129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 136,\\n138.\\nWheaton, Joseph, Ensign, 71,\\n83. 134-\\nWhillys, Lieut., 38.\\nWhipple, John, 51.\\nWhipple, Naomi, 40.\\nWhite, Mr., 127, 128.\\nWhittlesey, Nathan, Qr. Mas-\\nter, 21.\\nWigglesworth, Edward, Col., 2.\\nWilliams, David, 124.\\nWilliams, Samuel W., Capt.,\\n29.\\nWindham, 94.\\nWinsor, Samuel, Elder, 24.\\nWollsey, Widow 95.\\nWoodbury, 95.\\nYork Island, 109.", "height": "3301", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3317", "width": "2046", "jp2-path": "diaryofcolonelis01ange_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "History of the State of Rhode Island\\nand Providence Plantations,\\nJ 636- 1 790.\\nBy SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD.\\nNew Edition. 2 vols. 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