Nor Ch Gen Hauge ungate and the Artillery marer the day 10 Pumprou the other two urigades were detained for want of warms - 1 row into the country to see a satyr wet was 24 inches high dres: it wat jarket and trowsers reserved a sual Negra would hand the tucsok very well and go turougt any Mauoever that his master bic

Nor 7 Sunday, Gu Clinton's brigade march this day for PompLOL. Nor * Gen Poor's brigade marent this morning and arrived a Pumprou 3.9 Cock P. M. and encampt in the woods, Ger Washing tou arrived at Gen Bullivan's Quarters this afternoon, about 2 mies from the Camp. Marcu 12 mies this day.

Nov 9 Tuis day Gen Washington rode through this Camp

Nov 10 This day the 6 Mass Reg and Rifle Corps were ordered to march tomorrow for Westpoint.

Nov 11 Were detained for want of waggons.

Nov 12" 6" Mass Reg march from Pumpton and arrived a Kammepo in New York State.

Nov 13" March from Rammepo this morning and arrive two miles from King's ferry on the North river, and Encampt- Came 17 miles this day.

Nov 14 Sunday, This morning crossed the North river- Arrived at Peekskill and encampt about dusk - Came 7 miles this day.

Nov 15 This morning the Reg march on and cross the river and arrived in Westpoint 2. O Clock P. M. and encampt in the bush one mile and down the River-came 8 miles.

Nov 18th This day the 6th Mass Regt march and joined Gen! Patterson's Brigade very cold and blustering.

Nov 19th Pleasant weather.

20th This day sent the horses into the country to be kept as there was no forrage on the Point.

Nov 21st Sunday, Rainy weather this day - Maj McKinster and Capt Bussey came to see me.

Nov! 22nd This day the 6th Mass Regt was mustered by Col? Varrick Muster master Gen! this is the fifth day that the troops have drew no bread on this Point as there was none.

Nov! 23 Drew some bread this day place.

Nov! 24 & 25th Nothing new.

very cool weather at this

26th A smart snow storm this day — and the men in the tents which made it very tedious.

Nov 27th The Snow blew very much, and made it as tedious as the storm which Crept into our tents very fast.

Nov 28th Sunday. Pleasant weather this day and warm.

29th The Paymaster arrived with the Clothing for the Reg

Nov 30th This day the chane that crossed the River was removed by hoisting the same whole between Boats and was taken to the shore to be laid up for the winter.

December 1st Five men discharge this day from the 6th Masst Reg December 2a A Still snow storm began this morning, which cleard off with a heavy rain made it very tedious in campt.

Dec 3d and 4th Nothing new.

5th Sunday.. A tedious snow storm and wind this day.

Dec 6th Lie Carter Ensign Bagnal, Ens" Parker, set out for home, on furlow from Westpoint.

Dec 7th Capt Ballard left West-point on furlow - Capt Reed, P. Master Tucker and Liet Givins went to New Winsor.

Dec 8th Capt Reed P. M. and L Givins return to camp.

Dec 9th Thanksgiving-day the Troops drew one Gill of Rum.
Dec 10th Some rain this day.

11th Nothing new this day.

12th Sunday some snow and heavy rain this day at West point.

Dec 13.. 14.. 15.. 16 . . & 17th Nothing new.

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18th A tedious snow storm with hard wind which made it very bad in tents.

Dec 19th (Sunday.) Went to Gen! Heath's and got my furlow. December 20th Left Westpoint on furlow Lodgd at M: Huestins 6 miles from said point the weather very cold. December 21st Breakfast at Fishkill lodged at Col Moorhouse's 30 miles this day.

Dined at Esq Storms's

December 22nd Lodg two miles from Lichfield came 25 miles this day.

December 23rd Proceeded on, the roads very bad this day, and not broke, Lodge in Symsberry at Landlord Garrets, 18 mils from Lichfield 20 miles this day.

December 24th This morning proceeded on Arrived at Springfield 6 O clock P. M. Lodge at Landlord Edes 11 miles from Springfield — 41 miles this day the roads very good.

Dec 25th Proceeded on

6 miles West from Worcester

Lodge this night at Landlord Tafts - 32 Miles this day.

Dec' 26th Sunday. proceeded on and Lodg at Col Mackintoshes in Needham Came 47 miles this day.

Dec 27th Proceeded on and arrived at Stoughton sunset, the weather 12 miles this day.

has ben very cold and severe since I left camp

December 28th Some snow this day.

29.. 30 and 31" Nothing new this day.

January 1st 1780. Pleasant weather.

night.

2nd (Sunday) very cold this day and a storm of snow this

Jan 3 Some snow and blustering this day.1

Mr. WINSOR said that at the time he published the second volume of the "Memorial History of Boston" in 1881 he had not been able to discover any special engraved map of Boston and its harbor prior to 1700. There is a rude plan of the peninsula, without date, but presumably of the seventeenth century, given in Bowden's "Friends in America" (vol. i. p. 186), as from a manuscript in the British Museum; and Samuel Sewall, in his "Letter-Book" (vol. i. p. 32), under date of July 15, 1686, mentions sending to Edward Hall "a mapp of this town." What this may have been Mr. Winsor said he had not been able to discover; and in the confused way in which the words map and view were used at that time, it may have been what was often called a "prospect" and not a plan, and may have been drawn and not engraved. The earliest map, which was noticed in the "Memorial History," was a manuscript chart of the harbor, made by the direction of Andros, to which a date of about 1687-88 was assigned. This map

1 The original journal is now owned by Mr. William Henry McKendry, of Ponkapoag, Massachusetts, of the Harvard Class of 1882. By him it was lent to our associate the Rev. Henry F. Jenks, of Canton, who has compared the proof with it, and has made the essential corrections in the text.-J. W.

belongs to the Brinley Collection, and will presumably be thrown open to competition in the final sale of that library. Between 1690 and 1700 there were several maps of the harbor made by French spies, in anticipation of use for them in an attack on Boston; and of these there are copies in the Boston Public Library and among Mr. Parkman's manuscripts, and accounts of them are given in the "Memorial History." Since then Mr. Waters has sent from London a copy of " A Draught of Boston Harbor by Captain Cyprian Southake, made by Augustine Fitzhugh, anno 1694." It is drawn on a scale of one mile to the inch; and copies are now in the possession of the Bostonian Society and the Boston Public Library. These maps are all in manuscript; but it would seem that an engraved map of the harbor had been published perhaps earlier than the date of either of them. While recently examining the old maps in the library of Congress, Mr. Winsor said that his attention was directed to a large engraving on copper, without date, but dedicated to the Earl of Maclesfield, and published in Cheapside, London, by Philip Lea. It was entitled "A new Mapp of New England from Cape Codd to Cape Sables . . . surveyed by the author, Tho. Pound." The coast thus indicated occupies the upper part of the sheet, which is somewhat irregularly divided by a diagonal line from southwest to northeast, while the lower part is covered by a chart of Boston Harbor, not specified in the title. Mr. Winsor supposed this Thomas Pound to be the pirate who was captured by the Boston sloop" Mary," which was sent in pursuit of him in 1689, when Captain Samuel Pease, who commanded the sloop, was mortally wounded in the encounter which ensued. Pound, owing to a freak of the types in the contemporary printed accounts, sometimes appears as "Ponnd," and at other times is called "Pounds." The capture took place Oct. 4, 1689; and Pound, who, as Dr. Bullivant tells us, was reprieved from time to time, was finally hanged. It must have been some months, if not years, before Pounds, as Mather calls him, took to flying the red flag, that he followed the more peaceful ways of a local hydrographer, as his contemporary Cyprian Southack did. Up to the present time the earliest engraved map of our harbor known to our local antiquaries has been one made, it is judged, not long after 1700, of which a facsimile is given in the "Memorial History of Boston" from the only copy of the

original which has been recorded, now owned by our associate Charles Deane.

Mr. PORTER said:

Being at Rehoboth last Monday at the dedication of the Goff Memorial Hall, I had an interview with persons whɔ were present at the exhuming of the remains of William Blackstone at Lonsdale, near Pawtucket, on the 6th instant -one week ago to-day. The removal became necessary ca account of extensive building operations now in progress there. The site is well known, being about two rods east of the knoll which Blackstone called Study Hill,” on the east bank of the river bearing his name, and quite near the present railway-station.

Here for about forty years lived this singular literary recluse, who enjoyed the distinction of being the first white settler of Boston as well as of Rhode Island. He was buried May 28. 1675; and his grave was marked by two plain whitish oval bowlders, one at the head and the other at the foot, rising but a few inches above the ground.

The present proprietors of the estate took pains to have the work of disinterment done as carefully as possible, under the direction of experienced undertakers from Providence. Among the witnesses were the Messrs. Goddard, of the Lonsdale Company; Mr. Lorenzo Blackstone, of Norwich, Conn., a lineal descendant of William; and Professor Gammell, of the Rhode Island Historical Society, to whom I am indebted for some of my information. After digging four or five feet they found a rusty wrought-iron nail, and then another, and then several more, to the number of perhaps a dozen. Lying near them were a few fragments of bones, none being more than five inches in length. The coffin and the skull had disappeared; but the orderly position of the nails and bones clearly indicate the length of the grave.

Everything that was found, including the two bowlders, will be carefully preserved; and when the new mill is completed a place will be set apart for the remains, — perhaps in the basement, over the spot where they were found, — and a suitable monument will be erected over them by Mr. Lorenzo Blackstone and his brother, who are descended from Black