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'HE Battle of Saratoga has always attradled a large fhare of intelligent and interefted at- tention. Its important refults have induced a recent Englifh author to clafs it, preeminently, among the Fifteen Decijive Battles of the World. ' I Nor can any military- event be faid to have exer- cifed more important in- fluence on the future for- tunes of mankind than the complete defeat of Bur- goyne's Expedition in 1777; a defeat which ref- cued the revolted colonill:s from certain fubjeftion, and which, by inducing the courts of France and Spain to attack England in their behalf, infured the inde- pendence of the United States, and the formation of that tranfatlantic power which not only America, but both Europe and Afia now fee and feel. — Creafy, p. 312, Am. ed. vi Dedication. In our own country, its name ftill ftirs the blood, warmly and proudly, in the popu- lar heart. The intereft that thus attaches to the fubjedl has led to the publication of numerous official, and other Documents, relating to the Expedition of Burgoyne, and its unfucceffful termination. The Publifher feels that he cannot err, in the opinion that that intereft will yet juftify an addition to our authentick printed memorials of thefe events ; and, in that belief, he takes much pleafure in laying before the Publick the Orderly Book of General Burgoyne' s Expedition. The Leader of this memorable Expedi- tion has publifhed to the World his Narrative of the Invafion, and his Apology for its failure. The prefent official pro- gramme of his daily movements, daguerreo- typing, as it were, the occurrences and events of the march, almoft makes us fped:ators of the changing fcene. We look Dedication. vii not through media, colored by the incenfe of partiality, or darkened by the fmoke of prejudice ; but, viewing thefe events of the paft in their own truthful light, we are enabled to exercife our individual judgment, and form conclufions altogether our own. The very nature of an Orderly Book, its ftridlly pradtical, almoft common- place charadter, gives a peculiar truft- worthinefs to the opinions formed from its perufal : and in cafes like the prefent one, whether the verdi6l be of approval or of cenfure, we cannot doubt that it is both unbiaffed and juft. In addreffing. Sir, to you, the following pages, the Publifher would delire to make a publick acknowledgment of his thanks for the intereft you have fhown in bringing this fubjeft to his notice j and likewife for the many kind offices which a library rich in varied treafures of genius and art, a difcriminating tafte and profound hifto- viii Dedication. rical refearch, have enabled you to render, in the courfe of his publication of books kindred to this in their antique ftyle and hiftorical fubjed:. J.M. Albany, Oct. i 860. CONTENTS. Dedication, -----____ y Biographical Sketch of Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne, ix Orderly Book, -----___, j Papers Relating to the Convention, - - -132 Appendix, -----____ j^^ Index, ----------_ 193 PLATES. To face Map of the Route of the Expedition, Title. Portrait of Gen. Burgoyne, ix Medal of the Surrender of Gens. Burgoyne and Cornwallis, 191 Portrait of Baron Riedefel, 192 Portrait of Gen. Schuyler, . Carton Portrait of Harriet Ackland, L' G EN BUROOYNE /">-^^V7''--''^-^'^''-^ INTRODUCTION. N prefenting to the Public a volume containing mainly Orders iffued from day to day, to an Army on its march, fome apology may be deemed proper, were it not that the interefts involved in the march of that Army were of fuch vaft magnitude as not only to juftify, but to exadt the prefervation of every record, however trivial and minute, of every well eftablifhed incident and cireum- ftance connedted with its progrefs and operations. The people of the Colonies had already been two years arrayed in hoftility againft England ; the Declaration of Independence had been nearly twelve months before the world, yet fo far from decided was the refult of the conteft, that no Court in Europe dared as yet B xii IntroduSiion. to acknowledge that Independence, or to rifk a Treaty with America. It was at this feafon of gloom, uncertainty and doubt, when many good men already hefitated, and fome had even defpaired, that Great Britain gathered up her ftrength afrefh, evoked her power at home and exerted her influence abroad, for one combined and overwhelming movement that would, fhe promifed herfelf, forever crufh the giant nation ftruggling to be born. As Commander of the Northern Divifion of this movement, the minifliry had feledted an officer who had already difl:inguifhed himfelf in the field ; whofe merit, they admitted, it had been their care to cherifh; dif- covering it in its growth and rewarding it in its pro- grefs by raifing him above his feniors in the fervice.' John Burgoyne, the Officer in queftion, was a man not only of obfcure birth, but even of doubtful parent- age. He is faid, upon what authority does not appear, to have been the illegitimate fon of Lord Bingley. Be this as it may, his education was of the mofl; liberal kind, and it is not improbable that he was either deftined for, or had refolved upon, the profeflion of arms, at a very early period. Whilfb yet a fubaltern, without any fortune but his fword, he had the rare good luck to engage the aflfeftions of, and run away with. Lady Charlotte Stanley, 1 Speech of Lord North. Hanfard's Pari. Hifi., xix, 1222, IntroduSiion. xiii youngeft daughter of Edward, loth Earl of Derby, whom he married. This connexion fecured doubtlefs for Burgoyne in after life, much of that favour to which his advancement in his profeffion was owing. He was commiffioned Captain in the nth Dragoons, 14th June, 1756 ; and on the loth of May, 1758, was raifed to the brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In the Auguft of 1759, ^^ ^^^ appointed Lieutenant Colonel commandant of the i6th Light Dragoons. With this regiment he ferved in 1761, at Belleifle, where, during the fiege of Palais, he was entrufted with a negotiation for an exchange of prifoners. A more bufy fervice awaited him upon his return home. Spain had now acceded to the family compaft, and after vain endeavours to draw over Portugal from its alliance with England, had refolved to attack that country in the hope of an eafy conqueft : a hope which arofe from her convicftion of the weak and un- difciplined ftate of the Portuguefe army. In this exigency Great Britain haftened to the fuccour of an ally, who had preferred the chance of utter ruin to the ftiame of having violated her faith. The troops deftined for this fervice arrived in the Tagus on the 6th of May. They were immediately marched to join the Portuguefe army, under the com- mand of the Count de la Lippe Buckeburg, and took the field in the courfe of July. The campaign had xiv IntroduSiion. been commenced by the Spaniards on the fide of Tras OS Montes, in which province Miranda, Braganza, and feme other towns, had fallen into their hands. They next refolved to proceed againft Oporto, but this defign was fruftrated by the bravery of the peafants, who took pofleffion of the defiles, and compelled the Spanifh army to a diforderly retreat. Difappointed in this quarter the enemy turned their fl;eps towards the province of Beira, and laid fiege to the frontier town of Almeida, which, after a fhort defence, fell into their hands through the imbecility and cowardice of its governor. Their army now approached the Tagus, the only direftion in which an invader can penetrate to the capital, all other accefs being rendered nearly, if not quite impradticable, by immenfe chains of moun- tains, and other natural obfl:ru61;ions. To fecond the operations of this army, by an incur- fion into Alemtejo, or by advancing on the oppofite fide of the Tagus, and thus to diftrad: the attention of the Portuguefe, already but too feeble in point of numbers, a body of troops was beginning to afl"emble in Spanifii Eftramadura, at the town of Valencia de Alcantara. It confiflied at prefent of about 1200 men. Well knowing that if this force were fuffered to in- creafe, it would embarrafs him very confiderably, the Count de la Lippe, who was encamped at Abrantes, formed the bold defign of attacking and difperfing it before it aflumed a more formidable afped:. IntroduEiion. xv The execution of this plan was confided to Bur- goyne, who then held the rank of Brigadier. No inconfiderable difficulties Hood in the way of this enterprife ; but the fpirit of the commander was not of a nature to be deprefled by fuch confiderations. He crofled the Tagus, at midnight on the 23d, and with 400 of his own regiment, was joined as he ad- vanced by one or two fmall detachments, and after a laborious march of more than fifteen leagues, per- formed through bad roads, and without halting, he arrived on the morning of the 26th at fome diftance from the town of Alcantara. His intention had been to furprife the place before break of day, but he now found that from the delay, occafioned by the ignorance of the guides, the dawn was at hand, and his fcheme would be fruftrated if he waited till his whole divifion could cooperate in the attack. He, therefore, boldly pufhed forward with his dragoons alone. This audacity was favoured by fortune. At the head of his handful of foldiers he entered the town with fuch determined refolution, that the guards in the fquare were all killed or made prifoners before they could take arms, and the ends of the ftreets were fecured after a trifling re- fiflance. Some parties, having rallied, attempted to return to the charge ; but their lives paid the forfeit of their temerity. A firing was for a fhort time kept up from the windows. It was, however, put a flop to, xvi IntroduSiion. by the menace of fetting the town in flames, at the four corners, if the doors and windows were not inftantly thrown open. Parties were immediately fent out to purfue fuch of the enemy as had efcaped into the country, and in this fervice their fuccefs was very confiderable. In this gallant adlion the lofs of the Englifh was fcarcely worthy of notice ; while on the other hand, that of the Spaniards was remarkably fevere. Many prifoners were taken, among whom was the Spanifh general, and the regiment of Seville was totally de- ftroyed. Three ftandards, with a large quantity of arms and ammunition, fell into the hands of the viftors. In confequence of the flirid; difcipline obferved by the Britifh, very little was fuffered by the town or inhabit- ants. The generofity and gallantry of Burgoyne were indeed fubjedts of praife among the Spanifh officers themfelves. From the Count de la Lippe they re- ceived, in the public orders of the day, the higheft encomiums. All danger was thus at an end on the fide of Alemtejo ; but it was not fo on the other bank of the Tagus, where their immenfe fuperiority of numbers enabled the Spaniards to obtain a footing, though but a trifling one, in Portuguefe Eftramadura, and make a fome- what nearer approach to the capital. Early in Oftober they attacked the old Mooriih caflile of Villa Velha, IntroduEiion. xvii and the defiles of St. Simon. The caftle was, for a confiderable time, fupported acrofs the river by Briga- dier Burgoyne, who was pofted near Nifla and the Tagus. It was, however, at laft compelled to furren- der, the enemy having contrived to turn the pofition. A body of two thoufand Spaniards now encamped in the neighbourhood of Villa Velha. It was foon perceived by Burgoyne, that this corps, proud of its late fuccefles, was a little more carelefs than was proper in the neighbourhood of a vigilant and enter- prifing adverfary. For this unfoldier-like negligence he foon inflidled upon them an exemplary chaftifement. Under his orders Lieutenant Colonel Lee, afterwards a Maj or General in the Army of the American Revolution, crofTed the Tagus, on the night of the 5th of Odiober, with a detachment of 350 Britifh foldiers, and fucceeded in completely furprifing the Spaniih camp. A confider- able flaughter took place, with a very trifling lofs to the afTailants. Some magazines were burned, fix can- nons fpiked, and fixty artillery mules, and a large quantity of baggage taken. After this decifive blow, the detachment recrofl"ed the Tagus, and refumed its original quarters, without interruption. Here clofed the campaign. Harrafl"ed, difpirited, and reduced to almoft one half of their original num- bers, the Spanifh troops retired within their own frontier. Peace was fhortly after concluded between xviii IntroduSiion. the belligerent powers, and the fubje(3; of this memoir returned to his own country, with the reputation of an enlightened, intrepid, and adtive officer. On the 8th of Oftober, previoufly to his embarking for Eng- land, he had been raifed to the rank of Colonel. At the general elecftion in 1761, he had been chofen member for Midhurft, and he accordingly, on his arrival from Portugal, took his feat in the Houfe of Commons. He does not, however, appear to have been, at this period, a very aftive member. On the 1 8th of March, 1762, he was appointed Colonel of the 1 6th Light Dragoons. At the eledtion in 1768, he he was returned for the borough of Prefton. Some circumftances ariling from this event, and from his prefumed connexion with the Duke of Grafton, drew upon him the hoftility of Junius, who, in feveral of his letters, adverts to him in language of great feverity. The fame year he was appointed Governor of Fort William; and Major General in 1772. In the debates of Parliament he now took a more frequent part than he had before done. The adminiftra- tion having accepted, in 1771, from the Spanifh govern- ment, a very inadequate fatisfacflion for the infult which had been offered to Great Britain, by the feizure of the Falkland Iflands, he arraigned their conduct in a fpeech of much eloquence and vigour. But his efforts, and thofe of his friends, were unavailing ; an addrefs IntroduSion. xix approving the convention between the two powers was carried by a large majority. The next year he was not lefs ftrenuous in endeavour- ing to deted: and bring to punifhment the corruption and delinquency which difgraced the charaders of thofe to whom authority had been delegated in the Eaftern empire. It was on his motion that a committee was appointed " to inquire into the nature, ftate, and con- " dition of the Eaft India Company, and of the Britifh " affairs in the Eaft Indies." His fpeech on this occa- fion is highly honourable to him, both as a man, and as an orator. As chairman of the committee, he found himfelf repeatedly called upon to defend the meafures and intentions of himfelf and his colleagues, and he was not backward in the performance of this duty. But, amidft the prefTure of fenatorial and profefTional avocations, he found time for purfuits of a more light and amufing nature. A marriage took place in June, 1774, between Edward, fon of Lord Stanley, and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Ham- ilton. On this occafion a fete champetre was given at the Oaks, which in tafte and fplendour far exceeded every thing of the kind that had been feen before. The fuper- intendence of the whole was committed to Burgoyne. It was for this feftival that he wrote his firft dramatic piece, entitled 'The Maid of the Oaks. This elegant comic entertainment was afterwards, with fome additions, it c XX IntroduBion. is faid, from the pen of Garrick, fucceflTully brought forward on the boards of Drury Lane Theatre. Nor has it yet loft its attractions with the public, though Mrs. Baddely and Mrs. Abingdon, the original repre- fentatives of Maria and Lady Bab Lardoon, have never been equalled by later performers of thofe charadters. His attention, however, was foon called off from letters to arms. He embarked in 1775, with Generals Howe and Clinton, for America, and arrived at Bofton early in June.' Some of the official papers iffued there, at that period, are attributed to his pen. His ftay this time in America was ftiort, as he returned to England during the winter. But in the fpring of 1776, he failed for Canada, where he had fome fhare in affifting Sir Guy Carleton to expel the Americans, who had for many months held a footing in that province, and even reduced its capital, Quebec, to the greateft ex- tremity. The campaign being at an end, he again, at the clofe of the year, landed in his native country. During his abfence in America he fuffered the lofs of his wife. Lady Charlotte Burgoyne, who died at Kenfington Palace, on the 5th of June, 1776. ' The fubjoined Impromptu, was parture of thefe Bridfh Generals for publilhed at London, on the de- America : " Behold the Cerberus the Atlantic plough ! " Her precious Cargo, Burgoyne, Clipton, Howe— » " Bow ! wow ! wow !" IntroduSiion. xxi Government refolved to make, in the Summer of 1777, ^ decifive effort againft the revolted Colonies. A large force was to penetrate toward Albany from Canada, by the way of the Lakes, while another confiderable body advanced up the Hudfon's river, for the purpofe of joining the Canadian army. By this means it was hoped that all communication would be cut off between the Northern and Southern Colonies, and that each of them, being left to its own means of defence, and attacked by fuperior numbers, would inevitably be reduced with little trouble. To diftrad: the atten- tion of the enemy, a detachment was at the fame time to attack Fort Stanwix on the Mohawk river. On the ift of September, 1776, Burgoyne was ap- pointed Lieutenant General, preparatory to afiuming command of this expedition. His opinion of, and difpofition towards the Americans, may be inferred from his fpeech already pronounced in Parliament on the motion for the Repeal of the A6limpofinga Duty on Tea. He confidered that America had been fpoiled by too much indulgence ; the independence of that country of the Britifh legiflature was in queftion, and he was ready to refift that propofition and to contend at any future time againft fuch independence. The future here appealed to was at hand, and we fhall now fee what it had in ftore for the champion of Parliamentary Taxation. xxii IntroduSiion. His Army, numbering between feven and eight thoufand men, fet out from St. John's on the 14th of June, 1777, and encamped at the river Bouquet, on the weft fide of Lake Champlain, near Crown Point. At this place he met the Indians in congrefs, and, according to the ufual cuftom, gave them a war feaft. To reprefs their native barbarity, he addrefled them in a fpeech, recommending humanity to the enemy, and promiling rewards for prifoners, but afluring them that all claims they might make for fcalps would be looked into with a very fufpicious eye. His next ftep was to iflue a Manifefto to the Americans, in which their hopes and fears were alternately worked upt)n, in order to induce their return to obedience. Turgid, pompous and bombaftic, this Proclamation inftead of producing the effed; defired, became the fub- jed; of ridicule, derifion and fatire, and inftead of frightening the Americans, only gained for its author the foubriquet of C^ro«OK/6o/OKMi5/o_g-oj. It was turned into Hudibraftic rhymes by, it is faid, the witty Hop- kinfon, who thus traveftied the threats of the Britifti General : " I will let loofe the dogs of hell, "Ten thoufand Indians, who (hall yell, " And foam and tear, and grin and roar, " And drench their moccafins in gore : "To thefe I'll give full fcope and play " From Ticonderog to Florida ; IntroduBion. xxiii " They'll fcalp your heads and kick your fhins, " And rip your , and flay your fkins, " And of your ears be nimble croppers, " And make your thumbs tobacco-ftoppers. "If after all thefc loving warnings, " My wilhes and my bowels' yearnings, " You fhall remain as deaf as adder, " Or grow with hoftile rage the madder, " I fwear by St. George and by St. Paul, " I will exterminate you all. " Subfcribed with my manual fign " To teft thefe prefents — ^John Burgoyne." Having made fome flay at Crown Point, for the purpofe of eftablifhing a hofpital and magazines, and for other neceflary fervices, the army advanced towards Ticonderoga, which the Americans abandoned. Their retreat was difcovered at the dawn of the 6th of July. A rapid purfuit was inftantly begun, and continued with fuch vigour that their vefTels were totally deftroyed. Hopelefs of making any ftand at Skenelborough, the American troops retired, after deftroying, as well as they could, the various works which had been raifed for its defence. At Skenefborough, General Burgoyne was compelled to wait feveral days for the arrival of tents, baggage, and provifions. While his Army remained here, it was inceflantly employed in opening roads. Towards the end of July, it arrived near Fort Edward, which was abandoned by the Americans, who retired to Saratoga. xxiv IntroduEiion. Here, notwithftanding the moft ftrenuous endeavours were ufed to forward the fervice, a halt of fifteen days was found indifpenfable for the purpofe of bringing for- ward bateaux, provifions, and ammunition, from Fort Anne. Neither oxen nor horfes were to be procured, and the country was befides inundated with continued rain. Intelligence was here received that Colonel St. Leger had begun the fiege of Fort Stanwix. General Burgoyne, therefore, determined to crofs the Hudfon river. But, though every nerve had been fiirained, the provifion in ftore was very trifling. A fupply, however, mufl: abfolutely be obtained. The Ameri- cans had eftablifhed a magazine at Bennington, and it was hoped that by furprifing it, a large proportion of what was wanted might be fecured. On this fervice Lieutenant Colonel Baum was difpatched, with about five hundred men. The Britifh, at the fame time, moved along the Hudfon, and threw a bridge over it oppofite Saratoga. Baum had not reached Bennington, when he received advice that the enemy were in great force at that place. He accordingly halted, and fent off to the Englifli camp for affiftance. It was dif- patched, but before its arrival Baum had been attacked, and his whole party killed or made prifoners. Ignorant of his defeat, the detachment which had been fent to his fuccour continued to advance, until it was fur- rounded by the vidtorious Americans, and fuffered IntroduSiJon. xxv very feverely in making its retreat. Six hundred men were loft to the army by thefe two engagements. Shortly after, Colonel St. Leger was compelled to retire from before Fort Stanwix. Nearly thirty days' provifion having been collefted, Burgoyne crofted the Hudfon, about the middle of September, and encamped at Saratoga. The Ameri- cans were at Stillwater. The Britifli advanced to at- tack them in that pofition, and an obftinate battle enfued, in which much honour, but no folid advan- tage, was gained by the affailants. The field of battle, it is true, remained in the poffeflion of the Britifti, but nothing more, and it was dearly paid for by the fall of a number of brave men. Nothing could be done againft the American camp, all approach to which was rendered impradicable by natural obftacles, as well as by numerous fortifications. Every day alfo fwelled the force of the Americans, and leflened that of the Britifti. Still hoping that, by the approach of an army up the Hudfon from New York, he fhould be enabled to accomplifti the purpofe of the campaign, General Bur- goyne decided upon holding his pofition as long as pof- fible. Great exertions were accordingly made to fecure it by ftrong lines and redoubts. But while the General was fufficiently occupied in front, by the American Army, a daring attempt was xxvi IntroduSiion. made to fhut him up in the rear. From the head of the Connedticut river a body of fifteen hundred men marched, with the utmoft fecrefy, and without being difcovered, againft Ticonderoga, and fucceeded in furprifing fome of the outpofts of that place. They made reiterated afTaults upon the fortrefs itfelf, for four days ; but, being every time repulfed, they at laft retired. The month of Odober opened, and no affiftance was at hand to extricate Burgoyne from his perilous fituation. He now found it expedient to put the troops upon a fhorter allowance, and on the 7th of Odtober, to make a movement to the right, to difcover whether it was poffible to open a paffage forward, or, if that could not be done, at leaft to facilitate a retreat. This motion was alfo defigned to cover a forage of the army. Fifteen hundred men, with eight cannon and two howitzers, were deftined for this purpofe. The General himfelf commanded them, and was feconded by fome of his beft officers. But Arnold, who had perceived how critical his fituation would be if he were turned, did not wait to receive an attack ; he quitted his pofi- tion, and gave battle to the divifion which was advanc- ing againft him. Conftantly reinforced by frefh bat- talions he fucceeded, after a defperate conflicft, in driving the Britifh to their camp, which was immedi- IntroduBion. xxvii ately aflaulted in various parts, and the Americans broke into the lines in that quarter which was defended by Colonel Breymann. An opening was thus made on the right and the rear. The pofition being no longer tenable it was refolved to abandon it, and take poft on the heights above the hofpital, by which the front would be changed, and the Americans compelled to form a new difpofition. This delicate and dangerous movement was effecfled in the night without lofs or diforder. Battle was next day offered to the Americans, whofe movements obliged the Britifh to leave their favourable ground, and retire towards Saratoga. By the morning of the tenth the whole of their Army had croffed the fords of the Fifhkill near that place, and polled itfelf in a ftrong Situation. It was followed there by the Americans, who took every ftep which could preclude the pofTi- bility of efcape. Far from all fuccour, furrounded in the moft diffi- cult of countries by an Army more than four times his own in numbers, provifions growing Ihort, the regi- ments mouldering away, every part of the camp expofed to grape and rifle ibot, and without power to compel the enemy to an adiion, Burgoyne aflembled a council of war to deliberate upon the meafures to be taken in fo painful an exigency. Such were the circumfl:ances of the cafe, that to advance, retreat, or engage, was D xxviii Introduction. equally impoffible. The unanimous voice of the council, therefore, was for entering upon a negotiation. It was finally fettled between the generals, that the Britifh Army fhould march out of its camp with all the honours of war, and fhould be fent to Europe, on condition of not ferving in America during the pre- fent war. Thus terminated this attempt to crufh the Inde- pendence of this country, and thus it was, amid the throes and thunders of battle, that the American nation was ufhered viftorioufly into life, and baptized in blood on the field of Saratoga. The nations of Europe no longer hefitated to recognize its legitimacy, which France had the honour the firft to acknowledge, on the 6th February, 1778. The ideas hitherto entertained of the Americans by Gen. Burgoyne, now experienced a total revolution, and he declared that it would be impoffible for Britain to fucceed in her views, and that he fhould, on his return to England, recommend the recognition of their Independence. He arrived early in 1778 in that country, whither the news of the Saratoga convention had preceded him, and had been received by Minifters with the moft bitter vexation. Prefled already beyond endurance by the oppofition, they were well aware that this additional heavy miffortune would be urged againfl; them in Parliament with all the powers of argument and IntroduBion. xxix eloquence. To throw the blame on the General was the beft means of efcaping reproach that fuggefted itfelf to their minds. No open attack was indeed immedi- ately made in either houfe, but infinuations and hints were not fpared. An audience with his Sovereign was requefted, and refufed. A court of inquiry, appointed to examine his cafe, declared him, as a prifoner on parole, to be out of its cognizance ; and a court martial, which he next infifted upon, was denied him on the fame ground. Parliament alone remained upon which he could throw himfelf for a hearing. He accordingly, on the 26th of May, attended his duty in the Houfe of Commons, and vindicated his condud: in a long, animated, and fatiffadiory fpeech. Two days after he made another in which he arraigned with pointed feverity the weaknefs and incapacity of thofe who held the reins of govern- ment. Some management had been obferved towards him by Minifters during the firft debate, but they were now goaded into the moft determined hoftility. To get rid entirely of all further trouble from him, a weak attempt was made by fome of them to exclude him from the houfe, under pretence that, as a prifoner of war, he could have no right to fpeak or vote. The Speaker being appealed to for his opinion on the fub- jeft, his decifion was given in favour of the General. As this mode of getting rid of him had failed, it was refolved to try another. A lucky opportunity of XXX IntroduEiion. effedling this had, it was thought, occurred, in the cir- cumftance of Congrefs having declined to ratify the Convention, until advices of its having been approved of by the Englifh miniftry had arrived in America. An order from the fecretary of war was accordingly fent him in the beginning of June to repair to New England, his prefence there being neceflary to the troops. Obedience to this order he very properly de- clined. A long correfpondence took place on this fubjecfl, which ended by his voluntary refignation of all his appointments, amounting, it has been faid, to about $17,000 a year. His rank in the Army he, however, retained, in order to render him amenable to a court martial hereafter, and to enable him to fulfil his perfonal faith with the enemy. The long-defired time for defending his calumniated charaifter at length arrived. A committee had, on the repeated demands of Sir William Howe, been appointed in 1781, to inquire into his own condud: during the American war. Before the fittings of this committee were clofed, Burgoyne fucceeded in procuring evidence to be examined before it with refped: to the proceedings of the army under his command. The refult was fuch as could not but be highly flattering to his feelings. Every officer that was examined gave the flirongeft tef- timony to his bravery and fuperior talents. It did not appear that a fingle fault had been found with any of his plans or movements by the moil enlightened judges IntroduEiion. xxxi who were on fervice with him ; but it did clearly ap- pear that he enjoyed the entire confidence of the army, and that, in fituations of the moft trying nature, in the face of difafter, of danger, and of death, he was looked up to by his troops with the warmeft affeftion, and the moft undoubted reliance ; that they were at all times ready to fufFer, to fight, and to periih with him. The committee was ftiortly after fuddenly diflblved, without having pafled a fingle refolution upon the fubjed: which had been referred to its confideration. In 1780 he appeared before the public with two produftions of very diffimilar natures. The firft of thefe was, A State of the Kxp edition from Canada as laid before the Houfe of Commons and verified by Evidence. It was infcribed, in an elegant and affediionate addrefs, to the officers of the army which he had commanded againft the Americans. He narrates, in a concife and perfpicuous manner, yet with great fpirit, the whole of the tranfad:ions which took place. His other literary eflFort was a comic opera, in three acts, called The Lord of the Manor, which was received with much applaufe. It is a light but lively and well- conduded little piece, far fuperior in merit to many later favorites of the fame kind. In the courfe of it, many fevere and witty farcafms are aimed at the ad- miniftration which was then in power. The party which had fo long and fo eloquently op- pofed the ruinous war with America having at laft been xxxii IntroduEiion. called to fhare in the toils and the honours of govern- ment. Gen. Burgoyne was not forgotten. He was on the i6th of April, 1782, appointed Commander in Chief of his Majefty's forces in Ireland ; a few days after, a member of the privy council of that country, and on the 7th June, 1782, Colonel of the 4th Foot. The rank, of commander in chief, however, he re- tained not quite two years, when a new adminiftration was again formed. The new Miniftry foon found itfelf vigoroufly attacked by the party in oppofition. No pains were fpared to render it an objedt of hatred and contempt. To accomplifh thefe ends the powers both of wit and argument were inceflantly employed. Of the weapons ufed in the lighter of thefe two modes of hoftility, the Criticifms on the Rolliad, and the Probationary Odes, were, perhaps, the moft oifenfive to the minifter and his friends. No lefs than twenty-one editions of them have^been publifhed. The Weftminfter Guide, and one of the Probationary Odes, were contributed by General Burgoyne. Both thefe pieces are reprinted in the CoUeftion of his Works. In 1786 appeared his comedy of The Heirefs. It was welcomed, by crowded audiences, with that applaufe which it fo well merited. Nor was it lefs attractive in the clofet. The fale of ten editions in one year bore ample teftimony to its merits. He not long IntroduSiion. xxxiii after gave to the ftage an adaptation of Sedaine's hif- torical romance of Richard Cceur de Lion, and was again fucceflTul in his claim to public approbation. The piece had a very flattering run, and has been fince revived. At an early period of his parliamentary career, Gen. Burgoyne was aftive in the purfuit and expofure of Indian delinquency. After a lapfe of thirteen years he was called upon to affift others in the perform- ance of a fimilar talk. He was chofen in 1787, one of the committee of managers for conducing the im- peachment of Mr. Haftings. Under this character he, during the courfe of the trial, moved the cenfure of the houfe upon Major Scott, for a libel on the con- dudt of the committee. The motion was carried. His fteady performance of his duty as a manager, expofed him to an anonymous attack, publifhed in a colleftion of epiftles, the poetical ftyle of which was in imitation of the New Bath Guide. The conclufion of Mr. Haftings's trial the General did not live to witnefs. His death took place on the 4th of Auguft, 1792, from a fudden attack of the gout, at his houfe in Hertford ftreet, May Fair, and was an unexpefted ftroke to his friends, as he had been out in apparently good health the preced- ing day. He was buried, in a very private manner, on the 13th, in the cloifters of Weilminfler Abbey. Only one coach, containing four gentlemen, attended xxxiv IntroduSiion. his funeral. No memorial, not even a fimple ftone, marks the fpot where his remains are interred.' Having thus difpofed of the principal adtor in the momentous movement againft the infant liberties of the Republic, nothing remains but to allude to fome other portion of our labours. By the courtefy of Mr. Thornton of Bofton, we are enabled to add a copy of the Parole figned by the officers of the army at Cambridge, in December, 1777; alfo the names of thofe officers now, as far as we are aware, for the firft time correftly printed. The reader will find alfo, in this volume, carefully prepared biographical iketches of Gen. James Wilkinfon, Gen. Riedefel, and other officers who made this campaign, and likewife a lift of the feveral Brunfwick officers who ferved under Gen. Riedefel's command. We are indebted to the polite- nefs of the Hon. James Partridge, Secretary of State of Maryland, for a copy of the joint Refolution of the General Affembly of that State, conferring a penfion on Gen. Wilkinfon, and to Mr. Dawson of White Plains, for the German work from which we have obtained the materials for the life of Gen. Riedefel, and the roll of his officers, with fuch particulars as are appended to each of their names. Other affiftance will be found acknowledged in the Appendix. I Moft of the particulars refpeft- prefixed to an edition of his Z)r«OT«- ing Gen. Burgoyne, embraced in tic and Poetical Worh, London, this Introdtiftion, are borrowed from 1808, 2 vols., izmo. 3 Sketch of the Life of that Officer ORDERLY BOOK. ^^^^^HE Chaffeurs, Light Infantry and '' s'^" Grenadiers under Col. Bre?nen, form the Advanced Guard oppo- fite the Point, which is a httle above cleared Ground, on the Right of the ^^^ Incampment. The Dragoons of Reidefell follov^^ immediately the Advanced Guard. The Firfl Brigade Britifh leads the Line at the Diftance of about 200 Yards in the Rear of the Dragoons. The German Brigades follovs^ in their order. Each Corps will make a Column of four Boats in Front, and on the Flanks of the Column, taking care to leave Room for the Oars of the Center Boats. As foon as the whole are difpofed in the above order, two Guns will be fired from the Maria, and a Jack hoifted at Foretopmaft Head, at which the whole will move, and whether failing or rowing, will endeavor to keep the fame Order. Burgoynes Orderly Book. Sandy Bluff, June 20, 1777. Parole, St. Peters. Counterfign, Florence. Lieut. General Burgoyne takes the Occafion of the Army affembUng to exprefs pubUckly the high Opinion he entertains of the Troops which his Majefty has been gracioufly pleafed to entruft to his Command ; they could not have been feledted more to his Satiffadiion. And the Lieut. General trufts it will be received as one mark of his Atten- tion to their Glory and Welfare, that with the promife of every encouragement the fervice will allow, he declares a determination, and he calls upon every officer to affift him, to maintain a fteady Syftem of Subordination and Obedience. The following Standing Regulations laid down to prevent the neceffity of lengthening the daily Orders, and are to be invariably obferved. Officers of all Ranks commanding out Pofts and Detachments, are conftantly to fortify in the bell: manner the circumftances of the place and the implements at hand will permit. Felling Trees with their Points outward, barricading Churches and Houfes, Breaftworks of Earth and Timber, are generally to be effedled in a fhort Time, and the Science of Engineering is not necelTary to find and apply fuch refources. The Pradlice of fortifying which is ufeful in all Services, is particularly fo in this, where the Enemy, infinitely inferior to the Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 3 King's Troops in open fpace and hardy Combat, is well fitted by difpofition and pradtice for the Strata- gems and Enterprifes of little War. And neither the diftance of Camps nor the Interference of Forefts and Rivers are to be looked upon as fecurity againft his Attempts. Upon the fame principle it muft be a conftant rule in or near Woods to place advanced Centries w^here they may have a Tree or fome other defence to prevent their being taken off by fingle marksmen. Together with thefe precautions Officers will ever bear in mind how much the publick honour and their own are concerned in maintaining a Pofl; and that to juftify a Retreat in the prefent War, the number of the Enemy muft be much fuperior to that which would make their Juftification when adting againft brave and difciplined Forces. The Officers will take all proper Opportunities, and efpecially at the beginning of the Campaign, to inculcate in the men's minds a Reliance upon the Bayonet. Men of half their bodily ftrength, and even Cowards may be their match in firing; but the onfet of Bayonets in the hands of the Valiant is irrefiftible. The Enemy, convinced of this truth, place their whole dependance in Entrenchments and Rifle pieces. It will be our Glory and pre- fervation to ftorm where poffible. The Attention of every Officer in Ad:ion is to be employed upon his men. To make ufe of a Fufil, except in very extraordinary cafes of imme- 4 Burgoyne s Orderly Book. diate perfonal defence, would betray an ignorance of his importance, and his Duty. No occalion can make it neceffary to keep the Arms loaded in the Bell Tents : nor are the Bat- talions of the Line ever to be loaded upon the march till very near the time when they may be expedted to engage. No Parties are to go from Camp with or with- out Arms, without a proportionate number of Officers. Not only the Difcipline and Honour, but alfo the fafety of the Troops require the flridteft prohibition from Straggling and Plundering, and the Savages as well as the Provoft, will have Orders to punifh Offenders in thefe refpedls, inftantly, and with the utmoft rigour. The Camp will always be extended as widely as the Ground will admit, for the fake of Cleanlinefs and of Health ; but as it muft often happen that the extent will be infufficient for the Line to form in the Front of the Encampment, according to the prefent eftablifhment of open Files and two deep, the Quarter-Mafter-General will therefore mark at every new Camp the Portion of Ground each Bat- talion is to clear over and above its own Front, in order to make the work equal. To clear this Ground muft be the immediate bufinefs after arriv- ing in Camp, and in this Country, it may often be neceffary to have an Alarm Poft cleared in the Rear as well as in the Front. By clearing is meant the removal of fuch obftruftions as might prevent the Burgoynes Orderly Book. 5 ready forming of the Troops to receive or advance upon the Enemy. It is not neceflary to cut the large Trees for that purpofe, except where they may afford Shelter for the Enemy. Quarter Guards are always to face outwards, and at the diftance of a hundred yards from the Bells of Arms, and to have a Fluke of earth or timber thrown up before them. When the Encampment of the Line is with the Front to the water, and too near to admit of this regulation, the Quarter Guards are to be pofted in the Rear, and thofe of the Flank Regiments occa- fionally upon the Flanks. Though the ground will feldom admit a ftrift regularity in pitching the Officers' Tents, they are never to be placed fo as to interfere with the Line of Defence. All Deferters from the Enemy, fufpedled Spies, or other perfons prefenting themfelves at the Out- pofts, or otherwile flopped, are to be fent forthwith to Head Quarters, without queflioning them. In all Duties by Detachment, the Corps will furnifh according to their Effedlive Strength. When the Lieut. General vifits an Outpofl, the men are not to ftand to their Arms, or pay him any Compliment. The Articles of War which regard the men, to be read at the head of every Regiment to-morrow evening parade, and afterwards thefe Regulations. 6 Burgoyne's Orderly Book. The Daily Duties will be as follows. One Brigadier General for the Day, who will vifit the Outpofts, and have a General infpedlion over the Camp. All reports are to be made through him, except when any Alarm or other Exigency requires inftant notice to the Commander-in-Chief. A Major of Brigade for the Day, who is to pa- rade all Guards, and Detachments, &c* When the laft Brigade arrives the Picquet will confift of one Field Officer for each Wing ; one Captain for each Brigade, one Subaltern, one Ser- jeant, one Corporal, and twenty-five Private men, from each Regiment. A Drum to be furnifhed by the Regiment which gives the Captain. The whole Picquet to affemble half an hour be- fore Gun firing at the Centre of the Line, and to be exercifed in marching and charging with Bayo- nets, under the infpedtion of the Brigadier of the day, in order that the Britifh and German Troops may acquire a uniformity of pace and motion when adling together in Line. Half the Picquet is always to be pofted during the night at fome diftance from the Camp, and at fuch places as may be expofed to the fecret approach of the Enemy. It will be the care of the Briga- dier of the Day to poll: them. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 7 Camp at River Bouquet, June 21 St, 1777. Parole, St. Mark. Counterfign, Rome. The Army will move forward on Monday, and take up the Ground now occupied by Brigadier General Frafer\ Corps, near the River Bouquet. They will take their Orders from Major General Reidefel. Camp at River Bouquet, ) June 22^, ijjy. J Parole, St. Mary. Counterfign, Scotland. Camp at RiyER Bouquet, June 23d, 1777. Parole, St, George. Counterfign, England. Camp at River Bouquet, June 24th, 1777. Parole, St. Marguerite. Counterfign, Chamblee. The Lieut. General has obferved with fatiffadtion, that fome Corps have got the Art of making Flour cakes without ovens, which are equally wholefome and relifhing with the beft Bread. He recom- mends it ftrongly to the Commanding Officers to bring their Corps into this ufeful Pradlice, as it may frequently happen that the movements of the Army will be too quick to admit a poffibility of conftrudling ovens. No Guns to be fired.in Camp, and the flanding 8 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Orders againft any Soldier going beyond the ad- vanced Gentries is to be put ftriftly in Execution from this day. One day's Provifions to be cooked this eveniog or to-morrow morning, to be ready for the next movement of the Army. Camp at River Bouquet, June 25*, 1777. Parole, St. Julien. Counterfign, Lijbon. The Army vi^ill move tonight, w^eather permit- ting. Major General Reidefel commands. The daily Duty as regulated in the Orders of the 20th June takes place. Brigadier General of the day, Powell. Brigade Major, Muir. Field Officer for the Picquet Britifh, Maj. Irivine. Field Officer for the Picquet German, . Crown Point, June 26"^^, 1777. Parole, St. Anthony. Counterfign, Padua. Each Regiment will fend the D. A. General a Return of the Dates of the Officers' Commiffions, fpecifying thofe who have Rank in the Army fenior to their Regimental Rank. Monthly Returns are to be fent the firft of every month to Head Quarters. The Britifh according to the printed Forms. The Brigades will fend in their weekly States immediately ; for the future they are to be fent to Head Quarters every Mon- day. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 9 Each Regiment will fend in a Return of the number of Rations daily drawn for Officers, EfFedl- ive Soldiers, Women and Servants. The Britifh are to fend Jix Batteaux and the Germans ten, with five men in each, and proper Officers and Non-Commiflion Officers along fide of the Wafhington, to-morrow morning at four o'clock, to receive Directions from Mr. Commiff"ary General Clarke, for unloading and tranfporting Provifions on Shore. The Britiffi to furnifli 40 men, and the Germans 20, with Officers, &c., to receive the Provifions at Chimney Point, and to arrange them. This Party to parade half an hour after the former. When the Wings of the Army are feparated, as in the prefent inftance by a River, it is not required that the Picquet (hould join, but they are to aflem- ble by Wings in the Front of the Encampment, and the Field Officer of each Wing will poft the Part that is to be advanced. No Evening Gun to fire till further Orders. ' Lieut. Twifs, Aid de Camp to Major General Phillips, has the Command of the Corps of Engi- neers, and is to be obeyed accordingly. In cafe of an Alarm, the Army is always to form in the Front of the Camp, unlefs particularly ordered to the contrary. lo Burgoynes Orderly Book. Camp Crown Point, 27'^ June, 1777. Parole, St. James. Counterfign, Genoa. Brigadier General for the day, Specht. Brigade Major, Cleve. Field Officer for the Picquet Britifh, Colo. Hill. Field Officer for the Picquet German, Lt. Col. Frajlonus. A Return to be given in this Evening, what Batteaux are miffing. If any cannot proceed without repair, they are to be reported at the fame time. The evening Gun will fire this evening from the Right, and is to be repeated upon the Left, and to be continued till the Wings join, when one Gun only will be fired. If any of the Regiments want working Tools to clear their Ground, they are to apply to the Brigades of Artillery upon the Flanks, and return them as foon as the work is done. The greateft Attention muft be had to the care of the Tools, as the Regi- ments will be anfwerable for them. Lieut. Roberton of the Corps of Engineers is attached to the Right Wing of the Army, and to take Orders occafionally for Strengthening the Right of the Camp, from the Brigadiers Powell^ I Henry Watson Powell. We pany in the 64th Foot, which regi- find this officer appointed in Sept. ment fcrved in the expedition againft 1756, to the command ot a com- the French Weft India Iflands in Burgoynes Orderly Bot)L ii and Hamilton. Lieut. Dunford is attached to the Left Wing of the Army under the Command of Major General Reidefel. Camp Crown Point, 28'^ June, ijjj- Parole, St. Patrick. Counterfign, Dublin. Brigadier General for the day, Hamilton. Brigade Major, Kirkman.^ 1759, and in America in 1768. On the zd June, 1770, he became Major of the 38th, and on 2;th July, 1 77 1, Lieutenant Colonel of the 53 d, which formed a part of this expedition, wherein Lieut. Colonel Powell held the rank of Brigadier General. When the Americans evacuated Ticonderoga on the 6th July, 1777, Brig. Powell was left in command of that poll with a fuitable garrifon. After the defeat of Baum at Bennington, the Ameri- cans devifcd a plan to cut off Bur- goyne's fupplics. With that view an expedition was got up to recover Ticonderoga. The manner of con- dufting the movement was left to Gen. Lincoln with a force of 1500 of the New Hampfhire and Con- nefticut militia. Such fecrecy and adlivity had been ufed on the occa- fion that early on the I 8th of Septem- ber they fucceeded in fecuring the old French lines near the fort and fummoncd the garrifon to furrender. Brig. Gen. Powell however dechned the invitation, and for four days maintained a moft gallant defence. and at laft obliged the enemy to retreat. On the evacuation of Ticonderoga in November, Brig. Powell returned to Canada. He obtained the brevet rank of Colonel in 1779; was advanced to the grade of Major General on 20th November, 1782, and to the chief command of the 69th regiment in April, 1792. On the 20th April, 1794, he became Colonel of the 15th Foot; Lieutenant-General in 1796 ; a General in the Armv on the I ft January, I 801, and died at Lyme, at an advanced age, on the 14th July, 1 814. I Michael Kirkman received a commiflion of 2d Lieutenant in the 2lft Fuzileers on the 12th May, 1 76 1, the regiment being fent on the expedition againft Bclleifle. He was appointed I ft Lieutenant in 1 768 ; accompanied his regiment to Canada in 1 776, and became Adju- tant of it in February of that vcar, and Captain on the 8th June, 1777. His name appears for the laft time in the Army Lift of 1782. 12 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Field Officer for the Picquet Britifh, Lt. Col. Lind. Field Officer for the Picquet German, Lt. Col. Lentz. Should it be neceffary for the Line to embark fuddenly, two Guns will be fired from the Right Wing, which are to be repeated upon the Left. Upon that Signal, the men's Tents are to be ftruck immediately, and flowed in the Batteaux, together with Knapfacks, Blankets, Provifions, and Ammunition ; no other Articles of Baggage are to be carried, confequently 17 Boats will fuffice for each Battalion Britifh, and 22 Boats for each Bat- talion German. The remaining Boats to be left to bring forward the Officers' Tents and reft of the Baggage when ordered. A Subaltern and 20 men pr. Regiment and one Captain from each Brigade to be left in charge of them. Should it be neceffary for the Line to move fud- denly without embarking, four Guns will be fired from the Right and repeated upon the Left. At which Signal the Line to form with all poffible expedition, in the Front of the Bells of Arms, and Tents to be left ftanding. Thefe Orders to remain in force during the whole Campaign. The Troops are to make up Cartridges accord- ing to the Standing Order of the Army, to a Burgoynes Orderly Book. 13 hundred rounds a man. Thofe Regiments which are not fupplied with that number in Powder, Ball and Paper, are to apply to the Artillery. But fhould the Magazine Veffel not be arrived for delivery of thofe Articles diredtly, the Regiments to make an equal Divifion of the Ammunition as it now ftands, and the Brigadiers General will give Orders accordingly. The greateft care to be taken of the Mufquet Cartridges, not only of thofe carried by the Soldiers, but what is referved in the Ammunition Boxes, and the Ball never to be loft or thrown away. And as the Orders given laft year are fufficiently clear and ftrong on this matter, no more need be obferved than that from the difficulty of frefh fupplies crofs the Lake, it becomes the duty of the Commanding Officers of Companies to be particularly attentive to this, fo material a part of their Service. And the Commanding Officers of Corps are made anfwerable that the Orders given on this fubjeft are obeyed. Orderly time is fixed for 1 1 o'clock. Crown Point, 29^^ June, 1777. Parole, St. Francis. Counterfign, Cork. Brig'' General for the day, Powell. Brigade Major, Muir. Field Officer for the Picquet Britifh, Major Forjier- Brigadier General for the German, Specht. 14- Burgoynes Orderly Book. Brigade Major, Cleve. Field Officer for Picquet German, Major Hille. While the Wings of the Army remain divided, the Brigadier's Duty of Infpedlion will be done by a Brig'' of each Wing, who will take this duty three days about. And the Brigadier of the Left Wing will report to Major General Reidefel. The Corps de Referve of the Left Wing will receive Provi- fions this afternoon to the 8th of July inclufive. The reft of Army will tomorrow morning receive Provifions to the fame time. All the Batteaux that want repair are to be fent to Chimney Point with proper men to take care of them, which men are to affift in picking Oakum if neceffary. Each Wing will fend ten Batteaux at a time. The Referve of the Germans to furnifh a Guard upon the Depot at Chimney Point of an Officer and 30 men to furnifh Centinels as the Commiflary General fhall require. The Referve will alfo fur- nifh a Sergeant and 1 2 men to cover the Workmen in the Woods : they are to receive their Orders from Engineer Twifs.^ I William Twiss was born in moted to a lieutenancy; from 1772 the year 1745, and entered the to the end of 1775, he was em- Military Department of the Ord- ployed on [he new fortifications for nance in July, I 760, and in No- the defence of the dock-yard at vember, 1763, obtained a com- Portfmouth ; early in 1776 he em- miifion as Enfign in the corps of barked with General Burgoyne and Engineers. He did duty as an his army for Canada, and landed at Engineer in the Garrifon at Gibral- Quebec in June, when he was no- tar until 1771, when he was pro- minated Aid-de-Camp to Major Burgoynes Orderly Book. 15 Two Batteaux with proper Oars are to be fent from every Regiment to Chimney Point, to be deUvered to Mr. Stuart, foreman of the Caulkers. The Picquets of the Line to be formed an hour before Sun let, in order to their being pofted while it is light. General Phillips. He was with the Army in purfuing the Americans up the river St. Lawrence, and was in the affair at Three Rivers, 8th June, and proceeded with the Army until the Americans were driven out of Canada, and embarked in their fleet and boats on Lake Cham- plain in July. He was then ap- pointed by Sir Guy Carleton, the Commander-in-Chief, to be Comp- troller of Works, and to fuperintend the conftruftion of a fleet for Lake Champlain, with gun boats and batteaux for carrying the army over the Lake; and with the able aflift- ance of the naval department, over which Admiral Schank was made Commiffioncr, they began, in the middle of July, every neceffary pre- paration tor io arduous an under- taking, and at a time that govern- ment had neither veflel nor boat on Lake Champlain, nor the fmallcft building for barracks, ftore-houfes, or workfliops. Notwithftandingall which, a numerous fleet was con- ftrufted which fought and defeated the Americans at Valcour Ifland, on the 1 ith and 12th Odober, and obtained the naval fuperiority during the whole war. He then proceeded with the army to Crown Point, and with it returned and wintered in Canada. In the Spring of 1777, he was appointed Commanding Engineer under General Burgoyne; and in July was with the army at the inveftment of Ticonderoga, where the Americans had employed many thoufand men, during eight months, in fortifying Mount Inde- pendence ; but from the pofition which the army took, thefe works were immediately abandoned. He ferved with the army the whole of the campaign, and was prefent at all the general aftions, and was in- cluded in the Convention of Sara- toga, but was, with other ofiicers, exchanged a rew days afterwards and returned to Ticonderoga, when he aflifted in the evacuation of that poll in November, 1777. At the clofe of 1778 he obtained a com- miffion as Captain, and in that year was fent by General Sir F. Haldi- mand to Lake Ontario, to form a naval ellablifhment on the call fide of that lake ; and was afterwards employed in different parts of Ca- nada as Commanding Engineer, until the peace of 1783, when he obtained leave to return to England. Ill 1785 he was employed as Secre- tary to the Board of Land and Sea 1 6 Burgoynes Orderly Book. The Regiments to parade under arms at the fame time to pradlice the firing motions, which is to be done in as quick time as poffible, being regular. The Brigadiers will take care that every Regiment purfues the fame method. Crown Point, 30^'^ June, 1777. Parole, St. David. Counterfign, Wales. Brigadiers and Brigade Majors as yefterday. Officers, appointed under the King's Sign Manual, to report upon the defences of the dockyards at Portf- mouth and Plymouth. From 1785 to 1792, he was employed as an Engineer atPortfmouth, where many new works were conftru£ting, par- ticularly Cumberland Fort, at the entrance of Langfton Harbour. In June, 1794, he was made Lieutenant Colonelj and in the fame year was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Academy at Woolwich. Between 1792 and 1799, he was employed in augmenting the de- fences on the coafts of Kent and SulTex, particularly at Dover Caille. In 1799, upon Colonel Hay of the Engineers being killed in Holland, he was fent as Commanding Royal Engineer, under the Duke of York, and remained there until the evacua- tion of that country was completed ; and on the ill January, 1800, he obtained the rank of Colonel, in which year he was fent to vifit the Iflands of Guernfey and Jerfey. In I 802 he was ordered to make the tour of Ireland, and report refpeft- ing its defences. In 1803 he was again fent to the coafts of Kent and Suflcx, and was appointed Brigadier General in February, i 804 ; Major General on the 30th Oftobcr, 1 805, in which year he was direfted to carry into execution the fyftem of detached redoubts and towers which government had adopted for the defence of that feacoaft, and was finifhcd about the year 1 809 ; on the 24th of June in that year he was appointed Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers, when he ceafed to be Lieutenant Governor of the Academy at Woolwich. In l8lo, after an adlive fervice of fifty years, he obtained leave to be unemployed, and retired into the country. On the I ft January, 181 2, he rofe to the rank of Lieutenant General, and became General in the Army 27th May, 1825. General Twifs died March 14th, 1827, at his feat at Harden Grange, Yorkfhire, aged 82 years. (Gentleman's Maga- zine.) Burgoynes Orderly Book. 17 Field Officer for Picquet Britifh, Lt. Col. Suth- erland^ Field Officer for Picquet German, Mzf Mongon. The Army embarks tomorrow to approach the Enemy. We are to contend for the King and the Conftitu'tion of Great Britain, to vindicate the Law and to relieve the OpprefTed. A Caufe in which His Majefty's Troops and thofe of the Princes His Allies, will feel equal Excitement. The Services required of this particular Expedi- tion are critical and confpicuous. During our pro- grefs occafions may occur, in which nor difficulty nor labour nor life are to be regarded. This Army must not Retreat. The General to beat tomorrow at dawn of day, inftead of the Revallie ; the Affembly an hour afterwards. The Dragoons of Reidefel form the Advanced Guard, except the Part of them which I Nicholas Sutherland was that expedition ; obtained a Com- commiiTioned Lieutenant in the 62d pany in December, 1761, and or firft Highland Battalion 8th Jan- fcrved in the expeditions againft uary, 1757, on the organization of Martinico and Havana in 1762, that corps. The number of this and in i 763 went on half pay, where regiment was afterwards changed to he remained until March, 1765, the 77th, and Mr. Sutherland be- when he obtained a company in the came Captain-Lieutenant of it 15th zift Fuzileers, of which corps he September, 1758, and ferved in the bccameMajor, ziftFebruary, 1772. expedition againft Fort Du Qucfne, He was promoted to be Lieutenant which was reduced in the following Colonel of the 47th Foot on the 5th November. This regiment formed November, 1776, and figned the part of the army under Amherft in Cambridge parole in the following 1759, and was detached againft the month. Lt. Col. Sutherland held Cherokees, in 1760. Capt. Lieu- his rank in the 47th until his death, tenant Sutherland was wounded in which occurred in the year 1781. 3 1 8 Burgoynes Orderly Book. guard the General's Tents, who will come up in the rear of the Line. Each Wing to form a Column of Batteaux as in the former movement, the Right Wing keeping the Weft Shore, the Left Wing the Eaft. Both Wings are to take up the Ground of the new Encampment in two Lines. A Detachment of one Field Officer, two Cap- tains, four Subalterns with Non-commiffion Officers in proportion, and two hundred men are to remain at Chimney Point to guard the Magazines. This Detachment to be taken from the Second Brigades of each Wing. The Britifh give the Field Officer, one Captain, two Subalterns, and one hundred men — the German one Captain, two Subalterns and one hundred men. Field Officer for this Duty Lieut. Col° Anjiruther ; this Detachment to relieve the prefent Guards at Chimney Point this evening an hour before funfet. Immediately after coming to the new Camp to-morrow a Party of Fatigue, confifting of 25 men per Regiment of the Right Wing, with Officers in proportion, to parade in front of their firft Line, where they will receive tools and take Direcllions from the Engineer of the Wing. The men deiigned for this party are to be fpared from the labour of rowing the Batteaux in order to keep them frefh. The Left Wing will at the fame time clear their Front to the extent of a mufquet fhot. The 62d Regiment are to compleat their Provi- iions to the 8th day of July incluiive. The two Burgoynes Orderly Book. 19 Batteaux per Regiment that were ordered to be delivered to Mr. Stuart in yefterday's Orders, have only been obeyed in part. Thofe Regiments that neglefted to fend their Batteaux are to fend them immediately. When Orders are given and no particular time named, they are to be executed not only with Puniluality, but with the utmoft difpatch. No Officers to go to the advanced Corps of the Army without leave, and having permiffion are never to go beyond the Outpofts of thofe Corps, without previous leave of the Officer commanding them. His Excellency Sir Guy Carleton has been pleafed to make the following Promotions in the Army. 53^^ Regiment Mr. Hamilton^ to be Enfign in the Room of Enl" Davis deceafed. Quarter M'' Price"" of the 53^^ Regiment is appointed Lieutenant in the Emigrants. Serjeant Major yohn Chalmers of the 53^^ Regi- ment is appointed Quarter Mafter in room of Lieut. Price. Mr. May is appointed Enfign in the Emigrants. Captain Green^ of the 31^'^ Regiment is appointed I Thomas Hamilton was pro- the above date was commiflioned moted to a lieutenancy 27th De- Lieutenant in the ift battalion of cember, 1785, and went on half the 84th, which was difbanded in pay in 1788. 1783- i David Price was appointed 3 Charles Green was born at Quarter Mailer of the 53d regi- Gibraltar, December 18, 1749, the mcnt 29th March, 1776, and on fecond fon of Chriftopher Green, 20 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Aid de Camp to Major General Phillips during the Campaign. Camp at Ticonderoga, i^t July, 1777. Parole, St. Peters. Counterfign, Weftminfter. Brigadiers and Brigade Majors as yefterday. Field Officer for Picquet British, Major Forbes. Field Officer for Picquet German, Major Elvren- krook. Efq. a Captain in the army, by Britannia, daughter of Charles Ham- thon, of Monaghan, in Ireland, Efq. He was appointed Gentleman Ca- det in the Royal Artillery 1760, Enfign in the 31ft Foot 1765, and joined that regiment in the follow- ing year at Pcnfacola in Well Flo- rida. In 1768 he was employed under Brig. Gen. Haldimand in a particular fervice to New Orleans and the Natches, on the Miffiffippi, and in 1769 removed with the regiment to St. Auguftine in Eaft Florida. He was promoted to a heutenancy November 23, that year. Ini77i, he was employed as an Engineer in the Bahama Iflands ; and having re- joined the 31ft regiment at the latter end of 1772, in the Ifland of St. Vincent, ferved in the campaign againft the revolted Charibs. He returned to England with the regi- ment in May, 1773 ; was appointed Adjutant foon after; purchafcd the captain-lieutenancy in 1774, and fucceeded to a company in 1775. In 1776 he again accompanied the regiment acrofs the Atlantic; and was prefent at the aftion of Trois Rivieres, on the 8th of June. At the opening of the campaign of 1777, he was appointed Aid-de- Camp to Major Gen. Phillips, the fecond in command ; and was wounded at the action of Freeman's Farm in September. Having re- turned to England in March, 1778, Capt. Green was appointed Aid-dc- Camp to Lt. Gen. Sir A. Oughton, Commander-in-chief in North Bri- tain ; after whofe death, in May, 1780, he rejoined the 31ft regiment, and in 1781 was appointed Major of brigade to the Montreal diftrift. He was included in the brevet of Majors in 1783, and purchafed the majority of the 3ifl in 1788. On the breaking out of the war in 1793, he being then nearly at the head of the lill of Majors in the army, was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of one ot the battalions formed from the in- dependent companies ; whence, in February, 1 794, he exchanged to the command of the 30th regiment. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 21 Communications to be made between the fecond Line and firft Line towards the great wood leading from Crown Point to Ticonderoga. Should it be necefTary to fuftain the Advanced Corps of the Army. The Firjl Brigade Britifh will move by Land, the Seond Brigade by water. It will be therefore neceffary that the ground over which the Firft Brigade would pafs, be thoroughly with which he proceeded to Corfica in May following, and remained there until 1796, having for the greater part of that time adled as Infpeftor General of Corfican troops raifed for the Britifli fcrvice. In 1796 Lieut. Col. Green was ap- pointed Civil Governor of Grenada, in which office he continued until 1801, when, his fight being much injured by the climate, he received permiffion to return. He had in the mean time been promoted to the rank -of Colonel, in January, 1797, and Brigadier General, Oft. 1 798. Early in 1803, he was appointed Brigadier General on the ftaff in Ireland, and commanded in the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny; and was afterwards removed to the ilafF in England, and to command at Dover and Deal. He received the honour of knighthood May 3, that year. In January, 1 804, he was appointed Colonel of the York Light Infantry Volunteers. In the fame month he received orders to proceed immediately to Barbadoes, to take the temporary command of the troops in the Leeward Iflands. He arrived there in March, and, in purfuance of his inftruftions, failed in April, in command of an expedi- tion againft the Dutch fettlement of Surinam, which, after an aftive feries of operations for about nine days, capitulated to the Bridih arms. He remained at Surinam about a year in adminiftration of the civil government ; and, having obtained leave to return home on account of ill health, was honoured on his arrival with a patent of Baronetcy, dated December 5, 1805. In May, 1807, Sir Charles Green was ap- pointed to the command of the gar- rifon at Malta, which he retained until the May following. In Au- guft, 1808, he was removed to the 1 6th regiment; in 1809 promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General ; in March, 1812, placed on the Staff to command the Northern diflrift; in November, 181 3, re- moved to the London diftrift ; in 1814, appointed Colonel of the 37th Foot ; and in 1 8 19, advanced to the rank of General. He died at Cheltenham, in 1831, aged 81. (Annual Biog. xvi, 439.) 22 Burgoyne s Orderly Book. reconnoitered, and it is to be a ftanding rule for the Commanding Officers of Corps, as well as the Brigadiers, always to make themfelvps acquainted with the Ground in Front. No fires to be made at the roots of trees, nor are the trees not cut down to be belted, as marks of communication will be fufficiently made by notches. A Working Party of 25 men, a Regiment from the Right Wing with Officers in proportion to be ready to turn out at five o'clock tomorrow morn- ing, to attend the Commanding Engineer. Camp near Ticondercga, 2'^ July, 1777. Parole, St. 'Theodorius. Counterfign, Gloucefter. Brigadier General for Britifh, 'Hamilton.'^ Brigade Major, Kirkman. Field Officer for Britifh Picquet, Major Irwing. Brigadier General German, Gall, Brigade Major, Gifmar. Field Officer German Picquet, Major Luke. ' James Inclis Hamilton was the expedition againft Belleifle. On Captain in the Army as early as the increafe of the Army in 1 76 1, 1755, and on the 25th Auguft, Captain Hamilton was appointed 1756, obtained a company in the Major commanding the newly raifed 34th Foot, which regiment had 113th regiment, and on its reduc- formed part of the garrifon at Fort tion in 1 763 went on half pay. St. Philip when befieged by the In 1772 he obtained the brevet French in June, 1756. In 1758 rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and the regiment was employed in the on the iith March, 1774, was expedition to St. Male on the coafl appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the of France, and in 1760 ferved in 2111 or Royal North Britifh Fuzi- Burgoynes Orderly Book. 23 Upon the Order for eftablifhing Foint an Fer a Military Port, Lieut. Tivifs of the Corps of Engi- neers, with Lieut. Beacroft of the 24th Regiment, Affiftant Engineer, were fent there to form the Eftablifliment accordingly. A Detachment of Infantry was alfo fent to cover the Workmen and defend the Poft, when it be- came a matter of doubt whether the Officer Com- mar^ding that Detachment was to coniider himfelf under the Orders of the Engineer at that Poft, although of Senior Rank by Commiffion. To prevent Doubts or Inconveniences in the Service for the future, it is to be underftood by the Army, that whoever has the honour to have a Commiffion from the King muft take Command according to the date of fuch Commiffion, and therefore Engineers and Affiftant Engineers, being ftationed or employed by Order of the Commander leers, and proceeded to Canada in feparation of the officers from the 1776 with the rank of Brigadier foldiers, he did all in his power to General, having the command of the alleviate the fufferings of the men and 2d brigade. Having accoinpanied ordered that they fhould be paid the the Britifh portion of the " Con- balance of their accounts. Brig, vention " troops to Maflachufetts, Hamilton was advanced to the rank his name is found figned to the of Major General in 1787, and on parole given by the officers at thezzd Augufl, 1792, was appointed Cambridge in December. Thefe Colonel of the 15 th Foot, and on troops having been afterwards or- the 20ih June, 1794, of his old re- dered to the South, Brig. Hamilton giment, the 21ft Fuzileers. He was was ftationed at Frcdericktown in advanced to the grade of Lieutenant Maryland. When orders were General in 1 797 ; became General received for their removal to Lan- in the Army in 1802, and died at carter on the approach of Lord his houfe at Murdoftown, 27th July, Cornwallis in 1781, and for the 1803. 24- Burgoynes' Orderly Book. in Chief at any Poft with any Detachment of the Army, muft be obeyed as commanding that Poft, fhould the date of his Commiffion be lenior to that of other Officers in fuch a Situation. The Condudl however of the Officers who went on thefe Detachments is to be commended by having declined any difpute which might have proved of any inconvenience to the Service. The Parties that were applied for by the Pay- mafter General and the Hofpital, being for a tem- porary purpofe, they were of courfe to return to their Regiments as foon as that duty was done. Camp near Ticonderoga, 3-^ July, 1777. Parole, St. Honora. Counterfign, Dover, Brigadier Generals and Brigade Majors as yefter- day. Field Officer Picquet Britifh, Lieut. Col. Hill. Field Officer Picquet German, Major Pajfem. It being apparent that Liquor is fold or given to the Savages, notwithftanding the pofitive and re- peated Orders to the Contrary, the Commanding Officers are to aflemble the Sutlers and Women of the refpedlive Regiments, and inform them that the firft perfon found guilty of difobedience fhali inftantly have their liquors and futling ftores de- ftroyed and turned out of Camp, befides receiving fuch Corporal Pwiifhrnent as a Court Martial fhall inflidl. All Officers are alfo to communicate to Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 25 their men this prohibition of fupplying the Savages with Spirituous Liquors. And it is expedied that Officers, inftead of fcreening Offenders, will be the firft to bring them to condign punifhment ; and to give further force to this prohibition, ten Dollars will be paid by the Adjutant General to the firft perfon who fhall difcover an Offender, upon Con- vidtion of fuch Offender before a Court Martial. A large Road of Communication to be made forthwith from the Camp of the Left Wing to the ground where Col° Briimeris Corps is now pofted. The Brigade of Gall are to take up the ground where Brigadier General Frafer was encamped at Threemile Point. They will fend over their Quarter Mafters and Camp Collourmen to mark their Camp, and have their Baggage loaded, but are not to pafs till dark. They will be upon their Arms during the night, and be prepared to encamp at day light. The firft Brigade BritilTi to march immediately and take up the ground to the Left of General Frafer s Corps, extending their Left to the Ravine. The Second Brigade to return to Camp as foon as the Firji arrives, and be prepared to move to- morrow morning. Till further Orders the Regiments are never to be without two days' Provifions ready cooked. It is known that there are many men in the Rebel Army who are well affedted to the Caufe of the King. Some have been compelled into the 4 26 Burgoyne s Orderly Book. Service, others engaged only with a view of joining the King's Troops. The Savages are therefore cautioned againft firing upon any fingle man or fmall parties that may be endeavouring to come over, and the Army in general will confider thefe men in a very different light from common Defert- ers, and treat them with all poffible encourage- ment; and fhould it unfortunately happen that any Soldier of this Army fhould fall into the hands of the Enerny, it will be his Duty to let this Order be known in the Enemy's Army. The Hofpital will remain at Threemile Point till further orders. One fergeant and twelve men is to be furnifhed from each Wing as an Hofpital Guard. The Hofpital will draw Provifions from the Commiffary, who will have Orders to provide frefh Provifions as often as poffible. When the Hofpital fhall be fo circumftanced that thofe Gentlemen fhall think it neceffary for any men to be removed, they will make their Application to the Deputy Adjutant General. Camp near Ticonderoga, 4* July, 1777. Parole, St. Hillary. Counterfign, Dartmouth. Brigadier Generals and Brigade Majors, as yefter- day. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 27 Field Officer Picquet Britifli, Major Harnage^ Field Officer Picquet German, Major Ehron- krook. The Brigade of Gall to furnifh the working Parties on the Weft of the River. An Orderly Sergeant from the Britifh to be in waiting till further Orders, day and night, at the houfe at Threemile Point. The Dragoons of Reidefel to take up the Ground upon the heighth in the rear of General Frafer' s Brigade where will be the Head Quarters. All poffible diligence is to be ufed to compleat the communication and Roads for Artillery. No private perfons are to buy horfes from the Savages, as they are defigned for the Public Service of the Army. I Henry Harnage of Bellcfwar- dine, Shropfhire, England, received a commiffion as Lieutenant in the 62d regiment, on the organization .of that corps in 1757, and ferved afterwards in the Weft Indies, where he obtained his company in 1767. After returning to Ireland this re- giment received orders tor Canada in 1775, at the clofc of which year Mr. Harnage was appointed Major. He was wounded at the battle of Stillwater and accompanied the Con- vention troops to Cambridge. He became Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army in 1780; on the i 8th March, 1782, was appointed Lieut. Colonel of the 104th Foot, but left that re- giment in the beginning of 1783, and was afterwards appointed In- fpeding Field Officer of Yeomanry and Volunteers on 24th September, I 803. Mrs. Harnage accompanied her hulband throughout this Cam- paign, and died May 27, 1790. In 1 79 1 his daughter Mary was married to George Blackman, Efq., afterwards Sir George Harnage, Bart. ; and in 1798 his daughter Oftavia was married to Edward Gwatkin, Efq. We find fubfe- quently to this William Henry Har- nage of Bellefwardine, Captain of dragoons, but whether he was fon of Lt. Col. Harnage or not, we have no means of determining. 2 8 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Camp near Ticonderoga, 5th July, 1777. Parole, St. Agatha, Counterfign, Dorchefter. Brigadier General Britifh, Powell. Brigade Major, Muir. Field Officer Britifh, Lieut. Collo Lynd. Brigadier General German, Specht. Brigade Major, Cleve. Field Officer German, Major Lueke. In confideration of the heat of the weather and the alacrity with which the men have worked, a Refrefhment of Rum will be given to the whole Army. The Qr. Mafter with proper parties will receive it this evening from Mr. McKenzie at Threemile Point at the rate of half a Pint a man. The Brigadiers will regulate the Portion of water to be mixed with it, and the times of diftribution. Exclufive of the working parties upon the Road, 400 men from the Right Wing are to be kept frefli for working under the Chief Engineer tomorrow at Sunfet. Ticonderoga, 6* July, 1777. Parole, St. Stephen. Counterfign, Cambridge. The 62'i Regiment to take poffeffion of Mount Independence ; the Regiment of Prince Frederick to take poffeffion of Ticonderoga; Brigadier General Hamilton to command the two Regiments. All the reft of the Army to Proceed by South Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 29 Bay, leaving Batteaux and a fmall Guard to follow as foon as poflible with the Tents and Baggage. General Hamilton will place Guards for the pre- fervation of all the Buildings from fire and colled: all the Powder and other Stores, and fecure them. After Orders at Skeinesborough. Every Circumftance of this day affords matter of Applaule to the Officers and Soldiers. Every man muft now perceive how effential it may be to the King's Service to continue vigoroufly the purfuit of a flying Enemy. The Lieut. General therefore depends upon the zeal of the Army not to relax, whatever may be the fatigue, while there is a profpedl of overtaking the Fugitives. The Provifions remaining is to be cooked at day light, in order that the meat may be carried cold in the Haverfacks, and the Regiments will be ready to move at a moment's warning. Camp at Skeinesborough, 7* July, ^ni- Parole, St. Martha. Counterfign, Berk/hire. The CommifTaries are to deliver to the Army eight days' Provifions, commencing the ninth in- ftant. This Provifions is on board the Royal George. All the reft: of the Army's Provifions is to be landed tomorrow morning at day break under 30 Burgoynes Orderly Book. the direction of Lieut. Currie,^ CommilTary of the Second Brigade. All papers found containing any intelligence of the Rebels are to be fent to the Adjutant General immediately; and for the future, it is to be an in- variable rule, to fend in all papers of that nature as foon as they are found. It is of the utmoft prejudice to the King's Offi- cers to moleft or terrify perfons coming in to fur- render; the attempt to take anything from fuch people, as well as every other kind of Plunder, v^^ill be punifhed v^^ith the greateft feverity. The Standing Order for conducfting all Deferters from the Enemy to Head Quarters immediately, and without queftioning, is not fufficiently attend- ed to. The Qr. Mr. of each Regiment will be on board the Royal George this evening at five o'clock, to receive 8 days' Provifions from Capt. Scott, Com- miffary to the Firft Brigade. Camp at Skeinesborough House, July 8*, 1777. Parole, St. Simeon. Counterfign, Exeter. The Lieut. General has made Coll° Skeine' s Houfe Head Quarters. A Guard confifting of a I Samuel Currie entered the became ift Lieutenant in 1772. Army as zd Lieutenant in the 2 1 ft He was killed at Saratoga in the Fuziieers, 14th March, 1766, and courfe of this Campaign. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 3 1 Serjeant, Corporal and 18 men to be poft at Head Quarters immediately. The Pofts of battle are as follow. The Right Brigade Britifli are to place their Right to the Rock near the wood, and extend their Left to the Fort. The Dragoons of Reidefel fecure their Flank on the heighth in the wood. The Second Brigade Britifh are to occupy the Fort. The five Companies of the 24* Regiment are to form in the rear of the Fort, as a Corps of Referve. The Brigade of Specht is to form on the ground where they drew up this morning, with the forti- fied Barn before the Centre. This Brigade and the Regiment of HefTe are to throw a picket into the Barn and to fortify a Poft on the Summit of the Hill, where they will poft a picquet of an hundred men. The Regiment of HefTe are to form with their Right to Skeinefborough Houfe, and their Left to the Brigade of Specht. The ground making it neceflary for the Corps to encamp in the front of the Line of Battle, fhould they be ordered under arms they are to ftrike their Tents inftantly and leave them on the ground. It is to be obferved that the Line forms behind the Artillery. 32 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 9th July, 1777. Parole, St. Agnes. Counterfign, Stamford. All Prifoners that have been taken from the Enemy, to be forwarded as foon as poffible, except fuch as are wounded, and to be fent on board the Commodore under proper Guards. The Guards are to return as foon as the Prifoners are delivered. One Subaltern and 20 men from the Right Wing will mount at the Fort as a main Guard, and re- ceive all Prifoners that may be fent. One Subal- tern and 20 men will mount at the fortified barn in the Left Wing, as a main Guard, and will receive all Prifoners that may be fent. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 10^^ July, 1777. Parole, St. Eujiage. Counterfign, Falmouth. On the 6th of July the Enemy were diflodged from Ticonderoga by the meer continance and adlivity of the Army, and driven on the fame day beyond Skeinefborough on the Right, and to Huberton on the Left, with the lofs of all their Artillery, five of their armed veflels taken and blown up, by the fpirited condud: of Capt. Carter' of the I John Carter was appointed Major in the Army agth-Augull, ift Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery 1 777, for his conduft on the above 2d April, 1757; Captain-Lieutenant occafion ; he reached the rank of ift January, 1759; and Captain Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army in 7th December, 1763; appointed 1783, when his name is dropped. Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 33 Artillery, with a part of his Brigade of Gun boats, and a very great quantity of Ammunition, Provi- fions and ftores of all forts, and the greateft part of their Baggage. On the 7th Brigadier General Frafer at the head of a little more than half the Advanced Corps, and without Artillery, which with the utmoft endeav- ours it was impoffible to get up, came up with near two thoufand of the Enemy, ftrongly pofted, at- tacked and defeated them with the lofs on the Enemy's part of many of their Principal Officers, two hundred men killed on the fpot, a much larger number wounded, and about two hundred made prifoners. Major General Reidefel with his Ad- vanced Guard conlifling of the ChafTeur Company and Grenadiers and Light Infantry arrived in time to fuftain General Frafer, and by his judicious Orders and afpirited execution of them, obtained a Share for himfelf and for his Troops in the Glory of the A(5lion. On the 8th Lieut. Collo Hill' at the head of the 9th Regiment was attacked near Fort Anne by I John Hill was commiffioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 9th Foot, Lieutenant in the 19th Foot on 4th then under orders for Canada. This Auguft, 1756; obtained a company regiment formed, on arriving "in that in the 13th Foot in December, country, part of the 2d brigade un- 1758, and was advanced to the rank dcr Brig. Hamilton and was can- of Major in Oftobcr, 1765. On toned in the fettlements back of the 1 1 tfi September, 1775, he be- Montreal until the opening of this came Lieutenant Colonel in the difaftrous campaign. On the 7th Army, and on the I oth November of of July, 1777, he took poll with the fame year was promoted to be his regiment at Fort Anne, where 34- Burgoynes Orderly Book. more than fix times his number, and repulfed the Enemy with great lofs, after a continued fire of three hours. In confequence of this Adlion Fort Anne was burnt and abandoned, and a Party of this Army is in polleffion of the Country on the other fide. Thefe rapid fuccefi"es, after exciting a proper fenfe of what we owe to God, entitle the Troops in General to the warmeft praife; and in particular diftindfion is due to Brigadier General Frafer, who by his Conduft and Bravery, fupported by the fame qualities in the Officers and Soldiers under his he was attacked by the Americans in confiderable force. Coh Hill gained great honor by his condu6l in this aftion, for the enemy finding, after repeated attacks, that they could not force him in front endeavored to furround his men. This move- ment he however prevented by changing his ground with great calmncfs and bravery in the 'very heat of aftion, and after a fight of three hours obliged the .Americans to retreat, leaving fome thirty pri- foners and the colors of the New Hampfhire regiment in the hands of the 9th regiment. I Lt. Col. Hill participated in the other engage- ments in this campaign and figned the parol at Cambridge (Mafs.), in December, 1777. He became a Colonel in the Army in 1782, and continued with the 9th undl the Summer of 1783, when he retired from the Army. His name is among the fubfcribers to . Capt. Anbury's book in 1789. 1 Gen. Wilkinfon in his Memoirs^ p. 190, gives a Tomewhat different verfion of this affair, as follows : " The 9th regi- ment, under Lieut. Col. Hill, was fent in purfuit of Col. Long and his detachment, confifting of the invalids and convalefcents, with his regiment, about 150 ftrong, making in the whole four or five hun- dred men. Col. Long, finding himfelf preffed, advanced and met Lieut. Colonel Hill, and an adlion enfued, in which the Britilh ofHcer claimed the vidlory 5 but it is a faifl, that the 9th regiment had been beaten, and was retreating, and but for the entire failure of Col. Long's Ammu- nition, the Lieutenant-Colonel muft have been made prifoner, as well as Captain Montgomery of that regiment, who was wounded and left on the field, when, as Gen. Burgoyne tells us, * Col. Hill found it neceffarv to change his pofitioti in the heat of a£lion j' but in truth, when his corps was obliged to retreat, and Colonel Long, for want of ammunition, could not purfue him." Burgoynes Orderly Book. 35 Command, efFedled an exploit of material Service to the King, and of fignal honour to the Profeffion of Arms. This Corps have the further Merit of having fupported fatigue and bad weather, without bread and without murmur. Divine Service will be performed on Sunday morning next at the head of the Line, and at the head of the Advanced Corps, and at fun fet on the fame day, a feu de joye will be fired with Cannon and fmall Arms at Ticonderoga, Crown Point, the Camp at Skeinefborough, and the Camp at Caftle- ton, and the Pofi: of Breemen's Corps. Thefe Orders will be read to every Battalion by the Com- manding Officers. Major General Reidefel will have them conveyed to the Detached parts of the Left Wing. And Brigadier General Hamilton will have them conveyed to Crown Point. A Return to be fent to Head Quarters this after- noon, of what wounded Officers and men are in a condition to be moved to the Hofpital at Ticonde- roga. The General Officers will fend an Account to Mr. Rouffeau, Commiffary to the Staff, of the number of Rations they would chufe to be daily fupplied with. The Regiments that have Volunteers ferving with them, will fend in a Lift of thofe gentlemen's names this afternoon, to the Deputy Adjutant 36 Burgoynes Orderly Book. General, mentioning ivhe?! they joined, and by whom recommended. The Britifh and German Brigades, Advanced Corps and Referve, with the Reidefel Dragoons, are to be compleated with powder and ball and paper to make up Mufquet Cartridges to 100 Rounds a man according to the eftablifhed Orders. Return to be fent in tomorrow morning to Major General Phillips of what Ball is wanting to com- pleat every Corps, and what Powder and Paper to make up the ball into- Cartridges, in order that thefe Articles be fent from the Magazine at Ticon- deroga immediately. It muft have been obferved how difficult it is for Magazines to follow the rapid movements of the Army, and it is not doubted but the utmoft Care will be taken of the flore of Powder and ball with each Regiment- Camp at Skeinesborough House, 1 1* July, 1777. Parole, Eloija. Counterfign, Italy. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Lt. Coll° Suther- land. All the Cattle to be delivered in to the hands of Mr. AiT"^ CommifTary Mackenzie, who is to make an equal partition of them alive through the whole Army, taking Receipts from the Quarter Mafters of the feveral Regiments for as many days' Provi- fion as their refpedlive lots, upon a fair computa- Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 37 tion may be fuppofed to afford. This distribution of Cattle, with the computation, to be reported as foon as it is done. All Cattle brought to any de- tached Corps of the Army, or any of the Advanced Pofts, or driven in by Order, are to be forwarded to the Commiffary General at Head Quarters. This is to be a Standing Order unlefs where the diftance is too great, to be fupplied from the regu- lar Magazines. In that cafe the Commanding Officers will make a report of the Cattle they have detained for the immediate fubliftence of their Corps or Detachments ; and the Brigade Com- millaries will give proper receipts to the Inhabit- ants. The Return for Ammunition is to be fent by Brigades, for the Britifh, and Major General Reidefel will fend a General Return for the Left Wing. Thefe Returns to be fent in today, and as foon as poffible. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 12^^ July, ^jyj- Parole, St. Abelard. Counterfign, Reading. Field Officer Britifli Picquet, Major Forbes. It is obferved that the injundlions given before the Army took the Field relative to the Baggage of Officers have not been complied with, and that the Regiments in General are encumbered with much more Baggage than they can poffibly be fupplied with means of conveying when they quit the Lakes 38 Burgoynes Orderly Book. and Rivers. Warning is therefore again given to the Officers to convey by the Batteaux which will foon return to Ticonderoga, the Baggage that is not indifpenfably necelTary to them, or, upon the firfh fudden movement, it muft inevitably be left upon the ground. Such gentlemen as ferved in America the laft War may remember that the Officers took up with Soldiers' Tents, and often confined their Baggage to a Knapfack for months together. When op- portunity fhall offer to carry forward the Baggage that fhall be lodged at Ticonderoga, fo as not to interfere with the tranfport of Magazines, the Lieut. General will be happy to contribute to the convenience and comfort of the Officers. Lord Vifcount Peter/ham is appointed to adl as Aid de Camp to Lieut. General Burgoyne, and is to be obeyed accordingly. Govern. Skeine^ is appointed to a(5l asCommifTary, to adminifter the Oath of Allegiance, and to grant Certificates of Protection to fuch Inhabitants as fue properly for the fame, and to regulate all other matters relative to the Supplies and Affiftances that fhall be required from the Country or voluntarily brought in. Mr. Hoakejly is appointed Waggon Mafter to the Army. I Philip Skene, was ftyled Lieut. Series, p. 106, for a Biographical Governor of Crown Point and Ti- {ketch of him. conderoga, &c. See vol. I of this Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 39 Divine Service at the head of the Right Wing at 10 o'clock tomorrow, and at the head of Brig. General Frafers Corps at 12 o'clock. Tomorrow being fet apart as a day of rejoicing, all working Parties are to be remitted, except fuch as may be neceffary for the cleanlinefs of the Camp. Should the weather be fair the Tents are to be ftruck at five in the evening tomorrow, and the Troops to form, for the Feu de joye an hour before Sun fet, in order of Battle, the Right Wing taking up the ground according to the Orders of the 8th Inftant. And General Frafers Corps taking up the ground allotted in that day's Orders to the Left Wing. After the Feu de joye the Tents are to be pitched again. Captain Gardner is going to England. Officers who have Letters to fend will leave them at Head Quarters before Orderly time the 14th Inftant. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 13* July, 1777. Parole, St. Dorothy. Counterfign, Winchefter. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Major Irwing. The weather being wet the Tents are not to be ftruck. And the Troops will torm in the Front inftead of the Line of Battle. The firing will be- gin with the Cannon, and then to be taken from Brigadier General Frafers Corps. A Subaltern and 25 men to go tomorrow morn- 40 Burgoynes Orderly Book. ing early to General ReidefePs Camp at the River near Caftleton to Condudl the Army horfes to Skeinefborough. If there are any fick that are likely to recover fooner in the General Hofpital at Ticonderoga than in Camp, the Brigades will fend in a Return of them immediately. The Corps on the Left of the River will take the Duties on this fide the water. A working Party to be furnifhed tomorrow morning at day break, to make roads and commu- nications towards Fort Anne, and alfo to draw Batteaux over the carrying place into the Creek, Whatever number of men the Quarter Mafter General fhall require for thefe Duties Frafers Corps and the Line will furnifh. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 14th July, 1777. Parole, St. Jojeph. Counterfign, Durham. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Lieut. Coll° Hill. The Brigades will fend off their Sick reported according to yefterday's Order, to the General Hofpital at Ticonderoga, in Batteaux, under the care of an Officer. The party that condud: them will return immediately to Camp, leaving the Bat- teaux at Ticonderoga, except what are necelTary for the men to return in. It having been reported that the Soldiers ftraggle from Camp after Gun firing, and that many dif- Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 41 orders have been committed by them ; this being contrary to all Military rule and good difcipline, every Soldier is ftridtly forbid to quit the Camp after Retreat beating. The Brigadiers will give the ftrongeft Orders on this head, and the Com- manding Officers of Regiments will be anfwerable for thofe orders being obeyed. No Soldier, either of the Advanced Corps, or of the Right Wing, to pafs the Bridge at night. The Quarter Guards of both Camps are to fend Patroles round the Camp from Gun firing to daylight, who are to make prifoners all Soldiers they find fi:rag- gling about. And the Commanding Officers of Regiments are defired to have the Rolls called at uncertain hours of the night, that they may have immediate notice of all ablent men. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 15th July, 1777. Parole, St. Alexander. Counterfign, JVeymouth. Field Officer Britiih Picquet, Lieut. Coll° Lind.' I John Lind was at this time January, 1776, was commiffioned Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the Lieutenant-Colonel of the 20th Foot, 20th Foot. Having entered the army under orders for Canada. He was he was commiiTiuned in December, wounded in two different adlions 1755, Lieutenant in the 34th Foot, during this campaign. His name which regiment fuftained a fiege at is attached to the parole figned by Fort St. Phillip in 1756, and formed the Britifh officers at Cambridge, part of the expedition againft Belle- Mafs., 13th December, 1777. In ifle in 1760, on the 12th January 1782 he received the brevet rank of which year Mr. Lind obtained a of Colonel ; was raifed to the rank company. He became Major of the of Major General in Odlober, 1783, regiment in 1771, and on the 6th and died May ift, 1795. 6 42 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 1 6* July, 1777. Parole, St. Silveftre. Counterfign, Devon. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Major Forjier.^ The Army to receive four days Provifions. The working Parties and covering Party to be continued till further Orders. I George Forster. This OiBcer ferved in Germany with the 8th Foot, in which he was commiffioned a Lieutenant 26th September, 1 757. He afterwards ferved in America, and obtained his Company zjth December, 1770. In the early Rage of the Revolution the head quarters 9f his regiment was at Niagara with detachments at other polls. Capt. Forfler was ftationed at Ofwegatchie (now Ogden/burgh) in the fore part of 1776. To dif- lodge a party of Americans, of three hundred and ninety men, who had taken pofl at the Cedars, above Montreal, he with two fubalterns and one hundred and twenty-fix men, and one hundred and twenty Indians, were detached on the I Itli of IVIay to the attack of that poft. Proceeding on his march, he learnt on the 17th, that the Ainericans were ignorant of his approach, and that if fpeedily attacked, the whole party might be furprifed. The next day he landed at Point au Diablc, fix miles from the Church of the Cedars, and proceeded under the cover of a thick wood; when within a mile of the Fort, he halted the detachment to make the necefiary difpofirions for attack. One divifion was ordered to take poffeiTion of the wood, and to penetrate as near as poflible to the enemy, when another party of Indians were placed at the Falls, at the entrance of the Cafcade, to cut ofi^ the communication with the Ifland of Montreal. This party fell in with a detachment of the garrifon returning from the Cafcades with provifions, who fled to the Fort, and carried the firft intelligence of Capt, Forfter's approach. Capt. Forfter fent a flag, demanding the furrender of the Fort, to which Major Butter- field reqiiefled tour hours to con- fidcr of it. Capt. Forfter, conceiv- ing that the objeft: was to gain time, and having learnt that an Officer of the Americans had been fent to Montreal tor 3 reinforcement fent a I'econd flag, ftating that the Indians were at prefcnt under his command, but that if the Fort did not furrender, and any of them were killed by fur- ther refiftancc, he could not anfwer for the confequences. The Com- mandant, in anfwer to this demand. Burgoynes Orderly Book, 43 The Second Brigade will fend their fpare Bag- gage off to Ticonderoga tomorrow morning. Lieut. Valancy, Affiftant Quarter Mafter General, will regulate the fpare Batteaux for this purpofe. Thefe Batteaux to be brought back as faft as pof- fible, in order that the Firft Brigade may take theirs down, who will leave them at Ticonderoga, except what will be necelTary to bring the men back to Camp. agreed to furrendcr the Fort, on condition, however, that the garrifon fhould retire to Montreal, which Capt. Forfter not confenting to, a redoubt was thrown up on the edge of the wood, at five hundred yards diftance from it. On the morning of the 19th of May, he advanced within one hundred and twenty yards of the Fort, and commenced a heavy fire of mufketry, until twelve o'clock, when the American Commandant furrendercd, on condition of fparing their lives, and prcferving their bag- gage from plunder. As Captain Forfter was informed the next day, that Major Sherborne, with one hundred men, was advancing from Montreal, he ordered one hundred Indians to take pofleffion of the woods on both fides of ihe road, and to attack the detachment as it advanced. An aftion cnfued, which only continued about ten minutes, when the Americans furrendercd, and were brought to the Fort by the Indians, who had refolved on put- ting every one of them to death. Captain Forfter remonftrated with thern on this inhuman conduft, and at length, by his perfuafions, and by prefents, effcfted their rcleafe. Capt. Forfter then left the Cedars, on his way down the river, and on his arrival at Vaudreuil, was informed that Colonel Arnold, with a ftrong party, had advanced as far as La Chine from Montreal, and had with him fix hundred men, treble the number of Forftcr's part}'. Forfter, upon hearing this, did not pufli on, and Arnold apprized of the weak- nefs of Forfter's party, marched to meet him. On their approach, the latterformed in three divifions on three feveral points of land that ftretched out into the river. They had no fooner taken poft, than they were attacked on all fides, but defended themfelves fo well, that the Americans were defeated, and retired to St. Anne's, on the Ifland of Montreal. Capt. Forfter, encumbered with his prifoncrs, pro- pofed a cartel, which Arnold readily aflenting to, on the 27th of May, an exchange was effefted for two Majors, nine Captains, twenty Sub- 4-4- Burgoynes Orderly Book. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 17* July, 1777. Parole, St. Louija. Counterfign, Lincoln. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Lt. Col. Sutherland. Camp at Skeinesborough House, iS'f' July. ^777- Parole, St. George. Counterfign, Dorjet. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Major Forbes. Each Regiment to fend to the Adjutant General the names of their petty futtlers and other followers not fervants. All perfons defirous of efhablifhing Huts or Tents, in the rear of the Army, for the fale of ufe- ful Commodities, are to apply to the Adjutant General,' in order that their charadters, and the nature of their Traffick may be inquired into ; and any perfon prefuming to Traffick with the Troops alterns and four hundred and forty- he became Major of the 2 ill Fuzi- three Soldiers. Four American leers, j'/r^ Sutherland ^/rj, p. 17), Captains were fent to Quebec as and at the end of this campaign ac- . hoftages, and they remained until the companicd the Convention troops prifoners were duly exchanged. The to Cambridge, Mafs., when he was cartel however was broken by Con- admitted to parole. He was ad- grefs, under the pretence that Capt. vanced to the rank of Lieutenant- Forfter had condufted himfelf to- Colonel in the Army in 1782, and wards the prifoners in a cruel and of the 66th regiment 3 1 ft December, inhuman manner. In juftice to 1784. His name difappears from Capt. Forfter, there was not the the Army Lift in 1 787. fmalleft foundation for fuch a charge. (Smith's Hiftory of Canada, i\,i'i<^- ' Major Robert Kingston, of 140.) Onthe 5th November, 1776, whom fee />«_/?. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 45 without a proper permit in writing, or who fhall abufe fuch permit by retaiUng Liquors to Soldiers or Indians, will be puniihed with feverity. The Difturbance of the i6th Inft. between fome Britifh and German Soldiers, was occalioned by Liquor, and one of the greateft principles of Mili- tary Order was fo far forgot by fome Britifh Soldiers, that a Guard was infulted. Any condudt for the future, whether of Britifh or German, that ihall tend to obftrudl the Harmony which has hitherto {o happily reigned between the two Nations, and which muft continue to fubfifh among brave Troops ferving in the fame caufe, unlefs violated by intoxication or mifapprehenfion, will be punifhed as a Crime the moft fatal to the fuccefs and honour of the Campaign. A Captain's Guard with the Colours of the oldeft Regiment to mount tomorrow upon the Congrefs with the Li- dian Nations. This Guard is to be at the Indian Camp by half paft eight tomorrow morning. The Infpedlor of the Hofpital having reprefented that two women from each Battalion of the Army will be abfolutely neceffary to take care of the Sick and Wounded, the Commanding Officers of Corps will give their Diredlions accordingly. Ten Batteaux with 40 Men to attend at the CommilTary's Store, to bring Provifions from the Row galley. A Serjeant and eighteen men alfo to be at the CommilTary's Store, to take on fhore the Provifions and to arrange them. This order to be 4-6 Burgoy?te s Orderly Book. continued every morning at 5 o'clock, till the Pro- viiions are all landed. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 19'h July, 1777. Parole, St. Barbara. Counterfign, Blandford. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Major Irwing. The Germans will receive their Ammunition according to the Orders of the loth and 1 ith In- ftant, from the Artillery, beginning tomorrow^ morning at 6 o'clock. A working party of one hundred men, one Cap- tain, Subalterns and Non Commiffioned Officers in proportion, to parade tomorrow morning at 4 o'clock, each with his Blanket and two days Pro- vifions. Captain Lawes will meet the Party at the Bridge and condud: them. General Frafer s Corps will furnifh a covering party ot a Captain, Subalterns, Non Commiffioned Officers and 50 men. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 20* July, 1777. Parole, St. T'imothy. Counterfign, Sarum. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Lt. Col° Hill. A working party of 100 men with proper Offi- cers will parade at 4 o'clock this afternoon to draw fome Batteaux over the carrying place. General Frafer s Corps will furnifh this party. Eight days' Provifions for the Corps of Savages, Burgoynes Orderly Book. 47 Canadian Volunteers, &c. under "M-d^or Campbell to be delivered this afternoon to their CommifTary that it may be flowed on board their Batteaux immedi- ately afterwards. The next delivery of Provifions will be fait meat, in order to prelerve all the Cattle alive for the next movement of the Army. Four days' Provifions to be iffued to the Troops to the 24th incluiive. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 21" July, 1777. Parole, St. Cecilia. Counterfign, Marlborough Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Lt. Col. Lind. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 22^^ July, 1777- Parole, 6"/. Clement. Counterfign, Calne. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Major Forjier. The Line will relieve all the Pofts occupied by General Frafers Corps, with the fame numbers at Sun fet this evening. Camp at Skeinesborough House, 23^1 July, 1777. Parole, St. Bridget. Counterfign, Chippenham. Field Officer Britifh Picquet, Lt. Coll° Suther- land. The Prifoners of War are to be conveyed from Skeinefborough to Ticonderoga tomorrow morning 48 Burgoynes Orderly Book. early under the Efcort of an Officer and twenty men Britifh. The Sick necelTary to be fent to the General Hofpital to go at the fame time. When the Army moves a Detachment confifting of fifty Britifh, fifty Germans, and fifty Provincials will be left pofted at Skeinefborough for fome days ; and that the Battalions may be weakened as little as poffible, the Detachments are to be compofed of the Convalelcents, and men leaft able to march ; and this Notice is given in hopes that fome men in flight cafes of the Flux, defigned for the Hofpital, may upon examination be tound capable of this Duty. Brigadier General Pow^// will inform the Quarter M. General this afternoon of the number of Bat- teaux necefi!ary for the above piirpofe, as far as re- gards the Britifh. General Reidefel will regulate the proper number of Batteaux for the fick of the Left Wing, and fend them from the Eaft Creek. As many Carts of the Army as can be put in repair, with two horfes to each, and proper Con- dudtors, to be ready to proceed tomorrow under fuch Eicort as Brigadier Powell fhall regulate ac- cording to their numbers. The Efcort, after con- ducing the Horfes and Carts to the Neighbourhood of Fort Anne, will remain as a Guard upon them till the Army comes up. They will therefore take with them their Knapfacks, Blankets, and three days' Provifions. The Condudlors are to take in Burgoynes Orderly Booh 49 their Carts grafs for one day, and a portion of the Corn now in Store, according to their numbers, taking care to preferve the Corn till the horfes come upon the hard work. Lieut. Atherton is appointed to aft as Provoft to this Army, and is at all times to have the Guard of a Serjeant and 10 Britifh, and a Serjeant and the fame number of Germans. This Guard to be re- lieved once a fortnight. And at the marking of every new encampment, a proper houfe or Ground for the_ Provoft, is always to be allotted in the Rear of the Army. Belides Patroles of the Provoft to be made daily, and occafionally at night, to preferve the regularity and cleanlinefs of the Camp, he has Orders to en- force in the ftrifteft manner, the Regulation of the 1 8th Inft. relative to the vending of Spirituous Liquors by the Sutlers or any other followers of the Army. For this purpofe he is directed diligently to examine all Huts, Tents, or other abodes in the rear of the Encampment, and wherever any Perfon fhall be found trafficking without a permit from the Adjutant General, or (having fuch permit) of retailing fpirituous Liquors to Soldiers, Women or Savages, or prefuming to fell fuch liquors to Servants of Officers or other Perfons whatfoever without a Certificate in writing figned by a Com- miffion Officer, the Provoft is inftantly to make the Offender Prifoner, to have all the Liquors be- 7 50 Burgoynes Orderly Book. longing to him or her deftroyed, and burn the dwelling. This order to be forthwith made known by the Provoft to all the followers of the Army encamping out of the Line. As foon as the Provoft's Guard is eftablifhed, the Prifoners are to be delivered over to him, and the main Guard will ceafe. The Ger- man Dragoons will furnifh the Serjeant and lo men for the Provofl's Guard till the Left Wing arrives. A Subaltern and 25 men of the Picquet to re- main upon the old ground, the Field Officer will poft the reft of the Picquet upon the Left, where the Picquet of the Advanced Corps was ported. Each Regiment will give a Batteau to Lieut. Valancy,^ Affiftant Quarter Mafter General. The Army to be Vidlualled to the firft of Auguft. The Officers for the Detachment named in yef- terday's Orders to remain at Skeinefborough are to be one Field Officer, one Captain and one Subal- tern Britifh, one Captain, one Subaltern German, and two Subalterns of the Provincial Corps. As the German part of the Detachment cannot join till tomorrow night, the Britiih are to relieve the Guards upon the Cattle at the Red houfe this I George Preston A'allancy Captain iSth Auguft, 1778, and entered the army in ; and was went on half pay in 1784. He commiffioned Lieutenant in the 62d was appointed to the 46th or South regiment ift September, 177 1, and Dcvonfhire Foot, on the 3ift]VIay, artcd as Afliftant Quartermafter 1787, and continued with that re- General throughout this campaign, giment until 1792, when his name He was advanced to the rank of difappears from the Army lifts. Burgoynes 0?~derly Book. 51 evening, which is to confift of a Serjeant, Corporal and twelve. The Field Otficer will receive his inftrudlions from the Adjutant General this even- ing. The Provifions, &c. of the Right Wing, Tents excepted, to be loaded this afternoon. The General to beat tomorrow morning inftead of the Revallie at three o'clock; the Tents are then, to be put on board, and the Batteaux to proceed immediately under a proper Efcort. The AfTembly will beat an hour after, and the Troops to march. The Reidefel Dragoons make the Advanced Guard. The Rear Guard is to be compofed of a Captain and one Company from the Regiment in Rear. The Provoft's Guard to follow a quarter of a mile in the Rear of the whole, and take up all Strag- glers. The Officer commanding the Efcort of the Boats will be anfwerable that no Soldier or other perfon go afhore till they arrive at the place of Deftina- tion, great enormities having been committed at different times upon the People of the Country for want of this being attended to. The Provincials will march in the Rear of the Britifh. The Carts are to follow in between the main Body and the Rear Guard. Thofe Regiments that wifh to re- ceive money on account of the enfuing Mufter, will fend their Paymafters to the Deputy Pay Mafter General at Ticonderoga for the money want. And 52 Burgoynes Orderly Book. will rejoin their Regiments by the firft Efcort over Lake George. Field Officer for the Command at Skeinefbo- rough. Major Irwing. Camp at Fort Anne, 25th July, 1777. Parole, St. Rqfalind. Counterfign, Canterbury. His Excellency Sir Guy Carleton has been pleafed to make the following Promotions in the Army at the Recommendation of Lieut. General Burgoyne : 9th Regiment, Enfign Jofeph Fijh^ to be Lieuten- ant, vice Lieut. Wejlrop^ killed, dated 14th July. Volunteer Thomas Dean} of the 31 ft Regiment to be Eniign, vice Fijh. 24th Regiment, Captain William Agneiv'^ to be Major, vice Major Gra?it^ killed. Captain Lieut. J Joseph Fish was commiffioned 4 William Acnew was com- Enfign in the 9th Foot 7th Oftober, miffioned Lieutenant in the 24th re- 1775, and was advanced to the rank giment in 1756 ; became Captain- of Lieutenant 14th July, 1777. He Lieutenant in 1763, and obtained his continued in the fervice unul after company 20th May, I 767. He was the peace of 1783. promoted to be Major on 14th July, 1777, and was twice wounded in ^ Richard Westropp was ap- this campaign. His name is at- pointed Enfign in the 9th Foot 14th tached to the Cambridge parole, March, 1772, and Lieutenant ift dated 13th December, 1777. He January, 1774. became Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment in 1782, but continued fo 3 Thomas Dean was commif- only the fore part of 1783. fioned Enfign in the 9th Foot, 14th July, 1777; became Lieutenant in 5 Robert Grant was commif- September, 1781, and Capt. Lieut, fioned a Lieutenant in the 620 (af- in 1787. His name is dropped in terwards 77th) or ift Highland bat- 1793. talion, known generally as Mont- Burgoynes Orderly Book. 53 George Coote^ to be Captain of a Company, vice Agnew. Lieut. Thomas Scotf^ to be Captain Lieut. gomery's Highlanders, on the organ- ization of that regiment in 1757, and ferved in the old French war, at Fort du Quefne, Ticonderoga, &c. He obtained his company in in 1762, and exchanged into the 40th regiment in 1764; became Major of the 24th Foot 5 th March, 1775, and was killed at the battle of Hubbardton, July 7th, 1777. On this occafion he commanded the advanced guard About five o'clock in the rnorning, fays Anbury, we came up to the enemy who were bufily employed in cooking their provifions. Major Grant, of the 24th regiment, who had the ad- vanced guard, attacked their picquets, which were foon driven in to the main body. From this attack we lament the death of this very gallant and brave officer, who in all pro- bability fell a viftim to the great difadvantages we experience peculiar to this unfortunate contefl, thofe of the rifle-men. Upon his coming up with the enemy, he got upon the ftump of a tree to reconnoitre, and had hardly given the men orders to fire, when he was ftruck by a rifle ball, fell off the tree, and never ut- tered another fyllable. I George Coote was appointed to a lieutenancy in the 98th regiment z8th Odl. 1760. This regiment was reduced in 1763, and on 1 6th Jan. 1765, Mr. Coote pafled into the 24th by purchafe. He was ordered to Canada with his regiment in 1776, having been promoted to the command ot a Company on 2d March of that year, and went on half pay after the peace of 1783, and lo remained until 1797, after which his name difappears from the Army lift. i Thomas Scott was appointed to an Enfigncy in the 24th Foot the 20th May, 1761 ; he joined in Germany, and ferved the whole of the campaign of 1762, carried the colors at the aftion of Willimftall or Grabiniton, and alfo at the attack of the Britilh picquets on the Fulda, under the command of Major Hume of the 2 5tb regiment, which the 24th fupportcd. After the war he ferved at Gibraltar for nearly fix years with the exception of one year's leave of abfence. The 7 th June, 1765, he was appointed Lieutenant ; he accompanied the regiment to America in the Spring of 1776, and ferved that campaign and the following one under Gen- eral Burgoyne, with a company of Markfmen attached to a large body of Indians, during which there was a variety of very fatiguing and hard fervice. On the 14th July, 1777, he was promoted to be Capt. Lieut, of his regiment, and in moft of this 54- Burgoyne s Oi'derly Book. vice Coote. Enlign 'John Fergufon to be Lieutenant, campaign employed on the outpoft ducv, which was done fo much to the fatiffaftion and approbation of his commanding officer. Brigadier General Frafer, that he was twice thanked in public orders ; he was in the aftion of Freeman's Farm, where a verv confiderable lol's was fuftained in officers and men ; was foon after fent in difguife through the enemy's country with difpatches from General Burgoyne to Sir Harry Chnton, and for which purpofe he was particularly felefted out by Brig. General Frafer, and which he efFcfted with much difficulty and great perfonal rifle of being taken and hanged as a fpy, having at the fame time fuffered the extreme of hunger and cold. He was appointed the 8th Oftober, 1777, Captain in the 53d regiment, then in Canada, with which he ferved the remaining part of the war ; he was upon two expeditions from Canada to the Mohawk river, under the command of Sir John Johnfton, which were attended with great fatigue, and much harraffed by the enemy, for which fervice he was felefted by Sir Frederick Haldimand. He com- manded the Fort and Jfland of Michilimackinac with its extenfive dependencies for a year, having been fent there for the purpofe of carrying into effedt reforms ordered to be made by government, as well as to corrcdt abul'es which had crept into the Indian department. This he did to the enure fatiffaftion of Lord Dorchefter, at that time com- manding in Canada, and to the company of merchants trading to that country. He returned to Eu- rope twelve months before his regi- ment in 1788. In 1 79 1 he ferved fix months during the Spanifh arm- ament with a detachment of the 53d regiment on board his Majelly's fhip Hannibal, commanded by Sir John Colpoys ; accompanied the regiment to the continent in the Spring of 1793 under Sir Ralph Abercrombic ; was in the Affair at Famars, ferved the whole of the fiegc of Valenciennes and of Dun- kirk, and was in the whole of that day's attack where the Auftrian General D'Alton was killed ; alfo at the fiege of Nieuport, where he was promoted to the rank of Major for his exertions in the defence thereof (13th November, 1793); was in the aftion of the 24th of May, and was wounded that day in the infide of the right thigh, by a mufket ball. The 27th Oftober, 1794, he was appointed to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 94th (Scotch brigade) regiment by pur- chafe, and went with it to Gibraltar in 1795, to the Cape of Good Hope in 1796, where he was Deputy Adjutant General to the forces, which fituation he relinquifhed in order to go with his regiment to India in 1798. He ferved the whole of the campaign of 1799, in the Myiore country, commanded a native brigade, was at the fiege and Burgoynes Orderly Book. 55 vice Scott. Volunteer Lindfay' to be Enfign, vice Fergufon.- 29th Regiment, Enfign Dowling^ of the 47th Regiment to be Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Doug- lafs'' killed. All dated as above, 14th July, 1777. Fort Ann, 26'^'^ July, ^"J^l- Parole, St. Matthew. Counterfign, Windburn. Field Officer Britifli, Lieut. Col° Hill. It being proper to keep the Advanced Corps compleat in their prefent lituation, the Right Wing of the Line is to furnifh a party of 150 men with one Captain, two Subalterns, and proper number of Non CoramiiTion Officers to conduft the boats of taking of Seringapatam, and in con- fequence of ill health returned to Europe in 1800. The ift January, 1 80 1, he was appointed Colonel by brevet; in September, 1802, In- fpecling Field Officer of the Edin- burgh recruiting diftrift ; in i 803 Depurv' Infpcftor General of the Recruiting Service in North Britain ; in Auguft, ] 804, Brigadier General; 25th April, 1808, Major General on the ftaff of North Britain, and ferved as fuch until 4th June, 1813, when he was promoted to Lieut. General, in confequence of which his appointment on the llaft ccafcd. He died in 1814. I Wat. Crymele Lindsay Was promoted to a lieutenancy 24th April, 1782, and did not obtain any higher rank in the army. His name appears for the laft time in the Army lift of 1787. " John Ferguson was commif- fioncd Enfign in the 24th regiment 31ft Auguft, 1774, and was pro- moted to a licutenantcy as in the text. His name was dropped in 1783. 3 James Dowling was appointed Enfign in the 4-th regiment i8th June, 1775, and was tranfterred and promoted to the 29th as above. He went out in 1781. 4 James Douglass, of the 29th regiment, entered the army in 1773 and was promoted to be Lieutenant 30th June of the following year. He was wounded at the battle of Hubbardton, and as he was carried off the field received a ball direftly through his heart. 5 6 Burgoyne s Orderly Book. Brigadier Frafers Corps to Skeinefborough, where they are to deliver them into the hands of Capt. Harrington.^ This party is to return to Camp as foon as the boats are delivered. Fifty of the above party are to take their Arms vv^ith them. All the Ox teems that are with the German Troops at Skeinefborough, and likewife all the Horfes and Carts not the private Property of Offi- cers, to be forwarded as foon as poffible after the receipt of this Order, to the Waggon Mafter at the Camp of Fort Anne. All Teems, Horfes and Carts under the fame defcription in the hands of the Britifh (the Advanced Corps excepted) to be de- livered into the Hands of the Waggon Mafter forthwith, in order that he may form a proper dif- tribution for the next movement of the Army. The Provifions muft be firft attended to, the men's Tents next, and the Officer's Tents and Baggage afterwards. It being impoffible to fupply fufficient Carriages to effedl the above purpofes at once, and the Service at the fame time requiring as fpeedy a movement as the nature of the Roads will permit, the Troops muft expedt to be fome days without their ufual conveniences. The Commanding Officers will 1 Henrt Harrington entered 1772, and appointed to the 20th the army in 1759 as Enfign in the Foot, and on the 28th March, 1777, 5 th Foot, ferving then in Germany ; was promoted to a company in the was appointed Lieutenant 2d April, 62d. We find his name in the 1 762, and went on half pay in 1763. Army lift of 1786 for the laft time. He was recalled to aftive fervioe in Burgoynes Orderly Book. 57 therefore take care that three days' provifions be forthwith cooked. The Batteaux of the Right Wing to be unloaded as foon as they arrive in order that they may be returned to Skeenefborough. Camp at Fort Anne, 27'^ July, 1777- Parole, St. George. Counterfign, Sherborn. Field Officer Britifli, Lieut. Col° Lind. The Right Wing will be in readinefs to march tomorrow, in the fame order as from Skeinefbo- rough; the Reidefel Dragoons to form the Advanced Guard, &c. Camp at Fort Anne, 2^^^ July, 1777. Parole, St. Bernard. Counterfign, Biddeford. Field Officer Britifli Picquet. The four Britifh Regiments will march this evening or tomorrow morning, as Brigadier General Powell chufes. The Brigade Major will get a Return of the number of Collar makers in each Regiment, and of all fuch men as can affift in making Harnefs for Carts or Sleys. 58 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Camp at Pitch Pine Plains, l 1777- \ Burgoynes Orderly Book. 139 No. 6. The eight firft PreUminary Articles of Lieutenant General Burgoyne's Propofals, and the fecond, third and fourth of thofe of Major General Gates of yefter- day being agreed to, the foundation of the propofed Treaty is out of Difpute, but the feveral Subordi- nate Articles and Regulations neceflarily fpringing from thofe Preliminaries, and requiring Explana- tion and precifion between the parties before a Definitive Treaty can be fafely executed, a longer Time than that mentioned by General Gates in his anfwer to the 9th Article becomes indifpenfably neceffary. Lieutenant General Burgoyne is willing to appoint two Officers immediately to meet two others from Major General Gates, to propound, difcufs and fettle thofe Subordinate Articles, in order that the Treaty in due form may be executed as foon as poffible. Signed John Burgoyne. Camp at Saratoga, 15th Odl. 1777. Major Kingflon' has Authority to fettle the place for the meeting of the Officers propofed. I Robert Kingston entered the 1 6th Light Dragoons, then corn- Army 3d September, 1756, as En- manded by Lt. Co). John Burgoyne, fign in the l ith Foot and was pro- and was appomted Captain in the moted to a lieutenancy in that Corps Army 27th April, 1761, and be- 26th January, 1758. In the fol- came Major i 5th July, 1768. He lowing year he exchanged into the went on half pay in the fore part I4-Q Burgoynes Orderly Book. This was, after fome converfation, agreed to by Major General Gates. of 1773, and in April, 1776, was appointed to the command of the Irifh Invalids, who were then called in adlive fervice. He accompanied this expedition as Adjutant General and Military Secretary to General Burgoyne and was promoted to be Lieutenant Colonel in the Army 29th Auguft, 1777. Gen. Wilkin- fon gives the following particulars of fome of the incidents connefted with the negotiations which were carried on between Gates and Burgoyne at this time. After the former con- fented to receive a Field Officer, I afked him, fays Wilkinfon, whether he had not condcfcended improperly in agreeing to receive the deputy of his adverfary at his head quarters, within his guards, and between the lines of his army .? After a minute's reflcftion he repUcd, " You are " right, young man ; I was hally ; " but what's to be done .'" " I will " meet the flag," faid I, " and en- " dcavour to draw the meffage from " the officer ; bu t if he claims your " engagement, he muft be admitted." "Agreed," faid he, "dofo;"and at the hour appointed I repaired to the advanced pofl:, accompanied by Mr. Henry Livingfton, of the Upper Manor on the Hudfon's river. The bridge acrofs the Fifh-kill had been deftroyed, but the fleepers remained. We did not wait many minutes be- fore the chamade was beat at the advanced guard of the enemy, and an officer defcending the hill, ftepped acrofs the creek on one of the fleep- ers ot the late bridge ; it was " Major Kingfton, with a Meflage " from Lieutenant-general Burgoyne " to Major-general Gates." I named to him " Col. Wilkinfon, on the " part of General Gates, to receive " the meflage." He paufed a mo- ment, pulled out a paper, looked at it, and obferved, " My orders direft " me to Major-general Gates." " It is to fave time and trouble that "I am authorifed to receive the " meflage you bear," He then took General Gates's note to General Burgoyne from his pocket, read it, and faid, " General Gates has agreed " to receive the meflage, and I am " not authorized to deliver it to any " other perfon." " Well then. Sir, " You mufi; fubmit to be hood- " winked." He afli^dled to ftart at the propofuion, and objeftcd, on the ground of its being an indignity : I could but Imile at the expreffion, and oblerved, that " I had under- " ilood there was nothing more com- " mon than to blindfold military " meflengers, when they were ad- " mitted within the walls of a place, " or the guards of a camp." He replied, " Well, Sir, 1 will fubmit " to it, but under the exprcfs ftipu- " lation, that no indignity is intended " to the Britifli arms." I then carefully bound up his eyes with his own handkerchief; he took my arm, and in this way we walked upwards of a mile to head quarters. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 141 Fixed by Major Kingfton to be upon the Ground where Mr. Schuyler's Houfe ftood. Major Kingfton appeared to be about forty ; he was a well formed, ruddy, handfome man, and expa- tiated with tafte and eloquence on the beaudful fcenery on the Hud- fon's river, and the charms of the feafon : when I introduced him into General Gates's tent, and named him, the gentlemen faluted each other familiarly, with " General " Gates, your fervant," — " Ah I "Kingfton, how do you do?" and a ftiake of the hand. Being feated a few minutes, he arofe and obferved he had certain communications to make Major General Gates from Lieutenant General Burgoyne, and to guard againft inaccuracy of me- mory, he had committed them to paper, and with permiflion would read them. The General confented, and the Major took from his pocket and read ; " The General from a " deal of bufinefs did not yefterday " anfwcr your letter about the ofE- " cers, but intended it. In regard " to the reproaches made upon this " army of burning the country, they " are unjuft ; General Schuyler's " houfe and adjacent buildings re- " mained protefted till General " Gates's troops approached the ■' Ford, General Burgoyne avows " the order for fetting fire at that " time to every thing that covered " the movement. The barracks " particularly took fire by mere ac- " cident, and meafures were taken, " though ineiFeftual, to fave them. " If there has been any vindidlive " fpirit in burning other buildings " on the march, it has probably " been done by fome fecret well- " wifhers to the American caufe, as " General Burgoyne has been in- " formed that fome of the buildings " belonged to fuppofcd fiiends of " the king. The General does not " think that General Gates has a " right, from any thing that has ap- " peared in his conduit or reafoning, " to make ufe of the term tripling ; " and he ftill perfifts, that he cannot " interfere with the prifoners in "General Howe's army, and more " efpecially in a cafe that has been " under negociation between Gen. " Howe and General Wafhington." He added that General Gates would perceive this was an anfwcr to his letter of the i 2th, and that the other paper to which he claimed the General's attention was of a very different nature ; he then offered, [as printed under No. 2, p. 133.] So foon as he had finifhed, to my utter aftonilhment, General Gates put his hand to his fide pocket, pulled out a paper, and prefentcd it to Kingfton, obferving, " There, ■" Sir, are the Terms on which Gen. " Burgoyne muft furrender." The Major appeared thunderftruck, but read the paper, whilft the old chief furveyed him attentively through his fpedlacles. Having finiftied the perufal of the propofitions of Gen. Gates, Major Kingfton appeared 142 Burgoyne s Orderly Book. No. 7. In the courfe of the night Lieutenant General Burgoyne has received intelligence that a confider- exceedingly mortified, and faid to the General, " I muft beg leave to " decline delivering this paper to " Lieutenant General Burgoyne, be- " caufe, although I c?nnot prefume " to fpeak for him, I think the pro- " pofitions it contains cannot be " fubmitted to." The General ob- fervcd he might be miftaken, and that there could be no impropriety in his delivering them. Kingfton requeftcd they might be fent by one of his own officers, which the General declined, and remarked, " that as he had brought the mef- " fage, .he ought to take back the " avjwer ;" to which the Major reluftantly confentcd, took leave, and I again filletted him, and at his requeft condutted him to our ad- vanced guard. Very different was his converfation in returning : he complained of General Gates's pro- pofitions, to which I was ftill a per- feft ftranger ; talked of the pride and fpirit of his army, and called my recolleflion to the feats per- formed by fix Britijh regiments at the battle of Minden, I felt for his- chagrin, and faid nothing to increafe it ; and having pafTed him beyond our guards, I haftcned back to head quarters. About funfet the fame day it was notified to me that a flag waited at the advanced guard, and I proceeded to receive it. I again met Major Kingfton, who prefented another mefifage from Lieutenant General Burgoyne to Major General Gates, accompanied by the propo- fitions of the latter, which had been tranfmitted by Major Kingfton, and the anfwers of the former annexed^ together with the preliminary arti- cles, propofed by General Burgoyne, which were fubftantially aflented to by General Gates. Burgoyne made his own Convention, and faved his accoutrements, military cheft,i and colours,^ all of which were retained notwithftanding General Gates's letter to Congrefs of the 3d De- cember, 1777, which was unworthy 1 Q. What became of the reft of the money in the military cheft ? A. It was taken by the paymafter-general to Albany. 2- Did any part of it fall into the hands of the enemy ? A. Not a ihiUing tliat I ever heard of. — Examination of Colonel Kingjlon bejorc the Houfe of Commons. 2 General Riedefel commanded that the colours ihould not be furrendered to the enemy with the arms, but on the contrary that the ftaffs (hould be burnt and the flags carefully packed up j this was done as ordered, fo that each of the German regiments really kept polTefliort of their colours j and the fame was no doubt the cafe with the Britifti corps, as the colours of the 62d regiment particu- larly were on the field the 19th Septem- ber, and three or four Enfigns were killed. ^-Memoirs of the Baroncfs of Riedefel. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 143 able force has been detached from the Army under the Command of Major General Gates during the courfe of the Negociations of the Treaty depending between them. Lieutenant General Burgoyne conceives this, if true, to be not only a violation of the CefTation of Arms, but fubvertive of the prin- ciples on which the Treaty originated, viz^ a great fuperiority of numbers in General Gates's Army. Lieut. General Burgoyne therefore requires that two Officers on his part be permitted to fee that the ftrength of the forces now oppoied to him is fuch as will convince him that no fuch Detach- ments have been made, and that the fame principle of Superiority on which the Treaty iirft began flill exiils. 1 6th Odt. 1777. N. B. Lieut. Colonel Wilkinfon, Adjt. General to General Gates, came to Genl. Burgoyne, and declared upon his own and General Gates's word of honour, that no Detachment nor movement had been made fince the opening of the Treaty. of a foldier.i Capt. Kingfton re- 1779, he was appointed Lieutenant turned to England in 1778 and was Colonel of the 86th Foot, and in examined before a Committee of 1780 of the 28th regiment ; became the Houfe of Commons relative to Colonel in the Army 20th Novem- this Expedition. In September, ber, 1782; Major General in 1793, and died in 1 794. 1 Wilkinfon's Memoirs, I., 299-304. 14-4 Burgoyne s Orderly Book. No. 8. Meffage to Lieut. General Burgoyne from Major General Gates, Od:. i6th, 1777, by Colonel Wilkinfon. Major General Gates, in juftice to his own repu- tation, condefcends to affure your Excellency, that no violation of the Treaty has taken place on his part, fince the commencement of it. I have fur- ther to inform your Excellency that the requifition contained in your Meffage of this day is inadmiffi- ble ; and as it now remains with your Excellency to ratify or diffolve the Treaty, Major General Gates experts your immediate reply. Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne requefted time to lay the Meffage before his Council, which was_ granted, and the Treaty was figned and exchanged in theEvening. Articles of Conventioti between Lieutenant General Burgoyne and Major General Gates. iff. The Troops under Lieut. Genl. Burgoyne to march out of their Camp with the Honours of War, and the Artillery of the Litrenchments, to the Verge of the River, where the Old Fort flood ; where the Arms and Artillery are to be left. The Arms are to be piled by Word of Command of their own Officers. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 145 2d. A free Paflage to be granted to the Army under Lieut. General Burgoyne, to Great Britain, on Condition of not ferving again in North America during the prefent Conteft ; and the Port of Boflon is affigned for the Entry of Tranfports to receive the Troops whenever General Hovi^e fhall fo order. 3rd. Should any Cartel take place by which the Army under General Burgoyne, or any part of it, may be exchanged, the foregoing Article to be void, as far as luch exchange fhall be made. 4th. The Army under Lieut. Genl. Burgoyne to march to Maffachufetts Bay by the eafieft, mofl expeditious and convenient Routes ; and to be quartered in, near, or as convenient as poffible, to Bofton, that the march of the Troops may not be delayed when Tranfports arrive to receive them. 5th. The Troops to be fupplied on their March and during being in Quarters, with Provifions, by General Gates's Orders, at the fame Rate of Rations as the Troops of his own Army ; and if poffible, the Officer's Horfes and Cattle are to be fupplied with Forage at the ufual Rates. 19 14-6 Burgoynes Orderly Book. 6th. All Officers to retain their Carriages, Bat Horfes, and other Cattle, and no Baggage to be molefted nor fearched, Lieut. General Burgoyne giving his Honour that there are no public Stores fecreted therein. Major General Gates will of courfe take the neceffary Meafures for the due performance of this Article. Should any Carriages be wanted during the March for the Transportation of Officers' ' Baggage, they are if poffible to be fupplied by the Country at the ufual Rates. 7th. Upon the March and during the Time the Army fhall remain in Quarters in the MalTachufetts Bay, the Officers are not, as far as Circumftances will admit, to be Separated from their Men. The Officers are to be quartered according to Rank, and are not to be hindered from affembling their Men for Roll-Callings, and other neceffary pur- pofes of Regularity. 8th. All Corps whatever of General Burgoyne's Army, whether compofed of Sailors, Batteau Men, Artifi- cers, Drivers, Independent Companies and Follow- ers of the Army, of whatever Country, fhall be included in the fulleft Senfe, and utmoft Extent of the above Articles, and comprehended in every Refpedl as Britifh Subjedts. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 147 9th. All Canadians and Perfons belonging to the Canadian Eftablifhment, confifting of Sailors, Bat- teau Men, Artificers, Drivers, Independent Com- panies, and many other Followers of the Army, who come under no particular Defcription, are to be permitted to return there ; they are to be conducted immediately by the fhorteft Route, to the firft Britifh Poft on Lake George ; are to be fupplied with Provifions in the fame Manner as the other Troops, and are to be bound by the fame condition of not ferving during the prefent Conteft in North America. loth. Paffports to be immediately granted for three Officers not exceeding the Rank of Captains, who fhall be appointed by Lieut. General Burgoyne to carry Difpatches to Sir William Howe, Sir Guy Carleton and to Great Britain, by the Way of New York; and Major General Gates engages the pub- lick Faith, that the Defpatches fhall not be opened. Thefe Officers are to fet out immediately after receiving their Defpatches, and are to travel the fhorteft Route, and in the moft expeditious manner. nth. During the ftay of the Troops in Maffachufetts Bay, the Officers are to be admitted on Parole, and are to be permitted to wear their Side Arms. 14-8 Burgoynes Orderly Book. 1 2th. Should the Army under Lieutenant General Bur- goyne find it neceffary to fend for their Cloathing and other Baggage to Canada, they are to be per- mitted to do it in the moft convenient Manner, and the neceffary Paffports granted for that Purpofe. Thefe Articles are to be mutually iigned and exchanged tomorrow Morning at 9 o'clock, and the Troops under Lieut. General Burgoyne are to march out of their Intrenchments at three o'clock in the Afternoon. Camp at Saratoga, i6th Odt, 1777. (Signed), Horatio Gates, Major General. To prevent any Doubts that might arife from Lieut. General Burgoyne's name not being men- tioned in the above Treaty, Major General Gates hereby Declares that he is underflood to be com- prehended in it as fully as if his name had been Ipecifically mentioned- (Signed), Horatio Gates. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 149 No. 9. Letter from Capt. Craig' to Col. Wilkinfon. Sir, Upon reporting the Proceedings of this evening to Lieut. General Burgoyne, I was happy to receive his approbation of and ready concurrence I James Henry Craig, of the Craigs of Dalnair and Coftarton, Scotland, was born in 1748 at Gibraltar, where his father held the appointment of civil and military judge. He entered the Army ift June, 1763, as Enfign in the 30th regiment, then in garrifon in that Fortrefs. In 1769 he was pro- moted to a lieutenancy, and in 1 770 was appointed Aid-dc-Camp to General Sir Robert Boyd, then Governor of Gibraltar. In March, 1771, he obtained a company in the 47th regiment, with which he went to America in 1774. His company formed part of the re- inforcement fent by Gen. Gage to diflodge the Americans from their pofition on Bunker Hill, 1 7th June, 1775, on which occafion he was fevercly wounded. On the evacua- tion of Bofton, his regiment was ordered to Halifax and thence to Quebec, where it arrived on the 8th May, 1776. It was thence fent up the St. Lawrence and Captain Craig commanded his company in the aftion at Three Rivers, and the advanced guard of the Army in purfuit of the retreating Americans. In this campaign he was engaged in the battle of Hubbardton, when he was again feverely wounded, and received a third wound at the battle at Freeman's Farm, September 19th. At the clofe of the campaign Capt. Craig was one of the officers felefted to fettle the fubordinate Articles of the Treaty preparatory to the fur- render of Burgoyne's Army. At his requeft, the Term Capitulation was changed to Convention. He was fent immedately after this with defpatches to England, and Government having refolved to raife ten new regiments, Capt. Craig was appointed Major of the 82d, 25th December, 1777, and proceeded to Halifax in 1778. He was engaged in 1779 in the opera- tions on the Penobfcot (Maine) ; was afterwards ordered to the Southj and in 1781 was difpatched to take pofTelTion of Wilmington, N. C, which he occupied until the Autumn, when, informed of the Surrender of Cornwallis, he abandoned the place and fled precipitately to Charlefton. He became Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment 3iftDecember, 1781; in 1783 was tranfferred to the 16th Foot, and was appointed Colonel in the Army 1 8th November, 1 790. In 1794 he obtained the rank of 150 Burgoynes Orderly Book. in every article that has been agreed on between us. It however appears upon a retrofpedl of the Treaty, that our zeal to compleat it expeditioufly has led us into the admiffion of a Term in the Title, very different from his meaning and that of the principle Officers of his Army, who have been confulted on this important occafion. We have. Sir, unguard- Major General, and in the beginning of the following year was fent on the expedition to the Cape of Good Hope, which having been reduced, he was appointed Governor of the Colony. In Augufl, 1795, he be- came Colonel of the 46th regiment. He remained at the Cape until 1797, and as a reward for his fervices was made Knight of the Bath. Having returned to England he was ordered to India, in which country he ferved five years. In January, 1801, he was promoted to the rank of Lieut. General, and in 1 8oz returned to England, where he was put in com- mand of the Eaftcrn Diftrift. In January, 1 804, he was appointed Colonel of the 86th Foot ; in 1 805 was feledled to command the Troops in the Mediterranean; pro- ceeded to Lifbon, Gibraltar, Malta, and thence to Naples, and after the battle of Aufterlitz withdrew to Sicily. He returned to England in 1806, and was appointed Colonel of the 2 2d regiment. In Augufl:, 1807, he was appointed Governor in Chief of Britifh North America, with the local rank of General; but however qualified he might have been for a camp, his adminiftration of the affairs of Canada fhowed him ahogether unfit for the duties of a civil governor. Weak, fufpicious, and hafty ; perhaps from ill- health and a broken down conftitution ; he foon became the tool of a few rapacious, overbearing and irrefpon- fible officials; faw in every opponent of his poHcy a difaffedled rebel ; feized hberal prefTes and fupprefTed oppofition newfpapers ; imprifoned editors, at and during, his pleafure, and employed fpies to difcover trea- fon in Canada and to foment and encourage it in the United States. After a troublefome adminiftration of four years he embarked for England on the 19th June, 181 1, thoroughly detefled by the people, and confeffing, it is faid, on his departure, that among his pro- fcffing friends he had experienced more deception and ingratitude in Canada than in the whole courfe of his life before coming to it. Sir James H. Craig did not long furvive his return to England. He died of drcpfy in January, 181Z, aged 62 years. He had been nearly 50 years in the Army, and during that time had not been a day on half pay. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 151 edly called that a Treaty of Capitulation, which the Army means only as a Treaty of Convention ; with the fingle alteration of this word Lieut. Col. Sutherland and myfelf will meet you at the ftipu- lated time tomorrow morning, with the fair Copy figned by General Burgoyne. I hope, Sir, you will excufe my troubling you fo late ; but I thought it better than by any delay to prevent the fpeedy conclufion of a Treaty, which feems to be the wifh of both parties, and which may prevent the further efFufion of blood between us. I beg your immediate anfwer. I am. Sir, Your obedient humble fervant, James Henry Craig, Capt. 47th Reg. Camp at Saratoga, 1 3th Odt., i pad 10 o'clock. Anfwer. Col° Wilkinfon's Compliments to Capt. Craig; Major General Gates will admit the alteration. 152 Burgoynes Orderly Book. [Appended to the foregoing pages in another hand writing, faid to be that of Gov. CUnton, are the two following papers.] When General Burgoyne arrived at Bemifes Heights, he was received by Gen. Gates at the Head of the Continental Army, which was drawn up on that occafion. Gen. Gates advanced to re- ceive hirh, told him he was glad to fee him. Gen. Burgoyne replyd, I am not glad to fee you; it is my Fortune, Sir, but not my Fault. Gen. Schuy- ler's Carriage was fent for, to receive and condudt Gen. Redfall, his wife and five children to Albany. Gen. Burgoyne and the reft of the Staff Officers were efcorted on Horfeback. They all dined at General Schuyler's. At Table General Gates drank the King of Great Britain's Health. Gen. Burgoyne in return thanked him, and in the next Glafs drank the Continental Congrefs. Gen. Bur- goyne obferved to Gen. Gates, he admired the Number, Drefs and Difcipline of his Army ; but above all, the Decorum and Regularity that was obferved ; faid. Your Funds of Men are inexhauft- ible, like the Hydra's Head, when cut off, feven more fprang up in its ftead. When Gen. Burgoyne arrived in Albany, the Boys gathering round, cryed out, " Make Elbow Room there" — the Rejoycing Word. MAJ OLN PHILIP SCHUYLER JTKW-roilJi dPTTJTH^J- i CO Burgoynes Orderly Book. 153 The Number of Prifoners Surrendered by Capitulation under the Command of Lt. General Burgoyne the I tth of OBober, i JJJ. Britifh Prifoners, 2442 Foreign do 2198 General Burgoyne and Staff Officers, including fix Members of Parliament, 12 Sent to Canada, 1 1 00 Sick and Wounded, 598 Total, ^350 Prifoners before the Surrender, 400 Deferters, 300 Loft at Bennington, 1220 Killed between the 17th Sept. | . and the 18th Odlober, j °°° Taken at Ticonderoga, 413 Killed at Gen. Herkimer's Battle, 300 3233 9583 20 154- Burgoynes Orderly Book. Ordnance, Stores, &c. taken. 6 Pieces of Cannon at Bennington. 2 do and 4 Royals at Fort Schuyler. 400 Set of Harnefs, a Number of Ammunition Waggons and Horfes. 5000 Stand of Arms. 37 Pieces of Brafs Cannon, Implements and Stores Compleat. The above is exclufive of Indians, Teamfters and Suttlers. APPENDIX. NAMES OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BRUNSWICK REGIMENTS IN THIS CAMPAIGN. Staff. ■ AJOR General von Riedesel, (See fupra, p. 103 J 2. Captain Heinrich Dak. Geklach, Quarter Mailer General; died 29th Sept., 1798, Lieutenant Colonel and Commander of the Artillery at Brunfwick. 3. Captain Laurence O'Connel ; was taken prifoner at Bennington; attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and died in I 8 19, in Ireland, on half pay. 4. Lieutenant Friedrich Christian Cleve, (See fofi.) 5. Pavmafter General Johannes Conr. Godecke, died 25th Dec, 1782, in America. M Dragoon Regiment. 1. Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, (See fupra, p. S2J 2. Major Just. Christoph von Maibom ; was taken prifoner at Ben- nington, and died at Wolfenbuttel, 17th Feb., 1804. 3. Captain Carl von Schlagenteuffel ; was taken prifoner at Ben- nington ; left the army in 1788. 156 Burgoynes Orderly Book. 4. Captain Heinrich Christian Fricke; died a Major 3d July, 1808. at Konigflutter. 5. Captain Carl Friedrich von Reinking ; killed in the battle of Bennington, i6th Aug., 1777. 6. Captain Adolph von Schlagenteuffel ; retired from the fervice with the rank of Major in 1783. 7. Lieutenant Aug. Wilhelm Breva ; was taken prifoner at Ben- nington ; died 1 6th Aug., \-]()o,Q.Vvt{ Q.^^^t^m (hauftmann) of Invalids at Blankenburg. 8. Lieutenant Otto Arnold von Sommerlatte; penfioned in 1783 on account of blindnefs. 9. Lieutenant Carl Friedrich von Reckrodt ; taken prifoner at Bennington; deferted from Wolfenbuttel, 12th Aug., 1784. 10. Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Dietrich von Bothmer; was taken prifoner at Bennington; difcharged in 1783 with the rank of Captain. 1 1 . Lieutenant August Friedrich Heinrich Bornemann ; retired in 1788, and entered the Dutch fervice ; died in India. 12. Cornet August Ludwig Lucas GRapE ; was taken prifoner at Bennington; remained by permiffion in America in 1783; returned to Germany the following year, and died Governor of the Prince of Meck- lenburg-Strelitz. 13. Cornet Johan Balthazar Stutzer; was taken prifoner at Ben- nington; was quartered at Springfield in 1788; died half-pay Lieutenant Colonel in Brunfwick, 29th Nov., 1821. 14. Cornet Johan Friedrich Schonewald ; was taken prifoner at Bennington; quartered at Weftminfter in 1788; died Lieutenant Colonel on half pay, in Brunfwick, 5th July, 1826. 15. Chaplain Carl Melsheimer ; deferted nth May, 1779. 16. Auditor Thomas; taken prifoner at Bennington; remained by permiffion in America in 1783. 17. Surgeon Borbrodt; prifoner at Bennington ; penfioned in 1783. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 157 Grenadier Regiment. I. Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich Christoph Breymann, {See p. iz.) z. Captain Ernst August VON Bartling ; taken prifoner at Bennington ; died Lieutenant Colonel in command of the regiment, at Maeftricht, ift Jan., 1793. 3. Capt. Albrecht Daniel von LotJNEYsEN ; died 2d May, 1820, at Nemlingen. 4. Captain GoTTLOB Dietrich von Schick; killed at Bennington. 5. Captain August Wilhelm von Hambach; retired in 1783. 6. Lieutenant Heinrich Wilhelm Uhlig ; became Captain in 1783. 7. Lieutenant Theodor Friedrich Gebbard; was taken prifoner at Bennington ; died Lieut. Col. at Brunfwick, 3d June, 1 8 10, on half pay. 8. Lieutenant August Wilhelm Helmecke ; difcharged in 1783. 9. Lieutenant Christian Wilhelm Trott ; redred in 1783. 10. Lieutenant Otto Heinrich Rudolphi ; died Lieutenant Colonel at Brunfwick, 3d June, 18 10. II. Lieutenant Gebbard Thedel Friedrich von Wallmoden ; died Major unattached at Alten- Wallmoden, 2d Sept., 1807. 12. Lieutenant Ludwig Casimir von Muzell ; attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and died 28th July, 1814, Groom in Waiting to his Serene Highness Prince George of Brunfwick. 13. Lieutenant Johann Andreas Meyer; was taken at Bennington. 14. Lieutenant Johann Jacob von Meyern ; died 3d July, 1802, Chief Captain of the Company of Invalids at Blankenburg. 15. Lieutenant Carl Franz d'Anniers; died prifoner at Bennington in 1777. 16. Lieutenant Gottfried Jul. Winterschmidt; deferted in 1779. 17. Lieutenant Johann Caspar Balke ; died in America in 1778. .18. Surgeon Henkel; died in America in 1778. Prince Frederic s Regiment. I. Lieutenant Colonel Christian Julius PRaTORius ; died on half pay loth April, 1794, at Holzminden. 158 Burgoynes Orderly Book. 2. Major Friedrich Wilhelm von Hille ; attained the rank of Major Genera], and was appointed Commandant of Wolfenbuttel ; he died at Brunfwick, 29th April, 1 805. 3. Captain Adolph Lorenz Dietrich; died Lieutenant Colonel at Wolfenbuttel, 10th March, 1794. 4. Captain Carl August Heinrich von Tunterfeld ; died Chamber- lain at Brunfwick, 4th June, 1802. 5 Captain Jacob Christian Sander ; died Lieutenant Colonel at Wolfenbuttel, 14th March, 1799. 6. Captain Friedrich Albrecht Rosenberg ; retired with the rank of Major in 1788. 7. Capt. Georg Ernst von Zielberg ; died at Horter, 23d Feb., 1797. 8. Lieutenant Ernst Christian Schroder; died in 1783. 9. Lieutenant Friedrich von dem Knesebeck ; retired from the fervice in 1783. 10. Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Volckmar ; retired in 1783. 11. Lieutenant Joh. Fried. Harz ; appointed Secretary of the Klos- terrath in 1787. 1 2. Lieutenant Johann Gottfried Wolgart ; died Lieutenant Colonel at Wolfenbuttel, 2d Oft., 1825. 13. Lieutenant Gottl. Christ, von Reitzenstein ; remained by permiffion in America in 1783. 14. Lieutenant Johann Friedrich Heinrich Burchoff; was taken prifoner at Bennington, and died in America in 1780. 15. Lieutenant August Wilhelm du Roi ; after a fervice of over fifty years, this officer, in a fit of melancholy, committed fuicide by drowning, on the 23d March, 1814. At the time of his death he held the rank of Lieut. Colonel, and filled the office of Commiffary General. 16. Lieutenant Christian Friedrich Wiesener ; retired' in 1783. 17. Lieutenant Edmund Victor VON Konig ; remained in America by permiffion in 1783. 18. Enfign Siegfr. Heinr. Langerjahn ; remained in America by permiffion in 1783. Burgoynes Orderly Buok. 159 19. Enfign Carx Friedrich Christ, von Adelsheim ; deferted 1780. 20. Enfign JoHANN Christian Sternberg ; died Commiflary of Pro- vifions at Wolfenbuttel, 1 6th Nov., 1799. 21. Enfign Carl Wilhelm Reinerding ; died at Blankenburg, 14th March, 1 81 5. 22. Enfign Friedrich Kolte; remained in America by permiHion in 1783. 23. Chaplain Friedrich August FiicERER : difcharged Oft., 1779. 24. Chaplain Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Schrader ; was fent to America in April, 1779, with recruits, and died 19th Dec, 1792, Paftor of Beierftedt. 25. Auditor Paul Gottfried Frans WoLPERs ; died Regifter in Chan- cery at Wolfenbuttel, nth May, 1802. 26. Surgeon Johan August Berndt; died 27th Feb., 1807, Town Surgeon at Holzminden. Regiment of Rhetz. 1. Lieutenant Colonel Johan GusTAV VON Ehrenkrock ; died the 2 zd March, 1783, at Three Rivers, in Canada, and was buried with military honors on the 27th of the fame month, in the garrifon burying ground of that town. 2. Major Balthasar Bogislaus von Lucke. 3. Captain Ludewig von Schlagenteuffel ; died in 1783 at Calvorde. 4. Captain Conrad Anton Alers; died at Brunfwick 17th Oftober, 1 8 10, Major unattached. 5. Captain Georg Philip Arend; died loth Dec, 1803, Lieutenant Colonel unattached. 6. Captain Heinrich Urban Cleve ; died 2d Jan., 1 808, at Salzgitter. 7. Captain Wilhelm Ludwig Fredersdorff ; was wounded on the 7th Oft., 1777, in the battle of Freeman's Farm, and died at Albany in the following year. 8. Lieutenant George Bodemeyer j died a Captain at Maeftricht, 1 793. i6o Burgoynes Orderly Booh g. Lieutenant Friedrich Julius von Papet; died a Captain at Maes^ tricht 5 th April, 1793. 10. Lieutenant Curt von Hessler; difcharged in 1783 with the rank of Captain. 1 1 . Lieutenant Friedrich Leopold Engelhard Meyer ; died 6th Dec., 1 802, Infpedlor of Excife at Scefen. 12. Lieutenant Thedel Wilhelm Bielstein ; permitted to remain in America in 1783. 13. Lieutenant Carl Friedrich Conradi ; difcharged in 1783, and returned to America. 14. Lieutenant Hans Philip Heinrich von Dobeneck; died Captain in 1796, at Holzminden. 15. Lieutenant Carl Ludwig Petersen; died 7th May, 1814, at Meerdorf. 1 6. Lieutenant Christian Heinrich Modrach ; died a Captain 1 8th Auguft, 1803, at Bevern. 17. Lieutenant Johann Ludwig von Unger ; died 2d May, 1805, at SalzHebenhalle. 18. Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Feichel ; died Captain at Bruns- wick, 29th May, 1794. 19. Enfign Friedrich Bandel ; deferted his regiment in 1779. 20. Enfign Bernhard Erich ; difcharged in 1783. 21. Enfign Johan Friedrich Bode; died 19th Sept., 1783, at Stade, on his return from America. " 22. Enfign Johan Heinrich Godecke ; tranfferred to a regiment of the line (land-regimente) in 1783. 23. Chaplain Christian Timotheus Togel ; died ift Oft., 1797, Paftor of Great Twiilpftedt. 24. Auditor Schmidt; tranfferred to Riedefel's regiment in 1783. 25. Surgeon Johann Friedrich Schrader; died l6th Dec, 1804, at Brunfwick. Burgoynes Orderly Book. i6i Riedefel's Regiment. 1 . Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Ludewig Wilhelm von Speth ; taken prifoner 7th Oft., 1777, at Freeman's Farm; died 27th Oft., 1800, Major General and Commandant at Wolfenbuttel. 2. Major Otto Carl Anton von Mengen ; died Lieutenant Colonel unattached, at Luneburg, i8th May, 1797. 3. Captain Julius Ludwig August von Pollnitz ; died 29th March, 1805, Major General and Commandant at Wolfenbuttel. 4. Captain Carl Friedrich Morgenstern ; difcharged with the rank of Major. 5. Captain Carl Friedrich von Bartling; died in 1783 at Munfter, on the march from America to Brunfwick. 6. Captain Gottlieb Benjamin Harbord ; died a Captain on half pay. 7. Captain Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm von Girsewald ; died Major General at Brunfwick, 1 6th Jan., 18 1 8. 8. Lieutenant Wilhelm Hoyer; died in America in 1782. 9. Lieutenant Johan Carl Morgenstern; died a Captain at Bruns- wick, 8th Dec, 1787. 10. Lieutenant Friedrich Carl Reinking ; died a Captain. 1 1 . Lieutenant Ludwig Traugott von Bubgdorff ; difcharged in 1 786. 12. Lieutenant August Theodor Gottfried Woloart ; died a Major at Brunfwick, 4th March, 1821. 13. Lieut. Heinrich Julius Freyenhagen; died in America in 1777. 14. Lieutenant Christian Theodor von Pincier ; difcharged in J 784, and returned to America. 15. Lieutenant Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Cramm ; died a Captain at Maeftricht, 3d Feb., 1794. 16. Lieut. Ludwig Gottlieb VON Meyern ; died in America in 178 1. 17. Enfign Ernst Christian Heinrich Brander ; difcharged, 1786. 18. Enfign Ludwig Unverzact; died in America in 1 776. 19. Enfign Carl Christoph von Maibom ; died 26th April, 1794, on the return march from Maeftricht to Hglzminden. 21 1 62 Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 20. Enfign Raymond Gottlieb HasERLiN ; taken prifoner at Freeman's Farm, 7th Oft., T777 ; died a Captain 6th Oft., 1796, at Helmftedt. 21. Enfign Carl Conrad Andree ; taken prifoner at Bennington; died Lieutenant in a r-igiment of the line. 22. Enfign Friedrich Ludwig Denecke ; was taken prifoner at Ben- nington, l6tli Aug., 1777 ; and refided at Weflminfter in Jan., 1778, 23. Enfign Heinrich Friedrich von Forstner ; difcharged in 1794. 24. Chaplain Johann August Milius; died 17th January, 1 819, Pallor of Salder. 25. General StalF Auditor Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zinken ; died 3d Aug., 1806, Judge at Seefen. 26. Surgeon Pralle ; died at Jerrheim. Spechfs Regiment. 1. Colonel Johann Friedrich Specht ; died 24th June, 1787, at Brunfwick. 2. Major Carl Friedrich von Ehrenkrock ; died 17th July, 1797, at Brunfwick. 3. Captain Leopold Franz Friedrich Balthazar von Plessen ; died 6th Feb., 1808, at Ganderlheim. 4. Captain Aug. Conr. von Lutzow ; died Colonel, 26th Nov. 1799, at Brunfwick. 5. Captain Bernh. Rich, von Dahlstirna ; wounded on the 7th Oft., 1777, in the battle at Freeman's Farm, and died the year following at Albany. 6. Captain George von Schlagenteuffel ; died 15th Aug., 1818, Upper Bailiff at Schoppenftedt. 7. Captain Heinrich Jager; died in 1782, in America. 8. Lieutenant Johann Heinrich Meyer; died 23d Oft., 1800, Poft- mafter at Helmftedt. 9. Lieutenant Daniel Arnold Hertel ; died ill Aug., 1799, at Konigflutter. Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 163 10. Lieutenant August Wilhelm von Papet ; died Colonel at Bruns- wick, 25th July, 1808. 11. Lieut. Heinrich Anton David Dove; died in 1780 in America. 12. Lieutenant Christian Friedrich von Milkau; difcharged, 1783. 13. Lieutenant Friedrich Ernst Oldekopf; appointed Secretary of the poll department in 1784, and died in that office. 14. Lieutenant Heinrich Daniel de Anniers; difcharged in 1783. 15. Lieutenant JoHANN Friedrich Julius Kellner ; died 30th Nov., 1 808, Commiffary at Brunfwick. 1 6. Lieutenant Anton Adolph Heinrich du Roi ; died Lieutenant Colonel at Brunfwick, 19th Aug., 1823. 17. Lieutenant Friedrich Bodo von Unger ; died Counfellor at Salzgitter, 1 ith Nov., 1819. 18. Enlign Johann Heinrich Carl von Bernewitz ; died Lieutenant General and Commandant at Brunfwick, 13 th Dec, l8zi. 19. Enfign Friedrich von Redeken; died in 1777, in America. 20. Epfign Johann Edmund Fromme ; died Major at Wolfenbuttel, 8th May, 1822. 21. Enfign Samuel Jacob Anton von Ulmenstein ; died Lieutenant 9th July, 1793. 22. Enfign Grimpe ; died at Brunfwick. 23. Chaplain Kohle. 24. Chaplain Munchhoff. 25. Auditor BaHR. 26. Surgeon Johann Carl Bause ; died General Staff Phyiician unat- tached, at Brunfwick, 15th Dec, 1814. Rifle ijager) Regiment. 1. Major Ferdinand Albr. von Earner; died Colonel, 2d Oft., 1797. 2. Captain Georg Ludewic TnoMa ; died Captain at Wolfenbuttel, loth Jan., 1800. 3. Captain Carl von Geyso ; taken prifoner at Freeman's Farm ; at Rutland in 1778 ; difcharged in 1783, with the rank of Major. 4. Captain August Friedrich Dommes ; taken prifoner at Bennington ; died Chief Commiffary at Blankenburg, 6th Jan., 1802. 164 Burgoynes Orderly Book. 5. Captain Maximilian Christoph Ludwig Schottelius; died Poft- mafter at Holzminden, 3d Dec, 1807. 6. Captain Gottlieb Joachim von Gliessenbero ; taken prifoner at Freeman's Farm, in 1777; in Albany in 1778; died Colonel and Commandant at Wolfenbuttel, 20th Feb., 1801. 7. Lieutenant Johann Caspar Hannemann ; died Foreft Ranger. 8. Lieutenant Philip Sigismund Cruse ; died Captain in the line. 9. Lieutenant Johann Gottfried Kotte ; died at Quebec in 1776. 10. Lieutenant Albrecht Christian Rabe ; died at Konigflutter, i8th oa., 1806. 1 1. Lieutenant Johann Gottlieb von Gladen ; died Major at Wolf' enbuttel, 14th Dec, 1827. 12. Lieutenant Carl Anton Ludwio Muhlenfeldt; killed at the battle of Bennington. 13. Lieutenant Johann Friedrich Pfluger ; died in America, 1777. 14. Lieutenant Andreas Mever; died at the Ducal Caftle at Salz' dahlum, 7th Dec, 1795. 15. Lieutenant Georg Friedrich Gebhard Fricke; died Poftmafter atGoflar, 19th Nov., 1807. 16. Lieutenant Johann Andreas Bode; killed at the batdeofFree^ man's Farm, 7th Oft., 1777. 17. Lieutenant Caspar Friedrich Rohr ; difcharged in 1 783. 18. Enfign Wilhelm Lucas Rhenius ; died at Drangftedt 30th Sept.> 1783, on the march from America to Brunfwick. 19. Enfign Johann Jul. Anton Specht j taken prifoner at Bennington ; remained by permiffion in America in 1783. 20. Enfign Johann von Begert; drowned in America in 1777. 21. Enfign Georg Leopold Hegemann; killed at the battle of Ben' nington. 22. Enfign Ernst August Count von Rantzau ; taken prifoner at Freeman's Farm ; drowned in the Schuylkill. 23. Surgeon Kunze ; died on half pay. Burgoyne's Orderly Book. 165 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Note, Page 28. Brigade Major Cleve. FREDERICK Christian Cleve was the youngeft fon of the Chamberlain of the Court of Brunfwick, in which city he was born in 1739. In the year 1759, he entered the fervice as Corporal in the Regiment of Imhof, in which corps two of his brothers held commiffions. On the 7th May, 1759, he was promoted to an Enfigncy, and on the 1 8th Sept., 1761, was appointed Lieutenant. At the end of the war he was difcharged. On the breaking out of the American war he was appointed Adjutant in Gen. Riedefel's ftafF, with the rank of Lieutenant, and on returning to his native country in 1783, was promoted to a Company in Riedefel's newly organized regiment of Infantry. On 23d Dec, 1788, he was appointed Major and fervcd in Holland until 1794. On the return of his regiment to Brunfwick, he was placed at the head of the Mihtary Academy; on zad Dec, 1798, advanced to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and on 28th April, 1801, to that of Colonel. He took an aftive part in organizing the Weftphalian army, and in 1817 was appointed Major General. Full of years, and with the character of a moral and religious Soldier, he died on the 6th of January, 1836, in the 88Lh year of his age. Page 22. Major Irwino. PAULUS tEmilius Irving was born at Waterford, Ireland, Auguft 30th, 175 I i he was the only fon of Lieutenant Colonel Irving, of Woodhoufe, County of Dumfries, Scodand, Governor of Upnor Caftle, and at one time Prefident of the Council in Quebec. He was appointed to a Lieutenancy in the 47 th regiment, on the 15 th June, 1 764, and ob- tained his company 29th October, 1768 ; came to America in 1774, and on 31II March, 1775, became Major of his regiment. According to Philippart, he was in the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, and in 1 66 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Bofton during the blockade. On the evacuation of that city, he accom- panied his regiment to Quebec, was at the affair of Three Rivers in June, 1776, and followed the Americans to Ticonderoga. At the clofe of Burgoyne's campaign. Major Irving fhared the fate of the reft of the army. He remained a prifoner three years; towards the clofe of 1780 he ob- tained the brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and became Lieutenant Colonel of his regiment 3d Auguft, 1781, when he returned to England, and in 1786 married Lady Elizabeth St. Lawrence, fecond daughter of the firft Earl of Howth. In 1790 he went to the Bahamas, became Major General in 1794, and joined Sir John Vaughan's army in the Weft Indies in 1795. On the death of that oiBcer that year. Major General Irving fucceeded to the chief command of the army in thofe parts. In September he went to St. Vincents, and on 2d October achieved a de- cifive viftory over the French at St. Vigie, for which he received the thanks of the king. He returned to England at the clofe of 1795, and in 1 80 1, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, became Colonel of the 6th Veteran Battahon in 1 802 ; and was raifed to the dignity of a Baronet in 1809. In I 81 2 he reached the rank of General, and died at Carlille in 1828, aged 76 years. Some writers confound this officer with his father, in coniequence of both having the fame name. Page 23. Lieutenant Beecroft. RICH.'VRD Beecroft entered the 24th regiment of Foot as Enlign in 1761; was promoted to a Lieutenancy in February, 1766. When theAmericans attacked Ticonderoga in September, 1777, Lieut. Beecroft was ftationed with fome troops on Mount Independence, where he greatly diftinguifhed himfelf, and in confequence obtained^ a company in Oftober following; in 1 78 1 he exchanged, or was tranlFerrcd, to the loift regiment. This regiment being difbanded in 1785, Capt. Beecroft went on hajfpay and fo remained until 1796, when his name difappears from the Army Lift. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 167 Page 38. Lord Viscount Peterborough. CHARLES Stanhope, Vifcount Petersham, eldeft fon of William 2d Earl of Harrington, was born on 17th March, 1753. He entered the Army as Enfign in the Coldftream Guards in the fevcnteenth year of his age, and at the age of twenty, received a Captain's commiffion in the 29th Foot. Having been ordered to Canada, his lordfhip arrived at Quebec on the 6th May, 1776, and had the honor to command the detachment which relieved that citv, then befieged by the Americans. On accompanying the expedition under Gen. Burgoyne, Lord Peterfham was appointed to the Grenadier company, which he commanded at the batde of Hubbardton, Vt., on the 7th July, 1777. A few days after, he was appomted fupernumerary Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Burgoyne, and in that capacity ferved in the engagements of the 19th of September, and 7th of Odtober, and attended the funeral of Brig. Gen. Frazer, who was killed on the laft mentioned day. On the 17th of Oflober his lordfliip was one of the officers that attended Gen. Burgoyne on occafion of his furrender as prifoner of war to Major General Gates, after which, being felefted to carry General B.'s defpatches to London, he went to Albany, thence to New York, and embarked for England where he exchanged into the 3d Foot Guards, whereby he attained the rank of Colonel in the Army, i6th January, 1778. He fucceeded to the dtle of Earl of Harrington on the death of his father, ift April, 1779; on the 23d May following he married Jane, daughter of Sir John Fleming, Bart., and on the ift June was examined before the Committee of the Houfe of Commons on Burgoyne's expedition. In 1780, he was appointed Lieut. Colonel of the 85th Foot, and then ferved two years in the Weft Indies. In 1782 he received the brevet rank of Colonel, and became Colonel of the 65 th Foot in March 1783. He was appointed to the command of the 29th regiment in January 1788, and of the ift regiment of Life Guards on the 5th December, 1792 ; was advanced to the rank of Major General the following year, and of Lieut. General in 1798, after which his lordfhip was fometime employed on the ftafF in Great Britain and ferved 1 68 Burgoynes Orderly Book. alfo in Ireland. Having attained the rank of General in the Army; been Governor and Conftable of Windfor Caftic, and having been honored with the Grand Crofs of the Bath, his lordfhip died on the 5th Sept., 1829, in the 67th year of his age. Page 72. Baron Salans. ALEXANDER Salans entered the 9th regiment as Enfign 2d Sep- tember, I 776. He returned to England after this campaign, and in 1780 was appointed Captain in the 85 th, a newly raifed regiment, of which Lord Harringtoii ( jupra, p. 76) was Colonel. This corps was dilbanded in 1783, when Baron Salans's name difappears from the army lift. Page 149. Colonel Wilkinson. JAMES WitKiNsoN was born in Maryland, in 1757, and at the age of I 7, entered the Medical School of Philadelphia. After pafling through the requifite ftudies he returned to his native place to praftice his profeffion. On the breaking out of the Revolution, he joined, as a Volun- teer, Col. Thompfon's company of Rifles, then at the camp before Bos- ton, and in September, 1775, was commifiioned Captain in Read's New Hampfhire regiment. He joined this corps in 1776, but was foon after ordered to Canada, and joined General Arnold at Lachine, 22d May of that year, but was obliged to quit that Province with the remains of the American army, and return to Ticonderoga, where he was appointed Major of Brigade. In confequence of an attack of fever, he had to be removed to Albany, and in January, 1777, was commifEoned Lieutenant Colonel in a newly raifed regiment, commanded by Colonel Gueft, but was Ihortly after tranfierred to Hardey's regiment, and proceeded to Marylatld to recruit. On General Gates being appointed tQ the com- mand of the Northern army. Lieutenant Colonel Wilkinfon left Hartley's regiment, and joined Gen. Gates's ftafF as Adjutant General, in which capacity he made the campaign of 1 777. On the furrender of Burgoyne, Wilkinfon was fent with Gates's defpatches to Congrefs, and recommended Burgoynes Orderly Book. 169 for promotion ; but his progrefs was flow. He had halted on the way to pay his refpefts to Mifs Biddle, to whom he was attached. When it was afterwards moved in Congrefs to prefent the meflenger with a fword, it was propofed by way of amendment, that he fliould be pre- fented with a pair of golden fpurs. He, however, received the brevet of Brigadier General, 6th of November, 1777, and returned to the North. In January, 1778, he was appointed Secretary of the Board of War, and proceeded in February to Pennfylvania. Here he quarrelled with and challenged Gates, in confequence of fome mifunderftanding, but the interference of friends prevented a hoftile meeting. General Wilkin- fon's promotion having given offence to a number of Colonels in the Continental Army, who felt flighted thereby, he threw up his brevet on the 3d, and his Secretaryfhip on the 28th March, 1778; the latter in con- fequence of Gates being Prefident of the Board. The dominant influence of that officer, and the feuds and intrigues in Congrefs and in the army, left him unemployed until the 29th July, 1779, when he received the appointment of Clothier General to the forces. After the peace. General Willdnfon turned his attention to the Weflern country, and in Februarj-, 1784, fettled at Lexington, Ky., as agent of a commercial company in Philadelphia. He foon engaged in politics, and in 1786 was elcfted member of the Convention preparatory to the entrance of that territory into the Union. Hitherto no trade had been permitted between the Weftern people and New Orleans, but General Wilkinfon conceived the idea of efi:ablifhing a regular trade thither, and accordingly, in 1787 fent a cargo of tobacco, flour, butter and bacon down the Miffiffippi, which he fliortly followed, and by his perfonal influence, caufcd the removal of thofe commercial barriers which had, up to that time, clofed that market to the Weflern trade. The troubles with the Indians now abforbed pubhc attention, and meafures became necefTary for the proteftion of the fron- tier. In 1 79 1 an expedition againft the Wabafh Indians was, therefore, organized, of which Wilkinfon was chofen Colonel. His fervices on this occafion commended him to the Federal Government, and on 7th November of that year, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the zd 22 lyo Burgoynes Orderly Book. regiment of Infantry, and on 5th March, 1792, Brigadier General. He commanded the right wing of Wayne's army at the famous battle of the Maumee, 20th Auguft, 1 794, and diftinguifhed himfelf on that occa- fion. The Treaty of Greenville was Ihortly after concluded, and put an end to the Indian wars on the Ohio. General Wilkinfon took advantage of this treaty to purchafe, in company with others, a large traft of land extending from the Little lo the Great Miami, on part of which the town of Dayton, O., now Hands. In December, 1796, he became General in Chief of the army, with his head quarters at Pittfburg ; vifited Detroit and Michihmakinac in 1797, and in 1798, on the organization of the Terri- tory of Miffiffippi, eftablifhed his head quarters at Natchez, where he crefted Fort Adams, fo called after the Prefidcnt then in office. In the year following (1799) he was called to New York to aid the government with his advice in the then critical ftate of our foreign relations, but after his returning to Natchez, was engaged in 1801 in negodations with the Indian tribes fouth of Tenneffee, and in determining the boundary between the Whites and the Chickafaws, Choftaws, &c. It was while thus em- ployed that he was nominated one of the Commiffioners for receiving pofTeffion of Louifiana. He executed that commiffion December 20th, 1803, and returned to New York in 1804, after having been honored with a public dinner. In 1805, he was appointed Governor of the Ter- ritory of Louifiana, now comprifing the States of Arkanfas, Miflburi, &c. He reached St. Louis, the feat of the territorial government, in June, and adminiftered the affairs of the territory undl the clofe of i 806. He was next employed in proteiSing the fouth-weftern frontier from invafion by the Spaniards, who had aflemblcd a large body of troops on the eailern boundary of Texas. On concluding that bufincfs, and making the re- quifitc arrangements with the Spanifh authorities, he returned to New Orleans, where he was foon aftively engaged in breaking up the plans and projeft of Aaron Burr. General Wilkinfon's ailivity on that occa- fion, drew down on him the enmity of Burr's friends, and as a confe- quence, in December, 1 806, an inveftigation into his official condudl. This refulted in his favor, and the report having been approved. General Burgoynes Orderly Book. 171 W. was ordered (1808) to return to New Orleans to provide for the public defence, but having a fpecial million to the Havana, he did not reach Louifiana until 19th April, 1809. He was fuperfeded in liis com- mand in December following, and recalled to Wafhington, which he reached in April, 18 10. Another inveftigadon into his conduft followed, and in July, I 8 1 1, he was tried by court martial on charges of having received bribes from, or having been in the pay of Spain, and for having connived at the deligns of Burr, &c. This trial occupied much ume and confidera- ble public attention. It terminated at length, in December, by a verdift of not guilty, which was approved by the Prefident 14th February, 1812, and General Wilidnfon was once more ordered back to New Orleans, to refume his command. He reached that city on the 8th June; war with England was declared on the 18th, and he was commiffioned Brevet Major General 10th July following, and Major General 2d March, I 81 3. In April, 181 3, he reduced Mobile and tordfied Mobile Point, afterwards called Fort Bowyer. He then returned to New Orleans, and in May was removed from the South and ordered to take command of the army on the Northern fronder.-"- The General did not win many laurels on that frontier, and at the clofe of the campaign, broken in health, he afked to be tranfferred to fome other command. In February, 1814, the Secretary at War re- ported to the Prefident various charges againft him, and recommended that he be fuperfeded, and that a court of inquiry examine into his con- duft. He was accordingly ordered to refide either at Philadelphia, Balti- more or Annapolis, and meanwhile to confider himfclf under arreft. Towards the clofe of June he arrived at the city oi Wafhington, then agitated by the approach of the Britifh under Gen. Rofs. Thereupon General Wilkinfon offered to take command of the militia and fave the city, if his arreft were fufpendcd and his fword temporarily reftored. The adminiftration took no notice of this offer, and he left the city on the 20th Auguft, and retired to Maryland. He renewed his offer in 1 According to Alien s Biographical about this time a Mifs Trudeau, aged Visionary, General Wilkinfon married 26 years. 172 Burgoynes Orderly Book. September, but with no better fuccefs. It was decided to bring him to trial. A court martial accordingly aflembled at Troy in January, 181 5, which terminated its labors March 21, by the honorable acquittal of the accufed on all and each of the charges the government had brought againft him. Peace having been concluded, Congrefs pafled an aft (May 1815) to reduce the army. Upwards of eighteen hundred officers were dii^ charged. General Wilkinfon was the principal one of thefe, notwith- Ilanding his forty years in the public fervice, and his recent honorable acquittal by the general court martial. He thereupon retired to Ger- mantown. Pa., where he employed himfelf in the compilation of his Memoirs, which were publifhed in 1816, in 3 vols. 8vo, with an Atlas. In the beginning of that year, the General Ailembly of his native ftate pafled the following Joint Resolution No. 47, Dec. Session, 1815. By the General AJfembly of Maryland. Pafled Jan. "^ "T THEREAS it appears to this General Afl"embly that ' ■ T T James Wilidnfon, an Officer of the Revolutionary In favor of War, and who ferved to its termination, did not receive the Ja^ Wilkin- Commutation money of five years pay, in lieu of halfpay for fon. Hfe, promifed to the officers and foldiers who continued in fervice to the end of the war: Therefore Refohed, That the Treafurer of the Weftern Shore, be and he is hereby authorized and direfted to pay to the faid James Wilkinfon, yearly, in quarterly payments, during hfe, the halfpay of a Colonel of Dragoons, as remuneration for fervices rendered his country in the revolutionary ftruggle for liberty. (See vol. Laws, Dec. SeJJton, 181 5, p. 224.) He fubfequently went to Mexico, and in Auguft, 1825, obtained from the government of that country a grant of land in Texas. He derived no benefit, however, from that grant, for he was feized foon after, with an attack of diarrhoea, and died near the city of Mexico, on the 28th De- cember, 1825, aged 68 years. His body was brought to the houfe of Burgoynes Orderly Book. 173 Mr. Poinfett, the American miniiler, and his interment took place on the evening of the 30th, in the parifh of St. Miguel. As an oldfoldier of the Revolution, every effort was made to procure for him military honors, but thefe were peremptorily denied, on the plea that fuch honors were not even granted to Mexicans. He was followed to the grave by the moft diftinguifhed military and civil officers, and by all the refpeftable foreigners of the city. " Public opinion," fays Niles, in his Weekly Regifter, " has long betn much divided as to the charadler of the deceafed. We " have thought that he was a man more finned againft than finning ; " though fome parts of his conduft rather appeared inexplicable. Let his " faults be buried with him, and the faft that he was a gallant Soldier of " the Revolution overftiadow his memory, and endear the recolleftion " of all who reap the fruits of the exertions of thofe who gave themfelves " up to their country when men's fouls were tried." Reminiscences of Gen. Wilkinson by James F. Watson, Esq. Germantown, Sept. 12, i860. Dr. E. B. O'Caixaghan : Dear Sir — Our mutual friend, E. Armftrong, has defired me to write to you of my recolleftions of General James Wilidnfon. I am happy to reply, and to manifeft my refpefl, perfonally, for yourfelf. General WUkinfon was an elegant gentleman in perfon and manners. He was of medium fize, probably 5 feet 8 or 9 inches. I knew him firll in years 1 800 to 1 804. He dwelt in the houfe next door to me, in the Six Buildings, in Wafhington city. He was fumptuous and hos- pitable in his hving, not very nicely balancing his means and ends- He appeared much abroad with his Aid, both in full uniform, and generally on horfeback. His array was fplendid, he having gold ftirrups and fpurs, and gold leopard claws to his leopard faddle-cloth. The buttons of his clothing were alfo gold. He had then two fons at college. One or both of them married and fettled at Natchez. The elder fon was tall and handfome. It feems to me as if one of them got in a duel there. I once faw Gen. W. walking Spruce street in Philadelphia, going, as I fuppofe, to a dinner ; he in full uniform, having his hair toupeed and 174- Burgoynes Orderly Book. powdered, and carrying his chapeau under his arm, and caring for no one's eyes or remarics. That Ihould have been about the year 1 800. It was before hacks, &c. General Wilkinfon's firft wife was Mifs Biddle of Philadelphia, filler of Clemenf Biddle, very long known as a very aftive and efficient agent for merchants and captains operating at the cuftom houfe. He acquired money, and lived to 80 years of age. His fecond wife was a Creole of New Orleans. About the years 1804-5, ■'■ '^'"^'^ '•° ^^^ ^^'' ^'^'^ ^^'' fifcr very often. They were very handfome ; not deemed affluent ; lived on a Plantation above New Orleans. They always came to the city in a volante, driving their pair of Andalufian horfes themfelves. General Wilkinfon firft introduced the cropping of hair in the army. Colonel Butler could not endure to lofe his long-cheriihed cue. He re- filled. It created great feuds, and much divided officers, fo that feveral- duels occurred. He firft introduced mufical inftruments, and their coft was much difputed at firft by the department. In the year 18 14 I came to dwell at Germantown, as cafhier of the newly founded bank. In two or three years after. General Wilkinfon came to be my near neighbor at Riter's Tavern, where he purpofed to board and write his three volumes of Memoirs. It was a long two-ftoried ftone houfe, with a high attic, extending the length of the whole houfe, and was well lined with unpainted cedar boards. It was ufed as a ma- fons' lodge. There he would pace to and fro, and diftate his compofition to his amanuenfis, feemingly an Englifhman. I felt furprife at fuch a mode of bookmaking. I was allowed to be prefent, when I chofe. The General made no fhew abroad, while there, and did not defire to vifit, as I think. My houfe being near, and informal, he feemed to like to relax by calling in, and talking moftly with Mrs. Watfon. She admired him for his elegance and propriedes of manner. See what I have faid of him and his Memoirs in appendix to my Annals of Philadelphia. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 175 Page 102. Sir Francis Clark. SIR Francis Carr Clerke, Bart., of Hitcham, Buckingham county, England, was born 24th Oftober, 1748, and fucceeded to the Baronetcy in 1769. He entered the army as Enfign in the 3d regiment of Foot Guards, on the 3d Jan. 1770, and attained the ranii of Lieutenant and Captain on 26th July, 1775. He accompanied General Burgoyne in the capacity of Aid-de-camp , was feverely wounded on the 8th, and died on the 13th Odlober, 1777. The following circumftances attending his death are related in General Wilkinfon's Memoirs, i, 269, note : "When I returned to head quarters from the field of battle, I found Sir " Francis Clark repofmg on General Gates's bed, and thofe gentlemen " engaged in a warm difpute, on the merits of the revolution. Sir Francis " admitting that every procedure on our part, fhort of the declaration of " independence was warranted by the conduft pf the Britifh adminiftra- " tion ; that he had on this ground vindicated us in pubhc apd private, " but that the fudden aft of feverance, convinced him the conteft had " originated in a premeditated view to independence, into which the " colonies had been cheated bv the puritans of New England ; and that " he, of confequcnce, had changed his opinion, and taken part againft us, " On the other hand, Gates contended, that the idea of difunion had " never entered into the head of any American, until the menaces of the " parliament, the repeated opprcffive adls of the Britiih government, and " the manifeft vindiftive refentment of the fovereign, left the colonifts no " alternative between abjeft vaflalage and felf-government. " The old General became quite incenfed, and calling me out of the "room, afeed me if I had ever heard fo impudent a fon of a b — h. Sir " Francis, who was I think a member of parliament, appeared to be an "impetuous, high-minded, frank, fearlefs fellow, for fuddenly changing " the converfation, he inquired of me, whether our furgeons were good " for anything, as he did not like the direftion of his wound, and was " defirous to know whether it was mortal or not. The following extradl " of a letter from Doftor Hayes to General Burgoyne, dated the gth 176 Burgoynes Orderly Book. " Oftober, defcribes Sir Francis's particular cafe: 'I have feen Sir " Francis Clark, and am forry to inform you that I have fome unfavora- " ble opinion of his cafe. The ball entered his right flank, ftruck the " two laft of the falfe ribs, penetrated the cavity of the abdomen, and " feems to run towards the fpine ; a tenfion of his belly, and involuntary " difcharges of urine are bad fymptoms. He has been attended with " great care and tendernefs ; I ftay by him this night, and fliall not omit " any attention for his recovery. Major Ackland is woimded in the thick " part of both legs. The left feems to have the bone touched, but of no " confequence.' Sir Francis died I think the 13th, and the day before " queftioned Dr. Townfend, who attended him, as to the probable iflue " of the wound. The Doftor felt a reluftance in announcing his doom; " he obferved it, and remarked, 'Dodlor, why do you paufe } Do you think " I am afraid to die ?' The Doftor then advifed him, as an aft of prudence, "to arrange his private affairs. 'Thank you, Doftor,' replied he, 'I " underftand you ; as to my private affairs, mv father fettled them for "me, and I have only a few legacies to bequeath.' Among them he " gave twenty guineas to the matron of our hofpital, who had paid par- " ticular attention to him." PAROLE OF BURGOYNe's OFFICERS. THIS document is in the pofleffibn of J. Wingate Thornton, Efq., of Bofton, Mafs., and is iigned by Gen. Burgoyne in a broken and tremulous hand, and one hundred and eighty-eight other officers. " We, whofe names are hereunto fubfcribed, being under the reftriftions of the convention made on the fixteenth of Oftober laft, between Lieu- tenant General Burgoyne and Major General Gates, do promife and engage, on our word and honor, and in the faith of gentlemen, to remain in the quarters affigned us for our refidence in Cambridge, Watertown, Medford, and Charleftown, in the State of Maflachufetts Bay, and at no time to exceed or pafs the following limits, viz, ; Swan's Ihop at Charleftown Neck, the Cambridge road up to the croff-way between Mr. Codman's houfe and Fort No, 3 ; the faid crgflway out to the road by Mr. Inman's I.J- -B'T ULySHIET A'r KiLAiTm) :^^''^r IHL' j'^RHET -'^C !KLir^J!T"^ Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 177 houfe, taking in the Hofpital Barracks ; from thence a ftraight line to Cambridge bridge ; from thence to the north brink of Charles river to Watertown ; from thence the Bofton road as far as the crotch of the way at Anger's corner; from Watertown bridge up the road to the northweft corner of Mr. Remington's houfe, and from Learned's Tavern the Cam- bridge road on to the common to the Menotomy road, up faid road to Cooper's Tavern, taking in the Menotomy pond ; but not to pafs the beach on the fouth, weft, or north fides thereof; from Cooper's Tavern down to the call end of Benj'n Tuft's houfe in Medford, and from Medford Bridge the Bofton road to Swan's fhop, the firft-menuoned bounds. The inter- mediate roads are within the parol, and the back-yards of the refpedlive quarters to the diftance of eighty yards from them, during our continuance in this State, or until the Continental General commanding in this State, His Excellency General Wafhington, or the Congrcfs of the United States, Ihall order otherwife; and that we will not direftly or indireftly give any intel- ligence whatfoever to the enemies of the United States, or do or fay any thing in oppofition to or in prejudice of the meafurcs and proceedings of any Congrefs for the faid States during our continuance here as aforefaid, or until we are duly exchanged or difcharged ; and that we will at all times duly obferve and obey the rules and regulations already eftablilhcd for the government of the troops in quarters. Given under our hands at Cambridge, in the State of Maflachufetts Bay, this thirteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord 1777. BRITISH. Nicholas Sutherland, John Anftruther, John Hill. Majors. Balcarres, G. Forbes, George Forfter, Wiliam Agnew, Lieutenant General. J. Burgoyne. Major General. W. Phillips. Brigadier General. James Hamilton Lieutenant Colonels. J. Lind, Henry Harnage, P. Irving, John Holmes, Jun. Captains. Thomas Hofmer, Ellis Walker, William Cotton, J. W. Heman, 1 78 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Noah Simpfon, Nich's Ailward Vigors, John Carter, James Sheldon, W. Lindfay, Ncill MacLean, Alexander Baillie, George Swettenham, J. Rollinfon, Francis Wemyfs, Robert W. Winchefter, William Maxwell, Paul Banks, James Lovell, J. Farmar, George Petrie, Thomas Kirkman, George Brodie, Stephen Strangway, R. Mafter, H. Pilmor, William Ferguffbne, George Coote, A. Jamefon, Rd. England, J. D. Alcock, Henry Marr, Thomas Blomefield, George Marlay, Erie Hawker, Alexander Campbell, John Shrimpton, H. Sotheron, Thomas Anburey. Lieutenants. William Cox, Dan' Davids, Jas. Hadden, James Dunbar, Wilham P. Smith, William Houghton, William Collier, H. T. Thomfon, Bright Nodder, Robert Stordy, James Batterfby, W. Houghton, Edward T. Jones, Hamilton Maxwell, W. Digby, Charles Williams, Sewell Maunfell, William Mure, Thomas Steel, Napier, Anfon Nutt, Archibald Fife, George Rawdon, John M'Neill, James Murray, George Vincent, James Kimmis, W. Prince, Jofeph Stevely, S. Rimington, Geo. H. Reade, J. Steele, John Gafkell, Richard Norman, W. R. Gilbert, Richard Croft, Robert Dobfon, Wm. Charlton, Clifton Wheat, Charles Torriano, W. Fetherfton, John Hepburne, George Edward Shlagel, William Douglas, B. Innes, Robert Burnet, John Blackwood, John Dalgleifh, Torphichen, Wefton Alcock, Richard Brown, R. Steele, Charles Williams, .William Doyle, Thomas Bibby, George Coffer, Charles Johnfton, Charles Earle, John Ferguffone, W. Campbell, Thomas Reed, Thomas Storey, T. Poe, Min" Hobart, Burgoynes Orderly Book Henry Baldwin, A. French, Bernard G. Ward, John Rotton, Abm. Banbury, J. Jones, Arthur Blackall, WilHam Wilkinfon, Connolly Coane, Lowther Mathews, Gonvill Brornhead. Enjigns. Henry May, W. Hoey, Thomas Deane, Thomas Orchard, James Moon, Robert Grier, Cooper, Richard Bateman, E. F. Merida, William Noble, M. Burroughs, G. Stephens, John Percey, Richard James, H. Blacker, George Hervey, James Power, John Grattan, Daniel Gwyrme, St. Leger Bevill, guin John Freeman. Surgeons. G. Wylde, William Burke, M. Cahill, W. Pemberton, Samuel Sone, Leonard Dobbin, Alexander Moodie. Surgeons' Mates. Alexander Melville, William Brown, A. B. Carroll, Charles Watfon, Colin MacLafty, Jofeph Alder. Adjutants. Ifaac Fielding, J. Dalladine. Deputy Adjt. General. Rt. Kingfton. Chaplains. R'd Montague Money, Andrew Brown, Charles Mongan, R. Higinbothom, Edward Brudenell, Quarlermajlers. William Paxton, Jno. Holmes. 179 Commijfary General. Jonathan Clarke. AJJiftant Commiffaries. J. Roufleau, Andrew Fofter, L. Cromanteau, Nathaniel Collyer. John Powell, AJJiftant Com. of Beer. John M'Kenzie, dep. do. Affiftant ^artermafter . George Vallancey. Dep. paymafter general. David Geddes. Ailing Phyfician. Vine' Wood. Mates of Gen. Hojpital Richard Woodthorp, John Park. Aids-dc-camp. Charles Green, R. R. Wilford, Wagonmafter General. Robert Hoakefly. P. O'Donnel, dep. do. Philip Skene, a poor fol- lower of the Britifl: army. [Thefe words arc in his own hand writing.] [Thefe names are not given in the order in which they appear on the original record, but have been carefully collated with it, and are correft as far as we are able to decypher them with the aid of the Army lifts.] i8o Burgoynes Orderly Book. GERMANS Riedefel, Maj. General. Rudolphi, J. W. Specht, Brig. Gen. Dc Mayer, W. R. De Gall, do. C. von Muzell, Lentz, Lieut. Colonel. Majors. Von Lucke, Von Mengen, Ehrcnkrook, Von Paffern. G. S. Winterfmitz, Helmeke, Curt von Hefler, Meyer, Counradj, Von Dobeneck, H.U.ChvtyBrig.Maj. Peterfon, Captains. J. Willoe, de Schlagenteuffel, de Lohneyfen, C. A. Alers, J. G. P. Arend, Morgenftern, Bartling, Harbord, Girfcwald, Lutzow, SchJagenteufFel, Jaeger, C. L. Schottelius, F. de Germann, Scheel, Schadlen, Paufch, Trott. Lieutenants. Borneman, Ulig, Trott, Modrach, Von Unger, Feichel, Reinking, W. Hoyer, Morgenftern, Burgfdorff, Brands, Meijern, Cramm, J. Meyer, Auguft Papet, Sen., Milkau, Oldekop, D'Anniers, J. F. J. Kettner, A. H. Dli Roi, Unger, P. S. Cruse, J. F. Pfluger, J. G. H. Gladen, G. F. Fricke, C. F. Rohr, P. W. L. Rhenius, M. von Butler, Von Lindau, Von Efchwege, Von Bifchaufen, Von Trott, Siebert, Graf von Piiklcr, Sartorius, Qr. Majier. F. V. Geyling, W. Dufais, C. D. Spangenberg. Enfigns. Bandel, Erich, Bode, Meibom, Bernewilz, Ulmenftein. E. Grimpc, Von Richterfleben, Von Weyhers, Heerwagen, Adjt. Chaplains. Toegel, Milius, Kohle, Theobald. Surgeons. Schrader, Pralle, Baufe, J. H. Kunze, Burgoynes Orderly Book. i8i Pcellniz, D. Adjt. Gen. H. D. Gerkch, ^ Mr.G. Auditors. Aid~de-Camfs. Langemeyer, Sec'y. Schmidt, A. Edmonftone, T. T. Heildebach, Serjt. Zincken, Cleve. Major. A. H. Bahr. [Thefe names have been compared with the original, kindly placed in our hands by Mr. Thornton for the purpofe ; and with thofe on another parole, given when the prifoners were marched to Virginia, alfo in the pofleffion of Mr. Thornton. They will be found in fome cafes to differ flightly in orthography from the names on p. 155, et feq. We have fol- lowed the original.] THE RED HOUSE. Page 58. AT the time of our revolutionary conteft, the fortification at Fort Edward was fo dilapidated that it was worthlefs, and was feldom occupied by any of the troops that were ftationed there. And the three block-houfes or outpofts of the fort, in oppofite direftions upon the fur- rounding heights, were in the fame condition. In addition to thefe, the only llruftures there at that time were three dwelling houfes, the hiftory and fituations of which were briefly as follows : The widow Campbell houfe, from which Jane McCrea, Mrs. Camp- bell and a fervant boy living with her, named Norman Morrifon, were taken by Indians from Burgoyne's camp, was fome 16 feet by 20 in fize, built of round logs, with a door on its eaft fide only, an old fafhioned fire place without jambs at its north end, on one fide of which were ladder- like ftairs leading to a loft over-head, and rather fouth of the centre of the floor, a trap door, opening into an unwalled cellar-hole underneath. This building was fubfequently the refidence of fheriff Peter B. Tierce, who married a grand-daughter of Mrs. C.'s. It was demolifhed fome fifty years ago. It flood in what is now the garden of Dr. Norton, fome ten rods fouthweft of the brick houfe in which the doftor refides, and was thus equidiflant between and about eight rods from the road on one fide and the river on the other, and fome fixty rods north of the fort and one hundred and fifty fouth of the tree and fpring where it is currently but I i82 Burgoynes Orderly Book. think erroneoudy reported Mifs McCrca was murdered, the fpot where that atrocity occurred, being fome thirty-five rods eaft, at the fummit of the hill where the old military road to Fort Ann and Fort George afcended the hill. Of this I became afllired, upon calling over all the evidence I could obtain when inveftigating this fubjeft fourteen years fmce, the tefti- mony of Efq. Samuel B. Cook, an intelligent man who came to refide here in 1788, and accompanied me over the grounds, being moft full, explicit and llrongly corroborated by fafts derived from feveral other fources. The other two were framed buildings, which arc flill ftanding. When the fecond fort at this place was erefted by Gen. Lyman's army in 1755, feveral buildings were reared within it, for officers' quarters, barracks, ftorehoufes and workfhops. After the French war, Patrick Smvth was fuperintendent of the public property here, and Canada being now con- quered, it was fuppofed there would never be any further ufe for this for- tification. It was therefore neglefted and went to ruin, and the fuperin- tendant and his brother. Dr. James Smyth, took down the two bed buildings in the fort and reereftcd them where they now ftand, for their own refidences. That of the Dr. S. was opened as an inn, and in 1788 he fold it to Ezekiel Baldwin, who continued for a long time to occupy it in the fame manner. This houfe has now for a long time been out of repair and unoccupied. It is fituated between the village ftreet and the canal, fomewhat fouth of the fort and north of Fort Edward creek. The third building, in which Patrick Smyth refided, is below this, at the fouth end of the village, a little below where the road from Argyle comes into the river road. It is now modernized in its appearance, with an obfervatory on its top, and painted white, and is the refidence of Col. Abraham Fort. When Charlotte (now Walhington) county was fet ofF from Albany, in 1773, Smyth was appointed the county clerk, and the courts were held in this houfe, Wm. Duer and Philip Schuyler being the prefiding judges at the fix terms which were held before the outbreak of the revolution caufed their fufpenfion. The troops which were fl:ationed at this place in the latter years of the war, to guard the frontier againfl in- Burgoyne s Orderly Book. 183 curfions from Canada, quartered themfelves in this houfc, and Gen. Stark's regiment, when on this fervice, fortified it by furrounding it with pali- fades. The Smyths being loyalifts, withdrew to Canada,' felling this houfe to Adief Sherwood. A fon of Patrick Smyth, born here, named Charles, was a lawyer, refident in Albany, and for a time clerk of the fupreme court. He afterwards refided and died on an ifland he owned on the Canada fide of Lake Ontario. Sherwood opened this houfe as a tavern, and thereupon the county courts, which had been recommenced at New Perth (now Salem) meeting houfe — the only framed building then in the county, in addition to thefe two — came to be held alternately there and in this houfe again until 1797. This building was formerly defignated as the old Yellow houfe. I pre- funie it was repainted of this color, by Sherwood, for I have the impref- fion that both the Smyth houfes were originally red, though I am unable to find any memorandum ftating this faft. That this is the houfe that was occupied by Gen. Burgovne and his ftaff, whilft the Dr. Smyth houfe was at the fame time thronged with the families which abode there tem- porarily for proteftion from his Indians, fully appears from numerous ftatements which I have gathered. Robert Blake of Eaft Greenwich (now deceafcd) fays : " I was a boy " fixteen years old, when my father's family went to Burgoyne's camp to " take proteftion. Whilfl: there, we refided with an uncle of mine, Wm. "Bell, whofe houfe was a half mile north of the village. The widow " Campbell, was living at my uncle's temporarily, at the fame time. She " ufed to go down from my uncle's to the camp, every day, to vifit her " coufin Gen. Frazier, as fhe termed him, who, with the other oiHcers, " had their quarters at Smith's houfe, as it was called. This was a large " houfe, below the fort, and acrofs the brook from the fort. It was " afterwards furrounded by pickets. It belonged to Dr. Smith and his " brother. Their Chriftian names I don't remember. Mrs. Campbell, " or McNeil as fhe fhould be called, for McNeil was her laft hufband, " was talking a great deal at that time, about houfes that belonged to her " in New York citv. Whether ftie really had any houfes there, or was 24 184 Burgoynes Orderly Book. " really a coufin to Gen. Frazier I don't know. But every day, when "fhe returned from her vifit to the camp, ihe was telling how fhe was " going to give the ufe of fuch a houfc to this oiBcer, and fuch a houfe to " that, for their quarters, on their arrival in New York — for that they " would reach New York was a fixed fadt at that time." — Letter from Dr. Afa Fitch. BRIGADIER GENERAL FRAZER. Page 116. SIMON Frazer was the youngeft fon, it is faid, of Hugh Frazer of Balnain. His mother was daughter of the Frazer of Forgers. So litde is known of his early hiftory, that we can with difficulty trace him beyond the year 176 1. However, we are incUned to the opinion that he ferved in one of the Scotch regiments or companies in the pay of Holland previous to the breaking out of the French war. We find a Simon Frazer commiffioned a Lieutenant in the 60th Royal Americans on the organization of that regiment in 1756, who was tranfferred on 5th January, 1757, to Frazer's Highlanders. With this regiment he ferved in the expedition againft Louifbourg; obtained his company 22nd April, 1759, and accompanied Gen. Wolfe to Quebec. On the 15th March, 1 76 1, he received the brevet rank of Major, and was commiffioned Major of the 24th Foot, 8th February, 1 762. He was garrifoned for a few years at Gibraltar, whence his regiment went to Ireland. On 14th July, 1768, Major Frazer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 24th, which corps was ordered to Canada in 1 776, and formed part of the forces commanded by Gen. Burgoyne, whom Lt. Col. Frazer accompanied with the rank of Brigadier General, on the prefent expedition. His fervices therein are matters of public hiflory. He clofed an honourable career on the field of batde on the 7th of Oflober, 1777. The circumitances attending his death are thus narrated by Mde. Riedefel : " General Frazer, and I believe Generals Burgoyne and PhilHps, were " to dine with me on that day. I remarked much movement in the camp. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 185 " My hufband told me that it was a mere rcconnoiflance ; and as this " was frequent, I was not much alarmed at it. On my way homeward, " I met a number of Indians armed with guns, and clad in their war " drefles. Having alked them where they were going, they replied, " ' War, war ;' by which they meant that they were about to fight. This " made me very uneafy, and I had fcarcely got home, before I heard re- " ports of guns ; and foon the fire became brhker, till at laft the noife grew " dreadful, upon which I was more dead than aUve. About three " o'clock in the afternoon, inftead of guefls whom I had expefted to dine "with me, I faw one of them, poor General Frazer, brought upon a " hand-barrow, mortally wounded. The table, which was already prc- " pared for dinner, was immediately removed, and a bed placed in its ftead " for the General. I fat terrified and trembling in a corner. The noife " grew more alarming, and I was in a continual agony and tremour, while '■ thinking that my hufband, might foon alfo be brought in, wounded like " General Frazer. That poor general faid to the furgeon, ' Tell me the " truth, is there no hope?' His wound was exaftly like that of Major " Harnage ; the ball had paffed through his body, but unhappily for the " General, he had that morning eaten a full breakfaft, by which the llomach " was diftcndcd, and the ball, as the furgeon remarked, paflcd direftly " through it. I heard often amidft his groans, fuch words as thefe, ' O " had ambition ! poor General Btirgoyne ! poor Mijlrefi Frazer.^ Prayers " were read, after which he defired that General Burgoyne fhould be " requefted to have him buried on the next day, at 6 o'clock in the " evening, on a hill where a breaftwork had been conftrufted. He fent " me feveral meffages to beg my pardon for the trouble he thought he "gave me. About 3 o'clock, I was informed that he could not live much " longer, and as I did not wifli to be prefent at his laft ftruggle, I wrapped " my children in blankets, and retired into the entrance hall. At 8 " o'clock in the morning he expired. " After he had been waflied, he was wrapped in a fheet, and laid out. " We then returned into the room, and had this melancholy fpcftacle " before us the whole day. Many officers of my acquaintance were 1 86 Burgoynes Orderly Book. "brought in wounded, and the cannonade continued. There was fome " talk of retreating, but I faw no indications of it. About 4 o'clocic in " the afternoon, I faw the houfe which had been built for me, in flames, " from which I inferred that the enemy was near. We were informed " that Gen. Burgoyne intended to comply with General Frazer's laft re- " queft, and to have him buried at 6 o'clock, in the place which he had " dcfignated. This occafioned an ufelefs delay, and contributed to our mili- " tary miibrtunes. At 6 o'clock, the corpfe was removed, and we faw all "the generals with their retinues, on the hill, aflifting at the funeral cere- " mony. The Englifti chaplain, Mr. Brudenel, officiated. Cannon-balls " flew around and above the affembled mourners. General Gates pro- " tefted afterwards, that had he known what was going on, he would " have flopped the fire immediately. Many cannon balls flew clofe by " me, but my whole attention was engaged by the funeral fcene, where " I faw my hufband expofed to imminent danger. This, indeed, was not " a moment to be apprehenfive for my own fafety." General Burgoyne has defcribed this fcene with his ufual felicity of ex- preffion and eloquence, and in a much more graphical ftyle than our au- thorefs. We beg leave to copy the following paffage : " The inceflant cannonade during the folemnity; the fteady attitude "and unaltered voice with which the chaplain officiated, though frequently "covered with dull, which the fhot threw up on all fides of him; the " mute but expreffive mixture of fenfibility and indignation, upon every " countenance; thefe objctts will remain to the laft of life upon the mind "of every man who was prefent. The growing duflcinefs added to the " fcenery, and the whole marked a charafter of that jundlure that would " make one of the fineft fubjefts for the pencil of a mafter, that the field " ever exhibited. To the canvafs, and to the faithful page of a more im- " portant hiftorian, gallant friend ! I confign thy memory. There may thy " talents, thy manly virtues, their progrefs and their period, find due dif- " tinftion ; and long may they furvive ; long after the frail record of my " pen Ihall be forgotten !" — State of the Expedition from Canada, &c. &c. p. 126, Burgoynes Orderly Book. 187 DAVID JONES. Page 10. DAVID Jones was the lover of the unfortunate Mifs McCrea. His older brother Daniel married, previous to the war, and was living north of Sandy-hill, I prefume on lot 55, Kingfbury, of which the county records ftiow him to have been the owner. This is three miles north of Sandy-hill, in the neighborhood called the Pine Plains in Burgoyne's expe- dition, now Mofs ftreet. Peters's corps, in which Daniel and David Jones were commifiioned officers, was moftly compofed of men from the loyalifl families in this county, who had repaired to Canada when this expedition was organizing. As the party of Indians was fent for Mifs McCrea when the army, in its advance, encamped at the Pine Plains, it appears altogether probable that it was mutually underftood that fhe fhould come to this place and temporarily ftay at the houfe and with the family of Daniel Jones ; and thus there was lefs temerity in this arrangement than has currently been fuppofed. Who could have anticipated there was any particular danger in employing a company of friendly Indians to take a horfe to her and efcort her back with them, by day, three or four miles, tranfferring her from his mother's to his brother's houfe ? When the family withdrew to Canada, Daniel located hirafelf at Brock- ville, where he engaged in bufinefs aftively, extenfively and fucceffluUy. His oldeft Ton was fent to England to complete his education, but was a profligate fpendthrift who came to nothing. His two other fons, by a fecond wife, Daniel and David, were lawyers in Brockville, and the latter was recently and perhaps is ftill the county clerk there, the former being deccafed. After their father's death, fome thirty or forty years fince, one of thefe fons came to Sandy-hill to recover fomething for the lands from which his father, he faid, had been forcibly driven. His advent there, on fuch an errand, produced a confiderable excitement ; one or more articles appeared in the village newfpaper, farcaftically alluding to his family's claims upon this country ; and he found the temper of the 1 88 Burgoynes Orderly Book. community fuch that he was impelled to withdraw and abandon the bufi- nefs. Though his family was probably legally entided, in our courts, to the compenfation he fought, there is no doubt they had long fmce re- ceived from the Britilh government, a fair equivalent for the lofles they had fultained. The widow Jones and her fons are reported to have come here from New Jerfey, from whence alfo came the McCreas, whofe father was a Prefbyterian clergyman in that ftatc. The widow Jones's houfe flood on the weft or Saratoga fide of the river, over a half mile below the old fort, nearly on the fpot where a cream colored houfe now ftands, fome twenty rods below the ftone houfe of Halfey Rogers. At this place was the principal ferry on the river, which continued to be known as the Jones ferry many years after the family had left. Philander Doty fucceeded the widow Jones, and the houfe was dcftroyed at the time of Carleton's de- fcent hither, in the autumn of 1780. The following ftatements from Jacob Bitely, deceafed, merit to be copied, in this conneftion. " Father moved to this place from Skenefbore, in the fpring of 1779, " when I was 17 years old. Though the land there fuited him well " enough, he did not feel we fhould be fafe in refiding there. We fliould " be better guarded, he faid, to be in the rear of Fort Edward. So he " came down here, and bought out a rank tory on the oppofite (Saratoga) " fide of the river, named Tuttle, father of John and Wm. Tutde. The " farm was all cleared up and under cultivation. It lay on Snoot kill, " and our houfe flood where the white houfe fouth of the mouth of Snoot " kill now flands. Other tories about here alfo fold out and went to Canada " about the fame time with Tuttle ; for they now began to defpair of the " king's conquering this country, and the whigs were getting to feel in fuch " high fpirits, they could not bear to remain in the neighborhood. The " widow Jones and her fons fold their place to Philander Doty. Their " ferryman, who fct Jane McCrea acrofs the river, the morning of the day " flie was murdered, remained and continued to do the ferrying feveral " years after we came here. I have the mofl perfeft recoUedlion of hearing Burgoynes Orderly Book. 189 " him ftate thefe things, viz : That Mifs McCrea left her brother John's " houfe and went up to the widow Jones's, and ftaid there over nigh t " [feveral days and nights, other teftimony authentically cftablifhes], and " he, the ferryman, fet her over the river, the next morning, for her to go " to her aunt Campbell's. The ferryman termed Mrs. Campbell Mifs Mc- " Crca's aunt. Whether fhe was fo, or not, I do not know. The ferry- " man alfo defcribed Mifs McCrea as being drefled up in her beft fuit of " clothes, when he fet her acrofs the river that morning ; and defcribed " to me her wedding cap, as he termed it. What its material or fabrica- " tion was, I do not remember, but I fuppofe it was very nice for thofe " days, the ferryman having feemed to notice it fo particularly. She had " put on thefe fine clothes at Mrs. Jones's, that morning. I do not recol- " left of the ferryman's telling whether there was a black woman accom- " panying Mifs McCrea at that time. * * * * " Malloy, Geo. Campbell, and another Campbell, whofe firll name I " cannot recall, with feme others around here of lefs note, alfo fold out " their poflcfTions at the fame time with the Jonefes, and moved off to "Canada. But it feems they could not forget their happy homes of " former years, and fuch were their feehngs of hatred and malevolence " towards the whigs, that it added gall to their cup to think that thefe, " their bitter enemies, were living in quiet comfort, in their old refidences. " They therefore refolved to ' deftroy what they could not enjoy.' A " large company of thefe refugees, under the lead of the Tuttles and Geo. " Campbell, it was always faid and believed, came down from Canada as " volunteers in Carleton's force, for the purpofe of deftroying our pro- " perty and burning our houfes. That year condnues to be defignated in " this quarter, as ' the year of the great burning.^ " — Letter from Dr. Afa Fitch. H H <; PQ o w ►J w m O w 1 — I > c c o U3UIJ5[IEJ^ Britifli Advanced Corps. Brig. Gen. Frazer. ■SJ3ipcU9J£) Hjpua •uoiiEMEa •Xjjuejuj German Advanced Corps. Lt. Col. Breymann. •SJ3ipEU3JO ^DiMjunja uoTicnta ■sanajjEiio s^iaujaa >-, E (2 u '■£ 13 ro < ro ift Brigade of Briti/h. Brig. Gen. Powell. •uoiiEwa ip6 •uoiiEHEa P" -uoiiEijca 2d Brigade of Britifli. Brig. Gen. Hamilton. •uoipjMca rpoz •uoijBjiEa pz9 •uoiiEj^Eg •suooSbjq s.pjp^ra t^ -o o P3 < ad Brigade of Germans. Brig. Gen. Gall. •3(DU3p3J£ 3DUIJ(J i° 3U3lUT33'g au3mi33"jj ift Brigade of Germans. Brig. Gen. Specht. ■]U3tUI§3"J£ ■jU3mi33-a S,]l|33ds 'iU3mjS3-y[ s.pjpsi-a '■;iS,Priiitsal)j J£ Burgoynes Orderly Book. 191 MEDALS IN HONOR OF THE SURRENDER. A MEDAL was ftruck by order of Congrefs, two inches in diameter, •in commemoration of the fuccefs of the American arms over this formidable expedition. On one fide is the buft of Gen. Gates, with the Latin infcription, horatio gates duci strenuo comitia Americana ; on the reverfe, Burgoyne is reprefented in the atdtude of delivering up his fword, and in the back ground, on either fide of them, are feen the two armies of Britain and America, the former laying down their arms. At the top is the Latin infcription, salus regionum septentrional : below HOSTE AD SARATOGAM IN DEDITION ACCEPTO DIE XVII OCT. MDCCLXXVIJ. An engraving of the above is given in Loffing's PiStorial Field Book of the Revolution, i, 83. The French alfo caufed a bronze medal to be ftruck to commemorate the furrender of Burgoyne and Cornwallis, in which their own fuccor is made confpicuous. Device. Head of Liberty ; the hair blown back as if by the wind, againft which the goddefs feems to be running, to announce to the world the tidings of her viftories. On the right flioulder fhe bears a hberty cap. Legend. Libertas Americana. 4 Juil : 1776. Reverfe. Pallas holding in her left hand a fhield on which are three fieurs de lis (the arms of France) ; oppofed to her is a leopard (Eng- land), in the zSt of fpringing, into whofe breaft fhe is about to plunge a barbed javehn that fhe holds in her dexter hand. Beneath the fhield is an Infant ftrangling with one hand a ferpent, which he is holding up, whilft he ftoops and chokes another found at his feet. Legend. Non sine diis animosus infans. Exergue. 17 q^ 1777 19 • 1781 This Medal belongs to the Worden CoUeftion of the New York State Librar}' ; it is a beautiful fpecimen of art, and in its defign highly clafTical. Hercules, according to the ancient mythology, was. faid to have ftrangled whilft in his cradle, two ferpents which had aifaulted him, having been afhftcd by the proteftion of the goddefs Pallas, Infant America, 25 192 Burgoynes Orderly Book. like Hercules in his cradle, had deftroyed two Britilh arnues. The two epochs of thofe exploits' are marked in the Exergue 17 Oct. 1777 — Burgoyne's Surrender at Saratoga — and 19*'' Octob. 1781 — Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown, Va. The motto is from Horace, Ode-^, Book III. V. 20. The allufion is highly appropriate. — Doc. Hiji., iii, 1181. PRELIMINARY ORDERS. MONTREAL, 30th May, 1777. The Regiments deftined for the Expedition under General Burgoyne are to leave in their refpeftive ftores, their Blanket Coats, Legging, and all Baggage that can be fpared during the Summer Months ; the Officers are depended on not to encumber the Service with more Baggage than fliall be abfolutely ne- ceflary for a Campaign where the Movements may be expefted to be fudden and alert ; the portion of Bateaux to each Regiment will be regu- lated on thofe principles. Three women per Company will be allowed to follow the army. The exercife of the Troops under the Lieut. General's Orders is to be confined to firing with Bali-Cartridges, Bayonets fixed, and rapidity of Movements in Marching, Evolutions, and Forming. — State of the Expedition, p. 72. GENERAL BURGOYNe's ORDERS MODELS TO COMMANDING OFFICERS. EXTRACTS from the Orders of Gen. Burgoyne were publifhed in 1780, after the appearance of The State of the Expedition, and printed uniformly with it ; the editor's principal inducement for offering them to the public being oftenfibly that the latter work was incomplete without them. " It was conceived," he fays, " that if Gen. Wolfe's Orders " were efteemed as models to commanding officers of Corps, as well as in- " ftruftive lefTons in their profeffion to thofe of an inferior rank, Gen. Bur " goyne's would more fully anfwer that defcription, as they relate to military " tranfaftions far more important, and to fcenes infinitely more ipterefting *' to the public. Befide that, the author of them is known to add to the " knowledge and experience of the General all the exterior graces and re- " finement of the fcholar and the writer," Burgoynes Orderly Book. 193 BURLESQUE BALLADS ON BURGOYNe's EXPEDITION. From Griftvold's Cur'tojities of Am. Literature. THE PROGRESS OF SIR JACK BRAG, Said Burgoyne to his men, as they paff'd in review, TuUalo, tullalo, tullalo, boys! Thefe rebels their courfe very quickly will rue. And fly as the leaves 'fore the autumn tempeft flew, When him ivho is your leader they know, boys ! They with men have now to deal, And we foon will make them feel, Tullalo, tullalo, tullalo, boys ! That a loyal Briton's arm and a loyal Briton's flreel Can put to flight a rebel as quick as other foe, boys ! Tullalo, tullalo, tullalo— Tullalo, tullalo, tuUalo-o-o-o, boys ! As to Sa-ra-tog* he came, thinking how to jo the game, Tullalo, tullalo, tuUalo, boys ! He began to fee the grubs, in the branches of his fame. He began to have the trembles lefl: a flafh fliould be the flame, For which he had agreed his perfumq to forego, boys ! No lack of fkill, but fates, Shall make us yield to Gates, Tullalo, tullalo, tullalo, boys ! The devil may have leagued, as you know, with the States ! But we never will be beat by any mor-. tal foe, boys ! Tullalo, tullalo, tullalo — Tullalo, tullalo, tullalo-o-o-o boys. THE FATE OF JOHN BURGOYNE. When Jack the king's commander Was going to his duty, [bowM Through all the crowd he smiled and To every blooming beauty. The city rung with feats he'd done In Portugal and Flanders, And all the town thought he'd be crown'd The firft of Alexanders. To Hampton Court he firft repairs To kifs great George's hand, firs ; Then to harrangue on ftate affairs Before he left the land, firs. The Lower Houfe fat mute as moufe To hear his grand oration ; And all the peers, with loudeft cheers. Proclaimed him to the nation. Then off he went to Canada, Next to Ticonderoga, And quitting thofe away he goes, Straightway to Saratoga. With great parade his march he made To gain his wiihed for ft:ation. While far and wide his minions hied, To fpread his Proclamation. To fuch as ftaid he ofl'ers made Of ^^ pardon on fubmijjion ^ *' But favage bands fhould wafte the landg " Of all in oppofition." But ah, the cruel fates of war ! This boafted fon of Britian, When mounting his triumphal car With fudden fear wag fmitten, 194- Burgoyne s Orderly Book. The fons of Freedom gathered round, Brave St. Clair when he firft retired His hoftile bands confounded, [back Knew what the fates portended; And when they'd fain have turn'd their And Arnold and heroic Gates They found themfelves surrounded! His conduct have defended. In vain they fought, in vain they fled. Their chief, humane and tender, To fave the reft foon thought it beft His forces to furrender. Thus may Americans brave fons With honor be rewarded, And be the fate of all her foesy The fame as here recorded. G. of H. THE NORTH CAMPAIGN. Come unto nle ye heroes, Whofe hearts are true and bold, Who value more your honour- Than others do their gold ; Give ear unto my ftory. And I the truth will tell Concerning many a foldier. Who for his country fell. Burgoyne, the king's commander, From Canada fet fail With full eight thoufand reg'lars. He thought he could not fail j With Indians and Canadians, And his curfed Tory crew. On board his fleet of fliipping He up the Champlain flew. Before Ticonderoga, The firft day of July, Appeared his fliips and army, And we did them efpy. Their motions we obferved Full well both night and day, And our brave boys prepared To have a bloody fray. Our garrifon they viewed them, As ftraight their troops did land, And when St. Clair, our chieftain, The lai£t did underftand. That they the Mount Defiance Were bent to fortify. He found we muft surrender, Or elfe prepare to die. The fifth day of July, then, He order'd a retreat, And when next morn we ftarted, Burgoyne thought we were beat; And clofely he purfued us. Till when near Hubbardton, Our rear guards were defeated. He thought the country won. And when 'twas told in Congrefs, That we our forts had left, To Albany retreated, Of all the North bereft, Brave General Gates they fent us. Our fortunes to retrieve, And him with Ihouts of gladnefs. The army did receive. Where firft the Mohawk's waters Do in the funrtiine play. For Herkimer's brave foldiers Bellinger ambush'd lay ; And them he there defeated. But foon he had his due, And feared by Brooks and Arnold, He to the North withdrew. To take the ftores and cattle That we had gathered then, Burgoyne fent a detachment Of fifteen hundred men ; By Baum they were commanded, To Bennington they went ; To plunder and to murder Was fully their intent. Burgoynes Orderly Book. 195 But little did they know then, With whom they had to deal j It was not quite fo eafy Our ftores and ftocks to ftealj Bold Starke would give them only A portion of his Itad^ With half his crew ere funfet Baum lay among the dead. The nineteenth of September, The morning cold and clear, Brave Gates rode through our army Each Ibldier's heart to cheer j ** Burgoyne," he cried " advances, *' But we will never fly, *' No — rather than furrender, " We'll fight him till we die." The news was quickly brought us, The enemy was near, And all along our lines then, There was no fign of fearj It was above Stillwater We met at noon that day, And every one expected To fee a bloody fray. Six hours the battle lafted, Each heart was true as gold, The Britifh fought like lions, And we like Yankees bold j The leaves with blood were crimfon. And then brave Gates did cry — *' 'Tis diamond now cut diamond ! We'll beat them, boys, or die." The darknefs foon approaching, It forced us to retreat Into our lines till morning, Which made them think us beat; But ere the fun was rifen, Thej' faw before their eyes, Us ready to engage them, Which did them much surprife. Of fighting they feem'd weary, Therefore to work they go Their thoufand dead to bury, And breaftworks up to throw ; With grape and bombs intending Our army to deftroy. Or from our works our forces By ftratagem decoy. The feventh day of Oftober, The Britifh tried again, — Shells from their cannons throwing Which fell on us like rain, — To drive us from our ftations That they might thus retreat j For now Burgoyne faw plainly He never us could beat. But vain was his endeavour Our men to terrify ; Though death Was all around us, Not one of us would fly. But when an hour we'd fought them, And they began to yield, Along our lines the cry ran ** The next blow wins the field ! " Great God, who guides their battles, Whofe caufe is juft and true, Infpired our bold commander The courfe he fhould purfue. He order'd Arnold forward. And Brooks to follow on ; The enemy were routed ! Our liberty was won ! Then,* burning all their luggage, They fled with hafte and fear, Burgoyne with all his forces To Saratogue did fleer; And Gates our brave commander. Soon after him did hie, Refolving he would take them. Or in the effort die. As we came nigh the village. We overtook the foe ; They'd burn'd each houfe to afhes, Like all where'er they go. The feventeenth of Odtober, They did capitulate — Burgoyne and his proud army Did we our prif'ners make. 196 Burgoynes Orderly Book. Now here's a health to Arnold, And our commander Gates j To Lincoln and to Waihington, Whom ev'ry Tory hates j Likewife unto our Congrefs, God grant it long to reign, Our Country, Right and Juftice For ever to maintain. Now finifiied is my ftory, My fong is at an end; The freedom we're enjoying We're ready to defend j For while our caufe is righteous. Heaven nerves the foldler's arm, And vain is their endeavour Who ftrive to do us harm. THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA. Here followeth the direful fate Of Bqrgoyne and his army great, Who fo proudly did difplay The terrors of defpotic sway. His power and pride and many threats, Have been brought low byfort'nate Gates To bend to the United States. Britifli prifoners by Convention, Foreigners — by Contra-vention, Tories fent acrofs the Lake, Burgoyne and his fuit in ftate, Sick and wounded, bruifed and pounded, 1 Ne'er fo much before confounded, ( Prifoners of war before convention, Deferters come with kind intention. They loft at Bennington's great battle ) Where Starke's glorious arms did rattle, J Kill'd in September and 0 43- Sentence to be fhot, 68, 81. executed, 82. Sentries, advanced, 3. Servants, rations of, 88. Service, lofs fuftained by, 113. Seventy-fixth reg., 75. Sheen, Wm., tried, 69, 74. Shehan, Patrick, 1 1 8. Sheldon, Capt. James, 178. Sherborne, Maj., 43. Sherwood, Adiel, 183. Shlagel, Lt. G. E., 178. Shrimpton, Capt. John, 1 78. Sick, 94, 95. number of, 153. orders refpedUng, 45, 48. 1 Of thefe four captains, but two figned the parole, p. 180. 28 Sick, removal of, 97. return of, 40. to be collefted, 76. Side arms permitted, 147. Siebert, Lt., 180. Signal for moving, 12. Simpfon, Capt. Noah, 178. Six buildings, 173. Sixteenth foot, 149. light dragoons, xviii. Sixty-firft foot, 75. Sixty-fecond foot, loi. Sixty-fourth foot, 10. Sixty-fecond reg., 18, 27, 28, 50, 67, 118. colors of, 142. Sixty-feventy reg., 130. Sixty-fixth reg., 44. Sixty-third foot, loi. Skene, Col., 30, 66. Lieut., 98. Maj., 70. Philip, 38, 179. Skenefborough, xxiii, 56, 57, 58, 59, 125, 188. detachment left at, 48, 50. field officer over, 52. feu dc joie at, 35. houfe, 3 1 , Smith, Hift. Canada, 44. Lt. W. P., 178. Smyth, Patrick, 182. Dr. James, 182. Charles, 183. houfe, 183. his loyalifts, 183. Snoot kill, 188. Soldiers, attachment of, 65. life property of the king, 113. traffick with, 49. Sommerlatte, O. A. von, 156. Sone, Samuel, 179. 2l6 Index. Sotheron, Capt. H., 178. South bay, 28. South- weftern frontier, 170. Spangenberg, Lt. C. D., 180. Specht, Brig. Gen., 10, 13, 28, 97, 103, 126, 180. Col. Joh. Fr., 162. J. J. A., 164. his brigade, 31. pofition, 190. regiment, 162. Speth, Lt. Col. E. L. W. von, 103, 161. Spies, how received, 5. Spurs, golden, 169, 1 73. Spy, rife of, 54. Stanhope, Charles, 167. Standing regulations, 2. Stanley, Lady Charlotte, xii. Stapylton, Capt., 92. Stark's regiment, 183. State of the Expedition, xxxi, 186, 187, 191- Steele, Lt. J., 178. Lt. R., 178. Lt. Thos., 178. Sternberg, Joh. Chr., 159. Stephens, Enf G., 179. Stillwater, battle of, xxv, 27. Stirrups, golden, 173. Stores, 66. at Ft. Edward, 70. to be coUedled, 29. to be delivered up, 134. quantity furrendered, 1 54. Storey, Lt. Thomas, 178. Storming when poffible, 3. Stragglers, 4, 8, 40, 61, 66. to be made prifoners, 41. to be hanged, 113. to be taken up, 5 1 . Strangway, Capt. S., 178. Stratagems, Americans fitted for, 3. Strevely, Lt. Jofeph, 178. Stuart, foreman of caulkers, 15, 19. Stutzer, J. Bait., 156. Sutlers, 44, 49. orders to, 24, 85. Subalterns, radons of, 88. Subordinate articles, 1 39. Subordination to be maintained, 2. Subfiftence, 98. Supernumeraries, 93. Supplies cut off, 1 1 . difficulty of croffing lake, 13. Surgeons, American, 175. of hofpital, 94. of regiments, 94, 95. Surinam, 21. Sutherland, Lt. Col., 17, 36, 44, 47, 61, 65, 118, 151, 177. died, 17. Swan's fhop, 177. Swettenham, Capt. George, 178. '"PASSELEBEND, 68. Teams, 73, 77. Tenneflee, tribes fouth of, 170. Tents, 29, 31, 51, 56, 65, 71, 88, I02, 106. general's, 18. of officers, 5. to be ftruck, 12. Texas, Spaniards in, 170. grant of land in, 172. Theobald, chaplain, 180. Third reg. foot guards, 175. Thirteenth foot, 33. Thirty-firft foot, 20. reg., 19, 52. Thirty-fourth reg., 86. Thoma, Capt. G. L., 163. Thomas, auditor, 156, Indt ex. 217 Thompfon's rifle comp., 168. Thomfon, Lt. H. T., 178. Thornton, J. Wingate, xxxiv, 177, 181. Three mile point, 25, 26, 27, 28. Three Rivers, 159. battle, 15, 84, 149, 166. Ticonderoga, 21, 38, 43, 47, 51, S3. 59. 67, 68, 86, 95, 166, 168. governor of, 38. attempt upoix, xxvi, 122. Britifh taken at, 153. Amer. driven from, xxiii, 32. evacuated, 1 1 . feu de joie at, 35. hofpital at, 35, 40. magazine at, 36. invefted, 15. taken, 28. Tierce, Peter B., 181. Togel, Chr. Tim., 160, 180. ToUs, order concerning, 10. Torphichen, Lt., 177. Torriano, Lt. Charles, 120, 178. Townfend, Dr., 176. Robert, v. TraiEck regulated, 44. Treaty of convention figned, 131, 144. articles of, 144. of Grenville, 170. Trees, felling of for defence, 2. when to be cut, 5. Troop to beat, 95. Troops to be practifed, 71. difturbance among, 45. how to be exercifed, 191. impediments to progrefs of, 1 10. Trott, Chr. Wm., 197, 180. Capt., 180. Troy, court martial at, 1 72. Trudeau, Mifs, 171. Tuft's houfe, 177. Tunterfeld, C. A. H. von, 158. Tuttle, John and William, 188. Twentieth foot, 41, 56, 120. reg., 65, 67, 69, 81, loi, 120. Twenty-firft reg., 63, 69, 81, 92. fuzileers, 11, 17, 23, 44, 91, 92. North Britifh royal fuzileers, 22. Twenty-fourth foot, 53. reg-, 23, 3', 52. 53, 55, 9°. 166. Twenty-ninth reg., 55, 62, 167. Twifs, Lieut., 9, 14, 23. died, 16. TJHLIG, Hein. Wm., 157, 180. Ulmenftein, S. J. A. von, 163, 180. Unger, F. B. von, 163, 180. Joh. L. von, 160, 180. Unverzagt, Ludwig, 161. Upper manor, 140. "yALLANCY, Lt., 43, 50, 76, 1 14, 122. George, 179. Valcour ifland battle, 15. Vandeput, admiral, 108. Van Schaick's mill, 83. Vaughan's army, 166. VefTels blown up, 32. new conftrudlion, 108. Vignong, Enf., 120. Vigors, Capt. N. A , 178. Virginia, 61. German prifoners fent to, 104, 181. 2l8 Index. Vincent, Lt. George, 178. Volckmar, F. W., 158. Volante, 174. Volunteers, 35. Von Paflern, 24, i 80, Vy ABASH Indians, 169. ' ' Wagon mafter, 38, 56. gen., 67, 72, 77, 121. Walker, Capt. Elias, 177. Wallmoden, G. T. F. von, 157. Wallomfcoick creek, 83. War, chances of, 76. accidents of, 83. laft, 38. Ward, Lt. B. G., 179. Waftiington, Gen., 177. city threatened by Britifh, 171. refidence in, 173. county, 182. courts, 183. veffel, 9. Water, fetching of, 62 Watertown, 176, 177. Britifh quartered, 176. Watfon, Charles, 179. James F., 173. Wayne's army, 170. Weather, heat of, 28. wet, 39. Weekly ftates to be fent in, 8. Wemyfs, Capt. Francis, 178. Weft Indies, 27. India iflands, 10. Weftern fhore treafurer, 172. Weftrop, Lieut., killed, 52. Weyhers, Enf von, 180. Wheat, Lt. Clifton, 178. Whigs in high fpirits, 188. White creek, 83. Whippmg, 74, 118. Wiefener, Chr. Fried., 158. Wilcox, Capt., 100. Wilford, R. R., 179. Wilkinfon, Lt. 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