ced rebuilding the
lighthouse on Nantasket point. Major Tupper, with
three hundred men, attacked the working-party,
killed ten or twelve men, and took the rest
prisoners. He then demolished the works, but,
before he could leave, some armed boats came to
oppose him. In the skirmishing that ensued,
fifty-three of the British were killed or captured.
Tupper lost one man killed, and two wounded.]

[Footnote 141: A party of British troops sallied
out toward Roxbury, drove in the American pickets,
and burned the tavern which was situated upon the
portion of the neck nearest Roxbury.]

AUGUST DOMINA 1775.

the 1. The floating Battery[142] went up towards Brookline fort[143]
then our men perceiving her move they began to fire at her out of
colonel Reeds fort untill they drove her back to her old place the
same day they fired from Roxbury hill fort and it was said that they
fired through their Baracks.

[Footnote 142: When the British built their
breastwork on the neck, the Sunday previous, they
had a floating battery brought into Charles river,
and moored it within three hundred yards of
Sewall's point.]

[Footnote 143: The Brookline fort was on Sewall's
point, between Roxbury and Cambridge. It commanded
the entrance to Charles river.]

the 2. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 3. Dito.

the 4. Nothing remarkable to day only I went to the main guard and the
enemy fired at us as we came up.

the 5. Dito.

the 6. Being Sunday nothing remarkable at night I went on the piquet
guard.

the 7. Nothing strange.

the 8. Dito.

the 9. Nothing remarkable this day only I went upon fatigue.

the 10. Nothing strange We had a great rain.

the 11. Their was three men whipt for deserting they were whipt ten
stripes apiece they belonged to the conecticut forces.

the 12. Nothing remarkable to day I went upon fatigue to
Dorchester.[144]

[Footnote 144: The village and church of Dorchester
was four miles from Boston. The heights of
Dorchester are in what is now called South Boston.]

the 13.