home about 10 Oclock.

[Footnote 168: Shooting at a mark, for liquor.]

the 13. About 2 or 3 o clock their was one of our men taken and caried
to the quarter guard for thieft abel Weatheril by name but it was made
up and he was taken out at night and returned to his Duty.

the 14. This day nothing remarkable hapned.

the 15. Being Sunday I went upon fatigue down to the george tavern and
their was a flag of truce went in and another came out.[169]

[Footnote 169: Communications are thus had between
belligerent armies. By common consent, as a rule of
war, a person approaching one army from another,
with a white flag, is respected as a neutral; and
to "fire upon a flag," as the phrase is when the
bearer is fired upon, is considered a great breach
of faith and honor.]

the 16. Nothing remarkable hapned Colonel Reeds Laidy came down to
reveu the Regiment and treated them[170] nothing more this day.

[Footnote 170: The wives of officers often visited
permanent camps, and formed pleasant social
parties. Mrs. Washington visited her husband at
Cambridge, while he remained there. She also spent
a portion of the winter with him at Valley Forge,
and likewise at Morristown.]

the 17. I went a chesnuting up to neutown[171] and at night our
floating Baterys went up towards the canon and fired 13 shots but
unlucky for them one of their 9 pounders split and killed one man dead
and wounded 8 more one of them it is thought mortally.

[Footnote 171: Newton, seven miles north from
Boston.]

the 18. I went upon the creek guard and John Bates was Lanch corporeal
also in the afternoon their was 3 Boston men came out under pretence
of fishing but they made their escape to Dorchester point.

the 19. Was rainy and nothing remarkable hapned.

the 20. The things that were taken at the Light house were vendued and
went very high[172] Nothing more remarkable hapned this day at night
their was a regular deserted from the enimy.

[Footnote 172: When Major Tupper destroyed the
lighthouse on Nantasket point, he carried away all
the furniture and the great lamp by which it was