mers[196] Point and
wounded one and our men returned the fire from copple hill.

[Footnote 196: Lechmere's.]

the 18. This day the Ship moved out of the Bay and the Enemy threw
Bombs from mount Hoordom[197] but did no Damage.

[Footnote 197: A nickname given to Bunker's hill.]

the 19. This day nothing remarkable hapned.

the 20. Nothing strange this day.

the 21. This day it was very cold nothing strange this day.

the 22. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 23. Nothing strange this day.

the 24. Ditto Ditto Ditto.

the 25. Good.

the 26. Very cold this day nothing remarkable this day.

the 27. Nothing remarkable to day.

the 28. Nothing strange this day.

the 29. Nothing strange this day Last Night our men made an atempt to
take Bunker hill but their Scheem was frustrated &c.[198]

[Footnote 198: On the night of the 28th, an
unsuccessful attempt was made to surprise the
British outposts on Charlestown neck, and then to
attack the enemy on Bunker's hill. The Americans
started to cross from Cobble hill, on the ice. One
of the men slipped and fell when they were half way
across, and his gun went off. This alarmed the
British, and they were on their guard. It was
computed that, from the burning of Charlestown, on
the 17th of June, until Christmas day, the British
had fired more than two thousand shot and shells.
They hurled more than three hundred bombshells at
Plowed hill, and one hundred at Lechmere's point.
Gordon says that, with all this waste of metal,
they "killed only seven men on the Cambridge side,
and just a dozen on the Roxbury side."]

the 30, 31. Nothing remarkable.

JANUARY.

the 1. A Happy new year 1776 Behold the man three score and ten upon a
Dying Bed he'se run his race and get no Grace and Awful Sight indeed
Nothing very remarkable this 1 day of January 1776 Anoquedomina.[199]

[Footnote 199: Anno Domini.]

the 2. Nothing strange this day.

the 3. 20 men out of each Regement in Roxbury side to cut
fachines[200] I believe we have it by and by.

[Footnote 200: Fascines.]

the 4. Nothing remarkable this