1777.]

Saturday 24th. I received a Letter from John at the half moon and from
thence we marched & Arived at Stil Water[22] & Lodged their & Barnabas
Evings was poor.

[Footnote 22: Stillwater is on the west bank of the
Hudson, in Saratoga county, twenty-four miles north
from Albany. The battle of Bemis's heights was
fought near there, in 1777, and is sometimes known
as the battle of Stillwater. Opposite the mouth of
the Hoosick river, at Stillwater, was a stockade,
called Fort Winslow.]

Sonday 25th. We got 2 Battoes[23] to carry our packs up to
Salatogue[24] and we went a foot & 8 of our men were draun out to stay
at Salatogue--Captain Lewis shot at an Indian and kild him & sot in
the Battoe--from Salatogue we marched on to Fort Miller[25] and Lodged
their.

[Footnote 23: A batteau is a kind of scow or
flat-boat, used on shallow streams like the Hudson
above Waterford.]

[Footnote 24: Saratoga. This settlement was near
the mouth of the Fish creek, on the south side. The
village of Schuylerville is just across the stream,
on the north side. On the plain, in front of the
village of Schuylerville, was a regular
quadrangular fortification, with bastions, called
Fort Hardy. It was erected in 1756, and named in
honor of the governor of New York at that time.]

[Footnote 25: On the west side of the Hudson, six
or eight miles below Fort Edward. The river is
there broken by swift rapids. During this campaign,
Major (afterward General) Putnam was here surprised
by a party of Indians, and boldly descended the
rapids in a canoe, and escaped. It was a feat they
never dared to attempt, and they felt certain that
he was under the protection of the Great Spirit.
Here a stream called Bloody Run enters the Hudson.
It is so named because a party of soldiers from the
garrison, in 1759, went there to fish, were
surprised by the Indians, and nine were killed and