scalped.]

Monday 26th. Rainy and wet--I come up the River in a Battoe to Fort
Edward to the incampment--their we drad 1/2 a pound of powder and 10
Bullets a peace and 8 days provision in order for to march to the
Lake[26]--Barnabas Evings was very poor with fever nago[27] and was
forst to stay behind & David Bishop with him--we Lodged in Bush tents
and very wet it was.

[Footnote 26: Lake George.]

[Footnote 27: Fever-and-ague.]

Tuesday 27th. Marched all of Colonel Phiches[28] Regiment that were
hear with 3 teams to carry the officers we arrived at the half way
Brook[29] and their a great percel stashond for a while & from thence
we Marched to Lake George and went over upon the hill East & their
Encamptt one with myself went upon guard this night.

[Footnote 28: Fitch's.]

[Footnote 29: Afterward called Snook's creek. It
enters the Hudson three miles below Fort Edward.]

Wednesday 28th. We cleard our ground and pitchd our tents I sent 2
letters home.

Thursday 29th. Stil here General Limon[30] & Colonel Phiches Regiments
come up to the Lake this day I washed my Cloths 1 more rigiment come
up.

[Footnote 30: General Phineas Lyman, who built Fort
Edward. He was a native of Durham, Connecticut,
where he was born in 1716. He completed his
education at Yale college, and afterward became an
eminent lawyer. He was appointed commander-in-chief
of the Connecticut forces in 1755, and in the
expedition to Lake George deserved all the honor
awarded to General Johnson, who was jealous of
Lyman's abilities as a soldier. Lyman did his duty
nobly, and was but little noticed. Johnson was
unfit for his station, but being a nephew of Sir
Peter Warren, then a popular English admiral, he
received the honor of knighthood, and the sum of
twenty thousand dollars, for his services in that
campaign! General Lyman served with distinction
until the close of the campaign in 1760, and in
1762 commanded the American forces sent against
Havana. He was in England about eleven years, and,