after his return, went with his family to the
Mississippi, where he died in 1788.]

Friday 30th. This day there was a very unhapy mishap fel out in the
province forces & that was 1 **** shot one **** partly through the
body but did not kil him the man which was shot lived at Bridgwater
to day they drawd out 9 men to go in Battoes up the Lake.

Saturday July 1st. Colonel Worster[31] & his rigiment came up to day &
3 of our sick men 1 of them Brot nuse that one man shot another by
accident at Schenacata & an hour after he died to day our Chapling[32]
came up &. 1 of Magor Rogers[33] men came in that had bin gorn 7 days
& Expected to be gorn but 2 he was so beat out that he could not tel
what had becom of tother. this night I went upon a batto and guarded
Colonel Phiches Tub of Butter.

[Footnote 31: Colonel David Wooster, of
Connecticut, the eminent general of the Revolution,
who was killed at Ridgefield, while engaged in the
pursuit of Tryon, after the burning of Danbury, in
the spring of 1777. He was born in Stratford,
Connecticut, in March, 1710, graduated at Yale
college in 1738, and soon afterward received the
appointment of captain of a vessel of the
coast-guard. He was in the expedition against
Louisburg in 1745. He afterward went to England,
where he was a favorite at the court of George II.,
and received the appointment of captain in the
regular service, under Sir William Pepperell. He
was promoted to a colonelcy in 1755, and rose to
the rank of brigadier before the close of the
French and Indian war. He was one of the most
active men in getting up the expedition against
Ticonderoga, in 1775, which resulted in the capture
of that fortress, and also Crown Point, by Colonel
Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold. Wooster was
appointed one of the first brigadiers of the
continental army, in 1775, and third in rank. He
was also appointed the first major-general of the
militia of his state, when organized for the War
for Independen