ce; and in that capacity he was
employed, with Arnold, Silliman, and others, in
repelling British invasion in 1777. He lost his
life in that service. His remains were buried at
Danbury; and in 1854 a monument was erected over
his grave by his grateful countrymen, at the
expense of his native state.]

[Footnote 32: Chaplain.]

[Footnote 33: Commander of a corps of rangers, who
performed signal services during the greater part
of the French and Indian war. He was the son of an
Irishman, an early settler of Dunbarton, in New
Hampshire. He was appointed to his command in 1755,
and was a thorough scout. In 1759, he was sent by
General Amherst to destroy the Indian village of
St. Francis. In that expedition he suffered great
hardships, but was successful. He served in the
Cherokee war in 1761, and in 1766 was appointed
governor of Michilimacinac, where he was accused of
treason, and sent to Montreal in irons. He was
acquitted, went to England, and, after suffering
imprisonment for debt, returned to America, where
he remained until the Revolution broke out. He took
up arms for the king, and in 1777 went to England,
where he died. His "Journal of the French and
Indian War" is a valuable work.]

Sonday 2. In the fore noon I went to meting & heard Mr. Eals his text
was in the 5th Chapter of James 16th verse a good sermon I rote a
letter & sent home & in the after noon to meeting again.

Monday 3d. Yesterday Mager putnoms S Company came up and this morning
Mager putnom[34] come up and the Connetticuts rigiment were Imbodied
for to learn how to form your front to the Right and left for Jineral
Abbacromba[35] and his A de Camp to vieu.

[Footnote 34: Israel Putnam, afterward the
Revolutionary general. He was born in Salem,
Massachusetts, in January, 1718. He was a vigorous
lad, and in 1739 we find him cultivating land in
Pomfret, Connecticut, the scene of his remarkabl