uardin teams a great number
of them nigh 100 & when we came back their was a scout com in to Fort
Edward that went out from the Lake they discoverd nothing.

Friday 8th. This day sergent Erls went out to Fort An[70] after the
Con-nu[71] & Lieut. Larnard & Ephraim Ellinghood Knap & John Richason
and Jeb Brooks & Hezekiah Carpenter they 6 of our company 40 in all
went along I went to work at the high way & had half a pint of Rum
for it.

[Footnote 70: Fort Anne was erected in 1757, a year
before the occurrences here narrated took place. It
was a strong blockhouse of logs, with portholes for
cannon and loopholes for musketry, and surrounded
by a picket of pine-saplings. When the writer
visited the spot in 1848, he dug up the part of one
of the pickets yet remaining in the earth, and, on
splitting it, it emitted the pleasant odor of a
fresh pine-log, though ninety years had elapsed
since it was placed there. This fort was near the
bank of Wood creek, about eleven miles from the
head of Lake Champlain, at the village of
Whitehall. It was in the line of Burgoyne's march
toward the Hudson, in 1777; and near it quite a
severe skirmish took place between Colonel Long, of
Schuyler's army, and a British detachment under
Colonel Hill, on the 8th of July, the day after
Ticonderoga was abandoned to the enemy. Victory was
almost within the grasp of Colonel Long, when his
ammunition failed, and he was compelled to
retreat.]

[Footnote 71: Canoe.]

Saterday 9th. I was warned a quarter guard and I changed with Moses
Peak and went upon the Escort & got in by 12 a clock I was warned out
to work but did not do much sergent Erls com in with his Con-nu--and
the Jineral was much pleased with it.

Sonday 10. I was upon guard but went to meeting a part of the fore
noon and the text was in the 24 of Acts & 25 verce & the Afternoon the
text was in James the 6th & 12 verce.

Monday 11. I took 4 days provision & Josh Barrit and one ranjer with
me & we went out near fort An and we spied a fire and som person and
we com back and made