materials for building Brest Works this being on thursday.

[Footnote 120: General Thomas, who had command of
the right wing, extending from Roxbury to
Dorchester. General Artemas Ward was the
commander-in-chief until the arrival of Washington,
early in July.]

[Footnote 121: Fascines. See note 74.]

the 15. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 16. Nothing of consiquence this day.

the 17. It being Saturday the Kings troops Landed at charlestown and
set the whole town on fire and Laid it all in ashes then they
proceeded to Bunkers hill[122] where colonel putnam intrenchet and
after an engagement which Lasted the afternoon the troops took the
Hill and it is said that the nearest computation of the Loss of the
enemy was about 1500 is killed and wounded were alarmed about one o
clock that day and went down to our alarm post and we lay their all
the afternoon and about six o clock the troops fired from their Brest
Work on Boston neck at our people in Roxbury and we staid until the
firing was over and then our regiment was ordered to cambridge to
asist our forces and we reached their about twelve o clock at night
and Lodged in the meting house until break of day being Sunday
we turned out and marched to prosket hill[123] expecting to come
to an ingagement we halted at a house at the bottom of the hill
and fixed for a battle then we marched up the hill where we went to
intrenching about 12 o clock Some of our men went down the hill
towards the troops after Some flower and the troops fired at them and
wounded David Trisdale in the shoulder and another in the Leg about 4
o clock colonel Reed[124] ordered his regiment to march to roxbury and
we arived their about sunset very weary.

[Footnote 122: This is a mistake. It was Breed's
hill, nearer Charlestown and Boston than Bunker's
hill. Colonel William Prescott, and not General
Putnam, was entrenched there, and was in command
during the engagement. He had been sent with a
company, the night before, about a thousand strong,
to throw up a redoubt on Bunker's hill. He made a
mistake, and performed the work on Breed's hill.
The British had no suspicion of the work that went
on duri