ouse and barns of Thomas Brown
were on the neck, about a mile from Roxbury
meeting-house, and were occupied by the British
advanced guard. Two Americans tried to set fire to
the barn on the 24th, and were killed.]

the 27. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 28. We moved to a little house that capt Bligs formerly Lived in
but we Soon moved from there to Slaks house again.

the 29. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 30. Nothing hapened only there was a Smart shower.

JULY.

the 1. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 2. Dito.[127]

[Footnote 127: The British again hurled some shells
into Roxbury on Sunday, the 2d of July, but the
extent of the damage was setting fire to one house,
which was consumed.]

the 3. Dito.[128]

[Footnote 128: George Washington was chosen
commander-in-chief of the continental armies on the
15th of June, 1775. He set out for the headquarters
of the army at Cambridge on the 21st, reached there
on the 2d of July, and took formal command of the
army on the morning of the 3d.]

the 4. Their was a flag of truce come out of town to our centry on the
neck.

the 5. Nothing worth a mentioning to day.

the 6. Nothing remarkable this day.

the 7. Early in the morning we were alarmed and all of us repaired to
our alarm Post and we had not been their Long before we Saw Browns
house and Barn on fire and they were both consumed[129] these were Set
on fire by some of our brave ameracans and they took one gun and too
Bagonets and one halbert.

[Footnote 129: A party of volunteers, under Majors
Tupper and Crane, attacked the British advanced
guards, drove them in, and set fire to Brown's
house. They took several muskets, and retreated
without loss.]

the 8, 9. Nothing remarkable.

the 10. About Eleven o clock their was a party of Soldier sent to
germantown[130] to get some whale Boats they marched down their that
night the next night being clear they set out for Long island and
arived there in a Short time then they Plundred the island and took
from thence 19 head of horned cattle and a number of Sheep and three
Swine[131] also eighteen pri