Diary of Luke Gridley, April 28, 1757

we marcht 4 mils¹ & 6 thrugh the nine Pardenners² and then 6 which was to Levenstones manners fourness³ nb: we passed By whare 3: men died: small pox a fortinnight Before haveing the wind of ye house

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¹ To the Connecticut line at the Oblong, on the west of Salisbury.

² The Little Nine Partners, granted by New York in 1706, was the manorial estate next south of Livingstone's Manor: it was through this that the troops passed. The Great Nine Partners, south of this, had been granted in 1697.

³ Furnace (Ancram). The ore beds were part of the great Middle Berkshire deposit still heavily worked in Salisbury.

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, p. 24