Rainy and wet — I
come up the River in a Battoe to Fort Edward to the incampment — their we drad
½ a pound of powder and 10 Bullets a peace and 8 days provision in order for to
march to the Lake1 — Barnabas Evings was very poor with fever nago2
and was forst to stay behind & David Bishop with him — we Lodged in Bush
tents and very wet it was.
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1 Lake George.
2 Fever-and-ague.
SOURCE: Abraham
Tomlinson, Editor, The Military Journals
of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, p. 16