Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Tuesday, June 10, 1760

Recd orders to march to Lake George, & march^t of about 10 oclock A. M. in one colum. Ariv^d at Lake George, & incamp before night.

SOURCE: Samuel Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 5

Journal of Private Lemuel Lyon, Monday, June 26, 1758

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

Journal of Private Lemuel Lyon, Tuesday, June 27, 1758

Marched all of Colonel Phiches¹ Regiment that were hear with 3 teams to carry the officers we arrived at the half way Brook² and their a great percel stashond for a while & from thence we Marched to Lake George and went over upon the hill East & their Encamptt one with myself went upon guard this night.

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¹ [Eleazer] Fitch's.

² Afterward called Snook's creek. It enters the Hudson three miles below Fort Edward.

SOURCE: Abraham Tomlinson, Editor, The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, p. 17

Journal of Private Lemuel Lyon, Thursday, June 29, 1758

Stil here General Limon¹ & Colonel Phiches Regiments come up to the Lake this day I washed my Cloths 1 more rigiment come up.

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¹ General Phineas Lyman, who built Fort Edward. He was a native of Durham, Connecticut, where he was born in 1716. He completed his education at Yale college, and afterward became an eminent lawyer. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Connecticut forces in 1755, and in the expedition to Lake George deserved all the honor awarded to General Johnson, who was jealous of Lyman's abilities as a soldier. Lyman did his duty nobly, and was but little noticed. Johnson was unfit for his station, but being a nephew of Sir Peter Warren, then a popular English admiral, he received the honor of knighthood, and the sum of twenty thousand dollars, for his services in that campaign! General Lyman served with distinction until the close of the campaign in 1760, and in 1762 commanded the American forces sent against Havana. He was in England about eleven years, and, after his return, went with his family to the Mississippi, where he died in 1788.

SOURCE: Abraham Tomlinson, Editor, The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, p. 17