Diary of Luke Gridley, March 29, 1757

Luke Gridly

His Book

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, p. 23

Diary of Luke Gridley, April 8, 1757

this Day was musterd and took our oaths

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, p. 23

Diary of Luke Gridley, Monday, April 18, 1757

this Day Reseved wages: Bounty furst month wages & Biliting: 3=18=9=0¹ genneral Limmons Com[pany]², marcht ye 18th April

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¹ The bounty this year was 42 shillings, the soldier to find clothes, powder-horn, and bullet-pouch; the wages for a private, £1 125. per month of 28 days; the allowance for billeting, 4s. per week. This would make £4 10s. for the first month; but the clothes were probably furnished by the colony and deducted.

² Lyman's personal company, the first.

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, p. 23

Diary of Luke Gridley, April 22, 1757

we³ marcth.

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³ Payson's company, the third. This first stage was from Farmington to Harwinton, through that part of Bristol afterward set off as Burlington.

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, p. 23

Diary of Luke Gridley, Monday, April 25, 1757

we marcht Licthfeel

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, p. 23

Diary of Luke Gridley, April 26, 1757

to segguts⁴ In Kornwill 36 mi⁵ the next day wich was ye 27th we marcht to Landdard Robins in Cannan to Dine 8 miles: from thence to Landard Reeds In Solsbeary 6 miles

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⁴ The Widow Sedgwick's.

⁵ From Farmington, not Litchfield. - The road from Litchfield to Cornwall was through Goshen.

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, pp. 23-4

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

Diary of Luke Gridley, April 29, 1757

we marcht 20 miles & came to Clouverreck:⁴ all In helth.

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⁴ Claverack, three miles southeast of Hudson, N. Y.

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

Diary of Luke Gridley, April 30, 1757

I went 3 miles & came to Rever:⁵ Seeing my frinds well I pa[st] 5 miles up the River for Shad

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⁵ The Hudson.

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