Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks, Thursday, May 29, 1760

Sent a letter home by the post. Recd orders to be ready for command up the river & to leave my tent standing.

SOURCE: Samuel Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 4

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, Wednesday, June 28, 1758

We cleard our ground and pitchd our tents I sent 2 letters home.

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