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3, I8Io), was adjutant of the second regiment
of the Massachusetts line, commanded
by Lieut.-Col. commandant E. Sproat. He had
preserved most, perhaps all, of the orders which
his duty obliged him to record ; but only a por-
tion of them' were found, some ten years after
his death, when the editor first determined to
take possession of them, and make a selection
for publication at some convenient time."
" Col. Whiting," he says, " in I775, belonged
to a' minute company,' in the town of Billerica,
a few miles north of Lexington, and, on the
morning of the I9th of April (being then in
his i6th year), marched side by side with his
father (who had served in the French war of
'55), and an elder brother, to the latter place,
and shared in the running fight which the
British had to maintain in their retreat from
Concord. Immediately joining the army at
Cambridge, he was under Arnold, on Lake
Champlain, in '76, and with Gates's army
throughout '77, receiving a commission during
the latter year. The remainder of the war, he
was with the main army until Washington took