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THE ISRAEL ANGELL DIARY, I OCTOBER 1777.28 FEBRUARY 1778
from the Servis[.] Lt. Carpenter was agoing to Danbury for Stores, Person D:.-::
Come to trenton after Some Baggage.
27. This morning the Ground was white with Snow and a very raw Cold a:-. il:r,.,i
Snowed alittel. this was the first Snow that had fallen this fall, I had Seen a fer,r'Sca:g:sr
flakes once before though not So much as to white the Ground. we got our brear;;l*
this morning at Mr. Richmonds in trenton wher we had maid it our Quarters anir --:l*n
I Sett off for Burlington, after waiting untill half after Eleven OClock for l,h
Bartholome I arived at Burlington by three OClock. and Mett general Greenes Dirrsr:rm
a Crossing the ferry from Burlington to Bristol as the Brittish troops had left the ie:sqrii
after having plundered the inhabitants of a Great Value in Stock and other thhe;""
General Greenes Division did not all git over this night.
28 November. This morning I applyed to Major General Greene, to know Where I -,i?$
to go forward to the Regt., or where the Regt. was to Come forward as I thought mv:3r*
able to join the Regt. ihe Baggage was Crossing all night, and did not more then half ll:
over. My Regt. Arived in town about ten oClock and the troops Crost the ferry in -:ll
after Noon, but none of their baggage Could be got across that night, and about m:;night
it begun to Storm and blow Extreem hard at northeast.'o
29. this Morning it Continued to blow Excessive hard and very Stormy So that there i,;:;
no Crossing the ferry. about two oClock in the after Noon there was an allarm here.',*-:
had Several Reports that the Enemy Was Crossing ancokas ferr/' about five miles fror:
burlington[.] there was a waggon master rode down and return d and brought news that tho,
were a Comming[,] for he Saw them about three miles from burlington, and he thoug]:
there was about thr[ee] Hundred of them, this allarm put us in great Confusion. l
ordered all the Baggage to drive off for trenton, the boats was loded with goods in orde:
to Cross as the wind had fallen Some, but before our boats got off, the news of the
Enemys Comming was Contradicted, and proved false, we got over a few waggons anc
the wind blew So hard and was So dark that we left the others for another Day.
30 Novr. This morning we begun to git the Remainder of of our baggage over the ferrr"
it Still Continued Stormy and very uncofortable, the boats from the fleet that was to
tooe over the Scofu]s did not Come to our assistance till near t[wo] oClock. we ju:-r
maid Shift to get all the Baggage over by Dark[.] I tarried in Bristol as did all the waggons
and Baggage this Night.
December Isl. 1777. This morning all our baggage Waggons marched off by four
oClockf.] I was obliged to Cross over to burlington before I Could proceed on my jour-
ney having left Some of my baggage, I Sett of for head Quarters by g oCflock] and went
as far as Crockit billit within Seven miles of head quarters [;] there took my lodgings for
that night. our waggons Stopt allittie back on account of a peice of woods.
Decr. 2nd. 1777. This morning after I got Breakfast I Sett of in Companey with Capt.
flagg for the grand Army, where we arived by Eleven oClock and found our people
Encamped in the woods where they had built fthem] huts of bushes and leaves. I went
to a hous near the Camp[;] there tarried this Night.
3rd. Nothing Extroridanery happened this Day. it has been a Raw Cloudy and Cold Day.
Decr.4th. 1777.We have Remained in peas and quietness and nothing Extraorny has
happen'd to day[.] one Light hors man Come from the Enemy to day. at Night Ileft my
Lodgings in a hous and went into the Woods with the troops.
5. This morning at Three oClock our Allarm guns was fired on which the Baggage was
all imeadetly ioaded into the waggons and drove ofl and all the troops got under arms,
and march'd to their Allarm posts, where we Continued till the Sun was near two hours