Probably in the hand of Ensign John van Court (based on clues about his position, associations and movements found within the text of the manuscript--see case file and "The Wartime Diary of a Continental Officer" in Cincinnati Fourteen, winter 2007, v. 44 no.1, pgs. 68-71) Pages [45]-[46] blank Unpublished account of day to day activities leading up to the Yorktown siege, and the movement of the Pennsylvania troops to the south. The last entry is for July 4, 1782: "The army Paraded at 5 Oclock & the artillery fired thirty four rounds the Musquettry three rounds 13 of the Canon in remembrance of the Independence of American & [the birth of the?] Dolphan of France [.] at this place we saw a Detachment of Genl. Greens Army under the Command of Genl. Sumpter -- .... A large Number of the militia are Toreys who have come under the Protection of Genl Greenes Procklamation and are serving their six months --- at the Expiration of which they are to become free subjects of the United States ..." Gift of Stephen Payson Shaw (Connecticut Society).