Isaac Stone his book : Boston, Nova Scotia, Saratoga and elsewhere , [1758-1781]

Isaac Stone his book : Boston, Nova Scotia, Saratoga and elsewhere , [1758-1781]

Voyage from Boston to Nova Scotia and return, Aug. 28 to Nov. 30, 1758 Journal of my travels : being a series of journies through the colonies May 16, 1777 to May 16 1781

Boston [etc.] 1758-1781

2 v. (v.1: [48] p..; 17 cm. ; v. 2: [126] p. ; 16 cm.)

MSS L1997F505 [Bound]

"Isaac Stone was 26 years old when he left Woodstock, Connecticut for Boston, there to embark on a convoy ship bound for Nova Scotia. Whether the venture was voluntary or forced is not clear. England was attacking French Acadia at this time, and colonials were frequently used to man English warships. When young Isaac arrived at Fort Cumberland on September 16, 1758, the news of the fall of Louisbourg to the English was just being celebrated although the capitulation had taken place three weeks earlier." -- Foreword, v. 1 "In May 1777, Isaac Stone set out from his home in Woodstock ... on a series of journeys which took him as far south as the Carolinas and as far north as the White Mountains. On each of these trips he faithfully recorded the happenings of each day .... Isaac Stone was a Captain in the Continental Army, but the diary itself makes no reference to the fact. In his second journey, which began September 3, 1777, he was in charge of a company of men which he led from Eastern Connecticut to the battlefields of Stillwater and Saratoga. The Division roll of his company is transcribed at the end of this book, and the original manuscript roll -- complete with duplications and errors -- is enclosed with the diary.... In just what capacity he served during the rest of the period covered by the diary is not clear. In several journeys he speaks of buying or selling horses, leather, iron. From time to time he would stop and spend several days working at his trade which was making leather gloves and breeches...." -- Foreword, v. 2 Stone also mentions (25 Sept 1778) meeting 2 brigades of Connecticut men at Northurps Plains, and "saw many of my friends well" and the next month, "went to mitford to the Camps to See Sum of my friends (30 Oct.)

Spine title (v. 1): Isaac Stone his book; (v. 2): Isaac Stone his journal Stone fought in the Lextington Alarm for 5 days, then was a member of one of the 2 regiments of Connecticut militia that reenforced Gen. Gates at Saratoga where they were assigned to Gen.. Poor's Continental brigade. In the first battle of Saratoga, they lost more men than any two other regiments in the field. -- See The record of Connecticut men in the military and naval service during the war of the Revolution (1889), p. 505. Among the Revolutionary events mentioned are the Battle of Saratoga (including casualties, desertions and prisoners such as 1 Hessian, his waiter, and dog), the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, and the arrival of the French fleet. Vol. 1 in paper wraps; vol. 2 in vellum; both housed in pockets inside back covers of (modern) bound transcriptions. Apparently lacking a leaf between 26 Sept. and 1 Nov. 1777; and 1 or more between 14 June and 6 July 1778 Armorial bookplate of Charles Edward Armstrong, who prepared the forword and transcriptions in 1962 and 1966, and an apparent descendant of the diarist. Genealogical chart at end of typescript, v. 1

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