Samuel Adams A.L.S. Castleton, Sept. 5, 1776 : to Mrs. Sarah Adams, Dorchester
1776
MSS L1982.1.534
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Title
Samuel Adams A.L.S. Castleton, Sept. 5, 1776 : to Mrs. Sarah Adams, Dorchester
Published
Castleton 1776
Description
[4] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Call Number
MSS L1982.1.534
Note
Adams, a hospital surgeon in the 18th Continental Infantry, writes to his third wife, "My Dear Sally."
"[I] shall continue it from my last which was from the ... town of Charlestown where I continued 'till Wednesday 21st Aug; in the forenoon of which day the Reg.t marched in the afternnon. I followed them crossed over Connecticutt [sic] River into Springfield in the State of N. York...."
"Thursday we made ahead about 8 miles to Gilbert's in Cavendish, a small log house, no spare beds, & scarcely any thing to eat or drink. We made camp in the woods."
Mentions his brother Parker Adams, who suffered from dysentary and an accidental blow to the knee. They proceeded 23 miles through Ludlow and Shrewsbury without food for ourselves or horses "save a little N. England rum and water." "...had it not been for Mrs. Baker's good gingerbread (which we had kept til now) we would have been poorly off."
Describes bad roads"stones and stumps without number, miry sloughs inverwoven with the roots of trees in the worst manner imaginable to entangle to horses feet."
"After this tedious days march we came to ... Durham, supped on a little milk thickened with flour, got a straw bed for my brother
Mentions Benjamin Spencer in Durham, a rich farmer.
"Wednesday the 4th Sept.r ... went forward, fell in company with Maj.r Howard of Braintree... am now in about 12 miles of the lake where I expect to arrive to day and to reach Ticonderoga tomorrow.
Page [2] is blank; part of page [4] is address leaf.
"[I] shall continue it from my last which was from the ... town of Charlestown where I continued 'till Wednesday 21st Aug; in the forenoon of which day the Reg.t marched in the afternnon. I followed them crossed over Connecticutt [sic] River into Springfield in the State of N. York...."
"Thursday we made ahead about 8 miles to Gilbert's in Cavendish, a small log house, no spare beds, & scarcely any thing to eat or drink. We made camp in the woods."
Mentions his brother Parker Adams, who suffered from dysentary and an accidental blow to the knee. They proceeded 23 miles through Ludlow and Shrewsbury without food for ourselves or horses "save a little N. England rum and water." "...had it not been for Mrs. Baker's good gingerbread (which we had kept til now) we would have been poorly off."
Describes bad roads"stones and stumps without number, miry sloughs inverwoven with the roots of trees in the worst manner imaginable to entangle to horses feet."
"After this tedious days march we came to ... Durham, supped on a little milk thickened with flour, got a straw bed for my brother
Mentions Benjamin Spencer in Durham, a rich farmer.
"Wednesday the 4th Sept.r ... went forward, fell in company with Maj.r Howard of Braintree... am now in about 12 miles of the lake where I expect to arrive to day and to reach Ticonderoga tomorrow.
Page [2] is blank; part of page [4] is address leaf.
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