Series: 13 U (Volume 13)
Scope and Content Note: Thomas Blake's journal, 1777-1780. This small volume consists entirely of a manuscript copy of a journal begun in Lebanon, New Hampshire, by Blake (1752-1840), a lieutenant in the First New Hampshire Regiment. Concise entries cover the march to Ticonderoga; fighting near Lake George; the British surrender at Saratoga; the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge; the battle of Monmouth; the march to Wyoming, Pennsylvania; and participation in John Sullivan's New York campaign in 1779; the discovery of Benedict Arnold's plot; and the hanging of John Andre. Included also are a list of men in the regiment, clothing returns, copies of acts of the Continental Congress concerning clothing for the army, and other miscellaneous notes, 1776-1813. This copy was made in 1847 by Isaac Child of Boston. Aside from a few typographical alterations in capitalization and punctuation, the same version of the journal was published in Frederic Kidder's History of the First New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution (Albany, 1868), but some of the additional regimental records in Child's copy were omitted in Kidder's publication.