Friday 29. [September 1775]
Set out in a Birch Canoe about Noon ー left Colo [Roger] Enos with Capt Williams's Compy to bring up the Rear, with the Provisions behind ー Our Canoe proves very leaky, stop'd at Vassalborough, Eight miles above Fort Western, & chang'd her for Another, and having gone about 12 miles, lodg'd Six miles short of Fort Hallifax ー
1. John Hancock Papers, III, 314, LC.