[Montreal, November 1775]
ー 25 ー
we had orders for sailing to Quebec so all that day we was employd in getting baggage ready and getting some Artillery stores on board and 3 field peices and 2 or 3 12 pounders and 2-4 pounders
ー 26 ー
this day some of the battallion men went on board to be in readiness as soon as the wind should be fair but was not till next Day
ー 27 ー
about 10-oclock this day our General2 went on board the commadore Capt Lockwood commander3 and about 3 in the afternoon our Company went on board the same vessel and Lay there about 2 hours then we weighd anchor and bore down the river St Lawrence bound to Quebec that day we saild about 18 mile
1. Barwick's Journal, DARL.
2. Brigadier General Richard Montgomery.
3. Captain Samuel Lockwood, of the 5th Connecticut, had been appointed Assistant Engineer on November 5, 1775.
