24 [October]. Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne sailed in the Washington prize for St Johns, from when[c]e he was to go by land for Quebec, where a frigate was ready to sail with him to England, as it was then determined the army was to return to winter in Canada, & make their appearance early the following season before Ticonderago, when every thing necessary for the reduction of that fort would be in greater readiness, & the season more favourable for our operations than so late in the year; during which time our fleet would be masters of the Lake, & the severity of the winter too great for them to build any vessels that could obstruct our movements early in the spring; even at that time the cold was very severe, & our tents but a small covering against it.