Diary of Reverend Enos Hitchcock, Sunday, June 1, 1777

No Service A. M. dined at the Generals²—Letters from General Gates inform of Col^o Meigss capturing 70 men on Long Island & destroying some Stores also y^t the Troops in Canada are going to the Southard — Divine Service at Six ^oClock I Chron 19, 17, very warm.

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² At Brigade Headquarters, General Patterson's, probably.

SOURCE: Amos Perry, The Town Records of Rhode Island, Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, Vol. 7 (1899), p. 110