Journal, 1777.

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Journal, 1777.

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This unbound journal was kept by Woods from 5 October 1777 to 6 November 1777. In it Woods recorded his impressions of towns, taverns, people with whom the soldiers stayed, visits with friends along the route from Marlborough to Saratoga, via Bennington, Vermont, and agricultural conditions. His entry for 17 October recounted briefly how the company "March down to the (North) River Side and See General Burgoine's Army March off and lay down their Arms." He cited rumors about advances, retreats, and "capitulations" of both sides, road and weather conditions, provisions, prices of goods, trading, illness and wrangling among volunteers, and his impressions of Hessians, Canadians, and Tories. The company returned home and was dismissed on 4 November. An entry for 5 November reads as follows: "The Britans lodged in Marlborough last Night and Marched out about 9 O Clock and General Burgoine went by my house this morning And the Hessians arrived about noon and Tarried all day & all Night."

1 v. (10 leaves) ; octavo.

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Woods, Alpheus, 1726/27-1794.

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Alpheus Woods (1726/27-1794) of Marlborough, Mass., participated as a member of "a Company of 52 men, Officers Included," who served as volunteers under Capt. William Morse of Marlborough as part of Col. Jonathan Read's regiment. They were in service from 2 October 1777 to 8 November 1777 and marched to assist General Gates at Saratoga. Woods served as a member of the town's Committee of Correspondence, 1772-1775, as a town assessor in 1775, 1778, and 1783, and as a selectman in 1776 and in 1787...

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