Journal, 1775-1776.

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Journal, 1775-1776.

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This collection consists of a journal by Timothy Tuttle, a sergeant in the First Company of the First New Jersey Continental Regiment. The journal covers the time span of December 21, 1775 to November 9, 1776. In his journal, Tuttle recounts his activities that include daily routines of sentry duty, assisting in strengthening fortifications in New York City, and participating in the monotonous and grueling task of marching from Morris County to Elizabethtown to New York City, then to Long Island and back to New York City, and finally, to Ticonderoga, New York, where he remained for the duration of his service with the First New Jersey Regiment. In other instances, Tuttle spent much of his time making preparations for battle. At one point, he spent the entire last two weeks in February 1776 doing nothing more than making cartridges for his musket. Malnourishment, fatigue and disease, as with most Continental Army troops at the time, plagued even Tuttle himself, when he was stricken with, and survived, a case of smallpox while encamped at Isle aux Nois, Quebec and Crown Point, New York in June 1776. The inoculations administered on June 19, 1776 seemed to have paid off, for Tuttle reports by July 1st that "the small pox seems to go favorable with us." Provisions were also low, since he complained that "we are pinched for provisions [and] I cant but grumble for I Believe it is to Be had, the Yankees [New Englanders] Gits fresh Beef enough." Records of various loans that Tuttle made to others, as well as records of repayments of those loans, complete the volume.

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