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" Xcxt we turn to the ' Journal of Joseph "Ware, of Nccdham, Mass., 

 published in the ' New England Historical and Genealogical Register,' 

 Api-il, 1852. p. 132. 



' Smulay, I )eceniber .'îO and IH. — It bej;an to thicken up towards night and 

 snowed very much. We were ordered to be in readine.ss, and at two o'clock at 

 nijrlit we were nuistered and got all fit for scaling the walls, and marched near to 

 the city, some with ladders, some with axes and .«ome with saws ; General Mont- 

 gomery, with his forces, on the onecpiarter, and Colonel Arnold on the other hand.' 



"Now here the diarist speaks of the night of December 30-31, and 

 tells us that ho was called out at two o'clock, which was the morning of 

 the 31st, and later mentions what happens. At five began the attack, 

 and later, the retreat. 



"William H. Whitmoro, in the 'American Genealogist,' Albany, 

 1878, p. 74, sa^'S this journal of AVare's is claimed in the 'Book of the 

 Looker' to have been written by Ebenezer Tolman, who was in the 

 expedition. Whitmoro also rcfoi-s to an earlier edition of his 'American 

 Genealogist,' 1868, pages 8-1-5, for further information about this Toi man's 

 claims. I have not the book, so 1 cannot look uj) the facts. However, 

 whoever wrote the book, December 31st is the date named for the fight. 



"The 'Journal of Captain John Dearborn,' edited b}»" Camberlain, 

 and published in the 'Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society ' 

 for April, 1886, pp. 275-305, says: 



' December 31. — This morning at four o'clock I was infonned by one of my 

 men that there was orders from the Cîeneral for making the attack upon Quebec 

 this morning. I was surprised that I had not been informed or notified sooner ; 

 but afterwards found it was owing to the neglect of the 8ergeant-]Major, who 

 excused himself by saying he could not get across the river. * * * The General 

 gave ordeiTS last evening for the troops to assemble at two o'clock this morning to 

 make the attack in the following manner.' * - ••' 



"General Wooster to Colonel Warren, in a letter dated Montreal, 

 January 6, 1776 : 



' With the greatest distress of mind, I now sit down to write of the event of 

 an unfortunate attack made on Quebec between the hours of four and six on the 

 morning of the 31st of December,' etc. 



"The above is taken from Force's 'American Archives,' 4th series, 

 vol. iv, p. 588. It is also in 'Documents llelating to the Colonial History 

 of New York,' edited by O'Callaghan, vol. viii, 664. 



"General John Sullivan says, in a letter to the Assembly of New 

 Hampshire, dated Winter Hill, January 18, 177i! : 



'It is with the most sensible pain I sit down to write you the mi-laneholy 

 tidings of our army l)eing defeated at Quebec on the ;'>lst of Decend)er, witii the 

 loss of one hundred and fifty.' 



"Taken from Peter Force's 'American Archives,' 4th scries, vol. iv, 

 p. 768. 



