JOSHUA GREEN S DIARY, 1 775- 



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24'!' Bro't my books liome from Latin School. 

 [May] 5'!' Came out from Boston to go to Westfield. 

 1 1'!' Fast day. 



Reinforcement or regim'" sent Gage ; viz! 

 Light Dragoons 



3060 

 * killd at Bunker Hill 



[June] 5'!' Went to M[ Ballantine's School. 



Gen! Lee to Gen' Burgoyne 



June 7 : 1785. " I serv'd several campaigns in America last War, 

 & cannot recollect a single instance of ill behavior in the provincials, 

 where the regulars acquitted themselves well. Indeed we well remem- 

 ber some instances of the reverse, particularly where the late Colonel 

 Grant, (he who lately pledg'd himself for the general cowardice of 

 America) ran away with a large body of his own regiment, and was 

 saved from destruction by the valor of a few Virginians." 



" Is it possible M| Howe sho'd be prevail'd uj^on to accept of such 

 an office ! The brother of him, to whose memory the much injur'd 

 people of Boston erected a monument, sho'd be employ'd as one of 

 the instruments of their destruction ! " 



1 7V' Battle at Charlestown. 



[J"^y] [^ '■"^^ drawing of the Colony seal] 



The seal of the Massachusetts Colony with a sword aims at quiet 

 rest under liberty. 



Distinetion of yf different ranks of y'" Officers in y'; Continental 

 Army und[ Gen| Washington. 



For y; General a black cockade & a broad scarlet ribbon from 

 y"" left shoulder to yf right hip but being und' y' coat is seen only 

 across his breast. 



