Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, By ABRAHAM TOMLINSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY C. C. SAVAGE. C. A. ALVORD, PRINTER, 13 Chambers Street, N. Y. 29 Gold Street, N. Y....

Having been, for several years, engaged in the establishment of a Museum in Poughkeepsie, I have, by extensive travel and research, and by the kindness of many of my fellow-citizens in Dutchess county and elsewhere, obtained numerous objects, not only curious in themselves, but valuable as materials for history. Among these are two manuscript Journals, kept by common soldiers, each during a single campaign, and written at periods seventeen years apart. One of these soldiers served in a campaign

Fac-simile of a Portion of the Manuscript Journal. April 5 1758. I Lemuel Lyon of Woodstock Inlisted under Captain David holms of Woodstock in newingLand For this present Cannody Expordition [1] —I Received of Captain Holms £2.0s.0d. May 30. Received £3,-16-0. June, 2nd. We arrived at Colonal Maysons at 12 o'Clock and marched from their to Landard [2] Abits & Sergent Stone treated us their—then we marched to mansfield to Deacon Eldridgs about four o'clock—then we marched to Bolton to Lan

Fac-simile of a Portion of the Manuscript Journal. Wrentham , [98] April the 19. About one a clock the minute men [99] were alarmed and met at Landlord Moons We marched from there the sun about half an our high towards Roxbury for we heard that the regulars had gone out and had killed six men and had wounded Some more that was at Lexinton then the kings troops proceded to concord and there they were Defeated and Drove Back fiting as they went they gat to charlstown hill that night [100] We march

In the preceding Journal of a Soldier, in 1775, his narrative commences on the day of the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, the opening conflicts of the Revolution. Some official matters relating to those events, which are inaccessible to the general reading-public, will doubtless be acceptable, as they certainly are appropriate, in this connection. The skirmishes occurred on the 19th of April, 1775. On the 22d, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts assembled, and, deeming it important to

The following list of the names of those first martyrs in the cause of American liberty is given in the eighteenth volume of the "Massachusetts Historical Collections:"— Lexington .— Killed : Jonas Parker, Robert Monroe, Samuel Hadley, Jonathan Harrington, jr., Isaac Muzzy, Caleb Harrington, John Brown, Jedediah Moore, John Raymond, Nathaniel Wyman, 10. Wounded : John Robbins, Solomon Pierce, John Tidd, Joseph Comee, Ebenezer Monroe, jr., Thomas Winship, Nathaniel Farmer, Prince Estabrook, Jeded

Letter of Washington to Governor Clinton, acquainting him of a design of the British to seize his person while residing at Poughkeepsie, and convey him to New York. Dated at Dobbs's Ferry, 1780. Letter of Washington to Brigadier-General Whiten on the subject of the removal of the troops from Trenton to Philadelphia. Dated Plumpton Plains, New Jersey, 1777. Letter of Washington on the subject of promotions in the army. Dated 1779. Note of invitation from Washington to Dr. John Thomas to dinner. D

Lock of Washington's hair—an unquestionable relic—derived from the late Judge Thompson, of the supreme court of the United States. Presented by his recent widow, the present Mrs. Lansing, of Poughkeepsie. Fragments of the first coffin of Washington. Presented by Lewis Grube, Esq., artist, Poughkeepsie. One of the points of the chevaux-de-frieze placed in the Hudson river, near New Windsor, in 1780, to prevent the passage of the British ships. It was raised accidentally by the anchor of a sloop c

Footnote 1: Canada expedition. (Back) Footnote 2: Landlord. The proprietor of an inn or tavern was universally called landlord . The title is still very prevalent. (Back) Footnote 3: To take carts for the military service. Under martial law, any private property may be used for the public good. A just government always pays a fair price for the same. (Back) Footnote 4: Probably General Lyman, who was the commander-in-chief of the Connecticut forces at that time. (Back) Footnote 5: In Litchfield