the 14. This day nothing remarkable hapned.
the 15. Being Sunday I went upon fatigue down to the george tavern and their was a flag of truce went in and another came out.[169]
[Footnote 169: Communications are thus had between belligerent armies. By common consent, as a rule of war, a person approaching one army from another, with a white flag, is respected as a neutral; and to "fire upon a flag," as the phrase is when the bearer is fired upon, is considered a great breach of faith and honor.]
the 16. Nothing remarkable hapned Colonel Reeds Laidy came down to reveu the Regiment and treated them[170] nothing more this day.
[Footnote 170: The wives of officers often visited permanent camps, and formed pleasant social parties. Mrs. Washington visited her husband at Cambridge, while he remained there. She also spent a portion of the winter with him at Valley Forge, and likewise at Morristown.]
the 17. I went a chesnuting up to neutown[171] and at night our floating Baterys went up towards the canon and fired 13 shots but unlucky for them one of their 9 pounders split and killed one man dead and wounded 8 more one of them it is thought mortally.
[Footnote 171: Newton, seven miles north from Boston.]
the 18. I went upon the creek guard and John Bates was Lanch corporeal also in the afternoon their was 3 Boston men came out under pretence of fishing but they made their escape to Dorchester point.
the 19. Was rainy and nothing remarkable hapned.
the 20. The things that were taken at the Light house were vendued and went very high[172] Nothing more remarkable hapned this day at night their was a regular deserted from the enimy.
[Footnote 172: When Major Tupper destroyed the lighthouse on Nantasket point, he carried away all the furniture and the great lamp by which it was lighted.]
the 21. I went upon the creek guard[173] and it rained all day nothing remarkable hapned.
[Footnote 173: The creek referred to is Stony brook, northward from Roxbury fort.]
the 22. Being Sunday nothing remarkable this day.
the 23. Nothing remarkable hapned at night I went upon the piquet and nothing hapned worth a mentioning.
the 24. Nothing remarkable hapned this day onely we heard that the french were a going to join us upon conditions that we would trade with them.[174]