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Published by John Wilson and Son; University Press, Cambridge, 1905
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Pamphlet. Condition: Good. Signed by Cunningham on the front of the wrappers. Light green printed wrappers, 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, short edge tears to wrappers. Frontispiece photogravure of the home of Joseph Vose at Milton, Ma. 27 clean pp., center folding map of the waterways between Albany and Quebec. This journal was kept by…Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Vose "on the expedition sent by way of the Hudson River and Lake Champlain into Canada to reinforce the troops that had been sent there in 1775 under the command of General Montgomery and General Thomas. The Journal is in the form of a letter written by Colonel Vose to his wife at Milton, and evidently is, as the opening sentence declares, 'A Memorandum drew from ye minutes I took Daily.'" - p. 3.Colonel Joseph Vose (1738-1816), Colonel of the militia of his district before hostilities began, then made a major in Heath's Suffolk Regiment, in which he participated in a raid against the light-house in Boston Harbor. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 24th Continental Infantry in 1776, and went with his regiment up the Hudson and into Canada, the time period of this Journal. Afterwards he saw action in the Monmouth Campaign, and at Newport, and in 1781 he commanded a battalion in Lafayette's Division in Virginia. He took part in the seige of Yorktown, and was made Brigadier-General by brevet.