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NOTES AND DOCUMENTS. From Saratoga to Valley Forge: The Diary ofLt. Samuel Armstrong. The following is a transcription of the diary of Lt. Samuel Armstrong of the Continental Army. The original manuscript, Mss C 1058, is in the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston.
1997 DIARY OF LT. SAMUEL ARMSTRONG 239 responsible for moving baggage or supplies from Massachusetts to New York State. By August he is voyaging up the Mohawk River to help relieve Fort Stanwix and the next month joins the battle against Burgoyne's invading army. July 1777 Stayed at Stebbens Tavern [ ] nights
From Saratoga to Valley Forge: The Diary of Lt. Samuel Armstrong. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
- Joseph Lee Boyle
- 1997
Mar 15, 2002 · Lt. Samuel Armstrong of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment wrote in his diary on this date: “I mounted the Provost Guard, there w[as] two Men brought in Irons under sentence of Death” ( Boyle, “Armstrong’s Diary,” description begins Joseph Lee Boyle.
Mar 13, 2002 · Samuel Armstrong, a second lieutenant in the 8th Massachusetts Regiment, wrote in his diary on 10 Jan. that “This day there was a Man Hung here for Desertion and Carr [y]ing two Criminals away with him, he was a Roman Catholick & a very Ignorant fellow to look at, if one may Judge from appearance. he was allowed the priviledge of a Chaplin but a...
Mar 13, 2002 · Samuel Armstrong of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment gave his account of the action in his diary entry for this date: “This morning all Except Invalids was to march down to the Lines, but not finding the Enemy, they proceeded on to Darby and finding none there they Detached out Small parties of Thirty men, properly Officer’d to go down to the ...
~ Diary of Lieutenant Samuel Armstrong of the 8th Massachusetts regiment On December 19, 1777, the ill-supplied Continental Army led by General George Washington arrived at Valley Forge after a tough season of campaigning against the British.
