Note 839 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Other contemporary narratives are in the Appendix of Stone's Campaign of Burgoyne (p. 286); Wilkinson's Memoirs (i. ch. 5); and Hadden's Journal (p. 120). There are letters by Peter Clark in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg. (April, 1860, p. 121). A letter of the Council of Safety, written during the action, is in N. H. State Papers, viii. 669, where is also Stark's letter, when he sent the trophies, and the communication of the news to the militia (Ibid. p. 623). Stark was thanked by Congress, and made a brigadier (Ibid. p. 702). He had felt hurt at the failure of such recognition by Congress earlier (Ibid. p. 662).