Note 805 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Various letters of this period about the army are in the Persifer Frazer Papers (Sparks MSS., xxi., from July 9 to Nov. 18, 1776); in the Gates Papers (copies in part among the Sparks MSS., xxii.); in the Schuyler Papers as used in Lossing's Schuyler, and as existing in the N. Y. Archives (copies in part in the Sparks MSS., xxix.). A letter of Thomas Hartley (Ticonderoga, July 19, 1776) in Mag. West. Hist., Sept., 1886, p. 677; one of Wayne (July 31) to Franklin in Sparks MSS., no. lvii. The N. H. State Papers, viii., 311, 315, 325-6, 329, throw light on the feelings of the adjacent country,—Col. Asa Potter seeking to throw the people upon Burgoyne's protection against the Indians. The N. H. Rev. Rolls, ii. 2, 22, show how troops were sent to Ticonderoga as the spring opened.