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""Old Put"" The Patriot

CHAPTER X
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The claims of the survivors were just enough; but their quest was fruitless, for they were not given the lands.

However, a band of "military adventurers" set out, under the leadership of General Phineas Lyman, who had been in command of Connecticut's troops all through the wars, and Landlord Putnam was one of them.
Urged, perhaps, by his admirers to preserve some chronicle of his doings this time (having been so neglectful in this respect in the past) our hero actually began a journal, writing on the blank leaves of the "orderly book" which he used in his Havana campaign.

This book, doubly interesting to the present generation, is still preserved by a lineal descendant of Putnam, and attests to the fact that the soldier of many wars was not equal to the intellectual effort of writing even a legible diary of his doings.

He soon gave it up, in fact; but the few entries he made are exceedingly quaint and simple, as for example: "friday ye forst of jenauary, 1773--this Day no work don--went to Church....

satorday ye 2--this day taking in goods for ye voige--good weathor.


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