[March 1776, cont.] by this Time being unwell
& un-
-fit for Duty -- on the
24 of
March [1776] the enemy being gone down
to
Nantascet, & it being
thaught
best to have Some Steady forces up=
-on the Hills Coln
Learneard's
& Coln Bailey's Cary's Regiments
were both of them ordered upon
the Hills, to the latter I belonged
& wer we moved on expecting
to have found Barracks provided
but when we arrived we found
that the Barracks provided for our
Regt were not above half Sufficient
to
contain them neither were there
any Chimneys in any of them.
this w our being huddled in this
manner with Such Accommodations
upon the Hills was owing to the
unfaithfullness of the Barrack M-
-aster who had returned to the Genl
that a Sufficiency of Barracks
were finished to receive us; Yet
in this Scituation half killed
with Smoke we found our Duty
easier than when we lived at
Roxbury & did Duty upon
the Hills.
Many of our People were Sick,