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James Humphrey
Diary
James Humphrey, a sergeant in Colonel William McIntosh's 1st Massachusetts Regiment, kept this diary while marching from Dorchester, Massachusetts to Westchester County, New York in the fall of 1776. On October 27, the eve of the Battle of White Plains, he wrote "there was a continual firing kept up by our people & the enemy at white plains so called mostly cannon." On the day of the battle he notes, "a smart engagement this day between the enemy & our people at the place aforesaid, they fought with small arms as well as cannon." |