7th.--Nothing especial happened through the day, but all the (men) were making preparations for war. 9th.--Know news for prisoners. X.--Nothing extra happened in the course of the day. 10th.--We were moved below town. Dr. Davis attends on our sick daily. The weather verry warm and the men suffer much from the heat. 11th.--We had a very warm day in the afternoon. The officers and Indians were verry busy, however we heard nothing[10] 12th.--Sunday. The American troops crossed the river into Sandwich and divested the people of their arms and sent them to their farms. 13th.--Monday. Pleasant and cool. Nothing extra happened. 14th.--Tuesday. Nothing worthy of notice. 15th.--Wensday, healthy weather. People was moving very much in town and considerable blustor. 16th.--Thursday. Pleasant and cool. Capt. Brown[11] came to town with a flag of truce on and (what) express news we knew not, but could judge by the movements. Two topsail vessels were sent out of the river and the people were moving out of the town at night. 17th.--Friday. The Indians[12] were flocking into town all the morning armed and painted black. A lousifer with their arms and the town was in an uproar. It appeared by ten o'clock that almost every person had left the town. About five o'clock the Savages began to return into town hollowing and barekin and firing all around our vessell, and to crown the whole they had one of our men's scalp stretched on a pole as they past by us to aggrevate us in a helpless state and wound the feelings of prisoners. These Indians[13] were headed by a british subject. Is it possible that their can be so much corruption in the British Government. They are void of feelings and in fact are as bad as the savages themselves for they carry on their intrigues under the pretence that they cannot govern the Indians, and in fact they themselves are personally at their head and give them their instructions. God deliver me from monarch's gag laws and all their subjects[14] for free I was born and free I'll die or by the sword shall we live like bruts and worse, glory in each other's fall and more than that confine our fellow creatures and tantalize them by the blood of our fellow mortals. What will man do when left to himself. But thanks be to God this (is) about the last act of bravery you can show you are on your last legs. The crown will loose another jewil and savage yell dispersed and harmony fill the land. The eagle here shall build her nest and every subject shall be at peice[15]. 18th.--Pleasant. All things peceable through (the) day. About X o'clock in the evening their was an alarm[16] and the prisoners, sick and well, were all ordered in to the hole (hold) together and what a disagreeable (night) it was to have forty men half sick all stowed together and some had to stand all night.