I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.