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Journal kept by David Holden [textual record]

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Date:

1760.

Reference:

R5410-0-5-E, MG18-N53, Volume number: 1

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Item ID number:

101292

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Journal kept by David Holden
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Date(s):

1760.

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Extent:

2.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a journal kept by David Holden recording his service against the French in a Massachusetts regiment from the 20 February to the 19 November 1760.

Item consits of a transcript of a journal kept by David Holden, copied into the blank spaces found into the book, Adela, published in 1799. The copy appears to have been made from the original, which has been held by the Massachusetts Historical Society since 1889. The journal was published at Cambridge, Mass. in 1889, with an introduction by Samuel A. Green, under the title, Journal kept by Sergeant David Holden.

The journal records Holden's service against the French in a Massachusetts regiment from the 20 February to the 19 November 1760. Holden describes the travels of the soldiers, their behaviour and discipline as well as the events of the war he participated in, along Lake Champlain to Montreal.

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Holden, David, 1738-1803

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Holden, David, 1738-1803 : David Holden, the son of John Holden and Sarah Davis, was born in Groton, Mass. 10 December 1738. In early 1760, he enrolled as a Sergeant in Captain Leonard Whiting's company in the campaign against the French. The following year Holden married Sarah Hemenway (b. 1739) of Townsend, and settled in that town as a farmer and cooper; most of his nine children were born there.

At the outbreak of the Revolution, Holden sympathized with the Crown and was forced to leave Massachusetts to settle in Hollis, N.J. where he died almost thirty years later.

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Originals with the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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David Holden fonds
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David Holden - Diaries, 1760 Journal Kept by Sergeant David Holden (Cambridge, Mass.), 1889

United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Campaigns, 1760 Montreal (Quebec), 1760

Armed Forces - Officers, 1760

Soldiers - Massachusetts, 1760

Canada Seven Years' War, 1755-1763

Canada 1755-1763 (Guerre de Sept Ans)

Lake Champlain

Lac Champlain
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MG18-N53
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Volume [MG18 N 53] 1

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