History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654;

378 HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON. • [1775.
hardships of that terrible march, and participated in the
attack npon the city on the last day of the year. Six of
them were made prisoners and confined in the jail at Quebec
till the following July.
Narrative of one of Lemuel Bates, aftcrwards a resident of
the Survivors. Southampton, gives the following account
of his experiences in that expedition.^
While in Dorchester about the first of September, he enlisted
for the enterprise against Quebec under Arnold,
Jonas Hubbard, Capt. He left Cambridge on the la**" of
September, marched to Newburyport where all embarked
on transports, and sailed for the Kennebec River. In a
few days they reached Fort Western, opposite the present
town of Augusta, the head of ship navigation on that
river. Here they were transferred to batteaux, and on the
30*'' of October reached Dead River, a branch of the Kennebec.
The sufferings of the army were intense. In
forcing the batteaux through the rapids the men were compelled
to wade many times in icy water waist deep. Around
falls, rapids and other obstructions, boats, provisions and
ammunition had to be carried. Eight men were required
to transport a single boat. From Dead River, Col. Enos
and the rear division returned.^ Bates thought that Enos'
party might have kept on as well as the rest of them.
They arrived at the river Caudiare after much suffering
early in November. Reaching Point Levi on the 9*'\ they
crossed the St. Lawrence on the IS*'', and encamped on the
plains of Abraham. Three days afterwards the army re-
treated to Point an Trembles to await the appearance of
Gen. Montgomery. Upon his arrival they moved forward
and invested the city. Bates participated in the attack
upon Quebec, and was made prisoner. Capt. Hubbard was
1 Mr. Bates was born in Durham, Ct., Aug. 30, 17.55, removed with his father to
Southampton, in 1T68. He resided in Northampton in 1775, and in Blandford from
1789 to 1801.
2 Heavy rains raised the river much above the average, and in consequence of the
turbulence of the waters, seven of the batteaux and their contents were lost. Orders
were then sent back to Col. Enos, in command of the rear division at Dead River
junction, to send forward as many of the strongest men as he could supply with fifteen
days' provision, and return with the rest. This order was misconstrued, or purposely
misunderstood, and Enos marched back to Cambridge with the entire rear
guard. He was afterwards tried by Court Martial and acquitted.— Sparks' Life of
Arnold, p. 37.