Scope and content Journal (1776) of Colonel Ebeneezer Francis which relates his activities from the time he set out from Cambridge camp and his contacts with General Washington, other patriot officers, and the Continental Congress, describes many New England towns, skirmishes, and ship-movements, repeats army gossip, and tells of a plot by the Mayor of New York to seize General Washington; Francis family letters describing a visit to Harvard College (1787), and discussing the division of family property, the...