An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut

The reader cannot enter on the succeeding journal to advantage without first being acquainted with the object of the expedition, the circumstances under which it was undertaken and the route marked out for the army to pursue. In the month of June 1775 Gen. Schuyler was commissioned by Congress to invade Canada through the lakes to take possession of Ticonderoga and Crown Point and if practicable to proceed to St. Johns and besiege that fortress. Should he succeed in getting possession of these posts on the lakes the way would be open to proceed on to Montreal and from thence to Quebec the capital of Canada.