[Pamphlets. American history]

BIOGRAPHY OF DR. EZRA GREEN.
I.
HIS PUBLIC CAREER.
By Commodore GEO. HENRY PREBLE, U.S.N.
IN June, 1775, the Sunday after the battle of Bunker Hill, Dr. Ezra
Green, in the capacity of surgeon, joined the American army, then
under the command of Gen. Artemas Ward, and was stationed with
Reed's New-Hampshire regiment on Winter Hill in Charlestown.
Here he received the smallpox by inoculation, and was secluded in
the hospital at Fresh Pond, Cambridge, for seventeen days, returning
to his regiment in camp on Winter Hill the 20th of March, 1776.
After the evacuation of Boston by the British, he left with our
army for New-York, going by way of Providence, Norwich and
New-London, where they embarked. Having remained in NewYork a few weeks, they proceeded up the Hudson to Albany, thence
by batteaux to Saratoga; landed, and marched to Lake George; remained about a fortnight; went down Lake George in batteaux, and
stopped at Ticonderoga; thence proceeded by Lake Champlain to
St. John's; thence to Montreal, and joined Arnold. There the
army suffered greatly from sickness. Dr. Green was with the troops
which occupied Mount Independence until December, when, on the
advance of the British under Sir Guy Carleton, the American forces
retreated to Ticonderoga.
The following letter, addressed to his friend Mr. Nath'l Cooper,
at Dover, New-Hampshire, graphically describes the situation of
the American army at that time.
DEAR SIR: 7Ticonderoya, Oct. 30, 1776.
I must beg your pardon for troubling you with so many of my letters,
but I am a good deal at leisure, and so lucky an opportunity of conveyance
offers, that I can't let it pass without sending you one line or two. Since
my last, our Fleet is destroyed, of which I suppose you have heard, but 5
vessels remaining to us out of 16 sail. The engagement began on Friday
morning, October 11th, and held out all day. They surrounded our Fleet,
but in the night succeeding the engagement they very narrowly and fortunately made their escape and came up towards Crown Point, but were