(seq. 29)

Saturday.

Arrived at Providence about 10 o'clock.
Saw Mr [Ch?ley] who still remains
a cripple, but [joeose? {joyous?}] & sociable.
Mr Bullard boards there; but was
gone to Bristol to see what was
going on. We heard that a large
number of spectators wr at Mount-
Hope to see [?] went of an attempt
to land. Many volunteers wr
on their way, & many had already
joined the army, from Boston, Salem,
Newbury & Portsmouth. The independent
company, commanded immediately
by {General} Hancock wr on
the front. Some of [first?] characters,
& of [?] [?] blood in New-England wr
engaged in person. Chief of the [?]
[?] wr able wr gone from Providence
and from [?] movements [?] wr conjectured
that our army would land
that night. We dined at Mr Cushing's,
whose wife said that her house [?]
Bristol wr saved by a [?] person's
being in [it?], [there?] the humanity of