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Post by spence on Apr 22, 2023 7:04:54 GMT -7
Warren Johnson, the brother of Sir William Johnson, visited him in upstate New York, and wrote about the cold weather that winter.
_Warren Johnson's Journal: 1760-61_
January the 23d. Extreme Cold, & very hard frost. If one walks two Mile in European shoes & gloves, he is frost bitten; Numbers of our Troops in marching last Winter suffered vastly soe, & were rendered incapable of Service, having lost Toes, & Fingers, & some feet Obliged to be cut off; above 100 suffered. When they Encamp in the Woods, have large Fires at their feet, & Sleep on the Branches of Trees, & Sometimes a shade of them round them...
The Weather still soe cold that handling Brass, or Iron leaves a Blister on the Fingers; & in Bed People are cold even with ten Blankets on.
"Shaving here in Winter is vastly disagreeable & painful…"
Spence
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