American AcornsLemuel Wood's Journal, 'The Canada Expedition,' Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. XX (1883), p. 156: Captain Hastens of Willard's regiment tried at Crown Point. A general court martial at Crown Point finds Captain Hastens of Col. Willard's regiment guilty of mutinous behaviour and dismisses him from the service with disgrace.
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Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
Saterday ye 15 yersterday a general Cort marshell Set
at Crown point for ye trial of Capᵗⁿ Hastens of our
Regᵐᵗ who was Stationed at ye head of ye Lake and
was Confind about 10 Days ago for Refusing to go upon
ye works without Pay to day we had ye Sentence of
ye Cort marshell in Publick orders which is as follows
Capᵗⁿ Hastens of Coll willards Rigᵐᵗ acused of mutinos
Behaviour is found guilty of ye Crime and is therefoer
Dismesed from ye Servis with Disgrace—& ye general
orders a Pass to be given to mr Hastens to go home or
where he shall Choose to go and yt he shall not be Per-
mitted to Stay in any Part of ye army.
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Keep in mind: A nineteenth-century printed transcription of the journal, not the manuscript; spellings kept. The year and month are not printed on these two pages. Identification with Benjamin Hastings of Bolton is Likely. Label: Likely.