From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 1.—The sound, between Long Island and Connecticut, is almost frozen over in the widest parts; and some persons have passed over from Long Island to Norwalk and other parts in Connecticut on the ice. Wood is brought from…
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General Washington
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 1.—An American gentleman, now in London, who is well acquainted with General Washington, gives the following account of him:—”That, though advanced in years, he is remarkably healthy, takes a great deal of exercise, and is very fond of…
Famine in the American Camp
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 22.—A writer in the American camp at Baskenridge, in New Jersey, in a letter of this date, says:—”We have had a fast lately in camp, by general constraint, of the whole army, in which we fasted more sincerely…
Lieut. Wynantz taken Prisoner
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Last Sunday evening [January 30?] a party consisting of thirteen mounted refugees went from Staten Island, and in the vicinity of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, surprised Mr. Wynantz, a lieutenant of the rebel militia, and eight private men of Colonel…
Van Buskirk’s Visit to Jersey – Justice Hedden
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 27.—Last Tuesday night, a party of the enemy, consisting of about three hundred infantry, under the command of Colonel Van Buskirk, of the new levies, and about sixty dragoons, said to be under the command of Captain Steward,…