This morning
received orders to resume our former station at Amboy, and at 10 o'clock left
Elizabethtown. This night we joined Gen. Mercer's brigade, no longer to take
orders from an officer under a Brigadier General, for we now act as Continental
troops, tho' raised for the defense of Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: “Diary of
Lieutenant James McMichael,” William H. Egle, Editor, Pennsylvania
Archives, Second Series, Vol. XV: Journals and Diaries of the War of the
Revolution with Lists of Officers and Soldiers, 1775-1783, p. 196
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