Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, August 29, 1768

About nine o'clock this morning a soldier was shot for desertion in front of the Jews' burial-ground wall.

SOURCE: Jacob Cox Parsons, Editor, Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, 1765-1798, p. 15

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