Diary of Sergeant James McMichael, August 3, 1776

I this morning was ordered to command 120 men, to take all the small craft from Amboy to Red Root Creek near Beamentown.

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. 197