This morning, two
o'clock, the general beat. The troops took up the line of march half an hour
after, marched through a low country, more hilly than I have seen since we came
to the State; encamped near Hanover Meeting-House, on Mr. George Philip's farm,
one mile and a half from New Castle and four miles from Hanover Town, being 12
miles from Bottom's Bridge.
This morning our
wounded officers left Hanover for Pennsylvania.
This evening I had
an invitation from Capt. Pierson to assist him in eating two water-melons,
which were the best and finest I ever see. This country is full of them; they
have large patches of two and three acres of them.
The negroes here
raise great quantities of snaps and collerds. They have no cabbage here. 12
miles.
SOURCE: Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, Publisher, Journal of Lieut. William Feltman,
of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, 1781-82, pp. 9-10
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