Showing posts with label Bound Brook NJ. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 10, 2026

Diary of Reverend Enos Hitchcock, June 11, 1777

Radishes with breakfast—fine roast Beef for diner glorious news of Genl Washington's gaining a compleat Victory over the Enemy at Bound Brook3—no particulars—fair pleasant Day—something dry—
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3 A false report. Washington out-generalled the enemy, and Howe afterward retreated, but there was no general action.

SOURCE: Amos Perry, The Town Records of Rhode Island, Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, Vol. 7 (1899), p. 112