Showing posts with label Quartering Soldiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quartering Soldiers. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Journal of Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, January 25, 1777

We had 5 American soldiers quartered upon us, by order of ye Council of Safety. Ye soldiers were named Adam Wise and Henry Feating—those two stayed 2 or 3 days with us, ye others went off in an hour or two after they came.

SOURCE: Henry D. Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 43

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Journal of Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, July 16, 1776

Friends meeting house at Market street corner broken open by ye American soldiers, where they have taken up their abode.

SOURCE: Henry D. Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 41