Having orders to proceed to Chester we marched at daybreak, and at 2 P. M., reached our destination; but orders being countermanded we returned to Prospect Hill, near Marcus Hook, where we encamped in tents, which was to me very disagreeable.
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. 195
Having now joined Col. Miles's Regiment we were this morning ordered on parade, when we went thro' our manœuvres and evolutions with great applause.
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. 195
1 On his preliminary journey to the station at Brookfield.
SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 106
Lodged Revd Cushing. Set off about nine oclock; dined Hows Marlboro.
SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 106
Lodged Baldwin's Shrewsbury — Arriv'd at Brookfield.
SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 106
2 This is only the beginning. The reader may be surprised as he discovers how often our examplary and devout clergyman bought Lottery Tickets. The custom prevailed at that time, and all classes participated in it freely. The states granted lotteries constantly for all sorts of enterprises, and the Continental Congress (Stiness, R. I. Hist. Tracts, 3, 45) raised money for the war by this means.
SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 106-7
2 This method for preventing small pox preceded Jenner's vaccination.
SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 107
Took physick before sun rise—prd for Rev.Ward Ps. 103, 19 & 122. 6 & on—rained P. M. in evening very fast—took pill.
SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 107
Cold & windy—took pill
SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 107
took powders in morning. Cold and windy took pill in evening.
SOURCE: William B. Weedex, Editor, formerly Captain Battery C, First R. I. Light Artillery, and Chief of Artillery, First Division, Fifth Corps, A. P., Diary of Enos Hitchcock, D. D., A Chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, p. 107
