William Alexander A.L.S., Aquackanoc [i.e., Acquackanoc, N.J.], October 8, 1778 : to Colonel [Stephen] Moylan, Phillshill, [N.J.]
1778
MSS L1977.164.7 M
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Title
William Alexander A.L.S., Aquackanoc [i.e., Acquackanoc, N.J.], October 8, 1778 : to Colonel [Stephen] Moylan, Phillshill, [N.J.]
Published
Acquackanoc (N.J.) 1778
Description
[4] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Call Number
MSS L1977.164.7 M
Note
"I have just now seen Col. Van Horn's letter of yesterday to Gen.l Maxwell on [illegible] the situation of the enemy in this state. They are at present stretched from the New Bridge above Hackensack across towards Fort Lee, with two redoubts on the heights on this side the bridge."
"Their strength is about 7000 of their best British troops . On the 5th they advanced to within about three miles of this place but in the evening retired to their present situation."
"I believe they have nearly compleated their forrage [sic] and will soon quit this state."
"I most sincerely congratulate you on the ... event of your new connection with the most amiable of ladies."
Moylan's fiancee was Mary RIcketts Van Horne, the daughter of Col. Philip Van Horne of "Phil's Hill" near Bound Brook, N.J., whom Washington suspected of having Tory sympathies -- see J. Kilbourne. Virtutis Praemium, vol. 1, p. 699.
Red seal mostly intact
Indistinct watermark; countermark: B C
Moylan was an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati; William Alexander, Lord Stirling, died before the Society organized.
Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati
"Their strength is about 7000 of their best British troops . On the 5th they advanced to within about three miles of this place but in the evening retired to their present situation."
"I believe they have nearly compleated their forrage [sic] and will soon quit this state."
"I most sincerely congratulate you on the ... event of your new connection with the most amiable of ladies."
Moylan's fiancee was Mary RIcketts Van Horne, the daughter of Col. Philip Van Horne of "Phil's Hill" near Bound Brook, N.J., whom Washington suspected of having Tory sympathies -- see J. Kilbourne. Virtutis Praemium, vol. 1, p. 699.
Red seal mostly intact
Indistinct watermark; countermark: B C
Moylan was an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati; William Alexander, Lord Stirling, died before the Society organized.
Gift of Evelyn Lansdale Wildman and Clare Lansdale Johnston, through the agency of their father, Philip Moylan Lansdale, a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati
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