Perhaps he was writing from Plymouth Meeting, a town about ten miles NW of
Philly, and about the same distance from Valley Forge.
Wayne Miller
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> We have an original letter dated "Plymouth, Nov. 26, 1777," telling of
> military actions around Philadelphia in October 1777. It was written to
> Thomas Rodman of Fishkill, N.Y., from a New York soldier, Nathaniel Tom, who
> was from Flushing, N.Y., but who died and was buried in South Dover, Dutchess
> County, in 1784. Thomas Rodman was Nathaniel Tom's wife's uncle, and I think
> they were Quakers.
>
> Where was "Plymouth," where Nathaniel Tom was recovering from sickness
> when he wrote this letter? I doubt that he was in Massachusetts. There is a
> "Plymouth Hill" in Dutchess County. Was there also a village or community
> named Plymouth, in Queens County if not Dutchess County?
>
> Paul Huey
> NYS Bureau of Historic Sites
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