There was a Plymouth Hill near the town to Washington in Dutchess
County, according to French's GAZATTEER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
(Syracuse, 1860).


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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
>