If he was writing from around Philadelphia, the reference could have been to
the community known now as Plymouth Meeting in Whitemarsh Township or
Plymouth Township itself.  These communities are east of Norristown and
Valley Forge, basically on the route Washington's troops took to Valley
Forge while fleeing north west on Germantown Pike after losing the Battle of
Germantown.

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> Subject:      Queens Co. or Dutchess Co?
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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
>