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 [log in to unmask] writes: > 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