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). Milton M. Klein | phone: (423) 974-2806 University of Tennessee, Knoxville | email: [log in to unmask] On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 [log in to unmask] wrote: > 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 >