If the author of the letter 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. Given that the author was a Quaker and these communities were Quaker communities, the assumption that the Plymouth in question was the community now known as Plymouth Meeting is even stronger. The "meeting" part of the name explicitly marks the community as a place where the monthly Quaker meeting took place. > Janet L. Washbon > Bureau Director, Policy and Government Relations > Wisconsin Technical College System Board > 310 Price Place, PO Box 7874 > Madison, WI 53707-7874 > Phone: (608) 266-2017 > Fax: (608) 266-1690 >