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Philip D. Weaver

Philip D. Weaver

Phil Weaver is a retired systems analyst. He has been an active living historian for over forty years. Most of these have been with the Brigade of the American Revolution. A highly regarded tailor, presenter, and independent researcher, Phil’s articles on the colonial period and living history were first published nationally in 1979. An original member of the West Point Chapter, Company of Military Historians, he was elected a Fellow of the Company in May 2004. Most recently, Phil is credited as the editor and principle author of The Greatest Hits of The Colonial Chronicle: The Rev-War Collection (June 2016).

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Law, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) May 28, 2019 May 27, 2019

The Court-Martial of Captain Joel Pratt

On one Sunday morning in late April 1775, news arrived in Spencertown, New York, of the occurrences at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. This alarm…

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Features, People, Postwar Conflict (>1783), The War Years (1775-1783) February 7, 2018 February 6, 2018

The Hard Service and Sufferings of James Dole

In January 1775, James Dole of Troy, New York, joined a company of minutemen commanded by James Wells. It was armed and equipped in…

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Features November 2, 2017 October 29, 2017

Evans & Bean of the Hampshire Grants

Immediately following the taking of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in early May 1775, Capt. John Visscher raised a…

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The War Years (1775-1783) September 18, 2017 September 3, 2017

The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Ticonderoga Vendetta

Lt. Col. Anthony Walton White of the 3rd New Jersey Regiment had a very rocky 1776. His service was peppered with several episodes more…

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The War Years (1775-1783) May 18, 2017 May 30, 2017

The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Plundering of Johnson Hall

The newly formed 3rd New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Col. Elias Dayton, was mustered into the Continental Army on May 2, 1776.  It was…

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People March 13, 2017 February 9, 2018

Henry Defendorff: A Very Intelligent Man

Henry Defendorff enlisted as a sergeant in Christopher P. Yates’s Tryon County company of the 2nd New York Provincial Battalion commanded by Col. Goose…

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The War Years (1775-1783) November 22, 2016 November 4, 2016

The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Ill-Fated Patrol

In the summer of 1776, the restored Fort Stanwix (renamed as Fort Schuyler) sat on what was the western edge of civilization in present…

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People October 25, 2016 October 25, 2016

The Worthy but Troubled Continental Service of Capt. Barent J. Ten Eyck

With the clash of arms that began the American Revolution, Capt. Barent J. Ten Eyck, of the Albany County Militia, served as courier for…

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The War Years (1775-1783) September 22, 2016 September 15, 2016

The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Mighty Dueling Frolic

Mr. Duncan McDougall, a merchant from German Flats area of New York’s Mohawk Valley, joined Capt. Joseph Bloomfield’s company of the 3rd New Jersey…

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