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Philip D. Weaver

Philip D. Weaver

Phil Weaver is a retired systems analyst. A living historian for over forty years, he is 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 (May 2004). His most recent book is The 3rd New Jersey in New-York: Stories from “The Jersey Greys” of 1776 (2020). He is also the editor and principle author of The Greatest Hits of The Colonial Chronicle: The Rev-War Collection (2016).

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Illness and Disease, Pension Records, People, The War Years (1775-1783) November 17, 2022 January 25, 2023

Smallpox by Inoculation: The Tragedy of New York’s Rosewell Beebe

The day following the legendary taking of Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775, Lt. Col. Ethan Allen reported the successful mission to New York’s…

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People, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) November 16, 2021 February 16, 2022

Joseph McCracken: New York’s Wounded Revolutionary Warrior

Following the failed assault on Quebec City, the Continental Congress resolved on January 8, 1776 to provide additional regiments for the defense of Canada….

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Pension Records, People, The War Years (1775-1783) April 22, 2021 July 15, 2021

Joseph McCracken: New York’s First Revolutionary Captain

On June 8, 1776, New York’s Capt. Joseph McCracken presented to the Albany Committee of Correspondence a payroll of men “employed in the taking…

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Critical Thinking, Documents, Pension Records, People, The War Years (1775-1783) August 5, 2020 July 15, 2021

William Dickens, John Rose, and William Turnbull: Soldiers of the 2nd New York Regiment

It is often believed or reported that the 2nd New York Regiment of 1775, commanded by Col. Goose Van Schaick, morphed into the 1st…

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Law, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) May 28, 2019 February 16, 2022

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 July 15, 2021

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 February 16, 2022

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 February 16, 2022

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 February 16, 2022

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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Espionage and Cryptography, People March 13, 2017 July 15, 2021

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 February 16, 2022

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 February 16, 2022

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 February 16, 2022

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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