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Phillip R. Giffin

Phillip R. Giffin

Phil Giffin grew up in Oregon and worked for 25 years in international marketing and 9 years teaching high school social studies. He has a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University,1965; Captaincy US Army Ordnance, 1966-68; and an MAT from George Fox University, 2001. He is a freelance writer with several published articles, see: Vancouver B.C. Sun, Saturday Review “Letters from Flanders 1914-18” (11/07/1998); Journal Manitoba History “Annie’s War” (06/2007). He is retired and working in Baggs, Wyoming, transcribing, researching, and writing a series of essays and a book based on unpublished family papers (the Diary and the Record book of Sergeant Simon Giffin 1777-1783).

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Features, The War Years (1775-1783) February 14, 2018 February 7, 2018

From Watchung to the Hudson: Sergeant Simon Giffin’s Summer of 1777

On June 28, 1777 elements of the 9th Connecticut Regiment that had been fighting with General Washington’s army in New Jersey departed Lincoln Gap…

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The War Years (1775-1783) January 11, 2018 December 16, 2017

Baptism of Fire, Brunswick, New Jersey, June 1777

In late May 1777 the new recruits in Col. Samuel Blachley Webb’s 9th Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Army mustered in a rough formation…

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Features October 26, 2017 October 26, 2017

Jacob’s Land: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Schemers, Scoundrels and the Settling of New York’s Frontier

Book Review: Jacob’s Land: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Schemers, Scoundrels and the Settling of New York’s Frontier by Charles Yaple (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, March 2017)…

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The War Years (1775-1783) October 12, 2017 October 7, 2017

Whale Boats on the Hudson

By March of 1778 Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam, “Old Put” to his men, was exhausted.[1] He had been writing to General Washington for months…

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Arts & Literature August 24, 2017 August 24, 2017

Sergeant Simon Giffin and his journal of the Revolution

In the early morning of May 30, 1777, my distant grandfather Sgt. Simon Giffin of Wethersfield, Connecticut left his home and followed the dirt…

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The War Years (1775-1783) May 22, 2017 May 23, 2017

The Setauket Raid – December 1777

On the 1st of December 1777 Colonel Samuel B. Webb noted in his journal,[1] … At Horseneck [Greenwich, CT].  This day my Regiment marched…

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People September 19, 2016 September 19, 2016

Samuel Blachley Webb: Wethersfield’s Ablest Officer

Young Samuel Webb was a legend in his time, a hero of the American Revolution.[1]   Some said he was “raised with three silver spoons”…

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