22nd Regiment of Foot

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Letters and Correspondence, People, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) May 9, 2022 May 8, 2022

Thomas Plumb, British Soldier, Writes Home from Rhode Island

by Don N. Hagist

“Dear Brother,” wrote Thomas Plumb from Newport, Rhode Island, on February 22, 1777, “this comes with my kind Love to you and hope these…

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Illness and Disease, The War Years (1775-1783) April 22, 2020 April 21, 2020

Outbreak! New York, 1779

by Don N. Hagist

“The number of sick increasing every day, in all the different Camps of the army,” wrote Capt. John Peebles in his diary on September…

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People, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) August 29, 2018 August 29, 2018

Guilty of Desertion? Hubert Römer, 22nd Regiment of Foot

by Don N. Hagist

If a British soldier was absent without leave, he might be charged with desertion; if caught, he could be tried by a general court…

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1. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Joe. There is so much there in such things if you take a look. It gets you to the minutia that people like you and me get into.
2. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Mike. The support documents often have a lot of information. If drill down a bit farther, there are sometimes letters from later generations in the application file that identify…
3. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

You need to take these depositions with a large grain of salt. I use them a lot for my research/writing, but they need at least some confirmation or a parallel…