Two Encounters: Captain Abraham Van Dyck, the “Negro Man,” and Prince Pitkin
byCaptain Abraham Van Dyck of New York faced military justice twice during the Revolutionary War: first by the British for burning his hometown, and…
Captain Abraham Van Dyck of New York faced military justice twice during the Revolutionary War: first by the British for burning his hometown, and…
Marinus Willett was born the son of a Quaker, Edward Willett, on July 31, 1740, in Jamaica, Long Island (now part of Queens). After…
During the American Revolution, some of the hardest-fought and most bitter battles occurred in the land of the Six Nations, the Iroquois lands stretching…