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JOURNAL OF A PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIER, JULY-DECEMBER, 1776

And Came to a Small town Cald bergin a bought two miles This Side of York City Where We Got orders to Stay Whare We Lodged in a barn While We Stayd there orders Was given for Sum Ryflmen to Go Down to Bergin point it was a bought Seven miles from bergin a Cordingly There Was Eighteen men turnd ought to Go Down We arived there Abought Sun half a hour high Whare they Engliss Was a perading our orders Was to take to Trees and fire upon them Which We Did and made them Go from their praide We fird Severall Rounds at them and then Got Orders to march of When We marchd a bought one Quarter of a mile they they Enemy firde Six twelve 'pounders at us but Did us no harm and We Returned to bergin that night and In a fewe Days after We had an a Count that the Enemy Intended to Land and Attack us which We had [illegible] of by two Deserters we lay on our arms all night but they Did not Land and upon the 23 day of august they Enemy Landed upon Long Island and they kept Fighting till the 27 Day and then our people reatired of by night and Got of all their Cannon and gods and they 22 Day found they flying Camp and on the 6 of September we had orders to march to forth Constutiuon a bought ten miles a bove bergin Which a Cordingly We Did Whare We arrived on the 7 Day and Encampt there this forth lies on a Very high hill on the bank of the north river And is a strong place and on the Sixteenth Instant there Was a battle between the Engliss and our people in York Iland Which We had a full View of it being a bought one mile and a half [Dis]the Enemy Was Deafeded and Lost three brass field piecess and two Wagon Loat of Guns but What Was kild of they Enemy Was unnown to us and our peop[le] had twenty kild and fifty Woundd and In a few Days after there Was an a Larm came to our Camp That the Enemy Was a Landing between our foarth and Newyork upon hearing this newes there Was one hundred men order'd ought of our battallion as an advance Gard in order to hinder they Enemy of Landing we marcht Down they river a bought five miles until We Seen that it was a false report and then We returned to our Camp the Same night Nothing Strange hapening in the Camp only What is usuall to all Camps until the Ninth of octhober when three of The Engliss Ships atempted to pass our forth then there Was a tereble Cannoneading but the Ships past the foarth and Got by but sefered Greatly in time of the Cannoneading our Encampment were all orderd up under arms the amount of a bought three thousant and on the 12 Instant the Enemy sent their Shipping up the East River and they atemptd to Land their men a bove kings Bridge but Was repulst twice And the Same Day our Encampment Was all under arms In order to Asist our army if Occasion In York Iland and on Sunday The 27 Day of October there was Two Engliss Ships came up the North River to our forth [tried?] to cover their men on Land and the fird very Smartly at our men in their Lines and Our men fird very Smartly at them from our forth and We hold Down two Eighteen pounders right for ninst their Ships and they Ware forst to Cut their Caples and towe their Ships of they Ware So Dameged and the had. a Smart Engagement on York Iland they Same time there was nothing Strange hapened In our Camp only What is Usual in Such places till The 6 Day of november then There Was 3 Ships Came up They North river and past our forths with ought fireing only one Gun but they Ware Greatly Damegd for there was A Great Cannoning Eading and there Was one of the Trayn Cild his [own] Cannon our forth there Flying reports Dayle in our Encampment abought the Enemy

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Alanding up or Down the North River but all false And on the 12 Day there Came an a Larm for all our bregade to Get under arms And march Down to the ferry Then there Was 3 Companey ought of Each Battallion To March over the River When hearring thiss newes they hole bregade Wass Willing To Go over but they Woud Not be alowd by the Genl on the 14 of November I went over to York Island Whare we cald See they Regellers Quite playn and talk to them a [Cross] the river thats runs [there by] kings bridge And the Senterryes Ceeps A fireing Deally at one another and on November the 15 they Engliss Surrounded our men upon York ILand and Druve them ought of our Lines and forst them them to forth Wasenton Whare there Was a Great number of both partyes Slayn but there Was two for one kild of they Engliss for one of ours and There Was 2 thousand and one half of our men taken prisoners that Same Day In our forth fire they had it to Give up for Want of more men for they regs they ware 10 to one and that Same Night our men was all taken to York town and in our Camp there Was an Express that they Enemy Was a landing just by our ferry our orders Was to perrade With ought beating they Drums to attack them in the night but When We went there it Wass a false a larm and We Ware forst to ly under our arms all night for fear of their Landing and on November The 20 Day they Enemy Land Ded their men at Dobssesferry and at bulls ferry and fornenst our forth to the amount of a bought 10 thousand and next morning they Generalls orders Was Make they best Way the Cud of and Severalls left their Goods in they Camp and made of and there Was a Great many Was taken that Got Drunk With they Sutlers Liquir and nocked they heads ought of the hogsheads and the 21 Day We Went over hackensack and Was drawn up to a Line of battle but the Engliss made of and on the 23 Day We had orders to March and We Marcht as far as phaysink bridge And lodged there all night and Next Day We marcht as far as New York and there We stopt till farther orders but to be ready at a minits Warning for they Enemy was a marching after us and they Suppost that they ware 4 to one in number and heere We ware rayn forst to the mount of a bout 3 thousand men and the 26 Day there Wass an alarm in the town that the Regualars Was A bought 4 miles from us then Generall orders Wass for to Get our Guns and a Couterments Where We Ware all reddy in one Quarter of an our and marcht to meat them Wee marcht a bought 2 miles When our bregade halded and two more marcht on then We Ware ordered to our Quarters again but to be reddy at they firing of 2 feild peeces and on the 27 Day We Ware alarmd a Gayn Just in the Evening When We Ware all Drawn up in one line then there wass orders for two bregads to to Stand Guard all night and entriys through the town & we wass to lye on our arms and to bee Reddy in one minute Warning then in morng Before Day We Ware all under arms and our orders Wass to march to brunswig and the 29 Day We marcht a bought 7 miles ought of brunswig and Lodged in a barn December the 1 Day orders Wass to march to brunswig and our bregade marcht in Good Spirits with in a [mile?] of the town then orders Wass for us to retreat back there as a Great fireing With their feeld peeces tha[t] Same time then Wee marcht to Trent Town and there remay[nd] till the December the 6 then We Ware ordered over the river of Daluaware Whare We ware forst To Ly ought in the Woods night and Day for the regulars Wass at the other Side and the Ware firing feild peeces at one another till the the 26 Day then that our men Wen [t] over.

LIST OF WORKS IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RELATING

TO SHAKERS.

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A full century of communism. The History of the Alethians, Formally Called Shakers, By M. Catherine [sic] Allen, north family, Mt. Lebanon,

1897 Columbia Co., N. Y. Pittsfield, Mass.: Press of

1908

1890 18903

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Eagle Pub. Co., 1897. 16 pp. 24°.

A century of communism. The History of the People Known as Shakers. By M. Catherine Allen, North Family, Mt. Lebanon, Columbia Co., N. Y. Pittsfield: Press of Eagle Pub. Co., 1902. 16 pp. 24°.

The Mirror of Truth. A Vision. Catherine Allen. Mount Lebanon, N. Y.: The Lebanon Press [1890?]. 4 pp. 24°. (Lebanon Leaves Faith Series, No. 7.)

The questions of the day. Mt. Lebanon [1890 ?]. n. t.-p. 6 pp. 24°.

Among the Shakers. (Leisure Hour. v. 20, pp. 790-792. London, 1871.)

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Religious sentiment. Our parentage. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890?] pp. 7-13. 24°.

Self-examination.

p. II. 24°.

[Mt. Lebanon, 1890?]

Unselfish interest. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890?]

5-7 pp. 24°.

See also Social gathering. Andrews (W. Watson). Communism. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890 ?] 4 pp. 24°.

Aurelia. The Aletheia: spirit of truth. A series of letters in which the principles of the United Society known as Shakers are set forth and illustrated. By Aurelia [G. Mace ?]. Farmington, Me.: Knowlton, McLeary & Co., 1899. xiv, 1 l., 17135 pp., 13 pl., 19 port. 8°.

Authorized rules of the Shaker community. Mount Lebanon, 1894. 16 pp. 12°.

See also Supplementary rules, etc. Autobiography of a Shaker. See Evans

(F. W.)

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in Christ's second appearing. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1883. 35 pp., I pl. illus. illustrated covers. 12°.

Avery's name does not appear on cover of this edition. Pages 22-35 comprise R. W. Pelham's "A Shaker's answer to the oft-repeated question," etc. Title from cover.

Albany: Weed-Parsons Printing Co.,

1884. 50 pp., 2 1. illus. 12°.

Ascribed to Avery on cover of this edition. Pages 27-30 comprise Ann Lee," by Andrew Jackson Davis; 31-46, Pelham's "Shaker's answer"; 48-50,"An Open Letter," by Avery; p. 52, post-office addresses of 17 Shaker settlements.

Baker (W.) [Letter dated Gore, Otago, New Zealand, Jan., 1884, to F. W. Evans, inquiring as to Shaker tenets.] Broadside. f°. Reprinted from The Pittsfield Sun. Basting (Louis). Christianity. field, Mass. [1890?] 8 pp. 24°.

West Pitts

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Blinn (Henry C.) Advent of the Christ in man

and woman. [East Canterbury, 1896.] 16 pp. 8°. 16

The manifestation of spiritualism among the Shakers (1837-1847). East Canterbury, N. H., 1899. I p. l., 101 pp. 16°.

See also Gentle manners, etc. Life (The) and Gospel Experience of Mother Ann Lee.

Brief (A) account of Shakers and Shakerism. Several pages of Shaker music are also added...5 Canterbury, N. H. [Shaker Society, 1850?] 16 pp. obl. 16°.

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5 pp. 24°.

Brown (Grace Ada). Under the Sheet. A Recital of Facts. [Republished from the "Arena" by the Shaker Press, Mt. Lebanon, N. Y., 1900?] $(8) pp. 8°.

Brown (Thomas). An account of the people called Shakers: their faith, doctrines, and practice, exemplified in the life, conversations, and experience of the author during the time he belonged to the society. To which is affixed a history of their rise and progress to the present day. Troy: Parker 18 &Bliss, printers, 1812. 372 pp.

12°.

Reviewed in Dennie's Portfolio, v. 8, pp. 329-343, Philadelphia, 1812.

Bushnell (Richard). Truth. (In: Evans (F. W.) A suggestion. [In favor of woman suffrage. M.C Lebanon, 1840?] 16°. pp. 3-4.)

Byrdsall (Charlotte). See Social gathering.

Circular concerning the dress of believers. [Signed: Ministry, Mount Lebanon, N.Y.] [Mount Lebanon, 1866.] 12 pp. 12°.

Cleveland (Margaret). See Social gathering. Part I. A Closing roll from holy and eternal wisdom, Mother Ann, Father William [Lee] and Father James [Whittaker], to the children of Zion. Part II. A sacred covenant of our heavenly parents, sent forth upon earth to their children, at the close of their late manifestation (on the holy mount of God), for the purification of Zion and the inhabitants thereof. Given by inspiration, in the church of the holy mount of God at New Lebanon, December 31, 1841. To be kept sacred by all Zion's children. Printed at Canterbury, N. H., 1843. 40 pp. 4°.

"The following word, or roll, was firstly prepared by the hand of Holy Wisdom, and written upon parchment.

"But as a very great share of the heavy sufferings and burdens of the late manifestation had rested upon her daughter Ann, she has left a part of this roll, which was written on the first day of January, 1842, for her daughter Ann to fill out with her last words of instruction and solemn warning to her children, respecting many things, requesting her to set James, to re-copy such parts of this roll, when filled out, as referred in a special manner, to all her Instruments, in the temple, in this part of Zion, on a beautiful Gold Plate, that it may there remain for ages."

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Concise (A) Answer to the General Inquiry who or what are the Shakers? First printed at Union Village, Ohio, 1823. Reprinted at Enfield, N. H.: Albion Chase, printer, 1825. 14 pp. 16°. Concise (A) answer to the inquiry, who or what are the Shakers? n. t.-p. [South Groton, Mass., 1849?] 18 pp. 16°.

In verse.

Concise statements concerning the Life and Religious Views of the Shakers. North Family, Mt. Lebanon, Columbia Co., N. Y. Mt. Lebanon, N. Y. [1880?] 22 pp., I l. 24°.

Concise (A) statement of the principles of the only true church, according to the gospel of the present appearance of Christ as held to and practised by the followers of the living Saviour, at New Lebanon, &c. [By Joseph Meacham.] Together with a letter from James Whittaker, Minister of the Gospel in this day of Christ's second appearing, to his natural relations in England. Dated October 9th, 1785. Bennington, Vermont: Haswell & Russell, 1790; Reprinted in the United Society, New Gloucester, Me., 1847. 26 pp., I l. 24°.

"In republishing this little work, it is the design of the publishers to preserve a true copy of the first printed publication, ever issued by the United Society."

As

(Dispensations.) A concise statement of the principles of the Only True Church, according to the gospel of the present appearing of Christ. held to and practised upon by the true followers of the Living Saviour at New Lebanon, &c. [By Joseph Meacham.] Together with a letter from James Whittaker, Minister of the Gospel in this day of Christ's second appearing-to his natural relations in England. Dated October 9th, 1785. Bennington, Vermont: Haswell & Russell, 1790; Reprinted [Mt. Lebanon, N. Y?], 1900. 16 pp.

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Union Village, Ohio: Day Star Office, 1847.

pp. 24°.

120

Crossman (Rufus). See Evans (F. W.) Obit uary [of] Rufus Crossman.

Darrow (David). See Testimony (The) of Christ's second appearing.

Davis (Andrew Jackson). Ann Lee. (In Avery (G. B.) Sketches of "Shakers and Shakerism." Albany, 1884. 16°. pp. 27-30.)

Day (A) among the Shakers. (Once a Week. v. 6, pp. 610-611. London, 1862.)

Declaration (A) of the society of people, (commonly called Shakers,) shewing their reasons for refusing to aid or abet the cause of war and bloodshed, by bearing arms, paying fines, hiring substitutes, or rendering any equivalent for military services. Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1815. 20 pp. 12°.

De Vere (Cecelia). Monopoly! Mount Lebanon, N. Y.: The Lebanon Press [1890?]. 4 pp. 24°. (Lebanon Leaves. Stir Up Series.

In verse.

no. 2.)

(Dispensations.) A concise statement. Concise (A) statement, etc.

See

PubBos

Divine (The) afflatus; a force in history. lished by the United Society, Shirley, Mass. ton: Press of Rand, Avery & Co., 1875. 46 pp., I l. 12°.

Dixon (William Hepworth). Mount Lebanon; A Shaker house; Shaker union; Mother Ann; Resurrection order. (In his: New America. Philadelphia, 1867. 8°. pp. 301-339.) Doolittle (Antoinette). Thoughts concerning deity. [Mount Lebanon, 1890?] n. t.-p. 4 pp. 8°. War positively unchristian. [Mt. Lebanon 1890?] 3 pp. 24°.

Doolittle (Mary Antoinette). Autobiography of Mary Antoinette Doolittle containing a brief history of early life prior to becoming a member of the Shaker Community, also, an outline of life and experience among the Shakers. Mt. Lebanon, 16°. N. Y., 1880. 48 pp.

Dowe (Arthur W.) The Day of Judgment as taught by the Millennial Church (Shakers), with a few rays of light gathered from Scriptures and other sources. S[an] Francisco: Rembaugh, 1896. 1 p.l. 5-24 pp. nar. 24°.

Draper (Nathaniel). See Review (A) of Mary M. Dyer's publication, etc.

Dunlavy (John). The manifesto; or, A declaration of the doctrine and practice of the Church of Christ. Printed at Pleasantville, Ky., 1818; New York: Repr. by E. O. Jenkins, 1847. viii, 486 pp. 8°.

Plain evidences, by which the nature and character of the true church of Christ may be known Taken from a and distinguished from all others. work entitled "The Manifesto; or, A declaration of the doctrines and practice of the church of Christ." Albany: Hoffman & White, printers, 1834.

120 pp.

12°.

See also Public Discourses

Dwight (Timothy). Journey to New Lebanon. Shakers. (In his Travels in New-England and New-York. London, 1823. 8°. v. 3, pp. 137157.)

Dyer (Caleb Marshall). A biography of the life and tragical death of Elder Caleb M. Dyer, together with the Poem and Eulogies at his funeral, July 21, 1863. Manchester, N. H.: American Steam Printing Works of Gage, Moore & Co., 1863. 16 pp. 8°.

Dyer (Joseph). A compendious narrative, elucidating the character, disposition and conduct of Mary Dyer, from the time of her marriage, in 1799, till she left the Society called Shakers, in 1815. With a few remarks upon certain charges which she has since published against that Society. Together with sundry depositions. To which is annexed, A remonstrance against the testimony and application of the said Mary for legislative interference. Coneord: J. Hill, 1819. iv, 5-88 pp. 12°.

Dyer (Mary Marshall). The rise and progress of the serpent from the garden of Eden to the present day: with a disclosure of Shakerism exhibiting a general view of their real character and conduct from the first appearance of Ann Lee. Also the life and sufferings of the author, who was Mary M. Dyer, but now is Mary Marshall. Concord, N. H.: the author, 1847. iv, 1 l., 7-268 pp., 1 port. 12°. See also Review (A.) of Mary M. Dyer's publication. Eads (H. L.) Shaker sermons: scripto-rational. Containing the substance of Shaker theology. Together with replies and criticisms logically and clearly set forth. Shakers, N. Y.: Shaker Manifesto, 1879. 3 p. l., 222 pp., I port. 8°.

Shakers, N. Y.: Shaker Manifesto, 1884. iv, 1 l., 271 pp., I port. new ed. 8°. South Union, Ky., 1887. vi, 320 pp., I port. 4. ed. 8°. Expression of Faith. Discursive letter, by H. L. Eades, South Union, Ky., October, 1875. Orange, N. J.: the Author, 1875. 44 pp. 16°.

Edson (C. R.), pseudonym. See Robinson (Charles Edson).

Elkins (Hervey). Fifteen years in the senior order of Shakers: a narration of facts concerning that singular people. Hanover: Dartmouth Press, 1853. 136 pp. 8°.

End (The) of the English Shakers. (Spectator. v. 59, p. 1271. London, 1886.)

Enfield (N. H.) church. One hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Shaker church, Enfield, N. H., October 18, 1893. Enfield, N. H.: Abbott's Power Print, 1893. 36 pp., 1 l. 8°.

Evans (Frederick William). American Shakers. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890?] Broadside. 8°.

Reprinted from the London Food Reform Magazine for June.

Ann Lee (the founder of the Shakers), a biography, with memoirs of William Lee, James Whittaker, J. Hocknell, J. Meacham, and Lucy Wright; also a compendium of the origin, history, principles, rules and regulations, government and doctrines of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. London: J. Burns; Mt. Lebanon, N. Y.: F. W. Evans; Albany printed [1858]. 1 p.l., x, 11–187 pp. 4. ed. 16°.

With the exception of title-page and pp. 185-187 it is printed from the same plates as his "Shaker Compendium," etc.

Atlantic cable and materialization.

Lebanon [1890?]. Broadside. f°.

Reprinted from American Socialist.

Autobiography of a Shaker. (Atlantic Monthly, v. 23, pp. 415-425, 593-605. Boston, 1869.)

Autobiography of a Shaker, and Revelation of the Apocalypse. With an appendix. Mt. Lebanon, N. Y. [C. Van Benthuysen & Sons, Printers, Albany,] 1869. 162 pp. 8°.

New York: American News Co. [1869.] 162 pp. 8°.

Glasgow: United Publishing Co., 1988. xvi, 272 pp. I port. With an appendix, new and enlarged ed. 12°.

Selections from Shaker literature and from Shaker lectures are added.

Capital and labor. What is in a name? Wail of a striker. Mt. Lebanon [1890?]. 11 pp.

24°.

8°.

Christ. Mt. Lebanon [1890?].

Reprinted from Berkshire County Eagle.

1890.

Broadside.

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24°.

Good bread. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890?] Broadside. 24°.

"A great white throne." Chatham, N. Y.: Courier Printing and Pub. House, 1869. 8 pp. 24°. Title from cover.

Liberalism, spiritualism, and Shakerism. An address. [Mt. Lebanon, N. Y., 1890?] 8 pp. 16°.

Liberty of conscience. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890.] 4 pp. 24°.

The new earth. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890?] Broadside. 8°.

New England witchcraft and spiritualism. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890?] 8 pp. 24°.

Nobodies. [Mt. Lebanon, 1870?] Broadside. 12°.

Obituary. Rufus Crossman. [With:] Why am I a Christian? By Walter Shepherd. Mt. Lebanon, 1891. I p.l., 5 pp. 24°.

Original ideas. [Mt. Lebanon, 1890?]

4 pp. 16°.

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