This Day in History: July 29

Henry Dearborn, Lieutenant Colonel, 3rd NH, "we are inform'd that a party of Savages with some british troops have taken a small fort on the west branch of the Susquehannah near Sunsbury have plunder'd the Inhabitants of their cattle, horses, & every other thing they could carry off and another party has been down to a place call'd the Minnisinks on the deleware river and have had an action with a party of our Millitia in which the Millitia were rather worsted & and lost a number of men but the Millitia being reinfors'd the enimy were oblig'd to retreet we likewise are inform'd that Genl Clinton has moov'd up from New York & taken possession of Kings ferry again with his main body." [More]

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