Thursday, October 8, 2026

Journal of Private Lemuel Lyon, Thursday, June 22, 1758

Had orders to march to the half moon1 and Captain Leneses company to & at 7 oclk we marched and arivd at Tess-ceune2 and Lodged their at Landard Abraham Grotes.
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1 Near Waterford, on the west side of the Hudson river, thirteen miles north from Albany.

2 Niskayuna, a short distance from Waterford, and remarkable as a settlement of Shaking Quakers.

SOURCE: Abraham Tomlinson, Editor, The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, p. 15

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