Marched into the
Paterroon Lands1 to Landard Lovejoys & went to diner had a hard
shower then marched into Cantihook2 to one Hayer Carns the Stone
house & lodged their & from thence to Cantihook Town to one Bushes and
slept their.
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1 Livingston's manor, in Columbia county. The
estates of Livingston, Van Rensselaer, and others, who received grants of land
from government, on certain conditions, in order to encourage immigration and
agriculture, were called Patroon Lands, and the proprietors were entitled
Patroons, or patrons.
2 Kinderhook.
SOURCE: Abraham
Tomlinson, Editor, The Military Journals
of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, p. 13