Showing posts with label Mohawk River. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 8, 2026

Journal of Private Lemuel Lyon, Friday, June 23, 1758

Marched in the rain and very gresy traviling it was and we Arivd at Teburth and from thence to the place cald Lowdins Ferry1 to Landard Fungdors and from thence to the half moon & Lodged their.
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1 On the Mohawk, about five miles above Cohoes Falls. It was the chief crossing-place for troops on their way north from Albany. There the right wing of the American army, under Arnold, was encamped, while General Schuyler was casting up entrenchments at Cohoes Falls, a few weeks before the Saratoga battles, in 1777.

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