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