1[Diary entry: 22 July 1787] (Washington Papers)
: Spring Mill was an old grist mill on the east side of the Schuylkill River, about two miles below Conshohocken in Montgomery County, Pa. It was powered by the combined waters from several springs in a small area. The diary of Peter Legaux, a French immigrant who lived near Spring Mill, has the following entry for this date: “This day Gen...
2From George Washington to Brigadier General David Forman, 26 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
..., Pa., about twenty-five miles north of Philadelphia. Edward Bartholomew operated a tavern, which was known before the war as the Sign of the Buffalo, near Montgomeryville in present-day Montgomery County, Pa., about twenty-five miles northwest of Philadelphia at the intersection of the roads from Coryells Ferry to Lancaster and from Bethlehem to Philadelphia. Montgomery Baptist Meeting...
3[July 1787] (Washington Papers)
: Spring Mill was an old grist mill on the east side of the Schuylkill River, about two miles below Conshohocken in Montgomery County, Pa. It was powered by the combined waters from several springs in a small area. The diary of Peter Legaux, a French immigrant who lived near Spring Mill, has the following entry for this date: “This day Gen...
4From George Washington to Brigadier General David Forman, 27 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
North Wales was a village in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pa., about ten miles east of Pennypacker’s Mill and about three miles northeast of the Skippack Road.
5General Orders, 9 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
GW established his headquarters on 8 Oct. in Towamencin Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pa., at the farmhouse of Frederick Wambol (Wampole) about a mile northwest of present-day Kulpsville, and he remained there until 15 Oct. when Wambol signed a receipt acknowledging payment of £28.5.4 for various provisions...
6General Orders, 30 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Gwynedd Quaker meetinghouse, dating from 1712, was located in central Gwynedd Township in present-day Montgomery County, Pa., about twenty miles northwest of Philadelphia and a mile west of the village of North Wales. A return of 24 Nov. signed by William Shippen, Jr., indicates that there were 159 sick and recovering soldiers at...
7From George Washington to Major General Thomas Mifflin or an Assistant Quartermaster, 17 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
Perkiomen Township is in present-day Montgomery County, Pa., about eight miles northwest of Swede’s Ford. Perkiomen Creek enters the Schuylkill River from the north a short distance above Valley Forge.
8[Diary entry: 13 May 1787] (Washington Papers)
Col. Samuel Miles (1739–1805), of Montgomery County, Pa., who had served in the Braddock expedition, was commissioned colonel of the state’s rifle regiment in 1776 and later served as auditor, quartermaster, and brigadier general of state forces. In 1790 he was elected mayor of...
9[Diary entry: 21 January 1790] (Washington Papers)
Daniel Hiester (1747–1804), a Montgomery County, Pa., businessman, served in the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolution and as a member of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, 1784–86. Hiester served as congressman from Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1796, when he moved to Hagerstown...
10January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Daniel Hiester (1747–1804), a Montgomery County, Pa., businessman, served in the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolution and as a member of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, 1784–86. Hiester served as congressman from Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1796, when he moved to Hagerstown...
11From George Washington to Brigadier General Alexander McDougall, 24 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
...to the south. At Church Hill the Skippack Road joins the Bethlehem Road and turns south to join the Reading Road at Chestnut Hill. Gabriel Shuler, who was a tax collector for Lower Salford Township in what is now Montgomery County, Pa., lived about a mile west of Skippack Creek on
12General Orders, 19 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
, 1). Dr. Robert Shannon (d. 1795), a physician who lived near Norrington (now Norristown in Montgomery County, Pa.), had been arrested in December 1777 under suspicion of having provided aid to the enemy, but by this time he apparently had been cleared of wrongdoing.
13From George Washington to Brigadier General Henry Knox, 8 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
Andrew Porter (1743–1813) of Montgomery County, Pa., was commissioned captain of a company of marines in June 1776 and became a captain in the 2d Continental
14[May 1787] (Washington Papers)
Col. Samuel Miles (1739–1805), of Montgomery County, Pa., who had served in the Braddock expedition, was commissioned colonel of the state’s rifle regiment in 1776 and later served as auditor, quartermaster, and brigadier general of state forces. In 1790 he was elected mayor of...