1To George Washington from Major General John Armstrong, 19 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
Spring House tavern was on the Ridge Road in present-day Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pa., about sixteen miles from Philadelphia. Albrick Bird owned the house in 1773....operated a ferry on the Schuylkill River at his plantation in Providence Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pa., where the post road that ran through Germantown, Plymouth, Norrington, and Providence crossed...
2To George Washington from Major General John Armstrong, 26 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
Edward Bartholomew (1736–1802), who previously had owned the Sign of the Buffalo Tavern near Montgomeryville, Pa., operated tanneries in present-day Montgomery County, Pa., and after 1779 in Philadelphia. GW sent troops on 24 Jan. 1778 to secure leather in the vats at Germantown, nearly resulting in an engagement with British patrols (see