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By Karen L. Hayden Religious freedom was one of the reasons people left Europe for the New World. It was no accident that each colony was formed around groups of people sharing their beliefs. By the time of the War for Independence, religion was still VERY important. Many speeches were made saying that God would…
By John U. Rees — 2ndNJ, Helm’s Company This collection of miscellaneous accounts was prompted by the discovery of a sutler’s license issued in 1782. While hardly exhaustive, the information shows the uneasy, but necessary, relationship which commanders had with these little-known followers of the army. For an in-depth discussion of sutlers and their role…
By Clarissa F. Dillon, Ph.D. The colonial housewife often functioned as doctor, nurse, and apothecary. There are some eighteenth-century plants which can be used by re-enactrors for minor mishaps. First, you MUST learn to identify weeds and wild plants. There are a number of books with excellent illustrations: Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny, A Field…
By Eric Chetwynd — 2ndMass. Regt. The following article is based primarily on Baron v. Steuben’s Blue Book, but also references similar instructions in both Cuthbertson’s A System for the Complete Interior Management and Oeconomy of a Battalion of Infantryand Sime’s The Military Medley. As original guards were on duty for 24 hours, I would suggest a…
By Mitch Lee – 3rdNY, DeWitt’s Co. During the American Revolution, the lake was a headwater stream for the Mohawk River and did not exist as a lake until 1908, when the state began to build a reservoir to provide water to the Barge Canal and to avoid spring flooding in the city of Rome.…