Excerpt from The Magazine of American History With Notes and Queries, 1878, Vol. 2
News from Camp. Letters received by Cornelius Ten Broeck, of Rocky Hill, New Jersey, from his sons Cornelius and Peter, serving in the Continental Army, 1779 - 1780.
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