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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Logan, John Alexander 1826-1886 (search)
ground overlooking the camp of Darius at daylight. He will also find in the battle of Metaurus, where Nero, Lirius, and Porcius succeeded in taking Hasdrubal, the Carthagenian, marches made by these Romans were successfully made after night. Also his reading will tell him that, at the battle of Saratoga, Colonel Brooks after night turned Burgoyne's right, and Burgoyne had to escape by withdrawing his whole force. He will also find that the assault on and the capture of Stony Point, on July 15, 1779, was made at twelve o'clock at night by Anthony Wayne. He will find also that George Washington crossed the Delaware in small boats on the night of Dec. 25, 1776, when the ice was gorging, floating, and crushing everywhere, and on the 26th the surrender of Colonel Rolf was made. Would General Grant pretend to compare the march that Porter was required to make in the night-time with the crossing of the Delaware when the stream was gorged with ice? He will see also that on the night
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
f languishment, 17 May, 1782. 37. Gershom, s. of Gershom (14), m. Rebecca Crosby, 15 Mar. 1757. He o. c. Pct. ch. 4 Dec. 1757. Had Gershom, b. 6 Nov., bap. 4 Dec. 1757; Rebecca, b. 1, bap. 3 Aug. 1760, m. first Andrew Cutter (par. 45), 15 July, 1779, and second Wallis Rust, 29 Oct. 1797; Amos, b. 15, bap. 27 Feb. 1763, d. (unm. 1787); Hannah, b. 17, bap. 27 Mar. 1768, m. Benjamin Locke, 3 Dec. 1789; Rhoda, b. 12, bap. 15 July, 1770, d. (unm. 1794); Aaron, b. 4, bap. 7 June, 1772; SusanRand, 5 Feb. 1817; Ezra, bap. 23 Mar. 1794; Leander, bapt. 13 Dec. 1795; Alpheus, bap. 8 Apr. 1798; Maria, bap. 26 Jan. 1800. Nehemiah the father d. 3 May, 1828, a. 75. See Wyman, 268. 45. Andrew, s. of Nehemiah (16), m. Rebecca Cutter, 15 July, 1779, dau. of Gershom Cutter (par. 37). He was a member of Locke's company of Menotomy minute-men, 1775, and d. Charleston, S. C., in 1794. Had Rebecca, d. here 12 Sept. 1783; Rebecca; Cranston; Amos; Harriet, m. Daniel Burbeck, 29 Nov. 1807; And