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Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
Bristol, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
Harlem Heights (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
Flatbush, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
Alexander Graydon (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
1775 AD (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
April 10th, 1752 AD (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
1778 AD (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
1818 AD (search for this): entry graydon-alexander
Graydon, Alexander 1752-1818 Author; born in Bristol, Pa., April 10, 1752; studied law; entered the Continental army in 1775; was captured in the engagement on Harlem Heights and imprisoned in New York, and later in Flatbush; was paroled and in 1778 exchanged. He was the author of Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years, with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character, and spirit of that eventful period. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1818.
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