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Notes - In Connecticut (At “A. Ressequie’s Hotel”)
Notes - In Connecticut (At “A. Ressequie’s Hotel”)
John M. McDonald interview — 1846-09-02; 1846-09-03
From the Westchester County Historical Society catalog:
While staying at “A. Ressequie’s Hotel” (the hotel of Abijah Resseguie, now the Keeler Hotel Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut), John Macdonald records the location of the British encampment at Ridgefield during Tryon’s Raid of April 1777.
While staying at “A. Ressequie’s Hotel” (the hotel of Abijah Resseguie, now the Keeler Hotel Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut), John Macdonald records the location of the British encampment at Ridgefield during Tryon’s Raid of April 1777.
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Transcription
- Hufeland Index Page 475 -
Sept. 2.-3. A. Resseguie’s Hotel. The British encamped near [Danbury] a half or three quarters of a mile south of the Congregational Church at Ridgefield on the east side of the road to Norwalk.
Transcription from Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews.
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