Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

GW’s expenses for this date included 7s. 6d. “To cash paid boy a day or two ago from bringing Strawberries from Mr Mitchel—Potts Grove” (household account book, 11 April 1776–21 Nov. 1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5, vol. 28).

Lt. Col. Henry Dearborn of the 3d New Hampshire Regiment wrote in his diary on this date that “we hear that the Enimy are Crossing the River over into the Jerseys” (Dearborn, Journals description begins Lloyd A. Brown and Howard H. Peckham, eds. Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775–1783. 1939. Reprint. New York, 1971. description ends , 123). In fact, a portion of Clinton’s army, consisting of “the 7th, 26th, 46th, 55th and 63rd [regiments] with Colonels Clifton’s and Allen’s battalions of provincials, and Captain Hovendon’s troop of provincial dragoons” under Brig. Gen. Alexander Leslie, was already across the Delaware, guarding “the chief part of the artillery stores, provisions, and baggage” in the area between Cooper’s Ferry and Haddonfield, New Jersey. At 4:00 a.m. on 17 June, Lieutenant General Knyphausen crossed the Delaware from Philadelphia to New Jersey with the “Queen’s rangers, provincials, Jägers mounted and dismounted, Hessian Grenadiers, Two battalions New Jersey Volunteers[,] Maryland Volunteers[,] Volunteers of Ireland[, and] Caledonian Volunteers” to join Leslie; and “At 6 o’clock in the evening the remainder of the troops [in Philadelphia] were put under arms, and marched to the rear of the several redoubts, where they lay upon their arms all night” (Whinyates, Services of Francis Downman description begins F. A. Whinyates, ed. The Services of Lieut.-Colonel Francis Downman, R.A., in France, North America, and the West Indies, between the Years 1758 and 1784. Woolwich, England, 1898. description ends , 64).