Valley Forge Encampment



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Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1776/12/31 Robert Morris prays all night at a Watch Night service that God will open up the hearts of the people to furnish money needed to pay General Washington's troops at Valley Forge and that the Army might be saved. St George's Methodist Church, Philly, Philadelphia, PA
1777/00/00 Patriots spend the brutal winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge. Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania
1777/00/00 Headquarters for Col William Bradford and General Charles Lee David Harvard House, Chesterbrook
1777/12/00 General Washington rents Isaac Potts House as his headquarters at Valley Forge. Washington, paying 100 Pennsylvania pounds per month, stays here until June 1778. Washington's Headquarters, Valley Forge National Historical Park
1777/12/00 Dearborn Jewett, still a lad, joins General Henry Dearborn, a relative,at the Patriot encampment at Valley Forge. Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania
1777/12/00 Brigadier General Louis Duportail headquartered in the John Harvard House (probably above the original kitchen, rear of building) during the winter 1777-1778. Cressbrook Farm, Chesterbrook
1777/12/00 General Horatio Gates sends lieutenant colonel Henry Dearborn to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to winter with the Continental Army. Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania
1779/04/00 Colonel William Hemsley "of Old Wye Mill" receives an order for ten thousand pounds sterling with which he is to send wheat ground at the Wye Mill to the continental troops at Valley Forge. Wye Mill, Wye Mills

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