Route  of  Second  Penn'a,  November  25,  1778:

Doct.  Hambleton,   15

Peekskill 15

King's  Ferry 4

Rohargate 10

Paramus 12

Aquaknock  B 14

Newark,    9

Springfield 9

Middlebrooke 19


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776  CONTINENTAL  LINE.
From  the  journal  of  Capt.  Joseph  McClellan,  of  the  Second
Penn'a,  we  have  the  following  information  relative  to  the  regi-
ment under  the  new  arrangement,  January  1,  1781:

"Feb.  11,  [1781],  Orders  by  Col.  Stewart  for  Capt.  Jos.  Mc-
Clellan to  March  on  Tuesday  next,  with  the  first  part  of  the
2nd  Regiment,  to  the  Yellow  Springs.  [On  Pickering  creek,
in  West  Pikeland  township,  Chester  county,  now  known  as
Chester  Springs.]

"Feb.  13.  Marched  from  Philadelphia  at  1  p.  m.,  with  Capt.
Walker,  Lieut.  Pierce,  Lieut.  Moore,  and  Dr.  Harris,  and  37
non-commissioned  officers  and  privates.  Halted  at  the  Black
Horse.
"Feb.  14.  Breakfasted  at  the  Sorrel  Horse,  and  marched  from
thence  to  the  White  Horse.
"Feb.  15.  Marched  from  the  White  Horse  at  8  o'clock  a.  m..
and  arrived  at  the  Yellow  Springs  at  11.  Found  good  quar-
ters for  the  men,  and  everything  agreeable.
"Feb.  21.  Col.  Stewart  and  Major  Hamilton  arrived  at  the
Yellow  Springs.
"Feb.  24.  Took  up  a  deserter,  John  Haslan,  and  delivered
/him  to  Lieut.  Andrew  Willson,  who  carried  him  to  the  Yellow
Springs.
"March  3.  Came  to  Yellow  Springs,  and  brought  Robert  Han-
nah, a  soldier  for  my  father's  class.
"March  5.  Went  to  Squire  Moore's  with  Robert  Hannah.
Got  him  enlisted  for  James  McClellan's  class  in  Chester  county.
"March  6.  Wrote  Colonel  North  the  state  of  the  regiment  and
the  men's  enlistments.
"March  8.  5th  and  9th  Penn'a  to  attend  at  Reading  from  23
March  to  27  to  settle  their  depreciation  with  the  Auditors.
"March  10.  Esq.  Moore  came  to  Yellow  Springs,  and  paid  the
men  their  second  Bounty.
