Diary extracts, 1760-1800; 1916.

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Diary extracts, 1760-1800; 1916.

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Vail kept a pocket memorandum book in which he briefly recorded farm transactions with his neighbors and his social and farming activities. In 1760 he also entered records of men in his company while serving under Captain Israel Horton, Colonel Woodhull, and General Amherst; he listed those soldiers who died. This collection consists of extracts from Thomas Vail's original diary (mostly in 1769) taken by Thomas's great-grandson, Henry Hobart Vail (1839-1925), who annotated the diary and provided further information in 1916. There is also a copy of line-a-day entries taken from an almanac diary for the year 1779 which was kept by an unidentified writer who apparently was an officer or agent of the government, stationed in Danbury, Connecticut and Fishkill, New York.

1 v. (22 leaves) ; octavo.

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Vail, Henry Hobart, 1839-1925

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Jerimiah Vail was born about 1618 in the west of England, emigrated to New England in 1639 and first located in Salem. Massachusetts. Moved to Southold, Long Island and died there in 1687. From the description of Vail genealogy typescript / by Henry H. Vail. 1902. (Scranton Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48215889 ...

Vail, Thomas, 1734-1806.

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Lieutenant Thomas Vail (1734-1806) served in the French and Indian War in 1760 and in 1762 was a farmer in Oyster Ponds, Long Island, N.Y. In 1769, he moved with his wife and six children to Lebanon, Conn., where he farmed, but in 1773 Vail purchased land and removed to Pomfret, Vt. He was called out for service in Vermont three times during the Revolution. From the description of Diary extracts, 1760-1800; 1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207176419 ...