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Box vii, Packet 14-9
Ninth Day's March: from Break Neck to Newtown. 28-30 June - 1 July 1781. The four divisions arrived successively at the Newtown camp on 28, 29, 30, June, and 1 July 1781. The first three each halted here an extra day, but the fourth (including the Saintonge Regiment) made no extra day's halt. From here on the army marched by brigades of two divisions each. The First Brigade (including the Bourbonnais and Deux-Ponts regiments) left Newtown during the night of 30 June-1 July; the Second Brigade (including the Soissonnais and Saintonge regiments) left on 2 July. "Woodbury" here designates, not the present town of Woodbury, which is farther north, but a part of Southbury, which was separately incorporated from Woodbury only in 1787. The "Rivière de Stratford" is now called the Housatonic; the crossing shown here is near the site of the present Shepaug Dam.