Continental Village

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Continental Village

CONTINENTAL VILLAGE. 9 October 1777. About three miles north of Peekskill, New York, and at the main entrance to the Highlands on the east bank of the Hudson, the rebels in 1777 constructed a camp for two thousand men and established a supply center. On 9 October 1777 Governor Tryon with Emerick's chasseurs, other German troops, and a three-pounder routed the small guard detachment commanded by a Major Campbell and destroyed the settlement. A few days later General S. H. Parsons marched south from Fishkill with two thousand men and occupied Peekskill.

Currency emissions by year
YearContinentalStates
SOURCE: Michener, Backing Theories, p. 690
1775$6,000,000$4,739,667
1776$18,947,220$13,327,523
1777$13,000,000$9,572,500
1778$63,500,300$9,118,333
1779$140,052,480$17,613,400
17800$66,813,093
17810$123,376,667
17820$172,400
17830$1,633,357
Total$241,500,000$246,366,940

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