Wawarsing, New York
Wawarsing, New York
WAWARSING, NEW YORK. 22 August 1781. About four hundred Tories and Indians under Captain William Caldwell appeared in Ulster County and destroyed isolated settlements before the militia, under Colonel Albert Pawling, turned out and drove the raiders off with considerable losses. The principal action took place at Wawarsing, on the southern edge of the Catskills about twenty miles west of the Hudson.
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