FITHIAN, PHILIP VICKERS

FITHIAN, PHILIP VICKERS. [1776] Presbyterian chaplain to the Continental Army. He witnessed and wrote a vivid account of the rout of Washington’s forces from New York. Published as Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal, 1775–1776, written on the Virginia-Pennsylvania frontier and in the army around New York, edited by Robert Greenhalgh Albion and Leonidas Dodson. Vol. 2. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1934. Original volumes are in the Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.