Stephen Moylan

But there's, so there's that side, there's the side of those who are involved, who are the very center.

But then there's also figures like Stephen Moylan from Cork, an Irish Catholic who becomes an assistant to George Washington in in the Continental Army.

So you have kind of, you have those, you have figures that are involved in a number of different things going on in the American colonies.

And Moylan may have been the first person to ever use the term United States of America.

Wow, he must have been pretty bad, end of quote.

Although General Washington, Secretary Stephen Moylan, expressed in a letter his exasperation with the carpenter's objection to work on Sabbath, Sleeper's Diary indicates that he did work on Sunday.

Wait a minute, did I say read that wrong? In a letter, an exasperation, the carpenter's objection to work on the Sabbath, Sleeper's diary indicates that he did work on Sunday with no apparent hesitation or hesitance.

Sleeper's journal overview shows less specific record of attendance at regular worship services than his peer Paul Lunt, perhaps indicating that he was less devout.

Today, listing orders came out for another year.

The soldiers who joined New England forces in the spring of 1775 enlisted for a term of months through December.

By October, General Washington's delegates from the Continental Congress and the leaders of New England colonies expected the war to continue into 1776 and began planning for the reorganization and continuation of the Continental Army.

Washington's general orders of October 22nd began a push for reenlistment of the current army, exhorting, quote, those brave men and true patriots who are resolved to continue to serve and defend their brethren, privileges, and property, are to consider themselves engaged to the last day of December 1776 unless sooner discharged by the honor of the Continental Congress." Tuesday, October 24, 1775.