{"id":40056,"date":"2026-07-04T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40056"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:03:31","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40056","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/515014298_10163908285028109_1839070532408487202_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40057 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/515014298_10163908285028109_1839070532408487202_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/515014298_10163908285028109_1839070532408487202_n.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/515014298_10163908285028109_1839070532408487202_n-141x300.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">Several of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution, including three sets of fathers and sons, but I know the most about Elijah Wadleigh, my 4th great-grandfather (1757-1800). I have a copy of his diary in which he describes the day to day events of his involvement in the war. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/514344082_10163908285033109_1986876963979373457_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40058 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/514344082_10163908285033109_1986876963979373457_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/514344082_10163908285033109_1986876963979373457_n.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/514344082_10163908285033109_1986876963979373457_n-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">He enlisted in the 1st company of the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment, and later served in the 9th and 5th companies. He was part of the Sullivan Expedition in the Finger Lakes area of New York, the Burgoyne Campaign, the fall of Fort Ticonderoga, and the Battle of Saratoga. His original diary is at Cornell University. He spent the rest of his life in New Hampshire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution, including three sets of fathers and sons, but I know the most about Elijah Wadleigh, my 4th great-grandfather (1757-1800). I have a copy of his diary in which he describes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=40056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40059,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions\/40059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}