Morristown National Historical Park, a Military Capital of the American RevolutionWeig, Melvin J.
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Morristown National Historical Park, a Military Capital of the American Revolution
Weig, Melvin J.
Morristown National Historical Park (N.J.); New Jersey -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
N. Y.
Newburgh
▲◍Fishkill
▲New Windsor
▲Fort Constitution
◍West Point
◍Continental Village
▲Peekskill
Galloway’s in the Clove
▲Fort Montgomery
▲King’s Ferry
◍Verplanck’s Point
◍Stony Point
Haverstraw
◍Kakiat
HARLEM HEIGHTS II
WHITE PLAINS III
Valentine’s Hill
King’s Bridge
Fort Lee
NEW YORK
_BRITISH HDQRS._
Brooklyn
LONG ISLAND I
CONN.
N. J.
◍Ringwood Iron Works
▲Ramapo
Charlottenburg Iron Works
▲◍Paramus
▲Pompton
Hibernia Furnace
Mt. Hope Furnace
◍Rockaway
Boonton
▲Succasunna Plains
◍Crane’s Mills
MORRISTOWN
_AMERICAN HDQRS._
Bottle Hill
▲Chatham
Easton
◍SPRINGFIELD VI & VII
◍Newark
Vealtown
Connecticut Farms
Baskingridge
▲Scotch Plains
◍Pluckemin
▲◍Elizabethtown
▲◍Westfield
◍Rahway
▲Raritan
▲Quibbletown
▲Woodbridge
▲Middlebrook
▲Bound Brook
◍Perth Amboy
▲Somerset Court House
◍New Brunswick
Coryell’s Ferry
▲◍PRINCETON V
▲◍TRENTON IV
▲◍Allentown
Bordentown
Cooper’s Ferry
PA.
McKonkey’s Ferry
Newtown
▲Bristol
◍Burlington
▲◍PHILADELPHIA
▲AMERICAN OUTPOSTS IN 1777
◍AMERICAN OUTPOSTS IN 1779-80
OTHER IMPORTANT LOCALITIES
REVOLUTIONARY WAR ROADS
MAJOR BATTLES
I LONG ISLAND—AUGUST 27, 1776
II HARLEM HEIGHTS—SEPTEMBER 16, 1776
III WHITE PLAINS—OCTOBER 23, 1776
IV TRENTON—DECEMBER 25, 1776
V PRINCETON—JANUARY 5, 1777
VI & VII SPRINGFIELD—JUNE 7 & 23, 1780
_DESIGNED BY M. J. WEIG_ · _DRAWN BY V. B. CRAIG_ ·
WINTER QUARTERS FOR OFFICERS AND MEN.
Local tradition has it that upon arriving in Morristown, on January 6,
Washington went to the Arnold Tavern, and that his headquarters remained
there all through the 1777 encampment period. Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene
lodged for a time “at Mr. Hoffman’s,—a very good-natured, doubtful
gentleman.” Captain Rodney and his men were quartered at Colonel Ford’s
“elegant” house until about mid-January, when they left for Delaware and
home. Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne, on rejoining Washington in the spring of
1777, is said to have stayed at the homestead of Deacon Ephraim Sayre,
in Bottle Hill. It has been stated that other officers, and a large
number of private soldiers as well, were given shelter in Morristown or
nearby villages by the Ely, Smith, Beach, Tuttle, Richards, Kitchell,
and Thompson families.
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