{"id":945,"date":"2011-03-02T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:07:44","slug":"washingtons-headquarters-july-1777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/washingtons-headquarters-july-1777\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington’s Headquarters, July 1777"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Jonathan M. Hoppock
\n<\/em>Democrat-Advertiser, 11 October 1901<\/em><\/p>\n

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Headquarters Farm in 1901<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This mansion, originally erected by Luther Opdycke, a few years previous to the Revolution, and remodeled by its present owner, Mr. Joseph Carrell, was for a short time occupied by the Commander-in-Chief, General George Washington, as his headquarters in the month of July, 1777, this being the time a portion of his army was encamped on the farm upon which the buildings are situated.1<\/a><\/sup> A part of the army made a three days’ encampment at this place, the other portions encamping on the farms of H. M. Holcombe and Nathaniel Shepherd, near Sand Brook.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

On breaking camp at these points, the division on the Holcombe farm left the Township by way of the Trenton road, on their march to the defense of Philadelphia, striking the Delaware at Trenton; the division on the Shepherd farm went by way of the road leading from Flemington to Stockton, then known as Howell’s Ferry. This road at that time was known as the “old Indian trail, leading from the Raritan to the Delaware. The part of the army on the Carrell property passed by way of Mount Airy, from that place taking the old York road to Lambertville then called Coryell’s Ferry.3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Numerous incidents in reference to the army during its stop at this point are still kept in memory by tradition. This part of the State at that time was, of course, but thinly populated, but the people, almost to a man, were in hearty sympathy with the patriotic cause.4<\/a><\/sup> Numerous recruits were added to their numbers while remaining here. The citizens did all that lay in their power to relieve the sufferings of the soldiers, gratuitously furnishing food and clothing, and in many other ways administering to their wants.<\/p>\n

To us living at the present, what a satisfaction is given when memory reflects on this part of the history of our grand old country! Contributing as it did, as much, or more, in men and means, than any other section of the old Thirteen, of equal population and wealth, its aid to the patriotic cause was no mean factor in bringing to a successful termination the long and bloody struggle for American independence. The memory of the deeds of the sires of ’76 cannot be held in too great a veneration by their descendants living in 1901.<\/p>\n

Note: The photograph above was taken of the picture included with this article as it was published in the Democrat-Advertiser, original copies of which can be found at the Hunterdon County Historical Society. This explains its poor quality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jonathan M. Hoppock Democrat-Advertiser, 11 October 1901<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,5,59,227,255],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carrell-families","category-delaware-township","category-headquarters","category-jm-hoppock","category-opdycke-families","tag-the-revolution","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}