{"id":974,"date":"2011-03-21T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:07:44","slug":"washingtons-headquarters-raritan-township-1777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/washingtons-headquarters-raritan-township-1777\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington’s Headquarters, Raritan Township, 1777"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Jonathan M. Hoppock<\/em><\/p>\n

Democrat-Advertiser, 26 September 1901<\/em><\/p>\n

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The above view of this old mansion now standing on the farm of Manning Dilts in Raritan Township, at the top of what is known as Buchanan’s or Dilley’s Hill, built in 1725, making it one hundred and seventy-six years old, was recently photographed by Mr. J. C. Sunderlin of Flemington.1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 From this elevation the eye has a view of the Raritan valley as far east as Bound Brook. Also from this point a view can be had of the Sourland Mountain range from the Delaware on the west, extending through the counties of Hunterdon and Somerset, presenting to the view a greater scope of country than can probably be seen from any other point in the county.<\/p>\n

As to its history your correspondent has it from the lips of his grandfather that he, when a boy of eight or nine years of age, went in company with his father to see General Washington and his staff who made it his headquarters for a short time during the last of July, in the year 1777.2<\/a><\/sup> This was the time when Washington by slow marches was passing with his army through New Jersey, watching the movements of Lord Howe at New York, not knowing whether he would march his army north and join Burgoyne or sail to attack Philadelphia.3<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 The American army was moving in three divisions toward the Delaware, the northern one encamping for three days at the foot of the hill before mentioned in three different containments, one on the place now owned by Nathaniel Shepherd, one on the farm of Hiram M. Holcombe near Sand Brook, and the other on the farm of Joseph Carrell at\u00a0 Headquarters, now Grover.4<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note: This property was dealt with extensively in my series of articles on Buchanan’s Tavern. Click on the topic in the right-hand column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jonathan M. Hoppock Democrat-Advertiser, 26 September 1901 The above view of this old mansion now standing on the farm of Manning Dilts in Raritan Township, at the top of what is known as Buchanan’s or Dilley’s Hill, built in 1725, making it one hundred and seventy-six years old, was recently photographed by Mr. J. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,5,4,227,255],"tags":[82,28],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amwell-township","category-delaware-township","category-hunterdon-county","category-jm-hoppock","category-opdycke-families","tag-taverns","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\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15111,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/15111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}