P041 - Plan of the area of Mount Holly

Plan von der Gegend von Montholly
P041 - Plan of the area of Mount Holly
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    Map of the area around Mount Holly, New Jersey. Published in a 1979 English language translation of the diary of a Hessian officer Ewald, Johann von. Diary of the American War : a Hessian Journal / translated and edited by Joseph P. Tustin. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1979, p. 125 from a 1791 transcription of notes and sketches found in the original diary (Tagebuch von dem Amerikanischen Kriege). The original map, only one of three contemporary views of Valley Forge known to exist, includes the page number on which it occurs in the 1791 transcription.
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    Just north of Mount Holly at the junction of the Slabtown (Jacksonville) road, the road to Burlington, and Woodpecker Lane, is the old Friends Meeting House, which was situated at the base of the mount where the so-called Battle of Mount Holly occurred on December 23, 1776.  Ewald reconnoitered the area across the North Branch of Ankokes (Rancocas) Creek to the Long Bridge (now Hainesport), which is on the South West Branch of the same creek.  In the lower right of the plan is New Mills (now Pemberton), where Ewald captured Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Reynolds and two captains early on Christmas morning.

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    1791
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    Source: Ewald, Johann von. Tagebuch von dem amerikanischen kriege. 1791. This is a ms. transcription of Ewald's notes.

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