NO. 16. NEW JERSEY BRIGADE CAMP, 1781-82.

About 1,200 feet southwest of the point where the Tempe Wick and Jockey

Hollow Roads meet is the traditional campsite occupied in 1781-82 by the

New Jersey Brigade under Brig. Gen. Elias Dayton (p. 29). In this

brigade at that time were the 1st and 2d New Jersey Regiments, with a

combined total enlistment, in April 1782, of around 700 men. The

official uniform of these troops was blue, faced with buff; the buttons

and linings, white.

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