Parallel to the north side of the Tempe Wick Road, about 300 feet
southeast of where it joins the Jockey Hollow Road, is the campsite
occupied in 1779-80 by Hand’s Brigade, named for its commanding officer,
Brig. Gen. Edward Hand. In this brigade were the 1st and 2d Canadian and
the 4th and New 11th Pennsylvania Regiments, with a combined total
enlistment, in December 1779, of 1,033 men. The official uniform of the
Pennsylvania regiments was blue, faced with red; the buttons and
linings, white. How all the Canadians were clothed is unknown, but some
of them probably wore brown coats, faced with red, and white waistcoats
and breeches.
This identical campsite was occupied by part of the Pennsylvania Line
early in the winter of 1780-81, and from about February 7 to July 8,
1781, by the New Jersey Brigade of the Continental Army. Here occurred
the great mutiny of the Pennsylvanians on New Year’s Night 1781
(pp. 27-28).
On the Hand’s Brigade campsite may be seen a reconstruction, by the
National Park Service, of the type of log hut used by private soldiers
of the Continental Army in 1779-80 (p. 16).