At the northwest corner of Mount Kemble Avenue (U. S. Route 202) and the
Tempe Wick Road is the site of Kemble Manor, built about 1765 as a
residence for the Honorable Peter Kemble, one of the wealthiest and most
influential men in the late colonial period of New Jersey history. Here
were the quarters of Brig. Gen. William Smallwood, of the Maryland Line,
in 1779-80; and of Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne, of the Pennsylvania Line,
in 1780-81. From “Mount Kemble,” early on the morning of January 2,
1781, Wayne wrote a hurried letter to Washington describing the
Pennsylvania Mutiny, which had taken place but a few hours before (pp.
27-28). In the nineteenth century the Kemble House was moved some
distance north of its original location. It no longer bears much
resemblance to the structure of Revolutionary War times.