Morristown
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Morristown, ENCAMPMENT
AT. After the battle at
Princeton, June 3, 1777,
George Washington led
his wearied troops to Morristown, New Jersey, and placed them in
winter encampment. There he issued a proclamation requiring the
inhabitants who had taken British protection to abandon their
allegiance to the King or go within the British lines. Hundreds
joined his standard in consequence. From that encampment he sent out
armed parties, who confined the British in New Jersey to three
points on the seashore of the State, and the commonwealth was pretty
thoroughly purged of Toryism before the spring. The ranks of his
army were rapidly filled by volunteers; and when the campaign opened
in June, his force, which numbered about 8,000 when he left
headquarters at Morristown in May, had swelled to 14,000. He had
maintained through the winter and spring a line of cantonments from
the Delaware River to the Hudson Highlands. Washington and his army
again encamped at Morristown in the winter of 1770-80. In 1777 his
headquarters were at Freeman's Tavern; in 1780 he occupied as such
the fine mansion in the suburbs of the village belonging to the
widow Ford. The building was purchased in the early 1900's for the
purpose of preserving it, by a patriotic association, which has
gathered within it a large and interesting collection of
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