The Cow Chase: Bull’s Ferry Blockhouse

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The Red Mill Museum Village is pleased to announce that it will be offering its popular Revolutionary War lectures series through the winter and into the spring. Since 1999 the series has focused on military topics as they related to the Revolutionary War and its impact on the state of New Jersey and Hunterdon County. Speakers have included a variety of scholars, authors, re-enactors, teachers and historians.

The 2012 series is titled “A Community Divided-Patriot, Loyalist, Pacifist” and will focus on issues relating to the political choices Hunterdon County residents were forced to make and the consequences which followed these decisions. The lectures will take place at 8:00 p.m. and be held at the Clinton Community Center located on Halstead Street in Clinton, New Jersey. Due to the popularity of this lecture series, pre-registration is highly recommended. The registration fee for each lecture is $5/members and $6/nonmembers.

The Cow Chase: Anthony Wayne and the Attack on the Bull’s Ferry Blockhouse
Presented By Todd Braisted
May 1, 2012
8pm

In July of 1780, a group of 70 Loyalists, supported by four artillery pieces, successfully fended off Brigadier General Anthony Wayne and two brigades of Pennsylvania militia in an attempt to destroy the fortified blockhouse located approximately four miles north of Hoboken, in Bull’s Ferry, New Jersey. The Patriots lost 18 men and 46 were wounded in the unsuccessful assault. Todd Braisted, a researcher of the Loyalist Military, author and lecturer, will discuss the attack on the Bull’s Ferry Blockhouse and how the Loyalists were able to fend off Wayne and his militia.