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Mantua Creek
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What:
[Can you provide major details for any of the following? These will likely be subdivided into 1) Mantua Creek, 2) Little Mantua Creek, 3) Mantua and perhaps others]
- 2 Oct 1777, Mantua, Force under Gen. Silas Newcomb meets force under Col. Thomas
Stirling about 9 a.m. and engage in "pretty brisk fire."
- 20 Nov 1777, Mantua Creek, British and Americans skirmish at a ford in Mantua Creek five miles above bridge patriots had destroyed.
- 20-27? Nov 1777, Mantua, Gen. Charles Cornwallis burns barracks at Mantua Creek marching from Billingsport to Gloucester.
- 2 Feb 1778 Mantua Creek, New Jersey (D) West Jersey Volunteers
- 2 Feb 1778, Mantua, West Jersey Loyalists out of Philadelphia raid vicinity of Red Bank.
- 12 Mar 1778, Mantua, Gloucester militia and foraging troops under Col. Charles Mawhood (Br.) skirmish at Mantua Creek
- 16 Mar 1778, Mantua Creek, Col. Charles Mawhood's (Br.) Salem Road to Mantua Creek Bridge vs. Capt. Samuel Hugg (Am.) with artillery and militia.
Where:
39.7940026 -75.1721233 Mantua
39.8540022 -75.2310157 Mantua Creek (mouth)
Maps: [map notes]
- 39.8517799 -75.2171260 Mantua
- GNIS record for Mantua. Note mapping options. Clicking out a few times in Google map will show full length of creek.
- Confidence: 5 (for modern Mantua), 3 (for skirmishs at Mantua), 0 (for skirmishes along creek)
- 39.8540022 -75.2310157 Mantua Creek (mouth)
- GNIS record for Mantua Creek. Note mapping options. Clicking out a few times in Google map will show full length of creek.
- Confidence: 5 (for mouth), 3 (for skirmish at mouth of creek), 0 (for skirmishes along creek)
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- From Rutgers University, "Province of New Jersey", 1777, Library of Congress:
- RoyalProvincial.Com, "Index to West Jersey Volunteers History"
"West Jersey Volunteers, Skirmish at Mantua Creek"
At the mouth of Mantua creek, they fell in with a party of the enemy in ambuscade
"West Jersey Volunteers, Skirmish at Mantua Creek" (Second report)
- David C. Munn, "Battles and Skirmishes of the American Revolution in New Jersey"", map on last page. Also, Search here for copy&paste version.
October 2, 1777, Mantua, Force under Gen. Silas Newcomb meets force under Col. Thomas
Stirling about 9a.m. and engage in "pretty brisk fire." Smith, Delaware, 10.
November 5, 1777, Mantua Creek, Americans shell British ships from battery near mouth of Mantua Creek. Smith, Delaware, 28.
November 15, 1777, Mantua Creek, Second battery near mouth of Mantua Creek opens up on British ships in river. Pa. Arch., I, 6, 23.
November 20, 1777, Mantua Creek, British and Americans skirmish at a ford in Mantua Creek five miles above bridge patriots had destroyed. Stewart, Red Bank, 21.
November 1777, Mantua, Between November 20 and 27, Gen. Charles Cornwallis burns barracks at Mantua Creek marching from Billingsport to Gloucester. Stewart, Salem, 32
February 2, 1778, Mantua, West Jersey Loyalists out of Philadelphia raid vicinity of Red Bank. NJA 2, II, 35.
March 12, 1778, Mantua, Gloucester militia and foraging troops under Col. Charles Mawhood (Br.) skirmish at Mantua Creek. Sickler, Salem, 146.
March 16, 1778, Mantua Creek, Col. Charles Mawhood's (Br.) troops march up Salem Road to Mantua Creek Bridge, the only place they could cross. Meet Capt. Samuel Hugg (Am.) with artillery and others of our militia. Barber & Howe, 439.
Sources
- From Rutgers University, "Province of New Jersey", 1777, Library of Congress:
- RevWar75
- Nov 1777 listing
- Feb 1778 listing 2/2/1778 Mantua Creek. Insufficient data.
- Jun 1778 listing 6/19/1778 Mantua Creek, Haddonfield. Insufficient data.
- RoyalProvincial.Com. War Chronology, 1778:
02 Feb 1778 Mantua Creek, New Jersey (D) West Jersey Volunteers
19 Jun 1778 Mantua Creek/Haddonfield, New Jersey West Jersey Volunteers
- Map, Rutgers University, "Battles and Skirmishes of the American Revolution in New Jersey", actions shown for Mantua Creek:
5 Nov 1777
15 Nov 1777
20 Nov 1777
12 Mar 1778
16 Mar 1778
Actions shown for Mantua:
2 Oct 1777
Nov 1777
2 Feb 1778
Also found (pdf) as last page in David C. Munn, Battles and Skirmishes of the American Revolution in New Jersey
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Mantua Creek, Little Mantua Creek, ____________________, _________________
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