Views: 8,009 Be part of the Widow White’s Tavern limited edition run and celebrate Sacking of General Lee Day – December 13, 2026. . Mr Local History is proud to announce the release of the 7th in the collectible series,… Read More »Widow White’s Tavern Historic Village Keepsake Honors Sacking General Lee Day
Views: 744 Preface to James Wilkinson’s Account of General Charles Lee’s Capture The following account comes from General James Wilkinson’s Memoirs of My Own Times, published in 1816, and offers a remarkable first-person description of the events surrounding the capture… Read More »Eyewitness Account of the 1776 Capture of General Charles Lee at Widow White’s Tavern
Views: 1,912 The “Ten Crucial Days” of the American Revolution began with Washington’s crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night, 1776. They continued through the victories at Trenton, the Battle of the Assunpink, and Princeton on January 3, 1777. In… Read More »Time To Honor 1776 March Across Jersey to Washington’s Delaware Christmas Crossing
Views: 1,099 The 1766 Morgan–Hills Map of Somerset County Unlike most eighteenth-century maps that depict only towns and transportation routes, the Morgan–Hills map provides a remarkable snapshot of the county’s agricultural landscape by assigning numbered tracts to individual owners in… Read More »1766 Somerset County, New Jersey Map Tells So Many Stories
Views: 5,650A fun community-driven Mr. Local History post where we need history sleuths who’ve read all those old documents and maps to help build the largest list of New Jersey Revolutionary War-era taverns. Did you know…..Continental Army officers often used… Read More »New Jersey Taverns of the Revolutionary War
Views: 2,184In December 1776, the American rebellion was close to collapse. The Continental Army was shrinking as enlistments expired and morale sank to its lowest point of the war. British forces held New York and expected the uprising to fade… Read More »What Might Have Happened if General Lee Wasn’t Captured in Basking Ridge
Views: 6,453December 13, 1776, stands as the most electrifying day in Basking Ridge’s history, when the sleepy colonial crossroads suddenly became the center of the Revolution. At dawn, the infamous capture of General Charles Lee sent shockwaves through Washington’s struggling… Read More »HEAR the Latest Discoveries: December 14, 2026 – General Charles Lee’s Capture at Widow White’s Tavern in Basking Ridge & Washington’s Delaware Crossing Impact
Views: 3,266 Did you know that December 13, 1776, stands as the most electrifying day in Basking Ridge & Bernardsville’s history, when the sleepy New Jersey colonial crossroads suddenly became the center of the Revolution? At dawn on that day,… Read More »Widow White’s Tavern / General Lee Series – Basking Ridge Historical Moments
Views: 12,923 The world might have looked different if it weren’t for today’s event.December 13, 177,6 in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Basking Ridge, New Jersey’s most famous incident, occurred on December 13, 1776, at about noon. General Charles Lee (1731-1782)… Read More »December 13, 1776 – Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Altered American History
Views: 19,489New Jersey is known as the “Cockpit of the American Revolution” for a reason – because it was. More battles, more encampments, more strategies took place in New Jersey than in any other colony of the original thirteen. Bookmark… Read More »New Jersey Rev War Series Mr. Local History Project
Views: 3,659This is a story about a widow, a General, and a War for Independence. For over a decade, I’ve been researching the story behind the 1776 capture of one of General Washington’s top generals, but I never really focused… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Widow White’s Tavern and Mary Jarvis Whitaker Brown White
Views: 31,826Basking Ridge, New Jersey’s Most Famous Incident Yes, this historic event made the series, so look for it. The episode covering that timeframe is Episode 3: “The Times That Try Men’s Souls (July 1776 – January 1777)” about 1… Read More »Widow White’s Tavern in Basking Ridge was More Than a Grog Stop
Views: 16,379“Holly cow, Basking Ridge has so many great historic moments, so as the former Township Historian, I have to tell everyone about what I think are the three greatest historical moments in Basking Ridge history. The question now is….do… Read More »Three Historic Moments That Changed Basking Ridge & America
Views: 15,590 “EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET TO KNOW MORE ABOUT JOHN MORTON, THE REBEL BANKER.” John Morton was a Colonel in the Continental Army. Still, he relinquished his commission in 1761 to become a highly successful merchant, specializing in the… Read More »John Morton – General Washington’s Rebel Banker Stashed in Basking Ridge
Views: 29,796Below are my original research notes, compiled after years of researching conflicting information about Widow White’s Tavern in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. I often post research in hopes that other researchers can see what’s been gathered and take the… Read More »MLH Research Binder – What Happened to Mary White and Widow White’s Tavern
