Lord Stirling Basking Ridge Archives - Mr. Local History Project https://mrlocalhistory.org/tag/lord-stirling-basking-ridge/ History and Gossip from New Jersey Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:19:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://mrlocalhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-Mr-local-History-250-Logo-theme-32x32.jpg Lord Stirling Basking Ridge Archives - Mr. Local History Project https://mrlocalhistory.org/tag/lord-stirling-basking-ridge/ 32 32 168989768 Stirling Manor – The 13 Colonies’ Most Prestigious Home was in Basking Ridge, New Jersey https://mrlocalhistory.org/stirling-manor/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/stirling-manor/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:14:01 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=58025 Views: 3,199 Is William Alexander, aka The Earl & Lord of Stirling, Basking Ridge’s Most Famous Resident? Our researchers think so. Let’s see if we can answer that question. William Alexander (1726 – Jan 15, 1783) was the son of Secretary & lawyer James Alexander. His mother, Mary Spratt Provoost, was the widow of David… Read More »Stirling Manor – The 13 Colonies’ Most Prestigious Home was in Basking Ridge, New Jersey

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]]> https://mrlocalhistory.org/stirling-manor/feed/ 1 58025 1770s Festival on the Grounds of Former General Lord Stirling https://mrlocalhistory.org/1770s-festival/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/1770s-festival/#respond Fri, 30 Sep 2022 11:11:06 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=31491 Views: 2,856 Each year on the first Sunday in October, Lord Stirling’s estate at Lord Stirling Park in Basking Ridge, NJ comes back to life in the late 1700s. Colonial craftspeople ply their trades, a town crier delivers the daily news, and Revolutionary War military detachments camp and conduct maneuvers on the former estate lawn.… Read More »1770s Festival on the Grounds of Former General Lord Stirling

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]]> https://mrlocalhistory.org/1770s-festival/feed/ 0 31491 Lord Stirling- Basking Ridge’s Most Famous Resident https://mrlocalhistory.org/lordstirling/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/lordstirling/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:14:42 +0000 http://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=12012 Views: 23,607 Is William Alexander, aka The Earl & Lord of Stirling, Basking Ridge’s Most Famous Resident? Our researchers think so. Let’s see if we can answer that question. William Alexander (1726 – Jan 15, 1783) was the son of Secretary & lawyer James Alexander. His mother, Mary Spratt Provoost, was the widow of David… Read More »Lord Stirling- Basking Ridge’s Most Famous Resident

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