Princeton, NJ
Stories
5 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Annis Boudinot Stockton
Annis Stockton and the Papers of Morven
The British were coming, and Annis Boudinot Stockton had very little time. Her husband Richard had already fled Princeton — he would be captured within days and thrown into the Provost Jail in New Yor...
Hugh Mercer
The Doctor Who Died Fighting
Hugh Mercer had seen battle before Princeton. He had fought at Culloden in 1746, on the losing side, a young Scottish surgeon following Bonnie Prince Charlie's doomed rebellion against the British Cro...
Hugh Mercer
Mercer's Stand at Princeton
Hugh Mercer had been a fugitive before. After the Battle of Culloden in 1746, he had fled across Scotland with a price on his head, eventually boarding a ship for the American colonies. He had rebuilt...
The Night March: Trenton to Princeton
The campfires burned on the south bank of Assunpink Creek, their glow visible to the British sentries across the water. General Cornwallis, settling into his headquarters in Trenton for the night, was...
Modern Voices