Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey: Washington’s Birthday Lecture
Professor Maxine Lurie, Chair of the New Jersey Historical Commission, explores the experience of early Americans caught in the crossfire of the Revolutionary War in New Jersey in a new book Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey.
Among the figures Prof. Lurie considers are John Wallace, a Philadelphia merchant who constructed the Wallace House at Hope Farm in New Jersey to escape the Revolutionary War, only to host George Washington’s winter headquarters during the Middlebrook Cantonment of 1778-79, and the Hardenbergh and Frelinghuysen family, agitators for American independence in New Jersey, who resided at Old Dutch Parsonage.
The Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, dedicated supporters of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites, host Prof. Maxine Lurie for this author’s talk in observance of Washington’s Birthday in 2023.
Time: 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM EST
Free!
