Article discussing sexual violence in Pennington during the Revolutionary War (reprinted from the Herald of Liberty)

Article discussing sexual violence in Pennington during the Revolutionary War (reprinted from the Herald of Liberty)
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Identifier
NJS-SRC-02138
Source Type
Article
Headline
From the Herald of Liberty
Publication
Centinel of Freedom
Place of Publication
Newark
Date of Issue
June 18, 1799
Page
1
Description
An article penned by "A Jersey Militia-Man" in Hopewell, reprinted from a Pennsylvania newspaper called the Herald of Liberty (where it was originally printed on Sept. 3, 1798). The author recalled the "barbarities and outrages" perpetrated by the British and Hessian troops in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War, particularly during their occupation of Pennington village in Hunterdon County (now part of Mercer County). A passage discusses sexual violence in Pennington. This passage begins at the bottom of the first column and continues at the top of the second column.
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At Pennington (a village about eight miles N. E. of Trenton) a detachment of them were quartered. Here they became notorious and terrible to the inhabitants, for every possible species of rapine, pillage and violence. It was a known circumstance, that they abused all females, who were so unfortunate as to fall within their fancy or power. It would be indelicate and improper to wound the feelings of many, by mentioning names, well known in that neighborhood, of innocent sufferers, who became victims to their infernal lust and brutality; and whose friends were obliged to be the patient, terrified spectators of such horrid outrage. Edward Hunt had a negro wench successively abused by a band of them, crying to her master for relief, while some threatened him with instant violence, if he would offer to attempt to interpose. The poor wench miscarried after the abuse.
Language
English
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Article discussing sexual violence in Pennington during the Revolutionary War
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Jesse Bayker
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