Article discussing sexual violence in Pennington during the Revolutionary War
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-02139
- Source Type
- Article
- Headline
- For the Herald of Liberty
- Publication
- Herald of Liberty
- Place of Publication
- Washington, Pennsylvania
- Date of Issue
- September 3, 1798
- Page
- 2-3
- Description
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An article penned by "A Jersey Militia-Man" in Hopewell was submitted to the Herald of Liberty newspaper (published in Washington, Pennsylvania). 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 at the top of the second column discusses sexual violence in Pennington.
This article was later reprinted in the Newark newspaper, the Centinel of Freedom. - Transcript
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[PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT]
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
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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