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Box xii, Packet 39-32
Thirty-second Camp at Bullion's Tavern [Liberty Corner]. 9-10 September 1782. Thirteen miles from the preceding camp at Somerset Courthouse (Millstone). The same route had been taken in the opposite direction in 1781. See No. 53 and also No. 67 for the 1781 camp at Bullion's Tavern. The locations of the two encampments differ slightly. The pattern of roads shown on the map can readily be recognized in the present village of Liberty Corner. The "chemin de Somerset-Court-house," lower right, is present State Route 525, coming into Liberty Corner over Second Watchung Mountain from Martinsville. The road to Whippany (the next day's destination), upper left, is the road from Liberty Corner to Lyons and Basking Ridge.
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Box xii, Packet 39-28/31
Thirty-first Camp at Somerset Courthouse [Millstone, New Jersey]. Also "Camp à Read Lion T., Le 2 Septembre, 15 miles de Philadelphie - manque" [no map], "Camp à Trenton, Le 3 Septembre, 16 miles de Read Lion Voyés campagne 1781, 25eme Camp. Le 4, 5, et 6 Sejour" [no map], "Camp à Prince-Town, Le 7 Septembre, 12 miles de Trentown. Voyés campagne 1781, 24e Camp" [no map]. 8-9 September 1782. Fourteen miles from the preceding camp at Princeton. The camp ground at Somerset Courthouse was in a slightly different location from that of 1781, as can be seen by comparison with maps Nos. 53 and 68. This time two regiments were placed on the bank of the Millstone, east of the road and opposite the church. The main road shown here is present State Route 533; the second (from the top) of the three roads crossing the Millstone and leading to New Brunswick is approximately present State Route 514.
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Box xii, Packet 39-27
Twenty-seventh Camp at Philadelphia. 31 August - 4 September 1782. Sixteen miles from the preceding camp near Chester. The four divisions, preceded by Lauzun's Legion as a vanguard, marched on successive days through the city to their camp on its northern outskirts; the previous year the camp had been on the banks of the Schuylkill near the present Market Street Bridge (cf. No. 73). There was at least one extra day's halt here for each of the divisions. The map shows three regiments and three artillery units, as well as Lauzun's cavalry (yellow and white), in camp at the same time. The First Division (including the Bourbonnais Regiment) resumed its march northward on 2 September.
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Box xii, Packet 39-26
Twenty-Sixth Camp at Chester [in Pennsylvania]. 30 August - 2 September 1782. Fifteen miles from the preceding camp at Newport, Delaware. The camp was to the northeast of the town of Chester, along the road to Philadelphia, on high ground between the two streams shown here: Ridley Creek at the bottom of the map, and Crum Creek at the top. This is in the general vicinity of the present Baldwin Locomotive Works. The 1781 camp had been southwest of Chester; cf. Nos. 58 and 74.
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Box xii, Packet 39-25
Twenty-fifth Camp at Newport [in Delaware]. 29 August - 1 September 1782. Sixteen and a half miles from the preceding camp at Elkton, Maryland. The route from Elkton to Newport--the same taken in the opposite direction the previous year—is shown on the road map, No. 60. The Second Brigade had camped here in Newport in 1781 (cf. No. 59), but in a position differing slightly from the one shown on the present map of the 1782 encampment (by divisions). The main road, to the right of which the army camped, is present Market Street (State Route 4). THe street intersecting this, at the top of the map, is State Route 41.
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Box xii, Packet 39-24
Twenty-fourth Camp at Head of Elk [in Maryland]. 28-31 August 1782. Fifteen miles from the preceding camp at Lower Ferry. The stream shown at right is Big Elk Creek. The entire army had been united here at Head of Elk the previous year when expecting to embark for transportation down the Chesapeake Bay. Cf. No. 76. The present map does not show the waterfront at Elk Landing, since it had no significance during the 1782 march. The slightly different locations of the two encampments can be determined by reference to the triangular road intersection shown on both maps.