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140. Camp à Pompton-Meeting-house, le 12 Septembre, 15 miles de Wippany, undated

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Thirty-fourth Camp at Pompton Meetinghouse [Pompton Plains]. Also "Camp à Wippany, le 10 Septembre, 16 miles de Bulllion's Tavern. Voyès la Campagne 1781, 21e camp. (Le 11 Séjour)" [no map]. 12-13 September 1782. Fifteen miles from the previous camp at Whippany, where each of the two brigades had remained an extra day. No new map of the Whippany camp was included in this series, since the camp was in the same position in 1781; see No. 66.

There had also been a camp at Pompton Plains the previous year (No. 65), but since the present camp is in a slightly different position, there is a new map. Comparison of the two maps and reference to the "Metting-house," shown on both, indicate that the greater part of the troops camped this time on the eastern side of the main road. In both instances, as indicated by the points on the symbols for regiments, the camp "faces" the enemy, who occupied Manhattan and Staten Islands to the eastward. This 1782 map includes a larger area than the earlier one, extending northward to the bridges across the river at the top of the sheet. (The two branches of the Pompton are called the Pequannock and Wanaque on modern maps.) An advance unit is shown here near the river crossing, where a small work protecting a strategic point in the road communication system is situated. The road branching off to the left (labeled upside down) went to Ringwood and thence, via The Clove, to New Windsor, which is on the Hudson above West Point. The road here designated as "Chemin de Suffrantz" sent to present Pompton Lakes (Passaic County), then through the Ramapo Valley (present U.S. Route 202) to Suffern, New York, the next camp. This route is shown on map, No. 50, and is described in Itinerary 3.

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This collection was word-processed by Anna Bialek in July and August of 2005. Finding aid written by Howard Rice in 1957.

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140. Camp à Pompton-Meeting-house, le 12 Septembre, 15 miles de Wippany; Louis-Alexandre Berthier Collection, C0022, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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Separated Materials

Relation de l'Escadre Française, aux ordres du Cher. Destouches, & de l'affaire qui a eue lieu le 16 Mars 1781, entre cette Escadre & celle des Anglais, commandée par l'Amiral Arbuthnot was transferred to rare books (1081.755 EX).

Bibliography

MS, No. 39-33/34. Rochambeau's copy is in the Library of Congress, Map Division. [Rice/Brown, pp. 184-185]

Names:
France. Armée
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de (1725-1807)