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Brig. Gen. Henry Knox, in command of the artillery of the Continental Army, used the field now covered by these ponds as pasture for the artillery horses, while his soldiers lived in log huts erected on the hillside to the west. Nine brigades of the Continental Army were hutted in Jockey Hollow. General Washington occupied the Ford Mansion on Morris Avenue. The troops were in Morristown from December 1, 1779 to June 23, 1780.
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Morristown, New Jersey · United States
