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In the time of the Revolution, the road turned here and followed the brook to Peter Burdett’s ferry, an important Hudson River approach to General Nathaniel Greene’s encampment at Fort Lee on the hill and the connecting link with the American forces on the opposite shore. South of the brook stood the Burdett homestead, Washington’s local headquarters. Washington, Greene, Putnam, and others crossed frequently here, dispatch-bearers arrived and departed, and troops and military stores were landed at the wharf. Near the river, a memorial recalls the engagements of August 18, October 8, 9, and 27, 1776, between General Mercer’s shore battery of eighteen-pounders and certain British ships-of-war.
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Edgewater, New Jersey · United States
