Hancock's House Massacre

Hancock's House Massacre is a New Jersey historical marker in Salem County, dedicated 1932.

On the Quinton Road - right hand side going from Salem to Quinton - about 800 ft. from the crossroads. · location approximate

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Four miles south, during the night of March 21, 1778, a party of Tory Rangers under Major Simcoe surprised and massacred about thirty patirots quartered in the house of Judge William Hancock at Hancock's Bridge.

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1777 · The province of New Jersey, divided into east and west, commonly called the Jerseys (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1795 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1796 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Delaware, 1795, covering the location of Hancock's House Massacre, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Delaware, 1795, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Hancock's House Massacre

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