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Hancock's House Massacre

Salem County · dedicated 1932 · On the Quinton Road - right hand side going from Salem to Quinton - about 800 ft. from the crossroads. · location approximate

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: New Jersey Historical Commission

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