Whitall House

Whitall House is a New Jersey historical marker in Gloucester County.

Marker can be reached from Hessian Road, on the right when traveling west.

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Col. Carl von Donop and his Hessians were treated here for wounds after their defeat at the siege of Red Bank, Oct. 22, 1777.

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

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1777 · Draft of roads in New Jersey (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1778 · The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting the several works… (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 Whitall House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Delaware, 1795, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Whitall House

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