Abstract
Map of the area around Bordentown, Burlington, and Mount Holly, New Jersey. Published in a 1979 English language translation of the diary of a Hessian officer Ewald, Johann von. Diary of the American War : a Hessian Journal / translated and edited by Joseph P. Tustin. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1979, p. 125 from a 1791 transcription of notes and sketches found in the original diary (Tagebuch von dem Amerikanischen Kriege). The original map, only one of three contemporary views of Valley Forge known to exist, includes the page number on which it occurs in the 1791 transcription.
Description Long
On the left the plan shows Bordentown and the Lewis Mill on Black's Creek. The lower road from Bordentown leads to the "Miss Wietfield house" (now Fieldsboro) and to the Three Tuns Tavern and Bustleton. The road crosses Hancock's Creek, named for a local landowner, and continues to the Yorkshire Bridge over Assiscunk Creek (not Ankokes Creek, an old spelling of Rancocas Creek, as Ewald has it). Rancocas Creek flows into the Delaware River southwest of Burlington. The upper road from Bordentown leads to Black Horse (Columbus) and Slabtown (Jacksonville), continuing past the Friends Meeting House to Mount Holly at the upper right. Near the center is the Bunting house, where Ewald had his outpost on December 22, 1776.
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