Description
At the Battle of Quinton's Bridge three hundred New Jersey Mmilitia stood against 1,200 British regulars and loyalists. The British forces set a trap and ambushed two hundred of the militia killing twenty to thirty men. The following day Major John Graves Simcoe and a detachment of Queens Rangers attacked Judge William Hancock's home killing all militia stationed there. After the battle Colonel Charles Mawhood issued a warning to the badly defeated New Jersey Militia and also published the the names of know militiamen.