A journal of Sergeant William Young is in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., Oct., 1884, vol. viii. 255. A little chapbook, Narrative of events in the Revolutionary war; with an account of the battles of Trenton, Trenton-bridge and Princeton (Charlestown [1833]), by Joseph White, an orderly-sergeant of artillery, gives some personal experiences.
[896] C. C. Haven's tracts: Washington and his army in New Jersey (Trenton, 1856), Thirty days in New Jersey ninety years ago (1867), Annals of the City of Trenton (1867), and Historic Manual concerning Trenton and Princeton. (Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., iii. 335.) Joseph F. Tuttle's papers: Annals of Morris County (187-), Revolutionary forefathers of Morris County (Dover, 1876), "Washington in Morris County", in Hist. Mag., June, 1871. E. D. Halsey's Hist. of Morris County (N. Y., 1882). W. A. Whitehead's Perth Amboy (p. 329), and Penna. Hist. Coll., i. 223. Hatfield's Hist. of Elizabeth (ch. 20). A paper, "Washington on the west bank of the Delaware", by Gen. W. W. H. Davis, giving local details, in Penna. Mag. of Hist. (iv. 133). Historical Mag., xix. 205. Harper's Mag., July, 1874. Potter's Amer. Monthly, Jan., 1877. Johnston's Campaign of 1776 (ch. 8).
[897] Gordon (vol. ii.); Bancroft (orig. ed. ix. ch. 12; final revision, v. ch. 6, 7, 8); Irving's Washington (vol. ii.); Gay, Pop. Hist. U. S. (iii. 520).
[898] Bancroft, ix. 218; Reed's Reed, i. 270.
[899] Other contemporary American accounts are by Major Morris (Sparks MSS., no. liii.; Chalmers's MSS. in Thorpe's Catal. Suppl., 1843, no. 632); by R. H. Lee (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1878, xix. 109); by Sullivan (N. H. State Papers, viii. 492); in Stirling's letter (Dec. 28, 1776) (Sedgwick's Livingston, 211). The order of march to Trenton is in Drake's Knox, 113. Capt. Wm. Hull's letter, Jan. 1, 1777, is in Bonney's Legacy of Hist. Gleanings, 1875, i. p. 57. (Cf. Hull's Rev. Services, ch. 5.) See also Greene's Greene (book ii. ch. 13); Reed's Reed (i. 273); Wilkinson's Memoirs (ch. 3); Smith's St. Clair; Stone's John Howland (p. 72); Marshall's Washington (ii. ch. 8); Drake's Knox (p. 37); Memoirs of Tench Tilghman (p. 148); Journals of Samuel Shaw; Capt. Thomas Rodney's letter in Niles's Principles (1822, p. 341); Force's Amer. Archives (5th, iii.); Freeman's Journal in Moore's Diary (p. 364). The account in the Penna. Evening Post, Dec. 28, 1776, is copied in Penna. Mag. of Hist., July, 1886, p. 203.
Local publications are: Raum's Trenton (1866); C. C. Haven's Annals of Trenton; Henry K. How's Battle of Trenton (N. Brunswick, 1856).
Of the more general accounts, Bancroft (ix. 218) is the best. Cf. Hist. of First Troop of Pa. Cavalry, p. 7. Cf. also Gordon (ii. 393); Irving's Washington (ii. 449); Dawson (i. 196); Carrington (ch. 39); Johnston's Campaign of 1776 (p. 288, with docs. pp. 151, 153). Also articles in Godey's Mag. (xxxii. 51) and Harper's Mag. (vii. 445), and details in Lossing's Field-Book.
[900] Cf. Lowell's Hessians, ch. 8; Eelking's Hülfstruppen, i. 113, 132. The oft-printed letter of the Prince of Hesse-Cassel to Baron Hohendorf or Hozendorf is a forgery (Kapp's Soldatenhandel, 2d ed. 199). A court-martial of the Hessian officers was held at Cassel in 1782, and the report of it is in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., vii. 45 (April, 1883), a paper of much use to the writer of the preceding narrative.
The battle is the subject of one of Trumbull's pictures. On a Hessian flag captured, see Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 413. Moore, Songs and Ballads, 150, 156, 165, gives some of the current verses.
The movements of Washington after Trenton in recrossing the Delaware, are easily followed in Washington's letters to Congress, in Reed's narrative (Penna. Mag. Hist., viii. 391); in Sergeant William Young's Journal (Ibid. viii. 255); in Reed's Reed (i. 277); and in Wilkinson's Memoirs (i. 133).