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From Historic Roadsides of New Jersey by The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey, 1928
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
Ocean County, organized about 1850 out of the southern
portion of Monmouth County, is bounded on the north by
Monmouth County, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the
south by Great Bay, and on the west by Burlington County.
TOMS RIVER
CEDAR CREEK BRIDGE
County Seat. On the banks of Toms River.
In the Revolution a fort or blockhouse was erected a short
distance north of the bridge on a hill east of the road to Free
hold. In 1782 the blockhouse was attacked by the Associated
Loyalists. It was defended by Captain Joshua Huddy and a
garrison until, the ammunition being expended, he was forced
to surrender. The town was burned with two mills and the
blockhouse, the cannon spiked and thrown into the river.
Huddy was hanged by the Loyalists at Gravelly Point, the
highlands of Navasink, April, 1782.
Scene of engagement December
27, 1782, between the Burlington County Light Horse, under
Captain Shreve and John Bacon, with a band of Loyalists. The
Loyalists escaped, owing to aid given by some of the inhabitants, who opened fire upon the militia. Bacon was subsequently
killed in an engagement with Shreve's Light Horse at Egg
Harbor.
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