~ A Crossroads Celebration ~

 

Battle of Bound Brook:

The Encampments at Middlebrook

Living History Weekend at the

Abraham Staats House

 

April 12th & 13th, 2008

       
 
 
   

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Schedule for

The BATTLE of BOUND BROOK~ 2008

“The Encampments at Middlebrook”

Saturday, April 12 & Sunday, April 13

 

Encampment and lectures at: 

Abraham Staats House, 17 von Steuben Lane, South Bound Brook, NJ 08880

 

Bound Brook Memorial Library/Old Presbyterian Graveyard:  402 East High St., Bound Brook, 08805

 

Hendrick Fisher House:  Grounds of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, 135 Davidson Avenue
Somerset, NJ 08873

 

Information:   www.battleofboundbrook.com

 

 

FRIDAY

April 11

SATURDAY

April 12

SUNDAY

April 13

7:00 AM

 

Registration open

Registration Open

7:30 AM

 

 

Buffet Breakfast at Firehouse begins (7:30 am. – Noon)

8:00 AM

 

 

 

8:30 AM

 

 

 

9:00 AM

Camp setup

Flag raising

Officer meeting in house

 

9:30 AM

 

 

·   Officer Meeting

10:00 AM

 

Assembly and march to Old Stone Bridge

·   Flag raising

·   Drill Opportunity

·   Tactical?

·   Staats House open for

   tours 

10:30 AM

 

Ceremony at Old Stone Bridge-half hour (Spkrs. Som. County Dir.Freeholder Peter Palmer; Hist.Sites Coord. Tom D’Amico

·   E. Becker (Muskets)

 

11:00 AM

 

·   Volley at Bridge? 

·   Street Battle in vicinity of Queen’s Bridge, Main St. and north on East St. Bound Brook to Memorial Library and Old Presbyterian Graveyard. 

·   Fisher House open 11 am – 5 pm

   for tours.

·   Ken Miller presentation on Tom Paine

 

 

·  Fisher House open

  11 am – 5 pm for tours

11:30 AM

 

Brief ceremony, volley, at BB Memorial Library and Old Presbyterian Graveyard. Troops begin march back to SBB.

·   Dr. David Valuska von Steuben lecture

 

11AM-- 12:30 PM

 

·   Rev. War slide presentation, guest speaker, Bake Sale at Bound Brook Memorial Library

 

12:00 NOON

Arrivals/ Registration begins

·    Troops Street Battle in vicinity of

    Queens Bridge and Main St. in 

    South Bound Brook  

 

·   Lunch in camp

 

12:15 PM

 

·   Soldiers return to Soldiers Encampment at Abraham Staats House in South Bound Brook

·   Review of soldiers by Baron von Steuben, Drills

12:30 PM

 

·   Abraham Staats House open for tours, special lectures ,presentations, exhibits. Entrance fee.

·   Soldiers Encampment open for living history, military drills, basket weaving, cooking, angling and fowling, sutlers etc.

· Surgeon (G. DePaolo) throughout day

·   Tavern (Iain Haight-Ashton)

   throughout day    

    No fee for outside   activities. 

·   Lunch

12:45 PM

 

Presentation: Earl Becker ~

Muskets of Amer. Revolution

·    

1:00 PM

 

·    

·   John Cunningham Lecture and book signing –

   approx. 1 hour

1:30 PM

 

Presentation:   Ken Miller:  Tom Paine,

“Common Sense” and “The Cause.”  

·    

2:00 PM

 

Presentation: 

·   Dr. David Valuska as Baron Von Steuben 

 

·   Soldiers assemble for battle demonstration

2:45 PM

 

·   Review of troops by von Steuben

·   SBB Tacticals, Drills

·   Battle, tacticals on grounds

3:00 PM

 

·   SBB Tacticals, Drills

·   Battle

3:30 PM

 

·   SBB Tacticals, Drills

·   Contest?

·   Battle concludes

4:00 PM

 

·   Prof. R. Veit Presentation: Staats

Soldiers Encampment and A. Staats House closed to public  Event close.

4:30 PM

 

·   Prof. R. Veit presentation: Staats family “Patriots, Tories, Inebriates and Hussies...”

·   Pasta Dinner 

·   Dinner prep at camp

 

5:00 PM

 

·   Prof. R. Veit presentation: Staats

·   Camp/House closed

·   Flag lowered

·   Pasta Dinner 

·   Dinner prep at camp

 

5:30 PM

 

·    E. Becker:Weaponry(for reenactors)

·    Pasta Dinner 

·    Dinner prep at camp

 

6:00 PM

 

Pasta Dinner  Dinner prep at camp

 

6:30 PM

 

Pasta Dinner  Dinner prep at camp

 

7:00 PM

 

Clear Dining Room for Music / Dance

Tavern?

Pasta Dinner Over

 

7:30 PM

 

Dance Begins

 

8:00 PM

Kels Swan presentation and artifacts: Middlebrook 

 

 

8:30 PM

 

 

 

9:00 PM

Registration ends

Dance ends

 

 

GOOD NEWS!

The Queens Bridge is now a paved roadway, no more marching on

the metal grated roadway! 

 

Photo taken near the Stone Bridge looking south toward South Bound Brook.

 

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