Clarke House with Revolutionary Soldiers

Eight Interpretative Educational Stations with living historians in period costumes will be distributed around the Battlefield in the area of the Clarke House, which served as a hospital for both British and American wounded during and after the Battle. Under a partial grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, The Princeton Battlefield Society has joined with Princeton Battlefield State Park and Mott’s Artillery Company for this July 4th program.

The program at each station will last about 15 minutes. The stations will be spread out around the Clarke House with sufficient space to allow children and their parents to sit on the lawn. Each of the interpretative presenters will be dressed in the period clothing. A key to the program will be a visit to the Money Changer will be giving a presentation on money of the day and providing replicate tenders that can be used “purchase” various small objects or documents as a part of the educational program at each station:

• Musket and Cannon firing and lecture by Motts Artillery including children’s enlisting and maneuvers

• Period money exchange, hosted by Professor of Economics Clifford Thies,

• Period toymaking hosted by toy maker Joe Remus,

• Music teaching/demonstrations of the 18th Century fife and fiddle Stephen Hudak and Robert Mouland

• Cooking by Deborah Paterson who will demonstrate the preparation of a pot pie.

• Historical medicine lecture and demonstration by Marjy Winecoop

• A lecture on 18th century dress and fashion will be given by writer Laura Crockett dressed as Annis Boudinot Stockton.

The event will be kicked off at 11 am by the reading by John Mills of the Declaration of Independence, which was signed by five New Jersey leaders – Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, and Abraham Clark. Copies of the Declaration will be distributed on “aged” paper. The event ends at 6pm.

Made possible in part by a grant from the NJ Historical Commission