Van Veghten House
9 Van Veghten Dr, Bridgewater, NJ 08807, USA
New Jersey, USA
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EST. 1725
ENCAMPMENT
EST. 1725
1778–1779
Greene, Nathaniel
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Van Veghten House.
The original early-eighteenth-century Dutch Colonial house survives as the headquarters and museum of the Somerset County Historical Society. The restored building contains collections, a research library, period rooms, and preserved architectural fabric, with surrounding grounds marking its historic setting along Old York Road.
About Van Veghten House
In 1697, Michael Van Veghten (also spelled Van Vechten) purchased 834 acres along the Raritan River near Finderne. His first wife died and he married Jannetje Dumont on April 2, 1691. Their son Derrick inherited the property when Michael died in 1737.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Van Veghten House
During the second Middlebrook encampment, Derrick Van Veghten gave Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene and his wife Catharine Littlefield Greene the use of the house for his headquarters and the farm for an encampment of his troops, without asking for any compensation.
On March 19, 1779, General Greene described an event attended by General George Washington that was held at the Van Veghten House in a letter to Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth where Washington danced with Mrs. Greene danced 3 hours without sitting.
On August 30, 1781, the First Brigade of the French Army marched past his house, under the command of General Comte de Rochambeau, following the route to Yorktown, Virginia. The day's march was thirteen miles from the campground at Bullion's Tavern in Liberty Corner to the campground at Somerset Courthouse, now Millstone, New Jersey. The Second Brigade followed on August 31. The American Continental Armymarched nearby along different roads as part of this joint effort.
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