Greenman:
"“this morn thare was a detachtmt of 5 thousan men sent toward the
enemy Continuing in hope will holding our Selvs in readiness for
to march we hear that the enemy is gone to South amboy”
Freeman:
" … Washington decided to give his men another day’s rest and, meantime,
to hold a council of war at 9 o’clock on the 24th , in complete defiance
of an eclipse of the sun."
" … Steuben reported on the 24th that the enemy undoubtedly had
taken the direct road from Allentown to Monmouth Court House…."
Brechnell:
"2, Washington Well Farm
"... It was here that one segment of the marching army, set in motion
from Hopewell headquarters en route to Freehold, finding June 24, 1778
, a hot and humid day, stopped to drink at the roadside well (still there
across the road). .. This was also the home of one of Washington's
soldiers, Captain Simon Duryea of the First Battalion."
McHenry:
"In consequence of intelligence from Gen. Dickinson we remain on the
ground we took yesterday-- The day spent in digesting intelligence and
decyphering the enemy's intentions."
"1400 picked men ordered to march towards the enemy under Brigadier
General Scott."
"The seventh day since the evacuation of Philadelphia and the enemy
tent near Allen's Town. This gives rise to a conjecture that their
slow movement is not the consequence of obstructions-- broken bridges &c.,
but that it proceeds from a desire to give us battle. I don't think
so."
"-- A council of war. -- The majority against putting the enemy in
a situation which might bring on a general engagement. -- The General however
determines to attack."
This implies to me that "Hopewell" was an area name, and not the specific name for what is now Hopewell Borough. There has been some confusion about where Hunt's house was. Brechnell places it out E. Broad Street, on the current Hopewell / Montgomery Twp. line, near "Stoutsburg" (on USGS maps), on Province Line Road. It is about three miles from the Baptist Meeting House in down-town Hopewell. Considering how empty the area was in 1778, three miles to the east might be considered "close" to a landmark like the Meeting House.Headquarters, Hunt's House John Hunt's near the Baptist Meeting House Hopewell Township, Jersey, near the Baptist meeting house Head Quarters, Hopewell Hopewell Township (2) Head Quarters, Hopewell Township (4)