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A Map of the Trenton and New-Brunswick Turnpike-road. [180-] Scale ca. 1:63,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789
(Survey Map)
Website:  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3811p.ct000075

NEW JERSEY ROAD MAPS of the 18th Century,
Princeton University Library (pub), Princeton, NJ 1964
(PU Maps)

The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources,
1745-1799. John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor.--vol. 12
(W.o.W.)
Available on  http://memory.loc.gov/

George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 3b Varick Transcripts
  George Washington to Marquis de Lafayette, June 25, 1778
  George Washington to Philemon Dickinson, June 25, 1778 etc.
(Varick)
Website:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mgw:18:./temp/~ammem_LlQa::
or http://memory.loc.gov/, search for kingston and Dickinson
 

George Washington's Accounts of Expenses While Commander-in-Chief of the
Continental Army 1775-1783. With Annotations by John C. Fitzpatrick.--vol. 01
(Fitzpatrick)
[excerpt: DEBIT ENTRIES
The route of the army was by way of Doylestown and Coryell's Ferry. the orders for June 19 are dated from
Doctor Shannon's, and on June 20 £1 17s. 6d. were distributed in gratuities to Shannon's servants. June 21,
at Coryell's Ferry, John Fell was paid £6 for breakfast, dinner, and supper for the Commander-in-Chief and
his suite. June 23, in Hopewell, New Jersey, the orders are dated from Hunt's house and Richard Holcombe
was paid £10 17s. 6d.; June 25, Washington was at Kingston; June 26, at Cranberry; and June 27, at
Penolopen and Englishtown. Early in the morning of June 28, the army moved on Monmouth and about noon
came in contact with the enemy. The British were forced from the field and, that night, leaving their dead and
wounded behind, they retreated so silently that Poor's Brigade, which lay nearest them, was unaware of the
movement. On discovering the enemy's escape, Washington, the next morning, took up his march toward the
Highlands of the Hudson by way of Englishtown, Brunswick, and Paramus.]
Available on  http://memory.loc.gov/

Documents of the American Revolution 1770 -1783 (Colonial Office Series) vol XV 1778, edited by K. G. Davies, Irish University Press, Dublin 1976
(Davies)

The Letters of Lafayette to Washington 1777-1799, Louis Gottschalk (ed.) Privately Printed by Helen Fahenstock Hubbard, NY 1944
(Gottschalk)

Millstone Valley, Elizabeth G.C. Menzies, Rutgers University Press, 1969
(Menzies)

The Battle of Monmouth, William S. Stryker, Princeton University Press, 1927
(Stryker)

Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, Volume II, Extracts from American Newspapers Vol. II. 1778 [Series 2], Francis B. Lee (ed.)  Trenton N.J. The John L. Murphy Publishing Co.. Printers, 1903
(Lee)

Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783
An Annotated Edition of the Military Journal of JEREMIAH GREENMAN
Edited by Robert C. Bray & Paul E. Busnell, Northern Illinois University Press, 1978
(Greenman)
This is an excellent, readable, first-hand account of the war.  Greenman went with Lee's advance.

George Washington, a Biography. Freeman, Douglas Southall, in seven volumes,  Scribner, NY, NY 1948-57, volume 4

The House Tour, Ursula Brechnell in "May in Montgomery 1972- By George!", booklet by the Van Harlingen Historical Society,  1972?  (from G. Stone)
(Brechnell)
 

"Our Army... Gave Them A Pretty Good Drubbing"  The Monmouth Campaign, June-September 1778 As Described Within The Diary Of Surgeoun Samual Adams, Cranes' Third Regiment Of Continetal Artillery" a transcription from the manuscript Diaries of Dr. Samuel Adams within the collections of the New York Public Library, transcribed by Bob McDonald, 1997  (unpublished, from G. Stone)
(Dr. Adams)

Private Yankee Doodle/Being a Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Joseph Plumb Martin (ed: George F. Sheer), Eastern Acorn Press (DATE?)
(Martin)
[Martin went with the second detachment, going through Princeton on the 24th] [excerpt: "We this night turned into a new ploughed field, and I laid down between two furrows and slept as sweet as though I had laid upon a bed of down" p124-125]
 

New Jersey's Sourland Mountain  T. J. Luce, 2001, Sourland Planning Council (available at Hopewell Museum)
(Luce)
Jim has a copy on page 14 of Erskine 87A, a map from the New-York Historical Society showing the road "from Ram Garrison's to Near Pennytown"  (including Ringoes Tavern to Pennington. )

The American Revolution: writings from the War of Independence (compilation), 2001, The Library of America, specifically extracts from "Journal of a March, a Battle, and a Waterfall, being the version elaborated by James McHenry from his Diary of the Year 1778, Begun at Valley Forge, & containing accounts of the British, the Indians, and the Battle of Monmouth, ed. Helen Flynt and Henry Flynt (1945).  [Note: duplication of this information by offset press restricted, see reference]
(McHenry)

Pioneers of Old Hopewell: With Sketches of Her Revolutionary Heroes, Ralph Ege, 1908 Race & Savage, reprinted 1963, Hopewell Museum, Hopewell, NJ, 290 p.
(Ege)
This has great stories of several patriots, but also the history of roads in the Hopewell Township area.  Thanks to Jim Luce for bringing this to our attention.

1703-1903 Early History of Lambertville, N. J.   Gallagher, Sarah A., 1903, Trenton NJ
(Gallagher)
This includes information on river boats and historic lore of General Washington's stay in 1778, as well as other notables in 1776 and 1777.

Lambertville New Jersey from the beginning as Coryell's Ferry. Petrie, Alfred G. (no date) (from Barbara J. and John P. Hencheck, in the city's historic documents files)
(Petrie)

Suggestions (not followed up yet)

Robert Cohen suggests:
You may want to check maps of the time especially Erskine maps. He was Wasington's cartographer. There are probablly good collections at Rutgers ,N.J. state archives, N.Y., N.J Historical Societis, and especially Map Room of New York Public Library. Bob Cohen
[Rich Walling has made copies of several of these maps, thanks Robert!]

History of the American Revolution, David Ramsay 1789  (referenced in Private Yankee Doodle as being inaccurate!)