Revoluntionary War Burial Site in Langhorne, Pennsylvania

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Get directions Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA

Coordinates: 40.17390, -74.91910
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Revolutionary War Burial Site
December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777

Captain William Shippen, Sr., Surgeon General - American Army on written orders from General George washing replied that a hospital would be set up in Four Lands End (now Langhorne, Pa.), on January 4, 1777. The Middletown Friends Meeting House and school, and Isaac Hicks' house and tannery were sequestered to treat American soldiers. Men from the

First Battle of Trenton - December 25, 1776
Second Battle of Trenton - January 2, 1777
Battle of Princeton - January 3, 1777 died here.

Bodies were put four deep in wood boxes and hauled to this burial site at Bellevue and Flowers Avenues. Archeological excavation performed in 1992 revealed that 166 American soldiers only were interred on this swampy site. The hospitals were closed on May 15, 1777."