Clinton Township Newsletter

4 d e c e m b e r 2 0 2 5 W W W . C L I N T O N T W P N E W S L E T T E R . C O M Celebrate the Holidays in Clinton! • Community Christmas Tree Lighting: Friday, November 28, 6:30 pm. Come and celebrate the start of the Christmas Season in Clinton at the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting! • Clinton's 38th Annual Clinton Christmas Parade: Friday, December 5, 7:00-9:00 pm A night of magic and fun for the whole family! • Candle Light Night: Thursday, December 11, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Enjoy candle-lit Clinton as well as various specials in our wonderful shops in town! • Santa Comes to Town: Sunday, December 14, 1:00 - 3:00 pm Proudly sponsored by The Guild of Clinton! To find out more, go to: www.VisitClintonNJ.com. Are you committed to making Hunterdon County the best county it can be? Do you want to work alongside our Republican elected officials and local volunteers to ensure your best interests are represented? If so, we have two great clubs you can join: The North Hunterdon Republican Club and The Tewksbury Republican Club. Both clubs are affiliated with the Hunterdon GOP, and each club meets in person to discuss local and federal policy, share volunteer opportunities for local campaigns, and hold political and social events throughout the year. If you would like to become involved, please email: nhrepublicanclub2017@gmail.com and/or reach out to the Tewksbury Republican Club on their website: www. TewksburyRepublicans.org. "Home is not a place, it's a feeling" ~ Unknown "Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded." ~ Jennifer Ellison -Julie Flunn Sullivan's Column, continued from page 3... location of Miller's Tavern, through Annandale, crossing the wooden bridge in Clinton, then known as Hoff's, and over Jugtown Mountain, via what is known today as Route 173, through Bloomsbury to Phillipsburg. They crossed the Delaware on ferries and mustered in the Easton town square where the sick were sent to the Moravian hospitals in Bethlehem. On December 20, in the midst of a snowstorm, General Sullivan rode into Buckingham at the head of Lee's troops, having marched at a pace four times what Lee had set; but instead of the 4,000 that Washington had been expecting, there were only half that number, and the men were in more wretched condition than even Washington's own ranks. Sullivan's Column formed the right wing of the American attack on Trenton on Christmas Day, 1776. Among his army was John Glover's Gloucester Regiment of Fishermen. It was they who manned the Durham boats when Washington crossed the Delaware. The triumph at Trenton, as well as the subsequent victory at Princeton, sent American morale soaring. Loyalist Nicholas Cresswell noted the significance of this event in his diary: 'The minds of the people are much altered. A few days ago they had given up the cause for lost. Their late successes have turned the scale and now they are all liberty mad again... They have recovered from their panic and it will not be an easy matter to throw them into that confusion again.' As Lord George Germain, King George III's colonial Secretary of State, lamented, 'All our hopes were blasted by that unhappy affair at Trenton.' " BIBLIOGRAPHY: • Dwyer, William M.: The Day is Ours! New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1998 • Lefkowitz, Arthur S.: The Long Retreat. Metuchen, NJ: The Upland Press. 1998 • McCullough, David: 1776 • New York: Simon & Schuster. 2005. 385p • Peck, Spencer: Crossroads of the Revolution. Colorado Springs: American Numismatic Association. The Numismatist. June, 1999 • Rau, Louise ed.: Sergeant Smith's (John) Diary of 1776. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 20 (June 1933 to March 1934). I hope you and your families enjoy a wonderful holiday season, and take a moment to reflect on our nation's long and hard-fought journey toward independence.

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