Where the current Route 537 Bridge in Hainesport is, over the Rancocas River, local Patriots in June 1778 destroyed a bridge to delay the march of British soldiers across New Jersey, after General Clinton's evacuation of Philadelphia. Clinton's secretary recorded the incident: "a bridge was broken down by the rebels which, when our people were repairing, were fired upon by the those villains from a house, two of which were taken prisoners, three killed and the other two ran into the cellar and fastened it so we were obliged to burn the house and consume them in it." [1]
Sources:
1.^ Mark Di Ionno A Guide To New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail ( New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000) p.32
