Talk:Joshua Huddy

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This article is actually written pretty well. I think two things are essential to making it better:

citations for all of the material
a picture, either of his house in Colt’s Neck or of the recreated blockhouse in Huddy Park in Toms River.

His house in Colt's Neck was across from the Colt's Neck Inn on route 537. It is long gone.

NOTE - the house was behind the Colts Neck inn, where the parking lot is today. It was not across the street. Based on the metes and bounds description of the property, and the archeological work done on the property where the historical marker is located. The house was torn down in the 1840's, the inn is still there.

A picture of Huddy's house, formerly the house of Levy Hart and his wife Catherine Applegate, can be found in Lossings "Field Book Of The Revolution" Vol II. It id not believed to be subject to copyright.

Question: What is the source of the notion that Huddy's widow pleaded for Asgill's life? There is no record of that in the papers of GW, and in the two letters sent to GW by Major James Gordon, the British officer who attempted to secure Asgill's release. It is said that it was Gordon who induced Catherine Applegate Hart Huddy to appeal to Washington on Asgill's behalf. There is no known "proof" that that ever took place.

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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:11, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why was Lippincott acquitted...[edit]

According to a book on Lippincott's in-laws, The Denison Family, he was not acquitted at all.

He evaded a court martial on the claim that, as an irregular, he was a civilian, and wasn't subject to military law.
charges against him, in the civilian courts in the rump of territory still controlled by the UK, were dropped, when a sympathetic judge claimed the incident occurred outside British control.

General Clinton kept Lippincott in custody, for the duration, as if he had been convicted, to prevent Asgill being killed in retaliation.

For what it is worth, Lippincott's brother-in-laws killing, by American irregulars, sounds extremely brutal - an eye plucked out, both legs broken, and arm cut off.

FWIW, Lippincott's claim he wasn't subject to military law would get him facing war crimes charges, today. Geo Swan (talk) 10:46, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]