ARP322 Long Beach Island Massacre

In 1782 and 1783, as it becomes increasingly apparent that the British have agreed to leave the United States, loyalist officers like John Bacon of New Jersey and the Doan Brothers of Pennsylvania continue to fight. Bacon massacres sailors on Long Beach Island. The Doans rob county treasuries and steal horses. The patriots governments treat t hem as outlaws and hunt them down.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Annals of the Revolution: Or, A History of the Doans. by Henry Brooke (Read on Google Books). 

Online Recommendation of the Week:  “An Account of the Capture and Death of the Refugee John Bacon” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society: https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofnew01newj_2/page/150/mode/2up

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