INSTINCT
Continental Army Encampment
Morristown, United States
<br><center>Brig. Gen. Henry Knox</center>in command of the artillery of the Continental Army used the field now covered by these ponds as pasture for the artillery horses. His soldiers lived in log huts erected on the hillside to the west. Nine brigades of the Continental Army were hutted in Jockey Hollow.<br><center> ----------<br>General Washington<br>occupied the<br>Ford Mansion on Morris Avenue<br>---------- <br>The troops were in Morristown from<br>December 1, 1779 to June 23, 1780.</center>