| 词条 | Hancock House (Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey) |
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| name = Hancock House | nrhp_type = | image = Hancock House, Lower Alloways Creek Township, NJ.jpg | caption = Hancock House, in 2010 | location= Rte. 49 and Front St., Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey | coordinates = {{coord|39|30|27|N|75|27|38|W|region:US-NJ_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = USA New Jersey Salem County#New Jersey#USA | built = {{Start date|1734}} | architecture = | added = December 18, 1970 | area = {{convert|2.5|acre}} | governing_body = State | refnum = 70000393[1] | designated_other1_name = New Jersey Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_abbr = NJRHP | designated_other1_link = New Jersey Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_date = September 11, 1970 | designated_other1_number = 2433[2] | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | designated_other1_color = #ffc94b }} The Hancock House is a historic structure in the Hancock's Bridge section of Lower Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey, United States. It was the site of the 1778 Hancock's Bridge massacre.[3] The site is on the National Register of Historic Places.[4] HistoryThe house was built in 1734 for Judge William and Sarah Hancock and features Flemish bond brickwork detailed with blue-glazed bricks, which gives the year of construction (1734) and the initials of the couple for whom it was built: W S for William and Sarah.[4] William died in 1762 and passed the house to his son William, also a judge. MassacreOn March 21, 1778, Major John Graves Simcoe led approximately 300 British soldiers and Queen's Rangers through a marsh and across Alloway Creek to surround Hancock House. At approximately 5 a.m., they entered the house and surprised 20 to 30 members of the local militia stationed there, along with Judge Hancock, a loyalist who was thought to be away for the night. Eight American men were killed during the melee, including Judge Hancock, who died the following day from 10 stab wounds. The rest were wounded at the scene or during a retreat, or captured as prisoners. William Abbott and his son Samuel watched in the dawning light from the attic window of their home in Elsinboro, diagonally across the creek from the Hancock House, as the British and Tory soldiers pursued and killed the few American militiamen who had escaped the scene of the carnage at the house and surrounding yard. The next morning while driving to a meeting in Salem, several British and Tory troops surrounded the Abbott carriage, tormenting the occupants by thrusting their bayonets at them, then showed them blood on their steel weapons and exclaimed, "See the blood of your countrymen." Other County Colonial lore states that, in the midst of the massacre, the pregnant wife of one of the local militia was sleeping in the Hancock House. She was awakened by the screams of the dying men and jumped from a second story window on the west side of the house to make her escape. Tradition says that, within twenty-four hours, the child was born and that descendants of that child are living in Lower Alloways Creek township today. The old Hancock House museum is said to still have actual massacre blood stains on its attic floor. See also
References1. ^{{NRISref|2009a}} 2. ^{{cite web | title=New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Salem County | url=http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/salem.pdf | publisher=New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office | page=1 | date=April 1, 2010 | accessdate=June 16, 2010 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017091529/http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/salem.pdf | archivedate=October 17, 2006 | df= }} 3. ^NJDEP-Parks and Forests-Centennial of NJ State Historic Site 4. ^1 {{cite journal|url={{NRHP url|id=70000393}}|title=NRHP Nomination: Hancock House|last1=Wilson|first1=Charles I., Jr.|date=December 18, 1970|publisher=National Park Service}}{{cite journal|url={{NRHP url|id=70000393|photos=y}}|title=Accompanying photo, from 1970.}} External links{{commonscat|Hancock House (Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey)}}
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