1. Capt. John Montresor of the British engineers wrote in his journal on 3 May: “At 6 this morning (Sunday) calm and fine weather. I proceeded to the Jersies with the 55th and 63d Regt. and 12 Philadelphia Horse and began the Defenses on the Confluence of the Delaware and Cooper Creek by 4 Redoubts and flanked by the Cornwallis Galley”; on 6 May he wrote, “Finished our Works in the Jersies” (Scull, Montresor Journals description begins G. D. Scull, ed. The Montresor Journals. New York, 1882. In Collections of the New-York Historical Society, vol. 14. description ends , 488–89; see also Gruber, Peebles’ American War description begins Ira D. Gruber, ed. John Peebles’ American War: The Diary of a Scottish Grenadier, 1776–1782. Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1998. description ends , 178, and Whinyates, Services of Francis Downman description begins F. A. Whinyates, ed. The Services of Lieut.-Colonel Francis Downman, R.A., in France, North America, and the West Indies, between the Years 1758 and 1784. Woolwich, England, 1898. description ends , 58; Downman recorded that the two British regiments crossed the river on 2 May).

2. Batsto Furnace in what is now the village of Batsto in Burlington County, N.J., was located on the Batsto River just above the forks of the Little Egg Harbor River, about fifteen miles from the mouth of the latter river and thirty miles southeast of Woodbury, New Jersey. The ironworks, among the most important in the state, was owned and operated at this time by Philadelphia merchant Joseph Ball. When Ball offered the site for sale in 1783, it included a furnace “sufficiently large and commodious to produce upwards of 100 tons of pigs and castings per month,” a “Rolling and Slitting Mill,” a “Saw Mill and small Grist Mill,” a “Forge with four fires and two hammers,” tenements, dwelling houses, storehouses, workshops, a coal house, and a “commodious Mansion house” (Pennsylvania Gazette [Philadelphia], 2 July 1783).