URL details: summitnjhistory.org/historian/2019/10/30/the-battle-of-springfield-richard-swain-the-summit-beacon-hill-cannon-master
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The Battle of Springfield — Summit Historical Society
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Early on the morning of June 6, 1780, there was an incredible explosion
originating near the wagon trail that ultimately became Morris Turnpike/Rte
124, in Summit. The explosion came from the “Old Sow” cannon, fired by the
cannon master, Richard Swain, a member of the New Jersey Militia. It was
fired to alert George Washington’s Continental soldiers, bivouacked at
Jockey Hollow, in Morristown, that New Jersey was being invaded by about
6,000 British and Hessian troops.
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