Books

Adelberg, Michael S.
The American Revolution in Monmouth County: The Theatre of Spoil and Destruction
Charleston, SC
The History Press 2010
Revolutionary War Scholar Michael S. Adelberg brings to life the struggles within Monmouth Couny, a place New Jersey governor William Livingston called the “theatre of spoil and destruction.” 157 pages. Paperback.

Ammundsen, Anne
The Charles Asgill Affair: Setting the record Straight
Berwyn Heights, MD
Heritage Books, Inc. 2023
Comprehensive treatment of The Asgill Affair illuminating the background and results. 298 pages. Paperback.

Beck, Henry Calton
More Forgotten Townshop of Southern New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press 1963
Contains a chapter on Cedar Bridge Tavern. 338 pages. Paperback.

Bill, Alfred Hoyt
New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press 1964
117 pages. Paperback.

Blackhawk, Ned
The Rediscover of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History
New Haven, CT
Yale University Press 2023
Western Shoshone historian Ned Blackhawk pursues a narrative of Indigenous People at the center of United States history. Blackhawk asks how the history of “the world’s most exemplary democracy” can be rooted in the dispossession of Indigenous People? And, how have historians ignored the centrality of Indigenous People in US history? In order to tell a new history of the United States, Blackhawk rejects narratives of discovery and emphasizes a long history of Native-newcomer encounters in North America as well as Indigenous agency
and mobility.

Blackman, Leah
Leah Blackman’s Old Times and Other Writings
edit Steve Dodson
Tuckerton Historical Society 2000
A thoughtful collection of oral history and pain staking research, this book provides an impressive vision into the 18th and 19th centuries of Little Egg Harbor. A collection of published and unpublished works written in the mid-19th century.

Boyer, Charles S.
Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey
Comprehensive exploration of the taverns of West Jersey. Pages. Hardbound.

Cobb, Robert
Privateers and Pine Robbers: Coastal New Jersey During the American Revolution
Middletown, DE 2024
Thoroughly researched history including a collection of of original documents and observations from the history of Coastal New Jersey during the American Revolution. 461 pages.

Desmarais, Norman
The Guide to the American Revolutionary War in NJ: Battles, Raids, and Skirmishes
Ithica, NY
Busca Books 2011
264 pages. Paperback.

Di Ionno, Mark
A Guide to New Jersey’s Revolutionary War Trail for Families and History Buffs
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press 2000
224 pages. Paperback

Dolin, Eric Jay
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
New York, NY
Liveright Publishing 2022
Jay Dolin corrects the significant omissions of privateers in the founding of the US Navy.
302 pages

Farner, Thomas P.
New Jersey in History: Fighting to be Heard
Harvey Cedars, NJ
Down the Shore Publishing 1996
Here is New Jersey’s surprising and often tumultuous history. Book includes articles on Cedar Bridge, Barnegat Light Massacre and John Bacon from a contemporary journalist perspective. Book has been credited as starting the process that saved and restored Cedar Bridge Tavern.

Fowler, David J.
Egregious Villains, Wood Ranges, and London Traders: The Pine Robber Phenomenon in New Jersey
New Brunswick
NJ Doctoral Thesis, Rutgers University 1987
This dissertation describes and analyzes the proliferation of civil violence and guerilla warfare during the Revolutionary war in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and contiguous coastal area In the colonial period the sub region was a political , economic, and cultural marginal wilderness that nonetheless was not characterized by criminality of violence. Upon the outbreak of war, however, the forest was employed for one of the ancient uses of such “waste” places when it became the refuge and a base of operations for the Loyalist irregulars and others of more questionable motivations.

Frazza, Al
State of Revolution: My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey Through
Revolutionary War New Jersey
258 Publishing 2021 187 pages. Paperback.

Gabriele, Michael C.
Colonial Taverns of New Jersey: Libations, Liberty & Revolution
Charleston, SC
History Press 2023
Timely and thorough exploration of the topic. 201 Pages.

Gabrrielan, Randall
Monmouth County: Revolutionary War Sites
Charleston, SC
History Press 2025
155 pages. Paperback

Geffken, Rick
New Jersey’s Revolution Rivalry
Charleston, SC
The History Press 2025
The ongoing conflict of Revolutionary Monmouth County demonstrates the vital role of Enslavement was to this bitter civil war conflict. The British practice of encouraging enslaved peoples to escape and fight the local patriots proved to be effective. 297 pages.

Glickson, Don
After Yorktown: The Final Struggle For American Independence
Yardley Westholme 2015
432 pages. Paperback.

Hand, JP.,
Stites, Daniel P.
The Cape May Navy: Delaware Bays Privateers in the American Revolution
Charleston, SC
The History Press 2018
The Delaware Bay during the Revolutionary War was a vital trade and home to a host of armed conflicts between British vessels and American Privateers. Cape May captains in their light, fast vessels captured dozens of British merchant ships off the Atlantic coast. The authors chart the exciting history of the Cape May Navy in the War of Independence.

Kemp, Franklin W.
A Nest of Rebel Pirates
Egg Harbor City, NJ
The Laurelton Press 1966
The authentic first attempt at documenting the Defense of Little Egg Harbor and attack on Chestnut Neck. 208 pages.

Kidder, Larry
Meet Your Revolutionary Neighbors
New Brunswick, NJ
AlphaGraphics 2015
100 pages. Paperback.

Konstam, Angus
American Privateers of the Revolutionary War
Oxford, UK
Osprey Publishing 2020
48 pages. Paperback.

Kurlansky, Mark
Salt: A World History 2002
This book is a fascinating history of the central nature of salt to word economic and political history. The book clearly illustrates how the monopoly of salt was central to the British
Empire’s Mercantile system. The patriots were forced to open their own salt works to replace this vital source of military and economic supplies. The author illustrates that Mahatma Gandhi’s famous walk across India was over a very similar issue over salt from the ocean.

Lurie, Maxine N.
Taking Sides: Revolutionary New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press 2022
239 pages. Paperback.

Miller, Pauline S.
Ocean County: Four Centuries in the Making
Lawrenceville, NJ
Alma Offset Company, inc. 2000
The 981 page book on the history of Ocean County collected by the Ocean County’s first official historian for the 150th anniversary of Ocean County.

Moonsammy, Rita,
Cohen, David Steven,
Williams, Lorraine E.
Pinelands Folklore
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press 1987
Fundamental Resource for Pinelands cultural study. Funded by the NJSCA, the NJHC and the NJ State Museum in the Department of State. Cosponsored by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. This book contains the reference to the hamlet of Candlewood, near Cedar Bridge that says that al roads in the Pinelands lead to Candlewood. 234 pages. Paperback.

National Society of the DAR
Forgotten Patriots – African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War: A Guide to Service, Sources, and Studies
Washington, DC 2008
An exhaustive investigation of African Americans and Native Americans in the American Revolutionary War. 854 Pages.

Ocean County Principals Council
The Tides of Time in Ocean County
Ocean County Principals Council 1940
This classic volume tells the entire story of Ocean County History from the perspective of the individual schools. The historic story predates the Garden State Parkway and modern times. Most direct assertion that the Joshua Huddy incident relayed peace negations and led to the Mississippi as the US western border. 192 Pages.

Salter, Edwin A
History of Monmouth and Ocean County
Bayonne, NJ
E. Gardner & Sons Publishers 1890
One of the standard historical and genealogical works on Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Contains such items as a list of officers and soldiers from old Monmouth who served in the Revolutionary War. Actually a collection of his 19th century newspaper articles published after his death by his wife. He includes many oral histories of the American Revolution in what is now Ocean County.

Shomette, David Grady
Privateers of the Revolution: War on the New Jersey Coast 1775-1783
Atglen, PA
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 2016
A revelatory narrative of 538 Pennsylvania and New Jersey Privateers. 447 pages.

Soderlund, Jean R.
Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press 2022
Scholarly treatment of the relationship between the Lenape and the Colonists. 187 pages.

Solem-Stull, Barbara
The Forks: A Brief History of the Area
Medford, NJ
Plexas Publishing 2002
37 pages. Paperback.

Uhland, Joseph C.
Revolution in South Jersey
Camden, NJ
Camden County Historical Society.
2001 205 Pages. Paperback.

Ward, Harry M.
Between the Lines: Badatti of the American Revolution
Wesport, Conn.
Preager Publishing 2002 Places the Pine Robbers in the context of irregular activity in the other colonies. 329 Pages.

Ward, Geoffrey C.
Burns, Ken
The American Revolution: An Intimate History
New York, NY
Alfred A. Knopf 2025
The Companion Guide to the PBS series. 581 pages.

Weiss, Harry B.,
Weiss, Grace M.
The Revolutionary Saltworks of the New Jersey Coast
Monograph 1959
This 1959 monograph is the most comprehensive investigation of the vital salt works along
the New Jersey coast during the American Revolution including discussion of the actual
process of making the salt from bay or ocean water.

Wilbur, C. Keith, MD
Pirates & Patriots of the Revolution
Gilford, Conn
The Globe Pequot Press 1973
96 pages. Paperback.