"The Wick House"
The Wick House served as officers quarters during each of the Continental Army's encampments at Morristown, New Jersey.
The Wick House was built between 1747 and 1750 by Henry Wick. Captain Henry Wick owned the home and farm including 1400 acres of timber and open field. He served with a company of the Morris county calvary. The calvary's mission was to protect Governor Livingston and the Privy Council.
The Wick House in the Morristown National Historical Park served as the quarters of Major Joseph Bloomfield of the Third New Jersey Regiment during the winter of 1776-1777. Later, it also served as the winter headquarters of General Arthur St. Clair in 1779 through 1780. The Continental Army spent that winter camped on the Wick and Kimbel Farms approximately four miles southwest of Morristown.
A short story survives to this day about the Wick family and the Pennsylvania troop encampment:
In 1781, the Pennsylvania soldiers under Captain Anthony Wayne mutinied. Mrs. Wick was ill at the time and Temperance Wick, known locally as Temp, was sent to get her brother-in-law, Dr. Leddel. Upon returning on her horse, several soldiers stopped her and made her dismount, telling Temp that they needed her horse. Temp played a trick on the soldiers and escaped with her horse. When she returned to the house, she hid the horse in a bedroom using a feather bed to muffle the sound of the horses hooves. Shortly thereafter, the soldiers came looking for the horse and searched the barn and in the woods surrounding the home, never thinking that the horse could be inside the house. In one version of this story, the horse remained hidden in the home for three weeks.
THE FIELD PUZZLE:
A. What is the figure of the door knocker on the back door?
Ram = 2 , hand = 5 , x Lion = 6
B. How many total windows does the wick house have?
8 = 0, 13 = 1 , 20 = 2
C. Look inside the well, what is covering the top of the well?
boards = 3, metal bars = 8, plexiglass = 4
D. There is an out building opposite the well, what is this building?
Smokehouse = 4, Garden Shed = 5, chicken coop = 7
E. What is the primary color of the Wick House?
White = 6, Gray = 8, Barn Red = 9
F. There two small windows opposite the well, count the total window paines of these two windows? x+x=?
8 = 4, 10 = 5, 12 = 6
SOLUTION: N40 46 A B C W 074 32 D E F
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