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Joshua Huddy

November 8, 1735

A Timeline of Patriot Martyr Joshua Huddy

Joshua Huddy was a Revolutionary War soldier who became renowned through his untimely death: he was hung by American Loyalists at Highlands in 1782, months after the Battle of Yorktown, the last major military engagement of the war.  Patriot outrage...
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September 24, 1777

New Jersey Militia Artillery Captain Joshua Huddy

In 1776, Huddy joined the New Jersey militia and on September 24, 1777, became a captain of artillery.  That year, he gladly pulled the rope to hang Stephen Edwards, a New Jerseyan who had been spying for the British.  After...
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October 27, 1778

Joshua Huddy, Innkeeper

On October 27, 1778, Huddy married Catherine Applegate Hart, the widow of Levy Hart, a Jewish tavern keeper in Colts Neck who had died in 1775.  Although Protestants, Catherine Applegate and her sister Hannah both married prosperous Jews in Monmouth...
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August 5, 1780

Joshua Huddy, Privateer

On August 5, 1780, Joshua Huddy received a privateer's commission.  Though best known for his exploits on land, Huddy also supported the revolutionary cause on water, attacking and seizing British ships both to hamper enemy operations and to earn the...
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September 1, 1780

The Fatal Showdown Between Colonel Tye and Joshua Huddy

Original illustration exclusively for Monmouth Timeline, ©2021 by Charles Swerdlow, all rights reserved. In the years following the Battle of Monmouth, residents of Monmouth County engaged in an escalating civil war between residents siding with the Revolutionary cause, and residents...
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March 24, 1782

Joshua Huddy is Captured Again; No Escape This Time

On February 1, 1782, Huddy was given command of the blockhouse at Toms River that was built to protect the local salt works.    On March 24, 1782, Joshua Huddy finally faced a challenge he could not overcome.  Commanding 25...
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April 12, 1782

Up Goes Huddy

On April 12, 1782, about six months after the British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War, Patriot militia Captain Joshua Huddy was removed from the infamous British Liberty Street Sugar House prison in New York...
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April 14, 1782

Outrage Over the Martyred Joshua Huddy

When a group of Middletowners discovered Huddy’s body hanging from a makeshift gallows on a spring day in 1782, an overturned barrel at his feet and a vengeful placard on his breast, they had no idea that Huddy’s death would...
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February 14, 1837

The Legacy of Joshua Huddy

In 1836, Huddy's surviving daughter, Martha Piatt, wrote to Congress that the nation had never expressed its gratitude to Huddy and asked for money and land for herself and her late sister's children.  On February 14, 1837, a special committee of...
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