Sarah Vreeland - Ann Arbor, MI - American Revolution Patriot Graves on Waymarking.com

Located in Terhune Pioneer Memorial Park at 3626 Terhun?e Road, Ann Arbor MI? 48104?? is the gravestone of American Revolution patriot Sarah Vreeland. The stone is in very poor shape but sits alongside that of her husband who served under George Washington. Information about her contribution to the New Jersey Campaign during the Revolutionary War comes from a newspaper article in the Ann Arbor Argus-Democrat March 21, 1902 edition...

"John Terhune born at Hackensack, New Jersey, served as ensign all through the Revolutionary war, and received nine bayonet wounds.

He came to Michigan in 1831 and settled at Carpenter's Corners, Pittsfield, Washtenaw County, where he now lies buried. His wife, Sarah Vreeland, when a girl, walked nine miles before breakfast to warn the American camp of the approach of the British who had encamped the night before on a corner of her father's plantation at Hackensack."

Sarah was 15 years old when she performed this spy duty.

Patriot Name: Sarah Vreeland Type of Service Provided: Informant on troop movements Cemetery Name: Terhune Pioneer Memorial Park Text of the Grave Marker: Sarah Vreeland Terhune Revolutionary War Patriot 1761 - 1850 Grave Marker Type: Original stone marker Historical Background: On 1 December the enlistments of the Flying Camp's militia regiments officially expired and most of the remaining members headed home, further reducing Washington's effectives. That same day the British began pushing across the Raritan but were held at bay by an aggressive rear guard that included Captain Alexander Hamilton's company of New York artillery. On the 2nd, Washington reached Princeton and directed Brigadier General William Alexander (Lord Stirling) to remain with his and Brigadier General Adam Stephen's brigades (fourteen hundred men from Virginia and Delaware). Their mission was to buy time for the rest of the army to cross over the Delaware River to safety on the Pennsylvania side. While men and supplies ferried across using the boats assembled earlier, Washington started reinforcing Stirling's group. On the 6th, however, Howe joined Cornwallis at Brunswick with several more brigades of British and Hesse-Cassel regulars and then advanced to Princeton the next day. Stirling did not engage, but fell slowly back as ordered, and by the end of the afternoon of the 7th, most of the men had safely crossed using Beatty's ferry and the Trenton ferry. The rear guard crossed early on the 8th, just as the leading British patrols entered Trenton. Cornwallis wasted a day unsuccessfully searching for boats to use in getting his troops across.-New Jersey Campaign

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