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Lunch & Learn: New Jersey’s Revolutionary Rivalry, the Untold Story of Col. Tye & Capt. Huddy

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

12pm

Cape May Lutheran Church

New Jersey Historian Rick Geffken returns, bringing us the intriguing and little-known story of the Revolutionary War conflicts between a runaway slave called Col. Tye fighting for the British and his Patriot foe. The extralegal hanging of militia Capt. Joshua Huddy in Highlands, New Jersey created an international incident when George Washington resolved to hang a British POW in retribution. These incidents threatened the success of the Paris Peace Treaty talks.

Lunch & Learn photo

Presented by:

Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture)

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