George Washington received reports of many rapes by British soldiers in the town of Pennington, New Jersey. A judicial inquiry confirmed that they had happened on a large scale. Mary Campbell, wife of Daniel Campbell, appeared before Justice Jared Saxton of the Hunterdon County Court and swore that she was raped many times by soldiers when she was “five months and upwards Advanc’d in her Pregnancy.” Rebekkah Christopher testified under oath that she was raped several times by British soldiers and got away, only to find her ten-year-old daughter in a barn being raped by five or six others.56
