Great question, and I would like to hear the definitive answer, but you probably won't get one. It seems that the research has been done, and there is no "hard" evidence. Well, there's that old joke about all the places that claim "Washington slept here." Does the family tradition give a timeframe when Washington may have been there? I would assume that to sleep near Headquarters, NJ, it would have had to be during the retreat across NJ in late November or early December 1776, or just before the battle of Monmouth in June 1778. There is the slight chance he could have stayed in the area just before or after the Morristown encampments in 1776/77, 1779/1780 or 1780/1781, during the Middlebrook encampment in 1778/1779 or on the road to Yorktown. Here is a list of places GW slept. I did not see John Opdyke's residence among them. http://www.presidentialmuseums.com/Locations/1.htm You may also try to do a search, based on his papers at the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html or GW's diaries (incomplete duing the war period as he was a bit busy to keep up with the habit) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwintro.html an old book called the Life of GW http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/gwlife/index.html or Lossings field book http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/Lossing1/Contents.html Check the newspaper article mentioned in http://www.amwell.org/About/History/history.html "Amwell Church of the Brethren was originally known as the Amwell German Baptist Church. "It is the oldest place of worship in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. During the Revolution, General Washington marched his army past the site of the present church and halted overnight at the village of Headquarters, a mile distant." This is from the Newark Evening News of September 9, 1933." This site also reiterates the story. http://www.heritagepursuit.com/OpDyck/OpDyck4thGen.htm this has the tale by an Opdyke child that remembered Washington, but her memory seems like she saw him often, which is unlikely. Lastly, I see no evidence of a diary at the NJ Hist. Society, David Library or Rutgers Special COllections. Do you know of the existence of a diary? John Opdyke is missing from Stryker's list of veterans, but he did not get everyone: http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Searchable_Publications/index.php?include=reg http://www.geocities.com/dane97520/StrykerIndex.html Susan Pena <sweetsue63@sbcglobal.net> wrote: I am trying to find a document that states that George Washington actually did make John Opdyke's home in Headquarters, NJ his "headquarters" for a few days during the Rev. War. I need something like a diary page, a document, a letter mentioning this, a map, a deed -- something associated with the house, etc. that states this. I have checked in the book, "The Op Dyck Genealogy" written by Charles Wilson Opdyke and I have that information. I belong to DAR and John Opdyke has now been removed from the DAR Patriot Index because they say the story is "heresy" and there is no proof that this actually happened. They will not be admitting anyone to DAR on this line until some form of proof that is not "oral tradition" is issued. I have a pending Supplemental that could be verified if I could find this additional piece. I have already submitted the book listed above and they will not accept it. Furthermore, all those now belonging to DAR under John Opdyke will remain in the organization but no more will be allowed to join, as it stands right now until this proof is found. John Opdyke is my grandfather through his daughter, Elizabeth Opdycke Arnwine and her daughter Elizabeth Arnwine Carroll (Daniel Carroll, husband). This would have been a new child on the line, which I was most excited about. Please, if you know of somewhere to look or find this info, I would appreciate knowing where to get it or I will pay you for a copy of what you have and the postage to mail it, if there is such a document or piece of evidence. Please contact me at: sweetsue63@sbcglobal.net Thanks Susan Shuler Pena ==== NJHUNTER Mailing List ==== This mail list is archived at: http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/index/NJHUNTER ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more.