Billop's Point
The Conference House is situated on the southernmost point of New York State, this point of land, jutting out into Raritan Bay was known as "Billop's Point" during the 18th century. It was from Billop's Point where a raid on October 25, 1779, known as "Simcoe's Raid", was conducted upon patriot-held New Jersey by John Graves Simcoe, leader of the Tory unit the Queen's Rangers. In Simcoe's Military Journal. In A History Of The Operations Of A Partisan Corps Called The Queen's Rangers which he wrote after the war, he mentions;
The batteaux, and boats, which were appointed to be at Billop's-point, so as to pass the whole over by twelve o'clock at night, did not arrive till three o'clock in the morning.
Billop's point is mentioned in the Journal of Major André;
Oct. 25th The Regiments at Amboy received Orders to strike their tents and send them with their baggage to the water's side. Those at Staten Island had orders to leave theirs standing, and repair by 8 o'clock in the evening to Billop's Point.
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