we will take you want to inside the old exam in new dress -- new jersey can learn about the revolutionary war and the first american and more. >> fire. >> we talk about the 18th century culture and we talk about how the french and indian war are confused in the minds of most americans. it is a very complicated time to see that is why five years we would culturally british to not wanting to be british anymore and to breakaway and be one of the most liberal and a free

governments in the world. >> the verruckt slide's initially used by british troops who would have been cornered here in the french and indian war. well the fighting was in new york and pennsylvania they needed a place to come and the wintertime. the british troops brought their troops into the eastern side of the county's and the french brother troops into quebec. they were quartered and taverns, both filled up pretty quickly and then the crown said i know we are not forcing the quarterly and people's homes, it is wartime, we have to make concessions. will be paid. troops started showing up in people's homes, they would stay there for the winter. a lot of people were not happy about it. with colonists started a petition, in response the crown set aside some funds to build a barracks throughout new

jersey. if you follow the corridor uppers the york, we have three there and to down here. we are the only one still standing today. the building you see is very true to what it looked like in the 18th century with a couple of minor changes. the bottom balconies would not have existed. they would have straight staircases to the doors. the center staircase that exist because they have archaeological evidence of there some kind of landing. we can only assume it would make sense to have a center staircase. the protection of it was built in 1858 and it was billed the following year in 1859. there are two very distinct styles. this squadron that we have is set up from a bunch of material from the french and indian war. these are not washington, these are soldiers fighting for the king of england on behalf of the colonies. we have some materials

that are out, we have a jacket that would have been worn by a regular soldier. these bedrooms what have fit two or three soldiers per bed. for a total of 12-18 soldiers room. inmate look at these bad and say they are tiny, they are tiny and short. they were not any shorter people than we are today, their nutrition was pretty good so the average height would have been around five foot eight inches, people were very close together. they would have slept had to tell. you can do deal with what you have, it is better than sleeping on the floor or on the ground. the officer's house on the other hand is much larger and ornate looking. it has a natural stone face it has a very different lifestyle. as you

enter into the officer's house you have is really grand hallway, there are two rooms on your left that can be used as bedrooms or offices. on this blue room it was extremely popular among very classy places in the 18th century this is called the long room it would have been used primarily for dining or entertaining. officers would accept visitors who were popular around trenton, they would play games, they went died, they had some of the finest foods around. above the fireplace we have a portrait of george the second, you would have seen this in most homes, especially government buildings. this bed bedroom we have this

set up to be designed like a junior officers quarters. even pretty young, early 18 cannot they would have been the third or fourth son in a wealthy family purchasing a position for their son in the military. he was going to receive a inheritance so he would receive a prominent position. here is where he would learn about different things on the battlefield. this bed is a little bit more ornate than the officer's house, the whole thing comes apart. it can be brought out in the battlefield, that way you are not sleeping on the ground and it is a lot more comfortable. we have a musket hanging on the wall and a couple of different recreation things. a lot of these men were educated and work altered and wanted to make that best maintained that it they really did keep a good contact with their families in england. during the spring,

summer and fall, they get a whole lot of fighting. they were out on the battlefield up near ticonderoga and down in the carolinas. new jersey is a very central point. it is easy to get troops in and out of here. the delaware river is right next to us. you can compose and ships through here. it is easy to unfold soldiers and supplies. before the revolutionary war we have this colony owned the building. there was not a lot to do with it. there was usually a caretaker who lived here on the grounds. there really was not a lot of ordering of soldiers. during the american revolution

it was an empty building for the most part, they would sometimes put soldiers in here and use it as a supply area. we do know that in the beginning of the month we had british soldiers here. then the night before the battle of trenton the hessians were already and trenton and taking over the houses. we believe and this building there may not have been many soldiers but we do believe that they would have been followers who were using them as protection. people who needed protection, they thought they had a very safe way of making them and their families of being safe. they were also swearing their allegiance, say they provided

health and assistance. the night of the battle of trenton mostly being women and older women -- men who were following along, they left. despite the weather. after the first and second battle happened and it was safely and patriot hands, it took on a incredible life. we do not know if washington ever step put in here, he thought this was a adequate building for running a hospital. starting in 1777 he said that all troops needed to be inoculated with smallpox. we have this room set up to look like the office, he was in a position of running the barracks when it was used as a military hospital with the primary purpose of doing smallpox

inoculations. they are different than a vaccination that people are familiar with. instead of just being a shot in the arm and you will be better by the end of the week this is a full on disease it is a mild form of it, it is a a lot form of a very deadly contagious disease that covers your body and boils and wounds, if you are sick you have a fever, you cannot keep food down. you can imagine this room with a couple of pieces of hay on the floor. soldiers are so excited to fight for america and the first thing is they are giving a deadly disease. this all happens in the room. i 1780 the american army disbanded, the building was empty so the state had no need for it they

auctioned it off in public and it was purchased from there on it was publicly owned. in 1914, the associations came together with an agreement that the state wanted a beautiful icon of new jersey's history history and the american revolution. we were the largest city at the time and the largest public building in the state. we were a pretty impressive thing, you came into town and saw a building of this magnitude , just a little bit outside of town it was a pretty domineering site. we want to maintain this emblem of its history.