The
Field Family
Mary Peale Field
Matriarch of White Hill 1741-1816
Married Robert Field II in 1765 and had 7 children together, though only 3 lived to adulthood. Widowed in 1775, her home visited by he Navy, searched by the British, occupied by the Hessians, Mary survived as best she could by appearing nonpolitical. She remarried in 1779 to Commodore Thomas Read.
Mary Peale Field
Matriarch of White Hill
1741-1816
Robert Field II
Patriarch of White Hill 1723-1775
Married to Mary Peale Field and built White Hill in the 1760's. He was appointed to the Committee of Correspondence of New Jersey in 1774. He died under mysterious circumstances in January 1775.
Robert Field II
Patriarch of White Hill
1723-1775
Count Carl Emil Kirk Von Donop, a Hessian colonel, was the senior officer and commanded the garrisons in Trenton, Burlington, and Bordentown, which consisted of several Hessian battalions. He was encamped at Bordentown at the time of the Battle of Trenton. Donop visited and had tea with Mary Field on two occasions and wrote orders for the protection of the Field property during the war.
Carl von Donop
1732-1777
Carl von Donop
1732-1777
Thomas Read
Commodore
1740-1788
Mary's second husband, Read was appointed commodore of the Pennsylvania Navy, with the surgeon of his fleet Benjamin Rush. He made a successful defense of the Delaware River. He was appointed in June of 1776 to the highest grade in the Continental Navy
Thomas Read
Commodore
1740-1788
Robert S. Field III
Troubled Entrepeneur
1775-1810
Married into the most prestigious family in New Jersey, it is believed that Robert III improved and updated the mansion but fell into deep debt. Pieces of White Hill's land went to sheriff's sale and only the intervention of his sister's husband saved him from ruin. He and Abigail Stockton have 6 children and stay at White Hill until his death.
Robert S. Field III
Troubled Entrepreneur
1775-1810
Mary (Molly) Field Stockton
Daughter of a New Nation
1767-1837
Molly was a young girl when the Hessians occupied her home. Daughter-in-law to Richard Stockton, sister-in-law to Benjamin Rush and personal friend of Thomas Paine, she was at the heart of America's very beginnings. in 1788, she married Richard Stockton Jr. and moved to Morven in Princeton, NJ. They have 9 children.
Mary (Molly)
Field Stockton
Daughter of a New Nation
1767-1837
Annis B. Stockton
American Poet
1736-1801
Mother-in-law to Robert III, Molly, and Benjamin Rush, and married to signer Richard Stockton, Annis rescued and hid important papers of the American Whig Society prior to the British invasion of Princeton. She was a penpal to George Washington, and died at White Hill in 1801.
Annis B. Stockton
American Poet
1736-1801
Richard Stockton Jr.
Lawyer
1764-1826
The Duke, Richard Stockton Jr. was the son of Richard Stockton, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He followed in the footsteps of his Father and his Uncle Elisha Boudinot and became an outstanding lawyer and a dominant figure in the Federalist Party. He was the first U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
Richard Stockton Jr.
Lawyer
1764-1826