General Washington traveled with aides, his wife, her two adult children, assorted guests, and a full retinue of housekeeping staff. The socials, or entertainments, for the officers and their wives
during the travels in addition to the daily needs in rented and hastily occupied quarters, required a full housekeeping staff. As the family and friends traveled, there was always a threat of attack,
plots of kidnapping and assassination, and traitors from within. The General stopped at over two hundred different homes during the war years, sixty-three of them in New Jersey and the best
count of homes and taverns where he set up temporary household was thirty-five more different stops. His travel mates included thirty to fifty military bodyguards, his personal aide, and his
wife. During the course of the war, entertainment and daily housekeeping demanded two cooks, a laundress, and a housekeeper. The number of other servants varied, including servants of all
types, white and enslaved. The General’s “Military Family,” as he named it , traveled with him.
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