This is the fourth in a series.

There are many legends of the Jersey Shore that are difficult to prove, and one has always been that a ship load of British Redcoats wrecked on the coast early in the American Revolution alarming the locals, forcing them to take sides.

For the people of coastal New Jersey in October 1775, the war was in distant New England, and so far, their involvement in it had been more in the line of lending moral support to Washington’s army.