Reenactors – The Revolutionary War on Staten Island

May 7, 2015August 23, 2019

The Reenactment Unit is The 4th Battalion New Jersey Volunteers (a Loyalist Unit). I participated as a common soldier from 2008 to 2014.

Reenactment of Peace Conference at Christopher Billopp’s Bentley Manor (Conference House), Staten Island, September 11, 1776.

The Reenactment Unit is The 4th Battalion New Jersey Volunteers (a Loyalist Unit). I participated as a common soldier from 2008 to 2014.

Todd Braisted, noted Historian of all things Loyalist. For more info, see
Revolutionary War Loyalist history and genealogy

Getting SI signatures to Loyalty Oaths to King George III

A beautiful Loyalist walking the grounds of the Conference House

Me, Native Staten Islander loyal to the King of England

Loyalists troops standing guard

View of Perth Amboy

Frankin, Adams and Rutlege arrive from across the Authur Kill
to participate in the Peace Conference

Front Parlor for Dining

Best Front Parlor

300-year-old Mulberry Tree

2007 Event

May 12, 2010June 24, 2019

Closter Raid, N.J. (Loyalist reenactment 4th B. N.J. Volunteers)

The IV Battalion New Jersey Volunteers were garrisoned on Staten Island for most of the War, but made frequent forays and raids into nearby towns in New Jersey. These photos are from a reenactment of the Raid on Closter, New Jersey, a rebel stronghold.

May 12, 2010June 24, 2019

Bound Brook, N.J. May 2009 (Loyalist reenactment 4th B. N.J. Volunteers)

Reenactment as a Loyalist soldier (an American-born colonist who supported the Crown) with the IV Battalion NJ Volunteers at Bound Brook, New Jersey. The Regimental coat, waistcoat, shirt and trousers were all borrowed thanks to Todd and Sue Braisted and Ray Helge. For more information, please visit: Royal Provincial, the official Loyalist History page authored by historian Todd Braisted.

October 19, 2009June 24, 2019

Peace Conference, Tottenville, Staten Island, N.Y. Sept. 2009 (Loyalist reenactment 4th B. N.J. Volunteers)

An added feature this year at the 1776 Peace Conference Reenactment were actors portraying Admiral Howe, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge, seated at a dining table on the lawn of the house arguing over the details of the ill-fated peace agreement. They were ferried over in a row boat from Perth Amboy (see pictures below).