Col. Somers' Video Log
This page serves as a reference to videos created at Chapter Events and Presentations. In some cases the presenter has been kind enough to provide a transcript of the presentation which will be linked. Please keep in mind that these videos where made over the course of several years and their quality reflects the technology available at the time of recording.
Dedication of the Privateers Memorial
Chestnut Neck, NJ
Oct. 1, 1988
Militia Man Memorial 100th Anniversary
Lafayette Chapter, NJDAR
Chestnut Neck, NJ
Oct. 10, 2011
1st. Lt. Jeremiah Leeds
The Quintessential Piney
Rev. Norman Goos
Oct. 12, 2017
Handout
Somers’ 3rd Battalion Nov-Jan 1776-77
Rev. Norman Goos
Aug 8, 2011
Handout
Somers’ 3rd Battalion at Chestnut Neck
Rev. Norman Goos
Oct. 2011
Handout
Battle of Red Bank
Rev. Norman Goos
May 10, 2010
Handout
Major John Andre — British Spy
Robert Crey, PhD
Sept. 9, 2010
Handout
The Jersey Devil
The Real Story
Prof. Brian Regal, PhD
Kean University
June 12, 2014
Online Genealogical Research
Charles Morgan
July 14, 2016
Handout
Religion and Revolution
Dr. John Fea
Professor of American History
Chair of the History Dept.
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
March 10, 2011
link
Brig. General Silas Newcomb & the South Jersey Militia
Douglas Yearsley
December 12, 2013
Revolutions in Trade
Dr. Michelle Craig McDonald
Associate Professor of History
Stockton University
April 14, 2011
handout
The War at the Shore
Presented by Tim Hart
Ocean County Cultural Heritage Commission
July 14, 2022
Baptists and Revolution
Dr. Janet Moore Lindman
Professor of History
Rowan University
May 12, 2011
Maps, History and the American Revolution
Adam E. Zielinski
October 13, 2022
bio
The Ordeal of George Washington
April 8, 2010
Professor Andrew Shankman, Professor of History, Rutgers University
Why Name It That?
Dr. Lee Ireland
Book
Changes in the Mullica Valley
Presented by Dr. Kenneth Abel
Rutgers University
8/10/2017
Beaches. Breaches Bays
Presentation by Rev. Norman Goos to the Atlantic County Historic Society
April 30, 2018
John Bacon
Presented February 8, 2023
Tori Robbins
Stockton University
Reward!
The Skirmish at Manahawkin
Presented May 20, 2023
Tim Hart
Ocean County Cultural Heritage Commission
handout
The Enemy Harassed
Washington’s New Jersey Campaign of 1777
Author: Jim Stemple
Presented May 20, 2024
book
Sandpaper Article
The Battle of Cedar Bridge
Presented June 6, 2017
Tim Hart
Ocean County Cultural Heritage Commission
Publications of the South Jersey Culture & History Center.
Presented May 5, 2022
Presenters Thomas Kinsella, PhD and Paul Schopp of Stockton University.
Link
Pomona to Grassy Bay Train Ride
Presented by. Rev. Norman Goos
December 9, 2021
handout
George Washington: Ordinary Man, Extraordinary Leader
Presented June 9, 2011
Dr. Robert Jones – Professor of History Emeritus Fordham University
The Skull of Count Von Donop
Presented July 13, 2023
Dr. Richard Veit, Associate Dean of the School of the Humanities and Social Science at Monmouth University
handout
The English Creek Watershed,
The Early Mills and the Stream that Powered Them
Presented May 13, 2021
Rev. Norman Goos
handout
“Cape May Letters 1660 – 1960“
Presented September 14, 2023
Jamie Hand, author
Sample Letters
Somers 3rd Battalion at Trenton
Presented to the Absecon Historical Society
October 2, 2023
Rev. Norman Goos
Atlantic County Historian
Colonial and Revolutionary Dress
Presented October 12, 2023
Julia Rose Driscoll
Ocean County Cultural and Historical Commission
Fish Factories of Little Egg Harbor
Presented April 10, 2014
Presented by Peter Stemmer
Shipwrecks of the Mullica River
Presented Nov 14, 2023
Presented by Prof. Steve Nagiewics
Stockton University
Col. John Taylor
Scholar, Soldier and Washington’s Spy Master
Presented by Russ Dutcher
January 11, 2024
International Incident
The Hanging of Joshua Huddy
Presented by: Tim Hart
Ocean County Historian
February 8, 2024
Artifacts of John Hart
and
Major John Polhemous
Presented by: Steve McBreaty
March 14, 2024