The 51st annual Col. Edward Hand Historic March has been rescheduled to Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Municipal Building because of an anticipated snowstorm Saturday morning, according to township officials.
Following a short program, the marchers – led by Wiliam Agress, who portrays Col. Hand, and Mayor Jim Kownacki – will stop at the banks of the Shabakunk Creek at Notre Dame High School to watch as the Coryell’s Ferry militia re-enactors load and shoot a replica Revolutionary War cannon. The march ends in Trenton.
The event marks the re-enactment of the American patriots’ delaying tactics before the Second Battle of Trenton, which took place on Jan. 2, 1777. Col. Hand and his band of Pennsylvania riflemen held off the British advance on Trenton, but the British reached the small community at dusk later in the day.
They engaged Gen. George Washington and his troops in the Second Battle of Trenton. During the night and into the morning of Jan. 3, 1777, Gen. Washington and his troops marched around the British and Hessian troops and followed a back road to Princeton, surprising the British troops in what became known as the Battle of Princeton.

