Affair at Little Egg Harbor

Little Egg Harbor massacre
Part of the American Revolutionary War
DateOctober 15, 1778
Location
near Little Egg Harbor, present-day Tuckerton, New Jersey
39°32′56″N 74°22′30″W / 39.549°N 74.375°W / 39.549; -74.375
Result British victory
Belligerents
 United States  Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Kazimierz Pułaski Patrick Ferguson
Strength
50 250
Casualties and losses
45 killed
5 captured
3 killed
3 wounded

The Affair at Little Egg Harbor took place on October 15, 1778, in southern New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War. American Loyalists killed 45 Patriot men, bayonetting them as they slept. The massacre took place about one week after the Battle of Chestnut Neck, a British raid aimed at suppressing privateers who used the area as a base to harass and seize British ships and their cargoes.