The White Hill Mansion is Fieldsboro was built in 1722 by Robert Field. Field was a successful merchant and an advocate of the American Revolution, but in 1775 he mysteriously drowned in the Delaware River. After Field's death, his young wife Mary was left the house where she also cared for their three children. During the Revolutionary War, Mrs. Field was reported by her loyalist neighbors as a rebel supporter after she had dinner with American naval Captain Tom Houston and his officers. Soon after her home was invaded by the British in search for hidden soldiers. In 1777, General Washington put orders for Colonial Captain Thomas Read and Captain John Barry to dock the American ships at White Hill. Mrs. Field eventually ended up marrying Commodore Thomas Read in 1779 and he made White Hill Mansion his home until his death in 1788. The home remained a private residence even housing a U.S. Senator, entrepreneurs, and rum runners. In 1923, Heindrich and Katrina Glenk turned it into Glenk's Mansion House Restaurant. The restaurant served New Jersey's upper-class for the next 50 years. In 1999, the property had fallen into disarray and there was talk of it being abolished. The local community seeking the preservation of the home came to rescue and by 2012 it was placed on the New Jersey State Register of Historic Places. It is reportedly haunted with sightings of a featureless “shadow man” and other incidences including ghost chatter, sounds of children playing in the nursery, and sounds of footsteps at the stairs in the middle of the night
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