Temperance Wick

When her mother's condition worsened, Tempe saddled her horse and rode for the home of Doctor William Leddell, who lived about a mile away.

Tempe supposedly kept the horse hidden in the bedroom until New Year's Day, when the mutineers marched south to Princeton, New Jersey.

[4] After her mother Mary died on July 7, 1787, Tempe inherited Jockey Hollow, and married Dr. William Tuttle at the relatively late age of 30.

Tempe Wick is the main character in a short story written by the American story-teller Frank R. Stockton.

However, most scholars agree that Stockton used very few sources when writing the story, and like most later writers and story-tellers who wrote about Tempe Wick, added many details of his own to the legend.

Stockton's story is filled with exhortations to patriotism and courage: "When [Tempe] first began to canter over these hills and dales, it had been in times of peace, when there was nothing in this quiet country of which any one might be afraid; and now, although these were days of war, she felt no fear.

There were soldiers not far away, but these she looked upon as her friends and protectors; for Washington and his army had encamped in that region to defend the country against the approach of the enemy."

Howard Fast's historical novel The Proud and the Free (1950) tells the story of the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny from the enlisted man's perspective.