High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Battle of Millstone, also known as the Battle of Van Nest`s Mill, was a skirmish that occurred near the mill of Abraham Van Nest (in present-day Manville, New Jersey) on January 20, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. A British foraging party was flanked and driven off by forces composed mostly of New Jersey militia, depriving the British of their wagons and supplies.