About 6 months - during the winter of 1779-80.
Washington and his troops made their encampment at Jockey Hollow and the surroundung area between January 1777 and May of 1777. He returned with his troops two years later between December 1789 and June 1780 which is what is often referred to the "worst winter" of the 18th century.
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