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Extract of a letter from Morristown, April 5.
"I have no news worth writing concerning the ma- nœuvres of the enemy ; last week we took about 40 horses, and a great number of cows and sheep, part from the Philistines, and part from the tories; I have the pleasure to inform you, that we have secured a cursed traitor Scrivener Collins; we took him in the bud ; he- was going round, taking an account of our waggons,. strength, &c. I hope you will have another hanging frolick .- God grant that we may find out the whole gang.
P. S. Just now received the account of an action yes -. terday at Quibble-town-we drove the enemy, killed five, and had only one rifle-man wounded."-The Pennsylva -- nia Gazette, April 9, 1777.
New-York, April 14. The Philadelphia Newspapers are stuffed with continued false Accounts of Skirmishes and other Exploits of their Raggamuffins in the Jersies, in which they always obtain most wonderful and "never- to-be-heard-of" Victories. The following may serve for a Specimen, taken from the Pennsylvania Journal of the 2d of April. In a Skirmish, which is stated to have happened near Quibble-Town on the 24th of March, they say the British " must have lost some Men, as they were
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seen carrying them off in the time of Action, which hap- pened within half a Mile of their Breast-works. We had ·two Rifles broke, but not a Man hurt in this Skirmish ; are evident Proof, that Providence shields the just and brave [they mean themselves] for we forced them from an advantageous Wood, where they were posted behind Trees, and our People entirely exposed in an open Field. " The Troops that were engaged with ours were BRITISH and not HESSIAN. Our whole Party did not exceed ONE AND THIRTY, and the Enemy not less than THREE HUN- DRED MEN."-What Opinion must these People have of their Followers, when they suppose them capable of believing such enormous Falsehoods as these ?
On Friday last a Party of about 50 Men came into Town from West Jersey. They fell in with a large Body of the Rebels, with whom they had a slight Skirmish, in which they killed five of them, without any Loss to themselves. The whole Country is so oppressed with the Villainy and tyrannical Proceedings of the Rebels, that the Inhabitants are almost every where ready to rise, when the King's Troops shall take the Field.
Last Week died at Raritan Landing, in New-Jersey, Cornelius Lowe,' Esq ; a Gentleman much esteemed by
1 Cornelius Low, baptized at New York, March 31st, 1700 (son of Cornelis Louw, baptized at Kingston or Esopus, in 1670; married, July 5th, 1695, Margreta Van Bor- sum; died at Newark, or at Second River, in 1749 ; he was the son of Pieter Cornelis Low, of Kingston, and Elizabeth Blanshaw, his wife ; Pieter came to America in 1663) ; married May 10th, 1729, Johanna, daughter of Isaac Gouverneur, of Newark. Cornelius Low removed to Raritan Landing, or Piscataqua, about 1730, and carried on a mercantile business for many years. Of his sons, Isaac, born at Raritan, in 1731, was President of the New York Chamber of Commerce in 1779; being a Loyal- ist, his property was confiscated, and at the close of the war he went to England, where he died in 1791. Nicholas, another son of Cornelius Low, was an ardent patriot in the Revolution, and was a prominent merchant of New York for many years. Cornelius Lowe, of Somerset, who was a contemporary of Cornelius Low, of Piscataqua, was a son of Albert Low, of Brooklyn, who removed to Somerset county prior to 1726, with his brother John. Albert's father, Laurens Jansen, came to America in 1663, with his father, Jan Bastiaensen. The sons of Laurens Jansen assumed the name Low. The family is entirely distinct from the Kingston or Ulster county Lows .- W. N.
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all who had the Happiness to be acquainted with him .- New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, April 14, 1777.
Philadelphia.
Extract of a letter from Head-Quarters, 14th April, 1777.
" The enemy came out early yesterday morning from Brunswick, with an intent to surprise General Lincoln 1 at Bound Brook, and had like to have effected their design by the carelessness of a militia guard upon one of the fords on the Raritan, but the General got notice of their approach time enough to withdraw himself and most of his men to the mountain just in the rear of the town. Our chief and almost only loss was two pieces of artillery, and with them Lieutenants Turnbull2 and Ferguson,3 with about twenty men of Col. Proctor's regi- ment. A party of horse was pushed so suddenly upon them, that they could not possibly get off. The enemy staid about an hour and a half, and then went back to Brunswick, General Lincoln took his post again, with a reinforcement."-The Pennsylvania Evening Post, April 15, 1777.
1 Benjamin Lincoln was born in Massachusetts, January 24th, 1733. He was a member of the Provincial Congress of that State and was active in organizing the Continental Troops of that Commonwealth. After the battle of Long Island, as a Major General of the State Militia, he reinforced the army of General Washington with a large body of troops ; was commissioned a Major General on the Cont nental Establishment, and took an active part in the operations which resulted in the sur- render of Burgoyne. In September, 1778, he was appointed by Congress to the com- mand of the Southern Department, and was captured in the siege of Charleston. He received the sword of Lord Cornwallis at the siege of Yorktown. From 1781 to 1784 he was Secretary of War. He enjoyed the esteem of General Washington.
2 Charles Turnbull was a Captain in Colonel Thomas Proctor's Pennsylvania State Regiment of Artillery. He was captured at Bound Brook, New Jersey, April 13th, 1777, and exchanged April 3d, 1780 ; served until the end of the war.
3 William Ferguson was a Captain in Colonel Thomas Proctor's Pennsylvania State Regiment of Artillery, and was captured by the enemy April 13th, 1777, at Bound Brook, New Jersey ; exchanged December 1st, 1780. After the war he was Major commanding the Artillery Battalion of the United States Army, and he was killed by the Indians at St. Clair's defeat, November 4th, 1791.
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GENERAL ORDERS.
Head-Quarters, Morris-Town, April 8, 1777.
HIS Excellency, the Commander in Chief orders, in the most positive terms, that all the Continental Officers, who are absent without leave in writing from himself, or some Continental General Officer, or are not upon any special command, or not on the recruiting service, (the two last by proper authority) do immediately join their respective corps, without the least hesitation or delay. The time for which they have written furloughs must not be exceeded a single hour. Such as have been sent upon particular commands, or are engaged in the recruiting service, must pay the utmost attention to their orders. No excuse can be admitted for idleness or dissipation, at a time when their own honour, and their country's in- terest call them to the field.
His Excellency does not wish to convey these orders through the channel of a news-paper, but the difficulty, indeed impracticability, of transmitting them in time, in any other way, render it indispensably necessary.
By his Excellency's Command.
G. JOHNSTON, A. D. C.
We hear that on Sunday morning last a party of the enemy attacked about 200 Continental troops, under command of Gen. Lincoln, near Bound Brook, New-Jer- sey. They fought them for some time, under the greatest disadvantages, in point of numbers and situation, and at last retreated, with the loss of two killed and twenty- seven made prisoners, together with two field pieces. The enemy had three men killed .- The Pennsylvania Packet, No. 283, April 15th, 1777.
All Recruits belonging to the third New-Jersey Regi- ment, whose Furloughs are out, are required to join their
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Regiment, at Head Quarters in Morris-Town, on or before the 25th of this month. Those who neglect this NOTICE will be deemed deserters, and treated accordingly. JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD,1 Major 3d. Jersey Regiment. -Pennsylvania Gazette, April 16, 1777.
Run Away, from the subscriber, living in Woodbury, Gloucester county, an Apprentice Lad, named ROBERT DOWNS, by trade a shoemaker; aged about eighteen years, is about 5 feet, 4 inches high, slender built, has a pretty bold countenance, wears his own black hair, and can talk quite enough for one in his station. Had on, when he went away, a scolloped hat, a mixt white and red cloth coat, lined with green, a blue double breasted jacket, black leather breeches, and yarn stockings, long quartered pumps, with a small pair of silver carved buckles on them. Whoever takes up said apprentice and secures him in any goal, so that his master may him again, shall have EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD, paid by JOHN MATTS
1 Joseph Bloomfield was born at Woodbridge, N. J., October 18th, 1753, son of Dr. Moses Bloomfield (born at Woodbridge, December 4th, 1.729 ; died August 14th, 1791, son of Joseph and Eunice Bloomfield) ; Dr. Bloomfield entered the army as surgeon, May 14th, 1777. Joseph studied law with Cortlandt Skinner, at Perth Amboy, and was licensed as an attorney and counsellor November 12th, 1774 ; in November, 1792, he was called up to be a sergeant-at-law. On the breaking out of the war he volun- teered, and was commissioned a Captain, in which capacity he was obliged to arrest his old preceptor. In 1777 he was a Major. After the war he was appointed Regis- ter of Admiralty, 1783, and Attorney-General of New Jersey, 1783-1792; was Briga- dier General in the brief expedition to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion, in 1791; Mayor of Burlington (where he had taken up his residence soon after the war), 1795- 1800 ; and member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington county. The New Jersey Legislature elected him Governor of the State, annually, 1801-1812, ex- cept in 1802, when there was a tie vote and the State went without a Governor for a year. In 1810 he published a compilation of the Laws from 1799. He was Brigadier General in the War of 1812. In 1817 he was elected to Congress, and again in 1819, serving four years. He died October 3d, 1825. He was a man of decidedly literary tastes, accumulating a fine library. In politics he was an ardent Republican, and a friend of Thomas Jefferson. He was a man of excellent qualities, kindly in his intercourse with his fellows, a little whimsical or even eccentric at times, but always highly respected by those who knew him .- See 2 Proceedings New Jersey Historical Society, IX., 12 .- W. N.
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All persons are forbid to employ or harbour him at their peril. April 16, 1777 .- The Pennsylvania Journal, April 16, 1777.
Mount-Holly, April 15, 1777.
Run away, from the subscriber, living in Mount Holly, on the 27th day of December last, a Dutch servant girl, named Carolina De Pool, a little body, with a hump back, high nosed, and marked with the small-pox ; she has been seen in or about Trenton or Princeton. Who- ever takes up said servant, and brings her home to her master again, shall receive FOUR DOLLARS reward.
JOHN BISPHAM. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 16, 1777.
A party of armed Tories lately made their appearance near Newark, when they were attacked by the militia, who killed a Captain and two privates, and put the rest to flight .- The Pennsylvania Evening Post, April 17, 1777.
New-York, April 21. On Saturday the 12th Instant, Lord Cornwallis with the Generals Grant and Mathews, with a Body of British Troops, and Col. Donop, with a Detachment of Hessians, surprized a large Body of the Rebels at Bound-Brook, about seven Miles from Bruns- wick, under the Command of one Benjamin Lincoln, late Secretary to the Conventions and Congresses of Massa- chusett's Bay, and a forward Person in all the rebellious Proceedings of that Colony. The Troops lay upon their Arms till Day-break, and commenced the Attack upon the Rear of the Rebel Quarters, who made so weak a Resistance as only to wound slightly four of the Soldiers. Above one Hundred of the Rebels were killed, Eighty- five taken Prisoners, among whom was a Fellow who passed for Lincoln's Aid-de-Camp, and two others under the Style of Officers. The Rebels taken were brought to
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Town in the Beginning of the Week, and are the most miserably looking Creatures that ever bore the Name of Soldiers, covered with nothing but Rags and Vermin. Three Brass Field Pieces, Musquets, Ammunition, Camp Equipage, Papers, several Horses, near two Hundred Head of Cattle, with Sheep, Hogs, Rum, Flour, Bread, &c. were chiefly brought away, and the rest, such as the Rum and salted Provisions being very bad, were de- stroyed.
R UN-away from Powles-hook, a negro Man called Osborn, about five feet four inches high, twenty- seven years of age, has a remarkable small waist and bad legs, of a plausible address, pretends to a knowl- edge of cooking, has a down cast look when he is spoke to by strangers, seemingly the effect of bashfulness. Had on when he went off, a brown coat, white waistcoat, breeches and Stockings, and a new round hat. Whoever will secure him, or give information to the Printer, so that he may be secured, shall receive Five Dollars Re- ward. And 'tis requested that no person will employ him .- New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, April 21, 1777.
Haddonfield, April 16, 1777.
Deserted from Captain John Hammitt's Company, in Col. Oliver Spencer's Regiment of Guards, the following men :- JOHN SMITH, a shoemaker by trade, 27 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, swarthy complexion, brown hair ; it is probable he may change his name. STEPHEN STEWARD, country born, about 35 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, swarthy complexion, strait brown hair ; had on a blue coat with red facings, blanket trousers, buttoned down his legs, and is probably gone towards Egg-Harbour. MORRIS WELCH, born in Ireland, 5 feet 6 inches high, fresh complexion, strait fair hair, com- monly wears a red great coat, has since inlisted with
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Capt. M'Fartredge, on board the Washington galley, and deserted from him. JAMES MELSOM, an Englishman, a tanner, about 20 years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, dark complexion, strait brown hair .- Whoever takes up and secures the above deserters so that they may be brought to their regiment, shall be entitled to a reward of TEN DOLLARS for each, or Forty Dollars for them all, and reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN HAMMITT.
N. B. As Smith and Welch are watermen, it is likely they have inlisted again on board some of the vessels of war in Delaware river. I do request all Captains to con- fine them if they have them, that they may be brought to justice .- The Pennsylvania Packet, April 22d, 1777.
Extract of a letter from Morris-Town, April 16.
" In the affair at Bound Brook our loss was 5 killed, 5 wounded and 35 prisoners, with two Lieutenants of Pennsylvania artillery. On Monday evening General Stephens1 drove in all their picquets near Bonum Town, killed a Captain, 7 privates, and took 16 British prison- ers, who are all now here. Three Waldeck deserters are just come in from Amboy."
By letters from Bound Brook, we learn that the person who was taken up in New Jersey, (as mentioned in our paper of April 9) and committed to the state prison, by the name and character of Col. Jonathan Henry Smith, is named Joseph Arrowsmith, and has not any preten- sions to the title of Colonel.
Extract of a letter from Bound Brook, April 17.
" Deserters all affirm, that the enemy have ten boats at Brunswick, to be carried in waggons to the Delaware as support for bridges, on which the army are to pass over." -The Pennsylvania Journal, April 23, 1777.
1 General Adam Stephens, of Virginia,
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Princeton, April 3, 1777.
Deserted from the second Regiment of the State of New- Jersey, commanded by Colonel Israel Shreve, Esq; and of Captain John Noble Cumming's Company, now quartered at Princeton, the following persons, viz.
VALENTINE ROCHESTER, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, dark complexion, brown hair and grey eyes, inlisted at Ticonderoga.
WILLIAM WOOD, about 30 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, fair complexion, black hair and blue eyes, remarkably squint eyed, inlisted at Albany.
CONSIDER ADITON, about 35 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, fair complexion, red hair and beard; and grey eyes ; inlisted at Albany.
CHARLES SALTER ; inlisted at Ticonderoga. Patrick M' Mullin ; inlisted in Wood's town, Salem county. George Powers, about 5 feet 5 inches high, 35 years of age, swarthy complexion, light brown hair ; inlisted at Gloucester. Ed- ward Parker, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high, dark complexion hair and eyes; inlisted at Gloucester. Thomas Burns ; inlisted at the Cross Roads of Cumberland. Owen Ward, a native Irishman, about 39 years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, his fore teeth gone, knock kneed, has the letters O. W. pricked out with gun-powder on his arm; had on when deserted, an old brown coat, striped linsey trousers, and old shoes ; supposed to have gone through Mount Holly. John Stephenson, about 23 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, well made, an Irishman, brown complexion, dark brown hair, which curls naturally in his neck, wore a brown cloth coat and vest, buckskin breeches; inlisted in Gloucester county, where he has lived some time, and is well acquainted; the last intelligence of him, he was over Delaware river, Henry Bishop, about 22 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high, fair complexion, brown hair, grey eyes ; had on, when de- serted, a long skirted brown coat and vest, buckskin breeches;
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born in Burlington county, and inlisted in Wood's-town, Salem County. Gideon Steel, Hector M' Neil and Thomas Day, all of the above county.
Whoever takes up the said Deserters, and secures them so that they may be brought to justice for having been guilty of perjury, shall receive the sum of TWELVE DOLLARS reward for each, that an account thereof may be transmitted to the Commanding Officer of said Regiment
JOHN NOBLE CUMMING,1 Capt. 2d. J. B. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 23, 1777.
1 John Noble Cumming was born about 1752, son of Robert Cumming and Mary Noble. Robert Cumming was born in 1701 or 1702, in Montrose, Scotland, and came to this country at the age of eighteen years. He was the son of John Cumming. a lawyer of reputation. Robert lived in Newark about two years, and then removed to Freehold, Monmouth county, where in later years he held the office of High Sheriff. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Lawrence Van Hook, of Freehold ; second, in 1746, Mary, daughter of John Noble (a merchant of Bristol, England, nephew of Sir John Stokes, of Stokes' castle, Bristol), who came to New York about 1717, and married Catharine, daughter of Captain John Van Brugh (Mrs. Catharine Van Brugh Noble married, second, the Reverend William Tennent, of Freehold, and died at Pittsgrove, N. J., in her eighty-second year.) Robert Cumming had children, By his first wife : (1) Alexander, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in New York, and afterwards of the Old South Church, in Boston. where he died in 1763 ; (2) LAw- rence, who lived and died in Freehold ; (3) Mary. who, in October 1758, married the Reverend Alexander Macwhorter, who had studied for the ministry at Freehold, and was afterwards pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Newark, 1759-1807 By his second wife: (4) Catharine, married the Reverend Philip Stockton, a native of Princeton, who settled in Sussex county; (5) Ann. married the Reverend William Schenck, of Huntington, L. I .; (6) John Noble; (7) Margaret, who died, aged 40 years, unmarried. Robert Cumming died at Freehold. April 15th, 1769, in his sixty eighth year .- Alden's Epitaphs. 1039; N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record. John Noble Cumming was graduated from Princeton in 1774 .- Princeton Triennial Catalogue. He was commissioned First Lieutenant, Captain Howell's Company, Second Battalion, First Establishment, November 29th 1775; First Lieutenant, Captain Lawrie's Company, Second Battalion, Second Establishment, November 29th, 1776; Captain, Second Battalion, Sec- ond Establishment, to date November 30th, 1776; Captain, Second Regiment; Major, First Regiment, to date April 16th, 1780 ; Lieutenant Colonel, Second Regi- ment, December 29th, 1781; Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, Third Regiment, February 11th, 1783, and was discharged at the close of the war .- Stryker's Revolution- ary Roster, p. 66. Soon after the war he appears to have settled in Newark, where. in 1787, he belonged to Newark Lodge, No. 2, of Free Masons. He had previously been a member of Lodge No. 19, Pennsylvania registry, probably at Freehold. In 1786 he was elected Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, and in 1788 Grand Senior Warden, but, as the Grand Lodge usually met at Trenton, he declined a re-election in 1791, owing to the inconvenience of getting there from Newark .- Hough's Freemasonry in New Jersey. In Newark he married Sarah, daughter of Jus- tice Joseph Hedden, Jr., a prominent citizen, who was carried off by the British on the night of January 25th, 1780, and suffered such hardship in the New York sugar-
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All Recruits belonging to the Third New Jersey Regi- ment, whose furloughs are out, are requested to join their regiment, at Head Quarters, in Morris-Town, on or before the 25th of this month : Those who neglect this notice- will be deemed deserters, and treated accordingly April 7.
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD, Major 3d New-Jersey Regt. -The Pennsylvania Journal, April 23, 1777.
In Congress, April 18, 1777.
The Committee appointed to inquire into the conduct. of the enemy beg leave to report,
house that he died from his ill-treatment September 27th, 1780. Cumming was a man of great business activity, and found plenty of enterprises to engage his atten -- tion. In 1793-1 he successfully executed a contract for the construction of the first raceways in Paterson, for conducting the water-power from above the Passaic Falls to the mills below. For many year- his principal business was the management of extensive stage-lines and the carrying of the United States mails, between New York and Philadelphia, in connection with which he owned several wayside taverns- along the route. He was elected one of the Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, in Newark, in 1798 the pastor being his brother-in-law, but as he lived in the upper part of the town-corner of Broad and Lombardy streets-he took an active part in the organization of the Second Presbyterian Church. in 1809, being not only one of the first Trustees, but a generous contributor toward the erection of its house of worship. His son, the Rev. Hooper Cumming, was the first pastor of the church, in 1811-15. Among the notices of Colonel Cumming in the official records of Newark, we find him elected Surveyor of the Highways, in 1787 ; Overseer of the Highways, in 1788; Appeal Commissioner, in 1790 and 1791; Vice President of the Newark Fire Association at its organization in 1797 He was deeply interested in the Newark Academy, and in 1793 was one of the managers of the lottery raised for the completion of the building In 1795 he was elected a member of the first board of trustees, and served in that capacity for fifteen or twenty years, if not longer. He was one of the incorporators of the Newark Aqueduct Company, chartered in 1800, and was Vice President and afterwards President of the company for a long time. In the act incorporating the Newark Banking and Insurance Company-Newark's. first financial institution, and the first bank incorporated in New Jersey-in 1804, he was named as one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions to the stock and he was one of the directors of the bank for many years-probably until his death. In 1811 he was a director of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (at Pater -- son), of the Passaic and Hackensack Bridge Company, of the Steam Boat Ferry Company of New Jersey and New York, director of the Newark Turnpike Company (maintaining the road from Newark to Paulus Hook), and was connected with va- rious other corporations of like character. In later years he was a General of mi- litia. He was Vice President of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati from 1808 until his death. While at work about his farm. on an intensely hot day, he was- overcome by the heat, and died July 6th, 1821 .- W. N.
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That in every place where the enemy has been, there are heavy com- plaints of oppression, injury and insult, suffered by the inhabitants, from officers, soldiers, and Americans disaffected to their country's cause. The Committee found these complaints so greatly diversified, that as it was im- possible to enumerate them, so it appeared exceedingly difficult to give a distinct and comprehensive view of them, or such an account as would not, if published, appear extremely defective when read by the unhappy suffer- ers or the country in general. In order, however, in some degree to answer the design of their appointment, they determined to divide the object of their inquiry into four parts. First, the wanton and oppressive devastation of the country, and destruction of property. Second, the inhuman treat- ment of those who were so unhappy as to become prisoners. Third, the savage butchery of many who had submitted or were incapable of resist- ance. Fourth, the lust and brutality of the soldiers in abusing of women. They will, therefore, now briefly state what they found to be the truth upon each of these heads separately and subjoin to the whole affidavits and other evidence to support their assertions.
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