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Alexander : William (Lord Stirling), 455 (n.)-Sketch of, 182 (n.)
Alexandria : Hunterdon County, 33 (n.), 368.
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Allcorn : James, 96.
Allcorn : William, 97.
Allen : Esq., Colonel (British), 457, 462.
Allen : John, 90.
Allen : Mrs. Jane, 552.
Allen : Ralph, 92, 545.
Allen : William, 517.
Allentown, N. J., 134, 324, 370, 445, 448, 468, 530. Allin : Jonathan, 196.
Allinson : David, 63 (n.)
Allinson : Elizabeth, 63 (n.)
Allinson : James, 63 (n.)
Allinson : John, 63 (n.)
Allinson : Margaret, 63 (n.)
Allinson : Mary, 63 (n.)
Allinson : Samuel, 62, 103 .- Sketch of, 63.
Allinson : Sybil, 63 (n.)
Allinson : William, 63 (n.)
Allinson's Laws, 62, 63 (n.), 106.
Alloways Creek, 95 .- Land for sale on, 38, 49 .- Township, 324 .- Upper, 82, 84 .- Upper Township, 96 .- Lower Town- ship, 188, 381. Alward : Henry, 538.
Amberman : Derrick, murder of, 294 (n.) Ambler : Isaac, 24.
Amboy: Perth, 10 (n.), 11 (n.), 26 (n.), 27, 49, 50, 53 (n.), 77 (n.), 91, 109, 110, 147, 184, 186, 189, 208, 223, 232, 231, 251, 258, 261, 276, 297, 307, 309, 310, 314, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 326, 328, 331, 334, 341 (n.), 344, 386 .- American captured and taken to New York from, 354 .- Battery at, fired on Briti- h, 154 .- Deserted from, 183, 214. - Enemy at, 336. - Enemy evacuated, 418 .- Farm for sale on Rari- tan river at, 48 .- Headquarters at, 220. -House burned at, 250 .- House and land for rent in, 48, 50 .- Hessians to at- tack, 178 .- Horse stolen from, 221, 222, 561 .- Letter from, 166. 291, 555 .- Lost near-account book of 33rd Regiment, 310 .- Men of war near, 138 .- Negroes for sale in, 52-Road, 402 .- Road to Salem, 69 .- Road from Woodbridge, 11 (n.)
Amboy : South, 404, 456 .- Ferry. 64, 117. America, 36, 237, 241, 263, 266, 267, 276, 296 (n ), 301, 302, 312 (n.), 333, 338 (n.), 348, 349, 365, 386, 388, 389, 433, 440, 444 (n.), 454, 455 (n.), 495, 499, 507, 508, 510, 511, 512, 521, 563 .- Bloodiest action in, 474. -Confederate States of, President of, 390 (n.)-Distresses of, 275 .- End of British Army in, 483 .- Enemies of, 469. Friends of, 226, 469 .- King of, 512 .- New Jersey the garden of, 432 .- North, 507, 508 .- Rights of the Constitution, 507 .- South, 507 .- United States of, 6 (n.), 175, 178, 465, 499.
American Bible Society, President and
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founder of, 34 (n.)-Cause, 455 (n.), 456 (n.)-Commerce, 501 .- Fleet aban- doned on the Delaware, 504 .- Fleet, company of marines of, 263 .- Free- dom, 281 .- Gentleman, 499 .- Hornet's nest, 314 .- Indians, 34 (n.), 365, 528 (n.) See Indians .- Liberty, 279 (n.), 283, 301, 394 .- Navy, 352 (n.)-Officers, 377 .- Philosophical Society, 527 (n.)-Prize ship sent to Halifax, 481 .- Spy hung at New Brunswick, 394 .- Whigs, 264 .- Whigs. letter by, 267 .- States, 211, 289, 488 .- States Army of, 568.
American Army, 121 (n.), 240 (n.), 245, 252 (n.), 256 (n.), 301, 352 (n.), 365, 383. 426, 428, 446 (n.), 459 (n ), 568 .- Camp of, 498. -Camp of, on duty at. 423 .- In Caro- lina and Virginia, 256 .- Medicine for, 452 (n.)-Quartermaster General of, 256 (n.)-Retreat of, 353 (n.)-Soldiers of, 393 .- Troops, 256 (n.), 544 (n.)
Americans, 364, 365, 376, 377, 522, 564, 567 .- Affairs of the, 435.
Amwell township, Hunterdon county, 13, 32, 78, 79, 144, 539, 553 .- Road to, 117, 159 -Road, house for sale on, 385 .- York road to, 553.
Ancocus creek, 27
Anderson : Ephraim, 30, 35, 36 .- Deserted from company of, 282.
Anderson : Capt. George, sketch of, 149.
Anderson : Isabella, 528 (n.)
Anderson : Capt. John, 41, 460 .- Deserted from company of, 289.
Anderson : Thomas, 490.
Andover, Sussex county, 35 .- Iron works for sale 388 .- Ore, 388 (n.)
Andre : Major, 242.
Andrews : Edward, 433 (n.)
Andrews : Isaac, 67, 70.
Annapolis, Nova Scotia, 281 (n.), 371 .- Convention, 527 (n.)
Annapolis, Maryland, 527.
Anne : Act of, 19.
Anspachers. 453 .- Regiment of, 461.
Anster : Nathaniel, 110.
Antigua Gazette. 507.
Antill : Lieutenant-Colonel Edward, 459, 460.
Antill : Major John, 460.
Antrim, Ireland, 147 (n.), 322 (n.), 420.
Archer : Joseph, 91, 94, 552.
Arents : Stephen, 58.
Ares : John, 215.
Armitage: Benjamin, 253.
Armstrong : Robert, 290.
Arnold : Benedict. 242, 423 .- Letter from, 399 .- Trial in Norris Tavern, 123 (n.)
Arrowsmith : Joseph, 344.
Artillery : Brigade-Chaplain, 853 (n.)-
Captain of, 330 .- Eastern company of, New Jersey State Troops -269 (n.)- Lieutenant of. 352 (n.)-Train of, de- serted from. 330.
Ashfield : Lewis Morris, 461 (n.)
Ashfield : Mary 461 (n.)
Ashley : Patrick, 291. Ashmin : William, 293.
Ash : Swamp, 422 .- Letter from, 384.
Assembly, 263, 295 .- An act of, 544 .- Colo- nial, Clerk of, 527 (n.)-General Assem- bly, an act of, 62, 64. 65, 75, 300, 465 .- An act of, disposing of captured ship. 300. -Adjourns to Princeton. 208 .- Address by, to Governor Livingston, 204, 211 .- Meeting of. 531 .- Meeting of, at Bur. lington, 208 .- Meeting of, by Council of Safety. 359 .- Meeting of, by Governor Franklin, 109 .- Meeting of at Haddon- field, 359, 531 .- Meeting of, at Prince- ton. 200, 584 .- Member of. 213 (n.)- Memberof, granted passes, 414 .- Repre- sentatives in 51, 61 .- House of, elected to, 372 (n )-House of, laws passed by, 531 .- Legislative, members of, 351 (n.) -Member of, 557 (n.)-New Jersey, 352 (n.). 541 (n.)
Assiskunk creek, 77.
Association recommended by Congress. 36. Association : Washington, of New Jersey, 13 (n.)
Associators, 184, 279 (n.)-First and third divisions of artillery of Philadelphia discharged, 186 .- Second battalion of Pennsylvania. 187 (n.)
Assunpink (Sanpinck, Sunpink) creek, 76, 236, 269 .- Bridge, 149 (n.)-Battle of, 263 (n.) Astor House, 455 (n.)
Atlantic county, 300 (n.), 556 (n.), 557 (n.)
Atkins : Capt., 518.
Atkinson : Elizabeth, 548.
Atkinson : Isaac, 548.
Atkinson : Samuel, 28.
Atlantic Monthly, 417 (n.)
Atlee : Samuel. 166 .- Sketch of, 166 (n )- Taken prisoner 183.
Atsion : Adsion Furnace, 85, 556 .- Iron works. 158, 431 .- Indentured servant run away, 556.
Atsion river, 158 (n.) Attwood : Dr., 78, 196.
Attorney-General of New Jersey, 341 (n.), 382 (n.)-Last for King, 265 (n.)
Augusta county, Virginia, 167. Augustun : Peter, 196.
Austin : Cornelius, 280.
Ayres : Ezekiel, 490.
Ayres : John, 372.
Bacon : David, 192 Bacon : Elizabeth, 63 (n.)
Bacon : Job. 192.
Bacon's Neck, 97, 549 .- Findle's Island in, 97. Bahanna Island, 198.
Bainbridge : Abigail, 146 (n.)
Bainbridge: Absalom, sketch of, 146 (n.)
Bainbridge : Commodore William, 146 (n.) Bainbridge : Edmund, 146 (n.)
Baldwin : Daniel, 353.
Baldwin : Joseph, 352 (n.) Baldwin : Nathan, 351.
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Baley : Elias, 35. Ball : Capt . 518.
Ball : David, 195 (n.)
Ball : Edward, 195 (n.)
Ball: Ezekeal, 195.
Ball : Joshua, 325 (n.)
Ball : Joseph, 136, 180, 557 (n.), 559.
Ball: Martha, 325 (n.)
Ball: Sarah, 559.
Baltimore, 15, 374, 395 .- Company of artil- lery, 183. Baptist Church: Cape May, Dividing Creek, 362 (n.)-Manahawkin, 487 (n.)
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-New Mills, 362 (n.)-Salem, 362 (n.) -Scotch Plains. 36? (n.)-Burying
ground at Mill Hollow, 312 (n.)-Sev- enth day. at Cohansey. 417 (n.).
Banditti: man murdered by, 255.
Barber : Major Francis, 43, 329.
Barber : Thomas, 188.
Barberer : Samuel (innkeeper), 311.
Bar iron : Act regulating price of, 519, 535. -Refined, 114 .- Jersey, 77 .- Stirling, 77.
Barker: William. 117.
Barnegat : Whaling at, 437 (n.)
Barnet : Dr. William, 441, 452 .- Company, deserters from, 441 .- Light horse, 452,
Barnet : Oliver, 452 (n.)
Barnet: William M., 452 (n.)
Barnes: Mr., 328.
Barnes: Major, 463, 461.
Barracks at Burlington, 5 .- Philadelphia, 422 .- Trenton, 238 (n.)
Barton : Gilbert, 418.
Barnes : Jonathan, 460.
Barton : Joseph, 322, 378, 379, 398, 457, 458, 461.
Barton : Thomas, sketch of, 50.
Baskinridge, 274, 368 (n.), 538 (n.)
Basset : Capt., 262.
Bastiaensen : Jan, 338 (n.)
Bathurst : Capt., 518.
Batsto, 490, 557, 558 (n.), 559 (n.)-Mills at, 99 (n.)
Batsto furnace, 136, 158 (n.), 179, 180, 556, 557, 558 (n.)-Sketch of, 135 .- At Forks of Little Egg Harbor, 136, 223, 557 (n.)- Iron works, 409 .- Men wanted, 409 .- Pig iron for sale, 98.
Battalions of Continental Army, 163, 166. 186 .- First, 26J .- First, of Cumberland county. 149, 278, 321 (n.)-First, Phil- adelphia, 253, 279 .- Deserters from. 93. -Associators, 279 (n.) - First, New York, 181, 182,-First, First Establish- ment, 321 (n.), 452 (n.)-First, Second Establishment, 149 (n.), 321 (n.), 452 (n.)-First, of Maryland, 148, 218 (n.) -First, New Jersey Continental Line, 182 .- First, Chester county, 234 .- Sec- ond, 555 .- Second. First Establishment 5,38 (n ), 291, 346 (n.)-Second. Second Establishment, 346 (n.)-Second, Cum- berland county ·militia. 358 (n.)-Sec- ond, Pennsylvania Associators, Col. of, 187 (n.)-Second, Philadelphia, 166, 253 .- Second, Northumberland county, Pa., militia, 269 (n.)-Third First Es- tablishment, 34 (n ), 38 (n.), 39, 77, 78, 79 (n.), 173 (n.). 396 (n ), 541 -Third, Second Establishment, 289 (n.), 396 (n.)-Capt. Reading's company, 289 .- Third, of Cumberland county, 294 .- Third. Maryland Flying Camp, 233 (n.)-Third, New Jersey Volunteers, 451 .- Third Pennsylvania, 121 (n.)- Third Pennsylvania militia. 271 - Third Philadelphia. 253. - Fourth, 57 (n.)-Fourth of New Jersey, 289, 290 .- Fifth Pennsylvania, 121 (n.)- Fifth Philadelphia county militia, 184. -Artillery of United States Army, 339 (n.)-Artillery Company, 253 .- Associators ordered to Philadelphia, 177 .- Associators' Brigade of Philadel- phia. 253 (n.)-Associators, Pennsyl- vania, Col. Slough's, 220, 221 .- Cook's deserters from, 309 .- Col. Atlee's, 166 .-
Col. Dayton's, 77, 441, 541 .- Col. Lash- er's, 182 .- Col. Magaw's, from Penn- sylvania, 121 .- Col. Miles', 166, 182 .- Col. Mills', 138 .- Col. Morgan's rifle- men, 552 .- Col. Ogden's, 441 .- Col. Potter's Pennsylvania, 319 .- Col. Rum- sey, of Maryland militia, 327 .- Col. Shea's, from Pennsylvania, 121 .- Col. Tompson's Pennsylvania riflemen, 374 (n.)-Cape May, 438 (n.)-Eastern, of Morris county, 121 (n.), 319 (n.)- Heard's Brigade, 10 (n.), 149, 186, 519 .- Heard's Brigade, Col. Johnson in, 289 (n.)-Maxwell's Brigade, 5 (n.)- Minute Men's, 10 (n.)-Musketry A, 166 (n.)-New Jersey State Troops, 121 (n.)-New Jersey Volunteers, Loy- alists, 34 (n.)-New Jersey, Western, b (n.)-Oath to enter, 40 .- Officers of, 43 .- Pennsylvania and Maryland, 182. -Philadelphia, 154 .- Rifle, 497, 498. Batten : Thomas, 125.
Battery at, 193 .- Billingsport, 503 .- Blue Bell, 160 .- Long Island, 198 .- Mud Island, 503 .- On the Delaware, 332 .- Perth Amboy, 154 .- Powlas Hook, 160, 185, 193, 204, 224, 287.
Batthurst : John, 184.
Battle : of Assunpink, 263 (n.)-Bunker Hill, 240 (n.), 262 (n.)-Brandywine, 6 (n.), 78 (n.), 103 (n.), 156 (n.), 170 (n.), 182 (n.), 240 (n.), 256 (n.), 261 (n.), 363, 364 (n.), 387 (n.)-Camden, 218 (n.)- Eutaw Springs, 256 (n.)-Germantown, 6 (n.), 149 (n.), 156 (n ), 182 (n.), 197 (n.), 240 (n.), 256 (n.), 261 (n.), 363 (n.), 364 (n.), 387 (n.)-Harlem Plains, 227 (n.) -Long Island, 121 (n.), 149 (n.), 156 (n.), 166 (n ), 181, 182 (n.), 186, 218 (n.), 240 (n.), 244, 262 (n.), 321 (n.), 339 (n.), 353 (n.), 387 (n.)-Monmouth, 6 (n.), 78 (n.), 170 (n.), 224 (n.), 256 (n ), 261 (n.), 387 (n.)-Monongahela, 170 (n.)-Prince- ton, 156 (n.), 170 (n.), 256 (n.), 263 (n.), 268, 269 (n.), 278, 279, 301, 349, 363 (n.), 387 (n.)-Description of, 259 .- Spring- field, 6 (n.)-Stillwater, 242-Trenton, 156 (n.), 182 (n.), 256 (n), 349. 864 (n.), 387 (n.) - Description of, 247, 248 .- White Plains, 218 (n.). 240. 256 (n.)- Wyoming, 6 (n.)-Yorktown, 78 (n.) Baum : Lieut., 471.
Bayard : William, sketch of, 85.
Bayard : Col. William Mills, 412.
Bay Colony of Massachusetts, 179.
Beach : Five Mile, 437 :- Peck's, 438.
Beall: Brigadier-General Rezin, 233 (n.)
Beatty : Col. John, 233.
Beaver Creek, 83. Beach : Josiah, 352.
Beach : Zophar, 352.
Beck: Dr, 452 (n.)
Becket : Peter, 15, 99.
Becket : Samuel, 29.
Becket : Stephen, 29.
Bedlow's Island, 145.
Bedminster, 47, 394. - Market day at Plucke- min, 47.
Beef: Act for regulating price of, 520, 536. Beekman's-slip, 255.
Bell : James, 85.
Bell : Andrew, 184.
Belleville (Second River), 54 (n.), 271, 469 (n.) Bellmont, 169.
Belly Castle, Ireland, 420.
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"Ben," negro slave runaway, 125, 209, 424, 562.
Bennet : Joel, 183.
Bennet : Thomas, 293.
Bergen, 54, 224, 226, 229, 354, 378, 398, 413, 429, 481, 486, 514, 509 .- Committee of Observation and Correspondence of, 55 .- County, 54, 55 (n ), 56 (n.), 58, 72, 121 (n.), 271, 454 (n.), 456 (n.), 457 (n.), 478, 489, 532 .- Legislative Councillor from, 55 (n )-Militia of, 55 (n.)-"English neighborhood," 322, 326 .- Militia in, 481 .- Headquarters at, evacuated, 207. -Hessians to attack, 178 .- Neck, 80 .- Point, 54 (n.), 505 .- Skirmish at, 148 .- Firing from, 199 .- Royal Volunteers took American supplies, 354 .- Town- ship, commissioners to survey, 527 (n.) -Volunteers, 316.
Bernard's Town, 47 .- Market day at, 47.
Berrara : Francis, 135, 180, 558.
Bertclasen : Engel, 151.
Berwick : Mr., 156 (n )
Bethlehem, Hunterdon county, 53 (n.)- Bethlehem, Pa., 50 (n )-Bethlehem, township of, 78, 209, 561.
Bessonet : Charles, 490, 491.
Beverly : Thomas, 79.
Bickham: George, 247, 249.
Biddle : Clement, 170, 541 .- Sketch of, 170 (n.)
Biggins : William. 5.
Bill : Lieut. Beriah, 226 (n.)
Billingsfort, 514 .- Enemy landed at, 517 .- Roebuck attack batteries at, 503.
Billingsport, 487, 504, 518 .- Troops from New York to, 496.
Billop's Point : Encampment of Regulars at, 154.
Bills of Credit -Act for striking, 62 .- Con- tinental, 153.
Bird : Edward, 101, 546.
Bishop : Levi, 94.
Bishop : Henry, 345.
Bispham : John, 342.
Blackburn : Capt., 518.
Blackmore : William, 102, 157, 546.
Black Horse, Burlington county (now Col- umbus), 243.
Black Point, 293.
Blacksmith shop for rent, 123, 149.
Blanch : Isaac, 56.
Blanch : Thomas, 490.
Blanchard: Capt. John, 42 (n.), 43, 116.
Blanchard : Lieut. Rymear, 44.
Bland : Major, 327.
Bland: Theoderick, 367.
Blanshaw : Elizabeth, 338 (n.)
Bleecker : Anthony L., 465.
Blinker : Mr., 461.
Bloomery iron, 77 .- Act regulating price of, 519, 535.
Bloomberry farm, near Trenton, 256.
Bloomfield : Eunice, 341 (n.)
Bloomfield : Joseph, 44, 329, 341, 347.
Bloomfield : Dr. Moses, 341 (n )
Bloomfield farm, 98. .
Blue Ball, 199.
Blue Bell : Battery at. 160.
Board : Cornelius, 56 (n.)
Board : David, 56.
Board : James, 490.
Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington county : member of, 341 (n )
Board of Proprietors : counsel for, 16 (n.)- Of East Jersey, 454 (n.), 456 (n.)
Boardman : Rev. Benjamin, 224 (n.)
Boardville, 56 (n.)
Boat : Adrift in Little Egg-Harbor Inlett, 101 .- Fired upon by "Asia," man of war, 110.
Boelen : Aefje, 239 (n.)
Bogart : Jacob, 298.
Bond : Capt. William, 290, 291.
Bond : Thomas, 353.
Bond : Jr , Dr. Thomas, 393.
Bonum Town (Bonamtown, Bonham Town), 276, 309, 319, 320, 344, 378, 386, 407, 410, 411, 477, 564 .- Letter from, 383. Flag sent to, 381.
Bonya, William, 48.
Books and Pamphlets referred to: A Col- lection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, with Occasional Notes (Rev. Timothy Alden), 18 .- Acts of General Assembly of State of New Jer- sey, 409 .- A General History of the Burr Family (Charles Burr Todd), 390. -Alden's Epitaphs, 346 .- American Historical Record, 147. - American Historical Register of September (1894), 52 .- American Magazine of History, VII., 36 .- Ancestry of Children of James W. White, M.D. (William Fran- cis Cregar), 294 -Annals of Morris County, 321 .- Arnold, Life of Benc- dict Arnold, 242 .- Autobiography of Col. Aaron Ogden, 67 -Bancroft's History, 10 .- Battles of Trenton and Princeton (Stryker), 322, 368, 382, 450. -Bergen's King's County Settlers, 298 .- Biographical Sketch of Gov. William Franklin (Whitehead), 444 .- Burnet, Dr. William (Joseph P. Brad- ley) 452 .- Calendar of New York Revolutionary Manuscripts, 10 .- Cen- tennial Collection of Morris County, 321 .- Church of Millstone (Edward Tanjore Corwin), 9 .- Collection of Memorials concerning divers de- ceased Ministers and others of the people called Quakers, 393 .- Cooley's Genealogy of Early Settlers in Tren- ton and Ewing, 213 .- Cushing & Shcp- pard, 417, 527, 540, 547 554 .- Daily Union History of Atlantic City and County (Hall), 300, 55x, 559 .- Dally's Woodbridge, passim, 11 .- Dent, 3, 33, 203 .- Documents and Letters intended to illustrate Revolutionary incidents of Queen County (Henry Onderdonk, Jr.). 10 .- Duer's Life of Lord Stirling, 26, 182 .- Early History of Morris County (Dr. J. F. Tuttle), 13 .-- Edward Antill and His Descendants (William Nelson), 459 .- Elmer's Biography of the Elmer Family, 173 .- Erskine's Maps, 51 .- Field's Provincial Courts of New Jer- sey, 63 .- First Settlers of Newton Town- ship (John Clements), 300, 311 .- Force's American Archives, 26 .- First Sussex Centenary (Newark, 1853), 6 .- Gaines's New York Mercury, passim, 10 .- Gene- alogical and Biographical Memorials of the Reading. Howell, Yerkes, Watts, Latham and Elkins Families (J. Gran- ville Leach), 336, 516 .- Genealogy of the Doremus Family in America, 446 .- Greene's Life of Nathaniel Greene, 256 .- Hatfield, Elizabethtown, 18, 26, 68, 147, 294, 362, 452 .- Hageman's His- tory of Princeton, 233, 294 .- History of
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Camden County (Powell), 542 .- His- tory of Cape May County (Lewis T. Stevens), 438 .- History of Early Settle- ment and Progress of Cumberland County (Elmer), 540 .- History of Essex and Hudson Counties, 18, 195 -History of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland Counties (by Cushing & Sheppard), 417, 527, 540, 547, 554 .- History of Hud- son County (Charles H. Winfield), 417. -History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties (Snell), 538. - History of Little Egg Harbour Township (Leah Black- man), 436 .- History of Medicine of Hunterdon County (Blaine). 452 .- History of Medicine of Cumberland County (Bateman), 173 .- History of Medicine in New Jersey (Stephen Wickes), 18, 146, 147, 417, 452, 527, 528, 547 .- History of Morris County, 115, 122, 372 .- History of Manufacture of Iron in all Ages (James Swank), 135, 388 .- History of Paterson (William Nelson), 446 .- History of Presbyterian Church in Trenton (Hall), 8. 59, 146, 382. 450, 542, 544 .- History of Sussex and Warren Counties, 133, 299 .- History of Trenton (Francis Bazley Lee), 568 .- History of Union and Middlesex Coun- ties (W. Woodford Clayton), 438, 527 .- Historical Collections of New Jersey, 9. -Historical Discourse on Centennial Anniversary of the Reformed Dutch Church of Millstone (Ed. T. Cor- win). - Historical and Genealogical Sketch of Fenwick Colony (Shourds), 421 .- Historical Sketch of Passaic County (1877), 114 .- Hough's Free- masonry of New Jersey, 346 .- Irving's Life of Washington, 147 .- Johnson's History of Salem, 362 .- Johnston's Company of 1776, 186 .- Journals of Con- gress, passim, 18, 26 .- Life and Letters of Elias Boudinot (Jennie S. Boudinot), 528 .- Littell's Passaic Valley Family Records, 213, 296, 346, 455, 538 .- Mess- ler's First Things in Old Somerset, 538. -Minutes of Provincial Congress and Council of Safety, 5, 10, 18, 26, 124, 295, 419 .- Morgan Edwards's History of the Baptists, 362 .- Morristown Bill of Mor- tality, 325-New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 227 .- New Jersey Archives (First Series), 10, 63, 109, 134, 148, 192, 213, 296, 299, 321, 322, 382,388, 419, 440 .- New Jersey Historical Society Collections (L. Q. C. Elmer), 444 .- New Jersey Revolutionary Cor- respondence, 10, 419 .- New Jersey Vol- unteers (Loyalists), (Stryker), 294, 461 .- New York Genealogical and Biographi- cal Record, 213, 296, 346, 455. - New York Historical Society Collections, 10 .- Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary Army (Stryker), 5, 10 .- Our Home, Somerville, 298, 452. -Old Times in Old Monmouth, 453 .- Pamphlet Laws of New Jersey, 559 .- Pennsylvania Archives, 10. - Penn- sylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 63, 358 .- Personal and Mili- tary History of Philip Kearny (John W. De Peyster), 50 .- Perth Amboy (Whitehead), 11, 47, 50. 52, 53, 444 .- Princeton College During the Eigh- teenth Century, 18, 146, 528 .- Princeton
Triennial Catalogue, 316 .- Proceedings of New Jersey Historical Society, 50, 114, 186, 341, 352, 363, 368, 385, 388, 419, 444, 541 .- Records of Secretary of State 514 .- Riker's Annals of Newtown, 115, 133 .- Sabine's Loyalists 294, 316, 355. 419, 457 .- Saffell's Records of Revolution- ary War, 233 .- Society of Cincinnati Register, 541 .-- Sparks's "Washington," 10, 114, 147 .- Stryker's Revolutionary Roster, 346 .- Testimony from Wood- bury Monthly Meeting in Friends' Miscellany, 63 .- The Burlington Smiths (R. Morris Smith), 63, 417 .- The De- scendants of Joran Kyn (George B. Keen). 358 .- The "Green Bag," August, 1891, 16 .- The Iron State (Miller), 388 .- · Travels in North America, 114 .- Tren- ton One Hundred Years Ago (Stryker). 8, 59, 382 .- Vroom's Supreme Court Rules, 382. - Winfield's History of Hud- son County, 412.
Borden : Elizabeth, 149 (n.)
Borden: Joseph, 149, 324, 490 .- Sketch of, 149 (n.)
Borden's store-house robbed, 516 (n.)
Bordentown. 95, 149 (n.), 243, 516 (n.), 552. -Col. Donop's corps at. 369 .- Conti- nental Loan Office at. 324 .- Feint at- tack on, 170 (n )-Letters from, 276, 433, 564-Plundered by Hessians, 516 (n.)- Stage boat, 141.
Boston, 25, 31, 250, 521 .- British bound for, seized, 444 .- Expulsion of enemy from, 127 .- Government, 101, 546 .- Old South Church in, 346 (n.)-Siege of, 156 (n.), 160.
Bottle Hill, 195 (n.)
Boudinot: Elias, 106, 528 .- Sketch of, 34, 528.
Boudinot : Jennie S., 528 (n.)
Bouger : Samuel, 396.
Bourdett's Ferry, 223.
Bound Brook, 48, 309, 339, 340, 342, 344, 379, 389, 391, 396, 400 .- Letter from, 344, 391. Market day at, 48.
Bowen : Sheriff David, 30, 31, 165, 191.
Bowen : Dr. Elijah, 416, 417.
Bowen : Elijah, Sr., 417 (n.)
Bowen : Lieutenant, 375.
Bowery, 199.
Bowman : Nathaniel, 285. -
Boyd : Captain, 555.
Boyd : James, 282.
Boylan : John, 47 .- Market day at, for Bernard's Town, 47.
Braddock : General Edward, 5 (n.), 365 .- Expedition of, 7 (n.)-De Fonblanque's Life of, 368 (n.)-Fought under, 80 (n.). Bradfords : Messers., 323.
Bradford : Thomas, 483 (n.)
Bradford's Trenton Gazette, 483.
Bradshaw family, 382 (n.)
Bradley : Hon. Joseph P., 18 (n.) 452. Brainard : John, 546.
Brandywine : Battle of, 6 (n.), 28 (n.), 103 (n.), 156 (n.), 170 (n.), 182 (n.), 240 (n.):
256 (n.), 261 (n.), 363 (n.), 364 (n.), 387 (n.)-Camp at, letter from, 472 .- De- feat at, 483 (n.)-The affair at, 482.
Brearley : Chief Justice David, 59 (n.), 329, 382 (n.), 446.
Brearley : Elizabeth, death of, 446.
Bremer : Han Hendriat Christian, 184. Brewer's copper for sale, 48.
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Brew-house for sale in New Brunswick, 74. Brick : Joshua, 421.
Brick : John, 421 (n.)
Bricksboro, 421 (n.)
Bridge: Acquackanonk (now Passaic), 236, 237, 251, 271, 562, 563 .- Assunpink, 149 (n.)-Cohansey (now Bridgeton), 371, 471, 510 (n.)
Bridgehampton, Long Island, 113.
Bridgeton, 527 (n.), 540 (n.), 371 .- Court House, meeting of Committee of In- spection for Cumberland county, 172. Bridgewater, 48 .- Township, 239 (n.), 298. Bristol, 100, 143, 490, 491 .- England, 265 (n.), 346 (n.)-Ship, papers taken from, 435.
British, 541 (n.), 544 (n.)-Empire, Baronet of, 353 (n.)-Fleet, 522 .- Gothic ravages of, 301. - Guards, 365 (n.)-Light horse, 397, 566 .- Lee held prisoner by, 368 (n.)-Pirates, 470 .- Plunderers, 521 .- Prisoner taken, 145 .- Protection papers returned in Monmouth county, 277 .- Representative of, 512 .- Sailors, 514 .- Soldiers, 365, 511, 565 .- Soldiers, cruelty of, 363 .- Soldiers, taken prisoner by, 166 (n.)-Soldiers, woman murdered by, 147 (n.)-Spy, 10 (n.)-Troops, 199, 233, 258, 273, 331, 342, 350, 351, 352, 364, 365, 369, 380, 404, 441, 453, 485, 486, 509, 511, 514 .- Troops at Staten Island, 137, 145, 210, 418 .- Troops, cowardly act of, 210 .- Troops, near Elizabethtown, 138. -Tyranny, 229 .- Valor, 229, 253.
British Army, 11 (n.), 233 (n.), 252 (n.), 272, 297, 302, 333, 334, 336, 380, 404, 411, 441, 475, 482, 483, 496, 501, 509, 511, 516 (n.)- At New Brunswick, 261 .- At Trenton, 250 .- Battalion Paymaster and Judge Advocate of, 455 (n.)-Deserted from, 10 (n.)-End of, in America, 483 .- In motion to attack Washington at White Marsh, 488 .- Offered a commission in, 459 (n.)-Officers of, 189, 233 (n.), 252, 351, 353, 365, 366, 507 .- Officers, act of, 416 .- Recruits for, 210.
British Battalion : Col. Luce's, 255 .- Col. Minerode's, 478 .- First Lieutenant- Colonel of, 461 (n.)-First Guards, 478. -First Hessian Grenadiers, 478 .- First Hessian Chasseurs, 478 .- First Light Infantry, 315 (n.), 478 .- First Queen's Rangers, 478 .- Second, 251, 386 .- Sec- ond Hessian Grenadiers, 478 .- Second Light Infantry, 315 (n.)-Second New Jersey Loyalists, 276 .- Third Hessian Grenadiers, 478 .- Third New Jersey Loyalists, 463 .- Third Waldeck, 461. -Fourth New Jersey Loyalists, 316 (n.)-Lieutenant's commission of lost, 48 .- Sixth New Jersey Volunteer Loy- alists, 294 (n.)-Three Hessian, 369 .- Two British Grenadiers, 315 (n.)-Two Hessian, 315 (n.)-Two of Guards, 315 (n.)
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