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Newark Mountains, 113, 371.
New Barbadoes, 54 .- Court house, 54 .- Neck, 531 .- Township, 54 (n.) New Bedford, 417 (n.)
New-Blazing-Star, Staten Island, 316 .- New-Blazing-Star ferry, 442, 457, 458 .- Letter from, 441. Newbold : William, 490, 540 (n.)
New Brunswick, 14, 22, 41, 45, 51, 60, 72, 74, 91, 115, 122, 146, 147 (n.), 162, 221, 222, 232, 242, 251, 256, 258, 263, 265, 268, 273, 275, 276, 279, 287, 294 (n.), 298, 306, 307, 314, 316, 323, 334, 339, 342, 344, 348, 350, 357, 363 (n.), 367, 369, 370, 376, 383, 384, 385, 386, 389, 395, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402,
403, 405, 406, 407, 409, 410, 411, 415, 424, 428, 429, 440, 464, 476, 477, 509, 539, 541, 556, 561, 563, 564, 565, 566 .- American spy hung at, 394 .- Account book of Thirty-third Regiment lost at, 310 .- Brew house for sale in, 74 .- Bridge, 424 433. - Reformed Dutch church- yard, 222 (n )-Buried in, 22 (n.)- Enemy at, 262, 270, 336. - Enemy retreated to, 261 .- Enemy reinforced, $92 .- Enemy's stores at, 270 .- Gen- eral Lee taken to New York from, 263 .- Hills, 389 .- House burned at, 263. - Horse stolen at. 60. - Land-
ing, 299, 386 .- Letter from, 467 .- Meet- ing of convention at, 167, 169, 453 (n.), Piquet guard at, 271 .- Plantation for sale near, 122 .- Plantation and house for sale near, 37 -Presbytery of, 147 (n )-Raid on enemy at, 269 (n )-Road to, 37, 271 .- Ross Hall, for sale near, 53. Ross Hall, cattle for sale at, 53 .- Wines for sale at, 72.
New Castle, 353 (n )-Coal for sale, 68 .- County, 468.
Newcomb : Joseph, 361.
Newcomb : Colonel Silas, 149, 321 .- Sketch of, 149 (n.)
Newcomb: General, 519 .- Brigade, 547 (n.) New England, 101, 110, 190, 219, 264, 326, 332, 359, 374, 393 (n.), 406, 501. 546 .- Forces at Kingsbridge, 250 .- Levies, 326 .- Men, 260 .- Militia plunder house in Newark, 264 .- Quakers in, 393 (n )- Troops, 294.
New Germantown, Hunterdon county, 452 (n.), 125.
New Hampshire, 156, 479.
New Hanover township, 92, 540 (n ), 545.
New Haven, 528 .- College, 233.
New Market, Middlesex county, 294 (n.)
Newmills (now Pemberton), Burlington county, 362 (n.), 540 .- Baptist church at, 362 (n.)
New Netherlands, 417 (n.)
New Orleans, 133 (n.)
New Providence township, 184.
New Sweden : Governor of, 313 (n.)
New Utrecht, Long Island, 133 (n.), 181, 298 (n.)
New York, 9, 13, 16, 18 (n.), 22, 23, 27, 30. 31,
34, 42, 49 (n.), 52, 53 (n.), 54 (u.). 55 (n.), 58, 64, 65, 66, 67, 80 (n.), 87 (n.), 88, 89, 93, 96, 97, 110, 113, 114, 121, 130 (n.), 133, 134, 145, 146 (n.), 147 (n.), 148, 149, 160, 161, 166, 167, 170 (n.), 181, 182, 186, 189, 194, 198, 208, 210, 218 (n.), 219, 224, 228, 238, 240, 242, 244, 245, 250, 253. 255, 261 (n ), 263, 266, 271, 278, 280, 281 (n.), 287, 291, 295, 296, 299, 309, 316, 317, 320, 321, 325, 331, 332, 333, 337, 338 (n.), 342, 346 (n.), 349, 354, 357, 367, 374, 376, 377, 387, 389, 392, 394, 398, 399, 411, 412 (n.), 417 (n.), 418, 424, 427, 429, 432, 433, 440, 443, 416, 447, 449, 451, 454 (n.), 455 (n.), 456 (n.), 457 (n.), 461, 466, 467, 470, 471, 473, 474, 476, 478, 479, 480, 481, 485, 487, 495, 436, 501, 502, 514, 518, 529, 531, 539 .- Astor House, 455 (n.)-Attorney-General of, 122 .- Broadway, 417(n.), 455 (n.), 456(n.) -Cannonade above, heard in, 225 .- Chamber of Commerce in, 338 (n.)- Coffee house, 251, 481 .- Colony of, 417 (n.), 479 .- Congress in, 313 (n.)-Con- tinental money of, 140 .- Dutchess county, 32 .- Enemy soon to attack,
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156, 159 .- Ferry to, 50, 88, 141 .- Fire in, 204. 350, 395 .- First directory of, 419 (n )-Fly market, 481 .- Goal in, 511 .- Gazette and Weekly Mercury, 13, 17, 23, 27, 35, 36, 43, 48, 50, 51, 53, 54, 57, 58, 66. 68, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80, 81. 87, 88, 89, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 121, 122, 123, 129, 132, 133, 135, 136, 149, 153, 154, 159, 160, 161, 162, 191, 196, 197, 208, 209, 251, 252, 255, 256, 264, 272, 279, 281, 282, 287, 293, 297, 310, 317, 322, 326, 331, 339, 343, 354, 371, 379, 387, 395, 398, 400, 412, 420, 427, 430, 434, 444, 446, 449, 453, 461, 470, 473, 474, 478, 479, 481, 482, 483, 486, 4×8. 505, 518 .- Headquarters at, 80. -Island, 193 .- Kingston and Ulster counties, 338 (n.)-King's troops at, 200, 204, 309, 321, 338 .- Letter from, 177. 182 .- Liberty party in, 261 (n.)- -Mail stage to Philadelphia, 347 (n.)- Mayor of, letter to, from Governor Tyron, 92, 93 .- Merchant at, 161 .- New Jersey militia ordered to, 126 .- No. 30 Wall street, 395 .- On fire, 227. - Orange county. 55 (11 ), 56 (n )-Posses- sion of, 199 -Presbyterian Church in. 346 (n.)-Provost jail, 456 (n.)-Road leading from, 32, 117 .- Sing-Sing, 413. -Shore, 227 .- Sound, 407 .- State of, 348, 413, 466 .- Sugar house, 346 (n.)- Transports with troops from, 496 .- Westchester county, 67 (n )
Newton, Sussex county, 357, 552 .- Goal at, 548.
Newtown, 115 .- Bucks county, 491, 247, 257 -Creek, 9 .- Township, 150, 184, 300 (n.)
Newspapers : how conducted, 489. Nicholson's Spring, 312.
Nicknames : Ball, Ezekeal, " Tuscan
195 (n.) - Caldwell, Rev., "Fighting Parson," "Dear Dr. Bones," 147 .- Clark, Abraham. " Poor man's counselor," 527 (n.)-Forman, David, "Black David." 197 (n.)-Liv-
514. 522 .- Lee, General Charles, "Arch Rebel," 189. 376, 532, 533 .- Maxwell, General William. " Scotch Willie." 7. -Matlack. Timothy. "Fighting Qua- ker of the Revolution." 390 (n.)-Stock- ton, Richard V., "Stockton, the Land Pilot," 29. Nicoll : Isaac, 56.
Nixson : Patrick, 78.
Noarth : Lieutenant-Colonel, 423.
Noble : John, 346 (n.)
Noble : Mary, 346 (11 )
Noble : Mr., 77.
Noel : Garret, 193.
Noel : Mrs., 251.
Norcross : William, 44.
Norfolk, Great Bridge, 128.
Norris : Robert, 123 (n.)
Norris Tavern : Trial of Arnold at, 123 (n.)
Northampton township, 27, 362, 390.
North Branch, Somerset county, 238, 239.
North Castle. 369.
North Carolina, 66, 93 (n.), 128, 323 (n.), 353 (n.)-Colony of, 479.
Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, 183.
North River, 88, 160, 186, 199, 223, 225, 226, 227, 231, 233, 236, 262, 273, 297, 400, 406, 411, 470, 562. -- Command of, 314 .- Ferry, 133 .- Ships of war in, 160, 186. Northrop : Benjamin, 552.
Northrop: Widow, 552.
Northumberland militia, 323.
Northumberland county, Pa., 269 (n.), 364 (n ) Norwich, 226, 242.
Note of Hand: Warning on assignment of, 91, 93, 94, 106.
Nottingham, Pennsylvania, 542 (n.)- Township, Burlington county, 235 .- Horses stolen in, 534.
Nova Scotia : Annapolis in, 281 (n.)-Land granted Loyalists in, 461 (n.)-Loyal- ists' petition for land in, 419 (n.)-Yar- mouth, 316 (n.)
Nurse wanted, 530.
ingston, Governor, Hortentius, 509, | Nutman : James, 308, 351.
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Ocean county, 437 (n.)
Ogden : Aaron, Governor, 66.
Ogden : Catharine. 419 (n.)
Ogden : Charlotte Thibout, 87 (n.)
Ogden : David, 16, 20 (n.), 35 (n.), 419 (D.) Ogden : Elizabeth 87 (n )
Ogden : Gabriel, 490.
Ogden : Gertrude, 16 (n.)
Ogden : Hannah, 147 (n )
Ogden : Isaac G., 87 (n.)
Ogden : Josiah, 43, 66, 351 (n.), 419 (n.), 457, 458. Ogden : John, 147 (n.), 351.
Ogden : Lewis, 87.
Ogden : Mary, 87 (n.)
Ogden : Matthias, 66 (n.), 329, 441.
Ogden : Robert, Jr. €6.
Ogden: Samuel, 16 (1 ), 490.
Ogden : Sarah, 419 (u.)
Ogden : Timothy, 113.
Ogden : Uzal, 87 (n.), 351 (n.)
Ogden's furnace in Newark, 134.
O'Hara : Captain Henry, 112.
O'Harry : Captain, 359.
Ohio, 103, 195 (n.)-Expedition to, 364 (n.) Old Blazing Star Ferry, 457, 458, 459, 462.
Old Bromly, Somerset county : Mill near, 3:29.
Olden : David, 489.
Old Man's creek, 84, 554.
Olisquahapit (now Penn's Neck), 313 (n.) Oporto, 443.
Orange county, New York, 55 (n.), 56 (n.), 326. Orsoe : Abraham, 413. Osback : John, 71. " Osborn," 343.
Osborn: Sir George, Muster-Master (Brit- ish), 371 .- Took possession of Fort Mifflin, 503.
"Oswego Mill," 510 (n.) Otsego Lake, 417 (n.) Owens : Mr., 555.
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P.
Page : Captain David, 362.
Page : Thomas, 60.
Paine : Thomas, 528 (n.)
Pallmall : Lord George Germain's house in, 376. Paper bills emitted by convention of New Jersey, 295. Papermakers wanted, 81.
Paper Mill : Wanted to rent, 81 .- At Spots- wood, 81.
Paquanock : farm at, 22.
Paramus, 10 (n.), 54 (n.), 378, 379, 398.
Park : Joseph, 234.
Parke : Lieutenant-Colonel John, 423. Parker : Catharine Alexander, 455 (n.)
Parker : Colonel, 565.
Parker : Doctor, 462.
Parker : Edward, 345.
Parker : Elisha, 454, 455 (n.)
Parker : Hyde, 464.
Parker : Jacob, 8.
Parker : James, 53, 54 (n.), 118, 454, 455 (n.), 456 (n.)
Parker : Governor Joel, 213 (n.)
Parker : John, 143.
Parrott : William, 382.
Parsons : General, 407.
Parsons : Mr., 484.
Passaic (Passaick), 218 (n.), 236, 379 (n.), 446 (n.)-County, 56 (n.), 114, 351 (n.), 382 (n )-Falls, 347 (n.)-And Hackin- sack Bridge Company, 347 (n.)-River, 43, 55 (n.), 273, 315, 316 (n.), 352, 379 (n.), 446 (n.)-River, land between Hackensack river and Passaic bought, 352 (n.)
Passes at ferries necessary in Jersey, 160. -From New York, proclamation is- sued by British, 443.
Patriot : real and disinterested, 441.
Paterson, 55 (n.). 56 (n.)-History of, 251 (n.)-Raceway in, 347 (n.)-Society for establishing useful manufactures at, 347 (n.)
Paterson : William, 42, 124, 129, 140, 153,
164, 167, 172, 251 (n )-Sketch of, 41 (n.) Patten : Abraham, American spy, hanged at New Brunswick, 394.
Patten : Colonel John, 423.
Patterson : Edward, 44.
Patterson : General of Royal artillery, 504.
Patterson : General, brigade of, 518.
Patterson : John, 102.
Patterson : Thomas, 24, 44, 70, 543.
Pavonia, 542 (n.)
Pawling: Elias, 445.
Pearce : Elizabeth Ann, 382 (n.)
Pearson : Daniel, 44.
Pearson : Isaac, 255.
Pearson : Josiah, 113.
Peck's Beach, 438.
Peek's-Kill, 369, 387, 400, 413, 464 .- General M'Dougal at, 464.
Peirce : Mrs. Catharine, 382 (n.) Pelham: Manor, 219. Pemberton : John, 103, 238, 541. Pemberton (New Mills), 540 (n.) Pemerapough, 505. Penn : William, 388 (n.)
Pennepek, near Philadelphia, 362 (n.)- Church at, 362 (n.)
Pennington (Pennytown), 368 .- Road, 59 (n.), 117, 159, 382 (n.), 383 (n.)-Took post at, 425.
Pennington : Ephraim, 352 (n.)
Pennington : Judah, 352 (n.)
Pennington : Samuel, 352.
Pennington : William Sanford, 352 (n.)
Penn's Neck (Olisquahapit), 187, 313 (n.), 330, 559 .- Plantation for sale on Cape May road, 418.
Pennsylvania, 32, 50, 147 (n.), 237, 244, 296,
335, 353, 362, 393 (n.), 496, 497, 506, 540, 542 (n.), 559 (n.)-Assembly, members attend funeral, 263 .- Back counties of, 416 .- Berks county, 244 (n.), 247 .- Brigadier-General of, 269 (n.)-Bucks county, 355, 362, 491, 540 .- Chester county, 146 (n ), 234, 236. - Colony of, 479 .- Commonwealth of, 522 .- Council of Safety of, 263, 438 (n.)-Currency, 423. - Deputy Quartermaster General of, 166 (n.) -- Easton, 387 .- Evening Post, 16, 23, 30, 38, 61, 64, 70, 71, 89, 99, 100, 103, 106, 107, 108, 119, 124, 137, 138, 141, 148, 159, 162, 179, 186, 187, 189, 200, 204, 218, 224, 229, 241, 242, 243, 245, 247, 249, 250, 252, 253, 257, 258, 262, 263, 267, 268, 270, 278, 288, 291, 300, 309, 311, 314, 321, 325, 331, 339, 350, 353, 357, 359, 367, 374, 377, 380, 384, 385, 387, 394, 397, 399, 404, 408, 411, 413, 418, 426, 427, 429, 432, 433, 439, 440, 441, 445, 449, 451, 459, 471, 473, 480, 487. - Fifth Battalion of, 121 (n.) - Frankford, 323 (n.)- Gazette, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, · 44, 45, 48, 49, 61, 62, 63, 64, 69, 70, 82, 83, 84, 85, 94, 95, 96, 97, 104, 105, 106, 107, 120, 125, 126, 135, 137, 139, 144, 150, 151, 155, 157, 158, 165, 166, 168, 169, 185, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 203, 207, 215, 216, 235, 236, 239, 280, 286, 288, 291, 306, 313, 318, 322, 324, 328, 337, 341, 342, 316, 357, 361, 362, 375, 381, 390, 396, 405, 418, 424, 431, 445, 446, 447, 460, 468 .- Governor of, 279 (n.)-Iron mines of, 558 (n.)- Journal, 92, 98, 101, 102, 103, 107, 119, 120, 145, 209, 234, 290, 296, 307, 320, 324, 330, 335, 336, 342, 314, 347, 356, 383, 386, 399, 408, 416, 422, 430, 432, 438, 461, 468, 469, 539, 541, 514, 545, 547, 548, 552, 553, 554, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 565, 569 .- Journal and Weekly Advertiser, 77, 90, 93, 94, 97, 98, 140, 141, 147, 166, 167, 168, 177, 178, 183, 184, 208, 209, 217, 218, 221, 222, 223, 233, 237, 238, 276, 277, 308 .- Lancaster, 279 (n.)-Ledger, 517, 546, 550, 551, 553, 556 .- Major-General of, 269 (n.)-Masonic lodge in, 346 (n.)- Militia, Second Regiment of, 269 (n.) 369 .- Militia, Colonel Potter's, 319 .- Montgomery county, 139 .- New ferry opposite Trenton in, 154 .- Northum- berland county in, 269 (n.), 361 (n.)- Nottingham, 542 (n )-Packet, 7, 14, 18, 19, 25, 36, 37, 38, 39, 59, 60, 65, 66, 76, 77, 79, 80, 89, 91, 92, 95, 101, 105, 108, 110, 118, 124, 136, 137, 142, 143, 150, 159, 162, 165, 172, 179, 180, 181, 184, 187, 190, 198, 207, 214, 215, 219, 222, 230, 231, 263, 268, 279, 282, 284, 295, 299, 305, 318, 323, 340, 344, 355, 359, 372, 380, 401, 413, 414, 421, 427. 430, 435, 450, 453, 454, 465, 467 .- Philadelphia (see Philadelphia). - Prov- ince of, 36 .- Quota of troops in Whis- key insurrection, 279 (n.)-Quota of troops, detachment of cavalry in, 363 (n.)-Riflemen, 563 .- Riflemen, com-
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pany of, 244, 275, 317 .- Shore, 501 .- Seventh Continental Regiment, 374 (n.) - State Regiment of Artillery, 261 (n.), 344 .- Surveyor-General of, 244 (n )-Westmoreland county, 287 .- York county, 139, 156 (n.), 359. Pennsylvanians, 385.
Pennytown (now Pennington), 245, 246, 250, 349.
Perkins : Jacob, 69.
Perkiomy creek, 475.
Perth Amboy : See Amboy.
"Peter :" Negro slave runaway, 187, 559. Petersboro, 54 (n )
Petersburgh, 443.
Petersfield, 54 (n ), 55 (n.)
Peterson : Peter, 290.
Pettit : Charles, 147, 284, 501 .- Sketch of, 109.
Pettyauger found adrift, 486.
Pettyauger ferryboat, 251.
Pettycrew : Captain, 518.
Petty's run, 238 (n )
Phagin : Jacob, 104.
Phagin : Perrin, 104.
Philadelphia, 8, 14, 15, 16, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 42, 43, 41, 50 (n.), 64, 69, 76, 85, 92, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 103, 105, 118, 121 (n.), 146, 189, 192, 197, 123, 147 (n.) 158, 159, 162, 166, 170 (n.), 172, 177, 180, 184, 185, 204, 207, 208, 216, 218, 219, 223, 224, 232, 236, 237, 238, 242, 245, 249, 252, 253, 255, 256, 258, 261 (n ), 262, 263 (n.), 267, 272, 279, 286, 237, 290, 294 (n.), 300, 312 (n.), 314, 316 (n.), 318, 322, 323, 330, 331, 332, 334, 335 (n.), 339, 355, 356, 357, 359. 362, 863 (n.), 367, 369, 376, 379, 380, 382 (n.), 384, 385, 397, 388 (n.), 389, 393 (n.), 397, 400, 401, 405, 408, 409, 411, 412, 415, 417 (n ), 421, 423, 424, 429, 432, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 444, 416, 451, 465, 467,-468, 472, 476, 480 (n ), 481, 453, 486, 487, 488, 490, 492, 514, 516 (n ), 517, 518, 528 (n.), 539, 541, 542 (n.), 543, 544 (D.), 548, 549, 553, 558 (n.), 559, 560, 562, 565, 567 .- Arch street, in, 409-Associators, 279 (n.)-Bank, mceting house in, 285. - Christ's churchyard, General Mercer buried in, 262, 278 .- County of, 119, 184, 190, 394, 418 .- Elfrith's alley, in, 236 .- Ferry opposite, 16, 25 .- First Presbyte- rian burying ground in, 279, 287 .- Fourth and Market, 38 .- Front street, 245, 385, 437 -Money lost on, 118 .- General hospital in, 353 .- General Di- rector of, office on Fourth street, 353 .- "Harp and Crown." in, 445 (n )- Howe's occupancy of, 240 (n.)-Letters from, 160, 162, 332, 505 .- Liberties of, 253-Northern, 183 .- Light Infantry, company of, 516 (n.)-London coffee house, Front street, 148 .- Mails, stage to New York, 347 (n.)-Mayor of, 166 (n.) - Mint, director of, 528 (n.)- Militia of, 146, 257 .- Adjutant Gen- eral of, 170 (n.)-New jail, 291 .- News- papers, 337 .- See Pennsylvania .- Post of, collector at, 121 (n )-Prison in, 335. -Prisoners brought to, 282 .- Putnam in command of, 262 (n.)-Quaker mer- chant in. 559 .- Race street, 361, 542 .- Regiment, Colonel of, 187 (n )-Regu- lars advancing toward, 472. - Road leading to, 117 .- Road leading from, 32, 286 .- Road leading to Salem, 215 .- Second street in, 311 .- Second Street
bridge. 24, 543 .- Shippen street, 350 .- St. Peter's churchyard, Shippen buried in, 263 -Third street in. 222, 561 .- Trade established with "The Shore in New Jersey," 436. - Philadelphians, 557 (n.)
Philips : Captain, 370, 371.
Philips : David, 354.
Philipsburg, Hunterdon county, 424.
Philistines : A brush with, 392.
Phillips : Ephraim. 405.
Phipps : Captain. 315.
Pickeron : Jeremiah, 381.
Pidgeon : William. 332 (n.)-Sketch of, 39.
Pidginett : Francis Lawrence, 179, 557, 558.
Pierson : Benjamin, 113 (n.). 372.
Pierson : Elizabeth Boyd, 113 (n )
Pierson : Hannah Dey, 113 (n )
Pierson : Henry, 113 (n.)
Pierson : Josiah, 66 .- Sketch of, 113.
Pierson : Josiah Gilbert, 113 (n.)
Pierson : Juliana. 113 (n.)
Pikes : Captain, Company, 413.
Piles grove, 120, 388, 418, 437 .- Township, 358 (n )
"Pincs :"' Commercial interests of, 557 (n.)-Goods conveyed through, 436 (n.) Piscataway-Piscataqua (Raritan Land- ing), 338 (n.), 378, 383, 386, 401, 403, 407, 459 (n.)
Pitts-grove. 346 (n ), 358, 371 (11.), 547, 559 .- Township, 101, 157, 187, 230, 329, 356, 546.
Pitts Town, Hunterdon county, 118 .- As- sembly summoned to meet at, 271 .- Farm for rent near, 473.
Plantations for sale, 13, 30, 32, 35, 44, 62, 100 122, 133, 142, 233, 380, 388, 394, 417, 418, 553 .- For rent, 8, 24, 105, 355, 543 .- And house, 13, 23, 25, 29, 32, 37, 38, 49, 68, 70, 75, 76, 82, 83, 84, 105, 107, 144, 298, 312.
Platt : Captain, 358 (n.)
Platt : Sarab, 67.
Platt : Zophar, 67.
Pledgoe : John, 312 (n.)
Pluckemin, 47, 252, 258, 394 .- Congress re- ceives news from, 268 .- Letter from, 259 .- Market days at, 47.
Plymouth : Sound, 210 .- England, 240 (n.) -Sixty-five vessels from, 210.
Point Black. 293.
Point : Castle, 412.
Point Elizabeth, 417 (n.)
Point: Halsted's, 457.
Point House, on Gloucester road, 137.
Point Lessa, 417 (n.)
Pole : Edward, 516.
Pollen : Thomas, 123.
Pompton, 10 (n.), 378, 413, 429 .- Feeder of Morris canal at, 56 (n.)-Township, 56 (n.)
Poor : General, Brigade of, 518.
Pork : Act for regulating price of, 520, 536. Port Elizabeth, 421 (n.)
Port Penn, 62.
Port at Philadelphia, Collector at, 121 (n.) Porter : for sale in butts, 74 .- London, 68. Portugal, 455 (n.), 507 .- Spanish War in, 368 (n.)
Post : Adrian, 112.
Post : Jacobus, 56 .- Sketch of, 55 (n.)
Post-Office : At Elizabeth, letters in, 35 .- Established at headquarters at Morris- town, 308 .- Newark, 470. Postville, 55 (n.)
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Potatoes : Act for regulating price of, 520, 536. Potter : Amos, 489.
Potter : James, 269, 319, 323.
Potter : Samuel, 44.
Potts : Isaac, 540 (n.)
Potts : John, 451.
Potts: Joseph, 451.
Potts : Stacy, 8 (n.), 238 (n.), 245, 318.
Potts-Grove (Pittsgrove), 371.
Powder works, 115 .- On Whippany river, at Morristown, 115 (n.)
Powell : Mrs., 99.
Powell: Major, 459.
Powell: Thomas, 99, 328, 448.
Power : George, 289, 345.
Powlas, Powles, Powlis Hook (now Jersey City), 145, 199, 204, 412, 413 .- Battery at, 160, 185, 193, 204, 224, 281 .- Boat adrift near, 486 .- Commander at, 505 .- Negro runaway from, 343 .- Stage boat, 141. Preakness, 417 (n.)
Presbyterian Church in: Burying ground at Freehold, 295 .- Daretown, 547 (n.) --- Elizabethtown, 115 .- Freehold bury- ing ground, 295 .- Greenwich town- ship, 6 (n.)-Mount Holly (meeting house), 27 .- Newark, 346 (n.), 347 (n ), 351 (n.), 353 (n.)-New York, 346 (n.)- Philadelphia, 279, 287 .- Rahway, 527 (n.)-Trenton, 348, 383, 542 (n.), 514 (n.)-Dover, Delaware, 279 (n.)
Prescott : General, 193.
Price : Colonel, 459.
Price : Richard, 409.
Price : Robert Freind, 28.
Prices regulated by township committee, 86.
Prickett : Joseph, 286, 431.
Prince : Richard, 335 .- Surgeon in army of, 170 (n.)
"Prince :" Negro runaway, 335. Prince's Bay, 462.
Princeton (Princetown), 11, 18 (n.), 31 (n.), 45, 47, 75, 146, 147, 150, 189, 203, 206, 207, 208, 217, 233, 234, 244, 248, 249, 252, 253, 257, 259, 262, 265, 268 (n.), 275, 278, 279 (n.), 296, 318, 322, 332 (n.), 342, 345, 346 (n.), 348, 349, 350, 362, 363, 364, 367, 369, 370, 377, 379, 399, 408, 409 (n.), 410, 424, 427, 432, 451, 476, 514, 519, 520, 526, 528 (n.), 531, 547, 560 .- Army at, 242 .- As- sembly at, 200, 534 .- Battle of, 156 (n.), 170 (n.), 256 (n.), 263 (n.), 268, 269 (n.), 278, 279, 301, 349, 363 (n.), 387 (n.)-De- scription of, 259 .- Captain William Shippen killed at, 263 .- Cliosophic So- ciety founded at, 66 (n.)-College at, 41 (n.), 47 (n.) 49 (n.), 66 (n.), 353 (n.), 427, (528 (n.)-College at, graduate of, 323, 346 (n.), 363 (n.)-College at, notice of opening, 217, 322, 408, 427, 560 .- Col- lege at, Trustees of, 34 (n.), 147 (n.), 353 (n.), 547 .- Death of General Hugh
Mercer at, 262 .- Enemy evacuated, 270. -Fair at, 47 (n )-House robbed by sol- diers near, 317 .- Knapsack found at, 190 .- Letters from, 142, 332, 397 .- Letter on acceptance of the Declaration, 142. -Proclamation of Governor Living- ston issued at, 501 .- Road from, 37, 259 .- Road to, 269 .- Sermon preached at, 148 .- Theological Seminary in, 542 (n )-Washington's victory at, 250.
Printer and book seller: R. Aitkens, 148. -Hugh Gaine, 130 (n.)
Prisoner : captured near Princeton, 249. -Escaped from warrant, 4 .- Taken at battle of Trenton, 249.
Proctor : Captain, 387.
Proctor : Colonel, 518.
Proctor : Thomas, 261 (n.), 339.
Proctors and Advocates, 300 (n.)
Protestant Episcopal Church : Christ's churchyard, 262, 278 .- St. John's, Eliza- bethtown, Vestrymen of, 26 (n.)-St. George's, Hanover square, London, 444 .- St. Luke's, Chelsea, 251 (n.)-St. Mary's, Burlington, 417 (n.), 526 .- St. Michael's, Trenton, 348. - St. Paul's, New York, 444 (n.), 455 (n.)-St. Peter's, 263 .- Swedish Lutheran (now Protest- ant Episcopal), Swedesborough, 358 (n )-Tennent, 528 (n.)-Trinity, New- ark, 281 (n.), 419 (n.) Providence, 227.
Provincial :Congress (see New Jersey Con- vention), 6 (n.), 10 (n.), 11, 18 (n.), 26, 29 (n.). 33 (n.), 35 (n.), 36 (n ): 41, 53 (n.), 54, 55, 56, 114, 124, 142, 153, 154, 528 (n. ), 542. -Address by, to New Jersey inhabit- ants, 126 .- Delegate from Cumberland county to, 527 (n.)-Delegate from Mid- dlesex county to, 10 (n.)-Delegate from Morris county to, 123 .- Deputy of, 5 (n.), 251 (n.), 312 (n.)-Elected from Bergen county to, 54 -Members of, 170 (n.), 213 (n.), 251, 309 (n.), 527 (n.)-Members of, to draft State Con- stitution, 372 .- New Constitution of, proclaimed at Trenton, 141 .- Of Massa- chusetts, 339 (n )-Of Pennsylvania, 244 .- Ordinance of, paper bills emitted by, 295 (n.)-Petition to, by inhabit- ants against independence, 130 .- Presi- dent of, 11 (n.)-Resolution of, 140. Provincial Troops, 5 (n.)-Major-General of, 256 (n.)-Of his Majesty's, 378, 379.
Prussia, 507 .- King of, 521.
Pryer : Jacob, 486. Public funds, 62. Pumpton, 413.
Punkhill, 318.
Purviance : Samuel, 187, 560.
Putnam : Israel, 262, 278, 387, 395, 399, 470, 484 .- By order of, 294 (n.)-At Peek's- Kill, 464 .- In command of Philadel- phia, 262 (n.)
Queen Anne, 455 (n,)-County, Long Island, | Quinton : Edward, 312 (n.) 26. Quibbletown-Squabble (now New Mar- ket), 294, 313, 320, 326, 334, 377, 428, 476, 477, 547 .- Letter from, 326, 409 .- Skir- mish at, 287, 337, 565. Quimby : Josiah, 44.
Quinton : Prudence, 312 (n.) Quinton : Sarah, 312 (n.) Quinton : Temperance, 312 (n.)
Quackenbush : Jacob, 56, 57.
Quartermaster-General's department, 524,. 525.
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"Quash :" Negro servant run away, 498. Quaker, 41, 170 (n.), 393 .- Active member of Society, 311 (n.)-Fighting Quaker of the Revolution, 390 (a.)-Friends in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 393 (n.) -Friends burying ground at Bound Brook, 393 (n.) - Meeting house at Egg Harbour, 436 -Little Egg Har- bour. 437. - Moorestown, 44. - Tren- ton damaged by British, 348 .- Tuck- erton.436 (n.) - Meeting, .256 (n.) - Merchant in Philadelphia, 559. - Most eminent minister in Society,
390 (n.)-Mrs. Emlen, minister in New England, 393 (n.)-New meeting house in Mount Holly, 546 .- Preacher, 256 (n.)-Stony Brook burying ground, 263 (n.), 279 (n )-Three miles to meet- ing, 356 .- Washington's Aide-de-Camp, 279 (n )
Quay : Samuel, 445.
Quebec, 5 (n.), 6 (n.), 7 (n.), 55 (n.), 78, 193, 552 .- Assault on, in 1775, 242 .- Attack on, by Montgomery, 459 (n.)-Wolfe at, (.ם) 7
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Raccoon creek, 69, 120, 215 .- Bridge, 179. Rahway (Raway), 34, 195, 478, 527 (n.)- House and land for sale, 12, 26 .- Ne- groes for sale, 26 .- Presbyterian church at, 527 (n.)-River, 12, 255 .- Skirmish at, 255.
Railroad : Morris and Essex, 195.
Rall (Rahl, Rohl) : Colonel, 247, 369, 404, 432, 450 (n.)-Died at Trenton, 249 .- Wounded, 248.
Ramapough (Ramapo), 110, 113. - Iron works at, 113.
Rambo: John, 215.
Rambo : Thomas, 49.
Ramsey : Thomas, 430.
Ramsey : Robert, 491.
Rancocas creek, 27, 69 .- Governor Frank- lin's farm at, 444 (n.)
Rane: William, 293. Range : John, 489.
Rankin : George, 381.
Rapalje (Rapelje): Garret, 133, 161, 380.
Rapalje (Rapelje): George, 115, 133 (n.)
Rapalje (Rapelje): Joris Jansen de, 133.
Rapalje (Rapelje): Stephen, 161.
Raritan, 10 (n.). 338 (n ). 663 .- Letter from, 275, 297, 391 .- Landing (Piscataway), 338, 383 .- River, 48, 52, 222 (n ), 268, 273, 297, 339. 367, 389, 401, 406, 424 .- River, east side of, 389 .- River. farm for rent on. 48 .- River, fords on, 339 .- River, north branch of, 239 (n.), 293 .- River, three miles up, skirmish, 268 .- River, west side of, 389, 401 .- Valley, 298 (n.) Raw hides : Act regulating price of, 519, 53 ).
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