Documents relating to the revolutionary history of the state of New Jersey, Vol. III, Part 59

Author: Stryker, William S. (William Scudder), 1838-1900; Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914; Nelson, William, 1847-1914; Scott, Austin, 1848-1922; New Jersey Historical Society
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Trenton, N.J. : J.L. Murphy Pub. Co., printers, [etc.]
Number of Pages: 816


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land for sale in or near, 41, 50, 111.


762


INDEX.


Mount Hope furnace, 460. scythes, &c., for sale at, 479. ironworks, 234; land for sale near, 272, 298. Mount Penn, land called, for sale, 376. Mount Pleasant, 496, 665.


land for sale at, 41, 50, 272, 298. land for sale near, 295.


Mountain, Richard, 46.


Mounteer, William, 27. Mowrison, Peter, 48, 328.


Muhlenberg, General, 177; brigade of, 395. Mulacos Hill, 493. Mullekeys river, 362n.


Mullen, Lawrence, 542.


sale near,


Mullica Hill, land for 131, 450. Mullins, Joseph, 27. Mundy, Hopewell, 95. John, jun., 95. Jonathan, 95. Nicholas, jun., 95.


Joseph, 95. Munro, James, 613. Munroe, John, 363n. Munrow, Nathaniel, 62. "Munsell's Annals of Albany,"


419n, cited. Murder, 186, 269. planned, 490.


Murrell, Levi, saddler, insolvent estate of, 363n. Sarah, 363n.


Musconetcung mountain, 396.


Musgrove, , 221.


Musick, Peter, papermaker, 82.


Muskankunk, 224.


Muskenikunck river, land for sale at the head of, 510. Musketos, scarcity of, 620.


Muskrat skins wanted, 39, 57.


Musqueto Cove, land for sale near, 717. Myers, John, 132. Ensign Peter, killed, 292, 370. Myre, George, 46.


N.


Nantucket, vessel bound to, 42. Nassau-Hall, 324, 669, 671.


National debt, 241, 290, 313, 317. payment of, 240.


"National disorders, cure for," ar- ticle on, 238-243.


National evils, causes of our, 195. Nefie, Garret, 434n.


Negro blacksmith for sale, 685. boy for sale, 328, 706. wanted, 27.


slaves condemned, 576.


for sale, 575, 710.


wench for sale, 611.


wench wanted, 50. drowned, 499. girl wanted, 717. woman for sale, 34.


Negroes planning murder, 490.


for sale, 1, 381, 514, 574, 718. landing of, 504.


Neil, Capt., 536. Neill, Cornet, 624.


Neilson, Col. John, 16n, 61, .434n, 470, 586 ; ยท Representative in Assembly, 715. William, 27, 66.


Nelson, Captain Charles, 696.


William, "History of Pater- son," by, 359n.


Nesbitt, John Maxwell, merchant, 334.


and Co., J. M., 337. Newark, 12n, 48, 48n, 49, 81, 273,


329, 360, 373, 402, 406, 499n, 524, 525, 581n, 596, 598, 630, 704, 708.


Academy at, 370, 546.


Bay, 13n ; boats moving slowly up, 107. celebration at, 310.


horses for sale near, 262.


horse strayed or stolen in, 189.


soldier hanged at, 310.


land for sale in, 39, 271.


merchandise for sale in, 505.


Mountains, 232, 510. sword found in, 407. Trinity Church, 499n.


New-Barbadoes, Bergen county,


293; extracts of a letter from, 358, 359, 518. precinct, 132, 526.


Newbold, Cleayton, 181. Joseph, 184.


New-Bridge, 462, 592, 621, 624. party of rebels moving towards the, 567. safe arrival at, 625. taken by the rebels, 565.


New Britain, negro run away from, 14. New Brunswick, 11, 12, 13n, 75, 188, 283, 433n, 434n, 446n, 470n, 542, 586, 704. convention, 2n. house for sale in, 382. horse stolen near, 279.


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INDEX.


Humane Society of, 434n. land for sale in, 10, 63, 220. liquor for sale in, 433. meeting of the inhabitants of, 586.


meeting of Trustees of Queen's College of New Jersey, to be held at, 218. Presbytery of, 108n, 419n. salt for sale in, 134. shop broken open in, 246. sloop for sale at, 44, 278. Newburgh, 581n.


Newcastle upon Tyne, 217.


New England, 281, 663. battalion, 440. primers for sale, 506. Newfoundland, 291n.


New Germantown, land for sale near, 247.


New Hampshire, 700n.


New Haven, 67n.


"New Jersey Almanack" for 1780, for sale, 19, 661.


New Jersey battalion, 440. Bible Society, 434n. brigade, 294.


college, land for sale belong- ing to the, 605; notice of meeting of the Trustees of, 191, 225. Constitution of, 351. cost to, of campaign, 318.


jails broke open in, 662. law, enacted by, 142. militia, 191n, 392.


Second regiment of, 402, 404. settlement of line between New-York and, 552.


State regiment, 682; deserted from the, 638. Volunteers (Loyalists), sent off, 265, 456, 470, 471, 472; 4th battalion of, 567; Lieu- tenant in the, 46n; men wanted in the Loyal Bat- talion of, 77; orders given to the 4th battalion, 514; suprise of a Rebel guard by a detachment of, 251.


"New-Jersey Gazette," 284; change in price of the, 448; com- pletion of first volume of, 4; customers for the, 552; encouragement sought for the, 522; notice to persons indebted to the, 300, 477 ; price of the, 244.


"New-Jersey Journal," 455 ; "A Fable for the," 187, 188; article sent to the, 304-307 ; extract from the, 160.


New Kittanning, N. Y., burned, 572. New-London, grain and other pro- visions to be removed to, 118; intention of destroy- ing, 541.


New Mills, 119, 367; Burlington county, land for sale at the, 138.


New-Providence, 566, 602, 636, 674, 675 ; cow bells found in, 414. horse strayed in, 509. meeting-house, 468. tools for sale at, 406. New-Shanick, 221, 718. New-Shannick, 487. Somerset county, Newspapers, price of, advanced, 432.


Newtown, N. Y., 649; Indian enemy discovered near, 607. Newtown, Gloucester county, 249, 681.


Newtown Township, Gloucester county, 249.


Newtown, L. I., 371n.


Newtown, Sussex county, 328, 499. land for sale in, 553.


Newtown creek, 450, 491.


New-Windsor, 548; road, on the, 250.


robbery


New York, 2, 7n, 12n, 19, 23, 24, 30, 33, 42, 48n, 53, 66, 67n, 77, 86, 89, 94, 109n, 118, 122, 137, 138, 167, 207, 216, 224, 226, 251, 252, 265, 291, 292, 300, 301, 302, 303, 331, 335, 348, 358, 368, 372, 373, 374, 379, 392, 393, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 411n, 419n, 427n, 428, 432n, 434n, 435, 437, 439, 447, 454, 455, 458, 460, 471, 472, 475, 476, 477, 485n, 491, 499n, 507, 515, 530, 536, 538, 545n, 548, 555, 559, 563, 565, 566, 581n, 587, 592, 614, 615, 616, 620, 635, 643, 646, 652, 659, 660n, 663, 669, 673, 683, 688, 696, 714, 715, .719, 720. American Gazette, 266.


and New-Jersey, settlement of line between, 552.


army marching toward, 715. arrival at, 519.


arrival of a large body of the enemy from, 176.


Assembly, speaker of the, 445. "Colonial Documents," 581n, cited.


enemy moved to, 538. enemy taken, every privateer in the harbour of, 216. escaped from, 118.


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INDEX.


ferry to, 392n. Governor of the State of, 660n. Hessians left in, 446n, 447.


"N. Y. in the Revolution as Colony and State," 581n ; Roberts, James A., 336,


581n, cited.


Island, enemy busy throwing up works and fortifying on, 550.


"Journal," patriotic


news- paper, 432n.


letters to friends in, 33.


light-infantry, arrival of, in, 565. market, 10. merchantmen bound to, 337. prisoners returned to, 336.


privateers taken in the har- bour of, 254.


refugees from, 370. "Sons of Liberty of," 411n.


State of, 374.


Tories from, 475.


transport ship to, 201.


vessels bound for, 335, 455, 587.


Niagara, enemy retired to, 649. Nichols, Hannah, 66, 280. Lewis, 163. Nix, Peter, 98, 525.


Nixon, Adjutant, 698.


Noble, Isaac, 98, 526. Noe, Samuel, 434n.


Norfolk, burning of, 104. Norris, Richard, stay-maker, 29.


Robert, resolutions violated by, 597; tavern, merchandise for sale opposite, 310. Northampton county, Pa., 8, 700; address of the inhabitants of, to Gen. Sullivan, 699. township, Burlington county, 452. North Carolina, 401. 3d battalion of, 561. brigade, 359.


North River, 408, 429, 447, 476, 477, 621, 625, 627, 696.


advices from the, 447, 550. British detachment discovered coming up the, 300.


enemy moved down the, 538. enemy's vessels gone up the, 414. Northumberland, Pa., extract of letter dated, 549. Nottingham, Burlington county, 72, 494. apprentice run away in, 223. horse strayed in, 133. Nottingham township, Burlington county, 7, 8, 375n ; land for sale in, 111. Nucom, Daniel, 15. Nugent, James, express-rider, 577. Nurse, advertisement by a,. 52. Nutt, William, 148.


O.


Oake, William, 75. Oakersen, Samuel, 95.


Oakes, Isaac, 618; land for sale in the possession of, 533. Obituary notices, 252, 370, 371, 380, 504, 519. O'Briant, John, 650; land for sale late the property of, 450.


Odell, Jonathan, 417. "Oeconomist," article by, 377-379. Ogden, Aaron, 107n. Brigade Major, killed, 107.


David, 47, 327.


David, Sr., 48n. David, jun., 47, 327. Isaac, 47, 48n, 109, 327, 328, 329, 372. John, 668. Major, 107. Col. Matthias, 258.


Nicholas, 328.


Robert, house of, broken open by armed Tories, 215; rob- bed, 310.


Robert, jun., clerk of the


county of Essex, 598.


Samuel, land for sale joining, 451.


Timothy, heifer strayed from, 461 ; shoemaker and currier wanted by, 478. Rev. Uzal, biographical sketch of, 499n ; sermon by, for sale, 499. and Curtis, merchandise for sale by, 18, 80. O'Hara, Col., report of, 31. Oharo, Captain Henry, 59. Ohio, Bishop of, 416n. River, land for sale on, 25. Okerson, Lieutenant Thomas, 456, 457. Okeson, John, 93, 367. Okill, Annie, suit of, 248. Olden, Joseph, 717. Old Ferry, 117; land for sale near the, 350. Oldman's creek, 684; land for sale on, 76, 582. Oldwater, Thomas, 98, 526.


Old York road, land for sale join- ing the, 36.


765


INDEX.


Oliver, David, 92, 384. Ichabod, 384, 508, 528. Jonathan, 92, 384. Ong, Joseph, deceased, 55. Rebecca, deceased, 55. Orange, 485n. Orange county, 526, 635. "History of," 581n. Orchards for sale, 11, 17, 21, 26, 35, 39, 55, 56, 61, 69, 74, 79, 83, 89, 90, 99, 111, 114, 129, 185. Osbin, Elisha, absconded, 651. Osborn, Amanda, 463n. Osburn, Samuel, 93, 367.


Osmun, Joseph, land for sale in the possession of, 533. Oswego, 433n. Otto, Colonel Bodo, 200. thrown from his horse, 293.


Ouke, William, 75n. Owen, Agnes, 434n. Barnaby, silver 537. Owing, Barnaby, 537.


stolen from,


Oxford, Charles, jun., executor, horse, &c., for sale by, 703. Oxford, England, - Lincoln College, 545n. Oxford, Sussex county, land for sale in, 82, 133, 168, 297.


P.


Pacquanack Neck, land for sale at, 166. Paine, Col., 67, 677. Thomas, 143n, 291n. Painter's point, enemy landed at, 301. Palfrey, Captain, 686, 698. Palmer, Philip, 618; land for sale in the possession of, 533. Papecotting, land for sale on, 544. Paper money, article on, 123. circulation of, 125. counterfeiting of, 175n. Papers, subscriptions to, 3. Paramus, 470n, 548, 592, 628.


Parchment containing money found, 631. Paris, Commissioners of the United States at, 588.


Park, Ozias, 46. William, 46. Parke, Benjamin, 396. James, 524.


Parker, , Commander, 439 ; militia under, 180. James, 562. Nathaniel, 94. Parks, James, 40. Parsel, Remington, 274.


Parsell, Jeremiah, 434n. Passaic river, 139, 359n.


notice by commissioners ap-


pointed for removing ob-


structions in the, 167. land for sale on, 600. Passaic Valley, Morris county, 412n. Paterson, 48n, 359n, 463n, 581n. William, 13n. "Patriot, A True," article on civil government by, 350-357. Patterson, Captain, 107n. Paul, Lieut., 262; taken prisoner, 226.


Paulinskil, 553. Paulus-Hook, 426, 471; arrival of prisoners taken at, 587; continental troops taken by the enemy at, 278; garri- son of, 515; taken by Lord Stirling, 572.


Paxon, Mary, 485n. Stacy, 485n.


Paxton. James, 327.


Peak, Capt. David, 292. Samuel, 132.


Peaker, Philip, 98. Wiliam, 98.


Pearsall, John, 132.


Pearson, Job, horse strayed from, 521. Peart, Jane, 203. Ralph, 203.


Peck, David, 131, 526. Dr., 152. Peck's Beach, 398; fog on, 399.


Peckeman River, 189. Peek, Jacobus, 98, 526. Samuel, 526.


Peirson, Aaron, 49. Capt. Josiah, 48.


Pell, John, 132, 526. Pemberton, 119n. Penalapon, 610.


Pennington, 67, 281, 283, 449. horse strayed near, 203, 486. Penn's-Neck, land for sale on, 135. Pennsylvania, 102, 245, 330, 373n, 518, 670. Assembly, resolutions of, 307; Speaker of the, 445; bill published by, 142. disaffected persons in the State of, 33. Militia, 373n. Packet, author of the, 238. President of the State of, 415n. salt works, 9.


766


INDEX.


suit made in, 175. University of, 109n.


Penobscot, 560. Pensauken Creek, 684.


Perce, William, 73. Perine, John, 94, 435. John, jun., 63, 368. William, 89 ; estate of, for


sale, 324. Perkins, Captain James, 280. Joseph, 363n. Perrine, John, jun., 62.


Persel, Abraham, 526. John, 526. Persippeney, 515. Perth Amboy, 363n, 721. commissioners to exchange prisoners at, 31. meeting of commissioners at, 244.


Peter, Jacob, cattle for sale by, 497. Peterson, Abraham, deserter, 638. Peter, cattle for sale by, 497. Pettit, Amos, 553.


Charles, 415n ; executor, 416n. Pew, James, 94, 368.


Peyton, Captain, 624, 627. Philadelphia, 8n, 11, 22n, 29, 33, 41, 42, 43, 50, 52, 58, 78, 100, 101, 108n, 117, 119, 136n, 137, 146, 151, 153, 156, 166, 201, 203, 207, 216, 219, 278, 300, 310, 331, 334, 363n, 374, 376, 377, 379, 397, 399, 415n, 416n, 420, 433n, 434n, 438, 445, 446, 454, 478, 485n, 491, 494, 498, 506, 513, 514, 519, 523, 536, 538, 541, 549, 556, 560, 583, 588, '615, 620, 621, 640, 651, 652, 653, 654n, 669, 670, 683, 685, 703.


arrival at, 448. arrival of regiment at, 572.


brig bound for, 616.


Commander in Chief in, 197. committee of, 546, 647.


duel fought at, 22. earthen ware for sale, 4.


enemy in possession of, 687. extract of a letter from, 559, 560, 663. gaol, 583, 697. jails broken open in, 652, 662. land for sale in, 70, 117, 137, 186, 334, 350, 375.


land for sale near, 76, 78, 547, 556, 563, 620. letters from tories in, 33. Light Dragoons, 291. magazine published at, 171. mariners of, 435n.


merchants, 376. negroes run away in, 73.


News-Papers, price of, 432. notice to the citizens of, 44. Presbytery of, 108n. race course, 221. robbery near, 250. Sir Henry Clinton's march


from, 30. taking of, 124.


transportation from, 501, 502. Philips, General, 652. Israel, 50. Phillips, Ephraim, 394n. Job, 88. John, 282.


Jos., Clerk of Assembly pro tem., 346.


Joseph, Col., 283.


Mr., innkeeper, 15.


Simeon, 280.


Theophilus, 394n.


Thomas, 282, 328, 329, 372. William, 280, 299; notice by, 299.


executor,


Phillip's mills, 449.


Phipps, John, estate of, 487.


Phinix's Tavern, land for sale at, 535. Physicians, 630.


Piatt, Daniel, Major, 709. John, 586.


Picarooning expedition, enemy


landed on a, 379.


Pickins, Andrew, 68.


Pickle, Nicholas, 68.


Picon, Capt. Augustine, 137.


Picton, Rev. Thomas, 108n.


Pidgeon, Wm., 545n.


Pierce, William, 369.


Pierson, Aaron, 328. Benjamin, 328. Daniel, 328, 329, 373.


Pigot, Mr., 147.


Piles-grove, 17; land for sale in, 115, 119, 154.


Pilgrim, Francis, estate of, 487.


Pines-Banditti, 53.


Pine Brook, land for sale on, 535.


Pine tavern, land for sale near, 119. Pines, Lazarus, horse stolen out of the pasture of, 493.


Pinkerten, David, 61.


Pintard, John, 94, 368.


Pinyard, William, 650.


Pirate, tried for a, 460.


Piscataque, 167, 231, 312.


Piscataway, 7, 57. land for sale in, 96, 323.


township, notice to the inhabi- tants of, 297.


Pitney, Charity, 485n. James, 485n. Pitt, -, 125n. Pittsburgh, land for sale near, 25.


767


INDEX.


Pitts-grove, land for sale in, 119. Pittsgrove, Salem county, 73, 582. Pitts-Town, 23, 34, 417, 577, 601. horses for sale in, 394, 589, 702. land for sale in, 533. Plantain, Mrs., 331.


Plasket, Benjamin, flaxseed wanted by, 37. John, 88; flaxseed wanted by, 37. William, 181.


Plato, George, 111, 417. Platt, John, Sheriff, 248.


Pluck'emin, 27, 37, 66, 150, 411, 412, 479, 531, 664. anniversary at, 103. barracks of, the artillery near, 103. camp at, 118. horse strayed or stolen near, 576.


land for sale in, 535. land to be let near, 188. land for sale near, 247. road, 437. Plumstead's land, 536. Pocket Almanacks for sale, 44. Poem, 87, 421.


by Officer of the American Army, 558. just published, 67. "The Injured Husband," 193, 194. Pointelow, Amos, land for sale at the house of, 543. Pointing, Brereton, 91. Mary, 91. Point Judith, 25. Poinyard, William, land for sale late the property of, 450. Polemas, John, jun., 94.


"Political salvation," article on,


425, 426. Politicians, article on, 377-379. Pompey's head, 154. Pompton, 592. Plains, 541. Pool home, 11n. Pool, Michael, 434n.


Poole, Joseph, 563.


Poor, detachments under Clinton and, 582. General, 606; brigade of, 608. Popkin, John, 412.


Popplespring church, 382.


Porter, Admiral David, 109n. Capt., 576. Port Jervis, 581n. Port Royal, Georgia, 560. Portugal, trade with, 126. Potter, Colonel, 373. David, 498. Jacob, 675.


Col. James, 373n.


Samuel, 111; strayed horse to be had from, 509; executor, 228.


Potters Town, land for 533.


sale in,


Potts, Jos., Marshal, 44, 45, 70, 202, 225, 278, 294, 326, 398, 486, 574, 606, 613, 615, 662, 672, 685, 686. vessels for sale by, 1, 547.


Stacy, 28, 34n, 56, 56n ; linen rags desired by, 34.


Powell, John, 562.


Powles-Hook, 458, 592, 622. attack on, 567. British attack on, 564.


capture of the British garri- son of, 621; return of prisoners taken at, 629. Continental troops captured at, 207, 224. Powlesson, John, 428. Powlis Hook, Continental troops taken by a detachment, at 207. Prall, George, land for sale by, 36. John, executor, land for sale by, 36.


Pratt, John, 147.


Pray, John, 95.


Presbyterian Church, Maidenhead, 485n. in the United States, 108n. at Woodbury, 108n. ground, 21n.


Prescot, General, 401.


President of Congress, 660.


Press, freedom of the, 711.


Prevost, General, 401.


Price, Dr., facts stated by, 125. James, 94, 368. John, 205.


Joseph, 89, 323.


Michael, 94.


Richard, D. D., 125n.


Robert Friend, 399n ; elected Judge of the Gloucester Court of Common Pleas, 399. William, 89, 94, 323, 702; land for sale in the tenure of, 396.


Prices, regulation of, 536. Prince, Capt. James, escaped, 696. Prince's Bay, 163.


Princeton, 27, 37, 58, 61, 109n, 116, 179, 201, 202, 220, 279, 280, 283, 294, 324, 366, 371n, 383, 394n, 415n, 416n, 419n, 437, 485n, 523, 554, 554n, 561, 562, 585, 612, 670, 671, 717, 718.


768


INDEX.


"Princeton and Its Institutions," by John F. Hageman, 554n, cited.


Princeton, battle of, 700n.


chair-making business carried on in, 554. Princeton College, 20, 108n, 485n, 561.


in the Eighteenth Century, 419n, cited.


land for sale near, 575.


commencement of


the, an- nounced, 616; account 637.


of,


meeting of trustees of, 109n, 191, 225.


Princeton, delegates to meet at, 596.


Grammar School, examination of the, 669.


horses for sale at, 146.


horses, &c., for sale in, 222.


horses stolen near, 386.


land for sale in, 64, 244, 590. land for sale near, 62, 64, 97, 135, 201, 574, 590. marriage at, 371.


negro for sale near, 328.


property owned in and near, 109n.


"Sign of the College" in, 279. Theological Seminary, 109n. Printer, apprentice lads wanted by the, 617. Printers wanted, 609.


Printing business, apprentice in the, wanted, 678.


office, merchandise for sale at the, 439.


Prior's Bridge, 624. Mills, 458, 623. Prisoners, arrival of, 587.


exchange of, 291, 300, 629.


of war, 506.


return of, 629. returned to New York, 336.


taken, 109, 122, 252, 293, 303, 370, 491, 493, 564, 566, 567, 568, 615, 715, 720, 721. Privateers, 337; brig taken by, 685.


Probasco, Hendrick, 59. Jacob, 434n.


Proclamations by the Governor, 139, 569, 570, 571.


Proctor, Col., 606; regiment of, 514. Proffer's run, land for sale lying on, 449.


Proprietors of the Western Divi- sion of New Jersey, meeting of, 496.


Prosser, Jeremiah, 650.


Providence, vessels embarked for, 456.


Provincial Congress of New Jersey, 2n.


Provost, men put in the, 447.


Prudden, Adoniram, deceased, 274.


Prue, Michael, 368.


Puckman, Rinehart, 98.


Pulaski, Count, 159. Legion of, 158, 159.


Pulis, Christian, 98n.


Pulisfelt, Christian, 98n.


Pulissalt, Christian, 98.


Pursell, Benjamin, C., 8n.


Q.


Qua, Samuel, land for sale by, 717. Quackenbush, Abraham A., 98, 526. 526. Quakers, 159, 713.


Quarry for sale, 150. stone, 376. Quartermaster's Department, 612, 674.


Quebec, 411n.


Queen's College in New Jersey,


notice of a meeting of tlie Trustees of, 218, 609. faculty of, 302; notice by, 51. Queen's Rangers, 719. Quibble-Town, 28, 665, 666, 721; land for sale near, 227.


road, 231. Ouigley, Capt., 254. Quimby, Rachel, 418n.


R.


Raccoon Creek, land for sale on, 130, 131, 451.


Landing, land for sale near, 76. Raccoon skins wanted, 39, 57. Rags wanted, 486. Rahway, 463n. British expedition to, 493. church in, 330.


companies, 460. river, 460.


Raindoleer, Christopher, 73. Ramboe, John, Inn-keeper, 73. Ramsay, John, 83. Randle's Mill for sale, 69, 185. Randolear, Christopher, 369. Randolph, Benjamin, 70, 186. Captain, 65, 86.


INDEX. 769


Francis, 463n. Captain Nathaniel, 81. Phoebe, 463n. Dr. Robert, 463n. Ranger Hussars, 721.


Rapalje, Capt., captured by the enemy, 163. Rapaljia, George, 323.


Rapaljie, Garret, 645; grist-mill, &c., for sale by, 589; land for sale by, 510.


George, 89. Raritan, 51, 218, 222, 562, 585, 609, 682, 721.


address of the Reformed Dutch Church at, to Washington, 441-443.


bridge, 481.


Committee, proceedings of, 573. extract of a letter from a gen- tleman at, 587.


Forks of, 49. land for sale in, 61.


land for sale on the, 149, 451.


Landing, 12n, 554.


river, 11n, 12n, 326; land for sale near, 97 ; land for


sale on, 10, 248, 535. prizes brought into the, 58. South Branch of, 245.


Rariton, 719.


Queen's College on the north branch of, 302. Rattan, John, 165. Samuel, 165.


Raway, 92. Rawson, William, 115, 369. Rayneval, Conrad Alexandre de


Gerard, 291n.


Rea, Samuel, 699.


"Real Farmer, A," article by, 241. Read, Augustine, land for sale near, 605.


Capt., 477. Charles, 362n, 363n.


Reading, Pa., escaped from, 374.


Reading, George, 362n. John, 245. Richard, 16.


Thomas, school master wanted by, 642.


Reading's Ford, 682.


Readington, land for sale in, 149.


Reading-Town, 220, 611; land for sale in, 451. Reading township, land for sale in, 112, 220. Rebels, attacked by, 564.


discovered, 401, 722 ; surprise, 491.


Guard Boats, 441. landing of a party of, 491. militia, 555. papers, extracts from, 138, 457.


prisoner taken, 722. privateers, 616; a snow taken by, 556.


stores, destruction of the, 122. surprise by, 493. Reckell, Mrs. Ann, marriage of, 109.


Reckless-Town, marriage at, 109. Red-Bank, 321.


British detachment discovered near, 300.


Reed, Andrew, 415n. Bowes, 415; biographical sketch of, 415n, 416n ; at- torney, 415n ; clerk, 346. Captain, 626.


Joseph, 415n.


Lieutenant, 623, 625, 627, 628.


Samuel, 40. family, 416n.


Refugees, 491. and tories, raid by, 518.


from New Jersey, 472.


from New York, 370. letter by, 512. landing of, 441, 504.


of New Jersey, notice to the, 453, 454.


Register for forfeited estates, Keeper of the, 331.


Regulating act, objections to the, 632. Regulation of prices of merchan- dise, &c., 539.


Regulations violated, 598.


Reidesel, General, 652.


Reightmyre, Conrad, 46.


Remington, Mr., 109.


Remson, Col. Henry, 59, 559.


Rennard,


Thomas, Assemblyman,


716. Renselaer, Stephen, 670; admitted to College, 669.


Repaupa, land for sale at, 130. Creek, 495 ; land for sale on, 450. marsh, 450.


Repopo Creek, land for sale on, 620.


Representatives in the Legislature, list of, 700, 701. Republicans of Monmouth county, 652.


Reter, Henry, 89.


Retter, Wair, 323. Revell, Thomas, 299n. Rewxastle, Lieut., killed, 107. Reynolds, Colonel, 23. Broughton, 92, 323, 383. John, cotton for sale by, 10; linen rags desired by, 34.


Rhea, Colonel David, 561. Rhode-Hall, clock for sale at, 417.


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INDEX.


Rhode Island, 41, 254, 401. arrival at, 216. enemy at, 715. Rice, John, 46. William, 46. Richard and Co., Williams, 153. John, 130. Richards, Mrs. Esther, death of, 504. Capt. John, murder of, 514. Mrs., furniture of, for sale, 505. Nathaniel, 47, 327. Captain Stephen, 504. William, 69, 153. Richardson, Thomas, 46. Richelieu river, Canada, 411n.


Richman, William, 119.


Richmond, . Rebels com- manded by, 163. James, 148. Jonathan, 7, 111; innkeeper, horse strayed to the yard of, 133. Richmond, Yorkshire, 147. Rickey, Israel, 322. Jacob, 322. Rickman, John, 526.


Riddell, Ann, 109n.


Riddle, James, 670.


Rider, Stephen, tory, 132, 359.


Riding chair for sale, 666.


Ridner, Abel, 98, 526. Conrad, 529. Hendrick, 98. John, 98. Ridoubt, J., 190.


Riggs, Gideon, 675.


Ringo, John, deceased, 67, 68. Martha, administratrix, 480.


Ringo's Tavern, 386; horse for sale at, 110. old tavern, 416.


Ringwood, artillery at, 470.


Ritche, John, 662. Ritchman, John, 62.


Ritzema, Colonel, 457.


Rivington, James, printer, 30; let- ter to, 512; paper of, 470, 473 ; New York Royal


Gazette, 713n.


Roadstown, 151, 474. land for sale in, 332. land for sale near, 333. Robberies, guard against, 372. Robber killed, 53. shot dead, 303.


Robbers, 402, 516.


Robbery, 292, 310, 321.


Robbins, Isaiah, 375n ; land for


sale by, 375, 438. Robert, Samuel, wife eloped with, 452.


Roberts, Capt., 566. Charles, 96 ; Loyalist, 591; land of, for sale, 97. Edmund, jun., 452. Jacob, innkeeper, land for sale at the house of, 449. John, Commander, 615. Robertson, John, 66, 98; land of, for sale, 129. Mr., 291. Robertson's Ferry, 45. Robeson, John, 650. Robinson, Bryant, runaway ap- prentice, 170. Capt., 481. John, 27.


Rock, James, admitted to College, 669.


Rocky Brook, land for sale bound- ing on, 99. Rocky Hill, 14.


horse strayed or stolen at, 369. horses stolen at, 386.


land for sale at, 97, 201, 618.


Rock-Pond, militia planted at, 54. Rodman, Thomas, attorney, 363n.


Rodney, George, 49.


Rodrow, John, 650. Roe, Michael, deserter, 410.


Roeloffee, Martin, 98.


Roelofse, Martin, 98n.


Roelofsen, Roeloff, 68.


Roll, Ann Eliza, 463n. Isaac, 463n.


Rome, Henry, 526. Roome, Henry, 132. John, 130.


Rope, Christian, 68.


Rose, Stephen, land for sale by, 600; cyder mill of, 21.


Rosebury, Michael, executed, 514. Rosely, John, 16.


Rosewell, Job, land for sale near, 9. John, land for sale near land of, 9. Ross, David D., Sheriff, 313. George, 635. John, Major, 709. John, jun., 270; horse stolen from, 365.




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