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Bailey, Francis, printer, new edi- tion of the New Testament for sale by, 327.
Baily, William, stray horse to be had from, 575.
Bainbridge, Sergeant, of the New- Levies, deserter from the Brit- ish, 539.
Baird, Surgeon Absalom, 350n.
Baker, Mr., speech by, 89.
Baker, Timothy, jun., horse strayed or stolen from, 16.
William, cow strayed to the pas- ture of, 530.
Balch, Thomas, 357n.
Baldwin, David, prisoner, 252. Colonel Jonathan, 350n. Phoebe, 569n.
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Baley, Joseph, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Balfour, Capt., arrival of, 646.
Ball, Joseph, schooner for sale by, 474, 520. Ballanger, Jonathan, loyalist, 1. Ballard, Jeremiah, horse taken up by, 140.
Baller's Light-Horse, 85.
Baltimore, 133, 512; purse won at, 358.
Banks, David, A. D. Q. M. G., cast horses for sale by, 139; notice by, 325.
Banton, John, negro, broke gaol, 516,
Baptist meeting house in Hope- well, 233.
Barbadoes, arrival of shattered British ships at, 485; French fleet supposed to be gone against, 557; ship bound from, captured, 389.
Barber, Lieut. Col, Francis, official returns of American losses at Springfield, 483.
Samuel, innholder, land for sale at the house of, 194. William, A. D. Camp, 157. Barberie Andrew, loyalist, confis- cated land of, for sale, 303, 330.
Oliver, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 303, 330.
Peter, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 303, 330. Barclay, Thomas, notice by, 463. Bard, Samuel, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249. Barkley, John. apprentice girl run away from, 94. Barn for sale, 302, 350. Barnardstown, 566n. Barnegat, 221. Barnegat Bay, 7.
Barnes, John, loyalist, notice to creditors of, 393.
Justice, loyalist suspect, com- mitted to gaol, 566.
Samuel, of Middlesex county, 566n.
Barnet, Doctor, house of, plundered, 182. Oliver, 583.
Barrack-master in Trenton, 49n.
Barracks, &c., statement in relation to, desired, 15.
Barrak, William, capture of armed schooner by, 364.
Barre, Col., speech by, 89. Barry, Captain, arrival of, 557. Barter for produce offered, 34.
Barthoff, Gillion, prisoner, 252.
Bartlet, Josiah, farmer, member of Congress, 210.
Barton Barb mare, 341.
Barton's Flatbrook farm for sale, 229.
Barton, Gilbert, court of admiralty to be held at the house of. 147, 247.
Joseph, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 229, 278.
Baskenridge, 23, 36, 52, 62, 348. 430; extracts from letters from, 112, 113, 122, 123, 149. 150, 198, 199, 432, 433 ; fire at, 182; general hospital at, 288; Grand American Army moving toward, 60; horse stolen at, 288, 387; land sold at, 119. 120, 263. 264.
Bassett, Francis, pewterer, 397. Bath, England, 581n.
Batteau taken, 492.
Bavaria, Court of, 357n.
Bayard, Col. William, house and barn of, burnt, 605, 613.
Baylor, Col., Light Dragoons of, 92, 130; at Peckman's River, 19. Beach, Israel, house to let by, 38. Jabish, horse strayed or stolen out of pasture of, 397.
Joseph, horse stolen from, 65. Beakes, Nathan, horse and colts for sale by, 316; conduct of, 191. Beatty, John, Com. Gen. Pris., 55. Beaty. George, horse strayed or stolen from, 404.
Beaverwick, 290.
Beckers, Mr., Capt, of marines, arrival of, 485, 486.
Beckwith, Geo., aid de camp, 552. Bedel, Israel, of Staten Island, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249.
"Bedford," British war vessel. 580. Bedminster township, 94, 198, 632 ; land for sale in. 295, 328.
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Beech, Captain Joseph, member of court-martial, 297.
Beekman, Charles, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 77.
Christopher, horse strayed
or stolen from, 478.
Garnardus (Gerardus) G., loy- alist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249.
Beers, Joseph, horses strayed from, 325.
Belcher, Jonathan, Governor, 569n. Bell, Andrew, loyalist, 87.
Anna, administratrix, notice by, 160.
David, lands of, confiscated, 184. John, deceased, notice to debtors of, 160.
"Bellmont" farm, for sale, 46, 57. Belt, Capt. of 4th regiment, cap- tured, 149, 181.
Benjamin, Jacob, and-irons, etc., for sale at the house of, 123; furniture for sale by, 364; horses, etc., for sale by, 558 ; merchandise for sale by, 205. Bennet, John, sen., horse taken up by, 375.
Benninghove, Jacob, tobacconist, stolen horse to be returned to, 511.
Bennington, British losses at, 450. Benson, William, 583.
Bentson, Capt., Jacob, deceased, personal estate of, for sale, 186.
Catherine, executrix, merchandise for sale by, 186.
Bergen, 167, 178, 613.
Bergen county, act changing county seat of, 116, 150, 447 ; British raid into, 433; election re- turns, 1; ladies' aid commit- tee, 487; loyalists of, 77, 89 ; man with 40,000 counterfeit Continental dollar bills taken up in, 475; militia, arrears due the, 617; wagons im- pressed in, 441.
Bergen, General Washington and others in the vicinity of, 605; inhabitants of, insulted and robbed, etc., by American sol- diers, 600, 601; movement of American army down to, 614. Bergen, Jacob, commissioner of for- feited estates, land for sale by, 18, 88, 185.
Jacob G., great coat taken from the house of, 438; notice of removal by, 371. Bergen Neck, 306, 626.
Bergen Point, 370, 385. Berlin, Court, 88.
Bernard's Town, 17, 52, 387, 529, 607.
Berry, Mrs. (Col.), 487. Sidney, Q. M., 444.
Bester, Captain, on prisonship, 597.
Bethlehem township, Hunterdon county, 304.
"Betsey," prize schooner, for sale, 473.
Betty, John, master, 466.
Biddle, Col., forage office of, 330.
Biles, Major, surprised by British, 350; killed, 323, 379.
Billingsport, 192. Billip's Point, 14.
Bills of exchange on France wanted, 215.
Bills, Thomas, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249. Biographical and Genealogical
Notes :
Arnold, Col. Jacob, 426n.
Blachly, Dr. Ebenezer, 24.
Bloomfield, Moses, 569n, 570n.
Crolius family, 47, 48.
Foster, Ebenezer, 565n, 566n.
Gifford, William Bernard, 371n. Knox, George, 395n.
Luzerne, Chevalier Anne-César, 357n.
Neilson, Colonel, John, 402n.
Ogđen, Uzal, 546n.
Potter, Amos, 21n.
Reading, Captain John, 340n.
Reynolds. John, 50.
Richmond, Jonathan, 49.
Sullivan, Samuel H., 56.
Taylor, Colonel John, of Hun- terdon, 581n, 582n.
Bird, Richard, Capt. 5th M. R., lost hanger to be returned to, 297.
Bishop, John, horse stolen from, 439.
Blachly, Ebenezer, Dr., biographical sketch of, 24; horse taken up by. 527.
Dr. Henry Wickham, 24n.
Black-horse tavern, land to let at, 320.
Black, John, jun., robbery of house of, 597.
Black River, 326, 347, 554; land for sale at, 270, 575; school- master wanted at, 431.
Blacksmith's tools for sale, 325, 330.
"Blacksnake," privateer, 308; re- captured, 351; bill against, 355 ; for sale, 359, 385.
Blackwell, Francis, sen., 409. Rev. John, loan office certificate of, burned, 409. Blades, John, captured, 153. Blair, William, prisoner, 457.
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Blanch, Capt., British attacked by militia under command of, 431.
Isaac, elected to Assembly, 4. Blanchard, Capt., 62.
John, horse breeding at farm of, 331; negro run away from, 443. Lewis, horse breeding by, 368. Blaumburgh, 338. Blawenburgh, 338n.
"Blazing Star" tavern, 429. Bleecker, Anthony L., merchandise for exchange by, 428, 429. Blew Mountains, 406.
Blewford, Col., wagons with state papers near, 485.
Block-house at Bull's Ferry at- tacked, 538, 546, 553, 556, 578.
Block Island, cannonade heard off, 606.
Bloomfield, Ann, 570n. Eunice (Dunham), 569n.
Hannah, 570n.
Isaac, 570n.
Jonathan, town collector, taken prisoner, 580.
Joseph, 569n., 570n .; register in admiralty, notice by, 40, 148, 247, 250, 355, 373, 382, 398, 438.
Dr. Moses, biographical sketch of, 569n., 570n .; taken pris- oner, 569, 580; exchanged, 623.
Mrs. Moses, 487. Nancy, 570n. Samuel, 570n. Sarah Ogden, 570n.
Bloomingdale Road, New York, 405. Blowenborough, land for sale at, 185.
Blue Mountains, confiscated land for sale near the, 278.
Blue Point, sloop captured at, 364. Board, James, commissioner of for- feited estates, 77, 90. Boarding school, opening of a, 332. "Bodies," court term, 669.
Bogart, Jacobus A., loyalist, 90.
John, prisoner, 252. John C., loyalist, 77.
Joost, loyalist, 90. Dr. James, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Bohea tea for sale, 142, 171, 339, 431.
"Bold Traveller," horse, for sale, 38.
Bollen, John, jun., miscellaneous articles for sale by, 132.
Bolsby, Charles, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 195. Boly, Elias, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Bond, Elijah, 60.
John, prisoner, 252. Sam, superintendent of King's William, commissioner Ferry, notice by, 599. of for- feited estates, land for sale by, 279.
Lieut .- Col. William, attack on Indians by, 406.
Bonnel, Benjamin, stray sheep in the pasture of, 35.
Isaac, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 303, 329.
Nathaniel, weaving business car- ried on near, 268, 290.
Bonnet pasteboard for sale, 316.
Booden, John, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 194.
Books for sale, 37, 188, 247, 257, 327, 354, 377, 642.
Boolen, John, 316.
Booten, John, loyalist, notice to creditors of, 373.
Booth, Mr., death of, 598. Boontown, slitting mill at, 195; part of, for sale, 270.
Borden family, 511n.
John, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 191.
Joseph, L. O., certificates signed by, 511. Mrs. (Col.), 487.
Borden's Run, robbers overtaken at, 598. Bordentown, 127, 142, 148, 215, 374, 407, 442; horse strayed oľ stolen in, 410; house for sale in, 343; land for sale near, 515 ; merchandise for sale in, 363; New Jer- sey Loan Office at, 409 ; public vendue at, 136; rigging for sale at, 302.
Border, Hance, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 192.
Bose regiment, raids into New Jer- sey, 306; men killed, 307.
Boskirk, Col., raid into Bergen county by, 433. (See also Buskirk, Van Boskerk, Van Buskirk.)
Boston, arrival of de la Fayette at, 359.
Gazette, extract from the, 490; letter from, 608 ; privateers, 608.
Boston road, British losses on, 450. Bottle-hill. 21, 22, 66, 142. 261, 327, 368, 388, 498, 499 ; horses. etc., for sale near, 397 ; horse stolen from, 526; horse stolen near, 258; horse strayed or stolen near, 386: meeting- house, 91, 92 ; merchandise for sale at, 61: miscellaneous articles for sale at, 62.
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Boudinot, Elisha, British search
for, 182. Mrs. (Elisha), 487.
Boulting mill, for exchange, 374.
Bound Brook, 20, 38, 259.
Bouroughes, Lieut., 69.
Bowen, Jonathan, elected Assembly- man from Cumberland county, 202.
Bowhill farm, 217; land for sale at, 584.
Bowlsby, Charles, loyalist, con- fiscated lands of, to be sold, 269, 270.
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Bowne, George, land for sale by, 516.
John, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248.
Mr., taken prisoner by the Brit- ish, 285.
Boyd, Adam, dwelling house of, burned, 276.
Mr., collector in Chester county, 436.
Rev. William, 582n.
Boylan, James, horse taken up by, 575.
Boyls, Major, surprised and killed by British, 323, 350, 379.
Bradley, Col., horse to be returned to, 350.
Bradshaw, William, prisoner, 252. Brady, John, prisoner, 252.
Brandywine. British losses at, 450 ; insurgents at. 562.
Brasher, Mrs., abuse of by the British, 379.
Brashier, Abraham, plundered by the British, 379.
Brasier, Francis, negro run away from, 64.
Bray, John, land for sale by, 599; shoes for sale by, 381.
Brearley. D., land for sale by. 194; notice by, 57.
Breintnall, Adjutant-General, 56n. Brenton, Captain, ship of, locked in the ice, 470.
Brest, sailing of French fleet from, 556.
Brewery, in Trenton, 508.
Brewing business carried on, 126. Brice, Capt., 353.
Bridgetown, 658.
Cumberland county, land for sale in, 1; sitting of court at, 1, 2. Bridgewater township, 184; land for sale in, 301.
Brig for sale, 385.
Brigantine driven ashore, 147. for sale, 206.
Bright, George, 49n.
Brightman, John, 40.
Brindley, Samuel, of Dover. (Mon- mouth county), loyalist, notice
to debtors and creditors of, 249.
Brink, Daniel, sale of land in the possession of, 119, 263.
Brinkerhof, John, loyalist. 89. Brisbane, Capt., arrival of, 646.
Bristol, 128, 361; arrival of ship belonging to, 448; land for sale in, 524; ferry, 186; Light Dragoons on the way to, 75.
Britain, 45.
"Britania," brig, hull of, for sale, 148.
"Britannia," brigantine, captured, 214; sails and rigging of, for sale, 232.
British account of operations in New Jersey, 451; army em- barked for South Carolina or the West Indies, 44; list of losses of, in America, 450 ; various reports of movements of, 455 ; Bobs, prowess of the, 454; brutality to women, 503; captures of prisoners, 468 ; com- missary of prisoners, immediate return of officers or persons ad- · mitted to parole, desired by, 55 : cruelty, instances of, 533, 534: deserters, 461. 537. 660 ; encampment, at Charleston, 346 ; expeditions into New Jer- sey, 151, 253, 257, 276, 277, 280, 306, 433, 534; exchange commissioners, powers of the, 257 ; fleet arrived at Sandy Hook, 449, 645, 646, 654 : fleet defeated by French and Span- ish fleets, 540; fleet fights French fleet, 485; fleet for Quebec captured, 596 ; fleet, great damage done to, 608; fleet, sailing of, from Sandy Hook, 227, 313 ; fleet sailing up North river, 455 ; frigates. 370 ; frigate, privateer brig driven ashore by a. 314: lieutenant taken prisoner, 458; loss at second battle of Springfield, 458. 465, 475 ; losses in inva- sions of New Jersey, 497 ; men- of-war wrecked, 129; mercen- aries at New York, 44; Mu- seum, curiosity for, 207 ; naval prisoners, arrival of, at Staten Island, 383; Parliament, 89, 129 ; prisoners brought to Springfield. 449 ; prisoners from Philadelphia, wretched condi- tion of, 664: raid on Newark. 22; Tinton Falls, 298; ships. damage done to. 486; soldiers captured, 134, 135 ; transports ready to take troops on board. 607; taken, 655; number of men lost by capture of, 450;
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troops, arrival of, from South Carolina, 433 ; embarked, 97; in the East Indies, reported captured, 123; preparing to embark from New York, 285; vessels, captured and burned, 154 ; driven ashore, 134, 154. Brittain, Isaac, innkeeper, 186.
"Brittannia," brig, hull of, for sale, 136.
Britton, Isaac, cow strayed cr stolen from, 581.
John, tavern-keeper, land for sale at house of, 36.
Isaac, tavern of, miscellaneous articles for sale at, 132; land sold at, 119. 120. 263, 264.
Broderick, Anthony, elected to As- sembly, 4.
Brokaw, Isaac, administrator, ven- due by, 22.
John, executor, horses, etc., for sale by, 632.
Broke gaol, 5. Bromley, 582n.
Brooks, Edward, jun., merchandise for sale by, 127, 363.
"Brother Jonathan." loss of, 490.
Brower, Jacobus, prisoner, 252. Peter, death of, 598.
William, prisoner, 252.
Brownlow, Major Charles, leads at- tack on Newark, 394.
Brown, Benjamin, Deputy Quarter- master-General, letter from, 518, 519, 576; letter to, 576, 577.
Captain Nathan, captor of prize vessel, 372; sloop for sale, captured by. 377, 382. 385.
John, captured, 153.
John, deserter, 656.
Matthew, found guilty of misde- meanor, 352.
Mr., taken prisoner by the Brit-' ish, 299.
Thomas, taken prisoner by Refugees. 655, 660.
W., horse to be returned to, 289. William, auctioneer, land for sale by, 221.
William, stolen goods left by, 196.
Browning, William, prisoner, 252. Bruen, David, merchandise for sale at the house of, 91.
Bruener. Peter, commissioner of forfeited estates, land for sale by, 47, 57.
Brunswick, 4, 20, 45, 431.
landing, land for sale near, 179. Brunt, John, captured, 153.
Brush, Timothy, jun., horses, etc., for sale by, 233.
Bryant, Fanny, boarding school to be opened by, 332.
Lieut. Charles, supposed horse thief, 320.
Bryant's tavern, 481. Bryson, Lieut., New Bridge de- fended by, 379.
Buchanan, Walter, land, etc., for sale by, 615; negro men for sale by, 265.
Buck, Mrs. (Counsellor), 487.
Buckskin breeches, etc., for sale, 196.
Budd, Conckling, steers strayed or stolen from. 593.
Joseph, junior, horse for sale by 109. Buddell, David, captured. 153.
Budden, Capt., of Light Dragoons, 462.
Bull, Lieutenant Absolam, wounded, 523.
Lieutenant George, wounded. 523. Bull's Ferry, 578, 627; attack on block-house at, 538, 546. 553. 556; block-house evacuated and destroyed. 581.
Bullman, Thomas, horse to be r'o- turned to, 18.
Bullocks, strayed or stolen, 108. Bullyrock mare, 321, 331.
Bunker Hill, British losses at, 450. Bunkeye, alias Long, Thomas, spy, executed, 54.
Burdge, Jacob, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 191.
John, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 191.
Burger, Gerardus, household furni- ture for sale by, 294.
Burglary, 401 ; by a soldier, 360.
Burgoyne, General, surrender of, 562; fate of. 201: effect of. 255 : losses by, 450 ; opinion ex- pressed by. 532.
Burke, Thomas, doctor and country attorney, member of Congress from North Carolina, 212. Burlington. 5, 40, 116, 150, 154. 190, 200, 216, 361. 516, 609, 645; farm wanted near, 223 : gaol. broke out of. 279. 583: land for sale in, 215. 635 : murder trial at, 461 : supreme court at. 60.
Burlington county, 5 : courts, notico of holding of, 407 : ladies' aid committee, 487 ; wood land for sale in. 333.
Burlington Island, land for sale near, 213, 524.
Burnes, Joseph, gaoler, prisoner escaped from, 279.
Burnet, Mrs. (Dr.), 487. William, (?), refugee arraigned before, 219. Burney, Thomas, escape from gaol. 462.
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Burns, Joseph, gaoler of Burling- ton, convicted of assisting escape, 462. "Burnt Swamp" for sale, 559. Burny, Thomas, alias Johnson, broke gaol, 361.
Burrell, Ezekiel, prisoner, 252.
Burton, Jesse, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 190.
William, loyalist, estate of, sold, 230.
Buskirk, Lieut .- Colonel, loyalist, 137 ; attacks by, on Elizabeth- Town, 467 ; raid into New Jer- sey by, 151, 155. (See also
Boskirk, Van Buskirk.)
Butler, William, merchandise for sale by, 91.
Byall, Peter, prisoner, 252. .
Byard, William, loyalist, 90.
Byland, Count, vessels taken under, 541.
Byle, Charles, land, etc., for sale by, 617.
Byles, Major, British attack on troops under command of, 378 ; death of, 379.
Byrne, Capt., 324.
Byrns, Joseph, gaoler, notice by, 361.
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Cadiz, sloop from, 486.
Cadwalader, MIss Betsy, 486.
Col. Lambert, land for sale by, 559.
Dr. Thomas, death of, 45.
Cain. Will., horse taken up by, 186. Caldwell. Rev. James. commissary, letters to, 465, 466, 518, 519, 576, 637, 670 ; plunder to be surrendered to, 145, 157; house of, set on fire, 565; alleged copy of a letter to. 440, 465; notice by, 571; protests against plundering, 576-577 ; lottery tickets for sale by, 169; manuscript sermons of, cap- tured by the British, 494; sermon by, 167.
Mrs. James and child killed by the British, 415, 418. 422, 433, 441. 446. 503, 531, 548 ; char- acterization of, 493: inscrip- tion for her tomb, 637; loyal- ist narrative in relation to her death, 564, 565; shot by reb- els, 452.
Calhoun, Alexander, land for sale by, 555, 575.
Callaghan, Daniel, embezzler, taken up, 299.
Camden, S. C., American deserters on duty at, 601; Lord Corn- wallis moving toward, 484.
Camp. Caleb, Speaker of Assembly, 3, 431. Mrs. C., 487.
Nathaniel, barn of, burned, 61.
Campbell, Captain Robert, killed in action. 352.
David, farm wanted by, 198; land for sale by, 296, 301. George, 40.
James, letter lost, directed to, 347.
(Archibald), inn-keeper, house damaged by the British, 257; plundered, 280; land for sale adjoining, 519.
Robert, land formerly of, for sale, 519. Robert, master, 355.
Canada, return of Sir John John- son to, 449.
Canaries, Spanish fleet from the, 486.
Canfielu, Job, taken prisoner, 519. Justice, taken prisoner, 537.
Ogden and, merchandise for sale by, 647.
Stephenson and, merchandise for sale by, 269 ; partnership of, dissolved, 529.
Thomas, commissioner of for- feited estates, 3 ; land for sale by, 408; justice of the peace, taken prisoner, 519.
Canoe Brook, linen stolen at, 444. Cape Ann privateers, 608.
Cape Francois, arrival of French vessels from, 434.
Cape May, 251, 252; death at, 655.
Cape May county, election returns, 4 ; correction of, 16 ; ladies' aid committee of, 487; land to be let in, 238.
Carey, Isaac, land for sale at the house of. 229.
Carlisle. Lord, 629.
Carmichael, Alex., commissioner of forfeited estates, land for sale by, 196, 270; negro wench, etc .. for sale by, 619; horse to be returned to, 489. Mrs .. 487.
Carolina indigo for sale, 635 ; pink root for sale, 171.
Carolina, troops bound for, 97 ; affairs in, better, 484.
Carpenter, James, executor, notice by, 262. Prudence, horse stolen from, 259 ; horse taken up by, 389. Carrington, Lieut .- Colonel, 227. Carson. Joseph, house for sale by, 343.
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Case, Peter, negro men for sale by. . 319.
Philip, negro men for sale by, 319
"Cassius," communication by, on regulation of prices, 111, 112. Casterline, Mr., horse thieves dis- covered by, 458.
Castile, house and barn burnt at, 606.
Caswell, Gen., North Carolina mil- itia got together by, 485.
Catterling, Joseph, inn-keeper, 261. Cattle collected for the American army, 613, 614, 626, 658.
for sale, 8, 22, 91, 107, 217, 232, 261, 294, 477, 587, 588, 607, 610, 617, 619, 632, 649.
Cauldwell, Dan., 21n. Rachel, 21n.
Cavalry marched on ice from New York to Staten Island, 469. Cavendish, George, Lord, 89. John, Lord, speech by, 89. Ceaders, The, British losses at, 450. Cedar Creek, land for sale on, 124, 217.
Cedar swamp land for sale, 124, 217.
"Centaur," British war ship, 646. Chadwick, Thomas, on committee of retaliation, 545.
Chamberlain, John, house of, rob- bed, 462, 513. Lewis, horse strayed to, 58.
Chambers, Mary, 48n.
Chandler, Asail, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. W., 565.
Chapman, William, captured, 153. Chapple, Mr., dwelling house of, burned, 276.
Charlestown, S. C., 346, 539; an- ticipated effect of the taking of, 417, 441; British trans- ports arrived at, 285; fleet left, 347; arrival New York, 449; burning of, 503; fall of, 449, 496, 548; garri- son of, toast to, 506 ; harbour, 346.
near Boston, burnt by the Eng- lish, 664 ; reported reduction of. 407 : protection of trade of, 60; vessels frum, captured, 462.
Charlestown neck, 346.
Chatham, 31, 54, 61, 65, 67, 84, 110, 140, 271, 331, 367, 378, 444. 512, 522, 546, 590, 647; court-martial ordered to sit at. 297; horse for sale at, 266; horse strayed or stolen at, 478 ; horse taken up in, 553; land for sale in, 290, 618 : merchan- dise for sale in, 293 ; paper,
the, 671; pocketbook lost on the road between Lyon's Farms and, 347; tea for sale at, 94; weaving business car- ried on at, 268, 290.
Chatham bridge, 259. Cheesequake creek, 136, 148.
Chelsea, forge for sale, 286; land for sale at, 287.
Cherry rum for sale, 183.
Chesapeak, 491; Bay, 385.
Chester, purse won at, 358.
Chesterfield, Burlington county, 6. Chestnut Neck, schooner for sale at, 7 ; sloop for sale at, 7 ; ves- sel for sale at, 125.
Chestnut or cedar rails wanted, 183.
Chetwood, John, executor, house- hold goods for sale by, 265.
Chimney-sweeps wanted, 200.
Chocolate for sale, 257; manufac- tory erected, 367.
Christian, Capt., arrival of, 646. Christiana Bridge, purse won at, 358.
Chumberling, William, land for sale near mill of, 12. Cider for sale, 140.
"A Citizen," address by, to Gen- eral Knyphausen, 492, 498,
546, 551.
Clamorgan, Jacques, master, 247. Clancey, John, prisoner, 252.
"Clarinda," letter from. 498, 521. Clark, Abraham, appointed a rep- resentative in Congress, 202.
Alexander, loyalist,
notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Benjamin. dog stolen or strayed from, 92. Col., 88.
David, cows strayed from, 23. Elijah, horse stolen from the plantation 01, 454.
John, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 191. Mrs. (Col.), 487.
Thomas, clerk, notice by, 406.
Clarke, Abraham, county surveyor, member of Congress, 211.
Jesse. flour, tea, coffee and sugar for exchange at the house of. 388.
Clarkson, David, 79n. : horse strayed or stolen from. 489.
David. jun., horse to be returned to. 51. Major, 79. Maria, 47n.
Clawson. John, commissioner of for- feited estates, land for sale by. 232, 270. John, executed at Washington's Camp. 472.
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Clayton, Joseph, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249. Peter, captured, 153.
Clendenning, James, loyalist, con- fiscated lands of to be sold, 278.
Cleveland, Duke of, his filly "Rox- ana," 318.
Clinton, Gen., Sir Henry, 450; British losses by, 100, 627, 628n. ; express
from, 417; sailed from Sandy Hook, 122; arrives at Charlestown harbor, 285 ; advances on Charlestown, 346 ; appointed sole peace com- missioner, 44: plans of, 457, 458; leaves New York. 466; marches up the North river, 456, 568; sails up East river, 558; West Point garrison re- inforced by brigade of, 455 ; intended attack by, 465; de- mands of, 548 ; force embarked by, 579; his baggage gone in fleet, 313 ; his taking advantage of the moon, 628n.
George, Governor of New York, proclamation by, 123: com- mander of the New York state militia, 539; nearly captured Sir John Johnson, 449.
Clisbe, Joseph, horse strayed from, 530.
Cloak found, 397.
Clock for sale, 22.
Clocks made and repaired, 643.
Closson.
taken prisoner, 458.
Closter, Bergen county, landing of British at, 276, 434; sailors captured at, 443 ; unsuccessful attack on block-house near, 538. Cloth stolen, 266.
Clothing and accoutrements of sol- diers, act prohibiting purchase of. 447.
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