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Clove Road, land for sale on the, 382.
Clunn, Charles, apprentice run away from, 659.
Capt. Joseph, 6, 52, 316; at- tendance at tavern of, 665.
Coachman wanted. 428. Coalby, John, prisoner, 252. Coat lost, 516.
Cobb, Clisby, executor, land for sale by, 293.
John, strayed or stolen horse to be returned to, 425.
Coblenz, Germany, 47n. Cochran, Richard, loyalist, estate of, sold, 230. Cocks-Town, land for sale at. 286. Coe, Joel, land for sale by, 326. Coelbach, Catharina. 48n. Coenties market, 588.
Coeymans, Andrew, 402n. Joanna, 402n.
Coffee for exchange, 388. Cohansey, 658.
Cokelamus Creek, land for sale on, 172.
Colden, David, prisoner, 252.
Cole, Kendal, cattle for sale at the house of, 587.
Richard, loyalist, notice to debt- ors and creditors of, 248.
Coleman, James, deserter and for- ger, executed, 395, 396.
Colestown, Gloucester county, 570n. Colins, Major Thomas, 466.
"Colled's Plains" farm 229.
: sale,
College of New Jersey, act amend- ing charter of. 277; notice of annual commencement of, 645. Colles, Mrs. Julia Keese, Arnold's tavern bought by, 426n.
Collins, Edward, keeper of the Bur- lington county gaol, 5.
Isaac, Almanack for 1780, for sale by, 133; Laws, for sale by. 193, 300, 347; notice of price of "Gazette" by, 315, 515, 543.
John, blacksmith, member of Congress, 211.
"Colonus." communication by, on the French alliance, 560, 563. Colston, Richard, rice planter, mem- ber of Congress, 212.
Colts-Neck, 317 ; horse breeding at, 342.
Colvin. Patrick, ferry of, 665. "Commerce," armed sloop, vessel taken by, 472.
Commissary department, fraud in. 10. Commissary of prisoners, repeal of act for appointment of, 448. Conascung, landing of Ty with party cif negroes, Queen's Rangers and refugee Tories, at, 456.
Concord. British losses at, 450. Condemnation of captured vessels, possible reversal of, 541.
Condict, Mrs. (Counsellor), 487. Silas, appointed commissioner to confer as to allowance on im- ports, 123 ; member of council, letter lost, directed to, 52. Confiscated estates, acts relating to. 447, 448.
Confiscated estates to be sold, 1. 46, 57, 105. 146, 191, 194, 195. 215. 228, 230, 231, 232. 245. 249. 269, 270, 278, 303, 329, 330. 408. 584, 619; pro- posed appropriation on. . 622. Conger's tavern, land sold at, 119. 120, 263, 264.
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Congo coffee for sale, 339.
Congress, act to regulate election of delegates to, 117, 151; anxious to pay its debts, 665, 666 ; currency, shoes for sale for, 381; extracts from the Jour- nals of, 143, 154; loan secured by, 395 ; order of, 412 ; resolu- tion by, 14, 15, 292, 512, 595; roll for the year 1780, and occupations of members, 210, 212.
"Congress," sloop of war, sailing of, 384.
Connecticut, 5n., 134, 426n. ; mem- bers of Congress from, 211; Refugees of, 100, 101; Fifth. regiment of, 350; regulation of prices considered by, 55.
Connecticut Farms, 21n., 262, 474, 617 ; burned by the British, 415, 422, 432, 441; advance of British on, 451, 461, 474; British attack on, 414, 415, 417, 421, 422, 432, 441, 445; horses, etc., for sale at, 649 ; letter from camp near, 457, 458 ; loss of Jersey brigade at, 445.
Constables, supplement to the act regulating, 447.
Constitution of New Jersey, copies of wanted, 131.
Continental army, militia ordered to join the, 539.
Continental bills found, 93; bills of credit as legal tender, 200; cattle for sale, 107 ; currency, redemption of, 512 ; dollars found, 64; ferry, proposed re- moval of, 665 ; money, depre- ciation of, 98; lost, 52; stolen, 597; taken, 463; sub- scription for the relief of the soldiers by the ladies of Tren- ton, 486, 488; stables, Tren- ton, horses, etc., for sale at the, 666; store-house broken open, 17; Treasury, raising of money by Virginia for the, 118; yard, horse strayed or stolen from the, 330.
Continentals, spirited conduct of, at Springfield, 568.
Convention troops, 352, 643; de- serters from, taken up, 190, 199.
Cook, Capt. Daniel, member of court-martial, 297.
Mrs. (Col.), 487. Rev. Mr., marriage by, 152. Cool, Mary, 582n. Sarah, 582n. William, 582n.
Coope, Ananias, land for sale by, 520.
Cooper, Cornelius, 583. Daniel, jun., 36.
Samuel, ferry of, 85, 56.
William, ferry of, saddles, etc., for sale at, 305.
James, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 191.
John, communication by, against slavery, 650, 653.
ferry, land for sale near, 516. Cornell, Benjamin, horse stolen or strayed from, 18.
Cornwallis, Gen., sailed from New York, 122; moving
toward Camden, S. C., 484.
Corper, Charles, prisoner, 252.
Corrington, Archibald, note given by, 347. Corryel's ferry, 317.
Corshon, Joshua, sheriff, negro escaped from, 509 ; negro taken up by, 339.
Cortselius, Veronica, 47n.
Coryell's ferry, Pennsylvania mil- itia cross, 597.
Cosby. Governor, alleged libel on, 115.
Cotril, John, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248.
Samuel, loyalist, confiscated land
of, for sale, 249; notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Cottnam, Abraham, estate of, 50n. Coughlon, Michael, captured, 153. Coughtown, land for sale at, 667. Counterfeit Continental dollars captured, 129, 134, 352.
Counterfeiters, lodged in gaol, 61, 551.
Counterfeiting, act prohibiting. S+, 447.
Court house at Elizabethtown, burned, 155 ..
Court-martials ordered, 297. 402, 427, 428 ; treatise on, etc., for sale, 23.
Covenhoven, Cornelius, brigantine for sale by, 206.
David, land for sale by, 338. John, negro wench for sale by, 437.
Mr., brigantine for sale at the house of, 176.
Mrs. (Peter), 487. Peter, 316 : horse breeding at the stable of. 231. William, 206.
Cow and calf for exchange, 128. "Cow Chace." poem by Major Andre. 585, 587: Canto II. promised, 602: Canto II., 610, 612. Canto III., 645. 668, 671. Cows, etc .. for sale, 63. 99. 500. 615. 619. 649; strayed, 23, 348. 530,
Cows' tails wanted. 50.
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Coward, John, deceased, land of, for sale, 124, 217.
Cowell, David, negro man adver- tised for sale by, asserts his freedom, 159, 213, 218 ; negro man for sale or exchange by, 132; notice of non-freedom of Adam, a negro, 191; resents attacks on, 219. Dr. David, 203.
Cowperthwaite, John, cow strayed from, 348.
Cox, Capt., 340n.
John, certificate by, as to sale of cattle, 392. Mrs. (Col.), 486, 487. Paul, land for sale by, 172.
Coxe, Dr. Daniel, conveyance from, 57.
Daniel, 5th, 393n. ; land for sale, formerly of, 57; land for sale adjoining, 46; president of the Refugees, 101; confiscated lands of, to be sold, 278. Mrs. (Charles), 487.
William, land for sale by, 186.
Cozens, Daniel, loyalist, confiscated estate of, for sale, 192.
Craig, William, sale of land in the possession of, 119, 263. Cramond, John, 466.
Cranberry, 231, 300, 316; horse breeding at, 359; Inlet, 147. Cranberry Neck. waggon
and horses for sale at, 584. Crane, David, deceased, horses, etc., for sale at the house of, 649. Hon. Stephen, death of, 598.
Jacob, Lieut .- Colonel, member of court-martial, 297. Joseph, horse stolen from, 169.
Josiah, loan office certificates lost, payable to, 411, 518 ; sad- dle-bags lost by, 282.
Mrs. Jemima, midwife, 398.
Noah, horses, etc., for sale by, 140.
Stephen, deceased, notice to debtors and creditors of, 500. Crawford, Lieut., wounded, 578. Creaton, John, captured, 153.
"Creon," communication from, 15, 16, 333, 337 ; meteor described 16.
Crimes :
attempt to set fire to store, 508. broke gaol, 5, 361, 509, 516, 583, 584, 648, 649.
breaking and entering, 17, 356, 478.
burglary, 60, 360, 401. cattle stealing, 108, 581, 633. counterfeiting, 84. desertion. 69, 599, 656. having counterfeit money, 475. horse stealing, 5, 16, 24, 25, 26,
34, 36, 51, 58, 64, 65, 66, 75. 77, 92, 108, 125, 126, 131, 140, 141, 147, 159, 169, 174. 258, 259, 288, 320, 330, 349, 350, 355, 360, 368, 375, 376, 386, 387, 388, 390, 397, 404, 405, 409, 410, 419, 420, 412, 413, 425, 426, 428, 430, 437, 439, 442, 443, 444, 454, 463, 464, 478, 488, 489, 499, 511. 526, 543, 555, 593, 609, 658. larceny, 60, 92, 93, 168. murder, 612n. robbery, 424, 462, 463, 513, 597, 598.
sheep driven away, 203.
theft, 6, 18, 19, 46, 63, 266, 390, 399, 479, 492, 511, 518.
Croft, Mr., horse bred by, 341.
Crooks, Samuel, sheep and horses for sale by, 404.
Crolius family, biographical sketch of, 47, 48.
Peter, 398 ; merchandise for sale by, 47, 48 ; store-keeper, notice of removal by, 356.
"Cross Keys" tavern, Philadelphia, 659. Crosley, John, cooper, 362.
Crosswicks, 49n., 353 ; land for sale at, 13, 515 ; land sold at, 120, 264.
Crosswick's creek, 13, 183.
Gruger, Richard, arrival of, at Morris-Town, 154.
Crow, Col. Samuel, confiscated land for sale at the house of, 329, 303.
Crowel, Thomas, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Crowell, Edward, horse strayed or stolen from, 429; horse strayed to the pasture of, 526. Cuba, projected British expedition against the island of, 182. Culhoon. Alexander, 316. Culles, John, captured, 153.
"Culloden," British war ship, 646. Cumberland county, 1, 2, 173; land for sale in, 1; loyalists of, 1, 2.
Cumberland county, Pa., 78; ladies' aid committee, 487; re- cruits from, 655, 660. Cummings, John N., notice by, 571. Cumings, James, hosier business carried on by, 410; land for sale by, 574, 659. Cunningham, , 669.
Currency, death of paper, 548 ; de- preciation of, 12, 69, 74, 86, 111, 112; letters on paper, 26. 31.
Curtis & Co., J., West-India rum for sale by, 171.
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Ephraim, strayed horse to be re- turned by, 171.
James, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Jonathan, 316.
Joseph, sulkey, etc., for sale by, 37. Thomas, 316.
Cuyler, 17. Cuyler, Ccl., refugee post of, at Fort Lee, attack on, 521; he and his men thanked, 523; names of the refugees killed and wounded at, 523.
D.
Dagworthy, Miss, of Trenton, ap- pointed secretary ladies' aid committee, 488.
Mrs., of Trenton, strayed cow to be returned to, 489.
Daily, Indian commander, killed, 352.
Dairy woman wanted, 290.
Daker, Samuel, confiscated estates for sale at the house of, 228. Danbury, British losses at, 450.
Darby, John, executor, notice by, 141.
Samuel, horse strayed or stolen from the plantation of, 386. Darling, Mr., lost certificates, etc., to be returned to, 444. William, miscellaneous articles for sale at the house of, 139. Dartmouth, 343.
Davidson, Captain, 3+3. Davill's "Old Woodcock," horse, 288.
Davis, Capt., attacks British, 482 ; detachment ·of, commended, 474.
Col., of Cumberland county, Pa., 78.
David, captured, 153. Job, wife eloped from, 222. Nancy, absconded, 222.
Davison, James, captured, 153. Major William, member of court-martial, 297.
William, horse stolen out of, of the pasture 387 ; land sold at the house of, 118, 263. Daws, John, loyalist, 90. Dawson, Capt., 635.
Day, Paul, sheep strayed to the plantation of, 499. Peter, 40.
Dayton, Col., 85, 332, 440, 481; British opposed by a regiment of, 417; recommendation of regiment of, 474; loss sus- tained by, at Springfield, 456 ; severe losses by his regiment, 568; troops commanded by, 421, 432 ; thanked by Washing- ton, 460.
Jonathan J., administrator, horse, etc., for sale by, 477.
Deal Beach, vessel driven ashore on, 308.
Dean, Mr., path of peculation of, 602.
Nicholas, ensign in Scotch regi- ment, deserter, 221.
Deare, Mrs. (Counsellor), 487. Deaths, 222, 352, 546, 614, 655. in Essex county, 598. at New-York, 598. caused by intense heat, 597. de Bass, Dr., Hessian surgeon, ex- changed, 623.
de Broglie, Duke, 337n.
Decatur, Captain, captor of prize sloop, 372, 382.
Decker's Ferry, Bergen Point, 137; British vessels come up to, 370, 385 ; house, party de- tached to, 145.
Declaration of Independence, anni- versary of the, 505, 506.
De Cow, John, robbers pursued by, 598.
Deep Clove, land for sale near. 229.
Deerfield township, 2.
Defence of the State, act to pro- vide for the more effectual, 447.
"Defiance," British man of war, 227.
Degrove, John, state waggon estab- lished by, 633,. 634, 640.
de Guichen, Count, son of. killed, 486.
DeHart. Col., death of brother of. 553 : house of, burned by the British, 166.
Jacob Morris, lieutenant, death of, 553. 556.
Miss Sally, letter lost, directed to, 52.
De Hart's Point, 140, 166. 178 : Lord Stirling's corps crossed Sound at, 144.
de Heister. Lieutenant General, reference to, letter to, 201.
De Kalb, Baron, wounded and cap- tured, 614.
de la Fayete, Marquis, gone to Rhode Island, 658: arrival of. at Boston. 359: Washington's letter to Congress introducing. 412: White Plains, 573; in vicinity of Bergen. 605 : march of. 625.
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De La Luzerne, Chevalier, passes through Trenton, 314, 654. Delancey, James, 288.
Oliver, loyalist, confiscated lands of, to be sold, 17, 185, 229, 578.
Delaware, 59, 113, 134; prizes brought into the, 314, 609.
Counties, members of Congress from, 211; military oppression of the, 601. militia, 597. Refugees, 100, 101.
Delaware Falls, 39, 53.
Delaware river, sleighing on the, 174.
Delaware river landing, land for sale near a good, 120.
"Delaware," war vessel, 324; prizes taken by, 343.
"Delight," 312, 384; British frigate chased by Paul Jones, puts into harbour, 370.
De Merailles, Don Juan, Spanish gentleman, obituary notice of, 352, 353, 394; funeral of, 383, 384.
Demarest, Christian, prisoner, 252. John, prisoner, 252.
Demerest, Arie, loyalist, 77. Daniel S., loyalist, 77.
Demerist, Joost, loyalist, S9.
Demot, John, loyalist, estate of, sold, 230.
Demott, Abraham, administrator, 56n.
Denman, Joseph, horses, etc., for sale at the house of, 23.
Matthias, leather breeches for sale by, 6 _.
Dennis, Anthony, of Shrewsbury, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248.
Dennis, Samuel, 147; sails and rigging for sale by, 232.
Dennis's creek, land to be let on, 239.
Denton, Isaac, prisoner, 252.
John, miscellaneous articles for sale by, 110, 127.
Depreciation of currency, 95, 335, 512. 513. Deptford township, 192.
Deputy barrackmasters, notice of meeting of, 56.
De Puyster, Mrs., land for sale,
bounded by land of, 408.
Deremus, Hendrick, loyalist, 77. Derick, John, sheep and horses for sale by, 404. Derik, Prenore, loyalist, 90.
de Rochambault, Lieutenant-Gen- eral, Count, troops under, 557.
de Rochambeau, M. le Count, French troons commanded by, 539.
Derrick, John, 321.
Derye, John P., loyalist, 77.
Descent of real estates, act alter- ing, 447.
Deserter executed, 393, 443.
Deserters, 69, 137, 380, 442, 443, 445, 449, 461, 539, 599, 655, 656, 657, 660.
Desertion, "Act more effectually to prevent," 447 ; spirit prevalent among the British, 537.
Desertions from troops in the Jer- sies, 472 ; in the American army, 468.
D'Estaing, Count, British merce- naries kept at New-York, by, 44; dispatches to, 97; plan
of, to retain Savannah for the French, 80, 82; reinforce- ment to, 64; danger from fleet of, 97.
de Ternay, Admiral, arrival of, with French fleet and army, 537, 539; list of fleet of, 557.
Detto, Francis, captured, 153. Devereaux, Captain, 115.
Devisme, Anne, land for sale by, 382.
Devonshire, Duke of, 288.
Devoor, Dav., death of, 598. Dey, Colonel Anthony, Washing- ton's headquarters at the house of, 514n.
Mrs. (Col.), 487.
Mrs. (Major), 487.
Theunis, elected to Council, 4. D'Hart, Lieutenant, killed, 578.
Dick, Mrs. (Col.), 487.
Dickinson, Major-General, Phile- mon, commander of New Jer- sey militia, 435; British ad- vance opposed by, 480; spir- ited attack by men under com- mand of, 481; note on, 484n .; return of, to Philadelphia, 490; return of, to Trenton, 484; vindication of Col. John Taylor, by, 581-582.
Dickenson, Mrs., 486. Dickerson, Peter, horse stolen
from, 66.
Diemar's Hussars, raids of, into New Jersey, 306; men killed and wounded in, 307.
Dillon, Captain, captured, 608.
Dishes, etc., for sale, 114.
"Dispatch," captured sloop, bill
against, 355.
"Dispatch," pine sloop, for 338.
sale,
Dixon, John, merchandise for sale by, 61; rum and salt for sale by, 142.
Dobb's ferry, 580, 627.
Doble, William, horse taken up by, 128.
INDEX. 689
Dockwra, William, 17n.
Dog stolen, 92.
Doles, James, captured, 153.
Donnaldson, Andrew, loyalist, 1.
Donohue, John, weaving business carried on by, 268, 290. Donop, Count, son of, reported killed, 421; wounded, 448.
Doramus, Jonathan, prisoner, 252. Dorman, Thomas, prisoner, 252. Dorne, Cornelius, sails and rigging for sale at the house of, 232. Dorset, Joseph, prisoner, 457.
Doty, Daniel, 21n.
Doughty, Captain, 340n. Douglas, Joshua, land for sale near tavern of, 326, 554, 575.
Douglass, Alexander, land for sale by, 301 ; rum for sale by, 183. George, chestnut or cedar rails wanted by, 183.
Joseph, horse strayed or stolen out of stable of, 376.
Joshua, school master wanted by, 431.
Thomas, broke gaol, 648, 649. Douglass Tract for sale, 584.
Douns township, Cumberland county, 54. Dover (Monmouth county), 249. Dowdney, Nicholas, land for sale adjoining, 1.
Downey, John, tavern-keeper, land for sale at the house of, 524. Doyl, Massey, runaway apprentice girl, 94.
Drake, Commo., arrival of, 646. James, house of, burned, 409. Drowned, 401.
Drugs for sale, 21.
Drummond, Jane, loyalist, 2; con- fiscated land of, to be sold, 408.
Drummond, Major, of the New Jer- sey Volunteers, 2n., 634; con- fiscated land of, to be sold, 408.
Dry goods for sale, 34, 215, 349; seized and confiscated, 299.
Duane, James, lawyer, member of Congress, 211.
Du Buy, Major, British expedition under command of, 306.
Duchassaud, Count, ships under, 556.
Duckett, J., clerk Maryland House of delegates, 134.
Duel fought in Jersey, 634.
Duels, men killed in, 614.
Duffield, John, negro wench run away from, 517.
Duke of Gordon, 654.
Dukeson, Isaac, captured, 153.
Dumayn, William, loyalist, confis- cated estates of, to be sold, 231, 270.
Dumont, Peter, negro run away from, 197.
Dun, Jonathan, land for sale in the possession of, 18.
Duncan, John, waggon and horses for sale by, 584.
Dunham, Azariah, answer to ad- dress by, 8-11; cattle for sale by, 107; missing bullocks to be returned to, 108.
Col. A., 444; horse breeding at house of, 331.
John, horse stolen from, 25.
Dunn, Benjamin, refugee, 564. Dunscomb, John, loyalist, 90.
Durham furnace, land for sale near, 286.
Durjee, John, prisoner, 252.
Dutch barn for sale, 295, 301, 528, 606.
Duyckinck, Gerardus, horse taken from the house of, 320; re- moval to house formerly occu- pied by, 428.
D'Vebber, Gabriel, loyalist, confis- cated land of, for sale, 192.
Dye (Dey), Col., General Wash- ington's Headquarters at, 514. Dyer, Eliphalet, country attorney, member of Congress, 211.
E.
Earl, Morris, prisoner, 252. Earl of Lauderdale,
death ·of
brother of, 113.
East, Mary, midwife, advertise- ment of, 508. East-Indies, British Army in the, reported captured, 123. East River, circular redoubt near the, 471.
Eastburn, Robert, land for sale by, 286, 667 ; merchandise for sale by, 619; miscellaneous articles for sale by, 234, 260; salt for sale by, 37.
Easton, 3, 184; land for sale near, 286.
Eccles, Major, 5th Maryland regi- ment, taken prisoner, 149, 181. Eccleston, Major, 149n .; captured, 153.
Eckley, Thomas, horse breeding at the plantation of, 327.
Edgar, Captain, ship of, locked in the ice, 470. Mr., prisoner, 406.
Edsall, James, court to be held at the house of, 40.
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Edwards, David, cattle for sale by, 588. Major, 145.
Egberson, William, horse stolen from, 64.
Egbert, Major, sentiments read by, 505, 506.
Egg Harbour, 7, 19, 85, 154, 242; 251, 490; accounts from, 242; arrival of American prizes at, 352; brig run ashore at, 635 ; Capt. Munns taken into, 20; prize schooner sent into, 385 ; ships driven ashore near, 129; vessels retaken sent into, 491. Egremont, Lord, 654.
Eldridge, William, inn-keeper, no- tice of meeting at the house of, 405.
Elections, act to regulate, 117, 151.
Elections in New Jersey, notice of the, 665.
"Elizabeth," brig, 299.
Elizabeth, 21n., 465n .; British ex- pedition landed at, 414, 441 ; troops detached to, 174.
Elizabethtown, 3, 6, 19, 24, 24n., 45, 85, 93, 140, 144, 145, 171, 249, 252, 258, 265, 327, 328, 371n., 445. 482, 489, 519, 526, 537, 571, 585, 590, 617, 637.
Elizabeth-Town, advance of Brit- ish from, 481 ; advance of reb- els to, 452; and the Point, severe skirmish between, 417; arrivals at, 61; . arrival of British naval prisoners from, 383; boarding school at, 332; British and Hessian prisoners at, 424; British at, 457 ; Brit- ish attack on, 152, 155 ; Brit- ish captures at, 149, 155, 166, 168, 178, 180, 181, 182 : British march by, 451 : British move- ment from, 480; destruction of Presbyterian Church and court house
at, 155, 664; British retire
to, 452, 456, 568 ; British brutality to women at, 424; "Commissa- riat Parson" of, 237; confis- cated lands for sale in, 231; deserters from, 443, 454; de- struction of British works at, 464 ; enemy's
march from, 461; extract of a letter from, 313, 665; horse for sale in, 68, 477; houses at, occupied by the British, 549; Jersey Brigade on way to, 381; land for sale in, 107, 270, 350; land for sale near, 607; letter found in house at, 576; list of prisoners captured at, by the
British, 153; landing of Brit- ish troops upon town mead- ows of, 451 ; merely a Captain's Guard at, 173; miscellaneous articles for sale in, 296 ; Moy- land's Light Horse at, 658; notice of school opening in, 647 ; picquet guard at, sur- prised, 467.
Elizabeth Town Point, 466;
Americans fortifying at, 455 ; British and Hessian prison- ers at, 424; British at, 435, 439, 445, 448, 462; British driven back to, 414, 417, 432, 442, 445 ; British fortifying at, 449; British fortifications at, destroyed, 484, 491; Brit- ish march from, 464, 474; British retreat to, 423, 482; landing of the British at, 421, 432; vacated by the British, 465 ; prisoners from, 544.
Elizabeth-town, raid on by Ref- ugees at, 181; Refugees brought to, 551; secret visit of Washington to, 357; stage waggon from New-Brunswick ferry to, 431, 633, 640; State Regiment in, 403 ; vendue at, 22.
Elk, British losses near, 450.
Ellery, William, lawyer, member of Congress, 211.
Elliot, Mr., loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249. Ellis, Abigail, 570n.
Amy, 316, 583. Mrs. (Col.). 487.
Elmer. Mrs., 487.
Philemon, executor, notice by, 141.
Timothy, deceased, late Assem- blyman from Cumberland, 609.
Elopement, 222, 405.
Elphinstone, Mr., death of, 598.
Elston, John, land for sale in the possession of, 18. Spencer, land for sale occupied by, 229.
Elsworth, Oliver, attorney, mem- ber of Congress, 211.
Emmerick, Captain, dispatches de- livered by, 202.
Emmons, Jacobus, loyalist, confis- cated land of, for sale, 191.
Encampments at Morristown, con- dition of, 149.
Enemy's lines, visits into, pro- hibited, 117, 151.
England, British Generals em- barked for, 653; capture of packet from, 580; fleet bound for, 143; merchant vessels
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from 346; whigs of, associat- ing, 540.
“England in Blood," treasonable piece, 654.
Englewood, 586n.
English barn for sale, 529, 607. English brig ransomed by Captain Munns, 20.
English, cruelty of the, 660, 664. grammar for sale, 387. hatred of foreigners, 662. hay for sale, 140.
English Neighbourhood, 306, 552, 587, 634; attack on block- house near, 553 ; British march towards, 254; British light horse taken
at, 567, 580 ; letter from, 625-627.
"Enterprize," brigantine, schooner captured by, for sale, 386. "Enterprize." privateer brig, 438.
"Enterprize," recaptures schooner, 385.
Eoff, Garret, executor, horses, etc., for sale by, 632.
Jacob, sen., deceased, horses, etc., for sale at the dwelling house of, 632.
Epgart, - , sale of land in the possession of, 119, 263.
Erskine, Kinney and, partnership, dissolved, 388.
Mrs., 487.
Sir William, reference to letter to, 202. Escaped gaol, 279.
Essex county, 2; associators, notice of meeting of, 592, 639; courts, notice of holding of, 477 ; ladies' aid committee, 487; loyalists of, 2, 231, 408; militia, losses of, at Spring- field, 490; refugees from, 121 :
resolution by the inhabitants of, 189; wagons impressed in, 441.
Esty, Moses, land for sale by, 555, 575.
"Eumenes," letters by, on Paper Currency, 26-28, 29-31, 94, 95-6, 105-107; on the war, 344-346; Letter II., on Lib- erty, by, 365-367; criticism on, 161.
"Europa," British man of war, 227.
Evans's map of the middle states for sale, 193.
Evert, Joseph, land sold in the possession of, 262.
Everett, Joseph, sale of land in the possession of, 118.
Evesham, Burlington County, 420. Ewing, James; appointed State Auditor, 118, 202; notice of opening of office by, 175; no- tice of removal to Trenton by. 300.
Maskell, jun., Clerk of House of Assembly, 15, 436, 437. family, 15n.
Exchange of prisoners of war, 138. 257; cartel for, 227; act rela- ting to, 448.
Executions for forgery and de- sertion, 395, 396, 508; of de- serters and spies, 443.
"Exempt," communication from, 615-616.
Exempts from military service. ease of, 616.
Exportation of provisions from New Jersey, act to prohibit, 58-59, 448.
Eyers, Col. B., address presented by, 624.
F.
Fæsch, Mrs., 487. "Fair American," American priva- teer brig, 372, 580, 581.
Fairchild, Abraham, cloth stolen from, 267; clothier, 554, 594; fulling-mill of, broken 478.
open, Fairfield, Conn., burnt by the British, 664; letter from, 490. Fairfield, Cumberland county, land for sale in, 57. Falmouth, England, 44. Falmouth, Mass., destruction of, 503 ; burnt by the English, 664.
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