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Falls of Lamaton, 582n. Falls of the Delaware, 39. Falls township, 128.
"Fame," picaroon schooner, cap- tures schooner. 385. Farm wanted, 198, 223.
"Farmer." communication on the regulation of trade, etc., by. 41-43. 69-72 : criticised. 242.
Farming utensils for sale, 261, 607. 610, 632.
Farrand. Moses, horse stolen from, 38S.
Fast-Day proclaimed, 272; notice of, 315.
Fast in camp, 146.
Fatout. Aaron, deceased, notice to debtors and creditors of. 262. Faucitt. Colonel, reference to let- ter from, 202.
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Fealy, Lieut. Ezekeal, wounded, 523.
Lieutenant John, wounded, 523. Fees, fines and forfeitures, act for raising, 277; of certain offi -. cers augmented, 117, 151; of surrogates raised, 125, 279. Fell, John, elected Delegate Congress, 60, 211.
to Mrs., 487.
Fenimore, Thomas, appointed com- missioner to confer as to allowance on imports, 123. "Ferdinand," old Spanish horse, 231.
Ferguson, Capt., arrival of, 646.
1 Ferries : Bristol, 186; Bull's, 546, 556, 578, 627; Conti- nental, proposed removal of, 665 ; Cooper's, land for sale near, 516; Cooper's, Samuel, 56; Cooper's, William, 'sad- dles, etc., for sale at, 305; Corryel's, 317, 597 ; Decker's, 137 ; British vessels come up to, 370, 385 ; Dobbs, 580, 627; King's, 558, 567, 599; Neshameny, 186, 632; New- Brunswick, 431; Old Phila- delphia, 412; Patrick Col-
vin's, 665 ; Ryerson's, 137; Sherard's, land for sale near, 301; Sherrard's, 583 ; Sher- rerd's 609; Trenton, 92, 128; land for sale joining, 584.
Ferry across the Delaware, de- signed, 287.
Field, George, prisoner, 252. Jeremiah, horse stolen from, 437.
Fifty-seventh regiment attacks Newark, 394, 395.
Finances, communication on, 86 ; essay on disorders of, 72-74. Financial revaluation, 496.
Finch, John, land for sale occu- pied by, 229.
Fines of Pacquanock men for not turning out on the late alarm, 513.
Fire, 123, 137, 145, 146; fatal, 129.
Fire wood, bids for, solicited, 208. Fisher, James, land for sale by, 473.
Fishing party taken prisoners, 407.
Fish-Kill, 122, 143, 160, 237, 280, 321, 424.
Fithian, Joel, marriage of, 173. Mrs., 487.
Mrs. Elizabeth, marriage of, 173. Rev. Philip v., marriage of widow of, 174.
Fitzrandolph, Captain Nathaniel,
death of, 472, 476, 477; obituary, notice of, 507-8, 514. Ensign, exploit of, 623; raid by on Staten Island, 643; New- Levies surprised by, 665. Five-Mile-Run, 45. Flatbush, 79n.
Flax and wool, flour, etc., to be exchanged for, 388. Flaxseed wanted, 50, 99.
Fleet, notice of arrival of, 454; French allies on the coast, 386; sailed from Sandy-Hook, 143 ; sailing of a, 114.
Flemington, Flemingtown, 25, 26, 517, 599, 644; land for sale in, 46, 291, 302, 318, 319; negro men for sale near, 319 ; negro wench for sale near, 320.
Flood, Mr., gracious reception of, by the King, 238; toasted, 285.
Flour for exchange, 388; for the army at Morristown, 152; request for, from New Jersey, 154; stolen, 17.
Floyd, William, farmer, member of Congress, 211.
Forage, collected dry, 626 ; notice to bring in claims for, 666; taken in Bergen county, 605. Forbes, James, merchant, member of Congress, 212.
Force to be raised to defend fron- tiers of State, 431, 447, 454.
Ford, Ebenezer, 303, 329; com- missioner of forfeited estates, land for sale by, 303, 330. Mrs., strayed horse to be de- livered to, 429.
Oswald, loyalist, will of, 566n. Phebe, 426n.
Forest, Lieut. Col., artillery under command of, well served, 482. Forfeited estates, commissioners of, for
Bergen, 77, 90.
Cumberland, 1, 2. Essex, 3, 232, 408.
Gloucester, 193.
Hunterdon, 47, 57, 393.
Middlesex, 231, 303, 330.
Monmouth, 146, 191, 245, 249. Morris, 196, 270, 619. Salem, 194, 373. Somerset, 18, 88, 185. Sussex, 229.
Forfeited estates, advertisements of sales of, 1, 46, 57, 105, 146, 191, 192, 194, 195, 228, 230, 231, 232, 245, 249, 269, 270, 278, 303, 329, 408, 584, 619. Forfeited goods, wares and mer-
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chandise, act relating to ap- peals in cases of, 448.
Forge, Old, sold, 119; to let, 68. Forged advertisement, 259. Forges, Chelsea, for sale, 286; land for sale at, 287; Horse- Pond, 69; Old, sold, 119.
Forks of Little Egg-Harbour, 130; vessel for sale at the, 338, 358, 377, 385, 473, 520.
Forman, David, captures alleged murderers, 401.
David, Gen., chairman of com- mittee of retaliation, 545. Mrs. (Gen.), 487.
Mrs. (Peter), 487.
Samuel, commissioner .o.f for- feited estates, 146; land for sale by, 191, 245, 249; ne- groes for sale by, 633.
Forrest, Lieut. Colonel, thanks to artillery of, 474.
Forsman, William, Tory, confis- cated land of, for sale, 192.
Fort Lee, 306, 627; British expe- dition landed near, 253; British retreat to, 277, 307; British losses at, 450; attack on, 521; Refugees killed in a fight near, 523; light camp march from, 625.
Fort Mifflin, British losses at, 450.
Fort Montgomery, British losses at, 450.
Fort Moultrie, surrender of, 407. Fort Stanwix, number of army at, 601.
Fort Washington, British losses at, 450.
Fortune, runaway negro lad, 634. Forty-fourth British regiment, 180.
Forty-second Anspach regiment, 180.
Forty-second regiment (British), 252, 468.
Forty-third regiment, 476.
Foster, Ebenezer, loyalist, narra- tive of, as to the death of Mrs. Caldwell, 564, 565 ; bio- graphical sketch of, 565n- 566n.
Joshua, horse breeding at the stable of, 374. Found : cloak, 397 ; continental dollars, 64, 93; sword. 644. Foundling hospital needed in camp, 641.
Fourth of July at Princeton, 505 ; at Trenton, 507.
Fox, Jacobus, loyalist, 77.
Fox-Hill, confiscated land for sale near, 270; land for sale at, 195, 326.
France, Americans to remain slaves
of, 563; and America, tie be- tween, 602; and Spain, fleets of, engage the British, 540; bills of exchange on, wanted, 215 ; loan negotiated with, 75, 395.
Frank, runaway negro, 267.
Franklin, Doctor, toast to, 507. Governor, 569n. ; charter of Woodbridge schools granted by, 565n.
John, loyalist, confiscated grist- mill of, for sale, 192. Walter, death of, 598.
Frederick, Jacobus, captured, 153. Fredericksburg, 160; deserters at, 537
Freehold, 40, 249, 391, 633; con- fiscated lands for sale in, 190 ; land for sale in, 191; letter from, 538.
Freelinghuysen, Colonel, member of court-martial, 297.
Frederick, commissioner of for- feited estates, land for sale by, 185.
Freeman, Abraham. horse for sale by, 38.
Amos, horse found by, 47S.
Doctor Melanthen. horse breed- ing at the house of, 328.
Isaac, loyalist suspect, committed to gaol, 566; money found by, 64.
Justice, prisoner, 406. Free speech, importance of, 116.
Freights from Trenton and Phila- delphia, rates of, 510.
Frelinghuysen, Frederick, commis- sioner of forfeited estates, 88. French alliance, gave confidence to the Americans, 562; allies on the coast, 386, 395 ; expected, 389; army at Rhode-Island, landing of the, preparation for, 401 : beaver hats for sale, 527 ; designs on America, 562, 563 ; fleet, 394; action by, with British fleet, 485 : fleet and army, sails from Brest, 556 : arrival of a, 515, 537; ar- rival of
at Rhode Island. 539, 580 ; fleet and army as prop to American empire. 561: capture British trans- ports. 655 : list of, 557: non- arrival of second division of. 596: not sailed. 624; sup- posed to be bound to Rhode Island, 655; to be joined by Spanish fleet, 486: frigates, captured by. 19. 20; Nation, William Livingston's former opinion of the. 603: schemes of conquest, 80, 82. 83: troops
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at Rhode Island, 658 ; vessels, arrival of, 434.
French, Cornelius, master, 355.
Edward, horse stolen out of pas- ture of, 412.
Joseph, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 195, 269, 270.
"Friend to Liberty," 12; address by, 458-460; communication from, 94-95, 649-650. Friends' Burying Ground, Trenton, 50n. Friendship salt-works for
sale, 636.
Frog's-point, Clinton at, 627.
Frontiers of State, act for defence of, 431, 447, 454.
Frost, George, member of Congress, 210. Silas, prisoner, 252.
Frucker, William, captured, 153. Fuel, shortage of, at New York, 138.
Fullerton, John, captured, 153. Fulling-mill broken open, 478; erected, 361.
Furloughed soldiers notified to re- turn, 6.
Furman, Moore, Deputy Quarter- master General of New Jersey, 56n .; notice by, 184, 666; re- signed as Deputy Quartermas- ter, 655. Mrs. Moore, 486, 488.
Furnaces : Durham, land for sale near, 286; Hanover, 68; Hi- bernia, land for sale on road to, 591 ; Oxford, land for sale near, 278.
Furniture for sale, 136, 364.
G.
Gaine, Hugh, printer, 605n.
"Galatea," British war ship, ves- sel driven ashore by, 308, 313, 351, 384.
"Galatea," frigate, chased by Paul Jones, 367, 370.
Galloway, Samuel, 317. Galway township, 436.
Gamble, Mr., commissary, &c., wag- gons of, stopped, 424.
Gaol keeper wanted, 609.
Garanger, Capt., books and cloth- ing of, captured, 424.
Gardener wanted, 290.
Gardiner, Capt. Rufus, captor of prize schooner, 40, 372, 385, 386, 438.
Thomas, horse to be returned to, 368; silver watch case to be returned to, 499.
Gardiner's tavern, at Bottle Hill, land for sale near, 21.
Garretson, Rem, horse to be re- turned to, 51. Garrison, Benj., captured, 153.
William, commissioner of for- feited estates, land for sale by, 194.
Garritson, Garrit, 56n.
Gates, Major General Horatio, 85, 485 ; passed through Trenton, 97; toast to, 506; defeat of, 614.
Gazette, New Jersey, notices of the publication of the, 315, 515, 543.
General Assembly, acts passed by the meeting of the New Jersey, 150, 151, 182. 359 ; votes and proceedings of the, for sale, 656. "General Mifflin," armed vessel, 364.
General Orders, extract from, in relation to French alliance, 460.
"General Reed," privateering brig, taken, 343.
"General Wayne," privateering brig, taken, 343. Genung, John, cow strayed to plan- tation of, 262.
George, negro slave. 40. George, Nicholas, tailor, 558, 559. Georgia, 80, 82, 113, 346, 634 ; arrival of British fleet from, 324; troops bound for, 97. Germaine, Lord George, correspond- ence of. 201. 202; letter to, from Gen. Knyphausen, 466- 468 ; letter to, from Gen. Pat- tison, 468-472.
German steel for sale, 316, 410. German troops, 253.
Germantown, Pennsylvania, 50n .; action at, 562.
Gerritson, Gerrit, 56n.
Gerry, Elbridge, Marblehead trader, member of Congress, 211.
Giberson, Benjamin, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249.
Gilbert, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249.
William, jun., of Upper Freehold, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of. 249.
Gideon, Capt., arrival of, 646. Gifford, Capt., captured, 155.
Elizabeth, act to dissolve mar- riage of, 116, 150.
William, act to dissolve marriage of, 116. 150. Capt. William Bernard, marriage of, 371.
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Giles, Hannah, 570n. James, 570n.
Gilford (Gifford), Captain, cap- tured, 153, 155.
Gillispie, James, deceased, notice to debtors and creditors of, 289.
Jane, administratrix, notice by, 289.
Gilpin, Joseph, 133.
Gist, Brigadier-General Mordecai, 337.
Glan, Gabriel, loyalist, 1.
Glass-house, land for sale near, 220, 292.
Glenworth, Lieutenant, in the fight at Paramus, 379.
Glisson, James, 583.
Gloucester county, ladies' aid com- mittee, 487; loyalists of, 192. Gloucester, Duke of, 654.
Gloucester town, land for sale in, 192; land for sale near, 292. "Good-Hope," prison ship, con- sumed, 284.
"Good Whig," communication from, 315.
Goodrich's fast sailing ship cap- tured, 609.
Goods for exchange, 615.
Gordon, Lieut. Colonel Cosmo, 227, 522n. ; gross falsehoods re- specting what happened to, 498, 521. Lord Adam, 654.
Lord George, trial of, 654.
Major, continental store formerly kept by, 356; land for sale by, 39, 53.
Michael, horse stolen from, 555. Peter, late Quartermaster, 560; manure for sale by, 246; no- tice by, 233. Thomas, captured, 153.
Gordon's tavern, 58.
Gormond, John, captured, 153.
Gosling, David, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 303, 329.
Gough, Charles, captured, 153.
Gould, Abraham, executor, notice by, 426.
Jacob, executor, notice by, 426. Robert, deceased, notice to debt- ors and creditors of, 426.
Graham, Elizabeth, acting execu- trix, notice by, 259.
Ennis, deceased, 259. John. 113.
Robert, loyalist, estate of sold, 230.
Grammar school in New-Brunswick, end of vacation of, 399.
Grand American Army, movements of. 60. Grandin, Eleanor, 340n.
"Granville" Packet, departure of, 207.
Gratton, Mr., toasted, 285.
Graves, Admiral Thomas, arrival of, 515; arrival of at Sandy Hook, 537, 538; fights Ad- miral Ternay, 538; ship of, badly worsted in fight, 539; arrival of at Rhode Island, 558; squadron, 580.
Gray, Captain John, captured, 153. Great-Egg-Harbour, 246; land for sale on, 192; salt-works for sale in, 636; township, 436. Great Falls of the Passaic, 84n., 593.
Great Meadows, confiscated land for sale near the, 278.
Great Notch, 84n.
Great Swamp, land for sale in the, 36 ; land sold lying in the, 119, 120, 263, 264.
Green, Capt. James, captured by Refugees, 299.
General, late, 574.
Jacob, A. M., sermon by, for sale, 289, 346n.
Joseph, jun., hog strayed to house of, 58.
Major General, British advance on, 455 ; congratulates troops, 474-477 ; troops commanded by, 568. Richard, malting and brewing business carried on by, 126. William, Capt., near bottle Hill, miscellaneous articles for sale by, 62; horses, etc., for sale by, 397 ; lost pocketbook to be returned to, 348.
William, malting and brewing business carried on by, 126. Greene, Major General Natn., Q. M. G., notice by, 158; opposes British advance at Springfield. 480 ; officers and men under. thanked, 483; in vicinity of Bergen, 605, 627; defeat of Gen. Knyphausen by. at Springfield, 628 : official report of the second battle of Spring- field, 481. 482.
Greenheage, burglary committed in, 380.
Greenwich, Sussex county. 26; confiscated land for sale in, 278 ; land for sale in. 286. Greenwich township, Gloucester county, 405 : land for sale in, 192. 220. 291.
Greenwich township. Cumberland county. 172.
Gregg. Amos, land for sale by, 291, 302. Gregory. Seth, cattle, etc., for sale by, 62, 261 ; ox strayed to, 66 ;
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wine and shore salts for sale by, 22. Grievances to be redressed, etc., 615, 616. Griffin, Cyrus, lawyer, member of Congress, 212.
Griggs, Daniel, land for sale at the house of, 124, 217.
Joseph, horse stolen from, 464. Matthew, prisoner, 457.
Grigs-Town, 478; burglary in, 360. Grinnell, Capt., escaped from pris- onship, information by, 597. Grist-mill, 292, 520, 591; for ex- change, 373 ; for sale, 175, 180, 192, 215 ; land for sale near, 220.
Grover, Barzilla, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249. Joseph, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249.
Guards, sailing of the, 313. Guest. Henry, harponiers in the whaling business wanted by, 656; inventor of blubber, 117, 150. Guillon, William, loyalist, confis- cated land of, for sale, 191. Guinea, negro on the way to, 339. Gulick, Joachim, horse to be re- turned to, 51. John, land for sale by, 13. Guluk, I., petition of, 136.
H.
Hackensack, county seat removed from, 447n. ; court house burned by enemy, 257, 280; militia, spirited behavior of, 280.
Hacket's Town, confiscated land for sale near, 278; land sold at,
120, 264; horse stolen from, 555.
Hackinsac, 254, 306; attacked by the British, 253, 257, 276.
Hackinsack, 635; court house burned by the British, 276; prisoners taken at, 252; river, vessels sail up, 381.
Haddonfield, Admiralty office at, 247, 250, 316, 355, 373, 438 ; cattle for sale near, 587 ; horse stolen at, 454. Haerlem, British losses at, 450.
Haggie, Capt., arrival of. 606. Hagner, Frederick, Pennsylvania State Salt Works for sale by, 8.
Hains, Samuel, horse stolen from, 36; lost certificates. etc., to be returned to, 444; stolen horse to be returned to. 444. Haight, John, jun., alias Jock Hyde, taken prisoner, 556.
Joseph, estate at Spotswood for sale by, 215.
Halifax, 201; British sailed from New York for, 445.
Hall, Capt., privateer commanded by, 352.
John, attorney, member of Con- gress, 212.
Nathan. deserter, 69.
Hallens, Cornelius, loyalist, 90. Halsey, Daniel, junr., 332. Joseph, horse breeding at. the plantation of, 332.
Halstead, Mathias, captured by Refugees. 252, 258; house of. plundered, 182.
Hambleton, 288.
Hambleton and Son, snuff makers, 110, 127.
Hamilton, Alexander, artillery com- pany of, 456n.
David, horse strayed to the plan- tation of, 122, 133.
Doctor, 298; horse imported by, 317.
James, horse strayed or stolen from, 488.
Lieut. Colonel, 227.
Hamilton family of Princeton, ref- erence to, 488n. Hammell, Laban, horse strayed to, 58.
William, prisoner, 252. William, jun., prisoner, 252.
Hammond, Lieutenant, wounded, 578.
Hammond, Sir Andrew Snape, com- mander of the "Roebuck," 113. "Hampden," communication by,
115. 116.
Hampton, John, loyalist, confiscated land of. for sale, 249; notice to debtors and creditors 248. of,
Hamton. John, land for sale by, 615.
Hance, George C., 570n.
Hancock. John, merchant, member of Congress, 211. "Hancock." sloop of war, sailing of, 384. Hand. General, brigade of, 396; attacks British, 417. Jesse, elected to Council. 4. Mrs. (Counsellor), 487.
Silas, silver watch case to be returned to. 499.
Hanger lost, 297; stolen, 46.
Hankinson, Elizabeth, 340n. Joseph, 340n.
Kenneth, commissioner of for-
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feited estates, land for sale by, 146, 191, 245, 249.
Peter, gold locket to be returned to, 6.
Hanlen, Bernard, stone ware, etc., for sale by, 195; assertion of title to certain lands, 249, 250 ; horse strayed or stolen from, 160 ; land for sale by, 218, 236 ; dispute as to title of, property advertised for sale by, 230, 305.
Hanna, Mrs., 487.
Hanover, 108, 140, 171, 262, 265, 329, 331, 428, 443, 554, 594, 615; cloth at,
stolen 266; furnace, 68; horse stolen in, 425; horse taken up at, 389; horse taken up in, 618; negro boy for sale in, 326: theft in, 478 ; confiscated land for sale in, 270; land for sale in, 195, 293.
Hanson, John, jun., merchant, mem- ber of Congress, 212.
Hardenbergh, Jacob R., Clk., notice by, 339, 404, 585. Harding, Capt., 450.
Harned, Nathaniel, loyalist, confis- cated land of, for sale, 303, 330.
Harnet, Cornelius, country trader, member of Congress, 212.
Harp, John, found guilty of man- slaughter, branded, 352.
Harponiers in the whaling business wanted, 656. Harring, Abraham C., loyalist, 77. John C., loyalist, 77. Peter T., loyalist, 77.
Harrington Township, Bergen County, list of inhabitants and monthly assessments of, 304. Harris, Benjamin, jun., 48n.
Ephraim, elected Assemblyman for Cumberland, 609.
John, certificate by, 341. Mrs., 487.
Thomas, prisoner, 252; ship tim- ber taken up by, 232.
Hart, Edward, executor, notice by, 355.
Jesse, executor, notice by, 355.
John, deceased, notice to debtors and creditors of, 355.
Joseph, wool-combing, 554, 594. Levi, executor, notice by, 355. Nath., executor, notice by, 355. Hartford, convention at, for consid- eration of regulation of prices, 55.
Hartshorne, Large and, fulling mill erected by, 361.
Lawrence, marriage of, 152.
Thomas, jun., loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 191.
Harvey, Edward, prisoner, 252. Hastings, John, captured, 153. Hatfield, Rev. Dr. E. F., 21n. Hathaway, Lieutenant-Colonel Ben- oni, member of court-martial, 297.
Hatter wanted, 430.
Hatteras, Cape, severe storm off, 227.
Haugobout, Ian₫ in the
possession of, to be sold, 263. Havanna, 182.
Haverstraw, 19, 397n.
Hayes, Joseph, British guide, cap- tured, 190, 199.
Samuel, commissioner of for- feited estates, 3; land for sale by, 408; Refugee arraigned be- fore, 219; taken prisoner, 520, 537.
Hayman, Lieutenant, land late of, to let, 246.
Hays, Colonel, 523.
Hayse, Major Joseph, taken pris- oner, 519, 520.
"Hazard," captured sloop, for sale, 246 : lumber sloop taken, 490. Hazlitt, John, land for sale by, 216. Headwood, John, 130.
Heard, General Nathaniel, horse, "Young Figure," bred by, 317; his horse, "Briton," 328 ; his mare, "Britannia," 331; Brig- ade of, 427n.
Heat, intensity of, 597.
Heaton, Joseph, broke gaol, 5.
Hector, negro prisoner, 252.
Hedden, Israel, Sheriff, notice by, of holding of courts, 477. Job, land for sale by, 107.
Joseph, alleged barbarity of, 235, 239. Joseph, commissioner of for- feited estates. 3; capture of, 149, .153, 155, 167, 179, 181. 188; prisoner in the Provost jail, 219.
Hedden, Mrs., wounded by the Brit- ish, 167. 179, 188.
Heddy (Hedden), Joseph, captured. 153.
Heggarty, Hugh, land for sale near, 229.
Heifers strayed, 589.
Heighton, Joseph, broke gaol. 583. Hell-Gate, British losses at, 450.
Henderson, Doctor Thomas, elected delegate in Congress, 60: do- clined appointment. 202; on committee of retaliation, 545. Lieutenant, wounded, 457.
William, P. M. to the 4th Reg. L. D., theft from, 93.
Hendricks, Conrad, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of. 248.
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John, grass, ox cart, etc., for sale by, 528.
Hendrickson, Daniel, horse breed- ing at the farm of, 342.
Tobias, executor, land for sale by, 124, 218.
Hen-roost robbed by British sol- diers, 476.
Henry, James, country attorney, member of Congress, 212.
John, 133.
Samuel, 583 ; house of, 371; mill of, 50n.
"Henry," transport sloop, 227. Hepburn, Ja., secretary, 101.
Herd's tavern, meeting at, 617.
Hermaunus's island, land for sale on, 192.
"Heroine," French frigate, disables British ship, 448.
Herriman, William, house of, plun- dered, 182.
Herring, Captain Abraham, pris- oner, 252.
Hesse, hirelings of, cruelty of, 423. Hessian and Anspach corps, raid on New Jersey by detachment from, 152.
Hessian corps, 180, 202, 623; de- serters, 442, 461; at Philadel- phia, 462 ; encampment at Charleston, 346; prisoners brought to Springfield. 449; at Trenton, capture of, 201, 535; taken up in Monmouth county, 407.
Hetfield, British pilot, badly wounded, 448. Caleb, 398.
Cornelius, guide to the British, 166, 178; horse breeding at the plantation of, 368.
Job, guide to the British, 166, 178.
Moses, executor, household goods for sale by, 265.
Smith, guide to the British, 166, 178.
"Hetty," privateer ship taken, 343, 353.
Hews, Alpheus, merchandise for sale by, 268.
Heyward, Thomas, rice planter, member of Congress, 212.
Hibernia furnace, land for sale near, 266 ; land for sale on road to, 591.
Hice, Jacob, runaway apprentice, 544.
Hicks, Oliver, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Higbee, Joseph, 50n. Higbie, C., 49n.
Higgins, William, land for sale by, 350.
High, John, deceased, notice to creditors of, 141.
Highlands, number of army in the, 601.
Hildreth, Mrs., 487.
Hill, Rowland, prisoner, 252.
Whitmil, farmer, member of Con- gress, 212.
Hillborn, Joseph, merchant, land for sale by, 291.
Hillegas, Rogers and, bills of ex- change on France wanted by, 215.
Hillman, Josiah, innkeeper, land for sale at the house of, 192.
Hillsborough, 184, 197, 285, 339, 399, 404, 585; court of oyer and terminer at, 214; burnt by the English, 664; land for sale in, 286, 667.
Hinchman, John, loyalist, confis- cated land of, for sale, 192; land of, sold, 584.
Hinian, Thomas, broke gaol, 361.
Hinman, Capt., 608.
Hispaniola, 242; threatened con- quest of, 561.
Hobuck, house and barn burnt on the north end of, 606.
Hoebuck, passage at, commanded by light camp, 627.
Hoffman, Nicholas, loyalist, confis- cated land of, for sale, 195, 270. Philip H., 426n.
"Holker," American privateer, brig, 580, 581; ship captured by, 389.
Holland. 88 ; loan negotiated with, 75 ; war with Spain, 333.
Hollingshead, Joseph, Sheriff, land sold by, 230.
Hollinshead, Jacob, statement by, as to purchase of cattle, 393. Holly, William, land for sale near, 229.
Holmes, Col. Asher, 147; on com- mittee of retaliation, 545; ves- sel captured by, 214, 232. John, robbery of, 401. Holston, Robert, captured, 153.
Holy water on a Calvinist, 383.
"Honestus," communication by, on regulation of prices, 72-74, 85- 87 ; criticisms of, 111, 112, 273 ; 282, 309, 313.
Hongohout, land in the possession of, to be sold, 119. Hook. Josiah Crane, loan certificate in the name of, 281, 411, 508, 518.
Hooper. Barbary, letter lost, di- rected to, 52.
Robert L., D. Q. M. G., notice by, 184.
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Hoops, Major, 436; capture of loy- alist soldier by, 435. Mrs. (Major), 487.
Hope Creek, land for sale on, 411, 420.
"Hope," vessel, 324.
Hopewell, 57, 340, 391, 409 ; fire in, 409 ; land for sale in, 1, 46, 436.
Hopkins, Peter, elected to Assem- bly, 4.
Stephen, blacksmith, member of Congress, 211.
Hopper, Garret, 517; house and mills of burned by British, 321, 324, 351; lost saddle-bags found near mills of, 281.
John, house and mill of burned by the enemy, 379. Jonathan, murder of, 612n.
Hopper's-town, fight at, 306, 307; return of men, killed and
wounded at, 307.
Hornblower, Mrs., 487.
John, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 249.
Horse breeding, 287, 298, 321, 237, 328, 331, 332, 340, 341, 342. 358, 359, 362, 368, 374, 391; for sale, 68, 109, 217, 266, 316, 388, 477, 488, 509, 617 ; found, 75, 76, 131, 170, 478.
Horse Neck, Washington's army en- camped near, 514; pewterer's business carried on at, 398. Horse-Pond forge, 69.
Horse ran away, 300.
Horse stealing, Act for more effectu- ally preventing, 447.
Horse stolen, 5, 16, 18, 36, 51, 58, 64, 65, 66, 75, 77, 92, 108, 125, 126, 131, 140, 141, 142, 147, 159, 169, 174, 258, 288, 330, 349, 350, 355, 360, 368, 375, 376, 386, 387, 388, 390, 397, 404, 405, 409, 410, 412, 413, 419, 420, 425, 426, 428, 430, 437, 439, 442, 443, 444, 454, 463, 464, 478, 488,. 489, 499, 511, 514, 515, 526, 543, 555, 593, 609, 658. strayed, 18, 23, 35, 54, 58, 63, 64, 65, 108, 121, 124, 125, 126, 133, 159, 169, 175, 218, 297, 325, 330, 338, 355, 360, 368, 369, 375, 376, 386, 391, 397, 404, 405, 410, 420, 425, 426, 429, 430, 478, 488, 489, 499. 526, 527, 530, 543, 555, 575. 592, 593, 609, 639, 657. strayed or stolen, 16, 24, 25, 26, 34. Horse tails wanted, 50. Horse taken, 320. Horse taken up, 128, 140, 171.
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