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Patten, Capt., raid by, 154.
Patterson, Andrew, captured, 153. John, broke gaol, 5.
Pattison, Major-General, letter from, to Lord George Germain, 468-472; embarked for Eng- land, 653.
Paulen's Kiln, confiscated land for sale near, 278.
Paulis-Hook, 468; detachment from, 467.
Paulus Hook, 626, 628n., 671 ; bids for wood at, solicited, 567. Paxton, James, commissary in Trenton, letter lost, directed to, 52.
Peabody, farmer, mem- ber of Congress, 210.
Peamark, Mr., sloop captured be- longing to, 364.
Pearse, Jonathan, prisoner, 457.
Pearson, Robert, horse found by, 76; oxen strayed or stolen from, 632.
Peck, Jacobus, loyalist, 77. Samuel, loyalist, 77.
Peckman's River, 19. Peeland, Hartland, land for sale bounded by land of, 408. "Peggy," vessel, 324. Penier, S., land for sale by, 194.
Penn, Governor, house of the late, destroyed by fire, 123. John, country attorney, member of Congress, 212. Richard, 426n. William, 426n. Penn's Neck, land for sale in, 420. Pennington, 18, 24n., 132, 316, 516, 583, 609, 644 ; horse stolen at, 390; merchandise for sale in, 451.
Pennsylvania, 9, 13, 59, 134, 350n., 665; regiment, 395; second, 553, 556 ; brigades of infantry, 521: churches and dwellings in, burnt by the English, 664; line. 323, 378, 580 ; light camp supported by the, 627; mem- bers of Congress from, 212; militia directed to be ready,
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539; cross Coryell's ferry, 597; reviewed, 624.
Pennsylvania, murder in, 401;
"Packet," 41; recruits from, 655; Refugees of, 100, 101; State salt works for sale, 7. Penobscot, rebel privateers reported lost at, 608.
Pensawkin, 401.
Pequanack, 426; land for sale on the road from, 617.
Periam, Mr., tutor of Paramus academy, taken prisoner, 280; notice of school opening by, 647.
Perine, John, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 190.
Nicholas, horse stolen from, 376: Perkin, Nathaniel, loyalist, confis- cated land of, for sale, 191.
Perrine, James, executor, notice by, 216; reply to notice by, 245. John, deceased, devise by, 216. John, jun., land of, 216.
John, Refugee, 216; confiscated land, not the property of, 215, 216.
Joseph, executor, notice by, 216; land of, 216; reply to notice by, 245.
Mary, guardian, notice by, 216 ; reply to notice by, 245.
Matthew, land of, 216.
Peter, land of, 216.
William, loyalist, notice to debt- ors and creditors of, 249.
Perth Amboy, artillery encamped at, 570n .; meeting of Com- missioners at, to arrange car- tel for exchange of prisoners, 227.
"Peter," negro man, taken up, 109, 110, 121, 339.
Peterson, Daniel, land for sale for- merly occupied by, 229.
Petition of inhabitants of New Brunswick, 135-136.
Petition to the General Assembly, 97, 98.
Pettit, Charles, land for sale by, 39, 53.
Pew, James, deceased, bill to con- firm will of, 136.
James, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248.
Pewterer's business carried on by Francis Bassett, 398.
Philadelphia, 8, 10, 45, 60, 67, 78, 85, 110, 122, 127, 134, 142, 314, 343, 412, 414, 419n., 449, 512, 515, 517, 557, 574, 659; arrival from, 113; arrival of French vessels at, 434; arrival of prisoners at, 389; British prisoners from, wretched con- dition of, 664 ; British prisoners
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sent to, 472; British ravages in the environs of, 503; cattle driven to, 392; citizens of, threatened by Gen. Howe, 550; provisions forwarded by, to Washington's army, 463 ; Cof- fee-House, land for sale at the, 519; contributions by ladies of, for soldiers, 504; the earthen ware for sale, 590; farm wanted near, 223; fire in, 123 ; freights to and from, rates of, 510; funeral of Span- ish resident, celebrated at, 383, 384; Hessians sent to, 407; horse to be returned to, 289 ; land for sale in, 39; letter from, 484, 486; loan office, 281; Mrs. Washington on her way to, 480; pilot boat for sale, 359; prisoners taken to, 352; price of West-India goods falling in, 123; Refugee prisoners sent to, 552; on their way to, 557; stage wag- gon from, 659; troop of light dragoons, arrival of, 462; wholesome effect of the aband- onment of, 562.
Philips, General, of Burgoyne's army, 61.
Thomas, of the Artillery, killed, 523.
Philip's tavern, land sold at, 264. Philipsburgh, confiscated land for sale in, 278.
Phillip, Jacob, Sheriff of Burling- ton county, 584, 609; notice by, of holding of courts, 408. Jonas, land for sale by, 325.
William, horse to be returned to, 5.
Phillips, Col., British vessels near- ly opposite, 465.
Elias, horse found by. 76,
Elijah, land for sale by, 489. Major-General, 227.
John, in Maidenhead, horse breeding at, 374.
Ralph, horse breeding at, 288. Thomas T., 374.
Piatt, John, sheriff, 16: notice by of holding of Middlesex courts, 372, 644.
Major Daniel, obituary notice of. 353.
Picaroens, vessels retaken from, 491.
Pickering, Col., appointed Quarter- master-General of the United States, 574.
Pidgeon, William, house of, de- stroyed by fire, 129; death of, 130.
Pigeon swamp, proposed drainage of. 135 : act for draining, 277.
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Piles-Grove, land for sale in, 194, 588.
Pilot boat for sale, 359.
Pine, Benjamin, land for sale in the tenure of, 516.
Pins for sale, 171.
Pintard, John, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Piscataway, 68, 328, 431, 499. 565 ; negro taken up near, 197. Pistols for sale, 590.
Pittsburgh, 603.
Pittsgrove, Salem county, 18.
Pitt's Town, 120, 130, 160, 265, 316; horse breeding at, 321; land sold at, 119, 263; land for sale near, 179, 185; sheep and horses for sale at, 404. Plantation wanted in exchange, 373.
Plater, George, gentleman, mem- ber of Congress, 212.
Platt, Ebenezer, 316.
Pleasant Valley, 214; brigantine for sale in, 176, 206.
Pluck'emin, 632 ; land sold at, 120, 264; land for sale near, 295, 301, 328.
Plukemin, 126; horse stolen from, 409.
Plum, John, his belief in the in- nocence of John Manning, 431.
Plumstead, Thomas, conveyance from, 13; and Willcock's (Wil- locks) land, land sold adjoin- ing, 120; land of, land sold adjoining, 264.
Plunder taken at Staten Island or- dered to be surrendered, 157. Plundering prohibited, 157; reso- lution against, 189.
Poccukunk, land for sale at, 229. Pocket book lost, 347, 444, 591.
Poem by a love-sick bachelor, 400. on the military movements about New York, 628. on Want and Misery, 187.
Polacre driven ashore, 147; for sale, 206.
Polhemus, John, made prisoner, 4. Pollock, Mrs., widow, marriage of, 258.
Thomas, marriage of widow of, 258.
"Polly," prize schooner taken, 385. Pomeroy, Robert, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung, 461; execution of, 508. Pompton, confiscated land for sale at. 270: march of army to- ward, 480.
Ponds, Bergen county seat re- moved to, 447n.
Pope. Capt., 343.
Port wine for sale. 1.83.
Porterfield, John, land of, for sale, 230.
Post, Hendrick, land for sale ad- joining, 408.
Henry, 56n. John, land for sale adjoining, 408.
Post, sergeant, Refugee seized by, 219.
Post-riders wanted, 160, 367.
Posts, notice of setting out of, 160.
Potter, Amos, drugs for sale . at the house of, 21; biographical sketch of, 21n. ; deceased, ven- due at house of, 22.
Bethia, 21n.
Daniel, 21n.
Elizabeth, 21n.
Joanna, 21n.
John, 21n.
John, administrator, vendue by, 22. Moses, 21n.
Russel, 21n.
Rusel, administrator, vendue
by, 22. Samuel, 21n.
Potter's Town, 120, 231, 265 ; land sold at, 118, 262, 263.
Potts, Daniel, apprentice run away from, 160.
Joseph, house for sale by, 343 ; late Marshal, notice by, as to money due him for prizes, 142, 143; late marshal, notice to debtors to, 131; sloop for sale by, 7; negro lads for sale by, 56.
Mr., Trenton, 508.
Stacy, 191, 390; has leave to bring in bill, 279.
Poughkeepsie, 154.
Powelsen, John, horse strayed or stolen from, 375.
Powles Hook, 587 ; fire wood to be delivered at, 208; march of British from, 152; marched through, 167, 178, 180.
Powlis Hook, attack on the picquet at, 114; garrison at, 129.
Poynton, Brereton, loyalist, notice to creditors of, 393.
Mary, loyalist, notice to creditors of, 393. P., poem by, 399.
Pracaness, letter from camp at, 558.
Pracanness, letter from, 602, 603. Prackness, Washington leaves, 579. Presbyterian burying ground, Țren- ton, 50n. : church at Elizabeth- town burned. 155.
Press, liberty of the. communica- tion on, 115-116. Price, Ab., captured, 153. Captain, 343.
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Francis, land for sale at the house of, 229.
James, loyalist, notice to debt- ors and creditors of, 248.
Jerub, captured, 153.
Joseph, loyalist, confiscated land of, for sale, 191.
Michael, loyalist, notice to debt- ors and creditors of, 248.
Ralph, captured, 153.
Zachariah, land for sale near, 229.
Prices, regulation of, act of the New Jersey Legislature for, 117, 150 ; act suspending, 277; proposed convention of States for. 55, 134, 143; arguments for, 273, 283, 309; falling, 327.
Prince George County, Md., 149. Prince, runaway negro, 443.
Princeton, 5n., 46, 51, 52, 99, 110, 122, 127, 133, '147, 175, 200, 298, 371, 405, 419, 488, 489, 536, 602, 657.
College, 211, 405n .; advice as to preparation for, 223; land to let near, 246; act . amending charter of, 277; commence- ment of, 645.
land for sale near, 148, 473 ; marriage at, 173; horse to be returned to, 289; courts held at, 372, 644; horse strayed from, 391; "Prospect near," 419n. ; battle o1, 426., 434, 439; British losses at, 450; notice of silversmith business in, 463 ; celebration at, of In- dependence Day, 505; house for sale in, 508; battle of, 535, 536; military hospital in, 570n. ; grammar school, 645. Printers :
Bailey, Francis, 327. Collins, Isaac, 133, 193, 300, 315, 347, 515, 543. Gaine, Hugh, 605n. Kollock, shepard, 67n., 94, 290. Loudon, "Deacon" Samuel, 237. Parker, James, 90n., 110. Samuel, Franklin, 90, 91, 110, 113, 296, 329. Rioington, James, 179n., 407, 498, 521, 522, 525.
Quackenbos, Abraham A., loyalist, 77.
Quaker Meeting House, 50n.
Quartermasters and Foragers, no- tice to bring in accounts against, 666.
Quarter-Master General's depart- ment, notice to persons hav-
Robertson, Alexander and James, 346, 347.
Zenger, John Peter, 115.
Printers wanted, journeymen, 381, 516.
Printing office, removal of, during the late alarm, 477.
Printing, alleged treasonable, 654. Prior's Mills, 605.
Prison ship at New York, Ameri- cans escape from, 434.
Prisoners captured by the British at Elizabeth-Town, 153, 154. exchange of, 138, 448.
of war, act prohibiting the har- boring of, 447.
on parole ordered to return, 55. taken from Paramus and Hack- insack to New-York, 252.
Private property in New Jersey respected by the soldiers, 613. Privateer brig for sale, 358, 359. Privateering exploits of refugees, 251.
Prizes arrived at Philadelphia, 314.
taken by British ships, 343.
Probasco, Abraham, land late of, for sale, 216.
Proby, Capt., on prison ship, 597. Proclamations by Governor Wil- liam Livingston, 31-33, 271- 273.
Proctor, 586. Proctor, Colonel, 523.
Proctor's artillery attacks Fort Lee, 521.
Profanity rebuked, 164.
Prouse, Jac., captured, 153.
"Providence," brigantine, for sale, 125.
Providence Plantations, 133. Provisions, exportation of, from New Jersey, prohibited, 58, 59, 117, 151.
for the army, act for procuring, etc., 277.
Provost, William, prisoner, 252.
"Prudent." British war vessel, 580. Pruket. E., captured, 153.
Publiek accounts of the State, act for settling, 277. Property to be reported on, 666. Pumpton, letter from, 424.
Q.
ing claims against the, 479, 618.
system for conducting the, 472, 618. Quarter-Master, notice to creditors of, 292, 325, 64S. Quebec. British fleet bound to, 60S; greatly punished, 450;
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British losses at, British
sailed from New York for, 445 ; designs on, 177 ; fleet taken, 596.
Queen's American Rangers, 3.
Queen's College, ending of vacation of, 16, 399.
meeting of the Trustees of, 339, 404, 585.
Rangers, Captain of, deserted, 449 ; raid by, 456.
Queen's Ranger Hussars raid New Jersey, 306 ; men killed in the, 307.
Quibble-Town, 20-23; Quarter- Master to attend at, 292; no- tice to creditors of the print- er, in, 553.
Quick, Cornelius, executor of Eph- raim Quimby, 114.
Elizabeth, executor of Ephraim Quimby, 114.
Matthew, loan certificate in the name of, 281n.
Quimby, Ephraim, deceased, notice to creditors of, 114.
R.
Raccoon Creek, grist-mill for sale on, 192.
Race, Henry, M. D., 582n.
Raft of ship-timber taken up, 232. Rahway, 92, 260, 479, 592, 619; British raid on, 167, 179; horses, &c., for sale in, 477; Quarter-Master's office in, 618; raid by the inhabitants of, 190; river, 564; sheep strayed in, 555; spy taken at, 54. "Rainbow," vessel. 313.
"Raisonable," British man of war, 227; tender of lumber sloop taken by, 490. Ramapo Valley, 397n.
Ramsey, John, 498.
Randolph, Captain, prisoner, ex- changed, 407.
Daniel, lands for sale at house of, 190.
James, executor, land for sale by, 124, 218. "Ranger," vessel, 242. Rapalje, Garret, forge to be let by, 68.
Rapaljie, George, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Rareden, Jer., captured, 153.
Raritan, 197. 340, 375 ; bridge, 51; Dutch Church, burning of, 20; grammar-school opened at, 16; land for sale on the. 174, 489, Landing, 63, 402n., 437 ; land for sale at. 598 ; shoes for sale at, 377, 381; mills for sale on the, 175, 180. river, 633 ; land for sale on, 179, 185 ; land for sale near, 319.
"Rattlesnake," privateer brig, driven ashore, 314.
privateer schooner, 338. vessel, 242, 308. "Raven" mare, 342.
Raway, British raid on, 173.
Rawdon. Lord. sailing of his brigade, 313; troops com- manded by, 285.
Read, Mrs. (Capt.), 487. Read's battalion, 582n. Reading, Captain John, biographi- cal sketch of, 340n.
Captain Thomas, 340n. family, 340n. John, horse breeding at the farm of, 340. Joseph, 340n.
Reading Road, British losses on, 450.
township, Hunterdon county, 56n. Readington, 231, 340n., 509, 582n. Rebel privateer brig driven ashore, 308.
officers taken prisoners by refu- gees, 646.
officers captured, names of, 149. posts at Elizabeth-Town and Newark carried off, 151, 155. privateer, snow, 635.
privateers, attack by, 207.
privateers, Capt. Haggie chased by, 606.
Rebels, barbarity of, 524: fete champetre held by the, 613 ; march pursued by, 137. Reckless, Mrs. Ann, marriage of, 5981.
Reckless Town, Burlington county, 5981.
Reconciliation with America, ef -. forts for, 654. Recruits pass through Trenton, 660.
Reddington, 197. Redman, Miss Becky, marriage of, 96. Joseph, marriage of daughter of, 96. Reed, Bowes, notice by, 125. 279 ; Secretary of State, 33, 273. Captain. 308. General Joseph, 84n.
Joseph. boasts of, 602; Pennsyl- vania militia reviewed by, 624; address to, 624 ; answer by,
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625; Southern militia brought to Trenton by, 635; death of consort of, 655; to take com- mand of Pennsylvania militia, 596.
Mrs. (Secretary), 487.
Robenson and, dry goods for sale by, 349.
Reeder, John, horse breeder, 318.
Reedy Island, 251.
Rees, John, Welshman, horse thief, 511.
Reeter, Henry, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Reeve, William, horse strayed from, 593.
Reeves, Captain Isaac, New Jersey militia, reported killed, 433n., 439.
Nathan, horse strayed or stolen from, 24.
Reform of the Continental cur- rency, 485.
Refugee post near Fort Lee, attack on, 521.
sailors, privateering exploit of, 251.
tories, raid by, 456.
Refugees, address of, 100, act for arrest and surrender of, 277.
Refugees and negroes, plundering raid of, 299.
Refugees , at New-York impressed into naval service, 370.
doleful situation of the, 214.
from Middlesex and Essex coun- ties,, 121.
gallantry of in fight near Fort Lee, 523.
in New York, 97. made prisoners, 551. meeting of Jersey, 138.
murder by, 612n.
names of the killed and wounded in fight near Fort Lee, 523. raid by, 55, 660.
raid by on Woodbridge, 406.
raid on Elizabeth-Town, 252, 258.
rebel officers captured by, 646. retaliation, 545.
Register's Office of the Court of Admiralty, notice of place of, 247.
Regulation of prices, convention to consider, 143.
act for suspension of, 117, 138, 150, 277.
communications on, 72-75, 85- 87, 111, 112, 282-284, 309- 313. necessity for the, 273.
Regulation of trade, etc .. communi- cation on the, 41-43. Reiley, Captain, 580.
Remmi, John, "pot baker," 47n. Remsen, Henry, merchandise for
sale by, 34.
Remsen, Mrs. (Colonel), 487.
Rendert, Henry, captured, 153.
"Renown," British man of war, 227, 346.
Repaupo Meadows, notice to own- ers of, 405.
"Republican," appeal to his coun- trymen, by, 500-502.
Republican politicians, exhausted hopes of the, 237. "Resolution," vessel, 324.
Resolutions, formation of, 601. "Restoration," armed schooner, taken, 472.
Retaliation, committee of. 544, 545.
"Retaliation," cutter, prize seized by, 242.
"Retaliation," sloop of war, sail- ing of, 384.
Retaliators upon the tories, asso- ciated community of, 603.
"Revenge," prize sloop, for sale, 473.
"Revolution," ship, chased by a frigate, 464, 485, 486.
Reynal, Abbe, citation from, 561.
Reynold, Broughton, 121.
Reynolds, Broughton, negro run away from, 634; of Elizabeth- Town, loyalist, notice to debt- ors and creditors of, 249. Catharine, 50n.
John, paper-maker in Trenton. sketch of, 50; horse stolen from, 512 ; house of, 643.
John, Revolutionary soldier, 50n. Thomas, conveyance from, 13.
Rhay, David, land for sale by, 216. Rhine, 47n. Rhineheart, Godfrey, negro man taken up by, 109, 110, 121.
Rhode-Island, 133, 308. 351, 490. 538, 579.
preparation for landing of the French army at, 401.
arrival of French fleet and army at, 515, 539, 602, 655 ; inhabi- tants of forced to work on French line, 563 ; French fleet supposed to be bound for. 655. Admirals Arbuthnot and Graves at, 558.
members of Congress from, 211. Regiment, Second. 456n.
regulation of prices considered by, 55. troops. 464.
Washington and Lafayette gone to, 658.
Rhode-Islanders, good behavior of
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Colonel Angell's regiment of, 475. Rice, Conrad, 130.
Richards, William, unclaimed sweet oil at store of, 362.
John, loyalist, 90. Rev. Mr., 79, 80, 83.
Thomas, marriage of, 556.
William, freights taken by, 510. Riche, George, paper maker, 50n. Richmond, Emmy, 49n.
Jonathan, biographical sketch of, 49. Jonathan, horse found by, 131. "Richmond," frigate, 346.
Richmond's tavern, 558.
Richmond, Staten Island, troops at, 137. Rickets, Mrs. Elizabeth, marriage of, 556.
Rickey, Mr., horse taken up by, 348.
Riddle, James, horse strayed from, 657.
Rider, William, notice of stage waggon by, 431.
Ridge, Captain, captor of prize sloop, 382.
John, commander, captor of prize sloop, 372.
Ridgfield, Connecticut, 350.
Riding chair, &c., for sale, 294, 391.
Riding, Richard, loyalist, notice to debtors and creditors of, 248. Ridout, J., 298.
Riedesel, General, of Burgoyne's army, 61.
Riggs, Joseph, Dep. Chairman, no- tice of meeting by, 639.
Preserve, horse stolen from, 141. Rigging for sale, 132, 302.
Riker, Jacob, loyalist, 90.
Ringo's tavern, 58, 131, 196, 218, 410.
Ringwood iron mines, 546n.
Rioters, vast numbers of, in Eng- land, tried, condemned executed, 653, 654.
and Rittenhouse, David, 67.
Rivington, James, jun., runaway apprentice, description of, 525. James, printer, 525 ; card from, 522; gross falsehoods in his Gazette, 498, 521 ; publisher of "Gazette Extraordinary," 407 ; newspaper of, 179n.
Road from Salem to Burlington, act for altering, 116, 150.
Robarts, John, land for sale by, 618. Robbery, 424. Robbin, runaway negro, 369.
Robenson and Reed, dry goods for sale by, 349.
Robertson, Dr., prediction of, 532. General, plundering by, 549.
Governor, British expedition of, 441.
Robertson's New York Gazette, 346, 347.
Robeson, James, commander, 355. Robins, Joseph, killed by a colt's kick, 402. Robinson, Capt., arrival of, 646. "Robuste," British man of 227. war,
Rochambault, Mons., 562. Rockaway bridge, arrival of army at, 480.
Creek, 581n.
Rockingham, Lord, 654.
Rock-mill, land for sale near the, 338.
Rock salt for sale, 34; for ex- change, 56.
Rocky-Hill, 53, 148, 488, 657.
Rodney, Admiral Sir George Bridges, arrival of, 645, 646, 654; ships of, bad condition of, 665.
Roebly, John, captured, 153.
"Roebuck," British man of war, 113, 227, 346.
Rogers and Hillegas, bills of ex- change on France wanted by, 215.
Rogers, Rev. William, Chaplain, 396.
Sam., horse strayed or stolen from, 410.
Roker, Mrs., drowned, 401.
Romayn, John, prisoner, 252.
Rome, Lawrence, loyalist, 90. William, loyalist, 90.
"Romulus." British man of war, 227, 346.
Root, Jesse, country attorney, mem- ber of Congress, 211.
"Rosalinda." communication from, in reply to "Clarinda," 522. Roscow, William, 643.
Rosewell, John, horses stolen from, 349.
Rosier, Abraham, captured, 153.
Ross, George, administrator, ven- due by, 22.
Ichabod, horse found by, 35. John, saddles, &c., for sale by, 306. Rossell, Zachariah, Marshal, vessel for sale by, 125 ; miscellaneous articles for sale by, 137, 148 ; rum, sails and rigging and hull of a sloop for sale by, 147; brigantine for sale by, 176; vessel for sale by, 246; prize sloop for sale by, 338; brig and pilot boat for sale by, 359 ; sloop prize for sale by, 377;
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prize vessels for sale by, 385, 386 ; vessels for sale by, 473. Roules, Wm., captured, 153.
Rowland, Michael, captured, 153.
Rowlen, Thomas, land for sale in the possession of, 18.
Rowley, Admiral, reported killed, 486.
Roxbury township, land for sale in, 326, 554, 575.
"Royal Gazette," communication to the printer of the, 560-563.
"Royal Oak," British war vessel, 580.
Rudolph, Captain, successful raid by, 134.
Rum for sale, 142, 147.
Runaway apprentice, 160, 525, 526, 544; boy, 658, 659; girl, 94.
Runaway negro, 52, 63, 64, 169, 197, 267, 369, 443, 657, 634.
slave, 419. wench, 517.
"Russell," British man of war, 227, 370, 646.
Russell, Mr., killed by refugees, 299.
Thomas, loyalist, estate of, sold, 230.
John, cows, &c., for sale by, 63. Ruth, James, runaway apprentice boy, 658.
Ruthless ravages of the British in Jersey, 495.
Ryan, M., land for sale by, 159. Ryen, John, captured, 153. Ryerson's Ferry, 137.
Ryerson, John F., loyalist, 77.
Samuel, loyalist, confiscated lands of, to be sold, 270.
Ryker, Dr., made prisoner, 4.
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Saddle bags lost, 281; requested to be returned, 488.
Saddle Creek bridge, fight at, 306. Saddles, &c., for sale, 305, 306.
Sailors captured, 443.
Sails and rigging for sale, 147, 214.
Salem, 116, 150, 247, 250. county ladies' aid committee, 487.
loyalists of, 194, 373. creek. 117, 151. privateers, 608. Salt for exchange, 4, 68, 99.
Salt for sale, 6, 37, 45, 56, 142, 631.
Salt shad stolen, 399.
Salt works for sale, 7, 636.
Sand Hills, confiscated land on the, for sale, 303, 330.
Sand-Hook, 251 ; vessel driven ashore near, 308. Sandpike road, 17.
"Sandwich," British war ship, 646. Sandy-Hook, 154, 207, 351, 384.
arrival of Admiral Graves at, 515. 537.
arrival of Admiral Arbuthnot at, 458.
arrival of Britishi fleet at, 324, 353, 449, 645, 646, 654. brig captured near, 115.
brisk naval fight off, 370, 394, 472.
British fleet sail from, 114, 122, 143, 227, 313, 347, 445, 468, 539. cruizing off, 368. fleet arrive at, 346. motley crew at, 435.
party from, capture prisoners, 608.
prizes taken near, 343. Provincial troops embark at,
324.
raid at, 134.
ship captured off, 364.
sloop taken off, 490.
vessel driven ashore at, 182, 199.
vessels cruizing off, 364.
vessels sunk at, 44. vessel taken off, 384.
Sandy-Point, on the Hudson, 84.
Sanford, William, 47n. Saratoga, 201.
"Saratoga," vessel captured by the, 655. Saunders, Christiana, act to di- vorce, 116, 150.
John, act to divorce his wife from, 116, 150.
Savannah, 44. 113; British vic- tory at, 79; fleet from, 343, 346.
Saville, Sir George, speech by, S9. Saw-mill, 292.
for sale, 124. 175. 180, 215, 286 ; land for sale near, 220.
Sayre, Thomas, commissioner of
forfeited estates, land for sale by, 194; notice by, 373.
Scarff, Elizabeth, dishes, &c., for sale at the house of, 114. Scawing's "Arabian" horse. 318. Scentling. Patrick, prisoner, 252. Schamp, Michael, drowned. 609. Schanck, Garret, miscellaneous ar- ticles for sale at the house of. 136, 148; horse strayed to plantation of, 218.
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Schenck, John, on committee of re- taliation, 545.
Limas, oxen and other cattle purchased from, 392, 393.
Schenck's mills, 644.
Schenk, Peter, sheriff, notice by, 247, 248.
Scholfield, Jonathan, stage waggon provided by, 659.
School master wanted, 368, 431, 644; in Trenton, 193.
Schoolmistress wanted, 391.
Schools in Newark, 199; at Rari- tan, 16.
Schooners for sale, 385, 386, 520. Schralenberg, 668.
Schureman, James, lost money to be returned to, 45; merchan- dise for sale by, 631, 640.
Schuyler, Philip, merchant, mem- ber of Congress, 211.
"Scorpion." prison ship, prisoners on board the, 597.
Scouting expedition by American
militia, 433, 439.
Scotch Meeting-house, Freehold, 391.
Scotch Plains, 93, 298; British raiders at, 458 : land for sale at, 615.
Meeting-house, 35.
Scotch snuff for sale, 559.
Scotland, Thomas, prisoner, 252.
Scott, Israel, horse to be returned to, 131.
John Morin, lawyer, member of Congress, 211.
Thomas, constable, stolen goods to be returned by, 196.
Thomas, horse to be returned to, 131. Scows wanted, 560.
Scudder, Captain Isaac, captured. 153.
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