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Joseph Wade, Long Hill, Layton; Gilbert Bunnell, Chatham, Carter; Thomas Stagg, Parsippany, Bald- win; Daniel Simers, Pequannock, Minard; William Gar- ret, Hanover, S. Munson; Jesse Wood, Short Hill, Kitchel; John Harparie, Bottle Hill, J. Ward; Abraham Gobel, Morristown, Pearson; John Garrison, Pompton, Debow; John Robarts, Troy, J. Ward; Daniel Bates, Pequannock, Minard; Isaac Ross, Short Hill, Layton; John Parrott, Morristown, Jos. Beach; Gershom Liver, Morristown, Stephen Munson; George Gardner, Morris- town, W. Munson; Asa Beach, Morristown, Beach; Thomas Johnston (light horseman), Morristown, Arnold; Wright Reading, Chatham, Ward; John Lasier, Pomp- ton, J. Ward; David Parrott, Pompton, Debow; Eb. McDonald, Chatham, Carter; Conrod Esler, Pequan- nock, Minard; Benjamin Romer, Pompton, Arnold; Samuel Price, Troy, J. Ward; Samuel Seward, Rocka- way, Keen; Sylvanus Johnston, Rockaway, Hall; John Lane, Rockaway, Hall.
" A return of recruits from the eastern regiment of Morris county, commanded by Colonel Sylvanus Seeley; mustered and approved to join the New Jersey brigade until Ist of January next, under act passed June 14th 1780. All enlisted between June 27th and July 20th 1780." The company is indicated by the name of the captain, following that of the recruit:
James Richardson, Chatham, Carter; Moses Broad- well, Morristown, Carter; Dunham Wilkerson, Morris- town, M. Munson; Jesse Crane, Hanover, S. Munson; Daniel Gould, Troy, J. Ward; Daniel T. Bunnell, Mor- ristown, M. Munson; Amos Crane, Parsippany, Baldwin; Cornelius McDermott, Elizabethtown, Layton; Anthony Palmer, Hanover, S. Munson; Martin Mitchell, Troy, Ward; Daniel Wilcocks, Long Hill, Layton; Philip Lunney, Chatham, J. Ward; Isaac Garrigus, Rockaway, Hall; John Abnir (?), Rockaway, Hall; Benjamin Romer, Morristown, J. Beach; Abraham Ludlum, Morristown, L. Pearson; Robert McClean, Hanover, Kitchel; Daniel Bates, Hanover, Minard; Thomas Brannon, Morristown, Beach; George Cheshenounds, Morristown, Beach; Samuel Price, Pequannock, Du Bois.
"List of bounties paid by Jonathan Stiles jr. on re- cruiting service according to an act of March 11th 1780."
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OFFICERS IN THE "JERSEY LINE."
The bounty paid was £1,000 to the soldiers and £200 to their officer. In some instances half those amounts were paid. They were mustered by Lieutenant Colonel Benoni Hathaway and joined their companies in the continental line between March 30th and May 4th 1780. The residence of some of these men is found in a return of the same men made by Colonel Hathaway, and is given:
Paul Rheam, Morristown; John Moor; Isaac Johnson, Andrew Thompson and George Carter, Morristown; Da- vid Gordon, Windsor Johnson, Joseph Yates, James Der- rick and Moses Headley, Hanover; James Ceaser, Sus- sex county; Isaac Wooley, John Williams and Watson Ludlum, Morristown; Robert Miller, Bernard's; 'William Wood, Sussex county; Moses and Jacob Broadwell, Morristown; Paul Clutter and James Wigan (or Wagen), Bernard's; John Beaufort (or Bellfort), Sussex county; Michael Coffee, Morristown; Thomas McMurtree; Isaac Ross, Bernard's; Isaac Price; Abraham Emmis; William Smith; Thomas Smith; William Worth; Henry Carragan, Morristown; John Jacobus and Jesse Losey, Roxbury; Jacob Cahoon, Samuel Ogden, Ezekiel Price, James Jones, Richard Hugg, George Smith, Thomas Reiler, Abraham Gaskall, Henry Flantan, Zechariah Rossel, Nathan Turner, George Laney, Michael Wood, Henry Moore, John Darwin, Reuben Mickel, Jedediah Mills, Jonathan Bailey, Elias Wood and Annanias Clark. Dan- iel Kiney is on Colonel Hathaway's list and not on Colonel Stiles's.
General Maxwell continued to command the Jersey brigade until he resigned, in July 1780. Colonel Elias Dayton, as senior officer, then assumed command, and retained it until the close of the war. On the 21st of September 1781 the three regiments landed on James River, Virginia, about five miles from Williamsburgh, and they were employed in all the labor of the siege of York- town and were present at the surrender on the 19th of October.
The news of the cessation of hostilities was announced in the camp of the brigade April 19th 1783, and the "Jersey line " were discharged November 3d 1783.
During the summer and fall of 1776 soldiers of this State, as officers or enlisted men, began to join organiza- tions raised directly by authority of Congress or of other States. Men from Morris county were found particular- ly in two of these regiments, known as Spencer's regi- ment and the commander-in-chief's guard.
By authority of Congress Colonel Oliver Spencer, an officer in the State troops as well as in the militia, organ- ized a battalion or regiment for the continental army about the time the second establishment was completed. Composed as it was, nearly if not entirely of Jerseymen, it is often referred to as the "fifth battalion, Jersey line." The strength of this command appears to have been about 170 men, although a return dated March 1779 shows but 140 soldiers in the regiment. The following is a roster of its officers:
Oliver Spencer, colonel; Eleazer Lindsley, lieutenant- colonel (resigned and William Smith was appointed); John Burrowes, captain and major; James Bonnell, ad- jutant; John McEwen, ensign and quartermaster; Jabez Campfield, surgeon; John Darcy, surgeon's mate; Benja- min Weatherby, captain; James Broderick, captain; John Sandford, captain; William Bull, captain; William Crane,
captain; Abraham Nealy, captain; Archibald Dallas, captain; Anthony Maxwell, lieutenant and captain; Rob- ert Pemberton, lieutenant and captain; James Bonnell, lieutenant, adjutant and captain; David Kirkpatrick, lieutenant and captain; John Orr, lieutenant; Peter Taulman, lieutenant; Finch Gildersleeve, lieutenant; Wil- liam Sitcher, lieutenant; Uzal Meeker, lieutenant; Barne Ogden, lieutenant; Andrew Thomson, ensign; John Reed, ensign; Moses Ogden, ensign.
Colonel Oliver Spencer, who commanded this regiment, was the son-in-law of Robert Ogden, who was a member of the Continental Congress of 1765 and chairman of the committee of safety in 1776, and was a brother-in law of Robert Ogden jr. (prominent and zealous in the councils of the State and in advancing means to assist its cause), of Colonel Matthias Ogden, of the first regiment, and of Captain (afterward Governor) Aaron Ogden. One of his daughters, Elizabeth, married Ebenezer Blachly, and another, Sophia, married Major Mahlon Ford, prominent men in this county.
Jabez Campfield, surgeon of the regiment, was a res- ident of Morristown, and for many years after the close of the war surrogate of the county. During Sullivan's expedition against the Seneca Indians Dr. Campfield kept a diary, which has been published by the New Jersey Historical Society in the third volume of its proceedings, New Series, and in which a detailed account of the move- ments of the troops is given. The doctor left Morristown to join the regiment May 23d 1779, and returning ar- rived at his own house October 2nd.
John Darcy, surgeon's mate, was afterward a prominent physician of Hanover, and particularly successful as a surgeon. He commanded a brigade of militia in the war of 1812. He was the father of General John S. Darcy, of Newark. He was at this time under nineteen years of age, and, having studied medicine with Dr. Campfield, accompanied him to the war. Dr. Wickes, in a sketch of Dr. John Darcy, in his history of the medical men of New Jersey, says: "The regiment with which he was connected was in the army under immediate command of General Washington, concerning whom and General Lafayette the doctor during his life related to his friends many incidents of interest which occurred while he was associated with these distinguished generals. When Lafayette visited this country in 1825 he inquired par- ticularly after 'young Surgeon's Mate Darcy;' and when on a certain occasion he was introduced to a relative of the doctor's the general, attracted by the name and being informed of the relationship to his old friend, embraced him cordially."
The commander-in-chief's guard, continental army, called also "the life guard " and " Washington's body guard," was a distinct organization of picked men. It consisted of 180 men, and its first officer was Caleb Gibbs, of Rhode Island, captain, commandant. William Colfax, of Pequannock township, was a lieutenant at the organ- ization, and was the successor of Gibbs, ranking as cap- tain. The soldiers were all selected from the ranks of the army, their good character and soldierly bearing being a prerequisite to their receiving this honor. Every State was represented in the " guards." Its motto was Conquer or Die."
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HISTORY OF MORRIS COUNTY.
CHAPTER V.
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MORRIS COUNTY MILITIA IN THE REVOLUTION-INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.
HE militia organizations are not to be con- fused with the troops of the continental army. The act of the Provincial Congress regulating the militia passed August 16th 1775 provided for two regiments and one battalion for Morris county; and, "minute men " having been raised in the counties of Morris, Sussex and Somerset, Congress followed the suggestion and recommended all the counties to do the same. The two regiments of militia were called the eastern and western battalions. Morris county was to have six com- panies of minute men, who were held in constant readi- ness on the shortest notice to march to any point where assistance might be required. They were to furnish themselves with " a good musket or firelock and bayonet, sword or tomahawk, a steel ramrod, worm, priming wire and brush fitted thereto, a cartouch box to contain 23 rounds of cartridges, twelve flints, and a knapsack." Each man was to keep at his house one pound of powder and three of bullets. Many of these minute men having joined the continental army, on the 29th of February .1776 they were dissolved as a separate organization, and incorporated in the militia.
The following notes, taken from the "Boteler Papers," show the organization and officers of the Morris county minute men:
"At a meeting of the committee of the county of Morris, at the house of Captain Peter Dickerson, at Morristown, on Thursday the 14th day of September A. D. 1775 (present, William Winds, Esq., William De Hart, Esq., Silas Condit, Ellis Cook, Peter Dickerson, Jonathan Stiles, Esq., Jacob Drake), the committee, having inspected and examined the several muster rolls, 6 companies of minute men of the county of Morris, and finding that a sufficient number of minute men as is directed by the Congress have enlisted, do recommend to the committee of safety or the Provincial Congress of New Jersey the following officers to be commissioned, to wit:
" William Winds, Esq., as colonel; William De Hart, Esq., as lieutenant-colonel; Mr. David Bates, as major; Mr. Joseph Morris, as adjutant; Mr. Timothy Johnes, as surgeon.
"Of the first company: Captain, Samuel Ball; first lieutenant, Daniel Baldwin; second lieutenant, Moses Kitchel; ensign, David Tuttle.
"Of the second company: Captain, Silas Howell; first lieutenant, Joseph Lindsley; second lieutenant, Richard Johnston.
" Third company: Captain, David Thompson; first lieutenant, Noadiah Wade; second lieutenant, Isaac Morris; ensign, Samuel Day.
"Fourth company: Captain, Ebenezer Condit; first lieutenant, Benoni Hathaway; second lieutenant, Moses Prudden; ensign, Joseph Beach.
" Fifth company: Captain, Jacob Drum; first lieuten-
ant, Joshua Gordon; second lieutenant, Levy Howel; ensign, Caleb Horton jr.
"Sixth company: Captain, Robert Gaston; first lieu- tenant, Josiah Hall."
It is probable from the names of these officers that the first company was raised in the Hanover neighborhood, the second in Madison and Morristown, the third in Mendham, the fourth in Morristown, the fifth in Roxbury and the sixth in Rockaway.
"At a meeting of the officers of the battalion of minute men of the county of Morris, on Thursday the 14th day of September, A. D. 1775. Present: William De Hart, Captain Ebenezer Condict, Lieutenant Moses Prudden, Ensign Caleb Horton, Ensign Richard Johnston, Ensign Samuel Day, Lieutenant Noadiah Wade, Captain Samuel Ball, Lieutenant Moses Kepore, Captain Jacob Drum, Lieutenant Josiah Hall, Lieutenant Daniel Baldwin, Lieu- tenant Joseph Lindsley, Captain Silas Howell, Ensign David Tuttle, Lieutenant Benoni Hathaway.
" William De Hart, Esq., was chosen moderator, Jacob Drum clerk. " Voted unanimously that we will nominate to the committee three field officers and an adjutant, which field officers when commissioned we will freely serve under. William Winds was unanimously recom- mended as colonel; William De Hart, Esq., was unani- mously recommended as lieutenant-colonel; Mr. David Bates was recommended as major; Joseph Morris was recommended as adjutant.
" The foregoing is an account of our proceedings this day, which we humbly offer to the committee of the county of Morris, and desire their recommendation of those officers therein nominated to the Provincial Con- gress or committee of safety of New Jersey to be com- missioned."
In June 1776 the Continental Congress requested the colony of New Jersey to furnish 3,300 militia, to form part of 13,800 to reinforce the army at New York. Colonel Nathaniel Heard was appointed brigadier gen- eral to command these levies, which were to consist of five battalions. Morris and Sussex were to furnish one of these battalions, and the regimental officers were: Ephraim Martin, colonel; John Munson, lieutenant- colonel; Cornelius Ludlow, major; Joseph King, adju- tant; Joshua Gordon, quartermaster; Jonathan Horton, surgeon; David Ervin, surgeon's mate.
Lieutenant-colonel Munson lived near Rockaway, on the Hibernia road, and was engaged in the iron business. He was afterward colonel of the "western battalion " of Morris. Major Ludlow had been first major of the " eastern battalion " of Morris, Surgeon Horton had been surgeon of the " western battalion " of Morris, and was afterward a surgeon in the continental army. General Heard's brigade in September 1776 numbered 160 officers and 1,762 enlisted men.
On the 16th day of July 1776 Congress requested the convention of New Jersey to supply with militia the places of two thousand men of General Washington's army, who had been ordered to march into New Jersey to form the flying camp. On the 18th of July an ordi- nance was passed detaching that number from the militia for that purpose. It was resolved that the two thousand militia should compose four battalions, con- sisting of thirty companies, of sixty-four men each.
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MILITIA ORGANIZATION-THE BATTLE OF SPRINGFIELD.
They were only to be held for one month from the time your excellency on the 6th inst. The person who was of their joining the flying camp.
One-half of the militia were ordered to be detached August 11th 1776, and called out for immediate service, to be relieved by the other half every month. One di- vision of the militia, detached from every organization in the State, was ordered to march with all dispatch to join the flying camp, for one month's service. The second division was held ready to relieve them, to be itself re- lieved in turn. On this basis of monthly classes in active service the militia were held during the continuance of the war.
An act for better regulating the militia was passed March 15th 1777. It organized the force more strictly than formerly, and defined the duties and powers of of- ficers, etc. The organization was still further improved, and the last ordinance was repealed by an act of April 14th 1778. This also divided the militia into two brigades.
On the 8th of January 178t the militia were formed into three instead of two brigades. Those " of the counties of Bergen, Essex, Morris and Sussex, and of those parts of the counties of Middlesex and Somerset lying on the northern and eastern side of the Raritan River, and of the south branch of the same," were to compose the upper brigade.
The governor of the State, June 27th 1781, was author- ized to call out a part of the militia, and continue them in service three months, for the purpose of co-operating with the continental army. Such men were exempted from service for nine months next ensuing.
Companies of artillery and troops of horsemen from time to time organized in sundry townships or cities, by direction of the governor or by special law enacted by the General Assembly of the State.
General Stryker well says: "The good service per- formed by the militia of this State is fully recorded in history. At the fights at Quinton's Bridge, Hancock's Bridge, Three Rivers, Connecticut Farms and Van Neste's Mills they born an active part; while at the bat- tles of Long Island, Trenton, Assunpink, Princeton, Ger- mantown, Springfield and Monmouth they performed efficient service in supporting the continental line."
The eastern battalion, Colonel Jacob Ford jr. com- manding, was detailed to cover Washington's retreat across New Jersey after the evacuation of New York in 1776-a service which was accomplished with honor and success. The campaign was known among the troops as "mud rounds."
The most considerable engagement, however, in which the New Jersey militia were concerned was the battle of Springfield, where the attempt of Knyphausen to reach Morristown was met and foiled principally by militia. An excellent account of this battle is contained in the follow- ing letter to the governor from General Maxwell, who commanded the New Jersey brigade:
" JERSEY CAMP, NEAR SPRINGFIELD, 14th June 1780.
" Dear Governor,
to have delivered it halted at Elizabethtown, and before daylight was alarmed. We were alarmed also by 12 o'clock, and had marched near your house when intelli- gence was received that the enemy were landing in force, with artillery and dragoons, and that their num- ber would be at least 5,000. I thought Elizabethtown would be an improper place for me. I therefore retired toward Connecticut Farms, where Colonel Dayton joined me with his regiment. I ordered a few small parties to defend the defile near the farm meeting-house, where they were joined and assisted in the defense by some small bodies of militia. The main body of the brigade had to watch the enemy on the road leading to the right and left toward Springfield, that they might not cut off our communications with his excellency General Wash- ington. Our parties of continental troops and militia at the defile performed wonders. After stopping the ad- vance of the enemy near three hours they crossed over the defile and drove them to the tavern that was Jere- miah Smith's; but the enemy were at that time reinforced with at least 1,500 men, and our people were driven in their turn over the defile and obliged to quit it. I, with the whole brigade and militia, was formed to attack them shortly after they had crossed the defile, but it was thought imprudent, as the ground was not advantageous and the enemy very numerous. We retired slowly toward the heights toward Springfield, harassing them on their right and left, till they came with their advance to David Meeker's house, where they thought proper to halt. Shortly after the whole brigade, with the militia, advanced their right, left and front with the greatest rapidity, and drove their advance to the main body. We were in our turn obliged to retire, after the closest action I have seen this war. We were then pushed over the bridge at Springfield, where we posted some troops, and with the assistance of a field-piece commanded by the militia the enemy were again driven back to their former station, and still further before night. Never did troops, either continental or militia, behave better than ours did. Every one that had an opportunity (which they mostly all had) vied with each other who could serve the coun- try most. In the latter part of the day the militia flocked from all quarters, and gave the enemy no respite till the day closed the scene. At the middle of the night the enemy sneaked off and put their backsides to the sound near Elizabethtown. Our loss was one ensign killed and three lieutenants wounded, seven privates killed, twenty-eight wounded and five missing. The militia lost several and had a number wounded. We have good reason to believe, from the number of dead left on the ground, and from the information of many of the inhabitants where they had their dead and wounded, that they lost three times the number we did. General Stirling is among their wounded and thought to be dan- gerous, with Count Donop killed, a son or nephew of the general who met the same fate at Red Bank. I am credibly informed that 47 of the enemy dead were found the next day scattered through the woods and fields, be- side those whom they themselves had buried and carried off the first day. The main body of the enemy now oc- cupy the ground by the old point and De Hart's house. Their advanced parties are as far as the Elizabethtown bridge.
"I am, with much respect and esteem, your Excellency's most obedient humble servant,
"WM. MAXWELL."
The following is a roster of the field and staff of the two Morris county battalions, first organized in 1775, but
"You will find by the inclosed that I had written to reorganized in 1776.
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HISTORY OF MORRIS COUNTY.
Eastern Battalion .- Colonels: Jacob Ford jr., Nov. 27th 1776; died of pneumonia at Morristown, N. J., Jan. Ioth 1777, and was buried with military honors by order of General Washington. Ellis Cook; lieutenant-colonel Jan. 13th 1776; lieutenant-colonel " detached militia," July 18th 1776; colonel, Feb. Ist 1777; resigned Nov. 6th 1777. Sylvanus Seeley; captain in Colonel Martin's regiment June 14th 1776; first major eastern battalion May 23d 1777; colonel Nov. 13th 1777.
Lieutenant-Colonels: Cornelius Ludlow; first major Jan. 13th 1776; major in Martin's battalion June 14th 1776; lieutenant-colonel May 23d 1777; resigned Nov. 13th 1777, disabled. Eleazer Lindsley; second major Jan. 13th 1776; lieutenant-colonel 1777; also lieutenant- colonel continental army. Benoni Hathaway; captain in eastern battalion; second major ditto Sept. 9th 1777; lieutenant-colonel ditto Nov. 13th 1777; lieutenant- colonel of Van Dyke's regiment Oct. 9th 1779.
First Majors: Richard Johnson; captain eastern bat- talion; first major Nov. 13th 1777; resigned. Daniel Brown; captain in eastern battalion; first major Mch. 27th 1776.
Second Majors: Henry Axtell; resigned, Joseph Lindsley, Mch. 27th 1778.
Adjutant, John Doughty, Jan. 13th 1776.
Quartermaster, Frederick King.
Surgeon, Timothy Johnes, Feb. 19th 1776.
Western Battalion .- Colonels: Jacob Drake; resigned to become member of General Assembly. William Winds, Nov. 30th 1776; brigadier-general of militia Mch. 4th 1777; resigned June 10th 1779; also colonel ist battalion Ist establishment continental army. John Munson; lieutenant-colonel in Colonel Martin's regiment June 14th 1776; colonel western battalion May 15th 1777.
Lieutenant-Colonels: Robert . Gaston, May 15th 1777; resigned. John Starke; second major May 15th 1777; heutenant-colonel Oct. 7th 1778; resigned May 23d. 1782. Nathan Luse; captain; lieutenant-colonel June 2Ist 1782.
First Major: Samuel Sears (or Sayres), May 15th 1777.
Second Majors: Daniel Cook; promoted from captain Sept. 29th 1781; resigned May 23d 1782. Jacob Shuler, June 2Ist 1782.
Quartermasters: Mahlon McCurry and Matthew Mc- Courrey.
Surgeon: Jonathan Horton, Feb. 28th 1776; also sur- geon in Colonel Martin's battalion June 29th 1776, and surgeon continental army.
Besides the staff officers named in the above rosters there were from Morris county the following staff officers: Constant Victor King, ensign, lieutenant and adjutant; Cornelius Voorhees, ensign, adjutant and commissary of issues; Zebedee Cook, quartermaster; Jacob Arnold, John Stiles and Jonathan Stiles, paymasters; Barnabas Budd, surgeon in General Winds's brigade, September 12th 1777.
The following were captains of militia, but the com- pany, and in some cases the battalion, to which they be- longed cannot now be ascertained. The letter E or W following the name shows whether the man belonged to the eastern or western battalion:
Job Allen, W. and E .; Jacob Arnold, E., also captain of a troop of light horse; Stephen Baldwin, E .; Elisha Barton, E .; David Bates, E .; Augustine Bayles, E .; Wil- liam Bayley, K .; Joseph Beach, E., April 19th 1777; Enoch Beach; Abner Bedell; John Bigelow; William Brittin, E .; Job Brookfield (also ensign); Ezra Brown;
William Campfield; Zophar Carnes, W., first lieutenant continental army; Benjamin Carter, E .; Samuel Carter, E .; Hugh Colwall, E. (also lieutenant); Ezekiel Crane, W .; Jacob Crane, E .; Joshua Crane, E .; Josiah Crane, E .; Artemas Day, W .; Stephen Day, E .; John De Bow, E .; Thomas Dickerson, W .; Peter Dickinson; Jacob Drum (also captain in Colonel Stewart's battalion of minute men, February 15th 1776); Abner Fairchild, E .; Elijah Freeman; Jacob Gard, W .; Robert Gaston (also captain in continental army); George Hager, W .; Josiah Hall, E. (of Denville); Isaac Halsey, E .; Harris, E .; Samuel Hinman, E .; Caleb Horton, W .: Nathaniel Horton, W .; Stephen Jackson; James Keen, E .; Thomas Kinney; Obadiah Kitchel, E .; Matthew Lane, E., also lieutenant; Peter Layton, E .; John Lindsley, E., also lieutenant; William Logan, also lieutenant, W .; Benjamin Minard, E .; - Morris, W .; Moses Munson, E., also forage master; Stephen Munson, E., also lieutenant; Samuel Ogden; John Oliver, E .; Samuel Oliver, E .; Garret Post; William Salmon, W .; Peter Salmon, W .; Slaight, W., also lieutenant; Peter Slingerland, E., also heutenant; James Stewart, W .; Uriah Sutton, also lieutenant; Peter Tallman, W .; Nathaniel Terry, W. (also lieutenant); Jacob Theilar; David Thompson; Timothy Tuttle, ensign August 6th 1777, captain April 2nd 1781; Israel Ward, E .; Jonas Ward, E. (also cap- tain Essex Co., of Parsippany); Jonathan Ward, E .; William Welch, W .; Joseph Wright, E.
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