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Under date of May II, 1771, this entry appears :
"There not being a sufficient number of Justices met to do business, no business was done."
There are no further entries or proceedings for that year.
At a special meeting held April 8, 1772, James Kin- sey was ordered paid the sum of four pounds, sixteen shillings, for prosecuting Peter Mantle to conviction for the murder of Elizabeth Lippincott.
"James Kinsey laid another bill of 30 shillings before the Board for prosecuting Darby Leary, but as it was at the Circuit Court, the Freeholders would not allow it."
On May 13, 1772, James Bowman was ordered paid eight shillings and three pence for a Book to record the return of Roads.
A new Bridge having been ordered to be built over Great Timber Creek, this minute appears at the meeting held May 12, 1773 :
"Joseph Hugg, Esq., engageth to keep a Ferry over Great Timber Creek, at or near the place of the present Bridge, to carry over passengers or travellers passing the road whilst the said Bridge is rebuilding; and the Board order him to take no more fee or rate than what is com- monly taken at Ancocas Lower Ferry, and that he give constant attendance to that business during the time the said Bridge is rebuilding."
At a meeting held May II, 1774, the cost of rebuild- ing Bridge was reported to be 202 pounds, one shilling and seven pence.
Only one meeting was held in the year 1775, on May Ioth, but nothing of present day interest was transacted.
DURING THE REVOLUTION.
No quorum appearing in May, 1776, no business was transacted. No record of any other meetings held that year. 8
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This notation is attached in this minute :
"N. B .- The present Government took place on the 2d of July, 1776."
Only one meeting was held May 10, 1777, for that year, and little business transacted.
At a special meeting held August 3, 1778, this minute is made :
"The Freeholders refusing to take the oaths to Gov- ernment, prevented proceeding to business."
No other entry appears for that year.
At a meeting held January I, 1779, 1500 pounds was ordered raised for defraying the public expenses of the County.
At a meeting held June 13th, 1780, Col. Joseph Ellis and Major Samuel Hugg, Freeholders from Gloucester Town, are described with military titles.
At a meeting held August 7, 1781, a County Seal was ordered.
At a meeting held February 5, 1782, this minute is recorded :
"John Wilkins, Esq., County Collector, moved the Board for allowance of 882 pounds, 15 shillings, Continen- tal money, which he had received for County Taxes, which he had paid into the Treasury, and hath been re- turned to him as counterfeit.
"Ordered that this Board do not make any allowance to the County Collector aforesaid, for any part of said 882 pounds, 15 shillings.
"Samuel Harker, Collector of Woolwich Township, moved the Board for allowance for ten three pound State bills, being counterfeit, which he had received in said Township for Tax, not knowing them to be such when he received them.
"Ordered that this Board do not make any allowance to the said Samuel Harker for any part of said Counter- feit Money aforesaid."
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At the same meeting it was "Ordered that the Board do not allow the Crier of the Court to draw his fees out of the County's Money, by virtue of any order of Court whatsoever, or otherwise."
Preceding the minutes of a meeting held March 23, 1786, there appears a lead pencil memorandum made by John M. Saunders, which reads as follows :
"NOTE .- The Court House and Jail at Gloucester must have been destroyed by fire, I think, sometime in the early part of the 3d Mo., (March) 1786.
J. M. S."
At a special meeting held March 23, 1786, at the House of William Hugg, in the Town of Gloucester, the following named Justices and Freeholders were present :
Justices-John Wilkins, Joseph Hugg, John Sparks, Robert Brown, Thomas Denny, John Griffith, Joseph Ellis, Samuel Kennard, Joshua Smith.
Freeholders-Waterford, Joseph Champion, Thomas Thorn; Newton, John E. Hopkins, John Gill; Gloucester Town, Samuel Harrison, Samuel Hugg; Gloucester Tp., Isaac Tomlinson, John Hider; Deptford, James Wilkins, Joseph Reeves; Greenwich, John Haines, Elijah Cozens ; Woolwich, John Kille, George Van Leer; Egg Harbor, Thomas Somers.
PETITION TO LEGISLATURE TO PERMIT NEW COURT HOUSE TO BE ERECTED AT WOODBURY.
The minutes of this meeting show action as follows :
"The question whether the Court House and Gaol, lately consumed by fire, should be repaired, or whether a petition be sent to the Legislature for a law to be passed to enable the inhabitants to build a new Court House and Gaol. The vote being called there was a majority for having them built new. It was then agreed by the Board that a petition should be sent from said Board praying the Legislature to pass a law for the building of a Court
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House and Gaol, in such place in said County as a major- ity of the inhabitants thereof shall determine by a fair and impartial election.
"Ordered, that a petition be drawn immediately, and signed by the Clerk, on behalf of the Board, which was done accordingly."
At a meeting held at the House of William Hugg in Gloucester, May 10, 1786, the following action was taken :
"Whereas, there was a minute made at the last meet- ing of the Board, by order of said Board, that a petition be sent to the Legislature, praying them to pass a law for the building of a Court House and Gaol, in such place in said County as a majority of the inhabitants thereof shall determine by a free and impartial election. Agreeable thereto a petition from the Board and signed by the Clerk was sent, but before it arrived, the House rose. And whereas, said petition is either lost or mislaid, as appears, the Board then resumed the consideration thereof, and the votes were called accordingly, a majority of which were for a new petition to be drawn and sent to the Legis- lature, agreeable to the said minute; therefore ordered that the Clerk of this Board draw a petition in manner and form aforesaid, and sign it on behalf of the Board, and cause it to be forwarded to the Legislature at their next sitting.
At a meeting held August 3, 1786, James Brown, John Jessup and Samuel Hugg were chosen managers to agree with workmen, and purchase materials for the build- ing of the Gaol and Court House at Woodbury.
SITE FOR COURT HOUSE AND JAIL SELECTED.
At a special meeting held September 22, 1786, at the house of William Hugg, it was unanimously agreed to adjourn until the 29th of September, to meet at the house of Josiah Hillman, in Woodbury, to fix upon a Lot of Ground whereon to build the Court House and Gaol.
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The Board met according to adjournment, and pro- ceeded to the choice of a lot for the use of a Court House and Gaol; when John Bispham offered a lot four rods front and fifteen rods back for the purpose aforesaid. The votes were then called, and the offer was unanimously accepted.
"Ordered, that James Wilkins, John Wilkins and Joseph Reeves be a committee to see the Lot laid out and take Deed therefor.
"Ordered, that the Jail be built the same size of Salem Jail, and the Court House to be 35 by 40 feet, and the Yard 100 feet in length."
At a special meeting held December 6, 1786,
"Ordered that the Managers chosen to superintend the building of the Court House and Gaol, do immediately take a Deed for the lot whereon said buildings are to stand, agreeable to the draft produced to this Board by John Wilkins.
"Ordered, that said Managers do pay for said lot out of the public moneys in their hands, 50 pounds."
1 500 pounds was ordered raised by Tax for the build- ing of Court House and Gaol.
At a meeting held December 2, 1787, the Managers of the Gaol and Court House made report that the Gaol was nearly finished, upon which the Board appointed John Wilkins, Joseph Ellis, Samuel Harrison and James Wil- kins, Freeholders, as a committee to take charge of the Gaol, and deliver it up to the High Sheriff of the County, as soon as it is fitting to hold prisoners. John Blackwood was then High Sheriff.
The cost of the Court House and Gaol, as changed from pounds, shillings and pence to dollars and cents, seems to have been $12,286.10, as shown by memorandum made in Minute Book by John M. Saunders.
At a meeting held May II, 1791, it was "Ordered that John Wilkins, Esq., take charge of the Deed where- on the Court House and Gaol are erected, and get it re-
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corded in the Secretary's Office at Burlington, and then to bring it down again and lodge it in the Clerk's Office of this County.
John Jessup was ordered paid 30 pounds for a Bell and hanging same for Court House.
At a meeting held May 9, 1792, it was "Ordered that a Stove be purchased for the Court House, 2 dozen Wind- sor chairs, one table, 2 sets andirons, shovels and tongs, 2 cords of hickory wood, glass put over the door, win- dows fitted with glass. The seats to be raised at the dis- cretion of the Managers. To erect Stocks, Whipping Post and Pillory, placed at the discretion of the Manager, and that John Jessup be Manager to carry the business into effect."
NEW ROADS LAID OUT.
"The Commissioners appointed by law to lay out a public road from Mount Holly to Joshua Cooper's Ferry, represent in writing to this Board that 200 pounds is necessary to complete said road."
At a meeting held May 14, 1794, "Ordered that the sum of 150 pounds specie, more than the 50 pounds di- rected by law, be raised in this County for that purpose, and for the laying out and clearing the public road directed by said law to be laid out from Woodbury to Bridgeton, in Cumberland County ; and that 35 pounds of the money now in the County Collector's hands be paid to the Com- missioners for laying out the Mount Holly road, (if their fees do amount to so much) and the remainder of said County money, after the paying the orders of this Board, to be paid to the Commissioners for laying out the Bridge- ton road, if said road shall be laid out."
At a meeting held May 13, 1795, it was ordered that 500 pounds specie be raised by tax to lay out, open and improve the roads from Burlington and Mount Holly to Cooper's Ferry, and from Bridgeton and Roadstown to Woodbury.
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At a meeting held May 10, 1797, Joshua Howell and Phineas Lord were appointed Commissioners to make an estimate of the expense necessary to purchase a Lot of Ground in the town of Woodbury, and for the building thereon of a house for the safe keeping of the Records of the County of Gloucester.
At a meeting held May 10, 1797, this minute is re- corded :
"Benjamin Whitall, Aaron Pancoast, Thomas Car- penter, Eli Elmer and Elnathan Davis, five of the Com- missioners for opening and improving certain Roads in the Counties of Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester and Bur- lington, in this State, under the seventh section of the act passed February 15, 1794, applied to this Board for the sum of Five Hundred Pounds, to be assessed, levied and collected, to enable them to fulfil for the purposes men- tioned in the said act. On the question whether the said sum of Five Hundred Pounds be raised for the purpose mentioned in the said application, it was determined in the negative."
These notes conclude extracts from Book A of Minutes, and the following notes are condensed from the Minute Book marked B.
BOOK B
At the annual meeting held May 9, 1798, there is no record of the attendance of any Justices, but a full at- tendance of Freeholders only.
COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
A plan for the erection of a Clerk's Office was pre- sented by John E. Hopkins, being 25 feet 4 inches by 20 feet, arched cellar under the whole, door posts and window frames stone, doors and window shutters iron, ยท and the roof to be covered with copper, which plan was approved. This Office afterwards became the Surrogate's Office, and when it was vacated as such when the present
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Court House was completed, the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank occupied it when first organized for several months. It was finally demolished for the purpose of opening Newton Avenue.
ROOM IN COURT HOUSE USED AS A LIBRARY.
Joshua L. Howell and James M. Whitall, two of the Directors of the Union Library Company, of Woodbury, requested the liberty of putting the books, &c., of said Company, in one of the front chambers of the Court House, which request was granted on trial.
At a meeting held January 8, 1799, 1000 pounds was ordered paid John E. Hopkins and Phineas Lord on account of building the Clerk's Office. At this meet- ing a Deed was presented from Isaac Wilkins and Rachel, his wife, for the purchase of a lot on which the Clerk's Office was erected.
At this meeting also it was ordered that a Wrought Iron Chest be purchased for the County Collector, the more safely to keep the money of the County.
The Commissioners for opening the road from Woodbury to Bridgeton and Roadstown, requested that the County Collector should pay them 177 pounds 3 shil- lings 3 pence for the use of said road, it being the balance of 500 pounds which was ordered for that purpose, which was ordered paid by the County Collector.
At a meeting held May 8, 1799, this minute is re- corded :
RACCOON CREEK BRIDGE.
"Jolin Pisant, on behalf of the proprietors of the Lower Bridge over Raccoon Creek, reported to this Board that the said proprietors do now relinquish all their claim to said Bridge, and request that this Board provide for the repairing and supporting said Bridge, at the expense of this County. On motion, whether said Bridge be main- tained by the County, it was carried in the affirmative."
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This is the first record having reference to construction and repair of Bridges other than Great Timber Creek Bridge before above date. At the same meeting the question of building a Bridge over the South Branch of Great Timber Creek, at or near Limber Bridge, was pre- sented, and James Hopkins, Jacob Stokes and Jeremiah Wood were appointed a committee thereon. This Com- mittee reported in favor of making application to the Legislature for the passage of a law authorizing the con- struction thereof.
At a meeting held December 12, 1799, report was made that such a law had been passed. It was there- fore ordered that John Wilkins, John B. Morgan, Jacob Stokes, Jeremiah Wood and Samuel P. Maul be appointed a Committee to proceed with its construction. Other references are made to the building and repairs of Bridges over Woodbury Creek, on public highway ; Car- penter's Landing Bridge, Raccoon Bridge at Swedes- boro, lower Bridge over Mantua Creek, over Garrard's Dam, and Penshawkin Creek, &c., in 1799 and 1800.
At the same meeting this minute is recorded :
A POOR HOUSE CONSIDERED.
"A motion was made to this Board, of the propriety of procuring a Poor House in the County of Gloucester, the more conveniently to enable all poor persons who are, or may be, a public charge to said County, to be provided for by said County, which was carried in the affirmative : and ordered that Samuel Cooper, James Hopkins and James Stratton be a Committee to make inquiry about the premises and report to this Board at their next meet- ing."
CONTRIBUTION FOR FIRE ENGINE.
At same meeting, "Franklin Davenport, Esq., on be- half of the Woodbury Fire Company, requested of this Board their assistance, in order to enable the said Com-
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pany to purchase Fire Engine and other apparatus for the use of said Company ; therefore ordered, that the sum of $200 be paid by the County Collector to the Treasurer of said Company, on or before the expiration of one year."
At this time entries changed from use of words Pounds, Shillings and Pence, to Dollars and Cents.
At an adjourned meeting held December 12, 1800, this minute is recorded :
POOR HOUSE FARM PURCHASED.
"The Committee, who were appointed by this Board, at their last meeting, to purchase a suitable place for build- ing a Poor House, &c., for said County, now reports that they have purchased of Michael C. Fisher, in the Town- ship of Deptford, a Plantation containing 125 acres of land, at ten pounds per acre, amounting to $3,333.33, which was unanimously agreed to. Said Committee also produced a Deed for said land, which was duly executed ; and it is further ordered, that the Director of said Board be authorized to receive said Deed, when acknowledged, and have the same recorded, and to execute a Bond to the said Michael C. Fisher, for the purchase money, agreeably to contract." The Committee consisted of Samuel Coop- er, James Hurley, John Hider, Samuel W. Harrison, Amos Cooper, William Ford, James Stratton, John Col- lins, Richard Westcott and Elias Smith, Jr. This Com- mittee produced a plan of a House to be built 75 by 35 feet, two stories high, and a cellar under the whole, to be built with stone, which was agreed to, and Amos Cooper, John Brick and John Hider were appointed Commission- ers to superintend the building thereof, at $1.50 per day, if service in County, or $2.00 out of the County.
JUSTICES, FREEHOLDERS, COLLECTORS AND CLERKS.
From 1770 to 1800 these persons served as Justices and Freeholders :
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Justices-Michael Fisher, John Hinchman, Samuel Spicer, Isaac Kay, James Bowman, Thomas Clark, George Van Leer, Samuel Blackwood, James Hinchman, James Somers, Samuel Risley, Robert Wood, Israel Shreve, Thomas Denny, John Sparks, Joseph Hugg, Robert Brown, Bodo Otto, John Wilkins, Isaac Tomlinson, Thomas Hastings, Samuel Kinnard, John Cooper, John Griffith, John Little, William Cozens, Joseph Ellis, Joshua Smith, Jeffrey Clark, Robert Morris, Samuel Elwell, Thomas Champion, Samuel Risley, Micajah Smith, Elias Smith, Benjamin Morgan, David Clark, William Tatem, Joseph Blackwood, Thomas Carpenter, James Stratton, Abraham Inskeep, Joseph Champion, William Zane, Thomas Heston, James Sloan, John Brick.
Freeholders-Nathaniel Lippincott, Joshua Stokes, David Branson, Isaac Mickle, Joseph Ellis, John Mickle, Peter Cheesman, Jacob Jennings, David Cooper, Joshua Lord, David Brown, Jacob Spicer, Matthew Gill, William Cozens, John Gill, Joseph Hillman, Joshua Cozens, Jos- hua Fisher, Constantine Wilkins, Joseph Hugg, James Whitall, John Glover, Thomas West, Frederick Steelman, John E. Hopkins, Samuel Harrison, John Brick, Benja- min Pittfield, Isaac Jones, David Davis, Thomas Thorn, Jacob Stokes, Joseph Low, Charles Fisher, John Kille, Samuel Wilson, Robert Ford Price, Thomas Taber, Joseph Collins, John Griffith, John Little, Samuel Hugg, John Hider, John Hedger, James Wilkins, Randal Mor- gan, Isaac Thompson, Felix Fisher, Henry Shute, John Middleton, Isaac Mickle, Elijah Clark, Richard Chees- man, John Ladd Howell, Daniel Southerland, John West, John Steelman, Samuel Burrough, Jacob Jennings, Laz- arus Price, William Zane, Joseph Hillman, Joshua How- ell, John Winner, James Hopkins, Joseph Bolton, Jere- miah Higbee, Jonathan Steelman, William Smith, Amos Ireland, Enoch Allen, Thomas Somers, Edmund Brewer, John B. Morgan, John Steelman, John Collins, Richard Westcott, Daniel Steelman, James Hurley, Amos Cooper,
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William Ford, Enoch Leeds, Joseph Cooper, Joseph Col- lins, Samuel Harrison, Jacob Albertson, James Wilkins, Arthur Reeves, David Paul, Isaac Somers, Nehemiah Steelman, Richard Borden, Ephraim Tomlinson, James Hinchman, Archibald Moffett, Elijah Cozens, William Todd, Elijah Clark, David Davis, Thomas Thorn, Joseph Champion, Samuel Hugg, John Jessup, Joseph Reeves, John Haines, George Van Leer, Thomas Somers, David Sayres, David Clark, Edmund Cordery, Edward Gibbs, John Stevens, Samuel French, William White, Joshua Leeds, Jeremiah Higbee, Joseph Burrough, Marmaduke Cooper, William Hugg, Benjamin Whitall, James Scull, Felix Leeds, Joseph Johnson, George Sparks, Samuel Cozens, Samuel Tonkin, Samuel Stokes, Samuel Cooper, James Sloan, Jonathan Harker, Frederick Steelman, Rich- ard Higbee, John Smith, Isaac Stephens, Edmund Ireland, Charles French, Joseph Mickle, Samuel P. Paul, Joseph Dalher, Samuel W. Harrison, John Wood, Phineas Lord, Enoch Allen, Jeremiah Wood.
During this period also, these persons served as Clerks of the Board, and County Collectors of the County :
County Collectors-Samuel Clement, Jr., John Wil- kins and Joel Westcott.
Clerks-Samuel Harrison, Samuel Spicer, Joseph Hugg, John Griffith, Elijah Cozens, William White, John Blackwood, John Wilkins, Thomas Wilkins, James Strat- ton, Joseph Cooper, Jacob Jennings, Samuel W. Harrison, Benjamin Rulon.
The Gloucester County Board of Freeholders records continue down to the present time but it has not been thought desirable to crowd this book with extracts later than the year 1800, although much of interest appears after that date.
James B. Cooper, A Hero of Two Wars * Soldier in Revolutionary War; Sailor in War of 1812
James B. Cooper, or plain James Cooper as his name appears on the muster roll of the first troop, Lee's Legion, Continental Troops, Revolutionary War, was born at Cooper's Point, Camden, N. J., in 1761, and enlisted Feb- ruary 1, 1779, for three years.
In the archives of the Bureau of Pensions, it is re- corded that "James B. Cooper enlisted in the Continental Line, and served to the end of the Revolutionary War, at which period he was a private in James Armstrong's First Troop of Colonel Lee's Partisans, Legion of Light Dragoons."
Lee's Legion was originally composed of Virginians, but while it was serving in the vicinity of Camden and Haddonfield, one hundred Jerseymen were enlisted and mustered into the Legion, two of whom, James B. Cooper and John Mapes, died in Haddonfield.
The commander of this Partisan Legion was Henry Lee, of Virginia. He entered the service in 1776, at the command of a company of Virginia volunteers, and had distinguished himself in scouting parties, and harrassing the enemy's pickets. His adventurous exploits soon won for him the popular appellation of "Light Horse Harry."
Environment had much to do with James Cooper's enlistment. Born a Friend, reared under Friends' in- fluence, opposed to war and bloodshed, he was subject to many temptations to forego those principles of peace which had been instilled into him from early childhood.
Living at Cooper's Point, in Camden, N. J., directly opposite Philadelphia, where American or British soldiers were constantly to be seen, his father's house occupied either by the Continental or British forces all the earlier
* By WALLACE McGEORGE, M. D.
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years of the Revolution, it is no wonder that despite the commands of his father and the earnest and loving solici- tations of his mother, he forsook the principles of Friends, choosing rather to serve his country as a soldier than to continue neutral and passive during the struggle for free- dom. Although only a stripling in his eighteenth year, he ran away from home, enlisted and became a Dragoon.
Early in the summer, Lee's Legion was ordered to the northern part of this State and the river counties in New York, and in July, 1779, as a volunteer, he took part in the storming and capture of Stony Point, by Mad An- thony Wayne.
General Wayne was the officer picked out by Wash- ington for this daring work, and he readily assented. It is a popular tradition that when Washington proposed to Wayne the storming of Stony Point, the reply was: "General, I'll storm hell, if you will only plan it." To which Washington is said to have replied, "Suppose you try Stony Point first."
One of the engagements in our State in which Lee's Legion was victorious was the capture of Paulus Hook, in what is now Jersey City. Major Lee in his scoutings had discovered that the British post at Paulus Hook, im- mediately opposite New York, was very negligently guarded. Paulus Hook at that time was a long, low point of the Jersey shore stretching into the Hudson, and con- nected to the mainland by a sandy isthmus. A fort had been erected on it, and it was garrisoned with five hun- dred men under Major Sutherland. It was a strong posi- tion. A creek fordable only in two places rendered the Hook difficult of access. Lee had discovered these fea- tures, and he had proposed to Washington the daring plan of surprising the fort at night. The commander-in- chief was pleased with the project and consented to it, stipulating that Lee was to "surprise the post, bring off the garrison immediately and effect a retreat."
On August 18, 1779, Lee set out with three hundred
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of Lord Stirling's division and a troop of dismounted dragoons. Between two and three o'clock, on the morn- ing of August 19, Lee arrived at the creek. It hap- pened fortunately that the British commanders had the day before dispatched a foraging party to a part of the country called the English Neighborhood, and as Lee and his men approached they were mistaken by the sen- tinel for this party on its return. The darkness of the night favored the mistake, and our troops passed the creek and ditch, entered the works unmolested and had made themselves masters of the post before the garrison was well roused from sleep. Major Sutherland and about sixty Hessians threw themselves into a small block house on the left of the fort and opened an irregular fire. To attempt to dislodge them would have cost too much time. Alarm guns from ships in the harbor, and the forts at New York, threatened speedy reinforcements to the enemy. Having captured one hundred and fifty- nine prisoners, Lee returned without trying to destroy either the barracks or artillery. He had achieved his object, a coup-de-main of signal audacity. Few of the enemy were slain for there was but little fighting and no massacre. His own loss was two men killed and three wounded. James Cooper was one of the dismounted dragoons. A beautiful monument in Jersey City marks the spot where this struggle occurred.
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