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Daily, John, 6. Darby, James, 8. Davis, James, 8. Deare, Thomas, 6. Deary, James, 4. De Camp, Peter, 8. Doughty, William, 8.
Dugan, Michael, 4. Dugan, William, 8. Duncan, Joseph, 8. Dunn, Wilham, 8.
Earnest, Rudolph, S.
Edwards, Henry, 8. Elliott, David, 7. Emmons, John, 8. Ervin, John, 4. Everett, James, 4.
Fair, John, 6. Findley, John, 7. Fisher, Daniel, 6. Flaherty, John, 4. Fleming, John, 6. Forbes, William, 4.
Foster, George F, 4. Foster, Samuel, 8. Frazer, Benjamin, 6. Frazier, George, 7. Freeze, James, 6.
Galloway, James, 7.
Gardner, Thomas, 7. Gardner, William, 9. Genung, Daniel, 7. Gennng, Isaac, 7. Gifford, Peleg, 8. Gillen, James, 7. Gilman, Daniel, 9. Goodbread, John, 6. Gordon, Thomas, 4. Gould, Isaac, 9. Gracey, John, 7. Gray, Henry, 5. Green, David, 7. Green, John, 6. Gregory, Benjamin, 6. Gregory. Jonathan, 6. Groom, William, 4. Gulick, Joseph, 4. Guthrie, Thomas, 7.
Hagerty, John, 7. Hakaman, John, 9. Halfpenny, John, 9. Hammond, John, 4. Hamaley, Abraham, 7. Hannon, James, 9. Hande, John, 4. Harding, Thomas, 6. Harris, Thomas, 6. Harvey, John, 7. Hassell, Jobn, 4. Hastings, John, 9. Hawk, Sampaon, 9. Hay, Jobn, 9.
Heft, George, 6. IIendrickson, Joseph, 4. lIester, Lewis, 7. Hicks, Peter, 6. Hike, William, 9. Hill, Adam, 7. Hinds, Amos, 9. Holloway, Daniel, 9. lIolmes, James, 6. Hopper, Andrew, 9. Hopper, John G , 8. llorner, John, 6. Horeely, Tbomas Y., 5. Howard, Henry, 7. Howell, Jonathan, 5. Hudson, Shadrach, 7. Humphries, Joseph, 6. Hunt, Joseph, 6.
Insley, Nathaniel, 7.
Jobs, Ezekiel, 6. Johnson, James, 4. Johnson, Robert, 8. Johnson, Thomas, 9. Jones, John. 6.
Jones, Thomas, 7. Jordan, Jacob, 4. Jordan, John, 7.
Kavany, Edward, 8. Kelly, Michael, 4. Kemplin, Nicholas, 7. Kennedy, John, 7. Kerr, John, 5. Kerr, Matthew, 4. Kerr, Stephen, 5. Kilpatrick, David, 6. Kleiser, Mathias, 4.
Lafferty, John, 6. Lahey, William, 6. Lang, John, 6. Lang, Lewis, 5. Lawrence, Jacob, 9. Lee, Thomas, G. Leforge John, 5. Little, Amaso, 6. Little, Eliakim, 7. Long, Felix. 8. Longshore, Jacob, S. Lowry, John, 3. Ludlow, Daniel, 5. Ludlow, John, 7. Ludlow, Samuel, 9. Lynch, Jeremiah, 9. Lynch, Michael, 6.
Maischalk, Androw, 8. Martin, Anthony, 6. Marts, William, 4. Mathews, Thomas, 4, Mathews, William, 9. MeClellan, William, 4. McCellongh, John, 4. McConnel, William, 9.
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INDEX-EXPEDITION AGAINST THE INDIANS IN 1791.
McCoomb, John, 4. McCornie, James, 9. McCoy, Henry. 4. McDonald, John, 5. McDonald, McDonald, 9. ( Mc) Duffy, Samuel, 7. McGill, William, 4. McGinois, Thomas, 9. McIntosh, Swaine, 9. MeIntyre, James, 9. MeKenny, Andrew, 7. MeKune, William, 6. MeLaughlin, Hugh, 7. McLaughlin. John, 9. McShane, Wilham, 6. Mead, James, 9. Meeker, Joseph, 7. Merrill. James, 5. Miles, John, 9.
Miller, Henry. 7. Miller, Jobo, 7. Miller, Peter, 5.
Miller, Thomas, S. Mills, Israel, 6. Minthorn. Cornelius, 6. Mitchell, Mathew, 5. Morris, James, 9. Morris, Jobo, 6.
Morris, Joseph, 6. Morris, Thomas, 9.
Morrison, Philip, 7. Morrison, Robert, 5. Mullen, Roger, 6.
Murray, Peter, 6.
Nevill, George, 5. Nill, Adam, 7. Nix, Daniel, 4. Nowleo, Thomas, 5.
O'Brien, Jobn, 5. Ockerman, David, 9.
O'Donald, Hugh, 6. Orchard, Robert, 9. Osborne, Stephen, 7. Osborne, Uzal, 9. Owens, Jobo, 7.
Palmer, Henry, 9.
Parcels, John, 8. Paterson, Edward, 4. Paterson, Thomas, 3. Pearson, David, 5. Peart, Edward, 5.
Pence John C., 6. Penny, John, 5. Phillips, Joseph, 3. Piatt, William, 5. Pierson, Israel, 6. Pike, Zebulon, 7. Plumbley, Jacob, 6.
Point, John, 5. Polhenios, John, Jr., 5.
Porter, Robert, 4.
Prior, John, 8.
Quilty, William, 9. Quinn, William, 9. Quoyles, Thomas, 5.
Race, Joseph, S.
Ray, Daniel, 6.
Read. John, 5.
Reavy. Thomas, 9.
Reed, John, 6.
Reedy, James, 9.
Reese, Jobo, 5. Reeves, John, 5. Richarda, Richard, 5. Richards, Simon, 6.
Richardson, William, 5.
Rift, Daniel, 6.
Rushbrooke, Robert, 9.
Roberts, William, 5.
Ruecastle, Jonathan, 8.
Rushrooke, Robert, S.
Ryan, Martin, 9.
Saley, Brueler, 9.
Sampson, 'S ses, 9.
Sands, James, 9.
Scott, Jobn, 8. Shaw, John, 6.
Shaw, Jobn R., 6. Shelburne, John C., 9.
Sheldon, Nathaniel, 5. Shetland, Caleb, 9. Shields, James, 6.
Shires, Robert, 7.
Shirkey, James, 5
Simpson, Robert, 9.
Sly, Isaac, 5. Sly, Jacob, 5. Smith, John, 9. Smith, Peter, 5. Smith, Thomas, 6. Smitb, William, 9. Snowden, Jonathan, 4.
ł Spencer, John F., 5. Spencer, Joshua, 5. Stacks, Williaro, 4. Stevenson, Jolin, 5. Stewart, Abner, 8. Stewart, Jcho, 5. Stewart, John, 6. Stimetz, Isaac, 7. Sullivan, Joseph, 9. Sutton, James, 6. Sutton, John, 8. Sottoo, Henry, 6.
Sutton, Simon, 6. Sweeny, James, 5.
Taylor, Benjamin. 5. Taylor, Thomas, 8. Teesham, Robert, 3. Tharp, Jonathan, 6. Tharp, Solomon, 5.
Thomas, William T., 7.
Thompson, Jobo, 6. Thompson, John, 8. Thompson, Moses, 8. Tindell, Joseph, 5.
Touzer, John, 9.
Van Doren, James, 8. Van Hooser, David, 5.
Wade, Nathaniel, 8. Walker, Francis, 5. Walker, James, 5. Ward, Sadler, 8. Wheleo, Jobn, 9. White, Green, 9. White, Joseph, 6. White, Peter, 5. Williams, Paul H., 8. Williamson, Aaron, 6. Williamson, Isaac, 6. Willis, Samuel, 6. Wilson, James. 5. Wilson, Theodius, S. Winans, Aaron, 9. Woodruff, Abijab, 8. Woodruff, Noadiah, 9. Woodward, Richard, 4.
Yocum, Peter, 9. Young, Thomas, 4. Young, William, 6.
RECORD
OF
OFFICERS AND MEN OF NEW JERSEY
IN THE
Pennsylvania Insurrection of 179-1.
The Pennsylvania Insurrection of 1794.
In the year 1791 the Congress of the United States passed laws laying certain duties upon all distilled liquors and on the stills in which the spirits were manufactured. This excise tax greatly affected the interests of the inhabitants of Western Pennsylvania, and as soon as it was levied they began to combine in the counties of Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland, to prevent its collection. During the summer of 1791, an attack was made on a Deputy Inspector of the United States, and afterward upon the house of the Chief Inspector. Some persons were killed, several wounded, others obliged to leave that section of the country, and a general spirit of lawlessness prevailel, which the civil authorities were powerless to subdne.
In May, 1791, Congress passed the following Act :
AN Acr directing a detachment from the militia of the United States.
SEcrios I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be and he is hereby authorized to require of the Executives of the several States to take edectual measures to organize, arm and equip, according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning, the following proportions, respectively, of eighty thonsand effective militia, officers ineluded, to wit. : * * * * * * * * * * *
* From the State of New Jersey, four thousand three hundred and eighteen. * * * * * * * *
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SECTION II. And be it further enacted, That the detachments of militia aforesaid shall be officered out of the present militia officera, or others at the option and discretion of the constitutional authority, in each State respectively.
SECTION III. And be it further enacted, That the President may, if he jndges expedient, authorize the Executives of the several States to accept any independent corps of cavalry, artillery or infantry, as part of the detachments aforesaid, provided they shall voluntarily engage as corps in the service.
SEOTION IV. And be it further enacted, That the said militia shall not be compelled to serve a longer time, in any one tour, than three months after their arrival at the place of rendezvona; and that during the time of their service, besides their pay and other allowances, which shall be the same as the troops on the military establishment of the United States, they shall receive at the rate of one dollar and sixty -six cents for clothing, per month.
SECTION V. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be requested to call on the Executives of the several States to take the most effectual means, that the whole of the militia, not comprised within the foregoing requisition, he armed and equipped according to law.
SECTION VI. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force for the space of one year from the passing thereof, and from thence to the end of the next session ef Congress, and no longer.
Approved May 9, 1794.
In accordance with the above Act of Congress the Legislature of New Jersey passed the following Aet :
AN Acr to authorize the Commander-in-Chief to detail a detachment from the Militia of this State, agreebly to a late Act of Congress.
1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Com - mander-in-Chief of this State be, and he is bereby authorized and directed, as soon as may be, to detail from the militia of this State fonr thou- sandythree hundred and eighteen effective militia, officers included, who shall be organized, armed and equipped according to the laws of this State and the United States, and to remain as a select corps of militia for one year, and from thence to the end of the next session of the Congrese o the United States, and during that time to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's warning.
2. And be it further enacted, That the general, field and other officers of said corps shall be detailed from the different grades of the existing officers of the militia, as near as may be practicable, in proportion to the number of men to be required of them, at the discretion of the Com- mander-in-Chief.
3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commander-in-Chief to apportion the said detachment among the respective brigades according to the number of men returned by the commissioners who were appointed by the Act entitled "An Act for organizing and training the militia of this State " and the supplement thereto, as near as may be, including all that are exempt by said returns from common militia duty .
4. And be it further enacted, That the Commander-in-Chief be authorized, at his discretion, to accept as part of the aforesaid detachment any uniform corps or part of corps who shall voluntarily engage in the service; and also to accept of all such men from the different brigades, regiments, battalions and companies as shall offer to enroll themselves, until the quota of such brigade, regiment, battalion or company shall be completely enrolled.
5. And be it further enacted, That if any company shall not complete the number of men apportioned to them in order to fill up said detachment, in dirteen days after the Captain or commanding officer of said company shall have received orders for that purpose, it shall be the duty of the said Captain or commanding officer, immediately after the expiration of the said time, to make a list of all the free white male inhabitants and others holding property, residing within the bouods of his company, of eighteen years of age and npwarde, and shall divide the whole into as many classes az there may be men deficient, arranging, as near aa may be, an equal propertion of property in each claas ; and if any class should neglect or refuse to turn ont an able-bodied, effective man fer ten days, it shall be the duty of the said Captain or commanding officer, as soon as may be. to hire a substituce on the most reasonable terius that he can and assess the sum agreed by bim to be given to the substitute on the said deficient class, in as egnal a proportion, according to their estates, as may be; and in order that the claesing of said com- panies and assessing the hire of the substitutes may be more equitably done, the Captain or commanding officer is hereby authorized and directed to call on the assessor of the township for the time being, who is required to attend, with a copy of his duplicate, and assist in classing and assessing as aforesaid.
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6. And be it further enacted, That on the negleet or refusal of any person or persons to pay the money so assessed when demanded, it shall be the duty of the said Captain or commanding officer to return the name or runes of the delinquent or delinquents to a Justice of the Peace of the county, who is hereby required to proceed to the recovery thereof in the same manner as by law is directed for the recovery of taxes and to pay the sail assessments to the Captain or commanding officer ; and in case of distress or sale any overplus should arise the same shall be rdfered to the delinquent, and if he shall refuse to receive it, then to be deposited in the hands of the town collector, to be applied to the die hrange of the delinquents' taxes.
7. And be it further enacted, That every non commissioned officer, musicien and private soldier, in the said detachment of militia, when called into actual service, besides their pay and other allowances granted by the United States, shall be entitled to receive fiora this State at the rate of three dollars per month, during their time of service, and the sum of two dollars as a bounty for their enrolling and holding themselves in readiness to march agreebly to this Act, which soms the Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay into the hands of the Daymasters of the several regimenta and corps out of any monies in the treasury, upon regular pay rolls being produced by him, containing the number of privates mnstered therein, and a warrant signed by the Major-General or officer commanding ths detachment, certifying the names of the non comumis. sioned officers, musicians and privates who may have performed the said tour of duty, and also who may be entitled to receive the said bounty.
8. And be it further enacted, That until the aforesaid detachments are called into actual service they shall remain annexed to and perform the duty required of the militia of this State by law, with the divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies and corps to which they now belong, or in which they would have been subject to do duty if this law had not passed.
Passed at Trenton, June 20, 1791.
On the 7th day of Angust, 1794, President Washington iesned this proclamation :
WHEREAS, Combinations to defeat the execution of the laws laying duties upon spirita distilled within the United States and upon stills, bave from the time of the commencement of those lawe existed in some of the western parts of Pennsylvania; and whereas, the said combinations, proceeding in a manner subversive equally of the just authority of government and of the rights of individuals, have hitherto effected their dangerons and criminal purpose, by the influence of certain irregular meetings, whose proceedings have tended to encourage and uphold the spirit of opposition by misrepresentations of the laws calculated to render them odious ; by endeavours to deter those who might be so disposed from accepting offices under them, through fear of public resentmenta and of injury to persons and property, and to compel those who had accepted such offices by actual violence to surrender or forbear the execution of them ; by circulating vindictive measures against all who should otherwise directly or indirectly aid in the execution of the said laws, or who, yielding to the dictates of conscience and to a sense of obligation. should themselves comply therewith ; by actually injuring and destroying the property of persons who were understood to have so complied; by inflicting cruel, humiliating punishment upon private citizens for no other cause than that of appearing to be the friends of the laws; by interrupting the public officers on the highways, abusing, assaulting and otherwise ill treating them ; by going to their honses in the night, gaining admittance by force, taking away their papers and committing other outrages ; employing for these unwarrantable purposes the agency of armed banditti in such manner as for the most part to escape diecovery ; and whereas, the endeavours of the Legislature to obviate objections to the said laws by lowering the duties, and by other alterations conducive to the convenience of those whom they immediately affected (though they have given satisfaction in other quarters), and the endeavours of the Executive officers to conciliate a compliance with the laws, by expos- tulation, by forbearance, and even by recommendations founded on the suggestion of local considerationa, have been disappointed of their effect by the machinations of persons whose industry to excite resistance has increased with the appearance of a disposition among the people to relax in their opposition and to acquiesce in the laws; insomuch that many persons in the said western parts of Pennsylvania have at length been hardy enough to perpetrate acts which I am advised amount to treason, being overt acts of levying war against the United States; the said persons having on the sixteenth and seventeenth of July last proceeded in arma (on the second day, accounting to several hundred! to the house of John Neville, inapector of the revenues for the fourth survey of the districts of Pennsylvania, having repeatedly attacked the said hense, with the persons thereis, wounding some of them ; having seized David Lennox, marshal of the district of Pennsylvania, who previous thereto had been fired upon, while in the execution of his duty, by a party of men detaining him for some time prisoner, till for the preservation of his life and obtaining of his liberty he found it necessary to enter into stipulations to forbear the execution of certain official duties touching pro- cesses issuing out of a court of the United States, and having finally obliged the said inspector of the revenue and the marshal from consider- atione of personal safety, to fly from this part of the country, in order by a circuitous route to proceed to the seat of government; avowing aa the motives of these outrageous proceedings an intention to prevent by force of arms the execution of the said laws, to oblige the said inspector of the revenue to renounce his said office, to withstand by open violence the lawful authority of the government of the United States, and to compel thereby an alteration in the measures of the Legislature, and a repeal of the laws aforesaid; and whereas, by a law of the United States, entitled "An act to provide for calling forth the militis to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions," it is enacted " that whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed in any state by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powera vested in the marshals by that act, the same being notified by an associate justice or the District judges, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia of said State to suppress euch combinations and to canse the laws to be duly executed. And if the militia of a State where such combinations may happen and ahall refuse or be insuficient to enppress the same, it shall be lawful for the President. if the Legislature of the United States ahall not be in session, to eall forth and employ auch numbers of the militia of any other state or states most convenient thereto as may be necessary, and the use of the militia so to be called forth may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the ensuing session ; provided always, that whenever it may be necessary, in the judgment of the President, to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President eball forthwith and previous thereto, by proclamation, command snch insurgente to disperse-retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time; and whereas, James Wilson, an associate justice, on the fourth instant, by writing under his hand, did from evidence which had been laid before him, notify to me that " in the counties of Washington and Allegheny, in Pennsylvania, the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary conrae of judicial proceedings or hy the powers vested in the Marshal of that district."
ASD WHEREAS, It is in my judginent necessary under the circum-tances of the case to take measures for calling forth the militia in order to suppress the combination aforesaid and to cause the laws to be duly executed, and I have accordingly determined so to do, feeling the deepest regret for the occasion, but withal the most solemn conviction, that the essential interests of the Union demand it, that the very existence of. government and the fondamental principles of social order are materially involved in the issue, and that the patriotism and firmness of all goout citizens are seriously called upon, as occasion may require, to aid in the effectnal suppression of so fatal a spirit.
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Wherefore, and in pursuance of the provision above recite 1, I, George Wa Lington, President of the United States, do hereby command all persons, being insurgents as aforesarl, and all others whom it may concern, on or before the first day of September next to disperse and roturn jeacoably to their respective abodes. And I do moreover warn all persons whotiroever again. tailing abetting, or comforting the perpetrators of the aforesaid treasonable acta ! And do require all officers and other citizens according to their respective duties and the law of the land to txert their utmost endeavours to prevent and suppress such dangerous procce lings.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be atfixed to the e presents and signed the samos with my band. Done at the city of Philadelphia, the seventh day of Angust, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four and of the independence of the United States of America, the nineteenth.
By the President,
EDM. RANDOLPH, Secretary of State.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
On the 23d day of August, 1794, Governor Richard Howell, of New Jersey, promulgatel the following General Orders : * 4 * + = * * + ₭
TEENTON, August 23d, 1794. * ¥ *
By anthority of His Excellency the President of the United States, and agreeably to his requisition through the War Department of August 7th 1794, Major General Elias Dayton is ordered as immediately as it is possible to organize and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning out of his command, under the Act of Congress entitled 'An Act directing a detachment from the militia of the United States," one Brigadier-General and fifteen hundred non-commissioned officers and privates of infantry, with the due proportion of commissioned officers The troops detailed for this duty are to be armed and equipped as completely as possible with the articles in possession of the State or the indi- viduals who shall compose the corps, and any deficiency which may be unavoidable will be furnished by the United States upon the earliest notice. Two companies of artillery, one from General Dayton's division and one from General Ellis' division, consisting each of a Captain, two Lieutenants and forty-eight non commissioned officers and mattresses, are attached to and to hold themselves in readiness to march at a mo- ment's warning with the detachment last mentioned. Pieces, &c., will be furnished by the United States on the shortest notice.
The Cavalry officers and men in command of Major- General Dayton under the orders of the 27th of Inne, and so many officers, non.com- missioned officers and dragoons to be called into service by troops or otherwise from other squadrons of the State as will complete a corps of five hundred cavalry, mounted, armed and equipped according to law, are ordered to hold themselves in readiness at a moment's warning, under the orders of the General of Cavalry. As the Cavalry of this State are not yet regimented, General White, who is the oldest cavalry officer of the late American army now in service, will take the command of that corps of cavalry, which will have to act separate from the detachment, when joined by the cavalry ordered by the President from other States. He will therefore direct such Statf officers of his brigade as are neces- sary to be in readiness, and provide a proper person, for whom he will be accountable, to do the duty of Adjutant-General in his absence. As there is now ordered so large a detachment of cavalry, no men are to be taken from the several troops by the infantry in forming and detailing the detachment ordered from brigades, but all troops which have voluntarily offered and accepted of are still to be considered as part of the same. Camp equipage, tents and any unsurmountable difficulty of equipment of each distinction of troops will be provided for by the United States. Proper returns of the detachment will be insisted upon as soon as they can be made, for such will be best evidence of the disposition of the State to anpport the constitution and honor of the Union. All the militia of New Jersey are directed to be in constant readiness for any further occasion of government, and the Commander in-Chief feels the pleasure of joining tbem in sentiments of entire devotion to our common interesta.
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