"The New Jersey Volunteers" (loyalists) in the Revolutionary War |
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The New Jersey Volunteers (Loyalists) in the Revolutionary War William Scudder Stryker No preview available - 2017 |
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Adjutant afterward August 22d Battalion December Battalion in 1778 battle of Eutaw Brigadier-General Brunswick captain Captain-Lieutenant Chaplain Charles Harrison Colonel command commis commissioned an ensign Cornelius Thompson Cortlandt Skinner Daniel Cozens declaration of peace detachment died Elizabeth Town enlisted ensign Eutaw Springs Falker Fifth Battalion Fourth Battalion garrison George Henry Isaac Allen Isaac Hedden James Moody James Servanier Jersey Volunteers John Barbarie John Hammell John Hatton John Hyslop John Jenkins John Lawrence Joseph Crowell Josiah Parker July June Justus Earle King's Mountain left the service Lieutenant-Colonel Major McLeod Militia Monmouth county Nova Scotia November officer Patrick Campbell Patrick Haggerty patriot peace was declared Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philip Van Cortlandt prisoner Province Quartermaster Regiment resident Richard Samuel Ryerson Second Battalion severely wounded siege sioned Sixth Skinner's Brigade South Carolina Staten Island Stockton Surgeon Surgeon's Mate talion Third Battalion Thomas Millidge tories transferred Trenton troops William Sorrell William Van Allen William Van Dumont
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Page 4 - Lordship, that there is great reason to expect a numerous body of the inhabitants to join the army from the provinces of New York, the Jerseys, and Connecticut, who in this time of universal apprehension only wait for opportunities to give proofs of their loyalty and zeal for government.
Page 17 - for the capture of Governor Livingston of New Jersey, dead or alive. This excited the cupidity and the reckless zeal of many of the New Jersey loyalists. A very spicy correspondence ensued in March and April, 1779, between the governor and Sir Henry Clinton in reference to this attempted exploit.
Page 42 - BURKE (1730-1797) was born at Dublin in the year 1730. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; and in 1747 was entered of the Middle Temple, with the purpose of reading for the Bar. In 1766 he was so fortunate as to enter Parliament as member for Wendover, in Buckinghamshire ; and he sat in the House of Commons for nearly thirty years.
Page 6 - Why do you call him governor f—Because when Lord and General Howe thought that they had conquered the Jerseys, they appointed him lieutenant-governor of that State. Skinner assumed that title over one-tenth part of the said State, and continued his usurpation for six weeks, five days, thirtysix minutes, ten seconds, and thirty hundred parts of a second, and then was deposed. Why is he called ungrateful f—Because he has joined the enemies of his country, and enlisted men to fight against his neighbors,...
Page 6 - ... has endeavored to transfer the soil that gave him bread from the rightful possessors to a foreign hand ; because he is doing all he can to defraud the fruit of" his body of their just inheritance ; and because, to gain present ease and transitory honors, he would fasten the chains of slavery on three millions of people and their offspring forever.
Page 31 - To his mortification, Major John Antill, as he then was, was later cashiered (Aug. 15, 1780), for making false returns and drawing provisions for more men than the effective strength of his battalion, but was shortly afterwards re-instated. With Lieutenant-Colonel Elisha Lawrence, Antill was one of the accredited agents of the seconded officers of the Loyalist Regiments to secure settlements for them in Nova Scotia. Parr, the Governor of that Province, was dissatisfied with his conduct there, and...
Page 5 - Jersey, were enrolled for service, and afterward sent to Charleston, South Carolina. It is then apparent that General Skinner recruited about two-thirds of the quota first assigned to him. All of these soldiers immediately on enlistment were placed in active service, and they began to distinguish themselves at an early day in their great zeal to annoy, intimidate and injure their former patriot friends and neighbours.
Page 17 - Demarest and wounded three other farmers and burned the dwelling houses and barns of seven of the inhabitants of the village. The militia in that part of the county in the companies of Captains Abraham J. Blauvelt, Cornelius Hairing and John Huyler immediately gathered and pursued the tory bands. The Loyalists succeeded, however, in carrying off four of the patriots, but obtained no cattle, no forage, or any plunder of any kind.
Page 11 - Volunteers made various excursions into New Jersey for forage for the British army. This became so annoying that Colonel Matthias Ogden, of the First Battalion, New Jersey Continental Line, then commanding the post at Elizabeth Town, with Colonel Elias Dayton, of the Third Battalion, who was stationed at Newark, and a party of one hundred militia of Essex county, determined to inflict some severe punishment on Skinner's tories.