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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...

"The New Jersey Volunteers" (loyalists) in the Revolutionary War - Page 11
by William Scudder Stryker - 1867 - 67 pages
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Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York, Volume 1

Ira K. Morris - History - 1898 - 454 pages

...skirmish, and their arms and camp equipage taken. During the Spring and Summer of 1777. Skinner's Brigade made various excursions into New Jersey for forage...stationed at Newark, and a party of one hundred militia from Essex County, determined to inflict some severe punishment on Skinner's tories. On the 22d of...

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