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 In the Expedition Against the Indians, 
 in the Year 1779. 
 
 WILLIAM S. STRYKER, 
 
 ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
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 Trenton, January ijth, 18 
 
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 In the Indian Campaign of 1779. 
 
 The last half of the year 1778 was an eventful period in the 
 history of the war for freedom in America. The plains of Mon- 
 mouth, in New Jersey, had just been the scene of a fierce conflict 
 on a hot Sabbath day, between the Continentals and the British 
 Line, and the royal army had disappeared by a midnight flight. 
 The weary patriots were celebrating the second year of their boast- 
 ful but yet unsecured independence, when the young nation was 
 startled by the news of a horrid massacre among the hills and 
 valleys of beautiful Wyoming. The Indian knife and tomahawk, 
 sharpened by the bitter hatred and fierce brutality of the white 
 tory, filled this lovely section of the country with scenes of merci- 
 less cruelty. The soldiery in the field, the statesman in the legisla- 
 tive halls, the old men on the farms, the women as they performed 
 the round of their domestic duties, were all alarmed, and some 
 shuddered with distress and fear as they listened to the tales of this 
 horrid butchery. The hot blood of the red man thus aroused did 
 not cool again before a bloody stroke had been given at Andrus- 
 town, at the settlement at German Flats, and the savages dashed 
 through old Tryon county, and closed the season with the awful 
 slaughter at Cherry Valley. 
 
 Early in the following year, the Continental Congress in Phila- 
 delphia investigated the piteous stories of sorrow, distress and 
 death which came to them from the upper waters of the Susque- 
 hanna, and, on the 25th day of February, they sent to General 
 
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 Washington, then at his headquarters at Middlebrook, now Bound 
 Brook, New Jersey, a report of all these acts of rapine, cruelty and 
 murder, and explicitly ordered him " to take effectual measures- 
 for the protection of the inhabitants and the chastisement of the 
 savages." Without a moment's delay, he planned the early and 
 severe punishment of the brutal foe. 
 
 On the 4th of March, Washington wrote to Governor George 
 Clinton, of New York, informing him secretly of an expedition 
 which he proposed to send into the Indian country, and asking 
 what number of frontiersmen and rangers he could furnish for the 
 contingent of troops required. Two days afterward, he wrote to 
 Major- General Horatio Gates, and offered him the command of 
 the force he intended to detail for this enterprise. Unmindful of 
 the cool treatment he had received from this haughty soldier on 
 the west bank of the Delaware during the dreadful winter of 1776, 
 forgetful that he had been a party to the miserable Conway cabal, 
 and remembering only in his pure and patriotic soul that Gates 
 had won some glory at Burgoyne's surrender, he offered him the 
 supreme command of this important expedition. This forgiving 
 act did not merit the rough refusal which he received. 
 
 The Commander-in-chief then selected Major-General John Sul- 
 livan to command the division of troops for the Indian campaign. 
 This officer, then in his thirty-ninth year, had left a law practice 
 at his home in New Hampshire, had been a member of the first 
 Continental Congress, entered the army as a Brigadier-General, 
 and was made a Major-General in 1776. He fought General 
 Greene's division at the battle of Long Island, was taken prisoner, 
 and soon after his release assumed command of General Charles 
 Lee's troops when that officer was captured, distinguished himself 
 in the rapid march of his column on the river road to Trenton and 
 the sharp fight on the streets of that village, and fought bravely at 
 Brandywine and at Germantown. He was considered very skillful 
 
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 and reliable as a soldier, and thoroughly true to the cause of inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 The instructions given by General Washington to General Sulli- 
 van properly show the design of the expedition. "The immediate 
 objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settle- 
 ments. * * * It will be essential to ruin their crops now in 
 the ground, and prevent their planting more." To General Gates 
 he had already written, "The object will be effectually to chastise 
 and intimidate the hostile nations ; to cut off their settlements, 
 destroy their next year's crops, and do them every other mischief 
 which time and circumstances will permit." Washington said also 
 to Sullivan, "The country must not merely be overrun, but de- 
 stroyed. * * * You will listen to no overture of peace before 
 the total ruin of their settlements is effected." This language is in 
 no way equivocal. Its clear meaning was fully understood by 
 General Sullivan, and he determined vigorously and effectually to 
 carry out these severe but necessary orders. 
 
 He desired that he might have some choice in the number and 
 quality of the troops intended for this duty, and his wish was 
 cheerfully granted. He made his selection from the Continental 
 battalions of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsyl- 
 vania and New Jersey. They were some of the very best soldiers 
 of the army, and had seen much active service. 
 
 It is proper here to note the name and locality of the confed- 
 eracy of the Six Nations, which had thus espoused the cause of 
 Great Britain on American soil. The Iroquois nation, consisting 
 of the tribes called Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas, Mohawks, Onon- 
 dagas and Tuscaroras, claimed Pennsylvania, part of New Jersey, 
 and as far southward as the Carolinas, as their own territory, and 
 they warred constantly to keep at least any unfriendly Indians to 
 the south and southwest from what they considered their own right- 
 ful province. Some of the Oneidas alone, of all these tribes, mani- 
 
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 fested any friendliness to the white man and to the civilization 
 which he brought with him. 
 
 The strength of the fighting men in these tribes at this time was 
 about twelve hundred warriors. Associated with them were two 
 companies of "Royal Greens" of the British army, quite a de- 
 tachment of armed refugees and a small party of tory militia, some 
 of them painted as Indians, who had all joined the dusky savages 
 in their warfare on the frontier settlements. 
 
 Chief among the leaders of these cruel bands was Joseph Brant, 
 whose Indian name was Thayendanegea. He was of the best blood 
 of the Mohawks, and was always placed foremost in every difficult 
 enterprise. His personal courage was undoubted, his movements 
 in the field were governed with the greatest skill and energy, and 
 devastation and death followed in his bloody trail. Colonel John 
 Butler was also one of the active military chieftains, and he and 
 his son, Wallace N. Butler, were the chief actors in all the pillage 
 and slaughter which took place in Tryon county and at Wyoming. 
 Their names are execrated in history and in the traditions of the 
 old families of that region. Sir John Johnson, a Colonel under 
 the Crown, commanded the organized troops of Britain which co- 
 operated with the savages in these predatory outrages. These are 
 the men who gave their best efforts, as allies of King George, ta 
 the crushing out of their more patriotic neighbors. 
 
 As soon as General Sullivan signified his acceptance of the com- 
 mand of the expedition against the hostile Indians, a plan of 
 operations was arranged which, it was thought, would accomplish 
 the design of Congress, and would compel the foe to move back 
 from what were now the frontier white settlements. A division of 
 troops was organized, under Colonel Daniel Brodhead, of the 
 Eighth Pennsylvania Continental Regiment, who was commander 
 of the Western Department, at Pittsburg, and while this was in- 
 
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 tended to operate directly against the Munsey tribe and a part of 
 the Senecas, on the upper waters of the Allegheny river, it was also 
 expected to make somewhat of a diversion from the column under 
 Sullivan. 
 
 Another body of troops, consisting of five regiments and one 
 battalion of six companies, in all about seventeen hundred men, 
 was ordered, under command of Brigadier-General James Clinton, 
 to proceed from their rendezvous at Canajoharie, a village on the 
 Mohawk river in New York, by way of the Otsego Lake, and join 
 the main army under Sullivan. They left their station June 17th, 
 and it was more than two months before they reached him at 
 Tioga. 
 
 The principal division of the army organized at Wyoming, 
 under Sullivan's immediate direction, contained about 3500 men. 
 A list of the organizations in this division has been given by 
 many writers, and must be repeated here. 
 
 Brigadier-General Enoch Poor's brigade consisted of: 
 First New Hampshire Regiment, Colonel Joseph Cilley. 
 Second New Hampshire Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel George 
 
 Reid. 
 Third New Hampshire Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry 
 
 Dearborn. 
 Second New York Regiment, Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. 
 Brigadier- General Edward Hand's brigade consisted of: 
 
 Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Adam 
 
 Hubley. 
 German Regiment, Major Daniel Burkhardt. 
 Two companies of militia from Wyoming, Captain Simon 
 
 Spalding and Captain John Franklin. 
 Independent Light Infantry Company, Pennsylvania Conti- 
 nental Line, Captain Anthony Selin. 
 
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 Brigadier-General William Maxwell's brigade consisted of: 
 First New Jersey Regiment, Colonel Matthias Ogden. 
 Second New Jersey Regiment, Colonel Israel Shreve. 
 Third New Jersey Regiment, Colonel Elias Dayton. 
 Spencer's New Jersey Regiment, Colonel Oliver Spencer. 
 
 The artillery of the division was commanded by Colonel Thomas 
 Procter, of Pennsylvania. 
 
 My purpose in this paper is to sketch the history of this brigade 
 of New Jersey Continentals under Maxwell, its strength, its per- 
 sonnel, its labors, its marching and the result of its military service 
 in this campaign. To do this I must allude constantly to the col" 
 umn of which this brigade was a part, incidentally to the conduct 
 of other brigades and their respective officers, and, in brief, the 
 history of the Jersey Brigade can hardly fail to be, to some extent, 
 a resume, of the entire expedition. This sketch is compiled from 
 material obtained from thirty printed and five unpublished journals 
 of the march, among the best of which are the diaries of Surgeon 
 Ebenezer Elmer and Lieutenant William Barton, printed in the 
 proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society in 1846 j from 
 the diary of Surgeon Jabez Campfield, printed in the proceedings 
 of 1873, ^'^^ from the excellent manuscript journal of Lieutenant 
 Samuel M. Shute, afterward the celebrated physician, Dr. Shute, of 
 Burlington county, New Jersey. 
 
 The American army under General Washington was quartered in 
 the counties of Somerset and Essex, New Jersey, during the winter 
 of 1778 and 1779. Seven brigades of troops were stationed at 
 Middlebrook, the headquarters, and in the immediate vicinity. 
 The New Jersey Brigade at this time held the advanced post of the 
 array at Elizabeth Town. On the 25th day of February, 1779, the 
 British made an attempt to capture William Livingston, New 
 Jersey's war Governor, but it failed through the ability displayed 
 by men of this organization. 
 
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 During the latter part of the winter of 1778 and the following 
 spring, the soldiers of the American army suffered greatly in their 
 own persons and on account of the pressing wants of their families, 
 because of the depreciation of the value of the Continental cur- 
 rency in which they were paid. All the officers of the New Jersey 
 Brigade petitioned the Legislature of the State for relief, on the 
 17th day of April, They stated that four months' pay of an en- 
 listed man would not buy his family a bushel of wheat — that the 
 pay of a Colonel would not purchase oats for his horse. Pennsyl- 
 vania had made provision for her men, Maryland had satisfied her 
 soldiers, but Jerseymen were yet unprovided with pay barely 
 enough to afford a scanty subsistence. A few days after this 
 petition was sent. General Maxwell wrote a very able and pathetic 
 appeal to the Legislature to act promptly on the memorial of his 
 soldiers, and to grant them relief immediately. The pecuniary 
 distress of his men excited his pity, and he demanded that their 
 grievances should be fully inquired into and mitigated. On the 
 6th day of May, when marching orders had been received for the 
 expedition against the Indians, the officers of the brigade again 
 addressed the Legislature, remonstrating against the long delay in 
 doing them justice, and General Maxwell called the attention of 
 General Washington to the fact that they had contracted heavy 
 debts, which they were entirely unable to satisfy. He told him 
 that they proposed to obey any orders and to perform any duty re- 
 quired, but that they must have some relief in their distress. The 
 Commander-in-chief replied in an appreciative letter, begging 
 them, however, for the reputation they had already won, to do 
 nothing to tarnish their glory as soldiers. This was the state of 
 the Jersey Brigade when they were called to endure the hardships 
 of military life in fighting cruel savages. Fretting under bad treat- 
 ment, charged by some with disaffection, they nevertheless placed 
 their several commands in proper shape for immediate marching 
 
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 into a hostile country, and then the relief came. Two hundred' 
 pounds were given to each ofiScer, and forty pounds to each en- 
 listed man, and in this way the men of this brigade were relieved 
 from pressing debt, and cheerfully took up the march to Easton, 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 The strength of the New Jersey Brigade at this time, as shown- 
 by the official returns, was : 
 
 First Regiment, 27 officers and 324 enlisted men. 
 
 Second Regiment, 25 officers, and 356 enlisted men. 
 
 Third Regiment, 27 officers and 331 enlisted men. 
 
 Spencer's Regiment, 32 officers and 140 enlisted men, with de- 
 tachments of Colonel David Forman's Regiment, consisting of 68 
 enlisted men, and Colonel Elisha Sheldon's Regiment of Light 
 Dragoons, consisting of 75 enlisted men, both of which were soon 
 after assigned to Spencer's Regiment. 
 
 The state of the brigade was therefore, at this time, a total of 
 III officers and 1294 men. To this sketch I have added a com- 
 plete list of the officers and men who started on the expedition, 
 taken from the files of the war records of New Jersey. 
 
 A few words in reference to the more prominent officers of this 
 brigade will not be amiss. 
 
 General William Maxwell was a sturdy and brave man, of Irish 
 parentage, who entered the service in the first call for troops, and 
 was in the northern campaign before Quebec. He took a promi- 
 nent part at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and was 
 very active in the attack on Clinton at Monmouth Court House. 
 Washington spoke of him as "an honest man and a warm friend to 
 his country " — an encomium which any soldier might have envied. 
 
 Colonel Matthias Ogden, the commander of the First Regiment, 
 was also in Arnold's expedition, and he was wounded at the storm- 
 ing of the heights of Quebec. He was at that time but twenty-one 
 years of age. He held an active command during the entire war. 
 
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 Colonel Israel Shreve, of the Second Regiment, was a true and 
 reliable soldier, and in this campaign it will be seen he was greatly 
 trusted. He, too, fought through the War until the liberties of the 
 country were secured, and then, with his axe and his rifle, he emi- 
 grated to the then far west, to begin his life as a citizen among the 
 wild scenes he witnessed in this expedition. 
 
 Colonel Elias Dayton was one of the most gallant officers of the 
 line. He had seen some service in the old French War, and he 
 brought to his duties as Colonel of the Third Regiment much mili- 
 tary experience. He fought through the whole war, receiving, 
 near its close, the commission of a general officer. He always 
 distinguished himself in battle, and ever enjoyed the confidence of 
 his superiors in command. 
 
 Colonel Oliver Spencer commanded a regiment largely made up 
 of Jerscymen, organized independent of State aid, under the 
 special care of Congress. He, too, was only discharged when 
 peace was declared. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel David Brearley was a soldier, a law counsel- 
 lor, and a judge of eminently legal mind and high personal char- 
 acter. He was called, as will hereafter be seen, even from this 
 campaign, to take upon him the duties of Chief Justice of the 
 State. His diary, still extant, is a curious mingling, for months, of 
 drilling his regiment to-day, brisk skirmish with the red-coats the 
 next day, and the third day opening some Court of Oyer and 
 Terminer. 
 
 Lieutenant- Colonel William De Hart was a lawyer of Elizabeth 
 Town, and he, with two other patriotic brothers, joined the Ameri- 
 can army. He was considered a brave officer. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Barber was a teacher at Elizabeth 
 Town when the war broke out, but he stepped forth as a soldier at 
 the beginning of the contest and was made Lieutenant-Colonel of 
 the Third Regiment. He fought well at Brandy wine, German- 
 
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 town and Monmouth, where he received- a severe wound. On this 
 campaign he was detailed as the Adjutant-General on General Sul- 
 livan's staff. It was the sad fate of this intelligent and beloved 
 soldier to be killed by a falling tree, at New Windsor, New York, 
 February nth, 1783. 
 
 Captain Aaron Ogden, of the First Regiment, was detailed from 
 his company as an Aide-de-camp to General Maxwell. He was a 
 brother of Colonel Ogden, was a very gallant officer, and in after 
 years became a tried and true statesman. He served in many staff 
 positions during the war, with Generals Lord Stirling and Max- 
 well, received great commendation for services at the siege of 
 Yorktown, where he commanded a light infantry company in La- 
 fayette's Corps, and was, after the war, a United States Senator, 
 and then Governor of New Jersey. 
 
 In these Jersey organizations we find the names of Forman, 
 Gumming, Rhea, Bishop, Shute, Reading, Doughty, Elmer, Bar- 
 net, Gordon, Mott, Gifford, Anderson, Norcross, Van Cleve, 
 Kinney, Patterson, Dickerson, Phillips, Seeley, Hollinshead, Hal- 
 sey, the descendants of whom still live in New Jersey. The best 
 blood of the State was represented in these brave Continentals, 
 and proud is the Commonwealth of the worthy deeds and heroic 
 service of her Jersey Blues. 
 
 On the nth day of May, the First New Jersey Regiment broke 
 camp at Elizabeth Town and marched across the State to Easton. 
 They reported to General Sullivan on his arrival there on the 
 morning of May 19th. Colonel Thomas Procter, with his artillery 
 battalion, consisting of two six-pounders, four three-pounders, two 
 howitzers and one coehorn mortar, joined them the next day. In 
 the diaries of Jerseymen in this campaign, it is evident that the 
 men of Procter's Artillery and of Maxwell's Brigade were always 
 together at their camp-fires and at the bivouac. The Third New 
 Jersey Regiment arrived in Easton May 26th. Colonel Spencer's 
 
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 Regiment, in the meantime, had gone into camp at Tunkhanna, 
 where Colonel Van Cortlandt, of the Second New York Regiment, 
 was in command. On the 29th of May, General Sullivan rode to 
 the village to inspect these two regiments, returning to Easton the 
 next day, having ordered Colonel Spencer's men to Locust Hill. 
 
 On May 29th, the Second New Jersey Regiment left Elizabeth 
 Town about noon, escorted out of the village by many of the lead- 
 ing citizens of that place and of Newark. During the previous 
 winter, they had spent much of their time in Newark, and on 
 their leaving for the western expedition an elegant entertainment 
 was spread for the officers, and an address presented to Colonel 
 Shreve by Dr. William Burnet, Jr., on behalf of the citizens of the 
 place. Colonel Shreve replied in a very handsome letter. The 
 diary of Lieutenant Samuel M. Shute, gives an interesting list of 
 the ladies and gentlemen who thus honored the organization as 
 they passed away on their perilous campaign. The regiment 
 marched by the forks of the Raritan, to Pittstown and Masquene- 
 cunk, reaching Easton on June 5th. 
 
 On the ist of the month. Colonel Ogden marched his men to 
 the rendezvous at Wyoming, which place he reached on Friday, 
 June 4th, one company only of his regiment having been left at 
 Easton in charge of the horses and baggage of the command. 
 
 On the morning of June 8th, General Maxwell reviewed the 
 Second and Third Regiments, and their appearance, their drill 
 and discipline, met his strong approbation. 
 
 Colonel Spencer's Jersey Regiment, during this time, had been 
 doing good service with the Second New York Regiment and the 
 First New Hampshire Regiment, in cutting a wide road to Wyom- 
 ing and in improving the bridges. On the last day of May, Gen- 
 eral Sullivan returned his thanks in general orders to these regi- 
 ments for their "unparalleled exertions in clearing and repairing 
 the road to Wyoming." On the 7th day of June, they left Locust 
 
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 Hill camp and passed on to a valley called the Shades of Death ; 
 on the 1 2th instant, to Bullox' farm, and reached Wyoming on 
 June 14th. 
 
 Captain Giles Mead's Company of the First Regiment, with the 
 horses and baggage of the brigade, and the convalescent sick under 
 charge of Surgeon's Mate Jacob Harris, left Easton at noon of 
 June 9th, and reached Wyoming June 12th. They found their 
 regiment snugly camped in huts made of bushes, on the banks of 
 the Susquehanna river. The Second and Third Regiments were 
 still at Easton. On June 14th, they had the pleasure of seeing 
 Lady Washington arrive in the town, and the next morning Gen- 
 erals Sullivan and Maxwell accompanied her on horseback some 
 nine miles, as far as Bethlehem. 
 
 At three o'clock on the morning of June i8th, the gun fired, 
 and within an hour the whole army which had gathered at Easton 
 started for Wyoming, marching the first day twelve miles to Hil- 
 liard's tavern. The next day they marched through Wind Gap, 
 in the Blue Mountains, and on Monday, June 21st, after a day of 
 much toil over muddy roads, with many broken wagons and ex- 
 hausted horses, they halted at what they called " Fatigue Camp." 
 On the 23d of June, about twelve o'clock m.. General Sullivan 
 with his army, after a six days' march of sixty miles from the 
 Delaware river, descended the last hill and camped in the valley 
 of Wyoming. 
 
 This settlement, before the massacre, had been a most charming 
 spot. It consisted, it is said, of several distinct villages containing 
 over twelve hundred houses, some of them beautiful in their struc- 
 ture, and the homes of intelligent men. All this had been ruined 
 by the hand of the merciless savage, and deep and loud was the 
 cry for revenge when the soldiers saw the ruins of this paradise in 
 the wilderness. 
 
 On the 24th of June, Colonel Ogden's Regiment was ordered to 
 
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 march down the river thirty miles, to Fort Jenkins, to guard the 
 boats with provisions there and convoy them to Wyoming. They 
 marched to Shawnee Flats, a ruined town, that night, and the next 
 evening encamped on the river bank in sight of a stockade fort, 
 built on high ground. This fort was garrisoned by one hundred 
 men under Captain Abraham G. Claypoole, of the Eleventh Penn- 
 sylvania Regiment. The only armament of the fort was a coehorn 
 mortar. At eight o'clock on Saturday, June 26th, the regiment 
 left Fort Jenkins in charge of sixty provision boats for the army. 
 They had great difficulty in getting them over the Nescopec Falls, 
 being detained all day in drawing them up one by one with ropes. 
 On Monday they got them over Nantecoke Falls, and rested on 
 Shawnee Flats that night, only four miles from Wyoming. In the 
 early part of the next morning, the First Regiment completed this 
 tour of duty, and found the commissary depot at Wyoming with 
 scarcely a day's ration in store. 
 
 General Maxwell ordered all the fire-locks of his brigade to be 
 thoroughly cleaned June 30th. The next afternoon the whole 
 army witnessed the execution of Michael Rosebrugh, of Phillips- 
 burg, New Jersey, who had been condemned by a court-martial at 
 Easton, over which General Maxwell presided, for enticing soldiers 
 to desert to the enemy. 
 
 On July 2d, Colonel Charles Armand's Independent Corps, 
 which had been stationed at Wyoming for some time, was ordered 
 to report to General Washington at New Windsor, New York, and 
 Lieutenant-Colonel David Brearley, of the First Regiment, having 
 been chosen Chief Justice of New Jersey, June loth, accompanied 
 them. He opened court in Freehold, New Jersey, July 27th. 
 
 A complete muster of General Maxwell's Brigade took place 
 July 3d. In the evening of that day, the officers all met at the 
 tents of their respective regimental commanders and drank toasts 
 to the health of their sweethearts and their wives. 
 
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 On Sunday, Independence Day, the Rev. Andrew Hunter, 
 Chaplain of the New Jersey Brigade, preached to the troops» 
 Thirty boats were also sent down the river for provisions. On 
 Monday evening parade, the promotion of Captain John HoUins- 
 head, of the Second Regiment, to be Major of the Third Regi- 
 ment, was announced to the brigade. 
 
 On the next Friday, Lieutenant-Colonel Adam Hubley's Elev- 
 enth Pennsylvania Regiment arrived with forty-three boat-loads of 
 stores. But even this was insufficient, and a party was made up 
 from the Second New Jersey Regiment, with Captain John N. 
 Cumming in command, and First Lieutenant Luther Halsey and 
 Second Lieutenant John Peck accompanying him, to go down the 
 river one hundred and twenty miles, and bring up another lot of 
 provision boats. On the 13th instant, Lieutenant-Colonel John 
 Conway, of the Third New Jersey Regiment, started out some few 
 miles from Wyoming to endeavor to bring to battle some Indians 
 who had been annoying the camp for several days. 
 
 On the 17th day of July, General Sullivan received the New 
 Jersey officers at his tent, and they partook of his hospitality. On 
 July 20th, Captain Nathaniel Bowman, of the First Regiment, 
 brought to camp two hundred and seventy head of cattle, and 
 three hundred boats came up with provisions from Sunbury. This 
 very day the stealthy Indian was devastating the lovely village of 
 Minisink, in Orange county. New York, and in the fight which 
 followed was carrying death among the best families of that beauti- 
 ful region. 
 
 On July 2ist, eight hundred cattle, five hundred horses and a 
 large number of wagons arrived, and all the stores for the Jersey 
 troops reached their camp. Captain Aaron Ogden, Aide-de-camp 
 to General Sullivan, being in charge. Clothing was still but 
 poorly supplied, and Sullivan, in one of his letters this day, said 
 that more than one-third of his men had no shirts. The next day 
 
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 the Second Jersey Regiment made its second visit to Shawnee 
 Flats, to bring up more of the boats which were now overdue. 
 They arrived on Saturday, one hundred and twelve in number, 
 under the guard of Captain Cumming's party. Thirty guns were 
 fired on their arrival at camp. 
 
 On the morning of July 29th, the remains of Captain Joseph 
 Davis, of the new Eleventh Pennsylvania Continental Regiment, 
 and Second Lieutenant William Jones, of Captain Allen McLane's 
 Partizan Company, Delaware Line, (then assigned to duty with the 
 new Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment,) who had been killed by the 
 Indians on the 23d of April, were again properly interred with 
 masonic ceremonies. The recital of the brutal murder of these 
 men by the prowling savages greatly affected the army. 
 
 They had now arrived at the end of their long six weeks' delay 
 in gathering clothing, stores, horses, cattle and ammunition for 
 their perilous march into an unknown and hostile country. Two 
 hundred and fourteen boats had been retained, four hundred and fifty 
 boatmen had been enrolled, and two hundred and fifty soldiers de- 
 tailed to attend particularly to keeping up the supplies for the army. 
 The full strength of the army, of every rank and grade, is now esti- 
 mated to have been two thousand five hundred and thirty-nine men. 
 
 It appears that the authorities of the Board of War thought Sulli- 
 van asked for more supplies than were necessary, but the cattle he 
 received were poor, the meats, packed in barrels of green timber, 
 were some of them spoiled, and he thought it all-important to 
 carry with him such commissary supplies as would serve the men 
 to the last extremity. Even now he felt in issuing marching orders 
 that he was doing a hazardous thing. 
 
 This delay, although seemingly annoying, brought the corn to 
 such a condition that its destruction just before harvest made it 
 more severely felt. It also allowed Colonel Brodhead to start up 
 the Allegheny river, so as to create a diversion in favor of Sulli- 
 
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 van's column. May not this delay have been part of the very plan 
 of Washington ? These weeks at Wyoming were certainly well 
 improved by General Sullivan, for by daily drills he was enabled 
 to embody a compact and well-disciplined force, which proved 
 itself efficient from the very hour of its advance. 
 
 The last day of July arrived, and the order to march had been 
 announced, and soon after noon the guns at the fort fired thirteen 
 times. Colonel Procter's guns on the fleet of boats responded, 
 and the army started out on its mission of destruction into the 
 country of the Senecas and Cayugas. Colonel Zebulon Butler, 
 with eight officers and one hundred men, was left at Wyoming as 
 a guard, and instructed to gather and forward supplies. 
 
 General Hand with his troops, equipped in light marching order, 
 took the advance of nearly a mile. About twelve hundred horses 
 were behind him, laden with flour and provisions, then seven hun- 
 dred cattle followed. On the right flank were General Maxwell's 
 Jerseymen, and on the left Poor's Brigade. A regiment of the 
 New Jersey Brigade was the rear guard, relieved, from time to 
 time, by a regiment of the New Hampshire Continentals. Captain 
 William Giffbrd, of the Third New Jersey Regiment, took his 
 company up the west side of the river, to prevent the surprise of 
 the army from that direction, and he was accompanied on the 
 river by four boats to rescue him if attacked by too large a party. 
 He was not molested. 
 
 The column advanced that day ten miles, and camped on the 
 upper bank of the Lackawanna river in the midst of a severe rain 
 storm. It was not until three o'clock in the afternoon of the next 
 day that the army started, and although fine camping-ground was 
 found by the advance at Quailutimack, soon after sunset, the entire 
 force did not reach there until the morning of August 2d. The 
 passage over a mountainous country during the night caused much 
 annoyance and the loss of considerable flour, which fell from the 
 
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 loaded horses. The boats, too, had great trouble in ascending the 
 numerous falls, so that it was not until Tuesday, August 3d, that 
 they marched another twelve miles to Tunkhanna. On Wednes- 
 day the soldiers had a fatiguing march through Walnut Bottom, over 
 Indian Hill, and suffering greatly with the heat, until they reached 
 Van der Lippe's farm. The next day they had a march of like 
 character, all day, through tangled groves of enormous button- 
 wood and black walnut, six to nine feet in diameter, until they 
 arrived at the beautiful Moravian village of sixty houses called 
 Wyalusing. This is now in Bradford county. It was situated 
 on a perfectly flat tract of land of twelve hundred acres, very rich 
 and covered with tall blue grass. After this day's toil. Sergeant 
 Martin Johnson of Captain John Hollinshead's Company, Second 
 New Jersey Regiment, died very suddenly in camp. It rained 
 that night fearfully, and General Sullivan, overcome with anxiety 
 and labor, was taken very ill. 
 
 The next morning, because of Sullivan's sickness, General Max- 
 well issued his orders assuming temporary command of the expe- 
 dition, and this position he retained about a week. Colonel Elias 
 Dayton, of the Third Regiment, the ranking officer, took charge 
 of the Jersey Continentals. On Sunday, August 8th, the army 
 moved at five o'clock a. m., General Sullivan being carried by boat 
 to Standing Stone, ten miles. General Hand's Brigade went to 
 Wysox creek, three miles beyond. Next day, the column passed 
 through a narrow foot-path over Break Neck Hill, losing many 
 pack-horses and cattle. The First New Jersey Regiment reached 
 Queen Esther's Flats at four o'clock p. m., a few miles only from 
 Tioga, being without provisions, and the men suffering greatly with 
 hunger and with the discomfort caused by continual rains. The 
 main army marched to Sheshequin, Colonel Spencer's men guard- 
 ing the rear column. Colonel Procter, by direct command of 
 General Maxwell, here lit the first avenging torch, and burned a 
 small abandoned Indian town called Newtychanning. 
 
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 On Tuesday, the Third New Jersey Regiment was pushed forward 
 to Tioga, and the First Regiment went out about noon on a recon- 
 noissance. The whole army then, with the greatest difficulty, forded 
 the Susquehanna river, which was very rapid and somewhat deep at 
 this place. The Second New Jersey Regiment and the Second New 
 York Regiment covered the passage of the army in the stream, as 
 the men marched all linked together, to keep each other from 
 drowning. They then passed over Tioga Plain, near the spot 
 where stood what was called Queen Esther's palace, destroyed by 
 Colonel Hartley the previous year. This infamous woman figured 
 in the dreadful massacres of 1778. Her acts of inhuman butchery,, 
 as fully described in the history of those events, brand her name 
 with eternal infamy. At seven o'clock p. m., Captain John N. 
 Camming, Second New Jersey Regiment, Captain John Franklin, 
 of the Wyoming Militia Company, and Lieutenant John Jenkins, 
 of Captain Spalding's Wyoming Company, the guide to the expe- 
 dition, with five soldiers, set out to reconnoit7-e the village of Che- 
 mung, where some armed opposition was expected. The army 
 camped that night on a point of land between the Seneca and 
 Tioga branches. 
 
 Captain Gumming and his party reported, about three o'clock in 
 the afternoon of August 12th, that the Indians were in great confu- 
 sion in and about Chemung, and evidently preparing to move off. It 
 was determined by General Sullivan, who now was able to assume 
 command, to march immediately with the army, and this was 
 done about sunset. The same order of march was preserved of 
 Hand's Light Corps on the advance. Poor's Brigade on the right. 
 Maxwell's Jerseymen on the left of the column. All the sick men 
 were left behind at Tioga, and some of Colonel Ogden's New 
 Jersey Regiment remained to protect them and to build two block- 
 houses with picket protections, according to the instructions given 
 by General Washington in his letter of May 31st, 1779. All the 
 
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 tents of the army were left standing, with all the baggage of the 
 expedition. 
 
 It appears that the different brigades, during the intensely dark 
 night that followed, were somewhat scattered, and General Hand's 
 party got off on the wrong route. The Jersey Brigade entered 
 Old Chemung at sunrise the next day, but found it deserted and 
 they destroyed it. General Hand's men pressed on in the Indian 
 path, and started up a party of forty savages in ambuscade and 
 charged them with the bayonet. They soon fled, but they killed 
 six of Hand's soldiers and wounded nine others, among whom were 
 Captain Andrew Walker, Captain Henry Carbery, and Lieutenant 
 and Adjutant William Huston, of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regi- 
 ment. 
 
 The village of New Chemung, consisting of fifty huts, was the 
 next town burned, and the Second New Jersey Regiment, crossing 
 the Tioga river, although fired upon, destroyed four large corn- 
 fields with more than one thousand bushels of corn. This being 
 completed, the army returned, very weary, to their Tioga camp, 
 after forty miles digression and twenty-four hours constant duty. 
 
 On Sunday afternoon, August isth, the Second New Jersey 
 Regiment, under Colonel Shreve, was sent out to stir up a 
 party of Indians who were hovering around the camp and 
 doing some damage, but they fled on the near approach of the 
 troops. On Monday morning nine hundred men of General 
 Poor's and General Hand's Brigades left the camp to meet 
 General Clinton's command, which had been expected for more 
 than a week, and it was feared had met with some mishap from 
 the savages. Lieutenant-Colonel Hubley now assumed command 
 of the advance corps of the main army. On Wednesday, August 
 i8th, Poor's detachment heard Clinton's evening gun, fired 
 regardless of the prowling Indians. The next morning the party 
 joined them, and they all reported to General Sullivan, at Tioga, 
 
2 2 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 about ten o'clock, August 2 2d, with bands playing and a salute 
 from the artillery. This made an additional force to the grand 
 army of sixteen hundred men, with a quantity of stores and two 
 hundred and ten boats. 
 
 Brigadier-General James Clinton's brigade consisted of: 
 Third New York Regiment, Colonel Peter Gansevoort, Jr. 
 Fourth New York Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Fred- 
 erick Von Weissenfels. 
 Fifth New York Regiment, Colonel Lewis Dubois. 
 Sixth Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Major Daniel Whiting. 
 Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel William 
 
 Butler. 
 Battalion of six companies of Morgan's Riflemen, Major 
 
 James Parr. 
 An independent command of volunteers, Colonel John 
 Harper, of New York. 
 A new arrangement of the army was now made. Colonel 
 Philip Van Cortlandt's Second New York Regiment was now 
 assigned to General Clinton's brigade; Colonel Ichabod Alden's 
 Sixth Massachusetts Bay Regiment, Major Whiting in command, 
 was transferred to General Poor's brigade, and Lieutenant-Colonel 
 William Butler's Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment and Major James 
 Parr's Riflemen to General Hand's Light Corps. Two hundred 
 picked men, under the command of Colonel Matthias Ogden, of 
 the First New Jersey, were selected as the left flanking party. 
 
 An unfortunate accident with a loaded gun caused the death 
 just at this time of a splendid officer of the First New Hampshire 
 Regiment, Captain Benjamin Kimball, Paymaster of the Regi- 
 ment. The next day, under the orders of General Sullivan, 
 Colonel Israel Shreve, of the Second New Jersey Regiment, took 
 command of the fort which had been erected at Tioga, called 
 Fort Sullivan. Two hundred and fifty men were left with him to 
 
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 protect the invalids in hospital, the baggage and the stores. He 
 had two six-pounders in the four blockhouses which constituted 
 the fort. General Sullivan selected one of his most reliable 
 officers for this important post, when he entrusted its safety to the 
 brave and sturdy Colonel Shreve. 
 
 For nearly a week the army had been annoyed with heavy and 
 unceasing rain, and it was not until two o'clock in the afternoon 
 of August 26th that the column marched away from Tioga. Three 
 Oneida Indians now went with them as guides. They made but 
 four miles the first day, and camped at Tioga flats on the border 
 of Cayuga creek. The next day they marched only six miles. The 
 path was full of difficult passes, where cannon and wagons could 
 be taken through only with the greatest labor. The army here 
 lost a large quantity of commissary supplies. The Jersey brigade, 
 instead of going over the mountains, forded the river twice, and 
 closed the day with burning one hundred acres of corn. On 
 Saturday, August 28th, the army went through the same experi- 
 ence, climbing mountains, fording streams, losing stores, horses 
 being drowned, ammunition wagons destroyed. That night they 
 discovered that the Indians were near them, and they kept a 
 very watchful guard. 
 
 About eleven o'clock on Sunday, August 29th, while the army 
 was on the march, Major James Parr, of the Rifle Battalion, dis- 
 covered the Indian force in ambush in his front, on a bend of the 
 Chemung river. He was fired upon and immediately began to 
 feel for the position of the foe. He soon found that they had 
 erected a breastwork of logs, concealed by small saplings, and 
 about half a mile in extent, from the mountain to what is now 
 called Baldwin's creek. The whole army immediately halted and 
 General Sullivan called a council of war. A plan of attack was 
 soon decided on. General Poor was directed to march his brigade 
 secretly about three miles around the mountain and get in on the 
 
24 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 left flank and rear of the enemy. General Clinton's brigade was 
 then directed in the same quiet way to follow, and if necessary to 
 support the advance of Poor's troops. General Hand's brigade 
 was pushed up to the front to sustain the artillery. General Max- 
 well's men were held in reserve to support Hand's light corps. 
 Colonel Matthias Ogden took his Jersey party of picked men to 
 the extreme left of Sullivan's line. The artillery opened slowly, 
 firing with shell and round shot on the breastwork, so as to divert 
 the attention of the Indians and the Tories from the more import- 
 ant movement of Poor then being executed. The firing of the 
 howitzers annoyed the foe terribly, for it was an arm they had not 
 been accustomed to. Sullivan called it an "elegant cannonade," 
 and it certainly produced a panic. Several times General Hand's 
 men received the fierce sallies of the savages and as often drove 
 them back to their ambush with a galling fire. But it was not 
 long before the hostile Indians discovered the New Hampshire 
 soldiers on their flank, and on their attempting to ascend the 
 mountain they were greeted with a severe fire and hideous yells. 
 The mountain seemed full of savages, but Poor's men did not heed 
 them, and they dashed up under a raking fire. The Indians, as 
 soon as they discovered that their plans had surely failed, fled 
 rapidly, leaving a large quantity of blankets, packs, tomahawks, 
 and much plunder. General Hand's troops followed them, rap- 
 idly, some two miles. Twelve Indians were left dead on the field ; 
 their wounded had all been carried away. The Continental Army 
 had five killed and thirty-two wounded, among the latter being 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Barber, of New Jersey, Adjutant- 
 General of General Sullivan, Major Benjamin Titcomb and Cap- 
 tain Elijah Hayes, both of the Second New Hampshire Regiment, 
 and Lieutenant Nathaniel McCauley, of the First New Hampshire 
 Regiment. The Captain and Lieutenant died next day. The 
 hostile force, it appears, consisted of about four hundred Tories 
 
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 •under Sir John Johnson, Colonel John Butler and his son, Captain 
 Walter N. Butler, with about one thousand Indians under Joseph 
 Brant. This engagement is recorded in history as the battle of 
 Newtown, and it took place on what is now the site of the city of 
 Elmira, New York. On the evening of the fight, four towns in the 
 vicinity of the battle-field were destroyed. 
 
 On Monday, the 30th inst., all the wounded men, with four of 
 the heavy guns, were sent in boats to Tioga, and the army buried 
 its dead. Sullivan's army had now, with the advance column, four 
 brass three-pounders and a small howitzer. The commander of 
 the expedition, in orders read at the head of each regiment, 
 returned thanks to his soldiers for the signal victory which they 
 had gained in the fight. He also suggested to the men that here- 
 after there be issued but a half ration of beef and of flour and of 
 spirits, instead of the full ration to which they were entitled. No 
 opposition from a single officer or soldier was made to this action, 
 and it was adopted as the rule of the commissary department for 
 twenty-five days thereafter. General Sullivan promised that if 
 they would thus eke out their rations, the commutation value 
 thereof should be paid them. The First Jersey Regiment was sent 
 out to look for the dead Indians of the fight, and for live Indians 
 skulking near the camp. The rest of the army began a total 
 destruction of the corn-fields, the beans, potatoes, turnips and 
 other vegetables with which this section of the country abounded. 
 
 On Tuesday the army broke camp and advanced ten miles up 
 the Chemung river, over a mountainous district. Two towns, 
 called Middletown and Kanawlohalla, were then burned. Colonel 
 Dayton, with the Third New Jersey Regiment and a detachment 
 of riflemen, were sent forward to follow up an Indian trail. They 
 followed it several miles, but failed to strike the enemy. Colonel 
 Dayton could only add to the number of the burning towns and 
 burning fields. He destroyed Runonvea, near Big Flats. 
 
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 The next morning, September ist, Colonel Dayton and his 
 party returned to camp, and at nine o'clock A. M. the army 
 marched to Sheoquaga, or Catharine's Town, about thirteen miles. 
 
 This day's march was a terrible one to the men. High moun- 
 tains had to be ascended, thick underbrush had to be passed 
 through, deep swamps, with mud and mire to the knees, had to be 
 waded across. Six miles of this swamp-land was strewn at night 
 with the provisions and the baggage of an army. Indeed, the 
 pack-horses were plunging through this swamp the most of the 
 night, and Clinton's brigade, in charge of them, did not report 
 until the next morning. Strange, indeed, that the Indians did not 
 take advantage of this terrible march to punish the Continentals. 
 The men were weary with that day's march, and they were glad 
 enough to get to old Catharine's Town, the first village of the 
 Seneca nation, and only abandoned the previous day. It took all 
 the following day to collect the horses scattered on the weary 
 march and the stores which had fallen by the wayside. 
 
 A march of twelve miles, from nine in the morning until five 
 o'clock in the afternoon, was made on Friday, September 3d, and 
 a camp was formed in the woods on the north side of Seneca Lake. 
 Lieutenant-Colonel William S. Smith, of Spencer's Regiment, was 
 detailed with a party to reconnoitre the vicinity for the foe before 
 the nightfall. Although they had certainly been in the neighbor- 
 hood a few hours previous, none were now discovered. It was 
 nearly noon the next day when the army commenced the march 
 of thirteen miles northward, through two narrow defiles, to Con- 
 dawhaw, a small Indian town. It was destroyed. 
 
 On Sunday, September 5th, they camped in Kendaia, or Apple- 
 town, a village of thirty well-built houses on the east side of the lake. 
 This was a very old and substantial town, and built on high ground. 
 The army was this evening ordered to discharge their firelocks and 
 to reload. The fusilade occasioned by this order had a very singu- 
 lar effect, accompanied as it was with the burning of the town. 
 
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 On Monday, Major John Hollinshead, of the Third New Jersey 
 Regiment, and Lieutenant William Barton, of the First Regiment, 
 set out with a party to collect the horses and cattle, which had 
 strayed away in the woods during the night. The pea-vines which 
 covered the country attracted the animals, and they had wandered 
 off for food. A three-mile march to what is known as Indian* 
 Hollow was all that could be made that day by the troops. 
 
 On Tuesday, September yth, Sullivan's men marched twelve 
 miles to Kanadaseaga, near the present city of Geneva. This 
 place was also called Seneca Castle, being one of the principal 
 settlements of the tribe, and containing the capitol-house of the 
 Six Nations. There were sixty good houses here, the remains of a 
 blockhouse built in 1756 by Sir William Johnson during the French 
 War, and with some thirty houses in the immediate vicinity, sur- 
 rounded with large orchards of the peach and apple, with gardens 
 well supplied with ripe vegetables, with abundance of corn and 
 melohs and beans and potatoes. No defence of this beautiful' 
 village was made, and it was burned. It was useless, the Indians 
 thought, to resist the determined pressure of the Continental sol- 
 diery into the very heart of their country. 
 
 Three detachments were sent out to destroy towns the next day. 
 Colonel John Harper commanded one, and he marched ten miles 
 and burned Scawyace, eighteen buildings, now called Waterloo, at 
 that time an important settlement of the Cayuga tribe. Another 
 party Lieutenant-Colonel William S. Smith, of Spencer's Regi- 
 ment, commanded, and he burned a village on the west side of the 
 lake. Major James Parr and his riflemen burned Gothseungquean, 
 with its twenty huts, located on the side of Kershong creek. 
 Meanwhile the rest of the army was quiet in camp. 
 
 The early morning of September 9th witnessed the torch applied 
 to the Castle town and the reduction of the place to blackened 
 ruins. This accomplished, the day's march of eight miles com- 
 
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 menced, leading through a black-ash swamp, damaging again to 
 the horses and to the artillery and the stores. Before, however, 
 the swamp was entered, Captain John Reed, of Sixth Massachusetts 
 Regiment, with fifty men, was detailed to return to Kanawlohalla 
 with the invalids and all the horses unable to carry their packs. 
 The army, except General Clinton's Brigade, crossed Flint creek 
 that evening and encamped on high ground. 
 
 On Friday, September loth, after' passing through another 
 swamp, they crossed the outlet of Genesee Lake to Kanandaigua, 
 a neat village of thirty huts, which before dark was totally 
 destroyed. The Jersey Brigade left there at five o'clock in the 
 morning of the next day, the main army about two hours after- 
 ward, and, taking a westerly course, they marched fourteen miles 
 to Hanneyaye. A fine soldier, named Hugh McCabe, of Captain 
 Gifford's Company, of the Third New Jersey Regiment, died here 
 September nth, from fever and exhaustion. Here a garrison of 
 fifty effective men, under Captain John N. Gumming, of the Sec- 
 ond New Jersey Regiment, was left. They gave him in charge, as 
 one journal says, of "the lame and the lazy," in all about three 
 hundred men, with all the supernumerary baggage, some provisions, 
 horses and cattle, and one field-piece. It was now General Sulli- 
 van's purpose to lighten his troops and make a final quick dash 
 into the enemy's country. Captain Gumming was the right man 
 to leave at such an important post. He was an officer of great 
 personal bravery, soldierly in appearance, self-reliant, quick and 
 fertile in expedients, and thoroughly true to the American cause. 
 He was a patriot soldier from the first hour of the war to its very 
 close. 
 
 The army marched at a late hour on Sunday, September 12th, 
 delayed by a storm, with severe thunder and lightning. They 
 marched twelve miles and camped in the woods two miles from the 
 abandoned village of Kanaghsaws. About midnight a party, con- 
 
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 sisting of First Lieutenant Thomas Boyd, of First Pennsylvania 
 Regiment, now on duty with Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, with 
 Jehoiakim, a Stockbridge Indian, and Hanyerry, an Oneida In- 
 dian, as guides, and a party of soldiers, in all twenty-six men, 
 started out to reconnoitre some neighboring Indian villages, 
 especially Gathtsegwarohare, a town of twenty-five huts on Cana- 
 seraga creek and seven miles from Sullivan's camp. Lieutenant 
 Boyd the next day discovered some Indians. He gave chase, was 
 lured into the enemy's lines, and found himself surrounded by 
 Butler's Tory army. The fight which ensued was a stubborn con- 
 test, in which three Indians were killed and Boyd lost his Oneida 
 guide and fourteen of his riflemen. The Lieutenant and Corporal 
 Michael Parker were made prisoners. They were taken to Little 
 Beardstown and tortured and slain. The rest of the party escaped, 
 including Jehoiakim, the Stockbridge Indian, and they told the 
 sad tale of the fate of their comrades. 
 
 On the Tuesday following, the bodies of Boyd and Parker were 
 found, showing that they had been tied and whipped, their nails 
 torn out, tongues and noses cut off, eyes plucked out, part of their 
 bodies skinned, pierced with darts and beheaded. They were 
 interred with full military honors. 
 
 On Monday, September 14th, the light troops had marched 
 quickly to what they hoped was the relief of Lieutenant Boyd and 
 his men, but the enemy had gone in a hasty manner, leaving 
 seventy of their packs. The army camped that night at Adjutoa. 
 They found much plunder in this town. Captain Benjamin Lodge, 
 the surveyor of the army, was here engaged in rebuilding a bridge 
 over a creek, which the hostiles had destroyed. The Indians fired 
 on him in the act. At noon the whole army were in marching 
 order, and after crossing a small creek they entered a magnificent 
 plain of some fifteen thousand acres on Genesee river, and at night 
 reached Genesee Castle, capital of the Seneca nation. This was a 
 
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 beautiful town of about one hundred and thirty-five houses. In 
 the centre of the wigwams was the grand council-house, built of 
 <iressed logs, two stories in height, and the ends of the building 
 colored a brilliant red. A party of two thousand men was here 
 detailed, at sunset, to destroy corn in the fields along the river. 
 They worked at it until midnight. 
 
 The next day the whole army, except the guards, took up the 
 torch, and between the burning and throwing into the river it was 
 ■estimated that over twenty thousand bushels of corn were destroyed. 
 The town was burned at three o'clock in the afternoon. 
 
 General Sullivan then issued his orders to his brave and resolute 
 army, informing them that the immediate objects of the expedition 
 had been accomplished, that many Indian settlements had been 
 ruined, and crops destroyed — crops which were intended for the 
 support of the inhuman barbarians and those who were desolating 
 the frontiers of America — and that this day the army should com- 
 mence its return march to Tioga. 
 
 Just as the army was about to start, John Du Croy, a fine soldier 
 of Captain Cumming's Company in the Second New Jersey Regi- 
 ment, died from the effect of fatigue and the illness which resulted. 
 Reports reached the camp here that the Indians were in great 
 confusion and many eager for peace. The army, not having the 
 supplies necessary to penetrate to the post at Niagara, then faced 
 about, recrossed the Genesee river, and camped on the Genesee 
 flats. They marched the next day in the old tracks to Kanagh- 
 saws, detachments continually going out from the main column in 
 search of corn-fields fit for destruction. 
 
 On the 17th, Friday, starting at sunrise, the army reached 
 Hanneyaye, and the full ration of flour, of beef and of spirits, of 
 which they had so long been deprived, was again served. Captain 
 Cumming and his party were found all safe in a complete bfock- 
 house which the little garrison had erected and had named Fort 
 
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 •Cumraing. On Saturday the troops marched to Kanandaigua, 
 meeting three friendly Oneida Indians, who were greatly rejoiced 
 over the defeat of the Senecas. Sunday's march was to Kanada- 
 seaga, the present site of Geneva. 
 
 On Monday, September 20th, a detachment of five hundred men, 
 including Major James Parr's Rifle Battalion, was sent out under 
 command of Lieutenant-Colonel William Butler, of the Fourth 
 Pennsylvania Regiment, to move up on the east side of Cayuga 
 Lake and destroy the settlements of the Cayugas. Colonel Peter 
 •Gansevoort, Jr., of Third New York Regiment, was also detached 
 with one hundred men to Fort Stanwix, on the Mohawk river. 
 Another party, under Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dearborn, of 
 Third New Hampshire, with about two hundred men, were ordered 
 to move up on the west side of Cayuga Lake. Lieutenant-Colonel 
 William S. Smith, of Spencer's New Jersey Regiment, with two 
 hundred men, was sent about ten miles to burn towns on the west 
 side of Seneca Lake. 
 
 A march of thirteen miles was made by the main army on Tues- 
 day, September 21st, to a camp on the east side of Seneca Lake. 
 On Wednesday thirteen miles were passed over, and on Thursday 
 at noon the army rested in the valley a few miles from French 
 Catharine's. At this place one hundred horses died, and this fact 
 gave a name to the place, "The Valley of Horseheads." 
 
 An advance party started out at sunrise the next day to repair a 
 road through the big swamp, and when it was finished the army 
 marched on to Kanawlohalla, where a garrison had been left, and 
 where Fort Reed had been built by them. A salute of thirteen 
 guns and welcome cheers greeted the approach of the fatigued 
 troops. They found a quantity of provisions had been brought up 
 in boats from Tioga, twenty-three miles below. This food was 
 greatly needed and much relished. 
 
 Just before sunrise Saturday, September 25th, the army was all 
 
32 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 supplied with blank cartridge, and when they were paraded, a feu 
 de joie, with thirteen-cannon accompaniment, was fired. Cheers 
 were given for Congress, for the United States, for the King of 
 Spain, who had just declared war on Britain. An ox was killed, 
 twenty-five gallons of rum issued to the officers, and the feast, with 
 toasts and dancing, lasted all the night. The detachment of Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel Dearborn came in quite late on Sunday, reporting 
 that they had destroyed five towns and a fine plantation belonging 
 to Hendrick Markle, a Tory. 
 
 Two detachments for destruction started on Monday — one under 
 Lieutenant-Colonel William D'Hart, of the Second New Jersey 
 Regiment, on the south side of the Cayuga river, and the other 
 under Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, Second New York Regi- 
 ment, on the north side. They returned in the evening with 
 much ripe corn and vegetables, after doing all the damage in their 
 power. On Tuesday, Colonel Elias Dayton, with a part of the 
 Jersey Brigade, went on the west side of the Tioga river to burn 
 three hundred acres of corn. Lieutenant-Colonel Butler returned 
 from Cayuga Lake with his detachment, reporting five towns and a. 
 large quantity of food destroyed. Lieutenant-Colonel Dearborn 
 reported that he had burned six Indian villages. 
 
 The army left Fort Reed Wednesday, September 29th, and 
 camped that night three miles below Chemung, where they were 
 joined by Colonel Dayton's command at nine o'clock in the even- 
 ing, he having made a successful tour of duty. 
 
 On Thursday a forward movement was made at nine o'clock, 
 and at five o'clock they heard the cannon sounding from Fort 
 Sullivan at Tioga. The army camped that night on the old 
 ground. General Sullivan wrote a report of the expedition to 
 Congress, from Tioga, dating it September 30th, and showing how 
 carefully and exactly he had carried out the orders of General 
 Washington. Colonel Israel Shreve, the Jersey commander of the 
 
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 post at Tioga, gave the general and field officers of the army an 
 elegant dinner that evening, Colonel Procter's band playing with- 
 out the marquee. The account of the jollification that night, as 
 given in the journals, is very amusing. The soldiers' uniforms, 
 torn by constant traveling through tangled bushes, their heads 
 powdered with flour and faces daubed with paint, made a scene of 
 hilarity which never was forgotten by its participants. 
 
 On Saturday night General Sullivan returned Colonel Shreve's 
 courtesy. The officers dined with him, and a masquerade dance, 
 led by a young Oneida sachem, followed. On Sunday Colonel 
 Shreve assumed command of his old regiment, the garrison of Fort 
 Sullivan returned to their respective organizations, and the fort 
 was destroyed. 
 
 At nine o'clock on Monday, October 4th, the army set out for 
 Wyoming, recrossing Tioga branch and the Susquehanna river. 
 The following day they were ordered to enter the boats, and so go 
 down the river. A party commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel 
 William D'Hart, and with him Major John Hollinshead, Captain 
 John N. Cumming, Captain Richard Cox, Captain Jeremiah Bel- 
 lard, Lieutenant John Blair and Lieutenant Samuel M. Shute, all 
 of the New Jersey Brigade, took charge of the marching men, 
 with the horses and cattle. The boats with the soldiers reached 
 Wyoming on October 7th, at ten a. m., and the Jersey officers and 
 men at three in the afternoon. The New Jersey troops and Proc- 
 ter's men, who seem during the whole campaign to have been con- 
 stant associates and friends, had a great feast that evening. 
 Colonel Zebulon Butler also entertained them, on the evening of 
 October 8th, in a most sumptuous manner. 
 
 On Sunday, October loth, the army left Wyoming at sunrise, 
 Clinton's and Poor's Brigades on the advance, and Maxwell's 
 Brigade with Hand's riflemen guarding the wagons moving slowly 
 in the rear. The several days' journeys thereafter were to Shades 
 
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 of Death, White Oak Run, Brinker's Mills, Hilliard's Tavern, 
 arriving at Easton on Friday, October isth. 
 
 The next morning the New Jersey Brigade, through a committee, 
 sent the following letter to the commander of the expedition : 
 
 Easton, October i6th, 1779. 
 Sir : 
 
 We, the general and field officers of the Jersey Brigade (in their 
 behalf), beg leave to offer your Honour the just tribute of our grate- 
 ful applause for your polite attention to your officers and your 
 unwearied and indefatigable endeavors to serve your country and 
 your army during your command on the Western Expedition. 
 
 We are filled with the most agreeable sensations when we reflect 
 on the important success of this part of the American Army, and 
 the harmony and universal satisfaction that subsisted in it, which, 
 we are convinced, was owing in a great degree to your impartiality 
 and superior abilities. We have the pleasure to assure your Honour 
 that not only the officers, but the soldiers, unanimously approve 
 of your conduct during your present command, and they trust it 
 will be the same in future, whenever they shall have that honour. 
 
 We are, with the greatest respect and esteem. Sir, 
 Your most obedient servants, 
 
 Wm. Maxwell, B. Gen. 
 I. Shreve, Col. 
 Oliver Spencer, Col. 
 Wm. S. Smith, Lt. Col. 
 Wm. D'Hart, Lt. Col. 
 John Conway, Lt. Col. 
 Daniel Piatt, Major. 
 John Ross, Major. 
 
 The Honorable John Sullivan, Esq., Major-General and Com- 
 mander-in-Chief of the Western Army. 
 
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 To this letter the General made this reply : 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 Your very affectionate and pleasing address demands my most 
 sincere and cordial acknowledgments. My constant study has been 
 to show that equal attention to my oflficers and that impartial care 
 to the soldiers of the Western Army which the situation of our affairs 
 would admit. Your testimony of my having been happy enough 
 to convince not only yourselves, but the soldiers whom you com- 
 mand, of the rectitude of my intentions, cannot fail to afford me 
 the most pleasing sensation. 
 
 The harmony which subsisted in the Western Army, amidst the 
 innumerable difficulties it had to encounter, afforded me the high- 
 est pleasure ; and though I cannot reproach myself with any neg- 
 lect in cultivating it, I am in justice bound to acknowledge that it 
 was more owing to that steady and persevering virtue which ani- 
 mated both officers and soldiers, than to any efforts I was able to 
 make. 
 
 Should I be honoured with the command of your brigade, after 
 my arrival at headquarters, permit me to assure you that there are 
 no officers to whom I feel a greater attachment, or soldiers in whom 
 I can place greater confidence. 
 
 Gentlemen, I am, with the greatest regard and esteem, 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 
 John Sullivan. 
 
 On the 17th inst., on Sunday morning, the New Jersey Brigade 
 was mustered, as we find by the official reports. A copy of this 
 muster I have added to this paper. 
 
 It is quite amusing, and in strong contrast to its present well- 
 known hospitality, to note the fact that the inhabitants of Easton, 
 when they heard of the approach of the Western Army, and were 
 assured, from rumor, that these half-starved and ragged men would 
 be ready to pay the highest prices for clothing, for food and for 
 drink, marked up their price-list, and the Jersey Brigade, with 
 
36 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 solemn resolve, determined not to buy a single article in the 
 town. 
 
 On October 21st, General Clinton's Brigade crossed the Dela- 
 ware river into New Jersey, and General Poor's Brigade on the 23d 
 inst. General Maxwell's Brigade, with General Hand's riflemen, 
 crossed on October 26th. The Jersey Brigade camped at Oxford 
 the next evening, and marched thence to Sussex Court-House, to 
 Warrick, Pompton, Morristown, Springfield, Scotch Plains, where 
 they arrived on Friday, November 5th. General Washington was 
 at this time at his headquarters at West Point, but within two weeks 
 thereafter he determined to place the main body of his army in the 
 neighborhood of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and on December ytb 
 we find him at Morristown. The terrible winter of 1779-80 fol- 
 lowed, and the Jersey troops ended the year of toil and distress 
 from heat in the wilds of Pennsylvania, with intense suffering from 
 the cold of that fearful winter. 
 
 The Continental Congress passed a vote of thanks, October 14th, 
 1779, "to Major-General Sullivan and the brave officers and sol- 
 diers under his command, for effectually executing an important 
 expedition against such of the Indian nations as, encouraged by 
 the councils and conducted by the officers of his Britannic Majesty, 
 had perfidiously waged an unprovoked and cruel war against the 
 United States." They also recommended the several States to 
 appoint Thursday, December gth, to be a day of public and solemn 
 thanksgiving. 
 
 General Washington, in general orders from West Point, Octo- 
 ber 17th, congratulated the army on Sullivan's success, and said 
 that the " whole of the soldiery engaged in the expedition merit 
 and have the Commander-in-Chief's warmest acknowledgment for 
 their important services upon this occasion." 
 
 The object of the expedition, as has been said, was to break the 
 great power of the confederacy of the Six Nations and to weaken 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 779. 37 
 
 their alliance to the British Crown. They now felt the power of 
 the white man ; they saw his courage and determination ; they 
 knew what his gunnery meant ; they knew that his impetuous 
 march at any time through their country brought desolation and 
 •death. Forty of their towns had been burned, and more than one 
 hundred and sixty thousand bushels of corn had been destroyed. 
 Colonel Butler, the Tory, compared the expedition to "the driv- 
 ing of a wedge into a stick of wood — nothing stopped or disturbed 
 its motion." 
 
 It may be noted that the expedition had cost the total loss of but 
 forty-two men killed and died, but of the fourteen hundred horses 
 taken on the campaign, but three hundred returned. 
 
 It is also to be stated that Major-General Sullivan, soon after his 
 return from this expedition, his health injured and his family in 
 some financial distress — fretting, too, because of the want of action 
 in Congress in not more fully complying with his requests and his 
 promises — resigned his commission and returned to his home. We 
 find him, however, soon after, active in the councils of the Conti- 
 nental Congress, and a true patriot, ever, in all his official and 
 private life. 
 
 Although the following year the Indians attempted to do some 
 damage to the white man, no such severe massacres as Wyoming 
 or Cherry Valley occurred. As Chief Justice Marshall says, 
 "Although not fully subdued, they were intimidated. They 
 became less terrible; their incursions less formidable, as well as 
 less frequent." The inhuman acts of the savages had been repaid 
 by a stern revenge — a revenge which, while regretted, was still a 
 •dire necessity. The military power had swept with the besom of 
 destruction their fertile fields, their ripening orchards and their 
 homes. From that hour the bitter antagonism began, the red 
 savage was crowded westward, and the civilization which the white 
 man brought was seen in the productive regions of the Susquehanna, 
 
38 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE. 
 
 along the valleys of the Genesee, and around the beautiful lakes of 
 central New York. In the century since these stirring times, the 
 conflict has existed between these opposing races — the contest 
 between the dark deeds of barbarism and the increasing glory of 
 civilization — but may we not hope that in the near future the light 
 of education, of true liberty and Christianity, dissipating all that 
 is cruel and murderous in the heart of the Indian, may bring him 
 up to the high standard of a pure, true, noble manhood. 
 
ROSTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NEW JERSEY BRIGADE, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 WESTERN EXPEDITION 
 
 In 1779. 
 
 GENERAL AND GENERAL'S STAFF. 
 
 WILLIAM MAXWELL, Brigadier-General. 
 
 John Ross, Brigade-Major. 
 
 Aaron Ogden, Aide-de-Camf. 
 
 Nathan Wilkinson, Quartermaster. 
 
 Andrew Hunter, Chaplaiji. 
 
 FIRST NEW JERSEY REGIMENT. 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF. 
 
 Matthias Ogden, - Colonel. 
 
 David Brearley, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
 
 Daniel Piatt, - Major. 
 
 Jacob Piatt, - Adjutant. 
 
 Ephraim Whitlock, - - Adjutant. 
 
 {Appointed in July, 1779, vice Piatt.) 
 
 Peter V. Voorhies, Paymaster. 
 
 Peter Lott, Quartermaster. 
 
 William Barnett, - - Surgeon. 
 
 (He was sick at Elizabeth Town, and did not go with the expedition.) 
 
 Jacob Harris, - - Surgeon's Mate. 
 
 Thomas Knapp, - Sergeant-Major. 
 
 William Hamilton, - Quartermaster-Sergeant. 
 
 Richard Jobs, ... Drum-Major. 
 
40 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 COLONEL'S COMPANY. 
 
 Jacob Piatt, Captain-Lieutenant, also Adjutant of the Regiment, April, 
 
 May and June, 1779. 
 Jonathan Snowden, Second Lieutenant, detailed as A. D. C. to Brig.- 
 
 Gen. Edward Hand. 
 Nathaniel Wade, Cadet. 
 
 Joseph Fulkerson, Sergeant. 
 Joshua Townley, " 
 
 Elias Badeau, " 
 
 Ichabod Woodrufif, 
 Thomas Skillman, 
 Jacob White, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 William Walker, 
 
 Augustin, George 
 Bertram, David 
 Brooks, James 
 Casterline, Hiram 
 Crowell, David 
 Denham, Nathaniel 
 Dones, Jonas 
 Erwin, William 
 Force, Jonathan 
 Freeman, Jedediah 
 Harris, William 
 Hopkins, John 
 Lisk, John 
 Lloyd, David 
 Lloyd, John 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 Lyon, Patrick 
 Mills, Cornelius 
 Moore, William 
 Shaw, John 
 Stiles, Job 
 Storms, Abraham 
 Strowbridge, Joseph 
 Thompson, Andrew 
 Trilligan, John 
 Walker, Meshech 
 Ward, Ebenezer 
 Webster, Elihu 
 White, Thomas 
 Willcox, James 
 Wilson, John 
 
 Private. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL'S COMPANY. 
 
 Eden Burrowes, First Lieutenant. 
 Samuel Seeley, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 Jabez Alby, 
 John Minthorn, 
 George Hall, 
 John Hosbrook, 
 
 David Dunbar, 
 William Darby, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 Powell Alston, 
 William Bird, 
 Rufus Randolph, 
 
 John Nicolls, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Fifer. 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 7 79. 
 
 41 
 
 Blowers, Robert 
 Boosey, Daniel 
 Boston, John 
 Cain, Francis 
 Clarke, Samuel 
 Clarke, William 
 Cline, Nicholas 
 Coddington, Benjamin 
 Crane, Aaron 
 Crane, Edmund 
 Crane, Ezekiel 
 Flynn, John 
 Freeman, Samuel 
 Hall, Nathan 
 Higgins, Michael 
 
 Private. Howard, Joseph 
 
 " Jones, Michael 
 
 " Lisk, Benjamin 
 
 " May, Andrew 
 
 " McCann, Henry 
 
 " McNear, Robert 
 
 " Meads, James 
 
 " Meeker, Thomas 
 
 " Molatt, Abram 
 
 " Morgan, Thomas 
 
 " Prendergrass, Thomas 
 
 " Tuttle, Daniel 
 
 " Wilson, Moses 
 
 " Wood, George 
 
 Private. 
 
 MAJOR'S COMPANY. 
 
 William Piatt, First Lieutenant. 
 Silas Parrot, Second Lieutenant. 
 John Piatt, Cadet. 
 
 James Holmes, Sergeant. 
 
 William Holbrook, " 
 PhiHp McCrea, 
 
 James Perdon, Drummer. 
 
 Brady, David Private. 
 
 Cagan, Solomon " 
 
 Carnine, Edward " 
 
 Cartwright, Thomas " 
 
 Crane, Joseph " 
 
 Cunningham, John " 
 
 Farmer, James " 
 
 Farrow, Abraham " 
 
 Gage, Edward " 
 
 Jones, William " 
 
 Lacey, William " 
 
 Leonard, Enoch " 
 
 Lin wood, John " 
 
 McLaughlin, Charles " 
 
 McManis, William " 
 McMullen, WiUiam 
 Midsco, Conrad 
 
 John Hubble, Corporal. 
 
 Benjamin Osmun, " 
 
 Joseph Stout, " 
 
 David Bertrow, Fifer. 
 
 Osburne, Nathaniel Private. 
 
 Prickett, Azariah " 
 
 Quick, Moses " 
 
 Quimby, John " 
 
 Rush, John 
 
 Ryan, Thomas 
 
 Scudder, Abijah 
 
 Smith, John 
 
 Taylor, Peter 
 
 Templeton, James 
 
 Town, Joseph " 
 
 Williamson, Garret 
 
 Wood, Isaac " 
 
 Wooley, Isaac " 
 
 Wright, David 
 
 Wright, Joseph 
 
 Wright, Samuel " 
 
42 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 FOURTH COMPANY. 
 
 Jonathan Forman, Captain. 
 Cyrus D'Hart, First Lieutenant. 
 Absalom Bonham, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 Charles Gamberton, Sergeant. 
 Abraham Vanderhall, " 
 John Chasey, " 
 
 John Roberts, 
 
 Adams, Jacob 
 Ayres, Reuben 
 Bedell, Moses 
 Curry, John 
 Eslick, Stephen 
 Farr, William 
 Grey, Henry 
 Hance, John 
 Henderson, Patrick 
 Hilsey, Joseph 
 Hobble, George 
 Jonas, John 
 Jones, Ebenezer 
 King, Anthony 
 Lacey, Jacob 
 Lacey, Joseph 
 Mooney, John 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 Andrew Wilson, 
 William Ribbets, 
 David Amy, 
 
 Robert Coddington, 
 
 Newton, John 
 O'Neal, Arthur 
 Osborn, Luke 
 Prickett, Azariah 
 Roll, Matthias 
 Saulsbury, John 
 Smith, Terrence 
 Stuart, William 
 Taylor, Christopher 
 Thorp, Solomon 
 Tuttle, John 
 Walker, Francis 
 Williams, Thomas 
 Witchel, Jacob 
 Wood, William 
 Woolley, Isaac 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 FIFTH COMPANY. 
 
 Giles Mead, Captain. 
 William Barton, Lieutenant. 
 Aaron Rhea, Ensign. 
 
 Joseph Long, 
 Peter Weaverlin, 
 William Bradshaw, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 William Erwin, 
 David Lee, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Richard Shiras, 
 
 Drummer. 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 7 79. 
 
 43 
 
 Bevins, Matthew 
 Breeze, Timothy 
 Bunnel, Benjamin 
 Burnett, John 
 Carter, Richard 
 Clark, Richard 
 Cosart, John 
 Cutter, Ebenezer 
 Dennison, John 
 Earl, Israel 
 Fowler, David 
 Frazer, George 
 Gibbs, William 
 Grey, Samuel, 
 
 Private. Hampstead, Robert 
 
 Hayes, Michael 
 Hornblower, Joseph 
 Lewis, Benjamin 
 Linnington, Henry 
 Lyons, Serring 
 Rarity, John 
 Ruker, Jacob 
 Soaper, Joseph 
 Smith, Michael 
 Thomas, John 
 Thurston, Benjamin 
 White, David 
 Yatee, John 
 
 Private. 
 
 SIXTH COMPANY. 
 
 Alexander Mitchell, Captain. 
 Absalom Martin, Lieutenant, 
 Asher Levy, Ensign. 
 
 Robert Logan, 
 Abram Hudson, 
 John Hardcastle, 
 
 Joseph King, 
 
 Bloomfield, Charles 
 Browne, John 
 Browne, William 
 Clifton, George 
 Collins, John 
 Crane, Jonathan 
 Davis, John 
 Day, Jeremiah 
 Dickinson, Isaac 
 Eaton, Benjamin 
 Finley, William 
 Fordyce, John 
 Hutchins, Gabriel 
 Leonard, Stephen 
 Losey, Abraham 
 McLaughlin, John 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Drummer. 
 Private, 
 
 Philip Minthorn, 
 David Carter, 
 John Frost, 
 
 Isaac Sears, 
 
 Minthorn, William 
 Mott, David 
 Mumford, David 
 Pearson, Nicholas 
 Pearson, Richard 
 Perry, Thomas 
 Potter, John 
 Rice, Thaddeus 
 Royall, Thomas 
 Shaddock, Levi 
 Showers, Adam 
 Tharp, Benjamin 
 Thompson, Price 
 Tuttle, Daniel 
 Williams, John 
 
 Corporal .. 
 
 Fifer. 
 Private. 
 
44 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 SEVENTH COMPANY. 
 
 Peter V. Voorhies, Captain, also Paymaster of the Regiment. 
 Peter Lott, Lieutenant, also Quartermaster of the Regiment. 
 John Geary, Ensign. 
 
 Jacob Williamson, Sergeant. 
 Simon Van Home, " 
 
 Tunis Voorhies, " 
 
 Joseph Tilton, " 
 
 Christopher McManus, 
 
 John Bowers, 
 
 Ball, Joshua 
 Boyd, John 
 Dean, John 
 Dunfield, Henry 
 Erwin, Peter 
 Fulmore, John' 
 Griggs, Daniel 
 HiE, Samuel 
 Johnson, John 
 Matchett, William 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 John Rose, 
 Richard Jackson, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 William Devian, 
 
 Mills, Israel 
 Newton, Thomas 
 Simpson, John 
 Stilwell, William 
 Van Nostrand, George 
 Venet, John 
 Vredenburgh, William 
 Whitmore, Amos 
 Wilson, John 
 Wilson, Thomas 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 EIGHTH COMPANY. 
 
 John Holmes, Captain. 
 
 Ephraim Whitlock, Lieutenant, also Adjutant of the Regiment in July, 
 
 1779. 
 John Bishop, Ensign. 
 
 Garret Grey, 
 James Bellard, 
 Andrew McClure, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 James Rice, 
 Michael Lane, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Peter Dougherty, Drummer. 
 
 William Cremer, 
 
 Fifer. 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 779. 
 
 45 
 
 Anderson, Samuel 
 Anderson, William 
 Applegate, Moses 
 Blew, Daniel 
 Bryant, John 
 Coryell, John 
 Covert, Tunis 
 Craven, Joseph 
 Craven, Stophel 
 Donaldson, William 
 Embly, John 
 Esleck, Alexander 
 Giddeman, John 
 Halfpenny, Thomas 
 Hamilton, Andrew 
 
 Private. Hopsiker, Powles 
 
 " Horn, Moses 
 
 " Jewett, Phoenix 
 
 " Kyson, Frederick 
 
 " Lyall, Thomas 
 
 " Martin, Daniel 
 
 " Moore, John 
 
 Murdock, William T. 
 " Pierce, John 
 
 Price, Isaac 
 Russell, Casper 
 " Shuffey, William 
 
 " StacUhouse, Amos 
 
 " Thomas, William 
 
 " Yates, William 
 
 Private. 
 
 NINTH COMPANY. 
 
 Aaron Ogden, Captain, detached as Aide-de-Camp to General Maxwell, 
 John Howell, Lieutenant. 
 
 Joseph Jones, 
 Benjamin Bedell, 
 
 Jacob Woolley, 
 
 Ader, Morris 
 Bedell, Jacob 
 Bryant, Benjamin 
 Campbell, James 
 Carter, George 
 Coleman, Job 
 George, John 
 Gracey, Matthew 
 Hays, Dennis 
 Kent, Jonas 
 King, Joseph 
 Legrange, John 
 Legur, William 
 Liddle, Robert 
 McConnell, Philip 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 Ezekiel Howard, 
 
 Osborn, Joseph 
 Osborn, Stephen, 
 Plumb, Stephen 
 Reade, George 
 Ross, Levi 
 Sears, Samuel 
 Sergeant, David 
 Sherwood, James 
 Todd, John 
 Wallace, William 
 Weston, William 
 Wherry, Robert 
 Whitehead, James 
 Willis, Aaron 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Private. 
 
46 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 SECOND NEW JERSEY REGIMENT. 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF. 
 
 Israel Shreve, 
 William D'Hart, 
 John Ross, 
 
 Colonel. 
 Lieutenant-Colonel. 
 
 Major. 
 
 (Detailed as Brigade- Major to General Maxwell.) 
 
 Luther Halsey, 
 John Peck, 
 Derrick Lane, 
 Ebenezer Elmer, 
 Moses G. Elmer, 
 
 William Barr,, 
 George McDonald, 
 William Burtless, 
 
 Adjutant. 
 Paymaster. 
 Quartermaster. 
 Surgeon. 
 Surgeon's Mate. 
 
 Sergeant-Major. 
 
 Quartermaster-Sergeant. 
 
 Drum-Major. 
 
 COLONEL'S COMPANY. 
 
 Samuel Hendry, Captain-Lieutenant. 
 John Shreve, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 George Peelor, Sergeant. 
 
 John Seeley, " 
 
 Wilham Turner, 
 
 Thomas StilUnger, 
 
 Badcock, Joseph 
 Brown, Thomas 
 Campbell, John 
 Charters, Joseph 
 Cox, Andrew 
 Duffey, John 
 FerroU, John 
 Fletcher, William 
 Fogg, Daniel 
 Francis, William 
 GifBns, Joshua 
 Gladhill, Eh 
 Gurrill, John 
 Hall, James 
 
 Fifer. 
 Private. 
 
 Private. 
 
 John Patterson, Corporal. 
 James Gibson, " 
 
 William Clark, 
 James Penton, " 
 
 Hamilton, Thomas, 
 Hillebrant, Henry 
 Lloyd, John 
 Lynch, Dennis 
 McDuffey, Randall 
 McGonigal, George 
 Mills, Reuben 
 Pierson, Harman 
 Reed, John 
 Steeples, Thomas 
 Stevenson, Cornelius 
 Tinis, Absalom 
 Williams, William 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 7 79. 
 
 47 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL'S COMPANY. 
 
 Samuel Naglee, First Lieutenant. 
 Jonathan Rhea, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 John Johnston, 
 Jordan Hopson, 
 Hendrick Borhan, 
 
 Noah Ogden, 
 
 Anderson, Elijah 
 Black, Pompey 
 Blackstone, John 
 Burke, Henry 
 Casbey, Richard 
 Chester, John 
 Clarke, Michael 
 Connor, Mathew 
 Derry, John 
 Dotey, Isaac 
 Dunfield, Henry 
 Fagan, Henry 
 Gassright, John 
 Griffey, Levi 
 Hortwick, Matthias 
 
 Sergeant. Charles Kennedy, Corporal. 
 
 " William Beggars, " 
 
 " John Young, " 
 
 Drummer. Barent Hortwick, Fifer. 
 
 Private. Johnston, James Private. 
 
 '■ Justice, Jesse 
 
 " Lowing, Peter 
 
 " Lynch, William 
 
 Masters, Stephen 
 
 " Maze, Edward 
 
 " McBurney, James 
 
 " McCullough, James 
 
 " Patterson, Zachariah 
 
 " Pollard, Thomas 
 
 " Sigler, Henry 
 
 " Smith, John 
 
 " Thompson, James 
 
 " Titus, Shadrach 
 
 " Ward, John 
 
 MAJOR'S COMPANY. 
 
 Abel Weyman, First Lieutenant. 
 Joseph Buck, Ensign. 
 
 John Johnston, 
 Samuel Elwell, 
 Thomas Potter, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Richard Abbott, 
 John Thomas, 
 Jesse Edwards, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Jacob Wallenger, Drummer. 
 
NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 Bailey, Samuel 
 Boyles, James 
 Bo wen, Samuel 
 Christy, James 
 Cook, Jacob 
 Cramer, Josiah 
 Crealy, Hugh 
 Dalton, James 
 Eberhart, Adolph 
 Emerton, James 
 Farney, George 
 Gaskill, William 
 Gerrald, John 
 Griffith, William 
 Guy, John 
 Hackett, Joshua 
 Hinds, Dennis 
 Howell, William 
 
 Private. Kelly, Patrick 
 
 Kerrell,, William 
 
 " Kinsey, James 
 
 " Kinsey, Shadrach 
 
 " * McAnally, Patrick 
 
 McDade, William 
 Miller, Frederick 
 Miller, Joseph 
 O'Neal, Neal 
 
 " Osman, John 
 
 Polk, Joab 
 Prince, William 
 Proctor, Robert 
 
 " Sandall, John 
 
 Slaughter, John 
 
 " Stephens, Charles 
 
 William, Taylor 
 
 " Woodsides, Robert 
 
 Private. 
 
 FOURTH COMPANY. 
 
 John HoUinshead, Captain, promoted Major Third Regiment July 5th, 
 
 1779. 
 Luther Halsey, Lieutenant, also Adjutant of the Regiment. 
 John Peck, Lieutenant, also Paymaster of the Regiment. 
 
 John Goldy, Sergeant. 
 Andrew Lykins, " 
 
 Andrew Mason, " 
 
 Martin Johnson, " 
 
 (Died Aug. 5lh, 1779, at Wyalusing, Pa.) 
 
 William Blair, Drummer. 
 
 John Smith, 
 Thomas Ferguson, 
 Frederick Yorty, 
 
 Able Corson, 
 
 Corporal 
 
 Fifer. 
 
IN THE I> 
 
 rciAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 7 79. 
 
 
 49 
 
 Balling, James Private. Grigg, Robert 
 
 Private. 
 
 Bennett, John ' 
 
 ' Hains, Daniel 
 
 
 
 Berkins, John 
 
 Kaits, PhiUp 
 
 
 
 Berkstaler, Joseph 
 
 ' Land, Joseph 
 
 
 
 Britton, Daniel 
 
 Long, Richard 
 
 
 
 Camp, John ' 
 
 Neal, Thomas 
 
 
 
 Clemens, John 
 
 Nolt, Philip 
 
 
 
 Clutch, Obadiah 
 
 O'Neal, Henry 
 
 
 
 Condon, James 
 
 Peters, Philip 
 
 
 
 Earley, Patrick 
 
 ' Robinson, John 
 
 
 
 Edwards, John 
 
 Shearlock, John W. 
 
 
 
 Ewing, Remington 
 
 ' Strong, William 
 
 
 
 Fisher, David 
 
 " Sullivan, Patrick 
 
 
 
 Force, Jacob 
 
 ' Vincent, Adam 
 
 
 
 Foster, Jeremiah 
 
 " Watts, Bowen 
 
 
 
 Colder, John 
 
 Welch, James 
 
 
 
 FIFTH COMPANY. 
 
 John N, Gumming, Captain. 
 
 , First Lieutenant. (Lieut. Nathaniel Jenkins, who held ^y^ 
 
 this office, died April 27th, 1779.) 
 Samuel M. Shute, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 Abraham Loper, 
 Charles McMillan, 
 Benajah Hewitt, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Michael Fagan, Drummer. 
 
 Aditon, Consider 
 Bennett, Thomas 
 Burrell, Thomas 
 
 Campbell, Robert 
 Carty, Daniel 
 Carty, John 
 Chew, Richard 
 Connor, Timothy 
 Cramer, Andrew 
 Daniels, Jonathan 
 
 Private. 
 
 Isaac Johnston, 
 George Waggoner, 
 William Rose, 
 
 John Sithin, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Demeris, Adam 
 Dixon, William 
 Du Croy, John 
 
 (Died Sept. 15th, 1779, at Kanaghsaws.) 
 
 Edwards, John 
 Fanning, James 
 Farron, Lawrence 
 Finley, Robert 
 Floyd, Joseph 
 Gray, Jacob 
 Green, Thomas 
 
 Fifer. 
 Private. 
 
5° 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 Harwood, Thomas 
 Insell, John 
 Ireland, John 
 James, David 
 Lambert, Lancelot 
 Moore, John 
 Nixon, Isaac 
 Ryggar, Peter 
 Sanders, John 
 
 Private. Scull, Daniel 
 
 " Stratton, Annanias 
 
 " Taylor, John 
 
 " Terry, Jonathan 
 
 " Thompson, Robert 
 
 " Williams, John 
 
 Wolf, Henry 
 
 " Woodruff, Ebenezer 
 
 Private. 
 
 SIXTH COMPANY. 
 
 Samuel Reading, Captain. 
 , First Lieutenant. 
 
 {Lieutenant Abraham Stout held this 
 
 ofBce, but he was made a prisoner of war April 5th, 1778, and was 
 still in the hands of the British.) 
 George Walker, Ensign. 
 
 David Gilmore, 
 John Disney, 
 Silas Newton, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 John Williams, 
 John Vandike, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Peter Brown, 
 
 Drummei'. 
 
 Curry, John Private. 
 
 Dotworth, George " 
 
 Fricklin, Robert " 
 Garlinghouse, Benjamin " 
 
 Griggs, William " 
 
 Horn, Benjamin " 
 
 Huntley, John " 
 
 Keen, Jacob " 
 
 Lock, Philip " 
 
 Lurvey, Vincent " 
 
 Lye, William " 
 March, Philip 
 
 McCawley, Alexander Private. 
 
 McCowen, Constant " 
 
 McDonald, James " 
 
 McMahon, Jeremiah " 
 
 Medagh, Emanuel " 
 Peck, David 
 
 Stanley, James " 
 
 St. Clair, George " 
 
 Vandike, Henry ' " 
 
 Welch, Thomas " 
 White, Peter 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 779. 
 
 SI 
 
 SEVENTH COMPANY. 
 
 Nathaniel Bowman, Captain. 
 Samuel Conn, First Lieutenant. 
 ■, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 (Lieutenant James Paul had held 
 
 this office, but he was taken prisoner April 3d, 1779, and was still in 
 the hands of the enemy.) 
 
 Henry Graham, Drummer. 
 
 John Curtis, Sergeant. Isaac Carty, 
 
 Almerin Brooks, " George Gwynnup, 
 
 Joseph Bennet, 
 
 Samuel Sickles, 
 
 Private. Hall, Jacob, 
 
 " Irwin, James 
 
 " Irwin, William 
 
 " Little, Jacob 
 
 " Lounsberry, Walker 
 
 McQuay, John 
 " Merriam, Joseph 
 
 " Middleton, Thomas 
 
 Miles, Richard 
 " Nichols, Isaiah 
 
 Nimnough, Neal 
 
 Quigley, David 
 " Psandler, Joshua 
 
 '• Seeley, John 
 
 " Sheppard, Nathaniel 
 
 " Shoemaker, William 
 
 Stewart, Alexander 
 " Swan, Joseph 
 
 ' Watkins, Thomas 
 
 " White, Thomas 
 
 Wright, WilHam 
 
 Bell, Josiah 
 Brown, Zebulon 
 Campbell, Enos 
 Clemhorn, Henry 
 Cornish, Joseph 
 Corrigan, Henry 
 Cox, Abraham 
 Cromwell, OUver 
 Cully, William 
 Dixon, Ashbrook 
 Dorton, Francis 
 Downing, Andrew 
 Everingham, William 
 Finck, John 
 Finley, Joshua 
 Finn, Thomas 
 Flake, John 
 Foster, Jonathan 
 Griffey, Daniel 
 Guynnup, Benjamin 
 Haldron, Henry 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 EIGHTH COMPANY. 
 
 Jonathan Phillips, Captain. 
 Abraham Appleton, Lieutenant. 
 
 Martin Hill, 
 John Gavin, 
 William Gibson, 
 
 Robert Fowler, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 Ezekiel Job, 
 John Corby, 
 John Yates, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
52 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 Akers, Amos 
 Ames, John 
 Barrel!, William 
 Bethe, Archibald 
 Brown, David 
 Bunting, Abel 
 Coleman, John 
 Fenimore, John 
 Grimes, Sheppard 
 H olden, Thomas 
 Jobs, John 
 Jobs, Samuel 
 Lovelace, Gershom 
 Lovelace, Lott 
 Lyons, John 
 
 Private. McGee, William 
 
 " McLean, Hugh 
 
 " O'Bryan, Patrick 
 
 O' Flaherty, John 
 " Phillips, Francis 
 
 Powell, Peter 
 Price, William 
 Printy, William 
 " Reed, Amos 
 
 Reed, Thomas 
 " Say, John 
 
 Stout, James 
 Thomas, Matthew 
 Tool, Patrick 
 Waglum, Benjamin 
 
 Private. 
 
 NINTH COMPANY. 
 
 William Helms, Captain. 
 
 Derrick Lane, Lieutenant, also Quartermaster of the Regiment. 
 
 Benajah Osmun, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 Francis Luse, Cadet. 
 
 Asa Jones, 
 Thomas Evans, 
 John Poland, 
 Samuel Landon, 
 
 Burns, Daniel 
 Burns, James 
 Campbell, George 
 Chubb, John 
 Davis, Thomas 
 Dimon, John 
 Faney, David 
 Fleming, John 
 Fox, Joseph 
 Galligher, Abraham 
 Glann, James 
 Hawkins, Edward 
 Hickson, Jonathan 
 Hoory, John 
 McCollum, John 
 
 Sergeant. Robert Watts, Corporal. 
 
 " John Strimple, " 
 
 " Isaac Willes, " 
 
 " Abraham Rosier, Drummer. 
 
 Private. Morgan, William Private. 
 
 " Morrison, James " 
 
 O'Neil, John 
 
 Poole, John " 
 
 " Rankin, James " 
 
 " Rockley, George " 
 
 " Saxton, Jesse " 
 
 " Shaver, Jacob " 
 
 " Shaver, Joseph " 
 
 " Space, John " 
 
 " Smith, John " 
 
 Sutton, William 
 
 " Van Wye, Hendrick " 
 
 " Whitehead, Samuel " 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 779- 
 
 53 
 
 THIRD NEW JERSEY REGIMENT. 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF. 
 
 Elias Dayton, - - Colonel. 
 
 Francis Barber, - - Lieutenant-Colonel. 
 
 (Detailed as Adjutant-General on the staff of General Sullivan.) 
 
 John Conway, Lieutenant-Colonel of First Regiment ; ordered for duty 
 
 with this Regiment. 
 
 John Hollinshead, - - Major. 
 
 Samuel Shippard, - - Adjutant. 
 
 Joseph L Anderson, - - Paymaster. 
 
 Ephraim Darby, - Quartermaster. 
 
 Lewis F. Dunham, - - Surgeon. 
 
 Ephraim Loring, - Surgeon's Mate. 
 
 George Grant, 
 Moses Sprowls, 
 Morris Wooten, 
 
 Sergeant-Major. 
 
 Quartermaster-Sergeant, 
 
 Drum-Major. 
 
 COLONEL'S COMPANY. 
 
 Jonathan Dayton, Captain-Lieutenant, detailed as an Aide-de-Camp to 
 
 Major-General Sullivan. 
 William Kersey, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 Thomas Dixon, Sergeant. Samuel Johnson, Corporal, 
 
 William Gibson, " 
 
 James Shay, " 
 
 Ephraim Howard, Drummer. 
 
 Adams, Abel 
 Bercaw, Peter 
 Brady, Edward 
 Brewer, Paul 
 Carbury, Francis 
 Daniely, Daniel 
 Deacon, Aaron 
 Ellis, Daniel 
 Emmons, John 
 Gale, Joseph 
 Guy, John 
 Harmany, James D. 
 Higgins, John 
 Holland, Thomas 
 
 Private. 
 
 Samuel Johnson, 
 William Andrews, 
 Edward Howell, 
 
 Howard, John 
 Johnson, Joseph 
 Leadbetter, George 
 Likens, Jacob 
 Lyons, William 
 McCuUy, John 
 Morris, James 
 Morris, Thomas 
 Norcross, Benjamin 
 Peterson, Abraham 
 Potts, Jasper 
 Ryan, Patrick 
 Shoars, Jonathan 
 Snyder, John 
 
 Private, 
 
54 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL'S COMPANY. 
 John Blair, Lieutenant. 
 
 Moses Sprowls, Sergeant. 
 
 (Promoted Quartermaster-Sergeant June ist, 
 I779-) 
 
 Joseph Benham, Sergeant. 
 
 Edward McCugo, " 
 
 Zebulon Parks, " 
 
 Jahiel Hull, 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 Bogart, James 
 Bonham, Ephraim 
 Budd, Conklin 
 Burrell, Jediah 
 Carhart, Thomas 
 Connell, Charles 
 Cosgrove, Charles 
 Cox, Joseph 
 Dean, Joseph 
 Halsted, Josiah, 
 Handley, Richard 
 Hooper, John 
 Howard, Joseph 
 Howell, Jonathan 
 McDonald, Benjamin 
 Mclntire, Joseph 
 Moore, Joseph 
 Morehouse, Jacob 
 
 Private. 
 
 John Truax, 
 John Van Marter, 
 
 James Kilpatrick, 
 
 Oakley, John 
 Ogden, Eliakim 
 Orr, John 
 Parker, Gershom 
 Parsell, Swain 
 Reed, Giles 
 Ruker, John 
 Sanders, John 
 Sullivan, Timothy 
 Sweating, Richard 
 Tummey, Henry 
 Tummey, Samuel 
 Valentine, Jacob 
 Van Norman, James 
 Vaughn, William 
 Welch, David 
 Wilson, James 
 Wood, Francis 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 MAJOR'S COMPANY. 
 
 Nathaniel Leonard, First Lieutenant. 
 
 Nathan Wilkison, Second Lieutenant, detailed as Quartermaster of the 
 Brigade. 
 
 John Miller, 
 Jonathan Nichols, 
 Job Brown, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Martin Chandler, Drummer. 
 
 Daniel Davis, 
 Philip Goggin, 
 
 James Burroughs, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Fifer. 
 
IN THE I 
 
 ■^DIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 779- 
 
 55 
 
 Birney, Peter Private. Hazelton, Abram 
 
 Private. 
 
 Blackman, Thomas 
 
 " Jones, Alexander 
 
 
 Boney, Michael 
 
 " Kemble, Nathan 
 
 
 Bruster, Daniel 
 
 " Langley, Elnathan 
 
 
 Burroughs, John 
 
 " Maul, Uriah 
 
 
 Dowdney, Samuel 
 
 " Peters, Levi 
 
 
 Dunlevy, Patrick 
 
 " Potter, Samuel 
 
 
 Garrison, Bennet 
 
 " Ray, James 
 
 
 Garrison, Joseph 
 
 ' Russell, Edward 
 
 
 Haines, John 
 
 Shafer, Theophilus 
 
 
 Harding, John 
 
 " Sullivan, Daniel 
 
 
 FOURTH COMPANY. 
 
 William Gifford, Captain. 
 
 Samuel Shippard, Lieutenant, also Adjutant of the Regiment. 
 
 James De Camp, Ensign. 
 
 Isaac Jones, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 James Bowers, 
 
 Drummer 
 
 Thomas Ireland, 
 
 " 
 
 David Rogers, 
 
 Fifer 
 
 Jacob Longhouse, 
 
 (( 
 
 
 
 Agar, Hugh 
 
 Private. 
 
 Martin, David 
 
 Private 
 
 Ball, Justus 
 
 " 
 
 Maskell, Street 
 
 " 
 
 Carney, Laurence 
 
 " 
 
 McCabe, Henry 
 
 u 
 
 
 
 (Died Sept. nth, 1779, at 
 
 Hanneyaye.) 
 
 Carr, John 
 
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 Morgan, Charles 
 
 Private 
 
 Day, Moses 
 
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 Omack, Thomas 
 
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 Foster, Ichabod 
 
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 Reese, David 
 
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 Fox, Jacob 
 
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 Roberts, Stephen 
 
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 Green, John 
 
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 Royal, David 
 
 " 
 
 HiUiard, Thomas 
 
 " 
 
 Royal, John 
 
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 Horn, James 
 
 " 
 
 Sennet, Richard 
 
 " 
 
 Hutch, John 
 
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 Shearman, John 
 
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 Ketcham, John 
 
 " 
 
 Van Varrick, James 
 
 " 
 
 King, Anthony 
 
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 Voorhees, Garret 
 
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 Lipes, John 
 
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 Wade, Henry 
 
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56 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 FIFTH COMPANY. 
 
 Richard Cox, Captain. 
 
 Ephraim Darby, First Lieutenant, also 
 
 Wessel T. Stout, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 Quartermaster of the Regiment. 
 
 Thomas Cobb, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 John Crill, 
 
 Corporal, 
 
 Samuel Wigton, 
 
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 Jedediah Lyon, 
 
 (( 
 
 James Raymond, 
 
 " 
 
 William Broderick, 
 
 fi 
 
 Charles Oman, 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 John Jobs, 
 
 Fifer 
 
 Anderson, Andrew 
 
 Private. 
 
 Morris, David 
 
 Private, 
 
 Banghart, Barney 
 
 
 Perry, Henry 
 
 
 Banks, Jameson 
 
 
 Pickett, Robert 
 
 
 Bonnell, Samuel 
 
 
 Pinkney, William 
 
 
 Courtney, Luke 
 
 
 Price, John 
 
 
 Denight, James 
 
 
 Robbins, Isaac 
 
 
 Denight, John 
 
 
 Roe, John 
 
 
 Howard, Elihu 
 
 
 Smith, Peter 
 
 
 Johnston, George 
 
 
 Snyder, Christian 
 
 
 Lambert, William 
 
 
 Stilwell, Ezekiel 
 
 
 Mapes, William 
 
 
 Stives, William 
 
 
 Martin, William 
 
 
 Tharp, Peter 
 
 
 McGinta, John 
 
 
 Wordin, Samuel 
 
 
 Middleton, Joseph 
 
 
 
 
 SIXTH COMPANY. 
 
 Jeremiah Ballard, Captain. 
 Edmund D. Thomas, Lieutenant. 
 James Rodgers, Ensign. 
 
 John Howe, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Peter Smith, 
 
 John Hill, 
 
 " 
 
 Thomas Manning, 
 
 Jacob Kent, 
 
 ** 
 
 Cornelius Drake, 
 
 Joseph Lloyd, 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 
 Beach, Stephen 
 
 Private. 
 
 Burrell, Zachariah, 
 
 Bilberry, Woodrick 
 
 ti 
 
 Casey, Henry 
 
 Bishop, William 
 
 (( 
 
 Conkling, Jonathan 
 
 Bolton, Joseph 
 
 " 
 
 Corwine, George 
 
 Brown, Samuel 
 
 " 
 
 English, John 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Private. 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 779- 
 
 57 
 
 Devore, Luke 
 Gordon, David 
 Guard, Daniel 
 Hathaway, Tlieophilus 
 Jones, Armstrong 
 Joy, James 
 Kitchen, Henry 
 Logan, Wilham 
 Ludlow, Abram 
 Martin, Thomas 
 Matthews, James 
 Mead, William 
 Munson, Solomon 
 
 Private. Parrot, Adoniram 
 
 " Price, John 
 
 " Price, Stephen 
 
 " Prudden, Adoniram 
 
 " Rose, Joseph 
 
 " Runyan, Conrad 
 
 " Swift, James 
 
 " Tuttle, Isaiah 
 
 Tuttle, William 
 Tway, John 
 Ward, Isaac 
 " Young, Aaron 
 
 Private. 
 
 William Gibson, Drummer. 
 
 SEVENTH COMPANY. 
 
 Joseph I. Anderson, Captain, also the Paymaster of the Regiment. 
 John Reed, First Lieutenant. 
 
 William Hood, Sergeant. Jacob Sickles, Corporal. 
 
 James Burch, " James Riley, 
 
 William Ross, " Alexander Love, " 
 
 William Radley, Fifer. 
 
 Private. Hottman, George Private. 
 
 " Johnston, WilUam " 
 
 " Leonard, Zephaniah " 
 
 " Mahone, Daniel " 
 
 " McKinney, Timothy " 
 
 " Murphy, John " 
 
 " Murtis, Stephen " 
 
 Redman, John " 
 
 " Reed, Isaiah " 
 
 " Rounsevale, John "_ 
 
 " Stephens, Isaac " 
 
 Tarbill, Nathan 
 
 Thomas, Morgan " 
 
 " Thomas, Valentine " 
 
 Walters, John " 
 
 " Whitaker, John " 
 
 Anderson, Darias 
 Borden, Abraham 
 Brewer, John 
 Bryant, Jacob 
 Burton, John 
 Casterline, Abraham 
 Chandler, Samuel 
 Colston, James 
 Grossman, Amos 
 Dugan, William 
 Dunovan, John 
 Fowler, Joseph 
 Garvin, George 
 Grace, John 
 Griffin, William 
 Hepner, John 
 
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 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 EIGHTH COMPANY. 
 
 Bateraan Lloyd, Captain. (He was taken prisoner of war, Feb. 27th, 
 1778, and not exchanged until April ist, 1781 ; therefore not with 
 this expedition.) 
 
 Benjamin Horn, First Lieutenant, commanding Company. 
 
 John Reucaslle, First Lieutenant. 
 
 Timothy Sexton, Sergeant. Daniel Woodruff, Corporal. 
 
 Joseph Golder, " Elias Lyons, " 
 
 Samuel Clark, " 
 
 Stephen Hatfield, Drummer. 
 
 Beck, Robert 
 Bond, William 
 Ceasar, John 
 Chumard, Thomas 
 Clayton, Henry 
 Davis, Nathan 
 Dougherty, John 
 Fides, George 
 Finley, John 
 Foster, John 
 Fullerton, John 
 Herbert, Eliphalet 
 Hobbs, Elisha 
 Langley, John 
 Martin, James 
 
 Private. 
 
 McDonald, Daniel Private. 
 
 Neslor, John 
 
 Norris, Peter 
 
 Osburn, Joseph 
 
 Price, Benjamin 
 
 Robertson, Cornelius 
 
 Robertson, Isaac 
 
 Rose, John 
 
 Rossburgh, John 
 
 Seary, Laurence 
 
 Sweden, Caspar 
 
 Tindal, Samuel 
 
 Welch, James 
 
 Welsh, Michael 
 
 NINTH COMPANY. 
 
 Seth Johnson, Captain. 
 
 Jarvis Bloomfield, Second Lieutenant. 
 
 Nathaniel Welch, 
 William Russell, 
 Ebenezer Carlisle, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Godfrey Blackney, 
 Matthias Shirts, 
 John Smith, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Aaron Thompson, 
 
 Fifer. 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 7 79. 
 
 59 
 
 Bandell, John 
 Buckannon, Samuel 
 Campbell, Andrew 
 Chambers, James 
 Coggswell, Joseph 
 Dellimore, Robert 
 Flowers, William 
 Hart, Patrick 
 Healey, Hugh 
 Heaning, George 
 Highland, Henry 
 Horniford, Andrew 
 Humphries, Joseph 
 Johnson, Samuel 
 Jones, Ambrose 
 
 Private. Kelley, Bartholemew, 
 
 " Kennedy, William 
 
 " Kibbe, Ephraim 
 
 " Lambert, Lot, 
 
 McLaughlin, Hugh 
 McMillan, John 
 " Noe, Lewis 
 
 " O'Briant, John 
 
 " Powers, George 
 
 " Smith, John 
 
 " Soper, Thomas 
 
 " Sork, Michael 
 
 " Spicer, John 
 
 " Tway, Timothy 
 
 Woodruff, John 
 
 Private. 
 
 SPENCER'S REGIM'ENT. 
 
 Oliver Spencer, 
 William S. Smith, 
 Peter Taulman, 
 John Sandford, 
 William Beach, 
 John McEvs^en, 
 
 Colonel. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel. 
 
 Adjutant. 
 
 Paymaster. 
 
 Quartermaster. 
 
 Quartermaster. 
 
 (Appointed July loth, 1779, vice Beach, commanding Colonel's Company.) 
 
 Jabez Campfield, - - - Surgeon. 
 
 John Darcy, ... Surgeon's Mate. 
 
 Thomas Roberts, 
 Benjamin Paul, 
 
 Sergeant-Major. 
 Quartermaster-Sergeant. 
 
 COLONEL'S COMPANY. 
 
 William Beach, Captain-Lieutenant, also Quartermaster of the Regi- 
 ment. 
 
 William Bull, Captain-Lieutenant. (Lieutenant Bull, of Lieutenant- 
 Colonel's Company, was promoted in October, 1779, and then 
 commanded this Company.) 
 
6o 
 
 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 Moses Ogden, 
 William McGill, 
 Robert Dongan, 
 Arthur Paul, 
 Charles Bull, 
 Jonas Tompkins, 
 
 Joseph Squire, 
 Elias Newman, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 John Organ, 
 Josiah Hunt, 
 James Marshal, 
 Seth Jewell, 
 David Parsons, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Anson, James 
 Ball, Cornelius 
 Bell, John 
 Brink, Aaron 
 Brink, Henry 
 Brown, Lackey 
 Burges, James 
 Crowfoot, Joseph 
 Day, Amos 
 Graham, George 
 Haycock, Daniel 
 Kite, Christopher 
 Holliday, James 
 Jones, Abraham 
 
 Private. Jones, Joseph 
 
 " McKinsey, John 
 
 " MulhoUand, Patrick 
 
 " Organ, Matthew 
 
 " Pierson, Matthias 
 
 " Pierson, Samuel 
 
 " Reed, William 
 
 " Rosecrans, Richard 
 
 " Sicheverat, George 
 
 " Smith, Daniel 
 
 " Steward, Hugh 
 
 " Syron, John 
 White, John 
 Williams, Henry 
 
 Private. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL'S COMPANY. 
 
 William Bull, Lieutenant. 
 
 John Orr, First Lieutenant. (Lieutenant Orr commanded this Company 
 in October, 1779.) 
 
 Samuel Sly, 
 John Horton, 
 Thomas Wilson, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 William Bray, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 William Peck, 
 
 Drummer. 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 779. 
 
 6i 
 
 Brannon, Abraham 
 Brannon, Michael 
 Brannon, Reuben 
 Cannon, Thomas 
 Crook, Martin 
 Dailey, Silas 
 Davis, Elias 
 Decker, Jacob 
 Downs, James 
 Dunlap, Thomas 
 Gardner, George 
 Graham, James 
 Harrington, Alexander 
 Harrington, John 
 Harrison, Jacob 
 
 Private. Jacobs, David 
 
 " Keeler, Edward 
 Miller, William 
 
 " Milspaugh, Christian 
 
 " Mengas, Moses 
 
 " Reed, Daniel 
 
 " Rogers, James 
 
 " Rogers, Samuel 
 
 " Scott, John 
 
 " Stroughan, James 
 
 " Swan, Peter 
 
 " Teets, Michael 
 
 " Teets, William 
 
 " Winn, John 
 
 " Young, David 
 
 Private. 
 
 MAJOR'S COMPANY. 
 
 John Orr, First Lieutenant. 
 
 Uzal Meeker, Lieutenant, transferred to Ninth Company. 
 
 William Casey, 
 John Leighton, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 Drummer. 
 
 Albert Voorhees, Corporal. 
 
 Butler, John 
 Carr, William 
 Gannon, William 
 Gordon, Bernardus 
 Hoffman, Aaron 
 Johnson, Matthew 
 Lee, David 
 Little, Robert 
 Lybey, John 
 McConnell, Hugh 
 
 Private. McDaniel, John 
 
 " Noe, Samuel 
 
 Roff, Adam 
 
 " Smith, Joseph 
 
 " Snyder, Henry 
 
 " Sweeny, Daniel 
 
 " Thompson, James 
 
 " Vance, Thomas 
 
 " Wetherhavvk, John 
 
 " Yeardon, William 
 
 Private. 
 
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 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 FOURTH COMPANY. 
 
 John Burrowes, Captain. 
 
 Robert Pemberton, Lieutenant. 
 
 David Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant, assigned to this Company in Oct., 1779. 
 
 Michael Errickson, Sergeant. 
 
 Frederick Mapes, " 
 
 John Brown, " 
 
 Joshua SulHvan, Fifer. 
 
 Bennett, Samuel Private. 
 
 Berry, John " 
 
 Bolton, John " 
 Britton, William 
 
 Brown, Thomas " 
 
 Fisher, John " 
 
 Gale, Alexander " 
 
 Gordon, William " 
 
 Griffey, Edward " 
 
 Griffey, Joseph " 
 Jeffrey, Humphrey 
 
 Johnson, Henry " 
 
 McCormick, Stephen " 
 
 Mitchell, Richard " 
 
 Mount, George " 
 
 Myers, Martin " 
 Peterson, Peter 
 
 John O'Neal, 
 Jacob Allen, 
 Henry Reed, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Robbins, William 
 Robinson, Edmund 
 Smith, James 
 Smith, Matthew 
 Smith, Samuel 
 Stephens, Nicholas 
 Stout, Elisha 
 Tharp, Benjamin 
 Thompson, William 
 Throckmorton, Holmes 
 Thorp, Abel 
 Tice, Elijah 
 Van Cleaf, Peter, 
 Van Dorn, Esek 
 Voorhees, Hendrick 
 Wooley, Jedediah 
 
 Private. 
 
 FIFTH COMPANY. 
 
 Benjamin Weatherby, Captain. 
 David Kirkpatrick, Second Lieutenant. 
 John McEwen, Ensign. 
 
 Hector McNeal, 
 Thomas Garrens, 
 John Britton, 
 Herbert Burke, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Benjamin Applegate, Drummer. 
 Jeremiah Garthwaite, " 
 
 John Johnson, 
 
 Henry Garthwaite, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Fifer, 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMrAIGNT OF 1 779. 
 
 
 63 
 
 Allen, Benjamin Private. Lewis, James 
 
 Private. 
 
 Bates, William 
 
 McCracken, Philip 
 
 
 
 Britton, Daniel 
 
 ' McPherson, Joseph 
 
 
 
 Cherry, Henry ' 
 
 ' Meeker, Michael 
 
 
 
 Clark, Norris ' 
 
 ' Millson, James 
 
 
 
 Conklin, Cornelius ' 
 
 ' Morgan, Samuel 
 
 
 
 Davis, John ' 
 
 ' Ogden, Ludlow 
 
 
 
 Donaldson, James ' 
 
 ' Price, Thomas 
 
 
 
 Donaldson, John ' 
 
 ' Scudder, David 
 
 
 
 Feathers, George 
 Hagerty, Michael 
 
 ' Smith, WiUiam 
 
 
 
 ' Woodruff, Daniel 
 
 
 
 Johnson, Andrew 
 
 Young, Philip 
 
 
 
 Johnson, Lewis 
 
 
 
 
 SIXTH COMPANY. 
 
 James Broderick, Captain. 
 
 Finch Gildersleeve, Lieutenant, transferred to Tenth Company. 
 
 Jacob Wandle, 
 William Casey, 
 
 Anthony Parcell, 
 
 Blaricurn, Henry 
 Breasted, Isaac 
 Cole, Abraham 
 Conklin, John 
 Decker, Samuel 
 Decker, Thomas 
 Devons, Leonard 
 Dougherty, Anthony 
 Dow, Henry 
 Edsall, Peter 
 Gouger, Stephen 
 Gregory, Stephen 
 Gregory, Thomas 
 Hedger, Joseph 
 Lane, John 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Drummer. 
 Private. 
 
 William Lewis, 
 
 Loper, Isaac 
 Morrell, William 
 Morse, Philip 
 Quick, John 
 Reed, Lewis 
 Reynolds, Thomas 
 Rose, Ephraim 
 Stiles, Aaron 
 Sutton, Ephraim 
 Thomas, Luke 
 Waller, Robert 
 Walling, James 
 Wandle, David 
 Woodruff, Ephraim 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Priv 
 
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 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 SEVENTH COMPANY. 
 
 John Sandford, Captain, also Paymaster. 
 Anthony Maxwell, First Lieutenant. 
 
 Wilder Kidder, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Samuel Clark, 
 
 Corporal 
 
 William Davidson, 
 
 " 
 
 John Monhart, 
 
 •• 
 
 Reese Williams, 
 
 " 
 
 
 
 William Rogers, 
 
 (< 
 
 
 
 Joseph Hicks, 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 Jacob Eseler, 
 
 Fifer 
 
 Bogart, John 
 
 Private. 
 
 Kelly, David 
 
 Private 
 
 Bowls, George 
 
 " 
 
 Mapes, Phineas 
 
 
 
 Brush, David 
 
 " 
 
 McKey, Thomas 
 
 
 
 Burridge, John 
 
 " 
 
 Miller, George 
 
 
 
 Campbell, Alexander " 
 
 Mosure, John 
 
 
 
 Colter, Nathaniel 
 
 
 Sheldon, John 
 
 
 
 Conner, John 
 
 
 Smith, William 
 
 
 
 Cook, John 
 
 
 Stewart, James 
 
 
 
 Crane, Stephen 
 
 
 Stratton, Thomas 
 
 
 
 Davis, John 
 
 
 Sullivan, Peter 
 
 
 
 Goold, Joseph 
 
 
 Sutton, Zachariah 
 
 
 
 Hanley, John 
 
 
 Tapley, John 
 
 
 
 Hellings, William 
 
 
 Tharp, Benjamin 
 
 
 
 Hunter, John 
 
 
 Wilson, Robert 
 
 
 
 Hunter, William 
 
 
 
 
 
 EIGHTH COMPANY. 
 
 James Bonnel, Captain. 
 John Stagg, First Lieutenant. 
 John Reed, Ensign. 
 
 Thomas Hoyt, Sergeant. 
 
 Thomas Jackes, " 
 
 William Crookshanks, " 
 
 James Delaney, 
 Barney Mooney, 
 Albert Voorhees, 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Barney Baley, 
 William Vallence, 
 
 Drummer. 
 
IN THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1 779. 
 
 Alison, Joseph 
 Buckhanon, Robert 
 Conkling, John 
 Davis, Daniel 
 Davis, John 
 Frazey, Daniel 
 Frazey, Zebide 
 Gannon, William 
 Gordon, Bernardus 
 Gordon, Charles 
 Green, Pierson 
 Grotecloss, Gilbert 
 Hannis, William 
 Hoffman, Aaron 
 Johnson, Cato 
 Ketcher, John 
 
 Private. Laurence, Jock 
 
 " Leighton, John 
 
 Little, Robert 
 
 " Magrew, Michael 
 
 " McConnel, Hugh 
 
 " Mulvany, John 
 
 " Parks, Thomas 
 
 " Rich, John 
 
 Snyder, Henry 
 
 " Southerland, James 
 
 " Sullivan, John 
 
 " Vallentine, Matthias 
 
 " Vance, Thomas 
 
 " Van Vleet, Abraham 
 
 " Yeardon, William 
 
 Private. 
 
 NINTH COMPANY. 
 
 Abraham Neely, Captain. 
 
 Peter Taulman, Lieutenant, also Adjutant of the Regiment. 
 
 Uzal Meeker, Lieutenant, assigned to this Company in October, 1779. 
 
 Allen McLane, 
 Garret Sickles, 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Thomas Dawson, 
 Joseph Jacobs, 
 
 Brown, John 
 Cotton, George 
 Davis, John 
 Donaldson, Thomas 
 Dorrey, James 
 Grew, Michael 
 Hill, Matthew 
 Howell, William 
 Hutchinson, Richard 
 McKinsey, Malcom 
 McLane, Patrick 
 
 Drummer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 William Miles, 
 William Peck, 
 James Robinson, 
 
 John Undehand, 
 
 Mott, Ezekiel 
 Rippey, Hugh 
 Robinson, Daniel 
 Ryan, John 
 Sheridan, Peter 
 Sheridan, Thomas 
 Shoemaker, Peter 
 Stephens, Peter 
 Thomas, John 
 Wier, James 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 Private. 
 
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 NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL LINE 
 
 TENTH COMPANY. 
 
 Nathaniel Town, Captain. 
 
 Finch Gildersleeve, Lieutenant, assigned to this Company October, 1779. 
 
 William Rogers, 
 Race Williams, 
 
 Alexander, John 
 Allen, John 
 Begun, Albert 
 Cox, William 
 Ellison, Benjamin 
 Ellison, James 
 Gondee, John 
 Hadlock, Robert 
 Hathorn, William 
 Jenkins, James 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Alexander Nesbit, Drummer. 
 
 Private. 
 
 John Bogert, 
 
 Kinch, Jacob 
 Lane, William 
 Manning, Samuel 
 McHenry, Edward 
 McLellan, John 
 McMaster, John 
 O'Neal, Nicholas 
 Ray, John 
 Seward, John 
 
 Fifer. 
 
 Private . 
 
 ELEVENTH COMPANY. 
 (Formerly a part of Colonel David Forman's Regiment.) 
 
 John Combs, Captain. 
 
 Robert Pemberton, Lieutenant. 
 
 Peter Taulman, Lieutenant. 
 
 (Both these subaltern officers appear with this Company in October, 1779.) 
 
 Philip Chaplin, 
 Samuel Reading, 
 
 Austin, James 
 Birmingham, Daniel, 
 Edmundson, Joseph 
 Ford, David 
 Goldsworthy, John 
 Henderson, Isaac 
 Kelly, Edward 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Private. 
 
 Alexander Duncan, Corporal. 
 John Hawkins, " 
 
 Richard Mann, '' 
 
 Kelly, John 
 Lewis, Daniel 
 Patterson, Andrew 
 Rogers, William 
 Taylor, William 
 White, WiUiam 
 Williams, Isaac 
 
 Private. 
 
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