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Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey Providence College DigitalCommons@Providence Primary Sources History & Classics 1901 Documents relating to the revolutionary history of the state of New Jersey Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/primary Part of the United States History Commons "Documents relating to the revolutionary history of the state of New Jersey" (1901). Primary Sources. 3. https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/primary/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the History & Classics at DigitalCommons@Providence. It has been accepted for inclusion in Primary Sources by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Providence. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This volume was prepared and edited by authority of the State of New Jersey, at the request of the New Jersey Historical Society, and under the direction of the follow- ing Committee of the Society: WILLIAM NELSON, GARRET D. W. VROOM, WILLIAM S. STRYKBB, AUSTIN SCOTT, EDMUND D. HALSEY, FRANCIS B. LEE, ERNEST C. RICHARDSON. ^ DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY STATE OF NEW JERSEY. VOLUME I. EXTRACTS FROM AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. VOL. I. 1776—1777. BDITBD BY WILLIAM S. STRYKER, A.M., LL.D., ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF NEW JERSEY. TBENTON, N. J.: THE JOHN L. MCKPHY PCBLISHING Co., FBINTERS. 1901. PREFACE. Without waiting for the completion of the First Series of the New Jersey Archives, it was concluded some years ago to begin the publication of a Second Series, to extend through the Revolutionary period, and to include extracts from American newspapers and several volumes of un- published manuscript material. The newspaper extracts were secured by diligent gleaning among the files in the principal libraries of the country, and with an impartial disregard of the sentiments of the papers. It is believed they will prove of most fascinating interest, for the vivid pictures they present of contemporary events, and not the less so because of the often distorted views obtained from the want of that perspective to be had only by the lapse of time. Very considerable progress was made by the late Gen- eral William S. Stryker in preparing this material for the press, and about half of the present volume was printed under his supervision, when he was compelled by ill-health to lay it aside several years ago. When his death occurred, October 29, 1900, the Committee of the New Jersey Historical Society, having charge of this department of its work, felt that it would be a fitting memorial to their beloved associate if this volume were completed and published with his name on the title page, where it most properly belongs. The Legislature of 1901 generously appropriated the funds for the purpose, and the Committee proceeded with the work. The principal VI PREFACE. labor of seeing the volume through the press was cheer- fully assumed by Mr. Francis B. Lee, a member of the Committee, whose numerous valuable and most interest- ing notes attest the painstaking zeal with which he has discharged this voluntary task. The authorship of notes contributed by other members of the Committee than General Stryker is indicated by their initials. W. N. October 29, 1901. NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS. Burlington, December 22, 1775. DESERTED from the Second Battalion of the Continen- tal Army, raised in New Jersey, commanded by Col. Wil- liam Maxwell, and Captain William Falkner's company, now lying in Burlington Barrack's.—Christopher How- ard, Zedekiah Martin, Henry Mires, Isaac Butterworth, Samuel Ward, John Turner, William Watson, Elisha Stout, Thomas Holland, and William Biggins. This is to desire them, and all others who have absented them- selves from the three companies now lying in said Bar- racks, to repair to said place on or before the tenth day of January, and they may depend upon forgiveness for this first offence, but on failure may depend upon the punishment inflicted by a Court Martial, according to the nature of the offence. WILLIAM MAX-WELL,' Colonel. 1 William Maxwell "was a native of Greenwich township, Sussex county. At a meeting of the people of that county, July 16th, 1774, he was appointed on a com- mittee to co-operate with the other counties, and subsequently was elected a Deputy to the Provincial Congress which met at Trenton, In May, June and August, 1775.— Minutes of Provincial Congress, 19, 169, 184. On October 28th, 1775, the Provincial Congress recommended him for appointment as Colonel of the Western Battalion of New Jersey, and on November 7th the Continental Congress appointed him, accord- ingly, Colonel of the Second Battalion, First Establishment.— Ib., 246; Officers and JIen of New Jersey in the Kevolutionary Army, by William S. Stryker, 12, 16. The Con- tinental Congress appointed him, October 23d, 1776, Brigadier-General, and placed under him the four battalions raised on the Second Establishment, called "Max- well's Brigade."— Stryker, ut supra, 41-2. On May llth, 1779, Maxwell's Brigade was ordered to the Snsqnehanna, on Sullivan's expedition. He resigned July 2oth, 1780. '• He commanded the Jersey line, during his entire term of service, as a general ofticer, and took an active part in every battle in which his brigade distinguished itself."— Stryker, ut supra, 64. " He served in the French War of 1755 as an officer of Provincial troops; was with Braddock when that officer was defeated, and fought under Wolfe at the taking of Quebec. He was afterwards attached to the Commis- sary Department, and was posted at Mackinaw, holding the rank of Colonel. As 6 NEW JERSEY IN THE KEVOLTJTrON. [177& N. B.—All friends to American Liberty are requested, to be aiding and assisting in taking the above-mentioned soon as he heard, that the Colonies which 'bordered on the Atlantic had resolved to resist the Crown to the death rather than be enslaved, he resigned his commission in the British army, marched on foot to Trenton, and tendered his services to the Provincial Congress, then in session. They were accepted and a Colonel's commis- sion bestowed upon him, with orders to raise a battalion to march for Quebec. He succeeded in enlisting a fine body of men, and was engaged in recruiting when the meeting of the Sussex County Committee of Safety was held, Angnst 10th and llth, 1775, of which he was chosen Chairman. He took np his line of march, according to orders, hnt the defeat of Montgomery occurred before he could possibly reach Q,ue-- bec, and nothing remained but to return to headquarters. He was soon after raised to the rank of Brigadier-General, and served with distinction in the battles of Ger- mantown, Monmouth, Brandywine, Springfield, Wyoming and elsewhere. His per- sonal frankness and the absence of all haughtiness in his manners made him a great favorite with the soldiers; but his merits, as is too often the case, excited envy; sonai irauKness auu luc auacm^ ^ .... ^-,.^-—_ - favorite with the soldiers; but his merits, as is too often the case, excited envy ;• some of the officers, who boasted a more aristocratic lineage than he could claim, showed much jealousy of-his advancement, and [in 1780] when one of this class succeeded in obtaining promotion over his head, he resigned his commission. He -"/---. nT-^z,,-^.,^^^ n-^r, frprmpntiv eulogized some of the officers, who boasted, a more aristocratic lineage than he could claim, ' "~ ~' '-•'" "•"""""nTviont and nn 17801 when one of this class succeeded in ODiaming promunu^ uvc.- ^^ ^^-^, -„ ,- ^ enjoyed to the last the special regard of Gen. Washington, who frequently eulogized him in his letters. Unfortunately for biographical purposes, Gen. Maxwell's house- took fire just after the close of the Revolution, and all his valuable papers and cor- respondence were destroyed,"—The First Sussex Centenary, Newark, 1853, p. 60. An eloquent inscription, written by his friend and compatriot, Gov. Richard Howell, is placed over his remains, in the graveyard of the First Presbyterian Church of Green- wich township, setting forth that he was the oldest son of John and Anne Maxwell and that he died November 4th, 1795, in the 63d year of his age : IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES, HE TOOK AN EARLY, AN ACTIVE PART; A DISTINGUISHED MILITARY PARTISAN, HE ABOSE, THROUGH DIFFERENT GRADES OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, TO THE RANK OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL; A GENUINE PATRIOT, HE WAS A WARM AND DECIDED FRIEND TO THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF HIS COUNTRY ; IN PRIVATE LIFE, HE WAS EQUALLY DEVOTED TO ITS SERVICE, AMD TO THB GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY OF WHICH BE WAS A MEMBER, AN HONORABLE AND CHARITABLE MAN, A WAKM AND AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, A ZEALOUS ADVOCATE OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND AN ACTIVE PROMOTER OP THE INTERESTS OP THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.—JT6., 60, note. 1776] . NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS. 7 men if seen after the aforesaid tenth day of January.— The Pennsylvania Packet, January 1, 1776. Since the foregoing was put in type the following additional particulars have been furnished the writer by George Maxwell Kobesoc, ex-Attorney-General of New Jersey and ex-Secretary of the Navy: General William Maxwell was born near Newtown Stewart, in county Tyrone, Ireland. He was of Scotch-Irish descent and was the son of John and Anne Max- well. He came to this country with his father when nearly a man grown, Hia father settled at Greenwich, in the then county of Sussex, now Warren county. William entered the Provincial army as an officer. He was at the taking of Quebec by Wolfe, and was one of Washington's Provincials in the Braddock Expedi- tion against Fort Duquesne, and he was at the defeat of that unfortunate General. For his military services at that period he received from the British crown a grant of land near where Tarrytown is now located.
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