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Stryker - The New Jersey Volunteers Loyalists
Stryker - The New Jersey Volunteers Loyalists
(LOYALISTS)
IN
VOLUNTEERS"
LOYALISTS)
IN
BY
WILLIAM
S.
STRYKER, R
TRENTON,
N.
J.
1887.
the contained in this paper in refevenco the service of Loyalists of New Jersey in the military
facts
"to
The
Crown during
mentary
com Docu
the
History of
Register,
s
Howe s
Narrative,
Galloway
Pamphlets, Moore
Diary of
field s
American Revolution, Dawson s Historical Magazine, HatHistory of Elizabeth, Whitehead s History of Perth
Amboy, Minutes
Safetv of
and Council
of
Simcoe
Writings of Washington, s Life of General Greens, Greene Military Journal, Pennsylvania Archives first and second series, Lossing s
Jersey, Sparks
s
New
Southern
s
Cam
Henry
s
Clinton
Narrative,
Mountain, Dawson
Battles by
Land and
Howe s New
nal,
Rivington s Gazette, Ramsey s South Carolina, Sims South Carolina, and the records on file in my office. But,
of course,
Sabine
Loyalists of the
American Revolution
it
As soon
as General
Howe
arrived at Staten
970979
(LOYALISTS)
that he wrote
"I
New York
these words
to
have great
army from
who,
necticut,
government. Sixty men came over two days ago with a few arms from the neighbourhood of Shrewsbury, in Jersey, who were desirous to serve, and I understand
there are five ihundred
"
more
their
example/."
to
appoint recruiting
different parts of
New
detachments of Provincials as
fast as
whose devotion
the war had
made him a prominent man in New Jersey, was selected as the proper officer to organize and to com mand the men who were anxious to enroll themselves
He was commis
to consist of
sioned at
eral,
first
two
thousand and
hundred
under
his headquarters at the organization of the on Staten Island, in New York harbour, and this corps
place soon
New York
as for deserters
Skinner
himself
seems
it is
in
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
country.
at the
We
Howe s
Narrative that
beginning of the
campaign
but
five
of 1777 General
Skinner
to recruit
men complement, but in November, 1777, he had eight hundred and fifty-nine men on his brigade rolls, and
in
May, 1778, after several months of active exertions," he had enlisted one thousand one hundred and one men.
"
But
at that
m^de and
five
hundred and
New
to Charleston,
South Carolina.
It
is
General Skinner recruited about two-thirds of the quota All of these soldiers immediately first assigned to him.
on enlistment were placed in active service, and they began to distinguish themselves at an early day in their great zeal to annoy, intimidate and injure their former patriot
friends
and neighbours.
Howe
to
Lord George
Germain, dated New York, December 20th, 1776, this re I cannot close this letter without making mark is made
"
Esq., Attorney-General in
army entered those provinces. I therefore him as a gentleman meriting royal recommend humbly Thus early was General Skinner showing his favour."
vice since the
This was just after the retreat of Washington s army through New Jersey, and General Skin ner was urging his own friends to take protection from the
British.
It
to
"
the
unfortunate affair
at Trenton.
(LOYALISTS)
Q.
Who
is
man
in the
world?"
A.
Q.
"
Governor
do you call him Governor?" Because when Lord and General Howe thought that they had conquered the Jerseys they appointed him Lieu tenant Governor of that State. Skinner assumed that title
"
Why
A.
"
Q.
Why
is
A.
"Because
and
his kinsfolk
a foreign hand; and because, to gain present ease and tran sitory honours, he would fasten the chains of slavery on three millions of people and their offspring forever."
The answers
which
patriotic
to these
the efforts
Jerseymen held of General Skinner and of which he had already made to restore them to
England.
List of 1778, as found in the His
first
s
their allegiance to
In Rivington
Army
torical Society of
complete
Jersey
New
Volunteers.
summer
of that year.
The com
corrected,
and
it is
now
set forth in
proper
official style.
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
Brigadier-General,
....
. . .
.
Cortlandt Skinner.
Chaplain,
Edward Winslow.
FIRST BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Major,
.
Elisha Lawrence.
Thomas Leonard.
Patrick Henry. James Nealson.
Adjutant,
Quartermaster,
.....
. .
Surgeon,
Captains,
William Peterson.
John Barbaric,
John Longstreet,
Garret Keating,
Captain-Lieutenant,
Lieutenants,
John Taylor,
...:....
SECOND BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
First Major,
John Morris.
......
.
Second Major,
Adjutant,
.
.... John
. .
.
.
John
Antill.
Golden.
Quartermaster,
.....
. .
Surgeon,
...#.
Surgeon
Mate,
Chaplain,
Captains,
.
........
George Stanforth,
(LOYALISTS)
Lieutenants,
Ensigns,
...
William K. Hurlet,
Thomas Morrison.
THIRD BATTALION.
First Major,
......
Robert Drummond.
Philip VanCortlandt.
Second Major,
Adjutant,
Quartermaster,
Surgeon,
Captains,
...
Captain-Lieutenant,
Lieutenants,
Anthony Hollinshead,
John Jenkins, John Troup, William Chew,
Francis Frazer.
Ensigns,
FOURTH BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
First Major,
Abraham Van
Buskirk.
Second Major,
Adjutant,
.
Robert Timpany.
.
-.
...
Arthur Maddox.
William Sorrell.
Quartermaster,
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
Surgeon,
Captains,
...
.
John Hammell.
William Van Allen, Samuel Heyden,
Peter Ruttan, Patrick Campbell,
...
Daniel Bessonet,
......
Edward
Earle,
Martin Ryerson,
......
George Ryerson.
FIFTH BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Joseph Barton.
Major,
Adjutant,
.
Thomas
.
Millidge.
...
; . .
Isaac
Hedden.
Quartermaster,
Surgeon,
Surgeon
Mate,
.
....
.
Captains,
....
;.
10
(LOYALISTS)
.......
John Reid.
Patrick Haggerty, Ezekiel Dennis,
Ensigns,
Peter Anderson,
Joseph Bean.
SIXTH BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Isaac Allen.
Major,
Richard V. Stockton.
.
Captains,
Joseph Lee,
Peter Campbell, Charles Harrison.
Lieutenants,
......
.
Edward
Ensigns,
.
Steele.
..
James Service.
be
made
New
"Skinner s Greens,"
whenever
those loyalists
left
New
also be
made
of direct attacks on the tory forces on Staten Island, as well as a brief statement of the conduct of those loyal battalions
in their
campaign
in the South.
February 18th, 1777, Colonel John Neilson, of the Second Regiment, Middlesex county, New Jersey Militia, with a small detachment of his command,
the
On
morning
of
captured Major Richard V. Stockton, of the Sixth Battalion of the Volunteers, with fifty-nine enlisted men, on Lawrence
Island.
arms
of 1777, the
New
Jersey
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
11
New
Jersey for
New
Jersey
commanding
Town, with Colonel Elias Dayton, of the Third Battalion, who was stationed at Newark, and a party of one hundred militia of Essex county, determined to inflict some severe
punishment on Skinner
s
tories.
On
they were re-enforced by a thousand men of the brigade of Brigadier-General William Smallwood, of Maryland, and
of Brigadier-General Chevalier
Point,
The
s
New
Ferry
Jersey
now Ward
Point.
The
attack by the
next morning,
Law
hundred and
in severely
talion,
thirty enlisted
men
of their
commands, and
wounding Major John Barnes, of the First Bat and Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Vaughan Dongan,
Third Battalion, from which wounds they both died. General Sullivan, however, with the other body of Conti nentals, endeavored at the same time to surprise the Volun
of the
teers,
upon the
punished by them.
affair,
On
inson,
notwithstanding his loss, as a great victory. the 27th of November, 1777, General Philemon Dick
commanding
officer of the
New
Point to
12
(LOYALISTS)
Staten Island
militia.
hundred
He advanced
men
General Dickinson, however, made a few little attacks on some straggling parties of the tories and on the
detachment
He
three
men
of his
command
captured, and two wounded. The main object designed by this affair was not accomplished, but General Washington was pleased with the disposal made of the forces by-General
Dickinson and the manner in which they had been handled. A considerable body of the New Jersey Volunteers spent
the winter of 1777-78 in the gay
life
The
From Howe s
Narrative we find that during their occupancy of Philadel phia the British held out special inducements for men to
enlist in the loyal
were obliged
to
report
hundred and seventy-four real volunteers, from under Colonel Vandyke." The service of this
has not been ascertained, nor can
the
"real
formed.
On
New
Jersey Volun
teers left
IN
13
fort at Billingsport,
by the militia of
New Jersey. A small attack was made New Jersey from Elizabeth Town Port at
one o clock on the morning of June 9th, 1778, and they effected a landing on Staten Island and fired upon the Provincial troops that were still stationed there. Again,
just before daylight, they attempted to land in ten boats,
said to contain
one hundred men, but they were greeted with a quick discharge of firearms and were driven back. It is thus seen that the tories were not left entirely undis
turbed in possession of this beautiful garden island. On the evening of June 12th, 1778, Captain Cornelius
Hatfield,
Jr.,
over the
sound and plundered the residence of Lieutenant John Haviland, of the First Regiment of Essex county, New
Jersey, Militia,
off a prisoner.
Some
Henry
portion of the
s
New
Point
his
Clinton,
in
Monmouth, June
at
Washington posted
guard and keep
in
Elizabeth
Town
the
Brigade of
to
On
the
15th
day
October,
1778,
Captain
Patrick
Ferguson, of the Seventieth Regiment British Foot, with a detachment of the Third New Jersey Volunteers, made a
descent on Little Neck,
surprised
killed
New
men.
Jersey, on
Egg Harbour
s
Inlet,
troops
and
some
On
14
(LOYALISTS)
harbour
December
detachment of the New Jersey Volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Allen commanding, went out with this party and suffered considerably in the battle
29th, on Brewton Hill.
just mentioned.
New
Jersey Volunteers
was so
far consolidated, as to
four battalions.
List, in
Brigadier-General,
....
Cortlandt Skinner.
Chaplain.
Edward Winslow.
FIRST BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Joseph Barton.
Major,
Adjutant,
Thomas
Isaac
Millidge.
Quartermaster,
Surgeon,
Captains,
Uzal Johnson.
Joseph Crowell, Garret Keating,
Hedden,
Ensigns,
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
Jewett,
15
Ensigns,
.......
Zenophon
SECOND BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
First Major,
.
Second Major,
Adjutant,
Quartermaster,
Surgeon,
Chaplain,
Captains,
,
.
McLeod,
Lieutenants,
Thomas T.
Pritchard,
Josiah Parker,
Thomas Morrison,
Charles Babbington,
Uriah Bleau,
THIRD BATTALION.
Isaac Allen.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Major,
Robert Drummond.
Adjutant,
Quartermaster,
Surgeon,
Chaplain,
".
Thomas
Barton.
16
(LOYALISTS)
Joseph Lee,
Patrick Campbell, Samuel Hudnot,
Charles Harrison,
Bartholomew Thatcher,
Daniel Cozens,
Lieutenants,
Ensigns,
FOURTH BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Major,
Adjutant,
Surgeon,
Chaplain,
Captains,
........
.
John Hammell.
Daniel Batwell.
Samuel Ryerson.
Lieutenants,
......
Edward
Earle,
Martin Ryerson,
IN
17
Lieutenants,
Ensigns,
Colin McVane,
James Cole.
During the year 1779 General Skinner offered a reward of 2,000 guineas for the capture of Governor Livingston, of
New
spic^
7
many
very
this
tween the Governor and Sir Henry Clinton in reference to In May, 1780, we find Ensign attempted exploit.
of the First Battalion,
James Moody,
a terror to patriots in
New
On
York
hundred men
of the
Third Battalion,
city
New
New
by way of
New
They
killed Cornelius
Dema-
The
Abraham J. Blauvelt, Cornelius companies Harring and John Huyler immediately gathered and pur
of Captains
The
carrying off four of the patriots, but obtained no forage, or any plunder of any kind.
no
of 1779 a considerable
detachment
the
New
2
British
Jersey Volunteers was sent to reinforce the army in South Carolina, and took part in the
18
(LOYALISTS)
battalion
under
command
formed part of
the garrison of one of the large redoubts on the south side of the city, near the river. Captain Daniel Cozens, of the
Third Battalion,
engagement.
On
and strength
of General Skinner
of the 14th of
Brigade
on Staten Island.
January was Lord selected for the enterprise, and Major-General Stirling was detailed to command the forces, which moved in three
The night
distinct detachments.
The party
started
on the morning
s
Point to
gan s Mills, another toward what is now Tompkinsville, and the third detachment toward Decker s Ferry. The
again apprised of their coming, were found strongly guarded in their works, and it was with some difficulty
tories,
to
withdraw his
command
in
safety, not
even daring
to attack
them
in
their intrenchments.
been opened in the enforcements were on their way from that city. A party of New Jersey Volunteers of the First and Third
Battalions
in all one
He had learned that a channel had ice from New York, and that large re-
Lieutenant
hundred and thirty-two men under Van Buskirk, with twelve British dragoons under command of Lieutenant Stuart, made a raid on Elizabeth Town on the evening of January 25th, 1780, and
carried off five officers
and forty-seven
burned the Presbyterian Church, the School House. Captain Cornelius Hatfield,
guide
of the tory troops
was the
on
this
IN
19
malicious
in the
man, whose father was, at that very time, an elder church destroyed by his wanton conduct.
On
made another
raid on Elizabeth
Town, plundering the residences of many prominent citi zens and made active search for Judge Elisha Boudinot and the Honorable William Peartree Smith, both noted
patriots.
On March
and
tried
the
same experiment,
On June
Volunteers
Major Matthias Halsted a prisoner. 7th, 1780, two battalions of the New Jersey
assigned
to
having been
the
division
com
manded by
to Elizabeth
Town, marched
to
as far as Connecticut
and thence
Springfield,
New
In the battle of
Springfield, which was fought June 23d, 1780, these two battalions marched on either flank of the division of Major-General Matthews, and on the march and during
In the forces
Ferguson, and generally spoken of as British regulars, a considerable number of picked men of the New Jersey
Volunteers had been assigned for special service. Captain Patrick Campbell of the Second Battalion, commanded the
detachment of light infantry which belonged to the com mand of Colonel Alexander Innes. This corps took an
active part in the fight at
Mountain, South Carolina, October 7th, 1780. Captains Patrick Campbell and Samuel Ryerson were wounded and Ensign Richard McGinnis was
King
On
the evening of
November
4ih, 1780, a
party of the
20
(LOYALISTS)
Elizabeth Town,
to
and on
captured Colonel Matthias Ogden, of the First Regiment, Jersey Continental Line, and Captain Jonathan* Dayton of the Third Regiment. Enterprises of
this occasion
were frequent during the winter of 1780- 81. Especially was this so on March 21st, 26th and 27th and
this
kind
May
the
consisted
partly
of
men
of
Second
Battalion
of
the
Volunteers.
Captain
Patrick
at
party of thirty
sally
men, who,
one
on the flank of the American troops and a desper ate contest ensued. Captain John Barbarieand Lieutenant
and
fell
John
Hatton
were
part
badly
also
wounded.
in
The
at
New
Jersey
at
Volunteers took
the
fight
Guilford,
Cowpens, at Eutaw Springs, and at the siege of Charleston. At the battle of Eutaw Springs, Captain James Shaw, of
the First Battalion, was mortally
John Barbarie, of the same organi Van Buskirk and Lieutenant John Jacob zation, Captain Troup, of the Third Battalion, received serious wounds. On September 4th, 1781, the Fourth Battalion left New
New Lon
The
defence of Fort Griswold, and the murder of LieutenantColonel William Ledyard, after he had given up his sword, is often in history given to the discredit of Lieutenant-Col
Buskirk. This certainly, however, is an error. General Arnold detached the Fourth Battalion under comonel
Van
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
21
mand
of
Lieutenant-Colonel
take a
hill
chusetts, to
Massa
village.
This was very quickly done, and General Arnold followed the force to the hill, which had been taken. During this
fight they
were compelled to storm Groton Fort. They massacred the garrison and burned the village of New
London.
Among
the
"
prisoners taken
in
the garrisons of
York
and Gloucester, October 19th, 1781," we find that there was a captain, a lieutenant and two enlisted men of the Third
Regiment,
New
Jersey Volunteers.
This
little
party evi
dently failed to escape on the transport vessels to New York, on which Lord Cornwallis had placed all the Loyalists who had taken part in the siege of Yorktown.
In
Games
Volun
appeared by the rolls of that brigade at the beginning of that year. Lieutenant-Colonel DeLancey had returned from captivity and many other changes had taken
place in the
roster
is
lists
brigade.
The
as follows
Brigadier-General,
...
Cortlandt Skinner.
FIRST BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Stephen DeLancey.
Major,
Adjutant,
Thomas
Millidge.
Ozias Insley.
...
Quartermaster,
Quartermaster,
. .
Surgeon,
Chaplain,
Captains,
........
John Golden,
Joseph Crowell,
22
(LOYALISTS)
Captain-Lieutenant,
Lieutenants,
William Hutchinson.
Joseph Cunliff,
Isaac
Hedden,
Patrick Haggerty,
John Thompson, John Lawrence, James Moody, John Reid, William Van Dumont.
Ensigns,
.........
James
Brittain,
Zenophon
Jewett,
Ozias Insley,
Henry Barton,
Phineas Millidge,
SECOND BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Isaac Allen
Major,
Adjutant,
.
Robert Drummond.
Cornelius Thompson. John Falker. William Peterson.
Quartermaster
Surgeon,
Chaplain,
Captains,
.
Charles Morgan.
Joseph Lee,
Patrick Campbell, Charles Harrison,
Bartholomew Thatcher,
Daniel Cozens,
Thomas Hunlock,
John Barbaric.
Captain-Lieutenant,
Lieutenants,
.
. .
Edward
Steele.
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
23
Lieutenants,
Enoch Lyon.
Ensigns,
,
John
Willis,
George Lee.
THIRD BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Major,
Adjutant,
.
,
Quartermaster,
Surgeon,
Surgeon
Mate,
Chaplain,
Captains,
.
William Stevenson,
George Lambert,
Justus Earle.
24
(LOYALISTS)
Van
Cortlandt,
Jr.,
Henry Van
Allen,
Robert Woodward,
Stephen Ryder, - Hendorff.
the war,
given
in
Rivington
Army
List, in
the collec
tions of the
New York
Historical Society.
made about
had abandoned
in the
hope
of sustaining the
were beginning
to
new
republic,
flee
and
to
escape
The
here given
Brigadier-General,
....
Cortlandt Skinner.
FIRST BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Stephen DeLancey.
Major,
Adjutant,
Thomas
Millidge.
John Atchison.
.
Quartermaster,
Surgeon,
Chaplain,
Captains,
.........
Joseph Crowell,
Captain-Lieutenant,
Joseph Cunliff.
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
25
Lieutenants,
Andrew Stockton,
James Brittain,
Ensigns,
,
John Atchison,
Joseph Brittain.
SECOND BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Major,
Adjutant,
Adjutant,
Isaac Allen.
..
Robert Drummond.
Cornelius
Thompson (Resigned).
George Cypher.
Quartermaster,
Quartermaster,
.....
.
Surgeon,
Chaplain,
Chaplain,
Captains,
.
Morgan (Removed).
Bartholomew Thatcher,
Daniel Cozens,
Thomas Hunlock,
John Barbaric.
Captain-Lieutenant,
Lieutenants,
.
.
Edward
Steele.
26
(LOYALISTS) *
Enoch Lyon,
John
Ensigns,
. .
.
Willis,
Stephen Millidge.
THIRD BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Major,
Adjutant,
...
Quartermaster,
Surgeon,
Chaplain,
Captains,
John Hammell.
Daniel Batwell.
William
Van
Allen,
Norman McLeod,
Lieutenants,
Donald Campbell. John Van Buskirk, James Servanier, John Hyslop, John Simonson,
William Stevenson,
Josiah Parker,
George Lambert,
Justus Earle,
Richard Cooper.
Ensigns,
Philip
Van
Cortlandt, Jr.,
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
Sorrell,
27
Ensigns,
William
Malcom WiJmott.
In addition to what has been written in reference to the
conduct of these tory volunteers during the Revolutionary War, special mention must now be given of the officers who
commanded
this contingent
BRIGADIER-GENERAL.
few purely personal facts with General Skinner need regard only now be added. He was of Scotch ancestry and was born in 1728, was the
to
CORTLANPT SKINNER.
after
last
King
for the
Province of
New
Jer
He
continued his allegiance to the Crown and received authority to form a corps of loy
strict integrity of character.
alists for
He
duty as a brigade of New Jersey Volunteers in the He was made colonel thereof July 1st, He 1776, and afterward commissioned brigadier-general. served as such during the whole war. His family lived in
military service.
Jamaica, Long Island, during the war, and at its conclusion they all sailed for England. He continued through life on the half-pay list of the British Government as a general officer, and he died
city
New York
and afterward
at
at Bristol,
March
15th, 1799.
He
28
(LOYALISTS)
Amboy, New
He
had
five
LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.
ISAAC ALLEN.
of General
Howe s
occu
pation of Trenton, in December, 1776, the family of Isaac Allen left their home in that city, accepted protection
papers and were ever afterward considered subjects of King George. Isaac Allen was commissioned December 3d, 1776,
in the Sixth Battalion.
October 9th, 1779, he appears as in command of the Third Battalion, but in the later years of the war in the Second
Battalion as
its
lieutenant-colonel.
all
his property in
he resumed his profession as a lawyer in St. John, New Brunswick, and in after years took a seat upon the supreme
year
JOSEPH BARTON.
1778
as in
This
as
officer
appears on the
rolls
of
command
lieutenant-colonel of the
Fifth
was captured by the patriots under Generals Stirling and Sullivan, on Staten Island, August 22d, 1777. He left
the service in 1781.
history.
He
Very
little
is
known
of his personal
STEPHEN DELANCEY.
of that
He was
York.
It
name
in
New
why he
accepted a commission in a
New
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
29
commis
sioned as such September 5th, 1776, while he was a pris oner. On the evening of June 4th, 1776, he was celebrating
the birthday of George III, and being loud in his expres
sions of loyalty, he
patriotic citizens of
of
and
his
Albany and given in the safe-keeping Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, who seems to have
charge during the war of such tories. After his was again commissioned lieutenant-colonel of
taken
release he
New
Jersey Volunteers,
December
25th,
and
so continued
After
Nova
Scotia.
He
command
on August 22d, 1777, he was severely wounded and died soon after. He was in his twenty-ninth year at the time
of his death,
him
"
young gentleman
a
soldier."
uncommon
merit, both as a
man and
ELISHA LAWRENCE.
The family
of Lawrence, in
in
Mon-
well
represented
the
Continental
Army and the militia of the State in the Revolutionary War. John Lawrence, however, a land surveyor, was an ardent loyalist, and was imprisoned for his conduct during
that period,
and
and kept
in
Trenton and then in Morristown, on paroleof New Jersey on July 17th, 1776,
30
(LOYALISTS)
his case.
Another son,
was one of the most zealous supporters of the Crown. In 1776, at the age of twenty six, he was made the command
ing officer of the First Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, having been very
His property was con fiscated and sold April 5th, 1779. In the skirmish on Staten Island, August 22d, 1777, he was captured by Colonel Matthias Ogden and the forces under Major-Gen
active in organizing
the
corps.
eral
his
connection
with
the Jersey
After the
war Colonel
on half pay,
Lawrence removed
Nova
Scotia, retiring
and he died
at Cardigan,
JOHN MORRIS.
commissioned
talion,
as
the
Second Bat
New
known
of
him except
commanding general of the British Army, who had directed him to destroy some salt factories in Monmouth county.
Exercising some conscience in the matter, he spared cer
tain
private
stores
The
on record.
1776, he
is
He formerly
He
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WAR.
in
31
vember
talion.
1778 he
command
of the
Third Battalion.
talion, at the
He
New London,
lowed, and
is
fol
spoken of in report by Arnold with applause He did not remain in the United
removed immediately
of the city.
to
Shelburne,
Nova
Scotia,
MAJORS.
Although an officer of this name held the commission of major in the Second Battalion, New Jersey
JOHN ANTILL.
Volunteers, in 1778
known
ions for
talion."
of his
and 1779, comparatively nothing is service up to August 15th, 1780, when he was
cashiered for
making "false returns and drawing provis more men than the effective strength of his bat
He
was a resident of Trenton, New Jer sey, before the war, and was high sheriff of the county of Hunterdon up to July 18th, 1776, when he was superceded
JOHN BARNES.
He
by the Provincial Congress of New Jersey because he re fused to execute the writs issued by its authority. His res
idence on Queen,
now Greene street, below Front, was used by General Washington on December 29th, 1776, as his
headquarters. In the beginning of the organization of the
office of
He was
severely
wounded August
(LOYALISTS)
same time Lieutenant-Colonel Dongan was wounded, and died August 31st, 1777, much lamented as a worthy man and a gallant soldier."
"
There
officer,
major
in the
Fourth Battalion
year.
in 1778,
and
left
the ser
vice that
same
Nor
is
known
JOHN GOLDEN.
major 1778 and 1779.
in
We
find
an
officer
of this
name
as a
New
Jersey Volunteers in
He
is
Golden.
New York
Genealogical and
Biographical
ROBERT DRUMMOND.
Skinner
s
Few men
did more to
mond.
He
1776 recruiting
Volunteers, was very successful and was made major of the Third Battalion November 20th, 1776, and in 1782 and
He was
of the
in
service during
enlisted
large
number
men
by
victims to fever in the Southern campaign. He died in the Chelsea Hospital, district of London, and was
fell
him
buried
in
St.
Luke
churchyard, February
3d,
1789.
Major
Drummond
war
at
Acquackanonk
1759,
New
Jersey,
and
shipper.
He
married,
April
Jennie,
ex-
portrait of
him
is still
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33
taken in London in 1784, which represents him in the uniform of a British officer, scarlet coat, blue facings and
tant,
buff vest.
the Province of
1770
to 1774, a
deputy
to
On
confiscated.
"
sketch of the
"
of this officer
may
be found in the
Paterson Press
of
January
31st, 1877.
THOMAS LEONARD.
Jersey tories.
This
of the
first
of
He
must be
find
We
him
major of the First Battalion in 1778, and leaving the regiment the same year. Affer the war he lived in Nova
Scotia.
THOMAS MILLIDGE.
ship, Morris county,
veyor in
the war.
New
made
he acquired a large amount of very valuable real estate. When the war broke out he joined the brigade of loyalists
under Skinner
for
thought out of a conscientious regard He was commis his sworn allegiance to the Crown.
it is
sioned major of the Fifth Battalion, December llth, 1776; was made made major of the First Battalion in 1779, and
so continued until the
New
Jersey was
immediately confiscated
by the
patriots.
At the
close of the
war he
settled
in
Nova
Scotia.
Only
34
(LOYALISTS)
once did
Morris county, and then his old neighbours gave him distinctly to understand that he was
not wanted
there.
He
died
in
He
is
Major Stockton, of the Sixth Battalion of Volunteers, was a resident of Princeton, and a
connection of the patriotic family at Morven." He, how ever, was a tory of the most malignant type, and his private character could not have been exemplary, as he was called
"
RICHARD V. STOCKTON.
"Double
He
on account of sundry unfair transactions. was also known as the famous land pilot," because of
Dick,"
"
New
Jersey.
in
irons to
Washington said of him that he had been very active and mischievous, but desired that he should be treated as
a
captured
officer,
and not
as a
felon."
He was
for the
tried
murder
Amberman,
of
seems, however,
of his villainous
II,
conduct
335.
is
narrated in Sabine
Loyalists, Vol.
page
life at St.
John,
New
Brunswick.
He
Hatfield, of Elizabethtown.
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WAR.
35
ROBERT TIMPANY.
came
years,
to
He was
He
America
in
He was
dier during the entire war, always ready to serve his King,
and he received several wounds during the campaigns in the South. He attained the great age of one hundred and
two years, dying at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1844. name on the records is often written Tenpenny.
His
PHILIP
VAN CORTLANDT.
He was
of the
well-known
among
New Amsterdam
is
as land
stated as
Although considered a resident of New York, he is found as major of the Third Battalion of New Jersey Vol unteers, December llth, 1776, and he remained in service
for all the years of the war.
He must
be carefully distin
guished from
New York Continental Regi ment, or from Colonel Philip Van Cortland,.of Essex county, New Jersey, who commanded a battalion and
Van
Cortlandt, of the Second
fought on the patriot side under General Heard at the The property of Major Van Cort battle of Long Island.
landt was
all confiscated,
and he
fled
to
England
after the
In Sa-
found an account of his own very Four of his five sons were officers in the
army
of Great Britain,
36
(LOYALISTS)
JOHN ATCHISON.
First Battalion.
An
officer
by
this
He had
Nothing
known
of his history.
GEORGE CYPHER.
son, George
talion,
On
Thomp
Cypher was made adjutant of the Second Bat September 7th, 1783. This was just at the close of
the war.
and adjutant of the Fifth Battalion, commissioned July 29th, 1777, and held the same commission in the First Battalion the next
a lieutenant
ISAAC HEDDEN.
He was
and remained
in
He was
Sabine says, clerk of the House of Assembly of made, the Province of New Brunswick.
PATRICK HENRY.
of 1778,
said
office.
His
after history
not known.
JOHN HYSLOP.
the Fourth
He was commissioned
March
1st,
a lieutenant
in
Battalion,
25th, 1777,
1781, and
as such
OZIAS INSLEY.
On August
an
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WAR.
thereof, but
37
ensign in the
first
battalion
and adjutant
was
supplanted by John Atchison as adjutant, in April, 1782. His military service otherwise is not known. With other officers he left for Nova Scotia after the declaration of
peace, but died on Staten Island, the scene of his military
service.
JOHN JENKINS On the rolls of the Third Battalion, in 1778, we find the name of this officer as lieutenant and
and adjutant, commissioned March 20th, 1777, and he held the line office in the Second Battalion until the end of the
war, although John Hyslop takes his place on staff duty in 1781. We find his name after the war as a resident of
ARTHUR MADDOX.
adjutant in the
1778,
is
This
officer
was
captain
and
and
is
Fourth Battalion up to the close of the year then dropped from the rolls and nothing more
known
of him.
THOMAS
opening
T.
PRITCHARD.
He commenced
in 1780
is lost to
his service as a
battalion
at
the
and
the service.
CORNELIUS THOMPSON.
this
The
records
show an
officer of
3
name
Battalion,
March 24th
June
29th, 1780.
He
promoted a lieutenant, February 22d, 1783, and resigned his commission as adjutant, September 7th, 1783.
was
38
(LOYALISTS)
FLEMING COLGAN.
Battalion in
after that date.
was quartermaster of the Fifth 1778, but does not appear in the Volunteers
He
BARTHOLOMEW DOUGHTY.
This
man
is
enrolled as quar
of the
Third Battalion
organization
until
DANIEL JAMES. On the resignation of Quartermaster Falker, Daniel James took his office, and so continued
until the
He was
origi
there nally a resident of Philadelphia, but did not return It is believed he settled in Shelburne, Nova after the war.
Scotia.
THOMAS MORRISON.
of the
He was
still
Second Battalion up
to the
JAMES NEALSON was lieutenant and quartermaster of Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence s First Battalion in 1778, and
afterward a captain-lieutenant for a short time.
WILLIAM SORRELL entered the service of the King, De cember 24th, 1776, when he was commissioned quarter
master of the Fourth Battalion.
He was
also
commis-
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39
July 31st, 1779, and so continued until peace was an nounced. He was a prisoner of war in Philadelphia,
as
is
shown
of
the
First
rolls the
JOHN WADDINGTON.
SURGEONS.
ABSALOM BAINBRIDGE. Dr. Bainbridge was born at Maidenhead, now Lawrenceville, Mercer county, New Jer
sey, in the
in 1762,
years practiced the profession of medicine in his native village. In 1773 he removed to
and
Princeton and was elected president of the State Medical In 1777 he removed to Flatbush, Long Island, Society.
and then
tion
to
New York
city,
from the British, General Skinner s Brigade, but ceased his connection there
with before April, 1778.
He
40
(LOYALISTS)
After service in
his
Dr. Bainbridge
resumed
practice in
surgeon of the Second Bat talion at the closing days of the war. This is generally considered to be the man who was confined in the prison
in Philadelphia in 1777.
DANIEL BANCROFT.
He was
On being
before.
released,
he became a
HENRY DONGAN.
Battalion
This
officer
up
to
1778.
He
family as the
*
dead
soldier, Lieutenant-Colonel
Dongan.
CHARLES EARLE.
surgeon of and on April 24th, 1782, we find him restored to the ser vice, but as surgeon of the First Battalion.
At the beginning of the war he was the Second Battalion, but was dropped in 1781,
At the beginning of the war we find Dr. Hammell on the patriot side, and July 24th, 1776, he
was commissioned surgeon
Battalion of
s
JOHN HAMMELL.
Heard
Brigade,
New
s
He went
with
General
Heard
command
to
re-inforce
the array at
New
York, and in his professional capacity Long Island. Soon after that he
Army.
He New Jersey
November
25th, 1776.
In the fall of 1777 he was captured on Staten Island by a party of troops under Major-General Philemon
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
41
Dickinson,
field,
who commanded
the
New
31st,
November
jail
for
high treason.
He was
war.
Third Battalion
UZAL JOHNSON.
April 17th, 1757.
Jersey,
he was
commissioned
surgeon of the North Battalion, Second Regiment, of Essex County Militia. When the colonies declared themselves independent, he retained his allegiance
to the British
Crown,
arid
soon after
is
found in commis
Battalion of New Jersey Vol afterward transferred to the First Battalion. He unteers,
New
and was
tain.
of great service to
wounded
at
King
Moun
He
lived in
Newark
after the
May
22d, 1827.
beginning of the war, in the Third in 1779, and in 1782 in the Second Battalion. I arn unable to find any
him than
SURGEON
JAMES BOGGS was surgeon
during the
first
MATES.
He
He
army
in
November
42
(LOYALISTS)
died in
1814, and
Halifax in
HAULENBECK.
Christian
An
is
officer
of this
name, with
rolls
is
name unknown,
found on
the
of the
out of the
STEPHEN MILLIDGE,
several years surgeon
s
a son
of
for
mate
seems
to
have
tired of the
is
medical profession,
in
14th. 1783, he
found
Second Battalion.
CHAPLAINS.
in
He was
educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1752 he came to live in Philadelphia. In 1753 he married in
David Rittenhouse. In
1755 he received the appointment of a missionary to the counties of York and Cumberland, Pennsylvania. In the
year 1758 he became chaplain to the forces under General
For twenty years thereafter he was rector of the English Church at In 1770 he received the degree Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Quesne.
of Master of Arts
Du
from King
College,
New York.
When
the Revolutionary
to
War opened
to
abandon
gregation, and removed to New York city in November, In 1779 he became chaplain of the Third Battalion, 1778.
New
May
25th, 1780, in
New
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WAR.
43
York
city,
George
Chapel.
DANIEL BATWELL.
He
commis
sioned chaplain of the Fourth Battalion, and in the later years of the war he did the same duty in the Third Battal
ion.
was a resident of Pennsylvania, being rector of Episcopal churches in the counties of York and Cumber-
He
,land.
at
He
and confined
to
in the prison
York, Pennsylvania,
his family into
disloyalty
America.
He
moved
ner
s
New
England.
CHARLES INGLIS was made chaplain of the First Battalion of Volunteers, April 25th, 1781, and so continued until the
war
the
closed.
first
In 1783 he
moved
to
Halifax.
He was made
and
bishop of
first
Nova
Eng
He
may
be found on
page 79 of
"
Lawrence
New
Brunswick."
CHARLES MORGAN. On December 24th, 1780, Charles Morgan was made chaplain of the Second Battalion, but was removed in June, 1783, by the appointment of Mr.
Sayre.
JOHN ROWLAND.
Battalion this
therein
until
At the organization of the Second minister took the chaplaincy and remained
1781.
The
identity of this
man
with John
44
(LOYALISTS)
of Episcopal
church in
JAMES SAYRE.
Morgan
He
Brooklyn, and
the
brigade on Staten
to
St.
Soon
after
this
he removed
John,
New
a,
Newport, Rhode
Island.
He
died at Fairfield,
Brigade until the year 1780, when he died in New York, His successor in that office does not aged fifty-nine.
appear on the
tion
rolls.
He was He was
city,
denomina
settled
Q.uincy, Massachusetts.
escaping from the patriotic feeling in his church, and there he formed the friendship of General Skinner, and so joined his forces as stated.
to
He came
New York
CAPTAINS.
DAVID ALSTON.
He was
same
JOHN BARBARIE. He was born in the year 1751 and in 1776 organized a company for Skinner s command, com missioned first as a lieutenant and then was made a cap
tain in
December
31, 1778.
He was
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WAR.
45
at Trenton,
New
Jersey.
dropped from the rolls, but restored to commission in 1782 and 1783, but in the Second Battalion. He enjoyed the
reputation
of being a brave in
and gallant
soldier.
In
the
campaign
and again
September
1818.
the South
May
22d, 1781,
Carolina,
8th, 1781.
of peace he
in the year
New
BENJAMIN BARTON.
Fifth Battalion in
officer was a captain in the but with that year his military 1778,
This
service ceased.
URIAH BLEAU.
On January
commis
year he appears as an ensign, first in the Second Battalion and then in the Third Battalion and so continues until the
In the battle of
Eutaw
Springs, South
Gen
WALDRON BLEAU. This officer was a resident of the city of New York, but was made captain in the Second
Battalion
November
ferred as captain to
the Third
Battalion.
He was
his
St.
in the
whole war.
All
property in
confiscated,
and he died in
week
John, that
46
(LOYALISTS)
DANIEL BESSONET was a captain in the Fourth Battalion He belonged to the until 1779, when he left the service. family of that name residing in Bristol, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania.
a captain in
the Second
until
1781 and then captain in the Third Battalion from July 24th, 1781, and so remained until the close of the war.
PATRICK CAMPBELL.
and captain
in
He commenced
Battalion, in the
Third in 1779,
1782.
dis
the Second
Battalion in
1781 and
He
left
He
at
resident of Trenton,
New
Jersey,
Reed,
Washington
adjutant-general,
to
the
Council
of
Safety of Pennsylvania, dated January 1st, 1776, (should be 1777), Pennsylvania Archives, First Series, Vol. V., p.
appears tliat he was arrested and sent to Philadel been appointed a captain in a new phia because he had regiment proposed to be raised for the king s service.
151,
it
*
General Washington desired him to be closely confined. He was at that time a captain in the Sixth Battalion, hav ing been commissioned as sucli December 21st, 1776. He
"
was
on Brewton
s Hill,
near Savannah,
Georgia, December
29th, 1778.
RICHARD CAYFORD.
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
47
New
Jersey,
we
find a
arrest of this
man
"
with
two other inhabitants of the county of Cumberland, con victed of being enemies to this country, by using their
influence with the ignorant and
unwary
to raise
a party to
ing
to
nary
"
conduct."
to
behaviour."
confinement,
pay good behaviour in the sum of theless his toryism was too strong for prison bars or legal bonds and he next appears in the following year as a cap
for his
required to
charges of apprehension
Battalion
New
Jersey
Volunteers.
He
remained in
WILLIAM CHANDLER, was the son of the copal divine, Rev. Thomas B. Chandler, D.
town,
at
celebrated Epis
D., of Elizabeth-
in
King
College
in
the
class
1774.
He
died
in
England, October 22d, 1784. He was appointed a captain in the volunteers on Staten Island, April, 1777, but in 1779
he had not received his commission as such.
sidered a tory of the most conspicuous
of
liis
father
is
to be
found
in
Dr. Hatfield
History of
JOHN COUGLE.
He was
in
a resident of Pennsylvania in
New
On
July
48
(LOYALISTS)
29th, 1778, he
and
He
died in
the province of
seventy-three.
New Brunswick
in
He
distinguished
him
siege of
For Savannah, October 9th, 1779, lost his life. the of roster some unexplained reason he appears on the
JOSEPH CROWELL was a captain in the Fifth Battalion December 6th, 1776. In 1779 and thereafter he was a
captain in the First Battalion.
dletown,
Monmouth
county,
His property was confiscated and sold March 22d, 1779. He was ordered on one occasion to execute an officer who
tried,
He removed
after
his
New Brunswick
the war,
and he died
there.
4
EDWARD EARLE.
1781,
He was commissioned
a lieutenant in
and on July
3d,
made
Battalion.
He
served
to
during the whole war, and then moved his family Brunswick, and died in that colony.
New
in the
Battalion
in
1776,
lieutenant
in
First
Battalion,
1779,
He
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WAR.
49
settled in
after.
resident
of
of
Trenton,
New
January, 1777, Adjutant-General Joseph Reed sent him as a prisoner to the Council of Safety of Philadelphia, as one who had
"
the
war.
On
the
1st
taken a
command
s
service."
or appointment as captain
to
in
new
regiment proposed
the
King
vania, in July,
He was a prisoner at York, Pennsyl He must have escaped from this 1778.
fall
in
In
John,
New Brunswick.
CORNELIUS HATPIELD,
toryism
to
JR.
Few Jerseymen
officer.
carried their
to
He seemed
many
have a
Dr.
own townsmen
of Elizabethtown.
Hatfield
references to his
bad conduct.
He
summer
of 1778.
was a captain in the volunteers up to the He was at one time thought to have been
of a
a party to
the
murder
country during the latter years of the war. In 1789 he re turned to the United States and was arrested for the crime
but escaped punishment by reason of the terms of the treaty of peace of 1783. He died in England at an advanced age.
a captain in the
Third Battalion
in
He cannot
of Eliza.-
50
(LOYALISTS)
beth Town,
Jersey,
who has
murder and
[See Sabine
Loyalists, Vol.
He was
captured
which he broke
was
American Army from Morristown, New February 26th, 1777, to the Committee of Safety,
of the
"
proper attention to him may be found necessary." He seems to have received proper atten tion, for he does not appear afterward in the service.
with the remark that a
SAMUEL HUDNOT, a captain in the Third Battalion the summer of 1779. Nothing more known of him.
until
commissioned December 26th, 1778, but transferred as cap tain, in 1781, to the Second Battalion, and so remained to
the end of the war.
lists at
He was
New Brunswick
after 1783.
death unknown.
made
captain
same organization. He was, after the war, a retired half-pay officer of the Crown. He died in Upper Canada.
GARRET KEATING,
This
officer
the
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WAR.
51
service.
A man
officer.
New
the
Jersey, in
by this name was in the gaol at Trenton, 1777, and this is believed to have been
same
JOSEPH LEE.
Congress of
On the 26th of June, 1776, the Provincial New Jersey ordered Colonel Abraham Ten
It
was done
and
common
gaol of Tren
He
was
also fined
this,
He
is
found,
December
s
Second, where
we
find his
name,
Still
SAMUEL LEONARD.
First Battalion until
This
officer
was a lieutenant
in the
moted captain
in
August 14th, 1781, when he was pro the same organization. His service ex
and confined
returned
New
Jersey.
He
never-
to the service.
He
died in
New Bruns
age of seventy-two.
CORNELIUS McLEOD was a captain in the Second Battalion until 1780, and then leaves the service.
52
(LOYALISTS)
January 30th, 1778, but his name, for some reason unknown, is dropped in 1779. But July 24th; 1781,
Battalion,
he was re-commissioned as captain in the Third Battalion, so continued until peace was declared. He evidently belonged to the well-known family of that name in Eliza
and
beth Town,
New
Jersey.
PETER RUTTAN.
1777, and transferred to the Third Battalion in 1781. closing year of the war he was not in commission.
The
SAMUEL RYERSON,
of Paterson,
New
Jersey.
He was
He had
a brother Joseph, a
He
in
took
King
He
lived
Canada
of 1778 he
Battalion.
He was
mortally
wounded
in the battle
of
Eutaw
GEORGE STANPORTH.
This
officer
Amboy,
New
Jersey.
He
appears
war
as a cap-
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WAR.
53
tain
in
1780.
He was
to
s
a lieutenant in the
1776
He
It is
King fight. quite probable that he was a son of Sheriff John Taylor, of Monmouth county, New
Jersey.
Mountain
July 2d, 1776, at the same time as Captain Joseph Lee. He became a captain in the Third Battalion of the Volun
teers,
duty in the
after
captain in the
Fourth Battalion, November 23d, 1776. In 1780 he is found in the same office in the Third Battalion and served
until peace
was declared.
VAN BUSKIRK was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Van Buskirk. He was enrolled at the beginning of the war
JACOB
and was commissioned a captain
in the
was captured in November, 1777, by the troops of General Philemon Dickinson. In the battle of Eutaw Springs, South Caro
Jersey Volunteers,
New
May
13th, 1780.
He
lina,
He was
marked houses
the tories
Monmouth county with an so that would know who their foes were and whom they
R,"
were at liberty
to
annoy.
54
(LOYALISTS)
CAPTAIN-LIEUTENANTS.
1779.
No
afterward, are
now known.
the
First
Battalion
EDWARD
STEELE.
This
officer
was a lieutenant
in
the
Sixth Battalion,
May
promoted captain-lieutenant
and
LIEUTENANTS.
CHARLES BABBINGTON.
This
officer
was a lieutenant in
He
promoted lieutenant October 25th, remained in service until the end of the war.
He was
in
He was very much hated by his did and neighbours they everything to torment and injure him. At last he joined the armed loyalists, with a party
and was commissioned an ensign in the First Battalion in 1779, and promoted a lieutenant April 25th, He was considered a brave officer. On one occa1782.
of recruits,
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
sion he was taken prisoner
WAR.
to death,
55
and sentenced
bat he
escaped just before the date fixed for his execution and re
joined his
command
He
and
in
the Second
Battalion
until
August 15th,
Battalion,
1782, when he was transferred to the Garrison with same rank. He was placed on half pay in
lived in
at the
list
1783, and
New Brunswick
age of ninety-four.
:>n
the
army
in
He
died in
New Bruns
in the
Third Bat
and a lieutenant
in
JOHN DEMONZES.
of his service.
An
officer
by
this
Even
promoted a
18th, 1781.
Battalion
December
command.
56
(LOYALISTS)
He was
Philadelphia
gentleman,"
May
unbecoming
s
as
order book.
JAMES HARRISON.
A
in
May
28th, 1778,
and
He
remained in service
John,
city.
to the
He
fled to St.
New
lieutenant in the
May
28th, 1778.
In 1779 he appears in
He
May
never
in
any higher
office.
He was
severely
wounded
Carolina,
22d,
up
to
the service.
CHRISTOPHER INSLEY.
talion,
He
started with
but he
left
GEORGE LAMBERT.
He was
tenant, and transferred as such to the Third Battalion July 20th, 1781, and so remained until peace was declared.
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
First
57
the
First
Battalion
in
Battalion,
August
and remained
had a
about
John Lawrence, of Monmouth county, New Jersey, son John Lawrence, a very distinguished physician,
whom
Sabine in his
"
Loyalists,"
Vol.
II,
page
2,
gives a long
Salter, in his
Old Times
account, but
Monmouth
County,"
it is
not possible
now
to identify
Doctor
Law
same
circumstances which
make me
man.
lieutenant in
the
Third Battalion, September 10th, 1778, but in 1780 was transferred to the Second Battalion and so remained.
lieutenant in
the
Fourth
He
JAMES MOODY.
He was
born in 1744.
farmer before
His loyalty to the King was sincere, and his patriot neighbours exhib ited their opinion of him in a most decided manner. This
life.
annoying that in 1777 he joined the loyal troops of New Jersey, was made an ensign in the First Battalion
so
in 1779,
became
and August
Battalion.
From
that
moment he became
and
"
the
uncompro
in
mising
foe of freedom,
Moody
is
out,"
Jersey which was the scene of antici any pated rapine and pillage. Plis personal achievements in
locality in
New
58
(LOYALISTS)
the
minutely detailed in
"Sabine s
Loyalists."
ernor Livingston, and his orders from Lieutenant-General Knyphausen, May 10th, 1780, may be found in "Moore s
Diary of the American Revolution," Vol. II, page 307. At another time he was himself taken by General Anthony
Wayne, and
finally
suffered
much
He
still
continued his
attacks
their
upon the patriots, and was often employed as a spy on movements. Notwithstanding all his years of hardships
he was never promoted above a subaltern in the military It is difficult to understand now why this was not service.
done.
All his property in
"
New
In
1783 a
cause of
believed to
will be
found in Salter
died
in
Monmouth."
He
1809,
in
Weymouth, Nova
JOHN MONRO.
Scotia.
He
was a lieutenant
is
not known.
THOMAS OAKASON.
Monro.
JOSIAH PARKER.
like
Lieutenant
December 23d,
He was
in
commission
in the volunteers
59
JOHN REID.
1779
to 1783.
officer
was a lieutenant
in the
Fiftli
in the
Fourth
Battalion January 2d, 1777, transferred in 1780 to the Third, and remained therein until the end of the war. He died
in St.
John,
New Brunswick,
in the
year 1803.
DANIEL SHANNON.
in 1778.
Nothing
is
known
JOHN SIMONSON.
An
was declared, when he removed to the Province of New Brunswick and died there. He was a prisoner of war in
Philadelphia in August, 1779.
WILLIAM STEVENSON.
native of
Commissioned
lieutenant
in
;
Monmouth
county,
New
Jersey.
lieutenant in
60
(LOYALISTS)
He
distinguished
at
himself in
Charleston.
at
the
King
Mountain
fight
and
siege
of
He
died at
Weymouth, Nova
Scotia, in
1818,
an advanced age.
He was
probably an enlisted
who years prior to 1782, and is the soldier Island was taken prisoner on Staten August 22d, 1777, and
confined in the Trenton gaol.
JOHN THOMPSON was made an ensign in the First Battal ion in 1777, and a lieutenant in the same organization Au
gust 25th, 1780.
JOHN THROCKMORTON.
ion the
first
He had
the
same
fate as
to the
Lieutenant Stockton
service.
but, unlike
JOHN TROUP.
unteers.
He
is
on the
of those severely
wounded
at
command.
no doubt a
name
cember
Van Buskirk
IN
61
Fourth Battalion, and, with him, was transferred to the Third Battalion. Although with this family influence and a service of seven years, he did not advance any in his
lineal rank.
a lieutenant in the
Second
Battalion, and July 25th, 1781, was commissioned to the same office in the First Battalion. His service was during
Fourth Battalion, and then promoted lieutenant in the Third Battalion, his service ceasing in 1782. After the war
he became an instructor in King
s
College,
Nova
Scotia,
to
JOHN VOUGHT.
the
Sixth
Battalion,
New
Jersey.
JOSEPH WALLER.
1778.
Third
Second
to a
made ensign
in
of the
and
1783 promoted
lieutenancy.
Battalion in 1779.
to the
the Second
transferred
62
(LOYALISTS)
JONATHAN ALSTON.
1777 to 1780.
Ensign
in the
He was
member
of
Governor Franklin
city.
Board of Asso
ciated Loyalists in
New York
He
ninety five, in
wick.
FredericHon,
in the
Province of
New Bruns
in the
He
command
JAMES BARTON.
14th, 1781.
An
He was
in
He
JOHN CAMP.
in
Ensign
in
he Third Battalion.
October 15th, 1778, and after that date discharged for dis
ability.
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
63
Ensign in the Fourth Battalion in the years 1777, 1778 and 1779, and in August of that year is found as a prisoner of war in Philadelphia. He did not
JAMES COLE.
NATHANIEL COOMBES.
Commissioned an ensign
in the
to
Third Battalion, May 28th, 1778, transferred in 1780 Second Battalion, and so remained until the war ended.
EZEKIEL DENNIS.
1778.
An
not
His service
is
known
PETER DUNWORTH.
1779.
Ensign
in
DANIEL GRANDIN. This officer was an ensign in the Sixth Battalion for a short time in the year 1778 and then
left
the service
and
New York.
He was
on the Board of the Associated Loyalists in that city dur ing the war period, and then lived in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
first
noticed as an enlisted
made an ensign
WILLIAM K. HURLET.
in 1778.
An
64
(LOYALISTS)
in the
Third
and he
the war.
and
so
in
the First
An
in the
Second Battalion
is
in
not known.
GEORGE LEE.
and 1783.
An
JOHN LEONARD.
ber 18th, 1781.
Ensign
in the
He
New
Brunswick.
RICHARD LIPPINCOTT.
his military career as
This infamous
man commenced
of the following
summer
He
then
left
the
New
New York
city.
of the
New
Jersey State
paper entitled
River,
Toms
The Capture of the Block House at New Jersey, March 24th, 1782.") After the
"
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
65
war Captain Lippiricott received from Great Britain three thousand acres of land at what is now the city of Toronto,
Canada, and a half-pay pension for life. Toronto in the year 1826, aged eighty-two.
He
died
in
in the Third
Battalion in
s
He was
killed
in
the fight at
King
Mountain,
He was
Corps.
at the time
McVANE was
and 1779.
August
He
Thomas
Millidge.
He
died in
Nova
He was
killed in a raid in
Bergen county,
New
JOHN ROBBINS. Ensign in the First Battalion in 1777 and 1778, and captured on Staten Island August 22d, 1777. He is found in Trenton goal soon after the event.
*RULOFF RULOFFS.
5
Commissioned
an
ensign
in
the
66
(LOYALISTS)
An
December
20th, 1781.
GEORGE RYERSON.
1778.
JOHN SEAMON.
JAMES SERVICE.
1778.
An
an ensign
in
the
KEARNEY SKINNER. A resident of Perth Arnboy, New Jersey. He was a son of General Skinner. He was
PHILIP
November
10th, 1781.
He
the Twenty-Third
Regiment
of Foot
and
after various
The following
year,
JOHN SWANTON was an ensign in the Third Battalion in 1778 and until 1782, when we find him in the same office
in the
Second Battalion.
in the
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR.
67
Made an ensign
December
18th, 1781.
PHILIP
VAN CORTLANDT,
July
JR.
Bat
31st, 1779.
MALCOM WILMOTT.
October 25th, 1782.
after
JOHN WOODWARD, of quaker parentage, living in Monmouth county. But he abjured the faith which is opposed to warrings and fightings," and we find him as an ensign
"
Province of
August 14th, 1781. He died in the New Brunswick in the year 1805.
in the
ROBERT WOODWARD. Commissioned an ensign Third Battalion December 19th, 1781, and remained
until peace
therein
New
Jersey Volunteers
disbanded.
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