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Joseph E. Wroblewski

Joseph E. Wroblewski

Dr. Wroblewski, received a BA (’67) and MA (’72) in Social Studies from Trenton State College and earned a Doctorate in Education from Temple University (‘87). Served in the Peace Corps in Western Samoa, (‘67-’69). Worked for the School District of Philadelphia in the Office of Research and Evaluation and taught Social Studies at the S. A. Douglas High School. Retired from the School District of Philadelphia in 2002. At present he is a volunteer docent at Morven (Princeton, NJ), the home of Richard Stockton.

Diplomacy, Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783) January 3, 2023 January 3, 2023

Winning Hearts and Minds: Pardons and Oaths of Allegiance

“I, A. B.do promise and declare that I will remain in a peaceable Obedience to His Majesty, and will not take up Arms, nor…

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Arts & Literature, Culture, Letters and Correspondence, The War Years (1775-1783), Women July 28, 2022 July 27, 2022

Annis Boudinot Stockton: The Poet and the General

“Permit me to thank you, in the most affectionate manner, for the kind wishes you have so happily expressed for me and the partner…

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Crime and Justice, Loyalists, Native Americans, Prewar Politics (<1775) April 7, 2022 April 6, 2022

Governor William Franklin: Sagorighweyoghsta, “Great Arbiter” or “Doer of Justice”

William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin, was the last Royal Governor of New Jersey, from 1763 to 1776. He is usually identified in U….

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Engineering and Technology, Historic Sites, People, The War Years (1775-1783) January 5, 2022 January 4, 2022

Thaddeus Kosciuszko: “Patron Saint of West Point”

In Douglas S. Freeman’s biography of Robert E. Lee, he noted: Corps activities took a certain amount of Lee’s time that winter. Kosciuszko was…

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Crime and Justice, Loyalists, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) September 28, 2021 September 27, 2021

Captain John Bacon: The Last of the Jersey Pine Robbers

“Captain John Bacon: His name was second only to that of the New Jersey devil for producing nightmares among the inhabitants of the pine…

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Crime and Justice, Loyalists, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) June 10, 2021 June 10, 2021

Loyalist “Banditti” of Monmouth County, New Jersey: Jacob Fagan and Lewis Fenton

While brutal internecine warfare was waged in various sections of New Jersey, nowhere in the state were the effects both in length and degree…

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Loyalists, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 17, 2021 February 15, 2021

Colonel Tye: Leader of Loyalist Raiders—and Runaway Slave

John Corlis (sometimes spelled Corlies) was a Quaker land owner who resided in Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He along with his mother…

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People, Postwar Conflict (>1783), Postwar Politics (>1783) October 14, 2020 October 11, 2020

John Paul Jones and Thaddeus Kosciuszko: Encounter in Warsaw 1789

During September–October 1789, two heroes of the American War of Independence, both members of the Society of Cincinnati, were in the Polish capital of…

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Frontier, People, The War Years (1775-1783) May 13, 2020 May 11, 2020

Casimir Pulaski and the Threat to the Upper Delaware River Valley

If January and February 1778 was Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski’s “Winter of his Discontent,”[1] then October through December 1778 was his “Autumn of Despair.”…

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Conflict & War, The War Years (1775-1783) May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019

Operations of the Queen’s Rangers: Foraging in New Jersey, February–March 1778

“Of the forty or more battalions of Loyalists, which enlisted in the service of the Crown during the Revolutionary war, none has been so…

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Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) April 23, 2018 May 17, 2019

Elias Boudinot IV: America’s First Commissary General of Prisoners

“The prisoner of war is one of the most tragic figures in any conflict.”Larry G. Bowman[1] Various studies have placed the number of Americans…

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The War Years (1775-1783) October 4, 2017 October 3, 2017

The Affair At Egg Harbor: Massacre Of The Pulaski Legion

On the Topographic-Bathymetric Series Map, Eastern United States, 1:250,000, Wilmington: NJ 18-2 (1972) prepared by the United States Geological Survey located at grid WU5.5,…

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The War Years (1775-1783) August 28, 2017 August 19, 2017

Casimir Pulaski’s Difficulties in Recruiting his Legion

On March 14, 1778, Gen. George Washington sent the following recommendation to Congress concerning Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski, who on February 28 had resigned…

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People November 14, 2016 November 4, 2016

The Winter of His Discontent: Casimir Pulaski’s Resignation as Commander of Horse

Casimir Pulaski, an exiled Polish nobleman, through the influence of well-placed individuals in the French Court and based on his experience as the de…

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