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…
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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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….
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…
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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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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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…
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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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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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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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…
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,…
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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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…