New Jersey Shop License Law

Economics, Features, Law, Loyalists, The War Years (1775-1783) May 2, 2021 May 2, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: James P. Sieradzki on the New Jersey Shop License Law of 1780

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews attorney and local historian James P. Sieradzki about New Jersey’s attempt to stop illicit trade between…

Economics, Law, The War Years (1775-1783) March 31, 2021 March 30, 2021

Traders or Traitors? The New Jersey Shop License Law of 1780

by James P. Sieradzki

Following the campaign of 1776, New York City and environs were occupied by British forces. For the rest of the war, George Washington threatened,…

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1. Stuart Manson The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

He was, however, the fellow who was killed at the Battle of Stone Arabia (Mohawk Valley area), October 19, 1780, by a Loyalist-British-Indigenous raiding party under Sir John Johnson.
2. John Concannon The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

Thank you for this informative article. As a point of clarification, this article by Michael Barbieri refers to Col. John Brown, someone not to be confused with the John Brown…
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A model book review Gene well done. Benjamin in his book discusses the possibility that Washington secretly ordered the fires but the author prudently does not go overboard on the…