Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 3 We have here, also, an account of the reckless blundering which brought on the massacre called the battle of Minisink, July 22d, 1779. Colonel John G. Simcoe, with his Queen´s Light Dragoons, made a desperate and gallant dash on New Brunswick on October 26th, 1779, resulting in his being wounded and captured by the Americans, and with the loss of a large party of his dragoons, the expedition being very much of a failure. The military announcements, advertisements, orders, &c., bring home to us the fact that New Jersey was essentially the war ground of the Revolution. The number of farms, mills, plantations and houses advertised for sale shows the stress of the times. Nevertheless, Peter Hulick, staymaker, from New York, thinks the conditions sufficiently propitious to appeal to the ladies of Trenton for their patronage. He soon meets competition in Richard Norris, staymaker, from London, who enters into minute anatomical details regarding his product. Rival and enterprising shopkeepers at Trenton, Elizabethtown, Chatham and Morristown (Newark merchants do not enter into the competition, perhaps having a prudent fear of attracting the enemy) advertise abundant and varied stocks of goods calculated to attract the fair sex, including pistol lawns, pelongs, green and black ducape, callimancoes of all colors, shalloons, moreens, broadcloths of all shades, blue and brown naps, plain and spotted swanskin, duffel baiges, red and white plains, camblets, marquisates, bar-celona handkerchiefs, black, blue and green drawboys, sarcinett ribbands, Persians, Drumcondriff linen, faggot, and other fabrics of long-forgotten nomenclature. A curious inconsistency of the times is shown by the patriots struggling for freedom, who, at the same time, advertised negro men, women and children for sale into perpetual slavery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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