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From: "Dane Coefer" <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Revolutionary Bethlehem Twp. in Lequear's
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:46:46 -0700


>From Lequear

Bethlehem Township Prepares (pp. 100-01)

"Captain Joseph Stout commanded a company of regulars from Hunterdon, in which Samuel Reading
and Aaron Lane were Lieutenants. The men of Bethlehem were active in preparations for the war.
By the original tally list of the upper regiment of Hunterdon County Militia, we learn that a meeting
was held at Abraham Bonell's in Bethlehem, 19th January, 1775, when the following field officers
were elected by ballot: Charles Stewart, Colonel, Philip Grandin, Lieutenant-Colonel, Sidney Berry
and Johnson, Majors, and John Taylor and William Hazlitt, Adjutants.

"Thomas Lowrey was Commissary General for the State from the beginning of the war. When the men
first went into service in the Spring of 1776, we find Captain William Chamberlain's company going
from Amwell; and soon after, the captain being promoted as major, Nathan Stout was made captain
and Philip Service and Christopher Fisher, lieutenants. The clothing considered necessary to equip a
soldier in that campaign was: 1 felt hat, two-thirds of a dollar; 1 pair stockings, two-thirds of a dollar;
1 pair shoes, one dollar; hunting-shirt, one dollar and a third; blanket, two dollar. A colonel's pay per
month was $50, lieutenant-colonel's $40, major $32 1-3, captain $26 2-3, lieutenant $18, ensign $13 1-3,
sergeant $8, corporal $7 2-3, and private, $5, and yet men were expected to send their surplus pay to
their poor families.

"Such was the condition of things when Jacob Johnson left his young wife to serve his country. In this,
the first winter of the war, the outrages perpetuated by the British and refugees who overran the state,
beggared all description. Letters, written at the time, say that they exceeded the cruelties of Indian
savages. Old men and children were cruelly murdered, women were outraged, churches burned, and
every species of barbarity and lawless violence that could be conceived, perpetrated."

Dane Coefer
Ashland, Oregon
Great-Great-Grandson of James Samuel Manners





----- Original Message -----
From: Johns
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 6:49 PM
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Subject: LOOKUP


Hi Dane:

Would you look up:
William Hazlett, 101

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