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From: "Eleanor Nielsen" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Revolutionary Bethlehem Twp. in Lequear's
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:29:53 -0400
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I love these excerpts, they are most interesting. And I keep searching
through them for a familiar name.
Eleanor

> >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
> To:
> Subject: LOOKUP
>
>
> Hi Dane:
>
> Would you look up:
> William Hazlett, 101
>
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