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From: "Bertha Ann" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Certificates and Receipts of Revolutionary New Jersey
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:10:17 -0600
References: <1e1.1809d7c3.2d44067d@aol.com>


Jan.......What you have done for people, is remarkable. So do appreciate
it. When you have time, would you see if there are any Burket's listed in
the referenced book you have.

Thanks ahead of time for your efforts....Bertha Ann
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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Certificates and Receipts of Revolutionary New Jersey


> I recently found the above referenced book at the Library of Virginia. I
> have it checked out until mid-February. I would be happy to do reasonable
> lookups especially for people who don't live in NJ and don't have access
to this
> book in a local library.
>
> The book was done by Dorothy Agans Stratford and Thomas B. Wilson in 1996
and
> published by Hunterdon House, 38 Swan St., Lambertville, NJ 08530. There
are
> two volumes. I have vol. II which appears to cover mostly Morristown and
> Hunterdon.
>
> In 1780 John Neilson of New Brunswick was appointed deputy Quartermaster
of
> NJ for the Continental Army. These entries are taken from his records in
the
> Special Collections of the Alexander Library at Rutgers University.
Neilson
> appointed asst. deputy quartermasters at several locations around the
state. It
> mostly covers beef and grain or clothing contributed to the Continental
Army
> from 1777-1781.
>
> I secured the book because it appears that one of my ancestors, Joseph
> Chamberlin, was the commissioner of clothing for Hunterdon Co., 1777-1778.
He would
> have been 45 at the time.
>
>
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