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The 2nd New Jersey Regiment was raised, on 9 October 1775, at Trenton, New Jersey, for service with the Continental Army under the command of Colonel William Maxwell.The regiment would see action at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, Battle of Valcour Island, Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Crooked Billet, Battle of Monmouth, Sullivan Expedition, Battle of Springfield and the ...
The history of Sussex County, New Jersey spans over 13,000 ... As a result of disruption following the French and Indian War (1756–1763) the American Revolutionary ...
In 1780, Moody led several men to free eight Loyalist prisoners held in the Sussex County Courthouse in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey. Moody freed the men and fled with them. Despite a pursuit lasting several days, Revolutionary forces failed to capture them. [4] He was captured in 1780 but managed to escape to New York City. After that ...
Recruiting for Spencer's Regiment took place in numerous New Jersey counties but especially in Essex (now Union), Morris and Sussex Counties and adjacent Orange County in New York. When it assembled at Middlebrook, New Jersey in late May, 1777, nine companies comprised the regiment, including one independent Continental company raised in ...
When the American Revolutionary War broke out between the colonies and Great Britain, Dagworthy became a member of the Sussex County Committee of Safety and duly assigned a military post. In the Committee meeting records of September 16, 1775 he is referred to as a colonel in reference to his previous service, but in the January 1776 Committee ...
Will NJ's Revolutionary War sites be ready for the nation's 250th anniversary? In the fall of 2022, Gov. Phil Murphy announced the state would spend $25 million in American Rescue Plan funds to ...
William Maxwell was a Presbyterian of Scottish descent born in County Tyrone, Ireland in about 1733. [1] By 1747 his family had come to North America, and settled in Warren County, New Jersey. When the French and Indian War broke out in 1754 Maxwell enlisted in the provincial militia, and served in the disastrous expedition of General Edward ...
The last major battle to take place in New Jersey and the rest of the Northern states during the Revolutionary War was the Battle of Springfield. Baron von Knyphausen , the Hessian general, hoped to invade New Jersey and expected support from the colonists of New Jersey who were tired of the war.