• Revolutionary War Veterans

     

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    1) LAWRENCE, WILLIAMS[i]
     
    Born: ? - Died: March 2, 1816
                                                Captain Neil's Eastern Company Artillery, State Troops 
                  

     

    Sharp

    2) SHARP, JACOBii]   
     
    Born: 1747 - Died: March 21, 1843
     
    Private, Fisher Regiment, Snook Company                                             
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Hance
    3) HANCE, JOHNiii]    
    Born: ? - Died: November 26, 1816
     
    First Battalion, Second Establishment                                   
     
    Captain Forman's Company, First Regiment         
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     

    Stewart, S

    4) STEWART, SAMUEL[iv]
                                                              
    Born: 1769 - Died: June 30, 1847
    Private, McCrea Regiment,
    Doty Company
     
    August 26 to November 23,
    1779       

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    Stewart, W

    5) STEWART, WILLIAM[v]
                                                            
    Born- 1738 - Died - February 17, 1810
    Continental Army.
    Private in Captain Bonds Co., 4th Battalion.
     
    Taken prisoner near Woodbridge, NJ, April 15, 1777, listed as W.S. of Sussex Co, NJ[vi]
     
    Served NJ-Pvt-born. NJ; died. Sussex Co NJvii] 
     

     

    Stewart, J

    6) STEWART, JOHN[viii]
                                                      
    Born: 1764 - Died: August 31, 1831                     
    Sergeant, Eastern Battalion
     
     
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    Hockenberry
    7) HOCKENBERY, JOHNix] 
                                                                       
    Born: 1766 - Died: February 23, 1810
    Captain Ballard's Company, Third Battalion,Second Establishment 
     
                            
                                                    
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    8) MORGAN, WILLIAMx]
                                                                                     
    Born: 1749 - Died: October 21, 1810
    Member of Capt. Helm's 9th Company,
    2nd Regiment of the N. J. Line
     
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    Caskey

    9) CASKEY, ROBERT[xi]
                                                     
    Born: 1747 - Died: March 23, 1800                                          
    Enlisted January 29, 1776
     
     
     
     
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    Conover

    10) BOWNE, CONOVER[xii]
                                                                
    Born: 1766 - Died: November 17, 1840         
     
    Lt. Clyde Regiment, Brown Company
     
     
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    11) SMITH, ISAAC[xiii]
                                                                                        
    Born: 1753 - Died: February 7, 1825                
     
    Colonel, First Regiment, Hunterdon
    (Believed to have resigned February 15, 1777 to accept appointment as Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.)
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    Clark

    12) Clark, John[xiv]
                                                        
    Born: 1763 - Died: March 24, 1846 
     
    Second Battalion, Second Establishment: Captain Hendry's Company, Second Regiment 
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    Kemple

    13) KEMPLE, JOHN[xv]

    Born: 1757 - Died: May 21, 1823                            

    Private, Graham Regiment, Hermance Company 

     

     

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    14) HULL, GRESHON[xvi]

    Born: 1767 - Died: September 27, 1812                                                     

    Captain Fourth Regiment

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    Sutten

    15) SUTTON, JOSEPH (Pvt)[xvii]

    Born: 1763 or 1769 - Died: February 24 (25),  1836                              

    Served NJ; b. Stirling, NJ; d. Hackettstown, NJ

    Third Regiment, Hunterdon

     

    Sener

    16) VLIET, MAJOR JOHN SENER[xviii]

    Born: 1774 ? - Died: August 13, 1804

    Major, First Battalion, Somerset                    

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    17) POOL, JEREMIAH

    Born: 6/8/1750 Died: October 19, 1818

    served NJ – WGN; b Mendham Morris Co NJ; d Draketown, NJ carted supplies for Army Quarter Master General Department                                         

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    Cook

    18) COOK, (Pvt) JAMES[xix]

    Born: 3/25/1760 – Died: 3/26/1836

    Morris County. – Served NJ - Militia                          

    (believed to be buried next to his daughter- no headstone but radar search shows an occupied grave)

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    19) SCHENCK, JOHN[xx]

    Born: 1754 - Died: 1841

    Lieutenant, Third Regiment, Promoted to Captain                                                                                                   

     

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    20) ROBERTSON, JOHN[xxi]

    Born: ? - Died: July 11, 1817,

    Morris County                                                   Learn More about Militia

     

    Archibald 

    21) STEWART, ARCHIBALD[xxii]

    Born: 1736 - Died: 1795 Born: 1736 - Died: May 1795

    Served NJ; b. Ballintay Ireland; d. Newton Sussex Co

    NJ Webster Regiment, Company Long                               

     

     

    Ayers

    22) AYERS, EZEKIEL[xxiii]

    Born: 1730 - Died: August 5, 1796                            

     

     

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    23) AYERS, OBADIAH[xxiv]

    Born:? – Died:?

    Ensign, Militia, Sussex – served NJ; Pvt.

    (believed to be buried in this area with the rest of the Ayers family)                                                            

     

    Campbell

    24) CAMPBELL, JOSEPH Rev. (D.D.)[xxv]

    Born:? - Died: September 6, 1810

    First Battalion, Second Establishment           

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    25) DUNLOP, EDWARD[xxvi]

    Born:? – Died: ?

    Paymaster in the Revolution                                             

     

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    26) STEWART, ROBERT[xxvii]

    Born: ? – Died: ?

    Corp. in Captain Bonds Co

     

     

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    27) WIRE, WILLIAM[xxviii]

    Born:? - Died: December 28, 1816

     

     

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    28) PATRICK, JOHN[xxix]

    Born: ? – Died: ?

    Private Crane Regiment,

    Lockwood Company

     

     

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    29) PHILLIPS, JACOB[xxx]

    Born: ? – Died: ?

    Captain Martin's Company, Fourth Battalion, Second Establishment

     



    [i] Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution by Wm Stryker page 662.

    [ii] Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Listed in New York in the Revolution, Vol I, Page 468.

    [iii] Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Listed in: Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution by Stryker - Page 207

    [iv]Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Listed in: New York in the Revolution, Vol. I, page 482

    [v] Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Listed in: Officers and Men of New Jersey in the, By Wm. S. Stryker, Page 768

    [vi] Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Listed in: Danbridge American Prisoner.

    [vii] Glenna Acord email.

    [viii] Listed in: Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution, Wm. Stryker, Page 291 and 471.

    [ix] Listed in: Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution by Stryker - Page 213.

    [x] Listed in: Pennsylvania Archives Vol.13, Page 166.

    [xi] Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Listed in: Pennsylvania Archives in Vol. I, page 180. 

    [xii] Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Listed in New York in the Revolution, Vol I, p. 332.

    [xiii] Hackettstown Historical Society Papers Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution by Wm Stryker page 757.

    [xiv] Listed in Officers and Men of New Jersey in the by S. Stryker page 168

    [xv] Listed in: New York in the Revolution, Vol. I - Page 407.

    [xvi] Listed in: Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution by Stryker - Page 396.

    [xvii] Listed in Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution by Stryker, page 766.

    [xviii] Listed in Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary Way by Striker, Page 370.

    [xix] Listed in: Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution by Wm. S Stryker page 551.

    [xx] Listed in Hunterdon and Somerset Counties History, Page 83. John W. Schenck.

    [xxi] Listed in Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution by Stryker, Page 756.

    [xxii] Listed in: Soldiers in the Revolution in New York VoU, page 482.

    [xxiii] HHS Papers

    [xxiv] Listed in: Stryker pages 494 & 448.

    [xxv] HHS Papers

    [xxvi] Listed in: History of Sussex and Warren Counties Page 68

    [xxvii] HHS Papers

    [xxviii] HHS Papers

    [xxix] Listed in: New York in the Revolution, Vol I, Page 443

    [xxx] Listed in: Officers and Men of New Jersey in the by Wm. S. Stryker page 265.

     

    Sources

    Glenna, Acord, Manager Chapter Services of the Daughters of the American     Revolution email message, November 25, 2008.

     

    Hackettstown Historical Society Papers, Olde Burial Ground Records,            (accessed on November 18, 2008).

     

    Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence: Military    Attitudes, Policies and Practice 1763-1789. New York.: Northeastern University Press, 1983.

     

    National Museum of the American Revolution. “Provincial Legislatures Act:       1774-1775”http://www.nationalmuseumoftheamericanrevolution.org/museum/dis          play.asp?id=79 (accessed on November 29, 2008).

     

    Newsday Inc. “The Wretched Prison Ships- Death, disease and injury were the fate of thousands          held at sea by the British.” George DeWan.          http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs425a,0,6698945.story      (accessed November 29, 2008).

     

    Raphael, Ray. A People’s History of the American Revolution. New York.: HarperCollins     Publishers Inc., 2002.