Current As Of 10 December 1996

Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The Continental Army

BIBLIOGRAPHY

New Jersey


I. Manuscripts.

Morristown National Historic Park. (Morristown).

Seeley, Silvanus. Journals.

New Jersey Historical Society. (Newark).

Abeel, James. Papers.

Bloomfield, Joseph. Journal.

Clark, Joseph. Diary.

Craig, Charles. Orderbook.

Drury, Matthew. Orderbook.

Piatt, Jacob. Orderbook.

Ross, Jonathan. Orderbook.

Speer, John. Orderbook.

Swan, Jedediah. Orderbook.

Tuttle, Timothy. Journal.

Assembly Minutes.

Provincial Congress Manuscripts.

Revolutionary Documents.

New Jersey State Library. (Trenton).

Department of Defense Collection.

Revolutionary War Collection.

New-York Historical Society. (New York City).

Alexander, William [Lord Stirling]. Papers.

Princeton University Library. (Princeton).

de Coppet, Andre. Collection.

Hunter, Andrew. Diaries.

Ogden-Kennedy Collection.

Rutgers University Library. (New Brunswick).

Egbert, Thomas. Memorandum Book.

Foreman, David. Papers.

Paterson, William. Papers.

Shreve, Israel. Papers.

Towne, Zaccheus. Diary.

II. Published Sources.

American Historical Society. Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography. 3 vols. Newark: Memorial History Co., 1916.

Anderson, John R. "Militia Law in Colonial New Jersey." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 76 (October 1958), pp. 280-296; 77 (January 1959), pp. 9-21.

Barber, John W., and Henry Howe. Historical Collections of New Jersey. New York: S. Tuttle, 1844.

Barton, William. "Journal of Lieut. William Barton." In Frederick Cook, editor, Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations (Albany: Knapp, Peck & Thomson, 1887), pp. 3-14. [Originally printed in Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 2 (November 1846), pp. 22-42.]

Bernstein, David. "New Jersey in the American Revolution: The Establishment of A Government Amid Civil and Military Disorder, 1770-1781." Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1969.

Bill, Alfred Hoyt. New Jersey and the Revolutionary War. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1964.

Bloomfield, Joseph. Citizen-Soldier: The Revolutionary War Journal of Joseph Bloomfield. Edited by Mark E. Lender and James Kirby Martin. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1982.

Bowman, John Elliot. "Some Jersey Veterans of the American Revolution." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 13 (July 1928), pp. 325-329.

Brace, Frederic R. Brief Sketches of the New Jersey Chaplains in the Continental Army and in the State Militia, During the War of Independence. Paterson: The Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1909. [Originally published in Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 3d Ser., 6 (January-April 1909), pp. 1-11.]

Brearley, William Henry. Genealogical Chart of the American Branch of the Brearley Family. Detroit: Privately printed, 1886.

Burrowes, John. "Major Burrowes' Journal of the Sullivan Expedition." Genesee County Scrapbook, 3 (Winter 1953), pp. 18-23.

Clayton, W. Woodford, editor. History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey, With Biographical Sketches of Many of Their Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1882.

Coriell, Mrs. Abner S. "Major-General Elias Dayton 1737-1807." Union County Historical Society Proceedings, 2 (1923-34), pp. 203-211.

Cowan, David L. "Revolutionary New Jersey." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 71 (January 1953), pp. 1-23.

Cushing, Thomas, and Charles E. Sheppard. History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, New Jersey, With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens.. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883.

Dayton, Elias. "Papers of General Elias Dayton." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 9 (January 1864), pp. 175-194.

Dickinson, Wharton. "Philemon Dickinson: Major-General, New Jersey Militia--Revolutionary Soldier." Magazine of American History, 7 (December 1881), pp. 420-427.

Elizabeth, N.J., Sesqui-centennial Committee. Revolutionary History of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Elizabeth: N.p., 1926.

Elmer, Ebenezer. "Journal Kept During an Expedition to Canada in 1776 by Ebenezer Elmer, Lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of the New Jersey Troops in the Continental Service, Commanded by Colonel Elias Dayton." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 2 (1846-1847), pp. 43-50, 95-194; 3 (1848-1849), pp. 21-56, 90-102.

----. "The Lost Pages of Elmer's Revolutionary Journal." Edited by A. Van Doren Honeyman. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 10 (October 1925), pp. 410-424.

----. "Extracts from the Journal of Surgeon Ebenezer Elmer of the New Jersey Continental Line, September 11-19, 1777." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 35 (1911), pp. 103-107.

----. "Journal of Dr. Ebenezer Elmer." In Frederick Cook, editor, Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations (Albany: Knapp, Peck & Thomson, 1887), pp. 80-85. [Originally printed in Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 2 (November 1846), pp. 43-50.]

Ewing, George. The Military Journal of George Ewing (1754-1824) a Soldier of Valley Forge. Yonkers, N.Y.: Privately printed, 1928.

Fithian, Philip Vickers. Letters to His Wife, Elizabeth Beatty Fithian. Edited by Frank D. Andrews. Vineland, N.J.: Smith Printing House, 1932.

Folsom, Joseph F. "Manuscript Light on Chaplain James Caldwell's Death." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 1 (January 1916), pp. 1-12.

[-----, editor]. "Revolutionary Pension Records of Morris County." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 1 (April, July 1916), pp. 89-99, 147-159; 2 (January, April 1917), pp. 27-32, 98-117.

Fowler, David J. "Egregious Villains, Wood Rangers, and London Traders: The Pine Robber Phenomenon in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War." Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1987.

Gerlach, Larry R. Prologue to Independence: New Jersey in the Coming of the American Revolution. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1976.

----. The Road to Revolution. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975.

----, editor. New Jersey in the American Revolution, 1763-1783: A Documentary History. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975.

Gilman, Charles Malcom B. The Story of the Jersey Blues. Red Bank: Arlington Laboratory for Clinical and Historical Research, 1962.

Gough, Robert J. "Black Men and the Early New Jersey Militia." New Jersey History, 88 (Winter 1970), pp. 227-238.

Grant, George. "Journal of Serg't Major George Grant." In Frederick Cook, editor, Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations (Albany: Knapp, Peck & Thomson, 1887), pp. 107-114.

Griffith, J. H. "William Maxwell, of New Jersey, Brigadier General in the Revolution." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 2d Ser., 13 (May 1894), pp. 109-123.

Hatfield, Edwin Francis. History of Elizabeth, New Jersey; including the early history of Union County. New York: Carlton & Lanahan, 1868.

Hay, Clyde B., and Willard L. De Yoe. New Barbadoes Neck in Revolutionary War Days. [Rutherford]: Rutherford Committee of the New Jersey Tercentenary, [1964].

[Honeyman, A. Van Doren, editor]. "The Condict Revolutionary Record Abstracts." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 5 (October 1920), pp. 236-240; 6 (April, July 1921), pp. 89-100, 166-176; 7 (January, April, July 1922), pp. 25-32, 134-140, 227-232; 8 (January, October 1923), pp. 30-35, 306-313; 9 (January 1924), pp. 49-57; 10 (April, July 1925), pp. 182-187, 312-316.

[-----, editor]. "Half-Pay to Hunterdon County Families of the Revolution--1780-1796." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 13 (April 1928), pp. 190-199.

Lee, Francis Bazley. History of Trenton, New Jersey: The Record of Its Early Settlement and Corporate Progress. Trenton: J. L. Murphy, 1895.

-----, editor. Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey. 4 vols. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1910.

Leiby, Adrian C. The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1962.

Lender, Mark Edward. The New Jersey Soldier. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975.

----. "The Enlisted Line: The Continental Soldiers of New Jersey." Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1975.

----. "The Social Structure of the New Jersey Brigade: The Continental Line as an American Standing Army." In Peter Karsten, editor, The Military in America From the Colonial Era to the Present (New York: Free Press, 1980), pp. 27-44.

Livingston, William. Selections from the Correspondence of the Executive, 1776-1786. Newark: Daily Advertiser Office, 1848.

Lobdell, Jared C. "Paramus in the War of the Revolution." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 78 (July 1960), pp. 162-177.

Lundin, Leonard. Cockpit of the Revolution: The War for Independence in New Jersey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940.

McCarthy, Callahan J. "Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Barber, Elizabethtown Patriot and Hero." Union County Historical Society Proceedings, 2 (1923-34), pp. 127-136.

McCluskey, Vincent Stanley. "The Life and Times of Philip Vickers Fithian, Revolutionary War Hero." Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, 1991.

Mellick, Andrew D., Jr. "The Militia of New Jersey in the Revolution." Magazine of American History, 19 (April 1888), pp. 340-341.

Mickle, Isaac. Reminiscences of Old Gloucester: or Incidents in the History of the Counties of Gloucester, Atlantic and Camden. Philadelphia: T. Ward, 1845.

Miers, Earl Schenck. Crossroads of Freedom: The American Revolution and the Rise of a New Nation. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1971.

Murray, Nicholas. Notes, Historical and Biographical, Concerning Elizabethtown, Its Eminent Men, Churches, and Ministers. Elizabethtown: E. Sanderson, 1844.

-----. "A Memoir of the Rev. James Caldwell, of Elizabethtown." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 3 (May 1848), pp. 77-89.

New Jersey. Minutes of the Provincial Congress and Council of Safety 1774-1778. 2 vols. Trenton and Jersey City: Naar, Day and J. H. Lyon, 1872-1879.

New Jersey Historical Society. Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey. [Archives of the State of New Jersey, 1st Ser.] 42 vols. Newark and Paterson: Various publishers, 1880-1949.

Ogden, Aaron. Autobiography of Col. Aaron Ogden, of Elizabethtown. Paterson: The Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1893. [Originally published in Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 2d Ser., 12 (January 1892), pp. 13-31.]

Ogden, Matthias. Journal of Major Matthias Ogden. Morristown: Privately printed, 1928.

"Orderly Book of the New Jersey Brigade, July 30 to October 8, 1780." Bergen County Historical Society Annual Report for 1921-1922, pp.

"Proceedings of the Committees of Freehold and Shrewsbury In Monmouth Co., on the Opening of the Revolution." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 1 (1846), pp. 184-197.

Ralston, Louise Bird. "Captain Conway's Inventory and the Old Barracks at Trenton." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 76 (April 1958), pp. 79-83.

Raum, John O. History of the City of Trenton, New Jersey, Embracing a Period of Nearly Two Hundred Years, Commencing in 1676, The First Settlement of the Town, and Extending Up to the Present Time. Trenton: W. T. Nicholson & Co., 1871.

Ryan, Dennis P., editor. New Jersey in the American Revolution, 1763-1783: A Chronology. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1974.

Schuyler, Hamilton. A History of St. Michael's Church, Trenton .... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1926.

Sedgewick, Theodore, Jr. A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833.

Shelley, Fred. "Ebenezer Hazard's Diary: New Jersey During the Revolution." New Jersey History, 90 (Autumn 1972), pp. 169-180.

Shreve, John. "Personal Narrative of the Services of Lieut. John Shreve of the New Jersey Line of the Continental Army." Magazine of American History, 3 (September 1879), pp. 564-579.

Shute, Samuel M. "Journal of Lieut. Samuel M. Shute." In Frederick Cook, editor, Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations (Albany: Knapp, Peck & Thomson, 1887), pp. 267-274.

"Some Unpublished Revolutionary Manuscripts." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 2d Ser., 13 (January, May 1894; January 1895), pp. 17-24, 79-88, 149-160; 3d Ser., 3 (September 1902; April, July 1906), pp. 85-92, 118-123, 180-184; 6 (January-April, July 1909), pp. 12-16, 79-86.

Spear, John. "The Orderly Book of Lieutenant John Spear (July 17 to December 4, 1781)." Edited by Joseph F. Folsom. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 1 (July 1916), pp. 129-146.

Stevens, Lewis T. "Soldiers from Cape May In The Revolutionary War." Cape May County, New Jersey, Magazine of History & Genealogy, 1 (June 1932), pp. 43-52.

Stryker, William S. General Maxwell's Brigade of the New Jersey Continental Line in the Expedition Against the Indians, in the Year 1779. Trenton: W. S. Sharp Printing Co., 1885.

----, compiler. Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War, Compiled under Orders of His Excellency Theodore F. Randolph, Governor, by William S. Stryker, Adjutant General. With Added Digest and Revision for the use of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey (1911) Reviews and Compiled by James W. S. Campbell. [Original edition published in 1872.] Reprint edition Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967.

----, et al., editors. Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey. [Archives of the State of New Jersey, 2d Ser.] 5 vols. Trenton: State of New Jersey, 1901-1917.

Swan, Jedediah. "Jedediah Swan's Orderly Book." Edited by Joseph F. Folsom. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 2 (January, April, July 1917), pp. 35-53, 118-123, 170-187; 3 (January 1918), pp. 26-44.

----. Colonial and Revolutionary Morris County. Morristown: Morris County Heritage Commission, 1975.

Thayer, Theodore. As We Were: The Story of Old Elizabethtown. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1964.

----. "The War in New Jersey: Battles, Alarums and the Men of the Revolution." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 71 (April 1953), pp. 83-110.

Thompson, Alexander B., editor. "Field and Staff Officers New Jersey Regiments in Revolution." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 8 (May 1857), pp. 65-68.

Thompson, William Y. Israel Shreve, Revolutionary War Officer. Ruston, La.: McGinty Trust Fund Publications, 1979.

Tuttle, Joseph F. "Biographical Sketch of General William Winds, of Morris Co., New Jersey." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 7 (May 1853), pp. 13-37.

-----, editor. "The Ford Family of Morristown, N.J." Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 10 (August 1871), pp. 91-93.

Vermeule, Cornelius C. "Some Revolutionary Incidents in The Raritan Valley." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 6 (April 1921), pp. 73-86.

----. "Number of Soldiers in the Revolution." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 7 (July 1922), pp. 223-227.

----. "Revolutionary Days in Old Somerset." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 8 (October 1923), pp. 265-281.

----. "Service of the New Jersey Militia in the Revolutionary War." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Ser., 9 (July 1924), pp. 234-248.

Wall, John Patrick. New Brunswick in the Critical Period of the Revolution. [New Brunswick]: The Times Publishing Co., 1908.

White, Donald Wallace. A Village at War: Chatham, New Jersey, and the American Revolution. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1979.

----. "A Local History Approach to the American Revolution: Chatham, New Jersey." New Jersey History, 96 (Spring-Summer 1978), pp. 49-64.

----. "Census Making and Local History: In Quest of the People of a Revolutionary Village." Prologue, 14 (Fall 1982), pp. 157-168.

Wright, William C., editor. New Jersey in the American Revolution. 3 vols. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1973-1976.