The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-01-16 00:00:00, page 1

NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY.
An Aa to provide for the defence of thefrontiers,
and for defraying the expences of toe govern
^ent of this State.
V yHEREAS from the continuance of the
1 / war it is still neceiTary that provision
Q fhould be made for the future defence,
' ' fccurity and protection of the frontier
inhabitants of this state, and for the payment of the
troops and militia employed in that service. for pre
vention of the illicit trade carried on with the enemy,
and also for defraying the necefTary expences of go
vernment;
Sect. I. Be it therefore enafled by the Coun
cil and General Assembly of this slate, and it is
hereby enabled by the authority of the fame, That
Tout hundred and twenty-two men, including officers
and non-commissioned officers, shall be raised by
voluntary enlistment and embodied for the defence
of the frontiers of this state, to be ready to enter
on said service or to take the field on or before the
firft day of March, one thousand seven hundred
and eighty-two, unless in the county of Sufiex, where
they shall be ready to take the field on or before
the firft day of April succeeding, and to continue in
service until the fifteenth day of December ensuing,
unless sooner difeharged, and to be Rationed in the
several counties in such a manner as to afford the
most equal and, beneficial protection to all the inha
bitants on the said frontiers; and that the faidfour
hundred and twenty-two men be distributed and
Rationed in the different frontier counties, as fol
lows; that is to fay, in the county of Bergen, one
company to consist of forty-five privates, three cem
miffioned officers, three Serjeants, three Corpor ds,
and two horsemen, to be raised and commanded by
Captain Peter Ward of th? county of Bergen. Lieu
tenant Joseph Caterline of the county of Somcrfet,
and Ensign Samuel Verbryke of the said county of
Bergen, and to be Rationed at Hackinfack, New-
Bridge, and at or near Clofter.
In the county of Essex, one company to consist of
sixty-six privates, four commissioned officers, four
Serjeants, four Corporals and two horsemen, XQ&
raised and commanded by Capt. John Craig,''Lied,"
tenant John Spier and Ensign Charles Clark of the
county of Essex, and Ensign Samuel Minthorn of
the county of Morris.
In the county of Middlesex, on the north fide of
Raritan river, one company to consist of twenty
four privates, two commissioned officers, two Ser
jeants, one Corporal and one horseman, to be raised
and commanded by Captain Asher Fitz-Randolph
and Ensign Lewis Fitz-Randolph of the said county.
In the county of Middlesex, on the south fide of
Raritan river, one company to consist of sixteen pri
vates, one commissioned officer, one Serjeant, one
Corporal and one horseman, to be raised and com
manded by Lieutenant Nicholas Morgan of the
said county.
In the county of SufTex, one company to consist
of thirty-nine privates, three commissioned officers,
three Serjeants, three Corporals and two horsemen,
to be raised and commanded by Captain James
Bonnel, Lieutenant Caleb Lopkins and Ensign An
thony Blackford of the fame county of Suflex.
In the county of Monmouth, one company of
horsemen to consist of forty privates, three commis
sioned officers and four Serjeants, to be raised and
commanded by Captain John Walton, Lieutenant
David Rhea and Cornet Jonathan Forman, and one
company of infantry to consist of eighteen privates,
one commissioned officer and one Serjeant, to be
raised and commanded by Lieutenant Jaques Denise,
and to be continued at Tom's River, or removed
°, lt ".' diferetion of the commanding officer who is
therein after appointed.
In the county of Burlington, one company tn
consist of twenty-five privates, one commissioned
officer, one Serjeant and one Corporal, to be raised
and commanded by Captain Jacob Cooper cf the
laid county of Burlington, to be Rationed at Little-
Egg-Harbour meeting-boufe, and removable at
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the diferetion of the officer commanding the fame.
In the county of Glouceftet, one company to
consist of twenty-five privates, one commissioned
officer, one Serjeant and one Corporal, to be raised
and commanded by Captain Simon Lucas, to be
Rationed at Chefnut-Neck, and removable mt the
diferetion of the officer commanding the fame.
And that the said troops in the counties of Bur
lington 2nd Gloucefte/, be under the fame regula
tions in every refped las the other troops herein
before directed to be raised, excepting- that they
shall be fubje&only to the orders of the officers
having the command in each county, unless when
called to act in conjunction with the continental
forces, when they shall be under the command of
the field officer herein after mentioned, or other
officer appointed in his room.
For the county of Salem, Cumberland and Capt
May, sixty privates, to be divided into three com
panies of twenty men each, to be raised and com
manded by Captain Charles Allen of the county of
Cumberland, Captain Humphry Stites of the coun
ty of Cape-May, and Captain Nicholas Keen of the
county of Salem, to take rank as they are herein
named when they may be called to aft in conjuncti
on, to be ready to enter or. said service on the firft
day of March, one thoufind seven hundred and
eighty-two, and to be permitted to perform their
duties either on the laid or water as shall be most
likely to protest the inhabitants thereof, and shall
cruize, when on the water between Cape and Reedy
Blands, and as far eastward as the mouth of Little-
Egg-Harbour and no further, unless in case cf pur
fang the enemy.
! he whole to be under the command of Major
Samuel Hayes, or in case of his non acceptance or
other disability, of such person as shall be appointed
to supply his place by the Governor or Commander
in Chief of the Rate for trie unit being and Privy
Council, unless in the counties of Sussex, Salem,
Cumberland and Cape-May, where the said troops
shall be fubje&only to the orders of the officers
herein before appointed for those counties, and in
case any or either of the commissioned officers here
in before named, should negle& or refufe to accept
the said appointment, it shall and may be lawful for
the majority of the Representatives of the county
to which such officer belongs, to appoint another in
his room and stead; and any vacancy happening by
death or other disability, shall be supplied in like
manner.
2. And be it enafied by the authority aforefaid,
That His Excellency the Governor or Commander
in Chief of the Rate for the time being, shall be
and he is hereby authorized and requeued immedi
ately after the passing of this a&, to issue orders or
warrants to the Captains and subalterns herein be
fore appointed in the several counties, to enlist or
cause to be enlisted and enrolled on the terms here
in after fpecified, the number of men directed to be
Rationed tn the said counties refpedively, to conti
nue in service during the term heiein before exprefled.
3. Ard be it further enaßed, That the said
officers refpedfively who shall enlist recruits shall,
on or before the twentieth day of March next,
make return of the men which they have enlisted
refpedively, to the field officer herein before men
tioned, or who shall be appointed in pursuance of
the directions of this a&, or where there is no field
officer, to the commanding officer of the company
to which they belong, or to which they are assigned
in this a&, who shall thereupon immediately make
out a general return of the whole number of men
enlisted as aforefaid, and transmit the fame to the
Governor or Commander in Chief of ^ state for
the time being, and it shall and may be lawful for
the said Governor or Commander in Chief, and he
is hereby authorized, empowered and requested, on
receiving the said returns, if it ihall appear that the
quota of men allowed or appointed to any county
in this act is incomplete, to extend the time for
enlistment to the officers appointed for such county
to a farther period, or to dismiss from the service
the supernumerary officer or officers, if the comple-
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tion of such quota shall be found impracticable with
in a reasonable time.
4. And be it further enabled, That in case
the circumstances of any county should be varied
'n such a manner as to render the -distribution be
fore mentioned unequal, or so as to render the
whole or any part of the troops raised as aforefaid,
and diredgto be Rationed.therein, unnecessary for
the defence of the fame, it shall and may be lawful
for the Governor and Privy Council to alter or
change the aforefaid distribution, and to remove the
said troops or any part of them from such county
to any other county as may best conduce to the
publick good; or in case of t^ removal of the ene
my, to dismiss the said troops from further feivice.
5. And be it further enafred, I hat the said
troops shall aft in conjunction with the continental
forces when on the frontiers, in every case where
they can be spared from their Rations, and shall
not be called out of the state, unless in such cases,
and by the fame authority in and by which the
militia are called out, and that the officers before
mentioned, or hereafter to be appointed in the se
veral counties, Ih^ll, in such case, take rank accord
ing to the date of their commissions. Provided
always, That if it should so happen that officers of
the fame rank called or to act in conjunction, shall
bear commissions of the fame date, the officer firft
named in this aft ftiall take prefidence.
6. And be it enafled by the authority aforefaid,
That the field and commissioned officers before
mentioned in this aft, who shall accept of their ap
pointments, and also the non-commissioned officers
and privates who may be raised by virtue of this
aft, shall be entitled to receive, wh ; le in service, the
fame pay and rations per month that are allowed to
the militia of this state while in service; and also
each and every officer, non-commissioned officer and
private who shall be engaged as a horseman, shall be;
entitled to receive 1 wenty Shillings per month for
his horse, over and above the pay allowed to the
foot; the pay of the officers to commence from the
time they receive their warrants, and the pay of
every non-commissioned officer and private, who
shall be enlisted and embodied as before directed,
to commence from the time they are marched to
join the detachment to which they belong, to be
paid in specie by the paymaflers of the counties
refpe&ively in which they are directed to be Rati
oned by this aft, on payrolls of the fame being to
them produced, properly certified and authenticated;
and every officer who shall hereafter be appointed
in pursuance of the directions of this aft, ihall re
ceive pay according to his rank as aforefaid, to
commence from the time of his marching to join
the detachment to which he belongs. Provided
always, That nothing herein contained shall extend
to entitle any officer herein mentioned, or hereafter
to be appointed for the county of Sussex, who shall
accept of his appointment, to draw pay before the
firft day of March next, or to enable any officer
mentioned or appointed as aforefaid for the counties
of Salem, Cumberland and Cape-May, to draw pay
before the twentieth day of February next.
7. And be it enabled. That the several officers
Who shall enlist men agreeably to the direftiohs of
this a&, shall immediately cause the fame to be for
warded as fall as they are enlisted, to the command
ing officer of the company to which they- belong,
that they may be by him marched to join their de
tachments on the said frontiers, to be there station
ed as shall be directed by the officer appointed to
the command on each Ration, or by the Governor
or Commander in Chief of the state for the time
being, and Privy Council, unless where it is other
wise exprefled in this ad.
8. And be it further enabled. That every officer
who shall engage to serve in the said levy, shall,
from the time of acceptance of his appointment,
and every non-commissioned officer, horseman and
private, who shall be enlisted as aforefaid, shall, from
the time of his being marched to join the detach
ment to which he belongs, become amenable to the
rules and articles of war eftablilhed for the govern-
[Numb. 212.]