Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-01-25
Extract from the Memorial.

claimants made it necessary.
EEfract from the Memorial.
"The memorasts beg leave respectfully call to the
collection of Congress that Lord Stirling Of the
lest pcrcveng and ineatgable patriots Of the Revo
ution He literally embarked his life and fortune in the
cause and literally lost them both In the year IT'S, he
appointed TO the command Of the first Continental regiment
that was raised in New Jersey He had the honor Of ecev
ing one Of the first of thanks granted by Congress In
the winter of 1885, while the Asia man-ofwar was lying
in the bay Of New York, Colonel Lord Stirling embarked
with detachment Of his regiment and volunteers
from Ezabehtown in three small craft utsde Of Sandy
Hook sea- boarded, and with musketry carried transport
ship Of three hundred tons, armed with six guns, and richly
cghted With stores for the enemy and bore her tumphany
into Perth Amboy.
Sin 776-7 he was with Gen. Washington in his
abc retreat through New Jersey, and the subsequent
Of that pcous and evcntu campaign Early in l777 the
British army marched out in great force from Perth :nboy
and advanced as far the Shorts Hl with the vicw
supposed Of breaking up the winter quarters Of General
Washington, at Monsown Lord Stirling put himself at the
head Of the few regular regiments upon the lines encountered
the advance Of the British army with great gaanty, and al
length when compelled by superior numbers to retire, he
50 advantageous position check the advance Of the
enemy and Illustrate his design.
In the battles of Long Island Bandywine Germantown,
and Monmouth he sustained conspicuous and efficient part
1t his singular good fortune in the Of the
different periods have commanded every brigade in the
American army except those of South Carolina and Georgia
But your honorable body will require further evidence
Of the merit and services of Lord Stirling than that he enjoy
ed from the the termination Of his military
the undertaking friendship and confidence Of the Com
mander n-chief Gen. Washngtons communication to Con-
gross announcing his DEATH the aeng resolutions passed
receiving the intelligence, tho kind and touching letter Of
coincidence addressed by that usous parsonage to the wi
dow of the deceased bear ample testimony to the character
and services of Lord Stirling.
ellis representatives solicit grant Of land equita
bly, entitled both the bounty land promised Ivy the resou
ans Of Congress Of IT'S, and compensation for the
losses he sustained in the public service.
These resolutions promise certain compensation in land
all officers who seryed during the ,ar Lord Stirling
died in January 1885, and has been held that his
within the letter of the resolutions the deemed
to have terminated until peace formally proclaimed
But certainly the within the spirit Of the rcsolu
in question: he entered the the
ment Of the war; and continued in It until after the premna-
treaty of peace had been signed and actual hotes had
ceased embraced by the Of
resolutions Of 1916 according TO the strict construction which
they have received and the bountand is claimed
equitable grounds Congress not limited by the resolutions
to the extent OF the grant, OUT may exercise us ucreuon
in accordance with peculiar Of the case and
give such quantity of land may be deemed equitable
compensation the losses well for the services of Lord
Stirling asthosc losses actually sustained in consequence
his uninterrupted Of military duty, from his frequent
absences upon distant service the unavoidable neglect of his
private affairs and the sacrifices which resulted from the pro-
cecdngs of creditors resident within the British lines who
the of judicial proceeding, swept the whole Of his
landed property from him, at not 1.-THE Of its value"