The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-27
GL0VER'S C0NTINENTALS.
A Massachusetts, Soldier in Bronze
to Guard the Doorway Of
Trenton Battle Monu-
ment.
Special to the Jersey city Neu,.


TRENTON. May 81. 1892 General Stry-
ker of this city was very happy soldier
yesterday. Massachusetts had adopted
his idea that the Massachusetts troops in
the battle of Trenton should be particu-
larly remembered in bronze on the Tren-
ton Battle Monument. To carry out the
idea an appropriation of 50, 5000 was made
by the Massachusetts Legislature. The
money will buy statue representing one
of Col. John Glover's Continentals. The
patriot in bronze will be placed at the
doorway OF the Monument 1t is ex-
pected that the other side of the doorway
will be adorned by statue which will be
given by the City Troop of Philadelphia
Governor Albeit Immediately informed
General Stryker when he received the
following from Governor William E. Rus
sell. of Massachusetts,
II enclose a copy of resolution which
has this day been approved by me, max
ing an appropriation by this Common
wealth of the sum of So. 500 TO be paid to
the Trenton Battle Monument Associa-
ton for bronze statue to commemorate
the part which Massachusetts took in
that important historical event."
The enclosure follows:-
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1892.
RESOLVE.
Relating to the appropriate represen-
tatiou of the soldiers Of the Massachu-
sets Continental line on the Battle Mon
ment now being erected at Trenton, New
Jersey:
Resolved, That whereas, on the great
historic battle field of Trenton, in the war
OF the Revolution, the soldiers of this
Com monwealth, the men of the Third
Regiment Continental Foot, Colonel
liof11 Gfar1 Il
teenth Regiment Continental Foot. Col
onel John Glover commanding; the Fif-
teenth Regiment Continental Foot,
Colonel John Paterson commanding;
the Sixteenth Regiment Continental
Foot Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent COM
mandiug; the Twenty-third Regiment,
Continental Foot, Colonel John Bailey
ment Continental Foot, Colonel Loammi
Baldwin commanding; the Twenty
seventh Regiment Continental Foot,
Major Ezra Putnam commanding; and a
company OF Continental Artillery. Cap
tain Lieutenant Winthrop Sergeant COM
manding, took most active and glorious
part; and
Whereas, Especially during the night
before the battle, Christmas night, De-
cember. seventeen hundred and seventy
six, the men of Colonel John Glover's
Regiment, from Marblehead. greatly dis
t1ngu1Shed themselves in aiding. with
their great skill, the army under General
Washington in the crossing of tho River
Delaware through the cakes of Ice on that
most evehtful crisis in our nations his
tory; therefore.
Resolved. That the sum of two thou
sand five hundred dollars be allowed and
paid out of the treasury to the Treas
urer OF the Trenton Battle Monument
Association, corporation established
under the laws of the State of New
Jersey, for the purpose of design
ing and moulding and placing in position,
at the doorway of said commemorative
monument in Trenton, bronze statue
six feet three inchss in height, of
Il soldier of Colonel John Glover's Con-
tinental Regiment from Marblehead. in
this Commonwealth, i'll the dress of the
soldiers of that organization; providing G
that the design shall be approved and the
statue made and the sum hereby appro-
priated paid under the direction of his
Excellency the Governor.