The record of the New Jersey Council of Safety is a little known but important source for New Jersey history during the American Revolution. The function of the Council of Safety was to protect the state from the enemy while providing the militia with whatever they needed in order to fight. This work is an "abstraction" of the important proceedings found in the five volumes of the records of the New Jersey Council of Safety from March 18th, 1777 through October 8th, 1778, with a complete index of all the individuals, named therein, who appeared before them. It names the members of the Council...
The record of the New Jersey Council of Safety is a little known but important source for New Jersey history during the American Revolution. The funct...
The Hightstown Gazette issued its first edition in April 1861. This paper published local material, as well as news from neighboring Middlesex, Monmouth and Burlington counties; including the deaths, marriages, and other personal items from papers covering other areas of the state (NJ), which were exchanged between editors. In many cases, the information printed here from the exchanged papers is now lost to history, as the exchanged issues did not always survive. Present-day Hightstown is centrally located approximately fifteen miles east of Trenton, and equally distant from Philadelphia and...
The Hightstown Gazette issued its first edition in April 1861. This paper published local material, as well as news from neighboring Middlesex, Monmou...
The Hightstown Gazette issued its first edition in April 1861. This weekly paper consisted of only four pages, but from those four pages one can reconstruct the history of the people, their community, and their entire state. One full page was dedicated to "local" news consisting of deaths, marriages, who was visiting whom, who was sick, moving, building a new house or business, etc. News from other states was also carried, especially if it reflected on residents who had migrated elsewhere. News items from neighboring Middlesex, Monmouth and Burlington Counties; including deaths, marriages,...
The Hightstown Gazette issued its first edition in April 1861. This weekly paper consisted of only four pages, but from those four pages one can recon...