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The Ontario Register
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Loyalists of Sussex County, New Jersey
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. d E'ckler who served m t e ew ersey and will make as good use of it for I will never take' the Oath
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Volunteers an w h 0 was in Capt. James Hatton 's Company as (of abjuration and allegiance)." Indicted on a misdemeanor, he
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early as 8 ep em e 77 He subsequently serve m Captam pleaded not guilty. [NJSC 35497] It was reported in the following
Joseph Lee's Company, and it was recorded ~n a roster of that year that he bad been bound over to the Sussex County Court but
company that Conrad died 26 August 1780. He IS named as Con- that he bad subsequently escaped. [Wm Paterson legal papers,
rad Eagler on a list of those who were proscribed by the Hunt- Lloyd W. Smith Collection in the Library, 1\Iorristown National
Historical Park, Mf 40: 566, 597 ] No .further record bas been
erdon County Court. [Jones, p. 274]
found regarding his Revolutionary War activities.

PHILIP FORCE
GEORGE and WILLIAM GREEN
Inquisition was found against Philip "Fonce" of Oxford, Sus-
William Green was enlisted into the New Jersey Volunteers on
sex County, 20 June 1778. His name is correctly entered in the
12 February 1777 by Capt. James Shaw, and on the same day
1\Iinutes of the Sussex County Court where his first and second
William enlisted into that regiment George Green. Many of the
defaults were recorded at the August and November Terms 1778.
men who joined at this time remained in Sussex County perhaps
Philip "Farce" is included in a list drawn up on 10 December
being kept in reserve as part of the proposed plan to raise the
1778 of those whose estates bad been forfeited in Sussex County.
King's Standard at the Sussex Court House. On 1\Iay 1st, \\ïlliam
[2 NE 435; 3 NE 46] He was taxed in Oxford in July 1773. [GMNJ Green "of Hardwick, yeoman" attended a meeting of Loyalists
40·140]
held at Wall Kilt in Sussex County. (See under Will son). He and
He served in the New Jersey Volunteers, the first mention of
George Green were arrested by the authorities on M:ay 4th and
him in the transcribed rasters at the New Jersey Archives in
were tried at the May Term of the Sussex sessions ',f :he- New
Trenton being 8 January 1778 when he was named as a private
Jersey Supreme Court. They were imprisoned in the Sussex and
in Capt. James Stewart's Company. In July of that year he was Morris goals, and George died sometime in 1777 while he was
in Major Thomas Millidge's Company, and he is carried on the a prisoner. William subsequently made his escape and joined

rasters of that Company through 25 December 1779. There is his regiment on Staten Island, 3 February 1778. His name appears
no explanation in these records as to why he is not listed there- on the rasters of Capt. James Shaw's Company from that time

after. In one of the rosters he was described as a shoemaker. through December 1779. [NJSC 35498: Records of the Xew Jersey
Volunteers]
CHARLES GREEN
On 11 August 1779 it was advertised by the CommissDners of
He was indicted in August 1777 before the Sussex Sessions of Forfeited Estates that the property of William Green '-f Hard-
the ~ew Jersey Supreme Court at which time he was described wick would be soldat public auction. The property conststell of

a.s bemg of Oxford, Sussex County, yeoman, a disaffected man a grist mill on the Paulinskill and one fifth part of five hundred
(Le .. of tory sympathies). The indictment recites that on Aug- acres at the Great Meadows in Hardwick. [3 NE 5."53J No further
ust 9, 1777 in Oxford he was notified by Samuel M l ' - record of William Green as a Loyalist has come to light. He and
tenant of militia, that he bad been draft d t oore, a teu George were sons of Samuel Green who died inHardwick in 1760.
At th t t· e o serve one month.
. a Ime Green said to Moore "You and all the rest of the [NJA 32: 134] Hannah, widow of Samuel Green. married secondly
offiCers may go to the devil and b d
John Goodwin of Sussex County [Minutes. Sussex County Court.
none of you (meaning that he would ~ot ~::e~: f~r I wfill go for May Term 1762J, and it is noted that some of the Goodwin's
the Captain wants me he ma . 1s our o duty). If
were Loyalists.
will shoot him. If he ~ffers toyt~~:;e himself, ~nd if he does I
In the Minutes of the Sussex County Court for the l\1ay Term
me, I have as good a gun as th C ~eor anythmg belonging to 1780 appears the case of the Statc \'S. \\ïlliam Green who cntert'd
e aptam and as much ammunition