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Loyalists of Sussex County, New Jersey
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year throug h th 1\ Iay Term 1774. Probate 1s no recor ed in He was a captain in the New Jersey Volunteers . His first and
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New Jersey f or e1 1 · ' second defaults were recorded in the Minutes of the Sussex County
"d h b en born the re in 1767 settled after 1800 in Star key Court at the February and May Ter ms 1779. He was a merchant
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Ya t es o., N ew York where he died leavmg a nume r ous fam1ly. at Newton and was one of the incorporator s of Christ Church
[Cleveland, Stafford c. History and directory ~ Yates County, (Episcopal) of that place in 1769. He appear s on the tax list of
New York. (Penn Yan, 1873) 2:941] Newton in 1774 as a single man, the owner of a stor e. [Snell,
James P. History of Sussex and Warren Counties , New Jersey.
(Philadelphia, 1881) p. 261 ; GMNJ 40: 137]

ARCHIBALD SHAW
PETER SLACK
He at first took the whig s ide and s er ved as a captain in the
His first and second defaults were r ecorded in the Minutes of
Continental Army. He was commissioned in the 2nd Battalion of
the Sussex County Court at the August and November Terms,
the New Jersey Line on :31 October 1775, and in the latter part
1779. He enlisted in Capt. Silas Hopkins ' Company of the New
of that year he enlisted men in the vicinity of Hackettstown to
Jersey Volunteers on 2 February 1777, but he s ubsequently served
serve in his company. He served under Col. William Maxwell
in Captain Benjamin Barton's Company and was taken prisoner
in the Canada campaign, but he resigned from his commission
on 22 August 1777. His name is carried thereafter on the muster
on 5 February 1777. One of the men he had enlisted s tated in
of Capt. James Shaw's Company as "a prisoner with the rebels"
his RevolutionaryWar pension application that "After news came
through October 1778. He apparently effected an escape or was
to us of the Declaration of Independence our Captain (Archibald exchanged at about this time as a subsequent muster roll names
Shaw) left the army and afterwar ds joined the British." [Stryker,
him as a priva te with no mention of his being a prisoner. On the
William S. (compiler) Official register of the officers and men muster of 25 May 1779 it is stated that he died 6 April 1779.

of New Jersey. in the Revolutionary War ~(Ëàitimore, 1967) pp. The Rev. Lawrence T. Slack (852 Hamilton Street. Somer set,

17, 32, 87: Heltman, Francis B. Historical register of officers N. J .) who is gathering materials toward a history of the Slack,
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?f the Contmental Army during the ~ he Revolution. (Wash- Slaght families of America, has record of a Peter Slack, born
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mgton, 1914) p. 491; GMNJ 10: 86, 90, 97]- in Newton Township, Sussex County, who resided in Oxford Town-
~n 18 August 1777 he was descr ibed as being of Hardwick at ship (now Warren County) where he died in 1818. Job, John and
wh1eh time he accepted a note or bond executed at Newton from Richard Slack of Sussex County moved to Ontario in 1 ï96.

John Brearly of Hardwick. The State by its agent Thomas Ander- It was reported in the New Jersey Gazette 1\Iay 3. 17SO that a
~~~el;~~rbbyr~:ghtstuit against Brearly's es tate to collect the sum James Slack had been fined H ,OOO and sentenced to nine months
e no e. [NJSC 33794] imprisonment by a court held in Sussex County for attempting to
The firstand second defaults . . guide sorne British soldiers to New York. His accomplices in
corded in theM" t f agamst Arch1bald Shaw were re-
mu es o the Sussex C t the act were James McQuigg who was sentenced to twelve months
and May Terms 1779 A l. t f oun y Court at the February
• lS o the men aga· t h imprisonment, and Matthew Brown who was sentenced to niue
had be en found in Sussex C t . ms w om inquisition months imprisonment. [ 4 NE 352] The records of the County Court
paper of the lime in wh. ho~n Y_ m 17 79 was published in a news-
first mention the case at the August Term lï79 when it was re -
is by this name that h tc e . ts named as Arthur Shaw and it
16 e was ltsted by th d"t ' ported that Justice EviAdams had returned an inquisition against
5; Jones p. 304] Record of Sh ' e e 1 or of Jones . [3 NE James Slack "for aiding the army of the King of Great Britain."
the Revolutionary War h aw s subsequent actiVities during
as not been uncovered. At this time James Slack entered into recognizance in the amount