. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . e hundred and fifty,lost all but seventy-five of his men. Soon there-after Fort William Henry fell into the hands ofthe French. The excitement in New York andNew Jersey was intense, as it appeared that notonly Albany but the Hudson Valley would bewrested from England. In the midst of this tur-moil Colonel Schuyler returned from Quebec. InNew York City and Newark bonfires, illumina-tions, cannonading, and health drinking markedhis home coming. Upon this occasion someverses, supposed to have been written by AnnisBoudinot St
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . e hundred and fifty,lost all but seventy-five of his men. Soon there-after Fort William Henry fell into the hands ofthe French. The excitement in New York andNew Jersey was intense, as it appeared that notonly Albany but the Hudson Valley would bewrested from England. In the midst of this tur-moil Colonel Schuyler returned from Quebec. InNew York City and Newark bonfires, illumina-tions, cannonading, and health drinking markedhis home coming. Upon this occasion someverses, supposed to have been written by AnnisBoudinot Stockton, were printed in the New YorkMercury, the concluding lines being: Csesarses Shore with Acclamation rings,And Welcome Schuyler, every Shepherd for thy Brows the Laurel is prepardAnd justly deemd, a Patriot, thy RewardEvn future Ages Shall enroll thy Name,In Sacred Annals of immortal Fame. For the campaign of 1758 a call was made forone thousand men, the colony to provide one coat,a pair of cloth breeches, a white shirt, a check. 382 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. shirt, two pair of shoes, two pair of stockings, onepair of ticken breeches, a hat, blanket, canteen,and hatchet for each recruit under a bounty of£12 to serve until September 15, with pay at£1. 13. 6. per month and a dollar to drink HisMajestys Health. Late in May the New JerseyProvincial Regiment set out for Albany, underColonel Johnston, arrayed in Uniform blue,faced with red, grey Stockings, and BuckskinBreeches. » * * They are accounted a Parcelof robust sturdy Men. This was the first appear-ance of the Jersey Blues. Upon July 8 occurred another unsuccessful at-tack on Fort Ticonderoga, garrisoned by fivethousand French, the British regulars and provin-cials numbering fifteen thousand, conveyed inthree hundred whaleboats and one thousand bat-teaux. In this unfortunate expedition the NewJersey regimental loss was not heavy, as thetroops of the colony occupied a position in the rearof the advance. During th
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