. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. upawn and milk, the command-er-in-chief hastily removed to Ramapo in New Jer-sey. Upon July 24th he directed General Putnamto order Generals Sullivan and Stirling to crossthe Hudson and proceed to Philadelphia. By arapid movement Washington, on the 25th, leftKamapo for Pompton. On the following day hewas in Morristown, on the 27th at Readington, andon the 28th he reached Coryells Ferry (Lambert-ville). Here the news arrived by an express fromCongress that two hundred and twenty-eight Brit-ish sail were at the Capes of the
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. upawn and milk, the command-er-in-chief hastily removed to Ramapo in New Jer-sey. Upon July 24th he directed General Putnamto order Generals Sullivan and Stirling to crossthe Hudson and proceed to Philadelphia. By arapid movement Washington, on the 25th, leftKamapo for Pompton. On the following day hewas in Morristown, on the 27th at Readington, andon the 28th he reached Coryells Ferry (Lambert-ville). Here the news arrived by an express fromCongress that two hundred and twenty-eight Brit-ish sail were at the Capes of the Delaware. With the utmost expedition, upon the morningof the 29th a brigade of the army was sent over theriver, General Stephenss divisions crossed at How-ells Ferry, now Stockton, while General Stirlingcrossed at Trenton. The main army, which hadpassed the Delaware at Coryells and HowellsFerries, entered Philadelphia by the Old Yorkroad, reaching the city on the 31st, accompaniedby Generals Lafayette, De Kalb, and 1st day of August Washington made an in-. William Alexander, iittilar Lord Stirling, sou of JamesAlexander and lii« wife, the widow of David Provost; b. inNew York City 17516; proviaion merchant; noted as amathematician and astronomer; commissary in the Frenchand Indian War ; surveyor-sroneral and iiienib«r ProvincialCouncil ; colonel of the Kiutt Jersey Battalion 1775; brig-adier-general; first governor of BUngs (now Coltimbia) Col-lege; married a daughter of Philip IJvin^tou 1761; d. inAlbany, N. Y., Jan. 15, 17»Z. 172 NEW JERSEY AS A COL spection of the defenses of Philadelphia at MudIsland (Fort Mifflin), Red Bank (Fort Mercer), Bil-lingsport, and Marcus Hook, spending the nightin Chester. Meanwhile Philadelphia became alarmed, espe-cially as the militia failed to respond to repeatedcalls, owing to the presence of the Quaker spiritof non-combatancy, factional feeling in local poli-tics, and a widespread belief that Howe had sailedfor Charleston, in
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