History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . Wardenb of the said Church,and Henry Gartliwait, Jonatlian Hampton, AmosMorss, Ephraim Terrill, Matthias Williamson, JohnDe Hart, John Ogden, Cavalier Jouet, and JohnChetwood to be the first and Present Vestrymen ofsaid Church. The only changes made in these names for the nextfifteen years were in the substitution, from time totime, of John Herriman, Edward Thomas, and GeorgeRoss for Cavalier Jouet and John De Hart, the latterserving as secretary. About the year 1779 or 1780 the cong
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . Wardenb of the said Church,and Henry Gartliwait, Jonatlian Hampton, AmosMorss, Ephraim Terrill, Matthias Williamson, JohnDe Hart, John Ogden, Cavalier Jouet, and JohnChetwood to be the first and Present Vestrymen ofsaid Church. The only changes made in these names for the nextfifteen years were in the substitution, from time totime, of John Herriman, Edward Thomas, and GeorgeRoss for Cavalier Jouet and John De Hart, the latterserving as secretary. About the year 1779 or 1780 the congregation be-gan to assemble in a private house for public wor-ship on Worship was soon resumed at thechurch. An impostor for a brief time obtained pos-session of its pulpit. He was soon after , andfled from the odium and punishment he had churcli was then occasionally supplied by theRev. Uzal Ogden, of Newark. Mr. Ogden was wellliked, and being a cousin of Mrs. Caldwell, wife ofthe late murdered pastor, many of the Presbyterians,whose own church had been burned by the British,. P\l ^ V L Ji ST JOHNb tin h II III- III Dr. Chandler continued to officiate here until themiddle of May, 1775, when probably alarmed at thesacking of the house of his friend. Dr. Myles Cooper,at New York, on the night of the 10th of May, hefound refuge with him on the Kingfisher, Montague, a British ship-of-war in the harborof New York. On the 24th of May, in companywith Dr. Cooper and the Rev. Samuel Cook, he sailedin the Exeter for Bristol, England. The church was left without a rector or a sup|)lyfor the pulpit, and its members were consequentlygreatly scattered, more especially after the declara-tion of independence. Public worship was at lengthsuspended, and as houses were needed for hospitalsand barracks, churches were not too sacred to be usedfor that purpose. Fences were converted into fuel, norwere the graveyards spared. St. Johns suffered mostas it was n
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