. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . eturn of the regu-lars and Virginia militia from Fort Necessity,brought the Assembly to an understanding of thecommon danger. Upon the 24th of April, 1755,appeared the governors proclamation stating thatthe Legislature had made provision for Pay,Cloathing, and Subsistence of 500 Men, to be un-der the command of Colonel Peter Schuyler. Already the people were stirred. A letter fromTrenton, dated April 18, 1755, says that everybody is willing to contribute a Mite against theFrench and the Country Fellows list like ea
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . eturn of the regu-lars and Virginia militia from Fort Necessity,brought the Assembly to an understanding of thecommon danger. Upon the 24th of April, 1755,appeared the governors proclamation stating thatthe Legislature had made provision for Pay,Cloathing, and Subsistence of 500 Men, to be un-der the command of Colonel Peter Schuyler. Already the people were stirred. A letter fromTrenton, dated April 18, 1755, says that everybody is willing to contribute a Mite against theFrench and the Country Fellows list like early as March of the same year the Legisla-ture had appropriated £500 for the subsistence ofthe royal forces during their passage through thecolony, and had prohibited the exportation of war-like stores to the French dominions, while thegallant Colonel Schuyler had requested and ob-tained the leave of the governor to raise four hun-dred men at his own charge to march to the de-fense of New York City or elsewhere in case oFFrench attack. To the defense .of the colonies. VIEW OF NEW YORK AT THIS PERIOD. ONY AND AS A STATE 377 Jerseymen rallied. By May 12 four of the fiveNew Jersey companies, according to the Pennsyl-vania Journal of May 15, 1755, were nearly com-pleted. In Morris County Captain NathanielRusco * * * had such extraordinary Successin beating up for Volunteers as to have more thanhis Complement in less than Eleven Days were these efforts to protect the frontiers tooearly put in motion. By August, on account ofthe Scalping Indians, refugees from the frontiersof Pennsylvania entered Reading on their way toNew Jersey and others were soon expected. The scattered settlements along the upper Dela-ware and Susquehanna in November becamegreatly frightened by the reported incursions ofIndians, allies of the French. Beyond the forksof the Delaware, at Easton, the wild country layexposed to the depredations of bands of maraud-ing Indians. Early in November, 1755, Colon
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