. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. money or blood from the services of General Wayne their com-plaints reached the council of Pennsylvania,whose president, Joseph Reed, in conjunction witha congressional committee, met the mutineers atTrenton. Upon this committee of Congress wasDr. John Witherspoon, whose efforts were largelyinstrumental in obtaining partial but satisfactory-redress for the following grievances: detention ofmen beyond the terms of enlistment, lack^ ofpromptness in meeting arrearages of pay and de-preciation of the currency
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. money or blood from the services of General Wayne their com-plaints reached the council of Pennsylvania,whose president, Joseph Reed, in conjunction witha congressional committee, met the mutineers atTrenton. Upon this committee of Congress wasDr. John Witherspoon, whose efforts were largelyinstrumental in obtaining partial but satisfactory-redress for the following grievances: detention ofmen beyond the terms of enlistment, lack^ ofpromptness in meeting arrearages of pay and de-preciation of the currency paid them, and extremesuffering on account of insufficient food, clothing,and shelter. Two emissaries sent from New York,with British promises of reward to those who de-serted, were promptly surrendered by the men,court-martialed, and executed. The complaints ofthe soldiers having been satisfied, many of thePennsylvania troops were disbanded, and it wasnot until spring that the complement of the Statewas fully recruited. Following the example set by the Pennsylvania. 336 NEW JERSEY AS A COL men, it was upon the 20th of January of thesame year that one hundred and sixty soldiers ofthe New Jersey brigade left their huts at Pomp-ton and, according to a contemporary newspaperaccount, proceeded to Chatham under the direc-tion of their sergeants. Their demands were sim-ilar to those of the Pennsylvania troops. Instant-ly five hundred rank and file of the Massachusetts,Connecticut, and New Hampshire lines, undercommand of Major-General Robert Howe, weresent in pursuit, with orders to grant no termswhile the revolted troops were with arms. Ac-cording to the same newspaper the New Jerseymutineers were unacquainted with a recent reso-lution of the New Jersey Legislature, appointingcommissioners to inquire into their the arrival of General Howe the legisla-tive commissioners had consulted with the muti-neers, resulting in an adjustment, and the menreturned to their duty
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