. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. ew Jersey regarded it as a blowat State supremacy. During the latter part of February and themonth of March the situation of the Americantroops in Morristown was deplorable. • The cryof want of Provisions comes to me from allQuarters. General Maxwell writes word that hismen are starving, is the message that GeneralWashington upon the anniversary of his birth—February 22—sent to Commissary Irvine. Op-posed to General Howes ten thousand troops,well disciplined and well appointed, gathered onboard the transports at Amboy and
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. ew Jersey regarded it as a blowat State supremacy. During the latter part of February and themonth of March the situation of the Americantroops in Morristown was deplorable. • The cryof want of Provisions comes to me from allQuarters. General Maxwell writes word that hismen are starving, is the message that GeneralWashington upon the anniversary of his birth—February 22—sent to Commissary Irvine. Op-posed to General Howes ten thousand troops,well disciplined and well appointed, gathered onboard the transports at Amboy and in the nearbycountry, were the American militia at and nearMorristown— raw, badly officered, and under nogovernment. By the middle of the month Wash-ington wrote to the president of Congress thatthe total number of men under arms in New Jer-sey was less than three thousand. These com-prised about one thousand soldiers, the skeletonsof five Virginia regiments and parts of continen-tal battalions, the two thousand remainder com- [Vol. 2] 162 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. posed of New Jersey and Pennsylvania least one thousand men and attendants wereunder inoculation for smallpox, inoculationcamps having been established in Morristown,Philadelphia, Connecticut, and Providence. Dur-ing these hours of trial Washington himself wasill, although benefited by the ministrations of hiswife, who arrived in camp upon the 15th. Inspite of the deplorable state of the army gamblingwas constantly spreading its baneful influenceamong the troops. So prevalent did the vice be-come that the commander-in-chief prohibited theofficers and soldiers from playing at cards, dice,or any games except those of Exercise fordiversion. During May the situation improved. By theend of the month forty-three regiments seventhousand strong had assembled from New Jer-sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, andVirginia. Of ten brigades five divisions wereformed commanded by Generals Greene, Stephen,Sullivan,
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