1776 in New Jersey

1776 1776 This is a list of events in the year 1776 in New Jersey. Incumbents Colonial governor: William Franklin (until January) Governor: William Livingston (starting August 31st) Events January 1 – The 3rd New Jersey Regiment is raised at Elizabethtown. June 29 – American Revolution: Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet – The Continental Navy successfully challenges the British Royal Navy blockade off Cape May County. August 13 – The New Jersey Legislative Council is elected, with the New Jersey Provincial Council being succeeded into the Legislative Council. August 27 – The first session of the New Jersey Legislative Council convenes with the Provincial Congress of New Jersey ceased to function under the New Jersey State Constitution. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislativepub/history.asp New Jersey Legislature, Historical Information August 12, 2009 June 28, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090628045512/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislativepub/history.asp dead See also: New Jersey Legislature#Before the Legislature and the Constitution of 1776. August 31 – William Livingston is sworn in as the first governor.New Jersey Legislature https://archive.org/details/minutesproceedin00newj/page/4 Minutes and proceedings of the Council and General Assembly of the state of New-Jersey, in joint-meeting, from August 30, 1776 to October 29, 1799 4 September 16 – The 4th New Jersey Regiment is raised at Elizabethtown. November 20 – American Revolution: Battle of Fort Lee – Invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army. December 14 – American Revolution: Ambush of Geary December 22–23 – American Revolution: Battle of Iron Works Hill December 25 – American Revolution: At 6 p.m. Gen. George Washington and his troops, numbering 2,400, march to McConkey's Ferry, cross the Delaware River, and land on the New Jersey bank by 3 a.m. the following morning. December 26 – American Revolution: Battle of Trenton: Washington's troops surprise the 1500 Hessian troops under the command of Col. Johann Rall at 8 a.m. outside Trenton and score a victory, taking 948 prisoners while suffering only 5 wounded. Births January 24 Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville, French nobleman, diplomat, physician and politician (d. 1857) Peter Augustus Jay, lawyer and politician (d. 1843) February 1 – William M. Crane, military personnel (d. 1846)https://books.google.com/books?id=gawYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA422 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography XII James T. White & Company 422 1904 2020-08-17 Google Books March 1 – Elias Moore, politician (d. 1847)Society of Friends Archives, Norwich Monthly Meeting Records, Book 'B' March 3 – James Parker, surveyor, and politician (d. 1868)https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000061 PARKER, James 1776 – 1868 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 8 March 2024 March 21 – John Frederick Frelinghuysen, general and lawyer (d. 1833) April 3 – Elias B. Caldwell, clerk (d. 1825)Perry, James R. The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: pt. 1. Appointments and proceedings, p. 163. Columbia University Press, 1985. 9780231088671. "Born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, on April 3, 1776, Elias Boudinot Caldwell was the son of the Reverend James and Hannah (Ogden) Caldwell." July 5 – Bernard Smith, politician (d. 1835)https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000518 SMITH, Bernard 1776 – 1835 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 8 March 2024 September 5 – Stephen Whitney, merchant (d. 1860) December 7 – Reuben Whallon, businessman and politician (d. 1843)https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000321 WHALLON, Reuben 1776 – 1843 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 6 March 2024 Undated Hetty Reckless, runaway slave (d. 1888)Crew Spencer https://7stepstofreedom.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/amy-reckless/ How one woman set herself free 28 July 2011 Seven Stories Salem County Cultural & Heritage Commission Clement A. Price Joshua Shaw, English [later naturalised as American] artist and inventor (d. 1860) Deaths March 30 – Jonathan Belcher, lawyer, and chief justice (b. 1710) June 29 – Richard Wickes, military personnel (b. unknown) October 9 – Philip Vickers Fithian, tutor (b. 1747)This is New Jersey Cunningham John T. 1994 173 https://books.google.com/books?id=rMk1LTo9wYcC&q=died%20on%20october%209,%201776 0-8135-2141-6 August 27 – Philip Johnston, military personnel and patriot (b. unknown)Johnston, Henry Phelps; The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn, p196 December 14 – Francis Geary, British Army officer (b. 1752) December 27 – Johann Rall, German colonelFischer David Hackett David Hackett Fischer Washington's Crossing https://archive.org/details/washingtonscross00fisc registration New York Oxford University Press 2006 0-19-517034-2 248, 255, 405Parish History http://www.saintmaryscathedral-trenton.org/parish-history/ Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption The Hessian Commander, Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall, was mortally wounded and eventually died here on December 27, 1776. Undated Pierre Abraham Lorillard, French-American tobacconist (b. 1742)Belmont Playground, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, accessed July 21, 2008. Garrat Noel, bookseller and educator (b. 1706)New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, Sept. 28, 1776; quoted in: New Jersey Historical Society. Documents relating to the Revolutionary history of the State of New Jersey, v.1. Trenton, NJ: J.L. Murphy publishing co., printers, 1901 Joseph Sharp, early settler, landowner, supporter of education, iron manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1708)The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, Volume 20 By Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 134 See also 1776 in the United States List of years in New Jersey References