Andrew's Timeline 1776 for 4th Regiment New Jersey
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Timeline 4^th New Jersey Regiment

Maxwell’s Brigade

 Organized September 1776, at Morristown.

Field Officers

·         Colonel Ephraim Martin

·         Lt. Colonel Davis Rhea

·         Major John Conway

Company Commanders

·         Captain John Anderson

·         Captain Jonathan Forman

·         Captain James Holmes

·         Captain Jonathan Kinsey

·         Captain Abraham Lyon

·         Captain Jacob Martin

·         Captain Alexander Mitchell

·         Captain William Bond

Regimental Staff

·         Chaplain Andrew Hunter

·         Quartermaster Ephram Darby

·         Adjutant Joseph King

·         Paymaster Absolom Martin

·         Surgeon John B Riker

·         Surgeon’s Mate Jacob Harris

·         Quartermaster Sergeant John Johnson

·         Sergeant Major James Rodgers

·         Drum Major Richard Jobbs

Andrew was a private in Captain Abraham McKinney’s Company state militia and Colonel Ephraim Martin’s Regiment and Brigadier-General Nathaniel Hear’s Brigade State Troops in 1776.  He was at the battle of Long Island, New York, August 27, 1776 and White Plains, New York Oct 28, 1776.

Andrew enlisted at Six Mine Run 30 Nov 1776 for duration of war according to his service records. He was a resident of Sussex County age 21 years.

Muster records for Dec  1776 show he was appointed 1 Dec 1776 as a sergeant and that he was sick in camp in William Bond’s Company 4^th Regiment New Jersey

1. William Bond served as a captain in Col. Ephraim Martin’s regiment of New Jersey militia levies from July to November 1776, and on 28 Nov. 1776 he was named a captain in the 4th New Jersey Regiment. Resigning his Continental commission in December 1777, Bond in October 1778 became lieutenant colonel of the 1st Regiment of the Sussex County militia, and in May 1780 he led a detachment of ten men in a successful ambush of a party of British Indian recruits in Northampton County, Pa. (see N.J. Archives, 2d ser., 4:406). Samuel Brackenridge, who was appointed second lieutenant of Bond’s company in December 1776, resigned his commission in November 1777. Dennis McCarty of Sussex County was a private in Bond’s company



The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, fought on August 27, 1776, was the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War to take place after the United States declared its independence on July 4, 1776. It was a victory for the British Army and the beginning of a successful campaign that gave them control of the strategically important city of New York. In terms of troop deployment and fighting, it was the largest battle of the entire war.

The Battle of White Plains was a battle in the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on October 28, 1776, near White Plains, New York. Following the retreat of George Washington's Continental Army northward from New York City, British General William Howe landed troops in Westchester County, intending to cut off Washington's escape route. Alerted to this move, Washington retreated farther, establishing a position in the village of White Plains but failed to establish firm control over local high ground. Howe's troops drove Washington's troops from a hill near the village; following this loss, Washington ordered the Americans to retreat farther north.