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| Tango01 | 24 Oct 2018 10:08 p.m. PST |
"Many people involved in the American Revolution played but a short role in the long war. A John Babcock, for example, apparently served as an ensign in Capt. Peter Ruttan's Company of the 4th Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers, but was taken prisoner previous to his actually being commissioned, and he never served again. All that is known of him was that he lived in Ramapo, "about 2 Miles from Sydman's & ab't ½ Mile from Parkman's."[1] Another officer of the New Jersey Volunteers was Henry Marsh, whose story can be pieced together from a number of disparate documents. The first mention of "Captain Marsh" is in a December 1776 writing by Sgt. Mathew Knaught, who confusingly described Marsh as living at both New Bridge and Ramapo.[2] No such person appears on the existing muster rolls of the New Jersey Volunteers (which commence in November 1777), or on a list of officers of all of that Loyalist regiment's battalions prepared by Brig. Gen. Cortland Skinner in February 1778. This would indicate that Captain Marsh's service had come and gone within the first year of the battalion's history…."
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