This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...Abraham, of Middlesex; Daniel, Garret and Peter, of Bergen. The old records are very incomplete. Later three companies from Bergen were joined in battalion with three from Essex, and two from Burlington, and the regular militia of Bergen was organized in one regiment. As is known, the British army ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...Abraham, of Middlesex; Daniel, Garret and Peter, of Bergen. The old records are very incomplete. Later three companies from Bergen were joined in battalion with three from Essex, and two from Burlington, and the regular militia of Bergen was organized in one regiment. As is known, the British army evacuated New York in November, 1783, and the following account most eloquently describes the event: "As the rear guard of the British army left the Battery the triumphant Army of Freedom came marching down the Bowery. As a military procession it was without impressiveness, but as a moral procession it was without equal in the annals of the world. No bells chimed congratulations, no bands of music stirred popular enthusiasm; it notably lacked all the usual pomp of military display; yet no grander army of self-wrought freemen ever saluted their chief, their homes and their native city. After seven years wandering they knew what Home meant; their homes were dismantled; their gardens destroyed; their churches desecrated; their trade gone; their fair city mutilated and blackened by fire; but, thanks be to God, they had Liberty. Never again would they be subjects of any king, or the victims of any imposed tyranny; they were freemen, they had won their freedom, and they who have once tasted of the sharp, strong wine of Freedom will drink thereof forever." THE ROLL CALL OF THE REVOLUTION. On the rolls of the patriot army can be found members of all the families settled in Bergen, and the Vreelands were in no way conspicuous by their absence. The official roster of the State gives these names: Garret G. Vreeland, No. 61 in the Genealogy.: Abram Vreeland. Abraham Vreeland, of Essex (54). Abraham Vreeland, of Middlesex (38). Cornelius Vreeland, of Essex....
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