OF THE

NEW JERSEY

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

VOLUME II.

PRINTED FOR THE

NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

1847.

OFFICERS

OF THE

NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

ELECTED 1847.

HON. JOSEPH C. HORNBLOWER, LL. D., PRESIDENT, Newark. ROBERT G. JOHNSON, Esq., 1st VICE PRESIDENT, Salem.

HON. PETER D. VROOM, 21

Trenton.

Perth Amboy.

WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, Newark. JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, RECORDING SECRETARY, Newark.

THOMAS J. STRYKER, TREASURER, Trenton.

LIBRARIAN,

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

REV. DANIEL V. McLEAN, Freehold.

REV. NICHOLAS MURRAY, D. D., Elizabethtown.

WILLIAM B. KINNEY, Newark.

ARCHER GIFFORD, Newark.

STACY G. POTTS, Trenton.

REV. JOHN MACLEAN, D. D., Princeton.

LITTLETON KIRKPATRICK, New Brunswick.

RT. REV. GEO. W. DOANE, D. D., LL. D., Burlington.
ELIAS B. D. OGDEN, Paterson.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS.

HON. WILLIAM A. DUER, LL D.,

REV. NICHOLAS MURRAY, D. D.,
CHARLES KING,

REV. ELI F. COOLEY,

JOHN S. CONDIT, M. D.,

WILLIAM B. KINNEY,

WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD.

THE LIFE OF LORD STIRLING.