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The Freeman's Journal, Or, New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Richard Stockton, a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, was captured by the enemy at his Princeton home, subjected to brutal treatment including being driven on foot through rivers to Amboy, where he lies dangerously ill.
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Delegates from the State of New Jersey, in the Continental Congress being indisposed at his Seat at Princeton, when the Enemy entered that Place, unhappily fell into their Hands. Knowing his Rank and Character, they treated him with the greatest Barbarity, driving him on Foot, through Rivers & Creeks, with the greatest Barbarity, & with the greatest Precipitation, particularly the Rariton, which at low Water, is fordable, to Amboy; where, we hear, he lies dangerously ill.
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The Honorable Richard Stockton, Esq: one of the Delegates from the State of New Jersey, in the Continental Congress being indisposed at his Seat at Princeton, when the Enemy entered that Place, unhappily fell into their Hands. Knowing his Rank and Character, they treated him with the greatest Barbarity, driving him on Foot, through Rivers & Creeks, with the greatest Barbarity, & with the greatest Precipitation, particularly the Rariton, which at low Water, is fordable, to Amboy.