services after his return; five times only officiating in the marriage service, (for Elias B. Dayton, George Joy, Michael Hatfield, Aaron Ogden, and Capt. Cyrus De Hart), and occasionally at a funeral. At the request of the Vestry, however, he retained the Rectorship and Rectory as long as he lived. He died, at home, June 17, 1790, in the sixty-fifth year of his age.

The funeral services were performed, on Saturday, the 19th, at St. John's Church. The Right Rev. Dr. Samuel Provoost, the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Moore, the Rev. Dr. Abraham Beach, the Rev. Uzal Ogden, the Rev. Richard Moore, and the Rev. George Ogilvie, served as pall-bearers. The burial service was read by the Rev. Mr. Spraggs, and Bishop Provoost. Dr. Beach preached from 1 Cor. 15: 55,-"O Death! where is thy sting," &c.*

He had six children:

1. MARY, baptized June 10, 1753, died early.

2. WILLIAM, baptized, May 23, 1756, graduated at King's College, N. Y., 1774, entered the British service, was Captain of the New Jersey Volunteers, was stationed on Staten Island, went abroad at the close of the war, and died in England, Oct. 22, 1784, in his 29th year.

3. MARY RICKETTS, baptized, Nov. 15, 1761, died unmarried, at home, June 28, 1784, a year before her father's return, in her 23d year.

4. ELIZABETH CATHARINE, baptized, July 22, 1764, was married, Jan. 19, 1786, by her father, to Elias Bayley Dayton, son of Gen. Elias Dayton, of this town. She died, Nov. 6, 1806, in her 43d year.

5. JANE TONGRELOU, baptized, Sep. 27, 1767, was married, May 3, 1796, by Rev. Menzies Raynor, to William Dayton, whom she survived many years, dying, in her native place. She was buried, Jan. 31, 1859.

6. MARY GOODIN, baptized, Sept. 11, 1774, an infant when her father left home at the commencement of his ten years' exile, was married, May 6, 1800, to the Rev. John Henry Hobart, the youthful incumbent elect of St. George's Church,

*N. J. Journal, No. 850.

Hempstead, L. I., and subsequently the highly honored Bishop of the Diocese of New York.

Mrs. Chandler, to whom an annual pension was allowed. by the British government, after the decease of her husband, survived him more than eleven years. She died, on Sunday, Sept. 20, 1801, in her 69th year.

Dr. Chandler is represented, as having been

A large portly man, of fine personal appearance, of a countenance expressive of high intelligence, though considerably marred by the small pox, of an uncommonly blue eye, of a strong commanding voice, and a great lover of music. He had fine powers of conversation, and was a most agreeable companion for persons of all ages. He was very fond of home, fond of retirement and of study, and was greatly beloved by his congregation. His antipathy to any thing but British rule continued to the last. Besides the controversial tracts already named, he wrote the Life of Samuel Johnson, D. D., the first President of King's College, in New York, which was published, after his decease, at N. York, in 1805. He also published at Burlington, in 1771, dedicated to Gov. Wm. Franklin, "A Sermon Preached before the Corporation For the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen, in the Connection of the Church of England in America, at their Anniversary Meeting on the 2d of October, 1771, at Perth Amboy."*

*See, for many of the above facts, Clark's St. John's Church; and Sprague's Annals, V. 187-142.

CHAPTER XXV.

A. D. 1783-1795.

Return of Gov. Livingston-Sad Changes - Visit of Washington - Refugees remove to N. Scotia and N. Brunswick "New Jersey Journal" established -U. S. Constitutional Convention-Fourth of July Celebrations - New Charter-Death of Gov. Livingston-Death of Gen. M. Ogden - Rage for Speculation-Lotteries - Schools Circulating Library - Congressmen —

Death of Mayor De Hart.

THE eight years war of the Revolution came to an end, April 19, 1783. All acts of hostility between the belligerents terminated on that day. The fugitive patriots, who had sought protection for their families in places remote from the scene of conflict, began now to return to their forsaken, and, in many instances, desolate homes. While the refugee loyalists, who had so long been waging a bloody war with their neighbors, were compelled, in order to their personal safety, to go into exile.

By the return of Gov. Livingston to his home, the last week in April, this town once more became, practically, the capital of the State;-"the first time in seven years," he says, "that I have had any place which I could properly call my home." Part of the time he had resided; here, in his own. house, while his family found a refuge at Baskingridge, or Parcipany; afterwards he resided at Trenton, and his good lady at the homestead, to keep it from destruction-the Governor making only occasional visits to his home.

It is not strange, that, on his return, he should feel solitary and sad, as he took his accustomed walks about town, and should say, that, "instead of my quondam agreeable companions, the village now principally consists of unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking tories, and very

knavish whigs." A great and visible change had come over the place and people. The venerable house of worship that he had so religiously frequented on the Sabbath was gone; with the court house adjacent, and the academy at the upper end of the burying-ground; the parsonage house, too, and the barracks, on the other side of the river. The town looked desolate, of course.*

Old friends, moreover, had departed. Death had dealt severe blows on the town. Caldwell, the "rousing gospelpreacher," and his most excellent wife had fallen victims of the war. Barber, the young collegian, who had quitted the headship of the Academy for the tented field, and had become a highly valued officer of the Jersey Brigade had come to an untimely end a few weeks before. Periam, also, his successor in the Academy, had died; Judge Stephen Crane, Speaker of the Assembly; Jonathan Hampton, so conspicuous before the 4th of July 1776; Garret Noel, the N. York bookseller; John Clauson, the Commissioner of Confiscated. Estates; and the venerable Deacons Whitehead and Hatfield, with many others, had gone the way of all the earth.

Others were in exile or had removed. Dr. Chandler, of St. John's, had not yet returned from England. Cavalier Jouet, Ichabod B. Barnet, Broughton Reynolds, Wm. Luce, and others, had become refugees. Barnet died in 1783. Robert Ogden, Speaker, had removed to Sussex Co. Wm. Peartree Smith, Esq., the Governor's bosom friend, had removed to Newark. Others had gone, designing to return after the war, but came not back. The war had made sad havoc with the old residents, and quite changed the face of society. Many years were required to repair the damage, to recover from the confusion into which all business had been thrown, and to regain lost property.

Late in the summer of 1783, Gen. Washington and his lady had occasion to pass through the town, and the opportunity was embraced to express to the venerated hero, the people's high estimate of his person and services.†

+ N. J. Journal, Nos. 287, 8. Sparks' Washington, VIII. 474–5.

As the time drew nigh for the evacuation of the City of New York, (Nov. 25, 1783), the last foot-hold of British power on the sea-board, where the refugees from this vicinity and elsewhere could freely express their hostility to the whigs and the new order of things, it became necessary for the loyalists who had been hopelessly compromised by the war, to secure for themselves and families a residence in some part of the British dominions. The greater part of those who hailed from this town made choice of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; and several families, who had been permitted to reside here during the war, were now constrained to take their departure. Measures were taken, in the following year, to complete the confiscation of the estates of those against whom inquisitions had been found and judg ment entered, 1778-9. All persons indebted to these refugees were required to pay the amount to the agents appointed by the State to receive these sums;-Samuel Hays of Newark, being the agent for the county of Essex.*

For the first time in the history of the town, a weekly newspaper was established here as early as April, 1785, the publication of which has been continued to the present day. The "New Jersey Journal" was first issued at Chatham, N. J., that place having been chosen rather than one below the Short Hills, because of its greater safety, the enemy never having been able to penetrate that section. The first number bears date, Feb. 10, 1779. It was owned and edited by Mr. SHEPARD KOLLOCK. He was born at Lewes, Del., in September, 1750. He learned the art of printing, in the office of the Pennsylvania Chronicle at Philadelphia, under the eye of William Goddard. At 20, he removed, for the benefit of his health, to St. Christopher's, W. Indies, where he practised his art. At the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain, he returned home, entered the army, and served with Col. Neill of the Continental Artillery, as First Lieutenant, till the close of the campaign of 1778; when, by and with the advice of Gen. Knox, he established his "Journal," to aid his countrymen in their patriotic work.

*N. J. Gazette, No. 318.