List of Rioters in Essex County, 1745.

[From Papers of James Alexander in New Jersey Historical Society Library, Vol. 1]

A List of Rioters Indicted in Essex County Quarter Sessions and Removed by Certiorars into the Sup! Court the November term following 1745

Nehemiah Baldwin

Joseph Pierson

Daniel Williams

Eleazar Lamson

Gamaliel Crane

A List of Rioters in Essex County Returned upon a Record of View filed in the Supream Court Nov! term

1745

John Tompkins

William Williamson
Stephen Young
Job Crane

Thomas Sarjeant
Robert Ward

Johannes Vanwinkle

Thomas Williams

Levi Vincent Jun'
Wililam Crane

Abraham Ritger
Ebenezar ffarrand
Thomas Gardner
Robert Young
Jonathan Squire
John Vincent
Hendrick Jacobus
Joseph Lawrence
Samuel Crowell

Samuel Stivers

Elihu Ward

Minutes of the House of Representatives of New Jersey, October 3d and 18th, 1745.

[From Printed Votes of the Assembly among Papers of F. J. Paris, Vol. P, No. 12.]

Thursday, October 3. 1745.

The House met.

Mr. Eatton from the Committee appointed to prepare a Draught of a Message to his Excellency, with leave delivered it in at the Table, and it was Read, and some Amendments were made thereto in the House.

And then the Question being put, whether the House agree to the said Message, (which immediately follows) or not; it pass'd in the Affirmative.

Ordered,

That Mr. Crane and Mr. Hancock do wait upon his Excellency, and acquaint him, that when Mr. Speaker acquainted the House with the Direction his Excellency had given him, That they should let him know when met, &c. It then became necessary to send their Message to the Place where his Excellency was; and that being many Miles distant from the Place of the Assembly's sitting, occasion'd their sending the Message with the particular Directions contained in it to their Messengers where to deliver it. That the House are sorry his Excellency's Weakness, with the Illness of his Lady, should hinder his meeting them at Burlington.

That however necessary the calling and keeping the Assembly together, at their last Meeting, might be, it had not, then, become the Subject of their Inquiry; therefore an Apology, to them, is unnecessary; Neither do they know, that either the House, or any of their Members, made Application to have their meeting put

off untill a further time. They were, then, in pursuit of a necessary Inquiry concerning their being remov'd from Amboy to Trenton (an unusual Place for Assemblies to sit in) as they apprehended very contrary to His Majesty's particular Commands. And the putting an End to that Enquiry, the House are apprehensive, might be a greater Inducement to his Excellency's Informers, for putting their meeting off untill a further Time, than any Regard they had to their private Affairs, altho' it was then Seed time. The Remembrance of the frequent Impositions of this kind, and His Excellency's so repeatedly receiving Informations from others concerning the Affairs of the General Assembly of this Colony, without taking their meaning from themselves, naturally puts the inquisitive Part of Mankind in Mind of a Remark of one of the Wisest of Rulers, Prov. 29. 12. If a Ruler hearken to Lies, all his Servants are Wicked.

The Assemblies of New-Jersey have not, hitherto, let their private Affairs (altho in them they have suffer'd deeply, for these several Years past, both in Seed Time and Harvest) hinder them from thinking calmly on the Publick Affairs. They did so in Trenton, when they passed a Bill for Support of this Government, wherein Provision was made for the several Officers of it: At the same Session they passed a Bill for settling the Militia of this Province, and one other Bill for providing Arms and Ammunition for its Defence; the compleating of all these was frustrated by the Council. This House have, since that, at Amboy, calmly considered the State of this Colony, and passed a Bill for the Support of this Government; which made the like Provision with the former; and one for settling the Militia, &c. wherein all the Provision for the Defence of the Colony was made, that could be made consistent with the Circumstances of it. These were made void by his Excellency's Prorogation.

And now, tho' they think very calmly and concernedly of their publick Affairs, they can't tell how to pass either of these, otherwise than they have heretofore pass'd them, untill they can obtain some Laws to enable them respecting the former, and Convincement in Judgment to induce them to alter their Sentiments respecting the latter: But as they told his Excellency at Amboy, so they are still willing to pass Bills of a like Kind, if those will be acceptable to his Excellency and Council, but not to make any larger Applications, untill they have a sufficient Encouragement for their obtaining those Bills they then mentioned to his Excellency: And this Opinion they are confirmed in by the General Voice of their Constituents, which they conceive ought to have some Weight with His Excellency. And as it gives this House great concern to find those Obstructions to the publick Business thrown in the Way by His Excellency and Councill, still unremoved, so whenever they will be pleased to remove them, the House are ready and willing to proceed accordingly, untill that is done, they fear they shall but spend Time in Vain (as the Assemblies too often have done) in preparing of Bills at either their own, or the Country's Expence: They do therefore rather chuse, until then, to follow His Excellency's former Advice, to defer the preparing such Bills until some future favourable Opportunity, when Reason and Argument may have greater Influence.

The Assemblies of New-Jersey have always made ample Provision for paying his Excellency's House Rent, ever since he came to the Government, (tho' never done for any of their Governors before) and had, in each of the above mentioned Bills, made Provision as largely as ever, notwithstanding His Excellency has now given the House his Opinion, that is a thing independent of the Support of Government: When his Excellency will be pleased to convince this House, that