Privateering Raises Continentals Manpower and Gun Concerns
On September 10 1776 at Providence Rhode Island Commodore Esek Hopkins reported to the Marine Committee of Congress that the privateering craze made it hard to secure carriage guns and crews for Continental frigates. Cannon sold at $400 per ton and Hopkins suggested offering the same prize money half as a solution to man the vessels.
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Providence
R.I
Esek Hopkins
Marine Committee of Congress
Trainor Attacks Charter Study Move and Debates Schedule
Republican Township Committee candidate Edward J. Trainor accuses a Democratic dominated Charter Study Advisory Committee of stalling to keep the issue off the ballot. He urges voters to decide on charter changes and favors two planned debates with Dr Baldassano. He notes limited public questioning due to mayoral influence and outlines his campaign avenues.
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Edward J. Trainor
Trainor
Baldassano
Welsh
Santagata
Hillside Jaycees
Westminister Civic Association
Free Jewish Talmud Torah Education For Local Children
The Jewish Educational Center offers its forty first consecutive year of tuition free Talmud Torah for boys and girls in Central New Jersey. No tuition, no membership, no building fund required. Rabbi Pinchas M. Teitz notes the program aims to give every Jewish child basic education. The program runs four and a half hours weekly in a modern building with Bible, Jewish History, Hebrew, and Laws and Customs. Special Bar Mitzvah prep begins at age twelve. A Sunday school for kindergarten to second grade runs one day weekly. To register call Rabbi Reuben Joffe at 353-4446.
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Jewish Educational Center
New Jersey
Pinchas M. Teitz
JEG
Talmud Torah
Reuben Joffe
The
Deserter John Champe’s Bold Night Ride for Arnold
Sergeant John Champe rode under George Washington to kidnap Benedict Arnold in New York. Lee approved the plan with strict limits and warned of death if captured. The mission failed. Champe fled New Jersey and settled in West Virginia with his family amid mixed Virginia memory.
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New Jersey
John Champe
Virginia
George Washington
Benedict Arnold
New York
Olf
Olf the Daring Mission Was Major ‘Light Horse
Harry” Lee
Champe
Nough
Arnold
Hudson River
Washington
Dey
Preakness
Lee
Camp Wagataw
Hawthorne
Leeu
Charmnpe
Patrick Carnes
John Champa
Bergen County
Charmpe Dé
Hackensack
Paulus Hook
Jersey City
Meun
West Virginia
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SUPP
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Hollywood Ave
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America
U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Union County
Union County Red Cross Transportation Service
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