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The New Jersey Frontier Guard is grateful for the attention of the press and their readers. For their convenience, we are pleased to provide the following resources, for which we grant permission to use for whatever purpose they deem appropriate.
NJFG4A01 New Jersey in the Colonial Wars, by Hon. Richard Wayne Parker (1919) - extract (HTML) NJFG4A05 Northwestern New Jersey, a History of Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren, and Sussex Counties (Vol. 1), by A. Van Doren Honeyman, Editor-in-Chief (1927) - extract (HTML) NJFG2B05 History of Warren and Sussex Counties, compiled by James P. Snell (1881) - extract (HTML) NJFG4A04 History of Union and Middlesex Counties, by W. Wendford Clayton (1882) - extract (HTML) SCFI001A Sussex County in the Franch and Indian War, by T. G. Cutler (2005) - Annual Address to the Sussex County Historical Society (PDF)
NJFG2C15 Muster List, Capt. Richard Gardiner, July 20 - Sept. 12, 1757 (HTML)
"Many of the descendants of the New Jersey Frontier Guard still live in Sussex and Warren Counties. We constantly receive e-mails from genealogical researchers asking for more information about what their ancestor did during the 1750s," said Doug Pitchell, Commander of the Frontier Guard.
NJA355F1 An ACT ... to enable the Inhabitants of this Colony, to protect and defend their Frontiers from any Invasions ... and more particularly, for making Provision for the Guard and Defence of the Frontiers ... by erecting Block-Houses and supplying the same with such a Number of Forces ... (Passed by the NJ Assembly Dec. 24, 1755, from N.J. Archives, Third Series, Vol. III) (HTML)
"On Christmas Eve, the Governor convinced the New Jersey Assembly that protecting the settlers on the frontiers was essential. There had been brutal raids on the other side of the Delaware for several months, and reports from refugees convinced the Governor that a blow on the New Jersey side would occur with the next full moon, about two weeks away," said Tim Cutler, a researcher specializing in the French and Indian War.
NJA356F1 An ACT for raising two Hundred and Fifty able Bodied free Men as Volunteers, to protect and defend the Frontiers of this Colony, from any Invasions which may be made upon the same by the Enemy, in lieu of the Militia already Stationed upon the said Frontiers ... to be employed in pursuing the Indian Enemy into their Places of retreat, and Captivating them, their Wives and Children. (Passed by the NJ Assembly Mar. 16, 1756, from N.J. Archives, Third Series, Vol. III) (HTML)
"After three months of discussion and planning, the Province of New Jersey determined to make the Frontier Guard a separate military force. Their job was to patrol the wilderness between the forts and check on the settlers who lived nerarby. The men who had spent the winter building the forts were mostly soldiers from the Jersey Blues, who were later replaced by militiamen from Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon counties. In early June, Captain Richard Gardiner, with about 150 fresh recruits, took over the defense of the frontier," said Tim Cutler, a 21st-century Frontier Guard. One of his ancestors was Sgt. Reuben Riggs, one of the original Frontier Guards.
Photos
NJFG_01a Douglas Pitchell, Commander of the New Jersey Frontier Guard
- "Douglas Pitchell, of Blairstown, NJ, has been commander of the New Jersey Frontier Guard since its re-establishment fifteen years ago."
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NJFG_02a Plan of Fort Johns, headquarters of the New Jersey Frontier Guard
- "The layout of Fort Johns, as depicted on a 1756 map. It overlooked the Delaware River from a hill behind the Van Campen Inn, near Wallpack, NJ."
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NJFG_03a Training recruits
- "Young recruits are trained by a New Jersey Frontier Guard Drill Sergeant at a recent encampment at Washington Crossing State Park."
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NJFG_04a Official Logo of the Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the French and Indian War
- Activities and events organized and sponsored by the War for Empire Consortium
- 2005-2009 calendar, announcements, and image bank
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NJFG_05a Official Logo of the New Jersey Frontier Guard
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NJFG_06a Frontier Guard Recruitment Notice
- "Advertisement in the New York Mercury, June 1756."
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NJFG_07a "The Hampton Map," 1757
- "This map, showing the frontier forts of New Jersey in 1757, was found in the archives of the New Jersey Historical Society. They had dated it '1777,' but it was obvously from twenty years earlier. The map notes the names of each of the forts, the distances between them, and the number of men stationed at four of them. At that time, some of the forts were in what we now know as New York - the border was not fixed until 1769. Note that the only road to the frontier goes through Morristown, and follows Route 206 through Culver's Gap."
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