February 23, 1691: “Bound servant” Thomas Lutherland was hanged in Salem County for the offenses of robbery and the murder of Philadelphia merchant John Clark.
February 23, 1777: The “forage war” continued. British Lieutenant-colonel Charles Mawhood led a strong British force out of Perth Amboy towards Rahway. New Jersey General “Scotch Willie” Maxwell was happy to... accommodate the colonel’s apparent desire for a fight. Mawhood tried to outflank a line of militiamen with a company of grenadiers from the 42nd Highland Regiment, but Scotch Willie had deployed more Jerseymen, who remained unseen, in a position outflanking the advance, and at the appropriate moment, they rose and shot the regulars to ribbons.
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