Flashcards: Continental Army officers from New Jersey

Ebenezer Elmer (August 23, 1752 – October 18, 1843) was an American physician from Bridgeton, New Jersey.

Aaron Hankinson (7 February 1735 – 9 October 1806) was a military officer during the American Revolution and politician who served in the New Jersey state legislature.

Col. John Stevens, III (June 26, 1749 – March 6, 1838) was an American lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.

Aaron Ogden (December 3, 1756 – April 19, 1839) was a United States Senator and the fifth Governor of New Jersey.

Bowes Reed (November 1740 – July 20, 1794) was a Revolutionary officer, politician, and public servant from New Jersey.

John Doughty (July 25, 1754 – September 16, 1826) was an American military officer who briefly served as the senior officer of the United States Army in 1784.

John Mott (June 18, 1734 – January 31, 1804) was a Captain in the 1st Hunterdon Regiment of the New Jersey militia during the American Revolutionary War.

John Cadwalader (January 10, 1742 – February 10, 1786) was a commander of Pennsylvania troops during the American Revolutionary War.

Matthias Ogden (October 22, 1754 – March 31, 1791) fought in the Revolutionary War and served various political positions afterwards.

Elias Dayton (May 1, 1737 – October 22, 1807) led a New Jersey regiment during the American Revolutionary War and became a brigadier general.

Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat.

Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician.

William Sanford Pennington (November 7, 1757 – September 17, 1826) was the sixth Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1813 to 1815.

Joseph Bloomfield (October 18, 1753 – October 3, 1823) was the fourth Governor of New Jersey.

Anthony Walton White (July 7, 1750 – February 10, 1803) was a Brigadier General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Frederick Frelinghuysen (April 13, 1753 – April 13, 1804) was an American lawyer, soldier, and senator from New Jersey.

Oliver Spencer (6 October 1736 – 22 January 1811) was a New Jersey officer during the American Revolutionary War and received a special commission to enlist and lead one of 16 Additional Continental Regiments.

Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.

Robert Lettis Hooper, Jr (c.1730 – July 30, 1797) was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, later a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council, of which he was Vice President.

William Alexander, known as Lord Stirling, (1726 New York City – 15 January 1783), was an American Brigadier-General during the American Revolutionary War.

Robert Troup (August 19, 1756 – January 14, 1832) was an American soldier, lawyer and jurist.

James Morgan (December 29, 1756 – November 11, 1822) was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War and a United States Congressman from New Jersey.

David Forman (3 November 1745 – 12 September 1797) was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey of parents Joseph Forman and Elizabeth Lee.

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Antill (April 11, 1742 – May 29, 1789) was an American soldier who participated at the Battle of Quebec in 1775.

Israel Shreve (December 24, 1739 – December 14, 1799) was a colonel in the 2nd New Jersey Regiment during the American Revolution.

Samuel Ogden (December 9, 1746 — December 1, 1810) was a colonial businessman in New Jersey who had an iron works.