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"What do you say she is?" he shouted, as he flung himself to the edge of the roaring surf and strained his eyes toward the wreck. "The Polly the Polly Walters!" "My God! How do ye know? She ain't left Amboy, I tell ye!" "She has! That's her see them kerds! They come off that stuff behind ye. Tod got one and I got t'other!" he held the bits of cardboard under the rim of the captain's sou'wester.
On the night of the 19th of June , he returned to Brunswick, and on the 22d to Amboy, from which place the heavy baggage and a few of his troops passed into Staten Island on the bridge which had been designed for the Delaware. Washington had expected this movement from Brunswick and had made arrangements to derive some advantage from it.
I will merely say that we travelled the South Amboy road, and went through a part of the world called Feather-bed Lane, that causes my bones to ache, even now, in recollection. At South Amboy, we got on board a sloop, or packet, and entered the bay of New York, by the passage of the Kills, landing near White-hall.
The plan of the campaign being settled and some small reinforcements with the expected camp equipage being received from Europe, Howe, leaving a garrison in New York and a guard in Amboy, assembled his army at Brunswick, and gave strong indications of an intention to penetrate through the country to the Delaware and reach Philadelphia by land.
In their rovings, Low met with Lowther, who proposed that he should join him, and thus promote their mutual advantage. Having captured a brigantine, Low, with forty more, went on board her; and leaving Lowther, they went to seek their own fortune. Their first adventure was the capture of a vessel belonging to Amboy, out of which they took the provisions, and allowed her to proceed.
"They meet this evenin' ter scheme it, an' a body can't tell when they'll act." "'T won't likely be to-night, but I'll keep guard myself, all the same, and some of the Invincibles shall watch every night." This warning given, and a bite taken at the tavern by way of breakfast, the ride to Amboy was made in quick time.
Perth Amboy was the principal port and shipbuilding center for East Jersey as Salem was for West Jersey. But Burlington, Bordentown, Cape May, and Trenton, and innumerable little villages up creeks and channels or mere ditches could not be kept from the prevailing industry. They built craft up to the limit of size that could be floated away in the water before their very doors.
"South-a-half-west!" "Let her come up south-by-west! Got it?" "Right on it!" Griffiths considered the changed relation of Amboy Point to the Willi-Waw's course. "And a-half-west!" he cried. "And a-half-west!" came the answer. "Right on it!" "Steady! That'll do!" "Steady she is!" Jacobsen turned the wheel over to the savage. "You steer good fella, savve?" he warned.
These were small victories, but they encouraged the troops, aroused the New Jersey men to enthusiasm, and alarmed Cornwallis, who retreated northward to New Brunswick, to save his military stores. In a few days the English retained only that town, Amboy, and Paulus Hook, in all New Jersey.
IV, No. 2, published a facsimile of a baptismal certificate for Anna Susanna Dagonya, daughter of Stephen Dagonya, Roman Catholic, and Mary Csoma, Reformed, who were married at Perth Amboy, N. J., August 4, 1909, by Rev. Louis Nannassy, Reformed. Their child was born November 6, 1910, and baptized by Rev. Francis Gross, priest of the Holy Cross Church at Perth Amboy.
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