. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. ain Huddy, during themorning of April 12, was taken ashore, landingat Gravelly Point on the Navesink, near the oldHighland Light House. Here, upon the shoreof old Shrewsbury, was committed one of the foul-est murders which blot the annals of the Revolu-tion. Under direction of Lippincott three railswere placed on the waters edge in the form of agallows, while upon a barrel-head Captain Huddywrote his last will. Placing a placard on hisbreast, which breathed the spirit of the lextalionis, the authors saying they had determi
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. ain Huddy, during themorning of April 12, was taken ashore, landingat Gravelly Point on the Navesink, near the oldHighland Light House. Here, upon the shoreof old Shrewsbury, was committed one of the foul-est murders which blot the annals of the Revolu-tion. Under direction of Lippincott three railswere placed on the waters edge in the form of agallows, while upon a barrel-head Captain Huddywrote his last will. Placing a placard on hisbreast, which breathed the spirit of the lextalionis, the authors saying they had determinedto hang man for man so long as a refugee is leftexisting, the body of Joshua Huddy, prisoner ofwar, swung above the heads of the as Captain Huddy pronounced his last words, I shall die innocent and in a good cause, Lip-pincott, swearing at his men because they wouldnot pull the rope, dragged aloft the form of theheroic patriot. Lippincott returned to New Yorkand reported that he had exchanged CaptainHuddy for one Philip White. 248 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. From Monmouth County arose a cry for burying Captain Huddy with military hon-ors the citizens met in the court house at Free-hold, and in a petition signed by men of prom-inence urged Congress and General Washingtonthat a policy of retaliation might be petition and the affidavits of some of thosewho had witnessed the murder, as well as thelabel left upon Huddys breast, were taken to Gen-eral Knox and Gouverneur Morris, who, as com-missioners of prisoners, were then at Elizabeth-town. Immediately these documents were con-veyed to General Washington at Newburgh. At a council of war held upon April 19th twen-ty-five general and field officers agreed that re-taliation was justifiable and expedient. A ma-jority of the council favored an instant demandfor the person of Eichard Lippincott, which, if re-fused, would be sufficient cause for the selection,by lot, among the British prisoners of a
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