New Jersey.

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1770.  To be sold, five years Time of a likely active Jersey girl.—Boston-Gazette, May 7.

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1776.  The militia of Jersey had timely notice given them; and had they stept forth in season, might have enabled gen. Washington to have prevented lord Cornwallis crossing the Hackinsack.—W. Gordon, ‘Hist. Am. Revol.,’ ii. 356 (Lond., 1788).

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1777.  Your authority in the Jersies is now reduced to the small circle which your army occupies.—Letter to Lord Howe: Maryland Journal, Jan. 25.

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1777.  The violent depredations of the enemy in the Jersey state.—Id., Feb. 25.

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1778.  Last week, the Jersey militia took a Prize, and began to unload her.—Id., Jan. 20.

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1790.  Instead of half-joes or guineas, I have brought some quadrangular stones back with me to Jersey, as matters of curiosity.—Mass. Spy, Oct. 7.

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1795.  “A Jersey lawyer” writes to the Gazette of the U.S., Jan. 16.

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1798.  A Jersey militia man has taken up the literary cudgel against the Jersey governor’s late invective.—The Aurora, Phila., Aug. 17.

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1798.  The schooner Eagle, lately wrecked on the Jersey shore on her passage from Cork in Ireland.—Id., Nov. 6.

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1798.  I believe [he] only said so to make fun of me, cause I was a Jarzyman.… I can dance a Jarzy reel or jig…. They said I was the Jarzy Blue Dog, and they would cut my head off.—Id., Dec. 13.

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1799.  Some time since, in Jersey, a pack of people had assembled too late to salute the president with a round of cannon.—Id., Nov. 13.

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1800.  Jonathan Dayton was made a Doctor of Laws in Jersey, and no one can tell why, unless for presiding over the boxing match in Congress.—Id., Feb. 22.

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1800.  The people of Jersey have not been indifferent to the doings at Princeton.—Id., April 21.

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1800.  The late attempt in Jersey to buy over the Society of Friends.—Id., April 22.

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1800.  The states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky have encreased in still greater proportion than Jersey and Delaware…. Jersey and Delaware would act as heretofore…. Jersey and Delaware already manifest, &c.—Id., Aug. 1.

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1804.  

        Loaf sugar free from duty passes,
And Jersey people drink molasses.
Mass. Spy, Jan. 25: from the Connecticut Courant.    

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1806.  Our Reverend neighbour in law, to use the Jersey phrase.—The Repertory, Boston, Oct. 10.

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1838.  “A Jersey wagon” is described.—‘Harvardiana,’ iv. 210.

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[1806.  Similarly “ORLEANS” for NEW ORLEANS.—The Repertory, July 18, has “the territory of Orleans,” “the Orleans legislature.”]

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