"Agreed that there be paid to Mr. Schenck for the use of Nicholas Van Brunt, Sheriff of Monmouth, for his expenses in removing the prisoners from the gaol in Monmouth Co. to that of Morris, at the time of the enemy's march through Monmouth & in fetching back to Monmouth those who were there to be executed, as per his account, the sum of £48 6s."

It will be remembered that the corpse of Captain Joshua Huddy, after his murder, was brought to the house of Captain James Green, at Freehold. Captain Green's house seems to have been the principal place, for a time, in Freehold, for meetings to transact public business. A number of trials were held there, notably Courts of Admiralty to try claims for prizes captured by the Americans. Esquire Abiel Aiken, of Toms River, had one here the week before Huddy was taken, to try the claims for the prize "Lucy,' of which William Dillon had been master. Dillon was one of the eight men in Freehold jail under sentence of death, to whom Rev. Abel Morgan preached in June, 1778, but he somehow escaped death. The next week after Esquire Aiken had the examination at Captain Green's house, at Freehold, for claims against Dillon's vessel. Dillon piloted the British expedition into Toms River, which destroyed the block house, captured Huddy and others, and burned the village and Esquire Aiken's house among the rest.

Captain James Green may have been a seafaring man previous to the war. At a Court of Admiralty he at one time had claim on the Betty, a captured prize.

It will be remembered that one of Captain Huddy's daughters married a Green and the other a Piatt. This last was a Middlesex County name. John Piatt was sheriff of Middlesex in 1779 and thereabouts. John Van Kirk was sheriff before him, and John Conway followed him.

In Monmouth, during the war, Nicholas VanBrunt was sheriff, then David Forman, and the last year of the war John Burrows, Jr.

In 1780, sales were advertised to take place at the house of Daniel Randolph, Freehold. A very prominent man at Toms River in the early part of the war was James Randolph, extensively engaged in saw mills and other business. He died about 1781, and Daniel Randolph's appearance, then, at Toms River, suggests that he might have gone there to manage the estate. An executor named Benjamin Randolph then lived in Chestnut street, Philadelphia.

James Wall is named as an innkeeper, at Freehold, in 1778, and William Snyder, innkeeper, is named 1779.

The only paper published in New Jersey then was the New Jersey Gazette, of which Isaac Collins was publisher. There were no post offices then in Monmouth. The nearest one was at Trenton, of which B. Smith was Post-Master. The New Jersey Gazette had many subscribers in Monmouth, to whom papers were delivered by post riders who undertook such business on their own account.