Excerpt from Documents Relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 5: Newspaper Extracts Relating to New Jersey, October, 1780 July, 1782 The manuscript copies of newspaper extracts from October, 1780, to July, 1782, mostly from the New Jersey Gazette, had been made under the direction of Mr. William Nelson, the editor of former volumes, and 100 pages of the present volume had been put in type before his death, August 10, 1914. There remained in manuscript copy, 1,004 pages. In order to bring this matter within the compass of a moderate sized volume, the present editor, with the sanction of his colleagues in the Committee on Colonial Documents, changed the form of printing; the attempt to reproduce the display style of the newspaper was abandoned, smaller sized type was chosen, repetitions for the most part eliminated and acts of the Legislature indicated only by title and not re-printed at length. These changes mar somewhat symmetry of appearance, but they were necessary if the matter was to be contained in one not too bulky volume, and this seemed very desirable. It is to be noted that on page 167 and subsequent pages the source of the extracts is made to precede, and not, as in previous pages and previous volumes, to follow the extracts. The index was prepared by the present corresponding secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society, Mr.

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