OFFICIAL REGISTER OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF NEW JERSEY Page 8
tion of the papers of the late Hon. Charles G. McChesney, for some years Secretary of State. They contained many invaluable records. To Miss Sarah S. Stafford, of this city, for permission to copy sundry lists of the Continental Line, in her possession. To the Hon. H. Van Aernam, Chief of the Pension Bureau, for the names and rank of certain officers, which I had tried in vain to discover. I am under great obligations to Mr. Jeremiah Dally, the efficient Librarian of the State, for a most hearty and zealous investigation of every volume or manuscript relating to the war, over which he has charge. To Col. Robert S. Swords, the Secretary of the Historical Society of New Jersey, the Hon. Whitfield S. Johnson, formerly Secretary of State, and others, for many courtesies. But I am greatly indebted to my assistants, Mr. William N. Nutt and James S. Kiger, who, with much experience in compiling the rosters of New Jersey troops in the late war, entered upon, prosecuted, and finished the clerical part of this compilation with much zeal, great patience, and in a manner to me most satisfactory.
If, sir, this work shall receive your sanction officially, and meet your personal approbation as a representative Jerseyman - connected as you are, paternally and maternally, with men who appear so distinguished in these pages - I shall account myself successful in the task of adding something to the history of my native State in that trying hour of her National birth.
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