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Federalist No 47, The Particular Structure of the New Government…

…and the Distribution of Power Among Its Different Parts For the Independent Journal Wednesday, January 30, 1788 To the People of the State of New York: HAVING reviewed the general form of the proposed government and the general mass of power allotted to it, I proceed to examine the particular structure of this government, and…

Lieut. Wynantz taken Prisoner

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II.  Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Last Sunday evening [January 30?] a party consisting of thirteen mounted refugees went from Staten Island, and in the vicinity of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, surprised Mr. Wynantz, a lieutenant of the rebel militia, and eight private men of Colonel…