The Truth About Colonial Linden- Robbins Raids "The Rahway" the Sack of Trembley's Point

The following account is from Rivington's Gazette No 570 a newspaper published from the Bowery of lower Manhattan during The Revolutionary War.

On the night of the following Thursday Dec 14 1780 a party of royal horse thieves under command of the celebrated Lewis Robbins an incursion into Rahway They set out for to seize Sheriff Marsh but as the roads were bad and learning probably that the sheriff was not home they turned back and made their way to David Miller's capturing him some of his sons his horses Having paroled the old man because his infirmities they proceeded to Peter Trembly's whom they seized and robbed of all his money papers They took also a Peter Horn But at sudden discharge of a gun they paroled their prisoners and fled.

The Trembly family in the City of Linden have long removed and still the name of Trembly's Point is well known. Within a few years in laying the Long Branch Railroad track (now rerouted through midtown Linden) here they have named a station Trembly Depot situated on the old homestead.

Other colonial Linden videos with furthered information on some of this videos discussion.

Lady Lindenites
https://youtu.be/ALYDa95n1oo

The Sack of Westfield
https://youtu.be/vHnSAmzA1eM