Place of Origin

United States ➔ New Jersey

Date of Composition

recipes identified by library as 18th century

Description

John Hugg Clunn (1770-1798) was one of four children of John Clunn (1739-1798?) and Elizabeth Hugg (1739-1823).* He was born in Lambertville, New Jersey, where his father was an innkeeper, but was raised in Trenton, New Jersey. John Hugg Clunn kept this journal from September 30 to December 20, 1794, during his three months service as a Quartermaster in the New Jersey Detached Militia, Artillery Battalion attached to Brigadier-General Bloomfield's Infantry Brigade. He describes the march from Trenton to Pittsburgh and back to quell the Pennsylvania insurrection of 1794, the climactic event of the Whiskey Rebellion.

The reverse of volume contains anonymous cooking recipes, a "cure for dropsey," prose, and poetry. The library has identified the recipes as eighteenth century.

*The catalog record states that Elizabeth Hugg was the wife of John Hugg, which would seem to be an error, and that the couple had one son.