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Joseph Coward

Joseph Coward was a native of Monmouth County, New Jersey. In view of this cognomen we may well exclaim "What's in a name my lord?" He was a Coward and yet one of the bravest of the Revolutionary captains. He was a great terror to the refugees alias tories. At the battle of Monmouth and several other places his undaunted courage was conspicuous. When the British fleet lay off Sandy Hook, one of the supply ships ran too near the shore and stuck fast. With a few men Capt. Coward captured her in defiance of two barges manned with superior numbers that were sent to the rescue. At the close of the war he returned to his farm, and became the esteemed citizen and fully exemplified the noble attributes of an honest man.

Source: The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson