New jersey revolutionary war heroes biography
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The Founding Fathers: New Jersey
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David Brearly, New Jersey
Brearly (Brearley) was descended from a Yorkshire, England, family, one of whose members migrated to New Jersey around Signer Brearly was born in at Spring Grove near Trenton, was reared in the area, and attended but did not graduate from the nearby College of New Jersey (later Princeton). He chose law as a career and originally practiced at Allentown, NJ. About he married Elizabeth Mullen. Brearly avidly backed the Revolutionary cause. The British arrested him for high treason, but a group of patriots freed him. In he took part in the convention that drew up the state constitution. During the War for Independence, he rose from a captain to a colonel in the militia. In Brearly was elected as ledare justice of the New Jersey supreme court, a position he held until He presided over the precedent-setting case of Holmes v. Walton. His decision, rendered in , represented an early expression of the principle of judic
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The American Revolution in New Jersey
The Day is Ours: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton
Dwyer, William, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
“William Franklin”
In The Governors of New Jersey, Biographical Essays
Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner
Gerlach, Larry R. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, (online publication), pp.
New Jersey From Colony to State,
Richard P. McCormick. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
New Jersey's Revolutionary Experience (Pamphlet Series)
New Jersey in the American Revolution, A Documentary History
“The Movement for Independence”
(Stirrings of Discontent, the Road to Rebellion, Divided Loyalties), pp.
“Fighting for Freedom”
(Invasion and Retreat, Turning the Tide, the Interminable War, Between War and Peace), pp.
“William Livingston”
In The Governors of New Jersey, Biographical Essays
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New Jersey in the American Revolution
Main article: History of New Jersey
New Jersey played a central role in the American Revolution both politically and militarily. It was the site of more than 90 military engagements, including the pivotal battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth. George Washington led his army across the state four times and encamped there during three hard winters, enduring some of the greatest's setbacks of the war as well as seminal victories.[1] New Jersey's decisive role in the conflict earned it the title, "Crossroads of the American Revolution".[2]
New Jersey society was deeply polarized in their views and support of the revolution. Many citizens had emigrated from England and maintained a sense of loyalty to the British Crown; others had economic, social, or familial ties to the mother country.[1] Among the most notable loyalists was the state governor, William Franklin, the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin, a l