The Provincial Courts of New Jersey With Sketches of the Bench And Bar a Dis
The Provincial Courts of New Jersey With Sketches of the Bench And Bar a Dis
Richard Stockton Field
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They were ap- pointed on the 21st of June, after the proposition to declare Independence had been brought forward in Con- gress, and with a full knowledge of that fact ; and they were expressly authorized " to join with the delegates of the other Colonies in declaring the United Colonies independent of Great Britain, and entering into a Confed- eration for union and common de- fence. " On the 28th of June, as ap- pears by the Journal, Mr. Hopkinson appeared in Congress, and presented the instru...ctions under which he and his colleagues were appointed. — Jour- nals of Congress, vol. Ii. , p. 230. How then Mr. Adams, writing on the 15th of July, could have said, that the New Jersey delegates were not empowered to give their voice on 198 RICHARD STOCKTON. also peril in it ; and no one of those illustrious men hazarded more, or suffered more, than he did. His residence at Princeton was directly in the route of the victorious British Army, in its triumphant march through New Jersey. His happy home was soon the scene of desolation, his estate was laid waste, his property pillaged and destroyed.
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