New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . nety-twothousand, there were seven thousand Methodists—one to thirteen. The movement had crossed theAssanpink, extending to Plemington and Belle-ville, constituting the East Jersey district, inwhich there were about four thousand of these were in Newark, Bloomfield,Orange, Belleville, Rahway, and the remaining portion of the State were aboutforty-five hundred members, nearly a third beingin Warren and Sussex Counties. The total num-ber in the State was about fifteen thousand fivehundred, e
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . nety-twothousand, there were seven thousand Methodists—one to thirteen. The movement had crossed theAssanpink, extending to Plemington and Belle-ville, constituting the East Jersey district, inwhich there were about four thousand of these were in Newark, Bloomfield,Orange, Belleville, Rahway, and the remaining portion of the State were aboutforty-five hundred members, nearly a third beingin Warren and Sussex Counties. The total num-ber in the State was about fifteen thousand fivehundred, equal in numerical strength to the Pres-byterians. The Protestant Episcopal Church had not re-covered from the distressing days of the Revolu-tion. In its strongholds in Newark, Perth Amboy,Trenton, and Burlington it represented no smallpart of the wealth, the education, and the bestfamily connections of the communities, but tomany, influenced by name rather than by fact, itwas still the Church of England, and that in1830 meant the taint of Toryism. In all New Jer-. ^ Fraacis Asbury, first HethodiatEpiscopal bishop; t>. England, , 1745; came to America 1771; , Va., March 31,181C 318 NEW JERSEY AS A COL
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