. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Counties of Burlington, old Gloucester,Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May, all of which,by 1830, had a population of about ninety-twothousand, there were seven thousand Methodists—one to thirteen. The movement had crossed theAssanpink, extending to Flemington and Belle-ville, constituting the East Jersey district, inwhich there were about four thousand of these were in Newark, Bloomfield,Orange, Belleville, Bahway, and the remaining portion of the State were aboutforty-five hundred members,
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Counties of Burlington, old Gloucester,Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May, all of which,by 1830, had a population of about ninety-twothousand, there were seven thousand Methodists—one to thirteen. The movement had crossed theAssanpink, extending to Flemington and Belle-ville, constituting the East Jersey district, inwhich there were about four thousand of these were in Newark, Bloomfield,Orange, Belleville, Bahway, 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- Francl3 A8bUry, first Methodist hvtprilTl<3 Episcopal bishop; o. England. ujicnaiio. Aug 20( 174B. came to Amerlca The Protestant Episcopal Church had not ve-^n^covered from the distressing days of the Revolu-tion. In its strongholds in Newark, Perth Amboy,Trenton and Burlington it represented no small. March SI, 1816. part 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 Torvism. In all New Jer- 318 NEW JEKSEY AS A COL
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