. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. rought forward the divergent views of the cit-izens of the colony. The first town to give ex-pression to an opinion was Perth Amboy, wherethe lines of demarcation between the Kingsmen and the Friends of Freedom were sharp-ly drawn. Two days after the meeting of the ProvincialCongress the inhabitants of the South Ward ofPerth Amboy presented a petition praying thatthe government of New Jersey, under the Kingof Great Britain, be suppressed, and that theCongress devise a more suitable form of govern-ment. This revolutionary p
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. rought forward the divergent views of the cit-izens of the colony. The first town to give ex-pression to an opinion was Perth Amboy, wherethe lines of demarcation between the Kingsmen and the Friends of Freedom were sharp-ly drawn. Two days after the meeting of the ProvincialCongress the inhabitants of the South Ward ofPerth Amboy presented a petition praying thatthe government of New Jersey, under the Kingof Great Britain, be suppressed, and that theCongress devise a more suitable form of govern-ment. This revolutionary petition was followedupon the 16th by a petition from the inhabitantsof the North Ward of Perth Amboy urging theCongress to refrain from changing the form ofprovincial government, in which request certainof the inhabitants of Shrewsbury Townshipjoined. Favoring a new form of government,petitions were presented from the Township ofWindsor, Middlesex County, and from Maiden-head (now Lawrenceville) in Hunterdon (a part ofwhich is now Mercer) County. In the latter region. ONY AND AS A STATE 411 the spirit of democracy had taken close hold uponthe people, and, in imitation of the plan adoptedby the West Jersey Quakers, the Maidenhead in-habitants urged that all elections be held annuallyby ballot, and that the doors of the ProvincialCongress be kept open. The first indication of official action lookingtoward constitution-making was the selection forthat purpose of Friday, June 21st, when the con-vention resolved to consider the propriety offorming a government. This action was takenupon June 17. Upon the 19th the inhabitants ofShrewsbury presented a further petition in favorof the continuance of their existing conditions,hopingthat no measures would be adopted tendingto separate the colony from Great Britain. Againthe residents of the South Ward of Perth Amboyprayed that a new government be established andthat independence be speedily declared. MorrisTownship, in the County of Morri
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