Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New Jersey” in chapter 80, page 253 of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2.:
...the very day on which this resolve finally passed, at Philadelphia, Virginia, acting without concert, took steps to erect her own independent government.
It is a curious fact, too, in history, that New Jersey did this even more thoroughly and effectually than Virginia, for her Colonial Convention actually formed and adopted an independent government, and put it into action
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