New Jersey men Foreigners

The saying that New Jersey is a foreign State comes down from the time when Joseph Bonaparte, exking of Spain and Naples, after the downfall of Napoleon, sought an asylum in the United States. As an alien he was obliged to obtain a special act of Legislature to enable him to hold real estate. Pennsylvania refused, but New Jersey consented, and he established himself in princely magnificence at Bordentown. Hence men of other States used humorously to declare that the Jersey men, with their foreign prince, were foreigners, and their State not a part of the Union. “New Lights,” religious revivalists in Ma achusetts and Connecticut in 1734 and for some years later, during the period known as the ‘‘Great Awakening.’ The movement was started by Jonathan Edwards and became a wild pa ion under the ministrations of George White field. The ‘‘ New Lights’’ were so called in contradistinction to the ‘‘ Old Lights,’’ or more conservative Churchmen. 30