New Jersey’s Revolutionary Experience

Battles and Skirmishes of the American Revolution in New Jersey by David C. Munn. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Bureau of Geology and Topography. 1976.

This work lists every “skirmish” or battle, provides citations to source describing it, and includes a chronology.

A series of twenty-eight now out-of-print pamphlets published by the New Jersey Historical Commission to commemorate the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. The pamphlets explore New Jersey history at the time of the Revolution, by either  looking at New Jersey’s contribution to the Revolution or by studying some aspect of life in New Jersey during that time period.

1. The Press in Revolutionary New Jersey
2. The Mapping of New Jersey in the American Revolution
3. Morristown: A Crucible of the American Revolution
4. The Cultural Geography of Eighteenth Century New Jersey
5. The New Jersey Soldier
6. New Jersey’s Five Who Signed
7. The Road to Revolution
8. The Battle of Springfield
9. New Jersey’s Revolutionary Economy
10. The Religious Issue in Revolutionary New Jersey
11. The Music of Eighteenth Century New Jersey
12. Medicine in Revolutionary New Jersey
13. William Franklin: New Jersey’s Last Royal Governor
14. Blacks in the Revolutionary Era
15. The Constitution of 1776
16. The Revolutionary Struggle in New Jersey, 1776-1783
17. New Jersey Society in the Revolutionary Era
18. Elias Boudinot
19. New Jersey’s Whigs
20. New Jersey’s Loyalists
21. William Livingston: New Jersey’s First Governor
22. The Christmas Campaign: The Ten Days of Trenton and Princeton
23. The Fine and the Useful Arts in New Jersey, 1750-1800
24. Education in New Jersey in the Revolutionary Era
25. The Battle of Monmouth
26. Fortunes of War: New Jersey Women and the American Revolution
27. Teachers’ Guide: Secondary
28. Teachers’ Guide: Elementary

Related Items

Related items which may be of interest but not of this series:

• “Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War”.

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