This is the fourth in a series.

One of the reasons New Jersey’s war at the shore has been so underreported is that we want to make the Revolution a simple case of the good patriots vs. the evil British army. Unfortunately, when you look at the events, the issue is much more complicated by adding colonist against colonist.

One of the first acts of the newly formed New Jersey state government was to make criminals of a group of law-abiding citizens.