Documents Relating To The Colonial, Revolutionary And Post-Revolutionary History Of The State Of New Jersey (First Series) (Volume Xxxi) Extracts From American Newspapers Relating To New Jersey For Th

Step into the year the world tipped. In New Jersey, 1775 arrives not as a textbook chapter, but as ink still drying on the page. History speaks through urgent headlines.Edited by A. Van Doren Honeyman, this volume gathers eighteenth century news extracts from colonial American newspapers, forming a meticulous primary source collection of notices, debates, proclamations, and public anxieties as war edges closer. It is a historical document anthology built for browsing as well as deep study: follow revolutionary war press coverage alongside colonial New Jersey politics, trade pressures, militia activity, and the daily texture of towns and counties. As an archival reference volume, it anchors genealogy and local history with names, places, and dates that seldom survive elsewhere.For readers tracing New Jersey in 1775, the material also widens to mid-Atlantic colonies history, revealing how news travelled, how loyalties shifted, and how ordinary life met extraordinary events. Across columns and margins, you see argument, rumour, commerce, and community organised in real time, together, plainly here. Scholars will value it as an academic history research source and a storehouse of revolutionary war primary sources; curious readers will relish the immediacy of period reportage and the pleasure of discovery. Classic-history collectors will recognise the lasting significance of preserving the public record at the moment revolution began.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.