Within this building then a tavern-house, the Council of Safety for New Jersey was organized March 18th 1777. Herin also, in September of the same year the Legislature unanimously resolved that thereafter the work “state” should be substituted for “colony” in all public writs and Commissions.1750       1900

Marker is on Kings Highway (New Jersey Route 41), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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