This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Britain. In January, 1775, he was re-elected delegate to the Congress by the Assembly, and served on the most important committees thereof. He was again elected delegate in February, 1776. to the Provincial Congress, and labored on the same committees with Adams, Jefferson and Lee. During the ensuing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Britain. In January, 1775, he was re-elected delegate to the Congress by the Assembly, and served on the most important committees thereof. He was again elected delegate in February, 1776. to the Provincial Congress, and labored on the same committees with Adams, Jefferson and Lee. During the ensuing June, however, he left the congress at Philadelphia in order to take command of the militia of New Jersey as a brigadier general. While thus patriotic in spirit, and doing everything in his power to advance the American cause, he was yet among those, and the number included many pronounced Whigs, who doubted the expediency of the Declaration of Independence at the time it was made. In June, 1776. by desire of congress, he took command of the militia destined for New York, and established his headquarters at Elizabethtown Point. There is good reason to believe, however, that he would have much preferred to continue a delegate to the Continental Congress, in which case he would undoubtedly have signed the Declaration of Independence. It was not long that Livingston served as a soldier, his abilities being called into play in a position where they were calculated to prove of far greater value to his country. A new constitution having been adopted, and a legislature chosen under it, that body assembled at Princeton, and on August 27, 1776, proceeded in joint convention to elect a governor. The vote was by a secret ballot, and it resulted for a time in a tie between him and Richard Stockton. By next day, however, an arrangement had been reached, and Livingston was elected governor, Stockton being chosen chief justice of the supreme court. The former accepted, but the latter declined. For a while after installation, Governor Livingston, by...
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