Category: Places

If you were surprised as I was when reading the last blog, “Brief History of New Jersey”, that Trenton and Princeton NJ served brief stints as the US Capital, you must be wondering if that was true. Princeton was the 5th location and Trenton was the 7th.

Here is content from a webpage that explains it all.

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You gain a better appreciation of the families that will be introduced in future blogs if you have historical context along with family events as they are told. This brief introduction to the early history of New Jersey begins and ends before Thomas Weast is born around  1790.

At the end of this blog, you will notice that Trenton and Princeton briefly served as the capital of the United States in the 1780’s. Next week’s blog will cover the eight capitals that are not well known before Washington, DC.

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