Test Your Knowledge Of South Jersey

Are you a history buff? Do you know a lot about the history of South Jersey? Here is a test that you might find fun and educational. Good luck!

What Revolutionary War pamphleteer lived in Bordentown from 1783 and 1787?

Where did Diamond Jim Brady die in 1917?

What Yale University president was born in Morristown in 1906?

In Elizabethtown in 1800, what groups of people were given the right to vote, which was rescinded in 1807?

What town tried a witch in the 1730s?

What famous Quaker lived in Mount Holly?

Who was appointed New Jersey`s last royal governor in 1763?

Where did Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, live as an educator?

Anna Symmes Harrison, wife of one U.S. president and grandmother of another, was born in what town in 1775?

When was the original colony of New Jersey divided into East and West?

Where did Napoleon`s brother Joseph Bonaparte live in New Jersey?

Which president established his summer White House in Cape May between 1890 and 1891?

Where did colonists burn a British shipload of tea in 1774?

What Salem County nurse treated the wounded troops of Gettysburg?

What was southwestern New Jersey called in the 1640s?

Where was Betsy Ross married?

In 1782, the British burned what New Jersey town?

What Burlington native uttered the immortal words, “Don`t give up the ship” during the War of 1812?

What Princeton man signed the Declaration of Independence?

Which former president died in Princeton in 1908?

Answers: (1)Thomas Paine, (2)Shelburne Hotel in Atlantic City, (3)Whitney Griswold, (4)women, (5)Mt. Holly, (6)John Woolman, (7)William Franklin, Benjamin Franklin`s son, (8)Bordentown, (9)Morristown, (10)1676, (11)Bordentown (12)Benjamin Harrison, (13)Greenwich, (14)Cornelia Hancock, (15)New Sweden, (16)Huggs Tavern in Gloucester City, (17)Toms River, (18)James Lawrence, (19)Richard Stockton, (20)Grover Cleveland.

Score: 15-20 correct- a true history buff that South Jersey can be proud of, 10-14 correct- well above average, 5-9 correct- good start for a novice. If you got less than five correct don`t be discouraged there is plenty more history to learn.

Sources: New Jersey Trivia, Compiled by Al and Shirley Menendez, Rutledge Hill Press, Inc. © 1993

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Author: Vickie Van Antwerp