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Almost 250 years after the independence of the United States was declared, it’s easy to remember the events in simple terms: The good guys were the colonists, the bad, the British oppressors. But a careful look at the events at the time seemed to show a much more divided colonial population between patriots and those loyal to the crown, and nowhere was this more evident than in New Jersey.

Following the passage of the Intolerable Acts designed to punish Boston for the Tea Party, the First Continental…