What to Do With a Royal Governor?

This is the seventh in a series.

When we celebrate July 4th as Independence Day, it’s actually the exclamation mark in a long series of decisions and actions that should be remembered.

In June 1776 as the Continental Congress in Philadelphia was preparing to vote on the issue and Thomas Jefferson was drafting the Declaration of Independence, across the Delaware River in Burlington, N.J. the rebel Provincial Congress was dealing with major problems.