Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Nassau Hall: An Address Delivered Before the New Jersey Society of Colonial Dames, October 16, 1906
It was in the autumn of that year that John Adams, on his way to the First Continental Congress, loitered here a day and a half. In this room, where George Whitefield had preached, he attended evening prayer and be thought him of his ?attering comment on thestudents singingmit was as bad as that of the Presbyterians of New York And from the balcony above the door he admired the wide extent of view - for our trees were few and slender in those colonial days - and, after drinking a glass of wine with the president and talking long with him, he went back to his tavern convinced that Dr. Witherspoon was as high a son of liberty as any man in America. And when on successive nights in April, 1775, those two shadowy horsemen came galloping across the state, past this restless seat of learn ing, with the news of Lexington and Concord, and New Jersey was stirred at last to action, in the course then taken Dr. Witherspoon, as you know, had a prominent share. We find him in June, 1776, sent to the Provincial Congress and elected by that body to the Continental Congress, and at Philadelphia he was in his seat on those memorable first few days of July.
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