You won't find this story carved into the stone of Nassau Hall, or on any battlefield monument. But it’s there, if you listen closely — in the spaces between the Revolution’s triumphs, in the contradictions it tried to ignore.
A Lenape boy at Princeton — educated at the expense of a Congress that broke his father’s treaty.
A nation that promised equality, yet survived by defining who was excluded from it.
That’s New Jersey’s Revolution, too.
It wasn’t just fought with muskets and bayonets — it was waged in promises, betrayals, and brief acts of decency that tried to stitch them together.
This is part of Crossroads: Your Hometown Revolution — our ongoing partnership with RevolutionNJ, telling the stories of New Jersey’s fight for independence through the people who lived it, and those who were left behind.
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🎓 Primary Sources Cited
George Washington, Diary Entry, May 3, 1779. The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 14, Library of Congress.
Treaty with the Delawares, September 17, 1778. Journals of the Continental Congress, Vol. 12, p. 978.
George Morgan to the Continental Congress, December 1778, National Archives, Papers of the Continental Congress, M247, roll 189.
Resolution for the Education of the Son of White Eyes, Journals of the Continental Congress, June 22, 1785, Vol. 29, p. 480.
Princeton University Archives, Matriculation Records, 1790s, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
