- Contrary to most reports, the last skirmish of the American Revolution did not take place in West Virginia or South Carolina, but in Barnegat Township.- A New Jerseyan could have voted against slavery and prevented the Civil War.- A New Jerseyan, William Paterson, invented the U.S. Senate -- and saved the United States in the process.- The colony's first Royal Governor, a cousin of Queen Anne, would often dress in ladies' gowns and lurk behind trees, ready to pounce on passing men and pull their ears.- Far from Boston, Revolutionary residents of South Jersey had their own tea party in Greenwich, one of the region's major shipping ports.