New Jersey 1802 Legislative Council, Hunterdon County

Office:
Council (State)
Title:
Legislative Councillor
Jurisdiction:
State
Label:
New Jersey 1802 Legislative Council, Hunterdon County
Date:
1802
State:
New Jersey
Type:
General
Iteration:
First Ballot
Office/Role:
Council/Legislative Councillor
Candidates:
John Lambert, Jacob Anderson
Candidates: John Lambert[1]Jacob Anderson
Affiliation:RepublicanFederalist
Final Result: [2][3][4]18551834
Hunterdon County18551834
Alexandria11886
Amwell[5]674303
Bethlehem[6]12177
Hopewell222276
Kingwood194107
Lebanon100138
Maidenhead55167
Readington117129
Tewksbury12551
Trenton129500

Notes:

[1]Elected.
[2]The Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia, PA) and The Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA) report 1857 votes for John Lambert.
[3]The Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia, PA) reports 1857 votes for John Lambert but the township totals add up to 2057.
[4]"In this County, contrary alike to our expectations and wishes, the Federalists have in part succeeded. The Republicans carried their Council, on Assemblyman, and Coroners : the Federalists three Assemblymen. This partial defeat of Republicanism is not, as some might suppose, owing to its decline. Every Republican Candidate has a larger number of votes this year than he had last. Our defeat is atributable principally to three causes :--to a too great certainty of success on the part of the Republicans, and a consequent relaxation of their exertions--to the extraordinary efforts of the Federalists, by secret Committees, Circular Letters, and otherwise--and to the number of illegal votes taken in by the Federalists, which in this township alone are supposed to amount to near an hundred and fifty ; while in Amwell and other Republican townships, no votes were knowingly admitted which were not legal. Had the Republicans made as great exertions--used similar means--and admitted such voters as the Federalists did, they would have entirely succeeded by large majorities. If they are partially defeated by the unjust and unlawful conduct of their adversaries, they are not disgraced by any improper measures of their own." The True American (Trenton, NJ). October 18, 1802.
[5]The Gazette of the United States reports 676 votes for John Lambert in Amwell.
[6]The Gazette of the United States reports 321 votes for John Lambert in Bethlehem.

References:

Original Election Returns. New Jersey State Library, Trenton.
The Federalist and New Jersey Gazette (Trenton, NJ). October 18, 1802.
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia, PA). October 18, 1802.
The True American (Trenton, NJ). October 18, 1802.
The Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA). October 19, 1802.
The Genius of Liberty (Morristown, NJ). October 22, 1802.
The True American (Trenton, NJ). June 6, 1803.

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Phil's original notebook pages that were used to compile this election. These notes are considered a draft of the electronic version. Therefore, the numbers may not match. To verify numbers you will need to check the original sources cited. Some original source material is available at the American Antiquarian Society).

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