New Jersey 1804 Assembly, Somerset County

Office:: Assembly (State)
Title:: Assemblyman
Jurisdiction:: State

Label:: New Jersey 1804 Assembly, Somerset County
Date:: 1804
State:: New Jersey
Type:: General
Iteration:: First Ballot
Office/Role:: Assembly/Assemblyman
Candidates:: John Annin, James Stryker, William MacEowen, James Van Duyn, John N. Simpson, George MacDonald, Andrew Howell, Hugh MacEowen

Candidates:	John Annin [1]	James Stryker [2]	William MacEowen [3]	James Van Duyn	John N. Simpson	George MacDonald	Andrew Howell	Hugh MacEowen
Affiliation:	Republican	Republican	Federalist	Federalist	Federalist	Republican	Federalist
Final Result: [4][5][6]	683	661	635	580	541	348	1	1
Somerset County	683	661	635	580	541	348	1	1
Bedminster	78	70	61	42	42	54	1	-
Bernards	371	372	23	19	19	49	-	-
Bridgewater	117	97	117	87	53	136	-	1
Franklin	18	21	134	135	132	20	-	-
Hillsborough	42	42	171	167	168	44	-	-
Montgomery	57	59	129	130	127	45	-	-

Notes:

[1]Elected.

[2]Elected.

[3]Elected.

[4]According to The Guardian; or, New-Brunswick Advertiser (New Brunswick, NJ), September 6, Peter B. Dumont (Federalist), Dickinson Miller (Republican), David Smalley (Republican), and Major Todd (Republican) were also in Nomination.

[5]"The annual election for members of Council and General Assembly of this State is over; and with pride we say, the cause of truth, of virtue, and of freedom has triumphed with more than ordinary success. Generally speaking, the federal opposition this year has been extremely feeble. In counties where their strength has been tried, and where even their candidates have been sucessful, the results by no means dishonorable to republicanism; it annually acquires strength, and shortly it must and will predominate ... In Somerset, a county hitherto decidedly federal, the old members are turned out, and the republican candidates are elected by handsome majorities." The Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ). October 23, 1804.

[6]"We are happy in announcing to our Readers, that in Somerset County the Republicans have succeeded in electing their Candidates for Council, Assembly, and Sheriff.--This success is highly gratifyng in itself as it evinces the continued progress of correct principles in the state, and adds strength to the supporters of those principles in the Legislature--and it is peculiarly pleasing as it was in a great measure unexpected. We hope, and trust, that Somerset, having thus resumed her Republican station, will not fall asleep and suffer herself to be shorn of her locks by the Philistines of our day." The True American (Trenton, NJ). October 22, 1804.

References:

Original Election Certificate. New Jersey State Library, Trenton.

Guardian; or, New-Brunswick Advertiser (New Brunswick, NJ). September 6, 1804.

Guardian; or, New-Brunswick Advertiser (New Brunswick, NJ). October 18, 1804.

The True American (Trenton, NJ). October 22, 1804.

The Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ). October 23, 1804.

New-Jersey Journal (Elizabethtown, NJ). October 23, 1804.

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