American Revolution - The Collver Family History Project

A minister stands at the bar before the judges’ bench in a plain New Jersey courtroom, 1777.

Jabez Collver

Pull Down All Other Persuasions

At his 1777 sedition trial, Rev. Jabez Colver warned that a victorious America would let the Presbyterians “pull down all other Persuasions.” Who was in the room that day, what he meant, and why the fear still echoes.

Jabez Collver

The Judge, the Preacher, and the Log Gaol

Nathaniel Pettit, Jabez Collver, and the price of a signature For Kathy Hall UE Listen to this post 0:0025:12 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps There is a village in New Jersey that was named for its jail. Not for a founder, not for a church, not for some

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A House Divided: The Collvers in the American Revolution

Two hundred fifty years ago, the Revolution split this family into two houses — one for Congress, one for the King, both loyal to their cause. The story of the divide, and of the four weddings that mended it.

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Set Up the King's Standard: The Land, the Treason, and the Flight of Jabez Colver

Listen to this post 0:0013:13 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps In the summer of 1774, a Connecticut-born minister named Jabez Colver laid out £245 in proclamation money and became the owner of 163.98 acres on the east side of the Minisink Mountain, at the northeast end