📅 June 3, 1775: Jersey Joins the Fight 🥁🗽 New Jersey wasn't about to sit this one out. On this day, the Garden State passed its very first Militia Law, ordering every township to muster a company of 80 able-bodied men—ages 16 to 50—ready to bear arms. 🧑‍🌾➡️🪖 That’s right: farmers, blacksmiths, and shopkeepers swapped plows and hammers for muskets and powder horns. The Revolution was growing, and New Jersey was gearing up. 💥🇺🇸 From sleepy villages to full-fledged militia companies, liberty was about to get loud. #OTD #1775 #NewJerseyMilitia #AmericanRevolution #PrincetonBattlefieldSociety #JerseyStrong #CitizenSoldiers (fb)

📅 June 2, 1775: Massachusetts Makes a Bold Ask 💪📨 Today in Revolutionary history, Massachusetts wrote to Congress with a pretty big favor: 👉 “Hey, can you adopt our army?” The fledgling New England troops—already squaring off with the British around Boston—needed supplies, structure, and, well… official status. So Massachusetts proposed that the Continental Congress make the militia everyone’s responsibility—not just theirs. 🇺🇸 It’s one of the first steps toward creating what we’d come to know as the Continental Army. From colony to collective cause—now that’s what we call revolutionary parenting. 👶⚔️ #OTD #1775 #ContinentalArmyBegins #PrincetonBattlefieldSociety #FromMilitiaToArmy #RevolutionInTheMaking (fb)