ColdCasefilePA1776

This son of a founding father served a different master.(Figure 1.1) Arrested in the same year as the birth of this nation and then exiled in 1782, this man’ s relationship with his father was permanently strained. He walked the area now known as “La Playita” and was, what some people thought, too loyal. As the head honcho of this “Garden State”, he chartered this school located in New Brunswick that would be known as the Scarlet Knights. Who was this “loyal“ son and what strained the relationship between him and his “founding father”? Primary Resources for Cold Case file # PA-1776 1. John Locke and “Social Contract” - [|http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/#SocConThe] 2. Thomas Hobbes and “Absolutism” [|http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/#SocConThe] 3. Jean Jacques Rousseau and “Social Contract” [|http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rousseau-soccon.html] 4. The Proprietary House [|http://www.proprietaryhouse.org/history.html]
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Question to consider: 1. Why would an individual living in the colonies choose to be a loyalist as compared to siding with the colonies? 2. Why was Perth Amboy significant in early American history? 3. What ties did Perth Amboy have to one of our “Founding Fathers”? 4. Why is the Proprietary house labeled a “historical site”?