Richard Stockton Service Area

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New Jersey Turnpike
Located between Interchanges 7A and 7 southbound (6S)
Milepost 58.7
Hamilton Township, Mercer County

The rest area is named for Richard Stockton prominent New Jersey lawyer, politician and signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served on the New Jersey Supreme Court and on the trustee board of the College of New Jersey, afterwards known as Princeton University. His personal efforts resulted in the acceptance of the presidency of the College by the fellow Declaration signer Reverend John Witherspoon. During the war, the Continental Congress sent him on a mission to Albany, New York to aid General Washington’s army, he returned to New Jersey to evacuate his family before the British overran them. He was then captured and beaten by New Jersey loyalists, handed over to the British and sent to Provost Prison which ruined his health due to his severe treatment by the British. He passed away at his home Morven (the Governor’s Mansion from 1945 to 1981) in 1781.