200 Years of American Song for 250 Years of New Jersey's First Constitution

As the sun sets, join a jubilee for the 250th anniversary of New Jersey’s first Constitution. Historical musician and balladeer Linda Russell presents songs and stories of America’s past from 1776 to 1976! Linda sings love songs, humorous ditties, patriotic anthems, work songs and tunes from America’s wars as well as a hit or two from the 1950s. Included will be audience sing-alongs, like Yankee Doodle, O Susanna, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Tennessee Waltz and This Land is Your Land. New Jersey’s first Constitution is read and the Old Dutch Parsonage is illuminated.

250 years ago on July 2, 1776, Old Dutch Parsonage’s Frederick Frelinghuysen and Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh were among the delegates from Somerset County to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey in Burlington. They adopted New Jersey’s first Constitution, declaring New Jersey independent of Great Britain “for no other Cause than asserting their Just Rights.”

Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites are supported by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, Proud Partner of Revolution NJ.

🧱 The Revitalization of State Historic Sites is underway “Down the Brook” for Revolution NJ. The historic rehabilitation of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage is supported in part by Semiquincentennial Grants from the Historic Preservation Fund administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

⭐ is New Jersey’s official observance of the 250th anniversaries of New Jersey’s first Constitution July 2, 2026 and the American Revolution in New Jersey from 2024 – 2033.

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