New Jersey (U.S.)

Last modified: 2005-02-06 by rick wyatt
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by Mario Fabretto, 24 February 1998

• Description of the flag
• State Coat of Arms
• State Military Crest
• Bluewater Windjammers Association

Municipal flags:

County flags:

See also:

• Port Authority of NY & NJ
• New Jersey Facts and Symbols
• United States of America
• States of the United States

One of the original 13 colonies, New Jersey is represented by a star and a stripe on the 13 star U.S. flags.

On March 23rd, 1779 during the war of the Revolution, the Continental Congress, by resolution authorized and directed the Commander-in-Chief to prescribe the uniform, both as to color and facings, for the regiments of the New Jersey Continental Line. In accordance with this resolution, General Washington, in General Orders dated Army Headquarters, New Windsor, New York, October 2nd, 1779, directed that the coats for such regiments should be dark blue, faced with buff.

On February 28th, 1780, the Continental War Officers in Philadelphia directed that each of said regiments should have two flags, viz: one the United States flag and the other a State flag, the ground to be of the color of the facing. Thus the State flag of New Jersey became the beautiful and historic buff, as selected for it by the Father of His Country, and it was displayed in view of the combined French and American armies in the great culminating event of the War of the Revolution, the capitulation of a British army under Lieutenant General Earl Cornwallis at Yorktown.

The same color has been prescribed for the state flag of New York, where a law requires it to be displayed with the United States flag over the capital w