This chair is modeled after a similar chair dating to 1689. This chair has elaborate carving and a cane seat.
On this six-leg table in the center of the room are displayed some artifacts from the Augusta. Included is a cannonball which was found embedded in the Augusta when it was salvaged. Also displayed is a piece of unused wood, showing the condition of the wood before being sanded and waxed by the master craftsmen.
Liberty on the left, three plows in the center and the goddess of fertility holding her horn of plenty represent the agricultural importance of New Jersey.
This painted stained glass window commemorates the events of January 3, 1777. In the top section are pictured Washington and his troops at the Battle of Princeton. In the center is Nassau Hall. Below is the Stony Brook Quaker Meetinghouse. At the bottom is "Tusculum," which was the home of John Witherspoon.
The scene on the top left commemorates the "Tea Burning at Greenwich" in Greenwich, New Jersey, an act which was inspired by the Boston Tea Party. The scenes on the right depict the "Battle of Red Bank" in October 1777 where the Augusta was sunk.
This is a photo of the New Jersey Room in Memorial Continental Hall, Washington DC.
