Religion in New Jersey in 18th century.....

The Great Awakening through the American colonies between the 1730s and 1770s was a revival of the holiness. The beginnings of the Great Awakening appeared in New Jersey with the Presbyterians. These revivals were led by Reverend William Tennent with his four sons; which later Presbyterians established a system that trained clergyman. These revivals by Tennent and Whitefield exhibited the religious renewal in the 18th century. Many revivals motivated converts to become missionaries. In the 1720s, there was Dutch revivals in New Jersey with churches led by Bernardus Freeman and Theodore Frelinghuysen; they "emphasized personal discipline rather than emotion as evidence for true conversation." (Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. Harvard University Press, 2000, 199).

In the 1740s, the revivals became somehwhat conservative they encouraged New Jersey's Scottish Presbyterians to a conservative Calvinism. By the late 1740s, New Jersey Presbyterian preachers began "proselytizing" in the Virginia Piedmont. Dutch and many other immigrants went into the New Englanders and Quaker settlements from New Jersey colony. By the 1750s, Calvinism dominated Scottish Presbyterian in the colonies.

Sources:

Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. Harvard University Press, 2000.

Heyrman, Christine Leigh. “The First Great Awakening.” Divining America, TeacherServe©. National Humanities Center. Accessed on November 1, 2008.