Outside of Boston and Philadelphia, Princeton was the only town with three delegates to the Continental Congress and two signers of the Declaration of Independence. This is even more remarkable when you consider that while Philadelphia was a city of 40,000 and Boston a city of 15,000, Princeton had a population of at most 300 people including the students attending the College of New Jersey (Princeton University at the time)! Princeton played a significant role from the beginning of gaining independence from Britain.