The following is the text of a talk, “Nils Collin, the Church of Sweden, and the American Revolution in Southern New Jersey,” presented during the conference “Piety, Politics and Public Houses: Churches, Taverns and Revolution in New Jersey,” (complementing the exhibition "Caught in the Crossfire: New Jersey Churches and Taverns in the American Revolution"), New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, March 8, 2003.