A Potential Voter in New Jersey Mrs. Annis Boudinot Stockton of Princeton, New Jersey, was married to Richard Stockton, a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Widowed in 1782, she would have been eligible to vote in state elections according to New Jersey’s unique enfranchisement of property-holding women. The widow Stockton died in 1801, before suffrage was redefined to be the exclusive right of males. Princeton University Art Museum/Art Resource, NY.