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Philip Carteret
Philip Carteret 1639-82, first colonial governor of New Jersey . Carteret, commissioned by the proprietor, Sir George Carteret, his fourth cousin, arrived in the province in 1665. He soon faced disputes over confused land titles and rebellion by tenant farmers against quitrents (fixed rents). Afte...
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John Murray
John Murray 1741-1815, founder of the Universalist denomination in America, b. England. He was excommunicated by the Methodists after he had openly accepted Universalism as taught by James Relly (see Universalist Church of America ). Murray emigrated to America in 1770 where, after traveling as a ...
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Jersey City
Jersey City city (1990 pop. 228,537), seat of Hudson co., NE N.J., a port on a peninsula formed by the Hudson and Hackensack rivers and Upper New York Bay, opposite lower Manhattan; settled before 1650, inc. as Jersey City 1836. The second largest city in the state and a commercial and industrial c...
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William Franklin
William Franklin c.1730-1813, last royal governor of New Jersey; illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin. He grew up in Philadelphia, served in King George's War, and was (1754-56) comptroller of the general post office in Philadelphia. In 1757 he went with his father to England, where he studied law...
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William Paterson
William Paterson 1745-1806, American political leader and jurist, b. Co. Antrim, Ireland. He emigrated to America as a child. Raised in New Jersey, he practiced law there and was attorney general (1776-83) of the state before he became a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention (1787). H...
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John Fenwick
John Fenwick 1618-83, Quaker colonist in America, b. England. Planning to found a Quaker refuge in America, Fenwick obtained (1674) Lord Berkeley's share of New Jersey in trust for the Quaker merchant Edward Byllynge. In 1675 he and other Quakers founded at Salem the first permanent English settl...
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bight
bight broad bend or curve in a coastline, forming a large open bay. The New York bight, for example, is the curve in the coast described by the southern shore of Long Island and the eastern shore of New Jersey. The term bight may also refer to the bay so formed.
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Rutherford
Rutherford , borough (1990 pop. 17,790), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential suburb of the New York City-N New Jersey metropolitan area; inc. 1881. Several pre-Revolutionary houses remain there.
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New Jersey
New Jersey Middle Atlantic state of the E United States. It is bordered by New York State (N and, across the Hudson R. and New York Harbor, E), the Atlantic Ocean (E), Delaware, across Delaware Bay (S), and Pennsylvania, across the Delaware R. (W).
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Area, 7,836 sq mi (2...
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John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon 1723-94, Scottish-American Presbyterian clergyman, political leader in the American Revolution, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Haddingtonshire (now East Lothian), Scotland. He was educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh. From 1745 to 1768 he occupied pastorates in Sco...
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