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<li>[[Readington Village, New Jersey|Readington Village]] and [[Readington Township, New Jersey|Readington Township]] in [[Hunterdon County, New Jersey|Hunterdon County]] was named in his honour.</li>
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| [[File:GovernorBelcher.jpg|50px|alt=Portrait of Jonathan Belcher]] || [[Jonathan Belcher]] </br>(1681/2–1757) || 1747 || 1757 || <li>Aided the early development of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).</li><li>Fortified the upper Delaware River valley to prevent Indian attacks during the [[French and Indian War]].</li><li>He died in office on August 31, 1757.</li>
| [[File:GovernorBelcher.jpg|50px|alt=Portrait of Jonathan Belcher]] || [[Jonathan Belcher]] </br>(1681/2–1757) || 1747 || 1757 || <li>Aided the early development of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).</li><li>Fortified the upper Delaware River valley to prevent Indian attacks during the [[French and Indian War]].</li><li>He died in office on August 31, 1757.</li>

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A red and white brick house with a sign in front of the house.
The Proprietary House (built 1762–1764) in Perth Amboy, was the last residence of New Jersey's Royal Governor. It is the only Provincial Governor's Mansion from the Thirteen Colonies that is still standing.

The territory which would later become the state of New Jersey was settled by Dutch and Swedish colonists in the 17th century. In 1664, at the onset of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, English forces under Richard Nicolls ousted the Dutch from control of New Netherland (present-day New York, New Jersey, and Delaware), and the territory became part of several different English colonies. Despite one brief year when the Dutch retook the colony (1673–1674), New Jersey would remain an English possession until the American colonies declared independence in 1776.

In 1664, James, Duke of York (later King James II) divided New Jersey among two men, Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, who supported the monarchy's cause during the English Civil War (1642–1649) and Interregnum (1649–1660).[1][2][3] Carteret and Lord Berkeley subsequently sold their interests to two groups of proprietors, thus creating two provinces: East Jersey and the West Jersey.[4] The exact location of the border between West Jersey and East Jersey was often a matter of dispute.[5] The two provinces would be distinct political divisions from 1674 to 1702.

West Jersey was largely a Quaker colony due to the influence of Pennsylvania founder William Penn and its prominent Quaker investors. Many of its early settlers were Quakers who came directly from England, Scotland and Ireland to escape religious persecution.[6] Although a number of the East Jersey proprietors in England were Quakers and Governor Robert Barclay was a leading Quaker theologian, the Quaker influence on the East Jersey government was insignificant. Many of East Jersey's early settlers came from other colonies in the Western Hemisphere, especially New England, Long Island, and the West Indies. Elizabethtown and Newark in particular had a strong Puritan character.[7][8] The Monmouth Tract, south of the Raritan River, was developed primarily by Quakers from Long Island.[9][10]

In 1702, both divisions of New Jersey were reunited as one royal colony by Queen Anne with a royal governor appointed by the Crown.[11] Until 1738, the Province of New Jersey shared its royal governor with the neighboring Province of New York. The Province of New Jersey was governed by appointed governors until 1776. William Franklin, the province's last royal governor before the American Revolution (1775–1783), was marginalized in the last year of his tenure, as the province was run de facto by the Provincial Congress of New Jersey. In June 1776, the Provincial Congress formally deposed Franklin and had him arrested, adopted a state constitution, and reorganize the province into an independent state. The newly formed State of New Jersey elected William Livingston as its first governor on 31 August 1776. New Jersey was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, and was the third colony to ratify the constitution forming the United States of America. It was admitted into the new federation as a state on December 18, 1787.

Before English control

Directors of New Netherland (1624–1664)

A hand-drawn parchment map with territories colored red, green, and yellow, and captions written in Latin.
A 1685 reprint of the 1650 map Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ showing Virginia, New Netherland, and New England.
See also: New Netherland

New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland) was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and the Dutch West India Company. It claimed territories along the eastern coast of North America from the Delmarva Peninsula to southwestern Cape Cod. Settled areas of New Netherland are now constitute the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, and parts of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.[12][13] The provincial capital New Amsterdam was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan at Upper New York Bay.[14]

New Netherland was conceived as a private business venture to exploit the North American fur trade.[15] By the 1650s, the colony experienced dramatic growth and became a major port for trade in the North Atlantic. The leader of the Dutch colony was known by the title Director or Director-General. On August 27, 1664, four English frigates commanded by Richard Nicolls sailed into New Amsterdam's harbor and demanded the surrender of New Netherland.[16][17] This event sparked the Second Anglo-Dutch War, which led to the transfer of the territory to England per the Treaty of Breda.[18][19]

Portrait Director or
Director-General 		Took office Left office Notes
Cornelius Jacobsen May
(fl. 1600s)		 1624 1625
  • Explored Delaware Bay, New York Bay, Hudson River.
  • Established base at Nutten Island and outposts including Fort Nassau on Delaware River.
    • Willem Verhulst
    (fl. 1600s)    		 1625 1626
  • Initiated construction of Fort Amsterdam on southern tip of Manhattan Island, and Fort Wilhelmus on the Delaware River.
  • Unpopular with the colonists, he was quickly replaced.
    • Portrait of Peter Minuit Peter Minuit
    (1580–1638)    		 1626 1631
  • Purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans on May 24, 1626 for 60 Dutch guilders worth of goods.[20]
    • Sebastiaen Jansen Krol
    (1595–1674)    		 1632 1633
    Wouter van Twiller
    (1606–1654)    		 1633 1638
    Willem Kieft
    (1597–1647)    		 1638 1647
  • Attempted to drive out Lenape tribe.
  • Attacks on Pavonia and Corlears Hook, led to Kieft's War.
  • Fired by the Dutch West India Company in 1647.
  • Died at sea near Swansea, Wales on September 27, 1647 while returning to Amsterdam aboard the Princess Amelia.[21]
    • Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant Peter Stuyvesant
    (c.1612-1672)    		 1647 1664
  • Authorized charter for Communipaw and Bergen (now Jersey City) in 1660.
  • Surrendered New Netherland to the British.

    • Governors of New Sweden (1638–1655)

    A map of New Jersey with the upper right portion colored magenta (New Netherland), and the lower left portion colored blue (New Sweden).
    The relative locations of New Netherland (magenta) and New Sweden (blue) in eastern North America.
    See also: New Sweden

    New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige, Finnish: Uusi-Ruotsi) was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River from 1638 to 1655 that included territory in present-day Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.[22] After being dismissed as Director of New Netherland by the Dutch West India Company (WIC), Peter Minuit was recruited by Willem Usselincx, Samuel Blommaert and the Swedish government to create the first Swedish colony in the New World.[23] The Swedes sought to expand their influence by creating an agricultural (tobacco) and fur-trading colony and bypass French and English merchants.[24]: 43, 66. 

    The New Sweden Company was chartered and included Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, and German stockholders.[25] Minuit and his company arrived on the Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel at Swedes' Landing (now Wilmington, Delaware) in the spring of 1638.[26] Willem Kieft, Director of New Netherland, objected to the Swedish presence, but Minuit ignored his protests knowing that the Dutch were militarily impotent. The colony would establish Fort Nya Elfsborg, near present-day Salem, New Jersey, in 1643.[24]: 70-73. 

    In May 1654, Swedish militia captured the Fort Casimir, a Dutch defense located near present-day New Castle, Delaware.[27] As a reprisal, the Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant sent an army to the Delaware River, which compelled the surrender of the Swedish forts and settlements in 1655.[24]: pp.155ff  The settlers continued to enjoy local autonomy, retaining their own militia, religion, court, and lands, until the English conquest of the New Netherland colony on June 24, 1664.[24]: pp.155ff 

    Portrait Governor Took office Left office Notes
    Portrait of Peter Minuit Peter Minuit
    (1580–1638)    		 1638 1638
  • Returned to Sweden to organize a second group of settlers.
  • Died during a hurricane in Caribbean in August 1638.
    • Måns Nilsson Kling
    (fl. 1600s)    		 1638 1640
  • Served as lieutenant, and later captain, until Sweden appointed a new governor.[28]
    • Peter Hollander Ridder
    (1608–1692)    		 1640 1643
  • Officer in the Swedish Navy.
    • Portrait of Johan Björnsson Printz Johan Björnsson Printz
    (1592–1663)    		 1643 1653
  • Ordered construction of Fort Nya Elfsborg on Delaware River.
    • Johan Papegoja
    (d. 1667)    		 1653 1654
  • Printz's son-in-law; married to Armegot Printz.
  • Left in charge when Governor Printz returned to Sweden.
    • Johan Classon Risingh
    (1617–1672)    		 1654 1655
  • Defeated by forces led by Peter Stuyvesant, re-asserting New Netherland's claim to Delaware Valley.

    • The New Albion Colony (1634–1649)

    A man with a crown, surrounded by a circle of Latin inscriptions, with the name "Sir Edmund Plowden" on the bottom.
    Sir Edmund Plowden (1590–1659).
    See also: New Albion (colony)

    In 1634, Charles I of England granted a charter to Sir Edmund Plowden, to establish a colony in North America north of lands granted to Lord Baltimore for the Maryland colony in 1633.[29][30] The charter empowered Plowden to assume the title Lord Earl Palatinate, Governor and Captain-General of the Province of New Albion in North America, and poorly defined the boundaries of the New Albion colony.[31] It is believed that the colony would have covered territory within present-day New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Maryland.[29]

    Captain Thomas Young and his nephew, Robert Evelyn, explored and charted the valley of the Delaware River (which they called the Charles River) in the 1630s.[32] Plowden took several years to raise funds, and recruit settlers and "adventurers."[33] In 1642, Plowden and several men sailed from England with aim to settle the colony. This attempt ended in an unsuccessful mutiny, and for the next seven years Plowden remained in Virginia managing the affairs of the colony, and selling land rights to adventurers and speculators.[34]

    Plowden returned to England in 1649 to raise funds, and promote the colony as a refuge for Roman Catholic's exiled during the English Civil War. Despite further attempts to return to his colony, Plowden was confined in a debtors prison and died a pauper in 1659.[34] A notation on John Farrar’s 1651 map of Virginia references Plowden's patent for the colony, and labels the Delaware River as "this river the Lord Ployden hath a patten of and calls it New Albion but the Swedes are planted in it and have a great trade of Furrs."[35]

    As an English proprietary colony (1664–1702)

    A split portrait of John Berkeley (left) and George Carteret (right).
    The two Lords Proprietor of the Province of New Jersey: John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (left) and Sir George Carteret (right).

    Governors under the Lords Proprietor (1664–1673)

    See also: Lords Proprietor, Proprietary colony, and Proprietary Governor

    With the surrender of New Netherland by Peter Stuyvesant, and under the authority and instruction James, Duke of York, Richard Nicolls assumed the position as Deputy-Governor of New Netherland (including Dutch settlements in New Jersey).[36][37]: p.46  His first acts were to guarantee the Dutch colonists their property rights and religious freedom. Nicolls implemented the English law and a legal code.[37]: p.43-44  Nicholls would remain Governor until 1668, but the Duke of York granted part of the New Netherland territory (that between the Hudson and Delaware rivers) to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley for their devoted service to the Duke of York and his brother Charles II during the English Civil War.[3]

    This territory would be called the Province of New Caesaria, or New Jersey after the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel—one of the last strongholds of the Royalist forces in the English Civil War.[37]: p.60  As a result of this grant, Carteret and Berkeley became the two English Lords Proprietor of New Jersey. By the 1665 Concession and Agreement, the Lords Proprietor outlined the distribution of power in the province, offered religious freedom to all inhabitants, and established a system of quit-rents, annual fees paid by settlers in return for land.[38] The two Lords Proprietor selected Carteret's brother Philip as the province's first governor.

    Portrait Governor Took office Left office Notes
    Richard Nicolls
    (1624–1672)    		 1664 1665
  • After the Dutch surrender, Nicolls assumed position of Deputy-Governor of New Amsterdam and New Netherland.
    • Philip Carteret
    (1639–1682)    		 1665 1672
  • Appointed by Sir George Carteret (his brother) and Lord Berkeley of Stratton to be the first governor of New Jersey.[37]: p.63 
    • Portrait of Sir John Berry John Berry
    (1635–1689/90)    		 1672 1673
  • Carteret left for England in 1672 and left his deputy, Captain Berry, to administer the colony.[37]: p.68 
  • Term ended with the Dutch capture of New York in 1673.

    • Restoration of New Netherland (1673–1674)

    In 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch were able to recapture New Amsterdam (renamed "New York" by the British) under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and Captain Anthony Colve.[39] Evertsen renamed the city "New Orange."[40] Evertsen returned to the Netherlands in July 1674, and was accused of disobeying his orders. Evertsen had been instructed not to retake New Amsterdam but to conquer the British colonies of Saint Helena and Cayenne (now French Guiana).[41] In 1674, the Dutch were compelled to relinquish New Amsterdam to the British under the terms of the Second Treaty of Westminster.[42][43]

    Portrait Governor Took office Left office Notes
    Anthony Colve
    (fl. 1600s)    		 1673 1674
  • Colve's authority ended on February 9, 1674 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster, which restored the colony to the English.

    • East and West Jerseys (1674–1702)

    A map of New Jersey, with the left side yellow (West Jersey), the right side green (East Jersey), divided by an orange line and a red line.
    The provinces of West Jersey and East Jersey are shown in yellow and green respectively, as divided by the Keith Line (in red) and the compromise Coxe and Barclay line (in orange).
    See also: East Jersey and West Jersey

    After the British regained New Jersey and New York, New Jersey was restored as a proprietary colony, and was divided into two provinces—East Jersey and West Jersey. The settlement of East Jersey, and its commercial and political development was chiefly connected to New England and New York.[7] West Jersey was largedly a Quaker venture focused on the settlement of the lower Delaware River area, and was associated with William Penn and prominent figures in the colonization of the Pennsylvania.[6]

    This arrangement lasted for approximately thirty years, but because of issues of administration, the proprietors of both colonies surrendered their right to government to Queen Anne. On April 17, 1702, New Jersey was transformed into a crown colony.[11] The proprietors would retain their land rights until the East Jersey proprietors dissolved their corporation (then New Jersey’s oldest) in 1998.[44] The West Jersey Proprietors, currently the second oldest corporation in North America, continues as an activity entity based in Burlington, New Jersey.[44][45]

    For a brief period beginning in 1688, New York, East Jersey and West Jersey came under the short-lived Dominion of New England. New York and New Jersey were largely overseen by a Lieutenant Governor and army captain Francis Nicholson[46] The Proprietors of East Jersey were angered by the revocation of their charters, but retained their property and petitioned Andros for manorial rights.[47]: p.211  The colony proved too large for a single governor to administer, and Andros was highly unpopular.[47]: pp.180, 192–193, 197. 

    After news of the Glorious Revolution in England reached Boston in 1689, the anti-Catholic Puritans in New England, and Dutch Calvinists in New York launched a revolt against Andros, arresting him and his officers for fears that Andros sought to impose popery on the colony.[47]: pp.240-250 [48] Leisler's Rebellion in New York City deposed Nicholson in what amounted to an ethnic war between English newcomers and Dutch old settlers.[48] After these events, the colonies reverted to their previous forms of governance until 1702.[47]: pp.212-213 

    Governors of East Jersey (1674–1702)

    Portrait Governor Took office Left office Notes
    Philip Carteret
    (1639–1682)    		 1674 1682
  • Carteret refused to give up his position as governor when demanded by Edmund Andros, Governor of New York.
  • Andros had Carteret beaten and arrested. Carteret was acquitted at trial but injuries from the attack led to his death.
    • Robert Barclay
    (1648–1690)    		 1682 1688
  • Barclay was leader of the Quaker movement and one of the foremost Quaker apologists.
  • Despite the brief interlude of the Dominion of New England, Barclay claimed the governorship until his death in 1690.[49]
  • Deputy Governors included Thomas Rudyard (1682–1683), Gawen Lawrie (1683–1686), Neill Campbell (1686–1687), and Andrew Hamilton (1687–1688).
    • Portrait of Sir Edmund Andros Edmund Andros
    (1637–1714)    		 1688 1689
  • Governor of the Dominion of New England.
  • Governor of East Jersey, West Jersey, and New York overseen by Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson.
    • Vacant 1690 1692
  • The East Jersey Proprietors nominated two men, John Tatham and Colonel Joseph Dudley, both of whom were rejected.
  • One historian claims Tatham served briefly as governor.[50]
  • Tatham may have been rejected because of suspicion of culpability in the death of James Budd; Dudley because of his ties to Andros.[51][52][53]
    • Andrew Hamilton
    (d. 1703)    		 1692 1697
  • Deposed by the Board of Trade on the instigation of Jeremiah Basse under the claim that "no other than a natural-born subject of England could serve in any public post of trust or profit" (Hamilton was Scottish) in accordance with the Navigation Act of 1696.[54]
    • Jeremiah Basse (d. 1725)
    		 1698 1699
  • A former Anabaptist preacher.
  • Served as agent for the West Jersey Society to the Board of Trade from 1695-1698
  • Basse convinced the Board of Trade to depose Hamilton, and he advocated against the colonial proprietors.
  • Nominated to replace Hamilton by the Board of Trade in 1697.
  • The administration of the colony suffered under his governorship, he was recalled to England in 1699.[54]
  • He returned to New Jersey in 1703 and later served as secretary for Lord Cornbury and Lord Lovelace, before his conviction for perjury.
  • He would remain involved in provincial politics until his death in 1725.[55]
    • Andrew Hamilton
    (d. 1703)    		 1699 1702[11]
  • Reappointed in 1699, after the King's attorney general and solicitor general ruled that the Navigation Act of 1696 did not prohibit Scotsmen from holding office
  • By his death in April 1703, he had not been relieved of his position as governor.[54]

    • Governors of West Jersey (1680–1702)

    Portrait Governor Took office Left office Notes
    Edward Byllynge
    (d. 1687)    		 1680 1687
  • Byllynge, a London brewer who never came to West Jersey died in England in 1687.
  • Deputy Governors included Samuel Jennings and John Skene.
    • Dr. Daniel Coxe
    (1640–1730)    		 1687 1688
  • Dr. Coxe never left England and became Governor of West Jersey after purchasing the holdings of Edward Byllynge from his heirs.[56]
    • Portrait of Sir Edmund Andros Edmund Andros
    (1637–1714)    		 1688 1689
  • See notes above.
    • Dr. Daniel Coxe
    (1640–1730)    		 1689 1692
  • After being dissuaded by family and friends not to travel to West Jersey, Coxe sells part of his land holdings and the right to government to the West Jersey Society.[57]
    • Andrew Hamilton
    (d. 1703)    		 1692 1697
  • See notes above.
    • Jeremiah Basse
    (d. 1725)    		 1698 1699
  • See notes above.
    • Andrew Bowne
    (c.1638–c.1708)    		 1699 1699
  • Chosen by the Provincial Council to serve as Deputy Governor during Basse's journey to England, and served until Hamilton's arrival.
    • Andrew Hamilton
    (d. 1703)    		 1699 1702[11]
  • See notes above.

    • As an English Crown colony (1702–1776)

    Governors of New York and New Jersey (1702–1738)

    See also: Province of New York

    Shortly after ascending to the British throne, Queen Anne (1665–1714) reunited East Jersey and West Jersey as a royal colony and appointed her cousin Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury as the province's first Royal Governor.

    Portrait Governor Took office Left office Notes
    Portrait purported to be of Lord Cornbury in women's clothing Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury
    (1661–1723)    		 1701 1708
  • Lord Cornbury's tenure was marked with accusations of cross-dressing, corruption, arrogance, and decadence.
  • Historians claim his that he illustrated the worst form of the English aristocracy's "arrogance, joined to intellectual imbecility" and characterise him as a "degenerate and pervert who is said to have spent half of his time dressed in women's clothes", a "fop and a wastrel".
  • He was recalled by Queen Anne who received several complaints from colonists of "numerous malpractices and misappropriations".
    • John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace
    (1672–1709)    		 1708 1709
  • Lord Lovelace died in office, in a short tenure marked by prosecuting Governor Jeremiah Basse and other supporters of Lord Cornbury.
    • Richard Ingoldesby
    (d. 1719)    		 1709 1710
  • An army officer who served as Lieutenant Governor under Lord Cornbury and Lord Lovelace, and acting governor upon the death of Lovelace.
  • His commission for governorship was revoked in October 1709, but the news only reached him in April 1710.
    • Portrait of Governor Hunter by Sir Godfrey Kneller (c.1720) Robert Hunter
    (1664–1734)    		 1710 1720
  • Hunter sailed to America in 1710 with 3,000 Palatine German (Kurpfälzische) refugees who encamped in the Hudson Valley, and then settled in upstate New York and New Jersey.[58]
    • Portrait of William Burnet by John Watson William Burnet
    (1687/88–1729)    		 1720 1728
  • Burnet left office after being appointed Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
    • Colonel John Montgomerie
    (d. 1731)    		 1728 1731
  • Montgomerie died in office after an epileptic seizure.[59]
    • Porrait of Lewis Morris by John Watson Lewis Morris
    (1671–1746)    		 1731 1732
  • Acting governor after death of Governor Montgomerie, as President of Council.
  • Morris actively advocated to separate New Jersey from New York control from 1728–1738.
    • Portrait of Sir William Cosby Sir William Cosby
    (1690–1736)    		 1732 1736
  • Assumed office Augsut 7, 1732 when he arrived at Sandy Hook.
  • He rarely visited New Jersey and only met the provincial council or assembly eight times.
  • He died in office in 1736 from tuberculosis.
  • In New York, Cosby prosecuted John Peter Zenger, a newspaper publisher for libel after Zenger's newspaper severely criticized his administration.[60]
    • John Anderson
    (1665 - 1736)    		 1736 1736
  • Acting governor after the death of Governor Cosby, in his role as President of Council
    • John Hamilton 1736 1738
  • Acting governor in his role as President of Council, after the death of acting governor Anderson.
    • John West, 1st Earl De La Warr
    (1693–1766)    		 1737 1737
  • West never travelled to America.
  • Resigned before taking the governorship so that he could continue serving in the military and in the House of Lords.[61]

    • Governors of New Jersey only (1738–1776)

    See also: Proprietary House
    A three-storey building with a clock tower and American flag.
    Built in 1756, Nassau Hall, or "Old Nassau" is the oldest building at Princeton University which was chartered by New Jersey's royal governor ten years earlier.

    After tensions were provoked with the Penn's Walking Purchase in 1737, relations between colonists and the region's Native American tribes became increasingly hostile.[62][63] During these years, colonists left the seacoast cities and settled the colony's northwestern wilderness. By the 1750s, violent raids against these settlers, and fears that the French were supporting these hostilities led to the French and Indian War.

    During this time, the colonial government provided generous monetary rewards to colonists who killed Indians, established a line of fortifications in the Minisink (the upper valley of the Delaware River), and mustered military units (the New Jersey Frontier Guard and 1st New Jersey Regiment) to defend this frontier and carry out punitive raids on Indian villages.[64] [65] Hostilities began to subside with the Treaty of Easton in October 1758, negotiated by New Jersey Royal Governor Francis Bernard, Pennsylvania Attorney-General Benjamin Chew, and chiefs of 13 Native American nations, led by Teedyuscung.[63]: pp.102-123 

    New Jersey was the only province to have two colleges established during the colonial period, and the colony's governors were influential in their establishment.[66][67] Governors John Reading and Jonathan Belcher aided the establishment of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was founded in 1746 in Elizabethtown by a group of Great Awakening "New Lighters" that included Jonathan Dickinson, Aaron Burr, Sr. and Peter Van Brugh Livingston. In 1756, the school moved to Princeton.[68][69] In 1766, Governor William Franklin issued the charters to establish Queens College (now Rutgers University) in New Brunswick to "educate the youth in language, liberal, the divinity, and useful arts and sciences" and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church. Franklin issued a second charter in 1770 after the college's trustees requested amendments.[70][71][72]

    In the last year of William Franklin's tenure, his power was diminished and he became marginalized by the rebellious sentiment rising in the colony's residents. The province was being run de facto by the Provincial Congress of New Jersey (1775–1776). While colonial militia had taken Franklin prisoner and enforced a "house arrest" starting in January 1776, he would not be formally deposed until June 1776 when the colony's Provincial Congress ordered him arrest and imprisonment. Franklin considered the Provincial Congress to be an "illegal assembly," although they proceeded to adopt a state constitution and reorganize the province into an independent state. The newly formed State of New Jersey elected William Livingston as its first governor on 31 August 1776.

    Portrait Governor Took office Left office Notes
    Portrait of Lewis Morris Lewis Morris
    (1671–1746)    		 1738 1746
  • Previously a member of the Provincial Council and acting governor.
  • Morris died in office in 1746.
  • Morris County, Morristown, Morris Plains, and Morris Township are named in his honour.[73]
    • John Hamilton 1746 1747
  • See notes above.
    • John Reading
    (1686 – 1767)    		 1747 1747
  • Acting governor in his role as President of Council.
  • Readington Village and Readington Township in Hunterdon County was named in his honour.
    • Portrait of Jonathan Belcher Jonathan Belcher
    (1681/2–1757)    		 1747 1757
  • Aided the early development of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).
  • Fortified the upper Delaware River valley to prevent Indian attacks during the French and Indian War.
  • He died in office on August 31, 1757.
    • John Reading
    (1686–1767)    		 1757 1758
  • See notes above.
    • Portrait of Francis Bernard Francis Bernard
    (1712–1779)    		 1758 1760
  • Arrived in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on 14 June 1758.
  • In late 1759 was appointed governor of Massachusetts.[74]
  • Bernardsville, a borough in Somerset County is named in his honour.[75]
    • Thomas Boone
    (c.1730–1812)    		 1760 1761
  • Appointed in 1759, but did not arrive in New Jersey until May 10 1760, and did not meet with the colonial assembly until October 30, 1760.[76]
  • In 1761, Boone was appointed Governor of South Carolina.[77]
  • Boonton in Morris County was named in his honour.
    • Josiah Hardy
    (1715–1790)    		 1761 1763
  • Son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hardy (1680-1744), Lord commissioner of the Admiralty, brother to Sir Charles Hardy (1716-1780), Royal Governor of New York.
  • Hardy gained “a reputation for promptness, attentiveness and openness” as New Jersey's governor.
  • Replaced in 1763 in an effort to impose greater imperial authority over the colonies following the French and Indian War.[78]
  • Hardyston Township in Sussex County was named in his honour.[79]
    • Portrait of William Franklin by Mather Brown William Franklin
    (c.1730–1814)    		 1763 1776
  • Despite his reputation for arrogance, stubborness and a fiery temper, Franklin is considered one of the more popular and successful chief executives in New Jersey history.[80]
  • Issued charters to found Queen's College (now Rutgers University).
  • Franklin was placed under house arrest by colonial militia in 1776 by the order of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, an entity he referred to as an "illegal assembly."[81]
  • Frankin Township and Franklin Lakes in Bergen County,[82] and possibly Franklin Township in Somerset County,[83] were named in his honour.

    • See also

    Further reading

    • Black, Frederick R. The Last Lords Proprietors: The West Jersey Society, 1692-1703. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1964, Rutgers University Library, Special Collections (New Brunswick, New Jersey).
    • Brodhead, John Romeyn. The Government of Sir Edmund Andros over New England, in 1688 and 1689. (Morrisania, N.Y: Bradstreet Press, 1867).
    • Godfrey, Carlos E. When Boston Was New Jersey’s Capital, 1685-1689. (Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Historical Society, 1933).
    • McCormick, Richard P. New Jersey, from Colony to State, 1609-1779. (Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Historical Society, 1981).
    • Myers, Albert Cook. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania West New Jersey and Delaware: 1630-1707. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912).
    • Pomfret, John Edwin. The New Jersey Proprietors and Their Lands. New Jersey Historical Series, Volume 9. (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1964).
    • Pomfret, John Edwin. Colonial New Jersey, A History. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973).
    • Tanner, Edwin Platt. The Province of New Jersey, 1664-1738. (New York: s.n. 1908).

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