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page 1People from colonial New Jersey

Jonathan Edwards
Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (1703-1758)
William Paterson
Governor of New Jersey (1745-1806)
André Michaux
French botanist and explorer (1746-1802)
John Witherspoon
Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and Founding Father of the United States (1723–1794)

Mahlon Dickerson
American politician (1770-1853)
Joseph Hewes
signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (1730-1779)

Nathaniel Macon
Speaker of the House (1757-1837)
Jonathan Elmer
American politician (1745-1817)
John Woolman
American Quaker preacher and writer 1720-1772
William Alexander
Continental Army general (1726-1783)
Aaron Ogden
American soldier, lawyer and politician (1756–1839)
Sybilla Masters
American inventor
James Schureman
American merchant and politician (1756-1824)
Frederick Frelinghuysen
United States general and senator (1753-1804)
John Stevens
American lawyer, engineer and inventor (1749-1838)
Daniel Denton
early American colonist of English descent
Aaron Kitchell
American politician (1744-1820)
Richard Howell
American politician (1754–1802)
John Condit
American politician and senator from New Jersey (1755-1834)
William H. Wells
American politician (1769-1829)
Margaret Kemble Gage
wife of General Thomas Gage
George Carteret
British Royalist politician and colonial proprietor of New Jersey (1610-1679)
William Franklin
American soldier, attorney, and colonial administrator
Elisha Lawrence
American politician (1746-1799)
John Doughty
United States general (1754–1826)
John Cadwalader
American general 1742-1786
Matthias Ogden
American soldier and politician (1754–1791)
James Manning
minister (1738-1791)
David Howell
American federal judge (1747-1824)
John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace
English military officer, governor of the provinces of New York and New Jersey

Jane McCrea
American revolutionary death
William Maxwell
Brigadier general in the Continental Army
James Linn
American politician (1749-1821)
Justus Falckner
Lutheran minister
Robert Hunter Morris
American judge
John Henry Livingston
American pastor (1746–1825)
Lewis Condict
American physician, politician (1772-1862)

George Keith
Scottish missionary 1638-1716
Esther Edwards Burr
American writer (1732-1758)
Jonathan Belcher
American merchant and politician (1682–1757)