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Born: November 30, 1723; Albany, New York.  Death: July 25, 1790; Elizabeth, New Jersey.  1st Governor of New Jersey, 1776-1790.  Signer of the U.S. Constitution.  Founder of the weekly journal, the Independent Reflector.  The journal was New York’s first serial non-newspaper publication, and the only one being published in British North America at the time.  Publication of the Reflector ceased with the fifty-second issue after political pressure was brought to bear upon its printer, James Parker.

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