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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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