Category:People from colonial New Jersey
This category includes people who were notable in the Province of New Jersey prior to the era of American Revolution. That is, they were notable before about 1765.
People who are primarily associated with the Revolutionary era are located Category:People of New Jersey in the American Revolution, instead of this category.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
C
- Colonial governors of New Jersey (2 C, 35 P)
P
Pages in category "People from colonial New Jersey"
The following 197 pages are in this category, out of 197 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
A
B
- John Bacon (loyalist)
- John Barclay (New Jersey politician)
- William Bates (Quaker)
- Jonathan Belcher
- John Berrien
- Benjamin Blackledge
- Adam Boyd (politician)
- John Boyd (pastor)
- Daniel Bray
- David Brearley
- Isaac Brokaw
- Abia Brown
- Aaron Burr
- Aaron Burr Sr.
- Esther Edwards Burr
- Cyrus Bustill
- Edward Byllynge
C
- John Cadwalader (general)
- Thomas Cadwalader
- Elias B. Caldwell
- James Caldwell (clergyman)
- Thomas Carpenter (glassmaker)
- George Carteret
- Robert Hett Chapman
- William Chetwood
- Abraham Clark
- John Cochran (physician)
- Ira Condict
- Jemima Condict
- Lewis Condict
- Silas Condict
- John Condit
- Jacques Cortelyou
- James Cox (New Jersey politician)
- Daniel Coxe IV
- John Croes
- Oliver Cromwell (American soldier)
D
E
F
G
H
- Elizabeth Haddon
- Jonathan Hampton
- John A. Hanna
- Hans Månsson
- Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh
- John Hart (New Jersey politician)
- Cornelius Hatfield Jr.
- Thomas Henderson (New Jersey politician)
- Ann Wood Henry
- Joseph Hewes
- Peter Hill (clockmaker)
- Josiah Ogden Hoffman
- Peter Hollander Ridder
- John Honeyman
- Isaac Hopper
- David Howell (jurist)
- Richard Howell
- Joshua Huddy
- Thomas H. Hughes
- Esther Hunt
- John Hunt (Quaker minister)
K
L
M
- Nathaniel Macon
- James Manning (minister)
- Alexander Martin
- Luther Martin
- Sybilla Righton Masters
- James Matlack
- Timothy Matlack
- White Matlack
- George C. Maxwell
- William Maxwell (Continental Army general)
- Jane McCrea
- Charles McKnight
- André Michaux
- Joseph Moore (peace rider)
- Samuel Moore (colonial official)
- James Morgan (congressman)
- Anthony Morris (I)
- Margaret Hill Morris
- Mary Wells Morris
- Eric Pålsson Mullica
O
P
R
S
- John Schenck
- James Schureman
- Arent Schuyler
- Peter Schuyler (New Jersey soldier)
- Nathaniel Scudder
- Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant
- Casper Shafer
- Israel Shreve
- Thomas Sinnickson (merchant)
- John Skene (New Jersey official)
- Cortlandt Skinner
- Samuel Stanhope Smith
- Oliver Spencer
- John Stevens (inventor, born 1749)
- John Stevens (New Jersey politician)
- Lucius Horatio Stockton
- Richard Stockton (Continental Congressman)
- Penelope Stout
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton