New Jersey

WIlliam Franklin (1730-1813) was the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin and an unknown woman. He was born in Philadelphia, PA and attended school in London. He pursued a law education in London and was admitted to the bar. In 1763, he was appointed the Royal Governor of New Jersey.

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fourth in a series of paintings for</span> AMERICAN HERITAGE </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Under duress in a British prison, Richard Stockton of New Jersey had the singular misfortune to become</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Besides being a bigot, a fop, and a thief, the British governor Lord Cornbury, had some peculiar fetishes</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Secret Service considered Emanuel Ninger a common counterfeiter. He saw himself as an American master of the impressionist school.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">You can rise fast and far in America, but, sometimes, the cost of the journey is hard to tally.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult, and there were plenty of shadows, along with the sunshine.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Consigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Garbage Run,” they fought their own war on the home front, and they helped shape a victory as surely as their brothers and husbands did overseas.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Hoboken’s history of hard work has an undeniablly gritty charm, and its view of Manhattan is incomparable.</span></p>

<p>Thomas Edison's gift to the Christmas season</p>

<p><span class="deck"> A hundred boardwalks, gone but not quite dead, await a new dawn</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Planning a Trip to Wildwood</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A New Jersey seaside resort struggles to save the architecture and the memories of the Eisenhower years.</span></p>

<p>In the teeth of near defeat, General George Washington pulled out miraculous mid-winter victories.</p>