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Meyner, Robert Baumie

(Encyclopedia)Meyner, Robert Baumie: see New Jersey. ...

Murphy, Philip Dunton

(Encyclopedia)Murphy, Philip Dunton: see New Jersey. ...

Hughes, Richard Joseph

(Encyclopedia)Hughes, Richard Joseph: see New Jersey. ...

Christie, Christopher James

(Encyclopedia)Christie, Christopher James: see New Jersey. ...

Byrne, Brendan Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Byrne, Brendan Thomas: see New Jersey. ...

Whitman, Christine Todd

(Encyclopedia)Whitman, Christine Todd: see New Jersey. ...

Delaware, river, United States

(Encyclopedia)Delaware dĕlˈəwâr, –wər [key], river, c.280 mi (450 km) long, rising in the Catskill Mts., SE N.Y., in east and west branches, which meet at Hancock. It flows SE along the New York–Pennsylvan...

New York Bay

(Encyclopedia)New York Bay, arm of the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Hudson River, SE N.Y. and NE N.J., enclosed by the shores of NE New Jersey, E Staten Island, S Manhattan, and W Long Island (Brooklyn) and o...

Alito, Samuel Anthony, Jr.

(Encyclopedia)Alito, Samuel Anthony, Jr. əlēˈtō [key], 1950–, U.S. government official and judge, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2006–), b. Trenton, N.J., grad. Pr...

Tennent, Gilbert

(Encyclopedia)Tennent, Gilbert, 1703–64, American Presbyterian clergyman, leading preacher of the Great Awakening, b. Ireland; son of William Tennent. He moved with his parents to Pennsylvania c.1718. Installed a...