The East New Jersey Provincial Council or Governor's Council was the upper house of the East New Jersey Legislature under proprietary rule until the surrender...

Legislative Council under the New Jersey Constitution of 1776. The Provincial Council was established in 1702 upon the surrender by the Proprietors of East Jersey...

Governor Philip Carteret was in England. He later served in the East New Jersey Provincial Council through 1692. On 22 March 1679/80, Carteret designated Berry...

New Jersey Philip Carteret in 1685. Townley was one of the East New Jersey Provincial Council during the administration of deputy governor Lord Neill Campbell...

commission as being of the East New Jersey Provincial Council, but no other record survives of his tenure on the council. He would later return to Barbados...

East New Jersey Provincial Council during the administration of Governor Andrew Hamilton. After the late 1690s the government of East and West Jersey...

other West Jersey proprietors, however, recommended Bowne for a seat in the proposed New Jersey Provincial Council. A proposal by East Jersey Proprietors...

was a founder of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey and a judge and politician of the early colony of New Jersey. Pike was born in Wiltshire, England. He...

tenure, as the province was run de facto by the Provincial Congress of New Jersey. In June 1776, the Provincial Congress formally deposed Franklin and had...

board the ship. In New Jersey, he was known as Dr. Johnstone. In 1686, Johnstone was granted a tract of 500 acres by the East New Jersey Proprietors on account...