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Belcher Foundation
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About Governor Jonathan Belcher
"The scholar, the accomplished gentleman, and the true Christian, were seldom ever more happily and thoroughly united, than in him...." -- President Aaron Burr of Princeton College, speaking of Governor Jonathan Belcher, 1757
Belcher Foundation pages about Governor Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757), a dedicated Christian leader who was the royal colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey, and the founder of Princeton University at Princeton, New Jersey:
"November Thanksgiving Thursday": Origins of Fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day (includes Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Day of Thanksgiving (1749))
