* The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States.

Many of these sightings are very similar to reports of the Jersey Devil.

* Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil, the inspiration for the team's name.

On June 30, 1982, the team was renamed the New Jersey Devils, after the legend of the Jersey Devil, an ominous cryptozoological creature supposed to inhabit the Pine Barrens of South Jersey.

Some of the more popular cryptids include Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, living Dinosaurs, Mothman, rods or skyfish, the Jersey Devil, Unicorn and werewolves.

The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States.

The Jersey Devil has worked its way into the pop culture of the area, even lending its name to New Jersey's team in the National Hockey League.

There are many possible origins of the Jersey Devil legend.

This identification may have gained credence from the fact that Deborah Leeds ' husband, Japhet Leeds, named twelve children in the will he wrote in 1736, which is compatible with the legend of the Jersey Devil being the thirteenth child born by Mother Leeds.

Deborah and Japhet Leeds also lived in the Leeds Point section of what is now Atlantic County, New Jersey, which is the area commonly said to be the location of the Jersey Devil story.

There have been many sightings and occurrences allegedly involving the Jersey Devil.

Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Emperor Napoleon, is also said to have witnessed the Jersey Devil while hunting on his Bordentown estate around 1820.

On July 27, 1937 an unknown animal " with red eyes " seen by residents of Downingtown, Pennsylvania was compared to the Jersey Devil by a reporter for the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

and claims of a corpse matching the Jersey Devil's description arose in 1957, In 1960 tracks and noises heard near Mays Landing were claimed to be from the Jersey Devil.

During the same year the merchants around Camden offered a $ 10, 000 reward for the capture of the Jersey Devil, even offering to build a private zoo to house the creature if captured.

During the week of January 16 through 23, 1909, newspapers of the time published hundreds of claimed encounters with the Jersey Devil from all over the state.

Other reports initially concerned unidentified footprints in the snow, but soon sightings of creatures resembling the Jersey Devil were being reported throughout South Jersey and as far away as Delaware.

The name Wace, used in Jersey until the 16th century, appears to have been his only name ; surnames were not universally used at that time.

The five hexagons below represent the five main channel islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm, and the ident is animated so that each hexagon appears in turn accompanied by one note of the jingle, along with the name.

It appears off New Jersey in the first weeks of May, withdrawing in late October or early November, and wintering offshore at 55 to 130 m ( 180 '- 426 ') at temperatures above 8 ° C ( 46 ° f ).

* The Jersey Devil appears in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest episode " The Spectre of the Pine Barrens " voiced by Frank Welker.

* The Jersey Devil appears in the Animal Planet cryptozoological series Lost Tapes.

* The Jersey Devil appears in the 2009 Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts as an enemy that will attack the nearest creature in sight.

There also appears to be a naturalized population of Venus Flytraps in northern Florida as well as populations in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

It also appears on the state flags of West Virginia ( as part of its official seal ), New Jersey, and New York, as well as the official seal of the United States Senate, the state of Iowa, the state of North Carolina ( as well as the arms of its Senate ,) and on the reverse side of the Seal of Virginia.

The prime agent in their revival appears to have been William Paterson, later governor of New Jersey.

Later episodes with fantasy elements included the bizarre poisoning of freemasons in Poison, the Christmas episode Fires in the Fall ( which features a Bergman-esque representation of Death which appears, to judge from the last line, to have been real in spite of a ' Scooby-Doo ' explanation having been offered a scene earlier ), A Man of Sorrows which is the only episode of the sixth series set almost entirely outside Jersey, the only episode at all to lack Charlie Hungerford and-partly because of the heroin nature of the storyline, partly because of the lack of familiar characters-a dark, humourless episode unlike any other in the series ), the densely plotted The Other Woman, The Dig involving an apparent Viking's curse ( apparently inspired by Hammer Horror movies ), and Warriors about a group who believed in the existence of Atlantis.

Although in the aftermath of the hostage events it appears that Eric and Heidi have reconciled and returned to New Jersey to begin their life together, Eric reveals later that he only went to help her get settled and to close the book on their marriage by getting a divorce.

Except for two brief sojourns in Philadelphia, he appears to have remained in the Heights neighborhood of Jersey City from the late 1850s until his death in 1896.

The satirical logo appears in the 1998 catalog of an installation art work in Bayonne, New Jersey, in which the artist Steven Pippin modified a row of glass-doored washing machines in a laundromat to operate as giant cameras.

Two Golden Tabbies are also found at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey: A male, Kingda Ka, who has a roller coaster named after him, and his half-sister Raina who are part of the family that appears in daily educational award-winning shows about these specific tigers.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.

* 1758 – The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

Category: People of New Jersey in the American Revolution

* 1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.

Francis Hopkinson ( September 21, 1737 – May 9, 1791 ), an American author, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey.

Commercial use of hydrofoils in the U. S. first appeared in 1961 when two commuter vessels were commissioned by Harry Gale Nye, Jr .' s North American Hydrofoils to service the route from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey to the financial district of Lower Manhattan.

The latter became as famous as the best-known fourierist communes ( Brook Farm in Massachusetts & the North American Phalanx in New Jersey ) — in fact, Modern Times became downright notorious ( for “ Free Love ”) & finally foundered under a wave of scandalous publicity.

Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, he achieved mainstream renown with his far-East philosophical crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, shot in Jersey City and starring Forest Whitaker as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for his life by unyieldingly conforming it to the Hagakure, an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom he may owe a debt, and who then betrays him.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.

* 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey ( including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township ).

* 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey

In this same period, on the initiative of the Virginian politician Charles F. Mercer and the Presbyterian minister Robert Finley from New Jersey, in 1816 the American Colonization Society ( ACS ) was established in Washington D. C. by American politicians, senators and religious leaders from a variety of orientations.

* 1990 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey ( b. 1908 )

At the end of World War II, the National Jewish Welfare Board had a matzo factory ( according to the American Jewish Historical Society, it was probably the Manischewitz matzo factory in New Jersey ) produce matzo in the form of a giant " V " for " Victory ," for shipment to military bases overseas and in the U. S., for Passover seders for Jewish military personnel.

* 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

New Jersey was the site of several decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War.

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area.

* 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University ( then known as the College of New Jersey ), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey announced that he was a " gay American " in August 2004.