* 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.

South of Laurel Grove Cemetery, and below the junction of the Neversink and the Delaware, was the Tri-State Rock, from which Stevie could spy New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as New York, simply by spinning around on his heel.

She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

The gift is being presented by `` heirs and descendants of the Rutherford family of New Jersey, whose famous estate, `` Tranquility '', was located near the Duncan Phyfe workshop at Andover, N. J..

In his final years in New Jersey, he was a prominent member and later president of the Theosophical Society.

Let them lie safe in a vault in New Jersey, safe from the New York tax assessors, until he was ready to dispose of them ..."

Omari obtained a fake United States ID card from All Services Plus in Passaic County, New Jersey, which was in the business of selling fake documents, including another to Khalid al-Mihdhar.

In 1763, The Reverend James Manning, a Baptist minister, and an alumnus of the College of New Jersey ( predecessor to today's Princeton University ), was sent to Rhode Island by the Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches in order to found the college.

De Palma, whose background is Italian Roman Catholic, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Vivienne ( née Muti ) and Anthony Federico De Palma, an orthopedic surgeon.

A factory was built near Bound Brook, New Jersey in 1929.

A system with three instruction processors was installed at TWA's reservations center in Rockleigh, New Jersey in 1968.

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

The first new brewery was opened in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, and was the first of nine to open over the course of the next 25 years.

The game played between teams from Rutgers University and Princeton University, which was called the College of New Jersey at the time, took place on November 6, 1869 at College Field, which is now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The word derives from a Latin word for " field " and first was used to describe the grounds of a college at the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) during the 18th century.

New Jersey was the first state to adopt an " enabling " corporate law, with the goal of attracting more business to the state.

New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late ; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.

He was hired by the Peerless Studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and became an assistant to the French-born director Maurice Tourneur.

While Camilla Hall attended elementary school in Minnesota, the family moved to Montclair, New Jersey until Hall was to start high school.

New Jersey rock critic Jim Testa wrote " Put a Bullet Through the Jukebox ", a vitriolic screed attacking disco that was considered a punk call to arms.

The film was transmitted and then shown digitally in theaters both in Paramus, New Jersey and Los Angeles, California.

Dave Thomas was born on July 2, 1932 in Atlantic City, New Jersey to a young unmarried woman he never knew.

His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855, and his father was editor of his own newspaper in the town.

In 1998, the NYSE and the city struck a $ 900 million deal which kept the NYSE from moving across the river to Jersey City ; the deal was described as the " largest in city history to prevent a corporation from leaving town ".

According to Teichmann, Ferber once described Woollcott as " a New Jersey Nero who has mistaken his pinafore for a toga.

Billboard Magazine's Oct. 21, 2006 article " Pay to Get Played " described how a " third-party booking agency in New Jersey " called Audible Spectrum Records was " charging bands up to $ 350 per show, promising services and opportunities that were never delivered ".

One of the best-known and most praised of his early efforts, the song remains one of his most popular ballads, and has been described as " the perfect musical study of the Jersey Shore boardwalk culture.

Shell Pile is described in 1939 excerpt of a WPA Guidebook to New Jersey:

In 1967 Smithson began exploring industrial areas around New Jersey and was fascinated by the sight of dump trucks excavating tons of earth and rock that he described in an essay as the equivalents of the monuments of antiquity.

The seal is described in New Jersey statute Title 52, § 2-1:

The American lobster was first described by Thomas Say in 1817, with a type locality of " Long-branch, part of the coast of New Jersey ".

The company's harnessing of the falls for mill operations was described in 1834 by publisher Thomas Gordon who wrote in the Gazeteer of the State of New Jersey:

Cook ’ s first official mention of the lake was in the New Jersey Annual Report of the State Geologist for the Year 1880, in which he described flat-topped hills and drift-like deposits in the upper Passaic Valley that appeared to be created or modified by the waters of a lake.

The state is also sometimes described as having North Jersey and South Jersey separated from each other by Central Jersey.

Former Bruin point guard, Los Angeles Laker, LA native and current New Jersey Nets player Jordan Farmar described the rationale for this during the Bruins ' 2005 Final Four run, by stating, " t UCLA, only national championship banners go up.

In parts of northern New Jersey, a " sloppy joe " refers to a cold delicatessen sandwich, unrelated to the type of sandwich described above.

In 2008, his son Daniel was jailed for two years for what the judge in Jersey described as a " terrifying cold-blooded attack " on a teenager.

DP was first described in 1928 by a forensic pathologist, Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, who was the chief medical examiner of Essex County in Newark, New Jersey in a Journal of the American Medical Association article, in which he noted the tremors, slowed movement, confusion, and speech problems typical of the condition.

His appointment to the Town Church of Guillaume Morise, a Huguenot minister from Anjou, led to the establishment of what Chroniques de Jersey described as the first " real Reformed Church in Jersey ".

In the novel Backflash, their home is described as " a house on a lake called Colliver Pond, seventy miles from New York, a deep rural corner where New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet ... mostly a resort community, lower-level white-collar, people who came here three months every summer and left their ' cottages ' unoccupied the rest of the year ... For Parker, it was ideal.

Friend and fellow comic Colin Quinn jokingly described Vos in his early days as a " Jersey Hack ".

Hardystonite is a rare calcium zinc silicate mineral first described from the Franklin, New Jersey, USA zinc deposits.

Raymond Ameijide, born 1924 in Newark, New Jersey, was described as a " rainbow snipper " in reference to the many colors he employed in his felt cloth and paper bas-relief constructions.

An article dated March 13, 2005 and published in the Washington Post stated that while " esidents of six East Coast states — Maryland, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Vermont — are already eligible for free reports from all three agencies as a result of state laws ", the phone numbers provided to request these reports connected to automated systems that the article described as " maddening in their complexity and unforgiving if your circumstances vary from the system's programming .".