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

Bel - cher means "Good Cheer"!

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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: 

Jonathan Belcher: Christian Governor

The First Biography of Governor Jonathan Belcher

About Biographies of Governor Jonathan Belcher

About the Portraits of Governor Jonathan Belcher 

A Good Ruler in the Emerging Trilateral Center

The Knighthood of Governor Jonathan Belcher

The King Commissions Governor Jonathan Belcher   

Celebration of Governor Jonathan Belcher's Appointment

The Arrival of Governor Jonathan Belcher

Ministers' Address to Governor Jonathan Belcher

Governor Jonathan Belcher: Founder of Princeton University

Governor Jonathan Belcher and Harvard College

Poems About Governor Jonathan Belcher

Belchertown, Massachusetts: Namesake of Governor Jonathan Belcher

Governor Jonathan Belcher, Champion of Civil and Religious Liberty

Governor Jonathan Belcher Promotes Christianity and Morality

About Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue

Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Day of Thanksgiving (1730)

"November Thanksgiving Thursday":  Origins of Fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day (includes Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Day of Thanksgiving (1749))

Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Day of Prayer (1731)

Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Day of Prayer (1734)

Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Day of Prayer (1735)

Jonathan Belcher: Governor in the Emerging Trilateral Center of the New World Order

Governor Jonathan Belcher Promotes Free Trade and Commerce

Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation Concerning International Peace Treaty (1730)        

Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Declaratory Judgment for Restitution to Victims of Pirates (1731)

Governor Jonathan Belcher's Proclamation for Bringing a Criminal to Justice (1733)

The Great Seal of the United States and the Belcher Coat of Arms