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Jonathan Edwards, the third president of The College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton University in 1896) who had succeeded his son-in-law Aaron Burr Sr. as head of the College after Burr's death, dies in Princeton some five weeks after being inoculated against smallpox. A prominent theologian and minister, Edwards had been a leading advocate for widespread inoculations against smallpox.


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Puritan missionary David Brainerd ends his work among the Native Americans in New Jersey, which included establishing the first reservation n the colonies for some 200 in Burlington County, due to failing health. He first moves to Elizabethtown and then to Massachusetts, where he dies at age 29 of tuberculosis on October 9, 1747.​

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John DeLorean, founder of the DeLorean Motor Company which made the uniquely styled sportscar named after him which was featured in the movie 'Back to the Future', dies at the age of 80 at Overlook Hospital in Summit from a stroke. In 1982, he was acquitted of charges that he was involved in a scheme to sell cocaine and in 1985 also acquitted of charges of tax evasion and defrauding investors.
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In a letter on this date, George Washington writes to the Marquis de Lafayette on the brutal winter which the Continental troops had experienced during their encampment at Morristown:  “… the oldest people now living in the country do not remember so hard a winter as the one we are now emerging from. In a word the severity of the frost exceeded anything of the kind that had ever been experienced in this climate before.”
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