id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7045 Daniel Coxe - Wikipedia .html text/html 1313 154 72 Succeeded by Edmund Andros (Dominion of New England) Preceded by Edmund Andros (Dominion of New England) Daniel Coxe the son was born in London, the oldest of thirteen children, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge where he became a doctor of medicine in 1669.[1] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Royal College of Physicians (Coxe is the Society member referred to by Samuel Pepys in his diary entry of 3 May 1665 when he poisons a cat with tobacco oil at Gresham College). Coxe never left England, he served nominally as Governor of New Jersey by purchase of land. He bought out the heirs of Edward Byllynge there in 1687.[2] Coxe opened the earliest commercial-scale pottery in New Jersey.[3] He sold out most of his land there to the West New Jersey Society of London, in 1692.[2] Colonial governors of New Jersey Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7045.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7045.txt