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He was later appointed governor of the province of New Jersey, from 1747–57, and supported the founding of the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton University). He approved its location in Princeton, and including building the library for the new school.
For much of his New Jersey administration Belcher was ill, suffering from a type of progressive paralytic disorder. In the summer of 1751 he moved from Burlington to Elizabethtown in the hopes that his health would improve; it did not. Eventually his hands became paralyzed, and his wife was employed to write for him. He died at his home in Elizabethtown on August 31, 1757; His body was transported to Massachusetts, where he was buried at Cambridge.
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