Jerseyman

Noun

Jerseyman (plural Jerseymen)

1. (dated) A male inhabitant of Jersey (the largest island of the Channel Islands).
2. (archaic) A male inhabitant of New Jersey (a U.S. state).
   • The proper choice of a location was now to be the great question of my future success. I had determined on giving my attention to the raising of the smaller fruits for the great markets of New York and Philadelphia. I must therefore be somewhere on or near the railroad between those cities, and as...1864, Edmund Morris, “Chapter III.—Resolved to go—Escape from Business—Choosing a Location”, in Ten Acres Enough: A Practical Experience Showing How a Very Small Farm May be Made to Keep a Very Large...
   • The Board of Education have proposed, and the Governor concurs, that the schools should be free. There are fifteen hundred schools in the State, seven hundred of which are free: and it seems to me that it would be a great thing to make them all free. (Cheers.) If you will do this, you will never be...1871, “Addresses Delivered in Reference to Free High Schools, Before the Legislature of New Jersey, March 1st, 1871.”, in Documents of the Ninety-Fifth Legislature of the State of New Jersey, and the...