One stormy night in a 1735, a poor woman and mother of 12, fed up with her drunkard of a husband, gave birth to her 13th child while proclaiming "let the child be the devil!" What came forth has terrorized New Jersey since, for 300 years. If only she had thought to declare it a lawyer.

Sources:

• “The Jersey Devil”, Weird N.J.: https://weirdnj.com/stories/jersey-devil/

• “The Jersey Devil and Folklore”, Pinelands Preservation Alliance: https://pinelandsalliance.org/learn-about-the-pinelands/pinelands-history-and-culture/the-jersey-devil-and-folklore/

• “Jersey Devil – Fact or Fiction?”, Atlantic County website: https://www.atlanticcountynj.gov/government/government-information/history-of-atlantic-county/jersey-devil-fact-or-fiction

• “Deborah ‘Mother Leeds’ Smith Leeds”, Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74926420/deborah-leeds

• “Joseph Bonaparte and the Jersey Devil: A Numismatic Odyssey” by Richard Veit: https://trentonlib.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Joseph-Bonaparte-and-the-Jersey-Devil-C3.pdf

• “Joseph Bonaparte and the Jersey Devil” by S.E. Schlosser: https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/joseph_bonaparte_and_the_jerse.html

• “New Jersey, A Guide to Its Present and Past”, New Jersey State Library: https://dspace.njstatelib.org/items/46402e03-1a38-462f-838f-73f4c9a92002

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