PROPRIETARY HOUSE
Mansion — 149 Kearny Ave, Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Status: Closed · Access: Restricted access · est. 1764
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/proprietary-house-perth-amboy-new-jersey/

Former royal governor's mansion with ghost-tour programming and a current closure notice.

Proprietary House is a mansion in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, built in 1764. Former royal governor's mansion with ghost-tour programming and a current closure notice. It sits in the archive under ghost-tour sites and historic houses. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Closed to the public, but not to the record.

Proprietary House is the last royal governor's mansion — the only official residence of a colonial royal governor still standing from the original thirteen, built in 1764 by the East Jersey Proprietors to give their capital a fitting seat. Its most famous resident was William Franklin — Benjamin's son, the last royal governor of New Jersey, and the last in the colonies still holding power when the Revolution came.
The house was the stage for the family's break: Benjamin came to Perth Amboy to argue his son out of Loyalism and failed; William held on until the Assembly arrested him in the mansion in January 1776 and sent him to trial and a Connecticut prison. He never saw his wife or the house again — Elizabeth stayed until the British evacuated in 1777 and died in New York a month later. The mansion served both armies, survived fire and decades of ruin, and is a museum now, still standing on Kearny Avenue.
The file keeps Proprietary House: the 1764 proprietors' mansion, the Franklins' rupture, the arrest in the dining room, and the last royal governor's house in America.
Proprietary House is the archive's loyalist file — the Franklin split, the 1776 arrest, and the only surviving royal governor's mansion.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Proprietary House is the archive's loyalist file — the Proprietors' mansion, the Franklin family's break, and the arrest that ended colonial rule in New Jersey.
A governor's mansion keeps its dining room — the file's suggestion being that Proprietary House's hold is the fracture: the son who stayed loyal, the father who couldn't move him, and the house where the empire's family argument played out.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Completed in1764, the building served as a royal governor's residence, hotel, private mansion, retirement home, boarding house and museum. A house in Perth Amboy, New Jersey with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Royal Governor's Mansion' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Royal Governor's Mansion — Proprietary House Association
  https://www.theproprietaryhouse.org/

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