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John Fenwick (1618—1683) was the leader of a group of Quakers who emigrated in 1675 from England to Salem, New Jersey where they established Fenwick's Colony, the first English settlement in West Jersey.
John Fenwick (1618–1683), English founder of Fenwick's Colony, the first English settlement in West Jersey [118] James Finlayson (c. 1772 – c. 1852), Scottish engineer prominent in Finland [119] Mary Fisher (1623–1698), English Quaker preacher [120] Isabella Ford (1855–1924), English feminist and socialist [121]
John Fenwick (MP for Morpeth) (d. 1644), English politician and soldier who was killed at the Battle of Marston Moor; John Fenwick (Quaker) (1618–1683), English founder of a Quaker colony in Salem, New Jersey; John Fenwick (Jesuit) (c. 1628–1679), English Jesuit; Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet (c. 1645–1697), English Jacobite conspirator
The first Friends who settled along the Delaware River were John Fenwick, Edward Wade, John Wade, and Richard Noble. They formed a settlement at Salem, New Jersey, in 1675. In 1681, King Charles II allowed William Penn, a Quaker, a charter for the area that was to become Pennsylvania. Penn guaranteed the settlers of his colony freedom of religion.
John Fenwick, the founder of New Salem (now Salem, New Jersey) the first Quaker settlement in West Jersey, signed a treaty with the Lenape beneath the "Salem Oak" in 1675. The oak tree is said to be approximately 600 years old.
Here they spent the winter in Fenwick's Colony, a fledgling settlement established in 1675 at Salem by a group of English Quakers under the leadership of John Fenwick. [2] [4] That winter, the five proprietors were joined by Robert Zane, who had been living in Fenwick's Colony since its founding, during a trip up the Delaware River to the Irish ...
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Salem was founded by John Fenwick, a Quaker. [28] Fenwick had been involved in a financial dispute with an Edward Byllynge, another Quaker, who had received the undivided portion of New Jersey territory that James Stuart, Duke of York had granted to Lord John Berkeley in 1664. Berkeley had sold his share to Byllynge in 1675 for 1,000 pounds ...