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The Perth Amboy National Bank Building at the Five Corners. Perth Amboy was settled by Europeans in 1683 and incorporated as a city in 1718. It was founded by English merchants, Scots seeking religious freedom, and French Protestants, who sought to make use of Perth Amboy's harbor to its full potential.
Amboy Bank was chartered on May 12, 1888 as The First National Bank of South Amboy by a group of prominent local businessmen. [4] In the late 1950s the bank began to open branches in the area, and in 1960 the name was changed to First National Bank of South Amboy-Madison Township to reflect the move of its headquarters to nearby Madison Township (later renamed Old Bridge Township [5]).
The Walton Mansion housed the Bank of New York from 1784 to 1787. The Bank of New York was formed following a June 1784 meeting at a coffee house on St. George's Square. [1] The bank operated without a charter for seven years. [2] The bank opened on June 9, 1784, with Alexander McDougall as the first president and William Seton as Cashier.
PERTH AMBOY – Three Democrats and one Republican have filed to run in the mayoral primary in June, the city's first partisan election. Mayor Helmin Caba will be challenged by retired Municipal ...
When the city was incorporated in 1683, settlers began to call the land "Ambo" or "Amboy Point", and finally "Amboy." The name means "place resembling a bowl." [1] In 1686, when the settlement became the capital of East Jersey, Perth was added to the name in honor of one of the Proprietors under the Royal grant, the James Drummond, 1st Duke of ...
PERTH AMBOY – An ordinance that would allow plans by Kushner Companies to build 602 apartments in five buildings along the city's waterfront to move forward will remain tabled while the city ...
Born and raised in Perth Amboy, [2] as Joann H. Belkowski, she was a 1952 graduate of Perth Amboy High School, and attended McDowell School of Design and Douglass College. She married James D. Smith Sr. in 1955. She was a teacher at the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools for twelve years. In 1972, Smith entered the banking field ...
Census figures show Perth Amboy's population has grown by nearly 4,000 in the last 10 years,which some attribute to the increase in unsafe and overcrowded housing conditions, alongwith increased ...