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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. [1] [2]
C. A. Nothnagle Log House, built by Finnish or Swedish settlers in the New Sweden colony in modern-day Swedesboro, New Jersey between 1638 and 1643, is one of the oldest still standing log houses in the United States. European colonization of New Jersey started soon after the 1609 exploration of its coast and bays by Henry Hudson.
The Stevens family was a prominent American family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose descendants played a critical role in the formation of the United States (especially New York City and New Jersey), in leading government and business in North America and served as leaders in business, military, politics, and engineering.
Paleo-Indians first settled in the area of present-day New Jersey after the Wisconsin Glacier melted around 13,000 B.C. The Zierdt site in Montague, Sussex County and the Plenge site along the Musconetcong River in Franklin Township, Warren County, as well as the Dutchess Cave in Orange County, New York, represent camp sites of Paleo-Indians.
Dutch and Huguenot families from New York settled in the valleys of the Raritan River and Hackensack River, and in the northwestern New Jersey's Minisink region. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] [ 89 ] New Englanders from Connecticut and Long Island, and English planters from Barbados arrived with African slaves .
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Susan "Susie" Wiles, the New Jersey-born architect behind his successful reelection campaign, as his next White House chief of staff.
The Frelinghuysen family (/ ˈ f r eɪ l ɪ ŋ ˌ h aɪ s ən /; [2] / ˈ f r iː l ɪ ŋ ˌ h aɪ z ən /; [3] / ˌ f r iː l ɪ ŋ ˈ h aɪ s ən / [4]) is an American political dynasty, primarily based in New Jersey, that first emigrated from The Netherlands in 1720.
The Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Baltimore-area family first arrived in the city on Nov. 24, taking a bus into Port Authority, ... Fake New Jersey ID.