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The original West and East New Jersey provinces, highlighted in yellow and green, respectively. The Keith Line is shown in red, and the Coxe and Barclay line is shown in orange. With this sale, New Jersey was divided into East Jersey and West Jersey, two distinct provinces of the proprietary colony. [17]
The territory which would later become the state of New Jersey was settled by Dutch and Swedish colonists in the early seventeenth century. In 1664, at the onset of the Second Anglo-Dutch War , English forces under Richard Nicolls ousted the Dutch from control of New Netherland (present-day New York, New Jersey, and Delaware), and the territory ...
[7] [8] Timbuctoo appeared on Burlington County maps as early 1849, [9] and continues to appear on maps today. [10] Peter Quire was an early settler in Timbuctoo in the 1830s after being gifted land, and he donated that land for the creation of the first Black school in the area. [11] The leader of the community, nicknamed "King," was David Parker.
[4] [5] In the 1740s and 1750s, Scottish settlers from Elizabethtown and Perth Amboy, and English settlers from these cities, Long Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, came to New Jersey and moved up the tributaries of the Passaic and Raritan rivers. Some settled in the eastern sections of present-day Sussex and Warren counties.
It was not until 1830 that most blacks were free in the state. New Jersey was the last northern state to abolish slavery completely, and by the close of the Civil War, about a dozen African-Americans in New Jersey were still apprenticed freedmen. The 1860 census found just over 25,000 free African Americans in the state. [24]
The English formed the Province of New Jersey and appointed a royal governor in 1702. New Barbadoes Township became part of Bergen County in 1710, with Acquackanonk still part of Essex County. On February 21, 1798, Acquackanonk was incorporated as one of the initial group of 104 townships in the State of New Jersey.
Served as the meeting place for the New Jersey General Assembly to ratify the Declaration of Independence and adopt the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey in 1777. Isaac Onderdonk House: Piscataway: 1750 Residence Simon Van Duyne House: Montville: c. 1750: Residence Old Dutch Parsonage: Somerville: 1751 Parsonage
Eastampton Township is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 6,191, [10] [11] an increase of 122 (+2.0%) from the 2010 census count of 6,069, [19] [20] which in turn reflected a decline of 133 (−2.1%) from the 6,202 counted in the 2000 census. [21]