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Holland (Netherlands) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
ip Half Moon, enters Delaware Bay, Aug. 28, 1609, and coasts the eastern shore of New Jersey on his way to Sandy Hook, where he anchors......Sept. 3, 1609 First Dutch settlement on the Delaware is made near Gloucester, N. J., where Fort Nassau is built......1623 Capt. Thomas Young, receiving a commission from Charles I., saile Delaware River to Trenton Falls......Sept. 1, 1634 Number of English families settle on Salem Creek, at a place called by the Indians Asamohaking......1640 Dutch acquire by deed a large tract of land in the eastern part of New Jersey called Bergen......Jan. 30, 1658 Royal charter executed by Charles II., in favor of the erlands, including New Jersey, surrendered to the Dutch......July, 1673 New Jersey again becomes an English province, under treaty of peace between England and Holland......Feb. 9, 1674 Edward Byllinge, becoming financially embarrassed, assigns his contract to William Penn and others......Feb. 10, 1674 Philip Carteret retu
Waterloo, Seneca County, New York (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
n Church......1812 Act passed creating a fund for free schools......Feb. 12, 1817 Jersey City incorporated......Jan. 28, 1820 Samuel L. Southard, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy......Sept. 16, 1823 Morris Canal, from Newark to Phillipsburg, on the Delaware, commenced......1825 Camden and Amboy Railroad incorporated......Feb. 4, 1830 Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, purchases an estate of 1,400 acres at Bordentown, immediately after the downfall of his brother at Waterloo, where he resides until......1832 Legislature appropriates $2,000 to extinguish all Indian titles to land in the State......1832 Boundary between New Jersey and New York settled by a board of joint commissioners is confirmed by legislatures of both States in February, and by act of Congress......June 28, 1834 Mahlon Dickerson appointed Secretary of the Navy under President Jackson......June 30, 1834 St. Mary's Hall, college for the superior instruction of women, chartered and op
Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
for military purposes......April 30, 1861 In response to a proclamation by Governor Olden, April 17, four regiments of New Jersey volunteers, under General Runyon, are despatched to Annapolis......May 3, 1861 Rutgers Scientific School at New Brunswick opened......September, 1865 State board of education established......1866 Legislature ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States......Sept. 11, 1866 Home for disabled soldiers established at Mount Pleasant, Newark......1866 Legislature, by resolution, withdraws its ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment......April, 1868 George M. Robeson, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy......June 25, 1869 Camden and Amboy Railroad and Delaware and Raritan Canal surrender their reserved rights, after forty years of monopoly, opening the carrying-trade across the State......1869 Governor of New Jersey accepts the warvessel bequeathed to the State by Edwin A. Stevens, known as the Stevens b
Englewood (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
ry forbidden......1893 Battle monument at Trenton unveiled......Oct. 19, 1893 Democrats and Republicans organize separate Senates at Trenton—the governor recognizing the Democratic Senate......Jan. 9, 1894 Republican Senators force their way into the Senate chamber......Jan. 10, 1894 Supreme Court of New Jersey decides that the Republican Senate is lawful......March 21, 1894 Republican Senate recognized as the legal Senate......March 22, 1894 William Walter Phelps dies at Englewood......June 17, 1894 Railroad accident near Atlantic City, forty-seven killed and seventy injured......July 31, 1896 George M. Robeson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, dies at Trenton......Sept. 27, 1897 Vice-President Hobart dies at Paterson, N. J.......Nov. 21, 1899 Andrew Carnegie gives $50,000 to East Orange for a public library; William M. Johnson $40,000 to Hackensack, Charles Danforth $20,000 to Paterson; Dr. William Sticker $100,000 to Orange......1900 Carnegie Company incor
Oxford, Warren county (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
ersey......1721 Law providing for triennial elections of deputies to Assembly and triennial sessions alternately at Burlington and Amboy......1727 Governor Montgomery dies July 1, 1731 Executive of New Jersey separated from New York, and Lewis Morris appointed governor......1738 Weekly mail from Philadelphia to New York, carried by post-boys through New Jersey, established......1739 Rev. George Whitefield visits Elizabethtown......1740 First iron run at furnace in Oxford, Warren county......March 9, 1743 Governor Morris dies at Kingsbury, near Trenton......May 21, 1746 College of New Jersey, at Elizabethtown, incorporated......1746 College of New Jersey removed to Newark......1748 Trenton public library founded......1750 First printing-press in the province established at Woodbridge by James Parker......1751 College of New Jersey finally located at Princeton, and Nassau Hall erected......1756 Stage line established from New York to Philadelphia
Fort Lee (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
vy war against and within the State, or be adherent to the King of Great Britain......July 18, 1776 Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkins, Richard Stockton, and John Witherspoon, delegates from New Jersey, sign the Declaration of Independence......Aug. 2, 1776 Legislature chooses William Livingston governor of the State......Aug. 31, 1776 Washington retreats through New Jersey.......November, 1776 Fort Washington being captured by the British, General Greene abandons Fort Lee, Bergen county......Nov. 19, 1776 Washington crosses the Delaware into Pennsylvania......Dec. 8, 1776 Battle of Trenton......Dec. 26, 1776 Battle of Princeton......Jan. 3, 1777 Army under Washington winters at Morristown......1777 General Maxwell captures Elizabethtown together with 100 British troops......Jan. 23, 1777 Five vessels, part of a fleet bringing supplies for the British at New Brunswick, are sunk near Amboy......Feb. 26, 1777 General Howe evacuates New Jersey fo
East Orange (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
publican Senators force their way into the Senate chamber......Jan. 10, 1894 Supreme Court of New Jersey decides that the Republican Senate is lawful......March 21, 1894 Republican Senate recognized as the legal Senate......March 22, 1894 William Walter Phelps dies at Englewood......June 17, 1894 Railroad accident near Atlantic City, forty-seven killed and seventy injured......July 31, 1896 George M. Robeson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, dies at Trenton......Sept. 27, 1897 Vice-President Hobart dies at Paterson, N. J.......Nov. 21, 1899 Andrew Carnegie gives $50,000 to East Orange for a public library; William M. Johnson $40,000 to Hackensack, Charles Danforth $20,000 to Paterson; Dr. William Sticker $100,000 to Orange......1900 Carnegie Company incorporated with a capital of $160,000,000......March 24, 1900; North German Lloyd's piers in Hoboken burned (several hundred lives lost and property valued at $10,000,000 destroyed)......June 30, 1900 New Mexico
Chatham (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
ton by Isaac Collins......Dec. 3, 1777 Battle of Monmouth Court-house......June 28, 1778 Isaac Collins prints 5,000 copies of a family Bible at Trenton......1778 Assembly ratifies the Articles of Confederation......Nov. 19, 1778 John Witherspoon and Nathaniel Scudder, the delegates from New Jersey, sign the Articles of Confederation......Nov. 26, 1778 British at Paulus Hook surprised by Maj. Henry Lee......Aug. 19, 1779 New Jersey Journal established by Shepherd Kollock at Chatham......1779 American army winters at Morristown......December, 1779 Five thousand troops under General Clinton drive back the Americans under General Greene at Springfield, burn the town, and then retreat......June 23, 1780 Elias Boudinot, of New Jersey, chosen president of the Continental Congress......Nov. 4, 1782 Continental Congress meets at Princeton......June 30, 1783 New Brunswick incorporated......1784 Continental Congress meets at Trenton......Nov. 1, 1784 Willia
Hudson (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
is turnpike, from Elizabethtown to the Delaware River, chartered......March 1, 1801 Act for the gradual abolition of slavery, making free all persons born in the State after July 4, 1804, passed......Feb. 15, 1804 Newark bank and insurance company chartered......1804 Act confining suffrage to white male citizens......Nov. 16, 1807 Princeton Theological Seminary established by the Presbyterian Church......1812 Act passed creating a fund for free schools......Feb. 12, 1817 Jersey City incorporated......Jan. 28, 1820 Samuel L. Southard, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy......Sept. 16, 1823 Morris Canal, from Newark to Phillipsburg, on the Delaware, commenced......1825 Camden and Amboy Railroad incorporated......Feb. 4, 1830 Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, purchases an estate of 1,400 acres at Bordentown, immediately after the downfall of his brother at Waterloo, where he resides until......1832 Legislature appropriates $2,000 to extinguish all I
Bordentown (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-jersey
rinceton Theological Seminary established by the Presbyterian Church......1812 Act passed creating a fund for free schools......Feb. 12, 1817 Jersey City incorporated......Jan. 28, 1820 Samuel L. Southard, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy......Sept. 16, 1823 Morris Canal, from Newark to Phillipsburg, on the Delaware, commenced......1825 Camden and Amboy Railroad incorporated......Feb. 4, 1830 Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, purchases an estate of 1,400 acres at Bordentown, immediately after the downfall of his brother at Waterloo, where he resides until......1832 Legislature appropriates $2,000 to extinguish all Indian titles to land in the State......1832 Boundary between New Jersey and New York settled by a board of joint commissioners is confirmed by legislatures of both States in February, and by act of Congress......June 28, 1834 Mahlon Dickerson appointed Secretary of the Navy under President Jackson......June 30, 1834 St. Mary's Hall, col
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