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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)

ase and release, to be called Nova Caesaria, or New Jersey......June 23-24, 1664 By license from Colonel Nicholls, governor under the Duke of York, a company, the Elizabethtown associates, purchase the site of Elizabethtown from Indians, and establish the first permanent settlement in New Jersey......Oct. 28, 1664 Philip Carteret, appointed first English governor of New Jersey, arrives at Elizabethtown with thirty settlers......August, 1665 Newark settled by thirty families from Connecticut......May 17, 1666 Grant of 276 acres issued for Hoboken......May 12, 1668 Session of the first legislative Assembly of New Jersey held at Elizabethtown......May 26, 1668 Bergen chartered......Sept. 22, 1668 Settlers under grants from Governor Nicholls form an independent government whose deputies at Elizabethtown elect James Carteret governor......May 14, 1672 Gov. Philip Carteret returns to England to lay the matter of the government of New Jersey before the proprietors...

rst governor of east Jersey under the new proprietary, with Thomas Rudyard as deputy......1682 Revenues of Matenicunk Island, in the Delaware opposite Burlington, set apart for education. This is believed to be the first school fund in America......1683 Perth Amboy laid out into lots......1683 First tavern or hotel in the province established at Woodbridge......1683 Site of Camden occupied by Messrs. Cooper, Runyon, and Morris......1684 First Episcopal church in New Jersey, St. Peter's, founded at Perth Amboy......1685 Byllinge dies, and Dr. Samuel Coxe, of London, purchases his interest in west Jersey......1687 First Baptist church in east Jersey built at Middletown......1688 Governor Barclay dies......Oct. 3, 1690 Presbyterian churches established in Freehold and Woodbridge......1692 First school law of the State enacted by the General Assembly of east New Jersey at Perth Amboy, to maintain a school-master within the town......Oct. 12, 1693 Burlingt

New Jersey, One of the middle Atlantic States of the United States of America, lies between lat. 38° 56′ and 41° 21′ N., and long. 73° 53' 51″ and 75° 33′ W. It is bounded on the north by New York, east by New York and Atlantic Ocean, south by Delaware Bay, and west by Delaware and Pennsylvania, from which it is separated by the Delaware River. Area, 8,715 square miles, in twenty-one counties. Population in 1890, 1,444,933; 1900, 1,883,669. Capital, Trenton. Henry Hudson, in the ship Atlantic Ocean, south by Delaware Bay, and west by Delaware and Pennsylvania, from which it is separated by the Delaware River. Area, 8,715 square miles, in twenty-one counties. Population in 1890, 1,444,933; 1900, 1,883,669. Capital, Trenton. Henry Hudson, in the ship 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., sails up the Delaware River to Trenton Falls......Sept. 1, 1634 Number of English families settle on Salem Creek, at a place called by the Indians Asamohaking......16

w Jersey, One of the middle Atlantic States of the United States of America, lies between lat. 38° 56′ and 41° 21′ N., and long. 73° 53' 51″ and 75° 33′ W. It is bounded on the north by New York, east by New York and Atlantic Ocean, south by Delaware Bay, and west by Delaware and Pennsylvania, from which it is separated by the Delaware River. Area, 8,715 square miles, in twenty-one counties. Population in 1890, 1,444,933; 1900, 1,883,669. Capital, Trenton. Henry Hudson, in the ship 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., sails up the 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

embly 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 William Livingston, David Brearley, William Patterson, and Jonathan Dayton, delegates from New Jersey, sign the Constitution of the United States......Sept. 17, 1787 Constitutio

abethtown associates, purchase the site of Elizabethtown from Indians, and establish the first perEnglish governor of New Jersey, arrives at Elizabethtown with thirty settlers......August, 1665 legislative Assembly of New Jersey held at Elizabethtown......May 26, 1668 Bergen chartered.....n independent government whose deputies at Elizabethtown elect James Carteret governor......May 14,.....1739 Rev. George Whitefield visits Elizabethtown......1740 First iron run at furnace in .May 21, 1746 College of New Jersey, at Elizabethtown, incorporated......1746 College of New town......1777 General Maxwell captures Elizabethtown together with 100 British troops......Jan. is received by a committee of Congress at Elizabethtown, April 23, and escorted to New York, wherel 30, 1789 Governor Livingston dies at Elizabethtown......July 25, 1790 Trenton made the cap the yards of Samuel L. Moore & Sons Co. in Elizabeth......April 30, 1892 City of Paterson cele[2 more...]

iled......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 incorporated with a capital of $160,000,000......March 24, 190