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Two Colonial Colleges were founded in the Province. In 1746, The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) was founded in Elizabethtown by a group of Great Awakening "New Lighters" that included Jonathan Dickinson, Aaron Burr Sr. and Peter Van Brugh Livingston. In 1756, the school moved to Princeton.
On January 23, 1839, Gravel Hill was officially renamed Blairstown, New Jersey (2000 Population of 5,747) in Blair's honor. [3] Blair, either outright or jointly with others, owned Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company (1846), Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (1852), Union Pacific Railroad (1860), and was president, director, or joint in ...
2. Mary [2] Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg (c. 1640— c. 1712), also known as Hendrick Jacobs or Henry Jacobs, was an early American settler along the Delaware River, and was considered to be the foremost language interpreter for the purchase of Indian lands in southern New Jersey. He was a linguist, fluent in the language of the Lenape Native ...
The Province of New Jersey was one of the Middle Colonies of Colonial America and became the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1776. The province had originally been settled by Europeans as part of New Netherland but came under English rule after the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, becoming a proprietary colony.
The history of what is now New Jersey begins at the end of the Younger Dryas, about 15,000 years ago. Native Americans moved into New town reversal of the Younger Dryas; before then an ice sheet hundreds of feet thick had made the area of northern New Jersey uninhabitable. European contact began with the exploration of the Jersey Shore by ...
Mary Burdet. Children. Elizabeth. Anne. Priscilla. Parent (s) Sir William Fenwick. Elizabeth. 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]
Joseph Hewes. Joseph Hewes (July 9, 1730 [1][a] – November 10, 1779 [3][4]) was an American Founding Father and a signer of the Continental Association and U.S. Declaration of Independence. [5] Hewes was a native of Princeton, New Jersey, where he was born in 1730. His parents were members of the Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
New Jersey "Lippincott" pps. 222-223. Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey pps. 531-542. Bulletin of the Gloucester Co., Historical Society Vol 5 No. 1 September. 1955. Shourds, Thomas (1876). "Lippincott Family" History and genealogy of Fenwick's Colony, New Jersey. Bridgeton, New Jersey: pp. 132–138 ISBN 0-8063-0714-5