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West New Jersey, 1682

November 11, 2009 By Marfy Goodspeed in Burlington County, Gloucester County, West New Jersey Tags: early settlers, legislation

The Irish Tenth

During the winter, the Irish Quakers who had arrived at West New Jersey in September 1681, were given shelter in Salem. When spring 1682 arrived, they set to work building their own settlement. The location they chose was a site opposite what would soon be Philadelphia. They laid out their own Tenth, running from Timber Creek to Pennsauken Creek, and established a town center called Newton. The original site of Newton was in the present-day city of Camden.

Life in West New Jersey, 1680

October 29, 2009 By Marfy Goodspeed in Burlington County, West New Jersey Tags: Bucks County, early settlers

This post is another side trip in my journey through Hunterdon history by way of Samuel Green. While looking through the Delaware Papers by Charles T. Gehring, I happened upon some interesting items dating to 1680.

West New Jersey in 1681

October 12, 2009 By Marfy Goodspeed in Burlington County, Gloucester County, West New Jersey Tags: early settlers, legislation, proprietors, surveying

Well, it looks as if I can’t get more than one year’s worth of information in a single post. Can’t help it—the times were just too interesting.

Edmund Andros

In January 1680/81, Gov. Andros, who had been carrying out the wishes of his patron, James Duke of York, was recalled to England to answer charges of financial corruption. His heavy-handed tactics, especially in East New Jersey, had made him a liability to James, who was having problems of his own. Andros returned home in May 1681, but instead of imprisonment, he was knighted, after the charges were dropped in December 1681.