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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.
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 ...
The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, commonly called The Jerseys, 1777 map by William Faden. The Provincial Congress of New Jersey was a transitional governing body of the Province of New Jersey in the early part of the American Revolution. It first met in 1775 with representatives from all New Jersey's thirteen counties, to ...
Forced labour and slavery. 1763 home of Thomas Cadmus in Essex County, New Jersey; the loft of the smaller building was used as slave quarters. Slavery in New Jersey began in the early 17th century, when the Dutch trafficked African slaves for labor to develop the colony of New Netherland. [ 1][ 2]: 44 After England took control of the colony ...
Newark has long been the largest city in New Jersey. Founded in 1666, it greatly expanded during the Industrial Revolution, becoming the commercial and cultural hub of the region. Its population grew with various waves of migration in the mid 19th century, peaking in 1950.
Oldest house in Essex County. Original stone walls are visible within enveloping Queen Anne Victorian added in two stages in 1876 and prior to 1896. Nathaniel Bonnell House. Elizabeth. 1682 (1670) Oldest house in Elizabethtown, original capital of Province of New Jersey and oldest original building in Union County.
Amwell Township was a Township that existed in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States, from 1708 to 1846. The Township was established by royal patent on June 8, 1708, from Queen Anne, the first sovereign of the combined kingdom of Great Britain, while the area was part of West Jersey. [ 1][ 2] At the time of its inception, its territory ...
A 1777 map depicting Cape May County, the scene of the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet on June 29, 1776, in the American Revolutionary War. Before Cape May County was settled by Europeans, the indigenous Kechemeche tribe of the Lenape people inhabited South Jersey, and traveled to the barrier islands during the summer to hunt and fish.