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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Camden County, New Jersey. Official Website The county was formed on March 13, 1844, from portions of Gloucester County. The county was named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden , a British judge, civil libertarian, and defender of the American cause. Adjacent Counties Burlington County Atlantic County Gloucester County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Essex County, New Jersey. Official Website Overview The county is named after Essex, a county in the East of England. Newark, with a population density of 11,458.3 people/square mile, is the largest municipality in the county both in terms of land area and population, while Caldwell is the smallest in terms of land area and Esse...
Wikipedia Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, /ˈrʌtɡərz/, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey. Originally chartered as Queen's College on November 10, 1766, Rutgers is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine "Colonial Colleges" fou...
The College of New Jersey The College of New Jersey, abbreviated TCNJ, is a public, coeducational university[5] in the Trenton suburb of Ewing Township, New Jersey, United States. TCNJ was established in 1855 by an act of the New Jersey Legislature. The institution was the first normal school in the state of New Jersey and the fifth in the United States. Originally located in Trenton proper, t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Passaic County, New Jersey. Official Website Passaic County was created on February 7, 1837 and was named for the Passaic River. Adjacent Counties Orange County, NY Rockland County, NY Sussex County Bergen County Essex County Morris County Municipalities & Communities Bloomingdale | Clifton | Cooper | Great No...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bergen County, New Jersey. Official Website History The origin of the name of Bergen County is a matter of debate. It is believed that the county is named for one of the earliest settlements, Bergen, in modern-day Hudson County. However, the origin of the township's name is debated. Several sources attribute the name to Bergen, No...
Princeton University Official Website Wikipedia Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural scienc...
This project focuses on the Jewish families who settled at Alliance Colony in Vineland, New Jersey and the surrounding communities including Brotmanville, Rosenhayn, Carmel, and Norma. 'The 43 original families' of Alliance, NJ, who arrived in 1882: Eli & Ethel Abramowitz, Eli & Feigeh Bakerman , Moses & Ethel Bayuk , Abraham & Channah Leah Berman , William & Beckie Cohen , Hersh & Jennie Colt...
The New York Giants are a professional American football team located in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team plays its home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey at MetLife Stadium, which it shares with the New York Jets in a unique arrangement. The Giants hold their ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, New Jersey. Official Website Warren County was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 20, 1824. The county was named for Joseph Warren, an American Revolutionary War hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Adjacent Counties Monroe County, Pennsylvania Sussex County Morris County Hunterdo...
This cemetery is located on 58 Ridge Road, Harmony, Warren County, New Jersey. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Union County, New Jersey. Official Website All of present-day Union County was part of the Elizabethtown Tract, which was purchased in 1664, by English colonists from the Lenape Indians that lived in the area of present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. Union County was formed on March 19, 1857 and was the last of New Jersey's 21 counties ...
Wikipedia Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) is a seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and the largest of ten seminaries associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). It is the second-oldest seminary in the United States, founded in 1812 under the auspices of Reverend Dr. Archibald Alexander, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Universi...
The Jewish community in Trenton, NJ in the early decades of the 20th Century, was a small tight-knit community with several thriving synagogues and seemingly lots of intra-Trenton Jewish marriages.In my wife's case (Barbara Melmed nee Goldstein), I see many Trenton-based surnames appearing over and over (Kohn, Goldstein, Azarchi, Cohen, Sutnick, Urken, Lefkowitz, Troll, Koslow, Habas, Siegel. a...
This cemetery is located on Lincoln Highway, Kingston, Somerset County, New Jersey. Historical Marker says: Site of “Conference On Horseback,” January 3, 1777, at which Washington decided to move toward Morristown rather than New Brunswick . . . . a decision that probably prevented a critical American defeat. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on North Main Street (NJ 29), Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jersey City, New Jersey. Jersey City is the county seat of Hudson County and lies between the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay to its east and Hackensack River and Newark Bay to its west. Timeline History See Wikipedia for a complete History. 1800s 1804 - Land bought from Cornelius Van Vorst by the Associates of the Jers...
Please add profiles for anyone who was born, lived or died in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Official Website Hunterdon County was established on March 11, 1714 and was named for Robert Hunter, a colonial governor of New Jersey. Adjacent Counties Bucks County, Pennsylvania Warren County Mercer County Morris County Somerset County Municipalities Alexandria Twp. | Bethlehem ...
This project is for those that were born, lived and died in the State of New Jersey.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Official Website The county was established in 1837 and named for the Atlantic Ocean. Municipalities Abescon Atlantic City Brigantine Buena including: Landisville & Minotola Buena Vista Twp. including: Collings Lakes, East Vineland, Milmay, Newtonville and Richland Corbin City Egg Harbo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Burlington County, New Jersey. Official Website History Anglo-European records of Burlington County date to 1681, when its court was established in the Province of West Jersey. The county was formed on May 17, 1694, "by the union of the first and second Tenths." The county was named for Bridlington, a town in England. Burlington C...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ocean County, New Jersey.= Official Website =Ocean County is a county located along the Jersey Shore in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey, along the Atlantic Ocean. It was established on February 15, 1850, from portions of Monmouth County, with the addition of Little Egg Harbor Township which was annexed from ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monmouth County, New Jersey.= Official Website ==History=In 1609, the English navigator, Henry Hudson, and his crew aboard the Dutch vessel Half Moon spotted land in what is now Monmouth County, most likely off Sandy Hook; however, some historical accounts credit this landing to present-day Keansburg. Among the first European settlers...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Somerset County, New Jersey. Official Website Somerset County is one of America's oldest counties, and is named after the English county of Somerset. The area was first settled in 1681, in the vicinity of Bound Brook, and the county was established by charter on May 22, 1688. Most of the early residents were Dutch. General George W...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hudson County, New Jersey. Official website Overview Hudson County, originally Lenape territory, lies west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson, the sea captain who explored the area in 1609. Hudson County was originally called Pavonia, the land of the Peacock, after its original owner, the Dutchman Michael...