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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, New York Rockland County, New York Sussex County Bergen County Essex County Morris County Municipalities & Communities Bloomingdale | Clifton | Cooper | G...
Among the first European settlers in the area were a group of Quaker families from Long Island who settled the Monmouth Tract, an early land grant from Richard Nicolls issued in 1665. They were followed by a group of Scottish settlers who inhabited Freehold Township in about 1682-85, followed several years later by Dutch settlers.The Dutch families who settled in Monmouth County came from King'...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Essex County, New Jersey. Official Website 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 Essex Fells has...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bergen County, New Jersey. Official Website 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, Norway, whil...
Trinity All Saints Cemetery Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
This project is part of the State of New Jersey Portal. About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from California. You can add profiles for: People born in New Jersey People who lived in New Jersey People who died in New Jersey When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit. If yo...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hudson County, New Jersey. Official Website 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 Pauw (Peac...
List of United States Representatives from New Jersey New Jersey's current delegation to the United States House of Representatives as of January 2025: 1st district -- Donald Norcross 2nd district -- Jeff Van Drew 3rd district -- Herb Conaway 4th district -- Chris Smith 5th district -- Josh Gottheimer 6th district -- Frank Pallone
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Official Website The county was named for the city of Gloucester county of Gloucestershire in England. Woodbury, founded in 1683 by Henry Wood, is the oldest municipality in the county. The municipality of National Park hosts the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Red Bank where Fort Mercer once ...
Scope of Project To build a single, validated and documented for passengers of "The Shield," which sailed from Stockton, England to Burlington, New Jersey in Dec. 1677. Many of the passengers were Quakers (members of the Society of Friends). Overview from: The favorable accounts written home by the first settlers in West Jersey stimulated immigration and soon there was an accession to the p...
This project is an umbrella project for all colonies in the New World that were part of the "Lords Proprietor" and "landgrave" system of establishing a noble ruling class. Please do not add profiles to this project, but add profiles to the appropriate sub-project. From Proprietary colonies were a type of colony in English America which existed during the early modern period. In English over...
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 Mercer County, New Jersey. Official Website History Named for Continental Army General Hugh Mercer, who died as a result of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777 and founded February 22, 1838, from portions of surrounding counties, Mercer County has a historical impact that reaches back to the pivotal battles...
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 ...
United States Senators from New JerseyList of United States Senators from New Jersey (from U.S. Senate web site--no links) of United States Senators from New Jersey (with wikipedia links)
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Burlington County, New Jersey. Official Website 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 County was ...
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 Phi...
Beautifully nestled within Newark, Hillside and Elizabeth, New Jersey, Evergreen Cemetery is a landmark and final resting place like no other. A rural Victorian styled cemetery established in 1853, Evergreen Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery that sprawls across 115 acres of luscious greenery and nature. Well known for our scenic landscape and the notable persons buried here, Evergreen Cemete...
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 ...
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 Salem County, New Jersey. Official Website European settlement began with English colonists in the seventeenth century, who were settling both sides of the Delaware River. They established a colonial court in the area in 1681, but Salem County was first formally organized within West Jersey on May 17, 1694, from the Salem Tenth. Pit...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Official Website 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 and majo...
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 Twp. ...