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  • Princeton University

    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...

  • Mercer County, New Jersey

    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...

  • The Alliance Colony

    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...

  • Essex County, New Jersey

    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...

  • Bergen County, New Jersey

    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...

  • Princeton Theological Seminary

    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...

  • Union County, New Jersey

    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 ...

  • Edington Family New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio

    Note: While using ANY genealogical website or program...please be informed that ANY possible family connections are NOT valid until they can be verified with documentation. This Edington clan has been hard to trace and document - where I and others feel should be investigated more I have put "Questionable" in the suffix box - this is especially done if conflicing data has been given over the ye...

  • Hudson County, New Jersey

    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...

  • Kean University

    Wikipedia =Kean University is a coeducational, public university located in Union and Hillside, New Jersey, United States. Kean University serves its students in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions and is best known for its programs in the humanities and social sciences and in education, graduating the most teachers in the state of New Jersey annually. Kean is also noted for the...

  • Rutgers University

    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...

  • Seton Hall University

    Wikipedia Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall consists of 11 schools and colleges with an undergraduate enrollment of about 5,800 students and...

  • Early Monmouth County, New Jersey

    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'...

  • Monmouth County, New Jersey

    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...

  • New Jersey with Counties, Towns and Communities Project

    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...

  • New Jersey Governors

    New Jersey Governors This project collects the governors of New Jersey after declaring independence in 1776. Governors prior to 1776 should be added to Colonial Governors of New Jersey . 1st William Livingston 2nd William Patterson 3rd Richard Howell 4th Joseph Bloomfield (4th) Joseph Bloomfield 5th Aaron Ogden

  • Passaic County, New Jersey

    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...

  • United States House of Representatives from New Jersey

    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

  • Gloucester County, New Jersey

    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 ...

  • Quakers of New Jersey: "Shield" Passengers (1678)

    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...

  • Feudalism and Nobility in the New World: The Lords Proprietors and Landgrave Master Portal

    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 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...

  • Ocean County, New Jersey

    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 Jersey

    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)

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