History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 212

Author: W. Woodford Clayton, Ed.
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia: Everts
Number of Pages: 1224


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St. John's (German), New Brunswick, 735. St. John's, Piscataway, 599. St. Mary's, Elizabeth, 238. St. Mary's, Plainfield, 308. St. Mary's, Rahway, 282. St. Mary's, South Amboy, 835. St. Michael's, Cranford, 406. St. Michael's, Elizabeth, 238. St. Patrick's, Elizabeth, 239. St. Peter's, New Brunswick, 733. St. Teresa's, Sunimit, 394.


Cemeteries of


Cranbury, 876. East Brunswick, 775. Fanwood, 414. Madison, 818. Monroe, 807. New Providence, 360. North Brunswick, 753. Perth Amboy, 630. Piscataway, 600. Plainfield, 313. Rahway, 282. Raritan, 847. South Amboy, 832. South Brunswick, 789. Summit, 394. Union township, 384. Westfield, 339. Woodbridge, 576. Centennial in Springfield, 371. Central New Jersey Herald, 138: Central New Jersey Times, 142. Chandler, Thomas B., 221. Chandler, William, 123. Chapman, Rev. James M., 510. Chapman, Rev. James M., 624. Charter of New Brunswick, 613. Chetwood, F. B., 115. Chetwood, John, 114. Chetwood, John J., 115. Chetwood, Robert E., 115. Chetwood, William, 115. Churches (see special list each denomination). City buildings, Perth Amboy, 631. Civil history of Amboy, G08. Civil history of Monroe, 801.


Civil history of North Brunswick, 743. Civil list, Cranbury, 868. Civil list, Raritan, 841. Civil list, Sayreville, 854. Civil list, South Brunswick, 787. Clark township, 409. Civil list, 409. Early settlement, 409. Manufacturing interests, 410. Natural features, 409. Schools, 410. Clark, Abraham, 123. Clark, Abraham, 97. Clark, Andrew H., 341. Clark, John, 123. Clark, Samuel A., 226.


Clark, Staats, 736. Clark, Thomas, 114. Clark, William, 343. Clark, William, Jr., 340.


Clay merchants, 635.


Cochran, John, 512. Coleman, John, 13.


Colonial courts, 107.


Condition of affairs in 1776, 470.


Congregational Church of First, Elizabeth, 239. Plsiofield, 307. Westfield, 339. Woodbridge, 574.


Connecticut Farms, 381.


Conover, Garret, 738. Conquest of Leoni Lenape hy Iroquois, 43. Constitutionalist, 142.


Copper-mines, 579. Coriell, Richard R., 321. Coriell, William McD., 325. Coroner's inquest, 1685, 449.


Cortelyon, Peter, 794.


Cory, Joseph, 342.


Cory, Levi, 341. Council of Safety, 462. County buildings, 118.


County officers, 119. Court-house aod jail, 449.


Courts of Middlesex County, 44G.


Courts of Union County, 100. Cove and Tower Hill, 630.


Craig, David, 123. Craig, John, 128. Cranbury, 862, 868.


African Methodist Episcopal Church, 876. Csmeteries, 876. Civil list, 868. Cranbury Station, 869.


Cranbury village, 868.


First Presbyterian Church, 872.


Industrial pursuit#, 870. Methodist Church, 875.


Old Baptist Church, 875.


Pioneer families, 865. Schools, 870.


Second Presbyterian Church, 874. Settlements and early occurrences, 862.


Situation and boundaries, 862. Societies, 870. Villages and hamlets, 868.


Crane, John, facing 383. Crane, Matthias H., facing 385. Crane, Gen. Win , 97. Craneville, 404. Cranford, 402. Craneville, 404. Early settlements, 402. Methodist Church, 405. Natural features, 402. Post-offices, 405.


Craoford: Presbyterian Church, 405. Schools, 405. St. Michael's Catholic Church, 406. Trinity Episcopal Church, 406. Cruser, John S., 796. Custom-house, 636. Cutter Family, 581.


D


Daily and Weekly Bulletin, 142. Daly, John .J., facing 133. Darby, John, 123. Darby, Levi, 415. Darcy, Edward A., 128.


Dally, Samuel, 583.


Damages by British, 474. Danish Lutheran Church, G28.


Dayton, 791. Dayton, A. O., 113.


Dayton, Gen. E., 71, 73, 96, 240. Dayton, Jonathan, 96, 124. Dayton, Jonathan, M.D., 124. Dayton, Jonathan I., 124.


Dean's Station, 791. De Hart, John, 125. De Hart, John, 69, 112. Delawares, or Lenni Lenape, 41.


Denman, John, 407. Denman, John C., 290.


Denton, Daniel, 22, 49, 121.


Depreciated currency, 83. Da Vos, Isaac, 781.


De Vries, David P., 14, 45. Dickinson, Jonathan, 124, 201. Disbrow, A. J., 783.


Disbrow, S. M., 527. District Medicsl Society Middlesex Co., 522.


Doans Memorial Chapel, 835. Drake, Henry, 513.


Dunellen, 599. Dunham, II. V., 601. Dunham, D. B, facing 253.


Dunham, Jacob, 514. Dunham, Lewis, 513. Dunhaor's Corners, 780. Dutch immigration, New Brunswick, 642. Dutch Reformed Church (see Reformed Church).


E.


Earl, William, facing 382. Early courts and lawyere, 100. Early officers Union County Med. Soc., 129.


Early physicians, Union County, 121. Early records, Piscataway, 586.


Esrly roads, Middlesex County, 431. Early settlement of Madison, 814. Early settlement of Monroe, 797. Early settlement of Raritan, 839. Early settlements, Woodbridge, 554. East Brunswick, 757. Baptist Church, 771. Bethel Baptist Church, 773.


Bloomfield mills, 780. Burial-places, 775. Civil list, 758. Dunham's Corners, 780.


Educational, 763. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 771. Industrial pursuits, 765. Milltown, 780. Milltown German Reformed Church, 775. Old Bridge, 779. Organization and civil history, 758. Physical features, 757. Reformed Dutch Church, 775. Simpson Methodist Church, 774.


880


INDEX.


East Brunswick :


Situation and boundaries, 757. Societies, 780. Spottswood, 778. Spottswood M. E. Church, 774. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 770. Tabernacle Baptist Church, 772. Villages and hamlets, 777. Washington, 776.


Washington Methodist Church, 773.


Edgar, Jonathan, 124. Edgar, W. T., 851. Effect of battle of Lexington, 65.


Eleventh Regiment, 149. Elizabeth Freie Press, 138. Elizabeth Freie Zeitung, 138.


Elizabethtown, settlement of, 17.


Elmendorf, John C., 510.


Elmer, H. G., 125. Elmer, John C., 131. Elmer, Moses G., 124. Elmer, Philemon, 124. Elizabeth borough :


Broad Street Baptist Church, 237. Central Baptist Church, 237. City charter, 184. Court-house, 182. East Baptist Church, 237. Educational, 187.


Ferries and steamboats, 181.


First Baptist Church, 235. First Congregational Church, 239.


First National Bank, 191. First Presbyterian Church, 195. Fourth Baptist Church, 237.


German Evangelical Lutheran Church, 239. German Moravian Church, 240. German Presbyterian Church, 232. German Presbyterian Church, 239. Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, 227. Improvement of streets, 181.


Madison Avenne Presbyterian Church, 231. Manufacturing companies, 194. Marshall Street Presbyterian Church, 231. Methodist Episcopal Church, 232. Militia, 191. Missions, 240. Mutual Insurance, 191. National Fire and Marine Insurance, 191. National State Bank, 191. Roman Catholic Church, 237. Second Presbyterian Church, 227. Secret and benevolent societies, 192. Siloam Presbyterian Church, 239. St. John's Protestant Epis. Church, 217. Third Presbyterian Church, 231. Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, 227. Water Company, 186. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 228. Elizabeth township, 173. Allotments of 1736, 176. Boundaries of township, 174. Name of township, 179. Organization and civil officers, 177. Original dimensions, 173. Progress of settlements and surveys, 174. Resurvey and allotment, 175. Subdivisions of township, 178. Town of Newark set off, 173. Episcopalian Church : All Saints, Fanwood township, 414. Calvary, Summit, 394. Christ's Church, South Aoiboy, 834. Christ's, of New Brunswick, 709. Christ's Reformed, Rahway, 282. Grace, Elizabeth, 227. Grace, Linden, 399.


Episcopaliao Church :


Grace, Plainfield, 307. Grace, Westfield, 339. Heavenly Rest, Plainfield, 308. Holy Comforter, Rahway, 282. Holy Cross, Perth Amboy, 628. Holy Innocents, Piscataway, 597. Holy Trinity, Sayreville, 862. Holy Trinity, Washington, 771. St. James' Protestant, Raritao, 844. St. John's, Elizabeth, 217. St. John's, New Brunswick, 735.


St. Luke's, Liaden, 399. St. Luke's, Raritan, 845. St. Luke's, Union, 383. St. Paul's, Rahway, 282. St. Peter's, Perth Amboy, 621. St. Peter's, Spottswood, 770. Trinity, Cranford, 406.


Trinity, Elizabeth, 227. Trinity, Woodbridge, 572.


F.


Fanwood township, 411.


All Saints', Episcopal, 414.


Baptist Church, 412.


Boundaries, 411.


Census, 412.


Civil officers, 411.


Early settlers, 411.


Inns and inn-keepers, 414.


Methodist Church, 414.


Natural features, 411. Physicians, 415.


Post-office, 414. Schools, 412. Villages and hamlets, 415.


Fanwood village, 415.


Farmer, Thomas, 497.


Ferris, Isaac, 701. Final disposal of Delawares, 47.


Fire department of Perth Amboy, G38.


Plainfield, 314. Rahway, 251.


First county court, 447.


First courts st New Brunswick, 452. First daily in New Brunswick, 531.


First New Jersey Legislature, 53.


Flatt, Wm. H., 286.


Fletcher, Seth, 197. Foote, F. W., 136. Ford's Corners, 848. Foster, John, 22. Fourteenth Regiment, 151.


Franklin Park, 792.


Freeman, John L., 255. Freeman, M., 514. Frelinghuysen, Theo. Jacobus, 692. French, Philip, 695. Freoch, Robert, facing 341. Fresh Ponds, 792.


Friends' meeting of Plainfield, 300. Rahway, 270. Raritan, 842. Woodbridge, 574.


G.


Gay, Edward, 121. Glimpses of Indians, 450. Gordon, Thonias, 497. Government of Carteret, 51. Gray's Mills, 791. Greenland, Henry, 511. Griffith, John, 125.


Griffith, Thomas, 125. Guardian and New Brunswick Advertiser, 528.


H.


Half-Acre, 805. Hall, Alfred, 638. Halsted, Robert, 125. Hamilton, Andrew, 106. Harbor and railroad facilities, Perth Amboy, 634. Hard times, 83.


Hardenbergh, C. L., 510.


Hardenbergh, J. B., 701.


Hardenbergh, J. R., 509.


Hardenbergh, J. R., 697.


Harriman, Joha, 197.


Harris, 514. Hay, A., 514. Headley, J. S, facing 380.


Heath, John, 76. Higgins, David S, 385.


Hill, John B., 673. Hoffman and Tracy Stations, 806.


Hole, Johu, 126. Home News (Daily ), 631. Hough, De Witt, facing 132.


How, H. K., 756. How, Sanmel B., 701, 705.


Howe, Lord, 75.


Howe, William, 77.


Howell, Martin A., 655.


Hude, Jamies, 501.


Hude, James, 695.


Hudson, Henry, 13, 14.


Hutchinson, John T., 386.


Hyer, Lewis S., 140.


I.


Important trials, 505. Incorporation of Amboy, 614. Indian girls held in slavery, 451.


Indian hostilities, 45. Indian occupation, 40.


Indian population, 43.


Industrial pursuits (see Manufacturing Inter- ests). Insurance companies : Elizabeth Mutual, Elizabeth, 191. Mutual Assurance, Plainfield, 312. National Fire and Marine, Elizabeth, 191. Washington Fire Insurance Company, 312


J.


Jacksonville, 817. Jamesburg, 803. Janeway. J. J., 701. Jaques, Mo888, 126. Jardins, Andrew, 254. Jobs, Eugene, 133.


Johnson, Cornelins, 519. Johnstone, John, 514. Johastone, L., 515. Jones, Evao, 322.


K.


Kearney, Philip, 497. Kempershall, Everard, 217. Keteltas, Abrahanı, 210. Kidd, Capt., 536. Kioch, Frederick A., 126. Kingston, 790. Kinsey, Charles, 504. Kirkner, Jacob, 324. Kirkpatrick, Andrew, 503. Kirkpatrick, L., 504. Knyphansen's invasion, 87. Kollock, llenry, 215. Kollock, Shepard, 135.


881


INDEX.


L.


Laforge, Joel and Ira, 294. Lambert, John, 416. Land controversy, 59. Langford, W. S., 227. Latimer, H. G., 323. Laughing in the face of court, 448. Lawrence, Jolın, 525. Lee, Thomas, 415. Lefferts, H. D., 519. Lenni Lenape, 41. Letson, Johnson, 660. Leveridge, C. A , 406. Leydt, Johannes, 696. Library of Plainfield, 316. Rahway, 252. Summit, 393. Lilly, Samuel, 225.


Linden township, 396.


Baptist Church, Roselle, 399. Civil list, 397. Description, 396. Early settlements, 396. Grace Episcopal Church, 399. Ions and iun-keepers, 400. Linden, 399. Linden post-office, 400. Methodist Church, 398. Natural Features, 396. Presbyterian Church, 399. Reformed Church, 399.


Roselle, 399. Roselle pust-office, 400. Schools, 398.


St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 399.


Trembly's Point, 400.


Linn, William A., 214.


List of deceased physicians Middlesex County, 528.


List of members Union County bar, 1774-1881, 109.


List of members Legislature from Middlesex County, 532.


List of present members of Union County bar, 109.


List of Revolutionary troops in Middlesex Connty, 492. List of Middlesex County soldiers, 539. List of Union County soldiers, 1861-65, 157. List of Union County soldiers in Revolution, 98. Littell, Eliakim, 77. Livingston Park Chapel, 753. Livingston, William, 69, 71, 73, 84, 110. Lodges and societies (see Societies). Long, Dennis, between 386, 387. Loring, Ephraim, 126. Lott, R. P., 519. Lowry, Robert, 307. Ludlow, George C., 511. Ludlow, John, 700. Ludlum, N., 516. Lufbery, Johu HI., 293. Lutheran Church : Danish, Perth Amboy, 628. Emmanuel (German), 735. German, Elizabeth, 239. Lyons Farms, 380.


M.


Madison, 814. Browntown, 817. Burial-places, 818. Early settlement, 814. Industrial pursuits, 819. Jacksonville, 817.


Madison :


Methodist Church, 818. Organization, 816. Physical features, 814. Schools, 818. Situation and boundaries, 814. Statistics, taxation, etc., 817. Villages and hamlets, 817.


Magee, Jos. C., 811. Magie, Edwin, 385. Magie, William J., 115. Magietowo, 381. Male, Job, 324. Manning, N., 516.


Manning, Stephen, 128.


Manufacturing companies, 194, 769. Ashland Emery Co., Perth Amboy, 634. Ayres & Lufbery, Rahway, 255. Bergen Iron-Works, 832. Blacksmithing, 871.


Boundey, John, shoe-works, 667.


Brick-works, East Brunswick, 769. Brookfield snnff-mills, 749. Buckram and Mosquito Netting Co., 665.


Butler's sash and blind works, 667.


Carriage manufactory, 669.


Clay-works, Perth Amboy, 635.


Confectionery, 659.


Congress Hill Pottery, 831.


Copper-mines, Menlo Park, 849. Davison & Selver's spice-mill, 871.


Dean Mill, South Brunswick, 789.


Distilleries, 789, 807.


Downs & Finch, 806.


Elizabethport Manufacturing Company, 191.


Embley & Keyser, 821.


Ernst, Otto, clay-works, 819. Essex Felting Mills, Clark township, 410.


Everett & Perrine, clay-pits, 831. Foundries, saw-mills, etc., 191.


Freeman, J. L., Rahway, facing 255.


Fruit culture, etc., 767.


Fruit Jar Company, 668.


Gordon printing-press, 256. Grist-mills, East Brunswick, 766. Grist-mills, South Brunswick, 789. Grubbs, Thomas, 870.


Hardenbergh, J. R., 821 Hecla Powder- Mills, 411.


Hetfield & Jackson, Rahway, 253.


Holmes & Co., fruit-canning company, 666.


Horseman & McManns, Rahway, 255.


Janeway & Carpenter, 661.


Janeway & Co., 650. Jardine & Co., Rahway, 254.


Kaolin clay and sand mines, Sayreville, 855.


Kilpatrick Shoe Company, 668. Laforge, I. & J., Rahway, 256. McCrillis Brothers, 659. Mervin, A. A., 849.


Meyer Rubber Company, 662, 749. Miller Brothers, Rahway, 253. Miscellaneous industries, Monroe, 807. Motisher & Shyers, 666.


New Brunswick Carpet Company, 666. New Brunswick Rubber Company, 665. Norfolk Hosiery Company, 659. Novelty Rubber Company, 664. Potter Printing-Press Works, 318.


Potteriea and brick-making, Sayreville, 860.


Potteries, East Brunswick, 769. Powelson, C., furniture, 659. Providence Pottery, 832. Quarries, 789.


Manufacturing companies : Raritan Ridge Clay Company, 849. Raritan Snap-Works, 668. Rolfe & Sons' saw-mill, 662. Rue, M. A., 871. Sand, clay, etc., 767. Schepflin, B. T. & Co., 318. Ship-building, 766. Shultz, John E., 789. Singer, of New Jersey, 191. Suuff manufacturer, East Brunswick, 765. Snuff-mills, 820, 821.


Such's green-house, 861. Swan Hill Pottery, 832. Tanrino factory, Ralıway, 253. Terra-cotta works, 636. Voorhees Tannery, 751. Vosper & Kramer, 666. Waldron's machine-works, 667.


Wheeler & Thomas, 789. Wood trade, East Brunswick, 769. Wyckoff Mills, 871.


Mapleton, 791. Marsh, S. C., 401. Maurer, Henry, 585. Maxwell, Gen., 77, 78, 84. McDowell, John, 216.


McKean, R., 516.


Mechanicsville, 861.


Medical profession, Middlesex County, 511. Medical profession, Union County, 120. Medical societies, 128.


Methodist Church : African, Cranbury, 876.


African Methodist Episcopal, Westfield, 339. Bethel, Rahway, 282. Centenary, Raritan, 842.


Cranbury, 875. Cranford township, 405.


Danish, Perth Amboy, 628.


Elizabeth, 232. Fanwood, 414. First, Rahway, 272. Free, Rahway, 282.


Fresh Ponds Methodist Protestant Church, 793.


Linden township, 398. Madison, 818. Milltown, North Brunswick, 752.


Mount Zion ( Colored), New Brunswick, 734. New Dover, Raritan, 842. New Providence, 358.


Perth Amboy, 627. Piscataway, 59%.


Pitman, New Brunswick, 732. Plainfield, 304. Plainsboro', Bethel, 792.


Protestaut, South Amboy, 836. Sayreville Methodist Episcopal, 862.


Second, Rahway, 281. Shiloh, New Brunswick, 732.


Simpson, East Brunswick, 774. South Amboy, 835. Spottswood, East Brunswick, 774. Springfield, 371. St. James', New Brunswick, 734. Summit, 395.


Union African (Colored), New Brunswick, 735.


Union Valley, 810. Washington, East Brunswick, 773. West Roselle, 383. Westfield, 338. Woodbridge, 574. Zion, Rahway, 282.


Melyen, Samuel, 201. Members Legislature from Middlesex Co., 532.


882


INDEX.


Menlo Park, 849. Mercer, Gen., 72. Merchants and dealers, South Amboy, 829. Mershon, William, 288. Metuchen, 848. Meyer, Christopher, 663. Micheau, Paul, 126. Middlesex Connty, 417.


Acts relating to boundaries, 418. Bench and bar, 496. Brief Account of East Jersey, 420. City of New Brunswick, 640. Condition of affairs, 1776, 470. Coroner's inquest, 1685, 449. Council of Safety, 462. Court-house and jail, 449. Courts, 446. Cranbury, 862. Damages by British, 474. District Medical Society, 522. Early physicians, 511. East Brunswick, 737. Elevations, table of, 424. Facts and figures, 446. First conrt, 447. First courts in New Brunswick, 452. First deily in New Brunswick, 531. Glimpses of Indians, 450. Guardian and New Brunswick Advertiser, 528. Home News (Daily), 531. Iodian elarm, 451. Indian girl in slavery, 451. List of soldiers, 539. Madison, 814. Medical profession, 511. Молгое, 797.


Movement for a new partition line, 443. New Brunswick Fredonian, 528. New Brunswick Times, 531. North Brunswick, 739. Offenses, 449. Organization, 417.


Partition line between East and West Jer- Bey, 437.


Perth Amboy, 602. Piscataway, 586.


Press of Middlesex County, 529.


Provincial Congress, 1776, 463. Provincial Congress of New Jersey, 452. Punishment for felony, 1684, 449.


Punishment of stocks, 450 .. Ranging the woods, 450. Raritan, 839.


Roads, 431.


Roster of Revolutionary troops Middlesex County, 492.


Sayreville, 852. Sentence to be burned slive, 450. Situation in 1861, 537. South Amboy, 822. South Bronswick, 784. Speaking against authority, 450. Tavern rates, 1717, 448. Tavern rates, 1748, 451. Tax for prison and pound, 447.


The Revolution, 455. Topography, 422. Townships, 419.


Transfer of estates from East and West Jer- sey, 412. Tripartite deed, 439. Twenty-eightlf Regiment, 537. Whipping-post, 450. Woodbridge, 560. Middlesex Connty in the Rebellion, 537. Miller, John, 340.


Milltown, 754, 780. Monmouth Junction, 792. Monmouth Juoction Church, 793. Monroe, 797. Associations and societies, 808. Bnrial-places, 807. Catholic Church, Jamesburg, 811. Churches, 809. Civil list, 801.


· Early settlement and pioneer life, 797. First National Bank, Jamesburg, 807. Half-Acre, 805. Hoffman and Tracy Stations, 80G. Iodnstrial enterprises, 806. Items of war history, 801. Jamesburg, 803. Methodist Church, Union Valley, 810. Natural features, 797. Presbyterian Church, Jamesburg, 809.


Prospect Plains. 806. Red Tavern, 80G. Schools, 802. Situation and boundaries, 797.


Union Valley, 805. Villages and hamlets, 803.


Moore, Enoch, 127.


Moore, R. C., Jr., 226.


Moravian German Church, Elizabeth, 240. Morgan, Lewis, 127.


Morrell, Thomas, 233.


Morris, Lewis, 62, 501.


Morrogh, Clifford T., 525.


Morse, Isaac, 127.


Movement for new partition line, 443.


Moun, George B., 737. Murray, Nicholas, 216.


N.


National Democrat, 140.


Neilson, James, 470.


Neilson, John, 468.


Nevins, James S., 504. New Brooklyn, 579.


New Brunswick Gaslight Company, 674.


New Brunswick Fredonian, 528.


New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 687.


New Brunswick Times, 551.


New Brunswick : Boundaries, 644.


Catholic Church, 735.


Christ Church (Episcopal), 711.


City charter and government, 643.


Colored Baptist Church, 735.


Dutch immigration, 642.


Educational institutions, 675.


Evangelical Lutheran Church, 735.


Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel (Ger- man) Church, 735.


First Baptist Church, 730.


First Presbyterian Church, 702.


First Reformed Dutch Church, 691. Gaslight Company, 674. German Reformed Church, 735.


Industrial pursuits, 656.


Jewish synagogue, 735.


Manomission papers, 653.


Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, 734.


Original site, 640. Pitman Methodist Episcopal Church, 732. Present status of city, 654.


Prices and premiums, 653. Public schools, 676. Review of the city's progress, 650.


Revolutionary incidents, 646. Rivers and streams, 645. Rutgers College, 678.


New Brunswick: Second Baptist Church, 735. Shiloh Methodist Church, 732. Societies, 654. St. James' Methodist Episcopal Church1, 734. St. John's Episcopal Church, 735. The city in 1799, 649. Theological Seminary, 687. Third Reformed Church, 735.


Tornado, 653. Union African Methodist Episcopal


Church, 735. Water supply, 675.


New Dover, 849. New Durham, 849. New Jersey Journal, 135.


New Market, 579.


New Netherland, discovery and occupation of, 13. New Providence :


Bnrial-gronads, 360. Civil organization, 351.


Early settlements, 345. First tanner, 360. Methodist Church, 358.


Natural features, 344.


Powder-mill, 360.


Presbyterian Church, 356.


Salt Brook, 360.


Schools, 354.


Sitnation and bonndaries, 344.


Sons of Temperance, 360. St. Mary's Catholic Church, 359. Villages and hamlets, 352.


Newspapers : Bridgetowa Museum and New Jersey Ad- vocate, 138.


Central New Jersey Herald, 138.


Central New Jersey Times, 142.


Constitutionalist, 142.


Daily and Weekly Bulletin, 142.


Elizabeth Freie Presse, 138.


Elizabeth Freie Zeitung, 138. First daily in New Brunswick, 531.


Guardian and New Brunswick Advertiser, 528. Home News (Daily), 531.


National Democrat, 140. New Brunswick Fredonian, 528.


New Brunswick Times, 531.


New Jersey Journal, 135.


Plainfield Gazette, 142.


Summary of papers, 531.


Summit Herald, 394. Westfield Monitor, 339.


Nicoll, Wm., 60. Nicolis, Governor, 18, 21, 49.


Ninetieth anniversary Dr. Van Harlingen, 519.


Ninth Regiment, 146. Noble, B G., 226.


North Brunswick, 739. Burial-places, 753.


Care of the poor, 744.


Civil history, 742.


Georges Road Baptist Church, 751.


Industrial pursuits, 749.


Livingston Park Chapel, 753.


Local nomenclatore, 755. Milltown Dlethodist Episcopal Church, 752. Physical features, 739. Schools, 747.


Settlement, 739.


Sitnation and boundaries, 739.


Taverns, 755. Villages and hamlets, 754.


INDEX.


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Occupation of Elizabethtown by the British, 90. Offenses, 449. Office of provincial records, 632. Ogden, Aaron, 65, 112. Ogden, Abraham, 68. Ogden, John, facing 195. Ogdea, John, 22, 23, 52. Ogden, Robert, 62. Old Bridge, 779. Old market, Perth Amboy, 652. Old Plainsboro' Church, 793. Organization sod civil history, East Bruas- wick, 762. Organizativa of Madison, 816. Organization of Middlesex County, 417. Organization of Monroe, 801. Organization of Sayreville, 854.' Organization of South Amboy, 829. Organization of South Brunswick, 787. Original site of New Brunswick, 740. Osborn, Corra, 130. 53D-531, ILL 24 Osborn, Isaac, 293. Ouke, Jacob, 695.


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Paquet Creek, 580. Parkhurst, A. M., facing 343. Partition line between East and West Jersey, 437. Patentees of Elizabethtown, 21. Paxton, Jobu, 811. Peck, Jeremiah, 196. Perth Amboy city, 602. Banks, 633. Baptist Church, 627. Barracks, 632. Brighton House, 632. Burial-places, 630. Catholic Church, 627. Civil history, 608. Court-house, 631. Cove sad Tower Hill, 632. Custom-house, 636. Danish Lutheran Church, 628. Danish Methodist Church, 628. Episcopal Church, 628. Fire department, 638. Gas Company, 633. Incorporation aod civil officers, 61.I. Jail, 631.


Lincoln Hose Company, 638. Lutheran Church, 628. Manufacturing interests, 633. Methodist Church, 627. Office of provincial records, 632. Old market, 632. Post-office, 633. Presbyterian Church, 626. Resident Governors, 618. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 621. Schools, 628. Societies, 638. Stocks, 631. Water company, 638. Petitioners of Elizabethtowa, 23. Physical and descriptive features, 48. Physicians of Uuion County, 120, 415. Pierson, Oliver M., 341. Pierson, Squier, 342. Pioneer families, Cranbury, 864. Piscataway, Raritan township, 848. Piscataway, 586, 848. Baptist Church, 597. · Catholic Church, 599. Cemeteries, 600.


Piscataway : Civil organization, 591. Dunellen, 599. Early records, 586. Early settlements, 587. Episcopal Church, 597. Methodist Church, 598. Name of town, 587. Natural features, 586. New Brooklyn, 599. New Market, 579. Presbyterian Church, 597. Samptowa, 599.


Samptown Baptist Church, 599.


Schools, 594. Seventh-Day Baptist Church, 595. Tavern-keepers, 1742, 599.


Places of burial (see Cemeteries). Plainfield Gazette, 142. Plainfield city and township, 297. Banks, 311. Business of, 308. Cemeteries, 313. Census, 298.


Central Reformed Dutch Church, 306. Congregational Church, 307.


Evona, 319. Fire department, 314. First Baptist Church, 392. Friends, 290.


Gaslight Company, 316. German Reformed Church, 308.


Grace Episcopal Church, 306. Heavenly Rest (Episcopal) Church, 308. Hospital, 316. lan-keepers, 312. Insurance, 312. Laod Company, 319. Library, 316.


Manufacturing companies, 318. Methodist Episcopal Church, 304. Mount Olive Baptist Church, 305. Netherwood, 319.


Park Avenue Baptist Church, 307. Post-offices. 310.


Relief Association, 316. Roads and avenues, 313. Schepfliu, B. & Co., 318. Schools, 298. Second Baptist Church, 304.


Second Presbyterian Church, 305. Seventh-Day Baptist Church, 305. Societies, 317. St. Mary's (Catholic) Church, 308. Trinity Reformed Church, 306. Water supply, 316.




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