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Plainfield towoship, 296. Civil list, 297. Early settlement, 296. Natural features, 296. Plainsboro', 869. Plainsboro', 791.
Plainsboro' Church, 793. Poole, H. B., 520.
Pope, Elias R., 322. Porter, L. P., 661. Post-office, Woodbridge, 580. Potter, Charles, Jr., 320. Potter, Jotham, 361. Presbyterian Church : Cranford township, 405. Dayton, 792. First Cranhury, 872. First Elizabeth, 195. First New Brunswick, 702. First Plainfield, 303. First Rahway, 259.
Presbyterian Church : German, Elizabeth, 232. German (First Avenue), Elizabeth, 239. Jamesburg, 809. Linden township, 399. Madison Avenue, Elizabeth, 231. Marshall Street, Elizabeth, 231. Metuchen, 846. New Providence, 356. Old Westfield, 336. Perth Amboy, 626. Piscataway, 597. Second Cranbury, 874. Second Elizabeth, 227. Second Plainfield, 305. Second Raliway, 275. Siloam, Elizabeth, 239. Soutlı Amhoy, 836. Springfield, 366. Summit towoship, 395. Third Elizabeth, 231. Union township, 381. Westminster, Elizabeth, 228. Woodbridge, 568.
Press of Union County, 135.
Printing-press, Woodbridge, 578. Professional men, South Amboy, 829. Prospect Plains, 806.
Provincial Congress of New Jersey, 452, 463.
Pugh, George, 127. Puuishoreut for felony, 1684, 449. Pooislinient of stocks, 1684, 450.
Pyne, Smith, 226.
Quakers (see Friends).
R.
Rahway City : Bsoks, 256. Betbel Methodist Episcopal Church, 282.
Cemeteries, 282. Christ Reformed Episcopal Church, 282. Early History, 24). File of an old paper, 246.
Fire department, 251. First Baptist Church, 276.
First Methodist Episcopal Church. 272. First mills and roads, 244.
First Presbyterian Church, 259. Free Methodist Episcopal Church, 282. Friends' meeting, 270. Gaslight company, 251. Holy Comforter (Episcopal), 282.
Incorporation and boundaries, 249. Library Association, 252. Manufacturing, 253. Rahway io 1827 and 1834, 248. Removal of mill-dams, 249.
Schools, 257. Second Methodist Episcopal Church, 281. Second Presbyterian Church, 275. Sparktown, 245.
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 282. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 282. Transfers of mill property, 244. Water supply, 253. Zion M. E. Church, 282. Raids from Staten Island, 79. Randolph, Asa F., 602. Ranging the woods, 450. Raritan, 839. Bonhamton, 847. Cemeteries, 846. Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, 842. Civil list, 841. Copper-mines, 849.
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INDEX.
Rahway City : Early settlement, 839. First Reformed Church of Metuchen, 845. Ford's Corners, 848. Friends, 842. Manufacturing, 849. Metuchen, 848. Natural features, 839. New Dover M. E. Church, 842. Pust-office, 849.
Presbyterian Church of Metuchen, 846. Sand Hills, 848. St. Francis' Catholic Church, 845. St. James' Episcopal Church, 844, St. Luke's Epis, Church at Metuchen, 845. Stelton Baptist Church, 843. Villages and hamlets, 847.
Rayner, Menzies, 223. Red Tavern, 806. Reformed Church : Central, Plainfield, 306.
Dutch, of Spottswood, 775. First, of Metuchen, 845. First Dutch, New Brunswick, 691. German, Plainfield, 308.
Linden, 399.
Milltown, German, 775. St. John's German, New Brunswick, 735. Third German, New Brunswick, 735. Trinity, Plainfield, 306.
Removal of Tories and Refugees, 84.
Resident Governors of Amboy, 618.
Revolutionary incidents, New Brunswick, 64G. Revolutionary troops, 492.
Rhode Hall, 792. Richards, John, 375. Robiusou, Williani, 122. Rodgers, Charles W., 127. Rogers, Edward Y., 117. Roselle, 381, 399. Ross, Alexander, 516. Ross, John, 114.
Roster of officers and men in Revolution, 98. Roster of Union County soldiers, 1861-65, 157. Rowlaud, Andrew, 796. Rowland, Stryker, 796. Royal African Company, 17.
Rudd, John C., 225. Runyon, Euos, 117. Runyon, Mahlon, 673. Rutgers College, 678. Ryno, Daniel K., 295.
S.
Salt Brook, 360. Sanıptown, 599. Sand Hills, 848. Savage, Joseph W., 28G. Sayreville, 852, 861. Burt's Creek, 861. Civil list, 854. lloly Triuity Episcopal Church, 862. Indostrial pursuits, 855. Mechanicsville, 861. Natural featores, 852.
Organization, 854. Sayreville Methodist Episcopal Church, 862. Schools, 861. Settlement, 852. Situation, 852. Villagea and hamlets, 861. Washington Canal, 862. Sayreville village, 861. Schools of Clark, 410. Cranbury, 870.
Schools of
Cranford, 405. East Brunswick, 763. Elizabeth, 187, 237.
Fanwood, 412. Linden, 398. Madison, 818.
Monroe, 802. New Brunswick, 675, 676.
New Providence, 354. Perth Amboy, 628. Piscataway, 594.
Plainfield, 298. Rahway, 257. Sayreville, 861. South Amboy, 833. South Brunswick, 788. Springfield, 366. Summit, 394. Uniou, 383.
Westfield, 335. Woodbridge, 565.
Scotch Plains, 415.
Scott, J. W., 505.
Scott, Moses, 516.
Scudder, Isaac F., between 340, 341.
Secret societies 6(ee Societies).
Sentence to be burned alive, 450.
Settlement of Cranbury, 862.
Settlement of East Bronawick, 758.
Settlement of North Brunswick, 739. Settlement of Sayreville, 852.
Settlement of South Amboy, 823.
Settlement of South Brunswick, 784.
Situation of Madison, 814.
Situation and boundaries of East Brunswick, 757.
Situation And boundaries of South Bruos- wick, 784.
Skillman, J. T. B., 521.
Skinner, Cortlandt, 498.
Skinner, Stephen, 499.
Smith, Charles, 517.
Smith, Charles M., 520.
Smith, E. F. R., 520.
Smith, Samuel C., 375.
Snedeker, Thomas S., 795. Societies:
Cranbury, 870.
East Brouswick, 781.
Elizabeth, 192. Monroe, 808.
New Providence, 360.
Perth Amboy, 638. Plainfield, 316. South Amboy, 837. Woudbridge, 580.
Soldiers of Middlesex County in late war, 539. Soldiers of the Rebellion, Union County, 157. Soldiers of the Revolution, 98. Soldiers of Middlesex County, 539.
South Amboy, 822, 826. Building loans, 827.
Cemeteries, 832. Christ Episcopal Church, 834. Descriptive, 822.
Doane Memorial Church, 835.
First Baptist Church, 836.
First Presbyterian Church, 836. Industrial pursuits, 831. Merchants and dealers, 828. Methodist Church, 835. Methodists of South Amboy, 836. Organization, 829. Professional men, 829. Public schools, 833. Rattoone House, 824.
South Amboy: Settlement, 823. Situation and boundaries, 822. Societies, 837. South Amboy village, 826. St. Mary's Catholic Church, 835. South Brunswick, 784. Baptist Church, Dayton, 792. Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, Plains- boro', 792. Burial-placea, 789.
Civil list, 787.
Dayton, 791. Dean's Station, 791.
Description, 784.
Educational, 788.
Franklin Park, 792.
Fresh Ponds, 792.
Gray'a Mills, 791. Industrial pursuits, 789.
Kingston, 790. Mapleton, 791. Monmouth Junction, 792. Monmouth Junction Church, 793. Old Church, Plainsboro', 793. Organization, 787.
Plainsboro', 791.
Presbyterian Church, Dayton, 792.
Rhode Hall, 792. Settlement, 784. Situation and boundaries, 784. Villages and hamlets, 790.
Spader, Peter, 670.
Speaking against authority, 450.
Spencer, Elihu, 209.
Spencer, Oliver, 77. Spottswood, 778.
Spraggs, Samuel, 223.
Springfield township, 362. Centennial of 1876, 371. Civil organization, 364. Early settlements, 362. Methodist Church, 371. Natural features, 362. Original boundaries, 362. Presbyterian Church, 368. Present census, 366. Schools, 366. Village of Springfield, 366.
Squier, W. C., 289. Stelton, 849. Stiles, Ilezekialı, 517.' Stillman, Charles II., 128. Stirling, Gen., 88. Stites, William, 373. Stockton, Richard, Sr., 500. Street, Robert, 382. Strickland, John, 21. Strong, Woodbridge, 510. Stuyvesaut, Governor, 47. Summary of papers, Middlesex County, 531. Summit towuship, 387. Baptist Church, 395. Business touses, 393, Calvary Episcopal Church, 394. Catholic Church, 394. Cemetery, 394. Census, 388. Civil organization, 392. Early settlement, 388. Geographical situation, 387. Historic incidents, 394. Library Association, 393. Methodist Church, 395. Natural featurea, 387. Newspapers, 394. Post-office, 394.
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INDEX.
Summit township : Presbyterian Church, 395. Railroads, 393. Schools, 394. Villages and hamlets, 393. Sutphen, John C., 130. Swain, Samuel, 127. Synagogue, Jewish, New Brunswick, 735.
T.
Tavern-keepers, 1742, 599. Tavern rates in 1717, 448. Tavern rates in 1748, 450. Taylor, A. F. R., 518. Taylor, Augustus R., 517. Tax for prisons, Middlesex County, 447. Teedyescung, 47.
Teller, Ileary W., 371. Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, 687. Thirtieth Regiment, 156. Thompson, John C., 527. Thornal, Israel, 850. Title to lands, 57. Titswortlı, I. D., 601. Titsworth, Randolph, 134. Topography of Middlesex County, 422. Tornado at New Brunswick, 653.
Tower Hill, 632. Townley, Jonathan, 149. Townley, Robert W., facing 185. Townships of Middlesex County, 419. Traditions of Delaware tribes, 42. Transfer of Estates to East and West Jersey, 442. Trembly's Point, 400. Tribal badges of Indians, 43. Tripartite deed, 439. Tryon, Governor, 72. Tucker, Moses, 343. Tucker. W. B., facing 194. Twenty-eighth Regimeut, 537.
U.
Union County, 13.
Affairs in 1669, 55. Answer to Bill in Chancery, 62.
Attempt to capture Livingston and Max- well's brigades, 82. Attempt to colonize Achter Kull, 15
Beginning of Revolutionary struggle, 62. Bench and bar of Middlesex Coouty, 108. Bill in Chancery, 61. Board of Freeholders, 119. Borough of Elizabeth, 179. Bridgetown Museum and New Jersey Adro- cute, 138
Campaign transferred to New Jersey, 74. Central New Jersey Herald, 138. Central New Jersey Times, 142. City of Plainheld, 296. City of Rahway, 241. Civil organization, 118. Clark, 409. Conquest of Delawares, 43. Constitutionalist, 142. County buildings, 118. Crauford, 402. Daily and Weekly Bulletin, 142. Delawares, 41. Delawares, traditions of, 42.
Depreciated currency and bard times, 83
Discovery aud occupation of New Nether- land, 13. Disposal of De' wares, 47.
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Union County : Early courts and lawyers, 100. Early physicians, 121. Early status of medicine, 120. Effect of battle of Lexington, G5. Eleventh Regiment, 149. Elizabeth Freie Presse, 138. Elizabeth Freie Zeitung, 138. Fanwood, 411. First English settlement, Elizabethtown, 17. First litigation of land controversy, 50.
First New Jersey Legislature, 53.
Fourteenth Regiment, 151. Government of Philip Carteret, 51. Indian hostilities, 45. Indian occupation, 40.
Knyphansen's invasion, 87.
Linden, 396.
List of members, 109.
List of soldiers, 157.
Medical profession of Union County, 120.
Medical societies, 128.
National Democrat, 140.
New Jersey Journal, 135.
New Providence, 344.
Ninth Regiment, 146.
Occupation of Elizabethtown hy British, 90. Original petitioners and associates, 21.
Physical and descriptive features, 48.
Plainfield Gazette, 142.
Population, 43.
l'ress of the county, 135.
Raids from Staten Island, 77.
Removal of Tories and Refugees, 84.
Rosters of soldiers Union County in Revo- lution, 98.
Severe winter of 1780.
Springfield, 302.
Summit, 387. Tatem's, 43.
Thirteenth Regiment, 156.
3'itle to land-, 57.
Township of Elizabethtown, 173.
Union, 376. Union County in the Rebellion, 143.
War of Revolution, 70. Westfield, 326.
Uuion township, 376. Burial ground, 384.
Census, 379. Civil list, 379.
Connecticut Farms, 381.
Early settlement, 376.
Evergreen Cemetery, 384.
Lyons Farus, 380.
Magietown, 381.
Methodist Church, West Roselle, 383.
Physical features, 376. Presbyterian Church, 380.
Roselle, 381. St. Luke's Episcopal Mission, 383.
Schools, 383. Wade's Farme, 381.
I'nion Valley, 805. Urmston, John, facing 252.
V.
Vanderventer, J. R., 311.
Van Densen, William, 521. Van Dyck, Hendrick. 47. Van Ilarlingen, Dr., 519. Van Rensselaer, K., 14. Van Voorhees, Minue, 695.
Vanghan, Edward, 219. Voorhees, Abraham, 671. Voorhees, Charles H., 525.
W.
War of the Revolution, 70.
Washington, 776. Washington Canal, 862. Washington, George, 66, 70, 76, 77.
Watson, Luke, 22, 53.
Westfield township, 326. Afticau Methodist Episcopal Church, 339
Baptist Church, 339. Brauch Mills, 334. Catholic Church, 339. Centeteries, 339. Census reports, 335. Civil list, 327. Congregational Church, 339. Early settlements, 328.
Grace Episcopal Church, 339. Methodist Church, 338.
Morgan's Hill, 334. Natural features, 326. Okul Westfield Church, 336.
Organization, 326. Original boundaries, 326.
Post-offices, 333.
Purchase of powder, 332.
Schools, 334. Taverns, 334.
Village of Westfield, 332. Westfield Monitor, 339.
Whipping-post, 150.
Williamson, Benjamin, 114.
Williamson, Gen , 74.
Williamson, Isaac H., 112.
Williamson, M. II., 127.
Wilson, Allen, 128. Winans. Dr., 127. Winans, E. P, 401.
Winans, Job, 400.
Winans, Jonathan, Jr., facing 381.
Withington, I. C., 794.
Wood, George, 504. Woodbridge Academy, 567.
Woudbridge, 552. Builling a bridge, 562.
Cemeteries, 576. Census reports, 554.
Civil history, 560.
Civil list, 563.
Congregational Church, 374.
Copper-mines, 579. Early settlements, 554.
Friends, 574. General ilescription, 552.
Interesting facts, 580. Methodist Church, 574. Natural features, 553.
Paquet Creek, 580.
Poor rates, 579. Post-offices, 580.
Presbyterian Church, 56%.
Printing-press in Woodbridge, 578.
Railroads, 581. Schools, 565. Societies, 580. St. James' ( Roman), 574. Towns and hamlets, 577. Trinity Episcopal Church, 572. Woodbridge Academy, 567.
Woodruff, Jonathan, 291. Woodruff, Noah, 386.
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