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UNION COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

Source:
HISTORY
of
UNION AND MIDDLESEX COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY
with
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
of Many of their
Pioneers and Prominent Men
Edited by W. Woodford Clayton
- ILLUSTRATED -
Published: Philadelphia: Everts & Peck
1882

PREFACE		iii - iv
UNION COUNTY.
CHAPTER		PAGE
I. -	Discovery and Occupation of New Netherland.	13
II. -	Attempt to Colonize Achter Kull under the Dutch Rule	15
III. -	First English Settlement at Elizabethtown	17
IV. -	Original Patentees and Associates of Elizabethtown	21
V. -	Indian Occupation	40
VI. -	Indian Hostilities	45
VII. -	Physical and Descriptive Features	48
VIII. -	Government of Philip Carteret	51
IX. -	Government of Philip Carteret (Continued)	54
X. -	Title to Lands	57
XI. -	Beginning of the Revolutionary Struggle	62
XII. -	War of the Revolution	70
XIII. -	War of the Revolution (Continued)	74
XIV. -	War of the Revolution (Continued)	79
XV. -	War of the Revolution (Continued)	87
XVI. -	Early Lawyers, Courts, and Judges	100
XVII. -	Bench and Bar of Union County	108
XVIII. -	Civil Organization	118
XIX. -	The Medical Profession	120
XX. -	Press of Union County	135
XXI. -	Union County in the War of the Rebellion	142
XXII. -	Union County in the War of the Rebellion (Continued)	146
XXIII. -	Union County in the War of the Rebellion (Continued)	151
XXIV. -	Record of Union County Soldiers, 1861 to 1865	157
XXV. -	Township of Elizabethtown	173
XXVI. -	Borough of Elizabethtown	179
XXVII. -	The City of Elizabeth	184
XXVIII. -	City of Elizabeth (Continued)	187
XXIX. -	City of Elizabeth (Continued)	191
XXX. -	City of Elizabeth (Continued)	195
XXXI. -	City of Elizabeth (Continued)	217
XXXII. -	City of Elizabeth (Continued)	227
XXXIII. -	City of Rahway	241
XXXIV. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	244
XXXV. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	246
XXXVI. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	249
XXXVII. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	251
XXXVIII. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	257
XXXIX. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	258
XL. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	270
XLI. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	272
XLII. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	275
XLIII. -	City of Rahway (Continued)	282
XLIV. -	Township of Plainfield	296
XLV. -	Township and City of Plainfield	297
XLVI. -	Township and City of Plainfield (Continued)	302
XLVII. -	Township and City of Plainfield (Continued)	312
XLVIII. -	Township and City of Plainfield (Continued)	316
XLIX. -	Township of Westfield	326
L. -	New Providence	344
LI. -	Springfield	362
LII. -	Union Township	37_
LIII. -	Summit Township	38_
LIV. -	Linden Township	396
LV. -	Township of Cranford	102
LVI. -	Clark Township	40_
LVII. -	Fanwood Township	41_
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MIDDLESEX COUNTY
CHAPTER		PAGE
LVIII. -	Organization of Middlesex County	417
LIX. -	A Brief Account of East Jersey	420
LX. -	Clay District of Middlesex County	422
LXI. -	Early Roads	431
LXII. -	The Partition Line between East and West Jersey	437
LXIII. -	Courts of Middlesex County	44_
LXIV. -	Middlesex County in the Revolution	452
LXV. -	Middlesex County in the Revolution (Continued)	462
LXVI. -	Middlesex County in the Revolution (Continued)	170
LXVII. -	Middlesex Men in the Revolutionary War.	492
LXVIII. -	Bench and Bar of Midwest	496
LXIX. -	The Medical Profession in Middlesex County	5__
LXX. -	Medical Profession (Continued)	5__
LXXI. -	The Press of Middlesex County	5__
LXXII. -	Middlesex County Civil List	532
LXXIII. -	Middlesex County in the War of the Revolution	537
LXXIV. -	Record of Middlesex County Men in the Civil War	539
LXXV. -	Woodbridge	552
LXXVI. -	Woodbridge (Continued)	560
LXXVII. -	Woodbridge (Continued)	563.
LXXVIII. -	Woodbridge (Continued)	565
LXXIX. -	Woodbridge (Continued)	568
LXXX. -	Woodbridge (Continued)	572
LXXXI. -	Woodbridge (Continued)	584
LXXXII. -	Piscataway	586
LXXXIII. -	Piscataway (Continued)	591
LXXXIV. -	Piscataway (Continued)	595
LXXXV. -	City of Perth Amboy	602
LXXXVI. -	City of Perth Amboy (Continued)	608
LXXXVII. -	City of Perth Amboy (Continued)	614
LXXXVIII. -	City of Perth Amboy (Continued)	618
LXXXIX. -	City of Perth Amboy (Continued)	621
XC. -	City of Perth Amboy (Continued)	628
XCI. -	City of Perth Amboy (Continued)	631
XCII. -	City of Perth Amboy (Continued)	633
XCIII. -	City of New Brunswick	640
XCIV. -	City of New Brunswick (Continued)	650
XCV. -	City of New Brunswick (Continued)	656
XCVI. -	City of New Brunswick (Continued)	675
XCVII. -	City of New Brunswick (Continued)	711
XCVIII. -	North Brunswick	739
XCIX. -	East Brunswick	757
C. -	South Brunswick	784
CI. -	Monroe	797
CII. -	Madison	814
CIII. -	South Amboy	822
CIV. -	Raritan Township	839
CV. -	Raritan Township (Continued)	842
CVI. -	Sayreville	852
CVII. -	Cranbury	862

ILLUSTRATIONS:
Includes Middlesex & Union County Illustrations.

	PAGE
- Adain, G. B.	facing 507
- Allen, George W., Property of	betw. 394, 395
- Appleby, Leonard	facing 782
- Appleby, Leonard, L. F.	betw. 782, 783
- Ayres, John R.	285
- Babcock, John F.	facing 530
- Baker, Aaron M.	facing 387
- Baker, Henry	facing 342
- Baker, James C.	facing 384
- Barron, John C.	facing 584
- Bayles, William G.	facing 793
- Berry, W. H.	facing 582
- Bigelow, A. B., Residence of	facing 402
- Boice, Cornelius	116
- Boice, D. J.	facing 319
- Boeream, Henry H.	facing 755
- Boynton's Drain-Pipe and Tile Works	facing 576
- Brant, William	facing 376
- Brown, H. H.	facing 821
- Brown, James M.	facing 578
- Buckelew, James	facing 808
- Burnett, Aaron W.	betw. 378, 379
- Burnet, Daniel	betw. 378, 379
- Chapman, James M.	facing 510
- Clark, A. H.	facing 331
- Clark, Staats	facing 736
- Clark, William, Dr.	facing 328
- Clark, William, Jr.	facing 330
- Conover, Garret	facing 738
- Coriell, William McD.	facing 326
- Coriell, William McD. Residence of	facing 309
- Cirtelyon, Peter	facing 784
- Cory, Joseph	facing 346
- Cory, L.	facing 334
- Crane, John	facing 383
- Crane, M. B.	facing 385
- Cruser, John S.	facing 796
- Cutter, Hampton	facing 580
- Cutter, J. C.	betw. 580, 581
- Cutter, W. H.	betw. 580, 581
- Dally, Samuel	583
- Daly, John J.	facing 133
- Darby, Levi	facing 414
- Dayton, Elias, Gen.	facing 96
- De Forest, W. H., Residence of	facing 388
- Denman, John	408
- Denman, John C.	290
- De Voe, Isaac	facing 781
- Disbrow, Andrew J.	betw. 782, 783
- Disbrow, S. M.	facing 526
- Doying, I. E., Residence of	facing 392
- Drake, Lewis	facing 129
- Dunham, D. B.	facing 253
- Dunham, D. B., Works of	facing 256
- Dunham, H. V.	602
- Earl, William	facing 382

	PAGE
- Elmer, John C.	facing 128
- Essex Felting Mills	facing 410
- Excelsior Fire-Brick and Clay Works	betw. 584, 585
- Flatt, William H.	286
- Freeman, John L.	facing 255
- Freeman, John L., Factory of	255
- French, Robert	facing 341
- Hait, Seymour, Residence of	facing 304
- Hall, Alfred	facing 638
- Headley, John S.	facing 380
- Higgins, D. S.	386
- Hill, John B.	facing 672
- Hough, D. C.	facing 132
- How, Henry K.	756
- Howell, Martin A.	facing 655
- Hutchinson, John T.	387
- Hyer, Lewis S.	141
- Jardine, Andrew	facing 254
- Jardine & Co., Andrew, Factory of	254
- Jobs, Eugene	facing 125
- Jones, Evan	facing 322
- Kinch, Frederick A.	facing 126
- Kirkner, J.	facing 324
- Kirkner, J., Residence of	facing 300
- Kuhlthan, Philip	facing 757
- Laforge, Ira	facing 294
- Laforge, I. & J., Works of	facign 256
- Laforge, Joel	facing 294
- Lambert, John	facing 416
- Latimer, Henry G.	betw. 322, 323
- Lee, Thomas	facing 415
- Letson, Johnson	facing 660
- Leveridge, C. A.	407
- Long, Dennis	betw. 386, 387
- Lowry, Robert	facing 307
- Lufbery, John H.	facing 293
- Lufbery, Joseph O.	facing 293
- Magee, Joseph C.	facing 812
- Magie, Edwin	385
- Male, Job	facing 325
- Male, Job, Residence of	facing 298
- Map, Outline, of Middlesex County	betw. 12, 13
- Map, Outline, of Union County	betw. 12, 13
- Marsh, S. C.	facing 401
- Maurer, Henry	facing 585
- Mershon, William	facing 288
- Meyer, Christopher	facing 664
- Meyer Rubber Company	facing 662
- Miller, John	facing 333
- Morrough, Clifford T.	facing 522
- Munn, George B.	facing 737
- National Bank of New Jersey	672
- Neilson, John	facing 468
- New Jersey Rubber Shoe Company	facing 657
- Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Company	facing 538
- Ogden, John	facing 195

	PAGE
- Osborn, Corra	facing 124
- Osborn, Isaac	facing 292
- Parkhurst, A. M.	facing 343
- Paxton, John	facing 811
- Pierson, Oliver M.	facing 338
- Pierson, Squier	facing 336
- Pillory and Stocks	450
- Plainfield Academy	300
- Pope, E. R.	facing 323
- Porter, Lucius P.	facing 661
- Potter, C., Jr.	facing 320
- Potter, Jotham	361
- Potter Printing - Press Works	facing 318
- Randolph, Asa F.	facing 602
- Richards, John	facing 374
- Rogers, E. Y.	117
- Rowland, Andrew	facing 791
- Rowland, Stryker	facing 790
- Runyon, Mahlon	facing 674
-Ryne, D. K.	295
- Salamander Works	facing 562
- Savage, J. W.	facing 287
- Scudder, I. F.	betw. 340, 341
- Seeley, E. A., Residence and Works of	facing 413
- Smith, Samuel C.	facing 375
- Snedeker, Thomas S.	facing 788
- Spader, Peter	facing 670
- Squier, William C.	facing 289
- St. John's Church, Elizabeth, 1850	224
- St. John's Church, Elizabeth, 1882	226
- St. John's Church, Elizabeth, Parsonage of 1817	225
- St. John's Church, Elizabeth, Parsonage of	222
- Stites, William	facing 373
- Street, Robert	383
- Sutphen, John C.	facing 130
- Taylor & Bloodgood, Works of	facing 410
- Teller, Henry W.	facign 371
- Thompson, John C.	facing 524
- Thornal, Israel	851
- Titsworth, I. D.	601
- Titsworth, R.	134
- Townley, J.	149
- Townley, Robert W.	facing 185
- Tucker, M.	facing 332
- Tucker, William B.	facing 194
- Urmston, John	facing 252
- Vanderventer, J. R.	facing 311
- Voorhees, Abraham	facing 671
- Winans, E. P.	facing 400
- Winans, Job	facing 398
- Winans, Jonathan, Jr.	facing 381
- Withington, I. C.	facing 786
- Withington, I. C., Residence of	facign 787
- Woodruff, Jonathan	facing 291
- Woodruff, Noah	facing 386

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