. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. nd 8i)eakcr of the house of assembly. He was appointed a judge ofthe court, and sat on the bench with dignity, uprightness, and solidity of judgment. .In his last illness, which was of the most painful kind, the exercise of every Christiangrace shone with peculiar lustre. l56 ESSEX COUNTY. BLOOMFIELD Bloomfield is 5 miles long, 3 wide ; bounded N. by Acquacka-nonck, Passaic co. ; E. by Belleville ; S. by Orange and Newark ;and W. by Caldwell and Orange. The soil is highly productive; thesurface on the W. mountainous. The S
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. nd 8i)eakcr of the house of assembly. He was appointed a judge ofthe court, and sat on the bench with dignity, uprightness, and solidity of judgment. .In his last illness, which was of the most painful kind, the exercise of every Christiangrace shone with peculiar lustre. l56 ESSEX COUNTY. BLOOMFIELD Bloomfield is 5 miles long, 3 wide ; bounded N. by Acquacka-nonck, Passaic co. ; E. by Belleville ; S. by Orange and Newark ;and W. by Caldwell and Orange. The soil is highly productive; thesurface on the W. mountainous. The Second and Third rivers, onwhich are numerous manufacturing establishments, have theirsources near the foot of the mountains, and flow into the Morris canal runs through the E. part. There are in Bloom-field, 3 paper, 1 cotton, and 2 woollen factories; 1 dyeing and print-ing establishment; 1 fulling, 1 copper rolling, 2 grist, and 2 saw m.;and 1 button factory; cap. in manufac. $111,000. There are 3academies, 8 schools, 255 scholars. Pop. in 1865,(),4:( View of the Presbyterian Church at Bloomfield. The annexed is a view of the Presbyterian church on the milita-ry common in Bloomfleld, 3^ miles NW. of Newark. It is a sub-stantial stone edifice, erected in 1790. The village of Bloomfieldmay be considered as extending about 3^ miles in a NW. direction,including West Bloomfield. The number of houses within theselimits is about 300. There are also 2 Presbyterian and 2 ]\Ieth-odist churches, 7 or 8 stores, and several manufacturing establish-ments. Bloomfield was early settled by part of the colony of NewEnglanders which founded Newark. Stone House Plains, in thenorthern part of the township, was settled by the Dutch. It con-tains 30 or 40 houses, and a Dutch Reformed church. Speertown,in the same vicinity, is a somewhat smaller collection of Bloomfield Collegiate and Commercial School, the Bloonilield Female Seminary, and the Mount ProspectBoarding Scho
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