New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . en Town-ship in 1859. Harrison Township, taken from apart of Lodi Township in Bergen County, wascreated in 1840. In 1855 the City of Hoboken waschartered. During the progress of the Civil War the in-creasing demands of population caused a notablesub-division of territory. In 1861 both Bayonneand Union Townships were organized, and Green-ville Township in 1863. During the same periodthe town of West Hoboken was chartered in 1861,and the town of Union in 1864, while in the periodof expansion following the war Kearny Townshipwa
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . en Town-ship in 1859. Harrison Township, taken from apart of Lodi Township in Bergen County, wascreated in 1840. In 1855 the City of Hoboken waschartered. During the progress of the Civil War the in-creasing demands of population caused a notablesub-division of territory. In 1861 both Bayonneand Union Townships were organized, and Green-ville Township in 1863. During the same periodthe town of West Hoboken was chartered in 1861,and the town of Union in 1864, while in the periodof expansion following the war Kearny Townshipwas erected in 1867 and the City of Bayonne in1869. Not until 1878 were there further changes,when the township of Guttenberg was 1898 the further development of Hudson Coun-ty led to the orj^anization of the town of Kearnyy.^./irom i]m township of the sjime name. During theiFtame year the town of West New York came intoexistence, as did the boron«:h of East Newark. In1900 appeared the borough of Secaucus. Of the cities of Hudson Cjounty, exclusive of Jer-. HOBOKKN IK 1776. ONY A]SD AS A STATE 245 sey City, Hobokens census was first taken by theUnited States government in 1850, when the citywas credited with twenty-six hundred ten years this had risen to nine thousand sixhundred, an increase of two hundred and sixty-twoper cent., the largest percentage gain ever madeby any city in New Jersey during eighty years,except by Jersey City in the same decade and byAthmtic City of four hundred and twenty-fiveper cent, between 1870 and 1880. In 1870 Ho-boken was credited with a population of twen-ty thousand, an increase of one hundred andeighty-two per cent. In 1880 there were thirty-onethousand inhabitants of the city, in 1890 forty-three thousand six hundred, in 1900 sixty thou-sand. Bayonnes inhabitants were first recorded in thefederal census in 1870, when the town had aboutfour thousand people. This in 1880 was increasedto nine thousand, in 1890 to nineteen
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