. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . TWO POUNDS. (p4^S IIor-d Uatt of tbe Colony of ^J^ N^xM-tork, tijftf Bill, toftiibr received in. all PayrmnXs in (Im ^^tajury^ &r TWO POUNDS. ITEW-rOKK, TT f COLONIAL CHAPTER XV The Genesis of Counties, Cities, andTownships UPON the 13th of Xovember, 1675, thefirst counties within the limits ofthe State were created by act of theLegislature of East Jersey, uponthe plea of the necessity for erect-ing county courts. The statute, although indefi-nite in its description of boundaries, clearly statesthat two su
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . TWO POUNDS. (p4^S IIor-d Uatt of tbe Colony of ^J^ N^xM-tork, tijftf Bill, toftiibr received in. all PayrmnXs in (Im ^^tajury^ &r TWO POUNDS. ITEW-rOKK, TT f COLONIAL CHAPTER XV The Genesis of Counties, Cities, andTownships UPON the 13th of Xovember, 1675, thefirst counties within the limits ofthe State were created by act of theLegislature of East Jersey, uponthe plea of the necessity for erect-ing county courts. The statute, although indefi-nite in its description of boundaries, clearly statesthat two such courts should be held each year inBergen and its adjacent plantations, in Elizabeth-town and Newark, in Woodbridge and Piscata-way, and in the two towns of Navesink. To thesefour counties no names were given, nor were theirlimits defined until March, 1682, when Bergen,Essex, Middlesex, and Monmouth were set off byname. In the act of the East Jersey Legislature creat-ing these territorial subdivisions, Bergen was de-fined as embracing all of what is now Hudson(east of the Hackensack Kiver) and a portion ofmodern Bergen County. Essex comprised modernEssex, Union, part of Passaic, part of Hudson, agreater part of Bergen, and a portion of SomersetC
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