. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. to death. From London truly famed came I;Was bom in Stains, a place near by;In Raz-way at old age did die ;And here intombd in earth must lie,Till Christ ye dead calls from on high. SPRINGFIELD. Springfield was formed from Newark and Elizabeth, in is about G miles long, and 4 wide ; bounded N. by Livingston, Clinton and Union, SW. by Westfield and New Providence, andW. by Chatham, Morris co. The surface is generally hilly; theShort Hills passing through it centrally. Rahway river, with sev-eral branches, is on
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. to death. From London truly famed came I;Was bom in Stains, a place near by;In Raz-way at old age did die ;And here intombd in earth must lie,Till Christ ye dead calls from on high. SPRINGFIELD. Springfield was formed from Newark and Elizabeth, in is about G miles long, and 4 wide ; bounded N. by Livingston, Clinton and Union, SW. by Westfield and New Providence, andW. by Chatham, Morris co. The surface is generally hilly; theShort Hills passing through it centrally. Rahway river, with sev-eral branches, is on its eastern boundary, on which are numerousmills and factories. There are in the township 11 paper-m., 3 ESSEX COUNTY. 191 grist-m., 2 saw-m.: cap. in manufac. 8158,694; 7 schools, 453scholars. Pop. in 1865, 869. The village of Springfield is on the turnpike road from Eliza-bethtown to Morristown, 6 miles from the former, 11 from the lat-ter, 8 SW. from Newark, and 50 from Trenton. It is at the footof the Short hills, or First mountain, near Rahway river. It is a am. Western View in Springfield. village, containing about 200 houses, a Presbyterian anda Methodist church, 5 stores, 10 paper-mills, v^^ith a number of hatand shoe manufactories. The annexed engraving shows, on +heright, the Presbyterian church ; on the left, the Methodist churchand the ancient parsonage. The parsonage was one of the fewdwellings preserved, when the British burnt the village and church,in 1780. After the church was destroyed, public worship was forsome months performed in the parsonage, until the barn was ren-dered in a measure convenient for that purpose ; where meetingsivere held until the present Presbyterian church was completed, in1790 or 1791. The following historical items were derived from two manuscriptsermons: one delivered by the present pastor of the Presbyterianchurch. Rev. J. C. Hart, July 4th, 1840 ; the other by a former pas-tor, in 1823. The time the earliest white inhabit
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