. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. hway and Staten Island sound. Thesoil is fertile, and is composed of red-shale, clay, loam, and quantities of grass are cut, on the marsh, for manure. Thereare in the township 22 stores, 3 potteries, 2 printing-offices, a grist,saw, and oil mill; cap. in manufac. 8297,250. There^ are 3 acad-emies, ^50 students, 10 schools, .393 scholars. Pop 17,373. Elizabethport lies on Staten Island sound, 2 miles Irom Jijlizabeth-town, and 12 from New York, with which there is a daily steam-boat communication. It is a new an
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. hway and Staten Island sound. Thesoil is fertile, and is composed of red-shale, clay, loam, and quantities of grass are cut, on the marsh, for manure. Thereare in the township 22 stores, 3 potteries, 2 printing-offices, a grist,saw, and oil mill; cap. in manufac. 8297,250. There^ are 3 acad-emies, ^50 students, 10 schools, .393 scholars. Pop 17,373. Elizabethport lies on Staten Island sound, 2 miles Irom Jijlizabeth-town, and 12 from New York, with which there is a daily steam-boat communication. It is a new and thriving place, and. beingthe commencement of the Elizabethtown and Somerville railroad,having a cliurch, several manufacturing establishments, and aliout100 dwellings. J^lizahcfhinwn is 4 miles from Newark, on Eliza-bethtown creek. It contains a court-house, jail, a bank, an insiu-ance office, 4 churches, (1 ^it^tlK^list, 2 Presbyterian and 1 Epis-coi>al,) 3 or 4 academies, upward of 400 dwellings, and about. 2,500 inhabitants. (Se^. page 539) ESSEX COUXTY. 1^9. SoxUhern view in the central part of Elizabeth. The precedinc; statistics relate to the township of Elizabeth in 1842. Since theformation of Union County, Elizabethtown and Elizabetbpoi-t have been constitutedinto one city by the name of Elizabeth the county seat. It is divided into six wardsand by the state census of 1865, contained a population of The city nowcontains 15 churches, (5 Presbyterian, 3 Catholic, 3 Episco]ial, 2 Methodist, 1 Baptistand 1 Congregational,) 2 newspaper printing offices, 2 banks and 20,000 annexed engraving shows the appearance of the central part of the place as seenfrom the bridge at the foot of Broad street. On the left are seen the Court houseand the Presbyterian church, on the right in the distance, the tower of the Episcopalchurch. {See page 538.) Tlie Borough of Elizabeth received its act of incorporationin the thirteenth year of the reign of George II, Fe
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