New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Hoboken had also been secured. Around Newark the turnpikes radiated likespokes from a hub. There, in 1806, were the roadschartered to extend to Pompton, to Mount Pleas-ant, and under the title of the Essex and Middle-sex by way of Elizabeth, Rahway, and Metuchento New Brunswick, while a road was projected,but never completed, to Springfield. During thenext year the Belleville turnpike was chartered,connecting with the Newark and Pompton was in 1811 that the construction of the turn-pike from Newark to Morristown thr
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Hoboken had also been secured. Around Newark the turnpikes radiated likespokes from a hub. There, in 1806, were the roadschartered to extend to Pompton, to Mount Pleas-ant, and under the title of the Essex and Middle-sex by way of Elizabeth, Rahway, and Metuchento New Brunswick, while a road was projected,but never completed, to Springfield. During thenext year the Belleville turnpike was chartered,connecting with the Newark and Pompton was in 1811 that the construction of the turn-pike from Newark to Morristown through SouthOrange was authorized. From Perth Amboy a turnpike, chartered in1808, extended through Bonhamtown and Me-tuchen to Bound Brook, intersected by anotherpike which ran from New Brunswick to Rahway,passing Piscataway, Bonhamtown, and Wood-bridge. With the growth of Paterson and the develop-ment of the Passaic Valley came new 1806 a road was chartered from New Prospectto Ramapo (New York State line), in 1809 theParsippany and Rockaway from Vanduyns. 172 NEW JERSEY AS A COL through Rockaway to the Union turnpike, whileeven the second war with England did not preventthe chartering of a pike from Dover to Succa-sunny. Following the close of the war a numberof roads were projected and built in Passaic andBergen Counties. In 1815 came the Hackensackand Hoboken and the Paterson and Hackensack,in 1816 a pike from the Hudson to the Hacken-sack and Hoboken road, in 1825 a road from Pater-son to New Prospect and New Antrim, and in1828 one from Paterson to Little Falls. Along the valley of the upper Delaware therewere several charters secured for turnpike privi-leges, but little active work was done upon noticeable road, the Spruce Run, was pro-jected in 1813 from Clinton to Sherards Mills,Sussex County; another road was chartered dur-ing the same year from Bayles Mills and WhiteHouse to New Germantown; in 1814 the charterfor a pike from Newton to Deckertown was
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