New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Ma-jestys Service, the following are mentioned astowns: Piscataway and the out plantations on thesouth side of the Raritan from South River toSomerset; Perth Amboy and the out plantationsfrom Chesquakes to the South River; Woodbridgeand all out plantations in Middlesex not beforenamed; Elizabethtown and its out plantations;Newark and its out plantations; Acquickana-nick, New Barbadoes, and the west side of Hack-ensack; Hackensack and its out plantations; Ber-gen and its out plantations; Middletown and itsout plantations, an
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Ma-jestys Service, the following are mentioned astowns: Piscataway and the out plantations on thesouth side of the Raritan from South River toSomerset; Perth Amboy and the out plantationsfrom Chesquakes to the South River; Woodbridgeand all out plantations in Middlesex not beforenamed; Elizabethtown and its out plantations;Newark and its out plantations; Acquickana-nick, New Barbadoes, and the west side of Hack-ensack; Hackensack and its out plantations; Ber-gen and its out plantations; Middletown and itsout plantations, and Shrewsbury and its out plan-tations. In October, 1693, was passed An Act for di-viding Each County into Townships, supplantingthe legislation of the previous year. The boundsof the townships are more or less clearly set Bergen County were the townships of Hacken-sack and the corporate town of Bergen; in EssexCounty Acquickananick and New Barbadoesas one township, Newark, and Elizabethtown; inMiddlesex County, the corporate town of Wood- *erth Amboy; in Mon-. A rftTnNrAT. tka set. ONY AND AS A STATE 275 mouth County Middletown, Shrewsbury, andFreehold. The County of Somerset was also con-sidered as a tow^nship for constabulary purposes. But while the Legislature thus defined thesesub-divisions it must be remembered that theywere practically established, by custom, as con-stabularies. Indeed, in West Jersey this methodof creating townships from constabularies wasearly practiced. The manuscript pages of thecourt book of Burlington contain, among othermatters, the record of the courts of quarter ses-sions. At such a court held at Burlington Novem-ber 6, 1688, these respective constabularies ortownships in the county were returned by theGrand Inquest and confirmed by the court: Not-tingham, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Springfield, Wil-lingboro, Northampton, Chester, and 1723, according to Beesleys Sketch of theEarly History of Cape May County, the court di-vided Cap
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