. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. eading to Rocky-hill, while the enemy in pursuit, supposinghe had gone to New Brunswick to destroy their winter stores, kepton the main road. Cross-roads contains 2 taverns, 2 stores, andabout 15 dwellings. has a store, tavern, a grist-m.,and a few dwellings. Cranberry is partly in Monroe township. The village is princi-pally built on a single street, and contains 2 Presbyterian churches,2 academies, 73 dwellings, and about 000 inhabitants. The annexedis a view of the First Presbyterian church and academy, a
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. eading to Rocky-hill, while the enemy in pursuit, supposinghe had gone to New Brunswick to destroy their winter stores, kepton the main road. Cross-roads contains 2 taverns, 2 stores, andabout 15 dwellings. has a store, tavern, a grist-m.,and a few dwellings. Cranberry is partly in Monroe township. The village is princi-pally built on a single street, and contains 2 Presbyterian churches,2 academies, 73 dwellings, and about 000 inhabitants. The annexedis a view of the First Presbyterian church and academy, at thesouthern termination of the village. There is also a neat Presby-terian church and an academy at the other end ol the town. For-merly a Presbyterian church stood in the graveyard, but it wag 320 MIDDLESEX COUNTY. taken down many years since, A Baptist church, in olden times,stood in the village. The society now worship at is one of the oldest places in this part of the state. Itwas settled about the year 1697, by Josiah Prickett, butcher, of. View of the Presbyterian Church and Academy, Cranberry. The following year he sold out to John Harrison ofFlushing, Long Island. About 50 years since there were only 15houses here, eight on the south and seven on the north side of Cran-berry brook. .lust previous to the battle of Monmouth, the Ameri-can army passed through this place. It was in the vicinity of Cranberry that David Brainerd, thepious and devoted missionary, labored for a while among the Indi-ans. Mr. Brainerd at first preached to the Indians in the woods,between Stockbridge and Albany, but without much apparent suc-cess. He then turned his attention to the Indians at the forks ofthe Delaware, and at Crossweeksung and Cranberry, where his la-bors were attended with remarkable success. His life and diaryamong the Indians, says an eminent English divine, exhibits aperfect pattern of the qualities which should distinguish the in-structor o
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