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Bonetown high resolution3/10/2024 When the Proprietors of West Jersey completed its first land survey of the region in 1715, only a few European settlers were recorded along the Rockaway River downhill from what is now Boonton. North Jersey History & Genealogy Center collections (NJHGC).įor thousands of years, native Lenape residents lived along the hills and mountains of northern New Jersey. “Indian Habitations in Warren and Hunterdon Counties”, by Max Scrabisch, 1914-15. Map depicting known Native American settlements along a portion of Northern New Jersey. One of Morris County’s oldest communities - and the onetime site of colonial-era homes, industrial-era factories, and vast fields of farmland - now rests 60 feet beneath the surface of the Jersey City Reservoir.Īmong the structures that stood upon this site was Samuel Ogden’s 4,000-acre estate that once welcomed American generals during the Revolutionary War. Moy, North Jersey History and Genealogy Center
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