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From: Bill Mennel <>
Subject: Re: Trenton
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:25:47 -0400

At 08:14 PM 21-09-98 -0400, Barbara Barnett wrote:
>Bill -
>
>Now that I see I've given Doug a different answer than yours to "What
>County was Trenton in?", I'm wondering if we are talking about two
>different time frames: I've got Mahlon Stacey, usually considered among
>the first settlers of Trenton, in the Nottingham Town Book in 1692.
>Nottingham was at that time in Burlington County. Did Trenton proper go
>to Hunterdon later?
>

Barbara

Hunterdon County was set off of Burlington County in 1714 and included all
of West Jersey that lay north of the Assunpink Creek and Trenton was named
the county seat for Hunterdon in 1719. Nottingham was in Burlington County
south of the Assunpink.

Bill

William Mennel


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