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From: Your Name <>
Subject: Re: History of county names
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 08:53:30 -0400


You can find a genealogy of the political divisions on the Hunerdon
County NJGenWeb page at:

http://members.aol.com/njysprez/index.htm

DOUG GORDON wrote:
>
> -- [ From: Doug Gordon * EMC.Ver #3.1a PRODIGY ] --
>
> Can someone give me a brief summary of the history of the counties in
> the Hunterdon area, that is, what were the original names and which
> county broke off of which? The main questions that I have are:
>
> 1) I notice that the town of Hopewell is in Hunterdon Co. However, was
> there at one time an entire county named Hopewell?
>
> 2) Was Mercer Co. once part of Hunterdon Co.?
>
> 3) What county was the city of Trenton originally in?
>
> Some old texts that I have been reading about people in this area would
> make more sense if I know the actual extent of the counties at that time
> (late 1600's to late 1700's).
>
> Doug Gordon
>
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