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Monmouth Tract, the Glossary

The Monmouth Tract, also known as the Monmouth Patent, Navesink Tract or Navesink Patent was a large triangular tract of land granted as a land patent to settlers of New Jersey during the early American colonial period.^[1]

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1665 establishments in New Jersey
Raritan Bayshore

Achter Kol, New Netherland

Achter Kol (or Achter Col) was the name given to the region around the Newark Bay and Hackensack River in northeastern New Jersey by the first European settlers to it and was part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, administered by the Dutch West India Company.

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Barnegat Bay

Barnegat Bay is a small brackish arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately long, along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States.

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Bergen County, New Jersey

Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

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East Jersey

The Province of East Jersey, along with the Province of West Jersey, between 1674 and 1702 in accordance with the Quintipartite Deed, were two distinct political divisions of the Province of New Jersey, which became the U.S. state of New Jersey. Monmouth Tract and East Jersey are pre-statehood history of New Jersey.

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Elizabeth, New Jersey

Elizabeth is a city in and the county seat of Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Elizabethtown Tract

The Elizabethtown Tract was a property that was purchased on October 28, 1664, by John Baily, Daniel Denton and Luke Watson from the Native Americans that is in the area of (and surrounding) present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. Monmouth Tract and Elizabethtown Tract are pre-statehood history of New Jersey.

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Essex County, New Jersey

Essex County is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, and is one of the centrally located counties in the New York metropolitan area.

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Freehold Township, New Jersey

Freehold Township is a township in western Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was a Dutch-born English nobleman and military officer.

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John Bowne

John Bowne (1627–1695), the progenitor of the Bowne family in America, was a Quaker and an English immigrant residing in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.

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Land patent

A land patent is a form of letters patent assigning official ownership of a particular tract of land that has gone through various legally-prescribed processes like surveying and documentation, followed by the letter's signing, sealing, and publishing in public records, made by a sovereign entity.

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Lenape

The Lenape (Lenape languages), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.

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Lewis Morris (governor)

Lewis Morris (October 15, 1671May 21, 1746), chief justice of New York and British governor of New Jersey, was the first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York City (in what is now the Bronx).

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Middlesex County, New Jersey

Middlesex County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, extending inland from the Raritan Valley region to the northern portion of the Jersey Shore.

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Middletown Township, New Jersey

Middletown Township is a township in northern Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Monmouth Tract and Middletown Township, New Jersey are Raritan Bayshore.

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Monmouth County, New Jersey

Monmouth County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Monmouthshire (historic)

Until 1974, Monmouthshire, also formerly known as the County of Monmouth (Sir Fynwy), was an administrative county in the south-east of Wales, on the border with England, and later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Nathaniel Sylvester

Nathaniel Sylvester (1610–1680) was an Anglo-Dutch sugar merchant, enslaver, and the first European settler of Shelter Island.

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Navesink people

The Navesink, or Navisink, (or Nave Sinck) were a group of Lenape who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore near Sandy Hook and Mount Mitchill in eastern New Jersey in the United States. Monmouth Tract and Navesink people are Raritan Bayshore.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New Netherland

New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America. Monmouth Tract and New Netherland are pre-statehood history of New Jersey.

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Newark Bay

Newark Bay is a tidal bay at the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in northeastern New Jersey.

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Obadiah Holmes

Obadiah Holmes (1610 – 15 October 1682) was an early Rhode Island settler, and a Baptist minister who was whipped in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs and activism.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Raritan River

The Raritan River is the longest and largest river of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Richard Nicolls

Richard Nicolls (sometimes written as Nichols, 1624 – 28 May 1672) was the first English colonial governor of New York province.

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Sandy Hook

Sandy Hook is a barrier spit in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Monmouth Tract and Sandy Hook are Raritan Bayshore.

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Second Anglo-Dutch War

The Second Anglo-Dutch War, or Second Dutch War, began on 4 March 1665, and concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Breda on 31 July 1667.

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Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Shrewsbury is a borough in eastern Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_Tract

Also known as Monmouth Patent, Navesink Patent, Navesink Tract.

Monmouth Tract, the Glossary

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See also

1665 establishments in New Jersey

Raritan Bayshore

References