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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM290_trentons-early-houses-of-worship_Trenton-NJ.html
Europeans and Africans moving into the Middle Delaware valley in the late 17th and 18th centuries professed and practiced a variety of religious faiths. In the case of the incoming European settlers, most held to some form of Protestant Christian …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28X_20th-century-and-later-trenton-timeline_Trenton-NJ.html
(see the individual stones photographed below)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28W_19th-century-trenton-timeline_Trenton-NJ.html
(see the individual stones photographed below)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28T_18th-century-trenton-timeline_Trenton-NJ.html
(see the individual stones photographed below)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28N_william-trent-of-trents-town_Trenton-NJ.html
By the end of the 17th century William Trent, a native of Inverness Scotland, had established himself as a prominent Philadelphia merchant trading in flour, tobacco, rum and molasses, slaves and indentured servants. His shipping interests extended…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28M_the-west-jersey-proprietors-rule_Trenton-NJ.html
Between 1674 and 1702, the province of West New Jersey was owned and governed by a group of men collectively known as the West Jersey Proprietors. The first proprietors were two Quakers, Edward Byllynge and John Fenwick, who acquired rights to hal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28L_quakers-lead-the-settlement-of-west-jersey_Trenton-NJ.html
In the 1670s and 1680s, most of the proprietors of the Province of West Jersey were Quakers. Quakers were attracted to the new colony by the promise of economic prosperity and religious freedom as well as the opportunity to raise families in a set…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28K_europeans-at-the-falls-of-the-delaware_Trenton-NJ.html
The lands adjoining the Falls of the Delaware River were a natural location for early European settlement, just as they had been a focus of native American occupation. The Falls were little more than a stretch of fast-running shallow water between…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM286_17th-century-trenton-timeline_Trenton-NJ.html
(see the individual stones photographed below)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM284_what-happened-to-the-lenape_Trenton-NJ.html
In the 17th and early 18th centuries, while struggling to maintain their lifestyle of hunting, fishing and gathering, the Lenape released their lands to incoming Europeans through sales and treaties. The Europeans unwittingly brought with them dis…