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NEW JERSEY
A Guide To Its Present And Past
Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey
American Guide Series

Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.

Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002

Chronology
From 1800 to 1850

1800 Population 211,149.
1801 Morris Turnpike-Elizabethtown to Delaware River-is chartered.
Cape May becomes first summer resort to advertise for guests.
1804 February 15. Act passed making free all persons born in New Jersey after July 4, 1804.
First bank chartered, the Newark Banking and Insurance Company.
July 11. Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in duel at Weehawken.
1807 November 16. Franchise extended to every white male taxpayer.
1810 Population 245,562.
1811 First steam ferry operated between New York and Hoboken.
1817 Legislature permits townships to raise money for free schools.
1818 First patent leather produced at Newark by Seth Boyden.
Vail Works at Speedwell (Morris County) builds machinery for Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
1820 Population 277,575.
Jersey City chartered.
1824 First steam locomotive in United States demonstrated by John Stevens on circular track at Hoboken.
1825 Excavation of Morris Canal, from Newark to Phillipsburg, begins.
1826 Seth Boyden produces first malleable cast iron in United States.
1828 Legislature first allocates taxes for support of education.
Paterson mechanics join millworkers in first recorded sympathy strike.
1830 Population 320,823.
1831 Morris Canal opened from Phillipsburg to Newark.
1832 Legislature appropriates $2,000 to extinguish all Indian titles to land in New Jersey.
1833-34 New Jersey's first railroad, the Camden and Amboy, begins operation with English locomotive, the John Bull.
1834 Delaware and Raritan Canal between New Brunswick and Bordentown opened.
Boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey settled.
1836 First Colt revolver made in Paterson by Samuel Colt.
1837 Locomotive industry of Paterson is founded.
1838 Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates his magnetic telegraph at Morristown with Alfred Vail.
First high school opened at Newark.
1840 Population 373,306. Silk winding on spools, devised by John Ryle, builds Paterson industry.
1844 New State Constitution abolishes property qualification for voters.
Convention in session May 14 to June 29; Constitution ratified by people August 13.
Dorothea Dix stirs legislature to reform prison system and to build asylums.
1845 New Jersey Historical Society organized at Trenton.
1846 First professional baseball game in world played at Hoboken between Knickerbocker Giants and a New York Team.
1848 Representative (later Governor) William A. Newell begins successful campaign for Federal aid to lifesaving service.
John Roebling moves his wire-rope factory to Trenton.

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