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Bernards Township, New Jersey

  • Basking Ridge, New JerseyIn the 1720s, British Presbyterians arrived in the Raritan Valley to establish a new community. They purchased land from Chief Nowenok of the Leni Lenape…
  • Bernards Township, New JerseyOn the 24th of May 1760, King George II signed a royal charter creating Bernardston Township from the northern precinct of Somerset County.
  • Pingry SchoolJohn Francis Pingry, a Presbyterian minister, opened the doors of his new school in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the 1st of January 1861.