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BORDENTOWN , a See also:city of See also:Burlington See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., on the E. See also:bank of the See also:Delaware See also:river, 6 m. S. of Trenton and 28 m. N.E. of See also:Philadelphia. Pop. (18go) 4232; (1900) 4110; (1905) 4073; (1910) 4250. It is served by the See also:Pennsylvania railway, the See also:Camden & Trenton railway (an electric See also:line, forming See also:part of the line between Philadelphia and New See also:York) and by See also:freight and passenger steamboat lines on the Delaware. Bordentown is attractively situat'e'd on a bioadi'level See also:plain; 6`g ft.above the river, with wide, beautifully shaded streets. The city is the seat of the Bordentown Military See also:Institute (with the See also:Wood-See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward memorial library), of the See also:state See also:manual training and See also:industrial school for coloured youth, of the St See also:Joseph's See also:convent and See also:mother-See also:house of the Sisters of See also:Mercy, and of St Joseph's See also:academy for gills. There are See also:ship-yards, See also:iron foundries and forges, See also:machine shops, See also:shirt factories, a pottery for the manufacture of sanitary earthenware, a woollen See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill and See also:canning factories. The first settlers on the site of the city were several Quaker families who came in the 18th See also:century. Bordentown was laid out by Joseph See also:Borden, in whose See also:honour it was named; was incorporated as a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in 1825; was re-incorporated in 1849, and was chartered as a city in 1867. It was the See also:home for some years of See also:Francis See also:Hopkinson and of his son Joseph Hopkinson (whose residences are still See also:standing), and from 1817 to 1832 and in 1837–1839 was the home of Joseph See also:Bonaparte, ex-See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Spain, who lived on a handsome See also:estate known as " Bonaparte's See also:Park," which he laid out with considerable magnificence.
Here he entertained many distinguished visitors, including See also:Lafayette. The legislature of New Jersey passed a See also:special See also:law, enabling him, as an See also:alien, to own real See also:property, and it is said to have been in reference to this that the state received its See also:nickname " Spain." See also:Prince See also:Napoleon Lucien See also:Charles See also:Murat, the second son of See also:Joachim Murat, also lived here for many years; and the estate known as " See also:Ironsides " was See also:long the home of See also:Rear-See also:Admiral Charles See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
Stewart. The Camden & Amboy railway, begun in 1831 and completed from Bordentown to See also:South Amboy (34 m.) in 1832, was one of the first See also:railways in the See also:United States; in See also:September 1831 the famous See also:engine " Johnny See also:Bull," built in See also:England and imported for this railway, had its first trial at Bordentown, and a See also:monument now marks the site where the first rails were laid.
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