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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 132 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GLOUCESTER See also:CITY , a city of See also:Camden See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., on the See also:Delaware See also:river, opposite See also:Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 6564; (1900) 684o, of whom 1094 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 8055; (1910) 9462. The city is served by the See also:West Jersey & Seashore and the See also:Atlantic City See also:railways, and by See also:ferry to Philadelphia, of which it is a residential suburb. Among its manufactures are incandescent See also:gas-burners, rugs, See also:cotton yarns, boats and drills. The See also:municipality owns and operates the See also:water See also:works. It was near the site of Gloucester City that the Dutch in 1623 planted the See also:short-lived See also:colony of Fort See also:Nassau, the first See also:European See also:settlement on the Delaware river, but it was not until after the arrival of See also:English See also:Quakers on the Delaware, in 1677, that a permanent settlement, at first called Axwamus, was established on the site of the See also:present city. This was surveyed and laid out as a See also:town in 1689. During the See also:War of See also:Independence the See also:place was frequently occupied by troops, and a number of skirmishes were fought in its vicinity. The most noted of these was a successful attack upon a detachment of Hessians on the 25th of See also:November 1777 by See also:American troops under the command of See also:General See also:Lafayette. In 1868 Gloucester City was chartered as a city. In Camden county there is a township named GLOUCESTER (pop. in 1905, 2300), incorporated in 1798, and originally including the present township of Clemeriton and parts of the present townships of See also:Waterford, See also:Union and See also:Winslow.

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