|
SOMERVILLE , 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 and the See also:county-seat' of See also:Somerset county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., in the See also:north central See also:part of the See also:state, on the Raritan See also:river, about 36 m. S.W. of New See also:York See also:City. Pop. (189o), 3861; (1900), 4843, of whom 56o were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905), 4782; (1910), 5069. It is served by the Central Railroad of New Jersey and by inter-See also:urban electric lines. Adjoining the borough on the See also:west is the See also:town of Raritan (pop. in 1910, 3672). Places of See also:interest in Somerville are the Old Parsonage of the Dutch Reformed See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, built in 1750–1751 of See also:brick imported from See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland by the Rev. See also:Theodorus Jacobus See also:Frelinghuysen, the first pastor; the See also:Wallace See also:House, built in 1778 and occupied by See also:General See also:Washington as his See also:head-quarters during the following See also:winter, when the See also:main See also:army was in See also:camp at See also:Bound See also:Brook; and See also:Duke's See also:Park (partly in Raritan), the immense private See also:estate (laid out as a park and open to the public) of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James B. Duke, See also:president of the See also:American See also:Tobacco See also:Company. Somerville has a See also:fine county See also:court house (1909) of See also:Alabama See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:marble. Among the borough's manufactures are stoves, ranges, See also:soil See also:pipe, brick, woollen goods and shirts. Settlements were made within the See also:present limits of Somerville in the last See also:quarter of the 17th See also:century, and the See also:village was at first called Raritan, all that part of the Raritan Valley from Bound Brook to the junction of the north and See also:south branches of the river, and including the present Somerville and Raritan, then being popularly called " Raritans." The present name was adopted in ,8ox. Somerville became the county-seat in 1783, after the destruction of the court-house in what is now the borough of Millstone (in Hillsborough township, about 6 m. south of Somerville) on the 27th of See also:October 1779 by See also:British troops under See also:Colonel See also:John See also:Graves See also:Simcoe; it was incorporated as a town in 1863, and as a borough in 1909.
End of Article: SOMERVILLE
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!