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Elizabeth, New Jersey

Also known as Elizabethtown

Elizabeth is a city in north-eastern New Jersey, United States, founded in 1664 as Elizabethtown, the first English settlement in the colony. Named after Elizabeth Carteret, wife of the proprietor Sir George Carteret, it was the first capital of New Jersey and of East Jersey. The College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, held its first classes there in 1747.

Elizabeth, New Jersey
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Mentioned in 2 state histories

Province of New JerseyEast Jersey

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Elizabeth, New Jersey. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/elizabeth-new-jersey
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