Place · city
Salem, New Jersey
Salem is a city in south-western New Jersey near the Delaware River. It was founded in 1675 by the English Quaker John Fenwick, one of the proprietors of West Jersey, as one of the first English settlements in the Delaware valley. The Salem Oak, beneath which Fenwick was said to have made a treaty with the Lenape, stood there until 2019.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Salem, New Jersey. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/salem-new-jersey
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