There had been burials at the location before the granting of tract, with one readable gravestone dating from 1693. The Piscatawaytown Burial Ground is one of the oldest recorded cemeteries in Middlesex County and maintained by the township. James Church as a barracks and a hospital from December 1776 to June 1777.Ī June 1835 tornado caused damage to many of the gravestones as well as Saint James Church. The Post Road (a post road, now Woodbridge Avenue) was a main land artery for British communications and movement of supplies and troops. Ĭonsiderable military activity and battles known as the Forage War took place during the Revolutionary War in the Piscatawaytown area in 17. Saint James Church was established in 1704 and the original structure built in 1724. The settlement comprised a town hall, militia training ground, stockade, jail, church, burial ground and houses. The Proprietors of the Province of East New Jersey granted a tract of land for a burial ground and a town common on March 5, 1695. Raritan Township was renamed Edison in the 1950s. On March 17, 1870, portions of adjacent Piscataway and Woodbridge were used to form Raritan Township. Other settlements included Quibbletown and Raritan Landing. Soon thereafter dditional settlers from the Piscataqua River, the state boundary of New Hampshire and Maine moved to region, bringing the name.

In 1666, the first proprietary Governor of the Province of New Jersey, Philip Carteret, granted 12 new settlers from Massachusetts a 100 square mile allotment of land that was later founded as the townships of Piscataway and Woodbridge. Piscataway was settled New Englanders in the 17th century. The Raritan were bands of the Lenape people living around the Raritan River and its bay, in what is now central New Jersey and Staten Island, New York. James Church, the Piscatawaytown Burial Ground and the Piscatawaytown Common, near the intersection of Plainfield and Woodbridge Avenues. It was established in the 1660s as the original village in what was then within Piscataway.

Piscatawaytown is the oldest neighborhood in Edison in Middlesex County, New Jersey.

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