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The following important events in [[New Jersey Genealogy|New Jersey]] history affected political boundaries, record keeping, and family movements. | The following important events in [[New Jersey Genealogy|New Jersey]] history affected political boundaries, record keeping, and family movements. | ||
*'''1623:''' The Dutch of [[New Netherland|New Netherland]] intermittently occupied Fort Nassau (now Brooklawn, Camden, New Jersey) starting in 1623.<ref>Amandus Johnson, "[http:// | *'''1623:''' The Dutch of [[New Netherland|New Netherland]] intermittently occupied Fort Nassau (now Brooklawn, Camden, New Jersey) starting in 1623.<ref>Amandus Johnson, "[http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nycoloni/nswamap.html Detailed Map of New Sweden 1638-1655]" in Amandus Johnson's book ''The Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1664'' (Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1915), 392.</ref><ref>"Fort Nassau" in [http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/T_FORT_NASSAU.HTM Probert Encyclopaedia of Architecture], (accessed 10 November 2008). "Fort Nassau was a fort erected on the site of the present town of Gloucester, New Jersey by Captain Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, representing the Dutch West India Company in 1623. It was abandoned and rebuilt a number of times, and finally abandoned in 1651."</ref><ref>"Location of Fort Nassau" in [http://www.nj.searchroots.com/Gloucesterco/fortnassau.htm#Location Gloucester County, New Jersey History and Genealogy], (accessed 8 November 2008).</ref> | ||
*'''1630''' The northeastern part of New Jersey was the first to be permanently settled because of its close proximity to New Amsterdam (New York City). Bergen (now Jersey City), on the west bank of the Hudson River, was the first permanent Dutch settlement starting in 1630.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen,_New_Netherland "Bergen, New Netherland"] in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia], (accessed 12 December 2008).</ref> | *'''1630''' The northeastern part of New Jersey was the first to be permanently settled because of its close proximity to New Amsterdam (New York City). Bergen (now Jersey City), on the west bank of the Hudson River, was the first permanent Dutch settlement starting in 1630.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen,_New_Netherland "Bergen, New Netherland"] in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia], (accessed 12 December 2008).</ref> | ||
*'''1641''' The English built a blockhouse at Varkens Kill, now Salem, Salem, New Jersey. Disease took many, and by 1643 many others straggled back to New England. The few remaining accepted Swedish rule.<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>Arthur H. Buffington, "New England and the Western Fur Trade, 1629-1675" ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KTQTAAAAYAAJ Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts]'' 18 (1917): 168 digitized by Google, 2007. "Regardless of the rights of the Dutch and the Swedes, two large tracts of land were purchased in southern New Jersey, and another tract on the future site of Philadelphia. The colony of New Haven extended its jurisdiction over this territory and lent the Company its full support. A settlement was made the same year [1641] at Varkens Kill (Salem, New Jersey), but as it was below the Dutch and Swedish posts and therefore unfavorably situated for the fur trade, a trading post was erected the next year near the mouth of the Schuylkill and above the rival posts. So seriously did this new post interfere with trade that the Dutch, probably with the aid of the Swedes, destroyed the fort and took away the settlers to Manhattan. The settlement at Varkens Kill was not disturbed, but it amounted to little. Some of the settlers perished of disease, some straggled back to New Haven, and a few stayed on, submitting themselves to Swedish rule."</ref> | *'''1641''' The English built a blockhouse at Varkens Kill, now Salem, Salem, New Jersey. Disease took many, and by 1643 many others straggled back to New England. The few remaining accepted Swedish rule.<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref><ref>Arthur H. Buffington, "New England and the Western Fur Trade, 1629-1675" ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KTQTAAAAYAAJ Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts]'' 18 (1917): 168 digitized by Google, 2007. "Regardless of the rights of the Dutch and the Swedes, two large tracts of land were purchased in southern New Jersey, and another tract on the future site of Philadelphia. The colony of New Haven extended its jurisdiction over this territory and lent the Company its full support. A settlement was made the same year [1641] at Varkens Kill (Salem, New Jersey), but as it was below the Dutch and Swedish posts and therefore unfavorably situated for the fur trade, a trading post was erected the next year near the mouth of the Schuylkill and above the rival posts. So seriously did this new post interfere with trade that the Dutch, probably with the aid of the Swedes, destroyed the fort and took away the settlers to Manhattan. The settlement at Varkens Kill was not disturbed, but it amounted to little. Some of the settlers perished of disease, some straggled back to New Haven, and a few stayed on, submitting themselves to Swedish rule."</ref> | ||