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 *'''Navesink or Monmouth Patent (1665)'''. This grant, from Sandy Hook to the Raritan River, was to a group from Gravesend, Long Island, and Quakers and Baptists from Rhode Island. They and other settlers from Massachusetts soon after founded Middletown and Shrewsbury.
-'''English in West Jersey'''. New Englanders settled in Varkens Kill, now Salem, Gloucester, New Jersey in 1641. But the rival Dutch and Swedes destroyed the English blockhouse on Province Island (now Philadelphia airport) and sent the English there to New Amsterdam in 1643. Most of the English who settled in West Jersey died of disease or straggled back to New England around the same time. The remainder 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> A group of English Quakers (Friends) led by John Fenwick began settling the east bank of the Delaware River at Salem in 1675. In 1677 Quakers from London and Hull, Yorkshire, settled New Beverly (now Burlington). In about 1681, Quakers from Ireland settled on Newton Creek, south of Burlington. There were at least 1,400 Quakers in West Jersey by this time.
+'''English in West Jersey'''. New Englanders settled in Varkens Kill, now Salem, Gloucester, New Jersey in 1641. But the rival Dutch and Swedes destroyed the English blockhouse on Province Island (now Philadelphia airport) and sent the English there to New Amsterdam in 1643. Most of the English who settled in West Jersey died of disease or straggled back to New England around the same time. The remainder accepted Swedish rule.<ref>Johnson, Detailed Map.</ref>A group of English Quakers (Friends) led by John Fenwick began settling the east bank of the Delaware River at Salem in 1675. In 1677 Quakers from London and Hull, Yorkshire, settled New Beverly (now Burlington). In about 1681, Quakers from Ireland settled on Newton Creek, south of Burlington. There were at least 1,400 Quakers in West Jersey by this time.
-Cape May, along New Jersey's southern coast, was settled in 1690 by New Englanders (many of Mayflower descent) from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Hartford. For information about these families, see:
-*Howe, Paul Sturtevant. ''Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants in Cape May County, New Jersey — 1620-1920 . . . 1921'', reprint ed. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1977. (Family History Library book {{FHL|264865|title-id|disp=974.998 D2h}}; {{FHL|264865|title-id|disp=film 928297 item 1}}; {{FHL|484873|title-id|disp=fiche 6046063.)}} Digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=FoQ-AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mayflower+Pilgrim+Descendants+in+Cape+May+County,+New+Jersey&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sprHT8W2NKjL2QXhstnvCg&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Mayflower%20Pilgrim%20Descendants%20in%20Cape%20May%20County%2C%20New%20Jersey&f=false Google Books].
 '''Scots'''. The proprietors of East Jersey actively solicited Scottish settlers. From the 1680s to 1750, many Presbyterian Lowlanders from eastern Scotland came to East Jersey, particularly to the present counties of Monmouth, Middlesex, Somerset, and Mercer. Hundreds left Scotland between 1683 and 1685 to settle New Perth at Amboy Point (now Perth Amboy), Plainfield, Freehold, and wilderness areas of the Watchung Mountains. Immigration from Scotland declined after 1690, but the Scots continued to spread west through central New Jersey, eventually reaching the Delaware Valley.