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“ Besides a great establishment for the manufacture of the “Singer” sewing machine, there are breweries, foundries, potterics, and factories for edge-tools, saws, stoves, carriages, oil-cloth, &c. The port, which is open to vessels of 300 tons, is one of the greatest coal-shipping depots in the United States, forming, as it does, the outlet for the Pennsylvanian fields. The town dates from 1665; it was the capital of New Jersey from February 1755 to September 1790, and obtained its city charter in 1865. Population
in 1850, 5583 ”