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PRINCETON
PLANTING AND TILLING
By WILLIAM M. SLOANE
Princeton is by no means one of the
oldest settlements in the State of New
Jersey, and yet it has a history of more than
two centuries, the first homestead having been
established there in 1682. Although situated
midway, or nearly so, between two of the
largest Colonial towns, and nearly equidistant
from the head of navigation on two important
streams, the Raritan and the Delaware, it remained
a quiet and unimportant hamlet for
over half a century. Most of the travel between
New York and Philadelphia went by
way of Perth Amboy and Camden; there was
little to interrupt the humble labors of the
settlers in clearing the forest and tilling the
soil.
Yet the roll-call of Princeton's pioneers re-
