Raritan Landing, New Jersey

Raritan Landing is an historical community in Piscataway, New Jersey.

It was a port community along the Raritan River across the river from New Brunswick, New Jersey. During New Jersey's Colonial period the town shared a grain trade and import business with New Brunswick. Raritan Landing was the point furthest inland on the river that ocean-going ships could reach. The remains of the community now reside buried beneath Johnson Park on the south side of River Road in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Residents

*Margaret DeGroot and Benjamin Field
*Jeremiah Field
*Lena Suydam and George Boice
*Peter Bodine
*Abraham Van Ranst
*Isaac Wilson
*Edward Antill, merchant
*Catherine LaBoyteaux and John Bodine, trader
*Jean Blair
*Daniel and John Bray
*John Castner
*William Dugdale, merchant
*Effie Hardenbrook and Evert Duyckinck, trader
*Adolphus Hardenbrook, merchant
*Duncan Hutchison, physician
*John Neilson, physician
*Bernardus LaGrange, merchant
*Elizabeth Henry and Paul LaBoyteaux (1699-after1766)
*Gabriel LaBoyteaux
*Cornelius Low I (1691-1783), merchant
*Isaac Smalley
*Catheryntje and Johannes TenBrook, merchant

Timeline

*1700 (circa) Raritan Landing community first occupied
*1740 Raritan Landing community included 70 structures and more than 100 inhabitants.
*1741 Cornelius Low House is built.
*1825 Landing Lane was lined with blacksmith shops, cooper shops, stores and warehouses.
*1830 Construction of Delaware and Raritan Canal begins
*1834 Delaware and Raritan Canal completed.
*1870 Most of the community is dismantled and converted to pastureland.
*1936 Cornelius C. Vermeule, a Piscataway resident, creates a map of Raritan Landing based on his research. The numbers on the map correspond to houses and are keyed to a list of owners included in an article published in the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. His publication draws others into researching the history of the area. Some of the Vermeule designations are later updated with wills, deeds, newspaper reports, and other paper record.

External links

*http://www.raritanlanding.com/