![]() ![]() However, during the early part of the 19th century, the area was commonly referred to as the "north ward of New Brunswick" and the township is located north of the earlier organized Township of South Brunswick. The aptness of the name "North Brunswick" has proven a puzzle to many modern historians, since the township is actually situated south of New Brunswick and west of East Brunswick. ![]() The first permanent settlement came in 1761. Ira Condict, the Booream family, and Harle Farmer. Other early settlers were, John and Jeremiah Voorhees, James Bennit, John Ryder, Cornelius Tunison, Cornelius de Hart, the Rev. The area known as Maple Meade was formerly known as "Mapletown" in honor of the Maple family, another group of early settlers. ![]() Another family, the Adamses, came here about the same time and settled in the southern area off the present Route 130. "We all know of the immigration here of the earliest Bodine, Nicholas the blacksmith around 1683, and the gradual designation of the area around the current Georges-Hermann-Milltown Roads center as Bodine's (or the modern Berdine's) Corner. Edited excerpts from NORTH BRUNSWICK: A Township History by Ruth Mihalenko 1977 ![]()
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