In 1714, John Reid, the first Surveyor General of East Jersey, wanted the county seat located in Freehold Township and thus sold the property to the Board of Chosen Freeholders at a bargain price, what may have been the deciding factor in Freehold’s competition with Middletown and Shrewsbury for the site. Freehold Township was formally established by an act of the Legislature on October 31, 1693, one of the three original townships in Monmouth County.įreehold was originally named Monmouth Courthouse. The area was first settled in 1685 by a group of Scottish reformers fleeing religious persecution. On June 23, 1664, the Duke of York granted a patent to Sir George Carteret and John, Lord Berkely for the entire area of what now constitutes New Jersey. The Dutch West India Com., formed in Holland in 1671, developed commerce in the New World and in 1623 organized the New Jersey-Hudson River area into the Province of New Netherlands. It wasn’t until September 1609 that the first European actually set foot at Sandy Hook. The Lenni Lenape Indians originally inhabited the area called Freehold Township.
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