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Īt independence, Monmouth's population included 1,640 slaves, as well as an undetermined number of free African Americans. It was at Monmouth that the tactics and training from Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben developed at Valley Forge during the winter encampment were first implemented on a large scale. Īt the June 28, 1778, Battle of Monmouth, near Freehold Township, General George Washington's soldiers battled the British under Sir Henry Clinton, in the longest land battle of the American Revolutionary War. On October 31, 1693, the county was partitioned into the townships of Freehold, Middletown and Shrewsbury. Monmouth County was established on March 7, 1683, while part of the province of East Jersey. Enslaved Africans were present in the area from at least 1680, and by 1726 made up 9% of the total population of the county.
As they arrived in this area, they were greeted by Lenape people, who lived in scattered small family bands and developed a largely amicable relationship with the new arrivals. They were followed by a group of Scottish settlers who inhabited Freehold Township in about 1682–1885, followed several years later by Dutch settlers. Additionally, a group of Quaker families from Long Island settled the Monmouth Tract, an early land grant from Richard Nicolls issued in 1665. Penelope "miraculously" survived her wounds from a native attack in Sandy Hook and further lived to the age of 110.
In 1609, the English navigator, Henry Hudson, and his crew aboard the Dutch vessel Half Moon spotted land in what is now Monmouth County, most likely off Sandy Hook however, some historical accounts credit this landing to present-day Keansburg.Īmong the first European settlers and majority landowners in the area were Richard and Penelope Stout.
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