In compliment to the wife of Sir George Carteret, the governor named the place Elizabethtown, which name it yet retains.

Elizabethtown, which consisted only of a cluster of half a dozen houses, was made the capital.

Others followed, and when, in 1668, the first legislative assembly met at Elizabethtown, it was largely made up of emigrants from New England.

He made choice of the profession of law, and commenced the study under Tappan Reeve of Elizabethtown.

The validity of this statute had been maintained by the judges in New York, including Chancellor Kent, and an injunction had been issued restraining other persons from running steamboats between Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and the city of New York, although they were enrolled and licensed as coasting vessels under the laws of the United States.

Passing through the village of Bergen, Champe took the road toward Elizabethtown Point.

" "I cannot leave until my mission is completed; we have almost certain news of an incursion by the British across the Kill von Kull, which will do much injury to the peaceful country folk of Elizabethtown and Newark.

They passed on the way to freedom through Columbia, Philadelphia, Elizabethtown and by way of sea to New York and Boston, from which they proceeded to permanent settlements in the North.[30]

HEADQUARTERS, EASTERN DIVISION, Elizabethtown, N.J., March 23, 1840.

The best thing I saw on the route was a rustic fence, near Elizabethtown, I think, but I am not quite sure.

The American army was encamped at Elizabethtown.

She was a granddaughter of the Rev. James Caldwell, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, the Revolutionary patriot.

" In 1725 we find Daniel Talmage at Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

" The hour of departure was not only saddened by parting from parents and brothers and sisters, but the young woman in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, to whom he had given his affection, could not join him.

Colonists at once began coming to the new province and settled at Elizabethtown.

Wife's in Elizabethtown now, visiting.