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 | | The map also shows that the Longbridge Farm property was traversed by the division line surveyed in 1743 by John Lawrence in accordance with an act of the General Assembly that sought to clarify the boundary between the Provinces of East and West New Jersey. |
 | | Longbridge Farm, however, is depicted exactly as it had been 17 years earlier by John Dalley, even though Thomas Lawrence (again noted as the owner) had died in the interim in 1754. |
 | | Plantations of the scope and size of Longbridge were actually quite rare in the colonial agrarian landscape of New Jersey, the norm being the family farm of between one hundred and two hundred acres worked by an extended family with the help of a small number of hired hands, indentured servants or slaves. |
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