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 | | In New England and in New York, the townships were called "towns"; in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, they were called "townships." These towns and townships still exist today, and they still have functioning governments. |
 | | Depending on state policy and local tradition, unincorporated municipalities are known by a variety of names: rural community, rural locality, rural town, rural village, small town, town, unincorporated community, unincorporated place, unincorporated town, unincorporated village, village, or just plain unincorporated. |
 | | George Walter Goodley, in his history of Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, writes: "In England, from whence [William] Penn surely took his pattern for local government, there were counties and sub-divisions of counties (or shires) known as Liberties, or Hamlets, or Towns, or Townships. |
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