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| | Elizabeth Town, NJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | His ability as a surveyor resulted in his appointment by the Colonial Assembly to survey and divide the lands of Bergen Township, and later he was designated by the Royal Governor, William Franklin, to survey, lay out and build a road between Newark and Trenton. |
 | | One of the courageous signers of the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Clark, was a citizen of what is now Roselle, New Jersey, formerly Rahway, where he was born on February 15, 1726. |
 | | On the tavern's sign was a sheaf of wheat of a kind called "salt hay," used to feed horses, and which was grown in "salt meadow" farms throughout the area. |
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