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Shrewsbury Township

Shrewsbury Township was originally formed on October 31, 1693, and was created as a township by the Township Act of 1798 of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. Shrewsbury was part of the Navesink Patent or Monmouth Tract granted soon after the creation of East Jersey in 1665. When it was formed in 1693, Shrewsbury Township covered an area of almost 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2), extending to the north to the Navesink River, south to include all of present-day Ocean County, east to the Atlantic Ocean and west to the present-day border of Monmouth County. It retained its size and scope until 1750, when Stafford Township was formed, taking away most of present-day Ocean County. Source: Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 182
History of Shrewsbury Township
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Character studies of the types of residents from our region who fought one another in one bloody engagement after another. For Monmouth County, the Revolution was most certainly a brutal civil war. Allen House Tavern image courtesy Monmouth County Historical Association. Monmouth County Loyalists & Patriots, ©2023 Charlie Swerdlow, commissioned by Monmouth Timeline.
January 2, 1777

The Allen House Massacre and Other Engagements in Eastern Monmouth County

By William Gardell   January 1777: A Time of Tension On January 2, 1777, members of the Monmouth County militia, along with a company of Continental army soldiers, reached what is today Freehold and engaged in a skirmish with a
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The first E.C. Hazard ketchup factory in Shrewsbury before it burned in 1888. Public Domain.
November 7, 1888

E.C. Hazard’s State-of-the-Art Ketchup Factory is Destroyed by Fire

On November 7, 1888, the E.C. Hazard canning factory in Shrewsbury caught fire and was totally destroyed. The Red Bank Daily Register described the complex as "the most complete affair of its kind in the country," and estimated the loss
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