Joseph Borden (1687-1765)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 30, 2020In 1717 Joseph Borden settled here, bought up a substantial part of the land and changed the town’s name to Borden’s Towne. By 1740, he started a packet line...
Category: Historic Profiles
Richard Gilder (1844-1909)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 29, 2020Richard Watson Gilder was born on February 8, 1844 at Bordentown, New Jersey. He was the son of Jane (Nutt) Gilder and the Rev. William Henry Gilder, and educated...
Stephen Sayre (1736-1818)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 29, 2020Stephen Sayre was born in Long Island, graduated from Princeton University and served as a captain of militia in the last of the French and Indian Wars. At about...
Susan Waters (1823-1900)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 29, 2020Born in Binghamton NY May 18 1823 she died in Trenton NJ at the Quaker Nursing home July 7, 1900. Susan Waters first arrived in Bordentown in the mid...
Patience Wright (1725-1786)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 29, 2020A woman ahead of her time Patience Lovell Wright was born on Long Island in 1725. She moved to Bordentown at age 4 with her family. At 23 Patience...
Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 29, 2020Several years after the banishing of his family from France in 1816, arriving under vigilant disguise as the Count de Survilliers, Joseph Bonaparte, former King of Naples and Spain...
Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 29, 2020Francis Hopkinson, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence lived in this town. His beautiful home is still standing, a treasure on the National...
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 29, 2020Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired...
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
by Doug Kiovsky, BHS Vice President / April 29, 2020Born in North Oxford Massachusetts on Christmas Day 1821 Clara Barton arrived into a large family of teachers and educators. The youngest of five children Clara learned early the...