Born in North Oxford Massachusetts on Christmas Day 1821, Clara Barton arrived into a large family of teachers and educators. The youngest of five children...

Francis Hopkinson, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence lived in this town. His beautiful home is still standing, a...

In 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...

A woman ahead of her time Patience Lovell Wright was born on Long Island in 1725. She moved to Bordentown at age 4 with her...

Stephen Sayre was born in Long Island, graduated from Princeton University and served as a captain of militia in the last of the French and...

Thomas 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...

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