Early Partitions and Tracts
After 1675 much of the territory was quickly divided up leading to the distribution of land into large tracts which later led to real estate speculation and subdivision. In East Jersey they included the Elizabethtown Tract, Newark Tract, Horseneck Tract, Woodbridge, Piscataway, Shrewsbury, New Barbadoes Neck, English Neighborhood, and Maisland. In West Jersey, Salem and Burlington were early settlements.
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