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From: "Jan Jacot" <>
Subject: Re: [NJUNION] Scotch Plains is lost/and found
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:12:33 -0700


A perfect and helpful explanation Pam, for so many of us who are involved in
chasing dead folks of those parts...thanks...

Jan in California

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>From: "Pamelyn P. Bush" <>
>To:
>Subject: Re: [NJUNION] Scotch Plains is lost
>Date: Wed, Oct 11, 2000, 6:49 PM
>

> Scotch Plains was part of Fanwood Township in 1910.
> Those Union county towns are tricky. Plainfield which is larger than the
> town of Westfield was part of Westfield Twp in the 1840 federal census. It
> was incorporated in 1847. Rahway was divided into north Rahway which was
> located in Union County and south Rahway which was located in Middlesex
> County in the 1860 federal census. By the 1870 federal census, Middlesex and
> Union swapped lands and boundaries so that the entire incorporated city of
> Rahway could be located in one county. There are several thousand boundary
> settlements between Union and other counties. Northern Clark was in
> Westfield Township as was Mountainside and the western part of Cranford
> before 1903 when the present town of Westfield was incorporated from
> Westfield Township. (Sorry, I got carried away.)
> Pam Bush
>
>

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