Greenwich Twp. Historical Society

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05/02/2023

Our cover photo is the first stone school house in Gibbstown. It sat behind the present day school on School Street. I will post names as soon as get them

04/19/2023

Greenwich Twp. was one of the original townships, and was formed soon after the er****on of the county in 1686. As first set off, the township contained an area of about one-third of the county as now constituted, but at present it contains only fourteen thousand acres of land

Isaac Mickle, in his "Reminiscences of Old Gloucester", says, "The township of Greenwich is by some months the most ancient township in Gloucester County; for we find upon the minutes of the County Court, under date of the 1st of March, 1694, the following note: 'The inhabitants between Great Mantoes Creek and Barclay River request yt ye same division be made and laid into a township, henceforth to be called by ye name of ye Township of Greenwich; and yt ye same be so recorded.

the township of Greenwich was for some years by far the most populous of the six into which the county was in 1694 divided. In the seventeenth century most of the magnates of this part of old Gloucester

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411 Paulsboro Swedesboro Road
Gibbstown, NJ
08027

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