Newton Colony was the third
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settlement in
West Jersey
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.
[Clement, John (1877). ''Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey''. Camden: Sinnickson Chew.] Newton Colony was founded in 1682 by a group of
Quakers
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, who had emigrated from
Ireland
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, on the banks of Newton Creek, a tributary of the
Delaware River
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, in present-day
.
The founders of Newton Colony were
William Bates, George Goldsmith, Mark Newbie, Thomas Sharp, Thomas Thackara and Robert Zane.
The original Newton Colony occupied most of the present day municipalities of
Oaklyn
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and
Collingswood, New Jersey
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.
The original colony grew to occupy a portion of the present day municipalities of
Camden,
Haddon Township,
Pennsauken Township
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, and
Haddonfield.
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