pensauken

Updated: June 7, 2025

In 1676 an exact division was attempted, creating the rather unnatural sections known as East Jersey and West Jersey. The first idea seems to have been to divide by a line running from Barnegat on the seashore to the mouth of Pensauken Creek on the Delaware just above Camden. This, however, would have made a North Jersey and a South Jersey, with the latter much smaller than the former.

Sydney George Fisher - The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware

Gradually the Hudson end of the sound filled up as far as Trenton, but the tide from the ocean still runs up the remains of the Old Sound as far as Trenton. The Delaware should still be properly considered as ending at Trenton, for the rest of its course to the ocean is still part of Old Pensauken Sound, as it is called by geologists. The Jerseys originated as a colony in 1664.

Sydney George Fisher - The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware