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| Website | https://www.co.somerset.nj.us/ |
| Established | March 13, 1688 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Last Modified | WSNJ October 10, 2021 05:01pm |
| Description | Somerset County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2019 Census estimate, the county's population was 328,934, a 1.7% increase from the 2010 United States Census, making it the 13th most populous of the state's 21 counties.
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February 01, 1850 -
SOMERSET lost to MIDDLESEX.
N.J. Acts 1850, pp. 5-6; Snyder, 40
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February 14, 1845 -
February 01, 1850
SOMERSET lost to HUNTERDON.
N.J. Acts 1845, p. 45; Snyder, 38
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March 13, 1844 -
February 14, 1845
SOMERSET gained from HUNTERDON.
N.J. Acts 1844, p. 253; Snyder, 38
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February 27, 1838 -
March 13, 1844
SOMERSET lost to MERCER.
N.J. Acts 1838, pp. 209-210; Snyder, 37
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November 04, 1741 -
February 27, 1838
SOMERSET gained from ESSEX.
Paterson, 13; Snyder, 32
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March 15, 1714 -
November 04, 1741
15 March 1713/1714. SOMERSET lost to MIDDLESEX.
Paterson, 4-5; Snyder, 32
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January 21, 1710 -
March 15, 1714
21 January 1709/1710. SOMERSET gained from MIDDLESEX.
Paterson, 2-3; Snyder, 30
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September 05, 1688 -
January 21, 1710
SOMERSET lost to West New Jersey when the absentee governors of East and West New Jersey agreed on a new partition line between their colonies that ran irregularly from the northern end of the Keith Line (1687) to the land boundary with New York.
Snyder, 9, 31
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May 14, 1688 -
September 05, 1688
SOMERSET created from MIDDLESEX.
Leaming and Spicer, 305; Snyder, 12, 29
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