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 310 NEW JERSEY farm is connected with it. Several funds have been established for the aid of indigent stu- dents and to afford prizes for excellence in scholarship. In 1874- '5 there were 14 in- structors and 188 students, including 62 in the scientific department. Seton Hall college was founded in 1856 at Madison, and removed to South Orange in 1860. It affords collegiate, ecclesiastical, and commercial courses. In 1873-'4 there were 13 instructors and 129 stu- dents in the collegiate department, and 4 in- structors and 33 students in the ecclesiastical seminary. Burlington college, organized in 1846, has a collegiate and a preparatory course. In 1874-'5 there were 11 instructors and 59 stu- dents. Instruction in theology is afforded by Drew theological seminary (Methodist), opened in 1867 at Madison, and having in 1874-'5 9 instructors, 9 lecturers, 127 students, a li- brary of 12,000 volumes, and productive funds amounting to $250,000 ; the theological semi- nary of the Presbyterian church in Princeton, organized in 1812, and having in 1874-'5 7 in- structors and 97 students; the German theo- logical school (Presbyterian) at Bloomfield, or- ganized in 1869, and having in 1874-'5 5 in- structors and 24 students ; and the theological seminary of the Reformed (Dutch) church in America at New Brunswick, organized in 1810, and having in 1874-'o 4 professors and 39 stu- dents. The last named is the chief training school in the United States for the ministry of that denomination. It is substantially a theo- logical department of Rutgers college, as the Princeton seminary is of the college of New Jersey. The schools of science, besides that of Rutgers college, are the Stevens institute of technology at Hoboken, one of the leading institutions of the kind in the United States (see HOBOKEN), and the John 0. Green school of science, connected with the college of New Jersey (see PRINCETON). The state has no medical or law school. There is a business college in Trenton and one in Newark, and New Brunswick has a conservatory of music. The chief institutions for the superior in- struction of females are St. Mary's hall, Bur- lington ; the female college at Bordentown; Ivy hall, Bridgeton; Trinity hall, Beverly; and the seminary and female collegiate insti- tute at Pennington. St. Mary's hall (Prot- estant Episcopal) in 1874 had 28 instructors and 200 students. According to the census of 1870, there were in the state 1,893 schools of all classes, including 1,531 public, 13 clas- sical, professional, and technical, 278 day and boarding, and 71 parochial and charity. The total number of teachers in all was 3,889, and of pupils, 129,800. The total income was $2,982,250, including $49,000 from endowment, $1,499,550 from taxation and public funds, and $1,433,700 from other sources, including tui- tion. The total number of libraries in 1870 was 2,413, containing 895,291 volumes; 777 with 359,612 volumes were private, and 1,636 with 535,679 volumes other than private, including 14 circulating libraries with 75,250 volumes. The most important libraries are those of the college of New Jersey, which has 28,000 volumes; the theological seminary in Princeton, 25,000; Newark library associa- tion, 21,000 ; the theological seminary in New Brunswick, 20,000; and the state library in Trenton. The total number of newspapers and periodicals reported by the census of 1870 was 122, with a circulation of 205,500 copies, and an annual issue of 18,625,740. There were 20 daily, circulation 38,030; 95 weekly, 120,670; and 7 monthly, 46,800. In 1874 there were 20 daily, 3 semi- weekly, 132 weekly, 1 bi-weekly, and 10 monthly ; total, 166. The total num- ber of religious organizations was 1,402, having 1,384 edifices with 573,303 sittings, and prop- erty valued at $18,347,150. The leading de- nominations were represented as follows : DENOMINATIONS. Organiza- tions. Edifices. Sittings. Property. Baptist, regular " other 164 4 164 4 61,913 1 200 $2,376,400 20500 Christian 10 10 8,430 54,000 Congregational Episcopal, Protestant. 14 128 63 9 122 63 5,050 84,800 28 750 885,500 2,586,000 448450 Jewish 1 1 300 8000 Lutheran 19 19 6,750 111500 Methodist 518 518 196 860 4498 650 Moravian (Unitas Fratrum) 4 4 1,300 16500 New Jerusalem (Swe- 6 5000 Presbyterian, regular, other... Reformed church in America (late Re- formed Dutch) Reformed church in the United States (late German Re- formed) 250 1 97 6 250 1 99 6 127,700 500 54,800 1,800 3,616,025 7,000 2,540,825 17.000 Roman Catholic Spiritualist 107 2 107 2 45,400 800 1,590,000 8300 Unitarian 1 1 400 10,000 Universalist 5 2 1,100 103,000 Unknown (union) 2 2 450 4,500 The precise date of the first settlement of New Jersey is not ascertained. The earliest colony was probably planted at Bergen, be- tween 1617 and 1620, by the Dutch of New Amsterdam, who claimed the whole country as a part of New Netherland. In 1623 a Dutch company under Oornelis Jacobson Mey and Adriaen Jorisz built Fort Nassau on the E. shore of the Delaware, a few miles below the present site of Philadelphia. Sir Edmund Ployden obtained a grant of the country on the Delaware from the king of England in 1634, and called it New Albion ; and in 1638 a small party of Swedes and Finns purchased land in the same region from the natives, and planted several settlements. The Dutch and Swedes afterward drove out the English colo- nists, and in 1655 the Dutch under Peter Stuy- vesant, governor of New Netherland, dispos- sessed the Swedes and sent most of them back to Europe. In 1664 Charles II. of England, disregarding the claims of both parties, grant- ed all the territory between the Delaware