![]() ![]() It has strong roots in a rich colonial tradition and an illustrious past. Then as now, it has been a community of farms and churches, homes and neighborhoods. Throughout the intervening three centuries it has been a place where people could raise their families, earn their living and live out their life in some measure of peace. Freehold Township was formally established by an act of the Legislature on October 31, 1693, one of the three original townships in Monmouth County. The area was first settled in 1685 by a group of Scottish reformers fleeing religious persecution. On June 23, 1664, the Duke of York granted a patent to Sir George Carteret and John, Lord Berkely for the entire area of what now constitutes New Jersey. They developed commerce in the New World and in 1623 organized the New Jersey-Hudson River area into the Province of New Netherlands. was founded in 1602 and granted a charter that included North America in 1621. It wasn’t until September 1609 that the first European actually set foot at Sandy Hook. The Lenni Lenape Indians originally inhabited the area called Freehold Township. ![]() This land was first sighted by European Venetian John Cabot while sailing along the coast in 1498. ![]()
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