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Jersey City Free Books
NEW JERSEY
A Guide To Its Present And Past
Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the
Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey
American Guide Series
Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
Tour 13
Middlesex–New Brunswick–Old Bridge–Matawan – Mercer House
At 7.3 miles, on a high knoll (L), is the white-painted MERCER HOUSE
(private). Erected about 1744 by Dr. William Mercer, brother of the Revolutionary General, it is basically of straight Colonial design, but has been
so altered and enlarged from time to time that its original appearance is
now all but lost under a festooning of porches and additions.
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