[1][2] In 1665, John and Elizabeth Fenwick joined the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers.
[1][2] Prior to 1674, West Jersey had been partitioned by English colonists into five territories, each called a Tenth.
John Fenwick acquired title to the Fifth Tenth, which occupied much of the present-day counties of Salem and Cumberland.
[1][3] In the third quarter of 1675,[4] John Fenwick and the other emigrants departed London aboard the Griffin, Robert Griffith in command.
[1][2] The Griffin reached its destination prior to October 8, 1675; that day John Fenwick recorded a land deed with the local Lenape Indian tribe.