Newton Colony was the third English settlement in West Jersey.
[1] Newton Colony was founded in 1682 by a group of Quakers, who had emigrated from Ireland, on the banks of Newton Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, in present-day Camden County, New Jersey.
[1] The founders of Newton Colony were William Bates, George Goldsmith, Mark Newbie, Thomas Sharp, Thomas Thackara and Robert Zane.
[1] The original Newton Colony occupied most of the present day municipalities of Oaklyn and Collingswood, New Jersey.
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