The Elizabethtown Controversy

The controversy between the Associates of Elizabethtown and the Proprietors of New Jersey over the title to the land on which the town was settled may be said to have begun in 1670, when the Associates refused to pay the quit-rents demanded by the Proprietors, and the last trace of it was seen when the Answer of the Associates to the Elizabethtown Bill in Chancery failed in 1751. A detailed review by the former Chancellor of the State of New Jersey. (NJHS 1917)