This is meant to be a very basic timeline of things that may have impacted your ancestor's lives. Click here for the list of States, Click here to see letters, photos, documents, etc. that relate to Paterson. Click here for the list of Counties in New Jersey. Click here for the list of cities, boroughs, and townships in Passaic County.
The Paterson area was inhabited by the Lenape
The Dutch claimed the land as New Netherlands
The British claimed the land as the province in New Jersey
1754 - 1763 French and Indian Wars
1765 - 1783 War of Independence
1791 - Alexander Hamilton helped to establish the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures
1792 - Paterson Chartered as a Town
Pattern was the first industrial city
1832 - Cholera Epidemic
1835 - Samuel Colt began producing firearms in Paterson
1849 - 1855 Cholera Outbreaks
1851 - Paterson incorporated as a city
1861 - Paterson reincorporated
1861 - 1865 Civil War
1866 - 1867 Cholera Epidemic
1913 Paterson Silk Strike
1919 Bombing by self proclaimed anarchists
1914 - 1918 WW1
1932 Hinchliffe Stadium opens
1939 - 1945 WW2
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