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Photographer: Devry Becker Jones (CC0)
Taken: November 14, 2020
Caption: Thomas Farnsworth banner on display in Bordentown
Additional Description: Quaker settler who in 1682 came to Bordentown to establish a settlement where he and other members of the Society of Friends could escape the persecution they experienced in their native England. He built a cabin overlooking the Delaware River and coined the village "Farnsworth's Landing", which would become a center for trade and commerce in the area. More than a century later the village was renamed to honor one of its Revolutionary War heroes, Colonel Joseph Borden. Remnants of the original cabin still exist as a part of a larger, later house on the northwest corner of Park and Prince Streets.
Submitted: November 16, 2020, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p550296
File Size: 5.629 Megabytes

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