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|subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Hunterdon |government_footnotes = 〔 |government_type = Township (New Jersey) |governing_body = Township Committee |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = David Wang-Iverson (term ends December 31, 2015)〔〔(2015 New Jersey Mayors Directory ), New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, as of October 20, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2015.〕 |leader_title1 = Administrator |leader_name1 = Timothy L. Matheny〔(Township Administrator ), Township of East Amwell. Accessed November 14, 2012.〕 |leader_title2 = Clerk |leader_name2 = Terri Stahl〔(Office of the Township Clerk ), Township of East Amwell. Accessed November 14, 2012.〕 |established_title = Incorporated |established_date = April 6, 1846 |named_for = Amwell Township / Amwell, Hertfordshire |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = 〔(2010 Census Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 21, 2015.〕 |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 73.972 |area_land_km2 = 73.707 |area_water_km2 = 0.264 |area_total_sq_mi = 28.561 |area_land_sq_mi = 28.459 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.102 |area_water_percent = 0.36 |area_rank = 94th of 566 in state 8th of 26 in county〔 |population_as_of = 2010 Census |population_footnotes = 〔(DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for East Amwell township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 14, 2012.〕〔〔(Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for East Amwell township ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed November 14, 2012.〕 |population_total = 4013 |population_rank = 413th of 566 in state 11th of 26 in county〔(GCT-PH1 Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - State -- County Subdivision from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for New Jersey ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 14, 2012.〕 |population_density_km2 = auto |population_density_sq_mi = 141.0 |population_density_rank = 529th of 566 in state 23rd of 26 in county〔 |population_est = 3958 |pop_est_as_of = 2014 |pop_est_footnotes = 〔 |timezone = Eastern (EST) |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST = Eastern (EDT) |utc_offset_DST = -4 |elevation_footnotes = 〔, Geographic Names Information System. Accessed March 5, 2013.〕 |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = 203 |coordinates_type = region:US_type:city |coordinates_region = US-NJ |coordinates_display = inline,title |coordinates_footnotes = 〔〔(US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |latd = 40.434993 |longd = -74.82303 |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 08551 - Ringoes〔(Look Up a ZIP Code for Ringoes, NJ ), United States Postal Service. Accessed November 14, 2012.〕 08559 - Stockton〔(Look Up a ZIP Code for Stockton, NJ ), United States Postal Service. Accessed November 14, 2012.〕 |area_code = 609 and 908〔(Area Code Lookup - NPA NXX for Ringoes, NJ ), Area-Codes.com. Accessed September 3, 2013.〕 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 3401918820〔〔(American FactFinder ), United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕〔(A Cure for the Common Codes: New Jersey ), Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed October 27, 2012.〕 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 0882180〔〔(US Board on Geographic Names ), United States Geological Survey. Accessed September 4, 2014.〕 |website = |footnotes = }} East Amwell Township is a township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 4,013,〔〔〔 reflecting a decline of 442 (-9.9%) from the 4,455 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 123 (+2.8%) from the 4,332 counted in the 1990 Census.〔(Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed November 14, 2012.〕 East Amwell Township is located in the southeastern corner of Hunterdon County where it borders both Somerset and Mercer Counties. It includes the Unincorporated community of Ringoes, the oldest known settlement in Hunterdon County, as well as the communities of Larison's Corner, Weert's Corner and part of Reaville.〔(Demographics ), Township of East Amwell. Accessed November 14, 2012. "East Amwell is at the base of the Sourland Mountains. Its 28.68 square miles encompasses the communities of Ringoes, Weert's Corner, Larison's Corner and a portion of Reaville."〕 ==History== Amwell Township was established by a royal patent from Queen Anne in 1708. Its territory comprised and included present day Delaware Township, Raritan Township, Readington Township, East Amwell Township and West Amwell Township and portions of Clinton, Lebanon and Tewksbury Townships. Both East Amwell Township and West Amwell Township were formed on April 6, 1846, when Amwell Township was split in two. Territory was gain in 1854 from Delaware Township, Raritan Township and West Amwell Township, and again from those same three townships in 1897.〔Snyder, John P. (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' ), Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 154. Accessed October 25, 2012.〕 The township was named for Amwell Township, which in turn was named for Amwell, Hertfordshire in England.〔Hutchinson, Viola L. (''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names'' ), New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 29, 2015.〕 During the American Revolutionary War, a small but important skirmish occurred in East Amwell when local militia under Capt. John Schenck ambushed a party of British dragoons near Larison's Corner. The "Ambush of Geary" on December 14, 1776, helped rein in British scouting parties in Hunterdon County in the crucial weeks before Washington's crossing of the Delaware.〔("The Amwell Skirmish" ), ''Nature's Grapevine'' of Washington Crossing State Park, Winter 2006. Accessed November 14, 2012. "On December 14th, a patrol of eight dragoons under the command of Cornet Francis Geary was dispatched from the main force at Pennington and proceeded up the road to Flemington. On the return leg of their raid they were attacked from the woods along present day Route 31, just north of Ringoes by Capt. John Schenk and a squad of citizen soldiers from the Amwell Militia."〕 East Amwell was the location of the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, was abducted from the estate owned by Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and was later found dead nearby.〔Gill, Barbara. ("Lindbergh kidnapping rocked the world 50 years ago" ), ''The Hunterdon County Democrat'', 1981. Accessed May 22, 2015. "So while the world's attention was focused on Hopewell, from which the first press dispatches emanated about the kidnapping, the Democrat made sure its readers knew that the new home of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was in East Amwell Township Hunterdon County."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Amwell Township, New Jersey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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