The settlement comprised a town hall, militia training ground, stockade, jail, church, burial ground and houses. The Proprietors of the Province of East New Jersey granted a tract of land for a burial ground and a town common on March 5, 1695. Raritan Township was renamed Edison in the 1950s. On March 17, 1870, portions of adjacent Piscataway and Woodbridge were used to form Raritan Township. Other settlements included Quibbletown and Raritan Landing. Soon thereafter additional settlers from the Piscataqua River, the state boundary of New Hampshire and Maine moved to region, bringing the name. In 1666, the first proprietary Governor of the Province of New Jersey, Philip Carteret, granted 12 new settlers from Massachusetts a 100 square mile allotment of land that was later founded as the townships of Piscataway and Woodbridge. Piscataway was settled New Englanders in the 17th century. The Raritan were bands of the Lenape people living around the Raritan River and its bay, in what is now central New Jersey and Staten Island, New York. James Church, the Piscatawaytown Burial Ground and the Piscatawaytown Common, near the intersection of Plainfield and Woodbridge Avenues. It was established in the 1660s as the original village in what was then within Piscataway. Piscatawaytown is the oldest neighborhood in Edison in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
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