Some discussion centers on the origin of Jackson's name. Other early industries were cranberry cultivation, charcoal and tar production, and for a short time oil drilling, an unproductive venture. The community's prosperity was dependent, in those times, on a successful harvest. The trickle of settlement continued through the years and when the state legislature created the township in March, 1844, the population was 800, scattered in a series of isolated hamlets and villages, interspersed with sawmills, gristmills, and large farms of a hundred acres or more. Settlers were generally of English descent coming from the New York area, especially Long Island, or in some cases, were whalers who had moved inland from the coast. European settlement commenced shortly after Richard Nicholls, English governor of New York, granted the Monmouth Patent in April 1665 to 12 families who had already settled in Middletown on lands purchased from the native Indians. Jackson Township is a classic example of a municipality becoming a suburb after existing for many years as a rural area.
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