KEARNY, town, Hudson county, New Jersey, U.S.A., between the Passaic and the Hackensack rivers, opposite Newark and ad joining Harrison. It is on the Lincoln highway and is served by the Central of New Jersey, the Erie, and the Pennsylvania rail ways, electric trolleys, and motor-coach lines. The Manhattan Transfer of the Hudson tubes is within its limits. The population was 26,724 in 192o (29.6% foreign-born white) and was 40,716 by Federal census of 193o. Kearny covers 7 sq.m., including a large tract of marshland. The section known as Arlington, in the north west part of the town, is one of the best residence districts. The town is a residential suburb, and also has important manufactur ing industries, including the Meadow shops of the Pennsylvania railroad, a Ford assembly plant, a slaughter house, and numerous large factories with a nation-wide market. The aggregate factory output in 1927 was valued at $93,158,013. The pioneer settler in this region was William Sandford, who came from Barbados in 1668 and bought the neck of land from the mouth of the rivers 7m. to the north, and called it New Barbados. He paid the pro
prietors of East Jersey £20 sterling, and for the Indian rights he gave 17o fathoms of black wampum, 200 of white, 19 black coats, Jo pairs of breeches, 16 guns, 6o double hands of powder, 6o knives, 67 bars of lead, 3o axes, 20 hoes, 11 blankets, one anker of brandy, and 31 vats of beer. In 1719 Arent Schuyler bought a plantation covering the present site of Arlington, and a little later one of his slaves turned up an unusual stone which proved to be copper ore 85% fine. From this mine 1,368 tons of ore was sent to the foundry at Bristol (England). From New Barbados the town of Lodi was formed in 1825 and the town of Harrison in 1840 ; and in 1867 a part of Harrison was made a separate town ship and named after Gen. Phil Kearny, a former resident. The town of Kearny was incorporated in 1895.