NEW BRUNSWICK, a city of New Jersey, U.S.A., the county seat of Middlesex county on the Raritan river, the Lincoln highway and the Delaware and Raritan canal, 3o m. S.W. of New York city and 6o m. N.E. of Philadelphia. It is served by the Pennsylvania and the Raritan River railways, motor-bus lines and freight steamers and barges. Pop. (1920) 32,779 (27% for eign-born white) ; 1930 Federal Census 34.555. The city rises from the river to high bluffs on the east and the west, commanding wide and picturesque views. It is the seat of Rutgers university (q.v.) and the Theological seminary of the Reformed Church in America, the oldest theological school in the United States, founded in New York city in 1784 and situated in New Brunswick since 1810. New Brunswick is one of the oldest cities of New Jersey, and has many buildings dating from the 18th century. The Buccleuch mansion, in a 6o ac. park, presented to the city by Anthony Dey, is one of the best preserved colonial houses in the State. On Burnet street still stands the house occupied by Gen.
Howe in 1776-77. There is a fine modern stone bridge across the Raritan. The city has large manufacturing industries, employ ing about 15,000 persons and making a variety of products, rang ing in size from motor trucks to knitting needles and valued in 1927 at $49,322,552. Surgical and medical supplies, motor buses and trucks and fire apparatus are among its leading manufactures. The assessed valuation for 1927 was $40,130,029. Since 1906 the city has had a commission form of government. A settlement was established here in 1681. It was at first called Prigmore's Swamp, later Inian's Ferry, until the present name was adopted in honour of the House of Brunswick. A city charter was granted by the royal governor in 1730 and by the State legislature in 1784. Wash ington entered New Brunswick on Nov. 28, 1776, but evacuated it on the approach of the enemy, and from Dec. 3 to April 13, 1777, it was occupied by the British under Lord Howe.