BURLINGTON, N. J., city and port of entry in Burlington County, on the Delaware River and the Pennsylvania Railroad, 18 miles northeast of Philadelphia. It is a manufactur ing trade centre for surrounding towns, and contains Saint Mary's Church, endowed by Queen Anne ; Saint Mary's Hall, the oldest Church school for girls in the country; the State Masonic Home; Burlington College, and many fine old residences; and has manufac tories of shoes, stoves, iron pipe, canned goods, silk, hollowware, braid, typewriter ribbons and carbon paper, carriages and structural iron. There is a national bank and a trust company, with combined resources amounting to $2,356, 959. The value of taxable property is $3,866, 201; of school property and equipment $137, 200; and of public buildings and equipment $344,888. Burlington is governed, under a char ter of 1851 (revised in 1868), by a common council of 12 members. In 1915 the government
receipts amounted to $116,393, expenditures to $94,559. The city was settled in 1677, by Friends, under the name of New Beverly. The name was subsequently changed to Bridlington, in honor of the Yorkshire town of that name on the North Sea, commonly called Burlington, and the spelling was presently made to accord with the pronunciation. The city was for many years the seat of government of West Jersey; and was the residence of the last colonial gov ernor, William Franklin. It was bombarded by the British in 1776 and again in 1778. Pop. 9,504. Consult Stackhouse, A. M., 'Retrospect of Colonial Times in Burlington County' (Moorestown, N. J., 1906) ; Woodward, E. M., 'History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, N. J.' (Philadelphia 1883).