The
Elizabethtown Tract was a property that was purchased on October 28, 1664, by John Baily,
Daniel Denton and Luke Watson from the
Native Americans that is in the area of (and surrounding) present-day
Elizabeth, New Jersey. As specified in the Deed, the purchase included the area "Bounded on the South by a River commonly called the
Raritons River, and on the East by the
River which Parts
Staten-Island and the Main, and to run Northward up after Cull-Bay, till we come at the first River which sets Westwards up after
Cull-Bay." The territory encompassed lands from the mouth of the Raritan River and included all of present-day
Union County as well as parts of
Somerset,
Middlesex,
Morris and
Essex counties.