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    On this site, where the Allentown Feed Company building now stands, Nathan Allen built a mill in 1706 along Doctors Creek, and settled what was originally known as Allen Town.  The Allentown website reports that this building was a mill built by Abel Cafferty in 1855.  Allentown's indigenous inhabitants were members of the Delaware tribe, and a Quaker settlement existed in the seventeenth century.  As a key point on the main road from Perth Amboy to Philadelphia, Allentown developed into a prosperous commercial center at the time of the Revolution.  In the nineteenth century it was a prominent furniture manufacturer, noted for its chairs.  One of New Jersey's historic Colonial figures, David Brearly, was an Allentown lawyer who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and signed the United States Constitution.

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