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According to Joshua Coffin, the early settlers included " Captain John Pike, the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was killed at the battle of Queenstown in 1813 ; Thomas Bloomfield, the ancestor of Joseph Bloomfield, some years governor of New Jersey, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named ; John Bishop, senior and junior ; Jonathan Haynes ; Henry Jaques ; George March ; Stephen Kent ; Abraham Toppan, junior ; Elisha Ilsley ; Hugh March ; John Bloomfield ; Samuel Moore ; Nathaniel Webster ; John Ilsley ; and others.

" Woodbridge was the site of the first gristmill in New Jersey.

The mill was built by Jonathan Singletary Dunham ( married to Mary Bloomfield, relative of Joseph Bloomfield ), who is President Barack Obama ’ s eighth great-grandfather.