The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.

This explained that the judge of probate of Essex County, 1785 or 1786, appointed three free-holders of Gloucester to divide and establish the Norberg estate.

Sandman, state campaign chairman for Jones, was addressing a meeting in the Military Park Hotel, Newark, of Essex County leaders and campaign managers for Jones.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

Category: People from Essex County, Massachusetts

The 5th Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling, in the County of Essex, when his father died in 1996.

The river on the American side is all under the jurisdiction of Wayne County, Michigan, and the Canadian side is under the administration of Essex County, Ontario.

Although Gerry does not seem to have been directly involved in the drafting of the district, the shape of one of the districts ( not far from his home in Essex County ) resembled a salamander, leading a local Federalist newspaper to print a political cartoon calling it a " Gerry-mander ".

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

The caricature satirises the bizarre shape of a district in Essex County, Massachusetts as a dragon-like " monster.

Essexite is named after the type locality in Essex County, Massachusetts, US.

The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of Clinton County and Essex County.

Category: Geography of Essex County, New York

Category: Visitor attractions in Essex County, New York

South Mountain Reservation in Millburn, New Jersey | Millburn, Essex County, New Jersey | Essex County.

* Gateway Region, encompassing Middlesex County, Union County, Essex County, Hudson County, Bergen County, and Passaic County.

The whole length of Essex bridge is one thousand and thirty feet and its breadth thirty-four.

The disposition of Essex, held by West Saxon kings since the days of Egbert, is unclear from the treaty, though, given Alfred ’ s political and military superiority, it would have been surprising if he had conceded any disputed territory to his new godson.

The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.

However, the Essex Camulodunum was located well within territory usually thought to have been conquered early in the 5th century by Saxons, so it is unlikely to have been the location of any " true " Camelot.

In 1696 he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury, Essex and living in the parish of Chadwell St Mary.

In the early 21st century redevelopment is spreading into the more suburban parts of East and Southeast London, and into the parts of the counties of Kent and Essex which abut the Thames Estuary.

For a brief period in the 8th century, the Kingdom of Essex controlled what is now Kent.

Although the kingdom of Essex was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, its history is not well documented.

The first recorded king, according to the East Saxon King List, was Æscwine to which a date of AD 527 is given for the start of his reign, although there are some difficulties with the date of his reign, and Sledda is listed as the founder of the Essex royal house by other sources.

" Where he is, or what he doth, or what he is to do ," she wrote of Essex, " we are ignorant ".

An observer reported in 1602 that " Her delight is to sit in the dark, and sometimes with shedding tears to bewail Essex ".

During the early 1580s it is likely that the Earl lived mainly at one of his Essex country houses, Wivenhoe, which was sold in 1584.

The National Tremor Foundation ( NTF ), founded in 1992, is a British friendly organisation based in Essex, England, an affiliate of the International Tremor Foundation, which was founded in 1988.

* 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed.

Hertfordshire is one of the home counties and is bordered by the non-metropolitan counties of Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the northeast, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west.

To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Harwich () is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east.

It is the northernmost coastal town within Essex.

The frigates were the famous USS Philadelphia, USS President and the USS Essex along with the schooner USS Enterprise and became the first American naval squadron to cross the Atlantic.

There is also a record of an Elizabeth Aguirre of Petersfield, Hampshire ( died 1665 ), who was the second wife of Josias White ( 1573 – 1622 ) of Hornchurch, Essex, brother of John White the ' Patriarch of Dorchester ', and son of a John White of Stanton St John, Oxfordshire ( 1540 – before September 30, 1618 ), who afterwards married a Francis Drake ( 1573 – 1634 ) of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey – a first cousin once removed of Sir Francis Drake ( 1540 – 1596 ) the famous explorer.

* Johnny Sylvester ( 1915 – 90 ), lived here when promised by Babe Ruth that he would hit a home run in the 1926 World Series Babe Ruth made a famous visit to the ailing Sylvester at his home in Essex Fells on October 11, 1926.

There were several more creations until the famous Devereux creation in 1572, which included Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ( 1566 – 1601 ) a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and his son Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, the general who commanded the Parliamentary army at the Battle of Edge Hill, the first major battle of the English Civil War ( for further history of the Devereux family, see the Viscount Hereford ).

There have been previous county organisations in Essex going back to the 18th century, focused mainly on the famous Hornchurch Cricket Club.

In the most famous example, a sperm whale attacked and sank the American whaleship Essex in 1820.

The bridge at the eastern end is Grattan Bridge, formerly known as Essex Bridge, named after Henry Grattan, the famous Irish parliamentarian of the 18th century.

The Romans appear to have built a significant stone causeway across the marshes here ; a periodical, the Ambulator of 1774, noted there have been discovered within the last few years the remains of a great causeway of stone, which, by the Roman coins found there, would appear to have been one of the famous highways made by the Romans < ref name = old & new >< cite >' The northern suburbs: Haggerston and Hackney ', Old and New London: Volume 5 ( 1878 ), pp. 505-24 accessed: 15 December 2006 </ ref > The river forms a natural boundary, so in 527 AD it formed the boundary between the Saxon kingdoms of Essex and Middlesex.

Flatford and Dedham, Essex, both made famous by John Constable, are within walking distance of East Bergholt.

Fry's Island is famous as the location of the duel between Robert de Montfort and Henry of Essex, the standard bearer to King Henry II.

Edward VI created Walter Devereux, a descendant of the de Bohun family, Viscount Hereford, in 1550, and his grandson, the famous earl of Essex, was born in this county.

At Southend, Broughton scored perhaps his most famous ever goal against the club's Essex rivals Colchester United in the League Trophy Area Final of 2004, sending Southend United to the first National Final of their then 98 year history.

He took 17 for 56 against Essex in 1925, and 16 for 109 against Middlesex in 1930, the year he took 7 for 54 against the Australians in a famous tied match.

Faithorne is especially famous as a portrait engraver, and among those on whom he exercised his art were a large number of eminent persons, including Sir Henry Spelman, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, John Milton, Queen Catherine, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Cardinal Richelieu, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Thomas Hobbes, Richard Hooker, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Charles I.

Goffs was a stop on famous U. S. Route 66 until 1931 when a more direct road opened between Needles and Essex.