MySource:Quolla6/Swank, 1892:146

From Source:Swank, 1892:146

Shrewsbury, a township lying northwest of Long Branch, in Monmouth county, was settled by Connecticut people soon after New Jersey was surrendered to the English by the Dutch in 1664, and that it was " to this part of Jersey" that Henry Leonard removed. About the time of the Connecticut settlement Person:James Grover (1), who had resided on Long Island, also settled in Shrewsbury, and is said to have established iron works in that township, which he afterwards sold to Colonel Lewis Morris, then a merchant of Barbadoes, but born in England. On October 26, 1676, a grant of land was made to Colonel Morris, with full liberty to him and his heirs " to dig, delve, and carry away all such mines for iron as they shall find or see fit to dig and carry away to the iron work," which grant establishes the fact that the iron works in Shrewsbury were built prior to 1676, and that they were then owned by Colonel Morris. They were probably undertaken about 1674, the year in which Henry Leonard is said to have emigrated from Massachusetts to New Jersey. They were the first iron works in New Jersey.