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Piscataway Township (pronounced /p?'skæt?we?/) is a Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 50,482. The name Piscataway derives from its original settlers who lived near the Piscataqua River, whose name derives from Pisgeu (meaning "dark night") and awa ("Place of"), or it may come from the Lenape word meaning "Great Deer".[5] The area was first settled in 1666 by Quakers and Baptists who had left the Puritan colony in New Hampshire.[6] Piscataway Township was formed on December 18, 1666, and officially incorporated on February 21, 1798.[7] The community, the fifth oldest municipality in New Jersey,[8] has grown from Native American territory, through a colonial period and is one of the links in the earliest settlement of the Atlantic Ocean seacoast that ultimately led to the formation of the United States. Over the years, portions of Piscataway were taken to form Raritan Township (March 17, 1870, now Edison), Dunellen (October 28, 1887), Middlesex (April 9, 1913) and South Plainfield (March 10, 1926).[7] Piscataway is in Central Jersey with easy access to major highways, including Interstate 287, the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike.
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