In April of 1665 Great Britain’s deputy-governor for New Amsterdam granted “patents” for a triangular parcel of land located in today’s Monmouth County – the Monmouth Patent.
The first families to acquire land through the Monmouth Patent in what today we recognize as Holmdel Township had been the Bowne family, the Cotterell family, the Stout family and the Holmes family.
The Holmes family’s tract of land stretched north of Ramanessin Brook to Hop Brook Farm – the Holmes Tract.
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