Rumson

Rumson is a seven square mile New York City bedroom community. Two of those seven square miles are made up of water.

Home to just over 7,000, long before Rumson was Rumson, Rumson was Navarumsunk.

Rumson was Navarumsunk when English settlers purchased Navarumsunk from Lenape Indians.

Negotiations for the sale of Navarumsunk began in 1663. Two years later, Governor Richard Nicholls confirmed the purchase through of Monmouth Patent.

The Lenape name of Navarumsunk was then shortened to Ramson’s Neck.
Navarumsunk consisted of a tract of land between the Navesink River and the Shrewsbury River.

The Ramson’s Neck purchase was made possible by a conveyance of land from King Charles II to his brother James, the Duke of York.

The King gave his brother a region which extended from what today would be Connecticut, due south, to today what would be Delaware.

The Duke of York then authorized Governor Richard Nicholls to commence settlements.

The first settlements took hold in Shrewsbury village. The settlers were Patentees.

Through the Revolutionary War, Ramson’s Neck included today’s Rumson, Fair Haven, Red Bank, Little Silver and Shrewsbury.

Rumson was part of Shrewsbury until 1907.