Trenton Sur La Delaware

The William Trent House, shown in the foreground of this view around 1800, occupied a choice location on the left bank of the River Delaware just below its confluence with Assunpink Creek and with a fine view downstream. Built in 1719, this brick mansion was linked by a long, straight tree-lined driveway to a wharf at the foot of Ferry Street where sloops docked at the head of navigation on the Delaware and where a ferry carried traffic between New Jersey and Pennsylvania on the main land route between New York and Philadelphia.

[credit: watercolor by the Count de Maulevier, courtesy of the New Jersey Historical Society]