Editing Perth Amboy, New Jersey (section)

===Scottish colony===
Perth Amboy was settled by [[Scottish colonization of the Americas|Scottish colonists]] around 1683 who had been recruited to inhabit the share of the East Jersey colony owned by [[Robert Barclay]], a Quaker who would later become the absentee governor of the province.<ref>DeAngelo, Walter A. [http://www.middlesexcountynj.gov/Government/Departments/BDE/Documents/history_buffs_guide.pdf ''The History Buff's Guide to Middlesex County''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929202842/http://www.middlesexcountynj.gov/Government/Departments/BDE/Documents/history_buffs_guide.pdf |date=September 29, 2020 }}, [[Middlesex County, New Jersey]]. Accessed December 18, 2019. "The City of Perth Amboy (originally known as Scottish Colony) was founded by Robert Barclay in 1683 (Perth Amboy received a Royal City Charter in 1718)."</ref><ref>Klett, Joseph R. [https://www.nj.gov/state/archives/pdf/proprietors.pdf "Using the Records of East and West Jersey Proprietors"], New Jersey State Archives, 2014. Accessed April 9, 2015. "Scottish Colony, 1683 – Following the purchase of a share of East Jersey by Scottish Quaker and later Governor Robert Barclay, Scottish settlers were recruited and began to arrive in Perth Amboy and surrounding areas beginning in 1683. Most were not Quakers, but rather Calvinists from Edinburgh, Montrose, Aberdeen and Kelso. Settlers and their servants were granted lots in Perth Amboy and areas of Monmouth County. Perth Amboy became the capital of East New Jersey in 1686."</ref>