Pitney a direct route to treat patients in Port Republic. Pitney Road built on mainland from Absecon village to Port Republic bridge to provide Dr.May: Jonathan Pitney, a 22-year-old physician, arrives on horseback in small mainland village of Absecon in presnt-day Galloway Township, Gloucester County.The Leeds family become first recorded permanent European residents on Absecon Island, area comprising present-day Atlantic City.name derived from “absegami”, Lenni Lenape Native American name for island, Jeremiah Leeds builds first permanent structure on island in 1785 at what is now Arctic and Arkansas Avenue.Budd’s mainland property then valued at forty cents an acre, with the island at four cents an acre. “Absecon”derived from,”absegami”, Lenni Lenape native American name for “little water”. Thomas Budd, an English Quaker, arrives on Atlantic County mainland in late 1670’s, acquires Absecon (or Absecom) Island, area comprising present-day Atlantic City and other mainland acreage as settlement of a claim he had against Lord John Berkeley, tone of holders of the royal grant from Duke of York.Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, first director of what eventually became New Netherland and New Amsterdam, explores southern New Jersey coast and Delaware Bay, southern point of “Cape May” later named after him.
