Raum, John O. The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1, p. 242, J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed August 1, 2013. "Clinton was formed from Elizabethtown, Newark and Orange in 1834. Its length is about four miles and breadth about two and a half miles. South Orange and Newark lies on the north of it, and Newark is also on its east, while the township of Union, in Union county, is on its south, and South Orange on the west. Camptown was a flourishing village about three and a half miles from Newark containing about fifty dwellings and three churches Presbyterian Episcopal and what was called a Free Church. The name was derived from the fact that during the Revolutionary war the American army was for some time encamped here. The population of the township in 1850 was 2,508; in 1860, 3,659; and in 1870, 2,240."
