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New Brunswick is the county seat of Middlesex County , hosting many of the county's government offices and facilities. It is also home to the largest campuses of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, known as Rutgers University , and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. It is nicknamed Hub City and The Healthcare City, the former reflecting its status as a major urban center of Central Jersey, serviced by many railroads during the nineteenth century, and the latter due to the concentration of medical facilities, both Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Saint Peter's University Hospital, as well as the corporate offices or production facilities of several large pharmaceutical companies (like Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Originally inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans, the first white settlement at the site of New Brunswick was made in sixteen eighty-one. The settlement here was first called Prigmore's Swamp, from sixteen eighty-one to sixteen ninety-seven, then Inian's Ferry sixteen ninety-one to seventeen fourteen. In seventeen fourteen, the young village was given the name New Brunswick after the city of Braunschweig , in state of Lower Saxony, in Germany . Braunschweig was an influential and powerful city in the Hanseatic League, later in the Holy Roman Empire, and was an administrative seat for Hanover . Shortly after the first settlement of New Brunswick in colonial New Jersey, George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Elector of Hanover, of the House of Hanover (also known as the House of Brunswick), became King George I of Great Britain, sixteen sixty to seventeen twenty-seven. Centrally located between New York City and Philadelphia , Pennsylvania along an early thoroughfare known as the King's Highway and situated along the Raritan River, New Brunswick became an important hub for Colonial travelers and traders. New Brunswick was incorporated as a town in seventeen thirty-six and chartered as a city in seventeen eighty-four. It was occupied by the British in the winter of seventeen seventy-six to seventeen seventy-seven during the Revolutionary War. In nineteen hundred, twenty thousand, six people lived in New Brunswick .
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