Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city’s population was 3,993, an mass of 69 (+1.8%) from the 2010 census add up of 3,924, which in viewpoint reflected a subside of 45 (−1.1%) from the 3,969 counted in the 2000 census.

Bordentown is located at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek, and Crosswicks Creek. The latter is the link up between Burlington and Mercer counties. Bordentown is the northernmost municipality in New Jersey that is considered a portion of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is nearly one-third the isolate between Center City Philadelphia and Midtown Manhattan, located 5.8 miles (9.3 km) south of the own up capital Trenton, 27 miles (43 km) northeast of Center City Philadelphia, and 54 miles (87 km) southwest of New York City.

Bordentown’s first recorded European pact was made in 1682 in what became known as Farnsworth’s Landing and, after 1717, the town that had developed in the Provence of New Jersey was renamed to Borden’s Town. Following the chaos and the initiation of the New Jersey divulge government, Bordentown was incorporated taking into consideration a borough dispensation form by an feat of its legislature upon December 9, 1825, from portions within Chesterfield Township. It was reincorporated bearing in mind a city executive form on April 3, 1867, and it was not speaking from Chesterfield Township just about 1877.

Thomas Farnsworth, an English Quaker, was ascribed with instinctive the first European settler in the Bordentown Place in 1682, when he moved his family taking place river from Burlington. He made a new home on the windswept bluff overlooking the broad bend in the Delaware River. The Farnsworth’s cabin was situated near the northwest corner of Park Street and Prince Street, perhaps where an 1883 frame house now stands. “Farnsworth Landing” soon became the middle of trade for the region. Farnsworth is along with the namesake of one of Bordentown’s main streets, Farnsworth Avenue.