books.google.co.uk - Perth Amboy, New Jersey-purchased from Native Americans by European settlers in 1651-began its life as a colonial seaport, becoming the tidewater terminus of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1876. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the city developed into an industrial giant, with over one...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Perth_Amboy.html?id=3Tl2utNUrm8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePerth Amboy