a town of the United States of N. America, capital of New Jersey, on the left bank of the Delaware, 30 miles N.E. of Philadelphia, and 57 S.W. of New York. It is regularly laid out, and for the most part well built; and the principal public buildings are the Capitol, a large stone structure, the court-house, town-hall, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, Quaker, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic churches. It is an important manufacturing town, having paper-mills, iron-foundries, a locomotive factory, flour, saw, and other mills. Near Trenton, General Washington gained one of his victories, Dec. 26, 1777. Pop. 6460.