Complex sentence: The first European settler was Peter Willcox, who received a 424 acre (1.7 km 2) land grant in 1720 from the Elizabethtown Associates, a group that bought much of northern New Jersey from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans in the late 17th century.
Split into simpler sentences: The first European settler was Peter Willcox, who received a 424 acre (1.7 km 2) land grant in 1720 from the Elizabethtown Associates. This group bought much of northern New Jersey from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans in the late 17th century.