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Weston is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Franklin Township, in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP’s population was 1,235.

Situated upon the east side of the Millstone River north of East Millstone and south of Zarephath (which has grown to count some of the Place once considered Weston), early names used for the area were Schenck’s Mill, Van Neste’s Mill and Frogtown. Historically, an Place on the west side of the river in what is now allocation of the borough of Manville was also referred to as Weston. The Weston Causeway is the single-handedly bridge across the Millstone River along with East Millstone and the confluence in the same way as the Raritan River near South Bound Brook.

Heinrich/Henry Schenck built a grist mill on the east bank of the Millstone here, probably in the 1740s. His brother, Peter, built a mill upstream at Blackwells Mills about the same time and both were called Schenck’s Mill. Three of Henry’s sons, Abraham, John and Henry were in the second graduating class of 14 students of the newly founded Queen’s College that unconventional became Rutgers University. His daughter, Gertrude Schenck, married Fredrick Frelinghuysen, son of the Dutch-reformed minister and tutor to the boys at Queen’s College. Frelinghuysen would attend the Continental Congress, rise to rank of Major General, and become a US Senator and US District Attorney. Fredrick and Gertrude would start the #6 ranked embassy dynasty in American history. In 2018, U.S. Representative from New Jersey, Rodney Frelinghuysen retired, ending the dynasty.