{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3586", "width": "2344", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a01\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a03\\n3\u00c2\u00bb i\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nShelf .Ak\u00c2\u00a3.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nJ\u00c2\u00bb 5 to\\n\u00c2\u00bbor\\n3^ 90 .o\\no^ o\\nD s 3^ :3^^ :3^\\nJ)", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "_:\u00e2\u0096\u00ba\\n2)\\n^_ V-\\n,i\\n30\\n:a ^j,- oo-^\\n0 3. 2 5 3 -j^^\\n3)3 3-. jQt :3 3 5\\n3 r jo J\u00c2\u00bb u J, iS^\\n3 J 33 1:3 D ^^2\\nr^ 3 3-.v -3\u00c2\u00bb,\\n3 J v3 3) :C\\n3 3 .3 X J\\n0 y^\\n:3 oX\\n3\\n3:.\\n3_\\n3i f m-fc\\n-.i.i)\\n^J ^3\\n-3 33\\nJ)\\n:\u00c2\u00bb3,\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a03 35)\\n3 jji^o jK\\n^35\\n-P^ Ja -3^\\n33 \u00e2\u0080\u009e3i^\\nm ^r cf^\\n3 v\\n3\\n3", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "s\\nhetchcQ of tbe 1Rew Jersep Ibiatori^\\ncal Society Bp aionso Cburcb\\npublisbeb b^ tbe Society\\na, D\u00c2\u00bb /DDCCCf Cf ID", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "SKETCHES\\nNew Jersey Historical Society\\nALONZO CHURCH,\\nPublished by the Society.\\nOF co^^\\nOCT 4 1894\\nU.u.e\\nNEWARK, N. J.:\\nADVKRTISER PRINTING HOLSK\\n1894.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "COPYRIGHT 1S94\\n3Y ALONZO CHUUCII\\n^o", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": ".si\\ni\\no\\nt\\nTO\\nURANIA\\nTHE GODDESS OF MY INSPIRATION\\nWHATEVER IS WORTHY IN THESE PAGES\\nIS INSCRIBED\\nA. C.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nT^HERE has been no attempt at originality or exhaus-\\ntive research in these pages. They were written\\nsome time ago during the hurry of a busy life and for\\nthe local press where such qualities are not insisted\\nupon. It was thought then that their appearance would\\nstimulate interest in the Historical Society and call\\nattention to its needs especially the pitiable lack of any-\\nthing like suitable quarters, which compels the heaping\\ntogether in crowded confusion of priceless collections,\\nand subjects them at all times to total loss by fire.\\nSeveral members of the Society read the articles\\nas they appeared, and were good enough to praise them\\nand advised their collection in a inore permanent form.\\nWhat their kindness urged their liberality made possible,\\nand thus a series of newspaper clippings has become a\\npamphlet. Only a few alterations have been made in\\nthe transition, and now, as when they first appeared, the\\nonly effort has been to bring to the notice of the public\\nsome of the more striking of the splendid collections.\\nIf any interest is aroused which will result in rescu-\\nino the may-nificent series of historic treasures from", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "the dang er of utter ruin wiiich assails them in their\\npresent quarters, the writer will feel that his pamphlet\\nhas well fulfilled its mission.\\nThese forewords would be incomplete without\\nsome acknowledgement of the unfailing kindness of\\nJudtfc Ricord, the Society s Librarian. His thorough\\nknowledge of all the collections, his keen appreciation\\nof thintrs historic and his wise discrimination and advice\\nwere always at the service of the writer, and it is not\\ntoo much to say that if there be any inerit in these\\npages, Judge Ricord s courtes\\\\- has called it into being.\\nA. C.\\nNewark, Sept. 1894.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "I.\\nANUSCRIPTS,\\nFEW people realize the scores of valuable papers,\\nbooks, manuscripts and curios which are stored\\naway among- the archives of the New Jersey His-\\ntorical Society. The Society has not been organized\\nas long as some of its kindred associations in other\\nStates, and its accommodations to-day are probably the\\nworst in the country; yet it has had always a host of\\ncultured and enthusiastic members, who have collected\\nmuch valuable data pertaining to American history,\\neven if they have failed to house it properly.\\nThe Society was founded in 1845, and among its\\ncharter members were Chief-Justice Hornblower, Justice\\nJoseph P. Bradley of the United vStates vSupreme Court,\\nGovernor Pennington, vSecretary of State Frederick T.\\nFrelinghuysen, President McLean, of Princeton College,\\nProfessor Archibald Alexander, T. J. vStryker, Bishop\\nDoane, and other men eminent in professional life, of\\nbroad culture and noble g enerosity.\\nAlmost immediately after its foundation the gifts\\nbegan to be presented, and the Society soon took its", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 MANUSCRIPTS.\\nplace among the leading historical organizations of the\\ncountry, which it has ever sihce retained.\\nPerhaps the most valuable part of the collection is\\nthe series of manuscripts relative to every portion of\\nthe country s history, from its early settlement. The\\noldest document in the archives is a Latin deed to a\\npiece of property in Middlesex Count v, dated 1601, but\\nhistorically it is of little value. The most priceless\\ntreasures which the library contains of this kind are\\nthe proprietary deeds, royal grants, releases of property,\\netc. These curious old manuscripts are two and some\\ntimes three yards long, written in the quaint, crabbed\\nhand of the Seventeenth Century, and bearing the seals\\nand signatures of James, Duke of York, afterwards\\nKing of England; William Penn, King Charles II.,\\nLord Berkeley, Sir George Carteret, and almost every\\nother name which is prominently associated with the\\nsettlement of the State. There is an exemplified copy\\n(made in 1664 for John Fen wick) of the patent from\\nKing Charles II. to his brother James, Duke of York,\\nfor a tract of land in New England, including New\\nJersey. The lands in New Jersey did not appear to\\nplease His Royal Highness, however, for, according to\\nan enormous and very pompously worded manuscript,\\ndated June 23, 1664, he deeded to Lord Berkeley and\\nSir George Carteret all that tract of land adjacent to\\nNew England and lying and being to the westward of\\nLong Island and Manhitas Island, and bounded on the\\neast part by the Maine Sea and part by Hudson s River", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "MANUSCRIPTS. 9\\nand hath upon the west Delaware Bay or river and\\nextendeth southward to the Maine Ocean as farre as\\nCape May.\\nThe munificent consideration for this transfer was\\ntenn shillings.\\nThe first seal of New Jersey can be seen on the\\ncommission of Robert Vauquillin as Surveyor-General\\nof the province. It is an ingenious mingling of the\\nBerkelev and Carteret arms stamped upon faded wax.\\nThe signatures of the Lord Proprietors also appear on\\nseveral old deeds, and do little credit to them, so awkward\\nand uncouth are the characters.\\nThese musty-smelling parchments with their curious\\nseals and pompous verbiage form one of the Society s\\nmost cherished collections, and are of priceless value\\nin determining questions concerning the State s infancy.\\nYet the safest place which the Library s accommo-\\ndations permit them is a wooden box on the floor of\\na crowded closet\\nIn the Colonial and Revolutionary eras the Society\\nis no less rich in valuable material. A letter written\\nat Amboy, July 24, 1700, from Governor Andrew\\nHamilton advises the Proprietors to turn over the Gov-\\nernment to the Crown, but although writing on so\\nimportant a matter he suddenly winds up with: am\\nitmvilling to begin a new sheet and therefore take leaved\\nBrushing against the stately phrases of this letter\\nlie a pile of old lottery tickets dated 1 761-1762, and a\\nworn and time-stained paper on which some anxious", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "MANUSCRIPTS.\\ncolonial gambler has carefully written down all the\\nwinning; numbers and the prizes, which are either pounds,\\nshillings and pence, or such articles as English mill d\\nstockings, crimson and black barragon, saxon green or\\nblue mohair coats, all kinds of callimancoes, etc., etc.\\nNext to this again is a statement of the Perth Amboy\\nchurch lottery prizes, which were awarded, it appears,\\nunder the inspection of the Mayor, Recorder and\\nAldermen of the city.\\nThe signatvire of King George III. appears on a\\ncommission appointing John Skinner captain in the\\nBritish Army during the French and Indian War, and\\nGeorge II. s can be seen on a commission under the\\nprovincial seal creating James Johnston High vSheriff\\nof Middlesex.\\nThe Society, too, possesses State papers signed by\\nalmost every Governor of the State autograph minutes\\nof the various committees of safety that flourished just\\nbefore the Revolution, and innumerable letters written\\nabout local. State and National affairs.\\nOne of the most curious of the parchments is a\\ndiploma granted by Yale College in 1752 to one Thomas\\nWiggins. IL is about six inches square, written with\\nmany flourishes in red, brown and black ink, and bearing\\nthe signature of Thomas Clap, President David Eliot,\\nJoseph Noyes, Benjamin Lord, vSolomon Williams and\\nNoah Hobart, as fellows.\\nBesides the unbound parchments, the Library has a\\nlarge number oi valuable manuscripts carefiilly bound", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "MANUSCRIPTS. It\\ntogether, and referring to certain periods of governmental\\nprogress. One large volume contains the papers of\\nRobert Morris, Chief -Justice of New J ersey, and also\\nGovernor of Pennsylvania. Another is filled with Lewis\\nMorris s letters and papers. There are several bulky\\nvolumes of petitions, bills and resolutions, in manuscript,\\npresented to the Provincial Legislature of New Jersey\\nand to the National Congress which sat at Princeton in\\n1783, and one or two commissions signed by Washington.\\nConcerning the War of 1812, there are muster rolls of\\nthe various New Jersey companies; letters from the field\\nto anxious relatives, and journals of the marches and\\nencampments. Covering the Mexican and the Civil\\nWars, the Library is also rich in historic treasures.\\nMany of the papers refer exclusively to Newark\\naffairs, among them the Town Book for 1691, and the\\nconstitution of A Voluntary Association of the People\\nof Newark to Observe the wSabbath, dated 1798.\\nThere is also an act which seems to have been passed\\nby the Aldermen in 1765, or at least proposed, to relieve\\nthe inhabitants of Sussex from famine, which shows\\nthat Newark then, as now, was willing to give to distress\\nfrom her abundance.\\nvSo one might continue roaming about the Library\\nrooms, guided by Judge Ricord s unfailing courtesy to all\\nthat was most interesting but to see and read and\\nappreciate the large mass of manuscripts would take\\nmany days. This the members realize, and the various\\ncollections have been published in readable form under", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "MAX use RIP IS.\\nthe Society s direction, and twenty octavo volumes of its\\nproceedings have also been printed. In this way the\\ngeneral public, as well as the curious antiquary, can be\\nbrought to appreciate the treasures that are contained in\\nthe crowded Library, and for this reason also the New\\nJersey Historical vSociety has the reputation not only of\\npossessing one of the most valuable manuscript collections\\nin America, but of being also ever ready to put it to\\npractical and general use.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.\\nVALUABLE as are the manuscripts and parchments\\nwhich crowd its archives, the Library is almost as\\nrich in the treasures of the book-maker s art. There\\nare about fourteen thousand volumes in all, and each has\\nan individuality so much beyond the ordinary that it would\\nbe almost impossible exactly to estimate the value of the\\nentire collection.\\nTo make some rough approximation to it the other\\nday, however. Judge Ricord took down from the nearest\\nshelf one hundred volumes that were within easy reach,\\nand by learning from sales catalogues the prices at which\\nsimilar volumes were held, he reckoned out the books to\\nbe worth, at regular market value, over five thousand\\ndollars. And yet these rare old tomes, full from cover to\\ncover of valuable historic data or the quaint and curious\\nlegends of forgotten lore, are piled in heaps in dusty\\nclosets or stacked upon the floor, an easy prey to rats and\\nmoths and fire.\\nBiit the transient visitor at the Society s rooms does\\nnot take into consideration the wretched accommodations\\nin which these treasures are stored, but becomes absorbed", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.\\nat once in their contents, and in turning back the pages\\nof the past to read of by-gone generations the present\\nfades slowly out of mind till at last it seems as if he too\\nlived in good old colony days, took active interest in\\nthe Revolution, or viewed with anxiety the progress of\\nthe United Colonies.\\nHere he can read all the old Blue Laws of the\\nprovince embodied in the first colonial code. Learning and\\nSpicer s, made in 1702, or Bradford s Digest of 1730, or\\nNevill s Laws of 1752, and from these beginnings can\\ntrace the gradual development of statutory provision\\ndown to the present day.\\nThe earliest legal volume which pertains to New\\nJersey is George Scot s Model of Government of the\\nProvince of East Jersey, written in 1685 at the instance\\nof the Lord Proprietors. It is a trifle laudatory in tone,\\nbut interesting in the light it throws on the State s be-\\nginning. Elizabethtown, its writer informs its readers,\\ncontains forty thousand acres and one hundred and fifty\\nfamilies Newark, fifty thousand acres, but only one\\nhundred families. The vSociety s copy of this book is one\\nof five known to exist. It is in splendid preservation^\\nbearing the arms and motto of the noted Constable family\\nof Edinburgh, and is valued at four hundred and seventy-\\nfive dollars.\\nOn a shelf near this is a copy of the celebrated\\nElizabethtown Bill in Chancery, a suit l\\\\v John, Earl\\nof Stair, against Benjamin Bond and others known as the\\nClinker Lot Right Men. This, together with The", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. 15\\nAnswer to the Bill in Chancery, which the Library also\\ncontains, throw more light than any other book or docu-\\nment on the proprietary interests in New Jersey, and\\nmany legal decisions have been based on their contents.\\nThe answer is so rare that some authors have declared\\nthat it never existed.\\nThe Society has gospel, too, as well as law, and sev-\\neral shelves are taken up with rare old copies of the\\nHoly Scriptures. There are Dutch, Gaelic, French and\\nLatin editions, and some that controversy or error\\nhas made famous. Of these the most valuable is the\\nBreeches Bible, printed in London in 1577, and so\\nnick-named because of the following rendering of Genesis\\niii. 7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, they\\nknew that they were naked, and they sewed figge\\nleaves together and made themselves breeches. The\\ncopy is specially interesting as it contains the whole\\nBooke of Psalmes and tunes, with apt notes to sing them\\nwithall.\\nNext to this is a copy of the Vulgate beautifully\\nbound in white vellum with the arms of some long\\nsince departed owner stamped in gold upon the cover,\\nand further along is a finely preserved Douay.\\nBrushing against these Christian Gospels and mingling\\nwith them the dust of their crumbling leaves are the\\nutterances of the ancient philosophers, Aristotle, Plato,\\nPliny and the rest. Many are the first printed editions\\nand not one of them worth less than one hundred dollars.\\nIn Colonial, Revolutionary and early constitutional", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "l6 BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.\\nvolumes the Library is especially rich. One time-worn\\nbook recites the history of The Negro Plot of New-\\nYork, with a journal of the proceedings, the names of\\nthose arrested, their executions by hanging or burning\\nand a variety of other useful and highly interesting-\\nmatter.\\nAnother is the journal of the ship Catherine, which\\nwas a pirate-boat and a slave-trader in 1732, plying\\nbetween New York and the coast of Africa, and still\\nanother is a story of the Revolution, published in 1788,\\nwhich contains the first map of the United States.\\nThe first magazine published in New Jersey was\\nThe New American Magazine, edited by Judge\\nNevil, Mayor of Amboy in 1758-60. It contains selec-\\ntions from The Spectator, which Addison had re-\\ncently edited in London Pope, Prior and other noted\\nmen of the times.\\nA History of North America forms its serial, and\\nbegins very properly with a biography of Columbus.\\nAmong the fugitive pieces is one, On Marriage, by a\\nFemale, which recites the writer s numerous misfor-\\ntunes and final success in the matrimonial market. The\\nverse of the time is embodied in a volume of poems 1 y\\nPhilip Freneau, written in 1768. Freneau was widely\\nknown both in Europe and America as the patriot poet;\\nhis effusions were praised most highly by Jefferies, the\\nremorseless Scotch reviewer, and Campbell honored him\\nby plagiarizing some of his finest lines. The pcet\\nwas a bit gay, apparently, and one of his poems,", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. 17\\nOn a legislative act prohibiting the tise of spirit-\\nuous liquors to prisoners in certain United States jails,\\nbegins in this way\\nThey that are unconfined drink what they will,\\nWho gave the right to limit men in jail\\nHis descriptions of his student-life at Princeton, too\\nwhere he was a room-mate of James Madison would\\nastonish the staid under-graduate of modern times.\\nOne of the most interesting, and among the rarest\\nof the Society s volumes, is a small vellum-covered\\noctavo, which contains Alexander Hamilton s defense\\nagainst the charges of speculating with the United States\\nTreasury funds, which his political opponents made\\nagainst him in 1797. He wrote it himself and it was pub-\\nlished by him in Philadelphia. In defending his official\\nhonor, however, he has made serious reflections on his\\nown morality, and some readers of this exceedingly rare\\nold book might feel that Burr s opponent was at least\\nas bad as the man who .shot him.\\nAmong other information, it contains a series of\\nletters which passed between Monroe and Hamilton,\\nin which the latter became so belligerent that Monroe\\nwrote\\nIf you meant this last letter as a challenge to me,\\nI have to inform you that my friend Colonel Burr will\\ncommunicate with you on the subject.\\nA remarkable and little known coincidence that\\nHamilton s slayer might have been his opponent s\\nsecond. It is not stated why the duel did not come\\n2", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "l8 BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.\\noff perhaps because of Burr s intervention and set-\\ntlement in his capacity of second.\\nPassing over the many other books of ecjual interest\\nand value, one comes to the quantities of pamphlets, which\\nare often as quaint and as curious as the bound volumes.\\nThis is the way in which Samuel Jennings in 1699 began\\nhis answer to an opposing pamphleteer Truth rescued\\nfrom forgery and falsehood, being an answer to a late\\nscurrilous piece which stole into the world without any\\nknown author s name affixed, and renders it the more like\\nits father who was a Iyer and murderer from the be-\\nginning.\\nHardly less bitter, though couched in more elegant\\nEnglish, is Dr. Samuel Johnson s Taxation No Tyranny,\\nwhich the Library possesses algo.\\nAmong the other pamphlets may be mentioned the\\nfuneral elogiums which flooded the country on the\\ndeath of Washington. Here one can read the official\\noration delivered before Congress by General Henry Lee,\\nin which the immortal words, first in war, first in peace,\\nfirst in the hearts of his countrymen, originated the\\none by Gouverneur Morris, delivered at New York\\nFisher Ames s address to the Massachusetts Legislature\\nthe Latin elogium of President Willard, of Harvard, and\\nthe addresses of Dr. Macwhorter, of the First Presby-\\nterian, and Dr. Ogden of Trinity Church, in Newark.\\nDr. Macwhorter s covers forty-nine printed octavo\\npages, and Dr. Ogdcn s closes with a diagram of tne\\nfuneral procession.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. I9\\nThe Library also has an orig-inal sheet of the music\\nand words sung- at Trenton as Washington passed through\\nen route for his first inauguration, written by Annis\\nStockton, wife of one of New Jersey s signers of the\\nDeclaration. One of the stanzas is\\nVirgins fair and matrons grave,\\nThose thy conquering arms did save,\\nBuild for thee triumphal bowers,\\nStrew, ye fair, his way with flowers.\\nStrew your hero s way with flowers.\\nA note at the end says The elegant taste with\\nwhich the arch was adorned, and the innocence of the\\nwhite-robed choir, who met him with this gratulatory\\nsong, made a lively and strong impression.\\nThere is also preserved a very curious oration deliv-\\nered on the first anniversary of Tammany Hall, in which,\\namong other things, the speaker says On you devolves\\nthe task of preserving in their pristine purity the princi-\\nples for which Tammany is distinguished. From you is\\nexpected not only wisdom and courage, but also a display\\nof virtue.\\nHow sarcastic do these earnest words now sound I\\nIt is impossible to complete the catalogue of valuable\\nbooks and pamphlets covering all portions of American\\nhistory down to the present time which the Library con-\\ntains but enough has been said to prove that interest\\nand instruction alike could be derived from a visit to\\nits archives.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "in.\\nNEWSPAPERS,\\nIN looking- back over the years that are gone, and in\\nstudying- the deeds and desires of past generations\\nno truer guide can be found than the newspapers of\\nthe day. Then, as now, they reflected the peculiarities of\\nthe people, and to them the antiquarian and historian\\nturn not only for the facts themselves, but also for those\\nephemeral happenings, those every-day doings which\\nform after all the most attractive portions of history.\\nRealizing this very fully the New Jersey Historical\\nSociety has arranged upon its shelves the files of almost\\nevery paper published in this State, and many from\\nneighboring communities as well. In studying these\\nmusty folios on which a broken-nosed bust of the great\\nprinter, Benjamin Franklin, smiles down from a neigh-\\nboring shelf two lines of development suggest them-\\nselves. One can find in them a clear reflection of the\\nNation s history with all the side light of contemporary\\nopinion, or he can trace in their pages the rise and devel-\\nopment of modern journalism from its humble beginnings\\nof one hundred years ago.\\nOne of the first papers published in New Jersey was", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "NEWSPAPERS. 21\\nThe New Jersey Gazette, printed by Isaac Collins, at\\nTrenton, beginning in 1778. It is a four-page sheet,\\nfourteen by nine inches. Advertisements of moderate\\nlength were inserted for four dollars each first week,\\nand two per every continuance. The price was three\\nshillings nine pence hard cash.\\nIn these earlier days of newspaper -making the\\npages were chiefly the medium of exchange for busi-\\nness, and news is scarce and briefly told. The front\\npage is taken up almost wholly with notices of sale,\\nadvertisements, etc. In an early number of The Ga-\\nzette Brockholst Livingston afterwards Justice of the\\nUnited vStates Supreme Court -announces the loss of a\\nparchment pocketbook in an advertisement so long\\nand elaborately worded that it reads like an essay. The\\nworthy Judge admits that there were sundry valuable\\nlottery tickets among the other lost possessions, and\\nconcludes in this way\\nThe subscriber flatters himself that if any person\\nfinds the pocketbook and feels no compunctions of con-\\nscience in converting the money to his own use, he will\\nstill be honest enough to fall upon some method to con-\\nvey the papers to their owner, and cunning enough to\\nconceal from what quarter they came.\\nJoseph Titus, in another issue, blossoms out into dog-\\ngerel over a remarkable horse, who was black all over\\nand yet had a white foot. He says\\nOn the sixteenth day of May,\\nSometime in the night,\\nI lost a mare all over black\\nBut the near hind foot white.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 NEWSPAPERS.\\nServants and apprentices judging from numerous\\nadvertisements had a bad habit of running away.\\nThomas Higginson, with amazing liberality, offers\\nsix cents reward for the return of his low Dutch ser-\\nvant man.\\nJabez Wiggins, however, finds trouble at the other\\nextreme, and is desirous of selling a likely negro wench,\\nage seventeen, remarking among her other qualifica-\\ntions, that she has had both small-pox and measles.\\nIn these early prints editorials do not appear, and in\\ntheir stead was inserted the foreign news which came by\\npacket, and was invariably three or four months old.\\nCommunications are frequent, however, and signed with\\nsuch pretentious noms de plume as Homo Sum, Cassius,\\netc., although the Constant Reader who has contributed\\nso generously on every subject to every paper began his\\njournalistic career as early at least as 1781.\\nEach one of these sheets had its poetry column, some\\ngood, but almost all amusingly poor. Here is a specimen\\ntaken from some verses written in defense of the fair\\nsex to a slanderer thereof:\\nA man of your vein is always in pain\\nUnless he is writing of satire,\\nAnd rather than fail, the ladies assail,\\nWhen destitute of other matter.\\nwSeveral other papers succeeded The Gazette, but\\nalmost all of them soon ceased to be, and it was not until\\n1796, when the first copy of what was then known as\\nThe Centinel of Freedom, appeared at Newark, that\\nmodern journalism really began. In this the interest", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "NEWSPAPERS. 23\\nceases to centre in the form and manner entirely, as the\\nhappenings of the day are presented elaborately enough\\nto be well worth perusal, the comments, anecdotes and\\noccasional pieces are quaint and often clever, and as\\nthe reader turns the leaves of the time-worn volumes the\\nhistory of a century passes like a panorama before him.\\nThe first issue is taken up almost entirely with Washing-\\nton s Farewell Address, although the editor finds room to\\nmake a very gracious bow to the public\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the first utter-\\nance in a New Jersey paper that can strictly be called an\\neditorial.\\nThe editors have made such arrangements, it says,\\nas will assure them the earliest foreign and domestic\\nintelligence. Original essays on subjects inter-\\nesting to the public shall be carefully attended to, and\\nadmitted if free from scurrility and personal abuse.\\nThe tone of the paper was conservative and stately\\neven the obituaries being couched in Addisonian English.\\nHere is one of Mr. Isaac Pierson Jun. of this town\\nHis faith and belief in the Gospel scheme of re-\\ndemption, through the propitiatory sacrifice, sustained\\nhim in the hour of trial. He was not the least intimi-\\ndated at the approach of death though sensible for some\\ntime of his hastening dissolution. His remains were\\nrespectfully interred in the family burying ground in\\nthe new Presbyterian Church yard, attended by a numer-\\nous collection of relatives and friends.\\nIt was reserved for Washington s death, however, to\\nlavish all the fulsomeness of praise possible in the English", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 NEWSPAPERS.\\nlanguage. The paper appeared bordered in black, a\\ntombstone took the place of the modern cut of the de-\\nceased, and the following is the beginning of the obituary\\nMourn O Columbia Thy father and protector is\\nno more Mourn reader of whatever kindred, tongue or\\nclime thou be thy friend, the friend of Liberty and Man,\\nis Gone Gone to that country from whose bourne no\\ntraveler returns. The Hero, Patriot, Sage, sent a while\\nas a kind emanation from the Deity to enlighten the dark\\nnight of our tribulation and to guide the youthful steps\\nof our country, is snatched back to the bosom of his God.\\nThe next issue, still in mourning, gives an account of\\nthe day of special mourning as observed in Newark.\\nThe Rev. Dr. Macwhorter, one learns, delivered an\\nanimated, instructive and pathetic discourse, and that he\\nwept may be judged from the reporter s remark The\\nbig drop of manly sorrow trickled involuntarily down the\\ncheek of the hoary veteran of 1777. The succeeding\\nissues teem with odes in memory of the departed patriot.\\nCries one poet\\nThe mournful muses wrapt in pious woe,\\nTo George s manes this last tribute owe\\nAnd another, who signs himself Orange\\nColumbia long^ his loss shall weep,\\nNe er again his likeness see.\\nLong her strains in sorrow steep.\\nStrains of immortality.\\nThus is the Nation s history quaintly told through\\nthe varied events of nearly a century. But it is, perhaps,", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "NEWSPAPERS. 25\\neven more interestin,^- to study the every-day life of by-\\ngone g-enerations as the Centinel s pages disclose it.\\nThen, as now, newspaper-readers seemed to fancy the\\nsensational. In 1806 one reads of a Horrid Murder,\\nwhich the heading states was One of the most horrid\\never committed in the upper end of the country, and a\\nserial running through many numbers is a very dime-\\nnovel kind of tale entitled, Louisa, the Lovely Orphan.\\nEven the anecdotes are startling with sometimes a\\nmost decided double entendre.\\nIt is popularly supposed that illustrated journalism is\\na modern growth, but as early as 1800 The Centinel\\nwas published with cuts. The first was a tomb-stone,\\nwhich headed the announcement of Washington s death.\\nThe poetry column was illustrated by a harp on a willow.\\nThe stage-coach column contained a cut of the swift,\\nsure stage, which was advertised to pass through New-\\nark at twelve o clock a. m lodge at vSomerset and arrive\\nat Philadelphia next day afternoon. Way passengers six\\ncents per mile. From Newark to Philadelphia four dol-\\nlars. Fourteen pounds of baggage allowed.\\nThen there are pictures in the shipping column,\\nwhere Nathaniel Budd announces that the subscriber\\nhas obtained liberty from the city of New York to take\\noff goods at the Ferry stairs at the foot of Cortland street,\\nand will start a ferry to Hoboken the racing column\\nfor there were race-tracks even then and several other\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0departments of the paper also had their illustrations.\\nThe first extra issued in New Jersey came from", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 NEWSPAPERS.\\nthe presses of The Centinel of Freedom on March 24,\\n1797. It is only a single page, printed on one side, but\\nentitled The Centinel of Freedom. Extraordinary.\\nThe following important foreign intelligence, which\\nwe received, by this morning s mail, from Philadelphia,\\nsays the editor, was received there by the arrival of the\\nship Hamburg Packet in forty-five days from Liverpool.\\nWe are induced to lay it before our readers at this early\\nhour by a Centinel extra The news relates to the war\\nin Europe, starting with the announcement that Buona-\\nparte is besieging Mantua with greatest assiduity.\\nThe reader is also informed, to relieve his tedious\\nsuspense, that Mr. Munroe, our minister, left Paris on\\nJanuary 7.\\nThe dusty corner of the library, where these files are\\ntreasured, is one of the most entertaining portions of the\\nHistorical s wSociety s collection.\\nThis folio of four pages what is it but a map of\\nbusy life, its fluctuations and its vast concerns said\\nCowper, and in studying their time-worn pages, the read-\\ner can see and realize the life of the long ago can\\nappreciate the greatness of the past, and still thank God\\nfor the present, which that past made possible, and the\\nglorious future which will succeed them both.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "IV.\\nART WORKS AND CURIOS.\\nSTOWED away among the piles of books and manu-\\nscripts in the Society s rooms are many valuable\\nworks of art and interesting- curios, which lend an\\nair of completeness to the collection and engage the\\nvisitor s attention as soon as he enters the dingy\\nrooms. They represent almost every phase in national\\nhistory, and tell in their silent way stories as full of\\nentertainment as those which the musty volumes and\\ntime-worn parchments unfold.\\nTo the right of the door as one enters, propped up\\nagainst a pile of huge folios, is a finely executed likeness\\nof Vice-President Aaron Burr, by Gilbert Stuart. The\\nback-ground is dark and time-stained, but the features\\nare beautifully distinct, and by an odd freak of location\\nthe proud brown eyes continually look out on a book-\\ncase near-by where The Life and Letters of Alexander\\nHamilton confront them.\\nThe portrait, like its original, was subjected to many\\nvicissitudes before it reached its final resting place, and\\nthe story of its acquisition is most singular. Judge\\nOgden Edwards, of New York, a relative of the Burr", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 ART WORKS AND CURIOS.\\nfamily, in 1847, started out to search for some of the\\nfamily portraits which tradition said had been given by\\nColonel Burr to an old body servant named Keaser. For\\na long time his search was unsuccessful, but at last one\\nday, as he was hurrying down Pearl street, he heard some\\none say Keaser, cart away these boxes.\\nTurning instantly he questioned the drayman, who\\nsaid his father had been the much-sought-for lackey.\\nAbout the pictures he knew nothing, but referred Judge\\nEdwards to a sister who lived in the vShort Hills of\\nNew Jersey.\\nThe place was wholly unfamiliar to him, but, de-\\ntermined not to give up the hunt, he came to this city\\nto ask advice of John Chetwood. Together they went to\\nShort Hills, and after much hunting found the woman\\nthey sought in an old tumble-down log cabin. On enter-\\ning the house Judge Edwards recognized at once a\\nmagnificent picture of Col. Burr, and one of his daughter\\nTheodosia, who married Governor Ashton, of South\\nCarolina, and was lost at sea. These he bought for five\\ndollars. On inquiring if there were any more, he was\\nconducted to the attic, where he found a portrait of\\nBurr s mother on the floor, and, stuffed into a broken\\nwindow, one of President Burr, of Princeton a striking\\nillustration of the Shakspearean couplet\\nImperious Cesar dead and turned to clay,\\nMay stop a hole to keep the wind away.\\nThese he also obtained, and in token of his appreci-", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ART WORKS AND CURIOS. 29\\nation of Mr. Chetwood s kindness, gave him the one of\\nColonel Burr.\\nIn 1849, Mr. Chetwood moved to California, but\\nbefore his departure presented the portrait to the Society,\\nwhere it now rests among more fitting surroundings,\\nthough still liable to a fire s destruction.\\nNext to this, and in striking contrast to it in every\\nfacial feature, is a likeness of Commodore James Law-\\nrence, also painted by Stuart, but on a panel instead of\\ncanvas. Crowded quarters necessitate paying but scant\\nrespect to the memory of General Philip Schuyler, for\\nhis picture is wedged in behind a book-case with the\\nface turned toward the wall. The Society also has\\nhandsome portraits of Richard Stockton, Levi Holden\\nand Chief-Justice Joseph C. Hornblower.\\nOne of the largest canvases is that which portrays\\nHendrick Hudson, the discoverer of Hudson s River,\\nand his remarkably large collection of children. It is\\nsaid to be an original old Dutch master, but Judge\\nRicord is unwilling to vouch personally for its genuine-\\nness.\\nOne of the most beautiful pictures, in point of artistic\\nmerit, is an exquisite portraiture of Mrs. F. B. Ogden,\\ncalled the belle of Liverpool during her husband s resi-\\ndence there as Consul-General. It is done on a very\\nlarge panel of ivory by the famous English miniaturist.\\nSir William Newton, and the colors are soft and graceful,\\nyet accurate to the most minute detail.\\nAmong the photographic curios are two tintypes of", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 ART WORKS AND CURIOS.\\nthe Emperor Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, of Mexico,\\nwho was shot by the Republicans on the fall of the\\nEmpire which he tried to set up there, aided by Louis\\nNapoleon. One was taken just after he fell, and shows\\ndistinctly the outline of his features, and the uniform he\\nwore when he faced death. The other was taken after\\nthe body had been stripped to the waist, and the dark\\nblo.- hes on the white skin about the breast are a sad evi-\\ndencv of the xmerring aim of his executioners.\\nIn one of the few shabby show-cases is a voluminous\\nbotile-blue tail-coat and large continental cocked hat\\nwhich bears the inscription Coat and Chapeaii of\\nCommodore Lawrence.\\nThe multiplicity of garments treasured in various\\nmuseums as belonging to distinguished men might lead\\nthe visitor to doubt the genuineness of this coat, were\\nit not for the autograph letter from Mrs. Lawrence, in\\nwhich she presents it to the vSociety, and declares it to be\\nthe identical garment which he wore when he expired\\nwith the immortal words, Don t give up the ship upon\\nhis lips.\\nUnderneath this is pinned a pompously worded eulo-\\ngium woven in silk, which begins\\nSpirit of Sympathy from Heaven descend.\\nA Nation weeps Columbia mourns a friend\\nIn the same case are a large num])cr of Robert Ful-\\nton s original drawings, and the diplomas and certificates\\nof election of Governor Fort (1851-54), which he left to\\nthe Society in his will. In a jar of alcohol is an orange,", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ART WORKS AND CURIOS. 31\\nand the label states that it was grown on a tree which\\nwas planted by George Washington.\\nThere is no record in the archives of any hatchet,\\nlittle or big, which renders the exhibit incomplete but,\\nat any rate, one can infer that the ancestral fruit was\\nsometimes picked.\\nThe Library has a large collection of swords found\\nupon various battlefields or presented belonging to noted\\ngenerals but owing to the pitiful lack of room they\\nare packed away in a dark closet. Indeed all the col-\\nlections are jumbled together in somewhat incongru-\\nous confusion. A torn Confederate battle-flag hangs\\nnear and a little above the remnants of the Stars and\\nStripes which were shot to pieces at Pilot s Knob.\\nAn old-fashioned beaver hat, nine inches high, with a\\nthree-quarter inch brim, rests upon the brow of a plaster\\nShakespeare, which in turn stands upon a Fifteenth Cen-\\ntury Dutch Bible almost crowding Napoleon s clock onto\\nthe floor, and triumphantly surmounted by a campaign\\nbanner of Clay and Frelinghuysen.\\nThe phrase, not worth a continental, is illustrated\\nin the moulding piles of State currency tucked away in\\nthe drawers. They are of every denomination, and many\\nof them bear the beligerent motto, To Counterfeiters\\nDeath.\\nOne states that the First Presbyterian Church of\\nNewark promises to pay to bearer on demand one pen-\\nny. It is dated December i6, 1790, so that the interest\\nthereon might now be a snug sum.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 ART WORKS AND CURIOS.\\nThere are a great many Indian relics, wampum, tom-\\nahawks and beads, and near an Indian stone pipe is a lit-\\ntle bit of bark which the donor declared was taken from\\nthe very tree under which Sir Walter Raleigh smoked his\\nfirst pipe\\nAlthough the relics tell of almost every phase of\\nAmerican endeavor, those which relate to State history\\nare more numerous. Among the inost valuable of these\\nfrom an historic point of view, are about three hundred\\nphotographs of inembers of the Society, carefully in-\\ndexed, and in almost every instance accompanied by\\nbiographical sketches. This list comprises some of the\\nmost distinguished of New Jersey s sons, and its use\\nto a historian or biographer is apparent.\\nApart from all this various mixture of material\\nhistory, on the top of one of the cases stands a magnifi-\\ncent bust by Canova, of the Princess Pauline, sister of the\\nfirst Napoleon. It seems to look out from its marble,\\nsightless eyes, with a sort of impassive scorn at the relics\\nof the Republic strewn about it, and its treatment has\\nbeen an ample justification for such stony feeling.\\nWhen the family of Joseph Bonaparte left Bordentown,\\nthis bust w^as sold, among other things. It lingered\\nalong for a few years in neglect when the worthy\\nmatron who lived in the old homestead found it in the\\ngarret. Thinking it would make a good ornament for\\nher posy bed she carefully white-washed its classic\\nmarble features,- and set it out in the garden for her\\nvines to trail upon. It stood there for many years until", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "ART WORKS AND CURIOS.\\nrecognized and purchased by an art connoisseur who pre-\\nsented it to the Society.\\nSic transit gloria /nundi.\\nOne might spend hours in interested inspection of\\nthese relics, and as he looks them over the thought is\\nforced home most strongly that here the hour glass of\\ntime turns far more slowly than in the hurrying crow^ded\\nstreets below. And here in the books they have written\\nor in the records of the deeds accomplished, the illus-\\ntrious dead still live and excercise upon those who visit\\nthem a potent charm.", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "V.\\nNEWARK S BEGINNINGS.\\nNEWARK has been especially fortunate in having-\\nthe history of its local achievements preserved\\nin these collections. Here in its attic rooms, looking-\\nout on the busy, bustling- life of the modern city, the\\nvisitor might easily forget the present, as he unfolds\\nthe old parchments or studies the time- worn volumes\\nwhich trace the foundation and growth of what the Rev.\\nAbraham Pierson called our town on the Passayack.\\nNewark, at its beginning in 1666, was a church, an\\noffshoot of the sturdy Congregationalism of Connecticut.\\nThe first settlers, the records state, were godly and\\nlearned men from Branford. who moved to Newark as\\na unit, taking with them the town and church records,\\nand re-establishing their New England colony on New\\nJersey soil. They had purchased their land, including\\nNewark, Belleville, Bloomfield, the Oranges and Caldwell,\\nfrom the Indians, as the time-stained inanuscripts show,\\nfor the following consideration Fifty double hands of\\npowder, one hundred barrs of lead, twenty axes, twenty\\ncoates, ten gims, twenty pistolls, ten kettles, ten swords,\\nfour blankets, four barrells of beere, ten paire of breeches,", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "NEWARK S BEGINNINGS. 35\\nfifty knives, twenty howes, eight hundred and fifty f athem\\nof wampem, two ankors of licquers, and three troopers\\ncoates.\\nHaving driven this thrifty bargain, they settled them-\\nselves under the stern laws of Puritanism, and, in a\\nresolution still preserved, declared that none shall be\\nadmitted freemen or free Burgesses upon our town upon\\nPassaic River in the province of New Jersey, but such\\nplanters as are members of some or other of the Con-\\ngregational churches, nor shall any but such be chosen to\\nmagistracy or to carry on any part of the civil judicature,\\nor any chief military trust or office. Nor shall any but\\nchurch members have any vote in any elections.\\nThus it was that the church became the centre of the\\ntown, and the earlier town meeti-igs were occupied with\\ndiscussions of the merits of the relative ministers, and\\nbickerings about the salary.\\nThe first public building was the church, and the\\nfirst town meeting was held to decide upon its location.\\nBut a Satan enters every Eden, and even the most worthy\\nsometimes fall. One vSabbath day, discord, permanent\\nand bitter, came. The morning dawned with threatening\\naspect, and the church-going crowds knew that a storm\\nwas imminent. Colonel Josiah Ogden, a veritable elder\\nin Israel, knew it, too, and to the lasting scandal of all\\nthe truly pious, stayed at home from meeting to gather\\nin his hay. The wrath of the righteous knew no bounds,\\nand the wandering sheep received the official censure of\\nthe fold. He appealed to the Presbytery and was sus-", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": ";^6 Newark s ueginnings.\\ntained, but the breach was too wide to heal the Rev. Mr.\\nWebb, the pastor, was requested to resign for his half-\\nhearted condemnation of Colonel Ogden, and the in-\\niquitous hay-gatherer became the founder and one of the\\npillars of Trinity Episcopal Church, which resulted ulti-\\nmately in the disestablishment of Congregationalism.\\nIt is difficult now to appreciate the powerful effect\\nof such a trivial incident, but the old-time books and\\nrecords are filled with it, and the horror of the godly\\nappears to have been the more intense becatise this\\nsecond Jeroboam did make others also in Israel to sin.\\nA lingering memory of this iniquity, perhaps, caused\\nsundry worthy citizens to prepare, in 1798, a volun-\\ntary association of the people of Newark to preserve the\\nSabbath. The agreement contains the names of up-\\nwards of a hundred men who signed themselves to the\\nfollowing provisions\\nWe agree, Fi rsf. That we will neither give nor par-\\ntake of pleasure or entertainment on that day.\\nSecond. That we will neither ride nor travel on that\\nday.\\nThird. That we will regularly attend divine service\\non that day, and compel our children, servants and\\napprentices to do the same.\\nFourth. That after divine service is over we will\\nkeep our children, apprentices and servants at home, and\\nnot suffer them to go abroad.\\nWorthy souls They have long since ceased from\\ntheir godly avocations, and,", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "NEWARK S BEGINNINGS. 37\\nEach in his narrow cell forever laid,\\nThe rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.\\nThe works they began and the industries they\\nstarted, have come down to the present generation\\neven the four barrells of beere they gave the\\nIndians have increased more wonderfully than the\\nIsraelitish woman s pot of oil, but of them personally\\nonly the mouldering headstones in the churchyard tell.\\nThese also would have vanished were it not for the care-\\nful forethought ot the Historical Society which has\\npreserved drawings of many old tombstones and copies\\nof all the old inscriptions. The epitaphs are indicative\\nin some cases of the stern and melancholy minds that\\nframed them as this one, copied from the tomb of\\nGeorge Linch, who died 1794\\nYou living men as you pass by,\\nAs you are now, so once was I.\\nAs I am now, so you must be\\nPrepare for death and follow me.\\nThe grave-Stone of Sarah, relict of Abner Ward,\\nwho disceased June 12, 181 8, was a little more cheerful,\\nexclaiming, Why should we morn departed friends, or\\nquake at death s alarms? and the following has a ring of\\nof such perfect resignation that one is tempted to believe\\nit may have been born of love for another\\nLie still, dear wife, and take thy rest;\\nGod called thee hence because He thought it best.\\nThe Historical Society possesses also the old town\\nbook, a record of the deeds and transfers of land from", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "^O NEWARK S BEGINNINGS.\\n1691 to 1737. Among the miscellaneous papers is a\\nfaire copy (it is without date) of ye Ingen sent from\\nLondon and now in ye city halle seven feet wide on ye\\nboard, nine feet on ye worke pole, seventy-three feet\\nlong in ye whole. Mounted by twelve tug men, eleven\\nbucket men and one pipe man.\\nWith this are the minutes of the meetings of Engine\\nCompany Number One, from 1799 1801. Next to them.\\nand crumbling with them into dust, is an old deed, on the\\nback of which some Eighteenth Century school boy has\\nwritten a glowing account of a trotting horse, Young\\nPastime, whom he declares he will see and bet on\\nspeedily.\\nThe cupola of Cockloft Summer House is treasured\\namong the Society s valued possessions, as it was under\\nthe roof of this arbor on the old Gouverneur home-\\nstead that Washington Irving, James K. Paulding and\\nothers of that famous coterie used to gather to forget\\non the banks of the Passaic the city s din. It was here\\nthat Irving wrote one of the earliest of his works,\\nSalamagundi, or Whim Whams of Opinion. In it he\\nmakes the following reference to Newark Newark\\nnoted for its fine breed of fat inosquitoes sting through\\nthe thickest boot. A knowing traveller always judges\\nthings by inn-keepers and waiters, therefore Newark\\npeople are fat as butter. Remember to note a learned\\ndissertation on Archie Gifford s green coat to which\\nreasons might be added as to why Newark people wear", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Newark s beginnings.\\n39\\nred worsted night caps and turn their noses to the south\\nwhen the wind blows.\\nIrving, however, made up for these ungracious re-\\nmarks in later years when in a long letter to the Histori-\\ncal Society he said\\nWith Newark are associated in my mind many\\npleasant memories of early days and social meetings at\\nan old mansion on the banks of the Passaic.\\nNear one of the windows of the Library stands the\\nstudy chair of Dr. Macwhorter, half turned toward the\\nlight, as if the owner had but just risen from a view of\\nthe First Presbyterian Church, whose destinies he guided\\nso faithfully for so many years. Near his chair stands\\nhis cane, and in the quaintness and quiet of the surround-\\nings one almost expects to see the reverend gentleman\\nstep down from his picture on the wall near by and min-\\ngle once more in the busy world.\\nYes, and next the cane is a huge old beaver-hat,\\nwhich fancy says was just like the one he wore, though it\\nreally belonged to Dr. Griffin, his successor from 1801-\\n1843. It is an enormous old affair, nine inches high, with\\na two-inch brim, eight inches across at the bottom, and\\nnine and a half at the top. The inside is lined with red\\nsilk, decorated with a pretentious coat of arms, and the\\nmotto, Under this We Prosper. It bears the name of\\nWilliam Rankin, maker, opposite the church.\\nThe Society s collection of portraits of Newark s citi-\\nzens is especially valuable. It includes that of Aaron\\nBurr, who was born here near the corner of William and", "height": "3313", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "sketchesofnewjer00chur_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 NEWARK S BEGINNINGS.\\nWashington streets Judge Hornblower, Justice Bradley,\\nFrederick T. Frelinghuysen, Abraham Coles, Ireneaus\\nPrime, Governor Pennington, and many others whose\\nachievements in State and National affairs have made\\nNewark proud to call them her sons.\\nThus, as one wanders through the dusty rooms, runs\\nhis eye along the crowded book-shelves, or gazes at the\\npictures on the wall, time seems to turn backward in\\nits flight he notes the records of every phase of the\\nNation s history, the State s, the city s. He sees again\\nthe faces of by-gone generations. 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