{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3077", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Qass-\\nBook", "height": "2996", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\nOF\\nwm m\\nm\\n1,\\nNEW JERSEY,\\nWITH\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHrS\\nOF MANY OF ITS\\nPioneers and Prominent Men.\\nrOJlPILED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF\\nW. Vv^OODFORD CLAYTON,\\nASSISTED BY\\nWILLIAM NELSON, A.M.,\\nRECORDING SECRETARY NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.\\nII.LTJSTRA.TED.\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nEVERTS PECK.\\n188 2.\\nPRESS OF J. B LIPPINCOTT CO., PHILADELPHIA.", "height": "2996", "width": "2108", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3003", "width": "2087", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe design of tlie present voluoie has been to furnish a conipreiiciisive and reliable history\\nof Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey. In grouping these counties together in one vol-\\nume respect has been had to that ancient tie of lineage and race which has given and will pre-\\nserve in both sections an identity of interest, and also to the fact that for more than a century\\nand a half tiiese counties were one in territory and munici[)al government. It is therefore fitting\\nthat tiiey should be classed together in their history.\\nI It is not necessary to ask the reader to pause iiere upon the tiireshold of this volume to\\nI listen to a lengthy description of what it contains, or to a eulogy calculated to bins his judgment\\nin favor of it in advance. The work will speak for itself. We ask only the reader s candid\\nverdict after the volume shall have been impartially perused.\\nI There are but a few words of explanation necessary in these prefatory remarks. The work\\nf compiling this history was begun scarcely more than a year ago. Of course it coidd not have\\niXien so soon completed by a single writer. The plan has been to employ several writers upon\\n^-.fferent departments. This plan has been carried out, and the present volume is the result of\\ntheir united labors, amounting in all to several years work for a single individual.\\nThe writers who have assisted in the compilation of this work are William Nelson, A.M.,\\nof Paterson, the late Judge Nehemiah Millard, of tiie same city, Rufus T. Peck, Esq., Charles\\nK. Westbrook, A.B., and Edgar O. Wagner, Esq., of the publisiiers regular staff of assistants.\\nThe three last mentioned gentlemen have written a large siiare of the biographical sketches.\\nAll the work thus furnished, except a part of the biographies and the history of the city of\\nPaterson, by Mr. Nelson, has been submitted to the revision of the responsible historian, whose\\nduty it has been not only to write the general history of both counties, but to so handle the whole\\nmass of matter entering into the volume as to make it one liomogeneous, orderly, and consecutive\\nwork throughout. This latter task has been comparatively easy, owing to the excellence both in\\nstyle and matter of most of the township histories furnished by the assistant writers.\\nThe name of Mr. Nelson attached to his part of the work is a sufficient guarantee that so\\nmuch of it at least has been well done. And it has been tlie conscientious endeavor of the\\ngeneral historian to attain to a like excellence throughout the entire volume. It should be men-\\ntioned in this connection that for the interesting early history of schools in the townships we are\\nindebted to the carefully prepared centennial manuscript of Mr. Demarest, Superintendent of\\nSchools in Bergen County.\\nOur thanks are due for many courtesies extended to us and our Assistants in both counties,\\nand for matter whicii has been gratuitously and cheerfully furnished by a number of per-\\nsons. We desire also to acknowledge our indebtedness to the county and town officials and to\\nmembers of the press generally throughout the counties.\\nW. WOODFORD CLAYTON.\\nPhiladklphia, Murch, 1882.", "height": "3003", "width": "2087", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3003", "width": "2087", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "J\\nCONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nGeneral and Topographical Features 13\\nCHAPTER II.\\nGeology lii\\nCHAPTER III.\\nDiscovery and Occupation of New Netherland 22\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nIndian Occupation 24\\nCHAPTER V.\\nIndian Hostilities.\\nFinal Disposal of tUo Delawares 29\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nOld Bercen Town and Township.\\nFirst Indian Deed Pavonia Ordirmnco Creating a Fortified Town\\nRepurchase from the Indians Settlement of the Village Meaning\\nof the Name Bergen Surrender to the English NewCliarter of Ber-\\ngen Lands in the Township Cliaiter of Carteret 32\\nCHAPTEK VII.\\nOther Ancient Settlements.\\nSettlements in 1685 New Barbadoes Neck Northwestern Part of the\\nCounty 39\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nLand Patents in Bergen County.\\nCapt. John Berry s Patent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Demarest Patent Willock s and Johnston s\\nPatent Frenchman s Garden 42\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nManners and Customs of the Hollanders Nomenclati-re,\\nDomestic and Social Habits Learned Clergy Dutch\\nNomenclature 46\\nCHAPTER X.\\nExpeditions Against the French The Schuylers 48\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nBergen and Passaic Counties in the Rkvolution.\\nT!io Preliminary Stage of the War Bergen County Resolutions Prep-\\narations to resist the British\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Development of Loyalty to tlie King\\nActive tnovemeuts begun Washington in Hackensack 49\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nBercen and Passaic Counties in the Revolution (Con-\\nExploit of Col. Aaron Burr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Clinton s Raid\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Msj. Leo s Gallant At-\\ntempt to Capture Paulus Hook\u00e2\u0080\u0094 General Poor s Death\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Raid of Hes-\\nsians and Refugees 53\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nBergen and Passaic Counties in the Revolution {Con-\\ntinued).\\nThe Massacre near Old Tappan 66\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nBergen and Passaic Counties in the Revolution (Continued).\\nGen. Wayne s E.\\\\peditiou 69\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nBergen AND Passaic Counties in the Revolution {Continued).\\nMiscellaneous Notes and E.\\\\tracts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E,vtract8 from the Minutes of the\\nCouncil of Safety, 1777 64\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nConfiscated Estates in Bergen County.\\nHigh Treason\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Listof Confiscated Estates from the County of Bergen 67\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\nBergen County Men in the Revolution, Etc.\\nIncidents of the Revolution in Passaic County 71\\nCHAPTER XVIII.\\nThe Old Township of Hackensack.\\nOriginal Boundaries and Extent of the Township\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Grants of Land\\nTraditions of Van Der Horst and others The Patent of John Dema-\\nrest Civil Organization of tlio Township\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlio Township in 1840\\nEarly Schools Property Destroyed by the British 74\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nCivil Organization of the County of Bergen go\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nCivil List of Bergen County 81\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nInternal Improvements.\\nRoads\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bridges\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ferries Railroads\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Morris Canal 85\\nCHAPTER XXII.\\nEarly Courts op Bergen.\\nEspatin Courts at Bergen 89\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\\nCourts after the Organization op the County.\\nColonial Laws and Courts in Bergen Conrt-Houses, Clerks and Sur-\\nrogates Offices t\\nCHAPTER XXIV.\\nThe Bench and Bar of Bercen County 99\\nCHAPTER XXV.\\nThe Medical Profession in Bergen County.\\nDistrict Medical Society of Bergen County 110\\nCHAPTER XXVI.\\nThe Press op Bergen County.\\nThe Bergen County Democrat\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tho Hackensack Republican The\\nBergen Index\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Englewood Times\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Bergen County\\nHerald US\\n5", "height": "3003", "width": "2087", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCIIA. TER XXVII.\\nTmb Sriptv* BKvrM K\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ficnooL Frxn\\nfllAPTER XXVIII.\\nS Ki Tiiv \\\\M l!\u00c2\u00abi ii;ioH.iTrp Com AMK- 01 IIehckx Coi .itv.\\n1 Cbunl.T ItiMe Sodoly\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IWrrgon Couiiiy SmiJii -Scliool As-\\n:t~Tb\u00c2\u00abB\u00c2\u00abr^ -i Coaiilj Farniera* Mutual Fire In\u00c2\u00abuninc\u00c2\u00ab Com.\\n|4Dj\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bersvn (Vtuiiiv Aaaunioce AawcUUoD, IlAckoonck... 122\\nCIIAI TKK XXIX.\\nBriiiikn ami I as.-m. Coi S tiks in tiik Waii iif the Uebf-llion.\\n8ltiiatluii In IS4I\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FInil Brigade Second Brigade\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Exc\u00c2\u00ablslor Bri-\\nt;n l\u00c2\u00ab 126\\nCHAPTEU XXX.\\nUKHni: i Axi) Passaic CooxTlE.s is tiik Wak or the Hebel-\\nI.IOX {Coniiiiuiil).\\nThr KiBlli lUglucnl\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Tonlh Brgimriil\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The ThirMeDlh Rrgi-\\nmcnt 1^2\\nCHAITER XXXI.\\nIIkhoc!! asd Pa saic Counties is tiik War or the Kebel-\\nI.IOX {C\u00c2\u00bbnli\u00c2\u00abiic l).\\nTwentx.*#cond Rpgimont Flag PrcMiitatiuii 137\\nCHAPTER XXXII.\\nBkroex Axn Passaic Cou.xties i.x the Waii or the Redei.-\\nI.IOX Conlinned).\\nTwi-nlj -flrih Rcgimriil\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Twentjr-third Regiment 144\\nCHAPTER XXX in.\\nlin .iiii iir i (ssAIc CouxTV Mex in the Waii of the IIebfi.-\\ni.iox 162\\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\\nNew UAHBAtioEs.\\nAncient and Modrrn B^iundarieo\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Phyaical Feature*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Meaning of Hack.\\nrii\u00c2\u00abiA. k- I -irlv s.-itl. iner.t\u00c2\u00ab Civil OrganlrAlion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frfeliolders of Sew\\nllorl.nilo*.*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Vlll^^^;.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2- ;iiid lliinilfta Newspapera- CInircltM arid llii lr\\ntjirljr lllilury\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .HcliKila\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cliarterrd Cuni| anirii and Societiea\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bank-\\nuig Initltullona\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FolruKUnl and Cliorr^ Hill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Uurlal-I lacet lOO\\nrjlAPTKU XXXV.\\nSaIiM.I. ItlVEIl.\\nBaunilailr. and lleneral I)e crii llun-Natnral Fealiira\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Karly Settlo-\\nnienu li lllKtiwayi-Organiiatian\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CiTil IJat Churctapa-\\nIiurml-i li. Ilui.irical Nolca 194\\nrilAPTKU XXXVI.\\nFlIAXKLIX.\\nNiine.Mloallnn aiHl |loMn tariee\u00e2\u0080\u0094 riiyilol FralurM\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early dettlemenln\\nand UaniUla\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Schoob\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Oioroliai\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\ni- I *M\\nCHAPTKR XXXVII.\\nII\\ni i.onlIt\u00c2\u00abrTlpli..\u00c2\u00bb-i:.r|yi i{ Ml.i,.rT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a\u00c2\u00bbIIOnpioliaUon\\nri.c~of IIMnrtcal lnlanM~VllU,i\u00c2\u00abandlUmleU\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ohurebea. \u00c2\u00bb10\\nrHAI TER XXXVIII.\\nI, r.t.\\nIUt i.\\nI CHAPTER XXXIX.\\n120 I Washixctox.\\nNatural Feature*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Selllenieula\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sclioola- Early Highway*\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBurial-Place*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ur):aniiatlaQ\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ciril LUt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Village* and Hamlet*\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCiiurilie*- Fricndslilp Lodge, Ko. 10^ F. and A. M.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Historical Note*\\nand Incident* MS\\nCHAPTER XI,.\\nItlluiEFIKLII.\\nriiVBical FMluree\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eirly SettlcmenU\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Clill Organiiation- Village* and\\nllanilfl*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 School*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CliurtrliiM\u00e2\u0080\u0094luduslrU s 24.S\\nCHAPTEU XL I.\\nEXGLBWOOD.\\nPhynicul Feature*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Organixatlon\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early etlU ment\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Plncesand Event\\nof Ilii\u00c2\u00abtorical Interest Village* and Hamlets\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ScliooU-Cliurclii** and\\nSocietie* 2j7\\nCHAPTER XLII.\\nPalisade.\\nFbyaical Feature*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlement*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Civil Organitallon\u00e2\u0080\u0094Placn of\\nHiaturic Iulere*t Village* and Hamlet* School* Cburchee ^Al\\nCHAPTER XLIII.\\nVXION.\\nOriginkl Purrha*\u00c2\u00ab Natural Feature* Early Settlement* School*\\nEarly Iligliways\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Organiulion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CItII Lial- Village* and llamleto\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSociclio* and Ordere Cliurvhes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lyudhurat Klngsland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Schuyler\\nMine 298\\nCHAPTER XLIV.\\nRlIHiKWUOO.\\nNatural Feature* Early Settlements- School*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Earl) Iligliwa.vs~\\nOrganixjition Civil List KiilgewiNMl Mauufacluring Intermt*\\nCliii rrhrw\u00e2\u0080\u0094lliitial. Place*.... ;109\\nCHAPTER XLV.\\nMini AM\\nNatnral Fcatiirei*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlement*- Early llifrliwuy* Oi;;\\nVillage* and Hamlet* Chtirrhe*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Burial.Place*\\nCHAPTER XLV I.\\nHoHOKI S.\\nGeneral l p\u00c2\u00abcriptJun\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Natural Foaturva\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlio Early Famllie* of Hoho-\\nku* School*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Ilighways- OrgHuiutlon- Civil List Village*\\nand Hamlets\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mniiufacluring lulervete 9VI\\nCHAPTER XLVII.\\nOnnAXItATlOX liF Passak Cot NT v.\\nDonndarie*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Civil Pivision*- Area and Taxaldo Valualion 34\\nHAPTER XLV I II.\\nPAH. iAit ii iNM i i\\\\ii, List\\nCHAPTER XLIX.\\nFiHRT CoDim Axn RLKmnxa.\\nOmnty lliilMlngii\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FInl Elscllon 3.M\\nCHAPTER L.\\nBbxcb Axn Bak or Passaic Corxir .i.vj\\nfllAPTER LI.\\nThe jMedicai. Piiofessiox.\\nUiimiiiT Medical Societt ass\\nCHAPTER LII.\\nNEWsPArEKs or Passaic Cocxrr 3M", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER Llir.\\nPassaic County Bible Society 374\\nCHAPTER LIV.\\nACQUACK.VNONK (CiTY OF PASSAIc),\\nGeneral Desciiption\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Physical Features\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Naoie of the Township\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early\\nSoltienient^ TheHoagland Patent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Acquackanonk itil77S Develop-\\nment of tiie Water-Powcr at Passaic Tlie Dundee Water-Power and\\nLand Company Incorporation of Passaic Water- Works Newspapers\\nPassaic Manufactures Steamboats, etc. Education The Itefornied\\nI rotestant Dutch Church of Acquackauonk Blethodiet Episcopal\\nChurch\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The True Reformed Church of Passaic Baptist Church of\\nPassaic North llefornied Church of Passaic St. John s Church\\nSt. Nicholas* Church (Roman Catliolic)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First Presbyterian Church-\\nGerman Presbyterian Church The First Holland Church of Passaic\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094The Union Chapel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Washington Place Holland Church Societies\\nMilitary Miscellaneous Notes 376\\nCHAPTER LV.\\nCity ok Paterson.\\nEarly History\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Founding of Paterson 403\\nCHAPTER LVI.\\nCity of Patkrsox (Continued).\\nMunicipal History 408\\nCHAPTER LVII.\\nCity of Pa.terson (Continued).\\nManufacturing Interests The Cotton Industry Enterprise Manufac-\\nturing Company R. H. Adams Mill Minor Cotton Manufactures\\nPlummer Prince 410\\nCHAPTER LVIII.\\nCity of Paterso.v {Conttnucd).\\nTh\u00c2\u00ab Iron Industry First Machiue-Shop in Paterson- Danforth Loco-\\nmotive and Machine-Works 421\\nCHAPTER LIX.\\nCity of Patersox (Continued).\\nRogers LocomotiTe-Works 429\\nCHAPTER LX.\\nCity of Paterson (Contimied).\\nOther Locomotive aud Iron-Works Grant Locomotive- Works Ma-\\nchinists Association\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin Buckley Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. C. Todd Simon-\\nton s Machine-Works John E. Van Winkle Thomas J. Wrigley\\nWatson Machine Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Paterson Iron-Works John Royle A Sons\\nBradley, Godden Piatt, Holden Machine Co., Industrial Works\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJerrold McKenzie- Samuel Smith, Boiler-Maker Tube Manufac-\\nturers-Union Bolt-Works\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Whitney Sc wing-Machine Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter\\nOberg Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wire-Drawing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Roller-Making\u00e2\u0080\u0094 File-Cutters\u00e2\u0080\u0094Kearney\\nFoot 436\\nCHAPTER LXr.\\nCity of Paterson- (Continued),\\nBra*.\u00c2\u00ab-Founding, etc. McNab Harlan Manufuctnring Company- Wil-\\nliam H. Hayes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin Hilton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Baldwin Robert Taylor\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nGrtst-Mills- John Bentley\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. C. Merrill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Screen-Plates for Paper-\\nMills\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ashmuu Screen-Plate Company\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Annandale Screen-Plate\\nCompany 450\\nCHAPTER LXII.\\nCity of Paterson {Continued).\\nThe Woolen Industry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Barrow A Sons\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lawton Cutler\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bach-\\nman 4 Co. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Union ManufacturiogCompany\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Johnson Austin 454\\nCHAPTER LXIII.\\nCity of Paterson (Continued).\\nFlax, Hemp, and Jute\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Colt s Duck-Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Phuenlx Flax-Mill- Dolphin\\nMill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. C. Todd Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Barbour Flax-Spinning Company\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Butler\\nMeldruDi 456,\\nCHAPTER LXIV.\\nCity of Paterson (Continued).\\nThe Silk Industry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Christopher Colt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geo. W. Murray\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Kyle-\\nGiles Van Ness C. Colt Co. John C. Benson James Wnlthatl\\nStolle Walthall\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Pho-nix Silk-Mills\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. H. Booth Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dale\\nManufacturing Company\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dunlup Malcolm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geo. Frost Sons\\nDexter, Lambert Co. William Strange Co. Grinishaw Brothers\\nPelgram Meyer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Doherty A; Wadsworth Crescent Mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 How-\\nell Scholcs Freeman A Smallwood Ashley Bailey J. Phillips\\nMcKay Barnes Jt Peel Nightingale Brothers Louis Frank** Mill\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Dale Mill 462\\nCHAPTER LXV.\\nCity of Paterson (Continued).\\nVelvet, Silk Plush, etc, American Velvet Company Silk-Dyeing\\nThe Wiidmann Silk-Dyeing Company The American Silk-Finish-\\ning Company\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Chemical Works\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bobbin-Tnrnei-s Van Riper Jlan-\\nufacturing Company Daggers Row Leather Belting Shirt\\nManufacture- Manhattan Shirt-Mills\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Price Bros.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Pas-\\nsaic Falls 483\\nCHAPTER LXVr.\\nCity of Paterson (Continued).\\nEcclesiastical History^Reformed Churches 490\\nCHAPTER LXVII.\\nCity of Paterson ((7oH^(Mi(\u00c2\u00abrf).\\nHiPtory of Schools in Paterson Paterson and other Academies\\nElm Street Infant School rill\\nCHAPTER LXVIII.\\nCity of Paterson (Continued).\\nBanking Institutions Passaic Water Company Gaslight Compa-\\nnies Horse- Rail roads 516\\nCHAPTER LXIX.\\nCity of Paterson (Continued).\\nSecret Societies Cemeteries 621\\nCHAPTER LXX.\\nCtTY OF Paterson (Continued).\\nBiographical Sketches 623\\nCHAPTER LXXI.\\nAVavnk.\\nNatural Features\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlements\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Schools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Highways-\\nCivil List Manufacturing Interests Preakness Reformed\\n(Dutch) Church\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Organization 653\\nCHAPTER LXXII.\\nManchester.\\nNatural Features\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlements- Schools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Highways-\\nCivil List Villages and Hamlets BuriabPlaces Manufacturing\\nInterests Organization 559\\nCHAPTER LXXIII.\\nLiTTi-E Falls.\\nNatural Features\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlements\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Schools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Highwuys\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nVillages and Hamlets\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Civil List\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Churches\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Manufactures Act\\nof Organization Notes and Incidents 564\\nCHAPTER LXXIV.\\nPOMPTON.\\nPhysical Features\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlements\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Civil Organization- Places\\nof Historical Interest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Villages and Hamlet* Schools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Churches\\nIndustries Comparative View 569\\nCHAPTER LXXV.\\nWi:ST MlLFORD.\\nPhysical Features\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Civil History\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlements\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Historic\\nPlaces and Events\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Villages and Hamlets\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Schools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Churches-\\nIndustries ^76", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nB I O C3- K/-A. I H I O .A. L.\\nAcker, D\u00c2\u00bbTld D 202 j\\nAckcrniau, A. N 399\\nAckenon, G*rret G.,Sr 10*\\nAckeraon, Garral, Jr 106\\nAilitnia, H. W 193\\nAdHius, llpnry ^l\\nAdoma. Prwr 525\\nAgnew, John\\nAndenion, Wm. S 399\\nAtkinson, Jame^ ^5\\n\\\\Tiaon, John between 650, 551\\nBanks. H. M 118\\nBsntB, J. H. T 188\\nBwita, Wm. S 10*\\nBarbour, Tbomu *61\\nBubonr, Wm\\nBurthoir, Abraliam 280\\nBcckwilh, F. C *29\\nBentlo), John 6*5\\nBerdan, J. H 650\\nBerdan, John 393\\nBerdan, Rlnear J between 202, 203\\nBerry, John 1 232\\nB\u00c2\u00abTer1dge, Thonind 546\\nBIbl.y, J. S 361\\nBlauicll, Garret 1 650\\nBlaurelt, Ijaac D 652\\nBoard, Peter\u00e2\u0080\u009e 3:t0\\nBogart, Gilbert D 203^\\nBoggs, W.J *02\\nBooth, Jamee 523\\nBoyd, Adam 19*\\nBrown, John J 6*8\\nBurdett. Abraham S facing 194\\niSunpbeli, Abraham D 106\\ni mpbell, Robert 192\\n(Tliapman, Lettieus, Jr 278\\nOhrittio, C 107\\nChrystil. Thomna B 120\\nOiarch, Cbarlei A 366\\nClark, Edward between 532,533\\nk Ilignan, aanilins 217\\nColllgnott, Nicholaj 218\\nOonklln, George W 194\\nCooke, John _ 420\\ni^Kjper, Corneliiu 3 206\\ni^ioper, Juhn facing 326\\nOraby, H. n _ 535\\nOroaalt, William S,37\\nRorria, D. A 116\\nHanfortb, Charlee 424\\nOaTenport, Miln 651\\nDay, \\\\V. n 115\\nDecker, W. F 366\\nUrawMl, G. l between 218, 210\\nIleownat, I oler S 234\\nDrmarwt, Ralph 8 facing 218\\nDeSloit, Jacob J\u00e2\u0080\u009e8r _ 208\\nD\u00c2\u00abrT\u00c2\u00ab m, Andrew facing 144\\nDlckemn, rhileman 353\\nDorvmue, Jaix l W facing 201\\nI oremua, John II 201\\nnarte, Paler I 207\\nDnryea, John B 493\\nEdwarda, John 428\\nfair, OiorSB _ 180\\nFranks, Loitia 526\\nl\u00c2\u00abnnlt, 0. V between SCO, 3\u00c2\u00ab1\\nlladhlll, Joaeph S2\u00c2\u00bb\\nGodwin, A. H 524\\ntonld, Thomaa 546\\n3ra\u00c2\u00abn, Aahbel _ 103\\nGreppo, Clando 527\\nHaas, Nelson facing 183\\nnamil, Robert 472\\nnaring, A. B 218\\nHaring, G. A 200\\nHnring, John J nc\\nHasbrouck, Cliarlcs facing 114\\nIlening, CornelluB J 219\\nHerring, G.R 244\\nHerring, Henry C 326\\nHcrrinp, Thomaa H 253\\nHoadley, David 272\\nHobarl, Garret A 358\\nHoldrnm, Abram C 246\\nHolt, Samuel, Sr. facing 419\\nHomans, Jr., 1. Smith 276\\nHopper, Hcnr A 114\\nHopper, Henry A 201\\nHopper, Jacob 1 233\\nHopper, John 354\\nHoxaey, Thomas D s\u00c2\u00abs\\nHudson, William S 4.16\\nHughes, Roberts 435\\nHuntoon, Josiah 1* 5.14\\nHnyler, George 292\\nHuyler, John 187\\nJacksim, James 528\\nJacobus, CorneliuB I 294\\nJiinsen, John N 574\\nJones, J. Wyman 274\\nKent, Ridley 364\\nKIngsland, Joseph 401\\nKingsland, Richard 402\\nKinne, Theo. Y 368\\nKnapp, M. M lOS\\nLydecker, G. A 277\\nMabie, John 25*\\nMagennis, Patrick 63S\\nMat\u00c2\u00bbh, Klias J 368\\nMartin, Joe. A 208\\nMartling, Stephen 256\\nMclrf-an, Andrew 418\\nMcNully, Win 803\\nMillard, Nehclniah 108\\nMiller, Eire S43\\nMyers, Clias. F. W 361\\nNeer, II. C between 118, 119\\nNightingale, Jamee 633\\nOgden, E. B. D 363\\nO Neill, Cliarlee 630\\nO Neill, John 631\\nOntwater, Richard 401\\nPaullson, John P \u00c2\u00bb3\\nPeel, James 644\\nPennington, Aaron 8 354\\nPheliw. Wm.W M8\\nPlanten, G 663\\nPope, Samuel 631\\nPoet, (^melius H 6*8\\nBafferty, Philip 6*1\\nRogers, Alel. W 366\\nRogers. J. S 431\\nRogers, Thomas 430\\nRomeyn, Jamee 180\\nRonieyii, Tlie i. B 170\\nRncknian, Elisha 217\\nRyle, John \u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab6\\nSchuyler, Cornolius 676\\nSelbert, George 490\\nSherwood, John D 270\\n8lmp*in, J. M 117\\nSmith, Daniel D 274", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAQE\\nSpeer, Alfred 397\\nSpcer, R. S facing 403\\nStauton, Elizabeth C 294\\nSteinlc, Frederick facing 192\\nTerhune, Garrit 300\\nTailor, Samuel facing 193\\nTerhune, HicliardP Wl\\nTerhune, Jacob C 254\\n/Torhun.-.J. V. H 265\\nTerhune, Richard A 366\\nTilt, lienjamin B 469\\nTodd, Joseph C 540\\nTorbet, K. M facing 538\\nTuttle, Socrates 355\\nVan Brunt, John 267\\nVan Buskirk, John I 279\\nVan Buskirk, Jacob facing 327\\nVan Djk, Francis C 539\\nVan Riper, Cornelius 362\\nVan Kiper, C.S between 360, 361\\nVan Kiper, Geo 20O\\nPAQE\\nVan Saun, Samuel 528\\nVan Valen, J.M facing 108\\nVan Winkle, Daniel 308\\nVan Winkle, John E 538\\nVan Winkle, Michael 234\\nVermilye, W. K 269\\nVoorhis, Henry H 328\\nVoorbis, John H 329\\nWard, R. C. A...... 190\\nWaterhouse, James 400\\nWestervelt, Benjamin J facing 296\\nWestervelt, Henry D 276\\nWestervelt, Samuel D 191\\nWilliams, Henry A 358\\nWilson, Peter 183\\nWinton, Henry D 119\\nWoodruff, A. B 356\\nWortendyke, Cornelius A 209\\nWortendyke, Isaac 109\\nZabriskie, John C facing 324\\nILLTJSTI^^^TIOIsrS.\\nk\\nPAGE\\nAcker, David D facing 203\\nAckerman, A. N 399\\nAckeiHon, G., Jr 105\\nAduiiiP, Henry 417\\nA.lanis, H. \\\\V 193\\nAdiiiiis, P facing 525\\nAdams, R. U., Mills of. 415\\nAgnew, John 534\\nAudei-son, W. S 398\\nArkwright Silk-Mills 479\\nAtkinson, James 545\\nAvison, JdIiu between 550, 551\\nBjinks, Hardy M facing 118\\nBanta, J. H. T 188\\nBanta, William S.... 104\\nBiubour, Thomas 461\\nBurboiir Thread-Works 459\\nBarbour, William 460\\nBarlholf, Abraham 280\\nBeckwitli, F. C facing 428\\nBentley, John between 544, 545\\nBerdau, John facing 393\\nBerdan, John U 550\\nBerdan, Rinear J between 202, 203\\nBergen County Clerk and Surrogate s Office facing 98\\nBerry, John I 232\\nBevcridge, Thomas 546\\nBibby, James S 361\\nBlauvelt, Garret I 551\\nBlauvolt, Isaac D between 552, 553\\nBotTd, Peter 330\\nBogait. Gilbert P facing 202\\nBot. g9,W. J 403\\nBooth, James facing 523\\nBrown, John J 549\\nBiirdett. Abrahams 194\\nCampbell, A. D 106\\nCampbell, Robert 192\\nChapman, Lebbeus, Jr facing 278\\nChristie, C 107\\nChurch, Chas. A 367\\nChrystal, Thomas B facing 120\\nClark, Edward between 532, 533\\nCoUignon, Claudius 0. 218\\nCoUignon, N 219\\nConklin, Geo. W 194\\nCooUe, John facing 426\\nCooper, Cornelius S 297\\nPAGE\\nCooper, John facing 326\\nCourt-House and Jail, Paterson 352\\nCrosby, H. B 536\\nCrossett, Wm 537\\nCurrie, D. A 117\\nDanforth, Clias 404\\nDanforth Locomotive- Works 421\\nDavenport, Miles between 552, 553\\nDay, W. H facing 116\\nDecker, W. F 366\\nDemarest, G.D between 218, 219\\nDemarest, Peter S 235\\nDemarest, Ralph S facing 218\\nDe Mott, Jacob J.,Sr 298\\nDerrom, Andr.w facing 144\\nDexter, Lambert Co., Mills of 475\\nDoremus, Jacob W 20I\\nDoremus. John B 201\\nDurie, Peter 1 297\\nDuryea, John H facing 493\\nEdwards, John ^7\\nFair, George 189\\nFirst National Bank, View of 518\\nFrauke, Louis 526\\nFranke, Louis, Mills^of. 481\\nGaruett, 0. V between 3G0, 361\\nGledhill, Joseph 528,629\\nGodwin, A. H facing 624\\nGould, Thomas 547\\nGreen, Ashbel 103\\nGreppo, C 527\\nGrimsbaw Bros., Mills of. 477\\nHaas, Nelson I83\\nHamil, Robert 472\\nHaring, Abraham B 216\\nHaring, G. A. 291\\nHiiring, J. J 117\\nHasbrouck, Charles facing 114\\nHerring, Cornelius J 219\\nHerring, G,R 244\\nHerring, Henry C 326\\nHerring, Thomas H 253\\nHoadley, David 272\\nHoldrum, Abram C 245\\nHolt, Samuel, Sr 419\\nHomans, I. Smith 276\\nHopper, H. A 115\\nHopper, Henry A 202\\n(K", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "10\\nCONTEXTS.\\n-V-\\nT\\nHopp\u00c2\u00abr, J\u00c2\u00bb U I f\\nHop| er, JotaD\\nHntlaon, Wm. S\\nHuglirs, Robert S\\nHunloon, Joslab P\\nHuylcr. George\\nHiiyltT, Juhn.....\\nJackMU.Jame* between 52f\\nJ.CT.bm, O. I f\u00c2\u00ab B\\nJiiDseD, Jolm N\\nJunes, J. Wyoinn\\nJate-BagKiiig Mills\\nKlng\u00c2\u00bblauJ, JiwiT i between 402, 40.1\\n402, 40:)\\n:i6sl\\n102\\n233\\n354\\n434\\n433\\n536\\n292\\n187\\n529\\n294\\n574\\n274\\n458\\nKlngelan.l, Kkbai-J\\nKinnie, Theo. Y f\u00c2\u00bb K\\nKniipp, M. M\\nLydecker, G. A\\nMable, John\\nllagt ntiit\u00c2\u00bb, I litrick\\nMap of Bergen ami Punic Counties between 12, 13\\nMap of Lake Pa salc i:\\nMap ur Prili-nitin City\\nMarllM, J. A\\n2T7\\n255\\n532\\nliotweon 4(14, 4 I5\\n290\\nHartlitig, Stephi^ii\\n2 G\\nMcKk}-, J. I lilllipe, Mills of. f ln(?\\nMl Sully, Wllliuni 5\\nMllUnl, X 1 S\\nMlllrr, r.ira facing 343\\nMvirs, Charlo F. W between 3li0, 301\\nN\u00c2\u00abr, II, f\\nNighlingale ilrolhers, Silk-MllU of. 4SU. 481\\nNlghtlngnle, Jiimes fating 633\\nO Siill. CImrles 530\\nO Neill, Jobn between 5:10, .Wl\\nOulwater, RIchanI facing 401\\nPassaic Knl In\\nPassaic Ili.lllng-Miil facing 438\\nPauliwn, John P 293\\nPeel, Jumps between M4, 545\\nPelgram i Meyer, Mills of facing 478\\nPhel|\u00c2\u00ab, Wni. Walter\\nPlKiMiix Manufacturing Com|iany\\nPlanlen. O\\nPope, :^mnel\\nPnsl, II\\nPublic Scllixll So.\\nKalTerty, Plilllp\\nKirgers, J, S\\nIti^iTi Loountoti re- Works\\n208\\n457\\n5ti:\\n531\\no48\\n514\\n.41\\n432\\n429\\nPAOX\\nRogers, Thomas facing 430\\nItomeyn, James 180\\nRuckman, Ellslia 217\\nRyle, Jobn 4 15\\nSchuyler, Cornelius 575\\nSeiberl, Geo _ 29\u00c2\u00ab\\nShcrwuoJ, John I) faciog 270\\nSinii *on, J. M 117\\nSniitb, Daniel D facing 274\\nSpeer, Alfred 397\\nSpoer, RinenrS 403\\nStanton, Eliiiabelh Cady 295\\nSteinle, Frederick 192\\nStocks and Pillory 98\\nStrange, William Co., Mills of (aclng 476\\nTaylor, Samuel 193\\nTerbunc, Garril 360\\nTerliune, J. V. H Iietweeu 244,255\\nTerlinne, Jacob C 254, 254\\nTerbune, R, I 190, 191\\nTodd, J. C lacing 540\\nTilt, Uenj. B 469\\nT..da, J. C, Machine- Works of 441\\nTorbel, It. M 658\\nTuttle, Sucralcs\\nVan Brunt, John 267\\nVan Uusklik, .lacob 327\\nVan Buskirk, John 1 279\\nVan Dyk, Francis C 539\\nVan Riper, C. S between 360, 3GI\\nVan I .lpcr, Cornelius facing 302\\nVan l!i|wr, Geo 2\\nVan Saun, Sannud 528\\nVan Val.n.J. M lOB\\nVan Winkl... Daniel 308\\nVan Winkle, J. E M(\\nVan Winkle. Michael 234\\nVermilye. W. R 209\\nVoorlil., Henry II 328\\nVmnbis, J.din II 8\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb\\nWard, H. C. A facing tW\\nWalerhouse, James 400\\nWcHlcrvelt, llcnj. J\\nWe\u00c2\u00bblervilt, II.Miry D U-tween i;TlJ, 277\\nWesleividl, iSannlel D facing 191\\nWinton, Henry D\\nWoiKlruir, A. B... 356\\nWorlendyke, C. A 209\\nZabriskie, Jobn C 324", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\nOF\\nBERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES,\\nnSTE W JERSEY.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nGENERAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES.\\nThat portion of New Jersey the history of wliich\\nis comprised in the present volume is situated chiefly\\nbetween the Hudson and Passaic Rivers, with a small\\nstrip of land lying southward of the latter. Its south-\\neastern base or terminus is the peninsula of Bergen\\nNeck, resting upon the Kill Van Kull, which sepa-\\nrates it from Staten Island and forms the channel, now\\nknown as the Kills, between the Bay of New York\\non the east, and Achter Kull, or Newark Bay, on the\\nwest. The eastern boundary of this territory, along\\nthe North River, is quite straight, excepting the in-\\ndentation caused by New York Bay between Con-\\nstable s Hook and Paulus Hook, at Jersey City. The\\nsouthwestern boundary pursues a somewhat zigzag\\ncourse, following the Passaic River for some distance\\nabove its confluence with Newark Bay, then crossing\\nit and running along the northern border of Essex\\nCounty to the Morris County line, which it follows to\\nthe eastern line of Sussex County, and thence, by a\\ndirect line, passes to the boundary between New York\\nand New Jersey. The territory, therefore, is bounded\\non the north by the New York State line.\\nIn its topographical features it is interesting, while\\nin its commercial and manufacturing importance it is\\nsecond to no other district of equal extent in the State.\\nThe rivers which flow through this territory, or\\nform its boundaries, including the Hudson, though\\nrising at points widely remote from each other, con-\\nverge towards a common outlet as they approach the\\ntwin bays of Newark and New Y^ork, as if guided by\\na sort of instinct of nature to seek the centre of com-\\nmercial activity of the Western Continent. As\\nanciently all roads led to Rome, so in these modern\\ndays all roads, no less than the rivers we are describ-\\ning, lead to the city of New Y ork.\\n2\\nThe importance, commercially, of the eastern part\\nof this territory as the iie.ruf: with New York of all\\nthe railroads and lines of transportation to and from\\nthe great West needs only to be mentioned in this\\nconnection. Every year adds to this section greater\\npopulation, greater commercial value, and increased\\nfacilities for connecting the vastly-accumulating busi-\\nness of the great West with New York City and its\\nvalue will only be still more enhanced when a wise\\neconomy shall have located the great warehouses for\\nwestern-bound goods arriving from Europe on the\\nNew Jersey side of the Hudson.\\nThese are a few of the considerations which indi-\\ncate the commercial importance of our territory.\\nThe falls and water-powers of the Passaic River are\\nnoted for the facilities they afford for manufacturing.\\nAlready on the principal fall of that river has been\\nbuilt up a manufacturing city of nearly sixty thou-\\nsand people. And at Passaic and other points along\\nits valley the banks are lined with mills and factories.\\nThe scenery of this section is picturesque, in many\\nplaces imposing. The Palisades, with their bold and\\nrugged fronts, form its eastern wall along the Hudson\\nfrom a few miles above Hoboken to Tappan, a dis-\\ntance of nearly twenty miles. Remarkable for their\\npicturesque and sublime appearance, they are justly\\nregarded as among the most interesting objects of\\nnatural scenery in America. In some places they\\nrise almost perpendicularly from the shore to the\\nheight of five or six hundred feet, and form for miles\\na solid wall of dark, frowning rocks, impressing the\\nstranger, as be sails along their base or views them\\nfrom the speeding cars on the opposite shore, with\\ntheir grand and imposing aspect. The summit is a\\nslightly undulating table-land, averaging in width\\nabout two miles, largely covered with natural forest\\ntrees, interspersed with cleared farms, drives, and\\nparks, from which the ground descends gradually\\nto the beautiful Hackensack Valley, on the west.\\n13", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "14\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nto wonder at the marvels of modern phenomena be-\\ncause of their very abundance and familiarity, but\\nthe forjjotten lore of liy^one ages excites in the\\nmind of tiic student an ever new and fresli delight.\\nBergen, in her old undivided state, passed through\\nthe pha-ses of colonization and civil rule under the\\nDutch of New Netherland, with which her beginning\\nas a settlement was contemporaneous; through the\\ntransition to an English colony aud the government\\nof the Proprietors of East Jersey; llirough the ex-\\nciting scenes of the early Indian wars, the period of\\ncolonial authority under the kings and queens of\\nEngland, and the stirring events of the struggle for\\nindependence. She passed through the formative\\nperiod of the State and the Nation, the subse iuent\\nwar with Great Britain, and liehl her territory un-\\ndivided for a quarter of a century after those great\\nevents had occurred.\\nThat portion now included in Hudson County was\\nin their position. From the smooth basin below, the in many re-spects the theatre of the most important\\nFrom many elevated points along the western side of\\nthis table-land the Hackensack River, witli its many\\nwindings, can be seen for miles in extent, shimmering\\nlike a sheet of silver in the rays of the sun, or on a\\ncloudy day presenting a darker line in contrast with\\nthe foliage and meadows along its banks.\\nThe Passaic, in its rapid descent through a more\\nhilly region, has cut for itself through the trap rock\\nand red shale several falls and cascades which add\\nbeauty and variety to the scenery. The most impor-\\ntant of these is at Paterson, the ancient Totowa Falls\\nof the red men, where the height, including the dam,\\nis ninety feet, between two perpendicular walls of\\nsolid rock, the water passing over by a sort of flank\\nmovement, and falling the whole distance to a level\\nbelow almost as placid and still its that of the surface\\nof the waters in the lake above. The effect is like\\nthat of waters falling into a deep well. The rocks on\\neither side are rectangular and almost perpendicular\\nwater, as if waiting for a few moments to recover\\nfrom the stunning sensation of the fall, again starts\\non, and plunges and foams down a succession of rapids\\nwhich mark the course of the river for some distance,\\nor rather, we should say, they did so before they were\\nchiefly diverted into artificial channels to drive the\\nwheels of the many industries of the busy city and\\nto supply its iidiabitants with good and wholesome\\nwater. The fall has been moditied somewhat from\\nits natural state by these artificial appliances, but\\nstill presents at a fair stage of water a scene which\\nmay be cla-ssed among the truly ])icturesque.\\nThe territory thus briefly described, comprising\\nold Bergen and 1 a.ssaic Counties, has been variously\\nmarked by its lines of civil division. Its eastern\\nborder, along the Hudson, constituted the first or-\\nganized municipality in East Jersey, having been\\nincorporated lus the town of Bergen in IG. iS. In lfi64\\nthe township of Bergen, comprising the present\\ncounty of Hudson, east of the Hackensack River, was\\nadded to it. In Iti.SS the county of Bergen was\\nerected, and included the territory ea-st of the Hack-\\nensack from the Kill Van Kull to the State line. In\\n1709 the county of Bergen was enlarged, and from\\nthat time till 1K:{7, when Passaic County wits set ofl\\nit includeil the latter, with the exception of the small\\npart southward of the Passaic (taken from Essex), and\\nthe county of Hudson, which was set tflf and erected\\ninto a separate county in 1840.\\nOur history will of course include the latter as a\\npart of the old county of Bergen. During the two\\nhundred years and upwards which preceded the last\\ndivision of Bergen, while her ancient domain wius yet\\nintact, many of her most imporUmt historical events\\noccurred. While we do not underrate the marvel-\\nous progress of the Wust half-century, which has\\nliterally transformed the face r)f the whole country\\nin a great variety of raspects, yet in history that\\nwhich is most ancient is most interesting. We cease\\nevents, so far as the people of Bergen were concerned.\\nIt was the earliest settled and the nearest the centre\\nof the most important operations of early as well as\\nof modern times. Hence to leave out this portion of\\nthe territory wholly would be to omit a very essential\\npart of the history of Bergen County. We need not\\nso much regret that we can glance at this portion of\\nthe history only briefly, inxsniuch as Hudson County\\nhas recently had a very complete an l carefully pre-\\npared history in the work written and published by\\nMr. Charles Winfield, of Jersey City, a work upon\\nwhich we have drawn largely for materials in this\\ncoin)iilation.\\nStreams.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The |)rincipal streams of this territory\\nare the Hackensack, Saddle River, Passaic, Ramapo,\\nPequannock, and Ringwood, with lengths in the State\\nand drainitge in square miles as follows:\\nHackensack, from the State line to Newark Bay,\\nlength 30 miles, dniiiiage I VI square miles.\\nSaddle River, from the State line to its junction\\nwith the Hackensack, length 18 miles, drainage 57\\nsquare miles.\\nPassaic River, lengtli So miles, drainage 8(\u00c2\u00bb0 square\\nmiles.\\nPequannock, length 4 miles, drainage 82 square\\nmiles.\\nRingwood Creek, from the State line to the Pomp-\\nton, li nglli li miles, drainage 72 square miles.\\nElevations. The Ramapo Mountains are the\\nhighest land in these counties, and are a portion of\\nthe Highland range, on the southciust border of this\\nchain of mountains. The Highlands, ociupying a\\nbelt of country in New Jersey twenty-two miles wide\\non the New York State line and ten miles wide on-\\nthe Delaware, comprise a number of mountain ranges\\nwhich ri.so from 300 to GOO feet above the valleys, and\\nin some places, as at Rutherford s Hill, on Hamburg\\nMountain, to an altitude of 14SK feet above the seji.\\nThe Musconctcong Mountain, near the southwest end", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "GENEKAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES.\\n15\\nof the range, is 986 feet above sea-level. The Morris\\nand Essex Railroad summit, near Stanhope, is 922\\nfeet. The summit near the turnpike from Berkshire\\nvalley to Sparta is 1209 feet. The summit of the\\nturnpike from Hamburg to Snutftown is 1184 feet.\\nThe Wawayanda Mountain, near the New York line,\\nis 1450 feet above mean tide. We give below a table\\nof elevations at different points within the counties of\\nBergen and Passaic, as taken from actual surveys\\nNoRTHKUN Railroad op New Jersey.\\nFrom a frofik/uniiaheil by T. W. Demorest, Esq.\\nFRET.\\nBiiKom of niai-sh near Wi ehawken (below ti ie) 30.0\\nJlislii Ht point .if licrgeii Hill 175.0\\n.Siiiniiiit I l twBcii Kngluwood urid Nurtli Englewood 60.0\\n^^||lmnit lit-tweeii Closter and Col. Blanche s 76.0\\nNew York and Erik Railway.\\nCommisBioner^B Report.\\nJiosey City S.8\\nHergeii Hill, New Jersey Riiilroad track 40.0\\nHacken. irtLk River 14.0\\nBoilint; Spiinj; 50.0\\nlioiling Spring Summit 57.0\\nI iissaic River 25.0\\nHnyler s 52.0\\nFitteeiitli-mile Summit 110.0\\ni atersou 7G.8\\nI jiasaic River 45.0\\niiudwinsville 137.4\\nllolnikus 197.5\\nAllendale 3 29.0\\nLevel just above Ramsey s 347.5\\nHollow between Ramsey s and SulTorne 272.0\\nSnITerns, N. Y 301.0\\nMonroe, N. Y 605.G\\nHeights near Patersun.\\nBarometric Meaaurement^ by Paul Cook.\\nMorris Canal 174.0\\nTop of sandstone 406.2\\nTop of mountain above 506.4\\nSecond crest 523.5\\nGarret Rock 534.4\\nHigh Mount, three and a half miles north of Paterson.... ti68.8\\nnF.iGUTs ON P. C. Co. a Projected Line across New Jersey.\\nBy D. E. Culver, Civil Engineer.\\nHuiison River 00.0\\n^Veellawken Hill 170.0\\nRutherford Park 58.0\\nPassaic River at Belleville 00.0\\nKingsland Park Pond 32.0\\nNear Eaton s stnne residence 130.0\\nNotch in First Monutain 324.0\\nPeckman s River, near Stanley s Mill 172.0\\nLittle Kails Methodist Church 190.0\\nBeatty s Mills, Little Falls 165.0\\nSigac Creek 165.0\\nPumpt Mi and Newark turnpike, near Wm. Allen s 170.0\\nMorris Canal at 5Iead s Basin.. 175.0\\nOppnsite iiillen s Hotel, Pompton Plains 195.0\\nOppo.sile Reeve s, Hloomingdale 258.0\\nStony Biook, near Peter De Bann s 309.0\\nPaterson and Hamburg turnpike, near Thomas Little s.... 396.0\\nTrap Ridges. The red sandstone region of New\\nJersey is traversed by various and irregularly dis-\\ntributed ridges of trap rock. The principal of these\\nare Sourland Mountain in Hunterdon and Somerset\\nCounties, Rocky Hill in Somerset, Round Valley\\nMountain in Hunterdon, Bergen Hill and Palisade\\nMountain in Hudson and Bergen Counties, and the\\nFirst, Second, and Third Mountains which form the\\nlong, narrow, and parallel ridges that rise in Somerset\\nand run across Union, Essex, Morris, Passaic, and\\nBergen Counties. These high, rocky and wooded\\nridges are remarkable for their occurrence in the\\nmidst of a rich, highly-cultivated, and productive\\nagricultural district. They vary in height from a\\nvery slight elevation to several hundred feet above\\nthe rolling country around them. High Point, in\\nPassaic County, is the highest trap ridge in New\\nJersey, and is eight hundred and sixty-eight feet\\nabove tide-water. ]5ergen Hill, at the southwest end,\\nis very little above the ordinary level, but rises grad-\\nually till at the New York line it is four hundred\\nand eighty-nine feet above the Hudson River. From\\nthe hard and durable rock of which they are com-\\nposed, they present a strong contrast to the soft and\\neasily disintegrating red sandstone in which they\\noccur; and the courses in which they run have given\\ndirection to all the lines of communication in the\\nState, modifying, to a very large extent, its develop-\\nment.\\nThe range of trap forming Bergen Hill and Palisade\\nMountain can be traced from Bergen Point to the\\nState line, and beyond that in New York as far as\\nHaverstraw, where it changes to a westerly course\\nand terminates near Ladentown, close to the gneiss\\nof the Highlands. Its length from the Kill Van\\nKull at Bergen Point to the terminus at Ladentown\\nis forty-eight miles, of which twenty-eight miles are\\nin New Jersey. Throughout this length the out-\\ncrop is unbroken. At Bergen Point the rock is but a\\nfew feet above mean tide-water mark at High Thorn,\\nsouth of Haverstraw, the highest point attained in the\\nrange, it is one thousand and eleven feet above the\\nHudson. High Thorn is a prominent and character-\\nistic feature of that portion of it called the Palisades.\\nOut of the salt meadows west of Bergen Hill, south\\nof the Erie Railroad, and east of the Hackensack\\nRiver, rise the trap formations known as Little and\\nBig Snake Hills. The larger of the two hills meas-\\nures about a mile and a half in circumference, and\\nhas its greatest diameter in a northeast and southwest\\nline. A straggling growth of cedars, with a few oak,\\nhickory, and butternut trees, crown this rocky mound.\\nIt is surrounded by tide-water and salt marsh except\\non the north, where a narrow strip of swamp slightly\\nabove high-tide mark connects it with the low upland\\nof Seccaucus, the whole forming a rocky peninsula\\nwith this bold promontory towards the southwest.\\nThe western base of the latter is washed by the Hack-\\nensack.\\nAbout a quarter of a mile southeast of Big Snake\\nHill is the small circular island of rock known as\\nLittle Snake Hill, surrounded by salt marsh, making\\nit an island in the tide-flowed meadows. The trap of\\nthis hill rises .abruptly from the marsh on all sides\\nexcept the south, where the slope is very steep.\\nProminent in the red sandstone district are the two\\nlong and parallel ranges of trap rock known as the\\nFirst and Second Mountains. The former rises at\\nPluckamin, in Somerset County, passes eastwardly for\\nseven miles to the gorge of Middle Brook, thence an\\neast-northeast course to Milburn, a distance of sixteen\\nmiles, where it is cut through by a valley one and a\\nhalf miles in width from Milburn to Paterson, fifteen", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "16\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nmiles, the course of the mountain iH a little east of\\nnorth, and here again it is cut througli by tlic Pa-ssaic\\nRiver, forming one of the most remarkable waterfalls\\nin the whole country, which gives business to a large\\nand growing manufacturing city. Beyond Paterson\\nthe ridge gradually attains its general height, and,\\ncurving slightly to the west, terminates near Sicomac,\\nhaving pursued a course of forty-three miles from its\\nrise at Pluckamin. Besides the two great depressions\\nat Milburn and Paterson, there is the Notch east of\\nLittle Falls, and the gaps occupied by Middle Brook,\\nStony Brook, and Green Brook, through which the\\nwaters between it and tlie Second Mountain find their\\nway to the sea.\\nParallel to the First Mountain is the range known\\nlocally as the Second Mountain, which is separated\\nfrom it by a long and narrow valley bearing the names\\nof Washington Valley, Vernon Valley, etc. This\\nmountain is longer than the first, being forty-eight\\nmiles, extending from Bernardsville, in Somerset\\nCounty, to the gneiss of the Ramapo Mountain. The\\nmost considerable depression in the Second Mountain\\nis at Little Falls, where the level of the canal is one\\nhundred and seventy-four feet above mean tide -water.\\nThe ma.\\\\imum elevation is reached in High Moun-\\ntain north of Paterson, which rises eight hundred and\\nsi.xty-eight feet. E.xcepting the gap at Little Falls,\\nthere are no breaks in the range, although it is in\\nplaces much lower than the average altitude.\\nOn both of these mountains the rugged surface is\\nmostly covered with timber, the trap outcrop being\\ntoo strong to admit of cultivation.\\nThe range known as the Third Mountain covers\\nalso a portion of the area ofthe.se counties, including\\nthe Packanack, west of Pearkness Valley, Hook\\nMountain, and Riker Hill. The range is in length\\nabout seven miles, and in width from one-half t(i\\nthree-f|uartcrs of a mile; although at the dam at\\nPompton Furnace, where it is cros-sed by the Ramapo\\nRiver, its breadth is scarcely more than a hundred\\nyards. On the north the trend of the range is south-\\neast, while the remaining half pursues the arc of a\\ncircle to Mead s Basin. The range gradually nears\\nthe road going to Paterson, and at the first forks the\\ntrap crosses it. In this part of its course the trap\\nforms the crest, while the western slope is covered\\nwith drift.\\nIn Bergen County, west of Ramsey s Station, and\\nbordering the Ramapo Valley, are two outcrops of the\\ntrap rocks. The southernmost is a broad anil elevated\\nridge and very rocky. The valley road piLsses over\\nthe foot of this trap, at the north point of the hill,\\nand also at the southwest, near Yahpo. Opposite the\\nWynokie road the trap recedes from the valley, and\\nthe ridge is, conscijuently, some distance east of it.\\nThe road from Wyckotl to the valley is parallel to\\nthe southern point of the trap outcrop.\\nThe name trap, applied to these rocks, signifies a\\n.stair, and is so given because the rocks of this class\\noccur in large tabular masses, rising one above an-\\nother like steps. The trap is an igneous rock, of a\\ngreenish-black or grayish color, consisting of an in-\\ntimate mixture of feldspar and hornblende. In some\\nof the trap ranges, ;is in Bergen Hill, the rock is\\nlight-colored, and, although hard, shapes readily under\\nthe hammer. These qualities make it valuable as a\\npaving-stone, and for many years square blocks of it\\nhave been quarried and used for paving the streets of\\nour cities. Great quantities are dressed at Bergen\\nHill and along the Palisades. The brown-gray vari-\\nety is not fit for paving, being stubborn and hard to\\nbreak under the hammer.\\nWhence came the four long and concentric ridges\\nof trap represented in Bergen and Rocky Hills and\\nin the First, Second, and Third Mountains? It is\\nevident that they are not aquecms, but igneous forma-\\ntions. The materials of which they are composed\\nhave been subjected to a liquefying heat, in which\\ncondition they either broke through the sandstone\\nall at once after it had been deposited, or rose in\\nsuccessive series while the sandstone was in pro-\\ncess of deposition. Dr. Cook favors the latter view,\\nfor he says, The outer ridge which is nearest the\\nbase of the series is by far the most crystalline in\\nstructure, and its upper surface is the hardest and\\nthe most worn, leading to the inference that it is the\\noldest and has been crystallized more slowly and\\nfurther from the surface of cooling. Dr. Cook\\ngives several other valuable reasons for this theory,\\nbut we have not space to enumerate them here.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nGEOLOGY.\\nOn\u00c2\u00bbl g7 of Now Jeraaj, p. ISO.\\nAzoic Formation.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gneiss. The area of this for-\\nmation in Bergen and Passaic Counties is very limited.\\nProfes.sor Cook, in his description of its boundaries,\\nsays, West of Denmark a spur of gneiss cxtemis up\\nthe narrow valley between the Copperas and Green\\nPond Mountain, quite to Green Pond. From Den-\\nmark north to the IViuannock River, and thence\\nill Passaic County to We-st Milfonl, a valley separates\\nthe Highlands on the eitst from the conglomerate\\nranges of Copperas and Kaiiouse Mountain, although\\nthe dividing line between the two rocks runs upon the\\nea.stcrn slope of these two ranges. Beyond West Mil-\\nford the drift of the valley bounds the gneiss to\\nGreenwood Lake.\\nThe gneiss is the principal rock of the Azoic for-\\nmation. It is a stratified crystalline rock, composed\\nnild., p. 337.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY.\\n17\\nof feldspar and quartz, with small quantities of mica,\\nhornblende, magnetite, or other simple minerals. The\\nquartz is generally in grains, which are flattened in\\nthe direction of stratification. The gneiss differs in\\nappearance in different localities. East of Copperas\\nMountain it is of a fine granular composition and of\\na reddish color. In other specimens the feldspar is\\nwhite, the quartz has a smoky appearance, while the\\nhornblende is green or blackish. Generally the color\\ndepends upon the shade of the feldspar contained in\\nthe specimen.\\nCrystalline Limestone. In the southeast belt\\nof the Azoic formation are four small outcrops of the\\ncrystalline or metamorphic limestone, viz.: two in\\nthe Wynokie Valley, a third north of Montville, near\\nTurkey Mountain, and the fourth near Mendham, in\\nMorris County. In the Wynokie Valley this rock\\nappears on lands of David Kanouse, east of Ringwood\\nCreek, and about half a mile from the village of\\nWynokie, occupying a limited area at the foot of\\nRamapo Mountain. About one mile west of the\\nvalley road is another larger outcrop, trending north-\\nea.st and southwest along the border of the plain for\\nnearly two miles. Its breadth is irregular, ranging\\nfrom one hundred yards to a quarter of a mile. At\\nseveral points it has been quarried for lime-burning.\\nThe stone is quite impure, being mixed with other\\nrocks.\\nIt is in the gneiss and the crystalline limestone of\\nthe Azoic formation that the magnetic iron ore of\\nNew Jersey is found. It was supposed by the early\\ngeologists, as well as by many intelligent persons\\nengaged in practical mining at an early day, that\\nthe mines of ore in the iron-bearing sections of New\\nJersey were veins of igneous origin, and that they had\\nbeen forced into the positions they now occupy in a\\nmelted state. But Dr. Kitchell and his assistants,\\nand all the later geologists, upon a more thorough\\nexamination of the subject have come to the conclu-\\nsion that the magnetic iron ores of New Jersey are of\\nsedimentary origin, and have been deposited in beds\\njust as the gneiss and crystalline limestone have been\\ndeposited. Dr. Cook says, From the observations\\nof the present survey, no other conclusion can be\\nreached but that the magnetic iron ores of this State\\nhave originated from chemical or mechanical deposits,\\njust as our hematites and bog-iron ores do now; that\\nthey have afterwards been covered by strata of sand,\\nclay, and carbonate of lime that with these they\\nhave since been upheaved, pressed into folds, and,\\nunder the influence of pressure and water for an\\nimmense length of time, they have undergone chemi-\\ncal and mechanical changes which have brought them\\nto their present condition. They occur both in the\\nlimestone and the gneiss they are entirely con-\\nformable to the other rocks in stratification they\\ncontain lamin;e of gneiss, hornblende, etc., just as the\\nrocks do, and at their edges they frequently pass from\\nthe ore to the rock by such insensible gradations that\\none cannot tell where the ore ends and the rocks\\nbegin.\\nWe append the following list of mines of magnetic\\niron ore in Bergen and Passaic Counties\\nButler Mine, Hohokus, Bergen County; Kanouse\\nMine, Pompton, Passaic County; Wynokie Mine,\\nPompton, Passaic County Ringwood Mine, Pomp-\\nton, Passaic County.\\nPalaeozoic Formation. Potsdam S.\\\\ndstone.\\nThis rock, which takes its name from Potsdam, St.\\nLawrence Co., N. Y., where it is finely exposed, has\\nbut a limited area in Passaic County. It is seen at\\nvarious places along the Green-Pond Mountain Range,\\nwhere it resembles a red shale, being soft, crumbling,\\nand easily converted into mud but it is more fre-\\nquently a conglomerate, consisting of white and red\\nquartz pebbles of the size of pigeons eggs, cemented\\nin a quartzose paste of a purplish color. This variety\\nof the rock is hard and indestructible. It is evenly\\nstratified, and some of the conglomerate beds are very\\nthick. In most cases this rock is found along the\\nsides of valleys dipping inwards and passing under\\nother rocks which occupy the middle of the inter-\\nvening space. In the Green-Pond Mountain Range\\nthis rock has a thickness of not less than seven hun-\\ndred feet. It forms an interesting outcrop in the\\nmountains north of Passaic, Bearfort and Bellvale\\nthe Copperas Mountain, with its extension known as\\nKanouse Mountain, and the ridge running thence to\\nthe village of West Milford.\\nMagnesian Limestone. In West Milford town-\\nship the magnesian limestone crops out at three points\\nalong the eastern side of the conglomerate ridge.\\nTheir positions as related to the gneiss and conglom-\\nerate are very similar, being separated from the gneiss\\nby a thin band of sandstone. Going north, the first\\noutcrop is on the farm of Richard Gould. This forms\\na series of low knobs about three hundred yards long\\nfrom northeast to southwest, and not over fifty yards\\nin breadth. A meadow one hundred yards in breadth\\nseparates them from the conglomerate ledges on the\\nwest. It is separated from the gneiss to the east of it\\nby a narrow belt of quartzite and sandstone, nowhere\\none hundred feet thick, and generally but a few yards\\nacross. About an eighth of a mile south of the lime-\\nstone is Macopin Pond. The limestone dips 60\u00c2\u00b0 N.\\n60\u00c2\u00b0 W. It is mostly of a pale-blue color, com-\\npact and fine-grained. Some of the beds are silicious\\nand quartzose others contain masses of conglomerate\\nand reddish quartz rock imbedded in the calcareous\\nmatrix, indicating a formation since the deposition of\\nthe conglomerate of this region. The quarry at\\nthis locality has yielded a very large amount of stone\\nfor making lime. Analysis shows it to be magnesian\\nin character.\\nAbout one and a half miles northeast of Gould s\\n1 See description and history of tlieae mines in the respective township\\nhistories in this worlc.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "18\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nis the next outcrop of this rock. Its extent from\\nsouthwest to northeast is about three-quarters of a\\nmile along a little vale east of the ridge of conglom-\\nerate. The next and hist nuti-rop on the south is\\non the west side of the stream, and near L. Payn s.\\nIt is three-quarters of a mile from the northern-\\nmost outcrop, or Cisco s quarry. The extreme breadth\\ndoes not exceed one hundred yards. At Payn s\\nquarry the dip is 60 X. 55 W. The rock varies\\nin color from a reddish to a light blue.\\nHl Dsos River Si..\\\\te. Ne.xt in the series of pahe-\\nozoic rocks comes the Hudson River slate, so named\\nfrom being the prevailing rock along the Hudson\\nRiver from Newburg upward. It extends through\\nthe northwestern half of the Kittatinny Valley of\\nNew Jersey, and is also found in some of the lime-\\n8tf)ne valleys farther southeast. At Upper Longwood,\\nPetersburg, Oak Hill, and at other points in the\\nvalley west of the Green-Pond Mountain, it outcrops,\\nand at frequent int\u00c2\u00abrvals in the valley of West Mil-\\nford from the Pequannock River to the State line.\\nThe finest exposure is in the West Milford Valley.\\nwhere the slate crops out in long, low swells ami\\nrocky knobs from West Milford village south to within\\na mile or two of Newfoundland. North of the former\\nplace it occurs west of Greenwood Lake, and north of\\nthe road going west over Beartbrt Mountain. The\\nmost southern exposure of the rock in the valley is\\nabout one mile north of Newfoundland. Thence to\\nthe village of West Milford there is no doubt of its\\nbeing a persistent rock-mass, underlying the whole of\\nthe valley between these points. I\\nThis slate is the darker and harder variety. It\\nstands nearly vertical, being a closely-folded syn-\\nclitial, and has a strike nearly parallel to the direction\\nof the valley. The rock is very slow to disintegrate,\\nand therefore does not crumble down to form as rich\\nand productive a soil as the softer variety of the same\\nslate in Sussex County. It is, however, equally fine\\nand sinoolh-graincd.\\nTriassic Formation.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Red San dstone. Hergen\\nand Pii-ssaic Counties arc chiefly included within llie\\narea of the Triassic or red saiuUtone formation, which\\nis comprised in a belt of country having the Highland\\nRange on its northwest side, and on its southeast, a\\nline almost straight from 8taten Island, near Wooil-\\nbridge, to Trenton, and thence by the Delaware River\\ntill it joins the Highland Range again in the .Musco-\\nnetcong Mountain. The color of this rock and of\\nthe red shale which forms so much of the soil of this\\narea of the State is supposed to be caused by the\\npresence of oxide of iron. The average dip of the\\nred sandstone, as shown along the Delaware I{iver, is\\nabout ten degrees, ami the thickness of the fornnition\\nis supposed to be about twenty-seven thousand feet,\\nor more than five miles. It wiu* probably a deep sea,\\nof which the Highlands formed the northwestern\\nshore, and was ages in filling up to its present level.\\nThe precise age of the formation is difficult to deter-\\nmine on account of its containing very few organic\\nremains. The stems of plants are found fossil in this\\nrock in the quarries at Newark, Belleville, Plucka-\\nmin, Milford, and probably at many other places.\\nCoal has been found in seams from an eighth to half\\nan inch thick in several places. It can be seen in\\nthe quarries at Martinville, Somerset Co. Enough\\nwas seen at Basking Ridge, and also at Chatham, to\\ninduce persons to bore for coal. Near I nion Village\\ncoal is said to have been found three or four years\\nsince. It has been found near Spring Mills, in Hun-\\nterdon, and also near Pompton, in Passaic County.\\nFossil fishes have been found in the quarries at\\nPompton, and in several other laces. The plants\\nfound evidently belong to orders higher than those\\nof the Carboniferous age. And the footprints are\\nthose of air-breathing animals, probably of the Rep-\\ntilian age.\\nSurface Geology. The rocks hitherto described\\ninclude in a regularly .tscending .series those which\\nare more or less covereii by the surface formation\\nknown jis the Drift. Ages before man came upon the\\nglobe, this territory was covered by a Polar sea, which\\ndrifted vast masses of ice and dlbrin of broken rocks\\ninto all its valleys and depressions and high upon the\\nsides of its loftiest mountains. This sea stood at the\\nheight of twelve hundred and fifty feet above mean\\ntide in the present ocean, as is shown by the drift de-\\nposits left upon the hills north of Budd s Lake, the\\nhighest point in the glacial formation in New Jersey.\\nThe period at which this glacier, or sea of ice, covered\\na portion of the earth s surface is known to geologists\\nas the Chaniplain epoch. The course of the glacier\\nwas from the north, and it spread its freight of world-\\nbuilding material over Northern New Jersey as far\\nsouth as Amboy, and thence, by a line somewhat\\nvarying, from the mouth of the Raritan to Belvi-\\ndere, on the Delaware. Says Dr. Cook, in his late\\nreport on the Surface Geology of New Jersey, The\\nsovithern boundary line of the great terminal or fron-\\nU\\\\\\\\ moraine across New Jersey has a general north-\\nnorthwest course from the mouth of the Raritan\\nRiver, at Perth Amboy, to Morri.stown thence a\\nnorth course to Denville, where the direction changes\\nto the west, which course is maintained to the Mus-\\nconetcong Valley, where it again turns, and thence\\nbears west-southwest to the Delaware River, at Bel-\\nvidere.\\nIt would be interesting to follow Dr. Cook in\\nhis detailed description of the drift along this ter-\\nminal moraine, but it is unneces-sary to our purpose,\\nbeing outside of the territory in which we are imme-\\ndiately concerned. Wc will only give his table of\\nelevations of the ilrift at different points along iu\\nsouthern border\\nGn 1oK7 of Now Jpr\u00c2\u00bb*y, p. 14a.\\nIlilil., p. 114.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY.\\n19\\nElevations above Mean Tide of Glacial Drifts oti the\\nLine of the Terminal Moraine.\\nFRKT.\\n1. Poplar Hiil, Wuodliriilgc 2W\\n2. Summit. Second Mountain 3S0 i\\n3. Long Hill (Mil)\\n4. Madison (ridge sontlieasl) 366\\n5. Southeast of Mori istown 382\\n6. Green in Morriatowu 370\\n7. Morris Plains 405\\n8. Kotchiim Pond (Boontou Branch Railroad) 556\\n9. Snake Hill (nortli end) (670)\\n10. Southeast ot Rockaway (between two lines of Morris a?id\\nEssex Railroad) (670J\\n11. Gravel Hill, southeast of Dover (645)\\n12. Dover (moraine north of the town) (640)\\n13. Near Mount Hope (960)\\n14. Canal level. Port Oram 668\\nVk Jackson Hill Mine (960)\\n16. Sucaisnnna I laius (north of) (760)\\n17. Hills cast of Drakesville depot (870)\\n15. Hills near Drakesville and Stanhope road (1100)\\n19. Hills southeast of Waterloo (one and one-half miles north of\\nBudd s Lake) (1250)\\n20. Valley north of Hackettstown (650)\\n21. Ridge near A. R. Da.vs, northwest of Hackettstown (900)\\n22. Side of mountain near Amos Hoagland s (600)\\n2.i. Townsbury (580)\\n24. Side of mountain at Townsbury (660)\\n.^5. Mount Midiepinoki, west of Townsbury (950)\\n26. Hill south of Oxford Furnace (600)\\n27. Hill east of Oxford and Bridgeville road (520)\\n28. Hill we itof Bridgeville (490)\\n29. Hill east of Belvidere (H. J. Butler s place) (.500)\\n30. Manunka Chunk Mountain (56o)\\nWithin this great terminal moraine are other uio-\\nraiiies of recession, of less magnitude. As the con-\\ntinental glacier nielted away at the south and re-\\ntreated northward, it left the materials carried on its\\nsurface, and these were deposited somewhat as they\\nwere grouped on the ice. A gradual recession strewed\\nmore or less of the whole surface with the bowlders\\nand bowlder earth, which made the mantle or drift-\\nsheet reposing upon the underlying rock formations.\\nWhenever this retreat was for a time stopped, and the\\nglacier halted, there was an increased accumulation\\nat its foot, and thus a succession of terminal or frontal\\nmoraines, but of limited extent, would be formed.\\nThe distribution of the glacial drift over this part of\\nthe State is very uneven. It is not a continuous forma-\\ntion, nor is there any uniformity in its thickness.\\nThe trap-rock hills west of Paterson, and many others,\\nare quite bare, and show thin rocks in many out-\\ncropping ledges. Others are so deeply covered that\\nit is often difficult to ascertain the nature of the rocks\\nin them.\\nThe drift in the valleys north of the terminal mo-\\nraine is generally stratified. The great volume of\\nwater from the melting of huge bodies of ice flowed\\nin these valleys as broad streams or filled them a.s\\nlakes. And in this way much of the ground or fun-\\ndamental moraine, and parts of the terminal moraines,\\nwhich marked the recession of the glacier front, were\\nworked over aild redeposited in water. This rear-\\nrangement of materials was probably in progress to a\\nvery limited extent during the whole glacial epoch.\\nWarmer seasons or periods must have been marked\\nby the melting of great masses of ice, and a recession\\nfor a time, attended by large streams flowing from\\nbeneath the glacier and carrying to lower levels au\\nimmense quantity of sediment. Subsequent advances\\nof the glacier would move over some of these sedi-\\nmentary deposits and mingle with them, or cover them\\nwith its unsorted debris. No doubt such alternate\\nadvances and recessions produced some of the drift\\nphenomena now observed. The final retreat and dis-\\nappearance of the glacier appears to have given rise\\nto great streams and large lakes which, in part, ob-\\nliterated the great terminal moraine and deposited\\nglacial drift over wide areas south of it. These beds\\nof stratified drift, found in many of our northern vil-\\nlages and on the plains of the central part of the\\nState, are consequently of later age than the terminal\\nmoraine or the sheet of glacial drift covering the sur-\\nface north of it. The size of the streams and the force\\nof water are measured by the wide-spread gravels and\\nbowlders and the disposition of the stones in many\\nlocalities. The decreasing size of the gravel pebbles\\nand the fine sediment evenly deposited in thin layers\\nshow the lessening force of the water as it flowed for-\\nward in broad channels and emptied into broader\\nlakes and bays. As the trend of nearly all of these\\nvalleys is approximatel) northeast and southwest,\\nand as towards the north they were choked by the\\nreceding barriers of ice, it is safe to assume that the\\ngeneral course of the rivers draining away the waters\\nfrom the melting ice front was a southerly or south-\\nwestern one. And we may consider our existing river-\\nsystem as a diminutive representative of that marking\\nthe close of the glacial ejioch. The valleys of the\\nHackensack, Passaic, Ramapo, Ringwood, Rockaway,\\nPequannock, Succasunna, Berkshire, Musconetco^g,\\nPohatcong, Pequest, Wallkill, Paulinskill, and Dela-\\nware all served as outlets and channels for the rivers\\nof that epoch. And for a long period they may have\\ncontinued to receive sediments derived from sources\\nto the north and from higher lands bordering them.\\nThe waters finished the trans|)orting work begun by\\nthe ice, leveling, sorting, and distributing over a wide\\narea the uneven glacial drift. The terrace epoch was\\na time of elevation, when the land gradually rose and\\nthe streams and lakes were lowered by the erosion of\\nthin beds and outlets deeper in the drift which was de-\\nposited during the Champlain epoch. As there were\\nno longer any glacier-fed streams, the volume of water\\nwas diminished and broad river-beds were left dry,\\nand the streams withdrew to the deeper channels.\\nMany of the lakes were drained ofl or dried up in\\npart, and the whole drainage-system of the country\\nbegan to assume the jiroportions of the historic period.\\nThese changes have been going on ever since, slowly\\nmodifying the surface, although retaining the general\\nfeatures which marked the Champlain epoch.\\nThe following extract from Dr. Cook s report will\\nindicate the distribution and character of the glacial\\ndrift in different parts of Bergen and Passaic Counties\\n1. .If.bsey ClTV. The glacial drift can be seen at a few places only in\\nan undisturbed condition. It cont-xins sufficient red shale to give color\\nto it, and with the slialy earth there are large blocks of trap rock from\\nBergen Hill, of hard, indurated, banded shale; also from Bergen Hill,\\nwhite, angular, feldspathic sandstones, gneisses, gi-anites, and syenites,\\ncobble-stones of the same rocks, and pebbles and angular fragments of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "20\\nHISTORY OF BKUGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\na gmt Tttriety of rockt. West of Jonwy Avenue, between Twelfth and\\nThlrtornlh Strpet\u00c2\u00ab, the drift Ik s on a reddUh itratified sund. The tra|\\nruck Muck* are uut much worn or rounded on the edges, and are, io a\\nfew 8iicciniens, ten to flfteen ftH t long. The other crystiilline rocks, and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ome of the gray oandHtoueo, are well ruuuded and striated. A few of\\nthe trap*n ck buwiderv api ear much flecomjiosed and quite friable. They\\nmay r\u00c2\u00ab resent the rock of the urigioul surfiice of Bergen Hill. This\\ndrift i\u00c2\u00ab thin, not mure than three feet thick in placee. On the lilll In\\nthe weatiTU part of the city the more cuuimun liowldeni are trap rock,\\nriHl samlBtone, gneissea, and indurated nhaleit. The natural drift surface\\ncan 1k) seen aUtui Comniunipaw, along the line of the Central Railroad\\nof New Jersey. The nrte\u00c2\u00abian wells which have been bored in the city\\nhave found rock at varying depths fruni fifteen to ninety feet. At Ma-\\nthieaen Ai Wtecher s sugar refinery the surface earth was found to be\\ntwenty feet thick at Cox s brewery, un Grove Street between Seventh\\nand Eighth Streets, there waa tMkwlder clny un\u00c2\u00abl earth to a depth of sev-\\nenty feet; at the steel works, Lafayette, the rock was ninety feet deep.\\nConstable s Uook is an upland island, surrounded by mursh iiimI water,\\nand is a re\u00c2\u00abMi-sh-yellow stratified sand-drift with many bowUters of trap\\nrock,altere l slialo, red (wndstone, and gneiss rocks. The sand is in thin,\\ngently undulating layeni. The Uiwideni appear to have been dropped\\nhere by Hoaling ice, and they resemble in general the rock of Bergen\\nNeck. The drift on Be lloo s Island, in New Ynrk harbor, is very much\\nlike the surface of Constable s llook. They are, apparently, of the same\\norigin. The shallow excavations on the latter have failed to strike the\\nrock.\\n2. Palisadb Mount.mn and the Cue.vt Sanbstonk Vallky.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The\\nbroad Red Sandstone Valley of Bergen, Essex, and Hudson Counties,\\nlying between thtj Palisade Mountain and Bergen Hill on the east, and\\ntlie lUniaiM) and Wutchuiig ]!tIountains on the west, is furrowed by nar-\\nrow and deep valleys, which trend sonlh-e JUthwcst. The ronds running\\neast and west cross tjio ridges and depressions, whereas those up and\\ndown the valley follow the valleys or the ridges. One of the best roads\\nfor otiaorring this feature of the surface is from Nyack to Suflerns, in\\nRockland Connty, N. V. An \u00c2\u00abther is that connecting Knglewnod and\\nPararous. On the finit-niontioned road these ridges are high and com-\\nparatively bruail, attaining a height above tide of about si\\\\ hundred feet.\\nAnd the depretwlons are narrow. The ridges become lower towards the\\nsouthweet and the valleys widen out Into flats, coalescing alwut the\\neuutfiwcfltern ends of the ridges which here disapi^ear. The junction of\\nthe west and of the middle branches of Saddle River near the New York\\nline in iit the soutli end of n ridge. Tea Neck, near Hackennack, and\\ntlie Arlington Ridge, disupi earlng at East Newark, are other examples.\\nTills feature of to[Migraphy haa determined somewhat the extent and\\ncharacter of the drift cuvoring. On the ennteru side of this great valley\\nwe see the top of the Palinade Mountain, covered in places by a thin\\nsheet of glacial drift. R4 ck outcrops are commtui.and these bear every-\\nwhere glacial markings. (Fordirection of striie and grt^toves, see Annual\\nRejiorts for 1877 and 1878.) Scattered bowlders are very numerous, half\\nImbedded in the drift soil or perched on the jiollshcd ledges. One of\\ntheee, known as Sam|woii*s Ri ck, in the rear of Wm. II. Dana s re\u00c2\u00abi-\\ndence, Knglewoo^l, lias attracted attention, and was described in the\\nAmnit: in Jnurtfit Science ami ArU, vol. xl,, id series. It is of coarao\\nred \u00c2\u00abn l! tiine, and is ten by seven by nine feet.\\nOn the luwer i art of the western slope of the Pullsailo range and on\\nthe sandstone ridges of tliis valley the drift is nnstratined, and on the\\nlatter It is so uniformly spread and so thick as to conceal the santlsione,\\nexcepting In a few very small outcrops, tlonerally it* surface is snioother\\nand correa| onds more to the rock sIo|H)s than it does In the heaii* ami\\nDumnds of the terminal morainoa. Between Clodtcr and KngtewiKMl\\nthere is much drift in the form of \u00c2\u00bbliort hiUn. Near the funiier place\\nthey staiiil In the bonier of the plain southward they rise in the tra|H\\nntck slope. Their billowy surface Is very pnmilnent in the toixigrnphy\\nof that art of the valley. S4 iiie of Iheni are at lca\u00c2\u00abt lUie hundred feel\\nhigh. They look as tf they hod lieen the lateral moraine of a glacier\\nwhirh fllle l the valley but no longer overtopped the nionntain. The\\nc ni|NMltinn of the glacial drift varies greatly on the two sides of this\\nvalley. Near the I alisnde Mountain the drift earth Is niontly rod shale\\nand sand from the rod sandstone. The IniU dded iKtwIden are sand-\\nsbuiM, then gneJMlc and granitic rocks. Ouing west, the proportion of\\nsliale diiidnlshea, and the iHiwbler earth has a grayish-white color, ami\\nIs largely ilerlviwl from gnetsslc ntcks. There are fewer sandstonee, and\\nan lin reuswl numtn-r of crystalline hhU with (ireen-Pond Mountain on-\\nglonipnito. Till gnelNMu and rongbunerate make u)i ninety per cent, of\\nthe l\u00c2\u00bbwldeni in the drift along the Raniapo Mountain, and they are larger\\nthan Utoae to the oast. The largest which has Iteen oli\u00c2\u00aberved in thin arti f\\nthe country Is In Ruckland County, a few rudi south of the Pierniunt Rail-\\nroad, and one and a half mllea loutlieast of Suffems. It appears to be\\nmostly above ground. Its dimensions are forty-five by thirty, by twenty-\\nfive fevt, audita estimated weight Is one thousand five hundred tons. Tlie\\nrock is a foldspathic gneiss, traversetl by veins of syenite. It may not\\nhave traveled far, aa the nearest outcrop of crystoJline rock is not more\\nthan two miles away. While shales, sandstones, conglomerates, gneiss,\\ngranite, and syenite are to be seen everywhere, no limestones have been\\notiaerved in the unstratified drift of the valley. Glaciated i ebb1esand\\nbowlderv abound. In the northwestern part of Ik rgcn County tliere is a\\ngreat accumulation of drift, l oth assorted and stratiAed. The several\\ncuttings on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway and the\\nNew Jersey Midland Rallroail expose fine si clious. In one of these\\ncuts, a little way north of Ramsey s Station, the drift at the southern\\nend is glacial whereas to the north of it there Is a long section of\\ngrayish-white stratifit-d sand and gravel. The country south of Paterson\\nand ea\u00c2\u00bbt of the Watchung Mountain, or Orange Mountain, is ver} gen-\\nerally covered by glacial drift. It is here largely made up of red shale\\nearth and retl sandstone b \u00c2\u00bbwlderB. The cuts on the lino of the New\\nYork and Gret^nwood Lake Railroad, near Bloomtield, Montclair. and\\nthe Notch, show good sections thruugh the drift down to the glaci-\\nated ledges. Along the Newark and Patcrson Railroad both forms of\\ndrift are seen. At the Newark brown-stone )uarrief the red shale drift\\nearlli holds many large bowlders of retl sandstone, trap rock, gneise,\\nGreen-Pond Mountain conglomerate, and a multitude of sul -angular\\nfragmenta of shale. Flat pebbles of shale and Kindstone are also abun-\\ndant. The stria- on many of the trai -ro -k and re^l sandstone l owlder8\\nare very finely cut. No traced of any stratificatiiiii were ot\u00c2\u00abervod. Tlie\\nmoan thickness is about ten feet. The top earth is of a yellowish color\\nthe lower drift is reddish brown. The grading for streets in East New*\\nark and tlM railroad cuts give long and good sections of the drift. But\\nhero It is, in part, stratified.\\nAlong the wcetern foot of the Palisade Mountain and Bergen Hill\\nthere is much variety in the forms which the drift aasumes. At a num-\\nber of localities the glacial drift is found lying ni on a reddish sand,\\nwhich In tuin rests upon the i olishod and striated trap riH k. At\\nMarion the following section was noted\\n1. A gravelly bed 3 feet,\\n2. Glacial drift 10\\n1. Fine red sand\\nThe same series was beautifully ex| o8ed on the new straight line\\ncut of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in Bergen Cut. The section\\nat this i oint was:\\n1. Y ellow, tnippean clav snll and aubaoll 2 feet.\\n2. Re-1 shale, glacial ilr ifl 10\\n:t. CoarHC red sand and fine gravel 1 to 3\\n(4.) Glaciated trap rock\\nAt the west end of Bergen tunnel, the south side of the cut consisted\\nof the following members, vit.:\\n1. Yellow, Irappean clay loam soil and subsoil\\n2. Glacial drift 3to6f\u00c2\u00bbet.\\n3. Stnitilied sand, gravel ami cobblv-stonos^ 3to6\\n4. Glaciol drift 6\\n6. Stratified red sand at bottom\\nIn the glacial drift on Bergen Hill the bowlders of rml nandstone\\nand shale pretlominato. The (vercentage of trap rock Im small, and there\\nare few of iuartr.lte ami conglomerates. Of gneisses also there are\\ncom|iaratively few. At Bayonne, and elsewhere on the line of the Cen-\\ntral Ralln ad, the glacial drift was cut thmugh, twenty-five to thirty feet\\nthick, down to the polished and striated HK-k. The cuttings for streets\\nencountered the same ilrift. Many largo and well-rountlod gneiss bowl-\\ndeni and angular blocks of induratetl striped shale are found. The latter\\nare evidently n t far fmni the parent b dges. Tnip n cks and red sand-\\nntonu preilomlnat) in mass, and there 1^ much shale in smaller and an-\\ngular fragments. No serpentine has been ol\u00c2\u00ab( rved. The conijHKdtioh\\nof thf drift indicates here, as elsewhere In the red sandstone country, a\\nsoutheastern movement. The alluvial formation of the Newark mea-\\nflows is supposed to rest up(^ n drift. Several weltn In the niarshes west\\nof the Ilackennack River, near the Newark plank n ad, go tlin ugh the\\nalluvium anil Into a lrift. Four of them, sunk in 1S71, get their supply\\nof water from gmvel at a depth of nearly twi.* huadred feet. The well\\nof Hiiyler and Itntan, nl^ar the riviT at Mackensack, |)assed through\\none hundreil and ftmr feet of meadow mud and bine and nnl ilays. In\\nNewark, the well of MrMtm. K. Hiillwch S in, at their smelting-works,\\nliaased through alxuit one hundred feet of sainl and gravel and then\\nentsHMl the ro*\\\\ Nandstone. That of P. Bnllantine .V St\u00e2\u0080\u00a2n^ ut their\\nbrewery, went through ninety fwt of earth. The w\u00c2\u00bbdl at the works of\\nLister Brothers, on the bank of the Paasalc, was sunk one hundred and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "LAlvii PASSAIC\\n[ACLAaALLAKE]\\nI ltnrijui\\nI I \\\\Knl.Smiilxliiir ^/tril l\\n/Itntvwtnl St-n/r /i/tit/rj tvt/ir htrh\\nVirtinil iriilr nl .^rrtiiti KMnif* Inlhr itirli", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "GEOLOGY.\\n21\\nten feet in earth. These figures show the great thickness of drift and\\nthe depth uf the rock basin.\\nIn explanation of tlieir origin we may consider these levels or ter-\\nraces as marking tlie successive heigtita at which the waters stood in\\nthis great valley after the retreat of the glacier had begun, during the\\nChani|tlain epoch, and continued through the Terrace epoch. The melt-\\ning of the ice in the valley and oti the Highlands north and west pro-\\nduced an enormous volunn of water, which filled the great iiasin, form-\\ning u luke thirty miles long and eight miles wide. Tlie top of tlie\\nterinitiiil moraine was leveled eft ami a piirt of its material was carried\\n\u00c2\u00bbMithuard and silted on Iho bottom of the lake, where are now the great\\nswamp and the Dead River flats. The gaps through the trap-rock ranges\\nat Paterson and Little Falls were filled with drift by the glacier. The\\nextnivation of these drift-fiUeil gaps began as it disappeared, and the\\noutlet again follnwed the line of the old channel into the red sandstone\\ncouTitiy on the east. Two causes contributed to the lowering of the\\nlake level. They were the diminished volume of water in the Cham-\\nplain epoch after the great masses of ice had disappeared from the sur-\\nrounding hills, and the cutting down of the drift dams along the outlet\\nbetween Paterson and Little Falls. The former source of supply soou\\nclosed, and the natural drainage of the water-ghed with the rainfall on\\nits surface were the sole feeders. The upper terrace is most plainly\\nmarked on tlie surrounding hill and mountain sides. It was the broad\\npebbly shore of a lake into which poured torrents of water from the\\nneighboritig hills, carrying cobble-stones and bowlders into it and de-\\npositing them so Confusedly together as in places to resemble a glacial\\ndeposit. The accumulations of drift at Bernardsville and Basking Ridge\\nm y liave come in that way. Tln lower level-topped hills mark the mure\\nquiet watere as they subsided and slirunk into narrow limits. Pompton\\nPlains and the fiats along the Passaic and Whippany Rivera mark their\\nfurther contraction into irregular-shaped ponds within the bounds of\\nthe old lake basin. The erosion through the drift at Little Falls was\\nprobably the gradual wear of the Terrace epoch until the hard trap-\\nrock reef was reached. At that level tlie drainage stopped. The slow\\nwork of excavation through this barrier and the recession of the falls\\nhave been in progiess since that time; and a gorgi- three hundred feet\\nwide at the east, narrowing westward to the falls, and between thirty\\nand forty feet deep, has been cut hack about six hundred feet iu the\\nrock. As the falls have not yet materially clianged since the earliest\\nrecords of it, this recession must have required a long period. The fur-\\nther w \u00c2\u00bbrk of cutting through the harrier of trap rock must he very\\nslow, and hence the drainage of the old lake basin may be considered\\nas i)ractically at an end, unless furthered by the agency of man. We\\nsee to-day the undrained meadows and swamps occupying the sites of\\nthe later ponds. The process of filling them with sediments derived\\nfrom surface-wash of the surrounding hills is going. on, and is destined\\nto fill tliem eventually, unless the flow of the stream is accelei-ated by\\nan altenition in the fall. It would be extremely interesting to trace out\\nthe borders of this ancient lake, and locate tlie streams which fed it,\\nand note the islands of Hook Mountain, Riker Hill, Horse Hill, and\\nothers in it, and then follow its contracting outlines until it disappears\\nand then was left the present wet meadow bottom. Its history is im-\\npressed upon the topographical features of the country so plainly that\\nthe enthusiastic and diligent student can, by the aid of good maps,\\nrestore it.\\nA Glacial Lake. The Passaic River formed anciently the outlet of\\na great glacial lake. Professor Cook says in his report, Tlierewere\\nmany lakes of this sort in New Jersey, which can now be traced by the\\nmarks which their water-surfaces left upon their hanks. One of the\\nmost remarkable and interesting of tliese is the one which was between\\nthe Watchung Mountain and the Highland range. It was fully thirty\\nmiles long, from six to eight miles wide, aiid in most jdaces two hundred\\nfeet deep. It covered the country where Madison, Chatham, New Prov-\\nidence, Basking Ridge, Hanover, Whippany, Troy, PoTupton, and Little\\nFalls now stand. Long Hill, Riker s Hill, and the Hook Mountain were\\nislands in it. And its shores were made by the Second Mountain from\\nPaterson to Bernardsville, by the Highlands from Bernardsville to Pomp-\\nton, and from thence to near Paterson by the Second Mountain again.\\nThe only outlet to this lake was by the valley of the Passaic at Paterson,\\nand this was at that time closed by the ice of the receding glacier, and\\nits then terminal moraine still fills most of the valley where the Boouton\\nbranch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway crosses the\\nPassaic. The insufficiency of these hanks is plainly evident to any one\\nfamiliar with the country spoken of, and the level of the water in if is\\nto be seen everywhere by the sand and gravel banks which have been\\nmade by the natural wash from the surrounding country, which were\\ncarried down into the water and there deposited. The surface level of\\nthis lake was about three hundred and eighty feet above the present\\nlevel of tide-water. The plain country between Madison and Murristowu\\nis of this lieigbt, and so is the moraine ridge from just south of Chatham\\nto Madison and Morristown. The terrace-like hills near Montville, those\\nat the india-rubber works above Bloouiingdale, those at Pearkness, the\\nsandy banks near the top of the Hook Mountain, and many others\\naround this old lake border remain to give testimony for this hitherto\\nunnoticed lake. [We give on the next page a cut of this lake, which we\\nhave engraved for this work by permission of Dr. Cook.]\\nThere are many other places where great bodies of water have been\\nshut in for a time, and then burst out to remove or modify the great\\nmasses of glacial drift which were first deposited in the various terminal,\\nlateral, and ground moraines. To study out and make connected descrip-\\ntions of these is one of the objects of this work and the detailed descrip-\\ntions which follow are the part which must first be done before safe and\\ncomprehensive conclusions can be reached.\\nThe Great Red Sandstone Vallet.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .Vs has been stated in the\\naccount of the glacial drift of this valley, the ridges are covered very\\ngeneially by a thick mantle of unsorted drift, while the valleys lying\\nbetween these ridges are lined with beds of earth, santl, and gravel, ex-\\ncepting at their northern ends. As they widen southward tliese stratified\\nbeds form broader terraces and extensive flats. In a few of them, as\\nalong Spraat Brook, along the Hackensack, from Old Hook to New Mil-\\nford, and at the State line near Tappan, the flats are so level as to give\\nrise to swamps and wet meadows. The materials of this drift are finer\\ngoing southward or down the valleys. Northward there is more gravel\\nand cobble-stones; to the south, reddish, sandy loams prevail. Vertical\\nsections of these stratified drift beds are seen at Orange Mills, Rockland\\nCo., N. Y., near Westwood, at Paramus, Tenafly, Closter, and at many\\nother points, especially along the Northern, New Jersey and New York,\\nand the Jersey City and Albany Railroads. Near the Hackensack,\\nbetween Westwood and Old Hook, there is a sandy level of considerable\\nextent. But the largest of these stratified drift levels is that of Paramus,\\nbordering on the west the Saddle River, and extending west to Hohokua,\\nand nearly to Ridgewood, where it is a mile wide. The height of the\\nlevel above tide is nearly one hundred feet. The Paramus Reformed\\nChurch stands on it. About a quarter of a mile north of the latter there\\nis a long depression or sink in it, about two hundred and fifty yards long\\nand twenty-five feet deep, the bottom of which is partially covered with\\nwater. Very few small bowlders from one to three feet long are to be\\nfound on the surface of the plain. The glacial waters flowing through\\nthe gorge of the Saddle River and the Hohokus Creek here spread out\\nin a broad shallow stream, and a mile or two farther south they met the\\nsea-level of that epoch. The lower levels, fifty to sixty feet high, prob-\\nably represent a sea-border formation and the shores of the same geo-\\nlogical time.\\nThe terrace.s along the Ramapo River, at Sufferns, N. Y., mark the\\nsufcessive heights of that stream. The highest of these is at the east\\nside of the village, and the Episcopal and Methodist Churches are on it\\nIt is between ten and fifteen feet above the middle terrace, on which\\nmost of the business part of the village is placed. The third, or lowest\\nterrace, is about twenty feet below the railroad level or middle terrace.\\nFollowing the valley of the Ramapo, we see banks and level-topped hills\\nof sand, gravel, and bowlders thickly disposed, leaving but little of the\\nmeadow flats on its border. The drift hills average seventy to eighty\\nfeet high, and the wells dug in the drift are thirty-five to sixty-six feet\\ndeep. A boring made several years ago for coal, near the residence of\\nPK-Governor Price, struck the rock at a depth of one hundred and seven-\\nteen feet, showing that thickness of the valley drift. South of flakland\\nthe valley becomes broader, and there are some remarkable level-topped\\nhills and ternices. The upper oae of them is about a mile square, and\\nis approximately three hundred and fifty feet high. On it are what are\\nknown as tlie mud ponds. very sliitUow basins with abrupt sides about\\nthirty feet deep, and with wiiter four to eight feet deep in them. They are\\nquite grown up with reeds, and look more like reedy marshes than ponds.\\nThey are in fuct undrained sink-holes. To the eastward there are lower\\nterraces and much stratified drift. Oakland is on a lower terrace to the\\nwest, and the Crystal Lake is in another south of this highest level or\\nterrace. Of the tlrift materials in the Ramapo Valley about ninety per\\ncent, are cryst^illine rocks of the Highlatids. Some of the bowlders of\\nthese rocks are very large. Many smaller bowlders and much of the\\ngiavel is made of slate and sandstone, A verj few blue limestone and\\nOriskany sandstone bowlders have been observed. The Green-Pund\\nMountain conglomerate is recognized in a few specimens. The small\\nproportion of red shale and red sandstone in the gravel is quite remark-\\nable. This series of terraces, at such different elevations, points to a\\nbroad e.vpau8eof water, a large lake-basin which was gradually drained", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nofT souUiwnrd dowu the ralley of the lUninpo hilo llif Pamlc. The\\nmad poods and the Crystal and l uii)|itoii Lnkc\u00c2\u00ab arc the vestlgee uf the\\naDcIent lake.\\nTlie cut-in gmvfl at 3lahw ah nnd thv aiiigiilar gravel ridgo on\\nwhich the BantRey Riflumietl Church sfHiidn are aUu (.oiitiected in eoniu\\nway uiih the ternce foroialiun uf thu RauiaiH hut their eleTnlionfl art*\\nDut ktidwn.\\nProceeding wjuth and sonttienst in the red sandstone idain, we notice\\na long cut in stratifle4l snndii and gravel at Ilawthurni north of Fater*\\nson. The level-lo|)|\u00c2\u00bbetl hills eaat of the Now York, Lake Erie and\\nWestern Railway, in Patenson, are also a nuKlifled drift formation. The\\ncuttings at the southern end show lines of stratiflcMlion in the re 1dish\\nsandstone grrivel. At the tnp uf tho l ank there are many largf* bowlders\\nof gneisaic and granitic and red sandslono rocks, with a few of Green-\\nPond Mooutain conglomerate, uf trap rock and tria tic conglomerated,\\nall )ni) edt|iMl in a red, t\u00c2\u00abliiily earth. They appejir also in lines in the\\nearthy drift Thette liilln correspond in height tu tlie Hitnd and gno el\\nhills northwest of the city, towards Iliilcdon. They are one hundreil\\nand sixty feet high, and lM th are Che ramalna uf a terrace whoee further\\nextent has not yet been tntceil.\\nIn the lower iMirti in of the red sandhtune plain, aUmt Newark nnd\\nElizabeth, and along the foot of the Palisade Moiinliiin and Itergun Mill,\\nthere are flat knolls and levels of red, sandy loam ami tine gravel which\\nmay belong to the Champlain ejHKh, or may he more recent. Some of\\nthem are but a few feet above high iide level. The excavations along\\nthe Newark nnd New York and the Pennsylvaida Itailronds mIiow the\\nnature and arrangement of the niateriHl. There U a good ex|ht. nre\\nnear New Durham, on the siiie of the Ilackenstti-k turnpike, in a giiivel\\npit twenty feet deep, and in which the reddish mtnd i^^ interstratilied ir-\\nregularly with layeiB of gravel. The latter is mainly red Haiidstone,\\ngneiss, and white quartz |K;bblea.\\nPassaic Vallev.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The modified drift of the Pawwic Valley, or tliat\\npart of the retl sandstone plain iHiundeil on the northwest by the High-\\nlands and on tho other nblea by the sweep of the Second MountJiin range,\\nfrom Pompton to Hernanlsville, is remarkable for ila extent, thick ne\u00c2\u00abK,\\nand it\u00c2\u00ab long lines of tcrmce levels fringing these mountains about iL\\nFrom the number of hills t f drift in the neighltorhood of Hanover,\\nColumbia, Whlppany, Troy, ati l Frnnktin, wliicli are fn)m two hnmlred\\nand forty to two hundred and eighty feet high, it would seem as if there\\nhad been a terrace at nlnfut that heipht. The kmdis cut by the Litlh--\\ntoD and Whip|iany n ad are atfto of the same height. The satid ami\\ngravel hills along the Paiwiic near Totowa mark the site of the dam of\\ndrift which occasioned the f(\u00c2\u00bbrmation of this terrace. The Pompton\\nPlains is perhaps the mont remnrkable level in all this valley. As IIm\\nname indicates, it is a plain, ami is boundud on the north and wext by\\nthe gneiss ridges of tho Highlands, nn l on the oust anil soutli by the\\nPackanark and Townkhow or l](M k Mountains. The same level stretihes\\nnorth of Pompton Furnace and Ponipton Village up the Wynokio Val-\\nley a longdistance, and Incluilos Furnace Pond williln its bt undi4. It8\\nmean elevation is two hundred feet, duKamlliig slightly southward, in\\nw hich direction its drainage Is elTectc^l.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nDISCOVERY AND OCCUPATION OF NKW\\nNETHEKLAND.\\nEarly Explorers.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1525 the harbor or hay of\\nNew York wili liiscovered by Estevan Gomez, Crotii\\nwhom the natives obtiiiiu d the maize, or Spiiiiish\\nwlioat. .\\\\s early as tliat piTiotl the search iiail Ixcii\\nundertaken by nierrhant-s anil Kitst Inilia traders fur\\na shorter route to the Kaat by some passage through\\nthe continent of North America. Kings anil emper-\\nors, seeking to defeat their rivals and to secure the\\nmonopoly of the trade with tho Kastern nations, fitted\\nout expeditions to diseover the supposed Northwest\\nPassage.\\nI..MIK I.IiiikI HUI. Sue., I. 2Ti.\\nGomez was sent out by the Emperor Charles V. of\\nSpain, who had fitted out the expedition for the\\npurpose of discovering a shorter passage to the Mo-\\nluccas. He appears to have made a map of the\\ncontinent, so far as it was then known, extending iis\\nfar north as the strait beyond Nova Zembla. This\\nmap wiis embodied in the sailing directions to Henry\\nHudson and that portion of the country extending\\nfrom New Jersey to Rhode Island is called the land of\\nEstevan Gomez. The tradition that the Spanish\\nvisited New York before the Dutch was extant among\\nthe Indians as late as 1076. Stuyvesant also claimed\\nthat Verrazzano, sent out by Francis I., King of France,\\nin l.i24, visited the Bay of New Y ork. This is liighly\\nprobable, as Verrazzano sailed southwest from the\\nCape of the Bretons a good five hundred leagues\\ntowards the coast of Florida. He took possession\\nof the whole country in the name of the King of\\nFrance; and in 1529 the French geographer Crignon\\nwas sent out with the famous navigator Parmilier, to\\ncollect information and make a map of the country.\\nThis map, containing the geographical information\\nfurnished by Crignon, was published in Italy in loot!.\\nBy virtue of the discoveries of Verrazzano, the\\ncharter of Henry IV. of France was granted to De\\nMonts in 1(J03. upon which was b;ised the French\\nclaim and the long struggle for ascendency between\\ntlie English and French colonies. The charter to De\\nMonts (called the charier of .-Vcadia) embraced all\\nthat jiortion of the country lying between the fortieth\\nand forty-si.vth degrees of north latitude, and conse-\\nquently included the greater part of New Jersey.\\nBut the grant of the French king was ignored by\\n.lames I. of England, who, upon the discoveries maile\\nby the Cabots, Weymouth, and others, granted, in\\nl(iO(), to Edward Maria Wingfielil and his a.s.soci-\\natcs, under the name of the tioiit/i Mrijiiiin or I.nudun\\nCompany, the land between the thirty-fourth and\\nforty-first degrees of north latitude, and to the North\\nVirffiiiia or Plymouth Company the land lying between\\nthe thirty-eighth and forty-fifth degrees of north lati-\\ntude. These companies respectively sent out colonies\\nin the year 1G07, the former the colony which set-\\ntled permanently at .famestown, Va., and the latter\\nthe Popham colony, which settled at Monhegan Island,\\nin Maine.\\nHenry Hudson. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The E;ist India merchants and\\nniariiiiiie powers of Europe were meantime zealous in\\nthe pursuit of their favorite discovery, the North-\\nwest piuwage. The English in lt 7 and U1U8 sent out\\nHenry Hudson, whom the Dutch called the bold\\nEnglishman, on two voyages with this express ob-\\nject in view. He was disappointed in his search, but\\nI Dlilillc a Lih uf ChIkiI, 271.\\nllucUi.ri i .SiiniiiK DIrocUoiK, 46.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wlnflold a Hiat. Iltiit. Co., t.\\nKuiiiu(it llnllaii Oeogni|iliy.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Map uf New France. Publlalied in\\nSltijrvc\u00c2\u00abant a Maiilfoalo It* the Oovoin.tr uf Maryland. Bancroft,\\nf.S, I. 17.\\nMaine Hill. Cull.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "DISCOVERY AND OCCUPATION OF NEW NETHERLAND.\\n23\\nwas not discouraged. With unshaken faith in his\\nfinal success, he applied in 1609 to the Dutch East\\nIndia Company at Amsterdam and, as Columbus had\\nbeen successful in Spain, so was Hudson successful in\\nHolland. The Company, favoring his enterprise, put\\nhim in command of a yacht or Vlie-boat, built to\\nnavigate the Viie, or Texel, called De Halve Maan\\n(Half Moon), of thirty lasts burden, and manned by\\na crew of twenty men, partly Dutch and partly Eng-\\nlish. The following throws some light upon the pur-\\npose and conditions of his voyage\\nBy his agie^ nient with the Company, tinted January 8, 1609, he was\\ntit sail abi ut tlie fii-st uf April in search of a passage to the north of\\nNova Zenihla, and to continue along that parallel until he was able to\\nsail south to the latitude of si,\\\\ty degrees, and then hasten back to re-\\nport to his employers. For this service he was to receive eight hundred\\nguilders, and in case he did not come back witiiili a year, they were to\\ngive his wife two hundred guilders more. In case he found the pasKige,\\nthe Company were to reward hirn for his dangers, troubles, and knowl-\\nedge, in their discretion.\\nHudson set sail from the Texel, April 6, 1609, and\\nsailed to Newfoundland. His anxiety to discover his\\nfavorite passage led him to disregard his orders, and\\nhe coasted southward as far as Chesapeake Bay, and,\\nreturning, cast anchor inside of Sandy Hook on the\\n3d of September. The scenery around delighted hiin,\\nand he pronounced it a very good land to fall in\\nwith, and a pleasant land to see.\\nHere Hudson met the natives for the first time.\\nThe journal says, The people of the country came\\naboard of us, seeming very glad of our coming, and\\nbrought green tobacco and gave us of it for knives\\nand beads. They go in deer-skins loose, well dressed.\\nThey have yellow copper. They desire clothes, and\\nare very civil. On the 6th of September, John\\nColeman, an Englishman of the crew, with four men,\\nwas sent to sound the river opening to the north,\\nthe Narrows. They sailed through and found a\\nvery good riding for ships. They found also a\\nnarrow river to the westward between two islands,\\nthe Kill Van KulL Passing through this two leagues\\nthey came to an open sea, Newark Bay. The Dutch\\ncalled it Achtn- Cull that is, the after bay, because it\\nlay behind the Bay of New York. It was called by\\nthe English After Coll,^ and sometimes, corrupting\\nthe word, they called it Arthur Cull. It is sometimes\\napplied to the territory bordering on the bay, as well\\nas to the bay itself- On their return they were at-\\ntacked by a hostile party of twenty-six Indians in\\ntwo canoes; Coleman was killed by an arrow which\\nstruck him in the throat, and two more were wounded.\\nIt is thought that these Indians came from Staten\\nIsland, as the Jersey Indians visited the ship the next\\n1 A last is nearly two tons.\\ns Henry Hudson in Holland, by H. C. Murphy.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Winfield, 4.\\ns Juet s Journal of Ilinlson s Voyage. N. Y. Hist. Coll., 323.\\nCol. Hist. N. r., ii. 576.\\n5 On Vandnrdonck s map of New Netherland (1656), the Achier\\nRtvkr^^ evidently means the whole bay and sound to the mouth of the\\nRaritan, including the two rivers, Hackensack and Passaic, which were\\nregarded as branches.\\nday and were ignorant of what had occurred. The\\nnext day the body of Coleman was buried on Sandy\\nHook, and the place where it was interred still bears\\nthe name of Coleman s Point. Returning again\\nthrough the Narrows, Hudson cast anchor on the\\n11th of September in the harbor of New York, and\\nsaw it was a very good harbor for all winds. His\\nfirst landing appears to have been at a point about\\nsix miles up on the New York side.\\nHaving thus familiarized himself with the bays and\\ninlets about Manhattan, he prepared next to explore\\nthe noble river which bears his name, and which he\\nstill hoped might be the long-sought passage to the\\nIndies. With what feelings of joy this thought must\\nhave inspired him for a time, and how great must\\nhave been the disappointment when he found the\\nriver gradually growing less and less navigable, and\\nsaw before him the lofty mountain ranges among\\nwhich it has its source The precise point at which\\nhe terminated his voyage northward is not material,\\nthough it is believed that he stopped at a point in\\nwhat is now the town of Half-Moon, in Saratoga\\nCount} some eight or ten miles above Albany.* He\\nreturned on the 2d of October, and in consequence of\\nan attack from the Indians at the head of Manhattan\\nIsland, he bore gradually across the river, and\\nanchored in Weehawken Cove, just above Castle\\nPoint. On the 4th, with fair weather and a north-\\nwest wind, he weighed anchor, passed through the\\nKills to Amboy, and thence stood out to sea.\\nOccupation of New Netherland.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The report of\\nHudson s discovery on his return to Holland created\\na great stir among the merchants. It had opened a\\nnew field for trade which they were eager not only\\nto occupy, but to monopolize. In 1610, it appears\\nthat at least one ship was sent hither by the East\\nIndia Company for the purpose of trading in furs,\\nwhich it is well known continued for a number of\\nyears to be the principal object of commercial at-\\ntraction to this part of the New World. Five years\\nafter Hudson s voyage, a company of merchants, who\\nhad procured from the Stales-General of Holland a\\npatent for an exclusive trade on Hudson s River, had\\nbuilt forts and established trading-posts at New Am-\\nsterdam (New York), Albany, and the mouth of the\\nRondout Kill. The latter was a small redoubt on the\\nsite of what is now a part of the city of Kingston,\\nN. Y. It was known as the Ronduit, from whence\\ncomes the name of Rondout. The fort near Al-\\nbany was upon Castle Island, immediately below the\\npresent city, and the one at New York was erected\\non what is now the Battery. It was finished and\\noccupied later than the others, on account of the hos-\\ntility of the fierce Manhattans, who were not dis-\\nposed to allow the Dutch to gain possession of the\\nHe explored the river, according to his own account, a distance of\\nfifty-three leigues from its mouth.\\nJuet s .lournal.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 N. Y. Hist. Coll., N. S i. 331, quoted by Winfleld.\\nBrodhead s Uisl. N. Y., vol. i. p. 7.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "24\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nisland. On the e.Tpiration of the prant of the United\\nCompany of New Netherland, the States General re-\\nfused to renew it, but they continued to trade thither\\nuntil 1(523 or 1(324, when the Dutoli West India Com-\\npany, a powerful mercantile as.sf)ciation chartered in\\n1621, took possession of the lands temporarily granted\\nto their predecessors. In 1624, Peter Minuit was ap-\\npointed Director of New Netherland, built Fort Am-\\nsterdam, and brought over colonists who settled on\\nLong Island. Staten Island and Manhattan were\\npurchased of the Indians, and up to 162!( the settle-\\nments were merely trading-posts. In that year the\\nWest India Company s Council granted to certain in-\\ndividuals extensive seigniories or tracts of land with\\nfeudal rights over the lives and persons of their sub-\\njects. Under tliis grant Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a\\npearl-merchant of .Vmstcrdam, secured in 1630 and\\nsubse iuently a tract of land twenty-four by forty-\\neight miles in extent, composing the present counties\\not Albany, Rensselaer, and part of Columbia, and other\\nwealthy patroons obtained large grants for similar\\nseigniories in other portions of New Netherland.\\nThe Dutch at the same time were engaged in col-\\nonizati(m on the Delaware, which they called the\\nSouth River and regarded as a part of New Nether-\\nland. This river had aLso been discovered by Henry\\nHudson, who sailed into it a short distance prior to\\nentering New York Bay. The West India Company\\nattempted to settle this jxirtion of their colony as\\nearly as the [jortion on the North River, and to put it\\nall under the government at New Amsterdam. In\\n1623 the company dispatched a ship under the com-\\nmand of Cornelius Jacobse Mey, with settlers fully\\nprovided with means of subsistence and with articles\\nof trade. Mey entered the Delaware Hay, and gave\\nhis name to its northern cajie, Cape May. After\\nexploring the river he landed, and etfected a settle-\\nment below Camden, erecting Furl Nassau on a small\\nstream called by the natives Susarton.\\nOn the 12th of December, 16.30, David Pieterson de\\nVries left Uie Te.xcl in command of another vessel,\\nand arrived on the Delaware in the course of the\\nwinter. He found none of the Kuropeans who had\\npreceded him, and Kort Nassau had fallen into the\\nhands of the Indians. Misfortune also awaited the\\nnew settlers. Having erected a fort, the commander\\nreturned to Holland; and during his absence a feud\\narose with one of the native tribes which at length\\nterminated in the miuisacre of every one of the col-\\nonists. De Vries returned shortly afterwards with a\\nnew company, and was only saved from a similar fate\\nby the kindness of an Indian woman. Disheartened\\nby repeated disiLsters, the colony soon after abandoned\\nthe country, and for some years not a single Kiiropean\\nwas left upim the shores of the Delaware. The\\nSwedes next visited it, but into their history it is not\\nour purpose here to enter.\\nDe Vries, having been driven from the Delaware,\\nnext turned his attention to the Hudson, where in\\na few years be became an influential patroon of New\\nNetherland.\\nAbout 1640 he purchased of the Indians a tract\\nof about five hundred acres at Tappan, to which he\\ngave the name of Vriesendael. It was beautifully\\nsituated along the river-side, sheltered by high hills;\\nand the fertile valley through which wound a stream,\\naflbrding handsome mill-seats, yielded hay enough\\nspontaneously for two hundred head of cattle. Build-\\nings were soon erected, and Vriesendael became for\\nseveral years the home of its energetic owner.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nINDI.\\\\X (ICCLl ATIOX.\\nIt would seem from Hudson s journal that the In-\\ndians on the east side of the Hudson River held no\\nintercourse with those on the west side, and that the\\nformer were a much more fierce and im| lacable people\\nthan the latter. This probably arose from the fact\\nthat those cast of the Hudson and along its upper\\nbanks were allies of the Iroipiois, which were then\\nthe dominating confederacy of the red republicans of\\nthe forest. They had not only carried their conquests\\nalong the Hudson to the ocean, but along East River\\nand Long Island Sound to the Connecticut, exacting\\nsul)missi )n and tribute I rom all the tribes of this\\nregion of country. They had also carried their con-\\nquering arms southward along the Sustjuehanna and\\nthe Delaware, reducing t i submission the .\\\\ndastes\\nand the Leiini Lenape and even the Anticokes, or\\ntide-water jieople, along the Delaware ami Chesa-\\npeake Bays, trembled at their vindictive prowess.\\nRev. Mr. Abeel, quoted by Moulton. says that on\\nthe point where New York is now built Hudson fcmiid\\na very hostile people. But those living on the western\\nside, from the Kills upward, came daily on board of\\nthe vessel while she lay at anchor in the river, bring-\\ning with them to barter furs, the largest ami finest\\noysters, Indian corn, beans, pumpkins, squashes,\\ngrapes, and some apples, all of which they exchanged\\nfor trifles.\\nThat Hudson and the traders who followed him had\\ngained some knowledge of the strength and resources\\nof the Iroquois country is evident from the fact that\\nthey astablished their first trading-post at .Mbany\\ninstead of Manhattan. They nuist have also learned\\nthat the Iroquois, especially the Mohawks, the eastern\\nbranch of the confederacy, hold an ascendency over\\nthe lower tribes, and on this account sought first to\\ngain the friendship and trade of the former. No\\nd(mbt such an alliance with the masters enabled them\\nthe better to control the subjects, and [irepared the\\nway for their successful erection of a trading-post at\\nDnxiliMd, ni li r]r ot New Yiirk.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "INDIAN OCCUPATION.\\n25\\nManhattan after they had carried on a successful and\\nuninterrupted commerce at Fort Orange for at least\\nten years. During this time they had cemented such\\na friendship with the Mohawks as availed them for\\nassistance in their subsequent struggle with the sev-\\neral tribes inhabiting this region.\\nMost writers on Indian antiquities have considered\\nthe tribes of the lower Hudson and of East New\\nJersey as branches of the general Delaware nation or\\nLenni Lenapc, which means original people. Those\\nmost intimately connected with this region were the\\nMinsies and Mohicans the former being the inhabit-\\nants of the range of country from the Minisink to\\nStaten Island and from the Hudson to the Raritan\\nValley. The latter inhabited the east side of the\\nlower Hudson to its mouth. The Dutch called them\\nrespectively the Sanhikans and the Manhikans. Ac-\\ncording to Brodhead, the former were also called\\nWabingi, or Wappinges, the latter, as Heckewelder\\nclaims, being derived (rom the Delaware word icapinq,\\nsignifying opossum. These were divided into numer-\\nous tribes, and these again into clans. In this section\\nof New Jersey they were called Raritans, Hacken-\\nsacks, Pomptons, and Tappeans. On the Island of\\nNew York dwelt the fierce Manhattans, whom De\\nLaet calls a wicked nation, and enemies of the\\nDutch. On Long Island, called by the natives Se-\\nwan-hacky, the land of shells, were the savage Meton-\\nwacks, divided into several tribes. The names of\\nthirteen of these tribes have been preserved, viz., the\\nCanarse and Xyack Indians, settled at the Narrows\\nin Kings County the Rockaway, Merrikoke, Marsa-\\npeagne, and Matinecoe tribes, in Queens County;\\nand the Nissaqnage, Setauket, Corchaug, Secataug,\\nPatchogue, Shinnecoe, and Montauk, in Sufiblk\\nCounty. These Indians sold their lands to the whites\\nin 1702-3, except about five hundred acres, on which\\nlived a remnant of the Montauks as late as 1829.\\nGreat efforts were made to civilize them by means of\\nmissions and schools, Rev. Azariah Horton being mis-\\nsionary among them in 1741 but all these efforts\\nproved unavailing they gradually became extinct.^\\nTie Delawares, or Lenni Lenapfe.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Dela-\\nwares tne Indian people with which this history has\\nprincipally to deal occupied a domain extending\\nalong the sea-shore from the Chesapeake to the\\ncountry bordering Long Island Sound. Back from\\nthe coast it reached beyond the Susquehanna Valley\\nto the foot of the Alleghany Mountains, and on the\\nnorth joined the southern frontier of their domineer-\\ning neighbors, the hated and dreaded Iroquois. This\\ndomain, of course, included not only the counties of\\nBergen and Passaic, but all of the State of New Jer-\\nsey.\\nThe principal tribes composing the Lenni Lenape or\\nDelaware nation were those of the Unamis or Turtle,\\nBrodhead, i. 73.\\nFurman 3 Notes to Denton s Brief Description of New York, pp.\\n37-42.\\nthe L^nalachtgo or Turkey, and the Minsi or Wolf.\\nThe latter, which was by far the most powerful and\\nwarlike of all these tribes, occupied the most northerly\\nportion of the country of the Lenape and kept guard\\nalong the Iroquois border, from whence their domain\\nextended southward to the Musconetcong^ Mountains,\\nabout the northern boundary of the present county of\\nHunterdon. The Unamis and Unalachtgo branches\\nof the Lenape or Delaware nation (comprising the\\ntribes of Assanpinks, Matas, Shackamaxons, Chiche-\\nqHaas, Raritans, Nanticokes, Tuteloes, and many\\nothers) inhabited the country between that of the\\nMinsi and the sea-coast, embracing the present coun-\\nties of Hunterdon and Somerset and all that part of\\nthe State of New Jersey south of their northern\\nboundaries. The tribes who occupied and roamed\\nover the counties of Bergen and Passaic were those\\nof the Turkey and Wolf branches of the Lenni\\nLenape nation, but the possessions and boundaries of\\neach cannot be clearly defined.\\nThe Indian name of the Delaware nation, Lenni\\nLenape, signifies, in their* tongue, the original peo-\\nple, a title which they had adopted under the\\nclaim that they were descended from the most ancient\\nof all Indian ancestry. This claim was admitted by\\nthe Wyandots, Miarais, and more than twenty other\\naboriginal nations, who accorded to the Lenape the\\ntitle oi grandfathers, or a people whose ancestry ante-\\ndated their own. The Rev. John Heckewelder, in his\\nHistory of the Manners and Customs of the Indian\\nNations, says of the Delaware nation,\\nThey will not admit that the whites are superior beings. They say\\nthat the hair of their heads, their features, and tlie various colors of\\ntheir eyes evince that tliey are not, like themselves, Lenni Len^ipe^ an\\noriijintil people, a race of men that has existed unchanged from the be-\\nginning of time; but that they are a mixed race, and therefore a trouble-\\nsome one. Wherever they may be, the Great Spirit, knowing the wick-\\nedness of their disposition, found it necessary to give them a Great\\nBook, and taught them how to read it that they might know and ob-\\nserve what He wished them to do and what to abstiin from. But they\\nthe Indians have no need of any such book to let them know the\\nwill of their Maker; they find it engraved on their own hearts; they\\nhave had sutficient discernment given to them to distinguish good from\\nevil, and by following that guide they are sure not to err.\\nTraditions amongf the Delaware Tribes. Con-\\ncerning the origin of the Lenape, numerous and\\n3 The Wolf, commonly called the Minsi, which we have corrapted\\ninto Monseys, had chosen to live back of the other two tribes, and formed\\na kind of bulwark for their protection, watching the motions of the\\nMengwe and being at hand to afford aid in case of a rupture with them.\\nThe Bliusi were considered the most warlike and active branch of the\\nLenape. They extended their settlements from the Minisink. a place\\nnamed after thetn, where they had their council-seat and fire, quite up\\nto tlie Hudson on the east, and to the west and south far beyond the Sus-\\nquehanna. Their northern boundaries were supposed originally to be\\nthe heads of the great rivers Susquehanna and Delaware, and their\\nsouthern that ridge of hills known in New Jersey by the name of Mus-\\nkanecuui, and in Pennsylvania by those of Lehigh. Conewago, etc.\\nWithin this boundary were their principal settlements; and even as late\\nas the year 1742 they had a town with a peach-orchard on the tract of\\nland where Nazareth, in Pennsylvania, has since been built, another on\\nthe Lehigh, and others beyond the Blue Ridge, besides many family set-\\ntlements here and there scattered. fHxtonj, M ntnerg, an t Customs of\\nlite Indian Ntttions tcho oncf inhabiled Pennst/lvttnia, by Jtev. John Hecke-\\nwelder.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "26\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nessentially differing traditions were current among\\nthe various tribes. One of these traditions is men-\\ntioned by Loskiel in liis History of the Mission of\\nthe United Rretliren among the North American In-\\ndians, as follows\\nAmong the DeUwar^j, ttii 4eur the Minni or Wolf tribe say thmt iu\\nthe l^gliiiiing they dwelt Id the earth iiu Jer a luke, and were fortu-\\nnalolj extriciited from IhN tinph uiuint nlKMie by the discovery wliich oiio\\nof their men niiide iifa hide, ttirough which lie ascended tu tlio Bllrface\\non which, ii\u00c2\u00ab hu wait walking, he found a deer, wliich ho carried back\\nwilh him into his eubtormneouB habltntiuii; that the deer wan oaten,\\nand he and his couilMiliiuns found the meat eo good that tliey unatii-\\nmouslj determined to leave their dark abode and remove to a place\\nwhere Uiey could enjoy the light of heaven and have each excellent\\ngame in abundance.\\nThe two other trihea, the riiamis or Tortoise, and the Uiialaclitgufl\\nor Turkey, have much similar notion!, but r^ect the story of the lake,\\nwhich Boeoia peculiar to the Miimi trilie.*\\nThere was another leading tradition current among\\nthe nations of the Lenapt^, which was to the effect\\nthat, ages before, their ancestors had lived in a far-off\\ncountry to tjie west, heyonil great rivers and moun-\\ntains, and that, in the belief tliat there existed, away\\ntowards the rising sun, a red man s ])aradi.se, a land\\nof deer and beaver and salmon, they had left their\\nwestern home and traveled eastward for many moons,\\nuntil they stood on the western shore of tlie Namisi\\nSipu (Mississippi), and there they met a numerous\\nnation, migrating like themselves. They were a stran-\\nger tribe, of whose very existence the Leiiapt had\\nbeen ignorant. They were none other than the Meng-\\nwe; and this was the first meeting of those two peo-\\nples, who afterwards became rivals and enemies, and\\ncontinued such for centuries. Hoth were now trav-\\nelers and bound on the same errand. 15ut they found\\na lion in their path, for beyond tlie great river lay tlie\\ndomain of a nation called AUegewi, who were not\\nonly strong in numbers and brave, but mor6 skilled\\nthan themselves in the art of war, who had reared\\ngreat defenses of earth inclosing their villages and\\nstrongholds. In the true spirit of military strategy,\\nthey permitted a part of the emigrants to cross the\\nriver, and then, having divided their autagonist.s, fell\\nupon them with great fury to annihilate them. But\\nwhen the Lenapi saw this they at once formed an al-\\nliance, offensive and defensive, with the Meiigwe.\\nThe main body cros.sed the river and attacked the Al-\\nlegewi with such desperate energy that tliey defeated\\nand afterwards drove tlit-ni into the interior, where\\nthey fought from stronghold to stronghold, till finally,\\nafter a long and bloody war, the Allegewi were not\\nonly humiliated, but exterminated, and their country\\nwas iccupie l by the victors. After this both nations\\nranged eaMtward, the Mengwc taking the northern\\nand the Lenain wtill keeping tlie more southern route,\\nuntil, after long jcmrncyingH, the former reached the\\nMohicanittuck (Hudson River) and the latter rested\\nupon the banks of the l^ napi Wihittuck, the beau-\\ntiful river now known as the Delaware, and here\\ntlicy found that Indian eiysium of which they had\\ndreamed before they left their old homes in the land\\nof the setting sun.\\nThese and other similar Indian traditions may or\\nmay not have some degree of Ibundation in fact.\\nThere are to-day many enthusiiistic searchers through\\nthe realms of aboriginal lore who accept them as au-\\nthentic, and who believe that the combined Lenape\\nand Mengwe did destroy a great and comparatively\\ncivilized people, and that the unfortunate Allegewi\\nwho were thus extiiiguislicd were none others than\\nthe mysterious Mound-Builders of the Mississippi\\nValley. This, however, is but one of the many profit-\\nless coffjectures which have been indulged in with\\nreference to that unknown people, and is in no way\\npertinent to this history. All Indian tribes were fond\\nof narrating the long journeys and great deeds of\\ntheir forefathers, and of tracing their ancestry back\\nfor centuries, some of them claiming descent from the\\ngreat Mauitou himself. Missionaries and travelers\\namong them who were, or professed to be, familiar\\nwith their language and customs have spoken with\\napparent sincerity of Indian chronology running back\\nto a period before the Christian era, and some of the\\nold enthusiasts claimed that these aborigines were\\ndescendants of the lost tribes of Israel. But all the\\ntraditions of the Indians were so clouded and involved\\nin improbability and so interwoven with superstition,\\nand the speculations of antiquarian writers have almost\\nuniformly been so baseless and chimerical, that the\\nwhole subject of Indian origin may be dismissed as\\nprofitless.\\nTotems or Tribal Badges of the Indians.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The\\nIndians, from the earliest times, considered themselves\\nin a manner connected with certain animals, :is is\\nevident from various customs jireserved among them,\\nand from the fact that, both collectively and indi-\\nvidually, they assumed the names of such animals.\\nLoskiel says,\\nIt might Indeed be euppoeed that thoire aniniaia naniee which they\\nhave given to their eovenil tribes were mere liailKvs of diBtiliclioii, or\\ncoats-of-arms, as Pyrlaeus calls them; but it vc pay utii iilion to llie\\nrcaaoiiri wliicli tlioy give for those tlenoiiiiiialionH, the idea of a supiiosed\\nfaiiiliy conntcUon Ik eaally discerMible. The TrMloiM\u00e2\u0080\u0094 or, as they are\\ncommonly called, the Tarllc\u00e2\u0080\u0094 tribe, among the l.ena|\u00c2\u00ab claim a 8U|i\u00c2\u00bb-\\nrioilty and aeceiidelicy over the others, because their relation, the great\\nTorli iM,tL fabled monster, the Atlas of their uiylliology, liears, acconling\\nIn a nnall, quaint, and now very rmre rolunio entitled .\\\\n llistorical\\nDewrlptlon of the I rovince and (Country of West New Jersey in America,\\nNever made fublick till now, by Ijabriel Tl las, Uindon, lll JS, and\\ndeilicated To tlio Kiglil Honourable Sir John M.Hir, Sir Thomas Ijine,\\nKnights and Ableriiicn of the City of lAjiidon, and to the n^al of the\\nWorthy .Memboniof the West Jersey Proprietors, is found the following\\nin reference to the aborigines of llibi region The lint InhabitJinU of\\nthis Cciuntrey were the /nWiiias, being suplKisei! to l-e part of the Ten dis-\\npersod Tribes of Itr.ul, for Indeed they are very like the Jmt in their\\nPersons, and s mietliing in their rmctlcos and Worship; for they las the\\nrcnsllvania In.liiinsI olwrve the .V\u00c2\u00abir ,Woo\u00c2\u00bb. with great devotion and\\nKereronce And Uielr flmt Fnilts they offer, with their Com and Hunt.\\ning.(;anie lliey get in tlie whole year, to a Kals Deity or Sham (i Hl\\nwhom they must please, else iiis Iheyfancyi many nilsforlunes villi be-\\nfall them, and great Injuries will be done them. When they bury their\\nDead, they put Into the tJniund with Iheni some House I teiisils and\\nsome Money (as tokens of their Love and Affection i, with other Things,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ipecting they shall have Occasion tor them In Uie other World.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "INDIAN OCCUPATION\\n27\\nto tlieir tradiliuns, this threat inlnnil uii liiu back,^ aud also because he is\\nanipliibidiis and c:tti live butli on land and in the water, wliich neither\\nof the lieada of the otlier tribes can do. The merits of the Turkey, wliicli\\ngives its name to the second tiibe, are tliat he is stationary and always\\nremains witli or al o\\\\it them. As to tlie WulJ\\\\ after wliicli tlie tliii fl tribe\\nis named, lie is a rambler by nature, nuining from one place to another\\nin quest of his prey yet tliey consiiler him as their benefactor, as it was\\nby his means tliat the Indians gut out of the interior of the earth. It\\nwas he, they believe, who by the appointment uf the Great .Spirit killed\\nthe deer which tiie Bloiisey found who first discovered the way to the\\nsurface of the earth, and which allured them to come out of their ilamp\\nand dark residence. For tluit re.tson the wolf is to be honore l and his\\nname to be preserved forever among them.\\nThese animals names, it is true, they all use as nat onsl badges, in\\norder to distinguish their tribes from each other at home and abroad. In\\nthis point of view Mr. Pyrlaeus was right in consideiing them as coats-\\nof-arnis. The 7 \u00c2\u00bbj7Ze warrior draws, either with a coal or \\\\^ith paint,\\nhere and there on the trees along the war-path, the w hide animal, car-\\nrying a gun with the muzzle projecting bjrward and if be leaves a mirk\\nat the place where he has made a stroke on his enemy, it will be the\\npicture of a Tortoife. Those of the Turkeij tribe paint only one foot uf a\\nturkey, and the ll o(/ tribe sometimes a wolf at large with one foot and\\nleg raised up to serve as a hand, in which the animal also carries a gun\\nwith the muzzle forward. They, however, do not generally use the word\\nwolf when speakingof their tribe, hut call themselves l*Mnk-sit, which\\nmeans roun i foot, that animal having a round foot, like a dog.\\nIndian Population in New Jersey.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 It does not\\nappear that the Intiians inhabiting New Jersey were\\nvery numerous. In an old publication entitled A\\nDescription of New Albion, and dated a.d. 1648, it\\nis found stated that the native people in this section\\nwere governed by about twenty kings but the in-\\nsignificance of the power of those kings may be\\ninferred from the accompanying statement that there\\nwere twelve hundred [Indians] under the two Rari-\\ntan kings on the north side, next to Hudson s River,\\nand those came down to the ocean about Little Egg-\\nbay and Sandy Barnegatte and about the South\\nCape two small kings of forty men apiece, and a third\\nreduced to fourteen men, at Roymont. From which\\nit appears evident that the so-called kings were no\\nmore than ordinary chiefs, and that some of these\\nscarcely had a following. Whitehead, in his East\\nJersey under the Proprietary Governments, con-\\ncludes, from the above-quoted statement, that there\\nwere probably not more than two thousand [Indians]\\nwithin the province while it was under the domina-\\ntion of the Dutch. And in a publication bearing\\ndate fifty years later (1698) the statement is made\\nthat the Dutch and Swedes inform us that they [the\\nIndians are greatly decreased in numbers to what\\nthey were when they came first into tiiis country.\\nAnd the Lulians themselves say that tw-o of them die\\nto every one Christian that comes in here.\\nConquest of the Lenni Lenapfe by the Iroquois.\\nBefore the European explorers had i enetrated to\\nthe territories of the Lenape the power and prowess\\nof the Iroquois had reduced the former nation to the\\ncondition of vassals. The attitude of the Iroquois,\\nhowever, was not wholly that of conquerors over the\\nt And they believed that sometimes the grandfattier tortoise became\\nweary aud shook himself or changed his position, aud that this was the\\ncause of earthquakes.\\n3 Gabriel Thomas Historical Description of the Province and Coun-\\ntry of West New Jersey in America.\\nDelawares, for they mingled, to some extent, the\\ncharacter of protectors with that of masters. It has\\nbeen said of them that the humiliation of tributary\\nnations was to them [the Iroquois) temi ered with a\\npaternal regard for their interests in all negotiations\\nwith the whites, and care was taken that no tres-\\npasses should be committed on their rights, and that\\nthey should be justly dealt with. This means,\\nsimply, that the Mengwe would, so far as lay in their\\n])ower, see that none others than themselves should\\nbe permitted to des])oil the Lenapii. They exacted\\nfrom them an annual tribute, an acknowledgment of\\ntheir state of vassalage, and on this condition they\\nwere permitted to occupy their former hunting-\\ngrounds. Bands of the Five N.ations, however, were\\ninterspersed among the Delawares, probably more\\nas a sort of police, and for the purpose of keeping a\\nwatchful eye upon them, than for any other purpose.\\nThe Delawares regarded their conquerors with feel-\\nings of inextinguishable hatred (though these were\\nheld in abeyance by fear), and they also pretended to\\na feeling of superiority on account of their more an-\\ncient lineage and their further removal from original\\nbarbarism, which latter claim was perhaps well\\ngrounded. On the part of the Iroquois, they main-\\ntained a feeling of haughty superiority towards their\\nvassals, whom they spoke of as no longer men and\\nwarriors, but as women. There is no recorded instance\\nin which unmeasured insult and stinging contempt\\nwere more wantonly and publicly heaped on a cowed\\nand humiliated people than on the occasion of a\\ntreaty held in Philadelphia in 1742, when Connossa-\\ntego, an old Iroquois chief, having been requested by\\nthe Governor to attend (really for the purpose of\\nforciii;/ the Delawares to yield up the rich lands of\\nthe Minisink), tirose in the council, where whites and\\nDelawares and Iroquois were convened, and in the\\nname of all the deputies of his confederacy said to\\nthe Governor that the Delawares had been an unruly\\npeople and wei-e altogether in the wrong, and that\\nthey should be removed from their lands and tlien,\\nturning superciliously towards the abashed Delawares,\\nsaid to them, You deserve to be taken by the hair\\nof your heads aud shaken until you recover your\\nsenses and become sober. We have seen a deed,\\nsigned by nine of your chiefs over fifty years ago, for\\nthis very land. But liow came you to take it upon\\nyourselves to sell lauds at all? We conquered you;\\nwe made women of you You know you are women\\nand can no more sell lands than women. Nor is it fit\\nthat you should have power to sell lands, since you\\nwould abuse it. You have had clothes, meat, and\\ndrink, by the goods paid you for it, and now you\\nwant it again, like children, as you are. What makes\\n3 The same policy was pursued by the Five Nations towards the Sha-\\nwauese, who had been expelled from the far Southwest by stronger\\ntribes, and a portion of whom, traveling eastward as far as the country\\nadjoining the Delawares, had been permitted to erect their lodges there,\\nbut weie, like the Leuape, held in a state of subjection by the Iroquoia.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "28\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nyou sell lands in the dark? Did you ever tell us\\nyou had sold this land? Did we ever receive any\\npart, even to tlie value of a pipe-shank, from you for\\nit? This is acting in the dark, very differently from\\nthe conduct which onr Six Nations observe in the\\nsales of lanil. Hut we find you are none of our\\nblood you act a dishonest part in this as in other\\nmatters. Your ears are ever open to slanderous reports\\nabout your brethren. For all these reasons we charge\\nyou to reinore inttautlij We do not give you liberty to\\nthink about it. You are women Take the advice of\\na wise man, and remove instantly You may return\\nto the other aide of the river, where you canie from,\\nbut we do not know whether, considering how you\\nhave demeaned yourselves, you will be permitted to\\nlive there, or whether you have not already swallowed\\nthat land down your throats, sis well as tlie land on\\nthis side. You may go either to Wyoming or Shamo-\\nkin, and then we shall have you under our eye and\\ncan see how you behave. Don t deliberate, but go,\\nand take this belt of wampum. He then forbade\\nthem ever again to interfere in any matters between\\nwhite man and Indian, or ever, under any pretext, to\\npretend to sell lands; and as they (the Iroquois), he\\nsaid, had some business of importance to transact with\\nthe Englishmen, he commanded them to immediately\\nleave the council, like children and women, as they\\nwere.\\nHeckewelder, however, attempts to rescue the good\\nname of the humbled Delawares by giving some of\\ntheir explanations, intended to show that the epithet\\nwomen, as applied to them by the Iroquois, Wiis\\noriginally a term of distinction rather than reproach,\\nand that the making women of the Uelawares was\\nnot an act of compulsion, but the result of their own\\nfree will and consent. He gives the story, as it wius\\nnarrated by the Delawares, substantially in this way\\nThe Delawares were always too powerful for the\\nInxjuois, so that the latter were at length convinced I\\nthat if wars between them should continue, their own\\nextirpation would become inevitable. They accord-\\ningly sent a message to the Delawares, representing i\\nthat if continual wars were to be carried on between i\\nthe nations, this would eventually work the ruin of I\\nthe whole Indian race; that in order to prevent this\\nit wa.s nece.Hsary that one nation should lay down\\ntheir arms ami be called the womnu, or meiliator, with\\npower to command the peace between the other na-\\ntions who might be disposed to persist in hostilities\\nagainst each other, and finally recommending that\\nthe part of the womeri should be assumed by the\\nDr-lawares, as the mi\u00c2\u00abst powerful of all the nations.\\nThe Delawart^, upon receiving this message, and\\nnot perceiving the treacherous intentions of the Iro-\\nquois, consented to the proposition. The Iro |uois\\nthen appointed a council and feast, and invited the\\nDelawares to it, when, in pursuance of the authority\\ngiven, they made a solemn speech, conUunlng three\\ncapital points. TJie first was that the Delawares be\\n(and they were) declared women, in the following\\nwords\\nWe dress you in a woman s long habit, reaching\\ndown to your feet, and adorn you with ear-rings,\\nmeaning that they should no more tiike up arms.\\nThe second point Wiis thus expressed We hang a\\ncalabash filled with oil and medicine upon your arm.\\nWith the oil you shall cleanse the ears of other na-\\ntions, that they may attend to good and not to bad\\nwords: and with the medicine you shall heal those\\nwho are walking in foolish ways, that they may re-\\nturn to their senses and incline their hearts to peace.\\nThe third point, by which the Delawares were ex-\\nhorted to make agriculture their future employment\\nand means of subsistence, was thus worded We\\ndeliver into your hands a plant of Indian corn and a\\nhoe. Each of these points was confirmed by de-\\nlivering a belt of wampum, and these belts were\\ncarefully laid away, and their meaning frequently\\nrepeated.\\nThe Iroquois, on the contrary, assert that they\\ncon(iuered the Delawares, and that the latter were\\nforced to adopt the defenseless state and appellation\\nof a woman to avoid total ruin. Whether these differ-\\nent accounts be true or false, certain it is that the\\nDelaware nation has ever since been looked to for the\\npreservation of peace and intrusted with the charge\\nof the great belt of peace and chain of friendship,\\nwhich they must take care to preserve inviolate. Ac-\\ncording to the figurative explanation of the Indians,\\nthe middle of the chain of friendship is placed upon\\nthe shoulder of the Delawares, the rest of the Indian\\nnations holding one end and the Europeans the\\nother.\\nIt wiLs not a lack of bravery or military enterprise\\non the part of the Delawares which causcil their over-\\nthrow; it was a mightier agent than courage or en-\\nergy it was the gunpowder and lead of the Iro ]Uois,\\nwhich they had procured from the trading Dutch on\\nthe Hudson almost imme lii .tely after the discovery\\nof that river, which had wrought the downfall of the\\nLenapc. For them the conflict was a hopeless one,\\nwaged against immea-surablc odds, resistance to the\\nirresistible. Under a reversal of conditions the Del-\\nawares must have been the victors and the Iroquois\\nthe vanquished, and no loss of honor could attach to\\na tlefeal under siuh circumstanci-s. It is a pity that\\nthe tribes of the Lenapc should vainly have expended\\nso much labor and ingenuity upon a tule which, for\\ntheir own sake, had better never have been told, and\\nin which even the sincere indorsement of Heckewelder\\nand other missionaries has wholly failed to produce a\\ngeneral belief\\nWhen the old Iroijuois chief Conno.ssatego, at the\\ntreaty council in I hiladclphiu, before referred to,\\ncommanded the Delawares instantly to leave the\\ncouncil-house, where their presence would no longer\\n1 NiilM un tbp Indliiiti, hj PaTfd ZrUlwrKer.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HOSTILITIES.\\n29\\nbe tolerated, and to prepare to vacate their hunting-\\ngrounds on the Dehiware and iis, tributaries, the out-\\nraged and insulted red men were completely crest-\\nfallen and crushed, but they had no alternative and\\nmust obey. They at once left the presence of the\\nIroquois, returned to the homes which were now to\\nbe their liomes no longer, and soon afterwards mi-\\ngrated to the country bordering tlie Susquehanna,\\nand beyond that river.\\nThe Indians were great sticklers for the cnmmon\\nright which they held in the soil. They did not\\nrecognize even in their chiefs any right to convey it\\n.away without the general consent of the tribes, and\\noften tliey refused to submit to treaties so made.\\nUsually, treaties were made by their representatives\\nchosen by the popular voice, who met the whites in\\ncouncil and for their respective tribes ratified the\\ndeed disposing of lands. In the first conveyances\\nmade to the Dutch in East Jersey, conveying the\\nlands where Hoboken and Jersey City are situated,\\nAromeauw, Tekwappo, Sackwomeek, Hikitoauw, and\\nAiarouw represented themselves in the deeds as\\ninhabitants and joint-owners of the lands named\\ntherein.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nINDIAN HOSTILITIES.\\nThe first hostility of the Indians towards the Dutch\\nwas directed against their plantations on the Delaware,\\nwhich they wholly destroyed. De Vries tells us that\\nin the year 1630 thirty-two men were killed. In the year\\n1640, an expedition was fitted out against the Indians\\non the Raritan, who had been accused, though wrong-\\nfully, of committing theft and other trespasses. Some\\nof the chiefs were so maltreated and abused that re-\\ntaliatory measures were resorted to against the settlers\\non Staten Island, who were killed and their planta-\\ntions broken up.\\nThe outbreak of 1643 was induced by various causes.\\nOne cause was the exacting of a tribute from the In-\\ndians by Kieft, the Director-General, in 1639 another\\nwas the killing of a white man by an Indian in 1641,\\nin retaliation for the robbery and murder of one of\\nhis tribe many years before. While the fort at New\\nAmsterdam was being built in 1626, a Weckquaesgeck\\nIndian, from the east of the Hudson River, with his\\nnephew, then a young boy, and another Indian rela-\\ntive, came to sell his beaver-skins to the Dutch traders.\\nBefore he reached the fort he was met by some of the\\nservants of Minuit, who robbed him of his peltries\\nand murdered him. According to Indian custom,\\nlife must be taken for life, and the next of kin must be\\nthe avenger. He is the young boy who thus witnessed\\nthe wanton murder of his uncle. But he is a boy,\\nNew York Historical Col ections.\\nand the execution of vengeance must be delayed till\\nhe should reach manhood. Years passed, but the\\noutrage done his relative was not forgotten. In 1641\\nhe appeared, now grown to manhood, to execute the\\nbehest of the unwritten law of his people, unheeding\\nas to which of the pale-faces should be the victim of\\nthe deadly stroke of his tomahawk. It happened\\nto be an inoffensive old man, Claes Cornells Smits, a\\nraad maker, living near Canal Street. Pretending\\nto desire to barter some beavers for duffels,^ he watched\\nhis opportunity, killed Smits, robbed the house, and\\nescaped with his booty. Satisfaction and the sur-\\nrender of the savage were promptly demanded. But,\\nas he had only acted in accordance with the custom\\nof his race, the sachem refused to surrender him.\\nKieft wished to seize upon this occasion to punish\\nthe natives, but he did not dare to act independently\\nof the people, who desired peace. He therefore\\ncalled them together for consultation. They chose\\ntwelve select men* to determine everything in connection\\nwith the Director and Council. This popular branch\\nof the government stayed for a time the impetuosity of\\nthe executive and those immediately under his con-\\ntrol, and for a brief period secured peace. But the\\nair was full of rumors of Indian troubles. In 1642,\\nDe Vries, who had established a colony at Tappaen,\\nin passing through the woods towards Ackensack,^\\nmet an Indian who said the whites had sold to him\\nbrandy mixed with water and had stolen his beaver-\\nskin coat. He said he was going home for his bows\\nand arrows, and would shoot one of the roguish\\nSwanekins, as the Indians called the Dutch. He\\nwas as good as his word, and shot Garret Jansen Van\\nVorst, who was roofing a house at Achter Kull. The\\nchiefs, being alarmed at what was done, offered to pay\\ntwo hundred fathoms of wampum to Van Vorst s\\nwidow, in order to purchase their peace. But Kieft\\nwould accept of nothing but the surrender of the\\nmurderer. The chiefs would not agree to this they\\nsaid that he had gone two days journey among the\\nTankitekes, and that he was the son of a chief.\\nIn 1643, Kieft espoused the cause of the Mohawks,\\nwho were at war with the Weckquaesgecks, Tankite-\\nkes, and Tappeans. In the depth of winter these fierce\\nwarriors swept down upon their enemies, killing sev-\\nenteen and making prisoners of many women and\\nchildren. The remainder fled through a deep snow\\nto the Christian houses on and around the Island of\\nManhattan. They were humanely received, being\\nhalf dead of cold and hunger, and supported for four-\\nteen days even some of the Director s corn was sent\\nto them. They did not suspect that the Director\\nwas secretly in league with their most dreaded and\\ndeadly foes, and that, although the people were friendly\\n3 A coarse kind of cloth.\\n2 Brodhead, 1. 310.\\n^Winfield: This wiia the first representative hody iu New Netlier-\\nland.\\nHackensack, in ladiau Low-land.\\nHaverstraw Indians, of whom Pachani was chief.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "30\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PAS8AIC COUNTIES, NE\\\\Y JERSEY.\\nand hospitable and treated them with great kindness,\\nthe commander of the army of Xew Xetlierland was\\nabuul to let htose upon them his ruthless soldiery to\\nmurder and slaughter tliem iiidisrriminatoly. liut\\nsuch was the fact. Being alarmed lest the Mohawks\\nshould fall upon them at Manhattan, they tied, most of\\nthem, to Pavonia, where the Ilackensacks were bi-\\nvouacked one thousand strong. Says Mr. Winfield, l\\nThey came over to this eiJe of the river on the 2. JU of Fehruary,\\n1943, and encamped on thi- westerly eJpe of Jnn Je Lacher n Iloeck, I\\nbehiml the settlement of Egbert Wuuterasen and adjoining the bouwerie i\\nof JaQ Ewersteu Bout The light of th\u00c2\u00ab jth of February, 1643,\\nwas fading, and the iihadowtt of the black winter night were drawing i\\noTor tlie l^eantifvil Wy. Huddled and shiToring on the western tlope of\\nJan do Lacher s Hoeck, under the pr(. tection uf the Dutch, the unsus-\\npecting ludiaiifl thought themselves safe fmm the tierce Mohawk^*. But\\nwhile they drew around the camp-firoa, or dreamed of their forsaken\\nwigwams, Manhattan w g nil aetir with the movement of trooii\u00c2\u00ab and\\ncitizens. The noble-hearted Pe Vrlcs stood beside the Director as the\\nsoldiers under Sergeant llodolf {kaseed by tlie furt on their way to Pavo-\\nnia. Lot this work alone, said he; you will go to break the Indians\\nheads, but it is our nation you are going to murder. Tlie order haa\\ngone forth; it siiall not be recalle i, won Kieft s dogged reply. The iter-\\ngeant, with his eighty sohliore armed for slaughter, marched down to\\nthe river, and, embarking in boats prepared for the purpose, silently 1\\nrowed tttwartls the shores of Pavonia. Rounding the s .)utherly point of\\nPaulus Hoeck, under the guidance of Hmmb Stein, they pulled for the\\nhigh point at the mouth of Mill Creek. Here they landed. Climbing\\nthe ttank, they {lamed close to the house of Egbert Woutervsen, and cau-\\ntiously approfiched their sleeping victims. Suddenly the sound of mus-\\nketry and the wild shrieks of tho Indians rang out in the midnight.\\nKven at thiH distance of time, the horrors of tliut night cause the Mesh\\nto creep as we onder over them.* Captain De Vriei^, who, in contem-\\nplating the conBe |Ueuce-s of the expedition, could not sleep, says, I\\nremained that night at the Governor s, and b)ok a seat in the kitchen\\nnear the Are, and at midnight I heard loud shrieks. I wont out to the\\nparapets of the fort anil looked towards Pavonia. I saw nothing but the\\nflash uf the guns, and hoard nothing more of the yells and clamor of the\\nIndians who were butchered iiuring their sleep. Neither age nor sex\\ncould stay the hamls of the unrelenting soldiers. Sucklings were torn\\nfrom their motliers bn-a\u00c2\u00abts, butchered in the presence of their parents,\\nand their mangled limbs thrown into the lire or water. Others, white\\nfastened to litUe l\u00c2\u00bboanls, the rude cradle of tho papoose, were cut\\nthrough, stabbed, and miserably massacred. Some were (hntwn alive\\nInto tho river, and when their fathers, obeying the prtunptings of nature,\\nrushed in to nave Itiem, the soldiers prevented their coming to shore,\\nand thus |mronts atid children porishod. De Vrlos says, Siiine came\\nrunning to us fnun the country having their hands cut off. Some, who\\nbad their legs cut off, were snpiMjrting their entrails with their arms,\\nwtiilf others were mangled in other horrid ways, in part too shocking\\nto t e concelTt l and these miseraldu wretches did not know, as well as\\nsome of our people did not know, but they had l eon attiickod by the\\nMohawks.\\nSuch a warfare could not fail to exasperate the\\nnative** and as soon as they became aware that these\\nmassacres were hy the whites, they resolved upon a\\nrelentless war. To render their retaliatiini more effec-\\ntive, seven tribes entered into an alliance. They killed\\nall the men they could find, dragged the women and\\nchildren into captivity, burnt houses, barns, grain,\\nhay-stacks, and laid waste the farms and plantations\\non every hand. From the Uaritan to the onnecticut\\nnot a white person was safe from the murderous toma-\\nhawk and 8cal| ing-knife except those who clustered\\nabout F ort Am t4 rdam. The war continued in all its\\nfury for several months. In March a peace was con-\\nI O Caltaghan, N. T., 1. 20:.\\nt Wlnfleld s History of llndson County, 30, 40.\\neluded, which, however, lasted only until October,\\nwhen, three or four soldiers stationed at Pavonia for\\nthe protection of a family having been attacked, war\\nwas renewed and so serious was itj* character that\\nin March, 1*J44, the authorities of New Amsterdam\\nproclaimed a solemn fiist to placate the anger of\\nJehovah. Peace was permanently secured the fol-\\nlowing year.\\nThis day, being the 30tti day of August, 164-^, appeareil in the Fort\\nAmstordatn, before the Director and Council, in the presence of the\\nwhole commonality, the sachems or chiefs of the savages, as well in their\\nown behalf as t eing authorized by the neighboring savages, namely\\nOratanky, chief of .-IcJtiMi^WwcJii/ (Hackensack); SFjj;SEKi:MrK and Wil-\\nliam, chiefs of Tapptan and Uetkawairattk Pa^ iiam and PknNhwink\\n(who were here yesterday and gave their jMjwpr of attorney to the\\nformer, and also to k upon themselves to answer for those of Owtnc^\\nand the vicinity of MajaHioetinntmm, of Marechoicu-k^ of Ntfock and its\\nneighborhood), and Aepjen, who personally api^-ared, speaking in behalf\\nof Wappitur, \\\\yiijtuie$kfckx, SitiMtruckt, and Kicitinroons.\\nFirst. They agree to conclude with us a solid and durable peaco,\\nwhich they promise to keep faithfully, its we also obligate oUTBelvea to\\nilo on our part.\\nSECOND. If it hap( en (which God in his mercy avert) that ther\u00c2\u00ab\\narise some difhculty between us and them, no warfare shall eDsue Id cod\\nsequence, but they Hhall complain to our Governor, and wo shall com-\\nplain to their sjicheniH.\\nIf any person shall bo killed or murdered, justice shall be directly\\nadministered upon the raurdorer, that wo may henceforth live in peace\\nand ninily\\nTiiiRU. They are not to come ou Manhattan Island, nor in Uie\\niieighlKirhood of Christian dwellings, with their arms; neither will we\\napproHcli their villages with our guns, except we are conducteti thither\\nby a savage to give them warning.\\nKdirtu. And whereas Uiero is yet among them an Knglish girl,\\nwhoni they promiswl t4 conduct to tlie English at Stamford, they sUIl\\nengage, if she is not already a nducted there, to bring her there in\\nsafety, and wo promise in return to pay them the ransom which has\\nbeen promised by tho English.\\nAll which Is pn mise l to be religiously perfonued Uiruughout the\\nwhole of New Netlierland.\\nDone in Fort Amsterdam, in the open air, by the Director and Council\\nin New Netlierland, and tho whole commonality, called t4 gether for this\\npuriKwe, in the presence of the Maqias ambassa lon(, who are solicited\\nto assist in this negotiation as arbitrat irs, and Cornelius Anihonissen,\\ntheir interpreter, and an arbitrator with them in this aoleoin affair.\\nDone as above.\\nNo further troubles appear to have occurred with\\nthe Indians under the Dutch rule until K) The\\nnearest approach to it wjis in March, 1()41 when Si-\\nmon Walingc^ was found lead at Paulus Ilocck, hav-\\ning been, as was sup| osed from the arrows and wounds\\nin his head, killed by the Indians. It was ascertained\\nto have been done either by the Raritans or by some\\nstranger from the south, antl the local Indians hast-\\nened to renew their covenant (d friend.ship. (tovernor\\nStuyvesant presented them with about twenty florins\\nand some tobacco, and a gun to Oratanius. The\\nIndians were delighted, reaflirmcd the treaty, and\\nreturned to their homes.^\\nIn 1()5. during the absence (\u00c2\u00bbf (Jovernor Stuyve-\\nsant to expel the Swedes from the Delaware, troubles\\nagain arose with the Indians which bore disaslnnisly\\nupon the settlements on the west side of the Hutlson.\\nIlentlrick Van Dyck, having his orchard robbed of\\nsome of ita tempting fruit by Indians who landed at\\nValentino s Manual 1R63), M\u00c2\u00ab.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HOSTILITIES.\\n31\\nnight in their canoes on Manhattan, attempting to\\ndrive off the intruders, accidentally in the darkness\\nshot an Indian girl. News of the outrage spread, and\\nthe Indians determined on signal vengeance. With-\\nout giving warning of their purpose, on tlie night of\\nthe l. Jth of September, sixty-four canoes, carrying\\nfive hundred armed warriors, landed at New Amster-\\ndam. They searched through the town until they\\nfound Van Dyek at the house of a neighbor named\\nA an Diegrist, whom they cut down with a tomahawk,\\nand in the affray wounded Van Dyck in the breast\\nwith an arrow. The town and garrison being aroused,\\nthe Indians were driven to their canoes, and sought\\nsafety by flight to the west side of the river. In re-\\ntaliation they set the houses on fire, and soon all Pa-\\nvonia was in ashes. From thence they passed down\\nto Staten Island and laid that W4iste. In this assault\\none hundred persons were killed, one hundred and\\nfifty carried into captivity, and over three hundred\\ndeprived of their homes. The savages of Hackensack,\\nTappaen, Ahasimus, and others were present in this\\nfearful devastation, and perpetrated inhuman barbar-\\nities, notwithstanding their solemn pledge to adhere\\nto the terms of their treaty. When Governor Stuy-\\nvesant sought to bring them to terms, they hesitated\\nand delayed, promised and failed to fulfill their [)ledges,\\nin hopes to extort from the government a ransom for\\nthe prisoners. Finally, the Director wished to know\\nhow much they would take for the prisoners en masse,\\nor for each. They replied, seventy-eight pounds of\\npowder and forty staves of lead for twenty-eight per- j\\nsons. The ransom was paid, and an additional pres-\\nent made by the Governor. This proved the final\\nsettlement with the Indians, so far as the Dutch were\\nconcerned. During all these troubles most of the\\nmischief was done in that part of New Netherland\\nincluded in the ancient territory of Bergeu County.\\nThe Pomptons and Minsies, having sold their lands,\\nremoved from New Jersey about 17.37.\\nThe Pompton Indians were engaged with the Del-\\naware Minsies in the war of 1755, under Teedyes-\\ncung. This war was waged on account of the decep-\\ntion practiced upon the Indians in procuring the lands\\nin Northampton and Pike Counties, Pa., and was\\ncarried across the Delaware into New Jersey. During\\nthe year 1757 and the first part of 1758 the western\\nborders of the province were in much alarm on ac-\\ncount of the Indians raiding upon the .settlers across\\nthe Delaware. From May, 1757, to June, 1758, tweaty-\\nseven murders were committed by the Indians in Sus-\\nsex County.\\nFinal Disposal of the Delawares. In June, 1758,\\nGovernor Bernard, of New Jersey, consulted with Gen.\\nForbes and Governor Denny, of Pennsylvania, as to\\nthe measures best calculated to put a stop to this un-\\npleasant warfare; and, through Teedyescung, king of\\nthe Delawares, he obtained a conference with the\\n1 See History of Sussex and Warren Counties.\\nMinisink and Pompton Indians, protection being as-\\nsured them. The conference look place at Bur-\\nlington, Aug. 7, 1758. The result was that the\\ntime was fixed for holding another conference at\\nEaston, at the request of the Indians, that being, as\\nthey termed it, the place of the old council-fire.\\nAt the treaty of 1758 the entire remaining claim of\\nthe Delawares to lands in New Jersey was extin-\\nguished, except that there was reserved to them the\\nright to fish in all the rivers and bays south of the Rar-\\nitan, and to hunt on all uninclosed lands. A tract of\\nthree thousand acres of land was also purchased at\\nEdge Pillock, in Burlington County, and on this the\\nfew remaining Delawares of New Jersey (about sixty\\nin number) were collected and settled. They remained\\nthere until the year 1802, when they removed to New\\nStockbridge, near Oneida Lake, in the State of New\\nYork, where they joined their grandsons, the\\nStockbridge tribe. Several years afterwards they\\nagain removed, and settled on a large tract of land\\non Fox River, Wis., which tract had been purchased\\nfor their use from the Menominee Indians. There,\\nin conjunction with the Stockbridges, they engaged\\nin agricultural pursuits, and formed a settlement\\nwhich was named Statesburg. There, in the year\\n1832, there remained about forty of the Delawares,\\namong whom was still kept alive the tradition that\\nthey were the owners of fishing and hunting privi-\\nleges in New Jersey. They resolved to lay their\\nclaims before the Legislature of this State and request\\nthat a moderate sum (two thousand dollars) might be\\npaid them for its relinquishment. The person selected\\nto act for them in presenting the matter before the\\nLegislature was one of their own nation, whom they\\ncalled Shawuskukhkung (meaning wilted grass\\nbut who was known among the white people as Bar-\\ntholomew S. Calvin. He was born in 1756, and was\\neducated at Princeton College, at the expense of the\\nScotch missionary society. At the breaking out of\\nthe Revolution he left his studies to join the patriot\\narmy under Washington, and he served with credit\\nduring the Revolutionary struggle. At the time when\\nhis red countrymen placed this business in his hands\\nhe was seventy-six years of age, yet he proceeded in\\nthe matter with all the energy of youth, and laid\\nbefore the Legislature a petition in his favor signed\\nby a large number of respectable citizens of New\\nJersey, together with a memorial, written by his own\\nhand, as follows\\nMt Brethren: I am old and weak and poor, and therefore a fit\\nrepresentative of my people. You are young and strong and rich, and\\ntherefore fit representatives of your people. But let me beg you for a\\nmoment to lay aside the recollections of your strength and of our weak-\\nness, that your minds may be prepared to examine with candor the sub-\\nject of our claims.\\nOur tradition informs us and I believe it corresponds with your\\nrecords that the right of fishing in all the rivers and bays south of the\\nRaritan, and of hunting in all uninclosed lands, was never relinquished,\\nbut, on tlie contrary, was expressly reserved in our last treaty, held at\\nCrosswicks in 1758. Having myself been one of the parties to the sale,\\nI believe, in 1801, I know that these rights were not sold or parted\\nwith.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "32\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nWe now offer to tell Uibm priTllegot to the State of New Jersey.\\nTbey were once of frrpRt raliie to us, and we apprehend that neither time\\nnor iJlslaiirp nur the noii-uBe of our ri^tite hoa Ht all affected then), Irnt\\nthat tlie coiirta here wniiM consider our claims Tiilid w Te we to exercise\\ntham ouroelvtv or delej^ate them to otlien. It is ni t, however, our wUh\\nthiu to eKcile lliigalion. We consider the State Le^slature the prxiper\\npurchaser, and throw ourvelree upon its twnerol^nce and magnanimity,\\ntrusting that fe\u00c2\u00abliiigB of justice and liberality will induce you to ^vo us\\nwhat you deem a comiwiiSHliun. And, as we tiave ever looked up to the\\nleadiuR chanicteni of the United States (and to the leading characters of\\nthis SUle in particular^ as our fathora. prt teclora, and friends, we now\\nlook up to you as such, and hunihly l eg that you will liMk upon us with\\nthat eye of pity, as we have reason to think our poor untutored foro-\\nfathen looked upon yours when they first arrived upon our then exten*\\nlive but uncultivated dominions, and sohl theni their lauds, in oiany\\niutaoces for triflea, in coniparisiin. as li ;ht as air.\\nFrom ynur humble eliiioner, I\\nBaktholomkw S. Calvin,\\nIn bf}utl/ of himself and hu red hreiltren.\\nIn the Legislature the subject was referred to a\\ncommittee, which, after patient hearing, reported\\nfavorably whereupon the Legislature granted to the\\nDelawares the sum of two thousand dollars the full\\namount asked for in consideration of this relinquish-\\nment of their last rights and claims in the State of\\nNew Jersey. Ui\u00c2\u00bbon this result Mr. Calvin addressed\\nto the Lcgi.slature a letter of thanks, which was read\\nbefore the two houses in joint session and was received\\nwith repeated rounds of most enthusiastic applause.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nOLD BEU13EX TOWN AM) TOWNSHIP.\\nThe most ancient and historically interesting part\\nof the old county of Bergen is that portion of it\\nwhich was set off to form tlie county of Hudson in\\n1840, after having borne the name of Bergen for\\nnearly two hundred years. Lying along the west\\nside of New York Bay and Hudson River, in close\\nproximity to the Dutch headcjuarters on Manhattan,\\nit early attracted attention, and became the subject\\nof the first jmrclixHe from the Indians in East Jersey.\\nFirst Indian Deed.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 On the 12th of July, 16:U),\\nthis portion of territ^)ry was purclut-sed of the Indians\\nby the Director-* leneral and Council of New Nether-\\nland, for Michael Pauw, Burg \u00c2\u00bbmaster of Amsterdam,\\nand Lord of Achtienlioven, near Utrecht. The fol-\\nlowing is a copy of the c \u00c2\u00bbnveyance, which is the first\\ndeed of record in New Netherland\\nWe, Director and Council of Now NVtherland, residing on the Island\\nof Uanhalas and the Fori Amstenlani, under the authority of their High\\nMlf(htin\u00c2\u00ab M thn l/onlii Statna-Oeneral of the Unlte^l Netherlands and the\\nIncorporate Wrat India t )m| any, at their (1iaml \u00c2\u00abn at Anisfenlam,\\ndo hereby witness and dm lare that on this day, the date hereof un-\\nderwritt\u00c2\u00ab n, l^fore nn In their pro| er p rs\u00c2\u00bbns Bpi enred and Bhowi d\\nthemtnlvea, to wit Arometimtr, Tektr tpi*o, and vtrl-ir.imTA:, inhahllantii\\nand Joint owueni of tlie lands callDl llolxK-an llackint;h, lying ovor\\nacatnat the aforeaald Island Manhatas, wh i both for themselvea and\\nraJo oDrtfTM, for the remaining Joint owners of the same land, declared\\ntlial for and In c inside ration of a carlain quantity of marchaodisa, which\\n1 llotMiken is an Indian name slgnirving r fiari-(\u00c2\u00bb-pt/)s. llacklngh.**\\nafflte-l to It in this decl. mmtni KKf or ytnre thuti glrluK iHii or\\nplaet o/ the Utbaeett-ytpe frum the stone obtained h *rr oiii ..r uKi.lith*\\nnaUvM ranred pipe*.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WmMd t Uiti. Hud, Co., \\\\h.\\nthey acknowledged to hare recelred into their own hands, power and\\npoasesaion, before the passing of these preeeuts, in a right, true, and free\\nownership, have \u00c2\u00bbrdd, transporte l, ceded, conveye\u00c2\u00abl, and made over, and\\nby these presents they do transport, cede, and itinvey to and for the Ite*\\nhoof of Sir. Michael Pauw, absent, and for whom we, e-r oficio, accept\\nunder suitable stipulations, viz.: the aforesaid lands by us named Hot-o-\\ncan ll ickit jh, extending on the south sidt*, Ahaslnins; eastwanl, the\\nriver Mauritius, and on the west side surrounded by aralley and mnraas,\\nihruugh which the boundaries uf suid Ittnd can be r een with sufficient\\nclearness, and be distinguished and thai, with all the jurl3 lii ti n, right\\nand equity, t4. them, the grantors. In their quality ufor Sfti l It-lnnging\\nConstituting and putting in their places and stead the already mentioned\\nMr. Pauw, in the real and actual p\u00c2\u00ab 88e8sion thereof, and at ttie same\\ntime giving full and irrevocable power, authority, and special command\\nto the said Mr. Pauw eaceably to enjoy, occupy, cultivate, have and hold\\nthe aforesaid land taH ptam actor et prixrur Uor in rem mam ac propriam\\nand also to do with and dispose of the same as he might do with his own\\nlands to which he has a good and lawful title without their, the grantors,\\nin their quality aforesaid, saving or reserving any pari, right, action, or\\nauthority Ihereunio in the least, either of ownerohip or juriedlction hut\\nallogfther to the l\u00c2\u00bboh Mif as aforesaid, henceforth, forever, wholly and\\nfinally deeisliog, renouncing, and quil-ctaiming prDuiiDing hereby, more-\\nover, not only to keep, maintain, and fulfill thid their grant, and what-\\never shall be done by virtue thereof, Inviolable and Irrevocable forever,\\nhut also to keep and maintain the same land against all persons free from\\nany claim, cliHllenge, or incumbrance to be made thereon by any peraon\\nAS aleo to cause this sale and grant to t e approved of and held valid by\\nthe remaining joint owners as they are by right obligated to do; all in\\ngtK d faith without fraud or deceit.\\nIn witne\u00c2\u00abis whereof, theee preaonta are confirmed with our usual sig-\\nnatures and with uur seal thereto affixed.\\nDone at the aforesaid Island of Manahataa, in Fort .\\\\msterdam, thia\\nI2th July. 1630.\\nPavonia.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 On the 10th of August, 1630, Pauw also\\nobtained a deed from the Indians for Staten Island^\\nand on the 22d of November, 1(I3(\u00c2\u00bb, a deed f \u00c2\u00bbr the\\nwestern shore of the Hudson between Commiinipuw\\nand Weehawken, where Jersey City is now situated.\\nThis purchase on the Jersey shore of the Hudson\\nwas named Paronia, the name beinp derived from\\nlatinizing the name of Mr. Pauw, the purchaser; and\\nit was applied to the general colony on the west bank\\nof the Hudson for a number of years. When and by\\nwhom the first settlement was made in Pav(tnia is\\nuncertain. It is generally believed that there was\\nsome kind of a trading-post established here contem-\\nporary with or immediately succeeding the Dutch\\nsettlement on Manhattan, about 1\u00c2\u00ab 18.* But there\\nseems to be no p(\u00c2\u00bbsitive proof of the assertion. By\\nthe third article of the Freedoms and Exemptions/*\\nPauw was obliged, within four years, to plant a colony\\nof fifty *ouIs, upwards of fifteen years old, within the\\nbounds of his purcha. *e. How strictly he complied\\nwith this condition we are not informed; but in the\\nyear l\u00c2\u00abi;j;5 (here wa-s a colony in Pavonia under the\\ncharge of .Michael Paulusen or Paula/. De Vries\\nvisited him in May of that year, and made the follow-\\ning entr in his journal: Coming to the boat on\\nLong Island, night came on, and the tide began to\\nturn, so that we rowed to Pavonia. We were there\\nreceived by Michael Poula/, an (tfiicer in the service\\nof the Company. The West India Ctunpany appears\\nat this time to have had an agent there in the interest\\nof the proprietor or Patroon. In the latter part of\\nLand Paper (Albany) G. G.. 1.-WinfteM*s Und Titles, 3.\\nSmith s lliiU N. J.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Taylor s Anoals. etc.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "OLD BERGEN TOWN AND TOWNSHIP.\\n33\\n1633 the Company ordered the erection of two houses\\nill Pavonia. One of them was built at Communipaw,\\nand was afterwards owned by Jan Evertsen Bout;\\nthe other was erected at Ahasimus, and was subse-\\nquently owned by Cornelius Van Vorst. These were\\nframe houses thatched with flags at least, we have\\nauthority for saying that such was the Van Vorst\\nmansion, in which lived the head-commander\\nof the Patroon of Pavonia, the noble Lord of Achtien-\\nhoven and Burgomaster of Amsterdam. We quote\\nthe following from Winfield s History of Hudson\\nCounty No sooner had Van Vorst become settled\\nin his new home than the dignitaries of New Amster-\\ndam, representing both church and state, resolved to\\npay him a visit, as well to a.ssure hira of their distin-\\nguished consideration as to sample his newlj -arrived\\nBordeaux. On the 25th of June, 1636, Wouter Van\\nTwiller, who was always glad to taste good wine,\\nbut on whose shoulders rested the weighty cares of\\nthe New Netherland State, and Dominie Everardus\\nBogardus, the old Dutch preacher and husband of\\nAnneke Jans, accompanied by Capt. De Vries, came\\nover to Pavonia. Van Vorst entertained them with\\nprincelj- hospitality from his newly-filled wine-cellar.\\nAs time passed on and the sampling of the wine was\\nrepeated, the Governor and the Dominie grew warm\\nand disputatious, if not angry, with their host. The\\nmodest entry in De Vries s journal that they had\\nsome words with the Patroon s Commissary plainly\\nmeans that they quarreled with him. The subject of\\nthe dispute was a murder which had been recently\\ncommitted in Pavonia. Although the discussion ran\\nhigh, and bad blood for a while threatened the peace\\nof the occasion, yet another bumper or two was like\\noil on the troubled waters, for they eventually parted\\ngood friends. Leaving their host and his good\\nVrouwtje, they entered their boat and started for New\\nAmsterdam. Van Vorst, determined to deepen their\\nimpression how royally the rei resentative of the Pa-\\ntroon of Pavonia could entertain such distinguished\\nguests, fired a salute from a swivel mounted on a pile\\nin front of his house. How the reverberations of\\nthat primal salute must have rolled over the hills of\\nAhasimus and what a brilliant illumination followed\\nto light the way of the parting guests A spark un-\\nfortunately flying on the roof, which was thatched\\nwith reeds, set it in a blaze, and in half an hour the\\nwhole building was burned down. Thus ended the\\nfirst recorded entertainment in Pavonia.\\nThe colony of Pavonia did not prosjjer. Difficul-\\nties arising between the Patroon, ilr. Pauw, and the\\nDirectors of the Company, the latter finally succeeded\\nin purchasing Pavonia for twenty -six thousand florins.\\nPart of it (Ahasimus) became known as the West\\nIndia Company s Farm, and was leased by Jan\\nEvertsen Bout.\\nSt -eii-atuk, a stone gun.\\ns Bi-odliead, i. 26:1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 N. Y. Hist. Soc., N. S., i. 259.\\nMeantime, under the reckless and arbitrary policy\\nof the Director-General, Kieft, from 1638 to 1646, the\\nIndians began to be troublesome and to threaten the\\nextermination of the colony. Traders, disregarding\\nthe exclusive privileges of the Company, and actuated\\nby a desire for gain, had unlawfully furnished the\\nsavages with arms and ammunition, which, upon the\\nfirst serious provocation, became instruments of de-\\nstruction in their hands far more eftective than their\\naboriginal bows and arrows. To hasten the impend-\\ning conflict, Kieft, in 1639, resolved to exact of the\\nIndians a tribute of maize, furs, and wampum. In\\n1643 the storm broke out, which ended in the destruc-\\ntion of the settlements. Pavonia and the adjoining\\ndistrict suffered more than any other section of New\\nNetherland. So thoroughly wa.s the destruction of\\nthe settlements accomplished that from Tappan to\\nthe Highlands of the Nevesink the country was once\\nmore in the possession of its original masters. A re-\\nport to the States-General says, Every place almost\\nis abandoned. We, wretched people, must skulk with\\nour wives and little ones, that still are left, in poverty\\ntogether, by and around the fort on Manhattes, where\\nwe are not one hour safe.\\nThese troubles kept the country in an almost disor-\\nganized condition till the close of the first Indian war,\\nin the spring of 164.5, when a number of tribes con-\\ncluded a treaty of peace with the authorities at New\\nAmsterdam. The war had been carried on for eigh-\\nteen months with but slight intermission. On the\\nreturn of peace the owners and tenants of farms on\\nthe west side of the Hudson returned, and rebuilt\\ntheir desolated homes.\\nPetrus Stuyvesant, assuming command as Director-\\nGeneral, arrived at Manhattan on the 11th of May,\\n1647. Although Stuyvesant pursued a just and con-\\nciliatory policy towards the Indians, trouble soon\\nagain broke out. The shooting of an Indian girl by\\nHendrick Van Dyck, while in the act of stealing\\nfruit from his orchard in the vicinity of Fort Amster-\\ndam, was the immediate occasion. On the 15th of\\nSeptember, 1647, sixty-four canoes, carrying five\\nhundred armed warriors, landed without warning at\\nNew Amsterdam and scattered themselves through\\nthe streets. Pursuing Van Dyck to the house of a\\nneighbor, Vandiegrist, they wounded the former with\\narrows and cut down the latter with a tomahawk.\\nThe town was aroused the guard attacked the\\nsavages and drove them to their canoes. They then\\ncrossed over to the west side of the river, and in the\\ntwinkling of an eye a house at Hoboken was in flames,\\nand all Pavonia was soon on fire. From one end of\\nthe settlement to the other the torch and the toma-\\nhawk did their work. Excepting the family of Mi-\\nchael Jansen, at Communipaw, every man who did not\\nseek safety in flight was killed. All the cattle were\\ndestroyed and everything burned. From Pavonia they\\npassed over to Staten Island, and laid that waste. The\\nattack raged for three days with all the fury of savage", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "34\\nHISTORY OF BERCEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nwarfare. The Dutrh lost one hundred in killed, one\\nhundnni and Hfty were carried into captivity, and\\nover three liundrcd were deprived of their homes.\\nPeace was finally made, and the captives restored.\\nOrdinance Creating a Fortified Town.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The\\nexperience of scattered srttlenieiits having hitherto\\nprove l the dilliculty of adequate protection from the\\nattacks of the Indians, Stuyvesant, with the advice\\nof his council, in imitation of the plan adopted hy\\nthe colonists in New England, resolved to order that\\nhenceforth the settlers should collect in close, com-\\npact villages, in situations easy of defense; and,\\nin pursuance of this |)arpose, issued the following\\nOrdinance of the Director-General and Council of\\nNew Netherlands for the formation of villages, and\\nthe prohibiting straw roofs and wooden chimneys.\\nPassed January 18, 165G\\nM liF.ReAA, Sud experienro linth fn iii time to time pmvml tlial, in\\ncoiiaequoncc of (he sepanite dwellingv uf the country peuple lucatu^l on\\nthe FlHthind in diveni hookm und places, in coniplete opiKiBitton the\\nOnler and good tniontiiinnrtlie Ilunonitik Company and its goTernmcut\\nhere, nuuiy niurden* of IViplc, killini; and deatrnction n{ rnttlo, ami\\nburning of IIuubcs, have bet^-n L-tminiitted and per] cti ati d hy the Indt\\naua, nativeM of this Conntry, the most of whicti niiglil )nive ht et), with\\nGoiVs hulp, prpveiitf and avoidixl, if the good InhabilAntti of this prov-\\nince bad \u00c2\u00bbettto l thumHelvctt togeltior in the form of Townft, Vinages.and\\ntiamlels, like our noighbon* of AVir Ewjlaud, wlio, hecauso of their com-\\nbination and compai-t re\u00c2\u00abidenceet, liave never been ttubjoct to such, ul\\nleast not to so many and such general, disastorn, which have been causetl,\\nnext to GimI s rlghl uiis chiistisentent. on account of uur sins, l y tempi- i\\nIng the Ravage barbarians thereunto by thu Hei arate residences of the\\nCountry people; the one not being able, in time of neeil, to come to the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Mistance of the other, in consequence of the distance of the places, and\\nthe im|Mifl(iibility of the IHrector-GmiPral and Council to provide each\\nMpamte country house with sgnanl. To this, tiien, l osidcN the Murders,\\nI amBgM, and the destruction of divers IViplo, Itouwries, and PliittUi-\\ntiuDS already sufTered, Is owing als\u00c2\u00ab the last, to the serious loss and bin- I\\ndnince of Ihfs c^iunlry and ttie people tiiereof, ttie recurrence of wliich\\nis to l e apprehendfHl Hiid expt ted bfreaftcr no loss than now and hen--\\ntoforc, nnh NS the K mhJ Inbabitntits are taught l y their lo8.\u00c2\u00bbtvi and Uwmv\\nof uUient to he wiser and more prudent, uud to allow tliomselves to bu\\ntnlluenced by goo l law, as they are l ound to, to form compai:t dwellings\\nin suitalde places In fonn and manner as will be hiid down by the Diroc*\\ntor-General and oiincil, or l y their Commisslonere, when the Director-\\nGenerai and Council will l e alilo to assist and maintAin thotr subjects,\\nwith the power intrusted to th\u00c2\u00ab m by Got! and the Supremo government.\\nIn order timl tbiM may e the belter executed and obeyed in future,\\nthe l lr(H;tor General and (VnMM ll aforesaid ilo hereby ln t only warn\\ntheir good subjects, but likewise charge and command Ibcm to conceu-\\ntmle Ihemsetveis, by next Spring, in the form of Towns, Villages, and\\nHainli-ts, Ho that Ihey may be tlie more elTectnally protected, niainl.iined,\\nand di fi iidiHl against all amautls and attacks of the Itarbartans, by ea h\\nother and liy the military enlrusled to the Director-General and Council\\nWarning all thosi who will, conlhiry hereunt*!, lenmiu hereafter on\\ntheir iftdatod pInnlatioitH, that they will do mt at their iieril. without\\nobtaining, in timeof ii(m I, any assistnncf fn m the IMreclor-Genenil and\\nCouncil. They shall, moreover, l e flneii annually tliesuni of 26 guUdorv\\nfor the Itehoof of (Imi puldic.\\nrnribennnre, the l)|r\u00c2\u00abH:tur-Genenil ami Council, in onler to prevent\\na tiMi sniMen connngnlion, do ordain thnt from now henceforth no\\nHousea shall be roverea) wltli Stniw or Reed, nor any more Chimneys\\ntie cnnstnictotl uf ClnpUianls t r W(M d.\\nThus lone. r\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abidv(Mi, rmumed, and enacted in the Asseuibly of tlie\\nIMrector- \u00c2\u00abeneral and (Vmncll, holden at hWt Ain\u00c2\u00bblerilitm In A\u00c2\u00abir A rfA#r-\\nland, Dalml as nlM*Te. 3\\nThis onlinance wiw not iinincdiatcly carried into\\nefiect. owing to the reluctaincc of the people to abandon\\nI WlnnHd s nistorjr of llndaon Oiunty, pp. M, f\\nN. Y. Ctd. UHA^ vl. 2ifl; W.nnfld, Ah.\\ntheir old plantations and to adopt a mode of living\\nnot only novel, hut attended hy a sacrifice which many\\nfelt ill prepared to make. The ordinance was reaf-\\nfinned the next year, and the people were commanded\\nto c mcentrate in villajres.\\nRepurchase from the Indians.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Preparatory to\\nthe erection of sucli a settlement as the ordinance re-\\n(juired, the Director and Council deemed it pru(h*nt\\nto remove all doubts as to tlie satisfaction of the In-\\ndian claim to the land in Pavonia, altlu\u00c2\u00bbugh it had\\nbeen regularly purchased by Cornelius Pauw, the\\nPatroon, in 1()30, and by him conveyed to the Privi-\\nleged West India Company. Accordingly, on the\\n30th of January, 1658, the Director-General and\\nCouncil obtained of the Indians a deed of which the\\nfollowing is a translation\\nTliis day, the dale here underwritten, appeared before the Honorable\\nDirectof-Geueral, I etrns Stuyvesant, and the gentlemen of the Council\\nof New Nelherltindt, Therincques. Wawapehack, Saghkins. Kogkhen-\\nuigh, Itoniokan, Meiuiwokan, Same*, Wewemitokwee, for themselves,\\nand in the name of Moiko| i s. l*eiH ghon, I arsoiliques, andotheni, part-\\nners of the lands hereafter mentioned. Who declare to l e the right\\nowners of the lands lying on the west side of the N\u00c2\u00abirili River In New\\nNethorlandt, beginning by the Great Rock aUive Wlehacken.^ and from\\nthence acrotss through the Inuds, till alH ve the Islandt Siskakes,* and\\nfrom tlience along the channel side till Constable s Hoeck. And from\\nConstable s Hoeck again, tilt the aforementioned UfK-ktaliove Wiehacken,\\nwith all the lands, inlnndK, rliannels, valleys, therein comprehendeil, in\\nsuch manner iw the ub renieutioned |\u00c2\u00bb4rcel of lands are surrounded nnd\\neti(.ompassed by the North River, the Kill Van Koll, and the aforesaid\\ndirect line from the Rock above Wlehackeii. till aln\u00c2\u00bbve Slskakes, where\\nit is divided by the Channel. Which lands tlicy offer abeidutely to sell\\ninto the Directur-GeuerHl and Council on the one side, and the aforesaid\\nIndians, ftir tliem^elvevi and them that are abtient, have acconled and\\nagreed in the manner following, in the presence of the bereiuafter men-\\ntioned Cbrititian and Indian wiiueMes: The aforesaid Indians do ac-\\nknowletlge to have sold, reeigned, and lrans| urted,as they do by these\\npresents, nil the landK heretofore mentioned, to the aforesaid Director-\\nGeneral and Council and their snccessorn, for eighty fathom of wampum,\\ntwenty fathom of cloUi, twelve kettles, six guns, two blankets, one\\ndouble kettle, and one half-barrel of strong beer. Which effects they\\nhereby acknowleilge to have enjityed and recelrod l\u00c2\u00bbeforvtlie poMlng and\\nsigning of this.\\nWherefore they do declare, for tliemwlves anil them which are ali-\\nMDt, to resign and tranap^ift tlio lands before mentbirie i, to the alwtve-\\nmentioned General and 0\u00c2\u00abniucil, in full, free, and perfect property, de-\\nsisting of all actions and cluims which th**y could or might pretend to\\nthe lauds before mentioned\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the trauBp^trters promlss now or hereafter,\\nDot to nmke any itretonsions thereon but to keep and hold this trans-\\nport firm, sure, and inviolable, rn^mising also to the said Director and\\nCouncil to free and warrant the said lauds against all claims any other\\nIndians might pretend ti, and if it should happen that in future times\\nany of the Dutch, by any Indian, should l-o damagetl vm pretensbm they\\nwere nut fully paid for the lands aforeanid, they, the setllem, do pnmiise\\nto repair and sivlisfy tlie damages. It is \u00c2\u00bb\\\\t\u00c2\u00bb* stipulated and agrei^l, the\\naforesaid Indians kIibII depart au t rem.\u00c2\u00bbve by thi- first convenient opiH r-\\ntunity off the lauds aforeMiid and tliat none of their nallon shall come\\nand continue to dwelt upon It, without knowledge or consent of the\\nDirector-General and Council. Thus dune at the fort Amsterdam, and\\nilgnid with the marks of the Imliaits, after the cargi es were dellrered\\nto their hands, on the :imb day of January, Anno Domini 1 8.\\nT, the mark of Tberincquss made K, the nnirk of WawajH-hack.\\nby himself.\\nthe mark of Seghkow.\\nF, tlie mark of Same*.\\n*t, tlio mark of Kughkenmingh\\nWarlmus Con woe.\\nF, the mark of n unokao.\\nt, the mark of Wowenatokwee.\\nF, the mark of Memlrookau.\\nF, the mark of Saines a* wlim-ai\\notherwise railed Job.\\nWeehawken.\\nIn I uiWtkn^th* ptac^wker* the anale kulr*. Dntch, Slanghenbergh\\nEngllih, ^p\u00e2\u0080\u00a2 l*\u00c2\u00ab Hitt.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "OLD BERGEN TOWN AND TOWNSHIP.\\n35\\nWe, the dubacribers, witnesses hereunto, desired by the Director-\\nGeneral and Conncil, do certify and declare, by this present, that the\\nabove bargain for the lands before mentioned, is so made before ns, and\\nthe lands by the sellers transported to the Director-General and Conncil\\non the conditions and terms comprehended in the bill of sale, the con-\\nditions and substance plainly told, acquainted and declared to the sellers\\nby the interpreters. Govert Loocquernians, Peter Wolpliertson van\\nCowenhoven, and Claas Carstensen, and also by Wharinies van Couwe,\\nformerly an owner of the land aforesaid and whereupon the sellers have\\nconsented to the bargain, transported the lands, and received the men-\\ntioned cargoes and wampum, signed the conditions with the above\\nmarks.\\nIn witness hereof, have we subscribed this, the day and year afore-\\nsaid, at the Fort .Amsterdam, in New Netherland,in the Council Chamber.\\nJoH. Meoapolensis. Petrus Stuyvesant.\\nSabidei, Prisius. NicASius De Sille.\\nOloff Herensin. Pieter Tovneman.\\nGovert Looquermass. Pieter Cowenhoven.\\nMachiei. Yansen. Jan Evertsen Bout.\\nF, the mark of Claas Carsten-\\nsen Noreman.\\nT Present.\\nCornelius van Ruyven, S^cre/ury.\\nThis deed conveyed all that part of old Bergen\\nCounty (now Hnd.son) east of the Hackensack River\\nand Newark Bay, and comprised the territory of the\\nold township of Bergen.\\nSettlement of the Village.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 On the 22d of Jan-\\nuary, 1658, a petition signed by the following named\\npersons, farmers who had been driven away by the\\nsavages in 1655, to wit Michael Jansen, Claes Jan-\\nsen Backer, Claes Petersen Vos, Jans Captain, Dirck\\nSeiken, Dirck Claesen, and Lysbert Tysen, was pre-\\nsented to the Director-General and Council, setting\\nforth that they should incline to reoccupy their\\nformer spots of residence, to restore their buildings\\nand cultivate their former fields, and praying that,\\nin view of the injuries and losses which they had sus-\\ntained, they might be favored by an exemption of\\ntithes and other burthens during a few years. The\\nexemption was granted for a period of six years but\\nthe Director-General and Council were firm in de-\\nmanding that they should concentrate themselves\\nin a village, at le.ast ten or twelve families together,\\nto become in future more secure and easier to re-\\nceive aid for their defense in similar disastrous oc-\\ncurrences without which the Director-General and\\nCouncil deem the reoccupation of the deserted fields\\ntoo perilous; if it might nevertheless happen, con-\\ntrary to their order and placard, the Director-General\\nand Council consider themselves not only excused,\\nbut declare that the aforesaid concession or exemp-\\ntion during six years shall be null and void.\\nNo village had yet been located. But on the 1st\\nof March, 1660, Peter Van Vleck and Peter Eudol-\\nphus sought permission to settle on the maize lands\\nbehind Gemocnepaen. This request, as well as a\\nsecond petition which followed it, was refused, and\\nthe matter was dropped till the 16th of August, 1660,\\nwhen a petition of several inhabitants was granted\\nProvided that the village shall be formed and placed on a convenient\\nspot, which may be defended with ease, which shall be selected by the\\nDirector-General and Council or their commissioners.\\nAlbany Records, xiT. 27.\\nSecondli/, that all persons who apply and shall share witli others by\\nlot, shall be obliged to make a Iiegirming within the time of six weeks\\nafter the drawing of lots, atid to send hitlier at least one person able to\\nbear and handle arms, and to keep him there, upon a penalty of forfeiting\\ntheir right, besides an amende of twenty llorins, in belialf of the village,\\nand to pay besides his share in all the village taxes which during hia\\nabsence have been decreed and levied.\\nThe precise date of the laying out of the village is\\nnot known. Mr. Winfield has shown that it was sur-\\nveyed and laid out, and a name given to it, between\\nthe 16th of Augu.st and some time in November, 1660.\\nMeaning of the Name Bergen. The name of\\nBeroen was given to the village, and subsequently\\napplied to the township and county. This name is\\nregarded by the early writers as derived from Bergen\\nin Norway. Smith, Whitehead, and others take this\\nview, alleging that there were among the early set-\\ntlers certain Norwegians who gave the place its name,\\nor caused it to be so named. Others take a different\\nview. Dr. Taylor, in his Annals, says it was\\nnamed from Bergen, a small town in the north of\\nHolland.\\nAs to the first of these conjectures that the name\\nis of Norwegian origin it is sufficient to remark that,\\nalthough it is not disputed that there may have been\\namong the early Dutch colonists some Norwegians,\\nor their descendants, who emigrated at an early time\\nto Holland, and thence to New Netherland, it does\\nnot appear that they were the influential parties in\\nthe founding of the town, and therefore not entitled\\nto the deference which such an origin of the name\\nimplies. Had it been a Norwegian town, with a few\\nDutch among its founders, this origin of the name\\nwould be entirely natural and probable, and, in the\\nabsence of any proof to the contrary, might be taken\\nas decisive of the question. But Bergen was a Dutch\\ntown, founded and governed by a Dutch colony, and\\nas much a part of New Netherland as New Amster-\\ndam itself. It is therefore the most rational conclu-\\nsion that it received a Dutch name, or a name derived\\neither from the geography or the language of Hol-\\nland. We think that Mr. Winfield furnishes the most\\nsatisfactory clue to the origin of the name when he\\nsuggests that local circumstances which gave the\\nname to Bergen in Holland gave it also to Bergen in\\nthis country. His language is\\nBergen in Norway received its name from the hills which almost\\nsurround it. Bergen op Zoom, eighteen miles north of Antwerp, stands\\non a hill surrounded by low marshy ground, which, with its fortifications,\\nafforded great security. Thus it will be seen that the two supposed\\ngodfathers of our Bergen received their name from local circumstances.\\nAre not the same circumstances existing here to give the same name to\\ntlie new village? On two sides of the hill was marsh, and the only\\nother place for settlement was along the river. To the eye of the Hol-\\nlander, accustomed to look upon marshes or lowland redeemed from the\\nsea, the ridge growing in height as it extended north from tiie Kill Van\\nKull, was no mean affair. To him it was Bergen, the Hill, and, like the\\nplaces of the same name in Europe, it took its name from the hill on\\nwhich it was built. This I believe to be the true origin of the name. 2\\nThe hill on which Bergen was built is now called\\nthe Jersey City Heights. The town was laid out\\ns History of Hudson Couuty, p. 71.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "3fi\\nHISTORY OF REHGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nin a square, the sides of wliicli were eight huiidreJ\\nfeet long. Around this square ran a street flanked on\\nthe exterior by palisades, inclosing the whole town.\\nTwo streets crossing each other at right angles divided\\nthe town into four quarters. At the ends of these\\nstreets, on the four sides, were gates leading through\\nthe palisade. A small square or common ground oc-\\ncupied the centre of the plot. The land adjoining\\nthe town was laid out into lots called Huyten Tuyn,\\nOutside Gardens.\\nThe village grew .so rapidly that in May, IGOl, not\\nan unoccupied lot remained inside the fortification.\\nOn the .Ith of September an ordinance was passed\\nerecting a court of justice at Bergen. It begins as\\nfollows: Petrcs Stuyvesant, on behalf of the\\nHigh and Mighty Lords States-General of the United\\nNetherlands, the Honorable Directors of the Incor-\\nporated West India Company, Director-(,n neral of\\nNew Netherland, Curac. oa, Bonaire, .Vruba, and their\\ndependencies, together with the Council to all those\\nwho shall see these Presents, or hear them read,\\nGreeting, etc.\\nThe first officers of the court appointed under the\\nordinance were Tielman Van Vleck, Sellout Iler-\\nmanius Sineeman and Casparus Stuymeta, Sche])ens.\\nThese officers were required to subscribe to the fol-\\nlowing oath\\nWe prumlai antl swear, in the preseuco of Aliiiit^lity Oud, ttint we\\nwill bo litithful lo tlio sovureiguty of the liigli mid liiiglity Lords the\\nStuffld-Geuuiul, the I^jrds Pirectora of tile privileged West India Com-\\npany, Dei\u00c2\u00bbartnioiit ol Aiiistcrdum, na uur Lords and Patroons, tlio Direc-\\ntor-General and Council, now placed over ns or to bo appoiiited; that we\\nwill reapect and execnto their commands, that we will exorcise goml\\nJnstice to onr best knowledge, repel all mutiny, troubles, and disortlera\\nto our best abilities, maintain the Kefurmed Heliglon, and no other, and\\nBupptirt the same, and roruliict oursolves punctually in conformity to the\\ninstruction which wo have already receivotl or may yet receive, and\\nfurther act as gi od and faithful magistrates aro in luty liound to do. So\\nhelp us Ood Almighty.*\\nWe give from Winfield s History of Hudson\\nCounty the following list of officers of this court\\nunder the Dutch rule, with dates of their appoint-\\nment:\\nSckoutt, IVrnifnif\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlolman Van Vleck, Sept. ll!f,l nalthnrjir Ilaynnl,\\nMarch 17, Ifi04; Claw Arentao T.Kjni. August 18, lli7:i.\\nTom The Sellout, Sept. 5, 1661 Balthazar Bayard, March 17,\\n1644 Clara Areuloi Tihts, August 18, 167.1.\\n8cA\u00c2\u00abjjffiM Michael .lansen, Herman Smecman, Ca par Stelnmetes, Sept.\\nB, 1601 Caapar Sleinnioliw, Engelbert Sleonhuysen, Gerrel Oerrot-\\nMh, Oct. 16, l Ul\\nSurrender to the English.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The surrender of the\\nNew .Netherlands to the Crown of (iroat Britain, in\\nWA, was followeil by a grant or charter from Charh s\\nII. to his brother .lames, Duke of York, of the terri-\\ntorj- from the western side of the Connecticut River\\nU the eastern side of the Delaware River,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 including\\nNew York ami New Jersey. In the same year James,\\nDuke of York, by indenture of lease and release,\\nSherlir. 1 Magiitralea.\\nAlUny Itacorda, xlx. 282.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WInllolil, p. 80.\\nDutch giiTernmant rotored pi lor to this last data.\\ngranted and sold to John, Lord Berkeley, Baron of\\nStratton, and Sir George Carteret, of Saltrum, the\\nterritory of Nova Cicsarea, or New Jersey. Under\\ntheir charter from the Duke of York, Berkeley and\\nCarteret proceeded to establish civil government in\\nNew Jersey. For this purpose they had a constitu-\\ntion drawn up in England, entitled The Concessions\\nand Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Pro-\\nvince of New Csesarea or New Jersey to and with all\\nand every the Adventurers, and all such as shall settle\\nor plant there. This instrument was engrossed on\\nparchment, and signed by them on the 10th of Feb-\\nruary, 1( G4. Philip Carteret was appointed (Jovernor\\nof the province, but did not arrive thither till August,\\n1665. In the mean time New Jersey was placed un-\\nder the jurisdiction of Col. Richard Nicoll, Governor\\nof New York. During the interval a legislative\\nCouncil or Assembly convened at Klizabethtown on\\nthe 10th of April, 1664. Bergen was represented in\\nthis Assembly the first ever held in the province by\\nEngelbert Steenhuysen and Herman Smeeman. This\\ngovernment was continued over the Province of New\\nJersey until. the establishment of the separate Propri-\\netary governments after the division into Eiist and\\nWest Jersey.\\nWith the Western division our history has nothing\\nto do, and therefore we shall pass over the subject of\\nthe partition lightly. On the 1st of July, 167r), par-\\ntition was made of New Jersey by deed, so that the\\neastern jiart, known as East Jersey, was allotted to\\nSir George t arteret. Sir George, by his last will and\\ntestament, dated Dec. 5, 1678, devised the same to.Iohn,\\nEarl of Bath, and others, lus trustees, to sell the same,\\nand appointed Elizabeth Carteret sole executri.x and\\nshe, with the other trustees, by deed of lease and\\nrelease, dated 1st and 2d of February, 1680, sold\\nand conveyed all East .lersey to William Penn and\\neleven others, which twelve persons \\\\;ere known by\\nthe name of the Twelve Proprietors of East Jersey.\\nTh se twelve proprietors, by twelve separate deeds, in\\n1682, conveyed each one-half of their respective inter-\\nests in E;ust .lersey to .lames. Earl of Perth, and eleven\\nothers, whereby East Jersey became held by twenty-\\nfour General Pi-oprictors, each holding in fee one-\\ntwenty-fourth part or propriety of the same. Thus\\nfrom these proprietors have issued from time to time\\ntheir deeds for the portions of territory .sold by them\\nin East .Jersey, their office being at Perth Amboy,\\nwhere all such conveyances and other records have\\nbeen kept.\\nPhilip Carteret, soon after his arrival at Elizabeth-\\ntown as Governor, in August, 1(!6. reorganized the\\nCtmrt at Bergen, commissioning Capt. Nicholits Var-\\nlet, who was m:ide jiresident, to constitute and ap-\\npoint a court of judicature for the inhabitants of\\nBergen, Geniocnepaen, .Miasymes, and Hoobooken,\\nA .So namod In honor of Ellzabatli, wife of Sir George Carteret.\\nUmdhrad, p. 729.\\nQuinlaparlito Deed, Learning and Splcer, 61.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "OLD BERGEN TOWN AND TOWNSHIP.\\n37\\nto be held and kept as often as occasion shall require\\nin the aforesaid town of Bergen. This was the first\\ncourt under the English rule. Herman Bmeenian and\\nCaspar Stuynmets, of Bergen, and Elias Micheelssen\\nof Comniunipaw, were appointed magistrates, to sit\\nin the court as assistants. This court had a Reg-\\nister, or clerk, to keep a record of all actions, and a\\nsergeant, or statesboade, to execute alt its acts\\nand warrants. All writs and warrants were in the\\nname of the king, and no appeal to the Governor and\\nCouncU was allowed under the sum of ten pounds\\nsterling. And this, says the Commission, to con-\\ntinue till Wee shall otherwise provide for the settle-\\nment of those aflairs, and no Longer.\\nThe judges of this court up to the time of the di-\\nvision of the province were, Nicholas Varlet, Presi-\\ndent Herman Smeeman, Caspar Steinmets, Julias\\nMichielsen, Ide Van Vorst, Assistants, Aug. 30, 16G5\\nTynaraent Van Vleck, Clerk William Sandford,\\nMarch 8, 1669; Samuel Edsall, Lourens Andriesen\\n(either to act as pi-esident), Feb. 15, 1674 John Berry,\\nPresident; Samuel Edsall, Lourens Andriesen, Elias\\nMichielsen, Engelbert Steenhuysen, Assistants, March\\n13, 1676. The same persons were reappointed Feb.\\n16, 1677.\\nNew Charter of Bergen. On the 22d of Septem-\\nber, 1668, a new charter was granted to Bergen, con-\\nfirmatory of the rights as to land possessed by the\\nFreeholders and Inhabitants under the Dutch\\ncharter of 1658. It also contained some new pro-\\nvisions and privileges, and defined the boundaries of\\nthe township of Bergen, as follows\\nThe boiinda and limits of the aforesaid town and corporation of Ber-\\ngen is, to begin at tlie north end thereof, from a place called Mordavis\\nMeadow, lying upon the west side of Hudson s River; from thence to run\\nupon a northwest line, by a three-rail fence, that is now standing, to a\\nplace called Espatin, and from thence to a little creek surrounding north-\\nnorthwest, till it conies into Httckensack River; containing in breadth\\nfrom the top of the hill one and a-haif miles, or one hundred and\\ntwenty chains. From thence it runs along said Ilackensack River upon\\na south-sontliwest line, till it comes to the poiut or neck of land that is\\nover against Staten Island and Sllotiter s Island, in Arthur Cull Bay,\\ncontaining in length about twelve miles. From thence to run eastward\\nalong the river called Kill Van KoU, that parts Staten Island and the\\nmain, to a point or neck of land called Constable s Point or Constable s\\nHook, and from thence to rnn up northward, all along the bay up into\\nHudson s River, till it comes to Mordavis Meadow aforesaid; so that\\nthe whole tract of upland and meadow properly belonging to the juris-\\ndiction of Uie said town and corimi-ation of Bergen, is bounded at the\\nnorth end by a tract of land belonging to Capt. Nicholas Varlet, and Mr.\\nSamuel Edsall on the east side by Hud oil s River; on the south end by\\nthe Kill Van Koll, that parts Staten Island and the main; and on the\\nwest side by Arthur Cull Bay and Hackensack River. The whole, both\\nupland, meiidow and waste land, containing, according to the survey,\\neleven thousand five hundred and twenty acres, English measure.\\nThis charter granted the utmost liberty of con-\\nscience in matters of religion; provided for a court\\nof judicature for the trial of all causes actionable\\nbetween party and party, as well as criminal causes\\nmade provision also for the support of the church\\nand a free school for the education of youth. Rarely\\nSee chaptei- on Courts in this work.\\ndo we find in any charter of rights and privileges, of\\nso early a date, so many truly libera! provisions.\\nUnder this charter the government of the township\\nwas maintained until the 14th day of January, in the\\n12th year of the reign of Queen Anne, 1714, when a\\npetition from Andrew Van Buskirk, Barrent Chris-\\ntian, Enoch Freeland, Kutt Van Home, Hendrick\\nCuyper, Winder Deverichs, and John Deverichs,\\nfreeholders, in behalf of themselves and the other\\nfreeholders of the town, setting forth the previous\\npossession and enjoyments of their ancestors, of divers\\nlands, tenements, and hereditaments, and their exer-\\ncise of divers privileges and immunities, by virtue of\\nthe charter of September 22, 1668, and that many\\nof the lands were lying undivided, and were subject\\nto great damage and waste of wood and that by\\nsaid charter sufficient authority was not given to pre-\\nvent such damage, as well as for other purposes, and\\nthat, in consequence, relief was needed from the\\ngovernment. An act was passed of that date, in the\\nreign of Queen Anne, giving the petitioners a new\\ncharter, as a township or body corporate, by the name\\nof The Trustees of the Freeholders, Inhabitants of\\nthe Township of Bergen, with more extensive\\npowers.\\nWhen New Netherland was retaken by the Dutch\\nin 1673, a summons was sent from the fleet in New\\nYork harbor to the citizens of Bergen to surrender\\nand renew their allegiance. It was addressed\\nTo the luhabiidHls of the Villitge of Bergen, iind the Hamlets and Bouwries\\nthereon depending\\nYou are hereby ordered and instructed to despatch Delegates from\\nyour Village here to us, to treat with us on next Tuesday respecting the\\nsurrender of your town to the obedience of their High Mightinesses the\\nLord States-General of the United Netlierlands, his Serene Highness the\\nPrince of Orange, or on refusal so to do, we shall be obliged to constrain\\nyou thereunto by force of arms.\\nDated at the City Hall of the City of New Orange the 12tli of August,\\n1673.\\nCornelius Evertse, Junior,\\nJacob Benches.\\nBy their order,\\nN. Bayard, Secretary.\\nThe people surrendered, and on the 21st of August\\na number of the leading citizens, repairing to New\\nYork, now New Orange, were qualified as magistrates\\nby taking the prescribed oath of allegiance. On the\\nfollowing Sunday the officers crossed over to the vil-\\nlage to administer the oath to the rest of the inhab-\\nitants. They found the number of the burghers of\\nBergen and the surrounding dependencies to heseventy-\\neighl, sixty-nine of whom appeared at the tap of the\\ndrum and took the oath of allegiance.\\nThe Dutch authorities, however, remained but a\\nshort time in possession of the country, for on the 9th\\nof February, 1674, peace was established between\\nEngland and Holland, and by the sixth article of the\\ntreaty of Westminster, New Netherland was restored\\nA fleet of twenty-three vessels, carrying sixteen hundred men.\\n3 Winfield, p. 117.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "38\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nto the English. On the 10th of November following,\\nthe final surreuder took place.\\nThis event was fullowed by a second grant to the\\nDuke of York by Charles 11. June 29, 1G74. The\\nduke, July 2Uth of the same year, reconveyed to Sir\\nGeorpe Carteret that portion known after the division\\nas Kasi .IiTscy.\\nLands in the Township. The original grants of\\nlands in the old townsliip of Hergen were all derived\\nfrom the Dutcli government. The titles to these\\nlands were respected in the articles of capitulation,\\nwherein it wits stipulated that all people were per-\\nmitted to enjoy their lands, homes, and goods, and\\ndispose of them at i leasure. Subseijuently the free-\\nholders in the township, feeling insecure on account\\nof the treaty of Hreda, took out confirmatory grants\\nfrom the proprietors of East Jersey, subject to a quit-\\nrent of one halfpenny per acre yearly. lu the charter\\nof Carteret this was eom|)oundod for fifteen pounds\\nsterling per annum, which wiis paid for a time. Upon\\nits refusal a controversy arose between the pro[irictors\\nand the freeholders of Bergen. Cornclus Van Kipen\\nwas arrested for the debt. A compromise was effected,\\nand in consideration of the payment of one thousand\\nfive hundred dollars the freeholders of Bergen re-\\nceived a full release, signed Oct. 5, 1809.\\nThe common lands of the township were surveyed\\nand divided by commissioners appointed by the Leg-\\nislature in 17( 4. The title of the act is as follows\\nAn Act appointing Commissioners for finally set-\\ntling and determining the deverul Rights, Titles, and\\nClaims U) the Common Lands of the Township of\\nBergen, and for making a partition thereof in just and\\ne()uitablc I roportions among tliose who shall be ad-\\njudged by the said Commissioners to be entitled to\\nthe same. The partition directed by the said Act\\nwas performed by si.\\\\ of the seven commissioners\\ntherein appointt-d, to wit, .Jacob Spicer, Charles\\nClinton, William Donaldson, Azariah Dunham, John\\nBerrien, and .Xbraham Clark, Jr. Samuel Willis, the\\nseventh, declined to serve. Not one of these commis-\\nsioncn* lived in the county of Bergen. Jacob Spicer\\nlived in Cape May, wiis a wealthy land-owner, mer-\\nchant, and surveyor, and with Aaron Leaming [ire-\\npared the revision of the laws known as Leaming\\nand .Spicer s Collection. Charles Clinton lived in\\nUlster County, New York, where he was appointed\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Surveyor-General and Judge of the Common Pleas,\\nand served in the campaign against Fort Krontenac in\\n17- t;. He Wiis the grandfather of De Witt Clinton.\\nWilliam Doruildson lived in Somerset County, anil\\nwiLs a surveyor. Azariah Dunham resi led at Morris-\\ntown, and was a very prominent man, both in civil\\naflaira and in the position he held as a surveyor and\\ncivil engineer. Ho laid out many of the important\\npublic roa U in New Jersey, was member of the\\nGeneral As.**embly, the Provincial Congress, and the\\nI Gurilon a niil. N. J., p. 72.\\nCouncil of Safety, and one of the most active and\\nzealous patriots during the Revolution. John Ber-\\nrien was an Associate Justice of the Sujireme Court,\\nappointed by Governor Franklin, Feb. 20, 1764. Abra-\\nham Clark was of Elizabethtown, where he was born,\\nFeb. 15, 1726. He was High Sheriff of Essex County\\nand Clerk of the Assembly under the Colonial Gov-\\nernment. During the Revolution he was one of the\\nmost active patriots, serving on the Committee of\\nPublic Safety, as member of Provincial Congress, the\\nNational Congress, and other important bodies. After\\nthe Revolution he served as member of Congress for\\nmany years, retiring with the adjournment of that\\nbody, June 9, 1794. He died in the autumn of that\\nyear, and was buried at Railway.\\nSuch were the commissioners appointed to survey\\nand divide the common lands of Bergen. These\\nlands, according to Winfield, amounted to about\\n8000 acres, while the lands appropriated by individ-\\nual grants amounted to about SoOO acres. The\\nowners of private grants encroached upon the com-\\nmon domain, while unauthorized persons pastured\\ntheir cattle thereon and wasted the timber. For this\\nthere did not seem to be any remedy, owing to defects\\nin their charter. The new charter granted by Queen\\n.Vnne, Jan. 14, 1714, did not remove the ultliculty.\\nEncroachments on the comnKm lands continued as\\nbefore. The freeholders then attempted to settle the\\nmatter by Articles of Agreement entered into on\\nthe 16th day of June, 1743. But these articles were\\nnever carried into effect, and, matters growing worse,\\nthe people (letitioned the Legislature for relief, which\\nwas granted in the act a|\u00c2\u00abpointing the commis-\\nsioners for surveying and partitioning the common\\nlands and settling finally these disputes. The com-\\nmissioners so appointed caused to be surveyed every\\nfoot of land lying east of the Hackensack in Bergen\\ntownship, and the result is rei orded with great care and\\nparticularity in their field-book and maps, which were\\nfiled iis directed in the seventh .section of the act.\\nBy an act of the Legislature, approve*! March 3,\\n1848, the Field-Book and Maps on file in the Clerk s\\noffice of Bergen County were required to be filed in\\nthe office of the Clerk of Hudson County. They\\nwere so filed. But the copy in the Secretary of State s\\noffice being in better jirescrvation, and of no jiarlicu-\\niar utility in that place, there was a general desire\\namong the people of the county (Hudson) to secure\\nit, whereupon, by an act of the Legislature, approved\\nMarch 3, 18. )3, the Clerk of Hud.son County returned\\nthe one then in his office to the Clerk of Bergen\\nCounty, and received anil filed the one then In the\\noffice of the Secretary of State.\\nThe field -book and map of the Commissioners\\nhave ever since been regarded as authoritative and\\nconclusive on questions of title in that part of Old\\nI Wlnnolil i lj liil TIIlM\u00e2\u0080\u0094 NolM loFlrld-Book, pp. 3U, Ml.\\nArllrlm In full In Winn. M Liilid Tlll,n. 10, 17.\\nUnil Titlri, 24.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "OTHER ANCIENT SETTLEMENTS.\\n39\\nBergen now Hudson County. On account of their\\ngreat value in this regard, the Board of Chosen Free-\\nholders of Hudson County, through an appropriate\\ncommittee appointed Jan. 12, 1871, authorized Charles\\nH. Winfield, Esq., to edit and publish them in book\\nform. Hence the Land Titles in Hudson County,\\nto which the reader is referred, not only for a full ac-\\ncount of the lands apportioned by the Commissioners\\nof 17(5-1, but a vast amount of valuable information\\nrespecting the earliest patents and patentees under\\nthe Dutch government and that of the Proprietors,\\nin that part of the ancient county of Bergen which\\nwas set off under the name of Hudson in 1840.\\nCharter of Carteret. The charter of Carteretf 1668)\\nmade provision for the educational and religious inter-\\nests of the town. The sixth article provided that all\\nthe freeholders, or a major part of them, should have\\npower to choose their own minister for preaching the\\nword of God and administering the holy sacraments,\\nand, being so chosen, all persons, as well as freeholders,\\nshould contribute according to their estates and means\\nfor his support, or should lay out such a portion of land\\nfor the minister, and for the keeping of a, free school\\nfor the education of youth, as they shall see fit, which\\nland, being once laid out, is not to be alienated, but\\nto remain {oiever free from paying any rent or any\\nother rate or taxes whatsoever. In accordance with\\nthese provisions, three lots were early set apart for the\\npurpose of a free school, one village lot and two out\\nor pasture lots, numbers 177, 178, and 179, respec-\\ntively, of the Field-Book. In this book, made by the\\ncommissioners for the division of the common lands,\\nthey are designated For the Free School of the town\\nof Bergen. For many years the school of the village\\nwas kept under the direction of the Church, the\\nConsistory appointing the schoolmaster, who, in ad-\\ndition to the ordinary instruction in the elementary\\nbranches of education, was required to hear recitations\\nin the catechism, and at stated times to receive the\\npastor or elders of the church, when all the pupils of\\nthe school were to be catechised. For several\\nsuccessive generations this was the course pursued.\\nThe author has heard, says Rev. Dr. Taylor, some\\nof the most aged people of his pastoral flock refer to\\nthe days of their childhood, when from all parts of\\nthe township, as it then existed, including Hoboken,\\nJersey City, and 15ergen Point, they and their school-\\nmates were busied with their lessons in Dutch and\\nEnglish, using principally as a reading-book the\\nPsalter and New Testament, and rather dreading the\\nday for the good old Dominie s catechism.\\n]5ergen Columbia Academy was an institution\\nwhich existed many years. The date of its charter is\\nnot given in the history furnished by Dr. Taylor, but\\nthe large brown-stone building erected for its accom-\\nmodation in 1790, this author thinks, was the third\\nbuilding used for the school.\\nTaylor s Aunals, p. 102.\\nThe old Reformed Dutch Church of this town was\\nthe earliest organization of the kind in East Jersey.\\nIn 1662, four hundred and seventeen guilders ($166.80)\\nwere raised by tax in the township for building an\\nedifice of worship. In this year there were twenty-\\nseven communicants. The building was not erected\\ntill 1680. It was an octagonal building in the shape\\nof a lantern, the roof being exceeding steep, with a\\ncross extended to a considerable height above its\\napex. The windows were on the eight sides, and\\nquite small and high from the ground. This building\\nwas standing in 1764.\\nA new building was erected in 1773. In a stone\\nover the front door was this inscription\\nKerk Geljouwt in Het Taer 16SII. Her Bouwt in Itet Yacr 1773.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nOTHER ANCIENT SETTLEMENTS.\\nWe will now notice some of the other settlements\\nin the old township of Bergen and other parts of the\\ncounty.\\nCommunipaw, adjoining Jersey City on the south,\\nwas one of the earliest settlements on the west bank\\nof Hudson River. Its first settler was Jan Evertse\\nBout in 1634. He was the agent of Nicholas Pauw\\nuntil the patroon sold to the West India Company^\\nand about 1638 rented the Company s farm. This\\nfarm or bouwrie included all the upland lying be-\\ntween Communipaw Creek on the south and the\\nmeadow on the north. Bout afterwards received a\\npatent of the farm as a gift.\\nUp to February, 1643, says Winfield, no set-\\ntlement had been made north of Hoboken. At this\\nplace a farm-house and brew-house had been built,\\nand a bouwrie cleared and planted. Here Aert\\nTeunissen Van Putten resided. Van Putten was\\nthe first white resident of Hoboken. He leased the\\nfarm Feb. 15, 1640, for twelve years from Jan. 1\\n1641.*\\nAt Ahasimus was the family of Cornelius Van\\nVorst, deceased, at the head of which was Jacob Stof-\\nfelsen, who had married Van Vorst s widow.\\nAt Paulus Hoeck were Abraham Isaacsen Planck\\nand his tenants, Gerrit Dircksen Blauw, Claes Jansen\\nVan Purmerendt, alias Jan Potagie, and Cornells\\nArissen.\\nAt Jan de Lacher s Hoeck, or Mill Creek Point,\\nas an under-tenant of Bout, resided Egbert Wouters-\\nsen with his family.\\nOn the blutf immediately in the rear of Cavan\\nPoint, and just where the Central Railroad crosses\\nthe Morris Canal, lived Dirck Straatmaker.\\n2 See cut in Wiufield s History of Hudson County, p. 381.\\n3 For full history of this and other churches in the old township, see\\nTaylor s Annals, and Winfield s History of Hudson County.\\nN. y. Col. MSS., i. 187.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "40\\nHISTORY OF BKKCEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThese settlements were destroyed in the Indian war\\nof 1644. After tlie war Bout retunu d to liis farm at\\nCommunipaw. He soon sold part of it to Michael\\nJansen for eight thousand florins, and the rest to\\nClacs Pietersen Cos for one thousand four hundred\\nand forty-four Horins and three stivers. Jaiisen in\\n1046 and sul se iuently was a representative of the\\nConimoiiality in Stuyvesant s Advisory Council. His\\nfarm was nourishing, and most of the old settlements\\nalong the river had heen renewed, when the Indians\\nagain laid the plantations waste. This was in 1655,\\nwhen the Indians, having heen driven to their canoes\\nby the guard at Fort Amsterdam, crossed the river\\nand destroyed all the settlements in Pavonia. A\\nnumber of the inhabitants escaped to New Amster-\\ndam, and there remained till 1658, when Michael\\nJansen, Claes Jansen Backer, Claes Pietersen Cos,\\nJans Captain, Dirck Seiken, Dirck Claesen, and\\nLysbert Tysen petitioned for permission to return to\\ntheir deserted plantations. Communipaw w;us ex-\\nempted from the general order for the inhabitants to\\ngather in the town of Bergen, and was laid out into\\nlota and surrounded by palisades for defense against\\nthe Indians. It grew to be ipiite a rival to Bergen.\\nThe first ferry across the Hudson, connecting the\\nJersey shore with Manhattan Island, was established\\nat this point in Ititil, arul William Jansen was the\\nlegalized ferryman. In 1680 Communipaw was a\\nvillage of twenty families.\\nThe peninsula of Paulus Hook, on which Jersey\\nCity is now situated, belonged from a very remote\\nperiod to the Van Vorst family. In 1804 it was\\nvested in Cornelius Van Vorst. On the 10th of\\nNovember, 1804, an act to incorporate the associates\\nof the Jersey Company was pa.sscd by the Legislature,\\nto whom the title was conveyed. On the 28th of Jan-\\nuary, l.H iO, an act to incorporate the city of Jersey in\\nthe county of Bergen wa.s passed under which, and\\nthe various su|iplements and amen lment.s thereto, the\\ncity has existed to the present time. Jersey City was\\na township in Bergen County from 1838 to 1840, and\\nduring those two years was represented in the board\\nof chosen freeholders by Dudley S. Gregory and\\nThomiLs (ieurten.\\nSettlements in 1685.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In liW, (icorgo Scott, who\\nWif granted live hundred acres of land by the Eiust\\nJersey proprietors in Monmouth County, published\\na book in Edinburgh, entitled The .Model of the\\nCiovernment of Eiust Jersey. In this work is a\\ngeneral view of the plantations anrl settlements in\\nthis country, ;ls he observed them jirior to the date\\nof his publication, between 1680 and 1685\\nN w Nith. RaiiUtor, 117.\\nSmilli ii lllat. Nrw Jirwjr.\\n(In till. JMtli of Jtiljr, lOHA, In cnnsldnnitlun of cortnln act\u00c2\u00ab promotive\\nof lt MlTnnlftK* And lntf r\u00c2\u00bbi l of Kiwt Jerery, tlio |)roprlotoni In Knylanil\\nKrvntvii Ar\u00c2\u00ab ),iiiiilr*(l Bcrm of lan l toOeorK* ScoK, on cundlUnn Ihsl tin\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0honlj rraMit In lUr provlnm wlUi liU family. Vivn tlioM certain\\nUU, etc., the wrllln( of tllii iNwk ThU IrBCl of lanil wu In Mon-\\nAfler speaking of the settlements to which we have\\nalready referred, he says,\\nTlicre ar\u00c2\u00ab other plantHtioiiH upon Hackonsnck RJTer, which go\u00c2\u00aba a\\ngreat WAV up the countrr, nlnioet n^irthweflt olherH, also, on the M0t\\ndiili of another creek or river at llackensack River.\\nA large Deck or tract of land for which one Mm. Sanih Kiratead, uf\\nNew York, had a patent given by an old Indian sachem in recomp\u00c2\u00abosa\\nfor Interpretint; the Indian language Into Dutch, IV* there was occasion;\\nthere are some little families thereon.\\nTwo or three miles up, a great plantation settled hy Capt. John Berry,\\nwhereon he now lives.\\n.\\\\nulher plantation a ljoinlug, iM longing to his snn-in-law, Michael\\nSmith: another tu Mr. Baker. This neck of land is in brea^lth from\\nCapt. Berry s new plantation on the west side, where ho lives, over to\\nhis old plantations, to the east at Hudson s River side, al out three mllM^\\nwhich distance serves to Constable s llixik, npwanlrt of ten Diilefi.\\nTo go back to the south part of Itergen Neck, that b opposite to\\nStatan Island, where is but a narrow luissage of water, which ebbfl and\\nflows ttetween the said island and Bergen Point, called Constable s Hook.\\nThere is a considerable plantation on that side of Constable s Hook, ex-\\ntending inland aliout a ntile over from the liay on the east aide of the\\nneck that leads to New York, to that on the west that goes to Hackeii-\\nsack and Snake Hill, the neck running up between lioth, from the south\\nto the north of Hudson s River, tt\u00c2\u00bb the utmost extent of their Ujunds.\\nIt was first settled by Samuel Kdsall in Col. Nichol s time, and by hitn\\nsold fur \u00c2\u00a3600.\\nOther small plantations along the Neck to the east\\nare named. Among them one\\nbelonging to George I mpane (Gomouueepan) which is over against\\nNew York, where there is about forty families,* within which, about the\\nmiddle of the neck, which is here aUnit three miles over, stands the town\\nof Bergen, which gives name to that neck. Then, again, northward to\\nthe water s side, going up Hudson s River, there lies out a iH int of land\\nwhere is a plantation and a water (mill) belonging Ui a merchant in Nflw\\nYork.\\nSouthward Uiere is a small Tillage, of about five or six familiea, which\\nis commonly called the liuke s Farm. Further up is a good plaotaUon\\nin A neck of laml almost an island, culled Hobuck; it did belong to a\\nDutch merchant, who formerly in the Intlian war bwl bis wife, children,\\nand servants tiiiuwacred by the Indians, and bis house, cattle, and stock\\ndestroyed by them. It is now settled again, and a mill erected there by\\none dwelling at New York.\\nUp iiorthwiinl along the river side are the lauds ncMir to BIr. William\\nLawrence, which is six or seven miles further. OpixisltD thereto there\\nis a plantation of M r. I /Uull, and al^ive that a|it. llienlleld s plantation\\ntills lost is iilmost opiNisite the northwest of laiiliatla s Islsitd.\\nHere are the utmost extent of the nortliem boumU ol Kast JnrMy,\\nas always contemplalMl.\\nNear the mouth of the bay, upon the side of Overlieck s Creek, ailja-\\ncelit to Ilackensack River, sevet al of the rich valleys were settled by the\\nDutch and iiejir Snake Hill is a line plantation owneii by rinliome A\\nKIckbe, for half of which rinliorii. is said I.1 have ai.l JWKI.\\nThe plantations .ui Isilh sides of the neck to its utmost extent,\\nalso tho.-o- at llaikensack, ar under the jurisdiction of Bergen Town,\\n^ilUllte ulmut tlie mid. lie of tile nwk.\\nNew Barbadoes Neck. That portion of the an-\\ncient territory of Bergen known as New Barbadoes\\nNeck was probably first settled by the Kingslands\\nsoon after the settlements above described. It is not\\ncertain that Juilge William Samlford ever .settled\\nupon his patent in this section of the c mnty. He\\nw!is presiding judge ol the court at Bergen in \\\\l u\\nand died some time |irior to ITtHi, as in that year his\\nwidow, Sarah Sandford, conveyed to her friend, Kath-\\nerine Van Einburgh, a portion of the estate left her\\nby her husband, between the Hackcnsiack and Pas-\\nmouth County, and waa aOerwards ownad by Dr, John Jubralune, who\\nmarried Scott s daughter.\\nI Twenty, according to Smith s History.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "OTHER ANCIENT SETTLEMENTS.\\n41\\nsaic Rivers. Nathaniel Kingsland, the ancestor of i\\nthe Kingsland femily, of New Barliadoes, purchased\\na large tract of Judge Sandford. His son William\\nwas the first to settle upon it, about 1690. He enii-\\ngrated from the island of Barbadoes, and built a\\nmansion-house on what is now the Hackensack road,\\nabout two miles above the Schuyler copper-mines.\\nWilliam Kingsland was the father of Edmund Wil-\\nliam Kingsland, and the grandfather of the late Mrs.\\nJohn Arent Schuyler, Mrs. Nesbitt, Mrs. Adams, and\\nthe late Gen. Kingsland, of Newark. j\\nEdmund W. Kingsland was taken prisoner by the\\nBritish during the Revolution, and carried down the\\nriver in his own boat, and conveyed to the Sugar-\\nHouse in New York, where he was kept for some\\ntime. He said it was the only time in his life that he\\nregretted having a new hat of such a kind as the one\\nhe wore for it was a stiff beaver, and his captors\\namused themselves during the journey by beating\\nhim over the head with it. The Kingsland family\\nplate was buried during the war at the foot of a pear-\\ntree near the mansion. A tankard tliat was hidden\\nthere is now in the possession of the family. Tiie\\nBritish once made a visit to the house, and were kept\\nout for some time by the inmates, who barricaded the\\ndoors and windows. At length the assaulting party\\nthreatened to break in a door where Edmund W.\\nKingsland was stationed. He had a pistol in each\\nhand, and declared he would shoot the first man who\\nmade an attempt to enter the house. One of the\\nparty then picked up a young negro belonging to the\\nplantation, and placing him in front, challenged Mr.\\nKingsland to fire away. Not wishing to hurt one\\nof his own servants, he desisted, but the faithful slave\\ncried out, Let em shoot, massa never mind me\\nThis is supposed to have occurred at the time Mr.\\nKingsland was captured. The English and Hessians\\ntook possession of the house and occupied it for sev-\\neral months. Mr. Kingsland had previously hollowed\\nout a board in the mantel-piece and secreted his money\\nin it, put in a block and painted it over. He found\\nit undisturbed on his return from imprisonment.\\nThe Kingslands were Episcopalians, and through\\ntheir instrumentality the church of that faith was\\nfounded at Bellville.\\nJohn Richards, who was connected with the Kings-\\nland family by marriage, owned a large tract of land,\\na part of which is now Rutherford Park. He was\\nmurdered in the Bergen Woods by refugees during\\nthe Revolutionary War, while on his way home from\\nNew York.\\nA part of the Kingsland tract was purchased by\\nArent Schuyler about the year 1700, and contained\\nthe Schuyler copper-mines, afterwards discovered by\\none of Captain Schuyler s slaves. Schuyler had pre-\\nviously settled in the Ponds Neighborhood, in what is\\nnow the western part of the town of Franklin, but\\nabout the time of the purchase he removed to New\\nBarbadoes. The discovery of the copper-mines, to-\\ngether with his large landed interest, made him\\nwealthy. The old Schuyler mansion which stood on\\nthe east hank of the Passaic, below the Belleville\\nbridge, was built by John, a son of Arent Schuyler\\nby his second wife. John was for many years the\\nmanager of the mines. The house was more than\\nonce visited and violated by the British during the\\ndays of the Revolution, and pictures pierced by\\nBritish bayonets are still preserved among the de-\\nscendants.\\nNorthwestern Part of the County. Settlements\\nwere made in the northwestern part of the county,\\nin the neighborhood of the Ponds Church, before the\\nbeginning of the eighteenth century. In 1700 there\\nwere some ten families around the Ponds and some\\nfour or five in Pompton. Arent Schuyler and An-\\nthony Brockholst, in 1G97, lived upon the place oc-\\ncupied by the late Dr. William Colfax and William\\nW. Colfax. In 1730, Cornelius, son of Arent Schuy-\\nler, settled on the north side of Ryerson Pond, where\\nhis grandson of the same name now resides. The\\nGarretsons, from Bergen, settled at an early time on\\nthe property owned by the late John Post. The\\nVan Aliens owned six hundred acres on the Pond\\nflats, and their residence was near the house of David\\nBush. The Berdan family, consisting of two brothers,\\nsettled in Preakness about 1720, or perhaps before\\nthat date. This family first settled on Long Island,\\nthen came to Hackensack, and thence the two brothers\\nemigrated to Preakness, and purchased four hun-\\ndred acres of land at eighteen cents an acre. One\\nwas married, the other single. The single brother\\ncommenced building a house with a view to taking\\na companion, but before its completion he sickened\\nand died. The descendants of the other brother still\\nlive on the spot where their forefather located. John\\nStek (now Stagg) settled back of Knickie s Pond in\\n1711. On the 19th day of May, 1724, Yan Romaine,\\nyeoman of Hackensack, purchased of Willocks and\\nJohnstone six hundred acres, the tract now occupied\\nby John B. Romeyn, Nicholas Romeyn, William\\nWinters, John Snyder, and Henry Hofter. He sold\\ntwo hundred acres of this to Roelef Van Honten,\\nMarch 17, 1737, for seventy pounds. It is the prop-\\nerty now occupied by John V. Hennlon, William De\\nBaaw, and John Ackerman. Simeon Van Winkel\\nsettled on the property of the late Tennis Van Slyke\\nin 1733. He came from Belleville, and is said to\\nhave been the owner of the first wagon in this region\\nof country. Its wheels were without tires, and it was\\nin existence more than three-fourths of a century\\nafter. On the 17th of August, 1720, John and Wil-\\nliam Van Voor Haze, yeomen of the county of Ber-\\ngen, bought of John Barbetie, Peter Fauconiere, and\\nAndrew Barbetie, merchants of New York City, five\\nhundred and fifty acres lying at Wikehoft in the pre-\\ncinct of Saddle River. On this tract the church of\\nWyckoff stands. For some cause unknown to the\\nwriter, they were compelled to repurchase this land,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "42\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nApril 2, 1745, of John Hamilton, Andrew Johnstone,\\nand John Burnet. William Van Voorlia/.c (Van\\nVoorhis) was twice married, first, to iSusanah Larue,\\nMay, 1717, and second, to Martha Van Gclden, Jan.\\n21, 1728. He died July 17, 1744, leaving five sons\\nand four daughters. His lands he left to his sons.\\nAn extract from his will may not be devoid of inter-\\nest, as it is one of the oldest wills preserved\\nI giwc mnd be iuealli tintu my i li)(\u00c2\u00abt son, Jacobus Van Voorhecs, the\\nbig bybi l, fur bis tiret birtli-riglil, as being uiy lieir at law and 1 will\\nttiat my yuungeet (later, which I have by myn dear beloving wife, which\\nis named Mary tie Van Voor Ha7.\u00c2\u00ab, dat slie shale have for her {tortiou the\\nsum of \u00c2\u00a319.\\nTo his Other daughters he gave twelve pounds each.\\nHis son Jacobus never married he entered the king s\\nservice, and died Sept. 20, 17G7. His son Albert\\nlived on the farm now or lately owned by Josiah\\nQuackcnbush, and Abraham on the farm of Lewis\\nYeomans. John lived on the farm of Henry Hlauvelt.\\nThe lands of the two brothers were not divided\\namong their heirs until May 18, 1767.\\nA tract near Paramus of five hundred and fifty\\nacres was bought by the Albertises for one hundred\\nand si.\\\\ty-five pounds, Aug. 17, 1720, of the same\\nNew York parties as sold to Van Voorhis. The\\nAlbertises also leased of the same five hundred and\\nfifty acres adjoining, for which they were to pay the\\nannual rent for every hundred acres of two young\\nfat fowls on or before the feast of St. Michael the\\nArchangel. At the same date (1720) Pit Van Hlar-\\ncom wa.** living on a tract between Van Voorhis and\\nAlbertis, of five hundred and fifty acres, as the Alber-\\ntis deed refers to his line. The Winters, Courtcns,\\nYoungs, Storms, Ackermans, and Quackenbushes\\nsettled in this section from 1740 to 17f)0; the Van\\nGelders about 1730, where Abraham Van (icider now\\nlives. They came from the Red .Mills, being attracted\\nby the large number of deer which came to the ponds\\nnear by. Among others in this neighborhood were\\nthe Pulisfelts (now Pulis) and Uogerts, about 171)0.\\nIt is only intended in this chapter to give a general\\nsurvey of the early settlements. For further details\\nthe reader is referred to the subject of early settle-\\nments in the history of each township.\\nCli 1 TI;K VIII.\\nLAND PATENTS IN BKROKN COUNTY.\\nAMoNfi the original land-owners in the countjr^of\\nBergen we name the following:\\nAbraham Isaac\u00c2\u00aben Plank purcha. ^ed Paulus Hook\\nof the Dutch Weat India Company May 1, 1638.\\nThe dcetl was confirmed by Philip Carteret May\\n12, 166K. Martyn Andriesen obtained a patent for\\nWeehawkr O from William Kieft, l)ireclor-( ieneral of\\nNew Nelherland, May 11, 1617; confirmed by Philip\\nCarteret, April IH, 1670. Andrieseii wsu* a freebooter\\nand a desperate character, and was chiefly responsi-\\nble for the terrible massacre of the Indians in 1643.\\nBeing charged with this re-sponsibility by Governor\\nKieft, he attempted to shoot the Governor, for which\\nhe was arrested and sent in irons to Holland for trial.\\nHe returned to New Amsterdam, and purchased Wee-\\nhawken in 1647. He was born in Holland in 1600,\\nand came first to this country in ItiSl. Nicholas Varlet\\nobtained a patent of Hoboken of Petrus Stuyvesant,\\nFeb. 5, 1663; confirmed by Philip Carteret, May\\n12, 1668. Mr. Varlet was one of the noted men of\\nhis times. His second wife was Anna, sister of Gov-\\nernor Stuyvesant, and widow of Samuel Bayard. In\\n1657 he was appointed commissjiry of imports and\\nexports, and in 16. )8 became farmer of duties on\\nexports and inii)orts to and from New England and\\nVirginia; was admitted to the right of Great Bur-\\nger, and appointed searcher, inspector, and com-\\nmissary of the West India Company stores; in 1660\\nwas sent with Brian Newton an ambassador to the\\nColony of Virginia in 1664 was a| ointed one of the\\ncommissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation to\\nche English in 1665 was commissioned captain of\\nthe militia of Bergen, Communipaw, Ahasimus, and\\nHoboken same day was made a member of the court\\nat Bergen, and the year following a member of Gov-\\nernor Carteret s Council. He died in 167.\\nIde Cornelison Van Vorst received of Governor\\nStuyvesant a grant of land at Ahasimus, April 5,\\n1664: confirmed, with an additional grant, by Philip\\nCarteret, March 13, 1668. This )iroperty wsis inher-\\nited by his only son Cornelius, and from him de-\\nscended to Cornelius of the seventh generation. It\\nis now the finest part of Jersey City.\\nJan Evert se Bout obtained of the Governor and\\nCouncil of New Netherland a tract of land at Com-\\nmunipaw, of which the following is a copy ot the deed:\\nWe, Willii*m Kieft, Governor-General and r iuncil nnder the High\\nand Miglity Lords Slates-Genenal of the United Nt-tlierlands, ills High-\\nness of Orange and tlie Honorable the l iri clors of the anthorixetl Wi*at\\nInflia (Vim| any, re-iding in New Netherlands, make known and divlare\\nthat on tliis day underwritten, we have given and granted Jan Kvertse\\nItoiil A piece of land lying on the North Kiver we. tward fr\\\\mi Fort\\nAmsterdam, before then pastured anil tilletl by Jan Kverlse, named\\nt^,am i\u00e2\u0082\u00acne| at ii and Jan de I.acber B Hoiick, with the meadows as the\\nsame lay within the [Hjst-and- rail fence, containing eighty-four morons.\\nIn Icsliniony whereof Is these by us signed and with our Seal cou-\\nflrme l in Fort Anislenlam in New Netherlands, the wlibrh land Jan\\nKvertso took poses\u00e2\u0080\u0094Ion of Anno 1638, aud began then to plow and so\\nIt.\\nThis farm was sold to Michael Jaiwen by Bout for\\neight thousand florins, Sept. 9, 1656, and, Janscn\\ndying, part of it was confirmed to his widow, Fitje\\nHartman, by Philip Carteret, May 12, 1668.\\nCaspar Steinmets purchased of Philip Carteret,\\nMay 12, 1668, two tracts of land and meadow ni^ar\\nthe town of Bergen. He resided at Ahaaimus, and\\nduring the Indian troubles of 1655 retireil to New\\nAmsterdam, where he wits licensed in 16. 6 to tap\\nbeer and wine for the accommodation of the Bur-\\ngliery and Strangers. In September, 1657, he was", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "LAND PATENTS IN BERGEN COUNTY.\\n43\\nmade lieutenant of the Bersrcn militia, and in 1673\\nwas promoted to captain. He was deputy from Ber-\\ngen in the Council of New Orange (after the Dutch\\nhad retaken New York), lli74, and a representative\\nfrom Bergen in the first and second General Assem-\\nblies of New Jersey. He died in 1702. His descend-\\nants at one time were quite numerous, but have long\\nsince died out.\\nAdrian Post obtained a patent of Governor Car-\\nteret dated May 12, KJGS, for sundry parcels of laud\\nlying in and about the Town of Bergen. He was\\nthe ancestor of the Post family in Bergen County,\\nand had numerous descendants. The first we hear of\\nhim he was agent for the Baron van der Capellen,\\nand in charge of his colony on Staten Island when\\nthe place was destroyed by the Indians in IfJOS. In\\nOctober of that year he was appointed to treat with\\nthe Hackensack Indians for the release of prisoners.\\nHe was ensign of the Bergen militia in 1673, and was\\nthe keeper of the first prison in East Jersey, the house\\nof John Berry in Bergen being used for that purpose.\\nHe died Feb. 28, 1677.\\nEnglebert Steinhuysen received a deed of sun-\\ndry parcels of land in and about the Town of Ber-\\ngen, from Philip Carteret, July 22, 1670. This land\\ncomprised seven lots, amounting in all to one hundred\\nand fifty acres. This patentee was a tailor by trade,\\nand came from Soest, the second city in Westphalia.\\nHe arrived at New Amsterdam in the ship Moes-\\nman, April 25, 1659. He was licensed by the Di-\\nrector-General the first schoolmaster in Bergen, Oct.\\n6,1662. He was commissioned schepen in the Bergen\\nCourt, Oct. 13, 1662 and with Harman Smeeman rep-\\nresented Bergen in the Landtag in 1664. i\\nHarman Edward purchased of Petrus Stuyvesant\\nsundry parcels of land lying in and about the\\nTown of Bergen, Sept. 14, 1662. He was one of the\\ncommissioners to fortify Bergen in 1663 and with\\nJoost Van der Linde, Hendrick Jans Spier, and\\nHendrick de Backer, June 15, 1674, petitioned the\\ngovernment for laud on Staten Island at the mouth of\\nthe Kill Van Ku!l.\u00c2\u00bb\\nBalthazer Bayard obtained, with Nicholas Varlet,\\na grant of land from Philip Carteret, dated Aug. 10,\\n1671, lying in and about the town of Bergen. Bay-\\nard was a brewer and a brother of Nicholas. He was\\nappointed schepen in Bergen, Dec. 17, 1663, and March\\n17, 1664 represented Bergen in the first and second\\nGeneral Assembly of New Jersey, 1668. Shortly\\nafter this he became a resident of New York, where\\nhe was schepen under the Dutch (New Orange) in 1673,\\nand alderman in 1691. Of the lands in Bergen the\\npatentees held as joint-tenants. Varlet died before\\nany division was made, whereupon Bayard took the\\nland by right of survivorship.*\\n1 Winfleld 8 Land Titles, 91\\n2 Brodlii-ad, i. 729.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Land Titles, 91.\\nCol. Hist. N. Y., ii. 721.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Land Titles, 95.\\nLand Titles, 109.\\nTielman Van VIeck obtained by patent from Philip\\nCarteret, dated March 25, 1670, a grant of sundry\\nparcels of land near the town of Bergen. Van Vleck\\nwas a lawyer. He studied under a notary in Amster-\\ndam, came to this country in 1658, and was admitted\\nto practice the same year. He has the honor of\\nhaving been the founder of Bergen, and was made\\nthe first schout and president of the court, Sept. 5,\\n1661.\\nHans Diedrick was granted by Philip Carteret sun-\\ndry parcels of land lying in and about the town of\\nBergen, May 12, 1668. Hans kept the second hotel\\nin Bergen, licensed Feb. 13, 1671, and was appointed\\nlieutenant of the Bergen militia, Sept. 4, 1673. He\\nwas one of the patentees of A(]uacknonck, May 28,\\n1679, and died Sept. 30, 1(!98. He probably left his\\nland to his son Wander, who died intestate, Aug. 13,\\n1732. His children Johannes, Garret, Cornelius,\\nAbraham, Antje, wife of Johannes Vreeland, and\\nMargaret Van Rypen, widow, sold to their brother\\nDaniel, Feb. 17, 1764, a lot called Smiths land,\\nseven morgans, also a lot of meadow, also the Steen-\\nhuysen lot, and lot 114. They partitioned iu 1755.\\nGerrit Gerritse was granted by Philip Carteret a\\npatent for sundry parcels of land lying in and about\\nthe town of Bergen, May 12, 1668. This patentee\\nwas the ancestor of the Van Wagenen family. By\\nhis will, dated Oct. 13, 1708, he gave all the land\\nincluded in this patent, and a preceding patent, to\\nhis eldest son Johannes. By the will of Johannes,\\ndated July 24, 1762, proved Nov. 8, 1759, he gave all\\nhis lands in Bergen to his son Johannes, who was the\\nowner in 1764.\\nThe Secaucus patent was granted by Petrus Stuy-\\nvesant to Nicholas Varlet and Nicholas Bayard, Dec.\\n10, 1663, and confirmed by Philip Carteret, Oct. 30,\\n1667. In the deed of Carteret it is recited: The\\nsaid plantation or parcel of land is esteemed and\\nvalued, according to the survey and agreement made,\\nto contain both of upland and meadow, the sum of\\ntwo thousand acres English measure. It comprised\\nall the land between Penhorn s Creek and the Croma-\\nkill on the east and the Hackensack on the west.\\nThe Indians, in 1674, claimed that their right to this\\nland was not included in their deed to Stuyvesant of\\n1658, that the said deed included only Espatingh\\nand its dependencies, and that they were, therefore,\\nstill owners of Secaucus. The Dutch Council at\\nFort William Hendrick settled the controversy with\\nthem by making them a present of an anker of\\nrum. Nicholas Varlet died while the tract was in\\nthe possession of the patentees, and his administra-\\ntors, Samuel Edsall and Peter Stoutenburgh, joined\\nBayard in selling it to Edward Earle, Jr., of Mary-\\nland, April 24, 1676. Earle .sold to Judge William\\nPinhorne, March 26, 1679, for five hundred pounds,\\ns N. Y. Col. MSS., viii. 932.- Note to Land Titles, 114.\\nLand Titles, 118.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "44\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\none individual half of the tract, also one-half of all\\nthe stock, Cliristijiii and negro servants. The\\nfollowing sclieiliile of iiro| ert_v was annexed to the\\ndeed: One dwelling house, eontaining two lower\\nrooms and a lean-to below stairs, and a loft above;\\nfive tobaceo houses one hers, one mare and two colts,\\neight oxen, ten cows, one bull, four yearlings, and\\nseven calves; between thirty and forty hogs, four\\nnegro men, five Christian servants. This was the\\nPinhorne plantation referred to by George Scott in\\nhis Model of the (Government of East Jersey.\\nIn 1668 Capt. William Sandford obtained of the\\nIndians a deed for New Barbadoes Neck, extending\\nnorthward seven miles and eontaining fifteen thou-\\nsand three liundred and eight acres of upland and\\nmeadow. A considerable portion of this land Capt.\\nSandford devised in his will to his wife Sarah, who\\non the 7th of December, 1709, gave by deed about\\nfive hundred acres, including one hundred and fifty\\nacres of meadow on the Passaic, to her dear friend\\nKatherine Van Emburg. A part of Sandford s tract,\\n.soon after his purchase from the Indians, was bought\\nby Nathaniel Kingsland, who had been an ollicer in\\nthe island of Barbadoes, and from this circumstance\\nit received the name of New Barbadoes.\\nCapt. William Sandford was presiding judge of the\\nBergen court-s in 1676, and a member of the first\\nCouncil of East Jersey, under Governor Kudyard, in\\n1682.\\nIsaac Kingsland, son of Nathaniel, of New Barba-\\ndoes, was a member of Governor Neill Campbell s\\nCouncil in 1686.\\nCapt. John Berry s Patent.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1669, Capt. John\\nKerry and a-isociatts obtained a grant for lands lying\\nnorthward of Sandford s, six miles in the country.\\nThis grant extended from the liackensack River to\\nwhat is now Saddle River, and probably included the\\nsite of the present village of liackensack. In the\\nsame year a grant was made to Capt. Berry of land\\nlying between Ilackcnsaik River and Overpeek I now\\nEnglish) Creek, bounded on the south by lan ls of Wil-\\nliam Pardons, and running north, containing about\\ntwo thousand acres. This must have included a large\\nportion of what are now Ridgefii ld, Englewood, and\\nPalisade townships, that pr)rtion of them, at least,\\nlying between the creek and the liackensack River.\\nJohn Berry was a large land-owner. lie resided at\\nBergen, where he also owned six meadow-lots and\\nsix upland lots, besides two lots in the town purchased\\nof Philip (Carteret, July 20, 1669. Most of this land\\nwas in the Newkirk family in 17i 4, when the lands\\nwere surveyed by the commissioners. John Berry\\nwas jire-sidiiig Judge of the I ourtj* at Bergen, and one\\nof the magistrates before whom Thomas Kudyard, the\\nDeputy-l tovernor of Eiutt Jersey under Barclay, was\\nsworn into office, Dec. 20, 1682. His house in Bergen,\\non the 19tli of .Inly, 1673, was made the prison for\\nLniicl Tllln. l:l l.\\nye province until a house could be built for that pur-\\npose, and Adrian Post, constable, was made keeper.\\nThe oldest deed on record in the county clerk s\\noflice at liackensack is one from John Berry to\\n/uarian Westervelt, dated Jan. 13, 1687, conveying a\\nportion of his estate in the old township of Hack-\\neusack. March 26, 1687, he conveyed another piece\\nof land to Walling Jacobs, of the county of Essex.\\nDemarest Patent. .\\\\nother early patent was one\\nfor three thousand acres of land in the old township\\nof Hackcnsaek, extending along the easterly side of\\nthe river from New Bridge to a point beyond Old\\nBridge, and easterly as far as the line of the Northern\\nRailroad. This was granted to David Demarias Des-\\nmeretz) and others, by Philiji Carteret, June 8, 1677.\\nThe patentee was a Huguenot, and came from France\\nto this country with his three sons, David, John, and\\nSamuel, about the year 1676. He was the ancestor\\nof the numerous family of Demarests in this country.\\nIt is said that, as far back as 1820, one interested in\\nthe family found by search seven thousand names\\nconnected with it, branches of the original stalk.\\n.\\\\ccording to tradition. Mr. Demarias first settled\\nat Manhattan Island, where he purchased the whole\\nof Harlem; but he soon afterwards disposed of that\\nproperty and removed to the liackensack, where he\\nmade the inirchase above mentioned, his design being\\nto establish a colony of some thirty or forty families,\\nto be transported from Europe. It wius probably in\\nview of this declared purpose that the patent was\\ngranted him; for it must have been known by the\\nGovernor or the land-otfice that the grant was\\nalready covered, in large part at lca.st, by the\\n])rior patent of two thousand acres given to ,Tohu\\nBerry. It is stated that Mr. Demarias and his asso-\\nciates were so hara.s.sed by the claims of different\\npersons during half a century that the land was\\npurchased by them no le.ss than four times. Berry,\\nhowever, at the request of the Governor, waivetl his\\nclaim for a time in view of the prospective settle-\\nment, and, in case of its failure, was promised a like\\ngrant in some other locality. On the 1st of July,\\n1709, Demarias having failed to fullill his stipula-\\ntion in regard to the settlement, Berry petitioned\\nthe Captain-General and (Jovernor-in-Chief of the\\nProvinci s of New Jersey and New York, eti-.. to listen\\nto a demonstration of the invalidity of a pretense of\\nJohn Demarest Company to three thousand acres\\nof land which they received from the Indians. The\\nBook 3 cif l \u00c2\u00abll, 03, Trniloli.\\nDeed on reconi at IVrUi AiulKiy.\\nRpv. T. 1). Ronipyn s lIlHtorirnl UltH-oiintp.\\nriircliiwera of pniprlrUry IkikIii nt tlinf tiiup, Hlifl Mrllor, hnil to ex-\\ntliiKtilRli lli\u00c2\u00ab f ntltaii clniniH Tor tbt niHflvcii on tlio l)v\u00c2\u00abt Ifrnm ttiry could\\nmakp. .^mipliniM tlioy iHd It in n lvanco tm.vliiK of the Iiidlniii tlrat\\nanil thon KuttloK tlipir Irulian ilt \u00c2\u00abU ronnrnuxl. and wttnolinioii l .v icrtting\\nt))plr depiU flnit of ttie ((overiinirnt and rxlingnt\u00c2\u00abtilnK tli\u00c2\u00ab Indian claim\\naftprwarda. TIkwp -hrpu-d in the l naliiPM could untlalljr do 11 fur a verjr\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mall trldp. r\u00c2\u00bb| pcli llv If mlipd \u00c2\u00bbpll with thp liiprluhla alrong l r or\\nbrandy. In no caso wtm an Indinn dpcd lipid valid unlciia ctuiArmad by\\nUie guTproment.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "LAND PATENTS IN BERGEN COUNTY.\\n45\\nGovernor subsequently withdrew the grant from the\\nsons of David Deniarest, according to Berry s repre-\\nsentation, and gave them a smaller grant, which in-\\ncluded a part of the two thousand acres of Berry.\\nThis latter grant was known as the French Patent,\\nproliably because the Demarests came from France.\\nWillock s and Johnston s Patent. George Wil-\\nlocks and Andrew .Johnston were the patentees of a\\nlarge tract of land in what are now Ridgewood and\\nFranklin townships. It extended from the Big Rock\\nat Small Lots (now called Glen Rock) northward to\\nthe Ramapo River, about one mile in width, and has\\nbeen known as the Wilcox and Johnson Patent,\\nboth names, however, being erroneously spelled.\\nGjorge Willocks was born in Scotland, and came\\nto this country in 1684. He is said to have been a\\nbrother of Dr. James Willocks, of Kennery, Scotland,\\nfrom whom he inherited a large estate. He was the\\nagent of the East Jersey proprietors for the collection\\nof the quit rents, and obtained various grants of land\\nfrom them. Upon the issuing of the writ of quo war-\\nranto by James II., with the view to vacating the pro-\\nprietary government of New Jersey and placing the\\nwhole North American colonies under one governor-\\ngeneral, in l(i86, Willocks and Lewis Morris took\\nstrong ground in favor of the proprietors. Through-\\nout that memorable contest between the |iroprietors\\nand the king, which was not finally settled till 1702,\\nwhen the proprietors surrendered their claim to the\\ncivil jurisdiction of the province to Queen Anne,\\nWillocks and Morris were stanch adherents to the\\nrights of the proprietors. In 1699, Willocks was their\\nrepresentative in the Assembly, and was dismissed\\nfrom that body by the famous act of the opposition\\nexcluding from the Assembly any proprietor or rep-\\nresentative of one. The people of Amboy elected\\nLewis Morris in his stead, and the historians tell us\\nthere were serious apprehensions of an insurrection\\nunder the leadership of Willocks and Morris. Wil-\\nlocks never settled on his patent in this county; he\\nresided chiefly at Perth Amboy, where he died in 1729.\\nAndrew Johnson (Jonstone), the other patentee,\\nwas born Dec. 20, 1694. When a young man he was\\na merchant in New York. He subsequently became\\nassociated with the proprietors of East Jersey, and\\nwas chosen president of the Proprietary Board. He\\nwas also a member of the Provincial Assembly, and\\nfor several years Speaker of the House and was one\\nof the commissioners for running the Lawrence line\\nbetween East and West Jersey in 1743. For some\\ntime he was treasurer of the College of New Jersey.\\nHe died at Perth Amboy, June 24, 1762.\\nThe lands south of this tract on the Passaic, in-\\ncluding a portion of the site of Paterson, were pur-\\nchased of the Indians in 1709 by George Ryerson\\nand Urie Westervelt. The original deed was in the\\npossession of the late John J. Zabriskie, of Hohokus,\\nLand Papers, New York.\\n2 Whitehead s New Jersey under the Proprietors.\\nand is among the ])apers left in the hands of his\\nwidow, now living in Paterson. In this deed an\\nexception is made of Sicomac, which was an Indian\\nburying-ground.^\\nFrenchman s Garden. In a note relating to\\nlot No. 18 in Winfield s Land Titles we find the\\nfollowing\\nLot No- 18 forms part of the present Macpelalj Cemetery, and was a\\npart of the Frenclinian s Garden. Concerning this garden I have met\\nwith the following poetic and somewhat sonot ons accounts.\\nIn a wild and romantic situation on Beigen Creek, nearly opposite\\nthe city of New York, thirty acres of land were purchased for a garden\\nand fruitery by tile unfortunate Louis XVI., who as proprietor became\\na UHturalized citizen liy act of tlie Legislature. Wartlen^s llUtortj of the\\nUiiilfd States, ii. 53. This statement of Warden seems to have been based\\non a notice relating to this garden in the Netc Jersey Jnxtrmil, June 27,\\n1787, in which it is said Part of this space is at present inclosed with\\na stone wall, and a universal collection of exotic, as well as domestic\\nplants, trees, and flowers are already begun to be introduced to this ele-\\ngant spot, which in time must rival if not excel the most celebrated\\ngardens of Europe. The situation is naturally wild and romantic, be-\\ntween two considerable rivers, in view of the main ocean, the city of New\\nYork, the heights of Staten Island, and a vast extent of distant moun-\\ntains on the western side of the landscape. As tall oaks from little\\nacorfis grow, so these exaggerated statements had their origin in the fol-\\nlowing simple fact. On March .3, 178U, Andre Michaux, in his petition\\nto the Legislature of this State, set forth that the king of France had\\ncommissioned him as the botanist to travel through the United States,\\nthat he had power to import from France any tree, plant, or vegetable,\\nthat might be wanting in this country, that he wished to establish near\\nBergen a botanical garden of about thirty acres, to experiment in agri-\\nculture and gardening, and which he intended to stock witli French and\\n.\\\\niericau plants, as also plants from all over the world. The Legisla-\\nture granted his petition, and permitted him, as an alien, to hold not\\nexceeding two hundred acres of land in this State.\\nHe came to this country fortified with a flattering letter of intro-\\nduction, dated at Vienna, Sept. 3, 1785, from the Marquis de Lafayette to\\nWashington. Correspondeni e of the .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0imeri^ iln Revolution, iv. 116. He\\nwas attached to the Jarden des Plants in Paris. He brought with him\\nthe gardener, Paul Saunier, who took the title to the ground bought for\\nthe garden. The place was stocked with many plants and trees, among\\nwhich was the Lombardy poplar. From this garden this once celebrated\\ntree was spread abroad through the country, and pronounced an exotic\\nof priceless value. Old New York, 23.\\nThe above garden-lot was part of the common land\\nof the Secaucus Patent, not partitioned with the other\\ncommon lands of the township of Bergen, but sur-\\nveyed and divided under a Supplementary Act in\\n1785. The commissioners were Abraham Clark, Aza-\\nriah Dunham, Silas Condit, John Carle, and Daniel\\nMarsh. In the field-book containing the survey and\\nallotment of these lands, page 6, the commissioners\\nsay, We then caused an actual survey to be taken\\nof the commons, after tvhich we proceeded to consider\\nthe claim put in by the Agent of Forfeited Estates for\\nthe County of Bergen to all the common lands al-\\nlotted to the Patent of Secaucus as formerly claimed\\nand forfeited to the State by William Bayard the\\nsame William Bayard having claimed the same as\\nheir-at-law to Nicholas Bayard, one of the original\\npatentees of Secaucus and survivor to Nicholas Var-\\nlet, the other patentee. These patentees having sold\\nto Edward Earle, and the latter to Judge Pinhorne\\nand others, the claim of the agent of the county was\\nnot sustained. Bayard, however, was a loyalist during\\nthe Revolution, and left the country.\\n3 Historical Discourse by Rev. W. B. Van Benschoteu.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "46\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nM.^NXEIiS AND CISTOMS OF THE IIOLLANDEHS\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nNOMENCLATURE.\\nThe Dutch settlers were generally persons of deep\\nreligious feeling, honest and conscientious, and add-\\ning to these ([ualilies those of industry and frugality,\\nthey generally became ])rosper )Us. The style of their\\nbuildings they doubtless brought with them from\\nHolland, their fatherland. They were built with one\\nstory, with low ceiling, with nothing more than the\\nheavy and thick boards that constituted the upper\\nfloor laid on monstrous broad and heavy beams, on\\nwhich they stored tlieir grain, the loft being used for\\na granary and for the spinning of wool sometimes\\nparts of it would be divided into sleeping apartments.\\nTheir fireplaces were usually very large, e.xtending\\ngenerally without jand)s, and sufficient to accommo-\\ndate a whole family with a comfortable seat around\\nthe fire. The chimneys were so large as to admit of\\nhaving their meat hung up and smoked within them,\\nwhich was their usual practice. When jambs were\\nadded, they were often set around with earthen glazed\\ntiles imported from Holland, ornamented with Scrip-\\nture scenes, which furnished the children and others\\nwith amusement and instruction. Such tiled jambs\\nand mantles are now seen in the old Zabriskie resi-\\ndence (now the Mansion House) in Hackensack, and\\nin other buildings of the more wealthy Hollanders in\\nBergen County. But they were generally the prod-\\nuct of a date ranging from fifty to a hundred years\\nafter ihi- lirst settlements.\\nDomestic and Social Habits.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Their early style of\\nbuilding corresponded well with their habits, which\\nwere simple, unaffected, and economical, contributing\\nmaterially to their independence and solid comfort.\\nThey brought their children uj to habits of industry.\\nAlmostevery son was tauglitsome mechanical art, and\\nevery daughter wiis re |uired to become well acquainted\\nwith all knowledge necessary to housekeeping. Tlie\\nfarmers burnt their own lime, tanned their own\\nleather, often made their own shoes and boots, and did\\nmuch of their own carjientering, wheelwrighting, etc.\\nThe spinning and woolen wheels were set in motion in\\n1 Onlllinrlly tlili niiK) t l\u00c2\u00bbe trtio, t lit Ihnro worn mmift fainllif H whielt\\nwouM n\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbJ ft very wlilc flo Iiliwe for thflr ac(U nilniKlation. We tHko\\ntlio follnwlng from tlia recotil of lilrtlin in llcrgrn County\\nCupanii Csdmui 12 chllilron.\\nJorlft CaillntiH 11\\nMaltliPiiN CoroelUe 12\\nWllllBiii CoiilliT l:l\\nJn-. l. i uliliitly\\nWllllaiii Ihiy 7\\nMUholl n.nmt 7\\nJoliHiiriU l .n.|rlrk 8\\nMiiltticiiii Kvfnwi.. 11\\nIlov. Wni. J\u00c2\u00ab ki\u00c2\u00bbm 10\\nJiMinh Mwriitilower H\\nMomelK Mc.r.i-ll\u00c2\u00ab U)\\nO-rrll Ni.wklrk 12\\nAilrUii l \u00e2\u0080\u0094l IS\\nHi lmliili lUi lufao 10\\niVlpr sniyvn*\u00c2\u00bbfil\\nJohn V\u00c2\u00bbii Clliif.\\nlliilild Vnn ni r Srbllil\\nilclmlgli Vnn ll iul.Mi.ll\\n1li-rrl k Vim Hyj i n....1 1\\nC^trnelniN Vnn \\\\onit...lO\\n(niifi\u00c2\u00ab wlvi-it.)\\nAlirnlmni Vnn WInklr.lO\\nlinnilriik Vno Wlnkli .ll\\nJacob Jih:oImo Van\\nWlnklr in\\nJorli VruhiTMl ll\\nMklin Vrnlan.l U\\n(Ihrrp wlvi-n\\nJo\u00c2\u00ab4 |ih Walilrun 18\\n(four wlTM.)\\nJohn Wfl.h 9\\nMnrlln WInns IS\\nifonr wItm.)\\nproper .season, and all materials for clothing the fam-\\nily, white as well as colored, were iiu\\\\nufactured at\\nhome. No female was considered a suitable candi-\\ndate for matrimony who could not show some stores\\nof domestic linen and other evidences of industry and\\neconomy. So economical were the females of their\\ntime that they frequently took their spinning-wheels\\nwith them when they went to spend a social afternoon\\nwith a neighbor. They often hel])ed the men in the\\nfield in times of planting, harvesting, and in other\\nbusy seasons. Such a thing as a carpet waa not known\\namong the rural inhabitants. The floors of their\\nhouses were scrubbed and scoured, and kept as clean\\nas their tables, which were used without cloths. Their\\nfloors were -sanded with sand brought from the beach\\nfor that purpose and put in regular heaps on the floors,\\nand becoming dry, it would be swept with a broom in\\nwaves, or so as to represent other beautiful figures.\\nFrugality, industry, and economy characterized all\\ntheir actions. They lived chiefly within theniselves,\\nand knew but little of the dangers and diseases in-\\ncident to lu.\\\\ury and indolence. As to religion and\\neducation, Rev. Dr. Taylor says, They paid early\\nattention to the public worship of God, and when\\ntheir numbers warranted they organized and estab-\\nlished churches, modeled after those of the father-\\nland. The Calvinistic religion of Holland was thus\\ntransplanted to the New Nctlierlands. The settlers\\nsoon sought the aid of the Dutch West India Com-\\npany in procuring ministers. Their cause on this\\nbehalf was furthered by the reverend clergy of the\\nCla.\u00c2\u00absis of Amsterdam, and ministers were sent forth\\nby that judicature under advice from the Synod of\\nNorth Holland. This mode of obtaining ministers\\nseems to have continued in full operation until lGt 4,\\nwhen the British became possessed of the colony of\\nNew Amsterdam.\\nDuring this period churches were established at\\nNew Amsterdam (New York), .\\\\lbany, Esopus(King9-\\nton), and Flatbush, L. I. And in KitUt, Kev. Henry\\nSclyus, in a letter addressed to the Classis of Amster-\\ndam, says, Besides me there are in New Netherland\\nthe Dominies ,Ioannc-s Megapolensis and Samuel\\nDrisius in New .Viusterdam, (Jidcon Schajits at Fort\\nOrange, and .lounnes rcillicmus at Midillewout and\\nNew .Vmersfort, ami llernumus Blum at the Esopus,\\nin all si.\\\\.\\nIn 161)2 the inhabitants of Bergen taxed them-\\nselves for the erection of a church, and four hundred\\nand seventeen guilders were tlius raised for that pur-\\npose. I ntil 11 G4 the religion of the Hel ormed Dutch\\nChurch was the established religion of the country.\\nIt ceased to be such with the change which then took\\nplace in political affairs. Yet, at the surrender, and\\nafterwards by a treaty of peace in 1(176, Rightii of\\nconscience with regartl t i worship and discipline were\\nsecured to the Dutch inhabitants. It was, juiwevcr,\\nfor years the most respectable denomination in the\\ncolony. This period extendeil from 1664 to 161)3,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE HOLLANDERS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 NOMENCLATURE.\\n47\\nwhen an act was passed by the Assembly of the\\ncolony of New York, whereby the Protestant Episco-\\npal Church became the religion known to the law,\\nand from 1693 to 1776, besides supporting their own\\nministers, all non-Episcopal inhabitants were forced\\nto contribute to the support of the Episcopal Church.\\nDr. Taylor, speaking of the character of the early\\nDutch settlers, says, They were reluctant to form\\nacquaintance with strangers, lest they should be im-\\nposed upon. But when such acquaintance was formed\\nand appreciated, it was not easily terminated. What-\\never may liave been their family broils, when any\\none of the community was wrongfully involved in\\ntrouble, especially in litigation, they were as one man.\\nWhen such oeciisions occurred it was no uncommon\\nthing for almost all the men to resort to the county\\ntown, and support and encourage their assailed\\nneighbor.\\nLearned Clergy. The ministers sent out from Hol-\\nland were a learned body of men, and mixing largely\\nwith the people, who had reverence for their learning,\\npiety, and example, they exerted a very powerful in-\\nfluence in moulding and shaping the early society. To\\nwhat extent the minds of the people were enlightened\\nand the ruder manners and customs modified by the\\ninfluence of these learned clergy it is impossible to\\nsay, but doubtless to a very great extent. They were\\nthe earliest, and for a long time the only, learned and\\nprofessional class within the limits of Bergen County,\\nand, to an extent, in New Netherlands. It strikes one\\nas peculiarly illustrative of the spirit of the times in\\nwhich the country was colonized that religion, par-\\nticularly theology, was placed in the forefront in the\\nearly settlements. The cast of mind of the clergy\\nwas peculiarly theological. While the great contro-\\nversies in Holland had been settled, and the decretals\\nof the Reformed Church formulated by the Synod of\\nDordrecht, the discussion of these doctrines formed the\\nstaple at the theological schools. Ministers came with\\ntheir minds fully imbued with them to this country,\\nand here theological discussion constituted a very\\nlarge part of the pulpit efforts of ministers. This is\\nsaid not disparagingly, but as an illustration of the\\nspirit of the times. The ministers, both in Holland\\nand in this country, were full of zeal to spread the\\ndoctrines of the Reformed Church. The fact is\\nnoticed in the journal of Count Zinzendorf that in\\n1742 the young minister, Jan Casparus Fryenmoet,\\nlate from the Classis of Amsterdam, and settled in\\nWalpack, on the Delaware, sought to draw him into\\ntheological discussion during the interval between\\ntwo sermons on Sunday. The count says, to avoid\\nwhich I went into the woods and read Josephus.\\nSome of the great controversies which engaged tlie\\nattention of ministers of the Reformed Church at a\\nlater period grew out of their relations to the Classis\\nof Amsterdam, which for a long time insisted upon\\ntheir exclusive right and privilege of ordaining\\nministers for the American churches. Another fruit-\\nful source of controversy which divided the church\\nin the early part of the present century was the in-\\ntroduction of doctrines believed to be at variance with\\nthe standard of orthodoxy set up by the Reformed\\nChurch of Holland. These matters will be found\\nalluded to more fully in the histories of the old\\nchurch at Hackensack and Scraalenburg.\\nDutch Nomenclature. In connection with the\\nmany names of Holland origin to be found in this\\nwork, it may be well to otter a few remarks on the\\ncustom of Hollanders and their descendants in this\\ncountry with respect to nomenclature, showing the\\ndifliculty, not to say the impossibility, of tracing the\\ngenealogy of Dutch families in the absence of a com-\\nplete and continuous record. Hon. Henry C. Murphy,\\nUnited States minister at the Hague, contributed an\\nable article on this subject to the Brooklyn Eagle,\\nfrom which we quote. Speaking of the difliculties\\nimposed upon the genealogist by the system of names\\nadopted in Holland and continued in this country,\\nMr. Murphy remarks,\\nTlie first uf these, in point of time, was ptitroinjmic (fatliei-nsiine), by\\nwhich a child took, besides his kiptisnial name, that of his father, with\\nthe addition of zoon or sen, meaniug son. To ilhistrate if a cliild were\\nbaptized Hendiick, and the baptismal name of his father was Jan, the\\nchild would be called Hendrick Jansen. His son, if baptized Tennis,\\nwould be called Tennis Hendrickeon the son of the latter might be Wil-\\nliam, and would have tlie name of William Teunisen. And so we might\\nhave the succeeding generations called successively Garret Willem-^on,\\nMarten Garretson, Adrian Martensen, and so on thiough the whule cata-\\nlogue of Christian names oi-, sii more frequently happened, there would-\\nbe a repetition in the second, third, or fourth generation of the name of\\nthe first, and thus, as these names were common to the whole people,\\nthere was in the same community ili^erenl Hiteaijes of iileutu ttUtj tlie same\\nitameg\\nThis custom, which had prevailed in Holland for centuries, was in\\nfull vogue at the time of the settlement of New Netherland. lu writing\\nthe termination sen, it was frequently contracted into 5e, or e. To give\\nan example both of tJie patronymic and the contraction of the name the\\nfather of Garret Martense, the founder of a family of that name in Klat-\\nbush, L. I., was Marten .\\\\driaense, and bis father was Adriac Ryerse,\\nwho came from Amsterdam. The inconveniences of this piactice,\\nthe confusion to which it gave rise, and the ditficulties of tracing\\nfamilies led ultimately to its abandonment, both in Holland and in this\\ncountry. In doing so the patronymic which the person originating the\\nfamily bore was adopted as the surname. Most of the families thus formed\\nand existing among us may be sard to be of American origin, as they\\nwere first fixed in America, though the same names were adopted by\\nothers in Holland. Hence we have names of such families of Dutch de-\\nscent among us as Jansen {Aiiijlice Johnson), Garretson, Cornelison,\\nSimosen or Simonson, Tyson (son of Mathias), Areeend (son of Arend),\\nHanson, Lambertsen, or Lamhutson, Panli^on, Remsen, Ryerson, Everts,\\nPhillips, LetTerts, and others. To trace connection between these families\\nand persons would be impossible, for the reason just stated, without a\\nregular record.\\nAnother mode of nomenclature, intended to obviate the difliculty of\\nan identity of names for the time being, but which rendered the con-\\nfusion worse confounded for the future genealogist, was to add to the\\npatronymic name the occupation or some other personal characteristic\\nof the individual. Thus Laurens Jansen, the inventor of the art of\\nprinting, as the Dutch claim, had affixed to liis name that of Coster, that\\nis, sexton, an olBce of which he was in the possession of the emoluments.\\nBut the same addition was not transmitted to his son; and thus the sou\\nof Hendrick Jansen Coster might be called Tunis Hendrickson Brouwer\\n(brewer), and his grandson might be Willi, im Tunison Bleeker (bleacher.)\\nUpon the abandonmeut of the old system of names this custom went\\nwith it but it often happened that while one brother took the father s\\npatronymic as a family name, another took that of his occupation or\\npersonal designation. Thus originated such families as Coster, Brouwer,\\nSchoonmaker, Stryker, Schuyler, Cryger, Snediker, Hagemen, Hoffman,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "48\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nDykeman, BlMkman, Wortniaii. and Tinman. Lika otiiora. tliey are not\\naDclcDt family nantea, aod are nut alt Ut be traced tu Uullaud as the place\\nwhere tlu jr tint N ^-ame flxoil.\\nA third praclici*. evidently designed, like that referred tu, to ultTiate\\nthe confusions of thi finit, wits to ap| en l the nunie of the place where\\nthe enk)n resided, not often of a lart^e city, hut of a particular limiteil\\nlocality, and frequently of a particular or natural object. This cust4 ui\\nU denoted in all the fuiuily nanu-s which have the prefix of I dii, Vamttr^\\nVer (which is a cjntraction of I uri(/er), and Ttn, meaning respectively of,\\nof OiSt and lU Ihf, KruDl towns in Holland we have the faniiliet* of Van\\nCleef, Van Wyck, Van Sliaack, Van HerKen, and othen; fixiui Gelderland,\\nthose of Van Lindern, Van Dyk, and Van Bnren from Utrecht, Van\\nWinkle; from Friesland, Van Neas fruni Zeeland, Van Duyne, Some-\\ntiDiea the I liM has been dropped, as In the name (tf Boetum, of the Prov-\\nince of Friesland Covert, of North Ilrulrant Wcsti-rvelt, of Drentho\\nBrevoortand Wessels, in Gelderland. The prefixes Vttmleror IVraudTeB\\nwere adopted when the name was derived from a particular spot, thus:\\nVanderreer (of the ferry Vanderliurg (of the hill), Vanderbilt (of the\\nbildt, i.f., of certjiin elevations, of ground in Gelderland and New Ut-\\nrecht), VanderU-ck (of the brook), Vandorhuffiuf the court), Vel-planck\\n(of the planck). Verhullz (of the holly), Verkerk (of the church). Ten\\n\u00c2\u00a3yck (at the oak). Ten Droeck (at the marsh). Some were derived, as\\nwe hava observed, from particular farms, thus Van Cowenhuveu (cold\\nfarms). The founder of that family in America, Walphat Gehissen Van\\nCuwenhoTen, came from .\\\\niersft.Ktt, in the Province of Utrecht, and\\nsettled at what is now called Flatlands, iu Kings County, N. Y., called by\\nfaim New Amerefoot.\\nSome names iu the claaslflcation I have attempted have undergone a\\nslight change in their transfer to America. Barculo ift from Borenlo,\\na town in Gelderland; Van Anden is frum .\\\\ndeln, in the province of\\nGroningen, Snediker should be Snediger. Bonton, if of Dutch origin,\\nshould be Bonten (son of Bondwign,or Baldwin), otherwise it is French.\\nVan Cott 4as proljably Van Catt, of South Holland. The Catti were\\nthe original inhabitants of the c\u00c2\u00abmntry, and hence the name. There are\\na few names derived from relative siluations to a place, thus Voorhls is\\nsimply before or in front of Ilrt^, a town in Gederland Onderdonk Is\\nbfh ic Dunk, which is in Bml\u00c2\u00bbant. There are a few names more arbitrary,\\nsuch as Middagh (mitlday), Conrad (cold counsel llagedorn (hawthorn),\\nB lgaat (orchard), Blauvolt (blue field), Rosevelt (rose field), Stuyvesant\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2|uick sand), Wyckoff (parish court), Hoogland (high land), Durland\\n(arid land), Opdyke (on the dyke), Ilasbrock (hare s marsh), and affoni\\na more ready means of identification of relationship.\\nSome names are disguised in a Latin drees. The practice prevailed\\nat the time of the emigration to this country of changing the names of\\nthose who haii gone thntugh the university and received a degree from\\nplain Diitcli to sonorous Roman. The names of all our early ministers\\nwere thus altered. Johannes or Jan Mecklenburg became Johannes\\nBlegapolensis F .vert Willpmse Bogart U-canie Evoradus Iktgardus; Jan\\nDoris Talheen l.\u00c2\u00bbH;aine Johannes Theodoruf* I alemus. It may be set\\ndown as a general rule that the Damss of Dutch fiilnilles ending iu us\\nhave thus lieen I\u00c2\u00abatinlzed.\\nI\\nCHAPTKK X.\\nEXl KIHTIONS AtJAIN.^T THE FRENCH\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THE SCHUY-\\nLICU.-;.\\nIn 1708, Colst. Vetcli and Xit^liol.son olitnined the\\nauthority of Qui cn Anne to tit out an expedition for\\nthe reduction of Canada. This autliority was accom-\\npanied by a small force from Kn^hiiid, and instruc-\\ntions to the several (iovernorsof the colonic.-* to a.H.Hist\\nthe enterprise all they coulil. t ols. Vetch and Nichol-\\nson came to America in the spring of ITIiit, with the\\npromise of a licet of ships soon to follow them. In\\ntliis expedition against the French it wa.s proposed to\\nemploy the Indians of this |)art of New Jersey under\\nCol. Peter Hi huyler. We find the fdllowing record of\\ntransactions at Amboy relating to this matter. The\\nCols. Nicholson and Vetch both appearing at a coun-\\ncil held at Amboy, the 30th of May, 1709, it was con-\\ncluded that George Riscarricks .should be forthwith\\nsent to Weequehald, the Indian sachem, to acquaint\\nhim that tlie Lieutenant-Governor Ingold.sbv expected\\nhis attendance on that board forthwith, and that Capt.\\nArent Schuyler should forthwith send for Machcou-\\ntuinst, Cohcowickick, Ohtossolonoppe, Meskakow, and\\nTeetee, sachems of the Minisink and Shawhona In-\\ndians, who appearing soon afterwards joined in the\\nundertaking; and I ngoldsby, Governor of New Jersey,\\nG.Saltfliisall. Governor of Connecticut,and C. Gookin,\\nGovernor of Pennsylvania, jointly commissioned Col.\\nPeter Schuyler, the 23d of May, 1709, to be over these\\nand other Indians on this expedition and soon after-\\nwards the said three Governors joined in a petition to\\nNi liolson that he would take upon him the chief\\ncommand of the expedition, after which he bore the\\nname of Gen. Nicholson.\\nThe expedition was finally gotten up, consisting of\\nthirty-six sail, one regiment of English marines, and\\ntliree regiments from New England. New Jersey\\npaid \u00c2\u00a33000 towards the expenses. Nova Scotia was\\ncaptured, and ol. Vetch made Governor of that\\nprovince. The design against Canada was abandoned\\non account of a change of ministry in England.\\nWhile tliis expedition was being raised Col. Schuyler\\nwent to England with some of his Indians, who were\\na great curiosity, and were feted and dined by the\\nqueen and nobles, and receivetl many presents and at-\\ntentions.\\nCapt. Arent Schuyler and Col. Peter Schuyler were\\nat this time residents of Hergen County. Capt. Schuy-\\nler was the father of the colonel, and was the sixth\\nson of the celebrated Pietersen Van Schuyler, who\\ncame from Holland in lli50, and married Margaret\\nVan Slecliteuhorst. There are few names on the\\npages of American history around which cluster more\\nof tlie associations of bravery, romance, and heroism\\nthan belong to those of Philip and Margaret Schuyler\\nand some of their descendants. The Schuylers of\\nHolland are represented lus having been wealthy mer-\\nchants engaged in the West India trade. They had a\\ncountry-seat near Dordrecht. Pieces of silver plate,\\nwith the family coat of arms, are yet in the possession\\nofsomeof the descendants of Philip Pietersen Schuy-\\nler. Philip is represented as a s| iriled ytiung gentle-\\nman, who defended his brother-in-law, young Van\\nSIcchtenhorst, single-handed against a furious mob.\\nSchuyler and Margaret were married in 1650, in the\\npresence of all the dignitaries of Fort Orange, now\\nAlbany. Margaret wa.s twenty-two at the time of her\\nmarriage; she had ten children, ami survived her hus-\\nband more tlian twenty-five years. .Viuong the excel-\\nlent things attributed to her was that she taught lier\\nsons U treat the Indian as a brother, and never to de-\\nceive him in word or deed. On more than one occasion\\nin public life she displayed a bravery amounting to\\nSmith s New Jersey, 3\u00c2\u00ab .i-M; Hutchinson s Hist. Masa., !t07.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE REVOLUTION.\\n49\\nlieroisiu. Such was the great-grandmother of Gen.\\nPhilip Schuyler, the companion of the brave Mont-\\ngomery, whom Washington regarded as one of the\\nmain supports of the Continental army, and upon\\nwhose success depended the salvation of our bleeding\\ncountry. Philip Schuyler married Kitty Van Rens-\\nselaer, and wrote in the Bible, under the record of\\nthat marriage, May we live in peace and to the glory\\nof God.\\nThe precise date of the settlement of Capt Arent\\nSchuyler in this county is not known. Rev. Mr. Van\\nBenschoten says he lived in 1697 upon the property\\nowned by the late Dr. William Colfax and W. W.\\nColfax. Smith, in his History of New Jersey, says\\nCol. Peter Schuyler was born in Bergen County. In\\ntliis county, he says, are the Schuyler mines; and\\nagain, the Schuylers have here two large parks for\\ndeer. We find the names of both Arent and Peter\\nSchuyler on the record of county officials in 1755.\\nThe following account of the discovery of the mines\\nis given by a correspondent of cue of the Newark\\ndaily papers\\nArent Schuyler, thougli owning a large tract of laud and several\\nslaves, was comparatively poor. About the year 1710 a negro, while\\nplowing, found a stone tliat was so heavy that it excited his curiosity to\\nsuch a degree that he carried it to hia master. It was sent to England\\nto be examined, and found to contain about eighty per cent, of pure\\ncopper. Mr. Schuyler, wishing to reward his servant for this valuable\\ndiscovery, gave him his freedom and told him to make three wishes,\\nwhich should be granted. The negro s first wish waa that he might re-\\nmain with his master as long as be lived and have all the tobacco he\\ncould smoke. The second was for a dressing-gown like his master s, with\\nbig brass buttons. These being granted, he was at a loss to make a third\\nselection. After studying for some time he scratched his head and said,\\nWell, massa, guess I take a little more tobacco 1\\nThese mines for many years yielded abundant treasures of ore. Arent\\nSchuyler was twice married. By his first marriage he had two sons,\\nPhilip and Casparus; by the second three sons and two daughters. Tlie\\nsous were John, Peter, and Adonijah. John was employed to lake charge\\nof the mines. For some time the ore was ient to Kngland for smelting.\\nThe first steam-engine ever brought to America was brought by John\\nSchuyler to these mines. He built the house known as the old Schuyler\\nmansion, on the hanks of the Passaic, below Belleville bridge. Tliis\\nhouse was more than once visited and violated by the British during the\\nRevolution.\\nf\\nPeter Schuyler commanded a New Jersey regiment\\nin an expedition to Canada in 1746. In June, 1755,\\nhe was appointed colonel by Governor Belcher. He\\nwas appointed to command a battalion of five hun-\\ndred New Jersey troops in the expedition to Crown\\nPoint. History tells us that his popularity was such\\nthat the battalion was soon filled, and more men\\noffered than were wanted. Col. Schuyler and his bat-\\ntalion were transferred to Oswego in the summer of\\n1756, and he was captured with half his men. They\\nwere held as prisoners for several months, and were\\nreleased upon parole. He afterwards marched to the\\nNorth with his regiment, and in September, 1760, he\\nentered Montreal as a victor. The war with the\\nFrench then terminated, peace being declared upon\\nthe surrender of Canada to the English, and confirmed\\nby the treaty of 1763. Col. Schuyler died in 1762.\\nSmith says of him in his history,\\nBy the liest judges of military merit he was allowed to rank high in\\nthat charactei-. He had qualities b -sides that greatly recommended him\\nto his aci|uaintance, being of a frank, open behavior, of an extensive\\ngenerosity and humanity, and unwearied ia his endeavors to accomplish\\nwhatever appeared of service to his country. He was taken at Oswego\\nwhen that post was given up to the French, and long detained a prisoner\\nin Canada, where, having letters of credit, ho kept open house for the\\nrelief of bis fellow-sufferers, and advanced large sums of money to the\\nIndians in the French interest for the redemption of captives, many of\\nwhom be afterwards, at his own expense, maintained whilst there and\\nprovided for their return, trusting to their abilities and honor for repay-\\nment and lost considerable in that way, but seemed to ^hink it well\\nbestowed. As to person, he was of a tall, hardy make, rather rough at\\nfirst view, yet a little acquaintance discovered a bottom of sincerity, and\\nthat he was ready to every kind oflice in his power. In conversation he\\nwas above artifice or the common traffic of forms, yet seemed to enjoy\\nfriendship with its true relish; and in all relatiuns what he seemed to\\nb\u00c2\u00ab he was. Mail. vii. 20.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nBERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE REVOLU-\\nTION.\\nThe Preliminary Stage of the War. The causes\\nwhich led to the outbreak of the war for independ-\\nence produced much the same feeling and action in\\nthis portion of New Jersey as were manifested simul-\\ntaneously throughout all the colonies, and which had\\nagitated the American people for at least a decade\\nbefore the actual conflict of arms. The acts of\\nBritish oppression, which for many years had been\\nearnestly protested against, culminated in the un-\\nwarranted closing of the port of Boston in the spring\\nof 1774. From this time till the firing of the first\\ngun at Concord was a period of passing resolutions\\nat town and county meetings, and of appointing Com-\\nmittees of Safety and Correspondence.\\nBergen County Resolutions.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At a meeting of\\nthe freeholders and inhabitants of Bergen County,\\nheld at the court-house in Hackensack on Saturday,\\nthe 25th day of June, 1774, Peter Zabriskie, Esq.,\\nchairman, the following preamble and resolutions were\\nadopted\\nTbis meeting being deeply affected with tbe calamitous condition\\nof the inhabitants of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in\\nconsequence of tlie late Act of Parliament for blocking up the port of\\nBoston, and considering the alarming tendency of the Act of the British\\nParliament for the purpose of raising a revenue in America,\\nDo i?eJ!oIt 1st, That they think it their greatest happiness to live\\nunder the government of the illustrious House of Hanover, and that\\nthey will steadfastly and unifonnly bear true and faithful allegiance to\\nHis Majesty King George the Third under the enjoyment of their con-\\nstitutional rights and privileges.\\nh\\\\. Tliat we conceive it to be our indubitable privilege to be taxed\\nonly by our own consent, given by ourselves or by our representatives;\\nand that we consider the Acts of Parliament declarative of their right\\nto impose internal taxes on the subjects of America as manife.st en-\\ncroachments on our national rights and privileges as British sut jects,\\nand as inconsistent with the idea of an .American Assembly or House of\\nRepresentatives.\\n3d. That we will heartiiy unite with this Colony in choosing dele-\\ngates to attend at a general congress from the sevei al provinces of America\\nin order to consul ton and determine some effectual method to be pursued\\nfor obtaining a repeal of the said Acts of Parliament, which appear to\\nUB evidently calculated to destroy that mutual harmony and dependence", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "BO\\nHISTOltY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nbetween Great Britaio aod her colonlee which are the buds and taf^rt\\nof iKilh.\\nAnd we do appoint Theunis Day, John Demareet, Peter Zabriskle,\\nCorneliiiB Van Vomt, and John Zahrisklo, Jr.. l- quirvs, to be a pommit-\\ntee for corrMpontiing with the cnmniittees of the otiier counties In tliin\\nPrwTince. and particularly to meet witli tlie ulher county committees at\\nNew Bruiutwiclt, or such uther place its shall l e afn^wd up^ n, in onler\\nto elect delejfatee to attend the general coni;rees of delegates of the\\nAlnericaD Coluniee fur the purpose aforeeaid.\\nThese resolutions were signed by three hundred and\\ntwenty-eight citizens of Ik-rgeu County, and a local\\nCommittee of Safety was organized, of which John\\nFell was chairman. Little, however, is known of the\\noperations of the committee or of local atlairs in\\nHergen County till the spring of 177fi.\\nPreparations to Resist the British. Early in\\n177(1, intelligence having been received that Lord\\nHowe had left Boston for New York, an attempt was\\nmade by Lord Stirling, then in command of the\\nmilitia in this vicinity, to fortify the eastern border of\\nthe county along the Hudson and at Bergen Point,\\nopposite Staten Island. The Provincial Congress, then\\nin session at Burlington,\\nOrdfred, that all ufhcers who have enlisted men, properly armed,\\nunder the late ordinance for raising three thoUKiind three hundred men\\niu this Colony, proceed ininie^liately with such numli\u00c2\u00abr as ttiey huve col-\\nlected or can collect to New York, assigning a due prol)Ortion of officers\\nto the men, that tliey may he ready, and leaving other offlcere as occa-\\nsion may require to collect the remainder. All officers, (laymastera, and\\notiiers are required to be diligent in their respective stations, and all the\\nfriends of iil^rty througliont the Colony are most earnestly entreated\\nDow to exert themselves for the preservation of their country, their\\nlives, liberties, and pniperty.\\nThis ongrees lo likewise earnestly desire all persons to lend arms\\nor other necessaries on the present occasion, and they may rest assured\\nof the public faith to make amends for any loss or danger they may\\nincur.\\nOritrrtd^ that Cornelins Van Vorst be UeuteDaDt.colonel, Richard\\nI ey, first m^Jrir, and John Martinlus Gootschius, second m%|or of the\\nbattalion of fool militia in the rounty of Bergen.\\nA regiment of light-horse was al.so raised, ami\\n.Tacobus Post was appointed major. He rcsignetl his\\ncommission Feb. .3, 177t).\\nJohn Fell was a devoted patriot, tie resided at Parainus, where he\\nwas well acquainted with the Tory Col. Van Buskirk, before the de-\\nfection of tlie latter fn m the .\\\\merican cause. In 1777, Judge Fell was\\narretted at his home and taken to Paulus Hook ss a prisoner, lie was\\nr(H-ognl7.4 d by theTrjry c di\u00c2\u00bbnel, when the following convenuilion ensued:\\nTimea are altered since we last mot, said the colonel.\\nSo I perceive, coolly replied the Judge, looking at the coloners\\nuniform.\\nWell, you are a prisoner, and going over to New York, where you\\nwill be presented to Uen. Ilol\u00c2\u00bbertson, with whom I linve the honor to lis\\nacfpiainte^i. I will give yon a letter of introduction, salti the colonel.\\nThe Judge thankml him and accepte l the letter, wlilcli he afterwards\\npr *i ente4l to (Irn. lbj|H rts. ti. It so liapp ned that the Judge and lien.\\nRi l,ertMin bad been friends at i ensarola after the old French war in\\n170.1 The purport of Van Uusklrk s letter of intr,Hlurllon was that\\nJ thn f ett tr u n notnriotis rthtl ami ro c.ij anil ad%ised that line care\\nih.oild l,e Uken of him. Oen. ihibertson handeil the letter b the Juilgo\\nand said, My old frientl. John Fell, you must be a very altered man\\nand a very great rascal indeetl if you e |ual this Col. Van llusklrk.\\nNotwilhstandlng this nxpre\u00c2\u00absii n of friendship. Fell was treate l with\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2urh severity that llie \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.puncil of Safety of New Jersey, Nov. 17, 1777,\\nunlere*] J ini(\u00c2\u00ab Parker stid Waller UntherropI to lie conflned In Jail at\\nMorristown until Fell and Wynant Van Zant should be discharged or\\nreleased from cunAnelnent in Ni-w York. .1/iiiu/rs o/ banci l o/ jwi/\u00c2\u00abty,\\nIfll.\\nContinental Congress having furnished the Pro-\\nvincial Congress with two tons of powder, it was dis-\\ntributed among the counties in the following order\\nBergen Count)- 4(in lbs. Essex County 600 Iba.\\nMorris 400 Middleeex !SO0\\nHunterdon 400 Uonmouth 700\\nSomerset 400 Burlington ..too\\nLord Stirling immediately took measures to place\\nBergen in a condition of defense, and to open means\\nof communication with tlie interior of the province.\\nHis i)lan, ro|iosed as early as the 18th of March, con-\\ntemplated the construction of two good roads, one\\nfriim Paulus Hook to Brown s, and the other from\\nWeehawken to Hackeiisack Ferry, and to set several\\nhundred of the Bergen militia at work upon them.\\nHe devised forts at Paulus Hook and at Bergen Neck,\\nthe former to prevent approaches from the city of New\\nYork and the latter from Staten Island. Part of this\\ncomprehensive plan had been carried into eti ect be-\\nfore the arrival of Gen. Washington. The latter or-\\ndered the immediate construction of the work at Pau-\\nlus Hook, which was soon completed and garrisoned;\\nbut before the work could be constructed at Bergen\\nPoint the British had arrived and occupied i^tatcn\\nIsland. On the 29th of June the advance of .\\\\dniiral\\nHowe s fleet of forty sail appeared in sight, bearing\\nthe British forces under Gen. Howe and in two\\ndays thereafter other arrivals swelled the number of\\nmen-of-war and transports to one hundred and thirty.\\nThe troops landed on 8taten Island, and the fleet (Mst\\nanchor off tlie mouth of Kill von Kull.\\nDevelopment of Loyalty to the King.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Of course\\nat this stage ol the war there were many in the vicinity\\nwho needed only the presence of the British army to\\nstimulate and encourage their loyalty to the king.\\nSuch hastened in large numbers to avow their alle-\\ngiance, and many who had hithertn taken part with\\nthe patriots now looked upon the struggle of the col-\\nonies as hopeless and joined the British. A number\\nof these accepted commissions in the British service,\\nand were the vindictive and unscrupulous leaders of\\natrociipus bands of marauding refugees, who infested\\nthe settlements and plundered or murdered their\\nformer neighbors with remorseless atrocity during a\\nconsiderable portion of the war. In 1776 the follow-\\ning action for disarming such disaffected persons\\nthroughout the province was taken by Provincial\\nCongress\\nWiirBRAS, by a regulation of Uie late Congress, the several commit-\\nte\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab In this Colony were authurlMKl and directetl to disarni all the oon-\\nasstH-iators and persons notorlnusly disalTecteii within their liounds;\\n.triif leftersti it appears that the said regulation hath not been carried\\ninto effect in some iwrls of the Colony; and il being aljaolntely neces-\\nsary, in the pres4Mtt dangenius state of publlck affslis, when arms art*\\nmuch wantoil for the publick defense, that it should bo instantly exe-\\ncuted It i* thfTrforr ilirfeleii iiarf rtmdvril^ That the several Colnnels in\\nthis Colony do, a ilhout delay, proceeii to disarm all such persons within\\ntlielr dislrirts a buee religious prinriples will not allow Iheiu to liear\\narms; and likewise all such as have hitherto refuseti and still do refuse\\nto bear artns; that the arms so taken be appraised tiy some Indifferent\\nWInAeld s lludaou County, I3S.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "BEKGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE REVOLUTION\\n51\\nperson or persons that the said colonels give vouchers for the same,\\nand that the appraisement and receipt be left in the hands of the persons\\ndisarmed.\\nFearing an attack from Staten Island, Gen. Mercer,\\nwho bad been sent to Paulus Hook to receive the\\nPennsylvania militia upon their arrival at that point,\\nand who had his flying camp at Bergen, was ordered\\nby Washington, on the 4th of July, 177fi, to station\\na guard of five hundred men at Bergen Neck, and\\nalso to guard the ferries over the Hackensaok and\\nPiissaic Rivers, being promised that on the next day\\nan engineer should be sent over from New York to\\nerect works for the security of those places. A fort,\\nafterwards named Fort De Lancey, was erected at this\\ntime a short distance below the present canal at Ba-\\nyonne, and Gen. Wadsworth s brigade was sent over\\nto Bergen, where it was joined by a battalion of\\nJersey troops.\\nAmong the precautions taken before the arrival of\\nthe British, as early as Feb. 3, 1776, was the removal\\nof the records from Perth Amboy to Burlington for\\nsafe-keeping. John Demarest, of Bergen County,\\nwas the agent for their removal, as appears from the\\nfollowing minute of Provincial Congress, under the\\ndate above mentioned\\nOrdered, That Mr. Demarest do attend the papers, books, and records\\nremoved from tlie secretar.v s at Perth Amboy, and deliver the same to\\nCharles Pettit, Esq., on Thursday next at Burlington on delivery thereof\\nhe is hereby authorized to take Blr. Pettit s receipt, agreeably to an order\\nof this Congress.\\nStill the British did not attack that portion of New\\nJersey, as they easily could have done with the force\\nat their command in the immediate vicinity. It is\\nestimated that at the time Gen. Mercer anticipated\\ntheir crossing the Kills they were at least eight thou-\\nsand strong on Staten Island and yet they showed\\nno disposition to cross, although menaced by inferior\\nnumbers on the Jersey side. Gen. Mercer, therefore,\\nformed a plan for attacking them upon the island,\\nwhich, though well conceived and prepared for, mis-\\ncarried on account of bad weather, which prevented\\nhis forces from crossing the Kill von Kull.\\nOn July 17, 1776, the committee of Newark pre-\\n.sented a petition to Provincial Congress, requesting\\nthat this Congress would procure, or cause to be built,\\nfour gondolas or row-galleys, mounted with cannon,\\nto ply between the mouths of Passaic and Hackensack\\nRivers and Perth Amboy. Robert Drummond and\\nLewis Ogden, of Essex Jacob Quackenbush and\\nDaniel I. Brown, of Bergen and Dr. Moses Bloom-\\nfield, of Middlesex, were appointed a committee to\\nconsider the propriety of granting the petition. The\\nmatter was referred to Continental Congress, through\\nMr. Ogden, but was not acted upon in season to meet\\nthe exigency.\\nActive Movements Begun. Meantime the en-\\nemy s forces had been augmented by arrivals, until,\\n1 Ameiicaa Archives, vi. 1263.\\nin the harbor of New York and upon Staten Island,\\nthey numbered thirty thousand men. The bay and\\nriver were alive with their vessels. As two of the\\nBritish men-of-war the Phu nix, of forty guns,\\nand the Rose, carrying twenty guns swept up the\\nharbor on the afternoon of the 12th of July, taking\\nadvantage of both wind and tide, the first fire of pa-\\ntriot guns was opened upon them from the sand-hills\\nof Paulus Hook, and was returned by a broadside as\\nthe vessels glided by the fort comparatively unharmed,\\ntheir sides being protected by a wall of sand-bags.\\nOn the same evening Lord Howe sailed up the har-\\nbor, greeted by the booming of cannon and the huzzas\\nof the British.\\nOn the 15th of September the British captured New\\nYork. The only incident connected with Bergen\\nCounty on that day was another attack upon the\\npost at Paulus Hook by the British ships-of-war, the\\nRoebuck, Phwnix, and Factor. The garrison,\\nhowever, was not surrendered, but remained in the\\npossession of the Americans for a short time under\\ncommand of Col. Durkie.* During this time Wa.sh-\\nington would occasionally leave his camp at Har-\\nlaem, cross over to the Jersey shore, and, in company\\nwith Gen. Greene, who had succeeded Gen. Mercer\\nin command on the Jersey shore, reconnoitre, some-\\ntimes as far down as Paulus Hook, to observe what\\nwas going on in the city and among the shipping.\\nThe account of the capture of Paulus Hook is fur-\\nnished by the following report of Gen. Greene, writ-\\nten from Fort Constitution, afterwards called Fort\\nLee\\n*Camp Fort CoNSTiTtJTioN,\\nSept. 2i, 1776.\\nDeab SlK, The enemy are landed at Powley s Hook they came up\\nthis afternoon and began a cannonade on the batteries, and after can-\\nnonading for half an hour or a little more they landed a parly from the\\nships. Gen. Mercer had ordered otf from the Hook all the troops except\\na small guard, who had orders to evacuate the place from the first ap-\\nproach of the enemy. Gen. Mercer mentions no troops but those landed\\nfrom the ships, but Col. Bull and many others that were along the\\nriver upon the heights saw twenty boats go over from York to Powley a\\nHook. This movement must have happened since Gen. Mercer wrote.\\nI purpose to visit Bergen to-night, as Gen. Mercer thinks of going to his\\npost at Amboy to-niorrow.\\nIn a later letter it is stated that nothing fell into\\nthe enemy s hands but the guns, which had been ren-\\ndered unfit for further service. Our army is posted at\\nthe town of Bergen, and our advanced party has pos-\\nsession of the mill just back of Powle s Hook.\\nBergen remained headquarters until the 5th of Oc-\\ntober, 1776, when Washington found it necessary to\\ncollect his forces preparatory to his retreat to the\\nDelaware. A letter written on the 4th of October,\\nsays: To-morrow we evacuate Bergen, and assigns\\nthe following reason for the act\\nIrving s Washington, ii. 300.\\n3 Hist. Hudson County, 142.\\nValentine s Manual, 1866.\\nIrving s Washitigton, ii. 367.\\nAmerican Archives, 5th Series, ii. 494.\\n7 Jacob Rion s mill, near the Point of Rocks. Wiufield.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "52\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nBergen is a iiorruw neck of laud turcfuwililp on threi \u00c2\u00bbldee by water,\\nand e.t{t4i6ed tu a rariety uf atlackn in difTorviit iditces at on? and the\\npame lime. A large bodv of the enemy Diiglil infallibly take pojsseeniim\\nof the place wlienerer they pleaded, unlet\u00c2\u00ab we kept aittronger force than\\nour nunibera will allow. The sjk)! itnelf f\u00c2\u00ab nut an ohjei-t of our arms\\nIf they attack it would but cut off thoHe who defendml it and secure the\\ngrain ami military dtores. The(*e Imve l t fn removed, and when we are\\ngone rt naked (tp^il is all thoy will find. We k* to Fort Constltntioii\\nan wton H\u00c2\u00bb we have seen the trooim marched off. We shall leave a guard\\nof ubflervation bfhind un: this may prevent the enemy s diacoTering our\\nremoval for a day or two.\\nIt appears from the authority above quoted that as\\noutjruartls Gen. Greene had posted at Bergen, Hoe-\\nbuck, Bull s Ferry, Hackensack, and opposite Spyt-\\nden-Duivel one hundred and sixty-eight officers and\\nmen.\\nWhen Fort Lee was evacuated on the 2iith of N(\u00c2\u00bb-\\nvember, 177 J, the army retreated to Jlackensack and\\nthence to the Dehiware. East Jersey w:us left to the\\nenemy. They stationed a considerable body of troops\\nat Paulus Hook, and strengthening the post, placed\\nit in command of Ivieut.-Col. Van Buskirk, of Saddle\\nRiver, wlio had joined the British. Tlie fort, also, on\\nBergen Neck, was occupied, principally by refu-\\ngees/ and was named Fort De Lancey in honor of\\nOliver De Lancey, of Westchester, a noted adherent\\nto the British cause.\\nThe following account of the evacuation of Fort\\nLee was written by Thomas Paine, author of The\\nAmerican Crisis:\\nAs I was with the troop\u00c2\u00ab at Fort Lee, and miirrhed with them t Ihe\\nedge of Pennnylvauiu, 1 nm well ac iuainted with many circumstance.-^\\nwhich those who lived at a distance knew little or nothing of. Our situ*\\ntttion there was exceedingly cnimpud, the place being on a narrrow neck\\nof land between the North Klvpr and Ilackensnck. Our force was incon-\\nsiderable, being not one-fourlh as groiit an Ilcjwe conhl brinp against iis.\\nWu liad nu anny at hand to have relieved the garrisitii had we shut oiir-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2elvee upaiid stood on the defense. Our ammunition, light artillery, iind\\ntlie beet pari of our stores had been removed n|K n the apprehension that\\nHuwo would endcovor to penetrate the Jerseys, in which case Fort Lee\\ncould be of no use to us, for it ninsi iM^rur lo every thinking man, whether\\nin the nrniy or not, that these kind of fluid-forts aie only for teui|H)niry\\npurjMMies, and Inat in use no longer than the enemy directs his force\\nagainst the particular object which forts are raised to defend.\\nSuch was our situAtlon and condition at Fort I.eo on the morning of\\nthe 20th uf NovemU r, when an officer arrived with information that the\\nvnemy, with two hundred boats, hud landed about seven or eight miles\\nftbove. Mi^.-Oen. Greene, who commanded the garrison, immediately\\nordore4l them under armtt, and sent an exprens to Ilia Kxcellencv Oen.\\nWaahinKton, at the town of lluckensaik, diKtant by the May of the ferry\\nilx mile*. Our flntt obJe t was lo si ciire the bridge uvi*r the Ilackrnwtck,\\nwhich laid up the river, l etween the enemy and nf,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 itlxiut six miles from\\nns and three from them. Gen. Washington arrived In about three-tpmr-\\ntors of an hour, and marched at the head of hit troo))* towards the bridge,\\nAt which place I expecti d we should have a brnsh. However, they did\\nDot cliooee to dispute It with us, and the greatest art of our tn o|iit want\\nover the bridge, the re\u00c2\u00abt 4iv\u00c2\u00ab r Ihe ferr} except some wbirh p is\u00c2\u00abed at a\\nmill on a small creek bi tween Ihe bridge and the ferry, and mmie their\\nway thnpugh some marshy ground up to the town of llackensack, and\\ntheri p-imrd llii river. Wp brunght off as ntiirh l uggage as the wagons\\ncould rontnln, the rent was lost. The simple object wan to bring off the\\ngsrrlson and to rnarrh them on until they could l e stn iigthenetl by the\\nPennsylvania or Jvmry militia, mi aa to be enaldtxl to make a stand. We\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0t*ye*l four days at Newi\u00c2\u00abrk, collected In our onl|MMtfl, with some of the\\nJtnny militia, and marchei) out twice to meet the enemy nn informailon\\nof their being ailvanclng, thi ugli our numl)er\u00c2\u00ab were greatly Inferior to\\nthelre.\\nAm. Arch., lh S\u00c2\u00ab rii-s, 11. HtiT.\\nI The above account is very accurate in the main,\\nthough it contains one expression calculated to mis-\\nlead the reader. In speaking of the few troops who\\ndid not cross the river with tlie main body, the writer\\nsays they made their way through some marshy\\nground up to the town of Hackensack, and there\\npa-ssed the river. It should have been down to the\\ntown, for they crossed at Old Bridge, about four miles\\nabove.\\nWashington in Hackensack.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Washington en-\\ntered Hackensack with about three thousand men,\\nhaving sent forward his baggiige to Acquackmonck,\\nAd eye-witness hs^ given the following statement:\\nIt was about dusk when the head of Ihe tn^ops entered Hackensack.\\nThe night wmk lark, cold, and rainy, but I had a fair view of them from\\nthe light of the windows lut they paased ou our bide of the Btreet. They\\nmarched two alirfiist, Ioi ked rHj;tH l, s .)nif without a whoe lo their feet,\\nand mot^t of them wrapped up in their blankcUt. M nshiiigton then, and\\nfor Some time previuuH, bad his headquarters at the residence of Mr.\\nPeter Zabriski**, a private hoube, now called The Mansion Houae, the\\nsupplies (or the general s tJkble being furnished by Mr. Archibald Camp\\nbell, the tavern-keeper. The next evening after the Americans had\\npasiteil through the British encamped on the oppt^ieite side of the river.\\nWe could see their flres, about one hundred yards ajiart, gleaming bril-\\nliantly ill the glmmi of night, extending some diplance Udow the town\\nand more than a niih up towanlh NVw Bridge. Washington was still at\\nhis |uarteiit, and had with hiui liiH suite, life-guard, a Lomimny uf ftkot, a\\nregiment of cavalry, and some soldient from Ihe rear of the army. Id\\nthe morning, l\u00c2\u00bbefore tin* general left, he nxie down to the dock, where\\nthe biidge now is, viewed the enemy encampment about ten or fifleen\\nminute\u00c2\u00ab, and then returned to Mr. fanipbetl s door and calle\u00c2\u00abl for 8f m\u00c2\u00ab\\nwine and water. After he had drank, and Mr. Tampbell had taken the\\nglass from him, the latter, with tearv ntrcaDiing down his face, said,\\nGeneral, what shall I t|u I Uuw a family of small childien and a little\\npro()erty here; shall I leave tliem Washington kindly took hia hand*\\nand replie l, Mr. Campbell, stay by your family and ktep neutrat then\\nj bidding him good-by, rode off.\\nI About noon the next day the British took posMwIoD of the town,\\nand ill the aft\u00c2\u00ab-rnoon the green was covered with Heasians, a horrid,\\nfrightful sight to the inhabitanlD. There were tN tween three and four\\nthoiutand, with their whiskers, brass ca|\u00c2\u00ab, and ketUes or liaas drums.\\nA part of theae troojis were taken prisoners two months after at Tren-\\nj ton.\\nAlthough this Hritisli force which had crossed the\\nHudson followed the retreat of the Americans to the\\nDelaware, it was not hmg before \u00c2\u00ab)lher bodie-s of the\\nenemy visited the village. In December, 1776, it\\nwas reported that there were at Harkensiick about one\\nthousand of the enemy, and the siiggeMion of Hunt-\\nington to Maj.-Gen. Heath was to intercept them in\\ntheir foragings. The latter on the 14th expressed his\\npurpose to sweep the village, which he did the next\\nday. Making a forced march l\u00c2\u00bby the way (if Tappan,\\nbecame upon the inliabitants by surprise but the\\nenemy had left. He says, The enemy ha l left the\\ntown some days since, except five, whom we took,\\ntwo of them being sick. We have taken about fifty\\nof the disaffected, and about fifty or sixty muskets,\\nthe greater part of which had been taken from the\\nWhigs, it is stipposed. and sl4)red. At the dock we\\nfound oneslo \u00c2\u00bbp loaded with hay, house-furniture, and\\nsome spirits, etc., which we have this day unloaded.\\nThere were ftbout thre\u00c2\u00ab tliouaand m\u00c2\u00abD.\\nI Hlstorlciil ftddma bj Bar. Thvodore D. Romeyn.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE REVOLUTION.\\n63\\netc. A brig, loaded, ran down the river about seven\\nmiles and grounded. I am afraid we shall not be able\\nto secure the effects. A schooner loaded with hay,\\nfurniture, etc., which had sailed from the dock, ran\\non the bank of the river, the wind being very fresh,\\nand in the night overset, by which the goods are dam-\\naged, if not lost. Two or three companies have been\\nraising here and in the vicinity, and field-officers ap-\\npointed; one Van Buskirk, colonel. At hi.s house\\nwe found fifty barrels of flour, a number of hog.s-\\nheads of rum, and at one Brown s, who is lieutenant-\\ncolonel, about one thousand pounds of cheese. One\\nTenpenny is major. They are all gone to New York\\nto have matters properly settled, get ammunition,\\narms, etc., and were to have returned yesterday. I\\nbelieve we have luckily disconcerted them. Such in-\\nhabitants as are friendly received us with joy, but are\\nalmost afraid to speak their sentiments, and, indeed,\\nlittle or no intelligence can be got from the inhabit-\\nants, etc\\nMr. Romeyn says, The brigantine which grounded\\njust below the village was subsequently boarded, but\\nwas retaken by the enemy. Among other articles taken\\nfrom her was a large chest of plate, said to belong to\\na Mr. Yates, but it had been put iu his possession for\\nsafety at Hackensack by Mr. William Wallace. -It\\nwas worth about fifteen hundred pounds.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nBERGE.V AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE RKVO-\\nLUTION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Continued).\\nExploit of Col. Aaron Burr. It was during one\\nof those raids of the British and Tories in the vicinity\\nof Hackensack, in September, 1777, that Col. Aaron\\nBurr gained his first military distinction. Hearing,\\nat the point where his regiment was lying (in the\\nClove, near Suftren s), that the British had marched\\nout of New York and were devastating the country,\\nand were within thirty miles of him, he started to\\nmeet them with his small force. About ten o clock in\\nthe evening, when within three miles of Hackensack,\\nhe received certain information that the most ad-\\nvanced of the enemy s pickets were only a mile dis-\\ntant. His men having marched thirty miles since\\nbreaking camp, and being extremely fatigued, he or-\\ndered them to lie down and keep silent until he re-\\nturned. In a few moments they were all asleep.\\nMeanwhile Col. Burr went forward alone to recon-\\nnoitre. Stealthily he felt his way towards the picket,\\nand found them lying on the ground guarded by two\\nsentinels. He was near enough to hear their watch-\\nword. He ascertained by making a wide detour that\\nthis picket was so far in advance of the main body as\\n1 American Archives, iii. 123-4.\\nKonie.vo d Histurical Discounte.\\nto be out of hearing. In gaining this information so\\nmuch time was spent that it was within an hour of\\ndaybreak before he returned to his regiment. Quietly\\nand quickly waking his men, he informed them of his\\npurpose to attack the enemy s picket, and ordered\\nthem to follow at a certain distance, and forbade any\\nman to speak on pain of instant death. So accu-\\nrately had the colonel noted the locality and calcu-\\nlated the position of the sentinels that he was able to\\nlead his men between those two unsuspecting individ-\\nuals at the moment when they were farthest apart,\\nand he was almost upon the sleeping picket before\\na man of it began to stir. When at a distance\\nof ten yards Burr was challenged by a sentinel,\\nwhom he immediately shot dead, and then gave\\nthe word of attack. One officer, a sergeant, a cor-\\nporal, and twenty-seven privates fell into their hands\\non this occasion. Only one of the pickets be-\\nsides the sentinel made any resistance, and he was\\noverpowered after he had received two bayonet-\\nwounds. He attempted to march away with his\\ncomrades, but after going a short distance was com-\\npelled to lie down exhausted and fainting from loss\\nof blood.\\nGo a little further, my good fellow, said Burr,\\nand we will get a surgeon for you. Ah, gasped\\nthe dying veteran, all the doctors in America can do\\nme no service, for I am a dying man but it grieves\\nme sore to the heart that I have served my king up-\\nwards of twenty years, and at length must die with a\\ncharged musket in my hand.\\nCol. Burr immediately sent off an express to Para-\\nmus to order all the troops to move, and to rally the\\ncountry. His exploit had so encouraged the inhab-\\nitants that they turned out with great alacrity and\\nput themselves under his command. But the enemy,\\nprobably alarmed by these threatening appearances,\\nretreated the next day, leaving behind them the\\ngreater part of the plunder which they had taken.*\\nClinton s Raid. In September, 1777, Sir Henry\\nClinton, then in command at New York, planned a\\nraid into New Jersey. He divided his force into four\\ncolumns. The general point of rendezvous was the\\nNew Bridge, above Hackensack. One column, under\\nGen. Campbell, entered New Jersey by the way of\\nElizabethtown one, under Capt. Drummond, by way\\nof Schuyler s Ferry one, under Gen. Vaughn, by\\nway of Fort Lee, and the other, under Lieut.-Col.\\nCampbell, by way of Tappan. On the 12th the ex-\\npedition set out. Clinton himself followed, passing\\nup Newark Bay to Schuyler s Landing, on the Hack-\\nensack (Dow s Ferry). From this point he marched\\nover the Belleville turnpike to Schuyler s house, where\\nhe found Capt. Drummond with two hundred and\\nfifty men. During the night Gen. Campbell arrived\\nwith his detachment and the cattle he had collected\\nen route. The different columns met as designed on\\n3 Ronieyu, from Partoii 6 Life of Aaruii Burr, 101.\\nNew Jeraej- Hist. Col., 84.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "64\\nHISTORY OP BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthe 15th. On the following day Gen. Campbell j\\ninarched his force from English Neighborhood to\\nBergen Point, whence he passed over to Staten Island.\\nThe result of the raid was the capture of four hundred\\ncattle, four hundred sheep, and a few horses, taken\\nfrom the people of Essex and Hergen. In exchange,\\nthey had eight men killed, eighteen wounded, ten\\nmissing, and five taken prisoners.\\nAs an offset to this raid, we find the following ac-\\ncount of an expedition by the pnsite |)arty over the\\nsame ground\\nA party of rebel light-horse came down as far as\\nBergen Point last Tuesday night (July 28th), and re-\\nturned next morning towards Hackensack. They\\nvisited Hoebuck on their way and carried off a great\\nnumber of cattle from the inhabitants.\\nThe following interesting item is taken from\\nSinythe s Diary, quoted by Winfield\\nTbii afternoon a party of our liorse brought tu two roliel privates\\nfrom PowIo b Hook. One of tln^ni in very intelligent and communicative,\\nbut the other in tlie nioitt wbiniitical tony 1 ever have Been. Wherever\\n,be goes he carries with liini a birge gniy cat, which lie says came into\\nthe reliel camp on the nit;ht after the tiattle of Freeliolil Meeting-House,\\nand wtiich he first discovered liipping a sjiot of dry blood on Iiis sleeve as\\nhe lay on his arms expecting another dash at the British. His affection\\nfor the :at is wonderful, hs her s In for bin), fur they are insejmrable. He\\niaye if we don t alb w lilni extni rations for bis cat lie shall be obliged to\\nallow tbt-ni out of hi.^ own.*\\nMaj. Lee s Gallant Attempt to Capture Paulus\\nHook. The post at Paulus Hook was held with great\\ntenacity by the British, and is said to have been for\\ngome time the only post held by them in New Jersey.\\nIt was a convenient and safe |)oiiit at which they could\\nland their troops for incursions in various directions.\\nHere, on the night of Feb. 24, 177 .t, landed portions\\nof the Thirty-third and Tliirty-fourtli Heginients of\\nBritish, under Lieut.-Col. Sterling, on their way to\\nattempt the capture of Governor Livingston at Eliza-\\nbethtown. They marched across the hill to Brown s\\nFerry, whence they were taken in boats sent from\\nNew York for that |iurpose around by the Kill von\\nKull. The i apers of this i)eriod record many raids\\nmade from this point in various directions by the\\nBritish and Tories.\\nThe most interesting episode in this portion of our\\nhistory is the attempt to capture the fort at Paulus\\nHook by Maj. Henry Lee. This gallant aiitl dash-\\ning ollicer, who had frequently been employed by\\nWashington as a scout along the west bank of the\\nHudson, had discovered that the British fort at Pju-\\nlus Hook, although a strtmg place, was negligently\\nguarded, and he conceived the idea of its capture by\\na night march and a sudden surprise. Not that it\\nwas ileeme l practical to hold the position in face of\\nthe British forces in New V()rk, but the brilliant\\nexploit would give Iclat to tho Continental arms.\\nWashington at first looked upon the project with\\ndisfavor, but liiially yieliled and gave orders for an\\n1 New Vork M-^r\u00c2\u00abrf, Aug. :i, I\\nNew Jen\u00c2\u00bby OotUr, Oct. 2S, 1778.\\nllatn\u00c2\u00abbl IIMory of EllialM-lh.\\nimmediate preparation. Lee moved from his encamp-\\nment at New Bridge about four o clock in the after-\\nnoon of Aug. IS, 1779. following what is known as\\nthe lower road which intersects the present Hacken-\\nsack road, near the English Neighborhood church,\\nhaving taken the precaution to .send forward boats in\\ncharge of Capt. Peyton, with instructions to have\\nthem at Dow s Ferry at a certain hour of the night,\\nfor the purpose of taking his troops over the Hack-\\nensack he also detached i)atrols of horse to watch\\nthe communications with North Uiver, and postfcd\\nLord Stirling at New Bridge to cover his retreat, if\\nnecessary. The whole movement was conducted with\\nsuch secrecy that they arrived at the fort without\\nbeing discovered, notwithstanding the fact that, on\\naccount of the ignorance or the treachery of their\\nguide, they were compelled to wander three hours in\\nthe woods between Union Hill and the fort, and the\\nstill more remarkable fact that they were in danger\\nof encountering Col. Van Buskirk, who had left the\\nfort at Paulus Hook about the time that Maj. Lee\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0started, with a force of one hundred and thirty men\\non a raid to the English Neighborhood. That these\\ntwo forces, one of them at least straggling and floun-\\ndering upon a misdirected course through the wilder-\\nness and in the darkness of night, should entirely\\nescape each other seems incredible. But such is\\nthe well-attested fact. Perhaps their getting lost\\nand marching out of the direct course may have been\\nthe very means of their escape. Be this as it may,\\nMaj. Lee reached Prior s Mill at three o clock on\\nthe morning of the l!Hh. The day was nejir at hand,\\nand the tide that would fill the ditch and overflow\\nthe road between Warren and (irove Streets (Jersey\\nCity) was rising. Not a moment was to be lost. The\\npunctilios of rank and honor were discarded, and\\nthe troops ordered to advance in the order which they\\nthen held. Lieut. Rudolph, who had been sent for-\\nward to reconnoitre the passage of the ditch, now\\nreported to Maj. Lee that all was silent within the\\nworks, that he had fathomed the canal and found the\\n|)assage possible. This intelligence was pa.ssed along\\nthe line, and the troops pushed forward with resolu-\\ntion, order, and coolness. Lieuts. McCallister and\\nBudolph led the forlorn hope, who marched with\\ntrailed arms in silence. They reached the ditch at\\nthe intersection of Newark ,\\\\venne and Warren\\nStreet at half-past three o clock on Thursday morn-\\ning. The guards were either asleep or took the ap-\\njiroaching force to beCol.Van Buskirk s men returning\\nfrom their raid. They were not undeceived until the\\nadvance had |iliinge l into the ditch. Immediately a\\nfiring began. The block-house guards ran out to see\\nwhat was the matter, and were seized. The forlorn\\nhope, supported by Maj. Clarke, broke through all\\nopposition, and soon became masters of the main\\nwork, with the cannon, etc. So rapid were they in\\ntheir movements that the fort was gained before a\\npiece of artillery was fired. The troops came pouring", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "BKKOEN ANi PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE REVOLUTION.\\n55\\nthrough the abatis, and in a few minutes were victo-\\nrious. Unfortunately, in crossing the ditch the am-\\nmunition was destroyed, and thus their firearms were\\nuseless. As soon as Maj. Southerland, then in com-\\nmand of the fort, comprehended the situation, he\\nthrew himself into a small redoubt, with a captain,\\nsubaltern, and forty Hessians. Maj. Lee had no time\\nto dislodge him or to remove or destroy property.\\nDaylight was at hand, and he had some anxiety\\nabout the boats at Dow s Ferry. Besides this, the\\nfiring had aroused the British in New York, who\\ncould in a few minutes throw a large body of troops\\nacross the ndver. He therefore ordered an immediate\\nretreat, and sent Capt. Forsyth to Prior s Mill to col-\\nlect such men as were most fit for the action and take\\na position on Bergen Heights to cover the retreat.\\nMaj. Clarke was in the advance with most of the pris-\\noners Lieuts. Armstrong and Reed formed the rear-\\nguard. Lee now rode forward to look after the boats\\nat the ferry. To his dismay not a boat was there to\\nreceive them. Capt. Peyton, owing to the lateness of\\nthe hour, had removed them to Newark. Lee imme-\\ndiately countermarched his troops to the Bergen road\\nen route for New Bridge, communicated with Lord\\nStirling, and returned to the rear-guard at Prior s\\nMill. His prospects were now discouraging. With\\ntroops worn down, ammunition destroyed, encum-\\nbered with prisoners, fourteen miles of retreat before\\nhim on a route liable to be intercepted by troops from\\nNew York, with no way of escape to the left, he could\\nonly depend upon the invincible courage of his men.\\nOn reaching the heights opposite Weehock, Capt.\\nHandy moved on the main road to facilitate the re-\\ntreat. Here Capt. Catlett came up with fifty men\\nand good ammunition. One party was then detached\\nin the rear of Maj. Clarke on the Bergen road, and\\none to move along the bank of the river. In this\\nmanner a sudden attack was prevented. At the Fort\\nLee road Col. Ball, who had been forwarded to Lee s\\nassistance, met him with two hundred fresh men.\\nShortly afterwards a body of the enemy appeared\\nupon the right and opened fire on the retreating Amer-\\nicans. Lieut. Reed immediately forced them, and\\nLieut. Rudolph threw himself into a store-house\\nwhich commanded the road. This disposition checked\\nthe enemy and gave the force time to cross the Eng-\\nlish Neighborhood creek at the Liberty pole, now\\nEnglewood. Jus.t at that moment Maj. Southerland,\\nwho had followed Lee, came up, but halted, and\\nfinally fell back without venturing an attack. Maj.\\nLee arrived safely at New Bridge about one o clock\\nin the afternoon. He had captured one hundred\\nand fifty-nine of the garrison, including officers, and\\nlost two killed and three wounded.\\nThe report of this enterprise by Maj. Lee cannot\\nbe here quoted in full, but we cannot forbear to men-\\ntion one item in it very creditable to his humanity\\nand magnanimity as a soldier. I intended, he\\nsays, to have burnt the barracks but on finding a\\nnumber of sick soldiers and women with young chil-\\ndren in them, humanity forbade the execution of my\\nintention.\\nThis exploit of Maj. Lee was regarded with great\\nadmiration. Washington, in a letter to Congress, said,\\nThe Major displayed a remarkable degree of pru-\\ndence, address, and bravery upon this occasion, which\\ndoes the highest honor to himself and to all the officers\\nand men under his command. The situation of the\\nfort rendered the attempt critical and the success\\nbrilliant.\\nJames Duane, afterwards mayor of New York,\\nwrote to Alexander Hamilton, Sept. 10, 1779,\\nOne of the most daring and InBolent assaults tliat is to be found In\\nthe records of cliivalry, an achievement so brilliant in itself, eo roman-\\ntic in the scale of British admiration, that none but a hero, inspired by\\nthe fortitude, instructed by the wisdom, and guided by the planet of\\nWashington could, by the exploit at Panlus Hook, have furnished mate-\\nrials in the page of history to give it a parallel.\\nThe principal actors concerned in the afl^air were\\nhonored by congratulatory resolutions passed by Con-\\ngress, Sept. 24, 1779\\ni^eso^Jed. That the thanks of Congress be given to his Excellency\\nGeu. Washington for ordering, with so much wisdom, the late attack on\\nthe enemy s fort at Powles Hook.\\nBetolved, That the thanks of Congress be given to MaJ.-Gen. Lord\\nStirling for the judicious measures taken hy him to forward the enter-\\nprise and to secure the retreat of the party.\\nResolved, That the thanks of Congress be given to Maj. Lee for the\\nremarkable prudence, address, and bravery displayed by him on the\\noccasion; and that they approve the humanity shown in circumstances\\nprompting to severity as honorable to t!ie arms of the United States, and\\ncorrespondent to the noble principles on which they were assumed,\\nliefoh-ed, That Congress entertain a high sense of the discipline, for-\\ntitude, and spiiit manifested by the officers and soldiers under the com-\\nmand of Maj. Lee in the march, action, and retreat; and while with\\nsingular satisfaction they acknowledge the merits of these gallant men,\\nI hey feel an additional pleasure by considering them as part of an army\\nin which very many brave officers and soldiers have proved, by their\\ncheerful perforinance of every duty under every difficulty, that ttiey\\nardently wish to give the truly glorious examples they now receive.\\nliesiih eil. That Congress justly esteem the military caution, so happily\\ncombined with tlaring activity by Lieuts. McCallister and Rudolph in\\nleading on the forlorn hope.\\nIlau h-ed, That a medal of gold, emblematical of this affair, be struck\\nunder the direction of the Board ot Treasury and presented to Blaj. Lee.\\nlleKi lred, That the brevet and the pay an l subsistence of captain be\\ngiven to Lieut. McCallister and Lieut. Rudolph respectively.\\nCongress also placed in the hands of Maj. Lee fif-\\nteen thousand dollars to be distributed among the\\nsoldiers engaged in the attack.\\nGen. Poor s Death.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In September, 1780, the Amer-\\nican army lay at Kiuderhamack, in what is now Wash-\\nington township, Bergen Co. While here, on the 8th\\nof September, occurred the death of Brig.-Gen. Enoch\\nPoor. A military journal of the next day says,\\nWe are now lamenting the loss of Brig.-Gen, Poor, who died last night\\nof putrid fever. His funeral solemnities have been attended this after-\\nnoon. The corpse was brought this morning from Paramus, and left at\\na house about a mile from the burying-yard at Hackensack, whence it\\nWHS attended to the place of interment by the following procession; A\\nregiment of light infaDtry in uniform, with arms reversed; four field-\\n1 Hamilton s Works, i. 80, 87, cited by Winlield, 161.\\nitournal of Congress, v. 368.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "56\\nHISTORY OF BKIIGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\npiecM; U((J. Lt p*e rogiment of Itglit-hono; Oeii. Hnnd und his brigade;\\nthe major on horseback; two clmplainii the hone of tbo deceased\\nwith hilt botttj) and Dpiint siispended from the Middle, led by a Herraiit\\nthe corpse, l orne by four sergeants, and the ull HUpiHjrted by six gen-\\neral offlcers. The coffin wiih of mahogany, and a puir of pistols and\\ntwo BWonlit cniSfing each othir were placed on the top. The cort^o\\nwas full. .wed by thu ufflcers of the New Hampshire brigade of light in-\\nfantry which the di cea*ed bad lately coQininnd -il. fHher ufflcen* fell in\\nproDiit\u00c2\u00abcuouiily, and w\u00c2\u00abre followed by his Kxctdlenry Oeii. Wjuliinktuii\\nand other general ofticers. Having nrrived at the burying-yard, the\\ntroops opened tu the right and left, resting on their arms reversed, and\\nthe procession passed tu tlie grave, where n short eulogy was delirereil by\\nthe Rot. Mr. Kvnns. A band of niuttic, with a number of drums and\\nfifes, played a funeral dirge; the drums were mutHed with black cnip*,\\nand the olDcors iu the procession wore cnipe round the left arm. The\\nregiment of light Infantry were In )i\u00c2\u00bbndHonie uniform, and wore in their\\ncaps long feathers uf black and red. The elegant regiment of horse cmi-\\nmiindeil by Miij. Lee, in complete uniTorm and widl diMriplined, exhibited\\na martial and iiuble appearance.\\nGen. Pof)r s ri iiuiins were interred in tlie buryinp-\\nisrround of the old Kel ormed Duteh Chnrrli. in Haek-\\nensack, where the following inscription will he found\\nupon his tablet\\nIn memory of the Hon. Brig.-Gen. Enoch P.Kir, of the Stale of New\\nHampshire, who departed tliis life on the Sth day of Septeml\u00c2\u00bber, ITSii,\\naged 44 years.\\nWashington, Lafayette, and a portion of the Amer-\\nican army attended the funeral of Gen. Poor. In\\n1824 Lafayette revisited this grave, and turning uway\\nmuch affected, exclaimed, Aii that was one of my\\ngenerals!\\nBrig.-Gen. Enoch l*oor was a native of New Hamp-\\nshire. He was a colonel in the Continental army in\\nthe expedition against Canada in 1776, where he\\nserved with distinction. He was afterwards at Crown\\nPoint, and was one of the twenty-one inferior officers\\nwho signed a remonstrance against the decision of a\\ncouncil of olHcers there consisting of Gens. Gates,\\nSchuyler, Sullivan, Arnold, and Woedtke, when it\\nwas resolved that the post was untenable, and that\\nthe army should retire to Fort Independence. He\\nwas appointed brigadier-general in 1777. He was\\nin camp at Valley Forge and at the battle of Mon-\\nmonth.\\nRaid of Hessians and Refugees.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Historical\\nCollections of New Jersey contains the following:\\nIn the latter jmrt of March, 1780, a party of aUmt four hundred\\nHrldah IIe w|iiiiit nnd refug(M s passed thp ugh lluckensack on their way\\nto attack ftume IVniiiylvanla Inniiw at rantmus. It wim at ou( tliree\\noVIock In the night wh^n they entered the |.\u00c2\u00bbwer jMirl of the town. All\\nwas qxilvX. A sniittl cumpaiiy of twenty or thirty miUilii, under Cupt.\\nJohn Untwater, had retired for the night Ui the Imrrucks, barns, and\\nouthouses, where tho*H filendly to (he American ctiuiH* generally resorted\\nto rest. Uno-hair of the enemy marchwl riulutly thntugh. When the\\nrear, con^iflttng mostly of Ht-Mslans, arrlve l they broke open the d.wrs\\nand window*, rubl \u00c2\u00abd and plundered, and tiMik priiHineni a few peacenble\\ninhabitants, among wlioni was Mr. Archibald Campltell. Thli* gentle-\\nman, who had l\u00c2\u00bbern for several week-* conflned to his l\u00c2\u00bbe\u00c2\u00abl with the rheu-\\nmatism, they fon o l Into I|m fltr\u00c2\u00ab et iiml con)| elled to follow them. Often\\nIn Iheir rear, Ihey tlirealen* d t.. nh r.)t him if hu did not haitten his |mco.\\nIn the Hulmetiuent confmiion he owbik^I and hbl In the cellar of a hoime\\nopiNMile thf New Itridge. He IIto I until I7HM, .m.l ntrer ej-yrrirnrr l n\\nrtlum 0/ ihe rhfumnlum\\nThe HtwtUuii burnt two dwelllngi and tha cimrt-house. Th\u00c2\u00ab hitler\\n1 Thnlrher s Jonrnnl. I l i.\\nMuors s Illary of tli Kvrtdniluh, fjuuled by Romeyn.\\nstood on the west side of the green, eight or ten rods from Campbell i\\ntavern. Fortunately, the wind was from the west, and dn ve the flaniefl\\nandttparks over the green, and the tavern was saved by the family throw-\\ning water over the roof. At iliri time those in the outhouses were aroused,\\nand (he militia haf tened across the fields, mounted hor\u00c2\u00bbeti, nnd alarmed\\nthe trooi s at I aramus. By the time the enemy had arrived nt what is\\nnow Re4l Mill!\u00c2\u00ab. ft\u00c2\u00bbur mih S fnun IlackenMick, they asoertaine^l the Amer-\\nicans were on their way to meet Ihem. Disappointed, they retnice l their\\nste)vt, ami when near HackeiiMiik turned off to the nurih, on the ruad\\nleading tu the New Itridge,* to the left uf which there is h range al)out\\nhnlf a mile distant from the ruitd, the intervening ground being level.\\nHere the Continentals and militia were hurrying over, kept, however,\\nat a distance bv large flanking parties of the enemy, who, tm arriving\\nat the bridge, were detaiue l about two houm in re]tlacing the plank torn\\nup l y the Americans. In the mean time tlieit pfirtles were skirmishing\\nwith our eople. Having crotwed over, they marched down the ea**t eiide\\nuf the Hitckensack through the Knglish NeightM rho d, being pursued\\ntwelve miles, to a considerable distance w*iihin their lines, down Iu Iter-\\ngen Wi odB. They lost niany kilUnl and wounde l. There were none\\nkilled on our side. A youne man of the town was wounded by a spent\\nball, which cut his upper lip, knocked out four frunt teeth, and was\\ncaught in his nioulh. Captalti Outwater received a l all Wlow the knee,\\nwhich \\\\\\\\n\u00c2\u00bb never extracte l. He carried it for many years, and it wm\u00c2\u00bb\\nburied with him.\\nAnother of these raids is thus described\\nNorthwanl from llackensuck a few miles some of (he nK st serioua\\ndepreilalions were nmile. Aniong these was a Tory raid of an hundred\\nmen, led by C A. Van Buskirk. who, on the Ituh of May, 1779, entered\\nby wuy of CloBter, and carried off a numl\u00c2\u00bber \u00c2\u00abif iidiabitanti, tiring build-\\nings, outniging females, a^ well as destroying life. Another detachmeDt\\nswept des\u00c2\u00abdation on the 17th, and not a house of a Whig escuped. In\\nthe first of these raids CorneliuH Tallman, Samuel l emarest, Jacob Colo,\\nGeorge lluKkJrk were captured, rornellus Demaiettt wan killed, and\\nHendrick Hemarest, Jeremiah Westervelt, and l*\u00c2\u00abiw Westervelt were\\nwoundeil. The buildings of I eter Pemaresl, Matthew Itogert, Cornelius\\nIlnyler, and Samuel Demarest were burned. In the latter Abnihara\\nAllen and (ioorge ampl\u00c2\u00bbell wore munlert^d. Jacob /ubriskie wasstnbbed\\nin fifteen places, and two uegru women were shut down.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nBEIUJEX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IX TllK REVO-\\nLUTION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Continuwl).\\nThe Massacre near Old Tappan. The year 1778\\nof the Itcvdlutionary ]nTi( (l is not only memorable\\non lUTonnt of the terrible sullerinfrs of the Conti-\\nnental army at Valley Forge ami tlie hot fifiht on\\nthe field of Monmouth, but for three brutal ma.^saeres\\n|)er|)et rated in three of the middle eolonies.\\nOn the ;?d day of July a band of Tories and Indians\\nmurderc i the inhabitants of the peaceful Valley of\\nWyoming, and eommitted .sueh dreadful outrages upon\\nPennsylvania homes as to arouse tlie indignation and\\nrevenge of her citizens. On the 1 1th day of Novem-\\nber a party of a similar character, headed by the\\nnotoriou.s Joseph Kraut, having killed the officer iu\\ncommand of the litt e fort at Cherry Valley, N. V.,\\nmassacred indiscriminately the men, women, and\\nchildren of that little hamlet. The third instance we\\npropose to narrate more in detail. It occurred on the\\nSoi it,v BtilMiugi\u00c2\u00ab, C-uiirta, vtc.. In thil work.\\nMll.l llri.jgo.\\n1 ItiitiiryirH IM.*cuMnMt; G in1iiii*\u00c2\u00ab llUliirjr of N\u00c2\u00abw JenM y.\\nHjr Wllllain S SlrykiT, aflJiilnii|.g* iii.rMl uf New Jer*i*y.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "BHRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE KEVOLUIIOX.\\n57\\n28th day of September, on the soil of New Jersey, but\\nnear Tappan Village, N. Y., a place afterwards so\\nnoted for the confinement and execution of Maj.\\nAndre.\\nThe British commander, Sir Henry Clinton, having\\njust returned from the Bedford expedition, resolved to\\nsend some of his force along the lower Jersey coast\\nto capture, if possible, some of the American priva-\\nteers, to retake some of the prizes, and to destroy the\\ngrain-mills and salt-works of that district.\\nTo divert attention from this predatory expedition,\\nas well as to procure fresh supplies of meat and forage\\nfor the army. Lord Cornwallis was ordered with five\\nthousand men to pass over the Hudson River into\\nBergen County. N. J., that rich land of Dutch farmers\\nso frequently pillaged by the British.\\nWith Cornwallis was sent Maj. -Gen. Charles Grey,\\nwho before this had executed the orders of Clinton in\\nstealing or destroying provisions, military and naval\\nstores and vessels, and levying heavy contributions on\\nthe villages of Fairhaven, Bedford, and Martha s Vine-\\nyard. The German general, Knyphausen, was also\\nordered to march with three thousand men up to\\nDobb s Ferry, on the east bank of the Hudson River,\\nand to collect a large number of boats there, so that\\nwithin a few hours he could reinforce Cornwallis if it\\nwas found important, or Cornwallis could be brought\\nover the river to his support if he found himself in\\ndanger.\\nGen. Washington had at this time just left. White\\nPlains with his division of the American army, had\\ncrossed the river and had encamped at Fredericksburg,\\nthen a precinct of what is now a large portion of the\\ncounty of Putnam. His quarters were at Paterson, in\\nthat county, a village almost due east from West\\nPoint.\\nIt appeared to the American chieftain, by the move-\\nments of the two columns of the enemy, that an expe-\\ndition up the Hudson River was intended, and he or-\\ndered Col. George Baylor with the Third Regiment\\nLight Dragoons of Virginia to move from their sta-\\ntion at Paramus, a small hamlet ou Saddle River,\\nabout six miles northwest from Hackensack, and\\npost themselves on the Hackensack River to watch\\nthe movements northward of the force under Lord\\nCornwallis. Col. Baylor had up to this time proved\\nhimself a very gallant officer. In the campaign of\\n1776 he had been a member of Washington s own\\nmilitary family, being his personal aide-de-camp. At\\nthe battle of Trenton he was the first to report the\\nsurrender of the routed Hessian force, and for his\\nvalor that day he had had the honor of being the\\nbearer of the dispatches of Dec. 27, 1776, to Con-\\ngress, then in session at Baltimore, and of presenting\\na captured Hessian standard to that body. Congress\\non receiving them voted him a horse properly capar-\\nisoned, and recommended him to be promoted to the\\ncommand of a regiment of light-horse, which promo-\\ntion had been conferred upon him.\\nIt was just at twilight, Sept. 27, 1778, when Col.\\nBaylor and his troopers came to the little stream of the\\nHackensack, somewhat over three miles .southwest\\nfrom Tappan Village. Here he learned that Brig.-\\nGen. Anthony Wayne was but a short distance north\\nof Tappan with a body of militia. So, fearing, perhaps,\\nthe superior rank of Wayne, and not wishing to lose\\nhis detached authority, he halted his men on the Over-\\nkill Neighborhood road, and quartered his dragoons\\nin the barns of the thrifty farmers. His force con-\\nsisted of twelve officers and one hundred and four en-\\nlisted men. Col. Baylor, with his regimental staft-\\nofficers, knocked at the farm-house of Cornelius A.\\nHaring, and his son Ralph, who had just been mar-\\nried, opened the door for them. They told Mr. Ha-\\nring of their desire to spend the night there, and he\\nreceived them willingly, although he informed them\\nthat he understood the British were lying at New\\nBridge and might at any time come upon them. Col.\\nBaylor did not appear alarmed at this statement, but\\nalter seeing that his men were well provided for, and\\nafter posting a guard of a sergeant and twelve men\\nat the bridge over the Hackensack, about half a\\nmile south of Mr. Haring s house, with strict orders\\nto keep a patrol of two men on each road to watch\\nthem a mile below and to be relieved every hour,\\nhe retired to sleep in fancied security.\\nThis house was torn down about sixty years ago,\\nbut the property is still in possession of Cornelius\\nR. Haring, a grandson of the Revolutionary owner.\\nIt is now within the bounds of the post-village of\\nRivervale, Washington township, Bergen Co.\\nLord Cornwallis at this time had his division posted\\non the Hackensack River, at Liberty Pole and New\\nBridge, about three miles from Hackensack and nine\\nmiles from Col. Baylor s out-guards. Full particu-\\nlars of Baylor s position at Paramus, of his move-\\nments to the Hackensack River, and now of his un-\\nsoldierly condition and insecure post had been given\\nby some of tlie disaffijcted people in the neighbor-\\nhood to Cornwallis, and he formed a plan to surprise\\nand capture the regiment, as well as to make a simul-\\ntaneous attack by Knyphausen s men upon Gen.\\nWayne and his militia force. There were two roads\\nwhich led from the camp of Cornwallis to Overhill\\nNeighborhood, one on each side of the Hackensack\\nRiver.\\nAs soon as Gen. Knyphausen at Dobb s Ferry had\\nheard from Lord Cornwallis of Col. Baylor s position,\\nhe ordered a detachment under command of Lieut.-\\nCol. Archibald Campbell, commanding officer of the\\nSeventy-first or Highland Regiment, to cross the river\\nimmediately and attack Gen. Wayne s militia near\\nTappan. The boats were manned without delay, and\\nthe party began the passage of the river just below\\nthe Tappan Zee. To Maj.-Gen. Grey, the famous\\nmarauder, was assigned the duty of attacking the\\nsleeping Baylor. He had acquired the name of No-\\nflint General, from his habit of ordering his troops", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "58\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nto take tlie Hints from thoir guns, so as to make them\\ndepend solely on the use of the bayonet. lie was\\njust the man then for this bloody work.\\nThe troops ordered on duty were the twelve com-\\npanies of the Second battalion Light Infantry to lead\\nthe column, with the Second Regiment of Grena liers.\\nthe Thirty-third and Sixty-fourth Kegiments of th\\nBritish Line as a supporting force.\\nThe troops just before midnight, September 27th,\\nmarched on the road on the west bank of the Hack-\\nensack River silently and in perfect order until they\\narrived within half a mile of the patrol on that road.\\nHere they halted, and, guided by some Tories win\\nknew the ground, a party of picked men from six\\nof the companies of the Second Battalion Light In-\\nfantry, under the command of the Hon. Maj. John\\nMaithind, of the Seventy-first Regiment, made a\\ndetour to the left through the fields, and then\\npassed to the rear of the sergeant s guard at the bridge\\nand the patrol on the river road, and without the\\nslightest difficulty made them prisoners. One at least,\\nhowever, escaped. This being accomplished without\\nany noi.se or alarm, the force under Gen. Grey pushed\\non towards Old Tappan. Maj. Turner Straiibenzee, of\\nthe Seventeenth Regiment of Foot, but now detached\\nin command of the other si.x oomjianies of the Second\\nBattalicm Light Infantry, was in the advance, and it\\nwas this party which first arrived at Baylor s quarters\\nand surrounded the house and barn of Cornelius\\nHariug. It was, as stated in British account-s, be-\\ntween one and two o clock in the morning of Septem-\\nber 2Sth when they came up to the post of the sleeping\\nAmerican dragoons. The sentinel who had escaped\\nfrom the sergeant s guard at the bridge awoke Ralph\\nHaring, who aroused his father. Mr. Haring, half\\ndres-sed and with a candle, came to the front door just\\nas it was burst in, and under the orders of Gen. Grey\\nto show no ijuarler to the rebels, the brutal and\\nprofane soldiery rushed in to bayonet the inmates.\\nCol. Baylor was aroused by the noise, and by the in-\\nquiries made for him, and he and Maj. Alexander\\nClough tried to conceal themselves up the large Dutch\\nchimney in the house. Both, however, were .soon\\ndiscovered and brought down severely wounded, their\\nblood running over the Hoor. Maj. Clough .soon after\\ndied from the terrible bayonet-thrusts. Cornet Robert\\nMorrow, adjutant of the troops, also received seven\\nwounds, and after having surrendered begged for his\\nlife. buli|uarter was refuseil, and he wasstabbed again\\nanil stripped of his clothing. Dr. Thomas Kvans, the\\nsurgeon s mute, was also wounded, but carried off a\\nprisoner. Leaving the house, they also burst open\\nthe door of the barn and freely used the bayonet\\ntliere. Lieut. John Stitli had his company in the\\nbarn, and he finding they were surrounded calleilout\\nthat they surren lcre l, but he was then iriliumaidy\\nstruck on the head with a sword which knocked him\\nto the floor. Recovering himself, he made a despe-\\nrate effort, and with some of his men escape l from\\nthe barn, jumped the fence, and plunged into a dense\\nthicket near by.\\nWhile this was being done, the supporting column\\nof Gen. Grey s forces, Maj. Maitland s party having\\nrejoined them, came up and also took part in the\\naffair. Other houses and barns in the neighborhood,\\nowned by the Blauvelts, the Demarests, Holdrums,\\nHarings, and Bogarts, were visited and scenes of like\\ncharacter enacted. The cries for mercy of the de-\\nfenseless soldiers were answered only by acts of sav-\\nage cruelty. Thomas Talley, of the .Sixth Troop, re-\\nceived six wounds in his brejist and wits stripped of\\nhis clothing. Private Benson, of t .ie Second Troop,\\nhad twelve bayonet-wounds inflicted under the dis-\\ntinct orders given by the British officer to stab all\\nand take no prisoners. Private Southward, of the\\nFifth Troop, although be himself escaped, saw five of\\nhis company bayoneted to death after they had sur-\\nrendered. Private Cullency, of the Fir.st Troop, re-\\nceived twelve wounds and saw wounded men knocked\\nin the head with guns. The dragoons, surprised, in-\\ncapable of successful defense, with no prospect of in-\\nflicting injury on their foe, could only sue for pity. But\\nthe bayonet was still at its bloody work, and thrust\\nafter thrust Wits given whenever any sign of life\\nappeared.\\nLieut. William Barret succeeded in escaping\\nCapt. John Swan, Lieut. Robert Randolph, and three\\ncornets were taken prisoners; Adjt. Morrow, badly\\nwounded, wius left in a barn for dead, but next nutrn-\\ning was carried away by Lieut. John Stith and a party\\nof the escaped men from Baylor s regiment.\\nA part of Sir James Baird s company surrounded a\\nbarn in which sixteen dragoons were sleeping, who\\nfired about a dozen pistols, killed an enlisted man of\\nthe British Second Battalion, and then struck at the\\nfoe with their broadswords. Nine of the dragoons\\nwere bayoneted and seven were taken prisoners.\\nThe Fourth Troop of Baylor s regiment, although\\ntaken prisoners, were the only ones uninjured, be-\\ncause of the humane di.sobedience of orders by a Brit-\\nish captain. The result of this slaughter wils that\\nout of the one hundred and sixteen men of the regi-\\nment, eleven were instantly bayoneted to death, sev-\\nenteen left behind covereil with bayonet-wounds and\\nexpected to die, and thirty-nine were taken prisoners,\\neight of whom were severely wounded. The rest of\\nthe troopers escaped in the darkness. All the arms\\nand seventy horses were part of the booty captured.\\nNothing can be said in ilefense of the conduct of\\nCol. Baylor. He had been one of the party twenty-\\none months previous to prove to the Hcjvsian Rahl\\nthat in war it is dangerous to undervalue your enemy\\nthat it is unwise when in the vicinity of your foe to\\nthrow out a weak ginird and leave the flanks nnpro-\\ntectcil. I orgetting the surprise and the fate of the\\nGerman soldier, he acted himself in the same careless\\nand unsoldierly numner, and came near paying the\\nsame penalty for his folly.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE REVOLUTION.\\n59\\nGen. Grey s force remained in that vicinity until\\ndaylight, when they marched to Tappan with their\\nprisoners, turning the old church there into a hospital\\nand prison. While all thi.s was going on Lieut.-Col.\\nCampbell was marching from Sneden s Landing, on\\nthe Hudson River, by a direct road towards Tappan\\nVillage, having been delayed by the tedious pas.sage\\nof the river. But he found that Wayne s militia,\\nhaving heard of his approach at the critical moment\\nfrom a deserter, had quietly retreated, and his expe-\\ndition was thus rendered fruitless.\\nA strong feeling of indignation spread over the\\ncountry when this cruel massacre was announced.\\nThe army at Fredericksburg and at West Point were\\ngreatly exasperated, and plans of revenge were dis\\ncussed, as appears from letters written to the camp.\\nThe atfairj while it seemed so very brutal, was also\\ncertainly very impolitic, as the killing of a tew de-\\nfenseless men in the night would hardly reward the\\nenemy for the bitter hatred engendered in the hearts\\nand openly expressed in the homes of the patriots.\\nCongress, too, felt called upon to show their abhor-\\nrence of the act, which they did by a resolution, Oct.\\n6, 1778: That Governor Livingston be requested to\\nuse his utmost diligence in obtaining the best informa-\\ntion upon oath of the treatment of Lieut.-Col. Baylor\\nand his party by the enemy.\\nMaj.-Gen. Lord Stirling directed Dr. David Grif-\\nfith, of Col. George Weedon s Third Virginia Regi-\\nment, then on duty as surgeon and chaplain of Brig.-\\nGen. William Woodford s brigade, Continental Line,\\nwho attended Col. Baylor and his wounded men, and\\nwho was the same officer who appeared at Washin^;-\\nton s quarters the night before the battle of Mon-\\nmouth and, it is said, gave him such valuable secret\\ninformation, to collect all the evidence in his power\\nand aid Governor Livingston in the search for the\\ntruth of this barbarity. This was done, and the\\nstatement of the facts in the case was fully obtained\\nand published to the world. The affair served to in-\\ncrease the bitterness felt by the Continental soldier at\\nthis brutal sacrifice of the lives of his comrades, and\\nthe massacre near Old Tappan added much to that\\nfeeling of hatred of the British foe which for at least\\ntwo generations thereafter was felt by American\\npatriots.\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nBERGEN AND PASS. MC COUNTIES IN THE REVO-\\nLUTION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Continued).\\nGen. Wayne s Expedition. The old block-house\\nwhich stood on Block-House Point, above Bull s\\nFerry, is associated with Wayne s defeat and with the\\nsarcastic poem entitled The Cow Chase, written by\\nMaj. Andre, the unfortunate British ofticer who was\\nexecuted as a spy just beyond the border of this\\ncounty, near the village of Tappan. The block-house\\nappears to have been built by the Tories as a retreat\\nor shelter for themselves while engaged in getting off\\nwood from the hill in that vicinity to supply the Brit-\\nish in New York during the severely cold winter of\\n1779-80. They were pretty well fortified all along\\nthe Neck, having earthworks at Bergen, east of the\\ntown, the fort at Paulus Hook, besides Fort De Lan-\\ncey. At the latter place Capt. Tom Ward held com-\\nmand. His force consisted of negroes and vile char-\\nac;ers of his own race. They became as notorious\\nas himself. They were a band of plunderers, thiev-\\ning and raiding by night over to Elizabethtown, New-\\nark, New Barbadoes Neck, and along Bergen Hill as\\nfar up as Closter and New Bridge. Ward is repre-\\nsented as having been a horrible wretch. It is said\\nthat he once hired three negroes to kill a man in Ber-\\ngen to whom he was indebted. Little Will, owned\\nby Van Ripen, was one of the three. Tom Cadmus,\\nanother Tory, was sergeant, and ordered the fire.\\nThe negroes were afterwards caught and hung in the\\nswamp north of Brown s Ferry road, near the present\\nGlendale House, and their bodies left hanging for\\nweeks.\\nThe block-house was located on the high point\\nabove the ravine which extends back from the river\\non the north side of Guttenberg. It was protected\\non two .sides by perpendicular rocks which rise from\\nthe shore and the ravine, and surrounded on the other\\nsides by abatis and stockades, with a ditch and par-\\napet. The only entrance to the block-house was a\\ncovered way large enough to admit but a single per-\\nson. Col. Cuyler being temporarily absent from this\\npost, Capt. Tom Ward was in command of the sev-\\nenty men stationed there. Washington, then near\\nSuffern s, having been informed that tliere were a\\nnumber of cattle on Bergen Neck exposed to the en-\\nemy, sent Gen. Wayne to bring them ofl and to destroy\\nthe block-house at the same time. On the afternoon\\nof July 20, 1780, the First and Second Pennsylvania\\nRegiments, with four pieces of Proctor s artillery and\\nMoylan s dragoons, in all about one thousand men,\\nstarted from their camp on the expedition. They ar-\\nrived at New Bridge about nine o clock in the evening.\\nHere they rested four or five hours, and then pushed\\non for Bull s Ferry. Maj. Lee, the hero of Paulus\\nHook, was sent to Bergen with his cavalry to bring\\noff the cattle, while the remainder of the force marched\\nagainst the block-house. Gen. Irvine, with a part of\\nhis brigade, proceeded along the summit of the ridge,\\nand the First Brigade, under Col. Hampton, with the\\nartillery of Moylan s horse, by the direct road. About\\nten o clock on the morning of the 21st part of the\\nFirst Brigade reached the post. Moylan s horse and\\npart of the infantry remained at the forks of the road\\nleading to Paulus Hook and Bergen, prepared to re-\\nceive the enemy should he approach from that quar-\\nl Peinisylvanin Patket, July 25, 1780.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "60\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nter. Gen. Irvine was posted so as to prevent the en-\\nemy s landing should he approach by vessel. Near\\nFort Lee two regiments were concealed, prepared for\\nthe enemy. One rejritnent was po.ste I in a hollow\\nway on the north side of the block-house, and anotlier\\non the south side, with orders to keep up a constant\\nfire into the port-holes to favor the advance of the\\nartillery. When the field pieces arrived they were\\nplaced sixty yards distant and a cannonade com-\\nmenced, which continued from eleven o clock till\\nnoon without intermission. Up t that time but little\\nimpression had been nuule on the block-house, and\\norders were given to retire. Just at that moment one\\nregiment burst through the abatis and advanced to\\nthe stockades. They were received with such a gall-\\ning fire from the Tories that they were compelled to\\nwithdraw. Tradition says that when the attacking\\nparty withdrew the Tories had but one round of am-\\nmunition left. Boats were now beginning to move\\nup and down the river, but no attempt was made to\\nland. The sloops and wood-boats at the landing were\\ndestroyed, and three or four prisoners taken. The\\ncattle were driven otf as originally intende l, but the\\nother part of the expedition w;ls a failure. CJen.\\nWayne says that he lost fifteen killed and fifteen\\nwounded. The enemy claimed that the brave Capt.\\nWard pursued the rear upwards of four miles, retook\\ntwenty cattle, killed one rebel, and look two prison-\\ners. The refugees admitted the loss of four killed\\nand eight wounded. Among the latter were George\\nand Absalom Bull, residents of the immediate neigh-\\nborhood.\\nGen. Wayne was chagrined at his failure, and\\non witnessing the slaughter of his men shed tears.\\nWashington deeply regretted the misfortune, and\\nhastened to explain away the bad effect which the\\nfailure of the attack upon the block-house might\\nhave upon Congress. The following is a copy of his\\nletter to His Excellency Samuel Huntington, P q.\\nIlKADQrAftTr.RS, IIf.rokk Co., July 21, 1784).\\nSir, llftviiif; received Infornmllon tlint tlioro wore C4iiiHl l( rnt)le\\nniimbcreof caUle an l liorst-a in IterKon Neck, wttlilti ruurti uf the en-\\nemy, mill hftTlng reiiMoii ti siiNitect tliat tliey meiuit aliortly lo driiw all\\ntuppllfHnr tlint kin l within t)M ir HncN, I itrimtK-tl ltrlK--(** n. Wiiyno\\non tlio ith, with tho Fint iind Scronrl I etniHylviinia BriKmliii, with\\nfuur [ii(H-\u00c2\u00abi of artillury nttacliud to thpni, ntui C ul. li)ylan H refcimeitl of\\n(IrnKoonR, (o htiiig them ofT. I had It al\u00c2\u00bbo in rontemplnlion attempt\\nat Ihe Knnic lime the dndtnictiun uf a Mock-huuse erected at Itiill*t\\nFerry, which siTTed the purp w i f coTcrlng the em-niy ii wiMxI-ruttcri\\nand fcivlnfc necutity tu a l\u00c2\u00bbudy of rpfug* I T whuni it was K^rriMtned,\\nand who cumniitted dopredaUtini niion the well^afToctod Inhabltanta for\\nmile* arutind.\\nGi-n. Wnyni haTlng dis|Mwd till tn opA in Ruch a mnDtior im t^ gi^ krd\\nthf difTcront lMiidli)K-plnr) H on Ihr Ih tKen Mhiiie, ii|H)n which tlit enemy\\nmiRht ihruw oTtT iruiiiM fr ni Niw Yurk Ulnnd to Int Tiept hlo retreat,\\nand having sent down (he r\u00c2\u00abvalry to sxecute tin* hiinlno^iiof driving off\\nthe RiiKik. procet-ilnl with thu Kind, Hocund, and Tenth Hegtmenta and\\nthe artillery to the liluck-h\u00c2\u00abuM whlcli waa \u00e2\u0080\u00a2urnmndod l y an alHtllN and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2tockailn. It for nome lime iriwl the effect of hi* fli hl-piece\u00c2\u00ab up in It,\\nhut though tlie ftro was ki-pt up for an hour, they were found loo light\\nto peu -trate the log* of wlilih it waa colMtnirted. Th** troo|\u00c2\u00ab during\\nthUtlme lK lng galled l y acotwlant Are from the loop-holeaof llie houae,\\n1 rt[\u00c2\u00abrka Wuhinglon. t11. 110.\\nand weing nu chance of making a t reai. h with cannon, thoae of the\\nFint and Second Regiments, notwithstanding the utmost efforta of the\\noffirent lo rebtrain them, rushed through the abatis to the foot of the\\nstockade, with a view of forcing an entrauce, whicli waa found imprac-\\nttciihle. This act of intemperate valor was the cjiuac of the loaa we\\nHUettiiined, which auiounte\u00c2\u00abl in the whide to three officers wounded, flf-\\nteeii imu-comuii\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abioued officers and prlvaloti kille\u00c2\u00abi, and forty-six uou-\\ncuninu\u00c2\u00bb8ioned officent and prirntes wounded. The woundeJ officers are\\nLieutenants Hammond and Crawford, of Ihe First, and Lieutenant\\nD Hnrt, of the Socond, since dead. I cjinnot l ut mention his death with\\nregret, as he was a young gentleman of amiable (inalities, and wlio\\npromised fair lo be cerriceable to his country.\\nThe dragix ns in tlie mean time drove off the stock which were found\\nin the Neck the sloops and wood-boats in the dock near the block-house\\nwere burnt, and Ihe few people on board uf them made prisoners.\\nI have been thus particular lest the account of this affair should have\\nreached I hiUdelphia much exaggerated, as is commonly the case upon\\nsuch occasions.\\nI have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, sir,\\nYour Excellency s most obedient servant,\\nGeokok Wasbington.\\nTo His Excellency Savvcl HcNTtNOTOM, Esq.\\nThis expedition was greatly exulted over by the\\nenemy. Sir Henry Clinton sent a complimentary\\ndispatch to the refugees, and even King George the\\nThird sent over from England a congratulatory mes-\\nsage asking the commander-in-chief to assure the\\nsurvivors of the brave JSeventi/ that their behavior is\\napproved by their sovereign.*\\nWe give below the poem of Maj. Andr^% with the\\nintroductory remarks, as we find them published in\\ninfieUrs History of Hudson County\\nThe expedition was very neatly caricatured in a nuKk-henuc poem\\nwiiuen by M^j. Andre, on thu model of hery Chase. The whole la\\nin three cantos. The first was published in Airtfiy OH*ii GazfUe, Aug. 1G,\\n17H0, the second August 3Uth, and the third September \u00c2\u00a33*\\\\, The laat\\ncanto was sent to the paper the day t efore Audr^ left New York to meet\\nArnold, and publiNtieal the very day he wns captured at Tarr^ towri. Ite\\ncoiiii )!titlon may have been suggesteil by the fiu:t thai Andre had boarded\\nwith John Thompson, the wood-cutting agent at New Y ork. It was writ-\\nten at headquarters. No. I Broa lway, except the ftmi ciinto, which waa\\nwritten at Klizabnthtown. Its title was The (\\\\\u00c2\u00bbw Chase, in three C\u00c2\u00abntofl:\\nPublished on occasion of the Rebel General Wayne s attack iif Ihe Bef-\\nuge\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab Dlock house on Iludimn s River, on F riday, the 21st of Jtily, 1780.\\nThe following is au exact copy of the poem na it appeared in the liateltf\\nEliiabcth-Tows, Aug. 1, 1780.\\nTHE COW CHASE.\\nBy\\nMajor AsDRr:.\\nCanto I.\\nTo drive the Kino one summer s niurn.\\nThe Tanner look his way.\\nThe Calf Khali rue that is uuUtrti,\\nThe jumbling of that day.\\nAnd Wayne descending Steera shall know.\\nAnd tauntiUKly deride.\\nAnd rail lo mind in every Low,\\nThe tanning of his hide.\\nYet Bergen Cows shall ruminate\\nUnconaclons in the stall,\\nWhat mighty menna were usett (o get.\\nAnd lose Ihem nflrr all.\\nFor many Heroed bold ami brnve\\nPn m New Bridge and Ta| nan\\nAnd thoeo thnt drink Tassaick s wave.\\nAnd those that eat .Soupaan,*\\nI\\nGen. Wayne wu of that oceupatlon.\\nThe Indian dlab of mush and milk.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE REVOLUTION.\\n61\\nAud sons of distant Delaware\\nThe Sounds Confused of boasting Oaths,\\nAnil still remoter Shannon,!\\nHe-echoed through the Wood,\\nAnd Major Lee with lioi-ses rare,\\nSome vowed to sleep in dead Men s Cloths,\\nAnd Proctor with bis cannon.\\nAnd some to swim in blood.\\nAll wonderoua proud in arms they came\\nAt Irvine s nod. twas fine to see\\nWhat iiero ctiuld refuse?\\nThe left preimre to fight,\\nTo tread the nigged path to fame\\nThf white the Drovers, Wayne and Lee,\\nWho had a pair of shoes.\\nDrew ofl uiwn the Right.\\nAt six the Host with sweating buff,\\nWliirh Irvine twas Fame don t relate,\\nAnivL-d at Freeihiiii a Pole,2\\nNor can the Muse assist her,\\nWtien Wa^vne who tbouglit he d time enough\\nWliether twas be that cocks a Hat,\\nThus specified tlie whole.\\nUr he that gives a Glister.\\n**0 ye wboin glory dotti unite,\\nFor greatly one was signalized,\\nWlio Freedom s cause espouse.\\nThat fought at Chestniit-Hill,\\nWliether tlie wing that s doomed to flight\\nAnd Canada immortalized\\nOr tliat to clrive tlie Cows,\\nThe Vender of the Pill.\\nEre yet you tempt your further way\\nYet the attendance upon Proctor,\\nOr into action Come,\\nThey bytb might have to boast of\\nHear soldiers what I have tn say\\nFor then there was business for the Doctor,\\nAnd lake a pint of Kum.\\nAnd hats to be disposed of.\\nIntemp rate valor then will string\\nLet none uncandidly infer\\nKach nervous arm the better,\\nThat Stirling wanted Spunk,\\nSo all (he land shall I sing\\nThe self-made Peer had sure been there,\\nAnd read the Gen ral s letter.^\\nBut that the Peer was drunk.\\nKnow that some paltry Refugees\\nBut turn we to the Hudson s Banks,\\nWhom I ve a mind to fight,\\nW*here stood the modest Train,\\nAre playing H 1 amongst the trees\\nWith Purpose firm and slender Rank,\\nThat grow on yonder height.*\\nNor cared a Pin for Wayne.\\nTheir Fort and Block-House we ll level,\\nFor then the unrelenting Hand\\nAnd deal a horrid slaughter;\\nOf rebel Fury drove,\\nWf ll drive the Scoundrels to the Devil,\\nAnd tore frum every genial Band\\nAnd ravish wife and daugliter.\\nOf Friendship and of Love.\\nI under cover of th attack\\nAnd some within a Dungeon s Qloom,\\nWhilst you are all at blows,\\nBy mock Tribunals laid,\\nFrom English Neighborhood and Tiuack\\nHad waited long a cruel Doom,\\nWill drive away the Cows.\\nImpending o er their heads.\\nFor well you know the latter is\\nHere one bewails a Brother s Fate,\\nTlie serious operation,\\nThere one a Sire s demands.\\nAnd fighting with the Refugees\\nCut off alas before their date\\nIs only demonstration.\\nBy ignominious Hand.\\nHis daring words from all the crowd\\nAnd silvered Grandsires here appeared,\\nSuch great applause did gain\\nIn deep Distress serene.\\nThat every man declared aloud\\nOf reverend manners that declared\\nFor serious work with Wayne.\\nThe better days they d seen.\\nTheu from the Cask of Kum once more\\nOh curs d Rebellion these are thine.\\nThey took a heady jill,\\nThine are these Tales of Woe,\\nWhen one and all they loudly swore\\nShall at thy dire insatiate Shrine\\nThey d fight upon the hill.\\nBlood never cease to flow?\\nBut here the Muse has not a strain\\nAnd now the Foe began to lead\\nBefitting such great deeds,\\nHis Forces to th Attack\\nHuzza they cried, huzza for Wayne,\\nBall whistling unto balls succeed\\nAnd sboutiug did their Needs.\\nAnd make the Block-House crack.\\nCanto II.\\nNo shot could pass, if you will take\\nThe General s word fur true\\nNear his meridian pomp, the Sun\\nBut tis a a d ble Mistake,\\nHad journey d from the horz n.\\nFor every shot went thro\\nWhen fierce the dusky tribe moved on\\nor Heroes drunk as poison.\\nThe firmer as the Rebels pressed.\\nThe royal Heroes stand\\nVirtue bad nerved each honest Breast,\\nAnd Industry each Hand.\\n1 Irish in the Pennsylvania Line.\\nLiberty Pole, where Eriglewood now stands.\\n3 Letter of Gen. Washington, referred tu above.\\nIt is said that the wood-ciitters cleaned the whole hill from Bull s\\nOne of the Irvines was a hatter, the other a physician. Dr.\\nWilliam\\nFerry to Bergen Point, not leaving a stick large enough to make a whip-\\nIrvine, after two years captivity in Canada, now commanded th\\ne Second\\nstock.\\nPennsylvania.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "62\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nIn Valor s I lirenxy, HaniiUun\\nBut Wayn of sympathizing heart.\\nRode like a Soldier Big,\\nRequired a relief\\nAmi Sevretiiry HArri\u00c2\u00bbon,\\nNot all the blewjugs could imimrt\\nWilli IVii Mliick ill his Wig.\\nOf battle or of beef;\\nBut t(Mt tho Chivflaiii WaHliington\\nFor now a prey tu female charms.\\nSlioidil niouni tliem in the MuDipa,\\nHis soul took mure delight In\\nThe fate of Witheriiigtuii3 to fltnin,\\nA lovely HamadryadVaruis,\\nTliey fought hehlmi Ihw Stuiups.\\nThau Cow drivin or fighting:\\nBut ah, Thaddpus I useet, why\\nA nymph, the Refugees had drove\\nShuuld thy I oor Soul elope,\\nFar fruui her naiivf tree.\\nAnd why aliouWI Titus Hooper* die.\\nJust happened to be on the move.\\nAh die w ithout a rope\\nWhen up came Wayuc and Lee.\\nApostate Murphy, thou to whom\\nShe in mad Anthony*s fierce eye\\nFair Shela ne er waa cruel,\\nThe hero saw portrayed,\\n/h (Uiith, flutU In-ar h.r uiouni thy Doom,\\nAnd all in tours she took him by\\nAuch wou d you diu, my Jewell?\\nTho bridle uf liiH Jade.\\nThee Nathan Pumpkin I lament,\\nHear, sitid the nymph, great Commander I\\nOf melancholy Kate,\\nNo human lamentations;\\nTlie Grey Goose stolen as he went,\\nThe trees you see them cutting yonder\\nIn his Heiirt s lilood wns wet.\\nAre all my near relations.\\nNow as the Fight was furiber fought.\\nAnd I, forlorn I implore thine aid,\\nAnd Balls liegati to thicken,\\nTo free the sacred grove\\nThe Fray asBumed. the General thought.\\nSo shall thy pr^twess bo repaid\\nThe Color of a licking.\\nWMth an immortal love.\\nYet undismayed the Chiefs Command,\\nNow some, to provt- she was a Goddeas,\\nAnd to retleeni the Day,\\nSaid this enchanting Fair,\\nCry, S01.DIEKS Chakok! they hear, they stand,\\nHad late retired from the Borfie*,\\nThey turn and run away.\\nIn all the pump of war;\\nCanto III.\\nThat drumH and m\u00c2\u00bb rry fifes had played\\nTo honor her retreat,\\nNot nil dolightB the bloody spear,\\nAnd Cunningham himself conveyed\\nOr horrid din of battle.\\nThe lady through the street.\\nThere are, I m sure, would like to hear\\nA word about the Cattle.\\nGreat Wayne, by s \u00c2\u00bbft compaasion swayed,\\nTo no inquiry stotijis.\\nThe Chief whom we beheld of lute,\\nBut takes tbf fair, anilcled maid\\nNear fk-hfalenlmrg liMrnriKiiig,\\nlihjht into Yan Van Poop s.\\nAt Yhii Van Poitp s uinoiisoious sat\\nOf Irvine s hearty banging\\nSo Roman Anthony, they say,\\nDi9grHce l the imi^erial banner,\\nWhilst raliftiit Let-, with courage wild.\\nAnd for a gliwy lost a day.\\nMtwt bnivnly illd oppoMO\\nLike Anthony the Tanner.\\nThe team of woman and of child,\\nWho tM. ggod he d leave the Cows.\\nTho Hamadryad bad but half\\nReceivetl retlreac from Wayne,\\nWhen drums and colors, cow and calf.\\n1 Col. Hamiltan, mentlonml In Lee s trial us flourishing liis sword\\nand being in a sort of phrenzii 0/ m/or.* llarriiH n, mentioned in this\\nCame down the road amain.\\nTerae, bad met Andr^ at Amiwy. Hi.iriWd, 176.\\nAll In a cloud of dust were seen\\n1 Muniiw pre%*allod In the American tines.\\nThe sheep, the horse, the gtwt.\\n*For Witherington must I waylo,\\nThe gonth heifer, ass obscene.\\nAs one In doleful dumpM;\\nThe yearling and the shout\\nFor when his legs wore smitten ofT\\nIIo fought ui*on bis stuiiiprt.\\nThe pack-homoi with fowls came by,\\nThe battle of Chevy Cliasf. or (\u00c2\u00bbttcrlMmrne. on the borders of Scot-\\nBefealbered on each sbie.\\nland, was fought Aug. 5, l. WS, between Iho fumllles of Percy and Pong-\\nUkc IVgasus. the lionw that I\\nlaM. Th) song was prolmbly written much after that time, though long\\nAnd other |KMt* lido.\\nbefore 1A88, as Ileartie supiNiaes. In Ihe old copy of the ballad tho llnw\\nrun thus:\\nSubllmo upon hlssHrrnps rose\\nFor Wlthnroyngton my harto was wo\\nThe mighty Lee l^ehlnd,\\nThat i er ho laytie shulde l e,\\nAnd dntve the terror-smitten cows\\nFor when IhiIIi hi* legge s wore hewyne in to\\nLike chaff before the wind.\\nII\u00c2\u00ab! knyled and fought upon his kne. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Ibid.\\nBut sudden see the woods above\\nTitus Ilopiwr, who llvi d aU.vo Afpiai-kanourk, near Hopper s Mill,\\nPour dt.wn itnothor curpe,\\non the east side of the Paanalr Ulvyr. IIo was murdtTi d by the Tories\\nAll liplter-skelter In a drove.\\nunder John Van do Il^Kler, a nrlgbbor, who entered his house in the\\nLike that I sang before.\\nnight, and after sb K\u00c2\u00bbting him through th head, compoltod his wife to\\nhold a candle while they thrust nineteen iMiyonels into him.\\nAgainst Sir Hugh Montgomery\\nA deity of the woods.\\nSi rlQbt the Shalt li roU,\\n7 A cant appellation of tho corps which formed His MiOosty s\\nI\u00c2\u00bbdy\\nThe grey go\u00c2\u00abMie uinu that was thereon\\nguard.\\nIn hl\u00c2\u00ab heart s blo\u00c2\u00abMl was w\u00c2\u00abii,\\nCunnlnghim was proviwl -marshal i-f N-* V-tU mk.I.-. Ho- British.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE REVOLUTION.\\n63\\nIrvine and terror iu the van,\\nCiinie flying H aliroad,\\nAnd cannon, colors, horse and man\\nRan tumbling to the road.\\nStill as he tied, twas Irvine s cry.\\nAnd his example too,\\nRun on my merry men. For why?\\nThe shot will not go through, i\\nAs when two kennels in the street,\\nSwelled with a ret-ent rain.\\nIn gushing streams together meet\\nAnd seek the neighboring drain,\\nSo meet these dung-born tribes in one,\\nAsswift in their career.\\nAnd so to New Bridge they run on,\\nBut all the cows got clear.\\nPoor Parson Caldwell,^ all iu wonder,\\nSaw the returning train.\\nAnd mourned to Wayne the lack of plunder,\\nFor them to steal again.\\nFor twas his right to seize the spoil, and\\nTo share with each commander,\\nAs he had done at Staten Island\\nWith frost-bit Alexander.3\\nIn his dismay the frantic priest\\nBegan to grow prophetic,\\nYou had swore, to see his laboring breast,\\nHe had taken an emetic.\\nI view a future day, said he.\\nBrighter than this day dark is,\\nAnd you shall see what you shall see,\\nHa! ha! one pretty Marquis.^\\nAnd lie shall come to Paulus Hook\\nAnd great achievements tliink on,\\nAnd make a bow and take a look,\\nLike Satan over Lincoln.\\nAnd all the land around shall glory\\nTo see the Frenchman caper,\\nAnd pretty Susan tell the story\\nIn the next Chatham paper.^\\nThis solemn prophecy, of course,\\nGave all much cons ilatiun,\\nExcept to Wayne, who lost his horse\\nUpon the great occasion.\\nHis horse that carried all his prey.\\nHis military speeches,\\nHis corn-stalk whiskey for his grog.\\nBlue stockings and brown breeches.\\nFive Refugees tis true) were found\\nStiff on the block-house floor,\\nBut then lis thought the shot went round\\nAnd in at the back door.\\n2 Rev. James Caldwell, of New Jersey. His wife was shot by one of\\nKnyphausen s men. When Knyphausen made his incursion to Spring-\\nfield, Mr. Caldwell collected the hymn-books of his church for wadding.\\nPut a little Watts into them, said he to the soldiers. He waa shot by\\nJames Morgan, at Elizabethtown Point, Nov. 24, 1781. Morgan was sup-\\nposed to have been bribed to do the act. He was tried and executed in\\n1782.\\n8 Lord Stirling, who in a foray into Staten Island in January, 1780,\\nhad five hundred of his men frost-bitten.\\nLafayette.\\n6 The New Jersey Gazette was published at Chatham during the war,\\nand Susanna Livingston, sister of Governor Livingston, and afterwards\\nthird wife of John Cleves Symmes, wrote occasional articles for its col-\\numns.\\nAnd now Tve closed my epic strain,\\nI tremble as I show it.\\nLest this same warrior-drover, Wayne,\\nShould ever catch the poet.\\nAlas, poor Andre He was caught soon after, and\\nalthongh Washington would fain have spared him,\\nand was anxious to exchange him for the traitor Ar-\\nnold, yet he was obliged to execute him as a spy, in\\naccordance with tlie hiws of war. The place where\\nMaj. Andr6 was executed is about a quarter of a mile\\nwest of the village of Tappan, within a few hundred\\nyards of the New Jersey line. It is on an eminence\\noverlooking to the east a romantic and fertile valley.\\nA small heap of stones thrown carelessly together,\\nwith an upright stake for a centre, marked the place\\nof his execution and grave.\\nThe following account of the execution of Andre,\\nwhich took place Oct. 2, 1780, is given by an eye-\\nwitness\\nT was at that time an artificer in Col. Jciluthun Baldwin s regiment,\\na part of which was stationed within a short distance of the spot where\\nAndre suffered. One of our men (I believe his name was Armstrong),\\nbeing one of the oldest and best workmen in the regiment, was selected\\nto make his coflBn, which he performed, and painted black, agreeably to\\nthe custom of those times.\\nAt this time Andre was confined in what was called a Dutch church,\\na small stone building with only one door, and closely guarded by six\\nsentinels. When the hour appointed for his execution arrived, which I\\nbelieve was two o clock p.m., a guard of three hundred men was paraded\\nat the place of his confinement. A kind of procession was formed by\\nplacing the guard in a single file on each nide of the road. In front\\nwere a large number of American officers of high rank on horseback.\\nThese were followed by the wagon containing Andre s coffin, then a\\ntarge number of officers on foot, with Andre in their n idst. The pro-\\ncession moved slowly up a moderately-rising hill, I sbuuld think about\\na fourth of a mile to the west. On the top was a field without any in-\\nclosure. In this was a very high gallows, made by r-etting up twu poles,\\nor crotches, and laying a pole on the top. The wagon that contained\\nthe coffin was drawn directly under the gallows. In a short time Andr^\\nstepped into the hind part of the wagon, then on his coffin, took off\\nhis hat and laid it down, then placed his hands upon his hips, and\\nwalked very uprightly bnck and forth as far as the length of his coffin\\nwould permit, at the same time casting his eyes upon the pole over his\\nhead and the whole scenery by which he was surrounded. He was\\ndressed iu what I should call a complefe Brilish uniform his coat was\\nof the brightest scarlet, faced ur trimmed with the most beautiful green.\\nHis underclothes, or vest and breeches, were bright buff, very similar to\\nthose wnru by military officers in Connecticut at the present day. He\\nhad a long and beautiful head of hair, which, agreeably to the fashion,\\nwas wound with a black ribbon and hung down his back. All eyes were\\nupon him, and it is not believed that any officer iu the British army\\nplaced in his situation would have appeared better than this unfortunate\\nmau.\\nNot many minutes after he took his stand upou the coffin the execu-\\ntioner stepped into the wagon with a halter in liis hand, on one end of\\nwhich was what the soldiers iu those days called a hangman s knot,\\nwhich he attempted to put over the head and around the neck of Andre,\\nbut by a sudden movement of his hand this was prevented. Andre took\\noff the handkerchief from his neck, unpinned his shirt-collar, and de-\\nliberately took the end of the halter, put it over his head, and placed\\nthe knot directly under his right ear, and drew it very snugly to his\\nneck. He then took from his coat-pocket a handkerchief and tied it\\nover his eyes. This done, the officer that commanded (his name I have\\nforgotten) spoke in rather a loud voice, and said that his arms must be\\ntied. Andre at once pulled down the handkerchief he had just tied over\\nhis eyes, and drew from his pocket a second one, and gave it to the exe-\\ncutioner, and then replaced his handkerchief. His arms were tied just\\nabove the elbows and behind the back. The rope was then made fai* to\\nthe pole overhead. The wagon was very suddenly drawn from under the\\ngallows, which, together with the length of the rope, gave him a most\\ntremendous swing back and forth, but in a few moments he hung en-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "64\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ntfrely gUW. Duriu^ thv whult inin\u00c2\u00bbactiuii h** H{ip4-nn*d aa Utile \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Jniioted\\nas Mr. John Ilogfrw wliuii be vmu aUnit to l uriit Ht llie ttiuke, l iit blB\\ncounlenaiico wiis rather pale. He reiujUiie\u00c2\u00abl banking, I obuiihl tbiuk^\\nfrom twenty to thirty niinutee, nud tltirjng thni tinu* the cbatnl\u00c2\u00bberB of\\ndeath were never stiller than the niultitu le hy which he wasrinrroimded.\\nOrders were given to cut the mpo nnd take him down without letting\\nhim fall. This was done, and his l ody carefully laid on (be ground.\\nShortly after the guard watu withdniwn, and HiK-rtnlorH wert. allowed to\\ncoDie forwani and vii w the corpse, hut tlie crowd wsut f:reat that \\\\t\\nwn\u00c2\u00ab \u00c2\u00bbome time before I couhl get an opportunity. When I wiu ithlo to\\ndo thifl his coat, vest, and hreecbtw were tak^-n off, and his body laid io\\nthe coffin, covered by some uuderclotlietf. The toji of the coffin was not\\nput on. I viewed the corpse more carefully than I had ever done that\\nof any bnntnn being before. Hix head was very iniich on one side, in\\nconsequence uf the manner in which the halter drew upon his neck.\\nflis face uppeare l to be greatly swollen and vi r blark, much reuembliog\\naliigh degree of morlincation. It wtkn indeed u Hhorking eight to heliotd.\\nThere were at thii tiuie standing at the f(^K)t of bis conin two young men\\nof uncommon short stature, I should think not more than four feet high.\\nTlieir dre^s wo;* the most gaudy I ever beheld. One of them had the\\nclothes juftt taken from Aadrv hanging on his artn. I took itarticular\\npains to learn who they were, and was informed that they were liis ser-\\nvants, sent up from New York to take caro of his clothes, but what otlier\\nbusineM I did not learn.\\nI now turnM to take ti view of the executioner, who was still stand-\\ning by one of the |HMtM of tlie gallows. I walked nigh enough to him tu\\nhave laid mv hand u|K n his shoulder, and lo ke l hint directly in the\\nface. lie appeared to I e altout twenty-five years of age, his lieard of two\\nor tliree weeks growth, and liis whole face covere I with what appeared\\nto me to be a blacking taken front the outside of a greasy pot. A mora\\nfrightfuMooking being 1 never beheld; his whole countenance bespoke\\nhiui to be A fit instrument for the business he had been doing. Wishing\\nto see the ch sing of the whole business, I remained upon the spot until\\nscarce twenty persons were left, but the coffin was \u00c2\u00bbtitl beside the grave,\\nwhich had previously l\u00c2\u00bbeen dtig. I now relurm-d to my lent, with my\\nmind deeply imbued with the shocking scene I hiul t een called to wit-\\nIn 1821 the remains of Maj. Andrt were disinterred\\nby order of the Duke of York and taken to West-\\nminster Abbey, where they now rest. When Dean\\nStanley wa-s in tins country, in ()ctol cr, 1878, he and\\nMr. Cyru.s W. Field, his host, visited the spot where\\nAndre* Wiw executed and originally buried. The cedar-\\ntrees which originally marked the spot had been dug\\nup and removed with the remains in 1821, and two\\nwild-c!ierry tree.s, which are still standinjr, planted in\\ntheir jilace. A curious fact in this connection is that\\na peach-tree which had sprung up \u00c2\u00bbti the j;rave was\\nfound to have wrapped its roots around Maj. Andre s\\nskull. Mr. Grove, of Mnci\u00c2\u00bbi(hn*s M(if/(iziiit\\\\ who ac-\\ncompanied Dean Stanley and Mr. Field, in recalling\\nthis incident, referred to Tennyson s well-known lines\\nin (Hie of the openinj? stanzas of In Memoriam,\\nand said that possibly they liad been suggested by it.\\nThe lines are:\\nOld yew, which gmitpeth at the stones\\nThat mime the unilerlying dead.\\nThy fibres net the dreamk-M hvnd,\\nThy roolii are wnippo\u00c2\u00abl alN ut the iKiues.\\nIn 1870, Mr. Cyrus W. Field purchased thirty acres,\\nincluding the site of the execution and burial of An-\\ntlr/ aiifl erected thereon a granite nionumciit, which\\ncontains tlic following inscription, written by Dean\\nStanlev 1\\nHere died. October 2, ITSO,\\nMajor John A^nRBof the Urltisb Anuy,\\nwho, entering the American lines\\non a secret mission to Heneilict Arnold\\nfor the surrender of Weiit Toint,\\nwas takeu prisoner, tried, and condemned as a spy.\\nIlls death,\\nthough according to the Ntern code uf war,\\nmoveil even his enemies to pity\\nand both armies mourned the fate\\nuf one so young and so brave.\\nIn 1821 his remains were removed tu Westminster\\nAbbey.\\nA hundred years after the execution\\nthis stone is placed above the spot where he lays\\nby a citizen of the United States against\\nwhom he fought,\\nnot to per| etuato the ie --oitl of strife,\\nbut in t4iken of those better feelings\\nwhich have since united two nations,\\noue in race, in lLinguaKe,and in religion,\\nwith the hope that tliis friendly union\\nwill never be broken.\\nUnder the inscription is the name,\\nPenrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster.\\nI\\nArthur\\nN*w Jonwjr llUt I ol., |i. 77, 7H.\\nCHAP T K K X V.\\nUERGEX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IX THE KEVO-\\nLUTION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (ContinucJ).\\nMiscellaneous Notes and Extracts. In the\\nluimitos 111 the liouni uf .lustitcs and I rt fholders,\\nJuly 4, 1775, tlie (juestion was raised whether the\\nCounty Committee should have the riglit in case of\\nemergency to take the county arms out of the court-\\nhouse. The board unanimously agreed that they\\nhad such right. It appears in March, 177i), that the\\nContinental Congress had purchased part of the arms,\\nfor we find the following: Ordered liy the board\\nthat the remaining five guns, with the accoutrements\\nbelonging to four guns, shall be sold by Peter Za-\\nliriskie, Esfj., at the same price that the Continental\\nCongress allowed for the others, and that the money\\narising from the sale be paid into the hands of the\\nCounty Collector.\\nOf the .same date is a Ueceipt from Jo-seph Meeker\\nfor 7!l Guns, liayoneta, and ISelts, and 78 Cartridge\\nPouche-s and iiells, 42. Flints and Belts, with an\\norder from the Hoard of Justices and Frei holders to\\ncall on Messrs. Ilendrick Fisher and Samuel Tucker\\nfor payment. The Hoard ordered that Mr. Job Smith\\ncall on Messrs. Fisher and Tucker for payment for\\nthe said arms ami aceoutrement.s, at the price the\\nCongress allows, and also fcir the Hint.s and balls at\\nthe usual prices for those articles, and that Mr. Smith,\\nwhen he receives the .said money, pay the same to the\\nt ounty Collector.\\nFines for the non-service of the militia were col-\\nlected in 1780. The Board ordercil that the Jus-\\ntices order any number of men to guard the Consta-\\nUiyJ. JoM| ti Blc\u00c2\u00abkor, uf .SuiMX County.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "BEKGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE KEVOLUTION.\\n65\\nble in collecting tlie said Fines, and that 25 Dollars\\nper Day be allowed to each man for their services.\\nDuring the war the tax levies upon the county\\nwere enormous. The records show that from April 1,\\n1780, to March 1, 1781, the total amount of tax col-\\nlected in the county was \u00c2\u00a3424,222 17(i. 6d. This will\\ngive the readersome idea of what a financial burden the\\nwar was yet, for the most part, it was borne cheerfully\\nby the people. Had the whole county been united in\\nsupport of the struggle for independence the burden\\nwould have been much lighter, but the county was\\ndivided on that question, as was more or less the case\\nthroughout the colonies. Too great honor cannot be\\naccorded to those noble patriots, who not only pledged\\ntheir lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to\\nuphold the cause of free government, but who made\\nthat pledge good through peril, hardship, and suffer-\\ning, and even at the cost of life itself Perhaps the\\nhardest trial which many of them had to endure was\\nto see .some of their own friends and neighbors turn\\ntheir backs upon the cause of liberty and join the\\nenemies of their country.\\nThere was an Englishman by the name of John\\nBerry, called John the Regular, who was a terror\\nto this section of the country during the Revolution.\\nThe government at one time offered a thousand\\npounds for his apprehension. During one of those\\nfrequent raids from the old block-house, some com-\\npanies of militia under Capts. Blanch and Van Valen\\nwere sent out from their rendezvous at Tappan to in-\\nterrupt a foraging-party of British and Refugees.\\nThey met the party near Liberty Pole, now Engle-\\nwood, where an engagement took place. In this en-\\ngagement Berry, who was with the enemy, was shot,\\nand was discovered concealed under a fallen tree by\\nSamuel Van Valen and James Blauvelt, who knew\\nhim to be Berry and raised their guns to fire upon\\nhim, whereupon he begged for his life and surren-\\ndered. He was then mortally wounded. He was\\nbrought in a wagon to Hackensack, and was buried\\nnear the present Kansas Street.\\nExtracts from the Minutes of the Council of\\nSafety, 1777.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 June 21, 1777, Peter Fell, of Bergen\\nCounty, declined accepting the appointment of com-\\nmissioner (to look after abandoned property), and\\nTeunis Dey was appointed iu his place, July 8, 1777.\\nA number of persons apprehended on suspicion of\\nbeing disaffected and imprisoned were upon exam-\\nination discharged or exchanged for prisoners taken\\nby the British. Such was the case with Isaac and\\nCornelius Van Saan, of Bergen County, who had\\nbeen some time in jail at Morristown. On June 24,\\n1777, these men were brought before the Council of\\nSafety, and nothing being found against them were\\ndischarged. But Chief Justice Morris, happening to\\nenter the Council at that moment, gave, probably\\nupon rumor, such information as induced the Coun-\\ncil to remand them again to jail.\\nOn the 27th of June a petition of sundry inhab-\\nitants of Bergen was read to the Council, setting forth\\nthat Isaac and Cornelius Van Saan, inhabitants of\\nthe county of Bergen, and now under confinement\\nat Morristown, have not acted in opposition to the\\nUnited States or aided the enemy otherwise than by\\ncompulsion, and praying that they may be released\\non certain terms therein specified. The motion was\\nat that time laid on the table, but the Council after-\\nwards agreed that Isaac Van Saan and Cornelius\\nVan Saan, now in confinement at Morristown, be ex-\\nchanged for John and David Demarest, now in con-\\nfinement in New York, and that Col. Boudinot,\\ncommissary-general of jirisoners, negotiate the ex-\\nchange.\\nAug. 20, 1777\\nJgre\u00e2\u0082\u00acdy7hat Cnpt. Abmliam Harring be directed and authorized to\\neiiliat ii company of thirty-six men, and to chooae one otlier commis-\\nsioned officer, to serve a^ vohuiteera of tiie militia of tlie county of\\nBergen, to he employed for three niontlis, unless sooner discharged, as a\\nguard for tlie North and East frontier parts of said County and that the\\nsaid captain he authorized to purchase provisions for the said party wheu\\non actual service, or to appoint some proper person to purchase the same,\\nand transmit proper accounts thereof to the Legislature, or in their\\nrecess to the Council of Safety, and that Mr. Camp do furnish Col. Teunis\\nDey with thiity-five pounds cash to purchase ammunition for said party,\\nand that the said Camp do accovint for the expenditure of such ammu-\\nnition when the said service is over.\\nDec. 5, 1777\\nAgreed, That Maj. Mauritius Qoetschius be authorized to raise a com-\\npany of sixty men, with one lieutenant and an ensign, for the defense of\\nthe Northern parts of Bergen County, and to prevent the depredations\\nof the enemy and disaffected persons, and the illicit trade and intercourst\\ncarried on between the county of liergen and New York, and that they\\ncontinue to serve during three months unless sooner discharged. 3\\nAgreed, That John Alter, John Blinkerhoof, John Smith, and John\\nDe (Iroot, who have gone over to the enemy, have permission to return\\nto this State, upon condition of their hringingwith them Peter Weater-\\nvelt, Jacob Westervelt, John Weslervelt, Henry Vervalier, and Jacob\\nFredon, now prisonei-s in New York.\\nDec. 8, 1777\\nJacob Bogert, Samuel Demarest, Henrick Zabriski, Cornelius Acker-\\nman, Isaac Stags, and John Ackerman having been apprehended for\\ngoing int\u00c2\u00abi and returning out of the enemy s lines without the passport\\nrequired by law. Agreed, tliat they have five days to consider whether\\nthey will enlist in one of our battalions during the war.\\nThe following are extracts from letters published\\nin the newspapers of the time\\nErlraclfriim a letter dated New BarUadoes, Bergen Co., April 22, 1779.\\nYesterday evening Capt. Jolin Hopper, a brave and spirited officer of\\nthe militia of this county, was basely murdered by a party of ruffians\\nfrom New York. He discovered them breaking open his stable-door,\\nand hailed them, upon which they filed and wounded liim. He returned\\nto his house; they followed, burst open the door, and bayoneted him\\nin upwards of twenty places. One of them had formerly been a neighbor\\nof Ilia.\\nEjirnctfrom u leUer dated Closter, Maij III, 1779.\\nThis day about one liundred of the enemy came by the way of New\\nDock, attacked this place, and carried off Cornelius Tallman, Samuel\\nDemarest, .Jacob Cole, and George Buskirk, killed Cornelius Demarest,\\nwotinded Hendrick Demarest, Jeremiah Westervelt. Dow Tallman. etc.\\nThey burnt the dwelling-houses of Peter Demarest, Matthias Bogert, and\\n1 Minutes of the Council of Safety, June, 1777, p. 70.\\nIbid,, p. 122. Ibid., p. 169.\\nIbid., p. 169. Ibid., p. 170.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6G\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCornelius Huyler, Samuel Deniareat sliouBeand barn, John BAiita house\\nanil l arii, and runielhis Bogert o anil John WedtorrAlt*t! barns. They\\natttrnipted to 1 iirii every liiiililing tliey entered, but the fire was in \u00c2\u00bbiine\\npincee exliiiguislied. They l 8tro ed all the fnrnltiire, etc., in niiuiy\\nhuusefl. aiitl abused many of tbe women. In their retreat they were no\\nclu\u00c2\u00abely pursni-d by the militia and a few Continental troope that they\\nt Hik ofTnn cuttle. They wereuf Bnukirk s eor|M,6ome of our old Cluster\\n\u00c2\u00bbhd Tappan neighUm, joined by a party uf negroes. I should have\\nDiuntioued the negroe\u00c2\u00ab first, in order to grace the Itritish anus.*\\nExtract/rom a letter dtited Seic BuWhiJom, July 22, 1779.\\nOn Sunday afternoon, the luth iuKt., a party of Rerngeea and Toriee,\\nIn number about twenty, under the couiDnind uf Lieut. Waller (as it is\\nmid), landed at Closter Dock, and atlvanced to the iieiKhborhood called\\nCloeter, from which ihey collected and drove ofT a considerable number\\nof cattle iind horeeii, in order to carry them on Imard a sloop which they\\nhad brougtit up for that pur|K 8e. Tliey were pursued by Cajit. Ilarring\\nand Thomnn Itninch, Keq., ut the heud of u few of their nejgliliors,\\nhaitlily collected, who recuvereil all the i-attio except two and a ctilf.and\\nall the horacH save one and an old mure, which they had got ou board\\nprevious ti\u00c2\u00bb the arrivitl of Capt. Ilarring. The captain Unyk. iwu primon-\\nere, seven Ktandof urms, and three suits of clotlic( ,atid obliged the enemy\\nto cut their cable, conceal themselves below deck, and let tht-ir vessel\\ndrlvt9 with the tide, iiotwilhsianding above twenty vessels in the river\\nattempted to pnitect them by cannonading Capt. Harring.\\nThe following miscellaneous items were printed in\\nthe newspapers in 1780:\\nAn inhabitant of Bergen named Van Wagener was taken by the\\nRefugees on his return from tbo rebels. He had gone, after recon*\\nnnltring the Refugees* Post, to give intelligence of the situation. It is\\nn\\\\\u00c2\u00bb said that the rebels hit vr carried otT Mr. .lohii Phillips, u quiet itihiib-\\nilnnl, on a suspicion of his huvirig l een friendly to our pe\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbple.* New\\nYork GaxeUe and H cekhj ,lfej*-iij/er, Oct. 16, 17H0.\\nThe rebels on Saturdiiy burnt Col. William Bayard s new house and\\nl nrn at Cttstile, on the north end of Iloebuck, and destroyed all the for-\\nage and timber to be found there to a very large amount. AVir )*or|:\\nMercury, .\\\\ug. 2\u00c2\u00ab, 1780.\\nGens. Washington, Lafayette, Greene, and Wayne, with many other\\nofBcers and lari^o iNxlles of rebels, have been in the vicinity of Bergen\\nfor many diiys past. They have taken all the fonige fmni the inbnb-\\nitaiits of tliHtplac* Their officers were down to Prior s Mill last Friday,\\nbut did not seem iucUned to make any attack.** Same paper.\\nIn one of these visits to Bergen, Wasliington and\\nLafayetto dined under an apple-tree in tlie (orchard\\nhack of Ilartinan Van Wagener s liouse, close by the\\nBergen Square. Tliis w;lh blown down by the great\\ngale of Sept. 3, 1821. A pleasing reference was made\\nto thi.s incidrnt when the marquis visited this country\\nin 1X24. )ti Thursday, the 2:{d of September in that\\nyear, he liinded in Jersey City. At Lyon s Hotel he\\nwas introduceii to Governor William.son and others.\\nAccompanied by a large retinue he moved on towards\\nNewark. At the Five Corners the Bergen people had\\ngathered in large numbers to do him honor. He was\\npreseiittMl with a superb cane, made (\u00c2\u00bbf the apple-tree\\nunder which he and his chief had dined, elegantly\\nmounted with gohl, with this inscription: Shaded\\nthe hero and his friend Washington in 1771); pre-\\nsented Ijy the Corporation of Bergen in 1824.* It was\\naceompanie l by the following addr(\\\\Hs by Dominic\\nCornelison\\nGcNKRAL, In behalf of my fellow-cftlzens, I bid ymi a hearty and\\noonllal welcome to the town of llergen, a phice t)irt iigh which yon\\ntrmveleil during our llevidutlonnry struggle for Ijlwrty and Independ-\\nence, AiMK-latoil with our llluslriouk Wnshlngtou, yoiir example In-\\nspired roumge anri patrloiliim In the heart of every true .\\\\nierican.\\nYou, sir, left your abotle of ease, aflluenre, and happinriw to endure\\nllie hardahiiM and prlfatlons of the i-anip. To nnuniernte your marllst\\ndeeds is st this lime iinneceMary, yet they awaken and call forth our\\nwarmeet gmtitude. As a tribute of esteftoi and veneratton, permit me,\\nsir, to ask the favor of your acceptance of this small token of respect,\\ntaken from an apple-tree under which you once dine t, nnd which once\\noffered you n shelter from the piercing mys of noonday and, although\\nit possesses no healing virtue, may it still be a support. And may you,\\nsir, after ending a life of usefulness and piety, be adndttinl into the\\nregions of everlasting joy and felicity. Sentitul of Preedomt Sept. 28,\\n1824.\\nA party of rebels came to and plundered Bergen last Friday.** N*%e\\nI I orJt Merrury, April 2, 1781.\\nLast Friday night a party went from Newark and captured two\\nsloops lying near Refugee Post, on Bergen shore, out of which they took\\neight prisoners, who were sent to Morristown.* .V *r York I uckel, Aug.\\n30, 1781.\\nLast Wednesday night a party of Ward s plunderers fh Di Bergen\\nNeck came to the neighborliood of Hnckensack, where they collected a\\nnumber of cattle, which the inhabitants retook, and killotl and wounded\\nseveral of the miscreatits. A ir Jeru y Journal, Sept. 5, 1781.\\nOn Wednesday evening last a party of eleven men under Capt. Wil-\\nliam Harding went from Fort De Lnncey, on Bergen Neck, to Closter\\nand oiptured a rebel guani of six men and Unpen cattle, and took tliem\\nsafely to the fort,* AVir York Mercury, Sept. 17, 1781.\\nIt was from Fort De Lancey, the stronghold of the\\nRefugees on Bergen Neck, that the following address\\nto Prince William Henry, the third son of George\\nIII., and afterwards William IV., emanated. In Sep-\\ntember, 1781, the prince arrived in New York as mid-\\nshipman under Admiral Digby. The Refugees at\\nFort De Lancey availed themselves of the oi portunity\\nto display their obsetinious loyalty, and on the 1st of\\nOctober laid before His Royal Highness the address\\nwhich we give below\\nTo His Roval Hioiiness Puince William Hlnsy:\\nWe, His Majesty s dutiful nnd loyal subjects, the Kefngeee stationed\\non Bergen Neck, beg leave to address your Royal Highness (through the\\nchannel of our commanding officer) on your safe arrival In America. It\\nis impossible for us to express the satisfaction thai is visible in the (ace\\nof ever Individual l olouging to our immll iwrty at m) dlHtinguisbed au\\nhonor paid to the loyal inhabitants of (hie continent by the arriral of so\\namiable and distinguished n character as the son of our royal sovereign.\\nThe mensures pursued by a designing, base set iif men early lu this\\nunnatural contest obliged ns to leave our habitations and tly for safety\\nto His Majesty s troopt^, since which we have let our )H. rse -ulor8 (who\\nmeant our dwtruction) feel the ofii*cts of our resentment, and ct uviuced\\nthem that we contended for that which every man, at the risk of his life,\\nou^ht to defend.\\nTherefore we flatter onrs\u00c2\u00ab*lveH that your Royal Highness is ciinvinced\\nof our sincerity, of our attachment to their Mt^esties and the royal pro*\\ngeny iwhlch we are always willing to give frefh priKifs of), praying for\\nthat day when rebellion nmy bo crushed and |H)ftce eetablislteil through-\\nout this continent, und His Majesty s standard Iisplaye\u00c2\u00abl triumphant by\\nland and sea. May Heaven protect your Royal Highness to time of\\nI danger, and permit you to n^turn cimwuihI with th** launds uf victory to\\nyour niyal parents.\\nFort I r. Lanckv, os Rkroen Neck, 1st October, 1781.\\nThis address was presented to the prince by Maj.\\nThoma.s Ward and his ofticers. Through Admiral\\nDigby the prince replied:\\nI OOMMAFfDANT*S HorSR,\\nI Niw YoKK.Oct. 3, 1781.\\nThe hnndde addnwi of llirt Majesty s dutmil and loyal subjects, the\\nRefugees Htatione l on Rergon Neck, has l een received by Ills Royal\\nI Highness.\\nIlls Royal HighiiMs has ieen with pleasute the lt yal sentiments\\ncontained In Iheaildress.and Rear- Admiral IMgby will take cnrr to make\\nthem known to His M ljraty. Roni-.RT Dioiir.\\nTo TIIK CoMMtNDINU OrtliTK Of Till: I\u00c2\u00abOYAL ItP.rt OrKS STATIONi:i\\nAT UKitur.N Nkck.\\nAbout the Ist of September, 1782, Fort iK- Lancey\\nwas evacuated and burned. On Saturday, October", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "CONFISCATED ESTATES IN BERGEN COUNTY.\\n67\\n5th, Maj. Ward, with his despised and motley crew of\\nRefugees, embarked for Xova Scotia, carrying with\\nthem implements of husbandry, one year s provisions,\\nand the undying hatred of all Americans. The\\npatriots who had suffered at their hands rejoiced at\\ntheir exile, and in song sneered at their future home:\\nNova Scotia, that coUi, barren land.\\nWhere they live upon shell-fish and dig iu tlu sand.\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nCONFISCATED ESTATES IN BERGEN COUNTY.\\nAmong the first acts passed by the Legislature of\\nNew Jersey were those relating to the security of the\\ngovernment and the punishment of treason. At the\\nfirst session under the Constitution, held at Princeton,\\nfrom the 27th of August to the Sth of October, 1776,\\nan act was passed, on the 19th of September, repeal-\\ning the old oath of loyalty to the king, and prescrib-\\ning the new oath of allegiance to the government\\nformed by authority of the people. The oath of\\nabjuration of the kingly authority is in the words\\nfollowing, to wit\\nI, A. B., do sincerely profess and swear (or, if one of the people called\\nCfuakers, nffirml That I do not hold myself bound to bear Allegiance to the\\nKing o/ Great Britain. So help me God.\\nThe following is the oath of allegiance to the popu-\\nlar government\\nI, A. B., do sincerely profess and swear (or, if one of the people called\\nQuakers, affirm) That I do ond wilt bear true Faith and Allegionce to the\\nGovernment established in this State under the A uthority of the People. So\\nhelp me God.\\nIn an Act to punish traitors and disaffected per-\\nsons, passed Oct. 4, 177G, it is provided in the fourth\\nsection\\nThat any two Justices of the Peace shall and they hereby are em-\\npowered and directed to Convene by Summons or Warrant any Person\\nwhatsoever whom they shall suspect to be dangerous or disaffected to\\nthe present Government, and to tender and administer to him the Oaths\\nof Abjuration and Allegiance set forth in an Act entitled An Act for the 1\\nSecurity of the Government of New Jersey, passed the nineteenth\\nof September, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six.2 And if\\nany person to whom the said Oath shall be tendered shall neglect or re-\\nfuse to take the same, the said Justices shall hind him over with suJB-\\ncient Sureties to appear at the ne.\\\\t Court of General Quarter-Sessions of\\nthe Pea^^e, and to be in the meanwhile of good Behaviour and in de-\\nfault of sufficient sureties, or on refusal to be bound, the said Justices are\\nhereby empowered and directed to Commit such Offender to close Gaol,\\nand Certify the same, witli the cause of commitment, under their Hands\\nand seals, to the next Court of (Juarter-Sessions of the Peace, where, if\\nsuch offender refuse to take the said Oaths, he shall continue bound to I\\nhis good Behaviour, or be fined or imprisoned, as the said Court shall\\ndeem necessary.\\nIn the early stage of the war many persons had\\nbeen induced to leave their homes and their friends\\nand join the army of the king of Great Britain.\\nOthers who had been guilty of treasonable practices\\nagainst the State secreted themselves to escape punish-\\nment. In compassion for their unhappy situation,\\nand desirous that every means should be employed to\\nrestore such to their allegiance and to the benefits of\\na free government, the Legislature of New Jersey, on\\nthe 5th of June, 1777, passed An Act of free and\\ngeneral pardon, and for other purposes therein men-\\ntioned. This act provided that all such offenders\\nwho chose to return to their allegiance or join the\\ncause of their country before the 5th day of August\\nnext ensuing should meet with amnesty on the part\\nof the government, and upon taking the prescribed\\noath before the judge of the Supreme Court, or of the\\nCourt of Common, or any justice of the peace, should\\nreceive the following form of certificate\\nI, C. D. (one of the Justices, etc., as the case may be), do lierehy Cer-\\ntify that A. B., being one of the Offenders described in an Act of the\\nLegislature of New Jersey, made and passed the fifth day of June, One\\nThousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-seven, intitled An Act of free\\nand general Pardon, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, having\\nvolnntarihj appeared before me and claimed the Benefit of the said Act,\\nhath this day taken and Subscribed the Oaths (or Affirmations, as the\\ncase may require) prescribed in tlie said Act. Given under my Hand and\\nSeal the Day of Anuo Domini 1777.\\nC. D.\\nJL.S.\\nOn presenting this certificate to the clerk of the\\ncounty of his residence, to be recorded in a book kept\\nfor that purpose, the offender should be freely and\\nabsolutely pardoned, released, and discharged from\\nall Treasons and other offences specified in an Act\\nof the Legislature of the State made and passed at\\nPrinceton on the fourth day of October, in the year\\nof our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sev-\\nenty-six, intitled An Act to punish Traitors and\\nDisaffected Persons, and should be thereupon re-\\nstored to all the Rights, Liberties, and Privileges of\\nother and good subjects of this State. If, on the\\ncontrary, they declined or refused to accept of the\\ngenerous offer of the government within the time\\nspecified in the act, commissioners appointed by law\\nwere to take possession of their estates, real and per-\\nsonal, and under certain conditions lease or sell the\\nsame for the benefit of the gtate. That part of the\\nact relating to this subject is as follows\\nThat the commissioners for the respective counties hereinafter ap.\\npointed, or any or either of them, shall and may, with all convenient\\nspeed after the publication of this act, make a true and perfect inventory\\nof all the personal estate and effects of every such offender, and dispose\\nof all the perishable part thereof; and in case they shall apprehend any\\ndanger of such pereonal estate or effects falling into the hands of the\\neneniy, then to sell and dispose of the whole thereof, and keep in their\\nhands the monies arising from such sale for the loie o/ t/ie ojriier, who\\nshall as aforesaid appear and take said oaths on or before the said first\\nday of August next, and the same to him pay, deducting therefrom for\\ntheir trouble over and above all reasiuiable charges and expeuces at the\\nrate of five per cent. and if such owner shall not appear and take the\\nsaid oaths as aforesaid within the time aforesaid, then such commissioner\\nor commissioners shall pay the same, deducting as aforesaid, to the treas-\\nurer, for the use of the State, whose receipt for the same shall be a\\nsufficient discharge.\\nIn case the personal estate and effects were not con-\\nsidered iu danger of being taken or destroyed by the\\nt New Jtrgey Journal, Sejit. 1 1, 1782.\\nChap, ii.. Acta of 1776.\\nChap, v., Laws of 1776.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "68\\nHISTORY OF RERGEX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nenemy, they were not to be sold, but kept safely for\\nthe owner, wlio should receive tliern, abating the cost\\nand commission, upon liis return and acceptance of\\nthe conditions of pardon by takin-r the prescribed\\noath of allegiance. But in case the said owner shall\\nnot appear and take the benefit of the said Pardon,\\nthen such Personal Estiite and Effects shall be and\\nare hereby declared to be forfeited to this State, and\\nshall be disjKised of by some future Law of the Legis-\\nlature.\\nThe commissioners appointed for taking charge of\\nthe abandoned personal property in Bergen County\\nwere James Board, Hendrick Kuyper, and Peter Fell,\\nappointed by the act of June 5, 1777. Under this\\nact only personal property of fugitives wa.s taken care\\nof or sold, accordingly as it was found exposed to de-\\nstruction by tlie enemy or otherwise. Considerable\\nproperty of the latter sort was sold by the commis-\\nsioners in Bergen County, on account of the more\\nexposed condition of this section. But we have no\\nrecords showing the amount ami kind of such prop-\\nerty sold.\\nOn the 18th of April, 1778, the Legislature passed\\nAn Act for taking Charge of and Leasing the Real\\nEstate, and for Forfeiting the Personal Estates of\\ncertain Fugitives and Oflenders, and for eidarging\\nand continuing tlie Powers of Commissioners ap-\\npointed to seize and dispose of such Personal Estates,\\nand for ascertaining and discharging the lawful debts\\nthereon.\\nThis act empowered and authorized the commis-\\nsioners, or any or cither of them, to make returns to\\nany justice of the peace in the county of the name and\\nplace of the late abode of each person whose personal\\nestate or effects had been seized, and thereupon such\\njustice wa.s required to issue a written precept to any\\nconstable of the county to convene a jury of twenty-\\nfour freeholders, who should make inquisition into\\nthe matter before the said justice of the peace upon the\\nevidence presented by the commissioners, and such\\nother evidence as might be obtaineil in the premises.\\nAt least twelve of the jurors were reipiired to agree\\nin their verdict, which should be in writing under\\ntheir hantis and seals, and slioiild be returned by the\\njustice to the next Inferior Court of Common Pleas\\nheld in the county. The manner of proceeding in\\nthe Court of Common Pleas is set forth in the act as\\nfollows:\\n2. Antt hr U/urther eaatlnt, TliM Oie ln |ilisltion rerUOnl ai sf(ir\u00c2\u00ab8aid\\nahaU l*o rctiiriKMl ttio Justice Wforo wlioiii it wnn tnkiMi \\\\ln the next\\nInforiur Cuiirt of (Vmititoii I Iniui hulilon in the L-outity aii l |iriM-laiiiA-\\ntion tliall DirfiiiHii) hv niiulo in opoii cmirt tliat \\\\t tiu )t\u00c2\u00abnion a^iiitt\\nwhom aiK-ti inqiilniliftn hatti 1h pii fnmieii.or an; p^ imiii on lilj l f hair,or\\nwho Riiall think hinmoif IntfToato*) in tlio prpiiiisiNi, Mtii a|i)K-aran l tni-\\nTerM\u00c2\u00bb the naid ln |iiiflllon, ami put in leciirity in tlip snni nf viir Utomnntl\\njtouniU, or ancli otliir mini aa llifi court nia ilirprt, Ijy rrcotcniranre or\\ntiond, to tho OoTprniir or i-oniinnn lor.in.clili f of liif SIntr for tln llnio\\nbciiifE, ami iiia Huixrawim, for liii nito of tiirStato. Willi ronilitloii to pnw-\\nixnit)* ttio traTPRM* to I ffn t, nnri li a) ail inili cohIp iu liiaii t f nwiirili^l\\nin ra\u00c2\u00bb( jniifiniKiit Rlinll icivon ai^liint tin* ppiwin mi imvprninK; iIm ii\\nIha aalii triivi r\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab aliali iw ri^ii lTiHl aii l a trial liiarroii awan|p.l hut If no\\n\u00c2\u00abrion ihall apixiar ttilravrnip tlip rfliTt of tlip mhl prticlaiiiatlon ahall\\nbe adv\u00c2\u00abcliM(l hy Uie couMiiiiiaioiier ur commiHiunpra who applied for the\\nprecept ait afort said in liw uf tiit- moat pnhilc piace\u00c2\u00ab in the county, and\\nttl*) inserteii ill the A eir Jrrtey GuMflte, if the wtnio elioll be tlien puli-\\niiiihetl, within thirty dayn after hucIi court; and if the por\u00c2\u00bbun n^initt\\nwlioni such iii(|uiKitioii bIihII have K-un found, or any {lenion in hi\u00c2\u00ab lie.\\nIiiilf, or who shall think hiuinelf interented in the prenii6e\u00c2\u00ab, shall at the\\nnextcourt afler the return of inch llitiiiit.ition appear and offer to tra-\\nverse the same as aforeeaid, and put in security as aforei\u00c2\u00abid, the said\\ntniTerse blinll tlion he received and a trial thereupon awanled otherwise\\nliuch intinisition shall be taken to be tine, and final judgment shall be\\nentered Uiereon in favor of the Slate. And all and sini^lar the goods\\nand chattels, rights and croihls, and other personal estate whatsoever of\\nthe offender against wiioin judgment is so entered shall lie and ai^\\nhereby declHred to be forfeited to and for tlie use of the State and the\\nciininiissioners, or any or either of llieni, shall thereupon sell at public\\nvenilue all such of the goods, chattels, and personal estate of such of.\\nfender as remain unsold, giving si least ten days* notice of the time and\\nplace of sale l y ndvertisenients set up in not less than Ave of the moat\\npublic idaces witliin ten mill s of the |ilace of sale, tliereiu describing Uie\\nprincipal articles to lie Hold.\\nReal estates, left without legal or rightful occupants,\\nand subject to great waste or damage by the enemy,\\nwere by the eighth section of the act of April 18, 1778,\\nto be leased by the commissioners until the Legisla-\\nture should take further action therein, and the ten-\\nants were made responsible for the rent and proper\\ncare of the premises. This was a wise provision, in-\\nasmuch as the property would otherwise have greatly\\ndepreciated in value before the lime of sale, and the\\nState tliereby sutler considerable lo.ss. It w:us, there-\\nfore, made lawful for the commi.ssioners, immediately\\nupon inquisition found, and without waiting for entry\\nof final judgment, to fjike into their care, jwssession,\\nand management all such hereditaments, real estates,\\nlands, and lenements, ami to let and lease them, as\\nprovided in the act, for a term not exceeding one year\\nfrom the 21st of March, 177 .Vll sales made by the\\n(illcnders alter joining the enemy were declared void.\\nQuartermasters of the army taking forfeited property\\nwere made aeconntable therefor.\\nHigh Treason. The crime which worked the for-\\nfeiture and confiscation of real estates in New .Jersey\\nwas that of high treason, and is thus defined in the\\nact of Dee. 11, 1778, entitled An act for forfeiting\\nto and vesting in the State of New Jersey the real\\nestates of certain fugitives and offenders, and for\\ndirecting the mode of determining and satisfying the\\nlawful debts and demands wliicli may be due from or\\nmade against such fugitives and ortenders, and for\\nother purposes therein mentioned\\nJUU tttrtcM hp the Authortin n/ortmid. That each and every InhaU\\nItaiit of this stale, seized or |MiBSesM d of, interested iu or entltleil to any\\nKstHte, Ileal or I erfxiniil, within the same, who hath, since the nineteenth\\nT ay of Al ril, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy. live, and be-\\nfore the fourth I ay of October, One Thousand Seven llunclred aiel Sev-\\nenty-six, aided and amisted the enemies thereof, or of the United States,\\nby Joining their Armies uilliin this Stale, or otherwise, or who hath\\nvoluntarily gone to, taken refuge or continued with, or en leavttre l to\\ncontinue with the Enemy aforesaid, and aiil them by Counsel or other-\\nwise, and who hath not shire returned and lieeome a Sul^i et in Alle-\\ngiance to the present Goveriinieiit by taking tlie (laths or Alllrniations\\nproscribeil in the Act eiitllbHl An Act f.ir the Seeurily of the liovern-\\nnient of Now JenHiy, |iasaa l the niiioloeiith Ilay of Septamlwr, One\\nThnusanil Seven Hiindred and S-venty-six, when re )ulred, each and\\nevery bik-Ii Teraon is hereby t*eolare i to be guilty of High Treaiatll\\nagainst thb Slate; and on Convictluii thereof by luqalsltiuu found, and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "CONFISCATED ESTATES IN BERGEN COUNTY.\\n69\\nfinal Juilgment thereou entered in favor of the State, as hereinafter de-\\nclared, s lch Conviction sliall amonnt to a full and absolute Forfeiture\\nof such Person s Estate, both Real and Personal, whatsoever, within\\nthis State, to and for the Use and Benefit of the same: Proviped Al-\\nways, That such Conviction sliall not extend to affect the Peraon of any\\nsuch OtTender, but shall operate ag-ainst his or her Estate only. l\\nUnder the provisions of the foregoing acts estates\\nwere confiscated and sold in New Jersey in 1778 and\\n1779. But the war still continuing, the poverty of i\\nthe country and tlie depreciated state of the currency\\nmade it necessary to discontinue their sale to a more\\nfavorable time. Hence on the 26th of June, 17S1, an\\nact was passed by the Legislature of Xew Jersey, en-\\ntitled An act to suspend the sales of real estates\\nwhich have or hereafter may become forfeited to and\\nvested in this State. Under an act passed Dec. 20,\\n1781, Hendriek Kuyper was appointed agent to take\\ncharge of forfeited estates in Bergen County. Some\\nof the confiscated estates disposed of in this county j\\nwere sold by the commissioners, James Board, Garret\\nLyndecker, Hendriek Kuyper, Peter Fell, and others,\\nprevious to the act of suspension. After that they I\\nwere sold by the agents, Hendriek Kuyper and Cor-\\nnelius Haring, who executed the deeds to the pur- j\\nchasers, which are found recorded in the clerk s office\\nof Bergen County. We have comjiiled from these deeds,\\nas matters of pulilic record, the following:\\nList of Confiscated Estates in the County of\\nBergen. Sohlbytlie Cr\u00c2\u00bbntnis\u00c2\u00abionrrt fnnn June 10, 177 J,\\nto March 8, 1787.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Estate of Albert Zabriskie, late of\\nSchraalenburgh, township of Hackensack, who joined\\nthe army of the King of Great Britain on or about Dec.\\n7, 1776, consisting of 14. -!i acres, bounded south by\\nthe land of David D. Demarest, east by the land of\\nSeaba Banta, north by the land of Joost Zabriskie,\\nand west by Hackensack River. Sold to Isaac Nicoll,\\nof Orange County, N. Y., for \u00c2\u00a34734, June 10, 1779.\\nBook D of Deeds, page 97.\\nEstate of John Merseles, late of the township of\\nHackensack, consisting of 100 acres and appurte-\\nnances, in Schraalenburgh. Sold to Peter Wilson, for\\n\u00c2\u00a33367, Nov. 3, 1779. Book D of Deeds, page 287.\\nEstate of Daniel I. Brown, of Hackensack, 8? acres.\\nSold to Peter Wilson, for \u00c2\u00a3204 16, i., Sept. 6, 1780.\\nBook D, page 317.\\nEstate of John Myers, New Barbadoes, 33.1 acres,\\nwith tenements, in the township of New Barbadoes,\\naforesaid. Sold to Isaac Vaii_ijiessen, for \u00c2\u00a3974 10.\u00c2\u00ab.,\\nJune 3, 1779. Book D, page 320.^\\nEstate of Daniel S. Demarest, of Hackensack town-\\nship, 25 acres and buildings, lying south of the land\\nof John S. Demarest. Sold to Beekman Van Bueren,\\nfor \u00c2\u00a31125. Book D, page 351.\\nEstate of Aaron Demarest, of the township of\\nHackensack, consisting of 103 acres, more or less.\\nSold to Weist Banta and John W. Christie, for \u00c2\u00a32178,\\nNov. 4, 1779. Book D of Deeds, page 354.\\nEstate of John F. Byerson, of Saddle River, bounded\\n1 Chap, cxxii., Acta of 1778.\\nnorth by the Ramapo Patent, containing 262 acres.\\nSold to John Van Allen, for 4;9775 16s., Nov. 5, 1779.\\nBook D of Deeds, page 389.\\nEstate of John F. Ryerson, aforesaid, containing\\n49 acres more or less, bounded south by the Pas-\\nsaic River, etc. Sold to John Van Allen, for \u00c2\u00a31825,\\nNov. 5, 1779. Book D of Deeds, page 393.\\nEstate of James Van Bueren, consisting of lots and\\ntenements, south of Jacobus Bogert s. Sold to Adam\\nBoyd, of New Barbadoes, for \u00c2\u00a32428 is. 6rf., Nov. 3,\\n1779. Book D of Deeds, page 425.\\nEstate of Daniel Jessup, of Hackensack township.\\nSold to Adam Boyd, for \u00c2\u00a3234 7.\u00c2\u00ab., June 3, 1779. Book\\nD of Deeds, page 433.\\nEstate of David Peck, of Schraalenburgh, adjoining\\nAbraham Quackenbush s land on the west, running\\neast to Owspeck Creek, 122i acres. Sold to Henry\\nFolks, for \u00c2\u00a31921 lO.-*., June 3, 1779. Deed recorded\\nin Book E, page 224.\\nEstate of Abraham Van Embergh, of New Barba-\\ndoes, 74] acres, north of the land of Arent Schuyler,\\non the east side of Passaic River, with tenements, etc.\\nSold to William Clark, for \u00c2\u00a3638 6\u00c2\u00bb. 9(;., June 3, 1779.\\nBook E, page 349.\\nEstate of Hendriek Doremus, late of Saddle\\nRiver, containing 304 acres more or less, with\\nbuildings, etc., in Saddle River township. Sold to\\nAdolphus Waldron, for \u00c2\u00a36575, Nov. 1, 1779. Book\\nF, page 99.\\nEstate of Jacobus Fox, late of Franklin town-\\nship, containing 100 acres more or less, with tene-\\nments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, etc.\\nSold to Hendriek Bogert, for \u00c2\u00a31457 ll.\u00c2\u00ab., Nov. 3, 1779.\\nBook F, page 331.\\nEstate of Abraham and John Haring, late of the\\ntownship of Harington, containing 200 acres, with\\nhouses and tenements, lying on the Hackensack River,\\nwest side, and bounded south by the land of Cornelius\\nBlauvelt. Sold to Henry Wisner, for \u00c2\u00a33778, Nov. 2,\\n1779. Book G, page 35.\\nSold by James Board et al., Commminners.\\nEstate of John Merseles, late of the township of\\nHackensack, 100 acres, with buildings, etc., bounded\\neast by the land of the Schraalenburgh parsonage, etc.\\nSold to Peter Wilson, for \u00c2\u00a33367, Nov. 3, 1779. Book\\nD, page 287.\\nEstate of Hendriek Bush, late of the precinct of\\nNew Barbadoes, containing 24 acres more or less,\\nwith buildings, etc. Sold to Peter Wilson, June 10,\\n1784, for \u00c2\u00a3150. Book D, page 309.\\nEstate.of John I. Ackerman, flfty-six acres more\\nor less, with buildings, etc., lying north of the land\\nof Peter Van Blarcom. Sold to Cornelius Van Home,\\nfor \u00c2\u00a32437 10\u00c2\u00ab., Nov. 4, 1779. Book D, page 405.\\nEstate of John Lukins, 13 acres and appurtenances,\\nin two lots of 6i acres each, in New Barbadoes. Sold\\nto Adam Boyd, for \u00c2\u00a3726 lOs., May 11, 1784. Book D\\nof Deeds, page 429.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "70\\nHISTORY OP BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nEstate of Abraham A. Quackenbush, late of the\\ntownship of Hackensack, in said county of Bergen,\\nlands and tenements situatetl on tlie Ilackensack\\nRiver, bounded west by tiie land of Isaac lUaiivelt,\\nsouth by the land of Cornelius Van Home, etc. Sold\\nto Samuel Sayer, for \u00c2\u00a31320 10\u00c2\u00bb. 9rf., Nov. 3, 1779.\\nBook E, page 14.\\nEiitate of Herman Van Hlarkum, late of Par-\\namus, l. acres, buildings, etc. .^old to Albert\\nHopper, for 413400, Oct. Id, 1779. Book P of Deeds,\\npage 191.\\nSold by Corneliits Harinij, Agent.\\nEstate of John Spier and Jacob Demarest, lands\\nand tenements, in Ilackensack township, beginning at\\nHackensack River on the line of Peter Wilson thence\\nsouth eighty-eight and a half degrees fourteen chains,\\nall along the land of said Wilson to the road thence\\nnorth fourteen and a half degrees, east seven chains\\nand ten links to the land of said Van Bueren thence\\nnorth eighty degrees, west seven chains thence north\\nfive and a half degrees, east nine chains to the Ilack-\\nensack River; thence southerly along said river as it\\nruns to the place of beginning. Containing 12 acres\\nand three-quarters. Sold to Beekman Van Bueren,\\nAug. 25, 1784.\\nEstate of Thomas Outwater. Sold to Jacobus\\nPauelse, Oct. l.i, 1785. Book D, 261.\\nEstate of William Bayard, .564 acre^, in the town-\\nship of Bergen, at Hobokcn. Sold to John Stevens,\\nJr., July 26, 1784, for the sum of \u00c2\u00a318,360 lawful\\nmoney of New Jersey. Deed recorded in Book D,\\npage 437.\\nEstate of William Bayard, 1 25 acres, in the township\\nof Bergen. Deeded to John Stevens, Aug. 25, 1784.\\nLib. D of Deeds, 440. j\\nJohn F. Ryerson, Saildle River, 130 acres, formerly\\nsurveyed for John Fane Ryerson and Dick Ryerson.\\nBought by Benjamin Shotwell, Jan. 16, 1787. Lib.\\nE, page 21 of Deeds.\\nJohn F. Ryerson, 93 acres, in the Ramapo Patent.\\nPurchased by Benjamin Shotwell, Feb. 24, 1787. Lib.\\nE, page 24.\\nJohn Zabriskie (see Book E of Deeds, age8 87,\\n88). Bought by .Joseph Johnson.\\n.lohn F. Ryerson, addle River, 4(t,*,, acres. Sold\\nt Isaac Nicoll for \u00c2\u00a31069. Book V. of Deeds, page 94.\\nWilliam Bayard, land on Norths River, adjoining\\nWcehawkeii. Sold to Daniel Baldwin, Dee. 1, 1784,\\nfor \u00c2\u00a3800 lawful money of New Jersey. Lib. E of\\nDeeds, page 136.\\nWilliam Bayard, 104 acres, adjoining Hoboken\\nCreek. Sold to Jacobus J. Bogert, May 11, 1784.\\nLib. E, page 1.53, Deeds.\\nMichael Van Tuyl, township of Bergen, 20 acres at\\nBergen Point. Sold to .\\\\n lrew Van Tuyl el ul., June\\n20, 1787.\\n.Irilin Richanis, loO acres and appurtenances, in the\\ntownship of New Barbadoes, being a tract of land\\nconveyeil by Warner Richards and Mary, his wife,\\nto the said John Richards. Sold as confiscated prop-\\nerty to James Thompson, Dec. 6, 1786, for \u00c2\u00a33100.\\nLib. E, page 239.\\nGarritt Lyndecker, township of Hackensack, 180\\nacres and tenements. Sold, Aug. 2, 1784, to Oarritt\\nLyndecker, Esq., for \u00c2\u00a33712. Liber F, Dee ls, page55.\\nWilliam Bayard, 23 acres, bounded west by north\\nof lot No. 17, ca-st by Jacobus Bogert, south by lot\\nNo. 19, township of Bergen. Sold to William Jack-\\nson for \u00c2\u00a3502, .May 1, 1744.\\nWilliam Bayard, 25 acres, bounded northerly by\\nthe road or lot No. 10, east by lot No. 4, south by\\nlot No. 12, township of Bergen. Sold to William\\nJackson, of the township of Bergen, for \u00c2\u00a3550, May 10,\\n1784.\\nChristian Pullisfelt, of the township of Franklin,\\n100 acres, bounded southerly and westerly by lands\\nbelonging to the general proprietors of East Jersey,\\nnortherly by Jacobus Bogert, easterly by Jacobus Pul-\\nlisfelt, township of Franklin aforesai l. Sold to Peter\\nWard, of Saddle River, for \u00c2\u00a3800, July 2, 1784. Lib.\\nF, Deeds, page 198.\\nJohn F. Ryerson, of Saddle River, 229 acres, in\\nSaddle River township, lying on the- southeast of\\nHigh Mouiitain, adjoining a tract belonging to John\\nRyerson and Cornelius tiarretson. Sold to John Ste-\\nvens. Jr., Esq., for \u00c2\u00a3300, March 8, 1787.\\nAlbert Zabriskie, 5 acres on the Ilackensack River,\\nbeginning at Doe s Creek, on the southerly corner of\\nJohn Romeyer s meadow. Sold to Isaac Nicoll, for\\n\u00c2\u00a348, May 1, 1785. Lib. G, Deeds, page 310.\\nNicholas Hoffman, 5.35 acres, in township of Hack-\\nensack, being the lands on the meadows formerly\\nbelonging to Mr. .\\\\braham Oouvernor, of the city of\\nNew York, and the other equal half-part being\\nformerly granted by David Ogden, Ks i., to Abraham\\nOgden, Esq. Sold to Martin Hoffman el il., for \u00c2\u00a3220,\\nDec. 1, 1786.\\nRobert Drummond, of Esse.K County, 63 acres, in\\nFranklin township, bounded northerly by lands of\\nPeter Van Zile, easterly by the land of Simeon Van\\nWinkle, south by the said Van Winkle, west by the\\nland of Romine. Sold to Peter Ward, July 16,\\n1784, for \u00c2\u00a3765 lawful money of New Jersey. Lib. H,\\njiagc 43.\\nEdmund Simmons, late of the precinct of Hacken-\\nsack, 6J acres, beginning at a dock on Hackensack\\nRiver, below New Bridge, so called, and near the house\\nformerly occupied by Dr. Van Bnskirk, etc. Sold\\nby the agent to Capt. Gyles Mead, of Hackensack,\\nfor f4 M), July 1, 1784. Lib. K, Deed.s, 128.\\nNiclnihis Loshier, late of the precinct of Hacken-\\nsack, lands and tenements in Hackensack township.\\nSold to Arie Westervelt el al., for \u00c2\u00a3153 15*., Sept. 21,\\n1784. Lib. O, Deeds, page 231.\\nPeter P. Bogert, late of the township of Harring-\\nton, lands urnl tenements in that township (14S acres,\\nstrick measure Sold to John Stevens, Jr., for\\n\u00c2\u00a31800, March 1, 17.S7.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "BERGEN COUNT i iMEN IN THE REVOLUTION, ETC.\\n71\\nWilliam Bayard, late of Hoboken/ in the county\\nof Berg-en, lot containing 4-] acres, extending from\\nHudson River on the east to vSecaucus Commons on\\nthe west. Sold to Cornelius Huyler, for \u00c2\u00a3702, Aug.\\n25, 1784. Lib. E 2, page 67.\\nAs a specimen of the deeds given by the agent, we\\ncopy the following:^\\nTu all to whom these presents shall Come, ur may Concern, Greet-\\ning: Whereas lately, that is to say, of the Term of January last, a Writ\\nor Process, directed to me. Cornelius Haring, Agent of forfeited Estates\\nin the County of Bergen, in the State uf New Jersey, issued out of the\\nCourt of Common Pleas lield at New Barbadues, in and for the County\\nof Bergen, setting forth that of the Term of March in the year of our\\nLord one tliousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, in tlie Court of\\nCtinimon Pleas held at Pompton in and for the County aforesaid, before\\nthe Judges of the same Court final Judgment was had and entered in\\nfavor of the State of New Jersey, pursuant to the Laws, against Lewis\\nMiltenberry fur joining the army of the King of Great Britain, Ac, and\\nreturned to the said Court And thereupon I the said Agent wasin and\\nby the w rit or process aforesaid commanded and required to sell and dis-\\npose of all and singular the lands, tenements, and hereditaments so held\\niu fee or for term of life and personally all Estate Real of whatsoeverkind\\nbelonging or lately belonging to the said Lewis Miltenberry within the\\nsaid County of Bergen, as iu and by the said Writ or Process, and the\\nRecord thereof in tlie Clerk s Office of the said County of Bergen, refer-\\nence l)eing thereunto had, tliese things will more fully and at large ap-\\npear; and whereas the Premises hereinafter mentioned and described are\\nor were reputed to be or lately to have been the property of the said\\nLewis Miltenberry, I the Agent aforesaid, pui-suaut to the Command\\nand direction to me in the said Writ or Process specified and Contained\\nand also by furce and virtue of Certain Acts of the Legislature of the\\nState of New Jersey, in such case made and provided, did Expose and\\nCause the said Premises to be sold at public sale or vendue to Albert\\nWilson, of Franklin aforesaid, the Seventeenth day of June, a. d. one thou-\\nsand seven hundred and eighty-four, then and there being the highest\\nbidder for the sum of seventy-four pounds lawful money of the said State\\nof New Jt-rsey, first having duly advertised and published the sale\\nthereof\\nNow Know ^e that I the said Cornelius Haring, the Agent afore-\\nsaid, by virtue of the Writ or Process aforesaid to me directe i and deliv-\\nered, and by force and virtue of the laws in such case made and provided,\\nand fur and in Consideration of the sum of seventy-four Pounds to me\\nwell and truly in hand paid by the said Albert Wilson, the receipt\\nwhereof I hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained, sold, c.\\nto the said Albert Wilson, his heirs and assigns forever, all the estate,\\nright, tille, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever, either in\\nlaw or equity, which the said Lewis Miltenberry hath or lately had, or\\nought to have had, of, in and to all that certain messuage, tennameut\\nhuuse and piece or parcel of land situate lying and being iu the Town-\\nship of Fmnklin aforesaid, beginning at the road and at the line of\\nAbraham Hopper; thence North seventy-three degrees, we^t five chains\\nand fifteen links; ihence South seventy-three degrees, E;iSt four chains\\nto the road; thence all along the road to the place of beginning: Con-\\ntaining two acres he tlie same mure or less, bounded northerly by Abraham\\nHopper, westerly by the lands formerly the property of J. M. Provost,\\nand southerly by the same lands, and esislerly by the road. To have\\nand to hold, etc. In witness whereof the said Apent hath hereunto\\nset his hand and seal this Second day of December, Anno Domini one\\nthousand seven hundred and eighty-four.\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\nBERGEN COUNTY MEN IN THE REVOLUTION, Etc.\\nUnder the act of Dec. 26, 1780, eight hundred and\\ntwenty men were ordered to be raised to .serve till\\nJan. 1, 1782. The quota of Bergen County was one\\nhundred and twenty men. They were organized in\\ntwo companies.\\nFirst Company. John Cutwater, captain Joseph\\nCatterline, lieutenant; Abraham Hoagland, ensign.\\nSecond Company. Thomas Blanch, captain David\\nDemarest, lieutenant Jacobus Bogart, ensign.\\nAnother call for troops was made Dec. 29, 1781, for\\nservice until Dec. 15, 1782. A force of four hundred\\nand twenty-two men was organized and placed in com-\\nmand of Maj. Samuel Hayes. The officers of the\\nBergen company were Peter Ward, captain; Joseph\\nCatteline, lieutenant; Samuel Verbryke, ensign.\\nUnder the act of Aug. 16, 1775, Bergen County\\nhad one company of militia in the service and four\\ncompanies of Minute-men. These latter were\\nheld in constant readiness, on the shortest notice, to\\nmarch to any place where assistance might be required\\nfor the defense of this or any neighboring colony.\\nThey were to continue in the service four months,\\nand they had precedence of rank over the common\\nmilitia of the province. The companies from each\\ncounty formed a battalion, in all ten battalions.\\nIn 1776 three companies from Bergen were joined\\nin battalion with three from Essex and two from\\nBurlington, under Col. Philip Van Cortland, Lieut.-\\nCol. David Brearley, and Maj. Richard Dey. The\\nregular militia of Bergen County was organized in\\none regiment, as follows\\nTeunis Dey, colonel; John Zabriskie, lieutenant-colonel; Cornelius\\nVan Voorst, lieutenant-colonel; Peter Fell, lieutenant-colonel;\\nRichard Dey, captain, first major John Mauritius Gu schius, captain,\\nsecond major; George Eyerson, adjutant Abraham Van Boskirk,\\nsurgeon.\\nGijjtoiJts.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cry nes Bartholf, Thomas Blanch, Joseph Board, James Christiile\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSamuel Demarest, Abraham Earring, Cornelius Earring, Abraham\\nA. P. Earring, John Eopper, Jonathan Bopper (murdered by Tories\\nat New Barbadoes, Bergen Co., April 21, 1779), Adam Huyler, John\\nBuyler (twice a prisoner of war). Jacobus Jaraloman, Henricus\\nKuyper, David Marinus, Henry Obest (wounded near Backensack,\\nMarch 17, 1780), John Ontwater (wounded March, 1780), Elias Ro-\\nmine, Jacob Terhnne, Nicausa Terhune, David Van Bossum, Conner\\nVan Bouten, John Vreeland, Peter W ard, John Willis.\\nLieulenants.\u00e2\u0080\u0094UeM\\\\y Bardan, Thomas Blair, David DufTe, William Den-\\nniston, David Doremus, John D. Earring, David Van Busse, Peter\\nS. Van Order.\\nFirst I i/ Hfpii ants. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Cornelius D. Blauvelt, George Brinkerhoff, Peter\\nSand ford.\\nSecond X( i(/eiia\u00c2\u00bbi(5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gilliam Bogart, John Uriancy.\\nSergeants. Anthony Beam, Cooms, Jolin F. Earring, Carpenter\\nKelley, James Riker, Benjamin Romine, John Haahrook, Cornelius\\nP. Westei-velt, Epson Van Winkle, Albert Wilson.\\nCorporals, e(c Abrara Vreeland; Abraham King, drummer; William\\nBlair, drummer Garrett Post, farrier, Lee s Legion, Continental\\narmy Jacob Vanderpool, bombardier, Continental army.\\n1 Book D of Deeds, {uge 156.\\nAckerman, Abraham.\\nAckerman, Johannes.\\nArrainson, Garret.\\nArrainson, John.\\nArrainson, Resolvent.\\nBaker, William.\\nBaldwin, Israel,\\nBaldwin, Thomas.\\nBaiita, Daniel.\\nBanta, Dirck.\\nBanta. Hendrick.\\nBanta, John.\\nBanta, Peter.\\nBanta, Samuel.\\nBanta, Weirt.\\nBardan, Isaac.\\nBarkedale, Henry.\\nBeam, James.\\nBeam, John.\\nBeagle, Thomas.\\nBennett, Jeremiah.\\nBerdan, Benry.\\nBerlolf. John S.\\nBlair, Robert.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "72\\nHISTORY OP BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nBlarvum, Henr).\\nIMauvelt, Abraliam.l\\nItlmir\u00c2\u00ab lt, Abraoi.\\nUlHUvelt, AltrHltAni T.\\nBlnuvrli, Frederick.\\nBlaiivfit, IiMMC-\\nUltiuveli, llHrlaii.\\n^luuvelt, Jaiuli.\\nBlaiivrlt, Jacobiiti.\\nBluuvelt, Janie^ J.\\nBlauvelt, Janiea T.\\nBlauvelt, Juhauaea.\\nBlauvelt, John.\\nBlauvilt, Juhn A.\\nBoitrfl, Cornelius D.\\nBugcrt, Cuflpurus.\\nBo(;ert, John,\\nBug4 rt, Mat hew.\\nBugert, (Jttrtielhis.\\nBogert, Nicholas.\\nBogert, JnDieH N.\\nBroHK, Ht^riuau.\\nBrewer, AUraui.\\nBrewer, .^Urutn J.\\nBriiikerhufr, Curnellus.\\nBriiikerhuff, Garret.\\nBiiiikerhofT, Hfiiry.\\nBrinkerhofT, Jacubus.\\nBrinkorhufl, JHtnes.\\nBriukerhufT, Necause.\\nBrocaw, John.\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u0094Brower, Abmm.\\nBrower, David.\\nBrower, Jacob.\\nBrower, John.\\nBrowor, William\\nBrown, Anthoii}\\nBurdan, Henry.\\nBurk, ThoniiiM.\\nCadniiiH, Aiidreitd.\\nCanip, Nathaniel.\\nCamiibell, Archtbah).\\nCampbell, David.\\nCampbell, jHOi b.\\nCAniplicU, John.\\nCaDipl\u00c2\u00bbell, SadiuoI.\\nCarr, Thoman.\\nCawndi-, John.\\nCaton, John.\\nChap|\u00c2\u00bbf l, John.\\nChttp| \u00c2\u00abl. Thoniaa.\\nChnriii, I l-ter.\\nChrimli Daniel.\\nCbriitio, John,\\nairiille, John W.\\nChriiitie, Peter D.\\nClark. William,\\n(xigh, Cafl| ani*.\\nCogh, Elian.\\nColo, Henry.\\nCole, 8amiiol.\\nComl\u00c2\u00ab, Mo\u00c2\u00abeii.\\nCooiKtf, IhTrick,\\nCornollwtn, John.\\nCorueliaon, Michaal.*\\nCunetcr, William.\\nCniiiel, Henry.\\niHiTldi. David.\\nDavis, Richard.\\nDay, Klia8.\\nDegmw, Waltpr.\\nDegrofi, Walter.\\nDt-hiDiHter, .\\\\bmni.\\nDennireet, .\\\\dani.\\nDeniarpttt, BtMijaniin.\\nDeninrpfit, Cornelins.\\nDeniHieDi, Daniel.\\nDenmreift, David.\\nD -niJire8t, Gilliam.\\nDeinart. t, Ilvndrick.\\nDeniar\u00c2\u00abit, Henrj*.\\nDt-marest, Jacob D.\\nDeniurt-st, Jacob P.\\nPemartrtit, Jnmee.\\nDenmrcst, John.\\nDemiirvst, Ji 8 -ph.\\nDeniarubt. rct\u00c2\u00ab?r.\\nDf nmrfBt, IVtcr B. D.\\nDcnmifsl, IVter D.\\nDen^l^e^t, rfl\u00c2\u00abT J.\\nDeniHrt-Ml, Peter P.\\nDeniHre.xt. Philip.\\nDenmreet, RoelirS.\\nDemurest, Simon.\\nDemurest, Williaiu.\\nI Denny. Henry.\\nDevoe. John.-\\nDcy, B^^njamin.\\nDey, David.\\nDey. John.\\nDey, Peter.\\nDickiniwtn, Walter.\\nPood, Rolierl.\\nDoud, Samuel N.\\nDogherty, Charles.\\nPon-nius, George.\\nDuniar, JuHtln.\\nPurham, NatliHiiiel.\\nEckorson, Cornyliui*.\\nE kor\u00c2\u00bbon, Thi\u00c2\u00bbmas.\\nEilwardn. Jficuh.\\nEmhiiTgh, Jonathan.\\nErem.\\nEver84tn, Baniet.\\nKerdun, Abram.\\nFenlon, Jactib.\\nFertlon, WMhelm.\\nFenlon, .\\\\ndrew.\\nFiHher. Immc.\\nFIjiher, Peler.\\nFolk, Henry.\\nFreoland, Putor.\\nGarland, John.\\nGuble, Abraham.\\nGreen, J din.\\nGrimib, Benjamin.\\nGriOlth, DH%ld.\\nGuilluni, Michael.\\nHarlng, Abnini.\\nIlaring, Abram J.\\nHaring, David.\\nHaring, Darld P.\\nHaring, Fre^lerick.\\nHaring. Garret.\\nHaring, Garret F.\\nHaring. Ger^eo.\\nHaring. Jubu J.\\nHaring, Jtiseph A.\\nIlaring, Peter A.\\nIlaring, Peter G.\\nUenuion, David.\\nHenniiin. John.\\nHefisell, Frelick.\\nHuagland, Joseph C.\\nHugencamp, Evert.\\nIlogeucHnip, John.\\nHogencanip, Martin.\\nHopper, .^bntm A.\\nHopper, Andrew.\\nHopper, John J.\\nHopper, Peter A.\\nHup] er, Richard.\\nHopper, Riiianl.\\nHuysnian, Jacobus.\\nJones, Stephen.\\nJone\u00c2\u00bb-, Henry.\\nK\u00c2\u00bbi r, Peler.\\nKennedy, Thomiis.\\nKenny, Willlani.\\nKent, James.\\nKtpp, Amo8.\\nKipp, C-oiuelius.\\nLaliach, It aac.\\nLacy, Williuni.*\\nLeforce, Levi.^\\nLofoy, Abraham.\\nLofeey, Abram.i\\nLow, William.^*\\nLozier, Peter.\\nLynch, Daniel.\\nLyon, Samuel.\\nMagdalen, Abraham.\\nMariut\u00c2\u00ab, Sylv-ster.\\nMarcelles, Edo\\nMcDonald, Alexander.\\nMitchell, Joseph.\\nMurray, Thomu.\\nNaugle, Barent.\\nNangle, Itarunl J.\\nNuiigle, Harent II.\\nNaugle, David.\\nNaugle, Ifoutc.\\nOdol, Garret.\\n(.Xiver, Jamefl.\\nParcell, Jacob.\\nPeitnon, Thomns.\\nPennington, Nathan.\\nPerry*. Jithn.\\nPersal, Jacob.\\nPicket, Francis.\\nPope, Chrii^lopher.\\nPope, Jeremiah.\\nPofit, Abraham.\\nPofil, Adrian.\\nPimt, Ansi y.\\nPo\u00c2\u00abt. John.\\nP.\u00c2\u00abt. John C.\\nPont, John H.\\nPonlen, Jacob.\\nPonleeon, Martin.\\nPuwelsiui, MartlD.\\nPowle8,Powlc\u00c2\u00ab.\\nPowK^on, James.\\nQuackenbusb, ComelluB.\\nQuiNloir, Peter.\\nBiggs, (.*yrenu8.\\nK* bards, Ichabod.\\nKollins Stephen.\\nRomlne, Nicholas.\\n]io\u00c2\u00abs, Isaac.\\nRutan, JoliD.i^\\nRyerson, 31art1n G.\\nRyersoii. Ryor.\\nSedam, Cornelius R.\\nSimonson. Siuieon.\\n$isc4), Nathaniel.\\nSisco, Peter.\\nSisco. Peter J.\\nSmith, StAftts.\\nSmith, Stadus.\\nSpiuHge, El ene\u00c2\u00bber.\\nSpringer, Jacob.\\nStAgg. Cornellun.\\nStagg, John.\\nSingg, Powlos.\\nStephoiuif John^\\nStorms. Joho.\\nTant, Thomaw.\\nTatller. John.\\nTaylor. John.\\nTerhune. John D.\\nTotlur, John.\\nTunie, Jacob.\\nTursc. Jtdin.\\nYnlentine, Jacob.\\nVan Duffee. John.\\nVan BuHkirk. George.\\nVan BuMen, Philip.\\nVan Dalsen, Henry.\\nVan Dat\u00c2\u00bben. William.\\nYonderlK ck, .\\\\liram.\\nVamlcrbeck, Barent.\\nViui lert eck, Jacob.\\nVanderl*eck. Powles.\\nVandorvoort, (Vmellus.\\nVandervoort, Peter C.\\nVan Kuiburgh, John.\\nVau Gleson. Henry.\\nVan (iieson, John.\\nVan Houien, Adrian.\\nVan lionten, t arinus.\\nVan Houten. Hendrick.\\nVan Hoiiten, Jacob.\\nVan llouten, Powles.\\nVon Houien, Ralph.\\nVan Houten, n^vMt.\\nVan Norden, John.\\nVon Norden, Peter.\\nVan Nonlen, John.\\nVan Pelt, Peter.\\nVan ViHirhoes, Albert.\\nVan Voorhees, AU ert P.\\nVan ViM)rhre*, Peter.\\nVan V.N.rbees. Williuni.\\nVan Winkle, Henry.\\nVm Winkle, Luk\u00c2\u00ab.\\n1 Woand\u00c2\u00abd.1791.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Also Llent-C4il. Fell UtiAlhin State Tn\u00c2\u00bboi\\n.\\\\l\u00c2\u00bb( I. lent -r ni. Frll ii liailallon Slate Troops.\\n4 Also l.feui M^ ol. Fell s Imttftllon SUte TnHi|wi.\\nCM\\\\tt ^amunl DeniarestVconiiiany wonndcl and taken prleouerMay\\n20. 17hl exchanged.\\nCapt. Cutwater s comtiany State l:uups.\\nT Also MiO- Gottclilus* battalion.\\nAlso Mf^J. Gietachlus* bntUUon.\\nA1m Lleut.-Cul. Fell s l attalion State troops.\\nI AlfKi Llent.-Ctd. FelPs Inttnllon; nlm i ontlnental army.\\nII Also Lleul.-Cd. Fell s UtUlioii Slnle triKi|\u00c2\u00ab.\\nI- Also Lleiit.rol. Fell s battaUon Stale trooiw.\\nAlso Lieut -Col. FetPii battalion Slals troo|i\u00c2\u00abt.\\nI* Also MiiJ. Go-tschiufi bnllnllMii Hints !nK)|)S.\\nI- AlsoCigii. Samuel Deuinrcnt s coni))aiiy woundnl.\\nlA Woundeil May i:i, 1777.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "BERGEN COUNTY MEN IN THE REVOLUTION, ETC.\\n73\\nVan Z)lc, Alljerl.\\nVarrick, Abraiu.\\nVarrick, John.\\nVercler, Samuel.\\nVerbryck, Samuel.\\nVervelen, Abrum.\\nVerveleu, John.\\nVervelen, Samuel.\\nVreelaiid, Peter.\\nWalker, James.\\nWard, James.\\nWeiidover, Flcrcules.\\nWerte, Willi.un.\\nWestervelt, Albert.\\nWestervelt, Ileiijamin.\\nWestervelt, IJenjjinilii I*.\\nWestervelt, t asparus.\\n^Vestervelt, Jereiniali.\\nWestervelt, Johannes.\\nWestervelt, John.\\nWestervelt, Uriah.\\nYoung, William.\\nIncidents of the Revolution in Passaic County.\\nAt the time of the Kevolutioii Pas.saic County\\nwas almost exelusively .igricultiiral. Only at three\\npoints were there any considerable hamlets, at Ac-\\nquackanonk Landing, where were the merchants and\\nshippers, and at Pompton and Ringwood, where the\\niron works were. In 1775 some of the Acquackanonk\\npeople held a meeting to concert measures with those\\nof Newark and other towns for the common defense\\nagainst Britisli aggression, but there were leading\\nmen who discouraged any such movement.\\nContrary to what might have been expected, con-\\nsidering his position as agent of the London Company,\\nRobert Erskine took sides from the first with the colo-\\nnies, and though he fully expected that the British\\nking and ministrs would recede from their insane\\npolicy before reconciliation should be too late, yet\\nfrom the start he prepared for the worst, and so early\\nas August, 1775, he fully equipped a company of Con-\\ntinental militia at the Ringwood works at his own\\nexpense, one of the very first companies organized in\\nthe State for war. The Provincial Congress warmly\\ncommended his zeal, and ordered that he be commis-\\nsioned captain of the company. He did valuable ser-\\nvice to the American cause in running the works\\nduring subsequent years, supplying cannon-balls and\\nother necessaries to the army. Moreover, his knowl-\\nedge of the topography of the country was great, and\\nWashington made him geographer and surveyor-gen-\\neral of the army, which position he doubtless held\\nuntil his death in 1780. He is buried at Ringwood,\\nnot far from the ruins of the old Ringwood furnace,\\nand near the road running from Ringwood to Long\\nPond. He was forty-five years of age when he died.\\nJust here let us notice an old slander, which is\\nsometimes repeated to this day. It is said that one of\\nthe Ryersons, who owned a furnace and forge at Pomp-\\nton, made cannon-balls and secretly delivered them\\non board of British war-ve.ssels at New York. The\\nstory really originatid at the time of the war of 1812,\\nand did not relate to transactions during the Revolu-\\ntion. In 1821 Mr. Ryerson traced the report to two\\nwell-known citizens, and compelled them to acknowl-\\nedge over their own signatures in the public prints\\nthat they did not believe there was any foundation\\nfor the rumor.\\nAfter the disastrous defeat at the battle of Long\\nIsland, the American army crossed the North River\\nat Fort Lee and retreated through New Jersey, pass-\\ning through Acquackanonk in November, 1776^ It is\\nsaid that the British were in such close pursuit that a\\nfew shots were exchanged, and to check the progress\\nof the invaders the Americans, after crossing the\\nriver, cut away the bridge. Edo Merselis, of Preak-\\nness, a lad of fourteen or sixteen, was driving a load\\nof wood to market. The soldiers took his horses from\\nthe wagon, attached them to a caisson, and made him\\ndrive this strange load to New Brunswick, whence he\\nmade his way back with his team to his alarmed\\nparents.\\nThe battle of Monmouth in 1778 caused the British\\nto retreat hastily back through Jersey, and a detach-\\nment of them appear to have been chased all the way\\nto Acquackanonk, where there was a little skirmish,\\nand several were wounded on both sides.\\nIn December, 1778, Gen. Putnam s division of the\\nContinental army marched through Paramus and Ac-\\nquackanonk, the event being marked by no noticeable\\nincident. Surgeon Thacher, who belonged to the di-\\nvision, received a pleasing impression of the people\\nand their surroundings.\\nOct. 7, 1780, the American army, then at Newburgh,\\nwas ordered to Totowa, one column, under command\\nof Lord Stirling, marching through Paramus, where\\nthe headquarters were established next day, and or-\\nders given to repair the road thence to Totoway\\nbridge. On the 9th the headquarters were estab-\\nlished at Totowa, where they remained for six weeks.\\nThe main army was encamped at the foot of the\\nPreakness Mountain, extending along for two or\\nthree miles. Gen. Washington being quartered in a\\nfine brick house, still standing, a mile or two west of\\nPaterson, in what was long known as the Hogencamp\\nhouse, although he occasionally passed a night with\\nsome of the Van Houtens, of Totowa. The grand\\nparade was on the level plain used as a cricket-field\\na few years ago, near the Falls. Col. Mayland s\\nregiment of cavalry was stationed near Little Falls,\\nand Maj. Parr s rifle corps in a ravine near the Great\\nNotch, both being enjoined to watch the roads through\\nthe Notch to Newark and Acquackanonk, to guard\\nagainst surjirises. Lafayette was stationed along the\\nriver at and below Wagraw, his headquarters being at\\nGaffi L When he revisited this part of the country\\nin 1825 the spot where he had encamj^ed in 1780 was\\nconspicuously marked. The whole army was kept in\\na constant state of readiness for active operations, the\\nadvanced corps being placed under the command of\\nLafayette, the right wing (Pennsylvania and Con-\\nnecticut brigades) under command of Lord Stirling,\\nand the left wing (the four Massachusetts brigades)\\nunder Maj. -Gen. St. Clair. A flying hospital was es-\\ntablished at Demuud s, on the old Pompton road. On\\nthe 23d the light infantry were ordered to a new\\nposition, the better to command the Notch and Crane-\\ntown Gap, and .so protect the right wing. It is said\\nthat the bold hill on the east side of the Notch was a\\nfavorite lookout of Gen. Washington at this time, and\\nthat from this point he once detected a raiding-party", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "74\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nof British sallying out from Eli/.abethtowii, and\\npromi)tly dispatching a troop of cavalry behind the\\nhills to Springfield, intercepted the foragers as they\\nwere niakingoM with a fine lotofcattlcand other booty.\\nWhile the army was encamped at Totowa there\\nwas a great deal of straggling. Washington rebuked\\nthis in a general order, in which he stated that in a\\nride which he took the other day he found the sol-\\ndiers as low as Acquackanonk bridge on both sides of\\nthe river, and, as far as he has ever yet gone around\\nthe environs of the camp, the roads and farm-houses\\nare. full of them.\\nAn incident is handed down by tradition that\\nprobably grew out of this habit of straggling. On\\none occasion a party of American soldiers were chased\\nby a daring company of red-coats, even to the Passaic\\nRiver, near the present Main Street bridge. The\\nAmericans got across safely, and partly cut down the\\nold bridge. The impetuous British, bent on pursuit,\\ndiished into the water, the officers mounted on the\\nprivates shoulders, but ere they had got half-way\\nacross a hot fire from the troops encamped on the\\nother side compelled them to beat a hasty retreat.\\nA number of incidents are related of Wa.sliing-\\nton s personal intercourse with the people during this\\nbrief sojourn of the army, but space forbids relating\\nthem here.\\nOn the morning of November 27th the army broke\\ncamp and marched, with two days rations cooked.\\nPart of the army went to the Hudson River, and part,\\nincluding the Jersey Line and the Pennsylvania Line,\\nwent into winter quarters between Pompton and Mor-\\nristown. The condition of the troops was deplorable,\\nand to add to their misfortunes hundreds of the sol-\\ndiers who had enlisted for only three years were being\\nunjustly detained by their officers, while a bounty was\\npaid to new men who entered theservice. The Penn-\\nsylvania Line, two thousand strong, mutinied, and so\\nfar succeeded in their revolt as to get most of the\\nconcessions they demanded. )n the night of Jan.\\n20, 1781, a part of the Jersey brigade, stationed at\\nPompton, arose in arms, made the .same demands as\\ntheir Pennsylvania brethren had succCAsfnlly asserted,\\nand marched to Chatham to incite the rest of the\\nbrigade to revolt. Washington was incensed at this,\\nand immediately ordered Cien. Howe with a special\\ndetachment of five hundred New Kngland troops to\\nthe scene of the juuliny, which they reached by forced\\nmarches in five days, passing through Ririgwood on\\nthe way, where the officers were lodged by Mrs.\\nErskine. Suys Surgeon Thacher,\\nWo wrre fintertiiilKHl wUh nil i^legniit i iip| f r aiiil e\\\\ (*l]i iit wine.\\nMri Knikino i* n iK-tiiilMi* niMl nrr iiii|ihit)i\u00c2\u00abxl woniiiii who lIvM in a stjrle\\nuf \u00e2\u0096\u00a0niiionrf nliil fnjitiiun p\\\\rr, tliltit( IridiniUii woiiltti,Itutto, niiil npli-ndor,\\nttliil nIk tukoM iilKiuiire ill oiitt rluiiilni; the frii iidi of tier Inle hiislwnd\\nwith golieniiiH liiwlillality.\\nOn the morning of .lanuary 27tli the insurgents\\ncamp was readied, and the mutineers, to the number\\nof two or three liunilred, were rom|ielhd to surrender.\\nThree of the ringleaders were taken out, tried by\\ncourt-martial on the spot, and sentenced to be shot\\nimmediately by twelve of their comrades. Two were\\nthus executed the third was jiardoned. The muti-\\nneers were buried where they fell, a mile or two north-\\neast of Pompton, in a secluded, neglected spot among\\nthe hills, where a few stones rudely heaped together\\nare the only monuments to two misguided men, who\\nwere about as much sinned against as sinning.\\nOn Aug. 21, 1781, an army psissed through Ac-\\n(piackanonk for the last time. It was the American\\nforces hurrying towards Virginia to attack Lord Corn-\\nwallis, whose surrender followed two months later.\\nIn addition to what has been related there were\\nsundry minor incidents of the Revolutionary struggle\\noccurring in Pa.ssaic County that cannot be dwelt\\nupon here, but which throw much light upon the state\\nof public sentiment at the time.\\nThe records of the county courts show that all\\nthe people were not patriots. Not a few were attjiinted\\nof treason and their property confiscated to the State,\\nand many more were sent within the British lines at\\nNew York for disaffection towards the American cause.\\nThe most prominent active British sympathizer in\\nthis part of the State, if not in New Jersey, was Rob-\\nert Drummond, a wealthy ship-owner ami merchant\\nat Acquackanonk Landing, who had nuvrrietl Jan-\\nnetje Vreeland. He was a member of the Provincial\\nCongress in May, June, and .Vugust, 177 and\\nacquitted himself so satisfactorily to his constituents\\nthat they re-elected him in September, but when\\nactive hostilities began he placed his services at the\\ndisposal of his king, and organized the Second Bat-\\ntalion of New Jersey Volunteers, of which he was\\ncommissioned major. It is said that upwards of two\\nhundred members of this battalion were his neigh-\\nbors, who had been persuaded to eidist under his in-\\nfluence. This, however, is certainly an exaggeration\\nat least no such number of Acquackanonk men enlisted\\nin the British army. Most of his battalion fell\\nvictims to the climate in the Southern States or per-\\nished in battle. Maj. Drummond himself went to\\nEngland after the war, with his wife, and ilied at\\nChelsea in 1789. As an instance of the division in\\nfamilies during those trying times, his brother David\\ndid valiant service in the patriot army, and after the\\nwar was rewardcil with a tract of land in New York\\nStale, while Robert was given a farm in Nova Scotia\\nand a pension by the British government.\\nCHAPTER XVIII.\\nTin: 01. 1) rowNsiiii uk iiackensack.\\nWe propose in this chapter to condense some facts\\nrespecting the old township of Iiackensack, which\\nceased to exist in name in 1872. The histories of the\\nI iini|ililoi Hiilury uf Pamaic Coiiiiijr, liy Willlimi NoUon.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE OLD TOWNSHIP OF HACKExVSACK.\\nnewly-formed townships which at present cover its\\narea on the map of the county are given in their ap-\\npropriate places, but a more thorough treatment of\\nthe old township is needed than the necessarily brief\\nallusions to it in those histories.\\nOriginal Boundaries and Extent of the Town-\\nship. In 1682 Bergen County embraced only the\\nterritory between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers,\\nfrom Constable s Hook up to the province line, a\\nnarrow strip of land along the west side of the Hud-\\nson, at no place over five or six miles wide, and from\\ntwenty-five to thirty miles in length. The old town-\\nship of Bergen, from the date of its charter, in 1658,\\ncomprised the southern portion of this strip of terri-\\ntory, as far up as the present northern boundary of\\nHudson County and the settlements above that,\\nbeing regarded as outlying plantations, were at-\\ntached to Bergen for judicial purposes, and so re-\\nmained until 1693, when an act defining the bound-\\naries of townships was passed by the General\\nAssembly. That act recites as follows\\nThiit the Township of Hacksack* shall include all the land hetween\\nHackinsack and Hudson s River that extends from the Corporation Town\\nBounds of Bergen to the Partition line of the Province.\\nIt appears from this act that the township of Hack-\\nensack was bounded on the north by the province line\\nof New York, on the east by Hudson River, on the\\nsouth by the corporation line of Bergen, and on the\\nwest by the Hackensack River. It covered nearly\\nthe whole table-land of the Palisades Mountains, and\\nthe beautiful valley of the Hackensack on its eastern\\nside from the New York State line to the northern\\nboundary of Hudson County. The scenery of this\\nregion, including the Palisades and the views of the\\nHudson and its valley from their summits, is among\\nthe most picturesque and romantic in America. Here\\nthe Indians loved to roam before the advent of the\\nwhite man, and their bark canoes glided down the\\nsmooth waters of the Hackensack to their summer\\nresort on Staten Island. This was their avenue from\\nTapaan to the Kill van Knll, and out among the bays\\nand inlets around New York.\\nGrants of Land. Among the early purchasers of\\nland from the Indians in this township were Casper\\nand Alattys Jansen. We find the following allusion\\nto them and their lands in 1684, in the records of the\\nGovernor and Council of East Jersey\\nThe petition of Casper Jansen and Alattj-s Jausen, setting forth that\\nabout seven years since (lf 77) the pclitionerB obtained by gift from the\\nIndians a parcel uf Land lying at Hackinsack, on the north side of the\\ncreek, which gift was then also acknowledged by the said Indians before\\nthe late Governor Carteret, who promised the petitioners a Confirmation\\n4bthe same, only delayeil the full grant or patent till the adjoining lands\\nshould be purchased from the Indians and laid out into Lots, and that\\nsince one Jacques Le Row hath entered upon the said Lands and taken\\npossession of the same without having any Indian deed of gift. The pe-\\ntitioners praying a warrant to lay out thesame directed to the Surveyor-\\nGeneral in order for a patent, which being read and the petitioners\\ncalled in, who brought with them two Indians that had formerly given\\nthe said land to the petitioners, and the Indians being examined con-\\n1 So spelled Id the act.\\ncemiDg the premisee. Declared that they never made any deed to Jacques\\nLe Row of the said land, but that the same did belong to the petitioners,\\nwhereuiKin it was ordered that both parties attend this board the 27tli\\n9b\u00c2\u00ab next, that they bring with tliem the Indiaus concerned, and that\\n.Jacques La Row have notice thereof.\\nThis extract from authentic records carries us back\\nto 1677, when lands were purchased from the Indians\\nby Casper and Alattys Jansen. They show that the\\nIndians were still residents of the township, and were\\nordered brought before the Governor and Council at\\nElizabethtown. The creek referred to in the In-\\ndian grant, on the north of which lay the lands in\\ndispute, was probably that of English Neighborhood.\\nOne Jacques La Row was then a settler in that vi-\\ncinity, for he is complained of as having taken pos-\\nsession without any grant or warrant from the\\nIndians.\\nThe name of the township and that of the river\\nwhich formed its western boundary had been derived\\nfrom the Indians, who had lived along its banks and\\nhad fished in its waters from time immemorial.\\nMost of the early purchases of lands from the In-\\ndians and grants from the government within the\\nbounds of the township are referred to in another\\nportion of this work, and need not be repeated here.\\nThe early settlers were of the same class as those who\\ncolonized the township of Bergen and gradually ex-\\ntended themselves from the Neck northward between\\nthe two rivers.\\nTraditions of Van der Horst and Others,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 There\\ncan be little doubt that the lands between the Hudson\\nand the Hackensack were selected in the early days of\\nNew Netherland settlement as the manors of some\\nwealthy patroon from Holland. Myndert Mynderlsen\\nVan der Horst, of Utrecht, was one of these, and in\\n1641 he had a plantation, purchased of the Indians,\\nextending from Achter Kull, or Newark Bay, far up\\nthe valley of the Hackensack. It is said that he se-\\nlected for his town site the beautiful situation on the\\nHackensack now known as Little Ferry, and that, in\\nconsequence of the introduction of strong drink among\\nthe Indians, he and his settlement were doomed to\\ndestruction. The house of Van der Horst was burned\\non the night of Sept. 17, 1643, and his plantation made\\ndesolate. This story is not wholly traditional there\\nare enough historical facts to warrant the conclusion\\nthat Van der Horst was an actual resident of the vi-\\ncinity, although it is difficult to tell precisely where\\nhis house was located, or what his plans were with\\nrei erence to the establishment of a town. On the\\noldest map of New Netherland, that of Vanderdonck,\\npublished in 1656, we find the colony of Van der Horst\\nlaid down. It is called the Colonic van der Heer\\nNeder Horst, and is situated on the Hackensack, as\\ndescribed above.\\nThe Baron Van der Capellen also essayed to estab-\\nlish a colony in the old township of Hackensack. He\\nha purchased Staten Island of the Indians, and\\nfou ed a colony there, which was destroyed in 1655.\\n1 He I 1, through his agent, concluded a treaty with", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "76\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ntlie Indians, with submission to tlie oourU; of justice\\nat Hospating, upon Wearkaniius-Connie, near Hack-\\nensack. This was in lt 57. The place Hospating\\nEspatin, a hill) was on Union Hill, between the\\nHudson and the Hackensaek, and on the boundary\\nline between the old townships of Hackensaek and\\nBergen. (See chapter on Early Courts in this work.)\\nThis attempt to establish a settlement and courts of\\njustice was temporary. If it existed till the conquest\\nof 1664, it was probably given up at that time. Traces\\nof the foundations of buildings were known to exist\\nin that locality not more than a century ago. A gen-\\ntleman by the name of Earle, residing not far from\\nthere, now about ninety years of age, related to the\\nwriter that ruins of old buildings were known to exist\\nat or near the place indicated as Espatin when he\\nwas a small boy, and that the early settlers had no\\ntrailitioii as to their origin.\\nThe Patent of John Demarest, located in this\\ntownship, is thus referred to in the records of the\\nGovernor and Council of East Jersey, May 30, 1684,\\npage 109\\nThe l)etitfon of Jotm De Marin fcir liceiiae to pi;rcli ie 2 )0 dcnsa of\\nlaud of ttie ItidJAOa at Kinderkauiacke, at Hucki iiBacke, Hl uve the niill.\\nill order to patoDting tliereof. Ordered that lie have licellAe granted him\\nto purchaoe, making use of such peraoQB aa the Governor shall appoint\\nfor Nictiolaii De Vow and others, who presented their petitions yeater-\\nday.\\nIn the same records, on page 30, it appears that\\nDavid De Maris presented a petition, and w:is a.sked\\nby the Council\\nwhat lands he had purchased of the Indiatm for the supply of his saw-\\nmill, although the land is not imtentcil to him and his sons. The land\\npurliase*] is about two miles in l reailth, anrl coming to a |K)iiit, and six\\nmiles in lungtli. Agreed that David De Mans have patents for tlie lands\\nwhich is surveyed t* liini and his Mjnt\u00c2\u00ab at two sliiliingsaii ii -re. Hut that\\nwe cannot see renAin to grant liherty to cut Ilie timber from tlie land he\\ntakes not up until further matters appear than what is yet niiinifcstcd,\\nand that our purpose Is to view the same.\\nIt is of record that Peter Faiu-oiiier purchiused of\\nAVilliam Davis :i4 J4 acres of land on the eiust side of\\ntill- HackciisMik ill 170 .i.\\nCivil Organization of the Township.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .Vftcr 1693\\nthe township had its local court for the trial of small\\ncau.ses. We find this several times referred to in dif-\\nferent records, but in no instance in such a manner\\nas to indicate where in the township the court was\\nheld. Probably English Neighborhood was the chief\\nplace, iLs that was one of the ino.st important early\\nsettlements.\\nThe minutes of the board of justices and freeholders\\nfrom 171 (the earliest extant in the clerk s office at\\nHackensaek) to .May 10, 1769, while they give the\\nmeetings an l transactions of the board, do not indi-\\nnite the representatives iVoiii the piirliculiir townships.\\nAt the meeting, May 111, 1769, Martin ^owleson aji-\\n))earetl for Hackensaek township, and \\\\vas freeRolder\\nin 1770, 71, 72, 73, 7. and in the May meeting of\\n1776; Jacob D.ui.it. 1769, 70, 71, 72, 73, and 7.\\nI The hltlorlau of this work.\\nThey were also freeholders in 1768, and Demot in\\n1767; John Henson in 1773, 74, 75, 76, and Yost\\nZabriskie in 1774.\\nThere was no meeting of the board from May 15,\\n1776, to May 13, 1778. The last entry in 1776 is,\\nOrdered that this book be kept in the charge of\\nWilliam Serrell, clerk. Serrell had been clerk of\\nthe board from May 10, 1769. The stormy times of\\n1776 admonished them of the uncertainty of their\\nnext meeting, and so they made this order. When\\nthey met again a new order had superseded the old\\nprovincial system, and New Jersey had been nearly\\ntwo years a State. Hence on the 13th day of May,\\n1778, when they assembled again, the first entry in\\nthe^book, in round, bold letters, is,\\nState of New Jersey.\\nSome of the members of the board just before and\\nduring the Revolution had suffered loss of property\\nanil life in maintaining the cause, which in 1778 was\\nstill one of doubt and uncertainty, although the cam-\\npaign in New Jersey had ended in defeat to the Brit-\\nish, and the authority of the latter had been superseded\\nby a republican form of government.\\nFrom 1794 the following were freeholders of the\\ntownship\\n1794, 180(1-2, John Deinott; 1794, John Hurler; 179. V-9\u00c2\u00ab, 1S17, John G.\\nBeneou; 179: Nicholas Wratervelt; 1798-97. Dawes Westervelt;\\n1797-99, 18in;-lo, John 1 Durie 179\u00c2\u00bb-! Isaac Nladl; ISOO, Cor-\\nnelius UantH; 1801, Cornelius Westervelt, Junes Westervelt; 1HU3,\\nIl.niy Deniolt lSiH-5, .Mliert A. WValcrvelt lS S.-7, (ieo. lliiiiker-\\nliolT; ISOS l. i, Kichiiici I oweln IHI.-i, laaiiih Jidins-in; 181G-18, John\\nWexterveit, Jr., I etcr C. We tervelt; 1817, S. DrinksrholT; 1819,\\n1821-24, 1827--28, I etor C. Westervelt INIK-W, l.Si7-2.s. John West-\\nI errelt, Jr.; 182U-2B, 1829-33, WilliauiKly; 1820, John Kd all:1825-\\n211, Richard Paulison 1S2 .I-3:1, Jacob V. Terhune 1834-30., John I.\\nDemarest, Jr.; 1K34-:I6, 1M8-,MI. John R. i aulistm 18:17 -!t9, Peter\\nC. Westervelt 18;t7-38, Garret A. Westervelt Ig.l9-\u00c2\u00ab1, 184(i, Abra-\\nImni Kly; 184IM2, 1849~5I, Jacob II. Urinkerhofl; IS4J-I4, Teter R.\\nllogert; lS4;l-4. i, John C Westervelt 184.V47, Jacol. 1 Westervelt;\\n1847 -4S, John W. Westervelt iafil-. 3, Janiw Kly; 18.Vi-M, Thomiui\\nW. Demarest; 1854-50, John J. Ilertli.df: ISflfl.John A. V. Terhune;\\n1867-fill, I aul R. I aulison; 18 i7-MI, David I. WssUTveU l8ao-\u00c2\u00ab2,\\nI eter llogert, Jr.; 18\u00c2\u00abl-6-\\\\. Samuel Degns.t; l\u00c2\u00aba-m, ISWi. George\\nHuyler; 18(H-rifi, Albert J. Uogert 18ir7-\u00c2\u00ab, Garret A. I.ydecker;\\n1868-09, I etor P. Westervelt 1 s i\u00c2\u00bb-70, Joseph Sugg; I 70, Samuel\\nS. Demarest.\\nThis old township during the Revolution was the\\ntheatre of some battles and of many exciting scenes\\nand raids by the British and Tory refugee*. At every\\naccessible point along the Hudson from Weebawken\\nto Tappan the British .soldiery penetrated to the in-\\nterior, driving oil cattle, seizing and destroying the\\nproperty of the .settlers, burning buildings, ami olten\\nslaughtering in cold blood men, women, and defense-\\nless citizens, whose only crime was their patriotism\\nand hatred of British oppresision. The story of the*\\ntragic events is told in our chapters on the Hevo-\\nlulioii. In this township stood Kort Lee and the old\\nblock-house, so famous as the place of refuge for a\\nband of the most unscrupulous Tories of the Revolu-\\ntion. We will only give one extract here from the\\nrecords of that period. It is contained in a letter\\ndated Clostcr, May 10, 1779:", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE OLD TOWNSHIP OF HACKENSACK.\\n77\\nThis day about one hundred of the enemy came\\nby the way of New Dock, attacked the place, and\\ncarried off Cornelius Tallman, Samuel Demarest,\\nJacob Cole, and George Buskirk killed Cornelius\\nDemarest wounded Hendrick Demarest, Jeremiah\\nWestervelt, Dow Tallman, etc. They burnt the houses I\\nof Cornelius Demarest, Matthias Bogert, Cornelius\\nHuyler, Samuel Demarest s house and barn, John\\nBanta s house and barn, and Cornelius Bogert s and\\nJohn Westervelt s barns. They attempted to burn\\nevery building they entered, but the fire was in some\\nplaces extinguished. They destroyed all the furni-\\nture, etc., in many houses and abused many of the\\nwomen. In their retreat they were so closely pur-\\nsued by the militia and a few Continental troops that\\nthey took off no cattle. They were of Buskirk s\\ncorps, some of our Closter and old Tappan neigh-\\nbors, joined by a party of negroes. I should have\\nmentioned the negroes first, in order to grace the\\nBritish arms.\\nHendrick and Cornelius and Samuel Demarest were\\nprobably descendants of the old proprietor of Hack-\\nensack of that name. Their neighbors had turned\\nTories, and in that awful contest for their firesides\\nand their homes, brother may have fought against\\nbrother and father against son.\\nNearly four years before these calamities at Closter,\\nNew Jersey had declared herself independent of the j\\nBritish crown, and nearly three years before all the\\nAmerican colonies had joined in the same patriotic\\ndeclaration. The burning dwellings and barns and\\nthe insults to their women only served to fire the\\nhearts and nerve the arms of the people of Hacken-\\nsack in defending their country.\\nThe Township in 1840.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ex-Judge Millard, who\\nhas furnished some of the material for the history of\\nthis township, thus speaks of it in 1840 The town-\\nship was then ten miles long and from three to five\\nmiles wide. It then largely supplied the New York\\nmarkets with garden vegetables. Its annual sales of\\nthese products amounted to near $42,000, a large town-\\nship income at that day, more than doubling that of\\nany other township in the county. Its four bridges\\ncrossed the Hackensack River, viz., at Hackensack\\nVillage, New Milford, Old Bridge, and New Bridge.\\nAt these places and at Schraalenburgh, Closter, and\\nMount Clinton were a few dwellings, scarcely enough\\neven then to call any of them a hamlet. English\\nNeighborhood, in the southern part of the township,\\nwas thickly settled, and had one Reformed and one\\nChristian Church. The township then contained five\\nstores, nine grist-mills, six saw-mills, six schools, and\\ntwo hundred and eighty-one scholars. It had a popu-\\nlation of 2631.\\nBy the census of 1865 the old township of Hacken-\\nsack had a jiopulation of 7112, and by the census of I\\n1870, which was the last enumeration before the di-\\nvision and final cessation of the township, it had a j\\npopulation of 8039.\\n6\\nEarly Schools. Previous to the passage of the\\nscliool act of 1846 the schools were supervised by\\ntownship school committees, elected at the annual\\ntown-meetings. It is not remembered how many\\nyears this economy existed, but it is remembered that\\nprior to 1842 the school committee of Hackensack, as\\nwell as other townships, never had reported to the\\nboard of trustees of the school fund, as the law re-\\nquired them to do. They passed over to their succes-\\nsors in office a bundle of papers, in which there was\\nnothing of importance except a description of the\\nschool districts as they had been formed by them-\\nselves, and a loose copy of apportionments of the\\nvery meagre appropriations to the schools in their\\ncharge. The newly-appointed committee in Hack-\\nensack township, in conformity to a resolution\\nadopted by the people assembled at town-meeting,\\nwere instructed to report at the ensuing town-meeting\\nthe condition of the public schools in the township.\\nA reproduction of their report may not be uninter-\\nesting at this time, as it serves to exhibit the differ-\\nence between their condition then and now. It was\\nas follows, viz.\\nReport read at the AnniKtl 7\\\\ tni-Me\u00e2\u0082\u00acti\u00c2\u00bbg, lOlh April, 18-13.\\nThe school committee choseu at the last aiiuual tuwn-nieeting report\\nas follows, viz.:\\nTliat when they accepted their office, they did so with a mutual un-\\nderstanding that they would discharge their duties according to law.\\nThe reasons they would assign for coming to this determination are\\nthat no report had at any time pieceding the last year been received by\\nthe trustees of the school fund from the towusliip of Hacliensack, that\\ntheir predecessors had performed their duties in part only, and that it\\nseemed to be the wisli of many that information should be publicly com-\\nmunicated this day respecting the expenditure by tlie trustees of the\\ndifferent schools, of the interest of the suri lus revenue which tlie people\\nof the town had benevolently appropriated to the use of schools. The\\ncommittee have mainly directed their attention towards acquiring the\\nnecessary information in this particular, so as to make it satisfactory to\\nthe public tliat the money baa been judiciously expended.\\nSection thirteen of tlie act to establish public schools in the State of\\nNew Jersey imposes upon one or more of tlie members of the school com-\\nmittee to visit and examine the schools in their respective townships at\\nleast once in every six montlis, and on or before the first Monday in\\nMarch report their stale and condition, tlie number of scholars taught,\\nthe terms of tuition, the length of time the schools have been kept open,\\nthe amount of money received of the collector, and the manner in which\\nthe same has been expended.\\nIn obedience to the mandate contained in this section, the school\\ncommittee did visit a majority of the schools last fall. In the early part\\nof February last they sent circulars to the trustees of all the scliools,\\ninclosing a blank form of a legal report, and requesting the trustees to\\ncomplete the same, for which the committee would call on or before the\\nfirst Monday iu 5Iarch.\\nOn the Friday preceding the first Monday in March the committee\\nvisited school No. C, New Bridge, and No. 7, Scliraalenburg. The com-\\nmittee feel gratified in stating that in both of these schools they met the\\ntrustees, who with the teachets politely furnished the information asked.\\nI At the New Bridge the average number of scholai-s taught is thirty-four;\\nterms of tuition, S1.5n, 81.75, and 82.tM). The school has been kept open\\nall the year the amount of money received of the collector S74.80, which\\nhas been expended for the education of poor children, and for the ex-\\npenses of the school-house.\\nThe average number of children taught at Schraalenburg is forty-\\nseven terms of tuition, S1.50 school kept open the whole year amount\\nof money received of the collector S83.60, all of which, except a balance\\nof go.48, has been expended for the tuition of poor scholars, for extin-\\nt Centeonial Hist. Schools in Bergen GouDty, by Supt. Demarest.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "rs\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nguitbing th\u00c2\u00bb dobl on the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2cliool-hoUM and paying the expenaea of the\\nscliool.\\nSome time previously the coDimilloe vi\u00c2\u00bbitod scbool No. 4, at the\\nLiberty Pole, on the day of the examination. Thie school is in good con-\\ndition. The average niinilwr of s^liolarii taught i\u00c2\u00ab forty-five price of\\ntuition, 81.7 i; school kept open the whole year with the umlsnion of a\\nfew days received of the collector SlWI.lo, 8 .Si of hicli has been ex-\\npendeil for the education of poor children; the surplus funds of laat\\nyear, added to the remainder of this year, have iK-eu used for erecting a\\ncupola on their echool-house and the purchase of a bell, for keeping the\\nschool-house in repair and providing the necewary articles for the use of\\nthe school.\\nSo. 2, at Fort Lee, was visited on the first Monday in March. The\\nschool building nppiars tu he the liest, largest, anil niwt commodious of\\nany in the township. becoming spirit animates all in the furtherance\\nof popular education. The average number of scholars taught is fifty-\\ntwo; the terms of tuition, Sl.50 and S2.00; the bcIkhjI has been kept\\nopen the whole year; the amount of money received, S J2\u00c2\u00ab. Out of\\nthis sum was aid for interest due on the school-house debt, SKi to pay-\\ning teacher, SM); for stove and fuel, $24 leaving an unexpended balance\\nof S3.4I1. Poor children arc udmitle l fne of charge, the teacher being\\nengaged by tlip year at a fixed comlH nsation.\\nSo. :l, at the English Neighliorhood, wn-s next visited. The school\\nat the time co\u00c2\u00bblaine l only eighteen scholars, whilst the uumber residing\\nin the ilistrict is eighty. The principal cause of this discrepancy is that\\nanother school is taught in the district. It is the opinion of this com-\\nmittee that this could be made one of the best districts in the township\\nIf the inhabitants would lake a more lively interest in the alTairs of the\\nscliool; price of tuition, $i.OO; school kept open eight months in the\\nyear ihisi received S79. 20, of which J4^.17 has been expended for school\\nfurniture, for cleaning and repairing school and paying the teacher. The\\nreason assigned for so large a balance SiC.03 remaining unexpended\\nwas that, the school not having been kept open more than eight months,\\nthe money was not required.\\nScliool No. o, at Teaneck, was next visited. There were about sixteen\\nscholars preeent. The only report we have obtained from the trustees\\nmerely mentions the number of children in the district, which is fifty-\\nsix, and the number taught, which is twenty-eight, and the amount of\\nmoney received, lieing \u00c2\u00a74y.5 i. Why the trustees failed to connnunicate\\nto the coinniiltec the terms of tuition, thi- length of time the school had\\nbeen kept open, and the manner in w liicii the money received had been\\nexpended Is unknown to ns. When this committee submitted to the\\ntrustewi of the dilTerent schools blank forms of reixirhi, requesting them\\nto cnniplete the sauie, they were not prompted thereto by idle curiosity,\\nbut simply Ui comply with the requirements of section thirtecTi of the\\nschool law. How It is iwsslhlo for this mmmitlee to make out their re-\\nport conformably to this section when trustees fall to give the ueceeaary\\ninformation we are nnalde to determine.\\nSchool No. ^V, at Liqier Teaneck, was next visited. The average\\nnnniber taught is thlrtyeight price of tuition, SI.60; received ..f the\\nculleclor S5 .i.40, which, according to the statement of the trustees, has\\nbeen ex|i\u00c2\u00abndcd for the use anil support of the school. No vacancy the\\npast year.\\nThe relKirt rvcolved from port District No. 8, at the Flabj, says that\\nthe niimlwr of scholara taught Is twenty-three; price of tuition, Sl.oO\\nand 81 .T. i no vacancy the paat ywir $.11 .911 money received T. i cents of\\nthis has l\u00c2\u00aben oiliendiil for re| alr8, and the remainder eyaciHy dii idiil\\namong t/tt children.\\nThe roi\u00c2\u00abort of part District No. 0, Closter, marely glree the number\\nof children of legal school age realding In the district, which Is thirty-\\nfour, which liorely enahlea them to receive their portion of the school\\nmon -y.\\nKeii..rt of imrt District No. 1, \u00c2\u00abl Bull s Ferry, gives the average\\nnunilier of jM-holan taught at sixteen; terms of tuition, \u00c2\u00bb2; recelvo.1 of\\nriiUiiliir SIT.fiD, which has lieen ei| ended in repairing schoobhouse and\\npurchasing fuel.\\n.Ml of which Is reaiMKtfully submitted.\\n(Slgne l Joiix V,M BaHNT.\\nProperty destroyed by the British.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlu- follow-\\nini{ Im im iiiviiitorv (if tin- oocis ;in 1 i-linttol,s destroyed\\nlivtlif Hritiuli ill tlifolil township of HiickensHck from\\n177i; to UH I, as valiiid liy tlie awarding coinmittec.\\nThe record from which it i. taken is entitled The\\nBook of the Precinct of Hackensack, and is No. 172\\nin the State library at Trenton.\\nThis inventory was made in accordance with an\\nact to procure an estimate of the damages sustained\\nby the inhabitants of this .State from the wtiste and\\nspoil committed by the troops in the service of the\\nenemy and their adherents, by the Continental army,\\nor by the militia of this or the neighboring States,\\npassed Dec. 20, 1781. In pursuance of this act ap-\\npraisers of damages were appointed in each county.\\nThose for Bergen County were James Board, Henry\\nMead, and John Hogan, Jr.\\nt. .1.\\nI etrus Bogert, Hackensack, June. 1780 19 1\\nPhilip Mnrra, Uaikensack, Sept 1778 18 U\\n(jornelius Hoagland. 177i; to March, 1780 21 8 6\\nMary Van Osdeu, Hackensack, 1776, 1T78 4\u00c2\u00bb 13 10\\nJohannes Demaicsl, Hackensack, Sov. 1776 60 o\\nJohannes Terbune, Hackensack, Nov. 1776 to Oct. 1778 109 14 11\\nDavid Demarest, Hackensack, Sept. 1776 to Sept. 1781 156 19 10\\nAlbertTerhune, Hackensack, Sov. 1776 to Sept. 1778 185 9 6\\nJacobus Bliukerhof, Hackensack, Nov. 1776 to Oct. 1778 334 15 9\\nJoet Zabri\u00c2\u00bbkie, Hackensack, 1776 to Sept. 1778 657 14 11\\nEva Conniiver, Huckonsiick, 177\u00c2\u00ab to Oct. 1778 675 5 10\\nPeter Christie, llackensiick, 1770 to 1779 31 2 3\\nJohn D. Deniaresl, Hackensack, 1776 to 1778 8\u00c2\u00bb 8 7\\nWicrt D. Banta, 1770 to Sept. 1778 101 18 3\\nAbraham D. Demarcsl, Nov. 1776 to Nov. 1778 81 13 3\\nWilliam Campbell, 1776 to Sept. 1778 400 9 1\\nJohn Haves, 1776 lo 1782 _ 86 14\\nfharles try Weslervell, 1778, 1779 20 8 6\\nMarv Vandike, 1776 89 3 3\\nHenVv Kreilon. 1770 to 1782 \u00c2\u00abl 3\\nJobuCanipbell, Oct. 1778 71 4 11\\nAlinibani Devoe, 1770to 1781 347 9\\nJumes P. Deniaresl, 1776 to 1778 331 12\\nIsaac W. Kipp, 1776 to 1779 80 12\\nSamuel llanll^ Nov 1776 165 10\\nNicausie Blinkeihof, 1776 to 1778 417 15 6\\nHem V Deniarcst, N V. 1770 to 1782 141 3 4\\nSamuVl Demaicsl. 1779. 1780 _ 61;) 1 8\\nJohn Demarest, Sov 1770 to Sept. 1778 407 19 8\\nBenjamin Demarest, Sov. 1776 to Sept. 1780 47 10 6\\nKlizabeth Moore. 1776 to 1778 65 7 6\\nCornelius Lvdecker, Nov. 1776 to tX-t. 1778 :136 14\\nJohannes Weetervell, Nov. 1776 to t)ct. 1778 l. 2 8\\nJ.ihannes Bogert, Nov. 1776 to 1782 19t) 11 9\\nJacob Bogert. Sov. 1776 hi 1778 l. iO 14 6\\nLeah Kipp, Nov 1776 to 1779 101 16\\nEva Banta, Nov. 1776 lo 1778 146 6 6\\nJane Deniareet, Nov. 1776 to Oct. 1778 61\\nBenjamin Komiiie, Nov. 1776 lo 1782 46 17 6\\nJohn Brower. 1777 to 1781 _ 57 8 6\\nKoelef B- gert, Nov. 1776 to Nov. 1781 106 18 3\\nSanmel S. Demarest. Nov. 1776 to 177H 201 9 9\\nAbraham l.o/.ier, Nov. 1776 to March, 1781 104 1 6\\nllaninih It ine. 1776 to 1778 140 18 8\\nDavid P. Deniaresl, Nov. 1776 to May, 1779 149 1 2\\nSamuel Deliinre-I, Nov. 1770 to 1782 _ 188 3 2\\nJohn Montanye, Nov. 1776 152 II 9\\nDaniel Chrislle, Nov. 1776 to Oct. 1778 122 IT 4\\nJohn Nelson, Sov. 1776, 1777 2\u00c2\u00ab2 10 6\\nJacob W. lilauvell, N.iv. 1776 to April, 1779 294 12 2\\nJohn W,\u00c2\u00ablervelt, Nov. 1776 to Sept 1778 19 7 8\\nKlias Ibiniine. Nov. 1776 to June, 1779 157 2 2\\nJohn Christie, Nov. 1778 lo 1778 29 11 3\\nJohn W. Christie, 1777, 1778, 1780 27 II 6\\nJani,\u00c2\u00bb Christie, Nov. 1776 26 7\\nKliiu. Dav. S,.v. 1776 160 16\\nWiilter Van Osden, 1778 U\\n.Sl,.iilieii Hogert, Nov. 1776 03 13\\nKli/Jibeth Banta, Nov. 1776 lo 1780 163 9\\nJames lllinkerhof. N.,v. 177(1. 1778 310 13\\nD..wer Weslervell, 1777 lo 1779 22 14\\nJane Weslervell, 1777 b. 1779 25 10\\nPeter Weslervell, 17711 lo 1779 269 S\\nAlbert Bauta, 1771. to 1779 634 3 3\\nMarv Hogirl, 1776 1,1 1770 4111 8 8\\nHeiidriek ll,igert, 1770 10 1778 _ 128 4 8\\nKvi. Hiivler, 1776. 1779 28 4 6\\nHeiirv lb liikerlii.f, 1777 lo 1781 160 2\\nAlU-rl C. Zidirlskie. Nov. 1776 to 1779 384 1 8\\nPeter Demareel, 1778, 1779 19 3\\nJohn Jai-.di Banll^ 1776 58 12 3\\nJn.obNagel, 1776IO 17M0 _ 79 9\\nMarv lluvler, 1770 to 1780 90 11 2\\nJuhliCWestervell. 1770 10 1779 316 4 8\\nCoinelliis llMgert, 1776 409 13 4\\nDavl.l Vnii Osden, Nov, 1776 106 13 6\\nDaniel S Deniaresl. Nov. 1776 to Oct. 17T8 108 II 6\\nDerrick Banta. 1776 to 1780 440 2 4\\nJanie. Slagg, 1776 171 8\\nMary Moore, 1776 to 1778 310 7", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE OLD TOWNSHIP OF HACKENSACK.\\n79\\na. d.\\nJohn H. Banta, 1776 to 1779 437 4 3\\nKev. D RonieyD, 1776 to 1782 387 11 7\\nDavid B. Demarest, 1777 to 1780 549 4 3\\nPeter Bourdett, 1770 lo 1781 209 7 6\\nSamuel Campliell, N uv. 1776 to Sept. 1778 146 14 9\\nWilliam Christie, Nov. 1776 to 1780 790 3 8\\nJ .hn Mauritius, Nov. 1776 to June, 1780 361 10\\nGanet Lvilecker, Nov. 1776 to 1778 1064 12\\nJ.-hii Beuson, Nov. 1776 to 1780 154 16 G\\nAruie Banta {widow of David Banta) 710 1 3\\nDavid Samuel Demarest, 1776 to 1780 721 17\\nMary Dav (wid..w), 1776 to 1779 233 12 8\\nSamuel Demarest, 1776 to 17S2. 74 11 4\\nThomas Ricknmn, 1776 83 19 9\\nDavid Hammond, 1776 15\\nJacoh Fredon, Nov. 1776 to June, 1780 800 16 9\\nAbraham Montanye, Nov. 1776 to Aug. 1777 275 5 9\\nPeter Demarest, Sept. 1777 to Oct. 1778 213 6\\nArie Westervelt, Nov. 1776 to 1779 230 9 6\\nWilliam Hammond, Nov, 1776 to 1781 62 9 3\\nJohn Moore, 1776 to 1778 122 14 6\\njHiues Campliell, Nov. 1776 to 1778 54 15\\nPeter Westervelt, Nov. 1776 to 17S2 44 10 6\\nDaniel N. Demarest, 1776 to 1782 145 16 9\\nJohn Hudson, 1776 to 1779 97 6\\nRachel Allen, 1778 142 13 6\\nHendrick Kuyper, Oct. 1776 to 1777 1644 3\\nThe inventory of Mr, Kuyper is worth giving in\\nfull to show what a Bergen County farmer possessed\\nin those times. The items are charged as follows\\ns. (I\\nTu two hundred bushels of wheel in Barn 65\\n:J5 Bushels of Barleiij 7 17 6\\ntwo Tuus of hay 6\\n150 bushels of Indian Corn in field 28 2 6\\n100 bushels of potates 10\\nfive WagKon Ixjads of Sax 17 10\\na= Bushels of flax seed 13 2 6\\none wind mill to dene giain 4 10\\nfour Spinning Weele.i 4\\ntwo Wnoling Weeis 16\\ntwelve bushels of malt 4 16\\nlire Petaunger J Copls Burden 40\\nCi iipannel of fence one half new 54\\noi;0 Lome (loom) hs good as new 3 4\\nt\\\\ 0 Plows with tlie fnll sets of Gears 4\\nore iruuTuth (tooth) harrow 12 6\\ntwo Spads, 5 hoes 1 bog hoe 2 4\\neight new barrils 1 12\\nfciirSiths with all their acutrementa 2 8\\nthree Sith to cut weet 2 5\\nfour beef Tubs and Ley Cask 2\\none pare handirons 1 10\\none Large Cubbei-d 2 Large Tables 8\\ntwo Wood Sleays 1 10\\none Iron Shod Sleay half worn 2\\none Louse (loose) Corner Closet and one small Cubbert 5\\ntwo young Cows 9\\non Hundred acres of Wood Land cutoff 500\\nthree horses 1 of 4 years 14.% high 10-7 do 14J/f; 10-9 do\\n14 60\\non Waggon and Geai-s good. 12\\ntwo Negro Wenches, value \u00c2\u00a360each 120\\nthre Negro Children one garrJl (girl) of 8 years one boy\\ni f three years one boy of 1 year and 8 mouths 68\\nfour milks Cows 19\\none mare and yearling Colt. 30\\none Sute of broad clotli Close good 8\\none Waggon New 18\\none Sute of Soutc half worn 3\\none Barcelona Handkerchief 8\\none pure of new shoes an plated buckets (i 15\\none Shuger Box seven pound of Shuger 7 6\\ntwelve gallons of Westindia mm 2 14\\none Gammon of Bacon 7 6\\ntwo Sheatsone Callego Coverled quilted 10\\none blanket and one great Coat 2 5\\none Docket Book wasted 6\\nHard Money Eight Dollars :j\\nContinental Money one hundred pounds 2 10\\none pare Silver Studs and pare Silver Buttons 7 6\\none pare Silver Shoe buckels cost \u00c2\u00a31 12 1 10\\none gallon of rum 4\\ntwo Caster Hats one lialf worn 2 6 R\\none new black bonnet 13\\nseven yards of linen 13 4\\ntwo Check Aprons 10\\none puter Viason 5 6\\none new featherbed 6\\nfour pare of troweersone check 17 6\\nsix behives with hunney 6\\nsix wemens caps at 2 shillings each 12\\ntwo Looking glasses, one cost \u00c2\u00a34 one \u00c2\u00a3o 9\\nan Armed Chair 7 6\\none gun fowling piece 3 10\\none new piggon net 12 6\\none Psalm Book Silver Clasps 10\\nTo two buckechin bi inkers half worn 1\\ntwo Sets of Curtens almost new 10\\none Dutch Bible cost \u00c2\u00a34.\\nten Shirt^\\nfour toble Cloths 4 Towels.\\n8 Linnen Sheets\\n35 Eels of new Linnen\\none Callego Bed Spred\\none fether bed two Bolsters two pillows 10\\none House Clock 8\\none Tea Kiltie and 1 Coffee Pot copper\\none Large english Bible\\none Brass Kittle..\\nthree iron Pots\\none Gridiron, Tiivit and Toster\\none frying Pan\\noue Side Saddle\\none Steer and one Heffer\\none Large Trunk\\none Negro man about 60 years old\\na Dwelling House 54 feet in front 25 in rear.\\none Dwelling House 18 by2o feet\\none Barn 48 feet long 45 wide Seder roof.\\none out house 18 feet square 12\\none small Barn 30 by 20 feet Seder roof 15\\nCow house \u00e2\u0080\u00a2J.S by 12 feet Seder roof Kt\\nhalf of one Brew House 30 by 20 feet 15\\nhalf of a Copper Brew Kittle, held 5 barrels 20\\nhalf of the other Brewing Utencels 8\\none Bote 24 feet long 3 feet 6 inches wide 8\\nhalf of one fish net near lOOfadam.... 15\\n1\\n1\\n2\\n2\\n5\\n9\\n1\\n90\\n150\\n50\\n80\\nd.\\n10\\n6\\n5\\n15\\n10\\nTotal \u00c2\u00a31644 3\\nHendricus Kuyper being duly sworn and says the above Inventory\\nis just and true, and that no Satisfaction or Restitution has been made\\nfor the same.\\nHendhicus Kxitpfk.\\nSworn before me George Doi emuc, Nov. 20, 1782.\\n8. d.\\nTo one Young Man s Companion 5 6\\nInventory of William Campbell\\nTo one Chany Bowl Containing three quarts..\\none of two Ditto\\nfour of oue Ditto\\ntwelve wine glasses\\ntwo quart Tumblers\\nfour quart Decanters\\ntwo large puter dishes\\nTwenty-four Eels of New Liasy Woolsy.\\ntwo good lanterns\\n1\\n2\\ne\\nIS\\n10\\n7\\nt\\n6\\n15\\n15\\n4\\n7\\nc)\\nAmong Rev. Mr. Eomeyn s books were\\nL. Eihard s History of England\\nC. Beubroglio s History of the Ware of Flandere....\\nCniden s Concordance..\\nFurguson s Lntore\\nGodfrey s Poems\\nConnie on the Catechism\\nBeddirus on the Passion of Christ\\nTaynman on Job 2d Vol\\nHelenbrook on Isaiah 2d Vol\\nCocceyusou the Ephesians\\nMaccovius System on Divinity\\nDriesen Sermons\\nVan Stavereii on E.Kodu8\\nWingate s Arithmetick\\nCole s Dictionary, Latin and English\\nJohnston s Do., 2d vol., English\\nSmith s Longinus\\nEvan s Sermons, vol. 2\\nAmerican Miigazine\\nW ine s History of AmenVa, 2d Vol\\nDr. Watts Sermons, 2 vols, in one\\nEnglish Psaln) Book bound in Mnrocco\\nEdwards on the Wilt\\nDo. on Original Sin\\nDo. on Religious Affections\\nDo. on Moral Virtue, etc\\nDo. Life and Sermons\\ni Perries Longinus. Latin and Greek\\nSix volumes of Swift s Works at 5\u00c2\u00ab\\nSpectator, 8 vols., at 5s\\nI Milton s Poetical Work8,2 vols\\nMilton s Paradise Lost in Prose\\nI Thre volumes of Pntdius Remuneration, at 7\u00c2\u00ab. 6d..\\nj Rolin s llelle Le1tres,4 vols, at 6c\\nThre volume)* t)f Calo s Letters at 6\u00c2\u00ab\\nI McLaurin s Essays\\nCambray on Eloquence\\nI Duncan s Logic\\nBoston s Four Field State\\nj Preceptor\\nBucban s Family Physician\\n2\\n2\\n2\\n1\\n12\\n8\\nu\\nU\\n12\\n1\\nn\\n1\\n4\\n1\\n4\\n11\\n(1\\n12\\n10\\n1\\n11\\nu\\nS\\n16\\n1\\n4\\n(1\\n10\\n10\\nn\\nIfi\\n12\\n12\\n1)\\nIn\\n13\\n12\\n8\\n6\\n6\\nn\\n12\\n1\\n10\\n2\\nIB\\n12\\n1\\n2\\n6\\n1\\n4\\n18\\nK\\ne\\nn\\n8\\nn\\n7\\nII\\n8\\n10", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "80\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JKRSEY.\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nCIVIL ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY OF BERGEN.\\nIn December, 1682, the Assembly of East Jersey\\npassed an act ilividing tlie province into four coun-\\nties, viz. Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and Monmouth.\\nBergen included all the settlements between the\\nHudson and Hackensack Rivers, and extended to the\\nnorthern boundary of the province. Bergen and its\\noutlying plantations comprised about si.xty thousand\\nacre.s of land. In the act of Jan. 21, 1709, for de-\\ntermining the bounds of the several counties, those\\nof Bergen were e.\\\\tended, as follows Beginning at\\nConstable s Hook, so up along the bay and Hudson s\\nRiver to the partition point between New Jersey and\\nthe province of New York along this line and the\\nline between East and West Jersey- to the Peipianeck\\nRiver; down the I equaneck and Passaic Rivers to the\\nSound and so following the Sound to Constable s\\nHook, the place of beginning.\\nIn 1693 the counties were divided into townships.\\nBut those of Bergen County viz., the townships of\\nBergen and Hackensack had e.\\\\isted for many years\\nand been organized municipalities, the former under\\nthe Dutch government of the New Netherlands, and\\nthe latter under the proprietary government of East\\nJersey. No court e-xisted at Hackensack in 1G82.\\nSmith says, in his History of New .Icrsey, under\\ndate of this year: The plantations on both sides of\\nthe Neck, as also those at Hackensack, were under the\\njurisdiction of Bergen Town, situated about the mid-\\ndle of the Neck. The act of organization established\\nthe county courts at Bergen, where they remained\\nuntil the enlargement of the county in 1709.\\nBergen, in 1080, is thus described by (Icorge Scott,\\nof Edinburgh, who published a book entitled The\\nModel of the Government of the Province of East\\nJersey in America:\\nHere is a Town Court Ili-Id by SeUcI Mm or iirrrtrrr*, wli.i iiw il to he\\nfour or liiitn- OM thoy iOohho to chuoflo ^tnnually to try tvuilt rimtft, oj in i//\\nthe rtMt tif the T^ imn ind two Oourl$ of Setfwn$ in the year, front which, if\\nthe caune rjceed twenty poumte, they tnoy appeal to Ifie Guermor and Council\\nand Court of DeputieA ill their AMcmhty, who n once a year. The town\\ni coni|\u00c2\u00abct, iiil hutli Inieii fortineil ugainst Hit Inilluiia. Tlioro aro not\\n\u00c2\u00bbl\u00c2\u00abvi Mivnnly fiimlllM in it. Tlio ocren liilion up liy llio town nmy bo\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0IhiuI 1U,i x anil for llio Out PlanlationM, .O.liW, and tlio niinilior of In-\\nhabllaiiln aro computed to Iw 350, but many raoro aliruad. Tlio groatoit\\npart of the Inliabltnntawliicli arc In thi\u00c2\u00ab jurindiction aro Dutch, uf which\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0omo liur* noltlod horo upwards of forty ypara ago.\\nIn onlor ro rniiw Ilflv pound*, the Logltlatiiro couionml in 108.1 laid\\naiueaimontJi to lio raliod In the four countira ai followa Ilorgon, \u00c2\u00a311;\\nMhbllnH X, \u00c2\u00a310: h iiox, \u00c2\u00a314; Monmouth, \u00c2\u00a315.\\nIll low Iho iiuni ol \u00c2\u00a370 I2j. 9.1. wa\u00c2\u00bb awSMxl for Ilergoii County:\\nBorgon, \u00c2\u00a37 Oi. 1 Ilackouiiack, t3 18a. 0 l.\\n3 Tito line U tweon Koal and Wrat Joney, liera referred tu, la not tlia\\nline nnally ad ipto i and linowii aa Iho Lawrence line, which w\u00c2\u00aba run\\nliV Jolili Lawrolue in Soplember and October. 174:1. It wan the com-\\nprxsmlae line agreeil uiion between (Jorernora Cole anil Barclay in lfl\u00c2\u00ab2,\\nwhich ran a little north of Morrlatown tu the PaaNlic UiTor; Uienco up\\nthe PiKiuannk to rortyH ne degroea of luirlh latiluiie; and thence liy a\\nalralKhl line due oaal Ui the New York Stale line. Thia lino IK-Ing afler-\\nwatdn ol.Jrcled to by tlie F.nal .leraey proprietor*, the latter procured lb*\\nninniuii of the Lawrence lino.\\nTlie Dutch goTornnient formeil no countle* In New NelhorlaiiiU.\\nWe have been particular to underscore a part of\\nthis quotation, inasmuch as we find it in some local\\nhistories misapplied to Hackensack Village, which\\nlatter place, it is well known, was in Essex County\\ntill 1709, and only upon the enlargement of Bergen\\nCounty in that year was made the county-seal of the\\nsame. This was done l)ecause it was a thriving village,\\nmore centrally located than any other in the enlarged\\ncounty.\\nCounty officials in the reign of George the Second\\nhad to subscribe to certain oaths which sound strange\\nto their descendants of these days in republican\\nAmerica. We give a list found attached to an old\\nliarchment roll in the clerk s office, dated 17 )5,\\nwherein the names are subscribed to the following\\noaths\\nAl-LEOIANCB TO THE KiNO.\\n**I do heaitily and uiicerel.v acknowlodge, profeaa, teatify, and declare,\\nin roy conacience, before God and the world, that our sovereign lord,\\nKing George the Second, is lawful and rightful kin^ of threat Uritain and\\nall otliiT his Mi^eaty s dominions iind couutnos thereunto belonging;\\nand 1 do solemnly and sincerely declare, and I do believe in my con-\\nscience, that the person pretending to be the Prince of Wales during the\\nlife of the late King James, or since bis decease, pretending to assume\\nto himself the title of King of England, by the name of Jamee the Third,\\nor James the Eighth, or the full title of tiie King of Great Britain, or by\\nany riglit or title whatever to tht.- crown of threat Britain, or any otlier\\ndominions tiiert-unto belonging; and I do renounce, refuse, and abjure\\nany and all allegiance or obedience to lilm; and I do swear tliat I bear\\nfaithful luid true allegiance to bis Mnjeoty King George the Sccontl, and\\nhim will defend to the utmost of my iKivver against all tmitorona con-\\nspiracies or attempts wtiatsoever to l)e made against his person, ct)WD,\\nor dignity, and 1 will do my utmost endeavors to disclose and make\\nknown to his Majesty and his bucccssoib ail treast-)ns and traitoroiil cun*\\nspiracles which I shall know to be against him or Ilo-ni; and I di fallll-\\nfnlly promise to tlie utmost of my [niwer to uphold iiml defend the sacrtHl.\\nness of llie crown against him, ttie said James, under any title w iiatao-\\nover v^iiicb succession, by an act entitled .\\\\n act for tlie succession of\\nthe crov\\\\ n and the better securing the riglits a\u00c2\u00bbd lilierties of the sub-\\njocts,* is limited to the Princess Sophia, electress and duchess dowager of\\nHanover, and the heirs of her body, tieing Proleetaiils. And all these\\nthings I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge anij swear according to\\ntlie express words by me s|Hikeii, and according to the pbiiii sense and\\nnnderstaniiing of the same, without any e )nivocation, mental evasion,\\nor soi ret reserVHlluli wliatsoevor. And I do make tliis recognition, ac-\\nknowb-dgmetit, alijunition, renunciation, and promise heartily, willingly,\\nand truly, iilsin tiie true fallli of a Christian.\\nSo help ino God.\\nAbJIK.VTIO?! or THE P.VPACY.\\n1 do swear that I do from my heart ablior, deli 8t, and abjure aa ini*\\npious and heretical tliat damnable doclline and poeitlon that princes ex-\\ncommunicated by the Po| e or any authority of the See of Ibuno may be\\ndejiosed or iiiunlereil by Iheir siibjiH ts or any other t uthidtcs; and I d.i\\npromise timl no foreign prince, enioii, prelate, or potentate siiali or\\nouglit to lake any jurisdiction, su|ierlority, pre-eminence, ur authority,\\neillier ecclesiastical or civil, within the re\u00c2\u00ab]ni of Gieat Britain.\\nSo help me God.\\nWilliam Kingsland, AroDt Schuyler, Johannes Van ilouten, Michael\\nVreeianiit [Ilia (M. V.t mark], John Cardan, Isaac Kingsland. Joel\\nVan lloskirk. Wallngh Van Winkel, Johnnnrs Dougart, Philip\\nSchuyler, Jan Van Oideii, Jacobus Wynkoop, Pieler IVigert, George\\nRoyonte, Jr., Ilooled Van Der l.iliiler, Tlii-unis Day. Simon Vreeiand,\\nAllairt Zabrlskio, Jacidius Van lliiskirk, Abrmliam Iwiydecker, Jacob\\nHome [Ills (X) mark], Theodore Vailon, Hoberl Van Ilouten, llel-\\ninago Van Home, Jacob Van Noalrand, Jr. [his (C) mark], Luke\\nItoyeme, Albert Heniali, Jiicoii Sitsofi, .\\\\nisen Keraoria, Garret llid-\\nlenlieck, Jidin S liiiyier, William J. Kiiigsbind, Jacoli, hia aun, Isaac\\nKingsland, Jacob Van Bnakirk, Helmage Van Houle, Abraham\\nGonvenier, Isaac Sclmyler, Jiicobua Van Winkel, Jobannoa Vree-\\nlatidt [Ills (J. V.) mark]. George Vreolandt. Jan Terliiiyn, Ilendrlck\\nlioremus, Johannes Reyone, Johaniies llougart. I loter Domarest,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "CIVIL LIST OF BEKGEN COUNTY.\\n81\\nSorens Jan Van Buskiik, David Van Buskirk, Henry Van Dalinda,\\nCornelius Wynkoop, Roelef Van Bouten, Derick Cuyper, George\\nReverse, Juliannes Post, Bejof Lyndaker, Abraham Ackernian,\\nMicliael Noorland [liis (M.) mark], David Demarest, Timothy Ward,\\nHenry Van De Linda, Jacoben Wyckoff, Picter Post, David Terliiiyn,\\nSamuel Bogert, James Board, Peter Schuyler, John Berdan, Jacob\\nMagel, Johannes Van Houten, Johannes Wagner [his (V. W.) mark],\\nRoelef Westervelt, Heudrick Yeshopp, Abraham Dirick [his (A. D.)\\nmark], Dirick Guysen, Peter Marsetin, Jansen Post, Jacobus Buck,\\nKeynier V. Giere, Timothy Moore, Jr., Jacob Mead, Joliaunes Rey-\\nerse, Dirick Cuyper, Samuel Moore, Jacob Dobson, Cornelius Bo-\\ngert, Houseus Van Buskirk. Casparns Schuyler, Simon Juland. Wil-\\nliam Van Emburgh, Johannes Demarest, Ephanus N an Home, Wa-\\nbigh Van Buskirk, Peter Bogert, Rydsley Jecken, Jacobus Jeter,\\nIsaac Kingaland.\\nQualified as vendue master this 23d May, 1765, before me.i\\nJohn Schuyles.\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nCIVIL LIST OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\nAt the head of this list we give the board of justices\\nand freeholders from 1715 the date of the earliest\\nrecords to be found to 1794, when the justices ceased\\nto act in the board with the freeholders, and the board\\nfrom that time forward was composed only of the\\nlatter. The freeholders will be found named, so far\\nas data could be obtained, in their respective town\\nhistories\\nJustices and Freeholders.\\n1715. Ju6(icc\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Larence, George Ryerson, Jobn Berdan, Martin\\nPowlBon. Freeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Flagg;, Ryer Ryerson, Rutt Van Home,\\nCornelius Blinkerhof, Xicliolas Lazier, John Bogart.\\n1716.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Justices\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Provost, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Van Bus-\\nkirk, George Ryersou, John Flagg, David Demarest. Freeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHendrick Cooper, Cornelius Blinkerhof, Miholes Lasire, Jacob\\nBlinkerhof, Ryer Ryerson, David Danjelse, Peter Garretson, Cor-\\nnelius Van Voi-st, John Van lioute, John De Mutt, John Huyler,\\nIsaac Van Der Beck, Jr., Arent Schuyler, Jacob Be rdau, Abraham\\nHaring, Abraham G. Hariug.\\n1717.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jnflitc\u00c2\u00abs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Provost, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Van Bus-\\nkirk, George Ryerson, John Flagg. Freeholders Andries Van Bus-\\nkirk, Rutt Van Home, Jacob Bantaw, Jacobus Blinkerhof, David\\nAckernian, Harp Garrebrantse, Peter Garretson, Thomas Garretson.\\n1720. Jtistices David Provost, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Van Buskirk,\\nGeorge Ryerson, John Berdan, Frefholdi-rs David Ackernian,\\nLucas Kinstud, Lawrence Van Buskirk, Rutt Van Home, Roelef\\nBogert, Roelef Westervelt.\\n1721. JH/!^ ces\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Van Buskirk, George Ryer-\\nson, John Berdan, John Flagg. Freeholders Hendrick Cooper, Rutt\\nVan Home, Charles Lezier, David Demarest, Michael Van Winkle,\\nDavid Ackernian, William Flagg, Arent Turce.\\n1722. Justices Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Van Buskirk, George Ryer-\\nson, John Flagg. Freeholders Hendrick Cooper, Garret Turyance,\\nDavid Demarest, Audriese Van Orden, Thomas Fredrickson, Johan-\\nnes Nefie, Johannes Walingson.\\n1723. Justices Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Van Buskirk, George Ryer-\\nson, John Berdan, John Flagg, Wander Deadrick. Freeholders\\nJohn Wright, Egbert Ackerson, Andriese Van Orden, William Dey,\\nCornelius Blinkerhof, David Danjelson, John Hopper, Peter Tebon.\\n1 This probably refers to the last person named, Isaac Kingsland. The\\nfollowing note fron- the records will throw some light upon the office of\\nvendue master:*\\nIt is ordered by the Board of Justices and Freeholders of the county\\nof Bergen that Jacob Titshort shall be vendue master to sell arms and\\naccoutrements, and to receive for his trouble 6 pence per pound.\\nOct. 4, 1763.\\nThese were arms and accoutrements used in the French war. They\\nwere sold at the court-house in Hackensack on Monday, Oct. 17, 1763.\\n1724.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JuB/ices\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Van Buskirk, John Berdan,\\nRyer Ryerson. F/\u00c2\u00abe/ioMer8\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Philip Schuyler, Garret Garretson,\\nMartin Powlson, John Loats, Cornelius Blinkerhof, Johannes Gar-\\nretson. Johannes Ackernian.\\n1725.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J^iw^iVes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Van Buskirk, Isaac Van Geren, Jnhn Berdan.\\nFreeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PhUip Schuyler, Garret Garretson, filartin Powlson,\\nJohn Loats, Cornelius Blinkerhof, Johannes Garretson, Johannes\\nAckernian.\\n1726.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ji\u00c2\u00ab( icea\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Van Buskirk, Thomas Lawrence, Isaac Van\\nGesen, John Berdan, Thomas Oldwater. Free/toMe)-8\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cornelius\\nBlinkerhof, Johannes Van Wagen, John Bogert, Jacobus Blinker-\\nhof, Michael Van Winkle, Egbert Ackerman, Johannes Garretson.\\n1727.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J\u00c2\u00ab8(jce5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Van Buskirk, John Berdan, George Ryerson.\\nFreeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ueury Brockiiolst, Derrick Barenteon,. John Guest,\\nEgbert Ackeiman, Claes Lazier, John Bogert, Johannes Garretaon,\\nCornelius Blinkerhof.\\n1728.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abAicc\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thon)as Van Buskirk, George Ryerson, Isaac Van\\nGesen, Ryer Ryerson. Freeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 VhiUp Schuyler, Derrick Bar-\\nentson, Abraham Ackerman, Tury Westervelt, Johannes Van Wa-\\ngene, Claes Lezier, John Zabriskie.\\nn^,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Justices\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thonisis Van Buskirk, Thomas Lawrence, Isaac Van\\nGesen. Freeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M thias De Mott, Hendrick Cuyper, Joliannes\\nVan Wagene, John /-abriskie. Arie Bunta, Hendrick Van Der Linde,\\nEgbert Ackernian.\\n1730.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jw\u00c2\u00ab((ce8\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Van Buskirk, Isaac Van Gesen, Thomas Old-\\nwater, George Ryerson, Roelef Van Houten. Freeholders Hendrick\\nK. Kuyfer, Cornelius Blinkerhof, Arie Banta, Derrick Van Houte,\\nDerrick Blinkerhof, Hendrick Van Der Linde.\\n1731. _jHs(iVes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Provoost, George Ryerson, Isaac Van Gesen,\\nRyer Ryersun, John Flagg, Henry Van Der Linde, Derrick Kuyper,\\nMathias De Mott, Richard Edeall, Benjamin Demarest. Freeholders\\nHenry Van Der Linde, Hendrick Kuyper, Cornelius Blinkerhof,\\nArie Banta, Thomas Fredericks.\\n1732. JiLsiiVes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Provoost, Ryer Ryerson, Henry Van Der Linde,\\nBenjamin Demarest, Derrick Kuyper. jPr^e/io/rfci-s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Egbert Acker-\\nman, Hendrick Kuyper, Hendrick Van Winkle, Jacob Hendrickse\\nBanta, John Christian.\\n1733. Ji(\u00c2\u00ab(tc(?s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Provoost, George Ryerson, Ryer Ryerson,\\nHenry Van Der Linde, Derrick Kuyper, Benjamin Demarest,\\nMathiaa De Mutt. Freeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Romine, Reynier Van Gesen,\\nHendrick Kuyper, Martin Powlson, Jan Duryea, Hendrick Van\\nWinkle, Johannes Garretse, Garret Garretse.\\n1734.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ji\u00c2\u00ab(ure^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Provoost, David Provoost, Isaac Van Gesen.\\nFreeholders Martin Powelson, Jacob Dey, John Romine, Rynier\\nVan Gesen, Philip Schuyler, John Garretson, Henry Cooper, Henry\\nVan Winkle.\\n1735.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Justices- William Provoost, David Provoost, Henry Van Der\\nLinda, Poulus Van Der Beek. rec/ioWers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Martin Powelson, Yost\\nZabriskie, Derrick Dey, John Garretson, John Van Orden, John\\nVan Home, Henry Van Winkle, Garret Hopper.\\n1736.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JiMi(rce\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Provoost, John Flagg, David Provoorst, Paul\\nVan Der Beck Freeholders John Garretson, Yost Zabriskie, Jacob\\nDay, John Van Home, Henry Van Winkle, Derrick Dey.\\n1737. /?i\u00c2\u00ab(iofs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Provoost, David Provoost, Paul Van Der Beck,\\nHenry Van Der Linde, James Duncan. Freeholders John Garret-\\nson, Jacub Day, John Poet, Garret Halenbeck, Eden Sipp, John Van\\nHome, Egbert Ackerman.\\nnSS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Justices\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D rid Demarest, Paul Van Der Beck, Henry Van Der\\nLinda, James Duncan, Benjamin Demarest, Garret Halenbeck. Free-\\nholders-John Romine, Cornelius Wynkoop, Henry Kipp, Arie Siebe\\nBanta, Jacobus Pick.\\n1741. JtwiiccN- Paul Van Der Beck, John Berdau, Jacobus Bertholf.\\niiVceftoWers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Michael Van Winkle. Jacob Dey, Derrick Dey, Rynier\\nVan Gesen, Juhn Duryea, Derrick Van Gesen.\\n1742.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 jM\u00c2\u00ab(i,e\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Provoost, Paul Van Der Beck, Henry Van Der\\nBeck, Henry Van Der Linde. Freeholders Cornelius Van Voss,\\nDerrick Dey, Derrick Van Gesen, Cornelius Lydeker, Cornelius\\nWynkoop, Michael Vroeland, Jacobus Blinkerhof, John Duryea,\\nCornelius Van Vorst, John Van Hoin, Derrick Van Gesen, Jacob\\nOldwater, Jacobus Bertholf, Rynier Van Gesen, Jacobus Bertholf.\\n1743.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ./Hsfices Paul Van Der Beck, Henry Van Der Linde, John Ber-\\ndan. Freeholders Luke Ryerson, Garret Garretse, Jacobus Bertholf,\\nCornelius Van Vorst, Cornelius Wynkoop, Cornelius Leydeker.\\n1744. Justices David Demarest, Hendrick Van Der Linde, Cornelius\\nWynkoop. Freeholders Jacobus Bertholf, Cornelius Leydeker,\\nJacobus Blinkerhof, Abraham Ackerman, Garret Garretson, Lnke\\ni Ryerson, Cornelius Van Voi-st, Derrick Cadmus.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "82\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n1746. JitMicta Hendrick Tan J eT Linde. Abraham Ackennan, Law-\\nrence Van BiiBkirk. Frirtholder$ Jacobus BUnkerbofT, Joliti Ber*\\ndan, Oomplius Loydoker, Derrick Doy, Garret Garretsou, Derrick\\nCatluiiia, CoriieliiiH Vau Vurat.\\n174B. Jtuticfa Garret Ilalenbeck, John Vnii Nurdo, Derrick Leydeker,\\nJohn Bogert. FVefholden Dorrk-k CailmuB, Cornelius Van Vomt,\\nJacobuH Uliiikerhof, Cornelius Leydeker, Derrick Dey, Garret Gar-\\nretsoD, Jacobud Bertliolf.\\n1747. Jutticf^ Derrick Kuyper, Garret Ualeiibeck, Jacob Oldwater.\\nFreeholders Derrick Dey, Jacobus Bliukcrhuf, Cornelius Van Yorst,\\nJubn Van Home, Cornelius Leydeker, Garret Garret\u00c2\u00abou, Jacobua\\nHerthuir, Jnhu Herdnn.\\n1748. Ju\u00c2\u00bbtice\u00c2\u00bb Derrick Kuyper, Garret llaleubcck, Jacob Titsort. Free-\\nholders Jacobus BertholT, Jacobuti Blinkcrhof, John Berdnn,Jobn\\nTan Horu, Derrick Dey, Garret Garretsou, Cornelius Van Vuntt.\\n1749. Justice* Jacobus Peck, Jacob Titaort, Garret Ilnlenbeck.\\n1760, JiuUce* George Ryergon, Derrick Kuyper, Garret Haleul eck, Ja-\\ncobus Peck. Freehohieri John Van Horn, John Durie, Cornelius\\nVan V\u00c2\u00ab)rst, Coruelins Leydecker, Derrick Geisen, Garret Van Wa-\\nge ne.\\n17 I. JualicfM Derrick Knypsr, Keynier Van Geisen, Abraham Van\\nBuskirk. Freeholder*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John an Horn, Cornelius Vnn Yoret, Cor-\\nDeliiis Leydocker, John Darje (Durjea?), Derrick Vau Geisen, Gar-\\nret Van Wageoe, JacoI Titaort, John Zabriskie.\\n1762. Jtuticet Derrick Kuyper, Jacobus Peck, Jacob Titsort. fVee*\\nholder Isaac Kingsland, Garret Gnrretse, iiendrick Van Winkle,\\nDerrick Van Geisen, John Van Horn, Johnnnee Bogert, Lawrence\\nVau Buskirk.\\n1753. Jtuticee Jacobus Peck, Samuel Moore, Rcynlor Van Geisen.\\niiVeeAo/ i*r\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Garret (iarretse. Derrick Van Cieison, Isaac Kingsland,\\nCornelius Leydocker, Barent Cool, Ilendrick Van Winklf, John Van\\nHorn. I\\n17M. ./M*/k M\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jacobua Peck, Jacob Titaort, Samuel Moore. hWekold-\\ners Peter Zabriskie, Ilendrick Van Geisen, Barent Cool, Cor-\\nnelius Leydocker, John Van Horn, George Vreeland, Derrick Van\\nG risen.\\n1766. ./kWicm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jacobus Peck, John Demaresl, Jacob Titsort. Freehold- i\\nrr* Peter /abrisklo, Jacob Oldwater, John Van Horn, George Vree-\\nland, Dorrfck Vau Geisen, Turja Pieterse, Lawrence Vau Buskirk, I\\nJohannes Bogert, I\\n1766.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ./tti/icea I awrence Van Buskirk, Jacoluis Peck, Johniiuea Dema-\\nreel. Freeholder\u00c2\u00bb\u00e2\u0080\u00943o\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Van Horn, Hendrick Kuyper, Jacob Old- i\\nwalei, Lawrence Ackermiui, Barent Cool, Cornelius Leyiiocker, I\\nTurjii Pioterse, Derrick Van Geifcn.\\n1767. Jtuticet Jacobus Peck, Lawrence Van Buskirk, Johannes Denia-\\nrest. Freeholdert Ctirnellns Leydocker, Barent Cool, John Vau\\nHorn, Hendrick Kuyper, Lawrence Ackeruian, Jacob Oldwateri\\nTurio Pleterse, Derrick Van Geisen. i\\n176S.\u00e2\u0080\u0094./i\u00c2\u00ab/(Ve\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jacobus Peck, Keynier Van Geisen, Lawrence Van Bus-\\nkirk. I reehoUhrn .Jacob Oldwater, Lawrence Ackemiiin, Hendrick\\nKuyper, ornolius Leydocker, MIrhacI Do Mott, Barent ool, Then-\\nnls Doy, Derrick Van Geisen.\\n1769. JtutuM Reyuler Van Gteson, Jacob Titshurt, JolntiiueK Deniarest,\\nLawrence Van Buskirk. /VrcfcoMfTn\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C^ornelius Leyiiocker, Barent\\nCole, Hendrick Kuypvr, Micbatd De 3Iott, Tennis Dey, Albertus\\nTi rhuuo, John Zabriskie.\\n1760.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JttJiirrj.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Keynier Van Geisen, Lawrence Van Buskirk, Jacob Tit-\\nshort. fVe^Ao/ ierji\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cornelius Lr yd(tck -r, Barent Cole, Teuuis Dey, i\\nDerrick Vau Geisoti, Lawr tif Ackerinaii.\\nnQl.\u00e2\u0080\u0094jMticr* Jacobus k, Keynier Van liflnen, l^wronco Van Bus-\\nkirk. Jiixdi Tltshurt, Hariman Blinkerhuf, Daniel Mariug, Derrick\\nVan Geisen, Roelor Westervelt, Cornelius Van Vorsl, Hi-ndrick Kuy-\\nper.\\n1702. Jii\u00c2\u00ablic^j\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Keynier Van Qolsan, Lawrencn Van Buskirk, Jacob Tlt-\\nslmrt. ^Vs\u00c2\u00abAoW\u00c2\u00abr\u00c2\u00bb\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Derrick Van GolBen, K \u00c2\u00bbeler Westorvelt, P\u00c2\u00abter\\nZabriskie, Lawrence Ackerman, Ilartnian Bllnkorbof, Dauit*| ||a-\\nriug, Cornelius Van Vorst, ILnidrirk Kuyper.\\n17e:t.\u00e2\u0080\u0094./iu/trr Keynier Van Gi lsen, lUielef W st4 rvelt. JacubTlUhort.\\nFrefholtUrt\u00e2\u0080\u0094l ptvr Zabiliikl\u00c2\u00ab Lawrence Ackerman, Jacobus Berlo,\\nKdo Maraellse, Michael De Mott, George Cadmus, Johannes Dema-\\nresl, John Duryi\u00c2\u00bba,\\n1704.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ./iM i/-e\u00c2\u00bb\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Keynier Van GeUf-n. Jacob Tltsh irt, John B^rry. Free-\\nholder*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Vctor Zabriskie, I awrencti Ackerman, Jacobus Berio, Kdo\\nMarcrleM, Johannes Domarrat, John Duryaa Michael Do Molt,\\nTores Cadmus.\\n1766.\u00e2\u0080\u0094./iu/u:\u00c2\u00ab*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ijiwrencc Van Buskirk. Jacob Tltshorl, Gourge Vree-\\nland. fViieAol (\u00c2\u00abri\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ueudrirk Bllnkerhiir, Cornelius Garrebrantse,\\nGeorge Bllukerhof, l*eterZabriakle, John Zabriakle,Ar\u00c2\u00abot Schuyler,\\nEdo Marcelese.\\n1766. i/u*/tr\u00c2\u00ab(i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Keynier Van Geisen, Peter Zabriskie, Hendrick Kuyper,\\nlioelef Weetervelt. /V\u00c2\u00abAoWeni Cornelius Vau Von\u00c2\u00abt, (^melius\\nGerrabrantae, Jr., Abniham Van Buskirk, Derrick Terbune, George\\nBllukerhof, John Demari st, ArenI Schuyler, Edo Marcelese.\\n1767. Justtcej-- Keynier Van Giescii, Lawrence an Buskirk, Jacob Tit-\\nshort. Freehold -rs\u00e2\u0080\u0094Aretit Scliuyler, Edo Marcelese, Abraham Van\\nBuskirk, John Terhuue, Jacob De Mott, John Dcmarest, Hendrick\\nBlinkerhof.\\n176H.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Ji\u00c2\u00ab/icM\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Keynier Van Geisen, Lawrence L. Van Buskirk, Peter\\nZabriskie. Vre/ioWrT\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Demurest, Jacub Do Mult, Ilendriik\\nBlinkerhof, Coruelius Garrabrante, John Terbune, Edo Marcelese.\\n1769.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ju\u00c2\u00ab ic\u00c2\u00ab#\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Keynier Van Geisen, I*awreuce Van Buskirk, Peter Za-\\nbriskie. l-WeholderB- John Terbune, Isaae- Van Der Beck, Idumus\\nMarcelese. John Kyoraon, Sfartiu PauUson, Jacob De Mutt, Helmer\\nVan Houten, Abraham Prior.\\n1770. JiWi e\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Keynier Van Geisen, Peter Zabriskie, Lawrence Van\\nBuskirk, Roelef Westervelt, Thomas Moore. FrefWJer*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John\\nTerhune,i Samuel Berry, Hendrick Vau Huuten, Abraham I rior,^\\nJacob Do Motl,^ Blathios Uoulse, Edo Marcelfse.*\\n1771. Jt\u00c2\u00ab/ic\u00c2\u00ab Reyni r Van Geisen, Lawrence Van Buskirk, John Tell,\\nRoolef Wester^elt, Thomas Mtvore, Freeholder*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JoXiu Terhune,\\nSamuel Berry, Abraham Prior, Hendrick Kuyper, Jacob De Mott,\\nMathius Ruulse, Jacob Post, Edo Slun clese.\\n1772.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JhWicwi- Keynier Van Geisen, Peter Zabriskie. Roelef Westervelt.\\nfVeeAoWrrj\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel Berry.i Heudricus Cooper.s An ert Bant*,*M\u00c2\u00ab-\\nthios Roulese,^ Kdo Marcelese,* Hendrick l)orenins.*\\n1773,_ji\u00c2\u00ab/Mr\u00c2\u00ab*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lawrence Van Buskirk, Peter Zabriskie, Roelef Wester-\\nvelt. Fre\u00c2\u00ab/ioWcr(i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George De Mutt, Mathias Koulese, J-din Benson,^\\nleoac Vau Der Beck, Nicause Terhune, E lo Marceles, Hendrick\\nDoremus, Albert Ackerson, Janie\u00c2\u00ab Ikmrd.-\\n1774.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jiw/ic\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lAwreuce Van Buskirk, Peter Zabriskie, K\u00c2\u00ab)elof Wester-\\nvelt. Freeholdm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac Van Dor Beck, Nicause Terhune, Hendrick\\nKuyper.= John Vau Home.- John Benson, Yt\u00c2\u00bbst Zabrif\u00c2\u00abkie, Albert\\nAckerman, .lames Board, Edo 3IurceK^, Hendrlrk lK remufl.\\n1776. /iij/icM\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lawrence Van Buskirk. Peter Zabriskie, Roolef Wester-\\nvelt, Thomas Moore, Abraimm Monlayne. /Vr -A i/\u00c2\u00ab/fnr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hendrick\\nKuyper, John Van Hurne. John BenB^ n, Marten Rouleso, Isaac Van\\nDer Beck. Nicause Terhune, Edo Marceles, Ilendrick Doremus, Ja-\\ncobus Bertholf, Corneliu{ La/.ler.\\n1776._j\u00e2\u0080\u009e*fMv^_]Vtcr Zabriskie, Tbumaa Moore, Stephen Baldwin, Abia-\\nhoin Moutanye. /V\u00c2\u00abAol*/eT Ilartnntn Brinkerbofl, Job Smith,\\nJohn Benson, Martin Roulese, John Rlchanls, Coruelius Cooper,\\nHendrick Doremus, Garrabrante Vau Houten, Garret Hopper, David\\nBoard, John Vau Boaklrk,*^ Jacob Cole.\u00c2\u00ab\\nThere is no meeting of the board recorded (or 1777.\\nThe first ineetin^^ under the State of New Jersey wjus\\nheld at the liouse of Stephen Hugert, ai Haring s\\nPlain (Harrinjrton ti)\\\\vnship?), May 13, 1780. The\\nmembers of the board were\\nJustice*\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kuolef Westervelt, Jacob Roam, Abraham Ackerman. *V*e-\\nA Mrt-\u00c2\u00bb\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Ryerann, Edo Blarceles, David BoanI, I^awrence\\nAckerman.\\nNo biisines.s wa.s transaeleil, exeept the appoint-\\nment of Abraham Westervelt ii\u00c2\u00bb county cttUeetor, in\\nthe place of Jacob J. Deniarest.\\nTlie next meeting was on the 12th of September,\\n1778, at Garret Hopper s house in Paranius, the\\nboard being:\\n./kWiVc-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Roelef Wcatenrelt, Hendrick Kuy| er. Abraham Ackerman,\\nPeter llaring. hyr^hotdrtt John Ryerson, Edo Marceles, David\\nB4 ard, Lawrence Ackermnn.\\nThe former collector, Jacob J. Deniarest, at thia\\nmeeting rendered an account of C142 17x., being part\\nof a tux raised in the county by order of the Conti-\\nI Now Barbadooa. Bergen. Hackenaack. Saddle River.\\nFranklin township, first represented in the board.\\nnarrlngton township flral reproeented", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "CIVIL LIST OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n83\\nnental Congress in 1776, and \u00c2\u00a3357 Ss. 9^/., received\\nfor the county arms sold out of the court-house at\\nNew Barbadoes. He also turned over the balance\\nof the sinking fund in his hands, amounting to \u00c2\u00a395\\nAbraham Westervelt was ordered to take charge of\\nthe record-book of the board.\\n1779.1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JuafKes\u00e2\u0080\u0094Heudrick Kuyper, Peter Haring, Garret Lyndaker,\\nAbraham Ackernian, Jacob Tcrhune. Freeholders William Cliris- i\\ntie, David Banta, David Terhiiiie, Jacob Zabriskic, Edo Marcelese,\\nAdrian Post, David Board, Lawrence Ackerman, Daniel Raring.\\n17SI).\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jnefict S Hendrick Kuyper, Peter Haring, Garret Loydacker,\\nIsaac Van Der Beck, Dand B. Demarest, Jacob Terhnne. Freehohl-\\nei s William Christie, David Batita, David Terbune, Martin Ryer-\\nsou, Daniel Haring, William Nagal, Jacob Zabrigkie, Lawrence\\nAckerman.\\n1781. Justices Hendrick Kuyper, Abraham Ackerman, Henry Mead,\\nDavid Demarest. Freeholders Lawrence Ackerson, Andrew Hop-\\nper, Garret Van Houten, Peter Demarest, Jacob Demarest, John\\nKuyper, Albert Banta.\\n1782;-i Justices Abraham Ackerman, Peter Ilaring, Yost Beam, Henry\\n5Iead, David Demarest, John Benson. Freeholders Garrebrant Van\\nHouten, Edo Marceles, Lawrence Ackerman, Andrew Hopper, Peter\\nDemarest, Thomas Blanch, Peter Bogert, Jacob Zabriskie, John Ter-\\nhune, Samuel Demarest.\\n17S;i. Justices Abraham Ackerman, Peter Haiing, Isaac Van Der\\nBeck, Jacob Terhune, John Benson, David Demarest, Daniel Van\\nRiper. Freeholders Job Smith, 51. Garrabrant, Garret Leydacker,\\nJost Zabriskie, Jacob Znbriskie, Edo Slarceles, Lawrence Ackermau,\\nThomas Blanch, Abraham Haring.\\n1784.5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 /us/ices Peter Haring, Isaac Van Der Beck, Jacob Terbune.\\nFreeholders Job Smith, Nicholas Toers, Jost Zabriskie, Garret Ley-\\ndacker, David Terhuin Eden Merselis, John Mead, Lawrence Ack-\\nerman, Abraham Haring.\\n17so.3 Justices Peter Haring, Jacob Beam, John Benson, Jacob Ter-\\nhune, Isaac Van Der Beck, Daniel Van Reipen, Isaac Blanch, Isaac\\nVan Der Beck, Jr. Freeholders Nicholas Toers, Daniel Van Win-\\nkle, Jacob Zabriskie, John Berdan, Garret Leydacker, John Mauri-\\ntins Goetshius, David Haring, Abraliam Blauvelt.\\n1786.^ Justices Peter Haring, Jost Beam, John Benson, Isaac Van Der\\nBeck, Isaac Bl^mcfi, Garret Leydacker, Albert Van Voorbis. Free-\\nholders Nicholas Toers, Garret Van Reipen, John Cutwater, Abra-\\nham Huysman, Abnihani Westervelt, Cornelius Haring, William\\nChristie, J, Mauritius Goetshius.\\n1787. Justices Peter Haring, John Benson, Isaac Blanch, Garret Ly-\\ndecker, Jacob Terhune, Isaac Van Der Beck, Henry Spier, Albert\\nVan Voorhis. FVeeholiers Job Smith, Cornelius Garrebrant, John\\nDey, Mauritius Goetachius, Cornelius Hinsman, Garret Duryea,\\nAbraham T. Blauvelt.\\n17S8. Justices\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter Haring, Isaac Van Der Beck, Isaac Blanch, Jacob\\nTerhnne. Freeholders Job Smitli, Cornelius Garrebrant, J. 31.\\nGoetshius, John Day, Peter Zabriskie, Nicausie Van Voorhis, Samuel\\nVan Zaen, George Doremns, Abraham Westervelt, Peter Ward,\\nAbraham T. Blauvelt, Albert Bogert.\\n1789. Justices Peter Haring, Garret Lydecker, Daniel Van Riper, Al-\\nbert Van Voorhis, Henry Spier. Freeholders Helmigh Van Houten,\\nGarret Van Geisen, John Day, Albert C. Zabriskie, Samuel Van Zaen,\\nGeorge L. Ryerson, Garret Ackerman, John W. Hopper, Albert Bo-\\ngert, Jacob Vlauvelt.\\n179u. Justites Peter Haring, Jacob Terhune, Albert Van Voorhis.\\nFri-eholdcrs Garret Van Geisen, John Van Horn, Jr., Albert C.\\nZabriskie, Isaac Kipp, Nicausie Van A oorhis, Henry Kingsland,\\nSamuel Van Zaen, George L. Ryerson, John Haring, Jacob Blauvelt,\\nJohn H. Camp.\\n1791. Justices Peter Haring, Jacob Terhune, John Outwater, Abraham\\nWestervelt, Daniel Van Reype, Garret Lydecker, Garret Duryea.\\nFreeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Garret Van Geisen, John Van Home, Nicausie Van\\nVoorhis, Henry Kingsland, David Board, Albert Zabriskie, Isaac\\nKipp, Samuel Van Zaen, Jacob Blauvelt. Jolin Hogan Camp.\\nMet this year at Pompton.\\n2 Met in Paranus, at the house of Capt. John Ryei-son.\\nMet at the house of Archibald Campbell, in New Barbadoes (village\\nof Hackensack).\\n1792. Justices John Benson, Jacob Terhune, Daniel Van Reype, Abra-\\nham Westervelt. Freeholders Cornelius Van Vorst, John Van\\nHoute, Isaac Nicoll, John I. M estervelt, Christian Zabriskie, Nicau-\\nsie Van Voorhis, George L. Ryerson, Peter Day, Peter Ward, Abra-\\nham Demarest, David Duryea.\\n1793. Justices John Benson, Jacob Terhnne, Abraham Westervelt,\\nWilliam Davis. Freeholders Cornelius Van Vorst, John Van Houte,\\nJohn Westervelt, Christian Zabriskie, George L. Ryerson, Peter\\nDay, Peter Ward, John Hagan, Abraham Demarest, David Duryea.\\n1794. Justices Peter Haring, John Outwater, Jacob Terhune, Abmham\\nWestervelt, Adam Boyd, William Davis, Peter Dey.\\nFreeholders of Bergen Township.-*\\n1794, Cornelius Van Vorst 1794-95, John Van Houte; 1795, Garret Van\\nGeisen; 1796-1805, John Van Home; 1796, Garret Van Reyland;\\n1797-1800, John Smith; 1797, Jasper Zabriskie; 1798-99, 1807, Gar-\\nret Freeland lSi)0, Cornelius Van Vorst, Jr. 1801-2, 1805-6, 1808-9,\\nCornelius Doremus; lSOl-4, Jacob Van Wagoner; 1S03, Casparus\\nCadmus; 1804-13, Richard Cadmus; 1806-11, 1816, Peter Sipp;\\n1810-12, Thomas Dickersou 1812, Elias Biuger; 1813-14, Rynier\\nVan Geisen; 1814-15, John Goodman; 1815, James Van Buskirk\\n1816, Cornelius Van Riper 1817-18, Casparus Prior; 1817-18, Adrian\\nPost; 1819-20, 1822, Casparus Prior; 1819-20, Adrian Post; 1821-2G,\\n1828-29, 1831, Peter Sip; 1821, Stephen Vreelaud; 1822-26, 183], Cor-\\nnelius Van Winkle; 182.3-25, 1827, 1833-35, 1839, Harlman Van\\nWagoner; 1827-28, 1830, 1832-34, Abel I.Smith; 1829, Cornelius\\nVan Vorst 1830, Jacob D. Van Winkle 1832, Merselis Merselis 1835,\\nGarret Vreeland; 1S36, Asa Wright; 1836, Mitchel Saunier; 1837,\\nDudley S. Gregory 1837-38, Garret Sip 1838-39, William C. Vree-\\nland.\\nJudges of the Covrt of Common Pleas.\\nr^\\nEilniuud \\\\V, Kingsland 1789\\nPetrus Haring 1789\\nGanet Lydeclier 1789\\nDaniel Van Eeyan 1790\\nPetrus Haring 1791\\nJohn Benson 1791\\nJacob Tcrliune 1797\\nWilliam Oolfax 1800\\nJohn Oulwater 1800\\nAbraham Westervelt 1800\\nWilliam Davis 180O\\nAbraham Eyerson 1800\\nMartin llyerson ISOO I\\nJohn Hopper 1801\\nDaniel Van Ryan 1801\\nAdam Boyd 1S03 i\\nIsaac Nicoll 1803\\nBenjamin Blacklidge 1803\\nHenry Van Dalsom 1803\\nLewis Moses 1804\\nJacob Terhune 1804\\nGarret Durie 1804\\nMartin I. Ryerson 1805\\nAbraham Westervelt 1806\\nDavid P. Haring 1805\\nAdam Boyd 1805 I\\nAbraham Ryerson 1805 i\\nJohn Hopper 1806\\nWilliam Colfax 1806\\nDaniel Van Reyan 1806\\nWilliam Davis 1806\\nSamuel Beach 1807\\nBenjamin Blacklidge 1808\\nJohnCassidy 1808\\nJohn Westervelt 1808\\nPeter Ward 1808\\nJacob C. Terhune 1809\\nLewisMoore 1809\\nGarret Durie 1809\\nMartin I. Ryerson 1809\\nJohn Outwater 1810\\nDavid P. Haring 1810\\nAbraham Westervelt 1810 j\\nGarret Van Houten 1811\\nJohn A. Berry 1811\\nDaniel Van Reyan 1811\\nJohn D. Haring 1\u00c2\u00bb12\\nChristian Zabriskie 1812\\nElias Brevoort 1812\\nDower Westervelt 1812\\nCornelius Merselis 1812\\nJohn Al. Voorhis 1812\\nJohn Hopper 1812\\nWilliam Colfax 1812\\nJacob C. Teihune 1813\\nAdam Bovd 1813\\nJacob Banter 1813\\nJohn Westervelt 1813\\nLewis Moore 1814\\nJacob C. Terhune 1814\\nMartin I. Ryeraon 1814\\nWilliam Colfax 1R14\\nJohn T. Banta 1815\\nB. V. Haring 1815\\nSimon Mead 1815\\nGarret Van Houten 1816\\nGarret Durie 1816\\nJohn D. Haring 1817\\nJohn Outwater 1817\\nChristian Zabriskie 1817\\nElias Brevoort 1817\\nJohn Al. Voorhis 1817\\nDower W pstervell 1817\\nJohn Hopper 1817\\nAdam Boyd 1818\\nPeter Sip 1818\\nCornelius Van Winkle 1819\\nCornelius Merselis 1819\\nHenrv W. Kingsland 1819\\nJacob Banta 1819\\nWilliam Colfax, 1820\\nJohn T. Banta 1820\\nGarret Van Houten 1821\\nJohn D. Haring 1821\\nPeter I. Terhune 1821\\nDavid I.Christie 1821\\nDower Westervelt 1821\\nJohn Outwater 1821\\nElias Brevoort 1821\\nCornelius Van Winkle 1821\\nChristian Zabriskie 1821\\nJohn Al. Voorhis 1821\\nHenry B. Hagerman 1822\\nJohn A. Westervelt 1822\\nAdam Boyd 1822\\nCharles Board 1822\\nJohn Cassidy 1823\\nPeter Sip 1823\\nJacob Banta 1823\\nHenry W. Kingsland 1823\\nGarret P. Hopper 1824\\nDavid I. Christie 1824\\nGarret Ackerson 1825\\nGarret Van Honten 1825\\nThis list contains the names and years of service of the chosen free-\\nholders of Bergen township, which became the county of Hudson in\\n1840. They are given from the close of the above list (1794) until the\\ntownship ceased to exist as such.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "84\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nMarcus B. Ituuglass 18i5\\nWllliulu Calfui 1K26\\nCliristi.in Zabruklo Ifid\\nJolili I llnriiig 1826\\nPHer I.Terhuno 182C\\nNalliaiiiel Ujard 1826\\nJohn Al. V.jurhis 1826\\nHeur U. llaKeniian 1827\\nAlbert G. DorcDius 1827\\nJohn lloGpxit 1S27\\nAdam Bovd 1827\\nJohn A. Wc\u00c2\u00bbterv6U 1827\\nCornelius Vau Winkle 1827\\nJ.WellB 1827\\nClmrles Bourd 1827\\nHenrv \\\\V. Kingslund 18 28\\nPeter I.Terliune 1828\\nJohn Caxidy 1828\\nJohn A. Borr) 1828\\nPeter Sip 1828\\nCornelius Vnn Winkle 1829\\nHenry 1). Baula 1829\\nKichurd Ackermuu 182 J\\nUarrnt P. tlupper 1829\\nJohn G. AL kernian 1830\\nCharles Kluwv IKU)\\nPeter 1 Westfrvelt 1830\\nGarret Vau iloulen 1830\\nGarret Ackonton IKiO\\nMarcus B. IK.uglajs 18;!0\\nJunu-a K. Mullnny IKU)\\nCornelius Van Winkle 183(1\\nWilliam Colfax 18:il\\nPerrignin Sandford 1831\\nPeter l.Terhune 18.il\\nNalliauiel Board 18;ll\\nJohn Al. Voorhil 18^11\\nAdam Boyd 18.12\\nCharles Board 18:12\\nJ. Wells 1832\\nHenrv B. Uagerman 18.a\\nWilliam V. Itiithlnme 1833\\nAlbert G Dor mu\u00c2\u00ab 1833\\nJohn DeOnK.t 1833\\nJohn A. Westervelt 1833\\nAlbert Van lleuren 1833\\nSamuel li. Berry 1833\\nJohn Cassldy I8. \u00c2\u00bb3\\nC. It. Zaiiriskle 18;i3\\nPelorSIp 18;\u00c2\u00ab\\nCornelius I. Wealervell. 1833\\nJohn H. 7jibriekie 1833\\nDavid 11. Keen Wtl\\nDavis D. Van Bubsudi 183:t\\nlorneliuB Van Winkle 18.14\\nGarret P. Hopper 1834\\nJohn U. Hopiier 1834\\nJosei.h Post I i:i4\\nThomas M. Gahagan 1S34\\nWilliam Jenner 1834\\nHenry I. Spear 18:15\\nJacob Beidan 18:1.\\nCornelius Van Reypon IKIO\\nCharles Kinsey 1835\\nGarret Ackeraon lK:t/)\\nFrancis Price 18:16\\nWllllaiii Colfax 1K3B\\nI erreguin Sandford 18.36\\nPeter l.Terhune 18.17\\nStephen H. Sulkins IKI\\nI eter 1. Ackerman 18.17\\nAbraham Westervelt 1837\\nChandler Dayton 18.37\\nAndrew H. Hopper 1837\\nMartin Van Houten 1837\\nHenry W. KIngsland 1837\\nJohn A. Berry 1837 I\\nDavid I Chrietle 1838\\nJohn K. Blauvelt 1838\\nWilliam I ItHlhUme 1838\\nHenry II. Banta 18;i8\\nII. SiiUllimayd 1838\\nCornelius Van Winkle 1838\\nPeter Sip 1839\\nGeorge C. De Kay 1839\\nKolwrt S. Gould 1840\\nCharles Kinsey 1840\\nAbmhani Westervelt 1840\\nGeroge Zabriskie 1841\\nHenrv B. Hugeroian 1841\\nAlbert G. Duremus 1842\\nAndrew II. Hopper 1842\\nAbruham Westervelt 1843\\nJohn A. Blauvelt. 1843\\nDavid I. Christie 1843\\nAbrnham I. .Ackerman 1843\\nPeter I. Ackerman 1843\\nHenry H. Banta 1843\\nMartin Van HouteD, Jr 1843\\nSamuel H. Berry 1843\\nAbraham Carlock 1813\\nJohn G. .\\\\ckernian 184:1\\nPeter D. Westervelt 1843\\ntiarret Ackers\u00c2\u00abm 1843\\nI-aac I. Hariiig 184:1\\nPeter 1. Terhune 184.3\\nAbraham J. Terhune 184:1 i\\nJames Van Houten 1843\\nJohn II. HopiK-r 1843\\nDavid I V.iri Busaum 1843\\nGarret P. Hopper 1813\\nJoseph Post 184:1\\nGarret A. Zabriskio 1844\\nChrisllan De llaun 1844\\nJohn H. /.abriskie 1844\\nStephen Bonlan 1844\\nGariet S. Demarcst 18+5\\nJalne.4 Hennie 1845\\nJames P. Demarest 1846\\nAudr.-w H. Hopiwr 1847\\nPeter I. Ackerman 1848\\nAbniham J. Ackerman 1849\\nGarret S. Deraarest 1850\\nJacob I.Zabriskie 1851\\nSamm-I II. Ilerry 1852\\nAlbert J. Terhune 1853\\nJacob J. Brinkerhof 1854\\nHenrv II. Voorhis 1857\\nAlbert J. Terhune 1858\\nPeter I. Ackerman 1859\\nJohn II. /abriskia 1862\\nAlbert J. Terhune 186:1\\nJohn H. Post 18B4\\nTlnmiaa t limming 1807\\nWilliam Grelg. 1867\\nRichard B. Pauliaon 1868\\nCharles II. Voorhis 1868\\nJohn R. Post 1869\\nAslilwl Green 1869\\nWilliam S. Banta 1872-77\\nPeter 1, Ackerman 1872-77\\nNehemiah Millard 1874-79\\nGarret G. Ackerson 1877-82\\nWilliam K. Skinner 1878-83\\nWilliams. Banta 1879-84\\nSiiKftim.\\nAdam ll.ivd 1789\\nWllllnm M. Betz 1791\\nAlbert I Zabriskio 171P8\\nLawrence Ackerman 1800\\nCaspanis llogert 1801\\nJohriT. Ilanu 1810\\namuel II Ilerry 1813\\nJames II Brlnkirhoir. 1816\\nSamuel II. Ilerry 1819\\nAndrew P. Hopp\u00c2\u00abr 1821\\nAndrew II. Hopper 1824\\nJohn U. Blauvelt. 1827\\nGarret Van Dion 18;lO\\nJohn G. Ackeraon 1833\\nJacob C. Tarhune 1836\\nGeorge II. BrlnkerbolT. 18.39\\nDavid D. Demareat 1841\\nPeter Van Kmburgh 1844\\nJohn A. Hopper 1847\\nJohn V. II. Terhune 18.W\\nAbniham H. Haring 1843\\nCornelius L. Blauvelt 1855\\nJames J. Brinkerhon 1859\\nHenry A. Ilopiwr 1862\\nJohn II. Banta 1865\\nJacdi C. Van Blarum 1868\\nDavid A. Pell 1871\\nGarret II. Hering 1874\\nDavid A. Pell 1878\\nPeter StoulenburKb 1728\\nNehemiah Wade 1789\\nHenry Van Dalsi m 1804\\nAbraham Westervelt 1811\\nAbraham Westervelt\\nSamuel II. Berry 1835\\nJohn H. Berry 1840\\nGarret G.Acketaon 1845\\nCornelius L. Blauvelt I860\\nThomiu! W. Demareat 1870\\nThomas W. Demareat. 1875\\nSamuel Taylor 1880\\nHemdebs or THE CoC.KCIL.\\nPeter Haring 1702-06\\nJohn Outwator n\u00c2\u00bb$-1807\\nPeter Ward 1807\\nAdrian Post 1815\\nJohn I). Haring 1816\\nMartin I. RyersoD 1817\\nAdrian Post 1818\\nJohn D. Haring 1819-22\\nChrisllan Zabriskie 1822-24\\nCharles Board 1824-27\\nSi:kbooatU.\\nJohn A. IViyd 1808 Iiaac Wortendyke 1868\\nDavid I.tnirlslU 1828 Isani Worlendyke 1872\\nAbraham o. Zabriskie 1838 John M. Knapp 1877\\nRichard R. Pauliaon 1848\\nPaoac iToRa or Tiir. Pi.\u00c2\u00ab.i\u00c2\u00bb.\\nLewis D. Ilardeiiburgh 1836 Garret G. Ackerson\\nNathaniel Board 1827-30\\nCharles Board 1830\\nJacob M. Rveraou 1831\\nCharles Riard 1832-34\\nChristian Zabriskie 1834-:ie\\nSamuel R. Demareat 1836-38\\nFrancis Price 1S38\\nAlbert G. Doremus 1840\\nJohn Caseedy 1841-43\\nJohn H. Zabriskie 1843-44\\nSt.VTE SrN.iTORS.\\nRichard R. Panlison.. 1814-47\\nIsaac 1. Haring 1847-49\\nJohn Van Brunt 1849\\nJohn Van Brunt 1850-51\\nAbraham Hopper^ 1851\\nDaniel D. Depew 185.1-56\\nThoniioi H. Haring 1856-59\\nRalph S. Demarcst 1859-62\\nDaniel HoUroan 1862-65\\nJohn Y. Dater 1865-68\\nJames J. BrinkerholT. 1868-71\\nCornelius lydecker 1871-74\\nGeorge Davton 1874-77\\nOirneliuB S. C iop\u00c2\u00abr 1877-80\\nIsaac Wortendyke 18*0-83\\nAbraham (I. /.abriskie 1842\\n.Manning M. Knapl 1851\\nWilliam 8. Banta 1861\\n1869\\nAbraham D. Campbell 1870\\nAbraham D. CampUII 1875\\nAbraham I). Oampball 1880\\nMembers or Assehblt.\\n1792.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry Berry, Jacob Terhune, Peter Ward.\\n1793.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter Ward, Henry Berry, .\\\\dam Boyd.\\n1794. Adam Boyd, Peter Ward, BenJamiD Blackledge.\\n1795. Adam Boyd, Benjamin Blackledge, John Haring.\\n1796. J din Haring, Henry Berry, William C. Kingsland.\\n1797.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thoniiis Blanch, Robert Campbell, Peter Ward.\\n1798 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Peter Ward, Robert Campb-ll. Benjamin Blackledge.\\n1799-1801.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter Ward, Thoniaa Blanch, John Dey.\\n1802.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Blanch, Peter Ward, Isaac Kipp.\\n1803.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Blanch, Isaac Kipp, Martin I. Ryenwn.\\n18(H-5,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter Ward, B. Thomasanch, Adrian Post.\\n1806.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac Kipp, Adrian Post, William Colfax.\\n1807.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Van Il.irn, Abraham Foreshee, William Colfax.\\n1809 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Adrian Post, William Colfax. John Hopper.\\n18l. i.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Martin Van Houten, John Outwater, William Colfax.\\n1816.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter Sip, Jacob Bantu, Cornelius Meraelis.\\n1817.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Albert C. Zabriskie, Cornelius Mersolls, Jacob Banta.\\n1818.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Caspams Prior, Nathaniel B..nnl. .lohn Hopper,\\n1819.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cornelius Van Winkle, Caaparns Bogert. Seba Brinkerhoff.\\n1820.- Soba Brinkerhoff, Cornelius Van Winkle, Charles Board.\\n1821.- Peter Sip, John Weetenelt, Jr., Charles Board.\\n1822.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Poter Sip, John Westervelt, Jr David I. Christie.\\n1823.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Garret Ackerson, John Weatervelt. Jr David I. Christie.\\n1824.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Garret Acket (on, Jidin Van Wagenen, Nathaniel Ikiard.\\n1825.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cornelius Van Winkle, Henry B. Ilngerman, David I. Christie.\\n1826.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cornelius Van Winkle, Charles Kinsey. David I. Clirlstlo.\\n1827.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David 1. Christie, Peter I. Terhune, Cornellii |l. Van Ril \u00c2\u00bbr.\\n1820.- Cornelius Van Winkle, John Want, Andrew P. Hopper.\\n18.10.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter 1. Terhune, Samuel R. DemaresI, John Ward.\\n1831.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Garret Sip, Andrew H. Hop|H r, John It. Blauvelt.\\n18.12-31. John M. Coriielison, .\u00c2\u00abamuel R. Iieniaresl, Garret P. Hopper.\\n1834.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abraham Lydecker, John H. Hoi)per, IMer I. Ackerman.\\n1835\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abndmm Lydecker, Michael Uunier, John II. Ilopiwr.\\n1836.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Michael Saunier, Henry Doremus, Jeter R. Riggs.\\n1837-38.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John CaasiHly, Albert G. Lydecker. David D. Van Bussum.\\n1840.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John G. Ackerson. AlWrt J. Terhune.\\n1841-42.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James I. DemaresI, Jcdin H. Zabriskie.\\n184.1-44 \u00e2\u0080\u0094William G. Hopper, Jacob C. Terhune.\\n1845-46.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John G Banta, Jac ib J. Brinkerhoff.\\n1847-48\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Ackerman, Jr., Henry II. Voorhl^ Jr.\\n1849-fiO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John lluyler, Jidin II. Hopjier.\\n1851.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John lluyler, J.din H. Zabriskie.\\n1862-53,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jactdi I. DemarMt. Abraham Van Horn.\\n1854-44.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomaa W. Demareat, Italpli S, Demareat.\\n1856-47.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel llolsnutn, Aaron II. Westervelt\\n1848.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kno. h Brinkertioff, Andrew C. Ca lmua.\\n1859.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Enmh Ilrinkeriioff, John II. IIop| er.\\niHiui \\\\brabam Carlock, John R. Poil.\\nTo All plat* of Is.vac I. Haring, deceuad.\\nTo All place of J. Van Brunt, raalgued.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.\\n85\\n1861.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomae Ward, John K. Post.\\n1862-63.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Dunn English, John T. Dater.\\n1864-65.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 laaac Demarest, Abraham B. Ilariug.\\n1866.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -Abraham Van Emburgh, CoiiieUns Christie.\\n1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Comelins Christie, Henr) G. Bering.\\n1868.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eben Winton, Henry G. Heriug.\\n1869. Henry A. Hopiier, Eben Winton.\\n1870.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jacob G. Van liiper, Henry A. Hopper.\\n1871.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jacob G. Van Riper, George J. Hopper.\\n1872. George J. Hopper, Jolin J. Andei-son.\\n1873-74.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry C. Bering, John W. liogert.\\n1876-76.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jolin H. Winant, Barney N. Fn-Jon.\\n1877.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Corson Giilam, Sovithy S. Parraniore.\\n1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jolin A. Demarest, Southy S. Parraniore.\\n1879.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John A. Demarest, Oliver Dral;e Smith.\\n1880-81. John Van Bussum, Elias H. Sisson.\\nMembers op the Phovinci.vl Congress of New Jersey from Bergen\\nCOI NTY.\\nJune and AunMl, 1775. John Fell, John Demarest, Henilrick Kuyper,\\nAbraham Van Boakirk, Edo Merselese.\\nOctober^ 1775. John Demarest, Jacobus Post, Abraham Van Boskirk.\\nMembers of the Co.nstiti-tionai. Conventions.\\n1776.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Demarest, Jacobus Post, John Van Boskirk, Jacob Qnack-\\nenbush, Daniel Isaac Brown.\\n1844.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abraham Westervelt, John Cassedy, of Bergen County, Elias B.\\nD. Ogdeii, .-Vndrew Parsons.\\nMembers of Congress.\\nHon. Adam Boyd, 1803-5; to fill vacancy, 1809, and in Twelfth Congress,\\n1811-13; Hon. John Huyler, 1857-59; lion. William Walter Phelps,\\n1873-75; Hon. Charles H. Voorhis, 1879-81.\\nGovernor.\\nHon. Rodman M. Price, 1854-57.\\nJcstice of SrPREMK Court.\\nHon. Manning M. Knapp, 187.5-82.\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nINTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.\\nRoads.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The first road in the old county of Bergen\\nwas the one leading from Communipaw to the village\\nof Bergen. It was probably laid out in the latter\\npart of the year 1660. In 1679 it was described as\\na fine broad wagpn-road. The first commissioners\\nof highways for Bergen County, and the first known\\nto have been appointed in the State, were John Berry,\\nLawrence Andries (Van Boskirk), Enoch Michielsen\\n(Vreeland), Hans Diedrick.s, Michael Smith, Hen-\\ndrick Van Ostrum, and Claes Jansen Van Pnrmerendt.\\nThey were appointed by an act of the General As-\\nsembly, and it is doubtful if there exists anywhere a\\nrecord of their proceedings. They appear to have\\nheld office a long time, for in 1694 Gerbrand Claesen\\nwas appointed in the place of Van Purmerendt.\\nBy resolution of the General Assembly, adopted\\nSept. 9, 1704, the grand jury of each and every county\\nwas authorized to appoint yearly at the February and\\nMarch terms of court, with the approval of the bench,\\ntwo persons in each county, precinct, district, or town-\\nship, to lay out all necessary cross-roads and by-roads,\\nwhich were to be four rods wide, and also to settle\\nwhat is proper to be allowed to those who shall be\\nappointed for their services in laying out the said\\nroads.\\nOn the 3d of June, 1718, a road was laid out from\\nCromkill to Whehocken Ferry. Mr. Winfield is of\\nthe opinion that this was part of the present Hack-\\nensack turnpike. If so, it fixes the date of the lay-\\ning out of at least a portion of this important public\\nhighway.\\nTlie road from Bergen to Bergen Point was among\\nthe important early thoroughfares, though the date\\nof its construction is not known. On the 2d of No-\\nvember, 1743, James Alexander, of the Council, re-\\nported a bill for continuing the king s highway\\nwhich leads from Bergen Point to Bergen Town to\\nsome convenient place on Hudson s River, for cross-\\ning that river to New York. The bill passed in\\nthe negative. On Oct. 10, 1764, a king s highway\\nwas laid out from Hendrick Sickles barn to a point\\nopposite the Dutch church on Staten Island, and the\\nold road was vacated. The new road became part of\\nthe great stage-route from New York to Philadel-\\nphia.\\nThe Bergen Turnpike Company was incorporated\\nNov. 30, 1802, for the purpose of constructing a road\\nfrom the town of Hackensack to Hoboken. It\\nwas constructed in 1804, and is known as the Hack-\\nensack turnpike.\\nOne of the most important roads in early times was\\nthat from Paulus Hook to Newark over the Hack-\\nensack and Passaic Rivers. Commissioners were ap-\\npointed to lay out this road and to erect ferries across\\nthe rivers by act of June 20, 1765. One of these\\ncommissioners was Thomas Brown, of Bergen, who\\nowned the land on the east side of the Hackensack at\\nthe crossing of the road. He erected the ferry at that\\npoint, known as Brown s Ferry. The road leading\\nacross this ferry from Paulus Hook to Newark was\\nfor nearly thirty years the only thoroughfare from the\\nHudson to Essex County and the country beyond.\\nIt was therefore a great object of the Americans to\\nkeep it open and to secure the safety of the ferries\\nduring the Revolution.\\nOn the 7th of August, 1776, Richard Stockton, a\\ndelegate in Congress from New Jersey, sent to the\\nNew Jersey State Convention, then in session at Bur-\\nlington, certain resolutions of Congress requesting the\\nconvention to make such provisions for keeping open\\nthese ferries as would be effectual.\\nThe convention on August 9th passed an ordinance\\nfor that purpose, putting the ferries into the hands\\nof William Camp and Joseph Hedden, who were au-\\nthorized to provide scows for each ferry, supply a suf-\\nficient number of hands, and stretch ropes across the\\nrivers. The ferriage to soldiers was made one-third\\nof the regular rates. After the capture of New York\\nthe ferries were suspended, but were repaired at the\\nclose of the war, and remained in use till the bridges\\nI 1 Am. Archives, 4th Series, vi. 1659.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "86\\nHISTORY OF BERGHN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nupon the turnpike were built. Falling into disuse for\\na while, tiiey were again repaired in 1805, and con-\\ntinued to be used until they were supplanted by the\\nbridges built in connection with the plank-road across\\nthe meadows.\\nBridges. The bridges across the Hackensack and\\nPa saie Rivers on the road from Jersey City to New-\\nark were constructed in 179.J by Samuel Ogden and\\nthirty-six other contractors, who obtained a lease of\\nthem for ninety-seven years from Nov. 24, 1792. On\\nthe 7th of March, 1797, they were incorporated as\\nThe Proprietors of the Bridges over the Rivers\\nPassaic and Hackensack, and under their charter\\nclaimed the exclusive right to erect bridges over these\\nrivers.\\nMay 12, 1819, the Board of Freeholders adopted the\\nfollowing\\nItetohedy That a committee be appointed to superintend the foUowing\\nbri lKet, viz., OM Bridge, New Bridge, ami Ilaikeusack Bridge.\\nBrioliril, That UeMn. P. C. Woatorvell, .1. A. \\\\Ve\u00c2\u00abtervelt, iind P. A.\\nTerhune be iitti l coniniittee.\\nItttoUt^d, Tliat the committee be and they are lioreby authorized to\\npnuteciite all offenses that may be for the future committed ii;:aiii8t the\\nact of the Council and Gonural .Xssenibly of the State of New .loriiey,\\nentitled An Act to prevent the Draws of certain Bridges in tlic Count.v\\nof Bergen being left open.\\nIn 1828 an act was passed by the Legislature to en-\\nlarge the draws in the bridge over the Hackensack\\nRiver. In pursuance of this a committee was ap-\\npointed, consisting of Peter C. Westervelt, John A.\\nWestervelt, and Henry W. Banta. to construct an en-\\nlarged draw in the bridge opposite Hackensack Vil-\\nlage.\\nNew Bridge wa.s constructed in 1820. In that year\\nwe tind the record of the sale of Old Bridge timber\\namounting to i! 31.57.\\nA new bridge across the Pa.ssaic River, opposite\\nthe house of Gerrebrand Van Riper, in Saddle River\\ntownship/ was built by subscription in 1819.\\nFerries. The ferries which connect the old por-\\ntion of Bergen County with New York City are\\nnumerous. There are (1) the Coinmunipaw, (2) the!\\nWeehawken, (3) the Jersey City, (4) the Hoboken,\\nthe I avonia. Besides these, which are still in\\noperation, there were several otliers of an early date\\nwhiili have long since ceii-setl to exist. These latter\\nwere Budd s Ferry, from Budd s Dock, in Harsimus\\nCove, to New York, established in 1802, and con-\\ntinued a few years; Bull s Ferry, at tiie upper line of\\nthe jireseiit county of iliid.son, well known during\\nthe Revolution, which took its name from a family by\\nthe name of Bull residing there. Winlielil gives the\\nnames of the lessees of this ferry as follows Corne-\\nlius Uuyler, 1788 to 1792; Theodore Brower, 1792 to\\n180.1; Garret Neefie, 18(t5; Lewis Concklin, 1806;\\nAbraham Iluyler, 1808.\\nDe Klyn s Ferry wa.s started liy .lohii Towne I\\nanil Harnct Dc Klyn, from the wharf (south and\\nnorth) of the State Prison to Hobokeo, in 1796. No\\nrecord is found of this ferry later than 1806.\\nFor many years the fanners and others in tlie\\nnorthern part of Bergen County reached New York\\nby means of the Weehawken Ferry, established by\\nSamuel Bayard about the year 1700. In the charter\\ngranted to Stephen Bayard by George II. in 1752,\\nthe limits of this ferry extend from the Bergen\\nnorth line along the shore half a mile below, or to\\nthe southward of a place called the Great Slaugh.\\nIncidentally connected with this portion of our\\nterritory is the ferry to Elizabethtown Point, of\\nwhich we find the following in Winfield s Historj-\\nof Hudson County\\nAbout the year 1808 it was puriMiased by Col. .Varon Ogden, and by\\nUim leased tu John U. and Robert J. Livingston, who owned a monojwiy\\nof navigaling New York water;* by steam. They placed on the ferry the\\nKaritan, tlie tirst steamer l etwi.en New York and Eli/jibeUitown\\nPoint. It was uot long, however, before Col. Ogden had built, by Cor\\nnelius Joralemon, of Belleville, a Uiat fourteen feet b\u00c2\u00abjim and seventy\\nfeet keel, in which Daniel Dodd, of Medham, put a twelve-horse engine.\\nIt was called the Sea tfol-se. This boat the colonel placed on this\\nferry, but to avoid seizure under the New York navigation laws, ran her\\nto .lerscy City. On the 18th of May, 181:1, she was advertised as an\\nelegant steamboat, provided to run l*tween Klirjibethtown Point and\\nPaulusllook; fore, four shilling^*.* Shu made two tri|isaday. The fare\\nwas afterwards reduced to three shillings anil sixpence. On the 21st of\\nJune, 1814, she was advertised to meet the steamltoat SubeUtuUon at\\nPaulus HiMtk, which would carry the passengers to New Y ork.\\nThe Bellouo, owned by Gibbous, ran Ironi Kli/abethtown to Jersey\\nCity fare, twelve nuil a half cents. In the advertisement was tlung to\\nthe breeze a banner inscribed with the motto, New Jersey must b\u00c2\u00ab\\nfree SeHtiutl Freedom, July :U, 18 Jl.\\nThe Hoboken Ferry was established to connect\\nthe C\u00c2\u00abr|)oration Dock at the Bear Market in New\\nYork with Hoboken in 1774, and was leased to H.\\nTallman for \u00c2\u00a350 a year. It was advertised in May\\nthe following year as the New Established Ferry\\nfrom the remarkable pleasant and convenient situate\\nplace of illiam Bayard, Esq., at the King s Arms\\nInn from whicli place all gentlemen Travelers and\\nothers who have occasion to cross that ferry will be\\naccommodated with the best of boats of every kind,\\nsuitable to the winds, weather, and tides, to convey\\nthem from tlicnce to the New Market near the new\\nCor|ioration Pier, at the North River opposite Ve.sey\\nStreet, in New York, at which place a suitable house\\nwill be kept for the reception of travelers a.ssing to\\nand from his house, and will have his boats in good\\norder. The advertisement closes by saying, The\\nboats are to be distinguished by having the name\\nThe Iloobook Ferry painted on the stern.\\nDuring the Revolution this ferry was subject to the\\ncontrol of the army ocrupyiiig New York, anil in\\n1776 the British placed a subaltern and twenty men\\nto examine the i)assengers crossing going to and fro.\\nIn 1789 the ferry was owneil by .John Stevens, the\\nproprietor of Hoboken, and after its comparatively\\nunsuccessful management by several lessees, Mr.\\nStevens in 1810 proposed to place a steamboat upon\\nthe ferry, and completing his boat about the middle\\nFreeholders Iteomls.\\nWIntleld IIIM llu.l. o, J4l.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "INTEKNAL IMPROVEMENTS.\\n87\\nof September, 1811, he shortly after made the trial-\\ntrip of the first steam ferry-boat in the world. It\\nwas immediately put into use, and on the 23d of Sep-\\ntember, 1811, made sixteen trips, with an average of\\none hundred persons each trip. Col. Stevens, how-\\never, soon abandoned the use of steamboats on the\\nferry, which were not again applied till the 22d of\\nApril, 1822, when he made a trial-trip with the\\nHoboken, which thereafter made trips every\\nhour by St. Paul s church clock.\\nThe Pavonia Ferry. Letters patent were\\ngranted for the establishment of this ferry by King\\nGeorge II., Jan. 17, 1733, to Archibald Kennedy\\nhis heirs and assigns. Capt. Kennedy failed to fulfill\\nthe conditions of the charter, and for over one hun-\\ndred years nothing was done save the ottering now and\\nthen for the establishment of a ferry from the west\\nend of Pearl Street, or from the foot of Chambers\\nStreet to Harsimus. Petitions of this sort were\\npresented in 1753, in 176r), and in 1818, but nothing\\nwas done till the completion of the Bergen Tunnel\\nby the Long Dock Company in 1861.\\nThe Erie Railway Company, lessees of the Long\\nDock Company, revived the Pavonia Ferry. It be-\\ngan business May 1, 1861, with three old boats\\nNiagara, Onalaska, and Onala from the\\nBrooklyn ferries. The Erie Railway Companj- have\\nsince put upon the ferry the Pavonia, built in\\n1861; Susquehanna, built in 1864; Delaware,\\nbuilt in 1865.\\nDow s Ferry over the Hackensack, a little north\\nof the present bridge of the New Jersey Railroad,\\nwas a noted place during the Revolution. Mr. Win-\\nfield thinks it was established about the time that\\nCol. John Schuyler constructed the Belleville turn-\\npike, during the French war, and remained in opera-\\ntion until superseded by the bridge erected in 1794.\\nIt received its name from John Douw, a friend of\\nCol. Schuyler. The ferry and Douw s tavern were\\non the west side of the Hackensack. It was at this\\nferry that boats had been provided on the night of\\nMaj. Lee s attack on Paulus Hook to facilitate the\\nretreat of his forces.\\nThe ferry at Jersey City was e.stablished June 18,\\n1764.\\nThe New Tor/.- Mn-curi/ of July 2d of that year\\nsays, The long-wished-for ferry is now established\\nand kept across the North River, from the place called\\nPowless s Hook to the city of New York and boats\\nproperly constructed, as well for the conveniency of\\npassengers as for the carrying over of horses and car-\\nriages, do now constantly ply from one shore to the\\nother.\\nThis ferry was established as a part of the new\\nroute from New York to Philadelphia via Bergen\\nPoint and Staten Island. Across the Kill van KuU,\\n1 Srnlinc! 0/ Frefdom, Oct. 1, 1811 quoted by Winfleld.\\nSee full list of boats on tbis Hue in Winfield, 268.\\nThe Pavonia Ferry Company was incorporated Feb. 28, 1849.\\nbetween the two latter places, a ferry had been pre-\\nviously in operation, and in 17.50 was kept by Jacob\\nCorson, who that year petitioned the government of\\nNew York for letters patent, which were granted, for\\nthe purpose of erecting his ferry into a public ferry.\\nThe ferry at Jersey City was owned by Cornelius Van\\nVorst, the proprietor of the adjoining land, up to\\nthe 2d of February, 1804, when he sold the Hook and\\nferry to Anthony Dey, who leased the latter to Maj.\\nDavid Hunt, who operated the ferry till the property\\nwas sold to the associates of the Jersey company.\\nIn December, 1810, the New York Evening Post\\nannounced that arrangements had been made with\\nFulton for the construction of steamboats for this\\nferry. In May, 1811, two boats were being built by\\nCharles Brown, and were eighty feet in length and\\nthirty feet in width. One peculiarity is, they never\\nput about. On July 2, 1812, one of them, the Jer-\\nsey, was finished and put in operation, but owing to\\nsome needed alteration was taken off again for a few\\ndays. On Friday, July 17, 1812, it began its regular\\ntrips. A writer on the following day says, I crossed\\nthe North River yesterday in a steamboat with my\\nfamily in my carriage, without alighting therefrom,\\nin fourteen minutes, with an immense crowd of pas-\\nsengers. I cannot express to you how much the public\\nmind appeared to be gratified at finding so large and\\nso safe a machine going so well. On both shores were\\nthousands of people viewing this pleasing object.\\nThis was a new era. It practically made New York\\nand New Jersey one community, by overcoming a\\nbarrier which never till now was felt to be a pleasure\\nto cross. Henceforth the passage of the Hudson was\\nto be one of the most pleasurable experiences in going\\nto and returning from the metropolis, especially in\\npleasant weather, when passengers could see the great\\nvariety of boats and vessels crowding the broad ex-\\npanse of the river and harbor, and survey the scenes\\nof busy activity on every hand and in unpleasant\\ni weather the warm and capacious cabins of the boats\\nwould furnish a comfortable and agreeable shelter.\\nThe change for the few minutes required to cross\\nthe river by the steamboats would henceforth be only\\nan agreeable alternation in the mode of conveyance in\\nwhich the traveler would go to or come from the city,\\nwhether it should be by stage or carriage, as in the\\nearly days, or by railroad, as in more modern times.\\nThe application of steam to the ferry-boats of the\\nHudson and the construction of railroads in all direc-\\ntions from New York have enlarged the bounds of the\\ncity far beyond their possible limits in the absence of\\nthese inventions, extending her suburbs far out into\\nthe country, over the adjacent islands, and for many\\nmiles into New Jersey. Thousands of people from\\nall these quarters, where they can live cheaper, and\\nbreathe the pure country air for at least twelve hours\\nout of the twenty-four, now find pleasant and rapid\\ntransit to and from their places of business in the\\ncity.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "88\\nHISTORY OF BERGKX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nThe Hudson River front of old Bergen County was\\nimportant territory in tlie early days, when the native\\ntribes were wont to a.ssemble liere for tlie i)urpose of\\ncarrying their peltry over to Fort Amsterdam, and in\\nmodern times its situation has given it increasing\\ncommercial importance.\\nIt is the ea.stcrn terminus of all the railroads and\\nlines of transportation which leave New York for the\\nWest, and jirobably there is no place in the world\\nwhich within the same number of miles contains so\\nmany well-devised fccilities for landing the passen-\\ngers and freights of so many miles of railway. Within\\nthe distance of a few niile-s, from Communipaw to\\nHobokcn, are the depots, docks, warehouses, etc., of\\nthe great Pennsylvania, Hound Brook, New Jersey\\nCentral, Midland, Morris and Essex, New York and\\nNew Jersey, New York, Lake Erie and Western,\\nand other lesser railroads, besides the canals which\\nterminate here also. And all these by an admirable\\nsystem of engineering are brought into immediate\\ncommunication with the steamboats which connect\\nthem with the city of New York.\\nRailroads. The first railroad in America was laid\\nin old Bergen County. Mr. L. Q. C. Elmer, of Bridge-\\nton, N. J., says in the Springfield Reptthlican, I\\nRoa.llni; tlio very intcrostiiig nccuunt of the Hoosac Tunnel in your\\np\u00c2\u00abpir of N lvcmlier 28tli, I And u new Mlustration of the dimciilly of ob-\\ntaining correct historical data. The writer atatea that in 1S2C Dr. Phelpa\\npresented tile tirst proposition ever niado for a ntilmad before any legia-\\nlaliTe body in the United Status. This 1\u00c2\u00ab a mistake. AIjouI April, 1811,\\nCol. John Stevens, of Hot ol{eD, N. J., presented a memorial to the Legis-\\nlatiire to authorize u niilruad in Now Jersey, and in February, 1SI5, a\\nlaw was passed incon orating The New Jersey Railn^ad Company, au-\\nthori/Jug a road from Trenton to New Brunswick. Tills mad was not\\nbulll. In 1S20 I saw at lluboken Col. Stevens short railroad, laid as an\\nexperiment. Is comolive steam-engines had not been perfected, mid the\\nl\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abst eUKincers did not supjKise there would be sufncb nl traction in plain\\nwheels to draw a lieavy weight. The railway put up by Stevens was\\npnivideii with a middle rail having teolli for a driving-track. This gen-\\ntleman was father of the Messrs. Stevens who built the llrst railroad in\\nNew Jersey by virtue of the act of 1S42. He entered into competition\\nwith Fulton to run the (Irst steanilKiiit on the waters of the Hudson, and\\nthus obuin the monopoly grnnttKl by Iho law of New York, but falling\\na little beliind in time, he sent liis boat round to the Delaware, and 1\\nwas canied hy her in 1812. The family maintained a line of lioals uu\\nthe Dclawaro individually or by the company ontll tlieir death.\\nTiiK Pater.sox ANii Urnsox Bivkr Raii-koad\\nCttMPA.VY was incorporated Jan. 121, IH. U. The road\\nwent intfi operation between Paterson and .\\\\(]uacka-\\nnonk (now Passaic) June 22, 1832. The rolling-\\nstock at that time consisted of three splendid and\\ncommodious cars, each capable of accommodating\\nthirty piuwcngers, which were drawn by fleet ami\\ngentle liDrses. It wa.H thought to be a rapid and\\ndcli^ htful mode of traveling. The trial-trip over\\nthat part of the road was June 7, 1832. It connected\\nwith the New Jersey Railroad at West End. The\\nroad was leased to the Union Railroad Company\\nSept. 9, 18.12. This leiLse was assigned to the Erie\\nRailway Company, and the road is now part of the\\nmain line of the New York, Luke Erie and Western\\nRailroad. The assignment and transfer of the road\\nwas confirmed by the Legislature March 14, 18. i3.\\nThe New Jersey Railroad and Transporta-\\ntion Company was chartered March 7, 1832. The\\nroad was constructed from Jersey City to Newark,\\nand the first excursion was run over it Sept. 1, 1834,\\nin the passenger-car Washington. Regular trips\\nbegan Sept. 15, 1834, the cars being drawn by horses.\\nEight trips were made daily, the cars stopping at the\\nhotels to receive passengers. Previous to Jan. 1,\\n1838, when the Bergen Cut was completed, the cars\\nwere drawn over the hill. The first engine, the New-\\nark, passed over the road Dec. 2, 1835. This road\\nwa.s consolidated with the Camden and Ainboy Rail-\\nroad, under authority given by the Legislature, Feb.\\n27, 1807, and the consolidation was leased to the\\nPennsylvania Railroad Company in 1870.\\nThe Morris and E^sex Railroad Co.mpany\\nwas incorporated Jan. 29, 18.35. At first this road\\nwas connected with the New Jersey Railroad at New-\\nark, but Wius extended to Hoboken by the completion\\nof the Newark and Hoboken Railroad, Nov. Ill, 1862.\\nIt was leased to the Delaware, Lackawanna and\\nWestern Railroad Company Dec. 10, 1868.\\nThe Erie Railway Company was first recog-\\nnized by the laws of New Jersey. March 14, 1S. )3. as\\nthe New York and Erie Railroad Company, then\\nas the Erie Railway Company. After leasing the\\nPaterson and Hudson River Railroad and the Pat-\\nerson and Raniapo Railroad, which two roads formed\\na direct line from Jersey City to Sutferns, Pier-\\nniont was abandoned as a terminus, and the cars\\nwere run to the depot of the New Jersey Railroad\\nCompany in Jersey City until May, 18l)l. The\\nLong Dock Company, incorporated Feb. 26, 1856,\\nin the interest of the Erie Railway Company, com-\\npleted the Bergen Tunnel Jan. 28, 1861. The first\\npassenger train jiasscd through it May 1, 1861, at\\nwhich date the Erie traffic was transferred to its (ires-\\nent terniinus at Long Dock. In 1865 the Eric Com-\\npany constructed a telegraph line through the Bergeu\\nTunnel, so that managers of signals at either end\\ncould be duly warned of approaching trains, and col-\\nlision thus nvoideil. The interior of the Bergen Tun-\\nnel was arched over in 1867.\\nMiKi-ANi Railroad. The New York and Os-\\nwego Midland Railroail Company was incorporated\\nJan. 1, 181)6. Construction began June 29, 18t!8. The\\nfirst train ran over the western end of the road Nov.\\n5, 1860, and the first through train Aug. 18, 1873.\\nii Miinday, Dec. 19, 1871, the first locomotive was\\nj)Ut on the New Jersey Midlaml at Hawthorne, a sta-\\ntion on the Erie, one mile from Paterson. The loco-\\nmotive was built at the Rogers LtKomotive Works in\\nthe city of Paterson, and was named the Passaic.\\nAnother locomotive jml ii|ion the road the following\\n.Tilly wa-s named Bergen, this plan of iianiiiig the\\nlocomotivts after the counties traversed by the mad\\nbeing adopted by the coinpHiiy.\\nThe New Jersey Midland Company was incorporated\\nMarch 18, 1867. March 18, 1870, it was announced", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "EARLY COURTS OF BERGEN.\\n89\\nthat $75,000 had been subscribed by those interested\\nin having the road go through Hackensacli. Addi-\\ntional sums were subsequently raised, increasing the\\namount to 8100,000, the sum required to be raised by\\nHackensack and vicinity. Other liberal sums were\\ncontributed along the entire route. (_)n Monday,\\n^Slarch 18, 1872, the first pa.ssenger train ran through\\nbetween Hackensack and Paterson, at 8.30 a.m., car-\\nrying about thirty passengers. After that trains ran\\nregularly.\\nThe opening of the road was signalized by a grand\\nexcursion to EUenville, given to the citizens of Bergen\\nby the president, Hon. C. A. Wortendyke. The day\\nwas not auspicious, but suitable provision had been\\nmade for a large number of excursionists at the hotels,\\nso that, notwithstanding the rain which set in, the\\noccasion passed off pleasantly. Many of the people\\nof Bergen attended with their wives and daughters.\\nAmong the guests was the venerable centenarian,\\nRichard Paulison, who had witnessed the changes of\\nnearly a hundred years, and none of them probably\\nhad awakened in him stranger emotions than those in\\nwhich he that day participated. He was truly the\\nrepresentative of a bygone generation. Among the\\nother guests were A. Luther Smith, of Nyack, Sherift\\nPell, of Bergen, and A. Brownson. Of the Midland,\\nPresident Wortendyke, Vice-President Loomis, James\\nN. Pronk, Cornelius Vreeland, and Hon. Isaac Dem-\\narest. Of Sussex County, Hon. Robert Hamilton and\\nHon. Thomas Kays.\\nAt the dinner Mr. H. 1). Winton, of the Bergen\\nDemocrat, being called upon for a toast, oflered the\\nfollowing Hon. C. A. Wortendyke, projector of the\\nNew Jersey Midland Railway. This brought out\\nMr. Wortendyke with a happy response. Ex-Gov-\\nernor Price followed with a speech of considerable\\nlength and animation, in which he paid a glowing\\ntribute to the energy and enterprise of Mr. Worten-\\ndyke in securing the completion of the road. He\\nsaid President Wortendyke had spent his time and\\nmoney to accomplish a result of which every one should\\nfeel proud. James N. Pronk was then called upon.\\nHe represented the New York and Oswego Midland,\\nand clasped hands with the Hon. C. A. Wortendyke,\\nof the New Jersey Midland. The energy of the two\\nhad accomplished great results, and the county of\\nBergen .should feel truly proud of the enterprise and\\ngenius of her son.\\nThe Hackexsack and New York Railroad\\nCompany was incorporated March 14, 1850. Work\\nwas begun on the road in the spring of 1809. It was\\nopened northward to Hillsdale, twenty-one miles from\\nNew York, and the first excursion train ran over it on\\nSaturday, the 4th of March, 1870. The officers of the\\nroad at that time were D. P. Patterson, president; G.\\nS. Demarest, vice-president; H. G. Herring, secre-\\ntary and J. D. Demarest, treasurer. The extension\\nof the road to Grassy Point, about two miles above\\nHaverstraw, on the Hudson, was chartered bv the\\nNew York Legislature in the spring of 1870, and\\nduring the fall was put under contract to Messrs.\\nWard Lary for construction. From a report made\\nin January, 1872, we learn that through the untiring\\nexertions of Mr. J. A. Bogert, of Nanuet, $90,000 had\\nbeen subscribed, over $40,000 of which had been paid\\nin. Subscriptions also to the amount of $230,000 had\\nbeen secured by Mr. Patterson, the president of the\\ncompany, and of this sum $130,000 had been paid in.\\nAt the northern terminus at Grassy Point the com-\\npany received a donation of two thou.sand five hun-\\ndred feet of river frontage from Mr. David Munro.\\nThe eastern terminus of this road is in the Erie depot,\\nat Long Dock, and it is under the same management\\nas the Erie.\\nThe Northern Railroad Company of New\\nJersey was chartered Feb. 9, 1854, and the road was\\ncompleted Oct. 1, 1859. In 1869 it was leased to the\\nErie Railway Company. This road passes through\\nthe eastern part of Bergen County, along the table-\\nland of the Palisades, many portions of which it has\\nbeen the means of redeeming from forests and con-\\nverting into beautiful parks and villas. Englewood,\\non this road, one of the most delightful suburbs of\\nNew York, has been entirely built up since the road\\nwas opened.\\nThe Jersey City and Albany Railroad was\\nopened to Tappan, July 30, 1873. This road passes\\nthrough Bergen County from the Midland, at Ridge-\\nfield Park, in a direction nearly parallel with the\\nNorthern road.\\nThe Morris Canal. The Morris Canal and Bank-\\ning Company was incorporated Dec. 31, 1824. It was\\nauthorized to construct a canal from the Delaware to\\nthe Passaic. The canal was completed in 1831. On\\nJan. 28, 1828, authority was given to extend the canal\\nto the Hudson River, at or near Jersey City. This\\nextension was completed in 1836. The canal and its\\nappurtenances, with the chartered rights of the com-\\npany, were sold, under a decree of the Court of Chan-\\ncery, Oct. 21, 1844. By an act of the Legislature,\\nFeb. 9, 1849, banking privileges were taken from the\\ncompany.\\nCHAPTER XXII.\\nEARLY COURTS OF BERGEN.\\nEspatin. In the vicinity of Union Hill, upon the\\nHudson County line, was an ancient place called\\nEspatin, where courts of justice were held as\\nearly as 1657, the earliest courts of which we have\\nany account in East Jersey. The Baron Van der\\nCapellen, a wealthy and influential Hollander, whose\\ninterests appear to have been independent of those\\nof the authorities at Manhattan, bad formed a colony\\non Staten Island, which was destroyed by the Indians\\nin 1655. Van der Capellen, through his agents resid-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "90\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ningin the colony, had assumed the right to make trea-\\nties with the Indians and to purcliase lands of them,\\nirrespective of tlie authority of the Dutch overn-\\nment, which declared his action in this respect unau-\\nthorized. He was active La conciliating the Indians,\\nand settling terms of peace with them at the close of\\nthe war of 1()55, and seems in that year to have co-\\noperated with the director and council through his\\nagent, Adrian Post, who, in October, It). was ap-\\npointed to treat with the Hackensaek Indians for the\\nrelease of prisoners. Undoubtedly his powerful\\niufluence over the Indians caused his agency to be\\nsought in this direction. Post was succeeded in the\\nagency by Van Dincklagan, who died about 1658.\\nWhile he wa.- agent he was a successful negotiatttr\\nwith the Indians, and purchased their entire interest\\nin Staten Island, and probably Espatin, in the\\nvicinity of the settlements of the Tappan and Hack-\\nensaek Indians, where the establishment of a trading-\\npost and a court for the adjudication of such causes\\nas might arise with them and the white settlers, en-\\nabled him more directly to oversee the movements\\nof the Indians and keep them under control.\\nThe court at Espatin seems to have been a rival\\ncourt to that at New Amsterdam, for to the former\\nrather than to the latter the agent of Van der Ca-\\npellen required the subjection of the Indians. We\\nfind that in 16.57, Van der Capellen, through his\\nagent Van Dincklagen, concluded with the Indians\\na treaty, with submission to the courts of justice at\\nIlospating, near Hackensaek, on Wacrkimius Conne,\\nin New Netherlands.\\nThis record, brief as it is, reveals the fact that the\\nIJaron Van der Capellen sought to establish an au-\\nthority on the west side of the Hudson entirely inde-\\npendent of the director-general and Council at Man-\\nhattan. Hence it ajipcars in the records of the latter\\nthat he received their severe censure. He was no\\ndoubt one of those wealthy Hollanders, who desired to\\nestablish a barony of their owti in the New World, an l\\nhaving selected Staten Island, and the country be-\\ntween the Hudson and the Hackensaek, he proceeded\\nto acquire a title from the native owners, and to\\nestablish a court to which they should be subject.\\nThis court be established at Espatin, the hill, on\\na site overlooking the grand domain of which he\\nconceived himself the prospective lord.\\nIt is evident that the director-general and Council\\nat Manhattan were jealous of such rival authorities,\\nancl often specified in deeds that the grantees should\\nsubmit to the courtw at New Amsterdam. Thus in\\nthe deed of I aulus Hoeck to .Mirabain Isaacson\\nPlanck, M;iv 1. 1i i:is. it is slatiil that the purcba-ser\\n3 llrtKllirnil.i. 041-42.\\nThin li\u00c2\u00bb Uip imDio f tiiio uf llic IndtniiB wliu itiKiitt l tli*. ilrt-il in )\u00e2\u0080\u009eiv-\\nenior SluyvMimt c(\u00c2\u00abiito Iiik llii Uii Ib In IUtkimi, of wlilt-li S\u00c2\u00abcaucllii\\nWliu ancrwnriln clulruwl liy tliMii on nol iiicluili il In llio mIo.\\nO Ciil. N. N., M. 42\u00c2\u00bb. nro ll)ij\u00c2\u00abil, I. 041\\nand landsman aforesaid pledge their persons and prop-\\nerty, real and personal, present and future, without\\nany exception, subyiiittinij to the Prorincia/ court of\\nHolland, and to all other courts, judges, ami justices,\\nand in acknowledgment of the truth, these presents\\nare signed by the parties respectively, etc.\\nThe place where this ancient court was held is\\ndesignated Ilosjinting, Eii/iittinrj/t, Espatin, and means\\na hill. Our reason for locating it on Union Hill\\nis ;is follows: It is mentioned as one of the points in\\nthe boundary line of the old township of Bergen, in\\nthe charter of that township by Governor Philip\\nCarteret, in 1664, and lay in a northwest course\\nfrom Mordavis Meadow, which formed the north-\\nern boundary line of the townshiii on the Hudson.\\nThence northwest, by a three-rail fence that is now\\nstanding, to Espatin, and from thence to a little creek\\nsurrounding north-northwest, until it comes into the\\nHackensaek. Espatin was, therefore, between Mor-\\ndavis Meadow and the creek, in a northwest course\\nfrom the former, upon a hill, as its name implies.\\nThis highland is upon the narrowest portion of the\\nNeck northward between the Hudson and Hacken-\\nsaek Rivers, commanding a view of both valleys,\\nand the best situation in the whole region, not only\\nfor pro.ximity to the Indian settlements, but to watch\\ntheir movements southward by the Hackensaek\\nRiver.\\nEspatin is named in 1664 in the charter above\\ncited. In the same instrument it appears that this\\nsection of the Neck was settled, for it is said that the\\ntract therein laid out for a township is bounded at\\nthe north end by a tract of land belonging to Ca])t.\\nNicholas Varlet and Mr. Samuel Edsall. This land,\\nof course, lay over the line in Old Hackensaek (now\\nRidgefield) township. If the record could be traced\\nback of these proprietors, it would no doubt show\\nothers of an earlier date, and perhaps reveal some-\\nthing still more positive respecting the settlement and\\nthe court. Probably it was abandoned when the au-\\nthorities at New Amsterdam obliged the settlers to\\nconcentrate in fortified towns, and was gradually su-\\nperseded by the court established at Bergen in 1661,\\nor at least was given up when the Dutch surrendered\\nto tlie English in 16()4.\\nOn the south side of the line Nicholas Varlet and\\nNicholas Bayard owned a large tract of land, granted\\nby Petrus Stuyvcsant Dec. 10, 1663, and confirmed\\nby patent of Philip Carteret Oct. 30, 1667. A portion\\nof this lanii, extending from the north end of what\\nis now Hudson t ounty to a certain stake standing\\non Pinhorne s Creek, containing about two thou-\\nsand two hundred acres, is marked lot No. 283 on\\nthe field-book of the commissioners to divide the\\neoiiinion lands of the townshi| of Bergen.\\nCourts at Bergen.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Co\\\\irt of Burgomasters\\nand Schepens, organized in New Amsterdam in 1652,\\nS\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab lot Nil. 2\u00c2\u00ab3, Wlnflold a Lanil Tlllea, p. 19a.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "EARLY COURTS OF BERGEN.\\n91\\nundoubtedly exercised judicial authority over this\\npart of New Jersey till about the 4th of August, 1661.\\nIn September following a local court was estab-\\nlished at Bergen, subject to an appeal to the Director-\\nGeneral and Council at Manhattan. The ordinance\\nmaking provision for this court, dated Sept. 5, 1661,\\nvery properly says, In order that all things may be\\nperformed with proper order and respect, it is neces-\\nsary to choose as judges honest, intelligent persons,\\nowners of real estate, who are lovers of peace and\\nwell-affected subjects of their Lords and Patrons,\\nand of their supreme government established here;\\npromoters and professors of the Reformed religion\\nas it is at present taught in the churches of the\\nUnited Netherlands, in conformity to the word of\\nGod and the order of the Synod of Dordrecht.\\nThe court was to consist of one schout, or sheriff,\\nand three schepens. Grotius informs us that schout,\\nor schuld, or schuld-rechter, was a criminal judge.\\nThe schout was to be a local official, who was\\nempowered to convoke the schepens, and to pre-\\nside and act also as the clerk at their sessions. As\\nmagistrates they were to be men of probity and worth,\\nwho had commanded the respect of the people. Thus\\nthe schout and three schepens con.stituted the court.\\nThese officials were all appointed by the Director-\\nGeneral and Council.\\nThe first schepens were Michael Jansen, Harman\\nSmeeman, and Casper Steinmets they were to hold\\noffice for one year from the 20th of September, 1661.\\nJansen, Smeeman, and Steinmets thus stand out\\nprominently as the first associate judges of a local\\ncourt for this section of country, which a few years\\nafter was to become the county of Bergen. Jansen\\nwas a farmer, and had been honored ten or twelve\\nyears before as a member of the Representative As-\\nsembly, which had been convened to advise with the\\ngovernment, and he seems to have been active and\\ninfluential in public affairs. Smeeman was a West-\\n])halian from Iserlow, in the county of Mark, and at\\ntlie time of his judicial promotion was thirty-seven\\nyears of age. He had been admitted to the rights of a\\nsmall burgher, and had been a member of the Land-\\ntag under Governor Stuyvesant, and had years before\\nstriven to establish himself as a proprietor of the soil\\nin this section of the country, having already pur-\\nchased a farm of his associate, Jansen, for nine hun-\\ndred florins. Steinmets, like his associates, had prior\\nto his appointment attempted a settlement also in this\\nsection, but had been driven out by the Indians.\\nHe had also been a resident of New Amsterdam,\\nwhere he had been licensed to keep a tavern. He\\nhad also figured in military aftairs as a lieutenant and\\nthen captain of the Bergen militia, and in after-years\\nbecame a deputy in the Council of New Orange and\\na representative from Bergen Village iu the First and\\nSecond General Assemblies of New Jersey, and died\\nin 1702. Thus hi? record bespeaks the high character\\nand standing of the man.\\nThe court thus constituted seems to have been com-\\nposed of what is sometimes called solid men, com-\\nmanding the respect and consideration of the whole\\ncommunity. This tribunal could render definitive\\njudgment to the amount of fifty guilders and under,\\nand for a larger sum, but with the right of the ag-\\ngrieved party to appeal to the Director-General and\\nCouncil. The schout, as we have said, was the presi-\\ndent of the court, and also its secretary or clerk. The\\njudges were bound to respect the law of their father-\\nland and the ordinances and edicts of the Director-\\nGeneral and Council. It was a court of civil and\\ncriminal jurisdiction, and very similar to our Court\\nof Common Pleas of to-day. Subject to the Direc-\\ntor-General and Council, it had some legislative pow-\\ners also to pass ordinances respecting surveys, high-\\nways, outlets, posts and fences, the laying out of\\ngardens and orchards, the building of churches,\\nschools, and similar public works, with power to pro-\\nvide the means how and by which the same are to\\nbe effected.\\nBefore these magistrates could enter upon their\\nduties they were obliged to take the following very\\ncomprehensive oath of office We promise and\\nswear, in the presence of Almighty God, that we will\\nbe faithful to the Sovereignty of the High and Mighty\\nLords, the States-General, the Lords directors of the\\nprivileged West India Company, Department of Am-\\nsterdam, as our Lords and Patrons, the Director-\\nGeneral and Council now placed over us or hereafter\\nto be appointed that we will respect and execute\\ntheir commands that we will exercise good justice to\\nour best knowledge repel all mutiny, troubles, and\\ndisorders to our best abilities maintain the Reformed\\nReligion and no other and support the same and\\nconduct ourselves punctually in conformity to the\\ninstruction which we have already received or may\\nyet receive and further act as good and faithful\\nmagistrates are in duty bound to do. So help us,\\nGod Almighty.\\nBergen Village was predestined under its permanent\\nand well-defined charter, with the protecting care of\\nNew Amsterdam, to lead the way to the county of\\nBergen and the State of New Jersey and thence to\\nperform its part, at length, in the harmonious whole\\nof a great nationality. It is well for us thus to go\\nback to the beginning, in order to form a just compre-\\nhension of the whole structure. We have now given\\nan account of the first judicial organization in the\\nfuture county of Bergen, and of all the members of\\nthe court except the schout, or presiding judge. We\\nhave purposely left his name to the last as most worthy\\nof honorable mention. Tielman Van Vleck may\\njustly be called the founder of Bergen Village, and\\nprobably is entitled to that honor as to the whole\\ncounty itself. He came from Bremen, had studied at\\nAmsterdam under a notary, and was admitted to prac-\\ntice law in this country in 1658. Foreseeing the needs\\nof civilization in a new country, he sought to found a", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "92\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nvillage in the present State of New Jersey. He was\\nprobably tlie first lawyer, a* he was also the first\\njudge to iireside over a judicial tribunal iu New\\nJersey.\\nThe bar of the State might well erect some suitable\\nmonument to this her first conscript father of a nu-\\nmerous and honored fraternity.\\nTliis pioneer court at Bergen Village, with its schout\\nand schepens, its presidentand associate judges, partly\\nto enact laws but more to administer them, over two\\ncenturies ago, in its historical relations to us must\\njustly command our respect and admiration. Civili-\\nzation had sought a foothold in New Jersey for a\\nquarter of a century previously, but it had made no\\npermanent headway before the establishment of this\\nlocal village and tribunal. As the otficials in this\\ncourt were appointed only for one year by the terms\\nof its organization, Tielman Van Vleck continued\\nBchout by annual reappointment to March 17, 1664.\\nHe was then succeeded by 15althazar Bayard, a de-\\nscendant of a jirofessor of theology in Paris, who,\\nbeing a Huguenot, was driven to Holland by religious\\npersecution. The Bayards, who for three generations\\nin succession have honored the Senate of the United\\nStates from the State of Delaware, claim their descent,\\nas we are told, from this honored ancestry. Balthazar\\nBayard was succeeded by Claes Arentse Toers, Aug.\\n18, 1()7;5. The schepens following annually to Aug.\\n31, 1674, were Caspar Steinmets, Eugelbert Steen-\\nhuysen, Gerrit Geretsen, Thomas Fredericks, Elias\\nMichielse, Peter MarccUissen, Cornelis Abramse,\\nWalinck Jacobse, Eugelbert Steenhuys, Enoch Mi-\\nchielse, and Claes .Tanscn. In the course of time the\\nDutch supremacy in New Netherland passed over to\\nthe English. The court at Bergen was reorganized\\nunder British authority about the month of July,\\n166. As will be seen elsewhere, it was not a total\\ndestruction but only a reorganization of the court, and\\nof the local government itself Philip Carteret had\\njust become lovernor of the new province of Nova\\nCa-sarea, or New Jersey. Heappointe l Capt. Nichohw\\nVarlet to con.stitute a court of judicature for the in-\\nhabitants of the village of Bergen, and of the settle-\\nments of Gemolnepaen (Comniunipaw), and Hoo-\\nboocken (Hoboken), and .Miasymes (part of i)resent\\nJersey City), to be kept in the village or town of\\nBergen. Varlet was to be the president; his com-\\nmission is dated Aug. 30, 166 Under the English\\nrule, with Varlet as president, from Aug. 30, 1665, to\\nMarch 13, 1()7(!, the a.H\u00c2\u00bbociate judges were Harman\\nSmollman, Ca.H| ar. ^teinmet.s, Elias Michelse, Ide Van\\nVorst, Tynament i probably the same as Tielman)\\nVan Vleck (who became clerk March 8, lliOit), and\\nWilliam Sanford as president; ami Samuel Ivlsall\\nand Lourens Andriescn (alternately acting ilm presi-\\ndent in 1( 74), March 13, lti76 and John Berry lus\\nprcsidint, and Samuel Ivlsall, Lr)urens Andriescn,\\nElias Michiclsen, and Eugelbert Stcenhuysen as as-\\nsociates, were reappointed, and all were commissioned\\nFeb. 16, 1677. A special Court of Oyer and Terminer\\nwa.s appointed .Tune 13th to be held June 24, 1673,\\nover which William Sandford wa.s president, and John\\nPike, John Bisho| Samuel Edsall, and Gabriel Min-\\nvielle were associates. We are unable to give any\\nvery full account of any of the proceedings in these\\ncourts. Nearly all their records are lost. Had they\\nbeen preserved, however trivial they might have\\nseemed at the time, they would have afforded us much\\nknowledge of the laws, manners, and customs of those\\nearly settlers at a most interesting period in the his-\\ntory of our country. In Liber 3 of Deeds {Trenton\\n1 there is preserved an extract from the book of the\\nminutes of the Bergen court, from which we make the\\nfollowing abstract, which informs us somewhat of the\\npleadings, modes of proceeding, and the law as then\\nemployed in that court. The title of the cause is\\nThe schout, Claes Arentse Toers, plaintifl contra\\nCapt. John Berry, defendant.\\nThe schout was, by virtue of his office, the ))ublic\\nprosecutor or attorney-general, and was thereby au-\\nthorized in his own name to institute suits and public\\nproceedings on behalf of and for the benefit of the\\npeople. This suit appears on the minutejs Nov. 11,\\n1673. The Dutch at this time had retaken New York,\\nnaming it New Orange. The comjjlaint is made by\\nCapt. Sandford to the Right Honorable the Gover-\\nnor-General of New Netherland, for the removal and\\ntaking away from Maj. Kingsland of some hogs\\nwithout the knowledge of any officer. The gist of the\\ncharge, of course, is the unlawful taking and carrying\\naway. The schout, therefore, prosecutes or sues for\\nvalue. The defendant answers acknowledging the\\ntaking of the hogs to bis own licmse, |ileailing there-\\nfor the statement of Sandford s negro, Tjick and\\nthe defendant further claims that the hogs were his.\\nThe schout then states the proposition of law that\\nno one can be his own ju lgeon the naked saying of a\\nnegro, and therefore prosecutes on a charge of thelh\\nThe magistrates then call on the defendant for his\\nj further answer, if any, and the defendant makes no\\nj further answer, except he still claims they were his\\nown hogs. The schout then demands criminal con-\\ndemnation of the defendant with a fine of five hundred\\nguilders, ami that the hogs be restored to Kingsland s\\npossession. The magistrates then condemn the de-\\nfendant, and impose a fine of two hundred and filly\\nguilders, one-half to the officer, presumably the\\ni prosecutor, one-third of the remaining half to the\\nchurch, one-third to the poor, and the remaining\\nthird to the court. Thus we have the officer first,\\nami with the lion s share; then the church, with only\\nthe third of a moiety and next the poor, and then\\nthe court last, with like shares. The court also orders\\nthat, unlc-ss further proof is furnished, the hogs be-\\nlong to the defendant, and he be required to deliver\\nthem to the olficer of the jurisdiction of Bergen,\\nwith costs of prosecution, with the following entry:\\nAgrees with the aforesaid Register, quod attestor.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "COURTS AFTER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY.\\n93\\nThe captain appealed. He neither liked the law\\nnor the condemnation, and of course he appealed to\\nthe Higli Court at Fort Amsterdam. The court at\\nBergen was too local for him, and he concluded he\\nwould invoke some other justice from afar. His\\nargument on the appeal is very lengthy in the record,\\nand probably was much longer iu fact. The whole\\ndifficulty seems to have grown out of an absence of\\nthe captain for six months on a voyage to Barbadoes.\\nSandford s plantation and his were near each other.\\nBoth of these gentlemen were undoubtedly men of\\nhigh honor, but they owned careless slaves or ser-\\nvants, who had heedlessly allowed some of their\\nmasters hogs to stray and, as the captain says, in-\\nveighing somewhat against Dutch law, as he\\nstyles it, but not knowing that I knew no better than\\nthat I might carry these hogs home, as I presumed\\nthey justly belonged to me, finding them so near my\\nland, and the place to which I had carried so many,\\ncommunicating my intention therein to the person i\\n(that is, CajJt. Sanford) who set up a claim to them.\\nThen Capt. Berry proceeds to justify in his second\\npoint by saying, Had I let them run about they\\nwould have perhaps fared no better than the other\\ntwo, which I left loose, as well as my sow that has\\nnot turned up, but apparently has gone the same road\\nas the rest of my hogs and their offspring have gone,\\nthere being some people in the world who consider\\nall as fish that comes into their net. This last, of\\ncourse, is intended as a home-thrust at Capt. Sand-\\nford. Then Berry stands upon his honor and man-\\nhood, repelling the notion that he carried them\\naway silently without informing any one that he\\npromptly and fully informed the schout when inter-\\nrogated on the subject and that he had no intention\\nto perpetrate dirty actions, and concludes thus\\nThe high-prized pledge of an honorable name,\\nwhich I esteem far more than all riches, hath caused\\nme to do so (to make this appeal). I conclude with\\nmy prayer that the Divine Wisdom may be pleased to\\nendue your Honor with intelligence and understand-\\ning not to justify the guilty, and not to condemn the\\ninnocent, both which are an abomination in the eyes\\nof a righteous God. 17 Proverbs v. 15. Then he\\nsays, according to the English law the ease would\\nhave been tried by a jury of twelve men that it\\nwould not have been tortured into a criminal offense,\\nbut would have been called an action of trover and\\nconversion and that had he been aware that the\\nDutch law was otherwise, making it a theft, he\\nwould not have offended against any such law. Then\\nhe proceeds The word of God declares that where\\nthere is no law there is no transgression. At least\\na misconception ought not to be viewed through a\\nmagnifying glass, as the schout of Bergen tried to do\\nin the avaricious craving for a fine. The court on\\nappeal, it appears, reduced the fine to one hundred\\nguilders, on condition that the defendant return the\\nhogs, or prove them to be his, within six months.\\n7\\nCapt. John Berry must have come out of all this\\nlitigation of 1673 quite triumphantly, as, three years\\nafterwards, he was commissioned schout or president\\nhimself of this same Bergen court, where he claimed\\nhis rights had been so ruthlessly cloven down. The\\nrecords of this court show that negroes were whipped\\nfor theft, and were punishable with death, in manner\\nand form as the court should think fit, for setting on\\nfire dwellings and barns and the punishment was to\\nbe made awful, as a terror and example to others.\\nBut at that very early day it seems the offender must\\nhave been found guilty by a jury to pass sentence of\\ndeath. At a later day, as we shall see hereafter, this\\nright of trial by jury was taken away from the negro.\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\\nCOURTS AFTER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE\\nCOUNTY.\\nThe province of East Jersey was not divided into\\ncounties till 1682, although the General Assembly\\nof the whole colony in 1675 had laid out several\\ncounties with boundaries rather indefinite, for the\\npurpose, among other things, of establishing County\\nCourts therein. By an act passed on the 30th of No-\\nvember, 1675, Bergen and the plantations dnd settle-\\nments in its vicinity were declared to be a county, and\\nundoubtedly to be called Bergen County, though the\\nact does not say so in so many words. This act made\\nno change in the location or character of the courts,\\nwhich were still held at the village of Bergen.\\nOld traditions have located a County Court in the\\npresent village of Hackensack as far back as 1665,\\nbut the mistake must be apparent upon reference to\\nthe acts we have quoted. The act of 1682 further\\nprovided that the County Courts and Courts of Ses-\\nsions shall be held in the public meeting-place in the\\ncounty of Bergen, without further or more particu-\\nlarly designating where that public meeting-place\\nwas. The sessions of the court were on the first Tues-\\ndays in March, June, September, and December. This\\nact also provides that there shall be in each town a\\ncourt for the trial of small cases. Tax cau.ses were to\\nbe tried by three persons, without a jury, after the\\nmanner undoubtedly of the old Dutch court at Ber-\\ngen Village. It had jurisdiction of all matters of\\nforty shillings and under, with right of appeal to\\neither party upon request and at his cost. This court\\ndoes not appear to have had criminal jurisdiction, as\\nthat jurisdiction was confined to the County Court. In\\n1709 Bergen County was enlarged, taking in all the\\nterritory on the west side of the Hackensack to the\\nPassaic River, northward to the boundary of the prov-\\nince, and southward to Constable s Hook. The village\\nof Hackensack, in New Barbadoes, then became a part\\n1 of Bergen County. With this large addition of ter-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00bb4\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nritory to old Bergen, and by addition of population\\nin the northern part of the county, Hackensack be-\\ncame central, anil beitifr the most important place so\\nsituated, wjis maili- the county-seat. About 1709 the\\nfirst court-house wits erected. This structure stood on\\nthe Green, near Main Street.\\nAbove the courts for the trial of small causes and\\nthe County Courts, the act of 1682 also provided for a\\nSupreme Court, which was then desiy;nate l as the\\nCourt of Common Right, which could hear, try,\\nand determine matters, causes, and cases, capital and\\ncriminal, or civil causes of equity, and causes triable\\nat common law, to which court all causes could be re-\\nmoved of five pounds and upwards, and all criminal\\ncases by warrant, writ of error and certiorari, and said\\ncourt was to consist of twelve members, or six at least.\\nThis court sat at Eli/.abethtown, then the capital of\\nthe province. To the end that British sovereignty\\nshould be recognized and maintained, all warrants\\nwith process and attachments were issued in the name\\nof the king of England. In 1688 the court for the\\ntrial of small causes wa.s to be held monthly at the\\nhouse of Lawrence Andriss, of New Hackensack, and\\nalso at the house of Dr. Johannes, on the Hacken-\\nsack River, then in the county of Es.sex, and for the\\ninhabitants of New Rarbadoes and Aequickanick.\\nAnv knowledge of the courts and of their proceed-\\nings at that time re iuire-s us now to look into the code\\nof laws which the General Assembly had enacted for\\nthe government of the province. The laws of Solon\\nwere not in some respects more wise, nor in others\\nmore .severe. They indicate the wisdom, while they\\nbetray the weaknes.ses, and sometimes the supersti-\\ntions, of those infant times in our early history. The\\ngallows-tree and the l)urninp stake were the awful in-\\nstruments in the unisliment of many crimes for which\\na more enlightened age has aflixed a lighter penalty.\\nIn I hilip Carteret s time, in 1608, the General As-\\nsembly consisted of the Governor with his Council of\\nseven members, composing the Upper House, or\\nSenate, ami ten burgesses, or the Lower House, cor-\\nresponding to the j)re8ent House of Assend)ly. In\\nthe General Assembly of 1668, Jlcssrs. Caspar Stein-\\nmefa and Haltliazar Bayard, former judges in Bergen\\nVillage, were burgesses for the county of Rergen.\\nIn the code adopted by this Assembly no less than\\ntwelve distinct cla-sses of crime-s are punishable with\\ndeath. These may be briefly enumerated as follows:\\nMaliciously or wittingly setting on fire any dwelling-\\nhouse, house or barn, fencing, corn, hay, wood, or\\nHax, or any other combustible matter, to the prejudice\\nor damage of a neighbor or other person. The of-\\nfender W1I.S to be committed to prison without bail or\\nmain prize, that is, liberty to the otfender only within\\nthe bars, and who must nuike full satisfaction anil if\\nnot able, then to stand to the mercy of the court, to\\nTh (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2reclxi lorollty cif tliln court li not known, but It w\u00c2\u00abi out of\\ntb\u00c2\u00bb IlKkenMcli Wifr, In Bcrgvn County.\\nbe tried for life or other punishment as the court\\nmight judge fit. Willful destruction of human life,\\nby poisoning or in any other way, was punishable by\\ndeath. Wittingly or willingly rising up to bear false\\nwitness, or purposing U take a man s life, was pun-\\nishable with death so was also perversion of nature\\nby man or woman with a brute. Of course human\\nnature revolts more at the necessity for such a law\\nthan at the law itself The unnatural abuse of male\\nwith male w;ls punishable with death, unless the\\nvictim was under fourteen, and then i)unishment\\nshould be left to the discretion of the court. Steal-\\ning a human being was punishable with death.\\nBurglary and robbery in those days were widened\\ninto the comprehensive crimes of breaking open any\\ndwelling-house, store-house, warehouse, or house or\\nbarn, or any other house whatsoever, either by day\\nor by night, so we infer from the reading of the law,\\nand robbing in the field or highway, subjecting the\\noffender the first time to branding in the hand with\\nthe letter T, with full satisfaction of the things stolen.\\nIf such branding did not stop the otfender, then for\\nthe second otleiise, besides full retribution, tlie fore-\\nhead was branded with the letter R. If olTending\\nagain, then death closed upon the incorrigible offender.\\nTreble restitution was required for stealing any goods,\\nmoney, or cattle, or other beast of any kind, for the\\nfirst and second otienses, and such additional punish-\\nment as the court might adjudge, and if incorrigible\\nto be ])unished with death. In case such offenders\\ncould not make restitution, they could be sold to\\nsecure satisfaction.\\nOne of the first acts of 1668 required every male\\nbetween the ages of sixteen and si.xly to be armed\\nand equipped, at his own cost, with a good, service-\\nable gun, well fixed, a pound of |)owder, and twenty-\\nfour bullets suited to the gun, a pair of bandeleers or\\na good horn, a sword, and a belt and away went\\ngoods and chattels to pay a fine if any one offended\\nagainst this law. The law then said, if any person\\nbe found to be a witch, either male or female, they\\nshall be put to death.\\nConspiracy to surprise a town or fort within the\\nprovince was punishable with death. The crime of\\nrape was punishable with death, rndiitifid children\\nover sixteen, of sullicicnt undcrstaiKling, who should\\nuniirovokedly smite or curse their natural jparcnts,\\nexce|)l to escape death or maiming, on complaint of\\nthe offended arent could be punished with death.\\nThus we fiml a code of laws which provides the pen-\\nalty of death for the punishment of twelve distinct\\nclas.ses of crimes. That penalty, in this State, has\\nbeen abolishcil in nearly all ofthe.se classes; and per-\\nhaps the wisdom of the worhl may tiiiil a way of safety\\nin dispensing with this penalty altogether.\\nSuch were some of the early laws enacted by the\\nLegislature under the proprietors of New Jersey.\\nSome of them were wise and beneficial, at least In\\nintent and purpose. No man s life could be taken", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "COURTS AFTER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY,\\n95\\naway under any pretense whatever but by virtue of\\nsome law enacted in the province, and upon proof\\nestablislied by the mouth of two or three sutficient\\nwitnesses.\\nProfane swearing and cursing in 1682 cost tlie\\noffender one shilling, one-half to the informant and\\none-half to the province. One of the early hiws en-\\nacted as follows\\nConcerning that beastly vice, drunkenness, it is herel y enacted tliat\\nif any person lie found to be drunlt lie sIi.tII pay one sliillin^ tine for tlie\\nfirst time, two shillings for the second, and for the third time, and for\\nevery time after, two shillings and sixpence; and such as have nothing\\nto pay shall suffer corporeal punishment and for those that are unruly\\nand disturbers of the peace, they shall be put in the stocks until they\\nare sober, or during the pleasure of the officer in chief in the place where\\nlie is druuk.\\nSovereign power in the province in 1688 was guarded\\nand upheld by the most solemn sanctions. Every\\njudge and every lawyer ministering in the courts in\\nthose days, as well as every officer in the province,\\nwas obliged to take such oaths of office.\\nColonial Laws and Courts in Bergen.\u00e2\u0080\u0094During\\nthe century and a half preceding the Declaration\\nof Independence, the Dutch, as the first settlers\\nof New Netherland, were in the ascendency, under\\nthe supremacy of the States-General of Holland,\\nless than forty years, but by their well-known na-\\ntional characteristics of patience and perseverance\\nthey wrested a wilderness from barbarians and paved\\nthe way to a permanent civilization. They founded\\nthe great metropolis of America, and first sowed the\\nseeds of empire in New Jersey, and the great city of\\nNew York and the State of New Jersey still remind\\nus of many of the laws, customs, and institutions of\\nthe fatherland. The language of Holland is still\\nspoken by many in Bergen County, in somewhat\\nbroken accents it is true, but every descendant from\\nthe fatherland may safely join in this petition\\nSint Nicholaay, myn goden vriend,\\nIk heb u altyd wel gediend\\nAls gy my nu wat wilt geben,\\nFal ik u dienen als myn leven.\\nThe concessions under the charter of the Duke of\\nYork were most liberal and republican in character.\\nNew Jersey was partitioned into East and West Jer-\\nsey, and thus remained, under two co-ordinate govern-\\nments, till 1702. The laws of the two provinces were\\nnot printed till many years after their enactment.\\nThey were sent in manuscript to the several counties,\\neight in all, of East and West Jersey, and publicly\\nread to the people. When Queen Anne ascended the\\nthrone in 1702, the two provinces were consoliihited\\nunder one government, and thus remained, under\\nroyal authority, till the Revolution of 1776. The\\nGovernor and Council were empowered to erect, con-\\nstitute, and establish such courts as they should deem\\n1 Saint Nicholas, my dear good friend,\\nTo serve you ever was my end\\nIf something you will now me give.\\nServe you I will long as I live.\\nproper, and to appoint and commission judges and\\nother officers, without limitation of time in these com-\\nmissions.\\nA Court of Chancery was early recognized. By an\\nordinance of Lord Cornbury, the Governor or the\\nLieutenant-Governor, or any three of the Council,\\ncould constitute a court to hear and determine causes\\nin equity, as in the lOnglish Court of Chancery.\\nGovernors Hunter and Franklin exercised chancery\\npowers under the colonial system, and so that court\\nwas presided over long after the Revolution, and until\\na chancellor was provided for under the State consti-\\ntution. Ecclesiastical jurisdiction was exercised over\\nthe province by the Bishop of London, excepting the\\ncollating to benefices, granting licenses of marriage,\\nand probate of wills, which were confined to the\\nGovernor. The Bishop of Loudon thus became the\\nordinary and metropolitan of the Prerogative Court.\\nBut surrogates were soon appointed, but vested only\\nwith the clerical powers they now have; and Orphans\\nCourt were established in the several counties in 1784.\\nThe original jurisdiction of the ordinary remained\\nunchanged till 1820. Surrogates were appointed in\\njoint legislative meeting till 1822, and afterwards were\\nelected by the people, as at i)resent. The Supreme\\nCourt always had plenary jurisdiction, civil and crim-\\ninal. There were also special commissions for terms of\\nthe Oyer and Terminer, but to be held at tlie regular\\ncircuits. They were presided over, as now, by a jus-\\ntice of the Supreme Court and the associate judges of\\nthe Common Pleas in each county. Before the county\\norganizations were established special terms of the\\nOyer and Terminer were sometimes appointed to be\\nheld at Woodbridge, and frefjuently at the capital of\\nthe province. A judge of the Supreme Court and\\nspecial judges were then appointed to hold that court.\\nBenefit of clergy was prayed for and allowed, as in\\nEngland. When the Circuit Courts were first estab-\\nlished, the high sheriff, the justices of the peace, and\\ncertain municipal officers of tlie county town, and all\\nthe officers of the court in the county were required\\nto attend on the chief justice and his associates in\\ncoming into and in leaving the county in going the\\ncircuit. As they may have ridden on horseback in\\ncoming and going to hold the circuit in Bergen\\nCounty, a little more than a century ago, owing to\\nthe inferior roads of that day, a lung cavalcade would\\nstartle the lookers-on of so much judicial dignity pro-\\nceeding to hold court. The supreme judge on the\\nbench wore a robe and sometimes a wig, and in 1765\\nrequired the counselors, when appearing in court,\\nand especially in the Supreme and Circuit Courts, to\\nwear a bar-gown and bands like the English barris-\\nters, to advance the dignity, solemnity, and decorum\\nof the court. This observance continued till 1791.\\nPerhaps, where all true dignity and grace abound,\\nthey are only covered up by robes and gowns. The\\njustices of the Supreme Court of the United States still\\nwear robes, as in England but wlio ever thought a", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "96\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JKKSEY.\\nrobe could add anything to the dignity of a Mansfield\\nor a Marshall\\nIn common with the other colonies, slavery came\\nto the province of New Jersey at a very early day.\\nThe existence of this institution called for peculiar\\nlaws and for jieculiar courts for their administration.\\nNo slave could be tried in a white man s court, or a\\ncourt for the adjudication of wliite men s causes they\\nwere amenable only to the board of justices and free-\\nholders, which tried them without a jury and with-\\nout counsel. These trials, and the executions which\\nfollowed them, were often of a most summary char-\\nacter. In the twelfth year of the reign of Queen\\nAnne (1713) an act was passed entitled An act for\\nregulating slaves. This act forbade any traffic with\\nany Indian, negro, or mulatto slave without the con-\\nsent of the master. A slave five miles away from\\nhome without a pass from his master could be sent\\nback; and the like treatment could be imposed on a\\nslave escaping from another province. If he should\\nkill, or conspire, or attempt the death of any of Jler\\nMajesty s liege people, not slaves, or should commit\\na rape, or burn or attempt to burn any house, or stack\\nof hay or corn, or should maim any of Her Majesty s\\nsubjects, not slaves, or should murder any slave within\\nthe province, and should be convicted before three\\njustices of the peace, in conjunction with five of the\\nprincipal freeholders of the county, seven of whom\\nshr)uld agree and should give judgment and sign a\\nwarrant for the execution, then the olfender should\\nsulfer death in such manner as the justices and free-\\nholders should adjudge, according to the aggravation\\nor enormity of the crime. A justice could issue the i\\nwarrant of arrest, a prosecutor was provided to ])rose-\\ncute, but there was no provision for the appointment\\nof counsel to defend a slave. He was permitted to\\ntestify in his own defense, but tliere was no jury be-\\nfore whom that testimony could have any weight.\\nOn the simple clnmplaint of a single magistrate this\\nanomalous court could be hastily convened, and a\\nsummary trial and conviction coulil close upon the\\nvictim within a few hours. If the owner, however,\\non another s cnmpbiint ilesired a jury ho M)uld have\\nit, showing that the law was n)aile wholly in the in-\\nterest and for the benefit and protection of the master,\\nnot for the slave. When the slave was executed the\\nowner could recover by sLssignmcnt, lus it was called,\\nfor every man slave thirty pounds, and for every\\nwoman slave twenty pounds, |)rovided the owner re-\\nsided in the provin4 e. .Stealing to the value of six-\\npence ami under five shillings, according to this law,\\ndemanded forty .stripes on the bare back by a con-\\nstable, wIki should be paid by the niitster or mistress\\nof the slave five siiillings for laying on the stripis.\\nNegroes could not become freeholders even when\\nfreed and inasmuch as they were declared to be an\\nidle and slothful people, they could not be emanci-\\npated without security wius first given by the master\\nin two huiiilri-d pounds to pay yearly to such negro\\ntwenty pounds during his life. In order that Her\\nMajesty s subjects should not be burdened with ^uch\\nfreemen, manumission was void unless it was thus\\nmade burdensome upon the former master. To the\\nthoughtful minds, even in that age, the burdens and\\nthe embarrassments of slavery more than equaled all\\nof its advantages. The necessity which called for\\nsuch laws also involved their enforcement. In the\\nminutes of the justices and freeholders for the county\\nof Bergen, in 1735, is found the following entry of a\\ntrial of a negro slave\\nNew Joreey, Bergen County, the l. i of .\\\\iigu8t. 1735. Upon Infor-\\nniutionmade tu William provouet, I-^i tliHt Ilie Negro man of peter Kipp\\ncalled Jack, Imving Iwaten his b uia\u00c2\u00bbter and threatened Si-verul Tilijea\\nto murder him, his said master and his Kon and Altio to Iturn down hia\\nHouse Whereupon tlie Said Wm. provoost Es i\u00c2\u00bb Granted a Warrant Di-\\nrected to the Constal le tu take the Said Negro Jack Into Custoily and\\nWas Committed hy the Said Wm. provuost Ksq to Goal.\\nThis Is In his M^estyes Name to Will and ]tt i)nire you to Sum*\\nmonds Thre or more .Int^tices and five priiH-ipal freeholdera for Said\\nCounty to ap|K ar nt the Court House for the said County on friday Diurn-\\ning Ht Nine of the dock. Iteing the tifleenth l iiy of this Instant August\\ntu tiy the Negro of petre Kipp Named Jack, for having iteaten his Said\\nMiister and Threatened several times t\u00c2\u00abi munler liiln and his son and\\nAlso to Hum Down his House on Wednesday the Thirteenth day of thil\\nInstant and In this you Are Not to fail.\\nGiven I nder my Hand this fourteenth Day of August In the Ninth\\nYear of our Iteign ITIlo\\n(ul) WlLLlAH Provoost.\\nTo David Ackeman\\nHigh Coil8tnl le\\nThis Is In his Majesties name to Will anil Retpiire you to Sumninnd\\nthese Under Named to Appear at the Court House on Friday the fj Day\\nof this Instant to Give Evidence In the llehalf of Our Ix^rd the King\\nAgainst the Negro of Peter Kipp called Jack A In this you are Not to\\nfail. Given Umler my Hanil this 14 day of August, 17;t.^ ami In the\\nNinth year of our Reign.\\nPi.rr.R Klpi-\\nToDwin Ackeman Kijsuk Kipi-\\nHigh Constalilo Their Son\\nHKNnv Kirp\\nDi-.uri^chTkriii-nk\\nJacobus lloraHAN\\nIsaac Kipp\\nNew Jentey, Bergen Cly. Whereas William pruviiosl K\u00c2\u00bbqf Being In-\\nformed tliat the Negro of peter Kipp Called Jack liaving Beaten his S-t\\nMaster and often times threatentHl the Lifes of his S master and Ills\\nSon and Likewise to Hum his S Masters House and then Destn. y him-\\nself on WoHlnesday the 1:1 day of ,\\\\ugust 17;Ci fur which We liere I nder\\nSuhscrilted Was Sununond liy the Justices to appear at the Court House\\nof the Said County the IS Day of the S luslant to Try the Said Negro\\nJack According to the Direction of Act of (ieiienil Assemhiy Kiititnlt.d\\nan Act for Uegnlaliug Slaves Whereu|H tt having Dully Examined the\\nKvldence According to y* direction of tlie Aforesaid Act fituiid the Afore-\\nsaid Negro Jack Guilty of the Said Crime Alledgeil Against him\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWm. Provoost\\nIsaac Van Gisin\\nPresent JoUN Stauq\\nHknht V^nuri.knda\\nl A( l.ir.ri Van DEUBRltK\\nAiiR \\\\nAM Vack\\nAUUAHAH ACKKIUIAM\\nPrnaont KoBf.RT Ackkhman\\nl.AWHENCr. AcKtRMAN\\nGarret Hoppe\\nJuMticu.\\nyr\u00c2\u00ab4koUUr\u00c2\u00bb.\\nI\\nNew Jersey, Bergen County Alt a Meeting of the Justices A freo-\\nholden for the Trying of the Negro Man of Peter Kipp Called Jack at\\nthe Court House for the said County on friday the 16 Day of August \\\\T.Vt,\\nPrevent the alaive Nametl Justices and freehohlera, the freehidderi Being\\nSworn k pr,M eeilpd to Tryal.\\nDavid ProviKNil fji.i Being Apl\u00c2\u00ab inted liy the Justices to Pnaecuta\\nthe said Negio Man of Peter Kipp called Jack, tlentlemon I am ap-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "COURTS AFTER THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY.\\n97\\npointed by the Justices to Prosecute the Negro Man of Peter Kipp\\nCalled Jack for having on tlie 13 Day of this Instant August struck his\\nSaid Master Severall {blows) and offered to kill him With an Ax and often\\ntimes Siiid that he wouUl kill his Said Master, and Master Son, Burn his\\nMaster s House and then Destroy himself Which I am Ready to Make\\nAppear by Good and Lawful Evidences that the abovesaid Negro Jack Is\\nGuilty of Both Striking his Master Several Blows and Attempting to\\nKill liim With an Ax atid Likewise of Tlireatening Several times to\\nKill his Said Master and his Master s Son and 8ett tire to his Masters\\nHouse and then Destroy himself For Which Reason I Desire Tour\\nhonoure that the Above Said Negro May Be tryed as the Law Directs\\nthat the King May have Justice Done, which was Granted by the Jus-\\ntices and freeholders and Did proceed Accordingly.\\nThe Eiridences Declaration\\nPeter Kipp Declared upon the Holy Evangelist that he was Going to\\ncue of his fields With his Negro Slan Jack and on the Road he Gave\\nthe Said Negro a Blow which at tlio Said Negro Risisted fought with\\nhis Master, Striking him Several Blows and Afterwards taking up an Ax\\nthreatened to kill him his Said Master and his Son and then Destroy\\nhimself. Upon Which his Said Master Ran away for assistance and\\nsometime after he Was Tyed he Said that he would In the Night When\\nhis MasterSIept Sett his house on fire.\\nHenry Kipp Declared Upon the Holy Evangelist that he being one\\nof the Assistance at the Taking and Tying of the Said Negro that when\\nthey came to the Said Negro they found two Axes by him and after hav-\\ning tyed him he said that when his Master Slept he would Sett his\\nHouse a fire.\\nThen Isaac Kipp and Jacobus huysman declare likewise with Henry\\nKipp. Then Henry Kipp declares that his fatiier gave the negro a blow\\nat which the negro resisted and fought his father: strickinghim Several\\nblows and taking ui an ax and threatening to kill him and then destroy\\nhimself: and then the record proceeds as follows; Then the prisoner\\nWith-Drew and the justices and the freeholders proceeded. The justices\\nand freeholders having taking the matter into Consideration and Did\\nGive Sentence of Death Upon him as followeth\\nThat is to say that y Said Negro Jack Shall be brought from hence\\nto the place from Whence he came, and there to Continue untill the 16\\nDay of This Instant August till Ten of The Clock of the Morning, and\\nthen to Be Burnt Untill he Is Dead, at some Convenient place on the\\nRoad between the Court House and Quacksack.\\nThis Is therefore to Will and Reqiiir you to take y^ Body of the\\nNegro Jack Into your Custody See him Executed According to the\\nSentence given, and for your so Doing this Shall be your Sufficient War-\\nrant. Given Under our hands this 15 day of August, In the 9 Year of\\nhis Majesties Reign, Annoy Domini ITiJ.j.\\nTo PROCLUS PARMERTON, High Sheriff of the County of Bergen, and\\nsigned by the Justices and Free holders, whose names are mentioned at\\nthe beginning of this proceeding.\\nBy Ji brief analysis of this proceeding (it can scarcely\\nbedigiiified with the name of trial), itwill be seen that\\nthe negro Jack was going to the field with his master\\non Wednesday, Aug. 13, 1735; that the master gave\\nJack a blow. He was, therefore, the first assailant,\\nthough, as a master, he deemed himself empowered\\nto chastise his slave that the negro struck back, and\\nmade, in his anger, sundry threats that all the formal\\nproceedings were done and the matter disposed of\\nFriday following, and sentence passed directing the\\nsherifl* of the county to burn the negro on Saturday\\nmorning, Aug. 16, 1735, till he is dead.\\nOn Wednesday the African offended, and on Satur-\\nday morning he was burned to ashes, and all this was\\ndone lawfully and under the British Constitution in\\n1735, less than a century and a half ago. No matter\\nwhat the provocation, or how much our ancestors\\nmay have feared their slaves, the whole British Em-\\npire, Constitution and all, should have trembled to\\ntheir very foundations at the perpetration of such a\\nvrime in the name of justice. Have not the merciful\\nangels from heaven wept over the spot, on the soil of\\nAmerica, on the road between the court-house and\\nQuacksack, where such a crime was perpetrated?\\nA little less than four years earlier, on Dec. 13, 1731,\\na negro man, the property of Garret hoppe, called\\nHarry, was also tried, under the same act, for threat-\\nening the life of his m:xsler and for poisoning a negro\\ncalled Sepeo. The record says Harry took a lit-\\ntle bottle of his pocket, with some licquer, which he\\ncalled a dram, and maliciously persuaded Sepeo to\\ndrink it full out, which Sepeo did, and was poisoned,\\nand died on Wednesday night. Harry was found\\nguilty, and, according to a warrant, on the other\\nside of Sunday, was condemned to death, and was\\nhung Dec. 14, 1731, and the justices and freeholders,\\naccording to the act of the General Assembly,\\n8. d.\\n**Did Value the Negro of Garret hoppe that was executed the\\nsum of. 30\\nby niances Bergor 1 10\\nby peter Stoutenberg as per Do 1 19 8\\nby poiilus Van Der beck as per Do 5 14\\nby Abrani Ackerman, Constable 16\\nby the Justices Freeholders fees charges 5 16 4\\n45 10 0\\nIn pounds, shillings, and pence no, there are no\\npence, eight pence and four pence make just one shil-\\nling the master was paid for the negro, and the ofl\\ncers for their services, in just forty-five pounds, ten\\nshillings, and no pence. The constables in each pre-\\ncinct then gave a warning to the people to have six\\nshillings per head, and the money had to be paid to\\nthe collector before the 26th day of December, 1732.\\nIn 1741 two negroes, charged on suspicion of having\\nset seven barns on fire, were convicted and burned to\\ndeath at Yellow Point, on the east side of the Hack-\\nensack River, near the house of Dierech Van Horn.\\nThis act, as appears from the records, was frequently\\ninvoked, and continued even down to the Revolution.\\nDuring this period the stocks, the whipping-post, and\\nthe pillory, at convenient places in different parts\\nof Bergen County, performed their part also in pun-\\nishing petty crimes, and misdemeanors also of greater\\nmagnitude. At the October term of the General Quar-\\nter Sessions, sitting at Hackensack, in 1769, we have\\nthe following record, showing how the prisoner was\\npunished. The case is entitled\\nThe King\\nagst\\nQuack, a Negro Man belonging to\\nMary Terhune.\\nThe prisoner arraigned on his Ind-\\ndictment pleaded guilty, and sub-\\nmits himself to the mercy of the\\nCourt. On motion of Mr. Brown\\nfor the Lord for judgment, the\\nCourt ordered that as in the War-\\nrant,\\nTo the Sher^T of the Chxinlij of Bergen\\nThomas Quack, a Negro Man, belonging to Mary Terhune, was this\\nday indicted before us, George Ryerson, Rynear Van Gieson, Lawrence\\nL. Van Boskirk, Peter Zabriskie, John Fell, and RuliffWestervelt, Esqrs.,\\nHis Majesty s Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Bergen, one\\nwhereof bin of the Quorum of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of\\nthe peace, holden this day in and for the Citunty of Bergen, for feloni-\\nously stealing, taking, and carrying away from the dwelling house of\\nIsaac Kipp, Junior, certain goods, and has pleaded guilty to his said In.\\ndiet. Therefore, in His Majesty s name, you are hereby commanded\\nforthwith to take the said Negro Quack from this Bar to the public", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "98\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nWbipi fng-I*ost, at the Court-Uuuse, aud tbere cause the saitl i^aack to\\nrecoire flflpeii lashod, well luid un his bare buck, and from ttiPDce you\\ntin to take him tyed iit a Cart s tail to the corner uf the Lane opposite\\nBenier Van Gieeoii, I and tbeu cause the said juack to receive fif-\\nteeD lasbeu more aa aforesaid, and from tbence, at the Cart s tail, take\\nhim to tbe corner uf the Lane opposite to J. Isaac Kyereon, and there\\ncause said Quack to receive nine lashes more, in niHnncr as nforesaid,\\nand on Friday next, at 3 oV-lock in the afternoon, yo!i are again to take\\nth\u00c2\u00ab said Quack to tbe Whipping Post aforesaid, and cause him to receive\\nflfteeo lashes more, In manner arDresiiid. and from tbence tu tbe Street\\nfacing Mr. William Provoost, and there cau^e said Qu;ick to receive flf-\\nt\u00c2\u00abeD lashes more, in manner as nfore!\u00c2\u00abaid, and from tbonce to the lane\\nopposite to Mr. Isaac Kip] s, and cause him to receive nine Inshes more,\\nin manner afiiresai l, and on Monilay next yuu are again to take tbe said\\nQuack to tbe Wliipping Post aforesaid, and cause liim to receive fifli-eD\\nlashwmore in manner aforesaid, and from thence over tbe Bridge, oppo-\\nsite to Blr. lieorge Campbell s House, and there cause him, suid Quack,\\nto receive Afieen lashee more, in manner aforeaaid, and from opp wite\\nMr. Jacob Zahriskoy s dwelling-Ilouite, and cans** the said Quack to re-\\nceive nine lashes more, in manner aforesaid, and tbi* several mnstableB\\nof this County of Bergen are hereby commanded to attend and assist\\nyon. Given under our bands and seals this Twenty-fifth Pay of Octol\u00c2\u00abr,\\nAnno Domini 1769. (Signed)\\nGkoboe Rtf.rsk.\\nPkteb Zabbiskit.\\nLaWRENCK L. V. BOSKIKK.\\nJohn Fr.i.i,.\\nWitliin a week the negro, in nine whippings on\\nthree several days, and at the whipping-post and\\nother public places in and about the village of Hack-\\nensack, was scourged one hundred and seventeen\\nlashes. It is said that two slaves, named Ned and\\nPero, in attempting to rob in the night, had broken a\\nman s skull in an atrocious assault, whereby his life\\nwas endangered, and on conviction they were sen-\\ntenced to receive five hundred lashes eacli, one hun-\\ndred lashes to be inflicted on each succeeding Satur-\\nday till the punishment was complete. These several\\nwhippings were to be imposed in different public\\nplaces in the county. lne of the slaves survived the\\nfive hundred lashes, but the other died on the fourth\\nSaturday, after having received four hundred lashes.\\nNo record of this affair has been found. It is stated,\\nhowever, on information which is deemed reliable.\\nfS)\\n3^\\n(PII,I,OKY.|\\n^.-i-,---^\\nSTOCKS.]\\nThe wliipping-poHt, Blocks, ami jiillory continued long\\nafliT llip Revolution, but the awful scene!* of liurninf;\\nat the \u00c2\u00abtiike, let us liope, were too abhorrent to have\\nbeen of frequent occurrence long before 1776.\\nCourt-Houses, Clerk s and Surrogate s Offices.\\nWe have seen alreaily that no court-house could\\nhave been built in Hackonsack for the county of\\nBergen earlier than about 17i)i) to 1710. Then the\\nfirst court-house was built on the Green, fronting on\\nMain Street. That structure comprised a jail and\\ncourt-house built together. The history of the public\\nbuildings for county judicial purposes, from the earli-\\nest times to the present, may be stated as follows:\\n1. First court-house and jail, on the Public Green,\\nbuilt in 1709 to 1710, and destroyed by the British\\nin 1780. An account of this disaster is given else-\\nwhere in this history.\\n2. Tlie second court-house and jail were built at\\nYougli])ough, in tbe townshii)of Franklin, during the\\nRevolution, and the courts were held there for a few\\nyears, as deliberative Justice during that stormy pe-\\nriod found itself too near the British lines and Brit-\\nish invasion in attempting to sit statedly at Hacken-\\nsack. Of course, Youglipough (|)ron )unced in inod-\\nI em times Yoppoi was only the county-seat interim,\\nand until Justice could resume her more ancient seat\\nin peace and safety at Hackensack. There was a log\\njail built at Youghpougli, but the courts seem to\\nhave been held there either in the Pond Reformed\\nClnirch or even at private houses in tbe vicinity, to\\nsuch juilicial extremities had the British driven us\\nduring the Revolution. It is related that Xoah Col-\\nlington, or Kellinghani, a Tory, was hung near the\\nlog jail at Youglipough. He had been indicted for\\nmurder and robbery in this county. In attempting\\nto escape in disguise across the Hudson near Fort\\nLee, in order to get within tbe British lines, he\\nwas captured near that place and brought to the\\njail. Upon trial and conviction he was sentenced\\nto be hung. Pending the inclement winter weather\\nhe was allowed a lire, whereui on he attempted one\\nnight to burn down his prison-house and make his\\nescape. Vanderhotf, the miller, while watching his\\ndam during a freshet, discovered the threatened con-\\nflagration, and giving the alarm the fire was soon\\nI extinguished, while Cidlington in manucles was sub-\\njected to a much closer confinement. All this hap-\\npened during the temporary absence of Manning,\\nthe shcritl of the county. Upon his return he was\\nso infuriated as to exceed the bounds of official pa-\\ntience and beat his prisoner most severely with a\\nclub. A physician came to alleviate his short-lived\\nsulVerings, but CoUington, the robber, murderer, and\\nTory, was hung early the next morning. Tlie mound,\\nthe place of cxpiytion, is still pointed out to-ilay by\\nthe dwellers in the vicinity.\\n3. The third court-house, and first after the Revolu-\\ntion, wa.s built at Hackensack, near Main Street, near\\nthe brick store-house of Richard Paul Terbuiu-. The\\nland for that purpose was conveyed to the county by\\nPeter /abriskie as grantor. His deed is dated Oct.\\n27, 1784, and bounds tbe lot as follows: Beginning\\none hundred feet from the street or highway leading", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "SI\\nmi\\nSI\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0vi\\nH", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAR OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n99\\nthrough the town of New Barbadoes, and on the east\\nside of the same, at a certain road intended to be\\nlaid out by the said Peter Zabriskie towards Hacken-\\nsack River; thence running northerly, along the lines\\nof Jacob Brown and Jacob Bennett, one hundred and\\nfifty feet; thence easterly, at right angles to the last-\\nmentioned line, forty-five feet; thence again south-\\nerly, at right angles to the said road, fifty feet; thence\\nalong the said road so to be laid out forty-five feet to\\nthe place of beginning being in length one hundred\\nand fifty feet, and breadth forty-five feet.\\n)n May 18, 178.5, Peter Zabriskie executed another\\ndeed to the county, in consideration of eighty-two\\npounds lawful currency of New Jersey, of a lot de-\\nscribed as follows Beginning at the public road lead-\\ning through the town of New Barbadoes, at the south-\\nwest corner of a lot of ground belonging to Adam\\nBoyd, and on the east side of the said road thence\\nrunning easterly, along the lot of the said Adam\\nBoyd, one hundred feet thence northerly, along the\\nline of the said Adam Boyd, fifty feet thence east- i\\nerly, along the line of the said Peter Zabriskie, one\\nhundred feet to the new road to be laid out by the i\\nsaid Peter Zabriskie from the aforesaid public road\\neasterly towards Hackensack River; thence along\\nsaid new road one hundred and fifty feet westerly to\\nthe said old road leading through the town thence\\nalong said old road northerly fifty feet to the place of\\nbeginning.\\nOn May 9, 1793, Peter Zabriskie deeded to the\\ncounty an additional piece of land, adjoining the\\neast side of the court-house lot in Hackensack, be-\\nginning at the southeast corner of said lot, and from\\nthence extending along the line of said lot northerly\\nin the breadth of four feet the whole length of the\\nsame.\\nThe first of these lots was given by Mr. Zabriskie\\nto the county, and for the second he was paid eighty-\\ntwo pounds. Two hundred pounds was ordered to be\\nraised by county tax to build the court-house. That\\ncourt-house was built and finished so as to afford a\\nplace of meeting of the board of freeholders there.\\nJuly 3, 178(3, Nehemiah Wade, Esq., deeded the land\\non which the former clerk s oflice stood. The clerk s\\nofiice was built prior to 1819 (between 1812 and 1819),\\non land belonging to the county, conveyed as afore-\\nsaid, a little north of the Midland Railroad, on the\\nwest side of the street, and where it remained till 1853.\\nNo efibrt was made to locate the court-house there\\nalso, but Robert Campbell, Esq., oftered the property\\nin the lower village as an inducement to locate the\\ncourt-house there {the court-house of 1819). That\\nproposition was accepted by the board of freeholders,\\nand the land deeded to the county free so long as it\\nshould be used for county purposes, about 1817 to\\n1818. There was much strife between the up-town\\nand the down-town people, but the latter, with Robert\\nCampbell, prevailed, and thus was located\\n4. The court-house of 1819, so familiar to the eyes\\nof all the people in the county to-day, with its jail in\\nthe rear, and the present clerk s and surrogate s ofiices\\nnear it in going to the Hackensack River. This\\ncourt-house begins to look ancient, but it will safely\\nmeet the wants of the next generation. The Green\\nin front, and the clerk s and surrogate s offices near it,\\nand the spacious Reformed Church, ancient and his-\\ntoric, with other substantial buildings in the vicinity,\\nshaded beautifully with lofty trees and much verdure,\\nwith a copious fountain of pure water holding its\\nprominent place in this scene, render the court-house\\nand its surroundings an ornament to old Bergen\\nCounty.\\nCHAPTER XXIV.\\nTHE BENCH AND BAR OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\nThe bar of Bergen County has always been at-\\ntended by able lawyers. Tielman Van Vleck, already\\na lawyer in 1661, was the presiding judge of the first\\ncourt probably ever held within the present territory\\nof the State of New Jersey. There were then other\\nlawyers at Fort Amsterdam, who were probably present\\nat the early sessions of that court. As a class they were\\nsoon found indispensable in all the American colonies,\\nthough Penn tried to get along without them at first\\nin his, but only to discover his folly and mistake after-\\nwards. Grotius and Guffendorf had made the profes-\\nsion honorable and illustrious in Holland, as had also\\nSelden and other famous lawyers in England. At that\\nearly day very many well-educated lawyers from the\\nEuropean universities, and with a legal training in\\nEngland or Scotland or on the continent, came to this\\ncountry. When occasion required it able lawyers were\\nalways present at the bar of Bergen. The early records,\\nhowever, do not indicate that they became residents\\nand practicing lawyers here, with but few exceptions\\nperhaps, till long after the county was organized. Our\\nrecords are scanty and almost silent as to these pioneer\\nfathers of the profession in this country. The minutes\\nof the courts aftbrd us some information as to such\\nlawyers as were apparently in actual practice, though\\nmany others more eminent as counsel may not have\\nappeared in these minutes at all. The early list of\\nlawyers in this county, and antedating its organization,\\nwith much chance for additions and corrections, is as\\nfollows, and down to 1776, with the date of their ad-\\nmissions as attorneys or counselors\\n1661, Tielman Vau Vleck, admitted as attorney in 1660.\\n1664 to 1678, Claes Arentse Toere, Balthazar Bayard, and William\\nPinhorne, admitted (probably) attorneys about 1661. The latter was\\nalso a merchant.\\n1707, John Pinhorne, admitted as attorney in 1707.\\n1720 to 1750, David Ogden, Mr. Dnane, and Mr. Lodge, admission as\\nattorneys unknown.\\n1750 to 1756, Robert Morris and John De Hart, admission as attorneys\\nunknown.\\n1756 to 1761, Mr. Legromsie, Mr. Nicoll, and D. Isaac Brown, admission\\nas attorneys unknown.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100\\nHISTOKV UK BKRGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JKKSEY.\\nKlisbtt Itoiltlinot, appoiut\u00c2\u00ab l ftcr^ vant-Ht-liiW in 1792.\\nCortlaiitlt Skinner, appointed atturnuy-genunii July 10. 1754.\\nGeorge Kom^, Lewis Of^en, A. Mooro, and Isaac Ogden, adiuiflaion as\\nattorneys uultiiowo.\\n1776, Joiin ClietwooU and AbraliHOl Ogden, ailmissiuii hs attorneys un-\\nit nown.\\nAfter the Revolution the list continues as follows\\nto the present\\n1787 to 1795. Sir. Boudinut and Mr. Williams, admission as attorneys\\nunknown; Col. Neheniiah, niaile attorney in 1784.\\n178S, William GriOitli, admitted as attorney in 17S8.\\n1805, William A. De Peyater, admitted as attorney in 1805.\\n1805, Philip Williams, ndmilteil as attorney in 1804.\\n1805, Eliiis Van Ar^ditle, iidmitted as attorney in 1795.\\n1805, William Hulsey, admitted as attorney in 1794.\\n1805, James Kearney, admitted as attorney in ISOt.\\n1805, Joseph C. Hornblower, admitted as attorney in 1803.\\n1806. Kohert Campbell, admitted as attorney in 1790; John G. Slc-\\nWhorter, admitted as iittorney in 17%; John A. Boyd, admitted as at-\\ntorney in 1799.\\n1809, Josiah Hornblower, admission as attorney unknown.\\n1810 to 1811, George Cassedy and Benjamin Wiiitaker, admitted as at-\\ntorneys in 18 i9; Theodore Frelinghuysen. admitted iis attorney in 1S()8.\\n1812. Gabriel II. Ford, admitted as attorney in 1789.\\n1818 to 1819, PliileniMii Dickenton, counselor in 1817; Samuel Cas-\\nsedy, ailmitled as attorney in 1810; Benjamin Willanl, admitted as at-\\ntorney in 1815; Anize Dudd, admitted as attorney in 1817.\\n1819, Archibald Campl ell, admitted as attorney in 1819.\\n1819, James W. Burnell, aiimission as attorney unknown.\\n1821 to 1822, Abijnh Williams, admission as attorney unknown Syl-\\nTeater D. Uussell, admittetl as attorney in 1797; William Pennington,\\nadroUted as attorney in 1817.\\n1822 to 182:i, Oeorite K. Drake, admitted as attorney in 1812 Bei^a-\\nmin W. Vandevovirl. admitted as attorney in 1822.\\n1824 to 1825, William W. Miller, admitted as attorney in 1818; Aaron\\nS. Pennington, ailmilted as altoroey In 1821 Elias B. D. Ogden, admit-\\nted as attorney in 1824.\\n1820 to 1827, Archer GilTord and Aaron O. Dayton, admitted arattnr-\\nneys in 1818; Matthias Ugden, admitted as attorney in 1814; Williuni P.\\nAnderson, admitted as attorney in 18411.\\n1827 to 1828, William Chetwood, admitted as attorney in 1796; Walter\\nKirkpatrick. admitted as attorney in 1820; Asa Whitehead, admitted as\\nattorney In 1818.\\n1828, John P. Jackson, adniitterl as attorney In 1827.\\n1829, Smith cuddor, admitti-d lu attcrrm.y In 1808.\\n1830 to 18.11. J. Dickinson Miller, ailmitled as attorney in 1827 Robert\\nL. ArmstronK, admitted as attorney In 1806; Abraham 0. Zabrlskie, ad-\\nmitted as attorney in 1828.\\n1831 to 1832, Ilichurd E. Darrah, James II. Perry, and Daniel Barka-\\nlow,a.lmlltcd as attorneys in 1820; Jesse D. Pitt, admitted as attorney\\nIn 1827.\\n1832, John 8. DIaurelt, counselor in 1829.\\n1832, James Spier, admitted as attorney in 18:10.\\n18.12, James J. :choneld, ailmitled as attorney in 1829.\\n18.32, Aaron O. De Hart, admllli-daH attorney in 1828.\\n183;i, Benson Mllledoler ami William S. Kaitoutr,a lmitte l as attorneys\\nIn 18.30; Thomas I). James, admitted as attorney In 1829.\\n18;i4, Jcwcplius W. Sanders, admltte l as attorney in 1K33 Peter Bent-\\nley, ailniltted as attorney In 18.34 Silas D. Canflold, admitteil as attorney\\nin 1832.\\n18.V), Andraw 8. Oarr, admitted as attorney In 1833; Daniel Hainea,\\nadmitted as attorney In 1823; Staala S. Morris, admitted as atlomry In\\n1834.\\n1836. I. Beam, admission as attorney unknown.\\n1837 to 18.18, John llopiKT, admllli d as attorney In 18.36; Lewis D.\\nHanlenlrergh. a lmitte l as nitomcy In 1825 John A. Taylor, admission\\nas attorney unknown; Archsr liitlord, admitted as attorney In 1821;\\nBanjamin K. Van Clere, admltlr l ss attorney in 1K30.\\n18.18, Darlil A. Hays, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2dmllte l as attorney In I8;t4.\\n1K40 to 1841. Kdward P. Illllyer, (^iward J. Ilogers. and Martin Ryer-\\nson, a lmltted as attorneys In 1836; Kdwln H. V. WriBht and Thomas W.\\nJam\u00e2\u0084\u00a2, admllird as attorneys In 1K19 Ulrhard It. I aullson, admitted as\\nattorney In lK.18 John M. Gould, ailmltted as attiirney In 1839; William\\n8. Oaawly, admitted as attorney in 1840.\\n1845, Grant S. Van Wagoner, admitted as attorney in 1844 Frederick\\nT. Frelinghuysen, admitted as attorney in 1839.\\n1847, Manrdiig M. Knapp, admitted as attorney in 1846; G( orge W.\\nCassedy, admitted as attorney in 1845; David J. Beard, ailmitted as attor-\\nney in 1844.\\n1847, Edward X. Dickerson, adntitted as attorney in 1846.\\n1848, William S. Banta and Robert Gilchrist, admitted as attorneys\\nIn 1847; Benjamin W. Vandevoort, admitted as attorney in 1822; Altsa-\\nlom B. Woodruff, admitted as attorney in 1844.\\n1849, William Gledliill, admitted as attorney In 184G; Theodore Run-\\nSon, admission as attorney unknown Adonijah S. Boyd, admitted as at-\\ntorney in 1847.\\n1850, h^wanl W. Scudder, admitted as attorney In 1844 Socrates\\nTuttle, admitted as attorney in 1848.\\n1851, R. D. McClelland, admitted as attorney in 1851.\\n1852, Charles L. C. GilTord, admitted as attorney in 1847.\\n1853, J. R. Wortendyke, admitted as attorney in 1853 John Dun Little,\\nadmitted as attorney in 1847.\\n1854, Jacob Wenrt, admitted as attorney in 1852.\\n18.V to 1856, ILnry I. Mills and Edgar B. Wakeman. admilled as at-\\ntorneys in 1843; Henry A.Williams and Jonatbati Cory, admitted as\\nattorneys in 1849; William H. JcellifT, admitteil lu* attorney in 185:1;\\nFrederick U. Ogden, admitted as attorney in 1850; Walter Rutherford,\\nadmitted as attorney in 18:14 James Flemniing. admitted as attorney in\\n1855.\\n1850, Charles H. WInfleld, admitted as attorney In 1855.\\n1857, (Tharles 11. Voorhis, admitti-d as attorney in 1856.\\n1870, Cornelius Christie, mlmitted as attorney in 18 0.\\n1878. William E. Skinner, admitted as attorney in 1860.\\n1863, Garret AckcrBon. admitted as attorney in 1863.\\n1876, Daniel B. Harvey, admitted as attorney in 1863.\\n1874, Augustus Hobart, admitted as attorney in 1806; Mauceillia C.\\nGilliam, ailmitted as attorney in 1873 James M. Van Valen, admitted as\\nattorney In 1875 Samuel R. Deniarest. Jr., admitted as attorney in 1870;\\nCornelius W. Benlan. admitted as attorney in 1878; Isaac Wortendyke\\nand Raymond P. Wortendyke. admitted as attorneys in 1869 tVorge R.\\nDutton. George H. Coflfey. .\\\\bram D. Camiiell. Abram De Baum, and\\nMilton Deniarest, admitted as attorneys in 1877; Walter Christie and\\nWilliam M. Johnson, tulmittcd as attorneys in 1879.\\n1879, Nehemiah Millard, Peter W. Stagg, and James Romaine, ad-\\nmitted as attorneys in 1879; Walter tiilliam, admitted as attorney in\\n1880; Luther Shafer, admitted as attorney in 1873.\\nOf this long list of lawyers many have become dis-\\ntinguished, either in the annals of the State or the\\nnation.\\nWilliam Pinhorne, who came to this country from\\nEngland in 1678, was second .judge of the Supreme\\nCourt of New .Tersey in 1704, judge of the Ilergen\\nCounty Coninion Plea.-* in 170. and of the IJergen\\nOyer and Terminer in 17(19, and of the Common Pleas\\nin 1709. He had previously been judge of the Su-\\npreme Court of New Jersey, and at one time president\\nof it-s Council, and coniiuander-in-chicf or (iovernor.\\nHe died in 17Iil. His .son .lohii wius ch rk of this\\ncounty in 1705, and was admitted to the bar .luno 15,\\n1707, and practiced in this county, and probably re-\\nsided at Hackensack or Hoboken. His sister Martha\\nmarried Roger Mompesson, who was chief justice of\\nNew York and Pennsylvania, and in 1704 was also\\nchief justice of New .Jersey. The Ogdens, Isaac and\\nRobert, probably residing at Newark or Klizalieth-\\ntown, practiced here very extensively in nT) and\\nprior to that time. Elisha Roudinot, born in 1742,\\nand by descent a Huguenot, bad a large practice here\\nupon his admission in about 17l 2. His brother I .lijah\\nwas the ilistinguishcd niciiiber of Congress from this\\nState, anil the first preHidcnt of the American liible\\nSociety. Elisha Boudinot rexided at Newark. He", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAR OF BEKGEN COUNTY.\\n101\\nbecame a justiceof the Supreme Court Slarch 9, 1708.\\nRobertTVIorris,alsoin extensive practice here in 1750,\\nwas the son of Robert Hunter Morris, chief justice of\\nNew Jersey till his death in 1764. Robert Morris\\nbecame chief justice of the State of New Jersey in\\n1777. He resided at New Brunswick. In 1790 he\\nwas appointed by President Washington judge of the\\nDistrict Court of the United States for the State of\\nNew Jersey. Cortlandt Skinner, an able lawyer,\\nwas prosecutor in this county in 1775, and was at that\\ntime attorney-general of the colony. He was an ac-\\ntive royalist, and in 177(1 left, taking refuge on a man-\\nof-war, and his name from that time disappears from\\nthe records of our courts. John Chetwood resided at\\nElizabethtown. He became a justice of the Supreme\\nCourt in 1788. Col. Nehemiah Wade resided at Hack-\\nensack, was admitted to the bar in 1784, was county\\nclerk, and in an extensive practice here, and was\\nknown and beloved as a most patriotic and estimable\\ncitizen, and died July 29, 1805, at the early age of\\nforty-five. While he was borne to his grave in the\\nchurchyard on the Green, his sword and chapeau rested\\nupon his coffin, and he was followed to his grave by\\nan immense concourse of citizens. He was one of\\nthose rare men who seem to be beloved by every-\\nbody. William Griffith practiced occasionally in this\\ncounty, but resided at Bound Brook. He became one\\nof the judges of the Circuit Court of the United States,\\nhaving studied law in the office of Elisha Boudinot,\\nwith Gabriel H. Ford, Alexander McWhorter, and\\nRichard Stockton, all eminent in their profession af-\\nterwards. Mr. Griffith was a learned and eloquent\\nlawyer and writer upon various legal subjects.\\nRobert Campbell was born at Coleraine, County An-\\ntrim, Ireland, in 1766, and died July 5, 1846. He\\nlived in Hackensack nearly his whole life. He was\\nadmitted to the bar in 1790, and was a prominent and\\nthoroughly honest and reliable lawyer here till his\\ndeath. He was gifted with the powers of eloquence.\\nThe persecutions of his native land and the war of the\\nRevolution, in which his father, Archie, had taken a\\npatriotic part, sometimes aroused his fervor, and when\\nthe citizens of the county were to be addressed on any\\nimportant occasion Robert Campbell was expected to\\nbe present as the orator of the day. Archie Campbell\\nand Robert Campbell are revered names, and still be-\\n.loved in the history of this county. John A. Boyd\\nwas admitted to the bar and commenced practice here\\nnine years after Mr. Campbell. For years they were\\nin extensive practice here as the prominent lawyers\\nin Bergen County. Joseph C. Hornblower, chief\\njustice of the Supreme Court for fourteen years from\\n1832, is well remembered as having quite an exten-\\nsive practice here from almost the beginning of this\\ncentury, though residing at Newark. He was an im-\\npulsive man, and was sometimes thrown oft of his\\nbalance by some cooler antagonist when trying a\\ncause before a jury, and thus an advantage was gained\\nover him, as is almost always the case under such cir-\\ncumstances. He was a most able advocate however.\\nHis judicial opinions are sometimes lacking in logi-\\ncal precision, as if written in haste, and partaking\\nsomewhat of that same impulsiveness of the advocate,\\nbut they are clear and forcible, and entitle him to the\\nrank of an able judge. George Cassedy resided at\\nHackensack, and commenced a very extensive prac-\\ntice here in 1809. He studied in the office of Robert\\nCampbell. He was an able and most logical speaker,\\nbut sometimes tedious in his argument, and any im-\\npatience on the part of the court or jury only seemed\\nto lengthen his summing up. But it was only his\\nwell-known fidelity to his client which sometimes led\\nhim to continue his argument for hours. He was a\\ngreat Democratic politician and member of Congress\\nfor one term. He died lamented at fifty-eight, about\\nthe year 1842. Theodore Frelinghuysen, illustrious\\nfor his legal attainments, but more illustrious for his\\nundoubted and genuine piety, though residing at\\nNewark, also practiced law quite extensively in Ber-\\ngen County from 1811. He spoke with so much so-\\nlemnity and earnestness to the jury that his speech\\nseemed almost a sermon in the calm persuasiveness of\\nhis eloquence. He won the minds if he did not con-\\nvert the hearts of many a juror. Grandson of Rev.\\nJohn Frelinghuysen, from Holland in 1720, and of\\nJuftrouw Hardenbergh, his wife, daughterof a wealthy\\nmerchant of Amsterdam, and herself and her husband\\nrenowned alike for their intellect and their piety, son\\nof Gen. Frederick Frelinghuysen, distinguished in\\nthe war of the Revolution, and an eminent lawyer\\nand a member of the Senate of the United States from\\nNew Jersey, inheriting or at least possessing the same\\nundoubted piety of liis ancestors, Theodore Freling-\\nhuysen could never willingly have been anything\\nless as a man, a lawyer, and a Christian. No lawyer\\nin America, except it could have been William\\nRawle, also standing in the very front rank in his\\nprofession in Philadelphia from 1793 to 1832, ever\\nexcelled Theodore Frelinghuysen in the beautiful\\nsincerity of his Christian life. He rose to the Senate\\nof the United States and a nomination for the Vice-\\nPresidency with Henry Clay to give strength to the\\nticket, but his greatest encomium is that while he was\\na great lawyer and able statesman, he shed more lus-\\ntre still on his life as the devout and faithful follower\\nof his Master. Gabriel H. Ford, who had a limited\\npractice in this county prior to 1818, then became\\njudge of the circuit embracing Bergen, Essex, Morris,\\nand Sussex, and presided on the circuits held in the.se\\ncounties for twenty-one years. Philemon Dickinson,\\nbrother of Mahlon, resided in Paterson, and prac-\\nticed law extensively in this county for many years\\nfrom 1818; became Governor of the State in 1836, and\\nin 1841 judge of the District Court of the United\\nStates, in which office he continued till his death in\\n1862.\\nArchibald Campbell, nephew of Robert Campbell,\\nand brother of Robert Campbell, Esq., now residing", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIKS, NEW JERSEY.\\nin Hackensack, lived also in Hackensack, commenc-\\ning a practice tliere in 1819. He died at the early\\nage of thirty-two, greatly lamented as a lawyer of\\npromise and a most estimable citizen and a devout\\nChristian. William Pennington s name is frequently\\nfound in the records of our courts from 1822. He was\\nthe son of Governor William S. Pennington. He was\\nborn in Newark in 1790, graduated at Princeton Col-\\nlege in 1813, and became an attorney-at-law in 1817,\\nand in 1837 was elected Governor of the State of New-\\nJersey, and for six years was chancellor of the State.\\nHis is the name which was connected with the Broad\\nSeal war, to which we can only refer thus briefly.\\nNo lawyer i)rohably ever succeeded better with that\\ninvaluable faculty of great, good common sense. To\\nthis he resorted constantly, more than to learning or\\nlabor, or even industry, as his unfailing resource\\nwherewith to command success. He honored re-\\nligion, and was said to have been a faithful disciple of\\nChrist. He died in 18l!2.\\nWilliam W. Miller died at the early age of twenty-\\neight. He was one of those very brilliant men who\\nseem to die early, too early. His name appears oc-\\ncasionally on our records as having |)racticcd here in\\n1S24. He was a native of Hunterdon County, and\\ncame to the bar in 1818. In 1825 he was opposed to\\nThomas Addis Emmett in the trial of a slander case\\nin the city of New York, in which Miller was re-\\ntained as counsel for the plaintiff. The case and the\\nyoung orator attracted the attention of the whole city.\\nHe spoke for three hours, when he sank back ex-\\nhausted in his chair, and was embraced by his an-\\ntagonist. He gained his cause by his eloquence, and\\nagainst that almost matchl ss orator Thomas Addis\\nEmmett, but it cost the young lawyer his life. He\\ndied in France a few months afterwards, and is buried\\nin I re-la-Chaise.\\nHis brother, Jacob W. .Miller, also an eminent\\nlawyer in this State, was elected to the Senate of the\\nUnited States in 1846. The name and face of Elia-s\\nH. D. Ogden are quite familiar to many men in this\\ngeneration as the immediate predecessor of Judge\\nBedle on this cin uit. He wils born at Elizabethtown\\nin 18(10, graduated at Princeton nineteen years after-\\nwards, and was an attorney-at-law in 1824. He was\\nthe last lawyer raised to the dignity of a sergeant-at-\\nlaw in this State, which occurred in 1837. He prac-\\nticccl law at Paterson, anil thus came fre |Uently to\\nHackensack to attend the courts, and as early as\\n182. He became a justice of the Supreme Court in\\n1848, and continued on the bench till IStio, having\\nreceived his appointment from Governors Haines,\\nPrice, and Olden. Abraham O. Zabriskie, long a\\nresident of Hackensack, wius admitted to the bar in\\n182X, and early entered upon an extensive practice in\\nthis county. He was a learned lawyer and a most\\nlogical rea-soner, relying more upon the substantial\\nattainments of his learning, with a most thorough\\npreparation of his ca-ses, and bringing to bear all the\\nresources of sound reasoning, whereby to command\\nsuccess !us a great lawyer, rather than upon the more\\ndazzling but le.ss certain resources of brilliant oratory.\\nHe had pre-eminently a judicial mind, capable of\\nseeing and comprehending both sides of a case. In\\nthis respect he possessed one of the great i)rerequisites\\nlaid down by Cicero as essential to a great lawyer.\\nHe studied well not only his own side of a case but\\nthat of his antagonist also. Knowing and recog-\\nnizing these qualities of his mind, as well as the great\\nintegrity of his character, parties on both sides of a\\ncontroversy frequently resorted to him, and alter\\nhearing them with entire impartiality, he frequently\\nsettled disputes in the preliminary forum of his own\\nconscience, and in his own office, before they had a\\nchance to reach the courts. In any one case such a\\ncourse was more profitable to his clients, pecuniarily,\\nthan to himself, but it tolil in the long run, when he\\ncame to command the respect and esteem of the whole\\ncommunity. He was an able prosecutor of the pleas in\\nthis county for many years, and then surrogate, and\\nupon his removal to Jersey City he became chancellor\\nof the State in 186G. He dignifietl that great office\\nwith his learning and judicial impartiality till his\\ndeath in 1S73.\\nDaniel Haines practiced occasionally at the Bergen\\nbar as early aa 1835. He was admitted in 1823,\\nthough his practice was chieHy confined to Sussex\\nCounty. He became Governor of the State in 1843\\nand in 1847, and justice of the Supreme Court in\\n1H52, and held that office for fourteen years. From\\nearly life he was a most consistent and active mem-\\nber and afterwards an elder in the Presbyterian\\nChurch. He was most active in religious and be-\\nnevolent enterprises, and died a few years since much\\nhonored and beloved.\\nRichard K. I aulison resided at Hackensack. He\\ncame to the bar in 1.S38, and after practicing his pro-\\nfession ten years was elected surrogate, succeeding A.\\nO. Zabriskie, and held that office for ten years from\\n1848. In 18()8 he was appointed presiding judge of\\nthe Court of ommon Pleas, and died that year, only\\na short time after having entered his judgeship. He\\nwas much esteemed as a lawyer, and the whole county\\nfelt the loss of a good judge in tin untimely death of\\nMr. Paulison.\\nJacob R. Worfendyke, a most thorough scholar,\\nnot only of the law, but in every branch of study\\nwhich could tend to promote his usefulness and suc-\\ncess in the |)rofession, was born in this county, in\\n1818, and died in 1S(;8. He graduated at llutg;ers\\nCollege in 1838, giving great promise of success and\\nusefulness. Besides his other accomplishments, while\\na student at law he ai-cpiireil a knowletlge of Hebrew,\\nand could read the )ld Testament scriptures in the\\nlanguage of inspiration. He sought no short road to\\nsuccess, but his promotion was ra|)id. He came to\\nthe bar in 1853, and three years afterwards he was a\\nmember of Congress from the State of New Jersey.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAK OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n103\\nHe was a solid, substantial lawyer and a most excel-\\nlent Christian man, but died early in the very midst\\nof success.\\nWe come now to the names of many who are still\\nliving and prominent actors at the Bergen County\\nbar. It is to be regretted perhaps that the living\\nmay not receive their just round of praise with the\\ndead. But the de.ad, with the dead, cannot rebuke\\nus for that praise which time has made certain and\\nsecure and cannot reverse those awards which are\\nfinal after the mortal shall have put on immortality.\\nHere the story of our judicial institutions in this\\ncounty for more than two centuries must find its\\nclose. It is one of the oldest bars on the American\\ncontinent. As we have seen in the perusal of these\\npages, it was established to protect and to promote\\ncivilization in its very earliest struggles on these\\nshores. Its lawyers and its \u00e2\u0096\u00a0advocates stood up ably\\nand manfully for us in the great cause of the Revolu-\\ntion, and their successors have .shed light and lustre\\nupon the tribunal ever since. While we have thus\\nsought to recall and to rescue from oblivion some of the\\nlineaments of those illustrious men who have adorned\\nthe bar iu the past, let us not forget that it is not the\\narmed soldier nor even the statesman in the senate-\\nhouse who alone are to fight for the empire. When\\nwe seek to maintain the cause of justice in defending\\nthe poor and oppressed, when we seek to vindicate\\nthe lives, or the fortune, or the fame of our fellow-\\ncitizens, then all learning, and all eloquence, and all\\nwisdom should be at the command of the advocate at\\nthe bar of justice, for he also is defending the cause\\nof the empire.\\nJlANNHTtt M. Knapp, the subject of this sketch,\\nalthough a resident in Hackensack for many years, is\\nnot a native of Bergen County. He was born at New-\\nton, in the county of Sussex, in this State, on the 7th\\nof June, 182.5. He studied law at Newton, in the\\noffice of the late Col. Robert Hamilton, and was ad-\\nmitted as an attorney at the .luly term of the Supreme\\nCourt in the year 184G. In the winter of that year\\nhe removed to Hackensack, where he has since re-\\nsided, practicing in his profession down to the time of\\nhis appointment on the Supreme Court bench. In\\nJanuary, 1850, he was licensed as a counselor. The\\nlate Chancellor Zabriskie having about this time re-\\nmoved from Hackensack to Jersey City, vacated the\\nofiice of prosecutor of the pleas of Bergen. Chief\\nJustice Green, who then presided at the Bergen Cir-\\ncuit, appointed Mr. Knapp to prosecute for the State\\nuntil the office should be filled by executive action.\\nActing under this appointment until February, 1851,\\nhe was then given the office by Governor Fort, and\\nheld it under that and subsequent appointments until\\nFebruary, 1861. When appointed prosecutor he was\\nacquiring and soon was engaged in an active practice\\nin the civil courts. This he retained during all the\\ntime that he remained at the bar.\\nUpon the election of Judge Bedle to the office of\\nGovernor of the State a vacancy was created on the\\nSupreme Court bench, and Governor Bedle nominated\\nMr. Knapp to be his successor. Upon confirmation\\nby the Senate Mr. Knapp entered upon the duties of\\nthe office, taking up the work which Judge Bedle had\\nlaid down.\\nThe judicial district presided over by Judge Bedle\\nembraced the counties of Hudson, Bergen, and Pas-\\nsaic the work in it was extremely onerous for one\\njudge. In consequence of this the Legislature, in\\n1875, divided the district and set off Hudson County\\nas an entire one. To this new district Judge Knapp\\nwas assigned by the Supreme Court, and has since\\npresided at that circuit. The large population of\\nHudson County necessarily presents a heavy work in\\nthe courts, and renders the district, although compris-\\ning that county alone, not a light one in its judicial\\nadministration.\\nJudge Knapp has always held to the political views\\nof the Democratic party, but he has never held or\\nmanifested any desire to hold political office. His\\naspirations seem not to have gone beyond or outside\\nof success in his professional career.\\nIn 1850 he was married to Anna Mattison, a daugh-\\nter of Capt. Joseph Mattison, of the navy. She was\\nborn in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., in this State.\\nThey have two children, a son and daughter, the issue\\nof the marriage. The elder, Anna M., wife of Walter\\nV. Clark, re.sides in Hackensack. The younger, Jo-\\nseph M. Knapp, is temporarily in Colorado. He, it\\nis understood, is preparing for admission to the bar of\\nthis State.\\nJudge Ashbel Green, son of James S. Green,\\nof Princeton, N. J., was born Dec. 17, 1825. He was\\ngraduated at Nassau Hall in 1846, studied law in\\nthe Law-School of Princeton under Chief Justice\\nHamclomer, Richard S. Field, and his father, and\\nwas admitted to the New Jersey bar in July, 1849.\\nHe at once removed to New York City, and entered\\ninto partnership with Henry M. Alexander, and the\\nlaw-firm of Alexander Green is .still in active prac-\\ntice in that city.\\nThey are the legal advisers of many influential\\ncorporations and individuals, and have been employed\\nin many of the most important litigations which have\\ntaken place in that city for the last quarter of a cen-\\ntury. In 1863, Mr. Green became a resident of\\nBergen County, N. J., and retains his residence there\\nat the present time. He has constantly refused ofiice,\\nexcept to accept the appointment of the Legislature,\\non joint ballot, as presiding judge of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas of Bergen County, which, however,\\nafter discharging the duties of the office for two years,\\nhe resigned in 1872.\\nJudge Green was, however, supported by a most\\nrespectable and influential number of the members\\nof the Democratic party to succeed the Hon. Freder-\\nick T. Frelinghuysen as United States senator in 1877.\\nHe was one of the counsel delegated to take charge", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0115.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "104\\nIIISTOllY OF BKRGE.N AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nof the case of Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks before\\ntlie Electoral Commission in 1877, and conducted the\\ne.\\\\amination oC witnesses, and made one of the closing\\narguments on the submission of tlie question of the\\nvote of Florida before tiie commission.\\nJudge Green edited the American edition of Brice s\\ncelebrated work on Vlira Vire*, or the Powers of\\nCorporations, which lias passed througli two editions,\\nand is the standard authority on tliiit subject.\\nHis father, James S. (ireen, of Princeton, was well\\nknown as a lawyer and member of the Legislature\\nfrom Somerset County for many years, and as one of\\nthe original projectors of the Delaware and Raritan\\nCanal, and also as a manager of the United Railway\\nof New .lersey until his death.\\nJudge Green s grandfather was the Rev. Dr. Ash-\\nbel Green, first chaplain of Congress, president of\\nPrinceton College, and a leading Presbyterian divine.\\nRev. Dr. Green s father was the Rev. Jacob Green,\\nof Morris County, N. .J., who was the chairman of\\nthe committee of the Provincial Congress of New\\nJersey which framed the first constitution if the\\nState, adopted July 2, 1776, two days before the Dec-\\nlaration of Independence, and was famous in his day\\nas a Wliig ])arson, and especially obnoxious to the\\nTories of his neighborhood. Jacob Green s ancestors\\ncame from Maiden, Mass.\\nJfnoE William S. Baxta is the great-grandson\\nof Yan Banta, grandson of Hendrick Banta, and son\\nof Henry H. Banta and Jane Sickles. The family of\\nBantji was of Hungarian origin, and became early\\nsettlers of Bergen County, locating at English Neigh-\\nborhood, now Fairview, from which place Yan Banta\\nremoved about 17. )0 and settled at Pascack, Wash-\\nington township, where he died, and was succeeded\\nby his eldest .son, Hendrick, who was born May 27,\\n174!i, and died Feb. 15, 1803, leaving some five hun-\\ndred acre.s of land, which was divided among bis sons.\\nOf his five sons and three daughters, Henry H.\\nBanta, father of our subject, born at Pascack, Se|)t.\\n30, 1784, was a shoemaker by trade, but spent his\\nactive business life as a farmer and merchant. Prior\\nto 1833 he w;i8 for many years a business man in his\\nnative place, but in that year lie removed to Hacken-\\nsack, and in partnership with his brotlier Theunis\\nopened a general mercantile traile on the corner of\\nMain and Pa.ssaic Streets, which he continued until\\nhis death in 1849. His residence in Hackcnsack was\\nthat known as the old Campbell homestead, adjoining\\nthe Dorenuis homestead, where his brother Theunis\\nrtstided. Henry II. lianta led an active busiiieHs life;\\nwas a man of strong force of character, good business\\nability, marked energy, and strict integrity. He was\\nsuccessively a member of the Reformed Churches at\\nPascack and Hackcnsack, and officially connected\\nwith these eburches as elder. He was appointed\\npostmiusler at Hackensark liytien. Francis (iranger,\\nand held thai otlice for several years, and was con-\\nnected with the old Stale militia, iin l ranked as adju-\\nI tant. Mr. Banta wielded a strong influence in local\\npolitics, and his counsel and judgment commanded\\nthe confidence of his fellow-men.\\nI By a] ointment he served as judge of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas for three terms, viz. from 1829 to\\n1884, from 1838 to 1843, and from 1843 to 1848. His\\nwife died at the age of seventy-six, in 1870. Their\\nchildren are Margaret, Judge William S., and Jane,\\nwife of John Dc Peyster Stagg, of Hackcnsack.\\nJudge William S. Banta was born at Pascack,\\nBergen Co., Dec. 12, 1824. He received his prepara-\\ntory education in the public school at Hackcnsack,\\nand in the private classical school of Rev. John S.\\nMabon, an eminent teacher of the same place, and\\nentered Rutgers College in 1841, from which he was\\ngraduated with the usual honors in 1844.\\nImmediately after his graduation he became the\\nlaw student of Chancellor Abram O. Zabriskie, of\\nHackcnsack, with whom he remained until his ad-\\nmission to the bar as attorney in 1847. He was ad-\\nmitted as counselor-at-law in 18,51. In the spring of\\n1848 Mr. Banta opened a law-office in the old bank-\\nI ing-house in Hackcnsack, where he continued a suc-\\ncessful practice until his retirement from the more\\nactive duties of the profession in 1867.\\nHe Wius appointeil prosecutor of pleas in IStJO, and\\nhel l the office until 1867, when he resigned. In 1872\\nhe w:is appointed to fill the unexpired term caused\\nby the resignation of Judge Green as law judge of\\nthe Court of Common Pleas for Bergen County, and\\nby reappointment held the office for a full term of\\nfive years, beginning with 1873. In 1879 he wits ap-\\npointed a.ssociate judge of the same court, and is the\\nincumbent of that office in 1881.\\nDuring his active business life Judge Banta has\\nbeen interested in and lent his aid to all worthy local\\nobjects in the vicinity where he resides. Especially\\nhas he been interested in educational work was\\nschool superintendent of New Barbadoes under the\\nold law, and he wius sul)sei|Uently appointed by the\\nboard of freeholders, with Rev. Albert Anierniau,\\none of the board of examiners, which place he effic-\\niently filled for several years.\\nThe judge is an active member of the Republican\\nparty, and has often been selected as candidate for\\nofficial place. He was deputy internal revenue cid-\\nlector of Bergen County from 1862-6. i.\\nIn 1850. Judge Banta was united in marriage to\\nSarah, daughter of John ami Katy Ann (Hopper)\\nZabriskie, of Hohokiis, who died in 1853, leaving a\\nson, who died in infancy. His second wife was\\nAdelia, a sister of his first wife, who died in 1 69.\\nHis present wife is Jane Anne, daughter of Abrain H.\\nand Maria (Anderson) Berry, of Hackensack, and a\\ndescendant of John Berry, one of the original pat-\\nentees in Bergen County.\\nCi)l.. (iAiiKKT G. AcKKIlsos. Far back of Revo-\\nlutionary times the first Ackcrson known in this\\ncountry. Garret, great-grandfather of Col. (iarret G.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0116.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "6C^^\\ny^lcu", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0119.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "m", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0120.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0121.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "w^^^^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0122.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "MIK\\nD T; \\\\1{ 0:\\n!Iie ri\\niNini^ifr iM iiiii-L.\\nlo of tViai\\n;u)t of the clerk s\\nupon which he settled hie oldest son, John, at Pas- hnilion was stored in lat it became\\ncack, leaving his two yr omelius to divide it i ._ea ap i ^t.it ir\\nAbram. at his death in i horaeste.. Obscure places iu the Imildinp i\\n.ii;i- ol our -ubject, luid y after ht dm .o\\nwho bo p him twoob Rn of the Demo-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Jreii, Garret and Hannah, who\\nv;,-Ii,,bi; 7 .liriskie, John Aiv\\nat Pascack i: n of the- party.\\nyiMi-\\n(rarri i\\nMorris being the only three counties in the northern\\npartof the State at f- i-^\\nJohn, Cornelius\\nerson was bof\\nHe w.M edii\\ncharge, retaininsr t\\n.18 own. Qeoteduess ot liii.\\nisiMri,, w: i.r n.irtv caused u hard woi i! \\\\vm.~ ._ _ ___ _ _\\nand it became in cod- time urr engaged in commereiai enter-\\nj .ii\\\\Kaf 1 n!M riarrington townships. It prises.\\nwa.M pn i that did not suit everybody, and lnlH72 Col. Ackeraon became active in -orL anizin^\\ni troublous time socially\\nlioth partie.^ to put for\\nthe best men they couid command for political office sident. Me died, and w\\nMr. Garret G. Ackersoh v .1. ...,i .1 n, who retaiuel\\nthus commenced hi.s politic;i closed. Oh the i\\n.ma tlic .ijn .^;u: ^eut as a ju _\\n:aal footsteps. \u00c2\u00bbVt I whinh be w\\niH wiis made captain of\\nI _ .MU, whiflh 1 -\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.,ri hr r I,\\nten years. In 1845 he was ^lerk over i turer, coiiinierci;i\\nJohn N. Berrv i lUd-thenew waysbeen afavon..\\nconstitution, and therefore who recogii y.e him af\\nleft his home at\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2:ii k, where lip f .,a whnlM-vesfnHi*\\nd by till iansot thi-\\n;r reijuireu\\nthree terms in fied. )r\\nLl.l-^iMl .1 Tirnt gnili-i it his honesty.)! 1 \\\\t-: n. i. ..\u00e2\u0096\u00a0t-L...\\nway to if the party. -she any of lhe r ind who, like the fi.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0123.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0124.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAR OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n105\\nAckerson, came from Holland and settled at Old Tap-\\npan, in Bergen County. He sometimes spelled his\\nname Px kerson, as do most of the older branches of\\nthe family to-day. He bought a large tract of land,\\nupon which he settled his oldest son, John, at Pas-\\ncack, leaving his two younger sons, Cornelius and\\nAbram, at his death in possession of the homestead at\\nTajipaii. John was grandfather of our subject, and\\nmarried Garritje Hogencamp, who bore him two chil-\\ndren. Garret and Hannah, who became the wife of\\nNicholas Zabriskie. John Ackerson was born in\\n1743, and died at Pascack at the age of ninety-four\\nyears.\\nGarret, his only son, was born in 1779, and died in\\n1857. He married Hannah, daughter of .John Ho-\\ngencamj), whose family were originally from Rockland\\nCounty. Garret Ackerson was considerable of a poli-\\ntician and a military man was twice elected as a\\nmember of the Legislature, and was major of the old\\nState militia, stationed with his command at Sandy\\nHook during the war of 1812-14, and afterwards was\\na major-general of the northern militia of the State of\\nKew Jersey, the counties of Bergen, Essex, and\\nMorris being the only three counties in the northern\\npart of the State at that time. He had four children,\\nJohn, Cornelius, Garret (t., and James. Garret G.\\nAckerson was born at Pascack on the 9th of April,\\n1816. He was educated at a public school, of which\\nGeorge Achenbach was at one time the teacher, and\\nJacob R. Wortendyke a schoolmate. His father, who\\nwas then engaged in farming, had also a cotton-mill, a\\ndistillery, and store on his premises, and of these his\\nson took charge, retaining the general superintend-\\nence until the year 1840, when he transferred his\\nefforts to another farm and established a woolen-mill\\nof his own.\\nIn 1839 the old Whig party caused a division to be\\nmade in Harrington township, and it became in con-\\nsequence Washington and Harrington townships. It\\nwas an innovation that did not suit everybody, and\\nthe result was not only a troublous time socially, but\\na period that persuaded both parties to put forward\\nthe best men they could command for political office.\\nMr. Garret G. Ackerson was elected assessor, and\\nthus commenced his political experience. His father\\nwas then major-general of militia, and the son was\\ndestined to follow in the paternal footsteps. At\\nthe age of fifteen he was made captain of a company\\nof uniformed militia, which position he retained for\\nten years. In 1845 he was elected county clerk over\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Tohn N. Berry, being the first elected under the new\\nconstitution, and by a large majority, and therefore\\nleft his home at Pascack and removed to Hacken-\\nsack, where he entered on the duties of his office. He\\nfound himself surrounded by the old politicians of the\\ncounty, and to make inroads against them required\\nalmost superhuman efforts. He filled three terms in\\nthis office, afld during this time gradually fought his\\nway to the leadership of the party. Besides this he\\ncame to be the counselor and banker of most of the\\nold people of that day, the vault of the clerk s office\\noftentimes containing thousands of dollars in gold and\\nsilver awaiting investment. At one time so much\\nbullion was stored in the building that it became\\nnecessary to divide it in small packages and store it\\nin all the obscure places in the building to prevent\\nthieves carrying it all off Shortly after he moved to\\nHackensack he was made chairman of the Demo-\\ncratic E.xecutive Committee, in place of Judge Garret\\nHopper, who had occupied the position almost since\\nthe organization of the Democratic party.\\nDuring his career as county clerk, between 1845 and\\n1860, he raised a company of Continentals, of which he\\nwas captain, and was elected lieutenant-colonel of an\\nindependent battalion which had been organized by\\nspecial act of the Legislature, and which remained in\\nexistence till 1861, when most of the men volunteered\\nand made up the Twenty-second State Regiment for\\nactive service in the war. As the supervising mind\\nof the committee on volunteers, he filled the whole\\nquota of Bergen County. In 1858-59 Hackensack\\nwas without a railroad, and Mr. Ackerson with other\\ncitizens resolved this should be the case no longer.\\nThey subscribed sufficient to build a road from this\\npoint to intersect with the Erie, and it became known\\nas the Hackensack Railroad. Mr. Anderson, the first\\npresident of the company, resigned before the com-\\npletion of the road, and Mr. Ackerson took his place\\nby unanimous election. Although the road sunk\\n$10,000 every year during the first three years of its\\nexistence, Mr. Ackerson contrived to make it a pay-\\ning institution before separating himself from control\\nof its affairs. At one time he and Judge Zabriskie\\nbecame personally responsible for about $60,000 in-\\ndebtedness of the road, and it may be imagined what\\nhard work it was to clear off this load. From that\\ntime until 1872 he was engaged in commercial enter-\\nprises.\\nIn 1872 Col. Ackerson became active in organizing\\nthe Bergen County Bank. The bank building was\\nerected in 1874, with George Achenbach, Esq., for its.\\nfirst president. He died, and was succeeded by Col.\\nAckerson, who retained the position until the bank\\nwas closed. On the 1st of April, 1877, he took his\\nseat as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, to\\nwhich he was appointed in the winter of 1876-77 by\\nGovernor Bedle, and whether as judge or colonel,\\nfreeholder, bank president, county clerk, manufac-\\nturer, commercial man, or private citizen, he has al-\\nways been a favorite with the people of Bergen County,\\nwho recognize him as one of the leading and influen-\\ntial men.\\nPersons who have studied character much in various\\nparts of the United vStates would read Judge Acker-\\nson upon meeting him as invariably courteous, digni-\\nfied, friendly, and sociable, who recognizes no dis-\\nhonesty or trickery, or whatever it may be called, in\\nany of the relations of life, and who, like the old cav-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0125.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "106\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nalters of the South, the latch-strings of whose doors\\nwere always down in the days gone by, who considered\\nit a reproach u|iiin tlieir hospitality for any respect-\\nable man to pass their doors without calling in, bring\\nback to the thoughtful and exjicrienced some memo-\\nries of American life and manners that ought never\\nto have been effaced from history. There is an ex-\\npression of content, self-respect, and cordiality which\\nis unmistakable as emitted from his face, and in com-\\nparison to which the details of his technical biogra-\\nphy are of but little moment.\\nThe patriotism of the Ackersons never was ques-\\ntioned. During the Revolution all the men of the\\nfamily participated actively in the struggle for inde-\\npendence, and surtered in common with others. They\\nlost property and friends by their devotion to the\\nAmerican cause, and were often stigmatized a.s\\nrebels by an influential Tory element. They were\\nsure they were right, and then they went ahead.\\nIt is characteristic of the Ackersons that they believe\\nin the maxim, Whatever is worth doing is worth\\ndoing well.\\nJudge Ackerson married, in 18.37, Sophia, daughter\\nof James I. Blauvelt and Martha Wortendyke, of\\nWashington township, who was born July 4, 1821,\\nand has borne him one son. Col. Garret Ackerson,\\nJr., and one daughter, Mattie, wife of H. V. Randall,\\nof Fall River, Mass.\\nCol. Oakuet Ackkrson, .Ik., was born at Pas-\\ncack, Sept. LO, 1840, and during his minority received\\na good education in the public and private schools at j\\nHackensack, and for some time he was a student in\\nthe ])opular and thorough private schools at Nyack\\nand Claverack the latter being conducted by the\\neminent and well-knowti teacher, Prof. Alon/.o Flack.\\nIn June, 1850, he commenced the study of law in\\nthe office of Hon. Jacob R. Wortendyke, of Jersey\\nCity, where he remained until he had completed his\\nlaw studies, and was admitted a.s attorney iit the .Mine\\nterm of the Supreme t ourt, held at Trenton, in 186;?.\\nOn Julv !l, I8(i;j, Col. .Vckerson n)arricd.\\\\nn ICIiza-\\nbeth, daughter of John A. /abriskie and Mary An-\\nderson, by whom he has three sons, John Zabriskie,\\nJames B., and Garret G. Ackerson, Jr.\\nThe same munlh of his nuirriage Col. .\\\\ckerson\\nopened a law-otlice in Hackensack, and about one year\\nafterwards removed to the olKcc he now occupies in\\nthe same village, where he has continued tlic practice\\nof his profession since, a period of eighteen years.\\nHe was admitted an counselor-at-law in 1878, and was 1\\nappointed i rosecutor of pleas for Hergen County in\\nltS\u00c2\u00bb;i which position, on account of the pressure of\\nother business, lie alt r some two years resigned.\\nIn early life .Mr. Ackerson began to take an active\\npart in local politics, and for many years has been\\namong the leailers and influential men of the Demo-\\ncratic party in the county and .State, and he has also\\nbeen identified with the militia, intcriuil Improve-\\nment.s, an l various local enterprises in Hergen anil\\nadjoining counties during most of his active business\\ncareer.\\nIn 1867 he was appointed judge-advocate of a bat-\\ntalion of militia in the county; was elected captain of\\nCompany C of the .Second Battalion National (iuards\\nupon its organization in 1872, which position he re-\\nsigned in 1875; and he was appointed judge-advocate-\\ngeneral of the State of New Jersey, with rank of col-\\nonel, by Governor George B. McCh-Uan.in 1S79, which\\nottice lie holds in 1881.\\nCol. Ackerson has been president of the Hacken-\\nsack Railroad since 1879, is a director of the New\\nJersey and New York Railroad Company, has been\\none of the board of the Hackensack Improvement\\nCommission, was secretary and treasurer from 1863 to\\n1867 of the Bergen County Mutual .\\\\ssurancc Asso-\\nciation, and a director of the same since 1863, and a\\nstockholder and trustee of Hackensack Academy.\\nAlthough active and earnest in his political affilia-\\ntions, he has never been solicitous of place or the\\nemoluments of ofiice. In 1876 he was a delegate from\\nthe Fourth Congre-ssional District to the St. Louis\\nDemocratic Convention that placed in nomination\\nfor the Presidency Hon. Samuel J. Tildeu, and in\\nthe fall of 1880 he received the unanimous nomina-\\ntion by acclamation for State .senator, which, how-\\never, he declined. Col. Ackerson is the present chair-\\nman of the County Democratic Executive Committee.\\n.\\\\iiKAH.\\\\M D. Cami HELI,. HIs paternal great-\\ngrandfather, John, who was of Scotch origin and a\\nnative of New Jersey, settled in Washington town-\\nship, at Pascack, just after the close of the Revolu-\\ntiomiry war. There he established a wampum-factory\\nand carried on a considerable liusiness, supplying all\\nthe Indian agents and traders of the day with this\\ncommodity. He had eight children, all of whom\\nsettled in the vicinity of the homestead. One son,\\n.\\\\braham A. Campbell, married Margaret Demarest,\\nwho bore him four sons who grew to manhood, viz.:\\nJohn James David and .Miraliam For\\na time the father ofthe.se sons resided at Pi arl River,\\nin Bergen County, where in a small way he manufac-\\ntured wampum, but prior to 1812 returueil to Pascack,\\nwhere he established the first and only foundry ever\\nthere, ami during the remainder of his life was en-\\ngaged in farming and in tnanufacturing agricultural\\nimplements and W!im|ium. He owned some one hun-\\ndred acres ol land at Pa.scack, which has been the\\nhomestead of the Campbell family since.\\nHe served in the war of 1812 at Sandy Hook, and\\nhis musket and kiuipsack are relics of that war now\\nin possession of the family. Abraham anipbell\\nwas one of the founders of the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch at I a.scack, and e |Ually with a Mr. Worten-\\ndyke donated five acres of land for the church prop-\\nerly. During the early days in the history of the\\nchurch there his house was ever the welcome stop-\\nping-place and hospitable home for the pastor who\\non his circuit came there to preach, and his charity", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0126.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "^:%m\\\\V\\\\", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0127.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0128.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0129.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "//Ayi^y-^^f^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0130.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAR OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n107\\nand hospitality were only bounded by his means to\\nbestow. He was among the first elders and deacons\\nwho had a membership in that church, where the\\nfamily still retain their cluirch relations.\\nOf his sons, David A. Campbell is father of our sub-\\nject, and was born at Pascack, Jan. 10, 1812. He was\\napprenticed and learned the carpenter s trade during\\nhis minority, and for some time prior to and after his\\nmarriage followed that business in New York and at\\nPascack. About 1850 he, in connection with his\\nbrother James, invented a machine for drilling wam-\\npum hair-pipe, which is manufactured from conch-\\nshells and clam-shells. This brought about such an\\nactivity in the business, which had been carried on by\\nhis ancestors, that his other brothers, James A., John\\nA., and Abraham A., who were all mechanics, at once\\ngave their attention to the business, and since that\\ntime the four brothers have made the manufacture\\nand sale of wampum goods their main occupation,\\nwith their factory located on the homestead at Pas-\\ncack.\\nDavid A. Campbell s wife is Sally, daughter of\\nAbraham Haring, of Scotland Mills, Rockland Co.,\\nN. Y., who has borne him the following surviving\\nchildren: Maria, widow of the late William I. Cour-\\ntier; Abraham D. Margaret, wife of Abraham Post,\\nof Jersey City John D. and James D. (twins) Dan-\\niel H. and Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin X. Mackey,\\nof Paterson, N. J.\\nAbraham D., sou of David A. Campbell, was born\\nOct. 10, 1842. His early education until eighteen\\nyears of age was obtained in the common school of\\nhis native place, and for one year following he was\\na teacher at Washingtonville. He then attended the\\nschool at Hackensack for a few months, and during\\nthis time was elected school superintendent of his\\ntownship, which position, however, he resigned after\\na short time, and in February, 1861, entered the State\\nNormal School at Trenton, from which he was gradu-\\nated in the class of 63. After spending one year as\\nteacher, he entered the law-office of Col. Garret Ack-\\nerson, Jr., at Hackensack, as a student was admitted\\nas attorney at the June term in 1869, and as coun-\\nselor-at-law in 1872.\\nA few months after his admission as attorney he\\nopened a law-office in Hackensack, and Aug. 7, 1870,\\nhe was appointed prosecutor of pleas, to fill the va-\\ncancy caused by the resignation of Col. Ackerson, Jr.\\nOn September 1st of the same year he was appointed\\nby Governor Randolph to fill that office until the end\\nof the next se.ssion of the Legislature. He was ap-\\npointed April 5, 1871, for a full term filled the office\\nuntil Nov. 10, 1874, and resigned but on December\\n7th following he was reappointed, and by reappoint-\\nments March 18, 1875, and March 18, 1880, he has\\nremained since the incumbent of that office.\\nMr. Campbell became interested in the militia or-\\nganization soon after taking up his residence in Hack-\\nensack was mustered as a member of Company C,\\nSecond Battalion, Oct. 8, 1872, and commissioned\\nas quartermaster, and on March 15, 1876, he was com-\\nmissioned captain of the company, which office he\\nholds in 1881.\\nCapt. Campbell was united in marriage Sept. 22,\\nj 1869, to Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob H. Hop-\\nper and Lydia Bogert, of Hackensack, and by this\\nunion has five children, Luther, Eva, David, Harry,\\nand Nicholas Demarest Campbell.\\nCornelius Christie was born Dec. 6, 1835, at\\nLeonia, in the township of Ridgefield, at the time of\\nI his birth known as English Neighborhood, in the\\nI township of Hackensack.\\nI On his father s side he was of Scotch descent. His\\ngreat-great-grandfather, James Christie, a native of\\nScotland, died at Schraalenburgh, now in the town-\\nship of Palisades, April 16, 1768, aged ninety-six or\\nj ninety-eight years. William, son of James, born\\ni Aug. 9, 1720, married Catalynthe Demarest, Sept. 22,\\n1743, and died Sept. 13, 1809. To William and Cata-\\nlynthe Christie were born twelve children. James,\\ntheir eldest child, was born Aug. 20, 1744, married\\nMaria Banta in 1772, and died July 3, 1817. To\\nJames and Maria Christie were born eleven children,\\nof whom David, the eighth child, was born Dec. 1,\\nI 1789, married Anna Brinkerhoff March 12, 1814, and\\ndied April 8, 1848. To David and Anna Christie\\nwere born fifteen children, of whom Cornelius Chris-\\ntie, subject of this sketch, was tlie twelfth.\\nOn his mother s side Cornelius Christie is a de-\\nI scendant of Joris Derickson Brinckerhoff (the cin the\\n1 name having been since then dropped by the family),\\na person of honorable Flemish extraction, who, with\\nhis wife, Susannah Dubbels, emigrated to this coun-\\ntry from the United Provinces in 1638 and settled in\\nBrooklyn, N. Y., where he died Jan. 16, 1661. Hen-\\ndrick, one of the four children of Joris, married\\nClausie Boomgaert, and, June 17, 1685, bought a tract\\nof land on the east banks of the Hackensack, at a\\nplace formerly known as Old Hackensack, now as\\nRidgefield Park, in the township of Ridgefield, where\\nhe removed with his family. Here he died shortly\\nafterwards, leaving three sons, of whom Jacobus and\\nDerrick took the paternal acres at Old Hackensack,\\nand Cornelius removed to Bergen. Jacobus and his\\nwife Agnetie had four, and Jacob, son of Jacobus,\\nhad seven, children. Albert, son of Jacob, was born\\nMarch 21, 1763, married Kesia Voorhis in 1796, and\\ndied Dec. 8, 1844. Albert and Kesia Brinkerhoff had\\nthree children, of whom Anna, wife of David Chris-\\ntie, above named, was the eldest, and was born May 12,\\n1797.\\nThe above-named ancestors of Cornelius Christie\\non both sides were without exception characterized\\nby the severest integrity, a Calvinistic orthodoxy, and\\na devoted patriotism. Their religious connection was\\nwith the Dutch Reformed Church. In the war of in-\\ndependence they were ardent and fearless patriots, and\\nsome of them rendered valuable service and suffered", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0131.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "108\\nHISTORY OF BERGExX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nserious hardship in the patriot cause. James Christie,\\nfather of David, bore a commission an captain of the\\nmilitia in that war, and tasted some of its bitterness.\\nIn reward for the zeal of his family the homestead of\\nWilliam, the father of James, was burned to the ground\\non the same ticket. Having a ta-ste for journalism, in\\n1871 he temporarily abandoned his profe.-ision and\\nstarted T/ie Xeir Jersey Citizen, a weekly pa|)er, at\\nHackensack, as editor and proprietor, devoting it to\\nthe promotion of local interests and the improvement\\nby ecjually zealous royalist.*, and John, a brother of of journalism in the county, in ])olitics making it iii-\\nJames, at the same time with Lucas, a brother of\\nAlbert Brinkcrhofl above named, .suflered for a time\\nthe horrors of imprisonment in the famous Sugar-\\nHouse. The feelings engendered by the war rankled\\nlong in the hearts of the survivors, and manifested\\nthemselves in striking ways. It is told of William,\\nthe father of .lames, that when he wa.s afterwards\\npressed by his neighbors to accept the office of justice\\nof the peace he persistently declined, and being asked\\nthe reason finally answered that if he were made jus-\\ntice he would feel bound to do justice to all alike, but\\nhe felt that he could not do justice to the Tories.\\nThey were all chieHy engaged in agricultural pur-\\nsuits, in connection, incidentally, in some cases with\\nanother trade or profession. John, a brother of David,\\nwas a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and\\nsettled at Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., where he died\\nafter a long and faithful pastorate. Peter, another\\nbrother of David, wa.s for a long time a surgeon in\\nthe I nited Ijtates navy, and died at Erie, Pa.\\nUpon his marriage to Anna Brinkerhotl David\\nChristie, who with his ancestors above named had\\nalways continued to live at Schraalenburgh, removed\\nto the city of New York and engaged in the business\\nof stone-cutting, the trade to which he had devoted\\nhimself By skill and energy he prospered from the\\nfirst, and by his high character commanded the es-\\nteem of all who knew him. In IS.*}. he purchased\\nthe homestead farm of Garret Meyer, at English\\nNeighborhood (now Leonia), retired from business,\\nand removed there with his family to spend his re-\\nmaining days. At his death he left his widow and\\nten children, of whom his widow and si.\\\\ children,\\nincluding Cornelius Christie, subject of this sketch,\\nstill survive. The widow, now in her eiglity-sixth\\nyear, is still living on the old place at Leonia, well\\npreserved in health and faculties for one of her years.\\nOf the children, James Christie, present collector of\\nthe township of Ilidgefield, l)y a singular coincidence\\nwon a commission as captain in the late war, as his\\ngrandfather of the same name did in the Revolution.\\nCornelius Christie, after a preparatory course with\\nthe Rev. Dr. Malion, lately elected to the pr( fes, ional\\nchair in the theological seminary at New Brunswick,\\nentered Yale College, and taking the full curriculum\\ngraduated in IS. j. J. He chose the profession of the\\nlaw, and in 1860, having spent a year at Harvard Law-\\nHchoiil and finished his studies with the late Chan-\\ncelli)r /abriskic, was ailniittrd to the New Jersey bar,\\nand shortly afterwards opened a law-office in Jersey\\nCity. In lH()ti, while engaged in practice there, he\\nwas elected to the Lower House of the New Jersey\\nLegiHiature as a Democrat, and in 1807 was re-elected\\ndependently Democratic. He continued to publish\\nthe Citizen for six years, three as a weekly and three\\nas a semi-weekly, and then in 1877, other interests\\nand duties imperatively demanding his attention,\\nceased the publication.\\nIn 1879 he resumed the practice of the law at Jersey\\nCity, where he is still located. His residence has\\nalways been at Leonia. He has never married.\\nJudge Nehe.mi.\\\\h Millarp is the son of Wil-\\nliam, the son of Jonathan, the son of Robert, the son\\nof Nehemiah Millanl. first ancestor of the family in\\n.Vmerica, who settled in Rehoboth, R. I., in ItJGO. The\\nfamily came originally from Normandy, in France,\\nwhere the name exists to-day thence to England,\\nand then to this country. Robert, the second in the\\nline of descent, was a Baptist clergyman, living to\\nthe age of ninety years, and an ardent and active\\npatriot in the Revolution. .Tonathan was a tanner in\\nDutchess County, N. Y., and William, the father of\\nthejudge, was also a tanner in Delaware County, N. Y.,\\nhaving settled there early in an almost |\u00c2\u00bbrimeval wil-\\nderness. He accumulated properly, was prominent", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0132.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "The Van Vulfciis are found in Bergen County as early as\\n17(H, as deeds now in possession of the subject of this sketch\\nbearing date that year show the purchase of some two thousnnd\\nsix hundred acres of land by the Van Valens from Lancaster\\nSyms, being all the Palisade lands from the Jay line extending\\nfrom the lluilson on the east to Overpeek Creek on the west.\\nThe names of the purchasers are Johannes, Bernardus, Gideon,\\nand Rynier Van Valen.\\nUpon examination of the records of the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch at Old Tajipan, Rockland Co., N. Y., where M:ijor Andri-\\nwas tried, the name of Johannes ^an Valcn appears among its\\nfounders in 1686; hence it is reasonable to suppose the family\\nwere among the first settlers from Holland in this county.\\nBernardus Van A alen, great-grandfather of Jauies M. an\\nValen, resided at Closter, was a minute-man, and belonged to\\nthe militia. During the Revolutionary war he was taken\\n]irisoner and confined in the Old Pugar-llouse in New York\\nCity.\\nHe built a stone house on his farm, still standing near the\\npresent railroad depot at Closter. He died in 1S20, aged eighty\\nyears, leaving five children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James, Andrew, Cornelius, Isaac,\\nand Jane.\\nHis grandfather, James Van Valen, was a farmer at Closter,\\nbut removed to Clark^town, where he died in August, 1786, at\\nthe age of twenty-six years, leaving three children, liarney,\\nSarah, wife of Henry Westervelt. and Cornelius. Of these\\nchildren, Cornelius, who was father of our sketch, was born\\nMay 21. 17S6, at Clarkstown, Rockland Co., N. Y. In ISflS he\\nwas united in marriage to Elizabeth Biaekledge, and shortly\\nafter removed to New York City, where he was engaged as a\\ncontractor and builder for a number of years. In 1832 he\\nbought a farm in Englewood. then Hackensack township,\\nBergen Co., where he resided for some seven years, and tben\\nsold his property and purchased another farm at Teaneck,\\nwhere his wife died soon after.\\nThe children of this union who grew up are Caroline, wife\\nof David Anderson, and Cornelius.\\nHis second wife was Jane, daughter of Abram Zabriskie, of\\nParamus, who bore him three children, Eliza, wife of Edward\\nBower, who died in 1867, James M., and Sarah A., wife of\\nCornelius D. Schor, of Leonia, Bergen Co.\\nJames M. Van Valen, son of Cornelius and Jane (Zabriskie)\\nVan Valen, was born at Teaneck, July 21, 1842. His boyhood\\nwas passed at home, where he received a common-school edu-\\ncation.\\nAt the age of twenty he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-\\nsecond Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, commanded by\\nLieut. -Col. Douglass, and subsequently by Col. A. G. Demarest,\\nof Closter, Bergen Co. This regiment was composed of men\\nwho enlisted for nine months, and after being in AVashiugton\\nand stationed at Georgetown for some time it became a part of\\nthe Army of the Potomac, and was in service at Aquia Creek\\nuntil January, 1863, when the regiment was ordered to Belle\\nPlain. A part of it was in the battle of Fredericksburg and\\non the celebrated Mud March of Gen. Burnside. It composed\\na part of Gen. Wadsworth s division. First Army Corps, that\\nmade a feint on the left in the battle of Chancellorsville. Re-\\nturning to the neighborhood of Fredericksburg, the regiment\\nremained on picket duty for most of the summer, and then re-\\nsumed the march to Centreville, Md., and was mustered out of\\nservice.\\nAfter his discharge Mr. Van Valen returned to New York,\\nwhere he was engaged in business until 1866, and for five years\\nafterwards was a teacher, devoting all his spare time to study.\\nIn November, 1S71, he entered the law-office of Col. Garret\\nAckerson, Jr., at Hackensack. was admitted as attorney in 1875,\\nand as counselor in 1878. Upon his admission as attorney be\\nformed a law partnership with Col. Ackerson, which has con-\\ntinued since.\\nIn 1872. Mr. Van Valen was a member of the New Jersey\\nNational Guard, Company A, then in command of Maj. Moore;\\nbut soon after settling in Hackensack he raised the New Jersey\\nNational (Juard, Company C. .Second Battalion, and took the\\nrank of first lieutenant, with Col. Garret Ackerson as captain.\\nThe companj- is now under the command of Capt. A. D. Camp-\\nbell. In 1876 he resigned his position of first lieutenant and\\nwas commissioned (juartermaster of the battalion, which posi-\\ntion he resigned the same year. He was a member of the\\nMasonic lodge in Hoboken in 1866, was made a member in\\nHackensack in 1875, and has been Master of the lodge since\\nDecember, 1S80.\\nMr. Van Valen is a student of his profession, and has a nat-\\nural taste for reading and study. Self-reliant and persevering,\\nhe has made his way unassisted to bis present position as a\\nlawyer, to which profession be has given almost his entire at-\\ntention since he began the practice of the law.\\nHe was united in marriage to Anna A., daughter of Theo.\\nSmith and Catharine Van Nostrand, of Nyack, N. Y., now of\\nJersey City Heights. Their only surviving child is James A.\\nVan Valen.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0135.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0136.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAR OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n109\\nin public affairs, was supervisor in the county sixteen\\nyears in succession, but declined more offices than he\\nwould accept. He died, much honored and beloved,\\nin 1853. Millard Fillmore, late President of the\\nUnited States, and William Millard were cousins.\\nNehemiah, the subject of this sketch, was born in\\nDelhi, Delaware Co., July 18, 1828, in a family of\\neleven children. He attended the schools from the\\nage of three years, graduating at Union College,\\nSchenectady, N. Y., in 1848, and on the merit-roll,\\niis it was called, in a class of over one hundred stu-\\ndents, he stood at the head in general scholarship and\\nscholastic attainments. Gen. Arthur, President of the\\nUnited States, Judge Charles C. Nott, of the United\\nStates Court of Claims, and several others who have\\nsince become prominent were members of this class.\\nMr. Millard s father and grandfather had been teach-\\ners, and his mother, Anna Loomis, also, and he be-\\ncame the principal of an academy after graduation.\\nHe studied law in Delhi, in the office of Col. Parker;\\nin Albany with Hon. Azor Taber, a leading lawyer\\nin his day at the Ballston Spring Law-School, and\\nwas co-student with ex-Governor Bedle, of this State;\\nand then in the office of his brother, A. B. Millard,\\nin New York City, and was admitted to the bar\\nthere in 1850. He commenced practice in Marquette\\nCounty, Wis., in 1851, and was special public prose-\\ncutor in some important criminal cases there; thence\\nhe returned to the city of New York, opened an office\\nwith his brother, and continued in active practice\\nthere for twenty-five years. He became prominent\\nas counsel in the Tibbets cases, in which Luther C.\\nTibbets, while a member of the Corn Exchange,\\nowned or controlled in speculation nearly one million\\nbushels of corn. Tibbets was indicted for assaulting\\nand attempting to kill the janitor of the Corn Ex-\\nchange, and was for a long time involved in many\\ncivil litigations growing out of this unfortunate con-\\ntest.\\nHis skill as an advocate extended the practice of\\nMr. Millard through all tlie courts, and as counsel\\nto the highest Court of Appeals. In 1868 he moved\\nto New Jersey, still continuing his practice in New\\nYork but in 1874, by the unanimous vote of both\\njiarties in the New Jersey Legislature, on joint bal-\\nlot, he was elected a judge of the Court of Common\\nPleas in Bergen County, and serving faithfully in that\\noffice through a term of five years, he was greatly\\ndrawn away from the active and responsiljle duties of\\nhis profession in New York City. It was certainly\\na great pecuniary sacrifice, whatever judicial honors\\nthe office may have conferred. Since the judge left\\nthe bench he has been practicing law in Bergen\\nCounty and in New York, having been admitted to\\nthe bar of New Jersey several years since. He is an\\nable lawyer, a ready speaker, and an eloquent and\\npersuasive advocate before a jury, and especially in\\ncriminal cases. He is a close student, fond of the study\\nof the languages (being familiar with the Greek and\\n8\\nHebrew and some seven or eight other languages).\\nHe is a forcible writer, and has contributed much to\\nthe newspapers and ])ublications of the day. His\\nwife, Lydia M. Millard, is also a frecjuent contributor\\nto the current literature of the present, and her\\npoetic translations from Scandinavian languages,\\nmainly the Swedish, have attracted the favorable\\nnotice and commendation of some of the leading\\npoets and scholars in this country and Europe. Their\\nfamily consists of one son (a graduate of Princeton\\nCollege) and three daughters.\\nIsaac Wortendyke was born at Newtown (now\\nWortendyke), Bergen Co., N. J., on Oct. 2, 1823,\\nHis father, Abraham Wortendyke, and his mother,\\nCatharine Demarest, were of Holland ancestors. His\\nemployment in his younger years in his father s cot-\\nton-factory or upon his father s farm was not relished,\\nas he was more inclined to books and study. At the\\nage of sixteen he taught a village or country school,\\nand continued teaching until it was determined by\\nhis father to give him a collegiate education. He pur-\\nsued his preparatory studies with the late Hon. Jacob\\nR. Wortendyke until he entered the sophomore class\\nat Rutgers College, at which institution he graduated\\nin 1846, being awarded the first honor of his class.\\nHe then resumed the occupation of teacher, and\\nwas principal of Claverack Academy, New York, from\\n1846 to 1849.\\nHe began the study of law at Hudson, N. Y., with\\nClaudius L. Monell, Esq. and when Mr. Monell re-\\nmoved to New York City, Mr. Wortendyke followed,\\nand continued his legal studies at the office of Messrs.\\nSutherland Monell, in New York City, and was\\nadmitted to practice in New York as attorney and\\ncounselor-at-law in 1851.\\nFrom January, 1868, to January, 1878, a period nl\\nten years, Mr. Wortendyke, having made his resi-\\ndence in New Jersey, filled the office of surrogate ol\\nhis native county of Bergen. After the expiration of\\nhis term as surrogate he was admitted by the New\\nJersey Supreme Court as an attorney-at-law in New\\nJersey. He is now engaged in the practice of law,\\nhaving his office at Hackensack, and residing at Mid-\\nland Park, N. J. He also holds by appointment the\\npositions of master and examiner in chancery, notary\\npublic, and New York commissioner.\\nIn 1880 he was elected to the New Jersey Senate\\nby a majority of 626.\\nIn the Legislature of 1881, Mr. Wortendyke served\\non the following committees: Militia, Corporations,\\nand Elections, and on the joint committees on Treas-\\nurer s Accounts, State Prison, and Public Grounds\\nand Buildings.\\nIn the Legislature of 1882 he served on the follow-\\ning committees: Revision of the Laws and Militia,\\nand on joint committees on Public Grounds and\\nBuildings and Sinking Fund, and on a special com-\\nmittee in relation to the finances of the State.\\nHis term as senator will expire in 1884.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0137.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "110\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEX AND PASSAIC COUiNTIKS, NKW JKRSEY.\\nCHAPTER XXV.\\nTHE MEDICAL PKOFESSION IN BERGEN COUNTY.\\nThere were few physicians in tlic immediate ter-\\nritory of this fouiity at an early time. Holland\\nseems to have sent forth none regularly bred to the\\nprofession, although her university at Leyden wa.s\\namong the most renowned for chemistry and kindred\\nsciences in Europe. Her learning, however, at the\\nperiod of the colonization of New Netherland was\\nchiefly scholastic, and pertained more to the intel-\\nlectual and religious wants of the community than to\\nthe laws of physical liealth and well-being. Indeed,\\nthe science of medicine was in its infancy all over\\nthe civilized worlii; what is now understood by that\\nterm has been the growth chiefly of the last hundred\\nyears. There was no such thing as a school of medi-\\ncine, not even a course of lectures on this subject in\\nAmerica till the middle of the eighteenth century.\\nDr. Williain Hunter, of Newport, K. I., a Scotch\\nphysician, was the first to introduce lectures to stu-\\ndents, in 17 )4, and the first attempt at instruction by\\ndissection was made in New York by Drs. Hard and\\nMiddleton in 1750. The first medical school was\\nfounded in Philadelphia, in connection with the col-\\nlege, in 171)5, Drs. Shippen and Morgan being ap-\\npointed |)rofe.ssors. In New York the first medical\\nschool was foundeil, in connection with King s Col-\\nlege, in 17(i7, but only eleven degrees were conferred\\nprevious to the breaking out of the Revolution, which\\n8us|)ended all operations in that direction till after\\nthe war, in 1784. In connection with t^ueen s Col-\\nlege, New Hrunswick, there was a Medical Depart-\\nment from 1702 to 1810, but this department was\\nlocated in the city of New York. It wa.s founded by\\nthe eminent pliysician. Dr. Nicholas Itomaine, and\\nothers, who, being unsuccessful in their effort to con-\\nnect it with Columbia College, ajiplicd to the trustees\\nof (iuecn s, anil obtained under llicir charter author-\\nity to complete their organization. During this time,\\nfrom 1792 to 1816, only thirty-si.x medical degrees\\nwere conferred. Princeton College had no Medical\\nDepartment till 1825, and it wa.s soon after arrested\\nby the death of Dr. .lohn Van Cleve, in whose abil-\\nity as a distinguished physician the college relied to\\ncarry their plan into execution. In 1818, and for\\nsome time later, there was no means or method in\\nNew Jersey by which the degree of Doctor of Medi-\\ncine could be conferred upon anybody.\\n1 (ni\u00c2\u00bbrten \u00c2\u00abl imnia cliniifte*! lu Kiitffen in IBI^ i.\\n3 TliA Mwllcal Society nt New JerMy in Mny, 181s, iiiiiNiliitiMl u com.\\nniilloo t li-viM \u00c2\u00abinie hioIIkmI l.y wlilch tlio tlegrpe of Mmlirinu- IKntor\\nni\u00c2\u00aby li* ronfKrrwl in Now Jel\u00c2\u00bbry. The iiiliject wu |)rcM nt\u00c2\u00abMl to thi*\\ntm\u00c2\u00able\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab of tlio rollogn (at i rliicelun) liy l r. Vnn Clovp, tmntco, lio\\nwu m\\\\vt one of tlio ruinmlttro of tlio \u00e2\u0096\u00a0ocloty, Willi tlin in()tilry wlu-thor\\nany nrrangpniviit l-oii1i1 niado with tlip iKiant with r\u00c2\u00abganl tii conforrltiK\\ntloK folnnilttiMi to wlioni (hoiiilijocl w\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab rrforretl rrportwl April\\ni:i, IHIO, That in lliolr tipinlon 11 woiiM iiii x| nl|piil to ontor Into\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0urh an arrnnf[enialit jirorloiiH to the eatal litihmt tit in tin* Itialltnllon uf\\na ronnM* of Inalrinrllon In liiofllitml iclencc. \u00e2\u0080\u00943fac/c.m i/Uf. l^unft\\nStudents of medicine in New Jersey generally\\nsought their instruction in Philadelphia; this was\\nespecially the ca.se with those in the western part of\\nthe State, and to a considerable extent in the eastern,\\nand remains so still, excepting those more immedi-\\nately contiguous to the Hudson River.\\nIn the early years of its history New .lersey had\\namong its medical men a very limited tew who had\\nreceived their training in the schools of Europe. The\\nprofession was at the first largely composed of those\\nwho, without liberal education, spent a few years or\\nmonths with some practitioner, and read a few books\\non medicine which came within their reach. One of\\nthe most noted books relied upon by early [iractilion-\\ners was Salmon s Herbal, a folio of thirteen hun-\\ndred pages, published in 1G06, describing the medici-\\nnal i)roperties of plants and herbs. Allibone says of\\nthe author, He was a noted empiric. Dr. Stephen\\nWickes says that this was the text-book of a New\\nJersey physician of large practice, and, in his day, of\\nmuch reputation, who, being a man of property, sent\\na messenger to England to obtain it. The cost of the\\nvolume was \u00c2\u00a350.\\nDr. John Blanc, in his Medical History of Hun-\\nterdon County, referring to the practice of the early\\ndays, says,\\nEvery neigiilKirhooti noi mn lu liavi Imtl aunie one who i-oniil iileed\\nand I Xtmct leetii si ine (Koneraily Gorriiniiii) i-oniii cu| Occajiionaliy\\na liatidy man cuilld Hlruightoii a cnnikoil lioiio if it wan hrokoli, get\\ngreat credit for doing no, unit was called a iluctur. Kcmilv ac m Jifun\\nwero liluntiful, particnlxrty among the (jerman and Ruglixh part of the\\npopnlHllon. In neiiriy ail caaee the rellieiliea were the gruwtli of the\\nBoil, but cry little ajKitlieCMry inediclne* l\u00c2\u00abiiig need, and tliat of the\\nmust vinilde kind. Lingering ca^ee among the wealthy receive l alten-\\ntiuli fnini a great distance, Biirlingtun, lliicks ruunty, and riuladel-\\nphla.\\nWhat was true of Hunterdon L ouuty in those days\\nwas also true of Rergen. Indeed, a similar state of\\nthings existed in the new settleiiieiits throughout all\\nthe colonies. Those most subject to local malarial\\ndiseases hail greatest cause for remedies, and in such\\nlocalities the homely healing art of the times would\\nmake most rapid progress.* Such places would natu-\\nAs showing liie lieultlifiilneMluf IWrgen Cuuiily, even tu this day, llie\\nfullowin.- atatiHllcs of longerlly. taken frtim Ihe lltrgtn County l^tmocrM\\nuf April zri, ls7 .i. are appended:\\nIllchanl I anllKon. Uldgefleld IXI JMin.\\nJohn Kd .all, llidgelleld 83\\nDaniel Westervell, Tonally W\\nSarah I anipbell. Tonally W\\nPeloi Hel ler. ric\u00c2\u00bbtor 90\\nMrs. .Haniuei It lieiiiiirent, Oloeter S4\\nJ..hn f\\\\KH~T, Neiv .Milfonl I\u00c2\u00abV\\nRoliert Annott, Korl l.eo 69\\nKllen Van Waggimor, New Mllfurd 8S\\nI eler llogeil, llackoiiiiuik 8\u00c2\u00bb\\nMm. .Saiiliini, Iladii-nnack 87\\nMr. Wanl, llnekensaik \u00c2\u00ab7\\nAaron itigorl, llai keiiaack 84\\nMrs. I ter Ileiiitire-I, llackeiinck S.*!\\nJohn llerrinir, llai-keniiaek 82\\nI elor IV.gert, llneknnsack 80\\nilainalioi Hose, II,ukoii-\u00c2\u00abrk 80\\nl al|ili ChriMie, .S. hrualonhurxh 88\\nJiiroli f lirislie. Si-hnialonlinrKll 8\\nlohn Jentey, I luieiirk 8A\\nlni lliiiilol Oenmirftt, Pasenrk 8\\nI elor Iloiterl, Vmi\\\\ Mai^konrack 84", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0138.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THK MKDICAL PROFESSION IN BERGEN COUNTY.\\nIll\\nrally have the largest number of doctors. Among\\nthe Hollanders of Bergen County there was little need\\nfor physicians for many years after the first settle-\\nments began the climate was healthy, and they\\nwere of a hardy and enduring constitution. Malarial\\nand other local diseases [irevailed quite extensively\\namong the early settlers of West Jersey, while those\\nin the eastern portion were comparatively free from\\nthem. All the early writers and correspondents who\\ndescribe the condition of the country, either in books\\nor letters to their friends abroad, unite in pronouncing\\nEast Jersey a very healthy country. The absence of\\nearly physicians in the immediate locality of Bergen\\nCounty, or resident physicians within its limits, is\\nalso accounted for by the fact that the more wealthy\\nof the citizens obtained their medical assistance from\\nplaces around them, such as New York, Elizabeth-\\ntown, and Newark. In these places there were at an\\nearly time some of the most distinguished physicians\\nin the country, and their proximity to the interior\\nsettlements rendered their services available in cases\\nof emergency. At a period somewhat later Bergen,\\nBelleville, and Hackensack were supplied with phy-\\nsicians of their own.\\nMedicine as a profession in New Jersey may be\\nsaid to have received a new tone and impulse from\\nthe founding of the Medical Association of the prov-\\nince in 176t). This was the first provincial medical\\nsociety in any of the colonies, and it speaks well for\\nNew Jersey that there were within her limits a suffi-\\ncient number of intelligent and able physicians to\\nbring about the organization of such an institution.\\nThe initiative of the organization appears, from the\\nfollowing notice published in the New Yort Mer-\\ncurij, to have been taken by the physicians of East\\nJersey\\nA oout^iJerable number of the practitiuuers of physic and surgery iu\\nEast New Jersey, having agreed to form a society for their mutual im-\\nprovement, the advaucement of tiie profession, and promotion of the\\npublic good, and desirous of extending as much as possible the useful-\\nUfss of their scheme, and of cultivating the utmost harmony and friend-\\nship with their brethren, hereby reciuest and invite every gentleman of\\nthe profession iu the province that nuiy approve of their design to attend\\ntheir first meeting, which will be held at Mr. DufTs. in the city of New-\\nBrunswick, on Wednesday, the -I M of Jvily, at which time and place the\\nconstitution and regulations of the society are to be settled and sub-\\nscril ed.\\nEast Nkw Jersey. June 27, 1766.\\nSixteen physicians responded to the call, and on\\nthe day appointed the Medical Society ot New Jersey\\nwas organized. The constitution that day adopted is\\nsigned by the following physicians\\nRoBT. McKean, Thos. Wiggin,s,\\nChris. Maxlove, William Adams,\\nJohn Coohrax, Berx. Budd,\\nMoses Bloo.mfield, Lawrence V. Derveer,\\nJames Gillilaxd, Johx Griffith,\\nWm. Burxet, Isaac Harris,\\nJoNA. Daytox, Joseph Sackett, Jr.\\nThe society continued to hold its semi-annual meet-\\nings till 1775, when they were interrupted by the\\nRevolution, and remained suspended till May, 1782.\\nThey were regularly held from the latter date till\\n1795, when they were again suspended till 1807, at\\nwhich date an act of the Legislature was passed to\\nratify and confirm its proceedings. The society has\\ncontinued in operation till the present time, notwith-\\nstanding the organization of a formidable rival by\\nDr. Micheau, of Elizabethtown, called The East\\nJersey Medical Society, in 1790. For a time this\\nlatter society drew heavily from the interests of the\\nold organization, on account of the majority of the\\nphysicians being located in East Jersey; but the\\nlatter, after a few years suspension and a few more\\nj of struggle, gained its rightful supremacy over the\\nprofession in the State, which it has continued to\\nhold from that day to the present.\\nThis society, while it closed the avenues of practice\\nto many quacks and pretenders to medical knowledge,\\nopened the door to many honest and conscientious\\nstudent-s who had not the opportunity of obtaining\\ndiplomas from medical colleges. It adopted a stand-\\nard of medical qualification and ethics which ele-\\nvated the profession and gave it dignity and charac-\\nter throughout the State. From the first it gave\\nlicenses to students to practice, but only to such as\\nfulfilled the high conditions which it required. The\\nhonor of membership in such a body and the passport\\nwhich it furnished to public favor and acceptance\\nwere a constant stimulus to young men of honorable\\nambition to do their best in the way of attainments\\nand character in the profession.\\nIn this organization, from its beginning to 179G, we\\ndo not find the names of any members from Bergen\\nCounty, excejit that of Joseph Sackett, Jr., who prac-\\nticed at Paramus during the Revolution.\\nLittle information exists respecting the very early\\nphysicians of this county. Dr. Van Emliuro- is the\\nfirst one mentioued in the records. He is alluded to\\nas a Doctor of Physicke in a deed to his widow,\\nKatheriue Van Embugli, dated the 7th of December\\n1709. The deed was given by Sarah Sandford, widow\\nof a wealthy land-owner of New Barbadoes, who in\\nhis will had devised his property to her. Mrs. Sand-\\nford had a very high regard for the widow of the\\ndoctor, who was her equal in education and social\\nstanding, though notendowed with so large au amount\\nof this world s goods. She generously concluded\\nto divide with her friend. There can be no doubt but\\nthat the deed was a free gift, although, in compliance\\nwith the conditions of the law, a consideration is\\nmentioned in it. The deed recites\\nIn consideration of a valuable sum of good lawful money, I there-\\nfore, by hese presents, give to my dear friend, Katheriue Van Emhurg,\\na certain tract of land and meadows, situated in New Barbadoes, con-\\ntaining 450 acres of English measure; 3U0 of upland, beginning at a\\ndogwood tree that stands over against the Second River, it being the\\nboundary between the said Sarah Sandford and Capt. Edward Kingsland\\nand others, according to a line which runs by John Harman upon a\\nsoutheast course from the ahovesaid Dogwood Tree, across said neck of\\nNew Barbadoes into the meadows on the southeast side of sai.l neck, and\\nthence southwesterly along the neck 30 and 6 chains and 7 yards 2 links.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0139.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "114\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND 1^\\\\SSAIC C0UNTII}8, NEW JERSEY.\\nSec. 4, DlBcipUn* of members ihall be of three gmdes or degree*.\\nTil. Admonition, for which h majority vole shall be eiifficiciit Suppen-\\nfion, for wliich H two-lhirile vote shall U* necessary* anj ErpuUion, for\\nwhich a three-fourths vote shall be required.\\n**Skc. 5. If an appeal lie taken from the action of the society to tbe\\nMedical Society of New Jersey by any ili.Hciplitkeil member, or by any\\nrejecti d applicant for memliervhip, a wrillen notice of such npp\u00c2\u00ab al shall\\nl e served on the 8 -cretary by the aggrieveil party at least sixty days bo-\\nfore the next annual meetiog of the Medical Society of New Jersey.\\nChaptcb VII. Meetingt of Otf SM;t\u00c2\u00abtif.\\n**8ko. 1. The society shall meet annually, in the village of Hackeu\\nsack, OD the second Tues^lay of April.\\nSec. 2. The semi-annual meetiiif; of the society shall be held iu the\\nsame place, on the second Tuesday of Octolier of each year.\\nSec- :1- Quitrterly meetings of the society may also be held on the\\nsecond Tuesdays of July and January, prodded the society shall so\\norder at the next preceding regular meeting. These quarterly meetings,\\nif held, may be held iti any part of the county the society may elect.\\nSec. 4- Five members shall constitute a quorum for the traosaction\\nof business at any meeting of the society.\\nCUAPTF.K VIII. Oriler of ^utin^u.\\n1- The m-ciety sIimM I* called to order by the president; or in liis\\nabsence, by the vice-proident or in the absence of l oth these officers,\\nby a president to be chosen pro tempore.\\n2. The roll shall be called by the secretary or in his absence, by a\\nsecretary to be chosen pro tempore.\\n3. A quorum lieing present, the minutes of the last meeting shall be\\nread and appnived.\\n4. The reiiort of the treasurer shall be receive\u00c2\u00abl and acted u|k)u.\\n5, Applications or projiosals for membership shall be received and\\nreferred.\\nC. Report of ernninent commiltee ou applications for membership\\nand election of members shall be iu order.\\n7. Reports of regular commlttoea, in their order, shall be r\\\\-ccived\\nand discussed.\\n8. Ueptirts of special committees, in the order of their apiKiintment.\\n9. Rep^irts of cases, communications, etc, by Individual memlien).\\n10. KsBjiy or atldn-ss by the president or vice-president.\\n11. Anicndmenis to the by-laws shall be proposed, and amendments\\npreviously proposed shall be acteil upon.\\n12. Mis\u00c2\u00ab-ellaneous business not embraced under the foregoing heads\\nshall l e in order.\\nIU. Officers, delegates to the Medical Society of New Jersey, etc., etc.,\\nshall be elected.\\n14. The president shall appoint the committees.\\n16. Motion to a^ljourn.\\nCllArTElt l\\\\.\u00e2\u0080\u0094.imnilmenl U) By-laia.\\nThese by. laws may lie amen Ied at any regular meetlnR of the society\\nby a v ite i\u00c2\u00bbf the majority of the members present. pro i,ted such amend-\\nment sliall have been pni| osed at a previous regular meeting.\\nlloLi. or MKiinKRS Admittzd vr to 1876.\\nName*.\\nAdmitted.\\nA. Ib.plier IHM\\nW. 11. Hay 18, 4\\nC. Ilasbronck lH.- 4\\nH. A- Ilop|ier l\u00c2\u00bbi\u00c2\u00ab\\n0. B. Ilru\u00c2\u00bbn 1H64\\nD. Hasbrouck A\\nA..S. Burdett \\\\KA\\nB. (tblenis 18.V,\\nJ- J- llaring \\\\KM\\n1. J Weils* IWJS\\nw. II. Hall _ mr*\\nJ. T. DeMund IKlUi\\nH. C, Seer IWJS\\nNames. Admitted.\\nF. M. WriKim IMS\\nJ. M.SImiiaoli 1861\\nR. Stewart 18(i9\\nS. J. /.abriskie 1870\\nA. P. Williams 1870\\nII. A Crary 1871\\nW, Fnincis 1871\\nI). A. Currie 1872\\nM. S. Avers 1872\\n1). C, Tarr 1874\\nO. f. Simpwn* 1874\\nF. A. Davis 1874\\nA. Cleudinen 1878\\nPkeskkt MEMnKRS, ANP Scnool.s AT WHICH TiiEY REcrivr-n Tur.in\\nPt:onKl:.\\nHenry A. Hopper, Ctdh-ge I hyilcians anti HnrgminB, New Yi rk, 1H47;\\nA. 8. Bunlrlt, (Villeue rhyslclans and Surgeons, New York, )K, 2 II.\\nC. Neer, Berkshire Medical ollege, IM); P. Augustus Currle,\\nUnlvenlly of BulTslo, lsi 4, Inlvenlty of hUllnburgh, I8C7; M.S.\\n1 Charter Members. Deceaae l.\\nWithdrawn an I ilroppeil from the roll.\\nR\u00c2\u00abuiove l from the county and dnipped trum the rx ll.\\nAyers, Long Island College, 1871 G. C. Terhnne, New Tork Siedi-\\ncal College, 1853; Charles H. Hasbroeck, College Physiclanti and\\nSurgeons, Fairfield. N- Y 1A.19; D. St. John. Bellevue, 1879: Alex-\\nander Clendinen, University of Maryland, 1859; Milton Terhnne,\\nKentucky School of Medicine. lK7t J. M. Sini|Mon, Bellevne, I8\u00c2\u00abe;\\nS. J. Zabrlskie, Inlversity Medical College, New York. 18. )6; J. J.\\nllaring, Jefferson Medical College, 18V A. P. Williiims, College\\nPhysicians and Surgeons, New York, 180O; E. M. fiarton, t uiversily\\nMedical College, 1878; G. G.Brown, Odlege Physicians and Sur-\\ngeons, New York, 1875; C. L. Uemarest, Bellevne, 1876; Thomas\\nReld, University Medical College, New York, 1876.\\nWe give below a list of the presidents and secreta-\\nries since the organization\\nPresidents.\\n1864, William H. Day; Is. s^-iG, Abraham Hopper; 18. William H.\\nDay; 18.M1, I. J.Wells; 1808. Charles Hasbrouck; 18r.9-70, A. S.\\nBunlett: 1K71-72, John J. Haring; 1871, F- Mar.o Wright; 1874,\\nH. C. Neer; 1876, A. S. Burdott 187C, D. Augustus Currle; 1877,\\nHenry A. Hopper; 1878, A- S. llurdett 1879, S. J. /.abriskie; 1880,\\nMilton Tunnure; 1881, Henr^ Hopper.\\nSecbetaries.\\n1854-68, aiarles Hasbrouck; 1808, I. J. Wells; 1869. J. T. Deninnd;\\n1870-76, Charles Hasbrouck; 1877-78, A. S. Burdett 1879, Henry A.\\nHopper; 1880, Alexander Clendinen 1881, D. A. Cnrrie.\\nOfficers for 1881.\\nH. A. Hopper, HRckensacfc, president; D. St. John, Hackensack, vice-\\npresfdent and treasurer; D A- Currle, Englewoo I, secretarj and\\ndiFitrict reporter.\\nHenry A. Hopper, M.D. Dr. Abram Hopper,\\nfather of Dr. Henry A. Hopper, was born at Hoho-\\nkus, Bergen Co., N. J., April 26, 1797, where his boy-\\nhood was spent on the farm of his parents. His\\nacademic education wa.s received in the city of New\\nYork, after which he returned to his native place and\\nbegan the study of medicine with Dr. .Inhn Koscn-\\ncrantz, with whom he remained one year.\\nHe further pursued his medical studies in the office\\nof Dr. Valentine Mott, of New York, and attended\\nlectures at the College of Physicians and .Surgeons, in\\nthat city, from which he was graduated upon reaching\\nhis majority in the spring of l.^^lJi.\\nIn the following year Dr. Abram Hopper settled\\nand commenced the practice of his profession at\\nHackensack, Bergen Co., where he remained with\\nvery little interruption until the time of his death,\\nDec. 14, IH72, thus giving to tiie people of his native\\ncounty the whole energy aiul ccperience of an active\\nand laborious professional life. I pon his first settle-\\nment at Hackensack the village was small and the\\nsurrounding country .sparsely inhabited. He had a\\nparticular fondness for surgery, was the only operating\\nsurgeon in the county for many years, and enjoyed a\\nwide reputation as skillful in that branch of his pro-\\nfession.\\nHe wiLs H man of industrious habits, well read in\\nthe current medical and scientific literature of his\\nday, and highly esteemed for his intelligence, integ-\\nrity, and honesty of purpose in all the rehitions of\\nlife.\\nHis son. Dr. Henry Hopper, was gradu;ited from\\nthe time-honored institution, the College of Physi-\\ncians and Surgeons in the city of New York, in the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0140.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "^^^^^a.;^^^^^.^\\nThe family of Hn-bronck in Ulster County, N. Y., trace the\\nline of descent from the uM lliii^nenot ancestry who fled their\\ncountry foUowin.::^ tlir* in ii^sacre on St. Bartholnmew s Day in\\nFrance, and sought ictiii^e in the wilds of America.\\nCharles Hasbrouck was born at Marbletown, Ulster Co.,\\nN. Y., April 11, ISIS, and is a lineal descendant from Abraham\\nHasbrouek, who settled in Esopus in 1675, and shortly after\\nremoveil to New Paltz.\\nAbraham, gr.iridson of Abraham before mentioned, and son\\nof Joseph, born in 1707, removed from New Paltz to Kingston,\\nwhere lie carried nn mercantile business until 1776. when liis\\ngood^ and store were destroyed by fire. He was Heutenant-\\neolonel of a regiment of militia in Ulster County, and served\\nfor twenty years as a member of the Provincial As?embly, and\\nalso as a member of the State Legislature from Ulster County\\nin 1781-82. He died in 1791.\\nLewis r. Hasbrouek, father of Dr. Charles Hasbrouek, was a\\nfarmer in Marbletown, and there reared a family of eight chil-\\ndren, of whom Charles was fourth. One son, Dr. Moses C. was\\na prominent physician of Nyack, N. Y., for many years, and\\ndied there in 1870. In early life Dr. Charles Hasbrouek gave\\nevidence of a superior mind, and even in boyhood was possessed\\nof so retentive a menn)ry that a former tutor of his says of\\nhim. I w\u00c2\u00bbuild frequently, in his recitations, send him to his\\nseat for want of time to hear lessons, page after page of which\\nhe was prepared to render erfeetly.\\nAt the age of eighteen years he commenced the study of\\nmedicine with his uncle, Dr. Matthew De Witt, completed his\\nstudies with his brother, Dr. Moses C. Hasbrouek, then in practice\\nat Middletown. ami was graduated in 18.39 from the College of\\nPhysicians and Surgeons, of Fairfield, N Y. He was urged to\\ntake the practice of his brother, who contemplated removing to\\nNyack. but declined and, with :in outtit consisting of a horse\\ngiven him by his father, he located at Schraalenburgh, N. J.,\\nas the active partner of Dr. Kipp, an aged practitioner there.\\nAfter the death of Dr. Kipp. his practice becoming too laborious,\\nDr. Hasbrouek associated with him Dr. J. J. Haring, who con-\\ntracted a regard and admiration for his partner which time has\\nonly served to deepen and strengthen.\\nIn 185.5, Dr. Hasbrouek, feeling the wear of the long rides in-\\ncident to an extensive country practice, removed to Hacken-\\nsack, where he remained engaged in a lucrative practice until\\nbi.^ last illness, which resulted in his death Nov. 25, 1877.\\nDr. Hasbrouek ranked high amonir his professional brethren,\\nand his counsel was sought far and near, and during the lat-\\nter years of his practice much of his time was taken up in consul-\\ntations. His marked specialty in practice was obstetrics, and\\nin this he displayed very superior skill. He was an active\\nmember of the Bergen County Medical Society, and frequently\\ncontributed valuable papers of medical interest to its members.\\nHe was also a member of the State Medical Society, elected\\nits president in 1S71, and in 1876 he was chosen a member of\\nthe International Medical Congress which convened at Phila-\\ndelphia.\\nNot alone in his profession was he progressive; the welfare\\nof the people he cherished as his own, and every worthy enter-\\nprise received from him prompt and generous encouragement.\\nHe was a hard student until nearly the close of his busy life,\\nand took a deep interest in educational work, and was influen-\\ntially and intimately identified with the Hackensaek Academy\\nfrom its commencement, and served on the board of trustees\\nwith great acceptability to his fellow associates and the people,\\nalways being judicious in his counsel and learned and honorable\\nin his advice.\\nThe commanding personal appearance of Dr. Hasbrouek was\\nin perfect keeping with his noble manhood. Upright, truthful,\\nand generous to a fault, he was the soul of honor; retiring and\\nunassuming as a child, he sought neither popular applause nor\\nfavor. He aimed simply to do his best for the profession he\\nhonored, and for those to whom he ministered. He worked by\\nthe sick bed of the poor without hope of reward; indeed,\\nlike his Master, he went about doing good, and the conscious-\\nness of well-doing was to him abundant reward. Dr. Hasbrouek,\\nthough dead, still lives in many homes, both of affluence and\\npoverty, where his ministering has brought hope and contidence\\nand life; lives in the esteem of his professional brethren, who\\ndeeply deplore his loss, and will ever live in the memory of his\\nfamily, whose bereavement cannot be estimated.\\nThe doctor s first wife was Ellen Christie, who died in 1S54,\\nand by whom he had fnur children, viz.: Sarah, wife of Dr. I.\\nJ. Wells, of Nanuet, N. Y. C. De Witt, of New York; Mary\\nEllen and Margaret Van VIeck, wife of Archibald Niven, of\\nHackens.ack. His second wife is Catherine W., daughter of\\nAdolphus W. and Eve (Myer) Campbell, of Hackensaek, grand-\\ndaughter of the late Dr. John Campbell, once an eminent\\nphysician in Hackensaek, and great-granddaughter of Archi-\\nbald Campbell, a native of the Isle of Man. who came to Hack-\\nensaek about 1765, and kept an inn where the Bergen County\\nBank now stands, in which Gen. Washington made his head-\\nquarters for some time during the Revolutionary war. By\\nthis second marriage they hod one daughter, Eva Myer\\nHasbrouek.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0141.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0142.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN BEEGEN COUNTY.\\n115\\nspring of 1847, and has been since a practicing phy-\\nsician and surgeon in Hackensack, a period of thirty-\\nfive years, and for many years covering nearly the\\nsame field of Libor enjoyed by his father. The growth\\nof the vilhige has been so rapid during tliis time that\\nfor some time Dr. Ho|i]ier s jiractice has been confined\\nmainly to tlie vilhigc po]iulation.\\nXl^\\nHis specialty as a surgeon, as well as his success as\\na practitioner of medicine, and his ready diagnosis of\\ndisease luive given him rank with the first in the pro-\\nfession, and a high standing among his fellow-citi-\\nzens. Dr. Hopper is known professionally throughout\\nthe State, and lias been and is in 1882 officially con-\\nnected with imjiortant and honorable positions. He\\nis a member of the American Medical Association, a\\nmember of the New Jersey State ]\\\\Iedical Society,\\npresident of the New Jersey State Sanitary Associa-\\ntion, president of the Bergen County District Medical\\nSociety, and president of the Board of Health of\\nHackensack, N. J. As a citizen, Dr. Hopper has\\never been in hearty support of every enterprise tend-\\ning to the prosperity of Hackensack and vicinity and\\nthe welfare of the peojile. His own stately residence\\non North Main Street, with its beautifully laid out\\ngrounds, is an index of his enterprising spirit, his\\nthrift and cultivated taste.\\nHis son, Dr. John \\\\V. Hopper, was graduated also\\nat the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New\\nYork City, in the spring of 1879, and did full service\\nin the Surgical Department of Roosevelt Hospital of\\nthat city. He is the third in regular line of descent\\nin a family of physicians who have graduated at the\\nsame medical college, and he is further prosecuting\\nhis medical studies by observations in the hospitals\\non the continent of Europe.\\nWilliam H. Day, M.D.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Among those wlio have\\npracticed medicine in Bergen County none deserve\\nmore favorable mention in the medical history of this\\nvolume than Dr. Day, whose clear mind, excellent\\njudgment in the diagnosis of complicated cases of\\ndisease, and devotion to those whose lives were in-\\ntrusted to his care made him esteemed by all who\\nknew him, not only in the discharge of his professional\\nduties but as a citizen of the community. He was\\nnever known to refuse to respond to a professional\\ncall, whether coming from the poor or those in opu-\\nlence, and his services were given with the same anx-\\niety and care to those from whom he could not possi-\\nbly expect remuneration as to those whose abundance\\nwould be no sacrifice to meet his regular fee.\\nDr. Day was the only son of Henry Day, who, al-\\nthough a wheelwright by trade, spent most of his\\nactive business life as an inn-keeper at Fairview, where\\nhe was the hospitable landlord on the old stage-\\nroute from Albany to New York. Henry Day died\\nin 1852, aged seventy-seven, and was born at Leonia,\\nin Old Hackensack township, where his father had\\nkept a hotel during Revolutionary times. Henry\\nDay s wife was Catharine Banta, who died in 1840,\\nand whose family were residents of Closter, and by\\nwhom he had one .son, subject of this sketch, and\\nseveral daughters,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Polly, Katy, Betsey, Rachel, Sally,\\nJane, and Margaret,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all being dead in 1881 but Mar-\\ngaret.\\nDr. Day was born at Fairview (English Neighbor-\\nhood), .July 1(5, 1810, received his pi-eliminary educa-\\ntion in the scliool at his native place, and early in\\nlife began to study for the profession which he in\\nafter-life honored as one of the most skilled physi-\\ncians of his time. He practiced medicine for many\\nyears at his native place before the law regulating its\\npractice in New Jersey required him to take out a\\nlicense. His diploma was granted by the State Medi-\\ncal Society, and dated May 28, 1852. He continued\\nhis practice at Fairview until 1867, when, to avoid\\nthe long rides and incessant labor night and day in-\\ncident to his growing practice which was wearing his\\nlife away, he removed to Fort Lee, where he remained\\nattending to his professional duties until his death,\\nwhich occurred June 23, 1876. Dr. Day was one of\\nthe founders of the District Medical Society of the\\ncounty of Bergen, and from time to time contributed\\nvaluable papers upon important subjects to its inter-\\nests. He was often called in consultation by his pro-\\nfessional brethren, and held in high esteem by them\\nfor his candor, integrity, and skill in all branches of\\nhis profession.\\nDr. Day was a member of the Reformed (Dutch)", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0143.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "116\\nHISTOKY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nChurch at Fairview, and u liberal contributor to that\\nand kindred interests. He was a student of his pro-\\nfession, and outside of this he acquired no mean place\\namong literary men a.s a poet, us many of his choice\\npoems extant bear witness to his literary ability in\\nthat direction.\\nDr. Day wits united in marriage, Dec. 31, 1839, to\\nEliza, daughter of Peter Wake and Elizabeth llat-\\nfield, of Fort Lee. Her father was a native of Eng-\\nland, and carried on business in New York most of\\nhis life, dying in 181G. Her mother was born at Eliz-\\nabeth, N. J., and survived licr husband only six years.\\nMi s. Day was born Nov. 7, 1810; survives her husband,\\nand resides at Fairview. Their only child is Anna\\nBlanchard Day, wife of Benjamin R. Burdett, of\\nFairview.\\nDr. D. a. CfHKiK is a grandson of Dr. James\\nCurrie, F.R.S., wiio was born at Dumfriesshire, Scot-\\nland, May 31, 175G, and who died Aug. 31, 1805. Dr.\\nCurrie was one of the most prominent physicians of\\nhis day, and is said by Dr. Austin Flint, of Now\\nYork, to have been seventy-five years alicad of his\\ntime. He studied medicine at Edinburgh I niversity,\\nand located at Liverpool in 1781, where lie enjoyed\\nan extensive practice. Besides contributing excellent\\npapers to the various medical journals, lie was the\\nauthor of a learned and valuable work, published in\\n1808, entitled Medical Reports of the Effects of\\nWater, Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fever and\\nother Diseases. Dr. Currie also became widely\\nknown in connection with the revisal aii l |)ubtication\\nof Burns poems in 1800. This he did for the bene-\\nfit of the widow and chifdrfin of the poet, and real-\\nized thereby fourteen hundred pounds.\\nThe parents of Dr. D. A. Currie were Thomas and\\nNancy (Lemon) Currie, both of whom were natives\\nof Scotland. In the earlier portion of his life Mr.\\nCurrie engaged in tlie manufacture of .sails auil sail-\\ncloth in his native country, but he subsequently re-\\nmoved to America, and pursued the same line of\\nbusiness at Patcrson, N. J. He has resided for a\\nnumber of years past at Scarsville, Orange Co., N. Y.,\\nwhere he engages in agricultural operations and stock-\\nraising.\\nDr. D. A. Currie is the youngest of a family of\\nten children, of whom seven are living, and was born\\nOct. 10, 1842, at Scarsville, N. Y. He grew up ujion\\nthe paternal farm, and bis earliest education was ob-\\ntaine l at the district school of his locality. He\\nsubscfiuently attended the academy at Montgom-\\nery, N. Y., and was fimiUy prepared for college\\nby a private tutor at Paterson, N. J. Abandoning\\nthe idea of entering college. Dr. Currie, in 18.\\nentered himself as a student in the office of Dr. Sand-\\nford IJistmaii, of Buffal i, N. Y., ami Professor of\\nAnatomy in the Tniversily of lUill alo. He also at-\\ntended lectures at that institution, and was graduated\\nwith the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 18G3. On\\nOctober 1st of that year he commenced the practice\\nof his profession at Bloo ningburgh, Sullivan Co.,\\nN. Y., where he remained until the fall of 1865. He\\nthen went to Edinburgh, Scotland, and, with a view\\nof still further perfecting himself in his profession,\\nstudied at Edinburgh University for two and a half\\nyears, becoming a pupil of Sir James Y. Simjison, Pro-\\nfessor of the Diseases of Women and Children, and of\\nDr. James Syme, Professor of Clinical Surgery in the\\nRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Dr. Currie became\\na licentiate, in due course, of the College of Physi-\\ncians and Surgeons of Edinburgh, and a member of\\nthe Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and of the\\nRoyal Obstetrical Society. For six months of that\\ntime he wiis resident physician at the Royal Hospital\\nfor Sick Children. At the close of the year 1867 he\\nreturned to the United States, and on Jan. 1, 1868,\\nentered upon the practice of his profe-ssiou at Mid-\\ndletown, N. Y., where he did a large and successful\\nbusiness until his settlement in Englewood, Bergen\\nCo., March 1, 1872, where he has since held front\\nrank as the leading allopathic jdiysician of his local-\\nity. His specialties in practice are surgery and the\\ndiseases of women and children. The late Dr. Has-\\nbrouck, of Hackensack, empli yed Dr. urrie to per-\\nform all of his surgical operations in the later years\\nof his practice. He enjoys wide [lopularity in Engle-\\nwood, and has been township treasurer for two years,\\nand a member of the town committee several terras.\\nFor two years past he has also been the physician of\\nthe Hoard of Health. He was president of the IJergen\\nCounty Medical Society in 1876, and has been secre-\\ntary of that body for the |)ast two years. He has\\nbeen a member of the American Medical Association\\nsince 1876, and is a member of the Sydenham Siciety\\nof Ix)ndon.\\nDr. Currie was married in 1867 to Fannie Wills,\\ndaughter of the late .\\\\ndrew ills, of Blooming-\\nburgh, N. Y.\\nJoiix J. IIaiu.n M.D., was born on JIarch 15,\\n1834, in Rockland County, N. Y. He came from an\\nancestry whose sterling i|ualities won general esteem,\\nand whose habits of industry and economy secured\\nthem a com|ietence.\\nAvailingbimself of the best educational advantages,\\nhe had at the age of eighteen secured a thorough aca-\\ndemic education. Choosing medicine as a profession,\\nhe entered the office of Dr. M. C. Hasbrouek, at that\\ntime the leading physician and surgetui in Rockland\\nCounty.\\nAfter the usual period of stuily, taking meanwhile\\ntwo courses of lectures in the New York medical\\ncolleges, he graduated by preference, at the close of\\na third course, from the Jefferson Medical College of\\nPhiladelphia. He then formed a i)artnership with\\nDr. Oharles Hitsbrouck, practicing inSchraaleuburgli,\\nUergen Co., N. J., which continued successfully for\\ntwo years. At the end of this time he succeeded to\\nthe joint practice by the removal of the senior part-\\nner to Hackensack, N. J. This left him a very ex-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0144.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0145.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0146.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Abraham S. Burdett, M.D., was born iit English\\nNeigliborhood, now Leonia, in Bergen County, Nov.\\n6, 1830. His grandfather, Abraham Burdett, resided\\nat Englisli Neighborhood, and there died in 1803, and\\nhis wile, Nancy, daughter of John Smith, also died\\nabout the same time, leaving an only child, John S.\\nBurdett, who was reared by Abel Smith, a brother of\\nhis maternal grandfather. John S. Burdett inherited\\nthe property of his maternal grandfather, and was a\\nfarmer during his life in the vicinity of his birth. He\\nwas a deacon and influential member of the Reformed\\nChurch there, and after living a quiet life, engaged\\nin business pursuits, freed from a desire for oflScial posi-\\ntion, he died in 1847, aged forty-eight. His wife was\\nSarah, daughter of John P. Bogert, of New York City,\\nwho died in 1871, aged seventy-three years. Their\\nchildren are two sons, Abraham S., subject of this\\nsketch, and Dr. John B. Burdett, who was graduated at\\nthe College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York,\\nand has since been a practicing physician in Jersey City.\\nDr. Abraham S. Burdett obtained his preliminary\\neducation in the private classical school of Kev. John S.\\nMabon, Hackensack, and at a high school in New York\\nstudied medicine with Prof. Lewis A. Sayre, a prominent\\nphysician and surgeon of New York, and was graduated\\nat the College of Physicians and Surgeons in that city\\nin 1862. For one year previous to and one year follow-\\ning his graduation he was assistant physician in the\\nKings County Hospital, on Long Island. In 1853 he\\nsettled at Fort Lee, in his native county, where he re-\\nmained in the practice of his profession until 1857, when\\nhe associated himself with the late Dr. William H. Day,\\nof Fairview, and continued his professional relations with\\nhim until 1860. For three years following he practiced\\nmedicine on Staten Island, and in 1863 was appointed\\ndeputy health ofiicer of the port of New York, which\\nposition he creditably filled until 1867, and then settled\\nin Hackensack, where he has since remained in the con-\\ntinuous discharge of his professional duties.\\nDr. Burdett is a devoted, judicious, and skillful i hysi-\\ncian, and has the confidence of a large community in the\\nsurrounding townships to which his ride extends. As a\\ncitizen he is interested in all that pertains to the welfare\\nof the people and to the prosperity of the place where he\\nresides. During his thirty years of professional labor\\nhe has not been an idle student, but kept well read in\\nthe most successful treatment of disease extant, and be-\\nsides has given time and study during leisure hours from\\nprofessional duty to the subject of theology. In 1856,\\nDr. Burdett was licensed to preach in the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church in 1860 he was ordained deacon, and\\nin 1872 he was ordained elder. He is one of the founders\\nof the District Medical Society of the County of Bergen,\\nhas served it as secretary for two years, was its presiding\\notBcer, and has represented the district society in the\\nState Medical Society of New Jersey. Dr. Burdett has\\nbeen a member of Pioneer Lodge, No. 70, Hackensack,\\nsince 1867, and is a member of Crescent Chapter, No.\\n220, R. A. M., of New York City.\\nHis first wife, whom he married in 1854, was Rachel,\\nyoungest daugh .er of Henry Burdett and Rachel Scott,\\nof Fort Lee, who died in 1870, leaving children, Sarah\\nLouisa, wife of William B. Lomas, of New York, and\\nEstelle. His present wife, to whom he was united in\\nmarriage in 1871, is Mary J., daughter of James and\\nMary L. Curran, of New York, who has borne him the\\nfollowing children Edward Ames, Cora Mary, Charles\\nHasbrouck, Florence Mabel, and Emily.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0149.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^BKja^\\\\jj^\\\\j^)AXAnA^ J^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0150.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN BERGEN COUNTY.\\n117\\ntensive practice, to which he devoted himself with\\ngreat assiduity. For ten years he was tlie recognized\\nmedical attendant in one tliousand families, occupy-\\n^A\\nU^i\\ning a medical field ot twenty-five square miles in\\nextent.\\nAlways answering to the call of duty, an immense\\namount of professional labor and responsibility de-\\nvolved upon him during these years. Finding it de-\\nsirable to curtail his professional work, he purchased\\na plot of ground at Tenafly, on the Northern New\\nJersey Railroad, built a fine residence upon it, to\\nwhich he removed, and where he has since resided,\\ncontinuing to the present time actively engaged in\\nprofessional work.\\nJ. M. S1MP.SON, M.D. George Simpson, the great-\\ngrandfather of the subject of this biographical sketch,\\nwas born in Yorkshire, England, and during the year\\n1831 emigrated to Canada, having settled in James-\\ntown, in the province of Quebec. He married before\\nhis emigration Miss Mary Foster, of Yorkshire, Eng-\\nland, and had children, George F., Jane, Nancy\\n(Mrs. William Steele), Mary (Mrs. David Town),\\nGeorgianna (Mrs. Robert Smith). Mary, now Mrs.\\nDavid Town, married in early life Mr. Julius Man-\\nning, who died leaving one son, Julius Manning.\\nThis lad, who is the subject of this biography, on the\\ndeath of his father was adopted by his grandfather,\\nGeorge Simjison, of Jamestown, whose name he as-\\nsumed.\\nJulius was born in Jamestown, Feb. 22, 1839, and\\nspent his life until the age of twelve in the province\\nof Quebec, Canada. During the year 1851 circum-\\nstances occasioned his removal to Fort Edward, Wash-\\nington Co., N. Y., where the residence of his uncle,\\nGeorge F. Simpson, became his home. Here he en-\\ngaged for a while in agricultural pursuits, and later\\nin the occupation of a teacher. After a preparatory\\ncourse of study at the Fort Edward Institute, he de-\\ncided upon medicine as a profession most congenial to\\nhis tastes, and began the study of this science with\\nthe late James D. Norton, M.D., of Fort Edward.\\nHaving removed to Saddle River, N. J., in 1863, he\\ncontinued his studies with Dr. S. J. Zabriskie, of that\\nplace, and graduated at the Bellevue Hospital Medi-\\ncal College in March, ISiiti. The same year he came\\nto Schraalenburgh, and became associated with Dr.\\nJ. J. Haring in practice, which association continued\\nfor a period of two years.\\nDr. Simpson was. May 24, 1874, united in marriage\\nto Miss Kate A., eldest daughter of Mr. James H.\\nGrovesteen, of New York City, to whom three chil-\\ndren were born, Mamie A., who died in childhood\\nHattie, aged eight years and Willie, who is three\\nyears of age.\\nTlie doctor is a member of the Bergen County Med-\\nical Society, and has been honored with the oflices of\\nboth vice-president and president of the association.\\nHis political views are in harmony with the platform\\nof the Republican party, though the demands of a\\ngrowing and successful practice preclude official as-\\npirations, even were they in consonance with his", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0151.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "118\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ntastes. Dr. Simpson is a consistent member of the\\nReformed (Dutch) Church of Schraalenburgh, and\\none of its most earnest supporters.\\nDr. Hardy M. Baxks. The ancestors of Dr.\\nBanks were of i)ure English descent. His paternal\\ngrandfatlier, Bciijaniin Banks, was a colonist from\\nEngland, and took up a settlement in North Carolina\\nat an early day. Tlic wife of Benjamin Banks was\\nMartha Murfree, a si-ster of Col. Hardy Murfree, of\\nRevolutionary fame. Col. Murfree held the rank of\\nmajor in the patriot army at the storming of Stony\\nPoint. He had command of two companies of North\\nCarolina troops, and was the second member of the\\nassaulting party to enter the fortifications of the\\nenemy.\\nHardy M. Banks, son of Benjamin and Martha\\n(Murfree Banks, was born in North Carolina on Dec.\\n18, 1789. He married on Sept. Ifi, ISIU, Martha\\nSketchley, a representative of an English family that\\nsettled in North Carolina at the opening of the present\\ncentury. She was born on Jan. 11, 1795. Hardy M.\\nBanks resided during his life at Murfreesboro N. C,\\nwhere he was a planter. He belonged to the old type\\nof Southern agriculturists, was of an ea.sy and happy\\nframe of mind, and enjoyed with a relish the sports\\nof the field and brook. He was jjarticularly fond of\\na good horse, and owned many fine specimens of\\nhorse-flesh in his day. In the community in which\\nhe lived he occupied a prominent and iiilhiential\\nplace. He died in 1841.\\nDr. Banks was the youngest of the five children of\\nHardy M. and Martha (Sketchley) Banks, and was\\nborn on Aug. 9, 1830, at Murfreesboro N. C. The\\nearlier years of his life were ])assed at home, and he\\nobtained a thorough English eriucation at the Mur-\\nfreesboro .Vcadcmy, and at Buckhorn Academy, a\\nfamous .school seven miles distant. In 184li he com-\\nmenced the study of medicine with Dr. James B.\\nGilbert, of Savannah, Ga., with whom he remained\\na year and a half He then entered the office of Dr.\\nJohn F. (iray, a leading homo opathic physician of\\nNew York City, and also iittcndcd lectures at tlie\\nMe lical l)ei artment id the University of the City of\\nNew York, from which institution he was grailuated\\nin 1849. Not l)eing of age at the time of his gradu-\\nation. Dr. Banks went to Paris in December, 1849, and\\nfor nearly two years attended the lectures of the\\nFaculty r)f Mc licine, 8U|iplemcnting his studies\\nunder private instructors in the liospilal wards and\\nat the Hotel DIeu. While in Paris Dr. Banks was\\nparticularly fortunate in being able to attend the lec-\\ntures of that famous writer on medical therapeutics,\\nDr. Trous-sean and although the latter was a pro-\\nfeswed believer in the palliative treatment of allopathy.\\nDr. HaTiks rlcrivcMl from his lecture s, and from his at-\\ntacks on what he called the treatment of disease on\\nthe substituted plan, a very decided impression\\nthat the learned authority was practically a believer\\nin that plati, and really a homu-opathist at heart.\\nThis seemed particularly clear to his mind upon a\\nstudy of the cases that Dr. Trousseau used as in-\\nstances of cures in his lectures, in which it appeared\\nto him that the great majority of the latter had been\\netl ectcd by substituting a well-defined medicinal dis-\\nea.se for a morbid condition of the system.\\nReturning to Now York in 18. 2, Dr. Banks received\\nhis dii)loma from the University of the City of New\\nYork, and at once entered upon the practice of his\\nprofession in that city. He soon as.sociated him.self\\nwith Dr. A. D. AVilson, a leading honueopath of New-\\nYork, with whom he remained until l.^iilO. In the\\nsummer of that year he located at Englewood, Ber-\\ngen Co., N. J., where he hjis continued in uninter-\\nrupted and succe.ssful practice since. While engaged\\nin practice in New York Dr. Banks paid particular\\nattention to surgery, for which, being a skillful anat\\nmist, he had a special taste, and as the head o)\\nprivate clinic of homceopathic physicians perforr\\nmost of the capital operations for years. His ski\\nthe general practice of his profession is best att\\nby the large practice that he has enjoyed for a\\nof years among the best fatnilies of Englewood un\\nvicinity. He is recognized jis one of the pioneers ii.\\nthe settlement of the village, and has always been\\nidentified with the progressive and elevating move-\\nments that have been undertaken in that community.\\nPersonally he is very popular, and has exerted a wide\\ninfluence in local politics for many years. As presi-\\ndent of the Protection Society of the village for five\\nyears, he held the oflice of justice of the peace.\\nDr. Banks wiu* married .lune 1, ISlil, to Harriet B.,\\ndaughter of Joshua and Cornelia (Wilson) (tilberl,\\nof Jersey City. The children are Virginia, Hardy\\nMurfree, and Harriet Sketchley.\\nriTArTER XXVI.\\nTin: i Ki:s. ok nKiuiE.\\\\ coi ntv.\\nThe Bergen County Democrat.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Previous to isr.o\\nseveral alliMipl had hiiii made to establish a news-\\npaper in Hackensack, but all of them proved abor-\\ntive from various causes, chief of which, it seems to\\nthe writer, may be attributed to the lack of persistent\\ncfl^irt, coupled with that umlivided attention to the\\ndetails of a country newspaper which is absolutely\\nnece-ssary to success. There was not lacking a field\\nin Bergen County for succe.ssful journalism at the\\n1 period of which we write. Prominent business men\\nevinced their readiness to support a non-partisan\\nnewspajier, and their |)atronage was freely bestoweil\\non the liiri/in oiinti/ Jnuniul. Nevertheless, after\\nfutile attempts to keep it alive, it went down in IStJl.\\nThe./ \u00c2\u00bbr;i i/was a stock concern, owned by Democrats\\nand Republicans in about etpial proportion, .\\\\fter\\n1 the closing up of the establishment, C. C. Burr was", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0152.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Lnrctoj t/l/^(/^^iA^\\n^A", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0153.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0154.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "The !Neer familv arc of German extraction, and were\\nfirst represented in America by Carl Xeer, a former\\nresident of Baden, on the Ithine. Soon after his arrival\\nhe enlisted in the iiriny of the Revolution, and received i\\nthe commission as orderly sergeant in the famous Black\\nPlumed HiUcuuii, where he served with credit, and\\nattained distinction as an expert marksman.\\nAt the close of the conflict he settled in the town-\\nship of Summit, Schoharie Co., N. Y., and having j\\nmarried a Miss Hydlie, had children, John, Charles,\\nSamuel, George, Philip, Elizabeth, Catherine, Lana, i\\nand Hannah. Mr. Neer engaged iu agricultural pur- I\\nsuits on his retirement to civil life, and spent the re- i\\nmainder of his days in Schoharie County. His son\\nSamuel was born on the homestead June G, 1V90, where\\nhis life was spent. He was united in marriage to Miss\\nLucinda, daughter of John Morrison, of Livingston\\nManor, on the Hudson, to whom were born twelve chil-\\ndren, David, Charles F., Josephus, Cyrus, John, Henry\\nC Catherine, Sarah, Mary B., Delana, Jane Ann, and i\\nLouisa, of whom ten survive.\\nHenry C, the youngest of this number and the sub-\\nject of this biographical sketch, was born at Summit,\\nthe paternal home, Nov. 10, 1838, where the years of\\nhis boyhood were spent. The public school atforded\\nhim early though limited advantages of education, and\\nhis later studies were pursued at the New York Con-\\nference Seminary, at Charlotteville, N. Y.\\nAt the early age of fifteen he began a career of inde-\\npendence which may be regarded as the precursor of\\nfuture success. Some time was spent in teaching, and\\nthe profession of medicine having been decided upon,\\nhe, in 1856, entered the office of his brother David,\\nwhere four years were devoted to study. He then re-\\npaired to the medical college at Castleton, Vt., and\\non the 20th of November, 1860, received his diploma\\nfrom the Berkshire Medical Institute, of Pittsfield,\\nMass.\\nDr. Neer soon after chose his native village as a favor-\\nable point for the practice of his profession, where he\\nremained for five years.\\nIn 1865 he removed to Pascaok, his present residence,\\nwhere fidelity to the interests of his patients, together\\nwith a profound knowledge of his profession, readily\\nsecured for him an extended practice, which is steadilj\\nincreasing. Dr. Neer is a member of the Bergen\\nCounty Medical Society, and an honorary member of\\nthe liockland County Medical Society. He has filled\\nthe office of president of the former organization. In\\npolitics the doctor is a Democrat, though not an aspirant\\nfor official distinction. In religion he espouses the\\ncreed of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, both himself and\\nwife being members of the Pascack Church. Dr. Neer\\nwas, June 16, 1861, united in marriage to Miss Louisa,\\ndaughter of Cornelius Terpenning, of Summit, N. Y.\\nThey have had nine children, Avis, Sarah E., Corne-\\nlius (deceased), Parepa Rosa, Charles S., Josephine\\n(deceased), Mary L., Henry Otis, and Axena.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0155.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0156.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0157.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "ydT^/^t^^^^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0158.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE PKESS OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n119\\ninvited by prominent Democrats of the county to\\npublish a Democratic newspaper at Hackensack upon\\nits ruins. Accordingly Mr. Burr assumed the t.isk and\\nprojected tlie Bi:rgeii Cniiiitij Democrat mid Rochhind\\nCuuiifij Journal in the latter part of the summer of\\n1861, the paper being entirely printed in New York.\\nKnowing nothing of the important details in the\\npublication of a newspaper, however, in a few weeks\\nMr. Burr became involved in difliculties which threat-\\nened the continued existence of the paper. At this\\njuncture Mr. Eben Winton, who had but recently\\nsevered bis connection with a newspaper in Warren\\nCounty, was induced to visit Hackensack upon the\\nrepresentation of the late Mr. Jacob Vanatta, that the\\ncounty of Bergen was a good missionary fielil for a\\nDemocratic organ. Neither were aware at that time\\nthat Mr. Burr had entered upon the field. The result\\nwas that Mr. Winton purchased the material of the old\\nJournal, made a business connection with Mr. Burr,\\nunder the name of Burr Winton, and in October\\nof that year the title of Mr. Burr s venture was\\nchanged, and the first number of the Bergen County\\nDemocrat and Neu Jersei/ State liegister was issued\\nfrom the old office of the Juurnal, having been entirely\\nprinted at home. The concern, however, was finan-\\ncially top-heavy, and the result was the partnership\\nterminated in March, 1862, and Mr. Winton assumed\\nthe entire control of the Democrat. Its success was\\nalmost immediately assured. Its circulation and gen-\\neral business increased from year to year, when, from\\nill health and other causes, Mr. Winton transferred\\nhis entire interest in the establishment to his son,\\nHenry D. Winton, in 1870. Since then the Democrat\\nhas been doubled from its original size of six columns,\\nand with a rapidly-growing constituency it has con-\\ntinued to keep pace with the advancing interests of\\nthe county of Bergen. From the time of its start to\\nthe present the people of Rockland County, which\\nadjoins Bergen County, have given it a liberal sup-\\nport, and at present it leads all papers published in\\nBergen or Rockland Counties in point of circulation.\\nHenry D. Winton, the subject of this sketch,\\nthe editor and proprietor of The Bergen County Dem-\\nocrat, published at Hackensack, is descended from a\\nfamily of journalists, representing in himself the\\nthird generation of his family who have engaged\\nactively in journalistic labor and duties.\\nHe was born Feb. 14, 1848, and in 1863, at the\\nearly age of fifteen years, he entered the office of the\\nDemocrat, where by assiduous attention to his duties\\nhe became a practical, thorough printer. In 1870, a\\nyoung man of twenty-two, he became jiroprietor, and\\nassumed control of the journal, which under his judi-\\ncious management has steadily grown in influence,\\nand as steadily has its circulation been increased and\\nextended, ranking it among the most readable, pop-\\nular, and influential weekly journals of the State.\\nAn independent writer, interested in every work cal-\\nculated to promote and enhance the real interests of\\nhis section, he is, though yet young in years, one of\\nOld Bergen s most influential citizens. His ambition\\nhas ever been to increase the usefulness of his journal,\\nover which he presides so ably, and not to secure\\npolitical place or preferment, ever refusing, though\\noften urged, to accept office in the county or State\\nthe only exception being in 1880, when he repre-\\nsented his congressional district as a delegate in the\\nDemocratic National Convention at Cincinnati.\\nBy perseverance and close application to his pro-\\nfession ho has made for himself an honorable name\\nin the community, and his prominence and popular-\\nity justly entitle him to a place in our biographical\\nsketches.\\nHe was married in 1870 to Miss Annie Lozier,\\ndaughter of George Lozier, Esq., of Schraalenburgh,\\nBergen Co., and to them have been born four chil-\\ndren.\\nThe Hackensack Republican.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1872 an asso-\\nciation was formed for the jiurpose of establishing a\\nRepublican newspaper in Bergen County. The plan\\nof the association contemplated the purchase of an\\nexisting pa]ier at Hackensack, called Tlie Watclitnan,\\nwhich had been founded by Mr. L. D. Hay, and which\\nfor several years had maintained a rather feeble and\\nprecarious existence. Still, it was deemed advisable,\\nin order to found such a paper as the Republicans\\ndesired to represent and advance the interests of\\ntheir party in this section of the State, that the good\\nwill and i)roperty of T/ie Wnlc/inian should be secured\\nand thus a fair field opened for the new enterprise. I lie\\nWatchman was accordingly purchased. The new pa-\\nper was issued in September, 1870, under the name of\\nThe Xeir Jerxei/ Republican. Arnold B. Johnson, chief\\nclerk of the Light-house Board, was secured as its\\neditor. Mr. Johnson continued to edit the paper till\\nthe spring of 1874, when he retired from its manage-\\nment and resumed the duties of his former office.\\nThe association then employed Mr. Hugh M. Her-\\nrick, now of the Paterson Guardian, with the under-\\nstanding that he should edit the paper until an\\nopportunity occurred to transfer it to other parties,\\nwhen he was authorized to dispose of it for the asso-\\nciation. This was effected in the spring of 1875,\\nwhen Messrs. W. H. Bleecker and T. H. Rhodes\\nbecame the ostensible heads of the establishment,\\nand Mr. Herrick returned to the Paterson Guardian,\\nof which he has since remained one of the editors.\\nMr. Rhodes soon retired from the Republican, and\\nMr. Bleecker conducted it alone until March 14, 1878.\\nAt the last-menlioned date Mr. Thomas B. Chrystal\\npurchased the interest of the establishment, and has\\nsince continued to be its editor and proprietor. On\\nAug. 12, 1878, he changed the name of the paper to\\nTJte Hdckenmck Republican, the name which it still\\nbears. The Republican is a good local newspaper\\nthirty-two columns, twenty-six by forty Republican\\nin politics, as its name implies, and is issued weekly\\non every Thursday.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0159.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "120\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND I ASSAIC COUNTIKS, NKW JERSKY.\\nThomas B. Chrystal. His grandfather, Bernard\\nChrystal, was a native of New York City, and was\\nprominently identified tiiere as an officer of the State\\nmilitia, and died about 1838, leaving four children,\\nJohn, Jane, Thomas, and Rohert. The mother of\\nthese childreir died soon after her liusband.\\nJohn, son of Bernard Chrystal, was born in New\\nYork City in 1819. At the age of twelve, soon after\\nthe death of his father, being thrown upon his own\\nresources for his support, he went to sea, and by his\\nearnings not only supported himself, but contributed\\nlargely to the support of the other children. By his\\nintegrity and ai)tness for the duties on board a vessel\\nhe rapidly won his way to the highest official place,\\nuntil for several years before he left the sea lie was\\ncaptain of a vessel and a popular mariner, whose many\\nsuccessful voyages to the East Indies and China made\\nhis name a proverb among shipping merchants.\\nAt the age of twenty-nine he married Catherine\\nBogardus, whose mother was Martha Cromwell, a lin-\\neal descendant of )liver Cromwell, the Protector, who\\nbore him children; Martha J., Thoma.-; B., John O.,\\nand Margaret. After the death of his wife he mar-\\nried her sister, Elizabeth F. Bogardus, by whom he\\nhad the following children Joseph H.. Catherine,\\nWilliam H., and Annie E.\\nAfter his first marriage Mr. Chrystal settled in\\nBrooklyn, N. Y., and began the manufacture of sails\\nfor ships in New York City. This business of sail\\nmaking he continued there successfully as long iis he\\nlived. In 1857 he removed to New Rochelle, N. Y.,\\nand in 1807 to Maywood, Bergen Co., N. J., where he\\nresided until his death in May, 1877.\\nThomas B., son of John Chrystal, was horn in\\nBrooklyn, Sept. 18, 1852, and from nine to fifteen\\nyears of age was a student at Belts Military .\\\\i-ademy,\\nat Stamford, Conn. For five years following he was\\na clerk in the store of Colgate Co., New York City,\\nand from 1872 to 1877 he was the traveling salesman\\nfor Ernest Thoraa, a jeweler in the same city.\\nThe sudden demise of his father necessitated the\\nwithdrawal of Mr. Chrystal from active commercial\\nvocations, his time being occujiied with business mat-\\nters connected with the estate; and the following\\nyear, March 14, 1878, he purchased The New Jertey\\nRcjiuhlUan, a weekly newspaper, published at Hack-\\nensack, then having a quite limiteil circulation, and\\nthe following fall rhaMgcd its name to The llnrkensuck\\nHi/iii/i/irtin. This paper he h:Ls since conducted,\\nhas largely increased its I ircuhilion, and through it\\nwielded a salutary influence throughout the Repub-\\nlican party of the county, at all times giving due def-\\nerence to the opinions of his opponents representing\\nother political factiims.\\nMr. Chrystal is ayoung man of great perseverance,\\nand although he hiLs only been connected with the\\nnewspaper business for a few years, he has rapidly\\nrisen in favor with tlio editorial fraternity and the\\nreading public a.s the sole proprietor of The Hark-\\nensaci Republican, one of the best-known journals\\npublished in the State.\\nMr. Chrystal was married Oct. 22, 1870, to Kate\\nM., daughter of Capt. S. Lozier, of Hackensack, by\\nwhom he has one sun.\\nThe Berg s!! l!idex was established at Hackensack,\\nas a weekly pai er, Feb. 27, 1875. by William N. Clapp,\\nwho conducted it till May 23, 1877. His brother, Mr.\\nS. E. Clapp, then assumed the publication and editor-\\nship, and continued it as a weekly paper till Nov. 12,\\n1878, when he changed it to a semi-weekly. The\\nsize of the paper is twenty-two by thirty, twenty-four\\ncolumns; it is independent, and devoted to local\\ninterests.\\nThe Englewood Ti!nes was started by its present\\nproprietor, Mr. Eben Winton, in March, 1874. It\\nwas the intention of its founder to make it a strictly\\nfirst-cla.ss local newspaper, without partisan bias or\\naffiliation. This idea liiLs been system.-ilically carried\\nout. Although the field of its operations was very\\nlimited, and consequently not very promising, the\\nTimeg soon became a general favorite among all\\nclasses in the community. In view of the fact that\\nMr. Winton is an old and experienced journalist, it\\nhas been no difficult matter to suceessfuily maintain\\nthat position. Indeed, the measure of its future ])ros-\\nperity is oidy limited by the growth of the population\\nof Englewood and its vicinity.\\nThe Berget! Coui!ty Herald was first issued in\\n1871, iiijilcr the :iii-.|iic( :iiiil management of Mr.\\nHenry (ierecke, of Carlstadt, and mainly devote l to\\nthe interests of the various land societies, vereins,\\nand organizations of a similar character in the town-\\nship and vicinity. The publication remained under\\nhis control until 1873, when it jiassed into the hands\\nof a company consisting of Hon. Charles H. Voohris,\\nHenry Kip, .lohn Bartholph. and .lacob P. Wester-\\nvelt. With this change its columns were devoted\\nprincipally to the interests of the Republican party.\\nIn .\\\\pril, 1875, it was purcha.sed by Messrs. Haywood\\nand liookstaver. The latter gentleman wiis also asso-\\nciated with the Xcw York Trihunr, and his laborious\\nduties in connection with the latter publication com-\\npelled his withdrawal from the firm in 187(i, since\\nwhich time Mr. Haywood has been sole owner. The\\nHeriiM is conducted upon the ba.sisof an independent\\njournal with a decided Democratic bias. Under the\\npresent numagemeiit it has met with lair success, and\\nas a family paper is deservedly popular.\\nCIl A I TKK X X i I.\\nTIIK SURPLUS REVENUK\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SCHOOL FUND.\\nIn 1837 the Legislature of New Jersey passetl an\\nact appropriating the surplus revenue of the general\\ngovernment for school purposes in the several coun-\\nt liion liiwiiMtilp.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0160.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0161.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0162.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE SURPLUS REVENUE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SCHOOL FUND.\\n121\\nties of the State, placing the several amounts appor-\\ntioned to the counties under the management of the\\nrespective boards of chosen freeholders. Upon the\\npassage of the law the collector of Bergen County re-\\nceived from the State treasurer the followijig notifi-\\ncation\\nNew Jersey Treasury Office,\\nTrenton, March 20, 1837.\\nAndrew P. Hopper, Esy., Collector of the County of Bergeo\\nSiR, By Hn act of the Logishiture of the State of New Jersey, enti-\\ntled An Act making provision for the ileposit and distribution of so\\nmuch of the surplus revenue of the United States as now is or may here-\\nafter be apportioned and received by this State, it is made my duty aa\\ntreasurer of the State to notify the collectors of the several counties of\\nthie State of the sums apportioned to each county respectively. In com-\\npliance with f aid act, I hereby notify you that the sum apportioned to\\nthe county uf Bergen is $16,566.88. I alsff send herewith a form of the\\npledge of the county, to be signed by the director of the Board of Chosen\\nFreeholders, provided they elect to receive the same.\\nJacob Kline, Treasnrcr.\\nAndrew P. Hopper was appointed by the board to\\nfill out the pledge and transmit the same to the Gov-\\nernor, treasurer, and Speaker of tii\u00c2\u00a3 House of Assem-\\nbly Avithout delay. At the adjourned meeting on\\nthe 19th of May, 1837, a committee appointed to\\ndraft resolutions concerning the surplus revenue\\nfund, consisting of Messrs. Gregory, Sip, and Kipp,\\nreported the following\\nResolved, That tlie surplus money now received be loaned out by the\\nwhole board.\\nEe^olved^ Thai the offer of loaning the same be made first to the in-\\n)iabitauts of the several townships in proportion to their quota of State\\ntax, provided that application be made for the same according to the\\nterms and time required by tlie board.\\nResflveil. Tliat no incorporated company shall receive any loan in\\ntheir corporate capacity without security upon real estate to tlie amount\\nspecified below.\\nHesolved, That all loaning be made on bond and mortgage, and the\\nreal estate proposed to be mortgaged be worth at least double the amount\\nto be loaned.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2That certificates from at least three respectable freeholders residing\\nin the neighborhood of the property offered for security, having no in-\\nterest therein, giving their opinion of the value thereof, and also a certi-\\nficate from the county clerk certifying that there are no prior judg-\\nments or mortgages, to be delivered by the applicant.\\nThat the expense of recording the mortgages for the money loaned\\nby the board, and fur every necessary search, be paid by the person to\\nwhom tlie loan is to be made.\\nThat the amount to be loaned be in sums of not less than $500, nor\\nabove S iOOO.\\nThat the loans shall be made at lawful interest, payable on the let\\nof May in each year, and for no lunger jieriod than one year.\\nDue notice was given throughout the county by the\\nposting of hand-bills that on Friday, the 26th day of\\nMay, the board would be ready to meet applicants\\nwho should come properly prepared to make loans.\\nA rejiort made to the board on the 2d day of May,\\n1S38, showed that the sum of $41,182.14, surplus rev-\\nenue, had been received from the State treasurer,\\nand that the same had been loaned out in various\\nsums through the county. The interest on this money\\nhas been collected annually on the 1st of May and\\ndevoted to the support of public schools.\\nUpon the division of the county the following\\nadjustment was made of the surplus revenue\\nStatement made in pursuance of the 24tli section of the act to create\\nthe county of Hudson, passed Feb. 22, 1840. Division of surplus revenue\\nbetween the counties of Bergen and Hudson. The quota of said revenue\\nto the county of Bergen was made on the State tax of 183G. The aniouat\\nof said quota is $41,147.82. It is presumed that the division is to be\\nniadf oil till amount of State and county tax for 1836.\\nThe following exhibits the tax for 1836 in Bergen County for State\\nand county purposes:\\nTOWNSHIPS. STATE TAX. COUNTY TAX. TOTAU\\nBergen, inchiding Jersey City 8G64.75 S1047.44 ?1712.16\\nLodi 2.V2.40 658.65 911.05\\nSaddle River 324.34 875.57 1199.91\\nHackensack 267.90 830.65 1098.55\\nHarrington 346.12 1127.44 1473.56\\nFranklin 292.57 874.18 1166.75\\nNew Barbndoes 201.82 457.80 659.62\\nPompton 142.84 381.54 524.68\\nWest Mitford 147.35 376.43 523.78\\n82640.06 S6630.0O\\n;7( .06\\nBefore the division of the sni-plus revenue took place a part of the\\ncounty of Bt-rgen was annexed to the county of Passaic, and the follow-\\ning sums are to be deducted therefor:\\nTOWNSHIPS, STATE TAX. COUNTY TAX. TOTAL.\\nWest Milford $147.35 $:J76.4:i S525.78\\nPompton 142.84 381.84 524.68\\nSaddle River (part) 200.00 540.00 740.00\\nS490.19 $1298-27 $1788.46\\nLeaving Bergen County, 1836 $2149.87 $5331.73 S74S1.60\\nOn the sum of S2149.87 of State tax the county of Bergen received\\nof surplus revenue the sum of ^1,147.82, and this sum is to be divided\\non $7481.60 of State and county tax for 1836 between Bergen and Hud-\\nsou Counties.\\nThe county of Hudson is ereqted entirely from Bergen County,\\ntaking therefrom the whole of the townships of Bergen and Jersey City,\\nand a part of Lodi under the name of Harrison. Jereey City was made\\na separate township in 1838, and taken entirely from the township of\\nBergen. To ascertain the tax of 1836 paid in Harrison for 1836 it has\\nbeen assumed that the ratio ought to be 35^^^ for Harrison is to 25 for\\nLodi, making the division 60f^ ^B.\\nThe tax of 1836 (State and county) paid by the township\\nof Bergen was $1712.16\\nSame by the township of Lodi 911.05\\nTotal $2623.21\\nDeduct for that portion of Lodi remaining in the county\\nuf Bergen (25 in 60.75) 375.00\\nWhich leaves as the proportion of State and county tax\\nfor 1830 paid in the new county of Hudson 2248.21\\nThen as Bergen County divided on $7482 of surplus revenue\\n$41,148, what is the proportion to the county of Hudson\\non $2248? Answer 12,303.00\\nFrom which is to be deducted the amount of said revenue\\npaid over by the county of Bergen to Jersey City in pur-\\nsuance of the 13th section of the act to incorporate Jereey\\nCity, passed Feb. 22, 1838, divided on the basis of State\\nand county tax of 1838, being of principal ;3556.47\\nLeaves an amount of principal to be set over by the chosen\\nfreeholders of Bergen County to the treasurer of the\\nState for the county of Hudson 8806.53\\nThe mt creating the county of Hudson contemplates the payment\\nalso of the quota of interest due thereon, after deducting all expense\\naccruing against it. As the money has been loaned out on interest pay-\\nable on the Ifit of May, yearly, it has been deemed proper to make com-\\nputation to the 1st of May, 1840.\\nIt appears that there is a balance of interest in arrears\\ndue May 1, 1839, of. $886.01\\nAdd one year s interest on $37,591.33, on loan by the county\\nof Bergen {having deducted the Jersey City quota of\\nS:i556.47 from the amount originally accrued of $41,147.82).. 2255.50\\nTotal interest due 1st May, 1840 3041.51\\nThe expenses to be charged against the interest is found\\nto be 298.44\\nA fraction less thau one per cent.\\nLeaving off interest to be divided, $2843.07; the propor-\\ntion thereof to be paid over to the county of Hudson be-\\ning then $37,591, producing $2843 (the proportion on\\n$8806), is $066.00.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0163.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "122\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Raralt:\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Principal due Hndaon Oonntjr iUj 1, 1840 8806.63\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iDterett \u00c2\u00abC\u00c2\u00ab00\\nFrom wliich is to be deducted llie expense attending the\\ntransfer thereof to treiuurer, which is\\n$9472.53\\nSI2.26\\n$9460.38\\nIt is proixT to note in this place that Jereey City, hiivinK receivwi its\\n^uota of princii ai, and collected tlio interest for itself, the income of the\\namount of principal to l\u00c2\u00bbe in hands of the clioeen freeholders of Hudson\\nCounty is to be divided to the townshipt of Bergen and Harrison ex-\\nclusively.\\nApproved by the Board of Chosen Freeholders, May 6, 1840.\\n.\\\\LIIKIIT G. DoRKMfS, i ir fWor.\\nD. D. DEMARr.ST, Clerk.\\nTlie first apportionment of the school fund of the\\nState was made to Bergen County by the trustees in\\nIS.Sl. and consisted of $1299.02. Renjaniin Ziibris-\\nkie and Cornelius Van Winkle were ai)pointed a\\ncommittee of tlie board of cho.sen freeholders to ap-\\nportion the amount among the several townships.\\nThey apportioned it as follows\\nBergen $214.50\\nLodi 10(1.38\\nSaddle River 1B\u00c2\u00ab.19\\nNewBarbadoes 9410\\nHackcnsack 8142.04\\nHjirrington 226.^.1\\nFranklin l\u00c2\u00abl.i.\\nPoniplon 163.6.5\\nThe same amount was apportioned in 1832, in the\\nsame manner, by Garret Ackerson and Abel I. Smith,\\ncommittee, and continued the same each until 1837.\\nIn 1837 the school fund for the county was $1615.50,\\napportioned among the townships as follows:\\nBergen .J124 12 Harrington *)38.10\\nJersey City 250.13 Franklin 261.74\\nHackensack 25n.l8 New Barbadoee 142,28\\nLodi 178.24 Saddle River 73.51\\nAfter the division of the county in 1840 the amount\\napportioned from the .school fund wa.s .*1000.. )0, di-\\nvided among the townships as follows, and so remained\\nuntil the new school api ropriation was made:\\nNew Ilarliadoca 8138.09\\nLodi 60.45\\nSaddle River 52.41\\nHackensack 234.09\\nKmnklin 8216.02\\nWiiahiligton 174.09\\nHarrington 118.75\\nLodi _ 8164.40\\nHackensack 174.50\\nFranklin 190.. )n\\nSaddle River wi.OB\\nThe interest on the surplus revenue began to be\\navailable for school purposes May I, 1838. The sum\\nof .^14110 had then accrued, an l was divided among\\nthe townshiim as follows\\nHarrington..... 8225.36\\n.New Barbadoee 131.40\\nllergen 298.70\\nJersey City 131.12\\nAt this date a balance of interest waa due on the\\nfund loaned out of $728.45.\\nIn 1839 the interest on the fund amounted to\\n$2655.38. In 1840 the interest was $;ill2.(i5.\\nCM I TKK X X V I II.\\n80CIETIRS .\\\\NI I.NCOIU OllATKI) COMPANIES OF\\nIIKIIIIKN f lil NTV.\\nThe Bergen County Bible Society.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At a meeting\\nheld in the Reformed Dutch Church of Hackensack,\\nt nder art aM\u00c2\u00abd Feb. 16, 18.31.\\nJune 16, 1847, for the purpose of considering the\\npracticability of forming a Bible Society for the county\\nof Bergen, Rev. H. II. Warren was called to tlie chair,\\nand Cornelius Blauvclt wili chosen secretary. The\\nmeeting adjourned to the first day of July, at which\\ndate an organization was ettected and the following\\nofficers chosen Rev. W. Kiting, D.D., president\\nRevs. Barnabas V. Collins and John Mauley, vice-\\npresidents; Christian De Baun, secretary and A. O.\\nZabriskie, treasurer. Executive Committee, Rev. A.\\nH. Warner, Henry H. Banta, Peter Westervelt, Jr.,\\nJacob Van Buskirk, Andrew H. Ilojiper, Edward B.\\nForce, Robert Rennie.\\nThe society has been from its organization an\\neffective au.xiliary of the .\\\\merican Bible Society, and\\nhas worked in co-operation with the parent in.stitution.\\nThe custom has prevailed of having occasional ser-\\nmons preached at the annual meetings, frequent\\nmeetings of the executive committee to devise and\\ncarry out plans of work, and agents or colporteurs to\\nthoroughly canvass every portion of the territory.\\nThese, with encouraging reports rendered from time\\nto time, and often published in the newspapers of the\\ncounty, have kept alive an active interest in the cause\\nand dirtused it widely among all Christian deuomina-\\ntions. It has been an anti-sectarian organization, and\\none devoted i)urely to the disseminatifin of the sacred\\nscriptures.\\nThe first anniversary of the society was held at tlie\\nNorth Dutch Church in Schraalenburgh, March 14,\\n1848. Dr. Elting was re-elected president, and Chris-\\ntian -De Baun, secretary. .Vgents were ap| ointed to\\ncanvass the different townships, and Bibles were\\nobtained from the parent society. The colporteurs\\nreported the first year 1859 famili s visited, $;^ti(i.75\\nworth of books sold, $20.00 worth gratuitously ilis-\\ntributed, $102,36 collected from contributions, 73\\ndestitute families supplied, and $392,75 |)aid for\\nBibles and Testaments,\\nAt the secoinl anniversary, held in Hackensack,\\nFeb, H, 1849, Rev, John M, Me.Vuley reached the\\noccasional sermon. Rev. S. Irn-nus Prime, one of\\nthe secretaries of the American Bible Society, ivius\\npresent and delivered an able address. Rev. Dr,\\nElting was re-elected (iresident, and Cliristian I)e\\nBaun, secretary. The meeting was largely attended,\\nand the exercises unusually interesting. We cannot\\nfollow through all the minutes of proceedings in de-\\ntail, and shall only attempt to give such items as\\nwill illustrate the workings of the society at several\\ninteresting periods of its history, and a few extracts\\nfrom its reports.\\nThe sixteenth anniversary of the society was held\\nin the Reformed Dutch Church at Raniapo, on Tues-\\nday, Oct, 21, 1861, The president. Rev, William\\nDemarcst, occupied the chair, and the opening prayer\\nwim offered by Rev, J, T. Deinarest, 1),D, Reports\\nwere presentcii and read from the executive com-\\nmittee, the treasurer, and the depositary.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0164.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "SOCIETIES AND INCORPORATED COMPANIES OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n123\\nRev. Dr. W. J. R. Taylor, one of the secretaries of\\nthe American Bible Society, was present, and made\\nan interwting address, embodying the general facts\\nrespecting the working of the parent society, going\\nto show tlie prodigious amount of work done by that\\ninstitution and the large and pressing claims upon it.\\nThe thanks of the society were voted to Dr. Taylor\\nfor his presence and his very interesting and ac-\\nceptable address.\\nRev. Dr. George Sheldon, State agent for the Ameri-\\ncan Bible Society, spoke of the work in the State, and\\nparticularly of tlie Bibles prepared especially for dis-\\ntribution among the New Jersey soldiers in the field.\\nThis Bible, a copy of which was shown by Dr.\\nSheldon, is of a style and binding superior to that\\nof the Bibles with which the soldiers of other States\\nare supplied. At the conclusion of Dr. Sheldon s\\nremarks the following resolution was adopted\\nRemlvetl, That this society has heard with mucli interest t lie state-\\nmeuts of Eev. Dr. Sheldou with regard to the supply of New Jersey\\ntroops with copies of tiie New Testament, especially with regard to the\\nsupply of the troops from this couuty, and that the society pledges its\\nsupport to the parent society in all the expenses incurred in behalf of\\nthe Bergen County volunteers.\\nThe following were chosen as the executive com-\\nmittee for the ensuing year Rev. W. R. Gordon, D.D.,\\nRev. A. H. Warner, Rev. S. M. Stiles, Rev. A. B.\\nTaylor, Paul R. Paulison, Peter R. Terhune, Wil-\\nliam Williams. The treasurer and secretary are ex\\nofficio members of the committee.\\nOfficers of the society were chosen as follows Pres-\\nident, Rev. Ephraim Deyoe Vice-Presidents, Rev.\\nJohn T. Demarest, D.D., and Rev. William Dema-\\nrest; Treasurer, Rev. John A. Parsons; Secretary,\\nRev. James Demarest, Jr.\\nThe treasurer reported $222.,38 in the treasury.\\nIn June, 1S6.3, the society was reported a-s well sus-\\ntained, clergymen and a large number of leading citi-\\nzens bearing a part in its affairs. The receipts during\\nthe fiscal year were \u00c2\u00a7577.71.\\nBy a report made in June, 1865, it appears that\\n7595 soldiers New Testaments had been distributed\\nto the volunteers from New Jersey during the war.\\nTwenty-one county Bible Societies existed at that\\ntime in the State. These societies, during the year\\nending .\\\\pril 1, 1865, contributed to the funds of the\\nAmerican Bible Society the sum of S23,010.41. The\\nBergen County Bible Society is reported this year in\\na vigorous condition, and its receipts were S513.51.\\nDuring the year 1867 the executive committee\\nhad the couuty canvassed, in order to ascertain the\\nfamilies, if any, destitute of the Scriptures. Nearly\\nfive hundred families were found without the Bible\\nin their houses, and measures were taken accordingly\\nto supply them.\\nThe twenty-first anniversary of the society was held\\nat tlie Reformed Dutch Church in Paramus on the\\n8th of October, 1867.\\nThe annual meetiug in 1868 was held at the Re-\\nformed Church in Ramapo on the second Tuesday in\\nOctober.\\nThe annual meeting for 1870 was held at the Pres-\\nbyterian Church in Englewood, beginning on Tues-\\nday, October 11th. During the year the hotels in the\\ncounty and the sailing-vessels on the Hackensack\\nRiver were supplied with Bibles, at a cost of $217.91.\\nIn 1872 the annual meeting was held at the Re-\\nformed Church in Ridgefield, beginning on the 8th of\\nOctober, at half-past two o clock. The house was well\\nfilled. On application, a grant was made of fifty\\nBibles for the use of the chajilain of the State prison\\nat Trenton. The treasurer reported having received\\nfor the year $850.55. It was resolved to meet the\\nnext year at the Presbyterian Church in Rutherford\\nPark. The officers chosen for the ensuing year were:\\nPresident, Rev. Dr. Gordon Vice-Presidents, Rev.\\nMr. Craig and Rev. Mr. Johnson Secretary, Rev.\\nT. B. Romeyn Treasurer, Mr. William Williams;\\nExecutive Committee, Rev. John Coyle, Dr. Burdett,\\nDavid Brower, Paul Paulison, R. W. Farr, James\\nVanderbeck, David Bogert.\\nThe donations made to the society annually since\\n1876 have been as follows 1877, 1464.57 1878, S576.77\\n1879, .1*2575 1880, $610.92. In 1879 the late Mrs. C.\\nFredericks, of Hackensack, made in her will a be-\\nquest to the society of S2000.\\nThe society was incorporated under the general law\\nof the State, Oct. 8, 1877.\\nThe following statement respecting the county dis-\\ntribution and the proportion of each township is taken\\nfrom the treasurer s report for 1880:\\nToTAi. .Amount of Cou.vty Distribution.\\nTownships. Bibles. Tests. Vols. Value.\\nNew Barbadoes 80 66 l;i6 S17.90\\nUnion lot 4.50\\nMidland 711 IS 97 26.90\\nLodi 7 II 18 9.10\\nEnglewood 70 19 89 33.88\\nHarrington 4 17 il 4.10\\nWashington 6 6 12 1,80\\nFranklin 20 (J 20 11-.50\\nRidgeBeld 16 u 10 10.0.5\\nSaddle River 51 52 26.20\\nHohokus 24 24 10.60\\nTotal 358 127 485 $186.63\\nThe present officers are President, Rev. E. A. Bulk-\\nley, D.D., Rutherford Vice-Presidents, Rev. J. C.\\nVan Deventer, Paramus Rev. J. G. Johnson, En-\\nglewood Secretary, Rev. E. M. Garten Treasurer,\\nProf. William Williams, Hackensack Executive\\nCommittee, Rev. T. B. Romeyn, Hackensack; Judge\\nH. H. Voorhis, Spring Valley Hon. J. A. Demarest,\\nRiver Edge James Van Derbeck, Esq., Englewood\\nJudge William E. Skinner, Hackensack; Hon. Isaac\\nWortendyke, Midland Park.\\nBergen County Sunday-School Association.\\nThis organization was formed in 1867, and has been\\nlargely participated in by clergymen and Sunday-\\nschool workers throughout the county. To show the\\nmanner of conducting the meetings of the association,\\nas well as its general object and spirit, we will take one", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0165.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "124\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEy.\\nof the reports, say thatof tbe annual meeting for 1872, j\\nheld in tiie Presbyterian Ciiurch at Englewood.\\nTlie inorniiigs ssion wasopened at9.4o with a prayer\\nservice by the president, followed by Revs. H. M.\\nBooth, J. Coyle, and Mr. Peters. The opening hymn\\nof praise was then sung, and at its conclusion the\\ncounty secretary, Mr. Williams, submitted his report.\\nHe alluded at length to the aims and objects of the\\nassociation: To engender more activity in pastors,\\nsuperintendents, parents, and teachers in the Sunday-\\nschool work to arouse teachers to the absolute neces-\\nsity of more earnest study of the great truths of the\\nBible, convincing them that our schools never can\\naccomplish the great end for which they were designed\\nuntil the teachers themselves are better qualified to\\nimpart the information that the children require.\\nTherefore, we contend that to make the Sabbath-\\nschools of our county successful we must have co-op-\\nerative action we must come together in conference\\nand instruct each other, trying to do good, and willing\\nto communicate. He had visited thirty schoolsduring\\nthe past year, and was happy to announce that the de-\\nsire for the information needed in Sunday-schools was\\nearnestly sought for. He alluded to the want of uni-\\nformity, and urged, with the greatest emphasis, the\\nadoption of a Cougnian s series of lessons for the whole\\ncounty. After pointing out other easily remedied\\nerrors and omissions, and giving profitable advice re- i\\nspecting them, Mr. Williams said he had received\\nreports from seven of the township secretaries. These\\nreports gave the statistics of 34 schools, leaving 2fl\\nto be heard from, the whole number in the county\\nbeingC3. Thenumberof school officers, 115; teachers,\\n408, of whom 323 were church-members number of\\nscholars, 3019 (112of these church-members) number\\nof hopeful conversions, )2; volumes in the library,\\n9380 copies of |)apers distributed, 27S7 amcmnt ex-\\npended for sustaining .schools, l?31. i. i.lil for benevo-\\nlent purposes, $.3(i89.25, one school alone jiaying $l. )Oil\\nof this amount. Teachers meetings had been held in\\n14 schools, and 27 had kept open during the whole\\nyear.\\nMr. Williams concluded his interesting report by\\nexhorting the a.ss(icialion to continue the noble work\\nwith greater energy, more al iding faith, and a firmer\\nresolve than ever. Special addresses were made on\\nsuch subjects as the following Our Sunday-school\\nWork, its Successes, its Probabilities, and its De-\\nmands, by Rev. H. M. Booth; The Earnest\\nTeacher, by Amirew A. Smith, Tvs(|. Co-operative\\nWork in the Sunday-.school, by W. II. Sutton, V,si\\\\.\\nThe iMiniily and the Sunday-school, by l )r. C. S.\\nKobinson Christian Work by Laymen, by Rev.\\nDr. Wi.se, etc. One hour in the morning was devoted\\nto Illustrative Teaching, and an interesting feature\\nin the afternoon was the opening of the (Question\\nDrawer.\\nTile presidents of the ajwociation have been as fol-\\nlows: William Williams, Esq., was elected first presi-\\ndent. He remained in office two years. Judge Thomas\\nGumming Wius elected Sept. 13, 1870; Benson Van\\nVliet, Sept. 12, 1871, re-elected Nov. 7, 1872; Rev. J.\\nA. Lippincott, Nov. 6, 1873; Rev. Henry Mattice,\\nNov. 5, 1874 William G. Vermilye, Oct! 15, 1875\\nRev. Goyn Talmage, Oct. 3, 1876; Rev. J. W. Mar-\\nshall, Nov. 1, 1877; Rev. D. Thomas MacClyraont,\\nNov. 7, 1878 Rev. H. M. Booth, D.D., Nov. (5, 1S79;\\nRev. Peter V. Van Huskirk, Nov. 4, 1880.\\nProf William Williams has been secretary of the\\nassociation since its organization in 1867, and has\\nbeen one of the most active workers in the cause.\\nThe county is divided into three districts, the first\\nbeing that portion lying between the Hudson River\\nand the Hackensack, comprising the townships of\\nRidgefield, Englewood, Palisade, and Harrington the\\nsecond being that portion lying between Hackensack\\nand Saddle Rivers, comprising the townships of I nion,\\nLodi, New Barbadoes, Midland, and Washington; the\\nthird being the territory between Saddle River and\\nthe Pa.ssaic, comprising Saddle River, Ridgewood,\\nFranklin, and Ilohokus townships. The vice-presi-\\ndents of the association are ex officio presidents of their\\nrespective districts, one being elected for each an-\\nnually, and they preside over their several district\\nnieetiugs, one or more of which is held in each ilis-\\ntrict each year. In addition to this it is the purpose\\nof the association to organize the townships into au.\\\\-\\niliary and co-operative bodies. The vice-presidents\\nor ex officio presidents of the districts for the year\\n1881 are S. M. Riker, Esq., Eastern Division John\\nA. Demarest, Central Hon. Isaac Wortendyke,\\nWestern.\\nEach township has a secretary, elected by the as-\\nsociation at each annual meeting; whose duty it is t\\nfurnish statistics in a report each year to the county\\nsecretary, who makes his report annually to the sec-\\nretary of the State association. Thus a volume of\\nvaluable .statistics on Sunday-schools throughout the\\nState is c mstantly accumulating.\\nSince the suggestion made by Secretary Williams\\nin his report for 1S72 favoring uniform lessons for the\\nwhole county, that practice has gradually been gain-\\ning acceptance, an l the time is not far distant when\\nall the children in the Sunday-schools of the county\\nwill be studying and reciting the same lessons. The\\nsecretary says in his report for 1880, The Inter-\\nnational Series of Sunday-school Lessons may be\\nfound now in almost every school in the county, and\\nI am glad to notice the beneficial n-sults enuinating\\nfrom this method of study.\\nWe learn from the last report of the secretary that\\nthis a.ssociation since its organization kept steadily\\non its way, without the intermission of a single meet-\\ning. It has been constantly increasing in usefulness,\\nso that Sunday-school work in the county will now\\ncompare tiivorably with that in any other county of\\nthe State. It ajqiears from the report of 1880 that\\nthe number of schools in the county is 89, of which", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0166.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "SOCIETIES AND INCORPORATED COMPANIES OF BERGEN COUNTY.\\n125\\n58 made a report number of officers, 254 teachers,\\n624; average attendance of officers and teachers, 640;\\nnumber of teachers church-members, 559 number of\\nscholars, including primary classes, 5121 average\\nattendance of scholars, 3319 number of scholars\\nchurch-members, 472 number of primary schools,\\n1176 number of conversions or confirmations, 76\\namount contributed for State and county associations,\\n$73; o2 schools keep open all the year, and 27 have\\nregular teachers meetings.\\nThe Bergen County Farmers Mutual Fire In-\\nsurance Company. This institution is located at\\nSpring Valley, Bergen Co., N. J. It was incorpo-\\nrated May 1, 1849, by the following-named persons,\\nviz. Jacob Van Buskirk, Nicholas C. Durie, Charles\\nHasbrouck, Benjamin Z. Van Emburgh, David A. G.\\nDemarest, John G. Demarest, Isaac D. Demarest,\\nGarret S. Demarest, Henry N. Voorhis, George T.\\nBrickell, Garrett A. Eckerson, Henry H. Voorhis, Jr.,\\nJohn Ackerman, Jr.\\nThe company was organized with Garrett S. Dema-\\nrest as president, and Henry H. Voorhis as secretary.\\nThese gentlemen have occupied these positions re-\\nspectively ever since, a period of thirty-two years.\\nThe plan of insurance adopted by this company is\\nset forth in Section 5 of the charter, as follows\\n5. And be it etmcted^ That every persun who shall become a member\\nof sail! company by effecting insurance therein shall, before he receives\\nhis policy, deposit his promissory note for such a sum of money as shall\\nbe cietermineil by the directors to be the premium for said insurance, and\\nan amount not exceeding thirty per ceutum on the amount of such pre-\\nmium shall be immediately paid and the said dei osit note shall be pay-\\nable, in part or the whole, at any time when the directors shall deem the\\nsame requisite for the payment of loss or damage by fire, and such ex-\\npenses as shall be necessary for transacting the business fur said com-\\npany but no member shall be held liable beyond the amount of his, her,\\nor their promissory note; and at the exjiiration of the term of insurance\\nthe said note, or such part of the same as shall remain unpaid, after de-\\nducting a just and fair proportion of all losses and expenses occurring\\nduring said term, shall be relinquished and given up to the maker thereof;\\nand it shall be lawful for said corporation to loan such portion of their\\nmoney in hand as may not be immediately wanted for the purposes of\\nsaid corporation.\\nThis portion of the charter was amended Feb. 11,\\n1864, so that cash payments can be substituted for the\\npremium notes. By this amendment the time of the\\ncharter limited at first to twenty years was ex-\\ntended for thirty years from May 1, 1869.\\nWe give the following statistics from the report of\\nthe proceedings of the company from May 1, 1849, to\\nMay 1, 1881, thirty-two years:\\nThe whole amount of cash premium received since the for-\\nmation of the company is 8133,030.49\\nThe interest received on the same ia 13,798.26\\nCash, premium and interest, accruing from same is 8146,828.75\\nOf which there has been paid for current expenses $33,421.67\\nLoss and damage done by fire 88,660.40\\n122,082.07\\nSurplus in hand S24,746.68\\nThe current expenses have been as follows, viz.\\n9\\nFor printers bills, reports, and advertisements $3,008.59\\nbooks 329.29\\npostage, stationery, and other expenses G73.19\\ncounsel fees 20.00\\ncounterfeit bills 26.30\\npolicies canceled not collected 5,543.15\\npaid for re-insurance 946.88\\ntaxes 3,008.64\\ncosts in cases of arbitration 78.81\\nsafe for oflice 965.00\\noflice furniture 99.78\\ncompensation of oflicers 18,617.04\\nSecretary of State, fees on annual report 105.00\\nTotal $33,421.67\\nAiuouuts of LoSK$ Paid in the diff erent Townships in the Counties of Bergen^\\nPasstiii; Essex, Somerset, Morris, Sussex, and Hudson, in tfie Stale of New\\nJersey, and in the County of Rockland, in tlie SOtte of New York.\\nBergen Countt.\\nTownships.\\nNew Barbadoes 12 fires 55,277.40\\nHackensack 7 2,798.17\\nHarringtO[i 14 7,746.05\\nWashington 21 7,752.19\\nHohokus 9 4,770.00\\nFranklin 20 8,577.99\\nSaddle River 9 6,840.00\\nLodi 10 7,573.89\\nUnion 1 fire 34.38\\nMidland 8 fires 4,804.91\\nPalisades 1 fire 135.72\\nEnglewood 1 1,800.00\\nKidgewood 3 fires 2,408.50\\nPassaic County.\\nTownships.\\nWayne 10 fires\\nManchester 5\\nPompton 7\\nWest Milford 4\\nAcquackanonk 5\\nPaterson 7\\nLittle Falls 1 fire\\nPassaic\\n$3,858.64\\n1,742.50\\n1,404.00\\n2,509.49\\n1,230.54\\n3,834.77\\n500.00\\n$60,518.20\\nToivnship.\\nSouth Orange 1 fire..\\n3 fires 1,500.00\\nEssex County.\\nSomerset County.\\nToivnship.\\nUnion Village 1 fire\\n$200.00\\n$2,100.00\\nMorris County.\\nTownships.\\nChatham 3 firea\\nMontville 3\\nSusSE.x County.\\nToionship.\\nVernon 4 fires\\n$1,203.82\\nHudson County.\\nTownship.\\nNorth Bergen 1 fire\\nRockland County, N. T.\\nTownships.\\nRamapo 2 fires\\nOrangetown 7\\nClarkstown 1 fire\\n$72.00\\n$1,800 00\\n5,302.50\\n.50 00\\n$16,588.94\\n$200.0\\n$2,100.00\\n$824.94\\n$1,202.82\\n$72.00\\n87,152.50\\n$88,660.40\\nStatement of the .imount of Capital in Premium Notes and Cash in hand,\\nand the Amount at risk at the end of each year.\\nPrem. Notes.\\n1850\u00e2\u0080\u0094 May 1 $5,128.26\\n1851 6,776.38\\n1S52 8,569.69\\n1853 9,810.81\\n1854 17,071.47\\n1855 21,904.80\\n1856 23,793.86\\n1857 25,421.16\\n1868 27,776.95\\n1869 32,768.42\\n1860 34,954.72\\n1861 37,415.07\\nCash. Risks.\\n$1,413.16 $409,666.00\\nl,73i.OS 527,704.00\\n2,696.88 661,030.00\\n2,323.77 753,227.00\\n3,627.40 1,213,920.10\\n6,917.06 1,411,764.00\\n6,916.72 1,497,722.00\\n5,581.92 1,569,957.00\\n5,011.29 1,659,677.00\\n4,389.74 1,758,928.00\\n7,195.83 1,732,357.00\\n8,096.03 1,800,858.00", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0167.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "126\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nPrem. Notn. Gush. Rislu.\\n1862\u00e2\u0080\u0094 May 1 _ $39,100.00 88,186.87 Sl,842,.V2O.0O\\n18\u00c2\u00ab3 39,858.47 7,632.44 1,871,500.00\\n1864 39,924.70 10^69.03 1,874,240.00\\n18\u00c2\u00bb5 39,218.96 12,547.98 1,844,720.00\\n188\u00c2\u00ab 41,764.29 13,444.01 1,957,516.00\\n1867 45,356.88 14,257.W 2,077,193.00\\n1868 51,629.00 16,015.37 2,264,641.00\\n1869 58,870.52 19,319.31 2,466,462.00\\n1870 70,359.11 23,893.75 2,842,522.00\\n1871 79,951.42 23,810.70 3,116,950.00\\n1872 93,098.16 24,066.17 3,466,658.00\\n187S 101,991.00 25,366.78 3,682,267.00\\n1874 108,247.90 3O.422.70 3,597,454.00\\n1875 112,559.19 25,025.38 .3,478.128.00\\n1878 113,816.37 26,304.. i4 3,366,173.00\\n1877 114,286.47 29,2.52.02 3,296,048.00\\n1878 112,1160.60 29,0O7..VJ 3,187,410.011\\n1879 107,l:t5.33 33,llM.0S 3,002,121.00\\n1880 99,485.15 31,820.02 2,794,228.09\\n1881 95,105.86 24,746.08 2,653,2r3.0O\\nTlie company w.is organized bj farmers upon the\\nmutual principle, in order to furnish to the farmers of\\nIJergen and the adjoining counties a cheap and safe\\ninsurance, the cheapest insurance consistent with\\nsecurity.\\nIts business has been done by farmers, and with the\\ngreatest prudence and strictest economy.\\nThe current expenses, including the fees paid to its\\nofficers and costs of books, stationery, printing, and\\nall other expenses, have not averaged over $1044.43\\nper year. An examination of the foregoing state-\\nment will show that it has furnished a safe and at the\\nsame time a cheap insurance.\\nNo assessment hiis ever been made by this com-\\npany.\\nThe names of ])erson8 who have served as directors\\nsince the organization of the company, viz.\\nGarrol S. I)\u00c2\u00abniar\u00c2\u00abt From 1849 to 1881\u00e2\u0080\u009432 yean.\\nOeorRe T. Ilrlckcll 32\\nHenry H. V.x.rhlD 32\\nl*an D. l i)nmri 9t 32\\nJacoli Van niiitkirk 18. \u00c2\u00bb0 1 year.\\nnenJHiniii Vtm Kmburgh 1\\n(iiirrft A. l-^rkernon 1861 2 years.\\nDaviil A. Drniumt 2\\nJohn Ackorniftii IS-ie 7\\nJolin .1. Deriinri St 1864 15\\nCliarlM llaHhr..iick, M.D .857\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\\nllentv N. V.mrliln 18. k 6\\nNlclioloo C. Dnrie 18.\\nJacoli J. Fenlon 1860 1871\u00e2\u0080\u0094 21\\nI etor lloanl 1852\u00e2\u0080\u00942\\nBlrliaril T. c-o.,|\u00c2\u00ab.r 1851 1 year.\\nCiiii|ifr P. Wfyilervelt 1\\nWilliam Bliilr 1852 IS-lfl\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7 yean.\\nJohn .T. Vi.li Itinklrk 1871\u00e2\u0080\u009419\\nAndrew f./jilTiBkle I8.V3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1 viar.\\n\u00c2\u00abVirnellii\u00c2\u00bb r. /jil.rlakle 1853 18. i9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 yuare.\\nJai-nli Van llunklrk 185.1 1881\u00e2\u0080\u0094 26\\nJohn T. Ilnrini! 1860 1881-25\\nIII. hanl Ackerman 1867 1862\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5\\nJohn 1). Biinialno _ 18.58 186, 7\\nCornellui A. Wnrtondyke 1860 1881\u00e2\u0080\u009422\\nI elerl eack 18. .9 1870-11\\nllenrv Herring 1802 1881\u00e2\u0080\u009419\\nJohn II.Zal.rl\u00c2\u00abkle 1\u00c2\u00bb04 1881\u00e2\u0080\u0094 17\\nAaron O CiirrlKm 1805 1881\u00e2\u0080\u009416\\nAlirm. S. ZalTlnkle 187(1 1881\u00e2\u0080\u0094 11\\nRalph S. Il..|n\u00c2\u00abre\u00c2\u00abt 1K71 1881\u00e2\u0080\u009410\\nAbrni. Van Dolien 1171 18X1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 10\\nThe officers have been\\nGarret Ih.niarnet, prealilent From 1849 to 1881\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .12 yean.\\nJohn AckiTnmn, Tice-preiideiit. 1849 18. .6\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\\nWlUUni llhilr. vl.e-pre.lilenl lK, .fl I,\\\\ ,9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\\nRlrhnril A. kernian, rlr^-prenldent 18. i9 1862\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\\nHenry C. Herring, rlre-preel.lent 1802 1881\u00e2\u0080\u0094 19\\nHenry II V.K.rliU,\u00c2\u00bbecreUry 1840 1881\u00e2\u0080\u0094 32\\nlaaac I). Heninrrnl, treaaurer 1849 1881 32\\nBergen Connty Assnrance ABSOciation, Hack-\\nensack, N. J. -This a.i.sociati n wu.h iiuorponitod\\nMarch U), l ^41, and commenced buslnc. i.s upon that\\ndate, William De Wolfe, president Simeon Zabris-\\nkie, secretary and trea.surer. Mr. De Wolfe was suc-\\nceeded in the presidency by Judge Doremus. who\\nheld the office two years, when Mr. De Wolfe was re-\\nelected, and remained president until Jan. 1, 1878,\\nsince which time William S. Banta has held the\\noffice. The secretaries have been Simeon Zabriskie,\\nMyers Anderson, Garret Ackerson, Jr., William S.\\nBanta, C. L. Blauvelt, and G. W. Wheeler since\\nMay, 1874.\\nThe company has been in active existence forty-one\\nI years, and its risks have been confined chiefly to\\nBergen and Passaic Counties. It has been operated\\nupon the purely mutual plan, each policy-holder be-\\ncoming a member giving his note for his policy, and\\nbeing iissessed thereon in case of losses by fire.\\nDuring these forty years a large amount of business\\nhas been done by the a.s30ciation, and it is still active\\nand vigorous.\\nrll.Vl TER XXIX.\\nBERGEN AND P.\\\\SSAIC COUNTIES IX THE WAR OF\\nTHE REBELLION.\\nSituation in 1861. When the civil war l roke out\\nin 181)1 no one dreamed of the magnitude to which\\nit would extend. The President of the I liited States,\\non the loth of .Vpril, issued a proclamation calling\\nfor seventy-five thousand militia out of the existing\\norganization of the States, to serve for three months\\nunless sooner discharged. The quota of this call for\\nNew Jersey was three thousand one hundred and\\ntwenty men, or four regiments of seven hundred and\\neiglity men each, to be detached from the four gen-\\nenil military divisions of the State. The War Depart-\\nment also retpiired that, in addition to the reginientfi\\ncalled for, the reserve militia in the several States\\nshould be organized ius rapidly as possible.\\nGovernor Olden received the requisition oflhi War\\nDepartment on the 17th of .\\\\pril. and iiiinu (lialely\\nissued a proclamation directing all individuals or\\norganizations willing to respond to the call to report\\nthemselves within twenty days. On the same day he\\nnotified the War Department that the call for troops\\nwould be attended to ii.s rapiilly as possible, and is-\\nsued orders to the nnijor-generals of the several\\nmilitary divisions of the State to detitil each one\\nregiment of ten companies, and also to organize im-\\nmediately the reserve militia in the respective bri-\\ngade.s. The nuijor-generals, in detailing the regi-\\nment.s required, were directed to accept the services\\nof volunteers; but if the requisite number did not\\noffer, they were re iuired to dral^ from the reserve\\nmilitia to make up the deficiency. No such neces-\\nsity, however, was anticipated, ami the re.sulf fully\\njustified the confidence of the autliiirities. The [)eople\\neverywhere responded with enthusia-stic alacrity to", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0168.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n127\\nthe call for troops. The exLsting military organiza-\\ntions at once opened recruiting -stations; public\\nmeetings were held in every town and city churches\\nand ministers engaged with enthusiasm in the work\\ncommittees were appointed to encourage and super-\\nintend enlistments. While everywhere the popular\\nheart beat responsive to the sj)irit in which the call of\\nthe nation s head had been made, in New Jersey the\\nfeeling was active and intense. Within a few days\\nover one hundred companies of volunteers, equal to\\nten thousand men, had offered their services under\\nthe Governor s proclamation, and the military depart-\\nments were so swarming with men and companies\\noffering and pressing their services that many who\\ncould not be taken were obliged to wait till a second\\ncall was made by the government or go into regi-\\nments of other States to have their ambition to enter\\nthe public service gratified. During April, 1861,\\nquite a large number from Bergen and Passaic Coun-\\nties, under these circumstances, entered the Excelsior\\nBrigade and other organizations in New York and\\nPennsylvania, and were never accredited to the State\\nof New Jersey.\\nNew Jersey s quota under the first call was filled in\\na few days. The first regimental offer was made by\\nthe First Regiment of the Hunterdon Brigade on the\\nday following the Governor s proclamation on the\\nsame day Capt. J. R. Cunningham tendered the ser-\\nvices of the Camden Zouaves, and these were rapidly\\nfollowed by similar offers from all part.s of the State.\\nThe four regiments accepted were formed into a bri-\\ngade known as the New Jersey Brigade, and placed\\nunder the command of Brig.-Gen. Theodore Runyon,\\nof Newark. The First Regiment of this brigade was\\nraised in Newark and vicinity, and the Second in\\nJersey City. It contained no organized company\\nfrom Bergen or Passaic County, but quite a number\\nof individuals from these counties entered tiie ranks,\\namong whom were Mr. Baldwin, formerly editor of the\\nBergen Journal, and Bayard Goldsmith, connected\\nwith the Paterson Guardian. The brigade was mus-\\ntered into the United States service at Trenton, May\\n1, 1861, and arrived at Washington on the 6th, being\\ntile first organized brigade to report to the President\\nfor the defenseof the natidual capital. Fort Runyon,\\none of the first forts in the line of fortifications at\\nWashington, was constructed by the brigade. In the\\nbattle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, the brigade was\\nheld as a reserve, but not engaged.\\nIn Bergen and Passaic Counties the feeling was as\\nintense at the outbreak of the war as in any other\\nsection of the country. The first great war-meeting\\nin Paterson convened in front of the City Hall, in j\\nMain Street, on Tuesday afternoon, April 23, 1861, at\\nthree o clock p.m. The principal buildings in the\\nvicinity, the buildings along Main Street, and the\\npublic buildings were festooned with the red, white,\\nand blue, and the national flag floated in the breeze.\\nMayor Prull presided Andrew J. Sandford and\\nHorace O. Hedge were chosen secretaries. Prayer\\nwas ottered by Rev. Mr. Arndt. Vice-presidents were\\nI appointed as follows North Ward, N. Lane, Pere-\\ngrine Sandford; East Ward. Daniel Barkalow, Charles\\nDanforth West Ward, Patrick Agnew, Thomas\\nSeager South Ward, James Peacock, C. L. Wester-\\nvelt Fifth Ward, C. S. Van Wagoner, Samuel Pope.\\nMessrs. Daniel Barkalow, John N. Taylor, Thomas\\nD. Hoxsey, William Douglas, and John J. Brown\\nwere appointed a committee to draft resolutions.\\nThe baud played Hail Columbia, and a stirring\\nand patriotic address was delivered by Rev. W. H.\\nHornblower, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.\\nSpeeches were also made by Messrs. Buckley, C.\\nInglis, Jr., Daniel Barkalow, D. G. Scott, Henry A.\\nWilliams, T. D. Hoxsey, Rev. Mr. Graves, and A. B.\\nWoodruff. At this meeting a war committee of\\ntwenty-five citizens wiis appointed, consisting of the\\nfollowing-named gentlemen:\\nCharles Danforth, Samuel Pope, Henry M. Low,\\nAlbert A. Hopper, Benjamin Buckley, Joseph N.\\nTaylor, John J. Brown, Philip Rafl erty, David G.\\nScott, Andrew J. Sandford, Jacob S. Rogers, John\\nHopper, Henry B. Crosby, Robert Carrick, Morgan\\nColt, Edwin T. Prall, Cornelius Van Winkle, Daniel\\nBarkalow, Samuel Smith, Andrew Derrom, John\\nQuinn, Stephen Allen, Charles H. O Neill, Jetur R.\\nRiggs, and John C. Westervelt.\\nBergen County was aroused. In Haekensack flags\\nwere flying from almost every public and i rivate\\nbuilding. A large meeting of citizens was held on\\nMonday evening, April 22, 1861, presided over by\\nHon. J. A. Zabriskie. A committee was appointed\\nto draft resolutions, and after remarks by William S.\\nBanta, Esq., presented the following, which were\\nunanimously adopted, to wit:\\nW herkas, The union of the States is in danger, and the Constitution,\\nframed at so great a cost by our fathers, which contains within itself all\\nneedful provisions for the necessities of the government, has been set at\\ndefiance: and whereas our national flag has been insulted and govern-\\nment property invaded and seized by armed traitors, therefore\\nResolved, That the Union shall be preserved at all hazards, the Con-\\nstitution upheld, the right of the government vindicated, and the Decla-\\nration of Independence maintained in its full spirit and power.\\nBesolrnl, That for the defense and maintenance of our countrv and\\nits institutions we are prepared, if need be, to sacrifice our wealth, shed\\nour blood, and lay down our lives.\\nResolved, That our country is the best country in the world, and that\\nwe are not prepared to witness its destructioti without first exerting all\\nthe means at our command for its perpetuation.\\nResolved, That Bergen County will stand by our nalional banner in\\nthe eventful crisis, and those who go luit from among us to the tented\\nfield to uphold that sacred banner nu-iit and will receive our warmest\\nsympathy and aid.\\nReached, That a committee of six be altpointed by this meeting to\\nprovide means for the suppoit of those left destitute by the absence of\\ntheir husbands or fathers who may volunteer in the defense of their\\ncountry\\nThe following gentlemen were appointed such com-\\nmittee: D. A. Berry, Garret G. Aekerson, W. S.\\nBanta, John L. Earle, John H. Banta, and John J.\\nAnderson. A book being then opened for volunteers,\\na large number of names were enrolled.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0169.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "128\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThe Passaic Brigade at this time was in a partially\\ndisorganized state. Thomas D. Hoxsey was briga-\\ndier-general M. V. Spencer,- aide-de-camp John J.\\nBrown, brigade paymaster Philemon Dickerson,\\ndeputy adjutant-general and Kev. William H.\\nHornblower, chaplain. The offices of brigade in-\\nspector, quarterrasister, and judge-advocate were va-\\ncant. The First Regiment, belonging to this brigade,\\nand located in Pater.son, had the following officers:\\nColonel, Absalom B. WoodrulV; Lieutenant-Colonel,\\nPhilip Rafterty; Major, James Kershaw; Quarter-\\nmaster, Abraham H. Goodwin Surgeon, Frederick\\nS. Weller. The other staff-officers, as well as those of\\nthe comi)anies, were vacant.\\nSteps were immediately taken to enlist and organ-\\nize a regiment of National Guards to be in readiness\\nfor service either at lionie or at the seat of war. The\\nfirst meeting with this object iu view was held at\\nDerrom s Hall, in Paterson, on Tuesday evening,\\nApril 23, 1861, when it was resolved that the regi-\\nment should be composed of one troop of cavalry, one\\ncompany of engineers, one company of artillery, and\\neight comi)anies of infantry. Committees were ap-\\npointed to assist in raising the regiment, as follows\\nCavalry, Samuel Smith, F. C. Heckwith, Thomas\\nThorpe; engineers, Andrew Derrom, John Berdan,\\nJohn Halliday artillery, Thomas O. Smith, Richard\\nB. Chiswell, David llennion; infantry, Company A\\n(Old tiuard), Stephen Allen, Gritiith King, John Ed-\\nwards; Company B, Enoch J. Ayres, William Rutan,\\nJohn Slingerland Company C, James Inglis, Jr.,\\nWilliam Fortune, James Lane Company D, John R.\\nDaggers, Alfred Stoutenborough, John O Neill Com-\\npany E, Francis Scott, Hugh lleid, Abraham Hurd\\nCompany F, John N. Taylor, John Bustard, C. E.\\nJohnson Company G, George Gould, R. McLough-\\nlin, Samuel Lair Company H, James G. Scott, Sam-\\nuel Brooks, John Vandervoort.\\nThe committee above named immediately opened\\nas many recruiting-stations in the city, and lively\\nwork ii) enlisting went on. Five of the com|ianies\\nwere immediately filled. On April 24th some changes\\nwere made in the committees J(din Ramage was put\\nin the place of John Berdan on the committee on engi-\\nneers (I. Kane, J. Agncw, P. Lawrence, I), tjuack-\\nenbush, .V. McGill, A. Tliomi)son, J. 1. King, and J.\\nMorrison were added to the committee of Company\\nD; P. .Vtherton to the committee of Company O;\\nand J. IL Wright and George Vercclius to that of\\nCoiii|i:iiiy IL\\nFirst Brigade.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The First Brigade of New Jersey\\nVolunteent I three years men) was mustered into ser-\\nvice under the second call of the President for troops,\\nissued May 3, 1861. The call was for thirty-nine\\nrepiniente of infantry and one of cavalry to serve for\\nthree years or during the war. At the special re |Uest\\nof (iovertior Olden, who had from time totimeimpor-\\ntuned the War D -|iartinent to receive more soldiers\\nfrom this Stale, three regiments were assigned to New\\nJersey, with the command that the number should in\\nno case be exceeded. This number of over three\\nthousand men was easily furnished, a sufficient num-\\nber of companies to com|)lete the regiments being\\nalready organized, waiting to be mustered into the\\nservice, and others (such as Capt. Johnson s company\\nof Paterson), impatient with the inexplicable delay,\\nhad gone into the service in other States. Three of the\\nregiments composing the brigade were at once mus-\\ntered in, and left Trenton June 28, 1861, arriving in\\nWashington and reporting to Gen. Scott on the fol-\\nlowing day. One month later another call for five\\nadditional regiments from the State was received, and\\nthese were also promptly furnished, the regiments\\nbeing numbered respectively Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,\\nSeventh, and Eighth Regiments of New Jersey Vol-\\nunteers, and all but the Fourth organized with the\\nSecond Brigade. The Fourth Regiment reached\\nWashington August 21st, accompanied by a battery\\nI of six pieces, furnished by the State, and commahded\\nby Capt. William Hexamer, who had been waiting\\nfor six months for an opportunity to enter the ser-\\nI vice. This regiment was iissigned to the brigade\\nI of Brig.-Gen. Kearney, and with the First, Second,\\nj and Third Regiments com|)osed the First Brigade of\\nNew Jersey Volunteers.\\nIn this brigade\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Company F, Second Regiment,\\nCapt. .\\\\aron Young, succeedcii by Capt. Henry Vree-\\nland Company G, Second Regiment, Capt. James H.\\nClose; and Company K, Third Regiment, Capt. John\\nH. Whelan were a number of men from Pater.-on and\\nvicinity. The Second Regiment included in its ranks\\na large proportion of the members of the City Bat-\\ntalion of Newark, an organization which had a wide\\nreputation for superiority of drill and general sol-\\ndierly proficiency. All the regiments were well offi-\\ncered, and all furnished during their service instances\\nof the rarest gallantry in the field.\\nThe Second Regiment maintained its organization\\ntill the close of the war. It was first attached to Gen.\\nRunyon s division of reserves i militia) at the battle\\nof Bull Run; then to the First Brigade (Kearney s),\\nFranklin s division afterwards to the First Brigade,\\nFirst Division, First .Vrmy Corps; then to the First\\nBrigade, First Division, Sixth Army Corps and at\\nthe close of the war was assigneil to what was known\\nas the l riivi!.ion\u00c2\u00bbl Corps, Army of the Potomac.\\nSecond Brigade.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the Second Brigade, or the\\nNew Jersey troops mustered under the call of the\\nPresident issued July 24, 1861, there were nearly two\\nfull companies from Passaic County, viz. Company\\nG of the Fifth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers,\\nand Company i of the Seventh Regiment, com-\\nmanded respectively by Capt. Edward C. Hopper and\\nCa)(t. James McKlernan. In this brigade was also\\nCompany A of the Eighth Regiment, raised and com-\\nnumded by Capt. Peter M. Ryersou, afterwards major\\nA UulaDt-0\u00c2\u00abiiorml ii Rupurt, 1861.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0170.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 129\\nof the same regiment, who was killed at Williamsburg,\\nVa., while gallantly leading his command in a charge\\nagainst the enemy. Under the head of the Eighth\\nRegiment will be found a sketch of the life of Maj.\\nRyerson, who was a native of Pompton, and a very\\nwealthy and influential man in that section before\\nthe war. The rosters of the officers and men from\\nthis county who served in the Fifth, Seventh, and\\nEighth Regiments of the Second Brigade, together\\nwith the final record of each man, so far as it has\\nbeen po-ssible to obtain the necessary information,\\nwill be found under their appropriate heads in a suc-\\nceeding chapter, to which the reader is referred.\\nThese companies, and the regiments to which they\\nbelonged, made a grand record during their period\\nof active service. At Williamsburg, where the enemy\\nmade his grand stand after the evacuation of York-\\ntown, on the 3d of May, 1862, the Fifth Regiment was\\nsent by Gen. Hooker to .support the batteries thrown\\nforward on the right of the road in front of Fort\\nMagruder ami the strong line of rebel works which\\nHooker had decided to attack. The Sixth, Seventh,\\nand Eighth Regiments were simultaneouslysent to the\\nleft of the road, occupying a wood in front of a line of\\nfield-works. The rain was falling in torrents, and the\\nmen stood half-leg deep in mire and water. Steadily\\nadvancing through the underbrush the gallant regi-\\nments soon came upon the enemy s forces and at once\\nopened a vigorous fire. Here for three hours the\\nconflict raged with desperate fury. Commanding\\nthe ground at every point, the fire of the enemy was\\npitilessly destructive and did not slacken for a mo-\\nment. But the brave fellows into whose faces it was\\npoured stood firmly and unflinchingly, sometimes,\\nindeed, pushed back a little space, but as surely\\nhurling the rebels, bleeding and shattered, back to\\ntheir works. From the nature of the ground there\\nwas no opportunity for the bayonet, but the rapid\\nvolleys of our heroic troops were scarcely less ef-\\nfective. And thus the battle raged, the enemy, re-\\ninforced again and again, directing .^gainst these\\nthree regiments all the fury of their attack. At last,\\ntheir ammunition exhausted, their muskets rusted\\nby the drenching rain, their ranks terribly thinned,\\nthese heroes of the day fell slowly back but they had\\nheld the enemy in check and saved the division from\\nbeing driven in disaster from the field.\\nMeanwhile the Fifth Regiment, supporting the\\nbatteries on the right of the road, had bravely main-\\ntained the reputation of the brigade. For six hours\\nit had been exposed to the fire of the fort in front\\nand that of an earthwork on the flank, and later in\\nthe day, our engineers being driven from their guns!\\ncharged forward and at once engaged the enemy, con-\\ntinuing its fire without cessation for four hours longer.\\nDuring the whole of this time officers and men alike 1\\nfought with the utmost courage, and achieved the\\nvery highest place in the confidence of all who wit-\\nnessed their gallantry. I\\nThe sequel of this engagement is well known to the\\nreader of history. Hooker s division, pitted against\\nthe whole rebel force, was not adequate to victory but\\nit held the position spendidly until Kearney, pushing\\nimpetuously forward, threw the full weight of his\\ndivision into the scale and triumphantly carried the\\nday. Hooker alone lost nearly sixteen hundred men,\\nand of these over five hundred were in the New\\nJersey Brigade. Here Maj. Ryerson fell mortally\\nwounded, having just a few moments before received\\nthe command of the Eighth Regiment from his fallen\\ncolonel, the gallant Col. Johnson, of the Eighth, who\\nhad been pierced by a rebel bullet about one o clock\\non the day of the battle.\\nThe historian, speaking of this engagement, says,\\nThere was no question in any mind after that bloody\\nday as to whether New Jersey troops would fight.\\nThe whole country rang with their prai.ses.\\nThe. following sketch of Maj. Ryerson was prepared\\nby A. Q. Keasbey and published in the Xewai-/: Mer-\\ncury\\nNew Jersey lias lost one of lier worthieet citizens and bravest soldiers\\nin Mftj. Peter M. Kyersou, of the Eiglitii Repiment, killed iu the b.ittle\\nat Williamsburg.\\nTlie training of his whole life had fitted him for the gallant part he\\nwas to act in the service of his country. The qualities which marked\\nhim as a citizen were such as always make the soldier faithful and brave.\\nHe was born at Pompton, on the 20th of June, 179S. He inherited from\\nhis father a large property, and early came into possession of the iron-\\nworks of that place. He built the rolling-mills and works at Pompton\\nand at Winockie, and conducted the business on an extensive scale. He\\nwas a large stockholder and director in the Morris Canal Company, and\\nfor several years was superintendent of the works of the company in that\\nregion. Soon after be had completed the iron-works and was prepared\\nto reap the reward of his vast outlay and exertions, the reduction of the\\ntariff embarrassed his operations, financial difficulties ensued, beneath\\nwhich he struggled with tlie most untiring energy for many years, until\\nat last, in the fall of 1859, he was forced to abandon the unequal contest,\\nand giving up to his creditors the home of his ancestors, where he had\\npassed so many years of toil and anxiety, he removed to Newark with\\nhis family. But his was not a spirit that could brook a life of idleness,\\neven at sixty-three, if any field of honorable labor opened to him; and\\nsuch a field was opened iu the war for the Union, and he entered upon\\nit with all the zeal and vigor of his early manhood. He had always been\\na romm tmler. With thousands of acres as his domain, and Jiundreds of\\nmen under his control, he had always sliown those qualities that are sure\\ntu distinguish the soldier. And now his old energy awoke at the call of\\nhis country. He went up to the beautiful hills of his old home, and\\ncalled upon his former retainers to join him, or to send their sons to act\\nagain under his command. He formed Company A of the Eightli Regi-\\nment, chiefly from these sturdy forgemen and axemen of his native\\nplace. He was the senior captain of the regiment, and was afterwards\\npromoted to be major, which position he held at his death.\\nHe delighted in his military duties. He seemed as oi-ect and vigor-\\nous as at any period of liis life. Tall and athletic, of a fine soldierly ap-\\npearance and bearing, prompt in word and act, attentive to all the re-\\nquirements of his position, he had gained the reputation of a thorough\\nand faithful soldier before he went upon hia first battle-field, from which\\nhe was never to return.\\nUpon that field he met his death -as he would have chosen to meet it.\\nHis reginioTit wais sorely pressed by superior numbers on the left of the\\nbloody field of Monday. At one o clock Col. Johnson was severely\\nwounded, and the command of the regiment devolved upon Maj. Ryer-\\nson. Their ammuintion was exhausted, and they were slowly falling\\nback before the greater force of the enemy seeking to turn their flank.\\nThe fate of the day, and perhaps of the army, depended on their firm-\\nness. Maj. Ryerson, with his old habit of command, rallied them to the\\ncharge. Again they wavered, having nothing to fight with, and again\\nand again he rallied them, standing in advance, a too conspicuous mark", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0171.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "130\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfor the fo*. At two o clock h* \u00c2\u00bbu itrnck by t ballet Id the dde u be\\nwu cheering on his men. Lieut. Sinee came to him and led liim to a\\ntree. Ho felt that the wound was fatal, he saw that the eueuiy were\\napproaching in overwhelming force, and calmly begged Lieut. Siuee to\\nleave him and not UBeleesly sacrifice his own life.\\nBrief inter^-al remained for the dying thoughts of the soldier, but\\nenough for the Christian patriot. The hoet of the enemy came rushing\\norer him,\\nSo underneath the belly of their steeds.\\nThat stained their fetlocks in his smoking blood.\\nThe nol Ie gentleman gave up the ghost.\\nNow Jetaey will honor his familiar name as that of the firat of her\\nflald-olBcers who fell in the war for the Union. j\\nExcelsior Brigade. Gi:x. Daxiki, E. Sickles.\\nSeveral coiii|i:iiues of New Jersey soldiers early in the\\nwar, being rejected at home, applied to Maj.-Gen.\\nDaniel E. Sickles, of New York, and were placed in\\nthe brigade which he was engaged in raising, known\\nas the Excelsior Brigade. This brigade, though ac-\\ncredited to the State of New York, was made up from\\nseveral i^tatcs, and was in every respect a cosmopolitan\\norganization. In its first regiment alone (Seventieth\\nNew York) were to be found three companies re-\\ncruited entirely in New Jersey, while two others were\\nrecruited in great part from the same State. One\\ncompany was from We.stern Pennsylvania, one from\\nMichigan, and one from Ma- .sachu8ctts. In the three\\nremaining companies there were a number of men\\nfrom New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The same mi.xed\\norganization prevailed to a greater or less extent\\nthroughout the brigade, with the exception of the\\nFourth Hegiment, which was recruited e.vclusively\\nfrom the city of New York. It was computed at the\\nheadquarters of the brigade in December, IStJl, that\\nover twelve hundred citizens of New Jersey were then\\nserving in it. The following companies were exclu-\\nsively from this State and entered the brigade as\\ncompleted organizations First Regiment Company\\nA, Capt. ,T. M. .lohnson, afterwards Capt. H. W. IIox-\\nsey, recruited at Paterson Company F, commanded\\nfor a time by Capt. J. M. McCawly, of Newark\\nCompany I, Capt. E. J. Ayers, afterwards Capt. A.\\nBelcher, recruited at Paterson Company K, Capt.\\nFrederick (iruett, recruited at Newark; Companies\\nG, B, an l I), commanded respectively by Capts.\\nO Reilly, Mahaii, and Price, were at least one-half\\nrecruited in New Jersey. Second Regiment (Seventy-\\nfirst New York) Company D, Capt. William H.\\nGreene, recruited in Newark Company E, Capt.\\nToler, raised in Newark Company F, Capt. Murphy,\\nraised in Orange. Third Regiment (Seventy-second\\nNew York) Company F, apt. Leonard, recruited\\nin Newark, and one other company composed of\\nJcrseymen.\\nOf Company D of the First Regiment, rai.sed in\\nPaterson, Capt. Johnson resignetl in the winter of\\n1861-62, and was succeeded by Capt. Oakley, who in\\nturn resigned in October, 1862, and was succeeded\\nby Capt. n. W. Hoxsey, who held command a.s cap-\\ntain of this company till the muster-out in July,\\n1864. Capt. Ayers, of Company I (the other Pater-\\nson company), resigned at the same date as Capt.\\nJohnson, and was succeeded by Capt. Mitchell, who\\nwas killed at Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862.\\nThe brigade, at the time it was joined by the two\\nPaterson companies, was crowded into the City\\nAssembly Rooms, No. 444 Broadway, New York,\\nand was afterwards, during the month of May, re-\\nmoved, first to the Red House at Harlem, and thence\\nto Staten Island, before its muster into service. The\\nsuft erings of the men from insufficient clothing, badly\\ncooked food.and close confinement to uncomfortable\\nand ill-ventilated quarters from May 1 to June 1,\\n1861, were not exceeded by those of any one month\\nof their active service afterwards. From the first\\nGen. Sickles had encountered nothing but opposition\\nfrom Governor Morgan, of New Y ork. The clothing\\nand rations so liberally supplied to all other regiments\\nthen forming were refused to his brigade, and it was\\nonly on the pledge of the personal credit of Gen.\\nSickles that their supplies were obtained.\\nThe two companies raised in this county were in\\nthe First Regiment of the brigade, and were placed in\\nGen. Hooker s division, aided in erecting Fort Stan-\\nton and several other works in the defenses about\\nWashington in the fall of 1861, made some exi edition9\\ninto Virginia, and after the evacuation of Yorktown\\nwas the first to come up with the enemy at Williams-\\nburg and drive in their skirmishers in front of their\\nworks. The history of that contest is well known\\nthe enemy finding himself pressed by inferior num-\\nbers turned and gave battle, moving out from his\\nworks and attacking the First and Third Brigades\\nwith .such force as to drive them hack from their posi-\\ntion, and passing the left of their line, inflicted very\\nheavy loss, cjtpturing a battery, which, on account of\\nthe death of its horses, could not be removed. It was\\nat this moment, when the Third Brigade (Fifth, Sixth,\\nSeventh, and Eighth New Jersey Regiments) were\\nbeing forced from their line, that the Excelsior Bri-\\ngade, or rather its First Regiment, was brought into\\nthe heavy slashing on the left of tlie road, and was\\nformed parallel to it to check the advance of the\\nenemy towanls the road. The regiment wius at once\\nonlered to commence firing, but never received another\\norder in the fight. Forever two hours it stood in the\\ndarkness of its own smoke, and when its ammunition\\nwas exhausted the .surviving supplied themselves from\\nthe cartridge-boxes of the dead. It held its line until\\nthe enemy actually advanced over it. (toing into the\\nfight with six hundred and fifty men, it lost three\\nhundred and fifty-one in killed, wounded, and miss-\\ning. Nine oflicers and ninety-six men of this regiment\\nwere buried the next morning. The other regiments\\nof the brigade were moved up in succession, and only\\nsuflere l less because the enemy s elVorts were much\\nweakeneil by the prolonged resistance of the First\\nRegiment. The loss of the four regiments of the\\nbrigade in this action amounted to upwards of eight\\nhundred men. The New Jersey troops in the brigade", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0172.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 131\\nsuffered particularly the lo3S in Company A of the\\nFirst Regriment, commanded by Capt. (then Lieut.)\\nHoxsey, was the largest of any company in the bri-\\ngade, amounting to forty-one out of sixty. Lieut.\\nHoxsey was wounded, Lieut. Kilburn killed, two out\\nof three sergeants killed and one wounded, and all six\\nof the corporals killed. Both of the other Xew Jer-\\nsey companies suffered severely.\\nAt Fair Oaks the New Jersey companies came in I\\nagain for a heavy share of the loss. Throughout the\\nwhole campaign of the Peninsula and the unfortu- j\\nuate campaign of Pope, terminating with the second\\nBull Run, these troops bore a conspicuous part. At\\nBristow Station, Aug. 27, 1862, the loss was again\\nheavy. Lieut. Hoxsey, coming to the command of\\nthe regiment during the action, was severely wounded\\nthrough the hip while ordering its advance. Through-\\nout the campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,\\nMine Run. and the grand final campaign of Gen. Grant\\nfrom the Rapidan to Petersburg, this brigade, side\\nby side with the Second New Jersey Brigade, emu-\\nlated its gallantry, and is entitled to equal praise.\\nOf the two companies, numbering two hundred and\\nten men, recruited at Paterson, about fifty returned at\\nthe expiration of their term of service four-fifths of\\nthe remainder died on the field of battle or lingered in\\nhospitals till death ended their sufferings. Many of\\nthe New Jersey men in the brigade re-enlisted at the\\nexpiration of their term of service, members of the\\nFirst Regiment being attached to the Eighty-second\\nNew York, and remaining in the service till Lee s\\nsurrender.\\nCompnny G, Sevenlh Re /iment {Capt. James McKiernan).\\nAckennan, Edward, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861; Corp. June 8, 1863;\\nmust, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nAckermau, T)iomas, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1S61 trans, to Co. D re-enl.\\nJan. 4, 1S64 Corp. July 8, 1864.\\nAUcn, George Huft, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861; final record unknown.\\nAgnew, Thomas, 1st lieut., enl. Sept. 19, 1861 res d Feb. 6, 1802.\\nBalist, John, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1S61 final record unknown.\\nBailey, William, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Co. D re^enl. Jan.\\n4,1864.\\nBaelow, Michael, no record.\\nBeck, Thomas R., Ist sergt enl. Sept. 17, 1861 2d lieut., vice Evans, pro-\\nmoted, Feb. 13, 1862 res d J lne 17, 1862.\\nBerdan, George A., corporal, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 sergt. July 1, 1862 Ist\\nsergt. Oct. 2, 1S62 2d lieut., vice Douglass res d killed in action at\\nCliancellorsville, Va., May .3, 1862.\\nBriggs, Moses, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Co. D; re-enl. Jan.\\n4, 1864.\\nBurke, Henry, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864, with\\nregiment.\\nBurke, Mich.iel, corporal, enl. Sept. 17, 1861; private Sept. 15,1862;\\nmust, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nBurgoine, W iUiam, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861.\\nBrady, John, private, enl. Sept. 17,1861 missing in action at Bull Run.\\nVa., .\\\\ug. 29, 1862 supposed dead.\\nBanker, Robert, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 discb. at Convalescent Camp,\\nAlexandria, Va., Dec. 21, 1862, for disability.\\nClark, John E., corp., enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at U. S. Hosp., Washing-\\nton, D. C, Jan. 8, 1863, for disability.\\nClark, .Tames, private, enl, Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps Aug.\\nl.l, 1863 died at Camp Fry, Washington, D. C, March S. 1864.\\nCocker, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 Corp. June 9, 1863 pa-\\nroled prisoner; disch. at Trenton, N. J., Feb. 3, 1885.\\nCooney, James, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 killed in action at Chancel-\\nlorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.\\nCarenaugh, James, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 killed on picket near\\nPetersburg, Va., Sept. 1, 1864.\\nDouglass, John, sergt., enl. Sept. 17, 1861 1st sergt. March 1, 1862 2d\\nlient., rice Beck, res d, Jan. 13, 1863; res d Dec. 5, 1863.\\nDiamond, James, Corp., enl. Sept. 17,1861 disch. at camp near Falmouth,\\nVa., Feb. 16, 1863, for disability.\\nDunkerley, Robert, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Co. D re^eul.\\nJan. 4, 1864.\\nDoughty, William, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out with regiment\\nOct. 7, 1864.\\nDougherty, James H., private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nDevoir, John, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at U. S. A. Hosp., Phil-\\nadelphia, Pa., Sept. 25, 1862. for disability.\\nDiamond, Peter, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nSept. 1, 18fti; disch. therefrom Sept. 16, 1864.\\nDoremus, Peter J., private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861; cor] Dec. 6, 1862;\\ndied at D. S. A. Gen. Hosp., Philadelphia, Pa., July 6, 1864, of wounds\\nreceived in action before Petersburg, Va., June 19, 1864; buried at\\nPhiladelphia, Pa.\\nDonahue, .\\\\rthur, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 disch. at Camp Hooker,\\nSept. 27, 1862, for disability.\\nEvans, William J 2d lient., com. Sept. 18, 1861 1st lieut., rice Agnew,\\nres d, Jan. 13, 1863 pro. to capt. Co. B, Feb. 23, 1863, rice Sloat, res d\\nkilled in action at Spottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864.\\nFanning, Edward, Corp., enl. Sept. 17, 1861 sergt. March 1, 1862 2d\\nlieut. Jlay 26, 1863; 1st lieut., rice Ramage pro., Sept. 10, 1863 res d\\non account of disability, July 26, 1864.\\nFanning, James, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Co. D.\\nFeeney, Benjamin, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nFlannigan, Martin, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Co. D corp.\\nDec. 15, 1863 re-enl. Jan. 4, 18M.\\nFlannigan, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 killed in action at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863 buried there.\\nFanning, Henry, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861; disch. at Camp Hooker, Va.,\\nSept. 27, 1862, for disability.\\nFletcher, James, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 died at Gettysburg, Pa., of\\nwounds received in action, July 8, 1863; buried there at National\\nCemetery.\\nFraney, James, private, enl. Sept. 21, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nFallen, Patrick, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 most, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nGraul, Kindle, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 corp. Feb. 17, 1863 must, out\\nOct. 7, 1864.\\nGilmore, Michael, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at Washington,\\nD. C, Sept. 29, 1864.\\nGibbons, Stephen, private, enl. Sept. 20, 1861.\\nHoward. William, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nSept. 1, 1863 disch. therefrom Sept. 17, 1864.\\nHartgrove, John, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 no record.\\nHeald, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Co. D; Corp. Sept.\\n15, 1862 sergt. June 9, 1863 re-enl. as private Jan. 4, 1864.\\nJames, John, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps, Sept.\\n30, 1863 disch. therefrom Sept. 17, 1864.\\nJacobus, Peter, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at Budd s Ferry, Md.,\\nJune 13, 1862, for disability.\\nKidd, John, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Co. D.\\nLawler, Michael, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must. out. Oct. 7, 1864.\\nLogue, Owen, sergt., enl. Sept. 17, 1861 1st sergt. Dec. 5, 1862 killed in\\naction at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.\\nMack, John, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 died of chronic diarrhuia near\\nFalmouth, Va., Jan. 19, 1863.\\nMarshall, David, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at camp in the field,\\nMarch 15, 1862, for disability.\\nMcKiernan, James, com. capt. Sept. 18, 1861; com. raaj. Sept. 4, 1863;\\nnot mustered.\\nMcCrossin, Thomas, musician, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at camp near\\nHarrison s Landing, Va., July 23, 1862, for disability.\\nMcKewen, David, wagoner, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nMcCormick, Edward, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at convalescent\\ncamp, Ale.\\\\andria, Va,, May 4, 1863, for disability.\\nMcEenna, Andrew, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at U. S. A. Gen.\\nHosp., Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 14, 1862, for disability.\\nMcMann, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861; disch. for disability at\\nFort McHenry, Md.. Oct. 31, 1862,\\nMawhinney, Edward, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 killed in action at Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July 2,18 i.\\nMcCousker, James, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps\\nSept. 1, 1863; disch. therefrom Sept. 17,1864.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0173.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "132\\nHISTORY OK BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nUcLaughliu, George B., private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 diach. ot Wnshliig-\\ntun, D. C, fur illlalillity, Nov. 30, 1861.\\nMcN alib, Juscpti, [irivate, eiil. Sept. 17, 1861; Iruns. to Co. 1 re-cni.\\nJan. 4, 18C4.\\nMcDonald, Tbonma, privair, enl. Srpl. It, I8C1 traus to Ci. 1); iiergt.\\nJune 13, 18CJ; must, out July 17, 1K65.\\nMontgomery, Joaepli, private, enl. Sept. 17,1861 trans, to Co. D.\\nMartin, John, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 discli. at camp in tbe Held,\\nMarch 15. 1862, fordieability.\\nM^lr^^by, William, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 corp. June 1,1863; re-enl.\\nJan. 4, 1864; sorgl. Sept. 19,1864; pro. to 2d lieut. Co. D, Nov. 13,\\n1864; Ist lieut., rice Poutoz, pro. March 14, leG. must, out July 17,\\nISia.\\nS ettleton. Chandler G., private, enl. Sept. 21, ISOl; must, out Oct. 7,1864.\\nNolan, James, private, enl. Sept. 21, 18C1 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nO Tool.Jamee, Corp., enl. Sept. 17, 1861 scrgt. Jan. 1, 1863; 1st aergt.\\nJune 1, 1863; disch. at Trenton, N. J.; paroled prisoner Feb. 3, 1865.\\nOstrander, Daniel H., private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 killed in action at\\nWilliamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862.\\nI outoz, Louis, sergt.; enl. Sept. 17, 1861 private Jan. 24, 186:i re*enl.\\nJan. 4, 1864; pro. to 1st lieut. vicf Fanning, promoted; trans, to\\nCo. D; pro. to cnpt. Co. I, March 2, 1865; must, out July 17, 1865.\\nPope, William, private, eul. Sept. 26, 1861 pro. to second lieut. Co. D,\\nNov. 1861 resd Jan. 5, 1862.\\nPhalon, Michael, private, eid. Sept. 21, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nQuackenbusb, George, private, eul. Sept. 26, 1861 trans, to Co. I); ro*eul.\\nJan. 4, 1864; Corp. .\\\\pril 17, 1865; must, out July 17, 1865.\\nQuiulan, Patrick, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Co. D; re^enl.\\nJan. 4, 1864 disch. at ward of U. S. A. IIosp., Kewark, S. J., May\\n12, 1865, by order of War Dept.\\nRoberts, Samuel, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. at camp in the field\\nfor disability, March 15, 1862.\\nRobinson, John, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nRoth. John, substitute, eul. Aug. 29, 1864; died Dec. 26, 1864, of wounds\\nreceived before Peten*burg, Va.\\nRyerson, Gilean, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 trans, to Co. D Corp. Fob.\\n18, 1862; sergt. Feb. 17, 1863; re-enl. March 10, 1864; disch. at Tren-\\nton, N. J., May 12, 1865, by onler of War Dept. paroled prisoner.\\nRamage, William, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 corji. March 1,1862; sergt.;\\n1st sergt. May 18, 1863; Ist lieut. May 26, 1863; pro. to capl., rice\\nMcKieman, must, out; trans, to Co. D must, out July 12, 1865.\\nSenb.r, George 11., private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1S64.\\nSchoonmaker, Ilonry, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nSchaus, John, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 no record.\\nSweeny, William, private, enl. Sept. 21, 1861 trans, to Co. D.\\nSwift, John, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 died of chronic diarrbuea at 3d\\nDIv. U. S. A. lluep., Alexandria, Va., Nov. 2.3, 1862.\\nTiffany, Jamea, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 corp. Feb 18, 1862; sergt.\\nJune 9, 1863; must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nTlasell, William, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corpe,\\nAug. 15, 1863; returned to co. June 14, 1864; must, out Oct. 7, 18S4.\\nTownsond, John, Corp., enl. Sept. 17, 1861 private Nov. 14, 1862 must.\\nout (let. 7, 1864.\\nVan Winkle, Fre lerlck, private, eul. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nVan Hlfer, Henry, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 trans, to Vet. Rc\u00c2\u00ab. Corpe;\\ndisch. Sept. 21, 1864.\\nVreeland, ItichanI, private, eul. Sept. 21, 18SI must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nVreelanil, I eter, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nWataun, James, Corp., enl. Sept. 17,1861; kille l In action at Wllllams-\\nl.urg, Va., May 6, 1862.\\nWalthall, Tlionios, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nWorden.IVtur J, private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 discli. for disabllily at COD-\\nvaleecrnt camp, Alexandria, Va., Feb. 28, 186.1.\\nWeet, George W., private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nWalden, George II., private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nWillis, William K., private, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 must, out Oct. 7, 1864.\\nWhitly, John, prlvote, enl. Sept. 17, 1K61 must, out Oct. 7, 18(14.\\nWikkI, Wllllom II., pHvate, enl. Sept. 17, 1861 disch. for disability at\\nFort Mcllenry, Md., Slept. 22, 1862.\\nI CHAPTER XXX.\\nBERGEN AND PA.SSAIC COINTIES IN THE WAR\\nOF THE REBELLION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Continuc.1 1.\\nThe Ninth Regiment. The Ninth Regiment of\\nNew Jersey Volunteers was recruited as a rifle regi-\\nI ment, under a requisition from the War De|)artment,\\nin the fall of 1861. It wiis made up from ditl erent\\nparts of the State. About fifty men enlisted in it\\nI from Passaic County, who contributed their full share\\nto the honor which it achieved in the field. It was\\none of the best regiments sent out by the State, num-\\nbering on- its muster-rolls at the time of its departure\\nfrom Camp Olden for Washington, Dec. 4, 18(il, one\\nthousand one hundred and forty-two men. The regi-\\nment remained in camp at Meridian Hill until the\\n3d of January, 18(i2, when it was brigaded under\\nGen. Jesse L. Reno (First Hrigadei, and assigned to\\nBurnside s expedition in North Carolina. On arriving\\nat Hatteras Inlet, January loth, a disaster occurred\\nwhich cast a gloom not only over tlie regiment and\\narmy in that quarter, but over many anxious friends\\nat home. Having cast anchor off the Inlet, the field\\nI and statl-oflicers went on shore to rejiort to tien. Hurn-\\nside; returning the boat was capsi/ed and swamped\\nin a heavy surf, and all on board left to struggle with\\nthe merciless waves. Col. Joseph Warner Allvn, com-\\nmander of the regiment, and Surgeon Frederick S.\\nWeller were drowned. Lieut. -Col. Heckman, Adjt.\\nAbram Zabriskie, and Qiiartcrma.ster Keycs narrowly\\nescaped. The secunU unite, sent from the ship in\\ncharge of the boat, was also drowned. Lieut. -Col.\\nHeckman and Adjt. Zabriskie, being expert swimmers,\\nmade several heroic attempts to rescue the colonel and\\nSurgeon Weller, but were unsuccessful. These two\\nbrave men, battling with the waves till their strength\\nwas nearly exhausted, succeedeil in making a signal\\nof a sailor s shirt lifted upon an oar, which was seen,\\nand the steamer Patuxeiit at once hastcne l to their\\nrelief. So overcome were the survivors by their ex-\\nertions that upon reaching the deck of the steamer\\nsome of them sank into insensibility. Lieut.-Col.\\nHeckman remained in a state of prostration for sev-\\neral days. The Imdies ot Col. Allen, Dr. Weller, and\\nthe second mate were recovered during the day, and\\nevery effort made to resuscitate them, but in vain.\\nAdjt. Zabriskie, who struggled so heroically to save\\nhis drowning comrades, was a native of Hackeiisack,\\nBergen Co., ami Dr. Frederick S. Weller, surgeon of\\nthe Ninth Hegiment, was born in I atersoii, where he\\nwas for many years a higlily-esteemed citizen and a\\nsuccessful ])ractitioner of his profession. We shall\\nrevert to Adjt. Zabriskie farther on in the history of\\nthis regiment. Meanwhile we place on record the\\nfollowing brief sketch of Dr. Weller:\\nFrederick S. Weller was licirn in I atersun on .March\\n6, 181 .i, and was drowned at Hatteras Inlet, N.\\nJan. 10, 1862. He was of German descent on bis", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0174.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 133\\nfather s side, his ancestors haviug settled in KentiKky\\nabout the beginning of the present century; his\\nmother s parents were of Irish extraction, and were\\namong the earliest residents of Paterson.\\nDr. Weller lost his father when he was five years\\nof age, and was brought up by liis mother, a very\\nworthy and respectable lady. At the age of eighteen\\nhe entered upon the study of medicine in the office\\nof the late Dr. Marsh. He graduated at the Old\\nSchool College, Crosby Street, New York City, in\\n1837, practiced medicine two years at Gaines, N. Y.,\\nwhen he returned to Paterson, and soon after, owing to\\nill health, took up his residence at St. Augustine, Fla.,\\nwhere he married Mrs. E. A. Loring. In 1845 he re-\\nturned to Paterson, and devoted himself to the prac-\\ntice of his |)rofession with constantly increasing suc-\\ncess up to the time of his appointment as surgeon of\\nthe Ninth Regiment. In the service he was self-\\nsacrificing and devoted to his duties, esteeming it his\\nhighest reward to serve his country. His services\\nwere highly appreciated, and he was made acting\\nbrigade surgeon by order of Gen. Casey. His body\\nwas sent home for interment, and the esteem in which\\nhe was held by his fellow-citizens was attested by one\\nof the largest funerals ever held in Paterson.\\nUpon the death of Col. Allen, Lieut.-Col. Heckman\\nassumed command of the regiment. Considerable\\ntime was spent in getting the vessels through the\\nInlet, but at length, the fleet having all arrived in\\nPamlico Sound, on the (ith of February the signal\\nwas given, and the dozen gunboats under command\\nof Commodore Goldsborough led the advance towards\\nRoanoke Island, the stronghold of the rebels, which\\nthey held in force and had fortified with batteries and\\nrams. This island, which commanded the strait be-\\ntween the two Sounds, Pamlico and Albermarle,\\nwas the direct object of Burnside s attack. It was a\\ngrand and imposing spectacle, the sight of that fleet\\nof boats as it passed up the Sound, each gayly decked\\nin its trimmest bunting, the flag-ship bearing at its\\nmast-head the significant motto, To-day the country\\nexpects every man to do his duty. At nine o clock\\nthe gunboats opened on the picket-boats of the rebels,\\nand the first action was inaugurated in which the\\nNinth Regiment took a part. The history of the\\naction records that from first to last the conduct of\\nthe Ninth was in the highest degree courageous.\\nThey occupied a swamp over which the enemy had\\nconstructed a causeway for their own convenience,\\nand up to their hips in mud and water advanced to\\nthe edge of the timber commanding the road, about\\none hundred yards from the fort, which up to this\\ntime still defied the assaults of our forces. Here the\\nregiment opened a vigorous fire on the enemy, which\\nwas returned for a time with great vehemence. Pres-\\nently, however, owing to the heavy fire of the Ninth,\\nthe musketry fire from the fort visibly slackened, but\\nthe batteries still poured a storm of shot and shell\\ninto our ranks. Under these circumstances Col. Heck-\\nman directed that particular attention should be given\\nto picking off the cannoneers, and the result was soon\\napparent. So accurate was the fire of the men that\\nthe rebel guns were now but seldom discharged, and\\nthen altogether regardless of their aim. On being\\ndriven from the fort the enemy retreated to the imme-\\ndiate fortifications along the shores, but, finding that\\nfurther resistance would be useless, they surrendered,\\ngiving into our hands five forts, thirty-three pieces of\\nartillery, and two thousand eight hundred prisoners.\\nBy the capture of the island the key was gained to\\nall the inland waters of North Carolina. This first\\nvictory was truly an important one, and may well\\nhave inspired the victors with great confidence and\\nenthusiasm. The enemy, after the battle, admitted\\nthat they had never supposed a body of troops could\\noperate in the swamp, and it was undoubtedly the\\noccupation of this swamp, by which operations upon\\nthe rebel flank became possible, which secured the\\ngreat success of the day.\\nIt was probably in recognition of this fact that\\nGen. Burnside promulgated an order on the evening\\nof tlie 10th of February that the Ninth Regiment\\nshould have the words Roanoke Island, Feb. 8, 1862,\\nemblazoned on their banners.\\nThe island became the drill-ground of the brigade\\nuntil the advance was made on Newberne on the 11th\\nof March. Here the rebel fort, mounting sixty-nine\\ncannon, was taken by our army. In this action the\\nNinth Regiment soon silenced the rebel guns by\\npicking oft the gunners with deadly accuracy of aim.\\nWhen their ammunition had been reduced to ten\\nrounds Gen. Reno ordered up the Fifty-first Penn-\\nsylvania to take their place, but Col. Hickman beg-\\nging that he might be permitted to charge, the order\\nwas finally given. That charge settled the contest.\\nDashing eagerly forward, leaping from ditch to ditch,\\nnow wading knee-deep in mire, now rushing over\\npitfalls, through an almost impenetrable abatis, the\\nirresistible assailants swept up to the earthworks,\\nclimbed their blood-stained, slippery sides, and a\\nmoment after had captured the whole line of fortifi-\\ncations in their front, with six guns, one stand of colors,\\nmany prisoners, and field, staff and artillery horses.\\nAlmost simultaneously the flags of the Ninth waved\\nfrom two of the enemy s redans, while the right\\nguidon floated from a third, which but a moment\\nbefore had been occupied by the enemy. The Ninth\\nwas followed by the Fifty-first New York, Col. Ferrero,\\non the right, and soon after by the entire division,\\nwhich took complete possession of the rebel works,\\nmounting some sixty-nine cannon.\\nThe New York Tribune, reporting this battle, said,\\nIn the capture of Newberne the Ninth New Jersey Regiment sus-\\ntained the honor of their State with characteristic gaUantry. Though\\ntheir position in that brilliant engagement was one of great exposure,\\nthey bore themselves through the conflict like veterans, suffering more\\n1 Netvark Daily Advertifer, quoted by Foster, p. 2U.\\nFoster s New Jersey in the Rebellion, p. 213.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0175.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "134\\nHISTORY OF BP:RGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NKW JKRSKY.\\nseverely than any other regiment in the field. Out of a tutal Io\u00c2\u00ab of\\nthree hundred and sixty-four killed and wounded, tlipy lost sixty-two,\\nor oue-eixth of tlie wliole, ollhougli twelve reginiouts were in tlie battle.\\nBravo for the Jomey Bluos\\nTwo days after this battle Lieut. -Col. Heckman re-\\nceived his commission as colonel of the regiment,\\nwhile Maj. Wilson was notified of his promotion to\\nthe lieutenant-colonelcy. At the same time Adjt.\\nZabriskie was promoted to the majority, and Lieut.\\nAbel, of Company E, was made adjutant.\\nWe do not propose to follow the regiment through\\nall the details of its campaigns and engagements. Its\\nbrilliant beginning was well sustained to the close of\\nits period of service. The achievements of Koanoke\\nIsland and Newberne shed a lustre upon the arms of\\nNew Jjersey, and inspired the poetical genius of Corp.\\nGould, of the Ninth Regiment, to compose the fol-\\nlowing regimental song, which is well worthy of a\\nplace in this record\\nSONG OF THE N lNTIl NEW JERSEY REGIMENT.\\nAis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ScoU Wha Hut; etc.\\nSous of Jereey, swell the song.\\nLet yutir notes be loud and long.\\nMake the Tuion army strong,\\nOn tt victoi y\\nRoanoke has felt our power,\\nNewberne, too, can tell the hour\\nWhen the rebels had to cower\\nNeath our Infantry.\\nJersey s sous stood front in Hght,\\nJersey s sons have shown their might,\\nJersey s sires rtyoico to-night\\nFur our chivalry.\\nWith our colonel at our head.\\nThere we rained our showers of lead,\\nStrewed the field with rebel dead\\nFrom our niii!4kelry.\\nLet our friends at homo rejoice,\\nWith a loud and cheerful voice\\nf*ing the iiraiso of Jersey boys\\nWith all Jollity.\\nTell the tale to old and young,\\nHow llio Niiitli, so proud and strong,\\nHave their glorious laurels won,\\nAll ftir victory.\\nSing the praise of those who bled.\\nMourn with us the gallant dead,\\nWho their richest bloofl have shed\\nFor our IilK rty.\\nLong they stemmed the battle s tide,\\nBravely fought ami bravely died;\\nSpread their praises far and wide,\\nDear their memory.\\nGkorox C. Qovld, Company C, Ninth New Jeraey Regiment, July,\\n18112.\\nCorp. Gould entered the service from Paterson he\\nwas made a corporal in Company C, Sept. 10, 18(!1,\\nand re-cnli-itcd at the expiration of his term of service,\\nNov. 25, 186;{.\\nThe close of the year 1802 wa.s marked by several\\nimportant cliaiiges in the ollicial roster of the regi-\\nment. Col. lli ckman, on the 2 2 1 of December, re-\\nceived hi.s commission as brigadier-general, dated )ct.\\n29, 1862, announcing his promotion for signal ability\\nI and meritorious services. He was at once asisigned\\nto the command of the First Brigade, ,Second Divis-\\nion, Eighteenth Army Corps, consisting of the Ninth\\nNew Jersey and Third, Eighth, and Twenty-third\\nMassachusetts. On the same day Dr. A. W. Wood-\\nhull, who h.id succeeded Dr. Weller as surgeon of the\\nNinth Regiment, was made brigade surgeon. On the\\nI 24th a beautiful stand of colors was presented to the\\ni Ninth, accom])anied by a series of resolutions from\\nI the State Legislature. The first of these resolutions\\nreads as follows:\\nRt^ohed, That the Nintli Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, by\\ntheir patient endurance under privalinn and futigne, and by their cour-\\nage at the ever-to-be-remeniliered battles of K, anokc and Newberne (a\\n1 courage evinced by the havoc nmde in their own unwavering columns\\n1 better than by the reports of partial journalsi, have suslaiiieil the high\\nreputation which since the days of the Revolntiitn has belonged to the\\nsoldiers of New Jersey, and as evidence of our appreciation of that acme\\nof every manly virtue, patriotic devotion to country, the Governor of\\nthe Stjite is requested to have prepared and forwardeil to said regiment\\na standard on which shall be inscribed these words Presented by New\\nJersey to her Ninth Regiment, in remembrance of Roanoke and New-\\nberne.\\nThe year 186.3 opened with the Nintli in cainp and\\nLieut.-Col. Abram Zabriskie promoted to the col-\\nonelcy. .After an uneventful expedition to Port\\nRoyal, S. C, with a view of joining in a general\\nmovement upon Charleston, Heckman s brigade was\\nordered to return to North Carolina to aid (Jen.\\nFoster at Little Washington. On their approach\\nthe rebels under Hill evacuated the i)lace. Three\\ncompanies of the Ninth Regiment had been left\\nbehind in the hasty embarkation at Helena Island,\\nand had marched to join their comrades, making the\\ndistance from Newberne to Little Washiiigt in, some\\nforty miles, in a day and a night. This march has\\nbeen set down as one of the most extraordinary of the\\nwar. The Ninth returned to Newberne by steamer,\\nand on the ISth of May Col. Zabriskie assumed com-\\nmand of the District of Reaufort, during the tempo-\\nrary absence of Gen. Heckman. I p to the :i ith of\\nJuly the brigade operated in destroying the Weldoii\\nand other important railroad communications. n\\nthe 13th of August Maj. -Gen. Peck took command of\\nthe District of North Carolina, relieving Gen. Heck-\\nman, and on the 2()tli, many meiiiliers of the Ninth\\nbeing sick with cliills and fever, the regiment was\\nsent to Carolina City, where it remained unemployed\\nfor a month and a half At this time nearly tliri e\\nhundred men were reported sick and unfit for duty.\\nOn the 18th of October the regiment again broke\\ncamp, and with the remainder of Heckman s com-\\nmand proceeded to Newport News, Va., where the\\nregiment went into camj) near the James River and\\nremained during the rest of the year.\\nOn the 16th of January, 1864, Gen. Heckman bade\\nfarewell to his brigade, having been luwigned to tin-\\ncommand of the District of Sutlblk. The term for\\nwhich the Ninth had enlisted having nearly expired,\\non the 21st of .laiiuary I ol. Zabriskie addressed his\\nconimanil on the subject of n-eiilis|ineiit. Two-tlii(ds", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0176.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 135\\nof the entire number at once enlisted for three years\\nor the war, and upon veteran furlough embarked\\non the 31st of January for a short visit to New Jersey.\\nThey arrived in Jersey City on the 4tli of February,\\nwhere they were received by the city authorities, and\\nafter suitable entertainment proceeded to Trenton,\\nand thence to their homes, where fond ones awaited\\ntheir coming.\\nOn the 15th of March the gallant Ninth, strength-\\nened by a number of recruits, once more set its face\\ntowards the field. On the 17th it arrived at Ports-\\nmouth, Va., and proceeding to Getty s Station, again\\nunited with Heckman s command. The regiment\\nfrom this time till September 17th was engaged in\\nthe principal campaigns in Virginia, being in the\\nactions in front of Petersburg from June 20th to Aug.\\n24, 1864. Subsequently it served in North Carolina\\ntill the close of the war.\\nThe five days battle at Drury s Bluff, from May 12\\nto 16, 1864, wa.s the most disastrous to the Ninth\\nRegiment of any in which it was engaged during the\\nwar. At twelve o clock at night on the 15th the\\nrebels began a flank movement on the extreme right\\nof Heckman s brigade, held by the Ninth Regiment,\\nan open space being between it and the James River.\\nGen. Heckman, who had expected such a movement\\nall day, had asked for reinforcements, first of Gen.\\nSmith and then of Gen. Butler, but these commanders\\neither could not withdraw their troops from other\\npoints or did not share Gen. Heckman s apprehen-\\nsions of his exposed situation. At all events no re-\\ninforcements were obtained. Early on the morning\\nof the 16th Heckman s brigade was attacked by five\\nbrigades of picked troops. The general, having ex-\\npected the assault, was ready for it, and received\\nthem with a galling fire at short range, forcing them\\nback. In three subsequent attacks they were re-\\npulsed with great slaughter. The enemy being more\\nthan five times the number of the Union force, and\\nthe right of the latter being open, Gen. Heckman\\nordered the brigade to retire to a new position. In\\nexecuting this movement, after having placed the\\nNinth in position, the general passed through a\\nbreach in the lines and was taken prisoner. The\\nmorning was very foggy it was impossible to see the\\nlength of a company. Before the general was cap-\\ntured he said truly, and with bitterness, I am\\noutdone this time, when, with only two sections of\\nartillery and with one regiment and a half of in-\\nfantry as reinforcements, I would have been able to\\nprevent the sad catastrophe. According to subse-\\nquent reports made by rebel ofiicers, the loss of the\\nrebels in front of Heckman s brigade doubled in\\nnumber the whole of that brigade. The loss of the\\nNinth was ten killed, seventy-seven wounded, and\\nseventy-five missing, making with losses for the pre-\\nvious days a total of twelve killed, one hundred\\nwounded, and seventy-five missing.\\nIn this engagement fell the gallant Col. Zabriskie.\\nWhile engaged in encouraging his men, a ball struck\\nhim on the front part of the throat, and passing\\nthrough the windpipe, lodged in the vicinity of the\\nspinal column in the neck. The wound, upon ex-\\namination, was pronounced fatal. He survived eight\\ndays, and died in Chesapeake Hospital, on the 24th\\nof May, 1864.\\nCol. Abram Zabriskie was the third son of Hon.\\nA. 0. Zabriskie, late chancellor of New Jersey, and\\nwas born in Hackensack, Bergen County, on Feb. 18,\\n1841. He entered the College of New Jersey in 1856,\\nand graduated with honor in 1859, immediately com-\\nmencing the study of the law, which he prosecuted\\nuntil he entered the army. From his earliest child-\\nhood he had been distinguished by vigor and clear-\\nness of intellect, no less than by his great intrepidity\\nof character, and these characteristics made him a\\nman of mark from the moment he enlisted in the\\nnation s service. At the time when the Rebellion\\nripened into open hostilities, Zabriskie had just com-\\npleted his preparations for a tour in Europe his\\nstate-room had been engaged, and he confidently ex-\\npected to sail with Hon. William L. Dayton, our\\nminister to France. But he was not one to consult\\nhis own pleasure when the country was in peril, and\\ninstantly, upon hearing of the fell of Sumter, he de-\\ncided to abandon the trip, to which he had looked for-\\nward with so much satisfaction. Soon after, having\\ndeliberately determined upon his course, he entered\\nthe service as adjutant of the Ninth Regiment, with\\nwhich he was identified until he fell upon the field.\\nAlthough only nineteen years of age, he commanded\\nfrom the first the profoundest esteem of his comrades,\\namong whom his influence was unbounded. Ability,\\ncourage, the most sterling patriotism were all his,\\nand wherever placed these high qualities found con-\\nspicuous manifestations. As colonel of the Ninth\\nRegiment his record was not merely .spotless, it was\\nlustrous. Even in his last hours, when the shadow of\\ndeath lay upon his face, and life s beauty and joy\\nfaded like a ))leasant picture from his darkened\\nvision his thoughts were of his country and of the\\ncomrades who were still, with heroic endurance, brav-\\ning the perils of a doubtful field.\\nThe high estimate placed by the public upon Col.\\nZabriskie s services was clearly exhibited in the ex-\\npressions of the press, as well as the action of public\\nbodies, immediately upon his death. The Common\\nCouncil of Jersey City, at a special meeting called for\\nthe purpose, adopted a series of resolutions warmly\\napplauding his patriotic course, and lamenting his\\ndecea.se as a loss to the country at large. The mem-\\nbers of the bar of Hudson County issued a memorial\\ncommemorative of his virtues, while all the leading\\njournals pronounced glowing eulogies upon his char-\\nacter. His remains were interred in Greenwood\\nCemetery, on May 28, 1864, four days after his death,\\nand twelve after receiving his fatal wound. He fell\\nnear Drury s Bluff, on the 16th of May, being struck", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0177.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "13ti\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nby a ball in the front part of the throat, which passed\\nthrough and lodged in the spine, while encfiuraging\\nhis men. Capt. Lawrence, who was near at the time,\\nwas directed to inform Lieut.-Col. Stewart, with di-\\nrections to him to assume command. But Lawrence\\nalso fell soon after, shot through the leg, which being\\namputated, he died two weeks later. Seeing that\\nmost of liis officers were disable l. Col. Zabriskie, al-\\nthough weak from loss of blood, went himself in\\nsearch of the lieutenant-colonel, to whom he trans-\\nferred the command, and then staggered to the rear.\\nOn the 17th he was sent to Chesapeake Hospital,\\nwhere he lingered till the 24th, when, witii friends\\nand relatives around him, he breathed his last. One\\nwho served under him in all his cami aigns says of\\nhim, He was not only highly esteemed by his\\nofficers, but they looked upon him with a reverence\\nfounded on an impulse more noble, more sublime\\nthan that of rank, a reverence springing from a\\nsuperiority of principle, of knowledge, and of virtue\\nrarely found in one so young.\\nThe principal battles in which the Ninth Regiment\\nwas engaged were the following: Roanoke Island,\\nN. C, Feb. 8, 1862 Newberne, N. C, March 14, 1862\\nFort Macon, N. C, April 25, 1862 Young s Cross-\\nroads, N. C, July 27, 1862; Rowell s Mill, N. C,\\nNov. 2, 1862; Deep Creek, N. C, Dec. 12, 1862;\\nSouthwest Creek, N. C, Dec. 13, 18(!2; Kinston,\\nN. C, Dec. 13 and 14, 1862; Whitehall, N. C, Dec.\\n16, 1862; Goldsborough, N. C, Dec. 17, 1862; Com-\\nfort, N. C, July 6, 1863 near Winton, N. C, July 26,\\n1863 Deep Creek, N. C, Feb. 7. 1864 Cherry Grove,\\nN. C, .\\\\i)ril 14, 1864; Port Walthall, Va., May 6 and\\n7, 1864; Swift Creek, Va., May i and 10, 1864;\\nDrury s BluM Va., May 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, 1864;\\nCold Harbor, Va., June 3-12, 1864, ten days in suc-\\ncession Petersburg, Va., June 20 to Aug. 24, 1864;\\nGardner s Bridge, N. C, Dec. 9, 1864; Foster s\\nBridge, N. C, Dec. 10, 18(54; Butler s Bridge, N. C,\\nDec. 11, 1864; near Southwest Creek, N. C, March\\n7, 186r. Wise s Fork, N. C, March 8, 9, and 10, 1865\\nCioldsborough, N. C, March 21, 1865.\\nTenth Regiment. This regiment was raised by\\niiicli\\\\ iiluaU, iini aiilliorized by the State, and accepted\\nby the War Department a-s an indei endent organi-\\nzation, some time in the fall of 1861, ami was not\\nknown by the State authorities until it was j)laced\\nunder their care, Jan. 29, 1862.\\nSuch is the statement indorsed on the original ros-\\nter. The organi/ation was at first known as the\\nOlden Legiiin. It was reeruitecl at Beverly, where\\nit had it\u00c2\u00ab liea(h|Uarters, by William Hryan, who be-\\ncame its colonel, and proceeded to Washington in\\nDecember, 1861. Company F of this regiment was\\nraised chiefly in Passaic County, and was under Wil-\\nliam Keiinywon as captain, Isaac T. Thackray as first\\nlieutenant, and Stephen W. ,\\\\llen iis second lieuten-\\nant. Capt. Hennyson entered the company ils first\\nlieutenant, Dec. 31, 1861, and was promoted to the\\ncaptaincy to fill an original vacancy, March 28, 1862.\\nHe resigned .Tan. 26, 1864, and First Lieut. Thackray\\nWiis promoted to fill his place. The latter died of\\nwounds received in action at the battle of the Wil-\\nderness, May 6, 1864, and Second Lieut. William\\nTodd, of Company K, was made captain of the regi-\\nment. Second Lieut. Stephen W. Allen was pro-\\nmoted to first lieutenant upon the promotion of Ren-\\nnyson to the captaincy. Allen resigned June 12,\\n1863, and his place was filled by Joseph R. Horner,\\nafterwards captain of Company E, Thirty-fourth\\nRegiment.\\nWhen the regiment was accepted by the State it\\nwas in a measure reorganized, and placed under com-\\nmand of Col. William R. Murphy. It was detailed\\nfor provost duty at Washington in February. 1862,\\nand so remained until the spring of 1863. much to\\nthe dissatisfaction of Col. Murphy, who resigned in\\nconsequence of the regiment not being ordered in\\nactive service. His place was filled by Col. Henry\\nOgden Ryerson, who fell in the battle of the Wilder-\\nness, May 6, 1864.\\nFrom the time the Tenth Regiment engaged in the\\nmore a(itive and perilous duties of the war it made\\nfor itself a most brilliant record. It shared in all\\nthe battles of the Wilderness, and fought with its\\ncorps all the way to Petersburg, on every field dis-\\nplaying conspicuous gallantry, and when transferred\\nwith the First Brigade to the Shenandoah alley, it\\nmade in the several campaigns of that region an\\neijually honor.iblc record till the close of the war.\\nThirteenth Regiment.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This regiment had two\\ncompanies C and K raised in Passaic County, and\\ncommanded resjiectively by Capts. David A. Ryerson\\nand Hugh C. Irish. The regiment was raised under\\nthe call of the President for three hundred thousand\\nvolunteers to serve for three years or during the war,\\ndated July 7, 1862, and although not mustered into\\nthe United Sti\\\\tes service until the 2r)th of .Vugust,\\nthe (|UOta required of the county of Passaic w.ls\\nraised by the prompt and energetic action of her\\nwar committee in fourteen days. The two companies\\nshared the fortunes of the regiment and contributed\\nto its honorable achievements till the close of the\\ngreat struggle for the preservation of the Union.\\nThe Thirteenth Regiment was mustered in at Camp\\nFrelinghuysen, Newark, and left the State en mule\\nfor Washington Aug. 31, 1862, arriving in that city\\non the 2d of September, and going into camp near\\nFort Richardson, on .Vrlington Heights. Here it was\\nassigned to the Third Brigade, First Division, Twellth\\nCorps, .\\\\rniy ofthe Potomac, ami immediately moved\\nfi rward with the army, assisting in preventing the in-\\nvasion of Pennsylvania and Maryland by the enemy.\\nThe regiment was attached to the .Vrmy of the Poto-\\nmac until Sept. 24, 1863, at which time, by order of\\nthe War Department, it was detached, with the en-\\ntire Twelfth Corps, for service in the West. They\\nwere then assigned to the .\\\\rmy of the Tennessee, and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0178.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n137\\nremained therewith until November, 1864, when the)\\njoined the array of Gen. Sherman on his march\\ntlirough Georgia and the Carolinas. At difterent\\ntimes during the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 the\\nstrength of the regiment was increased by the joining\\nfrom draft reservations, Trenton, N. J., of large num-\\nbers of recruits. The regiment continued its organi-\\nzation and remained in active service until the close\\nof the war, and those coming under the provisions of\\nGeneral Order No. 77, War Department, April 28,\\n1865, were mustered out near Washington, June 8,\\n1865 the remainder were transferred to the Thirty-\\nthird Regiment, in accordance with General Order\\nNo. 12, Headquarters Twentieth Army Corps, near\\nWashington, and were mustered out with that regi-\\nment.\\nThe regiment was first attached to the Third Bri-\\ngade, Firet Division, Twelfth Corps then to the\\nSecond Brigade, First Division, Twelfth Corps. The\\nfollowing list of engagements in which the regiment\\nparticipated will give some idea of the extent of its\\nservices. It was engaged in the battles of South\\nMountain, Md., Sept. 14, 1862; Antietam, Md., Sept.\\n17, 1862 Chancellorsville, Va., May 1-3, 1863 Get-\\ntysburg, Pa., July 2 and 3, 1863 Rocky Fac*e Ridge,\\nGa., May 8-11, 1864; Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1864;\\nCassville, Ga., May 16, 1864; Dallas, Ga., May 25,\\n1864; Pine Knob, Ga., June 16, 1864; Gulp s Farm,\\nGa., June 22, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June\\n27, 1864; Nancy s Creek, Ga., July 18, 1864; Peach-\\nTree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864 siege of Atlanta, Ga.,\\nJuly 22 to Sept. 1, 1864; Sandersville, Ga., Nov. 26,\\n1864 near Savannah, Ga., Dec. 6, 1864 capture of\\nSavannah, Ga., Dec. 15-21, 1864; Averysboro N. C,\\nMarch 16, 1865; Bentonville, N. C, March 18-20,\\n1865.\\nCHAPTER XXXI.\\nBERGE.N AND PASSAIC COUNTIKS IN THE WAR\\nOF THE KEBELLIOX\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Continued).\\nTwenty-second Regiment (Bergex County\\nRei;imkn-t|. The Twenty-second Regiment was or-\\nganized under the provision of an act of Congress,\\napproved July 22, 1861, and was mustered into the\\nUnited States service for nine months on Sept. 22,\\n1862. A draft had been ordered for this date to fill\\na requisition made upon the Governor for ten thou-\\nsand four hundred and seventy-eight men, to serve\\nfor nine months unless sooner discharged. Such was\\nthe enthusiasm throughout the State to raise the re-\\nquired quota by voluntary enlistments and thus pre-\\nvent the draft that by the time for the latter the\\nquota for the State was entirely filled. To this credit-\\nable result Bergen County contributed one regiment,\\nthe Twenty-second Infantry, which was made up\\nchiefly from the bone and sinew of her agricultural\\npopulation, and composed of as respectable and\\nworthy a class of young men as entered the service\\nduring the war. The total number of officers and\\nmen was 939. The regiment left the State for Wash-\\nington, D. C, on Sept. 29, 1862, and upon arriving at\\nits destination was ordered into camp ten miles north\\nof Georgetown, D. C, having been assigned to a pro-\\nvisional brigade, Casey s division, defenses of Wash-\\nington. It remained in this position until about the\\n1st of December, when it proceeded to Aquia Creek,\\nVa., and was assigned to provost duty, guarding the\\nrailroad, transferring wounded, prisoners, etc. In\\nJanuary, 1863, the regiment was assigned to the First\\nArmy Corps, and joined the Army of the Potomac.\\nIt continued its organization and remained in active\\nservice until the expiration of its term, when it was\\nordered to return to New Jersey for its discharge,\\nand was mustered out of service at Trenton, June 25,\\n1863.\\nThe regiment was first attached to Casey s division,\\ndefenses of Washington, then to Patrick s brigade,\\nprovost-guard Army of the Potomac, then to the\\nThird Brigade, First Division, First Army Corps. It\\ntook part in no important engagement except the\\nmovement on Chancelloi sville, Va., May 2 and 3,\\n1863.\\nThe original field, staff, and line-officers of the\\nregiment were as follows\\nField and Staff. Cornelius Fornett, colonel Alex-\\nander Douglas, lieutenant-colonel Abraham G. Dem-\\narest, major; John F. Satterthwaite, adjutant; Ural\\nB. Titus, quartermaster; Jacob B. Quick, surgeon;\\nSamuel A. Jones, assistant surgeon John E. Gary,\\nsecond assistant surgeon; Abraham G. Ryerson, chap-\\nlain.\\nNon-commissinned Staff. John Fredon, sergeant-\\nmajor; James T. Grinnelly, quartermaster-sergeant\\nFrederick P. Van Riper, commissary-sergeant Ben-\\njamin S. Meunier, hospital steward.\\nLhie- Officers. Company A, Robert W. Berrj-, cap-\\ntain Jacob Post, first lieutenant Jacob S. Lozier,\\nsecond lieutenant.\\nCompany B, Abraham Van Emburg, captain Ja-\\ncob Z. Van Blarcom, first lieutenant Benjamin Z.\\nVan Emburg, second lieutenant.\\nCompany C, Samuel D. Demarest, captain Wil-\\nliam J. Demarest, first lieutenant Joseph P. Vree-\\nland, second lieutenant.\\nCompany D, John C. Westervelt, captain Walter\\nH. Rumsey, first lieutenant; Nicholas Collingnon,\\nsecond lieutenant.\\nCompany E, William Chippendale, cajitain Wil-\\nliam Drew, first lieutenant John Gilham, second\\nlieutenant.\\nCompany F, James M. Ayers, captain Jacob\\nTitus, first lieutenant George W. Cubberley, sec-\\nond lieutenant.\\nCompany G, John H. Margerum, captain Richard", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0179.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "138\\nHISTOKV OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nH. Ivory, first lieutenaut William C. Vanderwater,\\nsecond lieutenant.\\nComimny H, Daniel D. Blauvelt, captain; Thomas\\nG. T. Paterson, first lieutenant; George Kingsland,\\nsecond lieutenant.\\nCompany 1, Thomas II. Swcnarton, captain Jo-\\nseph A. HlauvL lt, first lieutenant; David C. Bhiu-\\nvelt, second lieutenant.\\nCompany K, Richard C. Dey, captain Gerret J,\\nChristie, first lieutenant James Christie, second\\nlieutenant.\\nThe following incidents in the history of the regi-\\nment during its period of service are taken chiefly\\nfrom correspondence of the Bergen County Democrat,\\nand^will be read with interest by many survivors of\\nthe regiment and their friends.\\nThe regiuuMit left Trenton for Washington rather\\nhurriedly, iirevcnting the presentation of tlie regi-\\nmental flag which had been provided for the Twenty-\\nsecond by the State. It was, however, forwarded to\\nthem at their camp near Georgetown, and in due time\\nfornially presented to the regiment.\\nThe first letter from Camp Bergen, Washington,\\nD. C, was written on the 2d of October. This letter\\nsays,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWe arc in the aiiny. Vic are amung^t the number manj of whuni\\nare liattliiig for the Uiiiun rh il is, not im it vm\u00c2\u00bb. But we )iiteu l to do\\nour duty juatly, fairly, und uprightly. We truit we shall be an honor\\nto the name of Bergen County and the glorious HCtle State of New Jer-\\niey.\\nTheTwenty-secotid nuoiber^ about 9i 0 men, and its fine a net of men\\naa ever left the Stale, they being mostly farmers t\u00c2\u00bbons. Wceroi|uar\\ntered on F^t Cui itol lUll, in Gen. r^isey d division. It begins lo look\\nlike fight with us. Thirty thousand men have left Washington fur the\\nrpi er PutAtnac witldri the last two days.\\nOctober The Twenty -second Id-ginient Is od the more. Our plny-\\ning days have gone by. anrl it begins to look as If w\u00c2\u00a9 were going to be\\npushed forward to tlio scene of a great conflict. There was .luit*- ii\\nsad accident in oni|iany K, Capt. Dey s, ou Siimlay morning last. The\\n6th Sergeant of the company broke )iis leg just lielow the knee, caused\\nby runidng round thn. ugh the tents. On the Hth of Octol er (be regi-\\nment occupied Camp Fornett, one hundred men being loft behind to\\nguard the tents and baggage. They bmught up the reiir the next day.\\nWriting from Camp Fornett, a correspondentsays,\\nWe marchei! to Tenallytown, six miles distint from (be Cnpibil and\\nMoven from Camp Bergen. A post-olllce, teb graph-tjfllce, and a small\\nstore and blacksmith-shop constitutes the town. We re^Ktrted ourselves\\nat Fort Pennsylvania, near the town, after which we were oidered to\\nbivouac in a small grove neiir by for the night; ue to .ik the heavens\\nfor our covering, and our kuap\u00c2\u00abi( ks for our pillows. It was tin- r()ol\u00c2\u00abst\\nnight that has Iwen ex|N)riencod by us (bus far, many of thi- b \u00c2\u00bbys being\\nso tired they could He down and sleep In almost any place.\\n)n the !\u00c2\u00bblii of ()ctol)er, the ro^inient having joined\\nthe Army of tl\u00c2\u00bbe Potomac, a corn-Mpondent writes,\\nThe Twenty-eecond Hegiment were on the 9tli Instant aruiml with\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hovels and pickaxoa, to help ronstmrl a road l etween Fort Alexandrln\\nand Fort IVnnsylvnido, a distance of \u00c2\u00bbonie thref miles. A private be-\\nlonging to Capi. W\u00c2\u00ab*\u00c2\u00ablervelt *rom| any, having tmen at work on the road,\\nInjomptng ai:i Mm a ditch with an axe in his hand, cut the forellnger\\nand thumb of his right hand, nearly severing them iKJth at the ftrst Joint.\\nHe will pndtably be diivharged. This Is the second accident Ihnt has\\nfK-rurrwd In the n-glmmt witliln a short time.\\nFlag Presentation.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 f n the luh of October, 18(i2,\\n:i iM-aiiliriil rt ;iminlal Hng wum presented to the\\nTwenty-second hy a committee consi.sting of several\\ngentlemen, accompanied by the following address:\\nOrnCBlS AND SOLDIEES OP THE TWKNTY*eRCOND REGIMENT Nf.W\\nJCBfiET VOLUNTEEKS:\\nIn behalf of the citizens of Bergen County, we have the honor to\\npresent to you these flags. The one Is to remind you that you are citi-\\nzens of the imtriotic State of New Jersey, and the other that you are part\\nof the brave and invincible defenders of the Union. Be assured that they\\nare the oflferings of loving hearts, following you in the aspirations of love\\nfrom the fireside uf home to the field of war, and appreciating your loy-\\nalty and patriotism in daring to live or die for your country. Centred in\\nthem are the contributions of a kind father, a noble brother, and many a\\nstrong and steadfast friend and while they are carried aloft In defense of\\nyour country and the right, do not forget the loved ones at home. What\\nmore beautiful emblem of their devotion to their country could be pre-\\nsented? They see their country assailed by the most formidable and\\nwicked rebellion that ever desolated the peace of nations or of the\\nWorld. They see this unholy war waged iigainst the very life of the re-\\npublic, and threatening to overthrow tht- foundations of the noblest\\nstructure of national greatness and prosperity the world ever saw. They\\nsee tlio bloody hands of Itase conspirators violently desftoiling the holy\\naltar of liberty. And in tlie presentation of tliese emblems they say to\\nyou, crush the rebellion, our republic and country shall never be de-\\nstroyed, consjiiracy must be punished, and llial punlchuient must be as\\nterrible as the crime is fiendish. They say to you, thei\u00c2\u00bbe flags are the\\nemblems of our nationality, not of a broken and dissevered nation, but of\\nthe Union, now and forever, one an l insepantble. When the Union\\nshall be dissolved let the flags be laid aside and KH ked upon as the relics\\nof our former greatness, and let them be a reproval to us that we had\\nbecome too weak, too mean, and too disloyal to pndect and defend\\nthem.\\nThey have no fear that you will prove recreant to your high calling\\nand noble trust. They know they have placed these flags in true and\\npatriotic bands, and that they shall never be surrendered while a veatige\\nof rebellion shall Ua leit unpunlshe l. In protecting and defending these\\nflags you also protect and defend the land of Washington, of yourfathers,\\nand of yourselves. In this hour of your country s iR ril noble hearts and\\nstrong hands must stand by her, and when she comes out of this fiery\\nstruggle with unholy rebellion, as she must and will, you may rely ui on\\nthe blessing of your own and many future generations; you will then be\\nhappy, and have the assunince that you have aided your beloved but\\nstruggling cttuntry in her noble endeavore to strike down the traIton iu\\narm of the Idoody assassin who would destroy her national pn sperity\\nand greatness and take away her natural life you will al\u00c2\u00bb have rooMin\\nto thank your Cod that in your short tlay and generation the Star-\\nS|Hingled Banner in reality doth M ave o er the land of the free and the\\nhome of the brave. To each oneofj ou let us say, in the Wautifnl woida\\nof Longfellow,\\nTake Ihy Banner! may it wave\\nPntudly o er the gvK il and bruve\\nWhen the battle s disUnt wall\\nBrejiks the Sabbath of the vale,\\nWhen the rlariou music Ibrills\\nTo the heart of tlio\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab lone bills,\\nWhen the spear in ronfli t shak -w.\\nAnd the strong tancr shivering breaks,\\nTake tb\\\\ banner! and iM-neatli\\nThe battb-cloud s eniin^ling wreath\\nOnarfl it till our homes an\u00c2\u00ab free\\nliuard it (od will prosjier thee!\\nIn the ilark and trying hour,\\nIn the breaking forth of |\u00c2\u00bbower.\\nIn the rush of steeds and men,\\nHis ri^bt hand will shield thee then.*\\nlUlilEHT RRNMIK,\\nJohn Bbrtholf,\\nI)*vn TKHIirNE,\\nFKKI KHtrK JaCOBSON,\\nCommiUtf.\\nII.vckekrjick, Oct. 9, Irtfi J.\\nIn answer to tlie ahnve the folKiwing reply came:", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0180.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n139\\nHeadquarters Twenty-sbcond Reoiuent,\\nCamp Fobnett, Oct. 13, 18G2.\\nTo Committee of Presentation:\\nGentlemen, Your letter, togetlier with your beautiful presentation,\\nwas received jeatenlay afternoon. Everything arrived safely. The nohle\\nbanners were unfurled and presented in due form at the evening ptirade.\\nDpon the reading of the accompanying speecli the cheers of the officers\\nand men of tho regiment re-eclioed far and near along the banks of the\\nold Potomac. The enthusiasm of the men at the sight of our glorious\\nensign was very great. Cheer after cheer were given for old Bergen, for\\nher loyal men, for her devoted women, for the Stars and Stripes, and for\\nthe good old Union.\\nIn answer to your appropriate and patriotic address my pleasant duty\\nis to make a reply, in doing which, if I may be able to express our grat-\\nitude to you as donors and the ennobling spirit of respect and love\\nyou have inspired in our every breast, I shall feel doubly happy. In\\nbehalf of the officers and men of the Twenty-second Volunteers, I return\\nyou our must sincere thanks for these dearly-loved banners, fit tokens of\\nyour luyalty and devotion to our country s cause and of your evinced\\ninterest iu our welfare as a regiment. Forcibly does the one remind us\\nof our citizenship in patriotic Jereey, and of the ties of afiection which\\nthere bind us. With pride and devotion do we look upon the otlier, the\\nstarry flag of our noble republic, under which our glorious land has so\\nlong and prosperously existed. Full well do we know that your loving\\nhearts with their most earnest prayers will follow us, and we are happy\\nin this knowledge. Never, for your sake, for uur country s sake, shall\\nwe prove recreant to our importaut trust. E-trnestly will we strive to\\nimitate the worthy example of our patriotic sires, and show to the world\\nthat the blood of our sacrificing forefathers still courses in our veins.\\nInfluenced by no sinister motive, we go forth to endure the fatigues and\\nprivations of a soldier s life, ready, if necessary, to sacrifice all, even life\\nitself, in the protection of our national honor and glory. It shall be\\nour highest pride to be worthy of your trust and affection, and to add j\\nlustre to our already shining name among the constellation of States. I\\nOur hearts shall constantly burn with affection for you all, and when\\nthe din of battle shall have ceased and the dreadful rebellion, with all\\nits concomitant horrors, shall have been overwhelmed and eternally de-\\nstroyed, then the proud consciousness of having faithfully discharged\\nour duty as soldiers and of liaving manfully assisted in the restoration i\\nof onr land to its former greatness and glory sliall be our most happy\\nreward. Sedition and conspiracy must bite the dust. The Union shall\\nlive and triumph. With many thanks and kind wishes, I am yours,\\nLt.-Col. Alex. Dottglas,\\nCommmuliug Twenty-second Regiment N. J. V.\\nTo Messrs. Rennie, Bertholf.Teruune, and Jacobson. I\\ni\\nOct. 20, 1862, a member of the regiment writes,\\nstill at Camp Fornett. Each inati of the rpgiment was furnished\\nwith thirty rounds of ammunition on Tuesday niglit last iu expectation\\nof a raid near us. It made the hoys open their eyes and hrighten up\\ntheir ideas. But nohody came. We were ordered to sleep on our arms\\nfluring the night, with accoutrements on. Pickets are sent out some\\nthree miles every night. Every man was presented with an overcoat\\nand knit jacket on Wednesday la.st. This completes our outfit.\\nThe men of Company C are talking of getting up a general debating so-\\nciety and Bible class. The Bergen Democrat is much sought after by\\ntlie boys in camp from Bergen County.\\nNovember 16th. The long roll was beaten in\\ncamp on Saturday night, and after the smoke, flurry,\\nand bustle had subsided proved to be a false alarm.\\nThe regiment was ready for battle in live minutes after\\nthe call had been sounded. It is about the quickest\\ntime we have ever heard of for a raw regiment.\\nOn the 24th of November quite a number were re-\\nported sick in camp, owing to the damp and chilly\\nweather. On the 22d, Private Blauvelt De Mott, of\\nCompany I, died of typhoid fever. He belonged to\\nNorth Englewood, and left a wife and one child to\\nmourn his loss.\\nThanksgiving (Nov. 27, 1862) was spent by the\\nregiment in camp. After the services by the chap-\\nlain were over the whole regiment joined in singing\\nthe patriotic and soul-stirring song, My country\\ntis of thee. A correspondent, speaking of the day,\\nsays, It is now numbered with the annals of the\\npast, which will ever be remembered by many of us.\\nWe have as yet no colonel in command of the\\nregiment. It is about time we should know whether\\nwe are to have such an officer or not. Col. Abraham\\nG. Demarest was not commissioned colonel of the\\nregiment till Jan. 26, 1863.\\nThe regiment left Camp Fornett on Saturday night,\\nNovember 3( tli, and at about six o clock p.m. reported\\nat Fort Carroll. They crossed Long Bridge about\\nthree o clock on Sunday morning, having marched\\nfifteen miles. After resting for the night in a small\\nwoods by the wayside, at eight o clock on Monday\\nmorning they resumed their long journey through\\nMaryland to Liverpool Point, on the Potomac, oppo-\\nsite Aquia Creek Landing. They had marched four\\ndays, making a distance of seventy-five miles, and\\nhad lived upon twenty crackers and about one\\npound and a half of salt pork. From Liverpool\\nPoint they were ferried across in a steamboat to Aquia\\nCreek, A correspondent writes, It is winter with\\nus, and the snow lies upon the ground. Friday night\\nit rained and snowed nearly the whole time. The\\nlast few days have taught the boys what a soldier s\\nlife is. We are quartered in small tents, called\\nshelter-tents, which look like chicken-coops, being\\nopen at both ends. We are now living upon nine\\nhard crackers, some raw pork, and two cups of coflee\\nper day.\\nThe regiment lay at Aquia Creek till after the battle\\nof Fredericksburg, December 11th to 13th. They did\\nnot participate in that sanguinary and memorable\\nslaughter of Union soldiers. The Fourth, Seventh,\\nFifteenth, Twenty -third. Twenty -fourth, Twenty-\\nfifth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-ninth New Jersey\\nRegiments were engaged in the fight, every one\\nsufl ering more or less in killed and wounded. The\\ncorrespondent of the Twenty-second Regiment wrote\\nafter the battle, The past week has been a very stir-\\nring time with us. There is no end to the wounded\\nthat have been arriving here from the last battle-field.\\nBut very few prisoners were among the number. We\\nhave been badly defeated. The whole army ha.s re-\\ncrossed the Rappahannock with a loss of some thirty\\nthousand killed and wounded, and not an inch of\\nground gained. The wounded that arrived here pre-\\nsent a most heartrending scene. Their groans were\\nterrible as they lay in the cars.\\nAt this time Dr. Jones, of Englewood, the surgeon\\nof the Twenty-second, was appointed brigade sur-\\ngeon Corp. Van Brunt, of Company I, was ap-\\npointed brigade commis.sary s clerk. The regiment\\nreceived Sibley tents, and rejoiced in the comfort\\nthey afforded. The correspondent says. They feel\\nCoireBpondent Bergen Democrat.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0181.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "14U\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nlike home again on cold nights. Our chicken-coops\\nwill come in play when we go out on picket duty.\\nTiie wounded from the last fight (Fredericksburg)\\nhave been coming in every night during the past\\nweek. We have been busily engaged in unloading\\nthe cars and loading them again on steamboats as\\nfast as they arrived here, some nights till twelve\\no clock.\\nThe following is an extract from a letter dated at\\nthe camp of the Twenty-second Regiment at Aquia\\nCreek, Dec. 28, 18tj2\\nA and I umcle onr meal to-night of baked i oti\u00c2\u00bbtoe8, bard brwui, cof*\\nfoc% boiled rice, and raw oninns. Our joint cooking utenuils cunslst of\\nthe top of the stove, one quiirt cup, two iiint cups, one tin platf, and one\\nknife and fork. Each makes bis cofioe and drinks it out of tbe suniu\\ncup. It iii well rellsbed, howt-v.-r, and I enjoy my little nieentclinum\\npipe after Hupper as much as if I had eaten boiled turkey with oyster\\nBauce. Each article of consumption is kept in a paprr by itself and de-\\nposited in the .7o#ei, which is the lluor at ttie end of the bunk, and a\\nsmall shelf nailed to the foot of haid bunk. The things get a little diaty\\nsometimes, but that don t make much difference, ^ly chair is an empty\\ncracker box; my aimtlestick ii little scjnare block with a hole in it. Our\\nstove was purchased on board of acanal-Umt lyirin here. Our stove-pipe\\nI won from I ncle Sam* directly under tli** nostcs of five guards (col-\\nored) who were watching it. Our /wZ/iM-bed is made of hay. procured\\nIn the same way as the stove-pipe.\\nEarlv in January, 1863, the Twenty-second Re ri-\\nment was removed to Belle riainsTiiid attaelied to\\nthe left wing of Gen. Franklin s division, bri^de of\\nGen. Paul. On the 1st of February, 1803, Lieut.-Col.\\nAlexander Douglas resigned liis commission. He\\nhad coninian U d the regiment from the first, but was\\nan uniHtpular otHcer. A corre.six.ndent writing of his\\nresignation says, His five nionths career with us as\\nlieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-seeoml Regiment\\nhjus been very remarkable. He never attained the\\nposition he held fairly, He promised much but\\nfulfille l little. A majority of the line-officers who\\nvoted for him in Camp Bergen turned their backs\\nupon him in *Cam|) Fornett when a petition was\\ndrawn up to have him colonel.\\n)n Tuesday, February 3d, the regiment received two\\nmonths pay, and raised a contribution of $100 for\\nthe widow of comrade Jolin Stamp, A brigade re-\\nview t iok place by Brig.-Oen. Paul. Cnirrei Camp-\\nbell, orderly sergeant, wjls promoted to fill the office\\nof second lieutenant on the 4th of February. A few\\ndays later the Twenty-second Regiment removed\\nfrom tlieir old camp (Dcmarest) to a more convenient\\nplace for fuel. In a letter dated Potomac Creek, Va,,\\nFeb. 22, 1863, a correspondent of the Bergen Demo-\\ncrai says,\\nQhU\u00c2\u00ab a change has taken place In the regiment since my lost letter.\\nM^. Domarrst rerelve l his commlMion on Friday Inst as c )h nel of the\\nTwentVHMMttnd Upgiment, Capt. Van Emburg ns Ilentcnant-colonel. and\\nCapl. S. n. Peniiinst as mnjor. The change M em\u00c2\u00bb to give giwl satlsfoc-\\nlion to the men. It has been nothing hut storm after storm during\\nthe month of Febniary. The liwt unowsb.rm. on the 22d Infant, was\\na drwMlful cold one on the stddlora. We will pmbiibly remain here for\\noome time yol. Throe private* dle\u00c2\u00abl in lb* Twenty-socond on Sun-\\ndMy,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one fhiro Company I, namatl Abraham Do Uaiin Bei^amln Evor-\\nI January 12th.\\nson, of Company D; Henry BriiikerholT, better known as Bully Hank.\\nof ConiiMiny H. The first one died with intormiUcut fi*ver. There are\\nsome more dangerous cases in the h \u00c2\u00abplia1.*\\nIn a letter to the Democrat in March, 1863, a mem-\\nber of the Twenty-second thus reviews the army-life\\nof the regiment:\\nIt seennt like the lapse of years [time we were at Trenton the jour-\\nney to our rump on East Capitol Hill fs like something read of rather\\nthan experiencei] the two mouthr* on the Defenses of Washington* are\\nwell remembered like sunshine In rain iH cause of the comforiable\\nquarteis at Camp Fornett. Then comes the pbantasiuaguria of a l\u00c2\u00bbng\\nmarch through Maryland, whore knajisacks were so heavy and chickens\\nSt) plt-ntiful. That was a week of wild life up with the sun, knupNiiks\\nslung, and ufl brief Iniltiugs fur rest, a short noon fur dinner then ihe\\nhalt Ht night, tbe roads ringing with voires and gleaming with a thun-\\nsand tire!\u00c2\u00ab, ut which were cookeil the chickens, ducks, geese, and oir*\\nkeys, upon whom a Yankee had tried hisritle. How sweet sleep pieemeil\\nin those tpiiet old woods, though wo had no tents and saw GlhI s stars In\\nthe ceiling. And while we sat around our camp-fires, smoking our\\npil es, how timidly the contrabands of neighboring fnrmers would\\nsteal up to our gi-oup and listen to onr talk, ami tell u t of other soldiers\\nwho had passed through there. Some of thene niggers did desire lo l e\\nfree, and were welt inlormed upon the topics of the day others seemed\\nlo know nothing of freedom, and cared Ivsa.\\nWe do remember our landing at .\\\\iiuiii Creek, for there we spent one\\nnight in a violent snow-storm without a tent in the whole regiment.\\nWe remember Aquia Creek bacouse it grew under our eyes fi-om a wil-\\nderness into u village, and such a busy one! It was thoie we were\\ntaught to gni ss how much the war is costing there, too, we h^ard the\\nthunders booming at Fredericksburg, and there we helped the thousands\\nof wounded on their way to the Washington bospitais. Then came our\\nmove* to Belle I laiu; tiur move upon Frpdorick^burg. frustrated by\\nthe elements; our three days in the wuods, mud, and sloiin-stityed our\\nmarch back our slay in one place until the wood is gone, an then onr\\nchanging camp, for we are chasing forests that seem to melt before us.\\nWe are called an army of occupation; our work seems to l e tlearing\\nVirginia. From where I sit I look out upon a gently-rising mound,\\nand on its summit 1 see a dark-lu-own heap, marked at each end tty a\\nstrip of board. One morning he who sleejts there was well, lie awoke\\nat the reveille and did a soldier s duty for tlie day. Tloit night he whs\\nsick,* and with the next day s setting sun he lay down never again to\\nhear a rtveilte.\\nIn the spring of 1803 a number of deaths occurred\\nin the regiment. Among tliem were Corp. John\\nChristie, of Company K Privates John Ducher,\\nCompany I; Charles Beckwitii, Company K (April\\nl )th) and Corp. David Bogert, Company I.\\nApril 2Uth a correspondent writes,\\nThe health of Ihe regiment in fast Improving. Some twelve privates\\nbelonging to the dlflTerent cumpanles were laken to the general hospital\\nul Washington on Saturday, (he 18th hisl. We have been und\u00c2\u00abr\\nmmchitig orders for the last five days. On Monday, April 2oth, the\\nregiment broke camp and removed atK ut two miles. The whole of the\\nbrigade shifted quarters and engaged In pre|Mirutlifii for summer cum-\\naignhig. On tlie 2^th Governor Parker, of New Jersey, (laid us a visit,\\nand WHS onthuslrtstli dly rect?lved by th regiment drawn up In line widi\\noprn ranks. Three musing cliecrs wiTe given him as he departeil on\\na similar visit to other Now Jersey troopa.\\nOn the 28th of April the regiment and brigade\\njoined in the general advance towards tbe Rappahan-\\nnock. At daylight on the 29th, says a correspond-\\nI ent, the ball was opened by the rebels. They fired\\n1 a brisk volley from their ritle-pit** upon the engineers\\nwhile they were stringing llic |n)ntoon-bridges. Gur\\nI skirmishers (the F\u00c2\u00bbmrth Brooklyn) returned the fire\\nI very lively. After the skirmishing had been going on\\nsome time our batteries got in position and jioured\\nI the shot and shell into the pits thick and fast. Finallv", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0182.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n141\\nthe Fourth New Jersey crossed the river a little lower\\ndown, unbeknown to them, and outflanked them in\\ntheir pits, and captured them all, some one liundred.\\nIn the afternoon the Third Brigade (Gen. Paul s)\\ncrossed over the bridge, and we located ourselves be-\\nhind a high bank out of range of the rebel guns.\\nIn this position they remained during the next day,\\nwatching the rebels. The firing ceased about seven\\no clock P.M., and that night the Twenty -second lay on\\ntheir arms. On the next day (Saturday) the whole\\narmy recrossed the Rappahannock, and the rebels\\nagain occupied the Heights of Fredericksburg. The\\nFederal loss in this movement was about twenty-five\\nthousand in killed, wounded, and prisoners.\\nAlmost immediately after the hard-fought battle\\nof Chancellorsville a court-martial, composed of offi-\\ncers from three-years regiments, found Lieut. D. C.\\nBlauvelt, of Company I, guilty of cowardice before\\nthe enemy, and sentenced him to be dismissed from\\nthe service, etc. His character was ably vindicated\\nby a member of his regiment, who. In a letter dated\\nMay 24, 1863,- stated for publication in the Bergen\\nDemocrat the simple facts of his military career,\\nshowing him to have been a brave and efficient officer.\\nThe editor of the Democrat adds the following remark\\nto the letter\\nThe above letter of our correspondent ig in keeping with man}- others\\nwhich have been received in town on the same subject, rII indicating\\nthat Lieut. Blauvelt has been the victim o^ political freachery. But a few\\ndays will elapse when all the authors in this nefaiious transaction will\\n(we trust) be again at home, when the matter in question will receive a\\nrigid and searching investigation. Until tlmt time Lieut. Blauvelt is\\nwilling to rest his case, leaving that great corrective, public opinion,\\nto decide aa to whether he is a coward or a victim sacrifiCBd to the hatred\\nof his political enemy, who happened to be his superior in rank.\\nThe time of service of the regiment having expired\\non the 18th of June, 1863, they returned home. Pre-\\nvious to being mustered out at Trenton they were\\ngiven a magnificent reception by the ladies and citi-\\nzens, Maj. Frank Mills, of that city, delivering an\\nappropriate address on the occasion. The companies\\nreturning to Hackensack were also received with warm\\ncongratulations, and a collation was served at the\\nMansion House.\\nThe following is a roster of the non-commissioned\\nofficers and privates in the Twenty-second Regiment\\nfrom Bergen County\\nCompany A.\\nSergeants, 1st, Garret M. Campbell 2d, Kicbolas R. Royce 3d, Stephen\\nG. Harper; th, Milton Birley; Sth, John R. Fulton.\\nCorporals. 1st, Richard A.Terhuue; 2d, Heury II. Batita, 3d, CVjmelius\\nVan Horn; 4tli, George A. Brinkirhoff; 6tli, \\\\Vm. W. Harper; gth,\\nWm. H. Van Buskirk 7th, \\\\Vm. Burt Sth, Jacob Terhune.\\nPrivates.\\nAckerman, Wm. H\\nBoyd, James.\\nBell, Jacob J.\\nBoyd, John A.\\nBross, Nicholas.\\nBegan, Timothy.\\nEarle, Barney V.\\nEaglin, Benjamin.\\nEverson, Jacob.\\n10\\nFalter, Alexander.\\nFerdoii, Jamea S.\\nGuildersleve, Thomaa.\\nGuildersleve, Dtivid.\\nGuildersleve, Henry.\\nGriniBiiaw, William H.\\nGarris Jacob J.\\nHunton, Heory.\\nHill, Cornelius.\\nJervis, James.\\nKennedy. Tln-niaa.\\nLozier, Daniel C.\\nLeibizh, Joseph.\\nMyers, Wm.\\nMcCiie, John.\\nMcCano, Frank.\\nMcGuire, Wm.\\nMangfl, Bernard.\\nOpdyke, Edwin S.\\nO Conner, Jamea.\\nQuackenbush, John.\\nRemsen, James.\\nRyan, Daniel.\\nScott, Wm. C.\\nStevens, Charles.\\nSimms, George.\\nSmith, Albert G.\\nSmith, Michael.\\nTerhune, John J.\\nTerhune, Martin J.\\nTerhuup, James.\\nTervis, Albert D.\\nVan Houten, John H.\\nVan Huuteii, James.\\nVan Horn, Albert\\nVan Dcrbt ck, David.\\nVaudpnilUeon, E.\\nVan Nt 83, Rubert.\\nVan Buren, Theo. F.\\nVan Buren, Peter.\\nVoorhiB, Nicholas H.\\nVreeland, Henry G.\\nVreelaud, Nichohis D.\\nWygant, John H.\\nWood, George W.\\nWygant, Wm. W.\\nWestervelt, Peter.\\nZflbriskie, John J.\\nZabriskie, Jacob B.\\nCompany B.\\nSergeants. 1st, Andrew Van Emburg; 2d, Charles Van Riper; 3d, Tbos.\\nEckerson; 4th, James A. Osborne 5th, Theodore V. Terhune.\\nCorporaU.~let, Aaron Van Derbeck; 2d, Abraham 11. Hopper; 3d, Cor-\\nnelius D. Ackerman; 4th, Daniel Van Blarcom; 5tb, Stephen D.\\nBartholf 6th, Theodore Bamper 7th, John Acker 8tb, Walter S.\\nTerhune.\\nPrivates.\\nAbrame, Henry.^\\nAbrams, Elias.i\\nAckerman, Peter.\\nAUer, Heury T.\\nBanta, Thomas T.\\nBrower, Robert D.\\nBerthulf, Peter.\\nCooley, Edward.\\nConklin, John E.\\nCap, George.\\nDurling, John.\\nDe Bauu, Isaac V, B.\\nDoremuB, Wm.\\nDoty, Thomas E.\\nEnglish, Wm.\\nEdwards, James W.\\nFincli, Isaac P.\\nFinch, John.\\nFinch, Joseph.\\nHoward, Cornelius.\\nHopper, Henry L.\\nHopper, John A.\\nHopper, Albert G.\\nHopper, Garret U.\\nHopper, Joseph B.\\nHopper, David.\\nHennion, Garret G.\\nHennion, Andrew.\\nHarrop, John.\\nJenke, John G.\\nKent, Cornelius C.\\nLutkins, John H.\\nLutkins, Richard.\\nLake, John.\\nLenox, George.\\nMarsh, George W.\\nMasker, Lewis.\\nMagrofl, Martin.\\nMiller, Wm. H. G.\\nMyers, John J.\\nMyers, Martin J.\\nMarinus, Christian.\\nMessenger, Philip.\\nMay, John J.\\nMeeker, Wm. D.\\nMabey, Frederick B.\\nOsborne. Wm. A.\\nPeterson, Barney.\\nPuUm, Jacob.\\nPerry, James.\\nRyan, Patrick,\\nRyersiMi, Albert B.\\nSchmide, Simon.\\nStun. Daniel.\\nStun, IsiHC.\\nThi mpaou, John H.\\nThompson, James, Jr.\\nTrumper, Harmau.\\nTbonipaou, Wm. H.\\nTerhune, Ji Spjih F.\\nTerhune, Janios E.\\nTerwilliger, James H.\\nTbursloi), Anthony.\\nTerhune, Henry H.\\nThompson, AckerxoD.\\nTinker, James.\\nTurse, Jacob Y.\\nThompson, J hn J.\\nTerhune, Ab-xander.\\nTerhune, Andrew A.\\nVan Vorat, Heury.\\nVan Riper, Peter.\\nVan Horn, Wm.\\nWest, Cba-Ies.\\nWyknff, Samuel B.\\nWaldron, John L.\\nWanamaker. Josiah.\\nWhitmore, James.\\nWhitmore, William H.\\nWinters, William.\\nWaid. Pfter.\\nTeonians, Mynch-rt.\\nTeomans, Josiab.\\nYeonians, Samuel J.\\nCompany C.\\nSerj^ean/*.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 let., Peter L. Conklin 2d, David W. DewHreat; 3d, David C.\\nBlauvelt; 4tb. Asaph T. Campbell Sth, Cornelius Huyler.\\na rporoifl.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 let, David J. Blackledge 2d, James S. Bogert 3d, James W.\\n1 From Weit Milford, Passaic Co.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0183.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "142\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nWtlej; 4th, John D. Chiiitl*; 5tfa, Conieltus Vreeland; 6th, John\\nAck\u00c2\u00abrnian; 7th, Samuel Dawson; 8th, WllliaDi H. Mnnroe.\\nPrivait*.\\nAckerman, Peter I.\\nBrown, Carl.\\nBloom, CliarlM.\\nBogert, Samuel B.\\nBlackledge, Isaac X.\\nButler, Jame\u00c2\u00ab J.\\nUrinkerliuff, Abram C.\\nByftnl, John.\\nItroeti, Barney.\\nBurr, Charlee A.\\nBeam, ErneBt.\\nBrinkerholT. Ilalph L.\\nBlauvi lt, Diivid D.\\nBross, Abraham.\\nBabcock, George W.\\nCampl ell. Theodore.\\nChristie, IV-tor J.\\nClusc, Pliilii P.\\nConklin, Aaron.\\nChristie, Emsnnis.\\nCouliffc, William U.\\nCluss, John 1\\nConklln, James.\\nDe Graw, Robert.\\nDoremns, John K.\\nDemarcHt, Gilbert.\\nDaweoii, John H.\\nDomarest, Duvld J.\\nEly, John Bunt\\nFeeder, Morris.\\nFreelnnd.Jobn.\\nGott. William 0.\\nHarinK. Henry J.\\nHawkey, Oeormi W.\\nIlickerHon, Tnliimn.\\nJurgnD, Chrldtopher.\\nLowBiithal. Lewis.\\nMiller. Peter.\\nMurray, Bernard.\\nMornett, Andrew.\\nMoran, Martin.\\nMoore, AlbiTt.\\nUHglton, WilUani.\\nMatonia, Charles.\\nO Oonuell, Stephen.\\nPickle, George.\\nPerry, John.\\nQuay, Tfiomas.\\nRosf), Joseph.\\nRii-r, Michael U.\\nSears, John H.\\nSeam, Peter.\\nSear*, Jacob.\\nSchmidt, Charles.\\nSeber, Joseph.\\nSchmidt, Henry.\\nSinpor, Alhert.\\nStroBS, William.\\nSnook, Martin.\\nSmith, John V. D.\\nStamp, John.\\nSlieir, Christopher.\\nSears, Allison.\\nSearv, FranciH.\\nSolvers, Martin.\\nSears, Anilrew.\\nSteel, Jacub.\\nTerhnne. David W.\\nTalK, Juhn.\\nTillman, William A.\\nTerhnne, Albert W.\\nVan GieAon, Isaac.\\nVan Saun, Levi.\\nVan Saun, Isaac H.\\nVan I erbeck, Kbenezer.\\nVan Iterbeck, Isaac I.\\nVreeland, David D.\\nVoorhis, John W.\\nVan Wetering, F. P.\\nVan Wotering, Seanion.\\nWygant. Michael M.\\nWestorvelt, John S.\\nWcelorvelt, Simeon.\\nYoung, George.\\nUtll, Thomas E.\\nJones, Joseph E.\\nJertey, John J.\\nKent, Cornelius J.\\nKlngsland, Theodore.\\nKitchel, Isaac M.\\nLock wood, David.\\nHowerson, John Jacob.\\nMonroe, Stephen.\\nMonroe, David.\\nNangb Jolin D.\\nOttienon, John C.\\nPulis, Peter D.\\nPost, RubLTt J.\\nPerry, Jolin H.\\nPost, Julm J.\\nRuniBey, Owen I.\\nKaulet, C. Louis.\\nUiker, Abraham A.\\nSmith, Daniel W.\\nsuiter, Samuel.\\nStorms, AbrBhaoi C.\\nSchilte, Marinus.\\nStraus, Itichard.\\nTerhnne, Albert J., Jr.\\nTowiihend, John.\\nUlnier, Fre^lerick.\\nVan Saun. Isaac.\\nVan Kiper, Frederick A.\\nVan Orden. William.\\nVan Busklrk, Benjamin.\\nVan Derlinder, Jitcob.\\nVan Buitkirk, Charles E.\\nVan Dien, Juhn.\\nWestervelt, Henry P.\\nWood, Abraham.\\nWaring, Peter P.\\nWortendyk Abraham.\\nWilliam, Juhn.\\nWannaniaktT, John H.\\nOiHI ANY\\n8\u00e2\u0082\u00acrg\u00c2\u00abanU.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Ut, Edwin Bebbington 2d, John W. Doremus; 3d, Frank y.\\nBowen; 4tli, Adrian Hughes; 5th, Juhn Fraz.er.\\nCorporals. Ist, Abraham Kreeland; 2d, Fredi-rick Frowh ;id, Aarun\\nBuach 4lh, Willium H. Ciidmus 5th, Abmbani Whartnn; 6lh, Henry\\nU. Van Idemtlne; 7th, Simeon V. R. Alyea; Uth, John P. Jones.\\nPrirate*.\\nCom PANT D.\\nS\u00c2\u00ab-f,Mnt*.~Ul. Altrabam C. Herring; 2d, Thomas DemareM :jd. John\\nA. Marinus; 4lh, Nicholas Colllngnon 6th, Jasper J. WostervnU.\\nOirpoTnU.-Ui,\\\\Ku\\\\c D. B. gert; 2d, Gonest M. Oltignon 3d, James B.\\nWe*tervelt 4th. Charles M. Westervelt f.th, J.iine8 A. Ottlgnun 6th,\\nJohn F. Herring 7th, Henry Swin 8th, Homy Clay Humphrey.\\nPrivate*.\\nAcki-rson, John C.\\nAckennau, George W,\\nArkorman, James P.\\nA.kcrman, Garret.\\nAckt rntan, Abraham B.\\nAckerman, Jamea W.\\nBlanvelt, Abraham D.\\nB .gort, Abraham B.\\nB igert, Jnmm M.\\nIlaiitn, Aarcin V.\\nBlaiiT -ll, John J.\\nniauvcU, Lucaa C.\\nBl tuvolt, Abraham J.\\nBtauvilt, William.\\nBakir. Geurge.\\nBartuw, Jamofl.\\nBradley, Joacph A.\\nnoiir rt, r rn\u00c2\u00bbllus J.\\nBiMiU. Abraham P.\\nnRunor. -lamfs.\\nItlanvrlt, Al rnhani\\nCniuler, Jiuii**\\nCnmler, Cornelius P,\\n(Visker, Felix A. M.\\nCulUngnon, AuguHtua M.\\nColo, iMUiC.\\nC^^ok, FmncU.\\nDemaK st, Peter J.\\nDfUiareDt, John.\\nDemnreHt, Coriiidlus E.\\nDemarcst, John J.\\nDow, John.\\nEiirl, Daniel.\\nEckerson, John G,\\nEckoriHin, D.ivtd D., Jr.\\nEckorwon, Edward T.\\nl-kkuriMin. Jacob B.\\nEverson, B^-nJamln.\\nFliKxl, JamcN.\\n(lurn\u00c2\u00ab e, David.\\nHopptT, Abraham A.\\nHerring, John P.\\nHnrrlng. Daniel J,\\nHerring, Abraham P.\\nAlyea, SIdiod V. R.\\nBu\u00c2\u00a7h, Abraham P.\\nButlui Josiah.\\nBroughton, Joseph.\\nConklin, Albert B.\\nConner, David.\\narmichHel, Robert.\\nCrot k, Henry.\\nCurley, James.\\nClark, Peter.\\nCoon, Charles.\\nDonn* can, William\\nDerr, Kiiglevman C.\\nDykemiin, William H.\\nDe Kelsor, John.\\nDeiuareet, Jacob P.\\nDoring, Henry.\\nElllH, Joseph.\\nErdto, Christian.\\nEdiMill, John.\\nFinher, John.\\nFraser, Juhn.\\nFn*eJand, John.\\nFoekenbronch, Rudolph.\\nGo\u00c2\u00abger, Jacob.\\nGarrceaon, George H.\\nllindle, George.\\nHarnor, Allmrt.\\nliopiier, Peter G.\\nHiipimr, laaar A.\\nHop|K r, John A.\\nHudiM ii, James.\\nIlendr William.\\nKofit, Cornelius.\\nI.ain eiitu\u00c2\u00ab s, Jacob.\\nMorrison, James,\\nMorrison, Andrew.\\nMiller, JHDiee R.\\nMercer, William.\\nMeuEi4 Daniel.\\nMills, Juhn.\\nMcCabe, Patrick.\\nMariuUH, Christian.\\nMuhuti, Henry F.\\nNikonburgh, Jacob.\\nNaugte. Bernard.\\nPlialon, Thomas.\\nPhitlou, Nicholas.\\nBiker, Samuel.\\nStapg, John J.\\nSinger, John.\\nSIgler, Alfred.\\nSchell, (*oorge.\\nTattorsall, Christopher.\\nTan 1 8, Jacob.\\nTattersall. Daniel.\\nTerhnne, Stephen.\\nTerhnne. John A.\\nTfrwllligir, James H.\\nThurston, Aiithniiy.\\nVan Dermasl, Krleii.\\nVan Derhook, Henry.\\nVan Dervleet, Marine.\\nVnu Iderallnr, Henry J.\\nVreelanil, Benjamin P.\\nVan Deliiidii, Samuel.\\nVan Idomline, Henry H.\\nWlllium. Fn^torirk.\\nWhUmi,. John.\\nWharton, John.\\nTermnce. Andrew.\\nT\u00c2\u00abrance, ChrlHtopher.\\nT\u00c2\u00abmnc\u00c2\u00ab, Garret.\\nCompany H.\\nSfTgtamtt.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\\\%K, Gilbert D. Bogert; 24l, George J.Greer.\\niViro/ei.\\nAlliiioii, John W. Brown. Gettrge Bl.\\nAdams, Henry K.\\nBogTt, William.\\nUrowcr, Jtdin.\\nBooth. Thomas.\\nBrlnkerhufT, Henry K.\\nBush, John, Jr.\\nBonham, George.\\nBogert, John II.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0184.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n143\\nClifford, Williani.\\nDiitL-htT, Jacob.\\nDoyle, Richard A.\\nFarmer, Frank.\\nGardioer, Nelson.\\nHeudersoii, Robert.\\nHudson, John.\\nHickley, Edward.\\nHiggiris, Thooiaa.\\nHaltmen, Albert.\\nHunt, George W,\\nIdell, Francis A.\\nJordan, Thomaa.\\nJordan, Jiihn J.\\nKirk, Thomas.\\nKearney, John G.\\nLuther, Allen.\\nLiddone, Andrew.\\nMcKann, James.\\nMeaner, August.\\nOlder, John.\\nPierson, David.\\nPeterson, Anson R.\\nParks, James.\\nStalherg, Lewis.\\nShuters, Barney.\\nSinglar, Theodore.\\nSelfuyler, Richard.\\nSanderson, James.\\nSmith, Timothy.\\nScott, John (missing).\\nVan Wagoner, JoeL\\nWagoner, Peter.\\nCompany I.\\nSergeants.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 UU John A. Van Buskirk 2d, William C. Herring; 3d, Garret\\nI. Demarest; 4th, John B. Kip 5th, John J. De Mott.\\nCorporals.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I bt, Adriance Van Brunt; 2d, David Bogert 3d, Alexander\\nL. Orser; 4th, Garret Fordon 5th, Peter M. Johnson; 6th, Wil-\\nliam Galfield 7th, Alonzo Baker; 8th, David N. Dune.\\nDrummer. James A. Ferdon.\\nTeamster. James H. Demarest.\\nPrivate,\\nAckerson, Edward.\\nAckernan, Peter.\\nAnthony, Peter.\\nAtkin, T. W. C.\\nBlauvelt, Abraham.\\nBlauvelt, Samuel D.\\nBlauvelt, John D.\\nBeers, Darius M.\\nBaker, John A.\\nBrinkerhoff, John D.\\nBlanch, William.\\nBai r, Charles.\\nBauta, John H.\\nCole, Abraiiam A.\\nConklin, Abuer.\\nCoQsilyea. John D.\\nCooper, Curneliua C.\\nCuzine, Walter.\\nDougherty, George.\\nDemarest, David.\\nDemarest, Vreeland.\\nDemarest, Henry G.\\nDemarest, Abraham.\\nDemarest, Frederick J.\\nDe Bann, .\\\\hraham.\\nDe Mott.J. B.\\nDavis, William C.\\nDutcher, John.\\nDobbs, Henry.\\nDobbs, Warren.\\nFredon. William.\\nFredon, Abraham.\\nFetheringhitm, S.\\nGalloway. Gilbert I.\\nGreen, David.\\nHerring, Jacob.\\nHerring, Henry.\\nHerring, Juhn N.\\nHerring, Tunis A.\\nHerring, David E.\\nJones, John E.\\nJones, Samuel A.\\nKip, Joliu H.\\nKip, Isaac.\\nLewis, John C.\\nLawrence, George H.\\nLozier, Daniel W.\\nMeyers, Thomaa.\\nMeyers, Cornelius.\\nMcLean, Adam.\\nMartin, Hampton.\\nPowela, David.\\nPiftt els, Matthew.\\nPowela, Jacob.\\nParker, Henry G.\\nPost, Henry.\\nQuarry, John.\\nRyder, Peter B.\\nShea, Andrew J.\\nSanderson, Levi.\\nSanderson, Eugene.\\nSmith, Robert N.\\nSmith, Richard C.\\nSmith, Freeman P.\\nSmith, Gilbert S.\\nSwennerton, John A.\\nSpringer, William.\\nTruax, Isaiah.\\nTaylor, Moses.\\nVan Derbeck, C. H.\\nVan Valen, James N.\\nVoorhis, John H.\\nVoorhis, Jacob I.\\nVan Skiver, John J.\\nWilson, Samuel W.\\nWestervelt, James P.\\nWestervelt, Jasper.\\nWilley, Andrew J.\\nWyvill, Samuel W,\\nWhite, David.\\nZabriskie, James A.\\nCompany K.\\nSergeants.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \\\\^X, Albert Forbnsh 2d, George A. Wood 3d, Abyah Smith\\n4th, Peter Burdett; oth, Henry F. Edsall.\\nCorpora/s.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ist, John S. Townsenfl, Jr. 2d, Williani Cowperthwaite; 3d,\\nAlfred Debevios; 4th, Abel S. Edsall 5th, Emanuel G.Gismond; 6th,\\nJosiah M. Tompson 7th, Court L. Vauderbeck 8th, George P. Jen-\\nkins.\\nArmstrong, James.\\nAnderson, Robert.\\nAnderson, John W.\\nBenson, Robert W.\\nBeckwith, Frederick A.\\nBurditt, Francis.\\nBiechelar, Leopold.\\nBiechelar, Leonard.\\nBiechler, Albert.\\nBrower, M. J.\\nBurditt, John F.,Jr.\\nBagley, Josiah.\\nBagert, Edwin J.\\nBailey, J. S.\\nBuckley, J. H.\\nChristie, John H.\\nCozine, Tiiaddeus S.\\nCampbell, Arthur.\\nCollum, W. C.\\nCreamer, Frederick.\\nConnolly, John.\\nDods, Henry, Jr.\\nDean, James.\\nDemarest, B. S.\\nEbbs, Charles T.\\nEari, Pliilip.\\nEarl, Matthias.\\nFelton, Eli H.\\nGreen, John H.\\nGouches, George.\\nGlaeear, Matthew.\\nHartnian, Wni.\\nIdell, Jatnes 0.\\nJohnson, John E.\\nJohnson, W. J.\\nKeenan, James.\\nKelly, Wni.\\nKelly, Pittrick.\\nKelly, James.\\nKline, Cliarlea.\\nKlink, Nicholas.\\nKyle, Samuel.\\nKey. Wm.\\nLynch, Patrick.\\nLyons, James.\\nMabey, John J.\\nMcDonald, G. W.\\nMabey, Abel S.\\nMachaer, Alois,\\nMoore, Thomaa.\\nMaguire, A.\\nMaceley, David,\\nNiser, Martin.\\nPost, Theodore.\\nProsser, Wm.\\nProBser, John.\\nRaymond, James.\\nRapp, David.\\nSpringer. Charles W.\\nScudder, George W.\\nSullivan, Nicholaa.\\nSmith, Robert R.\\nSouoaar, Wm.\\nSefferein, Lewis.\\nStable, Ralph.\\nSipp, Richard.\\nScott, Walter.\\nSedore, A.\\nTaylor, C. W.\\nTouaey, J. W.\\nVan Derbeck, John.\\nVan Zee, Wm.\\nWestervelt, H.\\nWood, John.\\nWood, A. J.\\nWilliamson, H.\\nWalling, A.\\nWharer, George S.\\nPromotion.*.\\nMaj. Abraham G. Demarest, promoted to colonel Jan. 26, 1863,\\nCapt. Abraham Van Emburg, promoted to lieutenant-colonel, vice Alex-\\nander Douglass, resigned, Feb. 20, 1863.\\nCapt. Samuel D. Demarest, promoted to major Feb. 20, 1863.\\nFirst Lieut. Jacoi) Post, promoted to adjutant Jan, 1, 1863.\\nAssist.-Surg. William S. Janney, promoted to surgeon March 27, 1863\\ndied of typhoid fever in camp near White Oak Church, Va., June 1,\\n1863.\\nSecond Lieut. Jacob S. Lozier, promoted to captain Jan. 16, 1863.\\nFirst. Lieut. Joseph A. Blauvelt, promoted to captain May 18,1863.\\nSecond Lieut. George Kingsland, promoted to fiist lieutenant Nov. 20,\\n1862.\\nSecond Lieut. James Christie, promoted to captain May 18, 1863.\\nSecond Lieut. Benjamin Z. Van Emburg, promoted to captain Feb. 21,\\n1863.\\nSecond Lieut. Joseph Vreeland, promoted to captain Feb. 22, 1863.\\nSergt. Stephen G. Hopper, promoted to fii-st lieutenant March 11, 1863.\\nFirst Sergt. Garret M. Campbell, promoted to second lieutenant Jan. 16,\\n1863.\\nCorp. Richard A. Terhune, promoted to second lieutenant March 11, 1863.\\nSergt. Milton Birley, promoted to first sergeant Sept. 1, 1862.\\nFirst Sergt. John A. Van Buskiik. promoted to first lieutenant Sept. 2,\\n1862.\\nFirst Sergt. Albert Forbush. promoted to first lieutenant May 18, 1863.\\nFirst Sergt. Gilbert T. Bogert, promoted to second lieutenant Nov. 20,\\n1862, and to first lieutenant May 18, 1863.\\nSergt. George A. Ward, promoted to first sergeant Jan. 1, 1863,\\nFirst Sergt. Andrew Van Emburg, promoted to first lieutenant Feb. 21,\\n1863, and to capfciin May 18, 1863.\\nSergt. Charles Van Riper, promoted to first lieutenant May 18, 1863.\\nSergt. Thomas Eckerson, promoted to first sergeant March 8, 1863.\\nCorp. John S. Townaend, promoted to sergeant June 1, 1863.\\nCorp. William Cowperthwaite, promoted to sergeant Jan. 1, 1863.\\nCorp. Nicholaa P. Royce, promoted to sergeant Feb. 4, 1863.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0185.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "144\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCorp. Coroelius Vkd Horn, promotod to sergeant March 11, 1863.\\nCorp. George Brinkerhuff, promoted to sergeant March 11, 1863.\\nCorp. Aarun Vaiiderbeck, promoted to sergeant March 18, 1863.\\nCorp. Abraham II. Hopper, promoted to sergeant March 16, 1863.\\nCorp. DaTtd J. Dlackledge, promoted to sergeant .\\\\pnl 7, 1863.\\nPrivate Peter L. onklin, promoted to second lieutenant Feb. 22, 1863.\\nCorp. Isaac D. Bogert, promoted to sergeant March 1, 1863.\\nPrivate Cornelius Koert, promoted to corporal March 1, 1863.\\nDied.\\nBogert, David, of typhoid fever, at Belle Plain, Va., April 6, 1863.\\nBeers, Darius, typhoid fever. Belle Plain, Va., .^pril 6, 1863.\\nBrinkerhotr, Henry K in camp at Belle Plain, Vo., Feb. 22, 1863.\\nCampbell, Theodore, found dead on the road May 1, 1863; buried Id Na-\\ntional Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Va.\\nConklin, John E., remittent fever, camp Dear Belle Plain, Va., March 6,\\n1863.\\nConklin, .\\\\aron. disease of the brain, in camp, Feb. 5, 1863.\\nDikeman, William II., inflammation of the brain, at Belle Plain, Va.,\\nMarch 2, 1863.\\nDe Baun, Abraham, typhoid fever. Belle Plain, Va., Feb. 22, 1863.\\nDe Mott, Jehn B., tjplii|Jd fever, camp near Georgetown, D. C, Nov. 22,\\n1862.\\nDntcher, John H., typhoid fever. Belle Plain, Va., March 30, 1863.\\nEvemon, Beiyamiu, typhoid fever. Belle Plain, Va., Feb. 23, 1863.\\nFarmer, Francis, typhoid fever. Belle Plain, Vo., March 26, 1863.\\nGardiner, Nelson, typhoid fever. Belle Plain, Va., March 15, 1863.\\nBarring, Johff P., typhoid fever, C. S. A. Hosp., Washington, D. C,\\nMarch 26, 18631\\nHopper. John A.- typhoid fever, U. S. A. Hosp., Washington, D. May\\n24, 1863.\\nHugheir, Abraham, typhoid fever, U. S. A. Hosp., Waahington.D. C, Feb.\\n27, 1863.\\nKent, Cornelius J., typhoid fever, U. S. A. Hosp., Washington, D. C,\\nApril 30, 1863; buried in National Cemetery, Fre terickHblirg, Va.\\nOsborn, William A., died at Div. Hosp., Aquia Creek, Va., April 23,1863\\nSump, John D at lien. Hosp., Washington, D. C, Dec. 25, 1862.\\nTerwjlliger, James II., typhoid fever, Kogt. Hoep., Belle Plain, Va., March\\n24,1863.\\nThompson, James R., typhoid fever, Regt. Hoep., Belle Plain, Va Feb.\\n25.1863.\\nTonrney, John, Th-owned in the Delaware at Philadelphia, June 19,1863.\\nWeelervelt, jKiiilii, dieil ul Wiiidiuill Polnl, Ta., April 29, 1863.-\\nWood, Abraham, tjrpjioid fever. Belle Plain, Vo., March 10, 1803.\\nCHAPTER XXXII.\\nBERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OP\\nTHE REBELMOX\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Continuod).\\nTwenty-fifth Regpiment.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 )[i the 4th of August,\\n18 )1, tlip I rcsidfiil I.I the IJnitccl .States ninde a lirafl\\nupon the Governor of New .Jersey for ten thousand\\nfour hundred and seventy-eight men to serve for nine\\nmonths unless sooner discharged. The draft was not\\nto interfere with the regular recruiting, but nil enlist-\\nmenti up to Sept, 1, lSti2, were to lie credited to the\\nState. It wius thought (h-.siralile to rai.se the |Ucitji hy\\nvoluntary enlistment and so avoid the draft accord-\\ningly a number of earnest men addre-ssed themselves\\nto the work, and by the 3d of September, 18t?2, the\\ntime appointed for the commencement of the draft,\\nthe State s quota wa.s filled ami accepted.\\nAmong tlic regiincntH raised under tliis impulse was\\nthe Twenty-fifth New .Jersey. Five companies of this\\nregiment were raised in the .southern part of the State,\\nand the remaining five in Passaic County. The latter\\nwere chiefly enlisted through the energetic labors of\\nCol. Andrew Derrom, who had been appointed chair-\\nman of the war committee of Patersou, intrusted\\nwith the raising of troops under the calls of 1862,\\nand through whose exertions, supported by those of\\nthe committee, the first quota of Passaic County was\\nfilled in fourteen days. In the call for tlie nine\\nmonths men he and his committee raised the ijuota\\nof the county five hundred men in two days, and\\nwere obliged to refuse many .who offered in excess of\\nthe required number. Desiring to see the five com-\\npanies properly placed, Col. Derrom proceeiled with\\nthem to Trenton, and succeeded in having them con-\\nsolidated with five companies from the southern part\\nof the State, then in camp at Beverly, N. J. The\\nofficers of the regiment thereupon unanimously\\nelected him colonel, and although his busines.s that\\nof an architect and builder needed his personal\\nsuperintendence, he promptly accepted, joined the\\ncommand on two days notice, addressed himself at\\nonce with vigor and enthusiasm to the work of pro-\\nmoting the discipline of the regiment, and remained\\nwith it during its entire period of service, discharging\\nwith marked promptness and efficiency every duty\\nlaid upon him.\\nThe field and stafl of the Twenty-fiftli Regiment\\nNew Jersey Volunteers were as follows:\\nColonel, Andrew Derrom, architect and builder,\\nPaterson, N. J. commissioned September. 1862\\nmustered in Sept.^29, 1862; mustered out June 20,\\n1863.\\nLieutenant-Colonel, K. J. Ayres, grocer, Paterson,\\nN. J.; commissioned Sept. 1, 1862; mustered in Sept.\\n29, 1862; mustered out June 20, 1863.\\nMajor, J. Kelly Brown, mirserynian, Camden, N. J.\\ncommissioned September, 1862; mustered in Sept. 29,\\n1862; must, out June 20, 186.\\nAdjutant, Daniel B, Murphy, mechanic, Camden,\\nN. J. commissioned September. 1862 mustered in\\nSept. 29, 1862 dismissed. Columbus Force, Oct. 15,\\n1862 Dec. 2. 1862. Charles J. Field, tobacconist,\\nCamden; commissioned Sept., 1862; mustered out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\n(iuartermiuster, James Inglis, Jr., stationer, Pater-\\nson, N. J. commissioned September, 1862 mustered\\nin Sept. 29, 1862; mustered out June 20, 1863.\\nSurgeon, James Reiley, .M,D,, Morristown, N. J,;\\ncommissioned Sept.. 1862; mustered in Sept. 29,\\n1862; mustered out June 20, 1863.\\nFirst Assistant Surgeon, Robert McBateman. M.D.,\\nBridgeton, N. J.; commissioned Sept., 1862; mus-\\ntered in Sept. 29, 1862; mustered out June 20. 1863.\\nSecond As-sistant Surgeon, Seflriiie Daily, M.D.,\\nNewark, N, J,; commissioned Sept,, 1862; mustered\\nin Sept. 20, 1862; mu.sU red out June 2ii, 1863.\\nChaplain, Francis K. Butler, Presbyterian, Pater-\\nson, N. J.; commissioned Sept., 1862; mustered in\\nSept. 29, 1862; mortally wounded at Sulfolk; died\\nMay, 1863. John H. Robinson, Methodist, Paterson,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0186.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "COL. ANDREW DERROM.\\nc^^^^yf\\nCol. Andrkw Perrom was boru on\\nNov. 30, 1S17, wliile his father was in\\nthe military service of the British\\npnveriiment. His parents were Rich-\\nart! and Mary (Winders) Derrom, the\\nformer of wliom was Ixirn near Man-\\nchester, Enpland, and the latler at\\nLeeiis. Kichard Derrom passed his\\nlife in the service of hit* country,\\n6pendiiig a portion of the time in tlie\\narmy and at other times in the civil\\nbrancli of the service.\\nCol. Derrom was the second of the\\nsix children who grew to years of\\nmaturity. His earliest recollections\\nextend back to the year 1820 or 1821,\\nwhen his father was stationed on the\\nisland of Malta, where important\\nfortifications were lieing constructed.\\nHe remembers also having resided on\\nthe isle of Corfu, and on that of Zaut.\\nfamous for tin* beauty and splendor of\\nits gardens. When fix years of age\\nlie resided on tlie island of Cepha-\\nloniii.at Argostoli^ where he received\\nhis earlitst instiuction at a in-ivate\\nschool, and also special lessons in\\nwriting at the military clerk a office\\nof the department. Here also he\\nreceived moral and religions instruc-\\ntion from Rev. Dr. Kennedy and wife,\\nmissionaries of the English Church,\\nat whose house he was often accus-\\ntomed tit meet Lord Byron, who was\\non the island training Ins army of\\nsilver-bespangled Suliols foi- bi de-\\nscent on Greece. In 1S24 he was\\ntaken to England, and attended a pri-\\nvate school at Plymouth for some\\nmonths, and subsequently received\\ninstruction at the grammar-school of\\nthe same place. He next attended\\nthe grammar-school attached to St.\\nJohn s Church, Glasgow, Scotland,\\nand after that resided at diffoient\\npoints in Ireland, and finally at Lon-\\ndonderry, where his father was stationed in the civil service, and where\\nhe attended Creigliton s Grammar-School, situated on the wall above\\nGovernor Walker s testimonial. For three years thereafter he was\\ninstructed by a private tutor in connection with his brothers, James\\nand John, the former of whom is an architect and nuyor of the Victoria\\nRifles, ill New Zealand, where the family finally located, and where both\\nRichard Derrom and his wife died.\\nAfter leaving Londonderry, in 1S34, Col. Derrom went to Deal, Kiig-\\nland, where he studied higher mathematics with a friend, a branch of\\nscience in which he took great delight, it being his intentitni to tit\\nhimself for the profession of a civil and military engineer. In IH M he\\nleft Deal for the United States, mainly for travel and to bett -r prepare\\nhimself for his profession, and upon arriving in this country entered\\na lithognipher s office, having commenced at as early an age as eight\\nyears to study drawing, and being an adept at both that and coloring.\\nIn November, \\\\8 iG, he came to Patersun, where he found employment\\nunder C. S. Van Wagoner to survey, lay out, and map the city, etc. He\\nmade the first map of Passaic city also, for John Lloyd, an old resident\\nof that place. In March, lS i7, for the purpose of obtaining a |)raclical\\nknowledge of architecture, he apprenticed himself to a carpenter and\\nbuilder in Paterson, and after three years was placed in charge of the\\nbusiness. Prior to this, however, he had been in charge of the books\\nand of the drawing department. In 1844 he began busiiie.sa on bis own\\nacciMuit in Pa erson,and carried on one of the largest building enter-\\nprises in the State until the breaking out of the war in 1861, when,\\nowing to his early military education and his admitted executive ability,\\nhe was chosen chairman of the war committee to raise troops, and suc-\\nceeded in filling the several quotas of soldiere without the necessity of\\na draft, in one instance within three weeks. In 1802, when President\\nLincoln called for 300,0(\u00c2\u00bb0 men, and ;JOn,fiUO more, making COO,(iiiU in\\nall, a draft was ordered if the quota was not filled by volunteers. Col.\\nDerrom, by energetic appeals to the patriotism of the people, seconded\\nby his active personal exeitions, succeeded in mising the quota for Pat-\\nerson within three days. Failing in his efforts to have Passaic County\\nsoldiei-8 commanded by Passaic men, it was arranged to have a regiment\\nformed composed of five companies from Paterson and five from the\\nsouthern section of New Jersey, of which he was unanimously elected\\ncolonel. He received his commission from the Governor, and was mus-\\ntered into the service of tlie United States on Sept. 29, 1S62. In a few-\\ndays he had the regiment\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Twenty-fifth New Jersey Infantry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in\\nperfect order ami discipline, and proceeded to the seat of war in October\\nfollowing. On arriving at Wiisbington he wsis appointed to conmiand\\na brigade of Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Jersey titiops; hut ex-\\npressing a desire to do duty with his own regiment, many of wluun had\\nbeen induced to enlist by him, lie resumed his duties as colonel. The\\nregiment performed valuable service in the field, and participated in a\\nnumber of important engagements. At the battle of Fredericksburg,\\nafter the day was really lost, the regiment, with Col. Derrom at its head,\\nwas the only one to advance to the enemy s works at the time, and the\\nnight being dark was controlled by the whistle-calls of it-* leader alone.\\nThroughout his entire service in the field Col. Derrom earned the warm\\napproval and indoi-sement of his superior officers, ami performed his\\nduties in a soldierly and successful manner. His engineering talents\\ncame into active play upon the occiision of the attack of Longstreet\\nupon Sufl olk, Va., in 1862, when, within eight hours, roadi were built\\nand bridges constructed over Broer s Creek under his supenision and\\ndirection, prevontingadetour of five miles and bringing the troop i on the\\nNansemoud River into close and rapid commuuicatiou with each other\\nanil with Suffolk, contiibuting essen-\\ntially to the successful termination of\\nthe siege.\\nAfter the expiration of the regular\\nterm of service, Od. Derrom returned\\nto Paterson, expecting to rejoin the\\narmy with his regiment reorganized\\nas veterans but he found his private\\nbusiness afTairs in such a disastrous\\ncondition that it was necessary for him\\nto remain at home and look after the\\ninterests of his family. Within three\\nyearshe restored his business, paid all\\nindebtedness, ami employed from four\\nhundred to i lVQ hundred men. For\\nyears he had vi\\\\e of the largest build-\\ning enterprises in the country, and\\nmany of the nuuiufaeturing, public,\\nand private building:^ in Paterson\\nwere designed and built by him, in-\\neluding such structures as the Dale,\\nAiU\\\\\\\\ 1 ight, Kmpire, Waverly. aiul\\nl rauUIiii Mills. In many of the fac-\\ntoii\u00c2\u00ab Sid the city, after the adoption\\nof the tariff provisions of 1842, he de-\\nsigned and built the machinery with\\nthe assistinco of expert mechanics.\\nHe was the first in the United States\\nlo make ct^mplete sectional buildings\\nthat could bo built iu one place and\\ntransported to another and put up,\\nand received a bronze medal from the\\nAmerican Institute Fair in 1862 for\\nhis mechanical genius, and in 1872\\nboth a silver and special gold medal\\nfrom the New Jersey State Fair at\\nWaverly. In 1870, having acquired\\na handsome competency, he retired\\nfrom active business, and established\\nthe Derrom Buil^liug Company, put-\\nting in seventy-five thousand dollare\\nof liis caiiital, and adding more from\\ny y W\\\\xi i to time. The corporate enter-\\n^\\\\,jC0^i\\\\,yK.y prise was at finst very successful, but\\nowing to the approaching business\\ndei)ression, signs of which had al-\\nready begun to appear, it met with subsequent disasters, and finally col-\\nlapsed. Even at this critical time Col. Derrom did not hesitate to take\\nof his private means to liquidate the indebtedness of the concerji. Ho\\nwas subsequently invited to go to Caracas, Venezuela, where he estab-\\nlished large construction shops on the American system, and filled the\\nposition of supervisor and architect for nearly four years. He returned\\nin 1879, and is now with his sons, Andrew and James A. Derrom, in\\ntheir business as sttpervising architects, in Pntefson.\\nBesides his success ius a mechanical engineer and as a commanding\\nofficer of brave soldiers in the field. Col. Derropi h.as been since his first\\nresidence in Paterson one of its most active and useful public men, and\\nhas been closely identified with many of the improvements and institu-\\ntions of the city. From 186S to 1872 he purchased and developed the\\nwhole of -the east side of the city, laying out lots and streets, building\\nhouses, and rendering that section attractive and desiiable as a plare of\\nresidence.\\nHe was also instrumental iu establishing the People s Park on Matl-\\nison Avenue, and in developing other sections of the city. In poli-\\nIic.- he wa.s originally an Old-Line Whig, but since the organization of\\nthe Republican party ha- acted almost entirely with that party. Upon\\nthe first organization of the municipal government of Paiei on he was\\nelecteil alderman from the West Ward, and took a prominent part in per-\\nfi?cting the city government. He drew most of the ordinances passeil\\nby the board (in the rough), and his services were especially vabiable in\\nthe arranging and correcting of street grades and lines. He was elected\\nto.serve asecond term in the board from the same ward. In 1853 he was\\nchosen president of the City Council of Patereori ns an independent can-\\ndid tie, a position that was equivalent to mayor, and in which only two\\nolliers had preceded him, viz.. Judge Philemon Dickerson and Charles\\nDanforth. During his administration of municipal aftairs taxes were\\nlight, expenses small, and the debt of the city not only reduced, but a\\nbalance left In the treasury. In 1854, under a law suggested by liim, a\\nbill was passed by the Legislature of New Jerijey to correct the sellingof\\nllic schoid children to the person who would teach the greatest number\\nlor the lesist money. In the spring, under this law, Col. Derrom, as its\\nfather, was appointed the fii-st president of the board of education and\\nsuperintendent of public schools, and it was he mainly who had the organ-\\nizing and perfecting of the public school system of Paterson. He re-\\nnniined witli the board for five years, and so thoi ongli were the public\\nschools that private schools could not be sustained against them. Col. Der-\\nnun has also been actively connected with other loc;il institutions of Pat-\\ners Hi; was the fii-st vice-president of the savings-hank and of the Passaic\\nWater Company, and in church matters has been for a number of years\\nan elder in the Fit st Presbyterian Church. He was formerly a very active\\nsupporter of the Sabbath-school cause, wiis for a number of years a lead-\\ning superintendent of tlie Sal bath-school of that church, and during the\\nseventeen years of his connection with the Fii-st Dutch Reformed Church\\nwas an active worker in the Sabbath-school and choir. He was married in\\n1842 to Elizabeth Vreeland,a representative of some of the fii st settlera of\\nPaterson. The childi en have been four in number, viz., Andrew, James\\nA., Mary L., wifeof Casiano San tana, a banker of Caracas, Venezuela, and\\nElizabeth M. N. Derrom. Miss Jennie L. Derrom is an adopted daughter,\\nanil occupies a chei ishnd jdace in the household of which she forms a part.\\nAndrew and James A. Derrom are carrying on the business of architects\\nand superintendents at No. 209 Main Street, the firm-name being A. Der-\\nrom, Jr., Co. Col. Derrom is a prominent member of the orders of Free-\\nmasonrv and Odd-Fellowship, and has held a number of high oflSces in the\\nlatter.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0187.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0188.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "BEKGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 145\\nN. J. mustered in Sept. 29, 1862 mustered out June\\n20, 1863.\\nSergeant-Major, Charles J. Field, tobacconist, Cam-\\nden, N. J. mustered in Sept. 29, 1862 promoted to\\nadjutant; mustered out June 20, 1863. Granville\\nLeach, Cape May, N. J. mustered in Sept. 29, 1862\\npromoted lieutenant mustered out June 20, 1863.\\nCharles Thiskett, Passaic, N. J.\\nQuartermaster-Sergeant, John Murchamp, clerk,\\nCamden, N. J. mustered in Sept. 29, 1862 mustered\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nCommissary-Sergeant, J. R. Putnam, lawyer, Pat-\\nerson, N. J. mustered in Sept. 29, 1862; mustered\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nHospital Steward, James Van Blarcom,\u00c2\u00bb lawyer,\\nPaterson, N. J. mustered in Sept. 29, 1862 mustered\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nAssistant Hospital Steward, George Gravelius,\\nbarber, Paterson, N. J. mustered in Sept. 29, 1862\\nmustered out June 20, 1863.\\nDrum-Major, A. J. Williams, cigar-maker, West\\nMilford, N. J. mustered in Sept. 29, 1862 mustered\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nFi w officers in the service were better qualified than\\nCol. Derrom both as an organizer and disciplinarian.\\nFor a short time he was placed in command of the\\nbrigade with which his regiment was organized, the\\nFirst Brigade of Casey s division, consisting of the\\nTwenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh New Jersey, the\\nTwelfth and Thirteenth Vermont, and the Twelfth\\nMassachusetts Battery.\\nThe regiment left camp at Beverly on the 10th of\\nOctober, 1862, and arrived in Washington on the fol-\\nlowing day, going into camp on Capitol Hill. Here\\nthe brigading took place, and the assignment of Col.\\nDerrom temporarily to the command of the brigade.\\nFor a short time in November the regiment was as-\\nsigned to detached picket duty at Fairfax Seminary,\\nVirginia, then, on the 30th, commenced their eighty-\\nmile march to Liverpool Point, opposite Aquia Creek,\\nwhence they were transported across the Potomac\\nand proceeded to Falmouth. Here, though wearied\\nby a long march, the regiment was no sooner brigaded\\nanew with the First Brigade, Third Division, Ninth\\nArmy Corps, than the tocsin sounded for active ser-\\nvice, and they were with Burnside in the famous\\nFredericksburg engagement. The Ninth Corps,\\nsays an account of this action, lying immediately\\nopposite Fredericksburg, was particularly exposed to\\nthe enemy s fire, but crossed with great gallantry, the\\nFirst Brigade of the Third Division being the second\\nto occupy the place, one of its regiments crossing\\nsome time before the bridges were laid. The Twenty-\\nfifth, immediately upon reaching the south bank,\\nthrew out pickets along the streets, and so remained\\nuntil the morning of the 13th, when the Ninth Corps\\nwent into action. The duty before this corps was\\narduous and dangerous, being to attack the enemy\\nadvantageously posted in the woods and hills lying\\nback of Fredericksburg, and where he had con-\\nstructed formidable earthworks which were defended\\nby numerous batteries. The odds were fearful, but\\nthe brave troops of the Ninth pushed steadily forward,\\nclearing their way to a plain at the foot of the first\\nridge. There the order was given to storm the\\nenemy s works, and two divisions advanced to the\\nperilous task, marching dauntless across the plain\\nuntil within a dozen or twenty rods of the ridge.\\nThen the rebel infantry, stationed behind a stone\\nwall, opened a murderous fire. For a moment the\\nhead of the column was thrown into confusion, but\\nrallying, it was reinforced, and again moved forward.\\nBut the attempt to dislodge the enemy was vain.\\nFrom the moment the brave columns left the shelter\\nof the ravine where they had formed for the assault\\nuntil they reached the foot of the hill the rebel ar-\\ntillery and infantry poured a terrific concentrated fire\\nupon the advancing line, and again it came to a halt,\\nthen broke and retired. But now, the situation grow-\\ning desperate, Getty s division of the Ninth Corps,\\nincluding the Twenty-fifth, was ordered up, and\\ncharged directly upon the intrenchments at the Tele-\\ngraph road near the Marye House, the Jerseymen\\nforming the centre of the attacking force. Pushing\\nsteadily forward a distance of some eight hundred\\nyards, over fences, ravines, and swamps, the regiment,\\njust at dusk, then alone charged with a cheer to a\\nplateau only fifty paces from the wall held by the\\nenemy, exposed all the way to a murderous fire, but\\nbravely pressing on and holding their advanced po-\\nsition. But this was but for a little time. At length,\\nthe supports having fallen back, and the darkness\\nrendering it impossible any longer to manreuvre with\\nsafety, the enemy, moreover, having perfect com-\\nmand of the position, the regiment was reluctantly\\nwithdrawn, still, however, fighting gallantly, and\\npouring in volleys of musketry as it fell back. By\\nthis time other parts of the line had also been finally\\ndriven back, and the enemy having reoccupied his\\nadvanced position, the Twenty-fifth, with its division,\\nbivouacked on the ground from which it had moved\\nto the assault. The loss of the regiment in this battle\\nwas nine killed, fifty-eight wounded, and eighteen\\nmissing. The conduct of the men was excellent\\nthroughout, being much more steady, indeed, than\\nthat of some of the other regiments. The following\\ncongratulatory order, dated Bivouac, Street of Fred-\\nericksburg, was issued by the colonel commanding\\non the day after the engagement\\nI. Tlie colonel conimantling takes great pleasure in giving credit to\\nthe officers and men in general of this regiment engaged in the action\\nof yesterday. Their coolness under the trying circumstances in which\\nthey were placed stamps them as worthy comrades of tiie veterans of\\nthe army.\\nII. Tlie few who in the time of danger skulked from tlu ir duty to\\ntheir country will in due time receive tlieir reward.\\nIII. Tlie noble men whom we have lust (killed in action) we mourn\\nfor, and sympathize with their families in their affliction while we hope\\nthat tlieir and our loss will be the eternal gain of our late comrades.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0189.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "146\\nHISTOKY OF BERCKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nIV. In coDgratulntiug all on the ttold front tho rfgimrnt displayed,\\nand for our preaenration from greater loas under the terrlDc Are of the\\nenemy, It If proper that we should render thanks unto God for His mer-\\nciful prorideiice.\\nAsi RKW Derbom, Colontt Comm\u00c2\u00bbHding\\nIt is not our purpose to follow the regiment through\\nall its movements. After remaining in the old camp j\\nat Falmouth until early in February, 1863, the regi-\\nment was transl irred to Newport News, and thence\\non the 13th of March to Sutt olk, Va., where it en-\\ncamped a siiort distance Irom the Dismal Swamp,\\nnear Fort Jericho, a work commanding the railroad\\nrunning to Portsmouth. In April the enemy, some\\nthirty thousand strong, liaving crossed the Black-\\nwater and taken |)ositioii in our front, the regiment\\nwas put into the iiitrenchnicnt i, a i)ortion manning\\nthe completed works, while others constructed new\\ndefenses, built bridges, and opened necessary roads. I\\nThe purpose of Longstreet seemed to be to cross the\\nNansemond, overwhelm the garrison, seize the roads\\nto Norfolk and cut off the Federal su|)i)lies. This\\nwould have placed botli Norfolk and Porlsniouth at\\nthe mercy of the rebels. It was therefore imperative\\nthat the position of our forces on the Nansemond\\nshould be inflexibly maintained. This involved the\\ncommand of the river for a distance of eight miles,\\nbordered by lagoons and marshes which could only\\nbe rendered p!is.sable for troops and reinforcements\\nby the construction of long roads, bridges, and cause-\\nwaj s. This work, at once arduous and important,\\nwas performed largely by the Twenty-filth New Jersey,\\nwhile the bridges were in almost every instance con-\\nstructed under the direction of Col. Derrom. Two\\nof these bridges, one over liroer s Creek, near Sullolk,\\nand the other over Jericho Creek, were not only built\\nbut designed by the colonel, and were constructed\\nalmost entirely without tools, the workmen using only\\nwood-axes, one auger, and one small chisel. Each\\nbridge was built in from five to ten hours, and though\\nsubjected to the severest tests, columns of troojts,\\ntrains of loaded wagons, and the heaviest field ord-\\nnance and siege-pieces repeatedly crossing over them,\\nthey stood unshaken.\\nA writer, giving an account of these works, says,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe lirlclge o\u00c2\u00bbcr Uroor s Crti-k, over aoTonl.v feet In length, and the\\nfoundation resting on a muddy Lottum In ten feet of water, was thrown\\nacross In Bto houm, the whole stnioture, Inrluding the .ultlng down of\\nthe Unilmr and thi. cordur.)) Ing of tho npprom line Ihnaigh a thick wood,\\nbeing coniplol.d In Iom than a dajr with a dotall of sixty men. Col.\\nDerrom appears to havi. \u00e2\u0096\u00a0ugg|.al l this whole \u00c2\u00bby\u00c2\u00bbl.ni of roads anil\\nbridges, by nifaus of whiih, mainly. I/ongatreot was ihickmated,\\nA latter from Oen. fietty to Gol. Derrom says, More c-8|\u00c2\u00bbcl\u00c2\u00ablly were\\nyour suggeatlons on the subjwl of military hri.lges of value. The bridgra\\nconstnicted by you, and aft.-r your own Invention, oror llmiT s Cn ek,\\nduring the siege of Suffolk, In April last, were of the greatest Import-\\nance. Thiuwn with great rapidity, ond at a critical niomenl, by cutting\\nolTa detour of Ave mlle\u00c2\u00ab, anil thus bringing the lriHi|\u00c2\u00ab on the Nanse-\\nmonil Hirer Inbi cloa.! and rapid rommunicjitlon with ikcIi other and\\nwith SulTolk, they contril.iite l essentially to the succmsful termination\\nof the siege.*\\nAfter the abandonment of the siege by l^ongstreet,\\nthe Twenty-fifth Regiment built a fort near Sufl olk,\\nwhich Gen. Uetty, in compliment to the State, named\\nFort New Jersey. The loss of the regiment during\\nthe siege was small, two killed and nine wounded.\\nAmong the former was Chaplain Rutler. who was\\nmortally wounded while moving about the field, al-\\nleviating the sufferings of the wounded soldiers. He\\nwas a man of the most exalted character and the\\npurest patriotism, and was universally beloved by the\\nmen in who.se service he so bravely died.\\nThe regiment having completed its term of service\\nreturned home, and was mustered out on the 20th of\\nJune, 1863. (See record of the ofticers and men in the\\nregiment from Passaic County in a subsequent chap-\\nter.)\\nComptiny A.- (John McKierxas, Captain.)\\nAckennan, Jacob, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 2 1883.\\nAnderson, Abraham, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, out Juuf 20, 18(0.\\nAngiB,John,privale, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,1863.\\nAttenborough, Samuel, private, enl. Sept. 1. 1862: musL out June 20,\\n1863.\\nAvison, Jeremiah, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out June 20, 18C3.\\nBohen, Jamea. corp, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; wounded in the head at battle of\\nFredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862; rejoined company for duty March\\n22, 1863; must, out June 20, I\u00c2\u00bbM.\\nBotI, Frederick, con enl. Sept. 1, I8C2; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nBoyd, William, private, enl. Sept. 1. 1862; must. out June 2fl,186\\nBoyle, Jame\u00c2\u00ab, private, enl. Sept 1, 1802 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nBurton, George, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nCampbell, John, wagoner, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nConartoD, Michael, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, ont June 1\u00c2\u00bb, IMS.\\nFrancis E. Butler was l*orn at Suffleld, Conn., on Feb. 1825. Be\\nwoa the i*oii of Asa Butler, u pupeT-nianufnctnrer of Suffleld, Conn., and\\nfor a numl er of yean* previoun to entering college was engaged In the\\noffice of the large papor-liouse of bis brothers, Henry V. and William\\nButler, in Sew York and I aterson, S. J. lie graduated with honorable\\ndistinction at Yale Colb-ge in the cla\u00c2\u00abs of 1857, and after studying di-\\nvinily at Princeton and at I nlon Theological Siniinary in Sew Y ork, he\\nbecame pastor of the CVmgregalional Church of Pater\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb n, where he re-\\nnkained till he elilentl tho service aj\u00c2\u00ab chaplain.\\nUe nianifeeted on all occasions the spirit and courage i f the tnie sad-\\ndler, OS well ai o( the faUhfiil bnpliilo. ofl.oi putting lilmself In |m\u00c2\u00bbIs of\\ndanger to do extra service over and aliove what the duties of his station\\nri-i)nired. It was In one of those situations, while taking care of wounded\\ncomrades on the Held, that he received the fatal shot which ended his\\nuseful and promising career. In all his relations Chaplnin Butler was a\\nman of high honor and of an exalted character. Ills people, whelher of\\nthe church or of the regiment, all love l and honored him, and his\\nmemory is greatly levered by his surviving frieii b.\\nIt is said, in explanation of the military knowUilge and enthusiasm\\nwhich Chaplain Butler lUsplayeil while in lliu army, llmt this was a s-irt\\nof april ill! corpn ImhllKil in early life, for when ipiile young, at home\\nin Suffleld, tijun., ho organlzeil and equipped a military coni| any of his\\nown, and drille.1 them in the tactics which he hiniself leariie.1 for that\\npurp\u00c2\u00ab ae. It is well known to those familiar with Ihe hlsloiy of the regi-\\nment that he rendereil lmp\u00c2\u00ab rtant service to the officers in command, and\\na brilliant career was predlctol for him In the army had his life been\\nspared.\\n2 We Dud the following note attacheil to the reiord of this comliany\\nCompany A, formed from a nucleus of meniliers of Wiulilngton\\nFire Kiiglni Company (I aterson. N. J.), were men of average height,\\nstnmg and liealthy. and Invariably re|\u00c2\u00abirled more men for duty each\\nday than any other company In the regimint. The coni| any lieing\\ncomiwsed of mechanlca, were detaileil to assist In building all of Col.\\nDerrom s patent bridgea, iioUbly tho one crossing the creek near Suf-\\nfolk. Oen. Getty said to Capt, McKlernau that If this bridge was com-\\npletitl by a certain time II would be worth a million dollara to the gov-\\nemmi-nt. The bridge was completed In the time, lieing overs\u00c2\u00bb venty feet\\nlong, and thruwn across In the sl ice of Bve hours. (Japt McKlernau, of\\nCo. A, was compllmente l by C.d. Derrom on the efficiency and wllling-\\nneM with which hia men worked, In some inslancea up I their waist in\\nmud and water. This bridge aaveil Gen. I eck from being driven from\\nSulTolk.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0190.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n147\\nConoly, James, private, eul. Sept. 1, 186 ii muBt. out Juue 20, 1863.\\nConnor, Michael, private, eul. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nDean, Jolin, sergt., eul. Sept. 1, 1862 wounded in left shoulder at battle\\nof Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13,1862; rejoined company for duty\\nMarch 22. 186:1 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nDean, William, private, eul. Sept. 1, 1862; discU. at Eckingtou U. S. A.\\nHosji., Washingtou, D. C, Jan. 13, 1863, for disability.\\nDeats, Ezra, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at reg. hosp-, camp near\\nFalmouth, Va,, Jan. 12, 1863, for disability.\\nDemarest, Peter S.. private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nDougherty, Johci, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nDingie, Peter M., private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; teamster at convalescent\\ncamp, Alexandria, Va, final record not known; absent at muster.\\nDuffy, John, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 186:1.\\nEnglehart, Frederick, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nFolly, Elias, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nFolly, John B., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nFrank, John K,, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; killed in action at Freder-\\nicksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.\\nGordon, John, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nGallagher, William, corp, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out Juue 20, 1863.\\nGibson, James T., 1st sergt,, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; wounded in left wrist and\\ntaken prisoneratbattleof Fredericksburg,Va.,Dec. 13,1862; paroled\\nJan. 9, 1862 com. 2d lieut. 5Iay 1, 1863; rejoined company for duty\\nJune 8, 1S63; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHart, Henry, M.D., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; wounded and taken pris-\\noner at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862 died of wounds at Rich-\\nmond, Va., Jan. 22, 1863; buried at National Cemetery, Richmond,\\nVtt.\\nHagan, Ale.\\\\andei-, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out Juue 20, 1863.\\nHaycock, William, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out Juue 20, 1863.\\nHodge, James, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20. 1863.\\nHoward, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHeline, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; died of typhoid fever at reg.\\nhosp., camp near Suffolk, Va., March 26, 1863; buried at National\\nCemetery, Hampton, Va.\\nHeske, Gottleib, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; killed in action at Freder-\\nicksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.\\nHuff, .Jacob, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHyde, Joseph, private, eul. Sept. 1, 1862; discli. at reg. hosp., camp near\\nSuffolk, Va., Blarch 13, 1863, for disability.\\nIngham, William, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nIngrund, John, private, enl. Sept. I,lf62; must, out June 20,1863.\\nJackson, John, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nJantz, Michael, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nKay, Alfred, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nKeife, Andrew, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 killed in action at Fredericks-\\nburg, Va\u00e2\u0080\u009e Dec. 13, 1862.\\nKeer, John, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nKegan, John C, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nKidd, William, private, enl. Sept. 1. 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nKime, Aaron, private, enl. Sept, 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863,\\nKing, Charles A,, [irivate, enl. Sept. 1. 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nLawless, Henry, private, eul. Sept. 1,1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nLee, James, corp,, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; sergt. March 1, 1863; must, out\\nJune 211, 186:j.\\nMahoney, Timothy, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMara, Philip, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 211, 1863.\\nMcBride, John, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMcDermot, .John, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMcKiernan, John, captain, com. Sept, 1, 1862; must, out June 2(1, 1863.\\nMcKiernan, Samuel G., corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862 sergt. Sept. 30, 1862\\npro, to 1st lieut., Jan. 11, 1863, rice Rogers, pro.; wounded slightly\\nat l.atlle of Suffolk, Va., May 3, 1863 must. out. June 20, 186:).\\nMcNeill, Joseph, Corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; sergt. March 1, 1863; must.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nMcComisky, Francis, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMcGill, Jumea, musician, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMcGill, Bernard, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must, out June 2(i, 1863.\\nMcGuirll, Anthony, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMaher, Patrick, private, eul. Sept. 1, 1862; corp. Dec. 22, 1862: must, out\\nJune 2(\u00c2\u00bb, 186:1.\\nMunday. John, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1.%:!.\\nMorrison, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; wounded in lelt shoulder\\nin action at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nMorgan, John, private, enl. Sept, 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nNewton, William, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nOliver, Richard, musician, enl Sept. 1,1862; trans, from Co. E; must.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nOtto, Adam, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nParker, John, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; dIsch. at U. S. Hosp., Fort\\nSchuyler, New York Harbor, Jan. 23, 1863, for disability.\\nPhalon, John. Corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nPallett, Richard, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nPettigrew, Matthias, sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nQuiulan, John, private, enl.. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nReed, William, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nRobertson, James, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nRichards, Tbom.as B., 2d lieut., enl. Sept. 2, 1862 res d May 18, 1863.\\nRogers, Andrew, Ist lieut,, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 pro. to capt. Co. F, Jan. 11,\\n1863, vice Blenkow, res d must, out Jane20, 1863.\\nRoss, Richard, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; wounded in breast at battle of\\nFredericksburg, Va,, Dec. 13, 1862 rejoined company forduty, March\\n25, 1863; wounded in thigh at battle of Suffolk, Va., May 3, 1863;\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nRyan, James, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nScanlan, James, private, enl, Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nSpindler, Charles, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nStone, James, private, enl. Sept, 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nSutton, Michael, private, enl. Sept, 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nSweeney, Patrick, private, enl. Sept. 1. 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nThomas, Benjamin, private, enl. Sept. 1 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nVail, Johns., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1802; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nVan Dyne, James, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 wounded in left thigh in\\nbattle of Suffolk, Va., May 3, 1863 rej()ined comi)any for duty June\\n10, 1803 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nVan Ness, Ephraim N., private, enl. Sept. 1, 18B2 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nVan Ness, John K., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out Juue 20, 1863.\\nVeader, John H., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nVeader, David, corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862 died of malarial fever at Armory\\nHospital, Washington, D. C, Dec. 22, 1862.\\nVeasey, Nicholas, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 Corp. March 1, 1863 must.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nWalls, Michael, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nWatt, Alexander, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; killed in action at Freder-\\nicksburg, Va,, Dec. 13, 1862.\\nWarren, Peter, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nWard, William J., sergt., enl. Sept. 1,1862; private Oct. 21, 1862; pro.\\nto 2d lieut. C^i.E, Dec. 30, 1862, rice Marsh, promoted; must out June\\n20, 1863.\\nWatson, Edward J., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 corp. Sept. 30, 1862 must.\\nout June 20, 1803.\\nWay wood, Henry, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nWise, John, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; Corp. Dec. 22, 1862; wounded in\\naction at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862 rejoined company for\\nduty June 10, 1863; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nWinters, William B., private, eul. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nWood, John, private, enl. Sept, 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1803.\\nCompatiy C.\\nAllen, Oscar, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nAnderson, John, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nBarker, Dayton, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nBarker, Marinus, Corp., enl. Sept. 2, 1862; private Oct. 13, 1862; must,\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nBell, John, corp enl. Sept. 2,1862; sergt. May 3, 1863 must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nBinson, Robert, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 disch. at Armory Square\\nHosp., Washington, D. C, Dec. 26, 1862, for disability.\\nBrown, Alexander, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863,\\nBuckley, Joseph, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; disch, at Falmouth, Va.,\\nJan. 17, 1863, for disability.\\nBush, James, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nBurton, George, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nClark, Andrew, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, out Juue 20, 1863.\\nClark, Redmond, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862: must, out Juue 20,1863.\\nCondron, Patrick, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, out June 20, 186;i.\\nCoyle, Henry, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nClinton, Francis De Witt, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; disch, at Stanton\\nU. S. A. Gen. Hosp., Washington, D. C, Feb. 2, 1863, wounds re-\\nceived in action at Fredericksburg: leg amputated.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0191.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "148\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nOoDMljrea, Alexander, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; diKh. at Fairfax Sem-\\ninar;. Vs.. Jan. 8, 1863, for diaability.\\nDoremui, Andrew, Corp., enl. Sept. 2, 1862; gergt. Mnj 11, I8G3; muat\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nDoremiu, Albert C, prlTate, enl. Sept 2, 1862 must, oat June 20, 1S63.\\nDoremus, Stephen, priviite, eiil. Sept. 2, 18G2; must, oot Juno 2U, 1863.\\nDoremus, Tbomaa C, private, eol. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nDecker, David N., private, must, in Oct. 31, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nDevine, llugb, private, eul. Sept. 2, 1862; must, oat Jane 20, 1863.\\nDrew, .Martiu R., private, eul. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nDrew. Alexander, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nEakins, WilliHm, ser^t., eul. Sept. 2, 1862 2d lieut., rice Parmley, rcs d,\\nJan. 7, 18)j3; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nEakins, Kubrrt, private, eul. Si^pt. 2,1862 must out June 20, 1863.\\nEveraou, Matthias, private, eul. Sept. 2, I8C2; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nrine, George, private, eul. SepL 2, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\n7orce, Columbus, Ist lieut., eul. Sept 2, 1862 acting adjt. from Oct. 15\\nto Dec. 20, 1SG2 pro. to capt. Co. O, Dec. 25, 1862, vice Powell, re-\\nBi^cned must, out June 20, 1863.\\nFredericks, Jiicob, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, oat June 20. 1863.\\nFindon, Job H., private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 18G3.\\nOannoD, John, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nGraham, Archibald, capt., com. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHaycock, Muhlon, private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must, out Juno 20. 1863.\\nMontgotupr}. John, private, enl. Sept. 2, 18C2; must out June 20, 1863.\\nMulligan, John, private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nHuun, James, private, eul. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMullen, John, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; disch at U. S. A. Gen. Hosp.,\\nNewark, N. J March 13, 1863, for disability.\\nPage, Willinin, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, out June 20, 1803.\\nPaine, John, private, eul. Sept 2, 1862 must nut June 2(i, 180.3.\\nPerry, lletthual, private, eul. Sept 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nPulhamus, David, private, onl. Sept 2, 1862 sergt, Jan. 1(1. 1863; pri-\\nvate May II, 18 I; must out June 20, 1863.\\nLamond, John, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 Corp., Jan. 10, 1863 must oat\\nJune 20. 1863.\\nLeslie, David, private, eul. Sept. 2, 1862; Corp., Jan. 10, 1803; must out\\nJune 2(1, 1863.\\nLuck, William, private, onl. Sept 2, 186;; must, out June 20, 186.3.\\nLtldwb k, Jacob, private; no record.\\nMarKhall, Ceorge W., private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must out June 20, 1863.\\nMaasaker, John, private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must out June 20,1863.\\nMcliaw, Tliomoa, private, onl. Sept 2, 1862.\\nMaher, Thuinas, sergt., eul. Sept 2, 1862 Corp., Oct IS, 1862; scrgt, Jan.\\n10, 1^63; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMiller, John, private, enl. Sept 2, 18S2 must out June 20, 1863.\\nllarwoixl, .labe/., Corp., enl. Sept 2, 1862.\\nHudson, Itobert, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nJones, TIsdel B.. private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1803.\\nKay, Jamee S., private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nKay, Selh H., private, onl. Sept. 2, 1862; must out June 2( 1863.\\nKelly. Itobert, private, enl. Sept 2, 1862 must out June 20, IN6.3.\\nKimball, Henry, private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nKendall, 4te.irgo II., private, enl. Sept. 2, IH62; must out June 20, 1863.\\nPrcelon, Daniel II., private, enl. Sept 2, 1862 must out June 20, 1863.\\nPoat William F., private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; sergt, Jan. 10, 1863; most\\nout June 20, 186:1.\\nNor^l^ William II., Corp., enl. Sept 2, 1862; sergt., Oct IS, 1862; lat\\nsergt, Jan. In, 1863; Oct 15, 1862, color sergt, until Jan. 10, 1863;\\nmust, out Juno 20, 1803.\\nParmley, R.il .Tt, 2d lieut, com. Sept 2, 1862 ri s d Jan. i, 1863.\\nPrealun, (ieorge II., private, enl. Sept 2, 18G2; most out June 2(1, 1863.\\nPreaton, Jamee W.. private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must out Juno 20, 1863.\\nPreaton, William K., private, \u00c2\u00abnl. Sept 2, 1862 must, out June 20, 186:1.\\nBee l, Thiimaa, private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must out June 2U, lHi;3.\\nBIley, Jiunen, private, inl. S pt 2, IN62 must out June 2 IHCM.\\nRoberis, Jidiu J., cor| enl.Sept 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1x6:1.\\nQuarkenbush, John, i\u00c2\u00bbrp., enl. Sept 2, IN62 munt out June 20, 1863.\\nScott Henry I,., private, enl. S ipt 2, lHn2; must out June 20, 11163.\\nSlsro, Krancis, private, nnl. Sept 2. 1862; must, out June 2( 186.3.\\nSllngrrland, John, private, enl. .Sept. 2, IH62 must ont June 2(1, 1863.\\nBtavenson, William J., private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 Ist sergt pro. to lat\\nlieut., rir\u00c2\u00ab Force; must, out June 20, 186:1.\\nSuitor, William, private, enl. .Sept 2, 1862 Corp. May :l, 1863; must out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nSwin. Edward, sergt, eul. Sept 2, 1862 must out June 20, 1863.\\nSpring. tein, James, private, onl. Sept 2, 1862 corp. Jan. 10, 1863; must\\nout June 20, 1861.\\nSmith, Cbarlea W., private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nSmith, James, private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nSpear, William II., privato, eol. Sept 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nSpittle, Charlce, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nSpittle. John R., private, onl. Sept. 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nVan Ordeu, William, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nVan Orden, Henry, private, enl.Sept 2. 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nVan (jrden, .\\\\ndreu, private, onl. Sept 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nVan Orden, Garret, private enl. Sept 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nVan Onlen, Charlee, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; died of ulceration of the\\nbowels at hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 31, 1862.\\nVan Orden, Giles, private, enl. Sept 2, 1862; supposed to have died In\\nGen. Hosp.\\nVreeland. J.din J., private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nWeatcrvelt, Martin V., private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862 must, ont June 20,\\n186:i.\\nWilds, William, corp., enl. Sept 2, 1862 disch. at U. S. A. Gen. lloap.,\\nWashington, D. C, Dec. 26, 1862, for disability.\\nPaleman, Richard, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1862; missing in action at Fred-\\nericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862; supposed killed.\\nSUnnor, William, sergt, enl. Sept 2, 1862 killed in action near Suffolk,\\nVa.. May 3, 1863.\\nGarlick, Scth, private, enl. Sept. 2,1862; Corp., May 11, 1863; must oat\\nJune 20, 186:1.\\nCompany E. (Alexander HoLMiis, Captain.)\\nBsboock, Anthony M., private. West Hilford, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nBabcock, Minard, private. West Miiford, enl. Sept. 1, 18(;2; must out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nBanta. Charles G, private. West Miiford, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nBarnard, John, private, Acquackanuuk, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nBerry, John, corp.. West Miiford, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at U.S. A.\\nGen. Hosp.. Waaliingbjn. D. C. Jan. 31, 18M, for dLsabillty\\nBrinkerhoof, E. Itoardman, mmtician, Paterson, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must.\\nout June 20, iwu.\\nBuBh,Goorgo D., private, Acquackaaonk, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nGary, William R., private. West Miiford, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; mast out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nOarlin. George D., private. West Miiford, \u00c2\u00abnl. Sept 1, 1862; must out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nCole, William F., private, West Miiford, eol. Sept 1, 1862 must out June\\n20, 1803.\\nCJole, Frederick S., private. West Miiford, enl. Sapt 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nCook, Martin, private. West Miiford, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nConklin, George K., Corp., enl. Sept I, 1862 private Oct 1, 1862.\\nConklin, Samuel J., private, West Mllfurd, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out\\nJuni- 20, 1863.\\nCroft, William, private, PaUraon, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20,\\n1863.\\nOjnsolyea. I^lward, private, Paterson, enl. Sept 1, 18C2; disch. at Ward\\nV. S. A. Hosp., Newark, N. J., April 18, 1863, of wounds received in\\naction at Fredericksburg, Va.\\nOronk, Joseph, private, Pompton, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20,\\n1863.\\nCrotber, Sidney, private, Manchester, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must, out Jans\\n20, 1863.\\nDay, Horace P., private. West Miiford, enl. Sept 1, 1862; disch. at ramp\\nnear Falmouth, Va., Jan. 12, 186.3, for disability.\\nDaven| ri, (iarret, private. West Milfonl, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out\\nJune 20, 188:1.\\nDavis, Horace, private. West Milfonl, enl. Sept I, 1862; Corp., Oct. 1,\\n1862 must out June 20, 1863.\\nDecker, Henry, corp, Paletaon, enl. Sept 1, 1862; ssr(t, Oct 1,1862;\\nmust out June 20, 1K63.\\nBdwnnls, Samuel B., private. West Miiford, enl. Sept 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nFreeman, George P., West Miiford, pro. to 1st lieut, Sept. 16, 1862; res d\\nDec. 22. 1862.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0192.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 149\\nFreclericks, Henry I., private, West Milford. enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must.\\nout Jure 20, 1S63.\\nGilmore, David F., Pat\u00c2\u00abr8on, Ise sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1S62; disch. at U.\\nS. A. Hosp., Hampton, Va., May 11, 1863, for disability.\\nGorniley, Thomas H., West Milford, Corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; sergt.\\n.Ipril 4, 1863; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHand, William H., private. West Milford, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nHadley, Edmund V., Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; corp. Oct. 1,\\n1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHartwick, William, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862.\\nHenderson, Thomas, Paterson, private, onl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nHenderson, Martin, Wast Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nHerman, Martin, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862.\\nHolmes, Alexander, Paterwon, capt., must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHopkins, Daniel, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 186:!.\\nIrvin, Martin, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nJennings, John, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 niuBt. out June\\n20, 1863.\\nKay, John, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; Corp., Doc. 12,1862;\\nsergt., Jan. 20, 1863; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nKay, William H., Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0M, 1863.\\nKimlple, George, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 disch. at H. 3.\\nGen. Hosp., Washington, D. C, Doc. 7, 1862, for disaliility.\\nKiml le, James, West Milford, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862 must, out June\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a220, 1863.\\nLuke, George, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out Juno 20,\\n18G3.\\nMargeson, Richard P., West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; died at\\nregt. hosp., near Falmouth, Va., Dec. 22, 1862.\\nMar-ih, Charles M., 2d lieut., com. Sept. 16, 1862 1st lieut., vice Freeman,\\nresigned, Dec. 30, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMerrion, Robert R., West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJuue 20,1863.\\nHerrion, Nicholas, West Milford, private, onl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nUerrion, Martin, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862.\\nMains, Henry, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at camp near\\nFalmouth, Va., Jan. 12, 1863, for disability.\\nMorse, Aaron, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nMorse, William, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nMcCauloy. Daniel J., private, enl. Sept. 26, 1862 must, out June 20,1863.\\nMcGurk, Arthur, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 Corp., May\\n11, 1863; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nOdell, Henry, Pomptou, privjite, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nOliver, Richard, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; trans, to Co. A,\\nNov. 26, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nOxer, William, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out Juno 20,\\n1863.\\nPittll, Henry, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nPrice, George, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nPost, George, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at U.S.A.\\nHosp., Fort Wood, Now York Harbor, Dec. 28, 1802. for disability.\\nBanney, Jefferson, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nBear, William H., Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n20, 1S63.\\nBiker, Obadiah, Paterson, sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at U. S. A.\\nHusp., Washington, D. C, Jan. 19, 1863, for disability.\\nScott. Thomas, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20,1863.\\nSbay, Abrani, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nSmith, Daniel, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; disch. at U. S.\\nA. Gen. Hosp., Fort Wood, Jan. 17, 1863, for disability.\\nShippey, John, West Milford, sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862 disch. at Carver\\nn. S. A Hosp., Washington, D. C, April 7, 1863, for disability.\\nSnyder, James, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; died at regt.\\nhosp., near Falmouth, Va., Dec. 28, 1862.\\nStickle, Cyrus H., West Milford. sergt enl. Sept. 1, 1862; 1st sergt.. May\\n11. 1863; must, out Juno 20, 1803.\\nStaltor, Robert, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; Corp., Jan. 26,\\n1863; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nStalter, Jeremiah, West Milford, corp enl. Sept. 1, 1862 disch. at camp\\nnear Fairfax Seminary, Va., Nov. 28, 1862, for disability. Retained\\nin service by mistike, and wounded in action at Fredericksburg,\\nVa., Dec. 13, 1862.\\nStruble, Francis, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nTaylor, Edward, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nTempleton, Isaac F., Acquackanonk, Corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; deserted\\nJan. 24, 1863, at camp near Falmouth, Va.; returned to duty May,\\n1863 left at Norfolk, Va., Juno 4, 1863, for trial as a deserter final\\nrecord unknown.\\nTborne, George E., West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nTorbert, Matthew G., Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nVan Orden, Peter, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJuno 20, 1863.\\nVan Ordon, George, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nVan Orden, Henry J., West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nVan Orden, Samuel, West Milford, corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nVanzili, Eber, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nVanzili, Theodore, Patei-son, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nVreeland, Richard, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nVreeland, Ralph, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nVreeland, Henry, Pompton must, out Juno 20, 1863.\\nWarhurlon, James, West Milford, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nWhelan, James, Paterson, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862.\\nWilliams, Andrew J., West Slilford, musician, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nWoodruff, John J., West Milford, Corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; sergt.. May\\n11, 1863; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nWoolston, Charles, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nCompany H.\\nAlexander, Donald, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, in Sept. 18, 1862\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nAlexander, James, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, in Sept. 18,1862\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nBurris, James P., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, in Sept. 18, 1862\\nmust, out Juno 20, 1863.\\nBurris, Andrew J., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, in Sept. 18, 1862\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nBoardman, William J., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, in Sept. 18, 1862\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nBraddock, William, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, in Sept. 18, 1862\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nBergia, Harvey, 1st lieut., enl. Sept. 18, 1862 oapt., rice James Inglis,\\ncom. qr.mr. resigned Dec. 28, 1862.\\nBogert, David C, sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862 com. Sept. 18, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1833.\\nBogert, Cornelius, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1892; must, in Sept. 18,1862;\\nmust, out Juue 20, 1863.\\nCadis, James, private, onl. Sept. 1,1862; must, in Sept. IS, 1862 disch.\\nat U. S. A. Hosp Washington, D. C, March 9, 1863, for disability.\\nCarlough, George N., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, iu Sept. 18, 1862;\\ndisch. at U. S. A. Hosp., Newport News, Va., March 8, 1863, for dis-\\nability.\\nCarson, George W., private, enl. Aug. 30, 1862; must, in Sept. 26, 1862;\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nCheesboro, Charles P., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, in Sept. 18, 1862\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0193.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "150\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nOoatB, Joseph, prirtte, nl. Sept. 1, I8fi2; muit in Sept. 18, 1862: muft\\nout June M, 1863.\\nCook, Thuniu, private, eul. Sept. 1, 1862; nium. in Sept. 18, 180 J; Diust.\\nout June 2U, 1863.\\nCdIHus, Jeue T., private, rul. Sept. 1,1862 must, in Sept. 18, 1862 mast.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nCollins, Samuel U, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, in Sept. 18, 1862\\nmust out June 20, 1863.\\nOampl\u00c2\u00abll, John 0., private, enl. SepL 1, 1862; must, in Sept. 18, 1862;\\nmust, out June 20, 1803.\\nDemarest, William, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, in Sept. 18, 1862\\nmust out June 20, IS i.\\nDemarest Abram, private, enl. Sept 1,1862; must in Sept 18, 1862\\ndisch. at U. S. A. Hasp.. Philnilelpliia, Uarcb 14, 186^!, for disability\\nDevour, William, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must in Sept Is, 1862;\\nmust, out June 20, IS t.\\nPulclier, Cliarles, private, enl. Sept. 1,1802; niunt. in Sept 18,1862;\\nniu\u00c2\u00bbt out June 20, 186:t.\\nDemarest, William, private, enl. Sept. 1, 18li2 must, in Sept 18, 1862\\nmust, out June 20, 180^1.\\nI\u00c2\u00bbewer, Jttnies, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must in Sept 18, 1862 corp.\\nJan. 1, 1863 must out June 20. 1863.\\nDutcher, Cliaries, musician, enl. Sept 1, 1802; must in Sept 18, 1862;\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nFisber, Caspar, private, enl. Sept 1,1862; must in Sept 18, 1862; disch.\\nat U.S. A Hosp., I liiladelpbia, Pa.. June 6, 180:1, for disability.\\nGravelius, George, corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; assistant hospital steward\\nOct 12, 1802; must out June 20, 186:1.\\nGlune, Adolph, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must in Sept 18, 1862; must\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nGarrison, Slepliou, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must in Sept. 18, 1862;\\nmust out June 20, 186:1.\\nBadle.v, Benjamin, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must in Sept 18,1862;\\nmust, out June 20, 186.3,\\nHilton, John T, private, enl. Sept 1,1862; must in Sept 18, 1862 must\\no it June 20, 180:1.\\nHogencamp, Martin, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nHopper, Andrew J., musician, enl. Sept 1, 1802; must out June 20, 1803.\\nHopper, Thoraue A., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must out June 20, 186.3.\\nHopper, Jacob, recruit, enl. Oct. :il, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHartrick, Charlis, private. enl. Sept 1, 1862; niu\u00c2\u00bbt out Jnuo 20, 1863.\\nHaycock, I*el T, private, enl. Sept. I, 1802; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHoughton, John, private, inl. Sept 1, 1862 disch. at U. S. A. Hoap., Wash-\\nington, D. C, .March 27, 1863, for disability.\\nHutchinson, Wm., private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nInglis, James, Jr., capt, com. Sept 2, 1862 com. quartermnhter Sept. 2.\\n1862.\\nIrving, James, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 roost out June 20, 1863.\\nJacobus, Peter, corp., enl. Sept 1, 1862; private, Jan. 1, 186:1; must out\\nJune 20, 1803.\\nJacobus, Peter, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863,\\nKenney, Martin, corji enl. Sept. 1, 1862 diach. iit Klkinglin l S. Army\\nGen. Hoap., Washington, D. C, Jan. 19, 186:1, for disability,\\nKreiger, John F., private, eul. Sept. 1, 1802 must out June 2t), 1863,\\nKing, William M, sergt, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nKingslaod, Jacob, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must out June 2 t, 1863.\\nLair, Samuel, sergt, enl. Sept 1, 1862; 1st sergt, Oct. 1, 1862; must out\\nJune 20, 186:1.\\nI4iblaux, Ktnile, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; died uf typhoid fever at camp\\nnear Suffolk, Va., April 20, 1861.\\nl.orery, Simon, private, enl. Sept 1, 1802; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMorehead, James, private, enl. Sept. I, 1862; must out June 20, 1803.\\nHoaely, Joseph, sergt, enl. ,S\u00c2\u00abpt. I, 1862; must out June 20, 186:;.\\nMoael.v, Klcbanl, private, enl. Sept 1, 18A2 killed in action at Freder-\\nicksburg, Va, Dec. l:i, 1862; buried there.\\nMeasengcr, Iw^wis, private, enl. St^pt 1, 1862 must out June 20, 186:1.\\nMrntruch, Philip, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20, 18S1.\\nMiirtania, Isitac, private, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2nl. Sept. 1, IH62; must, out June 20, 1H63.\\nMc,\\\\unlan, Dun -an, private, enl, S4 pt, I, 1862; adjt s clerk must, out\\nJnn*- 20. 1803.\\nPackir, Willlnm P., private, enl. Sept 1, 1862: Corp., Jan. 12, 1863; must\\noat June 20, 1H6.3.\\nPerry, Theodore S.. private, enl. Sept 1, 1862 must out June 20, 1863.\\nPerry, John, prlvalo, enl. ept I, IMI2; must out June 20, 186:t\\nPetry, ,\\\\ndrew, private, enl. Sept 1, 180i; must, out June 2o, 1863.\\nPetry, Ge\u00c2\u00ab)rge W., private, enl. Sept 1, 1802; Corp., Jan. 12, 1863; must,\\nout June2o 1803.\\nPoet, Anthony G., corp., enl. Sept, 1, 1802 died of typhoid fever in hos-\\npital, at camp near Falmouth, Va Dec. 27, 1862,\\nPost Garret J private, eul. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20, 18 i3.\\nPope, Austin, private, eul. Sept. 1, 1802; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nPutoam, Joaeph B., private, enl, Sept. 1, 1862 pn to oom.-aergt., Sept.\\n.30, 1862; must, out June 2U, 1863,\\nPreston, James, piivate, enl, Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at U. S. Army Hoap.,\\nPhiladelphia, Pi Feb. 7, 186:1, for disability.\\nPruden, Kbene7.er, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nPont James M., private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nBeid, John 1... privnli, enl. Sept 1,1802; must, out June 2o, 186:1.\\nReid, John, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must out June 20, 1863.\\nBiker, John II., private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must, out June 2ii, 1863,\\nSpear, John, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nStephens, Henry, private, eul. Sept 1, 1802 must out June 20, 1863,\\nShaffer, Lewis B,, corp,, enl. Sept 1,1842; disch. at camp near Falmouth,\\nVa., Jan. 9, 18li3, disability.\\nSigler, Daniel M., Corp., enl. Sept 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1803.\\nTerhuiie, John, jirivatu, enl. Sept 1, 1862 disch. at Army General Hos-\\npital, Washington, D. C, Mny9, 1863, disability.\\nTiffany, Charles H. D., private, enl. Sept 1,1862; must, out June 20,\\n186:1.\\nTorbert Ge^irge M.. private, enl. Sept 1, 1862 must out Jum- 20, 1663.\\nVandcrbilt, Richard, sirgt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must out June 20, 1863,\\nVanderbilt Abraham, 1st sergt, enl. Sept 2, 1862 Isl lieut, ric\u00c2\u00ab Beyea,\\npro., Sept. 20, 1802 must, out June 20. 180:1.\\nVan Wagoner, Cornelius, 2d lieut., com. Sept 2, 1802; must in Sept 16,\\n1862; ambulance lieut,; must, out June 20, 1863,\\nVan Saun, Cornelius, private, eul, Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nVan Saun, .Klbert, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nVan Wagoner, Garret private, enl. Sept. 1. 1862 disch. at camp near\\nFalmouth. Va., Jan. 9, 1863, disability.\\nVan Winkle, Simeon J., private, enl. Se|it 1, 1862; must out June 20,\\n1863,\\nVanderbilt,Cornelius, private, enl. Sept. 1,1861; disch. at L S. Army\\nHoepilal, Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 21, 1803, disability.\\nVan Blarconi, JiiniiB, private, enl. Sept 1,1862; sergt. audlio.^p. steward.\\nSept 30, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863,\\nVan Houten, Isaac, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; Corp., Oct, 12, 1862 must\\nout June 20, 186:1,\\nWarden, John, corp,, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out June 20, 1863.\\nWHiite, William, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; ninst. out June 2 1863.\\nWilliamson, Charles, private, enl. Sept 1, 1802; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nWillis, Cornelius A,, private, enl. Sept 1,1802; must, out June 20,1863.\\nWorthington, BIchard, private, enl. Sept 1,1862; must out June 20,\\n1863.\\nWilson, James, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must out Juno 20, 180.1.\\nWright, Andrew, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must out Juno it 186:1,\\nCompanii IT,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Enoch J. ,\\\\YRES, Captain.)\\n.\\\\ckerman, I\u00c2\u00bbavid, Acijuackanonk, wagoner, enl. Sept. 1, 18*i2 must.\\nout Juno 20, 1863.\\nAlysn, Itlchard P., .\\\\cquackanonk, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; corp,,\\nApril 20, 1863 must out June 20, 18C3.\\nAyres, J. Enoch, Patersou, capt, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 pro, to lieut,-col. Sept\\n24. 1802, to All original vacancy must, out June 2 1863.\\nBaganal, Jamea, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 211, 186.3.\\nBeldin, John, Acquackannnk, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862 must out June\\n20,1803,\\nBeach, Stephen, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 211,186:1.\\nBelcher, Adam, Pomplon, corp,, enl. Sept 1, 1802 wouioled at flrst bat-\\ntle of Freilerirksburg, Dec, 13, 1802; sergt, Jan. 1, 186:1; must out\\nJune 20, 1863\\nBogart, William, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; must out\\nJuno 20, 1863.\\nBowman. Peter, Acquackanonk, private, anl. Sept. 1, 1862; must oiil\\nJune 20, 186.3,\\nBrooks. Abraham, Acquackanonk, private, enl. .lept 1, 1862: niiint. out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nBrewer, George W., Acquackanonk, musician, enl. Sept. 1. 1862: must\\nout June 20, 180:1.\\nBngsbee, William, Pompton, private, anl. Sapt 1, 1802; must. lOil Juna\\n20, lUVi.\\nCarroll, llryan. Acquackanonk. private, enl. Sept 1, 1862: must, out\\nJune 20, 1803.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0194.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n151\\nCieco, Thomas A., Acquackanoiik, corp., enl. Sept. 1, 18G2 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nClark, Henry, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nColib, John, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out June\\n20, i\u00c2\u00bbm.\\nCole, Abraham H., Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n20, 1803.\\nCollins, John J., Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nConklin, Levi, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 18G2 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nConklin, Walter, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1 1862 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nConklin, Andrew, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1S62; must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nCook, Francis H., Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1SG2 final record not\\nknown.\\nCunier, Lawrence, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nDavenport, William H., Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 18C3.\\nDecker, Barney, Pompton, sergt., enl. Sept. 1,1862; private, Jan. 1,1863;\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nDeiiliolm, Charles, Acquackanonk, Corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nDegraw, John, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nDegraw, Peter, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n186.3.\\nDeeths, John, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n2(1, 1863.\\nDeitcli, Henry, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nDodd, Amzi, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nElston, Jesse K., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; 1st sergt.,\\nSept. 24, 1862; 2d lieul.. ii.c G. M. Post, res d, Dec. 25, 1862; must.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nEnnis, Abraham, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1S63.\\nFaulkner, Leonard, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nGarTBbrant, Garrett, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must.\\nout June 20, 1863.\\nGould, Thomas, Pompton, sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nGreenwood, Philip, Pompton, corp., enl. Sept. 1,1862; sergt., Jan. 1,\\n1863 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nHamm, Aaron, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nHamm, Louis, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nHardy, John, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must out June 20,\\n1863.\\nHann, Jeremiah, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nHanke, Bernard, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nHenchliffe, James, Manchester, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 30, 1863.\\nHenderson Samuel M., Pompton, sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nHolloway, David, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n211,1863.\\nHolloway, John, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nJacobus, John-H., Acquackuuonk, musician, enl. Sept. 1,1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nJenkins, Jacob, Manchester, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nKilby, Joseph, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at\\nWashington, D. C, Nov. 28. 1862, for disability.\\nLee, George W., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; 1st sergt.\\nDec. 25, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nMaby, John H., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at\\nChestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, March 25, 1863, for disability.\\nMaynard, Floyd, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJuue 20, 1863.\\nMcKay, Simon, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nMiller, Garret, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out Juno\\n20,1863.\\nMiller, Charles, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJuue 20, 1863.\\nMowry, John, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out Juue\\n20, 1803.\\nMorris, Jesse B., Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; died of typhoid\\nfever at camp near Falmouth, Ya., Dec. 29, 1862.\\nNix, John, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1. 1862; Corp. Jan. 1, 1863;\\nmust, out June 20, 1863.\\nOakes, Richard, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 Corp. Jan. 1,\\n1863; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nOdell, Arthur, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nPassage, Jacob, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nPersonette. George, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. I, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nPiaget, Louis Acquackanonk, com. 2d lieut. Sept. 18, 1862; 1st lieut.,\\nvice Spear, promoted, Sept. 24, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nPost, George M., .Vcquackanonk, 1st sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; com. 2d\\nlieut., vii:e Piaget, promoted; res*d Dec. 22, 1862.\\nQuemau, Thomas, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at\\nU. S. A. Gen. Hosp, Philadelphia!, Pa., April 16, 1863, for disability.\\nRyan, William, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 30, 1863.\\nRedner, Joel, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862.\\nSpear, Job ji R., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nSpear. Edward R., Acquackanonk, com. 1st lieut. Sept. 18, 1862; capt.,\\nrke Ayres, promoted, Sept. 24, 1862; must, out June 20, 1863.\\nSpear, Josiah M., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at\\ncamp near Suffolk, Va., April 2, 1863, for disability.\\nSchulstor, Francis A., Pompton, Corp., enl. Sept.l, 1862: must, out June\\n20, 1861.\\nShippee, William H., Pompton, Corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; killed in action\\nat Fredericksburg, Va Dec. 13, 1862.\\nSindle, Christopher, Acquackanonk, Corp., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJuue 2 1863.\\nSevern, Benjamin R., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 disch.\\nat U. S. A. Hosp., March In, 1863. for disability.\\nSnyder, Henry, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJuue 20, 1863.\\nSnyder, John, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nStorms, David, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nStockard, Leonard, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nStraut, Andrew, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nShurtz, John, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; disch. at camp near\\nSuffolk, Va., April 2, 1863, for disability.\\nThompson, Wm. H., Pompton, private, enl. Sept.l, 1862; must. out June\\n20, 1803.\\nTuers, Joseph S .\\\\cquackanonk. private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nTuers, John, Jr., Acquackanonk, 5th sergt., enl. Sept. 1, 1862; sergt.,\\nJan. 1, 1862 must, out June 20, 1863.\\nTurner, John Y., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nYanatta, George, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862: must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nVanatta. Harmon, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nVanatta, Horace, Pompton, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862: must, out June\\n20, 1863.\\nYanattA, John, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must out June 20,\\n1863.\\nVan Riper, George, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must out\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nVan Riper, Philip H., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must\\nout June 20, 1863.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0195.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "152\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nY\u00c2\u00bbn CWen, Jompb, Pompton, prirate, enl. Sept. 1, 1882 mu\u00c2\u00abt. out June\\n2(1, 1S03.\\nVan OkIod, D\u00c2\u00abTld, MaDcheeter, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1662; most, unt\\nJune 20, 1863.\\nV\u00c2\u00abnzili, laaac, Pompton, priTate, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nVreclHnd, Garret, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1,1862; must, out\\nJuue20, 1K63.\\nVreelaud, Garret I., Acquackanonk, private, enl. SepL 1, 1862 most, out\\nJune 2il, l\u00c2\u00bb6:l.\\nVreelaud, Peter, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862.\\nWillinnui, Patrick, Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept 1, 1862; Corp., Jan.\\n1, 186.1 muBt. out June 20, 1S0.1.\\nWard, William W., Acquackanonk, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 20. 186,1.\\nWeutluTwalk\u00c2\u00bb, George, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; must, out\\nJune 2 1863.\\nWhile, Martin, Pompton, corp, enl. Sept. 1, 1862; private, Jan. 1, 1863;\\nmust out June 20, 1863.\\nWhite, John, Pompton, private, enl. Sept. 1, 1862 must, out June 20,\\n1863.\\nThicket, Charlea, Acquackanonk, private, enl. January, 1863 sergt-mi^J.,\\nri ce Leach, promoted moat, out June 20, 1863.\\nThirty-third Regiment.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Company D of the\\nThirty-third Ilegiiueut wu.s raised in Piissaic County.\\nCompanies A, B, C, and F were raised in Newark\\nCompany G was raised in Morris, Hudson, and Essex\\nCounties; Company E in Camden and Essex; Com-\\npany H in Hoboken, and C()nii)any K in Jersey City.\\nCompany D, from this (.ouiity, was otliwrfd as fol-\\nlows: Captain, Charles Courtois First Lieutenant,\\nJames T. (Jibson Second Lieutenant, AVilliam A.\\nMiller.\\nThe Tiiirty-tiiird was the first veteran rejriment\\nraised in New Jersey, under an authorization issued\\nin the summer of 18G3 U) Col. Mindil, formerly of\\nthe Twenty-seventh Regiment. It was recruited at\\nNewark, and mustered into the United States service\\non the .3d of September. On the 8th it embarked\\nupon transports lying in the Pa.s.saic River, and pro-\\nceeded to Washington tlience on the 24th it was\\nordered to join the Army of the Cumberland. It\\nparticipated in the movements about Chattanooga,\\nthe Atlanta campaign, Sherman s march to the sea,\\nand through the Carolina.s, and in pursuit of John-\\nston, at Smitiifield, N. C, fired the la.st shots of the\\nwar into the retreating reliel cavalry, whom they had\\nsuccessfully fought for half a day. The Thirty-third\\nwas retained in service until Aug. 2, 18ti. when it\\nwas ordered to be mustered out, and proceeded to\\nNewark.\\nIn a little less tlian two years this regiment had\\ntraversed a distame of two thousand five hundred\\nmiles, over seventeen hundred of which were accom-\\nplished by marching. It fought in eight battles and\\nengaged in over a dozen skirmishes. Altliough but\\ntwo years in service, the losses of battle and cam-\\npaign were such that the regiment was twice filled.\\nThe numlier of brevets conferrol upon it.s officers\\nghow how highly the regiment was appreciated by\\nthe government.\\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\\nRECORD OF PASSAIC COUNTY MEN IN THE WAK\\nOF THE REBELLION.\\nEXCELSIOR BBIGADE, NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS.\\nCOMPANT A, FIE8T ReOIMENT.\\nWeller B. Honey, eecond lieutenant.\\nSerjMBtt.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Orderly, Arch itiald Belcher; iBt, John Baxter; 2d, John E.\\nVan Houtin; 3d, William Wilson; 4th, John Johnson.\\nCbrporal*.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 let, Joseph Winters; id, Charli-s Gaukel 3d, Jamee Rovran\\n4th, Jesse Jackson 5th, Charles Maury 6th, Charlea Ryerson.\\nActon, John.\\nAahHeld, James.\\nByer, William.\\nCampbell, Asaph.\\nCarey, Jamee C.\\nClark, Samuel.\\nClark, David.\\nClark, Isaac.\\nCorHgan. Edward.\\nCavanagh, John.\\nCounsulyeii, John.\\nDavenport. Slartin.\\nDougherty, Stephen T.\\nEnl\u00c2\u00bbi\u00c2\u00bbU. Robert.\\nElliaon, leoac.\\nGoulding, Sidney.\\nGiTTieon, John H.\\nHare, John.\\nHarvey, R^\u00c2\u00bbbert.\\nIlalloM.ll, David,\\nllallowell, TIf.mas.\\nHealey, John.\\nJenkins, William.\\nMcCann, William.\\nMarshland, Benjamin.\\nMiles, E.l\u00c2\u00bbanl.\\nMcNabb, William.\\nMcGrogan, Edward.\\nMcTtlnllon, John.\\nMcKenney, Jnmea.\\nSIcl ready, John.\\nMerkel, Joseph.\\nPiilhamua, Albert.\\nRlker, Henry.\\nRikor, Ol\u00c2\u00bbadiali.\\nRyerson, C. V.\\nShaw, John.\\nSpencer. Joseph.\\nSpeer. Ji\u00c2\u00bbeiah.\\nSlater. John.\\nTolesoii, Jamee.\\nVan Vantlemchen.\\nVan Dien, Garret,\\nWeetervelt, James.\\nWhitford, John.\\nWlielehan. John.\\nCOMPASV 0.\\nEdwin E. Post, private.\\nSerjeanU.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 let, William H.Levi; 2d, O.\\n4lh,C. H. Calkins.\\nPrivat\u00c2\u00ab$.\\nAckcrnian, William.\\nAckernian, Jamee.\\nAllen, Alexander.\\nAlli\u00c2\u00bbon,Jci\u00c2\u00abepli.\\nBarnnm, 11. M.\\nBergen, Timothy,\\nllamfonl, Thomaa.\\nBlniichanl. A.J.\\nItouKe, John.\\nBnggln C\u00c2\u00ab rge.\\nBurke, John.\\nBn-wn, William.\\nCjirs* Daniel.\\nOirnel, Andrew.\\nCavnnaugh, Thoma*.\\nCirct, Jamee.\\nCletfg, James.\\nC.illler, Kli\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb.\\nConklel, John.\\nCatanaugh, William.\\nIhuiglaw, C. M.\\nDnlTy, Thomas,\\nDrake, Nathan.\\nIKioglierly, Thomas.\\nDrew, J. U.\\nElliot, William.\\nKttlnger, Joseph.\\nFiK\u00c2\u00ab.iirk, C.\\nGoggins, Joeepb.\\nliariibrant. I. II.\\nGueet, IWiiJiiniin.\\nOarribranl. G. II.\\nCoKPANT I, First Bkoimeiit.\\nM. Garnbrant 3d, C. J. Mosely\\nGeddea, Willinm.\\nHalstead, James.\\nHammond, GarieU\\nHillun, Jonathan.\\nHum, William.\\nHughes, John.\\nHough, Thomaa.\\nIrwin, Peler.\\nJamee, William II.\\nKnow I Ion, H. C.\\nKohler, AnUiouy.\\nKisaock, Henry.\\nKonor, Patrick.\\nKilcliell, Joseph.\\nLloyd, J. C.\\nLomon, Daniel.\\nLonion, William.\\nLtitlan, llngi).\\nMabie, George W.\\nMallisiin, Jt-teoph.\\nMarshall, RoU.rt.\\nMtwenger, Thomas.\\nMoakhouse, John.\\nMickel,J. A.\\nMcCorly, Patrick.\\nMcGIII, Michael.\\nMcKenoii, Martin.\\nMonke, Peter.\\nUidgely, Samuel.\\nO Brien, Ktlward.\\nO Cotinell. Michael.\\nPerty, Gisirge.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0196.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "RECORD OF PASSAIC COUNTY MEN IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 153\\nWhitehead, W. M.\\nWhitehead, E.\\nWard, Thonias.\\nWildey, James E.\\nWaldrean, Garret.\\nWilliams, I. M.\\nWright, J. M.\\nPetry, G. M.\\nByan, Michael.\\nShervin, Janjes.\\nSimpson, Robert.\\nSteel, G. W.\\nSteel, John.\\nShervin, William.\\nToules, J. M.\\nKilled, Wounded, and Muting in Compania A and I (EiceUior Brigade) at\\nWilliamsburg, Va.\\nCompany A.\\nKilled.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. E. Van Houten, Robert Harrey, sergts.; J. Winters, Cliarlas\\nGankle, Charles Ryerson, corps. Thomas Hallowel, U. Hallowel, J.\\nSlater, John Witford, privates.\\nWounded.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B.W. Hoxsey, lieut.; A. Belcher.sergt.; James Bowen, James\\nWestervelt, privates.\\nafi\u00c2\u00bbrin Edward Corrigan, James Ashfleld, A. T. Campbell, J. Cava-\\nnaugh.\\nCompany I.\\nyiUed.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edward Birley, Corp. Michael Ryan, Jonathan Hilton, Henry\\nKissock, privates.\\nWounded.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Conkie, Corp.; Joseph Kitchell, Peter Erwin, privates.\\naflMinj.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. Marshall, corp. Timothy Bergen, George Buggin, Thomas\\nCavanaugh, James Clegg, Thomas Haigh, W. H. James, John Lester,\\nSamuel Medgely, privates.\\nFIRST REGIMENT NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARDS (CoL. Allen).\\nPrivates.\\nAikens, James. Escott, Thomas.\\nBell, William. Griffin, James.\\nCoats, William. McBride, John.\\nSECOND REGIMENT.\\nCompany F.\\nBohen, John, private, enl. May 28, 1861 must, out June 21. 1864.\\nCampbell, Cornelius R., private, enl. May 28, 1861 died of dysentery at\\nCulpeper, Va., Oct. 4, 1863.\\nCarroll, John, private, enl. May 28, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nCurran, Thoma. private, enl. May 28, 1861 disch at Sickel U. S. A.\\nGen. Hosp., Alexandria, Va., G. 0. 77, Par. 6, War Dept., A. G. O.,\\nWaahington, D. C, April 28, 1865.\\nBrooks, David, private, eul. May 28, 1861.\\nEllison, Anthony, private, enl. May 28, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nFeeney, James, private, enl. May 28, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nFine, Cornelius, private, enl. May 28, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nJackson, Samuel, private, enl. May 28, 1861 killed in action at Gaines\\nFarm, Va., June 27, 1862.\\nMcNab, John, private, enl. May 28, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nPaxton, Isaac, private, enl. May 28, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps, Nov.\\n1, 1863; disch. therefrom June 27, 1864.\\nPost, Sylvester J., private, enl. May 2S, 1861; trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nNov. 1, 1863; disch. therefrom June 27, 1864.\\nRussell, John, private, enl. May 28. 1861.\\nSherron, Patrick, private, recruited Sept. 19, 1801 trans, to Co. B, 15th\\nRegt. disch. at camp near Clifton, Va., Sept. 19, 1864.\\nTerhune, William, private, enl. May 28, 1861 disch. at Camp Seminary,\\nVa., March 2, 1862, for disability.\\nVan Allen, Peter, private, enl. May 28, 1861 disch. at U. S. A. Gen.\\nHosp., Newark, N. J., Nov. 25, 1862, for disability.\\nWilson, William, private, enl. May 28, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nNov. 16, 1863; disch. therefrom May 28, 1864.\\nCompany G.\\nConklin, Edward I., private, enl. May 28, 1861 corp., Nov. 1, 1862 must.\\nout June 21, 1864.\\nEitel, Jacob, private, enl. May 28, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nPhalon, Patrick, private! enl May 28, 1861.\\nPotts, William, private, enl. May 28, 1861.\\nRichardson, Joseph, private, enl. May 28, 1861.\\nCompany I, Second Regiment New Jersey Volvnteebs.\\nAllen, John, 1st lieut., enl. May 30. 1861 res d Dec. 5. 1861.\\nAllen. Stephen W., private, enl. May 30, 1861 pro. to 1st lieut. Co. F,\\nloth Regt., April 27, 1862 res d June 12, 1862.\\nAllen, Wallace W., private, enl. May 30, 1861; disch. for disability at\\nPaterson Park U. S. Hosp., Baltimore, Md., Sept. 3, 1862.\\nAckerman, Andrew H., private, enl. May 30, 1861 pro. to 1st lieut. Co.\\nA, 11th Regt., July 21, 1862, to till original vacancy; pro. to capt.\\nCo. C, March 6, 1863.\\nAndrews, Chauncey, private, enl. Sept. 30, 1861; recruit; disch. H. S.\\nHosp., Philadelphia, for disability.\\nAtchinson, James, private, enl. May 30, 1861.\\nAtchinson, William, Corp., enl. May 30, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nJuly 27, 1863.\\nBabcock, Frederick, private, enl. May 30, 1861 disch. at camp near\\nWhite Oak Church, Va., for disability, March 12, 1863.\\nBeardsley, James, private, enl. May 30, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nBeggs, James, private, enl. May 30, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nBerdan, Albert, private, enl. May 30, 1861 disch. for disability at tamp\\nnear White Oak Church, Vh., April 15, 1863.\\nBrooks, William H., private, enl. Sept. 11, 1861; recruit; killed in action\\nat Gaines Farm, Va., June 27, 1862.\\nBroughton, tirinishaw, private, enl. May 30, 1861; Corp., Oct. 1, 1862;\\nmust, out June 21, 1862.\\nBrower, Cornelius W., private, enl. May 30, 1861 died U. S. A. Hosp.,\\nFairfax Seminary, Va., Sept. 30, 1862.\\nBrower, Francis M., private, enl. May 30, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nBuck, Chester H., private, eul. May 30, 1861 disch. for disability, U. S.\\nA. Hosp., Philadelphia, July 22, 1862.\\nBuckley, John F., private, enl. May 30, 1861 pro. to 2d lieut. Co. A, 11th\\nRegt., May 27, 1862; capt., rice Kearny, pro.; res d for disability\\nJuly 19. 1864.\\nBuckley, William I, Corp., enl. May 30, 1861; sergt. pro. to 2d lieuL\\nDec. 21, 1861; pro. to capt., wice Danforth, killed; must, out June 21,\\n1864.\\nBurnhani, Sylvanus B., private, enl. May 30, 1861 died U. S. A. Hosp.,\\nChester, Pa., Aug. 18, 1862, of wounds at Gaines Farm, Va.; buried\\nat Chester, Pa.\\nBrooks, William, private, enl. May 30, 1861.\\nCain, Randolph P., musician, eul. Sept. 24, 1861 recruit; trans, tu band;\\ntrans, to 1st Regt.\\nChadwick, Leonard, private, enl. May 30, 1861 diach. for disability at\\nCamp Seminary, Va., March 29, 1862.\\nClogan, James, private, enl. May 30, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nCooper, Samuel, private, enl. May 30, 1861; disch. U. S. A. Gen. Hosp.,\\nWest Philadelphia. Pa., Dec. 15, 1862, for disability.\\nCourtier, David, private, enl. May 30, 1861 disch. at convalescent camp,\\nAlexandria, Va,. Feb. 25, 1863.\\nCourtier, William H., private, enl. May 30, 1861 recruit.\\nCrawford, Robert W., private, eul. May 30, 1861; disch. at convalescent\\ncamp, Alexandria, Va., for disability, July 31, 1863.\\nCuudell, Charles H., sergt.. May 30, 1861 disch. at Fairfax Seminary,\\nVa., to accept commission.\\nDavison, George W., private, enl. May 30, 1861 killed in action at Gaines\\nFarm, Va June 27, 1862.\\nDavison, William, Jr., sergt., enl. May 30, 1861 disch. U. S. A. Hosp.,\\nNewark, N. J., Feb. 2, 1863, for disability.\\nDanfortii, Charles, Jr., pro. to 2d lieut., June 12, 1861 pro. to capt vice\\nGriffith, ros d, Sept. 9, 1861 killed in action at Gaines Farm, Va.,\\nJune 27, 1862.\\nDonaldson, William, private, enl. May 30, 1861; disch. at camp near\\nWhite Oak Church, Va., Jan. 3, 1863, for disability.\\nDriscoll, John A., private, enl. May 30, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nDouglass, Theodore F., private, enl. May 30, 1861; must, out June 21,\\n1804.\\nDunkersley, William B., private, enl. May 30, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res.\\nCorps, Nov. 15, 1863; disch. May 31, 1864.\\nEvans, Lemuel E., private, eol. May 30, 1861 disch. for disability, U. S.\\nA. Gen. Hosp., Philadelphia, Pa July 11, 1862.\\nFinklemeyer, Nicholas, private, enl. May 30, 1861; disch. near Cloud s\\nMills, Va., for disability, Aug. 6, 1861.\\nFlavel, John W., private, enl. May 30, 1861 died at Chesapeake U. S. A.\\nGen. Hosp., Fort Monroe, Va., Aug. 25, 1862.\\nFielding, Thomas, private, eul. May 30, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nFord, Edward G., 1st sergt., enl. May 30, 1861 pro. to 2d lieut., Dec. 9,\\n1861 pro. to Ist lieut., vice Allen, disch., Dec. 28, 1861 res d Oct. 29,\\n1862.\\nGoetschius, Peter V. H-, private, enl. May 30,1861; disch. at U. S. A. Gen.\\nHosp., Newark, N. J., for disability, Dec. 31, 1861.\\nGoodrich, Radford R., private, enl. May 30, 18G1 Corp., Dec. 25, 1861\\nprivate March 8, 1863; must, out June 21, 1864.\\nGriffith, George, capt., enl. May 30. 1861 res d Sept. 6, 1861.\\nHamilton, William, Corp., enl. Oct. 10, 1861; sergt., May 13, 1S62; pro.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0197.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "154\\nHISTORY OF BKUGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nto 2d ll\u00c2\u00abut. Co. G, 23d Kegt., Feb. 14. 1883 pro. to Ht lieut, Co. H,\\nApril IS, 1863; not must. must, out June 27, 1863.\\nHartley, Jo\u00c2\u00ab(ph, w.guuer, enl. May 30, 1861 niu.t. out June 21, 1864.\\nH\u00c2\u00bbrtfy, Henry, private, enl. May 30, 1801. i?)\\nHay. William, private, enl. May 30. 1861 pro. to 2d lleut. Co. C, 13th\\nUegt., \\\\ag. .iS, 1862; pro. to let lleut., rice BuckUlb, ree d, Nov. 1,\\n18U2; res-d March 29, 1863.\\nHaycock, C harlo^ private; no record.\\nHIghle, Edward, Corp., enl. May M, 1661 disch. at U. S. A. Hoep., New-\\nark, N. J., Dec. 30, 1862, for disability.\\nHoff. Loulu, private, enl. May 30, 1861 muM. out June 21, 1864.\\nHolMiee, Alexander, private, enl. May 30. 1861 di\u00c2\u00bbch. at U. S. A. Geo.\\nHoep.. Philadelphia, Pa., July 9, 1802, for disability.\\nHoy, Willian, II private, enl. Sept. 30, 18111 traf.8. to Vet. Re\u00c2\u00ab. Ci.rp.,\\nJuly 1 1804; iliBch, therefrom Sept. 30, 1864.\\nHulM.r, Henry, private, enl. May 30, 1861 dlsch. at Camp Sem., Va Feb.\\n16 18tVi,for geneial disability.\\nIrvin, James, private, enl. May .30, 1861 diech. at U. S. A. Gen. Hoep..\\nFortrees Monroe, Va., Feb. \\\\:i, 1863, for disability.\\nJohnson, William, private, enl. May 30, 1801 dlsch. at UeCamp U. S. A.\\nGen. Hoep., Ih.vid s Island, X. V. Harbor, Dec. 26, 1802. for wound,\\nreceived in action.\\nKeenau, John, private, enl. May 30, 1801 trans, to Vet. Kes. Corpa Sept.\\nI, 186;l; disch therefrom May 30, 1864.\\nKing, Robert W.. private, enl. May 30, 1861 disch. at Fortres. Monroe,\\nVa Aug. 28, 1802, lor wounds received in action at Gaines Farm, Va.\\nKing, Henry II., private, enl. May 30, 1801 disch. at convalcscenl camp,\\nAlexandria, Va., for disability, Jan. 20, 1803.\\nLamb, David, private, enl. May 3ll, 1801 disch. at camp near White Oak\\nChurch, Va., Dec. 22, 1862, for disability.\\nLaing James, Corp., enl. May 30, 1861.\\nLaw, Jo\u00c2\u00ab,ph, Corp., enl. May 1, 18lH must, out June 21, 1864.\\nLoan, William F., private, enl. May 30, 1801; tmns. to Weatern gunboat\\nservice Nov. 0, 1863.\\nMal|\u00c2\u00abs, Alfred, private, enl. May 30, 1801 disch. at H\u00c2\u00abrri\u00c2\u00bb u-a Landing,\\nVa July 8, 1802, to accept a commiseion.\\nMcGill, Alexander, private, enl. May 30, 1801 dlsch. at camp near\\nWhite Oak Cliurcli, Va., Jan. 8, 1803, for disability.\\nMcl K.ud, Samuel F., private, enl. May ;10, 1801 trans, to Vet Res. Corps,\\nNov. 6, 1803; disch. therefrom May :io, 1804.\\nMcCloud, William, private, enl. May 30, 1801 .killed in action at Cr\u00c2\u00bbmp-\\ntun s i a\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab, Md., ept. 14, 1802.\\nMamrell, James, private, ei.l. May 30, 1861 orp., January, 1802; sorgt.,\\nOct. 1, 1802; 1st sergt., Miirch 8, 1803; trans, to Vet. Res. Corp.,\\nSepl. 1, 1861; disch. thcrelrom May 31, 1804.\\nMlll.r Janus, private, enl. May 3ii, 1801 must. ..ut Juno il, 1804.\\nMilbr! Williiim H., private, enl. May 30, 1861 id lleut., Co. K, 13th\\nKegt., Aug. M, 1802, to Bll original vacancy lei liout., Co. A. Nov.\\n1. 1862.\\nMunroe. Martin R.. private, ei.l. May 3ii, 1801 pro. to sergL-maJ., tht.\\n7, 1861.\\nMontgomery, El.eneier. private, enl. May 30. 1801 pn.. to M liei.t. to.\\nK, Wd Regt., Jan. 8, 1863 must, out June 27, 180;i.\\nMoiehea.l J..hn, private, ei.l. May 30, 1801 mu.t. out June 21, 1804.\\nO llrien, Michael, private, enl. May 30, 1861; Corp., Oct. 1,1802; mu.t.\\nout June 21, 1864.\\nOtt, Jacob, private, enl. May 30, 1861 killed in action at Wilderne-e,\\nVa., May 1804.\\nPerkins, Daniel, private, enl. May 30, 1861 mu.t. out June 21. 1864.\\nPaxlon. Abram A., Corp., enl. M..y 30.I861; l.t .ergt.. Dec. 29. 1861\\ncolor aergeant must. ..ul June 21, 1804.\\nRatter Felix, private, enl. May 30, 1801 mu.t. out Juno 21. 1864.\\nR\u00e2\u0080\u009el\u00e2\u0080\u009e.rl., William II., private, enl. May 30. 1861 mu.t. out June 21,\\n1864.\\nScott, Ge..r,e, private, enl. May 3o, 1801 dl.ch. f..r dl.ahllity at Camp\\nSeminary, Va., March 3, 1802.\\nSherrmn, William, private, enl. May 3 1861 mu.t. out June 21, 1804.\\n\u00c2\u00bblm..nl .n. He Win. private, enl. Mi.y 30, 1861 dlKh. |Kir ..nler of War\\nUepL, to accept a cowm-lou a. 2d lleut. Co. I. 261h Regt.; not\\ninn.lered.\\nSmith ll.d-.ri o, .ergt, enl. May 30. 1801 mu.L out June 21, 1864.\\nSmith, An,,, T.. private, enl. May 30. l\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abl 1 Corp., March 17, 1862; mu.t.\\nout Juii 21, 1864.\\n.8mith, John, i.rlvale, enl. May 30, IH61.\\nHip, Vreeland, private, enl. May 30, 1801 dlKh, Aug. 5, 1863. to engage\\nIn Kiinb .at .ervice.\\nSllng.rlan.l, John T., private, enl. May .10, 1861.\\nSlater. John J., private, enl. May 30, 1861 must, out June 21, 1864.\\nVan Boulen, Wallingaon, private, enl. May 30, 1861 trans, to Vet. Re..\\nCorp., March 16, 1864 disch. therefrom June 4, 1804.\\nVan Giewn. iMac, private, enl. May 30, 1801 mlaeing in action May 8,\\n1864 reported to have died at Florence, S. C.\\nWalkington, Sam. B., Jr., private, enl. May 30, 1801 Corp., Oct. 1, 1862;\\n1st .ergt., June 1, 1863; paroled priwner: diKh. at TrenloD, N. J.;\\nmu.t. onl Feb. 28, 1865.\\nWalthall. Jame., private, enl. May 30. 1801 dlKh. at convalewent\\ncamp, Alexandria, Va., July 15, 1863, for .Usability.\\nWatta, George, private, enl. May 30, 1861; diach. at C. S. A. Hoap..\\nNewark, N. J., Feb. 28, 1863, for disability.\\nWhile, John G. B., private, enl. May 30, 1801; pro. com.-aergt., Feb. 23,\\nWinter.. William, private, enl. May 30, 1861 dUch. at camp near White\\nOak Church, Va., April 13, 1803, for disability.\\nWinlield, Daniel H., private, .nl. May 30, 1861 corp., March 17, 1862\\n2d lleut., July 0, 1802; l.t lieut rice Whitehead, tran.ferred, Oct.\\n22. 1863 must, out June 21, 1804.\\nWhitney, Samuel S., private, enl. May 30, 1801; disch. at conv.l\u00c2\u00abKen\u00c2\u00bb\\ncamp, Alexandria, Va., Jan. 30, 1803, for disability.\\nZabriskie, John, private, enl. Sept. 30, 1801 recruit; killed in icxlon at\\nGaines Farm, Va., June 27, 1862.\\nTHIRD REGIMENT (EXCELSIOR BRIGADE).\\nCOXPANV C.\\n/Vicoie*.\\nMar.li, William H.\\nPerry, Joseph.\\nRear, William U.\\nCromln, Jamea\\nFarrel, David,\\nllinchy, Maurice\\nCOMPAXT K.\\nBirmingham, Patrick, privale, enl. June 4, 1801.\\nCotter, John G., private, enl. May 10, 1801 nmst. in June 4, 1861 dlsch.\\nat Washington, D. C, May 22, 1802. for disability.\\nGrimley, Patrick, private, enl. June 4, 1801 pro. .ergt., April 30, 1863;\\nuiust. out June 23, 1804.\\nIhukett, Joseph, private, enl. May 10, 1801; muat. in Juno 4, 1801\\nmust, out June 23, 1S04.\\nKierniun, Mahael. private, enl. May 10, 1801 mu.t. In June 4,1801;\\ndisch at Fort Worth, Va for diMbllity, April 4, 1862.\\nO Neill Thomas, private, enl. May 10, 1801 must. In June 4, 1801 pro.\\nto c.irp., Dec. 24, 1862 killed In action near Spottsylvania, Va May\\na, 1804.\\nRose, Henry, private, eul. July 8, 1801 trane. to Co. C. 15th Regt., June\\n4 1804 d..ch. at Tri nUin, N. J., Aug. 10, 1804.\\nStone r William, private, enl. June 4, 1801 mu.t. out June 23, 1804.\\nSchaus, Henry, private, enl. May 10, 18.11 mu.t. In June 4, 1861 disch.\\nat C. S. A. Gen. llosp., Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 19, 1863, on account\\nof wounds riWln-d in action.\\nWatson, Georg.., privale, enl. July 8, 1801 must, in July 8, 1861 dlKh.\\nal K..it Mcllenry, Md., Sept. 29, 1802, fur disability.\\nFIFTH REGIMENT\\nCollUM O.\\nBergen, Martin, musician, mu.t. In Aug. 22, 1861 mu.t. out Sept. 7.\\n1KC4\\nDougheriy, Charle. W., private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861 dlwh. at codt.Iw.\\ncent camp, Alexan.lriH, Va March 14. 1803. for dlaability.\\nDuer, Alain, privaf, onl. and must. in. \\\\ug. 22. 1801.\\nFairhursl, William, private, enndled and must. In Aug. 22, 1861 dlKh.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009el Div Gen. Ho.p, Alexandria, Va.. May 23, 1804, for diwiblllty.\\nFeahan, William, private, mu.t. in Aug. 22, 1861 must, out Sept. 7.\\n1K04\\nFre.lan.l ,John H., private, enl. and must In Aug. 22, 1861 .lied at For-\\ntree. Monroe, Va., \u00c2\u00bblay 20, 1862. \u00e2\u0080\u009ef wound, received In aclion at W il-\\nllamaburg, Va.; I.nrie.1 at National Cem.lery. Hampton. b., R-.w\\n13 Sec D, Grave 40.\\nGrave. James, private, enlisted and mu.t. In Sept. 2. 1861 dl\u00c2\u00ab:h. at\\nU. S. A. Uo.p., Philadelphia, Pa., April 1\u00c2\u00bb, 1863, of wound. rec\u00c2\u00ablv\u00c2\u00abl\\nIn action. 0.7 laiu\\nHal.tea.l, Albert, private, niu.t. Sept. 2, 1861 mo.t. lo on Sopl. 7. 1864.\\nwith regiment.\\nHand. J\u00e2\u0080\u0094e. privale, mu.t. In Sept. 2, 1861 dl\u00c2\u00abh. at camp naar W \u00c2\u00bb.h-\\nIngton, D. C, Nov. In, 1801, for disability.\\nH\u00c2\u00ab.ney, Henry, private, mu.t. In Aug. 2 2. 1801 died of chronic dy\u00c2\u00abn.\\nt\u00e2\u0080\u009ery at HarrlKn Umllng. Va., July 10, 1802.\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0198.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "RECORD OF PASSAIC COUNTY MEN IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 155\\nMann, Alexander, private, must, in Sept. 2, 1861.\\nMcCaiTon, Jolin, private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861 corp., Jan. 1, 1863; missing\\nin action at Cliancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863 siippogeii to be dead.\\nMcMilligan. Joseph, pt ivate, enl. Aug. 22, 1861 disch. at convalescent\\ncamp, Alexandria, Va., April 20, 1863, for disability.\\nMiniel, George, private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861 discb. at Budd s Ferry, Md.,\\nMay 20, 1862, for disiibility.\\nMiller, David, corp., must, in Aug. 22, 1861; private, June 26, 1862;\\nmust, out Sept. 7, 1S64, with regiment.\\nNorbury, William, private, must, in Aug. 2:^, 1861; discb. at 3d C^brps\\nIIosp., near Fort Lyon, Va., Nov. 18, 1862, for disability.\\nPatton, TboniaB, private, must, in Aug. 22. 1861 trana. to Co. F, 7th\\nRegt. re-enl. Feb. 25, 1864.\\nPerry, John, private, must, in Sept. 2, 1861.\\nPoBt, Peter, private, must, in Sept. 2, 1861.\\nRainsford, Charles E., private, must, in Aug. 22, 1861 disch. at U. S. A.\\nGen. HoBp Washington, D. C, Aug. 26, 1862, for disability.\\nRoche, Philip, private, enl. Se]it. 23, 18G1 disch. to join regular army,\\nOct. 26, 1862.\\nSalmon, Patrick, private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861; disch. to join re^Iar\\narmy, Oct. 26, 1862.\\nStalter, David, private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861.\\nWalsh, Livsey, private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861; disch. at Annapolis, Md.,\\nApril 17, 186 for disability.\\nWilliamson, SHmuel, private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861 must, out Sept. 7, 1864,\\nwith regiment.\\nWilliamson, William, private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861 killed in action at\\nWilderness, Va., May 5, 1864.\\nWinterbottom, Radcliff, private, enl. Sept. 2, 1861 disch. at camp, Chees-\\nman s Creek, Va., April 10, 1862, for disability.\\nVan Horn, William, wagoner, enl. Aug. 22, 1861 must, out with regt.\\nSept. 7, 1864.\\nYoung, Peter, private, enl. Aug. 22, 1861 disch. at U. S. A. Gen. IIosp.,\\nBaltimore, Md., Dec. 19, 1862, for disabilitv.\\nSIXTH REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS.\\nCompany A.\\nJohnson, W. J., son of Capt. Johnson, of Paterson.\\nCompany B.\\nOakley, William.\\nSinclair, William.\\nAdams, Joseph.\\nBriggs, Joshua A.\\nCampbell, Brunett.\\nDunkerly, James.\\nElliott, Thomas.\\nFreeland, Cornelius.\\nGlancy, James.\\nArchey, Jumes..\\nCompany C.\\nHamilton, Alexander.\\nHolt, Cyrus.\\nKershaw, William.\\nMcCann, John.\\nMcKenney, Owen.\\nScanlau, Edward.\\nTrumley, Lewis.\\nComp.vny G.\\nBlauvelt, Cornelius. Smith, John.\\nCompany H.\\nSwift. David.\\nThomas\\nSergeants. J. Horsfau, James\\nCorporals. Windsor Blake, J,\\nDrtimmer. John Miller.\\nBlack, Daniel.\\nBolson, Janiee.\\nBridge, Robert.\\nButterworth, Abram.\\nCassidy, William.\\nCarrigan, John.\\nCavanaugh, Patrick.\\nClark, David.\\nCowan, James.\\nCraig, John (1).\\nCraig, John (2).\\nCrowell, George.\\nDoty, Patrick.\\nDavis, William.\\nCompany I.\\nSpence, Lieutenant.\\nKenworthy, J. H. Theberat, Peter Tawse.\\nBunco, Joseph Dunning, Patrick Lynch.\\nPrivates.\\nDiggin, James.\\nGolwey, Robert I.\\nGallagher, Patrick.\\nGibbs, William.\\nHopper, William.\\nKnight, James,\\nMai-shall, William.\\nMcMahon, Thomas.\\nMoran, John.\\nMorrow, Arthur.\\nOldnian, John.\\nPalmer, James.\\nPaterson, Robert.\\nPorter, John.\\nTaken prisoner by the enemy at Fort Pickens.\\nRobinson, James.\\nRussell, David.\\nSinclair, Andrew.\\nSmith, James.\\nTaylor, John.\\nCupitt, George.\\nWilliamson, Kane.\\nWhitney, John H.\\nWhitney, Theodore.\\nWoods, Thomas.\\nWalker, Samuel.\\nCOMP.\\\\NV K.\\nEIGHTH REGIMENT.\\nCompany D.\\nAlbion, Charles, private, enl. Aug. 29, 1861 no record.\\nChristie, John, Corp., enl. Aug. 29, 1861; sergt, Nov. 25, 1863; died of\\nclironic djarrhiea at Camp Parole. Annapolis, Md., Dec. 16, 1864.\\nMiller, Abraham, private, enl. Aug. 29, 1861; disch. at Washington, D.\\nC, May 6, 1862, for disability.\\nPound, John P., private, enl. Aug. 29, 1861 diach. at Harewood U. S. A.\\nGen. Hosp., Washington, D. C, March 12, 1863, for disability.\\nVan Houten, Henry G., private, enl. Aug. 29, 1861; disch. at Ladies\\nHome Gen. Hosp., New York City, April 7, 1864, for disability.\\nCompany K.\\nAckerly, John, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 died of typhoid f\u00c2\u00abver at IT.\\nS. A. Hosp., Br-.oklyn, N. Y., July 20, 1862.\\nDonahue, Martin, private, enl. March 15, 1865; substitute; trans, to Co.\\nH. (See record in Bat. B, 1st Art.)\\nEakins (or Akiiis), private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861; disch. for disability at\\nFalmouth, Va., April 19, 1863.\\nElliott, Hugh, private, enl. Sept 13, ISGl.\\nFields, William H., private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nFeb. 15, 1864; disch. therefrom Sept. 26, 1864.\\nFendow(or Finden), John, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 disch. for disabil-\\nity at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, A.ig. 15, 1862.\\nFox, Henry D., corp., enl. Sept. 13, 1861 tlitich, at U. S. A. Hosp., New\\nYork, Jan. 5, 1863, for disability.\\nFury, Wiiliiim, corp., enl. Sept. 13, 1861 disch. at Harrison s Landing,\\nVa., Aug. 3, 1863, for disability.\\nHalstead, William E., private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 died May 18, 1863, of\\nwounds received in action atChancellorsville, Va.\\nHeywood, Joseph, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 trana. to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nSept. 30, 1863; disch. therefrom Aug. 12, 1864.\\nHough, John, private, enl. Oct. 19, 1861 disch. at U. S. A. Hosp. at Ba!\\ntimore. Mil., Jan. 30, 1863, for disability.\\nLangwith, Samuel, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 must, out Sept. 21, 1864.\\nMcNeill, John, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861.\\nMoBcly, Richard R., private, enl. Oct. 24, 1861 killed in action at Chan-\\ncellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.\\nO Neill, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861; trans, to Co. C; re-enl.\\nDec. 25,1863.\\nQuackenbush, John, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861; trans, to Vet. Rea.\\nCorps, Jan. 15, 1864; disch. therefrom Sept. 13, 1864.\\nRobinson, James, substitute, enl. June 2, 1864 trans, from Co. C final\\nrecord incompleta.\\nSomerville, Alexander, coip., enl. Aug. 1, 1862; sergt., Dec. 10, 1862\\ndisch. at U. S. A. Gen. Hosp., Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 5,1863.\\nSharp, Squire, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 killed in action at Williams-\\nburg, Va., May 5, 1862.\\nSpeer, Peter, private, f nl. Sept. 13, 1861 must, out Sept. 21, 1864.\\nSmitli, Frederick B., private, enl. Sept. 13,1861; musr. out Sept. 21,1864.\\nStorms, Thomas G., private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 disch. at U. S. A. Gen.\\nHosp., Newark, N. J., Jan. 23, 1863, for disability.\\nVan Allen, Peter, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861.\\nWeymer, Isaac, private, enl. Sept. 13, 18 .1 disch. at U. S. A. Hosp. at\\nNewark, N. J., Dec. 22, 1862, for disability.\\nWinterbottom, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 must, out Sept. 21,\\n1864.\\nNINTH REGIMENT.\\nCompany A.\\nBeigher, Joseph, private, enl. Sept. 13, 1861 died at Chesapeake U. S. A.\\nGen. Hosp., Fortress Monroe, Va., May 15, 1864, of wounds received\\ninaction at Swift Creek, Va.; buried at Hampton National Ceme-\\ntery, Va. trans, from Co. M re-enl. Jan. 18, 1864.\\nDegteman, John, private, enl. Sept. 26, 1861 trans to Co. E, Nov. 17\\n1862 disch. at Newberne, N. C, Jan. 14, 1863, for disability.\\nCompany C.\\nCooper, Henry C., private, enl. Sept. 10, 1861; corp., Jan. ig, 1863; re-\\nenl. Jan. 18, 1864 sergt., Sept. 9, 1864 must, out July 12, 1865.\\nCorcoran, John, corp., enl. Sept. 10, 1861 re-enl. Nov. 25, 1863; must.\\nout July 12, 1865.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0199.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "ISO\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nGould, Georg* C, Corp., on). Sept. 10, 1861; prirato, Jul; 31, 1863; ra-\\nenl. Not. 28, 1863: mint, nut July 12, 1865.\\nHouk, Georgf, pritate, (nl. Sept. lU, 1861 reHinl. J*D. 18, 1864.\\nJacolmt, John II. A., priTate, onl. Sept. 10, 1861; Corp., J\u00c2\u00abD. 16, 1862;\\nmuni, out Dec. 8, 1864.\\nManning, Benjamin, private, enl. Sept 10, 1861 re^enl. Jan. 18, 1864\\nmust, out July I J, IStiA.\\nBiker, Thomas, private, enl. Sept. 10, 1861 must, out Dec. 8, 1864.\\nStagg, William W., private, enl. Sept. 10, 18C1 must, out Dec. 8, 1864.\\nVoorhcea, Henry, wagoner, enl. Sept. 10, 1861 re-enl. Jan. 18, 1864\\nmust, out July 12, 1865.\\nCOHPANY E.\\nBroirn, James, suhstitulc, enl. Oct. 1, 1864 disch. at Greensboro*, N. C,\\nG. O. 73. C. S. 1866, Dcpt. N. C.\\nBerdan, Richard J., corp., enl. Sept. 20, 1861 sergt., Feb. 20, 1863; Irt\\nsergt., Nov. 9, 1863; re-enl. Jan. 18, 1864; pro. to 2d lieut., Co. C,\\n.\\\\ug. 29, 1864, rice Rogere, promoted pro. to q.m., Feb. 10, 1865.\\nBonney, Charles E., eergt.-maj., enl. May 1, 1862; 2d lieut, rice B. W-\\nHopper, promoted ree d Juno 22, 1863.\\nCarlough, John N private, enl. Sipt 20, I8C1 re-enl. Jan. 18, 1864;\\nCorp., Dec. 7, 1864; must, out July 12, 1866.\\nDelaney, TInton, private, enl. Sept. 20, 1861 died at Craven Street\\nHosp., Newhemi N. C, .\\\\pril 29, 1862; buried there.\\nDulTonl, Benjamin V., private, enl. Sept 20, 1861 dlsch. at Newberoe,\\nN. C, .\\\\ug. 12, 1862, for dlsiiliility.\\nDunkerley, Enoch, private, enl Sept 20, 1861 must, out Dec. 8, 1864.\\nGilliam, George M., private, enl. Sept. 20, 1801 must, out Dec. 8, 1864.\\nGoldsmith, James Bnyard. Ist scrgt., enl. Sept. 20. 1861 pro. lo 2d lieut.\\nBat. E, Ist Regt N. J. Art., Sept 8, 186:1 ree d Feb. 9, 1864.\\nIlalliwell.Thomas J, private, enl. Sept 20, 1861 must out Dec. 8, 1864.\\nHudson, Thomas H., no record.\\nlluniellin, John 1 private, enl. Sept 20, 1861 must out Dec. 7, 1864.\\nKing, William H., musician, enl. Sept 20, 1861; re-enl. Jan. 18, 1864;\\nmust, out July 12, 186.S.\\nKing, Edo M., sergt., enl. Sept. 20, 1861 disch. at Trenton, N. J., Dec,\\n8,1864.\\nKing, Michael, private, enl. Sept. 20, 1861 disch. at Newberne, N. 0.,\\nM.irch 31, 1863, for disability.\\nMunson, William L., private, enl. Sept. 20, 1861; Corp., Nov. 7, 1863;\\ndisch. Dec. 1864.\\nMcClelland, Jumea, private, enl. Sept 20, 1861 disch. at Newberne, N.\\nC. Feb. 28, 1863, for disability.\\nMoore, William, private, enl. Sept. 20, 1801 re-enl. Jan. 18, 1864.\\nOsborne, Jcihn II,. private, enl. Sept 24, 1861,\\nPrentiss, William, private, enl. Se|it, 20, 1861 must, out Doc. 7, 1864.\\nPost, llulmuth, private, onl. Sept 20, 1801 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps;\\ndisch. Ihernfroni Oct. 20, 1804.\\nRankin, Jai private, onl. Sept 20, 1861 re-enl. Jan. 18, 1864; must.\\nuul July VI, I\u00c2\u00ab6.\\nReld, Wllllani, private, enl. Sept 20, 1861 disch. at Ward U. 8. A. Gen.\\nHoBli Newark, N. J., March 18, 1864, lor disability.\\nRice, Arthur, private, enl. Sopt. 2 1861 re-enl. Jan. 18, H64; must\\nout July 12, 1866.\\nSomeni, William H., private, enl. Si pt 20, 1861 ro-onl. Jan. 18, 1864;\\nmust out July 12, 1865.\\nStnlor, David J., Corp., onl Sept 20, 1861; sergt, Oct. 8, 1863; dlsch. at\\nFortress Monroe, Va., Sept. 22, 1864.\\nSlswin (or Sasstin), Koliert A., private, onl Sept. 20, 1861 re-onl. Jan. IK,\\n1864; must Ul July 12, IK65.\\nTierce, John, Corp., enl. Sept. 20, 1861; privalo, Dw. 24, 1862; pro. to\\nqr.-mr. wrgt, Dec. 24, 1863.\\nSmith, nolnrt M., private, .-nl. Sept. 21), 1861 dlsch. al Newberne, N. C,\\nMay 29, 1K63, f..r disability,\\nValentine, Darld, private, enl, .Sept 211, 1861 dlsch. at Newport Newt,\\nVa., Jan. K 1864, arm amputated.\\nVan llouten, Oscar, con enl, Sept. 20, 1861; private, Dec. 24, 1862; pro.\\nto qr.-mr. sergt., Dec. 24, 186:1; re-enl. Jan. IN, 1804 com. 2d heut\\nCo. K nut iinisli\u00c2\u00bbre l.\\nVan RIpiT, Wllllani T., private, enl. Sept, 20,1861 r*-enl. Nov. 30, 1863\\nmust ul July 12, IWIS.\\nVan Schaii k, ll Miry M., private, enl. .Sept, 20, 1861 pro, to sergt.-m^\\nIl\u00c2\u00abc, ^4. lHn2; re-enl. Nov. 311, 1863; must oul July 12. 1X65,\\nWilliams. Janiee, private, enl, Sept. 2 11*61; died at U. S. A. Hosp., at\\nlleaiifort N. C, Sept 28, 1864; also rofiorted dlsch. Dec. 7, 1864.\\nWinters, John, private. Sept, 21), 1861 Corp., Dec. 24, 18S2; must out\\n(Ml. 15, 1864.\\nTENTH NEW JERSET INFANTRY.\\nGoMPAHT r.\\nAllen, Stephen W\u00e2\u0080\u009e 2d lieut, com. Dec. 31, 1861 Itt lieut, rice William\\nRennyson, promoted, April 17, 1862 res d June 12, 1863.\\nAriaus, Henry, private, enl. Dec. 14, 1861.\\nBarthoir, lialph It., private, enl. Dec, 30, 1861 Corp. March I, 1864 re-\\nenl, Jan, 3, 1864 killed in action at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864.\\nOarlough, William 11., Corp., enl. Dec. 16, 1861 private, Deo. 15, 1862 re-\\nenl. Jan. 3, 1864; trans, to Vet Ree. Corps, March 17,1866; disch.\\nOct 10, 1876.\\nCoventry, William, sergt, enl, Dec. 30, 1861 re-enl. Jan. 3, 1864 disch.\\nat U. S. A. Ilospilal. Washiiigt..n, D. C April 22, 1865, for diaaldlity.\\nCarr, John, substitute, enl. Aug. 2, 1864; disch, at Trenton, N. J., ortler\\nWar Dept., Sept. 18, 1865.\\nCavanagh, William, private, enl. Dec. 31, 1861 disch. at Wash)Dgt\u00c2\u00ab D,\\nD. C, Jan. 23, 1863.\\nCook, Jacob, private, enl. Dec. 31, 1861 re-enl. Jan. 3, 1864; must, out\\nJuly I, 1865.\\nChadwick, Edwanl, private, enl. Dec. 31, 1861 disch. at Trenton, N. J.,\\nFeb. 28, 1865, for disability.\\nClues, Isaiah, rorruit, i-nl. Feb. 7, 1862 dlsch. at Trenton, N. J., order\\nWar Dept., May 3, 1865.\\nDuige, John, private, enl. Dec, 29, 1861 discb. at Washington, D. C, Aug.\\n30, 1K62, (or dieabilily.\\nDeeths, Beiijaniin, private, enl. Dec. 23, 1861.\\nDillon, Robert private, enl, Dec, 3 J, 1861 died of dysentery at I alel^\\nson.N, J., July 7, 1863.\\nEckhart, Angiii.tus, recruit, enl. Feb. 7, 1862 re-enl Jan. 3, 1864 dlsch.\\nfrom Summit House U. S A. Gen, Huep., May 3, 1865.\\nGariey (or Goi by), William, private, enl. Dec, 19, 1861 re-enl. Jan. S,\\n1864; must, out July I, 1865.\\nGibbs, Samuel, private, enl, Dec, 30, 1861 disch. at Washington, D. C,\\nJuly, 18, 1863, for disability.\\nGarntbrant, James, private, enl, Dec. 30, 1861.\\nGardner, John J., recruit, enl. Jau. 1, 1862; Corp., June 26, 1863 must\\nout Feb. 11,1865.\\nHarris, Deiijamlu, sergt, enl, Jan. 14, 1863 dlsch. at Trsnton, N. J., Feb.\\n18, 1865, paroled iirisoner.\\nHenry, Peter, recruit, enl. Jan. 14, 1862; re-enl. Jan. 3, 1864; dlsch, at\\nTrenton, N. J., by order War Dept, June 28, 1866; must, out July\\n6, 1865.\\nHarry, .\\\\braham, private, enl. Dec, 30, 1861 trans, to Vet. Res, Corpa,\\nSept. 1, 1863; died of smallpox at hospital, Washington, D, C, Feb.\\n12, 1864.\\nHoU, William, private, enl. Dec. 2.3, 1861 re-enl. Jan. 3, 1864 dle t of\\ncbntnic diarrhrea at hospital, Annapolis, Md, Dec. 20, 1864.\\nJebb, Philip J. W., strgl enl Dec, 13, 1861 killed In action at S\\\\xitt-\\nsylvania, Blay 12, 1864; buried at Fredericksburg, Va., Nat. Ceni.\\nLynes, Patrick, private, enl. Dec. 31, 1861.\\nLord, Joseph, private, onl. Doc. 30, 1861 re^inl. Jan. 3, 1864; must, out\\nJuly 1. 1865,\\nMcllride, Robert private, enl, Jan. 3, 1862 ditch, at Washington, D. C,\\nJune 10, 1862, fur disiibillty.\\nMcDnniels, Gilbi rt private, enl Dec. 23, 1861 re-enl, Jan, 3, 1864 Corp.,\\nMay 16. 1865; must out July 1, 1K6.5.\\nHabie, Frederick, private, ,.nl Dec. 31, 1861 died of chronic dlarrhica\\nSt li S. A. Hosp., Annalxdis, Md., March 12, 1866.\\nMcCourt, Thomas, private, enl Dec. 30, 1861.\\nMarks. John, private, enl. Iler, 30, 1861; disch. at Washington, D. C,\\nJuno 10, 1862, for disability\\nHcCrea, Janiea, recruit, enl. .Ian. 3, 1862; re-enl. Jau. 3, 1864; must, out\\nJuly 1,1S0.S.\\nHcGorgan, Fxlward, recruit, enl. Jan. 3, 1862; re-enl. Jan 3,1864; must\\nout July 1, 1864.\\nMenish, John, cirp., enl. Jan. 14, IK62; died at hoeplUl, Washington,\\nD. C, May 28, 1864, of wounds received in actiou at Spottsylvania,\\nVa., May 12, 1864,\\nRennyson, William, com. 1st lieut Dec. 31, 1861; pro. to capt., to All\\noriginal vacancy, March 28, 1862; rea d Jan. 26, 1864.\\nBomaine, Abraluim i;., private, enl. Dec, 24, 1861 disch, at Watbiogton,\\nD, I May 14. 1862, for disability.\\nSandfonl, Leonard, Islvergt, enl. Dec. 19, 1861 com. 2d lieut, Co I, Deo.\\n18, 1864; not miisterwl.\\nBllngerlend, Thomas, private, enl. Dec, 14,1861.\\nSherwood, James, private, enl. Dec. 27, 1861 rorp., June 26, 1863; pri-\\nvate, Nov 26, 1863; re enl. Jan. 3, 1864; must, out July 1, 1866.\\nBherwiKjd, Robert, private, enl. Dec. 30, 1861 died al U. S. A. H\u00c2\u00bbp.,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0200.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "RECORD OF PASSAIC COUNTY MEN IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n157\\nBaltimore, Md., Sept. 18, lbG4, of wounds received in action iit Win-\\nchester, Va., Aug. 17, 1864; buried at Loudon Park National Ceme-\\ntery, Baltimore, Md.\\nSmith, William, private, eol. Dec. 15, 1861; re-enl. Jan. 3, 1864; corp.,\\nMarch 8, 1805 must, out July 1, 1865.\\nVan Riper, William, private, enl. Dec. 25, 1861.\\nVan Riper, Stephen, private, enl. Dec. :tn, 1861; re-enl. Jan. 4, 1864;\\nkilled in action at Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 14, 1864.\\nVau Dien, Garret J., private, enl. Jan. 14, 1862; recruit; disch. near\\nPetersburg, Va., Jan. 14, I860.\\nWarbnrton, James, recruit, enl. Aug. :il, 1862.\\nWentwick, Raient, private, enl. Dec. 16, 1861 disch. at Waahingtou,\\nD. C, June 27, 1862, for disability.\\nWatte, John, private, enl. Dec. 19, 1861 re-enl. Jan. 3, 1864; disch. at\\nU. S. A. Iloap. at Newark, N. J., Muy 4, 1865.\\nWillinmson, James, recruit, enl. Feb. 7, 1862; re-enl. Jan. 3, 1864; disch.\\nat U. S. A. Hoap., Baltimore, Md,, July 17, 1865\\nWoods, Thomas, recruit, enl. Feb. 7, 1862 died of typhoid ftner at Wash-\\nington, D. C, May 10, 1862.\\nWhite, James, recruit, enl Jan. 14, 1862; wagoner; re-enl. Jan. 20, 1864;\\nmust, out July 1, 1865.\\nWright, Williaui, private, enl. Dec. 19, 1861 disch. near Petersburg, Va.,\\nDec. 19, 1864.\\nWright, David M.,corp., eul. Dec. 19, 1861; sergt., May 16, 1865; re-eul.\\nJan. 3, 1864; must, out July 1, 1865.\\nPolhamus, Jolin, private, eul. Dec. 19, 1861.\\nMitchell, William, private, enl. Jan. 14, 1862; died of typhoid fevrr at\\nU. S. A. Hosp., Washington, 0. C, May 1, 1862.\\nPost, Joseph P., private, enl. Dec. 23, 1861 re-enl. Jan. 3, 1864 disch. at\\n.Ward U. S. A. Hosp., Newark, N. J., May 4, 1865.\\nPeck, George, private, enl. Dec. 23, 1861.\\nPolhamus, James, private, enl. Dec. 30, 1861 corp., Jan. 25, 1863; died\\nof chronic diarrhu a at Berryville, Va., Sept. 16, 1864.\\nGardner, Janien E., recruit, enl. Feb. 7, 1862.\\nYeoniaiis, Zachariah, private, enl. Dec. 2J, 1861.\\nTHIRTEENTH REGIMENT.\\nCompany C (David A. Ryerson, Captain).\\nArlington, Peter, private, enl. Aug. 4, 1862; distli. at Harrisburg, Pa.,\\nFeb. 11, 1863, fur wounda received in action at Antieram, Md.\\nBaker, John W., corp,, enl. Aug. 12, 1SG2; private, Nov. 19, 1S62; must.\\nout June 8, 1865.\\nBarnes, Alexander, corp., enl. Aug. 4, 1862; trans, to Vet. Res. Coi-ps,\\nNov. 13, 1863 diecli. therefrom for disability, April 25, 1865, at Phil-\\nadelphia, Pa.\\nBarnes, Nathaniel, private, enl. Aug. 4, 1862 trans, to Co. I; died at\\nMarietta, Ga., Aug. 1, 1864, of wounds received in action.\\nBall, Abraham S., private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; disch. at Trenton, N. J.,\\nMay 3, 1865, by order of War Dejiartment.\\nBartholomew, Gustavus, private, onl. Aug. 11, 1862.\\nBaitzell, George W., 8ergt.,enl. July 20,1862; 1st sergt., Nov. 1, 1862; 2d\\nlieut., vice Ryerson, promoted cmii. Ist lieiit. Co. K not mustered\\ndisch. June 26, 1S64.\\nBIythara, William 11., enl. July 31, 186i trans, to Co. G, Aug. 24, 18G2.\\nBeresford, William J., private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862 trans, to Co, I.Aug.\\n24, 1862 died of fever at Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864.\\nBogert, David, private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862; trans, to Co. I, Aug. 24, 1862\\nmust, out June 8, 1865.\\nBrown, Jolin, private, eul. Auir. 5, 1862.\\nBrown, Amzi W., private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nBrown, William A., substitute, enl. Oct. 11, 1861; trans, to unjissigned\\ncompany, 33d Regt.\\nBrower, Ellswortli, let aergt., enl. Aug. 11, 1S62; died of diarrhtea at\\nSliarpsburg, Md., Nov. 8, 1862.\\nBurris, Charles D.. corp., enl. Aug. 9,1862; must, .mt June J 1865.\\nBurris, David H., private, eul. Aug. lU, 1862; discli. at Newark, N. J.,\\nby order of War Department, April 28, 1805.\\nBucklish, William, let lieut., com. Aug. 10, 1S62; res d Oct. 9, 1862.\\nCarlough, William, private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862 disch. at Newark, N. J\\nWard U. S A. Hosp., by ordei- of War Department, May 3, 1865.\\nClark, Thomas, piivate. enl. Aug. 7, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nCrawford, John C, private, eul. Aug. 13, 1862 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nComer, George H., private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862 disch. at U. S. A. Hosp.,\\nWashington, D. C, Aug. l.S, 1863, for disability.\\nCucokoro, Jacob, private, enl. Aug. 9, 1862 must, out June S, 1865.\\nCrouter, Joseph, private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862; trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nSept. 1, 1803 disch. May 6, 1864.\\nU\\nDemarest, James A., private, enl. Aug. 20, 1862 disch. at AVashington,\\nD. C, Aug. 3, 1863, for disability.\\nDecker, Charles enl. Aug. 1, 1862 disch. at Washington, D. C, Dec.\\n23, 1862, for disability.\\nDeachant, John, private, enl. Aug. 10, 1862; missing in actioti at Chnn-\\ncellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; supposed dead.\\nDonnelly, Arthur B., private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862; corp., June 3,1863;\\ndisch. at De Camp U. S. A. Gen. Hoep., David s Island, New Yoik\\nHarbor, July 22, 1865.\\nEdwards, Andrew, private, enl. Aug. 1, 1862; disch. at Hairisbuig, Pa.,\\nFeb. 11, 1863. of disability.\\nEdwards, Horace W., recruit, enl. Sept. 28, 1864; disch. at Ward U. S. A.\\nHosp., Newark, N. J., May 3, 1865, by order of War Department.\\nEisenhart, John C, private, enl, Aug. 7, 1862; corp., Nov. 19, 1862; sergt.\\nAug. 1(1, 1863 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nFitzgerald, Edward, juivate, enl. Aug. 1, 1862; disch. at Newark, N. J.,\\nAug. 28, 1863, for disability.\\nFredericks, Henry, private, eul. Aug. 15, 1862; must, out Jnu*^ 8, 1865.\\nGant, John H., sergt., enl. Aug. 9, 1862; Ist sergt., Sept. 11,1863; must.\\nout June 8, 1865.\\nGalTney, Michael, private, enl. Aug. s, 1S62.\\nGraham, James, recruited Sept. 2S, 1864; died at Cedar Creek, N. C,\\nMarcli 17, 1865, of wounds received in action at Averysboro N. C,\\nMarch 16,1805.\\nGougb, James B., private, enl. July 26, 1862; corp., April 1, 1864 must.\\nout June 8, 1865.\\nGouge, William 0., private, eni. Aug. 1, 1862 corp., Nov. 19, 1802 sergt.,\\nSept. 11. 1863; disch. at Ward U. S. A. Hosp., Newark, N. J., May 3,\\n1865, by order of War Dept.\\nGannon, Daniel, private, enl. Aug. 1, 1862 disch. at U. S. Gen. Hosp.,\\nPhiladeljihia, Pa., April 27, 1863, for disability.\\nGannon, John, private, enl. July 29, 1862; disch. at U. S. A. (Jen. IIosp.\u00c2\u00bb\\nWixshiiigtoti, D. C, Jan. 22, 1863, for disability.\\nGarrison, Freeborn, private, enl. Aug. 4, 1862; corp., June 3, lHi)3; disch.\\nat De Camp U. 8. A. Hosp., DaviilVs Island, New York Harbor. July\\n22,1865.\\nGetchius, George, private, enl. Aug. 2, 1862; corp., Aug. 7, 1862.\\nGreenalst, Joseph, private, enl. Aug. 5, 1862 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nGarrabrant, Henry, private, etil. Aug, 5, 1802 must, out June 8, I860.\\nGrier, Thomas H., private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nHammer, John, private, enl. July 29, 1802; missing in action at Cliancel-\\nlorsville, Va., May 3. 1863 supposed dead.\\nHall, Theodore W., private, enl. July 26, 1862; trans, tn Vet. Res. Corps,\\nSept. 1, 1863; disch. July 1, 1865.\\nHarris, George M., sergt., enl. July 26,1862; disch. at camp near Staf-\\nford Court-House, Va., Feb. 9, 1863, for disability.\\nHayes, William, 2d lieut., enl. Aug. 13,1862; 1st lieut., rice BucUlish, re-\\nsigned, Nov. 1, 1862; resigned March 29, 1863.\\nHardy, Thomas, private, enl. Aug. 8, 1862 corp., May 3, 1862 must, out\\nJune S, 1865.\\nHartley, John, private, eul. Aug. 11, 1802; disch. U. S. A. Hosp., Balti-\\nmore, Mil,, Jan. 5, 1863, for disability.\\nHuffman, Benjamin, i)rivate, eul. Aug. 7, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nHughes, John, private, enl. Aug. 8, 1862.\\nJeffries, Jacob, private, enl. Aug. 8, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nJarvis, Ebenezer C, private, enl. Aug. 13, 1862 must, out June S, 1865.\\nKelly, Edward, private, enl. Aug. 4, 1S62.\\nKnajtr, Henry, private, enl. Aug. 3,1862; disch. in the field .Xpril 5,\\n1863, for disability.\\nLarne, James, private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862; trans, to Vet. Res. Cnrjjs, Sept.\\n1, 1863; disch. July 6, 1865.\\nLise, Andrew, private, enl. Aug. 9, 1862; tuiiis. to Vet. Kes. Corps, Seid.\\n1,1863; discli. Feb, 2, 1864.\\nLytle, Gilbert C, private, eul, Aug, 7, 1862 must, out June 8, 1866.\\nLynch, Daniel, private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862; sergt., Sept. 11, 1863; must.\\nout June 8, 1865.\\nMensel, George, private, enl. July 20,1802; trans, to Co. 1; must, out\\nJune 8, 1S65.\\nMessenger, John N\u00e2\u0080\u009e sergt., enl. Aug. 7, 1862: private, Feb. in, 1865;\\nmust, out June 8, 1865.\\nManning, Benjamin B., private, enl. Aug. 15, 1862; C \u00c2\u00bbr| April 1, 1864;\\nIjrivate, Nov. 22, 1864; corp., April 28, 1865; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nMickler, Jacob, private, enl. Aug. 5, 1862; disch. at U. S. A. Hnsp, New-\\nark, N. J., April 14, 1863, for disability.\\nMcGarrity, James, private, enl. Aug. 6, 1862; disch. at convalescent\\ncamp, Alexandria, Va., Aug. 21, 1863, for disability.\\nMcCarty, Wm.. private, enl. Aug. 4, 1862; trans, to Co. G, Aug. 24, 1862.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0201.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "158\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nUoran, John, prime, enl. Aug. II, I86 2; tnni. Co Vet Bee. Corpe, Jan.\\nI, 18\u00c2\u00ab5: disch. Oct. 20. 1865.\\nMvere, George, priTatr, eul. Aug. S, 18G2; died at V. 8. A. Hoiip., Phila-\\ndelpliia, Pa., Oct. 26, 1862, of wounds received at AntJetam, Hd.,\\nSept. 17, I( C-2.\\nKix, Cliarlee, private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; niuHt. out June 8, 1865.\\nOgden. Townseud, wagoner, enl. July 26, 1862; tram, to unaligned\\nconi| any. 33d Regt. Corp., Dec. 7, 1864.\\nParliameiit, Janiei* II., private, enl. Aug. 9, 1862; disch. at U. S. A. Gen.\\nHoHp., Fort Scliuyler, New York Harbor, May 1865, by order of\\nWar Department.\\nPost, John Corp., enl. Aug. 7, 1862; disch. at Tullahoma, Tenn., Fob.\\nII, 181-4, for disuibility.\\nRemington, William, private, enl. Ang. 9, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nRyerson, Peter M. com. 2d lieut, Fob. 28, 1863; Ist lieut.,i-ice Hayes,\\nres d died July 1, 1804, of wounds received at Pine Knob, Ga., June\\n16, 18C4 buried at Ponipton, l a8.\u00c2\u00abaic Co., N. J.\\nShepherd. John .M.. private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; disch. at U. S. A. Ho\u00c2\u00abp\\nPliiladelphia, I*a., Dec. 19, 1862, of wounds received iu action at An-\\ntietam, Md.\\nShepherd, John J., private, enl. Aug. 2, 1862 trans, to Co. O, Aug. 24,\\n180-2.\\nSmith, David, cur] enl. Aug. 7, 1802; private, June 3, 1863; must, out\\nJune 8, 1866.\\nSmith, George, private, enl. Aug. 5, 1862 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nSmith, John 11., private, enl. Aug. 4, 1862; must, out June 8, 1866.\\nSmith, Gilbert, private, eoi. .Vug. 7, 1802 Corp., April 9, 186.^, must, out\\nJune 8, 1S05.\\nStewart, John M., private, enl. Aug, 11, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nStolk, Philip, private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862; Corp., May 10, 1863; must, out\\nJune 8, 1865.\\nSutton, /ebulon, private, enl. Aug. II, 1802; Irans. to Vet. Ites. Corps,\\nMarch 31, 1864; disch. June 2\u00c2\u00bb, 1805.\\nTaylor, Henry private, enl. July 28, 1862 trans, lo Co. 0, Aug. 24.\\n!8iV2; disch. at Trenton, N. J., by order 4if War Department, May 3,\\n1865. I\\nTerhnne, William N., enl. Aug. 7, 1H62 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nTui-ker, Samuel, private, enl. Aug. 7,1862; disch. at U. S. A. Hosp New-\\nark, N. J., June 4. 186:), for disability.\\nTucker, Matthew, mut\u00c2\u00abician, enl. July *26, 1862; must, out June 8, 180.^.\\nTichn.ir, William H., private, eul. Aug. 7, 1802; must, out June 8, 18G.^\\nTitus, Henry, private, enl. Aug. 6, 1862.\\n-Van Killer, Cornelius, private, enl. July 31, 1862; must, out June 8, 180. i.\\nVan Riper, Andrew, private, enl. Aug. 8, 1802; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nVarrick, Albert, private, enl. Aug. 7,1862; trans, to Co. I, Aug. 24, 1862;\\nlnui.1. out June 8, 1865.\\nVarrick, John, private, enl. Aug. 7, 1802 trans, lo Co. I, Aug. 24, 1802;\\nmust, out June 8, 1H05.\\nVan flouten, Peter, private, enl. Aug. 9, 1802 Corp., Nov. 13, 1862 sergt.-\\nmaj., June 3, I80;i; private, Nov. 27, 180;i; Corp., Dec. 7,180-1; scrgt.,\\nApril I, 1805 must, out June 8, l. ^O. i.\\nWalts, Gf.orge W., private, enl. Aiit:. 4, 1862; trans, (o Yet. live. (Virps,\\nNov. 1, 1863; recnl. Aug. 26, 1K64; diech. therefrom as airp., Nov.\\n15, l\u00c2\u00bbr,5.\\nWnetervell, Calvin, private, enl. Aug. 6, 1862; must, out June 8, 1866.\\nWostervelt, Cornelius, private, enl. Aug. 5, 1862; disch. at New York by\\ni.riler War Depurlmoiit, May 4, 1865.\\nWeslenell, l.lnii priiate, enl. Ang. 8, 1802; disch. at U. S. A. Ho\u00c2\u00abp.,\\nNo -2, Nashville, Tenn May 3, 1805.\\nWinter-, Janu s, private, enl. Ang. 7, 1802; trans, to Vel. Res. Corpe,\\nFeb. I. j, IKn4 ll\u00c2\u00abcli. lit Alexanilriii, Vs., Fob. 18, 1804, for disubillly.\\nWilson. Tl lure, private, enl. Aug. 6, 1862; trans, to Co. I, .Vug. 24,\\n1802; must, out .liine 8, 1H65.\\nWuluisley, John, private, enl. Aug. 0, 18C2; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nWhile. Jacob, private, enl. Aug. 7, 1862; must, out June 8, 186.\\nZelllT, John, private, enl. Aug. 14, 1802; trans, to Co. I, Aug. 24, 1862;\\nniiisl nut Juno 8, I8G5.\\n(^MPAXT K (Huuil C. iRiili, Captain).\\nAbbott, Thomas, private, enl. Aug, 19, 1862; disch. at V. S. A. Heap.,\\nWashington, I C Jan. 28, 180.3, for dlsablllly.\\nAbl\u00c2\u00abitl, Silo*, private, enl. Aug. 21, 1802; ilieilal Washington, D. C.,May\\n28, IHThl, of wounds received In action at t liaDcellorsvillo, Va., May\\n3, 180:1.\\nAllen, K UvlnRslon, Corp., enl. Aug. 14, 1802 sergt., Jan. 0, 180^i; must.\\nout June 8, 180.\\nAnderson, John, private, enl. Aug. 12, 1862 must, uiil June 8, 186.\\nAndeiwin, Abraham, private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862.\\nBerdan, Jacob H., enl. Aug. 8, 1862 must. out June 8, 1805.\\nBlaka, Alezaiider, private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862 must, out June 8, 18t i.\\nBerdan, John D., private, enl. Sept. 20, 1802 must out June 8, 1865.\\nBusby, Janiee, private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nBush, Abraham A.,corp, eul. Dec. 1, 1862; private. May 10, 1802; must.\\nout June 8, 1865.\\nBush, John D., Corp., enl. Aug. 12, 1802; must out June 8, 1865.\\nBrown, Archibald, private, enl. Aug. 18, 1862 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nMarch 15, 1 864 reenl. Nov. 29, 1804 disch. Oct. 22, 1800.\\nDrown, Curtis, private, enl. Aug. 14, 1862; died at U. S. A. Ho.p., West\\nPhiladelphia, Pa., March 13, 1803, of wounds received in action at\\nAntietnui, Md.\\nBntterwiirth, John, private, enl. Ang. 18, 1802; muat. out June 8, 1865.\\nBowley, William, private, enl. Aug. 18, 1802.\\nCauipbell, John A., recruit, enl. Sept. 0, 1804 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nOarlongh, John J., private, enl. Aug. 14, 1862 Corp.. Aug. 15,1863; must.\\nout June 8, 1865.\\nCarlough, Stephen, private, enl. Aug. 21, 1802; died f^m reeult of an\\naccident at Paramns, Itergen Co., N. J., Jan. 18, 1864.\\nCarter, William, private, enl. .\\\\ug. 12, 1862.\\nClark, Henry, private, enl. Aug l:t, 1802 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nClark, Charles C, private, enl. Aug. 21, 18 trans, to nuassigned i-oni-\\n{lany, :t:td Kegl. must, out June 8, 1865.\\nClark, Isaai private, eul. Aug. 18, 1802.\\nConnolly, Patrick, private, enl. Aug. 13, 1862.\\nConnell, Joseph E., private, eul. .\\\\ug. 18, 1862; wouudeil at battle of\\nCbttricellorsvillo, May 3, 1803; trans, lo Vet. lies Corps Nov. 15,\\n1803 disch. June 29, 1864, and com. 2d lieut. Vet. Res. Corjie res d\\nApril -20. 1KC6.\\nDawson, James, private, enl. Aug. 19, 1802; trans, lo Co. II.\\nDemaresI, James J., private, enl. .\\\\ug. 11, 180.*.\\nDemarent. Martin V. B., private, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; died of intermittent\\nfever .it Maryland lleighls, Mil., Oct 20, 1802.\\nDavis, Samuel II private, Co. II. enl. July 13, 1862; disch. at Newark,\\nN. J., by order War Department, May :l, 18* i5.\\nDoremus, John II., private, enl. .Vug. II, 1802; die l at I S A. Hosp.,\\nFrederick City, Md., Dec. 9, 1862, of w-ounds received at Antietam^\\nMd, Sept. 17, 1802.\\nDeyo, Wllliiim U.. private, enl. Aug 21, 1802.\\nDougheily, Samuel, sergt., enl. Aug. II, 1862; 1st sergt., Nov. 28. 1804\\nniii!.t. out June 8, 1865.\\nEngel, Jacob, private, enl. Aug. 12, 1862 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nEukers, George, corp., enl. Aug. 11, 1862 sergt., Dec. 1, 1862; 1st sergt.,\\nJan. 1, 1864 must, out Juno 8, 1865.\\nFarlow, John, private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nEppinoU, John, private, enl. Aug. 15, 1862.\\nFrcoland, William, privule, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; died at Washington,\\nMay l, 18o;l, of wounds received at Chaucellornville, May 3, 18g:1.\\nGammall, Robert, private, eul. Aug. 14, 1802; died at Frederick City,\\nMd Dec. II, 1802, of wounds nveiveil in action at Antietani, Mil.,\\nSept. 17, 1802.\\nQarnibmnt, John, private, enl. Aug. 14, 1802.\\nGmy, Charles, private, enl. .\\\\ug. 15, 1862.\\nOneiiot John II., private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862.\\nGodwin, Abraham, sergt.. eul. Aug. 9, 1862 disch. at Washington, D. C..\\nApril 24, I80:l, by order of War Dept.\\nHarris, Davbl, Corp., enl. Aug. 11,1862; private. Sept 1, 1862 con J\u00c2\u00bb\\n1, 1804 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nHopper, William II, privote, enl. Aug. 19, 1862; cun May 10, 1863\\nmust, out June 8, 1S65.\\n111. k\u00c2\u00bb, Havol, private, enl. Aug 18, 1802; disch. at U. S. A. Gen. Heap..\\nNewark, N. J May 3, 1865.\\nHolt, Willliini J private, enl. Aug. IP, 1862; must out June 8, 1865.\\nIrke, .Mm, private, enl. Vug 15. 1802; must, out June 8, 1805.\\nIrish, Hugh C, c\u00c2\u00abpl., com. Aug. 22, 1802; killed in action at Anlietam,\\nMil., Sept 17, 1802.\\nKing, Fn-lerick C, private, enl. Aug. II, 1862; died at Keailysvllle,\\nMil.. Sepl. :iO, 1802, of wounds received In action at Autietam, Md.,\\nSept. 17, 1802 burled there.\\nKenny, James E., private, enl. Aug. II, 1862; trans, to Co. H must out\\nJune 8, 1805.\\nKidd. Alejnniler, private, enl. Aug. 13, 1862 uiu\u00c2\u00abt. out June 8, 18*5.\\nKnoble, Charles K., private, eul. Aug. 20, 1862; disch. at U.S. A. Hasp.,\\nWoshlngton, 1). C, Jan. 28. 186:1, for dl abillly.\\nLines, John, private, enl. Aug II, 1802; disch. at V. S. A. Hosp., New-\\nark. N. J., May 8, I8\u00c2\u00ab;l, for disability.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0202.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "KECORD OF PASSAIC COUNTY MEN IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\n159\\nLambert, William, private, enl. Aug. 13, 1862; diich. at Chestnut Hill\\nU. S. A. Hosp., Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 3, 1863, for disability.\\nMagee, Henry, private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; disch. at U. S. A. Hosp.,\\nWashington, D. C, Feh. 23, 1S63. for disability.\\nMagroff, -Abraham, private, eul. Aug, 12, 1862; killed in action at An-\\ntietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862.\\nMoaeley, James W., private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nSloore, Francis, private, enl. Aug. 18, 1862.\\nMartin, Robert, private, enl. Aug. 19, 1862.\\nMorsereau, Cornelius, sergt., enl. Aug. 20, 1862; died at hosp., Washing-\\nton, D. C, July ly, IS l, of wounds received in action at Chancel-\\nlorsville, Va., May 3, 1^63.\\nMickle, George, private, euJ. Aug. 11, 1862 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nNichols, James, private, enl. Aug. 21, 1862 must, out June 8, 1865.\\nNield, John, private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; trans, to Vet. Res. Corps, Dec.\\n5, 1863; disch. July 7, 1865.\\nOdell, John, private, enl. Aug. IS, 1862 disch. at U. S. A. Hosp., Phila-\\ndelphia, Pa., Jan. 20, 1863, for disability.\\nPost, Jauies W,, private, enl. Aug. 12, 1862; corp., Jan 1, 1864 must, out\\nJune S, I860.\\nPost, William J., private, enl. Aug. 13, 18G2 must, out June 8, I860.\\nPrice, D;iiiiel, private, enl. Aug. 13, 1S62; trans, to Co, H must, out June\\n8, 1865.\\nProbst, Llewelyn J. T., private, enl. Aug. 13, 1862; killed in action at\\nChancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.\\nEuestow. Charles F., private, enl. Aug. 22, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nScott, James G., lijt lieut., com. Aug. 22, 1862; pro. to capt., vice Irish,\\nkilled; resM Jan. 13, 1863.\\nSpeer, Henry, Jr., curp., enl. Aug. 11, 1862; private, Oct. 18, 1863; must.\\nout June 8,1865.\\nSisco, Andrew, private, enl. Aug. 13, 1862.\\nSmith, Leuiuel, private, enl. Aug. 18, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nSnyder, John, private, eul. Aug. IS, 1862; trans, to Co. H must, out June\\n8, 1865.\\nStantield, John C, corp., enl, Aug. 15, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nThompson, John A., private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nTerhune, Cornelius M., private, enl. Aug. 12, 1802.\\nTerhuue, Andrew N., private, enl. Aug. 13, 18G2; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nTennant, John, private, enl. Aug. 15, 1802 trans, to Co. I, Aug. 25, 1862\\ntrans, to Vet. Res. Corps, Sept. 30, 1864.\\nTodd, Archibald, private, eul. Aug. 20, 1862; trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nDec. 28, 1864; disch. July 5, 1865.\\nTownley, Stephen E., private, enl. v\\\\ug. 16, 1862; corp., Dec. 1,1862;\\nsergt Jan. 1, 1804; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nVanderbeek, Thomas, private, enl. Aug. II, 1862; must, out June 8,1865.\\nVanderbeek, Jauies W., private, enl. Aug. 20, 1862; trans, to Vet. Res.\\nCori^, Sept. 1, 1863; discU. June 8, 1865.\\nVanderbeek, James J., corp., enl. Aug. 20, 1862; sergt.. May 1,1863;\\nmust out June 8, 1865.\\nVan Buskirk, John E., private, enl. Aug. 21, 1862; must, out June 8,\\n1865.\\nVan Ordeii, Henry, sergt., enl. Aug. 14, 1862; sergt.-maj.; pro. to lat\\nlieut. Co. I, July 17, 1804; trans, from Co. I disch. May 15, 1865, by\\norder of War Dept.\\nVan Ordeu, Lewis, private, enl. Aug. 21, 1862 must, out June 8, 1365.\\nVan Sann, David, private, enl. Aug. II, l?62.\\nVan Riper, Stephen, private, enl. Aug. 1-1, 1862.\\nWallace, John, private, enl. Aug. 13, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nWannamaker, Daniel S., private, enl. Aug. 20, 1862; corp., Nov. 28, 1864;\\nmust, out June 8, 1865.\\nWannamaker, Cornelius, private, Aug. 13, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nWannamaker, Lewis, recruit, enl. Sept. 3, 1864; disch. at Annapolis\\nJunction, Md., by order of War Dept., May 4, 1865.\\nWells, Heber, 1st sergt., enl, Aug. 8, 1862; pro. to 2d lieut., t-ice Miller,\\npro. res d Aug. 24, 1863.\\nWhitehead, James H., private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; must, out June 8,\\n186.*i.\\nWhitehead, William A privHte, enl. Aug. 13, 1862.\\nYoung, Jacob H., private, enl. Aug. 11, 1862; must, out June 8, 1865.\\nZabriskie, Wil iam V. D., private, enl. Aug. 9, 1862; disch. at Annapolis,\\nMd., paroled prisoner, Aug. 9, 1862.\\nTHIRTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.\\nCompany A.\\nScanlon, John, private, enl, Sept. 3,1863; enl. in the navy steamer\\nDragon Aug, 9, 1864; disch. May 31, 1865.\\nTHIRTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.\\nCompany A.\\nVan Nostrand, William, corp., enl. May 31, 1864; must, out Oct. 1, 1864.\\nVan Vorst, John H., private, enl. May 31, 1864; must, out Oct. 1, 1864.\\nCompany B.\\nI (lOO-days men under call of the Governor, 1864.)\\nConklin, John, corp., enl. May 31, 1804; must, out Oct. 1, 1864.\\nDemarest, Abraiiam, corp., enl. June 6, 1804; must, in June 23, 1864.2\\nDecker, James W., private, enl. June 6, 1864.\\nDolan. Joseph, private, enl. June 9, 1864.\\nFlyn, Joseph W., corp., enl. June 9, 1S64.\\nI Heald, George, private, enl. June 9, 1864.\\nKurd, William S., corp., enl. May 31, 18G4.\\nJackson, John R., private, enl. June 9, 1864.\\nKing, Anthony, private, enl. May 31, 1864.\\nSchoonmaker, Robert, Corp., enl. May 31, 1864.\\nI Stinson, John, private, enl. June 9, 1864.\\n1 Woodward, John E., sergt., eul. May 31, 1864; died of typhoid fever at\\nU. S. A. Ho.sp., Fortress Monroe, Va., Aug. 29, 1864.\\nI Woodward, Jacob, private, enl. May 31, 1864; died of typhoid fever at\\nU. S. A. Hosp., Hampton, Va., Sept. 2, 1864; buried there in Nat.\\nCem., Row 17, Sec. E, Grave 42.\\nWiley, William, private, enl. May 31, 1864.\\nYoung, John, corp., enl. June 9, 1864.\\nFORTY-EIGHTH NEW YORK REGIMENT(CONTINENTALGUARD).\\nPrivates.\\nBoudinot, Henry B.\\nBurnett, Thomas.\\nBrooks, Leonard D.\\nBrower, James A.\\nClark, John.\\nDouglass, Robert.\\nFeuwick, Peter B.\\nGilmore. Frederick.\\nGray, Benjamin.\\nJohnson, Edward.\\nKip, David.\\nMessenger, Charles.\\nMessaper, Richard.\\nMessenger, .\\\\ndrew.\\nPost, Frederick.\\nPhillis, James.\\nMcCully, Samuel K.\\nMcFarlan, George.\\nRayuor, Josiali B.\\nSnider, Luke.\\nSilcocks, lsa6LC.\\nSmith, James.\\nVreelatid, Abraham.\\nWelch, John D.\\nWilde, John.\\nWinvan, Cornelius.\\nAVhitford, Robert.\\nWilliams, John.\\nFIRST CAVALRY.\\nCoSIPANY I.\\nBrotherlow, Thomas, piivate, enl. Sept. 11, 1S61 diach. at U. S. A. Hosp.,\\nWashington, D. C, Oct. 24, 1862, tor disability.\\nDonaldson, James, private, enl. Sept. 11, 1861 disch. at convalescent\\ncamp, Alexandria, Va., Jan. 30, 1863, for disability.\\nDross, Charles, saddler, enl. Aug. 15, 1861; corp. Dec. 1,1862; saddler\\nJan. 1, 1864 re-enl. Dec. 27, ltr63; must, out July 24. 1865.\\nFreeland, George W., private, enl. Sept. Il,ls61 trans, to Vet. Res. Corps,\\nMarch 15, 1864; disch. Sept. 17, 1864.\\nHasbruck, James H., private, enl. Sept. 11, 1S61.\\nPost, Andrew, enl. Sept. U, 1801 corp. June 9, 1863 sergt. Nov. 1, 1863\\nre-enl. Dec. 27, 1863; 1st sergt. May. 1, 1864; must, out July 24,1865.\\nTHIRD CAVALRY.\\nCompany B.\\nPost, Andrew H., recruit, eul. Aug. 30, 1864; trans, from Co. G; disch.\\nat Trenton, N J., July 8, 1805 paroled prisoner.\\nBATTERY B, FIRST REGIMENT ARTILLERY.\\nDonahue, Martin, private, enl. Sept. 3, 1861 disch. at Brandy Station,\\nVa., for disability, March 22, 1804; enl. substitute Co. H, 8th Regt.\\nN. J. Inf., March 15, 1865 trans, to Co. K disch. at U. S. A. Hosp.,\\nWashington, D. C, by order of War Department, April 28, 1865.\\nMills, William H., private, enl. Sept. 3, 1861 disch. at Philadelphia, Pa.,\\non account of disability, March 17, 1863.\\nFIFTH REGIMENT NEW YORK ARTILLERY.\\n(Recruited by Lieuts. Cundell and Veeceliua.)\\nLieut., George Cundell.\\nSergeant\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William H. Doty.\\nFife-major. H. Sanderson.\\n1 All who survived were mustered out at this date.\\nAll mustered on this date.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0203.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "160\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nPrwatm.\\nBrooks, William.\\nBradley, Boruanl.\\nConnelly. Patritk.\\nCorby, Core*i.\\nPcM koit, Amirew.\\nDectlif, Benjamin H.\\n(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0alloway, Tluimatf.\\nGriffin, John.\\nHopper, Cliarlee.\\nHonn, John.\\nKeift, John.\\nKeibe. \u00c2\u00bbl\\\\vnr(].\\nKeunt dy, Thomas.\\nKing, Juhii.\\nKrombeck, Frederick.\\nl\u00c2\u00abamon, Jubeph.\\nLyondf William.\\nLynns, Rensselaer.\\nMaiu erker, Henry.\\nMilne^, Henry.\\nMiliieit, William.\\nMullen, Janiee.\\nMcCunn, Andrew.\\nNutton, George.\\nO Brien, James.\\nViiii Kiper. William H.\\nVan Rip^-r, Peler.\\nVreeland, John.\\nRiley, Robert.\\nSlingerland, Thomas.\\nStepheuMtn, George.\\nSERRELL^S U. S. ENGINEER AND ARTISAN REGIMENT.\\nJamee Baxter, Military Instnictor and Master Machinist.\\nSergeant. Leonard Brooks.\\nOorjwrdla.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ebenezcr Parker, Daniel W. Stagg.\\nDramiTurr. John Riitan.\\nPrieaUt.\\nBaines, Stephen.\\nBrcwii, William P.\\nHudson, Thuma8.\\nJones, Evans.\\nLyman, Richard.\\nMessenger, James H.\\nMo-tes, Henry.\\nPalmer, Jame^.\\nRutan, David F.\\nTerhune, William H.\\nFIFTY-SECOND PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS.\\nJames Cook, Captain.\\nDuncan, Samuel.\\nFreeland, Eltenewr.\\nTattersall, James.\\nWilson, Roberto.\\nWooley, Richard.\\nHAWKINS NEW YORK FIRE ZOl AVES.\\nPrivates.\\nBreman.Jdhn.\\nCoventry, John C.\\nGates, J imph.\\nGrecnhaigh, Sqniro.\\nHalloway, Joeejdi.\\nLnton, Jitmos.\\nMulligan, William.\\nTitns, Henry.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nIs* Urgi. S. v. f ire Xo%iatrM. James SnlliTan.\\n2d Hegt, X. Y. fVnr Zonarei. Abnihani E. Harris, Robert M. II -aumont.\\nSetr York Fnijineer VoU., .4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Rubertson, R )bert Scott.\\nFourte nth AVir York I o^*.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tliomns Shiiflor.\\nSinth Regimmt A ir l\u00c2\u00abrJt f.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ralph Shocock.\\nt ump iny A, Chicago l.ujht Artillery. William S. Fondn.\\nOomjuiHy h, SfCimd Uhmie ittnnd. Lindsay Anderson.\\nCbmjKiiiy A*. TenOi Matutarhua^tta. Thomas Jnm ld.\\nliittUry It, Firtt Snt York AriaUry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094ChtkTir it Mmiks.\\nPirti It tttrry MiiM-ichtisftU ArtilUry. Henry Rurwell.\\nOompan)/ F, /Viiiuy/ninw Lujht Ckiralry. John W. Fuller.\\nCompany C, I S. koAMeura. William H. Maxwell, sergnant; James Law-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2tm, Co. B, same reglmonl.\\ntiU-tm^ fVrW\u00c2\u00ab/m, r. S. ti tU^r.\u00e2\u0080\u0094t\\\\ McKlernan.\\nf^Hn/MXif junker Citt/. Jonathan W. Hack ^t.\\nV.S. Fl.uj Shit MitmeaoUt, f. s. S.~Jimv\\\\fU Menish, Jamw* BurfhB.\\n(Tharles A. Hlaiienl, rhtef EiiKlneer, Fremont Cavnlry.\\nJvrr -fayi{;AfA Sfir York KoJimiMTii.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Smith.\\nSerrniy-eighUt Otmrvon //iyAf fntffTa.\u00e2\u0080\u0094WlllliimS. Smith.\\nItolxirt RjilxTtiom, on bt*nl the L S. frlgnt** Santer.\\nJohn L Kmcraim,oD boani the U. 8. rrlgaiP Sanlee; kllliwl In Imttle\\nofl (Inlveaton, Texas.\\ntV/mpamy A, Thirty-fourth Uagt. X. Y. Volunteer: John I oan.\\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\\nNEW BARBADOES.\\nAncient and Modem Boundaries.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlie towuship\\nof New Ii;irlia l()0,-4 ci mi)rise3 at tlip present time a\\nvery liiniteil area compared with the extent of iu an-\\ncient boundaries. Nearly two centuries ago (1693)\\nit was a township in Essex County, and comprised tlie\\nwhole territory between the Hacicensack and Pas. aic\\nRivers, from Newark Bay on the southeast to the\\npresent boundary line of Sussex County. Hy the\\ndivisions which have been made in cutting up this\\nterritory into other townships, some of them of quite\\nrecent origin, it is now reduced to a strip of land on\\nthe west side of the Ilaokensack not more than five\\nmiles long and an average width of two miles. The\\nI points which mark its northern and southern bound-\\naries on the Hackensack River are New Bridge on\\nthe north and Little Ferry on the south.\\n1 Physical Features. The land along the Hacken-\\nI sack Kivcr in this township is generally quite level,\\nand in some ])laces below high tide: but it rises grad-\\nually to a considerable elevation in the western por-\\nI tion, and commands an extensive view southward\\ntowards Newark Bay, some thirteen miles distant.\\nClay, sand, and loam, separately, and often mixed\\ntogether, compose the principal soils. There are some\\nmarsh lands, but they are mostly capable of cultiva-\\ntion. The clay lands are valuable from their prox-\\nimity to the Hackensack Kiver, and their clay has\\nbeen extensively used for years in the manufacture of\\nbrick. The soil generally is cajjable of producing\\ngood crops, and much of it is under a high state of\\ncultivation. The Hackensack Kiver is navigable to\\nNew Bridge. From that point northward to the State_\\nI boundarj and even beyond it into New York, some\\ntwenty-five or thirty miles, the dwindled stream may\\nbe called only a tributary of the ocean-fed Hacken-\\nsack. Below New Bridge and to Newark Bay the\\nHackensack forms one of the most beautiful features\\nof this section of country. The river is well confineil\\nwithin its banks, varying in width from one hundred\\nI to five hundred feet. The current is so gentle and\\nstill that the waters seem to be slumbering in (juict\\nrepose. This circumstance may have led the Indian\\nto give to the Hackensack a name significant of this\\npeculiarity, or of the silent meeting of the waters at\\nthe conlluem-e of )verpeck Creek and the main stream\\nat Little Ferry.\\nMeaning of Hackensack. A local writer who has\\nfurnislicd a portion of this township history gives us\\nthe following on the word Hackensack\\nThi wuni Ilackeiiwick liaf Ih i ii ao vaiiniiily s|k 1I(hI mill ilrRnod it\\nmay l i\u00c2\u00ab mi upon ijiKTilioli to- la an to lU urthogralitiy i.ii l .iglilflcatlnn.\\nFtvm llackniMck or Arkpnitjick, olllier of wtiicli 8|m*IIIii^* Ih prot\u00c2\u00ablily\\neoim-t arconlififi to tho iiriKtnal Iiiitlan pnuiuncliillun, It lioa waiidorod\\nthrouKli ArkliigtiHACk, Arklnghaaaack, AkkinKwkkp, Acki iiklKhiickjr,\\n.\\\\ck( lik( slinrkjr, Haicpiiiiark, llaglikliuuirk, HnrkoDBncky, Hackiiigke-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2harkr, llackliiKkajMirkj, IIackin.\u00c2\u00abck. Ilark |iilulinri|, lla\u00c2\u00ab- |iilukar.r,\\ntIackiniiaKh, HaglikliiKMck, llarkkriiMk.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0204.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "NEW BAKBADOES.\\n161\\nMuch couid be written about the meaning of the name. One writer\\ndefii.eB it low land, and another one stream uniting imperceptibly with\\nanotlier in low, level ground. The Indian, then, when he first stood on\\nEspatin, commanding a view of the two rivers running so quietl.v\\nthrough the meadows from the long range of hills above, their waters\\nso still in their course through the lowlands as scarcely seeming to move,\\npointing to the place, said, in the language of the tintutored son of the\\nforest, That is Hackensack, the silent union of tlie waters.\\ntieepy Hollow tempted the pen of Washington Irving in bis unri-\\nvaled description of its beauty and repose but the still river, the quie-\\ntude of the surrounding country, with many an old Dutch mansion and\\nancestral abode, lure the fancy to sketch the scenes along the Hacken-\\nsack. which are full of quiet beauty and interest.\\nEarly Settlements. The name of New Barbadoes\\nwas probably given to the ancient township by its\\nfirst proprietors, Capt. William Sandford and Capt.\\nJoliii Berry. It may have been given by Nathaniel\\nKinsrsland, who purchased a portion of Sandford s\\ngrant on the Neck. Capt. William Sandford in 1668\\nacquired title to the territory from the junction of the\\nHackensack and Passaic Rivers northward, compris-\\ning 15,308 acres. Capt. John Berry and his associates\\nin 1669 acquired title to the lands north of the Sand-\\nford tract, embracing the territory within the limits\\nof Hackensack and the present townshi)) of New\\nBarhadoes.\\nCiipt. John Berry was a man of prominence in the\\ncolony of New Jersey. He was for many terms pre-\\nsiding judge of the court at Bergen, and was a mem-\\nber of the Council several years, and acting Governor\\nof the province during the absence of Carteret in\\nEngland, 1672 to 1674. At first he resided in Bergen,\\nwhere a building of his, probably not the house he\\nlived in, was the first jail of the province, and Adrian\\nPost was jail-keeper he afterwards settled on his\\nplantation in New Barbadoes, where he resided in\\n1680. It is probable that his plantation and that of\\nhis son-in-law, Michael Smith, adjoining him, were\\nthe first considerable improvements in the township.\\nThese plantations near the Hackensack are given a\\nprominent place in George Scott s historical and de-\\nscriptive account of East .Tersey, published in Edin-\\nburgh in 168\\nOn the 11th of July, 1670, Capt. Berry started upon a\\ntrip to the Ishtiid of Barbadoes in a trading-vessel, and\\nwas absent until July following. He no doubt traded\\nto the West Indies, and some have supposed that he\\nwas captain of a merchant-vessel, but there is no evi-\\ndence of tliis, while his appointment as captain of\\nmilitia in Bergen is a matter of record. How much\\nearlier than 1670 he came to the province we are un-\\nable to say. His lands in this township were acquired\\nin 1669, and some of the deeds given by his own hand,\\nrecorded in the clerk s office at Hackensack, are dated\\nin 1696, showing that he was living and transacting\\nbusiness at that date. In defending himself against\\nCapt. Sandford, in an action referred to elsewhere.\\nBerry quoted Scripture and took high, manly ground,\\nsuch as became a gentleman and a Christian. He will\\nbe remembered by every devout lover of the Reformed\\nChurch as the donor of the site of the Old Church\\non the Green at Hackensack, two and three-quarter\\nacres, deeded to the Consistory in 1696. In his will\\nhe uses the following language I commit my soul\\ninto the hands of God, my creator, with a well-\\ngrounded persuasion that Jesus Christ, in his human\\nnature, taken in his divine, hath made full payment\\nunto divine justice for all my sins and transgressions,\\nand that his righteousness shall be imputed to me for\\nmy justification. His daughter married Michael\\nSmith, the first sheriff of Bergen County, who filled\\nthat oflice in 168.3.\\nIt will be of interest to our readers to know some-\\nthing of the origin of the name New Barbadoes. Our\\nlocal assistant has given us substantially the following,\\nwhich we condense and somewhat abbreviate\\nThe word Barbadoes is of Portuguese or Romanic\\norigin. Capts. Sandford and Berry were undoubtedly\\nEnglishmen by birth, but in early life went to the\\nIsland of Barbadoes, then under British rule, where\\nthey probably lived for some time. The island, often\\ncalled Little England, is situated in north latitude\\n13\u00c2\u00b0 10 and in west longitude 59\u00c2\u00b0 32 being the most\\nwindward of the Lesser Antilles, and washed by\\nthe waters of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic\\nOcean. It is the oldest of the English West India\\npossessions, and was first discovered by the Portuguese\\nearly in the sixteenth century. Finding it covered\\nwith a forest of tropical verdue, with long pendants\\nlike beard hanging gracefully in festoons from the\\ntrees, a kind of beard-like moss, in their fervid and\\ndescriptive language the Portuguese called the island\\nBarbadoes, or the Bearded Isle.\\nBarbadoes became an English possession in 1625.\\nThe island is some twenty-two miles long by fourteen\\nwide, and is densely populated. When New Amster-\\ndam and the surrounding country passed from the\\nDutch to the English in 1664, prompted by a spirit\\nof adventure and seeking larger fields than the pent-\\nup island for their enterprise, many Englishmen came\\nto America and purchased lands and founded their\\nhomes here. Sandford and Berry were probably among\\nthe number. They were rivals in litigation, and jirob-\\nably in politics and speculation. They were two\\nbright, quick-witted Englishmen, who meant to make\\ntheir mark in the New World, and so they did. We\\nhave already spoken of Berry and his successes and\\nhonors.\\nCapt. William Sandford came from the West Indies.\\nHe resided in Newark in 1675, and was a member of\\nthe Provincial Council in 1681-84. He died in 1692,\\nand requested to be buried on his own plantation.\\nHe implored his friends to assist and favor the con-\\ncerns of a poor ignorant widow and five innocent\\nchildren with their best advice, help, and council, to\\npreserve them from those vultures and harpies which\\nprays on the carkasses of widdows and fatten with\\nthe blood of orphans. His children were Ardinah,\\nwho married Richard Berry, constable of New Bar-\\nbadoes in 1695 Peregrine, who married Fytje, daugh-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0205.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "162\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NKW JERSEY.\\nter of Enoch Michielse (Vreeland) William, Grace, i Acquackanonk was the present city of Passaic and its\\nand Elizabeth, who married Ca]it. James Davis. vicinity. Thus it was intended to sui ply the spiritual\\nThe precise date of the first European settlement needs of a territory described by a radius of from\\nwithin this township is unknown. Tradition asserts seven to ten miles around the church, of wliich it was\\nthat Dr. Vim Iniburg erected the first dwelling-house\\nin Hackensiuk on the creek bearing liis name, also\\nsometimes called Hackensack Creek, just back of the\\npresent court-house site. This house is said to have\\nstood just across the creek from the court-house.\\nExcavations there within the past few years are said\\nto have disclosed old foundations of buildings which\\nstood there at a very early period. Probably the first\\nhouse stood on either side of this creek not far from\\nthe river. One of these early dwellings is also said\\nto have stood on what was ancientiv known as the\\nthe centre. In olden times the worshipers in the old\\nChurch on the Green would come on .Sabbath morn-\\ning in wagons, and in the rude carriages of that day,\\nand on horseback from many miles around to swell\\nthe great congregation.\\nThe home comforts of the settlers in a few years\\nwere neither few nor stinted, with their houses covered\\nwith vines and sorrounded with little garilens, with\\nfurniture from over the seas, and the ancestral plate\\nand crockery carefully brought from Old Holland,\\nand ranged in long rows upon the white shelves in\\nVarick property. The following are the names and the big spare-room its spacious fireplace, where the\\nthe years of the coming of some of the earliest set-\\nlers in and about this locality: Albert Zabroweski,\\n1662; Lawrence, same year Lowrie, in 16. House-\\nman, 1695, and Kijip a little earlier; Van Buskirk,\\n1697; Van Giesen, 1689; Andressen, 1679; Facounier,\\n1709 Dismarie, 1695. The church records of the\\nChurch on the Green tell us that in 1694 the church\\nreceived into membcrshii) Martin Powelse. .Ian,\\nChristyn, and Lena, also Maria Ktsal and Rachel\\ncherry log and wood-fire aflbrded light and warmth\\nand comfort to all the inmates. These old houses\\nare all gone, but in many respects they might be en-\\nvied to-day by the descendants of those early settlers.\\nSoon the abundant crops of flax and hemp called for\\nthe spinning-wheel, the distaff, and the loom, and\\nthere was music in the spindle and shuttle, mingled\\nwith the songs sung by the cradle and the firt-side.\\nSuch homes as these, and such they were in all the\\nJackse. In the following years down to 1700 there colonies at that early day of honest toil to subdue a\\nwere regularly added to the church more than sixty\\nmembers, whose names are given in the record, show-\\ning of course that there was a considerable town or\\nsettlement near the church and in the vicinity and\\nsome settlements in the surrounding country long\\nbefore the seventeenth century. Some of these earlv\\nwilderness and to acquire the comforts of domestic\\nlife, such homes as these have made America what\\nit is.\\nCivil Organization. Hy an act passed in 1688, in\\nthe fourth year of the reign of .Tames II., by the\\nGeneral Assembly at Perth Amboy, the inhabitants\\nsettlers lived on the east and .some on the west side of Hackensack and New Parbadoes were empowered\\nof the Hackensack River. The church it-self at that I to build pounds, the charge whereof to be paid by\\nearly day gathered its children together from a wide the inhabitants of each of the respective out-planta-\\nextent of the surrounding country. tions. In the fourth year of the reign of William\\nTaschemaker, as jiastor for three years, and Hen- and Mary (1692i an act was passed by the (ieneral\\ndrik Jarse and Albert Ferensc, as its elders, and Assembly at Perth Amboy dividing the counties in\\nHendrik Epke and Volkhert Hanseg, as its deacons. East Jersey into townships. This act empowered the\\nthese are the never-to-be-forgotten names of the i people of each county to take certain steps to set off\\nfounders of the ancient Church on the Green. How and define the boundaries of townships; but the act\\nlong New Harbadoes, or even .\\\\merica herself, might was so defective in its provisions as to become inoper-\\nsurvive the Church of (iod on earth we cannot tell; ative, and in 169;i a supplementary act was pa.ssed.\\nbut the saintly lives of those who slumber aroun l the ]{y this act the township of .Vcqulckanick and New\\nold church, and the sacred memories of the baptism, Barbadoes both settlements apparently combined\\nthe marriage, and the burial of all tho.se who have in the same townshij) became known for the first\\ngone in and out there for more than two centuries, time in legislation. The boundaries were defined as\\nwould cry out agaitist the sacrilege and the folly of including all the land on I issiack River above the\\nsuch an experiment, even if it were possible. On the third river, and from the mouth of the said third\\n20th of A|iril, 1696, John Berry dcniated two acres river northward to the partition line of the province,\\nand three-quarters of land for the site of the Church including also all the land in New Barbadoes Neck\\non the Green, for the inhabitants of Hackensack, between Hackinsack and Pisaiack Rivers, and thence\\nNew Barbadoes, and Aciiuaekanonk, who intend to to the partition line of the province. It would seem\\nbuild a i-hiirch. A more detailed history of this from the wording of this act that Ac |Uaekanonk was\\nchuri-h and of its organization will be found else- included in the original township, as well as all the\\nwhere in the history. The inhabitants of Hacken-\\nsack then were the dwellers (Mi the east side of the\\no\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb i,i..,ii irm wiv 1 The UilrJ rl\u00c2\u00abr tiere rehrrrd to U thr YallUMW, which formod\\nriver. New Barbadoes embraced the inhabitants then origiimi UHuuinrj ulmh Acqu.ckam.iik un.i Nc\u00c2\u00bbiirk. Hn p.mph-\\ndwelllng in the present township of that name, and in of New Jirjoy, i\u00c2\u00bb:ift-.i7, p. o\u00c2\u00ab.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0206.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n163\\nterritory comprised between the Hackensack and\\nPassaic Rivers to the northern boundary of the prov-\\nince. If this be correct, the township embraced Ac-\\nquackanonk (including the site of the present city of\\nPassaic), Hohokus, Washington, Franklin, Saddle\\nRiver, Midland, Union, Lodi, and the present New\\nBarbadoes. That Acquackanonk and New Barbadoes\\nwere included in the same township further appears\\nfrom an entry in the minutes of the Governor and\\nCouncil, Dec. 3, 1683, where the inhabitants of Aqua-\\nninoncke are authorized to join with those of New\\nBarbadoes Neck in the choyce of a Constable.\\nAgain, at the same date, Maj. William Sandford, of\\nNew Barbadoes Neck, was ordered to appoint an\\nofficer to exercise the inhabitants of Aquaninocke.\\nSandford, it seems, by this time had become a major,\\nand had control over this large military district.\\nThe Indians, probably, were the enemy they had in\\nview.\\nIt is unnecessary here to mention the particular\\ndates covering a period of nearly two hundred\\nyears at which the township parted with portions\\nof its ancient territory, as its extensive area filled\\nwith an active and industrious population and the\\nexigency arose from time to time for the division into\\nnew townships. The dates of these will be found in\\nthe respective township histories. New Barbadoes\\nreceived its last reduction in limits by act of the Leg-\\nislature passed in 1876, the centennial of the national\\nbirthday. The periods, proximately in the first in-\\nstance, since the permanentsettlement may be divided\\ninto centuries, thus\\nPermanent settlement, 1676.\\nRevolution, 1776.\\nLast reduction of the township, 1876.\\nBefore the county organization (1682) each town-\\nship or plantation was governed in its local affairs by\\na board of selectmen. They exercised Judicial and\\nlegislative powers of a restricted kind, being confined\\nto the local affairs of their respective plantations, and\\nlimited in their jurisdiction to small causes. May\\n1, 1688, a bill was drawn up by the provincial secre-\\ntary to constitute a Court of small Causes for the out-\\nplantations of Bergen County, and for Aquackinick\\nand New Barbadoes in the county of Essex. It was\\nsent to the House of Deputies by Maj. John Berry,\\nof the Council, and wa.s signed by the Governor, and\\nbecame a law May 22, 1688. Under this act a court\\nof small causes was organized at New Hackensack,\\nprobably the village now known as Hackensack, with\\nthe New prefixed to it for a time to distinguish it\\nfrom Old Hackensack (township) on the east side of\\nthe river.\\nOf these courts no records were kept, and we find\\nnow and then only a fragmentary allusion to them.\\nThey granted licenses to sell liquors and keep ordi-\\nnaries, fixing the rates of charges for man and beast\\nwith minutest details. The early roads and bridges\\nsuch as they were, probably poor enough were\\nunder their supervision. As judges of the Court of\\nsmall Causes they sometimes exceeded their juris-\\ndiction and overstepped their authority. But then\\nthe victim, if he had money enough to carry up his\\nappeal, could go to the Governor and Council, or eveu\\nto the king and Parliament across the sea, if necessary,\\nto get relief\\nWilliam Sandford, John Berry, and Isaac Kingsland\\nwere the early legislators for New Barbadoes and its\\nvicinity in the Provincial Council. Sandford was a\\nmember of that body from 1682 to 1703, and Berry\\nfrom 1682 to 1692, and Kingsland from 1684 to 1696.\\nFreeholders of New Barbadoes.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 We give below\\na list of the chosen freeholders of the township from\\n1794 to 1880, inclusive. The Board of Justices and\\nFreeholders which preceded 1794, not being recorded\\nby townships, are placed, irrespective of their town-\\nships (which it has been impossible to ascertain, ex-\\ncept in a few instances), in the general county history,\\nto which the reader is referred.\\n1794-95,1802, Isaac Vanderbeck, Jr.; 1794-95, Areiidt Schuyler; 1796-\\n99,Chrl8.A.Zabri8kie; 1796-97, -Abraham W.DePe.vster 1798-1805,\\nEdmund Wm. Kingsland; 1800-1, Garret G. Lansing; 1802, Joost\\nBogert; 1803-6, L-ke Van Zaen 1806-8, Jolin I. Hopper; 1807-8_\\nCasperus Bogert; 1809-14, Henry I. Zabriskie; 181)9-11, Henry Van\\nDolsem 1812, John Berry 1813-16, Henry P. Kipp 1815-16, John\\nD. Romeyn 1817, John A. Schuyler 1817-18, Jacob J. C. Zabriskie\\n1818, Philip Berry; 1819-21, John J. Hopper, Peter A. Terhune;\\n1822, John T. Banta; 1822-23, 1826-27, John A. Boyd; 1823-27,\\nAlbert G. Hopper; 1824, Jacob J. Brinkerhofl 1828-33, John\\nZabriskie 1828-32, Henry W. Banta 1833, David I. Christie 1834-\\n35, Andrew Zabriskie; 1834-35, John D. Komeyn 1836-42, Albert\\nA. Brinkerhoff; 1836-37, Andrew Demareet; 1837-39, Albert G.\\nDoremus; 1838-40, John J. Van Saun 1841-43, George Voorhis;\\n1843-45, Ralph Weslervelt; 1844-46, Richard T. Cooper; 1846-4S,\\n1852, William Wiuant; 1847-49, Jacob I. Zabriskie; 1849-51, Chris-\\ntian De Baun; 1850-52, John A. Zabriskie; 1853-54, 1R56, Richard\\nR. Hawkey; 1853-54, William Blair; 1856-58, Peter A. Terhune;\\n1857-59. Wilhelmus Berry; 1859-61, Abraham I. Demarest; 1860-\\n62, Abraham A. Banta; 1862-64, Lucas A. Voorhis; 1863-64, 1866,\\nGarret G. Ackeraon 1866-67, Garret A. Hopper; 1867-69, William\\nDe Wolfe; 1808-70, Nicholas A. Demarest; 1870, Henry C. Barring;\\n1871, Garret G. Ackerson 1872-74, Jacob Yereance; 1875-78, Wm.\\nHuyler; 1879, Frederick Steinle; 1880, John 0. Grode.\\nVillages and Hamlets. The village of Hacken-\\nsack, the county-seat of Bergen County, and the small\\nvillages or hamlets of Fairmount and Cherry Hill, em-\\nbrace nearly all of the territory in the townshi)) of\\nNew Barbadoes. In their corporate limits they nearly\\nintersect each other, making one picturesque village,\\nextending for several miles along the valley and cross-\\ning the slopes and slight elevations which give variety\\nto the landscape. To the eye of the traveler there\\nare few more beautiful spots than that along the\\nHackensack River, embracing the village of Hacken-\\nsack and its surroundings.\\nThe village of Hackensack proper contains about\\n4000 inhabitants. The business part of the town is\\non Main, between Passaic and Essex Streets. There\\nare very many beautiful and some very elegant and\\nspacious residences on Main, Passaic, Hudson, and\\nEssex Streets. There are some very comfortable and\\nspacious houses with commodious grounds and gar-\\nI dens in the western part of the village on the hillside,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0207.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "164\\nHISTORY OF BERGExN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ncommanding extensive views of the surrouiKliiig coun-\\ntry. The court-house and the other county buildings\\nare on Court Street, in the central part of the village,\\nlooking upon the Park, or (ireen, fronting on Main\\nStreet. The ancient Dutch Church is nearly opposite\\nand in the vicinity. The Park, or Green, is ornamented\\nwith a fountain of beautiful design, and is supplied\\nfrom the public water-works for the town from a res-\\nervoir at the Hackensack above the head of naviga-\\ntion. The Park is in the shape of a parallelogram of\\nabout one hundred and twenty feet on Main .Street\\nby about two hundred feet between Court and Man-\\nsion Streets. It is most beautifully shaded with lofty\\nelms, which, with the ancient and thrifty weeping-\\nwillow near the old church, afl ord in summer a de-\\nlightful shade and a most picturesque view, scarcely\\nexcelled within the same dimensions in any other\\ntown in the State. On Court Street, between the\\ncourt-house and Main Street, stands the Hackensack\\nHouse, a large and commodious hotel, of which Mr.\\nJohn Ryan is the present proprietor. On the oppo-\\nsite side of the Park, on the corner of Main and Man\\nsion Streets, is the old but comfortable Mansion\\nHouse, kept at present by Mr. William W. Crouk-\\nright. The many old-fashioned fireplaces, bordered\\nwith tiles, ornamented with designs from sacred story,\\nindicate the ancientne-ss of the old Mansion House,\\nantedating the Revolution. Here or in this vicinity\\ntlie ground has been trod by the feet of Wiishington\\nand Lafayette and the patriotic soldiei-s in that great\\nstruggle for freedom. Here, too, the forefathers of\\nthe hamlet of Revolutionary days saw their court-\\nhouse burned to ashes and the town sacked and plun-\\ndered by British invaders. They threatened, also,\\nto destroy the old church, but it escaped their sacri-\\nlegious hands.\\nF or a century and a half from its organization Hack-\\nensack was always an important place and the centre\\nof considerable business activity. For over one hun-\\ndred years it was the business centre for all the sur-\\nrounding country, and to the northwest it conimandeii\\nthe trade for a ilistancc of from fifty to seventy-five\\nmiles. There was then considerable navigation, and\\nespecially, in the fall and spring, of farm and industrial\\nproducts .seeking transportation by water to Newark\\nand New York. Better roads and more rapid com-\\nmunication with these large t ^)wns during the last\\nfifty years have reduced the limits of the trade and\\nbusiness of Hackensack by aH ordiiig otliiT commo-\\ndious outlet* to the surrounding country. Hut the\\nNew Jersey and the New York Railroad and the\\nNew York, Susquehanna and Western, formerly the\\nMidland Railroad, pa.\u00c2\u00abs through the town, bringing\\nit within thirty or forty niinntcs of the great nirtrop-\\nolis. Many business men reside here, while their\\nplace of business is in New York and elsewhere.\\nThere is also much wealth in the town, which hits\\nbeen retired from active business. It has become\\nlargely a place of pleasant homes and beautiful\\nabodes. It is beginning to bestir itself in industrial\\nand manufacturing pursuits. Thomas jewelry man-\\nufacturing establishment in the upper part of the vil-\\nlage has a large factory connected with its liusiness\\nin New York City. Immense quantities of jewelry\\nare manufactured here and sent to all parts of the\\nUnited States. Within two years (iivenaud Brothers\\nhave built an extensive silk-factory in the lower part\\nof the village, and are employing at least one hundre l\\nand fifty hands in the manufacture of that fabric.\\nThis firm is also extensively engaged in silk manu-\\nfactures in other |)art.s of the country. Messrs. John\\nSmults, Handfield, (iardner, and Merhotf Brothers\\nare extensively engaged in brick-making in the vicin-\\nity of Little Ferry. There are almost inexhaustible\\nbeds of clay in that locality well adapted for making\\nthe very best quality of brick and the annual manu-\\nfacture and sale of brick from these establishments is\\nimmense, amounting to several millions. Their supe-\\nrior quality has created a demand for these brick all\\nover the country greatly exceeding the supply.\\nNewspapers. At present there are three newspa-\\n])cts in Hackensack, the Jifnieii Cmiiili/ Demticrnt,\\nthe H(trknisnck Republicon, and the Ji -riicn Iinlrr.\\nThe Diiitocral and Jiepiiblicni are published weekly,\\nand the Index bi-weekly. The Democrat was estab-\\nlished Oct. 1, 18(51, with Rev. Chancey C. Burr as its\\nfirst editor, but in March, 1862, he was succeeded by\\nFben Wintoii, who was succeeded by his .son, Henry\\nU. Winton, its present editor. The paper is an ar-\\ndent and devoted a lvocate of Democratic principles.\\nAn examination of its columns, especially for the last\\nfew years, shows it to be an ably conducted local news-\\npa|)er. It aims generally to confine itself to such of\\nthe local allairs of the county as are of interest and\\niini)ortance to its readers. The licpuhlicnn was estab-\\nlished in 1873, succeeding the Berrien Count;/ Wntr/i-\\nman, under the charge of H. B. Johnson, who was\\nsucceeded by Hugh M. Herrick, who was succeeded\\nby William H. Bleecker and Thomas B. Chrystal, and\\nsubsequently by Mr. Chrystal, who has had the sole\\ncharge of the paper for several years. Though not\\nstrongly partisan, it advocates the principles of the\\nRepublican party, and contiiins much interesting\\nmatter for the general reader. Under its present\\nmanagement the pai)er has been most ably and suc-\\nce.sst ully conducted. The Index succeeds the Xeu-\\nJersvij I ilizcn, published in Hackensack some years\\nago by Cornelius Christie, a counselor-at-law and\\na scholarly and cultured gentleman. The [ndfx is\\npublished by W. N. Clapp. It is generally unpartisan,\\nand aims to give a full but brief account of matters\\nof local interest.\\nThe lidnnrr of Truth is a monthly is-sucd by Rev.\\nJohn Y. De Baun, editor, and is referred to here-\\nafter.\\nChurches and their Early History.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At the head\\nof the churches in the township of New Barbadoes\\nin point of age ami niemlxTship justly stands the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0208.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\nIG.)\\nFirst Reformed (Dutch) Church fthe Church on the j\\nGreen We have already alluded to the early history\\nof this church in other parts of this history of the\\ntownship. Its records go back more than two centu-\\nries, containing the names of many of the leading\\naiitl prominent families in the town from the begin-\\nning, such as Westerveldt, Demaree, Van Winkel,\\nDe Vow, Ackerman, Bougardt, Hoppe, Mandeville,\\nPowels, Banta, Van Der Linda, Housman, Bertholf,\\nTerhunen, Blinkerhof, Zabrowiski, Lozier, Kip, and\\nRomeyn.\\nIn 1686, Jaenis Simson, on confession of his faith,\\nand Chrystina, the little child ofMattlys Hoppe and\\nAntie Pouls, with Garrit Van Dien and Meyno\\nPowels as witne-sses, were received into baptism. The\\nconfessor and the little child and her parents and the\\nwitnesses have all gone to their rest, but the old\\nchurch outlasts them all, handing down their names\\nand their faith to us.\\nThe honored pastors of this church have been\\nPctrus Taschemaker, from 1 J86 to 1689, whom we\\nhave already named; Guilliam Bertholf, from 1694 to\\n1724; Reinhar Erricksou, from 1725 to 1728; Anto-\\nnius Curtenius, from 1730 to 1755 John Henry\\nGoetiichius, from 1748 to 1774 John Schuyler, from\\n1756 to 1759; Cornelius Blaw, from 1768 to 1770;\\nWarmoldus Kuyjiers, from 1770 to 1797 Theodorick\\nRomeyn. I rom 1775 to 1784; Solomon Froeligh, from\\n1786 to 1823; James V. C. Romeyn, from 1799 to\\n1833; James Romeyn, from 1833 to 1836; Alexander\\nH. Warner, from 1837 to 1865; and Theodore B. Ro-\\nmeyn, from 1865 to the present time (1881), making\\nan aggregate pastorship of two hundred and forty-six\\nyears, and an average of more than seventeen years\\nfor each pastor. Dr. Solomon Froeligh claims title to\\nthe longest pastorate of thirty-seven years, though\\none of his brothers served thirty-four years, and an-\\nother thirty, and another twenty-eight, and another\\ntwenty-six, and another twenty-five.\\nWe have already given the names of the first offi-\\ncers of the church. On the 29th of July, 1695, the\\npastor, Dominie Taschemaker, with the elders, re-\\nceived six more to the church membership. For the\\nfurther history of this church we insert the very full\\nand complete account contained in the ecclesiastical\\nhistory of the church prepared by Dr. Theodore B.\\nRomeyn, its present pastor, and published in 1870.\\nThis account is so full and so ably prepared that it\\njustly and fitly deserves a place in this history. After\\nalluding to the facts we have given, Dr. Romeyn, in\\nspeaking of Dominie Taschemaker, proceeds to say,\\nHe continued to administer the Lord s Supper to them as lie had\\nopportunity until some time in 1689. He was settled during this period\\nat N*ew Amstel (now New Castle), on the Delaware River, and conse-\\nquently this ministration to the flock at Hackensack must have been\\nrendered at very great inconveoience. Suljsequently he removed to\\nScheiiectaily, and became pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at that\\nplace. He waa such at the time of the great Schenectady massacre by\\nthe Indians, on the 8th of February, 1690, and was one of the victims,\\ntogether with his wife, two colored servants, and many of his people,\\nthus falling a martyr to his Master.^ His head was cloven opeu, and, it\\nis said, was cairied on a pole itiTo Canada, and his l ody l)urned to the\\nshoulder-blades. We know of no reminiscences of his personal charac-\\nter, except such as are given by the Labadists, Jasper Dankers and\\nPeter Sluyter, in their journal. From this itseenis that Dominie Tesse-\\nniaker came originally from Utrecht. In September, 1079, he was a can-\\ndidate for ordination, and about that time was probably examined and\\nordained. Hewas then expected to preach at South River. On Sunday,\\nOct. 29, 1679, he preached at Bergen. These Labadist tourists give a very\\nwretched account of bis preaching and character. Tliey said they never\\nheard woi-se preaching, and stamp him as a perfect worldling. But\\nthis is the judgment of two of the most censorious men who ever joined\\ntwo censorious natures together and then vented tlu-ir spleen. Had the\\ndominie been a Laba lift he would doubtless have received a saintlier\\ncharacteristic from these twain carping visitors from Friesland.\\nTlie name of Rev. Rudolphus Farik (Varick) occurs in the church\\nrecords as having on one occasion ministered to this people at a very\\nearly period by preaching and administering the sacrament.\\nDuring the absence of a stated minister his place was supplied by\\none who was called a Voorleser. He led the devotions of the worshiper s\\nin singing and prayer and the reading of the Sciiptures. He was the\\ncatechiser and schoolmaster. Such a person seemed indispensable to\\nthose early settlers. In such a capacity Guilaem Bertholf became at\\nthat early date a settler in this locality. So acceptable were his services\\nto the people that they desired him to become their minister, and ac-\\ncordingly he was sent, at the expense of the churches of Hackensack and\\nAcquacknonck, to Holland in 1693 for the purpose of being examined\\nand ordained by theClassis. The minutes of the Classis of Bliddleburgb,\\nin Holland, show that he was admitted to full examination, and having\\ngiven good proof of his qualifications, he was ordained and invested with\\nthe pastoral care of these churches.- It will be seen that at that time\\nthese two churches of Acquacknonck and Hackensack were united.\\nIn 1694 he returned in safety to America and entered on the work of the\\nministry. This is indicated by bis own records at that date. He was the\\nfirst regularly installed pastor in New Jersey. The first minister in the\\nState, however, was a Presbyterian, Rev. Abram Pierson, of Newark, in\\n1666, where the next year a church was organized. In 17u9 the Dutch\\nChurches in Monmouth County obtained the services of Rev. Joseph\\nMorgan, who was there for twenty-two years. Then two Dutch minis-\\nters in New Jei-sey, and never more at one time than two in New York\\nCity and two in Long Island (and at one period, from 1702-5, these\\nfour were reduced to one), constituted all the Dutch ministers around\\nNew York City or in New Jersey, being never more than six at one\\ntime.^ The first Dutch minister in America was John Michaelis, in 1628.\\nThe first in New Netherlands was Everardus Bogardu8,who arrived in\\n1633. He was the man who, in a letter to Governor Van Twiller, repri-\\nmanded him for his official conduct, calling him a child of the devil,\\npromising him such a shake from the pulpit on the following Sunday\\nas would make him shudder. The church in Bergen is the oldest in the\\nState, bearing date of 1660. But it had no settled pastor until 1757,\\nninety-seven years after its organization.\\nIn 1696, just ten ye vs after the organization of the church at Hack-\\nensack, a church building was erected on this very spot, and has gener-\\nally been known by the distinctive title of The r?nirch (m the Green.\\nWhere previous to this date services were held is not definitely known.\\nA tradition coming through Rev. James V. C. Romeyn locates the build-\\ning j!ist below a graveyard, on the outskirts of the village proper, on the\\nstreet leading to Hoboken. The church building at Bergen has prece-\\ndence in age of sixteen years, having been built in 1680, while the first\\nplace used for worship in the city of New York was a spacious room\\nbuilt for the purpose over a horse-mill in 1626. The earliest account of\\na church organization at English Neighborhood is in the year 1768.\\nThat at Pompton Plains bears date of 173S that of Ponds, 1710, which\\nwas the first house of worship erected on the north of the Passaic River.\\nThe church at Paramus was organized 1725. As late as 1748 all the\\n1 Taylor s Annals, 170; B. D. Ch. Mag v. 2, 328.\\nJournal of a voyage to New York and tour in several of the Amer-\\nican colonies in 1679-80.\\nClassis, in ordinar session, held in Flushing, Sept. 2, 1603. Lemma\\n9. (iuillaume Bertholf, at present Voorleser in the congregation of two\\ntowns in New Netherlands, presented a memorial signed by many mem-\\nbers of the congregation, requesting that they might preserve him as\\ntheir ordinary minister and pastor. It was resolved that the subject\\nshould be acted on to-morrow, etc.\\nCorwin s Centennial.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0209.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "16t)\\nHISTORY OF BKlUiEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nrrgion of cuuntr]r now comprised In the bounds of the congregations of\\nPoniptiiii Plains, Pumpton, Ponds, Proakness, MontvilU VairHcld, Little\\nKalU, Add Totowa(or pHtersoni wiw fnvoreJ with but one cliiirch organi-\\nZHti\u00c2\u00abMi.i At an eurly (M riud o( tlie (ieltlt-nM-iit uf tliiN region ttieru was wliat\\nwaH called the Krt ticb Chiircli. locAte4l jiiMt tlii\u00c2\u00ab sidt- or Ili( Old Bridge,\\nby or in what iti calU-d the French btir ing-(;roiind, on tlie ea*tern !\u00c2\u00bbide\\nof the Uiickeiiiuick UiviT. The tradition niiiit tlial as a Utat wtut sailing\\nup llie river, on board of wliich were two noun witli liioir uiother, the\\nniollivr died, and oho was buried ou the knoll of ground whicli is now i\\noccupied A8 a burial-plot. These persunN are said to have iK-en of the\\nDemarlaM fauiily which seltletl at Old Bridge in 1677. A Lntlierau\\nChurch stood likewJNe on the imuie HJdu of the river, between tliis vi|.\\nlage anil New Bridgi in whut i^ nuu ailed The Luthemn burying-\\ngruund Thix settlement t*f Lutherans v,vu* from Holland, and was\\nvii)ite l by l^r. Mublenburgh. It was probably organize^) into a cuugre-\\ngation aU Ut the year 1745 or 1746 Itev. L C. Ilurtwick is said to have\\nbeen the pastor for a tinie. The Kev. William Giafl wun tlic last pastor.\\nHi left, and removed to (iermantown. N. J., some lime during the war\\nof the Kevolutiou. The Rev. Dr. SchafTer, of New York, preached on\\nthe ruins uf the old church in the summer tif 18:^1, and attempted to\\nrevive an interest iu the dd congregation, but it amounted to nothing.\\nJuilging fiom tlie present ruins, the building must liave been of very\\n^ml(ll diuienttioiiH. Strange at* it may ^i-em. nrarce any other informa-\\ntion respecting thet e two churches can be gathered up. The Luther-an\\nChurrh WHS in |M)ssfiMii(in of a certain ti-actof land on which the minister\\nresided, which revertetl, accurding to the conditions of its grant, to the\\noldest male member of the church living when it was nu longer used\\nfor church puriKtrtes. By those terms it twcauic the proi erty uf Cornelius\\nVan Bnskirk, of Schraalenburgh, but nut until another clninmut was\\ndisiK)SMesse l of it throngh recourse to the law. There is no dale in the\\nFrench burying-^ToutHr that curiies us back fnrther than I7:t5, and\\nnone in the Lntbcraii furtlier than 174. i. A great portion of the latter\\nyard ha;*, howuver, been wumhed awuy by the constantly aggressive waters\\nuf the river, affording not a very creditable instance of care for tlie re-\\nniuins of tlie dead of bygone days.\\nSome of the nuiterials of which the Dutch Church of 1( 9C, located\\non this tiiM)t, was constructed are now in the present bnilding, having\\nbeen placed there in 1791. They nmy be ween In the eastern wall. On\\nsome of them are engraved in letters, rather nide, the initials of indi-\\nvidual names; on others, the names iu full, with conesponding orna-\\nments, while there are others which partake of the nionogramniic. Of\\nthe original slructure scarce anything seems to bo known tK yond the\\nfact that it oncoexisletl. The stone now Inlaying the eastern wall bear*\\nIng Ibis inscription.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n10 WtSTA CE\\nit said to have been over the entrance-way. Some of the other carvings\\nare, to say the least, curious.* It is to he regretted (hat to us they are so\\nmeanliiKless; others have l eeu marreil by the tools of thoiighlleiis\\nmechanics, one of which has l oen cut In pieces, liearing date 172/ with\\nan loHcriptiim which would, from the character of the |M rtlon whicli Is\\nlegible, seem to Indicate that It had been placeil In a very prominent\\nposition.\\nThe preient site of the church, together with adjoining lands, making\\nalKint two acres and three-qnarters, inrludlng n large portion of the\\nGreen, or Park, on the west, woii donali d to the rhur h April M, IGOfl,\\nby a|it. John Berry. The original le\u00c2\u00abd In now Iu the an-hlvoii of the\\nchurch. It wan grHnte l in ctirmiileratlon of the fiui that, as stated In his\\nown language, that tlu luhabltaiitA of lUckenHack, New Barliadoos,\\nand Arquarkoiionck are intended to build acliurch.* It was given to\\none Morgan of ye said land for ncrommodation of uUd church. SuIh\\n1 Rev. T. II. Dnryee s sketch.\\niMter from Itev. Mr. Deyo, of Siiildli Ulver.\\nLetter from Hev. Dr. Pohlnian, of Albniiy.\\nThe following have U en taken from lh\u00c2\u00ab Appendix of Mr. liumeyu s\\nhistory of the churrh.\\nMquently, under date of March 23, 1712, another deed waa given, nun\\nspeclflc, and making the grant alvolute and unconditional, for the con-\\nsideration of love and gtXKl will toward his loving friends and neighbors\\nof Said township of HackeiiHa.-k, New Barbadties, and Hackquackenm)^\\nThis John Berry (Berrlei, of nuch considerate and generous inipnl\\nwhose memory is pn-i lotis l ecause of bi:^ irift-. rather than be-au-\\nAH AS LAM\\ni D^ Mi MP\\nhis great poMnssions, originally, in 1 I 9, together with certain hhmm iiittf\\nbecame owner, nndi r the ndmlnlKtratioii of t^overnor Carteret, of a\\ntract of land extending from the line of the Siuiford grant, on the\\nsouth, six miles into the country, Incluiling thus the present site of\\nthe village of llackennack, running from the llackensack Blver, on the\\neast, lo what Is now callwl Saddle Ulver (calleil by the Indians, improp-\\nerly, ir iU7\u00c2\u00bbMile, It being pru| erly Kerakano*^),on the west, and what Is\\nft Original Indian deed toCapt. Jtdin Berry, Nov.29,ie8( in ixMseestou\\nof Chancellor /abriskle.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0210.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n167\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^cri-^iuij^^-s^^^J^.\\nnow called Cole s Creek, on tlie north, above this cliurch al oiit two\\nmiles. If the language iisetl in bis will is any evidence, Capt. John\\nBerry, the donor, was a Christiim, iiiid bis donntion was made with sin-\\ncere affection for the church. In tliiit will we find this language I j\\ncommit my soul into the hands uf Gud, my Creator, with a well-grounded\\npei-suasion that Jesus Christ, in bis human nature, taken in his Divine\u00c2\u00bb 1\\nhath made full payment unto Divine Justice for all my sins and trans-\\ngressions, and that his rigbteounness shall be imputed to me for my\\njustification. Snch testimony gives tlie bequpst pocniiar endearment-\\nThis original settler had more favural\u00c2\u00bbIe estimates of the value of re- i\\nligion and religious ordiuances than thtit old historian who, at the early\\nsettlement of New Jersey, in giving a descriptinn of the country,\\nspoke of it as being worthy of the name of Taiadise, because, in addi-\\ntion to its natural advantages, it had ni lawyers or jdiysicians or\\nGiiillaem Bertbolf, during whose pastorate the fii-st structure was\\nreared, continued bisnnnistry nntil 17 .i4, a period of itbuut thirty years.\\nDuring this time two hundred and forty-twu persons were admitted into\\nthe cliurcb membership on confession and twenty-six by certificate.\\nThe record was kept with apparent lare till he ceased his active labors.\\nA growing feebleness is traceable in the entries which were made by\\nhim, and at the close they show the trembling, unsteady hand of old iige,\\nwhich dropped the pen at last, and it was taken up by another. Previ-\\nous to 1720 there was no record of church membership kept at Acquack-\\nenonck. The one we have here kept by him was piobably the only one.\\nAt Tappan he is said to have officiated statedly for all the years of his\\nministry in the administration of tin- Lord s Supper. He organized the\\nchurch at Itaritan, March 3, lO .iy, and ordained the elders on the same\\nday. He likewise introduced the Rev. Theodoru8 J. Frelinghuyseu to\\nthe pa-storate there in 1720. The church at Tarrytown (thnn Philip s\\nManor) was likewise organized by him, about IGU7, where he occasion-\\nally ministered. He is said to have own\u00c2\u00ab d a tract of land of thirty-seven\\nacres near Hackensack, which he bought of John Berry, and on which\\nhe probably resided. His salary, judging from a single receipt, which is\\nstill extant, was, in 1717, fifty pounds peianniim AVe append the auto-\\ngraph accompanying the receipt. He died in 1724, leaving a large\\nthe passage of each was twenty pounds and extra charges. The cap-\\ntain s receipt for the money is among the church papers. It was paid by\\nMessrs. Martinus Pauls and Jacobus Blinkerhof, at New York. It\\nseems that a note of paynu-nt was given at Amsterdam, and paid after\\narrival by these i)arties, as if there was a previous agreement. Rev.\\nGualtherius Hubois name is likewise associated with the same matter.\\nFnun the receipts it appeare that his salary was about foity pounds per\\nannum. At or near the same time the salary of the Voorleser was about\\nfour pounds, four shillings, and sixpence.\\nfamily of children. From him sprang the Brrtholfs of this day, honored\\nin having so worthy a forefather. We believe that the place of his\\nburial is unknown. We are told of him tliat he was in possession of a\\nmild and placid eloquence, which pnrsuiided by its gentleness and at-\\ntracted by the sweetness which it distilled and the holy savor of piety\\nwhich it diffused around.\\nWith Mr. Bertholf s death terminated the connection between the\\nchurches of Hackensack and Acquackenonck. The Rev. Reinhart Er-\\nrickson (Erigson), from Holland, succeeded in this pastorate in 172.5,\\nwhile the Rev. Henry Coens succeeded in that at Acquackenonck. In\\na record of his own marriage, May 22, 1726, which was consummated by\\nKev. Mr. Coens, be styles himself minister of New Barbadoes, Schraa-\\nlenburg, and Perremus. Following this record is that of the marriage\\nof the Rev. Mr, Coens, consummated by Mi. Errickson, September 1st\\nof the same year, the speedy reciprocation of a favor by himself asked,\\nand very soon after having granted it to his ministerial brother. Rev.\\nMr. Errickson married Maria Piovt)Ost. Rev. Mr. Coens married Bella\\n(Belinda) Provoost. This record gives proof that Mr. Errickson had the\\ncare at this time of both the churches at Hackensack and Schraalen-\\nliurgh.\\nThe church nt Schraalenburgh was organized in 1724. The first\\nbuilding at Schraalenburgh was erected in 1725, a few rods east of the\\npresent site of what is now called the South Church. Mr. Errick-\\nson continued this pastorate for aliout three years, when, in 1728, he\\nremoved to Schenectady, The fruits of his ministry in the increase of\\nchurdi mend ei-sbip was the addition of fifty pei-sons on confession and\\nsixteen by certificate. From Schenectady he removed in 1736 to Free-\\nhold, Monmouth Co., where there is said tu be at the present time a very\\nexcellent portrait uf him. He cunii tiver IVom Holland in the sliip King\\nGeorge, Capt. Samuel Payton, with his brother atul sister. The fare fur\\nWhitehead s E. N. Jersey.\\n0^ c/^\\nWith the removal of Mr. Erickson began the project of erecting a\\nnew church edifice. This was completed the same year. The stones of\\nthe old building were incorporated in the new one. During this period,\\nand until 1730, the church was without a pastor, but it enjoyed the occa-\\nsional ministry of the Rev. GualtheriuH Dubois, of New York, during\\nwhich forty-six were gathered into church niemliership.\\nThe Rev. Antonius Curtenius next succeeded in this pastorate, being\\ncalled from Holland. His ministry began in November, 1730, which is\\nthe date of his first entry of marriages in the records of the church.\\nThe record of church membership begins in 1731. About this time the\\nSchraalenburgh and Paranius congregations united in a call upon Rev,\\nGeorge W, Mancius, who accepted, and was settled on Dec. 23, 1730, over\\nwhich churches he presided for about one year. Subsequently, in 1737,\\nthe churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgli became ecclesiastically\\nunited niuler Rev. Mr. Curtenius, who remained sole pastor for aboTit ten\\nyears.\\nHis Kilary aeoins to have been about tbiity-f\u00c2\u00bbne pounds, thiitei-n\\nshillings, and four pence, Bemi-annuKlly, iiltliougb at times it seems to\\nhave reached forty pounds, or eighty annually. Then, lor reasons of\\nwhich we ale not informed, the Re%-. John Henry Goelschina was called\\nas a colleague with him, and settled Oct. 16, 1748. His i-ahiry seems\\nat times lo have been about fifty pounds, more or less, with the frac-\\ntion of a few pence, always named in quite all the receipts, showing\\nthat either the dominie counted clcjsely or the consistories or the people,\\nbetween whom we judge not, .lust liefoie his settlement a benevolent\\ncontribution was made to a church at Philadelphia of eight pounds and\\nfive shillings by the Schraalenburgh Church, and five ponrnls, live shil-\\nlings, and Bi.\\\\ i)ence by the Hackensack Church, wbiib was acknowledged\\nby the consistory of said church at Philadelphia, timler the signatures\\nof each of the elders and deacons, by date Dec. 1,1747.\\nThis co-pastorate continued unlil May 2, 1750, when Rev. Mr. Cur-\\ntenius renujved to Flatbush, L. I., and settled over the five churches in\\nKing s County. At this place he died in October of tho following year,\\nin the fifty-ninth yearofhis age, after an illnessof about flvedays. Rev,\\nMr Curtenius was married by Rev. Mr. Mancins, minister at Schraa-\\nlenburgh and Peramus, to Elizabeth De Foreest, July 10, 17:i2. Subse-\\nquently he was married again to Catharine Boele, from New York. One\\nwho has given a reminiscence of him says, He was a gentleman, regu-\\nlarly educated, and remarkable for his inilefatigable diligence in the\\nministration of his functions. His actions in all the afl airs of life have\\never been accompanied with the strictest rules of justice, so that uone\\ncould with more propriety claim the title of a preacher and sincere\\nChristian, which not only his good morals manifesled, but his glorious\\nresolution to launch into eternity, saying, O Death, whore is thy sting?\\netc. His remains were decently interred in tho church. His death is\\nuniversally lamented by his relatives and all those who knew him, par-\\nticularly by his congregations, who are highly sotisible of the loss of 80\\ninestimable a shepherd, whose every action displayed the Christian.\\nWith this co-pastorate of Curtenius and Goetschius, or in connection\\nwith it, began dissension among the people. Hack thither, we suppose,\\nmay be traced the first sparks of the fire which rageil for yeai-s in these\\nlocalities, and which, with grief be it said, has not yet gone out. The\\ngreat wonder is, after such burnings, sweeping over years, that more\\n2 Dr. Gordon s Manual.\\nChrixlian InUllujeiirer^ October, 1860,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0211.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "168\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND FASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JEUSEV.\\ntfaao the tuahet* of these churchee remain. But wliatftver flres may burn,\\neven such as raged liere, God cnn and will tako cnre uf his church, niid\\nHe has duni* it thus far.\\nThe T\u00c2\u00abo idea uf c dleagu( may xiigResI, In thU ctuH*, disvatisfacllon\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2omewhere. Then the co-pasturs probahly bi; auie entangled in differ-\\nencfs, and erentually idfntitied with ttioni. The ca^te is thus statc l hy\\nDr. Gordon Mr. Goetschius waa youuft, active, and potwi ^sod willml of\\npopular tah ritfi. Mr. Curleninv was a quit t, ^ood man, who loved pence\\nno ]v^ than piety but he wiis lc8s active, and second to his culleat^ne\\nin popularity. Facts lead uh io infer that Goetschius played the part of\\nAltMilom in stealing the hearts of the i eople fiuni Cuiloniuit. He so\\nnniriagcil us lu pmcure the members uf consistory from among his own\\nImmediate friends, who had l ecunie alieiiate l from the older pastor, and\\nthe r K-ord is left by one who had made a careful cullectiun uf well-a^cer-\\ntuined facts tlmt Curit-nius preached freiguently without a single elder\\nor deacon in his sent.\\nAs liiHti ry uuglit to be a truthful record of events, the following\\nstutenietit i(i ciTt iiiily in place, which is quoted by Dr. Taylor in liis\\nAnnals f the Claris of Brr(;en, that Mr. Goetechins and hiu friends\\nwent to AmtK y and obtaim-d fruni the GoviTiiur a charter convey! g the\\nchurch prujverty in an improiwr manner, without the knowledge of tlie\\nfriends f Mr. Curtenius. Subsequently, on representation front that\\nparty to the Gitvernor, the charter wtia declured invalid.\\n.Vnuther cause of diMcnsiun, which He.-med to increase the bitterneta\\nuf feeling, WR8 the rise in thette chun hes, as was the case through all\\nthe churcheji, uf the parties undt-r the names of CV)\u00c2\u00ab/iu and Cou/erenti\\nThe tV) /M(t party desired sepanition from the C la^sis of .\\\\nisterdiim, in\\nHolland, and organi/jition into a Claa -is in this country, with jHiwentof\\nordinalion and judiciid authority. The opposing party wisluHl the cIom-\\nIcal authority to renniin vested in the t^lossis In Hollnnd. In that case\\nit would l\u00c2\u00bbe necepsiiry that every minister settled hero t^hoiihi come Hum\\nHullrtiid iilready urdalnml, ur go there for nrdiniitiou. The Coetus*\\nparty formed the i\u00c2\u00bbrogre\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abdve party of tbe times. They were con\u00c2\u00bb.lun8\\nthat, ihougli they were /rom Holland, they were not in Holland, and\\nthought the dennmd of their clrcumstJinrcs of more consequence Ihiin\\nmere formal relationnhii s uf nuthorUy and namf. The!*e parties, regarded\\nIn the light l the eU-nionts thnt chunictoH/ed tbeni, have not yet died\\nout, iind the question may be started whi-ther there are not some living\\nwhu, out of veneration for what \\\\h old, and unconscious that timoH have\\nchanged, would not think it l etler tos -nd can lidate- awiiy to the fiither-\\nland f r onlinntion, unh rts, perhn|w, the rr/imM* of the vojuge would\\nserve a.-* un uttjection to remnining by what it old because old. In tlie\\nye\u00c2\u00abr \\\\~:r, a meeting of ministerM was held In New York, at which a plan\\nof a Cuetus or Assembly which should b\u00c2\u00ab sulmrdinato to the Classls of\\nAmf tenliini wa* pro|HMM d, matuifd, and forwurded to the different\\nchurches fur their concurrence. Another meeting was held April Si,\\n17:W, at wlilch the plan was nttifieil and adupted. It was then sent to\\nth* ClnMis of Amstertlain, In Hulhind, for nppn t atb n. It tf ok that\\nGlassiH about nine years to return nil answer (1747), which wiis of cun-\\ncuirenre. lJ|K n this favoi-iiblo turn ti) their re pie\u00c2\u00abts the Drst meeting\\nof the Coetus was held in tlo Scptoml er following in the city of New\\nYork. Snbsecpiently (17M) this Coetus pnqtoscd a Heparalu urgarilza*\\nlion lis a t lHAsin, with cliinshal powors. Again \u00c2\u00abt thiH op| o\u00c2\u00abitiot) arose\\non the part of alMiiit one-half the ndnlitry, who styled theniNelres Con-\\nferenlle.*2 The C onferentie* met Orst in 17f)fl. The members consli-\\ntutitig i( were comiHweil uf the most learni d men, while those of the\\n(*u4*tni wore men uf practical preaching, zenl, and industry.*\\nIP twoen these parlies the must intensely bitter feelings seem to have\\npre\\\\nl|p l throughout Ihn Ihilch Ctiurrh denondnatioti. An hlnturian\\ndes4-ril)es the Niale of affairs In the fulluwlng language: The peace i f\\nthe cliurrb wiis deMtroyiHl. Not only neighburing nilidsters and cungre-\\ngalions wep- at variance, but tn many placKH the same c \u00c2\u00bbngregatiun wan\\ndlrhb d; and in IhuKe Instance* in which the nienil ers, ur the Inllnenttal\\nchamcient, un the different side* ware nearly equal, (he cunseqnenctp*\\nbvcaine very deplorntde. Houses of worship wore lucked by one part of\\nUie cungregntlun against the other. Tumults in the Ijord s t ay at the\\nPr Oonlon*s Manual, p i.\\nS Chruluiu ytngtisirte, vol. II. p. 0.\\n^Dr. T. Ilomevn.\\ndoors uf (be church were fhequent. Quarrels respecting the serrices\\nand the contending claims of different ministers and people often ti ok\\nI lace. Preai-hers wore sometimes sasuulted In the pulpit and public\\nwurship either diKtnrl\u00c2\u00abd or terminated by viulence. In their attacks\\nthe C onferentie i\u00c2\u00bbarly wore considered the mure vehement and uutra-\\ngcous. But on both sides a furious and int* nipera(e zeal prompted many\\nto excesses which were a disgrace to the tirif tian name, ami threatened\\nto bring into contempt that cause which both professi*d to be deeinnisof\\nsupporting.\\nIn these divisions we And the colleagues of the churches of Hack-\\nensack and Schraatenburgh taking oppusite grounds. Ri-v. Mr. Curte*\\nnius was of the Confereutie* party, and Her. Blr. Goetschius of the\\nCoetUB. Although about this time Mr. Curtenius left fur Flalliush.yot\\nthe Are was kindled, and the fuel wrh ready and burning, and it burned\\nvigorously. Peace had tied the borders of their congregations. Fami*\\nlies were divliled agalnnt themselves, and indignities were heaped upon\\none another.\\nOne result of this dissension was the divittion of IheMc two churches\\ninto distinct orgainzatiuns. The Rev. Gerardun Haughevuort officiated\\non the occasion of (he ordination and installittion of the elders and dea*\\ncons of these respective iKMlies. Thus at this i erio l wi And liro distinct\\nchurch organ i/jitious where (here was but one, nnd fifo congregations at\\nHiickentsack, and tiro itt Schninlenburgh, worshiping on alternate Sah-\\nImtlis in the same buitdltig, each acknowledging the right of the other\\nto ou.-liiilf ilu property at each location.\\nWhile Mr. Goetirichius remained iMistor of the party that adhered to\\nthe CoetUH, the Uev. John Schuyler became (he pastoi of the other\\nparty III 1756. The fiienda of Mr. Gm-tschius fullowed him when he\\npreached, whether at Schraalenburgh or HuckenB tck,aud the friends of\\n5Ir. Schuyler piiixiieil (bo same cotirse towanl^ him. What amount of\\nClirisiian love such a state of things munt have fostered one tn\\nimagiui-. A litde study of the way certain patriarchs of the Old T\\nment nnnaged to avoid strife, and nn imitation of their conduct, might\\nhave avoided an almost incalculnble amount of evil.\\nIn 1750, Mr. Schuyler s labor\u00c2\u00ab ended here, hiving served the people\\nthree years, .\\\\fier a vacancy of abuu( Hiar-yeais. He v. Cornelius Ulauw,\\nwho came from llollund, was t\u00c2\u00abet1led in 17( S. His ministry lasted three\\nyears. He was followed by Kev. Warmotdns Kuypors, who came to this\\ncountry from the ii^land of Cumvua about 17C8 or 170 The exact date\\nof his settlement does Dot appear. It was before 1771. At this time the\\nchniches at Hackensack nnd Schrnjileuburgh wore under the care uf the\\nClansis of Hackensack, through the opemtiunuf the .\\\\rlicles of rniuu,\\nwhich were ailupted in 1771 In New York with a view to healing the\\nbrettche\u00c2\u00ab which were existing, Cn-dit for thi;* laU r uf love Wlungs to\\nJohn H. liivingstou, who, viewing with heavy hi art the condition uf the\\nDutch I hurches in America, when he left this country foi llollund foi\\nthi puriHise uf pn secuting his Btudien de(enninfd to make an effurt to\\nbring the sad and serious subject before (be brethren there and interest\\nthem in bringing al out eace. He was happily successful. The result\\nwas (he meeting In New York of aconvendon of alt the ministers, with\\nune elder from each church, (o devise menus of rei-unciliatlou. Of (his\\nctinvenlion Itevs. Mr. Kuy) ersand (iuetschlus were members.\\nFur a short tinu- Mr. Kiivpers c\u00c2\u00ab temi\u00c2\u00bbuniry with Sir. Goelpkhiu-*.\\nMr. (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2oetschluB eioled his InUtrs in death, Nov. H. 1774, \u00c2\u00bbt the age of\\nnfly-seven. He was the son of a Gernuui minister in Switzerland; was\\nlK rn in 1714, at Zurich. He recidve.l his literary education at it uni-\\nversity. In early life ho came to Thiladelpliia with his father, who was\\ncalletl and (lettlwl as the pas( ir of the first Germnu Reformed Church in\\nthat city. Thei-o he pronwuteil the study of the dogy, under the Bev.\\nMr. porsiUB, another ntlnlstcr of the German Reformed Church. He\\npreached for *ime time after his ordination in the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch In Neshamlny, I a. Thence he remove*! to Jamaica. 1.. I., lu the\\nyear 1741, having accepte*! a call from the CuKed Reformed Dutch\\nClinnhe In Newtown, Jamaica, Success, and Oyster Hay, of \u00c2\u00abhich he\\nwas the first xettled pastor. In consequt-uce uf bis imn-asiiiK p qiul irlty\\nas a cunimanding pulpK orator, and his extensile llti-rary and theologi-\\ncal acqiilromenls, accompanied with an oarneKt piety and an untiring\\nft4 al, he WHS BtMin chosen as a lecturer and (eacher of theology In the Re-\\nformed Dutch Cliurch. A Isrge numlH r of the yunug men uho entered\\nthe niltilntry at that day were under tils tlo ological Innt ruction. Amontc\\nthem wa\u00c2\u00ab S\u00c2\u00abdumon Kroidlgh.\\nHU ndidstry on Unig Inbiu 1 wa very \u00c2\u00abi\u00c2\u00bbin attended with a reuinrk-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0212.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n169\\nable blessing, and as be belonged to tbe Coetua party, be consequently\\nexperienced great opposition fruiii tbe bretbien of the ndverse party,\\nthe Conference. Oltentinies tbechuiclies were closed against him and\\nhis adherents, and he was ficijuently compelled to preach in barns, in\\nprivate houses, and under shady trees. On one occasion, when he had\\nobtained access to tbe pulpit in Jamaica, the chorister (who in those\\ndays had his seat at a small desk immediately hi-neatb the pulpit, ami\\nat the comnieiicenieut of the morning service read a chapter froui the\\nBible and gave ont tbe first psalm or hymu), in order to prevent the\\nminister from having the opportunity of preaching, gave ont the whole\\nof the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm, which, if sung in tiie slow\\nway that then prevailed, would have consumed the whole day. When,\\nhowever, tlie usual time had been occupied he arose in the pulpit, and\\nby his powerfnl voice drowned that of the foresinger anil obtained the\\nmastery and preached. Not having been ordained by the Couferentio\\npartj the validity of his ordination was by them called in question. But\\nfor the sake of harmony in the churches on Long Island he submitted\\nto a re-examination and reordination by the ministers of tbe Confer-\\nentie party, who were in the nnijority in New York and Long Island.\\nIt was at that time the rule for the candidate who had been through an\\nexamination and had snstained it to pay to the Clas^is or Synod live\\npounds, which went into the contingent lund of the body, and it was\\nalways paid before the adjournment. When the president, therefore, an-\\nnounced that tbe examination was sustained, it was expected that the\\nfee would be laid on the table. But 3Ir. Goetschius had paid this sum\\nat his former examination, and thinking it to be unjust that he shovild\\nbe called to pay it again, arose and said, Now, hrethreu, I mnst say to\\nyou as Peter and Jolin did to the lame man Mho lay at the gate of the\\nTemple which is called Beautiful and asked alms of them, Silver and\\ngold liave I none, but such as I have give I thee: in the name of Jesus\\nClirist of Nazareth rise up and walk, and immediately be took up his\\nhat and walked out of the bunse. While on Long L-jland he gave great\\noffense by a sermon which he preached on The unknown God, it being\\nreceived as a reflection upon the peraonal piety of the people. The old\\nfolks said, Shall this stripling tell us that we have so long served an\\nunknown God? His life on Long Island was one of great conflict.\\nHe was a man of deep feeling, strong passions, and independency of\\nspirit. It is said by the author from whom we glean some of these\\nfacts that it wjis not unusual for the early ministers to wear a cocked\\nhat and a sword, which they took off and laid behind them in tlie pul-\\npit and that on one occasion, when he api)rehend( d resistance to en-\\ntering his church at Hackensuck, he called for his sword, buckled it on\\nhis tliigb, determined to do wliat he must to assert his rights, and thus\\naccoutred he entered the pulpit,^\\nHe is said to have been in pei son below the medium size, of a vigor-\\nous constitution, abrupt in speech, but clear, expressive, and pointed in\\nhis language. In his preaching he was both a sou of thunder and a son\\nof Consolation, terrifying in denouncing the curses of the law, but con-\\nsoling and encouraging in his addresses to Ciiristiaus. It was a common\\nthing for his audience to be bathed in tears. His wit was leady, and his\\nsarcasms such that they were not soon forgotten. During his residence\\nat Jamaica he was on pleasant terms with lM)th the Presbyterian and\\nEpiscopalian clergymen of the place. The latter said to him on a certain\\noccasion, referring to his solemn and severe manner in the pulpit, It\\nalways seems to me, when I hear you preach, that the law must have\\nbeen given in the Dutch language.* Very likely, said Mr. Goetschius,\\nand I have always thought that the English must have heen the lan-\\nguage in wliich the serpent spoke to our mother in Paradise. During\\nthe ministiy of Mr. Goetschius in Hackensack several powerful religious\\nrevivals occurred. He labored here for about twenty years. He died\\nsuddenly at Schnuilenburgh. The last words he was heard to utter\\nwere, Now I shall soon be with my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.\\nDominie J. Hendrikus Goetschius was married to Rachel /abrowsky,\\nby Dominie Curtenius, Aug. J6, 1750.\\n/J t-^^.^^^\\nIn the year following (1775) Rev. Theodorick Romeyn (commoidy\\ncalled Dircli was called to till this vacancy from the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch at Marbletown, N. Y. To whatever extent the Articles of\\nUnion were eflective in bringing about peace in these churches it was\\nDr. Spmgue s Annals of R. D. Ch.\\nChrisliiin Intel}., October, 1865.\\nDr. Sprague s Annals R. D. Ch.\\nnot perfect peace. Bad feelings die slowly, the worae the slower. Mr.\\nRomeyn consequently found the old fires still alive at Hackensack, and\\ntliey began to burn anew through the political differences connected\\nwith the Revolutionary war. He was faithful in his attendance upon\\nthe Classis, but during his ministry no delegates were sent from Mr.\\nKuypers church. The condition of things is thus described by an-\\nother:\\nSome few were traitors, some indifferent, others entered tmt aa\\nwarmly into tlie cause as might have been expected; others, again, with\\nenlightened patrioiisui, urged on the cause of their country as the cause\\nof God. lew. no doubt, were exces.sive in professions of patriotism, and\\nused it to cloak their love of plunder and their individual resentments.\\nThen vanie the strong political controversies under the earlier years of\\nour Constitution. All these causes constantly agitated the community\\ncomposing these congregations. They followed their respective minis-\\nters on alternate Sabbaths, meeting like two angry waves. Private\\nfriendships with many were broken up. Politics were largely mingled\\nin the discussions of the pulpit, and the result was for a long time that\\nall, or nearly all, who belonged to one communion were of one political\\ncreed, and all, or nearly all, who were of the other communion were on\\nthe opposite side in politics.\\nDr. Theodorick Romeyn remained pastor of the churches of Hack-\\nensack and Schraalenburgb for ten years. Previous to his settlement\\nhe had declined two calls from these churches. He arrived at Hacken-\\nsack in the early part of May, 1776, and was installed by Rev. Samuel\\nVerbryck, who preached on the occasion, and for whom he is said to have\\ncherislied the most affectionate respect and veneration.\\nDuring his ministry this locality was greatly disturbed by theBriiish\\ntroops and their sympathizers. Before the close of the year in which\\nhe wafl settled they entered his dwelling during his absence and carried\\noff or destroyed all his furniture, clothing, books, papers, etc. Soon after\\nthis he removed his family to New Paltz, and thence to his mother-in-\\nlaw s at Marbletown, where they remained nearly two years. Frequent\\nvisits were made to his congregation, but they were necessarily brief and\\nalways attended with great danger. On the occasion of one of these\\nvisits, in September, 1777, as he was about leaving, he was waylaid by\\ntwo armed loyalists, who, as he afterward found, had a design upon his\\nlife, and were prevented from executing it only by the formidable ap-\\npearance of the armed men who happened to be with him. In February,\\n1770. he ventured to return to Hackensack with his family, and soon\\nafter solicited and obtained militia aid from Governor Livingston and\\nas the state of things became more alarming, he subsequently obtJiined\\nadditional aid. In March, 1780, a detachment of the enemy surprised\\nHackensack, took a immber of the inhabitants prisoners, burned the\\ncourt-house and some private dwellings, and carried off a large amount\\nof plunder. Among the prisoners was one of Mr. Romeyn s brothers,\\nwho remained a ca[ tive about three months. Mr. Romeyn himself was\\nprovidentially the means of saving several men in the house in which he\\nlived, and he himself i-scaped only by hiding in the garret, standing on\\nabeam beliind a chimney. He was at this time again plundered of a\\nconsiderable quantity of clothing. His house was set on fire, but the\\nflames were extinguished before doing any considerable damage. While\\nabsent in 1778 his congregation sent him \u00c2\u00a325 18s. for his use, through\\nIsaac Van Gieson. His absence was deeply regretted, and they depre-\\ncated the idea of his connecting himself with any othercharge.^ During\\nthis period a correspondence was kept up between him and Dr. Peter Wil-\\ni son,\u00c2\u00ab part of which, on the side of the latter, is now in the archives of\\nI Dr. Sprague s Annals R. D. Church.\\nI 5 N. J. Col. Doc. Index, 454 p.\\nj 6 Peter Wilson was at this time the learned and accomplished princi-\\nj pal of the academy at Hackensack, an institution of more than ordinary\\nI reputation in its day. Application was actually made in its behalf to\\nj the Legislature for a charter of incorporation as a college, and l ut for\\nthe delicacy of Mr. Wilson, who was then a member of the Legiebiture,\\nand thus refused to support the measure personally, it is probable that\\nHackensack would have been a seat of college education.\\nDr. Wilson was a fine scholar and a thorough patriot. His contempt\\nof British aristocracy led him to leave his home in Scotland, where he\\nmight be free from the caste and constraint which trammeled a noble\\nspirit. From 1777 until 178;j he was a member of the Legislature, and\\nwas always selected as the principal person to draft the laws of the day.\\nIn 178.3 he was appointed to revise aud complete the laws of New Jersey\\nup to that period. Subsequently he became Professor of Languages and\\nI of Greek and Roman Antiquities in Columbia College, New York. He\\nI died at Hackensack, Aug. 1, 1825, in tlie seventy-ninth year of his age.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nDnhh t /i. 2, IdO.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0213.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "17i\\nHISTORY OF 15KUGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthe New Jeney Hlitorlcal Society, but hb own letters have been de-\\netTo\\\\ ed. He wiw an anient patriot, aiitl received from tlie Britiitti, who\\nHeenied Im have a (\u00c2\u00ab{ii*ctiil dislike to him, t)ie title uf the rebel panwn.*\\nHe was tui intimate relatluiii\u00c2\u00bb with several m 8t diiilitigdisheil ufflceni in\\nthe nruiy, and rendered importiiiit service.\\nIn 17S4 he uccepteii n call Trom the Reformed Dutch Churrh\\nat Schenectady, X. Y. During liis miiiiiitry there he watt ditm-\\nbled by a pnnttytic stroke for a time, hut rallied so that he was\\nable to preach again once each Sablxith for aI\u00c2\u00bbout u year. He\\ndied oil the 16th of April, 1804, in the sixty-fii-\u00c2\u00abt year \u00c2\u00bbf his age.\\nHe WHS born at HackeniHick, Jan. lii, 1744. He whs the son of Niclioltis\\nH\u00c2\u00abiiiieyn and Itachel Vri-t-landt. His great-grandfather, Clats Jimso\\nRumeyn, wiis the tlrst penwn of that name who came to tbii* country, and\\nwospmhiibly thefitiherof nil the Ronieyits herealKnitandofniany otliere,\\nif not of all in the Un l. He emigrated fruni the United Province.-* (now\\nBelgium) to Brazil, in South America, between the years IGjtt and 16i\u00c2\u00a5t,\\nwhile that country was subject to the States-General. When, howevvr,\\nthe States rcliur)uished their possession of the country in 16CI, be emi-\\ngrated to New Netherlands (New York), and settled first iit Amesfort\\nvT GravenzJiiid, oit Long Isliind. Thence he removed to Haekensjirk,\\nwhere he lived not f.ff frum ten yeiin*, when he Ment to Shappekenike,\\nor Gre\u00c2\u00ab nwicli, al ont t\\\\vr miles Ironi New York, where he died. Theo-\\ndoric Romeyii was fiilher of Dr. John B Ronieyn, of New York, and\\nuncle of Rev. James V. C. Romeyn. of Hackensack. He gmduated at\\nPrinceton, 17G i, and was classmate of Rev. Dr. Jonathan Kdwnnls.\\nPart of his theological e luc:ition was ]tcqnire l under Kev. J. H. Goets-\\nchius, who preached hifi ordination sermon. At the ejirly age of nine\\nyears he was deeply impressed with religious views, and at sixteen or\\nseventeen Ite publicly profe sed his faith in Christ. In IT JT he beciime\\none of the two additional Professors of Theology, the other being Dr.\\nSolomon Frooligh. His characteristics are piven by Rev. John Mjer\\n(Meyer), his colleiigue and successor, who preached his funeral sermon.\\nHe says of him that be ])o6sessed a mind strong, energetic, and more\\nthan ordinarily cnmprehen ive. His judgment was sound and mature,\\nand his nmmory remarkably retentive. In the discharge of his minis*\\nterial functions he proved himself an able minister of the New Testa-\\nment,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 b watchman that needeil not to be ashamed. As he had loved\\nthe doctrines of grace, and hud experienc^ d their i ower and inlluence\\non bis own heart, so he iilso insisted upon them in U\\\\n public niinittim-\\ntions. His theme uniformly was CbriMt ami bini crucified. His nniuncr\\nwiuf Udd, iiiirvpid, and daring. In the execution of bis duties he waa\\nneither daunted nor moved,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he wiis Iho Boanerges of his day. When\\nhe repnivw! the sinner trembled. When he pn nounced KImiI s t iir8 M\\nagtiiust the wickeil, It was like the thunders of Sinai. He wiw not, how-\\never, Incapalfle of the atlietic. He could at times move the heart and\\nniell the audience to te.trs. His disconrseH were solid and interesting,\\noftentimes enlivened with historical anecilofeii. In the introduction of\\nthese he was peculiarly happy. He always entered deep inlu IiIm sub-\\nject. Mis ilelivery was iininiated and uiiafli cteJ, without ostentation,\\nand l iM:oming bis snbjei t. He aimed at nothing but what wils perfectly\\nnatiinil. In his intercourse with the worM he 8upp irted a becoming\\ndignity. Independence of sentiment iiiarkinl bis imth thntugb its busy\\nrounds. He knew not )iow to dissenible; he was |Kdlle to all, familiar\\nwith few. This rendered the circle of his intimates coiitnicted and the\\nnunii.er of bis confidential friends small. In bis ci nversation he whs\\ninteresting, always iiistnictive. His family in him have lost an aflTec*\\ntlonate relative, a watchful guanlian, and a great example, the chundi\\na pillar, and society in ornament.\\nR*-v. Mr. Ilomeyn s place wiu not sup|i|ied until more than a year\\nafter bis departure, b-aving Mr. Kuypers S4de a tor.\\nRev. Solomon Froeligh was then railed from the churche\u00c2\u00ab of Mill-\\nnUtw and No-shan-bk, and having accepted, in 17lji was InstalliMl hy\\nRev. Ihnjumln Vtin der Linda, of Sailillo Klvor.*\\n1 Vr. Spriigue s AnnaN. Ii is Mibl by mie of the family that he firtt\\nwent fmm France to Holland, which givi*\u00c2\u00ab French extractmn, and not\\nDutch, and makes binione ol the largo class of llugiienolB. This origin\\nIs clalnieil by Ihone ^t hi* ^pell the namo liomuint. Instead of Homrf/M.\\n9 Mem. Dr. Livingston iGunni, ApiN ndu t*, :ui,t.\\nAmong other reasons for leaving Hai-kensack wu disapiiuintment\\nthat the nrreMia of his suUry hxd not been |uiid. But It U some satit*\\nfaction to know that there is a receipt among the rhun-h |iaiiers which\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hows that In the end all thow arrears were met.\\nMr. Vim der Linda was l t rn it| I ullitly, mur ILickenoack, In 1710.\\nIlls family settled In that locality as early as 1 OHO, on the place now\\noccuple\u00c2\u00abl by Mr. Garret Brinkerhoff. He was the flr-t peratm examined\\nDifficulties still continuing in the churches, the Claasis reff\u00c2\u00abrreil the\\nw hole matter to the Synod for settlement. The propositions from Synod,\\nthrough the t litHsin. were accepte l by the church of Mr Froelipb. But\\nthe churches unilcr Mr. Kuypern diwcn ted, through their elder, Abrahani\\nKip. The reasons for such diasent having been given, new efforts were\\ns\u00c2\u00ab-\u00c2\u00bbx crCti,\\n^^r^\\nmade towards reconciliation, which were ^ticces- fiil. Iiilh.ulties w. le\\nadjusted, H plan of union adopted, and articles agre^ d uih.ii between the\\ntwo cliurche i by a n\u00c2\u00ab lemn declaration of adherence and a formal sub-\\nscription. The Claasis recorded the fact of reconciliation with grent\\njoy, ns may well be suptxwd. .Vfter forty year* of diwpiiei, |\u00c2\u00bbeace nt\\nlength prevailed, and it seemed as if all dissension was huned out of\\nsight for ever.\\nAt this juncture it was proponed to rebuild the church ut Hacken-\\nsack, which since 1728 (aWut sixty-two years) had served them as a\\n{dace of Worship. A meeting tor consultation was announced to Iw\\nheld, and the tradition runs that, hk iIm- subject of rebuilding hail iu\\nfriends and opi osers as i genemlly the case where there are progres-\\nsive movements), and much interest wa^ nmnifested by lK th imrties, the\\nyoung people settled the matter by taking possession of the church\\nsome hours before the time for the apiniinted meeting and tearing out\\nthe pews around the wall, removing the chairs and benches from the\\ncentre of the room, and carrying them, with other fixtuies, to the\\nGreen (or public B |UHro). The*e preliminary steps left the meeting\\nnothing to do but to vote to n*build. This was done after a plan, which\\nis now in the archives of the church, together with the iiaineN of the\\nsuLecribers to the building fund, of which there were one hnndre l and\\nthirty-two. There were two subscription |mper-, one in Dutch, the\\nother in English; the former liotl forty-nine stgnuiures and the latter\\neighty-three. The subscriptions run from forty pounds downwani to\\nfour sh llings, the largest of w hich wa-* that of Peter /ahriskie.^ This\\nwork WHS vigorously prosecuted and Nultstantially done, as the present\\ntower and walls, which are now stJindiug, testify. It was fininhed In\\n1792. In Ih-it building we gather tixiny ,\u00e2\u0080\u0094thtil building enlarged and re-\\nmodeled twice. There is the sume old tower, with it-* massive mas Min.\\nof wall, nearl) four feet in thickness, and there are the old side walU\\nwith the old lUKli-rial of the earliest structure worked In them. Over\\nthe entrance way wns placed a tablet of brown^toiie. bearing the in-\\nscription, in Dut h 1-^n-dnight maakt macht, whi -b means I nion\\nis strength. Below it was engraved a lion, aud beneath it the follow-\\ning inscription, in Dutch\\nMet Huys\\ndes lleere\\nGebonwt .\\\\nno I6*J6\\nherUiuut .\\\\nno 1728\\nWtKierom herbouwt 1792.*\\nThis tablet wss removed to the rear of the building in 1847. It i(\u00c2\u00ab\\nnow uii the eastern wall. Itearing marks of Its rough iis^ige, and having\\nbeen once broken in three pieces, which fact airries with it the fotlouiug\\npiece of history of some local interest; On the loth day of July, 17 Ji, a\\nmost violent tliunder-stt rm passed over the village of Hackensack. the\\nligbtuint: Htriklng tlie sleeple of this edifice, d dng much damage, and\\ndispbicinK this stone, which wns broken in three pieces. The motto\\nwoH sundered in two part\u00c2\u00ab, Kon-drucht being on one pii-ce and insakt\\nniai ht being on the other. The ev iu called forth an sppmpriaie ser-\\nmon from Dr. Fn eligh, which wan Bubiie pieiitly (In H*) trHiislateU\\nand published. Sotne regard*.) (he vioilation as a IMvlne token, slgiii-\\nfylng Mep^nitlon of the church, interpreting it, as many lo Providence,\\nto suit their fancies. The Idographer of Dr. Fmeligh says, referring to\\nthe afler-8e|Mration, This Is our belief, founded on what to* have known\\nand \u00c2\u00abeen of the two people, that, according: to the sign given July Mth,\\nthe triune God has made them two; the fire of grace is on one side, and\\nthe fire ofrngeaiid illsconl on Iheiither. On which side was grace and\\non w lib h side was flie dp|H*nds, of course, very much on which side the\\njudge in the msilrrlK long*. But which side was* Ken-4lracht and which\\nunder **tbe Coelus/* and was called ti Paramus in September, 174m. Hu\\nmarried a niece of Gen. Schuvler. Dominie Verbryck marrieil Mr. Van\\nder Linda s daughter, and residi- l on the old homestead at one iN^riod.\\nHis son WRK taken pri\u00c2\u00bboner by the nrili h.\\nAp|H ndlx. No. .i\\nTill* hons\u00c2\u00ab* was built here In IR06, and rebuilt In 1728, and agtin re-\\nbuilt In 1702.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0214.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n171\\nI\\nBide insmkl nmrlit 1ms never beon noticed. The interpretation ought to\\nhave heen more specific, for the stone was broken in three pieces, the third\\npiece not having any notice given it. Ami as for the fact that the Hon\\nwas neither decapitated nor had scarce a Iiair of his akin injured, it liaa\\nnever yet been interpreted in a providential light. Let us trust that it\\nmeans that Christ, after all, shall not be divided, whatever other\\ndivisions there may be.\\nTradition says that when those stones which inlay the front walls\\nof the building, on which are engraved certain names, were placed there\\nthe workmen refused to place them until the respective-parties whose\\nnames they bore paid them an extra bonus, which it is said was freely\\nspent in indulgetice at the tavern hard by.^\\nHere, in this building, Rev. Messrs. Kuypera and Froeligh ministered\\nalternately until the former was disabled by increasing infirmities.\\nInstead of unfolding from this point of time 1792), which marks an\\nera in the erection of a new church edifice, and promising, from events\\nwhich had just taken place of so specific a character, harmony and peace,\\nwe are forced to unveil fresh recitals of discord, almost while the smile\\nof congratulation over pacific measures were still playing upon the faces\\nof the people. It is simply historic fairness that compels us to give place\\nto facta wliicli, unfortunately, were facts, and of which one could wish,\\nas of some children, that they had never been horn. Only five years\\npassed ere the fires of dissension began to kindle up anew, and the flames\\nto blaze up m^re fiercely than ever.\\nIt having become necessary to furnish a new parsonage for Kev. Mr.\\nKnypers, a resolution was passed to take not of the common fund two\\nhundred pounds for that purpose. As the four consistories had joint in-\\nterest in the property, it is easily to be seen how jealousy could spring\\nup in view of such an appropriation. Mr. Froeligh and his people stren-\\nuously opposed it. Subsequently he consulted with his friends, and on\\nAug. 11, 179r asked from the Classis a dissolution of the union between\\nthe two churches. The Classis refused to grant the request, but referred\\nthe matter to the Particular Synod. Synod appointed a committee of\\nreconciliation, with power to dissolve the connocliou if found to be abso-\\nlutely necessary.\\nThe commission to whom this business of reconciliation was referred\\nconsisted of Rev. Drs. Livingabjn, Lewis, Condit, and Rev. Messrs. Lowe\\nand Studdiford It met with the congregation at Hackensack June 28,\\n179ti. The Rev. William Linn, of New York, preached an appropriate\\nsermou on an appropriate text, Blessed are the peace-makers, etc. A\\nsolemn and impressive allusion was made to the occurrence of the year\\nbefore, by which the stone over the doorway WKSshatteied and the only\\none harmed. Ho did not venture to assert that there was a particular\\nvoice in the thunders of that day, but, he says, it has been mentioned\\nby many as somewhat singular that while differing about the appropri-\\nation of BonieTiioney, you should be made to expend a part in repairing\\nthe damage to the church; and that this stone, beating the remarkable\\ninscription, should be the only one which was removed and broken. In\\nclosing he said, If the commission shall be so happy as to accomplish\\na reconciliation a tiew stone shall be engraven and brought to its place\\nwith honor an l triumph. Unhurt by any dark cloud, it shall remain a\\nmonument to late posterity of restored love aud friendship. But if a\\nseparation shall be deemed expedient, let the broken stone continue as\\nan emblem of disunited bretliren.\\nThe new stone was not placed there; the broken one was cemented\\nand replaced. However, a reconciliation for a short time was effected,\\nfor the commission found no reason for separation, especially since Mr.\\nKuypers and his people desired the union tn remain peaceably. The\\nunion was consequently continued, and the money for the parsonage\\nwas appropriated. Subsequently, in 17 .i7, in order to heal these breaches\\nmore perfectly, another committee was jippointed by the Synod, when a\\npaper was drawn vip, by the provisions of which both parties agreed to\\nstand. It consisted of the following articles\\nI. All animosities shall cease.\\n2. All distinctions to he done away ns to the choice of members of\\nconsistoriee. They to he chosen without limitation, provided the mem-\\nber going ont of office shall nominate two persons, one of whom shall\\nhe chosen.\\n3. A second minister to be called, hut not without the unanimous\\nOf une of those whose names appear there, Albert Zabrisky, it is re-\\nlated that he once asked Gen. Washington, as he was about to leave,\\nwhat he tlien intended to do? The general asked him if he could\\nkeep a secret? He answered that he could. The general then replied,\\nI can, too, and went his way witliont giatifying his curiosity.\\nOriginal Sermon, in possession of Mrs. Abram Berry. i\\nconsent of Mr. Kuypers part of the consistory. That if ilouble the\\nsum of Mr. Froeligh s salary be raised tlie calls shall he equal; if not,\\nMr. Kuypers people shall provide for his support. The same provision\\nis made in case of Mr. Froeligh s death or removal.\\n4. A paraonage house to be built by both congregations equally.\\nIf Mr. Froeligh s people refuse, then tlie whole expense to be paid out\\nof the fund.\\nIt was not very long, however, before Pr, Froeligh withdrew tlie\\nassent whicli he had ho solemnly given to the articles of peace; and\\nconsequently strife resumed its pi-evious disgrai-eful reign. Ris dissent\\nseems to have beon based, according to his eulogist, upon his having\\nmarked the distinction between the preciou^t and the vile, the clean\\nand the unclean. He had been reminded in his early efforts for union\\nby one of bis people that it would be inadvisable and unsuccessful in\\nthe end, for so it had been indicated to him in a remarkable dream\\nwhich he related.^\\nDr. Froeligh, too, had come to visions bearing upon the same mat-\\nter, aud which he took as ominous of the Divine will, because it seemed\\nto direct his thoughts to a certain special passage of Scripture Jer. xv.\\n19-21.\\nAt tliis juncture Rev. Mr. Knypers became sii feeble that he was\\nunable to take mtu-li part in the discussions of the day. A request for a\\ndissolution of his connection with these churches being piesented to\\nthe Classis, it was granted. He was declared Evtetitus (disabled), the\\ncongregation kindly promising to pay him one hundred and sixty\\npounds per annum during his life. But death made the genei-uns pro-\\nvision unnecessary fur only five days afterwards he was tJiken away, on\\nSept. 10, 1797, in the tixty-fifth year of his age and the forty-third of\\nhis ministry. He was pastor over these churches about thirty years.\\nHe nuiy be said to be the ministerial link between the past and the pres-\\nent, for there are those now living who well remember him, but none\\nwho have any distinct recollection of those who were before him. His\\nremains wore placed in the eaith just in front of the pulpit of the\\ncliurch, as it stood when he died, and there they were found in the ex-\\ncavations which were recently made in connection with the enlarge-\\nment of this building, but without even a stone or stick to mark the\\nresting-spot, and are now deposited beneath this pulpit, waiting that\\nresurrection of the dead which he preached. Rev. Mr. Kuypers seems\\nto have been a man much respected and beloved. Those who speak of\\nhim at this late day do it with peculiar regard. One who knew him\\nwell (Dr. Jolin Van Buren) gives this rich testimony concerning him:\\nAs long as I have known him, even to this hour, lias he given conspic-\\nuous example for imitation, without being interrupted hy a single\\ntransaction over which it is necessary to cast a veil. In short, this is\\nthe portrait of the man I love and esteem. Grace without austerity,\\nfriendly without dissimulation, and religious without hypocrisy. Th s\\ncannot be deemed flattery, for my soul abhors it. Frequently had be\\nregretted the state of the church, and trusted that Providence would\\nstill the waves of contention, and say, Hither sluilt thou come aud ;im\\nfurther. I have more than once desired him to meet with the consis-\\ntory (luring the dispute, and his general answer was, Trouble I hate. I\\nhave great reason to be thankful for the number of years of my life\\nalready past, but my glass is nearly run, and the bright prospect of a\\nblessed hereafter fast opening to view. The concerns of the temporali-\\nties of the church I wish to leave to others.\\nFrom our church records it appears that on the 26th of August,\\n1797, only fifteen days before his death, he received into communion on\\nconfession of their faith twenty-four persons. In person he was quite\\nlarge and corpulent, and wore a wig. He preached in Dutch. He is\\nsaid to have been a man of high classical attainments, and some of his\\nmanuscript sermons, written in Latin, are still in existence. His resi-\\ndence was the stone house now occupied by Mr. George Doremus, next\\nto the Washington Institute. It is said that his method of tea-taking,\\nas I learn from our venerable friend Richard Paulison, was to sit at the\\ntable after the rest were tlirough the meal, and quietly alternate a sip\\nof tea with a whifl from his pipe.\\nDomi!iie Kuypers left three sons, all of them ministers of Christ,\\nGerardiis A., Zecharias H.. and William P. They are all now deceased.\\nGerardus A. passed more than forty years of his ininistrv in the city of\\nNew York, during twenty of which he wa-s senior pastor of the Collegi-\\nate Churches, a man, according to the testimony of Dr. Knox, of most\\neminent qualifications in personal characteristics and as a clergyman.-*\\nBefore the death of Mr. Kuypers, a request had been made by the\\nconsistories of Dr. Froeligh for a dissolution of the connection existing\\n3 Lamentation, by Rev. C. T. Denuirest.\\nDr. Sprague s Annals of R. D. Ch.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0215.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "172\\nIlISTOllY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nbfitwecii the Iwo churcht 8. But iioir lie cluimtNl that llie cliiirclies wero\\none, Rfid upiHMM-d lite action of the Synuil in Appointing Mippliftt fur Mr.\\nKuypore mngre gallon. Dr. Fruvligh s opposition to a ttppunition then\\nbecam*^ no sIronK that c-vcii the seat of the dflegato from Mr. Kuy| cn\\nchurch was contested, on the ground that the churches were one.\\nWhat his motives were we stial) leave othcn to imagine, without iv^s\u00c2\u00bb-\\ning nny judgment.\\nAbout this lime (October, 1799) a call was presented Co the Claaoia\\nfor approvitl up\u00c2\u00abin Rfv. Jnmee V. C. lUnneyn, of the churches of Green-\\nbu\u00c2\u00abh and Wynontskill, in New York, fn.m lUv. Mr. Kuyperr church.\\nThe appwviil *if the call was opiKwed hy Dr. FroeliKh and hia friends.\\nBut the CLifl6i\u00c2\u00bb gave it their approbation neveriheleiw. Dr. Froeligh\\nappcale l to the Particular Synod agllin^t the ClaaaiB, on the grtmnd,\\nplausibly, that an elder from Mr. Kuyperu church whs admitted to a\\nseat in the Chiftsi*, and that the corporaie tteal bad been iiffixed to said\\ncall without the authority of the Iwdy corporate. Xeverlhelees the\\nSvnod sustained the ClaasiB in their action. They did so because they\\nfound that the clnirter-armugement wax \u00c2\u00bbo complicated that it would\\nbe diflloult for any call to be nuide unb-ss by miuctioii of tin- sunn- op-\\nposing party who had the whole bwlance of power in controlling and\\noppi Hing all the wiehea of Mr. Kny|\u00c2\u00bbri* church. Indeed, Dr. Froeligh\\ngave it to lie i)nderMtoo4l that nu man should be called but such aa suited\\nhis own will. Again Xw appialed from i\u00c2\u00bbarticular to General Synod.\\nMeanwhile, Rev. Mr. Komeyn liad removed to Hackensack, and ar-\\nningementfl wore made for hin installation. His consistories invited Dr.\\nFrveligh to perform the installation services, but ho declined. Rev.\\nJnhn Corneilson was then invited, and having acquiesced, performed\\n(be duty, December, 1799, preaching a sermon from 1 Thess. ii. 4: Hut\\nas we were itllowed to be put in trust with the gnspel.to we preach nut\\nlis pleasing men, etc. The sermon wiw BubsL quently published.\\nThe whole case came up before the Synod, and wtw disiioscd of by\\nthe adoption of two important resolutiuns confirming th uctioir of Par-\\nliiular Synod, by which Mr. Komeyn was installed, and recommending\\nu Heptiration of the churches. Against this disposition of matters Dr.\\nFroeligh and bis elder entered their pl-utesl.\\nAt this Synod it was deemed advisable to divide the Chuisis of Hack-\\nensack, ami the two Classes of Bergen and Panimus were cnnstitnied\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ut of it. The chnn h under the \u00c2\u00abharge of .Mr. FrMellgli wii^ tiMtigne^l\\nt. the Chissis nf Paramu-, and Mr. K.-nieyn s to the Clas^is of Bergen.\\nBut for a long lime the temiwial afTaiis between the two churches re-\\ninained unsettled. Kepeated attempt ^vere made by Mr. Romeyn s\\nchurch toward an e piitable and satisfactory adjustment, but in vnin.\\nMr. Froellgh s church claimed all the prui\u00c2\u00bberty, jis a leitei written by\\nhim to Mr. R\u00c2\u00bb meyn, Dee. ii, IWWI, indicates.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2*ln the meanwhile Iho old bouse of worship at Schnuileid.ur(;b,\\nwhich was used by iM.th the congregations, becftme quite untit for ucru-\\npatlon, and Mr. Fn.ellgbs people, without consultation with Mr. Ko-\\nmeyn s, prucewled t\u00c2\u00ab erect anotlur bmlditig. Mr. Rouieyn s |M ..ple con-\\nsequently offend to pay om-half the cost for its j\u00c2\u00abiint ownership and\\nuse. But this offer was refuseil. and they wt-re left without litigation lo\\ngoon. It became necei^sary, Iherefoie for them t*\u00c2\u00bb provide lor them-\\nwdves, which noceiwlty. like many other*, in the provblonce of God, at\\nthe time not undenitood, but sulwequently are, as ilesigned, for gooil,\\nprove l a blessing in the erection of that nobly building in wlibh the\\nReformed rhnnh of Schnuilenhurgh now wondiip, under tin- ministry\\n-*if Rev. Dr. tJonlon.i At the sjime time the congregations of Mr. Ko-\\nmeyn, in llatkensack and Scbraab-nburgb, jointly purchns*-.! u paicel\\nof land at Schnu\u00c2\u00bblenbur\u00c2\u00abh, on which tln-y erected a panwnagu fi.r tlielr\\npuntor.\\nDimcullie- still exliled tending lo disturb the peace, and Msrvlug as\\na canker to g.\u00c2\u00abMl feeling. Patience bad a tine flebl for development.\\nThe buih burned on with as (lorce a lliv as that which Moses saw. Th*\\nold church building at 8 hnuilenburgh became a bone of cimtention.\\nWhen aband,.ned llH(i||, Mr. R-mieynV iwople noUlied Dr. Fn.ellgh*s\\nthat the furniture was taken fn.m it for preservation until a division\\nc*.uld be made. AInmiI the same time Dr. Fr..eligh*. iK.H ple proceeded\\n|o pull down the building, and .ippn-prtated Its material exclUM\\\\ely t..\\nthemselves, which circnnishince bnmnlit forth a notice from Kev. Mr.\\nIb.moyns|\u00c2\u00bbeople, asking them to d.-si-t. But the work went on, ami\\nthey were alh-w-d without litigation to pn.ceed. The bunding erected\\nh\\\\ them at Sbnmleiibnrgh Is the one usually called the SouUi Ohurch,\\nbut reeentiv enlarped and remwleled at a heavy exi^-n-e. SuUdiuoully.\\nhowever, their ieini oral difficulties weie atljuMed, and division of prti|M\\nerty was made.\\nI |tr. liordon s Manual, p. 17.\\nBut the end of the trouble was not yet. The new relatiunshijiii uf\\nthe separate churches led to difficulties In the matter of the transfer of\\nmeuil\u00c2\u00bberei from one church to the other. Dr. Froeligh whs amigned for\\ndisorderly and unconstitutional proceedings, and liis case came event-\\nually before the General Synod, In deflatice of church authority, Mr.\\nFroeligh persistently refused lo recognize this (Mr. Komeyn si church,\\nand took every occasion to make his contempt felt by them and their\\nastor. At length matters proceeded to such lengths that his conduct\\nbocamc intolerable. He received members of this church into Iris own,\\nrefusing to recogni/.e them at all as having been members of a lawful\\nchurch. 2\\nCharges were also brought before the CIhsbIb against Kev. Mr.\\nRomeyu. The record of tbeir transactions in the minutes of the\\nClassis is enough to make any man of refined Christian feeling blush\\nwith shome.3\\nThe ecclesiasticitl proceedings instituted againiit Dr. Froeligh before\\nhis Classis were an*\u00c2\u00abwered by him through his showing that his cim-\\nsistory aHBumcd the resisuiKibility. The case was carried front the\\nClassis to Particular Synod, and in 1822 whs brought to a crisis. The\\naction of Particular .Synod, sustaining Mr. IWmeyn s apjieal, was i\\nI |H aled fruti) by the Classis uf Paramus, whirb had sustained Dr. Fr \u00c2\u00bbe-\\ni ligli. But the GeuHi-al Synod, by a vote of thirty-six to eight, refused\\nI to sustain the apiieal uf the Classis. This left the case open for trial by\\nClassis as an action against Dr. Froeligh in his ministerial capacity. At\\nthe meeting of Classis in September, 1822. the case was calbnl up. Dr.\\nFroeligh was not piesent to proceed to trial. The Claris refused to go\\non with the case. Mr. Komeyn again appeabHl to ihe Particular SynotI,\\nbecause, though Dr. Froeligh was al senl.all the merils of the taee wer\u00c2\u00ab\\nbefore the Classis, as a matter of record, and it was notorious that Dr.\\nI Froeligh had seceded from the Reformed Dutch Church. This appeal\\n(he Particular Synod, in May, 1823, referre l to the General Synod for\\nflnal trial. It was jiresented Ut that judicatory in June follow ing, but\\nwithdrawn by Mr. Rtmieyn,* nptui the gixiund that Ihe object contem-\\nplated would bo bniught up through aimther channel.\\nI At the meeting of the iionenil Syn Nj in 1823 a printed pamphlet\\nwas laid upon the table puriHtrting (o be reasons as-signed by a number\\nof ministers, elders, and deacons for declaring themselves The True\\nReformed Dutch Church in the Cnited Stati-s of America, tlateil at\\nSchraaleiiburgh, Oct. 25, 1822. It wits signed by the uamea of five miii-\\nI isters, eleven elders, and nin( ileacuns.\\nThe immphlet was referred to the committee on synotlical minnten,\\nand they reported that as Dr. Froeligh was a prufeasor of tlie\u00c2\u00ab logy, he\\nwas directly answerable to the General Synod. Un the Uisls of the\\njkamphbt which he hail signed, there was tabled against him s u list in-\\ntially the following charges:\\n1. Avowing himself a sinretier from the Reformetl Dutch Church.\\n2. Implicating Uie constituted anthurilloe of the church in grossr^t\\nneglect of duty, such us dlsre(;anllng dii^clpline, pr^tetituUng (he sa ni-\\nnients, etc.\\nX Uniting with several de|iosed minlsteis of the I^ formed Dutch\\nChurch In declaring themselves the True Reformml Dutch Church,\\nthns acting in contempt of all ecclesiastical authority.\\n4. Promoting schism and dls-enslon In the church\\nOn these grounds Dr. Ftoeligh was cited toappear befoti theSyiio l.\\nNut appearing, a second citation was nerviMl niton him. To this his re-\\nply was that he should nut r -ply to it.\\nlie was conse(|uently removed from his office as proh-ssoi and sus-\\npended from the ministry. The ostensible reasiui for this secession was\\nI the prevalence of the llopkin\u00c2\u00abian heresy, together with tlie dangeiuuo\\nInnoVHliouN lK th in diM trine and discipline.\\nSul se(|uently. An addre* M of the Cummlssion of lieiiernl Synod to\\nthominlsters.onicers, ami other members of Ihe Reformed Dutch Church,\\nandes|Kuially tothemlidsteni andchunbeaof tlieSeeoMslon, wiui prlnteil\\nand extensively circulated, in which the whole matter uf the Secewion\\nWAS reviewed, and thecharge t brought agalnxl the church tif de|wrliire\\nfrom doclriiii^nand duli *\u00c2\u00bbwvrr ably answered, and proved to be without\\nnny founilatioti whatever.\\nBut It is well known to many that this Seceasion was the nmlnrlng\\nof a gnmlh consioiing of |R\u00c2\u00bblty peiitonal dlfflcultic\u00c2\u00ab and feelings, on\\nwhich the charges of doctrinal defection were grannl. The slandartls\\nand catechism of the Refomied Dutch) Church are the same as they\\nwere originally, anil the SecMtion have none other. The fonner recog-\\nnise them, and their doctrines are taught as leaUy, even if not as for-\\nDr. Oonlun s Manual.\\n8*e Minutes of (Hasali of lk rgen.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0216.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n173\\nmaUij, as they ever were. It must be remembered, too, that there are\\nviews wliicl) are liyperdoctrioal, and there are abuses of doctrine which\\nlire as thoroughly lieretkal as certain views which seem to fall below the\\ndoctrinal standard. Doctrine is one thing, interpretation of doctrine is\\nant ther. It is easy to judge a man a heretic when one makes his own\\ninterpretation of doctrine the proper standard. It was by this method\\ntliat the Pharisees accused Christ of being a violator of God s law.\\nTlieir accusation did not make him such. To be a Calviuist it is not\\nnecessary that one should Ue a fatalist. Calvinism, abused and perverted,\\nhas done far more for the cause of its enemies than Calvinism understood\\nand rightly represented. And the abuse and perversion of Calvinism\\nmay be traced more closely to its profe ised friends than they are willing\\nto allow. At the same time the remark may be permitted that many to\\nwhom Calvinism is a monster of such horrid mien have more of it about\\nthem than Ihi-y are aware of. Indeed, many who judge Calvinism do\\nnot really havn clear views of what it is.\\nThe germs of Secession are actually traceable as far back as 1820, in\\ntlie Classis of Montgomery. At that time, in that locality, there were\\nvarious grievances of which complaint was made, and warm disputes\\nwhich led some of the membei-s of Classis to absent themselves from thc-ir\\nmeetings. On this account /our of the members were suspended (Syl-\\nvanus Palmer, Henry V. Wycoft, Nicholas Jones, and Albert Amnier-\\nniaii). Bui these were all restored in the same year. In tlif^ following\\nyear, the grieviuices continuing wirb new grounds of complaint, Rev.\\nMessrs. Palmer, Wycoff, Tol, and Ammerman renounced their connec-\\ntion with the Classis and the Reformed Dutch Church. Classis therefore\\nsuspended these individuals, together withMr. Jones, who.a few mouths\\nbefore, had declared himself independent.\\nIn A manu8crii\u00c2\u00bbt on this subject, one whose statements are wortliy of\\nall confidence says, This was, indeed, the beginning of the Secession,\\nonly it did not take an organic form until more than a year after, when\\nDr. Froeligh proposed tliat these noitliern ministers, with himself,\\nshould unite and constitute aClassis in due form, which was accordingly\\ndone in October, 1822. This, then, is the beginning in organic form of\\nthat organization which is now known under the emphatic and e.xclusive\\ntitle of the Trde Reformed Dutch CVai/v/*, thus being distinguished\\nfrom what is considered false or impure,\\nIn this body Dr. Froeligh continued to liibor until bis dealh, wliich\\noccurred Oct. 8, 1S27, mtbe seventy-eighth year of his age and lift) -third\\nof his ministry. He was born on May 2ft, 175U, near Red Hook, then in\\nthe county of Albany. In bis eighteentli year he went tn live with Rt-v.\\nTlieodorick Ronieyn fur the jiurpose of being educated by him in pre-\\nparatory studies. He continued with him three yein llnder him he\\nmade a profession of religion, although under tlie Kev.Jobn Schune-\\nmau s ministry, at Caatsban, N. Y., he tii-st received his religious im-\\npressions. From Mr. Romeyn he came to this village, and pursued his\\nstudies under Mr. Peter Wilson ^afterwards Dr.). Having received the\\ndegree of Bachelor of Arts from the College of New Jeisey, he studied\\nIheolugy under Rev. John H. Goetschius. Subsequently, in Octolier,\\n1774, he was licensed; then, un June 11, 177; he was ordained and in-\\nstalled pastor of the four Reformed Dutch congr\u00c2\u00abgalions in Queen s\\nCounty, L. I. There he labored for tilfeen nmnths, and, because of the\\nnumber disaffected towards our nation;il indepeTidence, be fled to New\\nJersey, just escaping from being taken jtrisunerby the British. In this\\nperilous Uight he lost his worldly snb tance, including even his books\\nand clothing. He came immediately tu llackensack, where he preached\\na sermon upon the impending Revolutionary contest, which, though\\nwarmly conmiended by many of liis/liearers, so enraged the Tories that\\nthey could scarce restrain their demoiistiati-uiH uf dissatisfaction even\\ntill the close of his service.\\nSubsequently he went north wjih Ur. Livingsion. and settle.! tem-\\npomrily over the congregrttions of Fisbkill and Poughkee) sie. After\\nthree years he accepted a call to the united congregations of Neshanick\\nand Millstone, in Somerset County, N. J. While there a great revival\\ntwok place. After a severe illness lie was given up lu awful depression\\nfor six yeai-s. and for weeks together at one time he could not bring\\nhimself to enter the pulpit. But relief came, and he was never troubled\\nli may be new to some that it is claimed that the course of the party\\ndisclaiming further connection with the old body was noX a Secession\\nthat their act was simply the act of those abiding faithful to the old\\nstandards, while the old party were virtually Seceden, because, as\\ncharged, theif departed from the Reformed Dutch faith. On this uo com-\\nment is needed. We append the following words of Dr. Froeligh: The\\nministeis, elders, and deacons of the jnrlicatories from which, for suffi-\\ncient cause, as stated in our reasons, we have ivithdraicn.\\nV2\\nthus again. In 1786 he became pastor of the churches of Hackensack\\nand Schraalenhnrgh. Though for years his ministry wus attendeil\\nwith no special success, yet a powerful revival began with a fast-day\\nsermon, which he preached the firat season of the prevalence of the\\nyellow fever in Philadelphia. In 171)1, Mr. Froeligh was chosen one of\\ntwo Lectors of Theology, as successor to Rev. Dr. Myei-. In 1797 he was\\nchosen a Professor of Theology, and continued in this office until 1823.\\nIn 1811 the degiee of Doctor of Divinity whs conferred upon him by\\nQueen s College. The last sermon he preached was at Schmalenburgh,\\nAug. 5, 1827, from Rev. iii. 21, This was his last visit to the sanctuary.\\nOneof his dying sayings was. I have had many and bitter enemies, who\\nhave tried to dome the greatest of all possible injuries in the world, but\\nI can say from the heart I do not feel the least ill-will against any of\\nthem. I am at peace with my enemies, atid can forgive them all, Dr.\\nFroeligh was married to Rachel, diiughter of Isaac Vanderbeck. They\\nhad nine children. His eldest son, Peter Ditmarse, became a clergyman,\\nand was settled for some time over the churches of the Secession in\\nAcquackenonck and English Neighborhood.\\nDr. Froeligh was an earnest advocate of his political views, and de-\\nfended them in the pulpit on what he deemed proper occasions. He was\\none of the electors of President of the United States for the State of New\\nJersey in 1800, and gave bis vote for Thomas Jetlerson. The testimonials\\ngiven of his personal chaiacteritstics by Dr. Thomas De Witt and Dr.\\nHenry Ostrander, in Dr. Sprague s Annals of the Reformed Dutch Pul-\\npit, are of very high order. He was of about the ordinary size, perhaps\\nslightly corpulent, and with a countenance rather staid and sober than\\nexpressive ofstiung emotion. His manners, though not highly cultivated,\\nwere not generally otherwise than courteous, unless, perhaps, towards\\nsome of his ecclesiastical neighbors, with whom his relations were such\\nas not to inspire any great cordiality. His mind was clear and discrimi-\\nnating, and hie communications, whether in or out of the pulpit, were\\neasily understood. (Dr. De Witt.) I think it was impossible for one to\\nbe a witness of his daily life without being dee( ly impresaed by the\\nstrength of his devout feelings and his conscientious devutedncss to his\\nwork as a minister of Christ. He was very earnest in bis iidv. cacv of\\nexperimental religion and in inculcating the necessity of fujuiing the\\nchurches to a higher type of spii ituality. He exhorted, prayed, sighed\\ncontinually for more boldness and energy in discipline, more caution in\\nthe .idmission of members, and more conformity to the letter and spirit\\nof our constitutional requirements. It is evident enough that he whs\\noccasionally subject to deep mental depression and temptations, to doubt\\nand unbelief; and on other occasions, especially in his piiblic ministra-\\ntions and in the distribution of the sacramental elements, his mind\\nseemed wrapt into a state of holy admiration.* (Dr. Ostrander.)\\nSubsequently, in 1829, a secession from the Secession took place, and\\na Classis was formed, consisting of Rev. H. V. Wycoff, S. Palmer, Henry\\nBellinger,- and Albert Ammernian, the latter of w.ioni had served the\\nchurch of Johnstown and Maytield in an independent capacity. This\\nseparation from the Secession was followed by another in 18^2, under\\nRev. C. Z. Paulison. Mr. Paulison was deposed because:\\n1, Ho took exception to a law of the True Reformed Dutch\\nChurch, which made it necessary that every witness in a church court\\nshould be a member of said ehnrch in good and regular standing before\\nany testimony could be received.\\n2. Because he maintained that the essence of s.iviug faith cuii-\\naisted in a full persuasion of Christ s love to our souls.\\n3. Because he mnintained that we can infaUihbj know ourselves\\nto be Christians.\\n4, Because he approved of the sentiment that the .-ainla can do\\nno wrong; that sin cannot hurt them; that God sees no sfn in them.\\n(By this he meant that a true believer doe-^ not commit sin unto con-,\\ndemnation.\\nThis Secession styled itself *The Reformed Church. The church of\\nthe Secession at Paterson united with it at Hackensack, haviug Mr.\\nFauliscin as joint pastor. He was dismissed in 184u. Then Rev. John\\nFelty succeeded him in March, 1S42. In October, 1843, the Rev. Albert\\nAmmerman was installcil pastor of these churches. In 185:\u00c2\u00bb he was\\ndismissed from the church of Paterson, to minister solely to the church\\nat Hackensack, over which he is now the venerable at.d venerated\\npastor.\\nThe General Synod having suspended Dr. Fioeli^ih and his co-p\u00c2\u00abrt-\\nIndependeut Refurmeil Dutch\\nMr. Bellinger is now pastor of\\nChurch at Sharon, N. Y.\\nMinutes of Synod of T. R. D. Church, June, 182s, pp. i,j, 17. June\\n1832, p. 12. Address of C. Z. Paulison.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0217.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "174\\nHISTORY OF UKRGEX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NKW JKRSKY.\\nneiB in secessiou, they, in their tiirn, proposed by retolution to declare\\nexcomniiinirated all those who did not withdi-HW with thorn, and the\\nwliule Putch Church wua pronounced doliv^-red over to Satan until Ihcy\\nrpjwiit (uccortling to the wonU of the rpanhitinn of \u00c2\u00ab-xcuminuiiication).\\nBut iifterward (ho subject wuit |M)stpontMl indehnitcly.\\nFor BuniB time aubxpqtient tu this the cuiigrtgntioii of Dr. Frocligh\\ncontinued to worehip in this building, notwithsiunding the ii\u00c2\u00ab p)inition.\\nOut of courtesy and u desire fur peace, and probably the expi ctiktion\\nthat the Secession wuuld provide for itsflf, the Itev. Mr. Ilonioyn s\\nl eop]f dill not auert tlieir chiiui to the exclusive ptissession and use of\\nthe church pro| erty. But when the pastor, Uev. C. Z. Poulipon, who\\nsucceeded Dr. Froeligh, seceded from the church over which he was\\nministering and altandoned the pulpit, being ttepoaetl t*y the Claasis of\\nthe ni W party, tlun this Church ilid assert its exclusive right to the\\nproperty winch it litis Hjnce hehl.\\nThe following is a copy of the action taken by the consistory of Ilev.\\nMr. Komeyn H church, as a reference to th\u00c2\u00ab hook of minutes will show,\\nat a meeting lieM May 9, \\\\b ,i i\\nIi wart Resolrfit, That the following notice be put upon the church\\ndoor:\\nTo ait whom it may Concent\\nWe, the mini^tters, elders, and deacons of the Dutch Keformed Con-\\ngregation of Ifackensack, In the county of Bt-rgen and State of New\\nJersey, being the corpornto or body politic known and distinguished by\\nthat name, ilo hereby publiiiih and make known that since the secL-ssion\\nof Dr. Froeligh and his congregation we liave viewed ourselves as the\\nrightful owners of the church, and all the property vested in the joint\\ncorporation and body potitic, in the year 1789. That our not a^rterting\\nour chiim, and pursuing legul nieaHures to o1)tain a dcciHion in hiw, hus\\nmerely been owing to courtesy and a desire to cultivate good ncighhor-\\nhooil. A division having recently taken place among tlioKowho consti-\\ntuted the Secewton, the church and pulpit having been abandoned by\\nthe lately settled preacher, and we r\u00c2\u00bb-uiaining in posiHessJon, have\\nHe*oirtA, and by these pn-senls ilo r\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abo/c That we kee|\u00c2\u00bb the excin- I\\nsive p\u00c2\u00ab jtsession of the church and property connected therewith, and\\nwill permit no person or pen on\u00c2\u00a7 to officiate therein without our appto- i\\nImlioii and consent, it l eing underatood, iin our meaning and intent, that i\\npenwuK* owning pews or seals in tin- church arc at liberty ami welcome\\nto occupy tlii m, but in subordination to the constituted authorities of\\nthe Dutch Reformed Church inherCla^siH and Synod. It Is further\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2tatetl that if our right Is contested we are willing and ready to have\\nthe cane tried in some court of law or eijulty, and there decided In a 1\\npeaceable and friendly manner.\\nConsidering the unhappy state of ill will, anarchy, and confusion j\\nto be without justifiable cause, unchristian, and injurious t^i religion, it\\nis to us, who have untfonuly adhervd to the Dutcli Befonned Church,\\nand Continue to profess ourselves subordinate to her government and\\nstanding, a matter of dee| regret.\\nAppended to this i^ a subsetpient minute, in the folh\u00c2\u00bbwiiig wcjrds:\\nin consequence of the above notice we are in peaceabli posse 4sion. ^Ir.\\nPaulinon s, as well as tite old Secession paity.have each built a cinirch.\\nThe ground taken on which this decision was made wiu\u00c2\u00bb tliat the\\nproperty belongeil to the btnly from which the Aecession went lurlh.\\nThe SeretMbni disclaimed ail connection with the original Ixidy, went\\nThese referencet are made hlstoricallji and not for purposes of\\ninintn /r(Tiiinn, nor with a desire tti rcvivu old anlmonlties. They de-\\nserve to perish. They have done harm enough. Let lovo reign. Ilul\\nas strangerM nniki* inquiries respecting the relations of the churches in\\nthis coiiiiiiunil} and aii historical diAtourse must deal with historic\\ntruths or be dereclive, these plain statements are d signed to afford a\\nmoilluni of desired Information.\\nTlie author of this dlscounie takes this op[\u00c2\u00bbor(nnlty tossy that during\\nIlls niliiintry In llarkensnck he has failed to dls over the exintonceol\\nanything like husilllty of feeling on the |Mirt of the old tH)dy toward\\nthtme who wei.t out from them, whatever they may have nufferod\\nfrom tlietr severe relleclions.\\nThrAn tle-lring further Infornuillon on the snbjet t, and from an optH\\nile sland.i oint fr m that of the author, which will -xhlbit the original\\ntami er of the Serrs\u00c2\u00bbion, are referred to the following stnirces: A\\nlAmentation over the Itev. S\u00c2\u00abdomon Froeligh, S. S T. D. and P., by\\nItev. C^tmeliiin T. Domarest, A. M., at |ue V. D. M.. minister of the King\\nStreet Church, New York. The notes are spftclally nignlflcant.\\n*Thf* Minutes of the tteneral Synod of the Tkii: Hefomied Dutch\\nChnnii.\\nl^aniphlels of lUv. C. I liuUiiun.\\nout fhjm It as If from an unclean thing,* which It branded it, and be-\\ncame thus a lK dy by itself, leaving the old liody hy itj\u00c2\u00abelf. And it was\\npresumed that a Se ei^sion which wa so radical in doctrim*, even to dis-\\nfellowshtp, certainly included the piH r dust of earthly possession. The\\nline had been driwn by the Secefsion, and it si-emed l-ocoming that it\\nshould nin all the way through to the other side, and so it was run\\nthere. As it was, the old ownership of pews was not at all questioned,\\nnor is it to this day.\\nIndeed, when the question of a separation of the two churches was\\nrecommeiKled by General Synoit, Dr. Froeligh distinctly slated thatifa\\nntparaliou of civil ronrerng i$ intntitlfil Vi imphj *t c/\u00c2\u00abiini on any part of the\\nproperly hehl by the corporation, they deem mch elattn altn^ether unfounded,\\nhecautr by te} aralitiy tcHhotU content^ and ecen in deji*tnc\u00c2\u00ab of the moit tpir^\\nlied op\\\\ o\u00c2\u00bbition on our party and by fwming them*elre\u00c2\u00bb into a distiuet coni/re^\\ngatioH, your adherents hare undoubtedly diMolred their r-onnec/toa tcUh the\\nbody corporate, find forfeited all title toil* projtertij. Such was his doctrine\\neven when a tepnration was nggeste4l on mutual gn^nnds. Then how\\nmuch more applicable was it in the case of a seceM^ion. And yet even\\nthen individual claims ware allowol.\\nMr Romeyn continued to minlHter to these joint congregations of\\nHackcneack and Schnialenburgh, until the year 18^t. Having suffered\\nfrom a slight attack of paralysis which made this louble charge too\\nonerous, he nsked release from the astomte of St-hraalenburgh, which\\nwas granted. The lime having arrived at uhicli it seemed pr q er that\\neach of these churches should maintain a S -parate iKi. ilorate, the com-\\nbined con-ilstorie. resolveil to reqni St Classls lo dl-s \u00c2\u00bblve their joint re-\\nlation^hip. At the same tune, March 20, Ift^U, the church at Hacken-\\nsack executed a call upon Kev. James Romeyn,8 m xf their aged pastor,\\nto become a colleague of his father. In April following (1S:(3) the\\nClassis of Bergen dissolved the combined relaiionshi|is of the iwo\\nchurches, atid the imstoral tie of the Kev, Mr. Homeyn to Schnoilen-\\nburgh, and likewise approved the cull upon his son. Thi^ call whs ac*\\ncepterl, and Kev. James Romeyn untered very miou upon his la) ors.\\nThe father retained nominally the pa^ti mle of the church, and con-\\ntinued in leebleness to occupy the pulpit until the first Sablath in May,\\nwhen he ministered in the sanctuary for (hi lust lini v He is said to\\nhave cherished the desire to nniintain h s pisitiou unld he might yield\\nit, without a Sabliath s interruption, to his own son. One who has\\nmade a roconl of the incident say-*, That son felt the scene to l\u00c2\u00bbe sub-\\nlime. Tile dignified retirement from a luistonile of more than thiity\\nyears, and the taking of his place in the )h W as a hearer of the word,\\nto be one of the Hock tu be guiibd into the grii ii astuies of gospel pro-\\nvision by a soli so Well beloved, was, inde Ml, a s| eciacle for men and\\nangels to look u|K n with pleasure. It is said that on (his occ^ision he\\ngavo out Psalm cxxxvii. p. 3, containing the words:\\nFor her my tears shall fall,\\nFor her my prayers imceiid.\\nTo her my cares and toils he given\\nTill toils and cares shall end.\\nThe Inst public service of Rev. James V.C. Uomeyn was at a fnnernl\\nover an aged member of his church, which was reudervd in the Dutch\\nlanguage. His pastorate wa finally resigned SepL lt IKM, having\\nserved this people for ii -arly Ihiity-tlve yeurs. (iradually his slreiigth\\nfailed him, and he diinl June -^7, IH-lo, in the neventy-fifih year of his\\nage. His septilchri i^ with us unto tliiN dity. RfV. Jamei* Y. C. Rttmeyn\\noccupied at one period us the ar\u00c2\u00aboiuige the place which Is at present\\nthe residence of Mrs. Chailotte Andeivon. Suliseqiienlly it wiut s- M,\\nand he purchased the properly n iw Itelongnig (o W. S. Itnnta, K-\\nwhich he occupied until he ererleil the building mljolntng, In \\\\thii li\\ndied. His minltlry wiu blest by the addition t the communion of i\\nchurch on confessicui of three hundren nnil foriy-i ight members Fi\\nis still being gatheretl fr^ini kvM sown by hts hand, and there are lli\\nwho (hnuigli his ministry bi-c ime pbdils of giace, of whom li n\u00c2\u00bbi I-\\ntruly said\\nTime that doth all things else Impair,\\nStill makes them flourish ilnmg and fair.\\nHowever Indelicate on the |iart of your si\u00c2\u00bbi aker anything lik-\\nenhigy would Ik* of one who u-wssonear nnd dear to bim as Mr. Romi Vn,\\nyet It is not too much (or even him to ay that his name is so fragrant\\nwith sweet inemorli-s that hi- chlblreii and children s children flnd tif\\nn)o t pleaiilng satlsfacllon In tin nienUon. The |Ni|\u00c2\u00bbeni which have itetn\\npresented la^arlng n|H n the unhappy contr- VersiM of his day Indicuto\\na very firm, derlde l, yet gentle Kplrlt. which seems to have welt \\\\nrar-\\n3 ChriMtiam InteHiijenrer^ Ool. I J, 1659.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0218.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n175\\nranted the ChissiB in making tho reference to him they did in their reao\\nlution of respect at the time of (he dissolution of his pastorate, relating\\nto bfs-eottciliatory and Christian disposition.\\nJames Van Canipen Romeyn was born at Mini)\u00c2\u00abink, Sussex Co., N. J.,\\non the 15th of November, 1765. His father was the Rev. Thomas\\nKomeyu, who was first settled at Jamaica, L. I,, in 1751, He was one\\nof seven sons, four of whom devoted themselves to the ministry. His\\nliterary education was olitained at the Schenectady Academy. His\\ntheological course was pursued under his relation. Dr. Dirck Romeyn,\\nand he was licensed hy the Synod of New York, Oct. 5, 1787. In a few\\nweeks after he was called to the united congregations at Greenbush\\nand Sihndack, and settled February, 17S8. He married the youngest\\ndaughter uf Maus Van Vranken, of Schenectady. It was one of her\\nmaxims, and practiced by hei Let ministers mind their congregations,\\nand let their wives take charge of their familie.s. He formed a second\\nmarriage with Sirs. Elizabeth Pell, of Paranius, N. J who survived\\nbim.\\nHe remained in his first charge till July 1, 1794, when he became\\npastor of the united churches of Greenbush and Wynantskill, residing\\nat Rloomitigiove, two miles east of Albany, where lie continued to min-\\nister until called to HacUensack,\\nTlie fnllowiug characteristic of him has been furnished by Rev.\\nJ. R. Berry, D.D.\\nThe ministry of Rev. James V. C. Romeyn extended from 1799 to\\n183:i. It fell upon the most troublous limes of our denomination in this\\nsection of the country. Previous to his call to this church the signs of\\na fearful tempest were thickening on every hand. Hackensack already\\ngave tokens of becoming the principal point of the great struggle which\\nensued. After the death of Rev. W. Kuypers the question of another\\npastor presented no ordinary difficulty. The great need wa.s a man who\\nshould properly combine the elements of true piety, firmness, prudence,\\nand love of peace, These characteristics Mr. Romeyn wjis widely known\\nto possess, and upon the basis of this reputation he was called to the\\npastorate of the churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, without\\nhaving been seen or heard among them. How well he sustained the\\nreputation which he thus brought with him is well known to many yet\\nwho remember him in his active life,\\nOf his piety the sweetest memories have been cherished and repeated\\nby those who knew him in the fond relations of his home or in the con-\\nfidence of personal friendship. His natural, loving, and sincere dispo-\\nsition was sanctified by his sincere and loving faith in Jesus, This gave\\nbis children that peculiar fondness with which they regarded him while\\nliving and revered his memory when dead. This shone out conspicuously\\nalso in all his public ministrations, in which neither abstract dogmatism,\\nnor fierce polemics, nor fiery denunciation, nor any attempt at brilliant\\neloquence appeared, hut mainly a tender and instructive presentation of\\nthe cross,\\nOne peculiarity of Mr. Romeyn s ministry was the extraordinary\\nfacility with which he appropriated Scripture texts and language to pecu-\\nliar occasions. This was particularly conspicuous at communion seasons,\\nwhen, as he handed the bread to each communicant i)ersonally, he re-\\npeated a text suitable to that person s case. Asa single illusttation out\\nof multitudes may be mentioned the case of a timid believer, who after\\nlonghesitiilion had at length professed his Saviour s name. At the next\\ncommunion hi.s daughter was brought into the fold. As Mr. Romeyn\\npassed the bread tu the happy father he repeated the words, Said I not\\nunto thee that if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the glory of\\nGodV The same feature appeared in the very last public service he at-\\ntempted. It way an address at the communion table. Enfeebled by\\nparalysis, and with broken utterance, he began his remarks with the\\nafffcling language of Job, Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye\\nmy friends, for the hand of God hatli touched me.\\nIn all nnittei-s where fidelity to righteousness demanded firmness\\nMr. Romeyn was firm to the last degree. But his constant desire was\\nfor peace. He disliked strife. Few men were ever subjected to so many\\ngross personal insults as be. The intense excitement of the times, the\\nbitterness of party feeling, the fierce contests grnwiug out of the Seces-\\nsion poured upon him from pulpits, in ecclesiastical meetings, along\\nthe streets, and even at funerals the most unwarrantable and gross\\nabuse, but not an instance of angry retort or unguarded utterance have\\nwe ever heard related of him. His life was a singular illustration of the\\nancient rule, always to treat an enemy in such a manner that he may\\nbecome your friend, In dignity of manner, in marvelous self-control,\\nin tnio charity of heart, and in readiness to forgive he was worthy of a\\ndistinguished companionship among those who aspire to be blameless\\nand harmless, the sons of God without rebuke.\\nA noticeable feature of his character was his disinterestedness and\\nready self-denial. When stricken by paralysis he voluntarily resigned his\\nposition and all its perquisites, making no mention of any claims which\\nhe might justly be considered to have after a faithful ministry of thirty-\\nfive years.\\nDuring the last eight years of his life the earthly house of his tab-\\nernacle was shattered by repeated attacks of i)aralysis. His mind suf-\\nfered in the feebleness of his body. Patiently he waited the signal for\\nhis departure. The last token of earthly recognition was given in re-\\nsponse to the question, Do you know that you are almost home? In\\na few hours that home waa reached, and mortality was swallowed up of\\nlife.\\nIn review ot the life of Mr. Romeyn, feelings of special satisfaction\\narise in regard both to his personal cliaracteristics and his peculiar\\nadaptation to the lime and place of liis ministry. It is doubtful if the\\nwhole number of the ministers of our churcli in that day could have\\nfurnished another who would have borne the trials and met the diffi-\\nculties of his position better than he.\\nThe following incident will serve as an illustration of his candor\\nand prouiptness in moderating his self-respect. At a certain time one\\nsummer, when his house was filled with company, he was visited by\\nan agent of a religious benevolent society, whose business would neces-\\nsarily occupy several days, and whuui the I aniily materially discoin-\\nmodod themselves to accommodate. The second or third day after he\\ncame a grandson, given to rummaging, took down a manuscriiJt vol-\\nume from the sideboard, and after looking into it fur a few minutes\\nexclaimed, Oh, grandpa liere is a book that has something in about\\nyou, Mr. Romeyn took the hook, without knowing where it came\\nfrom, and foiinii it was in the handwriting of liis gue t, the agent, and\\nthat he had described his congregation as cold and dead, and very penu-\\nrious, and himself as old-fashioned, having no life, behind the age, etc.\\nIn due time the agent came back to dinner, and was suffered to par-\\ntake of a hospitable meal in peace. After conversing a little while\\nMr. Romeyn got the book and a.sked him if it was his, and related to\\nhim the circumstance which had made Iiim acquainted with its con-\\ntents then, handing it to him, said, Sir, I have learned what is in that\\nbook by accident. I extended to you the hospitality of my house at no\\nsmall inconvenience. I favored your ol ject by my personal subscrip-\\ntion, and indorsed your application among my peuple. I find you have\\nmaligned us both ami having detected you in playing the sjty, and even\\nreporting falsehood, I cannot consent tliat yon should remain longer,\\nand you will oblige me by leaving my huuse immediately and desisting\\nfrom your collections. \\\\j^\\nMr. Romeyn was always ready to bear his proportion nf labor and\\nresponsibility. He was a trustee of Queen s (now Rutgers) College from\\n1807 until his death, and one of the largest and most etticient collectors\\nof the Tlieological Professorial Fund. The plan of tlie Theological Semi-\\nnary of the Reformed Dutch Church was drawn up by him, and his in-\\nfluence was largely exercised in whaping the dcnuniinutiunal policy of\\nthe church.\\nAlthough his son, the Rev. James Romeyn. had entered upon his\\nlabors some time previous, yet it was not until October, 1S35, that he was\\nactually installed as pastor. He remained, however, only until Septem-\\nlir-rof the following year (1836), having received and accepted a call from\\nthe Reformed Dutch Church at CalskiU, N.T., where he remained until\\nthe close of the year 1842. when enfeebled health compelled the re-\\nlinquishment of o responsible a charge. Thence he removed to Leeds,\\nN. Y. (Old Catskill), where he remained until called and removed in\\n184-1 to Bergen Neck. He was called thence to Geneva, N. Y.,and seemed\\nto enter upon iiis labors with renewed vigor. But it was only to have\\nin a brief month s time that deep, dark shadow of affliction fall over him\\nin a paralytic stroke, which ended liis ministerial work. From Geneva\\nhe removed to the city of New Brunswick. There his life was spared\\nuntil Sept. 7, 1859, when he slept the sleep of the beloved. His sepul-\\nchre is with bia father s, hard by us who are here to-day. It is a plot of\\n1 Dr. Sprague s Annals of R. D. Ch.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0219.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "i-i;\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEV.\\nground which wm k gift oat of pecaliar respect to him from a piulBh-\\nloner whox? lore wait the Iotc of a run Ic\u00c2\u00abt friend. Dear ttiy duit, my\\nfether! DeArerstili Ihy iiipmnry, thou di-pHfted in ihf Lord! Resur-\\nrection hopes gather around thy Krovo, and I shall\\nMeet thfe on that peiiceful shore.\\nHis tombstone bears the following inscription, taken from among\\nhis own later utterances, and placed there by his family, aa expreeeive\\nof bis own views after having ipent his Hfo in the ministry of the\\ngoipel:\\n***Thouh ut dealt ictil trith thy aervani^ I./ord t have pamed my\\nday* from early manhood m a itinitter of Jetua Chrut. That i$ enottgh t\\nI am luUiMjiedl G ^ft has ted me by a right tray. Bleu the Lord^ O my\\ntoull\\nThe following chiiracterietic of Mr. Romeyn is furnished by Rot.\\nW. V. V. Mabon, DP., of Now Diirhuni, N. J.\\nMy ac(iuaintaiice with the Kt-T. Jnnies Romeyn began in the year\\n1835. He hud been at thiit lime the pastor uf the Refonned Dutch\\nChurch in Hackensack for porliaps two or three years. He was thirty-\\nnine years old, and in the prime of his powers. Although not old\\nenough to take the proper measure of his abilities, my opportunities of\\nforming a correct and truthful estimate of his chamctoristics may be\\nroganled as more than a compensation for any want of ripeness of Judg-\\nment at thf time.\\nAt thai date the village was a place of some intelligence, excellent\\nmornlit, and singular uniformity in the clafw uf its dwellings, equally\\nremoved from grandeur and aquaior. Th re was little, if any, absolute\\npoverty or ignorance, and as It was the site of a formerly famous acad-\\nemy, and was also the seat of the court-house of tlie county, there w^re\\nenough ersonB of the professions whioh demand a libenil education to\\ngive a decided t4jne of sound intelligence to the community in which\\nthe subject of these observationw wns railed to exerrtse the pastoral\\noffice. I very soon learned that our pastor wa\u00c2\u00ab a man of distinguished\\nreputation ae n preacher. I gathered this from the remarks uf his au-\\nditors fri ni Siibbatti to Sabbath, and rn m cdiserving the ittlendiince u|H n\\nhis messagtw of eople of education, taste, and tmvpl, residing in the\\nvilliige, whose presence at his or any rhnrch could not be attributed in\\nevery instance to the mere force of custom. The same Impression was\\nconflrme l by the frequent announcements from time ti time of his\\nhaving received rails to other churches of imitortance in the denomino- i\\ntion. Indce\u00c2\u00abl, be had ministered suHicieiitly long among (be churches,\\nlK)th in New York and New Jersey, to have made him a man of general\\nnot*- beyond the bouu ls of his own rongregation.\\nlie was a nnin of ardent devoliim. His ufllcial prayers wen- solemn, I\\nhtimble, and tervent. They were fliled with words and jdeas taken\\nfrom the Scri|itureH, iind.consldHring the rapidity of his utterance, em-\\nbrscffd great range imd fnllnem, as the\\\\ conhl not but do when pro-\\ntr.icted, Hs weri* usually lii sermons also, Mmiewhat beyonti the average\\nli-ngth of those services a.-* rendered by other men. mutual relative\\nonce relale^l to me her cjisunl cogni/ance of bis Mi ending, on an orca-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lon of her being at bis house, the greater part of the whnle night in\\nwr-stling with (iod in prayer. As was taid U\u00c2\u00bb Nathanitd, When thou\\nwuft under the llg-tree, I si\u00c2\u00bbw thee, so it was nut po\u00c2\u00bbHibU for the occu-\\npant nt ii CiUitiguouH ro4 m not to become the witness of those secret\\ntransartb n- with Cod which arc the basis of ministerial efficiency as\\nthey arp of iH-rwinal effort.\\nLei us notice tlie corr(U|K ndence in sentiment of parents and their\\nchildrou. Ills moilier, who was a woman of great strength of character,\\na^ well IIS a model of the doniesilc capabilities and virtues, bad, previous\\ntn Iter own ileath, rerelvofl a dlHiinct impres iiou of the event in a vivid\\ndn uui. Kiiiiwing Its meiming, she informed her family of her coming\\ndo) arture, mid In the animation of the stdeinn prospect she concluded\\nand crowned therxhortation. made In her dying cbambor tn those ab iut\\nher, by addressing her son with fhf so words: frearf, hri\u00c2\u00bbt, James!\\nprritrh Chrifi f ThmM* words are the key-note lo the theme and preach-\\ning of uur Aul-Jeot. Whatever may havr been the peculiarltleft of the\\nprt*acher, Ihr p iwi r and the nttmctlon of the preaching was Its evan*\\ngellcal clianicter. Jesus t hrist In the gofl[H 1 and vital religion through\\nthe working of Ihe Holy Spirit In the heart was the sub\u00c2\u00abtance In one\\nform or another of all hia servlrpa. Ili oni e remarked to me in b crltl-\\nelrm upon ilobnt Hall, All he suys Is t)ii same that we sity,oitlya\\nlittle mor\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab rlegnntly Mihl. T1)\u00c2\u00ab fare Is jirerlxely th\u00c2\u00ab same, hut bettor\\ncofikM Kldelity to Ih** g(\u00c2\u00bbiip\u00c2\u00abd was a mark d tpa .nre in bis adminis-\\ntration of the gisipel. He never let down his thunie hut lifted his hear-\\ner- up to it. Ilia fidelity was acrompanlM with vixlble teal for gospel\\ntruth and the Master s honor. Perhaps fn m the ilracriptlun of tithers)\\nthe most powerful effort he made at any time was when the Waahing-\\ntoniaii temperance movement t egan the innovation of Sabbath-evening\\ntemperance meetings. The character of many In the niovement was\\ndoubtful, and the services in this instance were not held in the inter-\\nests of Christtanity. He felt calieii on to preach on the sanctiflcation of\\nthe Sabbath, which he di l with great effect. With his earnest tempera-\\nment, \\\\\\\\U tldeliiy to the peo] k of hts charge was openly manifest. He\\nfelt himself to be in the position of Ezekiel s watchman, and not seldom\\nmode us feel liis determination to clear his skirts of the blood of onr\\nsouls. His warnings were persistent and terrible. He spared no sin\\nnor searching examination into the springs of sin. You could see he\\nwatched for souls as one who should give account.\\nMr. Romeyn, for so we shall call him, since he n- fiised the honorary\\nclerical title conferred on him by the trustees of Columbia College, was\\nnot only faithful in the pulpit but was a minister f the gospel all\\nthrough. My memory lingem with pleasure upon his conscientious and\\ncheerful performances \u00c2\u00abif the social duties of his charge. The houses of\\nhis people were always open to bis visits, which were not stiff and\\nformal calls but genuine visits. By this means he would put hinifielf\\ninto communication with the families, and while he gained their confi-\\ndence he gHined the niost important knowledge, the knowledge of their\\nrenl ctJite, T may add, he knew how to make use of this knowle\u00c2\u00ab1ge in\\na telling way. It is an ailmlnible proof of the reality of our Intore-t in\\notherr^ whenever we are willing to devote a large portion of our time\\nto pervonul attentions involving labor ol a kind differing so much from\\nthe intellei^-tnal prepantiion required for the pulpit. My rec^dlections\\nof his pastoral affection are very ngreeabl .K touch of the same kind\\nmight be seen in his way of itdministerlng the Lord s Supper, at which\\ntime be himself would distribult to the communicant^, one by one, and\\nadd in each instance some promise or exhortation in Scripture wonls,\\nwith an application which, without pen\u00c2\u00abonal knowledge at\u00c2\u00bbd affection,\\nwoiiltl have been im| ossib]e.\\nThe monil qualities of the man were mainly honesty, earnestio-^h.\\nhumility, and kindne\u00c2\u00bb In the circle of bii friends he was playful, ml\\nif in his use of language ref(|*ecling others be whs ever severe, it niu\\nbe dtmbtcil whelbei any nmn, especlHlly one of a nervous organization,\\nis aware uf the strength of bis own words. The pr.wf of his humility\\nis clear from Ihecomimralive retirement of bis life, notwithstanding the\\nnumerous and templing invitations which ^vt re extended to him lo tic-\\ncupy place* 4if more prominence. If he had been endoweil with alfeller\\ndigestion a great want would have been supplied, and the dis ase which\\nterminated his career might have been longer averte\u00c2\u00abl. As it waa, the\\nconstitutional irritaliillly uf bis tem)\u00c2\u00bberameut never 8e|iurated him fr\\\\ ni\\nthe confidence of bis friends, and though it would at time* disturb the\\nselfpoise of a nature otherwise well I alance4l,it did, liN in many persons\\nof like organization, cttnlrlbute tu the energy of all his other endow-\\nments.\\nHie friendships, indeed, were ardent, and, as a characteristic feature\\nof his odnistry, he made In the sevrnil places of bis lalnir life-long\\nfriends, who kept up those personal relations wherever he might aftei^\\nwards sojourn, which in nmny cases were lianded down U Isith sidee\\nfrom parents to children. Kven outside the socreil circle of the Chri-ttan\\ncommunion it was no uncommon thing for persons win. had known him\\nHs a preacher to make their iirrangements, when traveling In his neigh-\\nliorhood, to avail tliemselvw of his hospitality, and to ren.w their en-\\njoyment of his ministrations in the servict,-* of the church. His confi-\\ndences, when bestowed u|Hin others, were complete and childlike, anil if\\nalwolule transparency of character may be nfhrmeil of any man It may\\nbo afHrmeil of him. If there wan any fault, be was loti ai tiew and ojien\\nfor the safely of hiH own happiness at all times. Rut this Is the neces-\\nsary compensation for the iKwseHslon of such qtialltlos.\\nIntellectually. Mr. Itomeyn was a man of ready iK n-eplbm and of\\ndiligent preparation for public duties. Whether he ex|\u00c2\u00bber|i d i m) much\\nfrom ohilsirate study or not, he couhl never be charge*! with sl iveull-\\nness or neglect to bring out the l est on all occoslons. He was not guilty\\nof abusing the pmc^ of Goil under Ihe pretence of depending on the\\nDivine InteriKMtltion lo ward off the reaulls of his \u00c2\u00bbiwn indobnce. H*\\ncither wnito out bis sermon in full or preacheil from an analysis em-\\nbmclng every |Htlnt and llluNtraiiun of the whole subject, and there was\\nthe same fiillnefw and HchnesH m\\\\ Ihe funeral occasions or at the lecture\\nin the schtMd-house as in the sanrtunry. If therf wer\u00c2\u00bb a dozen hearers\\nor a crowrjeil house, whoever was there was served with the Mme viands\\nIn all their iibnndance, ridt, seononed, and smoking hot.\\nIlls excursions thmngh the neldi* of llternlure and td \u00c2\u00aborvathm, as\\nwell iw his theological reading, were made chiefly suhaidiary to ths\\npulpit. Although he deprndetl much u[Nin his manuscript, the manu-\\nscript was often pretmreil In an IncnHllbly short lime, on unexi ecU)d", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0220.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n177\\nchIIh, uwing to the fact of his materials being always at hand, and to\\nthe rapidity of his iiee of the pen. In fact, the pen was his constant\\ncompanion and weapon. He was prolific in epistolary corrt-Bpunilence,\\nand one of the mo^t liberHl patrons of the mail. His literary labora\\nwere not confined to eermons and letters. From time to time ht: con-\\ntribnted articles ul interest to the press, and in the councils of the\\nchinch was the author of a comprehensive, far-sighted report, of which\\nthe vi -wB and recommendations offered have in many cases been incor-\\nponited into the working organization of the denomination. In fact, as\\nis the case with most ministers of the gospel, his views of policy were\\nBO much in udvance of the perceptions and of the willingness to work\\non the part of tlie people that disagreement could nut fail to arise Ipe-\\ntwren them. I am cognizant of such lacts in at least a single instance,\\nand suppose it was probably the rule.\\nHis physiognomy and personal appearance were decidedly marked.\\nWith light hnir and eyes, thin face, large nose, mouth, and chin, tall\\nami bony frame, pale complexion, and erect attitude, his appearance\\nexcited the additional interest usually felt for persons suffering from the\\nwant of vigorous health His voice was deep, and its tones solemn, at\\ntitin-s even sepulchral, and his bearing thoroughly clerical. As in his\\npii.- liiral relations he carried with him the characteristics of the genuine\\ndominie, so in his personal appearance he conveyed to the eye a senti-\\nment of the antique. The personnel was without claims to regular\\nbeauty, but original and striking. You could neither see nor hear him\\nwitliout the impression of being in the presence of a viatt. I may add,\\nHs a characteristic touch, that absolutely free as he might be considered\\nfiom persuiuil vanity, yet no one could possibly be niure sensitive to a\\npersonal blemish, however temporary or trifling.\\nThe attribute of his public efforts that most struck you was poicer.\\nA member of the bar, referring to the only occasion on wliiih he liad\\nhetird him, said to me once, It was such a tremendous exhibition of\\npi.W -r I Wits iwtonished! That was the general impression upon his\\nlieaiere.\\nThe gruunds of it were not difficult to discover. His voice was\\ngoml, although the articulation was naturally somewhat thick. His\\nurii-raDCe was rapid as a mountain torrent. He uttered as many words\\nin the intervals between his pauses, which were well marked, as the\\norg:ins of elocution could possibly give out. Owing to this his style waa\\ngenerally diffuse, diffuse U the reader, but by reasoTi of the rapid-\\nity of Iiis utterance it was not diffuse; that is to say^ the spread of his\\nsentences was concentrated liy the compression of his rapid elocution.\\nThe movement was marked by the variety which attaches to nature\\nand passionate feeling. Like the flow of a river over an uneven sur-\\nface, the viilume vf his ideas received variety in their expression from\\nthe obstacles they nncountered. He had, at the same time, the art of\\ncondensing the whole argument or illustration in a |\u00c2\u00bbinted, loaded\\nblow, contained in a short simile or axiom.\\nHis power of illnstratiun w;i3 also very prominent. He used short\\nmetaphors, two or three strokes of a suggestive sketch, but not elabor-\\nate, finished paintings. He had too much wealth of illustration to waste\\ntime on comparisons long drawn out. Perhaps he threw down too\\nmany pearls at once for his hearers to be able to pick iip and lay away.\\nA bushel of pearls may only bewilder, while a necklace would enrich.\\nIt will appear, therefore, that analysis and imaginatioTi jiredominated\\nin bis treatment of pulpit themes. In fact, he had the faculty of paint-\\ning sketclies and passing verbal panoramas along before the eyes of his\\naudience; but while he indulged in this direction, it waa in connection\\nwith close analysis and sound logic. If you add to these the very great\\nforce cousetpient upon earnest and very fast speaking, accompanied by\\ntransparent honesty, sympathy with the subject, solemnity of voice and\\naspect, ami a tlunuugh disdain of all arts and rules, you have the secret\\nof \\\\[ie poni r X which reference has been made.\\nHis ministry was attended with fruits in every congregation which\\nhe served. I have heard him refer to the addition of thirty -nine mem-\\nbers to the churcli at Nassau, his first charge, on confession of faith at\\na single communion. From his settlement at Nass;in, which began in\\nthe year 1820 and continued seven years, he ministered in succession to\\nthe churches of Six-Mile Run, N. J., Hackensack, N. J., Catskill and\\nLeeds, N. Y.. Hergen Point, N. J., and Geneva, N. Y. In this last-men-\\ntioned place his labors were interrupted by a stroke of paralysis soon\\nafter his removal thither, and at a moment when the appreciation on\\nthe part of that community of bis various accomplishments gave prom-\\nice of even larger usefulness than had ever before been held out to his\\nreach.\\nThe vulue of these brief sketches, if any, is believed to consist in\\ntheir simple truth, photographed from the memory of one who first re-\\nceived fruni his hands the seals of the Lord s Supper, and who at the\\ntime of putting on the armor of the ministry was, in the language of\\nthe deceased himself, dressed by him for the fight.\\nDuring Mr. Romeyn s ministry the property which now constitMtes\\nthe parsonage waa bought, together with adjoining lands, from Rev, Dr.\\nCannon, for two thousand and fifty dollars. This property adjoined a\\ntract of four and a half acres bought by the congregation of Rynear\\nVan Gieson in 1759. The purchase money was raised by subscription.\\nThe house originally standing upon it was rebuilt.\\nd/^i^^i^^,^^^\\nRev. Mr. Romeyn was succeeded by Rev. Alexander H. Warner, who\\nwas called from Clarkstown, and was installed as pastor on the firat\\nWednesday in February. 183 His ministry extended over the long\\nperiod of twenty-eight years, having ended by his resignation in Feb-\\nruary, 1865. During his ministry one hundred and ninety-two were\\nadded to the church, uf whom seventy-six were by certificate, and one\\nhundred and sixteen on confession. During his ministry, there being\\nneed of greater church accommodations, it was resolved to add ten feet\\nto the rear of the old building, which was done in 1S47. Under the su-\\nperintendence of A.O. Zabriskie and John Huyler, Esqrs., the work waa\\nsuccessfully completed, costing about three thousand dollars. The re-\\nsale of the old pews and the sale of the new ones paid the cost. The ceme-\\ntery was likewise enlarged at a cost of about three hundred dollars. The\\nparsonage house was likewise remodeled and enlarged, at an expense of\\nabout two thousand five hundred dollars, which was met by appropria-\\ntions from the proceeds of the sale of lands belonging with the parson-\\nage. During this period a branch shot forth from the old trunk, and\\nthe Second Reformed Dutch Church of Hackensack was organized,\\nwhose tasteful edifice is an ornament to that part of the village in which\\nit stands. Its first pastor was Rev. James Deniarest, Jr., who was suc-\\nceeded by its present incumbent. Rev. George Fisher, D.D.\\nOn the resisnatioii of Rev. Mr. Warner a call was extended to Rev.\\nTheoilore B. Romeyn, of Blawenbnrgh, N. J., tlie present pastor. It\\nhaving been accepted, he was installed on the 21st iay of June, 18G5.\\nThe sermon was preached by Rev. J. Romeyn Berry, D.D. This pastor-\\nate has thus far been blest by the addition of weventy-seven on confes-\\nsion and forty-three by certificate.\\nThere are upwards of twohundred families at presentinthe congre-\\ngation, and about two hundred in the membership of the church, rather\\nan unusual disproportion. The Sabbath -school numbers forty-six officera\\nand teacheis and about three hundred scholars, and is cherished by both\\npastor and people.\\nOur church building stands where it stood of yore, aniitlat the city of\\nthe dead. Around it lies valued dust. Worshipersof the olden time and\\nof more recent yearaarein this churchyard, the kindred and connections\\nof those who first settled here and strangers who came hither to make\\na home.\\nThe dust of the Rev. Warmoldus Kuypers is here, mIio fiti tw Mity-\\nseven years ministered the gospel on this very spot. He died in 1797.\\nHere is the tomb of Brig.-Gen. Enoch Poor, one of the officers in the\\nUnited States army, who died Sept. 8, 1780, at the age of forty-four\\nyears.\\nHere is buried Peter Wilson, LL.D., the scholar and teacher and\\npatriot, of whose memory and residence and influence this village may\\nwell be proiid. He died Aug. 1, 1825,\\nThe remains of Col. Richard Vaiick, formerly mayor of the city of\\nNew York, and at the time of his death president of the American Bible\\nSociety, are here. He died July 30, 1831.\\nHere, too, is the grave of Rev. James V. C. Romeyn, who for nearly\\nfifty-three years preached Christ, thirty-five of which were spent with\\nthose among whom liis body lies.\\nThe grave of Rev. John S. Mabon is here too, the thorough in-\\nstructor, as he was the ripe scholar and the devout Christian. He died\\nApril 27, 1849.\\n1 In the private corrf^spondence of Dr. James W. Alexander the fol-\\nlowing reference is made to the subject of this memoir:\\nIn the P.M. (afternoon) I went to Port Richmond (Staten Island), to\\nworship with Brownlee s Church (Dutch). There I heard James Ro-\\nmeyn, and a more extraordinary man I never heard. Fullness of mat-\\nter, every step sudden and unexpected, genius, strength, fire, terror,\\namazing and preposterous rapidity, contempt of rule and taste. It was\\nan awful discourse from 1 Thess. v. 3. It was one which I shall not\\nsoon forget.\\nGrovk Parso.vage, March 22, 1870.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0221.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "178\\nHISTORY OK BEKGKN AND I ASSAIC COUNTIES, NKW JERSEY.\\nAniong his kindred Is the diut of R\u00c2\u00abr. Jamr* Romej n, who pa\u00c2\u00bbMd\\nthirty-oneyean of bit life In the ministry. He died in SpptfOiber, 1859,\\nHK^I *lxty-two yean*.\\nHere, too, ri Sta tlu? ashes of Itev. Frederick Cn)wc, styled the South\\nAmerlcfin mnrtyr,* because of persi-cntiuns whtcli )io endure*! wliiie at-\\nteinpllnp to preuch Christ, and which resnltetl in his dentli.\\nSuch are at IcaMt glimpxeH of the hitit riciil |Mist uf tliis church,\\nwhich, OS respects n^e, is a mother-churcli.\\nIt must iieceMiirily havt* wielded a large inlluence over this and\\nsurrounding loc.-iliiiL*5. The list uf its pastors kIiowh (hat it had Dien to\\nwatch over its IntereHtf who were ningt worthy men, men of GikI, of\\npiety, and patriotism. But it is a noticeahic fact in this connection that\\nno mominient or tJildet or any nieniorial whatever has ever lieen reared\\nby ttiis congregation t the memory of a single one of ihose who lived\\nand died in iM Nelf-d\u00c2\u00bbnying ttervice.\\nIn propvtriion to tlii age of this church and the long series of its pas-\\ntorales, very t -w liuve gone forth from its membership into the minis-\\ntry. Their immea are the following:\\nUemrduH Arense Kuypers, William Provost Kuypers, Peter Labagh,\\nJames S| eDcer Cannon,* William V. V. Slabon, J. Romeyn Berry, Philip\\nBerry.\\ny^Ce^. /V /P^j^u \u00c2\u00a3y\\ny^\\nJust sitl stMiueut to the instaUntion of Rev. Tlieo. B. Romeyn the\\nchurch accomnu^ittionM were somewhat increased by ihe atldition of an\\nalcove and the lowering ol the pulpit, which giive an ndditionii) num*\\nher of pews. During the autuniu \u00c2\u00bbf IMC Mr. George Fair pliiced at\\nhis own expense a bell in the tower at a cost q/ one thousand dollars.\\nDuring the autumn of I\u00c2\u00bb67 and the winter of 1868 n chapel was\\nerected at a cost of al^ont eight thunsand five hundred dollars, fur the\\naccommi dation of the social meetings and the Sjibl ath-schtxil. This\\nwas built by private huMcriptions mainly. During the last spring sub-\\nscriptions wi-re madf I y one ^ffort of upward of two tlhuifiand dollars,\\nby which the del l the cha|K l is jiaid.\\nThe growth of thl** iK puliiiion within a few yenrs being such that\\nour aCL-omniodatioiiN were no longer equal to the ileoiand upon un, the\\nquestion of enlargement began to be suggested, iu eonnertion with the\\nerection of a chapel. But the comMnalion of the two waa thought to\\nbe most impracticable. At length George Fair, Ksq., proposed out of\\nhis own private resources lo enlarge the old building by the addition\\nof tranHeptt on each side. But this was found iinidviiMblo. At length\\nhe offered the coimiittory the generous sum of twenty thousand three\\nhundred dollars, with the undomlanding that tlio building should bo\\nlengthened twenty fi-.-i uml remodeled in a titling style, imd thiit\\nwhatever might be the additional cost, presuming there would be, be-\\nGcrardus Arenso Kuypers was a son of Rev. Warmoldus Kuypers,\\nborn on the island of Cunu.-oa, Dec. IR, 176)); was liceuMetl |u preach in\\n1787. lie wuH cjilled from I ammus to the Curden Street Church, in\\nNew York. His brother, William I ruvost, we supiuse, united with tbli\\nchun^h. He was liorn I77:i, and licensed 1792.\\nPeter I^liagh wiuj born in the city of New Yi\u00c2\u00bbrk, Nov. 10, 177;i. He\\ncame with his luirenls to Harkentuirk as a refugee at the opening of tho\\nRevolution. His gnindfaiher had formerly re8ldl^d in this place, and\\nhere alnu his father was Ixtu, in the year 1732. He united with this\\nchiinh in 17m. tlien under lh\u00c2\u00ab care uf Dr. l-roeligh, with ulmni he sub-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eqiienlly sludleil the..|ngy. und wiw licensed t preach in I7l (l. His\\nname is still fresh In memory and fragrant with inlerent. (Tmld H Me-\\nmolrn.)\\nJames Spencer Cannon wm born on Ihe island of INira^oa, Jiin. 2K,\\nI77A. His father, upon the death of his mother, placed him, with two\\nother brotheni. In the academy of Dr. WIIboii, at IlackiMiMck. lie was\\nleft an or|dian by the death of his father, who, being a sea-captain, was\\nIriRt overtKwtnl while nn a voynge t\u00c2\u00abi Cliarlenlon, 8. C. But a friend wom\\nraised up In Ellas Ilrev \u00c2\u00ab.rt, fjtq., whc. lefrayed Ihe entire expense of\\nhis etiucallon. Me Nub\u00c2\u00abe(|uenlly nnirrtetl the daughter of his benefattur.\\nHis cotinectbui with Ihe hurrh at llnckensii k t*K k phice in 17U4. He\\nfftudleil ihoobigy nndnr Ihe direction uf Dr. Kroeligh and Dr. Livingston,\\nwllh Peter I al agli as a clnMniste, nnd whji llrensefl at the same time to\\npn\u00c2\u00abrh, In I7li4. After serving the churches at Six-Mile Itiin and llll-\\nttone, and su)isef|uently the Six-Mlle Run Church sepnraloly for nearly\\nthirty years, he WAS called loa pn feMurship iu Ihe theological seminary\\nat New Brunswick. He died July 2A, \\\\ti 2.\\ncause of the immense amonnt of work neeemnry to \\\\te done In order\\nto make a f\\\\nishe l structure, the congregation should assume. This\\nbeing sutttcieiitly liberal a pn.ip* 8ition to be act-epted by lit eral minds,\\nthe consistory residvcd upon the undertaking. To-ilay \u00c2\u00bbhows tlie n*-\\nsuit. With the exception of the tower, the old walls, ro*if, and art\\nof the galler nil Is new. We have reason to rejoice in having had\\nI one Huiong us who was ready to consecrate such a portion of his suIh\\nstance in the interest of the church of his fathers, and in its Ireing the\\nprompting!^ of his own spirit, ami not through the sol-ciiHtion of others.\\nThe completion of the ediflce reminds us that ttie donor, through whose\\nI genenwity the work was started, is not here. He lived to see the be-\\nI ginning of an enterprise in which he seemctl to take so fond an Interest,\\nbut just after these new waits began to rise he was suddenly cjilled away.\\nI Such WHS the confidence placed in him that the whole work wa* Ifegun\\nI simply on his word of promise. No paynn-nts had lK*cn made, no |iapers\\nexecuted; uml when, near midnight, the shallow of sickness which\\nI darkened Into the shadow of iletith fell on him. the flrnt thought in his\\nmind was of his obligntiun to t)ie church. As soon ns )Ht s|ble papers\\nwore executed making over the promised Riuonnt to the consistory,\\nsigned by a hand trembling with the touch of a sudden diseiitie, which iu\\na few hours proved fatal. It was the last business transaction of his old\\nage nnd his life, and for it his memory shall l e cherished, itiid with the?\\nout-lengthened walls th\u00c2\u00bbt memory shall l e atwoclated. Had he Invl\\nlonger the church would doubtless have seen further illustrations of his\\nconsecration of property In the evening of his days to the I^ rd whom\\nhe professed to love, and to whom we triist he died. When ilo* present\\nobligations are canceled, according to tlie plans iK fore ns, this church\\nwill be placed on a footing, as regards its external^, equal to its l\u00c2\u00bbest-l e-\\nC n ing wishes. When our fathers were called in their days to meet\\nthe exigencies of their circumstances they reepvmdetl in means and\\nmethods which became thorn* days. We have been proftting by what\\nthey accomplished almost, If not quite, np to this hour. Our time has\\nnow come. Let us be their worthy children, and our children will not\\nonly reap the fruits of our devotion, but be stimulated to take their\\nplaces In their time.\\nA brief reKiinie of the financial history, aa far as wo can get at It,\\nand cimditiou of the church back as fur as 17i l may nut lie out of place\\nhere. In that yeiir Wm eilitice was reann]. The sulisci iplion list fi\u00c2\u00bbota\\nup to tliree huntlred and twenty-eight pounds. The probable cost was\\nalHiut throe thousand dollars Then followwl the improvement of 1834,\\ncosting a few hundred dollars. That was followed by the enlargement\\nof 1837, costing three thousand dtdlars. In both cases of building the\\nexponsrs were \\\\ti\\\\U\\\\ with the purchase- money of the pews, and nut by\\ngralnitous snbftcriptitui. So Diat we can s|H nk of n^l only iu the sense\\nof investment in chuitrh property, which In supposed In the privileges\\nreturned to pay for itself This itt then individual property, not donated\\nnut of benevolence to the church, Imt owne l and kept, or willed Hud\\nheired,or sold ami tninsferr H] for value leceived, like any other pro|H rty.\\nSaying, then, that the cost up to 1H47 and sul\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbi)uent expemltturi s was\\nabout eight thousand dollars, this sum covers what tills congregation has\\nbeen called upon to sjK nd for its church building for throe- |uarter\u00c2\u00bb of a\\ncentury. Of course this does not include the ciw*t of pursoungc prop-\\nerty nor the usual minor re| aira and yearly neceivary i\u00c2\u00abt of ministerial\\nsupport. And now, when they shall have made another luvr-ntment to\\ncover the outlay m-cessary Iveyoiid the donatliui of Mr. F^ir, Isith of\\nwhich outlays together will give wt much higher vnlue to their pewH,\\ngenerally at least, hk* that the money Is not a mere gratuity nor lost,\\ntliey will in llie pnst i\u00c2\u00bberi l of seventy-flve years, nnd Imc uuiny years to\\ncome, have Investeil sontelhing like foniteen thousand dollitrs. Four*\\nteen thousand dollant for a century I rather the inten st on that num,\\nfor they own the principal yet\\nWith a church building ca|ialde of accommo lating eight hundred\\nand fifty persi ns, In quite ever) resiiect uuexcejttlonable for its comfort\\nSince this statement was nuule a large number of the pews have\\nImm-u transferred to the ctuislstory for value receirod, which hss ihrown\\na ilebt iiiKm Ihe church, but at tho same lime brought those |tewg uutler\\nthe church s routnd. Thnaigh t)ie rise in real estate and legacieft\\nthe church s friends, the original pro|ierty enabled Ihe consistory t\\nmake outlays for uecea\u00c2\u00abary Impnivements. The earlier Mud later iiu-\\nprorementft of the iwriMtunge, the alcove bultt In the church In 18AA\\nand the organ place*! there, and repairs on the church building, instead\\nof taxing tlis |\u00c2\u00bbewB, were done by the*e ineHiis.\\nThe slatenieni alHive Is of course a rough estimate, and may be open\\nto correction, but it li as near as we can get at It. Pn.q erly Ihe c(\u00c2\u00abt of\\nIhe chaiwl ought to t e added.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0222.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n179\\nandlieauty (however there maybe many who cannot appreciate the latter\\nfeature in churches, simply on the ground that, however well ceiled\\ntheir own houses may be, it matters not with regard to the Father s\\nhouse with a lecture-room as capacious and tasteful as could he wished,\\nwith a parsonage in one of the finest localities in the village, this congre-\\ngation has all it ought to desire in respect to externals.^\\nAs pleasing as it may be to have such olden asBOciations and to\\ncherish them, we must not rest upon them. They have their lessons.\\nThrough them we should be the wiser, better, stronger. But we must\\nno more rest upon the past growth than a tree should on past growth.\\nIt must grow on and hear fruit itself. So must we. We must have our\\nrooting, our branching, our leafing, our growing, fmr fruit-bearing. We\\nare to stand as by ourselves, always as if a church in evergreen\\nbeauty and strength. And had there been moreof this individual vitality\\nin the Reformed Dutch Churches of this country the denomination would\\nnot have been the little o[ie it now is in respect to numbers and power.\\nBut the Dutch would always liug the landing-place and stick to the\\nshores of New York Bay and Hudson River, and scarce dare venture far\\nill the interior. How they ever got as far as New Netherland is to me\\nalmost a miracle.\\nWe have age. Let us have life, loo, or die and have done with dying\\nalways. Mere change of name will not save the church any more than\\nit will save a vine. The vin^ may sell better in the market, but event-\\nually the owner will pull it up. It want\u00c2\u00ab life, character, fruit. Men\\nwill t ike to that church which commends itself by its high standards\\nof Christian holiness, by a genuine catholicity of spirit, by a pure and\\nearnestly preached Gospel, ly an independent and manly pulpit, which\\nis a brazen wall against vice and ini^pilty, by charity, by being a place\\nwhere *the rich and poor meet together witli\u00c2\u00ab ut enviable distinctions,\\nby Christian love, by Christian unity, Christian fellowship, Christian\\nenergy. Christian sympathy and help. May God make this church a\\nliving church, to which shall daily be added of sucli as shall be saved,\\nand 80 the old Church on the Green shall be an everyreen church. May\\nmany, amid the changes which are taking place in this locality, who are\\nmaking this beautiful village their home find reason for making this\\nchurch their spiritual home, saying,\\nBrethren, where your altar burns,\\nOh receive us into rest.\\nTo how many of us is thi.-* spot most dear as the gate of heaven to\\nour kindred (and you know with what emphasis he who speaks to you\\nBays *oi R kindred For, for more than fifty years have his own kin-\\ndred ministered to you and yours, and his and your departed rest to-\\ngether in the same places of sepulture, the same congregation of the\\ndead. You and I can repeat the language used by one as she stood with-\\nin this ancient yard a few years ago\\nI stand and muse beside the graves of kindred true and dear,\\nOf those whose bed has been the earth for many a lingering year,\\nWho having fought the fight of faith have laid tlieir armor down\\nTranslated to the better land they wear the conqueror s crown.\\nWhat scenes have transpired within these very walls! Here for\\ngenerations pjist has the truth been preached, here tears of penitence\\nhave been wept, and wiped away again. Here many of the dead have\\nbeen bri_ iight for burial, and the words of counsel and consolation have\\nbeen uttered. walls, had ye language what stories ye could tell of\\nteacliings given, of tlie truth blest, of the Spirit grieved, of the wounded\\nmade whole, and of saints ripening for lieaven Thy presence has\\nbeen here on this spot, Divine One I and neither the hills around us\\nnor the great ocean that lies almost at our feet have had such a conse-\\ncration as the baptism of Thy Imiy presence in the years bygone has\\ngiven this house. And now, God of our fathers, be thou the God of\\ntheir children, and may this house be filled with Thy glory Lei Thy\\ntciirk appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory unto their children. And let\\nthe beauty of the Lordour God. be upon tis^and esUddiah Thou theworkof our\\nhands upon us, yea the jcorl- of our hands establish Thou itP\\nChurch of my sires my love to thee\\nWas nurtured in my infancy,\\nAnd now maturer thoughts approve\\nThe object of that infant love.\\nSince the reopening of the church it has been frescoed, through the\\nkindness of Mrs. George Fair, at an expense of about one thousand\\nlollars.\\nThe ministry of Rev. Theodorick Romeyn covered about ten years;\\nthat of his nephew, James V. C. Romeyn, nearly thirty-five years; rhat\\nof James Romeyn, the son of J. V. C, about /our years, and that of bis\\nBon, Theodore B., nearly /our (at the present date five and a half).\\nLinked to my soul with hooks of steel,\\nBy all I say, and do, ami feel;\\nBy records that refresh my eye\\nIn the rich page of memory\\nBy blessings at thine altJirs given.\\nBy scenes which lift the soul to heaven\\nBy monuments that humbly rise.\\nMemorials of the good and wise\\nBy graves forever sad and dear.\\nStill reeking with my constant tear.\\nWhere those in honored slumber lie\\nWhose deaths have taught me how to die.\\nAnd shall I not with all my powers\\nWatch ronnd thy venerable towers?\\nAnd can I bid the pilgrim flee\\nTo holier refuge than to thee?\\nRev. Theodore Bayard RoarEYN, D.D., is the\\nsecond son of the late Rev. James Romeyn, D.D., of\\nHackensack, N. J,, and was born at Nassau, Rensse-\\nlaer County, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1827. He entered Rut-\\ngers College in 1843, from which he was graduated\\nin 1846, and three years later he was graduated at\\nthe theological seminary of the Reformed Church at\\nNew Brunswick. In the autumn of the same year he\\nbegan the Christian ministry at Blawenburgh, Som-\\nerset Co., N. J., where he continued his pastoral labors\\nfor fifteen years and a half, when he was called to the\\npastorate of the First Reformed (Dutch) Church at\\nHackensack, where both his father and grandfather\\nhad for many years before ministered, and where he\\nhas unceasingly labored since, a period of sixteen\\nyears. Dr. Romeyn was honored by Rutgers College\\nseveral years after his graduation with the degree of\\nDoctor of Divinity. His wife, Amelia, is the daughter\\nof Johnson Letson and Eliza Shaddle, of New Bruns-\\nwick, by whom he has one surviving child, James A,\\nRomeyn.\\nDr. Romeyn is a fitting successor in the Christian\\nministry of the Reformed Church to his many minis-\\nterial ancestors. The mantle so honorably worn by a\\ngrandfather and father has gently fallen on his shoul-\\nders, and has been borne by him without spot with\\nequal dignity and honor. Trained by family instruc-\\ntion and example in religious doctrines and teachings,.\\nhis heart and conscience early and sincerely yielded\\nto the calls of duty which directed him in the foot-\\nprints made by a noble and pious father.\\nTo the work of his life he has brought natural men-\\ntal endowments of a high order. These, by culture,,\\nstudy, and scholarship have made him eminent in his\\nprofession and powerful for good in the pulpit.\\nAs a pastor his people regard him with reverent,\\naffection. The attachment of pastor and people is\\nstrong in mutual love attested by a long and faithful\\nservice. In thirty-two years he has been settled over\\nbut two congregations, kindly, cheerfully, and con-\\nscientiously performing every congregational duty.\\nHis sympathies overflow in sincerity and tenderness\\nwith misfortune, distress, and affliction, and he is ever\\nthe constant ministering good angel in every home\\nof sorrow. Of genial and social disposition, he is the\\ngenerous companion of bright and buoyant youth as", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0223.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "180\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nwell as clouded and weary old age. With warm at-\\ntaclinient^, he has secured close and abiding friend-\\nships. In his sympathetic, social, and friendly inter-\\ncourse with his fellow-men he never loses sight of the\\ngrand and sdlemn fact that life is real, given for a\\nhigh and noble jiurpose, and is immortal. None can\\nfor any length of time enjoy hi.i genial companion-\\nship without being deeply impressed with the sacred\\nand responsible character of his mission. The great I\\nrealities of life and life s destinies often tinge his\\nthought and intercourse with sad solemnity.\\nAs a preacher he is gifted with eloquence which is\\ncharacterized by originality of thought, beauty of\\nillustration, and deep pathos. He never enters the\\npulpit without careful preparation. Every sermon is\\nimpressed with thought and study, and though some-\\ntimes long is never tiresome. )ld and young are held\\nin wrapt attention, while his pathos melts to tears, or\\nbis tender pleadings woo to thoughts of holiness and\\nlove. False j)retense, false pride, and i)omp find in\\nhim no apologist, but awaken a most righteous indig-\\nnation, and are the subjects of his constant aversion\\nand merited rebuke. Extreme humility and modesty\\nare the leading and crowning characteristics of his\\nlife, and render him to some degree unconscious of his\\nlarge mental powers and attainments. Between his\\ncongregation and his pulpit he is constantly active and\\nat work, never idle, and always faithful to the strictest\\nperformance of every trust.\\nHis youth, manhooil, and ri|)er years have borne\\nunmistaken testimony that his ministerial calling has\\nnot been a mistake or failure. His entire life is the\\nliving witness known of all men that everj- faculty I\\nof his head and heart is thoroughly devoted to the\\nwork of his sacred profession that his every word is\\na benediction, and his everj work is performed in pro-\\nmotion of the good.\\nl{y descent, culture, and ability Dr. Romeyn is a true\\nrepresentative of his ancestral church. It is enough\\nto say of him that his life thus far has been eminently\\na successful one in the ministry of the gospel, and\\nthat his name is held in honor, reverence, and love\\nin every household of faith which his jiresence lias\\ncheered, comforted, or blessed.\\nThe Second Reformed Church, Hacken.sack, has a\\npleasant and commodious church on State Street, in\\nthe upper part of the town, with an elegant parsonage\\nand lecture-room on either side of the church. This\\nchurch w;lx organized in IS iri, with a small incmlicr-\\nship from the First Chun-h. The edifice was erected\\nthe year following. The corner-stone was laid by\\nRev. John Knox, D.D., of New York City, July TO,\\nISSd, and the structure was completed in 1857. This\\nchurch since that date hius greatly increa.sed, and now\\nembraces a large memliershlp and attcinlance upon its\\nSabbath services. Rev. .Fames l emarest, Jr., was the\\nfirnt piLstor, from IS-ie to IKC. and Rev. George H.\\nFisher, I). I)., from 186-1 to 1870, when age and in-\\nfirmities compelled his resignation, and was succeeded\\nby the present pastor. Rev. C. B. Durand, in 1871.\\nMr. Durand is an instructive and .scholarly preacher,\\nand the church has greatly prospered under lii\u00c2\u00bb\\ncharge.\\nThe Third Reformed (German) Church is situated\\nin Lower Hackensack, on Broadway, near Hudson\\nStreet. There is quite a German |iO|)ulation in Hack-\\nensack, as well as in every considerable town in Amer-\\nica. This church is designed to accommodate that\\nclass. The Germans are a thriving and industrious\\npeople, and have added much to the wealth and pros-\\nperity of our Vmerican institutions They are gen-\\nerally stanch su])porters of law and order, and many\\nof them are devout supporters of the great German\\nReformer, Luther, and of the doctrines of the Re-\\nformed Church in Holland. Their church in Hack-\\nensack wius organized in 18 8, by Rev. L. Mohn, of\\nHoboken, N. J., and H. Berker, of Union Hill, N.,T.\\nThe church edifice was erected in 1860, with Rev.\\nWilliam Wolf as pastor, from 18G0 to 18G2; followed\\nby Rev. A. Shroeder, from 1862 to 1868; followed by\\nRev. 0. Loesih, from 1868 to 1870; followed by Rev.\\nH. Riche, from 1872, and Rev. R. Freck and Rev.\\nGeorge Goeble, their present pastor.\\nThis church had its struggles in the beginning and\\nfor a period of twelve years or more, but its members\\nhope and believe they have not struggled in vain. It\\nhas a membership of about one hundred, with a large\\nSabbath-school.\\nThe True Reformed Protestant Dutch Church was\\norganized in \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Schraalcnburgh, in the county of Bergen,\\nin October, 1822, to adhere to the rules and tenets of\\ntheir faith, as established at Dordrecht in 1618-19,\\nwithout any change or modification and this is pre-\\nsumed to be the reason why they write the word\\ntrue ius a part of their denominational designation.\\nThe preaching of the pure doctrine of the gos|)cl, the\\nmaintenance of the pure administration of Christ s\\nsacraments, the exercise of church discipline to\\npunish sin, doing all things by the pure word of God.\\nrejecting all things contrary, acknowledging Christ\\nas the only lu-ad of the church were the grounds on\\nwhich Rev. .Miram Brokaw, of Ovid, and Rev. H. V.\\nWycotf, of Charlc.sfown, and Rev. Sylvanus Palmer,\\nof Union, and Rev. John C. Tol, of MidiUetown, each\\nwith an elder, and the Rev. Solomon Froeligh, D.D.,\\nS.S., T.P., also with an elder from Schraalcnburgh.of\\nHackensack, biuscd their action at Schraalenliurgli in\\n1822. There are now eleven churches in this denom-\\nination in the States of New Jersey and New York.\\nThe fir.st pastor of the church in Hackensack wili\\nRev. James B. Demarest, a most sincere and devout\\npreacher, and father of the late county clerk of Ber-\\ngen, Hon. Thomas D. Demarest. Rev. Mr. Demare.st\\nwiLs jiastor for twenty-two years, commencing here at\\nthe organization of the church, soon after 1822. He\\nwas succeeded by Rev. Cornelius C Blauvelt, who\\nwiuH also the father of C.J. Blauvelt, a former county\\nclerk of Bergen, and the immediate predecessor of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0224.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "(^c^/fiLwui^ yu^\\n^M*^i.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0225.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0226.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\nISl\\nThomas D. Demarest. Rev. Mr. Blauvelt was pastor\\nfor five years, and was followed by Rev. Christian\\nZ. Paulison, who was pastor for two years, when the\\npresent pastor. Rev. John Y. De Bauu, entered upon\\nhis charge. Mr. De Baun is also editor of The Bnimer\\nof Truth, a monthly magazine of the True Reformed\\nChurch. The church edifice is located on Hudson\\nStreet, in Lower Hackensack, is a spacious structure,\\nand the membership is about 100.\\nThe First Presbyterian Church of Hackensack was\\nestablished in 1832, with Rev. Christian Z. Paulison\\na.s their first pastor to 1840, and followed by Rev. Al-\\nbert Amerman in 1843, who is now venerable in age\\nand has continued active pastor of the church till a\\nshort time since. The present pastor is Rev. H. B.\\nMcCauley. The church edifice is on Main Street,\\nabove Salem, in Upper Hackensack.\\nDuring the seasons of Lent in 1861 and lSt)2 Epis-\\ncopal Ciiurch services were held for the first time in\\nHackensack, followed by the first Sabbath service on\\nthe 12th of April, 1863, and on the next Lord s day\\na Sabbath-school was organized with two teachers and\\nfive scliolars, and on the 11th of May following Clirist\\nCliurch Parish was organized with Rev. William G.\\nFarriugton, who was elected rector the week following.\\nTlie corner-stone of the church edificeon Union Street,\\nnearly fronting on Salem Street, in Upper Hacken-\\nsack, was laid July 18, 1865, and divine service was\\nheld there in January following. Rev. Mr. Farriug-\\nton resigned the rectorship in May, 1870, and in the\\nfollowing September Rev. William Welles HoUey was\\nelected his successor. A rectory, near the church,\\nfronting directly on Salem Street, at a cost of eleven\\nthousand dollars, was commenced in 1871. These\\nelegant structures form a great ornament to the town.\\nEleven other parishes and missions have grown out of\\nthis church. With only six families at first this\\nchurch embraces over one hundred families to-day,\\nand its property is valued at over forty thousand dol-\\nlars. With a most efficient and devoted pastor the\\nchurch is prosperous and active in good works. The\\nchurch has contributed more than sixty thousand\\ndollars since its organization. The good Bishop Oden-\\nheimer, now gone to his rest, was followed by the able\\nand eloquent Bishop Starkey, of the Northern Diocese\\nof New Jersey. Bishop Odenheimer s memory will\\nlong be revered for his simple piety, his comprehensive\\ncharity, and his arduous labors in founding Episcopal\\nChurches in this part of his diocese, which during\\nnearly the whole of his long episcopate embraced the\\nwhole State of New Jersey. Such bishops deserve a\\nplace in history, and in the good works which follow\\nthem will be honored of their Master.\\nMethodism had not made much headway in Hack-\\nensack before 1849. There had been many Meth-\\nodists here long years before, and they had worshiped\\nGod in many an humble place, wherever they thought\\nthey could find Him, but in the spring of 1849 their\\nfirst society was organized here by Rev. A. L. Brice,\\nwho was followed in due course of itinerancy by Rev.\\nS. Vansant. A church was erected and completed\\nfor dedication by Bishop Janes in 18o0. Many min-\\nisters followed till, under the pastoral charge of Revs.\\nA. Craig and J. R. Adams, from 1872 to 1874, the old\\nchurch was replaced by a new and beautiful Gothic\\nedifice, which was dedicated Jan. 15, 1875. This\\nchurch is pleasantly located on the corner of State\\nand Warren Streets, in the lower part of the town.\\nOut of this church, on Oct. 16, 1868, was organized the\\nAsbury Methodist Episcopal Church, with a mem-\\nbership of 36, and with Rev. J. Cowims pastor. This\\nchurch succeeded in building a large and beautiftil\\nstructure on State Street, in which services were first\\nheld Jan. 1, 1871; but after only one month their\\nhouse was totally laid in ashes. The whole town was\\nmoved with profoundest sorrow over this calamity,\\nand many of the churches oflered efficient aid for its\\nre-erection. The society is now worshiping in a very\\ncommodious chapel on State Street, just above the\\nSecond Reformed Church, and, considering the adver-\\nsity it has been called to pass through, is in a pros-\\nperous condition.\\nThe first Roman Catholic Church was erected in\\nHackensack in 1861, when there were only 25 Catholic\\nfamilies in the town, while Rev. Father Annellie was\\npastor. He was followed by Revs. P. Corrigan and\\nDr. Beams. The corner-stone of the present church\\nwas laid in 1866, and the beautiful structure was fin-\\nished under the pastorate of Rev. P. Cody, and in the\\nsame year was consecrated by the Rt. Rev. Bishop\\nBayley to the most Holy Trinity. Revs. P. P. Gar-\\nvey, T. Rolando, and M. J. Kirnan, as priests, have\\nfollowed, and the church now embraces a membership\\nof over seven hundred.\\nThe First Baptist Church of Hackensack w\\\\as re-\\norganized in 1870 with a membership of 13, which\\nwas increased in 1876 to 132 members, and has largely\\nincreased since that time. Their church is on the\\ncorner of Anderson Square and Urian Street, in a\\nmost convenient location. William De Wolf, A. D.\\nP. Gilbert, and G. H. Atwood have served as deacons,\\nand William H. De Wolf as clerk. Rev. Robert Mc-\\nGonegal has served as the successor of the two former\\npastors of the church under its present organization.\\nThe prosperous Sabbath-school, under the superin-\\ntendency of John O. Hillyer and his co-workers, has\\nembraced at least 225 scholars and teachers, and is in\\na most prosperous condition at present. The Baptists\\nare laboring earnestly to increase their churches and\\nchurch membership in this State, and the First Bap-\\ntist Church in Hackensack promises well for this large\\nand influential denomination of Christians in this\\ncountry. Their present pastor is Rev. D. T. MacCly-\\nmont, and the church membership is over 250. Mr.\\nJ. C. Hillyer still continues the superintendent of the\\nlarge and increasing Sabbath-school.\\nZion Methodist Episcopal Church for the colored\\npeople in Hackensack and vicinity is located on At-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0227.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "182\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nlantic Street near Railroad Avenue. Rev. J. A. Rob-\\nertj* is the present pastor, and Tliomas Williams the\\nsuperintendent. This ehiireh and school, all things\\nconsidered, are in a prosperous condition.\\nSchools. The township of New Barbadoes is di-\\nvided into four school districts, known under the\\npublic school law by Nos. 10, embracing Fairmount\\nand Cherry Hill and a portion of Midland township;\\nand 31, embracing all the township between the com-\\nmission line or boundary between Fairmount and the\\nNew York, Susquehanna and Western, formerly the\\nMidland, Railway; and 32, all the territory of the\\ntownship south of the last-named line to Kansas\\nStreet and the southern commission line; and 33, the\\nremaining territory in the township to Little Ferry.\\nThese schools collectively embrace over twelve hun-\\ndred scholars, and under the present State system of i\\npublic instruction are well managed and in a pros-\\nperous condition.\\nOf these districts, Nos. 31 and 32 are the largest\\nand the most deserving of special notice. In 1825,\\nCornelius C. Bogert, Dr. Abraham Hopper, and Ar-\\nchibald Campbell were appointed by the inhabitants\\nin this part of Ilackensack as trustees to take steps\\nfor the establishment of a school wherein all the\\nbranches of a classical education could be obtained.\\nThese trustees purchased accordingly, on the 29th day\\nof May, 1826, of James Hague and Albert G. Dore-\\nmus a lot formerly owned by James Hill, on the west\\nside of Main Street, and north of the lands of Henry\\nBerdan, to be held in trust for the use of the stock-\\nholders for a new academy and as the illustrious\\nLafayette had just passed through the village in his\\ntour through the Union, and to revisit the scenes in\\nthis vicinity where this patriot of France had strug-\\ngled side by side with Washington in the darkest\\nhours of the Revolution, the patriotic people of Hnck-\\nensack called their new institution Lafayette .Acad-\\nemy. The building wa-s erected by lienjamin Dldis,\\ntwenty feet on Main Street and forty feet deep, with\\nan upper story for lectures and religious purposes,\\nMirmounted liy a cupola and bell from the old I assaic\\nChurch. John Wash, Professor of Languages, from\\nNew York, wits the first teacher, followed by William\\nLynn, Michael Doyle, Simeon Zabriskie, M.S. Wiik-\\nware, Jacob Vandcrbilt, Hugh Norton, William C,\\nSmith, and J, (J. Williams.\\nIn IS-W the old aea leniy wa.s sold, and the commo-\\ndious brick school-house wa.s erected on the northwest\\ncorner of State and licrry Streets, in the central part\\nof what is generally known as the np-town district.\\nThis is a very large and imposing structure. .J.\\nWilliams wax the first teacher, in IS.OS, followed by\\nJames H. Burlew, Isaac J. Wills, Thomas H. (iinimel,\\nB. F. Shaffer, A. Rider, and (i. T. Probst, f.dlowc.l by\\n8. G. Lippincott. This school-house is forty by fifty\\nfeet, with an addition of twenty by forty feet, and with\\nriKiniH and accommodations for five or six hundred\\nHcholars, and with eight hundred and eighty-four\\nsquare feet of blackboard surface. This school prop-\\nerty is valued at ten tho\\\\isand rloUars. A new and\\nspacious structure three stories high was erected on\\nthe same site in 1877.\\nSchool 32 is historic in age and association. Steps\\nwere taken very early in the colonial days by the pas-\\nsage of a law rating the inhabitants for public instruc-\\ntion in the several towns in the i)rovince.\\nIn 1767 a meeting was held in Hackensack, and\\nlong discussion had whether Queen s (now Rutgers)\\nCollege should be located here or in New Brunswick.\\nNew Brunswick won in this contest, but the people of\\nHackensack began at once to take a profounder inter-\\nest in the cause of education by reason of this discus-\\nsion. In 1769 Reinen Van Gies.sc, an old and exten-\\nsive landholder, interested in the public welfare and\\nthe promotion of learning, gave a site to the old Wash-\\nington Academy, on the northwest corner of Main and\\nWarren Streets. A fine stone building, seventy-five\\nby thirty-five feet, two stories high, with belfry in\\ncentre, in which was swung the famous bell with the\\ninscription, Presented to Washington Academy by\\nWm. Bayard, 1770, was erected and completed in\\nthe same year. This became a famous institution of\\nlearning.\\nA long line of able instructors have given name\\nand fame to the old Washington Academy. The re-\\nnowned Peter Wilson heads the list, commonly known\\nas Dr. Wilson, and afterwards Professor of Latin\\nand Greek in Columbia College, Henry Traphagen,\\nJohn, of the same name, Bayard Bayanl, Thomas\\nGeaghan, Christian Zabriskie, John Hayward, Henry\\nBlacknuin, William Howell (a physician), John Bo-\\ngart, Henry Howell, and John Vandcrbilt. Such men\\nas Solomon Froeligh, a great scholar, as well as able\\ntheologian, John Van Bureii, Isaac Vandcrbeck. Jr.,\\nand those al)le lawyers, Robert Campbell and Nehe-\\nmiali Wade, were the first trustees, elected .\\\\ug. 4,\\n1790, This building was reconstrueteil in 1846 and in\\n1858, and another story added in 1873, In 1865, on\\nmotion of G, K, Wygant, the school was made free, and\\nin 18( 9 the necessary books and papers were to be fur-\\nnished to s holars free of all charge also. The prin-\\ncipals of Washington Institute since 1846 still retleet\\ncredit on this old seat of learning. Their mimes are\\nJacob Vandcrbilt (already mentioned), Jacob Wortcn-\\ndyke (an eminent lawyer), Jacob Van Buskirk, Wil-\\nliam Williams (an able civil engineer), Edwin Wil-\\nliams, Joseph Hasbrouck, .\\\\braham IVrlew, ,\\\\braham\\nWallrrmire, II. A. Wileo.x, and last of all, and the\\nprincipal for more than ten years, Nelson Haits, Mr.\\nHaas will take rank with the most able of our public\\nschool instructors in this country. The standard of\\n.scholarship in his school and his success as an instruc-\\nt ir have justly given him this high reputation. The\\nschoiil building in 1866 could aecommmlnte one hun-\\ndred and thirty sclmlars, and in 1S76 Iw.i ImiKlnd iitid\\n8*0 lu(niphlc*l ikotch of Dr. WliMn further on In Dili rliapter.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0228.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0229.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "Peof. Nflson Haas, son of Motthinf Hans ami Mirlinda\\nUolgate, wa-s born Aug. 3, 1833, at Chestnut Hill, in tlic city\\nof Philndeljihia. His fiither wiui of iicrman descent, was a\\nbusiness man of strict integrity in that city, and for sixteen\\nyears was a member of its Common Council. Ho died in 1S69,\\naged seventy years. His mother was of Welsh extraction, and\\ndied in 1865, aged sixty-three years. His maternal grandfather\\nwas a prominent resident of Philadelphia, and for Sfveuteen\\nyears was a member of the State Legislature.\\nTwo of his brothers, Kdwin and Kdgar, have spent their lives\\nas educators; they founded the Hightstown Classical and Scien-\\ntific Institute, and also founded the New Jersey Cnllegiate In-\\nstitute at l{or lentown. on a part of the ol l Honaparte property.\\nThe former died in 1875, aged forty-seven years; the latter\\nis the present school superintendent of Ilurlington Cnunly, X. J.\\nAnother brother, Lewi;*, is a large and wealthy stock-raiser in\\nCalifornia. His other brothers are Holgate, a farmer in Ne-\\nvada; Franklin and Jerome were machinisls. Franklin died\\nin 1872, aged forty-nine years, and Jerome resides in Califitrnia.\\nHis sisters wore Elizabeth, who died in ]87 aged forty-five\\nyears; Jane, died young; and Clara.\\nNelson Haas received his early education in the public\\nschools of his native city, and at tbo age of seventeen began\\nbis chosen profession as ft teacher, which he continued in the\\ndistrict schools in the locality of his birth until 1H. il, when ho\\nwent to Mississippi, and for two years was the niathi*maiical\\nteftobcr and teacher of physics in an academy at Port (iihson.\\nReturning North, be, after two more years* service as teacher,\\nwas appointed deputy provost- marshal of the Ninth District,\\nPennsylvania, under A. W. Bolcnius, who was succeeded as\\nmarshal by Thaddcus Ktovons, Jr., during Mr. Haas term of\\nservice. In the spring of 1865 ho joined Company B, Ninth\\nUnion League Uogiroout, Philadelphia, as flr*t lieutenant.\\nAfter a few weeks was made commissary of the brigade, and\\nremained in tbo service until the close of the war.\\nI pon his return Pruf. Haas began the study of law in Har-\\nrisburg, Pa., iti the ofTioc of Gen. William H. Miller, and was\\nadmitted as an attorney-at-law in 18G8. The same year, afler\\npracticing a few months in Harri^burg, he removed to Cali-\\nfornia, and opened a law-office at Stockton, where, however, he\\nhad remained only a short time when (he death of his father\\ncaused his return East.\\nIn 1871 he wos tendered the position of principal of Wash-\\nington Institute. District No. 32, at Ilackensack, N. J., the first\\nand highest, in point of proficiency, in Pergen County, and one\\nof the leading schools in the St:ite, which be accepted, and he\\nhas continued the incumbent of that high and responsible place\\nsince, a period of nearly eleven years.\\nThe same year of his settling in Ilackensack, Prof. Haas was\\nunited in marriage !o Miss Mary McQuoid, of New York City,\\na Indy of high literary attainments and culture, and a graduate\\nof Uordentown Female College. Their surviving children are\\nNelson M. and Edwin Percival.\\nProf. Hans stands first among the leaohors of Bergen County,\\nond may safely be classed among tho prominent teachers and\\neducators of the State. His love for and interest in school\\nwork his long-continued connection with tho schools of Ilack-\\nensack as teacher; his cu-ojtoration in raising the standard for\\nteachers (pialifications in Bergen County his executive ability\\nand systematic management, not only of his own school, but in\\nthe tirganizatiun of the Bergen County Teachers* Association,\\nof which ho has been president for the past eight years, and\\nduring the same lime its principiit teacher: ami his ability, as\\nshown as a member of the hoard of examiners of teachers for\\nthe past nine years, have together not only given him a high\\nplace in tho confidence of the people of the county, but com-\\nmanded tbo attention of Uutgers College, which coDforred\\nupon him in IS77 the honorary degree of Master of Arts.\\nThe above facts were fully demonstrated in the first competi-\\ntive examination of the scholars bold in the county in June,\\n1881, wherein his pupils receiving first-grade diplomas were\\ngreater in number than in all the rest of the county, and bore\\na higher standard of scholarship as a result of their teacher s\\nthoroughness.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0230.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n183\\nsixty, but with nearly one hundred more seeking ad-\\nmission. This called for the present structure.\\nIn 1877 a meeting of the citizens of the district was\\ncalled to take into consideration the necessary steps\\nfor a new school-house. Subsequently, by an almost\\nunanimous vote of the district, twenty-five thousand\\ndollars was devoted to the erection of a new school-\\nhouse, and Garret Ackerson, Jr., Henry D. Winton,\\nJoseph P. Vreeland; and Nelson Haas were appointed\\na select committee to co-operate with David Terhune,\\nJames M. Van Valen, and George E. Wygant, the\\nschool trustees, to select a site and to erect a new\\nschool-house. Failing of entire unanimity, the mat-\\nter was referred back again to the voters in the dis-\\ntrict as to the selection of a site. This occasioned\\nprobably one of the largest school-meetings ever held\\nin the county, at which, after much excitement and\\ndebate, over four hundred votes were cast, and the\\nfollowing site was selected on the northwest corner of\\nUnion and Myers Streets, near the centre of the pop-\\nulation and generally commodious to the whole dis-\\ntrict, it being about three squares, or less than one-\\nfourth mile, from the court-house.\\nIn the spring of 1878 the building was commenced,\\nand was occupied by the school Dec. 2, 1878. The\\nstructure consists of four stories on a ground-plan of\\nsixty-seven by seventy-seven feet, with a spacious\\nhallway at the main entrance, and double stairs, easy\\nof ascent, to the top story, and with most spacious\\ndoors for easy exit. There are four school-rooms on\\neach floor, of about twenty-six by thirty-one feet,\\nwith commodious lunch-rooms for males and females,\\nand an assembly-room of sixty-seven by forty in the\\nhighest story, with high ceilings and a thorough ven-\\ntilation, with inside blinds so adjusted as readily to\\nregulate the light, and spacious blackboards on the\\nfour sides of each room, with steam for warming all\\nthe rooms.\\nNelson Haas, A.M., the principal, was Professor of\\nMathematics and Physics in one of the Southern col-\\nleges several years since, and has been one of the\\nboard of examiners of teachers for the last nine years.\\nPupils from this school in competitive examinations\\nhave found their way to West Point and Annapolis.\\nThe advanced grade of studies in this school em-\\nbraces geometry, trigonometry (plane and spherical),\\ndifferential and integral calculus, beside the higher\\nbranches in the sciences and the Greek and Latin\\nlanguages.\\nCertainly these two district schools, Nos. 31 and 32,\\nwe have been describing are a great credit to the\\nschool system in this State. The school-house No. 32\\nis a most beautiful structure, and is surrounded by\\nlawns without wires or guanls, but upon which not a\\nscholar ever encroaches. They know the invisible\\nlines and obey.\\nPeter Wilson, LL.D. Perhaps we have a right\\n1 By ex-Judge Nehemiah Milliard.\\nto consider it one of the chiefest glories of Scotland\\nthat she has sent to our shores so many Christian\\nscholars who have adorned our annals with their\\nlearning, their patriotism, and their piety. Driven\\nfrom home during the last century by poverty and op-\\npression, gifted with aspirations beyond their native\\nisle, armed with an unconquerable faith in God, they\\nfound here not only a fair field for the accumulation\\nof wealth through their thrift, but also for the exer-\\ncise of all those manly qualities with which they seem\\nto have been endowed, but above all for the enjoyment\\nof that religious belief which has made Scotland loved\\nand honored everywhere. Among these illustrious\\nmen, and not the least of them, was Prof. Peter Wil-\\nson, who came to this country in 1763, and subse-\\nquently settled in the village of Hackensack, and be-\\ncame the first principal of Washington Academy.\\nHis name will be found in connection with the history\\nof that institution in this volume, but his life and\\ncharacter are deserving of more than passing notice.\\nIn all respects he is probably the ablest scholar and\\nthe greatest man who has ever lived in Bergen County\\nor in this part of New Jersey. He almost began the\\ncareer of his active life in New Barbadoes township,\\nand here he found his last resting-place at its close.\\nPeter Wilson was born at Banft in the north of\\nScotland, Nov. 23, 1746. His father was a farmer in\\neasy circumstances, and both his parents were emi-\\nnent for their piety. Their early religious instruction\\nsoon took deep root in the young child s mind. In-\\ndeed, at the early age of eight years he is said to have\\nmanifested a deep sense of the sinfulness and misery\\nof the soul before its new birth in Christ, and in his\\nown chamber morning and evening he was earnestly\\nengaged in solitary prayer. Undressed and on his\\nbare knees, he was discovered by his mother engaged\\nin earnest prayer. Reproving such an imprudent ex-\\nposure of his health and life, he replied to his mother\\nin thus humbling himself before God, I think it\\nshould not be done by me in any other way. I do\\nnot think that I can be sufficiently humble before\\nGod Almighty in any other posture. My child,\\nsaid the fond mother, you will take cold by\\nthrowing yourself naked on the floor. Besides,\\nGod does not require this of you. You will be\\nheard as readily in your clothes as in this condition.\\nHe then told her that he had thus been in the habit\\nof prostrating himself in his linens only, and yet had\\nnever caught cold even during the inclemency of\\nwinter. Upon her entreaties he reluctantly gave up\\nthis habit of prostration, but insisted it was a most\\nbefitting posture in the humbleness of a poor sinner\\nbefore the Great Judge. He early manifested extra-\\nordinary talent in his fondness for learning, his cir-\\ncumspect and moral conduct, and was entered a\\nstudent of Mariochal College in the University of\\nAberdeen. Here he commanded the esteem of the\\nprofessors and the applause of his associates. He\\nsoon excelled in the classics, in Greek and Roman", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0231.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "184\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND FASSAIC COUNTIES, NKW JERSEY.\\nantiquities, and in the sciences, graduating at the I\\nearly age of seventeen, receiving with liis diploma\\nnot only the usual salutations, but also assurances of\\nthe highest approbation. An independent Scotch-\\nman at seventeen, graduating not only with lauda-\\ntion but with approbation also, with all the world\\nbefore him from whence to clioose, would be consid-\\nered more fortunate even, more blessed rather, than\\nlulus, and that he would pursue his way safely, not\\nonly through this earthly life, but even beyond the\\nstars. He was at once offered a lucrative office in the\\nScottish nobility, which would have oi)ened the way\\nto honor and emolument in Scotland, but, against the\\npersuasions of his parents and frieiiils, he declined the\\nposition. Having heanl and thought much of the\\nnew hopes and prospects then beginning to open up j\\nto mankind in America, and hating the narrow tram-\\nmels and restraints of aristocracy, where fools had\\nsometimes been elevated and wise men despised, it\\nwas quite natural that he should turn his steps towards\\nthe New World. The following story illustrates the\\ncharacter of the young but thoroughly educated and\\nindependent lad of seventeen.\\nOn a damp and misty day, while his father was at\\nwork, a young man appeared whom he had to recog-\\nnize as the laird, and at once the old, bald-headed\\nman stood uncovered in his presence and exposed to\\nthe elements. The young laird of course did not un-\\ncover, and was quite indifferent to the old man, and\\ncarelessly amused himself with a slight rattan cane\\nhe held in his hand. The old Scotchman only re-\\nsumed his broad bonnet when the young nobleman\\ndisappeared. Young Wilson said, Father, why did\\nyou stand so long a time with your b(uinet in hand\\nand head bare in this damp day, while that young man\\nwho talked with you had his head covered? The\\nsenior replied, Ah, my son, that s the young laird.\\nLaird or nae laird, my worthy father. saiil the\\nson, I wad na hae kept my bonnet in hand and\\nmy auld bauld pow exposed to the cauld, damp air,\\nwhile he a stripling forsooth like myself strutted about\\nwith his head covered.\\nY e wad na, say ye eallant Then I am alVaid ye\\nwould be accounted a rebel.\\nThen I wa l na live nniler sic a nobility and sic a\\ngovernment iis this.\\nAnd where would you gang til, laddie, then said\\nthe surprised old man.\\nTo America, father; i would gang to .Vmoricii.\\nThe restraints which such aristocratic manners im-\\nposed and an ardent desire for the fullest enjoyment\\nof religions liberty caused young Wilson at an early\\nday to |uit his native land, and so in 17(i3, in his .sev-\\nenteenth year, he landed in the city of New Y ork.\\nHis credentials from home .soon found him employ-\\nment :us a teacher in that city. In the course of a\\nfew years thereafler lie came to Hackeiisack and be-\\ncame the first principal of Washingtun Academy,\\nwhich went into operation about 1770. I nder his\\ncharge the academy soon became one of the most\\nfamous educational institutions of that day. Adam\\nBoyd, his compatriot in the Revolution, has told sev-\\neral anecdotes concerning the devotion of Mr. WiLson\\nto his adopted country. In 1775 he signed the bond\\nof association in these words, I promise to defend\\nthe rights and liberty of the I nited States with my\\nlife and fortune. Subsequent history bears testi-\\nmony to the most faithful fulfillment of that pledge.\\nHis talents and literary attainments soon gained\\nfor him great influence over his fellow-citizens. In\\nhis public s])eeches and well-written essays he bravely\\nexposed the arbitrary laws and conduct of the British\\ngovernment towards the American States. He hailed\\nthe Declarations of Independence at Burlington and\\nat Philadelphia with all the ciitliusiasm of a hope\\njust newly born.\\nAbout this time a notable instance is related show-\\ning the diHerent tinie-s and circumstances in which\\nthe same men may meet each other in a new country.\\nWilson after coming to Hackensack married a daugh-\\nter of Mr. Van Giesen. Exposed as were all the\\nWhigs in that vicinity to a marauding British soldiery,\\nMr. Wilson found his house invaded one day by such\\na turbulent crowd, who soon became boisterous, and\\nai)peared to be entirely reckless of the peace and quiet\\nof the household, anil charged Wilson and his family\\nwith being rebels. Mr. Wilson requested them to lie-\\nsist, as there was a helpless female there whose life and\\nhealth were imperiled by such a disturbance. This\\nhelple.ss female was his beloved wife. One of the\\nofficers of this band liap|icned to be the young laird\\nalready mentioned in this narrative. While he was\\nthus importunately appealing to them to desist, be-\\ncause, as Scottish gentlemen, as they were, they had\\nnot been trained thus to conduct themselves in their\\nnative land, the laird, fixing his eye on Wilson, in-\\n(|uired, Who are ye? I am Wilson, was the\\nipiick reply. What! are ye Wilson s .son of Banff?\\nI am, sir. Weel, weel, Wilson, said the officer,\\nI hope ye are nae rebel and be that as it may, we ll\\nmake nae mair noise here, and so the disturbance\\nended.\\nIn 1777 and 177.S .Mr. Wilson was a representative\\nin the .State Legislature of New Jersey. In tho.se\\ndays men often served their country at the peril of\\ntheir lives. It is said the electors who came to the\\npoll were such as were willing to come at the risk of\\na rope around their necks. The British force, says\\n.Mr. l!iiy l, lay at lirowcr s llill. nearthc New Bridge,\\non the llackcnsuck River. Wc had no force to re-\\nmove them. Forage, it was said, was their object.\\nThe number of electors who appeared at the poll\\nwas seven. Peter Wilson was the first on the list.\\nThere wjis a dead pause. The little band of patriots\\nlookctl at each other in suspense. Shall we proceed\\nor shall we decline? It was carried triumpliaiitly\\nthat they should procceil, and Peter Wilson, .lohn\\nOntwatcr, and Isaac Blanch were elected mciMbcri of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0232.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n185\\nthe Legislature, and Peter Harring was elected to the\\nCouncil, and Adam Boyd sheriff. During all this\\ntime Mr. Wilson was most eminent for his learning\\nand his piety, and for his jirofound interest in politics,\\nnot for the sake of an office or to he an i/Jfice-i -fl:er\\nmerely, but because the promotion of humanity\\nthrough his Christian faith seemed uppermost in his\\nmind. In times of public crises such men are often\\ncalled to the front. He was sent to the Legislature\\nby annual election till 1783, and was often assigned\\nas one of the ablest members to draft the laws and\\nin the last year of his legislative service was appointed\\nto revise and compile the statutes of the State to that\\nperiod and Wilson s edition of the laws, in a volume\\nof 480 pages, is a standard work in the legislative\\ncollections of New Jersey. But, ever true to the voca-\\ntion of his first choice as a teacher, neither politics,\\nwhich he had served with his learning, his zeal and\\nfidelity during the struggle of the Revolution, nor the\\ntempting allurements of office prevented him from\\nreturning to the academy, where more than one hun-\\ndred students from all parts of the country were\\nanxiously waiting to hail their master. During the\\nlast term of Mr. Wilson s service in the Legislature,\\nin 1783, the academy at Hackensack had become so\\nprosperous that an incorporation of the institution into\\na college was deemed desirable. It was proposed that\\nDr. Dirck Romeyn, who afterwards became president\\nof Union College, at Schenectady, should become the\\npresident, and Mr. Wilson the Professor of Languages.\\nMr. Wilson, however, from motives of delicacy, while\\na member of the Legislature could not be induced to\\nsupport the measure. While teaching he was also a\\nclose and constant student of theology and Oriental\\nliterature. In 1786 he was urged to take a license to\\npreach the gospel, and received also a pressing call\\nto become the coadjutor of the Rev. Dr. Westerlo in\\nthe pastorate of the large and influential Dutch\\nChurch at Albany. Dr. Westerlo was greatly dis-\\npleased with the course of Mr. Wilson in refusing\\nsuch a call but the honorable and to him the greatly\\nsuccessful vocation of a teacher seemed to be the first\\nand last and only field of his aspiration and devotion.\\nWhen Dr. Romeyn became president of L^nion Col-\\nlege Mr. Wilson was honored with the title of Doctor\\nof Laws, in 1793. Soon after he left Hackensack to\\naccept the professorship of Greek and Roman anti-\\nquities in Columbia College, in New York City. He\\nat once took rank as one of the ablest college profes-\\nsors in this country. He was soon after urged to\\naccept the principalship of Erasmus Hall, at Flat-\\nbush, L. I., when this institution soon became one of\\nthe most distinguished seminaries in fitting students\\nfor college in the United States. Two hundred stu-\\ndents from the West Indies and I^urope and the\\nUnited States studied here, and many of its students\\nbecame learned and pious and distinguished men\\nafterwards. The learned teacher became renowned\\nin his disciples.\\nThe arduous tasks of such a principalship com-\\npelled him at length to relax his labors by returning\\nagain to the professorship in Columbia College; and\\nin 1821, when past seventy-five years, the infirmities\\nof age began to urge him to that retirement which an\\nactive, ardent, and laborious life so justly deserved.\\nAfter twenty-six years as professor he resigned that\\nposition, as well as the provostship of Columbia Col-\\nlege, amid the regrets and highest commendations of\\nits trustees and faculty. That old and distinguished\\ninstitution continued to the doctor half his salary\\nduring the remainder of his life as a token of affection.\\nThat learned and able lawyer, John Wells, a promi-\\nnent member of the New York bar at that time, and\\none of the trustees of Columbia, first rose and made\\nthe motion for this annuity to Dr. Wilson, referring\\nin eloquent terms to the eminent learning, the great\\npowers of mind, the undoubted piety, the extraordi-\\nnary services of the teacher, to which he had given\\nthe vigor of his best days, his high character, his ur-\\nbanity of manners, his great knowledge of human\\nnature and of the difficult art of governing youth,\\nhis constant and abiding love of virtue and justice,\\nand his unremitting devotion and masterly ability in\\neducating his pupils, which had greatly extended the\\nreputation of the college in the name and fame of its\\ndistinguished provost and professor. Such a tribute\\nexcited the warmest emotions in the hearts of all the\\ntrustees, and when the motion was seconded by Wil-\\nliam Moore, M.D., it was carried without a dissenting\\nvoice.\\nThus blessed with the honors and the emoluments\\nof a well-spent life, after two years in New York City,\\nDr. Wilson spent the remainder of his days in Hack-\\nensack, and died on the 18th of August, 1825, in the\\nseventy-ninth year of his age.\\nFew men have combined so much learning and so\\nmuch worldly and conspicuous success with so much\\nsimple and sincere piety. The child at eight years,\\nhumbling himself before God in his chamber, was the\\nsame simple and devout child of his Master in all the\\ngreatness of his understanding. The pomp and hon-\\nors of time paled into insignificancy before the vic-\\ntories and the triumphs of the Redeemed. He de-\\nclined more honors than he would accept. Successful\\nin politics as a legislator in the trying times of the\\nRevolution, his intelligence and discretion prompted\\nhis appointment as Governor of the State, which he\\ndeclined. The presidency of several colleges and edu-\\ncational institutions were oft ered him, but only to be\\ndeclined. It was known that he had commanded the\\nrespect and esteem of Gen. Washington, and through\\nmuch entreaty and persuasion he accepted the ap-\\npointment of Presidential elector towards the close\\nof his life, and was president of that body of electors\\nat Trenton. He died after having walked with God\\nsixty-five years, with thanks be to God, who had given\\nhim the victory through his Lord Jesus Christ. He\\nwas an eminent classical scliolar, and his revision of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0233.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "186\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nSallust, of Longinus, and of Adam s Roman Antiqui-\\nties, liis Greek Prosody and Greeic Prepositions, and\\nhis corrected edition of the (Jreek New Testament\\nare valuable works of learning to-day. The great\\nScotchman left his native laud to adorn his adopted\\ncountry, but his constant and highest aspiration was\\nat hist ti) enter iiitii the jnys dt his Lcinl.\\nChartered Companies and Societies. The char-\\ntered companies and societies in Uackensack are as\\nfollows\\nThe Hackensack Water Company, in 1873 and\\n1874, constructed works to supply the village with\\nwater at a cost of $12.i,000. Tlie water is pumped from\\nthe river into a reservoir on the heights of Cherry\\nHill, one hundred and twenty feet above tlie river,\\nand thence is carried by gravity through the iron\\npipes. It is said to afford a purer supply tlian the\\nCroton in New York.\\nThe Hackensack Giisliglit Company was estab-\\nlished in 181)7, with L. J. Van IJoskerok, .John J.\\nWard, M. M. Knapp, Garret Ackerson, .Jr., K. P.\\nTerhune, John J. Anderson, ;ind N. S. Baiita, direc-\\ntors. M. M. Knapp, N. S. Banta, and R. P. Terhune\\nbecame respectively the first president, treasurer, and\\nsecretary.\\nBergen County Lodge, No. 73, I. O. O. F., was\\ninstituted in the village of Hackensack in the year\\n184.5, and held its first meetings in a small room over\\nthe ball-room of the Washington Mansion House,\\nbut tlie accommodations being found in.sufficient the\\nlodge sought other (piarters. Forming a building\\na-s-sociation, the lodge purchiiscd a site and erected a\\nbuilding known as Odd-Fellows Hall. .\\\\n addi-\\ntion has since been made. At the early organization\\nthere was not entire harmony, but that has disap-\\npeared, and the lodge is in a flourishing condition.\\nThere were three other lodges in the county in 187()\\nand one eneani| inent. The lodge has jiidiMl several\\nof its members when sickness and death liave come\\nupon them, and has expended tliousands of dollars\\nin works of charity. The membership is composed\\nlargely of mechanics, with some fanners and persons\\nin other occupations, numbering among these judges,\\nslierilfs, prosecutors of the pleas, county collectors,\\nmeniliers of the Assembly, and chcisen freeholders.\\nThe Order of Uniteil .\\\\merican Mechanics was\\nfounded in Philadelphia, July 8, 1845, with sister\\nsocieties all over the country, embracing thousands\\nof .Vmerican mechanics, advocating free schools and\\nnon-union of church and State, together with certain\\nother principles claimed to be conducive to the in-\\nterests of its members. The Columbia Council, No.\\nCG, with seventeen charter members, was organized at\\nHackensack, Sept. 5, 1871. This association at one\\ntime w. i-s verv extensive, embracing a large member-\\nship thronghiuit the Union, but it is believed the\\nsociety at present is not active in its operations.\\nBruder-Liebe Society was organized Dec. 1S(!4.\\nThis society of brotherly love and benevolence for\\nthe care of the sick and for the burial of the dead\\ncommenced with a membership of eight persons. It\\npays five dollars per week to sick members, and to the\\nwidow of any member forty dollars, and fifty cents\\nto any member losing his wife by death. This society\\nha.s a charitable fund of over twelve hundred dollars.\\nAt present it holds its meetings in the school-house\\non Hudson Street. It has frequently ministered its\\ncharitable aid to the sick, to the dying, and to the\\ndead. Its first officers were Jolm O. Grode, N. (1.\\nJohn Engle, V. G. William Getting, R. G. Carl\\nGetting, F. S. August Fieschly, Treas.\\nPioneer Lodge, No. 70, A. F. and A. M.. was insti-\\ntuted and set at labor April 4, IStl.O, under dispensa-\\ntion from the then M. \\\\V. G. M., William Silas\\nWhitehead, of Newark, upon the recommendation\\nof 1 a.ssaic Lodge, No. (J2, in which lodge the charter\\nmembers of Pioneer had previously exemplified\\nthe work. The first meeting of Pioneer XJ. D. A,\\nwas held in Odd-Fellows Hall, Hackensack, with\\nthe following officers: William H. I e Wolf, \\\\V. M.:\\nDr. William H. Hall, S. W. Robert W. Goslee, .1.\\nW. Richard A. Terhune, S. D. (and acting treasurer)\\nIsaac E. Bogert, Sec. Thomas Picker, J. D. and\\nDavid M. Hall, acting as tyler. All were charter\\nmembers of the lodge. Its meetings were continued\\nin Odd-Fellows Hall till the autumn of 18t).5, when\\nthe lodge moved to Andei-son Hall, just constructed,\\non the southeast corner of Main and Passaic Streets.\\nThe third story of the hall had been specially fitted up\\nfor the lodge. It held it.s first regular meeting under\\ncharter or warrant from the Grand Lodge of New\\nJersey, Feb. 12, 18(!(). The officers for that year had\\nbeen previously elected to the same jjositions held by\\nthem respectively under dispensation. The member-\\nship increased rapidly, and to about one hundred and\\nfifty, while at Anderson Hall. But expensive para-\\nphernalia anil fittings with sundry liberal donations\\nby the lodge left it finally in a erippleil financial con-\\ndition, and the evil elleets of a too rapid incre^ise in\\nits membership became manifest, making it nece.s.sary\\nto apjjcal to the generosity of its members in order to\\nfree the bulge of its accumulateil l)urdens. Some of\\nits members al.so had been unfaithful, necessitating\\none expulsion and several suspensions for non-|iay-\\nmcnt of dues. .Meantime the lodge had left ,\\\\n-\\nderson Hall, but after extricating it.self from debt it\\nreturned, to remain there till its removal to its com-\\nmodious quarters in the new building of the Bank of\\nBergen t^ounty, which the lodge still continues to\\noccupy. It now numbers about sixty members, is in\\na flourishing comlition, and is one of the best ap-\\n|iointed in the State Its present ollicers 1881 are\\nJames Van Valen, W. M. M. C. Gilham, S. W.\\nJames Russel, J. W. W. I. Comes, M. George\\nW. Comes, Sec. .John Bertholf, S. D. L. Dodd,\\nJ. D. I... C. Westervelt and .John Ryan, Masters of\\nC. J.; W. Burt, Tyler; N. W. Haas, C. W. Berdan,\\nItiidd. Trustee-s; William 11. De Wolf, Dr. Wil-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0234.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0235.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0236.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n187\\nliain H. Hall, I.. D. Hay, C. W. Vanderbeck, J. P.\\nYreeland, Dr. A. S. Burdett, Nelson Haas, Past Mas-\\nters. William H. De Wolf has been for several years\\na representative of the Grand Lodge of North Caro-\\nlina near the Grand Lodge of New Jersey.\\nUpland Lodge, No. 177, I. O. O. F., is a German\\nlodge, instituted Feb. 26, 1874, with thirteen charter\\nmembers, increased to sixty-five members in good\\nstanding, with a surplus capital of over one thousand\\ndollars, and holding its meetings at present in Odd-\\nFellows Hall. This is a large and influential society.\\nHildise Bund, Section No. 6, of Hackensack, was\\norganized Dec. 3, 1869, as a chartered association for\\nlife insurance, and against accident, sickness, and\\nfor general benefit. This society does not now appear\\nto be in active operation.\\nOn the 13th of July, 1881, Post 52 of the Grand\\nArmy of the Re])ublic was organized at Hackensack,\\nwith the following officers: C, George M. Hunter,\\n21st N. Y. Inf. and 2d N. Y. Cav. S. V. C., W. I.\\nBrant, 4(ith N. Y. (Mozart Regiment) J. V. C, J.\\nH. Russell, 44th N. Y. Adjt., Daniel Demarest, 22d\\nN. J.; Q., John Engel, 165th N. Y. (Duryea s Zou- j\\naves) Chap., W. W. Harper, 22d N. J. Surg., John\\nG. Fream, 60th 111. (Sharpshooters) Sergt.-Maj.,\\nSimeon Van Wetering, 22d N. J.; O. D., F. W.\\nHover, 7th N. Y. Heavy Art. O. G., Albert C. Bo- i\\ngert, 22d N. J. Comrades, W. H. De Wolf, 8th N.\\nY. T. J. Lonergan, 90th 111. Joseph Scott, 1st N.\\nY. Engineers; Aaron E. Ackerman, 13th N.J. Lewis\\nCotte, 22d N. J. John Spyri, 1st N. Y. Engineers\\nFrederick Zeeb, C. Hoffman.\\nAll veterans who have an honorable discharge from\\nthe United States service are invited to join.\\nThe Hackensack Academy is a joint-stock com-\\npany, and was incorporated in 1870, with a nominal\\ncapital of three thousand dollars. Its first trustees\\nwere James H. Beatty, Charles H. Voorhis, John N.\\nGamewell, Benjamin C. Bogert, A. G. Munn, aud\\nBradley H. Baldwin. This institution has a large\\nand commodious structure on the northwest corner of\\nState Street and Central Avenue, adjoining the Epis-\\ncopal Church rectory. The academy is designed to\\nafford all the facilities for the acquisition of a thor-\\nough classical and English education and to fit stu-\\ndents for college. The public schools in Hackensack\\nhave of late years so far advanced in the higher grades\\nof education as largely to afford all the advantages\\naimed at in this institution, but many of the public-\\nspirited citizens of Hackensack, who still feel a deep\\ninterest in the cause of education and in the higher\\nwalks of a liberal culture, still hope to maintain this\\nas a prosjjerous institution.\\nBanking Institutions.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 There have been several\\nbanking institutions in Hackensack during the last\\nsixty years, but none of them are now in operation.\\nThe first banking institution of any importance was\\nthe Washington Banking Comjiany, which came here\\nfrom Hoboken, where it had been previously organ-\\nized under a State law. It transacted business here\\nabout fifty years ago, but after a few years it met with\\nfinancial failure. John De Grott was its president,\\nand George Y. Allaire its cashier. It was first located\\nin the present southwest parlor of the Mansion House,\\nand subsequently moved to its banking-house, erected\\nby the company for that purpose on the north side of\\nMansion Street, near Main.\\nThe Bank of Bergen County was established Jan.\\n2, 1872, with a capital of sixty thousand dollars, and\\nin January, 1874, increased to one hundred thousand\\ndollars, and in the same year a spacious and substan-\\ntial banking-house was erected on Main Street, on\\nthe site of the old Campbell tavern of Revoluticmary\\nmemory.\\nBergen County Savings-Bank was chartered in\\n1870, and commenced business in 1872. Its business\\nwas mainly carried on by the officers of the Bank of\\nBergen County.\\nThe First National Bank of Hackensack was or-\\nganized Oct. 23, 1871, and commenced business the\\nfollowing January, with a capital of $100,000.\\nThe Hackensack Savings-Bank was incorporated\\nApril 4, 1873, and commenced business the following\\nMay. This bank was managed by the officers gener-\\nally of the First National Bank. All of these four\\nfinancial institutions we have named continued in\\nbusiness till one or two years since. They are now\\nclosing up their affairs.\\nFairmount and Cherry Hill are pleasantly located\\non the Hackensack, in the northern part of the town-\\nship of New Barbadoes, on a gently rising slope.\\nFairmount was founded by G. V. Zingsem some fif-\\nteen years since, and embraces some of the most beau-\\ntiful building sites and buildings thereon to be found\\nin this part of the country. Near Cherry Hill is lo-\\ncated the spacious reservoir which supplies the vil-\\nlage of Hackensack with water, drawn from the river,\\nas we have already stated, above navigation.\\nBurial-Places. The oldest burial-place in the\\ntownship in any state of preservation is the cemetery\\nin the churchyard on the Green. Many of the most\\nmemorable men who have figured in the affairs of the\\ntownship and in this section of country have found\\nhere their resting-place. As reference is made to this\\nburial-place in the extended historical account of the\\nChurch on the Green, with a mention of very many\\nwho are buried there, further mention is unnecessary.\\nThe True Reformed Church also has a burial-place,\\nbeautifully situated on elevated ground on Hudson\\nStreet, in the lower part of Hackensack. It is not\\nancient, though very many burials have been made\\nthere in the last ten or fifteen years.\\nJudge John Huyler.^The Huyler family were\\namong the early settlers of Bergen County, and came\\nfrom Holland to seek homes in the wilds of America.\\nWilhelmus, paternal grandfather of Judge Huyler,\\nresided at Closter, where he carried on agricultural\\npursuits and reared his family. John Huyler, father", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0237.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "1S8\\nHISTORY OF BERGKX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nof our subject, born at Closter, spent his business life\\nin Xew York City, engaged at the mason s trade, and\\ntliere died in 1836. His wife was Efta Westervelt, of\\nTeiiatiy, and their ciiildren were William, John, Cath-\\nerine, Eliza, Jacob, David, and Sarah. Of these chil-\\ndren John was born in New York City, April 11, 1808.\\nHis boyhood was spent with his grandfather Wester-\\nvelt, at Tenafly, where lie received very limited op-\\nportunities for any education from books, and only\\nsuch as the district scliool then afforded. At the age\\nof fifteen years he went to New York and began\\nlearning the mason s trade of his father, and about\\nthe time of reaching his majority, in connection with\\nhis brother William, he assumed control of the then\\nquite extensive business which his father had carried\\non, and became one of the first and largest contractors\\nand builders of brick mason-work in the city. Until\\n1846, Mr. Huyler successfully continued this business\\nthere, and many of New York s most substantial busi-\\nness blocks and private palatial residences were built\\nby him, and stand as monuments of his eiiter[)rise\\nand industry. His brother William wa-s killed by\\naccidentally falling from a building in rocess of con-\\nstruction.\\nIn 1841), Mr. Huyler, desirous of leaving the city\\nand engaging in agricultural pursuit-s, which he had\\nalways loved from boyhood, purchased and settled on\\na farm at Pollifly, now Terrace .Vvenue, in the town-\\nship of Lodi. A i art of his farm extended into the\\nmarsh-land contiguous to the river, of which there\\nwere several thousand acres. While a member of the\\nState Legislature he obtained special legislation ap-\\npointing a draining committee, of which he was chair-\\nman until liis death, to drain these lands, wlii li has\\nbeen .successfully done, thereby bringing into a state\\nof cultivation a large tract of country liereUjfore use-\\nless. About 1855, Mr. Huyler settled in the village\\nof Hacken.sack, residing where Judge Knapp now\\nresides, and after three years located on the site for-\\nmerly tlie homestead of Robert Omphcll, wiiere, in\\n1805, he erecteil a fine residence, which was his hoTue\\nuntil his death, Jan. 9, 1870.\\nIn 1859, in connection with Col. Garret Ackerson,\\nhe built the dock on the ea-st side of the river at\\nHackensack, and established a landing for merchan-\\ndise and a lumber-yard. Upon the rctirenu ut of Col.\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\\\ckerson from this business, a few years afterwards,\\nMr. Huyler a-ssociated with him in the lumber busi-\\nneits his son William, who sucecudcd his father in the\\nl)usines.M, ami carries it on in 1881 in connection with\\nhis uncle, (iilliam Knian, and son, John Huyler.\\nI pon settling in Hergen CNiunty, .ludge Huyler\\nt4)ok a leading and inHuential part in local politics,\\nwas elected and served in the State Legislature, 1852-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a254, and was chosen Speaker of the Hou.se during the\\nla.st term. He was appointed and served as judge of\\nthe (y ourt of Appeals, 18.54 to 1857, and represented\\nHergen ounty in oiipress from 1H57 to 1859.\\nJudge Huyler was a man i f strong force of char\\nacter, decided opinions, enterprising, and far-seeing.\\nHe was frank and sociable, and always ready to en-\\ngage in any enterprise that looked to the prosperity\\nof the vicinity where he resided. He was among the\\nprime movers in getting public improvement,s made\\nin Hackensack, and a board of commissioners estab-\\nlished, and had charge of the remodeling of the First\\nReformed Church at two different times after his re-\\nmoval to the village. He wa.s a liberal contributor\\nand supporter of all worthy local objects, and a man\\nof great perseverance and integrity in all his business\\nrelations. His wife, Magdalen Rutan, born Sept. 6,\\n1810, whom he married Nov. 18, 1829, survives in\\n1881, having borne him two sons, Edwin, died at the\\nage of two years, and William, Imrn Dec. 31, 1832,\\nmarried Mary, (biughter of Paul I aulison, of Ridge-\\nfield, and has an only son, John E. Huyler.\\nMrs. Judge Huyler s father was John I. Rutan,\\nborn in Hohokus, June 4, 1782, and sjient his active\\nbusiness lite in New York City, dying there Sept. 1,\\n1854. Her mother was Maria Terhune, born Oct. 4,\\n1784, who was a daughter of (iilliam Terhune, of\\nSpring Valley, N. J. Both the Rutjins and Terhunes\\nwere among the early settlers of Uergeti County, and\\nof French ancestry.\\nJohn H. T. Banta. The comnKui ancestor of the\\nB:int;i faiiiily in liergen County, N. J., wius of Hun-\\ngarian origin, and upon emigration to .Vmerica settled\\nat Hnglisli Neighborliood, now Fairvlew, along with\\nthe earliest settlers of the county. The family ap\\npears to have resided where the emigrant first settled\\nuntil about the middle of the eighteenth century,\\nwhen Yan Hanta, great-grandfather of our subject,\\nremoved and settled at I ascack, Washington town-\\nship. He wits born Oct. t 1724, and his wife, Marga-\\nret, was born Feb. 11, 1729. Their elde.st son, Hen-\\ndrick, succeeded to the homestead pro|)erty at Pascack,\\nand possessed at his death some five hundred acres.\\nHe was born .May 27, 1749, and died at Pa.scack, Feb.\\n15, 181)3. His wife, who belonged to one of the old\\nFrench Huguenot families, Margrieta Demarest, was\\nborn July 8, 1748, ami died March 24, 1802, and bore\\nhim the following children, viz. John, born March 2,\\n1777; Yacoinijn, born July 15, 1778; Garret, born\\nOct. 2, 1779; .lacob, born July 2(5, I7K1 llendrick,\\nborn Sept. 30, 1784; Margrietje, born Oct. 20. 178t);\\nTheiinis, born March 25, 1789; Argeiiistjc, born ,Iaii.\\n2, 1791. .\\\\11 the above-named children were married\\nand reared families except one daughter, and the\\n|iareiital homestead was divided among the sons, some\\nof wlidiii also carried on agricultural pursuits.\\nTheunis, lather of our subject, born at Piuscaek,\\nmarried in Novi iiiber, \\\\X\\\\2, Rachel, ihiughter of\\nJohn and Mary (i^ydccker) Benson, of Old Haikeii-\\nsack township. A part of the farm owned by John\\nBenson forms the present site of the Presbyterian\\nf luirch at Englcwood. .She was born Sept. 14, 1789,\\nand died .\\\\ng. 23, 1K74, leaving an only chilil, .lohn\\nHenry T. Banta, subject of this sketch.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0238.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0239.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0240.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0241.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "a OL\\na- V", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0242.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n189\\nSoon after his marriage, Theunis Banta removed to\\nNew York City, where he remained until 1833, en-\\ngaged in the truck and carrying business. In tlie\\nspring of that year he removed to Hackensack and\\nengaged in general mercantile business in partnership\\nwith his brother, Henry H., on the corner of Main\\nand Passaic Streets, having his residence on what was\\nknown as the Doremus homestead, adjoining the\\nCampbell homestead. Here he continued in success-\\nful business until 1850, one year after the death of his\\nbrother, and was succeeded by his son. He was one\\nof the trustees of Washington Institute, and actively\\ninterested in the propagation of educational work in\\nHackensack, one of the prime movers in opening\\nstreets in the village and in its general improvement,\\nand was known as a man of correct habits, sterling in-\\ntegrity, and good judgment. He died in April, 1870.\\nJohn Henry T. Banta was born in New York City,\\nFeb. 21, 1824, and was nine years old when his parents\\nsettled in Hackensack. Most of his minority was\\nspent at school, he being graduated in the classical\\nschool of Rev. John S. Mabon, who for many years\\nsuccessfully conducted a school at Hackensack, and\\nprepared young men for college course.\\nAt the age of eighteen he entered his father s and\\nuncle s store as clerk, and in 1850, as above stated,\\nsucceeded him in business. For five years he associ-\\nated with himself in trade G. Myres Anderson, but\\nsince 1855 has carried on the business alone. Thus\\nthe Bantas have continuously carried on mercantile\\nbusiness on this site for nearly half a century.\\nMr. Banta has been connected with and interested\\nin the various enterprises tending to the prosperity of\\nHackensack since he became a business man here, and\\nalthough he has avoided as far as possible any public\\nplace or political preferment, he has never shrunk\\nfrom his duty as a citizen. He was one of the foun-\\nders of the old Bergen County Bank, and for a time\\nserved as one of the commissioners of Hackensack.\\nHe is a member of the .First Reformed -Church at\\nHackensack, and has served that church as deacon\\nand elder.\\nHe married, June 1(3, 1869, Susanna, daughter of\\nFrederick Steinle and Susanna Brockner, of Hacken-\\nsack. Their surviving children are Frederick and\\nWilliam. Her father was a native of Germany, came\\nto America while a boy, and with others who came at\\nthe same time celebrated at Philadelphia the fiftieth\\nanniversary of his emigration during our centennial\\nyear. Her mother was a daughter of John Christian\\nFrederick Brockner, a soldier in Gen. Washington s\\narmy, who after the close of the war settled in Passaic\\nCounty.\\nIn 1869-70, Mr. Banta built his fine and substantial\\nresidence on the corner of State and Passaic Streets,\\nwhich, with its beautifully laid out grounds and com-\\nmanding location, forms one of the most desirable\\nplaces for a private residence anywhere to be found in\\nHackensack.\\n13\\nGeorge Fair. His father, William Fair, was a\\nnative of Scotland, emigrated to America with his\\nwife, Mary Hume, and three children, Mary, John,\\nand Jane, and settled in New Barbadoes, now Hack-\\nensack, about 1785.\\nHe was a cabinet-maker by trade, and carried on\\nhis business on the site of the present Fair homestead,\\nin Hackensack, until his death, which occurred Feb.\\n24, 1839, dying at the age of eighty-three years. His\\nwife died at the age of seventy years, Sept. 23, 1824.\\nMary died unmarried, Oct. 12, 1852, and Jane died\\nunmarried, July 19, 1848. John was a successftil\\nmerchant in New York for many years, and died Jan.\\n5, 1854, aged seventy-six years.\\nGeorge Fair, fourth child of William and Mary\\nHume Fair, was born in Hackensack, on the home-\\nstead, Nov. 27, 1785. He received during his boy-\\nhood onlj a common-school education, but the rigid\\nhome discipline of his vScotch parents early impressed\\nhim with habits of industry, economy, and self-reli-\\nance.\\nAt the age of fifteen young Fair went into the busy\\nworld to carve out a fortune for himself, and at that\\nage became a clerk in a dry-goods store in New York\\nCity, where he continued for many years, and until\\nhe had saved enough money from his earnings to es-\\ntablish business for himself With his elder brother,\\nJohn, he engaged in the dry-goods trade on his own\\naccount in Vesey Street, New York City, where for\\nmany years these sterling men continued a successful\\ntrade, and their names became widely known as mer-\\nchants of reliability and integrity in all their business\\nrelations. They invested of their surplus means in\\ncity real estate, which increased in value on their\\nhands and gave hoth a large competency.\\nDuring the last few years of their business career\\nthey gave up the dry-goods trade and engaged in the\\nmanufacture of cotton twine, cord, and other cotton\\ngoods of that sort on Long Island, which they very\\nsuccessfully carried on, having their office in New\\nYork, until the death of his brother, in 1854, when\\nMr. Fair retired from the active duties of life.\\nHe married, Sept. 26, 1843, Helena C. Price, daugh-\\nter of Judge Lewis Moore, of Hackensack. She was\\nborn Sept. 26, 1807. Judge Moore was of English\\nbirth, settled in Hackensack while a young man,\\nwhere he married Eliza, daughter of Michael Price,\\na prominent and wealthy merchant of New York.\\nJudge Moore owned the land where the Midland\\ndepot is now located, and resided in the house now\\nstanding there a present to his wife from her father\\nuntil his death, in 1843, at the age of seventy-six.\\nHis wife died in January, 1860, at about the same\\nage. The surviving children of Mr. and Mrs. Fair\\nare William and Lewis Moore.\\n)n May 10, 1856, after his retirement from business,\\nMr. Fair and his wife set sail for Liverpool, and spent\\nThe Moore coat of arms couBisteU of a Heor^s head and seven stars.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0243.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "190\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nsome two years in ^nsiting places of note in England\\nand on the continent, and several times thereafter\\ntlicy made trips across the ocean in pursuit both of\\npleasure and health. His wife, who survives her hus-\\nband, has a fondness for traveling abroad, and has 1\\nvisited Europe a score of times. She is a lady of su-\\nperior ability, of preat kindness of heart for those in\\nneed, and her charities, bestowed upon the deserving\\npoor in an unostentatious way, when the chilling\\nblasts of winter and the scarcity of labor preclude\\nllu-ni from earning an honest livelihood, will remain j\\nunknown except to the donor.\\nAfter his first trip to Europe, Mr. Fair removed\\nto Hackensack to spend the remainder of his life.\\nHere, in 1859, he completed, on the homestead for-\\nmerly occupied by his father, the substantial and\\nstately residence on Essex Street, where he resided\\nuntil his death, Oct. 16, 1868.\\nMr. Fair was known as a man of liberal ideas, a\\npromoter of sound morals and Christianity in the\\ncommunity where he resided, energetic in whatever\\nhe undertook, faithful in the e.xecutiou of any trust\\nreposed in him,of superior business ability, and one of\\nthe most liberal contributors to church and kindred\\ninterests of Bergen County s sons. i\\nCapt. Robert Colfax Avery Ward.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 His pater-\\nnal greal-graudfalluT was of Irish birth, and sup-\\nposed to be the progenitor of the Ward family in\\nBergen County, as he is found located at Greenwood\\nLake during the early part of the eighteenth century. I\\nHi- eldest son, James, inherited the homestead there,\\nand his son I eter, after his marriage to Nancy Mead,\\nfirst settled at I ompton, but about the close of the I\\nRevolutionary war purchased some two hundred acres\\nof confiscated land at Campgaw, where he resided un- I\\ntil his death, in 1.S12, at tlie age of fifty-six. The\\nother sons were .John and Philip.\\nPeter Ward was an infiuenlial man in old Bergen\\nCounty, and was a member of the state Council when\\nhe died. He was captain of a company of militia\\nduring the Kevolutioiuiry war, and did home duly. I\\nHis wife die l at the age of forty-six in 1S06. Their\\nchililren were Peter. .lolin, .Tane, Catherine, Thomas,\\nJames, William, and Mary, of whom only James and\\nWilliam survive in 1881. Peter was father of our\\nsubject, was born at Cami gaw, and married Maria,\\ndaughter of Robert Colfax, niece of Gen. William\\nColfax, anil second cousin of cx-Vice-Presidcnt\\nSchuvler olfax. The children born of this union\\nwere apt. Kobert C. Peter H., Sally .\\\\nn, wife of\\nHarden Burge-ss; Harriet, wife of Chauncey Joode-\\nricli; Jane, wife of Abram Willis; Mary, wife of\\nAnthony E. Fatin Catherine, died young; Eucy,\\nwas first the wife of John Hall, and after his death,\\nof Charles Bennett; John; Peryna, wife of Henry\\nA. Berry; Maria, wife of Dr. Henry Hopper, of\\nHackensack and Elizabeth, wife of John R. Ly-\\ndecker.\\nPeter Ward was a brigade major under Gen. Wm. i\\nColfax in the war of 1812, stationed at BerL iii\\nHeights and afterwards at Sandy Hook. He was a\\ntanner and currier, a farmer and distiller at Campgaw.\\nIn 1812 he began to speculate, was unfortunate, and\\nlost his property. He afterwards removed to Boone-\\nville, N. v., where he engaged in farming, and died\\non Long Island. His wife died at the advanced age\\nof ninety years, about 1877.\\nCapt. Robert C. A. Ward spent his early life on the\\nfarm. In 1827 he came to Hackensack, and was em-\\nployed by D. J. Anderson, merchants, where he re-\\nmained until the death of one member of the firm,\\nJohn C. Z. .\\\\nderson, in 183li. He was employed by\\nthe Andersons in the coasting trade between New\\nYork and Virginia, dealing in wood and lumber. As\\nearly as 1832 he became interested with the firm in\\nthe purchase of some three thousand acres of land in\\nVirginia, known as the Green Spring Plantation,\\nformerly tlie residence of the Governor of the State,\\nwlien .laniestown was its capital. Upon the decease\\nof John Anderson, Capt. Ward became a joint owner\\nof the business and lands, by purchsise, with the re-\\nmaining partner, David Anderson, and the firm was\\nAnderson Ward until 1840, when .Vnderson dis-\\nposed of his interest to Capt. Ward, and John Ward,\\nhis brother, became a partner, under the firm-name of\\nR. J. Ward. This plantation has supplied large\\nquantities of wood for the New York market, and es-\\npecially before steamboats began to use coal was the\\ndemand consideralile. and it also supplies large tim-\\nber for other purposes, besides having several hniidriHl\\nacres under a good state of cultivation. John Ward\\ndied in September, 1871, leaving a widow and one\\ndaughter, who reside in Hacken.sack.\\nCapt. Ward usually made two trips per month be-\\ntween New York and Virginia until the connection\\nof his brother with the business, when he gave up the\\nduties of the coasting trade to him. During the same\\nyear, 1840, Capt. Ward purclia.sed fitty acres oC land\\nin Hackensack, upon which he has since resided, hav-\\ning his house located on the corner of Main and Pas-\\nsaic Streets, and where he has carried on agricultural\\npursuits since.\\nCapt. Ward s has been an active life, and by his\\nown self-reliance, energy, ami judicious management\\nhe has .secured a fair competency. He Inis been in-\\nterested in the local intprovements of the village, and\\nin the various enterpri.scs in the locality of his resi-\\ndence. He became one of the stockholders upon the\\nrebuilding of the Washington .Vcaih niy, has been one\\nof the directors of tlie Bergen County Turii|iike Com-\\npany since 1852, when it was converted into a plank-\\nroad, and for several years was president of the road,\\nand he is a stockholder of the New Jersey and New\\nYork and of (he New Jersey Midlaml Railroads.\\n(/apt. Ward was niiited in marriage, Sept. 2, 1841,\\nto Harriet, daughter of (iarret Myer, and wiiiow of\\nJohn C. Z. .\\\\nderson, who wius born June, IHiCt, and\\ndied Oct. m, 1873.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0244.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "i^l^.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0245.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0246.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0249.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0250.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0251.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "c/L^-,^.^ar.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0252.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n191\\nRicliard P. Terhune. The ftimily of Terhune are\\nof French origiu, and honorably trace their descent\\nfrom an ancestry who left their native country for\\nHolland following the persecution of Christians con-\\nsequent upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes\\nin 1685. The original emigrant of the family to\\nAmerica set sail from Holland, settled on Long Island,\\nand belonged to the French Huguenots. They were\\namong the early settlers of Bergen County, and by\\nintermarriages have been connected with the most\\ninfluential and prominent families in New Jersey.\\nRichard Terhune, born Oct. 21, 17()3, was son of\\nNicholas Terhune, who died in 1807, aged seventy-\\nfive years, and grandfather of our subject resided at\\nLodi, and married Hannah Voorhis, a daughter of\\nNicholas, and granddaughter of Lucas Voorhis. He\\nwas a large land-owner, and carried on agricultural\\npursuits during his life. His children, whom he took\\ngreat care in giving an education, were Nicholas,\\nAlbert, Paul, Dr. Garret, of Passaic, and Peter R.\\nOf these children Nicholas was the father of Judge\\nTerhune, of Passaic County, and resides on the old\\nhomestead. Peter R. Terhune was born July 9, 1803,\\non the homestead in Lodi, married, Sept. 1, 1824,\\nMaria Brinkerhofi who was born Feb. 18, 1806. Her\\nfather was Ralph Brinkerhoff, born May 31, 1780, and\\ndied June 20, 1849. Her paternal grandfather was\\nRichard Brinkerhoff, born Feb. 1, 1747, and died\\nNov. 5, 1833. The Brinkerhoff homestead was at\\nRidgefield Park, formerly in Hackensack township.\\nPeter R. Terhune settled in the neighborhood of his\\nbirth, in the township of Saddle River, where he\\nowned some two hundred acres of land, and carried\\non farming during his active business life. In early\\nlife he was a teacher, and had received more than an\\nordinary education. In his ways he was plain and\\nunassuming, and never sought public place. He was\\na liberal supporter of church and educational inter-\\nests, and was for many years deacon and elder of the\\nFirst Reformed Church at Hackensack. His death\\noccurred Jan. 18, 1879, and his wife s, Oct. 16, 1858.\\nTheir children are Margaret, wife of Garret Oldis, of\\nHackensack, Richard P., and Albert B., who was born\\nFeb. 24, 1830, and died Nov. 16, 1876.\\nRichard P. Terhune was born in Saddle River\\ntownship, April 4, 1828. His boyhood was spent on\\nthe farm, and his early education from books confined\\nto the common school. He married, July 26, 1849,\\nSophia E., daughter of Henry L. Ackerman and Lydia\\nSchoonmaker, of Corona, in Lodi township. Both\\nthe Schoonmakers and Ackermans were old-settled\\nfamilies of Corona and PoUifly.\\nAfter his marriage Mr. Terhune settled on the\\nBrinkerhoff homestead, in Ridgefield, where he re-\\nmained until 1857, when he came to Hackensack and\\nopened a grocery-store, which he carried on until\\n1860, and the same year established the hardware\\nbusiness he now carries on in Main Street. In 1880\\nthis business was incorporated, and is known as the\\nR. P. Terhune Manufacturing Company of Hacken-\\nsack, manufacturing agricultural implements.\\nMr. Terhune was one of the incorporators of the\\nBergen County Bank and of the gas company, of\\nwhich he is a stockholder and director. He was one\\nof the promoters and a director of the New Jersey\\nMidland Railroad, and was treasurer of the road the\\nlast year before it went into the hands of a receiver.\\nHe is also a stockholder of the Hackensack Academy,\\nand has been interested in the various local enterprises\\nof the village tending to its improvement. Mr. Ter-\\nhune was a staff-officer of the Bergen County bat-\\ntalion from its organization until it w.ns disbanded,\\nabout 1862.\\nHis children are Maria E. Adelia Z., wife of D.\\nP. Morse, a member of the boot and shoe firm of Ben-\\nedict Hull Co., New York Anna B. Henry A.,\\nborn Dec. 30, 1862, and died Jan. 21, 1868; Alida S.,\\nand Charles Wesley.\\nRev. Samuel D. Westervelt. -The earliest settlers\\nbearing the name of Westervelt in America were Lub-\\nbert Lubbertsen and Willem Lubbertsen Van West-\\nervelt (brothers), who, with their families, came from\\nMeppel, province Drenthe, Holland, in the ship\\nHope, in April, 1662, and settled on Long Island.\\nA descendant of Lubbert (Cornelius) subsequently\\nremoved to Bergen County, N. J., and from him are\\ndescended numerous members of the Westervelt\\nfamily, whose names are so intimately as. !ociated\\nwith the history of the county.\\nThe subject of this sketch. Rev. Samuel D. Wester-\\nvelt, was born April 13, 1813, and was a direct de-\\nscendant of this branch of the family. At an early\\nage he displayed unusual fondness for study, and\\nafter his father s death entered upon a preparatory\\ncourse of instruction, under the auspices of the Re-\\nformed Dutch Church. After graduating at the Uni-\\nversity of the City of New York in 1838, he pursued\\nhis theological studies with the Rev. C. T. Demarest,\\nof the Reformed Church, and in December, 1839, was\\nordained pastor of the King Street Reformed Dutch\\nChurch in New York City, where for twelve years he\\nlabored successfully in his chosen calling. For two\\nyears following he prepared young men for college\\nin connection with a private classical school, and on\\nthe 18th of July, 1853, assumed the pastorate of the\\nPresbyterian Church at Yorktown, Westchester Co.,\\nI N. Y., where he labored for another twelve years,\\nwinning the respect and love of a large circle of\\nfriends and many souls for the Master. Failing\\n1 health compelled a resignation of this charge in Oc-\\ntober, 1865, and a removal to Hackensack, N. J.,\\nwhere death closed an earnest Christian life on Nov\\n15, 1865.\\nDuring his active life, as pastor and teacher, he was\\nencouraged and supported by his devoted wife, Cath-\\nerine Earle, whom he married in 1839. She was an\\nactive. Christian woman, whose superior character\\n1 and rare kindliness of heart made her influence felt", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0255.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "19-2\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nand recognized by all with whom she came in con-\\ntact. In the lioine circle she was tlie guide as well\\nas loving mother to a large family, of whom three\\nsons and two daughters still survive to keep dear her\\nmemory. She died Oct. 26, 1860.\\nIn November, 1861, he married his second wife,\\nEliz;i niireiiius, wlin still survives him.\\nRobert Campbell.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The progenitor of the Camp-\\nbell family in Hergen County, N. J., wji-s .Vrchibald\\nCampbell, born on the Isle of Man, and who came to\\nAmerica and settled in Hackensack in 1765. He\\nowned and kept an inn on the site of the present\\nBergen County Bank, where, as the hospitable land-\\nlord of nlden time, he had the honor of entertain-\\ning the men of Revolutionary times, and made his\\nhouse the headquarters of Gen. Washington while\\nstationed here. He was known iis an honest man,\\ngenerous, companionable, and hospitable, and died\\nwhere he had settled Dec. 28, 1798, in the sixty-\\neighth year of his age.\\nHis wife Catherine, born in the north of Ireland,\\nfollowed him in 1768 to their new home, accompanied\\nby her only child, Robert, who afterwards became\\none of the most eminent lawyers in New Jersey, and\\nwho practiced his profession at Hackensack for many\\nyears before his deatli, which occurred July 5, 184(;,\\nat the age of eiglity-two years. She was a member\\nof the First Reformed Church at Hackensack, a de-\\nvoted Christian woman, and had three children after\\narriving in this country, viz.: John, George, and\\nHannah. Of the children, Robert and Hannah\\nwere never married. John was a physician in\\nHackensack during his active business life, and died\\nhere at the age of forty-five years. He had a .son,\\nAdolphus W., father of Mrs. Dr. Charles Hasbrouck,\\nnow residing in Hackensack, who was a tnerchant\\nhere for many years.\\nGeorge was father of our subject, born .June 24,\\n1772, and died .March 11, 1864. His second wife,\\nMargaret Kingsland, bore him seven children, all of\\nwhom are deceased (in 1881) except Helen, widow of\\nthe late .Vmos Munn, of New York, anil Robert.\\nGeorge Camjibell was a man of good business abil-\\nity, and for many years earricfl on the dry-goods trade\\nin New York, where he aceurnulated a good compe-\\ntency. He afterwards settled in Hackensack, where\\nhe resided until his death. He was a man of liberal\\nideas, friink, sociable, and a contributor to local en-\\nterprises more than commensurate with his means,\\nMargaret Kingsland wa.s a daughter of Henry\\nKingslaixl an l Helen Van Vorst, and Henry Kings-\\nland was third in line of descent from Nathaniel\\nKingsland, a native of Barbadoes, West Indies, who\\nsettled at New Barbadoes Neck, in Bergen County,\\nduring the reign of t^ueen Anne, and gave the name\\nof New Barbadoes to this section of Bergen County.\\nHe owned srmic three thousand acres of hind where\\nhe settled, extending from the Pa.s,saic to the Hack-\\nensack River, and built a stone house at the Neck,\\nin which he resided the remainder of his life, the\\nproperty still remaining in possession of his de-\\nscendants.\\nHelen Van Vorst was a daughter of Cornelius Van\\nVorst, who owned a large tract of land across the\\nHudson from New York, and sold the land, now the\\nsite of Jersey City, for sixty thousand dollars, to Col.\\nVarick, then the mayor of New York City.\\nHobert, son of George and Margaret Kingsland\\nCampbell, was born at New Barbadoes Neck, in the\\ntownship of lyodi. May 21, 181o. At the age of nine\\nyears he came to Hackensack, and tor three years re-\\nsided with his uncle, Robert Campbell. At the age\\nof twelve he became a clerk in the store of Adolphus\\nW. Can\\\\pbell, of the same ])lace, whose store wiw lo-\\ncated on the corner on the (ireen, where he re-\\nmained for three years, and then went on a salary :is\\nclerk for Sila.s H. Kitchell, a merchant of Newark,\\nwho gave him full charge of another store before the\\nclose of the first year. Here he remained for some\\nthree years, and sold goods on commission for Mr.\\nKitchell, during which time he saved money enough\\nto set up business for himself. He then went to\\nBrooklyn, and engaged in the wooden-ware business\\non his own account, but, after two years, purchased a\\ngrocery-store on the corner of Hudson and Morton\\nStreets, in New York City, where he carried on a\\nsuccessful trade until 1841, and then exchanged his\\nstore for the one in Hackensack, on the Green,\\nwhere he had formerly served as clerk. After carry-\\ning on a general trade here for three years, he retired", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0256.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "Z^^^-ci^ (^zC^^^^i^\\nHis paternal grandfather was a farmer iu Wurtera-\\nberg, Germany, and died in 1819, aged about fifty\\nyears. His father, born iu Striimilbacb, Wurtem-\\nberg, Germany, was a cabinet-maker by trade, and\\ndied in 1818, at the age of tbirtj His mother,\\nMagdalen Rohling, after the death of her liusband,\\nwas again married, to Mr. Baueh, and died in 1849.\\nHis uncle, Daniel Ri diling, served in the French\\nwar under Napoleon after the invasion of Ru.ssia.\\nThe children born of this union were Frederick,\\nChristian, Godlib, John, Dorathy, and Mary.\\nFrederick Steinle was born in Striimilbach, Ger-\\nmany, Feb. 24, 1814. His early years were spent in\\nschool. At the age of twelve years he was sent for\\nby his uncle, Jacob Riihling, of New York and\\nleaving home with eleven others, he made his way\\non foot to Hamburgh, a distance of six hundred\\nmiles, from whence he set sail for America in the\\nbrig Neptune, under the command of Capt. Knight,\\nreaching Philadelphia after a voyage of seven weeks.\\nHe remained with his uncle in New York for two\\nyears, and then apprenticed himself to a baker on\\nGold Street in that city, with whom he remained\\nthree years, and for two years following worked as a\\njourneyman. Having accumulated some two hun-\\ndred dollars, in 1833 he started business for himself\\non Charles Street as a baker, where he continued for\\nsix years.\\nIn 1839 he purchased a house on Greenwich Street,\\nbetween Charles and Amos Streets, and there remained\\nin business until 1856, when he settled on Main Street,\\nnear the Fairmount Depot, in Hackensack, N. J., and\\nretired from the more active duties of life.\\nMr. Steinles career is one worthy of emulation\\nby those starting out in life without pecuniary assist-\\nance, and early thrown upon their own resources.\\nIndustry, perseverance, and self-reliance were the lead-\\ning characteristics that marked his success, which,\\nfollowed by economy, judicious management, and in-\\ntegrity in his business relations, secured him a com-\\npetency.\\nMr. Steinle married Susannah, daughter of John\\nChristian Frederick Brockner and Jane Yerks, who\\nwas born in Tarrytown, March 12, 1810. Her\\nparents removed to Little Falls, Passaic Co., and\\nsubsequently to New York, where they died.\\nHer father, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger-\\nmany, was pressed into the Hessian service, but after\\nreaching America deserted, joined Gen. Washington s\\narmy, and served until the close of the war. He\\nspent his last days with his daughter, Mrs. Steinle,\\nand died April 16, 1851, at the advanced age of\\nninety-four. Her mother died Sept. 29, 1824, aged\\nforty-nine. Their children are Frederick, a grocer in\\nNew York Susannah and Charlotte, wife of John\\nH. T. Banta, a merchant of Hackensack.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0259.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0260.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0261.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "The paternal j;rcat-gTandfather of Samuel Taylor\\neinij;ratcd from Kiiglaml and settled at Hempstead,\\nUocklaiid Co., N. y. His grandfather, Samuel Taylor,\\nwas born May H, \\\\1T.\\\\ and is the supposed pro-\\ngenitor of llie family in Bergen County, lie resided\\nin Washington township, where he was engaged in\\nfarming, and also carried on the business of a tanner\\nand currier. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.\\nHe was united in marriage, July 10, 1802, to Sarah\\nDoremus, of Preakncss, Passaic Co., N. J., who was\\nbom Sept. 7, 1783, and died Aug. 7, 1843. He died\\nDec. 11, 1S51. at the age of seventy-two years.\\nCornelius I). Taylor, .son of Samuel Taylor, and\\nthe father of our subject, during his early life learned\\nthe raanufaclure of chemicals, for dyeing and print-\\ning calico goods, at Lodi. X. J., and afterwards the\\ntrade of a shoemaker, wliiili he followed for a short\\ntime.\\nIn 1842 he built a hotel at I aramus, which he\\nkept until 1855. From that dale until 1S60 he was\\nthe hospitable landlord of the Mansion House at\\nIlackensack. He then returned to I aramus, and\\nafter continuing the hotel business on the old homc-\\n.Htead for six years retired from active business.\\nFor thirty years he was .severely afflicted with\\nrheumatism, which finally resulted in his death, Aug.\\n24, 187r having spent the last few years of his life\\nin Hackensack.\\nIlls wife, Hannah, born Aug. 15, 1815, was a\\ndaughter of apt. Harney Waldron, of New York\\nCity, and Matilda Van Dicn, whoso family were old i\\nresidents of Paramus. Her mother died in 1865,\\naged eighty-two years. The children of this union\\nare Matilda, wife uf William Cronkright, of Hacken-\\nsack, Samuel, and Richard.\\nOf these children, Samuel Taylor was born Jan.\\n24, 1838. Ho received his early education at the\\ncommon .school at Paramus. At the age of fifteen he\\naccepted a position as clerk in the grocery and lumber\\nstore of Henry A. Berry, at Hackensack, where he\\nremained for two and a half years. He afterwards\\nentered the office of Lewis Becker, a broker in New\\nYork, where he remained for one year. Mr. Becker,\\nin company with others, in 185(1 founded the Bergen\\nCounty Bank, located where a part of the Mansion\\nHouse now stands, and selected Mr. Taylor as cashier,\\nwhich position he creditably filled until the bank sus-\\npended payment during the panic in 1857. Mr.\\nTaylor managed the Mansion House for his father-in-\\nlaw from 1860 for .several years.\\nIn 1866 he began the manufacture of mineral\\nwaters and bottling of malt liquors on Union Street,\\nin Hackensack. N. J., which he continue.^ successfully\\nat the pre.sent time.\\nMr. Taylor .served as collector of taxes for New\\nBarbadoes township for the term ending the spring of\\n1878, was elected county clerk in 1880, and is tlie\\npresent incumbent of that office.\\nHe was united in marriage, in 1859, to Sarah L.,\\ndaughter of John Ijovett, of Hackensack, N. J. The\\nchildren ol lhi union are Fannie ami M.iria E. L.\\nTaylor.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0262.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "NEW BARBADOES.\\n193\\nfrom the mercantile business, and has since been en-\\ngaged iu dealing in real estate and farming at Schraa-\\nlenburgh. He purchased his present residence on\\nMain Street, in Hackensack, in 1854, where he has\\nsince resided.\\nMr. Campbell s life has been one of great activity\\nand industry, and, unassisted pecuniarily when start-\\ning out in life, he has secured a fair competency.\\nHe is a man of sound judgment, quick perception,\\ndecided opinions, self-reliant, careful, and possessed\\nof more than ordinary business ability, and another\\nexample of the self-made business men of the times.\\nHe has ever been interested in all that pertains to\\nthe interests of the people where he resides, was one\\nof the founders of Washington Institute, and a trustee\\nfor many years. He has been one of the board of di-\\nrectors of the Bergen Turnpike Company for about\\nthirty years, of which his uncle Robert was one of\\nthe founders in 1804, and has held the office of presi-\\ndent of the board for the past fifteen years. He was\\nthe first justice of the peace elected by the people that\\nheld office in Hackensack. Mr. Campbell is identi-\\nfied with the First Reformed Church and a contribu-\\ntor to its interests.\\nHe married, in November, 1S41, Jane Ann, daugh-\\nter of William C. Kingsland, of Union township, who\\nwas born March 10, 1812, and died Oct. 15, 1875,\\nleaving a daughter, Sarah, wife of Rev. Truman\\nWeed, of New Durham, N. J., and a son, William\\nHenry, who died in his thirty-seventh year, Dec. 20,\\n1879. His present wife, whom he married July 7,\\n1880, is Maria Louisa, daughter of Henry B. Zabris-\\nkie, of Hackensack.\\nHazen W. Adams.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Adamses are of English\\norigin, and were among the earliest settlers of New\\nEngland. Members of this large family have been\\nchosen to fill the highest positions in the gift of the\\nAmerican people, distinguished as legislators and\\neducators, and have been numbered among the\\nstanch defenders of republican institutions in this\\ncountry.\\nThomas Adams, the grandfather of Hazen W., was\\na native of Massachusetts, and served in the Revolu-\\ntionary war. He was a resident of Gilmanton, N. H.,\\nfor a number of years, and died there in 1836, aged\\nabout eighty years, leaving a large family of chil-\\ndren.\\nHis father, Thomas Adams, a native also of Massa-\\nchusetts, spent most of his active life in Gilmanton as\\na contractor and builder and in farming, where he was\\nsomewhat of a public man. He took great care in the\\neducation of his children, and spent the latter part of\\nhis life in retirement.\\nHe died in Gilmanton in 1873, aged eighty-three\\nyears. His wife, Sophia Kimball, a native also of\\nGilmanton, died in 1875 at the age of eighty years.\\nThe children of this union are Sophia, wife of E.\\nC. Cogswell, of Northwood, N. H. Hazen W., the\\nsubject of our sketch Martha, wife of the late G. C.\\nNeally, of Burlington, Iowa; and Mary F., wife of\\nthe late Dr. Gilliam C. Terhune, of Hackensack,\\nN.J.\\nHazen W. Adams was born in Gilmanton, N. H.,\\nJuly 24, 1824. He received his preparatory educa-\\ntion in the academy at Gilmanton, entered Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1844, and graduated in 1847. After his\\ngraduation he turned his attention to the study ot\\nmedicine, but in 1849 went to California, and en-\\ngaged in mining until 1851, when he took a tour to\\nGranada, Central America, where he remained about\\none year.\\nReturning to California he engaged in the drug\\nbusiness and in mining at lone City, which he con-\\ntinued until 1858, when he left California, and the\\nfollowing year settled in Hackensack, N. J., and here\\nopened a drug-store in the building where the post-\\noffice is now located, since which time, with the ex-\\nception of the years from 1872 to 1875, Mr. Adams,\\nhas continued the business of a druggist in Hacken-\\nsack. Mr. Adams is a student of his business, and\\nwell read as a pharmacist. His knowledge of medi-\\ncines and their proper administration have led people\\nto regard his medical counsel of value in cases of ill-\\nness, and he is familiarly known by the title of doc-\\ntor.\\nDr. Adams was united in marriage in 1861 to Jane,\\ndaughter of the late Adolphus W. Campbell, for many\\nyears a merchant of Hackensack, and a great-grand-\\ndaughter of Archibald Campbell, the progenitor of\\nthe family in Bergen County. Their children are\\nHarriet, Martha, Ellen, and Charles.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0265.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "194\\nIllSTOKV OV BEKGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nGeorge W. Conklin. His grandfather, John\\nConklin, was of Eiifrlisli origin, and was engaged in\\nsailing sloops between Alliany and New York City\\nduring his aetive business career. He died in Jersey\\nCityMn 1837, aged about fifty-nine years. His wife\\nwas Julia Bond, who bore him eleven cliildren, five\\nSODS and six daughters.\\nHis father, Robert Conklin, was born in Jersey\\nCity, March 24, 1821, and at the age of fourteen\\ncame to Hackctisack, where he learned the blacksmith\\ntrade. He was united in marriage in 1844 to Cathe-\\nrine, daughter of James and Kllen Ingles, of Glasgow,\\nScotland, where she was born Nov. 14, 1825. She\\nwas one in a family of twelve children, and came\\nwith luT parents to .\\\\merica in 1827, and settled in\\nNew York (Jity, where her father and mother both\\ndied, the former in 18;{(;, the latter in 1848.\\nAflcrhis marriage Mr. onklin followed the bhiek-\\nsmith business in Haekensack, with the exception of\\none year, until I8(!0, and for live years following lie\\nwiw engaged in the scwing-maeliine business there.\\nFrom 18(;. until his death, Oct. 22, 1K77, he joined\\nhis wife in the millinery, fancy, and dry-goods busi-\\nness, whicli they had eMtablished soon after their\\nmarriage in Hackcnsack, and which Mrs. (Tonklin\\nhas successfully carried on from its establishment in\\n1H, until the present time. The children of this\\nunion are George W., the subject of this sketch John,\\na farmer in Tioga County, N. Y. Robert, a clerk in\\na dry-goods store in New York City and Charles, at\\nliome in the store with his mother. Mr. Conklin was\\na man of i|uiet and unostentatious habit.x, and devoted\\nhis life chieHy to business pursuits. He was a mem-\\nber and deacon of the First Reformed Church at\\nHackensack.\\nGeorge W. Conklin was born-at Hackensack, N. J.,\\nJan. 24, 1846. His education from books was re-\\nceived in the old Washington Institute, and in the\\nprivate classical school of Prof William Williams.\\nIn March, 1861, he entered the office of Hon. Charles\\nH. Voorhis as a student-at-law. After remaining in\\nthis office one year, he concluded to lead a business\\ninstead of a |)rofessional life, and in 1862 obtained a\\nposition its clerk in the Mechanics and Traders Bank\\nof Jersey City, and gradually rose in position to as-\\nsistant book-keeper. This bank closed its business\\nin January, 1865, and Mr. Conklin at once became\\nassistant book-keeper in the First National liank of\\n.lersey City, which had been organize l as a banking-\\nhouse in the same building in February, 1864. He\\ncontinued iissistant book-keeper until February, 1871,\\nwhen he was appointed general book-keejier, and\\nfilled the duties of this office so creditably that in\\nApril, 1874, he was chosen assistant cashier, and in\\n1870 was elected cashier, which position he still\\nholds.\\nThe ])residents of this liank since its organization\\nhave been .lohn S. Fox, Alexander H. Wallace, and\\nE. F. C. Young. Mr. Conklin is president of the\\nboard of trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church\\nof Jersey City, and Senior Wanlen of Bergen Lodge,\\nNo. 47, A. F.and A. M.\\nHe is another example of the self-made young men\\nof the present day who have obtained position by\\ntheir own self-reliance and perseverance. He was\\nunited in marriage .\\\\pril 14. 186!1. to Martha, daughter\\nof Peter and .lane Doremus, of Jersey City.\\nThe children of this union are Ella H. and Char-\\nlotte L. Conklin.\\nHon. Adam Boyd. It is presumed that the name\\nof Mr. Boyd s lallur was John. He came from Scot-\\nland, and settled in Succasunna about 1716. Adam\\nBoyd was born at Mendhain. N. J., March 21, 1746.\\nAbout 1770, he, with his family, settled on the Bar-\\ntram farm, now in Bergen County, on the cast side\\nof the Kamapo River, nearly opposite the l^chuyler\\nmansion. He moved to Hackensack a few years\\nbefore the Revolution. During all of his active life\\nhe was engaged in various business pursuits when\\nnot immersed in public ein|iloyment. After the\\nevacuation of Fort Lee, -Mr. lioyd s wife, whose\\nmaiden name was Elsie Van Cleve, awakened her\\nhusband at night, while in bed, at thoir home in\\nHackensack, saying, Do you hear the boys at the\\ndoor The husband (piickly arose from his bed,\\nand went through the hall to the front door, at once", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0266.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "SADDLE RIVER.\\n195\\nasking, What is the matter, boys? thinking those\\nnight-time callers were his companions and friends.\\nTheir first salute discovered to the anxious house-\\nholder and husband his mistake. They sharply re-\\nplied, You damned rebel! we will show you what\\nthe matter is. He had, meantime, opened the upper\\npart of the double-shutting front door, when he was\\nimmediately fired upon by a party of Hessians. Re-\\ntreating through the hall-way, and jumping over the\\nlower part of a like double-opening back door, the\\nsame was instantly thrust through with six of the\\nbayonets of his angry assailants, some of which, in\\ntheir spent force, reached tlie person of Mr. Boyd\\nwhile fleeing for his life. In the darkness of the\\nnight, the ground covered with snow and ice, with\\nno garment on except the shirt to his back, and thus\\nset upon by a band of marauders, he had no way of\\nescape except in flight, and so, with hurrying but\\nlacerated feet, and with footsteps stained in blood, he\\nmade his escape across the fields and through the\\ncountry for many a weary mile to Paramus, the snow\\nand ice like piercing spikes beneath his flying feet.\\nOn his way thither he was able to find only a trusty\\nnegro. With the helj) of this faithful cmnpanion he\\nobtained axes, broke open some barns, took horses,\\ngave the alarm, aroused a band of patriots, and, at\\nthe head of this little party, returned to Hackensack\\nto defend his fireside and his home, but only to find\\nit laid in ashes; and the Hessians had retreated, after\\nsuch a victory over a brave but unfortunate man.\\nMr. Boyd now found himself without house and\\nhome and furniture, except an old brass kettle, long\\nkept in the family afterwards as a relic of those dis-\\nastrous days.\\nIn 1778, in face of the enemy, who lay at Brower s\\nHill, near the new bridge, on the Hackensack River,\\nan election was held by a little band of patriots, who\\ncame to the poll at the risk of a rope around their\\nnecks, when Peter Wilson, John Outwater, and Isaac\\nBlanch were elected members of the Legislature,\\nwith Peter Haring to the Council, and Adam Boyd\\nwas elected sheritT of the county of Bergen. While\\nsherifl the courts were held at the Ponds, but Mr.\\nBoyd then rebuilt his house on Main Street, in\\nHackensack, which is now standing on the memor-\\nable spot of the one destroyed by the Hessians. After\\n1778, Mr. Boyd passed through a long succession of\\nhonorable official positions. He was judge of the\\nCourt of Common Pleas in 1803, and by successive\\nappointments to 1833, and for five years from that\\ndate. He was a member of the Legislature in 1795,\\nand was elected a member of the Eighth Congress of\\nthe United States, beginning March 4, 1803, in the\\ndays of Thomas Jefl^erson. He was a member of the\\nEleventh Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by\\nthe death of Ezra Darby. Mr. Boyd was also a mem-\\nber of the Twelfth Congress. His speeches appear in\\nBenton s Abridgment of Debates in Congress, vols,\\niii. and iv. mention is also made of Mr. Boyd in\\nLanman s Dictionary of Congress, and in Ben\\nPerley Poore s Political Register. He always took\\nan active and prominent part in the political discus-\\nsions of that day, and his public career bears evi-\\ndence to the sterling patriotism, great ability, and\\nmarked character of the man, who liad been educated\\nin the school of hardshiji and strife into a love of\\ncountry and the maintenance of free institutions.\\nWhen Lafayette revisited this country in 1824, and\\na dinner was given in his honor at Campbell s tavern,\\nat Hackensack, Adam Boyd presided on that occasion,\\nand afterwards the illustrious Frenchman was his guest\\nat Mr. Boyd s residence. Mr. Boyd stood over six feet\\nin height, was possessed of great physical strength and\\na commanding presence. Mr. Boyd s death occurred\\non the 15th of August, 1835.\\nAdam Boyd had two children, John A. and Cath-\\narine. The son graduated with high honors at Prince-\\nton in 1795, and afterwards studied and practiced law,\\nand became surrogate of Bergen County for three\\nterms, and died Feb. 21, 1828, aged fifty-three years.\\nCatharine died May 14, 1846, aged seventy-four.\\nThe present Adam and Adonijah Schuyler Boyd,\\nboth most worthy and honored citizens in Bergen\\nCounty, and the latter a prominent and prosperous\\nlawyer, are sons of John A., the son of Adam Boyd.\\nTheir mother was Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of\\nAdonijah, third son of Arent, son of Philip, a lineal\\ndescendant of the renowned Philip Pieterson Schuyler.\\nCHAPTER XXXV.\\nSADDLE RIVER.\\nBoundaries and General Description. The\\ntownship of Saddle River was named from its fancied\\nresemblance to a saddle before its boundaries were\\nchanged. It is bounded on the north by Ridgcwood,\\nsouth by Lodi, east by the Saddle River (named from\\nthe township), and west by the Passaic River. It is\\namong the oldest of the townships of Bergen County\\nin point of organization, and although its lands are\\nin many instances still occupied as inherited estates\\nby the owners, numbers of the older families have\\nbecome extinct or removed from the county and passed\\nfrom the recollection of present residents. The\\npeople are essentially agricultural in their pursuits,\\nmanufacturing interests do not flourish, and nowhere\\nwithin the township is there a collection of buildings\\nsufficiently numerous to be called a village, unless\\nEast Passaic is excepted.\\nThis is a settlement in the southern border, on the\\nPassaic River, and is intended its a place of residence\\nfor operatives in the Passaic factories, with which it\\nis connected by a substantial bridge. The location is\\npleasant and the lands desirable in situation, but no\\nevidence of business enterprise has yet appeared.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0267.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "196\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThe revenue of Saddle River township is derived\\npriiici pally from the culture of fruit and vegetables, to\\nwhich both soil and eliniate are admirably adapted,\\nand for which New York and neighboring cities afford\\na ready market.\\nThe New Jersey Midland Railroad passes through\\nthe township, with .stations atRoelielle Park and Dun-\\ndee Lake, while the Erie Railroad traverses the north-\\nern corner, with the nearest station at Ridgewood.\\nThe Bergen County Short-cut, a branch of the Erie\\nRailroad, forming a junction near Ridgewood, and\\nconnecting again at Rutherford Park, is now in pro-\\ncess of construction, its length being twelve mile.s.\\nNatural Features. The township possesses many\\nnatural beauties peculiar to itself. On the west flow\\nthe clear waters of the Passaic, whose banks are lined\\nwith verdure, while its eastern border is watered by\\nthe Saddle River. The townshij) has no lakes, but is\\nmoistened by small streams which flow into the above\\nrivers. The soil of the township varies in quality.\\nSand prevails quite generally, especially along the\\nborders of the rivers. This is well adapted to certain\\nclasses of vegetation, but for the more staple grains\\nrequires enriching.\\nStreaks of clay abound in the central and southern\\nportions, and a tract of marshy land is found in the\\nwest. In picturcsqueness and beauty of scenery\\nSaddle River compares favorably with other portions\\nof the county.\\nEarly Settlements.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The township of Saddle River\\nwas at an early day settled by a few fainilie-s, who in-\\ntermarried, and whose descendants purchitsedor had\\nbequeathed to them property in the vicinity of their\\nancestral homes. For this rea.son the old names are\\noften repeated, and various branches of the same\\nfamily will be found located within the township\\nlimits. Many of the early settlers have i a.ssed away,\\nand the later generations removed to localities afford-\\ning a wider scope for their business activities. This\\nfact is apparent in the Post and Van Home families,\\nnot a single representative of whom remains, and\\nwhose early history has passed from the recollection\\nof the present inhabitants of the township.\\n.Vmong the earliest settlers in Saddle River was the\\nDoreinus family, the |)rogcnitor of whom was John\\nDoremus, who in 1740 purchased the original property\\nnear Areola. He was in 1747 united in marriage to\\nMiss Maria Lutkins, and on his death in 1784 left a\\nson and daughter. Mr. Doremus was during the\\nRevolutionary war taken prisoner by the British, and\\nconfined in the old Sugar-House i rison in New York\\nCity with many other victims. On his release he re-\\nturned to his home, where the remainder of his life\\nwas spent. His son George occupied the homestead\\nuntil his death in ISriO, leaving five .sons, Richard,\\nAllien, (Jeorge, John H., and Peter, and one daugh-\\nter, who became the wife of Andrew H. Hopper, well\\nknown as a general of the Kergen County militia,\\n.lolin It. occupied the farm for a period of half a\\ncentury after the death of his father, and subsequently\\nremoved to Paterson, his present residence. His son\\nJacob is the occupant of the homestead.\\nThe Berdan family are of Holland extraction, the\\nfirst member of whom was Rinear. He emigrated\\nfrom his native land at a very early date, and choos-\\ning Bergen County as a favorable point of location\\nmade Hackensack his residence. His sons were si.\\\\\\nin number, of whom two, John and Rinear, settled\\non farms now occupied by Rinear J. and G. V. H.\\nBerdan respectively. The former was married to\\nMiss Ann Romaine, and had one son, John, whose\\nwife was Miss Henrietta Van Dicn. Their son, Rinear,\\nwas united in marriage to Charity Ryerson, and be-\\ncame the parent of two children, John and a daughter\\nAnn. The former married Miss Mary Van Houten,\\nand had two sons Rinear and Garrebrant and a\\ndaughter, Mrs. Daniel Romaine. Both of these .sons\\nare now living on the original property.\\nJohn, the second son of the first Rinear, the pro-\\ngenitor of the family, had three sons John, Richard,\\nand Stephen and one daughter. John, who served\\nwith credit in the war of 1812, is represented by a\\nson, Cornelius who resides in the township.\\nThe Hopper family are also among the oldest fami-\\nlies in Saddle River. One branch is descended from\\nAndrew Hopjier, who emigrated from Holland and\\nhad children, among whom were Peter and Andrew.\\nAndrew joined the army during the Revolutionary\\nconflict, and fell in one of the engagements. Peter\\nsettled in the township on lainl still in the family\\nand owned by Henry A. Hopper. Peter had three\\n.sons, Garret, .\\\\ndrew, and Henry, all of whom re-\\nmained in Saddle River. Andrew married and be-\\ncame the father of twelve children, of whom two,\\nJohn A. and Henry A., reside in the township, the\\nlatter on the homestead which was the birthplace of\\nhis father. Another representative of this family\\nwas Henry Ho])per, who resided in the present\\nFranklin township and had four children, two sons\\nand two daughters. The sons were John H. and An-\\ndrew H., the latter of whom married Maria Doremns\\nand had seven chihlreii, of whom Henry A. now oc-\\ncupies the homestead, and a daughter, .Mrs. Rinear J.\\nBerdan, also resides in the township. This family are\\nlargely represented in other portions of the county.\\nThe ancestor of the Garretsons (the name being\\nspelled Garretson or Garrison by members of the\\nsame family) was Peter, who was a native of Holland,\\nand left his native land in lli(!4 and settled in Bergen\\nCounty, where he purclia-sed an extensive tract of\\nland, a portion of which is now embraced in the farm\\nof Ralph G. (larretson. Among his sons was John\\ni who married a Miss Ryorson and had children,\\nJohn, Jacob, Garret, and one daughter. John P.\\nspent his life upon the homestead, and here his death\\noccurred. His sons .lolin Jind fiarret remained in\\nthe township, the latter having married a daughter\\nof Ralph Romaine and had eight children, among", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0268.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "SADDLE RIVER.\\n197\\nwhom were three sons, John G., Ralph, and Abram,\\nthe two latter of whom remained upon the homestead.\\nTwo branches of the Van Riper family claim Saddle\\nRiver as their residence. Jeremiah resided on the\\nPassaic River, above the Dundee Bridge, and early\\npurchased land of a very old resident named Van\\nHorn. His sous were Simeon, Stephen, and Nicholas,\\nall of whom remained in the township. The latter\\nbranch is represented by John N. Van Riper, who is\\nthe only member of the family now in the township.\\nGeorge Van Riper resided upon the homestead now\\noccupied by his son George G., and is the earliest\\nrepresentative of another family of the name in the\\ntownship. Among his children were George G., an\\nextensive farmer, and living on ancestral land John\\nG., also residing in Saddle River; Cornelius, deceased,\\nand Harry.\\nThe Doremus family, who are of Huguenot ances-\\ntry and have been already spoken of, also located on\\nthe western border of the township. Two brothers,\\nCornelius and Henry, on their arrival in America\\nfirst repaired to the South, but not being favorably\\nimjiressed with the land repaired to New Jersey,\\none having located in Passaic and the other in Morris\\nCounty. Cornelius died in the latter county, leaving\\na grandson, Henry, who removed to Saddle River, on\\nthe homestead now occupied by William Doremus,\\nthe deed of conveyance bearing date July 12, 1782..\\nAmong his large family of children was Peter, who\\ninherited the farm and was united in marriage to a\\nMiss Berry, of Carlstad, to whom were born children,\\nHenry, William, and Cornelius, all of whom located\\nin the township. William and Cornelius still survive\\nand reside upon their land.\\nPhilip Van Bussom early settled in Saddle River,\\nhaving purchased land of Dominie Marinus. He\\nhad children, John, Andrew, Peter, and two daugh-\\nters. The sons located in Saddle River, Peter having\\nretained the homestead and married. He had three\\nchildren, of whom Philip P. Van Bussom now resides\\non the homestead.\\nThe Cadmus family are of Hollandish lineage. The\\ntraditions with regard to the origin of the family in\\nNew Jersey are somewhat conflicting. One relates\\nthat three brothers settled in Bergen County on their\\narrival in America, while a fourth sought the prairies\\nof the far West. Another states that but one of the\\nnumber came to Bergen County, and had among his\\nsons one John, who located on the Passaic River, in\\nthe township. He had two sons, Andrew and Corne-\\nlius, and five daughters. The land of John Cadmus\\nwas divided equally between his two sons, who settled\\nupon their inheritance. The home of John was much\\nexposed to the depredations of British soldiers during\\nthe Revolution. Horses and grain were frequently\\nconfiscated, and on one occasion the house was be-\\nsieged while the family had fled to it for shelter.\\nAfter a stern resistance, in which Mrs. Cadmus mani-\\nfested great daring, the occupants were forced to sur-\\nrender. Mr. Cadmus was carried to New York, and\\nconfined with others in the old Sugar-House prison,\\nwhere captivity and suffering impaired his health and\\noccasioned his death two weeks after his release. His\\nson Andrew married Katariila Doremus, and has no\\ndescendants now residing in the township.\\nCornelius was united to Jane Van Riper, and had\\nsix sons, John, Garrett, David, Andrew, James, and\\nCornelius, all of whom, with the exception of Cor-\\nnelius, settled in Saddle River. David located on the\\nhomestead where his widow and two sons now reside,\\nand the widow of James resides with her son, James\\nG. Cadmus, on the banks of the Passaic. The family\\nis elsewhere represented in the county.\\nThe name of Zabriskie appears in Saddle River\\nas in other parts of the county. This branch is de-\\nscended from Andrew Zabriskie, whose son Chris-\\ntian had three sons, Andrew, Cornelius, and Abram.\\nAbram married Maria Zabriskie, of New Bridge, and\\nhad one son. Christian A., who now occupies the\\nhomestead in Saddle River. The daughters are Mrs.\\nCornelius Van Houten and Mrs. Henry Demarest.\\nIn the history of Midland township the early pres-\\nence of the family in the county is more fully treated.\\nThe pioneer of the branch of the Berdan family\\nrepresented by Cornelius Z. was Johannes Berdan,\\nwhose homestead is now the residence of James Jora-\\nlemon. He had two children, .John and Anna, the\\nlatter having become Mrs. George Doremus. John\\nmarried Mary De Gray. Their children were Rich-\\nard, John, Jr., Stephen, and Mary. John remained\\non the homestead and married Sarah Zabriskie, to\\nwhom were born four children, of whom Cornelius\\nZ. is the only survivor.\\nStephen Terhune originally located in Midland\\ntownship, and had four sons and two daughters. His\\nson Garrett removed to Saddle River in 1813, on\\nground now owned by Stephen G. and John G. Ter-\\nhune, who are merchants near Areola and also own\\nland in the township.\\nThe Ackerman family are early settlers in the town-\\nship, the grandfather of Gilbert B., the present occu-\\npant of the land, having purchased it before the war\\nof the Revolution. It fell by inheritance to his son\\nPeter, who married a daughter of Gilbert Banta and\\nhad six children. One son, Gilbert B., and a daugh-\\nter now reside in the township.\\nThe Romaine family were early settlers at May-\\nwood, and descended from John, whose children were\\nJohn and Martin. The latter removed to Lodi, mar-\\nried and had children, Lucas, Daniel, Richard, and\\na daughter. Of this number Daniel resides upon\\nthe homestead, and Richard removed during early life\\nto Saddle River, where he has been for years identi-\\nfied with the interests of the township.\\nA branch of the Demarest family, whose early his-\\ntory is given elsewhere in this volume, were early\\nresidents of Saddle River, and are represented by P.\\nJ. Demarest.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0269.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "198\\nHISTORY OF BKIIGEN AND I ASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nDuring the beginning of the present century Lud-\\nwick Young came to the township and purchased\\nland which is now occupied by John L. Young.\\nOf other old families who have become extinct in\\nflic triwnsliip it is impossible to gain autlientic facts.\\nSchools. The school territory of the township is\\ndivided into tlirce districts, Dundee, No. 42, Duiulee\\nLalce, No. 42A, and Small Lots, No. 43. The Dundee\\nDistrict occupies tlie southwestern portion of the\\ntownship, and is bounded on the north by District\\n42], on the east by District 3 on the south by Dis-\\ntrict 3(5, and on the west by Passaic County. The\\npresent school building is pleasantly located in a rich\\nfarming community, on the Slauter Dam road, near\\nthe banks of the Passaic River. It is an unpreten-\\ntious structure, one story high, and may justly be\\nregarded as a relic of bygone days. It is simply\\nfurnished, and devoid of most of tlie modern aids to\\nthe teacher. This .school has never attained a high\\nstandard. The present teacher is Joel Horton.\\nDundee Lake occupies the central and western\\nportion of the township, and is of recent formation.\\nIt is bounded on the north by No. 43, on the east by\\nNo. 27, on the south by No. 42, and on the west by\\nPiussaic County. The old school building wsis located\\nin Passaic County, on the west bank of the Passaic\\nRiver, the district being partly in Pa.ssaic and partly\\nin Bergen Counties. When Paterson extended its\\ncity liniiti- to the Passaic River it was unable to draw\\npublic money for the support of the school, and ap-\\nplication was made for a new district, which was\\ngranted in 1874. The jiresent building, located on\\nthe Passaic River near the Midland Railroad, was\\nthen erected.\\nIt is a frame building, twenty-two by thirty-six feet\\nin dimensions, one story high, with cupola, and an L\\nbuilt upon the south side. It is ecpiipped with a\\nglobe, modern desks, and has an extensive surface of\\nblackboard. The present school property is valued\\nat eigiiteen hundred dollars. The teacher is Miss\\nFanny A. Porter.\\nThe district of Small Lots occupie-s the northern\\nand western jiortion of the townshi|), and is bounded\\non the north by District No. 44, on the east by Dis-\\ntricts Nos. 26, 27, and 44, on the south by Districts\\nNos. 27 and 42A, and on the west by Passaic County.\\nIt is impossible to learn the origin of the first school,\\nas the earliest records arc not preserved, though it is\\nprobable a school existe l at least sixty years ago.\\nThe building used was a stone structure, with winilows\\nof exceedingly limited dimensions, and furnished\\nwith desks of the old fashion. The room is said to\\nhave been decoratefl with a stout birch rod in eacli\\ncorner. )ne James Thorn p.^on was the earliest teacher,\\nand taught the common English branches. He as-\\nsigned a task to each pupil, which, if not perfectly\\ncommitte l, would be followed by an application of\\nthe rod. His metluxl, though summary, produced a\\nsalutary effect. The old building gave place in ISAS\\nto the present frame structure, located on land donated\\nby Mr. George A. Hopper for school purposes. This\\nbuilding was in 1873 thoroughly repaired and refur-\\nnished. The property is valued at nine hundred\\ndollars, the building having a seating capacity of\\nfifty children. The jiresent instructor is Miss L. A.\\nCuniming.\\nThe total number of children in the various dis-\\ntricts of the township during the past year was 259.\\nSaddle River received as her share of the surplus\\nrevenue fund $44.20, of the State appropriation of\\n$100,000 the sum of $78.32, and of the State school\\nUix $1I20.3(;.\\nHig hways. One of the oldest if not the oldest\\nroad in the township was known as the Slauter Dam\\nroad, and is now designated as the Passaic Valley\\nroad. It lies on the western border of the township,\\nand follows the course of the Pa.s.saie River. The\\nnorthern portion of this highway was known by the\\nIndians as the Wagara road, and the southern division\\nas the Slauter Dam road, which appellation still ad-\\nheres to it. This thoroughfare was in use long before\\nthe Revolutionary war, and was constantly traveled\\nat that period.\\nAnother road followed the course of the Saddle\\nRiver .stream on the western side of the township, and\\nalthough a highway of early date does not e pial the\\nformer in antiquity.\\nAnother very old road is known as the Small Lots\\nroad, which extends from east to west across the\\ntownship.\\nSouth of it is the Broadway road, formerly known\\nas Garrison s Lane, and extending from the Pas.saic\\nto the Saddle River through the centre of the town-\\nship. It was narrow in its dimensions when first\\nsurveyed, but was widened under the direction of\\nCornelius (iarrison, after which its present name was\\ngiven.\\nOther roads were laid out as llie convenience of\\nresidents demanded.\\nThe road territory of Saddle River is divided into\\nnineteen districts, over whom the following overseers\\nare appointed\\nnistricl.\\nNo. I Daniel Vnn Winkli..\\n2 1.iliii R\u00e2\u0084\u00a21.\\n3 J. W. l on niUH.\\n4 J. 11. Vhii .Sniiii.\\n5 0. B, AckiTniiiii.\\n6 J lliri Ocli\u00c2\u00bb.\\n7 A. II. Il.-M.li.m.n.\\n8 (ieorm. NAiiglf.\\n9 Fnliir!! IC\u00c2\u00bbl liii\u00c2\u00abin.\\nIn Albert KourIi.\\nPislricl.\\nNo. 11 K. J. Berdan.\\n12 Jiicolt W. ItiirpmuB.\\n13 A Um llopp*r.\\n14 Anilionv Thimlon.\\nU. P. II. Van M,n.ll\u00c2\u00bbc.\\nIfi J.ihii Tili i\u00c2\u00bb.\\n17 J. II Cnlilwell.\\nIS II..|ir.\\\\ St-lhl.\\nI\u00c2\u00bb Ili tir.v Vmi IUp\u00c2\u00abr.\\nOrgaoization. It is difficult to learn the exact\\ndate of the erection of Saddle River as an inde-\\npendent township. In the list of freeholders imme-\\ndiately following the first of these officials served in\\nthe year 1704. It may therefore be a.-^snmed that\\nSaddle River was erected as an independent township\\neither in thai or the previous year.\\nIt was formerly a part of New Barbadoes, which\\nembraced all that territory lying between the Hack-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0270.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "SADDLE KIVER.\\n199\\nensack River on the east and the Passaic River on the\\nwest up to the province line. It was then emhraced I\\nin Essex County, but beean;e a portion of Bergen in\\n1709. Saddle River township when iirst set oft com-\\nprised all the former territorj- of Xew Barbadoes\\nlying between the Saddle River and the Passaic\\nRiver to the province line, embracing nearly half the\\ntownship of Xew Barbadoes. About 1772 Franklin\\ntownship was erected, its boundary including tlie\\npresent townships of Hohokus, Ridgewood, and\\nFranklin, leaving Saddle River with its present\\ndimensions.\\nCivil List\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The list of freeholders it is jjossible to\\ngive complete since 1794. The remaining more im-\\nportant township officers cannot be secured for tiie\\nperiod prior to 18(52, as the records are not obtainable.\\nThe freeholders are as follows:\\n1794, Jacob B\u00c2\u00abrdan, Martin Ryerson 1796, Samuel Van Zaen, John C.\\nBogert; 1797-1801,1809-15, George Doremus; 1797, John Benson,\\nJr.; 1798-lSOl, John Dey 18C12-6, Henry Mead, John Gariison;\\n1807-11, Jacob Aekerman; 1807, Richard Degray 1808, Wilhani\\nColfax 1812, Isaac Van Satin 1813-14, Bobeit Van Houten ISl. i-\\n18, Martinins Hogencamp; 1810-18, John J. Berdan 1819-20, Isaac\\nVan Saun 1820-25, Garret P. Hopper; 1822-25, 1830-:il, Martinins\\nHogencamp; 1820, Jacob Berclan; 1826-27, Richard Ackerman;\\n1827, Adrian R. Van Honten 1828-29, Andrew H. Hopper, Richard\\nDoremu\u00c2\u00ab; 1830-34, Samuel C. Deiuarest; 1832-35, 1843-45, Andrew\\nP. Hopper; 183.T-36, Perigan Sanford; 1830. Henry Doremus; 1837-\\n39, Henry P. Hopper; 1837-38. Tnrnier Van Idcrstine; 18:!9-42,\\nHenry C. Van Houten 1840-12, foinelins Post, Jr. 1843, 1845-^6,\\nAndrew B. Van Bussum; 1S44, Henry P. Doremns; 1846-48, John\\nB. Doremus; 1847-48, Henry Cole; 1849-51, Peter A. Hopper; 1849-\\n51, 1857-61, .Andrew C. Cadmus 1852, Simeon G. Garrison 1852-^.\\nWilliam Doremus; 1853-54, John Hopper; 1856, Cornelius P.\\nDoremus; 1856-57, David Alyea; 1858-61, Peter I. Demarest; 1862-\\n64, Richai-d Van Winkle; 1862-67,1808, Henry A. Hopper; 1803-\\n64, 1866, John Vreeland 1866-67, James G. Cadmu 1868-70, Cor-\\nnelius R. Van Houten; 1869-71, John G. Garrison 1872-74, J. W.\\nDoremus; 1875-77, John B. Schooniuaker 1878, James V. Jorale-\\nmon; 1879-81, Martin Roraaine.\\nThe remaining important officers are\\n1862. Township Clerk, James V. Joralemon Collector, James C. Post;\\n.\\\\8sessor, Jacob %V. Doremus Township Committee, -\\\\ugustus Has-\\nbrouck, William P. Doremus, A. C. Cadmus, George Doremus, John\\nA. Hopper.\\n1863. Township Clerk, James V. Joralemon Collector, Gustavus A.\\nDe Groot; Township Committee. Andrew C. Cadmus, Augustus\\nHasbrouck, George Doremus, Wui. P. Doremus, Wm. A. Van Hou-\\nten Assessor, Jacob W. Doremus.\\n1864. Township Clerk, James V. Joralemon Collector, Gustarus A.\\nDe Groot; Assessor, Jacob W. Doremus; Township Committee,\\n.\\\\ndrew C. Cadmus, Augustus Hasbrouck, George Doremus, Wm.\\nDoremus, Wm. A. Van Houten.\\n1865.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, Isaac A. Hopper; Collector, Gustavus A. De\\nGroot; Township Committee, .Augustus Hasbrouck, Wm. Doremns,\\nHenry P. Doremus, John A. Hopper, John C. Post.\\n1866. Township Clerk, Isaac Hopper; Collector, John C. Post; As-\\nsessor, Jacob W. Doremus; Township Committee, Henry P. Dore-\\nmus, C. C. Post, John B. Schoonmaker, Garret H. Hopper, Andrew\\nC. Cadmus.\\n1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, Isaac A. Hopper; Collector, Andrew C.Cadmus;\\nAssessor, J.ames V. Joralemon; Township Committee, Henry P.\\nDoremus, C. C. Post. J. B. Schoonmaker, Garret H. Hopper, G. V.\\nH. Beidan.\\n1868.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, John B. Schoonmaker Collector, Cornelius Z.\\nBerdan Assessor, James V. Joralemon Township Committee, Wil-\\nliam Doremus, G. H. Hopper, Henry P. Doremus, G. V. H. Berdan,\\nCornelius C. Post.\\n1869. Township Clerk-, John B. Schoonmaker Collector, Cornelius Z.\\nBerdan Assessor, James V. Joralemon Township Committee, Wm\\nDoremus, G. Y. H. Berdan, Andrew Cadmus, Henry A. Hopper,\\nFrank Henry.\\n1870. Township Clerk, John B. Schoonmaker Collector, Cornelius Z.\\nBerdan Assessor, James V. Joralemon Township Committee, Wm.\\nDoremns, Rinear J. Berdan, Peter H. Doremus, Albert Alyea, Frank\\nHenrj\\n1871. Township Clerk, David P. Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Doremus;\\nAssessor, James V. Joralemon Township Committee, Cornelius G.\\nCadmus, John F. Barclay, Ralph G. Garrison, Albert Alyea, Frank\\nAlyea.\\n1872. Tiiwnship Clerk, David P. Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Doremns;\\nAssessor, James V. Joralemon; Township Committee, C. G. Cad-\\nmus, Ralph G. Garrison, Wm. Doremus, R. T. Snyder, Frederick\\nBaker.\\n1873.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, David P. Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Doremus;\\nAssessor, Isaac A. Hopper Township Committee, Cornelius G.\\nCadmus, K. G. Garrison, Wm. Doremus, Richard T. Snyder, Fred-\\nerick Baker.\\n1874\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, David P. Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Doremus;\\nAssessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committee, A. E. Miller, R,\\nG. Garrison, William Doremus, R. T. Snyder.\\n1875 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Township Clerk, David P. Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Doremns;\\nAssessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committee, Tunis W. Vree-\\nland, John Madden, R. T. Snyder, John G. Garrison, George Hub-\\nschmitt.\\n1876\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, John E. Kipp; Collector, Jacob W. Doremus;\\nAssessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committee, Tunis W. Vree-\\nland, John Madden, John G. Garrison, George Hubschmitt, P. H.\\nVan Iderstine.\\n1877, Township Clerk, John E. Kipp; Collector, James G. Cadmus;\\nAssessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committee, John G. Garret-\\nson, George Hubschmitt, T. W. Vreeland. .\\\\diim Hopper, John W.\\nDoremus.\\n1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, John E. Kipp Collector, J. H. Van Saun As-\\nsessor, Isnnc A. Hopper; Township Committee, Adam Hopper,\\nJohn W. Doremns, Andrew Ochs, John G. Garretson, William H.\\nGill.\\n1879.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, William H. Cadmus; Collector, J. H. Van Saun;\\nAssessor, J. H. Kipp; Township Committee, Adam Hopper, John\\nW Doremus, William H. Gill.\\n1880.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, William H. Cadmus; Collector, John B. Cald-\\nwell; Assessor, John E. Kipp; Township Committee, William H.\\nGill, Henry Stiehl. John B. Schoonmaker.\\n1881.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, John B. Caldwell;\\nAssessor, John K. Kipp; Township Committee, John B. Schoon-\\nmaker, Henry Stiehl, William H. Gill.\\nChurches. The only church organization within\\nthe township is known as the Passaic Valley Union\\nChapel, which originated in a small gathering for re-\\nligious instruction at the house of Mrs. Henry Van\\nRiper. It numbered at first but three scliolars, but at\\nthe expiration of one year twenty names appeared\\nupon the roll, when it was deemed expedient to erect\\na building. For this purpose a board of trustees was\\nappointed, consisting of Ralph G. Garrison, Henry\\nA. Hopper, and Peter D. Henderson. Subscriptions\\nwere then solicited, and the enterprise received much\\nencouragement from the churches of Paterson. The\\nlaud was donated by Henry Van Riper, to be devoted\\nfor forty years to the uses of a union chapel. The\\nedifice was begun in 1873, and on the first Sunday in\\nDecember of the same year, having been meanwhile\\ncompleted, was dedicated. Dr. John Steele, of Pat-\\nerson, delivered the dedicatory address, who was as-\\nsisted by Rev. Dr. Banvard and Rev. Mr. Dunn, of\\nPaterson. Afternoon services were afterwards regu-\\nlarly conducted by clergymen from Paterson on al-\\nternate Sabbaths. In 1876 a change occurred in the\\nboard of trustees, John E. Kipp and William Cad-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0271.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "200\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nmus having been chosen in place of J. R. Berdan,\\ndeceased, aud Ralph Garrison, resigned. On the\\n20th of May, 18S0, the ehapcl was destroyed by fire,\\nbut with stout hearts and willing hands the congre-\\ngation at once began the work of rebuilding, and the\\nnew edifice wsus dedicated May 22, 1881, the exercises\\nhaving been conducted by Rev. Dr. Magie, assisted\\nby Rev. E. A. Woods, of Paterson, and Rev. W. M.\\nJohnson, of Areola.\\nA Sabbath-school is held each Sunday, with Mrs.\\nHenry Van Riper iis superintendent, John E. Kipp\\nas secretary, Miss M. Deniarest as treasurer, and\\nW. H. Cadmus, librarian. The chapel is nearly free\\nof incumbrance.\\nBurial-PIaces. The oldest, and in fact the only,\\nburial-place of importance in the township is located\\nin the west portion of the township, near the resi-\\ndence of John N. Van Riper. It was in use fully a\\ncentury ago, and many of the tablets are so defaced\\nby age as to render the inscriptions unintelligiltle.\\nHere are buried the Van Horns, Harrises, Van\\nRipers, Garret.sons, Van Wageners, Berdans, and\\nother equally familiar township names, .\\\\mong tlie\\nlegends the following were deciphered\\nIn memury of John, son uf Garret nud Mary Garreutuii, who deptirtcd\\nthis life S *pt. 11, 1^19. Rgetl 6 years, *2 niontlis, and S days.\\nFret not ft r me, niy i)arcnt8 dear,\\n1 am not dead hot sleeping here;\\nMy debt is paid, the grave is free.\\nPrepare yoiir\u00c2\u00abelve and follow me.\\nId memory of Jacob HarrfB, born July 20, 1786, who died .\\\\pril 17,\\n1831 also his gon, John Harris, bum Feb. 2, 1 823, dlad Sept. 22, 1834.\\nAll is he guile, such lovely flower,\\nA victim to the grave?\\nNone could oppose the lianii of Death,\\nNor could his lieaiity save.\\nThe remains of Ilnnnuh Barcoe, the widow of a Carolina soldier\\nduring the war of American iiidepeiiilenco.\\n1S)0.\\nIn memory of C\u00c2\u00abty Van Horn, who depart\u00c2\u00ab t this life Nov. 17, 1800,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0god 59 years, wife of John D, Berdan.\\nIn memory of J. dm 1. Benlan, who dle l May 6, 1816, aged 81 years,\\n10 months, and l. days.\\nIn memory of Maritche BlenkerholT, wife of Halwagh Van Wagoner,\\nwho died July 21, 1793, aged 86 yean, 4 months, and 21 days.\\nIn memory of Garret P. Van Waggoner, who departttd Uiis life May\\n1st, In the year 1806, aged 68 years, 5 months, and 2. days.\\nNear the residence of Henry A. Hopper, on the\\nSmall Lots road, is hicated the family burial-ground\\nof the Hopper family. No special antiquity is a. iso-\\nciatcd with it, the first interment having occurred less\\nthan half a century since.\\nHistorical Notes.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The following description of\\nSadiile River t iwnship nearly half a century since,\\nbefore its boundaries were materially changed, may\\nhe of interest:\\nIt Is centrally dIsUnt nortliwiml from Ilai kennack Town figlit miles.\\nIts greatest length east and weal lM.|ng ten nillea, itn breiidth north nnd\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2outh eight milea, Ita area 4I,IK\u00c2\u00bb acres, of which alioul 17,01)0 are iiii.\\nproved. The surface is genemlly hilly, the Fimt ami Second Mountains\\nof Eawi County cnieslng the PasMlc and continuing through II. On the\\neoat, however. Iietween the I assali- and Sa Idle Itlvera, there Is a neck of\\nlow and level laud, the soli red shale and loiim the viUle}a fertile and\\nwell cultivated, and the hills well wooded. Through the valleys flow\\nseveral Hmiill brooks, such asSingack, Preakuess, Kitikaevall, Goffle, and\\nAckemianV Brooks.\\nGoffle and New Slauchester, a piirt of Patenion, are the chief villages\\nof the township. The population in IKtO was Si91. In 18- 12 there were\\n741 laxablee, 496 bousehulders whose ratablr-s did not exceed S30 in value,\\n8u single men, 7 storeK, S grisl-uiills, 1 cotton manufactory, 1 furnace, 10\\nsaw. mills, 13 lan-vata, 2 distilleries, 1 wool-factory, ^i06 horses and millee,\\nand 1324 neat cattle over three years of age. The township paid a State\\ntax of 5)64.10, and a county tax of S690.26.\\nGeorge Van Riper. His father, Garret I. Van\\nRiper, was a farmer at IJergeu, in old Rergen County,\\nN. J. In 181i he removed to Saddle River township,\\nwhere he died Feb. 24, 1821, aged eighty-two years.\\nHe had one son, Jeremiah, by his first wife, who in-\\nherited the homestead at Bergen, and resided there\\nduring his life. His second wife was Antlena Vree-\\nland, who died Sept. 2.5, 1819, aged sixty-three years,\\nleaving one son, George, subject of this sketch.\\nGarret Van Riper and his second wife were buried\\nin the graveyard at Passaic.\\nGeorge Van Riper was born June 3, 1787, and\\nduring his minority received a good education from\\nbooks. He was well learned in civil engineering and\\nsurveying, which, however, he gave little attention to\\nafter his marriage, but he had a natural taste for\\nmathematics, as books now in possession of the\\nfamily, used by him, show much system.and neatness.\\nHe was united in marriage, July 23. 1814, to Clarisjia,\\ndaughter of George and Jane Hrinkerliotri Vreeland,\\nwliii wits born at I amrapo, near Bergen, Dec. 25, 17!t4,\\nand who survives and resides in Paterson in 1881.\\nShe is a woman of very retentive memory consider-\\ning her age, well preserved in body \u00c2\u00bbnd mind, and\\nstill entertains socially and hospitably, as has always\\nbeen her custom, her many friends and relatives. Mr.\\nVan Riper and wife, the year following their mar-\\nriage, settled at Slaughter Dam, in Saddle River town-\\nship, on a farm of some three hundred acres, a prop-\\nerty which his grandfather George had owned, and\\nwhich his father had inherited and given to his sis-\\nters, Grietje and .\\\\lche.\\nMr. Van Riper, who was familiarly known as\\nI ncle George, resided nil this farm until his death,\\nMay 23, 18. 7. He and his wife attended the Ac-\\ni|uackanonk Church, where at dilferent times he\\nserved as elder and deacon. The children of this\\nunion are Garret, born Oct. 16, 181. died July 2ii,\\nl.S(i4. He was a larmer in Passaic County, and mar-\\nried Martha Maria Komaine, who ilied, leaving chil-\\ndren, Richard and Daniel H. Van Riper, Jane, wife\\nof Garret Newkirk, of Bergen Cornelius, born Nov.\\n6, 1819, resided on a |)art of the homestead, and died\\nJune 3, 1877, whose wife was Catharine Jane Marce-\\nlis, who died Nov. 14, 187. leaving children, Clara\\nJane and ICdo Helen; John G., born .lanuary, 1824,\\nmarried Maria Ann Romaine, of Lodi, and has tliree\\nchihlren, (ieorgianna, Romaine, and Louis P. The\\nother children of George Van Riper are Hartman\\nVreeland, George G., Eliza .\\\\nn, and Henry.\\nMrs. Van Riper s paternal grandfather, Vreeland,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0272.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0273.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0274.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0275.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "Jacob W. Doremcs, son of John B. Doremus,\\nwhose portrait and sketcli appear elsiiwlicre in\\nthis work, was horn Doc. 5, 18;55. 1 Ic suceeoilcd\\nto the lionu .stead, partly by purchase and partly\\nl)y iniicritance. Mis great-grandt athcr, (Jwirge,\\nbuilt tiie stone house where he now resides, on\\nBroadway Street, near Saddle Kiver, in 1805,\\nand tliere lie has s|)ent ins active business lite.\\nHe is a man of great industry, judicious in his\\nbusiness allliii-s, aixl aiiiiiiii; the rcpresentat-ive\\nagriculturists l the township. He has been\\nparticularly interested in the edneatidu of his\\nchildren, and in the support of church, .school,\\nand kindred iutcrests in the viejuity where he\\nresides.\\nHis ancestors were connecti-d with the old\\nI aranins Church, but Mr. Doremus and his\\nwife are nieinbcrs of the Methodist Imnh al\\nA itdIu.\\nHe h:us served as assessor of Saddle River\\ntownship for six yeare, and for six yeare fol-\\nlowing as collector. He was united in marriage\\nOct. 12, 1S. ).S, to Sophie, only daughter of Cor-\\nnelius (J. and Susan (Smith) Van Dien, grand-\\ndaughter of Garret C. Van Dien and Sophie\\nPost, and great-granddaughter of Cornelius an\\nDien and Margaret Dcniarest. Her paternal\\ngreiit-gnindfather, Cornelius an Dien, wits\\nImin in 171(), and died March 8, 182!t. The\\nhomestead of the Van Diens comprised what\\nis now tiie village of Ridgewood, and for sev-\\neral gi uerations the family of :in Dien re-\\nsided there.\\nThe children of Jacob W. antl Sophie Dor-\\nemus are Walter J., in business in New York\\nCornelius, a .student at law with Everett D.\\nBarlow, Esi|., of \\\\ew York: Anna I and\\nWillie U.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0276.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "SADDLE RIVER.\\n201\\nresided at Pamrapo, X. J. The Van Ripers, Vree-\\nlands, and Briiikeihotfs are among ihe families who\\ntrace their descent from an honorable ancestry, who\\nleft their native country (Holland) to avoid persecu-\\ntion, and settled in this county, where their succeed-\\ning generations have contributed to the development\\nof its various industries, and ranked among the\\nfounders of all the cherished institutions of a free\\ncountry.\\nJohn B. Doremus. His paternal grandfather,\\nJohn, was born Sept. 1, 1720, and died July 22, 1784.\\nHe resided on and owned the homestead now owned\\nand occupied by Jacob W. Doremus, in Saddle River\\ntown.ship, then containing several hundred acres of\\nlaud. Besides this he owned other real estate in the\\nvicinitv.\\nHe married, April 1, 1747, Maria Lutkins, who was\\nborn Feb. 25, 1730, and died Dec. 20, 1777. Their\\nchildren were Marretje, born Dec. 24, 1750, and\\nGeorge, born Aug. 28, 1754. John Doremus was\\ntaken prisoner by Tories from Xew York during the\\nRevolutionary war, and confined in the old Sugar-\\nHouse for six mouths, contracting a disease, from the\\neftects of which he died.\\nGeorge, only son of John Doremus, succeeded to\\nthe home property, and married, in 1777, Anna,\\ndaughter of John and Catharine Berden, by whom he j\\nhad the following children John, born July, 1779,\\ndied May 9, 179G Maria, born Nov. 12, 1783, and\\nbecame the wife of Gen. Andrew H. Hopper Rich-\\nard, born June 16, 1786, was a farmer at Preakness,\\nN. J. Albert, born April 25, 1790, spent most of his\\nbusiness life in stage-driving and carrying the mail\\nbetween Hoboken and Hackensack and on the Albany\\nmail route George, born Nov. 13, 1794, was a black-\\nsmith, farmer, and inn-keeper; John B., born June\\n26, 1799; and Peter, born 1801, was a blacksmith by\\noccupation, for many years was a teacher, and served\\nas justice of the peace in Saddle River township for\\nseveral terms.\\nOf these children John B. succeeded to the home-\\nstead, where he resided until Sept. 8, 1809, when he\\nretired from active business pursuits and removed to\\nPaterson, wliere he resides in 1881. He was a repre-\\nsentative farmer through life, a substantial citizen,\\nand dealt largely in real estate. He was a member\\nand deacon of the Dutch Reformed Church at Hack-\\nensack during his residence in Saddle River, and after\\nhis removal to Paterson served as elder in the Second\\nReformed Church of that city. During his active life\\nhe was somewhat of a public man, serving as one of\\nthe town committee and as freeholder for many years.\\nHe was united in marriage on May 5, 1821, to Mar-\\ngaret, daughter of Albert A. and Elizabeth (Lydecker)\\nWestervelt, who was born in 1803. The children of\\nthis union were Elizabeth, deceased, wife of John\\nB. Van Dien Anna M., wife of John V. Rathbone,\\nof Parkersburg, W. Va. Lydia, widow of the late\\nJohn G. Van Dien Sarah Jane and John, died\\nyoung Peter, an ex-alderman and merchant in Pat-\\nerson Jacob W., and Richard, who died at the age\\nof six years. Seventeen grandchildren and fifteen\\ngreat-grandchildren are now living.\\nHenry A. Hooper. The Hopper family are of\\nHolland origin, and were among tlie earliest settlers\\nin Bergen County and Saddle River township.\\nThe paternal grandfather, Peter Hopper, owned\\nsome three hundred acres of land, and was the first\\nof the family that settled the homestead where Slieriff\\nHopper now resides.\\nAs far as is known, he was a quiet, unostentatious\\nfarmer and a good citizen. He died in 1818, at an\\nadvanced age. His wife was Anna Doremus, who\\ndied at the age of eighty-eight, and bore him the fol-\\nlowing children Keziah, wife of Jacob Demarest\\nMrs. Voorhis, Garret, Andrew P., and Henry all of\\nthem were married and reared families, excepting\\nGarret.\\nOf these children .\\\\ndrew P. Hopper, the father of\\nour subject, was born on the homestead in 1777, which\\nhe afterwards inherited, and resided there during his\\nlife, engaged in farming. He also took an influential\\npart in politics, representing his townsliip in the\\nboard of chosen freeholders, and for two terms served\\nas county collector. He served as sheriff of Bergen\\nCounty for one term, and for one terra represented his\\nAssembly district in the State Legislature.\\nAndrew P. Hopper was a representative man, and\\npossessed that sterling integritj and purity of motive\\nfound in the men of olden time. His wife Anna,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0279.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "202 HISTORY or BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ndaughter of Albort Voorliis, of Miilliiiui townshii),\\nwa\u00c2\u00ab born in 1780, anil died in her eighty-eighth year.\\nBoth of tlieni were members of tiie Old Paramus\\nChurch iluring their early history. The latter part of\\ntheir lives they attended the Second I{eformcd Church\\nat I aterson. She was a devoted Christian woman,\\nand reared her children under tlie best moral and\\nChristian influences, teaching them all that makes\\ntrue manhood and womanhood.\\nMr. Hopper was for many years, at ditlerent times,\\na deacon and elder in the church.\\nTlic hildren of this union are Albert, Anna, wife\\nof William S. Hogancainp, I eter A., John, Martha,\\nwife of Jacob Ackerman, Catharine, wife of John H.\\nDorcmus, (Jarret, .Vndrew, Polly, wife of Thomas\\nBlauvelt, Henry A., Kc/.iah, wife of (icorge C. Brink-\\nerliotf. .\\\\ll ert (2), Kllen, wife of .Vbram W. Haring.\\nHenry Hopper, .son of Andrew P. Hojipcr, wiw\\nborn -Vug. S, ISIJI; came into jmssi-ssion of tlie home-\\nsteail, partly by purchase and artly by inheritance,\\nand has resided thereduring liis life. Inlieriting from\\nhis father a pride in public matters, Mr. Hopper be-\\ngan to take an active interest in township ami county\\nalfairs while a young man. He has scrve l three years\\nas freeholder of Saddle Uiver township; wa-s electetl\\nsheriff of Bergen County on the Democratic ticket\\nin the fall of 1862, and served one term. In 1870-71\\nhe represented Bergen County in the Stale Legisla-\\nture. Sheriff Hopper, its he is fiimiliarly known, is\\none of the niiwt active and enterprising men of the\\ncounty, and always among the foremost in the pro-\\nmotion of its interests. His first wife was Helen\\nAckerman, who bore him the following children\\nIsaac, Andrew, and Peter. His second wife, Jane\\nVreelami, died witliout issue.\\nHis third wife was Catharine, daughter of Henry\\nVan Iderstinc and Gertrude Bogert, by whom he has\\none surviving child, Henry.\\nHis present wife, p:iiza, is sister of his third wife,\\nanil has borne him three children, viz.: John, .\\\\lbert,\\nand Garret.\\nDavid Depeyster Acker was bom near Fair\\nLawn, his present country resilience, June 13, 1822.\\nHis paternal grandfather, David, came from Holland\\nbefore the Ilevolutionary war, and was a farmer in\\nBergen County, N. J. His maternal ancestors came\\nfrom Hollaml ami Scotland. Tliat worthy and most\\nexcellent man, .lohn C. Stagg, ot whom mention has\\nalrea ly been nunle in the history of Franklin town-\\nship, in this volume, was liis grandfather on his\\nmother s side, and his grandmother on that side was\\na grandilaughter of James Cairns, of Scotland, who\\nwas one of the first woolen manufacturers in this\\ncountry. Though born to no rank or titles, he can\\njustly claim in such an ancestry an ornament and\\nguard. His father, David Acker, died in 18,3o, when\\nhis son wiLs only eight years old. His mother,\\nSarah Stagg, survived till 18 0, living long enough\\nto see her son a successful and ])rosperous merchant\\nin the city of New York. She was a sterling.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0280.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0084\u00a2z\\nGJL^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0283.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "M", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0284.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "(TiUue-^ J^\\nHis great-great-grandfather was son of the emigrant of the\\nBerdan family who came from Holland during the early part\\nof the seventeenth century, and settled on something over two\\nhundred acres of land where the subject of this sketch now\\nresides; hence the Berdan homestead in Saddle River township\\nhas successively passed down through six generations, and its\\nmembers, who have followed mostly agricultural pursuits, have\\nbeen numbered among the substantial citizens of Bergen\\nCounty, and have contributed to the development of its inter-\\nests in clearing off the forest, preparing the virgin soil for\\ncrops, building first the log and afterwards the framed school-\\nhouse, erecting churches, and all other improvements tending\\nto lift the country, inhabited by savages, from an unbroken\\nwilderness to its present condition and high state of civili-\\nzation.\\nA Bible now in possession of Mr. Berdan was published in\\n16S7, whose text is printed in Dutch also an earthcrn water-\\npitcher, of unique pattern, is still treasured among the relics\\nwhich have been handed down through the successive genera-\\ntions of the family in America.\\nRinear Berdan came into the wilderness with only a spade\\nand an axe, nnd by industry and long years of toil, meeting\\nthe obstacles incident to pioneer life, in time hewed out a com-\\npetency for himself. No railroads or telegraphs, no steamboats,\\nno machines ti lessen labor, or even wagons greeted his eyes;\\nbut everything was done in its rudest way and by actual manual\\nlabor. He had six sons, whom in due course of time he set-\\ntled as follows Rinear and John, where the homestead now is,\\nin Saddle River township, two others in New Barbadoes, one\\nat Saddle River, and one at Preakness. All were married and\\nreared families, and their descendants, by intermarriage, are\\nconnected with the most influential and prominent families in\\nthe county,\\nJohn R., father of our subject, was son of Rinear, grandson\\nof John, and great-grandson of Rinear Berdan, son of the\\nemigrant. This line of descent have all successively owned the\\nhomestead now owned by Rinear J. Berdan. His father, John\\nR. Berdan, died Aug. 22, 1871, at the age of eight^ -one years;\\nand his grandfather, Rinear, also lived to be eighty years of\\nage, dying Jan. 2S, 1843. The ages of this line of the Berdans\\nhave been past eighty years each, and their longevity remark-\\nable.\\nCharity Ryerson, his grandmother, was born in 1760 and died\\nin 1848. She was a descendant of Joris Ryerson, a native of\\nAmsterdam, who settled first on Long Island, and afterwards,\\nin 1701, in Bergen County, with his two sons. The children of\\nRinear and Charity Berdan were John R. and Ann, wife of\\nRichard Berdan.\\nMary Van Houten, born June 22, 1791, was the wife of John\\nR. Berdan, and died Jan. 12, 1862, leaving three children,\\nRinear, G. V. H., and Ann, wife of Daniel Romaine, of Lodi.\\nThe family have been supporters of church interests, mem-\\nbers of the Reformed Dutch Church at Paterson, and were\\namong the founders of that Christian body in Bergen County.\\nThey have never sought political place or the emolument of\\noffice, but led quiet and industrious lives as farmer?, always\\nknown by their integrity in all their business relations.\\nRinear J. Berdan was born on the homestead, June 28, 1S09.\\nand married. March 7, 1833. Catherine, daughter of Gen. An-\\ndrew H. Hopper and Maria Doremus, of Saddle River town-\\nship. Both the Hoppers and Doremuses were among the ear-\\nliest fettled families in Bergen County, and sketches of (hem\\nwill be found in another part of this work.\\nMrs. Berdan was born Dec. 22, 1816, and by this union they\\nhave one son and one daughter, vix. John, married Christina\\nM. Berry both are dead. The former died July 20, 1876, the\\nlatter Feb. 19, 1881, leaving one son, Walter H. Berdan.\\nThe daughter is Mary Ann, wife of William H. Cadmus, of\\nSaddle River township.\\nMr. Berdan owns one hundred and forty-four acres of the\\noriginal land purchased by the first settlers of the family, and\\nhis residence is on the site of the Berdan homestead of over\\ntwo hundred years ago. A part of his residence was built in\\n1834.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0287.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0288.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0289.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "V^-\\nI\\n^qU^^-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0290.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "SADDLE RIVER.\\n20H\\nenergetic woman, and her neighbors in Sicomac,\\nwhere she was born, still hold her in kindly remem-\\nbrance. The mother bore the heat and burden\\nof the day in raising her family with all that ma-\\nternal i)atience and fondness which deserved its\\nrichest reward.\\nDavid D. Acker went to New York in 18.31, a boy\\nof nine years, entering the Public School No. 3,\\nwhich he left late in 1834 at the head of the ninth\\ncla-ss, and entered the store of T. A. S. Hope, April\\n18, 1835, on the corner of Chambers Street and West\\nBroadway. Here he was a clerk for nine years, then\\na partner for twelve years in the firm of Thomas Hope\\nCo., and then from 1856 to the present time the\\nhead of the firm of Acker, Merrall Condit. That\\nstore of moderate proportions in 185 has been mul-\\ntiplied into four, the old store on Chambers Street,\\nthe one on Broadway and 42d Street, the one at oTth\\nStreet and Sixth Avenue, and the one at Yonkers, under\\nthe firm-name of Acker, Edgar Co. These stores\\nrepresent the largest retail grocery and wine business\\nin this country, and in elegance and general propor-\\ntions they excel anything of the kind in the world.\\nThus the boy, left fatherless at nine, and with only\\nthe inheritance of a good name, has become one of\\nthose successful and honorable merchants of a great\\ncity, of which the home of his origin and the whole\\ncountry may be proud. He has often been a member\\nand has been foreman of the grand inquest of his\\ncounty, but he is one of those men whom fidelity to\\nbusiness has always prevented from participating in\\npublic afl airs, neither seeking nor courting the paths\\nof ambition. Such men nevertheless stand the pil-\\nlars of the republic.\\nNot forgetting the poor or the humble, Mr. Acker\\nhas for years spent more than half his annual income\\nin acts of charity, though, beyond the direct recipi-\\nents, the world has known but little of that benevo-\\nlence which he has striven to bestow quietly and\\nwithout parade. For ten years he has been one of\\nthe vestrymen in St. Paul s Episcopal Church in the\\ncity of Paterson.\\nThe station on the Erie Railroad Short-Cut near his\\nresidence, in Saddle River township, Bergen County,\\nhas been named Fair Lawn.\\nGilbert D. Bogart.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Bogarts are of Holland\\nancestry, and originally settled in Bergen County.\\nwhere Carinus Bogart, the grandfather of Gilbert D.,\\nresided. He married Maria, daughter of Rev. Dr.\\nFroeligh, of Hackensack, and later of Schraalen-\\nburgh, and had three children, among whom was Sol-\\nomon F., born at New Bridge, Bergen Co., born Aug.\\n13, 1813, and married to Maria Van Bussom, born\\nApril 13, 1813, to whom were born eleven children in\\nthe following order: Jane, Mary Elizabeth, Andrew\\nB., Gilbert D., Matilda, Arabella, Carinus, Naomi,\\nCatherine Ann, Rachel, and Ida. Mr. Bogart wiia\\nfor a period of thirty years engaged in the produce\\nand commission business in New York City. He\\nlived to see his children married and established in\\nlife, and at his death this circle eleven in number\\nremained unbroken, though four have since died.\\nHis son, Gilbert D., was born in New York City,\\nMarch 19, 1840, and at the age of four years removed\\nto Bergen County, where he pursued his studies until\\nhis twelfth year. He then in varied ways became\\nuseful to his father, both upon the farm and in New\\nYork City. Being ambitious at the age of seventeen\\nfor a more independent career than was offered at\\nhome, he with limited capital embarked in the trade\\nof a butcher at Passaic, N. J. On reaching his ma-\\njority in 1861, he enlisted during the late war for a\\nperiod of three months service in the Second New\\nJersey Volunteers, and in September of 1862 re-en-\\nlisted in the Twenty -second Regiment New Jersey\\nVolunteers of Bergen County. Though a private at\\nthe beginning of his military career, he held the rank\\nof first lieutenant on his discharge in 1863. Mr. Bo-\\ngart was married Aug. 14, 1862, to Agnes W., daugh-\\nter of C. C. Jerolemon, the ship-builder, of North\\nBelleville (now Rutherford). To this marriage were\\nborn children, Cornelius J., Agnes W. (deceased),\\nWillard, Blanche, Grace, and Bessie. Mr. Bogart s\\nlife, though still a young man, has been both active\\nand eventful. He in 1864 became foreman for C.\\nMcK. Paulison, of Passaic, in the improvement of his\\nreal estate. This led at a subsequent date to his en-\\ngaging himself in real estate operations, and also to\\nthe erection of numerous stores and dwellings. Mr.\\nBogart very soon became one of the most enterprising\\noperators in the county and amassed a fortune, when\\nthe panic of 1873 seriously embarrassed his opera-\\ntions. After a severe financial struggle of four years\\nhe succumbed to the pressure and went into bank-\\nruptcy. He was the founder of the East Passaic\\nLand Company, in which enterprise a large amount\\nhad been invested, and in which many prominent\\ncitizens of Passaic were interested. His transfers of\\nproperty had been immense, and his energy and enter-\\nprise untiring.\\nAfter his embarrassment he removed to Somerset\\nCounty, and engaged until 1881 in agricultural pur-\\nsuits. His active spirit found little to satisfy it in\\nthis monotonous life, and the same year found him\\nagain in Passaic, and the owner for a second time of\\nhis landed property in Bergen County. He is now\\npursuing with vigor his former scheme of building a\\ncity, and is daily engaged in extensive transfers of\\nproperty. Although of Democratic stock, Mr. Bo-\\ngart s convictions led him to affiliate with the Repub-\\nlican party. He has been for three successive terms\\na member of the City Council of Passaic.\\nThough not an active churchman, his sympathies\\nare with the Reformed Church, which represents the\\nfaith of his ancestors.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0293.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "L OJ\\nIlISTOKY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUiNTIKS, NEW JERSEY.\\nCHAPTER XXXVI.\\nFRANKLIN.\\nName, Situation, and Boundaries. Franklin is\\none of till- oldest townshijis in liergen County. It\\ntook its name from Governor William Franklin, the\\nnatural son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. He was born\\nabout 1730. Who his mother was is not known. In\\n1762 he was appointed by Lord Bute Governor of the\\nprovince of New Jersey. He entered upon the duties\\nof his office Feb. 28, 1763.\\nThe townshii) is in the northwesterly corner of the\\ncounty, and is bounded on the north by Passaic\\nCounty, on the east by the townships of Hohokus\\nand Ridgewood in Bergen County, and south by\\nRidgewooil, and on the west by Passaic County.\\nPhysical Features. The township is nearly in\\nthe shape of a parallelogram, and is about ten miles\\nlong from north to .south by about four miles wide.\\nFrom tide-water this section of country begins rapidly\\nto rise into hills and lofty mountains. The .southern\\npart of the township is hilly, and the northern is\\nmountainous. It is well watered with lakes and\\nstreams, and the Ramapo River runs through its\\nentire width near the northern boundary. The soil\\nis generally of a sandy loam, but admits of the high-\\nest cultivation. The rich irops of grain in this sec-\\ntion fifty or sixty years ago produced the best flour\\nin the markets. All kinds of fruits can be grown\\nhere in great abundance. The hills and valleys and\\nmountains all ord some of the most picturesque views\\nin the county. The Ramapo Valley from Pompton,\\nnear the line of Franklin township, to Hohokus town-\\nship, and for miles beyond, flanked as it is by the\\nRamapo Mountains on the north and long stretches\\nof meadow-land and the undulating hills on the\\nsouth, ad ords .some of the most delightful views to be\\nfound in the State. Some of the old residences here\\ngo back to a period before the Revolution. Rodman\\nM. Price, one of the honored ex-Governors of New\\nJersey, hits a beautiful and spacious residence in this\\nvalley, in Franklin township, near the Hohokus line.\\nThe swift-running Rama| o is only a few feet from\\nthe front of his residence. Visitors from Europe to\\nthis retired .ipot have often admired the rare beauty\\nof those mountains and the river running at tlieir\\nfeet. Farther u|i this valley was once the country\\nresidence of that famous lawyer, Hugh Maxwell, dis-\\ntrict attorney of New York ity, and at Darlington\\nand still farther up the valley the wealth and refine-\\nment of the great metropolis still find desirable\\nplai-es for i-onnlry ri siilencc.\\nEarly Settlements. Cornelius Schuyler, son of\\nAreiit Schuyler, was one of the earliest settlers in\\nFranklin township in 17. !0. The (iarret-sons from\\nliergen Town came and settled near where the Ponds\\nChurch now stands. The Van Aliens owned six\\nhundred acrcjt on the Ponil Flats. (Jeorge Ryerson\\nand Urie Westervelt (170ii) purchased an extensive\\ntract of the Indians, excepting the land at Sicamac\\nand land on the present farm of Isaac D. Van Blarcom,\\nas it was an Indian burial-ground. The Berdan family\\nsettled at Preakness, in this vicinity, in 1720. John\\nStek, now Stagg, settled back of Knickies Pond\\nin 1711. This is undoubtedly j)art of the Judge Mil-\\nliard farm at Sicamac. Stagg and his descendants lived\\non this farm till about forty years ago. Van Romaine,\\nyeoman of Hackensack, purchased six hundred acres,\\nlocated in this vicinity, from the Willcox .lohnson\\npatent, May 1! 1724, and sold two hundred acres to\\nRulef C. Van Houten, March 17, 1737, for seventy\\npounds. This property in modern times has been\\noccupied by John V. Hennion, William De Baun,\\nand John Ackernian. Simeon Van Winkle came in\\n1733 and settled on the |)roperty lately belonging to\\nTennis Van Slyke. For four or five generations the\\nVan Winkles honored the consistory of the Ponds\\nChurch. Aug. 17, 1720, found John and William\\nVan Voor Haze, yeomen of the county of Bergen,\\nbuying of John Barberie, Peter Fanconiere, and An-\\ndrew Fresnear, merchants of New York City, five\\nhundred and fifty jicresof land at Wikhoof (so spelled\\nand said to be of Indian origin i, present Wyckoff.\\nThe fifty odd acres were allowed for roads. William\\nVan Voor Haze was married first to Susanah Lame,\\nMay 17, 1717, and second to Maria Van Gildee, Jan.\\n2, 172 and died .luly 17, 1744, leaving five sons and\\nfour daughters. .\\\\n extract from his will says, I\\ngive and bequeath unto my eldest son. Jacobus Van\\nVoorhees, thebigbybel, for his first birthright, as being\\nmy heir-at-law. I will that my youngest dater, which\\nI have by myn dear beloving wife, which is named\\nMarytie Van Voor Ha/.e, that she shall have for her\\npoorshon the sum of t 19. To his other daughters\\nhe gave twelve pounds each. His son entered the\\nking s service and died in 1767. His son Albert lived\\non the present Uriah Ciuackinbush farm, and .\\\\braham\\nlived on the Lewis Qoumans farm. He died Feb.\\n1830,aged ninety-four. Nearhisdwelling. at twilight,\\nshortly before his death, seeing a light upon tlie knoll,\\nhe chose that spot a.s his resting-|dace, and there he\\nslumbers; and beside him sleeps his wife, .Margaret\\nHinter, who followed him to the grave in the May\\nfollowing his own death. John lived on the Henry\\nlUauvelt farm.\\nThe Alliurtises were also early settlers here, near\\nthe Van Voor Haze property. The Winters, Cour-\\ntins, Youngs, Storms, Ackermans, and tiuacken-\\nbushes all came before 1760, and the Van Gilders\\nabout 1730. The Pulisfeltii (now Pules) lived on the\\nPeter Ward farm, and the Hogerls on the Henry Van-\\ndenlioll property, going into Yaupongh alley. Van-\\ndenhotr is said to have lived in a cave for some time\\nabout 1760. These are the names of many of the early\\nsettlers in what is now Franklin township. Many\\nmore there may have been, but their names are lost\\nor forgotten.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0294.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "FRANKLIN.\\n205\\nEarly in the eighteenth century purchases were\\nmade of the Indians of tracts of land lying to the\\nsouthward of the Wilcox and Johnson patent.\\nArent Schuyler, of Albany, and Anthony Brockholst,\\nof New York City, were interested in these lands.\\nThe Garretsons from Bergen, the Van Aliens, the\\nBerdans, the Staggs, the Romaines, the Van Winkles,\\nand the Van Voorhises were purchasers of extensive\\ntracts in this section forty, fifty, or sixty years before\\nthe Revolution. One hundred years ago in the pres-\\nent township of Franklin the lauds were generally\\ntaken up, although the territory was sparsely inhab-\\nited. Extensive tracts were under limited cultivation.\\nThen there was scarcely a manufacturer in the town-\\nship. Old Cornelius Wortendyke, it is true, was\\nmanufacturing about one hundred years ago at New-\\ntown, but nearly all the industry was confined to the\\nraising of corn, wheat, and potatoes. These same\\nabundant crops to-day at present prices would make\\nany economical farmer rich in a few years.\\nThis township in the Revolutionary period became\\nimportant as a place of refuge and retreat. The courts\\nof Bergen County were driven hither from Hacken-\\nsack. Washington and his army were hovering in\\nthe vicinity, keeping an eye on the British invader;\\na British Tory was hung by Sheriff Manning near\\nOakland, in this township, as is recited elsewhere\\nin this history. Cornelius Schuyler, son of Arent I\\nSchuyler, was one of the earliest settlers in Franklin\\ntownship in 1780. The Garretsons from Bergen Town\\nwere also early settlers.\\nCivil Organization. Franklin became a township\\nseparate from Saddle River township about 1772.\\nMay 13th of that year it is named in the book of the\\nboard of freeholders as the township of Franklin, and\\nfor the first time is represented in that body by Ja-\\ncobus Bertolf only, though most of the other town-\\nships were repre-sented by two freeholders at that\\ntime. At the January session of the Court of Ses-\\nsions for that year, David Van Norden, Isaac Bogert,\\nand Abraham Rutan were appointed constables for\\nFranklin township. Before 1772 Franklin belonged\\nto Saddle River township, and before that township\\nwas organized it belonged to the ancient township of\\nNew Barbadoes.\\nWe give below a list of the chosen freeholders of\\nthe township since 1794, the date at w^hich the free-\\nholders became a board separate from the justices.\\nThe justices and freeholders who preceded the change\\nmade in 1794 are named in the general county his-\\ntory, as they are not found in the records identified\\nwith the townships which they re.spectively repre-\\nsented\\n1794, Joseph Board; 1794, Peter Slutt; 1795, Henry Wniimaker; 1795,\\nIJarretW. Hopper; 1796-97, Peter Wend 1796-1800, Andrew Hop-\\nper; 1798-1813, Garret Lydecker; 1801,1803,1806, 1812, John Hopper;\\n1801-2, David P. Harring; 1802-\u00c2\u00bb, Abram A. Quaokenbush 1803,\\nAlbert Wilson; ISlH, 1813-18, Abram Forshee; 18U5, John Van Blar-\\ncom; 1805, 1812, 1814, C.Stor; 1806-8, .\\\\brni. Harring; 1807-11, Peter\\nWard; 1809-11, Henry Van Emburgh 1815-18, Daniel Gero, Jr.;\\n14\\n1819-20, John A. Van Voorbis 1819, John Hopper 1820-24, 1826-27,\\nWilliam Hopper; 1821-24, Henry Van Emburgh; 1825, David I.\\nChristie; 1825-27,1834-35, John Ward; 1828-30, Martin Van Houten\\n1828-30, John INIandijo; 1831, 1833, John Willis; 1831, Christian A.\\nWanniaker; 18.32, David I. Ackerman; 1832-33, Isaac I. Bogert;\\n1834-35, Garret Van Dien 1836-38, William G. Hopper; 1836-38,\\nJohn H. Hopper; 1839-40, Henry B. Hagerman 1839-41, Henry A.\\nHopper; 1841-13, Simeon Van Winkle; 1842-44, Henry I. Spear;\\n1844.46, Anthony Crowter; 1845, 1849-51, John K. Post 1846-48,\\nWilliam P. Van Blarcom; 1847-48, James S. Wanmaker; 1849,\\n1853-54. James ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0an Houten; 1850-52, Stephen D. Bartholf; 1852-54,\\nAbm. Wortendyke 1856, Garret Hopper 1857-60, John D. Marinns\\n1859-61, John Halsted 1861-63, Garret D. Ackerman 1862-64, David\\nC. Bush 1864, Daniel Ackerman 1866-67, 1871, Garret J. Hopper\\n1866 67, Samuel P. Demarest; 1868-70, Garret A. Hopper, John H.\\nSpeer; 1872-75, Peter H. Pulis; 1876, Daniel D. Depew; 1877-78,\\nCharles White 1879-80, Abram 0. Wortendyke.\\nVillages and Hamlets. There are no large vil-\\nlages in this township the people generally are de-\\nvoted to agricultural pursuits in raising hay, corn,\\npotatoes, oat^, and nearly all the other products\\ngrown in this section. Abundant crops of grapes,\\nboth wild and cultivated, are grown in this township.\\nIn the good apple years the crop is so abundant that\\nthousands of bushels rot upon the ground, while\\nthousands more find their way to the mill for cider,\\nvinegar, and brandy. Here much of the famous\\nJersey cider and apple-jack are manufactured.\\nThe New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad,\\nformerly the Midland, and before that the New Jer-\\nsey Western, which had its first inception in this\\ntownship through the energy and enterprise of Cor-\\nnelius A. Wortendyke some ten years since, gave a\\nsudden impetus and excited the highest hopes for the\\nfuture growth of this township. This road enters\\nFranklin from Ridgewood township, about one mile\\nbelow Midland Park, and passing nearly midway\\nthrough it till confronted by the Ramapo Mountains.\\nIn crossing the river near Oakland it runs along the\\nfoot-hills of these mountains, leaving the township\\nfor Pompton about one mile from Oakland. Thus\\nit runs about ten miles through this township.\\nThe villages and hamlets locally named as such\\nin the township are Midland Park, Wortendyke,\\nWyckoflf, Campgaw, Crystal Lake, and Oakland.\\nNestling among the hills, some dozen miles from\\nHackensack, is the growing village of Wortendyke.\\nIts ancient name, a hundred years ago, was New-\\ntown, and then Godwinville. When called Godwin-\\nville, a few years since, it did not exceed a population\\nof two hundred. No town in the vicinity is beginning\\nto make equal strides with it at present. In 187.5, in\\nthe midst of financial depression and disaster all over\\nthe country, everybody was surprised to learn that the\\nproprietors of the cotton-mills in this place had re-\\nsolved upon an extensive enlargement of that branch\\nof their business but when it was reported that a\\nsilk-mill was to be added very many were astonished\\nat such an unexpected enterprise. The whole, how-\\never, was fulfilled to the letter, and not only a large\\ncotton-mill but a larger silk-mill are now under the\\nsupervision of the same company. These mills have", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0295.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "206\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nbeen enlarged and re-enlarged, giving employment\\nin and out of them to at least five liundred people.\\nThe hum of a new industry soon broke in upon the\\nhard times of 1875, and the doleful silence of many\\nan anxious laborer and lover of toil. Within two\\nyears fifty new houses were constructed, and now\\nabout two hundred more are needed to meet the\\nwants of the hilioring people seeking suitable accom-\\nmodations. Cornelius A. Wortendyke stands at the\\nhead of this enterprise. Old Cornelius Wortendyke,\\nhis grandfather, about one hundred years ago was\\nmanufacturing on the same spot where the present\\nmill stands then Abram, his son, followed and now\\nthe present Cornelius, and for about twenty years\\npast; and now his son, Abram C, is falling into the\\nline as the great-grandson of a manufacturing family\\nfor a century. They seem to partake of .something of\\nthat old firmness of the dykes of Holland maintain-\\ning itself iigainst the sea, from whence they get their\\nname and from whence they came.\\nWortendyke and its immediate environs has a\\npopulation of about one thousand. A small stream\\naflfording a very limited water-power runs through the\\nplace, em|)tying into the Passaic a few miles below.\\nIt is a rapid-running stream, and has been largely\\nutili/.ed iis a water-power almost to its mouth. But\\nthe mills at Wortendyke, many years since, demanded\\nmuch more power, and their machinery to-day is\\ndriven by a splendid Huckeye steam-engine of at\\nleast one hundred and fifty horse-power. The shops\\nof the New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail-\\nroad are located at Wortendyke, giving eini)loyment\\nUi about fifty men.\\nThe other towns we have mentioned are railroad\\nstations, deriving their importance only as depots for\\nthe surrounding country. Midland Park, Wyckofl\\nand Oakland are picturesque, with much beautiful\\nscenery surrounding them. Crystal Luke, a station\\non the railroail, is near a stream of water, the outlet\\nof Franklin Lake. This beautiful lake was called\\nby the Indians Crystal Drop, owing to the wonderful\\npurity and transparency of its waters.\\nThe mills of Wortendyke have called thither within\\nthe last ten years many native llollandcrs. Their\\nimmigration to these parts has been extensive within\\nthe hist five years. Nearly all of them are profe.ssing\\nChristians and members of the old Holland Reformed\\nChurch. They have lately erected a small but most\\ncomely church in the central part of Wortendyke,\\nand the neighlxiring ministers assisted their own in\\nthe dedication a few weeks since. Of course their\\nservices will be conducted in the Dutch language at\\nleast for a generation.\\nWe have already referred to Wortendyke as a man-\\nufacturing town. The first mill at this place, then\\ncalled Newton, was built in 1812 by Cornelius Wor-\\ntendyke, who had already been a farmer here and\\nmanufacturing some from 17%. He was succeeiled\\nby his descendunts, as we have already stated. The\\nmanufacture of chandlers and lamp-wicks has he-\\ncome very extensive, with a sale of these goods all\\nover this country, in Europe, and in Japan. A large\\nsilk manufactory of silk organzine and all kinds of\\nsilk fabrics has been in operation here for the last six\\nto seven years. Albert D. Bogert has a type-factory\\non the Ramapo, in this township, which has been in\\noperation for at lejvst ten years, and is doing a consid-\\nerable business.\\nSchools. ^The township is divided into eleven\\nschool districts, wholly or partly in this township.\\nTwenty years ago the schools in this section were in\\na very backward condition. Most of the school-\\nhouses were old, and showed signs of long neglect.\\nBut within that period great progress. and improve-\\nment are manifest all over the township. Many of\\nthe districts have shown much taste in the selection\\nof the sites for their school-houses, and in the neat-\\nness, convenience, and, in some instances, the ele-\\ngance of these structures. The school-house lately\\nerected at Wortendyke is probably the largest in the\\ntownshij), constructed into two apartments for the\\nolder and younger scholars, and will probably accom-\\nmodate from five to six hundred scholars. An inter-\\nesting item of history concerning the school in this\\ndistrict over seventy years ago will be found in the\\nfollowing.\\nIn 1811, Cornelius Wortendyke leased for school\\npurposes a twenty-three feet square lot to Isaac Blau-\\nvelt and Jacob (.Juackenbush, near where the Metho-\\ndist Church now stands, for twenty-five years, on\\nwhicli was erected a school-liouse, probably the first\\nin this locality. The funds to build the school-bouse\\nwere subscribed lus follows:\\ni\\nCornelius WorU iidjfke 6\\nLuke WeKtervoU\\nGarret Jjirlc 1 4\\nJoliil J. I iillianiiis 10\\nConioIliiH l.ozior ft\\nGiirri.t A. Lydi-ikcr 4 10\\nJacob Qiiurkctiliiiflh 1 10\\nGnrri t giiackonliuih 2 U\\nIsiuic Ulauvpll, Jr I 10\\nJ. .hit Brlnnl U 10\\nAndrew SiiyJer 1 4\\nGeorge Snyder 1 4\\nRichard Snyder 1 10\\nQcorge A. Snyder 1 10\\nIn 1822 this structure was destroyed by fire, wheu\\na new one was erected, and this was abandoneil more\\nthan twenty years :igo for aimdier, a brick structure,\\nnot far south of the old school-house at the foot of\\nthe hill in going to Ridgewood and this also was\\nabandoned for the new school-house we have men-\\ntioned, built about two years since at a cost of not\\nless than two thousand five hundred dollars. This is\\nprobably one of the best ami most advanced schools\\nin the township. It has a membership of three to\\nfour hundred scholars. In the old school of 1822\\nHenry Westervelt was the teacher. Succeeding him\\ncame Tunis Crum, Isaac Sherr, Richard F.llsworth,\\n.\\\\saliel Abbott. .)i hn Turner, Rev. Matthew Mallin-\\nson, Amos B. Ilowland, and Asa W. Roatli. The\\nbrick house at the foot of the hill was erccle l in 1869.\\nHenry A. .Maaker 1\\nJulin L. Marker 1\\nDarld l.ozior 10\\nJIartin MeKrofT _.. 10\\nI.awn*ncn Ix zier 10\\nJohn A. I...iier 8\\nLodowick Miuker U 2\\nWjlliani Van lllarcom 8\\nI l\u00c2\u00abard btrle 10\\nHiinnah l.oiler 8\\nJames 1. HIauvelt\\nLodowlck ItuMh\\nTlieodorUH Pnlhaniiia", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0296.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "FRANKLIN.\\n207\\nChurches. The oldest church organization in this\\ntownship is known as the Ponds Church, or more cor-\\nrectly the Reformed (Dutch) Church at the Ponds,\\nthere being a small pond of water in the vicinity, and\\na grist-mill near the church. This old mill, or one near\\nby, served the people in all the surrounding country\\nlong before the Revolution. This ancient church\\nclaims a history dating back to the close of the seven-\\nteenth century. No reliable records, however, can be\\nfound to establish the precise year of its organization.\\nA log church may have gathered its occasional wor-\\nshipers on or near the site of the present church\\nedifice as early as 1710. We have no authentic infor-\\nmation prior to that time. Rev. Guilliam Bertholf,\\nfrom Holland, is claimed as its founder and first pas-\\ntor. He combined and exercised at the same time\\nthe three congenial vocations of catechiser, vorleser (or\\nreader), and schoolmaster, living near Hackensack.\\nAs will be seen in the history of the church at Hack-\\nensack, young Betolf had early led in the services\\nthere, and was sent to Holland to complete his edu-\\ncation through the kindly aid of that church, and\\nsubsequently in an extra session of the Classis at Mid-\\ndleburg, Sept. 13, 1(596, the future pastor preached\\nfrom Matthew ii. 28: Come unto me all that labor\\nand are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. In\\nmany a wilderness and solitary place the voice of the\\nyoung preacher was heard in words like these to sanc-\\ntify and to exalt. He became the pastor of the\\nchurches at Hackensack and Aequackanonk, where\\nhe labored thirty years subsequent to 1694. Diligent\\nand laborious, he became the founder and co-worker\\nin the organization of many churches at Tarrytown,\\nin New York, at Raritan, in New Jersey, and else-\\nwhere. At one time he was the only Reformed min-\\nister in the province. Two hundred and forty-two\\nmembers crowned his labors at Hackensack. Like\\nPaul he also worked with his hands, having owned a\\nsmall farm of thirty-seven acres, purchased of Capt.\\n.John Berry, May 4, 1697, near Hackensack, and here\\nprobably the devout pastor lived independently on his\\nown acres. He died in 1724, leaving many children,\\nsome of whom settled in the townshij) of Franklin,\\nwliose descendants, living there to-day, nuxy justly be\\nproud of their honored ancestor. Rev. Henry Coens\\nbecame the next pastor of the Ponds Church, and re-\\nmained there probably till his death in 1735. The next\\npastor. Rev. Johannes Van Deiessen, came Sept. 10,\\n1735. He received his education, license, and ordi-\\nnation in New England, and afterwards preached at\\nClaverack and Kinderhook. He was also at one time\\nminister in ordinary (as then called) at Aequackanonk\\nand extraordinary at Pompton. In his pastorate the\\nold log church began to crumble to decay, when\\na new church was erected on land afterwards owned\\nby John M. Ryerson, in Pompton, near a ford, and\\nwas dedicated by their pastor April 7, 1736. This\\nchurch stood near the present steel-works. But the\\npeople around the old log church were unwilling\\nto give up that place of worship, and so between\\n1740-48 they erected a six-sided or hexagonal edifice\\nthere, which was then considered a far more elegant\\nand pretentious structure than the one at Pompton.\\nIn 1748 this church received Rev. Benjamin Van-\\nderlinde. It may be of interest to the supporters of\\nthe church to-day to know that the annual salary at\\nthat period was just one hundred and twenty-five dol-\\nlars. That sum, however, was in excess of the salary\\npaid to some pastors of to-day, relative values consid-\\nered. Dominie Vanderlinde is said to have been a\\nman of learning and ability, of large and command-\\ning appearance, and punctilious in dres^s, having mar-\\nried into the aristocratic family of the Schuylers of\\nPompton. The church then had to provide the ge-\\nfraw s stole, or stool or seat for the dominie s wife,\\nat an expense of 4.s. 2d. This, of course, was done,\\nand rightly, to honor their pastor. This pastorate\\nbrings us down to the stormy days of the Revolution,\\nwhen war and conflict at Paramus, at Fort Lee, and\\nin the surrounding country compelled this church\\nedifice at one time to be turned into a jail, as was also\\nat one time the Church on the Green at Hackensack,\\nfor the confinement of British prisoners, and at other\\ntimes both of these churches for brief periods were\\nmade to serve the county for judicial purposes also.\\nIn the Revolution the altar on the Sabbath-day\\noften became the judgment-seat on the next, and thus\\nrighteousness and justice were compelled to seek\\nshelter in the same sanctuary. At tliis interesting\\nperiod it is said that Washington, having his head-\\nquarters a little farther up the valley of the Ramapo,\\nhad often been found to retire into a .solitary place\\nin the neighboring wood to engage in silent prayer.\\nA poor slave, in the native curiosity of his race,\\noften followed the commander-in-chief to discover\\nthe cause of his retirement. This was during the\\nsummer of 1780, while the American army was quar-\\ntered in the Ramapo Valley. Defenses on the moun-\\ntains, in case pi necessary retreat, with ways of refuge\\nthither made ready to be blockaded at any moment\\nafter our army had passed, indicate the stratagem and\\nwatchfulness of Washington. Like the Scythians\\nthe Americans were not only ready to fight, but also\\nto flee to the mountains, if need be, at any moment.\\nIn course of time, however, they met the enemy front\\nto front on numy a well-fought battlefield and con-\\nquered. The prayers and prowess of Washington\\nand his army in the valley of the Ramapo ui)lield\\nour cause in all the dark and gloomy days of that\\nhistoric period.\\nRev. G. H. Kuypers was the assistant of Vander-\\nlinde for the short period ot fifteen months, when he\\nwas dismissed, April 15, 1789, to become one of the\\npastors of the Collegiate Churches in the city of New\\nYork, where he remained till his death in 1833.\\nDominie Vanderlinde survived till July 8, 1789,\\nwhen he died at the age of seventy. In 1787, Benja-\\nmin Romeyn was appointed naerlaser, or head", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0297.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "208\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nsinger, in the Ponds Cliurch, where he continued to\\nsing the songs of Zion in his native tongue till 1824.\\nThere was occiisional preaching in English from 1800.\\nAfter Romeyn, Johanus C. Stagg sang there in Eng-\\nlish, but by the side of Crystal Lake, where the old\\nDutoh chorister lived till 1832, on many a Sabbath-\\nday he .still continued to sing the same sacred songs\\nhe had learned in the land of his fathers.\\nCol. Bell, who lived at New Prospect, in this town-\\nship, aflbrded the Methodists, soon after the Revolu-\\ntion, a place of worship in his residence, and the first\\nMethodist Epi.scopal Church wiis erected there in\\n1795. It was reconstructed from a house belonging to\\nBell, fitted up tor that |)urpose. In 1820 this struc-\\nture was removed and a new church took its place.\\nAt this period this denomination was numerous in\\nthat locality, but was greatly decreased by the great\\nemigration of more than half of its membership to\\nthe West in 1821. It still survives, however, in its\\nstrength in and about New Prospect, and now wor-\\nships in its new church there, erected in 18G7 at a\\ncost of thirteen thousand dollars.\\nIn this township the Methodists also liave a church\\nat Wortendyke, which was organiz-ed Dec. 14, 1805.\\nMark McCracken, Aaron Ackerman, James Dods,\\nJohn Van Blarcom, Cornelius Lo/.ier, James Stagg,\\nMorris Sharpenstine, William Van Blarcom, and\\nAlexander McCall were its first trustees, and David\\nBartine was the moderator. John Morrow, lately\\ndeceased, a worthy and most saintly man, during a\\nlong and useful life was most active and efficient in\\nthe erection of a new Methodist Church here in 1830.\\nIn 18()8 another church was erected and the old one\\nremoved. This new edifice, standing prominently\\nin the town to-day, was greatly aided in its erection\\nthrough the means and efforts of Cornelius A. Wor-\\ntendyke, but Mr. Morrow never ceased to be an active\\nand efficient su| porter of this church according to his\\nmeans, and was a most exemplary member of this\\nMethodist Churcli to the day of his death.\\nThe Methodists al.so have quite a prosperous society\\nat Campgaw, and a church edifice erected in 1856.\\nPeterus Leydt succeeded Vanderlinde a.s pastor in\\n178 .t. His father was Rev. Johannes Light, fur thirty-\\nfive years p;istor of the chunli at New Brunswick.\\nPeter Leydt wils a graduate of Cineen s (now Rutgers)\\nCollege^ and became an able theologian. His pastor-\\nate wiv* a brief one. He died in 17113. He wiis suc-\\nceeded, alter the church had been several years with-\\nout a pastor, by Rev. Peter De Wilt, a graduate of\\nPrinceton College in 17 .t, and came to the Ponds\\nChurch in 1789, or perhai)s a few years earlier. He\\nwas pastor till 1809, and is said to have been a learned\\nand able preacher. In 1803 a movement was made\\nor a new church, and out of this grew the project of\\nbuilding a church at Wyckoff. Many of the niem-\\nbers of the Ponds Church lived near Wyckotf.\\nThe Reformed i Dutch) Cliurch at Wycknll wius es-\\ntablished aboutseventy-six years ago. It has a largo\\nand conTenient structure, built of stone on founda-\\ntions solid enough to last for centuries.\\nThe old church had stood for sixty years, and a\\nnew edifice seemed necessary. Judge J. A. Van\\nVoorhees, A. Stevenson, and others of WyckofT and\\nvicinity prevailed, when the old church was i)artly\\ntaken down and a new ine erected at Wyckotf, but\\nin 1840 to 1845 the old hexagonal church w:is re4 tored\\nand reconstructed, much in the shape of the structure\\nas it is at present, a parallelogram or oblong square.\\nThe deed for the Wyckoff Church is dated Sept. 27,\\n1805, to William Pulisfelt, Conrad Stur, Lawrence\\nAckerman, and James L. Ackernuin, the consistory\\nof the Ponds Church, with Judge Van Voorhees as\\ntrciusurer and general adviser or director. The stee-\\nple, a very high one, was struck by lightning in 1829.\\nIn 1811, Rev. John Demarest became pastor of the\\nchurch or society at the Ponds and of the Wyckotf\\nChurch. Mr. Demarest was born and educated in\\nHackensack, at the famous school of Dr. Wilson, and\\nstudied theology uiuler Dr. Eroeligh. Jlr. Demarest\\nsubsequently became a member of the True Reformed\\nDutch Church, and at one time owned the farm on\\nwhich Maj. Andr^ was executed at Tajipan. He\\ndied .\\\\pril 8, 1837. The two congregations of the\\nchurches at the Ponds and Wyckoff were divided May\\n10, 1822, and the Ponds Church wsls reorganized.\\nThe two churches were incorporated in 1824. The\\ndivision line between them commenced at the house\\nof Garret Post, near High Mountain, thence to John\\nAckerman s house, thence to .\\\\l)raham Winter s\\nhouse, and thence to Voupough. Rev. /achariah H.\\nKuypers, son of the pastor of that name of the\\nChurch on the Green at Hackensack, in April, 1825,\\nbecame pastor of the Ponds and Wyckoff Churches.\\nHe was also educated under Dr. Wilson. He wius\\nsucceeded by Rev. W..I. Thompson in 1842. Thomj)-\\nson was a gniduateof Rutgers in 1834, and appointed\\ntutor of ancient languages there in 183.S, and filled\\nthat position with great credit. These churches now\\nentered upon a new and brighter day of activity and\\nsuccess. He remained pastor of these churches till\\n1845. From this time the two churches have had\\nseparate pastors. Rev. B. V. Collins became p:L*tor\\nof the Ponds Cliurch, November, 1845, and remainiMl\\nthere to Janiniry, 18(;8. Rev. A. G. Ryerson became\\npa-stor of the Wyckoff Church April 7, 1846, and n\\nmaincil till .May 24, 18(!4, and the church prospered\\nunder his ministry. He was succeedeil by Rev. Wil-\\nliam B. Van Bensehoten, .\\\\pril 11,1865. Van Ben-\\nschoten was a graduate of Rutgers College and Tln\\nological Seminary. He remained there about six\\nyears, and died about one year since while pastor of\\na Reformed Church at Ephrata, in the .State of New\\nYork. He was succeeded at Wyckoff by Rev. S. T.\\nSearles about ten years since, who is the jiresent pas-\\ntor. He is a graduate of I nion ollege, and is a\\nmost faithful and efficient servant of his Master, and\\nthe church is prospering under his labors. He is the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0298.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0299.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0300.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "FRANKLIN.\\n209\\nson of a Reformed minister, he has several brothers\\nwho are ministers, and Rev. Preston Searles, his son,\\nis also a minister in the Reformed Church. Since\\n1868, Rev. Albertus Vandewater, educated at Prince-\\nton College and Seminary, becoming pastor of this\\nchurch in 1809, and Rev. Theodore F. Chambers, son\\nof Dr. Chambers, of the Collegiate Church of New\\nYork City, and educated at the Union Theologieal\\nSeminary, and becoming pastor here in 1872, and\\nRev. Peter L. Wilson complete the long line of pas-\\ntors of the Ponds Church who have come and gone.\\nRev. Mr. King, the present pastor of the church, is\\nmost faithful in his work, and the church is prosper-\\ning under his ministry. These two churches, coming\\ndown to us from the past, are on firm foundations,\\nand bid fair to stand fast for the future.\\nLong be their fathers temples theiin.\\nWoe to the band by which one falls;\\nA thousand spirits watch their towers,\\nX cloud of iingels tiuard their walls.\\nBurial-Places. One of the oldest burial-places in\\nthis township is at Sicamac, about one mile southwest\\nfrom Wortendyke. This was undoubtedly a reserva-\\ntion for burials by the Indians long before civilization\\ncame here. This old burial-place is i)ointed out to-\\nday as being situated on the Pond road, the road\\nleading from tlie Ponds Church to Paterson, over the\\nGoffle, on the land at present owned by Isaac Van\\nBlarcom. In plowing and cultivating there he\\nhas discovered in past years many implements and\\ntokens of Indian burial. The largest burial-place in\\nthe township is in the churchyard at Wyckof} at-\\ntached to the Reformed Church.\\nIndustries. Already, in giving the history of the\\ntownship and of certain villages in it, and in the\\ngeneral description of its physical features, we have\\nmentioned all or nearly all of its various industries.\\nIt is more agricultural and less manufacturing than\\nmany other townships in the county. Most of its\\nmanufacturing interests, as the reader is already in-\\nformed, are in and around the village of Wortendyke.\\nThat is a most thriving place, and promises to become j\\na large manufacturing town. The water-power on\\nthe Ramapo within the limits of this township is yet\\nto be developed, and may yet call for a larger manu-\\nfacturing town in that locality.\\nProbably no township in the county affords more\\nnumerous and healthy places for comfortable homes, j\\nWith its pure springs and elevated atmosphere it is\\nthe very home of health when other places are af-\\nflicted with miasma and disease. Many new-comers\\nhave sought homes here.\\nThere is but one polling district in the township,\\nand the elections for years past have been held at\\nWyckofi In the general march of improvement, and\\nin the increase of population which must continue at\\nleast for the next century in these environs of the\\ngreat metropolis of New York, Franklin township\\nwill always be sought for the health and comfort of\\nits abiding-places and its homes.\\nCornelius A. Wortendyke. The name of Worten-\\ndyke is associated no less with the primitive history\\nthan with the enterprise of the county.\\nThe early settlement of the family at Pascack en-\\ntitles them to a prominent place among the older\\nfamilies of Bergen County, while the energy and suc-\\ncess developed in commercial pursuits places them in\\nthe foremost rank of manufacturers. They are of\\nHolland extraction, and emigrated to New York as\\nearly as 1711. Tradition recalls the fact that two\\nbrothers, having been attracted by the varied advan-\\ntages offered by a residence in New Jersey, located at\\nPascack, then in the township of Harrington. From\\nthence Cornelius, the grandfather of the subject of\\nthis biographical sketch, removed in the year 1796\\nto Franklin township, and founded the hamlet of\\nWortendyke, which he then christened Newtown.\\nThrough his energy was established the nucleus of\\nwhat has since developed into an extended man-\\nufacturing centre, and where, in 1812, a wool-\\ncarding-mill was erected for the immediate country\\ntrade.\\nHe was succeeded by his son, Abraham Worten-\\ndyke, a man of much influence in his day, who in\\n1832 changed the business from wool to cotton, and\\nsuccessfully conducted it until his death in 1857. He\\nwas in turn succeeded by Cornelius A., a brief review\\nof whose life is here given, and whose birth occurred\\nat the ancestral home, March 9, 1820, this inherited\\nestate being still his own. His early years were not\\nespecially eventful, having been passed in study until\\nthe age of fourteen with such advantages as were\\noffered by the public schools of the day. His am-\\nbition to begin a career of independence induced\\nhim, with the consent of his parents, to accept a\\nposition as clerk in the city of New York, where he\\nremained for five years, and manifested the same in-\\ntegrity and fidelity to business interests that have\\nsince characterized his career and enabled him to\\nachieve success.\\nHis early association with manufacturing interests\\nhad directed his tastes, and influenced him at the age\\nof nineteen to return to his home, where his undi-\\nvided attention was given to business. This naturally\\ndeveloped an inventive genius, and in 1852 he ob-\\ntained a patent for making a continuous wick for\\ncandles, whose utility was at once recognized, and\\nspeedily obtained for it an extended reputation on\\nboth sides of the Atlantic. This was followed by\\nother patents of equal merit, and embodying princi-\\nples and results of still greater utility.\\nHis business during a long period of years has\\nbeen conducted with marked success, and this fact\\nwas especially noticeable during the financial em-\\nbarrassments of 1857, when he not only happily\\nweathered the storm, but greatly aided those having\\nbusiness relations with him. Extensions have from", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0303.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "210\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ntime to time been made in the large silk-works of\\nwhich he is the head, and during the present year\\ntlie increasing demand has rendered very iiiip irtant\\nbuilding operations necessary. These will contribute\\ngreatly both to the convenience and capacity of the 1\\nworks.\\nIn matters wherein the public weal is involved Mr.\\nWortendyke has ever manifested much interest. He i\\n])rocured the original charter of tlie New Jersey\\nWestern Railroad Company, and in IXIJT was elected\\nits president. In 1870 this road wjls consolidated with\\nthe New Jersey, Hudson and Delaware and the Sussex\\nI\\nValley Railroad, under the name of the New Jersey\\nMidland Railway Company, of which Mr. Worten-\\ndyke also held the office of president. He hjui, in i\\npolitics, always been iiientified with the Democratic\\nparty, though oHicial honors have never lured him\\nfrom the fields of commercial enterprise. He may be\\nregarded as a sagacious and successful business man,\\nwhose prosperity is the reward of his own self-reliance\\nand indomitable jierscverance. Mr. Wortendyke was\\nmarried in 1842 to Miss Rachel, daughter of James\\nHopper, of Wiushington township. They have three\\nchildren, Abram C, Christina L., and Hester.\\nCHAPTER XXX VII.\\nII.VRRINGTON.\\nGeneral Description.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the Historical Collec-\\ntions of the State of New Jersey this townshi[) is\\nl)rieHy described as follows:\\nThis towiiflliip waa reduced In 184(t nlH ul one-half by the lorniatiun\\nof Waj\u00c2\u00abhtngt4)n from the weHtcrn i orlion. It appronchoR in fomi to a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2quure, and nieoHiires acrosN It ench way about ft niilea. It is U^nndetl N.\\nby Itotrltland f (New Yorlt), E. by Hudson Klver, S. by llaclfeiittack,\\nand W. by Wiulitngton. The Hull la fertile, and the townithip proilncoa\\nlarge quantiliea of orchard fruit. The t\u00c2\u00abiwnahip contahiH 3 Atoroa, 4\\ngrlst-nilllp, 4 saw-niilla; capital in manufucturea, 8A200; C schools, IM\\nKholare. Population, 11:10,\\nThis meagre description is of no importance to the\\nreader of history to-day except to indicate the pro-\\ngress of the townshi]) during the la.st forty years. A\\npanoramic view of this townshi| i)re.sent.s a rolling\\ncountry betwecM two rivers, allbrding some of the\\nmost delightful views and se(juestcreil spot.s anywhere\\nto be found within the same distance from the great\\nnietropolis. The soil is generally well watered with\\nsmall streams, many of which find their pure sources\\nin the Palisades range bordering the Hudson, and\\nrunning westward and southward till they make their\\nway into the HackiMisack. They seem to pay no tri-\\nbute to the great river, a\u00c2\u00ab if it had enough and to\\nspare, and since ita lofty western range has kindly\\nturned their courses to fertili/.e the blooming land\\nwithin. The mountains of Rockland also send down\\ntheir fountains, so that the whole township is well\\nwatered, and the soil is capable of the highest culti-\\nvation. The Indian found here his deliglitl ul hunt-\\ning-grounds before the white man broke in upon his\\nsolitude. The Northern Railroad of New Jersey and\\nthe New York and Albany Railroad run through the\\ntownship from south to north. These roads at pres-\\nent run only a short distance across the iState line,\\nbut their projectors look for longer connections with\\nthe great trade and traffic of the North and West.\\nThus two railroads aflbrd facilities to many business\\nmen in the city of New York, who long tor the pure\\nair ami quiet repose of country homes. Morning and\\nevening they iiurry to and fro in crowded cars like\\nanxious school-boys, willing to go, but more willing\\nto return, to find their homes of content in these\\npleasant regions of Old Harrington. The numerous\\nfarmers in this section rely chiefly upon the small\\ncrops and fruits, which find a ready market at their\\nown doors or in the great city. The number of acres\\nis fourteen thousand two hundred and thirty-one,\\nwith a valuation of nearly two millions. A valuation\\nof one million would probably approach nearer to the\\nlow condition of real estate in the country to-day\\nbut in the gradual increase in real estate values, in\\nspite of all fluctuations, which liistory demonstrates\\nfrom the earliest settlement of America, the people of\\nHarrington may yet look with scorn upon any present\\nvaluation.\\nEarly Settlements and History. -.\\\\in ng the\\nfirst scltlcrs ill tliis towrisliip were the Havings, or\\nHarrings, as the name is variously spelled, the latter\\ngiving name to the township upon its organization in\\n1775.\\nPeter Harring was born in North Holland, and\\ncame to America early in the seventeenth century.\\nHis son John was born Dec. 2\u00c2\u00abi, 1C3I5, and married\\nMargaret Cozine and had two sons, Frederick and\\nJohn. John married Jemima, daughter of Francis\\nBlauvelt, and had two sons, Frederick and Francis.\\nThe latter, the ex-sheriff of Bergen County, was born\\nSept. 7, 1787, and died Oct. IS, l.S.Sl.\\nJohn Peter Benjamin Weatcrvelt, who resides in\\nthis townshii is the son of Peter Benjamin Wester-\\nvelt, the son of Peter, the original ancestor, who set-\\ntled here early in the seventeenth century.\\nThe Blauvelts, .\\\\ckermans, and Ferdons also settled\\nhere at that early day, and Herrings, as they then\\nspelled the name, as well as now, were early settlers\\nhere and in the vicinity. Its first chosen freeholders\\nwere Johnson Hoskirk and .Jacob Cole.\\nBenjamin Blackliiige settled as doctor in Harring-\\nton township in the latter part of the eighteenth cen-\\ntury, and married Caroline Tallinan, and followed\\nteaching school. He was the first Hnglish sehool-\\nteacher in liergen County. His children were Hcn-\\njamin, Jr., Cornelius, Maria, Sarah, Peter, Jacobus,\\nJacob, Henry, Elizabeth.\\n1. Benjamin, Jr., married. His children were Ben-\\njamin, Deborah. Benjamin married ,\\\\nna White and\\nmoved to Rockland County, N. Y. Deborah married\\nCornelius Westervelt anil left the county.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0304.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "HARRINGTON.\\n211\\n2. Cornelius married Rachel Powles and settled in\\nNew York City.\\n3. Maria married Daniel Van Sciven and located\\nnear Closter.\\n4. Sarah married Seba Bogert and located at Clos-\\nter. Their children were Peter Benjamin, Mathew,\\nCornelius, Elizabeth, Rachel, Samuel, and Jacobus.\\nPeter Benjamin, Samuel, Mathew, and Cornelius are\\ndead. Elizabeth and Rachel reside in New York.\\nJacobus resides in Palisades township.\\n5. Peter married Elizabeth Naugle and located at\\nCloster. His sons were James, David, Benjamin.\\nJames married Maria Van Home and resides at Clos-\\nter. David married Jennie Acker and moved to New\\nYork City. Benjamin married Elizabeth Hooper and\\nresides in New York City.\\nJacobus died a young man.\\n7. Jacob married and moved to New York and\\ndied.\\n8. Henry married Catherine Manning and settled\\nin New York.\\n9. Elizabeth married Cornelius Van Valen and\\nsettled in New York.\\nCivil Organizatioa. Harrington became a separate\\ntownship from Old Hackensack in 1775. The ancient\\nboundaries probably did not differ much from the pres-\\nent ones, to wit all the territory north of Palisades\\ntownship to the State line lying between the Hudson\\nand Hackensack Rivers. Prior to 1836 the present\\ntownship of Washington was also included in Har-\\nrington. We have no record of this court, however.\\nThe civil powers of the township at that early day\\nwere largely vested in the county board of ju.stices\\nand freeholders. The first chosen freeholders of the\\ntownship were Johnson Boskirk and Jacob Cole.\\nFrom that time to 1794 the records are indefinite, but\\nfrom the year last named the freeholders, with the\\nrespective years in which they served, will be found\\nas follows\\n1794, Capt. Abr. Haring; 1794-96, 1798-99, Abrm. G. Haring; 1795-96,\\nHenry Harring; 1797, David Durie; 1797-1800, John I. Baota;\\n18()0-.5, Peter Harring; 1801-2, 1808-13, Jacob I. Bauta; 1803-5,\\nCornelius Blanvelt; 1806-9, John D. Harring; 1806-7, 1810-11, Gar-\\nret A. Ackemian; 1812-17, John W. Ferdou 1814-17, James G.\\nDemarest; 1818, David A, Deraarest; 1818, Garret A. Zabriskie; 1819-\\n21, David A. Demarest; 1819, Garret A. Zabriskie; 1820-21, Jacob\\nAl. Terhune; 1822-25, John W. Ferdon 1822, 1826-28, John R. j\\nBlauvelt; 1823-25, 1830, Samuel O. Demarest; 1826-28, 1831-33,\\nGarret Aikersou 1829-30, Jacob I. Blanvelt; 1829, Peter Worten- j\\ndyke, 1831-33, Stephen Powles; 1834-36, Matthew S. Bogert; 1834- j\\n36, 1840-48, John I, Blauvelt; 1837-40, John H. Zabriskie; 1837-39,\\nAaron H. Westervelt; 1840-42, William V. D. Harring; 1841^1, I\\nSamuel R. Demarest; 1843^5, Tunis Harring; 1844, John I. Acker-\\nman, Jr.; 1845-47, Beujaniin Bogert; 1848-50, Jacob J. Ferdon;\\n1849-51. David D. Earring; 1851-53, David Doremus; 1852-54, Gar-\\nret A. Ackerson; 1864-56, Ralph S. Demarest; 1856, Peter D. Har-\\nring; 1867-61, Garret I. Auryansen; 1867-59, Henry G. Zabriskie;\\n1860-62, John T. Harring; 1862-64, John S- Powles; 1863-64, 1866,\\nAbraham C. Eckerson 1866, Barney N. Ferdon 1867-G8, Cornelius\\nEckerson, Jr.; 1868-70, Ralph S. Demarest; 1869-70, Abraham Har-\\nring; 1871, John Van Buskirk; 1872-74, James P. Blackledge; 1875-\\n77, Peter S. Yeury 1878-80, Peter A. Demarest.\\nSee Legislature of 1844 and of 1845, when the two townships were\\nfinally separated.\\nIn this list of freeholders the frequent occurrence\\nof the names of the Earrings, the Zabriskies, and the\\nDemarests indicate very clearly who were the early\\nsettlers in this township.\\nAssessors, 1871, Charles Tanner; 1872-77, Tunis A. Harring; 1878-80,\\nCornelius N. Durie.\\nCollectors, 1871-73, John H. Stephens; 1876-78, Cornelius J. Demarest;\\n1879-80, Abram C. Eckerson.\\nTown Clerks, 1871-73. Jacob J. Demarest; 1874-76, Cornelius A. Ecker-\\nson 1877-79, William J. Demarest; 1880, Charles C. Dubois.\\nJustices of the Peace, 1872, Barney A. Ferdon 1875, Henry G. Zabriskie\\n1876, Cornelius Eckerson, Jr., John C. Ackel-sou, Moses J. Taylor;\\n1877, John B. Kipp; 1878, James T. Tan Orden 1880, Martin De\\nWolf, Albert B. Eckerson.\\nPlaces of Historical Interest.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Just over the\\nboundary of this township, near the little village of\\nTappan, is the scene of the execution of Maj. John\\nAndr6 on the 2d of October, 1780. The events lead-\\ning to this execution and the details of it will be\\ngiven in the Revolutionary liistory embraced in this\\nvolume. We only speak of it here in its relation to\\nthe township of Harrington. The execution took\\nplace on an eminence just between the little village\\nof Tappan and the State line, and not over two liun-\\ndred feet from the northern boundary line of Har-\\nrington township. A portion of the military guard\\nand many of the spectators on that eventful occasion\\nmust have stood within the township line, as the ele-\\nvation in that direction commanded a better view of\\nthe place of execution. Outside the village of Tap-\\npan, near by, a larger population at that early period\\ninhabited that section of New Jersey than the neigh-\\nboring section of New York. The spot on which\\nAndre was executed is indicated to-day by a massive\\nmonument or block of granite, about five feet high\\nby four feet in width, facing the cardinal points of the\\ncompass, standing about two feet above the ground\\non solid masonry.\\nThe inscription on the western face of the monu-\\nment is as follows\\nHere died Oct. 2, 1780, Maj. John Andre, of the British army, who\\nentering the .\\\\merican lines on a secret mission to Benedict .\\\\rnold for\\nthe surrender of West Point, was taken prisoner, tried, and condemned\\nas a spy. His death, though according to the stem code of war, moved\\neven his enemies to pity, and both annies mourned the fate of one so\\nyoung and so brave. In 1821 his remains were removed to Westminster\\nAbbey. A hundred years after his execution this stone was placed\\nabove the spot where he lay by a citizen of the States against which he\\nfought, not to perpetuate the record of strife, but in token ol those belter\\nfeelings which have since united two nations, one in race, in language,\\nand in religion, with the earnest hope that the friendly union will never\\nbe broken.\\nArthur Penryhn Stanley, Dean of Westminster.\\nThe inscription on the north side is,\\nHe was more unfortunate than criminal. An accomplished man\\nand a gallant oflficer. George Washington.\\nAnd the south side bears the Latin inscription,\\nSunt lacrymffi et rerum et meutem mortJtlia tangunt. Virgil,\\n.Snetd, I., 462.\\no er such events tears of sorrow fall.\\nTears which deeply move the hearts of all.\\nThe monument is surrounded by a massive circular\\niron picket- fence about five feet high, and about one", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0305.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "212\\nHISTORY OF BKK(;KN and PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nhundred and twenty-six feet in circumference. This I\\nmonument stands in the centre of thirteen acres of\\nland, purchased and set apart as grounds adjacent to\\nthe indosure. James Bartliolf, Esq., owns the land in I\\nthe immediate vicinity and in Harrington townsliip,\\nwliere liis comfortable and elegant residence stands,\\nsome five or six hundred feet from tlie monument.\\nThe view from tliis place is most commanding and\\nbeautiful, and when the more unfortunate than crim-\\ninal Andre, while walking back and forth on his own\\ncoffin, but upriglitly and with majestic bearing, and\\ncasting his eyes upon the gallows-tree over his head\\nand then upon the whole scenery by which he was\\nsurrounded, he must have tliought quick as lightning,\\nand perhaps it wiis the last passing thought of his\\nimaginative and poetic mind, This is indeed a beau-\\ntiful world, however sad its ending to me.\\nIt is said that under Andre s signature to the MS. j\\ncopy of his song of The Cow-Chase are written I\\nthese lines\\nWlit ii tlie epic strain was flung\\nTlif {K ct l y the neck whm luing;\\nAnil to liiscost lie finOtt tiK latu\\nThe iliitnl -l orn trihes lieclilt his fate.**\\nThe unfortunate but gallant youtli may or may not\\nhave written tlie.se humorous lines in sight of the\\ngallows, but when such men of early years, giving\\npromise of .so much in their future, as Nathan Hale,\\nand John AndrC-, and Robert Emmett are so suddenly\\ncut off, and at the hands of the executioner, the\\nimperial banner may wave proudly over the si ot, but\\nit might better be fnrled and shroudeil in mourning,\\nif not in disgrace.\\nNathan Hale was hung as a spy, and so in retalia-\\ntion Andre suffered the same fate, and perhaps be-\\ncause the stern code of war demanded it but what\\nbanners or monumental inscriptions, even in West-\\nminster Abbey, can cover up or obscure that op-\\nprobrium which silenced in death the noble but\\nintemi)erate valor of Robert Emmett Perhaps a\\nmonument may yet be erected on that spot also to\\ncommemorate the better feelings of two nations. The\\nAmerican people, anil especially those of them living\\nin the township of Harrington, while they will never\\ndeface nor mar the iiinnument so near their borders,\\nwill never object to the erection of that other monu-\\nment also.\\nAbout two years before the executimi of Andrf I\\nthere occurred in the same vicinity one of those\\nbloody transactions in the war of the Revolution\\nwhich will not soon be forgotten, anil the recollection\\nof which must have been fresh in the minds of many\\nof the spectators from Harringt m at that execution.\\nThe nia.s.sacrc of Col. Haylor s troop is said to have 1\\ntaken place in October, 177S, about two and one-half\\nmiles HoulhwesI of Tai pan, in a barn then standing\\nnear the Hackensack River. That would locate the\\nspot in the township of Harrington. A small force\\nFor a full arcininl of thli traEntjr, aer l^hapter XIII.. L; AdJI.-aeD.\\nSUyker, In th\u00c2\u00ab UeTi luttonar hlator; In Ihlf ivork.\\nunder Lieut.-Col. Baylor, detached from the main\\narmy, was employed to watch and intercept a British\\nforaging-party. The Americans had taken lodgings\\nfor the night in the barn near the Hackensack. Maj.-\\nGen. Grey commanded the British force. Owing to\\nhis frequent order to his men to remove the flints\\nfrom their muskets in those impending skirmishes\\nand hand-to-hand contests where he desired to con-\\nline them to the exclusive use of their bayonets, he\\nhad acquired the distinctive title of the No-flint\\nGeneral. A party of our militia stjitioned on the\\nroad to resist the advancing march of the British\\nabandoned their posts, leaving Col. Baylor in ignor-\\nance of their disorderly escape. In the silence of the\\nnight the British stole in upon our lines, even cutting\\noff a sergeant s patrol, and with noiseless speed sur-\\nrounded the old town of Tappan in their undiscov-\\nered march. In the deep slumbers of that hour, in-\\ncapable of resistance or defense, at the mercy of the\\nenemy more completely than is the driven and con-\\nquered lion in his lair, they were stripped of even the\\npoor boon of giving up their lives at the cost of a\\nsingle one of their foes twenty-seven out of a force\\nof one hundred and four perished on the spot from\\nthe bayonet-wounils of the No-flint (ieneral, and\\nforty were made prisoners. Some fortunate ones,\\nafter having received from five to eleven bayonet-\\nwounds, escaped with their lives, and are said to have\\nbeen restored to health again. Grey s captains are\\nsaid to have spared the lives of the prisoners even in\\nthe face of the orders of their superior officers. This\\nmay have all been according to the stern code of war,\\nwhich Dean Stanley writes on Andre s monument\\nnear by, but the law of humanity will never strike\\ndown a brave but defensele-ss man, enemy though he\\nbe, when in safety his life can be spared. Even in\\nour encounters with wild beasts we scorn all those\\nfoul advantages which are taken of them, stripping\\nthem of all opportunities which nature has thrown in\\ntheir way for their escape. Who would fire upon the\\ncaged eagle when he can no longer soar upon his\\npinions upwards to the sun The perpetrators of this\\ncowardly or needle.ss massacre may have received the\\napplause of barbarous ages, but they could only re-\\nceive the condemnation of their own and of modern\\ntimes. The darkness of the night covered them in\\nthe act, and let us be willing that the darkness of ob-\\nlivion shall cover them in their infamy. This place\\nof massacre is .said to be about half a mile frmn the\\nState line, in a barn which belonged to the Herring\\nfamily. The progenitors of that family, it will be re-\\nmembered, were among the earliest settlers in the\\ntownship. The barn stood till a few years since, and\\nsome of the posts and beams still bore the marks of\\nflmt liliH.ily tragedy.\\nVillages and Hamlets. Buvy and Norwood,\\nRivervalc and Kandall, C loster and Erankfort, De-\\nmarcst and .Vlpine arc the only places which relieve\\nHarrington from being one of the most rural town-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0306.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "HARRINGTON.\\n213\\nships fronting on the Palisades. But it is well sup-\\nplied with roads and cross-roads, affording ready com-\\nmunication in every direction all over the township,\\nand is so filled with pleasant farm-houses and spacious\\nabodes that in many places it has assumed already the\\nappearance of one long country village.\\nThe population in 1881 was about 2600. At the\\nlast census it was 2570; in 1875, 2676 in 1870, 2666\\nin 1865, 1748; and in 1860, 1602.\\nCloster, the largest village in the township, is very\\npleasantly situated on the Northern Railroad of New\\nJersey, embracing about one hundred houses, not com-\\npactly thrust in together, but with spacious yards and\\ngrounds surrounding them. Many of the housewives\\nin this rural village can talk with each other across\\ntheir lawns without fear of ever being disturbed in\\nthe quiet seclusion of their own abodes. Previous (o\\nthe building of the Northern Railroad Closter was\\nthe designation of the entire territory from Liberty\\nPole to Tappan. John H. Stephens, an agent of this\\nroad, caused a station to be established in the present\\nvillage. It has become an active town of over two\\nthousand people. Collignon Brothers established\\nhere an extensive folding-chair manufactory. There\\nare three churches in the village, the Reformed, the\\nMethodist, and the Episcopal, with a flourishing\\npublic and many private schools. Miss Belle E. Ham-\\nmond s school, with an able corps of teachers, divided\\ninto primary, intermediate, and academic departments,\\nwas established here more than ten years ago.\\nThe village of Demarest was named after Hon.\\nRalph S. Demarest, whose family is there. Alderman\\nJohn A. Taylor, of New York City, George D. Ly-\\nman, founder of the New York Clearing-House and\\npresident of the Automatic Signal Fire Telegraph,\\nand Crammon Kennedy, of Brook Farm, and editor\\nof the Chrktian Union, have established pleasant\\nhomes in this locality.\\nThe Murray Hill House, formerly the Harrington\\nHouse, delightfully situated on a sloping eminence\\nnear the village, and jiurchased by John B. Murray,\\nof New York, with eight acres of lawn laid out in\\nterraces, affords a pleasant summer resort. The depot\\nin this village is an elaborate work of art, designed\\nby J. Cleveland Cady, and is built of freestone with\\ntrimmings of lighter tint, quarried in the vicinity from\\nthe Palisades slope. The stained-glass windows and\\nthe receiition-rooms ornamented with panel-work\\nand the lofty towers bespeak the cultured taste and\\nenterprise of its projectors. This structure is said to\\nhave cost six thousand dollars. A beautiful artificial\\nlake, the work of the Demarest Land Improvement\\nCompany, under the presidency of Jlr. Kennedy, and\\nfronting the depot and fed from the cool spring-water\\nof the Terrakill, adds its charm to the place. There\\nis a Bajitist Chapel in the village, with Rev. J. H. An-\\ndrews as its pastor. There is a large summer hotel at\\nNorwood, with churches and schools and pleasant\\nhomes.\\nSchools. The oldest school-house of which we\\nhave any account in this township stood on the lot\\nnow (1876) owned by Mrs. Eliza Cam[)bell, and partly\\nby Albert Anderson. It was a stone structure, one\\nstory high, with two rooms, one for the school and\\nthe other for a dwelling-place for the teacher. The\\nschool-house was built by subscription, one hundred\\nand twenty-five or one hundred and fifty years ago.\\nThe land was given by one Abraham Ackerman, on\\ncondition that it should always be used as a school\\nlot. The deed was written in Dutch, but never re-\\ncorded, and about twenty-five years ago a special\\nact was passed by the Legislature authorizing the\\ntrustees of the Closter, Demarest, and Schraalenburgh\\nDistricts to sell the several school-houses and such of\\nthe lots as they had titles for and appropriate the\\nmoney towards building a new school-house. The\\nthree districts, or such parts of them as lay in this\\ntownship, were united to form one the old Closter and\\nSchraalenburgh lots were sold, and the new school-\\nhouse was built at Demarest.\\nThe oldest teacher of whom we have any account\\nwas Benjamin Blacklidge, grandfather of James P.\\nBlacklidge, Esq., of Closter. It is said that he was\\nthe first teacher of the English language in Bergen\\nCounty. He taught in Closter about one hundred\\nand seven years ago, living in one part of the school-\\nhouse, where he commenced housekeeping with his\\nyoung wife, who was then only sixteen years old.\\nHe taught both English and Dutch, the teaching of\\nthe latter having been abandoned, probably, at that\\ntime, as no man now living in the township ever\\nstudied the Dutch language in school. No free\\nschools have ever been taught in the township until\\nrecently, when they were made such by the State.\\nDemarest District, No. 14, is located in the south-\\nern portion of the township, in a beautiful section of\\ncountry. The school-house is on the road leading\\nfrom Schraalenburgh to Demarest, and about one-\\nfourth of a mile west of the railroad station. The\\nfirst school-house in the district of which we can gain\\nany infornuition was constructed of stone, and stood\\nupon lands of Samuel R. Demarest. It was twenty-\\ntwo feet square, one story high, and had but one room.\\nThis school-house was used for a number of years,\\nwith various changes of teachers. It was carried on\\nby the old way of rate-bills, and if the teacher was a\\nsingle man he boarded around the neighborhood.\\nThis school-house has become somewhat notorious in\\nthe county from an incident which took place within\\nits walls a short time since. Goods of difi erent kinds\\nbegan to disappear from the different farmyards in\\nthe community, houses were broken open and pil-\\nlaged, daring robberies were committed almost daily,\\nand the people became highly alarmed. For a time\\nno traces of the thieves could be found, but through\\nsome circumstances which I cannot name the rendez-\\nvous was finally discovered in the upper part of this\\nschool-house. They would go out at night and do", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0307.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "2U\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ntheir work around the neighborhood, and then during\\nthe day rest upon their spoils, while school was being\\ntaught below.\\nCloster City District, No. 15, is of recent forma-\\ntion, and is located in a thickly-settled comnmnity.\\nThe first school in the district was a private\\nschool, opened in the ba.sement of the church in the\\nyear 1864 by Miss Belle E. Hammond, a young lady\\nof rare talents. It is still (1876) in existence, and in\\na very flourishing condition. It now occupies a build-\\ning put up especially for its use, and paid for by the\\nindustry of the young lady in question. This school\\naverages from sixty to eighty pupils, employs three\\nteachers, and is doing good educational work at Clos-\\nter City.\\nThe first public school in this district was held in\\nthe year 1S70, in a barn that wiis rented for that |)iir-\\npose, but during tliat year the present school building\\nwas erected for its use. It is a two-story brick build-\\ning, thirty by seventy-one feet, with a cupola, and\\ndisplaying a good degree of architectural beauty. It\\nis furnished with all the modern school improvements,\\nand capalile of doing good work. The propertv\\nis valued at nine thousand dollars, and the building\\nis capable of seating two hundred and forty pupils.\\nMr. John H. West is principal (1876), having Miss\\nJosie Felter as a.s9i9tant.\\n.Vlpine District, Xo. 16, is located on the top of the\\nPali.sades, in the southeastern part of the township.\\nThe school-house Is situated near the brow of the\\nmontitain, overlooking Yonkers and nearly all of\\nWestchester County, Long Island Sound, and many\\nmiles up and down the Hudson. This locality\\nprevious to the year 184. had no s -hoi)l, onlv, as I\\nhave been told, held in some one s kitchen, and (the\\nschool children were) compelled to travel two and a\\nhalf miles to the old stone school-liouse at Demarest.\\nIn the commencement of the year 1845 a meeting\\nwas called by O. Cosine, D. Vervalen, Thomas and\\nJacob Dubois, and William Gaeox, for the purpose\\nof consulting about the formation of a school dis-\\ntrict and the bulbling of a school-liouse. As\\nthe meeting wius favorable to the above project, an\\napplication was unanimously made and granted,\\nand T. R. Dubois, James Dubois, and D. Verva-\\nlen were elected trustees. A lot of ground twenty-\\nfive by fifty feet was ibmated by J). Vervalen for\\nthe use of the schoul, and by means of subscrip-\\ntions of money, labor, and nniterials they erected a\\nbuilding thereon sevent en by twenty feet, one story\\nhigh, at a cost of one hundred and twenty-five dollars.\\nIt is said that Mr. Charles Howell, the first teacher,\\nhelped to build the selio(d-house. In IH. tl this\\nbuilding became too small, and an addition of twelve\\nfeci was put on the main liuilding. In 1807 the trus-\\ntees purchased enough of the adjoining property to\\nmake their lot one hundred by two hundred feel, and\\nerected thereon the present school building. The\\nproperty is valued at two thousand five liun ired dol-\\nlars, and the building has a seating capacity for eighty\\npupils.\\nOld Closter District, No. 17, is located in the\\nnortheastern part of the township. The first school\\nbuilding in the district, according to the recollections\\nof the oldest inhabitant, was a stone building located\\nnear the house of Moses Taylor the date of its erec-\\ntion could not be ascertained. It was used by dif-\\nferent teachers until the year 1830, when a new one\\nwas built on the farm of Moses Taylor, the lot being\\nheld by a lease as long as it was used for school pur-\\nposes. Martin I owlls taught in these schools a num-\\nber of years, and was considered a first-chiss teacher.\\nMr. Taylor was the first man in the township who\\nproposed to use the surplus revenue for school pur-\\nposes. He was defeated in this project two or three\\nyears, but finally carried his point, and it has been\\nused in that way ever since, .\\\\fler the passage of\\nthe school law in 1846, Mr. Taylor was elected town\\nsuperintendent, which office he filled with credit for\\na number of years. In the year 1858 the building of\\n18.S(i was sui)planted by one of modern date, and is\\nalso the present school building. It is a frame, with\\ncupola, twenty-eight by tbrty feet, and furnislied in\\nmodern style. It has been kept in good repair from\\ntime to time, and is now (1876) in a good condition.\\nOld Tappan District, No. 19, occupies historic\\nground; it was within the boundaries of this district\\nthat the lamented and ill-fated Maj. .\\\\udre wius exe-\\ncuted as a spy. The first school-house in Old Tap-\\npan W!is built over ninety years ago, so says the ven-\\nerable Tunis Haring. Mr. Ilaring further says,\\nTlie first school I ever heard of was kept in my\\nfather s kitchen when I was about two years old.\\nAbout this time a little .school-house was built near\\nmy father s house, and at this place I first went to\\nschool. The building was a small atlair, having no\\nceiling, and the chimney built of sticks and mud,\\nwliicli often took fire, and then the boys had a fine\\nfrolic climbing up and puttinir it out.\\nAfter school was out the teacher used to watch\\nus to see if we went immediately home, and if be\\ncaught us playing by the way he would settle with\\nus the next morning.\\nThe present is tlie fourth school-house we ha\\\\\\nhail, but it does not stand on the original site. The\\ndistrict used to extend into Wiishington township\\nbefore the last school-house was built. I em|iloyeil\\nsurveyors and ran out the district, and ,u.scd all my\\ninfluence to get it divided and the new school-houM\\nlocated in its present central position. In the first\\nplace the town superintendents eoulil not agree upon\\ndividing the district, and I got an act piLsseil by the\\nLegislature leaving it to be clecideil by the superin-\\ntendents of the three adjoining towns; they met in\\nthe district and agreed that it ought to he divided,\\nThe present school building was erected in ISi ii;.\\nand oeeupied by .1. Madison Ken, a first-class teachiT.\\nIn the year 1871 an adililioii oftwelve by twenty Iim", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0308.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "HARRINGTON.\\n215\\nfeet was attached to the main part of the building,\\nmaking it thirty-two by twenty-five feet, and capable\\nof seating seventy-five children. The present prop-\\nerty is valued at two thousand five hundred dollars.\\nThe teachers in the township up to 1846 were\\npaid so much per scholar for their services, but after\\nthat time they were hired regularly by the quarter.\\nHarrington embraces six entire school districts,\\nwith parts of others merging into the neigliboring\\ntownships, to wit: Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19,\\nwith a school census of seven hundred and one chil-\\ndren. The largest district in number of children is\\nNo. 15, with two hundred and four children, embrace\\ning the village of Closter. The smallest district is\\nNo. 14, embracing sixty scholars. Harrington town-\\nship forty years ago is described as having contained\\nthree stores, four grist-mills, four saw-mills, and capi-\\ntal in manufactures of five thousand two hundred\\ndollars, with six schools and one hundred and fifty-\\nfour scholars, and a population of 1130.\\nThe progress of this township has been, and will be,\\nlargely due to the many sites it aiTords for pleasant\\nand beautiful homes along the Pali.sades.\\nChurches. Rev. E. S. Hammond commenced\\npreaching at Closter in the fall of 1860, and in Feb-\\nruary, 1861, it was resolved at a public meeting held at\\nthe house of Peter Maxon that an effort be made to\\nsecure a church edifice for the better and permanent\\naccommodation of the county, and in 1862 a plot of\\nground was deeded to the congregation by Thomas\\nW. Demarest and wife, and a church was erected\\nunder the supervision of Da,niel Blauvelt, Nicholas\\nDuree, Garret J. Demarest, John H. Stevens, and\\nMathew S. Bogert. The church was completed, and\\ndedicated Oct. 7, 1862, by Rev. Isaac W. Cole, of Tap-\\npan, N. Y., who ottered prayer, and Rev. C. L. Wells,\\nof Jersey City, preaching the sermon from Hebrews\\nxii. 22 and 23, 1st Corinthians xii. 13. The church\\nwas organized Sept. 30, 1862, by Rev. W. B. Mabon,\\nRev. W. R. Gordon, Rev. James Demarest, Jr., and\\nWilliam Williams. The sermon was preached by\\nRev. W. B. Mabon, and the following persons pre-\\nsented for membership Garret J. Demarest, Agnes\\nWestervelt, Peter A. Blauvelt, Eliza Herring, Robert\\nD. Huyler, Mrs. R. D. Huyler, John H. Stephens,\\nDavid D. Blauvelt, George H. French, Phebe W.\\nPeck, Gideon Peck, Lydia Coddington, Isabella Per-\\ncell, Margaret H. Hammond, Peter J. White, Sarah\\nZabriskie, and Abraham J. Hopper. The first elders\\nwere Gideon Peck, Daniel Blauvelt, Garret Demarest;\\nDeacons, Peter Blauvelt, Abraham J. Hopper, Peter\\nWhite.\\nThe church is located on the hill, and is built of\\nwood, forty by sixty feet, and cost ten thousand dol-\\nlars. The pastors have been Cornelius Blauvelt,\\n1865, who continued until April 27, 1868, as a supply,\\nand was succeeded by Rev. P. E. Vanbuskirk, May,\\n1869, who still presides over the congregation.\\nThe present elders are John B. Kipp, Conrad N.\\nDurie, James P. Blackledge, Richard J. Blauvelt;\\nDeacons, W. C. Herring, Isaac Quackenbush, Henry\\nGerben, Mathew J. Bogert; present membership, one\\nhundred and fifteen.\\nThe parsonage was erected in 1870, at a cost of four\\nthousand five hundred dollars is of wood, two stories\\nhigh. The Sunday-school was organized in 1865.\\nThe present superintendent is Jacob Van Ostrand\\npresent membership, one hundred and thirty-five;\\nvolumes in library, four hundred.\\nThe Norwood Presbyterian Church was established\\nin the fall of 1868, and meetings were first held in\\nthe hotel parlors for about one year, when a lot was\\ndonated to the church by Mr. J. Wyman, and a\\nchurch was erected during the year 1868 and dedi-\\ncated. This church was first located near where it\\nstands now, and owing to its being an inconvenient\\nstructure, it was deemed best to remodel it and move\\nit so as to face the street. It is now located within a\\nfew hundred feet of where it first stood, and is con-\\nveniently arranged and stands facing Main Street, on\\nthe hill, and is built of wood, thirty by fifty feet.\\nThe present value of the church is five thousand dol-\\nlars. The church was organized May 18, 1869, by\\nRev. John Spaulding, D.D., of New York City, and\\nRev. Henry M. Booth, of England. Twenty-one\\nwere received by letter and four on profession of\\nfaith, which consisted of Paul Powless, John Powless,\\nMargretta Powless, Mrs. M. A. Kline, William Ham-\\nmell, Mrs. Elizabeth Hammell, Mary Atwale, George\\nH. French, Mrs. Phoebe French, Lydia Coddington,\\nE. R. Houghton, Mrs. Louisa S. Houghton, Mathew\\nH. Houghton, Mrs. Sarah S. Houghton, Peter A.\\nBlauvelt, Mrs. Eliza Blauvelt, John H. Serviss,\\nMrs. Mary E. Serviss, Curtiss N. White, Mrs. Delia\\nD. White, C. M. Buck, W. J. Demarest, Leah De-\\nmarest, Mathew Powless, and Maggie Powless.\\nThe first elders were Paul Powless, William Ham-\\nmell, and George H. French.\\nThe first deacons were Peter A. Blauvelt, Mathew\\nHoughton, John H. Serviss. The first pastor was\\nRev. William P. Fisher, who was installed Novem-\\nber, 1871 Rev. L. F. Stevens, Oct. 14, 1873 Rev. S.\\nM. Jackson, May 30, 1876 Rev. J. E. Abbott, stated\\nsupply for 1880 Rev. Charles B. Chapin, Sept. 13,\\n1881, the present pastor.\\nThe present trustees are N. C. White, George H.\\nFrench, W. J. Demarest; deacons, Mathew Powless,\\nT. J. Haring, B. Y. Frost present membership,\\nthirty-five.\\nThe First Congregational Church of Closter was or-\\nganized in 1877, and services were held in Closter In-\\nstitute until 1881, when a church was erected at a cost\\nof five thousand five hundred dollars, and completed\\nin the spring of 1882, and on December 8th it was\\ndedicated by Rev. Dr. Storrs, of New York, preach-\\ning the sermon, and Rev. H. B. Turner offered prayer,\\nand Dr. W. B. Brown delivered an address. This\\nchurch is a wooden structure, and located on Main", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0309.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "21ti\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nStreet, on the hill. The biiildinp committee consisted\\nof J. H. Serviss, Charles Tanner, and G. D. Efkerson.\\nTill- present deacons are S. E. Darlinj:, J. H. Veene,\\nand Ci. D. Efkerson. First deacons, W. II. Morrow,\\nG. D. Eckerson. Trustees, S. E. Darling, jiresident;\\nR. L. Van Arsdale, secretary G. D. Eckerson, trea.s-\\nurer; O. W. Valentine, Walter Stillman, J. H. Veene,\\nand J. H. Serviss.\\nThe tirst pastors of this church were supplies until\\nRev. H. U. Turner wa-s appointed, on Dec. 22, 1878.\\nThe corner-stone was laid by the Kev. Mr. Turner\\nwith appropriate services in November, 1880.\\nThe Baptist Church at Demarest was organized in\\nthe spring of 1874, with seventeen members, as fol-\\nlows William M. Wliitiiiore, Mrs. W. M. Whitinore,\\nWilliam U. Whilmore, Mrs. W. R. Whitmore. Miss\\nG. P. Whitmore, Miss Amelia C. Rlacklidge, H. S.\\nDowns, Mrs. H. S. Downs, George Allen, Mrs. George\\nAllen, Mis.s Annie Rich, Miss Nellie Rich, Mrs. Mary\\nF. Rieh, William H. Westervelt, Miss Anna Randall,\\nW. F. Laroehe, Mrs. W. F. Laroche.\\nMeetings were first held in the seliool-house until a\\nchurch edifice could be erected. Mr. Ral[ li Demar-\\nest donated a plot of ground, and the erection of a\\nchapel was commenced, and completed in the fall of\\n1874. On the 17th of December, 1874, the chapel\\nwas dedicated by Dr. Pattoii, of New York, Rev. Mr.\\nGeddes, of TenaHy, Rev. Mr. .Stephens, of Norwood,\\nand Rev. James II. Andrews, of Englewood. Rev.\\nJames H. Andrews preached the first sermon in the\\nchurch. The church is a small wooden structure\\npleitsantly located on the hill.\\nIn response to an invitation extended to the dificr-\\nent ehurehes by the above members, a meeting was\\nheld at the chapel, and alter a full di.\u00c2\u00abcussion of the\\nsubject the seventeen members were recognized a-s an\\nindependent Baptist Church, and Rev. James H. An-\\ndrews was called February, 187. and remained until\\nthe time of his tleath, whieh occurred Oet. 17, 1S7\\nand on (Jet. 1, 187ti, Rev. B. F. Me.Mithael wius eallcd,\\nand installed Oct. 11, lH7tl, who jiresided over this\\ncongregation until 1879.\\nThe first deacons were W. J. Laroche and William\\nM. Whitmore trustees, Williani M. Wliil re. Wil-\\nliam H. We.stervelt.\\nThe jiresent trustees are William M. Whitmore,\\nGeorge Allen, harles E. Dodge.\\nThere has been no regular services hehl in the\\nchapel since 1879.\\nIn the year 1841 one Sturr, a local preacher from\\nthe Bedford Chnrch in New York, eame to this neigh-\\nb jrhood anil held meetings. At the meetings several\\npersons were converted. The meetings were con-\\ntinued by 8turr, Jacob Dubois, and other persons\\nfrom the Bedford Street Church.\\nSoon after. Rev. Mr. Archer, n local preacher from\\nthe Wesleyan soeiety in New York, eame here and\\nheld meetings, and was determined to liuild a ehureh.\\nBut Rev. Mr. Sturr, Henry Didjois, of New York,\\nand Jacob Dubois were also determined to erect a\\nMethodist E|\u00c2\u00bbiseopal Church, and they got hel[) from\\na few friends, and went to work with great zeal, and\\ntheir building was so (|uiekly eompleted that the\\nWesleyans abandoned their design. This was the\\nbeginning of the Methodist society at this place, and\\nfrom that day in 1841, for thirty ycjirs, there has been\\nregular preaching on what is known as the nillto)),\\nin the building then erected. It still stands opposite\\nthe new chureli. This small edifice cost five hundred\\ndollars.\\nThe first board of trustees consisted of Henry Du-\\nI bois, Jacob Dubois, Thomas Dubois, Jacob .Jordan,\\nand William Jordan.\\nBefore the pioneer ehureh was built ehurcli-going\\nwas almost impracticable on the mountain, as it is\\ntermed. The mother of Jacob Dubois was the only\\nregular attendant upon religious service. She used\\nto walk four miles to a Reformed Dutch Church in\\nthe valley. At that time there was no village on the\\ncliff; there were a few houses, but most of the people\\nlived on the river-bank under the hill. Tradition\\nrelates that they were a rude people, boisterous on\\nSunday, and apt to persecute those who tried to se-\\nI cure the proper observance of that day. Among the\\nearly members of this church were Oliver Cosine,\\nHenry Dubois, Jacob Dubois, Thomas Dubois, Mrs.\\nThomas Dubois, Jacob Jordan, William .lordan. Wil-\\nliam Geco.x, Mrs. William Gecox, Mrs. Springsted,\\nand Mrs. Older.\\nI Services were held in the old ehureh until tliecom-\\npletion of the new ehureh edifice, whieh was begun\\nin 1867. It was intended at first to jiut up a wooden\\nbuilding, but the belief that the region would in-\\nerease in population, and the feeling that the beauti-\\nful hard blucstone so abundant on the Palisades was\\nthe fittest mat ?rial, caused a change in the design.\\nMrs. Nordhoff offered the congregation to defray the\\narchiteet s charges if they would build of stone and\\naccording to a plan pre|iared by Mr. J. C. Cady. The\\nbuilding ha-s been constructed. It is sixty feet long\\nand thirty feet wide, and has a transept or wing on\\nthe west, twenty-eight feet by twenty. This wing is\\nintended to be used for prayer and other evening\\nmeetings. The church cost, with lot on whieh it\\nstaiiils, fourteen thousand dollars. The oorner-slone\\nwas laid Oct. 2, 18(;7, and the church was completed\\nin 18G8, and services held here since. The present\\nstewards are Chaa. Nordhotf, .S. Miles, Mathias Koh-\\nler, Lewis H. Fanconier, and John H. Conkling.\\nPresent piustor is Rev. O. B. Coit membership,\\neighty-threp.\\nAbram B. Haring. -Peter Daring, of North Hol-\\nland, came to ,\\\\niirii a during the early part of the\\nseventeenth century. He had a son John, born Dec.\\n26, 1(!33, who married, in 1662, Margaret Cozine, to\\nwhom was born a son named Cozine, who had a son\\nJohn, who had a son Frederick, born in 1729. Fred-\\nerick had a sou John, born June 14, 1760, who nnir-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0310.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "tiy^^/t^O-^^i^ pSf^ ^^^^Vi:yr^^J", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0311.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0312.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0313.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "-^/i/t/fv^^- psAA. ^J", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0314.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "HARRINGTON.\\nJ17\\nried, November, 1781, Jeiiiinia, daughter of Tenuis\\nBlauvelt, who bore him sons, Frederick and Teunis,\\nthe latter of whom was born Sept. 7, 1787, and died\\nOct. 18, 1881. Teunis Haring married Elizabeth\\nPerry, who died Nov. 13, 18-58, leaving four chil-\\ndren, Abram B., .Jane, wife of R. S. Demarest, Peter\\nT., and John T., all of whom survive except Peter T.\\nOn Nov. 22, 1859, he married for his second wife\\nMrs. Leah Blauvelt, who died Aug. 6, 1872, leaving j\\nno issue. Three children, twenty-four grandchildren,\\nand forty great-grandchildren survive him. He was a\\nfarmer by occupation, and through life took an active\\ninterest in public aflairs, serving as chosen freeholder\\nfor three years, and member of the town committee\\nfor a time.\\nAbram B., son of Teunis Haring, was born on the\\nHaring homestead. May 20, 1811, and has there spent\\nhis life as a farmer. During his active business\\ncareer he took an interest in political matters, and\\nwas influential in the councils of the Democratic\\nparty, of which he was a member. He has been hon-\\nored by his townsmen by a position in the board of\\nchosen freeholders and as surveyor, and by the citi-\\nzens of Bergen County as sherift from 1853 to 1856,\\nand with two terms of service representing them in\\nthe State Legislature. In all these public places of\\ntrust his con.stituents have always felt a pride in his\\nintegrity and efficiency. As an officer Sherifi Haring\\nwas prompt, energetic, and honest, and as a legislator\\nhe was always found with his vote and influence sup-\\nporting measures of reform, retrenchment, and for\\nthe public weal.\\nLike his father before him, he devotedly adheres to\\nand supports the Reformed Dutch Church at Old\\nTappan, of which both in turn have been deacon and\\nelder.\\nBy his first marriage, April 6, 1825, to Ann Eliza,\\ndaughter of John Haring, he had three children,\\nElizabeth, widow of Richard Ackerman, Ann, wife\\nof John Cole, of Teaneck, and John. His wife died\\nApril 9, 1841.\\nBy his second marriage, March 8, 1842, to Polly,\\ndaughter of Andrew P. Hopper, he has four children,\\nTeunis A., Martha, wife of Daniel Smith, Catherine,\\nwife of Calvin Haring, and Andrew. The mother of\\nthese children died May 31, 1855.\\nSheritf Haring s present wife, whom he married\\nMay 31, 1857, is Margaret, daughter of Cornelius J.\\nDemarest.\\nThis branch of the Haring family have been con-\\nnected with the history of Harrington township from\\nits earliest records, and have ranked among the sub-\\nstantial citizens, not only of that loqality but al.so of\\nBergen County. They have been tillers of the soil\\nin their general occupation, identified with the found-\\ning and development of school and church interests,\\nand among the foremost in the promotion of all en-\\nterprises tending to the prosperity and general welfare\\nof the people.\\nCapt. Elisha Ruckman was born in Somerset\\nCounty, N. J., near Basking Ridge, Nov. 15, 1812.\\nEarly in life he chose the business of a sailor, and\\nbegan as cabin-boy on a coasting vessel sailing from\\nNew York to Virginia. By strict economy he soon\\naccumulated sufficient capital to invest in a vessel,\\nmaking his first investment when he was about fif-\\nteen years of age. He began to deal largely in fish,\\noysters, and fruit, and his business proved so success-\\nful that at the age of twenty he commanded a vessel\\nof his own, named Trimmer. He also owned and\\nsailed a beautiful yacht, Massena, and during his\\ncareer as a sailor built forty-seven sailing-vessels.\\nCapt. Ruckman continued this business of sailing ves-\\nsels until 1867, when he came ashore and purchased\\na farm in Harrington township, Bergen Co., N. J.,\\nand dealt quite largely in real estate until 1873. In\\n1875 he removed to Tappan, Rockland Co., N. Y.,\\nwhere he had previously erected a handsome palatial\\nresidence, and where he has since resided. The\\ngrounds on which his house is located were the\\ncamping-grounds of Washington s army in 1780, and\\nadjoin the grounds where Maj. Andre was executed.\\nCapt. Ruckman has devoted his life wholly to busi-\\nness pursuits. In politics he was always a Demecrat\\nuntil the second election of President Lincoln, since\\nwhich time he has been a Republican. He is now\\nseventy years old, and enjoying a competency.\\nCapt. Ruckman is a man of decided opinions, per-\\nsevering in his eftbrts to carry forward to a successful\\ncompletion whatever he undertakes, sagacious and\\nfar-seeing, and possessed of superior business ability.\\nClaudius 0. Collignon, John Collignon,thegrand-\\nfather of the subject of this biographical sketch, was\\na native of Reught, France, and born in the year\\n1754. At a later period he emigrated to America, and\\nchose Bergen Countj N. J., as a place of residence.\\nMr. Collignon, after a sojourn of some years in the latter\\nState, returned to his native place, where his death\\noccurred. His only son, Peter C, was born in Reught,\\nFrance, on the 22d of September, 1799, and having\\nbeen attracted by the enterprise of the New World,\\nembarked in 1825 for New York City. Here he re-\\nsided for five years, and subsequently removed to\\nBergen County, where he engaged in willow-basket\\nmaking, and also in farming pursuits. He was united\\nin marriage to Miss Mary Perrine, a native of France,\\nto whom were born children, Catherine, whose birth\\noccurred in France, Nicholas, born in Hudson Street,\\nNew York City, and Claudius O., Elizabeth, James\\nPeter, August, Adam, Perrine, Jane Ellen, and\\nall born in New Jersey.\\nThe death of Mr. Collignon occurred March 16\\n1879. Mrs. Collignon survives her husband, and is\\nstill in robust health. Claudius O. was born Dec. 8,\\n1830, in Harrington township, where the principal\\nportion of his life has been spent. His boyhood after\\na period at school was occupied in labor on the farm\\nor in acquiring the trade of basket-making. At the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0315.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "218\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nO^ ^.^cr^L^^y^.X^-J\\nage of seventeen he learned the s;ush and blind mak-\\ning business, and followed it for eight years, after\\nwhich he returned to New Jersey.\\nHe wa.s married Jan. 24, ISM, to Miss Sarah Cleve-\\nland, of Washington townsiiip, who is the niotlier of\\nfive children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter C, Sarah Louisa (Mrs. Tures),\\nKvelina, Catherine Delia, and Isaac. Mr. Collignon\\non his return to New Jersey engaged in chair-turning\\nand Unnbcring, and in 18r)7 established at Old Tap-\\npan, in Harrington townsiiip, an extensive cliair-fac-\\ntory. The mechanical genius and sl ill of tiie foun-\\nders of this enterprise at once insured its success, and\\nthe quality of the work produced has created a de-\\nmand which hasrenilered an extension of their estab-\\nlishment a necensity. They have made ii spcciiilty of\\nfolding-chairs, which are |)rotected by ten ditlerent\\npatents. They are also the makers of the lir-.t f(dd-\\ning-rf)cker in the United States, which now enjoys a\\ngreat popularity.\\nMr. ollignon is in politics a Republican, but in no\\nsense a party man, voting rather in the cause of right\\nand good govern uicMl than for the advancement of\\npersonal or parly interests. He was reared from in-\\nfancy in the Roman Catholic Church, but is liberal in\\nliis views and a cordial supporter of all worthy cliurch\\nand school enterprises.\\nNicholas Collignon, tlu- subject of this biographi-\\ncal -.kclib, niav wilb propriety be spf)ken of as one\\nof the foremost citizens of the townsiiip of Harring-\\nton, both in point of energy and integrity. He was\\nthe grandson of John Collignon, who wius a iialivi of\\nReught, France, where he was born in 1754, and em-\\nigrated to the inviting shores of America. At a later\\ndate he resided in Hergen County for some years, but\\nultimately returned to his birthplace, where the de-\\nclining years of liis life were sp)ent. He had one son,\\nPeter C, born Sept. 22, 1779, who also made the\\nUnited States his residence in 1825. In 1831 he re-\\nmoved to Bergen County, where he engaged in busi-\\nness pursuits. He married Mary Perrin, also of\\nFrance, and had children, Catherine, Nicholas,\\nClaudius t Elizabeth, .lames, Peter, August, .Vdam,\\nJane Ellen, and Victor. Of this number Nicholas,\\nthe subject of this biography, was born in Hudson\\nStreet, New York City, Sept. 10, 1829. His boyhood\\nwas s|)ent in Hergen County at school, and at a later\\ndate in the city of New York, where he acipiired the\\ntrad of a ship-carpenter with Me.^srs. Hell iV Itrown,\\nof that city. In IS. )2 he went to the gold-lields of\\nCalifornia to seek his fortune, but not liking the\\nrough life of gold-digging, he left the mines and went\\nto San Francisco, where he laiil the foundation of a\\nship-yard, and built the first American ves.sel ever\\nbuilt on the Pacific coast. He named it the Maria\\n.Malilila, and ii was the fiustest sailing-vessel of llie\\nco:i8t.\\nIn 1855 he returned to the home of his childhood,\\nand was nuirried to Miss Catherine Demarest. There\\nwere born to ihem seven children, Nicholas, Ma-\\ntilda, Peter, George W., Emma B., Alice .lane, and\\nCecelia, of whom died Nicholas, Peter, .Mice J., and\\nICniiiia in early childhood. He llicii purchased a", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0316.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "^cd/X ^.ey ^.a^^/^\\nHis paternal great-grandTather, Samuel Demiires^t. \\\\va;^ horn\\nJune 0, 1724, and died March 14. 1S08. He wa.-- iuiprisoued in\\nNew York City during the RevoIuMonary war for being a\\nrebel. His wife, Margaret Brinckerhoff, born Oct. 4, 17211,\\ndied March 21, 1802, and bore him the following children:\\nPeter, Henry, Cornelius, Roelof, Maria, and Ann. All of his\\nsons served in the llevolutionary war.\\nOf these children, Roelof, the grandfather of our t^ubject, was\\nborn Aug. 23, 1756, and died Sept. 4, His wife was Maria\\nDcninrcst, by whom he had three children. Samuel li.. the\\nfa I her of our subject, John R., and Margaret.\\nSamuel R. Demarest was born in the town of Old Hackensack,\\nnow Palisade, Feb. 5, 1783. He was a blacksmith by trade,\\nand was also engaged in farming and distilling. He was active\\nin polities as a Democrat, served as freeholder of his township,\\nand represented Bergen County in both branches of the State\\nLegislature.\\nMr. Demarest was a member and officer of the True Reformed\\nChurch at Schraalenburgh, and active and enterpri. ^ing in all\\nthat pertained to the prosjierity of the people and the develop-\\nment of the various interests of the county, and may safely\\nbe classed among the representative men of the past.\\nHe was united in marriage Dec. 22, 1S08, to Elizabeth Za-\\nbriskie, who was born Feb. 13, 1789, and died May 14, 1873.\\nHe died Feb. 24, 1872. Their children were John Zabriskie,\\nRalph S., Cornelia, John S., Maria, Samuel S., Margaret,\\nCatharine, Garret Zabriskie, and Ann Eliza.\\nOf these children, Ralph S. Demarest was born nt what is\\nnow Demarest Station, in Harrington townshiji. July 1, 1811.\\nHis education was obtained in the common schools of his town,\\nand in a private school in Xew York City, under the tuition of\\nJoseph Nelson. He was a schoolmate of Dr. Jas. C. Forrester,\\nHamilton Fish, and John Jay. At the age of seventeen he\\nturned his attention to farming, and has since been a repre-\\nsentative agriculturist. He was one of the projectors of the\\nNorthern Railroad of New Jersey, which was built about 1S58,\\nand was for many years one of its directors. He is at present\\none of the directors of the Bergen County Farmers Mutual\\nFire Insurnnoe Company.\\nIn politics he is a Democrat, and has been chosen many\\ntimes to positions of trust, tirst as township collector and ne.xt\\nas town clerk. About the year 1853 he was elected as freeholder\\nof his township and served two consecutive terms, acting as\\ndirector of the board both terms. He was a member of the\\nAssembly from Bergen County in 1854-55, and in 1859-61 he\\nwas a member of the State Senate. In 186S, Mr. Demarest\\nwas one of the Presidential electors for New Jersey, and cast\\nhis vote for Hon. Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair for\\nPresident and Vice-President of the United States.\\nHe is a member of the True Reformed Church at Schraalen-\\nburgh, and has officiated at different times as both elder and\\ndeacon.\\nHe was married Oct. IS, 1832, to Jane, daughter of Tunis\\nHaring, of Harrington township, by whom he has eight sur-\\nviving children, Elizabeth A., wife of C. A. Herring; Rachel,\\nwife of Wm. Lydecker: John F. H. Maria J., wife of Jefferson\\nTilt; Samuel R, Jemima, wife of A. G. Herring; Catherine;\\nand Emma, wife of C. J. Cole.\\nThe Demarests are of French origin, and were among the\\nearly settlors of Bergen County.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0319.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0320.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "v^/^O^W7^^^^c^i^^e^^\\nHis paternal grandfather, Peter V. Deniarest,\\nwas born Nov. 19, 1764, and married. May ^iO,\\n179U, Leah Deniarest, who bore Iiini one child,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Daniel P.\\nDaniel P. Dcmarest, the father of the .subject\\nof our sketch, was born May 16, 17!)1. His\\nwife was Leaii Bogert, by whom he had five\\nciiildren, Leah, Isaac D., Peter, David D.,\\nwho is identified with the Theological Seminary\\nat New Brunswicl N. J., and Garret D.\\nMr. Deniarest took an active part in the True\\nReformed hurch at Schraalenburgh, of which\\nhe and his wife were both members. He died\\nNov. 17, 1822. Garret D., son of Daniel P.\\nDeniarest, was born on the Demarest homestead,\\nin the town of Harrington, Bergen Co., N. J.,\\nAug. 23, 1821. He succeeded to the homestead\\nproperty by iidieritance, where he spent his\\nactive business life as a farmer. He was a\\nmember of the True Reformed Church at\\nSchraalenburgh, and was one of its oflicers.\\nMr. Demarest was a Republican in politics, but\\nnever sought for official place. He died A])ril\\n23, 1877.\\nHe was united in marriage, May 19, 1853, to\\nMaria, daughter of John D. Demarest, who has\\nborne him seven children, -Leah (wife of David\\nVan Wagoner), Daniel, Margaretta, John (de-\\nceased), Kittle, John (2d), and Milton Demarest.\\nThe Demarest family in Bergen County are\\nof French origin, and honorably trace their line\\nof descent from the Huguenots who were driven\\nfrom France by religious persecution, first seek-\\ning homes in Holland, and afterwards on Long\\nIsland and in counties bordering on the Hudson.\\nAccording to the oldest records they appear to\\nhave been among the first settlers in Bergen\\nCounty.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0323.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0324.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0325.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3^^yu.-6^ V/S\\nHis fatlier, Jacob Herring, Ava.s a native of\\nBergen County, and resided at Sclira;ilcnl)urjili,\\nwhere lie was engaged in fanning. He was\\none of tlie prime niovei-s in tlie erection of the\\nReformed (hnnh edifice at Scliraalenburgli,\\nand was one of its meinl)ers and earnest sup-\\nporters. His first wife was Wilniina Banta,\\nwho bore him one (;hild, Henry.\\nHis .second wife wils Susiin Livingston, who\\nbore him tliree chiUIren, Wilmiria, tlie wife of\\n.Matthew Bogert Daniel (dcceji.s\u00c2\u00abl) and Cor-\\nnelius J., the subject of this sketch.\\nCornelius .1. Hi-rring was born in the town\\nof Harrington, Bergen Co., N. .1., April 5, 17i^\u00c2\u00bb7,\\nwhere lie has 8i ent most of his active business\\nC^/^Z^T^-r^\\n/-O\\nlife as a farmer. He acquired a limited educa-\\ntion, and in early life learned the trade of a\\ntailor. He is one of the substiintial citizens of\\nhis township, and has always l een identified\\nwitli all worthy local enterprises. He is a\\nmember of the Reformed Church at Schraal\\nenburgb, and has .served as deacon of that\\nchurch.\\nMr. Herring was united in marriage, Nov.\\n27, 1817, to Ann D. Riker, of New York\\nCity, who was born Dec. 2. 1706, and bore\\nhim eight children, Henry; James; Jacob;\\nSu.sau Ann, wife of John De Voe; Daniel C;\\nJohn Riker; .Mary .lane, wile of John L.\\nTurnnre and William C. Herring.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0326.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "LODI.\\n219\\nlarge mill property on the Hackensack River two\\nmiles east of Westwood, with his brother Claudius.\\nThey have built up a large and prosperous business,\\nconsisting of saw-mills, wheelwright material, and\\nextensive chair-factories, and were the owners and\\ninventors of several patents for folding-chairs. Mr.\\nCollignon was beloved by all who knew him. He\\nwas a man of sterling integrity, kind and generous to\\nall. He was during the war of the Rebellion an offi-\\ncer of the Twenty-second Regiment New Jersey Vol-\\nunteers, and served with credit during the period of\\nnine months. He then returned home and continued\\nthe business with his brother. He was in politics a\\nRepublican, and on repeated occasions a member of\\nthe township committee of Harrington. In his re-\\nligious faith he was a Disciple of Christ, with a kindly\\nfeeling to all Christian denominations. During the\\nlast three years of his life he surtercd terribly with a\\ncancer tumor in his windjiipe, and went through six\\npainful operations. The death of Mr. Collignon oc-\\ncurred June 25, 1879, and caused profound sorrow in\\nall circles, where his broad sympathies, his genial\\nnature, and his noble traits of character have caused\\nhim to be ereatlv beloved.\\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.\\nLODI.\\nSituation and General Description.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The town-\\nship of Lodi is located in the southwestern part of\\nBergen County, and is bounded as follows: North-\\neasterly and northerly, New Barbadoes and Midland\\nwesterly, Saddle River and Passaic River; southerly\\nand southwesterly, Union easterly and southeasterly,\\nHacken.sack River.\\nThe present township of Lodi comprises only a\\nportion of the territory originally included within its\\nboundaries in 1825, the date of its organization, the\\ntownship of Union having been set otf from it since\\nthat date. As it may prove interesting to readers to\\nhave a description of the township as it appeared soon\\nafter its organization, the following is appended, taken\\nfrom the New Jersey Gazetteer, published in 1833:\\nLodi, t-ship, Bergen Co., bounded N, by New Barbadoes t-sliip, E. and\\nS.K. by Hackensack river, which separates it from Bergen t-ship, and\\nW. and S. by the Passaic river, dividing it from Essex co. CentraHy dis-\\ntant, S.W. from Hackensack-town, 6 miles. Greatest length 10, greatest\\nbreadth E. and \\\\V. 5 miles; area 22,000 acres surface level. More than\\nhalf the t-ship consists of salt marsh and cedar swamp. On the N.E.\\nthere are about 4000 acres of aralde huid, and on Ihe west a strip run-\\nning the whole length of the t-sbi|i, and varying from 1 to 2 miles in\\nwidth. These are of red shale, with a margin of alluvial on the Passaic,\\nwell cultivated and productive. Along the latter river are strewed\\nmany handsome country seats, and about a mile S.E. of Belleville lies\\nthe well known Schuyler copper mine. Population of t-ship in 1830,\\n135C. In 1S32 it contained 527 taxables, 57 householders whose ratables\\ndid not e.\\\\ceed $:iU; 21 single men, 1 store, 6 grist mills, 4 saw mills, 2\\ntoll bridges, and 291 horses and mules, and 931 neat cattle above the\\nage of 3 years. And it paid state tax,S20S.87; county, S427.C9; poor,\\nS400; road, 8500. There are several creeks through the marsh, such as\\nBerry s, Kirkland a, and Saw-mill creeks.\\nThe assessed valuation of the property in Lodi\\ntownship for 1880 was i5i700,nOO. Of this $500,000\\nrepresents real estate assessed at about one-third its\\nactual value, and the rest personal property. The\\ntax rates for 1880 were about two per cent, on the\\nabove valuation, apportioned as follows, viz. Poor\\ntax, 16 cents on $100; road tax, 24 cents on .\u00c2\u00a7100;\\nand special school tax, about one per cent.\\nThe total area of the township is 7771 acres in-\\ncluding creeks, and the number of its inhabitant s for\\n1881, 4371. The fact that the township has to support\\nat public expense only four of its inhabitants during\\nthe present year is indicative of the tlirift and econ-\\nomy of the people.\\nNatural Features.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The townshij) of Lodi is di-\\nvided into two regions, an eastern and a western, by\\nan undulating plateau running north and south\\nthrough the centre of the town. This is traversed\\nthrough its whole length by an excellent thoroughfare\\nknown as the Pollifly road, the term Pollifly signifying\\nbog meadow, having reference to its location. The\\neastern region of the township is mainly a track of\\nswamp and marsh called the Reiser, of little use for\\nagricultural purposes. A large part of this was for-\\nmerly covered with valuable cedar timber, but now its", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0329.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2zio\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nvegetation consists principally of tall weeds, wild\\nmorning-glories, roses, and coarse swale grass, the\\nlattiT being cut and stacked on the ground during the\\nsuninuT, and carted ott during tiie winter when the\\nfrozen ground will support horses and wagons. Be-\\nneath the surface there is a stratum of muck in some\\nplaces twelve feet in thickness, and underneath that\\nred shale, a geological formation found in nearly all\\nparts of Lodi. This muck, conij)osed as it is of vege-\\ntable matter, is combustible, and in very dry seasons\\ncatches fire and burns to a great depth. Over the\\ne:isteru section of this region, bordering on tlie llaek-\\nensack River, there is a thick bed of clay, which fur-\\nnishes the raw material for the well-known Hacken-\\nsack brick. The Hackensack River is the natural\\nhighway for commcrec with tliis ])artof the township,\\nwhile the Midhiiul Railroad, reached by a bridge across\\nthe river, transports piLssengers to and from the large\\ncities of the seaboard.\\nBetween the western and eastern regions of the\\ntownship there is a marked difference. West of the\\nI ollifly road we find nothing but upland. In the\\nsouthwestern corner of tiiis section tlie soil is a light\\nsandv loam, requiring constant fertilizing to make it\\nproductive; elsewhere the soil is thick and heavy.\\nThe leading productions of this part of the township\\nare melons, cabbages, beets, wheat, rye, and corn. The\\nbest farms produce ])er acre lot) barrels of melons, 35\\nbushels of wheat, 41) buslicls of corn. Two crops of\\nhay are cut annually. The varieties of timber are\\nchestnut, hickory, maple, gray oak, and white oak.\\nOf the latter variety there are some of the finest trees\\nin the State.\\nLodi s i)roximity to Saddle River make.s the western\\nportion of it a manufacturing centre. The water\\nprivileges here are ex(ee lingly valuable, and furnish\\npower for two grist- and saw-mills, the bleaching and\\ndyeing-factory, and the Lodi Chemical Works. The\\nland in this part of the township, on account of its\\narableness, its healthy situation, and location on a\\nrailroad within convenient ilistance from New York,\\nis held at a higli i rice. Ten years ago |)ortions of it\\nwere sold for from one to two thousand dollars per\\nacre, and even now it is valued at from one to four\\nhundred dollars per acre. There are no lakes or ponds\\nin this township, and but a few small streams, the\\nmost prominent lieing Berry s Creek, which rises at a\\npoint not far from Miilland township, (lows in a south-\\nerly direction, anil finally empties into tlie llacken-\\ngack in the township of I nion.\\nEarly Settlements. The pioneers in the settle-\\nment il the township of Lodi were mainly of Dutch\\nileseent. Many of them came here directly from\\nHolland, while others were descendant-s of families\\nlocated in various part.s of New .Jersey and New York.\\nTlicy brought with them that spirit of integrity and\\nhone\u00c2\u00abty which has placed the credit of their native\\nland high above that of all other nations. The early\\nsettlers were nearly all farmers, anil to this day their\\ni descendants who live in Lodi are engaged generally\\nin the same occupation.\\nAs is stated under another head, the first owner ot\\nall the land in the townslii]) of Lodi was Capt. John\\nBerry. He disposed of much of the land himsell\\nand transmitted the remnant of his grant to his only\\nson, John W. Berry. The male branch of the Berry\\nfamily in Lodi has been extinct for many years, and\\nit has been found impossible to secure anything more\\nthan a mere statement of the names of the members\\nof this family who have lived in Lodi during the\\nI i)ast hundred years. They occupied the land in the\\nregion of the site of Carlstadt. The names of the\\nBerrys who are known to have lived in Lodi since\\nthe death of John W. Berry are Philip Berry, who\\ndied in 1793; Catherine Berry, who died in 18ii3\\nI hili]) Berry, whose death occurred in IS. id; John\\nA. Berry, Henry Berry, Hendrick Berry, Stephen\\nBerry, John I. Berry, and William Berry.\\nThe first representative of the Brinkerhotf family\\nin the township of Lodi was George Brinkerhoff, who\\nemigrated from Holland with three brothers in the\\nlatter part of the seventeenth century. One of their\\nnumber settled in New York, another in the We-st,\\nand two in Now Jersey. George Brinkerhoff pur-\\ncha.sed a farm of two hundred acres for twenty pounds\\nin what is tlie present village of Wordridge. This\\nfarm has remained in the possession of his descend-\\nants ever since. George Brinkerhoff was the father\\nof four sons, Henry, Jacob, James, and Cornelius.\\nTwo of the sons only, Henry am! Jacob, settleil in\\nLodi. They divided their father s farm, each taking\\none hundred acres. Henry married Rachel Vreeland,\\nand became the parent of two sons, (icorge and Enoch.\\nEnoch was one of the leading men in the township\\nat that time, and was its representative in the Legis-\\nlature. He was united in marriage to Mary Berry.\\nHis children were Henry E., who occupies the home-\\nstead Mary E., deceased; and Sarah Catherine.\\nSarah Catherine married George C. Gale, and lives\\non the Pollifly road, ,iust across the way from the\\nBrinkerholf farm. Henry E. was united in marriage\\nto Sarah Terhune, and has three children, all of whom\\nlive at home, Mary E., Ella W., and Harry.\\nGeorge Brinkerhoff, the brother of Enoch, nnirried\\nSusan Froeghly. Their children were Rachel, Peter,\\nDitmus, Henry Matilda, Catherine, Enoch, Richard,\\nJohn, anil .\\\\nna, none of whom live in the town-\\nship.\\nJacob Brinkerholf, the other son of the i ioncer,\\nwho settled in this township, was united in marriage\\nto a Mis.s Van Bussani,and became the parent of four\\nsons, Henry, George, Philip, and .fames. James oc-\\ncupies the homestead, and is the only one living, the\\nothers having emigrated to the West and since died.\\nHe hiis taken a prominent part in the politics of the\\ncounty, and has held the offices of sheriff and senator.\\n.Fames Brinkerhoff ha.s been twice married, his first\\nwife being Maria Schoonnuiker, his second Sarah", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0330.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "LODI.\\n221\\nParsons. The names of his children who are living\\nare Jacob, Henry, James, Abraham, Margaret, Delia,\\nCatherine, Helena, Ida, and Emma. Margaret mar-\\nried Isaac Schoonmaker, Delia married Henry Ros-\\nter, and Helena married Charles Acker. Jacob was\\nunited in marriage to Levina Alyea, and after her\\ndecease to Harriet Kipp. His children are George,\\nLevina, Walter, and Harriet, all of whom are living\\nat their home across the way from the Brinkerhoff\\nhomestead. Abraham married Mary Darling and\\nlives at Rutherford.\\nOne of the most prominent families in the town-\\nship of Lodi is that of the Terhunes. The first one\\nwho settled in the township was Nicholas Terhune.\\nHe purchased and lived on the farm at present occu-\\njiied by John Van Bussam. The date of his settle-\\nment here is not known. He was the parent of two\\ndaughters, the names of whom are also unknown.\\nTheir children, or the children of one of them, it is\\nuncertain which, were Peter, Paul, and Richard.\\nPeter occupied the old homestead, Paul lived at the\\ncorner of Pollifly road and the road leading to\\nKnowles Mills. He had three children, Paul,\\nNicholas, and Nellie. Paul is no longer living. Nich-\\nolas occupies a farm on the road leading from Saddle\\nEiver to Pollifly, not far from Knowles Mills, and\\nNellie Terhune lives in Hackensack.\\nPeter Terhune was married and became the parent\\nof a son, Nicholas, who died some years ago, leaving\\nfour daughters. None of these are at present living\\nin the township.\\nRichard Terhune had five sons, Nicholas, Albert,\\nPaul, Garret, and Peter, of whom the only one living\\nis Garret, who is married and has three sons residing\\nin Passaic. Albert left no children. Nicholas has\\none son, Albert, living in Passaic.\\nPaul was the father of the |)resent Richard Ter-\\nhune. Paul Terhune died when his son was an in-\\nfant, and the latter was adopted by his uncle Peter,\\nwho lived on a farm on Saddle River road, not far\\nfrom the present village of Lodi. Peter Terhune had\\nalso three other children, one of whom lives in Pas-\\nsaic, and the other two in California. Richard Ter-\\nhune purchased a farm of about one hundred acres\\njust south of his uncle s, and about twelve years ago\\nerected a costly house upon it, the finest in the neigh-\\nborhood. He was married and has four children liv-\\ning, Paul, Herman V. D., Alice, and Sarah. Sarah\\nis the wife of William S. Anderson, the lumber mer-\\nchant of Passaic. The other children occupy the\\nhomestead with their father. Mr. Richard Terhune\\nowns a tract of about eighty acres of land at Corona\\nwhich is very valuable. Mr. Terhune has in his pos-\\nsession a Dutch Bible, published in 1734, which it is\\nprobable was brought from Holland by the ancestor\\nof the Terhunes in this country. It contains the\\ndates of deaths occurring in the family since 1754.\\nIts covers are oaken boards covered with leather and\\nfastened together with brazen clasps. It is a very\\n15\\nantique affair and much prized by members of the\\nfamily.\\nJacob Hopper was the first ancestor of the Hopper\\nfamily who lived in the township of Lodi. He pur-\\nchased a farm of four hundred acres for two hundred\\npounds, extending from the Pollifly road back to the\\nSaddle River, and including the farm of Jacob I.\\nHopper. His children were Garret, Cornelius, Henry\\nJ., and Jennie. Garret was married and had four\\nchildren, Jemima, Catherine, Jacob, and David.\\nJemima married Dr. Garrison, of Dundee Lake\\nCatherine married James Demarest; Jacob was\\nunited in nuirriage to Gertrude Vreeland. They have\\ntwo children, unmarried and living at home. Jacob\\nreceived his grandfather s homestead on Pollifly road,\\nand this he still occupies. David Hopper married\\nCharity Blauvelt, and lived near Godwinville.\\nHenry J. Hopper, the brother of Garret Hopper,\\nmarried and had six children, Cornelia, Cornelius,\\nCatherine, Sarah, Enoch, and Jacob. These are all\\ndead except Jacob, whose home is on his father s es-\\ntate in the village of Lodi.\\nWalling Van Winkle, the progenitor of the numer-\\nous families of this name who have lived in the town-\\nship, was of Dutch extraction, and owned a farm of\\nfive hundred acres in the southwestern part of the\\ntownship, near the city of Passaic. The deed grant-\\ning him his land bears date 1734, and is signed in\\nHolland script. The deed begins with these words\\nTo all Christian people to whom these presents\\nshall come, Greeting, etc. The sons of Walling\\nVan Winkle were John, Cornelius, Walling, and\\nHalmagh. John was married and had one child,\\nwho lived in Passaic, and who became the parent of\\nthree children, none of whom are living. Cornelius\\nlived in Paterson, and had two daughters, both of\\nwhom are dead. Walling and Halmagh inherited\\ntheir father s farm, and in 1785 divided it, each\\ntaking two hundred and fifty acres. Walling was\\nunited in marriage to Petrina Van Riper. Their\\nchildren were Walling, Clarissa, and Jane. The\\nlatter became the wife of John Kipp, of Passaic.\\nWalling left two sons and five daughters, Nicholas,\\nRichard, Sophia, Rachel Ann, Petrina, Clarissa, Cath-\\nerine Jane, of whom only three survive. Rachel Ann\\nbecame the wife of Philip A. Van Riper, of Passaic\\nCatherine lives in Jersey City, and is the wife of\\nJacob Wirth.\\nHalmagh Van Winkle had seven children, Wall-\\ning, Adrian, John, Michael, Jane, Gertrude, and\\nElizabeth. Of these Michael is the only one left.\\nWhen his father died the homestead was willed to\\nhim, and this he now occupies, at the advanced age\\nof eighty years. Walling lived at Clifton, and died\\nbefore the decease of his father, leaving three children.\\nThe Van Winkle homestead is just across the river\\nfrom Passaic, and much of it has been sold for build-\\ning lots, so that Michael Van Winkle at present has\\nless than a hundred of the original five hundred acres", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0331.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "222\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ncontained in the farm. Michael Van Winkle had\\nthree children, ^larisi, Clarissa, and Wilhelniiis.\\nMaria became the wile of Henry Outwater Clarissa\\nmarried Henry H. Yearance and became the parent\\nof six children Wilhelmus lives at home and is\\nunmarried.\\nIn the year Ui i i, Ilendriek Kipp came to this\\ncountry from Holland, Tiic Kipps, or De Kypes, as\\nthey were formerly called, are said to have originated\\nin France, whence they were driven by religious per-\\nsecution to Holland. On Feb. 19, 1660, Hendrick\\nKipp was united in marriage to Anna Desilis, and\\nsoon after moved to the prej^ent township of Ijodi, and\\npurchased two luuulrcd acres of land on PoUifly\\nroad. This farm extended back to tlie Saddle River,\\nand included the site of the village of Lodi. As to\\nthe immediate offspring of Hendrick Kipp, it is only\\nknown that he had a son, Nieasias. The latter pur-\\nchased an adjoining farm of two liiiiidrcd and twenty\\nacres from Garret Lydecker, and bouglit a large tract\\nof Reise land for a fatted calf It is probable that\\nNieasias Kipp was an only child, and on his father s\\ndeath inherited all his property. Nieasias was mar-\\nried, and had five sons, Hendrick, Cornelius, Isaac,\\nJacob, and Peter. Cornelius located not far from\\nPaterson, and Isaac bought a farm on tlie west side\\nof the Saddle Kiver, just below Robert Rennie s farm.\\nHendrick and Peter remained on the homestead,\\nHendrick taking the south part, and Peter the north.\\nPeter Kipp was married, and had two sons, Abraham\\nand Henry. The latter located at Rutherford, and\\nowned nearly all the land embraced in the site of\\nRutliirford. .\\\\braham received the homestead, and\\nwa\u00c2\u00bb the parent of two children, a son and a daughter.\\nThe son Peter inherited the farm. His children were\\nAbram, Peter, Henry, John, and Mary. Henry is at\\npresent the only Kipp living on the old homestead.\\nDuring the voyage of a family by the name of Van\\nSchank from Holland to this country a child was\\nborn. The officers being French christened it Ro-\\nmaine, after the name of a distinguished French-\\nman. Thus was named the progenitor of the many\\nRomaine families in Bergen County. The first repre-\\nsentative of this family in Lodi township was Daniel\\nRomaine, who came here from New Harbailoes about\\none hundred years ago. lie purchased the mill-site,\\nwater privileges, and nearly one liundred acres of\\nland on the Saddle River, not far from the Paterson\\nand Hackensack road, for five thoiisaml dollars. His\\ntwo sons were .lobn anil Martin, .loliii married\\nBarali Van (liesen. anfl had two ilanghtcrs, neither of\\nwhom arc living. Martin settled on his father s\\nhomestead, and was united in marriage to Maria\\nVan 8aun, and afler her decease to Aletta Acker-\\nman. His throe children were Daniel, Richard, and\\nMaria. Kii-hard built a house just across the Saddle\\nRiver, and married harity Sip. They have one\\nchild, Ilelma-ss, who married Eve Van Winkle and\\nlives in Paterson.\\nMaria married Garret Van Riper, of Dundee Lake,\\nand became the parent of two children, Daniel and\\nRichard, of whom the latter lives at Dundee Lake\\nand the former at Paterson. Daniel Romaine, the\\nsecond son of Martin Romaine, was united in mar-\\nriage to Ann Berdan. Their children are Martin,\\nwho lives at Passaic Valley, Henry, who lives in Col-\\norado, and John, who is at home in business with his\\nfather. John married Margaret Oldis, and has two\\ndaughters, Annie and May. He was educated at the\\ncommercial school in Osnabruck, Germany, and is a\\nfluent German scholar, Henry Romaine was in the\\nnavy three years during the civil war, and was one of\\nthe sullerers at Fort Fisher. During 1873-78, Mr.\\nDaniel Romaine was in the lumber and coal business\\nnear Bennington, Vt., and during that time became\\na member of the Vermont Legislature. In 1852-55\\nhe was engaged in the grain business in New Y ork,\\non the corner of Murray and Washington Streets, in\\nthe firm of Esty A: Romaine. In the early part of\\nhis life Mr. Romaine was the leading director in the\\nPaterson Plank-Road Corporation, paying out during\\nhis connection with it over ninety thousand dollars.\\nThe ancestor of all the Cutwaters in this country\\nimmigrated from Holland during the latter jiart of\\nthe seventeenth century, and located at Saugerties,\\nN. Y. He died when his two sons were (piite young,\\nand his wife was remarried. The cruelty of their\\nstepfather is said to have compelled the two boys to\\nflee from home. One, Thoniiis Francis Outwaler,\\ncame t+) the present township of Lodi, and in time,\\ntogether with Messrs. Hrinkcrhotf and Ki[ip, pnr-\\ncha-sed the island of Moiiachie. His father s death\\nhaving occurred .so early in his youth that he had\\nforgotten his name, he assumed the name Out-\\nwater, having heard his father say he had come\\nfrom Outwater, in Holland. Mr. t)utwater received\\nthe upland of this region as his portion of the pur-\\nchase, and the other buyers the lowland. In the\\nI corner-stone of a house occupied till recently by his\\nj descendants is the following inscription A. D. 1718.\\nF. OW. M. R.B. 1816, which appears to mean that\\nI Francis Cutwater erected a house on his land in 171S.\\nand that this wa.s rebuilt in ISIO. Thomas Krain i-\\nOutwater married and bad four sons, John, Peter,\\nDaniel, and Jacob, of whom only one, .lacob, re-\\nI mained in Monachia. His children were John, Gil-\\nham, Matilda, and Elizabeth. Gilliam moved t\\nBergen Point, and .John inlieriled the farm. He \\\\v:i^\\nmarried, and became the parent of six sons and one\\ndaughter, Jacob, Nicholas, Peter, Richard, John,\\nAbraham, and Elizabeth. Johti, Jacob, and Peter\\nreceived the land lus their portion, and the others per-\\nI sonal property. Peter Outwater was the father of the\\npresent John P. Outwater. lie had also two daugh-\\nters, Sarah and Maria.\\nThe progenitors of the Schoonnuikers in this coun-\\ntry were four brothers, who emigrated from Holland.\\nThree settled in New York State, and the other in", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0332.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "LODI.\\n223\\nNew Jersey. The first member of this family who\\nlocated in Lodi townsliip was Isaac Schoonmaker, the\\nson of a Passaic minister, who married Eva Vreeland,\\na descendant of Peter Vreeland, one of the earliest\\nsettlers in the township. Tlieir children were Henry,\\nJohn, Peter, Sydney, and Maria. John married\\nHelen Paulison, and occupied an estate adjoining\\nthat of the Brinlierhoff family. They had three cliil-\\ndren, of whom one only, Isaac, is living. Mr. Isaac\\nSchoonmaker occupies the old Vreeland homestead,\\nand has in his possession the deed granting it to\\nPeter Vreeland, written on parchment, and dated\\n1698. Mr. Sclioonmaker has taken an active interest\\nin tlie public aftairs of the township, and has held\\nthe office of town clerk for many years. He was\\nunited in marriage to Margaret Brinkerhoff, and has\\nsix children, Gertrude, Henry, May, James, Frank,\\nand John, all of whom live at home. John Schoon-\\nmaker, another son of the pioneer, married Aletta\\nVan Riper, and located at Paterson. Peter, his\\nbrotlier, married Eliza Terhune. They live at Pater-\\nson, and have four children. Lydia Schoonmaker,\\none of the daughters of the pioneer, was united in\\nmarriage to Henry L. Ackerman, of Hackensack.\\nThey have one child, Sophia. Maria, the other\\ndaughter, married Andrew Voorhis, of Maywood, and\\nhas two children.\\nTheodore Van Idestine, who came from Holland\\nabout 1700, appears to have been the first of the Van\\nIdestines in this country. He had a son, Peter, who\\ncame to the township of Lodi, and purchased a farm\\nof one hundred acres on the Pa.ssaic River. Here his\\ndescendants have lived until quite recently, when the\\nestate was sold to Capt. Rynders. Peter Van Idestine\\nwas married to Mary Tyce, and became the parent of\\nfour children, Peter, John, Henry, and Catherine.\\nPeter settled in the neighborliood, and was never\\nmarried. John was married, and had five children,\\nPeter, John, Michael, and two daughters. Catherine\\nmarried Clhristoi her Jerrolman, and located at North\\nBelleville. Their chiklren were Peter, John, Corne-\\nlius, Ellen, and Mary Ann. Henry Van Idestine,\\nwho is still living at the advanced age of seventy-nine\\nyears, was united in marriage to Gertrude Vreeland,\\nof Bloomflcld. Their chiklren are Peter, John,\\nHenry, Garret, Eliza, Margaret Ann, Jane, Ellen,\\nGertrude, and Matilda. Ellen married, and lives in\\nJersey City. Jane and Gertrude live at Peru. Eliza\\nmarried ex-Sheriif Henry Hopper. Their home is at\\nSmall Lots.\\nThe ancestor of the Demarest family in Lodi town-\\nship made his advent here a short time before the be-\\nginning of the present century, and located on the\\npresent homestead of the family, at the junction of\\nthe Pollifly road with the Hackensack and Paterson\\nroad. The farm originally comprised about two hun-\\ndred acres, for which Mr. Stephen Demarest paid\\n$.3000. Stephen Demarest was twice married, one of\\nhis wives being Margaret Ackerman. The names of\\nhis children were Peter, Helmagh, Martha, and Rich-\\nard. Peter iniierited the homestead, and was united\\nin marriage to Jane Bartholf Their children were\\nMargarette, Stephen, Garret, Richard, Cornelius, and\\nJennie. Stephen was united in marriage to Libbie\\nVreeland. Margarette married Walter H. Dodd, of\\nBloomfield. They have one child, Edith Dodd. The\\nother children reside at home. Mr. Garret Demarest\\nis engaged in tlie grocery business with Ids brother\\nin Hackensack.\\nLawrence Ackerman, the ancestor of the many\\nfamilies of that name in New Jersey, is said to have\\ncome from Holland about the middle of the last cen-\\ntury. He had a son, Abraham Ackerman, who pur-\\nchased a farm in Lodi township, on the Polliily road.\\nHe was married, and had four children, Abraham\\nK., Lawrence, Sophia, and Hester. Lawrence mar-\\nried Cecilia Van Bussam. Sophia was united in mar-\\nriage to Edo Vreeland. Hester was married to Peter\\nGarrabrant, of Peru, and became the parent of four\\nchildren, Sophia, Abraham, Sarah Jane, and Emma.\\nAbraham K. Ackerman married, and had one child,\\nAbraham, who married Sarah Van Riper, of Passaic.\\nThey live on the Ackerman homestead, and have two\\nchildren, Abraham K. and Ella.\\nThe first of tlie Van Bussam family of whom there\\nis any authentic account was David. He lived on\\nthe Van Bussam homestead, in the township of Lodi,\\nduring the Revolution, and is said to have taken an\\nactive part in that struggle. He had three sons and\\none daughter. Two of the sons died young without\\nissue. David Van Bussam inherited tlie homestead,\\nand lived to a great age. He left three sons, Garret,\\nJames, and John. The two last are now living in\\nthe township. Mr. John Van Bussam is at present\\nthe representative of his district in the Legislature.\\nDuring his short experience he has shown himself\\ncapable and efficient, and is quite ])opular with his\\nconstituents.\\nSchools. In the year 1840 this township contained\\nbut two schools and fifty-two scholars, and to-day it\\nhas five well-constructed public schools and a seating\\ncapacity of twelve hundred children, with property\\nestimated to be worth thirty-six thousand five hun-\\ndred dolhus. District No. 32.1 is of recent formation,\\nand but little can be said of it. The first meeting for\\neducational purposes was held in 1875, and a new dis-\\ntrict was formed from District No. 33, to be called\\nLittle Ferry District, No. 32.]. A board of trustees\\nwere appointed, who were authorized to raise the sum\\nof two thousand dollars, and later an additional five\\nhundred dollars, and secure an eligible plot of ground\\nupon which to erect a substantial brick building.\\nThis they did, and the building having been com-\\npleted the services of Miss Brinkerhoff of Hacken-\\nsack, were secured, who opened the school Nov. 29,\\n1875, with thirty-two scholars. This numbei has\\nsince doubled, and the school is very prosperous.\\nDistrict No. 34 is known as the Moonachie District,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0333.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "224\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthe first school having been opened in the kitchen of i\\nPeter Allen by one Thomas Stephenson, who taught\\nthe ordinary branches for the usual compensation of\\nthose days. This school was conducted during the\\nwinter montlis only, and in summer the children were\\ncompelled to travel a long distance through an almost\\nimpassable swamp known as the Risus to PoUifly.\\nIt is related that they were often lost in this marsh,\\nand were compelled to climb trees in order to ascer-\\ntain tlicir location with reference to the school or\\ntheir own homes. In the year 1832 a building was\\nerected by subscription and donation in the district.\\nIt was furnished in a primitive manner with old-\\nfashioned long desks and slab seats. This structure i\\ndid service until 1872, when another of modern archi-\\ntecture was reared in its stead which reflects much\\ncredit upon the district. The school was for years\\nmaintained by tuition fees, but is now entirely free.\\nDistrict No. 35, known as the Lodi District, is lo-\\ncated at Lodi. The inhabitants of what was then a\\nneighborhood, and is now a village, feeling the need of\\na school, called a meeting for the ])urpose of maturing\\na place to meet this general want. A donation of\\nland, lumber, and stone was made, and soon a build-\\ning was reared on land of Mr. Jacob H. Hopper. It\\nwas a primitive structure, seventeen by twenty feet\\nin dimensions, furnished with long desks on three\\nsides of the room, and with slab benches for seats.\\nMr. Nicholas Terhune was employed to teach reading,\\nwriting, grammar, and arithmetic at one dollar and\\nfifty cents per scholar. The school opened with\\ntwelve scholars, and soon doubled its number.\\nMore extensive (juarters soon became a necessity,\\nand in 18. H, at a meeting of this distri -t, one thtmsand\\ndollars was voted to be raised by ta.x for the erection\\nof a new structure, Robert Rennie, Esq., having\\ndonated ground for the purpose. 1\\nThe school was opened by a Mr. Merritt as teacher,\\nwith a salary of five hundred dollars jier annum.\\nThis sum was raised partly by tax and partly l y\\ntuition tee, but at a later date became entirely free.\\nIt is now one of the most flourishing schools of the\\ntownship. I\\nDistrict No. 3(5 is located in the .southwestern por-\\ntion of the township, and known a-s the Woodridge\\nDistrict. It embraces the village of Woodridge and\\na portion of Carlstadt. i\\nThe earliest school building was erected in the year\\n1801, on lands of John W. Berry, and known as the\\nMount Plea-sant School. The structure was of stone,\\ntwcnty-tive feet front by twenty deep, one story high,\\nand built by subscription in shares of eight dollars\\neach.\\nPatrick Dillon, the first teacher, was employed at\\na salary of seventy-two pounds a year, to be paid\\nquarterly. A resolution wsus passed by the trustees\\nthat all pu[ ils entering the school, either for a quar-\\nter or a year, shall pay the sum of one dollar and\\nseventy-five cents and their priq ortion of firewood.\\nThe district then embraced what is now known as\\nRutherford Park, Carlstadt, Woodridge, Corona, Moo-\\nnachie, and East PiLssaic. and was nearly four and a\\nhalf miles in length and three in breadth. In 1845\\na new building was erected under the auspices of the\\nMount Pleasant New School Association, upon\\nland purchased of Philip Berry, Jr., which was used\\nuntil 1873, when more commodious quarters were\\nneeded, and a larger edifice responded to the want.\\nOne of the earlier teachers in the old stone building\\nwas Charles Finney, the founder of Oberlin College,\\nOhio, its popular president, and an eminent divine.\\nThrough the eflbrts of one of the teachers a library\\nof one hundred and eighty volumes has been secured.\\nThe present school building is of brick, two stories\\nhigh, and contains (bur chiss-rooms. It wius erected\\nat a cost of ten thousand six hundred dollars.\\nDistrict No. 37 is the most southerly district in the\\ntownship, and embraces a portion of the village of Carl-\\nstadt. It may here be proper to revert to the period,\\nnearly thirty years since, when a number of Oerman\\nsettlers bought the tract on which Carlstadt is now\\nsituated. The only school then existing in the dis-\\ntrict was half a mile above the present village, on the\\nPollifly road. This w:is frequented by all the chil-\\ndren of the neighborhood, some of whom walked a\\ndistance of two miles. The new settlement gradually\\nincreased in dimensions, and in 18(j. the old building\\nbecame too limited in its dimensions. The villagers\\nthen made an efl ort to have an etiifice erected sufli-\\nciently large to supply the demand for comfortable\\nspace, but diflerences arose in selecting the ground,\\nand as a consequence the then existing district was\\ndivided, leaving Carlstadt a district by itself, to build\\nas it desired. To accomjilish this the trustees in\\n1865 purcha.sed four lots in the village, and received\\nauthority to erect a two-story brick building, thirty-\\nfive feet front and thirty-two feet deep, with an addi-\\ntion of ten by sixteen feet to be used as a hall. The\\ncorner-stone wivs laid Oct. 4, 1805, and the building\\nwas completed in the summer of 18()ti, at a cost of\\nfour thousand three hundred and five dollars.\\nBoth the English and German languages were\\ntaught. The school increaseii so steadily in numbers\\nthat more space was required, and the trustees wiie\\nforced to the conclusion that to enlarge or build again\\nwas a necessity. They accordingly built an addition\\nsixty- two by thirty-two feet, which was ready for ii-c\\nin February, 1874, and cost eight thousand two hun-\\ndred and forty-three dollars. They have now mv\\nrooms furnished with modern improvements and\\nheated by steam.\\nThe biL-iemeiit in 1875 was devoted to the uses of\\na Kindergarten, which has become very p qmlar.\\nSeveral years ago a school of industry for young girls\\nwas inaugurated in the building by the ladles of the\\ndistrict, the expenses being paid by private subscrii\\ntion. The pupils of the Carlstadt school have in\\nmany Instances attained a high degree of scholarship.\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0334.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "LODl.\\n226\\nThe total number of children now in the various\\n8chool districts of Lodi is 1158, and the amount re-\\nceived from all sources for educational purposes\\nfour thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars\\nand eighty-five cents.\\nEarly Hig hways. All parts of the township have\\nbeen supplied with good roads for nearly a hundred\\nyears. As has been stated in another place, the first\\nroad built within the limits of the present township\\nof Lodi was the PoUifly road. This must have been\\nopened nearly two hundred years ago. Many of the\\nother roads in the township are tributary to this. The\\nSaddle River road, affording communication with\\nPassaic, was in existence before the beginning of the\\npresent century. The Paterson and Jersey Citj- plank-\\nroad was completed about 1820, the Hackensack and\\nPaterson road in 1826, and the road leading from\\nHackensack to Little Ferry not many years later.\\nThe road from Passaic to Carlstadt was finished about\\n1816, and its continuation to Monachie during the\\nsame year. It was not till 1850, however, that the\\nroad leading from Lodi Village to the Pollifly road\\nwas opened. Before that people coming to Hacken-\\nsack followed a zigzag cross-lot path opening upon\\nthe Pollifly road not far from the Demarest home-\\nstead.\\nThe first inhabitants of Lodi thus manifested their\\neagerness to engage in commerce with the rest of the\\nworld by building good roads, and it is needless to\\nstate that their representatives of to-day are not lack-\\ning in the spirit of their ancestors.\\nThe surveyors of highways for the township of Lodi\\nfor 1881 are Martin Klein, John N. Rasmus, Joseph\\nHermann.\\nOrganization. The township of Lodi was set off\\nfrom that of New Barbadoes in the year 1825. The\\nsession laws for that year are not extant, and hence it\\nhas been found impossible to give the act of organiza-\\ntion. A description of the natural features, bounda-\\nries, etc., is given under another head.\\nCivil List. There are no records of elections pre-\\nvious to 1862, with the exception of freeholders, which\\nare given since the organization of the township.\\n1827, Henry W. Kingsland, Joseph Budd; 1828, Wm. C. Kingsland\\n1828-29, Samuel H. Berry; 1829-:i0, Henry P. Kipp; 1830, Abraham\\nI. Berry 1831-32, Cornelius G. Brinkerhoff; 1831-32, 1837, Michael\\nVan Winkle; 1833-34, 18;)8-39, George Kingsland, Peter H. Kipp\\n1835, John A. Berry; 183o-:)6, Richard Cutwater; ]83n, Martin Ro-\\nmeyn 1837. Peter A. Kipp; 1840-43, David D. Van Bussum 1840-42,\\nJacob J. Brinkerhoff; 1843-45, 1854-56, Richard Berdan; 1844-46,\\nJacob H. Hopper; 1846^8, Enoch I. Vreeland; 1847^0,1852-53,\\nJohn Huyler; 1849-51, 1856-58, David .^ckerman; 1850-51, James\\nL. Van Winkle; 1852-54, Enoch Hopper; 1857-59, James J. Brink-\\nerhoff; 1859-61, 1864, Daniel Eomaine; 1860-62, Abraham K. Acker-\\nman; 1862-6,3, Abraham Kipp; 1863, John P. Outwater; 1864-66,\\nGeo. W. Conklin 1866. Richard Terhune 1867, Walling Kipp 1868,\\nRichard Vreeland; 1868-69, Isaac H. Schoonmaker; 1869-74, Johu\\nVan Bussum; 1870, Henry Kipp; 1875-77, Theo. F. Muehliug; 1878\\n-81, John F. Fectner.\\nJudges of Elections, 1862-63, David D. Van Bussum; 1864, Wm. Chif-\\nfendale; 1865-\u00c2\u00ab7, Wm. Dieu 1867, Richard Vau Winkle, Halmagh\\nG. Howard; 1868-81, John Hagerty.\\nTown Clerks, 1862, David Knowles 1863, 1872-76, Isaac H. Schoonimiker\\n1864, Abraham Ackerman 1865, John Van Saun; 1866, Albert\\nConcklin 18fi7, Albert B. C.mcklin 1808-71, John H. Berdan 1877\\n-78, Patrick M. Gram; 1879-81, Geo. Zimmerman.\\nAssessors, 1862-64, Lawrence Ackerman; 1865-67, 1871-72, Richard Ter-\\nhune; 1868, Reuben Rynders; 1809, 1873-75, Peter D. Brinkerhoff;\\n1870, Garret Van Ck-eve 1876-81, John Van Bussum.\\nCollectors, 1862, Garret R. Brinkerhoff; 1863, Henry E. Brinkerhoff;\\n1864-68, Richard Outwater; 1869-71, David Knowles; 1872, John P.\\nSlater; 1873. John H. Brokius; 1874-81, Charles Mathe.\\nCommissioners of Appeal for 1881, John Cook, Frank Ummenmaclier.\\nConstables for 18S1, Joseph Hermann, Adam Smith, Charles Wedell.\\nSurveyors of Highways for 1881, Martin Klein, John N. Rasmus, Joseph\\nHermann.\\nTownship Committee. 1862, David I. .Vckerman; 1863, 1876-77, 1879-80,\\nJames Vau Bussum 1864-66, F. W. Mess 1804-65, John 11. Van Ider-\\nstine 1864, Benjamin B. Goffer; 1864, 1875-76, John Henry Outwater;\\n1864, John H. Ackerman 1.865-66, Charles Concklin 1865, 1870, Wm.\\nDrew; 1865-66, Henry Kipp; 1866-67, Johu W. Berry; 1867, Hal-\\nmagh Howard, James I. Brinkerhoff; 1868-70, Peter Zimmerman\\n1868, Abraham Kipp, Peter D. Brinkerhoff, George H. Brinkerhoff;\\n1869-70, Garret Van Cleeve 1869-70, 1874, 1878-81, John B. Snidle\\n1869-71, 1873, Francis A. Gunz; 1862-63, Isaac I. Brinkerhoff, John\\nP. Van Iderstine, Johu D. Anderson 1862-63, 1867-69, Ferdinand\\nMeyer; 1871, Richard Van Winkle; 1871, 1876, John B. Romaine;\\n1871-73, Theodore Muehling; 1872, .\\\\dam Ruetlinger, Patrick\\nMcMahon, Ferdinand Brunner; 1872-73, Richard Vreeland; 1873-\\n75, E. Chas. Gaus 1874, 1877-81, Peter Mehrohf 1874, George Kiel\\n1874-75, 1877, John F. Feitner; 1875, 1878, Joseph Fortenbach\\n1875, Herman Foth 1876, 1881, Andrew Egert; 1876, Adam Tink;\\n1877-78, David Knowles; 1877-78, James Young.\\nVillages and Hamlets. The village of Lodi is\\nlocated in the northwestern part of the township, on\\nSaddle River. Its history begins with the date of the\\norganization of the township. In 1828 only three\\nfamilies occupied the site of this village, whose popu-\\nlation for 1881 is 1000. To the Messrs. Rennie be-\\nlongs the credit of establishing and maintaining a\\nbusiness which has given employment to the inhabit-\\nants of Lodi for fifty years. Preceding their advent\\nhere the only use made of the enormous water-power\\nwas in running a small grist-mill owned by Messrs.\\nHopper and Zabriskie. To-day the mills and store-\\nhouses cover several acres. The village is by no\\nmeans compact, the houses being scattered for half\\na mile or so back from the river towards the Pollifly\\nroad. The Saddle River road is lined with thrifty\\ntrees, which give this street an attractive appearance\\nduring the spring and summer months. There are\\nfive church edifices in the town, and as several of\\nthese have been built quite recently, they are sugges-\\ntive of vigor and prosperity on the part of the people.\\nOne of the most conspicuous buildings is the depot\\nof the Lodi Railroad. Many of the private residences\\nare fine, those of Mr. Robert Rennie and Mr. Richard\\nTerhune particularly. That of the latter was erected\\nat a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars. It is a\\nthree-story wooden .structure of an imposing appear-\\nance. From its tower a full view of Passaic, Pater-\\nson, and other points of interest can be had. Mr.\\nRobert Rennie s home is just across Saddle River.\\nHis house stands on one side of a park embellished\\nwith statues, fountains, flowers, and shrubbery. Large\\nelms planted by Mr. Rennie many years ago shade\\nthe approaches to his residence.\\nA library of four thousand volumes was purchased", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0335.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nand opened to the public in Lodi some years ago, also a\\nread in r- room, in which the leiulinf; papers and ])eri-\\nodii-als were kept on tile. A billiard parlor and room\\nfor games were connected witli this. Though the fees\\nfor the use of all were small, little interest was mani-\\nfested, and they were consequently closed not long\\nsince. Lodi is connected with the Now York and\\nNew Jersey Railroad by a branch railroad built by\\nMr. Robert Reniiie. This serves to place the inhabit-\\nants of this section within ea-sy reach of New York\\nCity, and thus vastly increases the value of property\\nhereabouts. George Mercer is the postmaster.\\nIn the southern part of the townshij) of Lodi, ex-\\ntending across the line into the township of Union, is\\nthe village of Carlstadt. It is one of the largest in\\nthe county, having a i) )pulation of IGOO. The land\\non which it stands is laid out in rectangles bounded\\nby streets. The village is built quite compactly, all\\nparts of it being within ten minutes walk of the\\ndepot of the New York and New Jersey Railroad.\\nIt-i site was purchttsed in 1851 of .John Earl by a\\nsociety of two hundred and forty German workmen,\\nmainly mechanics, known as the German Democratic\\nLand Association. They paid for the land (one hun-\\ndred and forty acres in all) sixteen thousand dollars.\\nThe purpose was to procure comfortable, healthy\\nhomes for themselves and others of moderate moans\\nat the least expense. The organizer of the society\\nand projector of the village was Charles Klein, and\\nin honor of him it was named Carlstadt. Other\\nprominent founders were Lewis Foht, John Ruet-\\nlingcr, and Daniel Mickol. The first president of the\\nsociety was Charles Klein the first vice-president,\\nAlexander Lang; and the first cashier a Mr. Kapi)ner.\\nThe latter was a Polish refugee, and accompanied Kos-\\nsuth from his home to Constantinople, and thence to\\nthis country. The land wasdivided into three sections,\\nand each section siibilivided into lots. Each member\\nreceived seven lots, two in the first section, two in the\\nsecond, and three in the third, and paid for his share\\nseventy dollars. Carlstadt is an incorporated village,\\ngoverned by a board of trustees elected annually by\\nthe resident real estate owners who are legal voters.\\nTheir duties are to lay out streets, keep them and\\nHJdewalks in repair, etc. The board of trustees for\\n1881 are Henry Furrer, president Hermann Gieb-\\nner, secretary John Steinbruuner, collector Simon\\nWink, superintendent of streets; John Engel, Peter\\nZimmerman, Andrew Eckert, Emmanuel Haug, and\\nC laus Dooscher. Formerly the village was called\\nTailor Town, from the circumstance that many of\\nthe iidiabitant.s, both men and women, were engaged\\nin sewing for New York tailors. In 1853 there were\\nonly two stores, there are now over twenty-five.\\nSince the organization of Carlstadt other a.ssocia-\\ntions have |)urcha.sed adjoining tracts of land and\\nlaid them out in building lots with a view of specula-\\ntion. They have generally failed in their object, and\\nthe laiiil has in most case-s reverted to its original\\nowners. The village of Carlstadt is largely engaged\\nin manufacturing, nearly half its population being\\nemjiloyeil in its various factories, and the town pre-\\nsents a thriving New England-like appearance. The\\nnames on the buildings, the hotel signs, and the ad-\\nvertisements, however, are all in the German lan-\\nguajre, and contrast strangely with the many pecu-\\nliarly .\\\\merican features of the town. The German\\nlanguage is used almost exclusively in the pulpit, the\\nschool, and the family, and this circumstance, in con-\\nnection with the e.xternal characteristics mentioned\\nabove, has suggested the name Germantown, now-\\nused by many in designating it. The postmaster lor\\nCarlstadt is Albert Hort man.\\nTo the north of Carlstadt, about half a mile, is the\\nhamlet of Woodridge, a name given to the place from\\nthe grove of trees on the crest of the ridge in its rear.\\nA large farm was purchased here some fifteen years\\nago by Henry Gerecke, with a view of selling it out\\nfor building lots. The price agreed upon was five\\nthousand dollars. The expectations of Mr. (ierecke\\nwere not realized; he failed, and the land reverted to\\nits former owners. Woodridge is inhabited by a quiet,\\nwell-to-do farming community, many of them de-\\nscendants of Dutch families who settled here in the\\nseventeenth century. Most of the houses here are\\nlocated on the Pollifly road. They are the typical\\nDutch houses of New Jersey, of one story, and hav-\\ning walls of brownstone with a widely-projecting\\nroof shading a porch extending around on three sides\\nof the building. The )iopulation of the portion of\\nthe township comjirised in Woodridge is nearly 40(1.\\nJose|)h Hermann is the postmaster.\\nNearly a mile north of Woodridge, on the Pollifly\\nroad, is the village of Corona. Most of the houses\\nhere have been built quite recently, and contrast\\nmarkedly with others located along this road. The\\nland here was bought up about ten years ago by\\nMessrs. Lord and Yan Cleeve, land speculators.\\nBuilding lots in northern New \u00e2\u0080\u00a2lei sey were then in\\ngreat demand, and as this locality was .situated on a\\nrailroad within ten miles of Jersey City, they ex-\\npected to realize large profits. The name Coroiuj was\\ngiven to the place from its fanciful a.ssociation. .V\\ncostly ile|)ot was built, an avenue laid out to it fro?n\\nthe I ollitly road, streets made, and trees ]danted along\\nthem, and the land divided into building lots. A land-\\nolfice was opened, and New York auctioneers em-\\nployed to sell the lots. The panic of 187.S came, anil\\nMessrs. l ord .t Yan Cleeve having disposed of a few\\nlots, abandoned the property to its original owners.\\nSince that date things have remalnecl uficharified in\\nCorona. The population is about the same as that of\\nWoodridge. Christopher Tcrhune is the postmaster.\\nThe village of Little Ferry, like Corona, may be\\nsaid to have sprung into existence and grown up\\nduring the last decade. It is the product of the\\nbrick-making industry of that section of the town-\\nship. The land here is valued at about thirty dollars", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0336.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "LODI.\\n227\\nper acre. The present population is 300. The Hack-\\nensack River is broader here than above or below, and\\nfurnishes excellent opportunities for yachting in the\\nsummer, and ice-boating in the winter. The leading\\nmen here own some of the finest yachts and ice-boats\\nto be seen anywhere. A detailed description of the\\nbrick-making industry is given under another head.\\nThe village has one store and a post-office. The\\npresent postmaster is James Pickens.\\nTo a district of excellent farming land, about one\\nmile southeast of Little Ferry, and two miles to the\\nwest of Carlstadt, is given the name of Monachie. It\\nwas so named in memory of Monachie, the chief of a\\ntribe of Indians, a branch of the Six Nations, who oc-\\ncupied this region. Over two hundred years ago\\nThomas Francis Outwater, a Mr. Rrinkerhoft and a\\nMr. Kipp bought the so-called island of Monachie of\\nCapt. John Berry, paying seven hundred pounds for\\nit. This island was comprised between Berry s\\nCreek, Indian Path, Losing Creek, and the Hacken-\\nsack River. The Indians who peopled it at that time\\nweri said to be very friendly to the whites. Tlie land\\nhere was covered with valuable cedar timber till\\nwithin a few years. Monachie was for a time known\\nas Peach Island, on account of the large quantities of\\npeaches produced here. This name is no longer\\napplicable, as scarcely a peach-tree can now be\\nfound in this region. Just at the junction of Mona-\\nchie with the townsliip of Union is located a hotel,\\nknown as the Half- Way House. It has long marked\\nthe point of bisection of the Paterson plank-road\\nfrom Paterson to Jersey City. The people of Mo-\\nnachie are generally farmers, their principal produc-\\ntion being garden products, which tliey sell in the\\nmarkets of New York and Jersey City. The post-\\noffice for this district is at Little Ferry.\\nSocieties, Orders, Etc. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The people of Carlstadt\\nhave manifested their social spirit in the formation\\nand maintenance of a variety of associations. About\\nten years ago a dramatic club was organized, to which\\nthe name Concordia was given. It has at present a\\nmembership of two hundred. German and English\\nplays by well-known authors are represented semi-\\nmonthly. The society has a hall decorated with em-\\nblems appropriate to the character of their exercises.\\nThe founders and first officers of this society were Jo-\\nseph Fortenbach, president; Mr. Macher, treasurer;\\nand Hermann Foht, secretary.\\nAbout two years ago an )dd-Fellows lodge was\\norganized, with Charles Fowald as the first N. G., and\\nJohn Bedenkopf as secretary. It was named after the\\nillustrious German poet, Wieland Lodge, and is No.\\n113 in the Odd-Fellows Lodge of New Jersey. Their\\nmembership numbers forty-two. A new hall has re-\\ncently been fitted up at a large expense. The present\\nofficers of the lodge are Peter Dippel, N. G., and\\nMr. Shafer, secretary.\\nA gymnastic association, called the Turn Halle\\nGymnastic Association, was established in 1857. Ath-\\nletics thus received attention early in the history of\\nCarlstadt. There are two hundred members, and they\\nmeet for exercise once per week. A gymnasium has\\nbeen erected by the club and fitted with all the fix-\\ntures appropriate to such an institution.\\nFire Department. The village of Carlstadt has a\\nfire department well equipped with engine, truck, and\\nhose. It was organized in 1872, and has eighty-five\\nmembers. The governing power is in a board of com-\\nmissioners, which meets every third Saturday in the\\nmonth. The commissioners for the present year are\\nJoseph Hermann, Theodore Muehling, George Klug,\\nand Conrad Strippel. The board of trustees consists\\nof Adam Hoechst, Chas. Hasselhuhn, Albert Hofl!inan.\\nThe officers of the administrative department are\\nCharles Zimmerman, chief; Curtian Hasselhuhn, as-\\nsistant chief; John Smith, foreman of the engine com-\\npany; Edward Heinrichs, assistant foreman; Richard\\nWirth, foreman of the truck company Conrad Uhr-\\nspruch, assistant foreman; Christian Mueller, foreman\\nof the hose company; George Merkel, assistant fore-\\nman.\\nA building for storing the engine, hose, truck, and\\nparaphernalia is to be built immediately, at a cost of\\nabout three thousand dollars.\\nManufacturing Interests. In manufacturing in-\\nterests certainly the township of Lodi takes a leading\\nrank in Bergen County. Brick-making, watch-mak-\\ning, shoe manufacturing, cabinet-making, manufacture\\nof chemicals, bleaching and dyeing cotton are the\\nmost important industries. In these industries over\\ntwelve hundred people find employment, and are\\npaid $150,000 annually in wages.\\nBrick-making. The first bricks were made in\\nLodi on the Hackensack River by the firm of Shower\\nCole in 1872. It seems strange that the abundance\\nof excellent clay in this section and its convenient\\nlocation on the banks of a navigable river had not\\nattracted business men previous to this date. This\\nfirst attempt, however, did not prove successful.\\nMessrs. Shower Cole, either from lack of knowl-\\nedge of the business or lack of necessary capital,\\nfailed, and the business passed into the hands of\\nJohn Thume. He, too, continued it for but a short\\ntime, and was succeeded by the Mehrohfs in 1877.\\nSince then this industry has thriven, the buildings\\nin which the kilns are burnt have been enlarged,\\nnew appliances for making bricks have been added,\\nuntil to-day the brickyard of the Mehrohfs is next to\\nthe largest in the United States. At the lower yard\\nthere are six pits for tempering the clay, each having\\na capacity for clay sufficient for 35,000 brick. This\\nis owned by the Mehrohf Brothers, consisting of\\nNicliolas Mehrohf, Peter Mehrohf, and Philip Meh-\\nrohf. They employ about seventy men for six months\\nin the year, and manufacture 70,000 bricks per day,\\nor 1,500,000 bricks per year. At the upper yard,\\nworked by N. Mehrohf Co., about thirty-five men\\nare employed, and 35,000 bricks per day are manufac-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0337.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "228\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\ntured, or 850,000 bricks per year. The process of\\nmaking bricks liere is essentially as follows, viz.: the\\nclay is removed from the bed and placed in an arti-\\nficial pit or vat; it is then mixed with sand, water, and\\ncoal-dust, and tempered; next it is carried to the\\nmoulding-machine, and from that passes into the\\nmoulds, which are properly sanded to prevent the\\nadhesion of the clay the clay is now in the form of\\nbricks, and these are placed on a level, sanded sur-\\nface for the sunlight to act upon they are then\\nspattered or leveled: the next process is edging,\\nor setting them up on their sides they are then spat-\\ntered again, and aftersvards hacked for two days,\\nthe term hacking meaning placing them in loose\\ntiers for the wind to act upon and dry them the clay\\nhas now attained considerable firmness, and the bricks\\nare set, or placed in the kiln. The bricks at this\\nyard are burnt with wood, rocpiiring about one cord\\nper eight thousand; a slow fire is kept up for the first\\nthirty-six hours, and a brisk fire during the next five\\ndays and nights. The bricks from this region are\\nsold in Paterson, Newark, New York, and Providence,\\nand are known as Hackensack bricks. The price at\\nwhich they sell in the market is not quit^ so high as\\nthat of the Haverstraw bricks, though they are said\\nto be fully us durable as the latter. The Mehrohfs\\nemploy four large schooners in transporting the bricks\\nto market, and during the brick-making sea.son keep\\nthese in constant use. The clay is found conve-\\nniently near the surface, and hence, as the beds re-\\nmain dry through the .season, when once the water\\nis pumped from them in the spring the raw material\\nfor this industry costs but little.\\nWatch-making.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the village of Carlstadt is\\nlocated a watch-case factory, probably the largest in\\nthe State. Sixteen years ago John 15. Fortenbach, a\\nwatch-maker of New York, with his brothers, Jacob\\nand .Joseph, came to Carlstadt and began to manu-\\nlacture silver watch-case.\u00c2\u00abi at the rate of three per\\nday. A company was afterwards organized by these\\ngentlemen, and the business increased, until to-day\\nthe ilaily production is over (500. Their employ^ -s at\\npresent number 600, and the individual earnings\\naverage over $1 1 per week.\\nSiiOKMAKlNo. In the same village is the shoe-\\nfactory of Justus Nchler. The building itself is a\\ntwo-story brick structure, forty by fifty feet, and is\\nfitted throughout with new machinery of the most\\nai)proved type, the whole involving an outlay of\\nsix thousand dollars. The factory has been in oper-\\ntion for a period of five years. In it may be seen\\nevery detail of shoemaking, from cutting the leather\\nto putting on the last polish. Three thousand pairs\\nof ladies shoc-s are manufactured here per month.\\nThey are disposed of at retail stores, anil sold to cus-\\ntomers for from $1.50 U $2 per pair. About 40\\nbands are employed, and the wages paid average $10\\nper week.\\nCabinet-makinh. In Carlstadt there ia also a\\ncabinet-manufactory, where about 20 men are em-\\nployed. This is owne J by Herman Giebner. Tables,\\ndesks, bars, and chairs are a few of the articles manu-\\nfactured. The fixtures in the banking-room of the\\nBank of Bergen County at Hackensack are a speci-\\nmen of the work done in the factory of Mr. Giebner.\\nBleac hino ami Dvkish-Works.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 By far the\\noldest factories located in the township of Lodi are\\nthose in the village of Lodi, on Saddle River. In\\n1829 the only buildings on the site of the present\\nvillage of Lodi were three small dwe\\\\ling-houses and\\na saw-mill. This was owned and run by Henry\\nHopper and Abraham Zabriskie. James Kennie was\\nat that time operating a handkerchief-factory, located\\non the Passaic River, at a place called Nightingale\\nMills. Wishing to extend his business, he came to\\nIjodi, examined the water privileges there, and in\\n1831 leased a new factory which had been built for\\nhis use by Mr. Hopper, the latter having purchased\\nhis partner s interest in the water-rights and adjacent\\nlands. In 1S:50, Robert Rennie,the brother of James\\nRennie, came to this country from Scotland and be-\\ngan business as foreman in the latter s factory on the\\nPassaic. A year later he came to Lodi and continued\\nbusiness in the new factory in the same capacity. In\\n18315 the mill leased by James Rennie was burnt, the\\nlatter failed, and young Robert Rennie, having bought\\nup all the water-rights, etc., erected new mills for\\nprinting calicoes. His factory became famous. The\\ncapacity of the factory was largely increased as time\\nwent on, and in 187. Mr. Itennie sold out his inter-\\nest for ^3.30,000. While the business wius in Mr. Ren-\\nnie s hands he paid out annually in wages over\\n$50,000. Since 1875, Messrs. Burns Smith have\\noccupied the premises, and are engaged in bleaching\\nand dyeing. Their work is the conversion of cotton\\ncloth, manufactured in Eiistern mills, into hollands,\\nlawns, etc. They employ 300 hands, and pay out in\\nwages probably about $25,000 per annum.\\nLodi Chemical Works. In 1855, Mr. Robert\\nRennie established the Lodi Chemical Works, at a cost\\nof one hundred thousand dollars, on land adjoining his\\ncalico-printing mills, and of these works he is still in\\ncharge. Filty men are employed here, and twenty\\nthousand dollars paid them yearly. A variety of\\nchemicals are manufactured, the most import^int\\nbeing oil of vitriol, nitric acid, muriatic acid, and tin\\ncrystals. The raw materials u.sed in their manufac-\\nture arc obtained from foreign countries, the salt\\nbeing brought from France, the sulphur from Sicily,\\nand nitrate of soda from Chili. The Lodi Chemical\\nWorks arc one of the oldest of their kind in the\\nUnited States, and have an established reputation in\\nthe market which insures a ready sale for their pro-\\nducts.\\nStandard (IilComi any k Works. In the south-\\neast corner of Lxii township, not far from Pa-ssaic, is\\nlocate l one of the pumping stations on the Standard\\nUil Company s line of pipes from their oil-works in", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0338.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "LODI.\\n229\\nPennsylvania to the seaboard at Bayonne. This is\\nthe eleventh and last station on the line. The oil is\\nforced through cylinders of iron tubing buried in the\\nground to the depth of sixteen inches, and as these\\nfollow the lay of the surface, through level, rolling,\\nand hilly country, great pressure is required in\\nforcing the oil through. As the danger of bursting\\nthe pipes would be very great in case it was forced\\ndirectly to Bayonne, pumping stations are located at\\nintervals of a score of miles, where the oil is received\\nin reservoirs, and then puuiped on to the next station.\\nFour large iron tanks, with a capacity of 37,000 bar-\\nrels each, and two large brick buildings, one with a\\nchimney one hundred and fifteen feet high, constitute\\nthe leading features of the station at Lodi. Usually\\nonly two of these tanks are found at a station, but\\nhere there are extra ones for storing oil received by\\nrailroad from the oil-wells. Two hundred cars of one\\nhundred barrels each are unloaded here daily, and\\npreparations are being made for unloading four hun-\\ndred cars per day. One of the buildings, forty by\\nfifty feet, contains the engines and ])umps, two of\\neach. The other, forty by sixty feet, contains the\\ntelegraph-office and steam boilers, four in number.\\nOnly three boilers are used at a time, the other\\nbeing kept in reserve. The engines are compound in\\ntheir construction, direct in their action, and duplex\\nin their connection. They run like a clock, twenty-\\nfour hours in a day, and three hundred and .sixty-five\\ndays in a year. The steam boilers are subjected to a\\npressure of eighty pounds per square inch. For fuel\\negg anthracite is used. The furnaces run by natural\\ndraft, unaided by blower or exhaust, and consume\\nabout four tons per twenty-four hours. Each station\\nis provided with a mercury pressure-gauge, showing\\nhow much pressure the oil pipes are subjected to, and\\nthis also shows when a burst or break occurs along\\nthe line. A small leak of from one to five barrels\\nper hour the gauge would give indications of, hence\\nthere are line-walkers, the same as track-walkers on a\\nrailroad, who pass over the line every day. The force\\nof men at the station consists of two engineers at\\n$75 per month, four firemen at $50 per month, one\\ncoal-heaver at $40 per month, and two telegraph\\noperators at $50 per month. The Standard Oil Com-\\npany received no charter from the Legislature grant-\\ning them a right of way, and hence they had to buy\\nthe right to lay their pipes from the property-owners\\nalong the line. Generally they bought the right for\\na merely nominal sum. By the deeds the Standard\\nOil Company is entitled to use the land for the pur-\\npose specified for a period of twenty years.\\nSaw- and Grist-Mills of David Knowles.\\nThe extensive saw- and grist-mills of David Knowles,\\nEsq., are located on the Saddle River road, about\\nhalf a mile from the village of Lodi. They are the\\nlargest in the township, and in operating them a\\nforce of several men are employed constantly. The\\ngrist-mill has three run of stone, and does the grind-\\ning not only for Lodi, but to a large extent for the\\nneighboring townships. At a short distance from the\\nmills is the handsome brownstone residence of Mr.\\nKnowles. The place presents an attractive appear-\\nance, and is known under the name of Millbank.\\nChurches. It can hardly be said that there are\\nany old churches in the township of Lodi, all of them\\nhaving been organized since 1845. For the number\\nof church-members, however, the denominations are\\nquite varied, there being a.s many as eight distinct\\ndenominations for a church membership of less than\\nseven hundred. The Sunday-schools are generally\\nlargely attended, the number of pupils aggregating\\nfive hundred. The church property in the township\\nis valued at over twenty-five thousand dollars. In\\nthree of the churches the preaching is in the Holland\\nlanguage. Many of the inhabitants of Lodi are mem-\\nbers of churches in Hackensack, and these are not\\nincluded in the above estimate.\\nIn 1845 was organized the Lodi Congregational\\nChurch in the village of Lodi. Services were regu-\\nlarly held according to the creed of the Congrega-\\ntional Church at various places in this village until\\nthe year 1872, when a plot of ground was purchased\\nand the present edifice erected at a cost of three thou-\\nsand dollars. This has been entirely paid for, so that\\nno debt on the church exists at present. The build-\\ning is well fitted with all appropriate fixtures, inclu-\\nj ding a pipe-organ. A library of several thousand\\nvolumes, formerly belonging to the Lodi Reading-\\nroom Association, has recently been purchased by\\nthe church. The ministers in succession since 1871\\nare Revs. Frank A. Johnson, F. Y. Lum, and Wil-\\nliam H. Broadhead. Since 1878 the pulpit has been\\nsupplied from a theological seminary in New York.\\nThe number of members at present is one hundred.\\nThere is a Sunday-school connected with this church,\\nof which William Rennie is the superintendent, at-\\ntended by about sixty pupils. The trustees for the\\npresent year are Ambrose Kennedy, David Hunter,\\nand Andrew Morrison Deacons, David Hunter, Wil-\\nliam Rennie, and Christian Creiger; Clerk, Frank D.\\nHunter.\\nIn 1878 the founders of the Second Reformed\\nChurch of Lodi Village seceded from the Congrega-\\ntional Church. They were accompanied in their\\nmovement by the former pastor of the Congregational\\nChurch, Rev. R. M. Otferd. The secession from the\\nCongregational Church was due to a dispute as to the\\nregularity of the ordination of Mr. Oflerd. On the\\n17th of September, 1878, he was admitted to the\\nClassis of Paramus, and on the 10th of October of\\nthe same year was installed as pastor of the Second\\nReformed Church. The first sermon was preached\\nin the edifice of the First Reformed Church on the\\n17th of March, 1878. Since then a house of worship\\nhas been erected at a cost of three thousand dollars,\\nall of which has been paid except four hundred dol-\\nlars. The present membership numbers sixty-five.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0339.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "230\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nServices are held twice every Sunday, morning and j\\nevening. The elders of this church for the present\\nyear are Dugald McNaie, William L. Mercer, and\\nJames A. Demarest. The names of the deacons are\\nIsaac C. Dowling, Abraham Vreeland, and George C.\\nMercer. A Sunday-school numbering seventy pupils\\nis connected with the church. The superintendent is\\nGeorge C. Mercer.\\nThe First (Holhind) Reformed Church was organ-\\nized in 1859. A house of worship was erected in the\\nvillage of Lodi, at a cost of about two thousand five\\nhundred dollars, during the same year. In ISliS the\\nGeneral Synod of the Holland Reformed Church in\\nAmerica directed that the term Holland be dropped\\nfrom the name of the church, or placed iu bracket.s.\\nA majority of the members of this church in Lodi,\\nwith their pastor, Rev. W. C. Wust, disapproved of 1\\nthe change, and refused to comply with the direction.\\nA minority, on the other hand, conceiled the right of\\nthe General Synod to modify the name of the church,\\nand were ready to carry out the direction. .V ques-\\ntion arose as to which party should have the church\\nedifice. A long course of litigation followed, which\\nterminated in favor of the minority. The ministers\\nsince the organization have been Rev. James Hys-\\nsoon, 18. J9-C4; Rev. W. C. Wust, 1804-7 Rev. Wil-\\nliam F. Betz, 1875-78. Since then the pastor of this\\nchurch has been Louis G. Jongeneel. The preaching\\nis in the Holland language. There are sixty mem-\\nbers. The first officers were Deacons, Aart Jonscii\\nBrun, Nic holas Hoogartman, P. Vande Vreede; El-\\nders, H. II. Smith, Christian Van Heest, Pieter Van\\nHecst, Cornelius Vande Vreede, G. W. Hurclikeyser.\\nThe officers of this church for the present year are\\nElders, Jacob Cruson, Hendrick We.sdyke Deacons,\\nDirk Stark, Lodowick Miller.\\nThe body which seceded from the First (Holland)\\nReformed Church in IXfiS assumed the name Nether-\\nland Reformed Church. The piustor, Rev.W. C.Wust,\\nunder whose leadership the .secession was consum-\\nmated, in 1870 gave a plot of ground to the .society,\\non which an edifice was erected at a cost of two thou-\\nsand dollars. Since that date their pastor accepted a\\ncall to preach in his native Holland. He remained\\ntliere two years, and has recently returned. During\\nIlls absence the services were conducted by one of the\\nleading members, Mr. Daniel Cook. There are one\\nhuiidreil an l fifty members of this church. The\\npreaching is in the Hollaixl language. The first offi-\\ncers of this church were Daniel Cook. Garret Buller,\\nPeter Ney, I eter De Vrie-s, M.Sacker, and A. Vogle-\\n8on. The elections occur every two years. The pres-\\nent elders are the same lus those in 1876. The dea-\\ncons for present year are Peter Verhove, Peter De\\nVries, and Henry R. Proll. The superinlendcnt of\\nthe Sunilny -school, numbering forty-five pupils, is A.\\nVoglc-son.\\nThe African Episcopal Zion Church of Lodi was\\norganized about ten years ago. The society liiis a\\nchurch edifice, located on the Saddle River road, cost-\\ning about eight hundred dollars, all of which is paid\\nfor except fifty dollars. There are only seven mem-\\nbers. The pastor for a time was Henry Dumsou.\\nAt present the pulpit is supplied, and service s are\\nheld only every other Sunday. The trustees are\\nSamuel Scudder and Thomas Hillgrove.\\nSt. Francis of Sales Roman Catholic Church of\\nLodi Village enjoys the distinction of being the old-\\nest Catholic Church in Bergen County, and the only\\nCatholic Church in New Jersey free of debt. It was\\norganized in 1855. The present edifice wiis erected\\nduring that year at a cost of four thousand dollars,\\nand Wius dedicated by Mishop J. Roosevelt liayley, late\\nArchbishop of Baltimore. It has always been, and\\nstill is, a mission church, its pulpit having been sup-\\nplied in turn by pastors from Paterson, Hackensack,\\nFort Lee, and Carlstadt. The first pjistor was L. 1).\\nSenez, and the present one is J. G. Funcke, of Carl-\\nstadt. The number of members is at present four\\nhundred. Services alternate from nine to ten o clock\\nSunday morning. Twice a week there is special in-\\nstruction for children in addition to that in the Sun-\\nday-school. During Lent there is special instruction\\nby the priest for all who choose to attend, besides the\\nregular services. The lay trustees for the present year\\nare James Hughes and Patrick MacMahon. The\\nchurch will soon be consecrated. The Sunday-school\\nnumbers about forty. The baptisms average fourteen\\nper year, and the communicants, eight.\\nThe first jtublic services of Prote. itant Christians in\\nthe village of Carlstadt were held in a building owned\\nby the late Mr. Schoeniuger, on May 23, 186il; the\\nsecond on June 22(1 of the same year. Since that date\\nservices have been continued regularly every Sunday.\\nA congregation was organized on August 18th of the\\nsanu year, which joined the Presbyterian Church of\\nthe l nit M| ^lates as The First (ierman Presbyte-\\nrian Church of Carlstadt, N. J. Eighteen men and\\nsixteen women joined the church on the day of its\\norganization. The first sermon was preached from\\nLuke xvii. 20-21. On the 4th of October, Rev. I.\\nWinderick was installed as pasti r of the congrega-\\ntion.\\nIn 1S71 a plot wius bought on Division Avenue,\\nand on July 4lh the corner-stt)ne laid of the present\\nchurch edifice. This was furnished and detlicated\\nto the worship of God on December 17th of the\\nsame year. In October of 1871, Rev. F. Vrem was\\ninstalled as pastor of the congregation as successor ol\\nRev. I. Winderick. Rev. T. Vrem s pastorate lasted\\nfor four years, when the present minister, Ferdiiiaml\\nO. Zesch, was installed. Rev. F. Zesch began bis\\nstudies in Gernniny, and completed them at the theo-\\nlogical seminary of Bloomfield, N. .1. In 187H a par-\\nsonage was built.\\n.Vt the side of thecburi-b edifice in Carlstadt stands\\nthe building of the First Evangelical Sunday-.school.\\nThis is attended by one hundred ami seventy pupils.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0340.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "LODI.\\n231\\nThe German Christian Ladies Society, consisting of\\nseventy members, occupies the same building.\\nIn the district of Monachie there is a Baptist\\nCliapel. The church edifice was erected in 1871 at a\\ncost of about eight liundred dollars. The pulpit was\\nsupplied for a time by Rev. Mr. Maclaine, of Ruther-\\nford. Since his death no regular services have been\\nheld.\\nBurial-Places. The township of Lodi has only\\ntwo public Ijurial-grounds, one in Lodi and the other\\nin Carlstadt, both of comparatively recent origin.\\nThe one at Lodi is a Catholic cemetery, and was\\nopened in 1855, when the Catholic Church was built.\\nIt is quite extensive, having been used for several\\nyears as a burial-ground by all the Catholics in Ber-\\ngen County. The cemetery at Carlstadt was opened\\nsoon after the organization of the village in 1851.\\nThe inscriptions are mainly in German. Some of the\\nmore notable ones are given below\\nScliiim re sauft die gate\\nSeele, deine Loideu Bind zu End.\\nMir liast du zurueckgelasseu\\nEinen Sclimerz den oiemand Kind.\\nJacoli Jansen. Geb. d. 7ten Dec, 1811, Gest. d. 31ten Jan., 1865.\\nKonini Sterblicher betrachte mich\\nDu lebst, icli lebtauf Erden,\\nWas du jetzt I)ist das war auch ich,\\nWas ich bin must du werden.\\nGeorg Blum.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gest. d. V Sept., 1868, alt 40 Jahre.\\nHiur in des Gi abes dunkler Stille\\nRulit unsres bosten Vaters Huelle:\\nEwig folgt seinen treuen Herzen,\\nDaa in reinster Liebebrach,\\nUnser waermster Dauk mit Schmaerzen.\\nHier Kuht Frierich Scbule, geb. zu Hanover, 23 Jan., 1817, gest. zu\\nCarlstadt d. 2 Juli, 1877.\\nN-VCUBUF Dem Saenoer.\\nDu folgst Innern Herzemlrang\\nDie Muse dienen ihn zu lebeu,\\nMan laiiscbte Deiner Toene Klang,\\nDen Saenger nur die Welt ergeben.\\nDuck Kaimi verloscb der Toene glanz\\nWar n Fieund und Hoffnuug Dir entschwunden\\n\\\\\\\\b\u00c2\u00a3 nuetze Die des Rbunies Krauz:\\nBelchnung hast du nicht gefunden.\\nDirectly north of the Carlstadt cemetery there is\\na very old private burial-ground, that of the Berry\\nfamily. There are five stones here with the follow-\\ning inscriptions\\nIn memory of Philip Berry, who departed this life September 25th,\\nITft i, aged 72 years, 1 month, and 4 days.\\nRemember, man, as thou goes by,\\nAs thou art now so once was I,\\nAs I am now so must tbou be\\nPrepare for death and follow me.\\nIn memory of Catherine Berry, who departed this life August 14, 1803,\\naged 78 years, 2 months, and 6 days,\\nHier Jut, Begraven, Hermanns Vogelsang, Cud :33: Jaar, Gestorven\\n19: December: Aa 1797, Van Holland.\\nPhilip Berry, born July 4, 1763, died December 22, 1850.\\nIn Memory of Eve Van Winkle, wife of Philip Berry, who departed\\nthis life April 16, 1843, .iged 70 years, 5 months, and 25 days.\\nHistorical Incidents and Reminiscences.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early I\\nin the history of New Jersey Capt. John Berry, gen-\\ntleman, received a grant of all the land lying between\\nthe Boiling Spring at Rutherford, the Passaic River,\\nSaddle River, Cherry Hill, and the Hackensack River.\\ni This grant included the laud within the present town-\\nship of Lodi. It is probable that Capt. Berry built\\nthe PoUifly road, the oldest in the township, expect-\\ning to sell the land adjoining it for farms and build-\\ning lots. He parceled out his land on the west side of\\nthis road into sections, extending back to the Passaic\\nRiver and Saddle River. The buyers of these were\\nthe ancestors of many of the present leading citizens\\nof Lodi township.\\nThe proximity of Lodi township to the camping-\\nground of the Hessians during the Revolution ren-\\ndered the inhabitants subject to many depredations\\non the part of the latter. The district of Monachie\\nwas nearly depopulated on account of the ravages of\\nrefugee bands of Hessians from New York. There\\nis scarcely a representative of an old family in Lodi\\ntownship who cannot relate harrowing tales of hun-\\nger, flight by night, burying of valuables in the\\nearth, told him by his grandsire from personal ex-\\nperience during the struggle for independence one\\nhundred years ago.\\nAt the old Hopper homestead on the PoUifly road\\na division of soldiers made themselves at home for a\\nnumber of weeks, the oflicers sleeping in the house,\\nand the common soldiers under the trees in the\\norchard immediately back of the house. One night\\nMrs. Hopper was awakened from her slumbers by\\nnoise among the pigs in the pig-pen. Jlrs. Hoi)per at\\nonce aroused the officers and requested them to in-\\nvestigate the causes of the disturbance. They there-\\nupon ran out into the darkness in the direction of the\\nsounds and discovered one of their own men in the\\nact of carrying off a struggling pig. Considering the\\nmiscreant as a poacher on their own preserves, the\\nofficers flogged him so severely that neither he nor\\nany of his comrades ever afterwards repeated the ex-\\nperiment. It is not related whether Mrs. Hopper s\\npleasure at the rescue was of long duration, but it is\\nprobable that His Majesty s officers had as keen an\\nappetite for pork as their subordinates, and that the\\npigs were soon a thing of the past.\\nThe Hessians made many expeditions into Mona-\\nchie, and on such occasions were accustomed to fire\\ninto dwelling-houses regardless of the danger to the\\nlives of women and children. On one of their raids\\nthey stabbed in the back and killed old Abraham\\nAllen as he was trying to escape from them. A single\\nincident worthy of note occurred here in the Revolu-\\ntion. A party of Hessians had stolen all the cows\\nfor miles around, and were driving them to their boat\\non the Hackensack followed by a band of angry\\nfarmers. Arrived there they found to their dismay\\nthe tide low and their boat, on which they intended\\nto embark, high and dry. The cattle were at once\\nabandoned. Many of the Hessians were killed by\\nshots from their pursuers, or drowned in attempting\\nto swim the river. The ammunition of the farmers", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0341.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "232\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ngave out after a few shote, or not one of the plun-\\nderers would have escaped to tell the tale of their\\nmisfortune.\\nDuring the Revolution Peter Kipp, who lived in\\nthe house at present occupied by Henry Kipp, Esq.,\\non the PoUifly road, was one day away from home on\\na horseback ride. During his absence two men,\\nwhom it may be taken for grunted were in the ser-\\nvice of his Majesty, called at his house and requested\\nsomething to eat from Mrs. Kipp. She asked them\\nto make themselves at home in her sitting-room while\\nshe prepared a luncheon. While the unsuspecting\\nlady was out of the room the two men searched for\\nvaluables, and in a vacant space above the fireplace\\ndiscovered an old teapot containing five hundred\\npounds in gold. This they concealed under their i\\nclothing, and having eaten what was set before thera\\nby Mrs. Kijip, paid her very liberally from their ill-\\ngotten wealth, and set out from the house. When\\nMr. Kipp returned his wife greeted him at the door\\nwith See here, Peter, see what I have got at the\\nsame time showing him the money which she had re-\\nceived. Mr. Kipp at once recognized it as some that i\\nhe had hidden away in the old teapot. My teapot,\\nmy teapot, he cried, and sprang to the little cup-\\nboard above the fireplace. His worst fears were real-\\nized. He at once made inquiries, and learned which\\nroad the robbers had taken. Without informing his\\nwife the reason for his action, he mounted his horse,\\nand galloped in the direction the men had gone.\\nThey ha l been too quick for him, for before he\\nreached Jersey City they had taken a boat and rowed\\nto New York. He gave up the race, and retracing\\nhis steps, entered his house. Mrs. Kipp is related to\\nhave locked the door after him, and having con-\\nfronted him, demanded an explanation of his seem-\\ningly strunge action. The truth was soon made\\nknown to her, and it is said she fainted stone dead\\naway.\\nIn the village of Corona there lived some twelve\\nyears ago, on the farm at present occupied by Mr. L.\\nOlmstead, a Mr. Duric, who lireamed that Capt.\\nKidd s treasure was buried on his land. The hallu-\\ncination affected him so powerfully that he employed\\na number of laborers to dig from sunset till midnight\\nfor several weeks. No conversation was allowed\\namong the workmen, from a superstition that the\\ntreasure would sink into the bowels of the earth if\\nhuman voices were he4ird in its pro,\\\\imily. A cavity\\nsome sixty feet in depth is visible to this day as the\\nresult of their labors. Of course nothing was ever\\nfound, and Mr. Durie in his chagrin resolved to vent\\nhis spite on his employ( s by refusing to pay them for\\ntheir work. suit was instituted by the men to re-\\ncover their wages, which, the papers of that period\\nsay, proved very amusing to the public.\\nAs is state l elsewhere, the marshy swani|)s of Lodi\\nare very extensive. In the summer months mosqui-\\ntoes are generated here by myriads, and it is as much\\nas a person s life is worth to pass through them after\\ndusk. Many years ago these swamps, swarming with\\nthe pests above mentioned, were used as a place of\\ntorture for delinquent negroes. If a negro committed\\nany offense, however slight, he was shackled and\\nhandcuffed and sent off to spend the night in the\\ndreaded swamps of Lodi. It is stated that many of\\nthose treated in this manner died from a single\\nnight s exposure there, their bodies swelling enor-\\nmously from the poison injected by the mosquitoes.\\nIndeed, the negro race seems to have been subjected\\nto exceedingly severe treatment, not only in Bergen\\nbut in other counties, as the following, copied from\\nthe freeholders records in a neighboring county,\\nshows: June 4, 1741, Daniel Harrison .sent in his\\naccount of wood carted for burning two negroes, al-\\nlowed \u00c2\u00a30 11^. Off.; Feb. 23, 1741, Joseph Hedden s\\naccount for wood to burn the negroes, allowed \u00c2\u00a30 7s.\\n(hi:-\\nJohn I. Berry is a lineal descendant from John\\nBerry, who wa-s the progenitor of the family in Ber-\\ngen County and one of the original patentees of a grant\\nof some two thousand acres of land in Old Hackensack\\ntownship, and made a petition on July 1, 1709, to the\\nGovernor-in-chief of the province of New Jersey and\\nNew York to have the claim of one David Dctiiarias\\nfor the same land set iuside. Rev. Theodore B. Ho-\\nmeyn says in his historical discourse, delivered upon\\nthe occasion of the reopening and dedication of the\\nFirst Reformed (Dutch) t hurch at Hackensack, May\\n2, 18G9, This John Berry, of such considerate and\\ngenerous impulses, whose memory is precious because\\nof his gifts, rather than because of his great posses-\\nsions, originally in lG(i! together with certain associ-\\nates, became the owner, under the administration of\\nGovernor Carteret, of a tract of land extending from\\nthe Sandfbrd grant on the south six miles into the\\ncountry, including thus the present village of Hack-\\nensack, running from the Hackensack River on the\\neast to what is now called Saddle River on the west,\\nand what is now calle l Cole s Creek on the north.\\nThe present site of the church, together with\\nadjoining lands, making about two acres and three-\\nquarters, including a large portion of the Green, or\\nPark in the west, wius donated to the church .Vpril 20,\\nl()!t6, by Captain John Berry. Thus it appears that\\nthe founder of the Berry family here was a man of\\nlarge enterprise, and one of the foun lers of the first\\ninstitutions in what is now Hergen County. It seems\\ncertain also that he was a Christian, if the language\\nused in his will is any indication of his character, I\\ncommit my soul into the hands of God, my Creator,\\nwith a well-grounded persuasion that Jesus Christ, in\\nhis human nature, taken in his Divine, hath made full\\npayment unto Divine Justice for all my sins and trans-\\ngressions, and that his righteousness shall be imputed\\nto me for my justification.\\nWilliam Berry, a descendant of John Berry, settled\\nin the township of Lodi, near what is now the village", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0342.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0343.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0344.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0345.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0346.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "LODI.\\n233\\nof Carlstadt, where he owned considerable real estate,\\nand settled a homestead, which has been in the family\\nsince, a period of about one hundred and thirty years.\\nHis children were John, born in 1756; Albert,\\nborn in 1759; Mary, born in 1761; Jane, born in\\n1763; Albert (2d), born in 1766; Elizabeth, born in\\n1770 John W., born in 1772 Sarah, born in 1775\\nand Eleanor, born in 1776.\\nOf these children, John W. Berry was father of\\nour subject, and resided upon the homestead during\\nhis life, dying Feb. 9, 1859. He lived in the old\\nhouse by the low lands until 1825, when he built on\\nor near its site a stone house, which was burned in\\n1873. His wife, whom he married Feb. 23, 1794, was\\nElizabeth Terhune, who was born Oct. 19, 1773, and\\ndied May 31, 1857. The children of this union were\\nElizabeth, wife of Cornelius Banta, William, Stephen,\\nAlbert, Sarah, wife of Nicholas Terhune, Stephen\\n(2d), Letitia, wife of John H. Ackerman, Mary, wife\\nof Enoch Blinkerhoff, and John I.\\nThe homestead property was divided between two\\nof their sons, William and John I., the former taking\\nthat part on which was the old stone house, and the\\nlatter the part farther back, upon which his father\\nerected a substantial house, in which he resided after\\nhis marriage until his death, located on the Pollifly\\nroad. John I. Berry, like his ancestors, followed\\nagricultural pursuits, and was well known as a man\\nof sterling integrity, correct habits, and strict morality.\\nHe was a supporter of all worthy local oly ects, and\\nsought in a quiet way to fulfill the full duties of a good\\ncitizen. He was born July 18, 1812, and died Feb.\\n13, 1872. His wife, whom he married Oct. 12, 1833,\\nis vSarah, daughter of Thomas Linford and Sarah\\nSeigler, of Passaic, and granddaughter of James\\nLinford, a native of England, who came to America\\nwhile a young man to avoid being pressed into the\\nEnglish army. James Linford s wife was a Miss Van\\nRiper, who bore him several children.\\nMrs. John 1. Berry was born July 27, 1808, is a\\nwoman of superior intelligence and Christian excel-\\nlence, and while she has never had any children of\\nher own, she has not forgotten the needy and unfor-\\ntunate, inasmuch as she has reared several children\\nto mature years, and has one adopted daughter, Lizzie,\\nwife of David D. Vreeland, who resides with her and\\ncares for her in her declining years.\\nMrs. Berry s brothers and sisters were John,\\nThomas, Margaret, Eunice, Mary, Christina, and\\nSarah, all of whom were married and reared families.\\nJacob I. Hopper. It appears from the records of\\nthe First Reformed Dutch Church at Hackensack\\nthat William Hoppe (Hopper) was one of its mem-\\nbers as early as 1686, that Mattys Hoppe and his wife,\\nAntie Forkse, are recorded as inembers of the same\\nchurch the following year, and that their daughter\\nChristyna was baptized on confession of her faith also\\nin 1686.\\nThe great-grandfather of our subject. Garret Hop-\\nper, of Holland origin, purchased a large tract of land,\\nextending from the Hackensack River to Slaughter\\nDam, some five hundred acres of which became the\\nhomestead of the family. He was also recorded a\\nmember of the same church as early as 1729. His son,\\nJacob Hopper, had his residence on the property on\\nthe Pollifly road, leading from the Paterson turnpike\\nto Carlstadt. Jacob Hopper s wife was Cornelia, who\\nbore him the following children Katrina, wife of\\nJohn Earle, who died in the beginning of the Revo-\\nlutionary war; Henry Garret and John I. settled on\\nthe homestead, which was divided between them, the\\nlatter occupying the homestead part and Elizabeth,\\nwife of Cornelius Terhune, grandson of John Ter-\\nhune, the progenitor of the Terhune family, and who\\nsettled where Sheriff Jacob C. Terhune resides, in\\n1881, upon coming to this country. Jacob Hopper\\ndied about 1815, aged eighty-eight.\\nJohn I. Hopper, the father of our subject, was born\\nin 1775, and died in 1833, on the homestead where he\\nresided during his whole life. His wife was Maria,\\ndaughter of Albert Terhune, who died Jan. 1, 1857,\\naged seventy-six years. Their children were Cor-\\nnelia, wife of John Terhune, a farmer and miller of\\nNew Barbadoes, who died in 1879, aged seventy-nine\\nAltia, widow of Albert A. Brinkerhoff now living in\\nHackensack at the age of eighty Catherine, wife of\\nJonathan Hopper, a merchant of Paterson Albert,\\ndied in 1833, aged twenty-four Jacob I. John, a\\nlawyer of Paterson City Eliza Maria, wife of Henry\\nDemarest, of New York; Jane, wife of Dr. Wilson,\\nof New York, both of whom are deceased.\\nJohn I. Hopper was drafted to serve in the war of\\n1812, but furnished a substitute. He was a man of\\nsuperior mind, and possessed ideas of business and\\nenterprise in advance of those around him. He was\\na representative farmer, aud marketed his produce\\nand butter in New York, the latter always being of\\nthe finest quality, for which he was frequently awarded\\na premium. He possessed more than ordinary book\\nknowledge for his time, and had been educated in the\\nprivate school of the well-known and highly-educated\\nteacher. Dr. Wilson, of Hackensack. He is said to\\nhave used springs under his wagon and a top on it,\\nthe first of any one who carried his products to a New\\nYork market, and in 1818 he erected the fine and\\nsubstantial brownstope house now standing on the\\npremises, commanding a good view of the surround-\\ning country, and on what is known in 1881 as Ter-\\nrace Avenue. In church matters he was zealous,\\nwell read, and officially served the First Reformed\\nChurch as an elder and deacon for many years, op-\\nposing the movement of the seceders at first, but\\nfinally joining them.\\nJacob I. Hopper, his son, was born on the home-\\nstead Dec. 21, 1810, and has there spent his life. He\\nhas given his active business life almost entirely to\\nagricultural pursuits, stock-raisins:, and gardening.\\nI As early as 1840 he began the cultivation of straw-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0347.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "234\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nberries for a New York market, which business he I returned to his home and engaged in the cultivation\\nsuccessfully carried on for many years, and even at\\nfirst used to market some three thousand baskets daily.\\nHe has never sought political place or held office, but\\npreferred ther|uiet and independence of the farm and\\nthe society of his friends. He is a man of sound\\njudgment, judicious management and integrity in all\\nthe relations of life, and wiiile he has been blessed\\nwith a fair competence, he has always contributed to\\nthe various objects around him needing support and\\nencouragement. In the stone house where lie resides\\nstands the old cluck brought from Holland by liis an-\\ncestors two hundred years ago, which still ticks the\\ntime away, while its owners in regular succession have\\nand improvement of the farm. Upon the death of\\nhis father he was bequeathed two hundred and twenty-\\nfive acres, a portion of which is still retained and oc-\\ncupied by him. He was, in July, 1822, married to\\nMiss Agnes, daughter of Henry I. Kip, of Passaic\\nCounty, to whom were born children, Maria (Mrs.\\nHenry Outwater), whose death occurred in 1864;\\nClarissa (Mrs. Henry H. Yereance), and Wilhelmus,\\nof whom the latter resides upon and is manager of\\nthe paternal estate. Both Mr. Van Winkle and his\\nson were formerly Old-Line Whigs, and are now firm\\nadvocates of the ]irincii)les of the Republican party.\\nThe former, though not an active politician, has\\nin turn passed away. It is among the relics that point served as freeholder of the township of Lodi, and has\\nto the past, and must have been among the luxuries,\\nalthough a necessity, of those who centuries agfi\\nsought a free country in the wilds of America. Mr.\\nHopper was united in marriage in 1835 to Ann,\\ndaughter of Garret Merselis and Lenah De Gray, of\\nPreakness, Passaic Co., N. J. She was born Dec. 13,\\n1812, was a woman of great devotion to her family,\\nesteemed by all who knew her, and always made her\\nhouse the welcome place of her many friends. She\\ndied in June, 1808. Their chilren are John, who was\\ngraduated at Rutgers College in the cla.ss of 1857, and\\nEllen.\\nMichael Van Winkle. The progenitor of t lie Van\\nWinkle family, as is elsewhere sUited in this volume,\\nwas Walling Jacobs. He was of Holland lineage,\\nand left a numerous descent, most of whom were resi-\\ndents of Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson Counties in\\nNew Jersey. Walling Van Winkle, the grandfather\\nof the subject of this biographical sketch, resided in\\nBergen County, upon the original tract of land, a por-\\ntion of which his grandson now occupies. His chil-\\ndren were five sons, Jacob, Cornelius, John, Walling,\\nHalmagli, and one daughter, Maretje, who became\\nMrs. Housman. Mr. Van Winkle spent his life upon\\nthe homestead, and there his death occurred. His i\\nsons Jacob, Walling, and Halmagli, as also the daugh-\\nter, were residents of the same county. Halmagli was\\nborn .lune 22, I lil, on the paternal estate, where his\\nlife was devoted to farming pursuits. He was united\\nin marriage to Miss Maria, daughter of Adrian Post,\\nbeen a member of the township committee, justice of\\nthe peace, and poor-master. He has also held the\\nappointment of major of the Second Battalion New\\nJersey Militia from Bergen County. His religious\\naffiliations are with the Reformed (Dutch i Church,\\nboth he and Mrs. Van W inkle being members of the\\nFirst Reformed Church of Passaic. Both Mr. and\\nMrs. Van Winkle, after a peaceful and happy nuir-\\nried life of sixty yeai^s, are still in the enjoyment of\\nhealth and unusual mental vigor.\\nPeter S. Demarest. In the historical discourse of\\nRev. Theodore B. Romeyn, delivered at Hackensack,\\nN. J., May 2, 1869, we find the Ibllowing\\nOne David Dcmarijis Desrnarctz I wjis another of\\nthe very early settlers of whom at least something is\\nknown. He emigrated from France in or about 1676,\\nbelonging to that large family of Huguenots which\\ncame to this country to escape the heretic s doom and\\nenjoy freedom to worship God. With him were\\nthree sons, David, John, and Samuel. As far back\\niis 1820 one interested in this family found by search\\nseven thousand names connected with it, branches of\\nthe original stalk. It is said that when Demaria.*\\ncame to this country he settled at first on Manhattan\\nIsland, where he purchased the whole of Harlem,\\nbut soon after he disposed of that property and moved\\nwithin the present Hackensack township, where he\\npurchased two thousand acres, extending along the\\neasterly side of the river from New Bridge to a point\\nbeyond Old Bridge, and easterly so far a.s the line of\\nwho became the mother of seven children, Walling, the Northern Railroad. We arc informed that he.\\nA irian, John, Michael, Jane (Mrs. Berry), (icrtrude\\n(Mrs. Sip), and Klizalietli, who dieil in youth.\\nThe death of Mr. Van Winkle occurred in 1822,\\nand that of his wife the year previous. The birth of\\nMichael, their youngest child, took place at the an-\\ncestral home of Lwli, Oct. 13, 1800, where he has,\\nduring a long and active life, resided, and which ha.s\\nbeen the property of the family for succe.isive genera-\\ntioN^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0. During his early life he availed himself of the\\nopportunities for educition atlorded at the schools in\\nAc |uackanonk (now Piis-saic), and later entered the\\narena of mercantile life as a clerk in the store of\\nAliram Zabriskie. After three years thus spent he\\nand others with him, were so harassed from time to\\ntime for half a century by dillerent iinliviiluals who\\nlaid claim to the land, that it was purchased by them\\nno less than four times. The original deed on record\\nat Andmy is dated June 8, 1677.\\nFrom this progenitor of the family have sprang a\\nnumerous progeny, who by intermarriage with the\\ndi scendanis of other old familie,- have mingled the\\nFrench blood with that of tlie (terman, F.nglish, and\\nScotch, until hardly a family in Bergen County can\\nhe found that cannot trace in some line of its relations\\nback to the original Demarest.\\nThe grandfather c f our subject was Peter Denm-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0348.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0349.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0350.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "WASHINGTON.\\n235\\nrest, who resided in old Eiifilish Neighborhood, where\\nthe family had been residents since their first settle-\\nment in Bergen County. His son Stephen, father of\\nour subject, removed from English Neighborhood,\\nnow in Ridgefield township, and settled tlie home-\\nstead at Pollifiy, now on Terrace Avenue and Pater-\\nson turnpike, containing some one hundred acres of\\nland. His first wife, a Miss De Mott, bore him one\\nV^.\\nty\\n^/^^Mt^\\nson, John, who died at the age of twenty-one years.\\nHis second wife was Widow Van Winkle, formerly\\nMargaret Ackerman, who was born May 11, 1788, and\\ndied Oct. 24, 1856, leaving an only child, Peter S.\\nDemarest, subject of this sketch, who inherited the\\nhomestead.\\nPeter S. Demarest was born on the homestead set-\\ntled by his father at Pollifiy, April 15, 1817; there\\nspent his life as a farmer, and died Jan. 17, 1867.\\nHe was a man of unostentatious ways, preferred the\\nquiet life of an agriculturist to strife and contention\\nin politics or seeking public place, and was esteemed\\nby all who knew him for his integrity, honesty of\\npurpose, and conscientious discharge of the full\\nduties of a good citizen. He was a man of sterling\\nmoral principles, correct and temperate habits, and a\\nmember of, first, the Reformed Dutch Church, and\\nsubsequently of the Presbyterian Church at Hacken-\\nsack. His wife, whom he married Oct. 20, 1841, is\\nJane, daughter of Garret Bertholf and Sally Myers,\\nof Hackensack township, and who was born Jan. 2,\\n1819, survives her husband and resides upon the\\nhomestead. The stone house erected by the family.\\nsituated on Terrace Avenue, commands a fine view of\\nHackensack and the surrounding country.\\nThe Bertholfs are recorded as members of the Re-\\nformed Dutch Church at Hackensack as early as\\n1696, and the progenitor of the family here was Rev.\\nGuillaume Bertholf, who came from Holland in the\\ncapacity of catechizer, voorleser, and schoolmaster.\\nWith such acceptability and usefulness did he dis-\\ncharge his trust that the people desired him to be\\ntheir minister, and at their expense he was sent to\\nHolland to be educated in 1693. In 1694 he returned,\\nand was the first regularly installed minister of the\\nReformed Dutch Church in New Jersey, and was\\nlicensed to i)reach by the Classis of Middleburg for\\nthe churches of Hackensack and Acquackanonk, Sept.\\n16, 1693.\\nMrs. Demarest s fatlier was born Aug. 22, 1790, and\\ndied May 5, 1876. Her mother was born Dec. 20,\\n1797, and died Feb. 26, 1840. The children of Garret\\nBertholf are Lydia, Jane, John, Margaret, and Cor-\\nnelius.\\nThe children of Peter S. and Jane Demarest are\\nMargaretta, wife of Walter H. Dodd Stephen, a\\nfarmer in Missouri Garret, a merchant in Hacken-\\nsack Richard, a farmer on the homestead William,\\ndeceased Cornelius, associated with his brother Gar-\\nret in business and Jennie.\\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\\nWASHINGTON.\\nThe township of Washington lies on the northern\\nboundary line of the county, and also forms a portion\\nof the State boundary line. In its area it embraces\\n19,525 acres, and is in extent much larger than many\\nof the more southerly townships. It was formerly a\\nportion of Harrington, and the proposition to divide\\nthis territory met with little favor from the larger\\nproportion of the inhabitants of the latter township.\\nIt was, therefore, in the midst of the most strenuous\\nopposition that the new organization was first ushered\\ninto existence.\\nThe fertility of the lands of the township and the\\nwealth of its inhabitants afford it a commanding and\\ninfluential position in the county, while its intimate\\nassociation with the events of the Revolution renders\\nthe ground replete with historic interest. It may,\\ntherefore, readily be assumed that Washington, imme-\\ndiately on becoming a separate township, took a\\nforemost rank in the afiairs of the county. Tliis she\\nhas ever since maintained, and at no time was her in-\\nfluence and enterprise more conspicuous than in the\\nservice rendered during the late Rebellion. Tradition\\nrelates that the army of Gen. Washington was en-\\ncamped within the township limits during the Revo-\\nlution, and in the district known as the Overkill\\nNeighborhood occurred the surprise and slaughter of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0351.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "236\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCol. Baylor s light-horee on the night of Oct. 27,\\n1778. The early settlers in this portion of the county\\nwere chiefly of Dutch descent, many of them having\\ncome directly from Holland. The lands are in nu-\\nmerous instances owned and cultivated by the de-scend-\\nants of these worthy pioneers.\\nWashington may be geographically described as\\nbounded on the north by Rockland ounty, N. Y.,\\nsouth by Midland and Harrington, east by Harrington,\\nand west by Hohokus and Kidgewood. The New\\nJersey and New Y ork Railroad runs through the\\ntownship in nearly a northerly directiozi, with stations\\nat Westwood, Hillsdale, Pit-icack, Park Kidgc, and\\nMciiit Vale.\\nNatural Features. The surface of the township\\nis greatly diversified, and this variety adds much to\\nits natural beauty. Several ranges of hills extend\\nnorth and south, with valleys of great fertility lying\\nbetween them. The Saddle River Valley on the west\\nand the Piiscack on the east are among tlie most at-\\ntractive and luxuriant. The soil here is an especially\\nrich gravelly loam, which produces abundant crops.\\nThe soil of Chestnut Ridge is a clay bottom combined\\nwith sandstone, while the land lying on the eiistcrn\\nborder of the Pascack Valley is a sandy loam, as in-\\ndeed is all the soil bordering the Hackensack River,\\nand very fertile. Swampy land prevails to some ex-\\ntent in Washington, a tract in the northwest portion,\\npopularly known as the Bear s Nest, being especially\\nnoticeable. The staple product is fruit, the cultivation\\nof which is attended with much rofit, since a ready\\nmarket is afforded in the neighboring cities. Grain\\nis also grown with success, the hiM l Kcing well adapted\\nto wheat, corn, oats, rye, and buckwheat.\\nThe ground is amply watered by the Hackensack\\nRiver on the east and the Saddle River stream on the\\nwest, while numerous small brooks havingthcir source\\neither in Rockland County or the north portion of\\nthe township pour their waters into the rivers al)ovc\\nnamed.\\nOf these the most prominent are the Pascack and\\nBear Creek. These rivulets afford ))ower for nu-\\nmerous saw- and grist-mills which ilo a thriving busi-\\nness.\\nThe real estate of the township is valued at $1,-\\n273,81t. and the personal property at :W!\u00c2\u00bb,87y.\\nThe taxes were for 1880 as follows: county tax,\\nf. ()09.4() bounty and interest, W377.48; poor and\\ntownship tax, $-_ 047.1H; State school tax, $2.V.M.!I4\\nspecial school tax, K;77.91 road tax, *;1128.48; dog\\ntax, $7.h..\\nEarly Settlements. The township of Washington\\nin its early history is associated with the ruunes of\\nWortcndyke, Hlauvelt, Eckerson, Hering, Demarcst,\\nHoldruni, Storm, Brickell, Hopper, Westcrvell, Bo-\\ngert, Van Kmbnrgh, ami bell, Hanta, Perry, and\\nothers. Many if not all of these nanie-s are still rep-\\nresented by later generations, a portion of whom\\nhave inherited the paternal estAtes. The traditions\\nof the fathers have in a few instances been preserved,\\nbut with most of these families little of interest is\\nremembered prior to the present century. The Wor-\\ntendykes are among the earliest residents of the town-\\nship, the progenitor of whom was Jacob, who came\\nfrom Holland at a period prior to the Revolution\\nand settled in Harrington township. He had two\\nsons, Rinear and Frederick, both of whom located in\\nWashington. Rinear married, and had as descend-\\nants Cornelius, Rinear, Frederick, Albert, and Jacob.\\nThe latter was married to Elizabeth Campbell, and\\nhad children, Rinear and two daughters, the former of\\nwlioni is still living in the townshi|) in his eighty-\\neighth year. Frederick, the son of Jacob first men-\\ntioned, had sons, Frederick, Peter, and James, whose\\ndescendants still live in the township.\\nAlbert, the son of the first Rinear, married and had\\nchildren, David, Abram, Rinear, and a daughter,\\nJane. Rinear is the only one of this number who\\nsurvives. He resides at Park Ridge, and h:ts attaineil\\nhis ninetieth year. Ahrani has two sons living, .Vhrani,\\nresiding in New York, and Albert A., who is engaged\\nin manufacturing at Park Ridge. Frederick F. and\\nPeter Wortendykc each represent otiier branches of\\nthe same family.\\nThe Hopper I iiinily are of Holland descent, the\\nearliest one reniembered in Washington being .Vbram,\\nwho had among his children one Jacob. He residcu\\nat Kinderkamack, on property now occupied by John\\nSmith, and which was formerly the homestead. Jacob\\nhad one son, .Xhram, who settled on ancestral land and\\nhad children, ^.Vbram, Garret, Isaac, John, James,\\nand Jacob, and one daughter. Jacob located upon\\nthe farm now occujiied by his only son, Richard Hop-\\nper, while a daughter, residing at Westvood, is Mrs.\\nJ. C. Westervelt. The son of Abram is James, now\\nliving in the township in his ninetieth year. Another\\nbranch was that of Nicholas Hopper, who resided in\\nHohokus, and had three sons, .John, Jacob, and .An-\\ndrew. The first is deceased, .\\\\ndrew resides in Ho-\\nhokus, and Jacob is still living in Washington with\\nhis son Garret in advanced years.\\nThe Brickell family were originally from Rockland\\nCounty, the first member of whom was jjrobably\\nGeorge, who fell in the Kcvolutionary conflict. He\\nhad two sons, George and Thomas, the latter of whom\\ncame to the township of Washington (then Harring-\\nton) and pursued the weaver s craft. He was united\\nin marriage to .\\\\ltye, daughter of William Bogert,\\nand had twelve children, of whom seven now reside\\nin the township. The sons were George, John, iind\\nDavid, of whom (teorge and David are in Wiushlng-\\nton, and John in Newark. Much of the land now\\nembraced in the village of Westwood belonged to\\nthis family.\\nAmong the oldest liimllies in the township is that\\nof Bogert, who are of Holland ancestry, and the pio-\\nneer of whom was Isaac, who exchanged property in\\nNew York Citv for a tide-mill near Hackensack.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0352.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "WASHINGTON.\\n237\\nThis change of residence was deemed advisable from\\nthe impaired health of his son, who met with an ac-\\ncident while pursuing his trade of carpenter. In the\\nyear 1765 he purchased property described in a deed\\nnow in possession of the family, bearing the above\\ndate, and located near Westwood, on the old Para-\\nmus road. The former owner of this land was one\\nJohn Maselius, who received for it the sura of one\\nhundred pounds. Isaac Bogcrt had children. Jacobus\\nand Albert, both of whom lived in the township, and\\nthe former of whom died during the war of the Rev-\\nolution. The property of Albert was inherited by\\nhis son Isaac, who married ilargarct Durie, and had\\nchildren, David and Leah. Hannah Ackerman be-\\ncame the wife of David and the mother of three\\nchildren, of whom two, Isaac and Mrs. B. Z. Van\\nEmburgh, reside in the township, the former on the\\nland purchased in 1765. Of other branches of the\\nfamily in Washington are John J., James K., and\\nStephen, sons of James Bogert, and the family of\\nJacob Bogert, who have until recently resided in the\\ntownship.\\nThe origin of the Demarest family in Bergen\\nCounty has been more fully given elsewhere in this\\nvolume. Of the members of the family in Washing-\\nton, Garret Demarest located on the mill-site now oc-\\ncupied by Robert Yates, and had five sons, Tunis,\\nJames, Abram, Samuel, and John, and three daugh-\\nters. All the sons were residents of the township.\\nTunis met death as the result of an accident, and\\nSamuel live don land now occupied by his son. Garret\\nS. Demarest. A second son died in childhood, and a\\ndaughter became Mrs. John Hopper. Garret S. has\\nspent his life on the family property, and been largely\\nidentified with the township surveys. Another branch\\nof the family was represented by two brothers, John\\nand Abram, the former of whom settled on the land\\nnow occupied by Paul Powless, in the southeast part\\nof the township, and the latter in Harrington. Neither\\nleft descendants. Still another member of the family,\\nJacobus Demarest, was a resident of the township\\nduring the Revolutionary war, first at Old Hook, and\\nlater at Mont Vale. He had children, David, Abram,\\nand John, and two daughtei s. All the sons lived and\\ndied in the township. John had five children, of\\nwhom a son, James, and a daughter reside in the\\ntownship. Abram left a son who has removed from\\nWashington, and a daughter who is deceased.\\nAnother representative of the family, named John,\\nhad nine children, the sons being Garret, John, David,\\nand James J. The latter and throe sisters reside in\\nthe township.\\nPeter Perry was an early resident, and purchased a\\nlarge tract in the northeast corner of the township.\\nHe had sons, Peter, Johannes, and Jacob, all of whom\\nare deceased. Peter resided upon the State line, and\\nJacob and Johannes in Rockland County. They left\\ndescendants in the township, though not of the same\\nname.\\nThe Ackerson family (formerly and at present\\nspelled Eckerson) antedate the Revolution in the pe-\\nriod of their settlement, the first of whom. Garret\\nlocated at Old Tappan, in Harrington township, an I\\nhis eldest son, John, upon a tract of land purchased\\nfor him by his father at Pascack. Two younger sons,\\nCornelius and Abram, were ultimately left the home-\\nstead at Tappan. John married Garritje Hogencamp,\\nand had children, Garrit and one daughter, who be-\\ncame Mrs. Nicholas Zabriskie.\\nGarrit, born in 1770, had four children, John G.,\\nCornelius G., Garrit G., and James G., the only sur-\\nvivor of whom is Garrit G., now residing at Hacken-\\nsack. Cornelius, one of the sons of Garrit, the pro-\\ngenitor of the family, is represented in the township\\nby Mrs. Jacob Banta, and the daughter of Cornelius\\nG., who is Mrs. Nicholas B. Ackerman, with her sons,\\nJohn and Garrit, also reside in Washington, on the\\nhomestead of her father.\\nJacob Eckerson was an early settler in Dutchess\\nCounty. His son Thomas came to the township as early\\nas 1820, and, as appears by old deeds of conveyance\\nnow in possession of his great-grandson, purchased\\nthe land still owned by the family. Thomas, afore-\\nsaid, had nine children, of whom Edward married\\nand also had nine children, his only son being Thomas,\\nwho was married to Reganah Hill. Their children\\nwere two in number, one of whom, Edward T., is in\\npossession of the ancestral home.\\nThe Westervelt family are among the earliest, the\\nfirst to arrive in Washington having been Casparus\\nI., who had a son, John C, who was also the fiither of\\na son named Casparus I. John C. was married to\\nAgnes Van Derbeck, and had children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Casparus I.,\\nSarah, and Martintie. Casparus I. was united in mar-\\nriage to Maria Van Riper, and had one son, Capt. J.\\nC. Westervelt, now residing at Westwocd, the home-\\nstead, though still retained in the family, being at\\npresent occupied by tenants. The family names have\\nbeen perpetuated in this instance through successive\\ngenerations.\\nThe Alyea family were very early in their settlement\\nin Washington, the first being Jacobus, who resided\\non the farm now occupied by James K. Bogert. He\\ndied during the latter jiart of the last century, and\\nwas buried in the Old Hook cemetery. None of the\\nfamily remain in the township.\\nThe earliest member of the Banta family to settle\\nin Washington was John, born Oct. 6, 1824, who re-\\nsided at Pascack and married Margaret Duryea, to\\nwhom were born four children Henry, John, Jacob,\\nand Agnes. All of these sons remained in the town-\\nship and settled upon the original land, which was\\ndivided among them. The descendants of .John still\\nreside in Bergen County. Henry was married to\\nMargaret Demarest, and had sons, John, Garret, Ja-\\ncob, Henry, and Tunis, all of whom located in the\\ntownship. The descendants of Tunis and Henrv re-\\nside at Hackensack. Garret lived upon the place now", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0353.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "238\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\noccupied by his son. Jacob remained at Pascack, on\\nthe homestead, and had two daughters, one of whom,\\nMrs. Peter Jersey, now resides at Piiscack. Mrs.\\nJames Demarcst, another daughter, remained upon\\nthe homestead iluring her lifetime.\\nTlie Blauvelt family are of Holland descent, and\\nassociated with some of the most stirring events of the\\nRevolutionary period. Aniong a large family of\\nbrothers were Jacobus and Cornelius D., the former\\nof whom settled near Mont Vale and had four sons\\nJames, .John, David, and Tunis and six daugh-\\nters. Among these sons his land, embracing a tract\\nof two hundred acres, was divided. All but Tunis\\nleft descendants. John I., the son of John, resides in\\nthe township. Cornelius D., a soldier of the Revolu-\\ntionary war, had a son, David C, who was the father\\nof James D. and John D. Blauvelt, both residents of\\nWashington.\\nAt the home of Cornelius D. Blauvelt, whose wife\\nwas a member of the Hering family, occurred one of\\nthe most heartless massacres of the Revolution, the\\nsurprise and slaughter of a detachtiient of Col. Bay-\\nlor s command. The spot upon which the Blauvelt\\nhome wiis located, as d scribed to the historian by one\\nof the descendants of the family, was at River Vale,\\non the west side of the river, on the site of the house\\nmore recently occupied by L. Cleveland, the original\\nstructure having long since been demolished. The\\nnight was severely cold, and the troops were (piar-\\ntered in the barn, the ollicer in command with some\\nof his subordinates having been more comfortably\\nprovided for at the house. Guards were stationed\\nabout the place, who at three successive times re-\\nported to the officer tlie inipossihility of longer\\nenduring the terrible cold. He remarked to the\\ntroops that they nnist protect themselves as the\\nguards were relieved. A party of Hessians sur-\\nrounded the buildings, and at once directed their\\nattention to the barn where most of the troops were\\nquartered. The major an l surgeon, who were in the\\nhouse, were taken prisoners. The defenseless sol-\\ndiers found escape impo.ssihle. They were captured\\nand slaughtered without i|uarter, and their bodies\\nthrown into a neighboring tan-vat but three escaped\\nby fleeing to an adjoining wood and secreting them-\\nselves.\\nThe earliest member of the Campbell family in the\\ntownship was named John, a native of New Jersey,\\nwho came to Washington soon after the do.se of the\\nRevolution. He at once itablished a wampum-fac-\\nt (ry, and conducted an extensive business, supplying\\nall th Indian agents and traders of thi day with this\\ncommodity. Mr. arn| bell had eight children, all of\\nwhom located in tlir township. The sons of Abram\\none of these children, are .lohn A., James A.,\\nDavid A., and Abram A., who now reside here and\\nstill conduct the business established by their fore-\\nfathers. These wares, consisting of pipes, heads,\\nmoons, etc., made from conch-shells, and all known\\nunder the general name of wampum, are supplied to\\nthe Indian agents, and by them disposed of to the red\\nmen.\\nConrad Storms, of Holland descent, and probably\\nthe first representative of the family in the township,\\nresided upon the property now occupied by Henry\\nStorms. His children were a son, Henry, and a daugh-\\nter, the former of whom married Margaret Holdroni,\\nand had children, Conrad, Cornelius, and two daugh-\\nters. Conrad was married to He.ster Ackerman, of\\nHohokus, and had children, Henry C, Albert C.,and\\none datighter. Both of these sons occupy portions of\\nthe original e-state.\\nThe Ackermans trace their descent to Mrs. Elenor\\nAckerman, who came to the township with a large\\nfamily of sons, among whom were David, (iarret, and\\nJohannes. The latter married a daughter of Corne-\\nlius Demarest, and had lour children, (iarret, Cor-\\nnelius, and two daughters. Garret settled upon the\\nDeinarest homestead and letV no family. The chil-\\ndren of Cornelius Ackerman were John, Garret C,\\nHenry, Cornelius, and two daughters, of whom the\\nonly survivors are t^arret and the daughters afore-\\nsaid.\\nThe Van Eniburghs are of Holland descent, John,\\nthe progenitor of the family in New Jersey, having\\nsettled in Essex County, anil later removed to Frank-\\nlin township. His son Henry, who lived and died in\\nthe latter township, w;us united in inarriagi to Mary\\nVooliris, and became the lather of ten children, ot\\nwhom Albert settled in Wiushington. He nuirried\\nHannah, daughter of Nicholas Zabriskie, and had\\nthree children, B. H. A., and Nicholas, all resi-\\ndents of the township.\\nThe Van Wagoners are an early family, and located\\nin the southern portion of Washington, .\\\\lbert and\\nJohn Van Wagoner are the present representatives iu\\nthe township.\\nThe Hering family are of Dutch descent, and inti-\\nmately iussociated with the early history of the eoniily.\\nFour brothers purchased a tract of one th uisauil acres\\nin New York .State, the deed bearing date 17l and\\nsubsecpiently an additional six hundred in Washing-\\nton (then Harrington) township, upon which three\\ncousins, sons of the original settlers, and all named\\nCorm-lins, located, each of whom wius given a trail\\nembracing two hundred acres. One portion of tlii-\\nland was situated at Pascack, the descendants of tli.\\nson who settled here being William, John, Corneliu-.\\nand James.\\nOiu- of the four brothers at first named was Abram\\nA. F. Hering, whose son, (Viriielins .Mtram, settled\\nupon the farm now m-cupied by .\\\\lirain llrriu::.\\nThe children of ornelius were Ralph, .Mirarn, aiiW\\nfour daughters. Both sons located upon the family\\nestate. The chililren of Ralph were Cornelius R. and\\nDavid. David had two sons, Ralph D. and David,\\nthe former of whon\\\\ resides in the township. Tin-\\nearlier members of this family were identified with", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0354.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "WASHINGTOl^.\\n239\\nmany of the Revolutionary scenes which transpired\\nin the township.\\nThe Hohlrum family are of Holland extraction,\\nand very early in their settlement in Bergen County.\\nTiie earliest representatives now recalled were three\\nbrothers, William, Nicholas, and a third, who is the\\nancestor of the present members of the family in the\\ntownship.\\nThey settled respectively at Mont Vale, North Pas-\\ncack, and what was known as the Overkill Neigh-\\nborhood. William had one daughter, who became\\nMrs. Abram Deniarest. Nicholas had a son, William,\\nwho was the father of a son Nicholas and daughters.\\nThe third brother above mentioned had children\\nCornelius C, James, and William, the former of\\nwhom now resides on a part of the old homestead.\\nPeter M., the son of William, is living at Westwood,\\nand the children of James, witli the exception of\\nAbram C. Holdrum, have all removed from the town-\\nship.\\nSchools. The township sustains six schools, with\\nschcM^l property valued at eight thousand five hundred\\ndollars, and having a seating capacity for four hun-\\ndred and six children. This township, like many\\nothers, is devoid of records, and historical facts can\\nonly be gleaned from the oldest inhabitants residing\\nwithin the territory. Previous to 1838 the school dis-\\ntricts were marked out as the convenience of resi-\\ndents dictated. Each parent sent his children where\\nhe chose and paid a tuition fee for the instruction re-\\nceived.\\nThe school-houses were built by contribution and\\nvoluntary labor. After 1838 a school committee\\nelected at the annual township meeting controlled\\nthe matter, the districts not being materially altered.\\nThey remained thus until 1840, when by act of Legis-\\nlature the school committee was discontinued, a town\\nsuperintendent was placed in charge, and a regular\\ndivision into districts effected. Various changes oc-\\ncurred from that date until 1867, when the township\\nwas superseded by a county superintendent, since\\nwhich time no alterations have been made. The ter-\\nritory is now divided into six districts, the first of\\nwhich is River Vale, No. 20. This is located in the\\nnortheastern part of the township, and formerly be-\\nlonged to District No. 19, now a part of Harrington.\\nIn the year 1857 a division was made, cutting off that\\nportion lying on the west side of the Hackensack\\nRiver, which was enlarged by annexing a portion of\\nWashingtonville and Middletown, and is now known\\nas above mentioned.\\nIn 1857 a building was erected at the expense of\\nthe district. This was the earliest school-house in the\\nvicinity, and is still in use. It is constructed of wood,\\nis one story high, and substantially furnished with\\nmany of the modern aids to the teacher. The school,\\nhowever, has never attained a high standard, and\\nrarely risen above the elementary coarse. The present\\nteacher is James A. Coe.\\nWestwood, No. 21, is in the southeastern part of the\\ntownship, in a beautiful portion of the county. The\\nthriving hamlet of Westwood is in this district, though\\nthe school is located at Old Hook, on the road from\\nCloster to Kinderkamack. Tiiis district was formed\\nprior to the year 1800, and its boundary lines have\\nnot been changed since that period. The old .school-\\nhouse, a very unpretentious structure, stood near the\\nlocation of the present one, and the pedagogue who\\nheld undisputed sway during the year 1807, a Mr.\\nFulton, was distinctly remembered by at least one of\\nhis pupils who survived until a late date. In 1840\\nanother building twenty by twenty-four feet in di-\\nmensions, one story high and painted red, was erected,\\nwhich in turn gave place in 1860 to the present struc-\\nture, built at the expense of the district. This has\\nrecently undergone thorough repairing, and is fitted\\nwith all the modern school-room improvements. The\\nproperty is valued at eighteen hundred dollars, and\\ncan accommodate comfortably eighty children. The\\nteachers are Miss Josephine Rhodes and Francis\\nBauer.\\nHillsdale, No. 22, occupies the central and southern\\nportions of the township, and includes the hamlet of\\nHillsdale within its boundary. The first school-houses\\nin this locality are not remembered. The present one\\nwas erected in 1856 by tax, and is located one mile\\nwest of Hillsdale, on the road from Pascack to Pater-\\nson. It is a frame building, one story high, with cu-\\npola. The elementary Ijranches only are taught here,\\nand no especial interest is manifested in educational\\nmatters by the residents of the district. The teacher\\nis William W. Banta.\\nPascack, No. 23, occupies the northern part of the\\ntownship, and embraces the hamlets of Pascack, Park\\nRidge, and Mont Vale within its limits. The year\\n1808 witnessed tlie erection of the first school build-\\ning, located near the Reformed Church, a short dis-\\ntance from the public road. The interior is described\\nas very unpretentious, while in one end of the room\\nwas a unique heating apparatus, composed of logs,\\nwhich were carted in and piled one upon another,\\nafter which fire was started at the base. In the roof\\nwas an opening protected by a so-called chimney, con-\\nstructed of mud and straw, which served as a passage-\\nway for the smoke. The desks were placed around\\nthe room, the seats being a slab of oak resting upon\\nlegs and three feet from the floor. The children for\\nsix hours each day were compelled to mount these\\nbenches and endure the tortures which modern appli-\\nances have in a measure alleviated. The school-room\\nhaving become crowded, a long table shaped like the\\nroof of a house with a flat top was placed in the cen-\\ntre to supply the needs of the later arrivals. Under\\nthe direction of a Mr. Leach, who taught in 1820, the\\narrangements were somewhat improved, and the [irim-\\nitive method of heating gave place to a more modern\\nstove. In 1855 the present building was erected on\\nland purchased for the purpose.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0355.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "240\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nIt is related that one of the early teachers often\\nindulge l in stimulants to strengthen his nerves,\\nand not being over cautious as to quantity, would oc-\\ncasionally be the worse for his convivial tendencies,\\nwhen the scholars took to themselves a prolonged re-\\ncess. Having slept ott his debauch he would rush\\nmadly to the door and cry School school The\\npresent building is located about half a mile from the\\nold site, on the Pascack road, the i)roperty being val-\\nued at fifteen hundred dollars. The teachers are Miss\\nM. Ward and .Miss S. Neer.\\nChestnut Ridge, No. 24, is of recent formation, and\\noccupies the northern part of the township. As the\\nname indicates, it is a hilly section, and not populous,\\nthe school building being located in the northwestern\\npart of the territory. Before the tbrmation of this\\ndistrict the children attended school at Pascack, at\\nthe Lutheran and Reformed Churches in Saddle River,\\nand at a small red school-house in New York State.\\nThe district was formed under many difficulties, and\\nin 1850 a school-house was erected at Chestnut Ridge\\namid many discouragements. It was built by sub-\\nscription and contributions of material and labor, and\\nused until 1868, when it was consumed by fire. The\\npresent building was immediately erected by tax\\nlevied upon the inhabitants. The property is valued\\nat fifteen hundred dollars. The teacher is Miss Adah\\nShafer.\\nSaddle River Valley, No. 2 is a union district,\\nlying partly in llohokus and partly in Washington,\\nthe building being in the latter township. The first\\nschool-house was probably erected more than one\\nhundred years ago by the old Dutch settlers of Saddle\\nRiver, and located where the house of Garret Hopper\\nOsborn now stands. It was built of stone, and for\\nfifty years received within its walls the rising genera-\\ntions of the valley. The building was eipiipped with\\na swinging artition, by which the dimensions of the\\nroom were increased or diminished at pleasure. In\\nsummer, the attendance being greater, the partition\\nwas hooked uji, thereby making the quarters more\\nspacious by one-third. The heating apparatus was\\na large old-fashioned fireplace, which answered a\\ndouble purpose. In winter it heated the room, and\\nin summer serve l as a place of confinement for unruly\\npupils. The edifice wa.s not modern in construction,\\nand it is said that slate-l encils dropped by careless\\nscholars to the floor disappeared through the cracks\\nan l were never more seen. In l.H2o another building\\nwiu* erected near the Lutheran Church, which did duty\\nfor thirty years, and was replaced in 1H. .5 by a more\\nconvenient structure, built by tax, and rebuilt in 18(58.\\nIt is constructed of brick, and with the ground is\\nvalued at $1400. The iireseni instructor is Charles\\nPacker. The whole number of children in the various\\nschool districts of the township during the year 1881\\nwas y. and the total amount received from all sources\\nfor iMluciitiotiiil purposes, $3164.(jri.\\nEarly Highways.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The earliest highways of the\\ntownsliip were surveyed long before the war of the\\nRevolution, the oldest known road, so far as the\\nmemory of the present generation is able to afford\\ninformation, being the old Paramus road. It came\\nfrom Closter, pjissed through the Old Hook to West-\\nwood, and from thence southwest to Paramus.\\nAnother road had its beginning at the highway\\nknown as the Schraalenburgh road, which emanated\\nin New York State, and which eventually intersected\\nwith the Old Hook road.\\nA road following a direct course to Westwood also\\ninterjoined the Schraalenburgh road, and was a very\\nearly highway.\\nThe Pascack road began in New York State, and\\nwith .some variations followed a southeasterly direc-\\ntion to HackensiH k. This was not only a very early\\nhighway, but associated with many of the historic\\nscenes of the hist century.\\nA road beginning at River Vale, in Harrington\\ntownship, had for its terminus the hamlet of Hills-\\ndale, following first a southerly then a westerly\\ncourse.\\nThe Wieremus road, so chri-tened by the Indians,\\nwho in early times followed it as a trail, ran through\\nPascack Ridge west of the Pascack road, having\\nfor its objective points New Y ork State and Para-\\nmus.\\nThe roa l territory of Washington is at present\\ndivided into fifty-five districts, over whom preside the\\nfollowing overseers:\\n..J. J. P.-rry.\\n.A. J. .Mien.\\n..G. I Van niiHoni.\\n..Lewis \\\\Vt \u00c2\u00abt|iliall.\\n..r. J. n.rlnit.\\n.Jhiiim Kurkiuan,\\n.J. I. Dom\u00c2\u00bbr\u00c2\u00absL\\n.11. Vnndfrbilt.\\nG. M. OKigiiou.\\n.J. \\\\V. Mo.-rr.\\n.J. V\u00c2\u00abliderlN\u00c2\u00abck.\\n.A.C. H..ldron.\\n.Juhu Fleumltoan.\\n.J. J. Hogert.\\n.\\\\V. L emarc*t.\\n.John D. Smilli.\\n.Abrnni Lulkliia.\\n.n. C.iniiil\u00c2\u00bb-ll.\\n.IVIiT A. Jereoy.\\n.Andrew Sinitli.\\n.A. J. Arkorinan.\\n-A. Van Wagnnpr.\\n.P Worlvn.ljki-.\\n.J. S. lAickwuod.\\n..A. A.CaniplxiU.\\n.A. J. Hop|i\u00c2\u00abr.\\n.P. P. Pullli.\\nBurial-Places, The cemetery connected with the\\nKclormid I Dutch) Church in the northwest portion\\nof the township is among the oldest in Washington.\\n.Many of tin- inscriptions are obliterated by age or\\nrendered difficult to inter|)ret by the moss which\\ncovers them. Here are interred members of the Ter-\\nhune, Ackerman, Blauvelt, Yeury, Dc Haun, Demar-\\nest, Jersey, Ex kerson, Hopper, and Zabriski families.\\nThe following inscriptions are copied, though not\\namong the oldest\\nDlrtricr\\nDistrict\\nNo. 1..\\n.Garret J. Ilofipor.\\nNo. 29..\\n2..\\n.George Ilardwick.\\n:io..\\nn.\\nJohn II. Uanta.\\n31..\\n4.\\n..Jolin 0. AckerniRii.\\n32..\\n6.\\n..G. H. OM\u00c2\u00ab.rn.\\n33..\\n6..\\n..Thomas .Vckersou.\\n34.\\n7.\\n..J. J. arl.Kk, Jr.\\n36...\\n8..\\n.Albert Z. Ikigert.\\n36..\\n9..\\n..Peter Crunter.\\n37..\\n10.\\n..Morgan l ilnia|i.\\n38..\\nU.\\n.Peler K. Wortendyke.\\n39..\\n12.\\n..Nelfctn Torhuni\\n40..\\n13.\\n..C. W. Jennint;.\\n41..\\n14.\\n..J. II. Ilnll.\\n4i.\\n15.\\n..Staiitv SlormB.\\n43..\\n16.\\n..Ilermnn Stnmiii.\\n44..\\n17.\\nAbtiini Van Ki| er.\\n45..\\nIS.\\n..Ge\u00c2\u00abMge GtMid.\\n46..\\n19.\\n..Peler A. Pnlll\u00c2\u00bb.\\n47..\\n20..\\n.J. K. Wortciulyko.\\n4S..\\n21.\\n..Abrnm Garnee.\\n49.\\n22..\\n..Morris Garnee.\\nM..\\n2;i.\\n..George West.\\n51..\\n24..\\n..Stephen 1. (tuetschhin.\\n52..\\n25.\\n.H. A. Van F.nibiirgh.\\nM..\\n26..\\n.J. F. Fontliea.\\n54..\\n27..\\nUwls tlill.\\n65...\\n2S..\\n.0. F. Ilerlng.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0356.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "WASHINGTON.\\n241\\nIn memory of Margaret Packer, who died November 13, 1844.\\nIn memory of Cliarity Hopjier, wife of Jobii H. Bacta, wlio died Oc-\\ntober 10th, 1828, aged 19 years, 1 month, and 25 days.\\nCome, welcome Deatli, tlie end of fear\\nLord, wilt thou be nigh?\\nMy friends, forbear to weep, and dry your tears,\\nFor all must go as I.\\nFarewell, my true and loving husbaud,\\nMy parents and my friends;\\nI hope in heaven to see you all,\\nWhen all things have their end.\\nIll memory of Caty Forshew, wife of Sauiuel Duryea, who died Sep-\\ntember 11th, 1837, aged 77 yeiira, 8 months, and 17 days.\\nIll memory of Jacob De Baun, who departed this life October 23rd, a.D.\\n1815, aged 48 years, 8 mouths, and 28 days.\\nIn memory of Maria, daughter of Garret and Elizabeth Van Riper, who\\ndeparted this life March 28th, 1835, aged (J years and 12 days.\\nMy mother dear weep not for me\\nWhen in this yard my grave you see\\nMy days were short, bnt blessed is He\\nWho called me to eternity.\\nThe old Pascack cemetery, near the church, is also\\nof much antiquity, several of the memorial stones\\nbearing date 1745. These are engraved in rude\\nfiishion, and are mostly in the Dutch language.\\nThose erected at a later day bear date 1790, 179G,\\n1800, 1813, etc.\\nThe following is the legend upon the tablet erected\\nto the memory of one of the most eminent of the sons\\nof Washington township\\nHere rest tiie remains of Hon. Jacob U. Wortendyke, born in Bergen\\nCounty, N. J., November 27th, 1818, died at Jersey City, November 7th.\\n1808. After he had served his own generation, by the will of God he\\nfell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers.\\nThe old burying-ground connected with the Pas-\\ncack Church has been in use for years, and is still\\nmaintained as the place of interment for many of the\\nfamilies of the township. Among the inscriptions\\nare these\\nIn memory of Sarah Peack, wife of Jacobus Demarest, who died March\\n17th, 1820, aged 80 yeare and 8 days.\\nThe voice of this alarming scene.\\nMay every heart obey\\nNor be the heavenly warning vain\\nThat calls to watcli and pray.\\nIn memory of Margaret Piilis, wife nf Jacob Post, who departed this\\nlife March ilst, 1826, aged 25 years, 3 months, and 22 days.\\nIll memory of David Wortendyke, who departed this Hfe August 2nd,\\n1827, aged 19 yeiirs, 6 months, and 29 days. i\\nIn memory of Peter Campbell, who departed this life September 15th,\\n1819, aged 1 year, I month, and 2 days. I\\nIn memory of Daniel Peck, who died November, 1819, aged 76 years, 9\\nmonths, and 2 days.\\nDaniel I. Hering, horn November 17th, 1775, died January 13, 1815,\\nagfd 39 years, 7 montlis, and 29 days.\\nIn memory of Maria Ackerson, wife of Isaac Debaun, born October 27,\\n17;J0, died April 18th, 1817, aged 86 years, 10 months, and 12 days.\\nTlie Old Hook cemetery lies in the southeastern\\nportion of the township, and is intimately connected\\nwith the earlier deaths in the township. It is still\\nused by many of the prominent families of Washing-\\nton, and is carefully maintained since its incorpora-\\ntion by an act of the State Legislature. Among the\\nfamilies who have buried here are the Coopers, Al-\\nyeas, Bogerts, Hoppers, etc. There are several other\\nprivate burial-places within the township limits.\\nOrganization. The following act erected Wash-\\nington as an independent township:\\nSection 1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of thU\\nState, and U i$ hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That all that\\npart of the township of Harrington in the county of Bergen that lies\\nwest of the Hackensack River shall be and the same hereby is estab-\\nlished a separate townsliip, to be called the township of Wa.-*hington.\\nSection 2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants uf that part of\\nHarrington that lies west of the Hackensack River be and they and\\ntheir successors are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by\\nthe name of the inhabitants of the township of Washington in the\\ncounty of Bergen, and that the inhabitants of that part of tho said\\ntownship of Harrington that lies east of the Hackensack River be and\\nthey and their successors are hereby constituted a body politic and cor-\\nporate by the name of the inhabitants of the town.ship of Harrington\\nin the county of Bergen, which said two townships in their corporate\\ncapacities respectively shall be entitled to all the rights, powers, privi-\\nleges, aiul advantages, and subject to the same regulations, duties, and\\nliabilities as the inhabitants of the other townships iu the said county of\\nBergen may be entitled or subject to.\\nSection 3. And be it enacted, That all paupers who may be chargeable\\nto the township of Harrington in the county of Bergen at the time this\\nact shall go into operation shall thereafter be chargeable to and sup-\\nported by that one of the said townships hereby erected within the\\nbounds of which they have acquired their settlements respectively, or\\nin which said paupers may have resided at the time of acquiring their\\nrespective settlements; and all persons whose present settlements are in\\nthe township of Harrington, and who ehall hereafter become chargeable\\nas paupers, shall be supported by that one of the said new townships\\nhereby erected within the bounds of which they resided at the time of\\nacquiring their respective settlements.\\nSection i. And be it enacted, That the inhabituntsof the township of\\nWashington hereby created shall huld tlieir first annual town-meeting\\non the second Monday of April next, at the house of Peter A. Jersey,\\ninn-ket per, within the bounds of said tuwnship hereby created and that\\nthe inhrthituTits uf tlie township uf Harringtun hereby created shall hold\\ntheir first annual town-meeting on the second Monday in April next, at\\nthe house of Richard Blanch, inn-keoper, within the bounds of said town-\\nship of Harrington hereby created and afterward at such place in the\\nrespective townships as the inhabitants of each shall determine in the\\nmanner prescribed by hiw.\\nSection And he it enacted. That the township committees of the\\ntownships of Harrington and Washington sliall meet on Saturday, the\\neighteenthday of April next, at ten o clock in the forenoon, at the house\\nof Richard Blanoli, iiiii-kee; er. l)efnro mentioned, and shall then and\\nthere proceed by writing, to be assigned by a majority of those present,\\nto allot and divide between the said town.sliips all the property and\\nmoney on hand or due. iu proportion to the taxable property and rata-\\nbles, as valued and assessed by the assessor within the respective limita\\nof the said two townships at the last assessment; and the township of\\nWashington shall be liable to pay their just proportion of the debts, if\\nany there be; and if any of the members of the said township commit\\ntees shall neglect to meet as aforesaid, those present may proceed to\\nmake such division and their decision or the decision uf a msijority of\\nthem shall be linal and conclusive, procidet/, that it shall and maybe\\nlawful to adjourn the above meeting to such time and i)lace as a majority\\nof those jissembled as afun-said may think i)roi)er.\\nSection 6. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect on the\\nsecond Monday in April next. an l not before.\\nPassed Jan. 30, 1840.\\nCivil List. The following is the list of freeholders\\nsince the organization of the township:\\n1840-42, Garret I. Demarest 1841, Thomas Achenback 1842-43,1845,\\n1853, Henry Blauvelt; 1843, 1845-46, 1851, Cornelius R. Hariing\\n1846, John Acheubach 1847^9, James I. Demarest 1847-50, Har-\\nniau F. Van Rippr; 1850-51, John P. Duryea 1852-53, John I.\\nAckerman 1852, James D. Van Hurn 1854, 1856, Cornelius G.\\nAckerson 1854, Henry H. Kingsland 1856-58, Andrew M. Hopper;\\n1857-59, Benjamin Z. Van Emburgh 1859-61, Peter R. Wortendyke;\\n1860-62, James L. Ackerman 1862-64, Thomas Van Orden 186*-\\n64, 1866, 1870, Jacob D, Van Emburgh 1866, Frederick F. Worten-\\ndyke; 1867, Abraham Van Emburgh; 1867-69. James G. Harring;\\n1868-69, John Christopher; 1870-72; Nicholas B. Ackerman 1873-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0357.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "242\\nHISTORY 01 HKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n76, ThomM Pott 1876-78, B. 8. DemirMt 1879, AbnihMn C. Rol- j\\ndniDi; ISS -8|, Thomas Eckerson. i\\nTownsliip ClurkB, I84IMI, Corneliui It. Haling; 1832-\u00c2\u00ab^i. 1X45, lleary G.\\nBants 184G-iS, l M. HoMruo l84U-ei, John C. WmttTV. lt lSii2-\\nM, lS56-r.! Fre.l.Tick Wortcnd ke, Jr. 18, i, Kreiiorick V. Van\\nRiper, I8. 9-CI, Henry G. Hcring 1862-63, Jatroli J. Storms 1865-\\n67, Garret U. Ilnring; 1808-70, Garret J. Ljilocker; 1871-73, John\\nP. Wortcndyko; 1874-7C, James A. Ackonnan; 1877-79, John J.\\nMyers; 18SU-81, Garret J. Wortendyke. I\\nAaseKOrs, 1840-12, Garret S. Demarest 1843-46, John A. Demarest\\n1847-49, John I. nenmrent; 1850-51, James K. Bogert 1852-54,\\nGeorgg T. Brickell; 11-55-57, John P. J.dinson; 1858-6*1, Jamos G.\\nBering; 1861-63, Garret F. Hering; 1864-66,1873-78, Peter M.Hol-\\ndron; 1307 -69, John H. Demurest 1870-72, Lonis M. Planck 1876-\\n78. F. F. Wortendvke; 1679-81, Henry G. Hcring.\\nCollectors, 1840-42, Casparus I. Zabriskie 184.3-46, Peter F. Van Riper; I\\n1847-49, Henry Aihenl ack 1S. .0-51, John P. Westervelt; 1852,\\nJacob J. Storms; I8.W, 1855-50, 1866-OS, Peter R. Wortendyke;\\n1854, Abniliam Bergen 1857-59, Abmbani Van Embnrgli 1860-62,\\nCoriielins F. Crouler 1863-65, Henry G. Hering 1809-71, Albert Z.\\nAckermau; 1H72-74, John H. Ackermnil 1875-77, Garret J. Ly-\\ndecker; 1878-81, Jacob M. Blyers.\\nTownship Commilleex, 1840-12, John It. liliiuTelt; 1840-41, David Bo-\\ngert 1840. Cornelius Ackerniau 1840-41. James I. Demarest 1840-\\n43, 1S49-.M, John Flearoboam; 1841^3, 1845, Herman Van Itiper\\n1842-43, 1845, 1849-51, J. A. L. Demorest 1842-13, 1845, John V.\\nPerry 1843, 184.5-46, l.,awrcnce Van Bnskirk 184.5-47, Garret S.\\nDemarest; 1840-18. Peter A. Westencit, J. A. Lozier, Isaac Mabic;\\n1847-49. Peter Cr.mter; 1848-49, Janiei P. Westervelt; 1849-51,\\nHenry Pnllis 18. t Garret C. .\\\\ckeriiiun, Cornelius It ilaring; 1851,\\nJ. Z. Van Blarcmi, William C. Hohlron; 18.52-,V1, A. H. Westervelt;\\n1852-. 4. James L. .\\\\ckerman. Garret J. Lydecker; 18.52, J. II. Van\\nEmburgh; 1852-53, James A.Campbell; 18 3-54, 1870-78, Thomas\\nVan Orden 1854-, 6, 1864-66, Alliert A. L. Denmrusl 18.54-55, An-\\ndrew 51. Hopper; 185. -5t^t, Benjamin 8. Demarest; 18. i5-57, 1861-02,\\nFrederick Cronter; I8. 5, Jamea Deinuresl, Jr.; 1857-59, Peter J.\\nBanta; ISiJO-SS, 1.S09-71, Henry Z, Ackernnin; 18. i6-58, 1803-65,^\\nJohn A. .\\\\ckemniu; l(\u00c2\u00ab7- 9, H. A. 1. D.nmrest 1858-60, Nicholas\\nII. A kerman; 18,i9-rsl, Jidin P. Juhiism; 1859-60, Jacob Z. Van\\nBhircom 1860-02, Thomas Post 1800-62, 187:1-75, Anthony C. TIce,\\n1861-63, John I. Blauvelt, David A. Campbell; 1863-05, Wm. A.\\nDemarest, Garret J. Hopper; 1K64-60, Thomas D. lllanch 1860,\\nNicholas A. Deinnreat 1860-68, David TIce, F. F. Wortendyke, Jr.\\n1867-69, Garr\u00c2\u00bbl F. Hering, Daniel J. Post, Jacob H. Van Derbeck\\n1809, John W. Clirislle; 1870-72, John A. Felter, Abram J. Allen,\\nJohn A. L, Blauvelt, Sleph.n J. Goetschius 1872-74, David Brick-\\nell; 187.1-7.5. KichanI Von Derbeck; 1873-14, John Messenger; 1S73-\\n75, .Abram S. Van Horn; 1875-77, Garret D. Van Buasom, Iwiac On-\\nderdoiik 1876-78, Samuel B. Demarest, John D. Durie; 1878-80,\\nAbram A. Campbell; 1878-79, Mercelins Poat 1879-81, Abnlm\\nGuruoe; 1880-81, Schuyler Bania 1881, John Henry Ackorman.\\nVillages and Hamlets, The townshi|), or .-it leii.st\\n()(irti(Jiis 1)1 it, i.-- liesigniitod by districts, wliicli dis-\\ntinction is made simply us a matter of convenience in\\nde.scribinp certain localities. The tract on the west\\nside, and hordering on the Saddle River, is known as\\nChestnut Uidj^o, wlille a ranj;c of liills in tlie centre\\nof the townslii|) alonj; the 1 a.scack River, with fertile\\nvalleys on either side, is termed Piuscack Ridge. In\\nthe Hontheiust corner is the jioint familiarly known as\\nthe Old Hook settlement.\\nAetna is the most southerly of the villagrs of the\\ntflwnsliii), and is located on the New .lersey and New\\nYork Railroad. It was formerly known as Kinder-\\nkamuck, the luime, in accordance with po|iular tratli-\\ntion, bcinf; of Indian origin, and signifying the place\\nwhere the cock crowed. The red men were on one\\nocca.sion warned of the approach of the enemy, and\\nthus enabled to escape iiiimiiient danger, by the warn-\\ning voice of a neighboring cock. They perpetuated\\nthe event by the christening of the locality. Aetna\\nboasts no commercial enterprise, but w;is formerly a\\npoint of some historic intcre-st. The lands adjait-nt\\nto the depot are desirable, and have been much sought\\nafter as favorable sites for building.\\nOld Kinderkamack was the scene of some of the\\nmost important incidents of the Revolutionary period.\\nDuring the time the American army was encamped\\nhere occurred the death of Brig.-Oen. Poor, one of\\nthe bravest generals of the Revolution. His remains\\nwere interred in the old cemetery of the Reformed\\nDutch Church at Hackensack, his funeral obsequies\\nhaving been attended by both Washington and Lafay-\\nette. His grave is marked by a plain slab, bearing\\nthe following inscription: In memory of the Hon.\\nBrigadier-General Enoch Poor, of the State of New\\nHampshire, who departed this life on the 8th day of\\nSeptember, 1780, aged forty-four years.\\nWestwood is beautifully located on the New Jersey\\nand New York Railroad, and the most enterprising\\nof the railway stations in Wiishington township. It\\nwas an outgrowth of the railroad, and now nuiiihers\\nabout two hundred and lilty inhabit:ints. The land\\non which it is located was formerly owned by David\\nI. Bogert, George T. Brickell, and David Brickell.\\nThese gentlemen caused a survey to be made, laid the\\nground out in lesirable lots, upon a portion of which\\nthey erected buildings. Messrs. Van Emburgli :ind\\nBogert erected the first store, which was soon after\\nfollowed by a hotel, and later by a chapel and many\\npretentious residences. There are now two markets,\\nthree stores, two hotels, and a post-office, Isaac D.\\nBogert being the postmaster. The growth of West-\\nwood has been somewhat impeded by the financial\\nembarrassments of the past few years.\\nThe hamlet of Hillsdale, though desirably located\\non the New .Jersey and New Y ork Railroad, has made\\nno decided advance in growth since its first inception.\\nThe point has many natural iidviintages, its conve-\\nnience of location to the nietropolis and its beauty\\nof situation being the levers which will eventually\\naid in its fuller development. It has now a store, kept\\nby John U. Voorhis, who is also the postmaster; a\\nhotel, of which John P. Wortemlyke is lanillord, and\\na picturcs(]Uc Methodist ICpiscopal Chapel.\\nPaseack is a station on the line of the railroad, and\\nlocated upon the Piiscack stream. It hits no com-\\nmercial significance, anil may be regarded rather as\\nlocality than a centre of population.\\nPark Ridge is situated twenty-five miles from New\\nYork, on the railway above mentioned, and is the cen-\\ntre of an enterprising ciiminunily. It has two stores,\\nkept by Gurnee i^ Son and .lacob Hall, and a bobbin-\\nfactory, owned by Albert A. Wortendyke, which em-\\nploys both steam and water-power, and has a force of\\nfifteen men engaged in its various departments. The\\nbobbins are used in both fia.x- and silk-mill.s, and are\\nshipped to Palerson and New York City, which fur-\\nnishes a constant market.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0358.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "WASHINGTON.\\n243\\nThe land on which the hamlet of Mont Vale is lo-\\ncated was originally owned by Jacobus Demarest,\\nand was later purchased and buildings erected by\\nvarious parties from time to time. Tlie station is one\\nof those located in Washington township along the\\nline of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, and\\nis in charge of J. I. Blauvelt, who is also postmaster.\\nThere are two stores, the proprietors of whom are L.\\nGurnee Son and A. Gurnee, and a hotel kept by\\nJohn A. L. Blauvelt.\\nChurches.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Reformed (Dutch) Church of Sad-\\ndle River was organized as early as 1784. The earliest\\nrecords of the church having been lost or destroyed\\nrenders much information regarding it at this period\\nunobtainable.\\nThe first church edifice, a wood structure, octagonal\\nin shape, was erected in 1787, but no pews were pro-\\nvided, and those desiring seats brought chairs from\\ntheir homes. Neither was any heating apparatus i\\nfurnished, and each worshiper brought a foot-stove\\nas the only means of rendering the building comfort-\\nable.\\nThis structure remained until 1819, the year of the\\nincorporation of the General Synod, when it was su-\\nperseded by the present large and substantial edifice,\\nnow known as the Old Stone Church, and which\\nis regarded as one of the early landmarks. The\\ntearing down and building up is still fr sh in the\\nmemory of the aged people of the neighborhood.\\nThe first pulpit, higli, barrel-shaped, and elaborately\\nornamented, is said to have been imported from Hol-\\nland at great expense, and was regarded as a thing of\\nbeauty. It is still preserved as a relic. The seats were\\nconstructed with high, straight backs and correspond-\\ning doors, and but for the elevation of the pulpit the\\nchildren of the congregation could not have seen the\\npreacher. Some years ago the interior was completely\\nremodeled. The pulpit was discarded for oue of more\\nmodern fashion, the pews were changed in shape and\\ndesign (and more recently cushioned), and the floors\\nneatly and thoroughly carpeted. In the rear an alcove\\nwas built, in which a spacious platlorm was constructed.\\nThe old custom of having a reader and precentor was\\nnuiintained for years, these otficials standing in front\\nof the pulpit, and one reading the chapter and the\\nhymns, while the other had exclusive charge of the\\nmusic. This cnurch and that of Paramus were\\nunited under one pastorate until 1812, when a sep-\\naration occurred, the list of pastors of the Paramus\\nand Saddle River Churches previous to 1812 being\\nidentical.\\nThe first psistor of the Saddle River Church after\\nthe separation was Rev. Stephen Goetschius. He\\nwas installed in 1813, and resigned his pastorate in\\n1833, the infirmities of years rendering further labor\\nimpossible. His descendants are found in various\\nparts of the county. Rev. John Mauley succeeded\\nin 1834, and resigned in 1866, having completed a\\npastorate of thirty-two years. He was followed by\\nRev. Abram H. Meyers, who was installed in 1867,\\nand closed his ministry in 1873. The present pastor\\nRev. \\\\V. E. Bogardus, began his labors in April, 1874.\\nThe church has connected with it a flourishing\\nSunday-school, which is under the superintendence\\nof Garret Z. Snider.\\nThe inhabitants of Pascack and vicinity desired\\nfor many years to organize a church in their neigh-\\nborhood, but were prevented from various causes.\\nFinally the Saddle River Church, being separated\\nfrom that of Paramus, offered to join with the people\\nof Pascack, and to assist them in l)uilding a house of\\nworship. It was agreed to have two church build-\\nings, one consistory, and one congregation, and to\\nhold services alternately in the two houses of worship.\\nIn the year 1814, Rev. Stephen Goetschius was\\ncalled as pastor. The building of the church at Pas-\\ncack was then begun, and was completed in one\\nseason. In the autumn of the same year (1814) it\\nwas dedicated, the sermon being preached by the\\npastor.\\nOn the 2d day of July, 1814, the committee ap-\\npointed by the Classis of Paramus met according to\\nthe order of the Classis, all the members John Yury,\\nJoseph Debaun, Jacob Debaun, and John Debaun\\nbeing present. They proceeded to the election of\\nelders and deacons. The following persons were\\nchosen elders John J. Eckerson, John Gamble, Ger-\\nret Duryie, and Jacob Banta Deacons, Gerret J.\\nAckerman, Edward Eckerson, Hendric Storms, and\\nJohn J. Demarest. The church was organized with\\nfifty members. Rev. S. Goetschius continuing pastor\\nof the two churches. Saddle River and Pascack, from\\nthe year 1814 to 1835.\\nRev. John Manley was called in the year 1835, and\\ncontinued his relations until 1853 or 1854. About\\nthis time the two churches became separate organi-\\nzations, and the Rev. John Manley remained as\\npastor of the Saddle River Church. Rev. John T.\\nDemarest, D.D., accepted a call from the consistory\\nof the church of Pascack. His pastorate extended\\nover a period from 1854 to 1867. In the year 1855\\nland was purchased and the parsonage erected.\\nIn the year 1867 Rev. J. T. Demarest, D.D., re-\\nsigned his charge, and the following year the Rev. B.\\nA. Bartholf was called to the pastorate of the church,\\nwhere he remained until 1873.\\nDuring the years 1873 and 1874 the church and\\nparsonage were remodeled, at an expense of about four\\nthousand five hundred dollars, after which Rev. Alex-\\nander McKelvy was stated supply for three months.\\nRev. Edward Lodewick, the present pastor, accepted\\na call from the consistory in the year 1875. During\\nthe past six years seventy persons have been received\\ninto the communion of the church, which now re-\\nports eighty families and one hundred and twenty-\\nI three members in full communion.\\nThe Sabbath -school numbers one hundred scholars.\\nI The consistory of the church at present is a.s", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0359.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "244\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfollows: Elders, Henry Smith, Peter M. Holdman,\\nFrederick F. Wortendyke, John J. Storms; Deacons,\\nHenry H. Peterson, John E. Terhune, John H. Aek-\\nerman, James Duryea Pa-stor, Edward Lodewick.\\nAmong the early settlers of the up])er portion of\\nBergen County and the lower |)art of Rockland County,\\nN. Y., were a number of Low Dutch and German\\nfamilies, who were, while in the fatherland, either\\nmembers of the Lutheran Church or whose sympa-\\nthies were strongly enlisted in behalf of this denomi-\\nnation. These families were formed into a congrega-\\ntion ;u* early as 174.J, under the jiastoral care of Rev.\\nH. M. Mulilenl)erg, D.D. One of the congregations\\nbuilt a house of worship at a point called Ramapaugh,\\nnow Ramapo, N. J., near the State boundary line.\\nThe other congregation erected an edifice at New\\nBridge, now known as New Milford, in Midland\\ntownship. For years other churches, rejirfesenting a\\nvariety of creeds, having meanwhile sprung u\\\\ within\\nthe limits of the county, these two were neglected, and\\nthe latter was eventually consumed by fire about the\\nyear 1812.\\nThere seems to have been no organization at Sad-\\ndle River until the year 1820, when Rev. H. L. Pohl-\\nnian, a student of Hartwick Seminary, in New York\\nState, was delegated as a home missionary to the long-\\nneglected field. He laid the corner-stone of a church\\nedifice, which was completed by his successor, Rev.\\nDavid Hendricks, the Rev. H. L. Pohlnian having\\nbeen meanwhile called to the New Gerniaiitown\\ncharge at German Valley.\\nThe following list embraces the names of the foun-\\nders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saddle\\nRiver: John AckerMum, David Ackennaii, Rynard\\nAchenback, Thomas Achoriback, Lawrence .Vclun-\\nback, Andrew Essler, Thoniius Van Hiiskirk, .Inlin\\nVan Huskirk, Lawrence Van Huskirk.\\nThe church, which hius had an existence of more\\nthan sixty years, has been under the care of the fol-\\nlowing pastors: Revs. H. N. Pohlman, D. Hendricks,\\nWilliam Gibson, Prof. H. J. Smith, John Eisenlord,\\nJ. C. Day, (4. Nelf, M. Waltermire, N. Wert,\\nDeyeo, Wells, Julica, J. E. Switzer, and\\nthe present incumbent. Rev. P. M. Rightmyer. Du-\\nring the ministry of the Rev. J. C. Day a convenient\\nparsonage was purchased, which was enlarged while\\nRev. Mr. Deyeo w:us jiastor, whose service ext nded\\nover a period of sixteen years. The chnrch has had\\nits days of prosperity and of adversity, and through\\nall has been lile.s.sed and sustained. It numbers one\\nhundred and twenty members, and a flourishing Sun-\\nday-school of ten ofticers and teachers and sixty-five\\nscholars.\\nReligious services were for a period held al a public\\nhall in Westwood, when it was deemed advisable by\\nvarious re^sidents of the place to erect a chapel. Sub-\\nscriptions were received, those most active in the en-\\nterprise being Messrs. Van End)urgh, Uogert, Brickell,\\nand Wcstervelt. The building was completed in\\n1872, at a cost of four thousand dollars, and at once\\nopened for u.se. Union services are regularly con-\\nducted by clergii men from Closter, Nanuet, Schraa-\\nlenburgh, and other adjacent villages. The board of\\ntrustees who superintended the erection of the edifice\\nwere Capt. J. C. Westervelt, 15. Z. Van Emburgh, I.\\nD. Bogert, George T. Brickell, and Walter H. Rum-\\nsey. The present board is the same, with the excep-\\ntion of Walter H. Rumsey, who is superseded by\\nThomas G. Brickell.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal Church cif Hillsdale is\\nconi|)osed mainly of residents of the township who\\nformerly worshiped at Closter, Middletown, and else-\\nwhere. A more convenient and accessible point was\\nneeded for these services, and, under the auspices of\\nRev. E. M. Garton, a society was organized in 187o,\\nand the congregation gathered at the railroad depot,\\nwhere a room was tendered them until other provision\\nwas made.\\nDuring the year 1870 a lot was donated by D. P.\\nI Patterson, upon which a church edifice was erected, a\\nsufficient sum having been raised by sub.scripfion with\\nwhich to carry on the work of building. Rev. E. M.\\nGarton remove l to Ilackcnsack in 1878, and was\\nsucceeded by Rev. J. H. Timbrell, whose p:istorate\\nextended over a period of two years. He was followed\\nby Rev. Samuel Sargent, and he by Rev. Henry M.\\nSimpson. The society of the Hillsdale M. E. Church\\nembraces also that of Middletown, or Pearl River, the\\ntwo numbering about sixty members.\\nThe stewards are J. Ruckman, A. Post, S. Mead,\\nJ. J. Cole, D. J. Hering, an l R. Boyd.\\nThe board of trustees embraces the following names\\nJ. J. Cole, S. Mead, R. Boyd, A. Post, A. H(.| per,\\nand C. Marsh.\\nSiinrlay-school is maintained, numbering fifty\\nscholars, of which L. B. Van Wagenen is superin-\\ntendent.\\nA Congregational Chapel has been erected at Pas-\\ncack by the liberality of a private citizen. It has no\\nsettled pastor, services being conducted by ministers\\nfrom neighboring villages.\\nFriendship Lodge, No. 102. F. and A. M. This\\nlodge is located at Pa-scack, in Washington township.\\nIt was granted a dispensation Oct. 14, a.i 18 i .t,\\nits warrant wils issued Jan. 20, A.n. 1870, and it was\\nconstituted a working lodge on the 17th of February\\nof the same year. The warrant olficers were Henry\\nC. Neer, W. M.; James G. Hering, S. W.; (larrct K.\\nHering, J. W.\\nIts present officers are John F. Hering, W. M.;\\nAbram S. Van Horn, S. W. David P. I ulis, J. W.\\nAbraham Wortendyke, Treas. Garret F Hering,\\nP. M., Sec; HenryC. Neer, P. M., S. D. Albert C.\\nKent, J. D.; John A. L. Blauvcit, .lohn II. .\\\\ckcr-\\nman, M. of C Geiiert M. Ottigiion, .Steward; Wil-\\nliam English, Tyler.\\nHistorical Notes and Incidents.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The following\\naccount of the nnissucrc of Col. Baylor s troop, which", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0360.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "The Hering family are of Holland ancestry. The\\nprogenitor of the branch to which the subject of this\\nsketch belongs was Garret F., who resided at Pascack,\\nand was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Campbell, to\\nwhom was born one daughter, Rachel. She was mar-\\nried to David Hering, who had one son, Kalph, born\\nFeb. 28, 1809, on the homestead in Washington, formerly\\nknown as Harrington township. He passed the early\\nportion of his life on the farm of his grandfather, whom\\nhe succeeded as owner and cultivator of the family estate,\\nand was married to Gertrude, daughter of Judge John R.\\nBlauvelt, of Old Hook, in the township before mentioned.\\nThey had children, Garret R. and Rachel Ann (Mrs.\\nAaron Kider), of Schraalenburgh. The birtli of Garret\\nR. occurred Feb. 26, 1831, at Tappan, in Washington\\ntownship, where his early years were passed. His edu-\\ncation was acquired first at the academy under the\\nmanagement of David I. Cole, and later at Hackensack,\\nwhen Jacob Wortendyke filled the role of instructor.\\nMr. Hering then being desirous of a career of inde-\\npendence engaged in teaching, his earliest field of labor\\nbeing Cumberland County, N. J., where he remained\\nfor two years, after which he repaired to Bergen County\\nand followed the same vocation. The inherited love of\\nagricultural pursuits led him eventually to adopt the\\ncalling of a farmer. He was, in September, 1842, united\\nin marriage to Catharine A., daughter of Garret A.\\nEckerson, of Tappan, to whom two children were born,\\nJohn and Sarah, the latter of whom became Mrs.\\nCharles Fornier, of Hackensack.\\nThe tastes of Mr. Hering prompted him in 1874 to em-\\nbark on the restless waters of political life, when he was\\nelected sheriff of Bergen County for one year. The State\\nconstitution having been modified during this period,\\nhe was re-elected, and served three additional years. On\\nthe expiration of this term he retired to and has since\\nresided upon his farm. Mr. Hering being favorably\\nimpressed with the wealth of the ores of North Carolina,\\nhas engaged extensively in mining enterprises, in which\\nhe is now actively interested. He is in his political\\nsympathies a Democrat, and has always labored for the\\nmaintenance of the principles of his party. The family\\nof Mr. Hering worship at the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch of Hillsdale, of which his wife is a member.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0361.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0362.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0363.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "r}2^y^YO\\n/^i^i", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0364.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "RIDGEFIELD.\\n245\\nis given as liaving occurred in October, 1778, is taken\\nfrom Ramsey s History of tlie American Revolu-\\ntion. It differs in many respects materially from\\ntlie brief sketcli given elsewhere, but will doubtless\\nbe of interest to the reader One of the most dis-\\nastrous events which occurred during the campaign\\nwas the surprise and slaughter of an American regi-\\nment of light dragoons, commanded by Lieut.-Col.\\nBaylor. While employed in a detached situation to\\nintercept and watch a British foraging-party, they\\ntook up their lodging in a barn near Tappan. The\\nofficer who commanded the party which surprised\\nthem was Maj.-Gen. Grey. He acquired the name of\\nthe No-fllnt General from his common practice of\\nordering his command to take the Hints out of their\\nmuskets, that they might be confined to the use of\\ntheir bayonets. A party of militia which had been\\nstationed on the road by which the British advanced\\nquitted their post without giving notice to Col. Bay-\\nlor. This disorderly conduct was the occasion of the\\ndisaster which followed. Grey s men proceeded with\\nsuch silence and address that they cut oft a sergeant s\\npatrol without noise, and surrounded Old Tappan\\nwithout being discovered. They then rushed in upon\\nBaylor s regiment while they were in a profound\\nsleep. Incapable of defense or resistance, cut off\\nfrom every i)rospect of selling their lives dearly, the\\nsurprised dragoons sued for quarter. Unmoved by\\ntheir supplications, their adversaries applied the bay-\\nonet, and continued its repeated thrusts while objects\\ncould be found in wliich any sign of life appeared.\\nA few escaped, and others, after having received from\\nfive to eleveu bayonet-wounds in the trunk of the\\nbody, were restored ultimately to perfect health.\\nBaylor himself was wounded, but not dangerously.\\nHe lost in killed, wounded, and taken sixty-seven\\nprivates out of one hundred and four. About forty\\nwere made prisoners, who were indebted for their\\nlives to the humanity of one of Grey s officers, who\\ngave quarter to the wliole fourth trooj), though con-\\ntrary to the orders of his superior officers.\\nAbram C. Holdrum. His paternal grandfather,\\nJames Holdrum, was born at Old Tappan, N. J.,\\nDec. 21, 1785. He was in service at Sandy Hook\\nduring the war of 1812. He was a member of the\\nReformed Church at Schraalenburgh.\\nHe was united in marriage, Aug. 2G, 18^)4, to Mar-\\ngaret Demarest, by whom he had two children,\\nCornelius J., the father of our subject, and Rachel,\\nthe wife of David I. Demarest, and afterwards of\\nJohn E. Post.\\nCornelius J. Holdrum was born at Old Tappan,\\nBergen Co., N. J., March 6, 1806, and spent his en-\\ntire business life as a farmer. He married, June 16,\\n1831, Elizabeth Depew, by whom he had five chil-\\ndren, Martha, wife of A. P. Jersey, of New York\\nCity James Catherine A., wife of John J. Dema-\\nrest Abram C. and John C.\\nMr. Holdrum served at different times as both\\nelder and deacon in the Reformed Church at Schraa-\\nlenburgh, of which he and his wife were members.\\nHe died Sept. 10, 1871, and his wife died April 26,\\n1881.\\nAbram C, son of Cornelius J. Holdrum, was born\\nat Orangeburgh, Rockland Co., N. Y., Sept. 23, 1837.\\nHis early years were passed in the common school\\nand in assisting his father on the farm. After being\\nwith D. P. Demarest in the grocery business for a\\nwhile, he went to Albany, and attended the State\\nNormal School for a time. He then went to New\\nYork City, and became one of the employes of the\\nUnited States Express Company for a period of six-\\nteen years, when he removed to Bergen County,\\nN. J., and engaged in farming, which he has since\\nfollowed successfully. In politics he is a Republi-\\ncan, and held the office of freeholder of his township\\nin 1879. He was appointed notary public by Gov-\\nernor Parker, and commissioner of deeds by Governor\\nMcClellan. He was also one of the enumerators of\\nthe tenth census of the United States. He has twice\\nbeen nominated for Assemblyman, but, his party\\nbeing largely in the minority, was defeated.\\nHe is a member, and has served as deacon, in the\\nReformed Church at Tappan, Rockland Co., N. Y.\\nHe was married, Jan. 24, 1872, to Mary L., daughter\\nof John A. and Catherine (Demarest) Hopper, who\\nhas borne him tliree children, Samuel Calvin (de-\\nceased), Bessie, and Garret A.\\nCHAPTER XL.\\nRIDGEl IELD.\\nPhysical Features. The whole range of the Pali-\\nsades affords a wide, extensive panorama of beautiful\\nscenery. From tlie summit of the ridge and along\\nthe edge of this far-reaching declivity for twenty\\nmiles from Jersey City the eye of the lover of natu-\\nral scenery is constantly enchanted with new and\\never- varying views.\\nRidgefield is the first township in Bergen County\\nwhich the traveler enters in passing up the Palisades.\\nHis first impressions are much like those of old Hen-\\ndrick Hudson in speaking of a wider extent of country\\nA very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land\\nto see. The valley of the Hackensack invited early\\nsettlers in the seventeenth century, and the valley of\\nthe Overpeck Creek, a navigable arm of the Hacken-\\nsack, also attracted settlers quite as early in this di-\\nrection. Sloops and schooners can pass up this creek\\nnearly to the northern boundary of the township.\\nRidgefield is bounded on the north by Englewood,\\non the east by the Hudson, on the south by Hudson\\nCounty, and on the west by the Hackensack River.\\nThe southern boundary is less than two miles in ex-\\ntent, and the northern less than four, and the length of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0365.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "246\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthe township from north to south does not exceed four\\nmiles. Bellman s Creek, forming part of the southern\\nboundiiry, tlie Hackensaek, the Overpeck, the Hudson,\\nwith more than a dozen otlier smaller streams and riv-\\nulets, bountifully supply the whole township with\\nwater. From the western border of the Palisades the\\nland descends to the Overpeck, forming a most beauti-\\nful valley, with the land again rising to a high ridge\\nmidway between tlie Overpeck and the Hackensack.\\nFrom this long ridge, extending far to the north be-\\nyond this township, it took its name of Kidgefield.\\nThe New York, Susquehanna and Western, for-\\nmerly the Midland Railroad, the Jersey City and Al-\\nbany Railroad, and the Northern Railway of New Jer-\\nsey all running northward through the township\\nafford ample railroad accommodations. The Susque-\\nhanna enters the township at Rellman s Creek, and\\nthe Northern at about one hundred feet south of the\\ncreek, and at a point north and east of the Sustiuc-\\nhanna. The Albany road in this locality is not yet\\nconstructed, diverging at present from the track of\\nthe Susquehanna between Little Ferry and Bogota\\nstations. It has, however, an independent line pro-\\njected and now under construction to New York j\\nCity. I\\nEarly Settlements. Ridgefield embraces the earli-\\nest settlements in the ancient township of Hackensack,\\nantedating even the organization of that township in\\n1693, and of the county of Bergen in 1675. There\\nseems to have been no town or village compactly built,\\nlike the village of Bergen, but there were settlements\\nboth of Dutch and English in and about what was\\nsubsequently known as Knglish Nciglilxirhood jirior\\nto 1675. The Westervclta, the Zimermaiis, the Ban-\\ntas, and the Blauvclt^i, all coming from Holland,\\nsettled in the middle of the seventeenth century in\\nthat locality. The ancestors of Jacob P. Westervelt,\\nnow of Hackensack Village, with himself, were born\\nin Fnglish .N cigliborliood. His fatlier was born there\\nin 177G,and was tlieson of Christopher Westervelt, who\\nwas born there certainly as early as 16!M), and he was\\nthe son of the original ancestor of this family, who\\ncame from Holland and settled on Overpeck Creek,\\nwithin the present limitsof Ridgeficl l tnwnslilp, riib-\\nably about 1G7 I,\\nThe earliest mention of the name of Westervelt\\nthat can be ascertained in Holland is that of Dirck\\nVan Westervelt, who was born between 147/ and\\n1500, and married into the Van Wenkom family, and\\nfrom them sprang a large and influential family now\\nliving in Holland.\\nThe earliest settlers hearing the name in America\\nwere Lubberl Lubhertson and Willem Van Wester-\\nvelt, who came from the town of Meppel, province of\\nDrenthe, Holland, on the ship Hoop, in April,\\nl i62, and settled on Long Island. The fact of .set-\\ntlement is established from recorils, showing that a\\nson of Willem purchaseil in 16!I7 considerable prop-\\nertv ill New I trerlit, which he sold in 17 IM to An-\\nthony Holsart, and also that Willem married Dericke\\nand lived for some time there, as Dericke Wil-\\nlemse Van Westervelt names in her will her husband,\\nWillem, and also her son, Abraham Willemse, whose\\nwife was Margaret. Their children were Alltie, born\\nin 1651 Abraham, 1653; Willemtie, 1654; Femmetie,\\n1658; and Jan, 1660.\\nLubbert Lubbertson Van Westervelt had chil-\\ndren: Lubbert, born in Meppel, and married Be-\\nlilje lioulus^March 4, 1680; Roelof, also born in\\nMeppel in 1659. Jumen, Jan, Margrictie, and Ma-\\nritie were born in this country.\\nDeeds and papers in possession of their descend-\\nants show that the Van Westervelts were among the\\nearly settlers of old Bergen County, as Cornelius, son\\nof Lubbert, settled at .Vcquackanonk, and was one of\\nthe original fourteen patentees who purchased the\\nAcquackanonk patent in 1684, containing some thirty\\nthousand acres. He did not remain long there, as\\nthere is only one conveyance afterwards, and then\\nsettled on the other side of the Pa.ssaic River, in what\\nis now Bergen County, and hence originated the Van\\nWestervelt name here. Like other families from\\nHolland when first coming to America, they had no\\nsurname, but adde l to their baptismal name the name\\nof the |\u00c2\u00bblacc from whence they came in Holland.\\nHence Jan, from the west of Holland, wast valt,\\na west field, would be Jan Wast Valt, or John\\nWestervelt.\\nThe grandfather of Samuel D. Westervelt lived\\nat the Hoi)per grist-mill. The Hoppers settled in the\\nvalley of the Wagzaw in 1711, and owned nearly all\\nthe land in that section on the Passaic River.\\nOf his children, Lucas, the youngest, was born in\\nPonipton, March 17, 1788, and upon the death of his\\nmother, when he was only seven years old, he came\\nto Teaneck, where at the proper age he learned the\\nma.son s trade. He married Belinda Deinarest, Nov.\\n5, 1803, who was born Nov. 24, 1784, and died Jan. 6,\\n18.58. After his marriage he settled at Tenally, where\\nhe built a stone house, in which he resided until his\\ndeath, March 17, 1825. The house was standing in\\n1881, and is one of the monuments left of olden\\ntime, and showing his chosen occupation.\\nHis chililren were Simon, John, Cornelius, Samuel\\n1)., Elizabeth, Eve. and .\\\\nn, wife of Albert Winant,\\nof Hackensack.\\nLourens Andrie.ssen Van Buskirk, signifying from\\nthe church in the woods (sometimes calling himself\\nby the former and sometimes by the latter name, and\\nwhose name is fre niently mentioned in the recital of\\nearly events in this history I Jointly with others pur-\\nchased, Jan. 6, 1676, a large lra -t of land, then known\\nas New Hackensack. n|ion which he resided as early\\nas 1688.\\nThe De Mott family were Huguenots, and settled\\nin English Neiglibi rhood in the seventeenth century.\\nMalliias, the ancestor of this family, was born in\\nFrance, and settkfl in Bergen County. His son Jacob", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0366.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "KIDGEFIELD.\\n247\\nwas father of Johu De Mott, who died in 1832, aged\\neighty-four. Jacob, the father of the present Jacob\\nJ. De Mott, was born March 11, 17114, and succeeded\\nto the ancestral home on the Tenafly road. John De\\nMott, son of Jacob, lived in English Neighborhood.\\nRichard Paulison was descended from an early set-\\ntler in English Neighborhood. He wa.s born Oct. 1,\\n1773, and lived all of his life in the present Ridgefield\\ntownship, and died in 1873, at nearly one hundred\\nyears of age. He was the father of John R. and\\nother children, who have left a large family of de-\\nscendants, among whom was the late Judge Paulison\\nand Paul Paulison, his brother, of Hackensack.\\nThe reader is referred to the account in this volume\\nof the early settlements in Bergen County for further\\nparticulars of early settlements in this locality.\\nRobert Earle, one of the pioneer settlers of Bergen\\nCounty, located in Ridgefield township, and pur-\\ncha.sed a large tract of land, beginning at the North\\nRiver, from thence to the Hackensack, and running\\nthence to Bull s Ferry, from thence to Five Corners\\n(or Bergen), near Fort Lee, as early as 1650; and as\\nthere were no white inhabitants near Mr. Earle, he\\ngave several acres of woodland to a number of white\\nfamilies to locate on, with a view of forming a set-\\ntlement. The only descendant of whicli there is any\\nknowledge was Robert, who married Mary Smith\\nand located in Ridgefield township. His children\\nwere Daniel, Robert, Philip, Joseph, John, Charles,\\nEdward, Elizabeth, Jennie, and-Mary.\\nDaniel married Charlotte Nicholas, and lived near\\nSeacaucus, and reared a family of five children,\\nMargaret, Robert, Charlotte, Edward, and Daniel.\\nMargaret married John Dean, and lived at New\\nDurham.\\nRobert married Ann King, and moved to New\\nYork.\\nCharlotte married Benjamin R. Still, and moved to\\nBrooklyn, and had one child, Augusta.\\nEdward married twice his first wife was Harriet\\nDaley second was Mary Ann Cozzens, and moved to\\nHudson County.\\nDaniel married Hannah Sneath, and located in\\nHudson County, and had eight children, Sarah\\nAnn, Mary, Edward, Daniel, Charlotte, Gertrude,\\nAnna, and Harriet.\\nWhat became of Robert, Philip, Jose]ih, John,\\nCharles, Edward, Elizabeth, Jennie, and Mary is not\\nknown, further than they all moved out of the county.\\nAndrew Engle, a native of Germany, settled on\\nBull s Ferry Hill, Ridgefield township, in about\\n1770, and purchased a large tract of land, and en-\\ngaged in tilling the soil. His family consisted of\\nJohn, Jennet, Sarah, Maria, Margaret, Andrew S.,\\nand James.\\nJohn married Mary Day, and settled adjacent to\\nhis father. His children were Jennet, Andrew, Henry,\\nSarah, Catherine, John, Margaret, Eliza Ann, James,\\nWilmina, Louisa.\\nJennet married Charles Clark, and resides in the\\ntownship.\\nAndrew married Eliza Ann Cutwater, and lives\\nnear Fairview, and raised a large family.\\nHenry married Hannah Craft, and located at Fair-\\nview.\\nSarah married William Howell, and located at\\nFairview.\\nCatherine married John S. Townsend, and lived in\\nthe township; both dead.\\nJohn, out of county.\\nMargaret married William Kelly, and lives at Fair-\\nview.\\nEliza Ann married William Danelson, and located\\nin Hudson County.\\nJames, single, resides in Fairview.\\nWilmina married John White, and resides at South\\nAmboy.\\nLouisa married Jeremiah Tracy, and resides at\\nFairview.\\nJennet married Michael Fisher, and moved to\\nHudson County. Their children were Maria, Jennet,\\nCatlierine.\\nMaria married Nathaniel Morris, and lives in New-\\nark, N. J.\\nJennet married William Odgen, and resides in East\\nNewark, N. J.\\nCatherine married Joseph Wragg, and located in\\nHudson County.\\nSarah married Cyrus Ward, and moved to New\\nYork City.\\nMaria no trace of her.\\nMargaret married Henry Miller, and located at\\nNew Dunham.\\nAndrew S. married Wilmina Demarest, and located\\nin Hudson County.\\nJames married Amelia Dykeman. and lived at\\nFairview both dead.\\nThomas McDonald, a native of Scotland, settled at\\nDay s Point, on the Hudson River, Hudson County,\\nwhich was formerly Bergen County, as early as 1776,\\nand purchased a large tract of land and engaged in\\nfarming. His children were Thomas, Jr., Mathias,\\nand John.\\nThomas, Jr., married Sarah Y oumans, and located\\non Bull s Ferry road, Ridgefield township, in 1800,\\nand engaged in farming. Their children were Thomas,\\nJr., Jeremiah, David, James, Sarah M., and Rudol-\\nphus.\\nThomas, Jr., married Sarah Lee, and moved to\\nNew York.\\nJeremiah married Susan Whitchurch, and settled\\nin New York.\\nDavid married Mary Seddon, and settled at Fair-\\nview, and reared a large family.\\nJames married Elizabeth Golden, moved to New\\nYork State.\\nSarah M. married James D. Demarest, and resides\\nat Fairview.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0367.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "248\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, x\\\\EW JERSEY.\\nRudolphus married Sarah Gardner, and moved to\\nEssex County.\\nMathiius married Haniiali M. Bortholts, and settled\\nin Ridgefield townsliip; liis cliildren were .Saplironia,\\nTliomas, John, Eliza, Matliias, Jr., Abraham, and\\nHannah.\\nSophronia married Philip Tabbs, and moved to\\nNew York.\\nThomas married Susan Sturge, and settled in Hud-\\nson County.\\nJohn married and settled in Hudson County.\\nEliza married Samuel Earl, and lives on Bull s\\nFerry Hill, Ridgefield township.\\nMathias, Jr., married Eliza Holden, and lives in\\nHudson County.\\nAbraham married and died in township.\\nHannah married Henry Dodd, and moved to Hud-\\nson County.\\nJohn married Maria Van Duscn, and located on\\nBull s Ferry Flill his children were .James, Jane,\\nHannah, John, Jr., William R., and Fanny.\\nJames married a Miss Berdett, and moved out of\\nthe county.\\nJane lives at Fairview.\\nHannah married and moved out of the State.\\nJohn, Jr., married and settled at Jersey City.\\nWilliam 1{. ilioil young.\\nFanny married Henry Russell, and resides at Fair-\\nview.\\nCivil Organization. The act of 1871, erecting llic\\ntownship of Itidgelield from the southern part of Old\\nHackensack, defines its lines of boundary as follows:\\nDeginliitiK at h point on the llnckon^ack Ilivor whom tlio Cedar\\nLano rua l Btrikuf\u00c2\u00ab the samu, ninnini; thonco in an eiuturly direction\\nalong the Diidtlleof tlie aaIiI Cedar Lane roiid to the middle of the Over-\\npeck Creek thonco in a northerly direetlon along the easterly branch\\nof Nald creek to where the Name Birlkes the line of laniU formerly of\\nJohn I. Deniott; thence eaatorly along the Houtberly lineof \u00c2\u00bbald Do-\\nmott fl land to the coBt lino of the towiiBhip of Hackensack.\\nEdward Jardine became the first chosen freeholder\\nunder this la.st organization, and served for the year\\n1871, and wa.s followeil by Hugh Brosnaham for 1872\\nand 1873, who was followetl by Tlioina.s Goulard for\\n1874, and by Isaac R. Vereland for 187. )-77, and by\\nJohn Winterburne for 1878, anil by John ,1. Wood\\nfor 187!t and IfSSO, and Stephen H. V. Moore for\\n1881.\\nThe a!\u00c2\u00abe.s.sorsof the townshiji since its organization\\nare as fidlows: John V. H. Terhune, 1871-75; James\\nArmett, 187(i-77 John Fletcher Burdett, Jr., 1877-\\n79; William E. Taylor, 1880.\\nThe collectors. Nichohis T. Homaine, 1871-72;\\nJohn H. Winant, 187;}-7o; William P. Degraw,\\n1876-78; Jamas Christie, lS7!t-Hil.\\nThe justices of the peace, Charltjs W. Chamberlain,\\n1872; James C. Ha7.clU)n, 1873 Thomas Dunn Eng-\\nlish, 1870; Maurice Fitzgerald, 1877; Arthur J. A.\\nPollock and .Me.\\\\ander CIcndinen, 1878; Samuel E.\\nDe (iroot, lH7it; James Day, 1880.\\nThe l \u00c2\u00bbwii clerks, .lames hristie, 1871-72; .\\\\ndrew\\nS. Engle, 1873-74; Arthur J. A. Pollock, 1875-76;\\nJohn H. Mannix, 1877-79; Ch:irles H. Lozier, 1880.\\nThe population of Ridgefield in 187. at the first cen-\\nsus after its organization, was 351(5, and in 1880, 39.i2.\\nVillages and Hamlets. -Fort Lee, five miles south-\\neast of Hackensack, and about nine above New York\\nCity, and English Neighborhood, now Ridgefield, are\\nplaces of great historical interest.\\nFort Lee is the largest village in the township, and\\ncontains many ancient and cpiaint-looking residences,\\nas it wiis quite an old place, and well known as a land-\\ning on the Hudson long before the Revolution.\\nForty years ago it was described as having about\\nthirty dwellings, irregularly grouped in a nook at the\\nfoot of the Palisades. The population at that time\\ncould not have exceeded 150. .Vt the last census (1880)\\nit had a population of 1424. Its old and new resi-\\ndences, intermingled with each other, like its inhabi-\\ntants, of native and foreign birth, give to it the ap-\\npearance of an old town with many new improvements\\nto meet the wants of an increasing population. En-\\nterprise and industry have greatly increased thegrowlh\\nof the place during the last fifteen or twenty years.\\nA large hotel and a most commodious landing on the\\nHud.son, with its nearness to New York City, make\\nthe village a convenient place of access for excursion-\\nists in summer, and thousands find their way hither\\nfor a day s tour of pleasure during the hot season.\\nThe old fort from which the town took it.s name, and\\nat one time in the Revolution so important as a stra-\\ntegic point on the Hudson, has quite disappeared, only\\na few stones above gnmnd being left to mark the in-\\nteresting spot where Washington gazed with anxiety\\namiil the perils and uncertainties of that disastrous\\nperiod of our history. The site of the fort is on the\\nbrow of the Palisades, fronting the town, and elevated\\nabout three hundred feet above the Hud.son.\\nBogota, on the Hacken.sack, opposite the county-\\nscat, hiUM a population of 145; Coytesville, just above\\nFort liOe, of 424 Fairview, in the southern part of\\nthe township, on the Northern Railway, 41(t; Leonia.\\nabove Fairview, 2ti(i; Little Ferry, at the mouth of\\nthe Overpeck, 58 Riilgefield, between Fairview ami\\nLeonia, 221 Ridgefielil Park, on the Hackensack,\\nabove Little Fen;y, 77; Shady Side, near the soutbcrn\\nboundary of the township, on the Hmlson, 432 Tay-\\nlorsville, west of Fort Lee, 257 anil Fenwick, on\\nthe northern line of the township, 238 Walton, on\\nthe Northern Railway, near Englewood, is a small\\nmanufacturing village. Outside of these villages, and\\nall over the township, are many beautiful residence^\\nThis part of the connlry in a few years will assuin.\\nmore of the suburban appearance than it now wear-,\\nbeing contiguous to the great city.\\nSchools.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The earliest school-house at Edgewater.\\nin this township, of which there is any knowlinlge\\nwas built a1)out the year \\\\7 JX, on the site now occu-\\npied by the residence of James 1). liradford. Est]., by\\nMichael Vrceland, a wealtbv farmer ol those times.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0368.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "RIDGEFIELD.\\n249\\nand who bore the expense of maintaining the school\\nmostly alone. The Vreeland family had settled here\\nabout one hundred years previous to the date given\\nabove. This school, with the exception of the .stone\\nschool at English Neighborhood, was the only one\\nfor miles around. Pupils came from as fjxr north as\\nwhat is now Taylorsville, and south from wliat is now\\nGuttenburgh, an area now covered by five school dis-\\ntricts.\\nRidgefield has seven school districts, known as Nos.\\n1, 2, 3, 4, 4o, .5. and 6, with a school enumeration of\\n1288 children. The largest district is No. 2, embracing\\nthe village of Fort Lee and vicinity, with 425 children.\\nThere is also a large parochial school connected with\\nthe Catholic Church in this village. The State school\\nfund ajiportioued to this township amounts to nearly\\nfive thousand dollars. The school-houses, most of\\nthem, are a great credit to the enterprising spirit of\\nthe people.\\nEdgewater Free School, No. 1, is located in the ex-\\ntreme southeastern portion of the county, on the banks\\nof the Hudson. The district was created by a special\\nact of the Legislature in 1868.\\nChurches. There were nine churches in the town-\\nship, according to the statistics of 1876, three Episco-\\npalian (one at Fort Lee, one at Edgewater, and one\\nat Ridgefield), two Reformed (one at Coytesville and\\none at Ridgefield), the Catholic Church of the Ma-\\ndonna, one True Reformed at the same place, one\\nMethodist at Fort Lee, and one Baptist at Fairview.\\nThe Catholic Cluirch seems to be quite near Fort Lee\\nin approacliing that village from the west, and the\\nchurch itself, from the foundation to the top of its\\nlofty spire, wholly built of stone, stands on an ele-\\nvated and commanding site on the western slope of\\nthe Palisades.\\nThe stone church just west of the Ridgefield depot,\\non the Northern Railway, is the oldest structure of\\nthe kind in this part of the country. All the locality\\nin the vicinity at the date of its erection was called\\nEnglish Neighborhood. Many English people had\\nsettled there, as will appear from their names, to be\\nmentioned in the history of this church, and hence\\nthe derivation of the title English Neighborhood.\\nThat designation was only abandoned upon the for-\\nmation of the new township of Ridgefield, and is even\\nfrequently used at this day in speaking of the locality.\\nPrior to 1768 the Cliurch on the Green, atthe present\\nvillage of Hackensack, had been attended by the\\npeople in this locality and the .surrounding country,\\nbut on the 18th day of November, 1768, active steps\\nwere taken for the erection of s church at English\\nNeighborhood. Under that date the records of the\\nsociety contain the following entry\\nEnglish Neighbourhooii, in tlie County of Bergen uini Province of\\nNew .lersey. November IMtli, Anno. Dom. 1768.\\nAs Mr. Tliomas Moore lias conveyed to us, the underwritten trus-\\ntees, one acre of land, on purpose tliat we sliould erect a church on it\\nagreealjle to the constitution of Tliirteenth Reformed Churcli of Hol-\\nland, established by the National Synod of Ilort and as the minister,\\nelders, and deacons, and also the members and all their successors, which\\nshall be elected, appointed, and estiiMislied in the said church, now act-\\nually building in the English Neighbourliood, are to be conform to the\\ndoctrine, discipline, and worship established in the United Provinces by\\nthe National Synod of Dort aforesaid, we liritniiae acconiinp to engage-\\nment to endeavor that such ministel elders, deacons, and menlbers shall\\nnow be called and appointed in said church we all promise that we will\\nkeep out of the debate that is now between Coetns and Conferentie as\\nmuch as in us lies, and we will indeavour to live in Christian peace with\\nboth parties, as we have agreed from the first, on purpose that all the\\ninhabitants of the English Neighbourhood and members of the said\\nchurch may live in peace and love among themselves and others, for a\\ndivided house must fall, liut a well united house or church shall stand.\\n(Signed),\\nAbraham Montant, Michael Moorb,\\nStephen Bourdett, Thomas Moore,\\nJohn Day, John Moore.\\nThe history of this contest between Coetus and\\nConferentie will be found in the histories of the\\nchurches at Schraalenburgh and Hackensack. That\\nfierce ecclesiastical strife was disturbing the peace of\\nthe people of God in 1768, and in the new church\\norganization at the Neighborhood its members sought\\nto avoid it as far as possible.\\nThe record then states that,\\nThe people of the English Neighbourhood, being unanimous, agreed\\nto erect a congregation, and having thus accomplished their desire and\\nintention, they proceeded by a free vote of the people to call Mr. Garret\\nLydecker. then Candidate of Divinity, who, having accepted their call,\\nwas ordained and installed in the congregation by Dominies Ilitznia and\\nVanderlinden, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy, and\\nin the said year the consistory, to wit, Abraham Montany and Michael\\nMoore, elders, and John Day and John Lozier, deacons, were elected and\\nconstituted by Abraham Day, from Hackensack congregation, and Dora-\\ninus Garret Lydecker.\\nThen follows, in the same record, the entry, to wit\\nN.B. The above is a small statement of the building of the church\\nand of organizing the congregatiou. The congregation being delicient,\\non account of Dominus Lydecker removing in the year one thousand\\nseven hundred aud seventy-8i.\\\\ from this congregation to New York,\\nwho at that time took with him all the papers and writings belonging\\nto the congregation, from the time of his removal we were destitute of\\nthe preaching of the gospel, excepting some temporary 8ni)plies which\\ndifferent ministers favored us with, nnlil the year one thousand seveu\\nhundred and ninety-two. The consistory, in behalf of the congregation,\\nentered into a combination with the congregation of Bergen to call John\\nCornelinson, their present candidate, who accepted our call, and was or-\\ndained and installed in the church of Bergen by Dominus Froeligh,\\nLansen, old Dominus Cooper, and son, W. Cooper, on the 2Gth day of\\nI^Iay, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-\\nthree.\\nThe Rev. Gerrardus Lydecker referred to in the\\nforegoing record went with the Tories in the Revolu-\\ntion. He ofliciated for a time in the Dutch Church in\\nNew York City, and thence went to England, and died\\nat his son s house in Pentonville at the age of sixty-\\nfive. He is said to have abandoned affluence and his\\nnative land in his loyalty to a lost cause. Another\\nrecord, dated July 1, 1770, says,\\nThen were constituted uiembers of the Reformed Dutch Church in\\nthe congregation of the English Neighborhood the following persons\\nafter due examination, viz. Michael Moore, Abraham Montany, John\\nLashier, John Day, David Day, Thomafl Moore, Edward Bylesteiid,\\nSamuel Moore, Bepjamin Bourdette, John Cahy (and nine females). At\\nthe same time were nominated and chosen Michael Moore and Abraham\\nMontany as elders, and John Day and John Lashier as deacons of the\\naforesaid congregation. Garret Lydecker, V.D.M., examined the above\\nnamed persons and nominated the aforesaid members of the consistory,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0369.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "250\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nEldar Abnun Day, oftha Beformed Dutch Church of HackenMck, being\\npresent. The baIiI elders and deacons were coDflrmed July 22, 1770.\\nIsaac DelanuittT became a member of the church July 27, 1770, and on\\nthe 29th the Holy Supper was celebrated.\\nI y tliese recorils it will be seen through what\\nstruggles the church was called to pa.ss in those early\\ndays of storm and strife. The British and American\\narmies traversed and retraversed this .section of coun-\\ntry till at times it had almost become a wilderness\\nand a land of desolation, and then the political strifes\\nini mediately following the Revolution left little or no\\nplace for the ministry of peace on earth and good will\\nto men. Hence it is not to be wondered at, perhaps,\\nthat for sixteen years the church was without a pas-\\ntor, and prayer and praise and song were only occa-\\nsional within its walls.\\nRev. John Cornelison spelled Corneiinson in the\\nchurch record) was called to this church Nov. 28,\\n1792, and on the 26th of May following was ordained\\nto the ministry and installed pastor of this church\\nand of the church at Bergen by Revs. S. Warmoldus\\nKuypers, William Prcvoost Kuyj)ers, Nicholas Lan-\\nsing, and Solomon Froeligh. But one-third of the\\ntime could Mr. Cornelison devote to this church, and\\npreaching in Dutch was only occasional. In 1793 a\\nnew church edifice was erected, forty-five feet front\\nby forty-two in length, under the charge of Cornelius\\nVreelandt, Garret Banta, .loliii Williams, John Day,\\nRynear Earle, and Samuel Kdsall. The old church\\nstructure disappeared, |)ursuant to the following docu-\\nment That Catharine, widow of Michael Moore,\\ndeceased, and Michael, Jacob, and Samuel Moore,\\nhis sons, gave full power to the elders and deacons\\nfor building up and pulling down or removing the\\n(old) church without any intcrru[)tion or molestation\\nfrom them or any person claiming under them.\\nThe subscription for this new church is yet extant\\nin the church records, beginning with the large sub-\\nscription for those times of Abraham Montany,\\n\u00c2\u00a32. John Day, XIO; Martman Brinkerlioof, CIO;\\nGarret Banta, CHi; David Day, and followed by\\nthe names of Edsall, Vreelandt, ISritoii, Williams,\\nDrove, Van Gizen, Smith, Ackerman, Earlc, Demot,\\nBenson, Carolock, Laiibach, Covenhovon, Grecnlief,\\nStevens, Miller, Ingle, Bombgardner, and others,\\neighty-two subscribers in all, in money amoiintitig\\nto the sum of t21; i -m. The subscribers were to be\\ncredited pro /niilo in |)urchasing pews.\\nCornelius Vreelandt sold the land on which the\\nnew church was to be erected for ten pounds, being\\none-half acre, wherron the church is nr)w erected,\\nand adjoining that whereon the obi church stood,\\nthus enlarging the premises to that extent by the iieiv\\npurchase. This church was completed in 1794, and\\non Jan. 8, 179r the ])ews were sold for \u00c2\u00a31292 It.\\nThirty persons were added on confession and eleven\\nby certificate during Mr. t ornclison s pastorate, a\\nperioil of thirteen years, terminating November, \\\\Hi\\nThe next piustor was the Rev. Henry I ldhcMius,\\nwho came Feb. 17, 1809, and remained till February,\\n1813. Twenty-six members were added to the cliurch\\nI during his ministry. On the 29th day of December,\\n1809, the church was incorporated, and on the same\\nday Mr. Polhemus deeded to the church a desirable\\ntract of land he had secured for a parsonage at a\\npurchase price of eighteen hundred and thirty-two\\ndollars. A commodious parsonage was then erected\\non the premises. Mr. Polhemus successor was Rev.\\nCornelius T. Dcmarest, on April 2G, 1S13. His pas-\\ntorate continued undisturbed till the troublous times\\nof 1822, when, as we have stated in the history of the\\nchurches at Schraalenburgh and Hackensack, began\\nthe contest which resulted in the formation of the\\nTrue Dutch Reformed Church and the termination of\\nMr. Demarest s pastoral relations with the church of\\nEnglish Neighborhood in 1824.\\nDuring the early years of his charge the church\\nseemed to prosper. The minutes of the consistory in\\n1814 mention the private devotions, the family wor-\\nship, the meetings for prayer ami godliness, and that\\nsome have been received into the church and others\\nare hopeful, and these things evidenced the fidelity of\\nthe preacher and piustor. These pleasant relations\\nwere as undisturbed till 1819 lus the ebbing and flow-\\ning tides unvexed by boisterous winds andim|iending\\nstorms. Sym| athi/.ing with Dr. Froeligh, who had\\nreceived suspended members from other churches,\\nfollowing the doctor from conviction undoubtedly,\\nexposed, nevertheless, to more conflict and strife than\\neither of them at the outset had apprehended be-\\ncoming the victim afterwards of charges and crimina-\\ntions which the bittcrne-ss of wounded or exasperated\\nfeelings rarely seem to ameliorate or modify, and\\nover which, even if the mantle of charity had been\\nattempted to have been thrown, it might have been\\nrent asunder; and subjecteil at last to the accusa-\\ntion that, as clerk of Classis, he had returnetl copies\\nof minutes which were materially false and incorrect,\\nof deliberate falsehood and prevarication, of abiKive\\nand false slanders in public and private, and la.*lly\\nof public schism and at length, on the 18tli day of\\nFebruary, 1824, the pastoral relation between Mr.\\nDemarest and the church of English Neighborhood\\nwas dissolved. Some said he was like the withered\\nfig-tree that was plucked up by the roots, and others\\n.said he was like the fruitful vine when its ripening\\nclusters had been blasted by .some untimely gale.\\nThere was, at all events, a smitten shepherd and i\\nscattered flock, and there could be found, in heaven at\\nleast, no place id rejoicing over such a calamity.\\nj Mr. Dcmarest disregardeil the citalion to answer\\nthese accusations in the ecclt^iastical tribunal. Thc\\ntrial proceede l and judgment was entered by defaidt,\\nj declaring him guilty, suspending him from the inin-\\nI isterial oflice, and dis.solving the pastoral relation be-\\ntween himself and his people. On the same day\\nsixty-two members of the church and congregation\\njoined in a complaint against the elders and deacons", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0370.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "RIDGEFIELD.\\n251\\nwho still adhered to the suspended pastor. They were\\ntried, their seats declared vacant, and they were de-\\nposed and the Classis ordered a new consistory to be\\nchosen in their stead. At this juncture, and upon the\\nissues growing out of it, a lawsuit was commenced\\nto try the title to the property of the church. Two\\nsocieties claimed it, and they stood in the tribunal\\nlike the two women contesting for the child before\\nthe king. This notable case came up for decision in\\nthe February term of the Supreme Court in New\\nJersey in 1S31, and will be found reported in 7th\\nHalstead s New Jersey Reports, page 206, in the case\\nof Day vs. Bolton. Chief Justice Ewing and Justices\\nFord and Drake sat in judgment, and Messrs. Horn-\\nblower and Wood were the counsel for the plaintiffs,\\nand Messrs. Vanarsdale and Frelinghuysen for the\\ndefendants. We have already given an account of\\nthese great lawyers in the judicial history of Bergen\\nCounty. Joseph C. Hornblowcr the next year became\\nchief justice of the Supreme Court for fourteen years.\\nGeorge Wood was the great lawyer who afterwards\\nstood foremost in his profession in the city of New\\nYork as well as in New Jersey. Elias Vanarsdale,\\nalways astute and particular, was conspicuous as a\\nlawyer, and Theodore Frelinghuysen was then adding\\nlustre to a name already known to the nation. The\\nbench and the bar were worthy of the occasion. The\\narguments of the counsel have not been preserved,\\nbut the opinions of the judges are given at length in\\nthe report of this case. They are too long and too\\nminute for repetition here, but are well worth perusal\\nin a close investigation of a great controversy between\\nthe Reformed Church and the True Reformed Church,\\nas each society styles itself to-day. In this contest\\nthe Reformed Church established its title, and so the\\ndefendants, the True Reformed Church, were obliged\\nto surrender the property that whether members\\nmight secede from a religious society, they could not\\ncertainly carry along with them by such act of seces-\\nsion any of the property which was deemed to be\\nvested in and belonging to the parent society. The\\ncourt might have gone into a larger and broader dis-\\ncussion of the questions incidental to those under dis-\\ncussion, but perhaps it wisely confined itself to the\\nprecise issues in controversy before it. The case it-\\nself has become famous along with this decision, and\\ntherefore less notice could not he taken of it here.\\nThe reader is also invited to the perusal of the case\\nof Johnstone vs. Jones, in 8 C. E. Green New Jersey\\nReports, page 216, and the case of Doremus against\\nthe minister, elders, and deacons of the Dutch Re-\\nformed Church in English Neighborhood, in 2 Green\\nChancery New Jersey Reports, page 332, decided in\\n1835. Rev. Gustavus Abeel was the successor of Mr.\\nDemarest in April, 1S25, and resigned in June, 1828,\\nto be followed by Rev. Philip Duryee, who was in-\\nstalled in December, 182S, and continued almost\\ntwenty years, till April 3, 1848, to be followed by Rev.\\nJames McFarlane in April of the next year, and who\\nresigned April 18, 1855, when, on the 10th of October\\nof that year, Rev. Andrew B. Taylor was installed,\\nand continues in charge to this day. Mr. Taylor s\\npastorate is the longest, and that is the highest testi-\\nmony to his worth and devotion and the attachment\\nbetween himself and his people. The old church it-\\nself has become a monument, not of old and vexing\\ncontests, but of that other contest, ever fresh, ever\\nnew, for the maintenance of the great cause of Chris-\\ntianity itself.\\nTrue Reformed Dutch Church in English Neigh-\\nborhood. This church was formed during the eccle-\\nsiastical troubles of 1822. After the decision in the\\nlitigation, already mentioned in this history, this\\nsociety first held service in a barn, then attached\\nto the old parsonage, now the property of Mrs.\\nJames Cronkright, and afterwards in the parlor\\nof the parsonage, till the erection of their present\\nchurch on the old English Neighborhood road, near\\nthe Fort Lee turnpike, and were dependent on occa-\\nsional supplies, having no stated ministers, till Rev.\\nJames G. Brinkerhofl became pastor in 1824, and was\\nsucceeded the same year by Rev. Cornelius T. Demarest,\\nwho became stated pastor from 1824 to 1851, and was\\nsucceeded by Rev. Cornelius J. Blauvelt, who was\\npastor of this church and of the True Reformed\\nChurch at Hackensack, preaching in each place\\nevery alternate Sabbath, from 1852 to 1860. He was\\nsucceeded by Rev. John Y. De Baun in both churches.\\nMr. De Baun withdrew from the old True Reformed\\nChurch in Ridgefield a few years since, and still is\\npastor of the church at Hackensack. He was suc-\\nceeded in the former church by Rev. Abram Van\\nHouten. The membership is less than one hundred.\\nEpiscopal services were first held in private houses\\nby Rev. James Cameron, rector of the church at\\nEdgewater. In June, 1868, a parish organization was\\nperfected, and in 1871 steps were taken to build a\\nchurch. Specifications were prepared by Mr. G. W.\\nWard at the request of the vestrymen. The lot was\\ngiven by Charles Browu, and the erection of a church\\nwas commenced. The corner-stone was laid by Rev.\\nJames Cameron with appropriate services. The church\\nwas completed, and the first service was held on the\\ntwenty-second Sunday after Trinity (November 5th)\\nby Bishop W. H. Odenheimer, D.D., and consecrated.\\nThe church is of wood, and pleasantly located on a\\nhigh elevation near Edgewater Avenue. The value\\nof church property is three thousand five hundred\\ndollars. The first members were William Townseud\\nand family, William Pollock and family, D. H. Wil-\\nson and family, Hon. Orlando Stewart and family,\\nGabriel Barbey and family, Charles McMichael and\\nfamily, James McFarland and family, Mrs. Deyett\\nand family, George W. Ward and family, John Wilson\\nand family, Mrs. Asten and family. Tlie present mem-\\nbership is eighteen families.\\nThe present wardens, G. W. Ward, G. M. Richard-\\nson vestrymen, S. Allaire, James McFarland, H. A.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0371.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "252\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nWilson. Services are held every Sunday by Rev.\\nJames Cameron, rector of the church at Edgcwater.\\nRev. James Cameron and G. W. Ward constituted\\nthe first board of vestrymen.\\nEpiscopal services were first held in the Church of\\nthe Mediator I Episcopal), at Edgewater, in 1862, al-\\ntliough t le edifii-e was erected in 18o9, and was at\\nthat time a union church. This church is of wood,\\ntwenty-five by fifty feet, and located on the river road\\nat Edgewater, about a quarter-mile north from the\\ndock was purchased by the Episcopal congregation\\nin 1862, and consecrated by Bishop Odenheinier, Aug.\\n7, 1864. There were present beside the bishop Rev.\\nW. R. Earl, minister in charge, and Rev. Ralph Hoyt,\\npastor of the Episcopal Church at Fort Lee. The\\nchurch was organized in 1862, with the following\\nfamilies: David T. Baldwin and family, Lucas S.\\nComstock and family, Joliii McMichael and family,\\nFrederick Ggden, Christopher C. Rockwell, John\\nWinterburn and family, Frank Van Woert, John llal-\\nlet and family, A. Oakey Hall and family, and Palmer\\nCrary and family.\\nThe first wardens were D. T. Baldwin and Lucas\\nS. Comstock. The first vestrymen were John Mc-\\nMichael, Frederick Odgen, C. C. Rockwell, John\\nWintcrburn, Frank Van Woert.\\nThere are now twenty-eight families connected with\\nthe church and thirty-two communicants. The pres-\\nent wardens are James HoUyer and M. R. Brown\\nvestrymen, J. W. Laird, X. G. Prickett, George\\nPrindle, and R. T. Woodward. The present rector\\nis James Cameron, who was installed May, 1866.\\nThe parsonage, which is of wood, two stories high, I\\nwas built in 1867 at a cost of four thousand lollars.\\nCatholic services were first held at Fort Lee, at the\\nresidence of Dr. H. .Vnderson, and in 18. the present\\nchurch was erected, principally by .Mr. Anderson.\\nThe church is of stone, and located on a high eleva-\\ntion overlooking the Hudson River. The pastors\\nthat have supplied this church are Rev. J. Heymann,\\nthe first regular |)astor, and was succeeded in 186. by\\nRev. Patrick orrigan. Rev. H. A. Braun in 1866,\\nRev. I atrick (Vly in IKi iT. Rev. J. Sniits in 18611,\\nRev. G. Spicrings in 1H70, Rev. 1*. Daniels in 1876,\\nRev. P. Luke in 1\u00c2\u00ab80, and Rev. D. Mersmann in 1881,\\nthe present pastor. Tliere are now one humlred and\\nthirty families who belong to the church. The first\\ntrustees were Dr. H. Anderson and Patrick Leary.\\nThe present trustees are Michael Jennings and Jacoli\\nMickle.\\nRev. Ralph lloyl held Epi-scopal services at l^ ort\\nLee in I8r)2, and in ISTi.S he erected a small church at\\na cost of four hundred dollars, and continued to hold\\nmeetings for a number of yrarw, but the church wils\\nnever organized, and was tnorr of a society than a\\nclnircli organi/jition. Owing to .Mr. Hoyt s ill health\\nhe aliandoned preaching in the little chapel, and since\\n18K0 there has been no service helil in the church,\\nand it is now in u dilapidateil state. It is culled the\\nChurch of the Good Shepherd, and is owned by the\\nson of Rev. Mr. Hoyt.\\nFor some time previous to 1848 the people of Eng-\\nI lish Neighborhood {now Fairview) felt the necessity\\nof organizing a religious body, and a council of min-\\ni.stering brethren and delegates from the following\\nchurches, namely the Blooniingdalo Baptist Church,\\nN. J., New Dunham Baptist Church, and the Bap-\\ntist Church at Perth Amboy assembled at English\\nNeighborhood to take into consideration the expe-\\ndiency of recognizing nineteen brethren and sisters\\ninto an independent Baptist Church, to be called the\\nFirst Baptist Church of Christ at English Xeiglibi)r-\\nhood, N. J.\\nRev. William U. Spencer, pastor of the Blooming-\\ndale Church, was chosen moderator; Rev. George F.\\nHendrickson, pastor of the church at Perth Amboy,\\nwas chosen clerk of the council Rev. Richard\\nThompson, ])astor of New Duidiam Baj)tist Church,\\nread a portion of Scripture from the second chapter\\nof the Acts of the Apostles. The joint letter of dis-\\nmission from the New Dunham Baptist Church, con-\\ntaining the names of nineteen members, as follows:\\nJames D. Demarest, David McDonald, Ephraim\\nTracy, William H. Tracy, David C Dyer, .Viulrcw\\nEngle, Jr., Abraham Jackson, Sarah McDonald, Eliz-\\nabeth Tracy, Francis Ebis, Sarah Frecland, Eliza-\\nbeth Coinpton, Mary JIcDonald, Mary Sedon, Wil-\\nliam Engle, Catherine Townsend, Margaret Denni-\\nrest, Sarah Engle. Elizabeth Jackson, who were dis-\\nmissed from the said church, was then read before the\\ncouncil. The articles of faith and church covenant were\\nthen read and examined by the council, which were\\napproved. It was then voted to proceed to recognize\\nthem into an independent Baptist Church, and ser-\\nvices were first held in private houses until 18(i4,\\nwhen the membcrshiii increased and a church edifice\\ndeemed neci^ssary. In the fall of 1864 the present\\nchurch was erected at a cost of two thousand dollars,\\nwhich wasbuilt by subscription. Thisehurch isasmall\\nwooden structure, twenty-four by thirty-five feet, and\\nis located in the centre of the village. The building\\ncommittee was David C. Dyer, James D. Demarest,\\nDavid McDonald, W. II. Tracy, Andrew S. En le.\\nThe church was dedicated Dec. 13, 1864, by Rev. Mr.\\nDowlely, of New York.\\nThe first trustees were James D. Demarest, David\\nC. Dyer, David McDomild W. H. Tracy, and An-\\ndrew S. Engle. First deacons, James D. Demarest\\nand JOphraim Tracy. The present trustees arc David\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2McDowell, James D. Demarest, William Taylor,\\nGeorge Evans, and Augustus Dyer. Present mem-\\nbership, twelve. The first pastor was Rev. fJeorge F.\\nHendrickson, who has presideil over this congre-\\ngation at intervals since 1K48. The last |)Hstor was\\nKev. C. A. Harper, who wius called in 1878. There has\\nbeen only one other piustor who has had charge of the\\nabove flock. What his name is and when he came\\nand what time he left records don t show, and no one", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0372.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0373.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0374.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "RIDGEFIELD.\\n253\\nknows. Rev. C. A. Harper took charge of the church\\nin 1878, and in 1880 broke the church up. There is\\nno preaching now.\\nThe stone church at Fort Lee was erected in 18(17,\\nby Gen. Edward Jardine, John G. Cunningham, J.\\nG. Brown, and others, at a cost of eight thousand\\ntliree hundred dollars, for a Congregational Church,\\nwhich was organized, and services were held for a\\nshort time. The first members consisted of a few,\\nJ. G. Cunningham, Mrs. J. G. Cunningham, Edward\\nJardine, Mrs. Edward Jardine, Miss Marion Jardine,\\nMiss Laura Federspill, Mi.ss Kate Federspill, Mrs. Jo-\\nseph Prost, Harriet Prost, Mrs. J. G. Brown, Mrs. D.\\nVeene, Miss Louisa Seek, James Ross, and a Mrs.\\nAtkins. The first trustees were J. G. Brown, J. G.\\nCunningham, and Gen. Edward Jardine. This church\\nsince its erection has passed through many hands,\\nand is now owned by R. H. Hoadley, of New York,\\nwho lets it out to all denominations for religious pur-\\nposes for a small compensation. The church is of\\nstone, pleasantly located on the hill. The sexton is\\nCharles Wilson.\\nAmong the first religious services held at Fort Lee\\nwas by a Methodist minister, who carried on services\\nin private houses, and in 1820 a church was erected\\nby subscri]ition at a cost of five hundred dollars, size\\nbeing twenty by thirty feet, and services were held in\\nthis church for a number of years, but, there being no\\nregular pastor stationed at this place, the membership\\ngradually decreased, until they could no longer main-\\ntain a Methodist Episcopal Church at this place, and\\nit was sold. This church was located under the liill,\\non the river road.\\nIndustries. The manufacturing industries in this\\ntownship are extensive, and generally in a very pros-\\nperous condition. The chemical-works at Shady\\nSide, the United States Dye-Works at Walton, Sem-\\nmendinger s manufactory of photograph materials at\\nFort Lee, and Allen s flour-mill at Walton, and sev-\\neral lesser saw- and grist-mills in different parts of\\nthe township give employment to hundreds of opera-\\ntives. Extensive quarries of Belgian blocks for city\\npavements are also to be found at Fort Lee. Huyler\\nRutan have an extensive coal- and lumber-yard\\nat Bogata, and, together with the lumber and coal in-\\nterests of that firm just across the Hackensack River,\\nin the village of that name, they represent the largest\\nbusiness in that branch of trade in the county. There\\nare also extensive coal-yards at Walton, Leonia, and\\nFairview. Mr. Wales, of Leonia, is also extensively\\nengaged in the manufacture of microscopic and tele-\\ngraphic lenses. As an expert in this mechanism he\\nhas no superiors in this country, and, with his world-\\nwide reputation, probably very few excel him in\\nEurope. Devoutly reverencing the great Master-\\nMechanic of the universe, this humble and patient\\nstudent in the minutest calculations of microscopic\\npower is revealing many of the minified and unseen\\nwonders which seem beyond the limits of human in-\\n17\\nspection. Bounded by two navigable streams, and\\nintersected by a third, and with two railroads already\\nconnecting the township with New York City, and\\nwith charters for several more, which the increasing\\ntrade and traftic between the great metropolis and the\\nWest will call into requisition, this township bids fair\\nin a few years to become the adjunct of a great city.\\nHon. Thomas H. Herring was a lineal descendant\\nfrom the Archbishop of Canterbury, England, and\\nhis great-grandfather, Thomas, a native of England,\\nwas the progenitor of the family in New England,\\nand settled at Dedhani, Mass., where the family en-\\ngaged in agricultural pursuits.\\nThomas had two sons, William and Thomas. The\\nlatter returned to England, but his whereabouts has\\nnever since been known by the family in this country.\\nThe former was grandfather of our subject, and also\\nspent his life in Massachusetts.\\nThomas, son of William, born at Dedham, Mass.,\\nJan. 8, 1775, went to Albany, N. Y., while a young\\nman, and there engaged in mercantile pursuits and\\nin shipping and trading interests between there and\\nNew York. The latter part of his life was spent\\nmostly as a banker in Albany, where he became by\\nhis enterprise, superior business ability, and thrift one\\nof the most influential and wealthy citizens of that\\ncity. He died June 3, 1827, leaving the following\\nchildren: William Clark, born April 12, 1805, was a\\nwholesale merchant in New York City for many\\nyears, and died in London, England Elizabeth\\nMary, born May 22, 1808, became the wife of Jonas\\nConkling, of New York Thomas Hughes, subject of\\nthis sketch and Lucy Ann, born March 9, 1814, be-\\ncame the wife of Hon. Elisha N. Pratt, of Greenbush,\\nN. Y., who represented the city of Troy in the New\\nYork State Senate for two terms, was a man of good\\nability, and who died Feb. 25, 1856. His wife died\\nOct. 15, 1860. Their only child is Elisha Herring\\nPratt, who resides with his aunt, Mrs. Herring. The\\nwife of Thomas Herring was Lucy Olds, born Oct. 1,\\n1776, died June 8, 1849, and whom he married March\\n15, 1804.\\nThomas H. Herring, son of Thomas and Lucy\\n(Olds) Herring, was born in the city of Albany, Aug.\\n7, 1812, and was graduated at the Albany Academy,\\nthen a school of the highest reputation in that State\\nfor thorough training and sclidlarsliip. For some\\ntime he was a clerk in the store of his brother and\\nbrother-in-law (Conkling Herring) in New York,\\nand upon reaching his majority he became a partner\\nin the concern. This firm did a large jobbing busi-\\nness during its continuance in trade. In 1841, Mr.\\nHerring retired from active business pursuits, and\\nsettled on some forty acres of land in English Neigh-\\nborhood, midway between Ridgefield and Fairview, in\\nBergen County, N. J. On this beautiful location,\\ncalled Hillside Park, he erected in 1850 a fine\\nbrownstone ])alatial residence, where he resided until\\nhis death, which occurred July 1, 1874.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0377.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "254\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nMr. Herring was a man of decided opinions, high\\nintellectual ability, a logical reasoner, and frank and\\noutspoken in his views upon the great political ques-\\ntions of his time. Tlirougli life he took a deep in-\\nterest in local and national legislation, was an active\\nmember of the Democratic party, but became a war\\nDemocrat in 1862, and during the latter part of his\\nlife was not allied to any party organization. Mr.\\nHerring was president of the Republican State Con-\\nvention of New Jersey in the fall of 18(54, that sup-\\nported Abraham Lincoln for a second term for the\\nPresidency of the United States. From 1857 to 18o9\\nhe represented Bergen County in the State Senate, and\\nduring one session was president of the Senate. He\\nwas frequently solicited to be a candidate for member\\nof Congress, and in ISliO declined the honor in a very\\nable letter published at the time, principally upon the\\ngrounds of his full adoption of the principles enun-\\nciated in the Cincinnati platform, which was indorsed\\nby the President, that of non-intervention by Con-\\ngress with slavery in the territories, believing as he\\nfirmly did that each State should regulate its own in-\\nstitutions. He was at one time prominently nameil\\nfor Governor, and bad his private business not inter-\\nfered, and had he not disclaimed any ambition for the\\nhigh position, he undoubtedly would have been placed\\nin nomination for gubernatorial honors. He was one\\nof the founders and directors of the Emporium Kire\\nIn iiraMce t onipany of New York.\\n.Mr. Herring was the largest of the capitalists who\\nprojected and built the Northern New Jersey Rail-\\nroad, and was president of it from 18.59 to 1869. Dur-\\ning his incumbency of that office the management of\\nthe road was so efficient that of the several millions\\nof passengers carried during the ten years, there was\\nnot the lo.ss of a single life. He was i)os,sessed of\\nlarge property, and owned much valuable real estate\\nat Englewood.TenaHy, Ilighlanil, and in other places\\nalong the Northern Road.\\nIn tlie decease of Mr. Herring Bergen County lost\\none of its representative men, and one (pialified to fill\\nthe highest place in the gift of the people.\\nMr. Herring was united in marriage July 10, 1834,\\nto fSabina, daughter of Thomas Signear and Nancy\\nBrown, of New Paltz, N. Y., who was born June 29,\\n1819, ami survives lier husband. Her grandfather,\\nDoris Signear, was a native of France, and liad an\\nonly son by his wife, Lois Wood, who was Mrs.\\nHerring s father. Her mother was of English de-\\nscent. Her maternal grandfather, Maj. Amos Brown,\\nwa.s an officer in the Revolutionary war, and served\\nas one of (Sen. Wiusbington s aide-de-camps. -Maj.\\nBrown came with bis parents from ICngland, settled\\nfirst at Fairfield, Conn., and subsequently a( New\\nPallz, N. wbere .Mrs. Herring s mother was born.\\nJacob C. Terhune. The progenitor of this family\\nin Bergen ounty wius .lohn Terhune. who emigrated\\nfrom Holland while a young man ami .settlecl in Old\\nHaekeiisack township about the year 1720. He mar-\\nried the widow of Ralph Vandalinda, who owned a\\nlarge tract of land, extending from English Creek to\\nthe Hackensack River, and by this marriage obtained\\npossession of some twenty acres, which with its ad-\\nditions hiis been the Terhune homestead since, a\\nperiod of one hundred and sixty years. His son\\nAlbert succeeded to the possession of this property,\\nwhich is situated just across the river from the pres-\\nent village of Hackensack, and married a Miss Van-\\nderhofl who bore him the ft)llowing children John,\\nCornelius, Peter, Albert, Elizabeth, wife of Morris\\nEarle, and Gertrude, wife of Samuel Vanderbeck, of\\nI Hackensack.\\nAlbert Terhune was a cooper by trade, but lived on\\nthe home-stead most of his life, dying at the age of\\neighty years about 1808. Of his children Cornelius\\nwas fatlier of our subject, was a shoemaker by trade,\\nbut spent most of his active business life as a farmer\\non the old homestead, residing there from 179 until\\nhis death. He lived through the period of the Revo-\\nlutionary war, was a soldier under Capt. Cutwater,\\nand after the close of the war received a pension.\\nCornelius Terhune was an influential and substan-\\ntial citizen in Bergen County, and was chosen to fill\\nmany offices of trust and responsibility in Old Hack-\\nI ensaek township. He was a member and elder of\\nthe Reformed Dutch Church in Hackensack, and was\\nan acting elder ami opposed strenuously the secession\\nfrom that church in the council held in liis own\\nhouse. He, however, yielded to the claims of the\\nseceders, and afterwards remained a member of the\\nnew body of worshipers. He died in 1853, aged\\nninety-two years and six months.\\nHis wife, whom he married Oct. 24, 178ti, was Eliz-\\nabeth, daughter of Jacob Hopper, of Pollitly, who\\nwas born Jlay 12, 1767, and died in 1833, leaving two\\nchildren,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jacob C. and Jane, wife of Abram Ber-\\ntholf, of Hackensack. Mrs. Bertholf was born in\\n1800, and survives in 1881. Jacob C. Terhune, only\\nson of Ciirneliiis and Elizabeth Terhune, was born in\\nHackensack, Jan. 8, 1791, and removed with bis pa-\\nrents to the old homestead in 179. where liis minority\\nwas mostly spent. After his marriage, Nov. 24, 1810,\\nto Elizabeth, daugiiter of Albert Van Voorhis, who\\nwas born in Ai)ril, 1791, he bought a small farm in\\nthe vicinity of tiie liomestead, where he resided for\\nsome ten years, when the age of his father recjuired\\nhim to look after the property at iiome, and he took\\nuj) bis residence there, where, with the exception of\\none year, he has since resided, making his main busi-\\nness that of a farmer. His wife died April 18, 1832,\\nleaving two ciiildren, John V. H. and Cornelius, who\\nilied the same year as his mother.\\nHis second wife was Martha Romaine, who wa^\\nborn Sept. 26, 1837, and died in March, 1871.\\nSherilf Terhune, a.s he is familiarly known.\\n.seemingly inherited a spirit of interest in local mat-\\ntem from his father, and soon after his marriage wa-\\nelected and served on the board of chosen freeholder-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0378.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0379.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": ".^^,6^.^^b^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0380.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "^w,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0383.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0384.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0385.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "l^lt^.X ^tcc\u00c2\u00a3^~A^SL^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0386.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "RIDGEFIELD.\\n255\\nfor several years. In 1836 he was elected sheriff of\\nBergen County, and by re-election, without oppo-\\nsition, served for three consecutive years. He was\\nelected on the Democratic ticket to the State Legis-\\nlature, and served with honor for the years 1845 and\\n1846.\\nSheriff Terhune is a man of the past generation,\\nand has lived through the most interesting |)eriod of\\nthe world s history. Incidents of olden time are\\nfresh in his memory, and his valuable store of in-\\nformation in relation to the progress of the county,\\nthe establishment and foundation of churches, schools,\\nneighborhoods, and villages, which he holds with a\\nretentive memory even at the age of ninety-one years,\\nis very remarkable.\\nJohn V. H.Terhitne, only surviving son of Jacob\\nC. Terhune and Elizabeth Van Voorhis, was born on\\nthe Terhune homestead, July 24, 1811. Following\\nhis school-days he learned the carpenter s trade,\\nwhich, however, he has never followed. On Dec. 30,\\n1830, lie was united in marriage to Ann, daughter of\\nJacob H. Brinkerhoff and Ann Lozier, of Hackensack\\ntownship, both of whose families were among the\\nearly settlers of Bergen County. She was born May\\n22, 1813, was a woman of untiring ambition, devoted\\nto the interests of her children, and made home the\\never-welcome place of her numerous friends. She\\ndied .luly 2, 1880, leaving three surviving sons, viz.\\nJacob, who carries on the homestead for his grand-\\nfather Cornelius, who conducts his father s farm\\nand John Henry, who is connected with the banking-\\nhouse of Winslow, Lanier Co., in New York City.\\nAfter his marriage, Mr. Terhune settled on the\\nfarm of his father-in-law, formerly owned by John\\nR. Bogert, and which Mr. Bogert had purchased as a\\npart of the large Zabriskie estate, lying on Teaneck\\nRidge.\\nOn this property was located a saw-mill, erected by\\nMr. Bogert, to which, about 1840, Mr. Terhune and\\nMr. Brinkerhoff added a grist-mill.\\nFor some twenty years after his marriage Mr. Ter-\\nhune was engaged in the wheelwright business here,\\nwith his father-in-law, and in farming, since which\\ntime his main business has been in conducting the\\nmills, leaving, in 1875, the farming to his son.\\nIn early life Mr. Terhune began to take an interest\\nin local politics, and served as constable and collector\\nof Hackensack township for three years, while his\\nfather was sheriff. In 1850 he was elected sheriff of\\nBergen County, and by re-election held the office for\\nthree years. It was during his incumbency of that\\noffice that duty compelled him to hang the murderer\\nWilliam Rating. Sheriff John Terhune has served\\nfor three years as one of the chosen board of free-\\nholders, and for one year as director of the board.\\nHe also served a second time as collector of Hacken-\\nsack township, and was serving as one of its assessors\\nwhen the new township of Ridgefleld was erected\\nfrom a part of the old township of Hackensack. Fol-\\nlowing the organization of the present township of\\nRidgefield, he served for five years as assessor, and in\\n1876 was elected one of the six commissioners of\\nroads, which office, by re-election every two years,\\nhe holds in 1881, having been president of the board\\nsince his first election.\\nSheriff John V. H. Terhune may safely be ranked\\namong the influential and substantial citizens of his\\ntownship and county, and is known as a man of strict\\nintegrity, good business ability, and sound judgment.\\nJohn Mabie. The Mabie family of Bergen County\\nare descendants of the French Huguenots of the same\\nsame who, during the latter part of the seventeenth\\ncentury, left their native country and found a home,\\nfirst in Holland, and subsequently along the banks of\\nthe Hudson and on Long Island.\\nHis father, William Helimus Mabie, born at Tap-\\npan, Rockland Co., N. Y., was a mason by trade,\\nand spent his active business career in New^ York\\nCity and Hoboken, where he followed his chosen\\navocation, and in the latter place he was engaged for\\nmany years, and did business for Robert L. Stevens.\\nHe died in 1828, aged thirty-nine years. His wife\\nwas Maria, daughter of Henry Verbrycke, a Revolu-\\ntionary soldier, who was in Gen. Washington s army,\\nand at the l^attle of Yorktown, and who resided near\\nRamapo, N. J.\\nTheir children were Ann, wife of Robert W. Higgs,\\nof New York City, and John, subject of this sketch.\\nJohn Mabie was born in New York City, June 19,\\n1819. At the age of nine years, being thrown upon\\nhis own resources for support on account of the death\\nof his father, he stnrted in life to carve out a fortune\\nfor himself Like many others who have attained\\nopulence, but who when young met the obstacles in-\\ncident to poverty, young Mabie had also these to con-\\ntend with, but met them with that perseverance and\\nresolution that have characterized his subsequent\\nbusiness career. He spent one year in the tobacco-\\nfactory of Mr. Lorillard, followed by two years ser-\\nvice in Mr. Booth s printing-office; the remainder of\\nhis minority, eight years and four months, being\\nspent as an apprentice in the manufacture of gold-\\npencil cases with Thomas Addison, the first man to\\nengage in that business in this country. For three\\nyears following he continued this business as a jour-\\nneyman, then, with John H. Roanch, Patrick Kean,\\nand Louis Baulman, journeymen, he, in 1843, estab-\\nlished business for himself, and was one of the found-\\ners of the gold-pen and pencil-case house of Roanch\\nCo., which continued business until 1849, when the\\npartnership was dissolved.\\nThat year Mr. Mabie purchased fifty-one acres of\\nland at Fairview, in Bergen County, upon which in\\n1857 he built a substantial brownstone mansion,\\nwhich with its well laid out grounds has been his\\nhomestead since.\\nRestless under too much ease, Mr. Mabie remained\\nfrom business only a few months, and in 1850 estab-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0387.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "256\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY\\nlished in New York City the world-renowned gold-\\npen and pencil-case house, first known ivs Mabie,\\nKnapp Co., afterwards as Mabie, Smith Co.,\\nand for the past ten years as Mabie, Todd Bard,\\nthe sales of which extend to the most distant jiarts\\nof the world. Their office is at 180 Broadway, and\\nthe manufactory at 13S Wooster Street.\\nIn 1871, Mr. Mabie retired from the business in\\nfavor of his sons, George Whitfield and John Henry,\\nwho have since represented the Mabie interest in the\\nconcern.\\nHis life has been wholly devoted to business, nor\\nhas political place or tlie emoluments of office ever\\nbeen a part of his ambition.\\nMr. Mabie is naturally of an ingenious turn of\\nmind, and besides inventing the screw-pencil, he in-\\nvented a car replacer, which has been successfully\\nused on railroads.\\nHis wife, whom he married April i2, 1841, wa.-\\nEliza Jane, daughter of Samuel Smith and Eliza\\nOssa, of Westchester County, who died in 1870, and\\nbore him children as follows: Ann Maria, wife of\\nCharles Sageman, George Wliitfield, John Henry,\\nMarv Kliza, wife of William Newcomb, and Charles\\nEdgar, who died at the age of fourteen. His present\\nwife is Emmagene, daughter of Samuel Sweetland, of\\nProviilonce. R. I.\\nStephen MartUng.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 His grandfather, David Mart-\\nling, a descendant of the French Huguenots who fled\\nfrom their native country to escape persecution and\\nsettleil on the Hudson, wiu* a soldier in the Revolu-\\ntionary war, was taken prisoner and carried to Bor-\\ndentown, where he was ill treated and woundeil, which\\nmarks he carried until his death. He resided at Tar-\\nrytown, N. Y., and there carried on agricultural pur-\\nsuits. One member of the Martling family was cut in\\npieces by the Tories and put into a corn-basket.\\nAbraham D., son of David Martling, was also a\\nfarmer at Tarrytown, and there spent his life. His\\nwife was Esther, daughter of Ebenezer Whelply,\\nwho was a cook for Gen. Washington, and resided in\\nWestchester County, N. Y., where he lived to the\\ngreat age of ninety-one years, always retaining in his\\nfamily the pot which serveil to cook in for the great\\ngeneral.\\nStephen, son of Abram D. Martling, was born at\\nTarrytown, Oct. 11, 1809, and was engaged in agri-\\ncultural pursuits on his grandfather s farm until he\\nwas twciilv-two years of age. He then went to New\\nYork Citv, anil for one year was a clerk in a grocery-\\nstore. The following year, in partnership with Daniel\\nArcher, he e\u00c2\u00abtablishe l the grocery business for him-\\nself, which he continued for eight years. This firm\\nof Martling Archer afterwards engaged in the\\nhuilding-stouf business in New York, obtaining their\\nsupplies from Nyack and otiierpointi on the Hudson,\\nand also in the lumber trade, which they continued\\nuntil 184!t, when Mr. Martling pnrcha.seil one hundred\\nand thirty acres of land on the Hackensack turnpikei\\nin Old English Neighborhood, Bergen Co., N. J., near\\nRidgefield. On this property was a stone house\\nwhich had been built prior to the Revolutionary war,\\nand was the home of Capt. Banta. In this Mr. Mart-\\nling resided until 1865, when he erected a substantial\\nL/^^Z^iic^-rxa\\nbrick residence near by, and there resided until his\\ndeath, Dec. 19, 1880. Stephen Martling was highly\\nrespected, both in his private and public relations.\\nHe took great interest in all matters of a public char-\\nacter. an l his services were always at command when\\nre iuired. He was elected a Justice of the peace,\\nthus aciiuiring the familiar title of Squire, was a\\nprominent leader and elder in the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch, and held many other offices of trust among\\nhis fellow-townsmen. He was one of the projectors\\nof the Northern Railroad, and continued his connec-\\ntion with the roail under the management of President\\nHerring, and when a reorgani7.atii n took place, he\\nenjoye l the confi lcnce of the late Charles Sisson,\\nwhich was never shaken during his life. Mr. Mart-\\nling held the position of agent of the road at Ridge-\\nfield from its completion until his death, and was\\ndeservedly popular with all cliu si s.\\nHis wife, who survivt\u00c2\u00ab liim, is Kli/.abeth, daughter\\nof .\\\\l)ram .\\\\cker and Bella !?eckcr. of New York City,\\nwhom he married in 18m; she was bom .\\\\pril 20,\\n1810, and has the following children Stephen H.,\\nAnna liella, wife of Peter Acker, and David.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0388.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n257\\nMrs. Martling s father was a native of Tappan,\\nRockland Co., N. Y., served in the war of 1812, and\\nspent his active life as a contractor and builder in\\nNew York City; and her grandfather, David Acker,\\nwas a soldier in the war for independence. The\\nAckers were among the Holland families who settled\\nalong the Hudson. Her mother was a native of\\nBergen County, and her maternal grandfather, Becker,\\nwas a soldier also in the Revolutionary war, and re-\\nsided at Rhinebeck, N. Y., which place took its name\\nfrom his brother, Peter Becker. The Beckers are of\\nGerman origin.\\nCHAPTER XLI.\\nENGLEWOOD.\\nPhysical Features. The physical features of the\\ntow.iship of Englewood are somewhat varied. From\\nthe Palisades to the Hackensack the country is rolling\\nand exceedingly picturesque. The soil is naturally\\nfertile and generally well supplied with springs and\\nstreams of water. The Overpeck Creek and its tribu-\\ntaries water the whole middle section of the township,\\nwhile its eastern and western borders are bounded by\\nthe Hudson and the Hackensack. Englewood is thus\\nfavored with natural advantages, and being only about\\nten miles from New York City it has in later years\\ndrawn a large population from that quarter.\\nOrganization. Englewood, with its neighboring\\ntownships on the north and south, formerly belonged\\nto the old township of Hackensack. It became a\\nseparate township by an act of the Legislature passed\\nin 1871.\\nBy virtue of this act Englewood took the territory\\ndescribed in the following boundaries, to wit\\nBegiuQiDg at the Hackeusack River, where the road leading from\\nNew Bridge to Schraaleuburgh intersects it^ and running thence easterly\\nalung the middleof said road to the Schraalenburgh road; thence southerly\\nalong the middle of the Schraalenburgh road to the intersection thereof\\nwith the middle of Liberty road and thence southerly along the middle\\nof Liberty road to the iuteraection thereof with the middle of the road\\nleading to Cornelius Brinkerhoff s house; thence along the middle of\\nthe same to the Tenafly road; thence northerly along the middle of the\\nTenafly road to the south line of lands formerly of .lacob I. Demott; and\\nthence southeasterly along the same to the east line of the township of\\nHackensack.\\nThe act provided that the first meeting for the elec-\\ntion of township officers should be held at Stagg s\\nHall. The first chosen freeholder of the township\\nwas Joseph W. Stagg, who held office for the years\\n1871-73, and was succeeded by James Vanderbeck for\\n1874-76, who was followed by William Bennett for\\n1877-79, when Henry West was elected for 1880, and\\nstill continues in office.\\nThe justices of the peace have been Ira W. Hover,\\n1871-73 Hardy M. Banks, 1871-73 Joseph B. Mil-\\nler, 1872-74, 1877-79 Philip P. Class, 1876 George\\nR. Dutton, 1878-80.\\nSession Laws of New Jersey, 1871, page 691.\\nThe assessors Daniel G. Bogert, 1871-76 Alex-\\nander Cass, 1877 John D. Cole, 1878-80.\\nThe collectors: Cornelius A. Herring, 1871-73;\\nCharles Barr, Jr., 1874-76; Adriance Van Brunt,\\n1877; Jacob A. Bogert, 1878-79; Thomas Russell,\\n1880.\\nTown clerks: Francis W. Van Brunt, 1871-73;\\nAlbert A. Coyte, 1874-76 Richard Demarest, 1877\\nRobert Wagner, 1878-79; Gilbert W. Chamberlain,\\n1880.\\nEarly Settlement. Among the pioneers of what\\nis now Englewood was Richard Vreeland, who settled\\nhere previous to 1776, purchased a large tract of land,\\nand engaged in farming. His children were Michael\\nand Elizabeth. Michael married Margaret Terhune,\\nremained on the old homestead, and had one son,\\nRichard, who married Mary Sip, and succeeded to\\nthe estate of his father. His children were Michael,\\nJr., Margaret, and Isaac.\\nMichael Vreeland, Jr., married Lavinia Brinker-\\nhoff, and had two children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary and Richard. He\\nremained on the old homestead. Margaret married\\nHenry D. Westervelt, and resides in Englewood.\\nTheir children were Henry, Peter, and Margaretta.\\nHenry and Peter died young. Margaretta resides at\\nthe homestead in Englewood. Isaac married Gertrude\\nEdsall, and located on a part of his father s place.\\nElizabeth married Peter Sip, who settled at Jersey\\nCity Heights, and had three children, one daughter\\n(who died young) and two sons, Garret and Richard.\\nThe former married Margaret Newkirk, and had\\nchildren,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jane, Maria, and Peter. Jane died un-\\nmarried Maria married Jacob Van Winkle, and\\nhad several children. They removed to Jersey City\\nHeights. Peter married Ann Van Winkle, and had\\nchildren, Margaret, Mary E., Emma Louisa, Garret,\\nand Richard, who reside at Jersey City. Richard\\nmarried Sarah E. Wayland, and lived at Jersey City,\\nwhere he reared a family.\\nJohn De Mott settled at Walton, in Englewood\\nI township, at an early date, and reared a family of\\nj children, Jacob, Henry, Martin, John, Jr., and\\nI Soi)hia.\\nJacob married Rachel Bogert, and settled at Tena-\\nfly, and had three children, Jacob, Jr., John, and\\nFransiny.\\nI Jacob, Jr., married a Miss Westervelt, and lived at\\nTenafly, and raised a family of five children, Rachel,\\nj John, Jacob, Henry, Garret W., and James B.\\nRachel resides in the township. John married a\\nMiss Zabriskie, and resides at Tenafly.\\nJacob married Catherine Paulison, and settled at\\nNew Bridge.\\nHenry married Rachel Demarest, and located at\\nTinack.\\nGarret W. married Rachel J. Westervelt, and\\nsettled on the Tenafly road.\\nJames B. married a Miss G. Westervelt, and died\\nat the homestead.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0389.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "2o8\\nEIISTOUY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nHenry married Margaret Demarest, and located at\\nEnglewood had one child, Fransiny, who married\\nPeter Westervc-lt, and her cliildreii were Henry D.\\nand Margaret.\\nHenry D. married Marparet Vreeland, and remained\\non tlie old homestead, and had one child, Margaretta.\\nMargaret married .John Van Hrunt, and had eiglit\\nchildren, Henry, Adriance, Frank, Peter, Stephen,\\nMaria Jane, Margaretta, and John. All married e.t-\\ncept John, who resides in Kansas City.\\nMartin married and lived on the old homestead.\\nHis cliildren were John, Jacob, Fransiny, and Mar-\\ngaret A.\\nJohn married Eliza Ann Vanderbeck, and located\\nat Englewood. At her death he married Hannah\\nVan Valen.\\nJacob moved to Hackensack, from there to Tappan,\\nN. Y.\\nFransiny died unmarried.\\nMargaret married William De Wolf, and settled at\\nHackensack. Their children were Euphemia, Fanny,\\nWilliam, and Margaretta.\\n.Tohn married iLaria BrlnkerlioH and settled adja-\\ncent his father. His children were Henry and Fran-\\nsiny.\\nHenry married Leo Moore, and resides on the old\\nhomestead.\\nFransiny married a Mr. Irwin, and settled on the\\nold homestead. lie had no chiklreii.\\nSophia married Stephen Demarest, and moved to\\nHackensack.\\nThe first census after the organization of the town-\\nship in 1875 showed a population of 3932, and in\\n1880 of 407G. In IHfiO the whole population of the\\nthen old township of Hackensack was r)4SS, only ex-\\nceeding the population of Englewood in 188(* by a\\nlittle over 14(1(1.\\nPlaces and Events of Historical Interest-\\nNearly the wliole territory of Englewood is interest-\\ning in the events of the Revolution. Owing to its\\nnearness to New York, and being in the pathway to\\nthe West, its subjugation to British autlicuMty at one\\ntime seemed almost a military necessity, ami there-\\nfore British forces .-(ought to invade its soil, while\\nthe little American army struggled hard to drive them\\nback. On this middle ground, both of contention\\nand defeat, many of the homes of the inlialiitanis\\nwere desolated ami the soil stained with blood in\\nthese destructive marches of invasion and retreat.\\nThe raid on Fort Lee in November, 177fi, brought\\nterror and alarm to all the inhabitants in this section.\\nLord Cornwallis crossed the Hud.son to lostcr Land-\\ning on the IXth of November, 177( and from thence\\nmoved down the valley through the present territory\\nof Englewood to Fort Lei Ballalinn al liT ballallon\\nof a subjugating army only left destruction and dis-\\naster in their path.\\nVillages and Hamlets. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The whole township is\\nHO densely oecupieil with habitations and adjoining\\nbuildings that much of its territory presents a vil-\\nlage-like appearance. Along the Hackensack, from\\nthe country residence of Abram Collerd to the village\\nof New Bridge, the extreme limits of the township\\nfrom the southern boundary northward, it may be\\ncalled one long-continued handet.\\nThe Teaneck road, beginning with the jiicturesque\\nand spacious residence and grounds of William Wal\\nter Phelps, near the southern boundary of the town-\\nship, and about one mile from Hackensack River, and\\nrunning northward, is so thickly occupied with large\\nand well-built houses as to form almost one continuous\\nvillage for miles; and so the village of Englewood\\nstretches nearly along the whole length of the Pali-\\nsades range on the eastern border of the township.\\nThe Jersey City and .Mbany Railroad and the North-\\nern Railroad of New .lersey run through the town-\\nship parallel with each other, and about one mile\\napart, artbrding rapid and frequent connection with\\nNew York City. A Palisades Railroad is in contem-\\nplation to accommodate the residents along the Pali-\\nsades who desire to locate their houses near the edge\\nof those preci|)itous heights, so as to enjoy that mag-\\nnificent view of the great river. Englewood as a\\ntownship seems to have a most promising future. The\\nvillage proper justly deserves a more full and detailed\\naccount in this history. Probably to J. Wyman\\nJones, more than to any other one person, belongs\\nthe honor of being the founder of the town. The\\nname of Englewood had previously been suggested\\nby him for the i ropcrty and place located by him\\nbetween the Tcnady road and the Hudson River, and\\ndirectly east of the old Liberty Pole Hotel. The\\nearly obstacles always in the way to try the faith and\\nto conc|uer the patience, and endurance too, of every\\nfounder of a town have all been experienced by Mr.\\nJones in years long since |)ast and forgotten by many,\\nbut he still lives in Englewood, an honored citizen,\\nand his name will justly hold a memorable place in\\nits history.\\nThe ma]) of the property last mentioned was tiled in\\nthe clerks olViee of Bergen County on the l. illi day\\nof August, 18. i and covered six long, narrow farms\\nand a lot on the top of the Palisades, then belonging\\nto John Van Nest, of the city of New York.\\nTwo of these farms were on the south of Palisades\\nAvenue (a.s afterwards laid out) and the other four on\\nthe north, together forming a solid body of land of\\nsix hundred and twenty-five acri-s.\\nThe farm next adjoining Palisades Avenue on the\\nsouth, being a strip of land about five hundred and\\nforty feet wide, extending from a line just west of the\\nNorthern Railroad track to high-watvr mark (\u00c2\u00bbf the\\nHudson River, contained one hundred and ten acres,\\nanil belonged in 18.18 to Cornelius J. Blauvelt and his\\nson-in-law, IsiuKt .M. Dedercr, both of Piermont, Rock-\\nland Co., N. Y.\\nThe farm adjoining this on the south, being about\\nlive hundred feet in width, an l extending from Dwight", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0390.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n259\\nPlace (as now laid down) to high-water mark of the\\nHudson, contained about eighty-eight acres, and be-\\nlonged in 1858 to George and Anderson Bloomer, the\\nformer of whom lived in the old stone house on the\\nwesterly side of the road, which with twenty acres of\\nland was reserved out of said map. The latter re-\\nsided at Bloomer s Dock, so called, situated on the\\nriver under the Palisades.\\nThe farm lying next Palisades Avenue on the north,\\nbeing about ten hundred and fifty feet iu widtli, and\\nextending from a line west of the Tenafly Creek to\\nthe Hudson River, contained about two hundred and\\nfifty acres, and was owned in 1858 by Thomas W.\\nDemarest and Garret A. Lydecker, both still living in\\nEnglewood. This farm had a few years before been\\nowned and occupied by the Rev. C. T. Demarest,\\nfather of Thomas W., who was regarded at that time\\nas the head of the True Reformed Dutch Church of\\nthe State. The dwelling-house on this farm, in which\\nDominie Demarest had lived, was a handsome white\\nhouse, quite modern and attractive in appearance.\\nThis house was subsequentl) much enlarged for a\\nyoung ladies seminary. After being used as such\\nfor several years it was destroyed by fire.\\nThe next farm nortli of the latter, being a strip of\\nland three hundred and thirty feet wide, and extend-\\ning from the Tenafly Creek to the Hudson River, and\\ncontaining seventy-five acres, was owned by John J.\\nTyler, a lawyer of New York City. It had no dwell-\\ning-house on it.\\nNorth of this the two farms of Jacob R. Demarest\\nand Ralph J. Demarest, father and son, were located,\\nthe two together being about twelve hundred feet\\nwide, containing one hundred and one acres, and ex-\\ntending from the Tenafly road to the top of the slope\\neast of Brayton Street (as now laid down).\\nThese parcels of land were called farms, but,\\nwith the exception of small patches near the road in\\nthe valley which were used for melons, market-gar-\\ndens, and small pasture- or meadow-lands, they were\\nuncultivated.\\nBelts of shrubs and small trees, sometimes thirty or\\nf\u00c2\u00bbrty feet in width, had grown up along the division\\nfences and stone walls on the western slopes where\\nthe forests had been cut down. Weeds and bushes\\nwere scattered over the fields, and an air of neglect\\npervaded the whole plot. In traversing these fields\\ngoing towards the river it was no unusual thing to\\nstrike into a tangle of underbrush, vines, and bram-\\nbles so thick as to absolutely force a return and a\\nchange of direction. On reaching the forest line all\\nfences and division lines disappeared, and, with the\\nexception of frequent wood-paths crossing each other\\nat every angle and constantly misleading the ex-\\nplorer, there was no road. It was one dense forest of\\nmagnificent trees, containing the finest specimens of\\noak and hickory to be found in the county. Most of\\nthese fine trees have been removed.\\nThis tract of laud was remarkably watered. Springs\\ndischarged at several places on the slopes on both sides\\nI of the avenue, which have since been utilized for do-\\nmestic purposes, and in many places wells sunk from\\nfifteen to twenty feet would insure an abundance of\\nexcellent soft water. Even on the top of the Palisades\\nsome good wells have been obtained. At the foot of\\nthe slope near the Englewood House one of the\\nmost reliable and prolific springs in the country has\\nalways abundantly supplied the guests of that house.\\nAnother on the north side of Palisades Avenue, east\\nof Brayton Street, has furnished the large place of\\nthe owner with an unfailing supply of water of the\\npurest quality.\\nThe natural formation of the entire tract of laud\\nwas most suitable for human habitation. Terrace\\nabove terrace, from the valley to the very top of the\\nridge, presented equally inviting sites for building.\\nFrom each plateau charming views were opened,\\nvarying in extent and variety, but vying sharply\\nwith each other for superiority and after twenty\\nyears of experience and study it is difficult to find an\\nunqualified preference for one site over others, all\\nthings considered, among the most observing and\\ncompetent judges who occupy them. For those who\\ndeemed water-life and motion essential to a fine land-\\nscape, no situation could surpass the top of the Pali-\\nsades, which command the Hudson and East Rivers\\nand one of the most varied and charming panoramic\\nviews in the world.\\nFor those who planned to live all the year round in\\nthe country, and regarded water in winter too dreary\\nand chilling, a more secluded and woody situation\\nwas at hand, with vistas through the great trees, af-\\nfording glimpses of cultivated inland scenery. For\\nthose who liked water in the distance at all seasons\\nof the year and found a quiet rest in a soft, southern\\nlandscape, a situation outside the wood and just be-\\nlow the line of heavy forest-trees, which looked down\\non the placid, ribbon-like stream of the Overpeck\\nand far down to Newark Bay, was most prized while\\nfor them whose eyes could not be satisfied except with\\nmountain-tops, equally grand sites were presented,\\ncommanding northern and northwestern views of\\nthe Orange Mountains and the range of the Ramapo\\nhills and finally, the new-comers whose means or\\ninclination led to locations convenient to the station\\nfound high and healthy building-sites with excellent\\nlookouts within a short walk, while the business men\\nof the town would naturally seek their business loca-\\ntions near the railway.\\nThis tract of land, combining such unususrl advan-\\ntages for residences (with the exception of one-half\\nof one of the farms), was transferred, either by deed\\nor by contract with the owners, to the control and\\nmanagement of Mr. Jones. He employed George P.\\nHopkins, an engineer of experience and skill (since\\ndeceased), and a number of iissistants, and spent\\nseveral months in laying out, mapping, fixing bound-\\naries, numbering and naming the streets and lots,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0391.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "260\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nat the same time carrying forward the opening and\\ngrading of the streets with a large force of laborers.\\nThis work wa.\u00c2\u00ab completed, and the map of Engle-\\nwood was filed in the clerk s office of Bergen County\\non the 15th day of August, 1859, as before stated.\\nPrior to this date the name of Englewood, sug-\\ngested by Mr. Jones, had been adopted at a meeting\\nof those living in the neighborhood and interested in\\nthe subject. The name of Englewood is said to\\nhave originated in this way. In the spring of 1859\\na meeting was held in the carpenter-shop of Van\\nBrunt Waters, the brick building on the road run-\\nning west from the residence of John Van Brunt.\\nRev. Mr. Dwight presided. Three names were pro-\\nposed, Paliscena, Brayton, and lastly Engle-\\nwood. The first, it was claimed, was suggested by\\nthe landscape and beauty of the Palisades, but when\\none of the old-time residents exclaimed salts and\\nsenna, Paliscena could not stand up under this\\nburden of ridicule, but quietly disappeared, and the\\nsecond name quickly followed, whereupon Englewood\\nwas chosen. It apparently is obtained from English\\nNeighborhood, the former designation of all this\\nsection of country. This hist name is said to have\\nbeen derived from u family here named Engle, or\\npossibly from the fact that many of the early settlers\\na little lower down the valley were English. The\\nlatter theory seems the more probable, as engle\\nstrictly is a German word, equivalent to our word\\nangel. It is said the happy contraction of that\\nlong compound word into Englewoocl suited the\\nold-times people, and the new-comers too, and .so the\\ntown adopted the name which hius seemed to have so\\nmuch magic in it ever since. The people may have\\nadded lustre to the name, but by way of distinction\\nat least the name seems to have something of the\\nmagic of attraction in its very sound.\\nWhen, therefore, the township of Ilackensack was\\ndivided into three townships, it was quite a matter of\\ncourse that the name given to this locality should\\nhave been assigned to the township of which it\\nformed a i)art. The Iwundaries of this new township,\\nBx fixed by the act of the Legislature creating it, are\\nas follows: all the territory north of the line last de-\\nscribed, to wit the boundary line between Ridge-\\nfield and Englewood townships, and south of the line,\\nbeginning at the Hackensack River, where the road\\nleading from New Bridge toSchraulenburgh intersects\\nit, and running thence easterly along the middle of\\nsaid roail to the Schraalenhurgh road, thence south-\\nerly along the middle of the Scliraalenhurgh road to\\nthe intersection thereof with the middle of Liberty\\nroad, and thence southerly along the middle of Lib-\\nerty road to the intersection thereof with the middle\\nof the road leading to Cornelius FJrinkcrhotr s house;\\nthence along the mid lle of the same to the TenaHy\\nroad thence northerly along the middle of the\\nTenafly road to the south line of land formerly of i\\nJacob I. Demarest, and thence southeasterly along\\nthe same to the east line of the then township of\\nHackensack.\\nIt is not ea-sy at this day to trace the growth of\\nthe village of Englewood step by step from its begin-\\nning. Before the spring of 1858 this locality was a\\npart of English Neighborhood, so called, and was\\nmore particularly known as Liberty Pole. It was\\nthen but a succession of fields with a few houses, the\\nmost noted lieing the Liberty Pole tavern. This\\nbuilding stood in the centre of what is now Palisades\\nAvenue, where it is intersected by the Tenafly road.\\nThe only public means of communication with New\\nYork in those days was by omnibus that left every\\nday, Sundays excepted, at seven o clock in the morn-\\ning, reaching Hoboken in three hours. Returning it\\nleft Hoboken at four o clock p.m., and reached the\\nPole at seven o clock in the evening. Occasion-\\nally the omnibus started off well filled, but more\\nfrequently it set out on the trip with one or two\\npa-ssengers, and announced its progress by a tin horn,\\nthe driver blowing long and loud bla-st-s as he neared\\nthe houses on the way, from which he gathered in the\\ncourse of the trip a mixed company. There were a\\nfew regular stopping-places on the way where the\\nhorses and driver were refreshed. .\\\\biiut this time\\nthe Northern Railroad was projected, and through\\nthe untiring energies and i)erseverance of Thomas W.\\nDemarest and John Van Brunt the right of way was\\nsecured, the necessary capital procured, and finally\\nthe road was built. Mr. Demarest became the first\\npresident of the railroad company, and Mr. Van\\nBrunt the first secretary and treasurer. To those two\\nmen the chief credit for the construction of the North-\\nern Railroad of New Jersey should undoubtedly be\\naccorded.\\nThe first houses of a new town are always objects\\nof interest. These were built by .1. W. Deuel, Esq.,\\nand Robert Pratt. That of the former stands in the\\ngrounds and near to the residence of the late John H.\\nLyell. Mr. Deuel had been engaged in teaching the\\ndistrict school in the Neighborhood. Foreseeing\\na demand for a select school, he erected that house to\\nserve the double purpose of a dwelling for his family\\nand such a school. It was in the school establislie l\\nhere and taught by Mr. Deuel that some of the young\\nmen of the jilace, now in active pursuits and in pro-\\nfessions, began their preparations for business and\\ncollege. It was in the school-room of this building\\nthat the Rev. James H. Dwight began to preach to a\\nsmall congregation, which was the nucleus of the\\nFirst Presbyterian Church, aflerwanls organized, a\\nparticular mention of which will be made hereafter.\\nThe house built by Robert Pratt is still standing on\\nthe corner of Eagle Street and Demarest Avenue, op-\\nposite the Episcopal Church. Before building this\\nhouse Mr. Pratt with his family occupied the Domi-\\nnie Demare.Mt house, above described.\\n.\\\\mong the first persons who were attracted from\\nthe city to this place after the same was laid out were", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0392.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n161\\nIsaac Smith Homans, editor and proprietor of the\\nBanters Mar/mine, and his two sons, Sheppard and I.\\nSmith, Jr., witli their three families. The sons be-\\ncame at once interested in property here, and from\\nthat time forward bore a large share of the burden\\nand responsibility of all the various improvements\\nwhich marked the several steps of progress in the\\nplace. They were most efficient in introducing the\\nplace to desirable persons and making known its at-\\ntractions. They commenced and carried forward the\\nbest class of improvements, and established their per-\\nmanent residences here, each building large stone\\nhouses for their family dwellings. Mr. I. Smith\\nHomans, Jr., gave his time and attention more par-\\nticularly to property and improvements, and fully\\nappreciating the desirableness of this part of the\\nState for suburban residences, soon became very\\nlargely interested not only in Englewood proper, as\\nthen known, but in the lands located adjacent and\\nwithin a few miles from the Englewood railroad\\nstation, and eventually one of the largest land-owners\\nin the county.\\nThe Hon. Hiram Slocum, ex-mayor of the city of\\nTroy, was one of the early purchasers of Englewood\\nlands, and became a considerable owner. Having,\\nhowever, fixed his family residence in Rockland\\nCounty, N. Y., he did not become much identified\\nwith the place.\\nBefore the close of 1859, Nathan T. Johnson and\\nJeflry A. Humphrey, from New York City, acquired\\nconsiderable interests in land in Englewood. The\\nlatter proceeded early to build a dwelling-house, the\\nsame now occupied by Mr. John Brinkerhoff, on\\nPalisades Avenue, which he occupied for several years.\\nMr. Humphrey still continues to reside in the place,\\nto the growth of which he has contributed by erecting\\nalso a fine house on the corner of Palisades Avenue\\nand Lydecker Street, now occupied by Mr. James\\nBarber, and another in which he now lives on Win-\\nthrop Place, besides numerous small residences and\\nstores in the lower part of the town near the railroad\\nstation. Mr. Nathan T. Johnson was one of the most\\nenergetic and progressive men who has ever lived in\\nthe place. The large dwelling now occupied by Mr.\\nHenry W. Banks, on Palisades Avenue above Wood-\\nland Street, was built by Mr. Johnson, and occupied\\nby his family for several years. He gave much time\\nto matters relating to the public welfare, and became\\nlargely interested in lands in many places other than\\nEnglewood.\\nIn the summer and fall of 1859 lots were sold to\\nJ. W. Stagg, John Van Brunt, Hobart Van Zandt,\\nJohn S. Messenger, and Mr. Crovvell, all of whom\\nbegan to build within a short time. Mr. Messenger\\nstill resides in the house he then built, fronting on\\nPalisades Avenue, just west of the Presbyterian\\nChurch.\\nA school for young ladies had been promptly started\\nby Mr. S. S. Norton, in the former residence of Dom-\\ninie Demarest, and before the end of the year 1859\\nthe incipient town was equipped with church and\\nschools.\\nThese were quickly succeeded by hotels, the En-\\nglewood House, filled with pleasant New York\\npeople, having been opened in the spring of 1860,\\nand a small hotel near the station having also been\\nbuilt and opened about the same time.\\nCarpenters painters blacksmiths and butchers\\nshops and stores of several kinds quickly followed.\\nA pretty stone chapel with two hundred and fifty\\nsittings soon crowned one of the finest sites on the\\navenue, and the steadily-growing congregation were\\ngathered there under Mr. Dwight as their pastor.\\nThe seminary for young ladies was still further en-\\nlarged, and passed into the control and management\\nof Prof. Jonathan A. Fowler, now deceased, and Rev.\\nWm. B. Dwight, brother of the pastor, who conducted\\na thriving boarding-school for several years. They\\nwere succeeded by the Rev. Thos. G. Wall, who main-\\ntained the school until the building was accidentally\\ndestroyed by fire.\\nProf. August Kiirsteiner also established an ad-\\nvanced school for boys, which educated many of the\\nyouth of the place and after years of prosperity\\nProf. Kiirsteiner built a handsome residence and a\\ndetached school building, and opened a boarding-\\nschool on Palisades Avenue west of the railroad de-\\npot, which he carried on, with assistants, until 1880,\\nand still owns.\\nIn 1860, Francis Howland, Esq., also from New\\nYork, settled in Englewood. He built a most com-\\nmodious and attractive stone house east of the Epis-\\ncopal Church (as now located), the house now owned\\nand occupied by R. J. Hunter. Later he erected a still\\nlarger stone house on Lincoln Street, a little to the\\nnorth of Palisades Avenue and east of Bray ton Street.\\nMr. Howland s contributions to the growth of the\\ntown were continued for many years and in various\\nforms, and he will ever be classed as one of its most\\npopular, efficient, and accomplished citizens.\\nAbout the same time came Byron Murray, Jr., then\\ncashier of the American Exchange Bank in New\\nYork, and now occupying the same position in a\\nlarge banking institution in San Francisco, and Rob-\\nert Baylis, then assistant cashier in the same bank,\\nand now president of the Market Bank in New York.\\nMr. Murray built the Swiss house afterwards sold to\\nCol. Washington R. Verrailye, and now owned and\\noccupied by his son, W. Romeyn Vermilye, one of\\nthe large, prominent stone and brick houses of the\\nplace. Both these gentlemen became considerably\\ninterested in real estate. Mr. Baylis continues his\\ninterest, and still resides here.\\nVery soon after the circle of new-comers was en-\\nlarged by the addition of John H. Lyell, president of\\nthe New York Marine Insurance Company, Daniel\\nDrake Smith, president of the Commercial Marine\\nInsurance Company, Charles E. Trott, Rev. Dr. Daniel", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0393.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "2ti2\\nHISTORY OF I5ERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIKS, NEW .lEUSKY.\\nWise, Darius W. Geer, Charles A. Nichols, Livingston\\nK. Miller, Dr. H. M. Banks, and James W. McCul-\\nloufjh, all of whom established their family residences\\nin Enfrlewood.\\nShortly after came E. W. Andrews, Frank B. Nich-\\nols, James O. Morse, Charles H. Waterbury, Georjre\\nS. Coe, William li. Dana. Donald McKay, Rev. Tlios.\\nG. Wall, and Uev. Dr. James Eels. All but the last\\ntwo named are still residing here with their families.\\nFollowing these came at dirt erent times, with their\\nfamilies, David Iloadley, president of the Panama\\nRailroad Company, Ehvood Walter, president of the\\nBoard of JIarine Underwriters, Col. W. R. Vermilye,\\nGen. T. B. Van Buren, now consul-general at Yoko-\\nhama, Jacob S. Wetmore, Henry W. Banks, E. S.\\nMunroe, Dr. F. Markoe Wright, John Bailey, Leb-\\nbeus Cliajjuian, Jr., the Hon. Wm. Walter Phelps,\\nat present minister of the I nited States to Austria,\\nVincent Tilyou, Charles Taylor, Henry A. Lyman,\\nUzal Cory, Stephen Lane, Jr., lion. CuUin Sawtelle,\\nand others.\\n.Vt a somewhat later day the following gentlemen\\nand their families became resident.-; of Englewood\\nWilliam A. Booth, widely known in commercial\\ncircles in the city of New York and in large benevo-\\nlent societies of the country, and at present president\\nof the Third National Bank of New Y ork his son,\\nWilliam T. Booth his brother, Charles H. Booth\\nand his son-in-law, J. Hugh Peters, H. A. Barling,\\nJames L. Dawes, Oliver H. Shepherd, .S. Doughty,\\nthe Rev. Dr. ieorge B. Cheever, John and Augustus\\nFloyd, J. H. Sellcck, Clinton H. Blake, William\\nStanley, Charles T. Chester, Joseph Lyman, S. Hinck-\\nley Lyman, William Blakie, D. Randolph Martin,\\nThomiis M. Wheeler, Charles W. Hassler, R. I.\\nHuTiler, etc.\\nFrom among this list of the earlier settlers in En-\\nglewood death has already gathered an abundant\\nharvest, Van Zandt, Deuel, Dwight, Homans (the\\nelder), Dr. Wright, Johnson, Van Brunt, Fowler,\\nHoadley, Walter, Chapman, Vermilye, Miller, Ches-\\nter, I. S. Honums, Jr., Lycll. These all have been\\ncarried to the grave. Vivid impressions of each of\\nthese linger among their survivors, and their influ-\\nence will long be felt in the town they loved to call\\ntheir home. The families of all these except four\\nstill live in Englewood. It will not seem invidious\\nto cull a single name from this group of noble men,\\nand to speak of him who bore it ils the best tyjie\\nand example of all that made a citi/.en and neigh-\\nbor beloved. So thoreughly did Mr. David Hoad-\\nley endear himself to the people of Englewood in\\nthe last years of an eventful life which ho spent\\nhere that I ha^canl nothing in saying he wits regarded\\nby them all, witliout distiintion or exception, a.- pre-\\neminent in ihosu qualities which exalt and ennoble\\nhuman character. His loss was deeply mourned.\\nHis iu .sociat\u00c2\u00abx in business affairs and in the wide\\nsocial circles in New York, where he had spent most\\nof his mature years and occupied the most prominent\\nplaces of trust and influence, gave abundant expres-\\nsion of their estimate of his character and their grief\\nat his death. But his neighbors felt his death most\\ngrievously. One of them, writing at the time he\\ndied and exjiressing the general sentiment of all saiil,\\nHis intercourse with his fellows has been so marked\\nwith gentleness and kindness, his manly sympathies\\nhave been so lavishly bestowed, his open-handed be-\\nnevolence has so abounded, and his honor and honesty\\nhave been so cons|)icuous, and these distinguishing\\ngraces of a Christian life have been so illustrated\\nthroughout a long career and in such varied relations\\nthat a multitude who have enjoyed his ac(|uaintance\\nmourn his death in unafi ected sorrow. Mr. Hoadley\\nwas succes.sful in business, able as the head and man-\\nager of some of the largest institutions of the country,\\nfaithful to all trusts and friendships, wi.se in council,\\nand just in all his judgments. There are scores of\\nyoung men and old, less favored in worldly successes\\nthan most of his immediate associates, who will miss\\nhis friendly gras|) of the hand and drop many a tear\\nover their individual loss. His Christian life, inspired\\nwith love for his fellows and tilled with deeds of atl ec-\\ntion, standing out in great prominence in a day of\\nmuch selfishness and infidelity and low standards of\\nintegrity, is beyond criticism. It may well be taken\\nas the model of an active life by every young man in\\nthe country. It is this life-record of (/w\u00c2\u00bbr///. which\\nis the crowning glory of David Hoadley.\\nOf the old settlers, Thomas W. Demarest, the widow\\nof John Van Brunt, Cornelius Lydecker, late senator,\\nGarrit A. Lydecker, James Vanderbeck, and the\\nwidow of P. Westervelt still occupy large ortions\\nof their original farms, and are among the most\\nworthy and r spected of the people of the town.\\nLarge jdaces are also occupied at the present time as\\nfollows: William Walter Phelps, frame house and\\na farm of over one thousand acres, extending from\\nthe Hudson River to the Hackensack (ieorge S. Coe,\\nstone house and fifteen acres; William B. Dami, stoue\\nhouse anil twenty acres, both on the top of the Pali-\\n.sades and comnianding the grandest vieivs Henry\\nW. Banks, frame house and ten acres; Joseph Lyman,\\nframe house and ten acres; Mrs. David Hoadley, stoue\\nhouse and twenty acres; W. Romeyn Vermilye, stone\\nhouse and til teeii acres E. .V. Brinkerhotf, stone house\\nand twenty acres, all on Palisades venue; William\\nStanley stone house antl twenty acres on Dana Place\\n.1. Wyman Jones, stone house and fifteen acres on\\nLydecker Street Gen. Samuel A. Duncan, stone\\nhouse and fifleen acres on Johnson Avenue, at head\\nof Brayton Street; Daniel Drake Smith, frame house\\nand twelve acres on Tyler Street; James .Mor e,\\nframe house ami fifteen acre.-* on Tenatly road .lacob\\nD. Vermilye, president Merchants Bank, New York,\\nand his son William, stone houses and twelve acres\\non Tenafly road; Henry A. Barling, frame house and\\nfifteen acres west of Tenafly road Mrs. Livingston", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0394.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "p]NGLEWOOD.\\n263\\nK. Miller, stone house and twenty acres on Knicker-\\nbocker road; Mrs. Lebbeus Cliapman, frame house\\nand twenty acres on Teaneck road(?); William A.\\nBooth, frame house and forty acres on Engle Street.\\nIn addition to all who have been mentioned, a long\\nlist of prominent men might be given, and should be\\nto afford any fair picture of Englewood at the present\\ntime. Ministers, lawyers, doctors, authors, editors,\\nbrokers, merchants, builders, and artisans of all crafts\\nhave in late years become a part of the population of\\nthe place. From among these many names could be\\nselected as worthy of special mention.\\nSchools. One of the oldest scliool-houses in tliis\\ntownship stood opposite the site of the present resi-\\ndence of Mr. Garret W. De Mott (having stood there\\nan indefinite number of years), and from the mate-\\nrial of this building another was erected at Liberty\\nPole, which in turn was taken down in the year 1818.\\nIt was a small stone building. Imagine a triangle,\\nthe sides of which were equal, about two hundred\\nfeet in length. On one corner stood the celebrated\\nLiberty Pole tavern, well known in the war of the\\nRevolution; on the next Washington s headquarters\\nin 1780, and on the third the school-house. In 1818\\na new school-house was erected, also of stone, twenty-\\nfive by thirty feet, directly by the side of the old one.\\nIn 1848 this was taken down and rebuilt, and is the\\npresent school-house in District No. 8.\\nWithin bow-shot distance from the obliterated\\nsite of the Liberty Pole tavern now stands one of the\\nbest public school-houses in the county, costing origi-\\nnally nearly twenty thousand dollars. Four teachers\\none male, the principal, and three female assist-\\nants (and a fourth, also female, teaching a branch\\nschool on the shore of the Hudson River, below the\\nPalisades) are employed, the aggregate of whose\\nsalaries is three thousand dollars per qnnum. In the\\nschool first mentioned there are four departments,\\nsub-primary, primary, intermediate, and the highest,\\nin charge of the principal.\\nThe first teacher was the late J. W. Deuel, de-\\nceased, with assistants. It is fair to say that he was\\none of the most thorough and successful teachers\\nBergen County ever had. The writer of this em-\\nbraces the opportunity to speak further of Mr. Deuel,\\nwho by much reading became a full man. His pow-\\ners of illustration and comparison were thereby in-\\ncreased, and he expended them on his pupils. He\\nwas gentle, kind, and patient, never using the rod nor\\nrebuking refractory pupils in indignant and bad lan-\\nguage. They all loved him. Mr. Deuel resigned\\nin 1871.\\nMr. S. H. Walker was then employed as princi-\\npal, and the two Mi.sses De Mott as assistants, together\\nwith one more recently engaged. The same teachers\\nremain there still (1876) and have been very success-\\nful. There are four rooms of equal size (exclu-\\n1 CenteDDial History of Schools ia Bergen County, by Pernarest.\\nsive of class-rooms), two on each floor, separated by\\nsliding doors, so arranged that the two rooms can be\\nconverted into one at pleasure. All the appurte-\\nnances are complete, and the furniture is of the most\\napproved style. The inhabitants of the district are\\nvery liberal. At each successive annual meeting,\\ncalled to determine the amount of money needed for\\nthe ensuing year, those assembled unanimously have\\nvoted the sum reported by the trustees to be raised\\nby taxation. The amount of money raised by\\ndirect tax for the nine years the school has existed\\n[up to 1876] sums up $29,750, the highest being\\n$6000 in 1871, and the lowest 82250 in 1873.\\nFrom information obtained from elderly resi-\\ndents the teachers employed in the old school-house\\nat Liberty Pole up to 1818, as far as can be remem-\\nbered, were Messrs. James Forrester, Gahagen, Dixon,\\nWood, Lawrence, Mandeville, and John Burns.\\nJames Forrester was a Scotchman, who subse-\\nquently became principal of the Mechanics School\\nin the city of New York, which position he held\\nmany years, and, for all that is now known, until he\\nresigned the same, after having expended his ripe and\\nmatured years in the interests of public education.\\nJohn Burn.s was an Irishman, and reported to have\\nbeen a very superior educator, and excelling all others\\nin penmanship.\\nDistrict No. 8 is located in the same rich and\\nbeautiful section, only about one mile farther north\\nalong the Northern Railroad. But little can be\\nsaid of this district, as it is one of recent date, and its\\nhistory is so closely connected with that of No. 7.\\nTeaneck District, No. 9, is situated three\\nmiles from the Hudson River. The school-house is\\nnot by any means one of New Jersey s old-time\\ncabins, but an elegant two-story frame building,\\nlocated in the midst of a farming community. The\\ndistrict was formed early in the spring of 1841, from\\njiarts of Schraalenburgh, Liberty Pole, and Lower\\nTeaneck Districts, and was called Union District,\\nNo. 10.\\nThe first meeting was held at the house of Gilliam\\nA. Bogert, in February, 1841, to take into considera-\\ntion the project of erecting a school-house on the\\ncorner of Widow Sarah Stagg s land, she consenting\\nthereto. They agreed to raise as much money as\\nthey could by subscription to defray the expenses of\\nbuilding, and who was to make up the deficit, if any,\\ndoes not appear. The amount raised was sixty-seven\\ndollars and fifty cents. The building was finished at\\na cost of three hundred dollars, timber, stone, sand,\\nand labor being furnished gratis by the inhabitants.\\nThe first trustees of this district were Messrs.\\nWilliam De Ronde, Henry A. Bogert, and Samuel\\nS. Banta, and the finst teacher was Joseph B. Miller,\\nEsq. Mr. Miller continued to discharge the duties\\nof that position for two years, when he resigned and\\nengaged in the business of taking care of estates,\\ncollecting, etc. He has twice been appointed com-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0395.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "264\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nmissioner of deeds, and for five successive terms\\n(twenty-five years) has been elected justice of the\\npeace.\\nAt a meeting held in the school-house, May 9, 1851,\\non motion of David R. Doremus, it was resolved by\\nthe taxable inhabitants re8ent to conform them-\\nselves to the act of incorporation, and that I nion\\nSchool District, No. 10, Upper Tcaneck, siiould be\\ncalled Teaneck School District, and the school the\\nTeaneck In.stitute. The trustees and town superin-\\ntendent having signed the required bill, they became\\nan incorporated body. From the minutes we select\\nthe following, viz.: On the 21st of May (1851),\\nD. L. Van Saun commenced school at the Teaneck\\nInstitute, having been engaged by the trustees at\\nsixty dollars per quarter, and then he must find\\nhimself\\nThe school-house now used was erected in 1869, at\\na cost of $3677.75. It is a two-story frame building,\\ntwenty-four by thirty-eight feet. Mansard roof, the\\nsecond story being used as a Sunday-school room.\\nThe room occupied by the day school is furnished\\nwith the most approved style of desks and chairs,\\naflording accommodations for fifty-two pu|)ils.\\nTlic first teacher in this building was Miss Adelaide\\nSherwood, and the present one (1876) is Mr. E. O.\\nStratton, a graduate of the State Normal School of\\nNew Jersey, class of June, 1863. The trustees now\\nin office (187r are Daniel O. Rogert, James W. Mc-\\nCulloh, and Lyman R. lionnill. Mr. Hogert has served\\nthe district in the capticity of trustee fifteen years,\\neight of which he has been district clerk, which posi-\\ntion he now holds (1876).\\nThe veteran teacher among all who Iiave reigned\\nin this district since its formation is Alexander Cass,\\nEs i., who at different times taught the school for ten\\nyears. Mr. Uass before coming to New .lersey, grad-\\nuated as a lawyer at Albany, N. Y. Since he aban-\\ndoned the profession of teaching he has practiced\\nlaw at Englewood, where lie now (1876) has an office.\\nDuring his last two years as a teacher he was a justice\\nof the i)eace, to which office he was elected for a term\\nof five years. He also served two terms (six years)\\nas county superintendent.\\nDistrict No. 10 occupies historic ground, and is\\nsituated partly in Palisades, Englewood, New Rarba-\\ndoes, and Midland townships. Tlie school-house,\\nhowever, is at New l?riiige (Englewood townsliip),\\nnear the banks of the Hackensack River. The\\nfirst school in this district from which we can gain\\nany information was taught by an Irishman by the\\nname of (iilfillan, in the chair-shop of James Purdy,\\nat New Rridgc, in the year 1822. Of his mode of\\nteaching, the branches taught, and his succe-ss as a\\nteacher we can say nothing.\\nIn addition to the many private schools and other\\neducational institutions in Englewood, the township\\nalso embraces School Districts Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10,\\nwith 1244 school children, and with a State school\\ntax of $4606.52. About 800 of these children belong\\nto the School District No. 7, in the village of Engle-\\nwood. The public authorities have manifested a\\ndeep interest in this school, and it has generally\\nbeen supplied with able and efficient teachers. The\\nmany jjublic and private schools in Englewood have\\naflbrded the best educational advantages, scarcely\\nexcelled in any other town of like proportions\\nthroughout the country.\\nMost of the business men of Englewood expend\\ntheir energies and talent elsewhere, but here are their\\nhomes of quiet and content, amid these religious, edu-\\ncational, and social advantages. All in all, Englewood\\nis almost imperial in itsprideof place, and will always\\nbe re-eminent for beautiful situation.\\nChurches and Societies.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The following is a list\\nof tlie churches and societies of the township:\\nCfiiirr/ieit. First Presbyterian Church, Episcopal\\nChurch, Methodist Church, True Reformed Dutch\\nChurch, Catholic Church.\\nSchools. Boys school, by Mr. White; boys school,\\nby Mr. Plunily young ladies school, by Miss Plat;\\nyoung ladies school, by Miss Sterling; private school,\\nby Miss Geer public school, by Mr. Bennett public\\nschool. Palisades.\\nSocietiex. Odd-Fellows, Masons, Temperance, Tem-\\nperance Catholic (St. Cecilia).\\nCorjiorii/wiiji.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Gsm company, military company,\\ncemetery company, silk company, dye-house, hotel\\ncompany\\nImtitudoM. Protective Society, Village Improve-\\nment Society.\\nTuscan Lodge, No. 115, F. and A. M., was chartered\\nJan. 19, 1871. First oflicers: Peter Rodgers, W. M.\\nJohn E. Wertz, S. W.; William C. Davies, P. M.\\nMoses E. Springer, Treas. Alexander Cass, Sec;\\nJohn H. Hyde, S. D. Samuel Salters, J. D. Jacob\\nCampbell and Joseph Conklin, Mastersof Ceremonies;\\nJohn W. Dale, Tyler. Present membership, fifty-two.\\nFrederick G. Bennett, W. M.\\nThe oldest church organization in the present town-\\nship is the Englewood Presbyterian Church. Its lo-\\ncation on Palisades .\\\\venue, the Broadway or main\\nstreet of the town, is one of the most prominent ami\\nnoticeable sites in the village. It at once attracts\\nthe eye of the observer as being one of the most\\nbeautiful, if not one of the most costly, church struc-\\ntures anywhere to be found in any country town in\\nthese United State-*. The whole expression of the\\npeople in building this structure and in laying out\\nthe grounds, and in planting the trees around it,\\nseems to have been, We will not build our costly resi-\\ndences alone and surrouml them with spacious lawns\\nand all the elegancies of life, and then hide the tem-\\nple of God in some obscure corner because we are\\nashamed of it, but the place where My name shall\\nbe there shall be honored of the abundance of our\\noffering, it shall be a fit temple of God, where our\\nfeet shall come to stand within its gates. A church", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0396.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n265\\ncan sometimes preach a sermon to the passing trav-\\neler, even if he has never heard a sermon within its\\nwalls.\\nThe early history of this churoh cannot be better\\ngiven than in the sketch written by its first and now\\nlamented pastor, the Rev. James Harrison Dwight.\\nHe says,\\nThis village of Eiiglewood was projected and named in the year of\\nour Lord 1859.\\nThe previous designation of tlie valley up to the old Liberty Pole\\nroad, of which Palisades Avenuf is now a prolongation, was English\\nNeighborhood, a name handed duwn from the earliest st-ttlement of the\\nland, originating, however, as it is asserted on good authority, in the\\nform of Engle s Neighhorhood. Tlie present name, therefore, was in-\\ntended to happily preserve a reminiscence of the forefathers of the\\nTalley.\\nIn laying the plans for a prospective town it was desired at the be-\\nginning to provide for its religious interests, and forecast a healthful\\ncharacter in this regard. To this intent the first pastor of this church\\ntook up liis residence in tlio place early in 1859, and held public services\\non each Lord s day, with the purpose of gathering the nucleus of a con-\\ngregation. In this lie was cnrdially sustained by the original inhabit-\\nants of the valh-y, who had inlierited from tlieir fathers a warm relig-\\nions zeal, and had well preserved the reputation of an honest, warm-\\nhearted, and chnrch-goiiig farming communitj They gladly opened\\ntheir houses for dirine worship until, towards tlie close of the year, a\\nmor\u00c2\u00bb* suifalde room was provided in the newly-erected school-house of\\nMr, James W. Iieuel.\\nIn the mean time, as the congregation enlarged and interest increased,\\na sum of money vva.s laised by subscription sufficient to build a chapel,\\nthe foundations of which were laid in the fall of the year. Considering\\nthe limitetl numbers and ability of those present at the time, the contri-\\nbution thus made was creditable to their zeal nor should tlie disinter-\\nested generosity of individuals be forgotten who, by reason of other\\nchurch connections or distance of residence, were unable to identify\\nthemselves with the congregation, yet none the less willingly helped on\\nthe good work.\\nIn March of 1860 this chapel was complete, and the first service held\\non the 25th of that month, when a dedicatory sermon was preachedfrom\\nthe text, My name shall be there.\\nOn the evening of the Wih day of May a meeting whs held, after due\\nnotice, for a more formal organiziition, at which time there appeared\\neighteen persons with credentials of membernhip, duly certified from\\nvarious Christian Churches and these after suitable religions exercises\\nwere on their own motion organized into a separate Church of Christ by\\nRev. James H. Dwight, presiding, Rev. Thomas S. Hastings, D. I)., of New\\nYork, being present to asaiat, and Mr. Sheppard Humans being recording\\nclerk. I\\nOn the evening of June 4th an adjourned meeting was held of the\\nchurch, at which, after due consideration and prayer, and in accordance\\nwith the limitatiuus of the subscriiition, wliich provided that the prop-\\nerty should be passed into the possession of a church organized on the\\nbasis of either the Dutch Reformed, or Presbyterian, or Congregational-\\nist orders, it was unanimously resolved, on the second ballot, that this\\nchurch adopt the form of government of the Presbyterian Church of the\\nUnited States, and that it would ask tlie Fourth Presbytery of New York\\nto receive it under its care, under the name of The Englewood Preb-\\nBYTEBlAN ChDRCH,\\nThus it became the first church of Englewood, and first Presbyterian\\nChurch of Bergen County.\\nAt subsequent meetings the following individuals were elected afl\\nfirst officers of the church Elders, Charles A. Nichols, James Vati Der-\\nbeck, Sheppard Honians; Deacons. John De Jlott, J. Wyniau Jones.\\nOn the evening of June 13th, at a meeting regularly called. Rev. Dr.\\nParker being moderator by invitation, it was voted unanimously to give\\na call to Rev. James H. Dwight as pastor of the church, the congregation\\nagreeing to provide a salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars.\\nOn the second day following comini-t-ioner:* from the congregation\\nappeared before the Fourth Presbytery of New York, to request admis-\\nsion under its care, and to prosecute the call in due form. Whereupon,\\nthe various proceedings having been found to be in order, the church\\nwjs enrolled in the Presbytery, and the call allowed and accepted and\\non June 20th the Presbytery met at Englewood and installed the first\\npastor.\\nAt the first worshiping in the chapel the congregation numbered from\\nseventy to one hundreil. It was gradually increased with the growth of\\nthe village, and with the Divine blessing was enabled, under many toils\\nand difficulties, through times of universiil distress, to maintain the stated\\nministrations of the sanctuary, and finally to assure itself of a firm foun-\\ndation.\\nOn the first day of Blay, 1867, the first pastor resigned his charge,\\ntaking leave with sorrow of a warm-hearted and affectionate people, and\\nof an enterprise with which his affections and labors had been identified\\nfrom the beginning.\\nAfter an interval of only a few weeks the church and congregation\\nvoted unanimously to extend a call to Rev. Henry M. Booth, of New\\nYork. This was prosecuted in due form through the Fourth Presbytery,\\nand accepted. Whereupon, on the 19th of .September, 1867, Mr. Booth\\nwas duly ordained and installed as second pastor of the Englewood\\nPresbyterian Church.\\nUnder his pastorate until now (1881 J the church\\nhas been exceedingly prospered and enlarged, both in\\nnumbers and in power and in the administration of\\nChristian labors and charities. It became a necessity\\nto rear a more commodious edifice for the accommo-\\ndation of those who would here worship God. The\\ncorner-stone of the new church was laid Feb. 22, 1859,\\nwith prayer and hope and faith and consecration,\\nawaiting yet greater blessings than ever from the Lord\\nJesus Christ, their Master, while thankfully acknowl-\\nedging the benefits and guidance of the past, and re-\\ncording within this crypt their undying faith in Jesus\\nChrist, the incarnate God, the chief corner-stone of\\nthe temple eternal, the redeemer of the world, who\\nwill come to reign in glory. In all this, they said,\\nSo have we received from the Fathers, so pass w e the\\nholy trust to generations that shall follow us. Praise\\nbe to God I\\nThe eighteen persons forming this church had been\\nmembers from various denominational churches, as\\nfollows: seven from the Madison Square Presbyterian\\nChurch, New York City; three from the Church of\\nthe Pilgrims, Brooklyn, Congregational; two from\\nthe Westminster Presbyterian Church, Utica, N. Y.\\ntwo from the Reformed Dutch Church, Utica; three\\nfrom the Reformed Church of English Neighborhood\\nand one from the Reformed Dutch Church, Hoboken.\\nJames Harrison Dwight was the son of the missionary\\nto Turkey, Rev. H. G. O. Dwight, D.D., and was\\nborn on the island of Malta, Oct. 9, 1830. He left\\nTurkey at seventeen, was graduated at Yale College\\nin 1852, and thence attended medical lectures in the\\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons and the Union\\nTheological Seminary in New York City. After-\\nwards he preached in Cherry Valley, in New York,\\nand thence in 1859 in Englewood.\\nMr. Dwight was possessed of great natural abilities,\\nwhich were quickened and greatly aided by a most\\naccomplished education in two professions. He was\\ncarried away by consumption, dying on the 2d of\\nDecember, 1872, and he sleeps in the beautiftil little\\ncemetery at Englewood, lamented by liis own church\\nand the people of the town, who will long revere his\\nmemory. We cannot speak of the living as we may\\nof the dead, because death itself is a definition of all\\nthose qualities in human character which in life", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0397.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "266\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nmay always be open to dispute but the people in\\nEnglewood, if I mistake not, without distinccinu of\\ndenomination or creed, will always award to the Rev.\\nHenry M. Booth, D.D., the present pastor of their\\nPresbyterian Churcii, the qualities of head and heart\\nwhich constitute him a most capable preacher and a\\nmost excellent pastor. Possessed of the refinement\\nand culture of the schools, these have been broadened\\nand widened in the faithful and efficient minister,\\nwho is working not only in his own church, but in\\nwider fields also, to promote the cause of his Master.\\nMore might be saiil, but history will surely accord\\nhim thus much in treading along her safe shores.\\nThe chapel of this denomination once stood on the\\nsame site of the pre.sent church. It was completed in\\n1860 and twice enlarged, but after ten years was\\nfound too small as a place of worsliip, and was sold\\nto the Englewood Cemetery Association, and removed\\nstone by stone and re-erected within the cemetery\\ngrounds. Funeral services are now held there in the\\ndeparture of the dead to their graves. Then, too, it\\nwill stand a memorial edifice of the first church ever\\nerected in Englewood. A new building has been\\nerected on the site of the nld chapel through the\\nliberality of Mrs. Emily A. Hrinkerhotf, one of the\\nm embers of the church, and is furnished and in all\\nrespects complete. It embraces parlors, infant class-\\nroom, pastor s study, and library-room, together with\\nthe spacious main audience-room. The e iifice is con-\\nstructed of red and wliite sandstone. J. Wynian Jones\\nand I. Smith Honians, Jr., gave the land on which\\nthe church stands. Mr. Jones prepared and circulated\\nthe sub.scrlption papers for the needed funds to build\\nthe church. After the money was raised a building\\ncommittee was a|)pointed consisting of Messrs. Jones,\\nW. R. Vcrmilye, George S. Coe, James VanderUeck,\\nand Jell ry A. Humphry, Mr. Jones acting as chair-\\nman of this committee till the church was completed.\\nThe committee was appointed June 20, 1868, and held\\nits first meeting to organize July 4, 1868, and reported\\nthe liurch Imihling complete at a meeting of the\\ncongregation n the 24tli day of October, 187(1. Its\\nentire cost, exclusive f bell, but inclusive of furni-\\nture, was $4!l,74. .66. David lloadley presented the\\norgan, at a cost of $3600. The bell, to a large ex-\\ntent the gift of Col. VV. R. Vermilye, cost $15(10. The\\nchurcli property is free from debt. After the comple-\\ntion of the church the chapel was removed to the\\ncemetery and placed im its present site by Mrs. Kmily\\nO. Hrinkerhotf, the only daughter of C d. Witshing-\\nton R. Vermilye, in memory of her father.\\nMr. Booth entered permanently upon his duties as\\npastor Sept. 1, 1867. The otiicers of the chureli and\\ncoiigregatioM at that time were\\nElders, Livingstone K. Miller, Frank H. Nichols,\\nand James Vamlerheck deacons, John J. Dc Mott,\\nJelfry A. Humphrey, and Byron Murray, Jr. super-\\nintendent of Sabbath-school, J. Wynuui Jones; trus-\\ntees, Lebbeus Chapman, Jr., James Morse, and\\nCharles H. Waterbury treasurer, Byron Murrav,\\nJr.\\nThe Fourth Presbytery of Xew York met at Engle-\\nwood, Sept. 19, 1867, and ordained and installed the\\npiistor-elect. There are many other details which\\nmight be given in the history of this churcli which\\nneither time nor s|)ace will permit of here. Its his-\\ntory will undoubtedly be written hereafter, and most\\nlovingly and ably, by its present pastor. Such a church\\nis worthy of all remembrance. The membership of\\ntliis church is nearly four hunilred.\\nAt the reunion of the two branches of the Presby-\\nterian Church, the new Presbytery of Jersey City was\\nformed on the 22d day of June, 1870, when the Presby-\\nterial relations of the church at Englewood were trans-\\nferre i to that organization This Presbytery embraces\\nall the Presbyterian Churches in Bergen, Passaic, and\\nHudson Counties. If where much is given much is also\\nrequired, i)erhaps the churcli at Euglewood is worthy\\nof all commendation. The calendar of its generosity\\nfor ten years to the various benevolent and missionary\\nsocieties at home and abroad, and for the maintenance\\nof various charities in and out of this religious .society,\\nincluding 5^)3, (ion for the new church edifice, amounts\\nto the sum of l?2(\u00c2\u00bbl\u00c2\u00bb,446.i 0. By this record of their\\nbestowments at least shall they be known in history.\\nIn 1873 the women of this church turned their atten-\\ntion to the missionary work in other lands, ami the\\nschools known as the Englewood Schools, at Schwei-\\nfat, in Syria, ami their female missionary in India\\nhave received since 1873 nearly ten thousand dollars\\nfrom the women of this society. Thus have they sent\\nthe sacred fire to burn on other altars than their own.\\nIt is no part of the historian to record what can only\\nbe recorded, for a certainty, in the book of remeni-\\nlirancc on high, but it wcmid seem iis if such a ehun-h\\nhad been, is now, and will be a power for good wher-\\never it hath foundations, and that through all these\\nhuman instrumentalities, but infinitely beyond them,\\nits real builder and maker is God.\\nThe Episcopal Church was organized July 11, 186\\nThe first wardens were John H. Eyell, Charles T.\\nChester, William King, Richard K. Coole, E. W.\\nAndrews, and Herbert Turner.\\nThe first rector was Rev. O. W. Whitakcr, followed\\nby Revs. Mr. Benjamin, John H. Elliott, W. S. Lang-\\nford, John William Payne, and James H. Van Buren.\\nThecliurch embraces one liiiiidred and forty-four fam-\\nilies, two hundred and twenty-seven communicanl.-.\\nand four hundred and eighty-seven parishioners.\\nThe Methodist Church. The first sermon preached\\nin Englewood by a preacher of the Methodist denomi-\\nnation was ill the month of June, 18. )!l, by the Rev.\\n(Jilbert 11. Wynant, then astor of the church in\\nHackensack. But no stated meetings were held in\\nEnglewood till September, 1861. About this time\\nDavid Green, a member of the Trinity Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church of Jersey City, moved to Engle-\\nwood. Through hisefi orts meetings were held in tin\\n1,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0398.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0399.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0400.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "EXGLEWOOD.\\n267\\nhouse of John Knott till the erection of the church. I\\nThe Rev. C. A Womburg, pastor of the church in\\nHackensaok, by invitation of Mr. Green and John\\nWestervelt, preached the first sermon, Feb. 18, 1862,\\nand a class \\\\va.s organized in connection with the\\nchurch at Hackensack. In September of the same\\nyear Rev. David Wise, D.D., corresponding secretary\\nof the Sunday-school Union, became a resident of\\nEnglewood, and through his efforts services were held\\nby Revs. C. A. Womburg and S. M. Stiles, pastors of\\nthe church at Hackensack, and Messrs. Vanderbeck\\nand Vreeland, local preachers. On the 11th of Sep-\\ntember, 1863, a meeting of the members was held\\nfor the erection of a church edifice. Dr. Wise, John\\nKnott, and John Westervelt became the committee,\\nand on the 16th of December, 186:^, Rev. Dr. Wise,\\nJohn Westervelt, John Knott, and David Green be-\\ncame the trustees, and Rev. Benjamin Day the pre-\\nsiding elder of the district. A lot was selected in\\nEngle Street, valued at three hundred dollars. The\\ntrustees were a])pointed a building committee, and the\\nedifice was built under their supervision at a cost of\\ntwo thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. It has\\nsince been greatly enlarged and improved and another\\nlot added. In December, 1863, the church was dedi-\\ncated by Bishop E. S. Janes. In January, 1864, Rev.\\nE. Hewitt, a local preacher, was installed as the first\\npastor of this church, and has since been succeeded\\nby Revs. H. M. Simpson, J. B. Faulks, E. W. Burr,\\nJohn Coyle, S. N. Bebout, J. M. Marshall, C. E.\\nWalton, and J. E. Johnston. The church has a\\nmembership of ninety-five.\\nA True Reformed Dutch Church was organized in\\nEnglewood, April 1, 1875, with eight members, with\\nRev. John C. Voorhis pastor. For two years services\\nwere held in the Englewood Hall by Rev. John Y.\\nDe Baun, of Leonia. Among the early members\\nwere Hon. Thomas W. Demarest, Henry P. Demarest,\\nand Richard W. Earle. The church was dedicated\\nMay 23, 1875. Mr. Voorhis is still the pastor of the\\nchurch, with a membership of seventy-one.\\nCatholic services were held here in 1863-64 by\\nFather Coardly, followed by Rev. D. Corrigan, of\\nSt. Mary s Church, Hoboken. The church was\\nerected in 1866, under pastor Father Brann. Under\\nFather Smith the church was enlarged in 1868, and a\\nparochial school established. He was followed by\\nthe following pastors: A. J. Smits, T.J. MacDonald,\\nC. J. Feehan, A. E. Van Riel, A. M. Murphy. The\\npresent membership of the church is about fifteen\\nhundred.\\nThe Englewood Lodge, No. 103, Independent Order\\nof Good Templars, was instituted April 12,1870, with\\nsi.xteeu charter members. The organization was prin-\\ncipally effected through the agency of M. E. Spurge,\\nwlio was the first presiding officer. The present mem-\\nbership of the lodge is thirty-seven. During the eleven\\nyears of its existence five hundred and seventy persons\\nhave been installed and became members of the lodge.\\nThe lodge meets each Friday evening in Templars\\nHall, in most comfortably furnished rooms. James\\nVanderbeck is the presiding officer, and John Lydec-\\nker secretary\\nThe Englewood Protection Society was organized\\nin 1869, and has a membership of one hundred and\\nfifty, with Donald Makay as president.\\nA silk manufactory wiis established here May 1,\\n1881, and employs seventy-three hands. Andrew D.\\nBogert and John Stainton are the proprietors.\\nThere are also several commodious hotels in the\\ntown.\\nHon. John Van Brunt. Rutger Joesten Van Brunt,\\nI or Rutger, the son of Joost, or George, the common\\nancestor of the Van Brunt family in this country,\\nemigrated from the Netherlands in 1653, and was\\namong the first settlers in New Utrecht, on Long Is-\\nland, in 1657. He was an agriculturist, holding large\\ntracts of land, and one of the most influential citizens\\nof New Utrecht, where he continued to reside until\\nhis death, which occurred prior to 1713, the exact date\\nnot having been ascertained. He married first, in\\n1657, Tryntje Claes or Clae.sen, widow of Stoftel Har-\\nI monson, cloth-shearer, who was killed by the Indians\\ni in the attack of 1655, leaving a surviving sou twelve\\nyears of age. Tryntje was born about 1618, and was\\nliving as late as 1688. The second wife was Gretian,\\nwho was living in 1721. The issue, all of the first\\nmarriage, were Nicholas, Cornelius, and Joost. The\\nsucceeding generations, in the direct line, down to the\\nsubject of this sketch, were Cornells Rutgert^, Albert\\nand Cornelius*. The latter was born Aug. 21, 1760,\\nmarried, Dec. 5, 1782, Jannetie, daughter of Rem\\nAdriance and Elizabeth Ryder, of Gravesend, and\\ndied Sept. 26, 1827. The children were Albert C,\\nborn May 15, 1784, died May 8, 1841 Elizabeth, born\\nI March 17, 1786, died Oct. 26, 1786 Nicholas, born\\nAug. 5, 1787, died Feb. 2, 1857 Elizabeth, born Aug.\\n1, 1789, died Feb. 26, 1820; Adriance, born Sept. 20,\\n1791, died Jan. 5, 1863 Jane, born May 2, 1793, died\\nMay 9, 1834; Cornelius, born March 18, 1795, died\\nSept. 3, 1828; James R., born Oct. 15, 1797, died Aug.\\n24, 1820 Stephen, born Nov. 3, 1799, died Oct. 15,\\n1827 John, our subject Theodore, born March 13,\\n1804, died Nov. 20, 1804; and Sarah Maria, born Feb.\\n7, 1808, died April 13, 1843. Cornelius* purchased a\\nfarm in Gowanus, formerly the property of the Staats\\nfamily, upon which he resided, and which he culti-\\nvated. He was long a member of the consistory of\\nthe Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn.\\nHon. John Van Brunt was born in the city of\\nBrooklyn, N. Y., on Feb. 17, 1802. Upon completing\\nhis education he removed to New York, and for eight\\nyears was engaged in the grocery business in West\\nStreet. On Nov. 18, 1830, he married Margaret,\\ndaughter of Peter Westervelt, Jr., of Englewood,\\nN. J., and in 1834 removed to that place, locating\\nupon the farm where he resided at the time of his\\ndeath. He carried on the grocerv business for some", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0401.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "2G8\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nyears at Englewood,and built the store now occupied\\nby H. J. De Mott, where he also engaged in trade.\\nFrom the time of liis settlement at Englewood Mr.\\nVan Brunt took a deep interest in matters around liim,\\nand identified himself closely with the growth and\\ndevelopment of the place and its institutions. He felt\\nan especial interest in the cause of public education,\\nand served us a member of the school committee of I\\nwhat was then Ilackensack township from 1842 to\\n184tj. In 1847 the law created the ofliee of town su-\\nperintendent, to which Mr. Van Brunt was elected, and\\nwhich he filled in an acceptable manner during its\\nentire existence, about twenty years. By his efforts the\\nEnglewood Free School District was organized and the\\npresent sdiool-house built. With the late Abraham\\nHopper, M.D., Abraham Leydecker, and others, he\\norganized the Hergen County Mutual Assurance As-\\nsociation, wiiich is still in existence. He took an\\nactive interest in changing the poor-house system,\\nunder which up to 1848 it was the custom to sell the\\nkeeping of the poor to the lowest bidder.\\nIt nuiy be said that Mr. Van Brunt, Thomas W.\\nDemurest, and John X. Billings were the parents of\\nthe Northern Railroad, the first built for the accom-\\nmodation of Bergen County. They started the idea,\\nobtained nearly all the subscriptions to the capital\\nstock, and spent tlie whole of two summers and\\npart of a third in calling upon nearly every land-\\nowner residing in the county l)etween Ilackensack\\nand Hudson Rivers. Mr. Van Brunt wa.s secretary\\nand treasurer of the road from its commencement j\\nuntil its completion, as well as a director. I\\nIn 1849, Jlr. Van Brunt was elected to the New i\\nJersey State Semite, to fill the unexpired term of\\nHon. Isaac Hariug, and in 18 )il was elected for the\\nfull term of three years. He repre-sented his constit-\\nuency in a competent and honorable manner, and\\nmaintained the strictest integrity in all his official re-\\nlations. In 18.54 he was appointed by Governor\\nPrice one of the five commissioners to revise and\\ncodify tiie school laws. His views were then in ad-\\nvance of the age, but he lived to see nearly all of his\\nideas incorporated in our school system.\\nIn iKilitics Mr. Van Brunt was a Democrat of the\\nold .lelt erson school, but possessed of little parti-\\nsan feeling. He was a strong supporter of the war\\nagainst the Rebellion.\\nUp to his last illness Mr. Van Brunt enjoyed excel-\\nlent health. His form was erect, his movements\\nactive, his face fresh and smiling, his manners genial,\\nan l his ednversiition entertaining. His physical anil\\nmental activity were remarkable. He pn.s,sed away\\non June 20, IHT! leaving behind liiin reeollcelicins of\\na well-spent life, and bringing to his frien ls and, ac-\\nquaintances the realization that the community had\\nlost one of its most useful and valuable citizens. Ap-\\npropriate and feeling resolutions were pa-ssed by the\\nvarious organizations with which Mr. Van Brunt had\\nbeen identified. He was laid to rest in the family\\nburial-plot in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Van Brtint\\nleft a widow and eight children, namely, Henry De\\nM., Adriance, Francis W., Peter W., Stephen, Maria\\nJ., wife of Dr. Samuel A. Jones, of Utiea, Marguretta,\\nwife of J. Ward Lydreker, ami Jolin.\\nHon. William Walter Phelps was born in New\\nYork City on Aug. 24, 1839, and was graduated with\\nhigh honors at Yale College, New Haven, in 1860.\\nHis father, John Jay Phelps, was one of the early\\nand successful merchants of New York, and accumu-\\nlated a large estate he was also prominently iden-\\ntified with many of the leading public enterprises of\\nhis day, and was the projector and virtual founder of\\nthe Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway\\nCompany, of which he was president for many years.\\nAfter leaving college, Mr. I helps |)Ursued special\\nstudies in Europe for a short time, and upon his re-\\nturn entered upon the study of the law at Columbia\\nCollege Law-School, from which institution he was\\ngraduated in 18(53, being the valedictorian of his class.\\nHe entereil upon the practice of law soon after in\\nNew York, and was rapidly gaining a good practice\\nwhen the cleath of his father, in 1808, leaving a large\\nestate, compelled him to abandon the law and devote\\nall of his attention to his private affairs. He had\\npreviously declined the appointment to the bench of\\nthe Sixth Judicial District, made vacant by the resig-\\nnation of .Tuilge Barrett, which was tendered to him\\nby Governor Fonton. Since his withdrawal from the\\nlegal profession Mr. Phelps has devoted his time en-\\ntirely to the care and direction of the large business\\ninterests which he represents. He resides on an ele-\\ngant estate near Englewood Village, comprising about\\none thousand acres of lancl, fully developed and a))-\\n|)ropriately laid out and adurned, and his dwelling-\\nhouse is one of the most picturesipie and attractive in\\nthe State. He po8ses.ses literary abilities of a high\\norder, is a graceful writer and speaker, and occupies\\na leading place in the social circles of tlic country.\\nIn politics Mr. Phelps is a Republican of the con-\\nservative and independent ty|)e, and in 1872 was\\nelected to represent the Fifth Congressional District\\nof New Jersey in the Forty-third Congress. From his\\nfirst entrance into Congress he attracted attention by\\nthe force and vigor of his oratory, his rejidiness in\\ndebate, and the happy expression of his humor, so\\nthat it was said of him that no man, in many years,\\nhad made such a nmrked impression in so short a\\ntime. He was made a member of the Committee on\\nBanking and Commerce, one of the foremost in the\\nHouse, anil, though a consistent Republican, was\\nalways independent in judgment and action. He\\nvoted against the Civil Rights Bill, and gave as his\\nreasim for so doing that it was uneonstitnlionul, ami\\nthat its policy was a bad one for the colored race, a\\nposition that a subsequent decision of the Supreme\\nCourt of the I nited States has since sustained.\\nMr. Phelps .served his constituency in an honest\\naiul capable numner for two years. In 1.S74 the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0402.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "G^l^^cMJJ^ (PlUkS", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0405.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0406.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0407.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "7/\\nl^4//i^ ^f ^/.l)", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0408.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n269\\nDemocratic tidal wave swept everything before it, and\\ntlie Fifth District of New Jersey was not exempted\\nfrom its effects. Mr. Phelps was defeated by his op-\\nponent, Augustus W. Cutler, by only seven votes,\\nrunning five hundred votes ahead of his ticket in the\\ndistrict. He remained in private life until the sum-\\nmer of 1880, when he was chosen one of the New\\nJersey delegates-at-large to the National Republican\\nConvention at Chicago. He labored steadfastly for\\nthe nomination of Hon. James G. Blaine, but accepted\\nMr. Garfield heartily, and worked for him effectively\\non the stump, until, in the midst of the campaign, his\\nhealth gave way, and his physicians peremptorily\\nordered him to go abroad. He sailed in October,\\n1880. While still experiencing the benefits of Euro-\\npean travel, and without personal solicitation on his\\npart, Mr. Phelps was appointed to the important posi-\\ntion of minister to Austria by the new administration,\\nand filled that place at the Vienna Court with great\\nsatisfaction until after the death of Mr. Garfield in\\nthe summer of 1881, when he resigned the office to\\nthe present administration. He is now traveling in\\nEurope with his family.\\nMr. Phelps, though a young man, has already\\nachieved a national reputation as a public man of\\nhigh principle, and one whose abilities entitle him to\\na leading place among the conservative members of\\nhis party. He has never been aseeker after position,\\nnor truckled to the desires and wishes of professional\\npoliticians in the mad rush for office. His private\\nbusiness interest* are very extensive, and he belongs\\nin the front rank of the hard-working, shrewd, saga-\\ncious business men of the country. His esthetic tastes\\nare very fine he feels a warm interest in the cause of\\neducation, and in all movements tending to elevate\\nand ennoble the human family, and as long ago as\\n1872 was chosen, by a flattering vote, as a fellow of\\nthe corporation of Yale College, his si/ma Muter. He\\nis connected with many of the most important busi-\\nness enterprises of the country, and is a director in\\nthe Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad\\nCompany, the Morris and Essex, the International\\nand Great Northern of Texas, the National City\\nBank, and Second National Bank of New York, and\\nthe United .States Trust Company of the same city.\\nHe is in close sympathy with the people, is far from\\naristocratic in his tastes and habits, and his private\\ncharities, which aggregate large sums of money each\\nyear, are bestowed quietly and without ostentation.\\nAn instance of his liberality and feeling for the poor\\nis aftbrded by the failure of the Bergen County Sav-\\nings Institution, with which he had no connection,\\ndirect or indirect. Being abroad at the time of learn-\\ning of the failure, he telegraphed at once to his finan-\\ncial agents in this country to pay all depositors of\\none hundred dollars and under in full out of his\\nprivate funds, which was done.\\nSoon after his graduation at Yale, Mr. Phelps mar-\\nried a daughter of Joseph E. Sheffield, the founder of\\n18\\nthe Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven. His\\nfamily consists of his wife, two sons, and a daughter.\\nCol. Washington Eomeyn Vermilye was one of\\na very remarkable family of brothers. Their father\\nwas a venerated elder in the Presbyterian Church,\\nand the sons and brothers are known in financial and\\nreligious circles as most useful, honored, and trusted\\npublic men. Two of them Rev. Dr. Thomas E. and\\nRev. Dr. Robert G. are distinguished clergymen, and\\nthree William M., Washington R., and Jacob D.\\nbecame known as bankers whose names were never\\nassociated with anything but the highest integrity.\\nThe father, William W. Vermilye, was of Hugue-\\nnot ancestry, the name appearing in the earlier annals\\nof the city in civil and j)olitical aftairs, and being\\nstill represented in New York City and vicinity by\\nnumerous descendants. The mother was Mary Mont-\\ngomery, also born in New York, her mother being of\\nDutch extraction, her father of the Irish Montgomery\\nlineage.\\nThe family consisted of six sons and four daughters,\\nall excepting one son and one daughter living to\\nmature and advanced life. The father and mother\\ndied in a good old age, and for forty years not one\\ndeath occurred in the wide and united circle of their\\nchildren.\\nCol. Vermilye was born in the city of New York:\\nin the year 1810, and was married in the year 1834,.\\nat West Springfield, Mass., to Elizabeth D., daughter\\nof Hon. Samuel Lathrop, long a member of Congress,\\nSpeaker or president of the Massachusetts House of\\nRepresentatives, and a prominent lawyer of that\\nState, and granddaughter of Rev. Joseph Lathro]),\\nwell known as one of the most distinguished clergy-\\nmen this country has produced. She died in the\\nyear 1874.\\nWith the exception of the last four years of his\\nlife, having removed to Euglewood, N. J., in 1868,\\nCol. Vermilye was a resident of New York City,\\nwhere for many years he was identified with and greatly\\ninterested in the public schools as one of the com-\\nmissioners also in the Seventh Regiment (formerly\\nTwenty-seventh), his connection with the organiza-\\ntion dating back to 8th of November, 1830. In 1832\\nhe was elected first lieutenant in 1833, captain in\\n1840, major; in 1843, lieutenant-colonel; and in No-\\nvember, 1845, he was promoted to be colonel of the\\nNational Guard. After years of service in the regi-\\nment he continued his interest, being colonel of the\\nveterans, and in the building of their new armory he\\ntook an active part.\\nIn politics Col. Vermilye was a Reiniblican, adher-\\ning in principle to what he believed was right, and out-\\nspoken in all cases of disloyalty. His patriotism,\\never above suspicion, was amply illustrated during the\\nwar bv service as a private in the regiment he formerly\\ncommanded when it marched and took its station to\\nguard the city of Washington.\\nAs a business man Col. Vermilye was the soul of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0411.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "270\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nhonor. During the forty-four years of his life,\\namidst the whirlpools of Wall Street, he kept his\\nlianking-house above all suspicion of dangerous spec-\\nulation, or the least dejmrture from the loftiest ideal\\nof business integrity.\\nAs a citizen he was loyal, liberal, courteous, friendly\\ntowards all, and an active promoter of all proper\\npublic improvements.\\nHis benevolence was eminently of that sort which\\nsought not the praise of men, but only the approval\\nof God and the good of men. He was singularly\\nunpretentious and humble in his benefactions, which\\nwere liberal in ditt erent directions, and unostentatious\\nin his whole conduct of life.\\nIn his domestic and social relations he was kind, af-\\nfectionate, and considerate. Pie had a noble physique,\\nand it was but the type of the nobler spirit it con-\\ntained.\\nIntegrity was the central virtue of Col. Vermilye s\\ncharacter. Integrity made him a good friend, a use-\\nful citizen, a stanch patriot, a trusted banker, and a I\\npillar in the church of God. He was a man of the\\nhighest sense of honor. Deception in every form and\\ndegree were abliorrent to his nature.\\nAs a Christian lie was sincere, devout, and right-\\neous. He accepted God s truth without reserve. Tbe\\nBible was a sacred book to him, and the Sabbath was\\na holy day. His place as an elder in the church\\nwas one which he honored by his fidelity. In the\\nPresbytery, in the Synod, and in the (leneral As-\\nsembly his counsels were value l.\\nHe was an active member of the Ijoard of managers\\nof the American Bible Society, of the Board of For-\\neign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, n director\\nof the Lennox Hospital, and of other benevolent as-\\nsociations.\\nHis death at his residence in Englewood occurred\\nunexpectedly, after a short and i)ainful illness, in the\\nsixty-seventh year of his age. His remains were\\nplaced beside those of his departed wife, in a beauti-\\nful plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, near Kingsbridge,\\nwhere since the early settlement of Ni W York the\\nVermilyc family had an extensive farm and old-\\nfashioned niansicin, their original seat in this country.\\nCol. John D. Sherwood. --Col. Sherwood was born\\nin Pishkill, JJutchcss Co., N. Y., Oct. l. i, 1818. His\\nther was Samuel Sherwood, a respectable, well-to-do\\nfarmer, a man of rare integrity, good jndgiiu iit, ami\\npurity of life, who shunned political and public hon-\\nors, but who was willing to undertake local duties in-\\nvolving detailed, onerous, and unreniunerative labor.\\nThe paternal ancestry is traceable through an English\\nline back to the beginning of the seventeenth century,\\nincluding in its cnllateral branches .Mrs. Sherwoixl,\\nthe well-known authoress of Little Henry and his\\nHearer, The Lady of the Manor, and numerous\\nother works, and also John Calvin, the famous Geneva\\ntheologian, whose niottf), ./f\u00c2\u00abeo et tencor, united to that I\\nof the Sherwood family, nmnrr, became, when thus\\nmarried, the legend thenceforward of that family.\\nHis mother was Ruth Dubois, a woman of most ex-\\nceptional beauty of face and figure, grace of manner,\\nsweetness of disposition, and of unremitting charity\\nto the poor and miserable around her, and connected\\nwith one of those wide-branching families which can\\nhold a convention by itself, and which, like tbe Sher-\\nwoods, can boast that throughout all its ramifications\\nits members were always respectable and respected\\nin good circumstances, financially and socially; not\\none ever a drunkard, a |)auper, or accused of a crim-\\ninal offense; and always found not only upon the\\nrolls of church membership, but also among the office-\\nbearers of the Dutch Reformed or Presbyterian\\nChurches in the places of their residence. By his\\nmother Mr. Sherwood traces his descent up through\\nPierre Dubois I born at Leyden, in Holland, and mar-\\nried at Kingston, IMster Co., X. Y., Oct. 12, 1607, to\\nJanetjc Hurhansi to Jacques Dubois, born April ti,\\n1663, at La Basse, in French Flanders.\\nCol. Sherwood was born a child of sickly habits\\nand tendencies, so much so, indeed, that in his third\\nyear he was supposed to have died, was laid out for\\ndead, the shroud and cotlin procured, and friends\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2summoned to the funeral. The child, however, came\\nback to life again. God must have spared that boy,\\nhis pious and aflectionate mother is reported to have\\nsaid on that occasion, for some good purpose, a\\npur|)ose which, the son in later life hiis been heard to\\nsay, he never could fiii l had been realized.\\nThe boy thus spared early bctrayiMl remarkable in-\\ntellectual qualities, a singularly retentive memory, a\\ngift for elocution, and, what is rare, at once a love for\\nfigures and for poetry. His ill health prevented his\\nattendance to any extent upon the jiublic school, and\\nprivate tutors are seldom found in fanners families;\\nbut the boy s hunger for knowledge was in a mea.sure\\nappeased by a wide and indiscriminate reading from\\nthe home library, in which the Edinburgh Encyclo-\\npaedia was found, and which, incredible as it may\\nseem, and unwise as it doubtless was, this boy read\\nentirely through before he had completed his eleventh\\nyear. His mother would jirobably, if living, have\\ndiscreetly controlled this inordinate a|)petite for\\nknowledge, but she died in the eighth year of his age,\\nand the father followed in the year ensuing. His in-\\ndulgent uncle and guardian allowed the boy free\\nscope for his nii)iilly developing intellectual taste and\\npowers, and thus left he laid up by incessant reading,\\nat the expense of his health, that large miscellaneous\\nstock of information for which he has since been\\nnoted.\\nThroughimt his academic preparation for college\\nat Fishkill, Lanesboro Mass., and at Montgomery,\\nN. Y., he wiLs always toremost in his classes, notwith-\\nstamling his constantly accompanying poor health.\\nover whose trying disadvantages he triumphed by\\npatient, uncomplaining application and industry.\\nHe entereil the unusually large freshman class, em-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0412.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "/^-i-ij^\\n-zrc^^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0413.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0414.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n271\\nbracing one hundred and twenty-nine members, at\\nYale in 1825, a class numbering, among other well-\\nknown and able men, Senator Dawes, of Massachu-\\nsetts, Governor Richard D. Hubbard, of Connecticut,\\nUnited States Minister Putnam, of New York, Hon.\\nHenry R. Jackson, of Georgia, Hon. Willard P. Hall,\\nof Missouri, Rev. Drs. Hammond and Tarbox, of Mas-\\nsachusetts, and although always disabled through-\\nout his entire college course by sickness, and com-\\npeting with young men older in years, robust in\\nhealth, and many of them far better prepared and\\nequipped, held steadily a foremost place, not only in\\nthe regular college curriculum, but as a writer, a de-\\nbater in the societies, and in all the varied intellec-\\ntual features of a collegian s life, and at the gradua-\\ntion of the class in 1839 bore off the coveted first\\nprize, the valedictory. His reputation in college had\\nspread among his townsmen, who, upon his arrival\\nfrom New Haven, engaged him in a .series of political\\naddresses in the then fast developing campaign of\\nTippecanoe and Tyler too, and would fain have\\nenlisted him, before he was of age even, as a candi-\\ndate for Congress, but this latter he firmly declined.\\nIn the spring of 1840, Mr. Sherwood entered the\\nHarvard Law School, then under Judge Story and\\nSimon Greenleaf, carrying thither his harassing ill\\nhealth, and also his faithful habits of investigation\\nand study. To the gathered traditions of that hon-\\nored school of law he left the recollections of a most\\nmasterly debate, lasting through an entire night until\\nthe morning twilight, upon the proper limitations of\\nState authority against and over the Federal sover-\\neignty, in which he maintained, single-handed, the\\nsuperiority of the latter against a Southern gentle-\\nman, then a disciple, neighbor, and friend of Jefferson\\nDavis, and since a prominent mendjer of the Confed-\\nerate Congress. John C. Calhoun, to whom this de-\\nbate was reported, is said to have remarked that it\\nwas the most thorough and the ablest discussion of i\\nthat vital question that had ever taken place, either\\nin or out of Congress, and that the participants would\\nbe heard of in after-life. Mr. Sherwood s ill health\\nnow became so pronounced as to call for medical in-\\nterference, and, to save his life, he was most earnestly\\nadvised to go abroad. He went to Europe, traveling i\\nwidely and thoroughly for over two years but, with\\nhis habits of study, so intent upon making his travels\\na means of instruction that its sanitary advantages\\nwere mainly sacrificed. Returning home with his\\nlife, but still encumbered with a weak constitution\\nand feeble health, Mr. Sherwood completed his legal\\nstudies, and declining several offers of partnership in\\nleading law-offices, because he would be kept down to\\nthe drudgery of mere office-work without the stimu-\\nlus and reputation derived from foreusic efforts in the\\ncourts, he oi)ened an office in New York City, of\\nwhich he was the head, and notwithstanding his ever- j\\npresent ill health, accumulated a large, varied, and\\nlucrative practice, possessing in an exceptional de- 1\\ngree the personal friendship and love of his clients\\nby his faithful and industrious attention to their in-\\nterests and the confidence and respect of the judges\\nby his professional honesty and integrity.\\nHe continued the practice of the law with ever-\\ngrowing success, taking into partnership in 1851 his\\nbrother, the late Judge Thomas D. Sherwood, until,\\nbecoming married in 1863 to Mrs. Emmaline C. Zim-\\nmerman, of Niagara Falls, Canada, a lady of rare\\npersonal accomplishments and worth, he went with\\nher, under medical advice, to Europe, hoping under her\\nwifely care, and by rest and recreation, to invigorate\\npermanently his health, so long suffering and under-\\nmined by unremitting work. Rest and recreation\\nhe had by this means as a diversion from the hard\\nand laborious duties of a large law practice in the\\ncity of New York among its many courts but little\\nabsolute rest could his active, restless, and ever-inquir-\\ning mind secure amidscenes of .such historical interest\\nas European travel presents, and where he was ever\\ngathering new stocks of accurate information, as his\\nextraordinary journals of over two thousand four hun-\\ndred pages, written as he was traveling, and his articles\\nin Hours at Home, Harper s Monthly, and the\\nAtlantic, abundantly attest. One of these papers,\\nWhat I saw at the Battle of Kissengen, relating his\\nremarkable personal experiences in and escape from\\nthe perils of that sharp contest between the Prussians\\nand Austrians, has already become, by its vivid word-\\npainting and picturesque description, a classic in the\\nlanguage.\\nThe ill health which still continued after his return\\nfrom Europe in 1866, prevented any very vigorous pur-\\nsuit of his profession, to which, as its claims and respon-\\nsibilities increased, he clung with greater attachment\\nStill active, intellectually, in spite of an ever-weaken-\\ning nervous system, he must be at work, and he now\\nbegan to turn his attention to literary work, for which\\nhis tastes and varied accomplishments eminently fitted\\nhim, and in which, had he earlier engaged, he would\\ndoubtless have achieved great success. He wrote both\\nin prose and verse, and with equal facility and felicity\\nin each, in Harper and Hours at Home, and\\nupon a wide variety of subjects, the best known be-\\ning in the former, The Silent City of Greenwood,\\nand Pilgrimage in Sunny Lands, in verse, and in\\nthe latter, in prose, The Rights and Wrongs of Stock-\\nholders (which the publisliers found it profitable to\\npublish in a separate book form), Knobs of Travel,\\nand Visits to the Homes of Authors. In 1870, Mr.\\nSherwood, or, as he was now entitled to be called,\\nCol. Sherwood (having served, although, in conse-\\nquence of ill health, but a short time, with that rank\\nand title as a staff-officer on the staff of Gen. James\\nS. Wadsworth, of New York, in the civil war), pub-\\nlished his first formal book, The Comic History of\\nthe United States, with eighty illustrations (of which\\nall but two were designed by himself), a volume of\\nfive hundred and fifty pages, written in a picturesque", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0415.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "272\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nand humorous style, but presenting with unusual ac-\\ncuracy of detail and witli painstaking faithfulness a\\nfull and complete history of the United States from\\nits discovery ti the present time. A new edition of\\nthis work is announced as we write (October, 1881).\\nIn the same year with the first publication of this\\nhistory. Col. Sherwood came with his wife and one\\nchild, Howard, to Englewood, intending to make it\\nhis future residence; but with characteristic quietnes.s\\nof manner, making no announcements, and unosten-\\ntatiously taking his place as a citizen, discharging all\\nhis duties as a neighbor and citizen with matter-of-\\nfact steadiness and faithfulness, living, as he was\\naccustomed in his luiniorous way to say, upon the\\nby-laws, as his constitution, like the Confederacy,\\nhad gone to pieces years ago. Even those by-laws,\\nhowever, were to be rudely disturbed the very first\\nyear of his residence in Englewood by a stroke of\\nparalysis, which, while it disabled his walk, could not\\nwholly conquer his indomitable pluck and force of\\nwill. By the aid of these, reinforced by his steady\\nand prevailing sense of duty, he has ever since gone\\non interesting himself in all local improvements and\\nmatters of interest in the township, promoting by his\\nintelligent advocacy every township and neighbor-\\nhood measure, ready to give his attention, means, and\\ntime to their support and iimintenance, and having\\ngenerally the honor, as he quaintly puts it siime-\\ntimes, of being elected to the ollice.s where there is\\na good deal of work and a good deal of no pay.\\nThus quietly and faithfully interweaving his small\\nstock of physical health through all healthy but local\\ninterest.s, declining offers of appointments to diplo-\\nmatic and judicial posts that might well gratify even\\nan ambitious man. Col. Sherwood has deservedly\\nwon the esteem and love of his fellow-citizens, who\\nhave learned to appreciate this steady, conscientious,\\nfaithful life, so courageous in its endeavor, so self-\\ndenying and brave and beneficent.\\nCol. Siierwood occupies, with his wife and tour\\nchildren, a stone villa of his own design, called\\nStone Lodge, which is notable, even in a place\\nof beautiful homes, for its solidity and picturesque\\nbcnuly.\\nDavid Hoadley. David Hoadley was born at\\n\\\\Vatcrbury,Ci nn.,on the MU day of February, ISOli.\\nThe busy manufacturing town of to-day was then a\\nsmall quiet New ICngland village, with the industri-\\nous farmers, the while house.s and red barns, and the\\nmecting-liotise with its tapering spire. His father\\nwa.H a man who needed a wider and more extensive\\nfield of labor, so that when the subject of this sketch\\nwas about eight years of age he removed with his\\nfamily to New Haven.\\nHere the boy was able to enjoy much greater edu-\\ncational advantages than he could have received at\\nI Wrillcn l y a iM.rw Tial rririii) for piitillratlon In the YMr-Book** of\\nlh ml, P lml, ami t ni,j Iteporttr. New York, 1K73.\\nhis native place. The next following years were\\nspent at school and in the quiet of home, where his\\nlife Wiis blessed by the influence, both in precept an\\ne.vample, of a mother whom he venerated and love\\nand to whom he never occasioned a moment of soi\\nrow or pain. He was carefully prepared for enterin\\nYale College, it being at first the desire of his parent\\nthat he should study a jirofession. His mental attain\\nments were of a high order, and his talents i ronu.se\\nmarked success. The last year which he spent i i\\nstudy was pa-ssed in Philijis E.xeter .\\\\c:idemy, at An-\\ndover, Mass., and he returned home almost, if not en-\\ntirely, fitted for college. But just at this time hi-\\nplan was frustrated. He was naturally of a frail con\\nstitution close and unremitting applies, ion to hi-\\nbooks had impaired his health to such a degree that\\ngreatly to the regret of his friends and himself, h\\nwas compelled to relinquish the sedentary life of .1\\nstudent and to undertake some more active employ-\\nment. He then became a clerk in the drug-store cl\\nMessrs. Hotchkiss Durant. in New Haven. Thi-\\nplacc was his training-school in business, and there\\nhe remained until the day of his attaining his major-\\nity in 1827. He then started for New York to seek\\nhis fiirtune, with a business capital of one thousand\\ndollars received from his father, and with undaunted\\ncourage and conscious self-reliance.\\nMessrs. Frisby Ely were at that time carrying on\\na drug business in the lower ]iortii)n of a building\\nstanding at the corner of Wall and Water Streets,\\nafterwards the site of the office of the Journal of Com-\\nmrrci. This building was burned in 1835. Here the\\nyoung man was received, and the lirni became Frisby,\\nEly it Hoadley. But this partnership was of short\\nduration. Scarcely more than a year elapsed betbre\\nMr. Ely died, and Mr. Frisby retired. Mr. Hoadley\\nat twenty-four, almost a boy in years, but a man in\\nintellectual force and vigor, was left at the head of\\nthe house, the sole survivor.\\nHe then associateii with himself Mr. George 1).\\nPhelits, who died about 1871, the firm-name being\\nHoadley Phelps. Thesamc store was occupied until\\n1833, when Mr. John W. Fowler was admitted lus a\\npartner, and the name of the concern was changed to\\nHoadley, Phelps Co. The business was then re-\\nmoved to 142 Water Street, where the firm contiiuied\\nfor fifteen years in uninterrupted prosperity.\\nFew houses in the city became better known than\\nHoadley, Phelps Ct). No firm excelled them in\\nmercantile credit and integrity. They did a large\\nbusiness for those days, perhaps the largest of any\\nhciuse in their line. It was also a lucrative one. Mr.\\nHoadley, as the head f the house, acciuireil an en-\\nviable notoriety. He was the pcqiular man of the\\nfirm and while he was known to be careful in busi-\\nneiis negotiations, he never permitte l an appeal for a\\nworthy object to pass unnoticed. He was emphati-\\ncally a worker. It was that same nervous, active\\nenergy which showed itself in his very movement-s,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0416.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "-:i^^^^\\nc^^fp^rcc/4-\\nT", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0417.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0418.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n273\\nespecially in his quick, decided step, which made him\\na successful man. His devotion to business was ardent\\nand even enthusiastic. He was ambitious to secure\\nand maintain the place which he so long held among\\nbusiness men. His industry was indefatigable; he\\nnever lost a moment, but applied himself with all his\\nenergy to whatever he undertook. His days of recre-\\nation were rare, and he never failed to return to his\\nwork at the time and hour appointed. In fact, busi-\\nness was his chief pleasure and ])astime. His per-\\nception was acute, and his judgment excellent. In\\nmatters requiring prompt determination his quick\\ndecision rarely erred. He was remarkably systematic,\\nand the influence of his care and order was perceptible\\nin store and office.\\nDuring Mr. Hoadley s life as a drug merchant he\\nbuilt what was for those days a very fine house at the\\ncorner of Houston and Mulberry Streets, then a de-\\nsirable place of residence. There he lived until to-\\nwards the close of his connection with that business.\\nHe removed to West Seventeenth Street near Fifth\\nAvenue. About 1830 he married Miss Mary O.\\nHotchkiss, daughter of Russell Hotchkiss, of New\\nHaven. She died in 1837, and he subsequently mar-\\nried Miss Elizabeth C Tappan, of Poughkeepsie.\\nMr. Hoadley was a warm and efficient friend of the\\nworthy young men of merit. He was an active mem-\\nber of an institution, formed about 1835, called the\\nYoung Men s Society (somewhat similar in its objects\\nto the Young Men s Christian Association of the\\npresent day), many of whose members are now among\\nour most eminent merchants and lawyers. His part-\\nner, Mr. Phelps, was its president, and was succeeded\\nby the Hon. Henry E. Davies. Mr. Hoadley s sym-\\npathies never grew old, and the struggling young\\nman obtained from him cheering advice and encour-\\nagement, and when there was need more substantial\\naid.\\nIn 1848, Mr. Hoadley retired from the drug busi-\\nness, and the firm sold their stock and good will to\\nMessrs. Schiett elin Brothers Co. He spent a year\\nin settling up the aflairs of the old concern, and then\\nbecame vice-president of the American Exchange\\nBank, under that veteran financier David Leavitt,\\nwho had early discovered his ability. But this posi-\\ntion was not congenial to his tastes, and in 1853, de-\\nclining the presidency of the bank, he accepted that\\nof the Panama Railroad. This office he filled with\\nmarked success, until at the end of eighteen years his\\nfailing health determined him to resign.\\nMr. Hoadley was for many years an active trustee\\nof the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York,\\nand a member of its finance committee. Here his\\ncareful judgment and discrimination were exceed-\\ningly valuable, and his counsel was in perhaps every\\ninstance followed.\\nJlr. Hoadley possessed a peculiar power of inspiring\\npersonal afl ection. The perfect truth and sincerity of\\nthe man were always evident, his warm sympathy was\\never on the surface, his kindly, winning smile spoke\\nof purity of thought and deed, most difficult of at-\\ntainment. Yet it was not the truth or the sympathy\\nor the purity alone which won the hearts of those\\nwho knew him. The influence was peculiar and in-\\ndescribable, yet all felt it. The presence was that of\\none who insensibly yet surely won your attachment\\nwithout knowing it himself. Those who saw him\\nonly in business life felt a peculiar attraction, -felt\\nthat he inspired something more than respect, akin to,\\nyet differing from, reverence, scarcely less than love.\\nHe was the generous dispenser of charity. No\\nworthy object for the improvement of his fellow-men\\never appealed in vain to his open-hearted liberality.\\nWherever there was suff ering, there his practical\\nsympathy went. Wherever there was grief he en-\\ndeavored to assuage it wherever want existed, his\\naim was its relief. Benevolent societies found no\\nsurer friend, charitable institutions owe much to his\\nactive, earnest co-operation.\\nFor the last eight or nine years of his life Mr.\\nHoadley resided at Englewood, N. J., attending daily\\nto his business in the city.\\nEven after his resignation of the presidency of the\\nrailroad, his habits of work and application were\\nsuch that he was almost daily in New York as usual.\\nHe delighted in his beautiful home, with its perfec-\\ntion of cultivation, and the glories of the distant view\\nmelting away to the west. No man was ever more\\nuniversally loved and respected than he at the place\\nof his .suburban residence.\\nHe was not old when he died. His quick, elastic\\nmovements, his nervous energy, his admirable judg-\\nment, and his unimpaired mental powers indicated a\\nman whose eye was not dimmed or natural force\\nabated. But an insidious and fatal disease had at-\\ntacked him, and when it was hardly more than sus-\\npected it had done its work quietly but surely it\\nundermined a constitution never very strong. Every-\\nthing was done for him which esteem and affection\\ncould prompt, but to no purpose. On the 20th day\\nof August, 1873, in the quiet rest of his country\\nhouse, with friends and neighbors, one and all, re-\\ngarding his loss as a direct personal sorrow, quietly\\nand without pain, he died. And thus we close the\\nrecord of what one who loved him called a beautiful\\nlife, which faded away gradually like a glorious sun-\\nset.\\nThe large crowded church at his funeral told of the\\nfeelings with which he was regarded. Old men came\\nfrom New York to show their esteem for the character\\nof one whose prosperous career some of them had\\nwatched from its beginning.\\nHis business associates in large numbers evidenced\\ntheir respect for their energetic co-laborer, and the\\nresidents of the village closed their stores and sus-\\npended their daily duties to bow in reverent grief over\\nthe remains of one whose familiar face they should\\nnever see again.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0419.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "274\\nHISTOKY OF IJEUGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nAny sketch of Mr. Hoadley s life which did not en-\\nlarge on the Christian grace and personal excellence\\nof the man would fail to give any trup conception of\\nhis character. To him religion wius a vital tiling, en-\\ntering into every duty of life, influencing every action,\\nregulating every thought. What would seem when\\nspoken of most men to be extravagant eulogy, is in his\\ncase the mere statement of simple fact.\\nHe would himself, however, liave been the first to\\ndisclaim any such exalted character. Xot the least\\nconspicuous of liis virtues was liumility. Looking at\\nhimself from within, witli full knowledge of unspoken\\nthoughts, of unexecuted desires, of germs which in\\nmost men would have borne their natural fruit, he\\nhumbly saw his own imperfections, and never appre-\\nciated the grandeur of his simple Christian life. To\\nsuch a scrutinizing inward ga/e errors and failings\\nmust have been sadly visible, for the best of us are hu-\\nman. But to those who saw him as he appeared to the\\nworld as the active church officer, the upright man\\nof business, the upholder of every good work, the\\nliberal dispenser of bounty, the i)Ure and humble man\\nof God to them it seems difficult to give an ade-\\nquate idea of the beauty of his character.\\nSuch men are sent as examples. Not alone in the\\nfamily and in business circles is their influence felt.\\nIt goes out from tlieni, whether they know it or not,\\npervading all who come within their influence, and\\ntouching all with a benediction. The moral of Mr.\\nHoadley s life is not far to seek. Especially does it\\ncome home to business men, who can learn from his\\nstory that success is entirely consistent with perfect\\nintegrity, nay, more, that the truest success depends\\nupon integrity, and cannot be attained without it,\\nand such a lesson our business men, and especially the\\nyoungiT ones, will do well to study and ]ioiider.\\nDaniel Drake Smith.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The family represented by\\nthe subject of this sketch is of English descent, and\\nwas identified with the early settlement of Long\\nIsland, where Oliver Smith, graiulfather of our sub-\\nject, wiLs born. The wife of dliver Smith was Cath-\\narine, daughter of Joseph Drake, of Clu ster, Orange\\nCo., N. Y.\\nDaniel Drake Smith was born in the city of New\\nYork on Aug. 29, 1818, and was the only son of a\\na family of four children. His [larent-s were Joseph\\nand Clarissa (Traphagen) Drake Smith, the former of\\nwhom wa-H a native of Orange Oninty, N. Y., and a\\nmerchant in New York City from 1808 to 1830. His\\nmaternal ancextorH were French Huguenots, who left\\ntheir native country after the revocation of the Edict\\nof Nantes, and after enjoying an lusylum in Holland\\nfor a time, came with the early emigrants to .Vhierieu.\\nThe family settled in the northern part of Hergen\\nCounty in 1745.\\nThe entire business life of Mr. Drake Smith was\\npassed in the city of New York. He received a good\\ncommon-school education at the high school con-\\nducted by John H. (iriscom, supplemented by a\\nclassical coarse at Baldwin Forrest s school on\\nWarren Street. In 1831 he entered the service of\\nBenjamin Babcock (afterwards Babeock tS: Suydam),\\nwho was largely engaged in the importation of French\\nand English dry-goods. The store, which was located\\nin Pearl Street, near Hanover Square, was among the\\nfirst destroyed in the great fire of 1835. After the\\nfinancial crisis of 1837, Mr. Drake Smith entered the\\noffice of the Atlantic Insurance Company, which was\\nsucceeded by the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Com-\\npany, of which he was subsequently secretary. In\\n1852 he established the Commercial .Mutual Insurance\\nCompany, and remained its president for twenty-seven\\nyears. He was also president of the Board of Marine\\nUnderwriters, and has been a ilireetor in several bank-\\ning and other institutions in New York City.\\nMr. Drake Smith is now living in retirement at\\nEnglewood, where he established his home in 1863.\\nThe village was then in the incipient stages of its\\ngrowth, and Mr. Drake Smith ranks among the ear-\\nliest of its permanent residents. Since his settlement\\nin Englewood he has been identified with its general\\ndevelopment and prosperity. an l taken an active part\\nin its social, educational, and material growth. He\\nhas filled, in a modest, unpretending manner, a num-\\nber of local positions of importance, some of which\\nhe still occupies. During the Rel)ellion he took an\\nactive interest in the politics of the county, and was a\\nwarm supporter of the national government.\\nMr. Drake Smith has found time during his leisure\\nhours to supplement his somewhat restricted schooling\\nadvantages by careful private study and research, and\\nthe culture that he now enjoys is the result only of\\nclose personal application. Prior to ))0 be was for\\nmany years a f reipient contributor to the press of New\\nYork, writing on subjects of public interest, and in\\n18(57 he published Spinoza s Ethics, which he had\\ntranslated from the Latin. He is still pursuing his\\nliterary investigations, and finds his chief enjoyment\\nin liis library.\\nOn May 2(i, 184. Mr. Drake Smith was united in\\nmarriage to Henrietta Maria Hichards, daughter of\\nJames and Henrietta (Robinson) Richards, formerly\\nof Paterson, N. J. Mr. James Richards wius engaged\\nin the manufacture of cotton at Paterson at an early\\nperiod. Five of the eight children are living, namely,\\nBarstow Drake Smith, who is engaged in business in\\nNew York City Hon. Oliver Drake Smith, a lawyer,\\nlate member of Assembly from Bergen County in the\\nNew Jersey Legislature and Misses Henrietta, Laura,\\nand Clara Drake Smith.\\nJ. Wyman Jones. The subject of this sketch was\\nborn in the town of Enfield, (inifl in Co., N. H., m\\nthe 2d of May, 1822. His father was a merchant, a\\nnative of the same town, and resident tl\\\\ere during\\nhis whole life, a man well educated, of untarnished\\nreputation and character, prominent in all local\\nafl airs, and freipiently the chosen representative of\\nhis county in State Assemblies.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0420.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "iJl", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0421.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0422.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0423.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "n J-yzt. Q^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0426.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n275\\nHis mother, whose maiden name was Ruth Arven,\\nwas a native of Canaan, in the same county, a\\nwoman of rare refinement and intelligence.\\nThe ancestors of both father and mother for many\\ngenerations were New England people of Englisli\\ndescent.\\nHis eldest sister, Maria, became the wife of the\\nHon. J. E. Sargent, late chief justice of New Hamp-\\nshire, and his youngest sister, Emily, married C. C.\\nFoster, Esq., of Hanover, N. H., where her children\\nstill reside. There were no other members of his\\nfamily.\\nIn June, 1835, he entered the Meriden Academy,\\nand commenced the course preparatory for college.\\nTwo years after he entered Dartmouth College, from\\nwhich he graduated in due course in 1841. Removing\\ndirectly after graduation to Troy, N. Y., he entered\\nthe law-office of J. G. Britton, Esq., where he re-\\nmained a year, and completed his preparation for the\\nbar in the city of New York in 1844.\\nIn that year, at the July term of the Supreme\\nCourt at Utica, he was admitted an attorney of the\\ncounty. After practicing law in the city of New-\\nYork for five years he removed to Utica, where he\\ncontinued to practice his profession until compelled,\\nby aggravated and accumulating troubles of the\\nthroat, to abandon it and seek an active, open-air\\nlife.\\nTurning his attention to agriculture, he became\\nidentified with the farmers of Oneida County and\\npresident of their agricultural society, serving as an\\nofficer of that society for several years, and until in\\n1869, when he removed to New Jersey.\\nIn the month of August of the year last named,\\nand on the fifteenth day of the month, Englewood may\\nbe said to have been founded. On that day there was\\ndeposited and filed in the office of the clerk of Bergen\\nCounty by the subject of this sketch a Map of Engle-\\nwood. There has never been, nor can there ever be,\\nany one to question the authorship of this map, or of\\nthe name given to the place, or of the general plan\\nupon which the town is laid out. They were each\\nand all the work of J. Wyman Jones.\\nIt is difficult to realize at this time the barrenness\\nand lonesomeness of the site of Englewood in IS.iO.\\nThe fields were neglected, the one road through it wa.s\\nnarrow and sandy, and the brush and undergrowth\\ntall and scraggy. There was not at that time a single\\nhou.se in what now constitutes the village of Engle-\\nwood north of the late Garret J. Lydecker s residence,\\nexcept the old Bloomer House, which has been re-\\nmodeled, and bears little resemblance to its early ap-\\npearance.\\nFor several years Mr. Jones gave undivided atten-\\ntion to the development of this place. Towards the\\nbuilding of the stone chapel (lately removed to the\\ncemetery), the hotel known as the Englewood\\nHouse, the young ladies seminary (since destroyed\\nby fire), the railroad station (now replaced by a better\\none), and several private houses, as well as in the grad-\\ning of streets, improving the face of the country, and\\nplanting of trees, he expended his untiring energies.\\nMore than all else in its early history, he used his\\nbest efforts and ingenuity in securing a superior class\\nof visitors to the place, many of whom appreciated\\nthe beauty and desirableness of the site and eventu-\\nally became residents.\\nFrom that time until the present he has taken a\\nlively and practical interest in all that has tended to\\nimprove and elevate the place and its inhabitants,\\nco-operating as far as was possible with the many\\npublic-spirited and liberal citizens who have from\\ntime to time become identified with the town.\\nIt is his desire and habit, however, to give the\\ngreatest credit for all that makes Englewood desirable\\nto those who early made their homes here, and be-\\ncame interested in and contributed to its growth and\\ndevelopment. From no one of the living or the dead\\nwould he withhold the raced of desert and honor\\nwhich is his due.\\nBesides interesting himself especially in Englewood,\\nwhere he fixed his permanent residence, Mr. Jones\\nlaid out the villages of Closter and Norwood, in Ber-\\ngen County, built a large hotel at Norwood and many\\nhouses, and introduced a considerable number of new\\ncitizens into these and other places in the county.\\nIt is quite certain that the records of the county\\nclerk s office will show more conveyances to and from\\nhim than any other person who ever lived in the\\ncounty. And it is noteworthy, in this connection,\\nthat no serious question has ever arisen as to any\\nboundary line of farm, lot, or street, description of\\nproperty, title, conveyance, contract, or covenant made\\nby him, an experience which he attributes to the fact\\nthat he personally attended to the preparation and\\nexecution of all legal papers.\\nIn politics Mr. Jones inherited the strongest Dem-\\nocratic predilections. In the division of the party\\non the question of free soil he adhered to the more\\nDemocratic theory, and became one of the organizers\\nof the Republican party, of which he is still a mem-\\nber. Never an office-seeker, he has been a steady\\nworker at the polls and elsewhere for the success of\\nhis party. For about ten years successively he was\\nchairman of the Republican County Committee of\\nBergen County, has very frequently represented hi\\ntown in State Conventions, was a State delegate-at-\\nlarge to the National Convention held in Philadelphia\\nin 1872, and a district delegate to the National Con-\\nvention held at Cincinnati in 1876.\\nIn business association, he has occupied many prom-\\ninent places of trust, such as president of railroad\\ncompanies, director of banks, etc. Lately his chief\\nattention has been given to the development of ex-\\ntensive lead-mines in the State of Missouri, and the\\nbuilding of an important railroad through the lead\\nand iron districts of that State. Since the year 1866\\nhe has been president of the St. Joseph Lead Com-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0429.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "276\\nHISTORY OF BEIIGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\npany, owning very large deposits of lead ores in Mis-\\nsouri, which has gradually extended its business from\\nsmall beginnings, until from seven to eiglit hundred\\nmen are required to carry on its work. The secluded\\nlocation of the company s works has become a town\\nof five thousand inhabitants, with schools, churches,\\nstores, and shops suited to such a population.\\nHis family consists of a wife and two children.\\nSoon after he was admitted to the bar he married\\nHarriet, eldest daughter of .lames and Harriet Dwiglit\\nDana, of Utica, N. Y., a sister of Prof James D.\\nDana, of Yale College. His sons, James Dana Jones\\nand Dwight Arven Jones, were educated at Yale,\\ngraduated at the Columbia Law-School, are both\\nmarried and settled in Englewood, and are i)racticing\\nlaw in New York City.\\nMr. Jones occupies a substantial stone hou.se, which\\nhe built in 1864-65, on one of the best sites in Engle-\\nwood, surrounded with about eighteen acres of lawn,\\ngarden, and forest, one of the first and best-planned\\nand mo.st cultivated places in a town of elegant resi-\\ndences. He calls his home Erdenheim.\\nHis religious connections are with the First Presby-\\nterian Church, presided over by Dr. Henry M. Booth,\\na church built on land donated jointly by him and\\nthe late I. Smith Homans, and towards the erection of\\nwhich lie cxtrtod himself actively.\\nI. Smith Homans, Jr. The late I. Smith Homans,\\nJr., became identified with Englewood and Bergen\\nCounty in the early part of the year 18.59, when the\\nNorthern Railroad of New Jersey was first opened.\\nIn fact, he and his brother, Sheppard Homans, were\\nthe first New Yorkers to become residents of Engle-\\nwood after the railroad made that region accessible\\nto business men of the metropolis.\\nMr. Homans was among the first to appreciate the\\nadvantages ottered by the situation, the salubrity, and\\nthe beauty of the Palisades region lus a suburban\\nresilience, and at once devot d all his energias and\\nabilities to the development of the real estate interests\\nof Bergen County. His energy was untiring, and his\\nability was of a very high order. The enormous\\nnumber of his real estate transactions attest his ac-\\ntivity. His early efforts were crowned with success,\\nand he soon amassed a large fortune. It is safe to say\\nthat no one has done more for the development of\\nthe interests of Bergen County than the subject of\\nthis notice.\\nThe depression in real estate during the last few\\nyears told heavily on the business tran.sactions of the\\nlate .Mr. Homans. His ambition and courage kept\\nhim up till the last moment, but he finally was obliged\\nto give way under the pressure. His health became\\nimpaired, but his death, which occurred on the 24th\\nday of November, 187 was sudden and unexpected.\\nMr. Homans had the faculty of attaching to him-\\nself a large number of devoted friends, whose con-\\nfideni-e he retained to the litst, and had his life been\\nspared he would undoubtedly have recovered his for-\\ntune. He was born in the city of Washington, D. C,\\non Aug. 31, 1833, and was consequently but little\\nover forty-six years of age at the time of his death.\\nHe left a widow, who has since died, and five chil-\\ndren. He was graduated at Harvard University in\\n1852. After practicing the profession of a civil en-\\ngineer for a few years he became associated with his\\nfather as co-editor and publisher of the Banter s ^far|-\\niizine, a widely-known and influential journal pub-\\nlished in the city of New York.\\nHenry D. Westervelt. The Westervelt family\\nranks among the oldest of Bergen County, and its\\nrepresentatives were among the earliest emigrants\\nto America. Lubl)ert Lubbertson and Willem Yan\\nWestervelt came from the town of Meppel, i rovinee\\nof Drenthe, Holland, in the ship Hoop, in April,\\n1(!62, and settled on Long Island. Cornelius, son of\\nLubbert, settled at Acquackanonk, and was one of\\nthe original fourteen patentees who purchased the\\nAcquackanonk patent in li 84. He subsequently\\nsettled on the other side of the Passaic River, in what\\nis now Bergen County.\\nCornelius Westervelt, grandfather of the subject of\\nthis sketch, resided at an early day at Schraalenburgh,\\nand was a tailor by trade. He jierformed active ser-\\nvice in the Revolutionary war, filling the ofiice of\\ncaptain, and was taken prisoner by one of his own\\nneighbors, Samuel Cole. Being confined in the Ohl\\nSugar-House at New York, he was enabled to keep\\nhimself alive, and to enjoy a better than ]irison fare,\\nI by making clothes for the soldiers. His children were\\nj Jasper, Peter, Jr., John, Christiana, who married\\nAlbert Bogert, Jemima, who married Nichohis Fer-\\ndon, and Mary .Vnn, who married .Mr. Herring, of\\nTappan.\\nPeter Westervelt, Jr., was born at Schraalenburgh,\\nand enjoyed the benefits of a common-school educa-\\ntion only. He was a carpenter by trade, but subse-\\nquently engaged in agricultural operations*. He was\\na benevolent, kind-hearted man, quick and energetic\\nin his movements, a firm believer in Democratic prin\\nciples, and a devout member of the Retbrmed Clinrch\\nof Ridgefield, with which body he was officially con-\\nnected as elder for a number of years. He died Feb.\\n5, 1861, in his seventy-third year. His first wife was\\nFransiney, daughter of Henry ami Margaret Dema-\\nrest) De Mott, whom he married (1ct. tl, 1810. She\\ndied May 12, 1830, in her thirty-eighth year. The\\nchildren were Margaret, born June 17, 1813, married\\nHon. John Yan Brunt, and Henry De M., our subject.\\nThere were no children by the .second marriage.\\nHenry I). Westervelt was born on the idil l e Mott\\nhomestea l, the present residence of his widow, on\\nMay 15, 181 !l. He was educated at the district school\\nof the locality, and at an academy in New York City.\\nBeing naturally of a frail, delicate constitution, he\\nilecideil to adopt the life of a farmer, and accordingly\\nlocateil on the honu stcad of his grandfather, Henry\\nDe Mott, where he had been born, and which he re-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0430.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "P^-Uyt/", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0433.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0434.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "^fi^^\\n^^1^^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0437.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0438.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0439.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "V*N\\nC^U-c/led:", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0440.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\nceived by will from his grandfather. For a short time\\nhe engaged in mercantile pursuits with his brother-\\nin-law, John Van Brunt, near liis late residence.\\nMr. Westervelt was naturally of a retiring disposi-\\ntion, and participated but little in public affairs. His\\nchief interest seemed to manifest itself in the direc-\\ntion of church matters, and he was ever a warm sup-\\nporter of church and kindred institutions. He was\\na zealous member of the Reformed Dutch Church of\\nRidgefield was treasurer of that body, and an elder\\nfor several years, an office in which his father and\\nmaternal grandfather had preceded him. He took\\na deep interest in the Sabbath-school and temperance\\ncause, and was regarded in the community in which\\nhe dwelt as a straightforward, earnest, Christian man.\\nHe was a liberal contributor to all worthy objects.\\nBy his will he left three thousand dollars to Rutgers\\nCollege, New Brunswick, for the purpose of educating\\nyoung men for the gospel ministry. He also founded\\na scholarship in that institution. He died Nov. 5,\\n1862. His widow, whom he married on Oct. 25, 1837,\\nis Margaret, daughter of Richard M. and Mary (Kipp)\\nVreeland, of Leonia. She was born July 7, 1819.\\nThe children have been Henry D., who died in in-\\nfancy Peter H., born Sept. 17, 1842, died June 3,\\n18.51 and Margaretta, who resides at home with her\\nmother.\\nGarret A. Lydecker. The annals of the Lydecker\\nfamily extend back to the first settlement of Bergen\\nCounty, and its representatives were among the pio-\\nneers of what was then a wild, unbroken, and unin-\\nviting country.\\nThe ancestor of the branch of the family repre-\\nsented by the subject of this sketch was Garret Ly-\\ndecker, who came from Amsterdam. The date of\\nemigration is unknown. He had a brother Abraham,\\nwho died Nov. 12, 1767, in New York City, and who\\ndevised in his will a house and lot in New York to\\nhis nephew, Albert, son of Garret. The latter was\\nearly a resident of that part of Bergen County now\\nrepresented by Englewood township, and received a\\npatent from Queen Anne for a tract of land extending\\nfrom what is now the south line of the late John Van\\nBrunt s property to Demarest Avenue in the village\\nof Englewood. Albert Lydecker had two sisters, one\\nof whom married Robert Sickles, and the other Jo-\\nhannis Nagal. He also had five sons, Garret, John,\\nAbraham, William, and Cornelius. His will was\\nproved April 5, 1774, and in it he refers to his first\\nwife, Mary, and his second wife, Sarah. A branch of\\nthe family settled at Nyack, N. Y.\\nThe subject of this sketch is descended from the\\nson. Garret, who was his great-grandfather. The\\nchildren of this Garret Lydecker and his wife, Lydia,\\nwere Garret, Cornelius, James, Elizabeth, who married\\nAlbert Westervelt, Lydia, who married John Bartholf,\\nand Hannah, who married Henry Zabriskie. He was\\na prominent and influential man, possessed of large\\nlanded estates, a captain in the Revolutionary war, and\\nsubsequently a member of the Colonial Legislature.\\nHis son Garret, grandfather of our subject, was born\\nAug. 31, 1761, on the old Lydecker patent. During\\nthe Revolutionary struggle, when he was a mere lad,\\nword was sent of the landing of the British at Fort\\nLee. The family goods were gathered together hastily\\nand transported to a point of safety in wagons. Young\\nGarret drove one of these, and after crossing at New\\nBridge, the bridge was destroyed behind the fugitives.\\nThe British encamped on the Lydecker homestead,\\nand their commissary department was largely added\\nto by the large number of fat sheep and hogs which\\nhad been unavoidably left behind. He subsequently\\nengaged in agricultural operations on the Lydecker\\npatent, and lived a ([uiet, retired, and modest life.\\nHis wife was Hannah Westervelt, born Feb. 16, 1766,\\nwhom he married Nov. 27, 1784. The children were\\nAbraham, born May 28, 1786 Gertrude, born April\\n16, 1790, married John Edsall, of English Neighbor-\\nhood and John, born Dec. 25, 1795. Garret Lydecker\\ndied April 27, 1848, and his wife on Sept. 15, 1849.\\nAbraham Lydecker, father of our subject, was\\nborn on the farm now occupied by the latter on the\\ndate given above. There he engaged in agricultural\\npursuits. He was an active, energetic man, and filled\\na prominent place in 1jhe community in his day. He\\nserved as freeholder of his township, and represented\\nhis district in the Legislature of the State for two\\nterms. He possessed good business qualifications,\\nwas methodical and systematic in his affairs, and was\\nfrequently called upon to act as executor and admin-\\nistrator of estates. He married Maria, daughter of\\nDavid N. and Martha (De Clark) Demarest, on Dec.\\n15, 1808. The children were Garret A., our subject\\nDavid, born May 31, 1814, died in infancy; Mary\\nAnn, born Feb. 15, 1820, married Thomas W. Dema-\\nrest and Martha, born July 18, 1824, married John\\nVan Nostrand. Abraham Lydecker died Nov. 20,\\n1841, and his wife on July 7, 1834.\\nGarret A. Lydecker was born on the fiirm on which\\nhis son Abram resides, near Englewood Village, on\\nJan. 5, 1811. His education was obtained at the com-\\nmon schools of his locality, and at the Hackensack\\nAcademy. In 1833 he removed to his present farm,\\nwhich he derived by devise from his grandfather.\\nGarret Lydecker, and entered upon the life of a far-\\nmer. He continued to engage in agricultural pur-\\nsuits, and is recognized as one of the representative\\nfarmers of Bergen County. He is a man of modest\\ndemeanor and retiring disposition, and while he has\\never been interested in all matters pertaining to the\\ndevelojiment of his locality, has avoided public posi-\\ntion, and kept as near as possible withiii the inner\\nwalks of life. He has been a lifelong Democrat, and\\nwas active in local politics in his younger days. He\\nwas freeholder of his township for three years, town\\ncommitteeman for about fifteen years, and has held\\nthe position of commissioner of appeals and other\\nlocal offices. He was a member of the board of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0441.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "1-8\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ndirectors of the First National Bank of Hackensack,\\nand of the Hackensack Savings Institution, and is\\nnow a director in the Bergen County Mutual As-\\nsurance Societ) of which his father was one of the\\nfounders. He is a member of the True Reformed\\nDutch Ciiurch of Leonia, and held the office of elder\\nin tiiat body a good many years. He is universally\\nrespected in the community in which he dwells.\\nMr. Lydecker has been twice married. His first I\\nwife was Gertrude, daughter of Peter J. Cole, to\\nwhom he was united Aug. 2 1831. She was born\\nAug. 22, 1813, and died Aug. 10, 1847. Of this union\\nwere born Gertrude, who died in infancy Abrani,\\nborn Jan. 30, 18.34, married Rachel, daughter of\\nRalph S. and Jane (Hariug) Demarest, and who is\\nfarming a portion of the old tract Rachel, born July\\n10, 18.38, married James Christie; Maria, born Aug.\\n12, 1841, wife of Cornelius Terhuiic; and John, wlio\\ndied in infancy. His present wife is Maria, daughter\\nof Samuel R. and Elizabeth (Zabriskiej Demarest, of\\nBergen County, whom he married Dec. 30, 1847.\\nThe children by this union have been Thomas Wil-\\nliam, born April 18, 1840, died Oct, 20, 1870, a young\\nman of tine intellectual capacities and great promise;\\nand Martha, born ril 9, 18i l, married Silas Wright,\\nof Jersey City, died July 29, 1879.\\nLebbens Chapman, Jr. The Chapman family\\ntraces its origin Id I- .ngland, where the name was one\\nof the earliest of English surnames. John Chapman\\nwas returned to Parliament as burge.ss for Cliippenham\\na.s early as tlie year 1298. The family patronymic is\\nSa.xon, the original word, ceapinan, signifying a\\nmonger or merchant.\\nTlie ancestor of the family in America was Robert\\nChapman, who. according to the family tradition, came\\nfrom Hull, in England, to Buston in 1(!3. from wliich\\nplace lie sailed, in company with Lyon Gardiner, for\\nSaybrook, Conn., November 3d of that year, as one\\nof the company of twenty men who were sent over\\nby Sir Richard Saltimstall to take possession of a large\\ntract of land and make settlements near the mouth\\nof the Connecticut River, under the patent of Lords\\nSay and Seal. He is supjiosed to have been about\\neighteen years of age. He was one of the prominent\\nearly settlers of Saybrook, possessed of large landed\\nestates, and a representative to the General Court\\n(equivalent to our Legislature! forty-three times, act-\\ning as itssistjint representative nine times. He was\\na man of exemplary piety, and but a short tin\\\\e pre-\\nvious to his deceiuse wrote an adilrcss to his children,\\nin which he exhorted them to abide by the covenant\\ninto which they had entered with God and his church.\\nHis wife wa.s Ann Itlith, whom he n\\\\arrie l April 29,\\nHU2, and who died Nov. 20, KJS. i. He die.l Oct. 13,\\nl(iH7. The chililreri of this ancient couple were .John,\\nKobert, Anna, Hannah, Nathaniel, .Mary, and Sarah.\\nFrom the youngest of these sons, Deacon Nathaniel\\nChapman, is descended the subject of this sketch, the\\nline of descent being Robert Nathaniel Nathaniel\\nLieut. Lebbeus Chapman, Lebbeus Chapman, and\\nLebbeus Chapman, Jr. Lieut. Lebbeus Chapman\\nserved as a soldier in the Revolutionarj- war, rising\\nby degrees to the office of lieutenant, to which he was\\nappointed Sept. 25, 1777.\\nLebbeus Chapman, father of our subject, was born\\nAug. 22, I Xr,^ and was twice married, first to Catha-\\nrine Rozette, and second to Eliza (Chapman) Inger-\\nsoll, widow of Jonathan Ingersoll. He was engaged\\nin mercantile pursuits in New York during the greater\\n|)art of his life, and as an accountant had few equals.\\nMany years ago he published a large work, entitled\\nChapman s Interest Tables, a book evincing great\\nindustry and accuracy in figures, and which proved\\nan efficient aid in large business transactions. An\\nevidence of his patient industry is furnished by a\\nlarge bound manuscript Bible, beautifully written,\\nwhich is in the possession of the family, and which\\nhe coi)ied at odd times when at home, mornings and\\nevenings, outside of business hours. He was identi-\\nfied with many benevolent enterprises, and projected\\nand organized the Marine Temperance Society of the\\nport of New York, tlie first certificate ever presented\\nto a sailor for signature having been prepared by him.\\nHe died in 1863,\\nLebbeus Chapman, Jr., the eldest of the eight\\nchildren of Lebbeus and Eliza Ingersoll Chapman,\\nwas born in the city of New York, Dec. 25, 1827,\\nand was educated at Nazareth Hall, Betlilehem, Pa.\\nWhile still a boy he entered the law-otRce of Cleve-\\nland Titus, of New York, who were at tliat time\\nconducting some very important .suits. He applied\\nhimself closely to his duties, entered upon the study\\nof the law, was admitted to the bar in 1850, and soon\\nafter became a member of the firm. The death of\\none of the partners and the retirement of the other\\nsoon left him in charge of large interests and a heavy\\nclientage among banks and bankers. It wa-s the tide\\nin his afiairs, but he took it at the flood, proved him-\\nself equal to the occasion, and succeeded in retaining\\nthe business and confidence of his clients. From\\nthat time on his career was that of an active and busy\\nlawyer, to whom liis clients and friends did not hesi-\\ntate to confide any business lunvever important, or\\nany secrets however private. His honest, earnest,\\nand sympathetic nature made him hosts of friends,\\nan l at the time of his demise he was in the enjoy-\\nment of a large and lucrative jiractice.\\nMr. Chaimian became a resident of Englewood in\\n1H63, locating at Teaneck, ami from that time on was\\nmo.st intimately identified with the growtli and devel-\\nopment of the locality. All local enterprises received\\nhis warm encouragement and support, and many of\\nthe most important local institutions of Englewood\\nwere either projected or carrii il through by him. In\\nthe church, in town or county atl airs, at all public\\nmeetings, he was always to be found ready to act in\\nany capacity that would be of public service, never\\nwishing anything for himself, or seeking to evade any", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0442.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0443.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0444.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0445.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "JOHN I. VAN BUSKIRK.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0446.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "ENGLEWOOD.\\n279\\nburden. He was one of the organizers and directors\\nof the Englewood Protection Society, a director of\\nthe Bergen County Gas- Worlds, and a member of the\\nboard and secretary of the Drainage and Water Com-\\nmissioners of Englewood. To each and all of these\\ninstitutions he gave the benefit of his legal knowledge\\nand trained business habits, and served in many of\\nthem in the dual capacity of both counsel and director.\\nIn his religious associations Mr. Chapman was a\\nPresbyterian, a member of the First Presbyterian\\nChurch of Englewood, and a member of the board of\\ntrustees for six years. He took a deep interest in the\\nSabbath-school cause, and organized shortly after his\\nlocating at Teaneck the Teaneck Sabbath-school, from\\nvery small beginnings, and in the face of many diffi-\\nculties. He continued to be its superintendent until\\nhis death. ^le devoted to this work, which was\\npurely a labor of love, a large amount of time and\\nenergy, and felt a just pride in the development of\\nhis school, in which many children are gathered and\\ntraiued each Sabbath. It is one of those practical\\nmonuments that serve to keep green the memory of\\nthose whose lives have proved worthy of them.\\nMr. Chapman was of an active, nervous tempera-\\nment, full of energy, but little fitted to endure the\\nstrain which his large professional business and his i\\nidentification with public affairs devolved upon him.\\nHe gradually succumbed to the pressure, and died at\\nEaston, Pa., on April 30, 187fi, where he had gone\\nfor the purpose of recuperating his wasting forces.\\nHe was a man of spotless character and personal in-\\ntegrity, and the news of his death was received by\\nmany with peculiar sadness. Resolutions of condo-\\nlence and sympathy were passed by the various asso-\\nciations with which be had been connected. From\\nthose passed by the drainage and water commission-\\ners of the township of Englewood we make a few\\nextracts, as showing to some degree the estimation in\\nwhich he was held by his friends and neighbors\\nAll common forms of eulogy are weak, utterly in-\\nadequate to express our estimation of our late friend\\nand associate.\\nAs a man of business, whether for quick, keen\\nperception of the point involved, a straightforward,\\nready application of the true action required, a\\nmethodical and clearly to be understood record of\\nthe result, he was simply unequaled.\\nAs a public-spirited citizen, he was the very fore-\\nmost of all. As a man of benevolence, he dispensed\\neven beyond his means of that which his rare in-\\ndustry and self-denial had enabled him to acquire.\\nAs a teacher, he was of the best, for his example\\never preceded his precept.\\nAs a friend, oh, how true, and pure, and brave\\nan one, ever ready with his aid, his sympathy, his\\nwarring against error, his support in the right I\\nAs a companion, filled with the rarest, most cheer-\\nftil geniality, who so welcome as he, everywhere, on\\nall occasions, by all of every age or condition?\\nAs a Christian, by his works will he be known\\nlong after all of us shall have been called to render\\nup our account.\\nMr. Chapman was married on March 1, 1853, to\\nMary Augusta, daughter of Dr. Chester and Mary\\nParkhurst, of Waltham, Mass. The children, who\\nreside at the home residence with their mother, are\\nMary P., wife of Nathan A. Chapman, and Frank\\nMickler Chapman.\\nJohn I. Van Buskirk. The Van Buskirk family\\nis one of the oldest of Bergen County. At a very\\nearly day the ancestor of the family in America,\\nwhose name is supposed to have been John, took up\\na large tract of land in the neighborhood in which\\nhis descendants still reside, on Liberty road near\\nEnglewood Village, and became a pioneer in that\\nsection. His son John succeeded him, and owned a\\nlarge tract of land. The children of the latter were\\nPeter, born Aug. 31, 1762; Jacob, born Jan. 20,\\n1765 Ellesee, born Jan. 17, 1768, married John\\nAckerman Johannes, born Dec. 1, 1771 and El-\\nlesebet, born Feb. 22, 1772, married John Bogert.\\nThese sons farmed a portion of the home tract during\\nthe lifetime of their father. After his decease it was\\ndivided between them, and they continued to occupy\\nadjoining places during their lives. A large portion\\nof the tract is still in the possession of their descend-\\nants.\\nThe subject of this sketch is descended from Johan-\\nnes, who was his grandfather. His father, John Van\\nBuskirk, was born Oct. 16, 1775, and married, Dec.\\n25, 1795, Caty Demarest. She was born Sept. 15,\\n1775. The children were Mertinche, born April 5,\\n1798, married Garret Zabriskie and John I., born\\nMarch 9, 1802. John Van Buskirk lived where his\\ngranddaughter, Mrs. Fred. L. Voorhees, resides, on\\nLiberty road, where he passed his life in a modest\\nway, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died Oct.\\n4, 1838.\\nJohn I. Van Buskirk was born near Tappan, on\\nthe date indicated above. He received a common-\\nschool education, and entered upon the life of a\\nfarmer. He married Rachel, daughter of Peter and\\nElizabeth Perry, and, after the death of his father,\\ncame into possession of the homestead residence on\\nLiberty road, where he continued to reside until his\\ndeath on Nov. 11, 1870. His wife was born Nov. 19,\\n1805, and died Sept. 4, 1874. The children were\\nJohn P., born Jan 10, 1825; Peter, born Oct. 27,\\n1834, died Feb. 4, 1836; and Eliza, born Jan. 25,\\n1840, who married, first, Henry Hopper, and secondly,\\nFred. L. Voorhees. The latter resides on the old\\nfamily homestead. John P. Van Buskirk resides\\nnear the old place, and is a prosperous and successful\\nfarmer. He married, Sept. 8, 1869, Willminah, daugh-\\nter of Samuel and Sally Haring, and has two children,\\nAdelle and Charles J. Van Buskirk.\\nJohn I. Van Buskirk passed his life in a plain,\\nmodest way, and within the inner circles of society.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0447.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "280\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN;\u00c2\u00bbAND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY,\\nHe confined his energies strictly to the management\\nand control of his private business enterprises, par-\\nticipating but little in public affairs. While owning\\nand operating a farm he perforn\\\\ed but little manual\\nlabor. He owned considerable property in New\\nYork City, and his business connections there were\\nquite extensive. He was an untiring worker, always\\nbusy at something, and interested in all movenients\\ntending to improve the locality in which he dwelt.\\nHe took an active interest in the project for bringing\\nthe Northern Railroad to Englewood, and at one time\\nowned a large proportion of the stock, and was a\\nmember of the board of. directors of the road. He I\\nwas of a pleasant, genial temperament, and a mem-\\nber of the Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, with\\nwhich body he wsw otticially connei^ted both as deacon\\nand elder, filling the latter office at the time of his death.\\nHe felt a deej) interest in the cause of temperance\\nHis death came suddenly, and without much warn-\\ning and while still pursuing the active duties of life.\\nAbraham Bartholf.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Am iiig the early settlers from\\nFlolland on the banks of the Ilackensack and Passaic\\nRivers was Guillamme Bartholf He came in the ca-\\npacity of catechizer, voorleser, and schoolmaster, and\\ndischarged his duties so acceptably that the peojile\\namong whom he had establislied iiimself desired that\\nhe should prepare himself for the gospel ministrv\\nand become their pastor. At the expense of the con-\\ngregations of Ilackensack and Acquackanonk, he was\\nsent to Holland in 1693, and on September 16th of\\nthat year he was licensed by the Clitssis held at Mid-\\ndleburg to preach for those churches. In 1094 he re-\\nturned in safety to America, and entered upon the\\ndischarge of his pastoral duties. He was the first\\nregularly installed jJiistor of the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch in New Jersey. He is described a.s being in\\npossession of a mild and placid eloquence, which per-\\nsuaded by its gentleness and attracted by the sweet-\\nness which it distilleil and the holy savor of piety\\nwhich it ilifl used around. He was of the evangelical\\npart of the ministry of his day, an l promoted the\\nindependence of the church of foreign control. His\\nlaboni terminated in 1724, the precise date not being\\nknown. He organized the church at Raritan about\\nthe beginning of the last century, and introduced\\nRev. Theodonis .1. Frelingliuysen into his pitstoral\\noffice there in 1720. Ht- also organized the church at\\nPhillips Manor (now Tarrytown, N. Y.), about 1697,\\nand aftcrwarils occasionally ministered there. He\\nmarried Martyntie Van Kmberg, and ha l three sons\\nand three daughters, viz. Hendriek, ornelins, and\\nJaeobus, Sarah, Elizabetli, and Martha. Hendriek\\nmarried .Martha Terhuiie, and had issue, (iilliam,\\nAlbert, Abraham, Jacobus, Stcphanus, Rynehearl,\\nJohn (who die l young), Martyntie, Maria, Rachel,\\nHarriet, and Sarah.\\nOf these children, Abraham waa the grandfather of\\nthe subject of this skelcli. Soon after the close of\\nthe Revidution he removed from Pompton, N. J.,\\nand settled where Mr. Collerd resides, on the Hacken-\\nsack River, within the present limits of Englewood\\ntownship. He died Oct. lo, 17X9, aged seventy-five\\nyears. His wife was Margaret Mandeville, who died\\n,Ian. 20, 1880, in her ninety-third year. The children\\nwere Giles, Margaret (who married Henry Wanna-\\nmaker), John A., and Henry (who died young).\\nAllKAIlA.M HAKTIKH.F.\\nJohn A. Bartliolf, father of our subject, was born\\nat Pompton, Dec. 16, 1766. He married, on Sept.\\n12, 1787, Lydia Lydecker, who died Jan. 1.5, 1825.\\nOf this union were born Margaret, on May 22, 1788,\\nmarried Daniel Hanta (Jarret, born .\\\\ug. 22. 1790;\\nhydia, born April 11, 179 nnirried John Van Saun\\nAbraham, born Oct. .1, 1797; and John I., born June\\n.30, lSo;i. ,Iohn A. Hartholf married for a second\\nwife, on Nov. 3, 1830, Maria De Uaun, who died Nov.\\n6, 1848. He died March II, 18.V). He was a farmer\\nthrough life, a man of ipiiet ami retiring lisp( sition,\\nand one who avoiiled active participation in public\\natfairs. He was a member of tlie Diilch RefornuMJ\\nChurch of Hackensack, and filled the olfices of both\\ndeacon and elder in that body.\\nAbraham Bar) liol f was born on his father s homestead\\non the dale indicated above. He and his brother,\\nJohn 1. Bartliolf, who resides in Ilackensack, are the\\nonly two living children of John .V. Bartliolf. In\\n1817 he entered upon the life of a farmer upon the\\nfarm on which he at present resides, and has passed\\nhis life thereon. He married, May 17, 1817, Jane,\\ndaughter of Cornelius and Klizabeth Ho| per| Ter-\\nhuiie, and lias had three i-hiblren, viz. Lydia. wife of\\nJohn II. Baula, of Ilackensack Cornelius, who died", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0448.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n281\\nin infancy and Eliza J., wife of Peter Westervelt, of\\nRidgefield township.\\nJlr. Bartliolf lias led a quiet and industrious life,\\nand, like his father, has held himself aloof from public\\nafl airs, choosing rather to live within the inner pre-\\ncincts of society. He has cheerfully performed the\\npart of a good citizen, and by a long life of integrity\\nand fair dealing has earned the respect and esteem of\\nall. He is a member of the True Reformed Dutch\\nChurch of Hackensack, and has been officially con-\\nnected with that body both as deacon and elder.\\nCHAPTER XLII.\\nPALISADE.\\nPhysical Features. In the division of the old town-\\nship of Hackensack, perhaps the people of Palisade\\nwere the most fortunate of thoseof the three new town-\\nships then formed in the selection of so significant a\\nname. The Palisades of the Hudson have attracted the\\nobservant eye of every traveler since the discovery of\\nthe great river by Hendrick Hudson in 1609, and\\nwill ever be regarded as one of the great natural\\nwonders of the American continent. This precipitous\\nwall of rocks, rising abruptly from the western shore\\nof the Hudson far below, forms the eastern boundary\\nof Ridgefield, Englewood, Palisade, and Harrington\\ntownships to the State line. Any one of these town-\\nships might have fitly chosen the name, as this mas-\\nsive wonder maintains its undiminished grandeur\\nthroughout their entire extent.\\nThe height of the range near Weehawken is about\\nthree hundred and ten feet above the river, rising\\ngradually to five hundred and forty feet near its\\nnorthern terminus. This precipice rose at first, un-\\ndoubtedly, right from the river s edge, but time has\\nformed a talus of fragments of the trap falling in the\\ncourse of long centuries, as if to guard the deep foun-\\ndations below the great river. The range continues\\nin bold precipitous heights and rocky bluff s along the\\nriver to Haverstraw, a little below the Highlands\\nthence it sways back from the river, lifting itself\\nagain in lofty escarpments and massive columns to\\nthe northwest and the west from three hundred to\\neight hundred feet high. As everything is said to\\ndwindle down to the sea, the range diverges again to\\nthe westward, forming the high ridge back of Jersey\\nCity, and dips below the water at Bergen Point, but\\nreappears again under the soil of Staten Island, and\\nfrom thence its deep foundations may extend far out\\ninto the sea. To the strange and often awe-struck\\ntraveler, viewing these gigantic walls from the river-\\nhigh and lifted up almost to the clouds\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in the mists\\nof the morning, has come the oft-repeated question\\nwhether, in this apparent upheaval of nature, the land\\nhad not been desolated and laid waste beyond. Ex-\\ncept a narrow strip along the edge of these far-\\nreaching heights, and which even there is kindly\\ncovered nearly all the way with surface soil enough to\\ncrown the whole with trees and verdure, the country\\nbeyond is rolling land and valley and dell to the\\nquiet Hackensack River, and presents an aspect of\\nrare variety and beauty. Though the busy and in-\\ndustrious hand of civilization has carved out many a\\npathway up those lofty heights from the water s edge,\\nyet even to the sure-footed Indian the heights were\\nalmost insurmountable, so that the hostile tribes on\\nthe other shore of the great river rarely invaded this\\nregion, thus left to the undisturbed occupancy of the\\nLenni Lenape, the original race. At first the white\\nman only went thither through Newark Ray from\\nthe south, and through Haverstraw from the north.\\nThe great continent beyond may have presented\\nscenes of greater grandeur and more fertility of soil,\\nbut here nature was grand enough to gratify the most\\nromantic, and the soil was rich enough to invite the\\npractical industry of the early settlers.\\nEarly Settlements.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The ancestors of George\\nHuyler, residing at Tenatly, were among the early\\nsettlers in that portion of Old Hackensack at present\\nembraced in Palisade township. The present home-\\nstead of Mr. Huyler, at Tenafly, was built and occu-\\npied by his grandfather, John Huyler. The land was\\nformerly part of the forfeited estate of John Eckerson,\\nand was sold for \u00c2\u00a31658, York money. John Huyler\\nowned the premises in question to 1818, when it de-\\nscended to his son Peter, who was born in 1780, and\\ndied in 1872, aged ninety-two.\\nSamuel Demarest was one of the early settlers of\\nBergen County. He settled at Schraalenburgh, and\\npurchased a large tract of land engaged in farming,\\nand had several children, one of whom was Peter,\\nwho married and settled in what is now Harrington\\nabout 1700, and had two sons, Samuel and John.\\nSamuel married Margaret Brinkerhoof, and settled\\nin Palisade township his children were Peter,\\nHenry, Cornelius, Rulef, Maria, Anna.\\nPeter was married twice his first wife was a Miss\\nDurie, second wife was Rachel Banta; his children\\nwere Margaret, Levine, Rachel, Ethel, and Samuel.\\nMargaret married James Forrest, and settled in\\nNew York City, and had two sons.\\nLevine married James Demarest, and settled at\\nSchraalenburgh both dead.\\nRachel married Peter Cole, and located in Harring-\\nton township; both dead.\\nEthel married Daniel Christie, and located at River\\nEdge had one daughter, Margaret, who married\\nJames Hering.\\nSamuel married Rachel Cole, and resides in Pali-\\nsade township.\\nHenry married a Miss Tallman in 1785, and set-\\ntled at Demarest, in Harrington township, and had\\none daughter, Margaret, who married Albert Voor-\\nhees; and settled in Palisade township.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0449.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "282\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCornelius married Jane Brinkerhoof, and resided at\\nthe old homestead until 1776, when he was killed by\\nthe British and Tories he had two sons, Samuel and\\nJames.\\nSamuel married a Miss Voorhees, and settled at\\nSaddle River township his children were Nicholas\\nCornelius, and one daughter.\\nJames died a young man.\\nKulef married Maria Demarest, and settled adjacent\\nto his father, and had two sons, Samuel and .John R.\\nSamuel married Klizabeth Zabriskie, and located at\\nDemarest Station, Harrington township; his children\\nwere John Z., Rulef, Cornelia, .lolin S., Marin, Sam-\\nuel S., Margaret, Catherine, Garret Z., Anna Eliza.\\nJohn Z. died young.\\nRulef married Jane Hering, and located in Har-\\nrington township; his children were Elizabctii Ann,\\nRachel, John F., Maria, James, Samuel R., .lereniiah,\\nKate, and Emma,\\nCornelia married Jacob C, Blauvelt, and moved to\\nNew York City.\\nJohn S. married Margaret Bostwick, and moved to\\nLong Island.\\nMaria married Garret A. Lydeckcr, and resides at\\nEnglewood.\\nSamuel S. married Rachel Voorhees, and resides in\\nPalisade township.\\nMargaret married .lohii :in Hiiskirk, of Har-\\nrington township.\\nCatherine married P. R. Haring, and resides in the\\ntownship.\\nGarret Z. married Margaret Zabriskie, and resides\\nat Demarest.\\n.\\\\nna Eliza married Raljili Durio. and resides in\\nthe township.\\nJohn R. married twice: his fii t wife w:is Eva Ben-\\nson, his second wife was Margaret Demarest; had\\nfive children, Ralph, Maria, Susan, .John, ami Mar-\\ngaret.\\nMaria married .loliii Haring, and resides in New\\nYork City.\\n.Vnna married Samuel Cole, and moved to Engle-\\nwood both dead.\\nThe premises were then inherited by his son George,\\nexcept a ortion in the southern part, which descended\\nto Henry Huyler. Huyler s Landing on the Hudson,\\nalso in this township, was formerly known as Lower\\nloster, and was the place at which the British cro.ssed\\nthe river on their raid to Fort Lee.\\nThe DemarcMt*! settled very early in the present\\ntownship. In the ancestral line of the pr scnt Hon.\\nRalph S. Demarest was Samuel, horn in 1724, and\\ndied March 14, 1\u00c2\u00ab(\u00c2\u00bbS. His children were Peter, Henry,\\nCornelius, Koelof Liria, and .Vnn. Roelof, the father\\nof the ]ireserit Kalpli, was born .\\\\ug. 2. IT. iti, and\\ndied Sept. 4, 1M14. He wius a freeholder in the old\\ntownship of Hackcnsack, ami a iMeml)er of the Leg-\\nislature.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The Lozier family was settled here in the latter\\npart of the seventeenth century. Daniel Lozier was\\nI born in 1707, and died in 1792.\\nThe Zabriskies descended from the original ances-\\ntor, who settled here in the seventeenth century have\\nresided in this township ever since.\\nCivil Organization. The civil organization of\\nI Palisade may be briefly stated as follows: It was at\\nI first a part of the township of Hackensack, which\\ndates its corporate existence back to 1693 (see history\\nof Hackensack township), and remained a part of that\\ntownship til! its erection into a separate organization\\nin 1871.\\nIts first freeholder was Samuel D. Demarest, who\\nI served continuously from 1871 to 1873, inclusive.\\nIts first town clerk was John H. Anderson, and\\nWilliam S. Harris was elected justice of the peace.\\nMr. Anderson continued to serve as clerk of the town-\\nship in 1872 and 1873.\\nThe freeholders of the township are as follows to\\nand including 1880: Samuel D. Demarest, 1871-73,\\nI 1875; John Westervelt, 1874; Samuel S. Demarest,\\n1876-77; Geo. Foster, 1878-80.\\nTown clerks, John H. Anderson, 1871-73 John H.\\nHuyler, 1874; Charles O. Westervelt, 1875-77 Abram\\nA. Tcrhune, 1878-7!).\\nJustices of the peace, William S. Harris, 1871\\nBenjamin C. Smith, 1872; John R. Zabriskie, 1873;\\nCornelius S. Cooper, 1874; Benjamin I. Westervelt,\\n1875-77; Jacob Y. Voorhis, 1878; Daniel D. Blau-\\nvelt, 1879.\\nCollectors, John C. Banta, 1872-73; George Foster,\\n1874-76; John H. Anderson, 1877-79; John R. Za-\\nbriskie, 1880.\\n.\\\\ssessors, Albert A. Terhune, 1872-74; John H.\\nHuyler, 1875-77; ^amuel E. Demarest, 1878-80.\\nPlaces of Historical Interest.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nearly the whole\\nof the township is liistnrie in the events of the Revo-\\nlution. We have already mentioned the landing of\\nthe British at Huyler s Landing, then called Lower\\nCloster, in the raid upon Fort Lee. In 1776 it was a\\nconstant source of annoyance to the British that the\\nrebels, as they called them, held Fort Lee, a com-\\nmaniling mililiiry post, which ren lereii the niivigation\\nof the Hudson almost impossible. Accordingly Lord\\nCornwallis crossed the river to Huyler s Landing from\\nSpuyten Duyvil, a few miles farther south on the\\nopposite shore. The force of the British general con-\\nsisted of the First and Second Battalions of Light In-\\nfantry, two companies of eha.sseurs, two battalions of\\nBritish and two battalions of Hessian grenadiers, two\\nbattalions of guards, and the Thirty-third and Forty-\\nsecond Regiments of the line. This occurred on the\\n18th of November, 177t). Gen. Greene, while yet in\\nbe l, heard of this movement. He immediately or-\\ndered a retreat of his troops to English Neighbor-\\nhood, now in RIdgefield township, and to River\\nEdge, now in Palisade township. Immediately in-\\nforming Gen. Washington of this retreat, who was at\\nHackensack, (Jen. Greene was met by the great com-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0450.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n28a\\nmander at River Edge, then called New Bridge.\\nThere was no other crossing, except hy horse-boat, at\\nLittle Ferry, some five or six miles down the Hack-\\nensack. Having succeeded in reaching River Edge\\nin safety. Gen. Greene returned to Fort Lee to bring\\nup some three hundred stragglers and others and\\nthus by this successful retreat three thousand Ameri-\\ncans were saved all the disasters of surprise and cap-\\nture. Further details of this movement and its con-\\nsequences arc given elsewhere in this history. The\\nsoil ofPalisade thus becomes memorable in the history\\nof the Revolution. In those days it formed part of\\nthe border-land of strife and contention between those\\npatriotic men who stood faithful to the cause of our\\ncountry and those who wore faithless found. In the\\nway of advancing and retreating armies, the inhabit-\\nants in this and the neighboring townships wore fre-\\nquently exposed to havoc, starvation, and all the\\nnameless disasters of war.\\nVillages and Hamlets. The villages and hamlets\\nin this township arc Schraalenburgh, Cresskill, Tena-\\nfly, Highwood, Borgen Fields, New Bridge, River\\nEdge, Overton, New Milford, and Oradell, with\\nHuyler s Landing on tlie Hudson. At the last census\\nin 1880 the township had a population of 2302, of\\nwhich Schraalenburgh had 507, Cresskill 33.3, Tenafly\\n1019, Old and New Bridge 219, and Huyler s Land-\\ning 43. The population in 1875, the first separate\\ncensus after the formation of the township, was 1925.\\nIt will be seen, therefore, that Tenafly is tlie largest\\nvillage in the township. It derives its name from a\\nDutch word meaning willow meadows, from the\\nlarge quantities of willows found in the lowlands in\\nthe vicinity. The old Tenafly road, running from\\nthe present vill.age to Liberty Pole (modern Engle-\\nwood), long years ago was used as a trotting-course,\\nand was frequented for that purpose from far and\\nnear. The Northern Railroad passes through the vil-\\nlage. It has a most beautiful and substantial depot,\\nbuilt at the joint expense of the people of the village\\nand the railroad company. Very many of the resi-\\ndences at Tenafly belong to business men in New\\nYork City. The Highwood House, a commodious\\nhotel in its day, was destroyed by fire a few years\\nsince. There is also a splendid depot at this place,\\nbuilt at an expense of twelve thousand dollars, sur-\\nrounded with a pleasant park, which forms a portion\\nof the deiKit grounds.\\nJohn Hull Browning, Judge Ashbel Green, John\\n8. Lyle, of the large mercantile firm of Lord Tay-\\nlor, and many other business men in New York City\\nhave resorted to this place for their homes, and have\\ngiven it much prominence. The streets are wide,\\nand pass up the liills by easy grades, and the magnifi-\\ncent views from (_)range Mountain in New Jersey to\\nOrange County in New York are not surpassed by any\\nof the views in all this delightful region.\\nThere are three churches here, the Presbyterian,\\nRev. Clarence Geddes, pastor; the Episcopal, Rev.\\nR. B. Hoyt, rector; and the Catholic, Father C. C.\\nCannon, pastor, and a well-attended public school,\\nand a large general store, and a sash and blind manu-\\nfactory.\\nCresskill, on a little stream full of cresses, is just\\nopposite the northern boundary of New York City\\nand the southern boundary of the city of Yonkers.\\nThis place has many beautiful residences. The Hill-\\nside road, passing through the village to the little vil-\\nlage of Alpine, affords a most pleasant and commo-\\ndious thoroughfare between these two villages. Here\\nare the Demarest Woolen-Mills and a Reformed and\\nBaptist Church.\\nThe drive from the southern boundary of the town-\\nship to its northern, through Bergen Fields and Schraa-\\nlenburgh, is most pleasant in summer-time, along a\\ngood road bordered with spacious farm-houses and\\nthe homes of many who have retired from cities.\\nSchools. The first school-house in District No. 11\\n(Sohraalenburgh) was built in the year 1800, and was\\nlocated about seventy-five feet south of the jiresent\\nbuilding, on the corner of the road leading from Now\\nMilford to Closter, now Creskill, opposite the North\\nSchraalenburgh Church. It appears on the 15th day\\nof April, 1800, Solomon Froeligh, Isaac Kipp, John\\nQuackenbush, James D. Demarest, and William\\nWestervelt were elected trustees of this school, in\\ncompliance with an act of the Legislature, passed at\\nTrenton, Oct. 27, 1794, assuming the name and title\\nThe Trustees of the School at Schraalenburgh.\\nThe frame was brought from Col. Nicols (now P. J.\\nDurie s), where it had been in use some time already\\nas a fulling-mill. It was a two-story frame building,\\ntwenty-five by twenty-eight feet, pitched roof, having\\none room and hall on the first floor, and two rooms\\nand a small hallway on the second floor. All the par-\\ntitions were of boards, and the ceiling was formed by\\nthe beams and floor overhead. It was destitute of\\npaint on the inside, but was covered with a red or\\nSpanish-brown color on the outside. It was furnished\\nwith desks on three sides of the room, facins the wall,\\nwith seats within this inclosure for the smaller chil-\\ndren, the stove occupying the centre of the room, and\\nthe seats being made from slabs eight or twelve feet\\nin length. The upper room was used for meetings\\nand the holding of singing-school. How this\\nbuilding was put up is not known, but it is supjiosed\\nby subscription and the usual donations of labor and\\nmaterial.\\nNicholas Kipp was the first teacher, but the\\nbranches he taught and his mode of teaching are not\\nknown. The next teacher was Garret Mangel, who\\ntaught spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic,\\nhaving seventy-two names on the roll. Previous\\nto the organization and building of this school in\\n1800 another was in operation opposite the South\\nBranch, but when it was organized or by whom taught\\nis not known.\\nThe present school building was erected in the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0451.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "284\\nHISTOUV OF HHRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nyear 1841, and located about seventy-five feet north\\nof the old building. It was origiiuiUy twenty-six by\\nnineteen feet, two stories high, but in the year 1850\\nan addition of twelve and a half feet was attached to\\nthf rear, the upper floor taken out and the ceiling\\nmade fourteen feet, and otherwise remodeled. In the\\nyear 1858 another addition of twenty -six by twenty-\\neight feet wa-s attached, making it then L-sbaped,\\nwith a seating capacity of one hundred and twenty-\\nfive. May 1, 184!l, the district was regularly incor-\\nporated under the existing laws, and assumed the\\nname The Northern Seliool of Hackensack Town-\\nship. During the first few years, up to 1826-27, the\\nschool was kept open seven hours a day and every\\nalternate Saturday. It was maintained by rate-bills,\\nthe teacher taking the school and making out of it as\\nmuch as he could, the trustees fixing the rates and\\nthe teacher assuming all risks. Two teachers have\\nbeen employed in this school for a number of\\nyears.\\nTenafly District, No. 12, is one of recent forma-\\ntion, and located in the village of Tenafly, having its\\nterritory dotted here and there witli palatial resi-\\ndences. It is l)ounded on the north by No. 13, on the\\neast by Hudson River, on the south by No. 8, and on\\nthe west by No. 11. The first school building erected\\nin this district is the present one, but before this\\nbuilding was erected and district formed the old stone\\nschool at Liberty Pole was patronized by the school-\\nwas employed as principal, and Miss Libbie Deuel as\\nassistant. The present (187(j) principal is William H.\\nStorrs, having as his assistant Miss Maggie Terhuue.\\nThis school building is one of the best in the county,\\npleasantly located and capable of doing good work.\\nC resskill District, No. 13, was formerly included\\nin District No. 12, Old Hackensack township, known\\nas Federal District. The school-house, however,\\nstood in Harrington township, on the farm of Samuel\\nR. Demarest, now District No. 14. This school\\nwas patronized until the year 1857, when the trustees\\nmade application to have the district divided. The\\napplication wa^ granted, and they proceeded according\\nto law to organize the same. The trustees pur-\\nchased the lot of John B. Westervelt, Esq., corner of\\nMadison Avenue and county road, near Cresskill\\nStation. The contract was awarded to John Durie,\\nand the house finished in a satisfactory manner. It\\nwas furnished with modern school furniture, and had\\na seating capacity for seventy-two pupils. The name\\nof the first teacher I am unable to give. A\\nnumber of teachers have been employed, both male\\nand female, the major part giving general satisfaction.\\nThe present teacher (1876i, Miss Ray Ward, is a\\nlady of rcfineil habits, possessing the rctpiisito |iiali-\\nfications for the position, and is loved and resj ecteil\\nby all the pupils under her charge. She has occujiied\\nthe teacher s desk in this school six years, and taught\\nthe following branches, viz. reading, writing, s[ cll-\\ngoing community of this section. One of the ing, geography, grammar, arithmetic, algebra, his-\\ntrustees of the present district speaks very feelingly\\nof his experience in those days, memory having\\ncherished what time can only destroy. He says he\\nwas compelled to bring in bundles of good willow\\nwhips, to be dried by the teacher for future use upon\\nhis back, and then com|)cllcil to sit upon the ixift liile\\nof a slab until he c(mld speak volumes. Sucli are\\nhis experiences as well lus those of many others.\\nIn the year 1871, the old district being very large\\nand this community growing very rapidly, this district\\nwas set ofl by County Superintendent Cass, occujiying\\nthe territory as described above, Messrs. Cliarlcs 1*.\\nHucklcy, Ji\u00c2\u00abliti Westervelt, and Charles II. Clark\\nbeing appointed trustees. After due authority being\\ngiven the trustees by the inhabitants in meetings held\\nfor the purpose, the trustees purchased lots of Mr.\\nCharles I Buckley, and erected the beautiful brick\\nstructure now used as their sclmol building. It is\\nforty by sixty feet, comp weil of brick, two stories\\nhigh, with Mansard roof, and cellar underneath. It\\nis furnished with all the modern improvements found\\nin our schools, heated by a furnace, well ventilated,\\nanil presenting a very attractive appearance. It cost\\neight thousand ilidlars, aixl has the sealing capacity\\nfor four hundred children.\\nWhen the district wiis first tirganized the .school\\nwas held over the store of Peter I. Westervelt, and\\ncontinued there until the middle of October, 1872,\\nwhen the new building was completed. MLss Angle\\ntory, and lrawing, all of which seem to prosper\\nuuder her charge.\\nThere are three entire school districts in the town-\\nship, known as Nos. 11 and 12 and 13, with several\\nothers partly embraced in the surrounding townships.\\nThese three districts embrace an enumeration of\\nnearly five liundre I children under the ;ige of eigh-\\nteen. The surrouniling districts partly in this town-\\nship embrace (within the township), by estinuition,\\ntwo hundred and fifty children.\\nChurches. Down to 1724 the Dutch Church in\\nthe village of Hackensack had exercised spirltinil\\nsupervision over nearly the svholeof the old township\\nof Hackensack. Its pastors visited the remotest\\nfamilies, and occasionally preached in the old town-\\nship when a sufficient congregation could be gathered\\ntogether. The people of Schraalenburgh had es-\\npecially looked to the old Church im the (ircen, and\\nattended religious services there till 1724, when, or\\nabout that time, the Dutch Reformed Church of\\nSchriuilenburgh was organized. The first church was\\nerectt d there in 1725, and the Rev. Reinhardt Erriek-\\nson, or Krickson, then having pastoral charge of the\\nchurch at Hackensack Village, also became the first\\nI)a.stororthe church at Schraalenburgh. He continued\\npastdr of these churchc-s till 172S, when he was called\\nto the Reformed Dutch t hurch at fSchenectady. He\\nwas president of the first Coetus of ,\\\\prll 27, 1738,\\nand was again present at the Coetus in 1747. He had\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0452.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n285\\nmuch ability, and was influential in the councils of\\nthe church. Towards the close of his life he became\\na victim to intemperance, and was excluded from the\\npulpit. The ecclesiastical body called the Coetus\\nwas composed of ministers and elders seeking and\\nproposing a plan for the ordination of ministers in\\nthis country. There was much opposition to this\\nplan, as we shall see hereafter. It was approved,\\nhowever, by the Classis of Amsterdam in Holland\\nbut in 17.54 the Coetus of the previous year recom-\\nmended a change into a Classis with full powers,\\nwhen the opposition greatly increased, and the op-\\nponents were known as Conferentie. This dispute\\ngrew out of the differences of opinion, and of con-\\nviction too, whether the church should not look to\\nold Holland, as it had been accustomed to do almost\\nwithout exception for its ministerial supply till 1737,\\nor whether here, in the new land of America, with\\nmore fitness, their ministers might not be educated,\\nordained, and sent forth to their labors. The Rev.\\nGeorge Wilhelmus Mancius became Mr. Errickson s\\nsuccessor at Schraalenburgh by a call dated Dec. 23,\\n1730, and commenced his labors there Sept. 19, 1731.\\nHe was followed by the Rev. Antonius Curtenius in\\n1737, who continued pastor of both the churches at\\nHackensack and Schraalenburgh to 1748, when Rev.\\nJohn Henry Goetschius became his colleague. Mr.\\nGoetschius was the son of a German minister, and\\nwas born in Switzerland. He was a thorough Cal-\\nvinist, a profound scholar, and a most able theolo-\\ngian.\\nIt will be impossible for us here to enter into a full\\naccount of the many trials and perplexities which\\nbefell the churches at Schraalenburgh and Hacken-\\nsack between the Coetus and Conferentie parties, and\\nwhich led to much alienation and strife. In the his-\\ntory of New Barbadoes township much of it will be\\nfound.\\nOver such a controversy a Scotchman, looking on,\\nwould be prompted, and with no irreverence perhaps,\\nto quote the lines of Robert Burns,\\nTlie twa beet herds in a tbe wast\\nThat e er ga e gospel }iorn a blast\\nThese five and twenty sinimers past,\\n0! dool to tell,\\nHa e had a bitter, black oiitH^ast\\nAtween thenisel\\nDr. Strong, in commenting on this unfortunate con-\\ntroversy, which continued till 1772, says, So divided\\nand embittered against each other were many on this\\nsubject that the different parties would not worship\\ntogether, nor even speak to each other, and when\\nmeeting on the road would not turn out for each\\nother.\\nThe recommendation that the Coetus be turned into\\na regular Classis in 1753 heightened the animosities\\nof the contending parties, and resulted in two distinct\\nchurch organizations in Schraalenburgh. The old\\n19\\nDr. Strong s History of Flatbush, p. 91.\\nchurch called as their uext pastor, succeeding Mr.\\nGoetschius, the Rev. Dirck, or Theodorick, Romeyn,\\nwho served from 1775 to 1784. He was licensed by\\nthe American Classis in 1766. He is represented as\\nhaving not only been the first in his own church, but\\namong the first in the church of America.\\nThe second church, formed about 1756, chose for its\\nfirst pastor the Rev. John Schuyler.\\nDr. Solomon Froeligh succeeded Mr. Romeyn in\\nthe first church in 1786, and continued pastor till\\n1822, when the secession or separation took place,\\nresulting in the formation of an ecclesiastical body\\ncalled The True Reformed Dutch Church. The\\nhistory of the organization of this church will be\\nfound in the history of the True Reformed Dutch\\nChurch in the history of the township of New Bar-\\nbadoes. Its second pastor in Schraalenburgh was Rev.\\nCornelius J. Blauvelt, from 1828 to 1852, and Rev.\\nEben S. Hammond from 1858 to 1862, and Rev.\\nAbram A. Van Houten from 1862 to 1866, and Rev.\\nGarret A. Harring from 1868 to the present time.\\nMessrs. Erickson, Curtenius, and Goetschius, the\\npredecessors of Mr. Schuyler, were also contempora-\\nneously for the same periods his predecessors in the\\nChurch on the Green at Hackensack. In each church\\nthere followed Mr. Schuyler the Revs. Cornelius\\nBlau from 1768 to 1771, Warmoldus Kuypers from\\n1771 to 1797, and James V. C. Romeyn from 1799 to\\n1833, and Isaac D. Cole from 1829 to 1832, only in\\nthe Schraalenburgh Church, and was succeeded there\\nonly by Rev. John Garretson, from 1833 to 1836, and\\nRev. Michael Osborne from 1837 to 1841, and Rev.\\nCornelius J. Blauvelt from 1842 to 1858, and Rev.\\nWilliam R. Gordon, D.D., from 1858 to 1880, and\\nRev. George Seibert from 1880 to the present time,\\n1881, the present pastor.\\nThe following record explains itself and affords a\\ncomplete history of the stately and most beautiful\\nold North Church at Schraalenburgh.\\nAt a meeting of the consistory at Schraalenburgh,\\nheld Sept. 6, 1800, the following minute was made:\\nAfter having made repeated applications to Rev. Mr.\\nFroeligh for becoming partakers or sharers in the\\nnew church building at Schraalenburgh, and having\\noffered to pay an equal half of the expenses incurred\\nin building, provided they might enjoy equal privi-\\nleges with Mr. Froeligh s congregation, and having\\nmet with a refusal, finding themselves necessitated to\\ncommence the building of a new church, the old one\\nbeing unfit for use; Resolved, that the congregation\\nsignify their wish relative to the site by signing, and\\nthat the place for which the majority sign shall be\\nthe place on which the church shall stand. The con-\\nsistory to call on all the subscribers to the (pastor s)\\ncall between this and the 13th instant, at which time\\nthey will meet and count the votes and determine.\\nOn the 13th they met and counted the votes, and\\nfound that for Schraalenburgh, at Maj. Isaac Kipp s,\\nthere were ninety-one votes for the flats, on land of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0453.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "286\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCol. Isaac Nicoll, fifty-nine votes, there thus being\\nthirty-two vot s majority for tl\\\\e former site. There-\\nupon the consistory immediately repaired to the spot\\nchosen and marked out the ground where the church\\nshould stand. On the ensuing Wednesday the con-\\ngregation met and the following plan for building was\\nadopted Whereiis, the congregation of Scliraalen-\\nburgh, in the county of Bergen, under the cure of\\nRev. J. V. C. Romeyn, labors under great incouveui-\\nence in holding public worship, owing to the decayed\\nstate of the old church and whereas, they have\\nmade repeated applications and equitable offers to\\nRev. Solomon Froeligh and his consistory for being\\nadmitted as sharers in the new church lately built by\\nthe congregation under his care, and having met with\\na peremptory refusal and whereas, they find it their\\nduty, and are prompted by a pious inclination, U\\nbuild an house for God, they have determined, by and\\nwith the advice of the consistory, to proceed witli\\nthe building thereof in the following manner and\\naccording to the following plan, viz.\\n1. Specifies the spot on which to build.\\n2. Dimensions to be sixty feet long and fifty-two\\nfeet wide.\\n3. Albert Bogert, Johannes Van Wagenin, Abra-\\nham Demarest, Nicausey Voorhees to be trustees, to\\nwhom the title to the same shall be conveyed, to be\\nby said trustees, wiienever required by the consistory,\\nconveyed to said consistory and their successors in\\noffice.\\n4. TTioHe who vote for the spot chosen shall pay/or the\\nglebe.\\n5. Six managers were chosen as a building com-\\nniittee, viz. .Jacob Quackcnbush, Isaac Kipp, .John\\nDemarest, Nicausey Voorhees, Karel Debaun, Peter\\nP. Demarest, and Johannes Blauvelt.\\n6. Persons choosing to deliver at the spot any\\nnecessary materials, such materials to be placed to his\\ncredit, same lus money. Kvory sutficient load of stone,\\nthree shillings and sixpence alloweil. For timber,\\ncurrent market price at any landing-place from Old\\nBridge to Hackensack.\\n7. When the churcli shall be completed, seats to be I\\nHold to the highest bidder at pul)lic vendue.\\nThe work wim urged on rapiilly to completion, and\\nthe noble edifice, with its tower and very lofty steeple,\\nis a monument of the spirit and encrgj of the people\\nwho reared it. It\u00c2\u00ab internal arrangement, with three\\nappropriate galleries; its beautiful though anti(|Ue\\npulpit, with overhanging siiunding-boanl, laslcl ully\\nornamented with a gilded sun, was ever admired, not\\nonly for its commanding site, but for the liberality by\\nwhich it was reared. When it was completed the sales\\nof the pews furnished the money to pay the entire cost\\nof the church and this congregation s half of the par-\\nsonage premises in Hackensack, thi expense of the\\ntwo being t4i this congregation between thirteen and\\nfourteen thousand dollars.\\nSuch ia the record to which we have referred of this\\nold church, now approaching a century since its\\nerection. The writer of this article climbed up a few-\\ndays since to decipher the inscription over the front\\nentrance of this edifice, some twenty feet from the\\nground. Time and storms beatiug upon it have al-\\nmost obliterated the inscription. Its faithful guardi-\\nans would do well to have tlu- words in the good old\\nlanguage of Holland reinscribed upon the tablet.\\nThe exact inscription over the apex of the door-\\nway, the main entrance to the church, are the letters\\nD. B., and then the letters within a border in the\\nshape of a keystone,\\nI. D. D.\\nand then follows the inscription on the tablet-shaped\\nstone, as follows:\\nJfiagtit dc vreode na met alien.\\nDen KtHirden Kcrke te Schraa-\\nlenburgh, Geboud In liet yaar\\n18U1 Aan alle plattac daar\\nIk mynen naniB C edachlenisM\\nStichten Sal, Sal Ik tot u\\nKomcn endo Sal u Segeuen.\\nExud. 20: 24.\\nThis inscription, when translated, reads as follows:\\nLet i)eace come quickly \u00c2\u00ab|Kni all.\\nThe North Church hi SchraaleuhurKh, huilt in the year 1801.\\nIn all places, where I nt name aliall establish for a retncmbrmncef\\nthere Hhall I Ci uie to thee and eliall bleas thee. ExoduB, HAb chapter\\nand 24th verse.\\nThis inscription is in the old but most sonorous and\\nbeautiful language of Holland, much changed in\\nspelling at least from the language of to-day, and\\nlooks quite as quaint as our old mode of spelling\\nEnglish. Vreede is now spelled vredc, and alien is\\nalle, and sal is zal, and pronounced as if it were tsal,\\nfor our word shall.\\nThe first part of the inscription, an invocation for\\npeace, refers to the old strife to which we have al-\\nluded, and which hail made the builders of this new\\nhouse of (iod long after de vreede, that peace vrliich\\npasscth all understanding.\\nThe church to-day presents the same fair and beau-\\ntiful exterior as when erectetl. Time has not wasted\\nnor blasted any of its stately ])roportions, but the old\\npulpit was removed long years since, anil replaced by\\na more modern one, through the liberality of Mr. Jas-\\nper Demarest, in 184.S.\\nAbout the time of the erection of the diurcli gnmnd\\nwas also procured, and a comfortable parsonage erected\\nthereon. Thus Mr. Romeyn, the pastor, was comfort-\\nably furnished with a dwelling and sanctuary. For\\nmany years this faithful and elficicnt pif ti r served his\\nMaster, linding ptaicc within the walls of the sanctuary\\nand prosperity within the homes of his people. Dr.\\nFroeligh had also built a new church, and thus the\\nold church, where they had worshiped when they\\nwere one and a united people, became a subject of\\ncontroversy. Mr. Homey n s people were the last to\\nleave the old edifice, and when they went to their\\nnew church they notified Mr. Frocligh s people in\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0454.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n287\\nwriting in December, 1801, that the old structure had\\nso far gone to decay that they liad taken the Bibles\\nand collection-bags out of it for preservation until\\ndivision could be made.\\nHaving understood that on the L th of June, 1801,\\nMr. Froeligh s people had determined to pull down\\nthe old church, Mr. Romeyn s people addressed them\\na letter, claiming an equal share in the property, and\\nthat they desist from further demolition till an agree-\\nment for division could be made. In December fol-\\nlowing the work of taking down the old church\\nbegan, when another protest and request for division\\ncame from Mr. Romeyn s people. An account of\\nthese and other unhappy differences will be found in\\nthe history of the old Hackensack Church.\\nThe history of the secession from the Reformed\\nDutch Church, or of the Church of the Seceders,\\nas it was denominated by the adherents of the old\\nchurch, or The True Reformed Dutch Church, as\\nit was and is called by its members, cannot be more\\naccurately or fairly stated than by giving in detail\\nall the facts and circumstances which led to that\\nevent.\\nDr. Froeligh, in his manuscript autobiography, on\\npage 27 of a publication entitled The Lamentation\\nof Rev. C. T. Demarest over Dr. Froeligh, says,\\nDuring my administration here I have been gener-\\nally engaged, in conjunction with several brethren,\\nboth ministers and lay members.inopposingdangerous\\ninnovations, both in discipline and doctrine, that were\\ntoosuccessfuUybreakingintoourchurch,but with little\\nsuccess, until, in consequence of the prevalence of the\\nHopkinsian heresy, we were reduced to the alternative\\neither of tamely submitting or separating, when, in Oc-\\ntober, 1822, four ministers besides myself, and seven\\ncongregations, with their consistories, formed ourselves\\ninto a separate body by the name and title of The\\nTrue Reformed Dutch Church in America, adopting\\nall the doctrines and standards established and ratified\\nin the Synod of Dort, Annis 1618-19, without the least\\nalteration. Since our formation we have increased to\\nthe number of twelve ministers and twenty congrega-\\ntions. Then Mr. Demarest says, Dr. Froeligh had\\nlong labored to promote sound doctrine, pure ordi-\\nnances, and correct discipline in the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch, but toiled without success. When the Gen-\\neral Synod was in session, June, 1822, he informed a\\nfew friends at the house of Mr. James Forrester that\\nhe intended to make one more edbrt, and if that failed\\nhe had done with the General Synod forever. He\\nmeant next morning to move that a convention be\\ncalled to determine what was and what was not the\\ntrue doctrine of the Reformed Dutch Church. The\\nmotion was rejected. After his return home the doctor\\nassembled the consistories and leading members of his\\ncongregations, and proposed to them whether they\\nwere willing with him to separate from the corrupt\\n1 Township of New Barbadoes.\\njudicatories of the Dutch Church. Thirty-seven voted\\nfor the measure and thirty-seven against it these\\nlatter were not opposed to the thing, but thought that\\nmatters were not yet ripe for such a step. The doctor\\nbetook himself to fasting and prayer, and, as he re-\\nlated to his aged friend, Mr. Jacobus Brinkerhoff, of\\nPollifly, it was impressed on his mind that his churches\\nwould yet go with him. In this state matters con-\\ntinued for a little while. At length a meeting of both\\nconsistories was called at the house of Cornelius Ter-\\nhune, near Hackensack, at which joint and full meet-\\ning the measure of separation was unanimously adop-\\nted.\\nThe doctor went to the north to ascertain whether\\nthe ministers and churches who had separated from\\nthe corrupt Classis of Montgomery would unite with\\nhim and his consistories in lifting up a banner for the\\ntruth. They consented, came to Schraalenburgh, and\\nthe cause of separation for corruption and corrupt ju-\\ndications was happily consummated in October, 1822.\\nThis action on the part of Dr. Froeligh and his coad-\\njutors led to the events in the General Synod of the\\nReformed Dutch Church at Albany in 1823, where\\nwas formed an appeal from the Rev. James V. C.\\nRomeyn, and a memorial from the congregation of\\nSchraalenburgh on the subject of their secession. Mr.\\nRomeyn s appeal related to the trial of Dr. Froeligh,\\non charges preferred against him before the Classis of\\nParamus, but the appeal was withdrawn at the re-\\nquest of Mr. Romeyn, for the reason that the purpose\\nof the appeal could be reached in another way. The\\nmemorial with others were referred to a committee\\nconsisting of Revs. Philip Duryee, Peter Labagh, and\\nSamuel Van Vranken and I]lders J. R. Hardenbergh\\nand Abraham Van Vechten. Then appeared upon\\nthe table of the Synod a pamphlet, stating reasons\\nassigned by a number of ministers, elders, and dea-\\ncons for declaring themselves the True Reformed\\nDutch Church in the United States of America, dated\\nat Schraalenburgh, Oct. 25, 1822, signed by Abraham\\nBrokaw, minister; Abraham Wortman, elder from\\nthe congregation of Ovid Sylvanus Palmer, minister\\nPeter Vosburgh, deacon from the congregation of\\nUnion John C. Tol, minister from the congregation\\nof Middletown Hugh Mitchell, elder from the con-\\ngregation of Westerloand Middletown, in Canajoha-\\nrie; Henry V. Wyckoff, minister; Henry Few, elder\\nfrom Second Church of Charlestown Solomon Froe-\\nligh, minister; Simon Demarest, elder of Hacken-\\nsack and Schraalenburgh Peter D. Demarest, Albert\\nBrinkerhoof, William Christie, Henry N.Van Voorhis,\\nBenjamin Westervelt, John Terhune, elders Henry\\nW. Banta, Richard Scott, Caspaurus J. Zabriskie,\\nJohn J. Van Buskirk, David Kipp, Samuel S. De-\\nmarest, Richard Berdan, David B. Demarest, dea-\\ncons.\\nThis pamphlet was referred to the same committee,\\nand their report thereon made and adopted is as fol-\\nlows", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0455.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "288\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nAmong other things tliat the pamphlet referred to thecommlttoe\\nwith the uanic of R^ v. Dr. Froeligh theroto subecrihod report,\\nThat the R^v. Dr. Froeligh, hb a I rofowkir of Theology in the Dutch\\nChurch, in directly accountable to the General Synod for niiabehavlor\\nthat it nppt* ars hy the printed pamphlet referred to your cunimlttoe with\\nthe named uf Dr. Froeligh and othora affixed thereto, and which they\\nhave caused to Iw piihllnhed.\\n1. That Dr. Froeligh tliereby a% ow8 liiDuelf as a aeceder from the Re-\\nformed Dutch Cbarch, under whose authority be holds his ofllco of pro-\\nfeMor.\\n2. That he by t)ie same pamphlet implicated the constituted author-\\nities of the church in tlio aeriouH charges of disregard to Chriutian tllscl-\\npline, of pnjMtituting the sacrnmentit by an indistrlminate administra-\\ntion of thorn, and of sanctioning or winking at unsound doctrines, and\\nchorisbiug the promulgiitont thereof.\\n3. Tliat Iw, in the snid pamphlet, has united with several de] OBed\\nministertt of the said churcti to declare thenuelveM the True Reformed\\nDutch riturch, in contempt of the ecclestiaetical authority of the said\\nchurch, as established by the constitution and rules thereof.\\n4. That the object and tendency of said pamphlet itt to excite and\\npromote schisms and dissensions in the said church and the congrega-\\ntions thereto iM-longing.\\nThat the foregoing acts of the Rev. Dr. Froeligh are direct violations\\nof the duties of his office of professor, siibvon*iTe of [leace and good\\norder, and calculated to excite and spread a spirit of iiisulHirdination in\\nthe church, and to create contempt of, and resistance to, tlio regular and\\norderly admiiiistratiuii of the government thereof.\\nYour committee are therefore of tlie opiuion that the Rev. Dr. Froe-\\nligh should bo citod, without delay, to ajipeur nnd tmswer to the charges\\nabove detailed before the Synod.\\nYour committee further re[ ort that, by reiiMon of the pi-ess of synod-\\nleal business, your cummittco have not been able to projiare a detailed\\nreport on the memnriats and papers above referred to. Their general\\ntenor represuntii divers acts of the Rev. Dr. Froeligh and his consiBtory\\nas grievous to the memorinlifltH, and tliat they have nought redroiss in the\\nconstitutional modes prescribed in such cases; but that Die sjiid consist*\\nory and the Classis of Paniuins, to which tliey belong, either neglect or\\nrefuse to act upon the nieniorialists complaints. Ttiat since ttie secession\\nof Dr. Froeligh from the Keformod Dutcli Church a large proportion of\\nhis c ngregatioii remain faitlifnl to their duty, who, in consetptence of\\nthe adherence of the consistory to the doctor, are unable to atlopt any\\nmeasures to secure the property of their church and to free tliomselves\\nfrom the dominion of the said consistory. That the memorialists, for\\nthe rciumns above stated, have presented the itaid nieniorlalt to the Par-\\nticular Synod of Now York, who have referred tlie same for advice to\\nthis Synod. The object which they wish to obtain appears to be to have\\ntlie Bald consistory deposed and a now election ordered, with a direction\\nto the Clossls of Paramus to ordain such new consistory or cjiuse tlio\\naanio to bo ordained.\\nYour committee, considering the importance and delicacy of the\\nCMMv, Ik k b-ave to submit tlie sumo to ttio Syu Hl for their decision, with-\\nout expri \u00c2\u00ab|ng miy opinion thereon. All of which is respectfully suli-\\nmilted.\\n(Signed)\\nPhilip Dukyba, Chaimtan.\\nIt will thus be seoii IVoiu these documents that Dr.\\nKroelijrh and his lollowers declared tlie adherents of\\ntltc Kefornied Dutcli Church to have been deserters\\nof some, at least, of the essential articles of faith as\\nlaid down at Donlrecht; and that thcv, in return, dc-\\nrlan-d their acru.-*crs to havi? Hered ;d i ntm tht- estab-\\nJished chnrrh. I Ih- Synod cited the doctor, and he not\\ncoining;, cited him aj^ain. Fror f was fiirnislu d to the\\n8ynod that the doctor had been personally served,\\nhad read the citation, and said lie should not reply\\nto it. If he was none of them, of course he would\\nnot obey their mandates. As the tribunal could not\\nonforcc hi^ atti ndance, nothing was left to it but to\\n|ir(\u00c2\u00bbcred to try him a.s a recusant. In a preamble and\\nresolutions the Synod declaretl,\\nThat by reason of his refusal, and from what ap\\npeared in the pamphlet, that they adjudged him\\nguilty as charged.\\nThat Dr. Froeligh be removed from the otfice of\\nprofessor, and be suspended from the ministry of the\\ngospel until he shall repent, with full submission, to\\nthe authority of the Reformed Dutch Church.\\nThat the clerk inform Dr. Froeligh and his con-\\ngregation, and\\nI That the Classis of Paramus be directed to depose\\nthe consistory of Dr. Froeligh from office, and to or-\\nganize a new consistory in the late congregation of\\ni Dr. Froeligh.\\nj Against this action Cornelius C. Cooper and Corne-\\nI lius Myers protested, and appealed to the General\\nSynod.\\nThe whole matter then was referred to a committee,\\nconsisting of such able men in the church its Rev.\\nDr. Milledoler, Rev. Messrs. Schoonmaker and Cuyler,\\nand the elders, Messrs. Frelinghuysen and Rutgers.\\nRev. Dr. Cannon and Mr. Field and tlie elder, Mr.\\nJ. R. Bleeker, were afterwards added to the commit-\\ntee. This committee report on the appeal of Messrs.\\nCooper and Myers as follows\\nThat after careful considemtion of the case they rec immend to the\\nI General Synod the adoption of the following resolutions:\\n1. Uau)tvtit, That although the conduct of the Claasls of Paramus In\\nnot complying with the iivjunctlon of Cieueral Synod in this case can\\nnever be justified as a general principle, yt iluit peeiilinritied have ex-\\nisted in the case which convince this Synod that Ihey liave not acted iu\\nthe premise-^ from a spirit of insubordinutiun, but from a sincere desire\\nto promote the best interests of the cliurches nndt r their ciire.\\n*J. /{fAotrfd, T\\\\mt the apiK-al of Meitsrs. Coo|Htr und Myers from the\\ndecision of tlie Clax.iiH of Paramus bo, and hi-reltv is, su- t\u00c2\u00abino l.\\nItrwlrtit, Tliat this Syin\u00c2\u00bbd, anxiou^ly desiroiis to remove out of the\\nway evetythlng opiioseil to peace and godlilte^s in the churches of that\\nregion, and if possible restore to tlicin harmony and goinl onler, will ap-\\npoint a commission t^i visit said churches for the above purpose, confer\\nwith the Classis of Puramu!*, and, if found necessary and pructicuble,\\nurdalu new consistories.\\n4. ItfmU fil, That tlieCtaasisof Paramtis he required to meet at Hack-\\nensack on the first Tuesday of .Inly next (I8 J4\\\\ at ten o clock a.m., to\\nconfer with sticli conmiiision as ieneral Synod stinll apiKtlnt.\\n6. Itefolvcd, Tliat the Kev. Drs. Philip Miiledoier. James S. Cannon,\\nand John Knox and the Kev. Messrs. Thomns De Witt, Jacob Sickles,\\nI Jesse Fonda, (^melius Cuyler, Jolin Tudlow, Jacob SctitH n maker,\\nCornelius D. WesbnMik, and David S. Itognrt, and the eldera, SleMra.\\nAbrahamVan Nest, Jacob R. Ilanlenburgh, Iwuic Myer, JiunosC. Roose-\\ni velt, John Frelinghuysen, and Henry Rutgers, compo\u00c2\u00abc said comnits*\\nslon.\\nRespectfully submllled,\\n(Signed) P. MiLLKDOLRR, Chairman.\\nI Keaolvcil, Thai the chairman of the commiltei ap|)ointe l by the\\nailoptlon of the above reitorl l o directed to preach at the time of the\\nmeeting of said commlllee with the Clawiis of I nramus, and that the\\nRev. David S. Ikignrt l e his si-cundus.\\nIt\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb hrd, That the dlate*! clerk l e directed to n- tify the members of\\nthe comtniltue not iitiw n]Hin the fi N r of Synod of their \u00c2\u00abip| oliitm nt,\\nand alao to notify the Cloanii of Paramus of the apiwlntment of such\\ncnmmitt*-o, and of the time of tti dr meeting.\\nHtMtlvrd, That the state^l rlerk tmnsmit a aipy of the preceding re-\\nptirt to the consistorirs of llackenftack and Schraab nhurgh.\\nHf*olrctl,TUni any five of the comnilmlon np|Milnted to meet with\\nthe CIiumIh of Panimus, regularly lonvened, shall be a |iiorum for Uie\\ntrannacllon of buslneas.\\nThis committee wii-s evidently chosen with great\\ncare. It endiraced some of the ablest and most in-\\nfluential men in the church in 1824, men who could", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0456.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n289\\nbe safely endowed with earthly power, since they\\nwere endued with power from on high. Milledoler\\nknew how to prevail with God and to persuade men.\\nCannon had been a student under Dr. Froeligh, and\\nin his short, pithy, and pointed sentences had often\\nshown how well he had learned from his master, John\\nKnox; coming down from a Scotch Presbyterian\\nance.stry harmonized so much of good in his own\\ncharacter that he has justly been called A messen-\\nger of grace to guilty men. Thomas De Witt was\\none of those unquestionably great men, who always\\nseem to travel the world so safely and securely in the\\nwisdom and in the depth of the greatness of their\\nunderstanding. Sickles, another student of Froeligh,\\npreached the gospel every day and every hour of his\\nlife. The eloquent Fonda was then only thirty-eight,\\nand died at forty-one, renowned for his piety and\\npower in winning men. Cuyler was able and zealous,\\nbut only in a good cause. Ludlow was a strong man\\nin learning and in faith, on whom public burdens\\nmight safely rest. Schoonmaker, Westbrook, and Bo-\\ngart, though all unlike, were all influential and able\\nministers. The lay members of this commission, too,\\nwere wise in counsel, and capable of discriminating\\nand advising in great and difiicnlt affairs.\\nThe Classis met this synodical commission at the\\nChurch on the Green, in Hackensack, on the 6th of\\nJuly, and Milledoler preached to them from the words\\n(1 Cor. i. 10) Now I beseech you, brethren, by the\\nname of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the\\nsame thing, and that there be no divisions among\\nyou but that ye be perfectly joined together in the\\nsame mind and in the same judgment. And after\\nthat came an address of the commi.ssion of General\\nSynod to the ministers, officers, and other members\\nof the Reformed Dutch Church, and especially to the\\nministers and churches of the Secession, printed and\\ncirculated. Milledoler and Knox and Van Nest had\\nsigned it as a sub-committee. In this address the\\ncommittee, in alluding to Dr. Froeligh, express sor-\\nrow in recognizing at the head of the secession a\\nminister of the gospel, venerable for his years and\\nstanding, one in whom the church had formerly\\nreposed high confidence, and to whom, under God,\\nshe was rather entitled to look up as her counselor\\nand her defender than to contemplate as her accuser\\nand judge; and further on they say, With this\\ngentleman were associated several ministers not in\\ngood standing, being then under sentence of deposi-\\ntion from the sacred office and in relation to the\\npamphlet they say, the object of which was to state\\nand to justify the reasons for their secession, and\\nwhile they admit the definition of a true church, as\\nstated in the pamphlet, recognizing Jesus Christ as\\nthe only head of the church, they refute the doctrine\\nof absolute perfection as an additional mark of the\\ntrue Church of God, as indicating both ignorance\\nand presumption, and if these conditions were to be\\nstrictly applied not a single true Church of Jesus\\nChrist on earth could be found. Then the report\\nseeks to show that the secession is apostasy by a de-\\nparture of that Ijody from its adopted standards, say-\\ning, We now turn to a statement of melancholy\\nfacts in relation to the judications of that body, from\\nwhich it will be seen that it has lost its soundness\\nfor doctrine and become deeply tainted with error.\\nThen, as to the charges made against the church in\\nthe pamphlet, the committee say they find them\\nintermingled and entangled with other matters in\\ndeep confusion. The first adduced is the case of\\nRev. Conrad Ten Eyck. Mr. T has been charged\\nwith being an advocate of general atonement. The\\ncase was tried by the Classis of Montgomery, and\\neventually came before General Synod in 1820. The\\nopinions of Mr. T as expressed i/i. his pamphlet,\\nwere decided disapproved and condemned, and he\\nreceived their public reproof But from his explana-\\ntion that, though the atonement of Christ was in\\nitself of infinite value, yet that he died savingly only\\nfor the elect, and as from other expressions, and his\\nwhole deportment on that occasion. Synod had reason\\nto believe he was conscious of having acted unad-\\nvisedly and imprudently, they did judge there wa.s\\nnot sufficient ground for his suspension.\\nBut we must desist from further remarks here as to\\nthe details of this controversy, referring the reader to\\nthe account of this transaction to be found in the\\nhistory of New Barbadoes, elsewhere in this history.\\nSuffice it to say, the churches, the Old Reformed and\\nthe True Reformed, separated from each other, and\\nhave not yet come together again. When they shall\\neagerly and anxiously look, from both sides, to be\\nperfectly joined together in the same mind and in\\nthe same judgment, then the breach may be healed.\\nTime certainly is not widening the separation, and\\ntheir differences may yet all be lost amid those\\necstasies when God shall come to bring all heaven\\nbefore their eyes.\\nThe old South Church, belonging to the True\\nReformed Dutch Society, is situated about one mile\\nsouth of the North Church, and about two miles\\neast of the Hackensack River. It stands on an\\nelevation, commanding a pleasant view of the sur-\\nrounding country. Just a little east of the church,\\non the opposite side of the road, stands a most com-\\nmodious and pleasant and well-built parsonage, con-\\nstructed of brick, two stories in height, with a spa-\\ncious wing of one story at the southern end of the\\nmain building. The church edifice is built of stone,\\nwith a spacious square tower running from the front\\nfoundations above the apex of the roof, and sur-\\nmounted with a spire, bearing the old-fashioned\\nDutch weather-cock as a vane. This represents the\\ncock that crew thrice before the betrayal of our Sa-\\nviour.\\nOver the front entrance to the church is a brown-\\nstone tablet, in the shape of an oblong square, bearing\\nthis inscription, thus", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0457.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "290\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nlet\\nUuy:i de\u00c2\u00ab Ue\u00c2\u00abren\\nGeboudt en den jaure 1799\\nlal Saai. chap. VII vs 12\\nEbenliaeze\u00c2\u00abr tot bier toe haeft\\nons de Heere Oeboliten.\\nPsalm LXXXIV Vr 2.\\nUollieAyk zym iiwe riouiiingeii Heere\\nRebuilt A.l\\n1866\\nThis inscription translated reads as follows:\\nTbis house waa built liere in 1799. Ist Samuel, chapter vii. verse 12.\\nEbeuezer, Hitherto hath the I.ortl helped us. Psalm Ixxxiy. verse 1.\\nHow amiable are thy tabernacles. O Lord of boats Rebuilt in the year\\nof our Lord 1866.\\nThe word Ehenezer in the Hebrew means a stone of\\nhelp. As when Samuel said, This is the monu-\\nment which I have erected as a token of that di-\\nvine aid which God has given me in my battle\\nagainst the Philistines, so if this memorial-stone\\nover the door of the South Church is a monument\\nof the triumph of its members over sin, it is well.\\nA well-kept and spacious cemetery around the\\nchurch bespeaks the care with which the living\\nguard the resting-places of their beloved dead. The\\nother churches in this township have been organized\\nat a much later period than the churches at Schraaleu- i\\nburgh, and have been mentioned in giving the history\\nof tlieir localities.\\nRev. Geok(;e Seiukrt.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The subject of this bio-\\ngraphical sketch is the son of John and Barbara\\nHeffler Seibert, and was born in Frankenfeldt Land-\\nkereight, New Stadt Anderich, Germany, .Tan. 24,\\n1839. He came in early life with his parent-s to\\nAmerica, and located in Hudson County, N. J., where\\nhis studies were pursued. During the year 1858 he\\nentered the grammar department of Rutgers College,\\nNew Brunswick, N. J., and a year later began his\\ncollege course, whicii continued for a period of two\\nyears, after which, on May 28, 18(;i, he enlisted in\\nCompany G, N. J. V. I., during the late civil war.\\nMr. Seibert served with credit in the battles of the\\nWilderness, at Bull Run, and West Point, having\\nbeen discharged from .service on the 15th of January,\\n18(i3, on account of disability. His leisure time was\\nspent in study, and the completion of his college\\ncourse, which enabled him to graduate in June,\\n1862, when he received the degrees of A.B. and\\nA.M. In the fall of 1864 he entered the theological\\nseminary at New Brunswick, N. .1., from whicli he\\ngraduated in 1866, and wius ordained and licensed to\\nreach by the Classis of Monmouth County, N. J.,\\n.Viigiist 12th of the same year. Mr. Seibert was at\\nthis time installeil as pastor of tlie Reformed Dutch\\nChurch of Middletf wn, N. J., and continued in that\\nrelation until 1873, when he accepted the appoint-\\nment by the Board of Domestic Missions to occupy\\nthe field at Havana, III., and began his labors in\\nApril of that year. He was married .luiic 2o, 18()6,\\nto Miss Mary F., daughter of William C. and Han-\\nnah Qurnee, of New York City. Their children are\\nGeorge G., Edward T., Henry P., Frank A., and\\ntheir adopted daughter Jennie. Mr. Seibert con-\\ntinued to labor with success at Havana until 188(1,\\nwhen in October of that year he accepted a call to\\nthe North Reformed (Dutch) Church of Schraaleu-\\nburgh, N. J., when he w:js installed by a committee\\nof Classis during the same month, and is now ac-\\ntively engaged in ministerial labor.\\nMr. Seibert is a charter member of the Grand\\nLodge of Illinois, Knights of Honor, and Grand\\nChaplain of this organization.\\nRev. Garret A. H.\\\\Rix i.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Haring family are\\nof Holland extraction, the great-grandfather of the\\nsubject of this biographical sketch having been\\nAbram, whose birth occurred May 18, 1755, and\\nwho settled in Tappan, now the township of Harring-\\nton. Here he followed agricultural pursuits, and mar-\\nried Elizabeth Itlauvelt, of Bergen County, to whom\\none son was born, the date of his birth being March\\n22, 1781. He chose Raniapo, Rockland Co., N. Y.,\\nas a residence, where he was both farmer and miller.\\nHe was, on the Uth of February. 18112, united in mar-\\nriage to Miss Maria Smith, of the same township, ami\\nbecame the parent of two children, .\\\\bram G. and a\\ndaughter, Hetty, who became Mrs. Albert J. Ter-\\nhune. The death of Garret A. occurred Dec. 12,\\n1869. His son, Abrani G., whose birth occurred\\nJuly 16, 1803, on the homestead, engageil in agricul-\\ntural employments, having succeeded his father in\\nthe ownership of the family estate. He married", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0458.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n291\\nCharity Johnson, of the township of Ramapo, and\\nhad two sons, Garret A. and Jolin J. Haring. The\\ndeath of Mr. Haring occurred March 12, 1864. His\\nson, Garret A., the subject of this biography, was born\\nin Rockland County, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1829, where his\\nearly life was spent in acquiring the rudiments of an\\neducation. He at a later period followed business\\npursuits, and was united in marriage, Jan. 1, 1851, to\\nMiss Lavinia Van Houten, of Ramapo. Their chil-\\ndren are three daughters, Melissa, fallen Hester, and\\nNaomi. Mr. Haring began the study of theology\\nwhile a resident of Rockland County, and in 1868,\\nsix months after his examination, received a call to\\nthe True Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, which\\nhe accepted, and where he has since labored with sig-\\nnal success. The church under his pastorate has been\\nboth progressive and prosperous. Mr. Haring, in his\\npolitical predilections, is a Democrat, and advocates\\nthe principles of the Democratic platform.\\nTenafly Presbyterian Church. It was in the win-\\nter of 1863 and 1864 that the Hon. Ashbel Green, in\\na conversation with the Rev. Thomas G. Wall, sug-\\ngested to him that a Presbyterian Church in the vicin-\\nity of Tenafly would be desirable, and on considera-\\ntion that Rev. Mr. Wall would undertake the enter-\\nprise of establishing a church, Mr. Green generously\\noffered to erect at his own expense a temporary build-\\ning for religious purposes.\\nThe proposal was accepted, and Mr. Wall removed\\nfrom Princeton, N. J., where he was then residing,\\nand necessary preparations were made for the erection\\nof a church in the spring of 1864, the location being\\non the east side of the railroad, a short distance south\\nof Clinton Avenue, and on August 6th of the same\\nyear it was completed and opened for religious wor-\\nship. At a meeting of the Second Presbytery of New\\nYork City, held at Tenafly, Nov. 21, 1865, a petition\\nwas presented by sixteen persons, requesting to form\\nthemselves into a Presbyterian body. The petition\\nbeing granted, the church was organized under the\\nname of Tenafly Presbyterian Church. Robert\\nHalley and E. S. Saxton were chosen elders, and\\nRev. Thomas G. Wall was invited to act as stated\\nsupply. The sixteen who petitioned to be formed\\ninto one body as members were Mrs. Louisa B.\\nGreen, Robert Halley, Mrs. R. Halley, Mrs. Anna\\nH. Martin, E. S. Saxton, Mrs. E. S. Saxton, Mrs.\\nAnna F. Shanburgher, Miss Sarah S. Saxton, Miss\\nMary S. Saxton, Miss Martha F. Saxton, Mrs. Sarah\\nH. Wall, William K. Fowler, Mrs. William K. Fow-\\nler, Miss Sarah B. McCulloch, Miss Eleanor McCul-\\nloch, William Halley.\\nServices were held in the little chapel until Sept.\\n27, 1865, when it was destroyed by fire, and without\\ndelay steps were taken to erect a new and larger edi-\\nfice, which was commenced in the spring of 1866,\\nand was dedicated May 12, 1S67. This church is of\\nstone, and was built at a cost of fifteen thousand dol-\\nlars, and is located on Magnolia Avenue, between\\nHighwood and Hillside Avenues. Rev. Mr. Wall\\nwas succeeded by Rev. Clarence Geddes, May 7, 1873,\\nwho resigned in May, 1881, and Rev. Richard Bent-\\nley, the present pastor, was installed Jan. 19, 1882.\\nThe present elders are C. J. Jacobus, B. F. Pond,\\nRobert J. Waddell, J. J. Harring trustees, H. B.\\nPalmer, A. G. Demarest, A. Z. Boyd.\\nIn the spring of 1873 a Catholic Church was organ-\\nized at Tenafly, Palisade township, by Rev. Jo.seph\\nPaganini, with three hundred and fifty members.\\nServices were first held in an old unoccupied build-\\ning for a period of about six months, when it was\\ndeemed necessary to erect a church edifice, and on\\nOct. 3, 1873, the corner-stone was laid by Right Rev.\\n1 R. Seton, D.D., of Madison, N. J., and Dr. McGlynn,\\npastor of St. Stephen s Church, New York City. The\\nchurch was dedicated May, 1874, by Bishop Corri-\\ngan, now Archbishop of New York. The church is\\nlocated about one-fourth mile from the depot, on the\\ncounty road, and is of wood. Value of church prop-\\nerty, eight thousand dollars. The first pastor was\\nRev. Joseph Paganini, who only remained a short\\ntime, and was succeeded by Rev. Cornelius Cannon,\\nwho remained until March 25, 1878, when Rev. Theo-\\ndore McDonald, the present pastor, took charge.\\nThe first trustees were Bishop Corrigan, G. H. Doane,\\ni V. G., Rev. Joseph Paganini, Patrick McDonald, and\\nI James Lynch. The present trustees are Bishop Wig-\\nger, V. G., Rev. Theodore McDonald, James Lynch,\\nand John Brenner.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0459.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "292\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nIn connection with the church there is a school,\\norganized by Rev. Theodore McDonald in May, 1879,\\nwitli one Iiundred and five scliolars. This school is\\nto educate the children whose parentis belong to the\\nchurch. The preceptresses are Sisters of Charity\\nfrom Enirlewood.\\nCemeteries. There are many private burial-places\\nill dillercnt jjarts of the township. The cemetery at\\nthe Soutli Church has already been mentioned in\\nconnection with that church.\\nThe cemetery known iis the Old French IJurying-\\nGround i.s perhaps the most ancient burial-place in\\nthe county. This cemeterj is located on an elevation\\nadjoining the farm of Mr. Heine, about two hundred\\nand fifty rods north of New Bridge.\\nFor years it h:w been neglected, and many of the\\nheadstones have crumbled and fallen. Maj. James\\nDemarest, for many years a crier of the Bergen courts,\\nand who died about twenty years since and was buried\\nhere, had charge of these grounds for a long time\\nprior to his death. Many others of the old Demarest\\nfamily, the first ancestor of which located in tliis\\nvicinity soon after the middle of the sixteenth cen-\\ntury, found here their last resting-|)lace. On entering\\nthe cemetery a row of small brown stones, rudely\\nshapen, attract the attention. The first bears the in-\\nscription\\nHIer it Golegt,\\net llechaifm Van Jocubu\\nLonirr Gcburcn 1707\\nOctotj\u00c2\u00abr lie 5 Over-\\nlodo. A 1792 January\\nlit 13: OuUmde. 84.\\nyaar, 3, maaude. en\\n8. Daage.\\nThe next stone has the following inscription\\nDan. Lozler.\\nOeboren 1776.\\nJuly 17. Qettonren\\nJune 10. 1777.\\nOut. 10. Maande 23. da.\\nThe third stone is in the form of a triangle, and\\nupon if is inscribed\\nJoa Lozi.\\ngtbor. 1773\\nNorember 2\\ngeitoT. 1776 an\\nOut. 3. Ja. 9 ma. 9 da.\\nThe last in this row of stones reads:\\nJaji. iHtxfor.\\nfoliuren 1771\\nfeBniury 11. geatonren\\n177S, Augn. 3.\\nOut 7Ja. S ma.2 da.\\nIn the next row of graves there are two very small\\nbrownstonc slab.s, the first of which bears the inscri|)-\\ntion\\nr. 0.\\ndied 30\\nSep. 1798.\\nAnd the other reads as follows:\\n8. C.\\ndied 2\u00c2\u00bb\\n17M.\\nQuite a number of headstones bear the names of\\nZobriskie and Zabriskie, and several that of Ely.\\nIt is understood that some of the descendants of\\nthe Demarests and Elys have cleared the grounds of\\nmany of the bushes and undergrowth and iiilcml\\nmaking other improvements.\\nThe whole township of Palisade is interesting in\\nbeing the site of so many of the historical events in\\nthe past, in the general apparent thrift of its peo| le\\nin the j)resent. and in the promise of its great pros-\\nperity in the future.\\nGeorge Huyler. The progenitor of the Huylcr\\nfamily in New Jersey was Capt. John Huyler, who\\nwas of German lineage, and early located in the town-\\nship of Harrington, where he wa-s the owner of a pro-\\nductive lauded estate. He was a captain of militia\\nduring the war of the Revolution, and became the\\nespecial object of British vengeance, his house having\\nbeen burned and his family left de-stitute. At the\\nclose of the conflict he purcha-sed the property now\\noccupied by his grandson, George Huyler. This land\\nhad been confiscated by the State, and h.is since been\\nin posse.-ision of the family, the title-deed bearing date\\n1780. Capt. Huyler was a man of much influence.\\nHis judgment in matters of daily concern was uner-\\nring, while his force of character and strong will-\\npower made him conspicuous lu* a citizen. His chil-\\ndren were .John, a physician of much reputation in\\nNew York City, an l I ctcr, the father of the subject\\nof this biography. The latter was born April 8, 1781,\\non the paternal estate, where his early life was spent\\nin farming j)ursuits. His advantages of education\\nwere necc-isarily limited, and his growing years de-\\nvoted principally to labor. He was ccuispicuous for\\nintegrity of character and diligence in his claily avo-\\ncations, while in politics he was a pronounced Demo-\\ncrat. He was on the 5tli of March, 18(i3, united in\\nmarriage to Mi.ss Catherine, daughter of Barney Nau-\\ngle, a lady of many remarkable (pialities of heart and\\nmind, whose birth incurred .\\\\ug. 21!, 1781. Their\\nchildren are .Fnlin, born Nov. 14, 1803; Bareiit N.,\\nwhose birth occurred Aug. .1, 1805 George, born June\\n24, 1811 Henry, born May 5, 1821, and Garret, the\\ndate of whose birth was July 9, 1824.\\nPeter Huyler s death occurred Dec. 30, 1872, and\\nthat of his wife Jan. 4, 1S(!7.\\nTheir son George sjieiit his early years upmi the\\nhomestead. The neighboring schonls atliirdcd an op-\\nportunity for ac |uiring the rudiments of an education,\\nand later years found him absorbed in the labors of\\nan agriculturist. He wius married May 2. 1847, to\\nMiss Jane, daughter of (iarret Hopper, of Para-\\nmus, N. .1., and became the father of a son, John, now\\nresiding with his parents, and united in marriage, May\\n22, 1873, to Miss Mary A. Post, and Eve .\\\\nna, now de-\\nceased. George Huyler has from early manhood led\\na life of unusual activity. At the age of eighteen he\\nbecame the manager of his father s business interests,\\nand at once established a reputation no less for ca-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0460.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0463.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0464.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0465.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "CS^. ^(^cJc.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0466.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n293\\npacity and keen intuition than for the most scrupu-\\nlous integrity. His intellectual and moral force\\ncaused him to be frequently chosen for positions of\\nresponsibility. He was for fifteen years captain of\\nthe Jersey Blues, a military organization comprising\\nthe foremost men of Bergen County, and has also\\nserved as freeholder and justice of the peace. Mr.\\nHuyler is, however, averse to distinctions of a political\\ncharacter. He has been during his lifetime a firm ex-\\nponent of the principles of the Democracy, and the\\nparty have sought in vain to honor him with a seat in\\nthe legislative halls of the State. He has steadily\\ndeclined such ofters, and has preferred rather tlie ijuiet\\nof his home to the excitements incident to a public\\ncareer. Mr. Huyler s abilities have been devoted no\\nless to his own advantage than to the public good.\\nHe has been conspicuous in promoting the interests\\nof Tenafly, his residence, and is largely identified\\nwith matters of local import. Many attractive resi-\\ndences in this suburban village bear witness to his\\nenterprise and taste. Both Mr. and Mrs. Huyler are\\ndevout members of the True Reformed Church of\\nSchraalenburgli, of which tlie former is an elder.\\nIn all the rehitions of life, whether as citizen or in\\nthe more retired associations of the home circle, the\\nsubject of this biographical sketch may be spoken of as\\nthe exemplar of fidelity, integrity, and honor.\\nJohn Paul Pavilison. John Paul Paulison, the\\nsubject of this sketch, was born at Hackensack, N. J.,\\non the 19th of November, 1822.\\nOn the deatii of his father, which occurred when\\nhe was little more than nine years of age, his widowed\\nmother removed with the family to New York, where\\nMr. Paulison, at the early age of twelve, began his\\nbusiness career as a clerk in a mercantile house.\\nIn 1848 he entered the office of the Atlantic Mutual\\nMarine Insurance Company, and was accountant to\\nthat company until 18r 2, when he was elected secre-\\ntary.\\nIn 18.55 he was promoted to a vice-presidency in\\nthat company. Declining the latter office, however,\\nhe accepted the vice-presidency of the Astor Mutual\\nMarine Insurance Company, and continued in the\\nlatter office until 18.5(i, when he relinquished it to em-\\nbark in business on his own account, as an average-\\nadjuster, notary, insurance broker, and agent and\\nunderwriter for several insurance companies located\\nout of the State.\\nIn 1807 he was called to the position of vice-presi-\\ndent of the Sun Mutual Marine Insurance Company,\\nof which the late Hon. Moses H. Grinnell was then\\npresident. He relinquished his private business to\\naccept that office, and in 1869, on Mr. Grinnell being\\nappointed by President Grant collector for the port\\nof New York, Mr. Paulison was elected president of\\nthe company, which position he still holds, as well as\\nthose of vice-president of the New York Board of\\nMarine Underwriters, and vice-president of the\\nAmerican Shipmasters Association. He is also a\\nmember of the New York Chamber of Commerce,\\nthe Association of Average-Adjusters of the United\\nStates, the American Geographical Society, and other\\nbodies.\\nMr. Paulison is descended from Dutch and English\\nancestors. His father was Paul Paulison, born in\\n1770, graduated from Princeton College in 1794, and\\nonly and elder brother to Richard Paulison, who died\\nat Hackensack in 1873, in the one hundredth year of\\nhis age.\\nCharles McKnight Paulison, of Passaic, N. J.,\\nlately deceased, was brother to John P. Paulison.\\nMr. Paulison traces his pedigree from Paulus Pie-\\nterse, who came from Holland to New York (then\\nNew Amsterdam) prior to 1658.\\nPaulus Pieterse was appointed by Governor Peter\\nStuyvesant, in 166.3, one of the commissioners for forti-\\nfying Bergen, N. J., against the Indians, and received\\nfrom him in the same year a patent for several par-\\ncels of land there located, an account of which patent\\nis to be found in Winfield s History of the Land\\nTitles of Hudson County.\\nPaulus Pieterse and his wife removed from New\\nYork to Bergen about 1660. He was one of those\\nwho subscribed, in 1662, towards a fund for the sup-\\nport of a minister to preach at Bergen, and was one\\nof the founders of the Reformed Dutch Church or-\\nganized there in 1664, the -earliest in the State. In\\nthe records of that church are to be found the entries\\nof the deaths of Paulus Pieterse and his wife, which\\noccurred at Bergen in 1702. Paulus Pieterse and\\nTrintje Martin, among other children, had a son\\nnamed Martin Paulisse, who married Margrietje Wes-\\ntervelt, and they, among other children, had a son\\nnamed Paulus Martense, who married Rachel Dema-\\nrest, and they, among other children, had three sons,\\nnamed respectively Martin Paulison, Jacobus Pauli-\\n.son, and John Paulison. The last named, who was\\nthe grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married\\nGertrude Terhune.\\nThe ancestors of Mr. Paulison seem to have been\\nreligious people, the genealogy being very readily\\ntraced by means of the church records.\\nFirst. In the record of the Old Dutch Church, in\\nNew York, we find the entry of the marriage of Paulus\\nPieterse to Trintje Martin, above referred to, and also\\nentries of the baptisms of their children, born before\\nthe establishment of the Old Dutch Church at Bergen\\nin 1664.\\nSecond. In the record of the latter church we find\\nthe entries of the baptisms of their children born\\nsubsequently, the marriage of their son, Martin Paul-\\nisse, to Margrietje Westervelt in 1694, and also en-\\ntries of the deaths of Paulus Pieterse and Trintje\\nMartin, which occurred in 1702.\\nThird. In the record of the First Reformed Dutch\\nChurch at Hackensack, organized in 1686, we find the\\nname of Martin Paulisse entered as having joined\\nthat church in 1694, and also that of his son, Paulus", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0469.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "294\\nHISTORr OF BERGEM AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NKW JKRSKY\\nMartense, who joined in 1731 with his wife, Rachel\\nDeniarest. John Paulison, a son of the latter and\\ngrandfather of John P. Paulison, contributed liberally\\ntowards the erection of the resent edifice, his name\\nbeing cut, with others, upon the front of the church.\\nOn the maternal side Mr. Paulison is de.scended\\nfrom English ancestors. His mother was Mary Cleve-\\nland, a descendant of Moses Cleveland, who emigrated\\nfrom Ipswich, England, to Woburn, Miiss., in lfi35,\\nand some of whose descendant.^ afterwards settled at\\nElizabethtown and Newark in New Jersey.\\nThe genealogy of Mr. Paulison is interesting in\\nthat it illustrates the manner of naming the children\\nof the early Dutcli settlers. For instance, we have,\\nl.-it. Paulus Pieterse, meaning Paulus, Pieter s son.\\n2d. Martin Paulisse, meaning Martin, Pauhis sson.\\n3d. Paulus .Martense, meaning Paulus, Martin s son,\\n4th. John Paulison, meaning John, Paulus s son.\\n5th. Paul Paulison.\\n6th. John Paul Paulison.\\nThe baptismal name of the subject of this sketch\\nis .lolin Paulison (after his grandfather), but to dis-\\ntinguish himself from his cousin, Jolin liiclinrd Pauli-\\nson, the son of his father s brother KiclianI, be adoiited\\ntlie name of his father, Paul, hence, John Paul Pauli-\\nson.\\nIn 1873, Mr. Paulison removed from New York to\\nTenaHy, N. J., where he now resides. He is a great\\nlover of astronomy, and has erected on his grounds at\\nTenaHy an astronomical observatory containing a\\npowerful telescope and other accessories for the ex-\\namination and study of the heavenly bodies. In the\\nerection of this observatory he has invented and put\\nin o|)eration appliances which are great improvements\\nupon old metlmils.\\nMr. Paulison, in 1842, married Margaret Ann\\nSmith, a sister of Daniel Drake Smith, Esq., of\\nEnglewood, N. J. His wife died in 1878. To them\\nwere born four children, two sons and two daughters,\\nviz.\\n1st. Joseph Drake Paulison, who died in 187(),\\nleaving a widow, but no children. j\\n2d. Clara Paulison.\\n3d. Mary Paulison, married to .Mviii Dusenberry\\nHolman, who have two children, lara Margaret\\nHolnian, born June 2t!, 1880; John Paulison Hol-\\nman, born Sept. 27, 1881.\\n4th. John Paul Paulis(m, born Doc. 28, IS-W, died\\nMarch 31, l.H(il.\\nCornelius I. Jacobus.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Jacobus family are\\namong the earliest settlers in New Jersey, though no\\nauthentic record of the ailvent of it.s pioneers is pre-\\nserved.\\nCornelius Jacobus, who was the graiulfather of the\\nsubject of this biogra| hical sketch, wius the father of\\nJamex C. Jacobus. The latter was united in marriage\\nto Miss Margaret Berry, to whom a son, Cornelius I.,\\nwas born Aug. 19, 18(l. Jersey City being the place\\nof his birth.\\nFrom this location his parents soon after removed\\nto Newark, N. J., and at a later date to Morris\\nCounty.\\nAt the age of si.xteen the lad, with his family, re-\\nturned to Newark, where he was ai)prenticed to Joseph\\nA. Halsey, an extensive carriage-manufacturer, with\\nwhom he served a full period, and subsequently fol-\\nlowed the trade as a journeyman. In 1835 he em-\\nbarked in business as senior member of the firm of\\nJacobus Utter, in the city of Newark. This part-\\nnership was successfully and harmoniously conducted\\nfor a period of thirty years, and at the time of Mr.\\nUtter s death the firm was the oldest in the city in this\\nbranch of industry.\\nMr. Jacobus continued the business until 1874, when\\nhe was induced to embark with his son in an exten-\\nsive grocery trade at Englewood, N. J., having in\\n1868 made TenaHy his residence. The death of this\\nson has recently necessitated a change in the, firm,\\nwhich is now styled C. I. Jacobus Co.\\nMr. Jacobus has ever manifested much interest in\\nenterprises apart from bis private business, and has\\nfor years been a director of the. Newark Fire Insur-\\nance Company.\\nHe has, in accordance with the privilege granted to\\nAmerican citizens, regularly Ciist his ballot, but hiis\\nnot aspired to official honors, for which he has no\\nambition. His political creed is in harmony with the\\nplatforju of the Republican party. Mr. Jacobus\\nunited with the Presbyterian Church in 1S31, of which\\nhe has since been an active anil honored member,\\nhaving been an elder in the First Presbyterian Church\\nof Newark, and later chosen to the same office in the\\nPresbyterian Church at TenaHy.\\nHe was united in marriage. Oct. 22, lS2 .t. to Mi.ss\\nSusan, daughter of Simon Vanness, of Pompton, N. J.,\\nto whom was born a daughter, Susan, now the wife of\\nT. T. Stiles, of Newark. The death of Mrs. Jacobus\\noccurred May 12, 1831, and be was a second time\\nmarried, Oct. 9, 1834, to Elnia, daughter of Giles A.\\nMandeville, of Pomjiton Plains, who became the\\nmotlicT i five (liililirn, two of whom are living.\\nElizabeth Cady Stanton.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elizabeth Cady was\\nborn at Johnstown, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1815.\\nHer father, Daniel Cady, judge of the highest court\\nof the 8tate of New York, wits distinguished alike iis\\nan eminent jurist and a man of unimpeachable in-\\ntegrity. He was a prominent member of the New\\nYork bar sixty years, and the oldest judge that ever\\nsat on a bench in this country, resigning at the ad-\\nvanced age of eighty-four.\\nIlcr mother, Margaret Jjvingstou, belonged to the\\nmost distinguisheil family in the .^tate, at whose head\\nstands the great chancellor, Robert Livingston, who\\nadministered the oath to Washington at his inaugu-\\nration.\\nFrom such ancestors Elizabeth Cady inherited her\\nclear brain, undaunted courage, anil high resolve to\\nmainluin the right at all hazards. For forty years", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0470.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0471.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0472.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0473.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "um^^/^/^a^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0474.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n295\\nshe has stood before the nation the representative of\\na great idea, unmoved by ridicule and scorn, wholly\\nindifferent to the ostracism of the very class to wluch,\\nby birth, position, and intellect, she belongs.\\nElizabeth Cady was educated at the Johnstown\\nAcademy, where she studied Greek, Latin, and the\\nhigher mathematics with a class of boys, and though\\nthe youngest of the number, she took her full share\\nof the prizes. She was thoroughly prepared to enter\\nany college in the laud, but as girls were denied that\\nprivilege, she pursued the lighter branches of educa-\\ncation at Mrs. Emma Willard s seminary, in Troy,\\nN. Y.\\nShe early had her attention turned to the disabili-\\nties of her sex by her own experience, by listening to\\nthe comi^laints of women in her father s office, and\\nthrough her study of Blackstone and Kent.\\nShe was married in 18-10 to Henry B. Stanton, tlie\\neloquent anti-slavery orator, and accompanied him\\nto the World s Anti-Slavery Convention in London,\\nwhere she made many valualile acquaintances among\\nboth English and American reformers. There com-\\nmenced her lifelong friendship with the sainted Lucre-\\ntia Mott, a Quaker preacherof rare ability and religious\\nfervor. Returning to America, together they called\\na Woman s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N. Y.,\\nJuly 19 and 20, 1848, on which occasion the first\\nformal claim of suffrage for women was made.\\nSpending the winters of 1845, 46, 47 at her father s\\nresidence in Albany, she most sedulously used her\\nbrilliant conversational powers to influence different\\nmembers of the Legislature to vote in favor of the\\nmarried woman s bill, then the subject of much public\\ndiscussion.\\nIn 1848 the bill passed, giving married women the\\nright to hold and control their inherited property.\\nIn 1854, Mrs. Stanton addressed an immense audi-\\nence of citizens and both branches of the Legislature,\\nat the Capitol, on the civil rights of women to their\\nchildren earnings to make contracts and to do busi-\\nness in their own name, all of which were secured,\\none by one, a few years later.\\nIn 1860 she addressed the Judiciary Committees of\\nboth the Senate and the House in favor of a pending\\nbill demanding divorce for drunkenness, which was\\ndefeated by a majority of only four votes.\\nThe advocacy of this beneficial measure for the\\nwives of the eighty thousand drunkards of the Em-\\npire State, though sustained by a respectable minority\\nof the best citizens in the State, called down on Mrs.\\nStanton s head most unjust and unreasonable denun-\\nciations, while the gentlemen who framed and pre-\\nsented the bill were passed by in silence.\\nIn 1867 she addressed both the Legislature and\\nthe Constitutional Convention, asking that the word\\nmale be stricken from Art. II., Sec. 1, of the State\\nconstitution. She maintained, with unanswerable ar-\\nguments and well-known precedents, that the women\\nof the State had the right to vote for members to a\\nConstitutioual Convention, holding that in the revision\\nof a State constitution the State is for the time being\\nresolved into its original elements, and therefore all\\ncitizens have a right to vote for members of that con-\\nvention. By an act of the Legislature this right was\\naccorded to certain citizens in New York and Rhode\\nIsland on similar occasions.\\nIn 1866, in conformity with a practice prevalent in\\nsome parts of this country, and iiuite common in Eng-\\nland, Mrs. Stanton proclaimed herself a candidate for\\nCongress in the Eighth Congressional District of New-\\nYork in a very able and graceful letter to the electors.\\nMrs. Stanton took this step to prove that, while wo-\\nmen cannot vote, they can nevertheless be voted for.\\nThere is nothing in the constitution to prevent them\\nfrom holding any office in the gift of the people.\\nIn 1869 the National Woman s Suttrage Association\\nbegan to hold its annual conventions in Washington,\\nsince which time Mrs. Stanton has addressed con-\\ngressional committees and immense audiences in that\\ncity nearly every year.\\nWhen the proposition of woman s suffrage was sub-\\nmitted to a vote of the people in Kansas in 1867 and\\nin Michigan in 1874, Mrs. Stanton, in company with\\nher noble coadjutor. Miss Susan B. Anthony, made\\na thorough canvass of those States. They were also\\njoint editors of The Revohition, a sprightly journal\\nthat lived three years, and found decent burial in the\\nLiberal Ch ristinn\\nMost of the calls, appeals, resolutions, addresses to\\nwomen, Legislatures, and congressional committees\\nhave been from the pen of Mrs. Stanton. She was long\\npresident of the National Committee of The\\nWoman s Loyal League, and of The National Asso-\\nciation until she withdrew in 1873, but was re-elected\\nto do the honors of the association in 1876 at the Cen-\\ntennial Celebration in Philadelphia, where a committee\\nof the association presented the Woman s Declara-\\ntion of Independence at that grand historic occasion\\nat Independence Hall.\\nIn 1869, Mrs. Stanton removed from New York\\nCity to the blue hills of Jersey. Her residence in\\nTenafly, Bergen Co., is a quiet, retired spot, embowered\\nin trees.\\nBeing a law-abiding citizen, paying her taxes every\\nyear (as she holds the property in her own right), in\\nthe fall of 1880 she made an attempt to vote. The\\nRepublican carriage, gayly decked in evergreens and\\nflags, drove up to her door for voters. She told the\\ncommittee that all the mafe voters had gone to the\\ncity, but as she owned the property and paid the taxes\\nshe was quite willing to represent the family at the\\npolling booth, and it seemed pre-eminently proper\\nshe should do so whereupon she was invited to take\\na seat in the carriage, Miss Anthony by her side.\\nThey were driven to the same hotel where all women\\nholding property assemble every year to pay their\\n1 See Eminent Women of the Age, p. 352.\\nIk", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0477.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "296\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ntaxes. Why it should he considered more unladylike\\nto vote than pay taxes is the iuestion.\\nApproaching the ballot-box with reverence, the\\ncommittee introduced Mrs. Stanton, saying that she\\ndesired to vote the Republican ticket; whereupon the\\nRepublican inspector sat down and pulled his hat\\nwell over his eyes, while the Democrat assumed the\\nguardianship of the ballot-box, covering it carefully\\nwith his hands, lest by some dextrous manoeuvre she\\nmight slip in her ballot.\\nMrs. Stanton said, I have come, sir, to deposit\\nmy ballot, to choose wise rulers for our town, county,\\nand State.\\nWomen cannot vote, said the trembling inspec-\\ntor; men only have a right to vote.\\nYou are mistaken, said Mrs. Stanton women\\ncan vote, and have voted here in New Jersey from\\n1776 to 1807. All citizens in this State exercised the\\nright, when it was taken from tlie women by an arbi-\\ntrary act of the Legislature. Again, the Constitu-\\ntion of the United States, in the Fourteenth Amend-\\nment, declares all persons citizens possessed of the\\nright to vote, and many able lawyers claim that\\nwomen were enfranchised by the Fourteenth Amend-\\nment. Mrs. Stanton |)iirsucd the argument, giving\\nauthorities, until the insi)ector, bewildered with his\\nown ignorance of the facts of liistory, made the hu-\\nmiliating confession that he had never read the con-\\nstitutions, and knew nothing about them, but he did\\nknow that men did the voting. Mrs. Stanton tlien\\nlaid her ballot on the edge of the box, saying, With\\nyou, sir, rests the responsibility of refusing to receive\\nthe ballot of a citizen of New Jersey. Mrs. Stanton\\nis now, together with Miss Susan B. Anthony and\\nMrs. Matilda .1. Gage, busy writing the history of\\nwoman s sud rage. One volume is already published\\n{by Fowler i Wells, New York), and the second\\nwill be issued in 1882. This work finished, it is\\nMrs. Stanton s intention to do for the women of New\\nJersey what she has already done for those of New\\nYork, and to give the rulers of this State no rest\\nuntil all of its citizens stand equal before the law.\\nJoseph A. Martin wius born Feb. -2, 1S2!I, in Ba-\\nvaria, (ierniaiiy. lie remained at home with his\\nparents* until he was twenty-one years of age, and in\\ntlie mean time acquired such an education lus the law\\nof his country required. Upon reaching his majority\\nhe emigrated to America in pursuit of a fortune.\\nHe landed in New York Dec. T), 1H. )1, iind very\\nsoon after engaged with Cornelius Hopper, of Pater-\\netm, N. J., to labor upon his farm. At the cxjiiratiou\\nof this engagement he returned to New York, where\\nhe was employed in various ways until the year 1858,\\nwhen he made his first purcha.se, a farm in the town-\\nship of I ulisaile, Bergen Co., N. J. By inilustry and\\neconomy Mr. Martiii Inis succeeded in developing his\\nland, made modern improvements thereon, and also\\nbecome the possessor of a quantity of very desirable\\nproperty in Western New York.\\nIn 1855 he was married to Barbara Roth, of Baden,\\nGermany. She was born Dec. 4, 18S3. To them have\\nbeen born eleven children, Joseph (deceased), Emma,\\nFrank, Louisa, wife of Freel Weitzenberg, of Ho-\\nVky0^\\nboken, N. J., Joseph, Annie, Elizabeth, William,\\nSophie, Margaret, and Bertha.\\nMr. Martin always casts his vote witli the Demo-\\ncratic i)arty, but has never been a seeker at ter |)lace.\\nHe is in every sense of the term a self-made man, and\\nbesides enjoying a competency, has the good will and\\nrespect of his townsmen.\\nHon. Cornelius S. Cooper. The Cooper family\\none of the oldest in the county of Bergen are of\\nHolland extraction, the nanu- having originally been\\nspelled Kupos, and at a later date, when the English\\nbecame a familiar language, Kuypcr. The earliest\\nrepresentative of the tamily first settled in Miilland\\n(then New Barliadoesi township, Bergen Co. The pro-\\ngenitor of the immediate branch from which Corne-\\nlius S. is descended was Cornelius, who resided at\\nNew Milford, Bergen Co., where he pursued the craft\\nof a tanner and harness-maker. He was united in\\nmarriage to Miss Nellie Stoutcnburgh, to whom were\\nborn two sons,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James and Cornelius. The birth\\nof the latter occurrc l March 17, 1788. He was\\nby occupation a farmer, and was married to Mi.ss\\nEllen, daughter of I etcr Moure.sson, of Saddle River,\\nN. J., whose children were four .sons I eter, Corne-\\nlius 8., James, Jacob and one daughter, Nellie Ann.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0478.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "Benjamin J. Westeevelt is a direct de-\\nscendant of Lubhert Lubbertsen and AVilliam\\nLubbertsen Van Westervelt, who came IVoni\\nMeppel, Province of Drenthe, Holland, in the\\nship Hope, April, 16(52. They settled in\\nBergen, N. J., and many of their descendants\\nreside in Bergen County.\\nBenjamin J. Westervelt was born Nov.\\n1826, in the town of Palisades, Bergen Co.,\\nwhere he has since resided. During his boy-\\nhood he acquired a liberal education, and at the\\ndeath of his father succeeded to the home farm,\\nwhich he has continued to cultivate until the\\npresent time.\\nHe was married, Sept. 26, 1849, to Eleanor\\nDe Baun, whose ancestors early settled in Sad-\\ndle River township. They have had children,\\nMargaret L., wife of William Griiiin, of^\\nAlbany Peter, who died in infancy John,\\nand Edwin.\\n^i/yz^ -e/^^^\\nHe is a member and liberal supporter of the\\nTrue Reformed Church, of which he is an elder.\\nHis political views are strictly Democratic, and\\nat this time he is serving his thirteenth year as\\na justice of the peace. His life has been one of\\ntoil ami activity, and he now enjoys a compe-\\ntency for his reward. In society Mr. and Mrs.\\nWestervelt arc much valued, as they are always\\nfound ready to render such aid as seems consist-\\nent to all worthy objects, both pecuniarily and\\notherwise.\\nHis father, .John B. Westervelt, was born\\nApril o, 178s, in the town of Palisades. He\\nmarried INIargaret Durie. Tiiey were members\\nof the True Reformed Church, S])ent a life of\\nusefulness, and died at an advanced age. The\\ngrandfather of our subject, Benjamin Wester-\\nvelt, was of Revolutionary fame, was born in\\n17 i- and married Sarah Durie, by whom he\\nreai cd a faniilv. He died in 1845.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0479.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0480.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "PALISADE.\\n297\\nThe death of Mr. Cooper occurred Sept. .S, 18-50, and\\nthat of his wife Feb. 5, 1872. His son, Cornelius S.,\\nwho is the subject of this biography, was born Nov.\\n30, 181P, in New Jlilford, and at an early age removed\\nto^ Kinderkamack, Bergen Co., where his boyhood\\nwas passed. His educational advantages were limited,\\n^-a\\n^^J^^^\\ny\\nthe knowledge he possesses being of a practical\\ncharacter and self-acquired. He determined upon\\nthe acquisition of a trade, and chose that of a chair-\\nmaker, which he pursued at his home. In 1840,\\nhaving desired a more e.xtended sphere of activity, he\\nremoved to New York City, and for a period of seven-\\nteen years engaged in carting. He was also for a\\nwhile interested in the coal business.\\nThe peculiar gifls of Mr. Cooper admirably fitted\\nhim for the excitements of political life, and, while a\\nresident of New York City, he was chosen councilman\\nfor the Twenty-first District of the Ninth AVard of\\nthat city.\\nHe in 1857 removed to Schraalenburgh, his present\\nhome, where he has since resided and followed the\\npursuit of an agriculturist.\\nHe was in 1870 appointed a commissioner of the\\nroad board of Hackensack township, and filled the\\nofiice of secretary of that body. In 1874 he was\\nelected president of the Protective Association, and in\\n1875 chosen one of the justices of the peace of Ber-\\ngen County. This office he resigned in 1877, when\\nelected State Senator from his district by the Democ-\\nracy. While in the Legislature he served as chair-\\nman of the Committee on Militia and Unfinished\\nBusiness, and was also a member of the Committee\\non Claims and Pensions, and of the .Joint Committees\\non Soldiers Home and Commerce and Navigation.\\nMr. Cooper is a man of strong religious instincts,\\nand a member of the Reformed (Dutch) Church of\\nSchraalenburgh, of which he is an elder.\\nCornelius S. Cooper was in 1839 united in marriage\\nto Leah, daughter of Jacob Quackenbush, of Schraa-\\nlenburgh. Their children were four in number, Cor-\\nnelius, Ellen .\\\\melia, Jacob, and John .lacob, the\\nlatter two being deceased.\\nPeter I. Durie. The subject of this notice was\\nborn in the town of Palisade, N. J. His home until\\nsixteen years of age was with his uncle, Peter Durie,\\nduring which time he secured a good practical edu-\\ncation.\\nAbout the year 1831 he was apprenticed to James\\nTurnbull, of Newark, N. J., to learn the trade of\\ncT \u00c2\u00a3L.\\ncarriage-making, with whom he served an appren-\\nticeship of four years, and then established himself\\nat Schraalenburgh in the business of his choice. Six\\nyears later he removed to New York, where he\\nremained a number of years.\\nIn 18.50 he returned to Schraalenburgh and engaged\\nin farming, and three years thereafter secured a\\nsituation as a representative of the Bergen County\\nFarmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company. This\\nengagement lasted for about twelve years.\\nIn 1865 he purchased and removed to the mill", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0481.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "298\\nHISTOllY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nproperty formerly owned by Nicholas Kipp, consist-\\ning of a Houring-inill, residence, etc., where he has\\nsince carried on general custom-work.\\nHe is an attendant and supporter of the Reformed\\nChurch at Schraalenburgh, and served as its sexton\\nfor twenty years. i\\nMr. Durie has been twice married, first to Agnes\\nDemarest, of Schraalenburgh. The result of this\\nunion was two children, both of wliom died in in-\\nfrncy. Mrs. Demarest died Nov. 21, 1843. His sec-\\nond marriage occurred Nov. 25, 184.5, to Maria La\\nRomer. Hy this wife he had two children, one dying\\nin infancy, and Peter, now at home. His second wife\\ndied Aug. 30, 1876.\\nIn politics Mr. Durie is a Republican of a liberal\\ntype, quiet and unassuming in his manner, and well\\ndeserves the confidence and esteem of his fellow-\\ntownsmen.\\nJacob J. De Mott.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The subject of this sketch\\ntraces his line if descent to Matthias De Mott, the\\nfirst of the family, who came from France with two\\nbrothers and settled at Bergen, in Bergen County, i\\nThey were among the French Huguenots who fled\\ntheir country following the persecution of Christians\\nconsequent upon the revocation of the Kdict of Nantes\\nin KiS- and sought a home in the wilds of America.\\nJacob, son of Matthias De Mott, resided at English\\nNeighborhood.\\nJohn De Mott, son of Jacob, also resided at English\\nNeighborliood, now Walton, and built a grist- and\\nsaw-mill there, wliich he carried on during liis life.\\nHe died in 1832, aged eighty-four years. His wife,\\nwho died in 1830, aged eighty-two, was Fransinia\\nRulolfson, and bore him the following children:\\nJacob, Henry, Martin, .Fohn, and Soi hic, wife of\\nStephen Demarest.\\nOf these children Jacob, the father of our subject,\\nwas born in 177(t, and after the age of seventeen\\nalwiiys resided on the homestead formerly known as\\nthe Rulolfson homestead, which belonged to the ma-\\nternal grandfather of Jacob, but which is now known\\nas the De Mott homestead. He died April fi, 184.\\naged seventy-five years. His wife, Rachel Hogert,\\ndied Feb. 2, 1844, leaving him three children, John,\\nJacob J., and Fransinia.\\nJacob J. De Mott was born March 10, 1794, and\\nsucceeded to the old De Motl homestead on the Ten-\\nafly road, near Knglewood, where he has lived as a\\nfarmer over seventy-two years. Mr. De Mott is known\\nfor his integrity, slraightforwardne.Hs, relialiility, firni-\\nnesH, and decided opinions. He has taken no part in\\npolitics, but has led a cpiiet life as a farmer.\\nHe was united in marriage Nov. 10, ISlt!, to Ger-\\ntrude, daughtir of .Tolin A. We-stervelt and Hachel\\nAeki-rnian, who was Imrn Oct. 17!IC, and died .Fnly\\n31, 1H(;7. They were both mcMibers of the Refornieil\\nDutch Churcli, and atlendeil generally at Schraalen-\\nburgh, N. J., where he was an elder.\\nThe children of this union are Rachel, who resiiles\\nwith her father John, a farmer in Palisade township,\\non ])art of the old homestead; Jacob J., Jr., died\\nDee. 20, lS6i aged forty-six years, leaving a widow\\nand two daughters; Mary Helen and Rachel Ger-\\nn\\ntrude (iarret W., a farmer in Palisade township, on\\na part of the old homestead Henry, a merchant at\\nEnglewood, N. J.; James HIauvelt, died Nov. 22,\\n1862, aged twenty-seven years, leaving a widow and\\none daughter, Gertrude.\\nThe DeMotts have been members of the Reformed\\nDutch Church, and their ancestors were among the\\nfounders of the churcli at Schraalenburgh. They\\nare among the old stock tamilies who early settled in\\nNew Jersey, and who founded the many institutions\\nnow showing the development and civilization of this\\ncountv.\\ncii A 1 1 i:\\nX 1.11 I.\\nUNION.\\nOriginal Purchase. That jiortion of Hergen\\nCounty which inchuled what now constitutes Union\\ntownship wiut originally known by the Indian name\\nof Mighecticock (New Harbadoes Neck). It em-\\nbraced five thousand three hundred and eight acres\\nof upland anil ten thousand acre.- of meadow. In\\nItiliS, Capt. William Sandford pnrchiusi d in the in-\\nterest of Nathaniel Kingsland, of the islaiul of Har-\\nbadoes, this land from the |)roprietor8, on condition", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0482.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "UNION.\\n299\\nthat he would settle six or eight farms within three\\nyears, and pay twenty pounds sterling on the 25th\\nof each succeeding March. On the 20th of July of\\nthe same year he purchased from the Indians their\\ntitle, to commence at the Haokensack and Pissa-\\nwack Rivers, and to go northward about seven miles\\nto Sanford s Spring (afterwards Boiling Spring).\\nThe consideration was 170 fathoms of black wam-\\npum, 200 fathoms of white wampum, 19 watch coats,\\n16 guns, 60 double hands powder, 10 pair breeches,\\n60 knives, 67 bars of lead, 1 anker of brandy, 3 half\\nfats beer, 11 blankets, HO axes, and 20 hoes.\\nThe territory was included in the township of New\\nBarbadoes until 1825, and was a part of Lodi until\\n1840, when the county of Hudson was formed from\\na part of Bergen County, and Harrison township, in\\nHudson County, included the territory referred to.\\nThis apportionment not proving altogether satisfac-\\ntory to the inhabitants, in 1852 the present township\\nof Union was formed by act of the State Legislature\\nand set back again in Bergen County.\\nIt may be geographically described as bounded on\\nthe north by Lodi, south by Hudson County, west by\\nthe Passaic River, and east by the Hackensack River.\\nThe township contains an area of seven thousand\\ntwo hundred and eighty acres, and with two excep-\\ntions is the smallest in the county, but by no means\\nthe least important. Formerly boat-building was car-\\nried on to some extent, and was one of the leading\\nindustries.\\nOres of copper abound in the southern portion of\\nthe township, but these mines have not been during\\nrecent years a source of profit to the owners. The\\nJersey City water-works, with extensive buildings,\\nare located in the southern portion of the township.\\nThree railroads cross Union, the Erie Railroad,\\nwith stations at Rutherford and West Rutherford,\\nwhich is intersected by the Nevv Jersey and New York\\nrunning from Carlstadt, while the Delaware, Lacka-\\nwanna and Western Railroad passes nearly through\\nthe centre from east to west, with depots at Kingsland\\nand Lyndhurst.\\nNatural Features.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The soil of Union township\\nvaries in this as in other portions of the county. The\\neastern part is a vast salt marsh, embracing an area\\nof many thousand acres. An effort has been made\\nto drain this by the construction of an extensive dyke,\\nand also by the digging of a canal which should drain\\nit into the Passaic. The building of a dyke was op-\\nposed by the inhabitants of the township from the\\nfact that a large body of unwholesome water created\\nby this measure would engender disease. No scheme\\nhas thus far jiroved practicable, and the marsh re-\\nmains in its original condition. The soil adjoining\\nthis lowland is composed of red shale and clay, and\\nis exceedingly productive. Along what is known as\\nthe Ridge road the land is higher and not to the same\\nextent productive. The soil along the river is gener-\\nally sandy and best adapted to the raising of garden\\nproducts. Corn grows luxuriantly, and rye and oats\\nare also staple products. Wheat rarely yields a\\nbountiful crop, and is not classed among the most\\nprolific grains of the township. The timber of Union\\nis of great variety, though the most abundant woods\\nare oak, hickory, and chestnut. The surface of the\\ntownship is varied and picturesque, a high ridge ex-\\ntending from north to south, which is broken into di-\\nversified hills and plateaus. The land is abundantly\\nwatered, the Hackensack River, which affords navi-\\ngation to vessels of considerable tonnage, flowing\\nalong its eastern border, while the picturesque Passaic\\npursues its course on the west. Of the smaller streams,\\nBerry s Creek, the most imi)ortant, which is also navi-\\ngable to Carlstadt, pours its waters into the Hacken-\\nsack, and Saw-Mill Creek follows the southern bound-\\nary of the township.\\nEarly Settlements. The history of the early set-\\ntlement of Union township embraces but a limited\\nnumber of names, and the representatives of these\\nnames in some instances the most important are no\\nlonger to be found in the township. Particularly is\\nthis the case with families of Rutherford and Hols-\\nman, both of whom were the possessors of large\\nlanded estates, and came at an early day to reside\\nupon these lands. They aided materially in the de-\\nvelopment of the township, and during their residence\\nexercised no small infiuence in the county. A later\\ngeneration of the first-mentioned family until within\\na few years occupied the extensive inherited estate,\\nwhile the latter name has not for years been repre-\\nsented in the township. The Schuyler family also\\noccupied a distinguished position in the county were\\nresidents of LTnion and large land-owners. They have\\nall since died or removed from the township, and their\\nestates passed into other hands. Members of the\\nfamily are to be found in other portions of the State.\\nThe early names in the township were Schuyler,\\nRutherford, Kingsland, Holsman, Joralemon, Van\\nRiper, Kip, Cutwater, Vreeland, Ackerman, Yereance,\\nVan Winkle, and Brinkerhoff.\\nThe first members of the Kingsland family were\\nStephen Kingsland and his wife, Mary, early resi-\\ndents of the parish of Christ Church, island of Bar-\\nbadoes. The former had commissioned Capt. William\\nSandford,also of Barbadoes, to effect a purchase of land\\nfor him in New Jersey, which he did in 1668, and the\\nparticulars of which have been elsewhere described.\\nMr. Kingsland, who was of English descent, on his\\narrival in the township erected a stone dwelling of\\nlimited dimensions opposite the old mansion built at\\na later day, in which he resided until his death.\\nAmong his children was Col. William Kingsland, who\\nprojected and partially constructed a very elegant\\nmanor-house on ground opposite the former family\\nhome. The foundation having proved defective it\\nwas abandoned and the present mansion erected,\\nwhich, though still in possession by the family, is oc-\\ncupied by tenants. Col. William had five children,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0483.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "300\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nEdmund William, Henry, and three daughten, one\\nof whom became Mrs. Hornblower, ami each of the\\nremaining two a Mrs. Loslic. Edmiiiid William was\\nunited in 1768 to Miss Mary Richards, and .settled on\\nthe homestead. He became the father of eleven chil-\\ndren, several of whom died without issue. Those\\nwho remained in the township were Henry W. and\\nGeorge, the former of whom married Mrs. Sarah\\nPlace and had one son and three daughters. The\\nonly one now residing iu the township is Mrs. Edwin\\nNesbitt. George married Miss Frances Ten Eyck and\\nhad eleven children, some of whom still own property\\nin the township. The only resident is George Kings-\\nland.\\nAnother branch of the family was represented by\\nGustavus Kingsland, who, though of English ancestry,\\ncame from Holland before the war of the Revolution\\nand settled on the land now owned by Stephen Kings-\\nland. Among his children was David, who married\\nthe daughter of an English otticer and had chiblren,\\nDavid, Cornelius, Stejjhen, and several ilaugbters.\\nStephen married Miss Elenor Stymus, of New York,\\nand had children, David, Garret, John, Stephen, and\\nfour daughters. John, Stephen, and Garret settled in\\nthe township. The only survivor is Stephen, who re-\\nsides upon a portion of the original estate.\\nThe Van Rii)er family w:j.s first represented by Jacob,\\nwho resided on the banks of the Passaic River, on land\\nnow owned by the Rutherford Park Association.\\nAmong his children was Jacob, who married Jane i\\nVan Winkle and had children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Garret, Gelty, Jacob,\\nElsie, Walling, and (iarrabrant. Of this number Gar-\\nret and Walling resided in Union township. The\\nformer married Miss Elenor Outwatcr, and had one\\nson, Jacob, and two daughters. Jacob is a resident\\nof Rutherford. Walling died leaving three children,\\nall of whom have removed from the township. i\\nThe Ki| family are of ancient descent, though no\\nrecord of the arrival of the earliest member in the\\ntownship exists. The first of the family recollected\\nis Henry, who resided upon the farm now owned by\\nJohn Poillon. Much of the land formerly the prop- j\\nerty of this family is now embraced in the village of\\nRutherford. Among the children of Henry wivs Peter,\\nwho occupied the homestead, and married first Clar-\\nissa Marselus, and a second time Sally Van Idestine.\\nHe had children, Henry, Edo, John, and Peter, and\\none daughter. Henry and Peter settled in Union, the\\nformer living on land now owned by Peter Kip, while\\nPeter occupieil the old homestead. The children of\\nthe latter have removed to I a-s.saic County.\\nThe earliest representative of the Yereanee family,\\nin accordance with popular tradition, purchased three\\nhundred acres of land for the sum of twenty shillings,\\nthis land being at that date in an entirely primitive\\ncondition. The first member of the family recalled\\nis Christopher, who settled upon this land. His chil-\\ndren were John and Christopher, who succeeded to\\nthe properly. The children of Christopher have all\\nremoved from the township. John married and bad\\nsi.x children, John, Henrj-, Jeremiah, Frederick,\\nElizabeth, and Jane, the sons having all settled in the\\ntownship. Henry married Charity Van Blarcom, and\\nhad children, John, Henry H., and a daughter, Mrs.\\nVreeland. Henry H. occupies part of the homestead\\nnear Rutherford. The sons of John are Henry, John,\\nThomas, .\\\\bram, and Peter, all of whom reside in the\\ntownshij).\\nEdo Vreeland, a native of Brabant, Holland, set-\\ntled at Bergen in 1648, having come in the ship\\nCapt. Powels. One of his sons, Jacob, located in\\nSaddle River township, while another came to the\\npresent Union township in lOGS, and erected the old\\nstone homestead, one of the landmarks of the town-\\nship. This was built upon a portion of the tract of\\nland deeded by the Indians to John Berry. George\\nVreeland had .sons, Enoch, Jacob, and Edo, the\\nformer two having remained in the township. Enoch\\nhad children, Edo and Jacob, of whom Edo settled in\\nUnion, married, and had among his children Eliiis,\\nEnoch, George, and Edo, of whom George and Edo\\nare residents of the township.\\nAnother branch of the family is represented by\\nHenry Vreeland, who resides on the banks of the\\nPassaic. The earlier members of this family were\\nresidents of Central New York.\\nThe Outwater family are of Holland extraction, the\\nfirst one remembered being Jacob, who settled in\\nLodi and had among his sons John Outwater, who\\nwas the parent of si.x sons and one daughter, one of\\nwhom removed to Niagara County, the others having\\nremained in llergen t\\\\)unty. Richard came to I nion\\ntownship about the beginning of the present century.\\nHe had five children, the sons being John, Peter, ami\\nHenry, the latter of whom is the only one remaining\\nin Union township. The surviving sister resides jn\\nJersey City.\\nThe .Toralemon family are among the most promi-\\nnent representatives of the ship-builder s craft, and\\ncame to the township at a very early day. The oldest\\nmembers of the family recalled are John and Corne-\\nlius, the former of whom married a Miss Yereanee\\nand had three children, John, Cornelius, and a\\ndaughter, the former two having resided in Union.\\nThe family are now represented by Peter Joralemon\\nin the township, Henry in Passaic, John W. in\\nWoodside, and Stephen in Newark.\\nThe Westervelt family are also a race of ship-build-\\ners, and a.ssociated with the early history of Union.\\nThe name has become extinct in the township, though\\nthe family is perpetuated by the marriage of its\\nfemale members with other residents of Union.\\nHendrick Brown came from Holland, and first lo-\\ncated in Es-sex County. From thence a son, Tunis,\\nremoved to Bergen County and settled in Union,\\nhaving been one of the earliest ship-builders. He\\nhad seven children, five of whom located near him.\\nHis son Abraham married Gertrude Christie and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0484.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "UNION.\\n301\\nhad children, of whom Tunis A., William H., James,\\nand a daughter, Mrs. Peter Joralemon, now reside in\\nthe township.\\nThe first Schuyler who emigrated to America was\\nPhilip Pietriese. He settled at Albany, N. Y., about\\n1648. Among his ten children was Arent, the third\\nson, born in 1662, whom his father gave an estate in\\nNew Jersey, including land opposite Belleville, in\\nUnion township. Arent was three times married,\\nfirst to Janiiettie Teller, who became the mother of\\nsix children, some of whom settled at Pompton, and\\nothers at Burlington, N. J. The second wife was\\nSwansie Van Duykheisen, to whom were born five\\nchildren, John, Peter, Adonijahj Eva, and Cornelia.\\nJohn and Adonijah married sisters, Ann and Ger-\\ntrude Van Renssellaer. Arent Schuyler, the progen-\\nitor of the New Jersey branch of the family, at a very\\nearly date built a mansion on the banks of the Pas-\\nsaic, in Union township, and his son John, who was\\nthe first to develop the copper-mines, erected the\\npresent residence, the first having been destroyed by\\nfire. The children of John were Mary, who married\\nJohn Roosevelt, and Arent, who married his cousin.\\nSwan, daughter of Adonijah Schuyler. Arent left\\none son, John, who married Eliza Kip and, a second\\ntime, Catherine Van Renssellaer. By the first mar-\\nriage there were two children, Arent and Harriet,\\nand by the second, John, Robert, Rutsen, and two\\ndaughters. The family still own a portion of the\\noriginal estate, though the homestead has passed into\\nother hands. None of the members of this family\\nnow reside in Union township, though Mrs. Arent\\nSchuyler and her family are located near the town-\\nship line in Hudson County.\\nJohn Rutherford came to the county and purchased\\nat an early day an extensive landed property in the\\npresent township of Union. He had a son John and\\nseveral daughters. John married and had among his\\nchildren a son, Robert, who for many years resided in\\nthe township, and four daughters, two of whom\\nbecame Mrs. Dr. Watts and Mrs. Peter G. Stuyve-sant\\nrespectively. The remaining two died unmarried.\\nDaniel Holsman, of German descent, originally re-\\nsided in Paterson, and having purchased a valuable\\nproperty, known as the Van Winkle estate, settled\\nupon it. He built a spacious mansion, which is at\\npresent occupied as a hotel and summer resort. He\\nhad five children, one son, Daniel, and four daugh-\\nters. The former is deceased, and the family are no\\nlonger represented in the township.\\nThe Van Winkle (formerly spelled Van Winkel)\\nfamily are not only among the most prominent in the\\ncounty, but bear the same relation to the State of\\nNew Jersey. The Union township branch of the\\nfamily came originally from Amsterdam, Holland,\\nand with other Dutch emigrants settled New Amster-\\ndam, afterwards New York. The ancestor of the\\nBergen County branch was Walling Jacobs, who in\\n1684 purchased of the proprietors, in company with\\n20\\nothers, a certain tract of land known as the Acquack-\\nanonk Patent, including the present cities of Pas-\\nsaic and Paterson. Walling Jacobs died about 1725,\\nafter which his son, Jacob Wallingsie, and grandson,\\nJohn Jacob, made large purchases of land in Bergen\\nCounty. Isaac, a son of John Jacob, born in 1767,\\nsettled in Union township. He married Hester Van\\nOeisen, and had a son, Daniel, who for years was\\nlargely identified with the growth and prosperity of\\nthe township. He is now a resident of Saddle River,\\nthough his sons still remain in Union township, being\\nengaged in business pursuits at Rutherford.\\nAmong other branches of the family are John V.\\nS. Van Winkle, residing in the northern portion of\\nthe township, and Michael Van Winkle.\\nSchools. Education has made rapid advances in\\nUnion township. Ten years ago there were but two\\nschool buildings, valued at thirteen hundred dollars,\\nwith a seating capacity for one hundred children.\\nThe school buildings of the present day are valued at\\nthirty-four thousand dollars, and have ample room\\nfor seven hundred scholars. The territory is divided\\ninto five districts Kingsland, No. 38 North Belle-\\nville Bridge, No. 39; Rutherford, No. 40; North\\nRutherford, No. 40i and East Passaic, No. 41.\\nKingsland, the first of these, occupies the extreme\\nsouthern portion of the township, and is of recent\\nformation. The first school building was erected on\\nthe Ridge road in 1872. It is a brick structure of no\\npretentions, but of substantial construction. The\\nscholars belong principally to the laboring classes,\\nand in many instances are compelled to assist their\\nparents. As a consequence little progress is made\\nin their studies, the attendance being very irregular.\\nThe school property is valued at four thousand dol-\\nlars, and the present teacher is James A. Rose.\\nNorth Belleville Bridge District is an old district,\\nand extends across the township from east to west.\\nIt was organized as early as 1804. At a meeting held\\nat the house of John Banker, the members present,\\nby a plurality of voices, resolved themselves into\\nan association for the promotion of literature.\\nWalling Van Winkle, Samuel Lewis, and Garra-\\nbrant Yereanee were appointed trustees of the New\\nBarbadoes Neck School-house, and had the proceed-\\nings of this meeting recorded in the clerk s office of\\nthe county, Aug. 13, 1804. The present trustees hold\\nthe original lease given for the property in 1804.\\nA subscription list was immediately .started, and\\n$162.20 raised for the construction of a building, when\\nt the association for the promotion of literature en-\\ngaged its first teacher and opened its first school.\\nWith slight repairs this building was used until 1849,\\nwhen it was demolished and the present edifice erected\\non the site. It is a two-story frame building with\\ncupola and bell, and pleasantly located on the banks\\nI of the Passaic River. The lower room alone was\\nI used until 1873, when the demand for more space\\n1 induced the trustees to make the second story habit-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0485.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "302\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nable, and an additional teacher was engaged. The\\nschool is supplied with maps, charts, blackboard,\\netc., the property being valued at two thousand dol-\\nlars. The preseiit teachers are Miss Elizabeth Ennis\\nand Miss ^Iiiric Bowland.\\nThe Rutherford District occupies the northern and\\neastern portions of tlic township, the first school-\\nhouse having been built in the year 1819 by subscrip-\\ntion, on what is known as the Kip farm, on the east\\nside of the Neck road. It was a one-story building,\\neighteen by twenty feet in dimensions, unpainted,\\nand adorned with an antiquated mud chimney rest-\\ning on the beams. Mr. John Berry served as the first\\nteacher, and remained in charge of the school until\\n1831. At a later period he became county clerk.\\nAfter Mr. Berry s departure the building fell into\\ndisuse, and the children attended either the River\\nSchool or that at PoUifly. During the year 18 )3 an-\\nother edifice was erected on the same site of more 1\\nmodern design. The arrangement of the school\\nbuildings of this early date was neither elegant nor\\nconvenient. A wooden-bottomed chair and a desk\\nwas provided for the teacher, and plank seats with\\ndesks against the wall for the scholars. No maps or\\ncharts relieved the bareness of the walls, which were\\nusually decorated with figures of men and animals,\\nthe handiwork of some apt pupil. The desks, which\\nare still in existence, display the Yankee proclivities\\nof the boys in the skillful use of the jack-knife. The\\nstudies at this time were confined to the common\\nbranches, and no regard was ])aid either to cla.ssifica-\\ntion or mctlioil of instruction. In 18G9 the jjopulation\\nof Rutherford wa.s greatly increased, and the inhabit-\\nants became desirous of better educational advantages\\nfor their children. After many elTorts it was decided\\nto build a now school-house by taxation. lot having\\nbeen secured a structure in the shape of a Maltese\\ncross, fifty-two by forty feet in dimensions. wa.s ercrte I\\nat a cost of eleven thousand dollars. The building\\nwag completed in May, 1870, and soon after opened\\nfor instruction with Mr. L. Merserean as teacher, with\\none lussistaiit. It was soon found necessary to em-\\nploy a second, and under the superintendence of\\nMr. W. F. Morrow a third assistant was added.\\nThe rooms were liberally supplied with all the\\nmodern aids to instruction. The school increased\\nin numbers, and in 1874 it was found necessary to\\nerect a second building in the upper portion iif the\\ndistrict north of Ihc Erie Railroad. This is a brick\\nstructure, fifty by forty feet in dimensions, two stories\\nhigh, with cupola and bell, containing four depart-\\nments. It was built at a cost of ten thousand dollars,\\nand opened for school purposes by Miss L. R. flinn\\nin Heptember, 1874, who had previously been in\\ncharge of the intermediate department of School No.\\n1. Miss Oinn had one assistant, but in 187. found\\na second necessary. The residents of Rutherford\\ndemand good schools and pay liberally for them, a\\nlarge sum being raised annually by tax in addition\\nto the State tax for their support. The present\\nteachers are Addi.son Ely, Miss Mary Bryan, Miss\\nJennie Burgess, and Miss Wheeler.\\nThe North Rutherford District lies principally in\\nthe northea-stern portion of the township. Some\\nportions of it are thickly populated, but the larger\\npart of the territory is in uncultivateil meadow-land.\\nV^ery few facts have been secured regarding this dis-\\ntrict. The present instructors are G. R. Alyea, Miss\\nMaggie Moody, and Irena M. Bates.\\nEast Pas.saic District lies partly in Lodi and partly\\nin I^nion townships, the school building being in the\\nlatter township. It is one of recent formation, this\\nsection having been in the pa-st supplied with very\\nmeagre advantages. The children are principally of\\nthe poorer class, and the few people of means in the\\ndistrict met in 1872, formed the district, and erected\\nthe i)resent attractive edifice.\\nIt is a frame structure, thirty by forty feet in dimen-\\nsions, two stories high, with mansard roof and of\\npleasing design. It is supplied with maps, charts,\\nglobe, etc., and has one hundred and sixty feet of\\nblackboard space. From the character of much of\\nthe population of this district the attendance is very\\nirregular and the standard of scholarship not high.\\nThe teachers are Edgar H. Webster and Miss M. L.\\nBirch.\\nThe number of children at present in the various\\nschool districts of Union township is %3. Union\\nreceives iis her share of the surplus revenue fund\\n?!l(;4.34, of the State appropriation of $l()0,(mO the\\nsum of .^2!U.21, and of the State school tax $3065.98,\\nmaking a total of $4o21. i.\\nEarly Highways. The oldest highway in the\\ntownship is known as the Boiling Spring road, which\\nbegan at the public road leading from PiL .saic to Belle-\\nville, and following a southea-sterly direction, inter-\\nsected the road leading from Newark to Uackensack.\\nThis highway is intimately associated with the early\\nhistory of the township.\\nThe Neck road, which leads from Newark to Hack-\\nensack, is also an early highway. It follows a south-\\nwesterly course, and passing through t arlstadt, Rutlier-\\nfor l, and Kingsland, reaches the copper-mines, pur-\\nsuing its way from thcuce to Newark.\\nAnother road, generally known as the river road,\\nfollows the Passaic River to Newark.\\nThe New York and Paterson turnpike, which wa.s\\noriginally known as the New Itarhadoes turnpike, wjus\\nsurveyed, and constructed in the year ISli!. It passed\\nthrough Passaic, its objective points being Paterson\\nand Hoboken. This road divides the township from\\nLodi.\\nThe Belleville turnpike is the boundary between\\nBergen County anil Hudson County until it crosses\\nSaw-Mill reek, and although not one of the oldest,\\nis a mueh-traveled road.\\nThe township of Union does not a| point overseen-\\nof highways to superintend the improvement of ili-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0486.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "UNION.\\n303\\nhighways, but assigns a certain portion of its territory\\nto each luember of the township committee, upon\\nwhom it devolves to perform the hibor commonly as-\\nsigned to overseers.\\nOrganization. The act organizing the township\\nreads as follows\\nAn act to set off from the toinuihip of Harrison^ in the county of Hudson^\\na new toicnibip, to be calted the tou-nshiiy of Union, and to annex the Bame\\nto the county of Bergen.\\nBe it enacted bi/ the Senate and Qenei-ul Assevtbly of the t tate of New\\nJersey, That all that pyrtion of the towuship of llm-risoii, in the cuuuty\\nof Hudson, lying within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning\\non the Essex County line, in the centre of the Belleville turnpike road;\\nthence along tlie centre of said road to the most westerly bninch of Saw-\\nMill Creek theuce along the middle of said creek to the Hackensack\\nRiver; thence up said river and along the line of Bergen township to\\nthe centre of the New Barbadoes Toll-Bridge Company s road; thence\\nalong the centre of said road aud along the Lodi township line to the\\ncentre of Passaic River; thence down said river to the place of begin-\\nuing, shall be and is hereby set off from the township of Harrison, in the\\ncounty of Hudson, and made a separate township, to be known by the\\nname of the township of Union, which is hereby annexed to and shall\\nhereafter form a part of the county of Bergen.\\nCivil List. The freeholders are given since the\\norganization of the township, and the remaining offi-\\ncers from the year 1864, those of prior date not being\\nobtainable. The freeholders have been\\n1S62, Henry P. Kipp; 18o2-53, 1857-59, 1861-62, Cornelimi C. Joralemon\\n1853-54, liichardOutwater; 1854,1856, 1862, 1869-70, W alling Kipp;\\n1856-59, Peter Cutwater; 1S60-61, 1863, Geo. C. BrinkerholT; 1860,\\nWilliam B. Muchmore; 1863-64, Peter C. Joralemon 1864, Henry\\nR. Cutwater; 1866, Abraham McKeon, .Jacob G. Van Riper; 1867,\\nRicliard Vreeland, James Stevenson; 1S68-G9, Walling Van Riper;\\n1868, Samuel C.Campbell; 1870, Henry Miller; 1871-72, J. T. Beck-\\nwith 1873-74, 1877, Edo V. Jochem 1876-76, 187.8-80, E. Vreeland\\n1881, John E.Cole.\\nTownship Clerks: 1864-66, Jacob W. Van Riper 1867, Daniel E. Hervey\\n1868, .Samuel A. Campbell; 1869-70, Samuel A. Cantield; 1871-72,\\nWm. H. Stevens, Jr.; 1873-74, Edward Beny 1875-76, Eugene A.\\nSloat; 1877-79, Charles Meyers; 1880-81, Frederick W. McGee.\\nAssessors: 1864, 1866, 1870, George C. Brinkerhott 1865, C. A. Hopper;\\n1S67-69, 1873, J. V. S. Van Winkle; 1871-72, Henry A.Baker; 1874,\\nE. C. Hussey 1875, 1878, J. T. Beckwith 1876-77. Henry Crooker,\\nJr. 1879, L. C. Philabert 1880-81, G. R. Alyea.\\nCollectors 1804, Jacob W. Van Riper 1665-66, 1869, Edo Vreeland 1867,\\nH. H. Yearance 1868, E. J. Vreeland 1870, Henry Ontwater 1871,\\nJames II. Coj-telyou 1872, John V. S. Van Winkle 1873-76, Andrea\\nBrinkerhofT; 1877-79, Eugene A. Sloat; 1880-81, John Haywood.\\nTownship Committee: 1864r-65, Ekin Nichols; 1864, A. H. Brown 1864-\\n66, Wm. C. Kingsland; 1864, Fredeiick Ulrick, C. B. Van Riper;\\n1866, Geo. C. BrinkerhoSf, J. J. Kingsland, S. C. Campbell; 1865-66,\\nJames Mulligan; 1866-70, Henry P. Kipp; 1866-67, 1870-72, Chas.\\nBackster; 1866, Walling Van Riper; 1867, Richard Shugg, Daniel\\nVan Winkle, John C.White, Geo. Kingsland; 1860, 1868-70, Jacob\\nW. Van Riper 1868, E. J. Kingsland, Edo Vreeland, Tunis A. Brown,\\nWm. Kearney; 1869, J. P. Cooper, H. G. Bell 1809-70, T. A. Brown\\n1869, Henry Cutwater; 1871-73, 1880-81, Andrew Slewart 1871-72,\\n1874-75, George Dayton; 1871-72, John C. Marin; 1873, Wm. Mc-\\nMains; 1870-72, 1874-75, James A. McCrary 1874-77, Lonis Koch\\n1875, Joseph Cliadwick 1875-76, 1879-81, Wm. H. Stevens, Jr. 1875,\\nJames N. Edgar; 1873-74, 1878, Jacob H. Vreeland; 1876, 18S0-8],\\nWm. H. Fewell; 1876-77, John Borkel, Floyd W. Tomkins; 1.877-78,\\nTheodore Wood; 1877-80, Edward Berry; 1878-81, David G.Brown:\\n1878-79, Arthur W. Van Winkle; 1879-81. George H. Cormack\\n1881, Charles Myers; 1873, Frederick Watson; 1874, Cornelius Do-\\nremus.\\nVillages and Hamlets.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rutherford is the most\\nconsiderable village in the township of Union. Thirty-\\nfive years ago this ground w;is occupied by farmers\\nand gardeners, principally of the old Dutch stock,\\nwho plodded on from year to year, taking their pro-\\nduce to market in wagons at night, and reducing\\ntheir expenses by such return loads as they could\\nsecure for the country stores. The older inhabitants\\nhad no aftection for strangers, and it was with some\\ndifficulty that they could be induced to part with\\ntheir land. This feeling held sway long after the\\nconstruction of the New York and Paterson Railroad,\\none of the earliest in the country and completed in\\n18.32. It is only within the last twenty-five years that\\nany serious innovations were made in the domain of\\nthis portion of the population of the county. They\\ncontinued for years to plow and plant, while other\\nlocalities less attractive were being built up and their\\nlandholders made wealthy. The township was with-\\nout a settlement or a centre. Boiling Spring, so\\ncalled from a powerful and never-failing spring of\\npure cold water which flowed in the cross-road near\\nthe northern boundary, gave a name to the locality.\\nj When the New York and Paterson Railroad (now\\nI the Erie) was constructed, finding an abundance of\\nwater on this spot, the projectors selected the local-\\nity as a watering-place, and called the station Boil-\\ning Spring. The railroad and the wagon-road both\\ncrossed here, and the depot, as it was called, was a\\ntriangular brick structure exceedingly limited in di-\\nmensions. There were no other structures near and\\nvery few in sight. The spring still remains, but all\\nelse is changed. The living stream which flowed by\\nthe side of the railroad is now conveyed in iron pipes\\nto a reservoir on the meadows, at a point where the\\nNew York and New Jersey Railroad connects with\\nthe Erie, and furnishes a constant supply of water for\\nlocomotive use. In 1858 a small farm was purchased\\nnear the Boiling Spring by a New York gentleman\\nfor a country home, and more land was soon added,\\nwith a view to securing congeuial neighbors. No\\ndefinite improvements were, however, eftected for\\nseveral years.\\nThe ground was ultimately platted, and a map pub-\\nlished in 18(J2, embracing streets and avenues. Sev-\\neral gentlemen soon after erected buildings. The\\ninhabitants contributed liberally, and thus succeeded\\nin prevailing upon the Erie Railroad to erect a com-\\nfortable passenger depot and ticket-office. No great\\nprogress, however, was made until 1866, when several\\nNew Yorkers purchased a large tract of land on the\\nPassaic River, formed an association, and immediately\\nprojected a broad avenue (now Park Avenue) in a di-\\nrect line from their property to the railroad station.\\nIn one year from this date no less than six land com-\\npanies were formed and incorporated or being or-\\nganized.\\nThe various associations formed with a view to land\\noperations are as follows Mount Rutherford Land\\nCompany, which claims precedence in organization,\\nthe Home Land Company, the Rutherford Heights\\nAssociation, the Park Land Company, the Rutherford", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0487.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "304\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nPark Association, the West Carlstadt Land Verein,\\nand the East Rutherford Land Association.\\nMaps were publislied, streets were opened, build-\\nings erected, and inhabitants came in large numbers.\\nThe township that had no village witliin its limits\\nsoon boasted a growing centre of population, with\\npost-office, schools, churches, etc. The old name of\\nBoiling Spring was abandoned, and the place was\\nchristened Rutherford Park, in compliment to one\\nof the earliest and most distinguished families of the\\ntownship. The word park seems to have been at-\\ntached to many localities in New Jersey by land op-\\nerators as an attraction to city buyers. For this\\nreason an abbreviation of the name was advocated by\\nthe managers of the Bergen County Herald in 1875.\\nThe change met with some opposition, and a spirited\\ndiscussion of the matter ensued in the columns of the\\npaper above mentioned. A petition signed by many\\nresidents was forwarded to the Postmaster-General\\nrequesting a change of name to Rutherford. This\\nwas granted, and the Erie Railroad soon after made a\\ncorres|ionding cliiin c in the station.\\nSocieties and Orders. The Rutherford Mutual\\nLoan and Building Association was incorporated in\\nMay, 187G, with the following officers: President,\\nCharles Meyers; Secretary, W. E. Tompkins; Treas-\\nurer, Alfred Oakley Solicitor, Luther Shafer. The\\ndirectors were S. L. Harris, H. V. Gilbert, Charles\\nMeyers, F. W. Tompkins, Thoniius Love, J. R. Collerd,\\nJohn Kelly, Charles Spiegel, and E. J. Love. The\\nobject of the association is to provide for the safe and\\nprofitable investment of the savings of its members,\\nand to assist them in acquiring real estate, making\\nimprovement.s thereon, and removing incumbrances\\ntherefrom by the payment of i eriiidic installments,\\nand for the further purpose of aceumiihiting a fund\\nto be returned to its members who do not obtain ad-\\nvances for the purposes above mentioned when the\\nfunds of such association shall amount to two hun-\\ndred dollars jier share.\\nThe capital stock is issued in scries at intervals of\\nabout six months. Nine series have already been\\nissued. Since its organization the association has\\nloaned to its members a total of fifty thousand dollars.\\nThe present capital is (in round numbers) twenty\\nthtmsand dollars, distributed over three hundred and\\nninety-three shares, held by seventy members or\\nstockholders.\\nFully nine-tenths of the above capital is loaned to\\nmembers upon first bond and mortgage upon real\\nestate situated only in this township. The balance is\\nsecured by stock of the association pledged as security.\\nlipon the above capital of $20,000 tlif amount of\\n(lues paid in has been $13,700. The dillerence be-\\ntween these amounts ($45,300) represents the earnings\\nof the oJMOciation for the five and a half years of its\\nexistence. The rate of increase of stock of the first\\nseries Iulh for several months past been over (mo per\\ncent, per month.\\nThe officers are President, Charles Meyers Secre-\\ntary, Joseph W. Burgess Treasurer, Edward J. Love\\nRecorder, John H. Hingle Solicitor, Luther Shafer.\\nPresent directors (September, 1881), Robert Burgess,\\nTheo. Wood, Charles Myers, James W. Blackwood,\\nThomas Love, E. W. Le Clear, H. H. Hollister, John\\nH. Hingle, E. J. Love.\\nThe character and purpose of the Rutherford Pro-\\ntective and Detective As.sociation is sufficiently indi-\\ncated by its title. Its present officers are President,\\nMaj. R. Allison Secretary, G. F. Schermerhorn\\nTreasurer, W. H. Stevens, Jr. Directors, George\\nHollister, S. W. Hollister, William Earle, Jules Du-\\ncommun, Dr. Williams, Dr. K. K. King. D. B. Bur-\\ntis is the chief of police.\\nThe Fishing and Gunning Club was organized by a\\nnumber of gentlemen with a view to the protection of\\ngame and the promotion of legitimate field sports.\\nIts officers are: President, E. A. Jeaneret; Vice-\\nPresident, Louis Lane Treasurer, Theodore Woods\\nSecretary, L. M. Axford. Tiie trustees are C. H. Coe,\\nJonathan Van Roden, and William H. Stevens. The\\nclub is in a |)rosperous conditiiKi, having twenty-eight\\nactive and two honorary men)bers.\\nThe I nion Truck and Bucket Company was organ-\\nized June 6, 1876, for purposes of protection against\\nfire in Rutherford and vicinity, and embraced twenty-\\ntwo members. It.s first officers were: President, Henry\\nBroker; Treasurer, Paul Ehrmann; Secretary, Eu-\\ngene A. Sloat Foreman, James Glastaeter. The\\ncompany now has a membership of thirty-two, its\\nlimit being fifty. All its equipments are paid for, the\\norganization is free of debt, and with a surplus of\\nthree hundred dollars in the treasury. The present\\nofficers are President, John H. Poiitin Treasurer,\\nEdwin W. Lc Clear; Secretary, Thomas (t. Wilson;\\nForeman, Jacob H. Cadmus. Connected with the\\ncompany is a Firemen s Benevolent Association,\\nof which Lucien B. Stone is president, and James W.\\nBlackwood .secretary and treasurer.\\nKingsland. .Vmong the original land-owiuTs of\\nUnliin was the KIngsland family, who, as already\\nmentioned, possessed a large tract of hind in the town-\\nship, well known a-s the Kingsland Manor. This\\nlocality, although very attractive, remained for a lon^\\ntime almost in the condition of a farming country un-\\ntil 1S72, when the Delaware, Lackawanna anil West-\\nern Railroad pushed its broad track thrnugh iheridgr.\\nmaking a station here, which, in com| liment to tin\\nfamily, was named Kingsland. The company pur-\\nchased large tracts of land, speedily erected extensive\\nshops, and gave a deciiled business impulse to the\\nneighborhood. Houses for the employ( S were erected,\\nand sodii after a store, which is at present conducted\\nby .M. Moreland. Though Ibe liamlet lias no ehurcli,\\nrcligiiiiis services are held at the depot every Sabbatli\\nLyndhurst. This attractive little hamlet, with it\\npicturesciuc and even imposing residences, is locale l\\non the iH laware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0488.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "UNION.\\n305\\nand had its beginning in 1880. William E. Travers,\\nof New York, purchased property known as the Wat-\\nson estate, embracing two hundred and forty acres,\\nsurveyed and platted it, and at once began the erec-\\ntion of an extensive factory and dwellings. The fac-\\ntory was leased to Messrs. McKee Harrison, who\\nare extensively engaged in the manufacture of baby\\ncarriages and velocipedes. They have in their em-\\nploy in the various departments an average number\\nof one hundred men, use steam-power, and ship their\\nwares to the salesroom in Grand Street, New York.\\nA substantial depot has been erected by the railroad\\ncompany, and the place has a store, of which C. A.\\nVan Deusen is proprietor. The property on the east\\nside of the railroad was a portion of the land known\\nas the Genness estate, and is owned by J. J. Pickering\\nand H. M. Genness. It is undergoing slow though\\ndecided improvement.\\nA small settlement on the Passaic River is com-\\nmonly known as the village of Union, though having\\nno post-office, the land on which it is located having\\nto a considerable extent been owned by Hendrick\\nBrown. It has two stores, kept by Anthony Brown\\nand Elbert Smith.\\nWest Rutherford, located on the Passaic River, in\\nthe northwestern portion of the township, has an\\nextensive hotel, and is gradually increasing in dimen-\\nsions and importance.\\nChurches. At a regular meeting of the then Pres-\\nbytery of Passaic, held in the spring of 1863, Rev.\\nJoseph Alden, D.D., presented a petition from David\\nB. Ivison, Daniel Van Winkle, and others, peti-\\ntioners for the organization of a Presbyterian Church\\nat Boiling Spring, Bergen Co., N. J. In compliance\\nwith this petition, the Presbytery of Passaic ap-\\npointed Rev. E. R. Craven, D.D., Rev. D. M. James,\\nRev. Robert Street, together with Elders A. Pruden\\nand H. M. Mussey, a committee to visit the place,\\nand, if thought best, to answer the petition.\\nAs the result of the visit of this committee, this\\nchurch was organized by them, July 20, 1863, with an\\noriginal membership of fifteen members. On the\\nsame day David B. Ivison, James P. Jones, and Wil-\\nliam N. Crane were elected and ordained ruling elders\\nof the church, and Daniel Van Winkle and .Tohn\\nGow were elected deacons.\\nRev. Joseph Alden, D.D., was the stated su[)ply of\\nthe church until the spring of 1865. On the 15th of\\nAugust, 1865, Rev. George L. Smith was called, by a\\nunanimous vote, to the pastoral care of the church.\\nHe was ordained and installed by the Presbytery of\\nPassaic, Oct. 25, 1865.\\nThe church was incorporated Feb. 25, 1868, as the\\nFirst Presbyterian Church of Rutherford Park,\\nand at the same time the requisite board of trustees\\nwas elected. The Sabbath-school was organized June\\n19, 1868. In the summer of the same year the first\\nmanse of the church was built. On the 3d of .July,\\n1869, the corner-stone of the present church edifice\\nwas laid, and on the 25th of December, 1869, the com-\\npleted building was dedicated to the service of God.\\nAs results of the labor and influence of this church,\\nand especially its pastor. Rev. George L. Smith, since\\nits organization and up to this time, we would note\\nthat two other Presbyterian Churches have been or-\\nganized, the German Church of Carlstadt, in 1869,\\nand the First Presbyterian Church of Union, in 1870.\\nThe pastoral relation of Rev. George L. Smith to\\nthis church was dissolved by act of the Presbytery of\\nJersey City, at their regular meeting, April 19, 1871.\\nDuring his pastorate eighty-one were added to the\\nchurch, nineteen on examination and sixty -two on\\ncertificate.\\nA call to the pastorate of the church was extended\\nto Rev. Herman C. Riggs, Aug. 21, 1871, which\\nhaving been accepted he entered upon the duties of\\nhis office Nov. 12, 1871, and was duly installed May\\n23, 1872.\\nIn 1872 the first manse was sold, and a more com-\\nmodious one erected on a better lot nearer the church\\nedifice. In 1873 extensive improvements were made\\nin the church, by which chapel and Sabbath-school-\\nrooms were provided in the basement. A choir gal-\\nlery and organ were added to the main audience-\\nroom, which was refitted with pews and carpeted and\\ncushioned throughout.\\nThe pastorate of Mr. Riggs continued until March\\n26, 1876, when he removed to another field of labor.\\nUnder his ministry eighty-six were added to the\\nchurch, thirty-nine on examination and forty-sevea\\non certificate.\\nThe Rev. Dana M. Walcott served the church from\\nMay 25, 1876, to June 1, 1878. During his service\\ntwenty-seven were received into the church, seven-\\nteen on examination and ten on certificate.\\nThe Rev. Edwin A. Bulkley, D.D., was called to be\\npastor Sept. 13, 1878, and immediately entered upon\\nthe duties of his office, in which he was installed Dec.\\n10, 1878. Under his ministry to July, 1881, sixty-two\\nhave been received into the church, twenty-two on\\nexamination and forty on certificate.\\nThe following have served as ruling elders and\\ndeacons\\nElders, 1863, David B. Ivison; 1863-67, James P.\\nJones 1863-72, William N. Crane 1869, George Hol-\\nlister; 1869-77, Robert Stewart, M.D.; 1875-81, Sam-\\nuel L. Harris; 1877-81, J. Raymond Collerd; 1881,\\nHenry R. Jackson deacons, 1863-67, John Gow\\n1863-71, Daniel Van Winkle; 1875-77, J. Raymond\\nCollerd 1875, William H. Nevius, Henry V. Gilbert;\\n1875-77, Charles Meyers; 1877, Horace H. Hollister,\\nM.D. 1877-81, Henry R. Jackson; 1881, John B.\\nHollister.\\nWhole number of members since organization, 257\\nreceived on examination, 81 received by certificate\\nfrom other churches, 176; present membership of the\\nchurch, 156.\\nThe present ofllcers are Pastor, Edwin A. Bulkley,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0489.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "306\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nD.D. Elders, George HoUister, David B. Ivison,\\nHenry R. Jackson; Deacons, William H. Nevius,\\nHorace H. HoUister, M.D., Henry V. Gilbert (treas-\\nurer), John B. HoUister Trustees, Samuel W. Hol-\\nlister (president), Samuel L. Harris (clerk and treas-\\nurer), Arthur Van Winkle, J. Nelson Edgar, Henry\\nKoster; Clerk of the Congregation, James N. Edgar;\\nSabbath-school Superintendent, Henry V. Gilbert;\\nAssistant Superintendent, James Scriven Secretary\\nand Treasurer, George F. Schermerhorn Librarian,\\nEdwin M. Bulkley Woman s Missionary Society,\\nPresident, Mrs. Edwin M. Bulkley Vice-Presidents,\\nMrs. J. Nelson Edgar, Mrs. Andrew Stewart; Secre-\\ntary and Treasurer, Mrs. Stewart Winslow; Ladies\\nMite Society, President, Mrs. Edward W. Dean Sec-\\nretary, Miss Mary Winslow Treasurer, Miss Sarah\\nB. Ivison Ladies Sewing Society, President, Mrs. S.\\nW. HoUister; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. G. B.\\nKettell.\\nThe earliest efl ort to establish a Methodist Epis-\\ncopal Church in Rutherford Park was made by Rev.\\nAlexander Craig in 1868, while stationed at Passaic.\\nHe was followed by Rev. E. V. King, but the enter-\\nprise not having met with success was abandoned in\\n1869.\\nIn 1870 Rev. A. L. Brice, the presiding elder, re-\\nsolved to make another effort, and the requisite meas-\\nures were taken through Rev. S. P. Hammond, a\\nteacher in the Passaic Collegiate Institute, who held\\nthe first meeting at the house of Edson II. McEwen.\\nAt the gathering ten names were enrolled and a class\\nformed in connection with the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch. The first public service was held at Tnion\\nHall, Dec. 18, 1870. The organization of the church\\nhaving been effected, a board of stewards were ap-\\npointed, consisting of E. A. Howland, Jonathan Kcl-\\nshaw, John Tcrhune, Edson H. McEwcn, and Thomas\\nM. Dickey, with Rev. S. P. Hammond as pastor. The\\ntrustees were Thomas .M. Dickey, Charles R. Ellis,\\nE. F. Randolph, E. A. Cords, Joshua Acison, E. H.\\nMcEwen, and R. H. Rodda. The organization was\\nincorporated as the Park Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch.\\nIn 1S71 a lot was secured from the Park I.,and Com-\\npany on Orchard Street, and a resolution to build was\\npassed May 20, 1871, the cost of the edifice being\\nlimited to eight thousand dollars. Ground was\\nbroken in August of the same year, David Van\\nWinkle officiating with the shovel. The services\\nconnected with the laying of the corner-stone occurred\\nSept. 24, IK I, and were conducted by Rev. J. M.\\nHowe, the first public service having been held July\\n28, 1872, by Rev. J. A. Monroe, A.M. The lecture-\\nroom was dedicated in September of the same year,\\nthe ofliciating clergymen being Rev. .1. .V. Monroe,\\nRev. R. Van Horn, and Kev. Stephen Mcrritt, Jr.\\nServices were conducted until 1S7(! by Revs. S.\\nP. Hammond, J. A. Owen, E. Clement, and A. A.\\nKing. The society was not prosperou. and soon\\nI\\nafter disbanded, the edifice having been sold under\\nforeclosure. With the latter event ended the exist-\\nence of the Park Methodist Church.\\nIn 1879 the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch at Corona, Rev. W. H. Russell, was appointed\\nby the presiding elder to hold services at Rutherford,\\nwhich was accordingly done at private houses until\\nApril of the same year, when Rev. Mr. Russell organ-\\nized a church in his own hired house and furnished\\nit with seats, until its dimensions became unequal to\\nthe demands of the worshipers. Union Hall was\\nthen leased for services, and a society organized\\nMarch 3, 1880, by the presiding elder, styled the\\nRutherford Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev.\\nW. H. Russell was appointed pastor, and the trustees\\nelected were Wm. I. Slingerland, Edward Gordon,\\nCharles Bell, Edward Staley, John Slingerland. The\\nstewards were Edward Gordon, Edward Staley,\\nCharles Bell, Mrs. Susie Gordon, Mrs. D. Harris.\\nThe church Wiis organized with a membership of\\ntwenty, and a Sabbath-school with thirty names upon\\nthe roll. In 1881 an effort was made to .secure a\\nchapel, and subscriptions to the amount of eight hun-\\ndred dollars were raised. A small donation wits also\\nmade by the Church Extension Society, and a lot\\ngiven by Mrs. Mary E. .\\\\mes.\\nThe old church building was then purchased, taken\\ndown, and again erected on the new plot. The edi-\\nfice will be dedicated during the present year. The\\nnienibersbi]) of the church has increased, and now\\nnumbers fifty names, while the Sabbath-sclmol has a\\nregular attendance of one hundred and forty scholars\\nand teachers.\\nGrace Protestant Episcopal Church, Rutherford,\\nN. J., had its beginning in the spring of 1869, in the\\nparlors of what Wius then known as the Rutherford\\nPark Hotel, since destroyed by fire. Services were\\nheld here for about six months, the Rev. Wm. 11.\\nLord being the first rector of the parish. During\\nhis charge the church was removed to an academy\\nbuilt for that and other purposes, and there continueil\\nfor two years. At the end of this time Mr. Lord re-\\nsigned, and the tide of population seeming to tend\\nmore to the northern part of the town, the church\\nWiis again removed to I nion Hall, near the railroad\\nstation. At this time the present rector. Rev. Nel-\\nson R. Boss, then a student in the General Theologi-\\ncal Seminary of New York City, took charge of the\\nservices for one year. At the expiration of his term\\nthe Rev. Edwyn S. W. Pentreath, now rector of\\nthe church in Moncton, N. B., was called to ihf\\nrectorship. It was under his administration and\\nthrough his efforts that the project of a church build-\\ning was started. Mr. F. W. Tomkins, then senior\\nwarden of the parish, jircsented the church with a Im\\nsuflicicntly large to accommodate church, chapel, and\\nrectorj (Jround was broken for the cha] el in Octo-\\nber, 1872, with appropriate and interesting .services,\\nthe rector taking up the first spadeful of earth, and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0490.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "UNION.\\n307\\nbeing followed in turn by others of the congregation\\npresent. Stone for the building was contributed and\\ndelivered on the ground by Mr. F. W. Torakins, and\\na neat edifice with a tower was erected at a cost of\\nseven thousand dollars, capable of accommodating\\ntwo hundred persons. The church was first opened\\nfor services in October, 1873. During the winter a\\nfine bell, costing seven hundred and fifty dollars, was\\npurchased and paid for by the ladies of the parish,\\nsince which time a number of improvements and\\nadditions have been made.\\nAbout a year after the completion of the building\\nMr. Pentreath resigned the rectorship, and was fol-\\nlowed by the Rev. R. M. Hayden, now at the head of\\nthe Leake and Watts Orphan House, New York i\\nCity. Throughhiseffbrts the debton the church build-\\ning was somewhat reduced. Mr. Hayden was rector of\\nthe parish for one year, after which the Rev. E. H.\\nSaunders took the charge. On his resignation, the\\nparish not being in a flourishing condition, the vestry\\nsecured the services of a student for a year, after\\nwhich the present rector, Rev. Mr. Boss, resumed his\\npastorate on Easter Sabbath, 1878. The church has\\nthus been in operation for twelve years. There is a\\ndebt of two thousand dollars still remaining on the\\nbuilding. Owing to various causes the growth of the\\nchurch has not been in proportion to its years, but\\nthere is doubtless a better future in store for it.\\nMembers of Baptist Churches who came to abide in\\nthe country in the early history of the real estate\\nmovement in Rutherford Park followed the example\\nof other Christians and withdrew from the union\\nmeetings, which had been held for some months. A\\nBaptist Church was organized Oct. 1, 18()9, by the\\nfollowing persons, who had obtained letters of dis-\\nmission from Baptist Churches in Brooklyn, Jersey\\nCity, and Passaic: Richard Shugg and wife, Ben-\\njamin Yates and wife, E. C. Hussey and wife, Samuel\\nT. Hink and wife, James N. Bookstaver and wife,\\nWilliam H. Locke and wife, George D. Waterbery,\\nwife, and mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Winslow, Miss Sophia\\nD. Oldring, Miss Emma L. Oldring.\\nMeetings were held at the residences of members\\nuntil a place of worship was erected early in the fol-\\nlowing year. A piece of land at the corner of Park\\nAvenue and Highland Cross was presented as a build-\\ning site to the new church organization by Richard\\nShugg. It was thought at the time that the location\\nwould become quite central, but this opinion proved\\nincorrect, as the growth of the place has principally\\nbeen in other localities. A neat little chapel was\\nerected at a cost of two thousand seven hundred dol-\\nlars, which was mortgaged for eighteen hundred dol-\\nlars. The Rev. John A. McKean, an experienced\\nChristian, who had been pastor of some of the most\\ninfluential churches in New York and Philadelphia,\\nwas at this time living in Passaic and doing business\\nof a secular nature in New York. He consented to\\ntake charge of the new organization at a salary of\\ntwelve hundred dollars, while still engaged in his\\nNew York enterprise. The church s first convert was\\nbaptized in July, 1870. A Macedonian cry came to\\nthis people from Moonachie for the word of the Lord.\\nMoonachie is a farming district some three miles\\nsoutheast of Rutherford. Delegates were sent there\\nto hold religious services in a dilapidated old school-\\nhouse about twelve feet square. From the faithful-\\nness of the labor there expended some twenty-five\\nor thirty persons were converted, through the blessing\\nof the Master. A number of these united with other\\ndenominations in adjoining places. One is now suc-\\ncessfully preaching the gospel in New York State.\\nA plot of ground was presented by John F. Feitner,\\nand a little chapel was built thereon at a cost of one\\nthousand dollars, which was all paid previous to the\\ndedication of the building as a mi-ssion of the Ruther-\\nford Church. Services were conducted by the breth-\\nren for several years in Moonachie, a Sunday-school\\nhaving also been organized there. The church of\\nlate years became too poor to hire conveyances to\\nconvey its members to and from the mission, and the\\nenterprise has been abandoned.\\nThe Rev. J. A. McKean continued pastor of the\\nchurch until the summer of 1873, when ill health\\ncompelled his resignation. The Rev. A. H. Robin-\\nson, of Jersey City, became the next pastor, and con-\\ntinued in charge until 187. i. A gifted young man,\\nW. E. Wright, of the First Church of Newark, was\\nnext engaged as stated supply, but was not ordained.\\nThe Rev. H. A. Cornell, of Sing Sing, N. Y., became\\npastor in the fall of 1876, and closed his pastoral la-\\nbors in the summer of 1878. The Rev. James Hug-\\ngins, of New York, succeeded as a stated supply.\\nDuring the past year William W. Onderdonk, a New\\nYork collegiate, has visited and conducted services\\nevery Sabbath. Since the formation of the church\\nninety-eight persons have been enrolled as members.\\nThrough removal from the neighborhood, exclusion,\\ndeath, and withdrawal, only thirty members are now\\nleft. The debt on the chapel has been reduced to\\nthirteen hundred and eighty dollars.\\nThe Sabbath-school, which has been very jirosper-\\nous, was organized in 1870.\\nSt. Joseph s Roman Catholic Church, which is\\nlocated at Carlstadt, in the township of Union, was\\norganized Jan. 1, 1872, and the church edifice erected\\nsoon after at a cost of eleven thousand dollars, upon\\nwhich there is still an indebtedness of eight thousand\\ndollars. A parochial school for Catholic children was\\nopened in 1878, which is under the care of three Sis-\\nters of the Order of St. Benedict, and has ninety-four\\npupils. One half-hour is devoted each day to re-\\nligious instruction, the pastor being director of the\\nschool. Both the nunnery and school buildings are\\non land adjoining the church.\\nThere is a prosperous Sunday-school connected with\\nthe parish, numbering one hundred scholars, while the\\nmembership of the church is fully six hundred.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0491.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "308\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nRev. John J. Chandel became the pastor of the\\nparish in 1872, and continued in his field of labor\\nuntil 1876, when he was succeeded by llev. A. Shut-\\ntelhoffer, who remained one year. In 1877 the present\\npastor, Rev. .1. G. Funcke, a-ssunied charge, and has\\nsince been assiduous in his labors, both here and in\\nthe adjoining parish of Lodi. The morning sacrifice\\nof ma.ss alternates with the Lodi Church, and is held\\nfrom 9 A.M. to 11 A.M. Each morning at 8 a.m. a\\nma^s is celebrated at which all the school children\\nare present. The lay trustees of the church are\\nJoseph Jloelter and Dominiek Iloey.\\nThe Congregational Church of Rutherford, N. J.,\\nwas organized on July 9, 1878, with eighteen mem-\\nbers. Its e.xistence grew out of a revival in the Pres-\\nbyterian Church, which its present pastor was then\\nsupplying. Its object has been more to secure deeper\\nspiritual life for individuals tiian temporal life for the\\ninstitution. Its support has been wholly voluntary,\\naveraging about one thousand dollars yearly. Regu-\\nlar preaching services have been maintained on Sun-\\ndays in Stewart s Huilding on Park Avenue, and\\nprayer service at the pastor s house on Tuesday. A\\nmission .service has also been sustained at Avondale\\non Thursday, and a portion of the time a Sabbath- i\\nschool, and a Friday service for Bible study. Its\\nmembership bas increased something more than one-\\nhalf The church is not incorporated, and has not\\nespecially in view at present an (lutwanl dwidling, but\\nrather an inner dweller, even the Holy Spirit, whose\\ntemper we are. Two of the congregation have been\\ncalled and engaged elsewhere to preach His word.\\nThe present working staff consists of Pastor Dana\\nM. Wiilciilt [iiici nea on Charles Iiigersoll.\\nSchuyler Mine. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The land embraced in these\\nmines was originally owned by Arenl Schuyler, its\\nvalue in the ores it developed being discovered by\\none of his negro slaves in 1719. The mines were i\\nworked but little during the lifetime of the original\\nowner, but in the hands of his son, Col. John Schuyler,\\nwere a source of much profit, the ore being shipped\\nto England. He in 1753 introduced here the first\\nsteam-engine brought to America, which was trans-\\nported and placed in operation at a cost of three\\nthousand pounds sterling. This was destroyed by\\nfire in 1772, and lay in ruins during the Revolution.\\nThe ores of this mine arc priiu-ipally carbonates\\nanil sulphides of copper. They are found scattered\\nthrough the strata of shales and sandstone, which are\\nhere traversed by thin plates of trap-rock. No trap\\nis seen anywhere on the surface in the immediate\\nvicinity of the mine, ami there is no appearance of\\nany dikes of trap. The ores with more or less of the\\naiisoeiated rocks arc crushed and then sold. They arc\\nsaid to yield a sufficient percentage of metallic copper\\nto pay a good interest on the capital invested. Later\\nefforts to work this mine have not, however, proved\\nsuccessful or profitable, (iccasioned in a measure by\\ninctfectivcjnuichinery.\\nThis is the oldest copper-mine in the State, and as\\nearly as 1731 thirteen hundred and eighty-six tons of\\nthe ore had been shipped to the Hritish copper- and\\nbniss- works.\\nA specimen of red oxide of copper from the\\nSchuyler mine yields this analysis\\nRed oxide of copper 82 62\\nSilica 17.41\\nOxide of inm trace.\\n99.M\\nThe following is a composition of a specimen of\\nbisilicate of copper\\nOxide of copper 42.G0\\nSUicn 4(i.uo\\nOxide of iron 1.40\\nWater and lose Ki.OO\\nliNi.on\\nDaniel Van Winkle.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Van Winkle family\\nwere among the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam,\\nafterwards New York, where Walling Jacobs Van\\nWinckel with a com|)any of Hollanders located in\\n11)84. They, if tradition be correct, emigiated from\\nMiddleburgh, the capital of Zeeland, one of the\\nUnited Provinces, and forty miles southwest of Rot-\\nterdam. During the same year Mr. Van Winckel,\\ntogether with fourteen others of the original band of\\nemigrants, purchased of the New Jersey proprietors,\\nfor the sum of fifty pounds and the annual |)ayment\\nof the sum of fourteen i ounds of sterling money, a\\ntract of land upon the Passaic River, known by the\\nname of Acquackanonk. The death of Walling Ja-\\ncobs occurrtKl in 1725, his son, Jacob Wallingsie,\\nhaving succeeded to the estate. He operated ex-\\ntensively in land, and, together with his son. Johan-\\nnis Jacobsie Van Winckel (afterwarils known as\\nJohn Jacob Van WinkleJ, purchased large tracts of\\nland in Rergcn County, having at the same time sold\\nportions of the Acquackanonk property. Isaac Van\\nWinkle, a son of .John Jacob, was born in 17(j7, on\\nthe spot now familiarly known as the Santiago Place,\\nat Rutherford, Union township, where lie later be-\\ncame an extensive landed proprietor. He was united\\nin marriage to Hester, daughter of George Van Gie-\\nsen, whose father, John Van Giesen, was a titled\\nEnglish officer. Their son, Daniel, the subject of\\nthis biographical sketch, was born .March 9, ISUi.\\nHis boyhood was pa.ssed at the home of his father in\\nBergen County, no incidents having transpired to\\nmake this period an eventful one. He was in 1848\\nmarried to Miss Sarah, daughter of Ebenezer Cundict,\\nof Morristown, to whom were born sons\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Arthur W.,\\nIsaac, Stephen Condict, Dewilt T., and Charles and\\ndaughters, Sarah Klizabeth and Cliarlotle C.\\nThe life of Mr. Van Winkle has been one of un-\\nceasing activity. His business career was begun with\\na capital of but two hundred dollars, his first com-\\nmercial venture being an extensive contract, which\\nrei|uired nut only astute business calculation but ex-\\ncessive appliuition. The qualities he brought Ut", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0492.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0493.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "II", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0494.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "KIDGEWOOD.\\n309\\nbear at this time won for him success, which inspired\\nhim with confidence for future undertakings.\\nHe next became a purchaser of real estate on\\ncredit, for which his frugality and tact enabled him\\nto pay before the expiration of the year.\\nThe death of his father made him the jiossessor of\\nland, which was cultivated to advantage and rendered\\nboth productive and profitable. Having a desire to\\nbecome more familiar with the Pacific coast, he soon\\nafter embarked for California, and while en route was\\nwrecked off Acapulco, Mexico. He, however, es-\\ncaped serious danger, and continuing his tour through\\nthe Pacific States and Territories, eventually reached\\nhome. This extended trip was, however, filled with\\nprivations and vicissitudes which served in a remark-\\nable degree to develop the good sense, fortitude, and\\nunselfish character of the subject of this sketcb, traits\\nwhich have in many instances been exemplified in\\nlater life. In 18(30, Mr. Van Winkle secured the\\nKip and Cutwater property at Boiling Spring (now\\nRutherford). Together with other purchases, he con-\\ntrolled about 3(10 acres, and discerning that the tide\\nof progress must inevitably flow in this direction, he\\norganized with others a stock company for the sale of\\nlots. Subscriptions to the amount of three hundred\\nthousand dollars were readily obtained, and very\\nsoon the thriving village of Rutherford was the re-\\nsult of this successful and enterprising venture. The\\nattention of Mr. Van Winkle and other Christian\\ngentlemen was soon after called to the spiritual wants\\nof the little community, and a union Sabbath-school\\nwas organized, which formed the nucleus around\\nwhich centred the various churches of the place.\\nCircumstances induced his removal at a later period\\nto East Passaic, where he became the purchaser of an\\nextensive tract of valuable land. For this during\\nthe depressed condition of real estate there was no\\ndemand, but a later advance has greatly enhanced its\\nvalue and enabled him to sell it at very profitable\\nfigures. The patriotic instincts of early members of\\nthe family have been transmitted, and manifested\\nthemselves to a marked degree during the war of the\\nRebellion, when Mr. Van Winkle emphasized his\\nloyalty by liberal gifts to the government. In poli-\\ntics he was early imbued with the principles of the\\nOld-Line Whig party, and at a later date found the\\nplatform of the Republican party in harmony with\\nhis views. His religious creed is that of the Re-\\nformed Church, the church of his Dutch ancestors.\\nMr. Van Winkle s tastes lead him to follow the\\npursuits of agriculture, and much of his life is spent\\namid the quiet scenes of his own home. Here, free\\nfrom the distractions of the busy world, and sur-\\nrounded by all the tranquilizing and ennobling in-\\nfluences of nature, he leads the life of a Christian\\ngentleman.\\nCHAPTER XLIV.\\nRIDGEWOOD.\\nRiDGEWOOD is one of the smallest of the townships\\nof the county. It is bounded on the north by Ho-\\nhokus, south by Saddle River township, east by the\\nSaddle River, and west by Franklin township and\\nPassaic County. Its accessible distance from New\\nYork, together with the salubrity of the climate and\\nits great natural beauty, have made it a desirable point\\nof residence. This fact has attracted many city gen^\\ntlemen to the township, who have by their taste and\\nmeans contributed greatly to its development. Many\\nof the older families have been settlers since the\\nperiod prior to the Revolutionary war, and are still\\noccupying the land, which has passed through succes-\\nsive generations. The chief point of historic interest\\nis the old Paramus Church, which had its first incep-\\ntion in 1725, and which is said to have been the scene\\nof the marriage of Aaron Burr to the Widow Provost.\\nThe township is traversed by two railroads, the Erie\\nRailroad, with a station at Ridgewood, and the Mid-\\nland Railroad, which has a deimt at Midland Park.\\nThe latter passes through the southeast corner of the\\ntownship, while the former pursues its course nearly\\nthrough the centre. The amount raised by tax in\\nthe township during the last year was $9677, which\\nwas apportioned as follows county tax, $2272 bounty\\ntax, $1471 poor and township tax, .$1070; State and\\nschool tax, $112.5 road tax, $1500 special school tax,\\n$2239.\\nNatural Features. The township, as has already\\nbeen observed, is remarkable for its diversity of scenery\\nand great natural beauty. The soil varies in localities,\\nclay of a heavy nature predominating at times, wiiile\\nsand in other parts chiefly abounds. Adjacent to the\\nvillage of Ridgewood a strong clay mixed with muck\\nis apparent, while sand is more abundant in the south-\\neast, as also in the northeast. Very little gravel is\\nfound in these localities. The land of a portion of the\\ntownship is divided into ridges, with streaks of clay\\nbetween. The meadow-land in the valley and along\\nthe brooks is exceedingly fertile and highly cultivated.\\nThe principal products of the township are fruits,\\nberries, and such other garden products as find a ready\\nmarket in New York. Very little grain is raised,\\nthough the land is well adapted to corn, wheat, and\\nrye. The timber is principally oak and chestnut.\\nRidgewood is amply watered, the Saddle River flowing\\nalong its eastern boundary, while the Hohokus Brook\\nmeanders nearly through its centre. Each of these\\nstreams are fed by small tributaries.\\nEarly Settlements. The names that figured most\\nprominently in tlie early history of Ridgewood town-\\nship were those of Hopper, Van Dien, Van Emburgh,\\nBogert, Zabriskie, Banta, Van Derbeck, Van Houten,\\nDe Baun, and Ackerman. Many of these families\\nare still represented by their descendants, while the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0495.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "310\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nproperty of others has been disposed of to city pur-\\nchasers in search of suburban liomes.\\nThe earliest recollected member of the Van Dien\\nfamily wxs Albert, who resided upon the land now-\\noccupied by Lawrence Snyder, and which he in-\\nherited. He was united in marriage to a Miss Van\\nBuskirk, and had children, Sarah (Mrs. Bernard\\nRyer), Garrit, John, and Maria (Mrs. Cornelius Ben-\\nson). Garrit located east of the village of Ridge-\\nwood, and married a daughter of Casparus Demarest.\\nTheir children were Albert, Rachel (Mrs. Jacob T.\\nBanta), Maria (Mrs. Abram Carlock), John, Gather- i\\nine (Mrs. J. T. Banta), Caspar, and Garrit G. Of\\nthis number Caspar, Garrit G., John, and Mrs. Banta\\nreside in the township.\\nCornelius Bogert was of Holland descent, and re-\\nsided in the township of Washington. His three\\nsons were John, Jost, and Casparus. Jost married\\nMaria Zabriskie, of Paramus, and had two children, j\\nCornelius and Aletta. Cornelius married Catharine\\nGarrison, and settled in Paramus. He had three\\nsons, John C, Josiah, and Albert Z. John C. is a\\nresident of Ridgewood, having settled upon land\\nwhich his fatlier urchase(l in ISK) adjacent to the\\nParamus Church.\\nAmong the oldest names in the township is that of\\nHopper, several branches of which are still repre-\\nsented. They are of Holland extraction. Of the\\nfamily now represented by Garrit A. and Samuel\\nthere were originally seven brothers, John, a cap-\\ntain during the war of the Revolution, Jonathan, i\\nPeter, Abram, Garrit A., Henry, and Isaac. Capt.\\nJohn settled at Hohokus; Jonathan lived at River\\nSide, anil wa.- during the conflict for liberty slain by\\nthe British in liis own house; Henry served in the\\narmy, and while on a fnrlougli also met death bravely\\nat the hands of the enemy; Abram resided in Frank-\\nlin, while Isaac and Garrit A. both remained upon\\nthe homestead. The latter married Catharine Cooper,\\nand had children, Albert G., Kacliel I Mrs. Thomas\\nVan Buskirk), and Maria I Mrs. Henry Brevoorti.\\nGarrit A. was born and died upon the homestead\\natill in possession of his grandson of the same name.\\nHis son, Albert G., married Maria Brevoort, of Ar-\\neola, to whom were born children, (rarrit A., Sam-\\nuel, Catharine (Mrs. Stephen Bogert), who are living,\\nand Henry, John Cooper, and Christian, who are de-\\nceased. The death of Albert Hopper occurred in\\n18. Ilin sons, Garrit A. and Samuel, now reside in\\nthe village of Ridgewood.\\nAnother branch of the family is represented by\\nGarrit Hopper, the grandfather of iarrit I., now a\\nresident of Riilgewood. The former, who rcside l in\\nHohokus, hail sons, William, John, Christian, An-\\ndrew, and Jonathan. John had seven children, of\\nwhom one, John I., resides in the township. Another\\nbranch, who originally settled in Saddle River, is rep-\\nresented by Peter J. Hop|)er.\\nThe first member of the Ackcrnian familv recalled\\nis David, who was of Holland lineage, and resided on\\nthe homestead now occui)ied by Garrit G. Ackerman,\\nwhich is but a portion of a large tract of land owned\\nby him at a very early day. David had sons, David,\\nPeter, John, and Garrit D. John is a resident of\\nNew York State, Peter and David are deceased, and\\nGarrit D. resides in Paterson, his estat* being now\\noccupied by his son, (Jarrit D. David had a son,\\nCornelius, whose family now reside on the homestead\\nof their late father.\\nThe grandfather of Daniel Ackerman, another\\nmember of the family, was Abrara, who resided in\\nHohokus. He was united in marriage to Sallie\\nCooper, and had children, John A., Henry A., and\\nPolly. .John A. resided upon the homestead until\\n1814, when he removed to Ridgewood, on the farm at\\npresent oecu|iied by Daniel Ackerman, where he wa.s\\nboth farmer and distiller. He married Bridget Wes-\\ntervelt, to whom were born four children, Abram,\\nDaniel, Eliza (Mrs. John Marinus), and Polly (Mrs.\\nElias Seaman).\\nJacob Van Derbeck was born in the township, on\\nthe land now occupied by Jacob Carlock, whose wife\\nwas a granddaughter of Mr. Van Derbeck. He mar-\\nried Lydia Van Bussom and had sons, Abram and\\nHarmanis, both of whom lived within the township\\nlimits. Harmanis married Jane l?anta and had chil-\\ndren, Lydia, Jacob, Henry, John, Sarah, ornclius,\\nJames, and (Jarrit. Of these, John and Sarah (Mrs.\\nGarrit A. Hopper) reside in Ridgewood, also a daugh-\\nter of Abram (Mrs. Jacob Carlock). Jacob, a son of\\nAbram, resides in Hackensack, and a daughter in\\nWest Virginia. Another branch of the family is\\nrepresented by Peter P., the son of James Van Der-\\nbeck.\\n(iarrit Hopper, the great-grandfather of Thomas,\\nnow living on the homestead, resided in New Barba-\\ndoes township during the war of the Revolution. He\\nhad sons, Albert, Andrew, and Henry. The latter\\nsettled in Ridgewood and married Itachel Zabriskie,\\nto whom were born four children, (iarrit, Albert,\\nJacob, and a daughter, Mrs. Richard Snyder. Garrit\\nresided upon the land of his father, having married\\nMary Snyder, to whom were born children, Thomas,\\na daughter, I{achel, who Uccanie Mrs. .Mbert Voohris,\\nand another, who married John Garrison. Thomas\\nis still a resident of the original projierty purclnised\\nby his grandfather. Still another branch is that to\\nwhich Henry Hopper, of Ridgewood, belongs, wIuhc\\nfather was .\\\\ndrew IL Hopper, formerly a miller.\\nAndrew, Cornelius, and Thomas Van Dien were\\nearly settlers in the township. Andrew married\\nSarah Van Buskirk, and bad one son. Richard, who\\nmarried Eleanor Paulison and bad children, An-\\ndrew, John, and Sarah, all of whom grew to mature\\nyears and are living in the township. The grand-\\ndaughter of Andrew first named is a resident of\\nSailille UiviT. Cornelius had one son, (Jarrit, whose\\nson Richard now resides in the town^^hip.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0496.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "RIDGEWOOD.\\n311\\nRev. David Marinus came at an early date from his\\nnative Holland and located in Bergen County, having\\nmarried into the Dubois family. He had cliildren,\\nDavid, John, and Hannah. John settled in Saddle\\nRiver, and David chose a location on the line between\\nSaddle River and Ridgewood. He married Ellen\\nGarrison and had children, John, Ann, Jacob,\\nD.ivid, Andrew, Mary J., Garrit, and Henry. Of\\nthis number Ann, who became Mrs. Abram Courter,\\nreside.s in Passaic County, and John is the only\\nmember of the family remaining in the township.\\nThe Terhunes are of Holland ancestry, Albert\\nliaving purchased land in Ridgewood, where he set-\\ntled. Among his children were Jacob, John, and\\nMartin. The latter married Margaret Ackeruian, and\\nbecame the father of seven children, of whom T. B.\\nTerhune now resides in the township.\\nThe Van Emburghs are an early family, having\\nemigrated from Holland and settled in New Jersey.\\nTlie name of the first member of the family who came\\nto Bergen County is not remembered. His son Henry\\nmarried a Miss Voorhees and had children, John,\\nHenry, Albert, Peter, Ralph, George, and three\\ndaughters. George, Peter, and Ralph settled in\\nRidgewood, where they were land-owners and men of\\nenterprise. Peter and George are the only survivors,\\nthe former being a resident of Ridgewood and the\\nlatter of Paterson.\\nThe Zabriskie family are among the earliest settlers\\nhere as elsewhere in the county. The great-grand-\\nfather of Abram J. was one of the sons of Albert, the\\nprogenitor of the race in America. His son, Henry\\nH., married with the Bogert family, and a second time\\na Miss Hopper. By the first alliance were children,\\nCornelius, Jacob, Abram, and Helen, who became\\nMrs. Peter Terhune. Jacob was united to Ann,\\ndaughter of John Hopper, of Ramapo, and had seven\\nsons and three daughters. The sons were Henry,\\nJobn, Cornelius, William, Jacob, Guilliani, and\\nAbram. Cornelius and Abram reside in the town-\\nship, the latter being the occupant of the homestead\\nof his father. Two sons of John, named Guilliam J.\\nand Henry, are also residents of Ridgewood.\\nSchools. The school territory of Ridgewood is\\ndivided into three districts, and was formerly em-\\nbraced in that of Franklin ton nship. These are\\nRidgewood Grove, No. 44; Paramus Church, No. 45\\nand Ridgewood, No. 61.\\nRidgewood Grove, No. 44, is located in the southern\\nportion of the township, and includes a part of Saddle\\nRiver. The original school building in this district\\nwas constructed of stone, about ninety years ago, and\\nlocated near the division line between Franklin (at\\nthat date) and Saddle River townships, a short dis-\\ntance south of the residence of Garrit I. Hopper.\\nThis building was used until its destruction by a gale\\nof wind in 1824, the authorities not deeming it prac-\\nticable to restore the structure. Another was imme-\\ndiately erected upon lands of Paul Van Derbeck and\\nused until 1864, when the district was incorporated\\nand the present brick edifice built at the Grove, on\\nlands of Henry P. Hopper. It is twenty-two by\\nthirty -five feet in dimensions, one story high, valued\\nat S1800, and capable of seating fifty children. The\\npresent instructor is George A. De Baun.\\nParamus Church, No. 45, is located in a beautiful\\nsection, on the eastern portion of the township. Its\\nboundaries have been slightly altered at various times,\\nthough not sufficiently to affect materially its dimen-\\nsions.\\nThe exact date of the formation of this district and\\nthe establishment of a school therein cannot be ascer-\\ntained, but it seems a well-authenticated fact that\\nsome organization for school purposes existed here\\nsoon after the forming of the First Reformed Church\\nof Paramus, which took place one hundred and fifty\\nyears ago, or about the year 1730. Indeed, it seems\\nprobable that the two societies formed parts of one\\nplan, since the school building is known to have occu-\\npied a portion of church ground for nearly one hun-\\ndred years by the mutual though tacit consent of the\\nconsistory. There also exi.sts a tradition to the effect\\nthat a condition in the original grant of land from\\nMrs. Valleau to the church provided that room should\\nalways be given upon said land for the school. Some\\nyears since a disagreement in regard to certain privi-\\nleges caused a thorough search of the records, which\\nfailed to reveal such a grant, or any mention of the\\nschool whatever. Yet enough weight was given this\\ntradition to influence the consistory to give the trus-\\ntees a free lease in perpetuity of the ground now oc-\\ncupied for school purposes on the occasion of the\\nbuilding of the present structure, nine years ago.\\nThe first definite information obtained is of a school\\ntaught in the year 1785, in a small building, formerly\\na dwelling, which was located about fifty feet south-\\neast of the present church edifice. A perceptible\\ndcpre^ssion still marks the spot. The parents of per-\\nsons still living attended school here. In the year\\n1810 the location seems to have been changed, and a\\nsmall stone house was erected for school purposes\\nnear the house lately built for the sexton of the\\nParamus Church. Recollection has preserved the\\nname of but one teacher, a Mr. Westervelt, probably\\na resident of the county. The earliest teachers\\nthroughout the neighborhood were of Irish descent,\\nand at a later period New England, and especially\\nMassachusetts, was represented in the profession.\\nFor years after the custom of boarding round con-\\ntinued, and each family in turn offered hospitality\\nto the teacher. In the year 1820 a second stone\\nschool building was erected about two hundred feet\\neast of the present structure, which in the year 1845\\ngave place to a frame edifice on nearly the same\\nground, and, like its predecessors, was built by sub-\\nscription. This was limited in dimensions, low,\\nbadly ventilated, and furnished in the rudest manner.\\nThe door opened from the rear upon the highway.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0497.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "31:\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nNti. l....PctorO. liopp\u00c2\u00abr.\\n2....J T. I!..[.i..T.\\n3.. ..J. R, Vftii Il.-an.\\n4....rajii t r I). Van Ppnii.\\n/i....GBrret II. Van Dfiin.\\nG....Abriirii It. Ackorninn.\\n7.... A. J. Zaiirlhklo.\\nS.-.-OlHunl Whilionuur.\\n9....\\\\Viii. J. ViilcntiiiP.\\n10. .0. Acktrm^n.\\nNo. 11....J. W. SpikerlHjor.\\nli-.-UolKTl U wl8.\\nl;J....A. Sniitli.\\n14....\\nIfi.. .tinrrrt K. .Stivdcr.\\nIfl... J. W. B. IMp lor\\n17. ...John IV Mnriiiui.\\n16....GeorKo Hopper.\\nl9....noiiry Mulder.\\nand among the sheds connected with the church. It\\nwas hardly possible for the large number of scholars\\nwho were in attendance at this period to obtain\\nstanding-room, though no other conveniences were\\nefteeted until the erection of the present commodious i\\nand complete edifice. This present building is at-\\ntractive in its design, thirty-two by sixty feet in di-\\nmensions, with ample seating capacity, and cost four\\nthousand six hundred dollars. The present teacher\\nis Henry Bingiiam. I\\nRidgewood District, No. 61, is located west of the\\ncentre of the township, and embraces the village of\\nRidgewood. It was formed April 17, 1872, and\\nformerly included portions of the districts of God-\\nwinville, Hohokus, and iSmall Lots. A commodious\\nbuilding Wiis erected on the formation of the district.\\nIt is of wood, two stories high, and was paid for by\\ntax upon the residents. The present teachers are\\nMisses Margaret Marinus and Maggie Duffield.\\nEarly Highways.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Xo very definite information\\nregarding the early highways is at command. The\\nearliest remembered road is the Godwinville road,\\nwliich entered the township on the west side, made a\\ndetour to the north, and again to the east across the\\ntownship, where it intersected the Paramus road.\\nThis highway was associated with the historic days of\\nthe Revolntion. Another road had its beginning at\\nthe highway described above, and following a south-\\nerly course through the southwest part of the town-\\nship, intersected the old Wagara road near the Passaic\\nRiver.\\nThe Paramus road, running from Pompton to Ho-\\nboken, and which was the thoroughfare of the old\\nGoshen and Hoboken stage-line, has been elsewhere\\ndescribed. It run parallel witii the east township line,\\nand curving to the west entered the northeast portion\\nof Ridgewood, and deviating again to the north\\npassed into Hohokus. The road territory of the\\ntownship is divided into nineteen districts, over\\nwhom are appointed the folb wirig overseers:\\nDUtrlct. Diutricl.\\nOrganization. The net organizing the township\\nreads as follows\\nAn Act tn rficW* Ote TovnMhip of FrattkliH, I li Ihe Oounlp of Bergen.\\n1. Ik it en-irtfti ftp the adnata and Genrral Aurmblp of the Slat^ of Seu\\nJ^nen, Thftt all thnt part of tlifl towiiHhIp of Franklin, In Uie county of\\nBerKon, lyliiK w*utlii ajit\u00c2\u00ab rly of a dlvlilon lino deecrlbod as followi: be-\\nginning In lhf\u00c2\u00ab riuuuiic County lino at tin* liotrl of Al*ram Coe, and In the\\ncvntrr uf the (fudw|nv|]|A mACAfUmlrtNl rooil, nnd rnnnlng thence north-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2wt^rly along uild road to it* lntT io ttun wllli the New Jen oy Blldland\\nRailrond ilif ncr oinilnulng nurtlioaalorly In a direct lino to lh\u00c2\u00ab centrv\\nof (h(\u00c2\u00ab pnldir roAd li iidlnK frunt Midlnnd Pnrk t llohnknt; thonro ron-\\nUnulnKnurtti4 iuitorly al tiK tlii rentinof \u00c2\u00abald riad to lit in(cr\u00c2\u00ab ct|on with\\nth\u00c2\u00ab puhllc road loading from Garret I. lluppcr t\u00c2\u00bb White Mltla; and\\nIhanoe norUiurly along Uie centre of said last*meatloned road and the\\nroad leadlDg to Allendale to the Hohokus Brook and weal line of the\\ntowntthip of Hohokus, shall t*e and i^ hereby set off fn ni the said town*\\nship of Franklin and made a new and separate township, to lie known by\\nthe name of the township of Kidgewood.\\n2. And be U enacted, That the inhitbllants of the said ti. wnship of\\nKidgewcxMl shall e and they are hereby made and constituted a body\\nIKililic and corporate in law, and ihitll be known by the name of the\\nluhabjtnnts of the Township of llitlge\\\\voi. d,in the County of Dergeu, and\\nshall bo entitled U* all the rights, pt\u00c2\u00bbw em, nutliority, and privileges con-\\nferred upon the inhabitants of the Si veral lownii)ii|\u00c2\u00ab uf this State by an\\nact entitled An act to authorize the inhabitants of the sevfral town-\\nships of this State to vote by Inllot at their owu meetings, approved\\nMarch twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eixty.*\\n3. And br U enacted. That the inhabitants of the township of Frank-\\nlin, as remaining after the [tassngetif this act, shall hold their next town-\\nship election at the hotel of John I*. Ramsey, Jr., at Wyckoff, and afttT-\\nwurdii in each year at such phice as nhall bi* designated at tludr preceding\\nannual tuwrn^liip election at the time fixed by law; and at the said first\\ntownship election Daniel D. Depew, Juhn Z. Goi tMchius, aud Samuel Coe\\nshall act as judges, and John W. Ackerman shall act as clerk of the said\\nfirst election.\\n4. And be U enacted. That the InhaUtanls of the township of Ridge-\\nwood shall hold their first annual election at the Ridgewo H| Hotel, at\\nRldgewot^Hl, and afterwards In each ye^ir at such place as the iriliat itants\\nof said township shall at their preceding annual township meeting de-\\ntermine, at the tiiur tixi d by law for the annual township election in Ihe\\nsaiil towMfliip of Franklin and at the said linil towntihip eU ciion Deu-\\njamhi F. Uol iiiM)n, Whitman I hillips. and John R.Snyder shall act as\\nJudges, and Theodore V. Terhune shall act as clerk of said election.\\n5. And be it emtcted. That the township commit teeiii of saiil tt^iwnships\\nof Franklin and RidgewootI, elected at the said firNi eh-cliou, ref r lively\\nshall meet on the fourth Monday of April next at the hotel of Altram\\nHopper, at Ridgewood, at Ion o clock In the foreiuHin, and afterwards, if\\nnece\u00c2\u00absary, at such times and places as the majority of those pri-sent may\\ndetermine, aud then and there, by writing, signeil by a majority of said\\ncommittees, allot and divide between said townshiits such pR i erty. If\\nany, \u00c2\u00bbs may be owni-d by the present township of Franklin, and also such\\nmoneys and assets as may bo on hand or due or to l ei ome due to said\\ntownship, in proportion to the taxable property and mteables in said\\ntownship respectively, as shall l e detennined by the Inst As\u00c2\u00bbe\u00c2\u00bbsment of\\ntaxes of the fi rmer township of Franklin; and each of the said town*\\nships shall be and renniln liablo to pay Its ju\u00c2\u00bb t prii|K rtion ol the debts\\nand obligations of the present township of Frariklin, according tu said\\nlast assessment, as tin vuvil debts and obllgalionn shall exist at the next\\nannual town-meeting, until the name are fully pahl and di^.-harged,\\nsuch proportion of such indebtedness to be assemcd on the Inhabitants\\nof said township respectivel}. In accordance with the laws now applicable\\nthereto; and each of said townships shall sup|Kirt the |vauperM x\\\\Iioh\u00c2\u00ab set-\\ntlement in or may I e within their lH unds respectively and If any of the\\nI enon8 coni|)oslng either of the said township couimltteea ithall refuse or\\nneglect to meet as aforeeaid, those assemble l may pp cee l to m ike suoh\\ndiviHion, and the declplou of a minority of those present shall bo final\\nand conclusive.\\n6. vlN f 6c if eiMiWed, That nothing in this act contained shall be con-\\nslrtied BO as lo Interfere with or Impair the cnmmiMlons of the justice*\\nof the peace or t f the comnilMloners for taking the acknowltnlgmenta\\nand proof of deeds until they shall expire by their own limitation, or to\\nM lo Imiialr the rights of the said township of Ridgewood in and to its\\nJust and legal proportion of the surplus revenue of the general govern-\\nment, and the Interest due or Incoming due thereon.\\n7. And be it eiinrted. That the said township of Ridgewood shall form\\na part of Ihe Second Aseembly District of thf county of Bergen as here-\\ntofore.\\nK. Andbe itena ^\u00c2\u00abd^ That this art shall take effect I ro medial*- ly.\\nApproved March 8(\u00c2\u00bb, 1870.\\nCivil List. The township officers since organiza-\\ntion have heen\\n1 76.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, riarret 0. Van Dien; Township (^lerk. Natlmniid R.\\nRnnco; Aasoaeor, John A. Marinus; Collector. James Zabrlskle;\\nTownship Coiumlllee, Cornelius J. Dogert, N. R. Bunce, Peter G.\\nHopper, Albert P. Hopper, Thomas TThune.\\n1877\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frt-eholdpr, (Jarret J. Van Dlen Townidilp Clerk, N. R. Hunce;\\nAaseosor, John A. Marinus; Collector, Jamee Zabrlskle; Township\\nCommittee, C ornellus J. Ib gen. Peter G. Hopper, Thomas Terbun*,\\nAlbert F. Hopper, John D. Ackerman.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0498.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "RIDGEWOOD.\\n313\\n1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholiler, Peter 0. Terliiine; Township Clerk, Natlianiel R.\\nBrnice; Assessor, John A. Blariniis; Collector, James Zabriskio;\\nTownship Cumniittee, Thomas Terhiine, J. A. Bogert, Artlmr H.\\nWalton, Abram L. Smith, Albert P. Hopper.\\n1879.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FreehoWer, James Zabriskie; Township Clerk, Arthur H.Wal-\\nton; Asse- isor, John A. Marinns; Collector, Whitman Phillips;\\nTownship Committee, Abram L. Smith, Thomas Watlington, Casper\\nT. Zabriskie.\\n1880.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frcolinldor, Peter 0. Terhunc; Township Clerk, .Arthur H. Wal-\\nton Assessor, John Marinns; Collector, Whitman Phillips;\\nTownship Committee, Williitm E. JIaltbie, Casper T. Zabriskie, W.\\nV. Carlock.\\n1881.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, Peter Terhune; Township Clerk, Arthur II. Wal-\\nton; Assessor, John A. Marinns: Collector, Whitman Phillips;\\nTownship Committee, Abram L. Smith, Benjamin F. Uobinson, Cor-\\nnelias P. Cronter.\\nRidgewood. Tlie only village in the township is\\nRidgewooil, better known in the early period of its\\nhistory as Godwinville, the land upon which it stands\\nhaving formerly belonged to the Hopper, Van Em-\\nburgh, and Westervelt families. The earliest effort\\nwhicli resulted in the development of a hamlet was\\nmade in 1853 by Samuel Dayton, who purchased a\\nportion of the Van Emburgh estate, and at a later\\nday liad it platted. The Paterson and Ramapo Rail-\\nroad was surveyed as early as 1846, and soon after\\nconstructed. This connected with the Erie Railroad\\nat Suffern s, and with the Patersou and Hud.son Rail-\\nroad at Paterson. In 1859 the residents of the vicinity\\nerected the first station building, and christened it\\nGodwinville. For many years the only structure in\\nthe vicinity was a house owned by George Van Era-\\nburgh, the remainder of the ground being either a\\nthick growth of underbrush or an extensive marsh.\\nThe first building erected after this date was occupied\\nby P. J. Hopper as a dwelling, and though its dimen-\\nsions were limited room was found in which to place\\na small stock of goods. Mr. Hopper may therefore\\nbe regarded as the pioneer in commercial enterprise.\\nIn 1860 there came an addition to the hamlet in the\\nadvent of several New York gentlemen, most of\\nwhom remain residents of the localit3 This had\\nbeen purely an agricultural region heretofore, but\\nwith the presence of this new element came activity\\nand enterprise. The influence of their ideas soon\\nmade itself apparent in the building of houses, the\\nimprovement of roads, the beautifying of lawns and\\ngardens, and the general air of refinement and taste\\nwhich pervaded the hamlet. Cornelius Shuitt pur-\\nchased a portion of the Westervelt property, and soon\\nafter laid it out in building lots, which found ready\\npurchasers. He also erected the first store, and was\\nthe second to embark in mercantile pursuits, his ven-\\nture being on a more extended scale than that of his\\npredeces.sor. The earliest hotel was built by John\\nW. Halsted, and in 1865 the society of the Episcopal\\nChurch erected a church building, which, being incon-\\nvenient in its location, was at a later date removed to\\na more accessible locality.\\nA post-office was also established in 1865, with Ben-\\njamin F. Robinson as postmaster. Garret G. Van\\nDien succeeded, July 29, 1867, and is still the incum-\\nbent. The name of Godwinville having proved in\\nmany ways unsatisfactory, a change wtvs advocated,\\nwhich met with strong opposition from the Erie Rail-\\nroad, that now controlled the railway interest for-\\nmerly belonging to the Peterson and Ramapo Com-\\npany. They were, however, after a persistent .struggle,\\ninduced to adopt the more euphonious name of Ridge-\\nwood. The village has slowly increased in popula-\\ntion, and has now stores, churches, a public school,\\nand many attractive residences. It is a convenient\\nretreat for New York business men rather than the\\nscene of commercial activity, and for that rea.son its\\nrapid advance may not be looked for.\\nThe present factory was built by the heirs of John\\nR. Terhune in 1873, near the spot formerly occupied\\nby three other factories within a period of twenty-one\\nyears. The first building was used as a grist-mill for\\nnearly half a century, and in February, 1853, was de-\\nstroyed by fire. A new frame building was erected\\nthe same year, and leased to J. J. Zabriskie for a cot-\\nton-mill. This again was consumed by the flames in\\n1859. In 1866 ground was broken for a new frame\\nstructure, which was leased to Edwin Taylor, of Ken-\\nsico, N. Y., for manufacturing purposes.\\nIn 1873 this was also a victim to the fiery element,\\nand the same year the present factory was built, and\\nleased to The Peerless Manufacturing Company in\\n1879 for the manufacture of rubber goods. It is con-\\nstructed of brick, is two stories in height, and has a\\nwheel-house of the same material adjacent. Both\\nsteam- and water-power are employed, and all classes\\nof soft rubber goods, such as hose, mats, springs, etc.,\\nare made. The market is found in New York, where\\nthe products of the factory enjoy an enviable reputa-\\ntion.\\nFidelity Lodge, No. 113, F. and A. M., located in\\nthe village of Ridgewood, was organized first at Ho-\\nhokus Station, under and by virtue of a dispensation\\ngranted by M. W. Robert Rusling, Grand Master,\\ndated Oct. 17, a.l. 5870, a.d. 1870, and was set at\\nwork by R. W. William E. Pine, D. G. M., on Nov.\\n7. A.L. 5870.\\nA warrant was granted by the M. W. Grand Lodge\\nof New Jersey at its annual communication held Jan.\\n18 and 19, a.l. 5871, and the lodge was constituted\\nby R. W. James V. Bentley, J. G. W., on Jan. 27, a.l.\\n5871, the warrant delivered being numbered 113.\\nThe oflicers named in the warrant were John M.\\nKnapp, W. M. Robert B. Cable, S. W. and John I.\\nDemarest, J. W.\\nThe ofiicers for the year a.l. 5881 are John F.\\nCruse, W. M. Garret G. Van Dien, P. M., S. W.\\nJohn M. Knapp, J. W. John A. Marinus, P. M.,\\nTreas. Joseph W. Edwards, P. M., Sec. Abraham\\nAckerman, S. D. Peter J. Mabie, J. D. George\\nMorrison, Edward A. Stansfield, M. of C. Isaac Wor-\\ntendyke, Chap. Horace Holcomb, Marshal John A.\\nAckerman, Tyler.\\nManufacturings Interests.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Holt s Turk-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0499.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "314\\nHISTOUV OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nish towel manufactory was established in 1879 for\\nthe manufacture of Turkisli towels, binding, etc. The\\nfactory contains eight towel-looms and four binding-\\nlooms, employs sixteen men and women, and has a\\ncapacity of fifty dozen towels ])er day and forty gross\\nof binding. The material is purchased in New York,\\nand a market is also found in that city for the prod-\\nucts of the mill, which is run by water-jiower.\\nThe woolen-mills of G. Morrow Son were estab-\\nlished in 1853, and are located in the southeast corner\\nof Ridgewood, on the Midland Railroad. They are\\nexclusively devoted to the manufacture of woolen\\ncloths. They have two sets of machines, and employ\\nsix experienced operatives constantly. About five\\nhundred pounds of wool per week are worked, and\\nthe market for the products of the mill is found in\\nNew York City. The power is furnished by water.\\nChurches. The earliest record discovered alluding\\nto a church at Paramus is in a letter of Rev. Rein-\\nhart Erickson, in the year 172.5, to his brother-in-law,\\nHenricus Coens, then settled at Acquackanonk. In\\nit he states that he was then minister at Hackensack,\\nSchraalcnbergh, and Peremus. Dominie Erickson\\ncontinued to .serve this jjcople for three years, when\\nhe removed to Schenectady.\\nBefore this time the inhabitants, according to their\\nlocation, had attended the churches of Hackensack,\\nAwiuackanonk, or Tappan, which were united under\\nthe ministry of Rev. Guillam Hertholf, who labored\\nin these places from l(j94 to 1724. He, no doubt, oc-\\ncasioiiallv also lectured in the Paramus neighborhood.\\nFrom his lips fell the first words of gospel message in\\nthis region.\\nThe next documentary allusion to the church of\\nParamus is found in the archives of the consistory,\\nbearing date the 20th day of December, 1730, and is\\na paper signed tiy Peter Fauconier, containing a\\npromise of land to the consistory on which to build a\\nchurch. It appears from other records that Rev.\\nGeorge W. Mancius was settleil over Schraalenburgh\\nand Paratnus in 1731-32.\\nIt does not appear that there was any minister\\nsettled over this church for sixteen years after the\\ndeparture of Mancius. During this time, however,\\nit could not be that they remained destitute of\\nthe preaching of the gospel. No doubt they often\\ninvited the neighboring clergymen to come into\\ntheir midst and preach, and perhaps administer the\\nsacrament**; for during all this period the neigh-\\nboring churches were supplied with pastors. Dominic\\nMutzelius labored at Tappan from 172() to 17A0;\\nDominic Van Drieasen at Acquackanonk from 1735\\nto 1748 and Dominie Curtenius at Hackensack from\\n1737 to 1755, all of whom were within ten miles; and\\nit may be, although we have no record of the fact,\\nthat engagements were made with some, or at did er-\\ncnt times with all of these, to supply this congrega-\\ntion with regular, though not very freiiucnt, services.\\nIndeed, this is highly probable, if not certain, when\\nwe consider that during this period, in the year 1735,\\nthey erected their first church edifice, as appears from\\na note on the fly-leaf of the Old Doop Hook, the\\nbaptismal register, as follows:\\nDen 21 Dagh Van, April, 1735, is de Eerste Steen\\nVan de Kirk Geleyt that is, On the 21st day of\\nApril, 1735, was the first stone of the church laid.\\nThe baptismal record does not begin till 1740, al-\\nthough it is probable some of the first leaves are lost,\\nas the record was in a very dilapidated condition\\nuntil the consistory had it recently rebound.\\nOn the 15th of January, 1734, the consistory and\\ncongregation of Paramus Church assembled at the\\nhouse of Johannes Wynkoop, and the following per-\\nsons were chosen for the purpose of building a church\\nat Paramus, viz. Conradus Vanderbeck and Johannes\\nWynkoop. These jjcrsons were chosen by the above-\\nnamed consistory and congregation to further the\\nbuilding of the church at Paramus, and to promote\\nher best interests, according to the following articles\\nadopted by the church and congregation\\n1. The cliurch miutera stiall ot apart Koats for tho mfiilst\u00c2\u00abr and oou-\\nststory.\\n2. Tliuy Rliall set apart a M Ht for the Diinister s wife.\\n3. Peter Faucuilnicr shall have seats fur himself and wife fur a con-\\ntinual posseitslun for tliomnelves and their heirs. The^e shitll he exempt\\nfrom all charges hy the church, except tho niinistor fl salary, wi an ai--\\nknowledgment of their donation of the land on which tho church is\\nbuilt.\\n4. There holl remain five or six free seats for the old and doaf, where\\nthe church niiiHtcrs think best.\\nft. There slinll bo n\u00c2\u00aberved as many free seats as tho church masters\\nttiiiik best.\\nG. This resolution specifles that those who furnish materials or lalsir\\nshall iiave a fair valuation put upon them Ly the church masters.\\n7. Ejich builder shall keep an account of whiit each person furnlslo s\\nin money, materials, ur labor.\\n8. When the church H flnislied, it shall b\u00c2\u00ab computed how many seats\\nwill be left after the free Ncats have been selected.\\n0. After this, the persons wlio liavecontributeil the highest sum shall\\nli .ve the flmt choice in a seat, and so down to the lowest.\\n10. Those who have not given sufllclent to buy a seat can now In-\\ncrease the sum.\\n11. If two pemoiis have given an 0 )ual sum, and choose tho same\\nseat, they shall cast lots fur tho same.\\n12. Every person shall own his seat for himself and bis heirs, with\\nthe condition that when ho dies hl\u00c2\u00ab hoini shall keep up his salary if in\\ncircumstances to do St-i if not, he shall |)ay what he Is able.\\nl:i. If any Jiercon remove fnim the congregation, bo shall soil his\\nseal only to Nome one living In the congregation, who shall |\u00c2\u00bbay such\\nwibiry iu the consistory doi ni suitable.\\n14. If no one of the congregation wish to buy, they thou can sell to\\nany one they please.\\n15. Thoeo out of our bountls may procure seats on coDdltion that\\nthey |Miy a salary.\\nin. That if it Ira found tltat llio said church prove too small, and it\\nbe enlarged, no one shall break olT frvini the church of Paramus, as the\\nold builders nf SJiid church, or their heirs, but shall belong to said church;\\nthe majority of voles shall suggest [tlirect].\\n17. That no minister shall l e called to pre\u00c2\u00abcli in said church but\\nsuch as lielong to the llrfornied hurcli. If It shoubl be the wish of the\\ncongregation to bear a mlidster of the Ileformed Church, when it is nut\\nthe turn itf our minister here, or on anvnther occasion, it shall lie granted\\nto them U|K n the condition that the congregation shall make knowu\\ntheir re^piest to tile minister, with the consistory, or to the ruling con-\\nsistory, giving honor to whom it Is due. And If they shall find It good\\nfor the quiet of tho congregation, and deem It expedient, It shall l\u00c2\u00ab sub*\\nmitted to tho ruling consistory, and the iibl consistory, ot those who\\nhave Iteen In church service.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0500.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "RIDGEWOOD.\\n315\\nUpon these articles and conditions the first church\\nedifice was built. It was probably completed during\\nthe ensuing fall or winter. Like all the early Dutch\\nchurches, it was built of stone, with an octagonal\\nroof, and the steeple in the centre. There were no\\npews, such as we now have, but chairs, and the name\\nof each owner on the back of his chair. The bell-\\nrope came down to the centre of the church, where a\\ndarkey generally stood to call the worshipers together\\nwith his iron tongue.\\nDuring the Revolutionary war the church was used\\nfor various purposes, and it is said some British sol-\\ndiers were confined in it as prisoners. It was much\\ninjured, and required repairing. This old house\\nstood until the year 1800, when the present building\\nwas erected. It seems Peter Faucounier gave the\\nground where the church stands, but that Magda-\\nlene Valleau afterwards gave forty acres for a par-\\nsonage farm. Her deed bears date April 13, 1750.\\nFor these donations Peter Fauconier was to have\\ntwo seats, and Mrs. Valleau three. On the 21st of\\nAugust, 1748, Benjamin Van Der Linde received a\\njoint call from the churches of Peremes and the\\nPanne (Paramus and the Ponds). Dom. Antonius\\nCurtenius, of Hackensack, moderated the call.\\nIn the stipulations of this call he was required to\\npreach once each Sabbath, on the first and second\\nday of Christmas, on New- Year s day, on the first\\nand second days of Easter, on Ascension-day, and on\\nthe first and second of Whitsunday.\\nThe following members of the consistory signed\\nthe call to Dominie Van Der Linde Elders, Albert\\nVan Dien, Steve Terhuen, Jan Komyn, Barent Van\\nHoorn, Hendrik Van Aele, Raelof Van Houte\\nDeacons, Johannes Stek, Klaes Zabriski, Albert Bo-\\ngart, Simon Van Winkle, Cornelius Van Houte,\\nSteve Bogert.\\nThe salary promised was zestig pont, met pt-eekers-\\nplants en houf, sixty pounds, with parsonage and\\nwood afterwards it was increased to ninety-six\\npounds. This Van Der Linde was a distant relative\\nof the wife of the first Zabriskie that came to this i\\ncountry. He is said to have been a man of rather\\nmoderate preaching abilities, but noted for muscular\\npower and fleetness. He, with Elder Stephen Za-\\nbriskie, represented this church in the convention of\\n1771, which met to form the constitution of the Re-\\nformed Dutch Church of North America. He organ-\\nized the church at Saddle River as a branch of this\\nchurch, Jan. 7, 1778.\\nDominie Vanderlinde had labored here for almost\\nforty years, and began to feel the infirmities of age.\\nDuring all this time he had a double charge, the\\nchurches being situated ten miles apart. The pros-\\npect of a church at Saddle River, a part of his con-\\ngregation, would still increase his labors. The con-\\nsistory, therefore, wisely called a young man to assist\\nhim. This was the Rev. G. A. Kuypers, who had\\njust been licensed to preach the gospel. This is be-\\nlieved to have been in 1787, but there is no record\\nof it.\\nFifteen months after the formation of the church\\nat Saddle River, Mr. Kuypers, the colleague, received\\na call from the Collegiate Church of New York, and\\nwas dismissed from Paramus on the loth day of April,\\n1789. He continued connected with the church in\\nNew York till 1833, when he died.\\nThe venerable Vanderlinde did not long survive\\nthe departure of his youthful colleague. In less than\\nthree months after, July 8, 1789, he was called to a\\nbetter world. He had seen the congregation increase\\nand send out two branches, and a third about to start,\\nand yet retain undiminished vigor at home. This\\nfact speaks loudly in his praise. His labors must\\nhave been immense, as his congregation extended at\\nleast twenty miles east and west and fifteen miles\\nnorth and south. He must literally have worn out\\nin his Master s service. His bones were disinterred\\nin the year 1800 and placed beneath the pulpit of the\\npresent church edifice.\\nOn the 12th of December, 1790, Rev. Isaac Blau-\\nvelt was called to the church of Paramus, one year\\nand nine months after the decease of their last pastor.\\nHe officiated also at Saddle River, but Ponds was now\\nno longer connected with Paramus, but that church,\\nin connection with Ramapo and Clarkstown, in the\\nyear 1789 called Rev. Peter Leydt. In the year 1790,\\nMr. Blauvelt, though yet a young man, we find hon-\\nored by being chosen the president of General Synod\\nin their session at New York. He is said to have\\nbeen a popular preacher. It was in the summer of\\n1791 that the consistory built the former parsonage-\\nhouse for him.\\nSome of the old people still living remember recit-\\ning the catechism to him. Unfortunately, when he\\nhad been here about one year and a half he was\\ncharged with a crime for which he was suspended\\nfrom the ministry and from the communion of the\\nchui ch. From the time of Blauvelt s suspension, in\\nthe summer of 1792, until May, 1793, they were again\\nwithout a stated minister.\\nMr. Blauvelt moved to New Rochelle, and lived on\\nhis farm a consistent Christian. In 1824 he applied\\nto the General Synod to remove his susjjension. They\\ndid restore him to communion, but not to the minis-\\ntry. In May, 1793, Rev. William P. Kuypers was\\ncalled, and labored here until May, 1796, when he was\\nsuspended for charging Dr. Froeligh with stealing a\\nset of silver spoons. He was afterwards restored, for\\nin 1803 he settled in Boonton. Subsequently he was\\ninvited to the charge of the Presbyterian Church in\\nHempstead, L. I., in which he ministered about eight\\nyears. After this he labored as a missionary about\\nten years in the West and Southwest. He died in\\nDecember, 1851, in the seventy-ninth year of his age,\\nand after a service of more than fifty years in the\\nministry.\\nFrom May, 1796, until May, 1799, they were again", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0501.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "316\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AiND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nvacant, when the Rev. WilhelmuR Eltinge, then\\ntnenly-one years of age, became the pastor of this\\nchurch and that at Saddle River. In this connec-\\ntion he labored till 1811, when he gave up the joint\\ncall, ami contiDued his labors at Paranuis, without\\nany Ibniial call, until ISltJ. During the beginning of\\nhis ministry the present edifice was erected. He\\nthen received another joint call from this church and\\nthat at Totawa, in which connection he labored until\\nthe close of 1833. From this time until May, 1850,\\nhis labors were confined to this church and congre-\\ngation.\\nThe relation existing between this church and the\\nRev. W. Eltinge for fifty-one years was dissolved in\\nMay, 1850. His vigor, both of body and mind, began\\nto give way to the infirmities of age, till at length, on\\nthe 24th of June, 1851, he finished his work, entered\\nthe conflict with the last enemy, death, aiitl went to\\nhis reward.\\nThe following statement with regard to the church\\nunder Dominie Eltinge will be of interest Number\\nof families in congregation, 300; total of congrega-\\ntion, 2000; total in communion, 431.\\nOn the first Sabbath of January, 1851, Rev. Aaron\\nB. Winfield, having been called, began his labors.\\nDuring his ministry thirty-one were added to this\\nchurch on confession of their faith, and twenty-three\\nby certificate, making fifty-five. This union con-\\ntinued until Nov. 17, 185C, when he was called to his\\nreward. The church continued vacant until July 25,\\n1857, when Rev. Edward Tanjore Corwin received\\nand accepted a call. He remained for six years as\\npastor of the church, and closed his ministry in 1803.\\nThe facts regarding the later period of the church s\\nhistory are not so full and complete as is desirable.\\nRev. Mr. Ciirwin was succeeded in 18 )4 by Rev. J.\\nS. De Mund, who remained until 1870, when a call\\nwas extended to Rev. Goyn Talniage, D.D., and ac-\\ncepted in 1871, when he wsi-s instiilled a-s pastor, and\\ncontinued his ministry until 1879. During liis pres-\\nence with the people a large and attractive parsonage\\nwas erected near the church, and in 1874 the old\\nstone churi ii edifice, built in 1811(1, was remodeled\\nand modernized. The main walls of the building\\nwere left, but in all other respects the structure wits\\nwholly changed, galleries were added, and a seating\\ncafiacity of five hundred etfected by this addition.\\nIn 1874 u eommotlious building, containing Sabbath-\\n8chool-room, consistory-room, and kitchen, was also\\nerected. The church is now the possessor of a valu-\\nable property, including the church building, cliapel,\\nparsonage and farm, sexton s house, and Valleau\\nCemetery, all free of incumbrance.\\nRev. Dr. Talniage having, in 1879, accepted a call\\nto Port Jervis, N. v., the present pastor. Rev. J. C.\\nVan Dcvcnter, was installed the same year.\\nThe True lieformcd Church at I aramus was organ-\\nized Jan. 11, 1828, by Rev. Solomon Froeligh, to-\\nI gether with Elders Simon Demarest and Peter Dem-\\narest, the committee apiwiuted by the Classis of\\nHackensack for the purpose. They were petitioned\\nby twenty-five members of the Reformed (Dutch)\\nChurch to be organized into a congregation under\\nthe care of the Classis of Hackensack, assigning as a\\nreason the following facts embodied in their petition\\nWe, the undersigned, having for a long time lamenteti\\nthe laxiiess of discipline and the indiscriminate ad-\\nministration of the sacraments to believers and un-\\nbelievers in the Reformed Dutch) Church in general,\\nand in this congregation in particular, and the prev-\\nalence of the Hopkinsian errors of general atonement\\nand natural ability, with no effort made to arrest\\ntheir progress, and also refusing any eflectual meas-\\nure to arrest them, have finally determined to sepa-\\nrate ourselves from our former connection and to be-\\ncome a congregation of the body called and lately\\norganized The True Reformed Church of North\\nAmerica.\\nThe society was, in accordance with this petition,\\nduly organized, and the pastors who have in succes-\\nsion ministered to the congregation arc sus follows:\\nRev. James G. Brinkerholi; settled Dec. 21, 1828:\\nRev. Abram Van Houten, settled Nov. 1, 1857; Rev.\\nIsaac J. De Baun, settled March 30, 1868 Rev. Abram\\nVan Houten, settled May 1, 1878, who still devotes\\none-half of his time to labor in this field. The first\\nhouse of worslii]) was erected at New Prospect, now\\nHohokus. It having proved less spacious than was\\ndesired, a meeting of the congregation was held the\\nI 27th of February, 1858, to consider plans for en-\\nlarging the edifice. Peter J. Hopper offered to the\\ncongregation at this juncture an acre and a half of\\nground at Paranuis, provided the church were re-\\nmoved and erected at the latter point. At a meeting\\nheld on the 15th of March his ofler wa-s accepted,\\nand the present buihling erected. The membership\\nof the church is forty-two, and the number of families\\nin attendance upon the services fifty-six. The average\\nattendance is about two hundred. The Sabbath-school\\nis in a prosperous condition, with fifty names upon\\nits roll.\\nAs early as Sept. 1, 1873, services were begun\\nwithout a regular congregation. These gatherings\\n)iartook more of the character of union meetings\\nunder the direction of the Board of Domestic Mis-\\nsions of the Reformed Church. Application was\\nmade in 1875 by twenty-five persons, among whom\\nwere E. Jardine, J. M. Knapp, Henry A. Ho|)per, G.\\nG. Van Dien, William Gill, and others, to he organ-\\nized into a church, and this a[iplication wsis granted\\nby the Cla.ssis of Paranuis. A committee authorized\\nby Classis accor lingly met at Sliuart s Hnll, May 24,\\n1875, and the following persons, having been received\\nby certificate, were organized as the First Reformed\\nChurch of Ridgewood, N.J. E lward Jardine, from\\nChurch of the Puritans f Presbyterian), New York", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0502.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "RIDGEWOOD.\\n317\\nCity Mrs. Mary C. Jardine, from Reformed Church,\\nHarlem, New York Edward H. Leggett, from\\nChurch of the Puritans (Presbyterian), New York\\nCity Jno. M. Knapp, Esq., from Second Reformed\\nChurch, Hackensack, N. J. Cornelius Z. Berdan,\\nMargaret R. Ackerman (wife of C. Z. Berdan), Mar-\\ngaret A. Van Orden (wife of Henry A. Hopper),\\nRachel S. Hopper (daughter of above), from Re-\\nformed Church, Paramus, N. J. Mrs. Esther Earl,\\nSecond Presbyterian Church, Paterson, N. J.\\nOn this occasion the sermon was delivered by Rev.\\nJ. H. Duryea, D.D., of Paterson, N. J., the other\\nclergymen present being Revs. William Clark, D.D.,\\nGoyn Talmage, D.D., George J. Van Neste, and\\nSamuel Searle. The following persons were at this\\ntime chosen as a consistory Elders, Edward Jardine,\\nCornelius Z. Berdan Deacon, E. H. Leggett. At\\nthe first regular meeting C. Z. Berdan was chosen\\nclerk, and J. M. Knapp, treasurer. A call was then\\nextended to John A. Van Neste, a graduate of the\\nNew Brunswick, N. J., Theological Seminary. This\\ncall was accepted, with the expectation of receiving\\nsix hundred dollars per year from the Board of Do-\\nmestic Missions, and an additional two hundred dollars\\nfrom the friends of the church. The installation of\\nthe pastor occurred at Shuart s Hall, July 12, 1875,\\ntwelve clergymen being present. The sermon was\\npreached by Rev. George J. Van Neste, of Little\\nFalls, N. J., uncle of the pastor. The congregation\\nhad since its existence worshiped at Shuart s Hall.\\nAt a meeting of consistory held in 1876, it was an-\\nnounced that Frederick Kidder would donate a plot\\nof ground one hundred by one hundred feet in di-\\nmensions upon which to erect a church edifice, which\\nwas accepted by the consistory, and in the following\\nyear it was resolved at a meeting of the above body,\\nheld Aug. 7, 1877, That we commence building at\\nonce, and also that we accept the offer of Mr. Hev-\\neridge, lumber-merchant, of Paterson, who agrees to\\nallow three months credit, and longer, if necessary.\\nThe record of trials, disappointments, threatened\\nlawsuits, etc., which the little society met would fill\\na volume. The untiring efforts of men, women, and\\neven children were ultimately blessed in the comple-\\ntion of the edifice.\\nThe building was first occupied Nov. 4, 1877, while\\nyet unfinished, the basement being devoted to use for\\nservices.\\nOn May 29, 1879, five years after the organization\\nof the church, the building was dedicated to the wor-\\nship of the Triune Jehovah. A Sabbath-school was\\norganized soon after the formation of the church,\\nwhich has since been in a prosperous condition, and\\nnow includes a membership of one hundred and five,\\nwith thirty-five in the infant class, six officers, and\\nnine teachers. The annual contributions of the school\\namount to one hundred and sixty dollars.\\nThe following statistics with regard to the present\\ncondition of the church are appended Families, about\\n21\\n50; at first 12. Communicants received, 86; at first\\n9. Average attendance, 150; at first about 30. Moneys\\ncontributed, about $1200; at first S300 yearly.\\nFinancial condition of church at date: No floating\\nindebtedness; a small mortgage.\\nMoney raised for salary and current expenses by\\nthe envelope system from attendants at church only.\\nThe present pastor is the first and only one settled\\nover this church.\\nThe first step towards the formation of Christ\\nChurch Parish was taken in October, 1860, when a\\ncommittee was appointed in reference to the object.\\nThe next proceedings were at a meeting held in\\nRidgewood, at the house of Capt. Samuel Dayton,\\nFeb. 6, 1864. A preliminary organization was effected,\\nand a lot one mile east of the depot, offered by Capt.\\nDayton, was accepted as the site of the future church,\\nFebruary 17th. The title of the church was chosen,\\nand Messrs. James Keeley and J. T. Walton were\\nelected wardens, and A. J. Cameron, S. Dayton, E.\\nRosencrantz, W. H. Rawlett, and E. A. Walton, ves-\\ntrymen. Subscriptions amounting to eighteen hun-\\ndred and five dollars were reported.\\nMarch 16tli an organ was purchased for three hun-\\ndred and fifty dollars, and placed in the house of Mr.\\nB. F. Robinson for use by the choir. Plans of a\\nchurch were presented by Mr. Rawlett and accepted\\nby the vestry. March 28, 1865, the corner-stone was\\nlaid by Right Rev. W. H. Odenheimer, D.D., Bishop\\nof New Jersey, who held service the same day in\\nUnion Hall, Paramus, the Rev. J. M. Waite, of Pat-\\nerson, and the Rev. Wm. G. Farrington, of Hacken-\\nsack, attending. The builders were the Halsted Bros.,\\nand on Sunday, May 13, 1866, the church was opened\\nfor divine service, the Rev. J. M. Waite officiating.\\nDuring the summer Rev. Messrs. Waite, Farrington,\\nS. W. Sayres, and Bishop Odenheimer supplied the\\nchurch with ministrations. May 16th the pews were\\nrented, several persons paying premiums for a choice\\nof seats.\\nThe cost of the building, including furniture and\\nsheds, was S6069.46. Of this amount about S1200 were\\nthe proceeds of fairs, and about S600 were applied from\\nthe first year s income, the balance having been pro-\\ncured by subscriptions both within and without the\\nparish. Oct. 1, 1866, it was resolved, that the wel-\\nfare of the church depends upon the selection of a\\nrector at once. October 22d it was unanimously re-\\nsolved that the Rev. Legh Richmond Dickinson, of\\nYonkers, N. Y., be invited to the rectorship of the\\nparish from November 1st, at a salary of one thousand\\ndollars per annum. The rector entered upon his\\nduties on Sunday, November 4th, administering holy\\ncommunion to twelve communicants. On Sunday,\\nNovember 11th, the rector preached his introductory\\nsermon from Psalm cxxvii. 1 Except the Lord\\nbuild the house, they labor in vain that build it.\\nServices were held twice each Sunday until December,\\nand during the winter every Sunday morning.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0503.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "318\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nSunday, May 5th, the rector organized a Sunday-\\nschool, and appointed Mr. E. A. Walton superin-\\ntendent, and Thoma.s T. Walton librarian. Twenty-\\none scholars and seven teachers were present. The\\nnames of these teachers were G. W. Reed, H. Morton\\nReed, Jane R. Dayton, Fanny H. Brinsuiaid, and\\nWilliam Itosencrantz.\\nThe amount of receipts reported in May, 18l)7, were,\\nbesides subscriptions for building, twelvCi hundred\\nand ninety-seven dollars and ninety-six cents. Sun-\\nday morning, June 21st, Bishop Odenheimer conse-\\ncrated the church, and in the afternoon confirmed\\neleven persons presented by the rector.\\nIn 1868 the rector reported thirty communicants,\\nnine Sunday-school teachers, and fifty Sunday scholars.\\nIt was voted in JIarch, 1869, to request the rector to\\nbrinfr before the congregation the need of more seats.\\nA subscription wa-s started, and thirteen hundred dol-\\nlars pledged towards the enlargement of tiie church.\\nThe plans were by James H. Giles, architect, of New\\nYork. The foundation was begun August 2d, but\\ndelay of the builders retarded the completion until\\nSunday, December lOtli, when the church was re-\\nopened. Services had been held from the first Sun-\\nday in October to the Sunday before Christmas in the\\nacademy opposite the church. Jan. 9, 1871 Hishop\\nOdenheimer made his visitation to the parish, con-\\nfirming fourteen candidates, nearly all adults, and\\npreached also in the aftiTnoon. The improvements\\nconsisted of a beautiful chancel, three new windows,\\none of which wits presented by the Sunday-school, a\\nvestry-rooni, organ-room, and ten pews. The cost\\nwas two thousand six hundred dollars, and through\\nthe liberality of Mr. Christian A. Zabriskie and others\\nthe whole amount was |)aid. November, 18t)9, the\\nvestry resolved to i)ay the rent of the rector s house,\\nand November, 1870, the salary wa.s raiseil to twelve\\nhundred dollars. May, 1870, Miss Adeline Keeley,\\nwho had otficiated gratuitously as organist, resigned\\nher position, and received the thanks of the vestry\\nfor her faithful services.\\nIn .May, 18()9, a Sunday-school was begun l y Mrs.\\nC. W. Newton, at her house in Saddle River, which\\nwas continued successfully until the removal of the\\nfamily in 1870. In 1870 a mission Sunday-school was\\nbegun at Shuart s Hall, in the village of Ridgewood,\\nand nuiintained until September, 187. when it was\\nmerged In the parish ^unday-school. In .Vpril, 1872,\\nthe rector held afternoon services at the hall. In\\nSeptember and October morning service.-* were held\\nat the .same place, until the completion of the organ\\nin November.\\nA)iril 17, 1872, it was resolved to liuilil a new organ,\\ncosting two thousand five hundred dollars, and twelve\\nhundred lollars were subscribed. Jardine Son,\\nNew York, were the builders.\\nIn May, 187. the vestry resolved to move the church\\nto a central location in the village. Sixteen hundred\\ndollars were sulwcribed towards this object. A lot of\\nground was offered by Mr. Robinson and accepted.\\nAn additional plot, at a cost of over eleven hundred\\ndollars, was purchased. The contract for the removal\\nwas made with Mr. Hughes, of Jersey City. The\\nwork was begun .\\\\ug. 4, 1873. The organ wiis taken\\ndown and stored in the academy, and on the first Sun-\\nday in October, 1873, the church was reopened for\\npublic worship on its new site, with morning and\\nevening services. The sermon, by the rector, was from\\nNehemiah v. I.t: Let the house of the Lord be\\nbuilded in his place.\\nIn 1874 the old site of the church was sold for\\nseven hundred and fifty dollars. At Easter of this\\nyear Mr. E. A. Walt 5u resigned the treasurership of\\nthe church, which he had held for ten years.\\nOver four hundred dollars were raised by a ladies\\nfair for Improving and fencing the church grounds.\\nFrom 1874 to 1878 over twelve hundred dollars were\\nsecured in the same manner for expenses.\\nIn 1876, at the close of ten years, the number of\\ncommunicants had increased to one hundred.\\nIn 1877 the rector removed to a more eligible loca-\\ntion near the church. In the same year Mr. B. F.\\nRobinson, who had led the choir for ten years, re-\\nsigned, and received the thanks of the rector and\\nvestry for his efficient services.\\nIn 1879 the parish lost one of its most valued mem-\\nbers, Mr. Christian A. Zabriskie. Many others have\\ndied, whose loss is deeply felt. The roll of commu-\\nnicants has been reduced in number by deaths and\\nremovals to about seventy. The whole number con-\\nfirmed and atlmitted from other jjarishes in fifteen\\nyears is one hundred and seventy-five. The additions\\nof new members have averaged five per annum. The\\nbaptisms are one hundred and thirty-seven mar-\\nriages, thirty-six burials, one hundred.\\nFrom 1866 to 1873 the receipts lor current expenses\\nwere 4^10,810, an average of $ir)44. From 1873 to\\n1881 these receipts were $13,925, an average of $1740.\\nFor the same two periods the total contributions have\\nbeen respectively $20,304 and $20,683. Receipts for\\nyear ending -May, 18S1, $1723.43.\\nThe offieers are: Wardens, E. Walton, J. W. Ed-\\nwards; Vestrymen, H. Hales, W. E, .Maltbie, C. R.\\nBraine, Joseph Wright, C. Keyser. The organists\\nhave been Adeline Keeley, Mrs. James Reading,\\nMrs. R. W. Hawes, Emma Robinson, Florence\\nBatchelor, and May Dickinson. The church has\\nhad three sextons, Joseph (tower, Cicsar I erry, and\\nCllMllrs I liriicrkaulV.\\nBurial-Places. The oldest burial-place in the\\ntownship is that adjoining the Paramus Church, the\\nground of which was given to the consistory of the\\nchurch by Peter Fauconier in 1730. It is not known\\nwhen the first burial oceiirred here, though tlir\\nearliest church edifice having been completeil in\\n1735 renders it probable that int Tmenls took placi\\nsoon after. Many of the memorial slabs bear the\\nmarks of age, and the inscriptions are nearly oblil-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0504.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "RIDGEWOOD.\\n319\\nerated. Among those more easily deciphered are the\\nfollowing:\\nIn memory of Abram J. Ackernian, born March 8, 1793, and who de-\\nparted this life Oct. 29, 1801, aged 14 years, 7 niontlia, and 27 days.\\nIn my days of youth\\nDeath came to me in truth\\nMy friends I leave to mourn,\\nAnd never, never return.\\nIn memory of Maria Ackerman, wife of Corneh us Denmrn, wlio de-\\nparted this life Sept. 18, A.D. 1803, aged 81 years, 7 months.\\nMaregrietye Banta, who died Oct. 30. 1791.\\nIn memory of Marie Bogert, wife of Thomas Van Dien, who died\\nMarch 24, 1793, aged 48 years, 4 months.\\nI. X. B., died 17th March, 1799; was born 3d March, 1737.\\nIn memory of Jane Carlock, wife of Henry H. Van Emburgh, who de-\\nparted this life Aug. 20, 1852, aged 36 yeare, 6 months, 23 days.\\nAfHictioDs sore nine yeara I bore;\\nPhysicians aiis were all in vain.\\nThe Lord from above\\nDid ease me of my pain.\\nIn memory of Maria, daughter of Jacob P. Van Derbeck, who de-\\nparted this life June 7, 1808, aged 6 years, 10 months, and 19 days.\\nDear friends, who live to mourn and weep.\\nBehold the ground wherein I sleep.\\nPrepare for death, for you must die\\nAnd be entombed as well as I.\\nIn memory of Garret Zabriskie, who departed this life Oct. 7, 1826,\\naged 83 years, I mouth, and 12 days.\\nAlbert I. Zabriskie, 1798.\\nand Eastern Division of the province of New Jersey, widow, of the one\\npart, and the present Eldei-s and Deacons of the Peremus church of the\\notiier part, wiTNKSSETH.that the said Magdalen Valloau, fur and in Cou-\\nBideration of Three places or seats In the Peremus church, tliat is to say,\\none woman s place and two men places; also for Divers other good\\nCauses and Consideration hir thereunto moving, and especially for\\npromoting the good and benefit of the said church and (.ougregation,\\nHATH GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents Doth give and grant\\nRelease an i Confirm unto the present Elders and Beacons of the afore-\\nsaid Congregation their successors forever all that sertain lot or parcel\\nof land, situate, lying and being at peremus on the west sidn of Sadie\\nRiver, beginning at the north east corner of a lot of land, formerly be-\\nlonging to John Boskerke, and now In the possession and acquisition of\\nJohannes Davidse Ackerman, by Sadie River, thence running north\\nsixty-six Degrees west, twenty-five chains and a half along the land of\\nthe said Ackerman, then north Thirty-eix Degrees East, Eighteen\\nChains to a stake, then south sixty-six Degrees east to Sadie River,\\nthence along the said Sadie River Down the stream to the place where\\nit first began being bounded south by the land of the saitl Ackerman,\\nwest and nortli by the land of the said Magdalen Velleau and East by\\nthe Sadie River Containing according to survey forty-five acres, with all\\nthe hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging and acqnisi.\\ntioDs To HAVE AND TO HOLD the Said lot of land together with all and\\nsingular the hnreditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or\\nin anywise appertaining, unto the present Elders and Deucons.and their\\nsuccessors for Ever for the sole and proper use and behoof of the said\\nChurch and congregation and the said Magdalen Valleau Doth hereby\\nCovinent and bind herself, her heirs, executors and adunnistrators from\\nhenceforth and forever hereafter to warrant and D\u00c2\u00abfend the above\\ngranted and bargained premises unto the said Elders Deacons and\\ntheir successors forever against the lawful claim and Demand of all and\\nevery person and persons whatsoever claiming by from or under her.\\nThe land embraced in the Valleau Cemetery was\\ngiven to the consistory -of the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch of Paramus in the year 1750 by Magdalen\\nValleau, daughter of Peter Fauconier, and reads as\\nfollows\\nThis Indenture, made the thirteenth day of April In the Twenty-\\nthird year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the\\ngrace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of\\nthe faith, etc., Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and fifty.\\nBetween Magdalen Valleau of Hacliinsack in the County of Bergen,\\nthem or any of them. In Witness whereof, the said Magdalen Valleau\\nhath hereunto Interchingably set her hand and seal the Day and year\\nfirst above written.\\nV\\nSealed and delivered in the presence of Mne. Valleau.\\nTheodore Valleau,\\nStephen Bous Dett.\\nThat the reader may better understand the relative\\npositions of the land given by Peter Fauconier and\\nMrs. Valleau, we append a description of the above", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0505.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "320\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ndiagram. An exchange of land with John Ackerman\\nbecame necessary to determine definitely the bounda-\\nries, which is also given.\\nThe three deeds may be briefly represented thus\\nMrs. Viilleau s jjot begins at the stake A, nineteen\\nyards north of the old bridge, on the west side of\\nstream, and runs N. (56\u00c2\u00b0, W. 2oi chains N. 36\u00c2\u00b0, E.\\n18 chains S. 66\u00c2\u00b0, E. to Saddle River.\\nThis plot is represented by A, B, C, D, A.\\nPeter Fauconier s plot begins at stake A, and runs\\nN. 701\u00c2\u00b0, W. 2 chains .56 links; S. 361\u00c2\u00b0, W. 45 links;\\nN. 78\u00c2\u00b0, W. 2 chains 46 links N. 70\u00c2\u00b0, W. 8 chains\\nN. 18\u00c2\u00b0, E. 2 chains 36 links.\\nThis plot is represented by A, E, F, G, H, I, A.\\nThis southern and western boundary is taken from\\nJohn Ackerman s deed.\\nPlot J, K, L, D, J was purchased of David G.\\nAckerman, and, beginning at J, is thus described N.\\n75 links S. 70i\u00c2\u00b0, E. 16 chains 29 links S. 401\u00c2\u00b0, E. 78\\nlinks; S. 10\u00c2\u00b0, E. 1 chain, down stream N. 681\u00c2\u00b0, W.\\n17 chains 15 links, to beginning.\\nThe Valleau Cemetery was incorporated in 1859,\\nand in November of that year a series of rules and\\nregulations affecting its management adopted, to\\nwhich the committee in charge made additions in\\nDecember of the same year. It is now one of the\\nmost beautifully-appointed burial-places in the\\ncounty, and in the costly monuments and carefully-\\nmaintained grounds bears witness to the tender memo-\\nries clustering round it.\\nThe True Reformed Church Cemetery lies adjacent\\nto the church, its age being cotemporaneous with that\\nof the edifice, which was built in 1858. Many of the\\noldest families in the townshii) have used it as a\\nplace of interment, among whom are the Worten-\\ndikes, Snyders, Hoppers, Van Derbccks, Aliens, Za-\\nbriskies, De Banns, Ackermans, Van Houtens, and\\nVan Diens. The land embraced in this plot is a por-\\ntion of that donated to the society by Peter J. Hopiier.\\nCHAPTER XLV.\\nMIDLAND.\\nTin; township of Midland was formerly a portion\\nof New l{arl)ad )e.s, from which it was set apart in\\n1871. Its claim to antiipilty may therefore be re-\\ngarded iLH with reference to ita settlement rather than\\nito organization.\\nIt may be geographically described as bounded on\\nthe north by Wiushington township, south by New\\nBarhadoes and Lodi, cast by the Hackeiisack River,\\nand west by Ridgewood and Sadille River townshijis.\\nIn the beauty and diversity of its scenery, the pro-\\nductiveness of ita lands, and the wealth and intelli-\\ngence of its inhabitant*!, it takes a foremost rank\\namong the townships of the county. It has also\\nmany historic associations, the army of the Revolu-\\ntion having been encamped within its borders, and\\nthe general-in-chief having frequently honored the\\nearly settlers by his presence in their midst. The\\ntownship, though by no means a mercantile or manu-\\nfacturing centre, is fairly represented by both of these\\ninterests, while the Hackensack River and the New\\nJersey and New York and Midland Railroads both\\nafford it additional facilities of traflie. The county-\\nhouse is also located within its limits.\\nIn its educational interests the township has taken\\na high rank. Schools were established long prior to\\nthe Revolution, and in later years a high degree of\\nscholarship has been maintained, and much enter-\\nprise manifested in the erection of attractive school\\nbuildings.\\nThe total amount of tax assessed for Midland\\nduring the present year is ?13, 756.23, the rates being\\nfor State school tax fourteen cents on the one hundred\\ndollars, for the county tax thirty-four cents, for the\\nbounty tax twenty-four cents, for the road tax twenty-\\nthree cents, and for the poor and township tax eight\\ncents.\\nParticuliirs with reference to the amount received\\nIjy Midland for educational purposes will be found\\nelsewhere in tliis chapter.\\nNatural Features. The soil of Midland township\\nvaries somewhat in localities, though the cultivated\\nland may be spoken of as exceedingly productive.\\nA sandy loam prevails in the centre and northerly\\nportion of the township, while a rich clay soil is ob-\\nservable as the eastern border is traversed. The\\nsoutheast abounds in red shale, while swamps are\\nfound on the western margin. Stone also is found in\\nlocalities. The staple grains are corn and rye, with\\nsome wheat, tlie former being very prolific. The grass\\ncrop is also abundant. The timbers wliich mostly\\nabound are oak, chestnut, maple, hickory, gum, and\\nbuttonwood. Numerous streams water the surface of\\nMidland, among which are Sprout Brook, which has\\nits rise in Wa-shington township and the northeastern\\nportion of Midland, ami S|iring Valley Brook, which\\nalso has its source in the northeast border, two tribu-\\ntaries uniting to form the main stream which flows\\ninto the Hackensack River.\\nEarly Settlements. The township of Midland\\nwas originally the stronghold of many of the earliest\\nfamilies of the county, a part of whom are still rep-\\nresented by their descendants, who are owners of the\\ninheritance left by their forefathers. .Vniong the\\nnames that have been identified for a period of from\\none to two hundred years with its interests are those\\nof Banta, Voorhis, Demarest, Zabriskie, Kipp, Van\\nSaun, De Baun, Bertholf, Cooper, Van Wagoner, Van\\nBuskirk, Oldis, Pell, Lutkins, Doremus, etc. The\\nearly events in which the lirst settlers participated\\nantedate the recollection of the |)resent inhabitants,\\nand tradition has preserved but a meagre array of\\nfacts that would be useful- to the historian. It will.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0506.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "MIDLAND.\\n321\\ntherefore, be impossible to make the record of early\\nsettlements complete or perfect.\\nAmong the oldest families is that of Zabriskie, the\\nprogenitor of whom was one Albert Saboroweski,\\nwho emigrated to America in the Dutch ship Fox\\nduring the year 1662. He was of Polish descent, and\\nwas united in marriage to a Miss Van Der Linde, af-\\nter which he settled in Bergen County. His five sons\\nwere John, Jacob, George, Henry, and Christian, one\\nof whom, probably Jacob, was stolen by the Indians.\\nOn his recovery the red men gave as an apology for\\nthe theft the fact that they wished to instruct him in\\ntheir language, in which he afterwards became profi-\\ncient. As an evidence of their good faith they gave\\nhis father the title to the patent of land known as the\\nNew Paramus patent, containing nineteen hundred\\nand seventy-seven acres. Saboroweski is said to have\\nstudied for the ministry in the Lutheran Church, but\\nnot being satisfied with his calling, emigrated to\\nAmerica at the age of twenty, and became the ances-\\ntor of the large family of Zabriskies in Bergen County.\\nThree of the five sons of Alberdt, above named, located\\nin the northern portion of Midland township, Jacob,\\nHendrick, and Christian, each of whom left a numer-\\nous descent. The homestead of Christian fell by in-\\nheritance to Cornelius, and is now occupied by his\\ndaughter, Mrs. C. L. Wessels. Among the represen-\\ntatives of Jacob are Jacob J., Thomas V. B., David,\\nJohn C, and Abram S. Another branch of the\\nfamily is located at Areola, and were formerly from\\nParamus. The oldest member of this family recalled\\nis John, who resided upon the land now owned by\\nStephen Berdan, and had five sons, John, Barney,\\nAlbert, Jacob, and George. The death of John Za-\\nbriskie occurred many years ago, in Saddle River\\ntownship, and George, who resides at Areola, is the\\nonly survivor. The family of Zabriskies is not con-\\nfined to Midland, but largely repre.sented in other\\nportions of the county.\\nThe pioneer of the Demarest family was David\\nDesmaretz, who emigrated from France about the\\nyear 1676, and was one of a large band of Huguenots\\nwho left their native land to escape religious perse-\\ncution. With him came three sons, David, John,\\nand Samuel. It is related of this gentleman that on\\nhis arrival he located on Manhattan Island, where\\nhe purchased the whole of Harlem, but subsecjuently\\ndisposed of this property and secured two thousand\\nacres in Bergen County, extending along the easterly\\nside of the river from New Bridge to a point beyond\\nOld Bridge, and easterly so far as the line of the\\nNorthern Railroad. The original deed bears date\\nIn an old paper preserved by Hon. Isaac Wortendyke we find the\\nfollowing:\\nAlbert Zaborweski is Geboren den. 17 Jannary Anno 1708 En is\\nOverleeden Den 17 January Anno 1753.\\nThis either refers to a later Albert Zabriskie, or the statement above\\ngiven is incorrect. Probably it refers to one of the descendants of the\\noriginal Albert.\\nJune 8, 1677. Many parties claimed the land after\\nMr. Demarius (as the name was later spelled) had\\nacquired possession, and he was obliged to purchase\\nno less than four times before he became absolute\\nowner, A grant of land was originally made to David\\nDemarius from the Governor of New Jersey, in con-\\nsideration of his forming a colony, the members being\\nall French or Hollanders. He was unable to carry\\nout fully his intention, and the grant was withdrawn,\\nbut a subsequent grant made to his sons. The de-\\nscendants of these sons are numerous. John located\\nat Old Bridge, now River Edge, and erected a mill\\nupon the river, which has long since gone to decay.\\nA. J. Demarest, a representative of this branch of\\nthe family, is now living at River Edge, as is also\\nP. V. B. Demarest. The remaining branches are lo-\\ncated in various portions of the county.\\nYost De Baun and his wife, Elizabeth, came about\\nthe year 1700 from their native Holland, and settled\\nin Bergen County. Very little is known of them or\\ntheir immediate oflfepring. It is probable they located\\nwithin the boundaries of the present Midland town-\\nship. Jacob De Baun, a descendant, inherited from\\nAurt Cooper, before the war of the Revolution, land\\nnow occupied by David W. Christy. He had the\\nhonor of acting as host for three weeks to the gen-\\neral-in-chief when the Federal army were encamped\\non the hill above the river. Jacob De Baun had one\\nson, Peter, whose home was the farm now occupied\\nby his daughter, Mrs. John Van Buskirk.\\nThe Kipp family made their advent to the county\\nprevious to 1695, and but little is known of their\\nearly history. John Kipp resided upou the farm\\nnow occupied by Cornelius Van Saun. He had sons\\nIsaac, William, John, and Albert and four daugh-\\nters. Of this number William lived in the township,\\nmarried, and had children, James B., John W., and\\na daughter. He died at the residence of his son,\\nJohn W., in 1856.\\nThe Cooper family are of Holland extraction, the\\nname having originally been Kupos, and subsequently\\nKuypers. Aurt Cooper resided in Midland long be-\\nfore the war of the Revolution, at which period he\\nwas a man of advanced years. He was much an-\\nnoyed by the depredations of Federal soldiers, who\\nmade raids upon his granary and carried away his\\ncattle. He reported the fact to Washington, who\\ngave orders that the old man should not be further\\ntroubled. He resided at River Edge, and left four\\ndaughters, but no sons. The name is not now repre-\\nsented in the township.\\nAnother member of the family was John Cooper,\\nwho lived upon land now occupied by Mrs. Henry\\nHerring. He had a son, Richard, who w-as the parent\\nof three children, a son and two daughters. The\\nlatter married with the Van Wagoner family, and\\nMrs. Herring, above mentioned, is the daughter of\\nthe son John from whom the homestead is inherited.\\nJohn Van Wagoner was the first of the family to", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0507.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "322\\nHISTORY OF BEKUEN AND PAtsSAlC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nsettle in Midland. His son Jacob resided at New\\nMilford, and lived upon the farm now occupied by\\nhis son John. The widow of Jacob, above named,\\nis still an occupant of the homestead in her ninety-\\nthird year. She is able to recall distinctly the fact\\nthat her father was taken prisoner by the British and\\ncarried away clad only in his night-dress, while his\\nhouse was bnrned by these marauders.\\nThe Voorhis family, originally spelled Van Voor-\\nheysen, have been since their early advent into Mid-\\nland largely represented, and many branches are still\\noccupying inherited estates. The pioneer was Lucas\\nVoorhis, who resided on the river between New Mil-\\nford and River Edge. He |)urcliased of the Indians\\nproperty, which was, by will dated Jan. 17t 8, de-\\nvised to his .son Necausie, who lived upon the land\\nuntil his death in his ninetieth year, when bis son,\\nHenry N. Voorhis, became owner. He also survived\\nuntil his ninetieth year, when his son, Henry H.,\\nbecame the possessor, and is still the occupant.\\nJacob Voorhis removed from River Edge more than\\na century since to Oradell, and followed milling, hav-\\ning purchased the mill-site there located. He had\\nthree sons, Henry, Albert, and Lucas, the latter of\\nwhom left two sons and three daugllter^s. His son\\nStephen is now the occupant of his father s estate.\\nAlbert Voorhis, another member, resided at .Vrcola,\\nand had sons and daughters. His son George died on\\nthe homestead, and left children, Albert and Thomas.\\nThe representatives of the latter are George H. and\\nCharles V. B., both living on a portion of the origi-\\nnal heritage. Ralph Voorhis is a great-grandson of\\nthe first Lucas, and a grandson of his son Henry,\\nwho married a Miss La Rue and became the parent\\nof seven sons and three daughters, among whom was\\nJohn, the brother of Ralph. The Oldis family are of\\nFrench descent, the first to settle in Midlaml having\\nbeen Garret, who before the Revolutionary war lo-\\ncated on the homestead now iwned by .F. R. Oldis.\\nThe original dwelling, which wils a po|)ular house of\\nentertainment during the Revolution, was burned by\\nthe British and afterwards rebuilt. Among the chil-\\ndren of (iarret were John, Benjamin, and (rarret, all\\nof whom settled in Midland, then New Barbadoes.\\nThe family is now represented by J. R. Oldis and\\nGarret J., a descendant of John.\\nThe Banta family are of Holland extraction, and\\ncame to Bergen County previous to 168G, John, the\\nearliest to arrive, having owned a large tract of land,\\nwhich he willed to twosons, Cornelius and .fohn. Cor-\\nnelius wa-s father of a son Henry, who had a son Cor-\\nnelius. His children were Henry and two daughters,\\nElizabeth and Jane. Henry was married to a Miss\\nTinipson, and had children, Corneliusandoncdaugh-\\nter, the former of whom now occupies the homestead.\\nAlbert liogert came about the year li)**!*, and ac-\\nquired a large tract of land in the vicinity of Spring\\nValley, llis four sons were David, Cornelius, Jamen,\\nand John, all of wboni Imated in the township.\\nwhere they lived and died. Cornelius, being the\\neldest, l y a system of entail inherited the property.\\nAlbert J., a great-grandson of one of these brothers,\\nis the only one who bears the name in Midland town-\\nship. Another member of the family, Albert C, re-\\nsides in Paterson,and has attained his one hundredth\\nyear.\\nJohn Van Buskirk made his advent in the town-\\nshi]) as early as 1(597, and located at Oradell. .\\\\mong\\nhis descendants were .John, Luke, and a son who be-\\ncame a physician. John remained a resident of Mid-\\nland, and left children, among whom was the late\\nMrs. F. T. Oakley.\\nAn early settler at Oradell was named Valleau.\\nHe was of French descent and a large landed pro-\\nprietor, having at one period owned a tract nine miles\\nin extent. He resided in a spacious mansion, and on\\nhis death left no family. Very little is remembered\\nof his life.\\nPeter Lutkins was one of the |)ioneers of Paramus,\\nwhere he purclnused land and followed farming pur-\\nsuits. His children were Peter, John, and a daughter\\nAnne, the former of whom settled on the homestead,\\nand his brother John on land adjacent. Washington\\non one occasion pa.ssed the night at the Lutkins home-\\nstead, and manifested great interest in the children,\\nwhich was long after remembiTed by tliem. The de-\\nscendants now living in Midland are Andrew, Peter,\\nRichard, and one sister, Mrs. John Devoe.\\nThe Pells are of English descent, and were for a\\nsuccession of years ship-builders and sea-captains.\\nCapt. William Pell represented the fifth generation\\nin .Vnierica, and resided in New York City. He was\\ncaptain of the Columbus, in the Royal Philippine\\nj Company of Lidrid, 8|)ain. He married into the\\nBogert family, and during the latter portion of his life\\nretired to Midland, where his death occurred in 1S15.\\nAmong his sons was Casper, who had children, of\\nwhom William .1. now resides on the homestead.\\nThe Van Dieiis are Hollanders, .\\\\ll)ert having been\\nthe first member of the family to arrive. He together\\nj with a brother chose a location in Saddle River town-\\nI ship. Nearly a century ago one of the descendants,\\nHarmcm by name, married into the Zabriskie family,\\nand made Midland bis place of residence. The wiilow\\nof his son .John now re-sides on the homestead. .An-\\nother branch of the family resided in Paramus, among\\nwhom were Yost and Casparus, both of whom lived\\nand died there. The male line has become extinct\\nin .Midland, though the race is perpetuated by inter-\\nmarriage with other families.\\nThe llop[iersare among the oldest families in Mid-\\nI land, as elsewhere in the county. Three brothers\\n(one of whom was Garret) emigrated from .Amster-\\ndam, Holland, and settled, one at Paramus, another\\nin IIohr)kus, on land of the late John J. /abriskie,\\nanil a tliinl at Small Lot.s, on lands of the lati (iarrit\\nHopper. The Paramus estate was purchased of the\\nIndians lor a ipiart of whisky and a pound of tobacco.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0508.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "MIDLAND.\\n323\\nHere was erected by Mr. Hopper the first dwelling\\nin Paramus in 1813. The property fell by inherit-\\nance to Garret A. Hopper,- a great-grandson of the\\noriginal owner, who survived until 1880. The family\\nduring the trying times of the Revolution sufl ered\\nmuch from frequent incursions of the British, and\\nfound it difficult to protect either horses or cattle.\\nThe land has been held by successive generations, and\\nis still in the hands of the family.\\nSchools. The territory embraced in the township\\nis divided into five school districts, as follows:\\nDistrict No. 26, known as the Paramus District;\\nDistrict No. 27, known as the Areola District Dis-\\ntrict No. 28, known as the Spring Valley District;\\nDistrict No. 29, known as the Oradell District; Dis-\\ntrict No. 30, known as the River Edge District.\\nThe first of these, the Paramus District, is located\\nin the northwestern portion of the township, the pres-\\nent school being situated in a rich farming commu-\\nnity on the Paramus road, one and a half miles from\\nRidgewood. There have been in earlier times several\\nold school buildings in this locality, of whose history\\nlittle is known, from the fact that the district, like\\nmany others, is devoid of records.\\nThe earliest school-house was erected near the resi-\\ndence of Mr. Peter Board, of Paramus, in the year\\n1726. Its dimensions cannot be given. All that can\\nbe learned is that it was constructed of rough stone,\\nand finished after the old fashion, with slab benches,\\netc. When this fell into decay probably one hundred\\nyears ago another of similar character and material\\nwas erected between lands now owned by Mr. Peter\\nBoard and Mrs. Wessels, on the west side of the Par-\\namus road; also another was built near the mill of\\nMr. David Baldwin, both having been in active opera-\\ntion seventy years ago.\\nThese buildings were erected by subscription, each\\ninhabitant contributing as he felt disposed. The\\nteacher was allowed one dollar and a half per quar-\\nter for each pupil, with the privilege of boarding\\nIt appears from an uld record now in the possession of Hon. Isaac\\nWortendylie that Garret Hopper was born Dec. 14, 1735, and died Dec.\\n13,1814.\\nAndrew G. Hopper was born May 10, 1779, and died Sept. 9, 1860.\\nThe following relates to his military duties:\\nAugust 7th, 1815. This is to certify that Andrew G. Hopper is dis-\\ncharged from militia duty by the Battalion Court on account of in-\\nabilities.\\nJohn I. BERn-\\\\N, MuJ.\\nAndrew P. Hopper, CapC^\\nWe find among old papers tlie following certificate:\\nNo. 542. New .Jersey Militi.\\\\, Bergen Brigade.\\nWhereas, it has been made to appear, to the satisfaction of tiiis\\nBrigade Board, that Garret A. Hopper lias faithfully served in a Uniform\\nCompuny for the space of Ten years, since the sixtli day of February,\\none thousand eight hundred and eleven, whereby he has become enti-\\ntled, under the Militia Laws of this Stale, to an exemption from common\\nmilitary duty in time of peace. Now, therefore, be it known, that the\\nsaid Garret A. Hopper, this 19th Deer., 1836, is hereby discharged ac-\\ncordingly. By order of the Board,\\nPeter M. Ryerson, Jxtdge-Advocate.^\\nround, the hospitality of the various families being\\ninfluenced by the number of children at school.\\nOne Dillon, an early instructor, taught every day,\\nwith the exception of Sunday. A simple marble slab,\\nabout two hundred yards from the scene of his labors,\\nmarks his last resting-place.\\nThe present school district was formed in the year\\n1833 by a committee of three from Paramus and\\nHackensack. At this time, the school building at\\nBaldwin s Mill being unfit for use, Mr. Garret A.\\nHopper erected a frame edifice at his own expense,\\nwhich for a period of eighteen years was the school-\\nhouse of the district.\\nMr. George Achenbach, for many years cashier of\\nthe Merchants Bank of New York, and at his death\\npresident of the Bank of Bergen County, taught here,\\nand received forty dollars per month and board for\\nhis labors. The district finally leased the land owned\\nby Mr. Hopper for a period of twenty-five years at\\nthe nominal sum of one dollar, and the edifice used\\nwas erected at a cost of three hundred and fifty-six\\ndollars. This was superseded by a new building of\\nmodern architecture, and furnished with all the late\\nimprovements, which cost two thousand five hundred\\ndollars, and is now in use. The present teacher is\\nMr. E. F. Ryerson.\\nThe Areola District is also located in a rich farming\\ncommunity, the present school being at Areola, for-\\nmerly known as Red Mills. The earliest school was\\nestablished in 1821, and its sessions held in an old\\nstone dwelling-house on the present farm of Mr.\\nEaston, the teacher having been Miss Lydia Wester-\\nvelt. Her salary was raised by contributions from the\\npatrons of the school. In the year 1824 an old red\\nschool-house, standing in District 20, was purchased\\nby the trustees, removed and placed on a high stone\\nwall, which necessitated the building of four steps to\\neflect an entrance, these steps being constructed of\\nlogs hewn square. The building was fourteen by\\ntwenty-four feet in dimensions, one story high, and\\ncost when completed two hundred dollars. Miss\\nWestervelt taught here, Dagball s Arithmetic being\\nthen the mathematical text-book. Mr. Andrew\\nCudihy, in 1826, became the teacher, and was suc-\\nceeded in 1829 by Mr. John W. House, who received\\nthirty-six dollars per quarter. Mr. James J. Terhune\\nfilled the position in 1831, and in 1836 Mr. Christian\\nReeder was the district pedagogue, each child being\\nassessed one dollar and a half per tpiarter and their\\nproportion of his washing bill.\\nOn the 19th of April, 1844, the school committees\\nof Saddle River and New Barbadoes townships met\\nand formed a union district of parts of these town-\\nships, the boundaries differing little from those at\\npresent existing.\\nIn 1846, Mr. Edward Force sold to the trustees a\\nplot of ground, thirty-two by one hundred feet in di-\\nmensions, for the sum of one -dollar, to be used for\\nschool purposes only. The old school-house being", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0509.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "324\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nconsidered unfit for use, in 1847 a new frame building\\none story hij^h was erected at a cost of four liundred\\ndollars, the sum being raised by subscription. In the\\nyear 1854 this district was incorporated, assuming as\\nits name the Union Academy of Red Mills. The\\npresent instructor is Mr. Charles H. Storms. The\\nbuilding now in use was erected in 1878, at a, total\\ncost of two thousand dollars.\\nThe tirst school building in the Spring Valley Dis-\\ntrict, formerly known as Slucup, was erected more\\nthan a century since at the head of the public road\\nleading from Stone Arabia, and used for school pur-\\nposes until 1810. A new building was then con-\\nstructed in the lower portion of the neighborhood,\\nnearly a mile distant from the old location. In the\\nyear 1852 another house was erected a few hundred\\nyards north of the old site, and this was in turn su-\\nperseded by a more modern structure, built in 1875,\\nand standing a few yards distant from the public\\nroad. Little is known of the early schools of this\\ndistrict, though in management and discipline it is\\nknown that tlioy compared favorably with others in\\nthe township. The present teacher is Miss Ireland.\\nOradell District bojisted a school building of logs\\nmore than one hundred years ago. It stood on land\\nowned by Jacob Van Huskirk, Sr., and was used until\\n1810, when a second building was reared to take the\\nplace of the former. This stood on the opposite side\\nof the road, on lands of Mr. Henry Voorhis, now\\nowned by Mr. Leopold Hague. It was a building\\neighteen by twenty-four feet in dimensions, one story\\nhigh, and painted red, with two loose desks sloping on\\nthe sides and flat at the top. These were placed in the\\ncentre of the room. The arrangements were finally\\nmodernized by placing the desks against the wall.\\nThe heating apparatus consisted of an open fireplace\\nand a stove, extremely cold weather rendering the use\\nof both necessary. The present school building was\\nerected and first occupied in 1847. It is two stories\\nin height, the upper Hoor having been made service-\\nable for the sessions of the Sabbath-school, lectures,\\nsinging-Mcliool, etc. It is said that no tax has ever\\nbeen levied in this district for the erection of school\\nbuildings, the amount having in each instance been\\nraised by private suliscription. Mr. Daniel 1 Dema-\\nrest, for a number of years a teacher here, rclimniislied\\nhis labors in ISllt, and w;is succeeded by a Mr. Bor-\\ndeaux. This gentleman remained for five years, and\\nadded surveying and navigation to other branches in\\nwhich he was jiroficient as an instructor. George W.\\nChilds, the next teacher, was u favorite with both pa-\\nrent and pupil. Peter L)e Baun came in 1S2(), anil re-\\nmained fourtri n yi-ars. William Smith followed,\\nand taught the cliLssics with the English branches.\\nJacob Van ISuskirk and John C. Bishop were later\\nplaced in charge. The present incumbent is Mr. C.\\nL. Wagoner, who is assisted by Mi.ss Jones.\\nRiver Kdge District lies in the southeastern portion\\nof the township. The earlic-st .school building was\\nerected in 1808, and stood nearly opposite the present\\none, on lands of A. J. Demarest, now devoted to the\\nuses of a garden. The tirst teacher was Mr. Abraham\\nHouse, a gentleman of scholastic attainments and a\\nskillful penman. His method of discipline was ad-\\nmirable, and won for him a marked success. His\\nsuccessors were not so fortunate, and several left after\\nan experience confined to a single term. The schoid\\nhaving diminished in numbers after a period of\\ntwenty years, the building was sold and removed to\\nSpring Valley (Slucuji), where it did service as a\\nweaver s shop, and later as a dwelling. In 1838 the\\nsame building was repurchased, taken down, and re-\\nbuilt on a spot one (juarter of a mile west of the road\\nleading from River Edge to New Milford. The\\nschool was opened by Mr. Garret H. Zabriskie, who\\nwas succeeded by Messrs. Perkins, De Baun, and\\nothers. In 1846, Mr. J. R. Wortendyke, a gradual*\\nof Rutgers College, was engaged, and continued with\\nmarked success for three years, attracting many\\nscholars from other localities.\\nIn 1856 the building was destroyed by fire, and\\nanother location having been chosen, the present\\nbuilding was erected, by means of a tax levied on the\\ndistricts. It was improved in 1875, but the growing\\nneeds of the locality have demanded more conven-\\niences, and a spacious edifice is now being built on\\nground adjoining.\\nThe present teacher is Rev. E. G. Wesley.\\nThe total number of children now in the school\\ndistricts of the township is five hundred and fifty-one.\\nMidland receives as her share of the surplus revenue\\nfund, ?;it4.0;{; of the State ai pn i riation ol $100,000,\\nJliiO.r.L :iiid 111 till State school tax, $2040.05.\\nEarly Highways. Three very early highways\\ntraversed the township of Midland, the earliest being\\nprobably that known as the Stone Arabia road. This\\nbegan its course at Hackensack, and following a\\nnortheasterly and then a northerly direction, entered\\nRockland County, N. Y. It ran very near the Hack-\\nen.sack River for a distance of some miles, and was\\nduring the early part of the present century the prin-\\ncipal thoroughfare, over which immense quantities of\\nwood was hauled to the landing at River Edge.\\nThe tratlic in this commodity was at this time large.\\nNew York being principally supplied with wood from\\nthis locality.\\nThe Paramus road extcn lcd fr()m Hobokeii to New-\\nburgh and Goshen, and was doubtless the thorough-\\nfare for the earliest stage-line. This created a de-\\nnnmd for the numerous taverns which lined its route,\\nand which enjoyed a very lucrative patronage from\\nthe constant travel of that day. Much produce found\\nits way to the market over the road, and herds of\\ncattle were usually driven through this part of the\\ntownship as more accessible and direct.\\nThe spring Valley road, which was surveyed at\\nnearly as early a date, ran more nearly through the\\ncentre of the township.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0510.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "(l/^(/i^i^^[^ ^c^tr ^^f^(r\\nMr. Zabriskie is ;l lineal desoemlant of Albert Saborowrcki,\\nwho emigrated from roliind to America in the year 16G2. This\\ncommon ancestor of the large family now i^ Bergen County\\nwas united in marriage to :i Miss Yun Dcr Linde and settled\\nin Haekensack, where lie was the |)0:5se?^or of a large landed\\ninterest. The earliest memberof the immediate family of John\\nC. remembered was Christian, the great-grandfather of the\\nsubject of this biographical sketch, who settled at Teaneck, in\\nthe present townsliip of Ridgefield. He was married to Miss\\nLany Van Voorhis on the 10th of February, 1753, and had\\namong his children Albert, Margaretta,.and Jacob. The death\\nof Christian Zabriskie occurred July 4, 177S. His son Albert,\\nthe date of whose birth is given in the family records as July\\n9, 1755, was united in marriage to Miss Francintie AVcstervelt,\\nborn April 4, 1754, the date of this marriage being given as\\nMay 13, 1775.\\nMr. Zabriskie oecupiecl the family residence at Teaneck, and\\nwas a man of commanding appearance and much influence.\\nHe was elected sheriff of Bergen County in 179S, and a member\\nof the State Legislature in 18(12-4. His known integrity and\\nunerring Judgment caused him frequently to be chosen as execu-\\ntor of neighboring estates, and tlie coniidence in his uprightness\\nand fairness as well as capacity was in no single instance mis-\\nplaced. He was a consistent member of the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch of Hackensat-k until his death. Albert Zabriskie had\\nthree children, two of whom survived, Maria and one son.\\nChristian, the former having become Mrs. Henry Van Zaun.\\nChristian was born Aug. 12, 1785, on the homestead, where his\\nearly life was spent. He was united in marriage Jan. 30, 1808,\\nto Jane, daughter of John Roome, of New York City, Mr.\\nZabriskie having removed to the metropolis on reaching man-\\nho()d, where he engaged in business pursuits. Ten children\\nwere born to Mr. and Mrs. Christian Zabriskie, as follows:\\nMary Frances (Mrs. Allen Ilabinau), Albert C, John C, Chris-\\ntian, Helen, William Henry, Horscburgh, Jane Ann, Serana\\nMason (Mrs. Samuel Osgood), and Charles Frederick. But\\nthree of these sons now survive, Christian, Horseburgh, and\\nJohn C, the subject of this biographical sketch. The latter\\nwas born Feb. 6, 1813, in New York City, where his early life\\nwas spent in study at the then celebrated school directed by\\nJohn Holbrook. His health having given some cause for\\nanxiety he repaired to the old mansion at Teaneck, and for the\\npurpose of acquiring a more robust constitution engaged in\\nagricultural pursuits.\\nMr. Zabriskie was married Jan. 3, 1838, to Miss Sarah Jane,\\nyoungest daughter of Nathaniel Board, of Boardville, Passaic\\nCo., N. .T. Their two children are Jennie Augusta and Na-\\nthaniel Board.\\nMr. Zabriskie is not ambitious for political honors, but the\\npublic manifested their confidence in him by choosing him as\\ncollector of the township of Old Haekensack, and also as col-\\nlector of Bergen County for a period of five years. His\\ngrandfather, Albert Zabriskie, was for thirty years the trusted\\ntreasurer of the Bergen Turnpike Company, after which John\\nC. succeeded and held the office for twenty years. To this list\\nmay be added the chairmanship for five years of the township\\ncommittee of Midland. He has, with this exception, devoted\\nhimself to the labors incident to country life. In politics Mr.\\nZabriskie is a stanch Republican.\\nTlie tenets of the Reformed Dutch Church accord with his\\nreligious views. He is a member and an esteemed elder of the\\nchurch at Cherry Hill.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0511.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "fl", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0512.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0513.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "yy ^^2A.fj-/ /^uu^,\\n-7-\\nHis paternal great-grandfather was Daniel, a farmer\\nby occupation, ;ind a consistent member of the Re-\\nformed Cliurch. He married and reared a family of\\nseven children, five sons and two daughters, Henry,\\nDaniel, Jacob, John, Cornelius, Jane, and Tiny, lie\\ndied Sept. 1784, aged eighty years. His wife\\n(Margaret; died Oct. 4, 1779, aged seventy-one years.\\nJacob, third son of Daniel and Margaret Herring,\\nwas also a farmer, and member of the same church as\\nhis father. He wn.s twice married, first to Wilhel\\nmina Banta, second to Susan Livingstone, by wiioni\\nhe had three children, Wilhelniina, Daniel, and Cor-\\nnel iu.s.\\nJacob s death occurred June 9, l.Sd .t, at the age of\\nseventy-five years, and that of his wife (Susan) April\\n1, 1831, at the age of sixty-seven years.\\nComoliu.s, son of Jacob and Susan Livingstone)\\nHerring, was born April 10, 1797. He is a tailor by\\ntrade, but has spent the greatest portion of his life as\\na farmer. In politics he is a Kepubiieiiii, and his\\nreligious v ews nre in accordance with the piiiieiplus\\nof the Uefurmcd Church.\\nHe was married, Nov. 27, 1817, to Ann D. Riker,\\nof New York City, who has borne him the following\\nchildren: Henry C., James, Jacob, Su.san Ann, wife\\nof John De Voe, of Rutherford Daniel, John, Mary\\nJane, wife of Dr. John Turnnure, of Schraalenburgh,\\nN. J.; and William.\\nOfthe.se. Henry C. is the subject of this biograplii-\\ncal skctoli. ami w:is born Feb. 9, 1819, in the city of\\nNew York. During his infancy he removed with his\\nparents to Schraalenburgh, N. J., and remained at\\nhome until his marriage, which occurred June 19,\\n1839, to Helena, daughter of John Cooper, Ksq., of\\nNew Milford, Bergen Co. Mr. and Mrs. Herring\\nhave continued to reside upon the Cooper homestead\\nat New Milford since.\\nHe has for many years taken an active part in\\npolitics as a Democrat has served his township as\\nfreeholder, justice of the peace, etc., and was elected\\nto the State Legislature for the years 1874-75. He is\\nvice-president ollhe Bergen County Farmers Mutual\\nFire Insurance Company, and an jiclivc member of\\nthe True Hefornicd Church at Schraalenburgh.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0514.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "MIDLAND.\\n325\\nA highway running diagonally across the township\\nconnected the Paramus and Stone Arabia roads.\\nMidland was originally divided into twenty-four road\\ndistricts, which has since been reduced to twenty-one,\\nand over which are api)ointed the following over-\\nNo. 1,...N. B. Zabriskip.\\n2.. ..Jacob VaDderbeck.\\n3....A. J. Deniarest.\\n4 Jacob Van Buskirk, Jr.\\n5....L. Hague.\\n6....A.V. B.Oakley.\\n7.... John BroDk.\\n8....H. W. Wintera.\\n9....P. V. Pullis.\\n10 ...J. G. Christie.\\nDistrict\\nNo. 12..\\n.1. N. Voorhis.\\n13..\\n.H. C. Banta.\\n14..\\n.J.G.Beidan.\\n15..\\n.J. R. Brihkorhofl\\n16..\\n.J. Englishman.\\n17..\\n.G. H. Voorhis.\\n18..\\n.J. T. Zabriskio.\\n19..\\n.Henry Ackerman\\n20..\\n.J. D. Terhune.\\n21....G. H. Zabriskit\\n11.. ..H. H. Voorhis,\\nOrganization. Midland, by the following act of\\nthe State Legislature, approved March 7, 1871, became\\nan independent township:\\nAn Act to set off from the township of New Barbadoes, in the county of\\nBergen, a neic township, to he. called the lowtiship of Midland.\\nIst. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assetubhj of the titate of New\\nJersey, That all that part of the township of New Barbadoes, in the\\ncounty of Bt-rgen, which lies west and north of the brook known as\\nCole s Mill Brook, running from the point where it intei-eccts the Lodi\\ntownship line, on the Patersou turnpike, northwardly and eastwardly,\\ntill it empties into the Hackensack River, shall be and the same is\\nhereby set off into a aepanite township, to be called and known by the\\nname of the township of Midland, in the county of Bergen.\\n2d. Andheit enacted, TUut the. inhabitants of the said township of\\nMidland shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and\\ncorporate in law, and shall be styled and known by the name of The\\nInhabitants of the township of Midland, in the county of Bergen, and\\nshall be vested with and entitled to all the rights, power and autlmrity,\\nprivileges and advantages, and subject to th^ same regulations, govern-\\nment, and liabilities as the inhabitants of the other townships in the\\nsaid couTity of Bergen.\\n3d. .Ih(/ 6e i7 eHac/ri;, That the inhabitants of the township of Mid-\\nhind shall hold their first annual meeting at the Spring Valley Cliapel,\\nin said township of Jlidland, on the day appointed by law for holding\\nthe annual town-meetings in the other townships in the county of Ber-\\ngen and at the hour of eight o clock in the forenoon they shall, viva\\nvoce, choose by plurality of votes one fit person to preside at and super-\\nintend said meeting, and also a clerk, which officers so chosen shall\\nperform the duties now required by law of such officers; and afterwards\\nthe town-meetings shall be held at such places as the said inhabitants\\nshall determine in the manner prescribed by law, and shall vote for their\\ntownship officei-s and all appropriations of money by ballot, as heretofore\\nwhen constituting a part of the township of New Barbadoes.\\n4th. And he U enacted, That tho town committees of the townships of\\nNew Barbadoes and Midland shall meet on the first Monday after the\\nnext annual town-meeting in said townships in said Spring Valley\\nChapel, at ten o clock in the forenoon of said day, and shall then and\\nthere proceed by writing, signed by a majority of the township commit-\\ntee present, to allot and divide between the said townships of New Bar-\\nbadoes and Midland all the property and moneys on hand, or due, in pro-\\nportion to the taxable jiroperty and rateables, as valued and assessed by\\nthe assessor of the township of New Barbadoes at the last annual assess-\\nmeirt: and the inhabitants of the township of Midland sliall be liable to\\npay their just proportion, in like manner, of tho debts, if any there be\\nand if any of the town committee shall neglect or refuse to attend the\\nmeeting as aforesaid, those present may proceed to make such division,\\nand shall have full power to adjourn from time U time, and to such\\nplace as they think proper; and their decision, or the decision of a\\nminority of them, shall be final and conclusive.\\n5th. And he U enacted, Th t all paupers who maybe chargeable to\\nsaid township of New Barbadoes at the time this act takes effect shall\\nthereafter be chargeable to and supported by that township within the\\nbounds of which they have respectively acquired their legal settlements.\\n6th. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect on the first\\nMonday in Aprd in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one.\\nThe voters of the new township of Midland met at\\nthe Spring Valley Chapel, at the hour of eight o clock\\nin the forenoon of April 10, 1871. and then and there\\nproceeded, viva voc(\\\\ to choose, by a plurality of votes,\\na fit person to preside at and superintend said meet-\\ning according to law. Henry H. Voorhis having re-\\nceived a majority of all the votes was declared to be\\nduly elected for that purpose, and John H. Wenman\\nwas appointed clerk without oppo.sition. Said officers\\nbeing duly sworn, the election opened, and was held\\nby ballot with the following result\\nJudge of Election, Henry H. Voorhis; Township Clerk, Wm. A. Kipp;\\nAssessor, A bram S. Zabriskie; Collector, Albert James Bogert; Over-\\nseer of Poor, Peter Board Freeholder, Henry C. Herring; Survey-\\nors of Highways, Albert Berdan, Thomas V. B. Zabriskie; Township\\nCommittee, Peter H. Voorhis, Wm. J. Pell, John Chrystal, A. J.\\nDemarest, Peter Ackerman; Commissioner of Appeals, Isaac I.\\nBrinkerhoff, Peter Board, Isaac A. Voorhis; Justices of Peace, D. M.\\nEaston, John G. Webb; Constables, John B. H. Voorhis, John J.\\nMowerson, Isaac E. Bogert, John H. Wenman, John J. Banta.\\nThe following are the more important township\\nofficers until the present time\\n1872.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, David A. Zabriskie; Township Clerk, Wm. A. Kipp\\nAssessor, Abram S. Zabriskie; Collector, Albert J. Bogert; Survey-\\nors of Highways, T. V, B. Zabriskie, J. J. Banta; Township Com-\\nmittee, John Chrystal, Peter Ackerman, Wm. J. Pell, John R. Oldis,\\nStephen Voorhis.\\n1873.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, David A. Zabriskie; Township Clerk, Wm. A. Kipp;\\nAssessor, A. S. Zabriskie; Collector, Albert J. Bogert; Surveyors of\\nHighways, T. V. B. Zabriskie, Albert Berdan Township Committee,\\nJ. R. Oldis, D. D. Baldwin, Abram J. Demarest, John Chrystal, J. A.\\nZabriskie.\\n1874. Freeholder, H. H. Voorhis; Township Clerk, Wm. A. Kipp; As-\\nsessor, Albert Berdan; Collector, J. C. Zabriskie (Paramus); Sur-\\nveyors of Highways, Isaac A. Voorhis, J. D. Terhune; Township\\nCommittee, Abram I. Demarest, D. D. Baldwin, John R. Oldis, John\\nR. Voorhis, John Chrystal.\\n1875, Freeholder, H. H. Voorhis; Township Clerk, Lewis Laue Asses-\\nsor, Albert Berdan; Collector, J. C. Zabriskie {Paramus) Surveyors\\nof Highways, Jasper D. Terhune, Isaac A. Voorhis Township Com\\nmittee, J. G. Zabriskie, D. R. Brinkerhoff, L. Hague, John R Voor-\\nhis, A. G. Hopper.\\n1876. Freeholder, H. H. Voorhis; Township Clerk, N. G. Hopper: As-\\nsessor, Albert Berdan; Collector, John C. Zabriskie (Paramus) Sur-\\nveyors, R. W. Cooper, I. A. Voorhis; Township Committee, John G.\\nZabriskie, A. G. Hopper, D. R. Brinkerhoff, L. Hague, J. C. Zabris-\\nkie (Cherry Hill) Justices of Peace, John G. Webb, Wm. J. Pell.\\n1877. Freeholder, H. H. Voorhis; Township Clerk, N. G. Hopper; As-\\nsessor, John A. Demarest; Collector, Wm. J. Pell Surveyors of High-\\nways, Isaac A. Voorhis, R. W. Cooper; Township Committee, J. C.\\nZabriskie (Cherry Hill), D. R. Brinkerhoff, L. Hague, A. G. Hopper,\\nJ. G. Zabriskie.\\n187S.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, H. H. Voorhis; Township Clerk, N. G. Hopper; As^\\nsessor, J. A. Demarest Collector, Wm. J. Pell Surveyors of High-\\nways, Thos. Gardner, Jr., R. W. Cooper; Township Committee, J. C.\\nZabriskie, John G. Zabriskie, D. R. Brinkerhoff, A. G. Hopper, Leo-\\npold Hague.\\n1879.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, J. C. Zabriskie (Paramus); Township Clerk, N. G.\\nHopper; Assessor, Jacob G. Zabriskie; Collector, Wm. J. Pell; Sur-\\nveyors* of Highways, R. W, Cooper, Thomas Gardner, Jr. Township\\nCommittee, J. C. Zabriskie, J. G. Zabriskie, Peter V. B. Demarest.\\n1880.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, J. C. Zabriskie (Cherry Hill) Township Clerk, N. G.\\nHopper; Assessor, Jacob G. Zabriskie; Collector, Wm. J. Pell Sur-\\nveyors of Highways, Stephen Voorhis, Thomas Gardner, Jr. Town-\\nship Committee, J. G. Zabriskie, P. V. B. Demarest, Henry C. Her-\\nring.\\n1881. Freeholder, J. C. Zabriskie (Paramus) Township Clerk. Wm. A.\\nKipp; Assessor, Jacob G. Zabriskie; Collector, Wm. J. Pell; Sur-\\nveyors of Highways, Stephen Voorhis, Thomas Gardner, Jr.; Town-\\nship Committee, Henry C. Herring, John G. Zabriskie, Garret H.\\nZabriskie Justice of Peace, John G. Webb.\\nVillages and Hamlets.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The title of Spring Val-\\nI ley belongs not to a village or settlement, but to a re-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0515.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "326\\nHlSTOllY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTItS. NEW JERSEY.\\ngion in Midland about three miles in length and two\\nin width, and consists of a succession of valleys lying\\nbetween gentle elevations, and ]ocate l nearly north\\nand south. The locality abounds in ])ercn\u00c2\u00bbial springs,\\nwhich swell tlie streams of tlie neigliborhood and im-\\npart freshness and beauty to the landscape. Tradition\\nrelates that the name of Sluckup, which hiis until\\nrecently attached to the locality, had its origin in\\nthis circumstance: A land-owner, residing out of the\\ncounty, visited the spot to inspect his wood-lot. The\\nheat of the day rendering superfluous garments un-\\ncomfortjible, he doff ed his linen coat, which was hung\\nupon a limb nearby. On the completion of his labor\\nhe returned for his garment, only to discover that a\\nfamiliar cnw had appropriated and was then engaged\\nin swallowing it. He ])ursued liis liomeward journey\\npoatless, and ever after spoke of the spot as a locality\\nwhere coats were slucked up.\\nThe name in 1832 was changed, and from the\\nnatural features which rendered it so attractive was\\nknown by the more euphonious title of Spring Val-\\nley. Some of these springs are of historic interest.\\nOne is said to niark the spot where the earliest abode\\nin the vicinity was erected another is christened\\nafter Gen. Washington, and is said to have supplied\\nthe troops, as well as the general-in-chief, with water\\nduring the encampment of tlie Revolutionary army in\\nthis section. Many of the landeil estates of this re-\\ngion are still in possession of later generations of the\\nfamily, who are i)rincipally of Dutch descent. The\\nelevation of this land and its natural formation has\\nacquired for it a well-known reputation for salubrity,\\naud attracted many inhabitants from other quarters,\\nwho have become permanent residents.\\nA region of the township lying in the northwest\\nvery attractive, highly cultivated, and productive is\\nknown as Paramus. A portion of this extends into\\nthe adjoining town of Kidgewood, from which it is\\nseparated by the Saddle River. This stream, while\\nadding greatly to the picturesqueiiess of the country,\\nconlribute.s also to its fertility.\\nThe old Paramus road, wliich runs tlinmgh the\\nlocality, is lined on either side by fertile farms, many\\nof which have been for one and two centuries in the\\nsame familias. This property rarely changes hands,\\nand the owners may, from their associations and in-\\nherited titles, with propriety be regarileil a.s a landed\\naristocracy.\\nThe hamlet of Cherry Hill i\u00c2\u00bb located just above\\nHackensaek, on the New Jersey and New York Rail-\\nroad. It was early settled by French and Holland\\nemigrants, prominent among whom wilh the lirower\\nfamily, none of whom now remain in the vicinity.\\nThe locality is desirable, with a commanding view\\nembracing a diversity of scenery, and with excellent\\nadvantages of drainage. The only Reformed (Dutch)\\nChurch of the township is located here, and is in a\\nflourishing condition.\\nThe hamlet of River Edge lies on the Hackensaek\\nRiver, less than two miles above Cherry Hill, and is\\nalso on the New Jersey and New York Railroad. It\\nis connected with the depot by an attractive avenue,\\nand is beautifully located on the slope of a ridge\\noverlooking the railroad. The locality was during\\nthe trying scenes of the Revolution known as Old\\nBridge, and prior to the date of its present christen-\\ning designated as New Bridge. It is a spot fraught\\nwith historic interest from the fact that during the\\nRevolutionary war, upon the evacuation of Fort Lee,\\nthe troops escaped from the British by crossing the\\nbridge at this {)oint, which stood less than one hun-\\ndred yards north of the present structure, and after-\\nwards burning it. The Demarest family are probably\\nentitled to ])recedenceas settlers here, one of its mem-\\nbers having nearly two hundred years ago erected a\\nmill on the river, which has long since passed away.\\nRiver Edge has a store and lumber-yard, owned by\\nP. V. B. Demarest, and two markets, kept by James\\nD. Chri.sty and John .T. Banta. P. V. B. Demarest is\\nthe postmaster.\\nThe original settlers at New Mill ord, which is also\\non the line of the New Jersey and New York Rail-\\nroad, and on the Hackensaek River, are the Voorhis\\nand Cooper families. The earliest eflbrt with a view\\nto business enterprise was nuide by one Wannemaker,\\nwho opened a store, and after coixlucting it for a con-\\nsiderable period was succeeded by Abram Cole. Cor-\\nnelius Smith then became owner, after which it\\npassed into the hands of Jacob R. Demarest, who was\\nfollowed by George Derunde. Jacob Van Buskirk\\nafterwards controlled the trade, and the business is\\nnow conducted by J. B. H. Voorhis.\\nA very old mill-site exists on the river, the first\\nstructure having been erected before the Revolution-\\nary war, and used at that period as a saw-mill. It\\nsubsequently became a tjinnery and bleaching-mill,\\nafter which it was devoted to the manufacture of but-\\ntons, and was later converted into a woolen-mill.\\nJacob Van Buskirk in IS. iO transformed it into a\\ngrist-mill, and it is at present devoted to the manu-\\nfacture of flour.\\nIt has three run of stone, grinds rye and buckwheat\\nextensively, together with feed. The product of the\\nmill finds a market at Paterson, Englewood, and ad-\\njai-cnt part-s of the State. The present owners of this\\nmill are J. tV: 11. Van Buskirk.\\nThe post-ofticc is known as Spring Valley, the post-\\nmaster being J. B. H. Voorhis.\\nThe signification of the word Oradell, margin of\\na valley, is very happy as applied to this locality,\\nwhich is attractively located on the Hackensaek\\nRiver, just above tide-water. The New Jersey and\\nNew York Railroa l pa.Hses through it on the west\\nside of the river. The spot has some historic a.ssoci-\\nations from the fact that Washington s army was en-\\ncamped on the first ridge west of the river for some\\nmonths during the Revidutionary war. The arliest\\nfamilies in this vicinity are the Demarests, Voorhises,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0516.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "JOHN COOPER.\\nThe name of Cooper is inseparably connected with the stir-\\nring events of Revolutionary history, its early members having\\ndisplayed the most signal instances of bravery and devoted\\np triotism.\\nThe progenitor of this family was Richard Cooper, whose\\nbirth occurred in 1098, and who emigrated at a later period\\nfrom his native Holland to America. He became the owner of\\nan extensive tract of land in Bergen County, purchased of the\\nNew Jersey pi-oprietors, and portions of which are still owned\\nby his descendants, Mrs. H. C. Herring, Mrs. Hannah Moore,\\nand Mrs. Eleanor Van Wagoner. He married Miss Catherine\\nVan Pelt, also of Holland descent, whose birth occurred in 1700\\nand her death in 174; her husband having survived until 1753.\\nAmong their children was John, born July 22, 17- J1, who served\\nwith credit in the war of the Revolution, as did also his son\\nRichard, both of whom were taken prisoners nnd confined on\\nLong Island.\\nJohn Cooper was united in marriage to Anna Maria, daugh-\\nter of Rev. J. H. Goetschius, and had the following chil-\\ndren, who grew to mature years: Richard, Mary (Mrs, John\\nHopper), Catherine (Mrs. Garret Hopper), Sally (Mrs. Abram\\nAckcrman), and Henry, who died in infancy. The death\\nof Mr. Cooper occurred Dec. 2i), 1S08. His son, Kichard\\nJ., was born on the ancestral estate Oct. 27, 1757, and de-\\nvoted himself to the improvement of the landed property he\\ninherited. He was united in marriage to Miss Anne Ferdon,\\nto whom were born three children, John (the subject of this\\nbiographical sketch), Eleanor (Mrs. Jacob Van Wagoner), and\\nMary (Mrs. John Van Wagoner). Richard J., on his release\\nfrom imprisonment during the war for American independence,\\nreturned to his home and followed farming pursuits until his\\ndeath, which occurred April 8, 1812. The birth of his son\\nJohn occurred Dec. 1, 1782, on the homestead, where his whole\\nlife was spent. He was married, Feb. -t, 1804, to Miss Sally,\\ndaughter of David Campbell, a Revolutionary patriot, who bore\\nthrough life the .scars of many wounds received while in the\\nservice of his country. Their children were Anne (Mrs. Lucas\\nVan Saun) born Sept. 10, 1805j Hannah (Mrs. B. P. Moore),\\nwhose birth occurred March 31, 1815 and Helena (Mrs. H. C.\\nHerring), born Feb. 17, 1818, The children of Mrs. Moore are\\nSarah Louisa (Mrs. Dr. S. J. Zabriskie) John Cooper, who\\nserved with credit as surgeon during the late civil war, with\\nthe brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel, and died while in service,\\nin 1865, at Clinton, La.; Louis, residing at New Milford; Eliza\\nAnn (Mrs. David H. Van Ordan); Mary (Mrs. Henry C. Banta)\\nand Helena (Mrs. Oeorgc Brickcll).\\nJohn Cooper spent his whole life upon the farm, though other\\nbu.^iness pursuits also engaged his attention. His active mind\\nfound pleasure in the excitements incident (o political life, and\\nthe offices of freeholder, justice of the peace, etc., were fre-\\nquently filled by him. He espoused with vigor the principles\\nof the Democracy, and never wavered from these convictions.\\nHis religious views were in sympathy with the Reformed\\n(Dutch) Church, Mrs. Cooper having been a member of the\\nTrue Reformed Church at Schraalenburgh.\\nThe death of Mr. Cooper took place Jan. ^o, 1875, on the\\nancestral home. His career was one of great usefulness, and\\nhis loss was universally deplored.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0517.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0518.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0519.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "^Urt\\nrV ^6i/^y?7C\\nCiyTV\\nTlic progenitor of the Van Biiskirk family in Bergen\\nCoiinly w\u00c2\u00ab8 Jolin Van Buskirk, who emisrslod from\\nHulluml lit !in carlj date and looatcJ at Teancck, now\\nEnglcwoud. His children were John and Cornelius,\\nb.iib of wliDin fcltli d ill tlie county, the lutlcr at n later\\n|icriod having removed to Slalcn Island, where his de-\\nsiondants now reside. .lohn w;is united in marriage to\\nMis* IJacliel Diy, iind rcniaiiied at the fiiiiiily residence\\nat Teaiieck, where he spent his lifetime in farming occu-\\npations. His children were Peter, who lived on the\\nhoniegtead El ie, who became Mrs. John Ackcrman\\nJaciib, the father of the subject of this biographical\\nsketch; Elizabeth (Mrs. John Bogert) and John, who\\nalso resided at Tcaiiock. Of these children, Jacob was\\nborn at the ancestral hnme, and at an early day acquired\\nthe trade of a carpenter. He, however, made no prac-\\ntical use of this trade other than to erect a saw-mill for\\nhis own use, having during his lifetime followed farming\\npursuits.\\nlie married Catharine, daughter of Capt. Abram\\nUaring, of Kevolutioiiary fame, to whom were born\\nchildren, Sarah (Mrs. Stephen Lo/.ior), John, Abram,\\nand Jacob. John removed to Slaten Island, and resided\\nthere until his death Abram late )ii life repaired lo\\nKiver Edge, where hi death occurred. Jacob, whose\\nlife is here briefly sketched, was born at Teancck, July\\n26, 1807, where his eaily life was spent. He was, Aug.\\no, 1820, united in marriage to Miss Hannah Voohris, of\\nKindcrkamack, lo whom were born three children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJacob, whose birth occurred July 23, 1827; Henry,\\nborn Jan. 28, 182y; and Eliza C, who became Mrs.\\nNicholas U. Voohris. The death of Mrs. Van Buskirk\\ntranspired on the 8th of September, 1879. Her many\\nvirtues caused her to he deeply mourned both in the\\nfamily circle and the cominuiiity.\\nMr. Van Buskirk loft the paternal home in early life\\nand repaired to New Milford, where he engaged in mer-\\ncantile )iursuits and afterwards in milling, having, in\\nconnection with his brother, erected the mills now owned\\nby his sons.\\nHe has been actively engaged in the promotion of\\nimportant public enterprises, being a director of the\\nNew Jersey and New York Kailroad, of which he\\nhas been station agent at New Milford since its coni-\\njilotioii, and also a director of the Bergen County\\nFarmers Mutual Insurance Company.\\nIll politics Mr. Van Buskirk is a stanch Republican,\\nthough not a seeker after oflicial honors. He is a member\\nof the Hefornicd (Dutch) Church of Schraalenburgh, in\\nwhich he is an esteemed elder.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0520.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "MIDLAND.\\n327\\nand Van Buskirks, most of whose descendants still\\nretain the land. The original mill property was\\nowned by John Van Buskirk, more than a century\\nsince, and was purchased of his son, Luke Van Bus-\\nkirk, by Jacob Voorhis, in whose family it remained\\nfor three generations.\\nHenry Voorhis, a son of Jacol), became the owner,\\nwho was succeeded by bis son Henry, when it passed\\nto Jacob and John Voorhis. It was formerly a saw-\\nand grist-mill, and was burned, and rebuilt by Albert\\nZ. Ackerman, after which it was a second time con-\\nsumed by fire, and rebuilt by the present owner, Wil-\\nliam Veldran, who operates it as a saw-mill with a\\nturning-lathe attached.\\nA store was erected by Isaac Demarest and for a\\nwhile conducted by him. It is owned by Van Bus-\\nkirk Landman, who keep a general stock. Daniel\\nI. Demarest is the postmaster.\\nAreola is located upon the Saddle River, and was\\noriginally known as Red Mill, a saw- and grist mill\\nhaving been erected on the river at this point before\\nthe Revolution, and owned by Jacob Zabriskie, gen-\\nerally known in the neighborhood as King Jacob.\\nStephen Slote and Barney Ryer became successively\\nproprietors at a later date. Benjamin Oldis after-\\nwards owned the property, and upon its purchase by\\nAlbert A. Westervelt it was converted into a woolen-\\nfactory. Edward B. Force on becoming the pur-\\nchaser ran it as a saw-mill and woolen-mill. The\\nheirs of Force sold to George Graham, after whose\\ndeath it became the property of a company, members\\nof whom still control it. It is now conducted as a\\nwoolen-mill, and supplied by water from the Saddle\\nRiver stream. The hamlet of Areola boasts a hotel\\nand a store located on the west side of the stream.\\nChurches. Areola Methodist Episcopal Church,\\nthe oldest in the township, was originally known as\\nthe Methodist Episcopal Church of Red Mills, and\\nits name subsequently changed to the Methodist Epis-\\ncopal Church of Areola. The earliest meeting with\\na view to the erection of the building was held March\\n14, 1843, at the house of Edward B. Force, who was a\\nmember of the society, and donated the land upon\\nwhich the edifice stands, for which a deed, bearing\\ndate March 7, 184.3, was given. He also contributed\\nlargely towards the construction of the building, sup-\\nplying all the deficiencies in material or means. The\\nfirst board of trustees was composed of the following\\ngentlemen Edward B. Force, James V. Joralemon,\\nWilliam H. Phelps, Andrew Lutkins, Lodowick\\nYoungs, and William A. Gurnee.\\nThe pastors in succession have been Revs. Nicholas\\nVan Sant, Fletcher Luminis, Dr. A. L. Brice, A. E.\\nBallard, Bush. It is impossible to learn from\\nthe records who succeeded Rev. Mr. Bush, or to give\\nother names until the advent of Rev. Manning F.\\nDecker, who was followed in time by Revs. S. F.\\nPalmer, J. A. Trimmer, T. Hall, T. D. Frazee, E. S.\\nJamison, H. J. Hayter, and the present pastor, W.\\nM. Johnston. On the formation of the society a Sab-\\nbath-school was organized, which has since been\\nmaintained, and is now in a prosperous condition.\\nSpring Valley Association was formed during the\\nyear 1869, its objects being, as stated in the constitu-\\ntion\\n1. The erection of a building for the uses of the\\nassociation.\\n2. The creation and maintenance of a public library.\\n3. The dissemination of useful knowledge by means\\nof lectures, discussions, publications, etc.\\n4. The holding of annual or other e.xhibitions of\\nthe products and manufactures of the county.\\n5. The promotion of any measures that may tend\\nto the moral, intellectual, or industrial improvement\\nof the community.\\nA building known as the Spring Valley Chapel was\\naccordingly erected in Spring Valley, within the\\ntownship limits, and devoted to the uses specified in\\nthe constitution. Services were regularly maintained,\\nand conducted by clergymen from various portions of\\nthe county, who were invited to officiate, and at a\\nlater date a pastor was called, who ministered to the\\ncongregation under his charge. Services are still\\nmaintained, though the people are without a regular\\nsupply.\\nReformed Church of Cherry Hill.^ In the spring\\nof 1858 a devout Christian man named John .V. Par-\\nsons, of Hackensack, aroused by a deep sense of the\\nspiritual darkness and destitution of New Bridge and\\nits vicinity, was prompted, by a desire to do good and\\nfor the love of souls, to render some service in the\\nvineyard of the Master; thereupon he resolved to\\nvisit New Bridge on Sabbath afternoons and gather\\naround him at some convenient place as many of the\\nyouth of the village as possible, to whom he might\\nread and explain in a simple way the sacred scrip-\\ntures, and teach the way of salvation as revealed\\ntherein.\\nSuccess followed his labors, and others, encouraged\\nby it, enlisted themselves as helpers in the divine\\nenterprise. Teachers and scholars so increased that\\nit was decided to establish a Sabbath-school. Ac-\\ncordingly a school was organized May 2, 1858, with\\nJohn A. Parsons, superintendent, and known iis the\\nSabbath-school of New Bridge.\\nProsperity still attending the faithful labors of these\\nChristian workers, and an increased desire and thirst\\nafter more extensive religious privileges being mani-\\nfested, a series of meetings for prayer and praise were\\narranged to be held every Sabbath evening.\\nThese being entered upon were supported and sus-\\ntained, notwithstanding occasional reverses and dis-\\ncouragements, by the conjoined efforts of a few devoted\\nmen residing in the eastern and western suburbs of\\nthe village, and under the blessing of Him of whom\\nthe apostle said, .Inasmuch as ye know your labor\\n1 Prepared by one of its members.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0521.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "328\\nHISTOllY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nis not in vain in the Lord. The means employed re-\\nsulted in the conversion of miiny souls to Christ.\\nThese meetings were held at the residences of cer-\\ntain of the inhabitants. The Rev. Dr. Ronieyn, of\\nHackensaek, frequently visited them, and conducted\\nreligious services in their dwellings on one or two\\nevenings in a month, preaching the word and sowing\\nthe incorruptible seed of gospel truth in all faithful-\\nne-ss, fervor, and love. This continued down to 1875,\\nwhen a wide-spread opinion prevailed that, in view of\\nthe religious interest then established, and the fact\\nthat several Christian people from New York and\\nBrooklyn had taken up their abode in the neighbor-\\nhood, the time and opportunity had arrived for the\\nformation of a church at Cherry Hill. As a prelim-\\ninary step in that direction, a call was issued for con-\\nvening a public meeting at the railroad depot to\\nconsider this important matter. The call was well\\nresponded to, and all conceded that the project was\\nan important one. More than one person was ready\\nto donate the land necessary for the site of the jtro-\\nposed edifice, while others were prepared to give\\nmaterial or money to carry out and complete the work\\ndetermined on. Truly it may properly be recorded\\nof them, the people had a mind to work.\\nEventually, after much discussion and considera-\\ntion, the site fi. ced on for the building wivs on the\\nwest side of the railroad track, al)out two minutes\\nwalk from the dejiot, and approachable by four cross-\\nroads. The land wiis donated by .John A. Zabriskie,\\nEsq., of Hackensaek, and a great part of the stones\\nused for the foundation of the building were taken\\nfrom an old house which formerly stood opposite the\\nsite of the church edifice, and was (ince )wne l by one\\nI sual Meeker, an otticer in the British army, who en-\\ncamped in the neighborhood during the Revolution-\\nary war. It subsequently became the property of\\nJohn Lozier, who, notwithstanding its then dilapi-\\ndated condition, declined to take it down until, as he\\nsaid, an opportunity arose for using the stones in the\\nway and for the purpose to which they were ulti-\\nmately ap|)lied. Mr. Lozier, however, never lived to\\nsee the day on which it was decided the work should\\ncommence, though his widow, who survived him, car-\\nried out his expres.sed wishes in that respect.\\nThe cliurch editice being completed was formally\\ndedicated lo divine worship on the 1st of November,\\n187G, as The Reformed Church of Cherry Hill and\\nNew Uridge, and subject to the rules, regulation.s,\\nand government of the Reformed Church of America,\\nby the Cla-ssis of Uergen County, N. J. Through the\\nliberality of the jiromoters of the cause and the friends\\nof religion, it wilh consecrated and established free from\\ndebt or any pecuniary obligation whatever.\\nThe dedication sermon waa preached by the Rev.\\nDavid Inglis, of New York City, since decea.sed, the\\ntext as the basis for his discourse being taken from\\nIsaiah ix. l. f: I will make the place of my feet\\nglorious.\\nThe church was organized by about twenty-five\\npersons, twenty-one of whom were members from\\nother churches of ditl erent denominations, chiefly\\nfrom Hackensaek, New York City, and Rrooklyn.\\nIts membership is now over fifty. Mr. Charles W.\\nWood was temporary minister for nearly two years.\\nAfter his resignation, and on the 5th of March, 1879,\\nMr. .Tohn E. Graham, of New Brunswick College,\\nN. J., accepted a call from the church, and wa.s duly\\ninstalled its pastor.\\nThe present officers of the church consist of two\\nelders and two deacons. The former are Messrs.\\nJohn C. Zabriskie and Frederick J. Stokes, and the\\ndeacons are Messrs. John Voorhis and Wesley Stoney.\\nThe treasurer of the church funds is Mr. Nathaniel\\nZabriskie, and the clerk to the consistory is Mr. F.\\nJ. Stokes.\\nBurial-Places, The burial-places in Midland are\\nnot numerous, and now but little used, many of the\\ninlial itants at the present day having chosen places\\nof interment outside the township limits.\\nThe oldest is probably known as the ^i)riiig Valley\\nCemetery, near the centre of the township, on the farm\\nof Gilliam Zabriskie. It represents more than a cen-\\ntury of antiquity, some of the memorial tablets being\\nof old red .sandstone, and much defaced by age.\\n.\\\\mong the families who have buried here are the\\nBantas, Demarests, Voorhises, Bertholfs, Kipi s, Van\\nSauns, De Bauns, and Huylers. The grounds are now\\nunder the watchful care of John W. Kipi Among\\nthe inscriptions are the following\\nIn niuuiory of Rol \u00c2\u00abcca, daiigliter uf Suiiiiicl niu) Kftlo ^o\\nilieil on tlio 12t)i of Dt oeniber, 1SU7, agpil 1 .vcar, 11 Diaulli\u00c2\u00bb, nnJ 6 doys.\\nWhen I llu Imiied deep in dnst,\\nM) lloali (dinll bo Tliy caro:\\nThoflo u-iUiercd limits wiUi Tlieo I tniBt,\\nTo raitte tlit m Btning nnd fitir.\\nIn nioniory of Henry Djinta, \\\\\\\\ti det arle l tlliii life Augnst 121)l, 1S17,\\naged OGyoiire, I numlti.anil IK dityt.\\n.\\\\I\u00c2\u00abo of Kliuibctli Lake, uifu of Henry Ujinta, wlio died September 4,\\n1KI7, aged 07 yeara, niontliti. anti 18 days.\\n1 know, o LonI, that thy Jndgnient\u00c2\u00ab are right, and that thou In faltli-\\nfnlnem hast afllicled me. Soot the LonI is good. BleMe l is the man\\ntliat trnittcti) In him.\\nIn memory of Xicliolas nenmrent, who was Iwrn on the 3rd of May,\\n1769, and de|Mrle.l this life Febrnary lith, Isll, aged 51 years, 9 monlli\u00c2\u00bb.\\nand A flays.\\nllier Leir her Lighaem Van Yacob Bronwpr is Geeterveodo 20 fr Van\\nAuguslns in lierlaer 17S4 was onrftS laer.\\nIn memory of Margaret Ackernian, lM)ro the 10th of Febniary, 17M,\\nand wlio delmrled Ibis life Seplenilier I .lh, INX i, ageii .TS yeare, months,\\nand 24 days.\\nA very old l urial-|)lace, known jus the Voorhis\\nburial-grounii, is located near New Milford, on the\\nfarm of N. R. Voorhis. It was in use at the time of\\nthe Revolutionary war, but has since been abandoned.\\nA siil\u00c2\u00bbliiiilial leiice imloscs its ancient graves.\\nJudge Henry H. Voorhis, great-grandson of Lucas,\\ngranilson of Nicholas, and son of Henry N. Voorhis,\\nwas born in the township of Midland, Bergen Co.,\\nOct. 8, 180G. His education from books was received\\nat the common school of his native place, and under\\nthe private instruction of the well-known teacher.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0522.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "i\\nk", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0523.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "1\\nII", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0524.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "MIDLAND.\\n329\\nDaniel P. Demarest, under whose tutorship he be-\\ncame well versed in the theory of book-keeping,\\ngrammar, and surveying. In early life he became\\ninured to farm labor at home, and obtained from pa- i\\nrental instruction practical ideas of business. His\\nlife has been spent upon the homestead, wheVe his\\nfather and grandfather both resided and reared their\\nfamilies, a detailed history of whose lives is more\\nfully given in the township history of Midland.\\nSucceeding liis father in possession of the home-\\nstead, his main business through life has been agri-\\ncultural pursuits. Outside of his own private busi-\\nness. Judge Voorhis has for fifty years been more or\\nless identified with the business of other people and\\npublic matters, and continually during this time he\\nhas served as executor and administrator of the\\nestates of various persons in his town and county.\\nAlthough he has ofttimes found this business compli-\\ncated and difficult in bringing about a statement of\\nfacts, he takes pleasure in knowing that his official\\nacts have been performed with the strictest integ-\\nrity, and that he has the confidence of those who\\nhave intrusted the care and guardianship of their\\nbusiness to him. Judge Voorhis has taken an active\\nand influential part in all worthy local enterprises\\nthat have come before him in his town and county.\\nIn early manhood he became interested in local pol-\\nitics, and as a member of the Democratic party has\\nunreservedly and unflinchingly advocated the prin-\\nciples of justice and right. He was a supporter of\\nStephen A. Douglas for the Presidency, and upon\\nthe breaking out of hostilities in 1861 he took a firm\\nstand for the Union cause as a War Democrat, and\\nassisted liberally in giving his time and money for\\nthe support of the Union and the comfort of those\\nwho enlisted in their country s service.\\nIn 1835 he was commissioned by Governor Peter D.\\nVroom a justice of the peace, and served for five\\nyears; he was again commissioned a justice of the\\npeace by Governor Daniel Haines in 1843, and served\\nthree years, when, by the change in the constitution\\nof the State requiring that office to be filled by elec-\\ntion by the people, he was elected to the same office\\nand served for two years. Judge Voorhis was elected\\nand served in the State Legislature for the years 1848-\\n49; was appointed master in chancery in 1853, and\\nin 1857 he was appointed judge of the Court of Com-\\nmon Pleas of Bergen County, and served one term of\\nfive years. In 1874 he was elected freeholder of\\nMidland township, which position he creditably filled\\nfor five years. Upon the construction of the Midland\\nRailroad he was appointed one of the commissioners\\nfor appraising damages to lands passed through by\\nthe road in forty-five cases, and he was one of the\\nincorporators of the Bergen County Farmers Mutual\\nFire Insurance Company, of which he is and has been\\nsecretary from its organization. He has been for\\nmany years a member and liberal supporter of the\\nTrue Reformed Dutch Church at Schraalenburgh, and\\nactively interested in promoting church-work and\\nkindred interests, and has for many years been a life-\\nmember of the American Bible Society. Whether\\nJudge Voorhis be considered in a private capacity or\\nas a public officer, it may be safely said of him that\\nhe is a useful citizen, an exemplary business man,\\nand a worthy member of society. Whatever he does\\nin a clerical way is systematic and faultless, as the\\nscores of wills, deeds, and other conveyances attest.\\nHe married, Oct. 11, 1823, Eliza, daughter of John\\nWesterveU, of Schraalenburgh, who was born Aug.\\n2G, 1806, and died Aug. 31, 1874.\\nJohn H. Voorhis. The Voorhis family are of\\nHolland extraction, and but little is known of this\\nbranch beyond the father of John H., whose name\\nis Andrew A., who was born Oct. 1, 1802, in what is\\nnow Hackensack, Bergen Co., N. J. He has spent\\n^i^^n\\nhis entire life as a farmer, is very quiet and unas-\\nsuming in his manner, and now, in his old age, en-\\njoys the confidence and respect of all who know him.\\nHe married Mariah Saloma Schoonmaker, March 23,\\n1826. The result of this union was three children,\\nEuphemia, wife of Thomas Voorhis, Elizabeth (de-\\nceased), and John H. Mr. Voorhis is a member of\\nthe First Presbyterian Church of Hackensack, as was\\nalso his wife. She died March 5, 1874.\\nJohn H. Voorhis was born March 5, 1836. He was\\nmarried Nov. 23, 1858, to Anna Mariah, daughter of\\nAnna and Samuel Demarest. They have had three\\nchildren, Anna, Salome, and Andrew, Jr.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0525.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "330\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nHe has always remained upon the farm where he\\nwas born, in Midland township, and has given his\\nconstant attention to agricultural pursuits. He and\\nhis wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church\\nof Hackcnsack. In politics Mr. Voorhis is a .stanch\\nDenincnit. havinfr always cast his vote with that\\n])arty.\\nPeter Board, His great-grandfather, Cornelius\\nBoard, a native of England, emigrated to America\\nwith his wife, Elizabeth, and two sons, David and\\nJames, and settled at Ringwood, N. J., afterwards\\ncalled Boarilvilk where he became a large real estate\\nowner. Another son, Joseph, was born after the\\nfamily arrived in this country.\\nC/jAx\\n^/-c r C-;\\nDavid wa.s grandfather of our subject, and suc-\\nceeded to a part of his father s estate, where he con-\\ntinucil his residence during his life. He was twice\\nmarric l, ami reared a large family. His youngest\\nson, Niithaiiifl, fallier of Peter Hoiinl, Uorii Sept. 27,\\n177. died Dec. :!1, 1842, secured a lilieral education\\nwhile young, and succeeded to his father s estate. At\\nthe age of nineteen he volunteered to fill the place of\\nanother who was drafted to .servo as lieutenant to\\npursue the Whisky Hoys to K ciilncky, in what is\\nknown as th(^ Whisky war.\\nHe also distinguishecl himself for gallantry during\\nthe war of 1H12, and was for six months stationed at\\nSandy Hook. His general occupation was farming,\\nand he became a large land-owner, and was known\\nas a lea ling agriculturist of Passaic County. Na-\\nthaniel Board was an active and influential politician,\\nand for many years stood at the head of his party in\\nthe county. Fer several terms he served in both\\nbranches of the New Jersey Legislature, where his\\nability, sound judgment, and safe counsel were pub-\\nlicly acknowledged, and in which positions his pul)lic,\\nalike with his ])rivate, life was untarnished and his\\nhonor unimpaired. As a public otficer of his town-\\nship, or as member, deacon, or elder of the church of\\nhis choice (Dutch Reformed), he ever bore the charac-\\nter of manliness, dignity, and integrity.\\nHe was frequently sought after as counselor among\\nhis neighbors and townsmen, and often selected as\\nexecutor and administrator of estates. His wife,\\nMary Kingsland, a native of Morris County, bore him\\nthe following children, who grew to manhood and\\nwomanhood Edmund K., John F.. Mary A., wife of\\nDaniel H. Bull, of Orange County, N. Y., Peter.\\nEleanor, deceased, was the wife of James H. Hull,\\nHarriet, wife of O. E. Maltby, of New Haven, Sarah\\nJ., wife of John C. Zabriskie, and David J. Board.\\nPeter, son of Nathaniel Board, was born Aug. 19,\\n1809, on the Board homestead in Pompton township,\\nwhere he sjtent his early life and actpiired an educa-\\ntion, being prepared for college in the Pomiiton\\nAcademy.\\nTurning his attention to business pursuits, for eight\\nyears he was a clerk in general merchandise stores in\\nthe vicinity of his birth. He married, May 30, 1838,\\nMatilda H. Zabriskie, of Midland lownshi)), who has\\nborne him two children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ornelius Z. and Mary C,\\nwife of John J. Zabriskie, of Kidgeway.\\nMr. Board has spent most of his active business life\\nas a farmer is a man of strong force of character,\\ndecided in his opinions, and of correct habits. He\\nhas been honored by his townsmen with positions of\\ntrust in his t iwnship, and in the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch he has been officially connected for many\\nyears.\\nCIIAI TK R XI, VI.\\nHOIIOKIS.\\nGeneral Description.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The township of Hohokus\\ntnki its iianu from llic brook, the word Hohokus\\nbeing of Indian derivation, and signifying cleft in\\nthe rock. It is the extreme northerly township of\\nthe county, adjoining the New York State line, which\\nis its northeastern border. Passaic County bounds it\\non the west, the townships of Ridgewood and Frank-\\nlin are on the south, an^I Wasliington township lies\\non the east.\\nIn dimensions it is the foremost township of the\\ncounty, having an area of twenty-three thousand seven\\nhundred and one acres.\\nIn point of enterprise it may also be regarded as\\nranking equally witli the remainder of the county.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0526.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "HOHOKUS.\\n331\\nhaving four hamlets, one of which rises to the import-\\nance of a growing and thriving village. Much of\\nthe land has been held for successive generations,\\nwhile other portions have been secured as places of\\nretirement by city purchasers, and are highly culti-\\nvated and adorned with residences of much architec-\\ntural beauty. The Erie (formerly the Ramapo and\\nPaterson) Railroad passes through the township from\\nnorth to south, and has since its advent greatly added\\nto its development. The number of acres in Hohokus,\\nas given above, is divided into one hundred and one\\nlots, the total value of real otate being -SI, 122,579,\\nand of personal property $21(5,820. Upon this the\\ntaxes are apportioned asfollows: county tax, 83994.73;\\nbounty and interest tax, $2,579.93 poor and township\\ntax, $1175.27; State school tax, S3366.68; special\\nschool tax, .$301.30; road tax, .S4000.\\nNatural Features. In its natural beauties Hoho-\\nkus vies with its sister townships in the county, the\\nscenery being diversified, and presenting alternately\\nvalleys and ridges of exceeding beauty and fertility.\\nThe general soil may be described as a thick loaai\\nwith sandy subsoil. To particularize on the east\\nside of the township, along the border of the Saddle\\nRiver, the land, which is principally known as flats,\\nis of clay and gravel interspersed, the meadows ad-\\njacent to the stream being exceedingly rich. Sand is\\nmore prevalent in the south, while the ground in the\\ncentre is found to be somewhat stony. In the west a\\ngravelly soil prevails. The land bordering the Ramapo\\nRiver is a rich meadow, this being especially the case\\non the east side. The timber of Hohokus is princi-\\npally oak and chestnut, though maple, poplar, and\\nelm are also found.\\nThe township is well watered, the Saddle River\\nflowing along the eastern border, the Ramapo River\\non the west, and the Hohokus Brook on tlie south.\\nEach of these streams furnishes an excellent water-\\npower, which is utilized in numerous instances. Aside\\nfrom the manufactures mentioned in this chapter are\\nnumerous grist- and saw-mills that enjoy a home pa-\\ntronage. Many small tributaries flow into these\\nstreams.\\nThe Early Families of Hohokus. Among the\\nearly names in the township of Hohokus are those of\\nAckerman, Hopper, Damper, Voorhis, Bogert, Za-\\nbriskie, Rosencrantz, De Baun, Wanamaker, Christie,\\nConklin, Ramsey, Van Gelder, Garrison, May, Goet-\\nschius, Valentine, Vanderbeck, Storms, Quackenbush,\\nand Powell.\\nThe Hopper family have been both numerous and\\ninfluential in this township. Abram Hopper came\\nbefore the war of the Revolution, and purchased a\\ntract of land embracing what was for years known\\nas Hoppertown, together with much additional land.\\nHe was, as are others of the family, of Holland line-\\nage. His children were Henry A., Jacob, John,\\nAbram, and a daughter, who became Mrs. Zabriskie,\\nand died at the advanced age of one hundred and two\\nyears. All the sons settled in the county of Bergen.\\nHenry A. married Charity Conklin, of Rockland\\nCounty, to whom were born children, Lewis, Abram\\n(who became a physician), Jacob H., and Mrs. S.\\nRosencrantz. Lewis married Maria Salyer, who was of\\nEnglish descent, and, a second time, Eliza Ackerman.\\nHis children were Louisa (Mrs. J. H. Goetschius),\\nEliza (Mrs. A. J. Terhune), Charity (Mrs. George S.\\nGoetschius), Catharine (Mrs. Edwin DeBaun), Henry\\nL., and John J. The only one of this number now in\\nthe township is Henry L., who occupies the land first\\npurchased by his great-grandfather. Abram, first\\nmentioned, had a son John,, whose son, Abram H.,\\nnow resides in Hohokus.\\nThe earliest remembered Bogert was Stephen, who\\nresided upon the farm now occu[)ied by John W.\\nBogert. He was of Dutch descent, and born Aug.\\n15, 1739, his wife, Maria Westervelt, having been ten\\nyears his junior. Their children were Keziah, Peter\\nand James (who were twins), and Effy.\\nJames, born July 8, 1785, settled upon the home-\\nstead, and married Sarah Westervelt, to whom were\\nborn children, Stephen and John. The latter,\\nwhose birth occurred April 3, 1813, located upon the\\nhomestead, and was united in marriage to Catherine,\\ndaughter of Albert G. Hopper. They had one son,\\nJohn W. Bogert, now residing on the ancestral estate.\\nAnother branch of the family is represented by\\nJames N. Bogert, and still another by the family of\\nPeter Bogert.\\nThe Voorhis family are of Dutch descent, the\\nearliest remembered settler being Albert, who lo-\\ncated on the place now owned by John Q. Voorhis.\\nAlbert contracted two marriages, and had children,\\nAlbert, John, Henry, Christina (Mrs. Garret Zabris-\\nkie), Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry Zabriskie), Margaret\\n(Mrs. Samuel De Baun), Jenny (Mrs. John Van\\nDolsen), Bridget (Mrs. Nicholas Hopper), and Han-\\nnah (Mrs. John Ackerman). The death of Albert\\noccurred on the homestead. John remained on the\\npaternal estate, and married Rachel Bogert. Their\\nchildren were John Q. and Elizabeth (Mrs. Corinus\\nVan Houten). Mr. Voorhis died on the farm now\\noccupied by his son.\\nJohn Ackerman came before the Revolutionary\\nconflict and settled in the township. He had four\\nchildren, Abram, Aaron, Maria, and Sarah. Abram\\nmarried Sarah Cooper, and became the parent of\\nchildren, Henry, John, and Maria (Mrs. Stephens).\\nHenry was united in marriage to Betsey, daughter of\\nNicholas Hopper, to whom were born two sons,\\nAbram H. and Nicholas H., both of whom reside\\nin the township. John T., a grandson of Aaron, is\\nalso a resident of Hohokus.\\nDavid Ackerman, also of Holland lineage, first set-\\ntled in Washington township. He had children,\\nJohn, Garret D., Albert, and Abram, and two daugh-\\nters. Garret D., who was born on the homestead,\\nmarried Charity Hopper, and had children, David,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0527.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "332\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nAndrew, and Alice. Andrew settled in the township,\\non the present farm of Garret A. N., and married\\nCatherine Zabriskie. Their cliildren were Garret A.\\nN., Maria (Mrs. Abram Dater), and Charity, both de-\\nceased. Peter A. L.. a son of Albert, above mentioned,\\nalso resides in the townshiji.\\nJohn Terhune settled in Hohokus, on the farm now\\nthe residence of Edward De Baun. Among liis chil-\\ndren was Albert, wlio married a daughter of William\\nHopper, and had children, Plannali, Mrs. Andrew\\nHopper, and Catherine (Mrs. Abram Ackerman).\\nThere were also two sons, John and Stephen, the\\nlatter of whom died in ^v outh. John married Anna\\nAckerman, and had children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Albert, Garret, John\\nH., Stephen, Andrew N., Matilda, Catiierine M., and\\nJennie A. Stephen and Albert reside in the town-\\nship, the latter being the occupant of his grandfather s\\nland.\\nAnother of the Terhune family, also named John,\\noccupied the present residence of John E. Hopper,\\nand married Catherine Lutkins, to whom were born\\nchildren, Albert, Herman, and Elizabeth, who be-\\ncame Mrs. Jacob I. De Baun. Herman .settled upon\\nthe homestead, and married Rachel Zabriskie, of\\nI aramus. Their children were Catherine, Martha,\\nAdaline, .lolin. Stephen, and F^lizabeth. Of this\\nnumber, John, Elizabeth (Mrs. John E. ]I()i per), and\\nMartha (Mrs. Andrew Winter), reside in the town-\\nship.\\nAnother family of Hoppers wa.s represented by\\nNicholas and .Jacob, who were twins, and owners of\\nmuch valuable land in the county of Mergen. Nich-\\nson Albert, who also lived in Paramus, and was the\\nfather of nine children, Garret A. L., Jacob, Albert,\\nStephen, Simeon, John, Adeline, Rachel, and Anna.\\nGarret A. L. married Katy, daughter of Albert Wes-\\ntervelt, and removed to Holiokus, where he purchased\\nland and located. His children were Margaret (Mrs.\\nReujamin Westervelt) and .\\\\lbert G., who is the owner\\nof the liomestead and the only one residing in the\\ntownship. Catherine became Mrs. John L. Storms,\\nRachel, Mrs. Jacob Snyder, and Adaline, Mrs. George\\nEsler. Another branch of the family is represented\\nby Albert I., who is a son of John Zabriskie. and\\nstill another by Garret H., and yet another by .lohn\\nII. Zabriskie.\\nAdolphus Shuart settled on land in posse.ssion of\\nthe family during the Revolution. He was united in\\nmarriage to Catherine Ackerman, and had children,\\nJ(5hn, Henry, William, David, Daniel, Isaac, and\\nthree daughters. John settled with Henry u]ion the\\nhomestead, the latter having married a daughter of\\nJohn Sutherland, to whom were born children, nine\\nin number. Of these, .lames, John H., George, and\\nthree daughters reside in the township.\\nThe progenitor of the Goetschius family was\\nDominie Goetschius, familiarly known in the eccle-\\nsiastical history of the county. .Xmong his descend-\\nants was Peter, who settled in that portion of the\\ntownship known as Saddle River, and married a Miss\\nEckert. Their children were William, John, and four\\ndaughters. John was thrice married, and had chil-\\ndren, James R., John H., Hannah, Rachel, and Ja-\\ncob. James R. is the onlv one of this number who\\nolas resided in Washington township. Among his resides in the townshi]).\\nchildren was Jacob, who married Sophia Westervelt,\\nand had children, John, Elizabeth, and Peter. Peter\\nmarried Hannah Eckerson, and had children, So-\\nphia, John E., and Jacob. .lohn E. is a resident of\\nHohokus.\\nThe progenitor of the Rosencrantz family in Hoho-\\nkus was John Rosencrantz, of Sussex County, N. J.,\\nwhose son Elijah removed to the township in 1807.\\nJohn Valentine came at an early day and located\\nupon the farm now owned by his grandson, John J.\\nMay. He married Elizabeth Swinn, and had five\\nchildren, all of whom were daughters. One married\\nJaciil) C. May, and still resides with her son upon the\\npaternal estate, now owned by John J. May.\\nThe Messenger family (formerly spelled Maysenher)\\nare among the oldest in Hohokus, the first of the name\\nHe married Cornelia SufTern, and had children, having been Nicholas, who emigrated from Holland\\nJohn, George S., Elijah, and Andrew, all of whom at at a very early date, ami, in company with Dederick\\nfirst located in Hohokus. ,\\\\11 of this number, ex- Wanamaker, located in liergen County. He pnr-\\ncepting Elijah, who is engaged in manufacturing, have chitsed the land now owned by Peter P. Messenger,\\nsince removed from the town.Hhip. which was in an entirely uncultivated condition on\\nHenry Rsler was an early settler in Ramapo, Rock- his arrival. His children were a son, Conrad, and\\nland Co. His son Andrew cho.se the township as a two daughters, the former of whom inherited and\\nresidence, and located upon the farm now occu| ied\\nby his sons, Henry ami (ieorge Esler.\\nPeter S. Hush, a son of vSaniuel Bush, came to the\\ntownship during the latter part of the last century.\\nHaving located at Mahwah, he married Bridget Chris-\\ntie, and had eight children, Samuel, John, Peter,\\nDavid, and daughters, Mary M., Sarah A., Elizabeth,\\nand Racliel, of whom Samuel and Peter still live in\\nHohokuH, while David and .lohn are residents of\\nFranklin.\\nAlbert Zabriskie located in Paramus. He had a\\nimproved the land of his father. His wife was (prob-\\nably) Margaret Van Winkle, who had children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nNicholas, Peter, John, Michael, Conrad, and three\\ndaughters. Conrad, the first, died upon the homestead,\\nand was succeeded in the ownership by his son, Peter,\\nwho married Sarah Peterson, and had children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter\\nP., .Margaret (Mrs. Benjamin Post), and Susan (Mrs.\\nJohn Carlow). Peter P. is now the pos.se.s.sor of the\\njiaternal estate and the only survivor. He has three\\nchildren, all of whom reside with their father.\\nDederick Wanamaker, who is already mentioned,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0528.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "HOHOKUS.\\n333\\nin company with Nicholas Messenger, left his native\\nHolland, and purchased a tract embracing six hundred\\nand forty acres in Bergen County, on a part of which\\nhe settled. His four sons were Christian, Conrad,\\nAdam, and Peter. Christian intermarried with the\\nShuart family, and had children, Richard, Adolphus,\\nand one daughter. The former married Margaret\\nFox, of Mahwah, and had children, Christian, Hen-\\nry, and four daughters. Henry married Anna Bogert,\\nand wiis the father of two children, Richard and\\nRachel. The latter became Mrs. Edward Salyer, and\\nresides at East Orange, while Richard is the possessor\\nof the homestead. Six generations have in succession\\nbeen reared upon this land. Another representative\\nof the name in the township is James S. Wanamaker,\\nwhile still others reside near Hohokus Station.\\nThe earliest member of the Winter family was\\nJohn, who formerly resided at Tappan, Rockland Co.,\\nand had children, Abram, Andrew, and Sarah (Mrs.\\nJacob J. Hopper). Andrew, who lived upon the home-\\nstead, married a daughter of Garret Hopper. He had\\nchildren, Andrew, John, Margaret (Mrs. John Chris-\\ntie), Maria (Mrs. James Sufterin), Lavina (Mrs. Hop-\\nper), and Sallie A. (Mrs. Albert Zabriskie). Of this\\nnumber the only survivors are Andrew and Mrs. Za-\\nbriskje.\\nThe Fox family may with justice claim association\\nwith the pioneers of the township. The progenitor\\nof the family had five sons, Stephen, David, Tinus,\\nJacob, and John. David and .Jacob had homes in\\nHohokus, the latter of whom has two sons still resi-\\ndents of the township, while a son of David resides\\non the Rockland County line. John removed to\\nCanada, where members of his family were conspicu-\\nously known in connection with the spirit-rapping\\nseances given by the Fox sisters.\\nAbraham Van Horn, a former resident of New York,\\nremoved to the township and settled upon the Ramapo\\nroad. Among his numerous offspring were Hopper\\nand William Van Horn, who reside in Hohokus.\\nAbram Van Horn was at an early day owner of a\\nlarge portion of the Ramapo Mountain.\\nDavid Cliristie during the Revolutionary war re-\\nsided upon land now occupied by J. D. Christie.\\nAmong bis children was James, a school-teacher dur-\\ning the war, Peter, William, and David D. The lat-\\nter married Irene Haring, of Tappan, and had chil-\\ndren, David, John, James D., Elizabeth, and Bridget,\\nof whom James D. is the only resident of Hohokus.\\nChristian R., the grandson of John, and the son of\\nDavid, resides upon the land of his father. Abram,\\nthe -son of Richard, and David, the son of John, and\\ngrandson of David, also live in the township.\\nWilliam Conklin was a former resident of Tappan,\\nand removed to Hohokus while some portions of the\\ntownship were yet in a primitive condition. With\\nhim came sons, Benjamin, David, and William, all of\\nwhom found homes in the township. William, whose\\ndeath occurred in Hohokus, was interred in theRamapo\\nChurch burial-ground. None of the family of David\\nsurvive. William had a family of nine daughters\\nand three sons, of whom John W. and Jane (Mrs.\\nJohn Young) reside in the township. Another repre-\\nsentative of the name is Albert, son of Elijah Conklin,\\ndeceased.\\nThe pioneer of the Dater family was Abram, who\\nsettled upon land now owned by Henry Wentzel, and\\nhad sons, Abram, Henry, and Adam. Adam became\\nowner of the paternal acres, and married Jlary Young-\\nTheir children were John, Abram, Jacob, Henry, and\\ntwo daughters, Ann Eliza, who became Mrs. Aaron\\nGarrison, and Martha, who married Henry J. Ryerson.\\nAdam resided in the township until his death, when\\nhis son, John Y., succeeded to the estate.\\nThe name of Ramsey is associated intimately with\\nthe development of the township. The first member\\nof this family was William, who emigrated either from\\nIreland or Scotland, and located one mile west of the\\nvillage of Ramsey s. He soon after became a British\\nsoldier, and fought in Canada against the French, but\\ndied from exhaustion on the return march. His chil-\\ndren were John, William, Peter, Martin, Rachel,\\nCatherine, Margaret, and Maria. Peter married Jane\\nRyerson, and had children, William, James, Peter,\\nand Maria. Of this number Peter was united in mar-\\nriage to Elizabeth Christie, and had children, Peter,\\nJohn, David, and William. But two, David and\\nPeter, now reside in Hohokus. John is a resident of\\nPaterson, and William of Newark. David, the son\\nof William Ramsey, also resides in the township.\\nThe Bamper family are among the oldest in Ho-\\nhokus, on their arrival having purchased land and at\\nonce occupied a position of influence in the vicinity.\\nThey are still represented by the families of Garret\\nH. and J. Bamper. The Van Gelders are also asso-\\nciated with an early period, as are the Powells, the\\nQuackenbushs, the Ponds, the Youngs, and the Wes-\\ntervelts.\\nSchools. The township has eight school buildings,\\nwith a valuation of fourteen thousand six hundred\\ndollars, and a seating capacity for five hundred and\\neighty-seven children. The territory is divided into\\neight school districts, named and numbered as fol-\\nlows: Hohokus, No. 54; Allendale, No. 55; Ramsey s,\\nNo. 56; Ramapo Valley, No. 57 Mahwah, No. 58;\\nUpper Saddle River, No. 59 Masonicas, No. 60 and\\nRiverdale, No. 62. Hohokus District, the first of\\nthese, is located partly in Franklin and partly in Ho-\\nhokus, the building being in the latter township. A\\nvery rudely built and furnished school-house sufficed\\nuntil 1856, which was erected by subscription. An\\neffort was ultimately made to change the location and\\nerect a new building, which met the usual opposition.\\nThe old one was sold, and the proceeds of the sale, added\\nto a donation of five hundred dollars and land for the\\npurpose, together with a tax of five hundred dollars\\nlevied upon the district, secured the desired object.\\nThe building is of wood, one story in height, twenty-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0529.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "334\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\neight by thirty feet in dimensions, and very com-\\npletely furnished. It is pleasantly located in the\\nvillage of Hohokus, on the avenue leading to the\\nParamus Church. Until 1870 the school was main-\\ntained hy a tuition fee of one dollar per quarter, but\\nis now entirely free. The present instructor is S.\\nFrisby.\\nAllendale District also occupies the southern por-\\ntion of the township, the tirst building for school pur-\\nposes, familiarly known sus the Old Red School-\\nhouse, half a mile below the Allendale depot, having\\nbeen erected in 182G. Previous to this two buildings\\nhad been used for school purposes, this being necessary\\nfor the accommodation of the children. During the\\nyear above mentioned it was re-solved by the inhabit-\\nants to erect a structure, which is said to have been a\\none-story frame building, si.xteen by twenty-four feet\\nin dimensions, with conveniences similar to those pro-\\nvided at that time. Desks were arranged around the\\nroom, with long benches devoid of backs, on which\\nthe luckless urchin was doomed to sit from nine in the\\nmorning until four in the afternoon. The first board\\nof trustees embraced John (i. Ackernian, John G.\\nAckerson, and Albert A. Garrison, who employed\\nIsaac Demarest as their earliest teacher.\\nMany anecdotes are related of the teachers of that\\nday, all of whom niiido frequent applications of the\\nbirch upon refractory pujiils, and some of whom were\\nmore renowned for harsh discipline than for scholastic\\nattainments. Among the names of former teachers\\nin this district are the following: Henry H. Van I\\nDerbeck, James A. Ackerman, who was first a pupil I\\nand later became instructor, John Binder, son of the\\nGovernor-General of the island of .\\\\ntigua, and Miss\\nMary Gcroe, now Mrs. Jacob Oatman, of Paterson.\\nThe old building did good service until 1802, when\\nthe residents of Allendale District determined upon\\nthe erection of a new edifice. The present building,\\nthe result of their enterprise, was occupied for school\\npurpo.ses the same year. It is located one-quarter of\\na mile from the de|)ot, is twenty-five by thirtv-tivc\\nfeet in dimensions, adorned with belfry and blinds,\\nand surrounded by shade-trees. The i)roperty is\\nvalued at two thousand dollars, and though excellent\\nin all its ap|)ointments, is hardly adequate in size to\\nthe needs of the district. The present teacher is J.\\nyVlfred Ackerman.\\nRamsey District is located in the central portion of\\nthe tf)wnship, and derives its name from the thriving\\nvillage of Ramsey, on the Krie Railroad. There are\\nno authentic facts regarding this district previous to\\n1840. In that year a wooden strui-ture, sixteen by\\ntwenty feet in size, was erected on the highway, and\\nu.sed until 1874, when it wits condemned by the county\\nauperintendent and the present commodious edifice\\nreared in its stead. This building is twenty-five by\\nforty-five feet in dimensions, one story high, with\\nbelfry, attractive in appearance, an l well furnished.\\nIts valuation is five thousand dollars. The scholars\\nfind ample room, one hundred and eighty being com-\\nfortably seated. The present instructors are H. G.\\nVan Gelder and Genetta Roniaine.\\nRamapo Valley District lies in the northwest por-\\ntion of the township, the present school building\\nhaving been erected in 1855. It is pleasantly located\\nin the beautiful Ramapo Valley, and has a seating\\ncapacity for fifty pupils, the property being valued at\\neight hundred dollars. The present teacher is Miss\\nAdah H. Corliss.\\nMahwah District lies in the northern portion of the\\ntownship, and recalls 1847 as the period of erection\\nof its present school building. This is eighteen by\\ntwenty-six feet in dimensions, one story high, and has\\nby late repairs been made comfortable, though a new\\n.structure is much needed in this district. The prop-\\nerty has been a deservedly small valuation. The\\npresent instructor is Wm. H. McClure.\\nUpper Saddle River is partly in Washington and\\npartly in Hohokus, the school being in the latter\\ntownship. No records of its early history are extant.\\nThe year 18.53 is recalled as the date of construction\\nof the |)resent building, which is pleasantly located\\non the Valley road. It is a frame building, twenty-\\ntwo by thirty-three feet in dimensions, one story high,\\nand when first erected was neither complete or modern\\nin its equipments, the seats for the children being of\\nslabs. In 1873 it was repaired, more comfortably\\nfurnished, and is now a convenient and acceptable\\nschool-hou.se. The common English branches are\\ntaught, though a frequent change of teachers has pre-\\nvented any degree of progress among the pupils.\\nThe pro]ierty has a valuation of two thousand five\\nhundred clollars, its capacity being liniite l to seventy\\nfive children. The teacher is J. F.dgar Waite.\\nMiisonieas District is also in the northern portion\\nof the township, and was formed in 1820, through the\\nexertions of Mr. Adolphus Stuart, who, in connection\\nwith Mr. Garret Litchhault and Mr. John Straut.\\nwere builders of the school-house. It is sixteen by\\ntwenty-four feet in dimensions, and is constructed of\\nstone, but with no pretensions to architectural beauty.\\nThe furniture originally consisted of a continuous\\ndesk on three sides of the room and slab seats. The\\nteacher was |)roviiled with a chair having a bark seat\\nand high back, in front of which stood a small desk\\nof common oak plank. .Among the ei|uipnients of\\nthe jiedagogue was a stout birch rod, which he daily\\nfound a useful adjunct in his labors. This school\\nwas first opened by Peter Herring, who was succeeded\\nby Jeremiah Mandigo, after which Peter Mabli-, Wil-\\nliam Henion, .Fames F urman, and EdwanI Murray\\nin turn had charge. The hours of study were at first\\nfrom sunrise to sunset, but were in 1828 changed and\\nthe present system adopted, beginning at nine A.M.\\nand closing at four p.m. The rod was the favorite\\nre-sort of the teacher at this early day, an l the dull\\npupil felt its severity no less than his refractory neigh-\\nbor. The teacher received a stipulated sum per ipiar-\\ni", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0530.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "HOHOKUS.\\n335\\nter for each scholar and board, spending a week at\\nthe house of each patron. The old building was con-\\ndemned in 1852 a plot of ground was purchased of\\nConrad Straut, and the present edifice erected. It is\\na frame structure, twenty by twenty-four feet in size,\\none story high, and will seat comfortably forty-two\\npupils. It is still antique in all its appointments, and\\nthough some improvements have been made, it cannot\\nbe classed among the model school buildings. Miss\\nAgnes Terhune is the present teacher.\\nRiverdale is a new district, formed fiom Districts\\nNos. 52 and 57. in 1874, by E. E. Vreeland, then\\ncounty superintendent. The earliest school within\\nthe bounds of this district was held in a vacant dwell-\\ning within a few rods of the present building.\\nThe first teacher was David Mandeville, who pos-\\nsessed all the requisites of his profession with the\\nexception of a mild temper. On one occasion he\\nseverely punished a pupil of the gentler sex, who\\nafterwards became his partner in life. In 1812 the\\nschool was held one mile farther to the south, in a\\nkitchen, and later in a turning-shop, the first school\\nbuilding having been erected in the present District\\nNo. 52.\\nThe schools in Districts Nos. 52 and 57 being more\\nthan four miles a])art, with many children in this ter-\\nritory who were unable to attend on account of the\\ndistance, application was made, and the district\\nformed as stated above. The present building is a\\nframe structure, with vestibule, and located near the\\ndivision line. It is Gothic in design, and substanti-\\nally constructed. The upper room is used for school\\npurposes, while the lower apartment, having been fur-\\nnished by private subscription, is used for religious\\nworship. The present teacher is Mrs. Kate Hopper.\\nThe whole number of children in the various dis-\\ntricts of Hohokus is 827. The township receives as\\nher share of the interest of the surplus revenue\\nfund, $141.13 of the State appropriation, $250.09\\nof the State school tax, \u00c2\u00a7^818.92; making a total of\\n$3710.14 from all sources.\\nEarly Highways. InfbriDation regarding the\\nearliest highways of the township is neither ample\\nnor specific. One of the oldest is the Island road,\\nwhich passed through Hoppertown, and running\\nnorth and northwest, pursued its course to Rockland\\nCounty.\\nThe Ramapo road may be described as nearly fol-\\nlowing the course of the Ramapo River, on the west\\nborder of the township, diverging at points from the\\nstream and passing into Rockland County.\\nAnother highway is known as the Ridge road,\\nwhich began at Ramsey s, and follows a westerly,\\nthen a northwesterly course, and traverses the north-\\nwest portion of the township.\\nThe Franklin turnpike follows nearly the course of\\nthe Erie Railroad, passing through Hohokus, Allen-\\ndale, and, eaist of Ramsey s, on to Mahwah. The fol-\\nlowing are the present overseers of highways\\n.Isaac Ackernian.\\n.CoriuuB yuiickenbush.\\n..Garret Ack\u00c2\u00bb;rnian.\\n.John W. Bogert.\\n.John A. Zabriskie.\\n.Andrew Esler.\\n.Abram Smith.\\n.Joseph Terwileger.\\n.Geo. A. Du Bauu.\\n.Andrew Hopper.\\n.John McElroy.\\n..Cornelius Quackeubush.\\n.James H. Crow.\\n..R. C. Straut.\\n..Martin Litcliult.\\n.George Sullivan.\\n.Jacob Cronter.\\n..Andrew J. Winter.\\n..A. A. Bantu.\\n..Wm. Van Horn.\\n..R. J. W anamaker.\\n,.Wm. E. Conklin.\\n.David P. Ramsey.\\n..Henry R. Wanamaker.\\n.John Shuart.\\n..James R. Goetschius.\\n.Isaac Halstead.\\n..A. A. Ackernian.\\n..Jacob P. Young.\\n.John A. Garrison.\\n.Thomas flyers.\\n.Andrew M. Henion.\\n..Jacob Van Derbeek.\\nNo. 34.... Albert J. E. Zabriskie.\\n35. Samuel Beckley.\\nX6... M. D. White.\\n37. ...Andrew Van Emburgh.\\n38....John L. Youmans.\\n39.. ..E. F. Carpenter.\\n4u....Gariet Van Gelder.\\n41... N. B. Kukuck.\\n42. George F. Hosey.\\n43....AI)ram G. Ackernian.\\n44....Jolin A. Smith.\\n45 lohn J. Muwerson.\\n46.. ..Peter Konight.\\n47....naniel Antlionv.\\n4S....Wm. Sindle.\\n49.. ..John Van Horn.\\n50. ...David W. Valentine.\\n51....Joiin Y. Daler.\\n52... J.H. ShuHrt.\\n53... Peter Bartolpli.\\n54.... Levi Hopper.\\n55... .Daniel Hink.\\n56. ...James Butler.\\n57... Jolin Degroat.\\n58.. ..Paul Hetzel.\\n59.. ..John A. Van Blarcom.\\n60.. ..P. P. Ramsey.\\n61. ...Wm. Slack.\\n62... Peter D. T. Banta.\\n67....Stephen Van Blarcom.\\n68.. ..James N. Bogert.\\n69.. ..Isaac Ramsey.\\nDistrict.\\nNo. 1...\\n2...\\n3..\\n4..,\\n5..\\n6...\\n7...\\n8...\\n9...\\n10...\\n11..\\n12..\\n13..\\n14..\\n15..\\n16..\\n17..\\n18..\\n19..\\n20..\\n21..\\n22..\\n23..\\n24..\\n25..\\n26..\\n27..\\n28..\\n29..\\n30..\\n31..\\n32..\\n33..\\nOrganization. The act organizing the township\\nof Hohokus reads as follows:\\nAn Act to set off from the. township of Franlclin, in the loiiiity of Bei-tjeu^ n\\niieir township, to he called the township of Hohokus.\\nBe U enacted by the Senote and General Assembly of the State of New Jer-\\nsey, That all that pint of the township of Franklin, in the county of\\nBergen, that lies north of the following line beginning at the Saddle\\nRiver Creek, at the upper end of Daniel Perry s mill-pond, opposite the\\ncourse of the road leading from the Saddle River road to Fairtield\\nthence a straight course to said road thence along the middle of said\\nroad until it intersects the road leading from New Prospect to Paramus\\nthence across said road, the course of the aforementioned road, direct to\\nthe Paterson and Raiuapo Railroad; thence along said railroad north-\\nerly to the HoliokuB Brook thence along said Hohokus Brook westerly\\nuntil it crosses the public road leading from Canipgaw to Paterson, at the\\nupper end of John Haleted s mill-pond thence westerly along the line,\\nbetween lands of Andrew G. .\\\\ckerman, Abram J. Hopper, Henry Sturr,\\nConrad Sturr. and Peter H. Palis on the north, and Lewis Youmansand\\nothers on the south, to the middle of the road leading fioni Wycoff to\\nCampgaw, at the southeasterly corner of lands of Peter H. Pnlis; thence\\nwesterly along the middle of said road to the division line between\\nlands of Henry B. Winter and Daniel Thonuts; thence a straight course\\nto the middle of the Y aupob road, north of the house of David Bert-\\nholf, at the intersection of the mountain road leading froni Wynockie;\\nthence a northerly course through the Ramajto Mountain, parallel with\\nthe New York State line, to the line between the counties of Bergen and\\nPaasaic, shall be and the same is hereby set off into a separate township,\\nto be called and known by the name of the township of Hohokus, in the\\ncounty of Bergen.\\nIt was also enacted that the township of Hohokus\\nshould hold its first annual meeting on the day ap-\\npointed by law for holding the annual township\\nmeetings in other townships in the county of Bergen,\\nat the house of John W. Ramsey, at Mount Prospect,\\nin said township of Hohokus.\\nThis act was approved Feb. 5, 1849.\\nCivil List. The following is a li. ^t of the principal\\ntuwnship officers since 1849\\nFreeholders, 1849, James S. Wanamaker; 1860-52, Elijah Conklin 1849,\\nJohn G. A^ckerman 1850-51, Abraham Van Horn; 1852. Jacob I.\\nDe Bauu 18. 3-54, 1S61-64, Peter P. Ramsey 1863, John W. Ram-\\nsey; 18.34, Abraham Ackerman 1856-58,1868-70, Aaron Ackerman\\n1866-68, John A. Winter; 1869-60, Andrew Van Buskirk, David P.\\nRamsey 1861-63, Andrew N. Hopper: 1864,1866, Thomas Henyun\\n1866-67, Jacob H. Bamper; 1867-69, Garret H. Van Horn; 1870-71,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0531.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "336\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n1873-75, Aaron H. We\u00c2\u00abter\u00c2\u00bbelt; 1872, Henry P. Wnnunniaker; 187C-\\n78, Cornelius Folly; 1879-81, John E. Hopiwr.\\nTown\u00c2\u00bblii|i CkTks, lM9-. il, I elor P. Ramsey 1850-52, Peter Ward 1853,\\nRi haril II. Wunaniiiker; 1854-56. Isaac J. Stomis; 1855, llrnry R.\\nWaniiniaker; 1857-59, Jaiob V. Herring; 1880, Abrani II. Ackor-\\niiian; I801-\u00c2\u00ab;l, 1875-77, John A. Garrison, Jr.; 18( 4-C\u00c2\u00ab, John W.\\nBogiTt; I8G7 -09, 1879-81, JuhliQ.Voorlii is; 1870, Andrew J. Wiuli-r;\\n1871-73, Jolin G. Keler; 1874, Albert W. Couklin 1878, Daniel S.\\nWaniuiiaker.\\nAssessors, 1849-51. Abrani H. Lydecker; 1850, Edward Salyer ISS i-.M,\\nJohn Young; 1855, Abrani A. Van Riper; 1856-58, John W. House;\\n1859, Christian W. Christie; 1800, Albert G. Lydecker; 1861, George\\nW. Whitley 1802, Aliram Garrison 1803-06, Isaac J. Storms; 1S66-\\n08, John E. Hopper; 18C9, Albert A. Lydecker; 1870, John W.\\nDogert; 1871, I avid A. Pell; 1872-73, Matthew D. White; 1871-75,\\nStephen J. Terhune; 1870-78. James Sbuart; 1879-81, William H.\\nMurray.\\nCollectors, 1849-51, George Eslcr; 1852-54, Richard Christie; 1855-57,\\nJuhii W. Rani\u00c2\u00bb y; 1858-60, Elijah Couklin 18GII, 1802-0:1, Andrew\\nWinter; 1864- )6, Garret H. Van Horn; 1807-69, Jolin Il.IIeniun;\\n1870, John Q. Voorheis; 1871-73, Levi Hopper; 1874-70, John V. B.\\nHenion 1877-79, George 1. Ryerson 1880-81, W. E. C^jnklin.\\nSurveyors of Highways. 1849-51, Richard Christie, Nicholas Heniing;\\n1852-53, James Crauler; 1852, James V. B. Terwiliger; 1853-54,\\n18J)7-58, Martin Litchult; 1854-56, John P. Goclschius; 1855, Jacob\\nS. De liauii; 1855-.56, Peter HowanI; 18. )7-58, John H. Terhune;\\n1869-CO, Daniel I Bush, Onrret Ackermnn 1861-03, John V. B.\\nHenion, William W. Way 1864-00, James Bertholl; 1864-00, 1874-\\n77, David J. Curlough 1867-70, John A, Oiirrison, Jr., Peter G.\\nPowel 1871-72, Peter G. Ramsey 1872-73. John J. Morrison 1873-\\n74, Peter T. Banta; 187. i-77. James Bartulph 1878-81, William W.\\nPacker; 1878-80, John E. Fox 1881, Lewis H. May.\\nSuperintendents of Schools, 1849-50, nul^ois Hasbrook 1851-53, Corue*\\nlilis Mabie; 1854, 1850-57, Peter W. Bogort; 18. Charles A. Breni-\\nner; mW-fiO, John A. Terhune; 1801-05, Albert S. Zabrlski.-; 1860,\\nJames A. Ackomian. After which the ollice i f t( wn^hip snperin-\\ntentleut of schools was abolislied, and a county superintendeiil ap\\npointefl with jurisdiction over all school torritui-) in the county.\\nVillages and Hamlets. The most important of\\nthe villagts ill tin- towiishiii is Ramsey s, so named\\nfrom Peter J. Ramsey, the original owner of the land.\\nIt was sold after iiis decca.so, aliout tlie year 18. 4, at\\ncommissioners sale, to William ,T. Pullis, the tract\\ndisposed of embracing si.xty acres. Mr. Piillis resold\\ntwenty-two acres to John Y. Dater, of Hohokus\\ntownship, with whose advent an era of enterprise\\ndawned upon the locality. Mr. Dater at once began\\nthe erection of buildings, and opened a store for the\\nsale of general merchandise, adiling to this an exten-\\nsive supply of coal and building materials. The\\nearliist structure was of brick, and is still standing.\\nAt nearly the same time a iiotel was erected by David\\nW. Valentine, which was consumed by fire, and the\\npresent Fowler House built upon the site. Mr. Dater\\nnext erected a building for the manufacture of car-\\nriages and sleighs, for a long perioci did a thriving\\nbusiness, and ultimately leased to M. 15. Deyne, the\\npresent occupant. William J. Piillis then built a\\nstore, of which his son is now the projirietor.\\nA station had been estiiblished on the completion\\nof the Ramapo and Patcrson (now the Krie) Railroad,\\nwhich was callcil Ramsey s, and a post-odiee was also\\nlocateil here by the government, with .\\\\lberl (J. Ly-\\ndecker us the first postmaster, and John Y. Dater as\\nhis successor. As the location became more favora-\\nbly known, capital floweil into the embryo village,\\nresidences were erected, business increased, and Ram-\\nsey s took its place among the growing towns of the\\ncounty. It has since that time slowly but surely\\nmaintained its progress. There are now two stores,\\nkept by George I. Ryerson Hro. and James Pullis;\\ntwo carriage-factories, owned by Harrisou Bull and\\nM. B. Deyoe; one hotel, of which Frank Fowler is\\nproprietor; three churches, a large and flourishing\\nschool, and other minor business enterprises.\\nThe hamlet of Hohokus, formerly known as Hop-\\npertown, from the fact of its early settlement by the\\nHopper family, is situated in the extreme southea.stern\\nportion of the township. It takes its name, as does\\nthe township, from the brook on whieh it is located,\\nwhich furnishes a superior water-power, on which the\\nfactories elsewhere described are located.\\nThe spot has some historic interest attaching to it\\nI from the fact of it-s being the residence of the widow\\nof Col. Provost, to whom Aaron Burr ottcrcil his hand.\\nThe residence, quaint in appearance, and embowered\\nin shade, is still standing. Hohokus is one of the\\nstations on the Erie Railroad, and has two stores, kept\\nby G. H. Bamjier and S. H. Vrecland, and a drug-\\nstore Viy A. II. Bender. G. J. Reiser is the po.st-\\nmaster.\\nAllendale is a hamlet of comparatively modern\\ngrowth, and rather a place of residence than a centre\\nof business importance. It is a station on the Erie\\nRailroad, and was named from Col. Allen, one of the\\nengineers engaged in the construction of the railroad.\\nThe land was first owned by John Lauback and Powlis\\nVan Houten, and descended to their heirs, among\\nwhom were .lames and Henry Mallison, who em-\\nbarked in manufacturing and for a while were actively\\nengaged in commercial ventures. There are now two\\nstores, kept by Richard Ackernian and Smith Roswell,\\nthe latter of whom is also station agent and jiost-\\nmiuster. There are also two churches and a flourishing\\nschool located at this point.\\nThe land in the vicinity of Mahwah, which is also\\nlocated on the Erie Railroad, was originally owned\\nby Andrew Winter, by whom it was inherited from\\n.lohn Winter. The Ramajio and Paterson i now the\\nErie) Railroad ]iiircha.sed land, erected a station, and\\nchristened it ^lahwah. Aside from its railway con-\\nnections it has little significance. There is a hotel\\nlocated hereowneil by .\\\\ndrew Hagaman, and a store,\\nof which .lohn Winter is proprietor.\\nDarlington, a settlement on the banks of the Ram-\\napo Hiver, in the western portion of tlietownship, was\\nformerly the site of the nickel-works of the Dickin-\\nson Manufacturing Company, which made it the scene\\nof much business activity. With the reriioval of this\\nenterprise to a more convenient loeation departed all\\nthe glory of the once thriving hamlet. Mr. Darling,\\nfrom whom the point was nanii d, owns here an ex-\\ntensive stoek-farm.\\nChurches.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ramapo Reformed Dutch Church, were\\nits early and later history accessible, would prove a val-\\nuable acijuisition to the ecclesia.slical lore of the town-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0532.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "HOHOKUS.\\n337\\nship. It was doubtless established asearly asthebegin-\\nning of the present century, or possibly before, and has\\nbeen the place of worship of successive generations\\nwho resided in the vicinity and espoused the faith of\\nthis denomination, having formerly been familiarly\\nknown as the Island Church. Stated services are\\nmaintained, though the congregation is at present\\nwithout a pastor. The resent consistory are Peter\\nMessenger, John E. Fo.x, David Valentine, and An-\\ndrew J. Winter. A Sunday-school with fifty scholars,\\nof which Andrew J. Winter is superintendent, con-\\nvenes on Sabbath morning. The pastor last settled\\nover the congregation was Rev. Wm. H. Nasholds.\\nThe cemetery adjoining the church is of equal an-\\ntiquity, and is the place of sepulture of many of the\\nold families of the congregation.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal Church at Hohokus has\\nalways been designated as the New Prospect Church,\\nfrom the fact that in 1797, and for many years after,\\nit was part of the New Prospect circuit. This cir-\\ncuit was so extended as to require six weeks for the\\npreachers to visit each appointment once, even while\\nholding three services on Sabbath, and also services\\non alternate days of the week.\\nFor a long time the New Prospect Society had no\\nstated place of worship, but convened in the houses\\nor barns of its members. The present edifice was\\nerected in 1867, and is located a half-mile from Ho-\\nhokus Station, in a region of farms and country-seats.\\nIt will accommodate with comfort six hundred peo-\\nple, and is attractively and even beautifully finished\\nthroughout, the interior being of chestnut with stained-\\nglass windows and tastefully frescoed walls. The\\nindebtedness on the edifice is entirely liquidated.\\nThe dilficulty of obtaining the records renders it im-\\npossible to give the pastors in succession. The present\\nincumbent is Rev. Elbert Clement.\\nThe Archer Memorial Chapel is located at Allen-\\ndale, and is a part of the New Prospect charge of the i\\nMethodist Episcopal Church. It was erected in 1876\\nby O. H. P. Archer, of New York, at a cost of ten\\nthousand dollars, is completely furnished with bell, I\\nheater, organ, etc., and will seat comfortably two\\nhundred and twenty-six people. Services are held\\non Sabbath evenings, when a large congregation con-\\nvenes for worship. A prosperous Sunday-school is\\nalso connected with this society.\\nThe True Reformed Church at Ramsey s was organ-\\nized on the 24th of May, 1824, and was the outgrowth\\nof a separation from the Reformed (Dutch) Church.\\nThe causes of this departure from the parent church\\nwill -not be deemed as of essential importance in a his-\\ntory of this character, and are therefore not given.\\nThe following persons who left the original body\\nplaced themselves under the jurisdiction of the True\\nReformed Church of America Rev. James D. De-\\nmarest, V.D.M., David Valentine and wife, David\\nChristie and wife, Peter S. Bush and wife, Henry F.\\nForte and wife, John I. Post and wife, Peter Haring\\nand wife, John J. Post and wife, John A. Ackerman\\nand wife, William Emmit and wife, David C. Chris-\\ntie and wife, Matthew Dougherty, Jacob Mitchel and\\nwife, Widow Jemima Van Rhoder, Widow Margaret\\nWanamaker, Widow Isabella Donaldson, David\\nMeyers and wife, Jacob Valentine, Elizabeth Christie,\\nJames P. Ramsey, Mrs. Abram Van Roda, Mrs.\\nCharles Townsend, making a total of thirty-six\\nmembers.\\nDuring the year 1826 a church building was erected\\none mile from Ramsey s Station, on the road leading\\nto Darlington. Here regular worship was main-\\ntained until 1868 (a period of forty-two years), when\\nthe inconvenience of the location caused a change to\\nbe suggested. Ground was partly purchased, and the\\nremainder donated in the village of Ramsey s, and an\\nedifice erected which, together with furniture, cost\\nfive thousand dollars. This was dedicated in the year\\nof its completion. During the year 1875 the walls\\nwere frescoed, a new and effective heating apparatus\\nadded, and a new chandelier and an organ presented\\nby Mrs. John Y. Dater. Several gentlemen in the\\ncongregation contributed liberally towards beautify-\\ning the edifice, which is now free of debt. It has a\\nseating capacity of two liundred and fifty persons.\\nThe Rev. James D. Demarest, the first pastor, la-\\nbored alternately between this church and the one\\nat Monsey until 1855 or 1856, and at a ripe old age\\nretired from the ministry. Rev. John Y. De Baun\\nnext received a call from the same churches, arid\\ncontinued as pastor during a period of four years and\\nsix months, when a larger field was opened to him at\\nHackensack. The church was then served by supply\\nand by stated supply, the Rev. Isaac J. De Baun offi-\\nciating until 1875. In April of that year Rev. Samuel\\nI. Vanderbeck received aud accepted a call, and has\\ncontinued his ministrations since that period, preach-\\ning both morning and evening. The church has a\\npresent membership of fifty-one, with an average\\nattendance of one hundred persons.\\nA prosperous Sabbath-school, embracing seventy-\\nfive names upon its roll, convenes on Sabbath morn-\\ning prior to the service.\\nThe Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer,\\nat Ramsey s, was organized under the auspices of Rev.\\nE. De Yoe, on the 1st of February, 1867. Soon after\\na committee consisting of James N. Bogert, George\\nHosey, Henry R. Wanamaker, J. W. Valentine,\\nMartin Litchhult. David Carlough, and (Charles A.\\nMay were appointed to secure a building lot and erect\\nthereon a church edifice. In the fall of 1867 a lot was\\nsecured of David Valentine, and the plan of the\\nchurch having been drawn by Henry Rehling, work\\nwas begun by excavating for the foundation and base-\\nment. The contract for the erection and completion\\nof the building was awarded in March, 1868, to Mr.\\nRehling, but, owing to delay in securing the lumber,\\noperations were not begun until the fall of that year.\\nThe corner-stone was laid Sept. 12, 1868, with ap-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0533.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "338\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\npropriate religious services, Rev. Henry A. Pohlman,\\nD.D., of Albany, liaving preached the sermon in the\\nhouse of Daviil Valentino, and Rev. L. 1). Wells, of\\nSaddle River, togetiier with Revs. Deniarest and\\nVan riensfhoten, of tiie Reformed (Dutch) Church,\\ntook part in the services.\\nDuring tlje year 1869 the basement was so far com-\\npleted as to make it useful for the holding of regular\\nservices. On the i-^ith of March of the same year the\\nfollowing officers were elected, who, with their suc-\\ncessors, were to constitute the Council, in accordance\\nwith the polity of the Lutheran Church, and at the\\nsame time, according to the laws of New Jersey, they\\nwere to constitute the boijrd of trustees:\\nMartin Litchhult, .Tames N. Bogert, David Car-\\nlough, and Thomas P. Ackerson, elders; Richard\\nStraut, William S. Valentine, .lolin A. 8traut, and C.\\nQuackenbush, deacons.\\nThe church was dedicated on the 6th of September,\\n1871, Rev. E. Belfour, of Easton, Pa., preaching the\\nsermon, and Rev. D. Kline, president of the Synod of\\nNew Jersey, togetlier with Revs. William .lulian, of\\nSaddle River, J. R. Sykcs, of StewarUville, and the\\npastor, taking part in the services. Tliere were also\\npresent Revs. Johns, of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, and Searles, of the Reformed (Dutch) Church.\\nThe cost of the edifice was nearly five thousand seven\\nhundred dollars, all of which, with the exception of a\\ndebt of nine hundred dollars, was li(iiiidatc(l.\\nRev. E. De Yoe, who was from the beginning pastor\\nof this little flock, continued in that relation until\\nFebruary, 1878, after which the congregation was\\nsupplied occasionally until October of the same year,\\nwhen Rev. L. A. Burrell became |)a.stor,and remained\\nuntil ,Iuiic 7, 18.S(l. The church was then without a\\nminister until June 1, 1881, when Rev, J, W, I ake, of\\nPennsylvania, received and accepted a call. The\\ncongregation was at first small, and from various\\nsources help was extended, which rcsulteil in the erec-\\ntion of the building. The worshipers (rradnally in-\\ncreased, until the number who were connected with\\nthe church since its first ince|)tion is two hundred and\\nfourteen, while one hundred and sixteen children\\nhave been baptized. From the beginning a Sunday-\\nschool hiw been maintained, whidi is now in a prom-\\nising condition. .Ml the obligations of the society\\nhave been promptly li ]uidate l, and but one hun ire 1\\nand eighty dollars of the old debt now remains iin| aid.\\nThe present outlook is hopeful.\\nGround upon which to erect the Roman Catholic\\nChurch wius given by John Jacob Zabriskie in 181)4,\\nthe society having been organized and the church\\nerecli il under the care of Father .Mc.Nulty. He was\\n8Uc :eeded by Father Dennis, and he by Father Mends,\\nof l at -rson, the present pastor. Services are held\\neach Sabbath in summer, and on alternate Sundays\\nin winter. The trustecM of the church are John Ray,\\nJohn (tradin, and .Mrs. Cameron. A burial-ground\\nwith many imposing tablets adjoins the clinrch.\\nThe Mission Chapel of the Epiphany, Allendale, is\\nthe fruit of good seed planted by gentle and faithful\\nhands. In .January, 1872, Mrs. Stephen Cable, moved\\nwith com|)assion for the lambs without a shephenl,\\nopened her house for a Sunday-school. On Epiphany\\nSunday, twelve days after Christmas, the good work\\nwas begun, fifteen scholars and six teachers being\\npresent. The names of the teachers were Mrs. James\\nReading, a communicant of Christ Church, Ridge-\\nwood, and a daughter of St. Mary s Hall, Burlington,\\nX. .1., Mr. J. Reading, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, Miss\\nPowell, and Miss Soutbwick. The school soon in-\\ncreased to seventy scholars, and other teachers en-\\nlisted, Mr. C. Conner and Miss Conner among the\\nfirst. The enterprise enlisted the support of all\\nChristian people, and friends aided the good work.\\nThe following summer a barn was fitted up com-\\nfortably, and the school increased in favor. The con-\\ntributions for the Sunday-school amounted in two\\nyears to one hundred and sixty-four dollars, and from\\n1872 to 187t) nearly seven hundred dollars were rai.sed.\\nIn September, 1873, the first service for public wor-\\nship was held by the Rev. L. R. Dickinson. These\\nservices were continued at first monthly, and after-\\nwards on alternate Sundays, and Hope Chapel, as\\nit was then called, enjoyed the full service of the\\nProtestant Episco|ial Church. The mission was placed\\nin charge of the rector of Christ Church, Hidgewood,\\nand during two years the faithful missionary horse did\\nSunday duty, driving to Ridgewood and returning,\\nand then back again, a round of sixteen miles, that\\nthe flock might be fed in green pastures. .Vllerwards\\nthe Erie Railroad relieved him of this labor, and he\\nrested, as a good Christian, from work. Peace to\\nhis .ishes.\\nIn 1874, Mr. Daniel A. Smith became superintend-\\nent, and the school has ever since remained under\\nhis faithful care. The Christmas-tree has always\\nbeen a regular feature of the Sunday-school. On\\nEpiphany night the chapel is thronged with an eager\\nmultitude, carols are chanteil, and ripe fruit falls\\nfrom that bountiful tree into willing hands.\\nJune 10, 1876, the chapel, built by earnest effort of\\nyoung and old, aided by many friends, was ojiened by\\nthe minister in charge for divine service, which he\\ncontinued every Sunday from that time.\\nJune 2 )th, Bishop Odenheimer laid the corner-\\nstone, and confirmed four persons. Nine liundreil\\nand seventy-two dollars were contributed for building\\nanil furniture, making in all sixteen hundred and\\nsixty-one dollars. Mr. Smith wils a| pointed lay\\nreader under the minister in charge, and \\\\\\\\v uiiremil-\\nlingly attenilcd upon his duties, coming from Brook-\\nlyn every Sunday and freely giving his .services to the\\nchapel.\\nThe same faithful teachers have continued from the\\nfirst, and the school still prospers, having a roll of\\nfifty scholars, with library of two hnndrcil aii l fifty\\nvolumes, under charge of Mr, (ieorge Rowland.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0534.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "HOHOKUS.\\n339\\nbeautiful banner, presented by Mrs. Piilis, of St.\\nLuke s Church, New York, graces the chapel, and\\nthe infant class rejoices in another, the gift of Master\\nTheodore Smith. On the Fourth of July, 1880, at an\\nearly coninuinion service, the chapel-bell, bought by\\nofferings of the class in charge of Mrs. Harris, was\\nfirst rung. The same morning witnessed the confes-\\nsion of one who had long done what she could for this\\nfold of the Good Shepherd.\\nIn the chancel a beautiful memorial window bears\\nthe names of Edith and Floy Reading, two little\\nlambs taken together to the arms of the (lood Shep-\\nherd.\\nThe total amount for building and other objects\\nreported to May, 1881, is three thousand three hun-\\ndred and eighty-nine dollars. The lot was the gift of\\nMr. and Mrs. Stephen Cable.\\nThe Reformed (Dutch) Chapel at Ramsey s was\\nerected in 1876, the ground upon which it stands\\nhaving been donated by Mrs. William Halstead.\\nThe congregation was organized and the building\\nerected mainly through the efforts of Messrs. Jacob,\\nIsaac, and Abram Halstead, Dr. Van Dyck, and\\nothers. It may be regarded as an outgrowth of the\\nRamapo Church, the distance of the latter making\\nregular attendance upon its services inconvenient for\\nmany worshipers. The Sabbath-school, which is\\nsteadily maintained and of increasing interest, con-\\nvenes every Sabbath.\\nA Methodist Episcopal Church is located on the\\neastern line of the township, in which services are\\nregularly held, though no facts of interest regarding\\nit are obtainable.\\nManufacturing Interests. On the Hohokus\\nBrook are located the cotton-mills of C. A. and J. B.\\nWortendyke, which are furnished with both water- and\\nsteam-power. Forty hands are employed in this es-\\ntablishment, the product of the factory being warp\\nand yarn. The material used is purchased in New\\nYork, which city, together with Philadelphia, also\\nfurnishes a market for the products of the mills. The\\nsuperintendent of these mills is Horace Holcomb,\\nCotton-Mills op John Rosexceantz. The\\nRosencrantz mills were established as early as 1832\\nby Elijah Rosencrantz, and are also provided with\\nboth steam- and water-power. They were formerly\\noperated by Pratt Brothers. In 1839, Elijah Rosen-\\ncrantz became a partner in connection with his\\nbrother John, and in 1853 the former became sole\\nowner. The mills are now exclusively owned by\\nJohn Rosencrantz. Forty-two hands are employed,\\nwho are engaged in the manufacture of cotton warps.\\nThe mills are amply supplied with cardiug-machinos,\\nand with 2862 spindles. The average capacity is 3800\\npounds per week, the material used being purchased\\nin New York. Philadelphia ad ords a market for the\\nproducts of the mills. Elijah Rosencrantz is the man-\\nager, and John Donahue the overseer.\\nP.\\\\PEU-MiLL OF White Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This mill was\\nestablished by John White in 1837, and has since that\\ntime been successfully operated by various members\\nof the family. It is furnished by power from the\\nHohokus Brook, and also with an engine, when the\\nsupply of water is inadequate. Fifteen hands are\\nemployed, and tissue and manilla paper are the grades\\nmanufactured. The capacity of the mill is one thou-\\nsand pounds per day. New York furnishes the ma-\\nterial, and that city and Philadelphia find a market\\nfor the products of the mill.\\nCarriage-Factory of Harrison Bull.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This\\nmanufactory is located in the village of Ramsey s, and\\nwas established by Mr. Bull in 1867, having been the\\nsecond enterprise of its kind in this immediate lo-\\ncality.\\nCarriages and sleighs of all descrii)tions are made,\\neight men being employed in this department of labor.\\nA demand for work of a superior order has enabled the\\nproprietor to produce some of the best vehicles in the\\ncounty, purchasers having been found in all parts of\\nBergen County as well as in New York. A shop for\\nrepairing and trimming is connected with the factory,\\nas also a blacksmithing department. The present\\ncommodious building was erected in 1873.\\nCaeriage-Factory of M. B. Deyoe. This fac-\\ntory, which is located in the village of Ramsey s, was\\nestablished by John Y. Dater in 1857, and at this\\nearly date did an extensive business in the manufac-\\nture of carriages, sleighs, and wagons of all kinds.\\nIt also embraced a shop where all varieties of black-\\nsmithing was done. Mr. Dater conducted it for twelve\\nyears, after which it was leased to Harrison Bull, and\\nultimately passed into the control of Mr. Deyoe. All\\nvarieties of road vehicles are made, and blacksmithing\\nconnected with the trade is also done. Twelve men\\nwere formerly employed, and seven are -at present\\nconstantly occupied in the various departments of in-\\ndustry.\\nThe market for the wares of this factory is found\\nin adjacent parts of the county.\\nHon. Rodman M. Price.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The family to which\\nthe subject of this sketch belongs is of English\\nextraction, and traces its origin in this country to\\nthree brothers, John, Samuel, and Robert, who first\\nsettled in Connecticut. They engaged extensively\\nin shipping, owned vessels, and were well supplied\\nwith worldly goods. The brothers sailed in their\\nown merchantmen, and maintained their shipping\\ninterest in New England until the loss of valuable\\ncargoes by shipwreck compelled its abandonment,\\nwhen they came to New Jersey and settled in the\\nWallkill Valley, Sussex Co. John soon after re-\\nturned to Connecticut, where he adopted the life of a\\nmariner, and was never afterwards heard of. Samuel\\nand Robert remained in Sussex County, where they\\nengaged in agricultural pursuits. Zachariah, son of\\nSamuel, was born Sept. 22, 1743, and married in 1772\\nMary Depue, a lady of Huguenot extraction, who\\nwas born Oct. 20, 1754. He owned large tracts of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0535.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "340\\nHISTOliY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nland in Sussex County, including the present site of\\nthe village of Lafayette, where he operated a flouring-\\ninill, caidiiig-mill, and distillery. He was an enter-\\nprising and successful bu.siness man, and furnished\\nsupplies in hirge quantities to the patriot army dur-\\ning the trying days of the Revolution. Francis, his\\nbrother, was also a man of commanding influence in\\nhis day, serving as a captain in the army of the\\nRevolution, and in civil life as a justice of the peace\\nfor many years. The family is largely represented in\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Sussex County to this day, several of its representa-\\ntives having tilled positions of trust and responsibility\\nin the county and State.\\nOf the twelve children of Zachariah and Mary\\n(Depue) Price, Francis, father of our subject, was\\nthe eighth. He removed to the city of New York\\nwhen ([uite young, received liis early education from\\nthose well-known teachers, Levi Kidder, John Gris-\\ncom, John Rutherford, and David Patterson. His\\nfather did not long remain a resident of New York,\\nbut purchased a farm at Wcehawkcn, Bergen Co.,\\nN. J., on the Palisades, fronting tlie Hudson River,\\nwhere he resided until his demise. He participated\\nactively in political life, and represented Bergen\\nCounty in the State Senate for several years. As a\\nbusiness man, he was energetic and successful, and\\nsustained the reputation of an upright and honorable\\nman. His wife was the daughter of Col. David Mc-\\nCamly, of Sussex County, a Revolutionary soldier of\\ndistinction, who contributed largely from his private\\npurse to keep the regiment he commanded during\\nthat struggle in the field.\\nRodman M. Price was born in the McCamly man-\\nsion, in Vernon township, Sussex Co., N. J., Nov.\\n1818, and was the only son who grew to manhood.\\nHis early life was mostly spent on his tiither s estate\\nin Sus,sex County. After the removal of the latter to\\nNew York City he attended the High School there,\\nbesides private classical schools of prominence, and\\nafter a preparatory course at the Lawreneeville I N. .1.\\nAcademy, entered the College of New Jersey at Prince-\\nton, 1834, soplKimore cliL-^s half advanced, when, ill\\nhealth preventing his pursuing his collegiate course,\\nremaining there with his father, he afterwards en-\\ntered the study of law in the oilice of N. Dane Klling-\\nwood, of New York City. His time was very much\\ndivideil between the study of his |)rofession and the\\ngeneral business of his father, and he never applied\\nfor adniissiiui to the bar. During his study of the\\nlaw he exhibitc l great taste and fondness for political\\nsubjects, and, his father being then in political life, he\\nbecame an active member of the Democratic party at\\nthe age of eighteen, and addressed political assem-\\nblages. In 1840 he was sent as a ilelegate to the\\nNational Democratic Convention at Baltimore, hav-\\ning previously been a member of severd State Con-\\nventions.\\nAt an early age -Mr. I rice was united in nnirriage\\nto Matilda Sands, eldest daughter of Capt. ICdward\\nTrenchard, United States navy, and a native of New-\\nJersey. His marriage introduced him to a large circle\\nof naval acquaintances. This association and bis fail-\\ning health led him to apply to President Martin Van\\nBuren for the ai)|)ointment of jnirser in the navy, ami\\nhis appointment was readily and cheerfully made in\\nNovember, 1840.\\nMr. Price s first orders were to the steam-frigate\\nFulton, Capt. Newton, employed on gun and target\\npractice at Sandy Hook. After a year s service in the\\nFulton, Capt. Newton and Mr. Price were detached\\nand ordered to the new steam-frigate Missouri. At\\nthe time, 1842, she and her sister-ship, the Missis-\\nsippi, were the largest steamships in the world, carry-\\ning the heaviest guns known at that time, and con-\\nsidered the finest specimens of steam naval architec-\\nture. The Missouri continued cruising on our own\\ncoast and in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico\\nuntil 1843, when she was ordered to take Hon. Caleb\\nCushing, minister to China, to Alexandria, and on\\nthis voyage this noble ship was destroyed by fire the\\nnight alter her arrival in the harbor of (iibraltar.\\nHis detention for several months at (iibraltar allowed\\nhim time to visit the African coast, where he was the\\nguest of the Marquis of Lome, now the Duke of\\nArgyle, and participated in a hunting-party for wild\\nboar on the African coast and in tlie south of Spain.\\nWhen he left Gibraltar he had leave to travel in\\nEurope, and conseijuently spent some time in Spain,\\nFrance, and England, and acquired a thorough knowl-\\nedge of the Spanish and French languages. Soon\\nafter his return he was sent to Pittsburgh on special\\nduty, to disburse for the first iron steamship, the\\nAllegany, built by the government. Remaining\\nthere only a few months, he was ordered to join the\\nsloop-of-war Cyane, Capt. Mervine, and in August,\\n1845, sailed for the Pacific. A war with Mexico was\\nthen anticipated, and the early occupation of Cali-\\nfornia in that event contemplated.\\nThe Cyane joined the Pacific squadron. Com. J. D.\\nSloat, at Mazatlan, oti the west coast of Mexico, about\\nsix months after sailing from New York, having\\ntouched at Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, and Callao. Re-\\nmaining only a few days at Mazatlan, she was ordered\\nto the Sandwich Islands and Monterey, Cal., to leave\\na bearer of dispatches sent by the government to\\ncommunicate with apt. Fremont, then supposed to\\nbe in Oregon or California.\\nOn returning to the squadron at Mazatlan, rumors\\nexisted that hostilities had occurred between the\\nI nited States and Mexican troops on the Rio Grande,\\nand the squadron sailed for Monterey, where it arrived\\non the 3d of .Fuly, and formal possession was taken of\\nUpper California on the 7th day of July, 184(5. Lieut.\\nIvlward Higgins, in charge of our flag to bo raised on\\nthe occasion, landed from the same boat with Mr.\\nPrice; and it is an interesting historical fact that they\\nmanned the hullictrih tlinl run up the fla;/ irhirli now\\nfliialA over Ctili/ornia.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0536.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "HOHOKUS.\\n341\\nThe business became so onerous to the prefect, with\\nthe only fee and reward of giving equal and exact jus-\\ntice, tliat on the arrival of the sloop-of-war Warren,\\nbringing the declaration of war made by the United\\nStates against Mexico, Mr. Price volunteered to carry it\\nto Commodore Stockton, who had gone down the coast\\nto subdue the Californians in arms at San Diego and\\nLos Angeles. After this hazardous service he joined\\nhis ship, then at San Pedro, and under orders to go\\nto the lower coast of Me.Kico and destroy the enemy s\\nshipping in the Gulf of California and blockade\\nMazatlan and San Bias. After blockading several\\nmonths, which was most exposed service, during the\\nhurricane and rainy season on that coast, the Cyane\\nreturned to San Francisco for provisions, and found\\nthat the enemy had driven out our small garrison at Los\\nAngeles, and were in possession of the southern part\\nof Upper California. The Cyane was- immediately\\nordered to San Diego, where Commodore Stockton\\nwas organizing and drilling his sailors to march upon\\nLos Angeles; but, cut off from all resources by the\\nenemy, the officers and crew of the Cyane went on\\nshore, and were conspicuous in the battles of San\\nGabriel and the Mesa, which occurred in tlic land\\nmarch of the naval expedition upon Los Angeles,\\nand which restored the American supremacy in all\\nUpper California, and gave peace to the whole country.\\nAfter this the Cyane returned to the lower coast, and\\nwas present at the taking of La Paz and San Jos6,\\nLower California, and San Bias and Mazatlan. Mr.\\nPrice was one of the American commissioners ap-\\npointed to settle the terms of occupation of the city\\nof Mazatlan, and urged as one of the conditions the\\nabolition of the Alcabala duty, a tax levied upon every\\narticle brought into the city, and collected at the g.ites.\\nThis contributed to the maintenance of our force, for\\nprovisions and supplies came in abundantly, and made\\nour occupation of the place acceptable to the Mexican\\npeople.\\nAfter taking Mazatlan, Commodore Shubrick, who\\nhad succeeded Stockton, desired to take Acapulco,\\nbut his force was not adequate to do it and hold the\\nMexican places then held and occupied.\\nIn his intercourse with the officers there he found\\na decided opposition to the treaty just made, and a\\nhope that it would not be ratified by our government.\\nFully impressed with these views, he became anxious\\nto reach Washington before it was ratified, and with\\nimportant dispatches he set out for that place, but\\narrived too late.\\nHe was able to give much valuable information as\\nto Upper California, and asserted that California is\\ncapable of sustaining as large a population as the same\\nextent of area anywhere on the Atlantic coast. This\\nwas considered very wild.\\nMr. Price remained at home until the following\\nDecember, during which time the discovery of gold\\nplacers was made, and there was every indication that\\na large emigration would go to California, and our\\nnavy and army force had to be greatly increased in\\nthe Pacific.\\nIt became desirable and important for the govern-\\nment to establish an agency in California to obtain\\nall the money and necessary supplies required for the\\nUnited States forces. From Mr. Price s knowledge\\nof the Pacific and its resources, he was selected for this\\nduty and given special instructions with extraordinary\\npowers, which constituted him navy agent of the whole\\nPacific, the intention being to concentrate exchanges\\nof the Pacific on New York, and, by his recommenda-\\ntion, to control all the gold and silver produced and\\nshipped from the Pacific ports of all South America,\\nCentral America, and Mexico, by drawing govern-\\nment bills against it. He sailed under these orders,\\nin December, 1848, for Chagres. Mr. Price found\\nSan Francisco greatly augmented in population, and\\nthe greatest activity, enterprise, and speculation pre-\\nvailing. On his arrival he opened a government\\noffice, and gave strict attention to his official duties.\\nHe found that a few lots of land which he had pur-\\nchased for a small .sum at San Francisco the year\\nbefore had become very valuable. The sale and im-\\nprovement of these lands identified him with the\\n1 growth and prosperity of the place, and in all matters\\nof municipal concern he was consulted, and was elected\\na member of the first town council, or ayuntamiento,\\nto organize a city government. His life during that\\nperiod was characterized by the greatest amount of\\nlabor, during which time, by the enhanced value of\\nhis lands and the improvements he had put upon\\nthem, he became a very rich man. When the election\\ntook place for delegates to the Constitutional Conven-\\ntion, which had been called by Gen. Riley, without\\nany previous knowledge, Mr. Price found himself\\nselected by an almost unanimous vote a member of\\nthe convention.\\nMr. Price proved to be one of its most active, labor-\\nious, and influential members. The instrument which\\ncame from the united wisdom of this convocation was\\npronounced by Mr. Clay the best constitution that\\nhad yet been made for any of the States.\\nAt the election which followed the framing of the\\nconstitution, Mr. Price was voted for for Congress,\\nreceiving almost the entire vote of San Francisco,\\nMonterey, San Diego, Los Angeles, and the entire\\ncoast; and his election was conceded up to the day\\nbefore the official account and return had to be made\\nby the Secretary of State, when returns were filed\\novercoming Mr. Price s vote by a small number, and\\nthe certificate was given to Edward Gilbert. A\\nchange of the national administration occurring in\\nMarch, 1849, Mr. Price was recalled from duty at\\nSan Francisco, and ordered to report at Washington,\\nand he left San Francisco in January, 1850, having\\nbeen in San Francisco ten months, a period of un-\\nparalleled excitement, high prices, prosperity, and\\ngrowth. Mr. Price could have realized and brought\\naway with him half a million of dollars made during", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0537.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "342\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthe time, including his early purchases, and his rents\\nwere more than one liuudred thousand dollars per\\nanmim. It is a curious fact that the hrst meeting of\\nthe Masonic society in California wjis held in his\\noffice, and the first lodge wa-s there organized. This\\nsociety did great good. A hospital was organized and\\nopened under its direction, and many a distressed\\nbrother received medical care and relief in a strange\\nland away from home and friends. I pon the occa-\\nsion of his leaving a public hani|uet was given him\\nby the citizens of San Francisco. Public and private\\ntokens of esteem and friendship were showered upon\\nhim before leaving, all of which were lost on his re-\\nturn.\\nMr. Price had made his arrangement.s to resign his\\ncommission in the navy on his return to Washington,\\nhaving tbrmed a business house and copartnership\\nwith Mr. Samuel Ward, under the firm-name of Ward\\nPrice, and Mr. Ward had preceded him to New\\nYork, and had there opened a banking-house to do\\nbusiness with California and Europe, Mr. Ward\\nhaving previously been a member of the banking-\\nhouse of Prime, Ward King. Mr. Price was to\\nfurnish a large amount of capital. On his return he\\nwas detained several days at Ohagres, a very un-\\nhealthy place, and anxious to leave it, he took the first\\nsteamer that left, which was bound to New Orleans,\\nand going from there to Washington. He took the\\nsteamer Orlean St. John, and on the Alabama River\\nshe took fire and was burned, and more than half the\\npeople on board were lost. Mr. Price was barely saved\\nby Hwiniming, butall his effects were lost, including all\\nhis papers, private and public vouchers for disburse-\\nments on account of the government to a large amount,\\nbesides a very large amount of gold dust. This ca-\\nlamity seemed to presage his future losses and enibar-\\nriLssmenl.s, for his business affairs were unfortunate\\nfrom that time.\\nFrom the loss of his accounts and vouchers a set-\\ntlement had to be postponed with the Treasury De-\\npartment until duplicates could be supplied from\\nCalifornia, which was rendered difficult from the un-\\nsettled state of that country.\\nHis olil friends and neighbors, on liis return, gave\\nliini a public reception and banipiet at Jersey City.\\nThey had followed his sn -ce.ssful and eventful career\\nwith deep interest, and gave him a generous and\\nwarm-hearted welcome; and in September of that\\nyear, LS^ft, only a few months after his rclurn, he was\\nnominated by the Democratic convention of the Fifth\\nCongressional District for tlieTliirty-seconil Congress.\\nMr. Price accepted the nomination, and wjis elected\\nby a majority rif 170. During the period between\\nhis election and taking his seat, wliich was more than\\na year, he returned to California, and was warmly\\ngreeted by the authorities and his friends in San\\nFrancisco, as will appear from the following extract\\nfrom the MiiniiiKj I lml of June 24, IS-ll\\nOf the nianv of mr citizens who took an earlv\\ninterest in the establishment of this city and the or-\\nganization of its institutions, ami who have returned\\namong us after a visit to the older States, none have\\ndeserved or received a more cordial welcome than\\ni Rodman M. Price, Esq.\\nAlthough of a school of politics opposed to those\\nwhich it is our pride to represent, we shall hail in\\nthis newly-elected representative from New Jersey\\none who will outweigh all mere party considerations,\\nand will insure one more true and well-informed\\nfriend of California in the councils of that general\\ngovernment to whose action at its next session we all\\nlook with so much interest.\\nMr. Price s business had been managed disastrously\\nin New York, and his property in California had\\ndiminished in value. Devastating fires had swept\\nover the city twice during his absence. This pre-\\nvented Mr. Price from making the arrangements that\\nhe had anticipated to liquidate all the claims against\\nhis firm, which wsis dissolved. Still he returned with\\na consiikrable sum of money, which was handed over\\nto the creditors of his late house, an i he looked for-\\nward confiilcntly to the revenues of his California prop-\\nerty relieving him from all embarrassments, as they\\nwere still very large. On this visit he again explored\\nthe country, and contrasted its growth and population\\nwith what it was when the American Hag was first\\nraised in July, 184( only four years before. He also\\nspent some time upon his ranche of San (ieronimo,\\nin Marin County, which he had greatly ini|)roved,\\nand was at the time the most improved farm in the\\ncountry. He returned just in time to take his seat as\\nthe youngest member in (Congress in December. He\\nwas distinguished for the faithful and close attention\\nto the interests of his constituents, and the pnunpt\\nand ready attention he gave to their wants. He wa-s\\nsuccessful in getting large appropriation.-^ for the im-\\nprovement of the Passaic River, and also in getting\\n.some change in the tariff favorable to the interests of\\nhis constituents. .As a representative in Congress, he\\nadvocateil a distribution of public lands to the old\\nRevolutioimry States for educational purposes, and (or\\nthe endowment of State insane asylums, and also for\\nthe homestead bill, granting land to actual settlers on\\nthe public domain, and opposed all grants of lands to\\nrailroails. He also prepared with great care and re-\\nsearch a bill for a Pacific Railroad.\\nHe was again nominated for Congress, and one of the\\nmost spirited and warmly-contested elections ensued\\nthat hius ever taken place. The (qiposition nominated\\nMr. A. C. M. Pennington, who was elected. His\\nfrieiuls at once said, Well, if he can t go to Con-\\ngress he shall be (iovernor next year.\\nAt the next State Convention he was accordingly\\nnominated for Governor, and Jan. 17, 1854, was in-\\naugurated to serve three years.\\nThe administration of (Jovernor Price was emi-\\nnently suc c.Hsful and satisfactory to the peiqde of his\\nState. His various and import^int recommendations", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0538.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0539.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "c", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0540.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "HOHOKUS.\\n343\\nand progressive views were carried out by the Legis-\\nlature. He took the deepest interest in education,\\nand devoted much time to this cause. In his inau-\\ngural address he says, It is a truth that the greater\\ntlie intelligence of the people the greater the safety\\nof our republican institutions. Whilst we abjure a\\nproperty qualification for the exercise of the elective\\nfranchise, we would make a fair educational standard\\nto justify the right. Property must be accountable\\nfor the liberal education of every cliild. Educa-\\ntion is calculated to diminish crime, and is essential\\nto the great principle of self-government. It is our\\npride to be first in intelligence, first in defense of\\nState rights, and first in the defense of the Union.\\nHe recommended in the same address the establish-\\nment of teachers institutes and a Normal School.\\nThey were both established on the most liberal basis\\nduring his term, and he had the gratification of see-\\ning them both in successful operation. At the be-\\nginning of his administration his State was behind\\nsome of her sister-States in education, but at the\\ntermination her educational system was ecjual, if not\\nsuperior, to any other State.\\nA geological survey was commenced by his recom-\\nmendation upon the most thorough principle, and\\nwas prosecuted during his administration with great\\nzeal and accuracy, and with much valuable develop-\\nment.\\nThis survey was preceded by a topographical survey\\nand good [ihysical map, and a precise chemical analy-\\n.sis followed tlie examinations in the field. The details\\nof the work were of such a character as to attract the\\nattention of scientific persons generally, and by the\\nlaw was under the entire direction of the Governor.\\nDuring his administration the question of general\\nand si ecial banks became a very e.xciting one in the\\nLegislature many old bank charters were about ex-\\npiring, and they were unwilling to come under the\\ngeneral law and give security for their issues. Gov-\\nernor Price sustained the general law, and at one\\nsession vetoed more than thirty bank charters, but\\n.such was the power of the banks they were afterwards\\npassed by a constitutional vote.\\nIn the last year of his administration, his accounts\\nremaining unsettled with the government from the\\nloss of some vouchers and the suspension of others,\\na wide difference existed between the accounting of-\\nficers of the Treasury and Governor Price, and each\\nclaimed a balance.\\nTo adjust this difference it was necessary for the\\ngovernment to bring a suit, as Governor Price was 1\\nprevented by law from sueing the United States. The\\ncase came to trial in the United States District Court\\nof New Jersey in March, 1S5G, and resulted in a\\nverdict in favor of Governor Price. For the amount\\nof the verdict and the large unadjudicated balance\\nof his claim against the government he subsequently\\nprosecuted with success before the Court of Claims.\\nDuring the whole of Governor Price s admiuistra-\\ntion his messages showed his entire devotion to the\\ndistinctive doctrines of the Democratic party, and\\nhis conservative State rights, national union senti-\\nments.\\nAfter the close of his administration as Governor he\\ndevoted himself to private business pursuits, and es-\\ntablished the Weehawken ferry between New York\\nand New Jersey, which he managed for a number of\\nyears. The property was at that time owned by Gov-\\nernor Price s father, and at the death of the latter, in\\n1864, was sold, his son settling up his estate. In 1861\\nGovernor Price represented New Jersey at the Peace\\nCongress at Washington. In 1862 he took up Ids\\nresidence on his beautiful estate of Hazlewood, on the\\nRamapo River, that has since continued to be his\\nhome. Here he now lives in the peaceful pursuit of\\nhusbandry, devoting himself to the advancement of\\nimproved agriculture, administering with peculiar\\ngrace the hospitalities of an elegant home, and enjoy-\\ning the respect and esteem of a large circle of friends.\\nCol. Ezra Miller. The subject of this sketch is of\\nScotch descent. His father, Ezra Wilson Miller, was\\nthe oldest of the four sons of the late Capt. Thaddeus\\nMiller, of Bedford, Westchester Co., N. Y., and of\\nMary Elizabeth Webb, of Edinburgh, Scotland. His\\nmother was Hannah Ryerson, only daughter of the\\nlate George Ryerson, a wealthy gentleman of Pomp-\\nton, N. J. Both of Col. Miller s parents were pos-\\nsessed of abundant means, and, owing to ill health,\\nhis father engaged in no business except that of di-\\nrecting his employers in the management of his farm.\\nCol. Ezra Miller was born on the west shore of the\\nHudson, in Bergen County, on May 12, 1812, his\\nparents occupying a quaint but richly-furnished farm-\\nhouse which still stands within jilain view of and\\nnearly opjiosite Fort Washington. Here he passed\\nthe first five years of his life. Subsequently the\\nfamily removed to New York City, where they re-\\nsided three years, and then to find a more healthy\\nresidence removed to Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N. Y.\\nThree years later they changed their residence to\\nFlushing, L. I., where Ezra Miller grew to man-\\nhood, receiving a thorough English education. It\\nwas the design of his father that he should pursue\\nthe study of medicine, but the natural bent of his\\nmind was in the direction of mathematical and me-\\nchanical investigation, to which he paid much atten-\\ntion, and which resulted in his becoming a successful\\ncivil, topographical, mechanical, and hydraulic engi-\\nneer, a profession that he has followed more or less\\ndown to the present time.\\nOn Sept. 23, 1833, Col. Miller enlisted in a company\\nof horse artillery belonging to the Second Regiment,\\nFirst Brigade. New York State Militia. After an\\nhonorable service of nearly six years, during which\\ntime he filled the various oflBces in the company, he\\nwas on the 5th of August, 1839, appointed adjutant of\\nthe regiment, and July 2d of the following year he\\nwas commissioned lieutenant-colonel, in which ca-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0543.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "3+4\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\npacity he served until July 4, 1842, when he was pro-\\nmoted to a full colonelcy and placed in command of\\nthe regiment.\\nIn May, 1841, Col. Miller wa.s united in marriage\\nto Amanda, daughter of Capt. Scth Millar, nf New-\\nYork, and removed to Fort Hamilton, residing on the\\nPost place, adjoining the fort. While here he\\ntook a warm interest in the efficiency of the United\\nStates troops stationed at that i)oint, and rendered\\nmaterial assistance to Lieut. Duncan, of the regular\\narmy, in command of Company A of United States\\nartillery, and training his company successfully\\nagainst the machinations of a superior officer at head-\\nquarters, who had for some cause conceived a dislike\\nfor the young commandant, and who sought to curtail\\nhis chances of success, in the decline of his military\\ndiscipline, by depriving him of the use of the accus-\\ntomed sum of money for the yearly renting of a field\\non which to drill his company. Col. Miller counter-\\nacted this influence by loaning Lieut. Duncan one of\\nhis meadows in which to drill his command. In the\\nMexican war, which followed sliortly after, Duncan s\\nbattery took a very important part, and gave ample\\nevidence of the great value of its perfect drill. It\\nsaved the army at Palo Alto and Resaca dc la Palma,\\nand throughout the campaigns of Taylor and Scott\\ndid the most effective service.\\nIn tlie month of April, 1848, Col. Miller removed\\nwith his family to Rock County, in the State of Wis-\\nconsin, which had just been added to the union of\\nStates. There he engaged in surveying the United\\nStates and State lands, with his residence at the new\\ntown of Magnolia. He at once took a prominent and\\ninfluential place in the community, and was eleited\\nto various county and town offices. For two terms\\nhe filled the office of justice of the peace with general\\nacceptance. It is true that his unfailing good humor\\noften led him to temper justice with mercy, but in the\\nend the greater good was generally thereby accom-\\nplished. It was (luring his first term of otfice that a\\nconstable brouglit a prisoner before him on a warrant\\nfor ivssault issued l v a justice of an adjoining town.\\nThe colonel,. seated on a log in a grove near his house,\\nlistened to the constable s testimony against the pris-\\noner, who was a peaceful man when not under the in-\\nfluence of licpior. On hearing llieciLse lliejustiee found\\nit to be only a petty siullli the result of a too free use\\nof licpior at a chopping-bee, and after administering\\n8 little good advice to the prisoner, at the same time\\nreceiving his promise to do better in the future, he\\ndismissed the ciLse, ilirecting that the costs be paiil by\\nthe constable, to which that functionary readily re-\\nipondeil by pulling a fbusk I roni bis pocket and treat-\\ning the court.\\nThe military reputation of Col. Miller followetl him\\nto the West, and on July 4, 18.51 he was appointeil by\\nGovernor Dewey to the colonelcy of the Kiglith Regi-\\nment State Militia, a position which he filled during\\nhis residence in Wisconsin.\\nThe following year (1852) he was elected a member\\nof the State Senate from the Seventeenth District,\\ncomprising the county of Rock, then the most wealthy\\nand populous, excepting Milwaukee, in the State. .\\\\s\\na senator he served the State and his constituency\\nwith honor and fidelity, and was appointed by the\\nGovernor one of the managers of the State Institution\\nfor the Blind. After one term of faithful service as\\na rejiresentative he declined a renomination. as well\\nas a remuneration for extra services rendered in be-\\nhalf of certain local improvements. It wius during\\nCol. Miller s senatorial term that the celebrated trial\\nof Judge Hubbel occurred, in which the former took\\nan important part. F or this and other duties an e.xtra\\nmileage was voted by both Houses, which Col. Jliller\\nopposed, and he was the only member who did not\\ndraw pay for the same, the amount still standing to\\nhis credit on the books of the State treasurer.\\nNo great length of time had elapsed after the resi-\\ndence of Col. Miller in the West before his naturally\\ninquiring mind led him to investigate the condition of\\naffairs in that growing section, and to suggest changes\\nand improvements that might conduce to its more\\nrapid growth and development. His principal atten-\\ntion was directed to the railroad system of the country.\\nHe had been present at the birth of that system had\\ntraveled in the first trains, when stage-coach bodies\\nwere placed upon trucks and run u])on strap rails;\\nwhen, in case of rain, the locomotive wius housed and\\nhorses substituted and when the construction of\\ntracks, locomotives, and cars was in the most crude\\nstate. His acquaintance with these matters enabled\\nhim to perceive that improvements were necessary in\\norder to facilitate transportation, making it reliable\\nand exjieditious between the .seaboard and the far\\nWest; and he was not long in finding errors that\\nneeded correcting, particularly in the method of\\nmaking up the passenger trains, which, though it\\nmight do for a speed of ten miles, or less, per hour,\\nwas dangerous to life at a greater speed.\\nThe height of the first cars wius two feet ten inches\\nabove the track, and the couplers were placed on a\\nline with the sills, the buffers being on the same line,\\nthough separately constnicted. Subsequent improve-\\nments, however, raised the coach and car bodies, ren-\\ndering it advisable to combine both buffer and coupler\\nin one, and place them beneath the platform ami below\\nthe line of the sills, which is the line of resistance to\\nany longitudinal blow, in order to admit of their\\ncoupling to the older cars. This depression of the\\nline of resistance between the cars was the greatest\\nerror of the .\\\\merican system of making up trains,\\nanil led to that most fatal of all forms of railway ac-\\ncidenLs, telescoping. About the year IK. iS, while Col.\\nMiller was engaged in the survey of portions of the\\nNorthwestern Railway, there were a number of acci-\\ndents upon the great pas.senger lines, both Ka.st and\\nWest, in which cars were teli scoped with fatal result-.\\nowing entirely to the errors mentioned. Col. .MiUn", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0544.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "ORGANIZATION OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\n345\\nalso discovered that the oscillation of cars acting in-\\ndependently of each other, coupled as all of them\\nwere by slack links or chains, was one of the most\\nfruitful causes of derailment, and that it could only\\nbe prevented by tension, or holding the cars firmly\\ntogether and the result of long years of labor and\\nexperiment on his part was the invention of what is\\nnow known as the Miller Pktform, a device that\\nis now in general use on all the railroads of this\\ncountry, and which is conceded to be the greatest life-\\nsaving invention ever placed upon rail, saving more\\nthan a thousand lives a year.\\nThe result of Col. Miller s labors in behalf of safety\\nin railway travel has been to greatly diminish the\\nnumber of accidents, to put an end to telescoping and i\\noscillation on all the railroads in the country, and to\\ninfuse a feeling of safety and comfort into the passen-\\nger, the employ^, the manager, and the stockholder, j\\nHe has in his possession a large collection of letters j\\nfrom presidents, managers, superintendents, master- I\\nmechanics, car-builders, conductors, and engineers, j\\nall of which bear ample testimony to the great value j\\nof these inventions.\\nCol. Miller has invented several other valuable im-\\nprovements for various purposes. He has letters j\\npatent for his platforms in Russia, and has licensed\\nthat government to use them, and it is now a promi-\\nnent feature of the national standard system of Russian\\nrailways. They are also used in nearly all countries,\\nand will soon become the only system of making up\\ntrains. The colonel occupies a beautiful residence at\\nMahwah, Bergen Co., which his ingenious devices and\\nexcellent artistic taste have rendered one of the most\\nbeautiful rural homes in the United States. Here he\\nloves to retire, away from the cares and anxieties of\\na large business, engaging in the cultivation and dec-\\noration of his lands, and by a spirit of enterprise\\nbenefiting the community in which he has located.\\nSocially, he is the most affable of men, and his genial\\ngood nature and ready wit make him a welcome\\nguest at many firesides. Occasionally he indulges in\\na European tour, where he studies the styles of archi-\\ntecture and other improvements of the Old World.\\nA gentleman who has been intimate with the col-\\nonel since his boyhood says of him, The colonel is\\none of the most genial and social of men, approach-\\nable to all, frank, truthful, honest, faithful, and ex-\\nceedingly generous and charitable, and while his\\nScotch blood fires quickly at an attempt to wrong\\nhim, he is calm and forgiving.\\nCol. Miller and his wife, who, like himself, is hale\\nand active, have five children, three sons and two\\ndaughters, viz. Ezra Wilson, Jordan Gray, Dr. Frank\\nW., Amanda Josephine, wife of M. L. Hinman, of\\nDunkirk, N. Y., and Hattie M., wife of J. H. Van\\nKirk, of New York. All are married and settled in\\nlife, and have apartments especially provided for\\nthem at the spacious residence of their parents when\\nvisiting home.\\nCHAPTER XLVII.\\nORGANIZATION OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\nBoundaries. The county of Passaic was organized\\nby an act of the Legislature passed on Feb. 7, 1837.\\nIts boundaries are thus defined in the act\\nAll those parts of the counties of Essex and Bergen coutaineil within\\nthe following boundaries and lines: beginning at the mouth of Yante-\\nkaw or Third Kiver, ut its entrance into the I assjtic River, being the\\npresent boundary of the township of Acquackanunk ruuning thence\\nnorthwesterly along the course of the line of the said township to the\\ncorner of said line, at or near the Newark and Ponipton turnpike; thence\\nin a straight line to the bend of the road below the house now occupied\\nby John Freeman, in the township of Caldwell, being about one and a\\nhalf miles in length thence to the middle of the Passaic Hiver; thence\\nalong the middle of said river to the middle of the mouth of the Pompton\\nRiver, by tlie two bridges; thence up said river along the line between\\nBergen and Morris Counties to Sussex County thence along the line be-\\ntween Stissex and Bergen Counties to the State of New York; thence\\neasterly along the line between the two States to the division line be-\\ntween the townships of Pompton and Fianklin Iheiice along said line\\ndividing said townships and the towtisliipsof Franklin and Saddle River,\\nto where it intersects the road commonly called Goetschius lane; thence\\ndown the centre of said road or lane t the I a^saic Kiver; thence down\\nthe middle of the Passaic River to the place of beginning, be and the\\nsame is liereby elected into a separate county, to be called the county of\\nPassaic; said lines shall hereafter be the division lines between the\\ncounties of Essex, Morris, Sussex, Bergen, and the State of New York,\\nand the county of Passaic, respectively.\\nCivil Divisions. The original civil divisions of\\nPassaic County were Acquackanonk, taken from\\nEssex, erected into a townshij) in 1G93 Manchester,\\nincluded in Saddle River township, Bergen Co., prior\\nto 1837 Pompton, erected as part of Bergen County\\nin 1797; and AVest Milford, taken from Pompton in\\n1834. In 1847 Wayne township was .set off from\\nManchester. Paterson township was erected from\\nAcquackanonk in 1831, incorporated in 1851, en-\\nlarged in 1854 and 1855 by the addition of the present\\nFirst and Second Wards, and again in 1869 by the\\nannexation of a considerable portion from Little Falls\\nand Acquackanonk. Little Falls wag set off from\\nthe latter township in 1868. Passaic was erected\\nfrom Acquackanonk in 1866; in 1871 it was incor-\\nporated as a village, and in 1873 received a city\\ncharter.\\nThe present civil divisions of the county are the\\ncities of Paterson and Passaic and the townships of\\nAcquackanonk, Little Falls, Manchester, Pompton,\\nWayne, and West Milford.\\nArea and Taxable Valuation. The area and\\ntaxable valuation of these cities and townships are\\nas follows\\nYri Valuation.\\n.\\\\cre8.\\nPaterson 6,:\u00c2\u00ab7 $20,. i7:!,llO\\nPassaic 8110 2,01)4,425\\nAcquackanonk 6,4.:0 l.-^tHMKIO\\nLittle Falls :i,251 4011,000\\nManchester 0.122 GM.hbU\\nPompton 27,715 647.K.iO\\nWayne l.n.7(H) 747.630\\nWest Milford 41,309 4S||,875\\nTotals 106,734 827,953,340\\n1 Nixon s Digest of the Laws of New Jersey, 182.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0545.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "346\\nHISTORY OF BERGKX AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JEKSEY.\\nPOPCIITIOK.\\nFalenwn: 1880. 1876. 1870.\\nFlratWard 2,272 4,050 2,90*\\nSecunJ Ward 5,782 4,636 3,20ti\\nThinl WhpI 7,G19 5,623 4,454\\nF..iirtli WiirU 6,561 4,482 3,574\\nFiltli War.l 7,505 5,520 7,-.!02\\nSiitli Wnrii 4,148 3,318 4,113\\nSeventh Wanl 5,G66 4,515 3,101\\nKichth Wnnl 9,396 6,870 4,044\\nSiiitli Wnrd _.... 979\\nToUil city 50,950 38,824 33,579\\nPaaaaic 6,632 4,8831\\nAcquackanunk 1,782 1,631 J\\nLItlle Falls 1,404 1,456 1,282\\nManclieoIiT 1,613 1,3:!4 1,IG6\\nWayne 1.757 1,630 Ifiil\\nI omplon 2,251 l,. 6(l 1,840\\nWc8t Milfonl 2,591 :;,472 2,66\\nToUU towu\u00c2\u00ab 17,830 14,969 12,s:!7\\nPateraon 50,950 :W,824 :U,579\\nTotol county 68,780 53,793 46.416\\nThe rate of increase of population in the county\\nhas been From 184 l to 18.30, 3 per cent.; from 18o i\\nto 1855, 10 per cent. from 1855 to 1860, 20 per cent.\\nfrom 1860 to 1865, 33 per cent. from 1865 to 1870,\\n26 per cent. from 1870 to 1875, 17 per cent. from\\n1875 to 1880, 27.8 per cent.\\nCHAPTER XLVI I I.\\nPASSAIC COUNTY CIVII, LIST.\\nJl-ntii:8 01- TIIK COMHIIN Pl.r.AS.\\n1837, Oct :ll, Curnelliis G. Van Ripor, Nathaniel B jaril, Huratio Monoii,\\nAhnihara K.versun Nov. 14, Cornelius C. Blauvelt, John 8. Van Win-\\nkle, John 11. Speer, Lamlnrt SytliolT, Evert H. Van Ness. 1S38, Feb.\\n28, Daviil Itnrnett; Oct. 2t Cotnetins Van Wagoner, Samuel Van\\nSaun. 1839, March 12, Nicholas .Smith, nc r|;e W. Colfax, Isiiac P.\\nCooley. 1840, Fob. 27, Davi.l H. Roev... 1841, Nov. 3, John Parke.\\n1842, Oct. 28, Cornelius Viui Riper, Horatio Moses Nov. 8, Corne-\\nlius C. ninuvell, John S. Van Winkle, John U. Spcer Oct. 28, Abra-\\nham Uyenton Nov. 8, Kvert H. Van Noes, LanilKjrt Sylhoff. 1H43,\\nFeb. 2:i, David Burnoll, George A. Ityenon Oct. 30, John K. Flood,\\nBenjaniin Sandford, Tbomns Gould; Nov. 9, C-ornelius I. Wester-\\nvelt, Henry Whilely, Melanclhon S. Wickwaro; Oct. 30, llpnjamin\\nN. Cleveland, EI onezor Cobb; Nov. 9, Jacob Van llonton. 1844,\\nJan. 19, Cornelius I. Van Wagoner, Jacob Iterdan March 13, Ben-\\njamin Geroe. Henry Schoonmaker. 18-15, April 1, Peter P. Brown.\\n1840, April 1, Robert Mc.rrell 1847, March 3, David Burnett April 1,\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2irnelius G. Van Rilwr 1848, April 1, Nicholas K.Tcrhune. 1849,\\nFob. 28, G Hjrge A. Ryei son; April 1. Samuel A. Van Saint. 1860,\\nApril I, Peter P. Bniwn. 1851, April 1, Peregrine Samlfurd. 1H52,\\nApril 1. Henry P.Siminnns. 1853, April 1. Henry Cocbllnglon. ISiVl,\\nApril I, (iim-rt M. Cooper. \\\\\u00c2\u00bbG, Feb. 8, Poregrino Sandfonl. l^o7,\\nApril I, Il iijaniln N. Clovoland. 1858, April 1, Henry Coddingtou.\\n18. iU, April 1, Benjamin Genie. 1862, April 1, Martin Canavan, Ben-\\njamin N. Cleveland. I86:t, April 1, Patrick Agnew. lNr 4, April 1,\\nPeregrine Sandford. Ig6. i, June Bernard O Neill. I8ri\u00c2\u00ab, March\\n7, Garret Van Wagoner. 1867, .\\\\prll 1, John N. Terhune. 1868,\\nApril I, John B. Daggers. 18 ia, Ajiril 1, Peregrine Sandfonl. 1872,\\nApril I, John N. Terhune. 1873, April 1, JoX pli R. Ilnl,l\u00c2\u00bbin. 1875,\\nJune 1, Peregrine Sandford. 1876. April I, Peregrine Sandford.\\n1877. April 1. Jolin R. Daggers. I\u00c2\u00ab78, April 1, Henry P. .Simmons\\nJufTicn or Hit Pkaoii.\\n18.17, Ih l 11. C .riieilMs G. Van RI|H-r, Nathaniel B ianl, Horatio M Ma,\\nAbraham RyerM.n, Samuel Van .Saun, CharbmT. Wallace; Nov. 14,\\nJames King. Ni liolas Sniitli, William A l ol b,John S. Van Winkle,\\nIjimlK-rt Sylhofr, Rlihard 1. Jacobus. 1^.18, Fob 2N, Isaiuli .M. Cus-\\nmond, David Burnett Jan. 19, Isaac P. Co\u00c2\u00abdey, John D. Merielis;\\nt C\u00c2\u00abiiaua of PmmJc and Aoiuockanonk taken togathar In 187ii.\\nOct. 26, Cornalius S. Tan Wagoner. 1839, Jan. 26, John Parke, Cur-\\nnelins C. Blauvelt, George W. Colfax, John B. Vanderver, John B.\\nVreeland; Nov. 7, J. R. Nnfle, Thomas Goulil. 1840, Feb. 27, David\\nH. Reeve, Saniuel Van Saun. 1841, March 9, Simeon Uart,Adriau\\nVan Rijier Not. 3, John B. Sjieer. 1842, Oct. 28, Cornelius G. Van\\nRiper, Horatio Moses. Abraham Ryerson; Nov. 8, John S. Van Win-\\nkle, Richard I. Jacobus; Oct. 31, Charles T.Wallace; Nov. 8, LiimtH r1\\nSythoff. 1843, Jan. 17, Isaac P. Cooley Feb. 13, David Burnett Jan.\\n17, John D. Vreeland Feb. il, John Parke,George A. Ryerson Oct.\\n10, John K. FIocmI, Peregrine Sandfonl. Henry E. Cooley Nov. 0. Sam-\\nuel Rolierts, Cornelius I. Westorvelt, Henry Whitely, David 1. Alyea,\\nMelancthon S. Wickware Oct. 30, EbeueEer Cot\u00c2\u00bbb, Henry Schoon-\\nmaker. 1844, Jan. 19, CViruoliuB S. Van Wagoner, Jacob Berdan;\\nMarch 13, Edward C. May, Charles Inglis, Cornelius A. Van Houten,\\nJohn Vail, John P. Carroll, Barney 1. Spc-ar, John F. Board, Robert\\nRutan. 1845, May 1, George Stephens, Daniel Ruseell, Simeon Uarl,\\nDavid Diniick, Horatio Mo^es, Benjaniin Geroe, Jacob Van Houten,\\nJohn R. Nafle, David Burnett, Adrian Van Riper, Cornelius G. Van\\nRiper, James Hincbnian, John A ail, John A. Ryenkin. 184^, May\\n1, Henry E. Cooley, Edward C. May. 1849, May 1, KolK\u00c2\u00abrt Rutun,\\nSeaman Potter, Andrew Mead, George A. Ryen*on, John U. De Bow,\\nJohn F. Board. 1850, May 1, John A. Miller, Andrew Mead, Cor-\\niielins A. Van Houten, Henri Coddington, David Dimick, C^ rnelius\\nG. Van Riper, Jolin Benson, Cornelius C. Blauvelt, Peregrine Sand-\\nford, Adrian Van Riper, Ricliard Bmwer, John Stagg, Benjamin\\nGeroe, Garret Van Wagoner; .Vpril I, John Mc.\\\\lvanah. 1V,1, Slay\\n1, Ge^irge A. Ryervon, John Vail April 14, Daniel P. Laiilermun,\\nTii imas McMickens, Charles T.Wallace. 185:1, April 11. James Van\\nOrdon, Cornelius T. Wallace. 1854, May 1, David N. Shippee. 1855,\\nMay 1, Cornelius C. Bluitvelt, Peregnne Sandford, John Avison,\\nHenry Coddington, John Benson, David Diniick, Garret Van Wtig-\\noner, Benjamin D. DoreniuK, William 31. Morrell, John F. Board,\\nCornelius G. Van Riper, William G. Smith, Peter Roperty, Henry\\nMcClany; May 12, John Stagg. 18. .7. May 2, William K. Thomp-\\nson; May 1, Bernard O Neill, George A. Ryerson. 18^ 8, May 1,\\nFrancis Gallagher, Anthony S. Day, Tiii nias Wickens, William S.\\nHunt, David N. Shippee. I. ^GO, May 1, John .Vvison. Peregrine\\nSandford, Henry C^Hldington, Itelijamin Geroe, Cornelius C. Blauvelt,\\nBenjaniin D. Doremus, H. C. Hudson, John Benson, Samuel W. God-\\ndard, .\\\\braham Van Houten. 1861, 31ay 1,Johii J. Stagg, Andrew-\\nMead, John F. Boanl, Cornelius G. Van Rijier, Henry S -h K nmaker,\\nWilliam Cook, Thomas Gould, John Donovan, John Flyiin, Joseph\\nStaniHeld, Peter P. Brown, Jonathan B. Webb. lS6 i, May 1, Garret\\nVan Wagoner, Martin Caiiavnn, Bernard O Neill, George A. Ryer-\\nson. 186:1, May I.John Wm. Rea, llerekiah S. Timbrel, Tiiomas\\nMilkins, John Brilsli. 1864, May 1, David N. Shippee, M. II. Huyler.\\n1805, May I, John .Vvison, BelOamin Gome, H. C. Hiubion, Orren\\nVanderhoven, George D. Doremus, Closes Drury, Charles P. (Jiiruee,\\nJohn J. Stagg, William Cook, Andrew Mead, Cornelius G. Van Bi|i\u00c2\u00abr.\\n1866, Slay 1, Edward M. Weiss, Jolin F. Boanl, John Donovan, T. W.\\nGurneo, James Cory, W. Oakley Roal, J. C. McConnell, William C.\\nDoremus. 1867, May 1, A. Butterworth, G. S. Clliswell, BernanI\\nO Neill, George A. Ryerson. 1868, May 1, John llnisli, John Cniwn,\\nMichael Quigley, Peter Rntan, Isaac Vescelius, Davi l Diniick, Pliilip\\nSchuyler, David N. Shippee. I8r.9, May I, E. M. Vanderhoven, Wm.\\nH. Cliamberliii, Isaac Silcocks, John W. Berry, John C. Post, Abm-\\nhani Ackennan. 1870. Blay I, John .\\\\visoii,H. C. Hudson. Hexekiah\\nScoDebl, BeiOamin D. Doremus, William Cixik, J. M I atman. Joel M.\\nJohnson, John Preston, Ibila rt Bridge, .Moses Detnsy, Roynior Sjieer,\\nFrancis J. Manson. 1. 7I, May 1, George C. Bock, James Cory, Al-\\nliert B. Conkling, John Watson, Garret Vnn lloiileu, W. Oakloy\\nBoat, John F. Board. 1872, May 1, James Morrisse, George S.\\nChiswell, John R. Benlan, .Vbraham Van Houten, James iKiftus,\\nJanu-s 11. O Neill. 187:i, May 1, John H. Ijualne, Bernard O Neill,\\nJohn K. M.ins4in, Henry Muuy, George A. Ryerson, John Brush,\\nLawmnce McMaiius, J. C. McConnell, Peter Rutan. Christopher\\nMcKlernan, Benjamin D. Doremus, Edward N Tyson, David Dim\\nick, Alfred Van Riper, John DulTus, James A. Sproull. Abraham N\\nFotida. 1874, Slay 1, Peregrine .Sandford, Malarhl lligglns, John\\nW. Berry, C SIcKiernan, Paul J. Vanderl^ck, Isaac Sllocks, Phlilg.\\nSchuyler, Conrad Vreeland, Daniel O Conneli. 1875, May 1, John\\nAvlaon,John Preston, Jaojb SI. (latinan. George G. Halsb ad, Wil-\\nliam CiHik, II. C. Hudson, Abrobam Vernieilen. llerekiah S flel I,\\nJohn Roe. 1870, May 1, Sblney Farrar, John B. Riilney, Jom-\\nDiinond, l.eoiianl I.. Grear, Francis J. Manson, W. Oakley Root, Al\\nvin Webb, John II. Brown. S. A. McGreg i. 1877, Slay 1, Jam-\\nLoftus, James A. Morriase, John K. Benlan, John McGowan, Geort-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0546.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "PASSAIC COUNTY CIVIL LIST.\\n347\\nS. Cliiswell, EliaB Van Ness, George A. Ryersoii. 187S, May 1, Pa-\\nvid Diniick, James A. Norton, E iward N. Tyson, Edmond Mead,\\nJames A. Sproull, C. H. Scheiisck, Lawrence McManiis, Mu-liael\\nKing, Peter RuUin, T. C. Stewart, Benjamin D. Durenins, Tunis Van\\nIderstiue, Alfred Van Riper. 1S79, May 1, James Dimoud, John J.\\nCadmus, Peregrine Sandford, Conrad Vreeland, Samuel A. McGregor.\\n1880, May 1. John Avisou, John Preston, William Cook, H. C. Hud-\\nson, J. M. Oatman, Thomas Mickens, John Van Vermeule, Charles\\nA. O Neill. ISSl, May 1, Sidney Farrar, Michael Nolan, John B.\\nPndney, W. Oakley Rnat, John D. C. Brown, Joel M. Johnson, Ed-\\nward M. Weiss, Leonard L. Grear, M. Liither Ward.\\nCOBONKRS. I\\n1839, Oct. 26,1 Ralph Horenius Nov. 8, Jame.s J. Tichenor Nov. 9, Nathan-\\nielTharp. 184U, Oct. 16, James J. Tichenor; Oct. 19, Avery Richards j\\nOct. 2(1, Cornelins C. Blauvelt. 1 41, Nov. 7, Cornelius C. Blauvelt I\\nNov. 9, James J. Tichenor. 1842, Nov. 2, Cornelius C. Blauvelt, James\\nJ. Tichenor, John Bowmiin. 1S43, Oct. 17, Samuel Roherts. 1844,\\nNov. 1, John Bowman. 1845, Nov. 11, Cornelius C. Blauvelt; Nov. 17,\\nJohn Bowman. 1846, Jan. 3, .\\\\drian P. Roome Nov. lu. Cornelius\\nC. Blauvelt; Nov, 20, James J. Tichenor; Nov. 30, Johti Bowman.\\n1847, Nov. 9, James Gordon; Nov. 18, James J. Tichenor. 1848, Jan.\\n7, Hartman A. Vreeland; Nov. 17, Cornelius C. Blauvelt; Nov. 21,\\nJames J. Tichenor. 1849, Nov. 16, James Gordon. 1860, Nov. 22, i\\nJames Gordon 1851, May 6, John Vail (for Paterson) May 19, John\\nBensen (for Paterson); Sept. 20, Benjamin H. Bone; Nov. 18, John\\nStagg; 1852, Nov. 15, Joseph Jackson 1854, Nov. 20, John P. Zeliff; j\\nDec. II, Barney Perriue; 1855, Nov. 22, John P. Zeliff, Alexander j\\nTaylor. 1857, Nov. 14. John P. Zelifl, Simeon Garrison; Nov. 25,\\nJohn Munroe. 1858, Nov. 16, John Bowman Dec. 1, Cornelius C.\\nBlauvelt; Dec. 2, William Eckhart. 1859, Nov. 25, Cornelius C.\\nBlauvelt. 1860, Jan. 5. John Bowman, Cornelius C. Blauvelt; 1861,\\nMarch ;iO, Thomas D. Hoxsey. 1862, Dec. lU, John Stagg Dec. 29,\\nJohn W. Rea. 1866, Dec. 31, Charles A. Monk. 1S67, Dec. 4, Henry\\nJones; Dec. 21, Henry Simmons; 1868, Dec. 15, John H. Cuueuiioveti.\\n1869, Dec. 22, Abraham Butterworth. 1870, Nov. 29, Abraham But-\\nterworth. 1871, Nov. 16, John W. Berry Nov. 17, John U\u00c2\u00abin. 1872,\\nFeb. 28, George Denbolm Dec. 5, James C. Aniireaux. 1873, Nov.\\n15, Abraham Butterworth, James C Aniireaux. 1874, Jan. 8, James\\nA. Sproull; Nov. 11, Nixon Campbell. 1875, Nov. 12, C. D. Van Den\\nBylardt, M.D.; Nov. 13, Charles W. Myers, M.D. 1876, Jan. 29, Nixon\\nCampbell. 1878, Nov. 14, William S. llnrd, M.D., Oswald Warner;\\nNov. 16, Charles A. Rutan.\\nCounty Clerks.\\n1837, Perigrine Sauford; 1837-42, George A. Ryei-son; 1842-52, John\\nKeenan; 1852-61, Silas D. Caufield 1861-00, Thomas D. Hoxsey;\\n1866-71, Benjamin W. Hoxsey: 1871-81, Jacob H. Blauvelt.\\nSURROO.VTES.\\n1837, Silas D.Canfield; 1837-42, Benjamin W. Vandervoort 1842-April,\\n1845, Charles D. Ridgway April, 1845-November, 1845, David Bur-\\nnett; 1845-55, John Hopper; 1856-60, John M. Gould; 1860-69,\\nWilliam Gledhill 1869-70, Zebulou M. Ward 1870-80, Isaac Van\\nWagoner; 1880, Henry McDanoIds.\\n1837-39, Rynier S. Speer; 1840-42, Isaac B. Vanderbesk 1843, Moses\\nDe Witt; 1844, Nathaniel Lane; 1845-47, William Masters; 1848-50,\\nNathaniel Lane; 1851-53, William S. Hogencamp; 1854-56, William\\nH. Quackenbush; 1857-59, Richard B. Chiswell; 1860-62, William\\nDouglass; 1863-65, Nathaniel Townsend; 1866-68, Alfred Ryerson\\n1869-71, Nathaniel Townsend; 1872-74, John Allen; 1875-77, James\\nBlundell; 1S78-80, Albert A. Van Voorhies.\\nChosen Freebolders.\\nBy the act of Feb. 7, 1837, the -board of chosen freeholders aud their\\nsuccessors were constituted a body politic and cor|)orate in law, under\\nthe name and style of The Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of\\nPassaic. The first meeting of the board was required by law to be lield\\nat the house now occupied by Barney I. Speer, inn-keeper, in the town-\\nship of Jlanchester, in the county of Passaic. It was held there ac-\\ncordingly.\\nUp to 1858 two chosen freeholdei-s were elected from each townsiiip\\nand ward; from 1858 to 1868 there were two chosen from each township\\nDate of being sworn into office.\\nf^jmpiled by William Nelson, clerk of the board.\\nand one from each ward of Paterson in 1868 two were chosen from each\\nward and township, as formerly in 1869 the number was reduced to one\\nfrom each township and waid.\\nUntil 1872 chosen freeholders were elected for one year; in 1872 it was\\nenacted that in this county they should thereafter be elected for two years,\\nand the membeis chosen in 1872 were divided into two classes, those\\nfrom the First, Fourth, and Seventh Wards of Paterson, and from Little\\nFalls, Wayne, Pompton, and West Milford going out in 1873, and every\\nsecond year thereafter, and those from the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth,\\nand Eighth Wards of Paterson, and from Passaic (SecoTid Ward), Ac-\\nquackanonk, and Manchester going out in 1874, and every second year\\nthereafter.\\nWhere the figures are connected by a hyphen it indicates that the two\\nyears were in one term of the member.\\nAckerman, David D., Paterson, Ninth Ward, 1869-70.\\nAdams, Joseph, Passaic, Third Ward, 1873-74.\\nAitchison, Wm., Paterson, Fifth Ward, 1865.\\nAllen, Stephen, Manchester, 1853; Paterson, North Ward, 1854.\\nAlyea. David I., Paterson, North Ward, 1854-55.\\nAycrigg, Benj., Acquackanonk, 1865.\\nBeam, Conrad, Pompton, 1850-56.\\nBeam, John V., Pompton, 1843^9.\\nBeam, Joaiah, Pompton, 1851-62.\\nBeam Joseph B., Pompton, 1856.\\nBeattie, Robert, Little Falls, 1869-70.\\nBeattie, Robert, Jr., Little Falls, 1872.\\nBeaumont, John, Paterson, Fifth Ward, 1859-60.\\nBenson, David, Wayne, 1871-72.\\nBerdan, James D., Wayne. 1873-74, 77-80.\\nBlauvelt, Cornelius C, Jr., Patereon, North Ward, 1855-56.\\nBlauvelt, Jacob T., Paterson, Second Ward, 1869-70.\\nBoard, Edmund K., Pompton, 1854-55, 64-67,\\nBoard, Nathaniel, Pompton, 1837-42.\\nBrooks, Munson S., Piiterson, Fiftli Ward, 1856.\\nBrown, Henry M., West Milford, 1839.\\nBrown, Pett-r P., West Milford, 1847.\\nBuckley, John F.. Paterson, Fifth Ward, 1871-73.\\nBush, James H., Paterson, First Ward, 1868.\\nCampbell, Michael, Paterson, Fifth Ward, 1878-79.\\nCarless, .loseph, Paterson, Second Ward, 1878-79.\\nClose, James, Patei-son, 184(. -4l.\\nClover, Edward A., Paterson, Second Ward, 1876-77.\\nColfax, Richard H., West Milford, 1868-69.\\nColfax, Maj. Wm. W., Wayne, 1850, 55-57, 69-60.\\nConklin, Lewis L., Paterson, North Ward, 1866.\\nConkling, George W., Passaic, Second Ward, 1878-81.\\nCooley, Benj., West Milford, 1850-51, 57-58, 62-66.\\nCooley, Isaac P., West Milford, 1841-42, 45-46.\\nCox, Winfield S., Pompton, 1879-81.\\nDebow, Gilliam, Pompton, 1875-76.\\nDeCiimp, Chilion F., West Milford, 1844.\\nDeCamp. Edward, West Milford, 1849-50.\\nDecker, P., West Milford, 1855.\\nDeGray, Wm., Manchester, 1867-68.\\nDemarest. Daniel, Passaic, First Wanl, 1873-78.\\nDemarest, Garret H., Manchester, 1847-49.\\nDemarest, James M., Wayne, 1861.\\nDemarest, John M., Wayne, 1850.\\nDemarest, Peter S., West Milford, 1837-38.\\nDemarest, Samuel, Pateraon, East Ward, 1856-57.\\nDeMott, George V., .\\\\cquackanonk, 1878-81.\\nDeyo, Wm., Manchester, 1853.\\nDeWitt, Moses E., Paterson, 1839.\\nDickey, William, Pateraon, 1842.\\nDoherty, James, Paterson, Eighth Ward, 1868-69.\\nDoremus, Henry. Manchester, 1843^4; Wayne, 1847-49.\\nDoremus, John G., Paterson. First Ward, 1871-74.\\nDoremus, John H., Manchester, 1855-58 Paterson, North Ward, 1862-63.\\nDoremus, John R., Manchester, 1865-66.\\nDoremus, Nicholas J., Wayne, 1854-55, 61-63.\\nDoremus, Peter J., Wayne, 1881.\\nDoremus, Thomas P.. Wayne, 1857-58.\\nDowling, Daniel, Paterson, Seventh Ward, 1873-74.\\nDrew, Peter, Paterson, North Ward, 1856, 59-61.\\nEckhart, Wm., West Milford, 1862.\\nFielding, Wm., Paterson, West Ward, 1863-04.\\nFitzgerald, Joseph J., West Milford, 1840.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0547.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "348\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nFonda, Alex. P., Acquackanonk, 1858-63.\\nrrmnci\u00c2\u00abco, EJtranl, Little Full 1\u00c2\u00ab7I, f.l-Te, 79-81.\\nGnlluoay, Iliidsuu. Talcreou, ThInI Wanl, 1878-77.\\nUalviii, Patruk S., Piiauic, Kiret Wanl, 1881.\\nGarrlflou, Jtilin 11., Manclieati- r, 1805-66.\\nOarriEKto, Simism O., Fifth WnrtI, 1855.\\nUeoip.^. Eduaril C, W \u00c2\u00bbt Millonl, 1881\\nGe-jrgc, Philip It.. Poniiilon, 1803, 08-70, 77-78.\\n0\u00c2\u00abru\u00c2\u00ab, B^iiJHiiiiD, PaterMii, North Ward, 1858.\\nGledhill, Ji.seph, Patorsun, 18.S1-62.\\nGrefiorj iNimuel, West Mflford, 1807.\\nHaK^duni, Henry, Patereori, S lUtti Ward, 1859-61.\\nllaiuwii, FnKlerick, Patetaon, Weist Ward, 1855-58.\\nHarriooD, Jolin F., Miiiu-heHt(..r, 1838.\\nilortlDV, Philip, Piitereiin, First Ward, 1877-80.\\nHn) Robprt, Palcmoii, Fifth Ward, ISCt.\\nHeulj, Cornoliun, PaUTiwii, South Ward, 1806-07; Eighth Ward, 18C\u00c2\u00ab.\\nUemiun, Juho, Passaic, Firet Wanl, 1879-80.\\nHenry, David, Paterson, Fifth Wanl, 1800-68.\\nHlggins, Putcr, Putonion, Fifth Ward, lst *^i9.\\nHilliard, Jamea R., Putorson, Em^l Ward, 1865-66.\\nHindle, John 11 Puterson, Fourth Wanl, 1870-71, 75-\u00c2\u00abl.\\nHockonl erry, Harmon, Palorson, West Ward, 1865; Third Ward, 1808.\\nHogan, John D Pat .r\u00c2\u00bbon, Wettt Wanl, 1862.\\nHogi ucanip, Wni. S., Manrheifter, 1840-41.\\nHolland, Franklin. Palcr^on, Eighth Watxl, 187*-7i).\\nHoppi-r, Garret .V., Palcrson, 1851; Fifth Ward, 1861-02.\\nHopper, Peter, Wayne, 1868-09.\\nHopiwr, Peter A., Manchester, 1837: Patcrson, North Ward, 1867 First\\nWard, 1809-70.\\nHuniithreyt*. .\\\\iidrew, Paterson, Seventh Ward, 1871-72.\\nHuntoon, .h .^iali P., Patereon, Eiut Ward, lt). )3-54.\\nIngll. JidiM. Paterson, Fifth Ward, 1857-48.\\nJatohun, rorneliua R., Wayne, 1862-04.\\nJacoliiis, Garret. Acipnickanonk, 1808-69.\\nJan.liuK, Richard .1., A iuiickanoiik, 1847.\\nJacoliits, Wni. II., .\\\\eiiinickanonk, 1850-57.\\nJackH tn, .Iiwepli, I aterwnn, 18:i7, 4;l-. iO,\\nJaqua, Sheluian. Paterson, East Ward, 1807; Fourth Ward, 1868.\\nJoliiMon, Cliarleit F, Pompton, 18. 7-58.\\nKeenan, Patrick, Pater.iou, South Ward, 1857.\\nKelly, Piter, Paterson, South Ward, 1805.\\nKeiieluin, William, Pntoraon, Seventh Ward, 1879-81.\\nKerwin, .Iidin, I ateraon, Seventh Wanl, 1808-69.\\nKeys, Janie\u00c2\u00bb, Paterson, Eighth Ward, 1878-79.\\nKliig. laud, Jacob, Patnnioli, Thinl Ward, 1874-75.\\nKinwil, UenJ. E.. Manchester, 1807.\\nKip, Nichidas, Wayne, 1851 .53.\\nLane, Nathaniel, Paterson, 1848.\\nLangwich, Wni II., Paterson, Third Ward, 1868.\\nLariK., Chlllon. West Milfnrd, 1866-07.\\nLaroe, Honice, West Milford, 18:17-18.\\nLaroe, John J.. West .Milfonl, 1\u00c2\u00bb. .0, 5H-01.\\nLofthousis (Iharles, MancheNter, 1H72-7.\\nIx.vi.ll,i:harles P. Palenton, Sixth Wanl, 1876-70.\\nMarPhenon, John A., Palenon, 1847, 49-50.\\nHarsh, Elhia J., Paterson, 1840.\\nMatches, Ibiliert, Little Falls, 1868.\\nMcAllister, Wm., Paterson, Weal Ward, 1853, 55-56.\\nMcfonnoll, Jacob Weat Milford, IMiB.\\nJlcGIII, Samuel, Paterain, Si venlh Wanl, 1875-78.\\nMctirogan, Daniel, Patenon, West Wanl, 1859-01.\\nMcKenna, Andrew, Patenion, Eighth Ward, 188U-8I.\\nSiclneriiy, Patrick, S.iilli Wanl, |s02-ia.\\nMead, Henry I, Wayne, 1KAI-5:I.\\nMeail, Samuel Weat Milford, 1847-49.\\nMeeks, Allien V., Wayne, 1K08.\\nMeraells, John Acipiaikanonk, 1858-60; Paterton, North Ward, I8M-\\n0. i; Flnit Ward, 1868,\\nMenelis, Peter, Ari|uackanolik, 1871-73.\\nMenells, Peter K., Acipiai kaniink, IS5 2, .5-57. I\\nMerseli\u00c2\u00bb, Peter li Wajne. IHtifl-il7.\\nMiller, James, Patenion, Sixth \\\\anl, ll \u00c2\u00ab0-81.\\nMills, Wllllani, Palen in, Third Wanl, 1878-81.\\nMonks, (imirge W., Pompton, 1857-58, 6ft.\\nMorrell, K-lwanl, Pasuilc, Third Wanl, 1877-81. j\\nMorrell, Wm. M., Ac |Uackanonk, 1804-67.\\nlltMes, Horatio, Pateraon, 18.18, 45.\\nMunson, Israel, Paterson, West Ward, 1860-67.\\nMurlagh, John, Paterson, Seventh Ward, 1870.\\nNewell, Samuel, Aciptackanonk, 1874-77.\\nNorton, Chandler D., Pompton, 1853-54.\\nOldliam, David. Little Falls, 1868\\nPerry, Wm. S., Paterson, North Wanl, 1867 Second Ward, 1874-75.\\nPetty, George, Manclieetor, 1851-52.\\nPhelan. John, Paterson, Eighth Wanl, 1870-73.\\nPlanten, tieriit, Manchester, I87I.\\nPost, Cornelius 11., Paterson, North Ward, 1857.\\nQuackenbush. John P., Wayne, 1870.\\nQuackenliueh, Wm. H., Paterson, South Ward, 1853-64; Fifth Wanl,\\n1864.\\nRafferly, Jahies, Paterson, Second Ward, 1880-81.\\nHeld, David, Paterson, l\u00c2\u00bb:l\\nHeld, Hugh, Paterson, South Wanl, 18.Vi-,S8.\\nReynolds, Abraham, Paterson, 1839-12.\\nRhinesmith, Daniel, Pompton, 1871-72.\\nBidgwuv, Charles D., Paterson, West Wanl, 1854.\\nRidgway, Wni., Paterson, West Ward, lf^3.\\nRiggs. Jetur B West Milford, ls:l9. 42-46, 48.\\nBiker, John, Acquackanonk, 184.1\u00e2\u0080\u009410.\\nRooney, Hugh, Pater*. n. Fifth Ward, 1870.\\nRutan, Peter, West Milfonl, 18.-.2-H.\\nRyerson, .\\\\braliani M., Wayne, 1875-76.\\nByeretui, Garrabnint, Paterson, Fii-st Ward, 1875-76.\\nRyerson, George 1., Manchester, 1847-18, -5l, 54-64.\\nRyerson, Ini, Paterson, Second Ward, 1871.\\nRyerson, Jacob M., I omptnn, 1843-19.\\nRyerson, John D., Wayne, 1804-65.\\nRyerson, .lohn Y., Ac |uackanoiik, 1870.\\nByenioii, Martin J Poin|iton, 1860-53, 60-61, 64.\\nKyenwin, Peter M P..uipt..n 1837-42.=\\nSanfonl. Perigriiie. Manchesler, 1 S41 -42, 4. i-16, 49-50.\\nScllonninakei Daniel II Aci|ilackanonk, 1853-54, 64. SS.\\nSchuyler, Isaac, Wayne, 1847-49.\\nSenior, David J.. Pateiwn, Second Wanl, 1872-73.\\nSheeran, Patrick, Palerwui, Seventh Ward, 1868.\\nShields. Patf ick Henry, Paterson, Sixth Waixl, 1871-75.\\nSliurte, David. Munchealer, 1845-46.\\nSip, John, Ac.|uiickanunk, I84 J-5I, 61-62.\\nSmith, Henry, Manchester, 1K6S-70.\\nSmith, Joseph, .Man.hcKler lH.-,2.\\nSmith, Oscar F., We.l Milfonl, 187:1-74.\\nSpeer, Peter G, Acipiacknnotik, 18:17-42.\\nSpeor, Rynlcr S., Aci|uackaiiouk, 1850-51, 67.\\nStagg. Wm. I., Manchester, 184.3-44.\\nSlophen.1. Sitlnllel, Paterson, .South Ward, 1865-56.\\nStiles, James, Paterson. West Wanl, 18.S4.\\nSt. Lawrence. Patrick, Paterson, Fifth Wanl, 1874-77.\\nSutloii, Xeliulon, Pateiaon, Sixth Wanl, 1868-7U.\\nSturr, Peter 1., Manchester, l\u00c2\u00abi:4\\nSweeney, IMward, Patenion, South Ward, 1853.\\nTerhiine, Nicholas It.. Aciiuackanonk, 1844-48.\\nTerliune, Peter J., Paterson, IJuit Ward, 1853-55.\\nTerhnne, St..| hin, West Milford, 1S6I-55.\\nThonuon, William L., Pateraou. Fourth Wattl, 1808-69.\\nTIce, Hinrad, Pom|iton, 18i,im;2, 66-67.\\nTowuHeiid. .-Ni el S., Pomi ton, 1882-63.\\nTnilihagen, John J., Wayne, 1K59-CO.\\nTnlley, Michael J., Patemoii, South Ward, 1864.\\nTattle, Socrates, I ateisoti, l-jist Ward,\\nVan Rlarconi, Abraham t I atemon, West Ward. 1S. ,7.\\nVan Ularcom, Hninl, Paterson, I843-M.\\nVan lUen, Garret, W.\u00c2\u00abt Milford, 1840.\\nVan Deursen, John, West Milford, 1841.\\nVan Houteii, Adrian H., Manchester, 1842, .M.\\nVan II. alien, llalmagh, Malicliester, 1 70-81.\\nVan Hon Jacob, Manchester, HtlS\\nVan iloulen, John II., Palersun, ThInI Ward, 1871-73.\\nVan Iloulen, John R., Paters. ii, Ijist Wanl, 1856.\\nt The ballol-lsix lieing upset In 1m7I, no return was made, and Mr.\\nPhelan held over.\\nMr. Uyei\u00c2\u00abon Is not re|sirt Ml aa attending any meetlugs of the boaid\\ndnrlng the year 1841, alttioilKh elected.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0548.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "PASSAIC COUNTi CIVIL LIST.\\n349\\nVan Houten, Richard H., Paterson, East Ward, 1857-58.\\nVan NesK, Francis, Acqnackanonk, 1849, 52.\\nVan Ness, Hi-nry S., Pompton, 1859, 66, 08.\\nVan NesB. Lucas R., Little Falls, 1877-78.\\nVan Riln^r, Corni lins G., Acquackiinonk, 1837-43.\\nVan Riper, .lohli B., Acqnackanonk, 1856.\\nVan Rijier, Uriah J., Wayne, 1858.\\nVan Saun, Samuel A., Paterson, 1838.\\nVan Voorhies, Albert A., Paterson, Second Ward, 1868.\\nVan \\\\Vi[ikle, Charles T., Acqnackanonk, 1854-. i5.\\nVan Wyck, John, Paterson, First Ward, 1881.\\nVondersmith, Eli W., Pasnaic, Third Ward, 1875-76.\\nVreeland, Andrew, Paterson, South Ward, 1854 Fifth Ward, 1855-57.\\nVreeland, Coruelius D., Wayne, 1864-56, 65-67.\\nVreeland, .lames C, Pompton, 1873-74.\\nVreeland, Thomas B., West Ulilford, 1856-o7, 59, 60-61, 68, 70, 75-80.\\nWait, Wni., Paterson, East Ward, 1859-64.\\nWalls, Henry, Paterson, Eighth Ward, 1876-77.\\nWardle, Henry, Paterson, Fourth Ward, 1872-74.\\nWaterhouse, James, Passaic, 1871-77.\\nWestervell, Cornelius I., Manchester, 1837-;18; Paterson, 1852.\\nWestervelt, Ralph P., Manchester, 1859-63.\\nWhritenour, Peter H., Pompton, 1869.\\nWickham, Wm., West Milford, 1863-64, 71-72.\\nWilliams, Jeremiah, West Milford, 1843.\\nWilson, Nathaniel. Manchester, 1839.\\nWilson, Wm. T., Paterson, Third Ward, 1869-70.\\nWooUey, John, Paterson, Fifth Ward, 1880-81.\\nZeliff, Peter, Acquackunonk, 1848, 51.\\nZeluff, David S., Paterson, Second Ward, 1868.\\nZeluff, John P., Paterson, Si.xth Ward, 1668.\\nDirectors of Ote Board.\\nBeam, John V., Pompton, 1849.\\nBlauvelt, Jacob T., Paterson, Second Ward, 1870.\\nDeniarest. Daniel, Passaic, 1876, 78.\\nDoremns, John H., Manchester, 1858.\\nFonda, Alex. P., Acqnackanonk. 1860-63.\\nFrancisco, Edward, Little Falls, 1879-81.\\nGalloway, Hudson, Paterson, Third Ward, 1877.\\nHeTiry, David, Peterson, Fifth Ward, 1868.\\nBilliard, James R., Pateraon, East Ward, 1866.\\nHiudle, John H., Paterson, Fouitli Ward, 1871.\\nHuutoon, Josiah P., Paterson, East Ward, 1854.\\nJaqiia, Sherman, Paterson, East Ward, 1867.\\nMercelis, John D., Acquackauonk, 1859; Paterson, North Ward, 1865.\\nRyereon, George I., Manchester, 184.S.\\nRyerson, Martin J., Pompton, 1850-53.\\nScho(\u00c2\u00bbnmaker, Daniel H., .\\\\cquackanonk, 1864.\\nShields, P. Henry, Paterson, Si.lth Ward, 1872-75.\\nTerhune, Nicholas R., Acqnackanonk, 1845-47.\\nThomson, Wm L., Paterson, Fourth Ward, 1869.\\nVan Blarcom, Biant, Paterson, 1843-44.\\nVan Riper. Cornelius G., Acqnackanonk, 1838-42.\\nVan Winkle, Charles T., Acqnackanonk, 1855.\\nVreeland, Andrew, Paterson, Fifth Ward, 1857.\\nVreeland, Cornelius I)., Wayne, 1S56.\\nWestervelt, Cornelius I., Jlanchester, 1837.\\nClerhi of the Board.\\nBlanvell, Cornelius C, 1839-42.\\nBurnett, David, ly45-.52, 56.\\nChisaell, George S., 1865-07.\\nCrismond, Jo-iah M., 1838.\\nHendei-son, Archie, 1868.\\nIri^h, Hugh C., 1801-62.=\\nMead, Andrew, IS 7, 53-54, 56-60, 64.\\nNelson, William, 1871-81.\\nSandford, Perigrine, 1839, 43-44.\\nTlionison, Win. L,, 1862-Mi3.\\nWebb, Alvin, 1869-70.\\n1 Aiipointed April 2, 1839, tnce J. M. Crismond, absent since the pre-\\nvious May. Mr. Blauvelt held the office until the next annual meeting.\\nMay 8, 1S39.\\n2 Resigned Ang. 27, 1862.\\n3 Appointed Aug. 27, 1862, vice H. C. Irish, resigned.\\n23\\nCounty Collectors.\\nFonda, Alex. P., Acqnackanonk, 1864-66.\\nGarrison, Cornelius G., Paterson, 1841-42.\\nGledhill, Joselih, Patereon, 1846-46.\\nHayes, Williacn H., Paterson, 1875-81.\\nHockenberry, Harmon, Paterson, 1871-74.\\nHogencamp, Wm. S., Manchester, 1849-50.\\nHopper, Garret A., Paterson, 1854, 57.\\nMoses, Horatio, Paterson, 1851-53.\\nRyerson, George I., Manchester, 1837-40, 43-44.\\nSmylie, James M., Paterson, 1867-69.\\nTaylor, Josepli N., Paterson, 1858-63.\\nThomson, Wm. L., Patereon, 1870.\\nVan Riper. Cornelius G., .\\\\cquackanonk, 1847-48.\\nVan Winkle, Halniagb, Paterson, 1855-56.\\nCounsel to the Board.\\nCanflcld, Silas D., 1848-49.\\nDrury, Henry S., 1879-81.\\nGlodhill, William, 1864.\\nGriggs, John W., 1878.\\nHobarl, Garrett A., 1872.\\nHopper, John, 1856-64.\\nPennington, Aaron S., 1846-47.\\nTnttle, Socrates, 1853, 66-71.\\nWard, Zebulon M., 1873-77.\\nWoodruff, Absalom B., 1850-52.\\nJail Physicians.\\nBlundell, Wm., 1869-81.\\nBurr, Lemuel, 1856-58.\\nWarner, Oswald, 1869-61.\\nWcller, Fredeiick S., 1857.\\nJail Wardens,\\nBuckley, John May 12, 1874-70 May 13, 1879.\\nDemarest, Samuel, Nov. 4, 1857: Nov 12, 1862-64.*\\nGoodridge, Harmon B., May 11, 1869-74.\\nGreen, Nathaniel J., May 11, 1864-69.\\nMf.mbehs of the Legislature from Passaic Countt.\\n1837.5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Council, Andrew Parsons Assembly, Aaron S. Pennington,\\nHenry M. Brown.\\n1838. Council, .\\\\ndrew Parsons; Assembly, Henry 51. Brown, Henry\\nDorenuis.\\n1839.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Council, Nathaniel B ard Assembly, Elisha B.Clark, John F.\\nRyerson.\\n1840. Council, Nathaniel Board; Assembly, James Speer, John F.\\nRyerson.\\n1841. Council, Silas D. Caufield; Assembly, George I. Ryerson, Samuel\\nA, Van Saun.\\n1842. Council, William Dickey Assembly, Martin J. Ryereon, Samuel\\nA. Van Saun.\\n1843. Council, Silas D. Canfield; Assembly, William S. Hogencamp,\\nTliaddens Board.\\n1844. Senate, Cornelius G. Garrison; Assembly, George W. Colfax,\\nChileon F. D Cainp.\\n1845. Senate, Cornelius G. Garrison Assembly, Chileon F. D Camp,\\nGeorge W. Colfax.\\n1846. Senate, Martin J. Ryerson Assembly, Abraham Prall, Henry R.\\nVan Ness.\\n1847. Senate, Martin J. Ryerson .\\\\s3embly, Henry R. Van Ness, John\\nM. Dennirest.\\n1848. Senate, Martin J. Ryerson; Assembly, Cornelius S. Van Wagoner,\\nOscar Decker.\\n1849. Senate, Silas D. Canfield; Assembly, Cornelius S. Van Wagoner,\\nTluunas D. Iloxsey.\\n1850. Senate, Silas D. Canfield; Assembly, Thomas D. Hoxsey, Benjamin\\nGeroe.\\n1861.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Silas D. Canfield.\\n1852.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Thomas P. Hoxsey Assembly, Philip Rafferty (1), Jacob\\nV. B. Van Blarcom (2), Coruelius Van Winkle (3).\\n1853.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Thomas D. Hoxsey; Assembly, Philip lUfrerty(l), Charles\\nH. May (2), John J. Laroe (3).\\nResigned May 10, 1884.\\nDates of election,\\n8 Elected over Simeon Brown by one vole.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0549.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "350\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n1854.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Thomu D. Hoxmj Aeienibljr, WlllUm U. Momll (I),\\nJohn Scboonmaker (2), William C. StmttoD ^3).\\n1665. S^ imte, Jetur R. Kigpi; .\\\\Mem ly, Benjamin Buckley (1), John\\nJ. Scliuuiiniiikirr (2), I etvr II. Wliifenowe (3).\\n1856. Seriate, Ji tiir B. Riggs; Aiwembly, Benjamin Buckley (1), John\\nJ. Brown (2), Jaraee B. Beam (3).\\n1857. Sfuate.Jetur Rigg\u00c2\u00ab; Aft\u00c2\u00abembly, Benjamin Buckley (1), Patrick\\nMaginnis (2), RichanI Van Uouten (3)\\n1868. Senate, Bonjiimin Buckley; Asaenibly, Samuel Pope (I), Joel M.\\nJohnson (J). RichanI Van Uouten (3).\\n1869. Senate, Benjamin Buckley; Aaserably, Samuel Pope (1), Joel H.\\nJohnson (2). Ltoac P. Cooley (3).\\n1860. Senate, Benjamin Buckley; Asaembly, Samuel Pope (1), Socrate\u00c2\u00ab\\nTuttle (2), Isaac P. Cooley (3).\\n1861. Senate, Benjamin Buckley; Ai^sembly, John N. TerhuDe {1),\\nSuci^atea Tultle (2), Chaiiiller D. Norton (3).\\n1862. Senate, Benjamin Buckley; Assembly, Samuel Pope (1), Joeeph N.\\nTaylor (2), Charles F Johnson (3).\\n1863. Senate, Benjamin Buckley; Assembly, Aaron Kinler (1), Joeeph\\nN. Taylor (2), Cliarlea F. Johnson (3).\\n1864.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Benjamin Buckley; Assembly, Aaron Kinter (I), Garret\\nVan Wagoner (2), Isaac D. BlaUTelt (3),\\n1865. Senate, Benjamin Buckley.\\n1866. Senate, Beujiimin Buckley; vVssembly, David Ueury (1),* Joseph\\nR. Bahlniu (2), Kduurd A. Stansbury (3).\\n1867. Senate, John Hopper; Assembly, David Menry (1), Joeeph R.\\nBaldwin (2), Albert A. Van Voorhta (3).\\n1868. Senate, John Hopper; Aosembly, John N. Terhnne (1), (tarret\\nVan Wagoner (2), Isaac D. Blauvelt (3).\\n1869. Senate, John Hopper; As- embly, Hugh Reid (1), Henry Hobbe\\n(2), Charles P. Gurnee (3t.\\n1870.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Henry WilliamH; Assembly, John O Brien (I), Charlee\\nHemingway (2), Robert SI. Tarbet 13^.\\n1871. Senate, Henry A. Williams; Assembly, Henry HcDanolds (1),\\nCharles llemiijgway (2), Robert M. Tarbet (3)\\n1872.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Henry Willinms; Assembly, Henry McDanolds (1),\\nGeorge Barnes (2), Garret A. Huliart (3).\\n1873 Senate, John Hopper; Assembly, David Henry (1), John P.\\nZeluff(2).\\n1874.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, John Hopper; Assembly, David Henry (1), John P. ZeluS\\n(2), Rolwrt M. Tarbet (3).\\n1875. Senate, John Hopper; Assembly, John W. Origgl (1), John San-\\nderson (2), Joseph L. Cunningham (3).\\n1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Garret A. Hobart; .\\\\a8embly, John W. Origgs (1), John\\nSanderson (2), Joseph L. Cunninghani (3).\\n1877.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Garret A. Hobart; Assembly, John Kennell (1), John\\nO Brien (2), John II. Rubinsuu (3).\\n1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Garret A. Hobart; Assembly, George W. Oonkllng (1),\\nJohn O Brien (2), John H. Robinson (3).\\n1879.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Garret A. Hobart; Assembly, Robirt A. Haley (1), John\\nO Brien (2), Thomas B. Vreeland (3).\\n1880.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Senate, Garret A. Hobart Assembly, Jacob Latua (1), Robert B.\\nMorehead (2), Thomas B. Vreeland (3).\\nTABLE OF COUNTY KXPENDITURES, IS69-81. Compiled nv Wm. Nki*..n.\\nI.\\nCVRREM\\nExpenses.\\n1878.\\n994 87A\\n1879.\\n$24,600\\n6,868\\n9,123\\nAppn\\n1880.\\n$34,003\\n6,733\\n9,158\\nipriated.\\n1869.\\n\u00c2\u00bb14,779\\n0,846\\n5,944\\n1870.\\n$17,000\\n5,000\\n7,446\\nI87I. 1\\n824,160\\n6,660\\n6,978\\n1872.\\n$37,000\\n6,800\\n11,400\\n1873.\\nS(2.868\\n7,844\\n10,850\\n1874.\\n\u00c2\u00bb32,398\\n8,596\\n6,819\\n1875.\\nS23,601\\nG.089\\n8,730\\n1876.\\n130,451\\n6,593\\n6,988\\n1877.\\n$27,407\\n1881.\\n$26,000\\n8,000\\n7,000\\n1,000\\n2,600\\n4,400\\n1. 250\\n1,5110\\n1,200\\n600,\\n2,000\\n1,500\\n6,878; 5,910\\n9,496 1ll3 2.t\\nSupport of liiuntics,\\nSupport af lllliiilics,\\n1\\n2,400\\n975\\n2,505\\n874\\n490\\n1,701\\n1,055\\n34\\n4,108\\n2\u00e2\u0080\u009eV iO\\n1,22\\n1,390\\n1.267\\n327\\n2,470\\n1,745\\ni 2,588\\nio,bi8\\n6,888\\n7,131\\n8,578\\n6,862\\n6,964\\n1,549\\n1,715\\n2.081\\n5.730\\n6,676\\n1,.360\\n1,720\\n1,458\\n5,548\\n6,399\\nsnTR\\n809. ^61\\nCoronore iiiqueata\\nElectii\u00c2\u00bbii8\\n8lalionei7\\nAdrvrtiitlnK, publishing.\\n369\\n1,159\\n1,862\\n889\\n1,113\\n2,675\\n1,734\\n996\\n3,693\\n1,0:15\\n1,031\\n2,957\\n2,187\\n1,268\\n6,106\\n1,161\\n1.216\\n7,809\\n1.140\\n1,080\\n2,082\\n1,828\\n990\\n1 671\\nI 1,353\\n1,071\\n108\\nIncMenlulH-SundriM....\\n\\\\jii\\n6,611\\n2,690\\n4,690\\n2,645\\n684\\n4,301\\n2,679\\n1,778\\nDiiiiiem and horw-\\nfetnl\\n4,069\\n894\\n640\\n20\\n316|\\n291\\n503\\n446\\n688\\n186\\n266\\n729\\n3,697\\n2,295\\n588\\n921\\n6/ ;8\\n1,000\\n*70,8\u00c2\u00ab2\\n1,418 990\\n662\\n374\\nsoo\\n894\\n1\\n:::v.\\n1\\n$72,913\\n83,000\\n169,212\\n190,702\\n$68,394 $64,600\\n$S7,2.\\nToUl\\n\u00c2\u00ab49,781\\n161,911\\n(62,843:\\n$56,8S\u00c2\u00bb\\n$66,34\u00c2\u00ab\\nPrincipal of lionded debt.\\nInterest on boiido l debt..\\nBank di^onnts\\nSpecial dfflcluncy j\\n$2,000 $2,000 $9,000\\n7,0531 10,897 12,662\\n3,986 4,154 2,896\\nII. Prbt and Intrrkst.\\n$10,000 JiO.ino $10,000 S8,6ao S9,000 $13,000 $18,090 $24,000 $22,0011 $22,000\\n12,437 I9,0;l0 16,\u00c2\u00bb!I5 14,980 14,997 14,000 13,492 11,667 10,167 9,000\\n6.805 6,920 5,.374 2,709 1,541 1,093 518 154 200\\n60,000 411,000 5,000\\nToUl J $13,0391 $23,0611 $24,6481\\nPublic building* and\\ngrrinnda $7,9.34, $1,600 $11,300\\nBrldKoe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I aierom 52,9llO^ 56,490 40,164\\nArqiiackanonk l\\n11,4KS 11,1180 11,639.\\nI aneit\\n$28,242! $35,9601 $91,269 $68,18) $26,638 $33,093 $32,010 $S5,6\u00c2\u00ab7 $32,321 $31, i\\nIII. Public Works.\\n$22,nOn $3,423 (10,976 $2,709 $2,0113\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a228,9X2 80,724 8,593 14,034 10,102\\n2/ 45 9,261 43 1,012 1,776\\n$3,000 \u00c2\u00ab2,44I $1,900 $18,771 $IO,ono\\n3,800\\n175\\nUltlo Falls-...\\nMMnr-boster....\\nW.ime\\nI ni| t n\\nWest iliirord..\\n41191\\n8.1167\\n1,485\\n14,161\\n1,474\\n18,187\\n5,187\\n6,700\\n7.270\\n1,664\\n8,167\\n1, 2 20\\n610\\n1,632\\n1,194\\n10,582\\n900\\n165\\n34,000\\n16,:|(I6\\n1.642\\n1,593,\\n2,oo:ii\\n7,094\\n2,98.3\\n3.786\\n1,141\\n2,H77\\n2i2\\n1.297\\n3,948\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a22,009\\n2,503\\n4,606\\n882\\n3,779\\n10,.5go\\n1,23i\\n1,212\\n1,099\\n366\\n302\\n4,8UI\\n2,:i8;i\\n473\\n2.33\\n507\\n4.36\\n996\\n1,304\\n2,779,\\n3,485\\n6,679\\n1,9I2|\\n594\\n175\\n1,595\\n4,241\\n553\\n377\\n30\\n160\\n717,\\na\\n81\\n881\\n1,620\\n335\\n1,010\\n1,681\\n6911\\n1.1. 0\\n1,672\\n2,800|\\nTotal\\n$07,916 $105,674 $\u00c2\u00ab3,6 26 $05,072 $121,007 S86.294 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2$42,549 $24,826 $10,928 $12,856, $15,156 1I,233\\nttaO,738| $180,636 $162,217 $217,627 $239,967 (226,776 $169 440 $121,2-26 $102,416 $99,686 $106,612 $I28.WI0\\n20,(H\\n$30,0ti(i\\n$118,460\\nFracti ns of a dollar are omitted In the above table, but are reckoned In the totals. Including $5000 paid for turnplkee, the money being\\nburrownt for the imrpote. Floating debt paid off. To pay the loan maile for the purchase of the turnpikes Uiught In 1870. Including $35,045\\nexpended In rebuilding the Lincoln bridge. Including $12,719 expended for fallen bridgMi, Including $069.17 expended 6ir fkllen bridges.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0550.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "FIRST COURTS AND ELECTIONS.\\n351\\nHon. Joseph N. Taylor, Speaker of the House\\nof Assembly in 1864, died at his residence in Pater-\\nson, April 2, 1864. He was born Oct. 23, 1822, and\\nhad lived in Paterson from infancy, his parents be-\\ncoming residents of tlic city tlie same year he was\\nborn. Mr. Taylor was a very active and useful man,\\nboth in private and public life. Few have merited or\\nreceived higher tokens of the confidence and esteem\\nof their fellow-citizens. While successful in business,\\nhe was earnest and faithful in the discharge of his\\npublic duties, to which he devoted himself with char-\\nacteristic energy and diligence up to the very last\\nhours of his life. An obituary notice written at the\\ntime of his decease says, He fell in the active arena\\nof oflBcial duty, and when stricken the brain, from-\\nexcessive labor, had given away. There was no hope\\nof his recovery. He reached home from Trenton\\nonly three days preceding his death, and rapidly de-\\nclined till the fatal hour arrived. His social and\\ngenial character made him a great favorite, and his\\ndeath was sincerely mourned, not only by the whole\\ncommunity in which he had lived, but by many scat-\\ntered over different parts of the State and at its cap-\\nital, who attended his funeral in large numbers.\\nPublic offices were closed, and business in a great\\nmeasure suspended in the city, while a sorrowing\\ncommunity paid their last tribute of respect to one\\nwhom they had learned to esteem and love for his\\nmany amiable qualities and excellent traits of char-\\nacter. Mr. Taylor left a family consisting of a wife\\nand three children, two sons and one daughter.\\nThey are all deceased except Mrs. Taylor, who still\\nsurvives and resides on the estate left her by her\\nhusband.\\nCHAPTER XLIX.\\nFIRST COURTS AND ELECTIONS.\\nCouRT.s of Common Pleas and of General Quarter\\nSessions of the Peace were required Ijy the act of\\nFeb. 7, 1837, to be held in and for the county of Pas-\\nsaic on the fourth Tuesday of April, the third Tues-\\nday of July, the fourth Tuesday of October, and the\\nfirst Tuesday of February, annually the Circuit\\nCourts and Court of Oyer and Terminer and General\\nJail Delivery should be held on the fourth Tuesday\\nof April and the fourth Tuesday of October; and\\nuntil tlie seat of justice in and for the said county\\nshall be determined, and a court-house built, or\\nanother place in said county shall be prepared there-\\nfor by the board of chosen freeholders thereof, the\\ncourts shall be held at the house now occupied by Ira\\nMunn, in the town of Paterson. Due notice was re-\\nquired to be given by the sherift of Essex County in\\nthe newspapers published in Paterson and Newark\\nfor six consecutive weeks from and after the passage\\nof the act. The courts first convened, as required by\\nlaw, at the house of Ira Munn, now the Passaic Hotel,\\nin Paterson, in the ball-room of which the altar ot\\njustice for the county was first erected in April, 1837.\\nThey next held their sessions in the old Cross Street\\nMethodist Church, where they continued to meet till\\nthe court-house was ready for occupancy in 1839.\\nThe election for determining the location of the\\ncounty-se.at was held on the first Tuesday in June,\\n1837.\\nThe first Court of General Quarter Sessions of the\\nPeace in and for Passaic County was held at the Pas-\\nsaic Hotel, in Paterson, beginning on the 25th of\\nApril, 1837. Nineteen justices of the county were\\npresent upon the bench, viz. Abraham Reynolds,\\nJohn K. Flood, Cornelius I. Westervelt, Nicholas\\nSmith, Benjamin N. Cleveland, John Parke, .\\\\ndrew\\nMead, Peter S. Demarest, Cornelius C. Blauvelt, Wil-\\nliam. Colfax, James King, Simeon Hart, J. M. Cris-\\nmond, David H. Reeves, Samuel S. Gregory, George\\nE. Ackerson, Jacob Berdan, Henry Schoonmaker,\\nThomas Gould.\\nThe first business of the court was the granting of\\nlicenses to the following persons to keep inns and\\ntaverns in the county, at an assessment of ten dollars\\neach Thomas M. Armstrong, Jacob Rutan, Miah\\nVan Riper, Josiah Beam, John Kershaw, John A.\\nPost, John Riker, Peter G. Speer, Aaron Prall, Rich-\\nard R. Ryerson, Isaac H. Mead, James Rea, Henry\\nTifield, Benjamin H. Bone, Peter Archdeacon, Henry\\nA. Hopper, Ephraim Corby, Moses Kanouse, Nehe-\\nmiah Brower, William L. Andrews, William Blanch-\\nard, Joshua Engell, .lohn A. McPherson, William .1.\\nCraigg, Richard Mead, twenty-five in all.\\nJohn Wyley was appointed crier of the courts of\\nthe county.\\nThe Inferior Court of Common Pleas and Orphans\\nCourt began their first session for Passaic County at\\nPaterson, April .5, 1837. Judges present: Abraham\\nReynolds, William Colfax, John Parke, Jacob Berdan,\\nDavid H. Reeves, Josiah M Crismond, Benjamin X.\\nCleveland, and John K. Flood.\\nThe first term of the Oyer and Terminer and Gen-\\neral Jail Delivery commenced at Paterson on Tuesday,\\nApril 25, 1837, Mr. Justice Hornblower presiding.\\nThe associate judges were Abraham Reynolds, Jacob\\nBerdan, Benjamin N. Cleveland, William Colfax,\\nDavid H. Reeves, John K. Flood, John Parke, and\\nJosiah M. Crismond. Robert O. Robinson, Esq.,\\nsheriff. The following persons were empaneled as\\ngrand jurors, to wit; Abraham Goodwin, Andrew\\nParsons, David Roe, John Nightengale, Henry\\nWhitely, James Close, Thomas Rogers, Horatio\\nMoses, Robert Morrell, Cornelius G. Van Riper,\\nAaron A. Van Houten, Peter E. Merselis, Thomas P.\\nDoremus, David I. Alyea, Frederick Petry, Daniel\\nShurte, Jacob B. Van Riper, Cornelius A. Schuyler,\\nGilliam Bartholf, Martin R. Beam, Joseph Board, Jr.,\\nJeremiah Williams, John B. Van Duin. Elias B. D.\\nOgden. Esq., was prosecutor of the pleas. Most of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0551.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "352\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthe indictmenta at this term were for assault and bat-\\ntery iiiid lor Helling liiiiiors unlawfully.\\nHon. Joseph C. Hornblower held the first Circuit\\nCourt in Paterson on Tuesday, the 2. )th of April,\\n1837. No business being brought before it, the eourt\\nadjourned for the term on the 26th instant.\\nThe lawyers who appeared at the first terms of the\\ncounty courts were Elia-s 15. D. Ogden, James Keen,\\nDaniel Barkalow, Silas D. Uanlield, James Speer,\\nJohn Hopper, S. S. Morris, B. W. Van Der Voort, A.\\nS. Penningt in, William B. Sloan, Daniel Haines, J.\\nD. Miller. All these practiced in the courts in 1837.\\nCounty Buildings. On June 26, 1837, the board\\nof chosen freeholders decided to accept the site now\\noccupied for the court-house and jail, and which was\\ngiven for the purpose by The Society for Estab-\\nlishing Useful Manufactures. On July 11th the\\nboard adopted plans for the jail. On August 3d con-\\ntracts were awarded for the mason-work for $i )84.\\ncarpenter-work, S164 i; iron-work, eleven cents per\\npound. On August 17th plans for a court-house were\\nadopted, and on September 12th contracts were\\nawarded, for the carpenter-work, ifSlOO; mason-\\nwork, S7000. On May 8, 1839, the board held their\\nfirst meeting in the new court-house, and on .July liHh\\nthe building was dedicated. Up to .Vugust, 184(1, the\\nco.st of the two buildings appears to have been .*2;),300.\\nIn 1871-72 the court-house was greatly enlarged and\\nsomewhat altered.\\nIn 18.33 the board decided to rebuild the jail. On\\nDecember 7th plans prei)Hred by Mr. Nash, of Con-\\nnecticut, were adopted, the estimated cost being\\nlf20,txi0. In the spring of 18. the building Wiis\\nready for occupancy, but wius not completed till ISo!).\\nThe cost was about $.35,000. In 1880 and 1881 the\\nboard awiirded contracts for enlarging the jail, to\\nmeet the increased demand upon its capacity, and the\\nwork is now nearly done, at a total cost of about\\n$2. ),0IMt.\\nFirst Election. Upon the organization of the\\ncounty such inhabitants only as were of age and\\nwere frecliolders were entitled to vote. The oonsti-\\ntutioii which remained in force till 1X44 reipiired\\nthat each voter should be of full age and worth fifty\\npounds proclamation money, clear estate in the same,\\nand have resideil in the county for twelve months\\npreceding the election. The officers chosen by the\\npeople in each county were the members of the\\nCouncil and A.ssenibly, and one SherifT and one or\\nmore Coroners, to be electe l at the same general\\ncounty election. The people, at their township meet-\\nings, elected their constables and chosen freeholders.\\nJustices of the peace, judges of the (Courts of Common\\nPleas, clerks of tlie courts, as well as judges of the\\nSupreme Court, attorney-gcnoral, State secretary\\nand treiLsurer, were chosen by joint meeting of the\\nCouncil and Assembly and commission( l by the\\nOovcrnor.\\nThe act organizing the county took eflect .April II,\\n1837. All persons in oflBce in the respective counties\\nof Bergen and Essex, except clerks, surrogates, and\\npro.secutors of the pleas, held over till the expiration\\nof their terms. The judges of the Court of Common\\nPleas and justices of the peace holding over from\\nBergen and Essex Counties respectively were re-\\nquired to qualify according to law in the new county,\\nas if they had been therein a|)pointed.\\nAnd he it eiiacUd, That fntm and after ttio \u00c2\u00abaiil eleventh day of April\\nnoxt the then sherift of the comity of Kwex, in enon or l y his under\\n8lierifT, deputy, and. iti case of Ui\u00c2\u00ab legal ditMil.ility of the hheriff, the cor-\\noners of the said county, shall execute all writs to him or them directed\\nin the township of .\\\\cqunckanonk and Paterson and the then sheriff of\\nthe county of Bergen, in [)enou or by his uuiler-sberiff, etc., shall exe-\\ncute all %vriti) to him or them directed in the townships of Pumptun,\\nWeiit Milfur\\\\i, and Manchoitor.\\nRobert O. Robinson, sherift of Es.sex County, and\\nJacob C. Terhune, shcriH of Bergen County, acted in\\nthe capacity required by the act until the election in\\nPassaic County, on the second Tuesday in October,\\n1837, when Rynier S. Speer was elected sherift A\\nmember of the Council and two members of the\\nGeneral Assembly were at the same time chosen.\\nMr. Andrew Parsons was elected to fill the former\\nposition, and Mr. Aaron S. Pennington the latter.\\nThese were the first representatives from Pa.s.saic\\nCounty to the State Legislature. The constitution\\nthen required that the member of the Council should\\nbe a freeholder, worth at letist one thoiisand pounds\\nproclamation money, and that the member of .\\\\s-\\nsembly should be worth at least five hundred\\npounds of the same currency, both having a resi-\\ndence in the county for one year preceding election.\\nCHAPTER L.\\nnENCU AND BAR OF I A.SSAIO COUNTY.\\nTil K organization of a county and the location of\\na seat of justice bring in due time a bench and bar.\\nThese are the necessary a|)pliances of jurisprudence,\\nand in the older counties they have been of very\\ngradual growth, from a rude and frontier state of so-\\nciety up to the most complete arningements for the\\nexecution of law and order of modern times. The\\ncounty of Passaic, being taken almost full grown from\\nBergen in 1837, had at the beginning a number of\\nable lawyers and judges who resided within its limits\\nand sat upon the bench or practiced in other counties.\\n.Vmoiig these were several whose biographical sketches\\nappear in this chapter, Hon. Elias B.D. Ogden, judge\\nofthcSupremeCuurl; Hon. Philemon Dickerson, Gov-\\nernor of the State and member of Congress; Hon. John\\nHopper, now judge of the District (^uirt of Paterson\\nHon. Aarim S. Pennington, one of the earliest mem-\\nbers of the Legislature for the county, and for many\\nyears prosecutor of the pleas; Hon. Absalom li.\\nWoodrufl and others. A list of the prosecutors and\\njudges of the Common Pleas of the county from 1837\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0552.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0553.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0554.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAR OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\n353\\nto 1881 will be found in the chapter preceding this,\\nand also an early history of the courts. We give\\nbelow a list of the members of the bar of this county\\nfrom the first to the present time, 1882, together\\nwith the dates of their admission, both as attorneys\\nand counselors. For convenience of reference the I\\nlist is placed in alphabetical rather than in chrono-\\nlogical order f\\nMembers of the Passaic Bar.\\nAdmitted Attorney. Admitted Counselor.\\n1 Ballesay, J. J June Term, 187. j\\nBeam. JoliiiR November 1875. Nov. Term, 1878.\\nBerry, Daviil J 1879.\\n1 Board, David J 1844.\\nCahill. John F February 1878. Feb. Te?m, 1881.\\nsCiiilfield, AilKUstus 18. \u00c2\u00bb2.\\nCantield, Silas D November 18:12.\\nCodditigtou, Henry K February 1875. Nov. Term, 1878.\\n*Comstock. All ert 1873. Feb. 1876.\\nCreitnier. .loseph G November 187;i.\\nDayton, Edmund E 187.^}.\\n2 Diikei-son, Pbitemon 18l:i. Nov. Term, 1817.\\nDiclierson, I*liiIemou, Jr February 18.^3.\\nI Ditkerson, Edward N July 1846. July Term, 1849.\\nDonald, James D February 18H0.\\nDniry, AiiKustusH June 187(1. Nov. Term, 1874.\\nDrury, Henry S November 1872. Feb. 1876.\\nDurliuK. Robert S June 1872.\\n1 Ely, George B April 1848.\\nEvans, James 1851. June Term, 1854.\\nFonda, William A February 1874. Feb. 1877.\\nForce, Munsi n 1878.\\n2 Ki-oleigh, I eler D .\\\\pril 1848.\\nFredericks, J. V. E June 1875.\\nGould. JnbnM November 1839.\\n^Gledliill. William October 1841;. Oct. Term, 1849.\\nGourley, Wi liam B June 1880.\\nGaston, William F 1877. June Term, 1880.\\nGriggs. John W^ November 1.H71. Nov. 1874.\\nHarold, Louis V June 1.879.\\nHilton, George S November 1869. Feb. Term, 1872.\\nHobart, Garret June 1866. June 1871.\\n1 Hopkins, .\\\\bram C November 187t).\\nHopper, John September 1836. Feb. Term, 1839. I\\nHopper, Robert I June 1869. June 1872.\\n2 Hoxsey, Thomas D November 1851. Nov. 18.54. i\\n2 Keefe, Michael L 1868. 1871.\\n2 Leazer, Edmund October 1848.\\nMacCarthy, John J February 1879.\\nMoore, Thi nias M 1875. Nov. Term, 1878.\\n2 0gden, Klia.s B. D May 1824. May 1829.\\nlOgden, Frederick B Inly 1,850. Feb. 1854.\\n2 Pennington, Aaron S February 1821. 1824.\\nPaulison, John C November 1869. Nov. 1872.\\nPennington. William June 1863. 1870.\\nPrall, William M November 1,877. Feb. 1881.\\nPulver, Frank February 1878.\\nReynolds. John H June 1879.\\n2 Ridgeway, Charles D November 1841.\\nRogers, Charles R April 1851.\\nBogers, James H February 1872. Feb. Term, 1875.\\nRyersou, Louis J November 1.877.\\nI Runyon. Charles H February 1876. Feb. Term, 1879.\\nRyle. Peter November 1876.\\nSamuels, Henry E June 1.S79.\\nS iiolfonJ, Andrew J November 1858.\\nSauford, Charles E June 1869.\\n1 Savage. George W February 1876. Feb. Term, 1879.\\nScott, Frank 1878\\nSimonton. Thomas C, Jr 1877. June Term, 1880\\nSmith, William M 1878.\\nSt. Lawrence, William J 1877.\\nStevenson. Eugene 1874. June Term, 1877.\\nStevens. Richard F November 1879.\\nStewart, .lames F June 1875.\\nStevenson. PreMon 1878. June Term, 1881.\\nStevenson. Edward I November 1879.\\nStoutenburgh, J. E 1,874. Nov. Term, 1877.\\n2Speer, James 1830. 1833.\\nTutlle,S..crates April 1848. April 1851.\\nTuttle, Charles M November 1879.\\nVan Cleve. Frank June 1879.\\nVan Hovenhurgh, Alfred A. ..November 1878.\\nVan Wagoner, Isaac October 1848.\\nVan Buren, Charles C February 1858.\\n1 Van Wagoner, Garret S September 1844.\\n2 Vandervoort, Benjamin W... May 1822. May Terra, 1828.\\nWard.Zebnlon M February 1867. Feb. 1871. I\\nWeiss, Edward R November 1877.\\nWilcox. Albert .V June 1877.\\nWilliams, Henry A.. April 1849. June Term, 1852.\\nWilliams, William H November 1878.\\nWoodruff, Absalom B September 1844. Oct. Term, 1847.\\nYon ngblood, James C June 1864. June 1867.\\nRemoved. 2 r\u00c2\u00bbei\\nElias B, D. Ogden, a son of Col. Aaron Ogden,\\nwas born at Elizabethtown in 1800. He graduated at\\nPrinceton College in 181i\u00c2\u00bb, was licensed as an at-\\ntorney in 1824, as a counselor in 1829, and was made\\na sergeant-at-law in 1837, being the last lawyer to\\nreceive that honorary title in the State of New Jer-\\nsey. Soon after bis admission as an attorney he re-\\nmoved to Paterson, where he continued to practice,\\nbeing prosecutor of the pleas of Passaic County for\\ntwo terms, and in 1844 member from that county to\\nthe Constitutional Convention, in which he took an\\nactive part.\\nIn 1848 he was appointed by Governor Haines one\\nof the justices of the Supreme Court, in the place of\\nJudge Whitehead, whose term had expired. He was\\nreappointed by Governor Price in 1855, and again by\\nGovernor Olden in 1862, having meantime, in 1858,\\nreturned to his native town and to the old homestead\\nof his father.\\nJudge Ogden was a man of strong intellect and of\\nmuch natural sagacity, his attainments and abilities\\ncommanding high respect both at the bar and on the\\nbench. In the political contest of 1828, Mr. Ogden\\ntook sides with Gen. Jackson, and soon became a\\nDemocrat, who.se principles he maintained throughout\\nhis life, being a moderate Union man during the civil\\nwar. In the early part of 18(55 he was attacked by\\npneumonia, which terminated his life. He was a\\nmember of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an ac-\\ntive, influential member of the conventions of that\\ndenomination, and a trustee of the college at Bur-\\nlington.\\nPhilemon Dickekson was a native of Morris\\nCounty, N. J., having been born at or near Succasunna,\\nin that county, in the latter part of the last century.\\nIn 1813 he was licensed as an attorney, in 1817 as a\\ncounselor, and in 1834 as a sergeant-at-law, a degree\\nsince dropped in New Jersey. After residing a few\\nyears in Philadelphia he removed, about 1816, to\\nPaterson. He was elected to the Assembly in 1821-\\n22. In 1832 he was elected to Congress. In 1836 the\\nLegislature appointed him Governor, the Jackson\\nparty being then in the ascendency in that body. His\\nbrother, Mahlon Dickersoii, had been Governor in\\n1815-17. As Governor, Mr. Dickerson was also chan-\\ncellor, in which capacity his deci-ions gave general\\nsatisfaction. In 1838 he was again placed in nomina-\\ntion by the Democrats for Congress. The whole six\\ncongressmen from New Jersey were then elected on a\\ngeneral ticket, and the returns from several townships\\nwere rejected on account of irregularities by thecounty\\nclerks, which elected the Whig delegation, and Gov-\\nernor William Pennington gave them the certificate,\\nin accordance with the returns certified to him. This\\nled to a prolonged debate in Congress, and to great\\nbitterness in New Jersey, but the six Democrats, who\\nundoubtedly had the majority of the popular vote,\\nwere finally admitted to Congress. The contest is\\npopularly known in New Jersey history as the Broad", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0555.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "354\\nHISTORY OF BERGE.N A.ND I AStiAlC CUU.NTlEiJ, .NEW JEKiJEV.\\nSeal war. In 1841, on the expiration of his term in\\nCongress, he was appointed hy President Van Biiren\\nto the office of judge of the United States District\\nCourt for New Jersey, whidi position he lield until\\nhis death at Paterson on Dec. 10, 1862. He was one\\nof the most highly-esteemed citizens of the town, and\\nwhen the city was organized in 1851 he was elected\\nthe first president of the Council by a very decisive\\nvote over the Whig candidate. The office was dis-\\ntasteful to him, however, and ho declined a re-elec-\\ntion.\\nAaron S. Penxikgton was born in Newark, in\\nJanuary, 1800, being the son of William Sanford Pen-\\nnington, Governor of New .lersey in 1813-15. He\\nwas graduated at Princeton College in 1817, the\\nyoungest in his class, but one of the honor men,\\nand having been admitted to the bar in 1821, practiced\\nin Newark until about 1828-29, when he removed to\\nPaterson, where he passed the remainder of his life,\\nmarrying a daughter of John Colt at that place. Mr.\\nPennington was not fond of public life, and declined\\nmany nominations to public office, although, being a\\nWhig himself, living in a Whig county, and with\\nmany influential relatives and family connections, he\\ncould have had almost any office to which he might\\nhave aspired. In 1837 he was elected to the .Vssembly\\nas one of the first members from the newcounty of Pas-\\nsaic. He served in that body but one year, as in 1838\\nhe w;is appointed prosecutor of the pleas, the duties\\nof which he discharged with great effectiveness until\\n1848, after which date he held no office. In 184(:-47\\nhe was counsel to the board of chosen freeholders of\\nthe county. He was a man of fine bearing, tail, dig-\\nnified, well built, and had a courtly air, which we are\\naccustomed to associate with the idea of gentlemen of\\nthe old school. For many years he was Deputy\\nGovernor of the Society for Establishing Useful Manu-\\nfactures of Paterson, and was counsel to the same\\ncorporation. He had a large and lucrative jiractice.\\nFor a long time he occupied what is now the City\\nHall, his office being where the receiver of taxe now\\nis. He died suddenly, of apoplexy, Aug. 25, 18(10, at\\nPaterson.\\nJriKiE John Hhi Pf.u was born on the homestead\\nfarm of his father, in the present township of Lodi,\\nBergen Co., on March 2, 1814. His graMdl ather,\\nJacob Hopper, was a large land-owner and farmer in\\nthat part of New Jersey. His parents were John J.\\nand Maria (Terhune) Hopper, both beingjof pure\\nHolland lieseent. His father, who died in 1833, was\\na successful and enterprising farmer during his life-\\ntime. His farm, comprising about three hundred acres\\nof land, extending from Pollifly to Saddle River, is\\nnow occupied by his second son, Jacob.\\nThc.Hubject of this sketch is the sixth of the nine\\nchildren comprising the family, and was reared upon\\nthe paternal farm, lie received his early edu ation\\nat the olil WiuMliingtoii .Veademy, iti Ilackcnsaek,\\nmid 111 the Lafayette Academy of the same place.\\nHe was subsequently prepared for college under Rev.\\nJohn Croes, teacher of a chissical school in Paterson,\\nand under Thomas McGahagan, at the old academy\\nat Bergen Town, now Hudson City. In the year 1830\\nhe entered the sophomore class of Rutgers College,\\nNew Brunswick, N. J., from which institution he was\\ngraduated in 1833, dividing the second honor of his\\nela.ss with Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany, afterwards\\nminister to Japan. After his graduation he at once\\nentered upon the study of the law in the office of\\nGovernor Peter D. Vroom, at Somerville, N. J., with\\nwhom ho remained for two years. The third ami\\nlast year of his jirofessional course was pa.ssed in the\\noffice of Elias 15. D. Ogden, in Paterson, and on Sept.\\n8, 183G, he was licensed by the Supreme Court at\\nTrenton to practice as an attorney-at-law and solici-\\ntor in chancery in all the courts of the State. He\\nreceived his counselor s license on Feb. 27, 1840.\\nImmediately after his admission to the bar, Judge\\nHopper was admitted as a law partner with his late\\npreceptor at Paterson, and the firm of Ogden it\\nHopper continued to do a successful business until\\nthe elevation of the senior member to the bench of\\nthe Supreme Court of the State in 1848. Judge\\nHopper continued in the practice of his profession\\nalone until 1860, when his son Robert I. Hopper, upon\\nbeing admitted as an attorney-at-law, entered into co-\\n|)artncrsliip with him, and the present firm of John\\nHopper Sou was organized, and has since enjoyed\\na large and extensive practice.\\nDuring the entire time that Judge Hopper has been\\nengaged in the practice of his profession he has been\\nrecognized as a lawyer of ability, not only well read\\nin the profession, but possessed of those mental facul-\\nties that conduce to the attainment of success. He\\nbrings to the discharge of his professional duties a\\ncertain urbanity of manner, combined with an in-\\nci.siveness of thought and a clearness of exposition,\\nthat almost uniformly leads to a decision favorable to\\nhis client. His style is expository rather than showy,\\nand he relies more upon the proper presentation of\\nfacLs than upon figures of rhetoric in- the treatment\\nof his causes. He has been connected with most of\\nthe important trials that have occurred in his section\\nof the State for many years, and he is recognized by\\nmembers of the bar as one of the foremost represen-\\ntatives of the legal profession in Northern New Jer-\\nsey. He has been called repeatedly to fill public\\npositions, where his professional abilities were in de-\\nmand, and has discharged his functions with uniform\\nfidelity and success. lie was town coun.sel of Pater-\\nson from 1813-47; surrogate of Passaic County for\\ntwo successive terms, 1845-55; counsel to the boaril\\nof chosen freeholders, 1855- 34; and prosecutor of\\nthe ]ileas of Passaic County from 1863-68, and from\\n1871-75, when he took his seat as State senator for\\nthe second time.\\nPersonally, .Judge Hopper is one of the most popu-\\nlar men of his section. I lis manners are characterized", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0556.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "y ^-^iyM-\\nt/L", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0559.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0560.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0561.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "^0-r i ^c t: y^J y.^iyC", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0562.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAR OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\n355\\nby an unvarying ease and grace, at once dignified and\\ncordial, wliicli impress his friends witli the true worth\\nof the man, wliile tliey win for liim their warm re-\\ngard. In jjolitics he has always been a consistent ad-\\nherent to true Democratic principles, and has long\\nbeen a potent factor in the counsels of his party. He\\nrepresented his county in the State Senate from 1868\\n-71, and from 1874-77, and secured recognition in\\nthat body as an able and useful coadjutor in the im-\\nportant work of legislation, serving as a member of\\nsome of the leading committees. He has always been\\nin close sympathy with the various movements tend-\\ning to develop and advance the interests of the locality\\nin which he resides, and as a member of the Paterson\\nBoard of Education did much towards establishing\\nand perfecting the public school system of the city.\\nHe is one of the older members of the New Jersey\\nHistorical Society, is a member of the board of trus-\\ntees of Rutgers College, N. J., and has been secre-\\ntary of the Paterson and Ramapo Railroad Company\\nsince its organization in 1844, and also treasurer of\\nthe company since 1S51. He was appointed judge of\\nthe District Court of Paterson in March, 1877, and\\nholds that position at the present time (1882). In\\n1878 he was appointed one of the advisory masters\\nof the Court of Chancery by Chancellor Theodore\\nRunyon, and is still discharging the duties of that\\nofhce, which is one nearly equivalent to that of vice-\\nchancellor, and involving the same line of judicial\\nfunctions.\\nJudge Hopper was married on June 16, 1840, to\\nMary A., daughter of the late Robert Imlay, a for-\\nmer merchant of Philadelphia. The marriage cere-\\nmony was performed in the same house (on Market\\nStreet, in the city of Paterson) in which he resides,\\nand in which all of his children have been born. Six\\nof the latter are living, viz.: John H., a member of\\nthe silk-firm of Hopper Scott, Pater.son Robert\\nImlay, a graduate of the class of 1869, Rutgers, and\\na partner of his father; Mary A., wife of Frank W.\\nPotter, late United States consul to Marseilles; James\\nBurling, residing in Texas; and Misses Caroline\\nImlay and Margaret Imlay Hopper.\\nMr. Hopper now owns and occupies the same office\\nin which he studied law with the late Judge Ogden\\nfrom 1832 to 1833.\\nSocrates Tuttle, a prominent member of the\\nPassaic County bar, and one of its oldest practition-\\ners, was born at Colebrook, Coos Co., N. H., on Nov.\\n19, 1819. The family origin in this country is traced\\nback to the year 1640, when two brothers, John and\\nWilliam Tuttle, emigrated from England, the former\\nsettling at Ipswich, Mass., and the latter at New\\nHaven, Conn. Lieut. Jonathan Tuttle, the grand-\\nfather of Socrates Tuttle, and a descendant of John\\nTuttle, was burn at Littleton, Mass.. Sept. 30, 1753.\\nHe was a brave officer during the Revolutionary war,\\nand participated in the battles of Trenton and Prince-\\nton. On Aug. 6, 1781, he married Catherine Gray,\\nborn in Salem, Mass., in September, 1762, and had a\\nlarge family of children. Of these, Jonathan Tuttle,\\nJr., born Nov. 10, 1782, was a teacher by profession,\\nand jiassed the greater part of his life in Massachu-\\nsetts Amos H. was born Oct. 21, 1784, and died\\nAug. 15, 1791 Catherine, born Aug. 9, 1786, married\\nEdward A. Reed, of Passumpsic Village, Vt. Asahel,\\nborn July 16, 1788, died in his youth Horatio Tuttle,\\nborn Dec. 22, 1790, was the father of the subject of\\nthis sketch Amos H. (2d) was born Aug. 10, 1792\\nEdward was born May 27, 1794; Socrates, born Nov.\\n2, 1796, was a physician by profession, and practiced\\nfor more than fifty years at Barnet, Vt. William G.,\\nborn Jan. 3, 1799, learned the trade of a blacksmith,\\nand followed it during his early manhood, residing\\nmost of his life in Michigan, where he died a few\\nyears ago Sarah was born March 6, 1806 John,\\nborn Feb. 8, 1807, engaged in farming near Ann\\nArbor, Mich., during his life.\\nHoratio Tuttle learned the trade of a blacksmith\\nat Bath, N. H., in early life, and afterwards worked\\nat that place for a short time. He subsequently re-\\nmoved to Coos County, in the same State, where he\\nworked steadily at his trade until his death on Dec.\\n31, 1842. His wife was Betsey Thomas, a native of\\nActon, Mass., who bore him a family of nine children,\\nall of whom attained to years of maturity. She died\\nOct. 1, 1842. Jonathan Tuttle, born April 6, 1814,\\ngrew up at Colebrook, N. H., learned the trade of a\\nblacksmith, and died in August, 1843. John Leighton,\\nborn Sept. 22, 1816, left his home in boyhood, learned\\nthe trade of a woolen-spinner, and afterwards removed\\nto Paterson, N. J., where he labored as a machinist\\nfor several years. He died in Philadel])hia in 1863.\\nCharles Martin, born Feb. 18, 1818, was educated at\\nBarnet, Vt., studied medicine with his uncle, Socra-\\ntes, and has practiced his profession at Littleton, N.H.,\\nsince 1839. Elizabeth, born May 9, 1822, married E.\\nA. Harwood, of Worcester, Mass., and resides there.\\nWilliam A., born May 8, 1824, learned the trade of a\\nmachinist, and resided at Paterson, N. J., until his\\ndeath in January, 1869. Horatio Gates and Catharine\\nGray Tuttle were born April 22, 1827. The first was\\nin the service of the government as a carpenter during\\nthe late war, and was last heard of at Chattanooga,\\nTenn., in 1865 the second passed her life as a teacher\\nin Bergen County and Paterson, N. J., married a Mr.\\nNelson, and died in April, 1877. Mary, born Aug.\\n23, 1830, married John Sargent, of Littleton, N. H.,\\nwhere she and her husband both died in the spring\\nof 1881.\\nSocrates Tuttle, the fourth of the children of Ho-\\nratio Tuttle, was early inured to a life of labor and\\ntoil. His parents were very poor, and his boyhood\\ndays were attended by many privations. His book\\neducation was received at the common schools of New\\nHampshire, which he attended three months of each\\nyear until he reached the age of twenty-one. The\\nremainder of the time was passed in his father s", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0563.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "356\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nblacksmith-shop, with the exception of a few short\\nintervals of time, during which he worked at other\\npursuits, such jis brick-niaicing, team-driving, and\\nfarming, in the employment of others. He became an\\nexpert blacksmith, and worked hard at tiiat trade until\\nhe was twenty-two years of age. Having then formed\\na distaste for the business, and feeling that he was\\nfitted for a higher, tliougli not more honorable, voca-\\ntion in life, he left home with a Yankee boy s usual\\ncapital, a jack-knife, a few dollars, and a brave and\\nhopeful heart, and located at Blue Ball, Monmouth\\nCo., N. J., where he taught a subscription pay-school\\nfrom December, 1841, until March, 1844. At that\\ntime he removed to Paterson, N. J., and entered upon\\nthe study of the law in the office of James Speer, of\\nthat city, with whom he remained until the latter s\\nappointment as one of the judges of the Court of Er-\\nrors and Appeals of New Jersey, about a year later.\\nMr. Tuttle then entered the office of Benjamin \\\\V.\\nVandervoort, of Paterson, where he remained until\\nhis admission to the bar as an attorney-at-law and\\nsolicitor in chancery, in April, 1848. He at once en-\\ntered upon the practice of his profession, and has con-\\ntinued in it to the present time. He was licensed as\\na counselor at law in 1851. i\\nWhen Mr. Tuttle first commenced the practice of\\nlaw in Paterson, the field was well occupied for that\\nearly day, and he had to contend with such men as\\nJudge Elias B. D. Ogden, Daniel Biirkalow, Aaron S.\\nPennington, Benjamin W. Vandervoort, Silas D.\\nCanfield, .lohn M. Gould, John Hopper, and Absa-\\nlom B. Woodrutr. The earnings of the first year were\\nonly four hundred dollars, but during that time he had\\nmanifested a peculiar talent for the law, had familiar-\\nized himself with the practice of the courts, and had\\ndrawn attention to himself as a hard-working, faith-\\nful, and promising member of the bar. His business\\ngrailually increa.sed from that time, until he found\\nhimself enjoying one of the largest and most lucrative\\npractices in the city. At first it consisted largely of\\na collection and commercial litigation business, but\\ngeneral litigation came in upon him so rapidly that\\nhe was obliged to hand over the greater part of the\\nformer to his son-in-law, Hon. (5. Hobart, and to\\ndevote himself to active practice in the court.^. He\\nhas been engaged in a large number of important civil\\ncases, and in the defense of criminals has achieved\\nmarked success. He brings to the management of\\nhis cause^* a degree of force which few can command,\\nami handles the facLs of a cime with peculiar .-ikill and\\ntael. He acted as the counsel of the Delaware, Lacka-\\nwanna ami Western Railroad Company in accpiiring\\ntitle to land for the Boonton Branch of that road, and\\nalso for the .Midland Railroad of New Jersey in the\\nsame direction. He was also coun.sel for the defend-\\nant in the celebrated chancery cause of Sigismund\\nDringer, at the suit of the New York, Lake Erie\\nand Western Railway Company, which has lieeome\\nfamiliar of late years, and from which he voluntarily\\nwithdrew in 1881 for good cause, and after having\\nsuccessfully sustained his case in the Court of Chan-\\ncery. He also defended, by the appointment of the\\ncourt, John Jonston, who was indicted for the mur-\\nder of John S. Van Winkle and wife on Jan. 9, 1800,\\nand who was the only person ever hung in Piissaic\\nCounty. The proofs against Jonston were over-\\nwhelming. Mr. Tuttle wsus also the counsel of Wil-\\nliam Dalzell, who wius indicted for murder committed\\nduring the (hirret Jlountain riot in 1880, but who\\nwas acquitted also of Koma Nyraen, charged with\\nthe murder of his father, in Aequackanonk t iwn-\\nship, during the same year, and who was also ac-\\nquitted. He had ius a partner from 1873 to 1880\\nHon. John W. Griggs, at resent city counsel of\\nPaterson.\\nMr. Tuttle hiis always taken an active interest in\\npolitics, being at first a member of the old Whig\\nparty, and afterwards an ardent Republican. He has\\nheld a number of important public offices, was clerk\\nof the city of Paterson in 1851 and 1852, member of\\nthe board of chosen freeholders from the .same city,\\nand in 1861 and 1862 represented the Second District\\nof Passaic County in the State Legislature. The\\nlabors of this Legislature were necessarily heavy at\\nthat trying period, and he filled an important lace in\\nits deliberations, ami was a mendicr of the judiciary\\nand other important committees. In 1871 and 1872\\nhe was mayor of the city of Paterson. He is a mem-\\nber and one of the trustees of the First Presbyterian\\nChurch of that city, a mendier of the board of man-\\nagers of the Old Ladies Home, and lends his support\\nto every good work. He is literally one of the self-\\nmade men of the city, and has raised himself from\\nthe anvil to his present prominent position by sheer\\nforce of character and brain. He ])osse.sses marked\\nindividuality of character, and is decidedly original\\nin his methods of thought and action.\\nHe married on May 2.S, IS48, Jane, daughter of\\nBaltus and Esther Winters, of Paterson, who died\\nJune 14, 1840, leaving an only daughter, Jane, wife\\nof Hon. G. A. Hobart, of Paterson. His second wife\\nwas Mary, eldest l:iuglitcr of William Dickey, Esq.,\\nof Paterson, wh im he married in Novend)er, 1852, and\\nwho died Aug 25, 1869. The children w re Charles\\nM., a practicing lawyer of the city of Paterson Wil-\\nliam D., a clerk in the office of the New York, Sus-\\ni|uehanna and Western Railway Company at New\\nYork Minnie, whodicil in infancy Elizabeth Mur\\nray, who died at the age of three years; Ijilian, who\\ndied at seven and Augustus Hobart, born .Vug. 25,\\n1869. Mr. Tnttle s [jriwent wife is Elizabeth A., widow\\nof Dr. F. S. Weller, a surgeon in the L nited States\\narmy, who was drowned off Cape Hatteras in Feb-\\nruan, 1862, and who was a leading physician in Pat-\\nerson for a number of years.\\n.VlisAl.oM B. WoonHl l K, son of William Paterson\\nand Leah V. Woodrufl wjis born in New Vernon,\\nMorris Co., N. J., July 9, 1819. His grandfather.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0564.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0565.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "ant\\nDriiipcr, u.\\nand Western Ku.\\nfamiliar of late yoursi,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0566.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0567.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0568.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "THE BENCH AND BAR OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\n367\\nDr. Hezekiah Stites Woodruff a physician of Mend-\\nham, N. J., died at Succasunna Plains, married Mary\\nBlatchley, a sister of Dr. Henry and Al)salom Blatch-\\nley, of Pennington, N. J., who bore liim four sons.\\nDr. Ebenezer B. Woodruff, of Drakesville, died there.\\nDr. William P. Woodruff father of our subject, prac-\\nticed at New Vernon, Paterson, Milford (Hunterdon\\nCo.), in Virginia, and died at Mount Pleasant, in Ohio.\\nDr. Absalom Woodruff^, of Succasunna Plains, died\\nat Morristown. Dr. Hezekiah Stites Woodruff prac-\\nticed at Succasunna Plains for many years, and died\\nat Newark, N. J., and one daughter, Anna M., who\\nmarried Rev. ,Iohn Van Lien, of Readington, N. ,T.,\\ndied at Bloomfield, N. J. On his father s side A. B.\\nWoodruff traces his descent from an English ancestry,\\nand on the maternal side from Holland ancestors.\\nHe began life for himself at the age of sixteen, and\\nfor some three years was a clerk in a general store\\nrespectively at Milford, Millstone, and New Bruns-\\nwick. Returning home to Milford, he studied medi-\\ncine with his father and at German Valley for some\\ntwo years, which was followed by two years service\\nas a school-teacher, one in German Valley, the other\\nin the chapel on Schooley s Mountain, w here he\\nboarded with Rev. HoUoway W. Hunt. Resolving\\nto turn his attention to the profession of the law, just\\nbefore reaching his majority he entered the law-office\\nof John S. Hagar, of Morristown, formerly a United\\nStates senator from California, but now a judge in San\\nFrancisco. He subsequently was a law student of\\nWilliam J. Hunt, of Chester, and for two years of\\nPeter D. Vroom, of Trenton, and was admitted to the\\nbar as attorney in September, 1844, and in October,\\n1847, as counselor.\\nPrior to Mr. WoodruflJ s settlement as a lawyer he\\nwas appointed a master and examiner in chancery\\nby Chancellor Haines, and for one term (1844-^5)\\nserved as engrossing clerk of tlie New Jersey Assem-\\nbly, reporting its proceedings for the Noinirk Daily\\nAdvertiser.\\nIn the spring of 1845, upon the recommendation of\\nWilliam L. Dayton, he came to Paterson and began\\nthe practice of law. Previous to 1856 he was ap-\\npointed adjutant of the First Regiment Passaic\\nBrigade, and was elected colonel, which office he\\nsubsequently resigned. He was appointed prosecutor\\nof the pleas by Governor Newell, and served for five\\nyears, 1858 to 1863, declining a reappointment. He\\nwas, however, appointed again l)y Governor Parker\\nin 1873, and served five years, and when his term ex-\\npired, there being no prosecutor, the court appointed\\nhim for the term. The most important cases tried by\\nhim during his incumbency of the office of prosecutor\\nwere the case of Charles Sanford and Joshua M.\\nBeach, indicted for conspiracy in attempting to start\\na bogus bank, botli being convicted, in which case\\nMr. Woodruff was opposed by learned counsel, Za-\\nbriskie, Williamson, and others a case during his\\nsecond term of office, of the State against James S.\\nPreston and Ebenezer K. Rose, the former being sent\\nto State s prison, the latter fined the case against\\nJames Hand, William Eakins, and Thomas Bromley,\\nassessors of taxes, in which all were sent to State s\\nprison for attempting to defraud the public. He also\\ndefended Van Winkle Bogert, connected with Libbie\\nGarrahant in the alleged poisoning of Burroughs,\\nclearing him the latter, although defended by able\\ncounsel, was sent to State s prison for life. In his\\nofficial capacity as public prosecutor, Mr. Woodruff\\nmerited and gained the reputation of an able and\\nimpartial advocate, a fearless promoter of justice,\\ncareful in the j)reparation of a cause and strong in its\\npresentation. He is a lawyer of brilliant abilities\\nand high standing, a good orator, an acute reasoner,\\nand a most untiring worker.\\nIn only one case was he assisted by the attorney-\\ngeneral during his long term of office.\\nIn 1878 he was again aj)pointed by Governor Mc-\\nClellan to the same office, and served until appointed\\nby Governor George C. Ludlow, in March, 1881, as\\npresident judge of the Court of Common Pleas,\\nwhich place he now fills.\\nJudge Woodruff has always taken an active part\\nin political matters, and in the spring of 1856 he\\nbought out the old Putermn Iiitdligrnccr, converted\\nit into an independent Democratic journal, and edited\\nit in support of Fremont and Dayton during the Presi-\\ndential campaign of that year.\\nPolitically he has been an independent Democrat\\nof the Jeff ersonian school, a part of the time voting\\nwith the Republicans until Grant s second term. In\\n1872 he was the Democratic nominee for Congress in\\nthe Fifth District, and, although running ahead of the\\nPresidential ticket in every ward and township of his\\ncounty, was defeated by William Walter Phelps. This\\nelection took place just upon his return from Europe,\\nwhere he had spent some time and visited the leading\\nplaces on the continent. .Judge Woodruff has been\\ninterested in and a promoter of the interests of Pater-\\nson during his residence there. He started the Belle-\\nvue Nursery Company in 1870 in that city, for raising\\nplants and flowers, and the first time the plants of this\\nnursery were exhibited, about 1877, in Gilmore s Gar-\\nden in New York, the geraniums took the first six\\nprizes. This association was incorporated in 1871,\\nbut is now owned mostly by himself and son. He\\nwas formerly a director of the Passaic County Savings-\\nBank, the directors of which advanced the money to\\npay the depositors in full. Judge Woodruff married,\\nApril 26, 1849, Isabella, daughter of Gen. George\\nD Wolf, of Bristol, R. I., and latterly of Cuba. She\\ndied in September, 1856. Their children are How-\\nard D Wolf, a graduate of New York University with\\nthe highest honors of his class; Theodora D. W.,\\nwife of Thomas W. White, son of Judge White,\\nformerly of New York Superior Court and Bonton^\\nwho died while in his sophomore year at tlie New\\nYork University, noted for his fine oratory.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0569.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "358\\nHISTORY OF BER(;KN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nHenry A. Williams wa-s licensed as an attoriiey-\\nat-law of New Jersey in 1849, being then a young man\\nof twenty-four years, a re,sident of Paterson, where he\\nhas since remained. In 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865\\nhe was elected mayor of the city of Paterson, both\\nparties uniting to do him that honor in 1862 and 1863.\\nHe was again elected in 1867. During the war he\\nrendered the city invaluable service by liis prudent\\nand careful advice, freely given, and his indefatigable\\naid in raising the city s quota to fill the ranks of the\\nNew Jersey regiments. In January, 1868, he was\\nappointed prosecutor of the pleas of Passaic County,\\nholding the office for three years, when he accepted\\nan election to the State Senate, to which he had been\\nchosen by the Republican party in the preceiling\\nNovember by the largest majority given to any can-\\ndidate up to that time. In the Senate he was an\\nearnest, influential worker, and gave much time and\\nlabor to perfecting the law in reference to the taxa-\\ntion of railroads in cities, iis well as to other ])ublic\\nlegislation, lie was very successful as prosecutor,\\nalthough from his well-known conscientiousness he\\nnever urged a conviction where he doubted the guilt\\nof the defendant. In 1874 he was appointed by the\\nboard of aldermen of the city of Paterson to be city\\ncounsel, and was reappointe l in 1875, 1876, 1877, and\\n1878. He has been counsel of the First National\\nBank since December, 1869; counsel of the Cedar\\nLawn Cemetery Company for fifteen years counsel\\nof the Paterson Savings Institution for ten years, and\\nof other corporations and institutions, by all of whom,\\nas well as by the community generally, he is deemed\\nan extremely .safe adviser.\\nGarret Hodart was born at Long Branch,\\nN. J., June 3, 1844, and having graduated at Rutgers\\nCollege in 1863, entered the law-office of Socrates\\nTutlle at Paterson. In 1866 he was admitted to the\\nbar, and in 1869 was licensed its a counselor-at-law.\\nIn May, 1871, he wiis appointed i-ity connsei of Pat-\\nerson, holding the otlice one year, when he was ap-\\npointed counsel to the board of chosen freeholders of\\nthe county, declining a re-election the next year,\\nbecause of his election to the Assembly in the fall\\nof 1872, fearing the two positions might conflict.\\nBeing re-elected to the .\\\\ssembly in 1873, he was,\\nwithout any effort on his part, chosen Speaker of that\\nbody, which difficult office he fllleil in the most satis-\\nfactory manner. He declined a re-election in 1875,\\nbut in 1876 was elected to the State Senate. In 1879\\nhe was rc-elccterl by 1S99 majority, the largest ever\\ngiven to any candidate in the county. In 1881, and\\nagain in 1882, he was chosen president of the Senate.\\nDuring his term in the Senate he has introduced\\nprobably more bills than any other member, most\\nof them being of an important public nature. In\\n1874 he was appointed recreiver of the New Jersey\\nMidland Railroad, managing his trust no successfully\\nthat he paid a dividend to the unsecured creilitors.\\nUpon the reorganization of llii company lie was\\nunanimously elected president, but resigned in a few\\nmonths on account of the pressure of njore important\\nengagements. He was also receiver for some time\\nof the Montclair Railway and of the Jersey City\\nand Albany Railroad. In the summer of 1880 he\\nwas appointed receiver of the broken First National\\nBank of Newark, and in six months had its affairs\\nsubstantially closed up and the depositors paid off in\\nfull. In 1880 he wits elected chairman of the Re-\\npublican State Committee, a position he still holds.\\nHe is counsel for many manufacturing and other cor-\\nporations, and is director and counsel for half a dozen\\nor more ini|iortant railroads in New Jersey, New York,\\nand Pennsylvania.\\nThomas D. IIoxsky. For many years there was\\nno more striking figure in Pas,saic County politics\\nthan that of Thomas D. Hoxsey. He was born at\\nWilliamstown, Ma.ss., Oct. 28, 1815, where he received\\na common-school education, which he undertook to\\nimpart, when a youth of but sixteen or seventeen, to\\nthe youngsters of Michigan, where he remained for a\\nyear or two. Returning East he settled in Paterson,\\nbeing engaged as a clerk in a dry-goods store for some\\nyears. Then he embarked in the manufacture of cot-\\nton for a time, making some money. His thoughts\\ntaking another direction, he studied law with Daniel\\nBarkalow, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. In\\n1841 and 1842 he w;is elected one of the school com-\\nmitteemen of Paterson. In 1849 he was elected to\\nthe A.sscmbly, and re-elected in 1850. He was elected\\nto the State Senate in 1852, on a platform i)ledging\\nhim to free banks and anti-monopoly generally. In\\nthe spring of 1S6I he was appointed county clerk to\\nfill a vacancy, and in the ensuing fall was elected to\\nthat office for the term of five years. In 1867 he wius\\nai ointed United States register in bankruptcy for\\nthe Fourth District of New .lersey, retaining the office\\nfor several years. He was also city counsel of Pater-\\nson in 1872. In 1877 he acce|)teil the (irccnback\\nnomination for Governor, making a most energetic\\ncanvass in a cause which he felt to be hopeless from\\nthe first. In 1880 he again made a like canvass, un-\\ndergoing hardships which broke down his iron consti-\\ntution, and, it was believed, brought about his death\\non May 30, 1881. For many years he had been iilen-\\ntified with the militia system of the county, in the\\ndays before the war, and was commissioned brigadier-\\ngeneral of the Passaic brigade. He was a man of\\nwonderful energy and vigor, strong in his likes and\\ndislikes, was always opposed to slavery, loathed to-\\nbacco and intoxicating liijuor in every form, was\\nkindly to those in need, and was noted for his warm\\nhospitality and his exceeding courtesy in his Castle\\nat ilalcilon, where he ended his ilays.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0570.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "THE MEDICAL TKOFESSION.\\n359\\nCHAPTER LI.\\nTHE MEDICAL PROFESSION.\\nEarly Physicians. Tlie physicians locuted at\\nNewarlj, Belleville, Bergen, Pompton, Paranius, and\\nHackensack were probably the earliest practitioners\\nin the section of country embraced in the present\\ncounty of Passaic. There were few, if any, resident\\nphysicians in any of the towns along the Passaic\\nRiver until after the Revolution. The first physician\\nin Paterson and vicinity of whom we have any knowl-\\nedge was Dr. Ebenezer Blachly, although the date of\\nhis settlement is not very definitely fixed. Dr. Wickes,\\nin his History of Medicine in New Jersey, says,\\nDr. Ebenezer Blachly .settled in Paterson after the\\nRevolution. It was probably a considerable time\\nafter, as late as 1791 or 92, if not later. This Dr.\\nEl)enezer Blachly was a son of Dr. Ebenezer Blachly,\\nSr., of Long Island, who, after his marriage to Mary\\nWick, settled near Mendham, Morris Co., where he\\ndied at the age of seventy, April 11, 1805. He was a\\nyoung man about thirty-one when the New Jersey\\nMedical Society was formed, in 1766, and for many\\nyears took an active part in that organization. Dr.\\nWickes relates the following anecdote respecting his\\ntact and enterprise in securing what may have been\\nthe first body used for dissection north of Newark,\\nor in the vicinity of Morristown. On a certain oc-\\ncasion, says Dr. Wickes, he obtained by exhuma-\\ntion the body of a criminal who was hung and interred\\nat Morristown, and conveyed it ou horseback to Mend-\\nham, about six miles off, for dissection. Upon meet-\\ning anj one in the darkness of his lonely ride, he\\nwould talk to the subject as to a drunken man,\\ntelling him to sit upright and behave himself like a\\nman, and thus reached home with it in safety. Dr.\\nHezekiah Stites Woodruff, who related this incident\\nand married his eldast daughter, was one of his stu-\\ndents, as were also Dr. William Leddell and Dr. John\\nC. Budd. The former practiced in Mendham and the\\nlatter in Chatham.\\nOf his seven sons, five studied medicine. The\\noldest was the subject of this sketch, Dr. Ebenezer\\nBlachly. He was born in 1760. He entered the\\nAmerican service under age, as surgeon s mate to a\\nNorth Carolina regiment, which was encamped this\\nside of the old Raritan bridge, in the winter of 1778,\\nacting also as a volunteer assistant surgeon to a regi-\\nment of the Pennsylvania line. He was at the battle\\nof White Plains, in October, 1776, in winter-quarters\\nat Valley Forge in 1777, and in the battle of Mon-\\nmouth in 1778. After the war he married Elizabeth,\\ndaughter of Col. Oliver Spencer, of Elizabethtown,\\nand subsequently settled in Paterson, where he en-\\njoys an extensive and successful practice. By this\\nmarriage he had nine children, two of whom studied\\nmedicine. The names of the children and dates of\\nbirth are as follows Nancy, born July 7, 1783 Eben-\\nezer Spencer, born Aug. 19,1784; Henry Wickham,\\nborn April 17, 1786; Mary Jerusha, born May 5,\\n1789; Juliana, born Aug. 11, 1791; Bayard Patter-\\nson, born May 8, 1793 Eliza, born April 19, 1795\\nJoseph Warren, born Aug. 7, 1797; Oliver B., born\\nSept. 3, 1799.\\nThe following obituary of Dr. Blachly is taken\\nfrom a local paper at the time of his death, Aug. 20,\\n1812:\\nDiediit FenniugtoTi on the SOtli inst. Doctor Ebenezer Blaclily, of\\nthe town of Paterson, in this State. For some weeks he Imd been aljroaci\\nfor the benefit of his lieiiltli, but growing worse lie was unalile to return\\nto liis family. He was buried in Pennington, with the most friendly and\\nbecoming attentioas of the inhabitants of the place. He was a man of\\nrare activity acid promiititnde of mind. His enterprise and perse-\\nverance were remarkable. He died in the meridian of his life and use-\\nfulness. His family have sustained a heavy loss. His neighbors will feel\\nthe want ef his friendship and medical assistance. His connections will\\nlong deplore of the sincerity, zeal, and ability with whicli he performed\\nthe relative duties of life; and the friends of the Revolution have lost\\none more of the early asserters and defenders of the rights and liberties\\nof our country.\\nFrom another obituary we quote the following\\nHe has closed the moruingofa sad and stormy life.replete with\\ncares and exertions of mind and body. On tlie day preceding the\\nmorning of his exit he dictated a solemn charge to his dear friends, and\\nat the closing scene bestowed, with great composure of mind, a benedic-\\ntion on each of his relatives present. He retained his senses to the last,\\nand wished for the moment to arrive when the divine will, to which he\\nwished patiently to submit, would launch his soul into eternity, there to\\nremain free from trouble.\\nEbenezer S. Blachly, son of the above, studied\\nwith his father in Paterson, attended medical lectures\\nin New York, and became a successful practitioner in\\nthat city, keeping himself well up in the discoveries\\nand literature of his profession. He settled on Green-\\nwich Street, near Spring, and acquired a large prac-\\ntice. He was diligently attentive to the sick of all\\nclasses, courteous in his manners, and very successful\\nas a practitioner. So says his brief biography.\\nHis brother, Henry Wickham Blachly, was a prac-\\nticing physician at Pennington, N. J., and had four\\nsons who became physicians, viz. Ebenezer S., the\\neldest, who received his medical degree at Jefferson\\nCollege, and practiced in Wayne.sburg, Pa.; Stephen\\nL., a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, and who\\npracticed in Sparta, Washington Co., Pa.; Joseph W.,\\na graduate of Cleveland Medical College, who prac-\\nticed in Hunterdon County, N. J., where he died\\nApril 6, 1864 Henry W., the last of the sons in the\\nprofession, and bearing the name of his honored\\nfather, graduated at Cleveland, and is now (1881) or\\nwas recently practicing in Van Wert County, Ohio.\\nThis family of Blachlys were descended from\\nThomas Blachly, of Hartford, 1640; New Haven,\\n1643 Brandford, 1645. He signed the agreement\\nwith those who migrated from Brandford to settle in\\nNewark, but never came with them. He was of Guil-\\nford in 1683, when he sold his land in Newark to\\nThomas Huntington.\\nWickes History of New Jersey Medicine, p. 157.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0571.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "360\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThe following is from Conger s Genealogies in\\nNewark\\nChildren of Ebenezer Biaciilv, of Huntington,\\nL. I.\\nElizabetli, born March 8, 1708; Ebenezer, born\\nOct. 9, 1709; Anna, born 1711; Joseph, born 1712;\\nBenjamin, born Aug. 6, 1718; Daniel, born Aug. 6,\\n1720.\\nChildren of Ebenezer Blachly (2d), of Milford\\ntownship, near Pompton\\nFrancis, born Nov. 19, 1731, married Woods,\\nLong Island.\\nZophar, b. Nov. 23, 1733, lived at Roadston.\\nEbenezer, b. Feb. 13, 1735-36, Mendham.\\nMiller, b. March 13, 1738, lived at Roadston.\\nSarah, b. Nov. 23, 1739, married Daniel Robbins,\\nDetroit.\\nCornelius, b. May 23, 1741, died young.\\nMary, b. Oct. 29, 1742, married Joshua Robbins,\\nDetroit.\\nMarcy, b. March 31, 1745, married Daniel Mc-\\nKiniia.\\nChildren of Ebenezer Blachlv and Marv Cooper\\nWick\\nMary, born March 9, 1759, married Dr. Hezokiah\\nStite.s Woodruff; Ebenezer, born Dec. fi, \\\\7nu, mar-\\nried Elizabeth Spencer; Henry Wickham, born April\\n12, 17(14; Absalom, born Fel). 7, nOo; William, born\\nOct. 3, 1707, died 1791 Daniel, born April 8, 17(!9;\\nNathan, born May 4, 1771, died early; Cornelius\\nCamden, born Jan. 1, 1773; Hannah, born July IG,\\n1774; Judith, born July 13, 177(!; Phebo, born Dei-.\\n18, 1777; Temperance, born July 20, 1780.\\nWii.t.iAM I*ATKit.- ON WooDuri K is referred to\\nHe was a successful practitioner, although his atten-\\ntion was largely given to his school. He removed\\nfrom Acipiackanonk to I aterson, where he also taught\\na school, and waa one of the charter members of the\\nDistrict Medical Society in 1844. He removed to\\nPompton, where he practiced till his death, which\\noccurred at (piite an advanced age.\\nDk. Wii. 1,1AM CoLKAX, long a successful practi-\\ntioner in Acquackanonk and Pompton, was the suc-\\nces.sor of Dr. Scudder in the former place. He was\\nborn in Pompton, and graduated at the College of\\nPhysicians and Surgeons in New York. Being a na-\\ntive of Pompton, where the family estates were located,\\nhe retired there after his period of most active prac-\\ntice, and there spent the remainder of his days.\\nGarkit Tkiuh xe, M.D.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The lamily of Terhune\\nare of French origin, and belong to the stock of Hu-\\nguenots who left their native country to avoid perse-\\ncution, first settling in Holland, and subseiiuently in\\nthis country, on Long Island. They were among the\\nearly settlers of Bergen County, N. J., and by inter-\\nmarriages are connected with the most influential fam-\\nilies in the State. His grandfather, Nicholas Terhune,\\nborn near Hackensack, married a Jliss Paulison, who\\nbore him several children. He was an ardent sup-\\nporter of the Reformed Dutch Church, of which he\\nwas a member, and a substantial citizen of olden\\ntime. He died in 1807, aged seventy-five years.\\nHis son Richard, born Oct. 21, 17(53, was a large\\nfarmer in the township of New Barbadoes, and held\\nvarious offices of trust there. He was also a member\\nof the Reformed Church at Hackensack, a man of\\nmore than average business ability, enterprising and\\nthrifty, and looked to In the vicinity as a nianof irood\\nby Dr. Weeks jus having practiced at New Vernon, judgment and sterling integrity. His wife, Hannah.\\nPaterson, and Milford at an early time. He was a was a daughter of Nicholas Voorhis, and grand-\\nson of Hezekiah f^tites Woodruff and Mary, daughter daughter of Lucas Voorhis, and bore him the follow-\\nof Dr. Ebenezer Blachly, and was born Miircli 23,\\n1785. After practicing for some time in the places\\nabove mentioned he removed to Ohio, where he\\ndied.\\nDk. Ben.iamin R. Scukdeh practiced medicine\\nfor many years at Actpiackanonk, where he was a\\nsuccessful and prominent physician till the close of\\nhis life. His remains lie In the burying-ground at\\nPiLssalc. He wius a son of Richard Scudder, of New\\nProvidence, N. .1., and married Sally Wade, of Con-\\nnecticut Farms. His children are mentioned by\\nLittell, as follows\\ning children Nicholas, Albert, Paul, (Jarrlt, subject\\nof tills sketch, anil Peter R.\\nRichard Terhune died .\\\\ug. 5, 1824. His wife died\\nin 1855, aged eighty-five years.\\nDr. Garrit Terhune, only surviving son in 1881, is\\nthe eldest practicing idiysician in Passaic County,\\nand was born near Hackensack, in New Barbadoes\\ntownship, Oct. 9, 1801. In early life lie received a\\ngood English and cla.ssical education; first studied\\nmedicine with Drs. Lambert Sytholf and David Mar-\\nvin, and subsequently with Prof. John W. Francis,\\nof the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New-\\nSusan married first Hugh Littell, second. Rev. York, where he attended one -oursc of lectures, when\\nPeter 1). Froeleigh, of Ac |uackanonk, father of Peter\\nD., lawyer; Rhixla married McRea Sally\\nmarried .Jacob Van Riper.\\nDit. LAMHEiir SY niDKK practiced in .\\\\c(|Uacka-\\nnonk, and taught a chuisical school there from 182(1\\ntr 182(). He was a graduate of Princeton, and took\\nhis meilical degree at the I niversity of Pennsylvania.\\n,nl,.vl\u00c2\u00ab\\nthe faculty seceiled from that college and be -ame\\nthe faculty of Rutgers Medical College, from which\\nlatter institution he was gradualeil in 1827.\\nFor two years following his graduation he pra\\nticed medicine in Hackensack, but in 1829 settled at\\nPassaic, where he hits since remained in the conllmi\\nous prai-li(-e of medicine and surgery. I r, Terhuru\\nis known In his |irofe.sslon :us a skillful and judicious\\nphysi(-lan, devoted to the welfare of his patients, and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0572.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0573.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0574.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0577.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0578.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0579.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "^^^^^^fC^\\nt)\\nThe Ganiett family are originally from Virginia, the\\ngrandfather of the subject of this biographical sketch\\nhaving emigrated from that State to Kentucky, and\\nlocated in Jessamine County. He was united in mar-\\nriage to Miss Eliza Moore, of the former State, to whom\\nwere born twelve children, among this number being\\nObadiah, whoso birth occurred Aug. 4, 1800, in Jessa-\\nmine County, Ky. Here he spent the years of his boy-\\nhood, and subsequently repaired to Lexington, Ky.,\\nwhere he was apprenticed to a tailor. He removed at\\nthe age of twenty to Danville, Ky., where he embarked\\nin busines.\\nMr. Onrnett was married to Miss Elizabeth Davis,\\nof Boyle County, Ky., and became the parent of chil-\\ndren, Margaret, Kobert, Mary J. (Mrs. ISishop), Ed-\\nwin, O. v., Marcus, and Bettie. Of this number but\\nthree survive. The .subject of this biography, O. Y.,\\nwas born in Danville, June 9, 1834, and passed the years\\nof his boyhood in Boyle County, Ky. He later repaired\\nto Danville for the purpose of pursuing his studies at\\nCentre College.\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\t the early age of seventeen he determined upon\\nihf profci.iion of medicine as ime iidiiptrd to his tastes,\\nand his later success has demonstrated the wisilom of this\\nchoice. He began his preparatory studies with Drs.\\nMoore and Spillman, of Harrodsburg, Mercer Co., Ky.,\\nand continued them at Jefferson College, Philadelphia,\\nwhere he graduated in 18.J-5.\\nDanville was the scene of his earliest professional\\nlabors, after which he removed to Missouri. At the\\nbeginning of the late civil conflict Dr. Garnett enlisted\\nin the Confederate service, and served as u surgeon\\nduring the whole period of the war. After a brief time\\nspent in Kentucky he repaired to the North, and cho e\\nPaterson as a location, where he accepted a position as\\na drug clerk.\\nHaving speedily become identitied with the inhubi\\nlants in a professional capacity, and by liis ability and\\nsurgical skill secured a considerable practice, he deter-\\nmined to become a permanent resident of the city. His\\nprai tiec has greatly increa.scd. until it now affords Dr.\\nGarnett but little respite from the unceasing toil of llie\\nphysician s life. The doctor is a member of the Passaic\\nCounty Medical Society, and is also surgeon of the Erie\\nKailroad Company. Though not an active politician,\\nhis convictions are in harmony with the platform of the\\nDemocratic party.\\nDr. Garnett was on the 21st of October, 1856 marrieil\\nto Mis, Mary S., daughter of Nimrod Harris, of Har-\\nrodsburg, Ky. Both ho and his wife are dcvote l to the\\ntenets of the Baptist faith, and members of the Staunton\\nStreet Baptist Church of Kew York City.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0580.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "The origin of the Van Kiper family in America and\\nthe derivation of the name have been so fully alluded\\nto elsewhere in the biographical department of this\\nvolume as to make a repetition of the facts unnecessary\\nhere. It is altogether probable that the branch from\\nwhich the subject of this sketch sprang had for its pro-\\ngenitor Juriiien Tomasson, of the city of Kipen, in\\nNorth Jutland, Denmark, who emigrated to the New\\nNetherlands in 1663. Yerry Van Riper, the grand-\\nfather of Cornelius S., was born in Saddle River town-\\nship, Bergen Co., where he resided during his lifetime,\\nand died of apoplexy at the age of fifty-four. He\\nmarried first Miss Ann Vreeland, to whom were born\\nthree sons, Simeon, Stephen, and Nicholas. By a\\nsecond marriage he had daughters, Ann and Jane.\\nStephen Van Riper was born Juh 20, 1793, in Saddle\\nRiver, where his life was passed in agricultural employ-\\nments. He was united to Sophia, daughter of Garret\\nand Halanah Van Wagoner, whose birth occurred Dec.\\n17, 1800. To this marriage were born children, Jerry,\\nBenjamin, Garret, Stephen S., Cornelius S., Nicholas,\\nEllen Jane (Mrs. Nicholas Vreeland), Rachel Ann\\n(Mrs. John Banta), and Catherine Sophia (Mrs. Jacob\\nAckerman), but three of whom survive.\\nThe death of Mr. Van Riper occurred Feb. 11, 1870,\\nand that of his wife Dec. 16, 1868.\\nTheir son, Cornelius S., was born Nov. 22, 1837, on\\nthe homestead in Saddle River, where his early life was\\npassed at school in the immediate vicinity. He later\\nrepaired to Paterson and subsequently to Hackensnck,\\nwhere he prepared for a collegiate cnurse. He entered\\nRutgers College at the age of fifteen, and two years later\\nbegan the study of medicine under the auspices of Dr.\\nA. W. Rogers, of Paterson, having meanwhile engaged\\nin teaching at Clifton, N. J. Ue for a jieriod of three\\nyears attended medical lectures at the College of Physi-\\ncians and Surgeons, New York, from which he gradu-\\nated in 1859. He decided upon Paterson as a favorable\\nlocation, and at once became associated with his former\\nmentor, Dr. Rogers, in practice.\\nHe was, on the 1st of June, 1859, united in marriage\\nto Miss Sarah C. Hopper, of Bergen County, N. J., who\\nis the mother of three children, now living, Sophia,\\nIrving, and Laura. Dr. Van Ripcr s abilities, together\\nwith the profound knowledge of medicine he evinced,\\nenabled him speedily to acquire a considerable practice,\\nwhich close attention to the needs of patients greatly\\nincreased. The doctor is a member of the New Jersey\\nState Medical Society, and has been for three years\\npresident of the Passaic County Society. His political\\npredilections lead him to athliate with the Republican\\nparty, though in no sense a party man.\\nHis religious convictions are in consonance with the\\nworship of the Reformed (Dutch) Church.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0583.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0584.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0585.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0t^/^^4:-^.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0586.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.\\n361\\nsympathetic in cases of suffering and distress. His\\nquick perception of cause and effect in cases of com-\\nplicated disease enables him to diagnose and give\\njudicious counsel readily, and his administrations\\nhave always been given as freely to the needy and\\nworthy poor as to those in opulence.\\nDr. Terhune was one of the founders of the Passaic\\nCounty Medical Society was its first president, and\\nis the only surviving one of its charter members.\\nHe has been its president twice, and one of its cen-\\nsors for many years. He is a member of the State\\nMedical Society, and has frequently attended its\\nmeetings as a delegate from the County Medical So-\\nciety. Politically, Dr. Terhune is a Republican, and\\nhe is a supporter and member of the Reformed\\nChurch at Passaic. His wife, Elizabeth A., is a\\ndaughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Anderson) Za-\\nbriskie, who was born July 25, 1805, and whom he\\nmarried March 19, 1828. Their children are Dr.\\nRichard A., a prominent physician of Passaic City,\\nwho was born Jan. 1829, and graduated at the\\nCollege of Pliysicians and Surgeons in New York,\\n1850 Andrew Zabriskie, born Oct. 29, 1831 Nich-\\nolas P., born Nov. 24, 1835; Ann E., born Dec. 14,\\n1839, wife of R. Burnett Smith, of California Chris-\\ntiana, born Feb. 1, 1845, wife of James B. Randol,\\nof California. The Zabriskies of Bergen County were\\namong its earliest settlers, and of Polish origin.\\nCharles F. W. Myers, M.D. The Myers family\\nare of Prussian lineage, both the great-grandfather and\\ngrandfather of the subject of this biographical sketch\\nhaving been born in the suburbs of the city of Berlin.\\nThe latter was twice married, and had by the first\\nunion three sons, Arnold F. W., Charles, and George\\nH. A., while to the second marriage were born two\\ndaughters, Lizzie and Mary.\\nMr. Myers emigrated to America about the year\\n1825, and located in Maryland. After a brief resi-\\ndence there he removed to Delaware County, Ohio,\\nwhere his death occurred in tlie fifty-second year of\\nhis age. His son Arnold, whose birth took place\\nduring the year 1818, came with his parents when a\\nlad to America, aud after spending much of his early\\nlife in travel settled in Buffalo, N. Y. He won some\\ndistinction as a courageous soldier in the Mexican\\nwar, and served through the entire period of the\\nconflict. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary\\nWeeland, of Lockport, N. Y., to whom were born\\nfour children, Charles F. W., Minnie (Mrs. Morri-\\nson Batchelor), George H. A., and Anna (Mrs. Syl-\\nvester Shepherd).\\nMr. Myers survived his wife many years, and died\\nat Bluflton, Ind., in his sixtieth year.\\nCharles F. W. was born in Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. IG,\\n1849, and passed the early years of his life at Colum-\\nbus, Ohio. He afterwards removed to Delaware, Ohio,\\nwhere much time was given to study, and later to\\nteaching at Warren, Ind., to which place he removed\\nfor the purpose. During the year 1868 he repaired to\\nthe city of New York and embarked in business pur-\\nsuits. His ambition was not satisfied with the dull\\nand uninteresting routine of commercial life, and in\\n1870 he decided upon a professional career, and began\\nthe study of medicine with Dr. Austin Barnes. He\\nwas also at this time engaged in the drug business at\\nPaterson. He attended one course of lectures at the\\nLong Island Hospital Medical College, and at a later\\nperiod two additional courses at the College of Physi-\\ncians and Surgeons, New York, from which he grad-\\nuated in 1874, as the class secretary. He then deter-\\nmined upon Paterson as a congenial field of labor,\\nwhere he located, and at once engaged in professional\\nlabor. Though still a young man, Dr. Myers has\\nachieved a practice which is rarely attained save as\\nthe reward of labor and long experience. This fact\\nis not less the result of professional ability than of the\\nmany popular elements of character which he pos-\\nsesses. Soon after his removal to Paterson he was\\nelected coroner, which office he held for three years.\\nHe was in 1878 elected city physician, and still fills\\nthe position. The doctor was in 1877 married to\\nMiss Catherine F., daughter of Joseph Marshall, of\\nPaterson. The principles of the Republican party\\nare cordially supported by Dr. Myers, though the de-\\nmands of his profession leave little time for partici-\\npation in political campaigns. He is surgeon of the\\nFirst Battalion New Jersey State National Guards,\\nand an active Mason. Both Dr. and Mrs. Myers are\\nmembers of the Second Presbyterian Church of Pat-\\nerson, in the prosperity of which they are greatly in-\\nterested.\\nJ. S. BiBBY, M.D.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Bibby family are of Eng-\\nlish extraction, John Bibby, the father of the doctor,\\nhaving been born in Lancashire, England, and married\\nto Miss Margaret Anderson, who became the mother\\nof children, James S., Rachel, Hannah, John, Pe-\\nninnah, Alice, and Margaret Ann.\\nThe death of Mrs. Bibby occurred in 1870, her\\nhusband surviving her. Their eldest son, the doctor,\\nis a marked example of the success that attends per-\\nseverance and fortitude under the most inauspicious\\ncircumstances. His birth occurred Feb. 23, 1843, at\\nWigan, Lancashire, England, where much of his early\\nlife was spent. With none of the advantages which\\nattend youth under more favorable surroundings, he,\\nwhile still a lad, engaged in the labor of coal-mining.\\nDuring the time he was thus occupied his tastes were\\ndirected to the science of medicine, and his inclina-\\ntions encouraged by association with a druggist in his\\nnative town. He thus became familiar with the nature\\naud effects of medicines, and was thereby greatly\\naided in his future career. He determined to emigrate\\nto America, and in 1869 located at Colterville, Alle-\\ngheny Co., Pa., where he engaged in his former occu-\\npation of raining. He still continued his medical\\nstudies, and was much assisted by the generosity of\\nDr. Foot, of the village above named, who placed his\\nlibrary at his disposal and directed his studies. So", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0587.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "362\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\ngreat was his desire to become proficient in this branch\\nof science that books were his inseparable companions\\nduring liis leisure liours in the mines. He in 1872\\nentered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from\\nwhich he graduated in 1875. Paterson offered at this\\ntime a field for his energies, and became his perma-\\nnent abode. His practice has since that date steadily\\ngrown, and his success in critical cases of surgery has\\ndemonstrated his skill. He is a member of the Pas-\\nsaic County Medical Society, and greatly interested\\nin its prosperity.\\nDr. Bibby was on the Kith of March, 1881, married\\nto Miss Hattie Estelle, daughter of David R. and\\nEliza Sluittuck, who have four daughters, Isabella\\nEldridge (Mrs. atholina Lambert), Adelaide Eliza,\\nMary Ellen (Mrs. Robert Giimore), and Mrs. Bibby.\\nThe doctor is a Republican in his political views,\\nbut not an active worker in the political field. He\\nafiiliates with the denomination known as Christian\\nBrethren, of which churcli he is a member.\\nCoRNKLlus Van Ripkr, M.D. The name of Van\\nRiper, witli its multitudinousorthography (it issi)elled\\nVan Reiper, Van Reyper, Van Ryper, Van Ripen,\\nVan Reypen, and Van Reipen), is derived from the\\nLatin word Ripn, whence originated the name of a city\\non the tiorth bank of the river Xibbs, in Jutland, Den-\\nmark. Jutland was divided into four dioceses, the\\nmost southwesterly of whicli, lying along the (ierman\\nOcean, was called Ripen. This diocese wiis one hun-\\ndred and forty-two miles long and fifty-seven miles\\nwide, and w:m part of Cimliria Chersonesus of the\\nancients, where dwelt the warlike Cinibri, who at one\\ntime invaded the Roman empire. The city of Ripen\\nis situated in latitude 3t north, and longitude\\n10 east, and, next to Wibourg, is the most ancient\\ncity of Jutland. From this port in April, 1603, a vessel\\nnamed T Bonta Koe, The Spotted Cow, sailed\\nwith eighty-nine pa.sscngers, among whom was Juriaen\\nTom;issen, for tiie New Netherlands. This young man\\nwas a native of the city of Ri|ien, and four years\\nafter his arrival married Pryntje Hermans. His death\\nhaving occurred Sept. 12, 1695, some of his descend-\\nants assumed tiie name of Jnriance, now Yeriancc and\\nAuryanseii, while others took tlic name of the ances-\\ntral town and became Van Ripens, Van RIpcrs, etc.\\nTomas.sen received ofGucrt Coerten by his will, dated\\nFeb. 5, 1671, a parcel of land lying in and about the\\ntown of Bergen, which Coerten had purchased of Philip\\nCartaret, May 12, 1668. Here he lived and died.\\nJuriaen Tomasscn had children, Thomas, Gerrit,\\nAellje, Chystyntje, Marcilje, Harman, who died in\\ninfancy, Jan, Harman (2), and Grielje.\\n(.)f this number, Harman was born Dec. 6, 1686,\\nand married, first, Maritje Fredericks, in 1709, and\\nlater, .Fuditli Stcinmets, in 1721. He removed to Ac-\\niiuackanonk, ami was (he parent of thirteen children,\\nThi- f*ftii n ((\u00c2\u00bbi lliiK On rftrly Imt iry ..1 thp V.tii i(i|\u00c2\u00bb*r Ininlly nr*\\nnwlcily lAkcii fnim Wliifl llUlorjr f lliiilauii (k)uiilj\\nthe third son of whom was Abraham, born Jan. 25,\\n1716, and who married Elizabeth Bradbury. They\\nwere the parents of three children, John Philip,\\nand Mollie. Of this number, John A. was born Feb.\\n12, 1753, and married Leah, daughter of Abram and\\nAnne Winne, in 1776. He was a soldier in the war\\nof the Revolution, and resided at North Belleville,\\nEssex Co., N. J. Their children were eight in num-\\nber, one of whom was .Vbrahain, whose birth oc-\\ncurred Sept. 15, 1782, and who married Maria Spear,\\ndaughter of John and Margaret Spear, in 1804. He\\nrepresented his district in the Assembly during 1848\\nand 1849, and for many years served as freeholder\\nand justice of the peace. His death occurred in\\nMarch, 1866. His fwc children were John A., .\\\\bram\\nWinne, Sarah, Eliza, and Margaret. Of this number,\\nAbram Winne, father of the subject of this sketch,\\nwas born June 3, 1815, and on the 27th of November,\\n1836, married Clarissa, daughter of John and Jane\\nKip. The Kip family i formerly spelled Kypel arc of\\nHolland extraction, Hendrick, the i)rogenitor, having\\nleft Amsterdam in 1635. He had three sons, Hen-\\ndrick, Jacobus, and Isaac, who held municipal offices\\nunder Governor Stuyvesant, the second of whom re-\\nceived an e.\\\\tensive grant of land, now embraced in\\nthe city of New York. One of these sons is the pro-\\ngenitor of John Kip, above named, who was a man\\nof much business enterprise, and largely engaged\\nwith his sous in the grocery and lumber trade. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Abram W. Van Rii)er had three children.\\nJane, who died in infancy, Cornelius, and Abram\\nHarvey, both the sons being practicing physicians.\\nCornelius Van Riper was born Se| t. 6, 1840, at North\\nBelleville, N. J., where were spent the years of his\\nboyhood. He later devoted himself to a thorough\\ncourse of study at Bloomfield, N. J., which enabled\\nhim to enter the University of New York, from which\\nhe graduateil in 18(i3 with the degree of A.B., and\\nis also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.\\nHaving decided upon a professional career, he cho.se\\nthat of medicine, and soon after entered the office of\\nDr. Arthur Ward, of Belleville. He in 18ti3 became\\na student of the College of Physicians and Surgeons\\nof New York, and received his di|ilon)a I roin that in-\\nstitution as a practicing physician and surgeon in\\nl.Hiid. He then established himself in practice at\\nPassaic, where he has since resided.\\nDr. Van Riper s thorough acquirements, together\\nwith natural gifts of a high order, speedily won for\\nhim an honorable jdace among the practitioners of\\nthe countv, and brought to him both a responsible\\nand lucrative practice. He is an active member of\\nthe Pas,saic County Medical Society, and his election\\nto the offices of vice-president and secretary of the\\nsociety indicate the esteem in which he is held by bis\\nprofessional co-laborers.\\nThe doctor was in 1S66 united in marriage t Miss\\nAilrinnna, daughter of Hon. John N. and Sophia\\nTerhune, of Dundee Lake, N. J., and granddaughter", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0588.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "2^i?", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0589.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0590.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "THE MEDICAL PKOFESSION.\\n363\\nof Nicholas and Adrianna Terhune. They have had\\nfour children, Carrie and Aimee, deceased, and two\\nsons, Arthur Ward and John Terhune. Dr. Van\\nRiper was one of the founders of the North Reformed\\nChurch of Passaic, of which he is a member, and was\\none of its first deacons. He has ever manifested a\\ndeep interest in educational projects, and has been\\nfor several years a member of the Board of Education\\nof the city of his residence. He is in his political\\npreferences a firm Republican, and has participated\\nto a limited extent in local politics, though not with\\na view to official preferment.\\nThe doctor has a controlling interest in the drug\\nfirm of Van Riper Co., though the arduous labors\\nof his i)rofession preclude active participation in the\\nmanagement of the busine.ss.\\nDistrict Medical Society.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The District Medical\\nSociety of Pa.ssaic County was organized Jan. 16,\\n1844, under the following commission, issued to its\\nfounders by the Medical Society of New Jersey\\nState of New Jersey.\\nBy the Medical Society of New .lersey to Elias J. Marsh, M.D., Do-\\nnation Binsse, M.D., Lemuel Burr, Garret Terhune, M.D .letur R. Rigga,\\nphysicians and surgeons, greeting\\nYour apiJlicHtion, requesting that a District Medical Society might be\\ninstituted, consisting of Elias .1. Blarsli, M.D., Donation Binsse, M.D.,\\nLetnuel Burr, Giirrct Terliune, M.D and Jetur R Riggs, in the County\\nof Passaic, was duly considered at a meeting of the Medical Society of New\\nJersey, held at Princeton, on the 14th day of November, Anno Domini\\n1843, and it was therefore Toted that your request be granted.\\nBe it thei efore known, That, pursuant to the act of the Legislature\\nof this State, the Medical Society of New Jersey doth appoint Elias J.\\nMarsh, BI.D., Donation Binsse, M.D., Lemuel Burr, Garret Terhune, M.D.,\\nJetur R. Riggs, pliysicians and surgeons, practitioners and residents\\nof the county of Paa-saic, to meet at the couuty town on the 16th day of\\nJanuary, at ten o clock in the forenoon, then and there to form them-\\nselves into a society to be called the District Mi-dicul Svciety for the county\\nof Passaic, in the State of New Jersey, for the purpose of electing otfi-\\ncers. making by-laws, rules, and regulations, having ami using a common\\nseal, and transacting such other business as they shall deem expedient.\\nIn testimony whereof, the president, pursuant to the aforesaid vote\\nof the society, has hereunto subscribed his name and affixed the seal of\\nthe corporation at Princeton, this 14th day of November, A.D. 1843.\\n[seal.] Abram Skileman, President.\\nAttest; William VtEnsny, Jvjt., Recording Secretary\\nMedical Societr/ New Jerse^y\\nThe District Medical Society formed under this\\ncommission, like all such societies throughout the\\nState, became, and ever since has remained, a branch\\nof the State Medical Society, and has been annually\\nrepresented by its delegates in that body. The con-\\nstitution provides that all physicians, graduates of\\nthe State Medical Society, or of any medical institu-\\ntion in afiiliation with the American Medical Associ-\\nation, residing within the county of Passaic, shall be\\nadmitted into this society, in full membership, on the\\npayment of the sum often dollars, and each mem-\\nber shall pay annually to the treasurer the sum of\\nfive dollars, to defray the expenses of this society.\\nBesides the usual officers the society has a reporter,\\nwhose duty it is to furnish to the chairman of the\\nstanding committee of the State Medical Society, on\\nor before the first day of May in each year, or at such\\ntime as the chairman may request, a report of the\\nstate of health, prevalence of epidemics, remarkable\\ncases, or any other facts having a relation to the sci-\\nence of medicine of which he may be cognizant that\\nhave occurred in this county during the preceding\\nyear. Upon the censors of the society devolve, per-\\nhaps, the most important work of all for it is their\\nduty to see that no unworthy or ill-qualified person\\nis recommended for the degreeof Doctor of Medicine.\\nHence this examining committee is generally com-\\nposed of not less than five of the best local members\\nof the profession. Among those who have served in\\nthis capacity in the present society are such names as\\nDrs. Marsh, Terhune, Condict, Rogers, Burr, Weller,\\nWhitely, Riggs, and Kent and among the later\\nmembers, R. A. Terhune, Van Blarcam, E. J. Marsh,\\nVan Geisen, Merrill, Quinn, J. A. Rogers, Blundell,\\nVan Riper, Amireaux, Mackintosh, Warner, and\\nothers.\\nThe constitution of the society, adopted in 1844,\\nhas been amended from time to time, and the original\\nby-laws and rules of order so modified as to adapt\\nthem to the exigencies of a growing and progressive\\nbody. The standard of the society has always been\\na high one, and while its members have aimed to con-\\nserve the best traditions of the profession, they have,\\nat the same time, been hospitable to the improve-\\nments introduced liy modern science and discovery.\\nA large number of the members of the society since\\nits organization have been graduates of the College of\\nPhysicians and Surgeons of New York, and others\\nhave received their degree in the best schools of New\\nYork and Pennsylvania. We give below a list of the\\nnames of members of the society since 1844, with the\\ndates of their admission\\n1844. Garret Terhune, Elias J. Marsh, Donation Binsse, Jetur R. Riggs,\\nLemuel Burr, William Magee, John Magee, Lambert Sythoflf,\\nAlexander W, Rogers.\\n1847.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 P. H. Zabriskie, Robert J. Wbitely, Henry A. Hopper, Adam J.\\nHoffman.\\n1848. Condict, Hatch.\\n1849. Edward Munk, William Henry Morton, Frederick S. Weller.\\n1850.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph E. Culver, Richard A. Terhune, John Quiui.\\n1851.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cliarles G. Adams.\\n1852. Michael Moss, Abraham Hopper.\\n1853.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ridley Kent.\\n1855.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. R. Merrill.\\n1856.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. A. Stewart.\\n1857. Henry Van Blarcom.\\n1859.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Oswald Warner.\\n1802.- Cornelius S. Van Riper.\\n1865.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Blundell.\\n1866.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Orson Barnes, G. W. Terriberry, Thomas B. Dawner, .Albert B.\\nRandall.\\n1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry C. Van Gieson, R. Leal.\\n1869.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. H. Balleray.\\n1870.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. J. Marsh.\\n1872. Wm. Busse, Jas. C. Amireaux, Thos. J. Kane, James Mackintusli,\\nSarah F, Mackintosh, Patrick Cahill, Bogert, \u00e2\u0080\u0094ft\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Herrick.\\n1875. Jacob Hengler, James II. Casey, J. S. Bibby.\\n1876, Spencer Van Dalsen, Calvin Terriberry.\\n1877.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Bonter.\\n1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John P. Paxton, Wm. S. Kurd, .lohn A. Rogers, E. S. McClellan.\\n1879.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Philander K. Harris, Joseph Bidwell Wright.\\n18S0.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William K. Newton, Henry Kip, J. W. Collins.\\nISSl.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Walter B. Johnson, Thomas F. O Grady, Rush Near, James M.\\nStewart.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0591.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "364\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThe first oflBcers of the society were Garret Terhune,\\npresident; Jetur R. Rifrprs, viee-pre sideiit William\\nMagee, trejjsurer; and Lemuel Burr, secretary. These\\nofficers held their places only till the first Monday in\\nApril ensuing, the time appointed for the annual meet-\\ning of the society. Since then the following |)rcsidents\\nand secretaries have been elected, and have served as\\nindicated by the dates affixed to their names\\nPresidents.\\nGarret Terhune, Jnii. 16 to April I, 1H44; DoDiilion UiiiKe, 1844-46\\nJetiir R. KiKK\u00c2\u00ab. 1S46-18; Eliiiii J. Murih, 1848-50; Linmel Burr,\\nIKMl; Ali-xiiuder W. B\u00c2\u00bb gere, ISol; Frt ileriik S. Wellcr, 18; )2-: 4;\\nJclur B. RiKgs, 1854-60 J. Quinu, 18.^6 Rul \u00c2\u00abrl J. Wliiu-ly, 18.^.7-61\\nRidley Kent, 18(11-02; Alexnniler W. Rogers, 1862-C5; Biilley Kent,\\nI866-C8; Garret Terhune, 18C8-70; John Quinn, 187(1; Cornelius S.\\nVan Riper, 1871-72; Oiwin Barnes, 187;t-76; Oswald Warner, 1875-\\nri; a. R. Herrill, 1877; Williani Blundell, Ig7g-8U; Ellas J. Uanih,\\n188U-\u00c2\u00ab1.\\nSErRFTARlF-S.\\nLemuel Burr, Jan. 16 t4i .\\\\pril I, 18-14; Lanil ert Sythoff, 1844; Lemuel\\nBurr, I84. V-50; William H. Morion, lKi J-52; Richard A. Terhune,\\n1852-54 Rolwrt .1. Whitely, 1854-57 Ridley Kent, 1867-.^9 Oswald\\nWarner, 1869-62; S. R. Merrill, 1862-05; C. S. Van Riper, 1866-68;\\nHenry C. Van Gieson, 1868-70; G. H. Balleroy, 1870-7.!; Cornelius\\nVan Rll er, 1S73-75; J. C. Amireaux, 1875-78; Williani Kent, 1878;\\nJohn A. Rogers, 1879-81.\\nThe present revised constitution an l by-laws of\\nthe society were adopted at tlu- annual meeting in\\n1880.\\nUpon the death of Dr. Wellcr the society passed\\nthe following preamble and resolutions:\\nWhereas, Frederic S. Weller, M.I who for nearly twelve yeais has\\nbeen an active nicnther of this society, Ims heen removed hy death from\\nall earthly scene of uselulness therefore,\\nso/reff. That while we how In hunihle snliniission to the Great An*\\nChor ol life in thin dUpensatlon, we record our sincere sorrow in the deep\\nloss we have sUNtiiineii of one who endeared himsidf tu its all as a friend,\\nanil who. n a iinifesxional brother, had rendered hinotelf eminent for his\\naliility and skill, and who In the practice of our|)rofes\u00c2\u00bbion ever displayed\\nthe honor and cuurtoty of the geutloman and the principles and gnicefl i\\nof the Ohrtitian.\\n/^\u00c2\u00abik feed. That wo attend the funeral In a body as members of this\\nsociety.\\nWeJoVrerf, That a c\u00c2\u00abipy of those resolutions bo sent to the family of\\nour ilet:ease l brother, and alE o that they be published in the daily and\\nweekly |m|terH of this city.\\nRidley IIcst, Preni/Unt.\\nHenry Van Blaucom, .*^c. pro lem.\\n.Iiiiiv Maijek, M.D., was a graduate ol the Medi-\\nciil riiivcrsity of the State of New York.\\nW II, I.I AM Morton was a student of medicine under\\nDr. Ellas J. Marsh in 1H44.\\nIn the same year Roiikkt .1. Wiiitki.y was a stu-\\ndent with Dr. William Magee; began April 10, 184.3;\\ngraduated at College of Physicians and Surgeons,\\nN. Y., 1847.\\nWii.i.iAM C MAiiKK began study with his father,\\nDr. William Magee, in 1847.\\nB. R. Fitch began the study with Dr. I,. Iturr .Iiiiie\\n25, 1847.\\nDr. Wii.iiAM Maoee died 18o(\u00c2\u00bb; Dr. MAH.SII, 1851.\\nI KTKii II. Van WAtioNER begun study with Dr.\\nWm. II. Morton, April 7, IS iI.\\n(iKoiiiir, i.AltKsoN filed his intention of studying\\nmedicine uniler Dr. Ridley Kent, of I atcrson, Sept.\\n1, 18G4.\\nDr. Henry Van Blarcom died in June, 1869.\\nThe society, at a special meeting, adopted appropriate\\nresolutions.\\nDr. Or.sox Barxe-s die l on Friday, Aug. 23, 1875,\\nin the forty-sixth year of his age. The society, at a\\nspecial meeting, took suitable action by the adoption\\nof a series of appropriate resolutions.\\nDr. Robert J. Whitely died April 10, 1879. He had\\nbeen for twenty-nine years a practitioner of medicine\\nin Paterson and an active member of the Medical So-\\nciety. The society, in placing on record their appre-\\nciation of his personal character and professional\\nworth, say,\\nDr. Whitely was a man of good intellectual abilities, of liberal sdn.\\ncation, well read lioth in generHl and professional literature. He was\\nhonest and sincere in piir[H)M*, without pretence or dissimulation, can-fnl\\nof his word, and circumK[kect in his do| ortnient, kind in heart and cour-\\nteous in demeanor, with a high sense of professional Intnor and pmpri-\\nety. In the practice of his profession he manifested ci mprehenston and\\nkeen oWervation, uniting sound judgment and llumghtful caution with\\na fair measure of energy and decision, with faithfulness to the welfare\\nof his patients, prompt attention to their wants, and unfeigned sympathy\\nin their sulTerings. He has left no enemies and many friends, and\\nhis memory will long be retained by us as that of an liononible associate\\nand a skillful and trusted physician.\\nIn token of their respect and esteem the society at-\\ntended his funeral in a body.\\nDr. Le.mvel Bi RK pa.ssed from the scenes of his\\nlong and useful labors in the profession in June, 1878.\\nHe was one of the charter members of the society,\\nand had practiced medicine in Paterson for nearly\\nhalf a century. The committee of the society to\\nwhom was assigned the duty of reporting suitable\\nresolutions on the occasion of his death said, among\\nother things,\\nWe feel keenly that a vacancy is left in our midst, aud that th.nie\\nto whom he has so faithfully iniiiisteretl throughout a long and well-\\nspent life will still more deeply feel his loas and miss hb wise c4 unB\u00c2\u00abl\\nand friendly greeting. (hir city has lost one of ils best and most\\nhighly esteemed citizens, and society one of Its pillara of morality and\\nvirtue.\\nDr. Ridley Kent died in 1878. At a special\\nmeeting of the society, Drs. Rogers, Teal, and IJuinn\\nwere appointed to prepare an obituary notice for jiub-\\nlication in the Transactions of the New .Icrsey Medi-\\ncal Society. The following is copied from the obitu-\\nary prepared by these gentlemen\\nRidley Kent was a native of Trowbridge, Eng-\\nland, where he was born in 1810, being the son of a\\ndissenting clergyman. .\\\\t the age of fourteen he was\\napprciiticetl to a druggist of his native town, and hav-\\ning .served bis time he followed that calling for some\\nyears in England, and having come to America in\\n1837, he opened an apothecary-store in New York.\\nFour or five years later he removed to New Jersey,\\ni and was soon after given a diploma by the State Med-\\nical Society to practice medicine, and for nine years\\npracticed at New Providence. In 1S. 3 he was grail-\\ntiated from the College of Physicians ami Surgeons,\\nI New York, and a few months after removed to Pat-\\nI erson, which was thenceforth his home. There he", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0592.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.\\n365\\nopened a drug-store, which he conducted for nearly a\\nquarter of a century. He was an excellent, careful\\npharmacist, and a chemist of some ability. He had\\na large practice, although for the greater part of the\\ntime he preferred to receive patients at his office. He\\nwas a wide reader, and was especially fond of biblical\\nstudy and research. For several years before his\\ndeath he had the appearance of great age, and yet he\\nwas only sixty-eight when a stroke of apoplexy car-\\nried him oft on Sept. .30, 1878.\\nDr. Alexander W. Rogers is the senior physi-\\ncian in Paterson. His father was a clergyman in the\\ntown of Armagh, in the north of Ireland, where the\\nsubject of this sketch was born in December, 1814.\\nWhen he was but a year or two old his father came to\\nAmerica, settling in Burlington County, near Phila-\\ndelphia, and after some years removed to Scotch\\nPlains. The future physician received an academic\\neducation, and then went to New York, where he\\nstudied medicine with Dr. Archibald Maclay, and was\\ngraduated from the College of Physicians and Sur-\\ngeons in 1836. He opened an office in Paterson a year\\nor two later, then went away for one or two years,\\nafter which he took up his residence permanently in\\nPaterson. For many years he has been one of the lead-\\ning physicians of the city, and, in fact, of the State.\\nIn 1879 he was elected president of the New Jersey\\nMedical Society. For several years he has been a\\nmember of the board of examiners of teachers of Pat-\\nerson. He is studious and scholarly in his tastes, and\\nis a perspicuous writer.\\nElias J. Marsh was born Jan. 7, 1803, at Perth\\nAmboy, N. J., his family being one of the oldest in\\nthat section of the State. After finishing a prepara-\\ntory course he entered Columbia College, New York,\\nand was graduated from that institution in 1824.\\nThree or four years later he received his diploma as a\\nphysician from the College of Physicians and Sur-\\ngeons in that city, and sOon after opened an office at\\nPaterson, where he remained until his death, Oct. 29,\\n1850. He lived for many years in Van Houten Street,\\nat or near the corner of Cross. He took a deep in-\\nterest in the cause of popular education, and was\\nelected a member of the school committee of the town\\nin 1885-38. He was exceedingly charitable, and of\\nhim it might truly be said that he went about con-\\ntinually doing good, so that when he was buried\\nhundreds of poor people whom he had befriended\\nstood on the sidewalks weeping as his remains were\\nborne by. His death was felt to be a public loss, and\\nmany of the leading citizens thought it only fitting\\nthat the public should erect a monument to his mem-\\nory, which was done, bearing a suitable inscription\\ntestifying to the love and esteem in which he had been\\nheld by his friends and neighbors. Dr. Marsh left a\\nson of the same name as his own, who, nearly twenty\\nyears after his father s death, established himself in\\nPaterson, where he is now one of the leading physi-\\ncians of the city.\\n24\\nEegistebed Physicians Peacticino in the County of Passaic in 1881,\\nWITH THEIR Respective Places of Residence and Places and Dates\\nOF Graduation. 1\\nPaJerBon.\\nJames C. Amireaux, Long Island Medical College, 1872.\\nGeorge H. Balleray, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1869.\\nJohn H. Banta, BcUevue Medical College, 1879.\\nJones S. Bibby, Bellevne Medical College, 1875.\\nWilliam Blundell, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1861.\\nW^illiani Busse, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1872.\\n0. v. Garnet, Jefferson Medical College, 1855.\\nMichael Gillson, University of New York, 1881.\\nPhilander A. Harris, University of Michigan, 1872 College of Physi-\\ncians and Surgeons, New York, 1873.\\nJacob Henggler, New York Medical College, 1857.\\nWilliam S. Hurd, University of New. York, 1877.\\nWalter B. Johnson, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1878.\\nThomas T. Kane. Long Island Medical College, 1872.\\nHenry Kip, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1877.\\nWilliam Kent, Long Island Medical College, 1872.\\nTheodore Kopschina, Berlin, Prussia, 1877.\\nJames H. Mackintosh, Bellevue Medical College, 1872.\\nSarah F. Mackintosh, Women s Medical College, 1872.\\nElias J. Jlarsh, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1858.\\nS. Randolph Merrill, Jefferson Medical College, 1854.\\nMichael Moss, New York State Medical Society, 1852.\\nCharles F. W. Myers, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,\\n1874.\\nRush Near, Long Island Medical College, 1880.\\nWilliam K. Newton, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,\\n1877.\\nThomas F. O Grady, Bellevue Medical College, 1880.\\nJohn P. Paxton, Long Island Medical College, 1872.\\nJohn Quinn, Medical Society of New Jersey, 1850.\\nAIexai]der W. Rogers, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New Y ork,\\n183C.\\nJames M. Stewart, Jefferson Medical College. 1880.\\nCalvin Terriberry, Bellevue Medical College, 1872.\\nGeorge W. Terriberry, Bellevue Medical College, 1866.\\nSpencer Tan Dalsen, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New Ygrk,\\n1876.\\nTompkins Van Dyke, Bellevue Medical College, 1880.\\nHenry C. Van Gieson, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,\\n1866.\\nCornelius S. Van Riper, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,\\n18. iO.\\nOswald Warner, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1854.\\nJohn W, Was, University of Michigan. 1878.\\nWilliam H. Whitly, Georgetown University, 1866.\\nJoseph B. Wright, University of New Y ork, 1879.\\nJ. Edward Van Bylardt, Medical Society of New Jersey, 1845.\\nPassaic.\\nJames W. Collins, Bellevue Sledical Collfge, 1872.\\nJ. C. Herrick, Long Island Medical College, 1865.\\nFrank H. Rice, Vermont (Woodstock), 1854.\\nGarret Terhune, Medical Society of New Jersey, 1834.\\nRichard A. Terhune, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,\\n1850.\\nCornelius Van Riper, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,\\n1866.\\nBloomingdale.\\nHenry V. Day, University of New York, 1876.\\nLiUle Falls.\\nEdward A. Keeler, University of Maryland, 1880.\\nMark Van Winkle, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,\\n1848.\\nOakridge,\\nTheodore D. Coursen, Bellevue Medical College, 1880.\\nW. S. Coursen, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1848.\\nPompton.\\nGeorge F. Newcomb, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York,\\n1877.\\n1 From the report of the Committee on Registration of the District\\nMedical Society of Passaic County.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0593.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "368\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nWml ili{ford.\\nBobert G. Maini, Jeffenon Medical College, 1863.\\nHOMlIOI-ATllIC.\\nPatfraOH.\\nJohn H. Bradsworth, Xew York IloUKuoiiathic Medical College, 1881.\\nWilliam F. Decker, Sew York IToina-opathic Medical College, 1876.\\nA. B. Kelierer, Hahiienianii Medical College, I hiladelpliia, 1880. i\\nPorter T. KlDiie, New York HoiniLM)| athlc Medical College, 1872.\\nTheodore Y. KinDe, .UlwDy Medical College, 1862.\\nFrank D. Vreelaud, Sew York Ilomawpathlc Medical College, 1879.\\nCharlea A. Church, Sew York Medical College, 1871.\\nJohn M. Howe, Caj^tleton, Vermont, 1844.\\nNorton C. Ricardo, Sew York Romieopathic Medical College, I8fl9.\\nl.UtU FalU.\\nJacob M. R. Gedner, Sew York Honncopathic Medical College, 1869.\\nECLKCTIC.\\nPittenon\\nDaTis P. Borden, New York Eclectic Medical College, 1873.\\nL. H. Borden, New York Eclectic Medlial College, 1872.\\nHarriet Montague, New York Eclectic Medical College, 1876.\\nPompton.\\nCharlea H. Archer. Sew Y ork Eclectic Medical College, 1867.\\nSchool not knfnm.\\nSamuel J. Liggett, rniveraity of PennHylvania, 1878.\\nLouis Philipi)e Ossa, Wai^hinglon L niveraity, 1876. f\\nJohn C. G. Robertaon, lioyal College of Surgery, Edinburgh, Snrgeiy\\nand Midwifery, 183fi.\\nLift of TrantlaUonM R\u00c2\u00abgiMt^retl.\\nJohn R. Leal, Berkshire Medical College, 1849.\\nE. S. McClelInn, Oliio Eilectic Medical College, 1851.\\nM. A. MackinUish, Bellevne Medical College, 1879.\\nJohn Rogera, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Sew York, 1875.\\nFrancis A. Dacumer, having practiced medicine twenty years, is exempt\\nfrom the law of registration.\\nRuHAitn .V. TKKiirxF., M.D., son of Garret Ter-\\nhuin- and Eli/iibotli Ziibriskie, wns liorn in Hackcn-\\nsack,BergeuC( .,Jan. .1,1829; graduateii at tlie College\\nof Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1850;\\nconiuienccd ]iractire in Acqnnckanonk (now city of\\nPiijisaic) immediately afterwards, anil lias practiced\\nhere ever since; is a member of the State Medical\\nSociety, and was .secretary of the District Medical\\nSociety in 1 2 and 1854; married in ISlll, Emily L.\\nMorrell, daughter of Alverson Randol, of Newburgh,\\nN. Y.\\nWii.MAM Fri.i.KKTos Dkcker, M.D.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Richard\\nDecker, the grand father of the subject of this biograph-\\nical sketch, was born in the Clove, Wantage town-\\nship, Sus.sex Co., where many years of his early life\\nwere passed. Having determined to remove to Orange\\nCounty, he piirchaae l a farm near Goshen, the county-\\nseat, and made it his residence until his later removal\\nto Middletown, his pre-sent home, where he is the\\nmanager of the Orange County Milk A.s.Hociation.\\nHe was united in marriage to Mrs. .Tiilia Decker, of\\nSu-ssex County, and had children, John H., Bow,\\nand Henrietta, the latter of whom died in early child-\\nhoo l. Of this number, .John H., father of the doc-\\ntor, was born April 1881, and died Kept. 3, 1878.\\nThe ycar\u00c2\u00bb of his boyhood were spent in Sussex\\nCounty, N. J., his birthplace. At the age of fourteen\\nhe removed with his parents to Orange County, and\\nvaried his time between school and labor upon the\\nfarm. He was married in 1853 to Miss Elsie T.,\\ndaughter of .ludge Stephen W. Fullerton, of Wawa-\\nyanda township, in the above county. The birth of\\nMrs. Decker occurred Jan. 19, 1832. Judge Fuller-\\nton was a man of scholarly attainments, and filled a\\ndistinguished position during his lifetime. He not\\nonly wore the judicial ermine, but was a member of\\nthe State Legislature before the construction of rail-\\nroads, and was conveyed in his carriage to Albany to\\nattend its sessions. His three sons were attorneys,\\ntwo of whom Judge William Fullerton and Stephen\\nW. Fullerton have attained marked success at the\\nbar. To Mr. and Mrs. Decker were born eight chil-\\ndren, of whom Dr. William Fullerton is the eldest.\\nHis birth occurred April 30, 1855, his boyhood having\\nbeen passed at school, first at Goshen and later at\\nMiddletown, after which he completed his studies at\\nAmenia Seminary, Dutchess Co., N. Y. He entered\\nthe Homo opathic Medical College, New York, in\\n1873, meanwhile residing with Prof S. P. Burdick,\\nM.D., and graduated as valedictorian of his class in\\n1876. He at once entered the Ward s Island Honinn)-\\npathic Hospital, where a year was spent in attendance\\nupon its patients. The doctor was then invited to\\ntake charge of the Brooklyn Maternity, where he re-\\nmained until his removal, in .\\\\pril, 1877, to Paterson,\\nhaving succeeded to the practice of Dr. David Neer.\\nHere he is also extensively engaged in the dnig busi-\\nness. Dr. Decker has by his abilities and untiring\\ndevotion to business greatly increased both practice\\nand business, the demands upon his professional skill\\nbeing constant :vs well as lucrative.\\nHe was married in 1878 to Miss Sara, daughter of\\nJonathan Johnson, of Paterson, to whom was born\\none daughter, Elsie.\\nThe doctor is in his political faith a Republican,\\nbut less devoted to party success than to the cause of\\nright and good government. He is a IVesbyterian in\\nhis religious associations, both he and Mrs. Decker\\nbeing members of the Second Presbyterian Church of\\nPaterson.\\nDr. Cuarlf,.* a. CnrKCH, of Passaic, N. J., was\\nborn at Norwich, N. Y., on the first day of Decem-\\nber, 1839. From early childhood he showed a strong\\ninclination towards the medical prot ession. He was\\na frail and irritable child, but he could be entertained\\nand amused indefinitely by any one that would play\\npatient and let him iday doctor. He would leave any\\nother amusement for this, and of it seeme l never to\\ntire.\\nAs he grew to years of underslniiding the desire to\\nbe a thoroughly educated and qualified physician and\\nsurgeon became the ambition of his life, growing with\\nhis growth and strengthening with his years. But the\\nfinancial crisis of 1857 so cripplc l his father s re-\\nsources that at eighteen years of age he found it neues-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0594.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "-^.0^x4^,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0595.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0596.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "THE MEDICAL PKOFESSION.\\n367\\nsary to forego study and give bis energies and strength\\nto business interests at home.\\nWhen twenty-one years of age, his father having\\npartially retrieved his fortunes and re-established a\\nprosperous business, offered him a separate portion of\\nit, which had been built up and established mainly by\\nhis own efforts. Not being in condition financially\\nC^i\\nto pursue his studies, and this being the best that\\noffered, he accepted it, still hojiing, however, that in\\nthe near future the way would be opened for him to\\npursue his long-cherished plans for professional study,\\nand still occupying his leisure hours with such read-\\ning a.s would be most useful to him should he ever\\nsucceed.\\nWhen twenty-two years of age, being dissatisfied\\nwith his literary attainments, he entered the Norwich\\nAcademy as a student, at the same time continuing\\nthe management of his business affairs.\\nIt was during these school-days, a revival of religion\\nbeing in progress in the Methodist Episcopal Church,\\nunder the pastorate of the Rev. William Searls, that\\nhe was led to consider the claims of a religious life\\nand to yield himself to Christ. He united with the\\nchurch in which he was converted, and has ever since\\ntaken an active interest in the prosperity of Christ s\\nkingdom, having held almost continuously official re-\\nlation in the church of his choice. Here also he\\nformed the acquaintance of Miss Hattie Heady, a\\nteacher now pursuing advanced studies in preparation\\nfor further labors in that profession. Two years later\\nhe persuaded her to be satisfied with one scholar, and\\ngot himself elected to that position for life. This\\nbargain was officially approved by their pastor, Rev.\\nWilliam Searls, on the twenty-fifth day of May, 1864.\\nTo the influence of his wife, her self-denial and en-\\ncouragement, is due very much of his success. His\\nhome has always been not only a place of rest, but of\\ninspiration as well.\\nIn 1867, with a pleasant home, a prosperous busi-\\nness, and a promising outlook in a pecuniary point of\\nview, he found all his hopes in this direction blasted\\nby the complete failure of his health. An effort was\\nmade to continue the business with the assistance of\\nothers, but it was worse than a failure, and he was\\ncompelled to dispose of it.\\nRelieved of business cares health slowly returned,\\nand with it the restlessness of a naturally active but\\nunoccupied mind. While in this condition he acci-\\ndentally met the representative of an insurance com-\\npany looking for a local agent. The result was that\\nhe soon found himself a full-fledged insurance man.\\nHere his business tact and enterprise were soon mani-\\nfest, for within two years from this beginning, and in\\nspite of poor health, his business became one of the\\nlargest in that section of country, and sufficient to\\nafford him a modest support.\\nWith returning strength there came the old longing\\nfor professional life, and, as it seemed, a prospect of\\nthe possible fulfillment of long-cherished plans in that\\ndirection.\\nIn 1868 he formed a partnership in the insurance\\nbusiness to secure the necessary leisure, and entered\\nthe office of George W. Avery, M.D., of Norwich,\\nN. Y., as a student.\\nThe winter of 1869-70 he attended the Hahnemann\\nMedical College of Philadelphia, and the following\\nwinter the New York Honneopathic Medical College\\nof the City of New York, from which latter institu-\\ntion he received his diploma conferring the degree of\\nDoctor of Medicine in March, 1871. He was imme-\\ndiately appointed resident physician of the hospital\\nof the Five Points House of Industry, where he\\nserved nearly a year, leaving the most satisfactory\\nprofessional record ever made in that hospital, or\\nprobably any other, for out of nearly a thousand\\ncases of all manner of diseases which came under his\\ncare he was only obliged to report two deaths, both\\nfrom marasmus, and both in an incurable condition\\nwhen he took charge of the wards.\\nAfter leaving the hospital his father expressed a\\ndesire that he should return to his native place to\\npractice, which he did, establishing a successful and\\ngrowing business. But after the death of his father,\\nbelieving that Passaic was a more promising field, in\\nFebruary, 1876, he moved to that city, succeeding to\\nthe practice of Dr. .lohn Nottingham. From this\\nfavorable beginning his practice has steadily increased\\nyear by year.\\nDr. Church s success in medical and surgical prac-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0597.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "368\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ntice is principally due to three things first, he en-\\ntered upon the study of liis profession with a mind\\nmatured and disciplined by years of active business\\nlife; this enabled him to take higii rank as a student\\nat medical college and to sustain himself creditably\\nduring his first year in all the tests of scholarship\\nwhich were ajiplied to the students in the graduating\\nclass; second, he has a natural adajitation to and a\\nsincere love of his profession and third, lie devotes\\nhimself with untiring effort to the good of those\\ncommitted to his care.\\nThix)I)Ore Y. Kixne, M.D.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Kiunc family\\nare of English lineage, the earliest representatives in\\nAmerica having been two brothers, wlio suffered exile\\nas a consequence of their religious belief, and sailed\\nfor the hospitable shores of the New World in the\\nvessel that immediately followed the Mayflower.\\nIn a direct line of descent from one of these brothers\\nsprang Cyrus Kinne, the great-grandfather of Dr.\\nKinne, a brief r^-sunn of whose life is here embodied.\\nHaving determined to leave New England, Cyrus,\\nabove mentioned, settled in Central New Y ork. He\\nwas the father of ten children, each of the sons of\\nwhom was given a section of land, on which he located\\nand pursued the calling of an agriculturist.\\nAmong these sons Wiis Prentice, who re.--ided, as\\ndid his brothers, in Onondaga County, and who served\\nwith distinction in the war of 1812. He was married\\nto Miss Elizabeth Kinne, and had children, among\\nwhom was Elbridge, the father of Dr. Kinne, horn\\nMay 2G, ISliI, in Onondaga County, where he, during\\nhis lifetime, cultivated the lands he inherited. He\\nwas united in marriage to Miss Sophronia, daughter\\nof Rev. Seth Young, of the above county, to whom\\nwere born six children, the eldest being Theodore Y.,\\nwhose birth occurred Aug. 27, 1838, near Syracuse.\\nHis early life was pa.ssed in an uneventful manner,\\nfirst at the neighboring school at home, and later in\\nSyracuse. He was educated for the acaiieniy at West\\nPoint, which he entered in 1858. Having determined\\nthe following year upon a civil career, be chose the\\nprofession of medicine, and began his studies under\\nthe direction of Dr. A. 15. Sbipman, of Syracuse.\\nHe continued them at the Albany .Medical College,\\nfrom which be graduated in Deeemlicr, 18(52. He at\\nonce established himself in practice at Syracuse, Jiml\\nthere remained until 18l 4, when he entered the army\\niw assi. ttant surgecm of the One Hundred and Eighty-\\nfourth New York State Volunteers. From this field\\nof labor the doctor was transferre l to the United\\nSlates service. Dr. Kinne was in 18(!1 united in\\nmarriage to Mis-s Ella, daughter of (iartoii Notting-\\nham, of Syracuse. They have had children, Wil-\\nliam Y., Ella Louise, and Amelia May, of whom two\\nsurvive. Dr. Kinne removed in 1M()( to Paterson, and\\nestablished himself as a representative of the honneo.\\n]iatliic school of medicine. Here his thorough pro-\\nfessional knowledge, together with the wide experi-\\nence he enjoyed during his military career, enableil\\nhim at once to secure an extended practice. His\\nskill in diagnosis and success in critical cases of sur-\\ngery, especially of gyniecology, greatly enhanced his\\nreputation, and placed him at the head of the pro-\\nfession as a homa?opathist. As a consequence his\\nlabors are arduous, and leave but little leisure for\\nother employments. The doctor is a member of the\\nState Ilomo opathic Society, and also of the American\\nInstitute of Homa^opathy. He is a Republican in\\npolities, but in no sense a politician. Roth the doctor\\nand Mrs. Kinne are active members of the Market\\nStreet Methodist Episcopal Church, and contribute\\nlargely to its prosperity, the former having acted as\\ndelegate to the General Conference of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church, and held many offices of trust\\nwithin the gift of the denomination.\\nCHAPTER I. II.\\nTHE NEWSPAPEUS OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\nThe lack of old files and other data make it ex-\\ntremely dilBeult to present a strictly accurate history\\nof the newspapers of Paterson and vicinity, so far as\\nthe precise dates are concerned. The first paper pub-\\nlished within the limits of the present city, so far as\\nrecords and recollection go, was the Pulrrsnn lin-, a\\nsmall weekly, started in 181(), which was continued for\\nabout a year. This was followed by the Benjen JCj-\\npreas, which was first issued in 1818, and lasted a little\\nover a year. The few copies of this old paper that\\nare extant are rare and valuable as old relies rather\\nthan for any ])articularly interesting reading matter\\nthat they contain. The Cuuricr was established in\\n1820. It was, for those days, a bright weekly journal,\\nand was continued with more or less success until\\n1824. The Chronicle was its contemporary, having\\nbeen started in 1821, and its demise appears to have\\noccurred about the same time as that of the mirier.\\nThe first paper established in Paterson with any\\ndegree of succe-ss and financial prosperity wius the\\nPittrrfn Intelligencer, which was first i.ssued in 182.\\nand continued till 1856. Warren Day were the\\npublishers, and it was printed in the second story of a\\nbuilding that stood on the site of the present tobacco-\\nfactory of Allen Dunning, in Van Houlen Street.\\nIt was a respectable, high-toned, reliable family jour-\\nmkl, with decided Whig propensities, but withal inde-\\npendent. The few existing files of this paper are the\\nmost valuable authority of the pivst history of Pater-\\nson, starting as it did when the place was only a small\\nvillage, and lasting until it was (piite a prosperous\\ncity. It remained essentially in the same hantis for\\nalmost the entire period of its existence, Thomas\\nWarren continuing sole proprietor after Mr. Day s\\nanlribiitod kj J. K. Crowill.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0598.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0601.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "HIS", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0602.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0603.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "*l", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0604.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "THE NEWSPAPEKS OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\n369\\ndeath, and keeping it until he finally died himself,\\nliterally in the harness, from a paralytic stroke.\\nMr. Warren was a taciturn Scotchman, of very retired\\nhabits, and with a great dislike for public assemblages,\\nwhich he studiously avoided. He seldom bothered\\nhimself with writing editorials, but usually led off\\nwith the news of the week. He was upright and\\nstern in character, and seldom changed his miud after\\nonce coming to a decision. He was a heavy loser by\\nthe great bank failure, which made him somewhat\\nmorose afterwards, and for the last year of his life he\\nseldom left his office.\\nIn 18.56 the IntelHiiencer was merged into the Mirror,\\nwhich was the first dail) newspaper of Paterson, and\\nwas started in 1855 by McClellan Halstead. Dr.\\nMcClellan is still (1882) living and practicing medi-\\ncine in Paterson. He was a lively, brisk, and gos-\\nsipy writer, but the time had riot yet arrived when\\nthe place could support a daily paper, and it was dis-\\ncontinued iu 1856, and the material sold to a Mr.\\nPhelps, who had also bought the IideUUjencer stock,\\nand removed it to the Woodruff building, in Main\\nStreet. Soon after that the office fell into the hands\\nof Col. A. B. Woodruff, who started the Independent\\nDemocrat, a sort of campaign paper, to represent the\\nDemocracy, the regular Democratic paper at that time\\nshowing an inclination towards Fremont, to whose\\nadvocacy it subseijuently turned, out and out. The\\nIndependent Democrat was a spicy, sarcastic, and ably-\\nconducted paper during the short time that it lasted,\\nunder Col. Woodruff s charge. He sold it to James\\nL. Gilion, who ran it till he sank twenty-three thou-\\nsand dollars, all he had in the world but the trouble\\nwas that he was an aristocratic gentleman, entirely\\ntoo high-toned to manage a paper in a plebeian town\\nlike Paterson. He sold the paper to his brother,\\nJohn H. Gihon, who was the very opposite of his\\npredecessor, being a regular rough and ready, but\\nwithal good-hearted and sociable. He was one of the\\nbest after-dinner orators that Paterson ever boasted,\\nand being possessed of much eloquence, he was popular\\nas a lecturer. He was fearless and outspoken, and so\\nlacked judgment in his attacks that he got into fre-\\nquent altercations, and his face was marred with scars\\nhe had received in personal encounters. He was\\nmore successful as an editor than his brother, but\\nfinally discontinued the Democrat to accept the posi-\\ntion of secretary to Gen. Geary, in Kansas. Subse-\\nquently he published the book entitled Geary in\\nKansas, which proved very popular and acquired a\\nlarge sale. When Gen. Geary was elected Governor\\nof Pennsylvania, Mr. Gihon was selected his secretary,\\nand remained in that State till his death.\\nThe Iron Horse was a monthly J^aper, principally\\ndevoted to locomotives and machinery, and published\\nby William Wright. He had it printed in New York\\nand delivered it himself in Paterson. After being run\\nabout a year, Mr. Wright discontinued it iu .luly, 1856,\\nand started the Jiepub/ican, iu partnership with a Mr.\\nReynolds. It was a campaign sheet, advocating Fre-\\nmont s election. On Nov. 12, 18.56, Mr. Reynolds went\\nto New York with several hundred dollars to buy print-\\ning material, but did not return for several days, when\\nhe came back without a cent, representing that he\\nhad been out of his mind. That was more than the\\nRepublican could stand, and the Guardian having\\ncome out for Fremont, Mr. Wright s proposition to\\nconsolidate the Republican with the Guardian was\\naccepted by the proprietor of the latter. Mr. Wright\\nfrom thence and for many years continued a leading\\nspirit in the editorial fraternity of Paterson. He was\\na tall, well-built Irishman, with a remarkable predi-\\nlection to pedestrian tours. On one occasion he\\nwalked to the Delaware Water Gap and back, sim-\\nply to see the country. As a boy he worked in\\nRennie s chemical-works at Lodi, in Bergen County.\\nHe afterwards taught a district school uear Little\\nFalls; but one Saturday afternoon, while on the way\\nto Paterson, he was assaulted by a highway robber\\nand desperately wounded. However, he succeeded\\nin overpowering his assailant, and broughthim to\\nthe Paterson jail. He wrote the descriptTon of the\\nfirst locomotive built in Paterson, which created such\\na furore that it resulted in his starting the Iron Horse,\\nbefore referred to. He was a very restless character,\\nand startled people by his suddenness. One day in\\n1859, without a word of warning even to his partners,\\nhe wrote his valedictory on the Guardian, saying that\\nhe was tired of editorial life, and desired to devote\\nhimself to finances, and write articles for the New\\nYork papers only when he felt like it. An amicable\\nsettlement was made with his partners and he left,\\nbut he subsequently returned to take editorial charge\\nof the Paterson Press, in which connection he is\\nfurther referred to in the sketch of that paper.\\nSeveral references have been made to the Guardian,\\nand the connection of Mr. Wright with it leads di-\\nrectly to a notice of that paper. In a certain sense\\nthe Guardian is the offspring of many fathers, for it\\nis the river, so to speak, of which nearly all the papers\\nheretofore mentioned were the tributaries. There was\\nan almost direct descent from paper to paper, of the\\nmaterial of the first publication in Paterson, the\\nBee, in 1816, down to the Guardian. The Bergen\\nExpress absorbed what was left of the Bee, and thence\\nthe remnants of the office descended to the Courier\\nand the Chronicle, the Intelligencer, the Republican,\\nthe Mirror, and other occasional publications in suc-\\ncession, till at last it reached the Guardian office,\\nwhich was a sort of newspaper anaconda, swallowing\\neverything that came along. Thus can the Guardian\\nbe called the lineal descendant of the first Paterson\\npaper.\\nThe Passaic Guardian, as it was first issued under\\nthat name, was started in 1836 by Andrew Mead.\\nMr. Mead was in his way a character. He was small,\\nvery lame, and a great sufferer from physical troubles,\\nand these maladies had in a measure affected his mind.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0605.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "370\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n80 that he was quick-tempered and morose. His mind\\nwas* also badly aflected by the death of a beloved\\nnephew who wii-s killed in the war. He was a genius\\nin his way, and carved out whole fonts of type with\\nhis penknife, together with large poster-cuts and small\\nengravings, and if his office needed anything he gen-\\nerally went to work to make it himself. In tliis way,\\nstarting with nothing, he aciiuired (]uite a fortune.\\nHe served several years as clerk to the board of free-\\nholders, and finally died of a cancer that started from\\na little pimple on the back of his head. He published\\nthe Guardiiin for ten years, and sold it to Lewis R.\\nStelle, previously an attach6 of the New Brunsvick\\nTHtne\u00c2\u00bb. Mr. Stelle took charge in 1846. He was a\\nsedate, highly-respectable citizen, but rather a heavy\\nand uninteresting writer, and it was only his conser-\\nvative, economical habits that enabled him to continue\\nthe paper on a financial ba.sis that paid its expenses.\\nDesiring to embark in the manufacturing business,\\nMr. Stelle in 18.54 sold the Giinrdian to Orrin Van-\\nderhoven, a wide-awake, restless, and energetic char-\\nacter, who from that time to the present has been a\\nprominent spirit in Passaic County journalism. He\\nin.stilled into the newspaper business a degree of en-\\nthusiasm and energy previously unknown. He found\\nthe old oftice a curiosity-shop of the incongruous\\naccumulations of years, a veritable graveyard of half\\na dozen defunct predecessors. He brought to Pater-\\nson the first Hoe cylinder press, a piece of machinery\\nthat has a history of its own. It was one of the first\\npresides made by that celebrated inventor, and was\\nused originally to print the labels and wrappers for\\nTownsend s Sarsa](arilla, the father of patent\\nmedicines. Joseph T. Crowell, a New York printer,\\nand afterwards senator from Union County, N. J., j\\nreceived a government contract to ])rint all the post-\\noffice blanks for the country, and he had to buy all\\nthe printing-presses that were available. The Sar-\\nsaparilla i)re.ss was for sale and he bought it. He\\nfound it buried under dirt and rubbish in a Hrooklyn\\ncellar, took it out, cleaned it up, and it ran as good\\nas new. It went down four stories in two great fires\\nin New York City, and finally fell info the hands of\\nMr. Vanderhoven, who brought it to Patcrson. It is\\nto this day running in the (iiinnliiiii office, apparently\\nas good as ever. Mr. Vanderhoven conducted the\\nGuardian alone in a lively and wide-awake manner j\\nuntil .May T), 18.56, when Hugh Crowell Irish moved\\nhis printing-office to Paterson from .Vuburn, N. Y.,\\nanil went into jiartnership with Van (as he was by\\nthis time and ever afterwards called), thus cloubling\\nthe facilities of the establishment. The Guardimi\\nwas then issued as a tri-weekly. Mr. Irish occu|)ied\\none of the first residences on Auburn Street, then\\nway out in the country, and he named the thor-\\noughfare after his |irevions home. The Tri- Wnkhj\\nGunrdi in hoisted the ISuelianan ticket at llie head of\\nthe paper before his nomination, and advocated his\\nelection till Oct. 24, 1856, when, in consei|Ucnce of the\\ncandidate s coming out in favor of the extension of\\nslavery to free territory, the paper, which was of the\\nDouglius stripe of Democracy, turned over to Fremont,\\nas being nearer the representative of the principles\\nthat it advocated. After that campaign the paper\\nreturned to the regular Democratic sui)port, and has\\nremained steadfast to that cause ever since, through\\nthick and thin.\\nThe TVi- Weekti) Guardinn ])roved such a success\\nthat it was decided to issue it daily, and absorbing\\nthe Independent Democrat, and taking William Wright\\ninto the partnership, as before stated, it first appeared\\nas a daily paper on Nov. 17, 1856, the publishers being\\nVanderhoven, Irish iS: Wright. It contained four six-\\ncolumn pages, and wius decidedly the most res|)ectable-\\nlooking production in the newspaper line that had up\\nto that time made its appearance in Paterson. The\\neditorial and composing-rooms were on the corner of\\nMain and Van Houten Stnets, in the second story of\\nthe Continental Hall building,^ an l the pre.ss-rooni\\nand Job-ofiicc were on the second fioor of the present\\nGuardian building, on the corner of Broadway and\\nMain Street. There was a grocery on the first AaoT,\\nand the third story was known as Washington Hall,\\nand wa.s the lodge-room for the meetings of all the\\nMasonic bodies of Paterson. In this buililing was\\nplaced the first steam-engine ever used in a Paterson\\nprinting-office. The jmper wasrun on the old Sarsa-\\nparilla press. The Guardian prospered, but Mr.\\nWright suddenly and precipitately retired from the\\nfirm in 1859, as already mentioned, and the firm again\\nbecame Vanderhoven it Irish. Mr. Irish, although\\nnot a literary man. was a gentleman of sterling char-\\nacter and great business ability. He was ujiright and\\nhonest, and a model of probity, and he deserves much\\ncredit for establishing the paper on a sound financial\\nbasis, Mr. Vanderhoven s forte being more in the lit-\\nerary and political line. In 18(!2, however, Mr. Irish\\nbecame tired of the drudgery of the printing business\\nand retired from the firm, and started a grocery-store\\nin lower Main (then Parke) Street. Just then the\\ncountry was in great distress, for the Kcbellion had\\nassumed its mo.st formidable and threatening dimen-\\nsions. The Confederates were marching towards\\nWashington, and President Lincoln s call for volun-\\nteers was an appeal that Mr. Irish s patriotism could\\nnot withstand, and he sold out his stock of groceries\\nby auction and turned his grocerv .store into a re-\\ncruiting-office. Many of the well-known Paterson\\nprinters of the city joineil the company he raised,\\nwhich WHS attached to the Thirteenth Regiment of\\nNew Jersey Volunteers as Company K, and .Mr. Irish\\nwas appointed ca| tain. The regiment left Newark\\non the Ist of September, 1862, and on the 17th of the\\nsame month Capt. Irish was killed at the battle of\\n.Vntietjini, at the head of his company. A terrific\\nvolley from an amiiuscade at the flanks of the regiment\\nsurprised the men, so that they temporarily wavered,\\nand the captain raised his sword and shouted, Rally,\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0606.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "THE NEWSPAPERS OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\n371\\nboys, rally He had hardly uttered these words when\\na bullet pierced his heart and he tell dead. His body\\nwas brought to Paterson and buried with great pomp,\\nthe whole city going into mourning, and banners bear-\\ning his last words were hung in front of many public\\nand private buildings.\\nCapt. Irish was succeeded as Jlr. Vanderhoven s\\npartner of the Ouardian by Lawrence Holms, a\\nScotchman but this partnership proved to be a very\\nunprofitable one, for the two members of the firm fell\\nout and got into a chancery litigation that lasted for\\nover a year. There was a bitter contest for a while for\\nthe possession of the establishment, and frequent per-\\nsonal encounters ensued. The lawyers of each ad-\\nvised them that in a partnership fight, possession was\\nnine points of the law, and while Mr. Holms was out\\nmaking arrangements to carry out this idea, Mr. Van-\\nderhoven came into the office and took possession and j\\nintrenched himself in the building, living and sleep-\\ning there, and not leaving it for several weeks. The\\nbusiness was wellnigh ruined, and the paper was issued\\nwitli much difficulty. The stock of white paper gave\\nout, and some days it was issued on colored posterpaper\\nand manilla wrapping-paper. Mr. Holms obtained\\nan injunction against Mr. Vanderhoven s issuing the\\nOuardiitn, and for a while he published it under the\\nname of the Patersonian. The referee s report to the\\nchancellor was in Mr. Vanderhoven s favor, and the\\ncourts finally gave a decision that Mr. Vanderhoven\\nwas the rightful possessor of the office but there\\nwere such subsidiary terms that it was almost impov-\\nerished, and for a long time it was a question whether\\nthe Guardian would collapse or continue.\\nIn the mean time Andrew Mead had started the\\nFalls Citij Register, which he first issued in 1855 as a\\nweekly paper. In 1858 it was changed to a tri-weekly,\\nand in 1859 it was issued as a daily. For the most of\\nthis time it was edited by George Maginnis, son of\\nex-Comptroller Maginnis, a renuxrkable young man,\\nwho could remember and report a whole sermon or\\nlecture, or even a whole day s court proceedings, ver-\\nbatim, with marvelous accuracy, without ever having\\ntaken a single note or memorandum. The lirgister\\nwas Democratic in principles, but never obtained a\\nvery wide circulation and influence. In 18(35, while\\nMr. Vanderhoven was at the lowest depths of de-\\nspair with the Guardian, Mr. Alvin Webb, a former\\nfellow-printer, of New York, happened to come to\\nPaterson and buy out the Register, and the next week\\nit was consolidated with the Guardian, and the paper\\nwas published for several years under the name of\\nTlie Guardian and Falls City Register. The latter\\npart of the title was after a while dropped entirely.\\nThe name of the firm after the consolidation was\\nVanderhoven Webb. Mr. Webb was an affable,\\npopular business man, and from this time on, with\\nthe exception of occiisional libel suits, natural re-\\nsults of Mr. Vanderhoven s style of journalism, a\\ndegree of unprecedented prosperity settled down upon\\nthe Guardian establishment. The business was all\\nconsolidated in the one office on the corner of Broad-\\nway and Main Street, its facilities enlarged, and the\\ncirculation and business of the concern increased,\\ntill it became a very profitable establishment.\\nIn 1872, Messrs C. M. A. Herrick, of the New\\nYork Atlas, desiring to invest in a provincial journal,\\nwere induced to visit the Guardian establishment, and\\nthinking it a good opportunity, ofl ered Vanderhoven\\nWebb fifty thousand dollars for the paper. This\\noffer was accepted, and the new firm took immediate\\npossession. With ample capital and ripe experience\\nin journalism, the new proprietors introduced im-\\nprovements in the mechanical department, and in-\\ncreased the facilities of the editorial department in a\\nmanner that soon put it on a more successful and in-\\nfluential basis than ever before. They brought with\\nthem as assistant editor Mr. Hugh M. Herrick, a\\ngentleman of many years experience in journalistic\\nand political life, whose editorial articles soon became\\nrecognized as authority far beyond the limits of the\\ncity and county, a position he was able to assume on\\naccount of his wide personal experience with leading\\nmen of the day. The pajier was at the same time\\nmade less personal and more conservative in its tone,\\ngreat care was put on its make-up and proof-reading,\\nand it rapidly increased in prosperity, till it has now\\nbecome one of the most extensively circulated and\\nsuccessful Democratic papers of the State. The\\njunior member of the firm, Anson Herrick, died of a\\npulmonary complaint in 1878, and his brother. Carle-\\nton M. Herrick, succeeded him as sole proprietor, and\\nhas continued as such to the present time (1882).\\nThe still increasing prosperity of the paper is the\\nbest evidence of its being in good hands, and it has\\nbecome a valua ole property. The proprietor has pur-\\nchased a part of the corner of the Church Block\\nbuilding, on the corner of Broadway and Washing-\\nton Street (forty feet on Broadway and ninety feet on\\nWashington Street), to which place the office will be\\nremoved in 1883, and it is the intention to make it\\nthe model newspaper establishment of the State of\\nNew Jersey.\\nThe Weekig Guardian, for country subscribers, is\\nstill issued, and published on Fridays. The Guardian\\nis strictly and uncompromisingly Democratic, but in-\\ndependent and outspoken in its views and opinions.\\nA special feature is its telegraphic news, each even-\\ning s issue having the most important news from all\\nparts of the world that appears in the New York\\npapers of the following morning. The Guardian has\\nlong been a recognized authority on local events and\\ncity items, and that department of the paper has for\\nmany years been conducted by Joseph E. Crowell,\\nwho has been connected with the Daily Guardian,\\nwith the exception of a few years absence in the war,\\nand two years as proprietor of the Passaic City Herald,\\never since the first issue of the paper. Until the\\nspring of 1881, Mr. Crowell wrote all the locals alone,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0607.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "372\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nbut since that date he hiis been assisted by Mr. Levi\\nR. Trumbull, a newspaper writer of considerable ex-\\nperience and untiring industry. Mr. Trumbull is the\\nauthor of The Industrial History of Paterson.\\nCarleton M. Herrick, pr()i)rietor: Hugh M. Herrick,\\nassistant editor; and Messrs. Crowell and Trumbull,\\nof the local department, now comprise the editorial\\nstaff of the Guardian. John Stagg is superintendent\\nof the mechanical and printing department, and\\nJames C. Sigler is foreman of the composing-room.\\nThis paper originated the system of employing female\\ncompositors when it was first commenced, and that\\nhas been the custom ever since. The wives of some\\nof the most prominent men of Paterson to-day were\\nformerly compositors in the Guardian office. The I\\npresent establishment is complete in all its branches,\\nwith a well-stocked job department and finely-\\necjuipiiod press-room. The newspaper is printed on\\na double-cylinder Hoe press, made to order, capable\\nof printing six thousand papers per hour. The pres-\\nent daily circulation of the Daily Guardian is three\\nthousand copies. On occasions of special news or i\\nexcitement the edition runs up to four thousand, and\\neven five thousand.\\nThe Paterson Daily and Weekly Preff was estab-\\nlished Sept. ly, 18G3. It was the fruit of the labors\\nof a few energetic Union men of the city, who\\nwanted a newspaper to represent that sentiment in\\nthe great struggle for the life of the nation then pend-\\ning. The following is a copy of a printed circular\\nsent out for their final meeting, which will show the\\npurpose of the projectors of the paper\\ni^PrivaU and Cot^fidential.)\\nPatebSON, Aug. 12, 1803.\\nDk*r Sib,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a meeting of the Biitwcribera to the fund for eataMisliiiig\\nin ttiis city a daily and wffkly payer, (leToted to t)ie support of tlie Kon-\\noml government in itM endeavor to put down the great Uet ellion aguinst\\nhuman freedom, will bi held at Derrom H Hall, West Street, this evening\\n(We ini !tdRy),al eight o clock, for the urpo8oof concluding ail necesjwry\\nnrrnngementM for the Mime.\\nIt i\u00c2\u00ab of the highest importance that ever; one should he present who\\nhaa promised or who desires to aid in this iiulisitonsahle enterprise.\\nBy onier,\\nI.. R. STr.l.LE, Chairniau.\\nJonit CooK\u00c2\u00bb,Scer\u00c2\u00ab( ir^.\\nIt 8cems proper in a case like this that the names\\nof these public-spirited stockholders should be put on\\npermanent record. They were as follows, in amounts\\nfrom five hiimlrcd ilolhirs to twenty-five dollars, the\\nlatter being the value of a single share:\\nDarius Wells, K/.ra ()sbr rne, James Dunn, Thomas\\nSeager, the Machinists .\\\\8.sociation, James M. Sniylie,\\nCharlcH Keeler, .Tohn Byard, W. A. Stouten-\\nborough, Charl(S( Danforth, Thomas Curtis, iarret I.\\nBlauvelt, .lames .Fuckson, David Scott, Henry C.\\nStimpson, David H. Ucaii, Henjamin Buckley, H. B.\\nCrosby, F. C. Beckwilh, H lwin T. I rall, James\\nNightengale, .losiali P. Iliintoon, .rohnson Brothers,\\nJames Stiles, William A. Butler, S. I ennington,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2John Swinburne, .lohn K lwards, Andrew Moscr, D.\\nMiller, Benjamin Crane, E. C. May, .\\\\diim Carr, John\\nBentley, Jacob Mcrcelis, A. P. Fonda, R. B. More-\\nhead, C. M. K. Paulison, John J. Zabriskie, Robert\\nRennie, H. O. Hedge, William Gledhill, J. S. Chris-\\ntie, John J. Brown, William H. McCully, James S-\\nWhitfield, John C. Bensen, .Tames W. Hewson, Wil-\\nliam S. Hudson, Henry M. Low, Ira Ryerson, Dr.\\nWhitely, Louis R. Stelle, S. Tuttle, John Mortimer,\\nRobert Handee, Isaac Van Blarcom, John Cooke,\\nJames Peacock, William Cooke, E. X. Stansbury,\\nEugene Ayers, E. B. King Co., Peter Adams, Sher-\\nman Jaqua, Nathaniel Lane, Richard Van Houten,\\nJohn P. Post Son.\\nA capital of a little over six thousand dollars Wiis\\nsubscribed, with which presses and material were pur-\\nchased. A publication office was secured at the south-\\nwest corner of Main Street and Broadway. No formal\\nincor]ioration was entered into, but the publication of\\nthe pa| er was confided to William Wright and (ieorge\\nS. Chiswell, under a one year s lease at a nominal con-\\nsideration, with the understanding that they should\\nhave the use of the capital and fixtures, and make\\nwhat they could out of the business the only stipula-\\ntion being that the paiicr should be an advocate of the\\nprinciples of the I nion Republican i)arty. These\\ngentlemen began the publication of the paper, as be-\\nfore stated, on Sept. 19, 1863, under the firm-name of\\nWright Chiswell. The Daily Pretf issued on that\\ndate was a sheet twenty-two by twenty-eight inches in\\nsize, and the Weekly the same size.\\nWn.l.IAM WiUiillTwasa native of Belfast, Ireland-\\nHe came to this country a young man of twenty-five,\\nand engaged in school-teaching and literary ])ursuits.\\nHe was a man of remarkable energy, and a writer of\\ngreat ability. X book he ublished on The Oil\\nRegions exploded many fallacies pertaining to the\\nexcitement over the petroleum discoveries in Penn-\\nsvlvania. Before his connection with the Prcn as\\neditor he had essayed the publication in Paterson of\\na little sheet called The Iron Home, and had also been\\nengaged in editorial work on the New York Commer-\\ncial Advertijicr, Xeir York Timen. New Yort Krrning\\nPost, and other papers. He also edited a campaign\\nsheet, called the Paterson Pr/iulilinin, in the Fremont\\ncampaign, and afterwards became associated with Mr.\\nOrrin Vanderhoven in the editing of the Paterson\\nGuardian, with which the Repuhlicnn was merged.\\nOne of his favorite themes was finance, and he was\\nfond of descanting on that tojiic. His fund of gen-\\neral knowledge was prolific, and he ha l a iiuaintncss\\nof expression that gave a singular charm to his\\nwritings. He only remained editor of the /VeM\\nuntil Feb. 1, 18 5, when he resigned that position,\\nand was succeeded by George NN urls, who was in-\\nvited by a committee of the stockhohlers to assume\\neditorial charge. Mr. Wright, after leaving the\\nPretf, wrote some interesting letters from the South-\\nwest for the Xew Yort Time*. He also undertook the\\nestablishment of a darling project in the publication\\nof a magazine devoted to |K litics, theology, sociology,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0608.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "THE NEWSPAPERS OF PASSAIC COUNTY.\\n373\\nand the industrial arts, called the Monthly Beview.\\nOnly four numbers had been issued, when the strong\\nframe of Mr. Wright was laid on a bed of sickness,\\nwhich soon culminated in his death, at his residence\\nin this city, March 14, 1866.\\nGeorge S. Chiswell, who has most ably filled the\\nresponsible post of publisher and business manager\\nof the Press from its inception to the present day, is\\na native of Paterson, having been born here on Jan.\\n1, 1836. He learned the trade of a printer, partly in\\nthis cit) and partly in New York, working on the\\nPaterson Intelligencer, Guardian, etc. Mr. Chiswell s\\ncareful attention to the practical and mechanical work\\nof tlie establishment has done very much towards es-\\ntablishing the Press in the high position it now occu-\\npies. On the resignation of Mr. Wright, Mr. Chis-\\nwell entered into a copartnership with George Wurts,\\nunder the firm-name of Chiswell Wurts.\\nGeorge Wurts was born at Easton, Pa., Sept. 13,\\n1820. From very early life he devoted himself to lit-\\nerary pursuits. His first journalistic work was done\\nfor the Newark- Adrertiser, in 1861, just at the begin-\\nning of the civil war. After a short service on the\\nreporters staff of the Advertiser, he accepted an en-\\ngagement as reporter on the .yeunrk Mercury, and\\nsoon became its editor. While engaged on this paper\\nhe corresponded for the New York Times and Erening\\nPost. On the starting of the Brooklyn Union he be-\\ncame associate editor of that paper, retaining that\\nposition until, on Feb. 1, 186-5, he left it to assume\\nhis duties as editor of the Press. It is a somewhat\\nnotable coincidence that the Brooklyn Union and the\\nPaterson Press were both started on the same day,\\nand in almost precisely the same way, by an asso-\\nciation of Union men. Mr. Wurts has remained edi-\\ntor of the Press from the date mentioned to the pres-\\nent time, and during his incumbency the paper has\\nrisen to occupy a commanding position among the\\njournals of the country. Besides his editorial work,\\nMr. Wurts has written considerably in prose and\\nverse for some of the leading periodicals of our coun-\\ntry, including the old Knickerbocker Magnzine, Conti-\\nnental Monthly, Harper s Magazine, Northern Monthly,\\nHarper s Weekly, Sc-ribner s, etc. He was president of\\nthe New Jersey Editorial Association in 1876, and\\nduring the legislative sessions of 1880, 1881, and 18S2\\nserved as secretary of the New Jersey Senate.\\nDuring the period of its existence the Press has\\nbeen enlarged twice. It was increased on Jan. 1,\\n1866, from its original size of twenty-two by twenty-\\neight to a sheet of twenty-four by thirty-six inches.\\nOn April 1, 1867, it was further expanded to twenty-\\neight by forty-two inches, at whicli size it still remains.\\nThe firm of Chiswell Wurts, although bound by\\nno agreement to do so, and all leases and other papers\\nholding them having expired for years, nevertheless\\nfelt it a matter of honor to purchase the shares of\\nstock held by the original subscribers, and did so from\\ntime to time until they had acquired them all. In\\ncourse of time the business and property of the estab-\\nlishment had increased to such an extent that it was\\nthought by the jiartners advisable to form a stock\\ncompany, which was done on the 1st of February,\\n1881, the capital stock being seventy-five thousand\\ndollars, all being held by Messrs. Chiswell and Wurts\\nand their respective wives. The title of the corpora-\\ntion is The Press Printing and Publishing Company,\\nand its officers are as follows: President (also editor),\\nGeorge Wurts; Treasurer (also publisher), George S.\\nChiswell Secretary, Cornelius H. Stagg. The edi-\\ntorial and reportorial staff includes William L. R.\\nWurts, as.sistant editor; Charles A. Shriner, local edi-\\ntor; Adolph W. Rotheim, city reporter; Orrin Van-\\nderhoven, suburban reporter; C. H. Benson, legisla-\\ntive reporter. Joseph Mosley and Albert W. Stagg\\nhave been foremen respectively of the newspaper and\\nI job departments since the organization of the estab-\\nlishment, with a brief interval in the case of the for-\\nmer, spent in an attempt to start a new daily paper\\ncalled the Bulletin.\\nThe publication office of the Press is now at 269\\nMain Street, it having been removed thither from its\\noriginal location on May 1, 1870. The three floors\\nof the entire building are used. The counting-, com-\\nposition-, and press-rooms are among the finest and\\nmost commodious in New Jersey. The paper is printed\\non a double-cylinder Hoe machine, with a capacity of\\nabout four thousand per hour.\\nPaterson has a large German population, and a\\nsketch of the papers published in that language will\\nbe read with interest. In September, 1868, the An-\\nzeiger fiir Paterson was started as a Republican weekly\\nby Mr. Carl Petermann, and was printed at the office\\nof the New Jersey Freie Zeitung of Newark. In Sep-\\ntember, 1869, the Paterson Volksfreund, Democratic,\\nwas started by Max Miiller, and printed in the Guar-\\ndian office. In 1871, Mr. Petermann sold the Anzei-\\nger to August P. Richter, and that gentleman, on Dec.\\n26, 1871, took Charles D. Boeger into partnership.\\nJlr. Boeger bought a Gernum office in New York, and\\nremoved it to Paterson, and from that time the An-\\nzeiger was printed in the latter city, in the rear of Mr.\\nDreher s house, No. 94 Market Street, and the press-\\nwork was done in the office of the Daily F^-eas. The\\nname of the paper was then changed to the New Jer-\\nsey Staats- Zeitung. In July, 1872, Mr. Richter sold\\nhis interest to Mr. Boeger. Mr. Miiller, of the Volks-\\nfreund, had in the mean time been prostrated with\\nconsumption (from which he subsequently died), and\\nMr. Boeger bought out the Volksfreund, and com-\\nmenced issuing it as a semi-weekly, and the New Jer-\\nsey Staats- Zeitung was continued as an independent\\nweekly paper. Mr. Boeger increased his business, till\\nhe was able to purchase the property at No. 94 Mar-\\nket Street, and he fitted up a complete office with im-\\nproved machinery, and since 1877 the Volksfreund\\nhas been issued as a tri-weekly. It is the intention\\nI shortly to change it into a daily. Another German", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0609.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "374\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\npaper, called the Pastaic County Journal, was started\\nin 1877 by Otto Stutzback, but it did not prove suc-\\ncessful, and after being run about eighteen months the\\nDiatorial of the establishment was removed to New-\\nYork one night, and the paper never again appeared.\\nTlie Paterson /Mbor Standard was started by Jo.seph\\nP. McDonnell on Sept. 28, 1878. For four years\\npreviously the Labor Standard was published in New\\nYork, and edited by Sir. McDonnell. The transfer\\nof the paper to Paterson was mainly owing to the\\nnine months strike of the cotton-spinners employed\\nby K. H. Adams. Mr. McDonnell was the leader\\nof this .strike, and at the request of the workingmen\\nhe moved to Paterson. About two weeks after the\\nfirst issue of the paper Mr. McDonnell was indicted\\nby the grand jury for libel, the charge against him\\nbeing the use of the word scab in relation to the\\npersons who filled the places of the striking cotton oper-\\nators. Mr. McDonnell was tried and convicted, and\\nsentenced by the court to pay a fine of five hundred\\ndollars and costs. The fine was immediately paid\\nvoluntarily by the people whose cause he had been\\nespousing. In February, 1880, Mr. McDonnell was\\nagain tried for libel, the charge being that he pub-\\nlished a letter from Michael Wenton, a brick-maker\\nin the brickyard of Clark Van Blarcom, at Sin-\\ngac, in which it wius stated that the men were over-\\nworked and starved, and housed in places no better\\nthan pigstys. Michael Wcnton, the author, was tried\\nwith Jlr. McDonnell, and both were found guilty and\\nsentenced by the court to two months imprisonment\\nin the county jail and to pay costs of court. During\\nhis imprisonment Mr. McDonnell continued to edit\\nhis paper from the county jail, and on his release, on\\nA|)ril 1, 1880, there was a great popular ovation\\ntendered him. The Labor Standurd wjis made an\\norgan of the county government, and in 1881 was\\nappointed lus one of the State papers to print the laws,\\netc. It is independent in politics, supporting men of\\neither party who favor labor measures. It is a special\\nadvocate of trade-unionism, reiluction of the hours\\nof labor, and increa.sed wages, and has very promi-\\nnent men on its corps of contributors. The Paterson\\nFamily Herald is a weekly paper, issued from the\\noffice of the iMhor Standard, and under the same pro-\\nprietorship. It was startt d on .Jan. 1, l.ss], and is\\ndevoted to family literature.\\nThe llninr .Imiriinl is a temperance paper, started\\nin 18K1, and edited by W. II. H. IJartram, ostensibly\\npublished weekly, but really issued at the convenience\\nof the publisher.\\nThere is a large Holland element in Palei-son, and\\nthey receive their intelligence from home through the\\ncolumns of ilu- Trlfiiraph, a weekly paper, started in\\nthe early part of 1881, andeilited by llmry Heewkes.\\nThe Bulletin, a daily paper, published by Mosley\\nC router, was run for several months in 187 !-77,\\nbut after a precarious and unsuccessful career sank\\ninto oblivion.\\nThere have from time to time been other publica-\\ntions of a transient nature issued in Paterson, but the\\nabove comprise all that can legitimately come under\\nthe head of newspapers.\\nThe Piumiic Citij Item (weekly) was .started on .July\\n9, 1880, by Alfred Speer, and was the first |)aper ever\\nissued in that place. Mr. Speer, who had no previ-\\nous experience in journalism, apparently made the\\nventure successful, for the paper has been published\\nregularly ever since.\\nWhen Mr. Orrin Vanderhoven sold out his interest\\nin the Paterson O narilian, he built an otlice in Passaic\\nCity, and started the Patsaic Citij Herald (weekly).\\nIn 186(5-67, Joseph E. Crowell, of the Guardian, was\\nhis partner, after which he returned to his old posi-\\ntion on the Paterson paper. In 188], Mr. Vander-\\nhoven took another ]mrtner, anil the i aper is now pub-\\nlished by Vanderhoven A Morris. The first part of\\nthe Herald existence was disastrous, and many be-\\ncame ruined in damaging verdicts for libel suits, but\\nlatterly its career has been l ss cloudy, and it now\\nseems to be a successful publication. Van, who so\\nmany years was a ruling spirit in Paterson journalism\\nand State politics, is now getting advanced in years,\\nbut he bears his years lightly, and occasional outcrops\\nof his old activity manifest themselves, and few men\\nare more widely known throughout New Jersey.\\nGenerous to a fault, and with no idea of financial\\nmanagement, and an insatiable mania for speculating\\nin real estate, he has made and lost a do/en fortunes,\\nlie would neglect his business for a week to benefit a\\nfriend, and would leave his paper at any time to take\\na visitor out to show him the beautiful scenery and\\nsights of the town with his own enthusiastic descrip-\\ntion. Van has for many years been one of the\\ncharacters of Paterson and vicinity. The Pa*\u00c2\u00bbaic\\nDaily viaa started on July 15, 1881, and is issued from\\nthe Herald establishment, but under dillerent man-\\nagement, an incorporated stock company.\\nThe Pii.i.iiiic City Daily Xeirs was the first daily\\npaper of that place, and was started on -Xug. 1, 1877,\\nJohn J. Frost and .\\\\rtliur Sawyer being the jiroprie-\\ntors. In (Jctober of the same year Mr. Frost retired\\nfrom the firm, and it has been e )ited and published\\nby Mr. Sawyer since that date. It confines it.\u00c2\u00abelf\\nstrictly to local nuitter, and is independent in politics.\\nCHAPTKH Mil.\\nPASSAIC COUNTY IIIBLE SOCIETY.\\nTims society was organizeil as an auxiliary to the\\nAmerican Bible Society, at a meeting hebl in the\\nCro.ss Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Paterson,\\nAug. 31, 1846. Lewis .\\\\tterbury, Sr., Esq., presided,\\nand Kev. \\\\V. H. Hornblower was chosen .secretary.\\nThe committee appointed to draft a constitution con-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0610.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "PASSAIC COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY.\\n375\\nsisted of Rev. Messrs. Weed and Reed, and Messrs.\\nHoratio Moses, Absalom B. Woodruft and Peregrine\\nSandfbrd, who reported a constitution wliicli wa.s\\nunanimously adopted.\\nThe officers chosen for the ensuing year were\\nJohn Colt, Esq., president; Rev. Ebenezer Wiggins,\\nvice-president; E. Boudinot Atterbury, treasurer;\\nRev. W. H. Hornblower, secretary. The executive\\ncommittee consisted of the secretary and treasurer,\\ne.r-officio, and of James Jackson, Wright Flavel, Ben-\\njamin Buckley, Davis Miller, and A. W. Docson.\\nThe organization being thus completed the meeting\\nadjourned. The society met for the first time, at the\\ncall of the executive committee, at the First Presby-\\nterian Church in Paterson, on Sunday evening, Oct.\\n4, 184(5. At this meeting were present Hon. Freder-\\nick T. Frelinghuysen, of Newark, and Rev. Noah\\nLevings, D.D., financial secretary of the American\\nBible Society, who delivered addresses on the occasion.\\nMessrs. John Colt, E. Boudinot Colt, and Richard Van\\nHouten became life members at this meeting, so con-\\nstituted by paying fifteen dollars each at one time, or\\ntwenty dollars iu two installments. These conditions\\nwere changed at the first annual meeting to ten dollars\\neach for adults, and five dollars each for children,\\nwith a present of a Bible to the former worth one dol-\\nlar and a half, and to the latter a pocket Bible worth\\none dollar.\\nThe first annual report of the executive committee\\nwas made April 13, 1847. The committee had estab-\\nlished a depository at the book-store of Mr. Milton\\nScars, in Paterson Rev. H. T. Hopkins had been ap-\\npointed colporteur for Pater.son and vicinity, and\\nBibles and Testaments had been sold to the amount\\nof $27.04. It was reported that the colporteur had\\nvisited every family in Paterson, Dublin, Sandy Hill,\\nand Manchester, 1964 families, of whom 3.39 were\\nRoman Catholics. Out of 1625 Protestant families\\nvisited, only 33 were found destitute of the Bible, and\\n17 too poor to purchase it for themselves. Of course\\nthese were supplied gratuitously. One item men-\\ntioned by the colporteur is that he found only nine\\nprofessed Protestants who totally rejected the Bible.\\nHe sold during the year 93 Bibles and 1.^2 Testaments,\\namounting to the sum of $80.57.\\nThe treasurer s account showed that the whole\\namount of donations for the year w.as .$119.07 amount\\nof sales, $108.12; total, $227.19. Expended for books,\\n$164.83 colportage, $44.95 total expenditure, $209.78\\nbalance in treasury, $17.41.\\nA Pompton township branch was organized April\\n9, 1823. On the 1st of February, 1847, this branch\\nsociety was reorganized, and made auxiliary to the\\nPassaic County Bible Society, with the following\\nofficers Rev. Horace Doolittle, president Charles\\nBoard, vice-president; Cnarles D. Norton, secretary\\nand John V. Beam, treasurer. This society was\\n1 Organized at the church in Bingwood.\\ncomposed of such men, in addition to the officers\\nabove named, as Jacob M. Ryerson, Joseph Board,\\nThomas Wallace, Peter M. Ryerson, John P. Whitte-\\nmore, George W. Colfax, M. J. Ryerson, Thomas R.\\nHill, Daniel Blauvelt, Cornelius Schuyler, and others,\\nand was an active and useful organization. During\\nthe first few years of its existence the township was\\nthoroughly explored and plentifully supplied with\\nBibles and Testaments, besides liberal donations from\\ntime to time were paid over to the American Bible\\nSociety. We therefore, says the report made at\\nits reorganization, look back, and with great pleasure\\nacknowledge the venerable origin of this society, and\\nrevive the record of its benevolent labors in circula-\\nting the good word of God.\\nAt that date (1847) the Pompton society numbered\\nfifty-two annual members, who had become such upon\\nthe payment of fifty cents each.\\nThe Passaic County Bible Society has now been in\\nexistence thirty-five years. To give a detailed report\\nof its active labors from year to year during this en-\\ntire period would consume more space than we have\\nat command we must, therefore, be content with a\\nfew summary statements. During the war of the\\nRebellion the society furnished pocket New Testa-\\nments in large numbers to the soldiers serving in the\\narmy from this county. The annual report, Nov.\\n5, 1862, speaks of this work as follows: The great\\nwork of our society during the past year has been the\\ndistribution of Testaments and Psalms among our\\nsoldiers. There have been given, at the expense of\\nthis society, to volunteers from the county of Passaic\\nabout fifteen hundred volumes, at the cost of (say)\\nthree hundred and seventy-five dollars. The contri-\\nbutions to the funds of our society have been fully\\nequal to those of former years, and in some cases\\nhave been larger than ever before. In the report for\\n1863 we find further allusion to the subject of New\\nTestaments for the soldiers The whole number of\\nmen enlisted in Passaic County from the commence-\\nment of the war up to Aug. 7, 1863, is eleven hundred\\nand fifty-nine. All of these have been supplied with\\nTestaments.\\nAt the annual meeting in 1862 the society expressed\\nits deep sense of loss in the death of its venerable\\nand beloved president. Rev. W. R. Bogardus, who\\nhad served the society for many years as its chief\\nofficer of the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, for six-\\nteen years president of the American Bible Society,\\nand of Rev. John C. Brigham, D.D., for thirty-six\\nyears corresponding secretary of that institution and\\nresolved that, in view of the example and earnest\\nservices of these men in the dift usion of the Scrip-\\ntures, the society felt called upon to renewed dili-\\ngence in the good work.\\nChaplain Francis E. Butler having died in the\\nservice of his country, the society, at its annual meet-\\ning in Paterson, Nov. 12, 1863, appointed a committee,\\nwho reported the following", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0611.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "37i;\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nlte*olmt. That in the uiiUmely death by the casualties of war of\\nRev. Francis K. Butler, late the efficient and t^loved chaplain of the\\nTwenty-fifth Regiment N. J. Vols., our society has lost an able advocate,\\nwhose manly Christian character was an ornament tu the church of\\nChrist, and the memory of whose virtues will long be cherished by all\\nwho knew him.\\nThe death of President Lineoln was made the ocxa-\\nsion, at the annual meeting of the soeiety in Septem-\\nber, 1865, for the adoption of the following brief\\nrecord\\nmitrtiU, We recall with gratitude the favors and fiicilitles received\\nby the American Bible Society from our lamente l lute President, Abra-\\nham Lincoln, in sending the Holy Scriptures, by means of government\\ntransportation, through the lines of our armies to the Southern States\\nand churches; therefore,\\nSetotvtd, That it is becoming in us tu make this record of our sorrow\\non account \u00c2\u00abif the death of our President, an event that has shadowed\\nand saddened our hearts amirlst tlie joy of returning peace.\\nThe presidents of the society have been as follows:\\nJohn Colt, Est]., 1846 Rev. Ehenezer Wiggins, 1847\\nRev. William R. Bogardus, 1848-61 Rev. John Gas-\\nton, 1861; Dr. John M. Howe, 1862; Col. Benjamin\\nAyerigg, 1863-^38; Hon. .Martin J. Ryerson, 1868-71;\\nJohn Cooke, 1871-73; John C. Vandervoort, 1873;\\nRev. J. H. Duryea, D.D., 1.H74; Rev. David Magie,\\nD.D., 187.^; Rev. T. Walters, 1876; Rev. J. H. Dur-\\nyea, D.D., 1877-79; Rev. Marshall B.Smith, 1879-81.\\nThe following have been the secretaries of the so-\\nciety Rev. W. H. Hornblower, 1846-. il Rev. Ste-\\nphen Ward, 1851-.32; Rev. Michael Ellison, 1853-5.\\nRev. James M. Freeman, I8. Kev. Thomas H.\\nSmith, ]X,56; J din H. Hobinson, 1857-61 Rev. W.\\nH. Hornblower, 18til-6S Rev. Mason Gallagher,\\n1868-70 Rev. J. L. Hurlbut, 1870 Rev. J. H. Fitz-\\ngerald, 1871; Rev. David Magie, D.D., 1872; Rev.\\nG. J. Van Neste, 1873-75; Rev. W. N. Searles, 1875-\\n77; Rev. Charles D. Shaw, D.D., 1877-81.\\nThe following have served the society as treasurers\\nsince its organization E. Boudinot .Vtterbury, Esq.,\\n1846; James Jackson, 1847-51 Edward Clark, 1851-\\n56 John Cook, 18.56-66 John Mortimer, 1866-76 J.\\nC. Christie, 1876-81.\\nCHAPTER 1,1V.\\nACQI ACKANONK (CITY OF PASSAIC).\\nGeneral Description. The present township of\\nAc |iiackanonk is a small piece of territory comparcil\\nwith its originiil area. In 1693, the dale of its erec-\\ntion as a municipality in Essex County, it contained\\nall that portion of the present cminly of Pa.s.saic lying\\non the southwest of the l a.s.snic River, embracing\\nwhat are now the First and Second Wards of the city\\nof I alerson, the city of Pa.s.saic, the t wtishi)i of Little\\nFalls, and the township of Acquackanonk. Paterson\\nthat part of the present city .southwest of the river\\nwas set off as the township of Paterson in 1831,\\nand Acquackanonk was still further reduced by the\\nerection of Little Falls from its territory in 1868, and\\nthe incorporated village of Passaic in 1871. The lat-\\nter was raised to the dignity of a city in 1873. Thus\\nthe several steps appear in the reduction of the an-\\ncient town of Ac(|U!ickanoiik to it-s prtsent dimen-\\nsions. It is now a i)iece of territory nearly in the\\nshape of the letter A, with its apex taken otT by the\\nLittle Falls line on the west, its two feet resting on\\nthe Passaic River, eastward, and intervening between\\nthem the city of Pa.\u00c2\u00absaic, taken out of the former\\nterritory of the township, and resting also on the Pas-\\nsaic River. The southeastern and northeastern lines\\nof the township are straight lines, the former separa-\\nting it from Essex County, and the latter from the\\ntownship of Little Falls. The area of the present\\ntownship is about twelve square miles, or seven thou-\\nsand four hundred and forty acres.\\nPhysical Features. .Vcquackanonk lies in that\\nsection of the triiissic or red sandstone formation on\\nthe east of the First Mountain, being included be-\\ntween the latter and the Passaic River. It is there-\\nfore chiefly a sandy |ilain, with the exception of the\\nhills which lie along the river and the |)ortion of the\\nFirst Mountain along its western boundary. The\\nPassaic River flows along its eastern side, forming\\nrapids, which are extensively utilized for mills and\\nmanufactories as far down as the old Landing,\\nwhich was anciently the head of navigation from\\nNewark B.iy. The soil is goixl farming and fruit-\\nland, anil its desirableness for homes attracted settlerM\\nat an early time from Bergen, New York, and Newark.\\nName of the Township. According to Heckewel-\\ndcr, as ijuoteil in Gordon s Gazetteer, the name\\nAcquackanonk signifies a place where gum-blocks\\nare made for grinding corn. If this be the correct\\norigin of the word, the Indians may have used blocks\\nmade of the gum-tree for the jiurpose of crushing or\\ngrinding their corn, as they used flat .stones, and some-\\ntimes stones hollowed out like mortars, for that pur-\\npose. This is the only authority we have tis to the\\nmeaning of the name .\\\\cquackaiioiik, and we confess\\nit appears to us rather doubtful. Like most Indian\\nnames in the early records, we tiiid this spelled in a\\ngreat variety of ways. We give as examples only\\nfive or six, as follows: Haque )uenunck, Achquacku-\\nnunk, Hockquackanong, .Vchqiiegenouch, Ac(|Ueqne-\\nnOllIlL Aqllikiillnllg.\\nEarly Settlement. -In tliis townsliip was made\\nthe first .settlement by Europeans in what is now\\nPassaic County. The fi)llowing litis been furnishetl\\nby a careful historian, William Nelson, Esq., of Pater-\\nson The first real estate transaction relating to\\nproperty within the present limits of Passaic County\\noccurred in Ili7S, when an Indian chief .-old what is\\nnow known as the Dumlie Islaml ithen called .Mcne-\\nhenicke) tu Hartman Michiel.sen, an enterprising\\nDutchman from the town of Bergen. Hartman per-\\nfected his title in 1685 by getting a jiatent from the\\nEast Jersey proprietaries, he agreeing to pay for the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0612.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0All\\nisland the munificent yearly quit-rent of one fatt\\nhenn. In tl\\\\e former year, also, Christopher Hoogh-\\nlaud, a Now York merchant, bought a tract of two\\nhundred and seventy-eight acres in the present city of\\nPassaic, selling out two years later to Hartman\\nMichielsen. The latter having thus become interested\\nin the locality, induced a number of his neighbors at\\nBergen to join with him in the purchase of a large\\ntract all along the river up to the Falls. March 28,\\n1679, tiiey bought of the Indians the coveted terri-\\ntory, paying for it in coats, blankets, kettles, powder,\\nand other goods, and on March 16, 1684 (168.5, N. S.),\\nthey received a patent for the land from the East\\nJersey proprietaries. This deed was nominally for\\nfive thousand five hundred and twenty acres, but the\\nbounds described actually comprise twice that area,\\nto wit: from the Third River up the Passaic to the\\nFalls, thence to Garret Keck, and along the face of\\nthe steep rocks southwesterly to the present county\\nline, thence to the mouth of the Third River. This\\ntract was called Haquequenunck, a name still sub-\\nstantially preserved, after innumerable vicissitudes of\\northograpliy, in the title of the present Acquackanonk\\ntownship. The Acquackanonk patentees were\\nHans Diedricks, Garret Garrctsen, Walling Jacobs,\\nElias Michielsen, Hartman Michielsen, Johannes\\nMichielsen, Cornelius Michielsen, Adrian Post, Urian\\nTomassen, Cornelius Roelofsen, Symon Jacobs, John\\nHendrick Speare, Cornelius Tubbers, Abraham\\nBookey, fourteen in all.\\nDiedricks was quite a prominent citizen of Bergen,\\nand did not remove from there. Garretsen (the son\\nof Garret) came from the town of Wageningen, in\\nHolland, whence he and his children were often\\nspoken of as Van (from) Wageningen, whence Van\\nWagoner; others of his descendants retained the\\nname Garretsen, now generally called Garrison.\\nWalling and Simon Jacobs were sons of Jacob\\nJacobs, of Bergen, and their de.scendants are the\\nnumerous Van Winkles. The Michielsens were sons\\nof Michiel Jansen, quite a noted man in his day, who\\nfirst settled at Rensselaerwick, then at New York, and\\nthen at Communipaw. His descendant.* took the name\\nof Vreeland. Adrian Post was the son of Capt.\\nAdrian, who came to this country in charge of a col-\\nony to settle on Staten Lsland, but he afterwards lo-\\ncated on Bergen Point. Urian Tomassen is the ancestor\\nof the very many Van Ripers in Passaic and Bergen\\nCounties. Cornelius Roelofsen (son of Roelof, or\\n1 The above act of the [proprietaries seems to have been confirmed by\\nthe Governor and Council of East Jersey, May 30, 1684, for we find the\\nfollowing in the records of the Governor and Council of that date, page\\n109:\\nThe petilion of Hans Dedricke, Eliiw Mekellson, and Adrian Post,\\nin behalfuftliemselves and other inhabitants of Aquaquanouncke, setting\\nforth that they had purchased, by order of the late Governor Carteret, a\\ntract of land containing five thousand five hundred and twenty acres,\\nwhich is to be divided among fourteen families of them. Those settled\\npray that they may have a general Patent of the same. It is ordered\\nthat, the Indian sale being recorded, arrearages of Rent paid, a Patent\\nbe made and granted them at one half-penny per Acre yearly Bent.\\nRalph) was the progenitor of one branch of the Van\\nHoutens, some of whom still occupy land in Acquack-\\nanonk, inherited from him. John Hendrick Speare\\nhas descendants in every part of the county, but par-\\nticularly in Passaic and Acquackanonk. The Van\\nBlarcoms and Wester\\\\-elts of tlie present day would\\nscarcely recognize Cornelius Lubbers as an ancestral\\nname, yet the former certainly, and the latter prob-\\nably, are lineal descendantsof that gentleman. Abra-\\nham Bookey was a weaver, but as the industrious\\nDutch vrouws did their own weaving, he soon re-\\nmoved from Acquackanonk to New York, and left\\nnone of his name in this county.\\nSo much for the first property-owners in Passaic\\nCounty. They probably took possession of their pur-\\nchase in the autumn of 1683, and possibly a year\\nearlier. Their settlement was made along the river-\\nbank, up as far as the present Main Avenue bridge\\nin Passaic, fourteen farms of equal size (about one\\nhundred acres) being laid out along the river, and\\nallotted by mutual agreement to the several patentees.\\nThe rest of the tract was similarly apportioned from\\ntime to time as the settlement grew until 1714, when\\nthe last division was made. Some of the ancient di-\\nvision lines between these tracts retained until very\\nrecently their Dutch name of divaarsUjn, corru[)ted\\ninto. cross-line. One of them runs through Acquack-\\nanonk township, about half-way between the river\\nand the mountain. York Avenue (now East Eigh-\\nteenth Street) in Paterson was another. Broadway\\nand Willis Streets in Paterson mark the division\\nlines between farms laid out a century and a half\\nago.\\nAcquackanonk, being at the head of navigation\\non the Passaic, very early acquired considerable com-\\nmercial importance, and was the Landing where sup-\\nplies were received from sloops for a territory extend-\\ning as far northwest as Orange County, N. Y. The\\nagricultural, mineral, and manufactured products of\\nthe interior were shipped at the same place for New\\nY ork City. This commercial supremacy was enjoyed\\nfor perhaps a century the completion of the Paterson\\nand Hudson River Railroad in 1832 was a fatal blow\\nto this great interest, but there are sanguine people\\nwho still fondly hope to one day see Passaic once\\nmore a great port of entry.\\nThe Hoag land Patent. The following is a copy\\nof the Hoagland Patent, received from Sir George\\nCarteret, the original proprietor, who received his\\ntitle from the Duke of York\\nI, George Carteret, Knight and Baronet, have given and granted to\\nChristopher Hoogland two tracts of land lying and being at Haquicke-\\nnock on tlie Pisawack Eiver, to wit;\\nFirst, one hundred and fifty acres of land, beginning at a stake\\nplanted by a small fall or small brook thence running N., as the little\\nfall or brook runs, 42 chains to a tree in the swamp (low ground) marked\\non four sides, standing by the little fall or brook thence running E. N. E.\\n18 chains toa stump marked on four sides, standing by the road; thence\\nrunning south 29 chains to a stake marked on four sides, stauding by an\\nIndian burial-place; thence running east 30 chains along the bank of\\nthe river past an Indian hut thence running south 35 chains to the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0613.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "378\\nHISTORY OF BKKGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\npoiot of tlio neck; tlience runniug northweet by west 4 chains to tlio\\n(itake) place of begiDtifng. Bouiide*! Kouth and eaut l\u00c2\u00bby the I isawack\\nRiver, west by a mnall briK k ur Tall, and north in part by land not yet\\nBunreyed, and In part by the \u00c2\u00abaid river.\\nAlso 12U acres lying adjoining on tbe west siile of the aboTe-nien-\\ntioneil brook or fall, Iwginuing at a tree In the swamp (low ground)\\nstanding in the (twtinip marked on 4 siden; thence running west south-\\nwest cbnlns to twu whiteHHik trees marked ou4 8ide\u00c2\u00ab; thence run-\\nning ftoiith 40 ctiains to a blnck^ ak tree marke^l on 4 sides with 4 cuts;\\nthence running eai^t northeast 34 chaintt along said little brook or little fall\\nto a stake planted on the top of a small hill or mountain and thence run-\\nning OS the little fall \u00c2\u00bbr brook ruuH to the tlrst-uomed tree; bounded or\\nlimited on the north, south, and west side by land not yet surveyed, and\\non the east by a smaU stream, as will better appear in a sketch of the said\\ntract ofland hereunto annexed; tbe whole containing 278 acres English\\nmeasure. Which two tracts of land he, the said Christopher Hooglandl,\\nshall have and hold to himself, hit* heirs and awigus forever; giving\\nand paying yearly to the said proprietor, hif heirs and assigns, un every\\n25th day of Munh, Hccording to Engliith reckoning, a liatf-| enny lawful\\nKngliflh money for each and every of the said acres, or the equivalent\\nthereof in such current payment as the cttunlry gives as the mercantile\\nprice for the value of English money; the first payment of wliich said i\\nrent shall l egln from the 25th of March, which shall be in the year of\\nour Lord 1680.\\nGiven, etc., the 15th day of July, in the Year of our Lord 1678, and\\niu the 30th year of the Reign of Charles II., etc.\\nThis copy has the following memoranda indorsed I\\nupon it:\\nYearly rent 11 shillings, 7 pence sterling. Bullen s second Record\\nPattent, page ful. 4. I\\nTranslnteil from a copy which is supposed to be a Dutch translation I\\nof the Knglisli original but the copy is iterhaps \\\\W to 15(1 years old, i\\nperhaps contemporaneous with the original.**\\nTliis patent, known in later years as the Stoffel s\\nPoint* Patent, contained two hundred and seventy-\\neight acres, and embraced that portion of the present\\ncity of Passaic bounded north by Monroe Street, east\\nby the Passaic River, west by Prospect Street to the\\nRig Rock, and on the soutli by a line running eiist-\\nward fnini I5ig Roek to the Passaic River. It wjis\\nsold to Hartman Michielsen (son of Michiel). At\\nthe time this patent was located (1( 78) no other land I\\nhad been surveyed in the vicinity, for the patent says, j\\nbounded or limited on t!ie nortli, south, and west\\nside by land not yet surveyed.\\nWe insert also in this conncetion, :is part (tf the\\nhistorical record of that early time, the patent to the\\nfourteen original proprietors. It is in the words fol-\\nlowing, to wit\\nThis iNni.NTtkr. made the XVth of March. Anno Dm. UIS4. and in\\nthe XXXVIth year of the reign of our Soverelgne U nl King Charles\\nthe Second over Enghtnd. etc., Between the I.^ird\u00c2\u00bb Proprietors of the\\nProvince of l^liut Now Jerney of the one |\u00c2\u00bbart and Hans Dliderick, Cnr-\\nret (iarretson, Walling Jacd*. Kliiu Machiolwm, Hartman Miichtelson,\\nJohannes Miichiolstn, 0\u00c2\u00bbrnellui Machielsen, Adri.tn Post. I rian Toma-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on, C^irneltnii Ib wtMfHxn. Synion .laoob^ .lohn H.udrick SjK nre, C4)rne-\\nliu* Lub.ni.ond Abraham ll.H kry. of the other part, witneaaeth that the\\nwild I ords Proprlebjm, as well for and In consideration of the sum of\\nrifty p.iund\u00c2\u00bb i\u00c2\u00bbl* rling money in hand paid by tbe said Hans Dlederlck.\\n(inrret (iarretaon. Walling Jatobs, Elhw Machlelaon, Hartman Machlel-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on. .lohannca Machlelsttu, Cornelius Machiotsitn. Adrian P \u00c2\u00abl, Urian\\nTomason, Cornelius R^iwlofaon, Symon Jacnl\u00c2\u00ab, John Hendrick Speare,\\nCornelius I,ul\u00c2\u00bber*. and Abraham Hotkey, t. the (Jovernor of the aald\\nPro lnro, to and for the use of the said I n.priet-irs thereof, the sum\\nIwlng In full pa) ninnt and din* hartie of nil iirrears of quit-rent* fur Uie\\nlands hereafter granted, Uio receipt whereof the said (iovernor doUi\\nStoffel. Iwing the Dutch for ClirliUipher, this lllle is taken from\\nChristopher HoaglaDd, theoriglDal patentee.\\nhereby acknowledge, and there if and of every part and parcel thereof\\ndoth acquit and discharge them and every of them, as also for the rents\\nand services hereinafter reserved, have aliene l. granted, bargained, and\\nsold, and by these jiresents do alien, grant, l argaln, and m^H unto the\\naaid Huns Diederick, (iarret (larretson. Walling Jacobs, Eliaa 3lachlel-\\nseii, Hartman Machielsen, Johannes Machielsen. Cornelius Machielsen.\\nAdrian Potft, I riau Toiuas^en, Cornelius Row]of\u00c2\u00bben, Symon JacoUsJolin\\nHendrick Speare, Cornelius Lubl^rs, and Abraham Hookey, and their\\nheirs and assigns, a certain tract of land, situate. lyeing,an l bidng upon\\nthe Pissaic River, in the county of E\u00c2\u00absex, and calhnl and known by the\\nname of Haguequenunck Beginning at tbe Northennost Umnds of the\\ntown of Xewark, and so running fi-om the lowest part to the uppermost\\npart thereof, as far as the steep rocks or mountains, and frvm the aaid\\nlowermost part along PIsaick river to the Great Falls thereof, and to\\nalong the steep rocks and mountain to the uppermost part of Kewark\\nbounds aforeimid, as It Ih more plainly demonolrateil by a chart or\\ndraught thereof, made by the late Surveyor-fieneral, together with all\\nrivers, ponds, creeks, isles, islands (Hartman s Island, which |iarticularly\\nbelongs to Hartman Muchielson, only cxcepledi.and also all inlets, l\u00c2\u00bbays,\\nswamjis, nmrxhe. i, nieudows, {tnsture-flelds, fences.- woods, underwoods,\\nfishings, hawkings, huntings, fowlings, and all other appurtenanci-\u00c2\u00ab\\nwhatsoever thereunto belonging and appertaining (half jwrt of the gidd\\nand silver mines, and the r\\\\ alties of Uie Lords Proprietors also ex\\ncepted): To have and to hold the said tntct of land and premises, and\\nevery part and jurcel of the same, to them the said Hans Die^leriik.ttor*\\nret (iarretson. Walling Jacot\u00c2\u00bbs, Ellas Machielrieii, Hartman Machielsen,\\nJohannes Machielsen, Cornelius Maihielsen, Adrian Pont, I riaD Tomas-\\nsen, Corneliufi Rowlofson, Syniou Jacobson, John Hendrick Speare,\\nCornelius Lubbers, and Abraham B\u00c2\u00abH key, their hein and assigns, and\\nto the use of them, their heirs and assigns forever, to be holden In fee,\\nand common soccage of them the Lords Pmpriotors, their heirs and a\u00c2\u00bb-\\nalgns, as of the selgnory of East Greenwich, yielding and aying there-\\nfor yearly unto the aald Lords Pniprielorv, their heirs and assigns the\\nchlefe or quit*rent of fourteen (Kiunds of sterling money, or the value\\nthereof yearly Atr the N\u00c2\u00abid tnict of land upon every five and twentieth\\nday of March forever hereafter in lieu and stejid of the half-penny |^r\\naero mentioned in the Concessions, and in lieu and stea l of all other\\nservice** and doniand;* whatsoever: the firvt payment to be made upon\\nthe 25th day of March, which shall l e in the year of our LonI one\\nthousand six hundred and eighty -elx. And the said Hans Dietlerick, Gar-\\nret Garretseii, Walling Jacob*. Elins Machielsen, Hnrtnuin Machiels4 n,\\nJohannes Machielsen, rnelius Machielsen, Adrian IV st, I rian Tomas-\\nsen, Cumeliiis Rowlofsen. Synion Jac bs, John Hendrick S|H are, Cor-\\nnelius Lubber, and Abraham B okey do hereby for themselvee, their\\nheirs anti a^Nigns, covenant, promise, and agree to and with the said Lords\\nProprietors, their helis and iuw igns, that they, tliclr heln and assigns\\nshall well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said lAtrds Proprietors,\\ntheir heirs or iissigns the said yearly ch)efeori|uit-rent of fuurteen pounds\\nsterling money or the value there^tf for the said tract of land, at or upon\\nthe five and twentieth day of March every year forever hereafter lo the\\nReceiver General which shall from time to lime l e appointed by the said\\nLords Proprietors, their heirs or asKigns, without fraud, ci vine,or delay\\nProvidisI, always, that if the said yearly tlef or quit-rent shall tie ttehlnd\\nan l unpaid, iu part or in nil. at any of the days or times u| \u00c2\u00ab.m which\\nthe same irt to be paid as aforesaid, that then and so often, it shall and\\nmay U lawful to and for the LiTds Proprietors and their heiis by their\\nor any of their servants, agents, or aasigns, ten days a^er such neglci t\\nor non-puynient of the said chiefe or quit-rent, into the aforesaid lands,\\nwith all the appurtenances, or into any part or imrcel thereof, to enter\\nand there destn\\\\ln, and the dlfitrew or disti eases then taken to lead,\\ndrive, carry away, Impountl.and In their cust^Mly to detain until the said\\nyearly chiefe or quit-rent s\u00c2\u00ab being l\u00c2\u00bbe)iind and un|iaid, together with all\\ncosts and cluirgeft nf such distress and imiK undlng sliall l e fully aid\\nand coutente l to the said Lord! Proprietop*, their heirs and assigns.\\nIn Witm:s!\u00c2\u00ab whereof, the l eputy Governor of this pp Vinco and the\\nniiOor i Hrt of his council for the time being, to one |iHrt,have sutwcrltied\\ntheir names and affixed the common seal of tlie said Province, and to\\nthe other part hereof Uie aaid Hans Deidrr4 ck, Garret Garretmm, Wal-\\nling Jacol*, EliaM MachlelMUi, Harlntan Macbielson, Johannes Machiel-\\nson, I ornetlus 31ai:liiels\u00c2\u00bbn, Adrian Post. Urian Tomaaon, Cornelius Ut w-\\nlofson, Symon Jarol\u00c2\u00ab, John Hendrick Speare. Cornelius Lubber, and\\nAbraham Bookey have Interchangeably oet their han ls and Keats the\\nilay and year flmt above written.\\nReference is probably here ma le to the Impntvementa made by stime\\nof the |witentee\u00c2\u00ab, iia they had had |KM\u00c2\u00abesaion under their Indian deed\\nalMUt cIoTen year* preceding the date of t)ii- patent.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0614.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n379\\nGawen Laurie, Thomas Codrington, Isaac Kingsland, Benjamin\\nPrice, Henry Lyon, Jjinies Emott, Dep. Sec^tj.\\nMemnrandnm. That it was mutually agreed by and between all the\\nsaid parties to the within-mentioned patent, before the signing and seal-\\ning of the same, that a neck of land lying within the bounds of this\\npatent, containing two hundred and seventy-eight acres, called and\\nknown by the name of Stofell s Point, formerly patented to one Chris-\\ntopher Iloagland, and since sold to the withio-named Hartuian Machiel-\\nson Company, be also excepted out of this patent or grant, and it is\\nhereby accordingly excepted,\\nGawen Laurie, Thomas Codrington, Isaac Kingsland, Benjamin\\nPrice, James Emott, Dep. Sec^y., William Saodfurd.\\nState of New Jersey\\nI, Thomas S. Allison, Secretary of the State of New Jersey, do hereby\\ncertify that the foregoing is a true copy of a deed recorded\\n[seal.] in Liber A of Deeds, and page 1C4, as taken from and com-\\npared with tlie original record in my office.\\nIn testimony whereof I have hereuntti set my hand and affixed my\\nseal of office at Trenton this seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred\\nand fifty-tive.\\nThos. S. Allison,\\nSec. of Stale:\\nAcquackanonk in 1778. An officer of the Revo-\\nlutionary i^rniy, who passed through Acquackanonk\\nand Paramus in 1778, gives the following statement,\\nwhich we quote from Barber and Howe s Historical\\nCollections of New Jersey\\nTliese towns are chiefly inhabited by Dutch people; their churches\\nand dwelling-houses are built of rough stone, one story high. There is\\na peculiar neatness in the apjieai ance of their dwellings, having an airy\\npiazza supported by pillars in front, and their kitchen connected at the\\nends in the form of wings. The land is remarkably level, and the soil\\nfertile, and being generally advantageously cultivated, the people ap-\\npear to enjoy euse and a happy competency. The furniture in their\\nhouses is of the most ordinary kind, ancl such as might be supposed to\\naccord with the fashion of the days of Queen Anne. They despise the\\nBnperfluities of life, and are ambitious tt.) appear always neat and cleanly,\\nand never to complain of an eujpty purse.\\nDevelopment of the Water-Power at Passaic\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nAlong the immense water-power ot this section of\\nthe Passaic River were located the farms of the early\\nDutch settlers more than two hundred years ago.\\nThey were a conservative, agricultural people, each\\ndevoted to his moiety of the ancient patent, with\\nlittle thought of developing the gigantic resources\\nof the rapids which flowed along the borders of their\\nquiet homesteads, save by the erection of a common\\ngrist- and saw-mill, which served the wants of the\\nsettlement for many generations. Precisely at what\\ndate the first mills of this description were erected we\\nhave no means of determining. Ti-adition says that\\nRichard Banta owned mills early in the present cen-\\ntury above tide-water on the Passaic, and that these\\nmills had been built before he came into possession\\nof the estate through his wife, whose name was Post.\\nThe first persons known to the laws of New Jersey\\nwho appear to have had a shrewd eye to the pros-\\npective advantages of the water-power in this section\\nwere John S. Van Winkle and Brant Van Blarcom,\\nwho in 1828 obtained an act of the Legislature entitled\\nAn act authorizing John S. Van Winkle and Brant\\nVan Blarcom, their heirs and assigns, to erect a dam\\nacross Passaic River. The act goes on to recite:\\nWheri:as it has been represented to the Legislature of this State by\\nthe petition of John S. Van Winkle and Brant Van Blarcom and others\\nthat they are the owners and occupants of certain premises on which\\ngrist- and snw-mills are now erected on the Passaic River, about one\\nmile above the tide-waters; that by the erection of a dam eight feet\\nhigh at the site where the old dam is erected, or at some point between\\nthat Hud the island in the river immediately above the same, a water-\\npower might be erected which may be made to be a valuable acquisition\\nto that part of the counties of Bergen and Essex which are in its im-\\nmediate vicinity, by erecting woiks upon an extensive scale, should the\\naid of the Legislatuie be obtained in promotion of their views: and as\\nan improvement of this kind is called for by the landhnldeis on both\\nsides of the said river, which does now already belong to the said John\\nS. Van Winkle atid Brant Van Blarcom therefore,\\n1. Be it eitiu ied by the Council and Geuertd Afsembhj uf this State, and it\\nis hereby ewicled by the atUhfrify nf the smue. That it shall and may be\\nlawful for the said John S. Van Winkle and Braut Van Blarcom, their\\nheii-s and sissigus, or either of them, to build or erect and maintain a\\ndam, not exceeding eight feet high, at the old site of their present dam\\non Passaic River, or between that and the island in the said river imme-\\ndiately above the same, and adjoining lands or privileges obtained by\\nthem, and to divert the waters of said river sutticiently to accommodato\\nany mill, mills, or other water-works which they may see cause to make\\nor erect; provided, they shall not enter upon the landsand tenements of\\nany person or persons whatever witliout leave in writing first had and\\nobtained of the owner or owners thereof: nor shall anything herein\\ncontained be construed as affecting or taking away the rights of any\\nperson or persons, body politic or corporate, whatsoever, if any such right\\nor privilege now exists.\\n2. And be it enacted. That for the purpose of improving the naviga-\\ntion of the Passaic Riverfromthetide-waters to Paterson, under any law\\nnow in force or hereafter to be enacted, the Legislature shall liavepnwer\\nto authorize the construction of a lock or locks in the said dam, to be\\nerected at the proper charge and expense of the person or persons erect-\\ning and constructing the same, their heirs or assigns provided alirays^\\nthat in such case the said dam shall be raised and kept in repair by said\\npersoi: or persons, their heirs and assigns, so as not to lessen the supply\\nof water intended to be secured by the first section of this act, or if the\\nsame shall be thereby diminished, that the jierson or persons so erecting\\nthe t;aid lock or locks as aforesaid, their heirs or assigns, shall make full\\ncompensation in damages for the same to the said John S. Van Winkle\\nand Braut Van Blarcom, their heirs or assigns.\\nMessrs. Van Winkle and Van Blarcom made but\\nlittle progress in the direction of carrying out the\\nlarge plans foreshadowed in their charter. The want\\nof capital was probably the great hindrance to their\\nenterprise. However, they erected a wooden crib or\\ndam across the river, began the excavation of a canal,\\nand carried on operations on a limited scale for a few\\nyears.\\nThe Dundee Water-Power and Land Company.\\nIn 183:^ the development of the water-power at-\\ntracted the attention of several wealthy and enter-\\nprising business men, chietiy of the town of Pomp-\\nton, then in Bergen County. Among them were\\nJacob M. Ryerson, Peter M. Ryerson, Russell Steb-\\nbins, A. R. Thompson, and others. These gentlemen\\nand their associates procured a charter from the\\nLegislature in 1832, entitled An act to incorporate\\nthe Dundee Manufacturing Company. As this com-\\npany is the same as that now known as the Dundee\\nWater-Power and Land Company, it may be well to\\ncopy its original charter in full, and also to refer to\\nsome of the supplementary acts thereto. The charter\\nof 1832 is in the words following\\nAn Act to incorporate the Dundee Mnnn/nclurinff Company.\\n1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Anfembly of this Staff, and\\nit is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Jacob M. Ryerson,\\nPeter M. Ryerson, Russell Stebbins, A. R. Thompson, William Chase,\\nand their associates shall be and are hereby incorporated and made a\\nbody politic by the name and style of The Dundee Manufacturing", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0615.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "38U\\nUISTOllY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCompttny,* aud eliall hare power tu raise by trulMcription, in sharM of\\nfifty dolliira each, a capital of one )n)iulre l and Afiy tbuueaud dollars;\\nand thf said pt-rsuus above named, or nny tlin-) of t)it. ni, are hereby\\nap|K intod cuDinii!b ioneni to reci-ive HutwcriptKin fur the suid sum, by\\nopening lKx k8 for ttiat puriHMe at Pompton, in the county of Itergon, by\\ngiving public notice of the time and place of opening i a.id boiikH ut tt-tutt\\nIwuweelcs previous, by advertisement in a newspaper printed at Newark,\\nPalerson, and tlie city of New Yurk and a soon as one thousjind shares\\nshall be subscribed, the said cominii^siuners, orany three of theui, may,\\nby public notice as aforesaid, call a meeting of the stockholders of said\\ncompany for an election of fivp directors, nach of w hum shall be a stock-\\nholder, to be vulvd fur by the said stockholders according to their re-\\nspective shares, in person or by proxy, the said commit\u00c2\u00abioncrs, or any\\nthree of them, to be inspectors and Judges of. such first election; and\\nthe said direcloix when elected shall choose one of their number to be\\ntheir president; and the directors of the said company shall annually\\nthereafter, by public notice as aforesaid, call meetings of the stockhold-\\ners for election nf directors of sjiid company, and shall appoiut three of\\nthe stockholders, not being directors, as inspectors of such election suid\\ndirectors shall continue in office until such election be complete, and\\nBhitll at all tiuDs have power to make by-laws for the government of\\nsaid company, not repugnant to tlio laws of the I nited States nor uf this\\nState; and shall also have power to call in said stock as shall be re-\\nquired, in installments of five dollars on each share, by giving public\\nnotice its aforesaid.\\n2. And bt it enacled^ Tliat the said company niay, for the purptwe\\nof manufacturing iron, cotton, wool, and other article!*, tlie manufacture\\nof which shall not be prohibited by the laws of this State, bu rent, and\\nhold such lands, tenements, and water-power in the said con nty of Bergen,\\nor otherwise to seize or liecome i os8essed of,and hold or convey, any real\\nor personal estate as may be necessary and useful fur thepuriHisusi afon^\\nsaid, and the same may sell, let, or otherwise dispose uf, as they shall\\ndeem iiroper; and that the suid company, by the said cor|K rat mime,\\nmay sue and be t^ned, plead and be impleaded, iti all ct nrts eslahlii^hetl by\\nthe cunstitntion or laws of this State; may have a couimon seal, and\\nalter or renew the same at their pleasure; and shall have, enjoy, and\\nexercise all the rights, p\u00c2\u00ab wer8, and i)rivileges pertaining to corpoiate\\nbodies and necessary fur the puriHJses of this act.\\n3. And l e U eiwflcd. That a dividend of the profits of the said com-\\npany shall l e annually made by the said directors among the Ktuckiiold-\\ners of the Bind contfiany and the books of the said coni| any shall at all\\ntimes be op -n for the inspection of Miid stockholders.\\n4 And he it enacted. That the slock tf the said cunipany shall be per-\\nsonal property, and transferable u]H)n the hiHiks of said company; but\\nthat no arl of the funds of tliis company shall e used for t anking, or\\nother puqxtses not plainly indicated by the iirovisions of this act.\\n6. .-Irid be it enacted. That it may be lawful fur the Council and Gen-\\neral AHsembly of this State, for good cause, to repeal or mmlify this act\\nOS Ihey shall think fit.\\nI :.s.^f.| March 1-5, 1832.\\nA .supplt iiiL-ntal act, passed Feb. 18, 1833, provided\\ntliat the said company, for tne purposes mentioned\\nin the second section of the act to which this is a\\nsupplement, may liuy, rent, take and hohl, or other-\\nwise seize and hecome jioHsesseil of and hold all such\\nlands, tenements, and water-power, and otlu-r real\\nand personal estate in the county of Essex as may be\\nnecessary and useful for the purposes aforesaid, and\\nthe same may convey, sell, let, or otherwi.se dispose\\nof, as they shall deem proper. This act empowered\\nthe company to declare all unpaid stock forfeited\\nwhirli \u00e2\u0080\u00a2shotild remain unpaid for tliirly days after the\\ntinn appointed f\u00c2\u00ab r it,s payment by the directors; pro-\\nvided for the election of the directors by ballot, and\\nmade it unlawful for the comj any to divide or pay\\nto the storkholdiTs any of the capital, or to diminish\\nit in any way, without the consent of the Legisla-\\nture.\\nThe following act, passed in 18 )8, shows what the\\ncompany proposed, and the obligations they assumed\\nwith respect to the improvement of the navigation of\\nthe Passaic River:\\nWhreiit, The Dundee Manufacturing (^ni[ nny, in order more effect-\\nually U carry out the objects of their incorporation, desire to improve\\nthe navigiition of the Passaic River t etwcen the city of Paterson and the\\nmouth of Weasel BriK)k, and to increase their capital stock, and it ap-\\npearing that it would be beneficial to the public that said navigation\\nshould be improved in the manner pn)|)osed therefore,\\n1. Be U ciiactfd by Uie iSeuaie and Gnierat Assembly o/ Oi\u00c2\u00ab State of Keir\\nJersey, That it shall and may l e lawful for the Dundee Mannfacturing\\nCompany to improve the navigation of the river P.utsjtic between the\\nmouth uf Wea^el Brook and some convenient iwlnt within the cor^Ktrate\\nlimits of tlie city of Pateraoti, by canal or canals, or iiy mating a slack-\\nwater navigation, or by Intth, as may from time |o time be deumeil neces-\\nsary or useful, and to construct, make, erect, and execute? one or more\\ncanal or canals, ilam or dams, as may be necessary or useful to effect the\\nimprovement of the navigation of the said river in manner aforesaltl,\\nwhich said canal or canals shall be at least eeventy-flve feet wide at\\nwater-line, and not to exc wd one hundre^l and fifty feet in width, in-\\ncluding enilinnkmenls.and the water therein to be at least four feet deep\\nthroughout.\\n2. And be it enncted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said\\ncompany to construct, make, and execute towing-palhs, and all the\\njocks, works, devices, wharfs, toll-houses, and offices uecettsary or proi er\\nfor the use of said i^anal or caiuils, dam or dams, and for the improve-\\nment of the navigation of said river in manner aforesaid: and It shall\\nand may lie lawful for the said company, by theirpresidentand directors,\\nand by any a^cnt, i-ngineer, superintendent, or contractor, ur any other\\nperson or persons employed in the services of aid company, to enter,\\nfrom time lo time ami at all tinres, upon all lands, w hether covered with\\nwater or not, fur the |mr|hi8o of exploring or surveying the route or\\nroutes for Slid canal or canals, and lucaiing the tid dam or dams, and\\nthe Several oilier works aLK ve s] ecified, doing thereunto no unnecessary\\ndamage and when ttie Niid route or routes sinill have been fixe l u| on,\\nand its several works located by the presiilent and directors of said com-\\npany, or a m^orit.v uf them, and a survey thereof, including such lands\\nas they may desire to occupy ur overflow in the const i-uttion and main-\\ntenance o( their siiid L-anid ur canals, dam or dams, or other woiks hereby\\nauthorized to be made and constructetl, de|Ktsile l in the i\u00c2\u00bbffice of the\\nsecretary of state, then it shall and may be lawful fur ihem, and for any\\nofficer, agent, superintendent, engineer, contractor, or any iK-rsoii or jwr-\\nsons employed in the service of ^aid coni|Ktny, at any time lu enter u|Hin,\\nlake iMjssession of, have, hold, and use, all and ^ingular, such lands,\\nwaters, ami streams, subject to such cumpi nsatio to l e made therefor\\nas is hereinafter directed; prvrided o/ir i^K, that l eforemid ct m|miiy himll\\ntake, liuld, and uhe such lands, waters, and streams in manner aforesaid,\\nexcept fur the pur| ose of surveying said runte or mutes as aforesaid, they\\nshall make payment, ur tender of payment, to the owner or owners there-\\nof, uf conipeiitcitioti iri l ilamage! therefor, lu tw ascerlaineil and fixeil nn\\nis hereinafter directed, unle]i s the consent of such owner or owner* for\\nthat pur|H) e be first obtained.\\n:i. And he it enacted. That when the safd company, or its agents, can-\\nnot agree with the owner ur ownersof such re piited land t, watery, or\\nstreams, for the use or purcliase thereof, and the damages 8ustalne l l y\\nsuch owner or owners, or when, by reason of the legal Incajiacity or\\nabsence of such owner ur owners, no such agreement can l*e made, a\\nparticular description uf the hin l, water, or streams so ret^nirtsl for the\\nuse of said cum|winy in the construction of said eanal or canals, dam or\\ndiiniM, or other works or structures afunwaid, shall Ik given in writing,\\nuiulor the oath ur uffinnatlon of s mie engineer or proper agent of mid\\ncompany, aiul also the nauie or nnmes of the occn|kant or ccu|uints. if\\nany there be, and of the owner or owners, if known, and their rMidence,\\nIf the same can tie ascertaineil, to one of the Justices of tlie Supreme\\nCourt of this State, who shall cause the said cominany to give notice\\ntheroof to the pemuns Interesteil. if known and in this State, or if un-\\nknown or out uf this Slate, to make publiratiun thereof, lu he shitll di\\nrect, for any term ni t le\u00c2\u00ab tliiin twenty days, and to as-ign a |Nirlirular\\ntime and place fur the api ulnttneiit of the commissiuiiers, hereinafter\\nnauKKl, at which time, u|ion satisfactory evidence to him of the service\\nof publiaition of such notice as aformid, he shall appoint, under his\\nhand and ^eal, three dislnlereftted, impartial, and judicious freelir |ders,\\nnot resident in the country in which the lanils, waters, ur streams In cun-\\ntrovorsy lie, or owner or owners reside, commiseiunen to rxauilne and\\nappraise the said lands, waters, ur streams, ui on such notice to be given\\nto the jienfJiis interested as shall l e directed by the Justice making such", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0616.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n881\\nappointment, to be expressed therein, not le is than twenty days; and it\\nshall be the duty of the said commissioners, having first taken and sub-\\nscribed an oath or affirmation before some person duly authorized to\\nadminister an oath, faithfully and impartially to examine the matter in\\nquestion, and to make a true report according to the best of their skill\\nand understanding, to meet at the time and place appointed, and proceed\\nto view and examine the said lands, waters, or streams, and to make a\\njust and equitable estimate ur appraisement of the value of the same\\nand assessment of damages; and after taking into view the benefit\\nwhich will result from the making of said canal or canals, dam or dams,\\nand the improvement of the navigation of said river, iis aforesaid, to the\\nowner or owners of said lands waters, ^^r materials, shall report what\\nsum, if any, shall be paid by said company for such lands, waters, or\\nstreams, and damages aforesaid, which report shall be made in writing,\\nunder the hands and seals of the sjiid commissioners, or any two of them,\\nand filed within ten days thereafter, together with the aforesaid descrip-\\ntion of the land, watere or streams, and the appointment and oaths or\\naffirmation aforesaid, in the clerk s otiice of the county in which the\\nlands, waters, streams, or materials are situate, to remain of record\\ntherein; which report, or copy thereof, certified by the clerk of said\\ncounty, shall at all times be considered as plenary evidence of the right\\nof said company to have, hold, use, occupy, possess, and enjoy the said\\nlands, waters, or streams, and of the said owner or owners to recover\\nthe amount of said valuation, with interests and costs, in an action of\\ndebt, in any court of competent jurisdiction, in a suit to be instituted\\nagainst the company, if they shall neglect or refuse to pay the same for\\ntwenty days after demand made of their treasurer, and shall from time\\nto lime constitute a lien upon the property of the company in the nature\\nof a mortgage and the said justice of the Supreme Court shall, on ap-\\nplication of either party, and on reasonable notice to the others, tax and\\nallow sucli Costs, fees, and exi)enses to the justice of the Supreme Court,\\ncommissioners, clerks, and other persons performing any of the duties\\nprescribed by this section of this act, as they or he shall think equitable\\nand right, and to order and direct by whom the same shall be paid, under\\nthe circumstances of the case.\\n4. And be U enacted, That in case the said company, or the owner or\\nownere of the said lands, watei-s, or streams, shall be dissatisfied with\\nthe report uf the commissioners named in the preceding section, and\\nshall apply to the justices of the Supreme Court, at the next term after\\nthe filing of the said report, the court shall have the power, upon good\\ncause shown, to set the same aside, and thereupou to direct a proper\\nissue for the trial of the said controversy to be formed between the said\\nparties, and to order a jury to be struck, and a view of the premises or\\nmateiials to be had, and the said issue to be tried at the next Circuit\\nCourt to be holden in tlie said county, upon the like notice and in the\\nsame manner as other issues in the said court are tried and it shall be\\nthe duty of the jury to assess the value of the said lands, watei s, streams,\\nand damages sustained, having regard to the benefits aforesaid; and if\\nthey shall find a greater sum than the said commissioners shall have\\nawarded in favor of the said owner or owners, then judgment thereon,\\nwith costs, shall be entered against the said company, and execution\\nawarded therefor; but if the said jury shall be applied for by the said\\nowner or owners, and shall find the same or a less sum than the company\\nshall have offered, or the said commissioners awarded, then the said costs\\nto be paid by the said applicant or applicants, and either deducted out of\\nthe said sum found by the said jury, or execution awarded therefor, as the\\ncourt shall direct; provided, that such application shall not prevent the\\ncompany from taking the said lands, waters, or streams upon the filing\\nof the aforesaid report, and payment, or tender of payment, of compen-\\nsation and damages as aforesaid.\\n5. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the said company to\\nconstruct and keep in repair good and sufficient bridges or passages over\\nthe said camtl or canals, where any public roads cross the same, so that\\nthe passage of carriages, horses, and cattle on the said roads shall not be\\nprevented thnieby and also, where said canal or canals shall intersect\\nthe farm t r lands of any individual, to provide and keep in repair a suit-\\nable bridge or bridges as aforesaid, so that the owner or owners and\\nothers may pass the same.\\n6. And be it enavteJ, That the said company are hereby authorized to\\ndemand and receive such svim and sums of money for tolls and the trans-\\nportation of persons and every species of property whatsoever on said\\ncanal and canals and such slack-water navigation as they from time to\\ntime shall think reasonable and proper jirur/rf^t/, that they shall not\\ncharge more tlian at the rate of four cents per ton per mile toll for the\\ntransportation of every species of property, nor more than five cents per\\nmile toll for the carrying of each passeuger on the said canal and canals\\nand the said river between the places aforesaid; provided also, that not\\nmore than one-half of the rates of toll provided in this section shall be\\ncharged to farmers actually residing on the line of the said improve-\\nments for transporting lime or other fertilizing materials.\\n7. And be it enacted. That under the powers, restrictions, and condi-\\ntions stipulated and prescribed in this supplement, it shall be lawful for\\nthe said company to alter any part of the route of the canal or canals,\\nif in constructing the same they meet with any insurmountable obstruc-\\ntions, arising from rticks or other physical cause, making compensation\\nto owners, as hereinbefore provided.\\nS. And be it enacted, That the said canal and canals, and the river\\nPassaic, and the works to be erected thereon in virtue of this supple-\\nment for the transportation of passengers and freight as aforesaid, shall\\nbe esteemed a public highway, free for the transportation of passengers\\nor any goods, commodities, or produce whatsoever, on payment of the\\nestablished tolls; and the said company, and their grantees and lessees,\\nmay use the waters thereof at their mills and works for mannfacturing\\npurposes provided, that the navigation of said canal or canals or of said\\nriver shall not be thereby in anywise hindered or obstructed.\\n9. Andbf it enacted. That the stockholders of the said company shall be\\nand they are hereby authorized to increase the capital stock of said com-\\npany five hundred thousand dollars, by increasing the number of shares\\nfor that purpdse.\\n10. A7}d be it enacted. That the nnmber of directors shall be seven,\\ninstead of five, as heretofore, and that they shall be elected annually\\non the first Tuesday in March in each year; and the directors last chosen\\nand the survivors and survivor of tliem, shall continue to act until a new\\nboard shall be duly elected and qualified to act.\\n11. And be it enacted. That no part of this act shall be so construed\\nas to authorize or empower the said company to take by assessment, in\\nmanner aforesaid, any lands whatever for the purpose of erecting thereon,\\nany of their mills or manufactories, or houses for their workmen, agents,\\norothei-s; hut nevertheless the said company may take and hold such\\nlands as they may deem suitable for the erection of mills, manufacto-\\nries, dwelling-houses, and other erections pertaining thereto, by purchase\\nor contract with the lawful owner or owners thereof, and not otherwise.\\n12. And be it enacted. That the shares of stock in said company shall\\nbe deemed personal property, and shall be transferable in such manner\\nas said company shall by their by-laws direct.\\nUnder an act passed March 14, 1861, the company\\nput their bonds upon the market to the amount of one\\nhundred thousand dollars. These bonds were sold,\\nand the payment of the principal and interest secured\\nby a mortgage upon tlie whole property, franchises,\\nand chartered rights of the company. Early in 1864\\nthe mortgage was foreclosed in the Court of Chancery,\\nand a decree of the court issued for the sale of the\\nproperty. It was proper and desirable that the prop-\\nerty, franchises, and rights to be disposed of should\\nvest in the purchasers, and they be enabled to reor-\\nganize and become a new body politic and corporate,\\nto take the place and ]3roceed with the business of the\\nold company. Doubts being entertained whether this\\ncould be done under a certain act passed March 15,\\n18.58, entitled An act concerning the sale of rail-\\nroads, canals, turnpikes, and plank-roads, without\\nan enabling act for the purpose, the Legislature, on\\nthe 18th of March, 1864, passed the following;\\n1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of\\niVetc Jersey^ That whenever the said property, franchises, and chartered\\nrights of The Dundee Manufacturing Company shall be duly sold,\\nconveyed, under and by virtue of the decree of the Court of Chancery,\\nand the execution thereou recited in the preamble of this act, it shall\\nand may be lawful for the pnrchaseror purchasers thereof to reorganize\\nand become a new body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, in the\\nmode and manner prescribed in and according to the terms and stipula-\\ntions of the said act entitled, An act concerning the sale of railroads,\\ncanals, turnpikes, and plank-roads, and shall have and enjoy all the\\npowers, riglits, and privileges conferred by, and be subject to the pro-\\nvisions, limitations, and conditions in said act, excejit as herein other-\\nwise provided and they shall thereupon be entitled to and have all the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0617.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "382\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nrighu, privilege, and fniucliiw\u00c2\u00bb, and bv subject to all llie condlUons,\\nlimitation*, and reetHctiona cuntained in tlie act under wliicli ttie said\\nTlie Pundeo Manufacturing Company was created, and In tlie oupple-\\nments tllereto, ho far ait the namv shali t e in force at tlie time of 8ucb\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ale and conveyance, except im tierein otherwise enacted, provided tiiat\\ntuch new corporation may l orpani7*d witli any number of peraous\\nnot lew than Ave, and witii a capital stock of not lew than one hundred\\nthousand dollars, to l i- divided among such purchoaiT or purchaaem, aud\\nbis or their associates in the ratio and itcconling to the amount of pur*\\ncbaae money, or tlie amount otherwise l y them respei-tively coutrihuted\\nto the said capital stock, under the direction and uutliurity uf such pur*\\ncboiter or purchasen and provided also that tile stockholders of such\\nDew corporation may at each annual election for directore thereof ap-\\npoint one or more inspectors of such election, who shall not l e stock-\\nholders.\\n2. nrf te U en.ic(f That all proceedings of the said The Dundee\\nManufacturing Company for the use or overflow of lands and assess-\\nment of damages, or otherwise, ami umleterniined at the time of sncli\\nsale and conveyance, may be continued in the same nmnii -r and upon\\nthe same conditions as if such sale and conveyance had not been made,\\nand shall Inure to the use and benetit of such new corpt ration.\\n3. Ami be il maclrd. That this act shall take effect Immediately.\\nBy an act approved Feb. 22, 1870, the company was\\nempowered to issue bonds to the amount of two hun-\\ndred and fifty tiiou.sand dolhirs. [arcli U, 1S71, tlie\\ncompany wa.s alloweil tn increase their rapital stock\\nto the extent of ten thousand additional sliares. By\\nan act passed Feb. 14, 1872, the name of the company\\nwas changed to The Dundee Water-Power and I and\\nCompany, by which it is still known. The same act\\nalso provided for the location of an office in the city\\nof New York.\\nLittle wiis done towards the practical carrying out\\nof the company s plans for utilizing the water-power\\nuntil 1861. This was owing to the difficulties in the\\nway of obtaining the necessary lands whereon to lo-\\ncate their works and improvements. The farmers\\nwho owned the lands on the Point, now occupied by\\nthe company s works and real estate, and by the va-\\nrious mills of the manufacturers and their tenement-\\nhouses, were John .\\\\ckernian, John J. Vreeland, and\\nJacob Vreeland. These gentlemen, in view of the\\nprospective improvements i)ro|)osed liy the company,\\nand not without feelings of reverence for their ances-\\ntral acres, held their farms at so high a price that for\\na long time the projectors of the walcr-power scheme\\nand their successors were unwilling to procure a title\\non such terms. Various propositions had been made,\\nbut all had proved un.successfiil. .\\\\t length the\\nDundee Manufacturing Company, in ISill, purchiused\\ntwo of the farms at the ])rice asked by the owners,\\nand the way was thus opened for them to proceed\\nwith an enterprise which has had a most important\\nbearing on the progress of Passaic, both as a village\\nand a city. It is not too much to say that this inter-\\nest more than all others liius conlriliuted to the build-\\ning up of the place.\\nTiiK Co.mi any s Works. The Dundee Water-\\nPowcr and Land Company s Works consist of a dam\\nacross the Pas-saic Kiver at tlie foot of Dundee Lake,\\nand of the Dundee Canal, which, by a fine system of\\nengineering, I ondiictH the water to the various mill-\\nsites, situated from a mile to a mile and a half below\\nthe dam. The whole length of the canal is about\\none mile and a half, and it is of sufficient capacity to\\nsup|)lyany amount of water required for manufactur-\\ning. The dam is of solid masonry, forty-tive feet in\\nthickness at the bottom and si.x feet at the lop, and\\nthe span of the river four hundred and fifty feet in\\nlength. The locks for the admission of water into\\nthe canal have twenty-four wickets, and the gate-\\nkeeper occupies a snug cottage built for him at the\\nwest end of the dam. The expansion of water caused\\nby the overflow above the dam is called Dundee\\nLake, and is simply a widening of the Passaic in that\\nlocality. By the length of the canal the head of\\nwater obtained at the mills is twenty-two and a half\\nfeet.\\nThe company own a large amount of real estate,\\nwliich is laid out into city lots, on the west side of\\nthe canal, above Vreeland Lake and the city water-\\nworks, and also on the east side, between the canal\\nand the river, extending down to the Point, or, in\\nother words, occupying the space which lies in the\\nbend of the river, and is bounded by the canal on the\\nwest. A considerable ])art of this latter section has\\nbeen sold to actual residents, land given whereon are\\na church and a school, and thus a considerable popu-\\nlation has been added to this part of the city.\\nThe Comi AXY s Kaii.ro.vd. A charter was ob-\\ntained by the company for a railroad March 20, 1872.\\nThe preamble sets forth as follows\\nIf /irreoA, the increasing manufacturing business on the pro|M?rty of\\nthe suld company, the name of which by a previous supplement haa\\nbeen changed to The Dnntleo Water-Power and Land Company, and\\nthe wants of the people in the neighborbootl thereof rci)nire that there\\nshould be railroad communication with the princi|Nftl markets of the\\ncountry therefore,\\nBe U enacied by thr fifnale and Oeitenti Aaamnbisf of the ^aU of Xew Jerat^t\\nThat the said Dundee Watcr.l\\\\ wer and Ijaiid Company are authorized\\nand eu)) owered u survey, lay out, construct, mainbtin, and o| erHte or\\nlease a railntiul n|HUi and from or near to the pru|KTIy owne l by them,\\nto connect with the l nteiiB\u00c2\u00abui and Hudson Kiver Ibiilroail, now u)tenited\\nby the Krie Itiiilway Comltauy, in some convenient [Ktint in the county\\nof I itssaic, with as nniny bntnches on their proiK.rty as the said com-\\n{tuiiy may deem prt p r b facilitate their business, and that additional\\nbrauchim on their prop rty can t 0 located from time to time a^er the\\nfirst location.\\nThe railroad thus chartered was located from But-\\nterworth Son s chemical-works along the line of\\nthe principal mills, and thence by a curved line\\nthrough a part of Monroe Street to a connection with\\nthe Krie Koad at the depot on Main .Vvenue. Il wits\\nnot built, and probably never will be upon that route.\\nUpon the location of the Short-Cut of the Erie\\nFreight Line on the east side of the Passaic River, it\\nwas decided to locate this spur road so as to connect\\nwith the new line of the Krie. Il has therefore been\\nlocated so as to run from the principal mills by a\\ncurved line to the head of Dundee Island, and after\\ncrossing the narrow portion of the river at that point\\nto pa.Hs through the centre of the island U near ita\\nfoot, whence it will cross the main branch of the\\nPassaic River, and intersect the new freight line di-\\nrectly eiust. This route will involve the construction\\nof two important bridges, one at the bead of Dundee", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0618.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n383\\nIsland, and one of greater extent near the foot of the\\nisland, connecting with the main shore on the east\\nside. At this writing the construction of the road is\\nin progress, and it will probably soon be completed\\nand put in operation.\\nIncorporation of Passaic. Prior to the incor-\\nporation of Passaic as a village in 1871, a spirit of\\nprogress had been rife in the place, and had mani-\\nfested itself in many public and private improve-\\nments of a substantial and permanent character.\\nAmong these may be mentioned the various works of\\nthe Water-Power and Land Company in preparing\\nthe way for the manufacturing interests which from\\n1863 to 1873 gave an impulse to the growth of the\\nplace in population, and made it necessary that a dif-\\nferent form of municipal government from that of the\\ntownship should be extended over it. A local writer\\nthus speaks of the progress of the place in 1806\\nThe wide-awake little village of Passaic has entered upon a career of\\nprogress which if continued for a few years will make it one of the\\nmost important towns in the 8tate. The extensive Dundee Worlis wliea\\nfully devehn ed will be sufficient to secure a permanent advancement of\\nthe material interests of the place, but aside from these there a spirit\\namong the penpla akin to that exhibited by some of those Western\\ncommunities where towns and villages have sprung into existence,\\nAs from the stroke of an enchanter s wand.\\nIn harmony with tliis progressive spirit a movement to secure the\\nincorporation of the town by the Legislature hits recently been inaug-\\nurated, and a public meeting of the citizens is to be held tliis week,\\nwhen, it is presumed, definite action will be taken to procure the requi-\\nsite legal organization to elect a board of supervision or borough officers.\\nNearly all the property-owners are in favor of the establishment of some\\norganization of tliis character, and very little if any opposition to the\\nproject is iiniicipated.\\nSeveral new buildings are now in course of erection on the property\\nof the Passaic Land Improvement Company, designed for private resi-\\ndences, and it is stated that fifteen more buildings of a like character\\nare to be begun during the coming spring. In addition to these present\\nand prospective imjjrovcments, anew liotel is nowin course of construction\\nby Mr. Alfred Speer, whicli will become a material ornament to the town.\\nThe building is eighty feet in length by Bfty-four feet in depth, and four\\nstiiries iu height. The ornamental brick-work on the front is said to be\\nsuperior to any in the State. The entire designs were made by Mr. Speer,\\nand every brick was laid under his immediatf eye. The lower cellars,\\nof which there are two, will be used by Mr. Speer for the storage of his\\nwine, and they are so arranged that the temperature will uot vary five\\ndegrees during the entire year, and will be perfectly free from any kind\\nof moisture. A number of gentlemen in New York are now negotiating\\nwith Mr. Speer with a view of changing some of the interior arrange-\\nments, and when completed they purpose throwing open to the public a\\nhotel which will bo second to none in the State.\\nThe citizens of the village, feeling that Mr. Speer had j erformed a\\nhighly creditable work iu the erection of his elegant building, and that\\nit was worthy of some substantial recognition by them, presented him\\nwith a large flag last Saturday evening, whicli was an occasion of great\\ninterest. The Hag was procured by Mr. Aaron Van Iderstine, and pre-\\nsented by 5Ir. Jiinips A. Norton, president of the literary society, in the\\nfollowing highly patriotic language;\\nMr. Speer, By invitation of a few of your fellow-citizens, I con-\\nsented to perform the very agreeable duty of formally presenting you\\nwith an American flag. I say the agreeable duty, for with every\\nAmerican it ought to bo a matter of pride to be thought worthy of being\\nmade the spokesman of his fellow-citizens in a transaction so dignified\\nfor whatever may be the occasion on wliich that symbol of power and\\ngreatness can be appropriately introduced, I consider that occasion dig-\\nnified by its presence.\\nTo your liberality and public spirit, sir, this village is indebted for\\nthe erection of a building whicli is an ornament, and has long been a\\nnecessity. It is in recognition of that public spirit that your fellow-\\ncitizens, at the instigation of Mr. Aaron Van Iderstine, have decided to\\npresent to you this flag, and to my mind it is apparent that no other gift\\ncould BO comprehensively express their appreciation of your cfibrts.\\nWhat besides that flag can so ipiickly and so forcibly remind an\\nAmerican citizen of his importance as a man? To be an Araeriran\\ncitizen, sir, is to be the possessor of the highest attainable title of nation-\\nality and when one realizes that he forms a part of sucli a nation\\nshares its glnry, contributes to and participates of its power\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he feids,\\nor ought to feel, the liveliest emotions of gratitude and patriotic pride.\\n*Such, I doubt not, are the emotions that thrill your lieart when you\\nlook upon this batiner and recall the glorious sacrifices of those who\\nhave fallen in defense of its integrity; and believing this, I can think of\\nnothing which your fellow-citizens might proffer as a gift that would be\\nmore agreeable to the nobler impulses of your manhood.\\nAccept this flag, sir, and with it plea.se accept the kindest wishes of\\nits donors for your continued prosperity and liappiness.\\nTo this address Mr. Speer replied as follows\\nGentlemen, I am taken by surprise, and aUi at a loss to know how\\nto express my feelings. What have I done to merit this splendid token\\nof your regard Such a glorious emblem, and so unexpected that I am\\nincapable of expres.sing a thousandth part of my obligations, my grati-\\ntude and thankfulness for this honor conferred! This is certainly one\\nof the happiest hours of my life to find myself surrounded by so many\\nfriends. I must assure you I now for the first time in my life feel rich\\nfor I think there is no greater wealth on eaith than to be in the hearts\\nof your townsmen and neighbors, anti there is no better evidence than\\non an occasion like this. I labored hard and at late hours to make that\\nbuilding not only substantial and useful for my business as a matter of\\nprofit to myself, but to make it an ornament to our town, and a credit to\\nthe neighborhood. Hoping it will be an inducement for othere more\\ncapable than myself to supersede it by designing and erecting something\\nfar superior, whicli may be more profitable to the people generally. I\\nhave always thought there is no reason why Passaic should not only be\\nthe resort for city merchants and bankers, the depot lor Paterson lum-\\nber, but that it should become the principal depot for other merchandise,\\nand the great manufacturing centre of the State.\\nIt depends not so much on capital as on the industry, energy, and\\nperseverance of its inhabitants. These are sure to bring success. I for\\none hope to throw my energies and the result of my labor in this place.\\nIf we only co-operate and pull together nothing can stand in our road\\nto accomplish any good result. We may have good buildings, good side-\\nwalks, street-lights, and police regulations, and all the regulations of a\\nfirst-class town. But let me particulaily beg that we niny alwavs co-\\noperate with each other in the advancement of morals and the suppres-\\nsion of vice and rowdyism that now appear to be on the increase here.\\nMay we always be aiming at the great texture of which that noble flag\\nis the emblem,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Union. I thank you, my friends, and I promise never\\nto disgrace that valued gift by allowing it to be trailed by traitors. But\\nlong may she wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave,\\nuntil the blue square shall all be filled with iu)t only thirty-two. but\\nwith a hundred, blazing stai-s of freedom\\nThe first brick building in the village was tlie ware-\\nhouse of Mr. Speer, erected on Main Avenue in 1865.\\nNo sidewalks had yet been built in Passaic. The\\nmeeting above referred to, which gave an impulse to\\nthe movement for incorporation, was held in the ball-\\nroom of the old Banta House, wliich had been first\\nbuilt as a parsonage in 1715, and was also a fort for\\nthe protection of the bridge across the Passaic, the\\nbasement having narrow windows through the thirty-\\ninch wall for port-holes. Part of the old wall is still\\nstanding. The meeting having become somewhat\\nenthused with the idea of improvements in the vil-\\nlage, a committee wns appointed to get up a petition\\nto the Legislature for an act of incorporation. The\\nact was secured in 1871. Commissioners were ap-\\npointed consisting of Dr. Richard A. Terhune, Wil-\\nliam S. Anderson, and John T. Van Iderstine. Alfred\\nSpeer was elected president of the village, and with\\nthe commissioners inaugurated the work of laying\\nsidewalks and other improvements. These four men", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0619.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "384\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ngraded and laid five miles of sidewalks, paying the 1\\nexpenses out of their own pockets, and trusting to\\nthe corporation to be subsequently reimbursed. The\\npopulation of the village at that time did not exceed\\n1000. Its growth was rajiid for the two following\\nyears, and in 1873 a city charter was adopted.\\nThe following-named persons have held the office\\nof mayor of the city: Benjamin B. Aycrigg, 1873-79;\\nBird W. Spencer, 1879-8.3.\\nTiic city clerks have been Michael Beirne, 1873-\\n80 James A. Norton, 1880-82.\\nC. M. K. Paulison. In speaking of the impetus\\ngiven to the growth of Passaic, it is proper to allude\\nto the enterprise of C. M. K. Paulison, whose energy\\nand liberal expenditure of money did so much to de-\\nvelop the city.\\nMr. Paulison was born at llackensack, Bergen Co.,\\nOct. 30, 1824, and was a descendant of one of the old\\nDutch families. His father was Paul Paulison, who\\ngraduated from Princeton College in 1794, and died\\nat Hackensack in 1832, in the sixty-second year of\\nhis age. His mother was Mary Cleveland, who died\\nat Passaic, N. J., in 1873, in the eighty-first year of\\nher age. He entered mercantile life in New York\\nCity at an early age, and acquired some property.\\nWhen tlie California gold fever broke out he was\\namong tlie first to emigriite to the new El Dorado, and\\nengaged in business in San Francisco, where he soon\\nbecame a leading spirit in all that was calculated to\\nadvance the material interests of the new settlement.\\nHe took a prominent part in the formation of the\\nmunicipal government of San Francisco, and was\\none of the first aldermen of the city, being elected\\nover the .subse iuently noted filibuster. Walker. Sub-\\nsequently Mr. Pauli.son returned to the East, and was\\nchosen president of the Ninth Ward Bank, in Abing-\\ndon S(|uare, New York. He wi\\\\8 one of the forty men\\nwho met at the Astor House and organized the Re-\\npublican parly on the platform of free speech, free\\nsoil, free men, and Freiiiont. When the Internal\\nRevenue Bureau was organized, Mr. Paulison was\\nappointed collector of the old Fourth New Jersey Col-\\nlection District, then comprising Bergen, I assaic,\\nMorris, and Sus.scx Counties, with the townships of\\nEssex County. He resigned the ofiice about I.S lt.\\nIn 18t)4-(5.5 he bought large traet.s of land at what was\\nthen known as .\\\\cquackanonk Landing, and pro-\\nceeded to lay out streets, and wius one of the principal\\nfounders of the present city of Passaic. It was then\\na mere village, while now it ba.i nine thousand in-\\nliabitnnts.\\nTile land purchased by Mr. Paulison embraced por-\\ntions iif the Van Wagoner property, known as the\\nHill in this city, extending from the Erie Railway\\nover to Bloomfield venue, and from Prospect Street\\nto Paulison .V venue.\\nTlie first avenue Mr. Paulison laid out through the\\ncorn and potato field wa.s named by him (iregory\\nAvenue; he next laid out Pennington Avenue, Pafisaic\\nAvenue, River Street, and built a number of houses.\\nHe made a great deal of money by his real estate\\nspeculations, but he was always over-sanguine, and\\nexpected to make a great deal more, so that instea l\\nof keeping what he got, he was continually investing\\nit in new enterprises. He had the satisfaction of see-\\ning Passaic grow apace while his own fortune dwin-\\ndled. He laid out a beautiful park, and erected the\\nfinest conservatories in New .Jersey, which he stocked\\nwith the very choicest botanical collections. He pro-\\njected and was largely instrumental in completing\\nthe water-works which supply the city of Passaic\\nwith water, and in a score of other ways proved his\\nvalue lus a good and public-spirited citizen. In 1872\\nhe commenced the erection of a mansion of Moorish\\narcliitecture upon his beautiful grounds, called Park\\nHeights, upon which he had expended some $200,000.\\nThe brownstone was taken from a quarry owned by\\nhim in the northern part of the city. The crash of\\n1873 put an end to this enterprise. It was a misfor-\\ntune that a hundred thousand men besides Paulison\\nmet with in the year 1873, all men in the race for\\nland speculation became blind, and nearly all were\\nruined never to rise again. But Pauli.son wius not one\\nwho would give up. A few years ago he went to East\\nTennessee and bought heavily of walnut timber,\\nbut owing to unforeseen difficulties this speculation\\nalso failed. Then he was ajtijointed register of the\\nLand Office in Arizona, where he rejoined his old\\nfriend Gen. Fremont. Here he was stricken down\\nwith disease, and died of hemorrhage Oct. 22, 1881.\\nHis remains were brought to Piu^saic, aiul his funeral\\nheld at the Methodist Episcopal Church on Oct. 9,\\n1881.\\nMr. Paulison in 1846 married Anna Shepard, who\\nsurvives liim and lives at Pa.ssaic, N. ,1. By her he\\nhad two sons, viz., Washington Paulison, now living\\nat Passaic, and Charles Shepard Paulison, born Oct.\\n24, 18r)2, who died at Passaic unmarried, on the ISth\\nof August. 1873.\\nMr. Paulison was a pa.ssionate lover of music, and\\nwas at one time president of the New York I liilhar-\\nmonic Society. He loved nature and flowers, ami the\\nconservatory he built on the site of his projected\\ngrand residence iu Pa.ssiiic was one of the handsome-st\\nprivate eolleclions in New .Tersey.\\nWater WorkB.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1871, C. M. K. Pauli.son in-\\nduced several citizens of Patcrson and Passaic to join\\nhim in the formation of a company for the supply ot\\nPassaie with water. The Acqmiekanonk Water Com-\\npany was fornu d, with a ca|iital stock of twn hundred\\nthousand dollars, and was incorporated in .\\\\ugust,\\n1S72. The works of the company are located on\\nMonroe Street near Vrceland s Lake, and the water\\nfor the supply of the city is taken from the Pa.ssaic\\nRiver, -that portion of it which p.i.sses throngli the\\neanal of the Dumlee Water- Power and l ;ind Com-\\npany. It is pumped up into a reservoir about fine\\nmile distant on Passaic Heights, an l supplies for", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0620.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "CITY OP PASSAIC.\\n385\\ndaily consumption in the city about seven hundred\\nthousand gallons. The cost of the works was some-\\nthing over one hundred thousand dollars. The offi-\\ncers of the company are John Reynolds, president\\nR. A. Terhune, M.D., vice-president; John J. Brown,\\ntreasurer, Paterson, N. J. W. Paulison, secretary and\\nsuperintendent.\\nNewspapers. -Passaic has two daily and two\\nweekly newsi)apers.\\nThe Passaic Item was established July 9, 1870, by\\nAlfred Speer, and was the first newspaper in the\\nplace. Mr. Speer was induced to establish a local\\nprinting-press and paper for the purpose of develop-\\ning the interests of Passaic, and as a means of adver-\\ntising his own extensive business. In this way he\\nhas made it profitable, and at the same time has fur-\\nnished a lively paper of local interest to quite a large\\ncircle of readers. It is still under his own editorial\\nmanagement. The Item is an eight-page weekly,\\ntwenty by thirty inches in dimensions. It has been\\nquite successful as an organ of retrenchment and re-\\nform in the aftairs of the city government.\\nThe Passaic City Herald (weekly) was established\\nin August, 1871, by Orrin Vanderhoven. It is in\\nsize twenty-eight by forty-two inches, thirty-two col-\\numns, and Democratic in politics.\\nAt the same office is published the Passaic Dailij, a\\nsprightly little paper, devoted to local news and the\\ninterests of the city. It was started July 14, 1881, by\\nthe Passaic Printing and Publishing Company, under\\nwhose auspices it is at present continued.\\nMr. Vanderhoven is one of the veteran journal-\\nists of New Jersey, having been formerly editor and\\nproprietor of the Paterson Guardian from the date of\\nits inception till the founding of his present paper in\\n1871.\\nThe Passaic City Daily JVeios was first published by\\nJohn F. Frost and Arthur Sawyer, Aug. 1, 1877. It\\nis a twenty-column paper, twenty-six by forty-two\\ninches in size, published every day, and is devoted to\\nthe local interests of Passaic, being independent in\\npolitics. Arthur Sawyer is now the editor and pub-\\nlisher, Mr. Frost having retired in 1878. The Daily\\nA eics bespeaks enterprise in its management and read-\\ning matter, and is a successful contribution to local\\njournalism.\\nPassaic Manufactures. One of the important\\nindustries of Aequackanonk in the earlier days was\\na foundry, erected near the bridge about 1840. This\\nwas established for the purpose of casting stoves for\\nthe New York market, and gathered around it quite\\na number of families, so that for .some years that part\\nof the town was quite a bu.sy and thriving hamlet.\\nThe proi)rietor, Mr. Blanchard, established a store\\nthere, and the first Methodist Church in the town\\nwas erected near the foundry.\\nDr. Benjamin Aycrigg, a wealthy gentleman from\\nnear Hackensack, purchased a farm in this vicinity,\\nand built an elegant residence. In order to carry out\\nhis plans of improving and beautifying his place, he\\nbought the premises of the foundry and its ap-\\npurtenances, demolished the buildings and converted\\nthe land into a pasture. The church stood there until\\nit was removed to the village by the society, the better\\nto accommodate its members, who had become more\\nnumerous in that section. The destruction of the\\nfoundry, which employed quite a large number of\\nmen, was felt to be a serious blow to the business of\\nthe place.\\nOn Wesel Brook, where the Passaic Bleachery now\\nstands, Mr. Guilard, a Frenchman, had established\\nsilk-print works as early as 1840. He built a three-\\nstory wooden mill and a brick dye-house, which he\\noccupied with his business. The premises were sub-\\nsequently occupied by Messrs. Charles and George\\nBaldwin, of Massachusetts, from about 1857 till the\\nproperty was leased by Mr. Watson, the founder of\\nthe present bleach-works.\\nThe first factory erected upon the Water-Power\\nCompany s Canal was by Mr. Atterbury, of Trenton,\\nthe president of the company. It was a small brick\\nbuilding, with a foundry in the rear, for the purpose\\nof manufacturing anvils, and is now used for making\\nrubber floor-cloths and other such purposes, on the\\ncorner of Passaic Street and the canal. The New\\nYork Steam-Engine Works were next erected, then\\nfollowed the wire-mill, then the print-works of\\nMessrs. Reed Barry, and the rest in order, until the\\nten large mills which give to Passaic the character of\\na thriving manufacturing city took their places upon\\ntheir respective sites along the immense and inex-\\nhaustible water-power supplied them by the Dundee\\nCompany.\\nThe mills and manufactories of Passaic at the pres-\\nent time are the following, with the dates of their es-\\ntablishment, and other statistics respecting the kind\\nand amount of their production\\nWaterhouse Brothers. The buildings of this\\nfirm .stand on the site of the paper-mill erected by\\nCondit and others of Jersey City, and which passed\\ninto the hands of the Water-Power Company, and\\nwas burnt down in 1869.\\nMessrs. Waterhouse purchased the premises in\\n1867, and erected the main building in 1870. This\\nbuilding is one hundred and thirty-three by seventy\\nfeet, and four stories high, with an extension one hun-\\ndred by seventy feet. In 1875 they erected an ad-\\nditional building one hundred and forty-two by forty-\\nseven feet, and part four stories high, surmounted by\\na cupola. These buildings are very substantially\\nbuilt, and fitted up with the best machinery. The\\nproduct of these extensive mills is fine cassimeres,\\nflocks, and chemical extract for destroying cotton in\\nwoolen rags. They employ 150 hands. Of the cassi-\\nmeres, 4000 yards per week are produced of the flocks,\\nabout 800 pounds per day and of the extract, about\\n6000 daily. The proprietors reside in Passaic, but\\nhave an office in the city of New York.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0621.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "386\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nReei Harky s Dye- and Print-Works.\\nEstablished in 1869. The buildings are of brick,\\nmodern style of architecture, and cover about three\\nand a half acre^. This firm handle cotton goods ex-\\nclusively, and employ from AOO to tJOO hands, chieHy\\nmen. The firm Iuls remained unchanged since the\\nbu.sines3 was established in 1809.\\nA. N. Ackerman 8 (formerly firm of Ackerman\\nHopper) Steam Saw- and Planin ;-Mili,. Estub-\\nlished in 1869, by A. N. Ackerman and Adrian Hop-\\nper. The latter retired in June, 1881. The pro|ierty\\nis valued at about twenty thousand dollars, and the\\nyearly product amounts to about forty thousand dol-\\nlars. Fifteen men are employed. The business of\\nthe mills is planing, moulding, turning, and scroll\\nsawing, making brackets, balusters, newels, packing-\\nboxes, etc. The mills are at the foot of Kiver Street.\\nBasci! Sons Woolen-Mills.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1862, Basch\\nOddy commenced manufacturing flocks and shoddy\\nin one of the buildings belonging to the present es-\\ntablishment. The amount of the business was then\\nsmall, but it continued to increase. Mr. Jacob Basch\\npurchased the interest of Mr. Oddy about 186(!, and\\nadmitted his son Henry as a member of the firm\\nof Jacob Basch Son. In 187t! he purcha.sed the old\\nwire-mill and site of the Dundee Water-Power an l\\nLand Company. They tore down the frame building,\\nand in 1876 cleared and graded the premises and\\nerected thereon the fine buildings of their present\\nworks. They are all of brick, fire-iiroof, and a modern\\nstyle of architecture. They also built four hundred\\nfeet of dock on the Passaic River. The main mill\\nor factory is one hundred and forty by fifty feet, four\\nstories and basement, and surmounted by a tower.\\nIn this building is produced a fine grade of fancy\\nca-ssimeres. There are employed in both mills one\\nhundred and seventy-five hands, and the annual pro-\\nduct amount-s to six hundred thousand dollars worth\\nof fabrics. In addition to the two mills the firm\\nliavo other buildings, consisting of machine-shop,\\nboiler-house, dye-house, and ])icker-house, the wliole\\nestablishment being one of the finest in the State.\\nIn 187S, James and Charles Bsisch were admitted\\nto partnership, the firm being since known as Jacob\\nBasch Sons.\\nThe Dindee Chemical-Works, Joseph Butter-\\nworth Son, were established by the present proprie-\\ntors in 1879. They employ aliout .{H hands, and manu-\\nfacture of the goods named in tlie fi)llowing list to\\nthe amount of :f20,()00 j er annum Sulphuric acid,\\nnitric acid, aqua fortis, muriatic acid, acetic acid,\\na |Ua ammonia acid, nitrate of copper, muriate of cop-\\nper, acetate of copper, nitrate of iron, muriate of iron,\\nnitrate of tin, crystals of tin, chloride of zinc, stannatc\\nof soda, iron liquor, oiline, acid for nitro-glycerine,\\ncopperas, nitrate of iron. i\\nPahsakt Bleachery, John Watson, proprietor.\\nMr. Watson began the bleaching business in 1 a.s.Haic\\nin 1863, in a building on the site of the present\\nworks, leased of the proprietors. In 1868 he pur-\\nchased the premises. In 1872 the buildings burned\\ndown, and Mr. Watson immediately rebuilt the\\nworks. The main building of this large establish-\\nment is one hundred and eighty by sixty feet, with\\ntwo one-story extensions, one one hundred by one\\nhundred feet, and one seventy by thirty-five; there\\nare also two one-story buildings sixty by sixty feet.\\nThe water used for bleaching purposes is taken from\\nWe.-el Brook, which is very i)ure, being spring-water.\\nThe projirietor employs 60 hands, and the aggregate\\nbusiness amounts to $1(10,000 a year.\\nThe RiTTENHofSE MANiFACTrRiNo Company\\nis a large joint-stock establishment, of which Mr.\\nCharles H. Animidown is manager; Edward H. Am-\\nmidown, ])resident; and S. A. Clark, treasurer. Their\\nbuildings, of which the principal mill is two hundred\\nand sixty by sixty feet, and three stories, with wings,\\nstore-houses, shops, etc., were erected in 1876. They\\nmanufacture blankets and all kinds of woolen goods,\\nproducing yearly an aggregate of 600,000 pounds\\n3W hands are employed, and the product in dollars\\nprobalily anmunts to half a million a year.\\nSteamboats, etc. Two steamboats, the Cora\\nMandel and the Alfred Speer, make daily trips\\nbetween Passaic and Newark.\\nW. S. Anderson Co. run a barge for the trans-\\nportation of lumber between Passaic and Albany.\\nMr. Anderson has been a resident of Piissaic all his\\nlife, and his heavy lumber liusiness has been one of\\nthe chief enterprises of the place.\\nEducational. The early settlers of Acquackanonk\\nmaile provision for a common neighborhood school\\nalmost as soon as they had established a church.\\nThe patentees set apart a portion of land for both\\njiurposes, and for more than a century the church\\nand the school-house stood side by side upon the\\nsame ground or upon adjoining lots. At what time\\nthe first school-house was built on the ground near\\nthe Reformed Church is not known, nor is any defi-\\nnite information accessible respecting the character\\nof the schools taught there. It is probable that they\\nwere first taught in the Dutch language, and em-\\nbraced only those rudimentary branches common to\\nsuch schools at an early day. When the necessity\\narose for higher education the children of the more\\nwealthy were either sent from home, or some classical\\nscholar, either a minister or a physician, established\\na sehocd for the more advanced stu iies in the neigh-\\nborhood. Thus we learn that Dr. Blachley taught a\\nclassical school in Acquackanonk, in connection with\\nthe practice of his profession, early in the present\\ncentury, and that he also taught a similar school\\nsubsequently in Paterson.\\nA .school-hou.se stood on a lot adjoining the old\\nAcquackanonk Church as long ago as can be remem-\\nTlttTi* nrp ncvrnil ottiiT mllU, t ul, nftor ililigent Mpplicattnn, no\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0U(UUca uf thorn haro li\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abii obtained.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0622.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n387\\nbered by the oldest citizens now living, and tradition\\npoints back to a much earlier period, when a building\\nused for a school stood on that spot. The last edifice\\nwhich stood there was built on ground granted by the\\nconsistory of the Reformed Church for school pur-\\nposes, and when the building ceased to be used for a\\nschool it was torn down and the property reverted\\nto the original donors. It was torn down in 1871,\\nwhen the school building on Passaic Street was\\noccupied.\\nIn 1853, Dr. John M. Howe removed from the city\\nof New York to Acquackanonk. He was a man of\\nwealth and influence, and became a large land-owner\\nand benefactor of the town. In 1856 he was elected\\ntown superintendent and president of the board of\\nschool trustees. Being interested in the cause of\\neducation, and there being no school-house in town\\nexcept the old dilapidated building on the church\\nlot, he agitated the question of building a new school-\\nhouse, called a meeting of the citizens, and procured\\na vote in favor of raising five thousand dollars for\\nthat object. The plan, however, was defeated by the\\nresi tance of the minority, several persons entering\\ntheir protest, and one justice of the peace informing\\nDr. Howe that if he proceeded with the building he\\nwould put a stop to it by legal process.\\nDr. Howe then built a private school-house, pri-\\nmarily for the benefit of his own family, employed his\\nown teachers, and fixed the terms of admission for\\nothers who were disposed to send their sons and\\ndaughters there to receive its benefits. Thus Dr.\\nHowe s Academy, as it was called, became a noted\\ninstitution, and flourished for many years. It was\\nkept in successful operation until the necessity for it\\nwas superseded by the establishment of the present\\npublic school system of Passaic, including its High\\nSchool, in which are taught the usual academic\\nbranches. Dr. Howe was an earnest worker in bring-\\ning about this important change, and in inaugurating\\nthe free public school system of the State. He is at\\npresent a member of the State Board of Education.\\nPuBLir Schools. The public schools of Passaic\\nrank among the best in the county. They consist of\\na High School, which receives pupils suitably pre-\\npared for it from all parts of the city, and of four\\ngrammar and primary schools, located in different\\nsub-districts. The edifice of School No. 1 is situated\\non Passaic Street it accommodates the High School,\\ntogether with the grammar and primary school of the\\nfirst sub-district. The building is a fine brick struc-\\nture, two stories and ample basement, surmounted by\\na Mansard roof and tower, in modern style of arciii-\\ntecture and equipments, and will seat five hundred\\npupils. The High School has a library and limited\\napparatus, and it is worthy of note here that the\\nschools are all supplied with text-books, slates, and\\nstationery at the public expense. Ten teachers are\\nemployed in the High School building, including the\\ngrammar and primary departments, and the principal\\nof the High School is principal of all the depart-\\nments. The building was erected in 1870.\\nSchool No. 2 occupies a building situated on Ber-\\ngen Street, in that part of the city called Dundee.\\nThe edifice is a good brick structure, capable of seat-\\ning three hundred pupils. At present there are four\\nteachers employed. The building was erected on\\nland given by the Dundee Water-Power and Land\\nCompany in 1873.\\nSchool No. 3 accommodates the people in the vicin-\\nity of Passaic Bridge, and at present occupies a rented\\nbuilding. It will accommodate about sixty pupils.\\nSchool No. 4, situated on Howe Avenue, occupies\\na wooden building, which was erected in 1877, and\\nenlarged to twice its former size in 1881. It will now\\nseat two hundred and thirty pupils, who are under\\nthe instruction of four regular teachers. This build-\\ning is one of the neatest and most cheerful school\\nedifices in the city.\\nThe school population of Passaic is about two\\nthousand, according to the census of 1881. The\\nwhole number of teachers employed is nineteen. The\\nnumber of pupils in the High School is ninety in the\\ngrammar schools, one hundred and fifty.\\nThe first class was graduated at the High School in\\n1873.\\nEducation in the village was confined to a single\\nschool district, with its three trustees, up to April 21,\\n1874. At that date, upon an amendment of the char-\\nter, a board of education was formed, consisting of\\nnine members, three from each ward. The district\\ntrustees then in office continued, in addition to the nine\\nmembers of the board, until their terms of office ex-\\npired. The original members were as follows\\nEdo Kip, Rev. M. B. Smith, T. B. Stewart, Ibrmer\\ntrustees of the district, holding over under the char-\\nter; James Wright, James S. Biddell, E. K. Halstead,\\nfrom the First Ward George W. Demarest, C. Van\\nRiper, M.D., Andrew Foulds, from the Second Ward;\\nE. W. Vondersmith, Daniel A. Smith, Benjamin Ayc-\\nrigg, Ph.D., from the Third Ward.\\nThe presidents of the board have been as follows\\nRev. Marshall B. Smith, 1874-78; J. Manley Acker-\\nman, 1878-79; Rev. Marshall B. Smith, 1879-80;\\nGeorge W. Finch, 1880-81 Rev. P. F. Leavens,\\n1881.\\nThe secretaries have been Andrew Foulds, 1874-78;\\nS. M. Birch, 1878-79; Joseph H. Wright, 1879-80;\\nDewitt C. Cowdrey, 1880; Isaiah W. Sylvester, 1880.\\nThe principals have been School No. 1, including\\nthe High School, Samuel W. Rice, 1870-81 George\\nW. Calkins, A.M., 1881.\\nSchool No. 2, Sarah E. Stanburrough, 1873-79;\\nMary L. D. Wilson, 1879-81 Lena Garrison, 1881.\\nSchool No. 4, Manda Millington, 1877.\\nThe Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Ac-\\nquackanonk. The first patentees of Acquackanonk\\nwere a religious people, brought up in the doctrines\\nand form of worship of the Reformed Church of Hoi-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0623.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "388\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nland. Like their brethren in other settlements in\\nNew NetherUind, their earliest care was to provide\\nthemselves with preaching and with religious instruc-\\ntion and in many comnuinities, before they were\\nable to settle a minister among themselves perma-\\nnently, they encouraged and cheerfully rewarded the\\noccasional visits of clergymen frr m the older settle-\\nments. Thus New York, Bergen, and Kingston-on-\\nthe-Hudson supplied for a time several Dutch con-\\ngregations in East New Jersey.\\nThe first preacher in this vicinity of whom we have\\nany knowledge was Dominie Petrus Tassemaker. The\\nancient church records of Ilackensack commemorate\\nin the Dutch language his doings at that place at the\\nfollowing dates: Anno 1686. Dominie Petrus Tas-\\nsemaker luus found here, at Ackiiisack, the follow-\\ning church niembers. 1686: The memories of\\nDo. Petrus Tassemaker, transcribed from the rough\\nminutes, are the following:\\nIst. The 25th (July) Petrus Tassemaker, here at\\nAckinsack, baptized these children.\\nThere are herein written the memoirs of Domi-\\nnie Petrus Tassemaker from the year 1686, showing\\nwho were clioseii and ordained as elders and deacons\\nover the church at .Vckinsack, as follows: Hcndrick\\nJorse Brinkerlioof J as elder over the east Albert\\nStevense as elder over the west. And as deacons:\\nHendrick Epke, as deacon over the east, and Vulkert\\nHanson over the west. And on Sunday, July 25th,\\nthey were invested with their offices by Do. Petrus\\nTassemaker.\\nIn the Long Island Historical Society s Memoirs,\\nvol. i., is the journal of two Labadist missionaries\\nwho visited this country in 1679-80, and visited Ac-\\nquackanonk and thcOrcat Falls of the Pa-ssaic. They\\nmet Tassemaker at the church in New York on Sun-\\nday, Sept. 24, H 79. and learned from him tliat he\\nwas from Utrecht that he was a student, and ex-\\npected to be ordained that day or within a few days\\nthereafter. We learn also that on Sunday, October\\n29tli, he preached at Bergen, and about November\\n7th sailed in a yacht to his field of labor on the\\nSouth Kiver (Delaware). The Labadist missionaries\\nafterwards licanl him preach there at one of his sta-\\ntions, and rather uncharitably criticised his sermon.\\nBut we will not ijuotc further from this interesting\\njourinil. In 16M2, Dominie Tassemaker accepted a\\ncall from the chnr h at Schenectady, N. Y. While\\nthere he visited Ilackensack two or three times, and\\nit is believed that he preached at the same time to the\\npeople of Acquackanonk, although of the latter there\\nappears to be no positive evidence. In February,\\n16!K), when the French and Indians destroyed Schen-\\nectady, this devoted pastor fell a victim in the com-\\nmon massacre, among his beloved people, he and his\\nwife and two colored servanLs, besides others of the\\ninhabitunto, being but -hered in the dead of night.\\n)K(iASIZATION OF THE ACQI AC KANONK ClIl KCII.\\nWe are not able to tell precisely when the Acquack-\\nanonk settlers organized a church. It may possibly\\nhave been under the irregular ministry of Dominie Tas-\\nsemaker,about the same time that he ordained elders of\\nthe church at Ilackensack, 1686. There is reason to\\nbelieve that a church record wius kept here, similar\\nto that at Ilackensack, although none such has been\\nfound. The oldest volume of this church record ex-\\ntant, including list of members, baptisms, marriages,\\nelection of elders and deacons, and acts of consistory,\\nwas begun in 1726. The list of elders and deacons\\nprior to that date was transcribed from the Ilacken-\\nsack records; the list of births and ba|)tisms from\\nfamily Bibles, apparently the other records begin\\nwith that year. There is, however, an older collec-\\ntion of memoranda, contained in a little volume of\\nunruled paper, found several years ago, together with\\nother ancient miscellaneous church papers, at the\\nhouse of Mr. Richard Tcrhune, in Lodi. This record\\ngives, week by week, the amount of collections taken\\nup at each Sunday service during a period of thirty\\nyears, together with various items of expenditure,\\ngoing back to June 12, 1693, when the collection\\namounted to eighteen stivers, about $l.S(i. This\\nminute and tietailed account of Sunday services in-\\ndicates that there was a regular church organization\\nhere as early as June, 16 .tS; how much earlier we\\ncannot say. But in an ancient Dutch document, dated\\nApril 10, 1693. a parcel of land at Acquackanonk,\\nleased by Walling Jacobs to his son-in-law, Hermanns\\nGerrets, is described as beginning by the river on the\\nKing s road, the full breadth of the lot (one of the\\nsubdivisions of the Ac(|uackanonk patent), and so\\nupward, except the public churchyard. This is the\\nearliest reference which has yet been found to the\\nAcquackanonk Church. The public churchyard\\nreferred to is that wherein the dust of the first settlers\\nand of their descendants has reposed iuring the past\\none hundred and eighty years. Unfortunately, the\\noriginal deed of the church property was lost as long\\nago as 1766, when a new confirmatory or quit-claim\\ndeed was executed by the heirs of the first patentees.\\nGuillaume Hcrtliolf was first a voorliser in the\\ntwo congregations, Ilackensack and .Vcquackanonk,\\nliving in the latter place, as appears by a document\\ndrawn up by himself, dated April 10, 1693, in which\\nhe describes himself as schoolmaster and authori/e l\\nwriter (or dinere schrijver), residing at the village\\nof Acquiggenonk. The jieople of both congregations\\ndesired that he should become their minister, and sent\\nhim with a memorial utnmimously signed to the I hussig\\nat Flushing, where he appeared Sept. 2. 1693. The\\nClassis sat the next day for the consideration of the\\npetition, which was attended to, according to the fol-\\nlowing record\\nIn SnnioN, SopL 3, )6a3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Article 5. aullli umi Bvrtlinlf, menU iDc l\\numirr Arttclp 9 In y\u00c2\u00bb*\u00c2\u00ab(enl\u00c2\u00abj*i i**!!!!*!), apiH*rwl \u00c2\u00abn l iirT*oiitc l hi* ;\u00c2\u00bbrt|.\\ntlon In Uio nunic t f Ilia church ami cungrPKnIlufi In New NrUicrlanda.\\nTh\u00c2\u00ab Cluila, Ukinf Into canddiration tha anxioua dtalra of the church\\nNalaun M8S.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0624.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n389\\nthere for the stated ministry of tlie word and ordinances, and their pecu-\\nliar attachment to the person of Mr. Bertliolf, and being unwilling to in-\\nterpose any hindrance, deem it proper to admit him to a proof of his gifts\\nand qnalifications, the examination to he conducted by tlie president, and\\nto be held fourteen days hence.\\nThe records of the Classis show that at the time\\nappointed, Sept. 16, 1693, he appeared before that\\nreverend body, and exhibited such proofs of his\\nqualifications that the Classis granted the request of\\nthe churches of Hackensack and Acquackanonk,\\nand he was accordingly ordained by the laying on of\\nhands. The expenses of Dominie Bertholf to Holland\\nwere defrayed by the two churches which he was\\nto serve. At that day, and for more than a century\\nafter, the Dutch Churches in America were dependent\\nupon the ecclesiastical sanction of the Fatherland for\\nthe valid ordination of their ministers, and usually they\\nreceived the rite from the Classis of Amsterdam. The\\ntransition from this time-honored custom to a recog-\\nnition of the right of a local Classis to ordain minis-\\nters for the American Churches involved one of the\\nmost bitter controversies known to the first century\\nof the Reformed Dutch Church in America.\\nIn February, 1694, Dominie Bertholf retiirned to\\nAmerica, and became the first regularly installed\\npastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Jersey.\\nThe following is a notice of his return, recorded by\\nhimself in the Kerkboeck, or church record, at\\nHackensack\\nAnno 1694, on the 24tli of February, Guilaen Bertholf arrived from\\nZeelandt, witli a legal Classiail license to serve as preacher. Shepherd\\nand Teacher over Acquiggenouck and Ackinaack, and was received by\\nthe Church with great affection.\\nThe first act of his pastoral office appears to have\\nbeen the ordination of a joint consistory for both the\\nchurches, although it was doubtless distinct in all\\nthings except as to the support of the minister, whose\\ntime was divided between the two congregations. We\\nread\\nOn the 18th March the male members from Ackinsack and Acquig-\\ngenonck assembled at Acquiggenouck in the name and fear of God, and\\nhaving invoked the Lord s holy name, they chose as Elders over the\\nsaid places our brethren, Hendrick Jorese over Ackinsack and Eleijas\\nVrelandt over Acquiggenouck. And as Deacons, Hendrick Epke and\\nJurrian Westerveldt for Ackinsack and Bastiaen van Gijsse and Hessel\\nPieterse, for Acquiggenouck, who were invested with their office three\\nSuuda,vs later by their minister, G, Bertholf, for the church at Ackin-\\nsack.\\nThe first sacrament was administered in 1694, prob-\\nably in both churches. Sejitember 16th of that year\\nis the following record The sublime and holy sac-\\nrament was held by the minister at Ayequesge-\\nnonck. The collection on that day amounted to\\ntwenty-six guilders and five stivers.\\nThe salary of Dominie Bertholf was one thousand\\nguilders, or twenty-five pounds yearly, from each of\\nthe churches, paid by the churches half-yearly in\\nturn. It was often in arrears, and on one or two oc-\\ncasions the good dominie donated the balance due\\nhim to the church erection and repair fund. The\\nTaylor s Annals, 172.\\nchurch, however, raised considerable contributions for\\nmissionary purposes as early as the year 1709, and\\neven earlier.\\nThe territory of the two congregations, or what may\\nbe termed the minister s parish, in those days ex-\\ntended from Belleville on the south to Tappan on the\\nnorth, from the Hackensack and even the Hudson on\\nthe east to Pompton on the west. But the visitations\\nof the laborious pastor were not limited by the bounds\\nof even this extensive field. About 1697 he organ-\\nized the church atTarrytown, and afterwards preached\\nthere occasionally and in March, 1699, he ordained\\ndeacons and elders in the church at Raritan, where\\nhe ordinarily ]ireached twice during each year and\\nadministered the sacraments.- He doubtless installed\\nthe Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (that an-\\ncestor of a family since distinguished in the State and\\nnation, in the pulpit, on the battle-field, in the national\\ncouncils, in college, and in law) over that church in\\n1720. Being for fifteen years or more the only settled\\nDutch preacher in New Jersey, Mr. Bertholf had in\\nconsequence a general supervision over all the\\nchurches of his faith in the colony.\\nDominie Bertholf continued to serve the church as\\nits faithful pastor till the year 1724, when death put\\nan end to his earthly labors. The records of the\\nchurch do not show the number added during his\\nministry of thirty-one years, but about two years after\\nhis death the list appears to be one hundred and\\nninety-six, including Acquackanonk, Second River\\n(Belleville), and the Ponds, near Pompton. A large\\nnumber of active members must have died during\\nthis period. He received into the Hackensack Church\\nduring the same time two hundred and forty-two by\\nprofession and twenty-six by certificate. It is be-\\nlieved that in all his various labors at home and\\nabroad he received into the church fully one thousand\\nmembers.\\nFirst Church Building. Exactly at what date\\nthe first church edifice was built is not known, but it\\nis believed to have been erected in 1702. The Ac-\\nquackanonk people had been preparing for the con-\\nsummation of this desirable object much earlier, and\\nboth the minister and the members of the congrega-\\ntion had laid up something towards a fund that should\\nbe appropriated towards the erection of a church.\\nFrom various items of account it appears that quite\\na large sum had been laid by in the poor chest, as\\nthe treasury of the church was called. Probably the\\nfirst church was ready for occupancy about 1706. It\\nstood on or near the site of the present edifice, in a\\ntriangular piece of ground given for church, school,\\nand burial-place by the original patentees. This piece\\nof ground lay in the form of a triangle between the\\nline of the Hoagland or Stoffel s Point Patent, the\\n2 Taylor s Annals, 176 Messler B Memorials of the Raritan Churcfai\\n159-163.\\n3 Taylor s Annals, 17fi.\\nRomeyn s Hackensack Church, 46.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0625.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "39U\\nHISTOllY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nVan Wagoner line, and the Passaic River, and was\\ngiven by the general consent of the patentees to the\\nReformed Dutch Church of Acquackiinonk. The\\noriginal deed, as has already been mentioned, \\\\V!U lost\\nsome time prior to 17GG, but on that date the heirs of\\nthe original patentees executed another deed to the\\nchurch.\\nAfter the death of Dominie Bertholf in 1724, and\\nbefore the settlement of a new |)astor, the celebrated\\nDominie (iratcheus Dubois, minister iti New York\\nfrom 1699 to 1751, officiated here several times, and\\nat one time, in 1724, was paid five pieces of eight,\\na Spanish coin then in common circulation, and at\\nanother time forty shillings. S\\\\x pieces of eight\\nwere paid to Dominie Santfort (Santvoord, of\\nStaten Island) for supplying the pulpit once during\\nthe year 1724.\\nThe diflSculties attending the settlement of a new\\npastor may be inferred from the fact that subscriptions\\npledging a sufficient amount for the preacher s salary\\nhad to be raised in Belleville, Acquaekanonk, Pompton,\\nand Ponds, the various interests and j)roclivitie,s of all\\nthese .separate communities had to be consulted, rules\\nand stipulations agreed upon, and all this sent to Hol-\\nland, in order that the reverend Classis of Amsterdam\\nmight determine upon a minister to send out who would\\nbe willing in advance to accept of the conditions ])ro-\\nposed. To raise the subscription to the reipiired\\namount of eighty pounds for the preacher s salary,\\nand to transmit the papers to Holland, and to receive\\nthe pastor sent in return, consumed at least eighteen\\nmonths, and it was not until late in 172. that the\\nchurch was again supplied with a settled minister.\\nThe second [lastor at Acquackanonk was the Kev.\\nHenricus Coens, from Holland. lie ap| ears to have\\nset sail from his native land in October, 172o, and ar-\\nrived here some time late in the autumn. Into the\\nparticulars of his ministry, or of those who followed\\nhim, it is impo.ssible lor ns to enter in this necessarily\\nbrief record. The pastors who scrveil this church\\nfrom its organi/iation to the present time, and the\\nperiods of their respective ministry, may be briefly\\nsummarized as follows: Guilliam Bertholf, 1G93-1724;\\nHenricus Coens, 172.5-35; Johannes Van Driessen,\\n1 7. )-4 David Marinus, 1752-73; Henricus Schoon-\\nmaker, 1774-181(;; I eter D. Kroeligh, ISKI-i Ben-\\njamin C. Taylor, 1825- 2S; Christian .1. I ouleson,\\n1829-31; William R. Bogardus, 1831-.56; .1. Pascal\\nStrong, 1850-69; John Gaston, present pastor, 1869.\\nFrom these data it appears that the church of Ac-\\nquackanonk h:us had eleven pastors during a period\\nof one hundred and eighty-eight years, making an\\naverage of a trifle over seventeen years for each as-\\ntorale. We can only add a few brief notes touching\\nthe life of each of these men. Dominic Bartholf has\\nalready been spoken of at considerable length.\\nThat Rev. Mr. Coens was widely esteemed is evi-\\ndent from his having been called to Millstone, N. J.,\\nto ordain and install the first consistory there. May\\n18, 1727. He also enjoyed the personal friendship\\nof Dominie Vincentius Antonides, the distinguished\\npreacher of Long Island, whose pulpit he wiis warmly\\ninvited to supply in May, 1726. The Long IsUiikI\\nminister addresses him as Rev. Godly and learned\\nsir, The Master Henricus Coens, faithful servant of\\nChrist s gospel in his church at Agtquakenong.\\nThe church records contain the following notice of\\nhis death and burial: The Master Hend. Coens,\\nlate ordained preacher and minister in the Agh |uech-\\nnonk Church, fell asleep in the Lord the 14th day of\\nFebruary, in the year 1735, and was buried here in\\nour church. This pastor was the compiler of the\\nchurch records, which begin in 1726.\\nRev. Johannes Van Driessen is spoken of as one of\\nthe most marked men of his day, ami in some im-\\nportant respects a representative man, embodying in\\nhimself that yearning for independence that was al-\\nready making it.self felt in the ecclesiastical as well\\n!is in the political circles of America. He was called\\nto this church from Kinderhook, where he was piistor,\\nand also of the Cierman Church of New Paltz, Aug.\\n4, 1735, and remained in the pastorate of the church\\ntill 1748. He was the son of Rev. Petrus Van Dries-\\nsen, minister at Albany, 1712-28, missionary to the\\nMohawks in 1722, and founder of the Reformed\\nDutch Church at Kinderhook. Rev. Johannes Van\\nDriessen was a line cla sical scholar, having attended\\nthe High School of Harderwyck, in the north of\\nHolland, three years before entering upon his study\\nof theology at Utrecht. He was ordained and licen.sed\\nas a preacher by a Congregational Council of eleven\\nministers, convened, at Yale College, New Haven,\\nApril 13, 1727. I p to this time the Reformed Dutch\\nChurch in America had ilepended entirely upon the\\nchurch of Holland to ordain ministers and send them\\nout hither, entailing a severe burden upon tlie churches\\nhere, which had to bear the expenses of the minister s\\nvoyage, besides causing long and wearisome delays\\ngenerally. Mr. A an Driessen was the first Keformed\\nDutch preacher in .Vmerica who had not been regu-\\nlarly licensed or ordained by the Classis in Holland.\\nThis irregularity was not countenanced by the ma-\\njority of the American Church, and Mr. Van Dries-\\nsen sulfered seriously in consequence of the con-\\ntumely it brought upon him during his entire min-\\nistry. But his excellent character and abundant\\nChristian labors sustained him, and his able preach-\\ning always commanded a hearing. Independence of\\ncharacter and an outsjioken frankness were among\\nhis strongly-marked peculiarities, .\\\\pril (i, M, a\\nnew church edifice was cotisecrati^d near the present\\nPoinjiton Steel- Works, and Mr. an I)rie.-4sen preached\\nthe sermon, anil also ordained the members of the\\nnew consistory. From this time till the close of his\\npastorate he had charge of the two churches.\\nI Mmalitr i Momorialii, 2. 4.\\nAulugniph Irlli-r uf V. Aliloiiiilm; Nelaoii M8S.\\nUoc. Hilt. N. T.. Tul. III. 016-17.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0626.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n391\\nUnder the pastorate of Rev. David Marinus, in\\n1755, the Totowa Cliurch at Paterson was organized.\\nFrom that time forward he had charge of the churches\\nof Acquackanonk, Totowa, and Pompton, until his\\ndismissal from the pastorate in August, 1773.\\nNew Church Epifice. The old church, erected\\nbetween 1702 and 1706, although frequently repaired,\\nbecame in the lapse of half a century unfit for use,\\nand in 1760 steps were taken towards the erection of\\na new and more commodious building. It was quite\\na common practice in those days to raise money for\\nall sorts of purposes by lottery. A State lottery had\\nbeen in operation for fifteen or twenty years, and lot-\\nteries had been authorized to raise money to build\\nbridges, colleges, and churches. It is believed that\\nfunds were authorized to be raised in this manner to\\nbuild the new church at Acquackanonk, although\\ndiligent search has failed to discover the law to that\\nell ect. Money may have been so raised under a gen-\\neral law, and no special enactment have been re-\\nquired. The church records furnish abundant evi-\\ndence that the lottery scheme was actually put in\\noperation in 1761. Take the following:\\nFrom the Managere of the Achquechnook Lottery, given for the\\nbuilding of a Dntch Cliurcli at Achqiiechiionk, 200 Tickets.\\nBeginning ut No. 831-1000.\\nIdem, 311-340.\\nThe 28 Feb. 1761.\\nThe new church was undoubtedly built about this\\ntime, although there is no record extant certifying to\\nthe fact, nor scarcely a tradition as to the appearance\\nor character of the building. Some paper or record\\nmay yet be discovered throwing light upon the sub-\\nject.\\nRev. Henricus Schoonmaker, previous to his set-\\ntlement at Acquackanonk, was in charge of the\\nchurches at Poughkeepsie and Fishkill, N. Y. In\\nthe call extended to him by the church it is said,\\nAnd all prefer you. Dominie Henricus Schoon-\\nmaker, preacher at Poukeepsie and Fishkill, of your\\npiety and talents being well assured, and our whole\\nchurch being unitedly inclined towards your person\\nwe choose you, therefore, with the full consent of our\\ncongregation, as our ordinary pastor and minister,\\nfor and among our Low Dutch Reformed Church at\\nAchquechnonck, in order among us to preach the holy\\ngospel, to catechise and administer the sacraments, as\\nalso the church discipline to administer, besides in\\nthe lawful meetings of the consistory, prudently and\\nfaithfully, and moreover everything that pertains to\\nthe office of a faithful servant of Jesus Christ, accord-\\ning to God s holy word and the church decrees of the\\nnational Synod of Dort, 1618 and 1619.\\nThis call took effect May 1, 1774, and Mr. Schoon-\\nmaker remained in charge till 1816. He was born in\\nRochester, Ulster Co., N. Y., July 18, 1739. He was\\nlicensed in 1762 or 1763 by the Coetus, and was called\\nto the churches of Poughkeepsie and Fishkill but\\nhis ordination was bitterly opposed by the Confer-\\nentie partisans, who got possession of the church at\\nPoughkeepsie where the ceremony was to take place\\nand locked and barred the doors. In this extremity\\nDominie Schoonmaker s friends brought out a wagon\\nunder an apple-tree before the church, and from that\\nimpromptu pulpit the Rev. John H. Goetschius\\npreached the sermon, and the candidate knelt and\\nwas ordained there. He served very acceptably and\\nwith great success until his churches required preach-\\ning in English, which was beyond his power, and\\nhence he accepted the call to Acquackanonk. The\\nRev. Dr. Livingston once remarked that Dominie\\nSchoonmaker was the most eloquent preacher in the\\nDutch language whom he had ever heard in this\\ncountry.\\nThe Rev. Dr. Meyer, pastor of the churches at\\nTotowa, Pompton Plains, and Fairfield, having died\\nOct. 27, 1791, the Totowa Church the year following\\nproposed to the Acquackanonk Church to share the\\nbenefits and expenses of Mr. Schoonmaker s preach-\\ning. The arrangement was entered into, and the\\npastor took charge of both churches, giving an occa-\\nsional Sunday to Preakness. He remained in the\\nfaithful discharge of his duties as long as his increas-\\ning age and infirmities would allow him to labor suc-\\ncessfully, and, upon the provision of the churches for\\nI his comfortable support during his natural life, re-\\nI signed Feb. 13, 1816.\\nI Rev. Peter D. Froeligh was installed March 9,\\n1817, and dismissed April 29, 1825. Near the close\\nI of his pastorate, in 1825, the question arose as to the\\npropriety of baptizing children of non-professing\\nparents, or where one of the parents was not a pro-\\nfessor of religion. The custom had prevailed of bap-\\ntizing all children indiscriminately, and its propriety\\nI seems not to have been called in question until Dom-\\ninie Froeligh called the consistory together on the\\n25th of March, 1825, and informed them that he\\ncould not conscientiously administer the sacred\\nordinance of baptism to infants unless one of the\\nparents was a professor of religion. The consistory\\ncalled a special meeting of the church to vote upon\\nthe question. Twenty-one members sustained the\\nposition of the minister, nine declined to vote at all,\\nand one Mr. Garret J. Speer voted for the contiu-\\nuance of the old custom of ba])tizing infants without\\nregard to the profession or non-profession of their\\nparents. A large part of the congregation claimed\\nthat the meeting was called unfairly, and the contro-\\nversy which arose was the cause of serious difficulty\\nand dissension in the church. The Classis of Para-\\nmus was appealed to, and after serious consideration\\ndissolved the pastoral relations of Mr. Froeligh with\\nhis congregation. This was done April 29, 1825.\\nRev. Benjamin C. Taylor was installed Sept. 25,\\n1825, and resigned to accept a call to Bergen, June\\n19, 1828. He was an able, scholarly, and earnest\\npreacher, and his contribution to the literature of the\\nchurch in his Annals of the Classis of Bergen and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0627.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "392\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nHackeosack has left an enduring monument to his\\nmemon-.\\nRev. Christian Z. Paulison, the next pastor, served\\nthe church two years, trotn 1829 to 1831.\\nRev. William R. Hogardus, who succeeded him,\\nwas installed pa-^tor of the church June 22, 1831. He\\nwas horn in Fishkill, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1789, and grad-\\nuated at Union College in 1814. He resigned his\\nlong and useful pastorate Jan. 3, 1850, to take efl ect\\non the 1st of May following. Soon after his rcsigna-\\ntion he removed to Paterson, where his wife died, and\\nhe soon after removed to Kiuderhook, where he died\\nin February, 1862.\\nRev. J. Pascal Strong, the tenth pastor, was in-\\nstalled Dec. 21, 1856, and resigned June IS, 1809,\\nafter a successful pastorate of thirteen years. The\\nNorth Reformed Chnrch of Passaic being organized\\nat that time through his instrumentality, he became\\nthe first pastor of that body, where he remained some\\nyears. At the time of his call to Passaic he was pas-\\ntor of the Third Reformed Church of Jersey City.\\nDr. Strong graduated at Rutgers College in 1845, and\\nfrom the theological seminary at New Brunswick in\\n1850.\\nRev. John Gaston, the present pastor of the church,\\nwas born in Somerville, N. J., on Nov. 12, 1825. He\\nis a son of William B. Gaston and Elizabeth Kirk-\\npatrick, sister of Rev. .lacob Kirkpiilriek, D.D., de-\\nceased, of Ringoes, N. J. Mr. (iiiston is a graduate\\nof the theological seminary at New Brunswick in\\nthe class of 1852, in which year he settled in the\\nministry at Pompton, where he remained in the pas-\\ntoral charge for ton years. He then removed to Sau-\\ngerties, Ulster Co., N. Y., and reinaiiieil in charge of\\nthe church there until liis removal to Acquaekanonk.\\nHe was instjillcd over the old church at this place\\nOct. 10, 1869.\\nIn 1859 the old cluirch was enlarged by the addition\\nof -sLxteen feet in length to the original building.\\nThis wius done at a cost of $;!8IHt. The lecture-room,\\nor chapel, was built in 186 In 1861 considerable\\nadditions were made to the parsonage at a cost of\\nabout two thousand doHars. The parsonage farm\\nconsists of about twelve acres.\\nNumber of resident communicants, 3.50; number\\nof Sabbath-selioi)l scholars, 275 number of Sabbath-\\nschonl ti:i liir L .H. .liiniis A. ^proull, su| erinten(lent.\\nMethodist Episcopal Church.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The first meetings\\nof the Methodist denomination in Pa-ssaic, or Acquaek-\\nanonk, were held alinut 184 t, in the ball-room of the\\nold tavi-rn afterwards known as Speer s Hall.- About\\nthat time a number of workmen fmm South Jersey\\nwere employed at the foundry then recently estab-\\nlislie l at Pas.saic Bridge, and were mostly of the\\nMethodist faith. The meetings were started for their\\nbenefit and for such others as might become inter-\\nested. I revlous to this movemetil the old Reformed\\nDut^ h Church had furnished spiritual food for the\\nwhole community.\\nRev. Mr. Van Zant was tlie first Methodist preacher\\nin the village, and held services in the hall or ball-\\nroom till the first church of the denomination was\\nerected, about 1S43. This building stood opposite\\nthe foundry at the bridge, where it remained until it\\nwas removed to the village, and was occupied till the\\nsociety erected the present large and elegant church\\nedifice. The old building, somewhat remodeled, is\\nthe present City Hall.\\nThe first organization was known as St. George s\\nMethodist Episcopal Church, and retained that name\\nuntil the reorganiziition in August, 1876. The so-\\nciety was reorganized on account of the financial\\nembarrassment which met the old society at the\\nmoment when it had a.ssumed a heavy responsibility\\nin erecting and clearing of debt the new and costly\\nchurch. The corner-stone of this church was laid in\\n1871; the building was completed and ready for\\ndedication when the financial crash of 1873 came on,\\nrendering it impossible for the society to carry out\\nits plan ot raising the money to pay otf the debt on\\nthe day of dedication. Those who had been relied\\nupon to aid most largely in lifting the debt at the\\ndedication were on that very week so seriously\\naffected by the financial disaster as to be unable to\\nmeet their expectations, and a general feeling of\\ndepression prevailed. The debt remained a burden\\nto the society, and the beautiful edifice was tiiially\\nsold under a judgment, and was purchased by Mr. .1.\\nM. J uller, of New York. In order to take the church\\nfrom Mr. Fuller, assume the responsibilities of the\\ndebt, and go forward to the attainment of an unhur-\\ndenc l and prosperous future, the society was reor-\\nganized, according to law, under the name of the\\nFirst Methodist Episcopal Church of P;uHsaic, in\\nAugust, 1876. The new board of trustees consisted\\nof Williain Doolittle, president; C. A. Church, M.D.,\\nsecretary H. B. Caverly, treasurer; George R. Howe,\\nProf. S. W. Rice, Edward McConnell, and Joseph\\n.\\\\dams.\\nOn the 7lli of September, 1876, Mr. Fuller and\\nhis wife executed to the trustees of the new society a\\ndeed for the church property. The property is valu-\\nable, and the society will undoubtedly pay ofl the\\ndebt still remaining upon it, and will have one of the\\nmost beautiful church edifices ami situations in this\\nportion of the State.\\nThe church is a semi-Golhic structure brown and\\nwhite sandstone, and will conveniently seat eight hun-\\ndred persons. It is situated upon a rise of ground at\\nthe intersection of two well-shadeil streets, and is the\\nmost attractive and imposing object in that part of\\nthe city.\\nIn accordance with a rule adojited by the boanl of\\ntrustees, the church never suspends its two regular\\nservices each Sunday during the year. The present\\nmembership is about 250, with a Sunday-school of\\n275 teachers and scholars.\\nThe preachers in charge since 1851 have been\\ni", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0628.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0629.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "^^^0,. /5-(yv{^^^r", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0630.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n393\\nRev. Mr. Lohead, Alexander Mead, Rev. John Faull,\\nRev. Sylvester Armstrong, Rev. S. L. Bowman, D.D.,\\nRev. John Keyes, Rev. John F. Hurst, D.D. (now\\nbishop). Rev. John S. Swaim, Rev. T. E. Gordon, Rev.\\nHenry M. Simpson, Rev. Benjamin F. Simpson, J. M.\\nHowe, M.D., E lwin F. Hadley, Theodore Hagerty,\\nRev. Alexander Craig, Rev. E. V. King, Rev. George\\nH. Whitney, D.D., Rev. William Day, Rev. J. R.\\nBryou, Rev. James W. Marshall.\\nThe True Reformed Church of Passaic\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This\\nchurcli, like all those of the order to which it belongs,\\noriginated in the controversy of 1822-25, in which\\nexceptions were taken by part of the Reformed\\nDutch Church and ministry to the modified Calvin-\\nism promulgated by Dr. Hopkins. Those objecting\\nto the Hopkinsian doctrines of atonement and natu-\\nral ability, and adhering to the old confession of the\\nSynod of Dordrecht, styled themselves the True Re-\\nformed Protestant Dutch Church, and have since\\nmaintained a separate ecclesiastical organization.\\nThe True Reformed Church of Acquackanonk\\nwas organized by the Classis of Hackensack in April,\\n1825, with fifty-six constituent members. The first\\nconsistory wius composed as follows Elders, Walling\\nJ. Van Winkle, Garl-it Bush, Abraham Lindford,\\nJohn G. Van Riper; Deacons, Henry Schoonmaker,\\nGarrit Cadmus, Henry Kirk, Andrew B. Van Bussum.\\nThe church was incorporated under the name of\\nThe Ministers, Elders, and Deacons of the True Re-\\nformed Church of Acquackanonk, June 15, 1825.\\nThe Rev. Peter D. Froeligh was the first pastor, and\\nremained in that relation until his death in February,\\n1828. Since then, a period of over fifty years, they\\nhave had but one pastor, the Rev. John Berdan, whose\\nportrait and biographical sketch appear herewith.\\nThis venerable minister, who has been in the service\\nof the church of his first choice for more than half a\\ncentury, was reared as a farmer, and although not\\npossessing the advantages of a collegiate education,\\nreceived upon examination by the Classis a high com-\\npliment for his self-acquired attainments and scholar-\\nship in polemic divinity, and in the Hebrew, Greek,\\nand Latin languages and, contrary to the usual cus-\\ntom of the Reformed Church, was licensed to preach\\nwithout the requisite of a college diploma. His mem-\\nory and intellect were remarkable in early life, and\\nhe still retains them in an unusual degree for one\\nof his age. For many years he preached both in\\nDutch and English to equal acceptance, discoursing\\nfrom the same text to a Dutch congregation in the\\nafternoon which he had elucidated to an English-\\nspeaking congregation in the morning. Mr. Berdan\\naccepted a call to the pastorate of this church in\\nAugust, 1830, having preached six months as a candi-\\ndate. He was ordained in October, and installed in\\nDecember, 18.30.\\nThe church edifice is of stone and brick, and was\\nerected in 1825, on a lot given for a church and\\nburying-ground by Mr. Abraham Ackerman.\\nRev. John Beedan. About two hundred years\\nago, during the French persecution, Berdan, one of\\nthe Huguenots, came to America with his wife and\\nson, named John, and purchased a tract of land on\\nLong Island, which is now the siteof the city of Brook-\\nlyn. His wife dying, he married again, and had two\\ndaughters by his second wife.\\nJohn and his step-mother did not agree. He left\\nhome with a spade and axe, and settled in Hacken-\\nsack, N. J, where he married and had six sons named\\nRichard, Rynear, Albert, John, David, and Stephen\\nand one daughter, who married Cornelius Kip, of\\nPreakness. He purchased farms for his sons and set-\\ntled them all in Bergen County. All raised fiimilies,\\nexcept Stephen, who died unmarried.\\nRichard and Rynear occupied adjoining farms in\\nSlotterdam, running from Passaic River to Saddle\\nRiver Brook. Richard married Charity Van Winkle,\\ndied, and left his farm to his sons, John and Jacob,\\nthe former occupying the east half, and the latter\\nthe west half. John died March 5, 1824, aged eighty-\\nfive years, nine months, and five days, and left his\\nfarm to his son John, who remained on it until his\\ndeath, and then left his estate to his sons, John,\\nRichard, and Stephen. The two last named are still\\nliving.\\nJacob continued on his farm until April 19, 1810, then\\nsold it and purchased a farm in Preakness, on which\\nhe died Nov. 29, 1815, aged sixty-nine years, seven\\nmonths, and ten days. He left his son Richard at\\nSlotterdam, who married a great-granddaughter of his\\nuncle Rynear, and died childless. His other sons\\nJacob, John, and Garret went with him to Preak-\\nness. Jacob resided on a part of the farm, was justice\\nof the peace for forty and judge for fifteen years.\\nHe died in his eightieth year, and left his son Richard\\non the farm, which he occupied with his sons. John\\nis our subject. Garret resides on his part of the farm\\nat present, and is eighty-one years of age.\\nRynear lived and died on his farm, adjoining his\\nbrother Richard, and left it to his son John, who died\\nand left it to his son Rynear, who at his death left it\\nto bis son John, who is the present owner, with his\\nsons, Rynear and Garrabrant.\\nAlbert lived and died on his farm in Preakness, and\\nleft it to his sons, John and Jacob. John left, but\\nJacob remained till his death, and left it to his sou\\nAlbert, who continued thereon until his death, and\\nleft it to his son Jacob s children. Jacob resides on\\nit at present, being about eighty years old. John had\\nseveral sons, viz. Albert, who went to Canada and\\nsettled there, where his offspring are at present David\\nwent to Western New York, and had a large family.\\nOne of his grandsons was captain of the sharpshooters\\nin the late war. Tunis and Jacob died in New Jer-\\nsey; neither had a son, but had daughters. John re-\\nsided and died in the Goftle neighborhood. His sons\\nRichard, John, Henry, Jacob, David, and Albert\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094have all died, excepting Henry, who went West.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0631.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "394\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nRicliiird, Jacob, ant) Daviil each have left a son named\\nJohn, who all at present reside at Paterson.\\nJohn remained on his farm in Uackensack until\\nhis death, and left it to his sons, John, Isaac, and\\nHenry. Isaac, son of Isaac, is present owner of i)art\\nof his grandfather s farm. Henry died in Uacken-\\nsack, in his ninety-eighth year, the la,\u00c2\u00abt of the old\\ncousins. He was an officer of the Revolutionary war,\\nand an unwavering Democrat until his death.\\nDavid, on Red Hill, near Hackensack, died and\\nleft his farm to his son John, who at his death left it\\nto hissons, David, .\\\\lbert, Daniel, and Peter. David I\\ncontinued on the farm until his death, and his de- i\\nscendants reside on it still.\\nRev. John Berdan was born at Slotterdam, Saddle\\nRiver township, Bergen Co., N. J., on Feb. 5, 1797.\\nHis father, Jacob Berdan, was twice married, first\\nto Sarah Van Emburgh, who bore him tliree children,\\nRichard, Charity (who married Peter Voorhis), and\\nLeah (who married Jacob I. Zabriskie) and sec-\\nondly, to Catharine Billue, an English lady, whose\\nchildren were Jacob, John, and Garret, mentioned\\nabove, and an infant who died young.\\nThe early life of John Berdan was passed upon his\\nlather s farm at Slotterdam, where he wsis educated\\nat the district school. Ui)on the removal of his father\\nto Preakness, in 1810, he accompanied him, and upon\\nthe death of the former in ISlo he inherited a portion\\nof the paternal farm, and remained thereon until 1824,\\nand then removed aliout a mile farther south. On .Inly\\n25, 181(!, he married Leah, daughter of David and\\nAnna (Van Sanii) Demarest. In 1828, feeling a spe-\\ncial call to consecrate himself to the service of (iod, he\\ncommenced the study of theology under the care of the\\nCla-ssis of Hackensack of the True Reformed Dutch\\nChurch, with Kev. James G. Brinkcrholf, of .Mount-\\nville, Morris Co. After a year and a iialf of faithl ul\\nand prayerful study he was examined before the\\nClaswis, and was licensed to preach in April, 1830. On\\nthe first Sabbath in May of that year he preached as\\na supply in the pulpit of the True Reformed Church\\nof Acipiackanonk Village I now Piussaic), and in July\\nfollowing rec\u00c2\u00ab ived a call to settle as permanent pastor\\nfrom that church, atnl also from the church at Kng-\\nlisli Neighborhood and Hackensack. He delayed his\\nformal acceptance of either call until alter October,\\nin which month he was formally ordained to the\\nministry by the Cliussis, and was installed pastor of\\nthe chnrch at ,\\\\cf|Uackanonk in Deccndier following.\\nHe hius continued in the same pulpit for the past fifty-\\none years, and though now in the eighty-fifth year of\\nhi.s age, is still performing the active duties of the\\npastorate, preaching in the morning of each Sabbath\\nat Pa.ssaic, and in the afternoon in Paterson. He\\nhas resided in the latter city since lHri4.\\nMr. Berilan is widely known througliout this whole\\nsection im a clevoted, ellicienl, and venerable pastor,\\nwho hax throughout a long and faithful ministry sus-\\ntainedan important relation to its evangelical growth.\\nHe has lived a plain, modest life, and devoted him.self\\nentirely to the imparting and exemplification of the\\nMaster s teachings. For four years he preached each\\nSabbath afternoon in the Dutch language to the Hol-\\nland settlers at Pa.\u00c2\u00ab.saic, and ha*; united in marriage\\nnearly one hundred couples of that race. He is a close\\nstudent, systematic and regular in his methods, and\\nhiis averaged during his long service as a Christian\\nminister over one hundred sermons and lectures a\\nyear, and can tell to this day the text from which he\\npreached on any day during fifty-one years, and the\\npassage of Scripture read. His memory runs back to\\nthe pioneer days of the country, long before Pat ?rson\\nexisted, and when the site of that busy city was prac-\\ntically a wilderness. He is well preserved, has never\\nused tobacco or liquor in his life, is tall, erect, and\\nwell developed, a man of strong nerve, and one of\\nthe last representative- of that race of giants that laid\\nlow the forests of our virgin country and submitted\\nits soil to the share of the husbaixlman. Jlrs. Berdan\\ndied May 24, 1879. During sixty-three years she was\\nthe faithful helpmeet of his life, and, having died in\\nthe faith, wait.-* beyond the tide for her venerable hus-\\nband, whose labors below must nccc-*sarily .-ioon enil.\\nThe cliildren of Mr. and Jlrs. Berdan have been\\nCatharine, wlio first married Piiilip Van Bussum, and\\nthen Samuel Ho])per, of Ridgewood, Bergen Co.\\nHetty Ann, deceased, wife of Jacob Horn Jacob,\\nwho resides in Paterson Christina, who married\\nCornelius Berdan, and who is also dead Maria, who\\nmarried William H. Ilellings; Jane, wife of Charles\\nA. JlcCall, of Newark and Rachel, who became the\\nwife of Beuajah M. Beardsley, of Paterson. Eighteen\\ngrandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren of\\nthis aged couple are still living, seven of the latter\\nhaving died, and fifteen of the former.\\nBaptist Church of Passaic. -In May, I8i)4, Rev.\\nSaiiuirl .1. KrKi|pii, iIkii pastor of the First Baptist\\nChurch of Pator.-ion, in an interview with ^Ir. William\\nJ. Boggs, inquired into the religious privileges of the\\nBaptists residing in Passaic, when the latter informed\\nhim that while several other denominations were here\\nrepresented, the Baptists, numbering about twenty-\\nfive persons, had no church nor organization in the\\nvillage. Mr. Knapp then suggested the propriety\\nof adopting immediate measures to secure Baptist\\npreaching, whereupon a notice and call were issued\\nby Mr. Boggs, for the jmrpose of taking into consid-\\neration the propriety of holding divine service every\\nSabbath and a prayer-meeting every week. Pursuant\\nto such notice, a meeting was held at Mr. Bi ggs resi-\\ndence on the evening of May 27, 18G4, attended by\\nthe Baptists residing in the village. Mr. Boggs was\\nchosen chairman, and after the usual dcvoti(mal ex-\\nercises stated the object of the meeting. Some dis-\\ncussion wa.s had, and it was decided that inasmuch\\na.s tiie Kev. IS. J. Kiuipp had very generously con-\\nsented to preach gratuitously for them every Sabbath\\nafternoon, and .Mr. Alfred Speer hail ollereil the free", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0632.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n395\\nuse of his hall, meetings should begin on the first\\nSabbath afternoon in June. Upon an interview had\\nby Mr. Boggs with Mr. C. M. K. Paulison, the latter\\nconsented to organize a choir and take charge of the\\nmu.sic, wliich was done in such a manner as to elicit\\nhigh commendation, Mr. Paulison also furnisliing an\\norgan for the Sunday services.\\nIn accordance with the decision of the meeting, the\\nfirst public service was held in Speer s Hall on the\\n5th of June, 18(!4, everything indicating a prosperous\\nbeginning for the new movement. In November fol-\\nlowing a church organization was formed at the resi-\\ndence of Mr. Boggs, under the name of The Passaic\\nBaptist Church. The constituent members were the\\nfollowing, who united upon letters of dismission from\\nthe churches where they had formerly resided\\nWilliam J. Boggs, Catharine A. Boggs, John Dur-\\nkin, Mary Paulison, Emma H. Boggs, David B.\\nSickles, Mary E. Sickels, Joseph P. Boggs, Maria Van\\nRiper, Francis A. Ward, Theodore P. Boggs, Char-\\nlotte A. Post, Washington Paulison, Helena D. Smith,\\nRichard Shugg, Maria A. Shugg, Sarah Durkin, J. E.\\nAmbrose, Sarah T. Ambrose, Barney Banta, Margaret\\nBanta, Elizabeth Lewis, twenty-two members.\\nThe first deacons were John Durkin and William\\nJ. Boggs the first clerk, Joseph P. Boggs, who held\\nthe office till quite a recent date.\\nOn the afternoon of April 16, 1865, the ordinance\\nof baptism (immersion) was administered for the first\\ntime in Passaic, by the Rev. Samuel J. Knapp, to\\neight candidates, in the presence of a large number of\\ninterested spectators.\\nBy the voluntary removal of Rev. Mr. Knapp from\\nthe pastorate f)f the First Baptist Church of Paterson\\nto the South Baptist Church of New York City, greatly\\nto the regret of the Passaic Church, he was obliged to\\nclose his temporary and gratuitous labors with the\\nlatter, whom he had served with great acceptance for\\na period of nearly two years. On the 13th of June,\\n1866, a call was extended to Rev. Franklin Johnson,\\nD.D., which he accepted, and entered upon the duties\\nof his pastorate Aug. 20, 1866. The church gradually\\nincreased from this time forward.\\nA Sunday-school was established under favorable\\nauspices on the first Sunday in July, 1866, with Wil-\\nliam A. Denholm, Esq., as superintendent, and Theo-\\ndore E. Boggs as secretary and treasurer.\\nUpon the removal from Passaic of Prof. U. C. Hill,\\nwho had served the church as organist, C. M. K. Pauli-\\nson, Esq., president of the New York Harmonic So-\\nciety, consented to act in that capacity, discharging\\nits duties much to the satisfaction of the church and\\ncongregation. After worshiping for three and a\\nhalf years in Speer s Hall, it was decided on Feb. 3,\\n1869, to commence the erection of the present church\\nedifice on Gregory Avenue. The corner-stone of the\\nbuilding was laid with appropriate ceremonies on\\nJune 15, 1869, and the edifice was dedicated in Janu-\\nary, 1870. It is a neat frame building, furnished with\\norgan, carpets, etc., and has the convenience of a bap-\\ntistery and dressing-rooms. The cost, including furni-\\nture, was about six thousand dollars.\\nIn April, 1872, Rev. Dr. Johnson dissolved his pas-\\ntoral relation with the church in order to accept a call\\nto the Sherman Avenue Baptist Church of Newark,\\nN. J., where he remained but a short time, when he\\naccepted a call to Cambridge, Mass., where he is still\\nlaboring as a successful pastor and able preacher of\\nthe gospel. The vacant pulpit at Passaic was sup-\\nplied for a time by the Rev. John McKeen. The\\nsuccession of pastors since has been the Rev. Messrs,\\nKelsey, Kirkham, Waters, McMichael, and the present\\npastor. Rev. Mr. Smith. The church maintains a good\\ndegree of prosperity and has a flourishing Sunday-\\nschool.\\nNorth Reformed Church of Passaic\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This church\\nwas originally constituted of about forty families, who\\nwithdrew from the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church\\nof Acquackanonk, and organized under the ministry\\nof the Rev. J. Pascal Strong in 1869. In the same\\nyear they erected the neat and tasty edifice in which\\nthey have since worshiped on Jeft erson Street, designed\\noriginally for a chapel, and to be superseded at some\\nfuture day by a more substantial and costly church\\nedifice. The congregation own the entire block, on\\nwhich is also a commodious parsonage, erected at the\\nsame time as the chapel. The grounds are adorned\\nwith shrubbery, and are very beautiful.\\nRev. Mr. Strong remained pastor until 1872, and\\nwas succeeded by Rev. Charles D. Kellogg, who offici-\\nated as pastor until 1879. The church was then sup-\\nplied until April 1, 1880, when the present pastor,\\nRev. Asher Anderson, began his ministry in this\\nchurch.\\nMr. Anderson is an alumnus of Rutgers College,\\nclass of 1870, and of the theological seminary at\\nNew Brunswick, 1873, and was pastor at Fishkill,\\nN. Y., from 1875 till his settlement over this church.\\nThe church has a membership of one hundred and\\neighty, representing about one hundred families, and\\na Sunday-school numbering two hundred and forty.\\nSt. John s Church.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The parish of St. John s Prot-\\nestant Episcopal Church of Passaic was founded\\nthrough the labors of the Rev. Henry Beers Sherman,\\nM.A., rector of Christ Church, Belleville, N. J., who\\nheld services here occasionally in connection with his\\nown parochial charge. The first step towards the\\nformal organization of the parish was taken at a\\nmeeting held on the 31st of October, 1859, at the\\nhouse of David J. Anderson, Esq. Col. Benjamin\\nAycrigg was called to the chair, and Gilead A. Smith\\nwas chosen secretary. The following persons were\\nthen nominated as wardens and vestrymen, who, after\\nthe public notice required by law, were duly elected\\nat a meeting held in Speer s Hall on Nov. 30, 1859:\\nWardens, Benjamin Aycrigg, F. W. Tompkins\\nVestrymen, D. J. Anderson, R. A. Terhune, P. C.\\nCoffin, G. A. Smith, W. S. Anderson.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0633.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "396\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThe first place of the meetings of the parish for\\nbusiness and for divine service was in Speer s Hall,\\nwhich was leased to the parish by Mr. Alfred Speer\\nfor SIGO piT annum, payable quarterly. The Rev.\\nHenry Beers Sherman otticiated for the parish quar-\\nterly from Eiister until Dec. 22, 1859, when the Rev.\\nSamuel Clements, A.M., was .settled as rector.\\nMr. Clements was an alumnus of the University of\\nPennsylvania and of the Theological Seminary of\\nVirginia, and a man of acknowledged piety and de-\\nvotion to the work of the ministry. For several years\\nhe had been rector of St. Michael s Church, Trenton,\\nN. J., but on account of ill iiealth he had been com-\\npelled to resign the charge of that large and im-\\nportant church, and aft\u00c2\u00abr some time spent in travel-\\ning in Europe, he returned to this country and settled\\nover this parish as its first regular minister. The\\nparish then consisted of eight families and twelve\\ncommunicants, and a Sunday-school numbering only\\nthirteen scholars. Shortly after renting the hall an\\norgan was placed in it at a cost of $462..50.\\nOn the 24th of May, 1860, the Rev. Mr. Clements\\nresigned the rectorship to accept the chaplaincy of\\nKenyon College, and until October, 18()0, the parish\\nwas .served by clerical supplies. At the last-men-\\ntioned date the Rev. Marshall B. Smith was installed\\nas rector.\\nOn the 29th of October, 18G0, steps were taken for\\nthe erection of a church edifice. It was at first pro-\\nposed to builil of stone, but this plan w;us changed for\\nthat of the beautiful wooden structure which now\\nadorns the site. This building was finished and con-\\nsecrated on the 16th of April, 1862, and cost, in-\\ncluding lot and organ, about $7000. The present\\nrectory, a commodious wooden structure, was erected\\nin 1H77 out of the proceeds of the sale of lots belong-\\ning to the parish.\\nThe Rev. Marshall B.Smith resigned the rectorship\\nApril 26, 1867, which was reluctantly accepted by the\\nparish. In 1868, Rev. Samuel Clements, of Ohio, was\\nunanimously called to take charge of the parish as\\nrector, but he declined, ami the Uev. Henry Adams,\\nof Iowa, was calleil, and cntcreil upon his duties Sept.\\n6, 1868. He closed his services with the parish Nov.\\n28, 1869. The Rev. Sidney Dealey was instituted\\nrector July 9, 1877.\\n\\\\Var lens since the first: Henry Kyre, .\\\\pril 1H63;\\n(icorgc II. Evans, .\\\\pril 4, 1H64; .lacob K. Dunham,\\nApril 22, 1867,\\nVestrymen: John li. IVll, Henry l^yrc, .Vpril 16,\\n1860; Frederick A. Pell, David Roe, April 10, 1861\\nH. D. Law, April 7, 1862; Walstein S. Brown, Wil-\\nliam lihodes, Edward Mesnard I cll, April 6, 1863; I\\nK. H. Blakr, .I.e. Marselus, Hr)n. D. Holsmaii, April\\n4, IHCl; .lames A. Norton, Levi H. .\\\\ldin, .\\\\pril 2,\\n1866.\\nSt. Nicholas Church i Roman Catholic i was\\nbuilt in I86H. Previous to that Rev. Father Schandel,\\nof St. Boniface s Church, Patcrson, visited Passaic\\nand said mass in the factories. Father Schandel then\\nbecame the first resident pastor, and remained two\\nyears, or until August, 187.3, when the present pastor.\\nFather Louis Schandel, took charge of the parish.\\nThe number of families connecteil with the church is\\nabout 230, and there is a ])arochial school of about\\n240 scholars, under the tuition of three Sisters of\\nCharity.\\nFirst Presbyterian Church.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The First Presby-\\nterian Church of Passaic was organized March 6,\\n1867, by the Presbytery of Newark (New School),\\nand became connected with the Presbytery of Jersey\\nCity at the date of the reunion of the Old and New\\nSchool bodies. It was constituted originally of\\ntwenty-two members. The congregation worshiped\\nfor nearly two years in the liall of Dr. Howe s Acad-\\nemy, and lor the ne.xt two years in a hall at the foot\\nof River Street. In 1870-71 the church edifice on\\nRiver Street was erected, and was first occupied July\\n23, 1871. The church has made steady progress\\nduring the decade since its organization, and now\\nnumbers 16ii members. It has a Sunday-school of\\n170 scholars and teachers.\\nThe church was finished under the ministry of Rev.\\nPhilo F. Leavens, then a licentiate, but ordained and\\ninstalled as piustor in 1868, in which relation he has\\never since remained.\\nGerman Presbyterian Church. The German\\nI n-liylcriaii Cljurcli of l ;i-.saic is an organization\\nwhich grew out of the occa-sional preaching of the\\npastor of the German Church at Carlstadt, Bergen Co.\\nIt was organized by the Presbytery of Jersey City,\\nMarch 24, 1873. It consists of about forty members,\\nand maintains a Sunday-school and public worship\\nin the German language. It is under the pastoral\\ncare of Rev. F. O. Zesch, pastor of the (ierman Pres-\\nbyterian Church at Carlstadt, N. J., and has always\\nworshiped in the leclurc-room of the First Presby-\\nterian Church.\\nThe First Holland Church of Passaic is at present\\n(1881) without :i p:i^t(ir. Services :iiiil Sunday -school\\narc usually maintained here in the Dutch language,\\nand the congregation have a neat wooden church edi-\\nfice. The dates of organization and erection of the\\nbuilding we have been unable to ascertain.\\nThe Union Chapel at Pius.saic Bridge is undenom-\\ninational, and supplied by dill crent ministers. It was\\nbuilt in 1878, and maintains evening services and\\nSunday-school.\\nBesides these churches and places of worship, there\\nis a neat chapel nt Clifton, and another also at Dun-\\ndec, or in that part of the city on the Dundee Canal,\\nin which are fine Sabbath-schools and occasional g\\nprcacliiiiir. t\\nWashington Place Holland Church.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thischureh f\\nwas organized in 1876, and first met in the Dundee\\nChapel. It nuiintains services in the Dutch Ian- i\\nguage. In 1877 the congregation purchased a lot in 1\\nWitshington Place, and in the saiui year erected the\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0634.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0635.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "A\\nf/0- L^^(2^.ccr- \u00c2\u00a3^..jc. cJf.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0636.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n397\\npresent church edifice. It is a wooden structure, and\\ncost, including lot, between three thousand and four\\nthousatid dollars. A parsonage has also been built\\nadjoining the church. The Eev. William Gravi has\\nbeen the only pastor. The membership is about 120\\nSunday-school, 70 to 100.\\nSocieties.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Passaic Lodge, No. 67, F. and A. M.,\\nconvened under dispensation June 30, 1864; con-\\nstituted Feb. 7, 1865. The founders of the lodge\\nwere Robert H. Blake, Rev. Marshall B.Smith, John\\nE. Bolton, Richard A. Terhune, M.D., Joseph B.\\nKnight, William S. Anderson, William L. Alden,\\nTheodore L. Snelling.\\nThe first officers were M. B. Smith, W. M.; R. A.\\nTerhune, S. W. John E. Bolton, J. W. R. H. Blake,\\nTreas. T. L. Snelling, Sec. W. L. Alden, S. D. J.\\nB. Knight, J. D.\\nThe lodge numbers about one hundred. It first\\nmet in Speer s Hall, remained there till the hall was\\nburnt in May, 1877, then rented the hall of the\\nKnights of Pythias, and in the mean time a new\\nlodge-room was fitted up by Mr. Herman Schulting\\nat the corner of East Main and Passaic, where the\\nlodge has comfortable and permanent quarters.\\nThe present officers are F. B Lawrence, W. M.\\nJ. B. Knight, S. W. William E. Church, J. W.\\nJ. S. Bidden, Treas.; Daniel Demarest, Sec; Wil-\\nliam O. Talbot, S. D. Benjamin Hadley, J. D. J.\\nFrancis Hadley, Organist; John H. Grear, Tyler.\\nSolar Lodge, No. 171, I. O. O. F., established\\nMarch 12, 1873, with about fifteen members. Present\\nnumber is fifty.\\nThe first ofiicers were E. L. Warren, N. G. Wil-\\nliam Hendry, V. G. E. Boden, Sec. J. Rosenburg,\\nTreas.\\nPresent officers Corridan Moran, N. G. Anthony\\nKievet, V. G. Edward Price, R. S. E. Mills Shuit,\\nP. S. Levi Aldous, Treas.\\nLodge first met in the Kipp building, near corner\\nof River and Main Streets. Moved the Kipp build-\\ning, corner of Main and Jefferson Streets, G. A. R.\\nHall, in June, 1881, wliere it is located at present.\\nBenevolent Lodge, No. 48, Knights of Pythias, was\\norganized May 11, 1870, with twenty-eight members.\\nThere are about forty-five members at present. The\\nlodge meets every Thursday in Pythian Hall, on Main\\nAvenue.\\nThe present officers arc John Jelleme, C. C. H.\\nM. Ross, V. C. Adrian Norman, Prelate; C. W.\\nKievet, M. at A. Edward Morrill, M. of E. Charles\\nHouser, M. of F. Charles Higbie, K. of R. and S.\\nJohn Royle, I. G. D. Van Blarcom, O. G. Trustees,\\nWilliam Abbott, James Watson, John Royle.\\nGeorge G. Meade Post, No. 7, Grand Army of the\\nRepublic, was established June 27, 1873, .John Knox\\ncommander. Organized with ten members; eighty-\\nthree at present.\\nThe present officers are Charles Denholm, C.\\nJohn Emerson, S. V. C. Richard Oaks, J. V. C.\\n26\\nWilliam R. Powell, Chaplain William H. Hoffman,\\nQ. M. William Rushmer, Adjt.\\nPast Commanders are John Knox, William R.\\nPowell, James A. Sproull. Jleets in Grand Army\\nHall, corner of Lexington Avenue and Jefterson\\nStreet, one of the finest halls in the State.\\nMilitary.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 State Guard, Company B, Fourth Regi-\\nment, organized in the fall of 1879, F. B. Lawrence,\\ncaptain R. B. Tindell, first lieutenant Richard\\nMorrill, second lieutenant. Headquarters of com-\\npany. Military Hall, fronting on Military Square.\\nRegimental lioadquarters, Jersey Avenue, Jersey City.\\nMiscellaneous Notes.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The fine brick block be-\\nlonging to William S. Anderson stands on the old\\nDrummond place of Revolutionary times. Robert\\nDrummond lived here in the Revolution. He w;is a\\npioneer to the British army when it passed through\\nNew Jersey en route to tlie Delaware, and was a Brit-\\nish major-general. He fled to England, where he died\\nafter the war.\\nJust above Anderson s building was the Revolu-\\ntionary bridge destroyed by Capt. John H. Post and\\nhis neighbors, which checked the progress of the\\nBritish. Some of the piles on which it stood are still\\nseen at low water. It is about a mile below the head\\nof tide-water.\\nCapt. John Post lived at Acquackanonk. He gave\\nthe first serious check to the British while pursuing\\nWashington through the Jerseys by getting a num-\\nber of his neighbors together and cutting down the\\nbridge across the Passaic at the Landing. For this\\nexploit Washington made him a captain in the Con-\\ntinental army. He was ninety-seven years old when\\nhe died, and his wife was one hundred and six. Their\\ntombstones stand side by side in the old Dutch bury-\\ning-ground near the church.\\nOne of the old landmarks of Acquackanonk is the\\nVan Wagoner house, built in 1778. It is of stone, one\\nstory high, and was the ancestral home of Mrs. Henry\\nP. Simmons, who was born here in 1819. The house\\nstands near the bank of the Passaic, not far south of\\nthe old Dutch Church. The line between the Van\\nWagoner Patent and the gore on which the church\\nstands is now Gregory Avenue, and the old mansion\\nstands within two rods of the street. It is in a good\\nstate of preservation, and has been newly roofed and\\npainted by Judge Simmons.\\nAlfred Speer w.is born of humble parentage near\\nBelleville, N. J., Nov. 23, 1823. His father, Henry\\nSpeer, a shoemaker, who had learned his trade in\\nNewark, N. J., when it was but a village, never rose\\nabove being a foreman in a custom (ladies shoe-store\\nin New York. He died poor, leaving a wife and two\\nchildren; the oldest, Alfred, in his early childhood\\nwas brought up by his grandfiither, Henry I. Speer, a\\npoor, hard-working farmer, who lived on his small\\nfarm, situated on the west bank of the Passaic River,\\nDeceased.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0637.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "398\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY,\\ntwo miles below the village of Aaiuiickanoiik, now\\nthe city of Passaic. His education wu^ liniitod. The\\nonly school was two miles distant, and the only time\\nhe could be spared from work wa.s during the winter\\nmonths, and his schooling never exceeded four or five\\nquarters.\\nAt the early age of fifteen young Speer was bound\\nout as an apprentice to learn the cabinet-making\\ntrade at Newark, N. J. He boarded with his em-\\nployer, and received twenty-five dollars per year for\\neach year until the age of twenty-one. Out of this\\nsalary the apprentice had to i)ay for his washing and\\nbuy all his clothing, so it can be easily seen what\\neconomy he was obliged to practice. Boys were not\\nknown to have overcoats nor wear kid gloves in those\\ndays. Young Speer s tastes did not run in that me-\\nchanical direction at that time: it was for a literary\\nlife he yearned, but, being poor and with a limited\\neducation, at the age of twenty-one liis first thoughts\\nwere to start a shop in the country at his native place,\\nwith the hope of getting sufficient work from the\\nneighborhood to enable him, by working half the\\nweek, to earn enough to coinniund the otlier half for\\nstudy and experiment. With this object in view he\\nbuilt a shop near his grandfather s farm-house. The\\nNew York Evening Post, a year or two ago, in speak-\\ning of Mr. Speer*8 success as a wine producer,. says,\\nIt nmy serve a good p\u00c2\u00bbrpo\u00c2\u00abo, ad nii oxnmplf of what enorKy will ac-\\ncuniiiliHh, to Dotice briefly Mr. Siwor a cart-er. Thrown u|Km tho world\\nwhon n child, he wns at flflecn yenrn of age apprenticed to a cahlnot-\\nniak?r, who agreed to lH)ard him, teach him the trade, and give hini\\ntweiity-flv\u00c2\u00a9 dnllarB a year for liii clothes until twenty-one yean* of age.\\nAny one who served an apprenticeship forty-livo years ago knows whut\\nIhHt means,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 leu houra in the shop, and a rest from lalwr in tlieeveuing,\\nwhich wriM generally eijoyod in splitting wood, milking cows, and hy\\ndaylight In tlic morning weeding giirdenK, and with making flreti and\\ndoing chores. K\\\\ this i erlod of his life yonng Speer had an ambition\\nto become a literary nuin, and every spare moment whs devoted to etiidy.\\nHo devised vanoud expedients to secure funds for the purchaM of books,\\nand almost invariably got np long before day in the niorniug to study an\\nhour or two before beginning the morning chores. At the expimtion\\nof bin apprentlceohlp ho re*dved to start a Am)\\\\ of bin own, of cnnr?*o on\\na smnll H^ale, in his native villnge of Piiiwiilc. A friend leaseil him a\\npiece of ground, whereon he bull! him u ))op with liis own bands, and\\ngot all the business of the neighborhood, whleh was scant enongb.\\nOften he hss come to New York, l ougbt the stuff for a bureau or aofa,\\nshipped it by mil, and returned home on foot, a distance of twelve miles,\\nnot having mt ney loft to pay his fare. He would then turn the raw\\nmaterial Into furniture, which wouM prmlnce funds enough to make itn-\\nother trip for still nmre material to the city.\\nEnergy and deternilmitlnn to succeed suuD bmught their reward,and\\nIn a few ymm be had a larger sh p and %vaj\u00c2\u00ab able to employ several jour-\\nneymen but, notwithstanding his apimrent sncces*. he viw ntiU with-\\nout capital. To supply this ho was In the habit of making Journeys\\nthniugh the aiuntry, taking a circuit of ten or fifteen mile-, carrying\\nwith him his tools and varnlsh*|H)t. Thus armed he would call at the\\nfarm-houses, repair furniture, rovarnlsb the chairs and tables In the\\nlicat njoms, an l t\u00c2\u00bbccaiibmally sond a jwcnllarly crnz.y and dearly-cher-\\nUhed piece i\u00c2\u00bbf antl iuo furnllurt to his shop Iw miule us good as new.\\nIn this way he arcumulaled enough to buy his shop and the lot on whkh\\nIt stiKxl, and wK n after tb bouse and gruuinln whUh he now \u00e2\u0080\u00a2n-cnptesas\\nadwfdllng. iMiring this cbxie application to buslneM he found lime to\\nemploy his lnv\u00c2\u00ab ntivo families, which he did In devising a piano on an\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uUrely nr w plan, for which he obtnlniH] a intent. He also Invented\\nand pati^ntivl a window-faatenor, now In general uso since then the\\nmuch talke l-4if traveling sidewalk for rapid transit In cities. Want of\\nmeani (which In Ims case Included time a* well as money) lm|K lled hini\\nreluctantly to parUally aUindon his Idea of a literary life, and ho turned\\nbis attenlion to horticulture and arlioriculture as a means of recreation\\n(thus proving that the busiest men have the most leisure), and inciden-\\ntally to those puniults manufactured some wines, which he stored for\\nhis own use.\\nAmbitious to enlarge his oetablishment, he started out with his win-\\ndow-fusteneni, intending to sell the patent right of different States, and\\ninvest the proceeds in the other invention or In ntaking and storing\\nwines. When in New Orleans he found his imtent right poor slock,\\nand not wishing to leave Louisiana without at least clearing his ex-\\npenses, he sent home for a Iwutkct of hiit wine. This he used as a samptt,\\nand took large orders In New Orleans and Mobile. This unlooked-for\\nsuccess led him to the amcluKion that nnytbing that appealed to the\\nsense of taste, es| ecially the bibulous tasie, would prove more profitable\\nthan window-fasteners or new style pianos, and hf at once returned\\ntiome and directed his attention to fruit and wine-muking.\\nFrom a small beginning, and in spite of obataclee of no ordinary\\nkind, he bits attained great success lui a vine-gn wer. His Mount Pn-^pect\\nVineyanls are at I assaic, on which are raised vine- of diff\u00c2\u00ab rent varie-\\ntiea, some of the moet difficult to bring to maturity. Among them is\\nthe imported 0| orto graite, from which is made the Port grape wine,\\nwhich rivals in every quality the SiMinish Port. As may be supposed,\\nthe utmost care and unceasing attention during ten years tA costly ex-\\nperiments were neces8ar to luing the Oporto gru|K to a l^earing ptdnt,\\niit which lime iliousunds of vines sickened and died during our winters\\nand springs. A few, however, survived, and they, after fight and ten\\nyears* nursing, at last lH came hiirdy, and formed the stock from which\\nvigorous layers were made foi propagnting. The vines thus obtained\\nhave now l ecomo arcUmnted and thrive well. Having passed all the\\nvicissitudes of our climate, they become healthy, vigorous, and prolific\\nbearers. The grapes are alluwe l to hang until October, when tltey 1--\\ncome dead ri|M?. They are then gathereil anti put in the w|ne-pr\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094-\\nwhence the Juice is conveyed in pipes to vats, where It is allowed to re-\\nmain.\\nThe average production of the vineyarils contndled by Mr. Speer Is\\nabout lhirty two thousand giillons a year.\\nMr. Speer has devot -d over twenty years to the study of vinous foi^\\nmentation. He first commenced in a snntll way by making fruit wine*\\nfrom currants and berries, and soon became interested in the planting of\\nvineyard at Paswic, N. J., where he has i-xpende l thoiisantls of dolbtrs\\nin experimenting on the cultivation of foreign wine gra|H*s and In the\\nemploynieul of the most skilled wine-growers of Europe. Mr. Sp er\\nwas the drat in this country who extensively advertised American wines.\\nI S4 nt|Hdly has the demand for Socbilile (a clareti and Port gmp\\nwine of New Jersey production lncrp)ise l, that it waa fouml neceaHiii\\nto enlarge the celliimge and stomge accummotlatlons, and a fine thiee-\\n1 story bnililing, one hundreil feet front, ha^ l\u00c2\u00bbeen erected, having under-\\nneath several collars, one within another, where any degree of tem| era-\\nturo am l\u00c2\u00bbe steadily muintained.\\nWhat he began as an ex|terimeni hus prove l the stepping-stone to\\nfortune, and lii now lian the mi\u00c2\u00abt extensive vlneyanls and wine-vaults\\nIn the (jiDtern States, aiol an office and saleeroom at No. 1(1 Warren\\nStre t, New York. Notwlthnlanding his many engagements, hn sllll\\nfound time to spare to fultilt the duties of a gtuKl citixen by taking an\\narlive arl In every niovenieiil llint lendeil to the welfare of the village.\\nIn 1H67 he miw that grading and |Htv{tig the streets would etdiance the\\nvalue of pmperty largely, ni, after obtaining the nei-essary authority\\nfrom the Legislature, at It he wont, devoting an entire year, without\\nIntpe or prtwpecl of reward, to the enlerpriHe. He gnided and laid over\\nAre miles of sidewalk in aluitit flve months, and the result Is seen In the\\nfact that more house* have been erectwl In Passaic \u00c2\u00ablnring the p ist twelve\\nyenn than in one bundietl years before, and handsonio villas and cot-\\ntager dot the landsrap\u00c2\u00ab In vtry direction. As a consequence. Ibe vnluo\\nof prtiperty has more than diuibUtl, and, although there are mitny l e\u00c2\u00abu-\\ntiful sites for buildlngfi, they are held n\\\\ largely enhnnce l prices as com-\\n|iar H| with two ycjirs ago. His Port grape wines liave acquired a world-\\nwiilo n pulntion among ph\\\\sii-iiinB, and are used in hvwpltals as the best\\nwine for medical pnriH)ses,and are Inrgely used by churcheti for commu-\\nnion.\\nIn I.S70, Mr. Speer being owner of considerable\\nproperty in Piissair, whirh he had pureliased from\\ntime t(\u00c2\u00bb time hirin;r the five years previous, wa deeply\\nint rested in the welfare of the city. He coneeivetl\\nthe idea of starting a printing-office and publishing a\\nnewspaper in the interests of the village. Accord-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0638.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "-^^-2^,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0639.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0640.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0641.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "^-y^i^^^/c:^^\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0642.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n399\\ningly, Jan. 9, 1870, the first copy of the Weekly Item,\\nan independent four-page paper, was issued. Before\\nsix months had expired he found it necessary to en-\\nlarge the paper, which he did to eight pages, and it\\nis yet published and edited by Mr. Speer.\\nSince the Item was started two daily papers have\\nsprung up in Passaic, each published by estimable\\nparties, whom Mr. Speer brought to Passaic at difl erent\\nperiods as foremen in his office, in which capacity they\\neach served faithfully until they started for them-\\nselves.\\nMr. Speer is also the inventor of several new and\\nuseful improvements not yet fully developed one is\\na new method for rapid transit in cities, called Speer s\\nTraveling Sidewalk, about which there was so much\\nexcitement a few years ago when the New York Legis-\\nlature passed a bill giving Mr. Speer a charter for\\nbuilding it the whole length of the city of New York.\\nLarge capital stood ready, and but for the veto of\\nGovernor Dix it would have been built. The plan is\\na novel one, and is said by eminent engineers to be\\npractically a series of platforms connected together,\\nforming an endless train of cars, to be run continu-\\nously without stopping, by stationary engines. The\\nmost ingenious thing about it is the plan by which\\npassengers are to get on and off the train without\\nstojiping it; even if run at a speed of fifty miles an\\nhour, an old man or one on crutches can get on and\\noff as easily as to get from one chair to anotlier on his\\nown piazza. This invention Mr. Speer is still working\\nto have introduced on some short route to prove to\\nthe traveling public its practicability. Mr. Speer has\\ndone much for the prosperity of Passaic. He built\\nthe first public hall in the city he secured by sub-\\nscription the first set of street-lights, purchased the\\nlamps, and had them placed on wooden posts about\\nthe streets; procured the change of the name of the\\nvillage from Aciiuackanonk to Passaic was the first\\nto apply to the representative in Congress to get the\\ngovernment to improve the navigation of the Passaic\\nRiver; and he has expended hundreds of dollars in\\ngrading the streets and laying the first crosswalks and\\nsidewalks in the village. In various other ways he\\nhas aided in its improvement and encouraged a gen-\\neral spirit of enterprise.\\nWilliam S. Anderson. The Anderson family are\\nof Scotch extraction, and at an early period located\\nin Bergen County, John, the grandfather of the sub-\\nject of this biographical sketch, having resided at\\nHackensack. He was an extensive merchant, and\\nboth in New York City and in New Jersey conducted\\nbusiness interests of great magnitude. He was united\\nin marriage to Jliss Catherine, daughter of Christian\\nZabriskie, of Paramus, to whom were born children,\\nDavid I., John, Maria (Mrs. Abram Berry), and\\nJane (Mrs. Andrew Parsons). The death of Mr. An-\\nderson occurred at Hackensack, after a life of ex-\\ntended usefulness. The birth of his son, David I.,\\ntook place at Hackensack, in November, 1792, where\\nhis boyhood and the principal portion of his life was\\nspent in business pursuits. He was married to Miss\\nAnna Strong, of New York City, whose ancestors\\nwere prominent during the war of the Revolution,\\nand filled many important public trusts. To Mr.\\nand Mrs. Anderson were born children, Helen (Mrs.\\nPrice), John, who resides upon the homestead in Ber-\\ngen County, Catherine (Mrs. Aycrigg), and William\\nS. The death of David I. Anderson occurred at his\\nhome in Bergen County in 1873. His son, William\\nS., was born in 1827, at Hackensack, and the early\\nyears of his life were spent at the home of his parents\\nin Lodi township. His boyhood was uneventful,\\nhaving been chiefiy spent at school in Middletown,\\nConn., and elsewhere. The family having removed\\nin 1848 to Passaic, Mr. Anderson, after attaining his\\nmajority, became a clerk in the lumber and coal office\\nof Anderson Post, and at the expiration of a period\\nof years was admitted as a partner. This business\\nwas eventually controlled and is still conducted by\\nhim. He was first married to Miss Clara, daughter\\nof John A. Post, to whom were born children, John,\\nWilliam S., and Kate C. The death of Mrs. Ander-\\nson occurred in 1872, and Mr. Anderson was a second\\ntime married to Miss Sarah, daughter of Richard Ter-\\nhune, of Lodi. They have two Children, Richard\\nand Sarah. Mr. Anderson is a Republican in his po-\\nlitical predilections, and while manifesting a laudable\\ninterest in public affairs, is indifferent to the honors\\nof office, which have repeatedly been proffered and\\ndeclined. His attention is entirely devoted to the de-\\nmands of his business enterprises, he being the rep-\\nresentative lumber dealer of the county. He was\\ninstrumental in obtaining for Pivssaic a village char-\\nter, and may practically be regarded as one of the\\nfounders of the place.\\nMr. Anderson s religious preferences are in sym-\\npathy with the Reformed (Dutch) Church, at which\\nhe worships, Mrs. Anderson being a member of the\\nFirst Reformed Church of Passaic.\\nAbram N. Ackerman. The family of Ackerman\\ndates back to the early settlement of Bergen County,\\nand the name is frequently found in connection with\\nits history. John, grandfather of Abram N., was a\\nfarmer, and resided at Yawpaugh, in Bergen County.\\nHis children were Lawrence, Nicholas, and James,\\nall of whom settled in the vicinity of their birth.\\nNicholas was father of our subject, and was a farmer\\nand ma.ster-mason by trade; resided in Franklin town-\\nship until 1863, when he removed to Paterson, where\\nhe lived in retirement until his death in 1869. His\\nwife, Polly Snyder, died in 1877. Their children\\nwere John N., for many years a justice of the peace at\\nHackensack, and who carries on the steam sawing-\\nand planing-mill at that place Abram N. and a\\ntwin-brother, George, who died at the age of nineteen\\nyears, of smallpox, while engaged in New York in a\\ndry-goods house.\\nAbram N. was born in Franklin township, Aug.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0643.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "400\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n27, 1830. His early education was obtained at the\\ndistrict school in his native place. At the age of\\nfifteen he began learning tlie carpenter s trade with\\nCol. Andrew Derroni, of Paterson, witli whom lie\\nserved si.\\\\ years. After a few years as journeyman in\\nNew York and for Mr. Derrom, he established busi-\\nness for himself on Broadway, near Bridge Street,\\nPaterson, as a contractor and builder. He then as-\\nsociated with him in business .lohn Berdan, under\\nthe firm-name of Berdan .Vckerman, who withdrew\\nafter two years. He then associated with him in\\nbusiness partnersiiip John J. Snyder, under the firm-\\nname of Ackerman Snyder, which continued for\\neight years. While residing in Paterson he was\\ndeacon in Rev. J. H. Duryea s church, and a member\\nof the board of education.\\nIn the fall of IStlH, Mr. .\\\\ckerman removed to Pas-\\nsaic and formed a partnership with Adrian Hopper,\\nunder the firm-name of Ackerman Hopper, and\\nestablished the steam sawing- and planing-mill (to\\nwhich they subsequently added a fine brick addition),\\nwhich they carried on until June, 1881, when he ur-\\nchased Mr. Hopper s interest in the concern, and in\\n1882 controls the entire business.\\nHe gives employment to sixteen men, and consumes\\nsonic two million feet of lumber a year, making his\\npurchases of lumber in Albany and Troy, and ship-\\nping by water to Passaic, where he has a dock-front\\nof some three hundred feet, all in connection with his\\nfactory. He built his present substantial residence\\nnear his mill in 18t)9.\\nMr. Ackerman has devoted himself closely to busi-\\nness pursuits, and by his industry and judicious\\nmanagement secured a fair comiietency.\\nHe was formerly a deacon in the North Keformed\\nChurch at Passaic, and is a liberal supporter of church\\nand school interests.\\nHe wa-s a member of the City Council of Pa-ssaic\\nin 187. and in 187!t was appointed street superin-\\ntendent.\\nHe married, July 30, 1848, the daughter of Henry\\nand Sarah llutan, originally of Sussex County, j\\nTheir children are Mary, wife of E. L. Hewson, a\\nmerchant in Paterson George H. and Elmer E., in\\nbusiness with their father; and one son, Charlie, died\\nwlu n tw i years old.\\nHe has by his own exertions and careful study so\\nfar mastered the knowledge of wood-working ma-\\nchinery that he has built nearly half of the machines j\\nnow running in his factfiry, among which is one of\\nthe best kindling-wood saw and splitting-machines in\\noperation, also a very line and ingenious set of pack-\\ning-box machines, upon which two sawyers have cut\\nni) many as two liundreil and twenty five large cases in\\nten hours, thereby consuming a very large amount of\\nlumber in the busy season. I\\nJames Waterhouse.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Waterhousc family are\\nIII I lrriiisli lie-cent, anil doubtless made England their\\nhome at a period between the eleventh and twelfth\\ncenturies, where one of its members formed a matri-\\nmonial alliance with the Duke of Bridgewater. In\\nthe direct line of descent from this branch came the\\ngrandfather of thesubject of this biographical sketch,\\nwhose birth occurred in Yorkshire, England, in the\\ndwelling where were also born three generations of the\\nfamily. His children were four sous Thomas, John,\\nJames, and Jerry and four daughters. The death\\nof Mr. Waterhouse occurred in Yorkshire. His son\\nJerry wjis born at the ancestral home, Dec. 18, fgTi,\\nwhere his early years were spent at school. He lliter\\nacquired a knowledge of the manufacture of woolen\\ngoods, and soon after engaged in the production of\\nshawls. Having discerned a wider field for enter-\\nprise in tlie New World, he sailed for America, and\\nlocated in Dudley, M.iss., where he became superin-\\ntendent of woolen mills at that point. Here he in-\\ntroduced the first power-loom for the manufacture of\\nwoolen fabrics. He was married to Miss Ann, daugh-\\nter of Capt. John Piatt, born April 8, 1794, to whom\\nwere born nine children, John, James, Miles, Mary\\nAnn (Mrs. Kimball), Ruth (Mrs. Goodall), George,\\nAnn Melissa, who died in infancy, Ann V. (Mrs. Lane),\\nand Leila (Mrs. Farrar). James, of this number, was\\nborn March 20, 1820, in Yorkshire, England, and ac-\\ncompanied, his parents to the United f tates in 1820,\\nwhen but a child. The years of his early life were\\nuneventful, having been spent at school, after which\\nhe embarked in manufacturing pursuits at Walpole\\nand South Hadley, Mass., in com|)any with his father\\nand brothers. He was united in marriage in 1842 to\\nMiss Sarah, daughter of Charles and Mary Parker\\nWhittemore, of Leicester, Miuss. Both the Parker\\nand Whittemore families are of English descent, and\\nhave resided for generations in Massachusetts, where\\nthe former were physicians, and the latter business\\nmen or agriculturists. Mr. and Mrs. Waterhouse\\nhad one child, an adopted son, Lester, born in De-\\ncember, 18 !8. During the year ISiill. Mr. Waterhouse\\nremoved to New York City, and continued his career\\nas a manufacturer, the factory having been located\\nin Brooklyn.\\nIn 18G5 Pa.s.saic otl cred an inviting ficM for the con-\\ntinuance of the business, and induced his removal to\\nthat city, where he purchased a mill property, and\\nembarked in the manufacture of woolen fabrics, his\\nbrntliet (icorgc having becDinc associated with him\\nthe following year. The mills were consiinied by fire\\nin 1860, but immediately rebuilt on a more extensive\\nplan, and have since been in active and successful\\noperation. Mr. Waterhouse was, in his political con-\\nvictions, a pronounced Republican, and energetic in\\nthe advancement of the interests of his party. He\\nwas in no sense a politician, and frequently declined\\noflicial honors tendered him. He, however, served\\nfor seven years as a member of the boanl of chosen\\nfreeholders of the county, and with such fidelity to\\npublic interest** as to have inspireil the following reso-\\nlution from the board", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0644.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0645.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0646.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0647.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "^CC^a^ir^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0648.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PASSAIC.\\n401\\nWheretUt the senior member of this board ID point of continuous\\nservice to-day severe his olBcial connection with us after an uninter-\\nrupted uiemlierahip of seven years, a period exceeded by but two, and\\nequaled by only five members of this board in the last forty-one years;\\nand\\nWhereas^ This is an event so unusual as to justify some special recog-\\nnition therefore, be it\\nliesolved. That in losing the services of James Waterhouse, Esq., the\\nchoseu freeholder from the Second Ward of the city of Passaic, tiie board\\nof chosen freeholders of the county of Passaic parts with a member dis-\\ntinguished for his ability, integrity, and conscientious regard for the\\nright in the discbarge of every public duty, and the city of Passaic loses\\na valuable representative, who was ever ready and anxious to further her\\ninterests; while the members of the board individually separate with\\nprofound regret from one whose society they prized, and for whose manly\\nand upright character they entertained the highest esteem.\\nMr. Waterhouse was also an active Mason, and had\\nbeen for a period of eighteen year.s a member of At-\\nlantic Lodge, No. 178, of New York City. In the\\nmidst of activity and usefulness, and in the apparent\\nfullness of health, the death of James Waterhouse\\noccurred on the 16th of October, 1881, at his home in\\nPassaic. For a period of half a century prior to this\\nunexpected event the family circle had remained un-\\nbroken. Mr. Waterhouse in all the relations of life,\\nboth of a public and private nature, maintained a\\ncharacter which won universal regard, and caused his\\ndeath to be felt a personal loss. He was a supporter\\nand regular worshiper of the North Reformed (Dutch)\\nChurch of Passaic, of which Mrs. Waterhouse is a\\nmember.\\nRichard Cutwater.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Cutwater family are\\namong the oldest in the State, the earliest members\\nhaving emigrated from Holland, and after a brief\\nresidence in New Amsterdam (now New York) settled\\nin Bergen County, N. J., where they became exten-\\nsive landed proprietors.\\nJudge John Cutwater, the great-grandfather of the\\nsubject of this biographical sketch, was born at Mo-\\nnarchic, near Hackensack, Bergen Co., in 1746, where\\nhis life was spent in agricultural employments. In\\nthe war of the Revolution he served as captain of the\\nNew Jersey militia, and rendered valuable service\\nduring the entire period of the conflict. He was sub-\\nse(]uently appointed judge of the Bergen County\\nCourt, and was conspicuous for his practical knowl-\\nedge and executive ability. He was also well known\\nas a skillful surveyor. Judge Cutwater was married\\nto Miss Harriet Lozier, and had children, Richard,\\nJohn, Abram, Peter, Jacob, aad one daughter. The\\njudge s death occurred May 18, 1823, and that of his\\nwife Sept. 28, 1828, in her eighty-second year.. She\\nwas a member of the Reformed (Dutch) Church of\\nHackensack, and an exemplary Christian lady.\\nThe birth of their son Richard occurred in 1777,\\nat Monarchie, where his early life was devoted to\\nlabor upon the farm. He later engaged in mercantile\\nventures at the head of navigation on the Passaic\\nRiver, now known as East Passaic, where he remained\\nfor ten years, and conducted a successful business.\\nHe then removed to Rutherford Park and embarked\\nin lumbering and milling. Mr. Cutwater represented\\nhis constituency in the State Legislature, was treasu-\\nrer of the Hoboken and Paterson plank-road, and\\nfilled many minor positions of trust. He was married\\nto Miss Catherine Kip, to whom were born children,\\nJohn, Peter, Henry, and two daughters, Jemima\\nand Harriet. The death of Mr. (Cutwater occurred\\nat Rutherford in 1858, his wife having died some years\\nI previously. His life had been one of great activity,\\nand his character for integrity beyond reproach.\\nThe birth of his son John occurred at East Passaic\\nin 1811, and his early life was spent at Rutherford.\\nCn his removal to Saddle River township at a subse-\\nquent period he followed farming pursuits. John\\nCutwater was married to Miss Sophia, daughter of\\nPeter Paulison, of Passaic County, born in 1810, and\\nbecame the parent of children, Peter, Richard, John\\nH., and a daughter, Jane Maria. The death of Mrs.\\nCutwater occurred in 1805. Her husband still sur-\\nvives, and resides upon his estate in Bergen County.\\nThe names of both are enrolled as active and con-\\nsistent members of the Reformed (Dutch) Church of\\nAcquackanonk.\\nRichard, the second son, and the subject of this\\nbiography, was born in Saddle River township. May\\n15, 1840. The years of his boyhood were spent upou\\nthe farm, where attendance upon the public school\\nof the neighborhood was varied by occasional labor\\nupon the estate. Being ambitious for a more active\\nbusiness life than was offered at his home, he at the\\nage of fifteen removed to New York City, and there,\\nby the acquirement of habits of industry and the\\nknowledge of commercial pursuits which he gained,\\nlaid the foundation of a successful business career.\\nAt the expiration of two years he became a resident\\nof Lodi, and there engaged in commercial enterprises,\\nhaving been during this period for several years con-\\nnected with the Lodi Print- Works. He was while\\nhere elected and served for four years as collector of\\nthe township of Lodi. Mr. Cutwater having discov-\\nered a larger field for enterprise in Passaic, became a\\nresident of that city in 1868, and began an extensive\\ntrade in fine groceries. Here he has since that date\\nresided and devoted his energies to a large and in-\\ncreasing business. He was in 1872 married to Miss\\nChristiana, daughter of David A. and Jane Anderson\\nZabriskie, both of whom were representatives of the\\noldest families of Bergen County. Mr. and Mrs. Cut-\\nwater have two sons, Anderson and Richard Irving.\\nIn politics Mr. Cutwater is a pronounced Republican.\\nHe has been a member of the Passaic City Council,\\nand is now filling the responsible position of city\\ntreasurer. His religious views are in accord with the\\ncreed of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, he being a\\nmember and a deacon of the Reformed Church of\\nAcquackanonk in Passaic.\\nJoseph Kingsland. The Kingslands are one of\\nthe oldest and most influential families in Bergen\\nCounty, where its earliest representatives settled and\\nowned a large and valuable estate. Joseph Kings-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0649.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "402\\nIIISTOKY OF BERGliN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JEllSEY.\\nland, the grandfather of the subject of this l iojrraphi-\\ncal sketch, was Ijorn at Kingsland, liergen Co., in\\n1738, and at an early age acquired tlie trade of a car-\\npenter, wiiich was fallowed successfully before the\\nRevolutionary war. At the close of the conflict he\\nremoved to New York, and engaged extensively in\\nthe business of lumbering, liaving executed the first\\ncontract for curbing the streets witli wood. At a sub-\\nsequent period he removed to Essex County, and\\npurcha-sed the homestead which is now the home of\\nhis granddaughters.\\nHe was united in marriage to Miss Mary Cutwater,\\nof Bergen County, and had children, John, Henry,\\nlienjamin, Joseph, Hannah (Mrs. Stephenson), Mary\\n(Mrs. Mclntire), Catherine (Mrs. Kingsland), Rachel\\n(Mrs. Oakes), and Sarah (Mrs. Morris).\\nThe death of Mr. Kingsland occurred at the home-\\nstead in 1821. The birth of his son Joseph took\\nplace in New York during the year 1792, and four\\nyears later his removal with his jiarents to Essex\\nCounty, where the remainder of his life was spent.\\nHe early engaged in milling enterprises, having con-\\nducted both grist- and saw-mills. In 1812 he em-\\nbarked in the manufacture of paper at the old Madi-\\nson Mills, and in 1836 erected the present Pa.s.saie\\nMills, which were successfully managed by him until\\nhis retirement from business in 18.56. He married,\\nin 1812, Miss Martha, daughter of Richard Ackerman,\\nof Ilergen County, an l had children, Joseph, Marga-\\nret, Richard, Mary (Mrs. Mix), and Martha L. Mr.\\nKingsland was a man of much business enterprise,\\nbut with little t^istc for public life, whicli was not con-\\ngenial to him. His death occurred during the year\\n1878. His son Joseph was born in 1813, on the\\nhomestead in Es.sex County, where the years of his\\nboyhood were spent. He pursued his studies at\\nAcquackanonk and Belleville, and later became a.sso-\\nciated with his father in the manufacture of paper.\\nHe remained thus employed until 1H4S, after which\\nhe repaired to Saugerties, N. Y., and continued the\\nbusiness, having rebuilt the Saugerties Mills, in con-\\nnection with Messrs. White Sheffield, of New York.\\nAt the expiration of a period of eight years he re-\\nturne l to his early home and formed a copartnership\\n(in ISrifi) with his brother Richard, whicli lia-s con-\\ntinued to the present time. Mr. Kingsland was mar-\\nried to Miss Margaret, daughter of Charles Stuart, of\\nDelaware County, N. Y. They havechildren, Martha\\n(Mrs. Carryll), Joseph, Charles, and Minerva Kate.\\nJoseph, of this number, is pursuing a scientific career\\nin .Mexico, and Charles resides at home. .Mr. Kings-\\nland wa.M,in his political proclivities, formerly a Demo-\\ncrat, but upon conviction changed his views and\\nbecame a Republican. lie is devoted to the manage-\\nment of un extensive business, and finds little pleasure\\nin the engrossing cares of public life. He was, how-\\never, during the war elected a freeholder of his\\ntownship by the Democracy, and served for six years,\\na portion of this time as a Republican.\\nThe Kingslands have for generations been stanch\\nsupporters of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Jo-\\nseph, the grandfather, having been a warden of Trinity\\nChurch, Newark, during the la.st century. .loseph, the\\nsubject of this sketch, is a warden of the Protestant\\nEjiiscopal Cliurih of Franklin, N. J.\\nRichard Kingsland. The prominence of the\\nKingsland family as early settlers of Bergen County\\nand other facts pertaining to their genealogy have\\nalready been elsewhere alluded to, which renders\\ntheir repetition unnecessary. The subject of this\\nbrief biographical sketch was a grandson of Joseph\\nKingsland, born in 1738, at Kingsland. Bergen Co.,\\nand the son of Joseph, whose birth occurred in New\\nYork City in 1792, and who married in 1812 Miss\\nMartha, daughter of Richard Ackerman, of Bergen\\nCounty.\\nTheir children were .Joseph, Margaret, Richard,\\nMary, and Martha L. Of this number Richard was\\nborn Dec. 18, 1818, on the homestead in Essex County,\\nto which his father had removed and where the years\\nof his early life were passed. These years were\\nchiefly devoted to study at the various schools in\\nBloomfield, Franklin, and Acqu.ackanonk. Having\\nthus fitted himself for the more active duties of life,\\nhe removed to New York and engaged in the dry-\\ngoods business. The lace of his birth having\\noffered many advantages he returned again to his\\nhome, and embarked with his father in the manufac-\\nture of paper. On the retirement of Mr. .Joseph\\nKingsland, in 1856, he formed a business connection\\nwith his brother, which hiis continued to the present\\ntime. They are engaged in the manufacture of a fine\\ngrade of letter- and writing-paper, in which industry\\nseventy hands are employed in the various depart-\\nments. Both steam and water-power are used, and\\nall the most approved and modern mechanical ap-\\npliances have been introduced for perfecting the\\nquality of their wares.\\nHe was in 184(i united in marriage to Miss Sarah,\\ndaughter of Roger Pegg, of New York, to whom\\nwere born children, Joseph R., who is associated\\nwith his father in business, Sarah M. (Jlrs. .lames H.\\nHay), and .Martha (Mrs. W. R. Grirtith). Mr.\\nKingsland was formerly a Democrat in his political\\nconvictions, but was induced at the outbreak of the\\nlate war to change his views, and has since afliliatcd\\nwith the Republican |)arty. His businei\u00c2\u00abs occupa-\\ntions gave but little leisure for a ublic career, which\\nis not especially congenial to his tjistes. The Kings-\\nland family have fiir generations espoused the tenets\\nof the Protestant Episcopal Church, and Mr. Kings-\\nland has not departed from the faith of his ancestors.\\nHe is one of the wardens of the Protestant Episcopal\\nChurch at Belleville, N. J.\\nI William James Boggs.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr. Boggs was the only\\nI son ol William and Sarah Jones Boggs, who resided\\nin the southern part of the State of New .lersey. He\\nI was born in the city of Troy, N. Y., to which place", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0650.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0651.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "C2^ C", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0652.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "C /^5^fiy^W^ yiT^^-^ iS/T^ -oi.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0653.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0654.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0655.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "The Speer family are old residents of the\\ntownship of Acfjuackanonk, where Rinear, the\\ngrandfather of the subject of this biographical\\nsketch, iive l and died. He followed farming\\npursuit*, and w.is united in marriage to Miss\\nXaomi iSkidiuore, who wa.s the mother of two\\n-hildren, Samuel and Maria (Mrs. Sigler). i\\nThe birth of Samuel o\u00c2\u00ab urre\u00c2\u00abl on the ancestral i\\nestate in Ac(|uackanonk, where his life was sjjent\\nin the j)ursuits of agriculture. He married Miss\\nMarv, daughter of James Sigler, of Brookdalc,\\nEssex Co., and had children, IJiucar, James,\\nMaria, Naomi, Sophia, Cornelius, and John, of\\nwhom three, Rinear, Maria (^Mi s. Sigler), and\\nXaomi, survive. The death of Samuel occurrcnl\\nin 1S.52, after a life of extended usefulnes-;. His\\nson, Rinear S., was born Sept. 1 i, 17!t.S, and\\ndevoted his esirly years to attendance upon the\\nsessions of the district school. At a later perio l\\nhe assisted his father in the cidtivation uf his\\nland, and at the age of twenty-one vcaiN departed\\nfor th VVe^t and Sjuth on a pros|)ecting tour.\\nOn his return he engaged in various |)ursuits\\nwhereby an honest livelihood was obtained, and\\nin 182 was married to Miss Jane, daughter of\\nMei-selis Post, of Acquackanonk. They have\\nhad the following children Rosanna (deceased),\\nAlfrctl, Enieline (Mrs. Egbert.- on), James, Sarah\\n(Mrs. Johnst)n), Edward, and Hiram, all of\\nwhom are living, with the exception mentioned.\\nMr. Speer is an outspoken Repid)lic;in in\\npolitics. He was the first sheriff of Pa.s. iaic\\nCounty after its orgiinization, and servetl dur-\\ning the years l\u00c2\u00ab37-39. He h;u also tilled the\\noffices of freeholder, collector, and assessor of\\nManchester township. The family are sup-\\nporters of the Reformed Dutch Chinch of\\nl?rookdale, Essex o.. and regular attendants\\nupon its services.\\nMr. Speer removed to his present home in\\n1860. Here, after a life of activity, in which\\nhis abilities have Iteen devoteil no less to the\\npublic than to his jiersonal interi\u00c2\u00abts, he enjoys a\\n-eri iii and peaceful old age.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0656.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n403\\nhis parents had later removed, on the 7th of April,\\n1813. Here his boyhood was spent in application to\\nstudy until his sixteenth year, when a desire to enter\\nthe arena of commercial life influenced his removal\\nto the city of New York. He became an inmate of\\nthe home of Rev. Charles G. Sommers, D.D., and at\\nonce engaged in active business pursuits. At a sub-\\nsequent period he embarked in the hardware trade,\\nbut his peculiar abilities having been directed to in-\\nsurance, for which they were admirably adapted, he\\nmade it the labor of his life, and in it achieved a\\nmarked success, having filled successfully the offices\\nboth of president and secretary of the company with\\nwhich he was connected. He was married Oct. 12,\\n1835, to Miss Catherine Ann, second daughter of\\nPaul and Mary Cleveland Paulison, of Hackensack,\\nwhose birth occurred April 24, 1816.\\nMr. and Mrs. Paulison were the parents of eight\\nchildren, Gertrude, Catherine A., .John P., Eliza-\\nbeth, Charles M. K., Henry, Richard, and Helen,\\nand were descended from the oldest settlers of the\\ncounty of Bergen.\\nTo Mr. and Mrs. Boggs were born seven children,\\nas follows: William Dorlon, whose birth occurred\\nOct. 15,1836; Mary Elizabeth, born Aug. 14, 1838;\\nEmma H., born May 6, 1840 Joseph P., whose birth\\noccurred Feb. 23, 1844; George Henry, born Oct. 1,\\n1845 Theodore P., the date of whose birth is June\\n15, 1847; and ^Valter James, born July 26, 1850.\\nMr. Boggs having been attracted by the natural ad-\\nvantages of Passaic, purchased and erected a resi-\\ndence within the limits of the then village, where his\\nsummers were spent. Having become greatly inter-\\nested in the place, he in 1858 with his family made it\\nhis permanent home. He still continued his business\\ninterests in New York, but aided greatly by his means\\nand public spirit to the development of the city, and\\ngave a hearty sympathy to all progressive movements\\ntending to advance its Christian civilization.\\nHe was in politics a Republican, but felt little desire\\nto engage in the contests incident to an active politi-\\ncal life. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs were early members of\\nthe Baptist Church of Passaic, and among its found-\\ners. At a later period they became associated with\\nthe Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, of\\nwhich Mr. Boggs was a member at the time of his\\ndeath, which occurred May 15, 1872, after a brief ill-\\nness. A very just conception of his noble Christian\\ncharacter may be derived from the following extract,\\ntaken from a religious publication\\nHe was an earnest, consistent, and devoted fol-\\nlower of his Lord and Saviour, one who, having\\nmade a profession, by the grace of God lived up to\\nthat profession. He was a man of fine feelings and\\ntender sympathies. He was a strong denominational\\nman, yet he loved all of the household of faith. Fare-\\nwell Farewell, dear brother I Already hast thou\\nheard thy Saviour s voice, Well done, thou good and\\nfaithful servant. Great and glorious is thy reward.\\nCHAPTER LV.\\nCITY OF PATERSON.J\\nThe writer has been engaged since 1870 in collect-\\ning and preserving materials relating to the history\\nof Paterson, especially the first years of its existence\\nand its early men of note. He has thus accumulated\\nseveral hundred pages of short-hand notes of conver-\\nsations with some of the older citizens, many of whom\\nare now dead, such as the venerable John Colt, Aaron\\nKing, Charles Smith Kinsey, Henry Clark, and others,\\nwhose families were closely identified with the settle-\\nment of the place. Many works bearing more or less\\ndirectly on the subject have been acquired, together\\nwith numerous pamphlets, newspaper files, maps,\\nmanuscripts, account-books, and other records, so\\nthat in the preparation of the following sketch the\\ndifficulty has been rather from the embarraaaement du\\nriclies than from the paucity of material. What fol-\\nlows has been carefully selected from the data on\\nhand, with the view of presenting concisely the more\\nstriking facts of the city s origin and progress, without\\ntoo wearisome a minutia of detail. Wherever dates\\nare given without qualification they are based upon\\npublic or private contemporaneous records in prefer-\\n1 By William Nelson.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0659.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "404\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nence to the recollections of individuals. So, if some\\ncritical reader should find a statement of fact or date\\nherewith given which differs from his own memory\\non the subject, he may nevertheless rest assured that\\nit has not been made witliout due authority.\\nEarly History. The territory now embraced within\\nthe bounds of tlie city of Paterson conjiiri.ses parts of\\nseveral distinct tracts, settled at different times and\\nunder diffierent circumstances. That portion south\\nof the river Passaic and east of the mountain was\\nI)art of the Acquackanonk Patent, an account of\\nwhich is given elsewhere in this work. The section\\nadjoining on tlie west was ineUide l in a purcha.se\\nmade in 1719 by some of the Acquackanonk settlers\\nand their friends. Of the territory north of the\\nriver, that portion lying east of Clinton Street was in\\nStreet, Hroadway. Mulberry Street, River Street to\\nBank Street, thence across the river, probably by a\\nford, along Water Street to Clinton, up Clinton to\\nthe edge of the Hill, along the side of the Hill to\\nHaledon Avenue, and so on to Pompton and the\\nwestern country. There was no other road laid out\\nin this section until 1710, when Willis Street was lo-\\ncated from Vreeland Avenue to the river for the con-\\nvenience of Simeon Van Winkle. These two roads\\naccommodated the residents for half a century, when\\none was laid out from Totowa to Singack, or to the\\nwestern part of Totowa. Of course, as already inti-\\nmated, the people had other roads, laid out or\\nopened by themselves for the convenience of the\\nneighborhoods or for access to their farms, and these\\nrude by-roads answered all the purposes of intercom-\\nthe Wagraw tract, and the remainder was a part of munication for many years. The laying out of the\\nthe Totowa Patent, wliicli wa.s sold in ll)S7. It is not\\neasy to tell just where the first settlement was made\\nwithin the present area of Paterson. So early as\\n1707 a road was laid out from Newark to Acquacka-\\nnonk, and through what is now Paterson to Pompton,\\nhut it is not jirobable that any settlement was estab-\\nlished within our i)resent city limits for some years\\nthereafter. Perhaps the first settler was Simeon Van\\nWinkle, a son of the Acquackanonk patentee, Simon\\npublic roads described indicated their increased im-\\nportance SIS common highways leading to other set-\\ntlements.\\nThe first settlers lived simple, comparatively un-\\neventful lives, sowing and reaping, having their little\\ncountry gatherings, keeping u| the old-country habits\\nto a large extent, raising big families and setting\\nthem up on farms of their own, until they, too, grew\\ntoo large for shelter under the old roof-tree, when\\nJacobs, who located on the river-bank at the foot of there would be another scattering, some going to the\\nWillis Street at least as early as 1719. Totowa was\\nsettled by the Van Houtens about 1720, or po.isibly\\nearlier. But there were very few families there for\\nanother generation. What is now the First Ward\\nand the lower part of the Second Ward had no white\\ninhabitants at all probably until 1740 or 1750, and\\nwhat is known as stony road was not settled until\\neven later.\\nThe first white i wners of the soil in the precincts\\nnamed were all Dutch, and, with the exception of the\\nsettlers of the Wagraw tract, were relatives of the\\nAcquackanonk patentees. They divided the land up\\namong themselves in farms of about one hundred\\nacres, on which they raised grain, etc., in consider-\\nable quantities, although in many places the land\\nWHS too poor to raise even sheep. Much of it was\\nvery sandy, elsewhere it was swampy, and in other\\nlocalities it was covered with a thick growth of wood,\\nwhich supplied the settlers with the wherewithal for\\nkeeping up those great wood-fires for which our an-\\ncestors were so famous.\\nThe sparsene.Hs of population in those early days is\\nindicated in a meiusiire by the elates of laying out some\\nof the roads, although, of course, there were wood\\nroads soon after the land was taken up. The first\\nroad through this section has already been mentioned\\n8.H laid out in 1707. This ran along the border of the\\nDundee Lake, through Market Street, Vreeland Ave-\\nnue, Willis Street, York Avenue or East Eighteenth\\nI lliitory nf TumIc (Vninly R^auU, \\\\tj WlllUm NelK.n, |i. 10.\\nllinlc.rical SkeUh uf INiaitlc Cuulitjr, WlUUni NoImhi, pp. U, 18,\\n17, 27, ^i.\\ngreat metropolis, and some going to the far West in\\nthe central part of New York State, and gradually\\nfollowing the setting sun even to Ohio, where very\\nmany iieo|)le from this county ultimately settled.\\nFotinding of Paterson. Alexander Hamilton,\\nWashington s lirst Secretary of the Treasury, was\\nconvinced that the United States would never be\\nreally free and independent of (Jreat Britain until\\nthey could tnanufaeture goods enough for their own\\nconsumption, and one of his first acts as the head of\\nthe Trejisury Department was to endeavor to enlist\\nCongress in support of his views on this subject. He\\nmanaged to attract public attention to the matter in\\na general way, l ut this was not sufficient, and being\\nvery strongly impres.sed with its importance he con-\\nceive l the idea that the practicability of .Xmerican\\nmanufactures ought to be put to a test, which he had\\nno doubt would rove a complete success. His high\\notBcial osition, his conceded ability, and his exten-\\nsive jiersonal and business connections rendered it no\\nditficult matter for him to enlist the aid of many men\\nof wealth and business standing in his scheme, wliich\\ntook the form of the organization of a great slock\\ncompany, which should engage in all sorts of manu-\\nfactures, and encourage others to do the same under\\nits auspices, at some central anil convenient location.\\nThe enterprise was worked up with great skill and\\nindustry, until the immense capital of one hundred\\nthousand dollars was subscribed for the rojected\\ncomi)any. This was a vast sum to invest in muuufac-\\nIII tanr of PmmUc CoODljr", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0660.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0661.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "PA\\nOF\\nthe TOWN of\\nM.,jr,\\nf^om .\\\\clu.il Sui-\\\\\u00c2\u00ab0\\n/J/u/rfTr r\\n1840\\nEVERTS ft rtCK", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0662.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0663.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0664.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n405\\ntures in those days. Indeed, the new company was\\nthe largest of the kind, if it was not the only one of\\nthe iiind, in the whole United States. The experi-\\nment was at least doubtful, and, being the first of the\\nsort in the New World, was generally considered by\\nkeen business men as quite sure to fail. In this in-\\nstance the prophets of evil had the sorry satisfaction\\nof seeing their predictions come true, although, had\\nthey foreseen the growth of the present city of Pater-\\nson, with its fifty-five thousand inhabitants, as the\\nresult of this apparently chimerical enterprise, they\\nwould have fain conceded that the project had suc-\\nceeded beyond the wildest conceptions of its origina-\\ntors. Hamilton and his associates in the new com-\\npany concluded to locate their works at the Passaic\\nFalls, as afibrding the finest water-power anywhere\\n^Tthin convenient reach of New York or Philadelphia,\\nand then they applied to the New Jersey Legislature\\nfor an act to incorporate them. There was some op-\\nposition to the act, but the newspapers of the day,\\nespecially those favorable to Hamilton, warmly ad-\\nvocated the bill, and it finally became a law on the\\ntwenty-second day of November, in the year 1791.\\nWilliam Paterson, an eminent jurist of his day, was\\nGovernor of the State at the time, and probably aided\\nin securing the passage of the bill, in gratitude for\\nwhich the incorporators decided to name the projected\\ntown, after him, Paterson. It has been often said\\nthat the town was so named because the Governor had\\nthe goodness to sign the bill incorporating The\\nSociety for Establishing Useful Manufactures, but\\nthis is an error. The first meeting of the society was\\nheld at New Brunswick, on the last Monday in Novem-\\nber, 1701. In order to give the appearance of allow-\\ning every locality in the State to compete for the\\nIt seeme appropriate that some account should be given herewith of\\nthf man after whom our city is named, that the inhabitants may liiiow\\nthat he was worthy of this honor. William Paterson was born in the\\nnorth of Ireland in 1745, and came to .\\\\merica with his fathertwo years\\nlater. They lived at Trenton, then at Princeton, and finally at Somer-\\nTille. William was graduated at Princeton in 1763, studied law with\\nBichard Stockton, one of the signel-s of the Declaration of Independence,\\nand was admitted to the bar in 1760. In 1775 he was elected to the Pro-\\nTiucial Congress, by which body he was chosen secretary. A year later I\\nhe was appointed attxirney-general, which oflBce he held until 17S3, when\\nhe resigned it. In 17S6 be was appointed to represent New Jersey in the j\\ncouTeution which framed the present constitution, in which body he\\nwas one of the most practical and far-seeing men. His plan of a con-\\nstitution was largely incorp*jrated into the instrument which ultimately\\nreceived the assent of the States. GortUin s Hist, of New Jersey, p. 331\\nMuljord^s Ilut, of iVeic Jersey, p. 485 paper read by the Hon. CouTllnndt\\nParker before New Jersey Hist. Society, May, 1881. Mr. Paterson was 1\\nelected one of the first United States senators from New Jersey; was a\\nmember of tlie committee on judiciary, and had much to do with framing\\nthe system of Federal judiciary. In 1790 he was elected Governor of\\nttie State, which office he held until, in March, 1793, Washington ap-\\npointed him one of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United\\nStates, in which high position he delivered many able opinions, which\\nplaced him in the first rank of jurists of his time. But the citizens of\\nNew Jersey are peculiarly indebted to him for his masterly revision of\\nthe laws of the State, published in 1800, which has been pronounced the\\ncompletest work of the kind then extant in the United States. Judge\\nPaterson died at Albany, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1806. For a full and extremely\\ninteresting sketch of the life of this distinguished godfather of the city\\nof Paterson, see Elmer s Reminiscences, p. 77.\\nestablishment within its neighborhood of the projected\\nmanufactory, proposals were publicly solicited and\\noffers were received from several places of land and\\nother inducements, but in May, 1792, the society\\nformally voted to locate its works at the Falls of the\\nPassaic.\\nThe charter of the society presents some novel\\nfeatures, and contains provisions that no company at\\nthe present day would dream of asking. Still, these\\nextraordinary privileges granted to the society were\\nnever of any material benefit, with the single excep-\\ntion of that relating to taxation. The first section\\nincorporates the subscribers to the cajiital stock as a\\nbody politic and corporate in law, with power to\\nacquire, have, hold, and enjoy any lands, tenements,\\nhereditaments, goods, and chattels, of any kind or\\nquality, to an amount not exceeding four millions of\\ndollars, and to sell or dispose of the same or any part\\nthereof. The second section limits the capital stock\\nto one million dollars. The fourth section exempts\\nall the property of the society from all taxation for\\nthe term of ten years, and thereafter exempts its\\nproperty from all but State taxation, an exemption\\nwhich the courts have since held only applies to its\\nmills and raceways; other sections are such as are\\nusual in such charters, though fuller than is common\\nnow. The seventeenth section is the most important,\\nas it gives the amplest powers to acquire lands and\\nwaters for the improvement of navigation by con-\\ndemnation if the owners of the property will not ac-\\ncept the offers of the society. As the effort to make\\nlock navigation in the river above Paterson was\\nabandoned before it was fairly begun, the provisions\\nof this section have never been taken advantage of\\nby the society. The power to take property by con-\\ndemnation appears to be restricted to the taking of\\nsuch property only for the purpose of constructing\\nnavigable canals. Other sections provide for laying\\nout a tract of six miles square, the inhabitants within\\nwhich were to be incorporated as The corporation\\nof the town of Paterson, which municipality should\\nhave a mayor, a recorder, twelve aldermen, twelve\\nassistant aldermen, a town clerk, a sheriff and the\\nother officers usually chosen in townships the mayor,\\nrecorder, and the aldermen to constitute a court of\\nQuarter Sessions, with power to try the minor offenses\\ntriable in such courts. The society was also author-\\nized to raise one hundred thousand dollars by lottery,\\nwhich it never did. Such in brief are the provisions\\nof this remarkable charter.\\nIt will be seen that it nowhere creates any mon-\\nopoly, as has been supposed by many. It is given\\nno exclusive privileges whatever, and in no respect\\nwas it guaranteed against competition. The Legis-\\nlature did not give the society the Passaic River,\\nas is sometimes said, nor any other river or water.\\nThe Passaic River is not mentioned in the act, for the\\nLegislature supposed at the time that the location of\\nthe works of the company was still an open question,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0665.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "406\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nand the bill doubtless received votes on the suppo-\\nsition that the factory would be established on the\\nRaritan River instead of at the Passaic Falls. Al-\\nthough there was no constitutional prohibition, the\\nLegislature respected the principle that private prop-\\nerty should not be taken except for the public use\\nand after due compensation to the owner. Hence it\\nwas that the company was only authorized to con-\\ndemn lands and waters for the purpose of improving\\nnavigation for the public use and benefit, the canals\\nto be public highways on the payment of resusonable\\ntolls, which were prescribed in the charter. The\\ndirectors having voted to locate at Paterson, and\\nhaving got some money in the treasury, though never\\nmuch, immediately set about buying up the land\\nabout the Falls, and during July, 1702, conij)leted\\nthe purchase of between seven and eight hundred\\nacres of land hereabouts. Their purchases comprised\\nall the land south of the river, west of Prospect\\nStreet and north of Slater Street, to a line some dis-\\ntance west of the rocks also large tracts along the\\nriver near the Straight Street bridge; along Broad-\\nway, north side, between Carroll Street and East\\nEighteenth .Street; on Market Street, between Main\\nStreet and Madison Avenue, and south to Slater\\nStreet; lands between Market and Willis Streets,\\nand tracts in other localities. These descriptions are\\ngeneral and not precise. They bought along the\\nriver on the south side for some distance above as\\nwell as below the Falls, and thus became riparian\\nowners. All these purchases were made by amicable\\nagreement with the respective owners of the property\\nin question. In no ca.se was there any attempted ex-\\nercise of monojioly, or any extraordinary power\\nfor the acipiisition of proi)erty. They paitl whatever\\nthe owners asked, or else they did not buy. Their\\ntotal purchasas co.st them about thirty thousand dol-\\nlars, which would be at the rate of about forty dollars\\nper acre. It was a very handsome price for the land,\\nmuch of it utterly useless for farming or grazing pur-\\nposes. Twenty years later sonic of the best of it was\\nvalued at only fifty dollars per acre, and could find\\nno buyers even at that figure, when the town had\\nquite a population. The right of the society to-day\\nto the use of the Passaic River is precisely that of\\nany other riparian owner, no less and no more. That\\nright has been recogni/.eil by the common law of Eng-\\nland for a thousand years and longer, ami was well\\nestablishe l in ancient Home. The right has not been\\naci|uired by legislative grant, but by purcha.se and\\nuninterrupted use for ninety years. So much for a\\nvery common misapprehension of a very simple mat-\\ntor, but one of great importance to the city and to the\\nsociety.\\nHaving bought the land deemed requisite for its\\nworks, but in reality ten timcsas much as was necessary\\nor ever used, the society set about constructing a canal\\nfrom the river to HU|)ply water-power for its contem-\\nplated mills. After much unsuccessful experimenting,\\nin which a great deal of money was wasted by the engi-\\nneer, Maj. L Enfant, Peter Colt, of Hartford, Conn.,\\nthen treasurer of that State, was employed as superin-\\ntendent of the society s aflairs, and he at once began\\nblasting a |)a.s.sage through the rocks to the river\\nfrom the upper end of the ravine which runs parallel\\nto the river for some distance on the south. It was\\na mighty undertaking for that day, this leading a river\\nout of its natural bed into an artificial channel, and\\nindeed it would be no mean engineering feat even\\nnow to construct the middle raceway. It is no wonder\\nthat it took fully a year to accomplish the work, es-\\n|)ecially when a hundred other things were diviiling\\nthe attention of the superintendent. A cotton-mill\\nwas being built at the same time, houses for the ex-\\npected operatives, streets were being laid out, skilled\\nworkmen were being sought, and when none could be\\nfound in .\\\\nierica, they had to be imported from Eng-\\nland, Scotland, Irclaud, and other countries. This\\naccounts in a measure for the heterogeneous elements\\nof population in Paterson at the present day, and for\\nthe broad toleration which has always been a notice-\\nable feature of the place, for nationalities and all\\ncreeds and opinions. It must be admitted, however,\\nthat these new-comers were not always received witli\\nopen arms by the native original settlers. The old\\nDutch were satisfied with the state of things as they\\nwere, and did not have much faith in or sympathy\\nwith the ambitious projects of the New York and\\nother merchants who had come among them and were\\nbringing in strangers to occupy the land. Their\\nfathers, the first patentees, had got along well enough\\nwithout any big factories to make calico or other\\nfabrics, and in their judgment the land lookeil better\\nbefore it was disfigured by the extensive excavations\\nfor raceways, etc. It will scarcely be denied that the\\ndescendants of the Dutch owners of the land when\\nthe society first came among them have not entirely\\ngot over the indisposition their fathers had to welcome\\nstrangers to their ancestral acres. There still lingers\\na very little of the old feeling of exclusivene.ss. Hut\\nthis very conscrvativeness on their part has served\\nthe purpose of a sound basis for society in Paterson;\\nit baa likewise proved a financial basis for the city,\\nfor whenever there has been a really worthy and sensi-\\nble .scheme for the a lvancernent of the welfare of the\\ntown, and which was likely to pay, there has been no\\nlack of money forthcoming from the old conservatives\\nof the city or county, so that to them the city has\\nbeen indebted time and time again for the money\\nneeded to carry on public improvements, manufactur-\\ning enterprises, and to supply the buildings required\\nfor the constantly growing population.\\nII; the l!nlti 1 8IMM renmilnriBTO.lt npiK srinl lliol llio n\u00c2\u00bbllvK-lKjrn\\nliopiiUtloii of Pntpnton wan W.711. whicli of cuiinio wutild Include the\\nnntlrp.|.urii chlhlmi of forflgli imronti; and that thr forrtgn-t^orn\\npopulation wa* IZ.siiM, of whom .i37 were French, \\\\t i9 were Orrman,\\n:KM7 wero Kiixllah, Hi* werti Iriah, 870 were Srulch, 130U were Holland-\\nera, and 17 i Mrrci Swla.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0666.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n407\\nProgress of Paterson. The Society for Estab-\\nlishing Useful Miinufactures constructed one race-\\nway, known as the middle raceway, built a small\\ncotton-mill, and soon after found its means exhausted,\\nwith no prospect of getting more. In 1796 it resolved\\nto discontinue work on its own account. Since that\\ntime its eflbrts have been directed to the establish-\\nment of useful manufactures by others, furnishing the\\nwater-power, and sometimes a part of the cajutal, re-\\nquired to carry on the business. After the society s\\nfailure the outlook for Paterson was gloomy indeed.\\nEventually it was perhaps a good thing for the town,\\nas individual enterprise took the place of the great cor-\\nporation which was originally designed to be the patron\\nand director of every manufacturing project estab-\\nlished or to be established here. One after another,\\nmanufacturers came hither from other localities, built\\ntheir little factories and carried on a modest business,\\nwhich was enlarged from time to time, or gave way to\\nsome more enterprising party, and so the town slowly\\nbut steadily waxed larger and busier, until by 1810 it\\nwas quite a hamlet, and contained several hundred in-\\nhabitants, nearly all directly dependent upon the vari-\\nous industries which had been established here. The\\nwar of 1812 gave a remarkable impetus to Amer-\\nican manufactures, and Paterson shared largely in the\\ntemporary prosperity, when the demand for cotton\\ngoods was far in excess of the supply, owing to the\\nexclusion of British importations. Everybody who\\ncould get together a few hundred dollars set about\\nspinning cotton for the Philadelphia market, where it\\nwas woven, and nearly every little shop in the town\\nwas turned into a cotton-factory. When the war\\nceased and the ports were thrown open to British im-\\nportations ruin followed, and Paterson shrank almost\\ninto nothingness. Then came the tariff of 1816, which\\nonce more encouraged American manufacturers, and\\nsoon Paterson was once more on the high-road to\\nprosperity. New men came in, new mills were built,\\nmore capital than ever invested, and the town assumed\\nan aspect of stability. Moneyed men not only in-\\nvested their capital here, but built themselves fine resi-\\ndences, and brought their families with them. A so-\\ncial circle was thus formed which had the entree into\\nthe most exclusive coteries in the land, and there was\\na refinement of intercourse between these congenial\\nacquaintances which has never been surpassed in Pat-\\nerson since. As the natural and artificial advantages\\nof the town as a manufacturing centre became more\\nwidely known, other industries were established here,\\nuntil the amount of capital invested became too large\\nto be permanently affected by any temporary adversi-\\nties. The panic of 1837 was a serious drawback to the\\ncontinued progress of this place while its effects lasted,\\nwhich was for a year or two, but a new leap forward\\nwas speedily made after that dark cloud had passed\\naway. The fluctuating tariff legislation was also a\\ndisturbing element in the calculations of business\\nmen. When the sliding scale tarifi went into effect,\\nmanufacturers here were almost at a standstill, and\\nthe town made but little headway. In the course of\\ntime the mill-owners adapted themselves to the altered\\ncondition of things, and again their mills hummed\\nwith the busy whir of wheels. When the New Eng-\\nland manufacturers began to compete successfully\\nwith ours in spinning cotton, the silk industry stood\\nready to step in and take its place in Paterson. As\\nother factories underbid ours in the manufacture of\\ncotton machinery, our machine-shops were devoted to\\nturning out locomotives. So the capitalists have been\\never on the alert to adapt themselves to changing cir-\\ncumstances. There are evil prophets who predict the\\ndecay and ruin of Paterson if ever the silk industry\\nor the making of locomotives shall fail us. Let them\\ntake comfort from the lessons of the jiast, which have\\nshown that Paterson depends for its prosperity upon\\nthe success of no one industry, and that her ingenious\\nmechanics and enterprising manufacturers will never\\nbe at a loss to turn to profitable account the talents\\nand the manufacturing facilities at their command.\\nThe wonderful progress of Paterson is best shown\\nby a few figures from the census returns from time to\\ntime. In 1820 the population of the town was re-\\nported to be 1578; in 1824 it had grown to the sur-\\nprising total of 4787, including the section lying on\\nthe north side of the river, then known as New\\nManchester. In 1827 the population was 5236; in\\n1832 it was 9085, an increase of fifty per cent, in five\\nyears. The panic of 1837 caused a decrease in the\\npopulation, which was accelerated by the unfavorable\\ntariff legislation, and in 1840 the population of the\\ntown was reported at only 7598, exclusive of Man-\\nchester, which contained 3105 inhabitants. The\\npopulation at subsequent dates has been as follows:\\n1850, 11,341; 1855, 16,458; 1860, 19,585; 1865, 24,893;\\n1870, 33,581; 1875, 38,824; 1880,50,887. The increase\\nin population during the past ten years has been ex-\\nceeded by no city of the size in the Eastern or Middle\\nStates. During the whole summer of 1880 there was\\nan unprecedented increment in the foreign population\\nof Paterson, and it was an interesting sight to see\\nthe arrivals every night by the emigrant train of\\nquaintly attired new-comers from the Old World,\\nfrom England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, France,\\nGermany, Italy, and other countries, with their\\nquainter luggage, who had come straight to Pater-\\nson, attracted hither by the enthusiastic reports sent\\nhome by friends who had come earlier to try their\\nfortunes in the Lyons of America. It was also\\ncurious to see how speedily these strangers were ab-\\nsorbed into the common body of inhabitants, and\\nhow quickly they dofted their old-country ways and\\nbecame as citizens to the manner born. This add-\\ning to the population has kept up quite steadily ever\\nsince, though not to quite as noticeable an extent as\\nduring the period mentioned, until at present\\nFebruary, 1882 it is believed the total number of\\ninhabitants of Paterson does not fall short of 55,000.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0667.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "408\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCHAl TKU LVI.\\nCITY OF PATEKSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Co\u00c2\u00ab i\u00c2\u00bbM\u00c2\u00ab\\nMunicipal History. Brief notice has been made\\nof the provisions of the charter of the Society for\\nEstablishing Useftil Manufactures, looking to the\\nsetting up of an elaborate municipality on a scale\\neven ampler than that enjoyed or otherwise-^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 by\\nNew Vork City to-day. Although the organization\\nof the local government in the form autliorize I would\\nhave given the society an enormous advantage in\\nmore ways than one, it never availed itself of these\\npowers, and the residents continued to govern them-\\nselves in the old-fashioned, slip-shod way of New\\nJersey townships, as part and |)arcel of Acquacka-\\nnonk township. This was far from satisfactory, either\\nto the Paterson people or to the old inliabitants of\\nAcquackanonk. The former were taxed and to some\\nextent governed by people living miles away from\\nthe village, with whom they had little or nothing in\\n8ymi athy, and in the course of time the latter saw\\nthemselves outvoted by new-comers for whom they\\nhad a secret dislike. Tlie project of a new township\\nor of a new county was agitated very soon after Pat-\\nerson was founded, but it was not until Jan. 27, IS.\\nthat the Legislature passed an act establishing the\\ntownship of Paterson, which was set oH from Ac-\\nquackanonk, comprising all that part of the old\\ntownship lying to the north and northeast of the fol-\\nlowing line:\\nBtiglniiing on the mltldle nf tlio road on the west aide of PoMaie\\nBiver, at the foot of the I]ackoni).tck nnil ratereon turnpike bridge, near\\nthelioime of John BlantalpD, ami running from tlieiico IhI. North eighty-\\ntwo dogreea, vrepi forty chainit to tlie soullii iiHt corner of Jittiti P. 9Iar-\\nMle\u00c2\u00ab )ine; 2d. Thence altnig Miid tine nortli neventy -eight degrees and\\nforty. Are mlnulei*, weal eixty.\u00c2\u00abiglit ctiiUnfl and twenty-five linka; 3d.\\nThenre south elglity-aeron degrees fifteen minutes, west fifty-niitecliains\\nmnd fifty iinks to the t\u00c2\u00ab p of ttie mountain at tln^ Siiutheast corner of tlio\\nGaraiuin tract, now owned by Julm I*. Munuiles 4t)i. Thence aiong the\\nOanuon lioe nortli sixty-four degrees and thirty minutes, west ninety-\\nfour chains and fifty links to the Pasaaic Kiver, alfuut sixty-nine chains\\nabove the flootl-gates.\\niencrally speaking, this line began at the Market\\nStreet bridge across the Pas.saic Kiver, ran westerly\\nabout in the line of Twenty-second Avenue to the\\nmountain, around the mountain to West Twenty-\\nfourth or West Twenty-lifth Street, and along .said\\nstreet to the river.\\nThe first officers elected for the new township were:\\nModerator, Nicholas Smith; Town Clerk, Jonathan\\nHopper; Assessor, Adrian Van Iloiitcn Judge of\\nElection, Horatio Moses; Chosen Freeholders, Philip\\nVan Hnssnin, Patrick (^uinii Town Committee, Hun-\\nnel M. llaggcrty, Klias H. I). Ogden, John Strong,\\nCornelius i. (iiirrison, Hdo Van Winkle; Surveyors\\nof the Highways, iJaiiiel .McCros.sen, Edo 1 Marsilis;\\nJudges of Appeal, Joliri Park, Jumea Close, Brant\\nVan Blarcom Constables, William F. Dewey, Jere-\\nmiah Mitchell, .lohn (Jivens, Francis Fincgan, An-\\ndrew (lallickcr, Patrick Mulhollan, Henrv William-\\nson, Edo Van Winkle, Peter Brown Poor-masters,\\nJames King, Esq., John Kear, E.s i. School Commit-\\ntee, .lames Richards, John Brown, Henry Whiteley\\nOverseers of the Highways, Peter Archdeacon, Edo\\nVan Winkle, John P. Marsilis, Daniel tiiiiim Pound-\\nmaster, Daniel Van Horn.\\nAt this first town-meeting the people voted to tax\\nthemselves $600 for the poor, *600 for roads, and $300\\nfor a free school of all denominations. The senti-\\nment of this last ai)propriation is highly creditable,\\nwhatever may be said of the grammatical construc-\\ntion. In 1832 the town committee had to deal with\\nthe dreadful cholera epidemic which devastated the\\nland. The committee requested John Colt, Daniel\\nHolsman, Horatio Moses, David Reid, and Brant Van\\nBlarcom to co-operate with them as a part of the\\nboard of health for the town. Nearly one thousand\\ndollars wius spent in cleaning the streets of Paterson,\\nthe better to check the spread of the terrible disease.\\nAbout one hundred and forty persons died from the\\ncholera in Paterson during that summer, .\\\\ccording\\nto the reports of the newspapers of the day, the ex-\\ncitement w!is terrible, and hundreds of the inhabit-\\nants fled to the country, where they stayed for weeks.\\nIn 1849 there was a second visilntion of the same\\ndread epidemic, when one hundred and nine persons\\nwere carried otf by it in Paterson. This time it did\\nnot produce anything like the excitement the first\\nepidemic had ilone. Two or three times since there\\nhave been fears of another epidemic of the same char-\\nacter, but providentially such a calamity has been\\naverted.\\nNaturally, in a growing town like Paterson one of\\nthe most serious dithciiltics the authorities had to con-\\ntend with was the grading and cleaning of the streets.\\nTo secure greater etficiency in this direction, in 1846\\nthe town committee were vested with full powers in\\nthe i remises, and were authorized to regulate streets\\nand sidewalks and to pa.ss ordinances to that end.\\nThey were given all the powers of overseers of the\\nhighways, and the latter otiices were abolished.\\nMeantime some of the more enterprising property-\\nowners had acted in the matter themselves, in self-\\nprotection, as the streets were often impassable, and\\nthe sidewalks were quite tis bad lus the middle of the\\nmud roads or .streets. Some of the more public-\\nspirited citizens on Main and Van Houten Streets,\\nBroadway ami Lower Main, or Parke Street, put\\ndown sidewalks of brownstone slabs. Through the\\nenergetic action of Henry V. Butler, the proprietor\\nof the paper-mill, the property-owners along Market\\nStreet, west of Prospect Street, and particularly wi^st\\nof Cross Street, were induced to raise a fuml, to which\\nhe liberally sub.scribed himself, to have a curbstone\\nset. This was in 1835, and the brownstone curb then\\nThe apelllog of namea aa abura la prcclaely aa (Iran by tba luwn\\nclerk, who flir\u00c2\u00abl the returns In the Kmoz County clerk s office Tlo\\nwriter lien-of is tlierefore not res|i.in4ilde for any |i\u00c2\u00ab :ulierities wliicli\\nthe critical reader may perceive.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0668.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATEKSON.\\n409\\nput down still answers the purpose very well. But\\nthe town committee system of government was hardly\\nefficient enough for managing the affairs of 11,000 or\\n12,000 people, and the Legislature passed an act, ap-\\nproved March lit, 1851, to incorporate the township\\nas a city. The provisions of the act were accepted by\\nthe voters at a special election held for the purpose,\\nwhen 772 votes were cast for charter, and 330 votes\\nfor no charter. The new municipality was to be\\nknown as The President and Council of the City of\\nPaterson. The city was divided into three wards\\nthe East Ward, lying ea.st of Main Street and north\\nof Market the West Ward, west of Main Street and\\nnorth of Market and the South Ward the rest of the\\ncity. The chief magistrate of the city was to be the\\npresident of the City Council, elected by the people\\nannually, who were also to elect in each ward two\\ndistrict or ward committeemen, who with the presi-\\ndent should constitute the City Council. A city clerk\\nwas also to be elected annualh and two city coroners.\\nThe venerable and honored Philemon Dickerson, who\\nhad been Governor of the State, had been elected to\\nCongress, and at this time was judge of the United\\nStates District Court for New .Jersey, was deemed by\\nhis fellow-citizens, without distinction of party, to be\\nbest fitted to start the new city on its voyage, and he\\nwas elected president of the City Council by a vote of\\n871 to 323 for his opponent, one of the most esteemed\\ncitizens of the town. Socrates Tuttle was elected city\\nclerk, John Bensen and John Vail were elected city\\ncoroners, and John Avison overseer of the poor. The\\ndistrict committeemen were: East Ward, Edward\\nClark, John Schoonmaker; West Ward, Andrew\\nDerrom, Patrick Maginnis South Ward, Charles\\nInglis, Jr., Jeremiah Stalter. The new city started\\noff handicapped by a debt of S21,000, the legacy left\\nby the township. Charles Inglis was appointed treas-\\nurer. The city government felt constrained to adopt\\na more generous rate of expenditure than had pre-\\nvailed under the township, and there were pressing\\nwants which had been deferred for years. Conse-\\nquently the city ran deeper in debt every year.\\nIn 18.^4 all that part of the present city included\\nwithin the First and Second Wards, except a portion\\nlying north of Totowa Avenue and west of the Old-\\nham Brook, was annexed to the city, and in 1855 the\\nrest of the present Second Ward was annexed. In\\nthe latter year the title of the chief magistrate was\\nchanged to mayor, and the district committeemen\\nbecame full-fledged aldermen, a fact which they\\ncommunicated to their less distinguished fellow-citi-\\nzens by wearing on their hats leather badges inscribed\\nAlderman, Ward, such as firemen have on\\ntheir leather hats to indicate the company to which\\nthey belong. The mild ridicule to which this custom\\nsubjected the wearers led to its speedy abandonment.\\nThe first mayor elected was Brant Van Blarcom, a\\nsturdy old Jersey Dutchman, whose close and suc-\\ncessful management of his own finances led the tax-\\npayers to believe that he was just the man to keep a\\ntight hold on the public purse-strings. The territory\\nannexed from Manchester, north of the river, was\\nerected into the North Ward, and in 1855 that part of\\nthe South Ward lying east of Cross and Marshall\\nStreet was set off into the Fifth Ward. Jan. 1, 1858,\\nthe city had S83,000 of bonded debt and $25,000 of\\nfloating obligations, as reported by citizens commit-\\ntee to investigate the city s management. In 1867\\nthere was a strong sentiment, particularly in the\\nboard of aldermen, in favor of launching out into an\\nextensive system of public improvements, and an\\nact was prepared and introduced in the Legislature,\\nat the request of the board, authorizing the aldermen\\nto construct or purchase water-works, to establish one\\nor more public parks, to buy or build a public market,\\nand to make and adopt a city map showing the loca-\\ntion of streets and sewers. The public improvements\\ndescribed were to be paid for by the issue of Pat-\\nerson City Improvement Bonds. A public meeting\\nwas called to discuss the measure, and the bill was\\namended to require a special election to be first held\\nbefore the board should undertake the erection of\\nwater-works, etc. In this form it passed, but the\\nboard concluded not to undertake the great works\\nproposed. In 1868 legislative authority was given\\nfor the construction of sewers, and that work was be-\\ngun and vigorously carried forward, being paid for by\\na special tax. In 1869 the city limits were extended\\nsoutherly to Crook s Avenue, and westerly to Twenty-\\nseventh Street. A new charter was also enacted for\\nthe city, in which the provisions of the act of 1867\\nwere incorporated, only the execution of the work\\nwas devolved upon three commissioners to be ap-\\npointed by the board of aldermen. Some of the\\nheavy tax-payers contested the steps taken by the\\nboard of aldermen to that end, and the Supreme\\nCourt declared the delegation of the powers to three\\ncommissioners to be void, and the board abandoned\\nthe project. The purpose was to buy the square\\nbounded by Market, Ellison, Colt, and Church Streets,\\nand to erect thereon a market and City Hall and other\\ncity buildings as they might be needed, the unoccupied\\ngrounds to form a public park. When debarred from\\nthis project the board bought the present City Hall,\\nwhich had a short time previou.sly been purchased by a\\ncompany of gentlemen from Aaron S. Pennington.\\nThis building had been erected about 1814 by Peter\\nColt for a residence, and two sides of it were built of\\nstone taken from the first mill in Paterson. The street\\nwas then nearly level with what is now the second\\nfloor, a fine portico with a low flight of stone steps\\nadorning the front. Originally there was a beautiful\\nlawn stretching from the house down to Main Street.\\nWhen the aldermen bought it they set about cutting\\ndown the street to its present level, which cost 820,000\\nand more, and then built a story under the house and\\naltered it materially in other respects, so that\\n1 whereas the first cost was $25,000, the total cost was", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0669.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "410\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nnearly $100,000 before the improvement was\\nfinished. In 1871 a new charter was passed for the\\ncity, which was drafted by the writer hereof and is\\nstill in force. In 18( 9 the term of the mayor was\\nextended to two years. In ^*^74 the city clerk became\\nan appointive instead of an elective oflicc. Follow-\\ning is a list of the presidents, mayors, and city clerks\\nof Paterson since its incorporation\\nPresidents or City Cod.ncil.\\n1851, Philemon Dickernoli; 1852, Charlos Danforlh; 1853, Andrew Der-\\nrom; 1864, John J. Brown.i\\nMayoiis.\\n1855, Bnmt Van Ulurconi 1S56, Samuel Snillh 1857-58, Peregrinf Siinil-\\nford; 1858, Sihu D. Canflcid; 1860-61, KJwIn T. Pnill (re-eleclcd In\\n1861 liy buUi artie\u00c2\u00ab); 18G2-\u00c2\u00ab: Henry A. Wlllianui (electud In 1863-\\n63 bjr both parties); 186fi, Wlllinm O. Watson; 1867, Henry A. Wli-\\nllanm; I8li8, Nathaniel Townseml; 1869, John Ryle; 1871, Soirates\\nTiiltle; 187:1, Nathaniel Townnond; 1875-77, Benjamin Buckley;\\n1879, Jos\u00c2\u00abljli B. Graham; 18SI, David T. Uillmor.\\nCity Clkbks.\\n1851-5;;, Socrates Tuttio; 1853-55, Bichard B. Chiswell 1856, Jamea\\nNiKhtingalu; 1857, Thomas A. Quin;1858.Charie\u00c2\u00abS. Day; 1859-6(1.\\nWilliam Davidson, Jr.; 1861-G A Daniel Millnr (ro-elected nnani-\\nmounlyt; iwa, George MagennI*; 1864, .Toseph B. Taggart; 1865, I\\nGeorge W. Crocker; 1860, William P. Allee; 1867, Archibald Hen-\\nderaon; 1868, Archibald Belcher; 1809, Archiliald Hendemon (re-\\nelected in 187(1 for two yeurxl; lH7 i, Bobert A. Haley (by 2*J miyor-\\nityl; 1874-78, Robert A. Haley (by appointment of the board of\\naldermen); 187 J-\u00c2\u00bbI, Will Hague.\\nRkcordebs.\\n18tM, John B. Van Blarcoin (appointed for three yean); 1807, John J.\\nWarren (appoinlod for tliree years, and reappointed for like terms\\nin 187U, 73, 76, 79).\\nCH.VPTKK I.VII.\\nCITY OF PATER.SON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (C m.(crf).\\nManufacturing Interests.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Cotton Ixm-. s-\\nTKV. The iiilroductioii into this country of spinning-\\nframes operated by water-power, first started at Bev-\\nerly, Mass., in 1787, but successfully conducted for the\\nfirst time by Samuel Slater, at Providence, U. I., in\\n1790, who w:us the first to introduce the .Vrkwripht\\nmill into use in America, attracted the attention\\nof Alexander Hamilton, and was favorably noticed\\nby him in his celebrated llcport on Manufactures,\\nDec. 5, 17! 1. Iiispire(l by liiiii, the Society for Es-\\ntablishing Useful Maiiuliictures made pre| aratii)ns\\nfor the erection of a cotton-mill to be etpiipped with\\nthe novel water-power machines. This mill was\\nerected on the west side of the present Mill Street, to\\nwhich it gave the name, a short distance north of\\nMarket Street, or nearly on the site of the present\\nMr. Brownhadjnit ln(0 rlty. The result depenilfl upiin the count\\nIn the Fifth Ward. Ttn\u00c2\u00ab returnn from the oliirr ward* showeti tliat Mr.\\nBrown was but iue sliead of his cuni|H,ti(or. Wiieii the lotttoiti of tlio\\nKiflh WhkI tmlliil-Nix was reached there were two Isdluts left, and the\\npoli list nliowmi tlint only one was bi lie taken out. Ths Judge picked\\nout a liallot with Mr. Bntwn s name on, whereas, as it was aft4 rwards\\nfound, tlio other was fur his opponent, and had it been taken tiut the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lection would have reanlte,! in a tie.\\nHamil Mill. It wa.s a very modest affair, about\\nforty by ninety feet, four stories high, with high base-\\nment, a double or hip roof, surmounted by a cupola,\\nin which swung a bell to summon the operatives to\\ntheir labor.- It wsus not as large as tlie Hamilton mill,\\nwhich stands near its site. Adjunetory buildings\\nwere erected at the same time for printing and calen-\\ndering, for carding and roping, etc. The main mill\\nwas calculated to accommodate eight drums, turning\\nabout eight hundred spindles. It was the summer of\\n1794 before tlie mill was got in operation. Meantime,\\na temporary frame building had been put up, in which\\ncoarse yarns were spun by horse-power, and some-\\ntimes by oxen-power, whence it was called the Pull\\nMill. This was some time in 1793, probably. This\\nfirst New .Jersey cotton-mill was a small affair, but it\\ncontained more than ten times as many spindles as\\nthere were in operation in the whole country three\\nyears earlier. The new roject had to encounter\\ndifficulties which we of this day cannot appreciate.\\nThe workmen had to be imported from England, Ire-\\nland, and Scotland, and as enough of these could not\\nbe procured, employC-s had to be trained to the work.\\nIn those days there was no such thing as the system-\\natic labor of to-day, and the hands triHed in every\\nway with their work, ruthlessly spoiling goods and\\nmachinery. Some of the imported foremen betrayed\\ntheir trust, and foreign agents engaged to purchase\\nand import unbleached muslins failed to account for\\nlarge sums of money sent to them. Hy 179t; the soci-\\nety W!is out of funds, and on .luly 8tli the board of\\ndirectors resolved to discontinue manufactures, and to\\nsell all the goods on hand, fiuished and unfinished.\\nIn March, 1797, it was decided to lease the mill to\\nany person willing to give security to use it and re-\\nturn it in good order. .\\\\t this time Elisha Hoiulinot\\nwas governor of the society, and he was vested with\\nfull power to attend to all its affairs, so that the board\\nheld no further meetings for five years, and then took\\nanother recess for twelve years. The old mill was\\nleased by the society to .lohn Clark, who carried on a\\nlittle machine-shop in the ba.\u00c2\u00abeiiient, renting out the\\nother tloors to various persons, liiiKnig others to .John\\nParke, who spun candle-wick and other coarse cotton\\nyarns, until in May, 1807, the mill was tiestroyed by\\nfire. With its destruction the manufacture of cotton\\nbade fair to cea.se in Paterson.\\nHowever, there were some enterprising men in the\\nnew town, and they thought there wits still a fair\\nchance to win fame and fortune by achieving the\\nsuccessful utilization of the very many advantages\\nwhich Paterson already possessed as a manufacturing\\nplace. Among these advantages were the proximity\\nof the town to New York and Philadelphia, the inag-\\nConversation will) Charles Smith Kinsey in 1871, who recollected\\nthe ap|iearance of the intll perfectly.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Oonvrnutlon with John Cult in l 7.\\\\\\nMinutes of the SK-iely for hjilabilsliing Uoeful Manufactures.\\nRe|Kin of S\u00c2\u00abcreury of the Treasury, Feb. 29, 18.16, on the Cultiva-\\ntion, 3lanufacture, and Foreign Trade of Cotton, talde L.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0670.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n411\\nnificent water-power, and the trained hands who had\\nsettled in the place. The experiment of spinning\\ncotton by water-power had undoubtedly stimulated\\nthe housewives to greater eflbrts in spinning and\\nweaving at home, and there were few houses in the\\nlittle hamlet or in the vicinity where the hum of the\\nspinning-jenny or the bustle of the loom could not be\\nheard. Apparently the first to begin anew the ex-\\nperiment of spinning by power in Paterson was John\\nParke, who, as already mentioned, had been in the\\nbusiness in a small way in the old society mill.\\nWithin six months after the destruction of this mill,\\nParke had begun the erection of another on what was\\nthen called Boudinot Street, but is now Van Houten\\nStreet, nearly opposite Cross Street. He prudently\\nput up only a small frame building, one story high\\nprobably, pretty well back towards the river, so as to\\nget the lull head of water from the new raceway,\\nwhich was then but recently constructed, as prior to\\nthis time the raceway had only extended down Mill\\nStreet, although possibly there was a tail-race running\\ndiagonally from the old mill towards the river, back\\nof the present Phienix Mill. Times prospered with\\nMr. Parko, and he soon was able to enlarge his modest\\nlittle mill. After a while, probably during the winter\\nof 1810-11, he built a brick and stone mill, which has\\nsince been extended from time to time until it forms\\none of the principal structures connected with the\\ngreat Phoenix Silk-Mills. Such was the humble be-\\nginning of this extensive series of buildings. Mr.\\nParke was a manufacturing and merchant prince in\\nhis day, and none in Paterson made so great a dis-\\nplay while he prospered. He had a fine house in\\nCongress Street, opposite hotel. He had the largest\\ncountry store in town on Broadway, between Main\\nand West Streets, the building finally extending\\nback almost to Fair Street, where be sold everything,\\ncotton yarns, dry-goods, shovels, shoes, hardware,\\ncrockery, medicines, etc. Of course, his mill hands\\nwere expected to trade at this store, and in fact were\\nprincipally paid in orders on it, as was the custom\\nin Paterson for nearly forty years after. When he\\nhad made up a goodly quantity of cotton yarns, they\\nwere packed on a great Pennsylvania covered wagon,\\nresplendent in gorgeous paint, and drawn by four or\\nsix horses, driven tandem, and in this magnificent\\nstyle the products of his mill were carried to the\\nmarket in Philadelphia. It would have been cheaper\\nto have carted the yarn to Acquackanonk, loaded it\\non a sloop, and thus taken it toPhiUidclphia, whither\\nvessels frequently sailed but it would not have ex-\\ncited nearly as much attention, and it would not have\\nspread abroad the fame of Paterson and of John\\nParke. Everything went on swimmingly with this\\nenterprising and public-spirited citizen until the\\nclose of the war of 1812, when he went down with\\nevery other manufacturer in Paterson and in 1816\\nhis property passed out of his hands to satisfy his\\ncreditors. He never regained his former footing, but\\nthereafter he nevertheless lived a useful, active life,\\nand it was with satisfaction that his fellow-citizens\\naided in placing him in various minor ofHces that\\nhelped him to make a fair living and to benefit his\\nfellows. He was the principal justice of the peace\\nfor many years, was a judge of the Common Pleas,\\nwas postmaster for some time, and held other local\\npositions, all of which he filled with credit and in a\\nmanner to win the respect of all. His office was in a\\nquaint little frame building, supposed to be in the\\nGrecian style, which stood on the southeast corner of\\nMain and Ellison Streets, and which now looks like\\na toy house on its present site in Market Street, near\\nMadison. After Parke lost the Pho?nix Mill it passed\\ninto the hands of a Mexican named Joachin I. Vas-\\nquez, who was at the time living in New York, and\\nwho thought it atibrded an excellent opportunity to\\nmake money. He began running it in 1817, but the\\ntimes were not propitious, and in 1820 he was fain to\\ngive it up.\\nIn 1810 the manufacturing statistics of Essex\\nCounty made quite a show. The production of cot-\\nton, linen, and woolen cloth for the year amounted\\nto 201,836 yards in families, and 456,250 yards of\\ncotton goods, such as cassimeres, stripes, checks,\\nshirtings, corduroys, and fimcy goods. There were\\n585 looms in operation, 102 for weaving cotton goods,\\nof which 70 were driven by water-power. These\\nwere doubtless in Parke s cotton-mill. It was stated\\nthat there were 3146 si)indles in motion in cotton\\nmanufactories, which was very likely an exaggera-\\ntion, as was the statement that there were 9140 spin-\\ndles prepared to go into operation, and 500 for spin-\\nning flax. It was likewise said that as soon as these\\nspindles were finished there would be $958,500 em-\\nployed in these manufactures. This would be at the\\nrate of about $80 per spindle, which would be rather\\nhigh, even for that date, although the cost of cotton\\nmanufacturing machinery was certainly very great in\\nthose days, which was another reason why manufac-\\nturers did not often succeed in those times. The fig-\\nures given confirm what has been said as to the ex-\\ntent to which work in cotton was carried on then in\\nthe homes of the people. While the statistics just\\ncited cover tlie whole of -Essex County, then em-\\nbracing Acquackanonk township and the whole of\\nUnion County, in addition to its present area, Pater-\\nson was the principal producer, and there was prob-\\nably no cotton-mill in the whole county outside of\\nPaterson. This is, therefore, a valuable and interest-\\ning exhibit of the state of the industries of the town\\nseventy years ago.\\nIn 1811, John Parke built an addition to his mill,\\nand then Capt. Richard Ward, who had amassed a\\nconsiderable fortune, so it was then considered, being\\nin the neighborhood of twenty thousand dollars, started\\nin the cotton business on Boudinot Street, just west\\nof Mr. Parke, putting up a small frame building,\\nwhich was afterwards enlarged, until by the subse-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0671.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "412\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nqueiit accretions the mill became quite extensive.\\nCapt. Ward lived in good style, and his family kept\\nup appearances handsomely. They were highly es-\\nteemed. The locality they selected for their dwelling\\ndoes not affect much style nowadays, being directly\\nopposite his mill-seat, where the Van Riper belt-fac-\\ntory now stands. But in those times it wius consid-\\nered quite the thing for a mill-owner to live within\\nsight of his mill, that he might be the better able to\\nsuperintend all its workings and the conduct of his\\nemployes, many of whom commonly found board and\\nlodgiufT in their master s house. It is .said that Aaron\\nand Robert King occupied a portion of the mill prem-\\nises whereon Capt. Ward located in 1811, but it was\\nprobably some years later, perhaps after the war of\\n1812. This property passed into the hands of John\\nNightingale about 1830. He had been carrj ing on a\\nbleachery near Clifton prior to this time, since about\\n1825. Nightingale was a very Hcshy man, but not-\\nwithstanding had few superiors in the town in\\npoint of energy and activity. That he was remark-\\nably successful in business is evidenced by the fact\\nthat he held possession of this property until his\\ndeath, and was able to leave it to his sons, Dr.\\nJames Nightingale and .John Nightingale. The doc-\\ntor some years ago sold the residence on the south\\nside of Boudinot Street to the Van Ripers, who\\nmoved the building back, raised it, and incorporated\\nit in some mysterious manner into the handsome\\nbrick-front structure in which their belt manufacture\\nis now carried on. Nightingale had previously oc-\\ncupied a dwelling on the front of his mill lot. In\\n1813, Capt. Wardjoineil with Cornelius Van Winkle,\\nAbram Van Houten, and Albert Van Saun in build-\\ning the large stone vault in the old Dutch Church\\nburying-grnund in Water Street, near JIatlock, and\\nthere his ;i.- lies are deposited.\\nAbout the time that Ca|)t. Ward started his cotton-\\nmill, .\\\\aron and Robert King engaged in the same\\nbusiness in a mill on Congress (now Market) Street,\\njust west of Mill, where they remained for eight or\\nten years, after which they removed to a mill on\\nBoudinot Street, where their establishment was known\\nas the Plincnix Cotton-Mill. They carried on the\\nbusiness in other locations from time to time for many\\nyears. Both were among the most highly-respected\\ncitizens of the town, and the venerable form of Aaron,\\nlUH he walkeil about the street.s when he had got into\\nthe nineties, is rememberi l with pleasure by all\\nour older residents. In 182- the (irm employed forty-\\neight hands, and had lifleeti liumlred spindles.\\nIn 1812-1. J, Isaac Classen built ijuite a large mill\\non the middle race, about opposite PitsMaic Street,\\nwhich wiLs afterwards known its the Franklin, and\\nmore commonly as the Red .Mill. It subsequently\\nfell into the bands of Daniel Holsnian. by wlmm it\\nt Manuicri|it cctiliu of Piil\u00c2\u00abnH n, I jr ttio lUv. Pr. Saninp) Flahvr, July\\n4, ixa..\\nwas carried on for many years. Holsman had an-\\nother mill, called the Home, on Boudinot Street,\\nwhere J. C. Todd Simonton s machine-works now\\nare. In these two mills he employed nearly six thou-\\nsand spindles in 1825, and one hundred and fifty\\nhands. The mill was afterwards run as a calico-print\\nworks, and then for various purposes until its destruc-\\ntion by fire in 1871.\\nThe Hamilton Mill, on Mill Street, wiui built\\nabout 1814 by Henry Morris, a New York gentleman.\\nHe was said to have been the only Paterson manu-\\nfacturer who did not fail after the war of 1812. Some\\nyears later he removed to the Schuylkill River, where\\nhe started another cotton-mill. He wiis very highly\\nI esteemed in Paterson during his stay here. After he\\nleft, the mill was occupied by Joseph Smith and Mark\\nW. Collet, who, probably in honor of the Marquis de\\nLafayette, who had just revisited America, reehris-\\ntened it the Fayette Mill. But Paterson has always\\nhad great respect for the things of old, and the early\\nname of this mill was generally adhered to, and for\\nmany years it has been known by no other. Smith\\nCollet also lea.sed the adjoining ))remises, known as\\nthe Hope Mill, and ran the two together on an ex-\\ntensive scale. The two mills were commonly called\\nthe Collet Front Mill and the Collet Back Mill.\\nMr. Collet lived with his family in the low brick\\nbuilding in front of the Hope Mill, along the race-\\nway, where he also had his office, and few things\\ntranspired anywhere in or about the mills that bis\\nsharp eye did not perceive. The late .lohn Oaknian\\no| erated the Hope Mill for many years, but .soon\\nafter the late war the cotton manufacture was dis-\\ncontinued in this mill, and the machinery was removed\\nto North Carolina. In 1809, Mr. Oaknian used about\\nthree hundred and fifty thousand pounds of cotton,\\nmade three hundred tliousaml pounds of twist, warp,\\nand ply yarn, running three thousand spindles.\\nAbout 181;{-14, perhaps earlier, Caleb Munson\\n(iodwin began the spinning of cotton in a large stone\\nmill on the middle race, on Congress Street. Mun-\\nson Godwin s Mill was one of the best known in the\\ntown, being conducteil by him for many years. It is\\nnow and for forty years has been a [lart of the present\\nDant orlh locomotive and machine-works. .Mr. tiod-\\nwin was one of the most highly-respected citizens in\\nPaterson, and was foremost in all good works. He\\nwas an active member of the First Prej*byterian\\nChnn-li.\\nIn l.sii;, Warren Haight, who had been engaged in\\ntill carpet manufacture in New York, and afterwards\\nat Little Falls, leased the Harmony Mill, on Boudi-\\nI not Street, and carried on business there for many\\nyears. His father-in-law, Tunis Bergh, of New York,\\nadvanced coiisiilerable money to llaight, and in IH. i. t\\nwiLH obliged to buy in the |)riqierty. llaight was a\\nprominent nmn in the local militia of those days,\\n3 IMil til thr wrihT ii |x \u00c2\u00abii-\u00c2\u00abnii ii.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0672.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n413\\nbeing adjutant, and met with a shocking death while\\non his duty. In June, 1837, the militia were out for their\\nusual training, and Adjt. Haight rode a spirited\\nsteed. In Bank Street the horse suddenly reared, and\\nthe rider checking him too quickly threw the animal\\non his back, crushing Mr. Haight in such a manner\\nthat his spine was dislocated, causing death in a few\\ndays.\\nIn 1822, Alexander Oarriok and Robert Dunlop\\nerected a cotton-mill at the northwest corner of Mill\\nand Congress Streets, which was conducted success-\\nfully for twenty years or more, Dunlop, however,\\nbeing succeeded in 1826 by Robert Carrick. The\\nmill was burned down in 1845, having been set on fire\\nby a man who seemed to have a mania for arson,\\nwhich brought him into trouble years after in the\\nWest, he being shot in the act of firing a building, it\\nwas said. In 1857, Abraham Prall and Abram H.\\nGodwin built the mill of Singack brick, the dimensions\\nbeing fifty by one hundred and eighty -eight feet, and\\nthey continued the cotton manufacture for about\\nfifteen years.\\nAbout the year 1816 the Industry Mill, the first\\nmill on Boudinot Street from Prospect, passed into\\nthe hands of Robert Morrell, a lumber-dealer, who\\nsubsequently associated with himself William Dickey\\nand Robert Taggart, relatives by marriage, and the\\nnew firm engaged in the manufacture of cotton. The\\nfirm was afterwards, in 1853, Dickey Taggert, who\\nin 1856 gave way to Henry M. Low and John Morti-\\nmer, who carried on the business until the death of\\nMr. Low, when it was continued by his widow and\\nMr. Jlortimer for some years after the late war, the\\nmachinery being finally sold in the South, or broken\\nup and disposed of for old iron. It is now a part of\\nthe extensive works of R. H. Adams. Mr. Low\\nwas one of the most active men in his day, a keen,\\nshrewd politician, never seeking or accepting office\\nfor himself, but always alive to the interests of his\\nfriends in that regard. He died in the summer of\\n1865.\\nIn 1828-29 the society constructed the present\\nupper or back race, and within the following three or\\nfour years several very large stone mills were erected\\nthereon. The first to be occupied was that of Clark\\nRobinson, Elisha B. Clark and Robert O. Robin-\\nson, who had been in the business for some years\\nprevious to this time, operating about one thousand\\nspindles.\\nThe adjoining mill, next north, was occupied by\\nRutan Bensen for some years as a cotton-factory,\\nthey employing about fifty hands and running fifteen\\nhundred spindles. This mill and the others adjacent\\nwere ultimately removed to make way for the Ivanhoe\\nPaper-Mill. When built they were considered a\\nmarked advance upon the cotton-mills then in opera-\\ntion, in point of size, convenience, and appearance.\\nIt were tedious to enumerate all the cotton manu-\\nfacturers of Paterson from the early times to this day,\\n27\\nbut it has been considered well to give brief mention\\n,of the first to make the business a success here. The\\nnuinutiicture has had its ups and downs, more than\\nany other industry in the town. So utter was the\\ncollapse after the war of 1812 that it is said there was\\nnot a single cotton-mill in operation in Paterson atone\\ntime. In 1822 they were all idle, while in 1825 there\\nwere twelve mills going, and three more under way\\nthese mills in operation had seventeen thousand six\\nhundred spindles at work and two hundred and thirty-\\ntwo power-looms, besides seventy-nine hand-looms,\\nand of the latter there were in operation in the town\\noutside of the mills three hundred and eighty more.\\nThe cotton manufacturers in 1S25 were as follows, ac-\\ncording to a census taken by the Rev. Dr. Fisher at\\nthe time, the manuscript of which is in the author s\\npossession Shawcross Berry, Rutgers Factory\\nRutan Bensen, Harmony Mill Clark Robinson,\\nAaron Robert King, Adrian Van Houten, Passaic\\nMill; Home Mill, Daniel Holsman John Colt, two\\nmills; Joseph Smith, J. K. Parke Co., Robert Dun-\\nlop Co., Godwin, Rogers Co., Caleb M. Godwin.\\nIn four years the business was nearly doubled in\\nPaterson, for in 1829 there were 32,000 spindles in the\\nfactories. The consumption of raw cotton had in-\\ncreased from 1,200,000 pounds to 2,200,000 pounds.\\nThis increase was all in the spinning department of\\nthe manufacture, the weaving having fallen off by\\none-third, or from 3,000,000 yards to 2,000,000 yards\\nyearly. In 1832 the census taken by the same inde-\\nfatigable gentleman showed that there were then\\n40,500 spindles in operation, consuming 3,360,000\\npounds of cotton. One of the most notable incidents\\nconnected with the cotton manufacture up to this\\ntime was the success of John Colt in making cotton\\nduck from doubled and twisted cotton yarn. This he\\naccomplished in 1827 or 1828, he being the first in the\\nworld to successfully substitute cotton for flax in the\\nmaking of sail duck. The United States government\\nand our merchant marine showed their appreciation\\nof Mr. Colt s enterprise and of the excellence of his\\nproduct by using his cotton duck on all American\\nvessels, so that in time it was truly said that Colt s\\ncotton duck might be seen spreading its snowy wings\\non every sea on the globe. Thus the fame of Pater-\\nson s industries was wafted all oi-er the world. An-\\nother event in the history of the cotton industry in\\nPateison was the coming to this city of Charles Dan-\\nforth, from Ramapo or Sloatsburgh, in 1829, with a\\npatent spinning-frame, which he had invented the\\nyear before. This was designed to obviate the diffi-\\nculty then experienced from the flyer being out of\\nbalance, and from the drag of the bobbin by the\\nstrength of the thread, which was then a great draw-\\nback on the spindles in use. To overcome this he\\nsecured the bobbin on a fixed spindle, circumscribed\\nby a smooth, stationary ring, the bobbin having a\\nmetal waive with a tube on top of suflicient length to\\npass through the bobbin, and revolving with the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0673.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "414\\nHISTORY OF BERGEiN AND PASSAIC COUxNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nlatter. Instead of making the thread drag the bob-\\nbin, the bobbin wii.s made to drag the tliread, and\\nthere was a pcrl ectly uniform and, at tlie same time,\\ndelicate tension on all the tiireads, and witli less noise\\nthan tiie common throstle. This new frame, it was\\nsaid, produced forty per cent, more yarn of the lower\\nnumbers than any other machine then in use. The\\nadoption of this frame gave a new impetus to the j\\ncotton manufacture in Paterson, and for some years\\nundoubtedly added much to the prosperity of the\\ntown. On the other hand, it was claimed that the\\nprejudice in favor of a home machine led our manu-\\nfacturers to shut their eyes to the manifest superiority\\nof later inventions, which, being adopted elsewhere,\\ngave other cities the advantage over ours in the keen\\ncompetition which set in after a while, especially in\\nthe New England States, so that in the end this very\\ningenious invention was a detriment rather than a\\nbenefit to the town. But if better machines were\\nmade, it is certainly unjust to criticise Mr. Danforth\\nfor the failure of others to avail themselves of the\\nbenefits of such newer and better machines.\\nThe enactment of the sliding scale tariff had an\\nextremely depressing effect on Paterson s industries,\\nand the cotton-raills were almost all shut down for\\nmonths. They did not recover from this blow, al-\\nthough they subsequently |)icked up somewhat and\\ndid a fair business. The heavy investment of cai ital\\nin the cotton manufacture in New England, where\\nsingle mills were erected having more spindles than\\nall the Paterson factories together, the introduction of\\nimproved, lighter machinery, and the concentration\\nof the s)\u00c2\u00abinning, weaving, and piinting of cotton\\ngooils into single immense establishments, which be-\\ncame the rule in Fall River, Lowell, and the Rhode\\nIsland cities, more than ofl set Paterson s other advan-\\ntages us a manufacturing town, and tended to cripple\\nthe industry here, and there was a lack of co-operative\\neffort by the mill-owners to jiroteet their own interests.\\nSoon after the war broke out, and the enactment of\\nthe Morrill tariff, the cotton manufacture took another\\nstart in this city, and those who were in the business\\nmade immense profits. When the war closed there\\nwas an enormous demand for cotton goods, and new\\nmills were erected on every hand and large sums in-\\nvested in the business once more. Edwin T. Prall,\\nthen treasurer of the Danforth l ocomotive and Ma-\\nchine Company, with some Soutlu ru friends, organ-\\nized the Arkwright Manufacturing Company, under\\na special charter, and built the nuissive mill known by\\nthat name in Heech Street, near Market, in ISCiti-t!\\nThe new mill was stocke l with machinery and ran\\nwith great siici oss for two or three years, eotisumiiig\\nin 180K about ;{r). i,(MK) pounds of cotton, which wius\\nspun into 300,000 pounds of warps and twist. About\\nthe same time Messrs. Samuel Smith, Jacob S. Rogers,\\nand Roberts. Hughes built the Empire Mill, another\\nfine brick structure, iit the corner of .lackson andSlali r\\nStreet aiul litte l it up with every a| pliance for the\\nbusiness. It used 325,000 pounds of cotton in one\\nyear, spinning 275,000 pounds of warps and twist.\\nThese were the most important new cotton-mills built\\nat this time, and indeed were the only ones of any\\nconsequence. But other manufacturers hired room\\nwherever it could possibly be done and fitted up\\nmachinery, and within two or three years probably a\\nmillion dollars was invested in brick and mortar and\\nmachinery to engage in the industry. Before the in-\\nvestors had begun to get anything on the principal\\nthey had laid out in buildings the bubble burst, and\\nalt concerned lost heavily. Those who had the mills\\nand machinery all ready to take advantage of the sud-\\nden demand made immense profits, iis already stated.\\nOne manufacturer cleared over fifty thousand dollars\\nin one year, with less than two hundred and fifty\\nhands employed.\\nIn addition to the Arkwright and Empire Mills,\\nthere were the following large establishments in op-\\neration in 1868: Henry M. Low Go. (John Morti-\\nmer), Industry Mill, on Boudinot Street, the site\\nbeing now covered by .some of the mills of R. H.\\nAdams. Messrs. Low it Co. used about 3()0,00(\u00c2\u00bb\\npounds of cotton yearly. R. H. .\\\\dams Co., oc-\\ncupying the Harmony Jlill, then a small concern,\\nconsumed 200,000 pounds of cotton, had 100 looms,\\nand employed 125 hands. Coifs cotton mill, on\\nBoudinot Street, used 3(K(,(IOO pounds of cotton yearly,\\nand employed Ijd hands. Colt s duck-mill, also on\\nBoudinot Street, consumed nearly l,000,00it pounds\\nof cotton, and made 700,000 pounds of cotton duck,\\nwarps, and twist, having nearly 7000 spindles and\\n50 looms. The Passaic Falls Manufacturing Com-\\npany, George Christie, president, had nearly 3000\\nspindles, and made 275,000 pounds of warps, twist,\\nand fly. Messrs. Osborne, Buckley Co. (Edward\\nOsborne, Benjamin Buckley, and Jacob T. Blauvelt)\\nhad 20(K) spindles in the upper part of the Gun\\nMill, and spun 2lt0,000 pounds of twist. In the same\\nmill were May, Kae V; Co. (Charles H. May, Alexan-\\nder Rac, .Vndrew Vreeland, and John Murphy), run-\\nning 2180 spindles, and producing 200,000 onnds of\\ntwist, ply yarn, and batts. Mark Heathcote was op-\\nerating the first cotton-mill in the present Second\\nWard, at the northwest corner of Temjjle and Mat-\\nlock Streets, his annual production being about\\n230,000 pounds of warps and twist. E. B. .\\\\tterbury\\nwas conducting the cotton-mill at the nortliwol\\ncorner of Straight and Ellison Streets, which he built\\nabout 1857, and which was the first cotton-mill in\\nthe city away from the raceway, and the first in Pat-\\nerson to be operated by steam. This called the\\nBoudinot Mill contained 2liO(\u00c2\u00bb spindles, em| loye l\\nti4 hands, and produced 2 iO,(i(KI iiounils of warps and\\ntwists. The Danforth Locomotive and Macliim\\nWorks ha l a large cotton-mill, employing l 5 hamU\\nand 2640 spindles, producing 260,000 pounds of twi^i\\nand warps. A. Prall Co. employed 125 hands, lunl\\n600(1 spindles in operation, and sjiun 460,0oo pounds", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0674.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0675.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0676.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n415\\nof twist, warp, and ply yarn. At the Hope Mill,\\nJohn Oaknian had 3000 spindles running, turning\\nout 300,000 pounds of twist, warp, and ply. Joseph\\nWhitfield produced about 6.5,000 pounds of cotton\\nyarn annually. Besides these there were a number\\nof manufacturers of cotton tape, to supply the demand\\nfor hoop-skirts.\\nAt the present time there are but three cotton-\\nmanufacturing concerns in Paterson, and they merit\\non that account a more extended notice. One of these\\nis the\\nEXTERPEISE MAXrFACTURIX(i COMPANY, succes-\\nsor (in 1878) to the firm of May, Rae Co. This\\nfirm began running in the Gun Mill in June, 1859,\\nthe members being Andrew Vreeland, Andrew G.\\nSnyder, Alexander Rea, and Andrew Derrom. In\\n1863, Mr. Snyder withdrew, and Charles H. May\\ncame in. Messrs. Vreeland, Rae, and May comprise\\nthe Enterprise Manufacturing Company, Mr. Vree-\\nland being the president, and Mr. May the secretary\\nand treasurer. The capital is $30,000. They occupy\\nthe upper two floors of the mill where they began.\\nThey employ about GO hands, run 2500 spindles, and\\nproduce double and twist yarns, though mostly\\ndouble, from No. 8 to No. 22, to the yearly value of\\n$100,000. Their yarns are sold chiefly in New Eng-\\nland and New York State, most of it being used at\\npresent for the warp of horse-blankets and army-blan-\\nkets, the filling being wool, jute, horse-hair, or any-\\nthing that will make a thread. Mr. Vreeland attrib-\\nutes the decline of the cotton industry in Paterson to\\nthe rise of a like class of manufactures at the South,\\nwhere the raw material can be had for a cent to a cent\\nand a half a pound cheaper, and where wages are\\nmuch lower than here. The competition of the silk-\\nmills in the labor market also works disadvantage-\\nously to the cotton-mills.\\nR. H. Adams Mo.squito-Nettixg, etc.. Mill.\\nBrief mention has been made of Warren Haight,\\nwho operated the Harmony Mill. About 1835-36,\\nDuncan McEwing, a Scotchman, who had been\\nmaking mosquito-netting in New York, bought this\\nmill and started the same business in Paterson, to-\\ngether with the weaving of buckrams and linings, all\\nout of cotton. April 1, 1857, he sold out to William\\nAdams, who had been carrying on the same business\\nin New York. At this time the Harmony Mill was a\\nmodest brick building, forty-two by ninety feet, three\\nstories in height, with a four-story extension in front,\\nforty-two l: y twenty-five feet. The ceilings were only\\neight feet high. This building was well back towards\\nthe river. Mr. Adams took his two sons, Robert and\\nHenry, into partnership with him when he bought\\nthe property. In 1859 they brought their dyeing and\\nfinishing departments from New York to Pater.son.\\nAbout 1863 they built a three-story extension on the\\n1 Manuscript of statistics compiled by the autlior, and dated Jan. 14,\\nrear, ninety-five feet deep. In 1865 or 1866, Robert\\nand Henry bought their father out.\\nOn March 10, 1869, the entire mill was burned to\\nthe ground, making a loss to the firm of exactly one\\nhundred thousand dollars. Whereas they had begun\\noperations with 60 hands, at this time they employed\\n250, and turned out $75,000 worth of goods yearly.\\nNothing daunted by this heavy loss, they set about\\nrebuilding before the bricks were fairly cold, and in a\\nfew months had another mill in full ojjeration, forty-\\nfive by one hundred and ninety-five feet, three stories\\nhigh. Tliey rapidly extended their business, and in\\n1870 bought the old Essex Mill on Mill Street, just\\nabove Boudinot, which they partially rebuilt and ex-\\ntended by the addition of two wings, either one of\\nwhich was much larger than the old building, one\\nbeing forty-four by ninety feet, and the other forty-\\nfour by eighty-five feet, both tour stories high. This\\nmill was fitted up with a superior class of machinery\\nto spin the finer grades of yarns, and to correspond\\nmore with the European and New England systems\\nof running mills. Before this time the firm had not\\nspun yarn finer than No. 28; in the new mill they\\nspun yarn as fine as No. 60. In 1874 they built a\\nstore-house, twenty-five by ninety-five feet, four stories\\nhigh, on Mill Street opposite. the Essex Mill. In 1875\\nj the finishing-house at the Harmony Mill was burned\\nj down, and was immediately replaced by a brick build-\\ning, thirty by eighty feet, five stories high, with an\\nextension in the rear, on the east side, twenty by one\\nhundred and two feet, five stories high, for drying and\\nfinishing. Still their business was increasing with\\nmarvelous and ever-accelerating rapidity, and in order\\nto accommodate it they bought in 1877 the old In-\\ndustry Mill property, adjoining the Harmony Mill\\non the east, and immediately removed the antiquated\\nframe mill and replaced it by a substantial brick\\nstructure which eclipsed in size any building in Pater-\\nson. This was forty-seven by two hundred and two\\nfeet, four stories high, for the spinning, winding, and\\nweaving departments; in the rear, the surface of the\\nearth sloping abruptly, it was six stories high, a\\nmachine-shop being fitted up in the lower floor. An-\\nnexed to this was another building, thirty-one by one\\nhundred and two feet, two stories high, the lower\\nfloor being for a dye-house, and the upper floor for\\ndrying and finishing; on the end of this building\\nwas another, like an L, forty-six by sixty-five feet,\\none story high, for a bleaching-house. Thus this\\nmighty structure was virtually one building, thirty-\\none to forty-six feet wide and three hundred and sev-\\nenty feet deep, most of it from four to six stories in\\nheight. In 1878 the hands went on a strike, which\\ncontinued for seven months, causing immense loss to\\nall concerned.\\nMarch 4, 1879, Robert Adams sold out his interest\\nto his brother Henry, and the following June bought\\na fine water-power and mill-seat at Birmingham,\\nConn., where he built a mill, which began running", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0679.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": "416\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nJan. 1, 1880, making the same kind of goods as he\\nhad been making in Paterson. His business has\\nbeen very successful, and has been extended con-\\nstantly, until at the present time he employs between\\n300 and 4(1(1 luinds, has 12,000 spindles and 3(10 looms.\\nAs soon as Henry Adams became tlie sole posse.ssor of\\nthe great mill property of the old firm of R. H.\\nAdams, he began extending the mills more largely\\nthan ever, until they are by far the most extensive in\\nthe world devoted to the same kind of business. In\\nfact, it is said tliat they produce more goods of the\\nkind than all the other mills in the world combined.\\nWherever a hot climate is known and the pestiferous\\nmosquito presents his little bill, there the famous\\nmosquito-netting of R. H. Adams is known, and\\nevery year orders come in from all parts of the\\nworld,. from Japan, Australia, the sultry shores\\nof Africa, the torrid countries of Central and South\\nAmerica, the Saudwidi Islands, and other equally\\nremote places on the surface of the globe, whither the\\nfame of Paterson s industries have penetrated, come\\nthe orders for the impenetrable to mo.squitoes net-\\nting of this celebrated manufacture. Ui)wards of a\\nquarter of a million pieces of this netting are made\\nyearly, of all the colors of the rainbow, and many\\nbesides each piece is eight yards long and seventy\\ninches wide, and averages a pound of cotton.\\nThe buckrams they make are used as the founda-\\ntions for ladies hats, being made stiff with starch it\\nis sold by the roll, each roll being eight yards long\\nand mostly seventy-two inches wide, though also made\\nthirty-six and twenty-four inches wide the produc-\\ntion is upwards of 20,000 pieces yearly, enough to\\nclothe a much larger force of soldiers in buckram\\nthan Falstafl swore he saw. This buckram is now-\\nmade on a very ingenious machine, the invention of\\nMr. John liolton, for many years prior to Jan. 1.\\n1882, the superintendent of the dyeing and finishing\\ndepartments of the works, which produces a finer\\narticle and at far less cost than was possible under the\\nold process. Another class of goods made here is\\nlight linings for women s hats and dresses, the pro-\\nduction being fully 2. i(l,0(\u00c2\u00bb0 pieces, each twelve yards\\nlong and a yard wide. Also silicias, for linings for\\ndresses and tailors goods; crown linings, for milli-\\nnery goods Wiggins, for stilfening collars, vests, coats,\\netc.; cambrics, for light linings; jaconet-i, for facings\\nin dresses; tarletans, for inside linings in women s\\nhats, for fly-ncts,to protect picture- and mirror- frames,\\netc.; satin-dc-chine, a cheaper substitute for farmer s\\nsatin for coat linings. Suppose we follow the 75,000\\nbales of cotton which yearly find their way in the\\nraw state into these immense mills? The cotton first\\ngoes into the two picker-rooms, twcnty-tlirce by forty-\\nfive feet, where six lapjiers ami an opener partially\\nseparate the fd)re and free it from the grosser impuri-\\nties next it passes int4 the three carding-roonis, one\\nforty-five by two hundred feet, another eighty by\\none hundred and eighty feet, and a third forty-four\\nby one hundred and fifty feet, where 103 cards\\nstraighten out the fibre, and pass it directly through\\neight drawing-frames, which draw out the fibre\\nsmoothly, and pass it from seventy-five deliveries\\ninto the slubber, which draws it still finer and gives\\nit a single twist, thence passes it into an intermediate\\nframe, and then into a roving-frame. It is now ready\\nfor spinning, and this is the most important part of\\nthe whole process, and takes up a great deal of space,\\nnotwithstanding the most improved frames, occupy-\\ning the least possible room, are used. In the lisse.x\\nMill five floors, each eighty by one hundred and\\neighty feet, and four each forty-five by sixty feet, are\\ndevoted to this purpose in the Harmony Mill, one\\nforty-four by one hundred and eighty feet, and one\\nforty-four by ninety feet; and in the Industry Mill,\\none forty-five by one hundred feet, and one forty-five\\nby two hundred feet. The jirincipal sizes spun are\\nNos. 24, 2it, Jl, 3G, 40, and (JO Nos 80 and 110 are\\nfrequently spun, and they have produced yarn as fine\\nas No. 129 when they have had some unusually fine\\ncotton, and had it combed in thecarding-room. The\\nyarn next passes through the winding and warping\\nand slashing rocesses, one floor forty-five by one\\nhundred feet in the Industry Mill, and one forty-two\\nby .seventy-five feet in the Essex Mill being assigned\\nto these departments. The treatment known as\\nsUishing is not as destructive as might be inferred\\nfrom the name, referring only to the sizing of the\\nyarn, to give it better consistency in subscipient\\noj)erations.\\nThe most interesting process to the general olxserver\\nis the weaving. The looms are of the most approved\\npatterns, and whereas one person formerly attended\\nbut two looms, now they attend four and even six\\nwilliont dilliculty. If a single ihroail breaks the loom\\nstops until the operative ties the thread and starts the\\nmachine again. Sometimes the looms will not require\\nany attention for hours, so perfectly do they work.\\nIn the Essex Mill, one room eighty by one hundred\\nand eighty feet, ami four each forty-five by sixty feet,\\nand in the Industry Mill one forty-five by two hun-\\ndred feet, and in the Harmony Mill two each forty-\\nfour by one hundred and eighty feet, are filled with\\nthese ingenious wcaving-nuichines, which seem to\\nhave the intelligence of living, thinking creatures.\\nThe woven fabric is now in what is called the gray,\\nrough, and of a dirty-white hue. It is now taken\\ninto the folding- or measuring-room, where it is piiKsed\\nthrough machines which spread it out, cut it into\\nlengths of ninety -six yards, and fold it for more con-\\nvenient handling; this is done in a room forty-five\\nby fitly feet in the Harmony Mill. The washing\\nand bleaching, the latter by the use of chemicals,\\ncome next, occupying two rooms, one thirty by sixty\\nfeet, and another fifly by seventy feet. The washing\\nis done on a plan devised by Mr. liolton in 1844, and\\nwhich has since come into general use all over the\\nworld. The fabric is now ready for the dyeing, which", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0680.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0681.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0682.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n417\\nis done in two rooms, fifty by seventy feet. The vis-\\nitor sees everywhere endless strings of netting and\\nthe like rushing swiftly out of holes in all sorts of\\nodd corners, and wonders whence they come and\\nwhither they go. This is another of Mr. Bolton s\\nexpedients to save time and labor in handling the\\ngoods. The pieces are sewn together, and passed\\nthrough troughs so lined as to prevent injury by fric-\\ntion, and these troughs extend from one room to\\nanother at opposite ends of a building sometimes,\\nand afford the easiest possible means of transit for the\\ngoods from one department to another, by simply at-\\ntaching one end to a pulley. This also saves the goods\\nfrom needless wear and tear. The same process was\\nin 1881 introduced by Mr. Bolton in the dyeing of\\nthe lighter shades of goods, which are passed like an\\nendless chain all day long through the vats prepared\\nwith the dye stuffs, and when done are deposited in\\nthe same manner in a dry vat. The dyeing of the\\ndarker shades requires a far greater variety of manip-\\nulation, which is still done by hand, much to the in-\\nconvenience and sometimes injury of the men, whose\\nhands are exposed all day to the chemicals and .scald-\\ning water. The goods when dyed go into the drying-\\nand sizing-room, forty by seventy-five feet, where there\\nare sQven sets of cans, whence it is commonly called\\nthe canning-room, the fabric passing over steam-\\nheated cylinders of copper, there being fifteen cylin-\\nders in a set, one hundred and eight inches wide this\\nis a very peculiar machine, which stretches the goods\\nto the full width by a gradual pressure, and then dries\\nthe fabric. It is next sized by passing it through a\\nbath of starch, which gives it stiffness, and next it\\ngoes into tlie calcndering-room, where it passes\\nbetween rollers, one of paper and one of iron, where\\nit is subjected to a light pressure as it is rolled. The\\ncalendering of jaconets in this manner is said to be\\nthe very finest finishing that is done, far finer than\\nthe finishing of paper. The next process is the fold-\\ning and packing of the goods for the market, after\\nwhich they are sent in bales to tlie New York houses\\nof the concern, at No. 16 Greene Street, and Nos. 73\\nand 75 Greene Street, New York City, whence they\\nare shipped to all parts of the world, as already stated.\\nAt the mills, on Boudinot Street, there is one building\\ntwenty-five by one hundred feet, four stories high, used\\nfor a store-house, besides another large room wherein\\nthe chemicals for dyeing are stowed away.\\nOn Nov. 1, 1881, there were 17,032 spindles running\\nin the Essex Mill, 9024 in the Harmony Mill, and\\n8416 in the Industrj Mill; new spinning-frames were\\nbeing set up having 6656 spindles so that at the pres-\\nent writing the total number of spindles in these mills\\nused in the cotton business is 41,126. This is a\\nlarger number than were to be found in the seventeen\\ncotton-mills in Paterson in 1832. In the Essex Mill\\nthere are 315 looms, in the old Harmony Mill 114, in\\nthe new Harmony Mill 200, and in the Industry Mill\\n200 looms, or upwards of 800 in all. When running\\nfull, between 800 and 900 hands are employed in the\\ncotton-mills, whose wages foot up $200,000 yearly.\\nTo drive all this machinery, and the silk machinery\\nin the same mills, of which an account is given here-\\ninafter, the Essex Mill has water-power rated at 200\\nhorse, and a steam-engine of 225 horse-power; the\\nHarmony and Industry Mills have water-power rated\\nat 400 horse, a magnificent double Corliss steam-\\nengine rated at 300 horse, but which can be run up to\\n500-horse power, and another engine of 40-horse\\npower. There are eight steam-engines altogether in\\nall the mills, several being devoted to special uses.\\nThe Corliss engine drives a 54-inch pulley-wheel, on\\nwhich are two 26-inch belts, each driving a separate\\nmill. This immense establishment is controlled by\\nHenry Adams, the sole owner, who devotes his atten-\\ntion chiefly to the financial management in New York,\\nhis son, William Adams, taking general charge of the\\nmills at Paterson. Thomas Abbott is superintendent\\nof the cotton-mills.\\nHenry Adams, one of the largest manufacturers of\\nPaterson, was born at No. 55 Factory Street (now\\nWaverley Place), New York City, on Jan. 2, 1836.\\nHis father, William Adams, came to this country in\\n1826, and being a cotton- weaver by trade, began busi-\\nness in a small way in New York City. His mother,\\nformerly Miss Eliza Dawson, a native of Castle reagh,\\nin the north of Ireland, had much to do with the\\nearlier and later success of her husband. Her father\\nI being a small linen manufacturer in Ireland, she early\\nacquired a knowledge and taste for the trade of weav-\\ning, and upon arriving in this country urged her hus-\\nband to embark in the business, which he undertook,\\nand ever afterwards proved the support and mainstay\\nof the enterprise. She herself carried around and\\nj disposed of the goods which he at first manufactured,\\nand throughout all the subsequent enterprises of the\\nconcern exercised a strong influence. She was a de-\\nvoted wife and mother, possessed of many excellent\\ntraits of character, and closed her active exertions for\\nthe good of her family and friends only with her\\ndeath in 1859.\\nThe business established by William Adams grew\\nfrom a small beginning into an enterprise of vast pro-\\nportions. In 1832 he started a few hand-looms in\\nNew York City, and continued enlarging his business\\nuntil 1857, when he transferred his manufacturing\\nestablishment to Paterson, N. J., where he purchased\\nthe Harmony Mills, on the lower raceway, of the\\nMcEwing estate, and established cotton manufacture\\non a large scale. From 1862 to 1864 the business was\\ncarried on under the firm-name of William Adams\\nCo., and from 1864 until March 4, 1879, it was known\\nas R. H. Adams. Since that time Henry Adams\\nhas been the sole owner and occupant of the old site,\\nj and is carrying on the business alone. The Harmony\\nMills were burned in 1869, and immediately rebuilt.\\nHenry Adams enjoyed only limited educational\\nopportunities at the public schools of New York", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0685.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "418\\nHISTORY OF BERUEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCity. At the age of twelve years, on his strong per-\\nsonal advice, and in the face of great distrust as to\\nthe success of the project entertained by his father, a\\nsmall store wsu* opened by his parents at No. 38 Cedar\\nStreet, and Henry was placed in charge of it. The\\nobject of the store wiis to dispose of the cotton goods\\nmanufactured by his father at No. 28 Perry Street.\\nHenry succeeded, by close application to business\\nand by judicious management of his aftiiirs, in\\ndoubling the business in one year. From No. 38\\nCedar Street the business was removed to other\\npoints on the same street, for tlie purpose of securing\\nmore commodious sale-rooms, and finally to Nos.\\n14 and 16 Greene Street. The latter building is now\\nowned and occupied by Henry Adams, who also oc-\\ncupies the substantial and handsome stores at Nos.\\n83 and 8. Greene Street. Mr. Adams has always\\nbeen in charge of the stores of the concern in New\\nYork City, where his personal popularity in the\\ntrade, careful business management, and financial\\nability have proven the main cause of its success.\\nHe now runs three mills at Paterson, the Esse.\\\\,the\\nIndustry, and tlie Harmony, which contain eight\\nhundred and twenty-five looms, forty-two thousand\\nspindles, and are among the finest in the State of\\nNew .Jersey. The management is recognized as one\\nof the most intelligent in Paterson, and the enterprise\\nas one of the most successful in the city. All the\\nleading varieties of cotton goods, such as cambrics,\\njaconct.s, silicias, etc., of superior finish, are manufac-\\ntured by Mr. Adams, besides silks, ribbons, and other\\npopular varieties of silk manufacture.\\nAlthough Mr. Adams has always resided in New\\nYork City, he is deeply interested in the |)ros|)erity\\nand growtii of Paterson, and, notwithstanding that a\\nremoval of the factories from the city to the New\\nEngland States has been urged by his former partner,\\nhe has retnaincd steadfast in the belief (which his\\nsuccess amply justifies) that cotton goods can be as\\ncheaply and successfully niatiufactured in Paterson\\nas in the East.\\nMr. .\\\\dams was married in lS(i(t to Eliza, daughter\\nof (icorge and Charlotte Squire, of Morris County,\\nN. J., and has had a family of eight children, of\\nwhom six are now living, namely, William, Char-\\nlotte, l^izzic, now at Va.ssar College, Poughkeepsie.\\nN. Y., Clinton, Mitinie, and Mabel. The oldest son,\\nWilliam, lias charge of liis father s mills at Paterson,\\nand has proven a faithful and intelligent superinten-\\ndent, and a highly-esteemed and popular member of\\nsociety. He is married to an estimable lady, and has\\none child.\\nAxKKlvW McLkan.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The lather of Mr. McLean\\nbegan the weaving of niostpiito netting and similar\\ngoods in New York City so far back as lX2 i, where he\\ncontinued the business until his death in 1862. Soon i\\nafter his son Andrew removed the business to Pater-\\nson, taking a part of the Beaver Mill, where he em-\\nploycil abr ut thirty hands and had thirty-two looms.\\nHe carded, spun, and wove all his cotton. In the\\nprevious year, 18.51, Mr. Andrew McLean introduced\\nthe use of power-looms in weaving gauze mosquito\\nnetting, adapting four looms to that [)urpose. So far\\nas he is aware he was the first to adopt the u.se of\\npower-looms in weaving this kind of fabric. Some\\nyears later George McLean, a brother of Andrew, was\\ntaken into the firm, which leased larger quarters in\\nthe old Franklin Mill, where a large business was car-\\nried on until December, 1871, when the mill was\\nburned down. Among the machinery of A. G.\\nMcLean destroyed at this time was a pair of hand-\\nmules, then in use, and doubtless the last run in Pat-\\nerson. It is not at all likely that any more will ever\\nbe run in Paterson. The firm now removed to a frame\\nbuilding of Samuel Pope, on the north bank of the\\nriver, between Main and Bridge Streets, where the\\nbu.siuess has since been carried on. (ieorge McLean\\nwas killed subsequently by the fall of an unfinished\\nbuilding at Passaic. The factory was continued from\\nthat time until the jiresent by Andrew McLean alone.\\nMr. McLean now (February, 1882) occupies a two-\\nstory frame Uuililing, si.xty by forty feet, and a num-\\nber of outbuildings, in the weaving of mosquito net-\\nting, buckrams, etc. He does no spinning, but buys\\nhis yarn and weaves it in this shop, employing 40\\nhands, whom he pays about $700 fortnightly. The\\nwoven fabrics arc taken to New York, wliere Mr. Mc-\\nLean has facilities for finishing, etc., which branch ol\\nthe business is carried on by him in the metropolis.\\nHe has kept the very e. ccellent reputation which he\\nlong ago earned for the fine quality of his produc-\\ntion.\\nMtxoK Cotton MANUKAcrrnEs. Some special\\nlines of cotton numufactures which have been or are\\nstill carried on in Paterson merit notice:\\nCounterpanes. As long ago as 1810 the weaving of\\ncotton counterpanes was carried on in Paterson by\\nJames Young. He has had many successors in the\\nbusiness since that time, most of them continuing for\\nbut a short while. In 1870, Phili| Sihott, an enter-\\nprising German, built a cheap frame hou.se on (Jene-\\nsee Avenue and Pa.xton Street, at Lake View, and\\nwith a loom or two began weaving counterpanes.\\nHis business has continually improved until at ])resent\\nhe has quite a large building and runs a dozen looms.\\nl iapcTs, etc. In 1850, William Inglis, from Fife.\\nScotland, rented the lower floor of the Mallory Mill,\\nwhich stood on the site of the present office and\\nprinting-room of the Waverly Mill, and began weav\\ning diapers and toweling, both cotton and linen, in\\nwhich business he had been engagcil for many years\\nbefore in i^eotland. He ran thirty or forty looms, iind\\nwas the first to carry on the business on an extensive\\nscale in Paterson, and doubtless was the pioneer in the\\nweaving of these linen goods in this city. He im-\\nported the linen yarn, but u.sed the Paterson cotton\\nyarn for his weaving. David G. Scott had run a ii\\\\\\\\\\nof the same looms on cotton goods of this character", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0686.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0687.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "K\\nt^\\n^^C^^-P^/\\n7-^-^^\\nSamiei. Hoi.t, of Paterson, N. J., was born at Ashton under-\\nLvne, Lancnshire, Engl;inil, in February, ISOil. His early edu-\\ncation from books iias ubiained in the Sabbath-school of his\\nnative jilacc, with which he was connected from eight to twenty\\nyears of age, and which he entered as a pupil and ubsetiuontly\\nbecame its superintfndcnt.\\nAt the age of seven years young Holt began work in the\\nPrint Works of Oiho Hume A Sons, at Woodhouse s Village,\\nhut after two years turned his attention to fancy silk-weaving\\nand cotton-weaving, under the instruction of his father, at the\\nsame place, where he remained until ho was twenty-five years\\nof age.\\nIn IS3I, Mr. Holt engaged with .1. A. T. and E. Christy A\\nCo., of London, in weaving silk hat-pluih in their mills at\\nStockport, of which, after four years as an employf, he became\\nsuperintendent and manager. Ho filled this responsible position\\nfur some thirty years with credit to himself and to the entire\\nsatisfaction of the company. This gave him an opportunity\\nfor the development and completion of designs original with\\nhimself, and during his incuuibcncy as superintendent and\\nmanager he invented and obtained two patents in his own name,\\none for silk hat-plush wearing, the other for weaving Turkish\\ntowels, which latter business is still carried on by Christy A\\nCo., at Fairfield, near Manchester, England.\\nIn 1804, Charles A. Buckley, of Now York, and others in-\\nducol Mr. Holt to emigrate to I atcrson and superintend the\\nmanufacture of velvet and silk hat-plushes, and built a milt\\nfor him for that puqiose in Essex Street, which now forms a\\npart of the Strange Mills. After two years the company dis-\\npoie l of Mr. Holt s patents, receiving therefor iomo $2i0,000.\\nThis action involved the company in suits in chancery, which\\ncoDtiiuK-d for four years and broke op the concern, to the great\\nloss of Mr. Holt.\\nIn 1S68, Mr. Holt began the manufacture of Turkish towel-\\ning in Paterson on his own account, thereby making use of\\nhis patent for the same taken out in England in 1851. This\\nbusiness he has successfully carried on since on Railroad Ave-\\nnue, and he has two suns, Samuel and William, associated with\\nhim. His goods were exhibited in London in 1861, where he\\nobtained a rize medal and his wns the (ir^t patent in the world\\nto manufacture yuch goods by steam-power. The first Turkish\\ntoweling manufactured by liim wa8 presented to Queen Victoria,\\nat Buckingham Palace, for which be received due acknowl-\\nedgment. He also took the prize medal in 1852, at the Loudon\\nExhibition, for silk velvets and plushes.\\nMr. Holt married first, in 18^3, Elisa Uebert, of Taunton,\\nEngland, who died in 1841, leaving two sons, John and James,\\nboth of whom died in England. His second wife wa? Ann\\nAspinwall, whom ho married in 1843, and who died in Paterson,\\nDeo. 1881, leaving three children, Samuel, William, and\\nMary Ann, wife of Thomas Shaw, of Paterson.\\nThe religious persuasion of the Holt family is Swoden-\\nborgian.\\nMr. Holt s father, .Tohn, resided at Woodhouse s Village, and\\nwas a silk and cotton-weaver by occupation. He spent the\\nlatter part of his life as general manager and book-keeper of\\na cotton-mill, and died in 18GG, aged seventy-eight years. His\\nmother, Anna Kirk, died in 1813, aged twenty-seven years,\\nleaving three children, Samuel, James, and Elizabeth. By\\nother marriages, John Holt had several children, some of whom\\ncame to America. Jame\u00c2\u00ab was a silk hat-plush finisher, and\\ndied in Paterson.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0688.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n419\\na year or two before. Mr. Inglis continued the busi-\\nness for about two years, but it was not remunerative.\\nHe then formed a partnership with James Jackson,\\nunder the firm-name of William Inglis Co., and\\nthe firm occupied the whole of the Mallory Mill, em-\\nploying one hundred hands, spinning yarn and\\nweaving cotton flannels, which found a ready market,\\nespecially after David G. Scott began to print them.\\nThe Mallory Mill was burned down about 1856, and\\nthe business was not resumed. Both of these indus-\\ntries carried on by Mr. Inglis were extremely inter-\\ne.sting and important, and it seems a pity that they\\nhave not been revived in the last twenty years.\\nTurkish Towelg. In 1851, Samuel Holt, then fore-\\nman for Christy Co., hat-plush manufacturers in\\nEngland, invented a machine for weaving goods with\\nthe peculiar loop which characterizes Turkish towel-\\ning, and which prior to that time had been done en-\\ntirely by band by the Turkish women, each loop being\\nformed separately with a bamboo needle. Christy\\nCo. made a handsome fortune out of the patent,\\nand settled on Mr. Holt a life annuity. In 1864, Mr.\\nHolt came to America, and in 1870 started the manu-\\nfacture of terry goods, as this sort of fabric is\\ncalled in the trade, at Paterson, beginning first in\\nEssex Street, then (1871) in the Franklin Mill, and\\nwhen that was burned down building a mill (1872)\\nfor himself in the rear of his residence, at No. 108\\nStraight Street. The mill is of frame, thirty-two by\\nfifty-two feet, three stories high. From 1870 to 1879\\nhis half-brother, Robert Holt, was in partnership\\nwith him. The firm is now Samuel Holt Sons,\\nSamuel Holt, Jr., and William Holt being the\\nyounger members. For several years Mr. Holt had\\na monopoly of the manufacture in America. Lat-\\nterly he has devoted himself more especially to the\\nfiner grades of goods, and in these lines the firm is\\neasily at the head of the trade in America. They\\nweave linen, cotton, and worsted goods, making\\ntowels, tidies, knotted goods, wash-rags, etc., in all\\ncolors and in all patterns. Some of their designs in\\nraised patterns are extremely attractive. They have\\nthirteen looms, and employ thirty hands.\\nRobert Holt carried on the business for himself for\\na short time in River Street, after 1879, but soon gave\\nit up. Two or three others have also tried it for a\\nshort time, but without success, and Holt Sons\\nhave all of this peculiar industry to themselves in\\nPaterson.\\nCalico Printing, Bleaching, Dyeing, and Finishing.\\nIn connection with the first attempts of the Society\\nfor Establishing Useful Manufactures to develop the\\ncotton industry, much attention was paid to the\\nbleaching, dyeing, and printing of the woven cotton\\nfabrics. At first the bleaching was done in the most\\nprimitive way, the muslins being spread in meadows\\nin the sun. In the course of a year or two a French\\nchemist was employed to bleach the goods by chemi-\\ncal process, then something new in America. Print-\\ning and calendering was carried on to a limited extent,\\nas the fabrics were for the most part imported in the\\ngray from England, to be bleached and printed\\nhere. The society failed before much progress was\\nattained in these branches, though it is said that calico\\nshawls were printed in some quantities.\\nJOHX Flood. Some years later, about 18(\u00c2\u00bb9, or\\npossibly earlier, John Flood came to Paterson from\\nSpringfield, now in Union County, N. J., and re-es-\\ntablished the dyeing and printing of cott(m goods. He\\nlocated along the river-bank, between Paterson and\\nStraight Streets, and there carried on his works in a\\nvery modest way until the buildings were washed\\naway by a freshet in 1810, when he removed to West\\nStreet, near Ryersou Street, conducting the business\\nat that place until about 1825, when the introduction\\nof improved machinery virtually ruined him. Up to\\nthis time calico printing had been done by hand, with\\nwooden blocks about a foot square. In an article\\nwritten by his son, John K. Flood, some years ago, it\\nwas stated that his goods wei e ginghams, checks,\\ntickings, and an article called Paterson crape, com-\\nmonly called fustian, which all the farmers of that\\ntime wore for summer pantaloons.\\nWilliam Feegusox. Between 1820 and 1825\\nWilliam Ferguson established a bleachery in a spa-\\ncious and beautiful meadow which then lay along a\\nlarge brook on the west side of Paterson Street, and\\nnorth of Market Street. Here he washed and bleached\\nmuslins, and then spread them out on the green grass\\nto dry and bleach still further in the bright sunshine.\\nFerguson s Meadow extended for some distance on\\nboth sides of the brook, as Paterson Street was not\\nlaid out for many years after. His very name is al-\\nmost forgotten.\\nJames Shepherd. About 1827 James Shepherd\\nbought the mill property on the middle raceway back\\nof the present blacksmith-shop of the Danforth Lo-\\ncomotive and Machine- Works, and engaged quite ex-\\ntensively in the business of bleaching. He had pre-\\nviously had a bleachery where George Jackson s mills\\nnow are, on the road between Paterson and Little\\nFalls. Shepherd was one of the most noted charac-\\nters in the town for many j^ears. He sold out in a few\\nyears to\\nWheeler, Bruie Bickell, who conducted the\\nconcern until they failed during the panic of 1837,\\nafter which Wheeler managed to carry on the busi-\\nness for two or three years.\\nPatrick Magesnis then took the mill, and for\\nthree years carried on dyeing, bleaching, and finishing.\\nAbout 1842 he formed a copartnership with James\\nJackson, and they took the Mallory Mill, a brick\\nbuilding on the western part of the site of the pres-\\nent Waverley Mill, on Van Houten Street, at the foot\\nof Mill Street, where they dyed and finished cambrics\\nand silicias. They subsequently (in 1844) transferred\\ntheir dyeing and bleaching to the Franklin Mill, on\\nMill Street, opposite the end of Ellison Street. In", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0689.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "420\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n1850 or 1851 they quit the business, and in 1852 the\\nproperty fell into the hands of David G. Scott.\\nJohn Niohtinuale set up a bleachery in Pater-\\nson in 1830, on the river-bank back of what is com-\\nmonly called the Nightinfrale Mill. He had been\\nbleaching for some years before this on the Wesel\\nroad, between Lake View and Clifton, but just before\\ncoming to Paterson at this time he had been running\\na cotton-mill at New Mil ford, Bergen County. His\\nbleachery was a frame building, two stories high,\\nabout forty by thirty feet. He had the machinery\\nusual at his day, washing the goods with d;tsh-wheels,\\nand although he used some chemicals in bleaching,\\nhe at first relied mainly if not entirely on the good\\noffices of the sun to dry the cloth. He subsequently\\nimported from England a drying-machine, after which\\nhe was independent of the weatiier. He did quite an\\nextensive business, bleaching for the leading manu-\\nfacturers not only of Paterson but for many in New\\nYork as well, and would send his wagon to New\\nYork to get the cloth, and return it in the same way\\nbleached. Primitive as this way was, it i roved to be\\nvery profitable to him. In 1S32 he employed twelve\\nhands at the busines,s. He returned in a few years to\\nhis old Wesel bleachery, where he remained for a\\nshort time, and again settled, this time permanently,\\nin Paterson, where he engaged on a large scale in the\\nspinning and weaving of cotton and gave up bleach-\\ning. He died in 1859, aged seventy-six years.\\nTiio.M.\\\\s W.M.KKH. When Nightingale went from\\nWesel to New Milford he leased his bleachery at the\\nformer place to one Thomas Walker, an Irishman, I\\nwho remained there for five years, and then, in the\\nfall of 1835, removed to Paterson, where he started\\nthe block-printing of calico in a small way in a build-\\ning then standing at the northwest corner of Spruce\\nStreet and Stony road. He carried on the business\\nin the old-fashioned way, such as John Flood had\\ndone thirty years before. However, he had some\\nmachinery, such as a surface-printing machine and\\nsome other apparatus, but he doubtless printed only\\nblack-and-white goods. He used chemicals to some\\nextent in bleaching, and washed his goods with the\\nold style dash-wheels revolving rapidly in tubs.\\nPi.fMMEn fi. Prince. Walker appears to have\\nfailed in 1841. Two years later the establishment was\\nrun by Plummer iV Prince, wlio introduced printing-\\nmachines operated by power, and mordant printing,\\nchiefly blacks and whites, but orciusiomilly in colors.\\nThey continueil the business until about 1850, when\\nthey failed, and the establishment was taken by\\nHenry C. Stim.son, by whom it was run for a yejir or\\neighteen months in the intercut of the I eople s Hank,\\nwhich wa.s the principal cretlitor of Plummer iSc I rince.\\n.\\\\bout 1K52 the premises were bought for the exten-\\nsion of the Rogent Locomotive-Works.\\nIn 1849, David (J. Scott, who had been weaving\\nand printing at Dunifermline, Scotland, for several\\nyean*, came to Paterson and leased the old Shepherd\\nbleachery, with the bleaching apparatus contained\\ntherein. He began bleaching and dyeing there, and\\nsoon built up a considerable trade. In 1852 the rop-\\nerty was sold for the extension of the Danforth Lo-\\ncomotive-Works adjoining, and Mr. Scott removed to\\nthe Franklin Mill, which he leased, and took the\\nbusiness and the dyeing and printing machinery for-\\nmerly of Jackson Magennis. He rapidly extended\\nthe works, and in fact was the first in Paterson to en-\\ngage extensively in the business of dyeing, printing,\\nand bleaching by machinery. He spared no jiains to\\nacquire the latest improvements in machinery adapted\\nto his business, and by his skill, energy, and tact\\nbuilt up a widely-extended trade. The Franklin\\nMill was too small for his establishment, and in 1853\\nhe bought the site of the present Waverley Mill, on\\nVan Houten Street at the foot of Mill, and erected a\\nhandsome brick mill, four stories high, one hundred\\nby forty-five feet, with other buildings in the rear.\\nIn 1857 he acquired the Mallory Mill also. Both\\nwere destroyed by fire, and tlien rebuilt on a larger\\nscale than before. The Waverley Mill has been par-\\ntially burned once or twice since then. The main\\nbuilding fronting on the raceway is now but three\\nstories high, one hundred by forty-five feet, and is\\nused as a finishing-room back of it is the drying-\\nroom, two stories high, sixty by one hundred feet, and\\nthe dye-house, one story high, forty by one hundred\\nfeet, both of brick still farther in the rear and near\\nthe river-bank is the bleachery. ninety feet square, one\\nstory high. Adjoining the Waverley Mill proper on\\nthe raceway, facing Van Houten Street, is a small\\none-story brick office, and next west of that is the\\nprinting- and engraving-room, of brick, two stories\\nhigh, fifty-five and one hundred and forty-five feet.\\nIn 1S54, Mr. Sctitt .secured a special charter for the\\nFranklin Manufacturing Company, to which he\\ntransferred his mill pro|)erty in 18(il, the Franklin\\nMill alone being then valued by him at upwards of\\n$00,000. He died Nov. 3, 1863, since when the busi-\\nness and pr(q)erty have been carried on by his estate.\\nThe entire establishment has long been confined to\\nthe Waverley Mill alone. Eighty hands are employed.\\nMuslin is sent hither from New York and the East in\\nthe gray, an I is bleache l, printed in niailder colors,\\ndyed, and finished.\\nThe success of Mr. Scott in his business was due in\\nno small degree to John Murphy, who was his fore-\\nman for ten or twelve years after he began the busi-\\nness, having charge of the dyeing and finishing, as he\\nhad in previous years for Magennis Jackson. In\\n18, Mr. Murphy engaged in the bleaching business\\nfor himself at West Twenty-seventh Street, in what\\nhad been known its the Eagle Mill, but which\\nhe christened the Victory Mill, as significunt of\\nthe success he was determined to attain in his enter-\\nprise.\\nThomas Pinkcrton and William Brown came to\\nPaterson from Scotland about 18(i7. In June, 1874,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0690.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0691.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "I\\nr\\n1", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0692.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n421\\nthey started the printing of handkerchiefs, to which\\nthey luid heen accustomed in tlie old country, begin-\\nning in Straight Street, then removing to larger quar-\\nters in Mechanic Street, and in May, 1878, to a frame\\nbuilding erected for the purpose, in the rear of No. 147\\nWillis Street. In 1877 Pinkerton withdrew from the\\nfirm, and the business has been conducted since by\\nMr. ]?rown. He prints calico, linen, and silk hand-\\nkerchiefs, in some very pretty designs, of great variety.\\nThe colors are in pigments which will not wash, but\\nthe blacks and mourning goods are fast, and so are\\nall the silk prints. Fifteen hands are employed, who\\nprint 1000 dozen cotton handkerchiefs and 100 dozen\\nsilk handkerchiefs daily, the annual production being\\nfrom $10,000 to i?15,000. Curiously enough, this flour-\\nishing little establishment has revived the process of\\nhand-printing by blocks, in vogue in Paterson three-\\nquarters of a century ago, and which it seems all the\\nimprovements in calico-printing have not been able\\nentirely to supplant, at least for this kind of work.\\nCHAPTER LVIII.\\nCITY OF PATERSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (O.iK/iiiicrf)-\\nThe Iron Industry. First Marhinr-Shop in Paf-\\nersnii. When the Society for Establishing Useful\\nManufactures began the erection of its cotton-mill, it\\nsought for competent mechanics to set up the ma-\\nchinery. John Clark, a practical millwright and ma-\\nchinist, who had come from Scotland in 1793 or 1794\\nfor the purpose, was employed to superintend this\\nwork, and in 1795 he leased the lower floor of the\\nsociety s mill for a machine-shop and turning-shop.\\nThis was the first machine-shop in Jsew Jersey, and\\nwas one of the earliest in the United States. He car-\\nried on the business in the old mill until it was burned\\ndown in 1S07, when he removed temporarily to the\\nYellow Mill, and also occupied a part of the old\\ngrist-mill at the foot of Mulberry Street. About this\\ntime he erected a small frame shop on Broadway,\\nnearly on the site of the present Machinists Associa-\\ntion, which he afterwards used as a carpenter-shop, as\\nit was called, being used probably for the making of\\nhis wooden patterns and the wooden parts of ma-\\nchinery. About 1809 he leased a mill-seat on the\\nriver-bank, where Bentley s flour-mill now is, and\\nthere he erected what was afterwards known as the\\nLittle Beaver Mill. It was quite a large shop, but\\nwhen the Beaver Mill proper was built some years\\nlater Clark s was small in comparison. It was burned\\ndown in 1832. Clark was a man of superior intelli-\\ngence, and was far in advance of his times. He was\\ngreatly trusted and looked up to by those who were\\ncompetent to appreciate his worth, and was undoubt-\\nedly a most valuable man for the society in its eflTorts\\nto get in successful operation its first machinery.\\nFor twenty years he had a monopoly of the machine\\nbusiness in Paterson, and was instrumental in intro-\\nducing many important improvements in the various\\ncotton, woolen, and other mills in Paterson and vicinity.\\nHe built and set up machinery of all sorts, even for\\nthe New England States, and for some enterprising\\nmanufacturers, venturesome pioneers in the far West.\\nHe sold out his machine-shop about 1816.\\nDanforth Locomotive- and Macliine-WorkK. The\\nsuccessors of John Clark in the machine business were\\nThomas Rogers and John Clark, Jr. The former was\\nan ingenious and exceedingly energetic carpenter,\\nwhose skill was of great service at a time when so\\nmuch of the machinery of the day was of wood, and\\nwhen wooden water-wheels were everywhere in use.\\nThe latter was the son of the founder of the iron\\nbusiness in Paterson, and was himself a superior\\nmechanic. Both were young men, between twenty-\\nfive and thirty years of age, and full of ambitious\\nhopes for future success. They continued to occupy\\nthe Little Beaver Mill for four or five years, pushing\\ntheir business all the time, until the premises became\\ntoo small for them. Mr. Rogers made a voyage to\\nMexico, and opened a market there for the cotton\\nmachinery made by them. In 1821 or 1822 they took\\nAbram Godwin, Jr., into the firm, which was there-\\nafter known as Godwin, Rogers Co. Godwin was\\npopularly known as the Young General, by way\\nof distinguishing him from his father, Oldtieneral\\nGodwin. Godwin doubtless furnished the firm with\\nmuch needed capital wherewith to increase and ex-\\ntend its operations. He was a competent business\\nman, and generally attended to the outside atlairs of\\nthe concern, looking after its financial interests,\\ngetting orders, etc. The firm now removed to Market\\nStreet, having leased a huge, ungainly structure of\\nstone, which had been erected nearly ten years before\\nby Roswell L. Colt, or by Robert Collet, perhaps. It\\nwas fifty by seventy-three feet in area, fourstories high,\\nwith hip roof, or a sort of attic, which was in reality\\nanother story of wood and glass. The walls were\\nfully four feet thick at the base and three feet thick\\nabove the ceilings were low, and the windows set far\\ninto the casements. The structure still stands, and\\nthe immense walls remind one more of an ancient\\ncastle or a stout fortress than of so peaceful and\\ncivilizing a building as a cotton-mill. In 1842 the\\nroof was destroyed by fire and one story. The walls\\nof the latter were carried up in brick and a flat roof\\nput on, instead of the old-fashioned attic story. This\\nbuilding was used by the firm for a cotton-mill and\\nmachine-shop for twenty years, and then as a cotton-\\nmill solely until 1870, when the cotton machinery\\nwas sold, and now it is used as a machine-shop in\\nmaking all sorts of machinery. The year after the\\nfirm removed to Market Street, or in April, 1823, they\\nbought the foundry of William Jacobs, which had\\nbeen established near the river-bank, on the Phoenix\\nMill lot, and removed it to a lot on the south side of\\nMarket Street, where the present foundry of the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0695.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "422\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nestablishment is locaterl. It is pcrhii])* hardly neces-\\nsary to remark tliat tlie present foundry is somewhat\\nmore extensive than the one bought of Billy\\nJaooljs. The next year (1824) they built a new ma-\\nchine-shop of brick, thirty by one hundred feet, three\\nstories high, the gable end towards Market Street.\\nThe roof wa.s burned ofi some years later, when\\nanother story was added. It is still used as a ma-\\nchine-shop, and presents an antiquated appearance in\\ncontrast with the handsome new buildings adjoining.\\nIn 1828 they were obliged to extend the foundry,\\nand acquired the property on the northeast corner of\\nCongress and Jersey Streets. At this time they em-\\nployed about seventy men in their niachine-shoj) and\\nfifteen in the foundry. In the latter they used five i\\ntons of metal weekly, besides three hundred and fifty\\npounds of brass. Now eight or ten tons of iron are\\npoured every day into the insatiable maw of the fur-\\nnaces of the foundry, and the consumption of brass\\nhas increased to five hundred ])ounds daily, although\\nbrass is not u.sed to the same extent as Ibrmerly in\\nmachinery, iron or steel having taken its place.\\nThe first foundry was a rude frame building. It\\nwas extended from time to time as necessity de-\\nmanded, and a few years ago was rebuilt, of brick,\\nwith lofty ceilings, giving ample light anil ventila-\\ntion. It is now seventy-six by ninety feet in area,\\nwith brass-foundry in the rear thirtj- feet square.\\nBut even that spacious area is quite insufiicient for\\nthe proper accommodation of the rapidly extending\\nbusiness of the concern. In 1844 the firm bought the\\nlarge stone mill, four stories high, adjoining on the\\nwest their first purchase on Market Street. This\\nstructure had been erected in 1813 or earlier, and run\\nan a cotton-mill by Caleb Munson Godwin for so long\\na time that his name became indissolubly connected\\nwith it, so that to this day it is known to the older in-\\nhabitants as the Munson (iodwin Mill. This build-\\ning was about forty by fifty feet in area. It still stands,\\na monument of the earliest mill architecture of the\\ntown, there being not more than one or two older fac-\\ntories in Paterson. It ha-s been extended to twice its\\noriginal size. The upper story was de-stroyed by fire\\nmany years ago, and rebuilt in the .same style a-s the\\nother mill, already described. Meantime the firm\\nhad been undergoing various changes in its member-\\nship. In 18;il, Thomsis Rogers withdrew, and harles\\nDanforth entered the firm, the style being (iodwin,\\nfJlark iV o. (Jodwin managed the fiiiatices, .!ohn\\nt lark was the practical man of the lirm, and Danforth\\na.sHiHted liim in the general supervision of the estab-\\nlishment, more especially the cotton-spinning, that\\nhaving been his business at Sloatsburgh just before\\nhe came to Paterson. The firm also engaged exten-\\nsively in the miiniifacture of his newly-patented spin-\\nningframe, ot whii li mention has been alrea ly made.\\nIn 1X40, (iodwin ami Clark retired from the firm, and\\nthe business was thereafter managed by Mr. Danforth\\nalone. Mr. Godwin ran the cnttim-mill for a short\\ntime. Mr. Clark did not long survive his withdrawal\\nfrom active business. In 1843\u00e2\u0080\u009414 there were hard\\ntimes in Paterson, and it was a great favor for a first-\\nclass machinist to get employment at all, even at fifty\\nor seventy-five cents a day. One of the principal men\\nnow connected with the establishment was very proud\\nwhen, as a special concession, he was allowed the\\nhigher sum named. In 1848, Mr. Danforth took into\\npartnership with him John Edwards, who had been\\nin the shop since 182 i, having been an apjirentice\\nand afterwards foreniiin under Danforth. The firm\\nwas now Charles Danforth Co., and so continued\\nfor the next four years. In 1852, Edwin T. Prall\\nand John Cooke were taken into the firm. Neither\\nhad money but both had brains, and Mr. Danforth\\nthought brains were worth money, and gave them\\nan interest in the concern, which they could pay for\\nby diligent service. Both were specially valuable in\\ntheir several spheres. Mr. Prall had been the book-\\nkeeper for Danforth iS: o. for ten or twelve years be-\\nfore this time, and had general charge of the financial\\nmanagement. Mr. Cooke had been superintendent\\nfor several years for the Rogers Works, which were\\nthen largely engaged in locomotive building. It was\\nwith a view to starting the latter business that Messrs.\\nCooke and Prall were taken into the firm, Mr. Prall\\nhaving suggested the idea to Mr. Danforth. The firm\\nnow took the name of Danforth, Cooke Co. Being\\nin want of more room to accommodate the contem-\\n])lated extension of their business, they bought the\\nmill-seat next west of their former purcha-ses on Mar-\\nket Street and the middle raceway, the projierty being\\nknown as the Shepherd blcachery. The mill was of\\nstone and brick, two hundred feet front by fifty feet\\ndeep, four stories high, and most substantially con-\\nstructed.\\nThomas Rogers had a leii.se for half of it at this\\ntime, and occu|)ied it as a cotton-mill, principally to\\ndisplay the working of the cotton machinery made\\nby the Rogers Works. Mr. Danforth was not san-\\nguine as to the success of the business. He was of a\\nconservative mind, and did not expect the firm would\\nbe called on to turn out more than four or five en-\\ngines a year. He was consequently astonished when\\nthe first order came in, and proved to be for five loco-\\nmotives for the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, then\\njust under way, between Cincinnati anil St. Louis.\\nThis was in 18. 2. The road jirogressed very slowly,\\nand before it was ready for engines other orders hail\\ncome in, some for other Western railroads, some for\\nthe New .Tersey Railroad, others for the Camden and\\nAmboy Railroad and its branches, and still others for\\nthe Morris and Essex Railroad. These New Jersey\\nrailroads continued to get their locomotives from the\\nDanforth Works until they were leased a few years\\nago to other companies. The first engine turned out\\nby the new firm was on March 8, 18. .3. A few months\\nlater an order was received for four heavy freight-\\nengines from the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0696.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n423\\nRailroad, then running onlj- from Great Bend, on the\\nNew York and Erie Railroad, to the Pennsylvania\\ncoal-fields near Scranton. It was agreed that one of\\nthese new engines should be so constructed as to\\nburn anthracite coal. This engine the Anthra-\\ncite was put on the road in the summer of 1854,\\nand answered its purpose tolei-ably well. It was\\nmodeled largely after those already in use on the\\nReading Road, the principal feature of which was a\\nlarge fire-box overhanging the back drivers, and two\\nsets of flues running lengthwise of the boiler, with\\na combustion chamber between them. Experience\\nproved that whatever advantages there were in this\\nplan were in the large fire-box and not in the double\\nsets of flues and combustion chambers, and the latter\\nfeature was discarded in engines of the same charac-\\nter subsequently built by the firm. There were other\\nnovelties introduced in this engine which had not\\nbeen in use before except on one or two coal roads.\\nThus iron instead of copper flues were put in, a bal-\\nanced throttle-valve, copper rings outside of the flues,\\nand rocking grates. This last was the invention of\\nMr. Cooke. Seven years later, or in 1861, patents\\nwere taken out by other parties for the use of copper\\nrings, described above, and in 1879 or 1880 some en-\\nterprising genius took out a patent for a grate pre-\\ncisely similar to that invented by Mr. Cooke and ptit\\nin use by him in these anthracite engines in 1854, and\\nkindly brought it to the notice of the Danforth Works\\nas something they ought to adopt in the construction\\nof locomotives He was astonished when shown that\\nthey were just twenty-five years ahead of his inven-\\ntion. After experimenting for some years with dif-\\nferent plans for anthracite-burning engines, Danforth,\\nCooke i Co. adopted the long fire-box with water-\\ntube grates, a plan that is now in general use in en-\\ngines of this class. A large number of these engines\\nwere then sent to the Delaware, Lackawanna and\\nWestern Railroad, and others were sold to the New\\nYork Central, the New York and Erie, and one to\\nthe Providence and Stonington Road. All of these\\nwere built mainly to show that anthracite coal could\\nbe successfully used as fuel in locomotives. During\\nthe first seven or eight years after they began build-\\ning this class of engines, or between 1854 and 1861-62,\\nwhile hard coal was gradually making its way into use\\ninstead of wood as a fuel for locomotives, Danforth,\\nCooke Co. probably made more engines for burning\\nthis coal than any other firm in the country.\\nDuring the late war of the Rebellion they were\\nlargely engaged in building engines for the govern-\\nment, which were sent to the army at Chattanooga.\\nAt an earlier day they sent many engines to Mexico, and\\nlater, while Maximilian was carrying on his ill-fated\\nempire in that country, he sent to Paterson for some\\nof Danforth, Cooke Co. s locomotives. Meanwhile\\nthe works of the firm had been greatly extended, as\\nthe business grew far beyond their anticipations. A\\nblacksmith-shop, of brick, twenty by one hundred\\nand three feet, and a saw-mill and machine-shop\\ntwenty by seventy-five feet, were put up adjoining the\\nold cotton-mill, as adjuncts to that building. When\\nthe manufacture of locomotives was begun, a hammer-\\nshop, forty-eight by eighty-one feet, was built on the\\nmiddle raceway, and an erecting-shop, blacksmith\\nshop, and other shops on the lower raceway, on Mar-\\nket Street, while a boiler-shop, tank-shop, etc., were\\nerected on Jersey Street. Most of these first shojis\\nwere enlarged from time to time as the business ex-\\npanded. In March, 1880, the blacksmith- and erect-\\ning-shops on Market Street were destroyed by fire,\\ninvolving a loss of eighty thousand dollars, but the\\nbricks were not cold before a large gang of men were\\nbusy among the ruins, clearing them away and pre-\\nparing the Ibundations for new and better buildings,\\nwhich were erected without delay. Whereas the old\\nshops had low ceilings and were poorly constructed\\nin various respects, and were fifteen or twenty feet\\nback from the street line, with the swift raceway\\nrunning between the works and the street, a danger-\\nous feature and wasteful of valuable space, now a\\nsubstantial arch was thrown across the raceway, and\\nthe shops were built over it to the street line, pre-\\nsenting a much finer appearance than before, besides\\nadding materially to the convenience of the shops,\\nwhich were also much larger and finer in every re-\\nspect, so that the gain to the city in the improvement\\nof the neighborhood was considerable. The new\\nerecting-shop is one hundred and seventeen by one\\nhundred and nineteen feet in area, two stories high.\\nThe new blacksmith-shop is one hundred and forty-\\nfive feet on Market Street, and fifty feet deep, with an\\nextension in the rear forty by sixty feet. The ceiling\\nis so high that it is like all out-doors, and the\\nsmoke from the twenty-four fires is not noticeable.\\nIn order to make room for this building, the mill\\nwest of the old Shepherd bleachery was bought of\\nE. S. Jaft ray, of New York, who had come into the\\nownership of it after the Rogers Works parted with\\nit, and the blacksmith-shop of the Danforth Works\\nwas extended eighty feet tlirther west along Market\\nStreet. All the old machinery having been destroyed\\nby the fire, it was replaced by the very latest and\\nmost improved tools of every description, and regard-\\nless of cost, so that the new shops were equal to any\\nin the country in their equipment. In 1872 a fine\\nbrick liuilding, three stories high, seventy-three by\\none hundred and fifty-four feet, had been erected on\\nthe southwest corner of Market and Jersey Streets,\\nprimarily for a store-house and pattern-shop, but it\\nhas since come into use as a shop for the making and\\npainting of locomotive tenders and tanks on the first\\nfloor, and on the second floor machine-work is done\\nfor engines, and patterns are stored on the third floor.\\nIt is now connected with the erecting-shop and ma-\\nchine-shop opposite by an iron bridge spanning Mar-\\nket Street from the second story of each building.\\nThe boiler-shop, on the soutiieast corner of Market", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0697.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "424\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nand Jersey Streets, has I)ccii enlarged repeatedly, as\\nneeded, until now it is thirty-six by eighty feet in\\narea, two stories high, witii an extension sixty by one\\nhundred and forty-five feet on Jersey Street. The\\nroof of the latter was raised during the winter of 1881\\n-82 to a height of thirty feet, to secure the fullest\\nventilation. An immense traveling crane was built\\nat the works at the same time, and rigged up in the\\nboiler-shop, whereby a boiler weighing many tons\\ncan be lifted up and carried to any part of the shop\\nas easily as a workman can carry his sledge-hammer\\nafter him. It is of iron, and of mivs.sive construction.\\nThe character of the locomotive production has\\nvaried from time to time, as well as its extent. Every\\nclass of engine has been made. The first dummy-\\nengines in use on the New York and Hudson River\\nRailroad were built at the Dan forth Works. Now\\nthey make the engines technically known as eight-\\nwheelers (the ordinary passenger-engines, with four\\ndriving-wheels and four small truck-wheels), Moguls,\\nten-wheelers (freight-engines, with six driving-wheels\\nand four truck-wheels), consolidation engines, tank- j\\nengines for switching purposes, narrow-gauge engines,\\netc., adapted to every variety of service. Instead\\nof turning nut four or five locomotives the first year,\\nas Mr. Danforth had somewhat doubtingly antici-\\npated, the firm completed twenty-two engines that I\\nyear. For the year ending April 30, 1866, the num-\\nber turned out was 61 1867, 53 1868, 31 1869, 53\\n1870, 76; 1871, 65; 1872, 71; 1873, 82. During the\\nfollowing four years the production was iii/. For the\\nyear ending A])ril 30, 1878, 12 engines were com-\\npleted; 1879, 17; 1880, 65; 1881, 103. The pre-sent\\ncapacity is ten to twelve per month. The total pro-\\nduction has been 1300. The engines have been in-\\ncreasing very much in weight of late years fnrnierly\\nthey weighed fifteen, twenty, and twenty-five tons;\\nlatterly they have steadily increa.sed, and in 1881\\nnearly half of the engines turned out weighed fully\\nfifty tons each. During the panic, when there was\\nno demand for locomotives, several iron bridges were\\nbuilt for Cuba, Ilayti, and other places; in 1878 the\\nvalue of this kind of work was 0,00((, and in 1879,\\n^180,000. No money was made, but the hands were\\ngiven employment and the works kept in operation.\\nThe firm used to make all sorts of machinery, partic-\\nularly cotton machinery and millwright work, not\\nonly the Daiifortli fran)r, but the King frame, mules,\\nwater-wheels, Hhafling, and everything connecteil with\\na cotton-mill. Their machinery was sent to all the\\nStates in the Union, and to .Mexico, Central and South\\nAmerica. They quit cotton-spinning in 1870, and\\nsold the old machinery in the South.\\nThe old cotton-mill has been since used for the\\nmiinufaclure of cotton and silk nuichinery. Very\\nlittle cotton machinery has been made in the past\\nfour or five years. About 1870 they began nuiking\\ndouble-decker and throe-decker silk frames, which\\nhave been a great success, as one will do the work of\\nthree frames, and occupy only a third of the room.\\nThey have made great irnprovements in other silk\\nmachinery, every year making them better, lighter,\\nand in more attractive styles, so that the demand for\\ntheir silk machinery about offsets the lr)ss of the cotton-\\nmachine manufacture. They send their machinery\\nall over the country where the silk manufacture has\\nobtained a foothold, and it is admitted by the mo.st\\ncompetent judges to be unsurpassed for durability\\nand evenness of running. A most remarkable in-\\nstance of this was recently shown in the Phirnix\\nMill, where a silk-spinning frame, built at Dan-\\nforth s, was taken out after running for eleven years,\\nand was found to be running perfectly true and even,\\nalthough it had no repairs in all that time. Jacob\\nT. Blauvelt has been superintendent of the machine\\ndepartment since -Vugust, 1848. He entered the em-\\nploy of the concern in June, 1838, as an apprentice,\\nand has worked there ever since. He has seen great\\nchanges in the works in that time, and in no respect\\nare they more marked than in the improved con-\\ndition of the shops as regards the comfort and health\\nof the hands employed. In 1865 the firm was turned\\ninto a stock company, under a special charter ob-\\ntained in 1857, as the Danforth liocomotive and Ma-\\nchine Company, by which the works arc now man-\\naged. The capital is $400,000. Charles Danforth was\\nthe i)resident of the company until April 3, 1871,\\nwhen he retired from the firm, owing to advanced\\nage. John Cooke, who, as already stated, had come\\ninto the concern to conduct the locomotive manufac-\\nture, was then elected president, and has been con-\\ntinued in that position ever since. Mr. Cooke and\\nMr. RIauvelt constitute the executive committee, Mr.\\nBlauvelt acting as president pni tcni. in the absence\\nof the i)resi(lent. William Herdan is secretary and\\ntreasurer. During the year ending .\\\\pril 30, IXSl,\\nthere were 75(l men employed in the works, wlio.se\\nwages amounted to H50,000. The value of the pro-\\nducts, locomotives and machinery, footed up $1,250,-\\n000, an increase of fifty |ier cent, over the production\\nfor the year before.\\nThis extended notice of these works has seemed to\\nbe proi)er in view of the fact that the establishment\\nappears to be the lineal descendant of the first ma-\\nchine-shop in Paterson. Having thus given an ac-\\ncount of this locomotive establishment, it may be as\\nwell to describe the others, disregarding for the time\\nthe chronological seipience of the history of the iron\\nindustry in I aterson.\\nCli.VKl.KS Danforth. The name of Charles Dan-\\nforth hits been so long associated with the in lustrial\\ngrowth and development of the city of Paterson that\\n1 Tito ilrtoJlH licrcwill) gtT\u00c2\u00ab.|i of the gniwlli aiiil di velu|iiTirnt or the\\nlix-otnotlT\u00c2\u00ab hinilncMof tho Pnnforlh Workn were kltully ritniiihiMl hy\\nMr. Cuoko, t\u00c2\u00abi whom the writer It nleo Inilelitot) Tor dHtee of Uu* early\\nchAiiKC 111 the nmi. Mniij p*nii-iilar\u00c2\u00ab reganling the erection and r\u00c2\u00bb-\\nItnliiling i f tiie rnrlieet Rhope of tlie worka were giren by Mr. Jat oh T.\\nBlauvelt, Mlille the \u00e2\u0096\u00a0tnlixtin of pruiluctlon were fnrnlihml hy Mr. Wm.\\nBeniaii.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0698.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "sX.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0701.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0702.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n425\\nit is familiar to all of its citizens, old and young.\\nIt has been thought proper, therefore, to give in this\\nwork a sketch of the life-work of a man whose indi-\\nviduality was so strongly impressed upon the institu-\\ntions of the city, and to impart thereby, to the rising\\ngeneration at least, some of the lessons which a long\\nlife of industry, conscientious devotion to duty, and\\nan intelligent direction of one s talents to a given\\npurpose naturally suggest.\\nMr. Danforth was born at Norton, Mas.s., on Aug.\\n30, 1797, and was a descendant of one of the old fami-\\nlies of that commonwealth. His father, J. Thomas\\nDanforth, engaged in agricultural pursuits at Norton,\\nand being of limited means was able to confer upon\\nhis son only a common-school education. The lad\\nbeing of an ambitions spirit early entered upon\\nthe discharge of the duties of life, with a view of nuik-\\ning a place for himself in the world. From boyhood\\nhe manifested not only remarkable mechanical ability,\\nbut strong self-reliance and a practical turn of mind,\\nwhich, joined to the stalwart frame and robust con-\\nstitution with which nature had endowed him, well\\nfitted him for success in life. As early as 1811 he en-\\ntered a cotton-mill in Norton, where he labored for a\\ntime as a throstle-piercer. When sixteen or seventeen\\nyears of age he joined the army as a substitute for\\na man of family, who had been drafted to do ser-\\nvice in the war of 1812-15. After the expiration of\\nhis terra of service in the army he enlisted as an\\nordinary sailor on a seafaring vessel, and spent some\\ntime in this pursuit, visiting difterent porta, deriving\\nmuch benefit from his nautical experiences. For a\\nshort time after leaving the sea he taught a district\\nschool in the neighborhood of Rochester, N. Y., and\\nthen located at Matteawan, N. Y., where he acted as\\nsuperintendent of the carding-room in a cotton-factory.\\nIn 1825 he removed to Sloatsburgh, N. Y., on the Ram-\\napo River, where he worked as carder in a cotton-\\nmill, and soon after was employed to set in order the\\ncotton-mill at Hohokus lately opened by John J.\\nZabriskie, and to set up its machinery. While en-\\ngaged there he invented the improvement in spinning-\\nframes known as the Danforth frame or cap-\\nspinner, which came into general use throughout the\\nworld in connection with cotton machinery. Previous\\nto this time his brother, George Danforth, of Taunton,\\nMass., had invented an important machine, called the\\ncounter-twist speeder, but generally known as the\\nTaunton speeder. This invention, with various\\nmodifications, but essentially on Mr. Danfortb s prin-\\nciple, came into general use. The invention of the\\ncap-spinner seemed to be the turning-point in Mr.\\nDanfortb s career. Up to this time he had experienced\\nthe vicissitudes that usually attend a poor young\\nman s early experiences. In the latter part of the\\nyear 1828 he went to Paterson, N. J., and entered\\nthe employ of Messrs. Godwin, Rogers Clark, mak-\\ning an arrangement with that firm to manufacture his\\ncap-spinning frame, which brought large orders to the\\nconcern and gave it an extensive reputation. It was\\nin this shop that Mr. Danforth had a working model\\nof his invention made, which he took to England to\\nexhibit and to enable him to dispose of patent rights.\\nIn the fall of 1829, in company with Alexander Car-\\nrick, he went to Europe to negotiate for the use of his\\ninvention, and met with great success. He returned\\nin 1831. During his absence the old firm of Godwin,\\nRogers Co. had been dissolved, and Mr. Danforth\\ntook the place of Thomas Rogers, who retired, and\\nconnecting himself with Messrs. Ketchum and Gros-\\nveiior, established the long celebrated firm of Rogers,\\nKetchum Grosvenor, which was succeeded by the\\nRogers Locomotive and Machine Company.\\nThe firm with which Mr. Danforth associated him-\\nself took the name of Godwin, Clark Co., and con-\\ntinued under that title until 1840, when it was dis-\\nsolved, and Mr. Danforth bought out the whole\\ninterest in the machine-shop. Two years later he also\\npurchased the cotton-mill which Gen. Godwin had\\nretained, and he conducted the whole business alone\\nuntil 1848, when he took Maj. John Edwards, who\\nhad served his time in the shop from 1826, and been\\nits foreman for several years, into partnership, the new\\nfirm being known as Charles Danforth Co. In 1852\\nlocomotive building was added to the business of the\\nconcern, and Edwin T. Prall, who had been principal\\nbook-keeper from 1839, and John Cooke, who had\\nbeen superintendent of the Rogers Works for six or\\neight years, were admitted to the firm, their business\\nbeing carried on under the name and style of Dan-\\nforth, Cooke Co. Under this name hundreds of\\nlocomotives were built and sent to all parts of the\\nworld, and the reputation of the concern was firmly\\nestablished. In 1865 the enterprise was incorporated\\nas a joint-stock company, under the title of the Dan-\\nforth Locomotive and Machine Company, which it\\nstill retains. Mr. Danforth retained the presidency\\nof the company until 1871, when, owing to his age\\nand the decline of his physical powers, he resigned,\\nand was succeeded by John Cooke, who still retains\\nthe position. He lived in retirement, enjoying the\\nsubstantial fruits of an industrious and successful\\nlife, until his death on March 22, 1876. Deep re-\\ngret was felt in the community on the demise of so\\nuseful a man, which seemed to realize that death had\\nremoved one who had done much in contributing to\\nthe reputation and growth of the city. He left to his\\nfamily a large fortune honestly earned, and the richer\\nlegacy of a good name acquired by the consistent prac-\\ntice of those virtues which all admire but few emu-\\nlate.\\nMr. Danforth was a man of strong individuality\\nand force of character. He was outspoken in the\\nexpression of his opinions, and aimed rather to im-\\npart his ideas of what he esteemed to be right and\\njust than to seek the approval of the popular judg-\\nment. His real intellectual capacity was known\\nonly to his most intimate friends, and he was not a", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0703.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "42(;\\nHISTOHY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nman who sought wide sympathies or companionship.\\nSo gri at was hi.s aversion to pubiiL life that lie wils\\nnever prevailed upmi to accept an ollice of any kind,\\nsave once, when, in 18.52, he filled the po.sition of\\npresident of the City Council of Paterson, at that time\\nequivalent to mayor. He took a deep interest in\\nmunicipal affairs, and during the exciting times\\nwhich attended the passage of the city charter of\\n18( 9 he wiis actively aroused in opposition to it, and\\nwas chiefly instriiuiental in having its obnoxious\\nfeatures overthrown by the courts. This and many\\nmore things are remembered to his credit. He was\\nof a thrifty and economical nature, and although\\none of the wealthiest residents of Paterson, was\\ngreatly averse to o.stcntation or display. He was\\nscrupulously honest in all of bis transactions, and\\nabhorred corruption in all its forms. It was his con-\\ntempt for official irregularities and dishonesty in pub-\\nlie atlairs that caused him to hold himself aloof from\\nactive participation in public matters. He was a\\nregular attendant at the First Presbyterian Church\\nof Paterson. His wife, whom he married in 182.3,\\nwho is still living, was Miss Mary, daughter of\\nThomas and Sarah VVillett, of Matteawan, N. Y.\\nThe children have been Matilda, deceased, wife of\\nJames Taggart, of Paterson Mary E., widow of the\\nlate William Pyle, of the same city; Sarah L., de-\\ncea.sed, who married Dr. Orson Barnes, a former\\nphysician of Paterson, now dead Capt. Charles Daii-\\nforth, who was killed in July, 18G2, while gallantly\\nfighting at the head of his company (Company I,\\nSecond N. J. Vols.) on the Peninsula, near Ificli-\\nmond; and an invalid daughter, Kniily.\\nJfillN CooKK, the president of the Danl orth Loco- j\\nmotive and Machine Company, and the oldest loco-\\nmotive builder in the city of Paterson still in active\\nbusiness, was born in Montreal, Canada, on Aug. 8,\\n1824. His parents were Watt.s and Lavinia (Donald-\\nson) Cooke, natives of County Armagh, Ireland.\\nHis ancestors on his father s side were Knglisli.on his\\nmother s side Scotch, having emigrated to Ireland\\nduring the |)erseeution. WatLs Cooke was a car-\\npenter by trade, and emigrated to this country about\\n1H22, with his wife and one son. He landed at (Quebec\\nand proceeded at once to Montreal, where an older\\nbrother resided, anil where he worked at his trade on\\nthe famous Notre Dame Cathedral at that place. The\\nclimate and society of Montreal being uncongenial,\\nin 1827 he removed to the city of Albany, where he\\nworked in Townsend s furnace until 1832, ac iuiring\\nmeanwhile the trade of a pattern-maker. He then\\nentereil the employ of the Matteawan Machine Com-\\npany, Dutchess ounty, N. Y., where he engaged in\\npattern-making. He was an excellent mechanic, and\\npoH.Kesse l sujicrior ability in the manufacture of mill-\\ngearing. In the summer of 18H9 he removed to\\nPaterson, N. J., and entereil the works of Rogers,\\nKet lium iS: Grosvenor, where he workeil at pattern-\\nmaking. He subsequently worked for Danforlh,\\nCooke Co. as a pattern-maker until 18.59, when he\\nretired from active life. He died in 1876, and his\\nwife in 18t 0. He was an industrious anil able me-\\nchanic, and performed the duties of life in a modest\\nand faithful manner. In jiolitics he was not con-\\nspicuous, but always an anti-slavery man and a good\\nRepublican, and never missed depositing his ballot.\\nHe was one of the founders of the Presbyterian\\nChurch at Matteawan, in which he held the office of\\ndeacon, and during his residence at Paterson was a\\nmember and supporter of the Second Presbyterian\\nChurch. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs.\\nCooke, of whom nine are living, five daughters and\\nfour .sons, viz. John, the subject of our sketch Wil-\\nliam, who is engaged in the machinery supply busi-\\nness in New York Watts, president of the Pa.ssaic\\nRoUing-Mills, Paterson and .James, who hits been\\nsuperintendent of the Danforth Locomotive and Ma-\\nchine Company since 18G6.\\nThe earlier life of John Cooke wius intimately iden-\\ntified with that of his father, and his oppnrtunites for\\nobtaining an education were very limited. Between\\nthe district school, the cotton-factory, and the ma-\\nchine-shop he acquired a fair English education, and\\nobtained such a knowledge of machinery and cotton\\nmanufacturing as was of great benefit to him in after-\\nlife. In 1S;W he came to Paterson with his father.\\nAfter arriving in that city he enjoyed three months\\nschooling under .lohn D. Kiley, a teacher of great\\nability and culture, and possessed of fine oratorical\\npowers. In August, 1839, at the age of fifteen, he\\nentered the enii loy of Rogers, Ketchum iS: Grosvenor,\\nwho were at that time engaged in the manufacture of\\nlocomotives and machinery. He learned the trade of\\npattern-making, and remained an apprentice until he\\nattained his majority, during which time he spent\\nmany of his leisure hours in the study of mechanics\\nand mechanical drawing.\\nWilliam Swinburne, the superintendent, withdrew\\nfrom the concern in 1844 in order to establish the firm\\nof Swinburne, Smith iV Co., machine-makers, and was\\nsucceeded for a time by Stephen Thurston, formerly\\nfrom Matteawan, who resigned the position after nine\\nmonths service.\\nMr. Cooke, who was then twenty-oue years of age,\\nand had already its a pattern-maker attracted the at-\\ntention of Mr. Rogers, was appointed the successor\\nof Mr. Thurston, and installed in the office of draughts-\\nman and superintendent of the locomolive-shop, which\\ncarried with it at that time the general superintendency\\nof the business. Thus early in life had his close ap-\\nplication to business, his skill and ability as a me-\\nchanic, and his fidelity in the perl ornianee of his\\nduties received the recognition of the leading loco-\\nmotive-maker of the United States. He remained a.s\\nsuperintendent of the Rogers Works, during which\\ntime many valuable improvements and changes in\\nthe business of locomotive manufacture were made,\\nuntil Aug. 1, 18. )2, when, although oll ered an interi st", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0704.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0707.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0708.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0709.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "C-i\\n^7V V-e^r^\\nI\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0710.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0712.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n427\\nwith Rogers, Ketclium Grosvenor if he would re-\\nmain, lie resigned the position to join Charles Dan-\\nforth, Maj. John Edwards, and Edwin T. Prall in\\nthe manufacture of cotton machinery, cotton yarns,\\nand locomotives. The firm-name was Danforth,\\nCooke Co. Previous to that time Messrs. Danforth\\nEdwards had engaged simply in the manufacture\\nof machinery and cotton yarn, and Mr. Prall had\\nbeen their book-keeper and general business manager.\\nMr. Cooke was brought into the concern as one thor-\\noughly versed in the manufacture of locomotive\\nengines, and was given a prominent place in the firm\\nand the superintendency of the locomotive depart-\\nment, the making of which was entered upon simul-\\ntaneously with his connection with the firm. Suitable\\nshops for that purpose were soon erected, many of the\\nspecial tools needed for the purposes of manufacture\\nwere made in the shop under Mr. Cooke s superin-\\ntendence, and the first engine, the Vincennes, was\\nbuilt for use on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in\\nthe winter of 1852. Some delay occurred in the con-\\nstruction of the road, so that the first engine actually\\ndelivered by the concern was in March, 1853. It was\\nnamed the Sandusky, the same as that first pro-\\nduced by the Rogers Works in 1836. Since that time\\nover twelve hundred engines have been manufactured\\nby the concern. One hundred and two were made\\nin 1881, although the works had not got quite into\\nfull operation at the beginning of the year owing to\\ntheir destruction by fire the preceding year. In 1865\\nthe firm of Danforth, Cooke Co. assumed the cor-\\nporate name of the Danforth Locomotive and Ma-\\nchine Company, with Mr. Danfortli as president, and\\nMr. Cooke as superintendent of the locomotive de-\\npartment and as a member of the executive com-\\nmittee, which carries with it the oflice of president\\npro tempore or vice-president. In 1866 the latter re-\\nsigned this office to visit Europe as a means of im-\\nproving his health, which had become impaired by\\nyears of labor and toil, and was succeeded by Maj.\\nJohn Edwards in the position of member of the ex-\\necutive committee, and by his brother James as super-\\nintendent of the locomotive department. Mr. Cooke\\nreturned in 1869, and was elected a director and\\ntreasurer of the company in 1870. He held this posi-\\ntion until 1872, when, upon the resignation of Mr.\\nDanforth, he became president of the company, a\\nposition that he filled in an acceptable and successful\\nmanner until the date of his death, Feb. 20, 1882.\\nThe works of the company are among the largest and\\nmost successful in the United States, and are more\\nfully treated of elsewhere in this work.\\nThe abilities of Mr. Cooke as a mechanic and as an\\nexecutive officer have long been recognized by those\\nfamiliar with the business of locomotive building. He\\nhas made a number of important contributions to the\\nscience of locomotive construction, for which he has\\nneither asked nor received special credit. He has\\ntaken out but few patents, and does not claim to be\\nan inventor, considering that a locomotive builder\\nwho watches carefully the construction of his work\\nand looks after a large force of men has no time to\\nspend on patented improvements.\\nDuring the thirteen years that he was employed at\\nthe Rogers Works a number of radical and progres-\\nsive changes were made in the building of locomotive\\nengines, with most of which he was identified, being\\nin the closest sympathy with Mr. Rogers in the adop-\\ntion of all improvements.\\nAmong the most important of these were four and\\nsix drivers instead of one pair, and an improved\\nvalve motion, which resulted in great economy in\\nfuel and in increased speed.\\nThe greatest improvement in the locomotive since\\nthe building of the Rocket by Stephenson, and one\\nwhich was never patented, the link-motion, was also\\napplied during the time that Mr. Cooke was connected\\nwith the Rogers Works; and the first model, from a\\ndrawing sent over from England, showing the action\\nof the valve affected by the invention, was made by\\nhim about 1846. Soon after the principle was applied\\nby Mr. Rogers to a locomotive, and has since come\\ninto general use.\\nMr. Cooke has confined himself very closely thrbugh\\nlife to mechanical and constructive pursuits, although\\nfeeling an active interest in events transpiring around\\nhim, and being identified with many local movements\\nof importance. In the politics of the past he was\\nknown as an extreme anti-slavery man, and voted for\\nJohn C. Fremont in 1856. He was one of the or-\\nganizers of the Republican party in Paterson, and\\nwas treasurer of the Central Committee, and active\\nin the establishment of the Paterson Republican, after-\\nwards absorbed by the Guardian. He was also one\\nof the seven trustees appointed by the subscribers to\\nestablish the Paterson Press. He represented the\\nSouth Ward in the l)oard of aldermen of Paterson in\\n1858, and subsequently filled the position of president\\nof the board of education of that city, which he re-\\nsigned because of ill health. He was one of the or-\\nganizers of the First National Bank of Paterson, and\\nhas been vice-president since. He is also vice-presi-\\ndent of the Paterson Savings Institution, and of the\\nPaterson Board of Trade a director of the Passaic\\nRolling-Mills, and also of the Paterson Gaslight\\nCompany. He is a member and regular attendant of\\nthe Second Presbyterian Church of Paterson, and for\\nmany years was the superintendent of the Sabbath-\\nschool connected with that church. He married, in\\n1850, Sarah A., daughter of William Swinburne, of\\nPaterson, and has had six children, of whom five are\\nliving, namely, Lavinia, wife of William O. Fayer-\\nweather, treasurer of the Passaic Rolling-Mills; Carrie\\nS., wife of John R. Beam, a practicing lawyer of Pat-\\nerson John Swinburne, a graduate of Stevens Insti-\\ntute, Hoboken, and assistant superintendent of the\\nDanforth Locomotive- Works Frederick William,\\nnow at Stevens Institute, who is also preparing him-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0713.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "428\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nself for locomotive building; and Charles D., who is\\nattending school in New York.\\nMA.i..r mx Edw.\\\\ki)S. .\\\\mong the prominent rep-\\nre.-icn tat Ives of the industrial interests of Paterson,\\nwho for many years wits identified with the growth\\nand development of the institutions of the city, and\\nwho was widely and favorably known by its citizens,\\nwas the subject of this sketch.\\nHe was born in the town of Trowbridge, Wiltshire,\\nEngland, on tlie 14th day of October, 1S08. His\\nparents were I hilip and Rebecca Hayward Edwards.\\nHis father died when he was (juite young, and his\\nmother shortly after became the wife of William\\nDavy. The lad received only an ordinary English\\neducation, and in August, 1820, left England with\\nhis niotlier and step-father for America. The party\\nlanded in New York City on October 14th following,\\nand came to Paterson, X. J, After arriving in tliat\\ncity, the family being poor, young Edwards imme-\\ndiately looked around for something to do, and on\\nthe 24th day of December found employment in what\\nwas then known a-s the Old Red Mill. He remained\\nthere but a short time, and then entered the employ\\nof Daniel Holsman, cotton manufacturer on Van\\nHouten, then Boudinot Street. He subsequently\\nworked in John Colt s duck mill, and after a time\\nrelurned to the city of New York, and from there to\\nliloomfield, N. J.\\nYoung Edwards had now just entered liis fourteenth\\nyear, but, being ambitious to make a place for himself\\nin life, and to seek his fortune in the world, he ob-\\ntained his mother s consent, and on Dec. 24, 1821,\\nleft her humble home at liloomfield, carrying all his\\nworldlv possessions In a |)ack upon his back, and with i\\nonly eleven shillings in his pocket walked to Paterson,\\nwhere he arrived in the evening of the same day.\\nHe had now reached a critical point in his career, but\\na kin l Providence seemed to guide liiin, and he made\\nhis way to the confectionery-store of Philip Van\\nBussum, on Main Street, where the Kranklin House\\nnow is, and asked for a night s lodging. He was\\nkindly received by Mr. Van Hussum and his wife,\\nwho employed him to assist them in the store until\\nMay, 1826, when his kind patron, with a fatherly in-\\nterest in the bright boy who had sought his protection,\\nprocured a position for him with the firm of Godwin,\\nRogers it Clark, machinists. He continued to live\\nwith Mr. Van Bussum for a considerable time after\\nhe wa.s out of his apprenticeship, and ever after re-\\nmembered with gratitude the tender care, protection,\\nand encouragement that lir had received from him\\nanil his excellent wife.\\n.Mr. l-)dwards continued to wurk for the firm of\\n(iodwin, Rogers Clark until IS. tl, when the copart-\\nnership was dissolved by the withdrawal of Thomas\\nRogers. Mr. Charles Danforth was then ailmittcd as\\na member of the firm, and Mr. Edwards continued to\\nwork for Godwin, Clark iV Co. ils a journeyman until\\nthe latter part of I8:{.S, wlien he was appointed u.H\u00c2\u00abisl-\\nant foreman of their machine-shop, a position that\\nhe filled with great acceptability until the dissolution\\nof the firm in 1840. Mr. Charles Danforth tlien hired\\nthe machine-shop, which he subseipiently purchased,\\nand engaged Mr. Edwards as his foreman, a position\\nin which he continued until 1848, when he purchased\\na small interest in the business and became a partner.\\nIn July, 1852, John Cooke and Edwin T. Prall were\\ngiven an interest in the concern, and the firm of Dan-\\nforth, Cooke Co. was organized. Mr. Cooke had\\npreviously been superintendent of the Rogers Loco-\\nmotive-Works, and the new firm extended their busi-\\nness to include the manufacture of locomotive engines.\\nMr. Danforth had general charge, Mr. E lwards was\\nsuperintendent of the machine-shop, John Cooke of\\nthe locomotive-shop, and Edwin T. Prall, afterwards\\nmayor of the city, had charge of the office, and was\\nsuperintendent of the cotton-factory.\\nIn 1843, while acting as foreman for Charles Dan-\\nforth, Maj. Edwards became a partner with Abram\\nPrall and Henry M. Low in the business of spinning\\ncotton yarn, the firm of H. M. Low i*i Co. occupying\\nthe building know n as the (tun Mill. In August of\\nthe same year Abram H. Godwin was added to the\\nfirm, and in 1848 purchased the interest of Maj. Ed-\\nwards in the business. The latter continued his con-\\nnection with Mr. Danforth, and in ISfi. the firm of\\nDaiilortli, Cooke Co. became incorporated by\\nspecial act of the Legislature as the Danforth Loco-\\nmotive and Machine Company. Upon the organi-\\nzation of the company Mr. Danforth was chosen\\npresident, and John Cooke as one of the executive\\ncommittee, ex o(ficio vice-president. Maj. Edwards\\nsul)se(|Uently succeeded Mr. Cooke, who visited Eu-\\nrope for several years, ami continued to exercise the\\nfunctions of the office, and to act as superintendent of\\nthe machine-shop, until April, 1872, when he resigned\\nbis official positions, but remained a stockhholder\\nand director of the company. Through long years\\nof faithful labor he had acijuired a handsome com-\\npetency, and although laily visiting the offices of\\nthe company, retired from active business life, and\\nsought rest within the confines of his pleasant home,\\nuntil his death on .\\\\pril 11, 1S7!), in the seventy-first\\nyear of his age.\\nMaj. Edwards was a man who represented in a re-\\nmarkable degree the self-made and successful men of\\nPaterson, and was a shining example of how many\\nand great things can be accomplished by earnestness\\nof purpose, faithful performance of duty, and an\\nholiest and judiciims management of business affairs.\\nI roiii the poor, homeless boy who arrived alone ami\\nwithout capital in Paterson on Christmas-eve in the\\nyear 1821, he raised himself by honest industry and\\nfiiithful toil to a prominent place among the manu-\\nfacturers of Paterson, and left to his family at his\\ndeath abundant means and the memory of a well-\\nspent life. He always felt a deep interest in public\\nafi airs, but never sought political refermont, al-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0714.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "Alhntir f ubhslunti i t rH|c.]vin1 MY", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0717.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0718.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0719.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab?f,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0720.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n429\\nthough he filled several offices in connection with the\\nmunicipal government of Paterson. His whole soul\\nwas in his business. As a mechanic he possessed su-\\nperior ability, comprehended the laws, operations,\\nand forces of mechanics as if by intuition, and stood\\nin the front rank of his trade. He was a gentleman\\nof the old school, of strict integrity, the very personi-\\nfication of hospitality, and a prompt contributor to\\nall worthy objects. He was a regular attendant of\\nthe First Presbyterian Church of Paterson, a member\\nof the board of trustees, and a liberal supporter of\\nchurch institutions. He joined the Masonic fraternity\\non June 3, 1857, as a member of Joppa Lodge, No.\\n29 filled the oftice of treasurer of that organization\\nfor twelve years, and was one of its most useful\\nmembers throughout his life. He was for a number\\nof years a member of the Geu. Godwin Guards, a\\nlocal militia company of prominence at an early day,\\nand rose from the position of ensign in 1834 to the\\noffice of major in 1838. His extensive business de-\\nmands compelled him to resign his connection with\\nthe company in 1840.\\nMaj. Edwards was married, in 1831, to Hannah,\\ndaughter of John and Sarah (Brower) Hogan, who\\nsurvives him. The children have been three in num-\\nber, viz. Rebecca, wife of Robert Barbour, of Pater-\\nson James B., who engaged in the drug business in\\nXew York throughout his life, and died in the fall of\\n1881 and John, who died in May, 1869.\\nEdmund G. Edwards, son of the latter, resides with\\nhis mother at the family homestead on Market Street,\\nand is employed in the oflice of the Barbour Flax-\\nSpinning Company of Paterson.\\nFranklin C. Beckwith was born near Schuyler-\\nville, Saratoga Co., N. Y., on July 2, 1817. His\\nparents were Jedediah and Huldah (Coleman) Beck-\\nwith, the former of whom was a farmer by occupation,\\nand also a contractor for the building of river-dams.\\nAmong other things he built the main dam at the city\\nof Troy, N. Y\\nMr. Beckwith remained upon the home farm until\\nhe was nineteen years of age, and received a common-\\nschool education. He then became a foreman under\\nan elder brother who was engaged in laying sections\\nof the track on the Boston and Albany Railroad, and\\nsubsequently received a division of his own, extend-\\ning from Chatham to East Albany. After a few years\\nhe became the superintendent of both the track aud\\nfreight department of the Troy and Alliany Railroad,\\nand remained in that connection several years. About\\n1849 he removed to the city of Philadelphia, and es-\\ntablished the business of smelting iron, but a year\\nlater entered the employ of the New Y ork and Erie\\nRailway, and had charge of laying the track on the\\nDelaware Division of the road, extending from Port\\nJervis to Susquehanna. He then removed to Niagara\\nFalls, and laid the railroad from that place to Lock-\\nport, N. Y. Returning again to the Erie, he built the\\nbridge on that road at Susquehanna, under contract,\\n28\\nand in 1853 took up his residence at Paterson, and\\ntook the contract for laying the double track from\\nPaterson to Jersey City. In 1855 he purchased an\\ninterest in the Paterson Iron Company, of which\\nSherman Jaqua was superintendent and part owner,\\nand three years later became sole owner of the enter-\\nprise, aud greatly extended the works and the scope\\nof the business. For several years he made a specialty\\nof the manufacture of locomotive tires, and during\\nthe late war did a large variety of work for the\\ngovernment in connection with the construction of\\ngunboats and naval vessels generally. He continued\\nto manage the aftairs of the concern with ability\\nand success until his death on Feb. 8, 1875. He was\\nthoroughly devoted to business, of strict integrity and\\ngenerous impulses. He married on Oct. 22, 1837,\\nEsther A., daughter of Thomas and Esther (Car-\\nmichael) Clark, of Easton, N. Y and had three chil-\\ndren, viz. Charles D. and Joseph A. Beckwith and\\nJulia Frances, wife of John H. Hopper. The two\\nformer, with Mrs. Beckwith, are the owners of the\\nPaterson Iron Company, and are conducting its affairs\\nin an intelligent and successful manner.\\nCHAPTER LIX.\\nCITY OF PATERSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (PoH/,V \u00e2\u0080\u009ee(/).\\nJiogers Locomotive- Works. Thomas Rogers with-\\ndrew from the firm of Godwin, Rogers Co. in June,\\n1831, with a view to organizing a new firm, two New\\nYork capitalists and financiers having agreed to join\\nhim in a new venture. He drew out of the old firm\\nthe handsome sum of S36,00(l. His associates in the\\nnew enterprise were Morris Ketchum and Jasper\\nGrosvenor, and the firm-name was Rogers, Ketchum\\nGrosvenor. Messrs. M. A. Ketchum had been\\nthe New York agents for several years of Godwin,\\nRogers Co., which doubtless led to the formation\\nof the new concern. The firm lost no time in pre-\\nparing to get to work, and in the fall of 1831 they\\nleased mill-seats on both sides of Spruce Street, and\\non the west side began the erection of The Jefferson\\nMachine and Cotton Manufactory, a large stone\\nbuilding, about fifty by one hundred feet, four stories\\nhigh, with attic equivalent to another story. It was\\nintended to devote only the two or three lower stories\\nto the machine business, and to use the upper stories\\nfor cotton-spinning, but before the building had been\\nfairly got in running order it was found that it would\\nbe all needed for machine-making. There was a\\ngrand turn-out by the mechanics of the town in honor\\nof the new mill, it being considered a marked event\\nin the history of the jilace. If the men had foreseen\\nwhat a mighty establishment was destined to grow\\nout of that single mill they might well have deemed\\nits beginning an event of unequaled importance in\\nthe history of Paterson s progress. The Jefferson", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0723.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "430\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND I ASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nMill is to this day a splemlid structure, having few\\nequals in point of solidity. It was a decided advance\\non the mill architecture of the day in many respects.\\nAbout 1855 it was partially rebuilt, three high stories\\nbeing substituted for the original four low stories.\\nOn the lot on the east side of Spruce Street the firm\\nput up a small foundry during 18.33. They got a\\ncontract to furnisli the iron-work for the railroad\\nbridges then being built over the Passaic and llack-\\nensack Rivers for the Paterson and Hudson River j\\nRailroad, and about the same time an order came\\nfrom the South Carolina Railroad for one hundred\\nsets of wheels and axles. These orders directed the\\nattention of Mr. Rogers to railroad work generally,\\nand he next began making wrought-iron tires for car-\\nwheels he did not succeed at first, but finally mas-\\ntered all difficulties. Thus encouraged, he even be-\\ngan to dream of the possibility of making locomotives\\nin Paterson. When the McNeill, the first locomo-\\ntive on the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad,\\nwas brought to Paterson, Mr. Rogers began to think\\nit was quite possible that another like it might be I\\nbuilt. In 1835 the firm erected a two-story stone\\nstructure, about fifty by seventy-five feet, at the\\nsoutheast corner of Market and Spruce Streets, for\\na millwright-shop. In the fall of 183(5 a two-story\\nbrick building, forty by one hundred feet, was erected\\non the east side of Spruce Street, nearly opposite the\\npresent ofiBce, for a locomotive-shop, by which name\\nit was known for tliirty-five years. When the Mc-\\nNeill was brought to Paterson it lay for some weeks\\nin pieces, just ;is it had been brought from England,\\nand nobody was at hand to i ut it together. This\\ngave Mr. Rogers an excellent opportunity to study\\nits construction, which he was not slow to take ad-\\nvantjige of. One Hodge, an English draughtsman of\\nmuch skill, was employed to make drawings for an\\nengine of the same model a.s the McNeill. He\\nworke l away at them for a long time, but the engine\\nmade slow progress, and Mr. Rogers finally discharged\\nhim. Then Mr. William Swinburne, who was the\\nattern-maker for the works, proposed to make the\\ndrawings and the patterns for the engine. His offer\\nwa.H gladly accepted, and he went confidently to\\nwork, preparing the drawings and patterns, and su-\\nIterintending the construction in every department.\\nIt was a daring experiment, but after much trying\\nand more than a year of hard work the new engine\\nwas completed to the satisfaction of all concerned.\\nIt W!is called the Sandusky. It had one pair of\\ndriving-wheels, situated forward of the furnac they\\nwere 4A feet diameter; the cylinders were eleven\\ninches in diameter, by sixteen inches stroke; the truck\\nhatl four 30-incli wheels. This little engine was about\\nthe size of those now run cm the New York Elevated\\nRailroad. It was in some renpect.s an improvement\\non itM model, Mr. Rogers having introduced a novel\\nfeature, counterbalancing, since ailopted in most\\nlocomotive engines. For this he filed a specification\\nin the Patent Office, dated July 12, 1837. He also cast\\nthe driving-wheels with hollow spokes and rim, and in\\nother particulars anticipated the driving-wheel now in\\ngeneral use on the railroads of America. He also set\\nthe front-wheeled truck under the forward part of the\\nengine. The Sandusky made a public trial trip on\\nOct. tj, 1837, running from Paterson to Jersey City, and\\nthence to New IJrunswick, and back, the trip being\\nentirely satisfactory to all concerned. It was designed\\nfor the New Jersey (now the Pennsylvania) Railroad,\\nbut was sold to the Mad River and Lake Erie Rail-\\nroad Company, and shipped on October 14th the price\\nwas j 67.iO. There w;is no railroad west of Paterson,\\nso the engine was taken to pieces, ho.xed up, and sent\\nby schooner and canal-boat to Ohio, in charge of\\nThomas Hogg, an employ^ of the Rogers Works, who\\nhad been occupied on the engine from the first. He\\nput it together at its place of destination, and as soon\\nas the track was laid which was required by the\\nLegislature to be four feet and ten inches gauge, to\\nconform to the gauge of the locomotive he ran the\\nnew iron horse for a short time, to show the railroad\\nhands how to do it. Then he made preparations for\\nhis return home. But the railroad company would\\nnot listen to such a thing. He must stay and stay\\nhe did, for more than forty years, occupying a rcs|)on-\\nsiUle position in the employ of the company as long\\nas he chose to retain it, being master-mechanic of the\\nroad for thirty years or more. The second engine\\nl)roiluced at the Rogers Works was the .\\\\rrescoh,\\nfor the New Jersey Railroad. It was shipped Feb.\\n19, 183. It was similar to the first. The Clinton\\nwas completeil in April, 1838, for the Lockport and\\nNiagara Falls Railroad; its cylinders were ten by\\neighteen, and its gauge was four feet eight and one-\\nhalf inches. The Experiment was turned out in\\nJune for the South Carolina Railroad. In October\\nthree were finished, and in November only two. Thus\\nit will be seen that, whereas it took eighteen months\\nto make the first engine, seven were completed in the\\nnext year. An eight-wheel engine was turned out in\\n1844, a ten-wheel engine in 1848, and the first Mogul\\nwas made at these works in 1803, since which date it\\nhas become poimlar with all the great railroads. It\\nwould take many pages to enumerate all the improve-\\nments in the construction of locomotives which have\\nbeen originated at these works. Mr. Rogers was him-\\nself a man of great quickness of perception, and was\\nalways ready to act on the suggestions of others as\\nwell, and from the first had the best available talent,\\nincluding the men who subsequently started the loco-\\nI In 1S70 tho Rogera Works publUlied a Taluahle work on Locomo-\\ntlvofl iinij L \u00c2\u00bbcoinollV( niiilillrif; in America, in wlilcli b brief flkotcli (In\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0onin rciipoclii Inaceunitp, liuwovcr) wiu given of the origin and pruf^reas\\nof the worki.Rnd full detftilsof coniilnictJon of the flrat \u00c2\u00abnd Infer style*\\nof engines Imllt tliom. Tho jMirllctilnrs herewith Klveu of the earliest\\nloconiotives ftrudureii by K4 gen are fnmi tlint Uiuk. For other details\\nas I i the pnidnctbin the writer Is lDdeble l to Mr. Robert .s. Hughes, who\\nhas rtiniplied an InTalusble tabular slnlenient of all the engintM built at\\nthe works, date, slxe, name, destitwlion, price, nunil er, etc.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0724.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "a,l)sL^^ i\\nJ^^^^^:?^^^=5^ ^:::::^^^^.^;^5?^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0727.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0728.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "CITi OF PATERSON.\\n4:51\\nmotive business elsewhere in the city. For thirty\\nyears the establishment had the advantage of the\\ntalents of William S. Hudson, who was acknowledged\\nto be one of the foremost men in the United States,\\nif not in the world, as a locomotive mechanic. The\\nfame of the engines spread widely at an early day.\\nIn 1841 a locomotive was sent to Cuba, and that led\\nthe way to a constant succession of orders thence since\\nthat time, so that to-day most of the locomotives\\nrunning in Cuba are from the Rogers Works. It was\\nthree years later that the fir.st engine was built for the\\nhome road, that running from Paterson to New York,\\na prophet is not without honor, etc.\\nMost of the early engines used on the New York\\nCentral Railroad or its predecessors were built at these\\nworks. The first large order came in 1853 from the\\nIllinois Central Railroad for one hundred engines.\\nMost of them are still in use. This rapid extension\\nof the business necessitated the enlargement of the\\nworks, and the old buildings were made larger and new\\nones were built, until the block bounded by Spruce,\\nMarket, Pine, and Oliver Streets was more than half\\noccupied by the various shops. More property was\\nalso taken in on the west side of Spruce Street. A\\ncharter had been obtained by Mr. Rogers and his\\nassociates in 1838, under the title of the Jefferson\\nMachine- Works, but they never organized under it,\\ncontinuing as Rogers, Ketchum Grosvenor until\\n1856, when Mr. Rogers acquired a controlling interest\\nin the business. Then an act of the Legislature was\\nsecured, changing the title of the old Jeffer.son\\nMachine- Works to the Rogers Locomotive and\\nMachine- Works, under which he organized the com-\\npany and transferred the property to it. The estab-\\nlishment has been since conducted in the corporate\\nname. The old firm had in the preceding nineteen\\nyears turned out six hundred and eighty-six loco-\\nmotives, an average of thirty-six a year. Now the\\ncapacity is just about ten times as great, a wonderful\\nstride in twenty-flve years. Mr. Rogers died in the\\nspring of 1856, but the business has been continued-\\non a constantly extending basis by his son, Jacob S.\\nRogers, and he could desire no grander monument\\nthan the immense establishment which bears his\\nname, and which has grown out of the modest Jef-\\nferson Manufactory built by him half a century ago.\\nAbout 1869 the company erected a great millwright-\\nshop and blacksmith-shop on the site of the old Pas-\\nsaic Paper-Mill, at the southwest corner of Spruce\\nStreet and Stony road. On the night of Feb. 13, 1879,\\nthese shops were destroyed by fire. They were re-\\nbuilt without delay, but it took a long time to erect\\nsuch immense structures. The main building on the\\ncorner mentioned is of brick, three stories high, with\\nhip or attic roof equivalent to another story, one\\nhundred and eighty-three feet on Spruce Street, by\\nfifty-four feet deep, with an L one hundred and\\neighty-three by sixty-one feet. The building is\\nnearly fire-proof, and is of the most substantial char-\\nacter throughout, besides being admirably lighted\\nand ventilated. Adjoining this, next the raceway, is\\na blacksmith-shop one hundred and ten by thirty-five\\nfeet. It was in 1871 that the company began a gen-\\neral rebuilding and enlargement of the works, which\\nhad become necessary in order to keep abreast of the\\ntimes. In March of that year the old millwright-\\nshop at the corner of Spruce and Market Streets was\\ndemolished, and in its place was put up one of the\\nlargest and finest mill structures in Paterson at that\\ntime, two hundred feet on Spruce Street by fifty-six\\nfeet deep. This was for the erecting-shop, with two\\nstories and attic above for machine-shops, etc. In\\nthe following October it was ready for use, and the\\nfirst boiler was set up to be clothed upon with the ex-\\nternals which should transform that ungainly kernel\\ninto a first-class locomotive. In 1872 seventeen lots\\nwere bought on the same block, and new shops were\\nerected a foundry, one hundred and forty-five by one\\nhundred and ten feet, with three cupolas a fire-proof\\npattern-shop, thirty by one hundred feet, two stories\\nhigh, a boiler-shop, one hundred and twenty-seven\\nby two hundred feet, with very high and well-venti-\\nlated roof; a blacksmith-shop on Pine Street, two\\nhundred and fifty-three by eighty feet, one story high\\na hammer-shop, two hundred by fifty-three feet, one\\nstory high, with several steam-hammers of from five\\nto ten tons.\\nIn the spring of 1873 the old locomotive-shop,\\nwhich had been thirty years before extended all the\\nway to Pine Street, so that it was forty by two hundred\\nfeet and two stories high, was removed to make way\\nfor other shops more modern in construction. That\\nshop was built with its g.able end towards the street,\\nand was so arranged that all the engines in process of\\nconstruction were set up one behind the other, on a\\nsingle track, so that only one engine could be got\\nout at a time. It was the scene of a terrific explosion\\nabout 1848, when a new locomotive exploded while\\nbeing tested several men were killed and a number\\nof others badly injured. The locomotive was hurled\\nup into the second story, and came down wrong side\\nu|), directly in a window or doorway in the front of\\nthe upper story. It was one of the most remarkable\\naccidents that ever happened in a Paterson shop.\\nWhile these extensive reconstructions of the old\\nshops were going on, and everything was looking ex-\\nceedingly bright for the future prospects of the estab-\\nlishment, and sixteen hundred men were as busy as\\nthey could be, on the 19th of September, 1873, there\\ncame suddenly out of the clear sky a dark cloud,\\nwhich speedily enshrouded the land in such gloom\\nthat the day has gone down in history as Black\\nFriday. During the next two days telegrams came\\npouring into the Rogers Works from all parts of the\\ncountry, countermanding orders for locomotives the\\ncompletion of which had been strenuously urged but\\na few days before. Others, who had paid for their\\nengines in notes and bonds, begged to have their", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0729.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "432\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\npaper taken care of. No man or company could tell\\nwhat was going to happen next. The Rogers Com-\\npany deemed it the part of prudence to shorten sail\\nin the face of the storm which was sweeping with\\nsuch fury over the land. So, on the night of the 23d\\nof September, one thousand men were laid off. The\\nremaining force wa.s steadily reduced as their work\\nwas finished, and in the following January the la.st\\nengine on the order-book was turned out. There\\nwere but one hundred and one hands left in the\\nshops, and even this force was still further reduced,\\nas there was nothing for them to do, until barely\\ntwentv men were employeil in the whole vast establish-\\nment, and they simply as watchmen. Matters were\\nvery dull for four or five years. The railroad business\\nhad been the first to suffer from the panic, and it was\\nthe last to recover. In 1879 the locomotive business\\nbegan to revive, and during 1881 it was brisker than\\never before in the history of the Patcrson shops.\\nThe reconstruction of the old buildings of the Rogers\\nWorks was resumed in 1880, when the old office and\\ndraught-room was torn down and replaced by a t^yo-\\nstory and attic brick building, extremely rich and\\nstriking in its ma.ssive simplicity; it is of the finest\\ndark-red brick, twenty-five by ninety-seven feet in\\narea, and is fire-proof, the ceilings being brick arches\\nlaid in iron beams. The offices are on the first floor,\\nand are fitted up with a quiet elegance unsurpassed\\nin any mill in Paterson. The second floor is assigned\\nto the use of the score or more of draughtsmen, who\\nhere have abundance of light. This Imildiiig was\\noccupied in January, 1881. During the latter year\\nthe old machine-shop on the northwest corner of\\nSpruce Street and Stony road was rebuilt, and is\\nnow one hundred and fifteen by one hundred and five\\nfeet in area, three stories high, with an attic story be-\\nsides. An immense skylight ami large areas of glass\\nin the floors below atl ord ample light by day. Work\\nwas begun on this building in March, 1881. This\\nsite was originally occupied by the calico-bleachery\\nand print-works of Thomas Walker. Large reflectors\\nare used in nearly all the buildings, making them\\nlight as day when lighted up at night.\\nDuring the past year or two additional land has\\nbeen bought on the south side of Oliver Street, on\\nwhich a tank and tender-shop has been built, two\\nhundred by thirty-five feet in area, also a .smith-shop,\\none hundred by twenty-four feel, for the lilacksrnith-\\nwork ref|uirc l in constructing tanks and engines.\\nTwocngine- and boiler-houses were built in the winter\\nof 18K1-H2, to supply two hundred steam horse- power.\\nThere are other extensive buildings, used for storage\\nand other purposes, in addition to those enumerated\\nabove, besides spacious coal-yards, etc. No greater\\ncontra-st couhl well be imagined between the appear-\\nance of the buililings of the concern at the present\\nday and those which comjirised the works say in\\n1868, before the process of n constmction had been be-\\ngun. Then they were mostly small, ancient, and un-\\nattractive in aspect, with low ceilings, badly arranged\\nand badly located with respect to convenience in get-\\nting work. It was evident at a glance that they had\\nbeen put up and enlarged from time to time to meet\\nthe urgent demands of the moment, and without any\\nidea of the future magnitude the business was destined\\nto attain. This had gone on until it became impossi-\\nble to continue in that way. Then Mr. Jacob Rogers\\nbegan the reconstruction, steadily pursuing a settled\\nand most far-seeing plan, looking to the indefinite ex-\\npansion of the works, and adapting every department\\nof the works U every other department, with a view\\nto the utmost economy in time, labor, and space.\\nThese, however, were not the only consideration.s.\\nThe comfort and convenience of the workmen were\\nregarded at the same time, and the new buildings had\\nhigh ceilings, abundant light and air, and in winter\\nwere comfortably warmed. Moreover, some attention\\nwas paid to the architectural appearance of the new\\nstructures, which are therefore symmetrical and plea.s-\\ning to the eye and a real ornament to the vicinity.\\nThere is a massive simplicity about them all, of course,\\nwhich befits the character of the establishment, but\\nthere is nothing repellant about them, either inside or\\noutside. As the old shops were removed most of the\\nancient tools in them were broken up and thrown into\\nthe scrap-heap, and new tools of the finest ami most\\nimproved j)attern8 were bought, many of them being\\nbuilt after original designs especially for these works.\\nThis has gone on until the several sho| s are fitted up\\nwith the best tools to be had for their respective pur-\\nposes, and the Rogers Works are surpassed by none in\\nthis respect. Although it has been the settled policy\\nof the company to do away with the old buildings and\\nold tools, they have been very careful to retain the old\\nhands as far as possible, and, as Mr. Hughes kindly\\nsays, they like to see the old men come around the\\nworks, even if they can do no work. Some of the\\nemployes have gone in and out of this estalilishment\\nforty years or more. Among the oldest workmen\\nhere are James Christie, Cornelius Selioonmaker,\\nTunis Stagg, .John Stagg, George IloUingsworth, and\\nJohn King. Since 1870 the building of machinery,\\noriginally the sole business of the works, has been vir-\\ntually abandoned to make way for the proiluction of\\nlocomotives. Although all the improvements just\\nde,scribe l were not in use during the year 1881, the\\nworks turned out two hundred and twenty-five loco-\\nmotives. During 1882 it is expected that the produc-\\ntion will average thirty per month, or nearly one for\\nevery day in the year, Sundays and holidays included.\\nAn ordinary engine at the present time (February,\\n1882) sells for about #14,000, and a consolidation en-\\ngine for $17,000 \u00e2\u0080\u009eT $18,000, so that the value of the\\npro luction in ISSl was about $;J,. IM(,(MMI, and that of\\n1882 will probably be upwards of .*;-),oii(I,0(M(.\\n.\\\\t thecloseof iheyear 1X81 there were l. iHlmen em-\\nployed in the works, the largest number ever borne on\\nthe pay-rolls, and their fortnightly wages amounted to", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0730.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0732.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0733.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0734.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n433\\n^7,000, or at the rate of $1,200,000 yearly. These\\nfigures are a striking indication of the great import-\\nance of these works as an element of the prosperity\\nof Paterson. Every style and class of engine of course\\nis turned out at the Rogers Works, and their locomo-\\ntives are sent to every part of the country, especially\\nto the West and South. They have also filled orders\\nfor railroads in Cuba, Canada, Mexico, Central\\nAmerica, South America, Australia, New Zealand,\\nand in 1881 they shipped nine locomotives to Spain,\\nthe first consignment of the kind ever made to that\\ncountry from America. The president of the Rogers\\nLocomotive and Machine Works is Jacob S. Rogers,\\nthe son of the founder of the concern. He attends to\\nthe business of the New York office and the financial\\nmanagement generally. Robert S. Hughes is, and for\\nmany years has been, secretary, and is now also treas-\\nurer and general manager of the business in Paterson.\\nThe following is a statement of the annual produc-\\ntion of locomotives at this establishment from the\\ncommencement to the close of 1881 1837, 1 1838,\\n7; 1839, 11; 1840, 7; 1841, 9; 1842, 6; 1843, 9; 1844,\\n12; 1845, 14; 1846, 17; 1847, 22; 1848, 39; 1849, 45;\\n1850, 43 1851, 53 1852, 68 1853, 89 1854, 103\\n1855, 82 1856, 80 1857, 95 1858, the year after the\\npanic, 19 1859, 55 1860, 84 1861, the first year of\\nthe war, when the Southern trade was cut oft 43\\n1862, 31: 1863, 70; 1864, 102; 1865,95; 1866, 108;\\n1867, 73; 1868, 63; 1869, 118; 1870, 139; 1871, 162;\\n1872, 165 1873, 217 1874, the first year of the last\\npanic, 25; 1875,41; 1876, 20; 1877, 11; 1878, 45;\\n1879, 60; 1880, 111; 1881, 225. This makes a total\\nof upwards of 3000 locomotives which have been\\nturned out from this one Paterson establishment.\\nThey sold for between 830,000,000 and $40,000,000 in\\nthe aggregate, nearly all of which enormous sum has\\ngone to build up Paterson and help support its popu-\\nlation in the last forty-five years,\\nThomas Rogers, the founder of the large locomo-\\ntive-works at Paterson which bear his name, and\\nwhich rank among the finest and most successful\\nenterprises of their kind in the world, was born in\\nthe town of Groton, New London Co., Conn., on\\nMarch 16, 1792. He was a lineal descendant of\\nThomas Rogers, one of that hardy band of pilgrims\\nwho came to this country in the historic Mayflower\\nand planted the first seeds of civil and religious free-\\ndom on the shores of the New World.\\nAt the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to learn\\nthe trade of a house-carpenter, and in the summer of\\n1812 he removed to Paterson, N. J., at that time a\\nvillage of small proportions, but which was enjoying\\na season of prosperity because of the demand for\\ngoods of American manufacture which the war with\\nGreat Britain engendered. Mr. Rogers served person-\\nally in the army during a portion of this struggle.\\nThe declaration of peace in 1815 reduced many of the\\nvillage manufacturers to bankruptcy, and the condi-\\ntion of business at that time afforded anything but a\\npromising outlook for the future. Mr. Rogers was then\\nworking at his trade as a journeyman carpenter, and\\neven at that early period attracted attention by his\\nclose application to business, his excellent Judgment,\\nand extraordinary force of character. A short time\\nafterwards he formed a copartnership with Paul Ru-\\ntan, and with a capital of about fifty dollars entered\\nupon the general building business. While so asso-\\nciated they built the woodwork of the residence of\\nthe late Judge Philemon Dickerson, corner of Broad-\\nway and Straight Street, which is now one of the old-\\nest houses in the city. Other ancient landmarks in\\nthe city were also erected by Messrs. Rogers Rutan\\nat that early day.\\nA few years after the formation of the firm, and\\nwhile they were still doing business as builders, Mr.\\nRogers became acquainted with Capt. Ward, who,\\nhaving witnessed the power-loom in operation during\\na tour in Europe, had come to Paterson for the pur-\\npose of introducing the manufacture of cotton-duck.\\nMr. Rogers, whose skill as a mechanic had already\\nbecome known, was employed by Capt. Ward to make\\nthe patterns for his looms, and soon after purchased\\nof the latter the exclusive right of making them, a\\nbusiness which he afterwards successfully carried on.\\nAbout this time he entered the machine-shop of John\\nClark, the elder, where the manufacture of power-\\nlooms was then being carried on on a large scale.\\nThese looms were built principally of wood, and Mr.\\nRogers excellent qualities as a workman and strong in-\\nventive powers enabled him to do mors work than any\\nof his fellows, and to suggest many valuable improve-\\nments. In 1819 he associated himself with John\\nClark, Jr., and under the name and style of Clark\\nRogers engaged in the manufacture of machinery.\\nThe firm commenced work in the basement of the\\nBeaver Mill, which had been built at an early period\\nby Mr. Clark s father, and while still at that point Mr.\\nRogers visited Mexico and other distant sections,\\nwhere he received large orders for looms and other\\nmachinery. In 1820 the concern moved into the\\nLittle Beaver Mill, and in the following year took\\ninto partnership Abram H. Godwin, Jr., the firm-name\\nchanging to Godwin, Rogers Co. They now com-\\nmenced spinning cotton, and building machinery for\\nthat and other purposes. In 1822, finding their ac-\\ncommodations too limited, the firm leased the cotton-\\nmill erected by Robert CoUett on the present site of\\nthe Danforth Works, and which is still standing in\\nthe rear of the Danforth lot, next to the race. Sub-\\nsequent additions were made to this mill by the firm.\\nTheir business kept increasing, the number of persons\\nemployed being sometimes as high as two hundred,\\nand the establishment was successfully carried on\\nuntil the summer of 1831, when Mr. Rogers withdrew,\\ntaking with him $36,266.05 as his share of the profits\\nof the concern.\\nHaving purchased a mill-site on the upper raceway,\\nhe immediately commenced the erection of the Jef-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0735.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "434\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nferson Works, which were finished and put in opera-\\ntion before the close of the next year. His design\\nwas to occupy the lower stories of the building in the\\nmanufacture of machinery, and the upper stories in\\nspinning cotton. Tlie latter, however, was never\\ncommenced, the demand for machinery increasing in\\na short time to the full capacity of the works. The\\nJefferson Works were literally an encroachment on\\nthe forest. Between Spruce and Mill Streets all was\\nswamp covered with pines, about as densely inhabited\\nby snakes as it now is by human beings. On the up-\\nper race no factories had been put up except two little\\ncotton-mills and a small machine-shop, the latter\\nowned by Messrs. Paul Heggs.\\nIn the early part of 1832, Mr. Rogers associated\\nwith himself Messrs. Morris Ketchum and Jasper\\nGrosvenor, of New York, under the name of Rogers,\\nKetchum t^ Grosvenor, a title that remained un-\\nchanged until Mt. Rogers death on April 19, 18o6.\\nSoon after the formation of the firm of Rogers,\\nKetchum Grosvenor, public attention began to be\\ndirected to the construction of railroads and railroad\\nmachinery. The road from Jersey City to Paterson\\nwas then approaching completion, the iron-work for\\nthe Passaic and Hackensack bridges being made by\\nMr. Rogers. An order was also filled for one hundred\\nsets of wheels and axles for the South Carolina Rail-\\nroad. Mr. Rogers next commenced making wrought-\\niron tire for car-wheels, and after some difficulty suc-\\nceeded. Preparations for locomotive building had\\nbeen made by Paul it Beggs, and they had a small\\nengine nearly completed when the building took fire\\nand was consumed on May 18, 183G, the locomotive\\nalso being destroyed. In 1835 some buildings were\\nbegun by Rogers, Ketchum Grosvenor. with a view\\nto the manufacture of locomotives. It was not, how-\\never, until eighteen months later that the first loco-\\nmotive, the Sandu!*ky, was completed, a trial trip\\nto Jersey City and New Brunswick and return being\\nmade on Oct. 6, 1837.\\nAs the establishment, growth, and development of\\nlocomotive manufacture in Paterson is elsewhere\\ngiven in this work, it will not be necessarj* to further\\ntrace in this cmnection the expansion of the large\\nand important business which Mr. Rogers established,\\nand which from ver small beginnings has become one\\nof the largest of its kind in the world, an average of\\nan engine a day being turtie l out in the works. Mr.\\nRogers remained the clear-headed, enterprising, and\\nintelligent manager of the enterprise until His demise\\nin 1856. The concern was then reorganized under\\na charter, with the title of the Rogers Locomotive- and\\nMachine- Works William S. Hudson, who had been\\nfor a number of years the valuable assistant of Mr.\\nRogers, being chosen mechanical engineer and super-\\nintendent, and Jacobs. Rogers, son of Thomas Rogers,\\nassuming the office of president, a position that he\\nfills with ability at the present writing. Mr. Hudson\\ndied, and was succeeded as superintendent by Robert\\nS. Hughes, the present genial and efficient manager\\nof the concern in Paterson. The works have been\\ngradually enlarged and improved, and are perfectly\\nadapted to the uses for which they were designed.\\nA view of them may be seen on a neighboring page\\nof this work.\\nThe personal characteristics of Thomas Rogers\\nmay be detailed in a few words. Springing from\\nNew England ancestry, with the blood of the Puri-\\ntans circulating in his veins, he early manifested a\\nstrong inclination for mechanical investigation, and\\nsubsequent opportunities enabled him to develop the\\nstrong natural talent in that direction which he pos-\\nsessed. As an individual he was possessed of a strong\\nwill, great energy of character, strict integrity, and a\\npositive enthu.siasm in mechanical work. Possessed\\nof small capital at first, .so that he was compelled to\\ndivide the products of his labor and genius with\\nwealthier partners, he was the soul and support of\\nthe enterprises with which he was connected, and\\ngave to each of them whatever measure of success\\nthey severally attained. He was an indefatigable\\nworker, retired early at night, and arose early in the\\nmorning, and applied himself closely to his labors.\\nAs a mechanic he had no superiors, and he seemed\\nto possess a fertility for invention such as few men\\nhave ever manifested. He made many important\\nimprovements, some only of which he patented. One\\nof these was for counterbalancing the section of a\\nlocomotive-wheel opposite to the crank, for which he\\nfiled specifications in the Patent Office on July 12,\\n1837. Another remarkable novelty which he intro-\\nduced was in making the driving-wheels of a loco-\\nmotive with hollow spokes and rim, the latter being\\ncast solid on the side opposite to the crank. The\\nspokes were oval, and the rim very much the same\\nshape as that used at the present time. This kind of\\ndriving wheel is in almost universal use in this\\ncountry. He also designed a valuable valve-motion\\nfor locomotives as early as 1845, which he still further\\nimproved in 1847. He wius also one of the earliest\\nadvocates of the shifting-link motion, and did\\nmore towards its successful introduction on American\\nlocomotives than any other person. He earnestly\\nadvocated outside connected engines, iu\u00c2\u00ab distinguished\\nfrom inside connected ones, and introduced the .sys-\\ntem of heating the sheets of a locomotive boiler red-\\nhot after they were prepared to be riveted together,\\nand then allowing them to cool slowly, the object\\nbeing to obviate the danger of cracking. He was\\nalso the first builder of locomotives to use expansion\\nplat !s, so as to relieve both the boiler and frame\\nfrom the strains due to the lengthening of the boiler\\nwhen under steam, ivs well as to provide for its short-\\nening when cold or cooling down, a system that is\\nnow in general use.\\nMr. Rogers was in no sense a public man, although\\nhe took an active interest in the atl airs of his own\\nlocality and bore his part nobly in sustaining the in-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0736.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0739.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0740.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0741.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "Cm, Jr.)\\n9", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0742.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "CITY OP PATEKSON.\\n435\\nstitutions that were established for good around him.\\nHe left to his family a large estate, acquired through\\nlong years of intelligent and faithful labor, and not\\nonly placed his name among those who have added\\nsomething valuable to the discoveries and inventions\\nof their age, but by his achievements has reflected\\nmore credit upon the city which he selected as his\\nresidence and place of business than any one that\\nhas ever resided there. His name will ever be closely\\nassociated with the industries of the city of Paterson.\\nWilliam S. Hudson was born in Derbyshire,\\nEngland, and came to this country with his wife\\nwhen still in his early manhood. Previous to that\\ntime he had been an apprentice of Robert Stephen-\\nson, of R. Stephenson Co. This is the firm that\\nbuilt the Rocket, which was the first successful\\nlocomotive constructed in England, and which was\\nplaced on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in\\n1829. Mr. Hudson worked steadily at the Stephen-\\nson Works until he came to America.\\nUpon arriving in this country, he first worked in\\nthe Auburn State Prison, New York, an unsuccessful\\nattempt being then made to establisli the building of\\nlocomotive engines by the convicts. Mr. Hudson was\\nplaced in charge of the enterprise, but the project was\\nshortly abandoned, and he accepted the position of\\nmaster-mechanic on the Attica and Buffalo Railway,\\nafterwards absorbed by the New York Central. While\\nliolding this position he became personally acquainted\\nwith Thomas Rogers, the head of the locomotive-\\nworks of Rogers, Ketchum Grosvenor, at Paterson,\\nN. J., and the two were accustomed to exchange\\nviews on mechanical subjects. The acquaintance\\ncontinued until 1852, when John Cooke resigned the\\nsuperintendency of the Rogers Works to enter into\\nbusiness with Messrs. Charles Danforth, Maj. John\\nEdwards, and Edwin T. Prall. Mr. Hudson was\\nthen invited to succeed Mr. Cooke, and at once en-\\ntered ivpon the discharge of the duties of superin-\\ntendent. He continued to fill that position until the\\ndeath of Thomas Rogers, in 1856, when, upon the in-\\ncorporation of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine-\\nWorks, lie was made mechanical engineer and super-\\nintendent. He enjoyed the fullest confidence of Mr.\\nRogers, and his varied experience, great natural abil-\\nity as a mechanic, fertility of invention, and faithful\\nperformance of duty caused him to be regarded as\\nan invaluable assistant by both the elder and present\\nMr. Rogers. He was connected with the Rogers\\nWorks for nearly thirty years, and died on July 20,\\n1881. For nearly two years before his death he was\\nunable to perform any service, but so highly valued\\nwas he by the company that they refused to fill his\\nplace, except temporarily, so long as there remained\\na hope of his restoration to health.\\nMr. Hudson was long recognized as one of the\\nmost accomplished mechanics in locomotive building\\nof his time. A lengthy article in the Railroad Giizrffc,\\nrecently published, was devoted to a sketch of his\\ncareer and inventions, and in this he was spoken of\\nas one eminent among the mechanics of America.\\nHe made many valuable improvements and inven-\\ntions in locomotive building. One of the most im-\\nportant, perhaps, was that in connection with the\\nswing-truck and the doul)le-ender locomotive. The\\nobject of the swing-link was to enable a locomotive\\nto pass around a curve with greater safety from de-\\nrailment, the engine being so swung that it was lifted\\nand maintained its position in reference to the train\\nbehind while the truck rounded the curve. But this\\nwas found to result in a lift of weight from the drivers,\\naud a consequent lack of adhesion. To overcome this\\nMr. Hudson patented an improvement that consisted\\nin placing an arrangement of equalizing levers be-\\ntween the two-wheeled truck and the front driving-\\nwheels, whereby both truck and driving-wheels main-\\ntain their proper proportion of the weight, and ac-\\ncommodate themselves to the vertical as well as to\\nthe lateral motion required to enable the engine to\\npass over uneven tracks and around curves with ease\\nas well as with perfect safety. Mr. Hudson intro-\\nduced a double-ender also with a pair of driving-\\nwheels at each end.\\nAnother important improvement which Mr. Hud-\\nson made while still connected with the Attica and\\nBuffalo Railway received general commendation. A\\ngreat deal of trouble was experienced with leaky\\nflues, and at frequent intervals the ends of the flues\\nand the thimbles had to be calked up. The former\\nwere then made of copper or brass, and the thimbles\\nof wrought iron. In 1850, Mr. Hudson conceived the\\nidea of substituting cast-iron for wrought-iron thim-\\nbles, the greater tendency to expand resulting in cor-\\nrecting the evil and preventing leakage. He took a\\nthimble of each kind, turned them accurately to a\\ngauge, then heated them red-hot, measured them, and\\nnoted the expansion, then cooled them, and measured\\nagain. This was repeated twelve times, w hen the\\nwrought-iron thimble was found to be considerably\\nsmaller, and the cast-iron one larger, which solved\\nthe problem. Cast-iron thimbles have since been in\\ngeneral use. Many other improvements might be\\nnoted in the action of pistons, in fire-boxes, grate-\\nbars, ash-pans, safety-valves, etc., all of which bear\\ntestimony to the mechanical genius of Mr. Hudson.\\nIn social life he was of a retiring disposition, and\\nheld himself apart from public aftairs. His entire\\ntime during week-days was passed either at the\\nworks or in the privacy of his own home. He led a\\nsimple, blameless life, and his demise caused great\\nregret in the community in which lie passed so many\\nyears of his useful life, and with whose industrial\\ncharacter and growth he was so closely identified.\\nHe was an old member of Joppa Lodge, No. 29, A. F.\\nand A. M., and of Cataract City Chapter, No. 10, R.\\nA. M., and was buried with Masonic rites.\\nRobert S. Hughes was born in Paterson, on May\\n24, 1827, where he passed the earlier years of his life", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0745.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "436\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nin attendance upon the common schools of the city.\\nHis father was Robert Huglies, an old resident of\\nPaterson. At the age of twenty Mr. Hughes entered\\nthe employment of Rogers, Ketchum Grosvenor,\\nmanufacturers of machinery, in tlic capacity of an\\nassistant in the office, and since that time has con-\\ntinued to be associated with the Messrs. Rogers in\\ntheir manufacturing enterprises. During that period\\nthe most important changes have occurred in locomo-\\ntive building. Upon the organization of the Rogers\\nLocomotive and Machine Company, Mr. Hughes was\\ngiven an interest in the concern, which he still re-\\ntains. He became secretary of the company in 1866,\\nand treasurer in 1876, filling both positions at the\\npresent writing (1882). His life-work has been con-\\nfined to the performance of his duties in tiie office of j\\nthe Rogers Works, and he has held himself studi-\\nously aloof from all public atfairs, although he has\\nalways felt a warm interest in local events, and been\\na willing contributor to the support of the institu-\\ntions of the city. He is courteous and kind in his in-\\ntercourse with all, and his modesty and reticence do\\nnot conceal from his friends his real worth as a man\\nand a citizen. He possesses good business qualifica-\\ntions, and during the thirty-five years of his connec-\\ntion with the Rogers Works has been uniformly I\\nfaithful in the discharge of all duties, and his services\\nhave been highly valued by the concern. His son,\\nRobert Ci. Hughes, is an assistant of his father in the\\nPaterson ofiice of the company.\\nCH.VPTER LX.\\nCITY OF PATEKSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (C r n(Mi\u00c2\u00ab.-,/).\\nOther Locomotive and Iron Work.s. Grant\\nLocomotive- Workn. In 1842, Samuel Smith, Abram\\nCollier, and George Hradlcy started a small foundry\\nin a frame building, about thirty by fifty I et-t, on\\nthe southeast corner of Hroadway and Prospect\\nStreet. They had one small cupola, the blast being\\nsupplied by horse-power. In the course of a few\\nmonths Bradley sold out to his partners. Smith sold\\nout in 1848 to Mr. Collier, and then formed a new co-\\npartnership with his brother, William C. Smith,\\nThomas IJi ggs, and Henry Whitcly. The firm lea-sed\\na long, low building, two stories high, the southern\\nend being atone and the rest brick, alimg the raceway\\non Mill Street, in front of the tVanklin Mill, opposite\\nEIILson Street. It waa about one hundred ami forty\\nfeet long and forty feet deep. In the st^uie portion\\nthey starteil a foundry, and in the rest of the builil-\\ning they i arric l on a general machinc-sluip and\\nmillwright-work. It wan in 1H44 that they got fairly\\nstarted in this place. William C. Smith and Whitely\\nsold out their interest in the course of a year t4 James\\nJackson and Patrick Meginnis, who were then run-\\nning the Franklin Mill, lieggs died soon afU r, when\\nhis interest was taken by William Swinburne, the\\nformer superintendent at the Rogers Works. The\\nfirm was now Swinburne, Smith it Co., Mr. Swin-\\nburne taking charge of the machine-shop. In 1848\\nthey concluded to start the building of locomotives,\\nand to that end they built a locomotive-shop, of brick,\\ntwo stories high, just north of their machine-shop,\\nand immediately next to the Essex Mill lot, with the\\ngable end towards Mill Street. It is still standing.\\nThey got an order for ten engines from the New York\\nand Erie Railroad Company, which had just com-\\npleted its Eastern Division from Piermont to Port\\nJervis. They made considerable money on this or-\\nder, and in the course of a year or so felt encouraged\\nto engage more extensively in the business and aban-\\ndon their niachine-sho]). So they bought a mill-seat\\non Market Street, opposite Pine Street, and erected a\\nlarge shop there. This was in 1850. The following\\nyear they obtained a charter as the New Jersey Lo-\\ncomotive and Machine Company, and continued the\\nbusiness as a corporation. Mr. Swinburne, liowever,\\nretired, and in June of that year leased a plot of lanij\\nadjoining the i)resent Erie track, west side, extending\\nfrom JIarket Street to Ellison, where he built an im-\\nmense shop, and engaged in the building of locomo-\\ntives on his own account. In 1858 he sold nut, and\\nthe shops were used for some years as the Erie repair-\\nshops, and latterly as a store-house for engines, etc.\\nThe New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company\\ncontinued to carry on the business at their place on\\nMarket Street near Spruce, gradually enlarging the\\nconcern, until in 1863-64 the stock was bought up by\\nOliver De Forest Grant, who, with his sons, David\\nB. Grant and R. Suydani Grant, ran the concern\\nthereafter until the death of O. D. F. Grant, when\\nD. B. Grant took the active management. In 18()7 a\\ncharter was obtained for the Grant Locomotive-\\nWorks, to which the property was transferred, and\\nit has since been manage l in the name of that cor-\\nporation. D. B. Grant was a young man of extraor-\\ndinary energy, and was ambitious to build up an im-\\nmense establishment. Under his superintendence the\\ncompany set about building new and more extensive\\nshops, and to extend the business in every way. A\\nmagnificent passenger-engine was built, every ex-\\nposed part of which w:\u00c2\u00bbs polished till it shone like a\\nmirror, the boiler being covered with German silver,\\nand the cab made of choice American woods highly\\n]iolished. In every respect it was designed to be a\\nmodel locomotive in character and a thing of beauty\\nin its appearance. This engine was sent to the Paris\\nInternational Exposition of 1867, where it was hap-\\npily declared to be the most nuijestic single contri-\\nbution to the Exposition. Of course it took a grand\\nprize. This engine cost j42,0(K). Not being adapted\\nto European roads, it was brought back to America\\nand sold subsei|Uently to the Chicago, Hock Island\\nand Pacific Railnnul Company, for which it is still\\ndoing very acceptable service.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0746.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n437\\nAs already stated, the Grants inaugurated their con-\\ntrol of the concern by erecting new buildings, and\\nduring 1864-6(5 several fine large shops were built on\\nPine and Jersey Streets, and the old ones were enlarged.\\nIn 1869-70 the original building on Market Street\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was enlarged by a considerable addition in front,\\nthree stories high, elegant offices being fitted up in\\nthe second story. Mr. Grant had almost a mania\\nfor possessing the finest tools, and at one time it was\\nclaimed that the Grant Works had the finest locomo-\\ntive machinery in the country. He spent large sums\\nin testing new patents and in experimenting on the\\nideas of sanguine inventors. He would brook no\\nopposition to his will, and strikers had a hard time\\nof it with him, for he made it an inflexible rule never\\nto employ a man he had ouce discharged, and every\\nman who struck under him was invariably laid oft\\nIn the early part of 1872 all the boiler-makers in\\nPaterson struck for higher wages, although many of\\nthem were then earning eight dollars per day. Mr.\\nGrant instantly ordered the shops to be closed, and\\nwould consent to no parley with the strikers. All\\nthe large boiler manufacturers in the city agreed to\\nlock out the strikers, and most of them were compelled\\nto leave the city. Mr. Grant lost no time in buying\\na riveting-machine, the second one in use in a loco-\\nmotive establishment, and this was a fatal blow to\\nthe hopes of the hasty malcontents, who had forced\\nthe strike against the wishes of the cooler spirits in\\nthe union. As a consequence, the wages of boiler-\\nmakers in Paterson are to-day less than three dollars\\nper day, whereas they used to be twice and three\\ntimes as much before that unfortunate strike. Mr.\\nGrant always paid the highest wages to good mechan-\\nics, but he would brook no interference by outside\\nparties in the management of his works. At a time\\nwhen all the other locomotive establishments in the\\ncountry were idle he got an- order from the Kussian\\ngovernment for fifty-five locomotives for a railroad in\\nthat country; the terms were favorable, and everything\\npromised well. The Grant Works were kept going\\nat their utmost capacity for several months, when un-\\nforeseen difliculties arose the shipment of the engines\\nto Russia was delayed unavoidably, and in October,\\n1874, the works were shut down, having sustained\\nenormous loss, instead of the large profits anticipated.\\nIn the following July, however, the works were again\\nopened to finish ten more of the engines, making\\nthirty-five in all that were delivered out of the fifty-\\nfive ordered. Mr. D. B. Grant retired from the con-\\ncern on Jan. 1, 1880, and was succeeded in the man-\\nagement by William W. Evans, who since February,\\n1866, had been the chief accountant of the establish-\\nment. R. Suydam Grant is the owner of the works,\\nand is president of the company. He is a New York\\nbanker, a director of the New York, Lake Erie and\\nWestern Railroad Company, and is interested in\\nother railroad enterprises. Mr. Evans has a thorough\\npractical knowledge of the management, and while\\nhe is anxious to push ahead as rapidly as possible, is\\nconservative and cautious in his administration. In\\nhis intercourse with the men he-is politic and concilia-\\ntory, and accomplishes in that way what others would\\nfail to do by harsher measures. In the two years he has\\nbeen manager the works have gradually filled up with\\nmen and work, until at the close of 1881 there were\\n720 men on the pay-roll, and the year s record was\\n110 completed engines, worth nearly two million dol-\\nlars, while the wages paid footed up about S3()O,O0O.\\nAll kinds of engines were made, including no less\\nthan forty consolidation engines, most of them being\\nbuilt for Western roads. The end of the year 1882\\nis expected to show a list of fully 150 locomotives\\nturned out at this establishment. Up to Feb. 1, 1882,\\n1450 engines had been completed by the concern from\\nits origin. Some new buildings have been built lately,\\nand more are to be erected during 1882.\\nThe establishment now comprises the following\\nbuildings main building on Market Street, north\\nside, brick, three stories, sixty-five by one hundred\\nand seventy feet, the first story being a machine-shop,\\nand the second offices and machine-shop, the third\\nbeing leased for a silk-mill at present erecting-shop\\nadjoining, one hundred by two hundred feet, brick,\\nthree stories high, the second story being a machine-\\nshop, and the third leased for a copper- and brass-\\nshop foundry, of frame, fifty by one hundred and\\nforty feet, on Jersey Street blacksmith-shop, of brick,\\none hundred by one hundred and fifty feet, on Pine\\nStreet boiler-shop, on Pine Street, one hundred and\\ntwenty by sixty feet, with annex forty by eighty feet;\\ntank-shop, on Pine Street, frame, one hundred by\\nthirty-five feet hammer-shop, on Pine Street, one\\nhundred and twenty by sixty feet; machine-shop and\\ncarpenter-sliop, on Market Street, south side, brick,\\nthree stories high, fifty-three by one hundred and\\nthirty-five feet.\\nEarly Foundries. As alread) stated, the first ma-\\nchine-shops had among otlier difficulties to overcome\\nthat of getting castings cheaply and readily. Their\\ncastings were generally brought from a distance,\\nfrom Pompton, Newark, and still more remote locali-\\nties, even from Delaware. Mr. Joseph Gledhill, now\\npast eighty years of age, says that the first foundry\\nthat he can recollect in Paterson was carried on by a\\nman named William Hood, in February, 1822. It\\nwas situated on Lower Main Street, west side, nearly\\nopposite Fair Street, but a little lower down. It was\\nso small that the blast for the cupola was supplied by\\na blacksmith s bellows. It attracted much attention\\nat the time from the novelty of the tiling in the town,\\nfrom which it would seem to have been one of the\\nfirst here. The business was not kept up more than\\na year or two, according to Mr. Gledhill s recollec-\\ntion.\\nSoon after this, William Jacobs and Henry Worrall\\nstarted a small foundry in the rear of the present\\nmost easterly of the buildings of the Phcenix Silk-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0747.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "438\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nMills, on Van Uouten Street. They carried it on\\nonly for a year or two, when it was sold to Godwin,\\nRogers Co., as above mentioned, by whom it was\\nremoved to Market Street.\\nOne Youle is said to have had a foundry on Van\\nHoiiten Street, just west of Prospect, on the south\\nside i)f the street, where the German Evangelical\\nLutlierau Church now is. John Vail afterwards had\\na blacksmith-shop in the same building.\\nJohn Anion, an eccentric Frenchman of prodigious\\nstrength, had a foundry and two blacksmith-fires in\\n1823 on Market Street, not fur from the present\\nfoundry of the Danforth Works.\\nThis is not by any means a complete list of all the\\nearly foundries, but it gives an idea of the primitive\\nstate of that branch of the iron industry sixty years\\nago in Paterson.\\nRiilliiKj- ami y(ii/-Mi/L Few of the old inhabitants\\nof Paterson recollect the Old Nail-Mill, as it is\\ngenerally called when referred to. The writer has an\\nexcellent picture of the old building, but few even of\\nthose who have seen the original can at first place it\\nin their memory. It was a small frame building, with\\na high i)eak( d roof It was built by Samuel Colt,\\nNicholas Delaplaine, and Roswell L. Colt, in the fall\\nof 1812, on the site of the present Gun Mill. Roswell\\nL. Colt probably was instrumental in getting the\\nothers to start the business, and he invested money in\\nthe enterprise in the name and in behalf of his\\nbrother, John Colt, whom he made a i)artner in the\\nfirm instead of himself Samuel Colt had formerly\\nkept store at Newark, and at this time was a man who\\nstood very high in the community. Delaplaine was\\nthe practical man in the firm. They made shovels,\\nspades, kettles, frying-pans, etc., and found a ready\\nmarket in supplying the troops that were calleil out\\nto defend the harbors and coasts during the war of\\n1812. In 1814 they began making nails, importing\\nSwedish and Russian iron for the purpose, in strips\\nnine or ten feet long, as wide as a nail wa.s long, from I\\nwhich they cut the nails by machinery and headed\\nthem by hand. They afterwards got improved ma-\\nchinery whereby they could make and head the nails\\nall at one operation. At the close of the war, in 1815,\\nthey discontinued the rolling-mill, but continued the\\nnail business. They had employed only about a dozen\\nmen in that department. In the nail-mill they em-\\nployed a much larger fon-e. In 1X22, Samuel Colt\\nwas compelled to leave Paterson, where he had\\nhitherto been a valuable and valued citizen. He died J\\nmiserably a few years later in a Western city. Mr.\\nDelaplaine also left Paterson about the same time,\\nowing to sail domestic allliction, anil the partnership\\nwas dissolved. Mr. .John olt continued the business\\nof making nails until about I)^2H, when the business I\\nceased to bo profitable, and he closed the mill. At\\nthat time he was employing twenty-five men, and\\nmade sixty thousand dollars worth of nails yearly.\\nThe building was occupied for other purposes occa-\\nsionally until 1836, when it was torn down to make\\nway for the Gun-Mill.\\nPaul rf- Beggs. In 182o, David Hogg and .\\\\lcx-\\nander Paul set up a millwright-shop in the rear of\\nthe Phienix Mill lot. on Van Houten Street. They\\nalso made some machinery. In the course of a year\\nor two Hogg withdrew from the firm and was suc-\\nceeded by Hugh Beggs, when the firm-name became\\nPaul Beggs. They employ ten or twelve hands.\\nIn 1832 they removed to a fine new stone mill, four\\nstorie-s high, about fifty by seventy feet, on Spruce\\nStreet, on the northerly jiortion of the site of the\\npresent Ivanhoe Paper-Mill. They occupied the\\nfirst and second floors. Here they engaged quite ex-\\ntensively in millwright work and the Imilding of\\ncotton machinery. A brother of Mr. Beggs also\\nbegan the construction of a locomotive at these\\nworks, being the first attempted in Paterson. This\\nwas in the latter part of 1834 or the early part of\\n1835. It was quite a rude artair, but so were all\\nthe locomotives at that day. Before the engine was\\nfinished the works were destroyed by fire, about twelve\\no clock on the night of May 19, 1835. .Strong etlbrts\\nwere made to get the engine out, but it was located\\nin the rear of the mill, and although the driving-\\nwheels were on the other wheels were not, and it\\ncould not be hauled out of the way of danger, and\\nonly the boiler wiis saved. The locomotive was to\\nhave been finished in two or three weeks. After the\\nfire Paul entered the employ of the Rogers Works\\nfor a time, and then removed to Baltimore, where he\\ncarried on manufacturing for some years. Beggs re-\\nmoved to a stone mill opposite his old works, and\\nextending the building and erecting a foundry on\\nMarket Street east of Spruce, he established the\\nUnion Works, and carried on a good business until\\nhis death in 1844. His family continued the concern\\nuntil 1848, when they sold out to Evans Thomson,\\nwho remained there until about 1852, when the ma-\\nchinery wiLs sold and the buildings devoted to other\\nuses. The foundry property passed into the pos.ses-\\nsion of what is now the Grant Locomotive- Works.\\nSome years ago there were numerous lithographs\\nextant of the Union Works, as they appeared in\\nthe time of Hugh Beggs. The writer hiis a copy, but\\nthey seem to be very scarce now.\\nPaleiil ArmK Farlori/. Samuel Colt, of Hartford,\\nConn., having taken out a patent in 18.3(; for his idea\\nof repeating arms, induced a number of capitalists,\\nprincipally of New York, to form a company for the\\nmanufacture of his arms on.a large scale, and they\\nsecured a special act of incor|ioration from the New\\nJersey Legislature as the Patent .\\\\rms Manufactur-\\ning Company. He was doubtless led to locate at Pat-\\nerson on account of the aid he e.\\\\pected to receive from\\n1 OooTtrutlon with Jolm Cull in 1ST3 M^. I eiuui u( l al rT.jii, 1X27.\\nMS. (Vfimll or I atereon, 1H2S, 182?, ISM, 1832 Ntwart Oailg Ad-\\nrrrtiMr, Miiy 21, IH- Ct.\\nI Bpcr liy Joliii 4Mi1tp, Ekq.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0748.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0751.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0752.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "CITV OF PATEKSON.\\n439\\nhis relatives, the ColtSi who controlled the society.\\nIn 1835, Colt had secured in Baltimore the services\\nof Frederick Hanson, a i)ractical gunsmith, who as-\\nsisted him materially in perfecting his Hrst crude idea\\nof a repeating pistol, and when the two men had got it\\nto work pretty well, Colt went to Washington and\\ngot out his patent, having first secured ])atents in\\nEngland and France in 1835, when he was but\\ntwenty-one years old. The Patent Arms Manufac-\\nturing Company having organized in Paterson, took\\na lease of the mill-seat at the foot of the middle race,\\nnext north of the Essex Mill, and in the summer of\\n1S3G began the erection of a fine stone mill, two hun-\\ndred feet long and about fifty feet wide, four stories\\nhigh, with a tall tower in front, surmounted by a gilt\\ngun, whence the name, the Gun Mill, which clings\\nto it to this day, though no guns have been made in\\nthe building for forty years. Colt was too energetic\\nto wait for the completion of this great structure, and\\ngot the company to lease what was lately known as\\nthe Jafl ray Mill, formerly the Shepherd Bleachery,\\nbeing immediately east of the Grant Locomotive-\\nWorks. They occupied the first floor, employing\\ntwenty or thirty men, although they really had little\\nor nothing for them to do. Mr. Hanson was prin-\\ncipally engaged in fitting up\u00c2\u00abew machines specially\\nadapted to the making of fire-arms, and part of the\\ntime he was in Washington with Mr. Colt, urging\\nupon the national authorities the importance of\\nadopting the repeating arm in the military service.\\nDuring the summer, fall, and winter of 1836 the\\ngun-mill was steadily pushed forward, and was com-\\npleted early in 1837. The machinery was then re-\\nmoved from the first quarters in JIarket Street to the\\nnew mill. Great difficulty was experienced in getting\\nsatisfactory workmen. Most of the men were brought\\nfrom New England, but they were inexperienced,\\nand the superintendence being very lax they shirked\\nas much as possible, and spoiled a great deal of ma-\\nterial, and did the rest badly, consequently the com-\\npany lost heavily on all that was done. Mr. Colt was\\naway most of the time, urging upon various authori-\\nties or institutions the introduction and use of his\\npatent pistols and carbines, so that the management\\nof the factory was left entirely to subordinates, many\\nof whom had little faith in the enterprise, and were\\nnot slow to show it even in the presence of the men.\\nMany of the original stockholders failed to pay up\\ntheir stock, there were dissensions among the rest,\\nespecially when the arms failed to find as general a\\nsale as they had anticipated, and in the summer of\\n1840 the shop was closed, and the manufacture of\\nColt s patent arms was abandoned. The company\\nis said to have lost \u00c2\u00a7250,000. Some of the causes of\\nthe failure of this important scheme have been indi-\\ncated; it would take pages to tell the whole story, and\\nyet it would be worth telling, were there room, of the\\n111 1882. Mr. Hanson is stiU following his old trade of locksmith and\\ngunsmith at No. 71 Prospect Street, Paterson.\\ndifficulties encountered in this first attempt to make\\nrepeating arms, which has since grown to be such a\\nmighty industry in this and other countries. During\\nthe ensuing five or six years the pistols and carbines\\nmade at the gun-mill had so utterly disappeared that\\nwhen the Mexican war broke out Mr. Colt had to pay\\na fabulous price to even find one of his weapons that\\nhad been made in Paterson, in order to use it as a\\nmodel to fill an order from the government. It is\\ndoubtful if there is one of them to be found in the\\ncity to-day. He filled this order at Whitneyville,\\nConn. In 1855 he began the erection of his factory\\nat Hartford, and in 1856 the Colt s Patent Fire-Arms\\nCompany was incorporated by the Connecticut Leg-\\nislature, and has since carried on the business there.\\nPaft ison Machiiif- Works. About 182-4, Benjamin\\nBrundred began the manufacture of cotton and\\nwoolen machinery at Oldham, now called Haledon.\\nHe established quite an extensive business for those\\ndays, when capital was scarce and nobody dreamed\\nof paying cash for anything. About 1832-33 he as-\\nsociated with him Samuel G. Wheeler, a shrewd\\nNew York commission merchant, and James J. A.\\nBruce. His new partners were too much for Brun-\\ndred, and in December, 1836, ousted him from the\\nmanagement, and discharged those of the employes\\nwho were supposed to be most attached to him. A\\nyear or two later the works were burned down. Pre-\\nvious to the disruption of the partnership the works\\nhad been employing from one hundred to one hun-\\ndred and fifty hands. Brundred immediately set\\nabout establishing himself in Paterson, and in this\\nscheme he was aided by several men of wealth and\\ninfluence, among them D. K. Allen and Abraham\\nReynolds. Allen had a button-mill just east of the\\npresent Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church.\\nThis building was occupied by Brundred as part of\\nhis new works. In 1837 he and his friends got a\\ncharter for the Paterson Machine Company, and\\nunder this name they engaged extensively in the\\nmanufiicture of all kinds of machinery. The Old\\nHotel, at the southeast corner of Market and Hotel\\nStreets, was leased, and in 1841 was bought by the\\ncompany and turned into a machine-shop. They\\nalso bought the rest of the lots extending to Union\\nStreet, and in the course of a short time enlarged\\ntheir buildings to occupy the whole block on Market\\nStreet, and to a considerable depth. In the fall of\\n1839 they had upwards of two hundred men em-\\nployed, and the works were among the largest in\\nNew Jersey. But the unfortunate tariflT legislation\\nwhich prostrated the industries of the country in the\\nwinter of 1841-42 caused the Paterson Machine Com-\\npany to succumb with the rest, and in the spring of\\n1842 the works shut down and the company went\\ninto insolvency. Two years later they were .sold out\\nunder insolvency proceedings. They were once more\\noperated with a fair share of success, although other\\nestablishments had in the mean time gained on the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0753.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "440\\nHISTOKY OF BEKGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nconcern, and tliey made ii great deal of cotton ma-\\nchinery lor Mexico and Central America. On the\\nnight of June 21), 1)S48, the works caught tire, and in\\na few hours were an utter ruin, the fire also extend-\\ning across Market Street, and sweeping away St.\\nPaul s Church, Congress Hall, and other buildings,\\nthere being no adequate water-sui)ply wherewith the\\nsi.x engines could do proper service. After the fire\\nMr. Hrunilred returned to Oldham, where he re-\\nmained until his death in 1853. The works in Pat-\\nerson were generally known by the townspeople as\\nthe Oldham Works, being regarded, on account of\\nBrundrcd s connection with them, as virtually his\\nold establishment, which he had conducted for so\\nmany years at that place. In its day it was a prom-\\ninent feature of the town, being exceeded only by the\\nRogers Works and the Danforth Works. Indeed, it\\nwas larger than any machine-shop except one in the\\nPaterscin of to-day, so that its destruction was a se-\\nrious loss to the place, and it was very much to be\\nregretted that it was not rebuilt somewhere in the\\ntown. Brundred was a man of much energy, and\\nhad the knack of getting along well with his men.\\nThis W!is shown by the firmness with which they\\nstood by him in his difficulties with his former ])art-\\nners, Wheeler ISruce; and in other ways it was\\nmanifest that there was a warm feeling between em-\\nployer and employed in the old Paterson Jlachine-\\nWorks.\\nMnchiiiht* Annoriafion. About lS:{fi George Uratl-\\nley, an Englishman, built a small frame foundry on\\nRiver Street, near Prospect. A few years later, about\\n1841, he and his sons went into the machine l)usiness,\\nerecting a frame shop on the northeast corner of\\nBroadway and Prospect Street, where they made cot-\\nton, flax, and hemp machinery. In 1847 their shop\\nwius ilcstroyed by fire, when they replaceil it by a large\\nbrick building, forty-five by imc hundred and twelve\\nfeet, three stories high, with stone basement under it,\\nwhich was really equivalent to another story. They\\nfailed in 1849, and removed to Richmond, Va. Mr.\\nBradley invented in 1841 the first steam-gauge of\\nwhich there is any record. The property now pjuwcd\\ninto the hands of .lolin K. liacon, of New York. In\\nthe fall of 18-)(\u00c2\u00bb William llolden and Jacob Wiley\\nhired a part of it and employed two or three men in\\nmaking machinery or doing odd jobs. They increased\\ntheir force to six or eight in a few months. In June,\\nIH. il.. lames Peel, Kliits MonOiouse, .Tolui II. Kiersted,\\nWilliam Senior, William llcildcn, .Iiicob Wiley, and\\n.lames (iillespic formi d an eqinil copartnership under\\nthe name of the Machinists Association, and leased\\nthe whole mill from Mr. Hacon. Mr. Morehouse had\\nserved his time at the Danforth Works; Mr. Peel had\\nworked there eight yrars; Mr. Kiersted twelve or\\nfourteen years; .Mr. .Senior eight years; Mr. Wiley\\nfifteen or sixteen years; Mr. (tillespie had worked\\nOanUffiporarjr nowi]\u00c2\u00bb|Mr tnd oth\u00c2\u00abr rMonli.\\nthere most of his time, and Mr. Holden had also been\\nemployed in the same establishment. The new firm\\nstarted with six or eight hands, and every partner\\nturned in and worked at the bench or lathe the same\\nas any employ^-, and drew the same wages, and not a\\ndollar more, they wire all workers. They u.sed only\\nthe first floor and half of the basement, leasing the\\nrest of the building to other arties. In a few weeks\\nthey had sixteen or eighteen men on their pay-roll\\nbesides themselves, for their own names were on the\\npay-roll just the same as those of the hands. They\\nhad very little capital wherewith to start operations,\\nbut all were indu.strious and competent mechanics,\\nso that they soon began to get ahead and to make\\nmoney.\\nAbout the close of 1852, Mr. Holden withdrew from\\nthe firm, and Henry Forbes was taken in in his place.\\nIn the spring of 1854 they erected a frame foundry\\non River Street, about forty by ninety feet in area,\\nnearly on the site of that built by George Bradley,\\nand which had been removed when the Bradleys\\nfailed. It still stands. It was not completed when,\\nin April, 1854, the main shop was burned down to\\nthe level of the stone basement. The loss to the firm\\nwas ^15,01(0, and their insurance only $250il. Besides\\nthis tlicy had not a dollar wherewith to resume busi-\\nness. However, friends came forward an l prolfered\\naid in this hour of their need, and thus encouraged\\nthey bought the lease from Mr. Bacon and immediately\\nrebuilt the shop, forty-five by one hundred and twelve\\nfeet, three stories and biuscment, with brick L on Pros-\\npect .Street, twenty-four by twenty-six feet, four stories\\nhigh, at a cost of about fourteen thousand dollars.\\nNew machinery was bought, and they occupy the\\nwhole of the building now except the top floor. By\\nthe hardest kind of work they were able to retrieve\\nthe grouncl lost by the fire, and even to get on better\\nthan ever, so that after some years they pai l for the\\nbuilding and began to accumulate a surplus. They\\nfirst made cotton, woolen, and silk machinery, with\\nan occasional order for flax machinery, an l also did\\na large amount of millwright-work. The work was\\nchanged from time to time as the demand varied, and\\nnow the chief production of the establishment is silk\\nmachinery, for which they have gained an enviable\\nreputation. They still fill orders for cotton machinery,\\nsome of which is to be found in almost every State of 1\\nthe Union, as also in Mexico, Central and South\\nAmerica. Their business is not confined to these two\\ncliusses of work, they umlertakc anything in the\\nway of machinery, no matter for what it may be de-\\nsigned. Of the original partners only two remaiivin\\nthe firm, Messrs. Peek and Morehouse. Gillespie\\ndied in September, 18G2; Wiley in August, 1866;\\nKierst d in October, 1867; Forbes sold out in Janu-\\nary, 187 and Senior died in November, \\\\X7S. This\\nis the oidy successful co-operative association of the\\nkitxl ever started in Paterson, so that it-s history is\\npeculiarly interesting. At the present time eighty", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0754.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0755.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "i\u00c2\u00bbi", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0756.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n441\\nhands are employed, whose wages amount to between\\n$35,000 and $40,000 yearly.\\nBenjamin Buckleij Co. In 1844, Benjamin Buck-\\nley and Alexander Anderson, both spindle-makers,\\nthe former in the employ of Charles Danforth, formed\\na partnership as Anderson Buckley, spindle-makers\\nand machinists. They leased a small brick mill on\\nthe river-bank at the foot of the Nightingale lot, and\\nconfidently went to work. Their combined capital\\nwas four hundred and fifty dollars, and borrowed at\\nthat. They did most of the work themselves, and\\ndrew out only one dollar a day each. In a short\\ntime they had prospered so far that they leased a\\nlarger building of frame on the site of the present\\noffice of the Todd Rafterty Machine Company, on\\nthe raceway on Van Houten Street. By dint of hard\\nwork they continued to make money, until they had\\none thousand dollars to their credit, and an almost\\nfabulous sum it seemed to them. They now removed\\nto the Hamilton Mill, occupying one floor for their\\nmachine business and sub-letting the rest to others.\\nAfter a while Mr. Buckley bought out Anderson, and\\ntook in Hiram Hatheway as a partner instead. The\\ntariff legislation had a depressing eftect on the busi-\\nness, and Mr. Hatheway becoming discouraged, sold\\nout to Mr. Buckley, who gave his notes in part settle-\\nment. Soon after Thomas Rogers made an arrange-\\nment with Mr. Buckley to furnish all the spindles\\nrequired at the Rogers Works in the building of cot-\\nton-frames, and thereafter all the spindles for the\\nRogers Works were made by Mr. Buckley. In 1863\\nhe removed to the first floor of the Gun Mill, where\\nthe manufacture of spindles and flyers is still (Jan-\\nuary, 1882) carried on by Benjamin Buckley Co.,\\nBenjamin Buckley, his sons, William J. Buckley\\nand Joseph Buckley, and John Townley. They em-\\nploy about 25 hands, whose wages amount to .SSOOO\\nyearly. The annual products are worth about $20,-\\nOOO, and are sent to a dozen different States.\\nJ. C. Todd d Siynanton x Machine- Works. Joseph\\nC. Todd, who had learned the trade of carpenter at\\nSomerville, N. J., came to Paterson in 1836, and\\nbeing employed in the machine-shop of Godwin,\\nClark Co., learned to make patterns there for ma-\\nchinery. Several years after, while employed at the\\nOldham Works, he built the first successful hemp-\\nspinning machine. This turned his thoughts in a\\nnew direction, and in 1847 he formed a partnership\\nwith Daniel Mackey, another skillful Paterson me-\\nchanic, and they set up for themselves in the building\\nof hemp and flax and other machinery of all kinds.\\nThey had very little capital, and hired a part of the\\nfirst floor of the old frame Nightingale mill, on Van\\nHouten Street, taking possession July 3, 1847. They\\nhad only two lathes, one of which they had borrowed.\\nThey there built the first silk machinery made in\\nPaterson. From this humble beginning they grad-\\nually built up a business that in two years time de-\\nmanded ampler accommodations, and then they took\\nthe basement of the shop owned by the Bradleys,\\nwhere the Machinists Association mill now is, on\\nProspect Street and Broadway. In 1850, Philip Raf-\\nterty, a successful business man, and a very shrewd\\nfinancier, was taken into the firm, which then became\\nTodd, Mackey Co. They now (November, 1850)\\nleased the present location of the works on Van\\nHouten Street, next west of the old Nightingale Mill,\\nwhere the business had been commenced. It is a\\nstriking evidence of the success of the concern that\\ntheir works are far more extensive than the whole of\\nthe Nightingale Mill, of which they originally occu-\\npied but a very small part. In their new quarters\\nthe firm engaged far more extensively than before in\\nthe manufacture of hemp and flax machinery in all\\nits branches, including rope machinery, jute and\\nbagging machinery.\\nThe firm also engaged on a large scale in the build-\\ning of steam-engines of every class, and in a short time\\nhad acquired an enviable reputation in that depart-\\nment of manufacture. Their original business contin-\\nued to prosi^er, until they became the largest manufac-\\nturers in America of hemp and flax machinery. Mr.\\nTodd gave this his closest personal attention, making\\nseveral valuable inventions in this class of machinery,\\non which patents were taken out from time to time.\\nIn 1855, Mr. Mackey retired, and the firm became\\nTodd Ratferty. In the spring of 1872 the concern\\nwas turned into a stock corporation, the Todd\\nRatferty Machine Company, Mr. Todd being presi-\\ndent and Mr. Rafterty treasurer. The boiler-shop of\\nRafterty, Smith Co., on Railroad Avenue, was\\nmerged into the- company also. Mr. Rafferty at-\\ntended to the New York business generally, where\\nthe firm had a large store for the sale of machinery\\nand an agency for their works. Mr. Rafterty dying\\nin July, 1872, the aftairs of the company were thrown\\ninto chancery, and for a month or two the shops were\\nclosed, when Mr. Todd resumed the control of the\\nworks, which he has since retained. When the panic\\nof 1873 came on, and nearly every machine-shop in\\nPaterson was closed, he went about, and by indefat-\\nigable industry got orders for all sorts of engines and\\nmachinery, whereby he was enabled to give employ-\\nment to a goodly number of men. Anything and\\neverything that came along and promised work was\\nconfidently taken in hand. For instance, there was\\na large order for the Bjixter marine-engine, at a time\\nwhen that engine was expected to revolutionize the\\nsystem of navigation on the Erie Canal. Since then\\nlarge numbers of these engines have been turned out\\nfor use on steam-launches, yachts, tugs, and freight-\\ning vessels of every size. They are i rom two to forty\\nhorse-power, and sell at from $420 to $2350. Mr.\\nTodd has also become the owner of the patent Bax-\\nter portable engine, of which he has manufactured\\nhundreds in the last five years. These little engines\\nare from one to four horse-power, and sell for $150 to\\nS350. They are much used in printiug-oflices, in", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0757.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "442\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nrunning sewing-machines, and wherever a small\\npower only is needed. One of them will run a press\\nfor ton hours, and with the consumption of half a\\nbiijiliel of coal. It is no wonder they arc popular.\\nIn time we may perhaps expect to see every well-\\nregulated family supplied with a Baxter portable\\nsteam-engine for doing the heavy work of the house-\\nhold, which is daily growing more irksome to\\nBridget. One of them occupies only about as\\nmuch space as a large base-burning stove. Mr.\\nTodd still builds steam-engines of all kinds and sizes,\\nnot confining himself, by any means, to these small\\nportable engines. He also makes flax, hemp, jute,\\nrope, oakum, and silk machinery, which finds its\\nway to all parts of the world. He built the first silk\\nmachinery used by James Walthall, by John C Ben-\\nson, by Haniil Booth, and others. While some of\\nthe imported foremen in flax- and hemp-mills in\\nAmerica declare that there is no machinery equal to\\nthat made in the old country, and consequently\\ndiscourage the use of American machinery, on the\\nother hand there are at least a dozen of the leading\\nflax-, jute-, and hemp-mills in England and Scotland\\nwhich are etiuipped with machinery built at the Todd\\nRatferty works in Paterson This is a significant\\ncommentary on the unreasoning prejudice too often\\nevinced by imported foremen and superintendents\\nwho arc disposed to see nothing good that does not\\ncome from abroa l.\\nIn Russia the native hemp is separated and spun\\nby machinery invented and built by Mr. Todd, and\\nhis machines have found their way even to China and\\n.\\\\u-tralia, while for thirty years the products of this\\nconcern have been familiar in Mexico, South ,\\\\merica,\\nand Canada, as well as throughout the I nited States\\nwherever flax and hemp machinery is used. Rope\\nmncliinery of all kinds is made, including machinery\\nfor making ropes out of sisal, a species of hemp from\\nMexico. During the year 1881, Mr. Tod\u00c2\u00abl filled\\norders to the amount of \u00c2\u00a7100,000 for machinery to\\nmake twine to be used on patent harvesters in tying\\nup the grain witii twine instead of wire. A spinning-\\njenny with a fine flyer twists the twine and runs it ofl\\non the bobbins, from which it is wound off into balls\\neifrlit inches in diameter, and these are attached to\\nthe harvesters with nniehinery wliich draws out the\\ntwine and binds the grain, and ties a knot as neatly\\nas the most experienced hand could do. Tlie works\\ncomprise a brick building, three storie-s high, one hun-\\ndred and ten by forty-five feel, with extension forty by\\n\u00c2\u00abeventy-five feet, the first story being used for eiigine-\\nbuililing and turning, and the second and third for\\nfittinj;, carpenter-work, etc. a frame maeliine shop,\\none hundreil and fifty by thirly to fifty feet, part ol it\\none story and ])art of it two and a half stories high\\nn brick foundry, thirty-five by one hundri d and twenty\\nfeet besides a pattern-shop, a millwright-shop, car-\\npenler-shop, etc. About I lO to 200 hands are em-\\n|)loyed, their weekly pay-roll amounting to j lGlKl, and\\nthe engines and machinery of all kinds produced in\\nthe course of a year are worth fully $2(M),0(M\u00c2\u00bb. Three\\nor four tons of iron are melted daily in the furnace,\\nand fifty pounds of brass, for use in the works. (1n\\nFeb. 1, 1882, Mr. Todd associated with him Thoniiu^\\nC. Simonton, and the firm is now J. C. Todd A Si-\\nmonton. Mr. Simonton has been connected with the\\niron manufacture in Paterson for thirty years or more.\\nIt is not long since he built a shop at the southeast\\ncorner of Paterson and Ellison Streets for the manu-\\nfacture of steam fire-engines, which he continued for\\ntwo or three years, when he began building station-\\nary engines. He kejit the shop going until 1801-62,\\npart of the time in partnership with Hiram Hathe-\\nway and James W. Hcwson. A foundry erected in\\n1872 by Stewart Morrill (William Stewart and\\nJohn A. Morrill), to make fine castings for the Whit-\\nney Sewing-Machine Company, at the corner of Jack-\\nson Street and Washington Avenue, in the course of\\nfour or five years fell into the hands of Scott Fair-\\nbanks, and then into the possession of Mr. Simonton,\\nby whom it was sold to J. C. Todd and fumed into\\nthe works on Van Houten Street, when Mr. Simonton\\nwent into partnership with Mr. Todd. Mr. .Simonton\\nnow has the general management of the Paterson\\nshops of J. C. Todd Simonton, while Mr. Todd\\ntakes charge of the New York business.\\nI John E. V(tn Winkle. In 1848, John E. Van Win-\\nI kle started a machine-shop in the long low building\\nin the Beaver Mill yard, on the north side of that\\nmill, it being two stories high, the lower story of\\nbrick and the other of wood. He had a blacksmith-\\nshop adjoining. In the course of two or three years\\nhe hired the b:isement and half of the floor above of\\nthe Beaver Mill, where he materially extended his\\noperations. He built lathes there for nearly every\\nshop in town, and many of them are still in use in\\nI the largest shops in Paterson. He also supplied the\\nmachinery for several cotton-mills in Tennessee and\\nother Southern States. He likewise attempted the\\nmanufacture of a pantagraph for engraving copper\\nrollers in Robert Rennie s print-works at Lodi, and\\nsucceeded, it being the first pantagraph constructeil in\\nAmerica. Thereafter, for many years, he made most\\nof the machinery for Rennie, and also for David Q\u00c2\u00bb\\nScott s print-works in Paterson. CJyrus Holt was in\\npartnership with him for a year or two about 18. 7.\\nIn 1858, Mr. Van Winkle bought from the Pho nix\\nManufacturing Company a strip fitly by two hundred\\nfeet, adjoining their mill on Van Houten Street on the\\neast, and built a brick shop, forty by one hundred and\\ntwelve feet, one story high towartis Van Houten Street,\\nand two stories in the rear. Here he enlarged bis busi-\\nness. He afterwarils erected another shop in the rear,\\ntwo stories high, which he lea.sed. In a short time he\\nalso added a foundry to his other buildings on this\\nplot, and leased that for a while, and then conducted it\\nhimself for making his own castings for machinery.\\nIn IMtii) the two last-mimed buildings were burned", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0758.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATEKSON.\\n443\\ndown and the roof of tlie front shop. In the fall he\\nrebuilt the latter, making it three stories high, leasing\\na story and a half, and occupying the rest for his own\\nbusiness. In 1875 the shop was again burned down,\\nwith its contents. The property was then sold back\\nagain to the Phnenix Company, who employed Henry\\nVan Winkle, at the time a partner with his father, to\\nrun a machine-shop on the same site, with some of\\nthe old machinery, in connection with their silk-mills.\\nJohn E. Van Winkle has since then filled occasional\\norders for a very ingenious cotton-opener, which has\\nfound a large sale in the South. He has retired from\\nactive business, however, as far as it is possible for a\\nman of his active temperament to retire.\\nTliiiman J. Wrigkij.\u00e2\u0080\u0094ln 1849, Thomas J. Wrigley\\nand his brother John hired the cellar of the old Hols-\\nman cotton-mill, where the Todd Rafterty ma-\\nchine-shop now is, and began making washers, comb-\\nplates, and link-chains. They remained there but a\\nshort time, removing next to the old button-mill on\\nMarket Street opposite Prince. There they employed\\nthree men on washers and four on bolts, working\\nthemselves as hard as any of the hands. After a\\nyear, or a year and a half, they returned to the Todd\\nRafferty premises, occupying an old frame building\\nover the water-wheel, next to the main mill. Two\\nyears later they removed to another building on the\\nsame lot. In 1859, John was succeeded by John\\nNichols, who retired in 1865, since when Thomas J.\\nWrigley has conducted the business alone. In 1864,\\nWrigley Nichols removed to a large frame build-\\ning on Railroad Avenue, near the corner of Slater\\nStreet, two and a half stories high, twenty-six by\\nforty-six feet in area. In 1865, Mr. Wrigley added\\nanother story. From 1859 to 1861 they carried on\\nthe recutting of files, in addition to other work. In\\n1865-66, Mr. Wrigley began making silk-spoolers,\\nand from time to time added other silk-work, and\\nnow does considerable in tliat line. In September,\\n1881, he removed to a fine new frame shop erected by\\nhim for the purpose at the southeast corner of Vine\\nand Essex Streets, thirty by seventy-five feet in area,\\ntwo stories high, with high basement, where he has\\nextended his business. He now employs 30 to 35\\nhands, to whom he pays about $10,000 a year in\\nwages, and turns out from $20,000 to $25,000 worth of\\nmachinery, etc. The production is washers, comb-\\nplates, silk machinery, and link-chains used on flax,\\nhemp, and cotton machinery, and traverse-chains on\\nsilk machinery.\\nWation Machine Company. William G. Watson and\\nJames Watson had worked for many years, with their\\nfather, for Benjamin Brundred, at Oldham, where\\nthey had acquired a thorough practical knowledge of\\nmachine-making of all sorts, and afterwards in the\\nNightingale Mill, making burring-machines for Israel\\nKinsman, of New York. About 1848, William G.\\nWatson took charge of the machinery of Jackson\\nMageunis, in their print-works, at the Franklin Mill.\\nIn the spring of 1851 he and his brother James con-\\ncluded to set up a machine-shop of their own, and\\nleased one of the buildings of the Franklin Mill\\nproperty, that which had been erected for locomo-\\ntive building, which had a foundry attached in the\\nrear. They were given the use of a part of the Mal-\\nlory Mill for a short time before taking possession of\\ntheir shop, and on the former premises prepared their\\nshafting and did sundry jobs that came to hand while\\ntheir shop was being prepared for occupancy. They\\nstarted with four or five hands, but each of the\\nbrothers worked harder than any of their employes;\\nas James expressed it, they worked twenty-four\\nhours every day. That this is not so extravagant a\\nfigure of speech as might be supposed is apparent\\nfrom the fact that, for example, James used to walk\\neight miles before daylight, over to Rennie s print-\\nworks at Lodi, do a full day s work there, walk back\\nafter quitting-time, and then work in the shop until\\nmidnight, and he would keep this up for weeks at a\\ntime. The other brother was not a whit behind him\\nin hard work. Of course with such untiring industry,\\nand with their skill, the) could not fail to succeed,\\nand in the course of the first year they turned out\\nthirty thousand dollars worth of work, had the room\\nfilled with machinery, and employed fifteen hands.\\nThey next removed to the Nightingale Mill, where\\nthey occupied the whole of the first floor, built a\\nblacksmith-shop in the rear, and after a while took\\nthe second floor of the mill. After a year or two they\\nalso built a frame foundry on the raceway, on Van\\nHouten Street, where Nussey s foundry now is.\\nIn the spring of 1860 they bought a large tract of\\nland at the southwest corner of Grand Street and\\nRailroad Avenue, and began the erection of a fine\\nbrick shop on that site, three stories high, one hun-\\ndred and twenty by forty-four feet. They now intro-\\nduced steam-power in running their machinery.\\nTheir old foundry was moved up from Van Houten\\nStreet to a spot adjoining the new shoj). They occupied\\nthe whole of the first floor, and leased the rest to other\\nparties. Their business continued to grow rapidly,\\nas they never hesitated to undertake any and all kinds\\nof machine-work, although millwright-work was their\\nspecialty. In 1868 the, county authorities gave the\\ncontract for building an iron bridge at Straight Street,\\nPaterson, to S. J. Post, the patentee he arranged\\nwith anotlier party for doing the iron-work, but the\\nWatsons were finally given the contract, and they\\nsucceeded so well that it led to their forming a part-\\ni nership with Mr. Post in the iron bridge business,\\nand for ten years thereafter they did an immense\\nbusiness in that line, their bridge-work amounting to\\nseveral millions of dollars. In 1872 their shop was\\nburned down with a loss of seventy-five thousand\\ndollars, but was immediately rebuilt on a larger scale\\nthan before. They erected a larger number of iron\\nbridges along the Erie Railway, about seventy-five to\\none hundred spang in all, including the magnifi.cent", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0759.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "44 i\\nHISTOIIY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nSusquehanna bridge. For two or three years they\\ndid a million dollars worth of this kind of work\\nyearly. They built about two hundred thousand dol-\\nlar^ worth of iron bridges in I lussaic County, but the\\ngrejit bulk of their work was in other localities. They\\nput up many bridges in and about New York City,\\nin Central Park, and elsewhere. They also engaged\\nextensively in the architectural iron business, furnish-\\nincr and erecting the iron-work for the Metropolitan\\nMuseum and the Metropolitan Art Gallery in New\\nYork, for the Lenox Library in New York, and other\\nprominent buildings. At one time they had six or\\neight hundred men at work in various parts of the\\ncountry and at their Patcrson shops.\\nThe works were enlarged from time to time, until\\nthey covered an immense area. In 187. the whole\\nestablishment was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of\\nabout one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The\\nworks were again rebuilt, but the firm was hampered\\nby the want of the money which these losses had taken\\nout of their business, and though they continued to\\ndo a vast amount of work for two or three years, they\\nwere at last obliged to succumb, and the property\\npa.ssed out of their hands. They discontinued the\\nbridge and architectural work, and have since confined\\nthemselves to the general work of a machine-shop,\\nalthough they still occasionally take an order for a\\nbridge. They are now making printing machinery,\\nmillwright-work, gearing, silk machinery, steam-\\nengines, etc. They employ 125 hands, paying them\\nabout S60,000 yearly, and use about 400 tons of pig\\nand 200 tons of bar iron in the course of a year, the\\nvalue of their production being about ^^SO,*)\u00c2\u00a9\u00c2\u00a9. They\\noccupy the first Hoor of their old works, which they\\nlease from the present owners. The business wjts\\noriginally conducted in the name of W. G. J. Wat-\\nson. In 18() they were incorporated as the Watson\\nManufacturing Company. At present the concern is i\\nknown as the Wat-non Jrachine Comjiany, Me.ssrs. W.\\n(i. and James Watson being the practical men, and\\nSamuel J. Wat.son.the son of the former, the financial\\nmanager. The buildings are of brick, as follows:\\none two stories in height, one hundred and twenty by I\\nforty-four feet on Railroail Avenue, and one hundred\\nand fifty l y sixty feet on Grand Street; connected\\nwith this, on the south, on Railroad Avenue, another,\\nthree stories high, fifty by seventy-five feet; next,\\nsouth of the last, a foundry, one hundred and fifty by\\neighty feet; on Dale Avenue, a foundry eighty by\\nsixty feet, connected witli which is a blacksmith-shop,\\nforty by forty feet. The Watsons occupy all these\\nbuililings on the ground fioor.\\nlrnrtje AdiUj came to I aterson in 1.S4!), and after\\nWorking three years for (ieorge Archer, who had\\na small machine-shop on the premises now occu-\\npied by J. C. Todd Simonton, he set ,np for him-\\nself, in 1M. 2, in n little frame shanty, about fifteen by\\ntwenty feel, on Broadway, beside the brook near\\nTliirtv-third .Street. He made bolts and screws for\\nthe other machine-shops in tlie city. He had a screw-\\npress for punching nuts, which he had made himself\\nHe forged his bolts by hand, and threaded them with\\na crank. All the work was done by himself working\\nalone in his little shop. In 1854 he removed to Ham-\\nburgh Avenue, building a frame house two stories\\nhigh, with attic, his shop being on the first floor, while\\nhe lived up-stairs, and while he was plastering his\\nroom, which he did not attem|)t for several months,\\nhe lived in the attic. He now used horse-|)ower to\\nblow the bellows and do the threading of the bolts,\\nwhich was done by machinery. Three men helped\\nhim in his new shop. In 1860 he removed to a brick\\nshop on Totowa Avenue, near Hamburgh Avenue,\\nincreased his business, used more horse-power to turn\\nhis machines, and had six men in his employ. In\\n1868 he built a brick mill, forty by ninety feet, three\\nstories high, on Water Street, between Hamburgh\\nand Totowa Avenues, on the river-bank, developing\\nthe water-power, putting in a turbine wheel, which,\\nwith eight feet of water, gives fifteen horse-power.\\nTo liis screw and bolt business he now added the\\nmaking of smut-machines, to cleanse the wheat of\\nsmut before it is ground also mowing machines and\\ncorn-stalk cutters. He made a great many of these\\nvarious machines, and his smut-machines were sold\\nnot only to grist-mills in this country but in South\\nAmerica. He employed six or eight men for about\\nten years, when, in 1878, he gave up manufacturing,\\nand has since devoted himself to attending to his ex-\\ntensive mills and dwellings and other real estate,\\nall the outcome in thirty years of that little fifteen\\nby twenty feet shanty on Broadway and hard, un-\\nceasing, self-denying toil.\\nI ntcrnon Iron- W orkn. In 1852, Sherman Jagua\\nwas connected with an iron establishment at Nashua,\\nN. H., the N:ishna Iron-Works. Conceiving the\\nidea that a similar concern could be successfully car-\\nrlcil on in I aterson, especially for forging tires and\\nshapes for locomotives, he induced Thomas W. Gil-\\nlies, a wealthy manufacturer of NiL\u00c2\u00abhua. to join with\\nhim in Ibunding the Patorson Iron-Works, which\\nthey started in the fall of 1852. A bldcksmith-shop,\\nabout fitty by seventy-five feet, was erected along the\\nErie Railway track, ^ist south of Clay Street, and a\\nhamincr-shop wjus built next to it, abont fifty by one\\nlunidred and twenty-five feet in area. Both buildings\\nwere of wood, and of course but one story high.\\nThey imported Lowmoor and Boiling bars, which they\\nbent and welded into tires for locomotives. They also\\nput in two hammero at the same time to forge axles\\nand shapes for locomotives. One of these hammers\\nhud a head weighing one thonsand pounds, and the\\nother had u twelve hundred [lound die. A third ham-\\nmer was put in almost immediately, so promisingly\\ndid their business open. About fifty men were em-\\nployed from the start At the session of the Legisla-\\nture in 185l{ they secured a special charter as the\\nPaterson Iron Company. During that year Frank-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0760.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n445\\nlin C. Beckwith was building the second track for\\nthe Erie Railway through Paterson, and for a time\\nhis shanty was located directly opposite the iron-\\nworks. Talking with the managers, he became in-\\nterested in tlie works, and before the end of 1853 he\\nbought a controlling interest in the concern, and\\nthereafter operated the works himself until his death.\\nHe kept on making iron tires until about 1866, when\\nthe Bessemer-steel process came into use and steel\\ntires were substituted for those of iron. For the next\\ntwo years this branch of the business gradually fell\\nof! and in 1870 it was given up.\\nMeantime Mr. Beckwith had greatly increased the\\ncapacity of the works by the extension of the original\\nbuildings and by the introduction of new and better\\nmachinery and tools. About 1859-60 he threw out\\nthe small hammers and put in a new and improved\\nclass. In 1862 he put in the first upright hammer, of\\nfive tons, for steamship forgings. Three years later\\nhe set up a ten-ton hammer. Since that date new\\nlathes, slotters, planers, and drills have been put in,\\nall of the best make in the country. When the five-\\nton hammer was bought he began making armor-bars\\nfor steamships. These were not for armor-plated ves-\\nsels, but for the ribs of steamships. He also made\\ncranks for the engines and propellers of screw-steam-\\ners, some of them being of immense weight. The\\nlargest shaft ever forged at these works was twenty-\\neight inches in diameter and twenty-two feet long.\\nIt was for the Pittsburgh water-works. The cranks\\nfor the same water-works were also made here they\\nwere fifty-four inches in diameter and weighed sixteen\\ntons. They were the largest ever forged in the coun-\\ntry. It certainly was a marked compliment to Pater-\\nson enterprise that the corporation of Pittsburgh,\\nwhere are some of the largest iron-works in the\\nUnited States, should send all the way to the Pater-\\nson Iron-Works for these important parts of the\\npublic water-works of the city. Some immense\\nshafts were also forged for the Pacific Mail Steamship\\nCompany, and sent overland by rail to California,\\nthere to be placed in one of the steamships of that\\ncompany. As there are few works with the capacity\\nand facilities of the Paterson Iron Company for turn-\\ning out heavy forgings, they llBve frequent calls for\\nmachinery from remote parts of the country. Of late\\nthey have furnished considerable work for mining\\nmachinery, which is usually of the very heaviest\\ncharacter. In this, as in other branches, they have\\nachieved enviable success. Their work is now about\\nequally divided between steamship forgings, railroad\\nand locomotive forgings, and mining machinery.\\nThey have also begun the forging of steel for locomo-\\ntive- and steamship-work.\\nTheir works cover a large extent of ground. When\\nfirst erected the shops were in the midst of a swamp,\\nbut the vast accumulations of refuse have been util-\\nized to fill up the low ground, until the swamp is fast\\ndisappearing. The main building is five hundred\\n29\\nand thirty feet long and seventy-five feet wide; this\\nis the hammer-shop and machine-shop. There is\\nanother blacksmith- and hammer-shop two hundred\\nand fifty feet long and about the same width as the\\nother. In the machine-shop are slotters, planers,\\nlathes, boring-mills, and other machinery and tools\\nfor finishing the work done in the hammer- and\\nblacksmith-shops. Two steam-engines, one of sev-\\nenty-horse and the other of thirty-horse power, drive\\nthe hammers and other tools. In the hammer-shop\\nare sixteen hammers, running from one thousand\\npounds to twelve tons in weight. The latter is per-\\nhaps the largest in Paterson. The number of hands\\nemployed varies greatly according to the work on\\nhand. When fairly busy 200 men are on the pay-roll,\\nand their wages will amount to 8120,000 yearly. The\\nvalue of the production of the works is about $480,-\\n000 per annum. The iron used is wrought scrap,\\nship scrap, and railroad scrap principally. They\\nhave facilities for using any class of iron. Iron to\\nthe amount of 3600 tons is made over every year at\\nthis establishment. Since the death of the elder Mr.\\nBeckwith, a few years ago, the works have been man-\\naged by his sons, Charles D. Beckwith and Joseph\\nAlexander Beckwith, the former of whom is presi-\\ndent and treasurer, and the latter secretary of the\\ncompany. James Johnston has been superintendent\\nfor many years, having been connected with the works\\nsince 1853.\\nJohn Royle Sons. In 1862, John Royle took a\\nlittle corner, about twelve feet square, in the shop of\\nVanderburgh, Wells Co., on Water Street, where\\nhe did machinery jobbing, principally for his land-\\nlords. Before this he had made pumps. When he\\nbegan his little machine-shop he worked alone, but\\nhis business grew steadily, until about 1872 he hired\\na larger room, fourteen by twenty-eight, and em-\\nployed several hands. In two years more he again\\nenlarged his quarters to double the former size. At\\nthis time he took his son John into partnership with\\nhim. The) now made circular saws and engravers\\ngrouting-machines. In 1879 another son, Vernon,\\njoined the firm. In February, 1881, being in want of\\nmore room, they leased the first floor, thirty by ninety\\nfeet, of a new brick mill on Railroad Avenue, near\\nGrand Street, where they now employ 20 to 25 hands,\\npaying out in wages $8000 to $10,000 yearly. They\\ncarry on a general machine-shop of a finer grade than\\nhas been usual in Paterson, their specialty being work\\nrequiring the finest castings and the nicest adjust-\\nments of mechanism to accomplish desired results.\\nOne of the most interesting and valuable of their\\nproducts is a piano card-cutting machine for Jacquard\\nlooms, whereby a person can cut the cards which\\nmake the patterns in weaving figured silks with the\\ngreatest ease and remarkable speed. It is a great\\nimprovement on the old process. They have made\\nmany improvements on this and other machinery\\nadapted for silk and other manufactures.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0761.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "446\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nPaMaic RoUing-MilL In 1863, Sherman Jaqua got\\na charter from the Legislature for liimself, his sons,\\nand two or three friends, as the Paterson Rolling-\\nMill Company. The company built a large frame\\nshop, one hundred by two hundred feet, on Straight\\nStreet and the Erie Railway, just south of Greene\\nStreet, and began rolling merchant bar iron from\\nscrap. They had two trains of rolls. The next year\\nthe name of the com|)any was changed by the Legis-\\nlature to the Idaho Iron Company. It was run for\\nanother year or two when, the business not being as\\nprofitable as had been expected and a good opportu-\\nnity offering, the machinery wiis sold to the Pacific\\nRolling-Mill Company, in California, and shipped to\\nthe Pacific coast. The shop then remained closed for\\na year or two. Watts Cooke had been superintendent\\nof the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad\\nfor several years prior to this time, and while in that\\nposition had given much attention to the rolling of\\niron in the great Pennsylvania shops on the line of\\nthat road. In December, 1807, he came from Scran-\\nton to Paterson, with the idea of engaging in that\\nbusiness with his brothers, who were all settled in\\nPaterson. The brothers formed a partnership as\\nCooke Brothers, John, Watts, James, and William,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094and in March, 18C8, bought out the old Idaho Iron-\\nWorks, and at once set about putting matters in\\n.shape. Preparations were driven so etlectually that\\non July 3, 1868, the firm rolled their first bar of iron.\\nThey started with two trains of rolls, eighteen-\\ninch and nine-inch, and employed about one hun-\\ndred hands. At the session of the Legislature in\\nlStj! they got a charter as the Passaic Rolling-Mill\\nComjiany, with a capital of $10(l,(\u00c2\u00bb0(), with privilege of\\nincrea. ^ing it to )00,( M i( I, and the business has since\\nbeen conducted by the corporation. In this year they\\nbegan rolling shapes and angles, having adapted their\\nold trains to that purpose. This was tlie first time\\nthat kind of work had been done in Paterson. They\\nwere in a measure forced to this, as the market for\\nmerchant iron had been swamped by heavy importa-\\ntions. The company accordingly accommodated\\nthemselves to the situation, instead of closing their\\nworks, and employed more men than ever, instead\\nof shutting down in despair, as less enterprising men\\nwipuld have done.\\nIt) 1x73-74, when the iron business was everywhere\\nilei)rcssed, they .set about engaging in a new busine.ss\\nto make up for the loss in the ordinary trade. Exten-\\nsive new shops were erected, and a new 22-inch train\\nof roll.s was put down for rolling beams, I beams, and\\nchnnnel-iron. The first order received for beams\\nwas fi)r the .Wir York luvnhiji I ukI building, corner\\nIJroadway and Fulton Street, an l this was followed at\\nonce by various other nrdoni, including a very large\\none for the new capitol nt Albany, and a still larger\\none for all the iron beams used in the Centennial\\nbuildings at Philadelpiiia, and since then the bn ijneHS\\nlijis Kteailily increased, and beams have been supplied\\nfor a large number of prominent buildings, public\\nand private, in New York and elsewhere. One of\\nthe most striking buildings erectwl by this company\\nis the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York. This\\nconsists in the main of a series of immense arches of\\niron, 187 feet span over all, the building being 2i o\\nfeet long and 91 feet high there are 1,150,000 pounds,\\nor nearly 600 tons, of iron in this enormous structure,\\nwhich is a highly-creditable specimen of Paterson\\nskill and enterprise. Always on the lookout for new\\nopenings for the extension of their busine.ss, the\\ncompany directed their attention to the building of\\nwrought-iron bridges, and filled many orders in that\\nline. The structure erected by them across the Pas-\\n.saic River at the end of River Street, Paterson, is one\\nof the best, as it was about the cheapest, iron bridge\\never erected in the county. There is no finer draw\\non the same river than that erected by this company\\nin the bridge at Belleville.\\nBut their most important work in this line was in\\nthe construction of the New York Elevated Railroad.\\nThey first built the section of road across the Bat-\\ntery from Morris Street to Front Street, being the\\nfirst of the modern system now in use on that line.\\nThey next built the section of road from Morris\\nStreet to Chatham Square. Then they took the con-\\ntract to tear down the old spider-legged track on the\\nwest side, and built the road anew on their own jilans\\nfrom the Battery to Morris .Street, from Morris .Street\\nthrough Greenwich to Central Park, and all through\\nNinth Avenue. On the east side they built the road\\nfrom the Battery to Canal Street, and from Sixty-\\nfifth to(Jnc Hundredth Street. Altogether, they used\\nu| wards of twelve thousand tons of iron in this im-\\nmense work. On Oct. 5, 1878, while the works were\\nbeing driven to their utmost in filling important\\norders, fire broke out at night and destroyed the pud-\\ndliiig-mill and the merchant-bar mill. These two\\nbuildings were three times as extensive as the whole\\nestablisliment when the Cookes took pos,session. For-\\ntunately the beam-mill was left intact. Without de-\\nlay the company set about replacing the burned\\nstructures with a fine brick building, two hundred by\\nthree hundred feet, with a lofty roof snpporte l on\\niron trus.ses rolled in the mill. It is substantially\\nfire-proot This was designed for puddling and for\\nrolling merchant iron and small angles and T s.\\nThe principal beam-mill is three hundred and sixty\\nby one hundred and seventy-five feet in area, of\\nframe; there is a machine-shop seventy-five by one\\nhundred feet, and innumerable other buildings of all\\nkinds and sizes, covering in all an area of .something\\nlike six acres.\\nThey now have three trains of rolls, for merchant-\\nbar iron, for beams, and for angles and T s. The\\npresent business is principally what is known to the\\ntraile as the production of the best iron for locomo-\\ntive build Ts. angli-s and T s for locomotive builders\\nand for .structural urpo\u00c2\u00bbes, and beams and channels", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0762.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n44T\\nfor buildings and bridges. When they began, four-\\nteen years ago, their montlily |iroduction was about\\n300 tons, or from 3000 to 40(M) tons yearly. Now they\\nturn out 1500 tons monthly, or from 16,000 to 18,000\\ntons yearly, nearly five times as much as formerly.\\nThey have eight puddling-furnaces and seven heating-\\nfurnaces. They never use scrap. Mr. Watts Cooke,\\nwho has been the manager of the mill from the be-\\nginning, and is still giving evejy department his\\nclosest personal attention, was long ago convinced\\nfrom experience that poor iron cannot be improved\\nonce bad it is always bad, and in buying scrap promis-\\ncuously it is simply impossible to sort out the good from\\nthe bad iron. Hence lie considers that it is more ad-\\nvantageous, in order to keep up the reputation of their\\niron and the work made from it, to work all their own\\niron, as far as possible, from the pig. They do thus\\nmake about half the iron used in bridges, buildinjs,\\nand work of a like character, and what more they\\nneed they get in the shape of boiled iron, made es-\\npecially for them by the Bethlehem Iron Company.\\nAll the bolts, nuts, and rivets used by them in their\\nwork are made in the mill. The company employ\\nbetween 500 and 600 hands, whose wages foot up\\n$360,000 in the course of a year. It is one of the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0weirdest sights imaginable that the visitor beholds in\\nthis immense establishment at night. The mystical\\nblue glare of the Brush electric light gives the men a\\nghostly aspect as they flit about. Suddenly there is\\na lurid glow as a furnace opens, and out there pro-\\ntrudes a huge tongue of iron, red and gold, glowing\\nand liissing. Half a dozen goblin-like figures dance\\nand leap about the fiery creature, which is then thrust\\nbetween the i-olls, and as it is hurried through, writhing\\nas if in pain at the torture, a stream of water is poured\\nupon it, whereat it hisses yet more fiercely. It is i\\nforced through another set of rolls, and this time it is\\nstretched to a greater length and into less diameter,\\nand this is repeated again and again until the huge,\\nsodden, bulky mass of iron is rolled and stretched\\nand squeezed into a bar of merchantable iron. But\\nthe scene is strongly suggestive of the bottomless pit. j\\nPerhaps while the visitor is absorbed in watching this\\nStrange spectacle there will suddenh be a whirr and\\nthen a shower of sparks, making a perfect cascade of\\nthe most exquisitely beautiful description, as the\\nmolten particles of iron fly up towards the roof and\\nthen descend in a fan-like shower. This is caused by\\nthe sawing of a fifteen-inch iron beam, and the oddest\\nfeature of it is the fact that the saw is a plain disk of j\\nflange iron, which, though having no teeth at all, yet\\ngoes through the tough cold wrought iron as easily as\\na sharp-toothed steel saw goes through a stick of white\\npine. No satisfactory explanation of the process has\\nyet been given, but there is the fact. The edge of the\\nsaw seems to remain perfectly cool, but nevertheless\\nit actually melts its way through the iron, without\\ntouching it, and hence the shower of brilliant sparks,\\nwhich are molten drops of iron, which are tossed\\naloft. It is one of the most marvelous as well as\\nbeautiful sights imaginable.\\nThe works are kept going day and night, from Mon-\\nday morning to Saturday night, even in the dullest\\ntimes, there being a double turn of men. Mr.\\nCooke is of the opinion that by keeping the furnaces\\nconstantly hot a better jjroduct is obtained than if\\nthey were heated only by day. In 1878, Mr. Cooke\\nthought he would try to get a never-failing supply of\\nwater from a flowing artesian well, as the mill uses\\nimmense quantities of water in wetting the rolls, and\\nthe water-rent is several thousand dollars yearly. A\\nwell was sunk to a depth of two thousand feet, but it\\nstruck salt water, which would hardly answer the\\npurpose. So this well was plugged up at a depth of\\none thousand feet, and another was sunk near it to a\\ndepth of six hundred feet, in which the water rises to\\nwithin thirty or forty feet of the surface, whence it is\\npumped by two pumps having a capacity of 125,000\\nto 140,000 gallons in every twenty-four hours. The\\nsupply is evidently inexhaustible. It has been ana-\\nlyzed by Prof. Cook, the State geologist, whose tests\\nshow that it is remarkably pure, being superior to\\nany from other sources in the vicinity of Paterson.\\nDuring the drought of 1881 the workmen were made\\nill from using the water of other wells in the neigh-\\nborhood, but they could drink from this well to re-\\npletion without injury. The experiment of seeking\\nfor a flowing artesian well was watched with great\\ninterest by other manufacturers in Paterson, and by\\nscientific men in all parts of the State. The stock\\nof the Passaic Rolling-Mill Company is now owned\\nby Watts Cooke, John Cooke, James Cooke, and\\nW. Oakley Fayerweather. Mr. Watts Cooke is presi-\\ndent and manager of the works, and Mr. Fayerweather\\nis secretary and treasurer. The present capital is\\n$200,000.\\nBradley, Godden d- Plnft, Holden Machine Company,\\nIiidmfrial Worlat. In 1863, George Bradley, Charles\\nGodden, and James Piatt started the building of\\nwool and cotton raachiuery in the old Nightingale\\nMill, under the firm-name of Bradley, Godden\\nCo. Two years later Bradley and Piatt retired, and\\nWilliam Holden and Christopher Godden joined the\\nfirm, which was known as Holden, Godden Co.\\nuntil 1866, when they became incorporated as the\\nHolden Machine Company. In 1869, by act of\\nthe Legislature, the name was changed to the In-\\ndustrial Works. The firm did not confine themselves\\nto wool and cotton machinery, but soon after starting\\nbranched out into general machinery. They built a\\nfoundry on the raceway, which Joseph Nussev now\\nuses, and made castings of excellent quality. In 1870\\nthe company became insolvent, and its property was\\nsold to pay its debts.\\nJohn Brown Son, Andrew Brown, John Latimer\\nSon. In 1863, John Brown and his son Andrew\\nstarted a boiler-shop on Railroad Avenue, corner of\\nGreene, where they made boilers for locomotives and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0763.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "448\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfor stationary engines. A few years later Andrew\\nBrown succeeded to the business, and about 1873 he\\nsold out to John Latimer Son Joiin J. Latimer),\\nthe former of whom had been a foreman at the Rogers\\nWorks, and the latter at the Danfurth Works. The\\nfirm made not only boilers, but locomotive tanks,\\nplates, and sheet-iron work. The collapse of the lo-\\ncomotive business affected them unfavorably, and\\nthey closed their sliop about 187().\\nJerrohl A- McKenzie. John Jerrold and William\\nMcKenzie carried on the manufacture of boilers in\\n1863, on the premises of J. C. Todd, in Van Houten\\nStreet.\\nSamttel Smith, Boiler- Maker. \u00e2\u0080\u0094\\\\n 1864, Philip Raf-\\nferty, Samuel Smith, Joseph C. Todd, and Hypolite\\nUhry, under the firm-name of Rafferty, Smith Co.,\\nstarted the Plurnix Steam-Boiler Works, on Railroad\\nAvenue near Greene Street, erecting a frame boiler-\\nshop, sixty by one hundred and fifty feet, where they\\nengaged extensively in the manufacture of steam-\\nboilers of all kinds for locomotives and stationary\\nengines. They did a very large business for six or\\neight years. Mr. Uhry was bouglit out by the others\\nin the course of a year or two after the concern\\nstarted. The business subsequently became compli-\\ncated with that of the Todd Rafl erty Machine\\nCompany, and got into chancery in consequence.\\nThen tlie i)anic of 1873 coming on and stopping the\\nlocomotive business, also crippled this, and the estab-\\nlishment was virtually idle for some years, until the\\nrevival of the locomotive business in 1878, when the\\nworks were reopened by Samuel Smith, who now\\nconducts tlieni. He emi)loy8 about 120 men, and, as\\nformerly, the principal business of the concern is the\\nmaking of locomotive boilers. During the year 1881\\nthe demand was so great that the men frequently\\nworked half the night to finish the boilers as fast as\\nthey were wanted by the various locomotive- works in\\nPaterson, who ha l not sufficient facilities to make all\\nthey wanted for themselves. Two boilers are turned\\nout every week. The wages paid the men foot up\\nabout $(jO,(X)0 yearly. Mr. Smith leases the property,\\nwhich is expected soon to pass into the hands of Jo-\\nseph C. Todd, with the other jjroperty of the old\\nTodd Rafl erty Machine Company.\\nTtihe Mniiufiirtureri About 18tj2, Joseph Green,\\na foreman in the Grant Works, Francis Scott, and\\nRobert Smith started the manufacture of lap-welded\\ntubes on Railroad Avenue near Greene Street, No.\\n118 Railroad Avenue. The process was very pecu-\\nliar. long, fiat piece of iron wa-s heated in a fur-\\nnace to a white heat, then run out upon a long table\\nbetween rolls, which folilcd It over and joined the\\nedges, and then hurried it forward with immense\\nspeed against a long iron rod having a ball of chilled\\niron on the end. This rod was forced through the\\nlooped iron, or rather the latter was forced to cover\\nit the whiile length, anil thus wax formed the hollow\\ntube. As it emerged from the rolls there was a report\\nlike a cannon-ball, while the tube went flying for-\\nward, twisting and winding like a fiery serpent.\\nThese tubes were made for locomotive boilers. In\\n1864 the establishment parsed into the hands of Ste-\\nphen D. Gould and some of his friends, who were\\nincorporated as The New Jersey Tube Company.\\nI They operated the place for about two years, when\\nPhiladelphia parties interested in the business and\\ninimical to any riv^l project got hold of it, and actu-\\nally sent on men with orders to break up all the\\nmachinery, which was done. The company had\\nthree or four furnaces, and for a time did a consid-\\nerable business.\\nIn 1865, Thomas McNab and Thomas McNab, Jr.,\\nengaged in the manufacture of steam-pipes on Rail-\\nroad Avenue near the other tube-factory. They fol-\\nlowed a different process, making what were known\\nin the trade as butt-welded pipe. They took a fiat\\npiece of iron of the desired length, and having heated\\nit to a cherry heat, ran it through a sort of vice or\\ntongs, which bent the edges half over. They then\\nheated it to a white heat, and in the same way the\\nedges were pressed together, forming a perfect joint.\\nThey discontinued the business in 1869.\\nJoseph Kmney. Mr. Nussey came to Paterson in\\n1862 as superintendent for Todd Rafferty, in the\\nmanufacture of flax and jute machinery, he having\\nlearned his trade in that line in Leeds, Hngland. In\\n1865 he formed a partnership with Samuel Watson,\\nand they leased a small two-story brick building on\\nthe river-bank, on the Nightingale lot, on Van Hou-\\nten Street, where they employed about thirty men in\\nbuilding all kinds of machinery, especially fiax and\\njute. In 187(\u00c2\u00bb, Watson withdrew and began making\\nsome spinning machinery, but in a short time quit\\nbusiness for himself. Mr. Nussey continued at the\\nold place, but took the main shop on the lot, an old\\nI frame building, three stories high with stone basement,\\nforty-four by one hundred feet, and speedily filled it\\nwith machinery adapleil for his general machine busi-\\nness. He also has a moulding-shop of frame, thirty\\nby filYy feet the other buildings on the premises he\\nsub-lets to other tenants. He employs from 50 to 100\\nhands, according to the demand for work, and his\\nfortnightly pay-roll varies in like manner from $750\\nto ^^I lOO, the men being paid from two dollars to three\\ndollars per day. Machinery is made here, and sent\\nwherever fiax and jute are grown and nninufactured,\\nj and nearly every firm in the country in that line has\\nI got machinery from Mr. Nussey. A great deal of it\\nis sent to Southern States, where it is used to weave\\ngunny bagging and to make twine. Latterly Mr. Nus-\\nsey liius filled or l rs to the amount of many thousands\\nof dollars for the manufacture of balling-nuichines,\\nto wind up twine in balls to be attached to the patent\\ngrain-reapers and binders, which reap the grain and\\ntie it up with twine. It would be easier to tell what\\nMr. Nussey has not done in the way of making ma-\\n1 chinery than to recite what he has accomplished. Ue", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0764.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n449\\nby no means confines himself to flax and jute ma-\\nchinery, but everything in the way of machine-mak-\\ning and repairing is done by him. He has built up-\\nwards of two hundred silk-looms, besides spinning-\\nframes and other silk machinery. In 1872 he built\\nthe present steam fire-engine No. 2, of Paterson. For\\nseveral years he has done all the city repairing of such\\nengines.\\nUnion Bolt- Works. In 1867 a man named Harda-\\nway, from New England, who had invented peculiar\\nmachinery for the manufacture of bolts, spikes, rivets,\\netc., came to Paterson, and with the aid of some Pat-\\nerson men started the making of such articles with his\\nnew machines in the old New Jersey Tube-Works. The\\nconcern was at first known as the Hardaway Bolt\\nCompany, and soon after as The Central Bolt, Spike,\\nand Rivet Company. In three or four years the es-\\ntablishment was bought out by Daniel Harwood,\\nof Boston, who in 1876 sold it to James Johnston, of\\nthe Paterson Iron- Works, and Arthur B. Pearce. In\\n1872 a charter had been obtained as The Union\\nBolt- Works. The new owners continued the manu-\\nfacture of bolts, spikes, rivets, and nuts for some years,\\nbut the locomotive-shops began making their own\\nsupplies of this character, and the company turned\\ntheir attention to other lines of manufacture, until at\\nthe present time they carry on a general machine-\\nshop, making machinery, castings of all kinds, and\\nbolts, nuts, etc. The principal production is in the\\nline of machinery and shatling. Their buildings\\ncover an area of about two hundred by one hundred\\nand seventy-five feet, of frame, one story high. They\\nemploy 60 men, who earn $30,000 per annum. They\\nuse pig and bar iron chiefly in their business, but\\noccasionally some scrap. Thirty tons of iron are\\nworked up every week. James Johnston is president\\nand treasurer of the company, and Arthur B. Pearce\\nthe secretary and general manager.\\nWhUney Sewing-Machine Comprini/. An enterprise\\nwhich at one time seemed to promise well as one of\\nthe leading and most important of Paterson s indus-\\ntries was the establishment in that city in 1871 of\\nthe manufacture of the Whitney Sewing-Machines.\\nMr. J. H. Whitney was the inventor of some valua-\\nble features of the sewing-machines then in use, and\\nthis gave him certain advantages in the business\\nwhich few others could have. He had been associ-\\nated for some years in the making of the machine\\nknown as the Wheeler and Wilson, on which he had\\ncertain patents. The company took about half of the\\nfirst floor of the Dale Mill, on Railroad Avenue oppo-\\nsite the Erie Depot, and soon filled it with the most ex-\\npensive machinery. They also established a japan-\\nning-shop in connection with the business, and in\\ntwo years a foundry was also started especially to\\nmake the fine castings needed for the work. The\\ncompany was incorporated by the Legislature in 1871,\\nwhen E. L. Snow was chosen president, and Justin\\nSnow secretary and treasurer. Mr. Whitney was su-\\nperintendent. The capital was $200,000. The com-\\npany was hampered by want of sufficient capital for\\none thing, and by the restrictions imposed upon it\\nby the other sewing-machine companies, which con-\\ntrolled more important patents, and would not permit\\nthe Paterson company to use them unless on certain\\nconditions, one of them being the obligation not to\\nundersell rival nuikers. Thus, although even in\\nPaterson, with all the disadvantages of a new enter-\\nprise, the machines could be made at a cost of from\\nten to fifteen dollars, they could not be sold for less\\nthan thirty-five dollars even to dealers. The want of\\ncapital it was sought to remedy by appealing to Pat-\\nerson men of means, and they did subscribe quite\\nliberally to help the concern along, but the panic of\\n1873, with other causes, led to the suspension of the\\ncompany, and the shops were closed for some time. In\\nNovember, 1873, the Whitney Manufacturing Com-\\npany was formed, and bought out the old establish-\\nment. It was chartered by the Legislature in 1874.\\nAlbert A. Hopper was president of the new organiza-\\ntion, and Adon E. Crosby was secretary and treasurer.\\nThe nominal capital was $200,000. The company\\nkept up a spasmodic sort of existence for two years\\nlonger, when it finally succumbed, and the machinery\\nand tools falling into other hands were removed from\\nthe city. The company was never a harmonious one\\nin its organization, nor did it have enough actual\\ncapital to enable it to build up a paying business.\\nPeter Oberg Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 la 1879, Peter Oberg and\\nCharles Bergbom erected a frame building, forty by\\nsixty feet, near the West Paterson or Stony road sta-\\ntion of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-\\nroad, to utilize scrap-iron. They forge the scrap into\\nblooms for rolling-mills, working over five tons daily,\\nand employing 10 hands, who earn $75 to $100 weekly.\\nWire-Drawing was started in Paterson nearly sev-\\nenty years ago, but has never attained to large propor-\\ntions. Twenty years ago Joseph Broomhead began\\nwire-drawing at Weavertown, and after some moving\\nabout settled down at the foot of West Street, where\\nWilliam H. Chamberlain, Jr., had been drawing steel\\nwire since 1863 or thereabouts. George Broomhead\\nmade steel wire at the Hamilton Mill fifteen years or\\nmore ago. Joseph Broomhead is the only one in the\\nbusiness in Paterson at the present time. He employs\\nbut a few hands.\\nRoller- Making, as an adjunct to the cotton manu-\\nfacture, was begun as an independent business in 1856\\nby James Dunkerley, in the Hamilton Mill. Two\\nyears later he removed to Spruce Street, where he now\\nhas, with his son William, quite a machine-shop for\\ndoing all kinds of machine-work and repairing. The\\nfirm is now James Dunkerley Son.\\nFile- Cutter. From a very early day there was\\noccasion for the use of large numbers of files in the\\nPaterson shops, but it was thirty years, probably,\\nafter the establishment of the first machine-shop ere\\nany one set up the special business in the town of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0765.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "450\\nHlSTOllV OF BERGEN ANl^ PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfile-ciittinfr. Doubtless the first to attempt work of\\ntliis kind on any scale was j\\n(irorrfr Bolherij, who is first mentioned in 1829,\\nwheu lie had a small shop in West Street, near the\\nriver. He employed six hands. He does not seem\\nto have been here in 1827. Some years later he had\\na foundry on River Street, near Prospect. Rothery\\ncontinued the business for possibly ten years, and\\nperhaps longer.\\nJonefili .S /ii//ie/(t began grinding files in 1854 in\\nthe Nightingale Mill, or in a building just back\\nof the mill. He cut them in St. John s Hall, which\\nstood on the south side of Broadway, where Washing-\\nton Street now runs into i\u00c2\u00bb. He remained at St.\\nJohn s Hall for several years, removing about 1862\\nto Piiterson Street, near Ellison, at which time he had\\nassociated with him Patrick H. Wall, the firm being\\nWhitfield Wall. Soon after they removed to\\nRamapo Avenue, between Market and Essex Streets.\\nHe died in 180!!, when the property passed into the\\nhands of Sheriff i*i Weinmanti (Thomas Slierilf and\\nWeit Weinmann I, who continued the Eagle File-\\nWorks at the old stand. In the course of a year or\\ntwo Sheriff sold out to James Kearney, the firm then\\nbeing Weinmann Kearney. They removed in 1873\\nto a small brick building back of the Nightingale\\nMill, on the rivcr-biink. In 188(1 they dis.solved part-\\nnership, and two new firms were formed. One of these\\nwas\\nKeameij Fool. For several years Mr. Foot had I\\nbeen the agent for the sale of the files of the old firm, i\\nand had built up a large trade. They went along\\ncautiously for some months, but in January, 1881,\\nthey began iiitnxlucing new machinery of the most\\nimproved and perfect description. Their sales rapidly\\naugmented, as buyers found they were able to fill\\norders promptly, which, for reasons not necessary to\\nmention, file manufacturers depending upon hand-\\nlabor alone are never able to do. \\\\\\\\y February, 1882,\\nthey had twenty-seven cutting-machines in operation,\\nand, although there is a prejudice against machine-\\ncut tiles, their !!ales had run up to 900 dozen weekly,\\nor to $8000 monthly. They have grinding-machines,\\neach one of whii li will do the work of ten men, and\\nthis gives them a great advantage in the control of\\ntheir production. The machines are so arranged, too,\\nthat the men operating them are not troubled by the\\ndust from the files as they are ground, for a swift cur-\\nrent of air blows the dust away from the operator.\\nThere are eight grindstones in use, three trip-liani-\\nmers.and much other machiticry. The files made are of\\nall sorts and sizes. )nc liundri-d hiinds have been em-\\nployed for the past year, who were paid WjOOO in\\nwages. The machinery was run by a 7 horse-power\\nsteam-engine. By July 1, 1882, it is expected to have\\nthe buildings and the capacity of the works doubled,\\nwhen 200 hands will be employed. Mr. Kearney has\\nthe management of the works in Paterson, while .Mr.\\nFoot takes charge of the New York office.\\nFrederick S. Gesawein. John .4. Smyth began file-\\ncutting in 186. on his own account at No. 2 Church\\nStreet. The next year he wa.s bought out by John\\nSmyth and .\\\\aron S. Pennington, who removed to the\\nFranklin Mill, where they remained until 1880, when\\nthey sold out to Weit Weinmann, when he dissolved\\npartnership with Mr. Kearney He associated with\\nhim Frederick Gesswein, the firm being Weinmann\\nGesswein. They kept on in a small building on\\nthe middle race, which has been enlarged somewhat\\nsince they took it. In 1881 Mr. Weinmann withdrew,\\nand the business has been since conducted by Mr-\\nGesswein alone. He employs about 35 hands, and is\\ndoing a very good business. His products are mostly\\nhand-made files of the smaller and finer sorts, used\\nfor sewing-machines and similar work.\\nJohn Pappler iS: Co. made files some years ago in\\nProspect Street, and there have been some small shops\\ncarried on in the same line from time to time since\\nGeorge Rothery set up as a file-cutter.\\nCHAPTER LXI.\\nCITY OK PATEKSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (C\u00c2\u00abM(.nMfrf).\\nBrass-Work, Forsnixc;, ktc. In the first ma-\\nchinery used and made in Paterson there was almost\\nif not (juite as much brass as iron, and consequently\\na brass-foundry wiu* started as early as 1794, in con-\\nnection with John Clark s machine-shop. The cot-\\nton-mills rei|uired consiilerablc sheet-iron-, tin-, and\\nbra.ss-work, and there were shops started to supply\\nthem with these necessaries. One of the first in this\\nbusiness was\\nHoralii) Monet, who swung aloft a brass dog holding\\na kettle in his mouth in front of his shop on Van\\nHouten Street, near Prospect, nearly sixty years ago,\\nwhere that faithful beast has kept watch and ward\\never since. Deacon Moses was one of the most\\nprominent characters in the town as long as he lived.\\nHe was a pillar of the First Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, and again and again had to come to its rescue\\nin times of financial need, and they were not few. In\\n1825 he is described as a brazier and tin-plat\u00c2\u00ab\\nworker, and emj)loycd five hands. In lX 2 .t he had\\nnine hands in his employ. About 1855 he took his\\n.son, John C Moses, into partnership, and H. Moses iV\\nSon now worked in tin, copper, brass, and sheet-iron,\\nand made smokestacks for locomotives. In 1859-60 the\\nestablishment passed into the hands of Robert McCul-\\nloch.by whom it has since been -onducted. The sign\\nof the brass dog and kettle, rude cuts of which formerly\\nadorned the columns of the Paterson papers, is main-\\ntained by Mr. McCulloch as one of the relics of the\\nI Mnnu rript fViiiiu\u00c2\u00bb of I Ktcnmn. 182fi, Uir Ror. Dr. J luticr, In\\nwrttrr n iMrtMowilon.\\nIbid., um.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0766.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n461\\nolden time, and as a really creditable specimen of the\\nskill of Paterson brass-founders more than half a\\ncentury ago.\\nWiHidm 11. Haijcs. Robert Hayes was for several\\nyears foreman for William Cundell, a leading manu-\\nfacturer of tin-ware for cotton-mills, and sheet-iron,\\nsheet-brass, etc. Early in 1849 he left Mr. Cundell\\nand set up for himself, building a little frame shoj) on\\nProspect Street, east side, near where No. 3 s engine-\\nhouse now is, a little south of it. He made caps for\\nthe Dauforth frame, and did other work in tin, sheet-\\nbrass, sheet-copper, and jobbing generally. Some\\nyears later he took John Habben into partnership,\\nand they moved into the Franklin Mill, in the rear\\npart of the old locomotive-shop, where they worked\\nin brass, copper, and sheet-iron. He subsequently re-\\nmoved to Straight Street, to Pine Street, to the old\\nHamilton Mill, then to the low shops in front of the\\nFranklin Mill. In 1866-67 he sold out to Richard\\nHarrell and his son, William H. Hayes, who con-\\ntinued the business in the same shop. They devoted\\nthemselves more jKxrticularly to brass-, copper-, and\\nsheet-iron work for locomotives and steam hre-engine\\ntrimmings. They first employed twelve or fifteen\\nhands, but soon ran up to forty or fifty hands. In\\n1868 they began building steam fire-engines, and sold\\nto the city of Paterson steamers Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 8.\\nWhen the Franklin Mill was burned down, in Decem-\\nber, 1871, they removed to the old Duck Mill, at the\\nfoot of Mill Street, where they carried on the same\\nbusiness, especially the making of steam fire-engines.\\nThey there formed the Paterson Steam Fire-Engine\\nCompany. They dissolved partnership in 1874. Mr.\\nHarrell kept on in the engine business a year or two,\\nselling Steam Fire-Engine Company No. 1 a new\\nsteamer. Mr. Hayes devoted himself once more to\\nhis old business, and in 1876-77 removed to the third\\nfloor of the Grant Locomotive-Works, where he now\\noccupies a room one hundred by two hundred feet in\\narea, and employs 30 to 50 hands, doing all kinds of\\nbrass-, copper-, and sheet-iron work for locomotives,\\nsteam fire-engine trimmings, dye-houses, boilers, etc.\\nHe sends steam fire-engine work to Cincinnati, Can-\\nada, New York, and other sections.\\nMcNab it- Harliii Maiuifdctiiring Company. About j\\n1854, James McNab and Adam Carr, both Paterson\\nmen, started the business of making plumbers and\\nsteam-fitters brass-work They had two lathes in a\\nsmall basement-room in Elizabeth Street, New York, i\\nThey soon outgrew these limited quarters, and took\\nlarger rooms in Mercer Street, where they had four-\\nteen lathes going. In this same building John Har-\\nlin had a brass- foundry, and this led in 1858 to his\\nentering the firm, and soon after they built a factory\\nin Paterson, on Ward Street, south side, between\\nRailroad Avenue and Prince Street, which is still\\nstanding. Business was greatly depressed ou account\\nof the war, and they returned to New York in 1862,\\ntaking a shop at No. 86 John Street, subsequently\\nremoving to No. 56 John Street. Mr. Carr retired\\nfrom the firm when they left Paterson. But their\\ntrade expanded rapidly after the war, and in 1870\\nthey removed to Paterson once more, having built\\nfor their occupancy a fine brick mill on Straight\\nand Taylor Streets, three stories high, one hundred\\nand twenty-five by forty feet, with an L, each wing\\nof which is forty by one hundred feet, one story high,\\nused for a brass-foundry, and an iron-foundry also, one\\nhundred by forty feet, one story high. Just before\\ncoming to Paterson the firm became incorporated as\\nthe McNab Harlin Manufacturing Company,\\nunder the laws of New York. When they removed\\nhither last the company employed 145 hands. Dur-\\ning the financial depression they suffered a serious\\nloss of business, and Mr. James McNab withdrew\\nfrom the company. During the past two years they\\nhave regained their former footing, and now have\\n225 hands busy, and more lathes than ever before.\\nThey melt daily three thousand pounds of brass and\\nthree tons of iron. They still retain their place at\\nNo. 56 John Sti eet, New York, where they occupy\\nfour stories, basement and sub-cellar, and an adjoining\\nbasement, each floor being thirty by sixty feet, for\\nthe storage of piping, etc., and employ 30 hands\\nthere in fitting the castings made in Paterson, and\\nlarge malleable-iron castings made elsewhere. John\\nHarlin is president and treasurer of the company\\nWilliam F. Kyle, secretary; John Yule, superinten-\\ndent John A. McNab, assistant superintendent and\\nJames McClay, foreman of the brass-foundry, all\\nthese persons are members of the company.\\nBenjamin HiUoii. This gentleman began in a small\\nway a few years ago at his residence. No. 313 Market\\nStreet, to make brass ciistings. The business prosper-\\ning, in 1880 he erected a foundry, of frame, about\\nforty by seventy-five feet, on the west side of Vine\\nStreet near Essex, where he makes brass and iron\\ncastings, especially the former, principally for the\\nPassaic Rolling-Mill. He employs eight hands.\\nBaldwin Taylor established a brass-foundry in a\\nsmall way about 1870 in Van Houten Street, in the\\nrear of No. 63 he is now located in the rear of the\\nBeaver Mill, in Prospect Street.\\nRobert Taylor has carried on the business for eight\\nor ten years in the rear of Robert McCuUoch s.\\nThere have been several other small brass-founders\\nduring the last few years, but the larger machine-shops\\nand the locomotive-works do so much of their own\\nbrass-founding that there does not seem to be much\\nof an opening for independent foundries.\\nGeist-Mills. Ceirneliiiti Van Winkle. The oldest\\ngrist-mill in this vicinity of which we have any posi-\\ntive knowledge was owned by Cornelius Van Winkle\\nin 1792, and had been in operation at least thirty\\nyears prior to that time and probably still longer. It\\nstood on the river-bank near the foot of Mulberry\\nStreet, and had one run of stone. It was sold by Van\\nWinkle to the Society for Establishing Useful Manu-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0767.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "452\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfactures in 1793, and by tlie society leased to various\\nparties subsequently, among them David Bensen,\\nDavid Griffith and Bensen, and from 1801 to Abraham\\nVan Uouten and Cornelius Van Winkle, for rent of\\none hundred dollars a year. In 1810 the mill was\\nswept away by the greatest freshet recorded in the\\nhistory of the Passaic River.\\nTimothij B. Crane. Shortly after the destruction of\\nthe old grist-mill, Timothy B. Crane, a New York\\ncarpenter, came to Paterson and established a grist-\\nand saw-mill on Van Houten Street, where the In-\\ndustry Mill of R. H. Adams now stands. He kept\\nit ui until about 1826, when it fell into the hands of\\nothers, by whom it was continued for six or eight\\nyears. The mill had two run of stone.\\nThere were two or three other small grist-mills in\\nand about Paterson at various times, but they were of\\nminor importance. One of them was run for ten or\\nfifteen years up to 1844 by Albert and Jarvis Gurnee,\\non the site of the present Wiiverley Mill.\\nJohn Bentleij. In 1852, John Bentley started a flour-\\nmill with two run of stones, in the long, low building\\nattached to the Beaver Mill, on Prospect Street, on the\\nnorth side. He was not familiar with the business\\nhimself, and employed Albert Gurnee sis his miller.\\nThe latter subsequently removed from Paterson. In\\n1856 he took the lease of the Little Beaver Mill,\\non the river-bank, at the end of the lower race at the\\nfoot of Prospect Street. Curiously enough, he had\\nworked in this very building at his trade in the cotton-\\nshop of Godwin, Rogers Co. many years before.\\nHe moved into it with his grist machinery on the 1st\\nof January, 1857, and started up with three run of\\nstone. He .steadily built up a good country trade,\\ngrinding for all the country people in the vicinity.\\nDuring the war, when tlour was up to fifteen to\\ntwenty dollars a barrel, he ground from i 90,00(t to\\n$1(I0, HI0 worth of grain in the course of a year.\\nSince the war, and es|)ecially since the enormous\\ndevelopment of the great flour-mills in the far West,\\nnear the grain-growing country, the business has not\\nbeen so large, although he still retains the country\\ntrade to a gratifying extent. In 1877 he put in a\\nfourth run of stone. He grinds all sorts of grain,\\nmaking wheat into the very finest of flour, grinding\\ncorn, rye, buckwheat, and oat\u00c2\u00bb. The mill is of frame,\\nthree stories high with attic, and is thirty-eight by\\nsixty-eight feet. Everything about it is scrupulously\\nneat; the grain that is ground here conld be made\\ninto bread and eaten o(l the floors iinywhere in the\\nbuilding. The utmost pains arc taken to secure the\\nvery i)est results from the grain that goes into the\\nhoppers. Whatever is valueless as human food is\\ncarefully extracted from the kernel before the pure\\nessence is turned into flour. The grain is first taken\\nup-stairs in elevators and broken, cleaned, and win-\\nnowed repeatedly before being ground, and then it\\nOontvmponiiivou* ftccoitnt-book In p owM ri on of |]i\u00c2\u00ab writer.\\ngoes a seemingly endless round of travels through\\nelevators, troughs, bolters, and all sorts of machinerj\\nsome of it going from the bottom to the top of the\\nmill four or five times, and each time being bolted\\nI and cleansed more and more thoroughly before it is\\nallowed to leave the mill as Bentley s best family\\nflour. Many improvements have been introduced\\nby Mr. Bentley into the processes for securing the\\nfinest flour from the wheat, and he is continually\\nI pondering over new plans to make the best even\\nbetter. The annual production of the mill is now\\nI about $60,000.\\nS. C. Merrill.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 186!t, August Barnickel and\\nWilliam C. Fiiatz built a frame flour-mill at the foot\\n1 of Main Street, east side, to be run by steam-power,\\nI being the first steam flour-mill in Paterson. They\\nsold out in 1870 to Samuel C. Merrill, who soon more\\nthan doubled the capacity and the business of the\\nmill. The building wjis blown down in June, 1871,\\ni by a violent hurricane, and six months later the re-\\nbuilt structure was burned down. It has three run\\nof stones, and grinds all .sorts of grain, having a ca-\\npacity of 400 to 500 bushels daily. The business is\\nconfined to Paterson and vicinity, though many\\nfarmers from Rockland County, X. Y., coming to\\nthe Paterson market to sell produce, bring their grist\\nhere to be ground. The i resent mill is three stories\\nhigh, and covers an area of about fifty feet square.\\nThe Paper Manufacture. In 1802, Charles\\nKinsey and Israel Crane, who had paper-mills at\\nOrange and Bloomfield, came to Paterson and erected\\na factory on the site of the present Kssex Mill, on\\nMill Street, nearly opposite Van Houten. It was the\\nfinest paper-mill in New Jersey, if not in the United\\nStates, and was a welcome addition to the industries\\nof the town, being the second factory built here.\\nKinsey was a man of very superior talent, and for\\nmany years was one of the most prominent men in\\nthe State in all movements aflecting its material in-\\nterests. Thomas Fairchild bought out Crane s interest\\nin the business in 1805. The firm made paper by hand\\nonly, in single sheets, which of course wa.s a very te-\\ndious process. One day Mr. Kinsey, while visiting the\\ncotton-mill of the .society, near by, was struck by the\\npeculiar motion of a cotton-breaker, a machine long\\nago superseded in the cotton manufacture. It gave\\nhim the idea of making paper in a continuous sheet,\\nand he at once set about perfecting a machine to ac-\\ncomplish that highly desirable revolution in the paper\\nmanufacture. He received a i atcnt for such a machine\\nin 1H07, under the hand of Thomiis .IcH erson, Presi-\\ndent, James Madison affixing his own signature as\\nSecretary of State. Eighteen months after an Eng-\\nlish periodical published drawings and specifications\\nof a patent just issued to an Englishman, which bore\\na niarvclo\\\\is resemblance to those filed by Mr. Kinsey\\na year an l a half earlier in the Patent Xficc at Wa.sh-\\ningtoii. Mr. Kinsey was still at work on his machine,\\ntrying U) improve and perfect it, as it did not give him", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0768.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n453\\nentire satisfaction, when the war of 1812 led to such\\na sudden and urgent demand for cotton goods that\\nthe paper-mill was gradually filled with cotton ma-\\nchinery, to the exclusion of all else, and work on the\\nnew machine was suspended. After the war the cotton\\nindustry collapsed, as already stated, and Kinsey\\nFairchild failed. They dissolved partnersliip in 1817,\\nand Mr. Kinsey leased a small building near the Essex\\nMill for the term of seven years, in which he and his\\nsons resumed the paper manufacture, continuing it in\\nthat place until 1824, when they removed to New\\nProspect, or Hohokus, Bergen Co., erecting a paper-\\nmill there. The industry was now abandoned in\\nPaterson for several years.\\nDuring the fall of 1836 the mill of Paul Beggs,\\nmillwrights, which had been destroyed by fire, was\\nrebuilt, and in the early part of 1837 was occupied\\nby Edward Curtis, formerly of Massachusetts, as a\\npaper-mill. He had one machine, on which he made\\ncartridge-paper for the government, a very superior\\narticle of the kind. After running the mill for two\\nyears he went to New York, and the mill was taken\\nby Pierson Brooks, who operated it for a year or two,\\nand after various changes in its ownership it fell into\\nthe hands of the Ivanhoe Manufacturing Company.\\nIn 1835, Henry V. Butler, whose fother had carried\\non the paper manufacture for some years at Suffield,\\nMass., and who had liimself a small paper-mill in\\nNew York, came to Paterson and arranged for the\\nerection of a paper-mill on Spruce Street and Stony\\nroad. His brother-in-law, Capt. Robert L. Taylor,\\nwho had amassed a large fortune in shipping, ad-\\nvanced most of the money invested in the new enter-\\nprise. The mill called the Passaic was erected\\nby Roswell L. Colt, and leased to Butler Taylor.\\nIt was started in the summer of 1837 with two ma-\\nchines. Very fine paper was made in this mill, equal\\nto any in the country, for Mr. Butler, although not a\\npractical paper-maker himself, had the sagacity to\\nemploy the best assistance to be had, and in this way\\nhe succeeded in building up an enviable reputation\\nfor his mill. He was a man of immense energy, and\\ni was a thorough business man. He aimed to produce\\nthe best paper, and to that end to have the best paper-\\nmill and the best paper-makers. He employed from\\nfifty to seventy-five hands in the Passaic Mill. About\\n1847, Butler Taylor bought the old Curtis Paper-\\nMill, which they called the Aresseoh Mill, and\\noperated it for a while. In 1848 they bought the ad-\\njacent property, and began the erection of the present\\nIvanhoe Paper-Mill, which they started running in\\n1850. It was fitted up with two machines, and all\\nthe most improved machinery and appliances of the\\nday, so that when it was completed it was regarded\\nas the finest paper-mill in the country, if not in the\\nworld. It cost about three hundred and fifty thousand\\ndollars when completed, and when all the improve-\\nments were added the total cost had footed up close\\nto half a million dollars. Some years later an im-\\nmense drj ing-machine was imported, on which half\\na mile of paper is dried at once. Messrs. Butler\\nTaylor were incorporated in 1862 as The Ivanhoe\\nManufacturing Company, and in 1866 they trans-\\nferred the mill property to the company, which has\\nsince conducted the business. Both of the original\\nmembers have died, and the concern is now controlled\\nby Henry V. Butler, Jr. The mill employs about\\n100 hands, and turns out three or four tons of paper\\nevery day, the annual production being upwards of\\n$250,000. The premises are really not large enough\\nto allow for the pressing demand there exists for the\\nextension of the business, and this drawback Mr.\\nButler has sought to remedy by the introduction of\\nimproved machinery. Some years ago an immense\\nturbine-wheel, rated at three hundred and fifty horse-\\npower, was put in to replace the old overshot water-\\nwheels, and to give much more power. Other improved\\nappliances have been introduced recently to keep the\\nmill abreast of the times.\\nThe character of the production varies from time to\\ntime, according to the demand. Now it is the finest\\nFrench folio that is turned out, or it is the pink-col-\\nored paper for some sensational illustrated periodical,\\nOr again it is the most delicate cream-tinted note-paper\\nthat esthetic lovers afl ect. It is one of the most in-\\nteresting mills in the city to visit; but paper-makers\\nare extremely jealous of their mills, and Mr. Butler s\\nconfidence having been once abused, he is extremely\\nchary of allowing visitors to go through the establish-\\nment. Those who are thus favored are usually first\\ntaken to a large brick building, fifty-five by forty feet,\\nnext the raceway, where they see how the rags and\\nstock come, much of it from Italy, and where it is\\ndusted. Near this is a brick shop, two stories high,\\nthirty by seventy-five feet, on Spruce Street, where\\nthe stock is separated and assorted. Ladies are gen-\\nerally advised not to visit this place. In a two-story\\nstone building, sixty by thirty feet, the stock is boiled\\nto purify it and partially reduce it to pulp. In the\\nmain building, of stone, two stories high, forty -five\\nby two hundred feet, the pulp is bleached by chemical\\naction, and in the upper floor are the beaters. There\\nis another bleachery, of brick, one story high, seventy\\nby twenty feet, between the upper and middle race-\\nways, and adjoining it is a sizing- and drying-room,\\nbrick, one story high, twenty by one hundred and fifty\\nfeet in area. The steam and hot water used in these\\nbuildings are supplied by large boilers of one hun-\\ndred horse-power, located in a boiler-room on Spruce\\nStreet. The average visitor is chiefly interested in\\nthe two great Fourdrinier machines, which transform\\nthe watery pulp to the consistence of paper in inter-\\nminable sheets six feet wide. They are situated in a\\nhigh brick building of one story, fifty by one hun-\\ndred feet, its gable end towards the street. In\\nanother brick building of like character, fifty-five\\nby one hundred feet, are the office and the calen-\\ndering- and finishing-rooms. The entrance to the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0769.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "454\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN A D PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JEKSEV.\\nofiSce is through huge iron-sheathed doors, bearing\\nstriking figures of the knight Ivanlioe in battle array\\nin him-nlkf, or through a battlemented turret in the\\nyard.\\nScreen- Plateg for Paper-Mitls. One of the most im-\\nportant processes in the manufacture of paper at\\nleast those of the finer grades having a hard surface\\nis the screening of tiie pulp after it luis been thor-\\noughly dissolved and macerated in tlic beating-engine,\\nand before it is delivered on the wire netting which\\ncarries it through the paper-machine, where it is\\nmade into paper. Unless every particle of foreign\\nmatter is eliminated from the pulp, and unless the\\npulp itself is all of uniform fineness, the paper made\\nfrom it will be lumpy or specked witli dark spots. To\\navoid this the pulp is passed through brass plates\\nabout three feet long, a foot wide, and half an inch\\nthick, in which arc cut numerous slits. These slits\\nare cut into the plates about four inches long and an\\ninch apart but they are of wonderful fineness, even\\nto tlie two hundredth and fiftieth part of an inch in\\nwi lth. The disk that cuts them has an edge finer\\nthan the edge of a watch-spring. It might well be\\nwondered how the pulp can be forced through aper-\\ntures so fine but under the plates, when in position,\\na powerful current of air is applied, which sucks the\\nsoft nia-ss througli the slits, l- roin the fineness of the\\nwork it may be readily understood that the-se plates\\nare very expensive. A few years ago Mr. Butler, of\\nthe Ivanhoe Mill, imported a set of six from England,\\nand they cost him eighteen hundred dollars in gold,\\nor three hundred dollars each. Formerly when these\\n|)lates were worn out they had to be sold as old brass\\nand melted over, to ])repare the brass for cutting\\nanew. In 1873, Mr. Henry V. Butler, Jr., organized\\nthe\\nAihmiin Screen-Plate Compaiiij, for the purpose of\\nrepairing, or rather recutting, such plates. He had\\nsecured the use of a |)atcnt process whereby the old\\nplates could be renewed at comparatively small cost,\\nand as the work was hailed with pleasure by paper-\\nmanufacturers generally, the company has since en-\\njoyed a fair share of prosperity. As the cutting is\\ndone by machinery of a costly character, it re juires\\nbut few men, and only two or three are employed.\\nThe works are in the rear of the front buililings on\\nVan Houten Street, directly opposite Mill, and the\\nprocess being a peculiar one, great care is taken to\\nprevent the intrusion of unauthorized strangers, for\\nobvious reasons.\\nAiimindii/e Srreiii-Pldlr Cnmpniit/. In 1S70, Mr.\\nNathan Barnert, of I aterson, .secured the use for\\nAmerica of the patents of Alexander N. Annandalc,\\nof Scotland, for the repair and making of screen-\\nplates such as are described above. Mr. Barnert\\nsecured the services of William C. Martin, who had\\nmanaged the business of the other compimy from the\\nstart, and he now is superintcmlcnt of the .Annandale\\nCompany. They have rurniMhe l most of the paper-\\nmills in the country making fine jiaper with screens\\nof their manufacture, and the bu.siness ha attained\\nlarge dimensions, so that already the patent right has\\nbeen paid for and the manufacture has become very\\nprofitable. Robert A. Haley, for many years city\\nclerk of Paterson, has charge of the outside business\\nof the company, to which also Mr. Barnert devotes\\nmuch of his time. This is the first establishment of\\nthe kind in the country for the making of new plates,\\nas the Ashmun Company was the first in the United\\nStates to repair them. The Annandale Company\\noccupied the first Hoor of the central rear extension\\nof the Dale Mills, on Railroad Avenue. Five nr six\\nhands are employed.\\nThe repairing of plates done by these two com-\\npanies effects a saving of two-thirds to the paper-\\nmanufacturers. The importance of the process may\\nbe therefore readily appreciated.\\nCHAPTER LXIl.\\nCITY OF VATKR. Oii\u00e2\u0080\u0094{r,\u00e2\u0080\u009eii!,nied).\\nThe Woolen Iskurtry. The old Dutch vrouws\\nwho lived about Totowa when Paterson was founded\\nof course used to card and spin and dye and weave\\nmuch of their own wool into clothing for themselves\\nand their families. .Soon after the place was founded\\nthere were some feeble efforts to start the woolen\\nmanufacture in a small way, generally by enterprising\\nmen in their own cellars or yards. There were\\nseveral hat-shops within two or three vcars after\\nthe .society came to the Pa. saic Falls, and great and\\nmarvelous arc the stories told of the capacity of some\\nof the old hatters to absorb whisky. There is less\\nsaid about their skill and industry.\\nA fulling-mill was started as early as l.siiK. either\\non lower Main Street or on Van Houten Street.\\nWithin two or three years thereafter John Clark did\\nsome wool-carding in a long, low building on the\\nriver-bank, just back of Bentley s flour-mill. The\\nbuildings still standing there were perhaps used by\\nClark. He carric l on the business for some years.\\nJohn Flood dyed woolen goods on West Street in\\n1K12, and possibly he worked at other departtnents of\\nthe woolen industry about the same time.\\nIn his wise forethought for the future growth of\\nPaterson, Roswell L. Colt, the governor of the so-\\nciety, in the early jiart of the present c ciitury, lo.st no\\np|iortunity to secure the establishment in the town\\nof a variety of manufactures, as the surest guarantee\\nof the general welfare of the inhabitants. He sought\\nto avert what has been one of the principal drawbacks\\nto the permaniHit prosperity of the place, the concen-\\ntration of capital iti one or two industrii s. Actu-\\nated by these motives, he endeavored, almost as soon\\nas he secured control f f the society, to introduce the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0770.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n455\\nwoolen manufacture in Paterson. To that end he\\naided in the erection of the\\nBaiver Mill, and associated himself with John\\nThomson, Jolin Meyer, Joseph Sterlits, William Cut-\\nting, and Thomas Fairchild in organizing the Beaver\\nWoolen Factory at Paterson. They established the\\nfactory in 1812, the first year of the war, being doubt-\\nless stimulated thereto by the sudden and great de-\\nmand for home manufactures of every kind occa-\\nsioned by the cutting off of the British imports of\\ncloths. It is probable that the business ceased to be\\nprofitable on the reopening of our ports after that\\nwar.\\nJohn Barrow d- Sons appear to have been the first\\nfirm to attempt the manufacture of woolen goods on\\nany considerable scale in Paterson, and their business\\nwas not purely a woolen industry. They wove negro\\ncloth and satinets. The former were made with a\\nvery coarse cotton warp, having a wool filling, and\\nwere sold in the South for the use of the slaves. The\\nlatter were a finer class of cotton and woolen goods.\\nThe Barrows John Barrow, Sr., John Barrow, Jr.,\\nand Lawrence Barrow, all of New York City came\\nto Paterson in 1831, and fitted up some frame build-\\nings for their use just back of the present Waverley\\nMill, at the foot of Mill Street, in Van Houten. It\\nwas perhaps the spring of 1832 before they got fairly\\nin operation, with all their machinery in place. They\\nstarted on quite an elaborate scale for those days, and\\nhad seven double carding-machines, two billys, four\\nmules, three power-jennies and a hand-jenny, twenty-\\nseven power-looms and thirteen hand-looms, one broad\\ngig-mill and three narrow gig-mills, one brushing-\\nmachine, three trellys, two presses and press plates\\nand press papers, three dye vats, two kettles, two\\nfiilling-stocks, eight shearing-machines, two indigo-\\nmills, and the other usual accessories of a woolen-\\nfactory. They wove satinets on the power-looms.\\nSoon after starting they added other machinery, in-\\ncluding wool-jiickers, grinding- and rolling-machines,\\netc. From the foregoing particulars it will be seen\\nthat they expected to do a profitable business. How-\\never, they do not seem to have had much ready cash\\nof their own, and after running the mill for about\\ntwo years they were constrained to give it up.\\nStephen R. Parkliurst next appears on the scene as\\nthe manager of this factory. He came from New\\nYork, and was a man of marked originality, which\\nhe evinced in the invention of some of the most im-\\nportant improvements in the woolen manufacture.\\nHe remained at the factory until 1845, but the estab-\\nlishment did not succeed, and changed owners several\\ntimes, while there was a good deal of evasion and\\nmystery as to the real ownership. At last it fell into\\nthe hands of Richard M. Rand, or Johnson, Rand\\nCo., the Co. probably being Mr. Parkhurst. In\\nthe early part of 1845 the property passed into the\\npossession of\\nElkha Boudinut Atterbi(rij. Jlr. Atterbury had\\nbeen spinning cotton yarn in the Hamilton Mill for\\ntwo years before this, and having sold some yarn to\\nparties running the woolen-mill, and who were not\\nable to pay, he concluded thattlie best thing he could\\ndo would be to take the whole concern, which he pro-\\nceeded to do, paying the owners of the mill a hand-\\nsome price for the property. He had had no previous\\nexperience in the business, but nevertheless, with his\\npractical knowledge of machinery, he soon introduced\\nsuch improvements that the weekly capacity of the\\nmill was increased from sixteen hundred yards to\\nfive thousand yards, and the hands, instead of earning\\ntwo dollars per week, could make twice and three\\ntimes as much. He continued the manufacture of\\nnegro cloths for about three years, when a Massa-\\nchusetts cotton company got up a heavy cotton fabric\\nnearly as heavy as that of mixed cotton and wool\\ngoods, and, moreover, having fancy colors, which\\npromptly appealed to the heart of the susceptible\\nslaves, and supplanted the plainer though more .sub-\\nstantial article. Mr. Atterbury then turned his at-\\ntention to the weaving of fine French doeskins, and\\nsucceeded admirably in that line, the best theretofore\\nmade in the country. He quit the business in 1852.\\nLawton Cutler carried on the woolen manufacture\\nfor a short time about 1841-45 in the basement of\\nthe Franklin Mill. The machinery was afterwards\\nremoved to the Mallory Mill, where they made satin-\\nets. They discontinued the business about 1845.\\nBenjamin Bailey began spinning woolen yarn more\\nthan thirty years ago. Later he made a heavy\\ncoarse grade of woolen blankets. He continued the\\nbusiness until about 1865, occupying an old frame\\nbuilding on the river-bank at the foot of River Street,\\nwhere there was a moderate water-power.\\nGeorge Wylie operated the Beaver Mill for many\\nyears, spinning woolen yarn, and napping woolen and\\ncotton goods. Owing to his skill in the latter line he\\nmade it profitable for some of the cotton manufactu-\\nrers to produce canton-fiannel, which for some years\\nwas a valuable feature of Paterson industries. Sub-\\nsequently, about 1864, he associated with him in the\\nbusiness George Gates, and a year or two later James\\nChadwick took Mr. Oates interest in the firm. Mr.\\nWylie dying about this time, the business was soon\\nafter closed out. In 18G8 the firm turned out six\\nhundred pieces, or nine thousand pounds of canton-\\nflannel, daily.\\nBacliman Co. About 1866, Maximilian Bachman\\nand Eugene Laurent began making dress and cloak\\ntrimmings in the Franklin Mill. In the course of a\\nyear or two Hermann and Henry W. Bachman took\\nthe business, and started weaving balmoral skirts, in\\nthe course of a short time adding the weaving of silk\\nand wool shawls. They .subsequently turned their\\nattention principally to the silk manufacture.\\nSolomon Bachman leased the Hamilton Mill, about\\n1868-69, and wove woolen shawls and balmoral skirts.\\nHe gradually extended his operations, introducing the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0771.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "456\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfinest woolen machinery, and turned out a superior\\nclass of goods, su|K riorbotii in design and tinish. The\\nmill was filled with every appliance for carrying on\\nthe manufacture on an extensive scale, and an ihi-\\nmense business was built up. The shawls of all wool\\nand of silk and wool were extremely popular. They\\nwere dyed on the preniise.s. About 1875, Mr. Bacli-\\nmau turned his attention to the production of anotber\\ncla s of woolen goods, and set a few looms on cassi-\\nnieres and diagonals for gentlemen s garments. He\\ngradually improved in this branch, until he bade\\nfair to build up a large trade in that line, and thus\\nto establish Paterson s supremacy in another direc-\\ntion but unfortunately, while the mill was running\\nto its fullest capacity, and orders were on hand that\\nwould have kept it busy for months, it was destroyed\\nby fire, in April, 1877, inflicting a loss of one hundred\\nand thirty thou-sand dollars. Mr. Bachman just then\\nreceived a favorable offer of a woolen-mill in New\\nEngland, with its machinery standing, and being\\nanxious to get to work without the slightest delay, he\\naccepted that mill until he could rebuild on the Pat-\\nerson property, but after getting well in operation in\\nhis new place he concluded to remain there, and so\\nwas lost to Paterson what was just promising to be-\\ncome an important industry.\\nUnion Manufacturiny Com/jtm;/. In 1868, John H.\\nChase came from Connecticut to Paterson, and under\\nthe name of the Union Manufacturing Company\\nstarted the making of flocks in the old Union\\nWorks, at Market and Spruce Streets, with two or\\nthree men. It may be here explained that flocks\\nare the short fibres of wool, which are obtained by\\ngrinding or otherwise separating the fibres in woolen\\ngoods, such as hats, clothes, etc. This flock is put\\ninto the fulling-mill after the woolen web is woven, or\\ninto the flannel, and is incorporated into the tex-\\nture of the flannel, forming the nap. It is used on\\nsatinet goods to cover up the cotton. It is (piite a\\ndilferent article from shoddy, with which it is often\\nconfoundcil. In 1869, Mr. Chase removed to the old\\nUailcy Mill, just referred to, and there put in a patent\\nturbine-wheel of his own invention, whereby he ob-\\ntained twenty horse-power with three feet of water.\\nHe now (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2m|)loycd four or five men, and made four\\nhundred to five hundred pounds per day of flocks.\\nIn 1872 he sold out the business to\\nJohnson t Austin, Pierrepont Edwards Johnson\\nand John T. Austin, who speedily began extending\\nthe business. They retaiiicrl the name of the I nion\\nManufacturing Company until IS7 .I, when they as-\\nsumed the present firm-name. .Vbout 1877 they began\\nthe making of wool extract. This is a very peculiar\\nand delicate art. Delaines and other mixed woolen\\nand cotton goods are put through a process in which\\nthe cotton fibre isilcstroycd by cliemical action, which\\nnevertheless leaves the wool fibre unimpaired, so that\\nit can be -ardetl and spun its if it hail never been in-\\nside of a mill before. It is a remarkable discovcrv.\\nand of immense value to the country, utilizing vast\\nquantities of material which formerly was deemed\\nalmost absolutely worthless. The introiluction of this\\nindustry by Johnson Austin enabled them to run\\nwithout cessation all through the panic. Within\\nthe last three years alone the production has in-\\ncreased from one thousand pounds daily up to five\\nthousand pounds daily at the present time. During\\n1881 they used about five thousand pounds of rags,\\nnow it is far more. Prom 75 to 100 hands are em-\\nployed in the mill. There are but two or three con-\\ncerns in the country that have been successful in\\nmaking this wool extract, and the products of the\\nPaterson Mill command the highest price in the mar-\\nket. It sells for twenty-five to thirty-five cents per\\npound, while pure wool fetches from seventy-five\\ncents to one dollar per pound. The extract is used\\nwith the pure wool in proportion of from ten to fifty\\nper cent., whereby the woven fabric is cheapened in\\nthat proportion. It is chiefly used in weaving Cardi-\\ngan jackets, in stockinets, knit drawers and shirts, in\\nmiyed goods, Scotch cheviots, etc. In the fall of 1879\\nthe mill was burned down, but by October it had been\\nreplaced with fine brick structures which are a credit\\nto the neighborhood, which the old rookeries were\\nnot. In 1881 a fine three-story brick building was\\nadded to the works, which now comiirise one brick\\nbuilding, three stories high, one hundred by sixty-\\ntwo feet another, one story high, one hundred and\\nten by sixty-two feet another, two stories high, forty-\\ntwo by ninety-six feet and another of frame, three\\nstories high, fifty by fifty feet. The latter is used for\\nmaking flocks, and the second floor of the two-story\\nbuilding; the main brick building is used for making\\nthe extract. In a large dye-house in the rear are\\ndyed eight hundred to one thousand pounds daily.\\nMr. Chase has been the superintendent for the firm\\nsince 1875.\\nClIAPTKK LXlll.\\nCITY (IF PArKR.*!ON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Cbn\u00c2\u00abiwNerf).\\nFlax, Hemi an i Jute.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0)\u00c2\u00ab Duel- Mill.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 It\\nwius iluriiig 1813 or 1814 that the mill was built after-\\nwards known as Pas.saic Mill, No. 1, situated on\\nVan Houten Street, opposite the foot of Mill Street.\\nThe title to it wils soon vested in John Colt, who\\nthere began the manufacture of duck, or sail-cloth, for\\nthe United States government. He first bought the\\nduck and finished it, tjiking it in the gray from\\nother American nninufacturers. He subsequently im-\\nported his own flax, bleached, spun, and wove it. He\\nhad some amusing and very odd experienccts in trying\\nto get improved machinery, and some of the schemes of\\n.sanguine inventors wen laughably crude. Two orthree\\nyears after starting he had fifty or sixty hand-looms\\nrunning weaving linen duck. He was not satisfied", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0772.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0773.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "V", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0774.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n457\\nwith this manner of production, and made many ex-\\nperiments to improve the process. Finally Thomas\\nRogers proposed to build him some power-looms, and\\nhis offer was accepted under certain conditions. His\\nlooms were a success, and thereafter Mr. Colt s cus-\\ntomers would have none of the hand-loom woven\\ngoods. The business was highly prosperous, but was\\ngiven up by Mr. Colt for a still more productive one,\\nthe weaving of cotton duck, about 1827, as already\\ndescribed.\\nPhfenix Flax-MiU. In 1820, John Traverse came\\nto Paterson from Baltimore and invested considerable\\nmoney in the manufacture of linen sail-cloth in the\\nPha\u00c2\u00bbnix Mill,- which had previously been run exclu-\\nsively as a cotton-mill. The flax was bleached out in\\nthe yard in front and back of the mill, spun and pre-\\npared for the weaving, most of which was done in the\\nhomes of the operatives. In the course of time other\\nbranches of the flax manufacture were added to the\\nmaking of sail-cloth, and cordage for ships was made.\\nIn 1824 the concern was turned into a stock company,\\nThe Phcenix Manufacturing Company having been\\nincorporated in that year by the Legislature. Mr.\\nTraverse owned the stock, and retained his control for\\nabout thirty years.\\nAs the cotton industry was developed in the South,\\nthere arose a demand for flax-tow gunny bagging, and\\nfor some years this was a profitable manufacture at\\nthe Phcenix Mill. It was in 1S24 that the long, low\\nbrick building was erected along the edge of the race-\\nway, which was torn down in 1881 and replaced by\\nthe present elegant structure. It was not long after\\nthat the main mill was doubled in size by an addition\\non the west end. Other buildings were also added\\nfrom time to time, indicating the prosperity of the\\ncompany and the successful management of Mr.\\nTraverse. In 1832 the mill used about 500,000 pounds\\nof flax and 300,000 pounds of cotton, employing\\nabout 200 hands in the former and 250 in the latter\\ndepartment.* He was for many years one of the most\\nprominent citizens of the town. In 1854 the flax\\nmanufacture was discontinued, the mill having fallen\\ninto other hands, and for about ten years thereafter it\\nwas again run in whole or in part as a cotton -mill.\\nWilliam H. K. Bibby was appointed secretary of the\\ncompany in 1826, and retained the position until his\\ndeath in 1880.\\nIn the mean time, and from a very early period in\\nthe history of the town, the manufacture of flax had\\nbeen carried on to a considerable extent by private\\nfamilies in their own homes, and the production in\\nthis modest manner was at times very large. The\\nwriter has full lists of all the families that thus wove\\nflax at diflerent periods, with the production in each\\nThese particulars were given lo the writer by Mr. Colt in 1873.\\nLetter of John Tniverse.\\n3 Pamphlet Laws of New Jersey, 1824.\\nMS. Census of Paterson, July 4, 1832, by the Rev. Dr. Fisher, in the\\nwriter s possession.\\nfamily, but space will not admit of a recapitulation\\nhere.\\nDolphin Mill. In 1844 two New York gentlemen,\\nwho had been more or less directly connected with\\nthe shipping interest, conceived the project of en-\\ngaging largely in the manufacture of hemp in Pater-\\nson. The outcome of their resolution was the Ameri-\\ncan Hemp Manufactory, on Spruce Street, west side,\\njust .south of Oliver Street extended. This was a\\nstone building, forty-eight by two hundred feet, two\\nstories high, with attic in addition, and a wheel-house,\\nthirty by forty-eight feet, one story high, in the rear.\\nThe principal object of the firm was to make hemp\\ninto sail-cloth, canvas, and other articles adapted for\\nuse on vessels. Subsequently the manufacture of flax\\nand jute was added, and in 18.50 they introduced the\\nweaving of jute carpets, and a style of mottled\\ngoods, by doubling and twisting two threads of differ-\\nent colors into one thread. They were also the first\\nto introduce the manufacture. of tailors linings made\\nentirely from jute.\\nIn 1851 the property passed into the hands of John\\nTaylor Johnson and Robert L. Taylor, the uncle of\\nthe former, and they immediately procured a charter\\nas the Dolphin Manufacturing Company, so named\\nafter one of Mr. Taylor s numerous ships, of which he\\nwas specially fond. In 1868 the mill had 1200\\nspindles and 50 looms, all of the heaviest description,\\nand produced about 100,000 pounds of yarn monthly,\\nusing 600 tons of raw material annually. In 1869\\nthe company began extending their operations, and\\nraised the whole of their mill another story, and car-\\nrying up the wheel-house with the rest, so that the\\nmill was now forty-eight by two hundred and thirty\\nfeet, three stories high, with attic. In June, 1881,\\nthe erection of another structure was begun in front\\nof the old mill, being of brick, three stories high, one\\nhundred and ten feet front on Spruce Street, by one\\nhundred and forty feet deep. This is a very hand-\\nsome building, the fatjade presenting an attractive ap-\\npearance. A new boiler-house and engine-house were\\nalso built during the winter of 1881-82, and in the\\nmean time a sturdy attack was made on the rocky hill\\non the rear of the mill-lot, and running up to the\\nancient Stony road, the intention being to make the\\nsite of this hill available for still other immense mill\\nstructures connected with the establishment. For a\\nlong time the product of the mill has been exclu-\\nsively jute gooods. Hemp carpet and Napier mat-\\nting are the principal products. The latter is in fancy\\ndesigns, and is in much request throughout the coun-\\ntry, particularly in the West, although it is used in all\\nsections for churches, halls, and at the summer resorts,\\nas more stylish than cocoa-matting, being finer and\\nmore attractive in appearance. Jute twine is also\\nmade for Ihe use of wool-growers and tobacco-grow-\\ners to tie up their wool and tobacco hence it finds\\nBishop s Hist. Am. Manufactares.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0777.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "458\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nits chief market in the West and in the tobacco-grow-\\ning States. The reader will be astonished to learn\\nthe immensity of the consnmption of these two articles.\\nTaking for example the output of eleven days in De-\\ncember, by no means beyond the average, this mill\\nturned out 77,1G0 yards of carpet and matting; that\\nis, an average of more than /our mi/es per day The\\nproduction of twine was at tlie rate of more than four\\nIons daily I All the raw material comes direct from\\nIndia, anil is put through every process at this mill\\ntill it is turned out finished. Eighty looms were in\\nuse, with forty-four sides of spinning, before the latest\\naddition to the mill, and oOo hands were employed,\\nwho received an average of six dollars per week, the\\naggregate wages for a year being about ?:l7o,ii(lO. Upon\\nthe completion of the pending additions it was expected\\nto employ about 100 i hands, and to double the pro-\\nduction. The mill was in 1880 the largest of the kind\\nin America with its production doubled it will be\\none of the very largest in the world, and will turn out\\nin a year s time carpet enough to make a foot-path\\nacross the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Taylor having died\\nsome years ago, the present owner is Mr. Johnston.\\nThe actual manager, however, is John Sloane, who is\\nthe president of the company, while Herbert John-\\nston, the son of the owner, is secretary and trea-surer.\\nThe capital is $250, (HHt. John 15. Meldrum was super-\\nintendent of the mill from 1844 until 1867, since which\\ntime William Aitchison has held that i)osition. For\\nthe past two years, however, Mr. Aitchison has re-\\ntired from active work, but the company retains him\\nin his office, while the actual superintendence has dc-\\nv(dvcd upon John Cheyne.\\nJo/iii .Siriiihiinif.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -In 18 M), .lolin ^^winburne started\\na rope-walk in an old frame building at the southwest\\ncorner of Market Street and Railroad Avenue. F rom\\nthere he soon removed to a small building on the\\nriver-bank, in the rear of Todd Raflerty s shops,\\nand began the manufacture of flax and hem]i yarns,\\ntwine and cordage. The next year he removed to a\\nsmall building adjoining lluntonn s coll ce and spice-\\nmill, on Broadway opposite Bridge Street, and the\\nyear following he leased more extensive premises on\\nthe southeast corner of Paterson and Ellison Street.s,\\nwhere he cnlarge l his business and employed about\\ntwenty hands. He remained there six or seven years,\\nwhen he took Robert Briggs into partnershi]), and\\nthe firm of John Swinburne Co. leiused a shop\\nback of the Oun Mill, where they continued the busi-\\nncsH, and added that of making jute gunny bagging\\nfor baling cotton. In 1874 they took a part of the\\nHope Mill, and extended their production materially,\\nuntil at one time they used five liuiiilred Ions of jiite\\nbutts yearly, |)r(\u00c2\u00ablucing five hundred thousand yanls of\\ngoods. Mr. Briggs withdrew from the firm about a year\\nlater, and in lH7ri, Mr. Swinburne took into the luisi-\\nness bis son, William J., when the firm wits John Swin-\\nburne it (son. They bought the Hopi Mill about this\\ntime, and occupie l the whole of it in their business,\\nwhich had become very extensive. They then em-\\nployed sixty hands, and used six hundred tons of\\njute butt.s annually. Owing to a variety of cau.ses,\\nincluding the warm competition which had ari.sen\\nin some of the Eastern States in this sort of manu-\\nfacture, the coiicern ceased to be profitable, and in\\nthe course of a year or two the firm closed up the mill.\\nThe elder Mr. Swinburne had before this been ap-\\npointed cashier of the First National Bank of Pater-\\nson, and was not able to devote much attention to the\\nmill.\\nJ. C. Todd d- Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 18(i2, Samuel Furnival and\\nMichael Ritchey started the manufacture of jute rope\\nand jute twine in Paterson. Ritchey had formerly\\nworked for twelve years in the Dolphin Mill, and at\\nthis time was superintendent of a mill run by Furni-\\nval in New York. The new firm took the westerly\\nwing of the Pha-nix Mill, a low, two-story brick\\nbuilding, occupying the lower floor for their manu-\\nfacturing, and the upper floor as a machine-shop for\\nrepairing their machinery. They employed about\\nforty-live hands. In IStJtj they erected a two-story\\nbrick mill, sixty-two by one hundred feet, at the\\nnorthwest corner of Taylor and Jackson Streets, to\\nwhich they then removed their business, employing\\na much larger number of hands. In 18(5i\u00c2\u00bb they gave\\nup uiaking rope, and began the manufacture of cot-\\nton bagging out of jute butt.s. The following year\\nFurnival .sold out his interest in the business to Jame.s\\nH. Briscoe, a Philadelphia dentist, and the firm-name\\nbecame Briscoe Ritchey. Furnival removed to\\nBrooklyn, where he continued in the same business\\non his own account. Bri.scoe retired from the firm in\\n1872, being succeeded by Joseph C. Todd, and the firm-\\nname hius since been J. C. Todd Co. In 187() they\\nbuilt a two-story brick store-house, twenty-eight by\\none hundred feet, on Jackson Street, in the rear of the\\nmill, and in 1880 another store-house, also of brick, two\\nstories high, forty by fifty feet, was erecteil to accom-\\nmodate the steadily-increasing business. They now\\nemploy 100 hands in making bagging for cotton out\\nof jute butt-s, of which they use six or seven thousand\\nbales, weighing four hundred pounds each, in the course\\nof a year, importing the nuiterial from India. They\\npay out foo.ooo yearly in wages. Mr. Ritihey is the\\nsuperintendent and nuinager of the mill, for which\\nhis practical knowledge admirably fit* him. Mr. Todd,\\nit might be remarked, operated some rope machinery\\nin Paterson a-s early as 1851.\\nBnrhniir Flax-Sjnnninri (hmpany. Some account\\nis elsewhere given of the Barbour family, who for\\nihrei generations have been among the greatest linen\\nmanufacturers in the north of Ireland, their works at\\nLisburn, near Belfast, being among the largest of the\\nkind in the world. Their establishment at that place\\nis complete within itself Not only is the Hax sub-\\njected to every process involved in the manipulation\\nof the raw material from the crudest state, but the\\nfirm have immense machine-shops of their own, where", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0778.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "minriijirrrrL\\n1 1\\ni I\\ng\\nP", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0779.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0780.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n459\\nthey build and repair all the machinery they need on\\neither side of the Atlantic. For many years they had\\nmade large sales in America, Thomas Barbour having\\ncharge of their New York house. The imjiosition of\\nthe tarift of 1862 and the high rate of exchange led\\nthem to conceive the idea of establishing a branch of\\ntheir immense factories in America, and looking about\\nthey concluded that Paterson was the most available\\nplace in which to locate. Thomas and Samuel Bar-\\nbour carried the project into execution, and in 1864\\nthey bought the old Passaic Mill, No. 2, formerly run\\nby John Colt for the weaving of tine sheetings and\\ncotton duck, on Spruce Street, opposite Oliver. The\\nmill was a fine structure, though but a toy house\\ncompared with the mills at Lisburn. Here they em-\\nployed several hundred hands, and added continually\\nto their machinery until the building could hold no\\nmore; ihey enlarged it from time to time, but still\\nthey lacked room. Having bought the entire block\\nbounded by Grand, Prince, Spring, and Slater Streets,\\nthey proceeded in 1877 to erect thereon the finest\\nspecimen of mill architecture in New Jersey, if not\\nin America. In area it was fifty feet front on Grand\\nStreet by two hundred feet deep, and four stories high.\\nWhile presenting on the exterior every appearance of\\nsolidity, it was relieved by sundry projections, which\\nserved useful purposes besides adding to the beauty\\nof the structure. Here and there a modest turret\\npeeped a few feet over the edge of the roof, and an\\noccasional pinnacle served also to relieve the severity\\nof rigid lines. The engine- and boiler-house was a\\nvery handsome and spacious building, while the\\nchimney, octagonal in shape, and relieved at frequent\\nintervals by light-colored belt-courses, and surmounted\\nby a broad cornice at an elevation of one hundred\\nand eightj feet, is ornamental as well as useful.\\nBut it is the inside of the mill that impresses the\\nvisitor with the sense of security and solidity. The\\nstairways are all inclosed in solid brick walls, and\\n^re themselves of brick and stone. Massive wrought-\\nBron beams span the interior from side to side, and on\\nbese are built brick arches, which support the floors\\nabove. These floors, again, are of bluestone flags, in-\\nfelining from the centre to the side walls, so that they\\nan be readily flushed with water, which then runs\\nbffin gutters provided for the purpose. This is the\\ntyle of construction throughout. The building, if\\nnot absolutely fire-proof, is as nearly so as the inge-\\nauity of man can make it. It is not easy to see how\\nlor where a fire could make much headway in such a\\naassive structure, with so little for the flames to feed\\nipon. But flax is a very inflammable article, and the\\nSanger of fire has been foreseen and provided against\\npn other ways in addition to making the building itself\\nproof against the flames. On each floor and on each\\nBide are laid pafeiit sprinklers, so constructed that at\\nla certain degree of temperature they will open iunu-\\n[lerable valves and throw all over the room copious\\nRets of water, propelled with all the force that a head\\nof one hundred and eighty feet can give. There are\\nother appliances also for throwing water into any\\npart of the mill. The water is supplied from a pond\\non Garret Mountain, one hundred and eighty feet\\nabove Grand Street. This magnificent building had\\nscarcely been occupied and stocked with machinery\\nbrought over from their works in Ireland before they\\nset about doubling its size, and in 1878 it was made\\nas long again, so that now it is fifty by four hundred\\nfeet in area, four stories high. In February, 1879,\\nthe Spruce Street mill was destroyed by fire. It was\\nat once rebuilt, in imitation in all respects of the\\nGrand Street mill, except that it is not so long, there\\nbeing less room available for the purpose. It is fifty\\nby one hundred and eighty feet. Water and steam\\nare both used for power. In the Grand Street mill\\nthe power is supplied by a magnificent double Corliss\\nengine of five hundred horse capacity. It is a beauty.\\nBoth buildings are heated by steam. During the year\\n1881 they built another immense stone mill on Grand\\nand Morris Streets, forty-eight by four hundred feet,\\nthree stories high. This they lease at present, but it\\nis expected that in a few years at the most they will\\nhave to use it in connection with their constantly\\ngrowing trade. Within four years after establishing\\ntheir mill in Paterson, or in 1868, they were making\\nabout fifty-two thousand pounds of shoe-thread, sad-\\ndlers thread, and gilling-twine every month, twenty-\\nsix tons of thread They were aLso making about a\\nton of fine thread for the manufacture of hose. In\\naddition to this product, they spooled four thousand\\ndozen spools monthly of tlie thread made by them in\\nIreland, and spooled seventy-five thousand pounds of\\ntailors thread, also made abroad. They now import\\nthe flax just as it comes into the market from the\\nfarms in the north of Ireland, where that crop has so\\nlong had its favorite home, and in their Paterson\\nmills they hackle, dress, and spin it into all kinds of\\nlinen-thread, shoe-thread, sewing-thread for tailors\\nuses, fine twine, etc. They also dye and bleach it on\\ntheir own premises. They spin thousands of miles of\\nthread everyday, enough to put a girdle round the\\nearth twice over. That means fifty thousand miles\\ndaily. If every man, woman, and child in the United\\nStates used a spool of Barbour s sewing-thread in the\\ncourse of a year the Paterson mills alone could sup-\\nply them. They do produce far more than that\\nquantity.\\nBut the principal demand is for the .shoe-thread,\\nwhich is used all over the country in preference to\\nany other linen-thread. The company employ 1100\\nhands in America, whose wages are $1000 a day.\\nThey produce $200,000 worth of finished goods every\\nmonth, of which about .\u00c2\u00a7120,000 worth is the product\\nof the two mills in Paterson. It is needless to say\\nthat they have the most improved machinery to be\\nhad in the world. There are 12,000 spindles in Pat-\\nerson, and 25,000 spindles in the Lisburn mills. They\\nhave their principal store and oflSce in New York", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0783.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "460\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCity, and branch oflSces) in Boston, Chicago, San\\nFrancisco, and other cities. The business was origi-\\nnally in the name of the Barbour Brothers, Thomas,\\nRobert, and Samuel, but in 18G6 they were incorpo-\\nrated as the Barbour Flax-Spinning Conii)any, and\\nthe business has been carried on since that date by\\nthe corporation. The president is Robert Barbour\\nThomas Barbour is vice-president and treasurer. Mr.\\nThomas Barbour came to America in 1854, in charge\\nof the New York house, as before stated. Mr. Robert\\nBarbour came over in 1864, when the Paterson mill\\nwas started. Mr. Samuel Barbour returned to Ire-\\nland then, and has since remained there. Mr. Robert\\nBarbour has charge of the Paterson mills, while Mr.\\nThomas Barbour takes the management of the New\\nYore store, through w^hich all the goods are sold.\\nNearly all the hands who have been employed in the\\nmills in the past eighteen years have been brought\\nover from Lisburn and vicinity, or at least a large\\nproportion of them, as there has not been a sufficient\\nlocal supply of help of this character. The company\\nengages them in the old country, pays their passage\\nout, and allows them to refund the advance by weekly\\ndeductions from their wages. They own a number\\nof tenement-houses, in which some of the hands live.\\nThe oi)eratives are not long here ere they send for\\ntheir relatives and friends, to whom they write home\\nletters full of glowing accounts of the vast difference\\nbetween the old country and the new, in favor of\\nthe latter, and this leads others to come over. In\\nthis way, directly and indirectly, the Barliours have\\nbeen the means of bringing over thousands from Ire-\\nland to swell the population of Paterson, and immi-\\ngrants, too, of the very best class, hard-working,\\nprudent. God-fearing men and women. It has been\\nrumored from time to time that the Barbours might\\nadd a new de|iartnient to their linen manufacture,\\nthe weaving of linen, but they are reticent as to\\ntheir future plans, and it is impossible to say whether\\nor not this will be done within the next few years.\\nThey have llic ca|)ital and the business skill to do it,\\nand it would be a most valuable aiUlitiim to the in-\\ndustries not only of Paterson but of the Ignited\\nStates. In their present lines of production they\\nmake four or five times as much thread, etc., as all\\nthe other concerns of a like character in the countrj*.\\nThk Bahuoik Family, .so extensively knowti in\\nthis country and in Kumpc in connection with the\\nmanufacture of linen-thread, is of Scotch-Irish an-\\nccMtry, a combination of jdiysical and mental charac-\\nteristics that has furnished to the world many of its\\nleading .statesmen, philo.sophers, and thinkers.\\n.lohn Barbour wiu a native of Paisley, Scotland, a\\nsturdy deni/eti of that country to which the people of\\nIreland owe many obligiitions, natal as well as national.\\n.Vliout the year 1784 he introduced from Paisley the\\nnninufacture of linen-thread into the north of Ireland,\\nlocating at Plantation, near Lisbnrn. .\\\\fler erecting\\nmills he commenced operaticms by giving employment\\nto a large number of the families of the neighbor-\\nhood, most of whom were farmers.\\nThe works thus established were regarded as exten-\\nsive and complete in those days, but compared to\\ntheir modern succes.sor they were primitive in the e.x-\\ntreme. Little if any machinery was employed, and\\nalmost everything was done by manual labor or by\\nhorse power. John Barbour had as a partner in his\\nenterprise a sturdy Scotchman, like himself, from\\nPaisley, John Duncan, and the firm of Barbour\\nDuncan carried on business without partnership\\npa])er8, and with the greatest harmony, until the\\ndeath of Mr. Duncan, about 1815 or ISlti. John\\nBarbour married a Miss Carleton, and had two sons,\\nJohn and William, and a daughter, Jane, who mar-\\nried a Mr. Dunlap. The sons succeeded their father\\nin thread manufacture at Plantation, but remained\\ntogether only a few years when William withdrew,\\nleaving his brother John, who continued business on\\nthe old site until his death at the early age of thirty-\\nseven. William secured from the Marquis of Hert-\\nford a water-power on the river Legan, and some\\nseventy-five acres of land on its banks, and erected\\nbuildings adapted to the manufacture of linen-thread.\\nThe modern works now cover about twelve acres of\\nland, and the mills are fire-proof, four and live stories\\nhigh, and the best-built and most substantial of their\\nkind in Great Britain. The mere hamlet in course\\nof time became a populous village. Connected with\\nthe Hilden works are now a government i)ost-office, a\\ntelcgraphoftice, public schools, two- and three-story\\nbrick houses with slated roofs for the employes, a\\nlarge dining establishment that will accommodate\\nfive or six hundred operatives, with comfortable\\nbenches, tables, and heating apparatus, besides news-\\nrooms, libraries, and other comforts of civilized life.\\nEmployment is given at Ililden to about three thou-\\nsand persons, and at Sprucefield, three miles distant,\\none thousand more are employed in the spinning of\\nyarns. The enterprise is truly metropolitan in char-\\nacter, and has conferred untold blessings upon gen-\\neration after generation of the working population of\\nthat portion of Ireland.\\nWilliam Barbour continued at the head of the co^i-\\ncern of which he was the founder until his death on\\nSept. 6, 1875, at the ripe age of seventy-eight years.\\nThe traits of his private character were strongly\\nmarked. He was capable of strong and lasting friend-\\nships, was generous, kind-hearted, and indulgent to\\nthose who stood in the relation of dependents towards\\nhim, while a sturdy self-assertion relieved a native\\ngeniality of disposition in his intercourse with his\\ne |uals. Some twenty years before his death, as a\\nmark of appreciation of his judgment, ami of the\\nposition which he had gained in society, the commis-\\nsion of the peace was be-stowed on him, and with all\\nhis judicial decisions the public felt the greatest pos-\\nsible satisfaction. In private life he was most genial,\\nand being ])osse.ssed of a singularly retentive memory,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0784.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "y/y.A/ Oa.m. Cyd/Zt^U/t.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0787.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0788.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0789.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0790.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATEKSON.\\n461\\nwas able to entertain his friends with narratives and\\nstories of events in the far past. He was of unim-\\npeachable integrity, and his deeds of benevolence\\nand charity will long be remembered with gratitude\\nby the inhabitants of his native town. He occupied\\nfor fifty-four years the substantial but unpretentious\\ndwelling which he first erected near the mills, and in\\nwhich his family were born.\\nLong prior to his death William Barbour took into\\npartnership with him his five sons, John D., since a\\nmember of Parliament, Robert, Samuel, Thomas, and\\nFrank, who, being raised in the business and pos-\\nsessed of many of the traits of their father, assumed\\nthe active control and management of it, and by their\\nenterprise and sagacity largely extended the reputa-\\ntion and business of the concern, which was known as\\nWilliam Barbour Sons. Thomas Barbour, the\\nfounder and organizer of the enterprises of the con-\\ncern on this side of the Atlantic, was not taken into\\nthe firm until about 1862. Prior to that date, in 1849,\\nhe came to New York City, where he entered the em-\\nploy of A. T. Stewart Co., at a salary of one hun-\\ndred dollars for the first year. This salary was\\nrapidly increased, and before leaving he was placed\\nin charge of their wholesale linen department, in the\\nstore at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street.\\nIn April, 1852, he rented a portion of a loft at 43\\nExchange Place, in the store occupied by the exten-\\nsive linen importers, Richardson Watson, and be-\\ngan busine.ss on his own account, importing threads\\nand twines through the firm, giving particular atten-\\ntion to the goods manufactured by his father. About\\n1855 he took into partnership with him his brother\\nSamuel, under the firm-name of Barbour Brothers.\\nSamuel returned to Ireland about 18 il, in conse-\\nquence of the death of his wife, and in 1SG2 he and\\nhis brother Thomas joined the firm of William Bar-\\nbour Sons. He continued to reside in Ireland until\\nhis death, a few years ago, at the age of forty-eight\\nyears. Thomas Barbour continued to manage the\\nbusiness of Barbour Brothers and of William Bar-\\nbour Sons in America.\\nAbout 1864 it was decided to commence the manu-\\nfacture of linen-thread in this country, and coming to\\nPaterson, N. J., Thomas Barbour purchased for his\\nfirms from the Colt estate what was then known as\\nPassaic Mill, No. 2. Mr. Robert Barbour came over\\nabout the same time for the purpose of taking charge\\nof the manufacturing department. Suitable machin-\\nery was imported from Ireland, and the enterprise set\\non foot of manufacturing flax yarns and threads of\\nevery description, from the lowest grades to the finest\\nnumbers. The firm thus availed themselves of the\\nlaw at that time admitting flax-thread machinery\\nfree of duty. The business in this country was first\\ncarried on under the name of Barbour Brothers, but\\nupon the organization of the Barbour Flax-Spinning\\nCompany, in 1865, Thomas Barbour became president,\\nand filled that position for more than ten years, and\\n30\\nupon his resignation was succeeded by his brother Rob-\\nert, who has charge of the manufacturing branch of the\\nbusiness at Paterson. Thomas was chosen vice-presi-\\ndent and treasurer after ills resignation as president,\\nand manages and directs the financial and commercial\\nafliiirs of the concern at the principal depot, No. 134\\nChurch Street, New York. Branch houses have been\\nestablished in Boston, San Francisco, Montreal, Phil-\\nadelphia, St. Louis, and Chicago.\\nMessrs. Samuel and Frank Barbour having died, the\\natt airs of the concern, which constitute one entire en-\\nterprise, are carried on in Ireland under the immedi-\\nate supervision of John D. Barbour, in the old firm-\\nname, and in this country by Robert and Thomas\\nBarbour, heretofore stated. The enterprise in this\\ncountry has already assumed proportions of consider-\\nable magnitude, and is rapidly growing. At Paterson\\nthe Barbours own three colossal mills, the Grand\\nStreet Mill, the Spruce Street Mill, and the Granite\\nMill, on the canal and railway, near Garret Mountain,\\nall .situated in close proximity to railroad and canal\\ncommunications, thereby securing the advantages\\narising from low freights and cheap coal.\\nThe Grand Street Mill, erected about six years ago\\nat an expense of nearly $4U0,0U0, is one of the finest\\nin the United States. It is a brick structure, four hun-\\ndred feet long, fifty wide, four stories high, and abso-\\nlutely fire-proof.\\nThe chimney connected with the factory is a model\\nof architectural beauty, being over two hundred feet\\nin height. The enterprise of the Barbours is one of\\nthe most extensive and important in Paterson, giving\\nconstant employment to a large number of opera-\\ntives.\\nThey are among the heaviest jiroperty-owners and\\ntax-payers, and all their enterprises have contributed\\nto the material growth and prosperity of the city.\\nThey constructed and own the Highland Water-\\nWorks, on Garret Mountain, wherein is stored an\\nimmense supply of pure water, at an altitude of two\\nhundred feet above the city, and have connected their\\nfactories with this reservoir by means of a twelve-\\ninch iron pipe, capable of resisting the necessary pres-\\nsure, by means of which fire can be immediately extin-\\nguished in their factories without the aid of the fire-\\nmen or the city water supply. The Barbours also\\nown a solid block of tenement-houses on Slater and\\nSpring Streets, Paterson, adjoining their Grand Street\\nMill, which are models of comfort and convenience\\nto the tenants. They are also supplied with pure\\nwater from the Highland Water- Works.\\nThomas Barbour, who became an American citizen\\nas early as 1849, and who was the first of the family\\nto take up his residence in this country, and conse-\\nsequently best known, was born in the old family\\nresidence at Hildon on July 14, 1832. He possesses\\nmany of the traits of character so strongly manifested\\nby his father, and bears a strong physical resemblance\\nto him. He is genial in manners, the very embodi-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0793.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "462\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nment of hospitality and influence, possesses many\\nwarm friends, and wlien any tiuestion arises demand-\\ning unusual onerfry lie has never been found une |ual\\nto tlie eniergoticy of tlie case. He manifests a force\\nand vigor of cliaracter diliicult to o])|)ose. He has\\npersistently refused i)ul)lic position, but is connected\\nintimately with many public and private enterprises\\nof importance. He is a member of the committee on\\nrevenue reform of the New York Chamber of Com-\\nmerce, and is widely known in this country in con-\\nnection with his successful defense of his firm and\\ngovernment on the infamous moiety system, and is\\nrecognized as the one who, by his personal sacri-\\nfices and exertions, caused the abrogation of a law\\nwhich ofl ered a fifty per cent, premium on official ir-\\nregularity and imposition. He delivered a forcible\\nanil practical speech on the subject before the New\\nYork Chamber of Commerce in 1874, and on the fol-\\nlowing evening at Steinway Hall, at a special meeting\\ncalled for that purpose.\\nMr. Barbour subsequently proceeded to Washington\\nand procured a passage of the bill abrogating the\\nmoiety system. Upon a subseiiucnt visit to Belfa-st,\\nIreland, on Oct. 2!t, 1874, he was tendered a public\\nban iuet by the merchants of Belfast and the province\\nof rister, at which the Lord Mayor presided, in recog-\\nnition of the important service that he had rendered\\nto the importing trade of New York and capitalists\\nin breaking down a system at once unjust in prin-\\nciple.\\nMr. Barbour was the first president of the Paterson\\nBoard of Trade, is a director of the Hanover National\\nBank, and of the Guardian Fire Insurance Company\\nof New York, and he is a director of the Paterson\\nand Rainapo Railroad, New Jersey. He is president\\nof the Bedford Manufacturing Company of Newark,\\nN. J. He was also formerly a director for ten years\\nof the Clark Thread Company of Newark. He owns\\na large amount of property in and near Paterson, in-\\ncluding the building of the Wat.soii ManufiUturing\\nCompany, on Railroad Avenue, and the entire block\\nwhereon it stands, a residence in Paterson, Brookside\\nFarm and Mill at Preakness, and a beautiful rural\\nresidence and estate, known as Warren Point, in\\nBergen County, opposite Paterson. He is recognized\\nas one of the most liberal-minded and public-spirited\\ncitizens of Paterson.\\nSix of his sisters reside with their husbands near\\nBclfiutt, Ireland. His youngest brother, James, is at\\nthe head of the largest manufacturing establishment\\nin Great Britain in the construction of flax, jute,\\nand hemp machinery. He established the business\\nin 1X44, and employs ni arly two thousand mechanics,\\nin a factory fifteen hundred feet long, tilled with all\\nthe modern labor-saving machinery, principally of\\nhis own invention.\\nThoma.s Barbour married, in 185(), Miss Warren, of\\nVi-r iiia, Oneida Go., N. Y., and has had two sons,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094William and Thomas. The latter died in infancy.\\nWilliam Barbour was educated in France, and at\\nHanover, Germany, and is connected with the super-\\nintendency of the mills of the Barbour Flax-Spinning\\nCompany of Paterson, and is thoroughly familiar\\nwith the various branches of the business. He also\\nis connected with the selling de|iartment in New York.\\nThomas Barbour is also about to develop the harvest-\\ners twine business, utilizing the flax fibre that has\\npreviously been destroyed as useless by farmers in the\\nWest.\\nliiitler d- Me/drum.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1867, Henry V. Butler and\\nJohn B. Meldrum formed a partnership under the\\nabove name, and hired the upper floor of Todd\\nRitchie s jute-mill, at the corner of Jackson and\\nTaylor Streets, where they began a new business,\\njirinting jute carpets by a |)cculiar process invented\\nby Mr. Meldrum. It is diliicult to paint or dye veg-\\netable fibres; indeed, some say they cannot be truly\\ndyed, at the best it is merely a stain. Vegetable\\nfibres exposed to the microscope are seen to resemble\\na stick of wood, while animal fibres, such as wool and\\nsilk, are found to have a cellular tissue or are hollow,\\nso that they absorb the dye into their cells, and thus\\nare truly dyed. For this reiuson the process of Mr.\\nMeldrum has been justly considered a notable inven-\\ntion. In 1870 the firm removed to the Arkwright\\nMill, em|)loying about twenty-five hands. In 1880\\nthey removed to Haledon, where Mr. Butler carries on\\nthe business alone, having bought out Mr. Meldrum.\\nCHAPTER LXIV.\\nCITY OF I ATEKSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (O.H\u00c2\u00bbMiu rd).\\nTin: Sii.K IxDl STKY. Said Lord Bacon, writing\\nthree centuries ago, If, before the Invention of Silk,\\nany one should have said there was a certain Way o(\\nmaking a certain Cloth for .Vpparel, and Household-\\nFurniture, far exceeding that of Linen, or of Wool-\\nlen, in Fineness, Strength, Gloss, and Softness; Men\\nwould immediately have tiillen to coiijccturing about\\nsome vegetable Silk, the finer Furs of .Vnimals, or the\\nFeathers and Down of Binis, without ever dreaming\\nit should rocee(l in such Plenty, from the nnniver-\\nsjiry Spinning of a small Worm. .\\\\nd if any one\\nshould have but drojip d a Word abimt such a Worm,\\nhe would certainly have been laugh d at, as the Pro-\\njector of a new Spider- Work. It wius truly a\\nrennirkable discovery, and its antii|uity and llw pe-\\nculiar fiLscinafion there exists about the manipulation\\nof silk have led even the mustiest of antiquarians to\\nexpend much time and research in tracing the ear-\\nliest history of this beautiful industry. It attained\\nsuch paramount importance long ago in China that\\nthe fid)ulous annals and the somewhat more authentic\\nFour Books of that country contain many refer-\\nWorks of Lord BacoD, Shaw t ed., U iidan, 1723, vol. 11. 3M.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0794.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n463\\nences to it. Among the former, the Empress Si-ling-\\nChi is credited with having been the first to invent\\nsilk tissues, two thousand six hundred and fifty years\\nbefore tlie Christian era, wherefore she was placed\\namong the Chinese divinities, under the name of\\nSien-Tlisan, or first promoter of the silk industry.\\nHowever, it is somewhat inconsistent with this al-\\nleged very remote discovery to find that more than\\ntwo thousand years later the wearing of silk clothing\\nin China appears to have been confined to the aged,\\nor to those from fifty to seventy years old, and such\\ngarments were provided for them as an act of charity\\nor filial kindness, to keep the aged warm and com-\\nfortable.\\nSaid Mencius (born B.C. 400) to King Hwuy, of\\nLeang, Let mulberry-trees be planted about tlie\\nhomesteads with tlieir five tnoiv, and persons of fifty\\nyears may be clothed with silk. It never has been\\nthat the ruler of a State, where such results were seen\\npersons of seventy wearing silk and eating flash\\ndid not attain to the imperial dignity. In\\nCrenesis xli. 42, we are told that Pharaoh arrayed\\nJoseph in vestures of fine linen, and the translators\\ngive as the alternative reading for linen the word\\nsilk. According to this the use of silk must have\\nbeen known in Egypt 1750 years before Christ. There\\nare reasons connected with the peculiar religious\\ntenets of the Egyptians, particularly their veneration\\nfor animal life, which render it doubtful if in the\\ntime of Joseph they countenanced tlie wearing of\\ngarments woven from the product of the silk-worm.\\nPythagoras, who was schooled in the religion and\\nphilosophy of Egypt, wore only linen garments and\\nApollonius of Tyana, imitating him, di.scarded all\\nother species of clothing, refusing all such as came\\nof living creatures. Coming down to the period\\nof authentic Chinese history, we find that 2000 years\\nago the denizens of the Flowery Kingdom un-\\ndoubtedly imported their woven silken fabrics into\\nPersia, Greece, and Italy. But they were pretty ex-\\npensive, as in Rome silken garments were worth their\\nweight in gold. In the year a.i 552 two Persian\\nmonks are said to have brought the first silk-worm\\neggs from China to Constantinople, for which they\\nwould have forfeited their lives had they been de-\\ntected in the former country. They concealed their\\nprecious freight in the hollow of their canes. P our\\nhundred years later the breeding of silk-worms was\\nintroduced in Spain, and in the twelfth century\\nGreece and Italy began the same industry. It was\\ntwo centuries later ere France engaged in sericulture,\\nalthough the weaving of silk had long been estab-\\n1 Elliot C. Cowdin s Report on Silk and Silk Manufactures at the Paris\\nExposition, 1867, p. 4.\\nConfucius and the Chinese Classics, by A. W. Loomis, 1867, pp. 30,\\n181.\\nLife of Apollonius uf Tyana, by Philoatrafus, translated by Berwick,\\np. 14; Blount s translation, 168U, p. 22.\\nCnwdin, tU SHjjrti, i, (J; American Meclianics Magazine, i. u82.\\nlished there. It is said that England had forty thou-\\nsand skilled silk-workers as early as 1G(51. Upon the\\nrevocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, the Hugue-\\nnot silk operatives fled from France to England, Ger-\\nmany, Switzerland, and Holland, and carried their\\ntrade with them, establishing it in those countries,\\nwhich have ever since retained a firm hold on the in-\\ndustry, with the exception of Holland. The addition\\nof seventy thousand skilled French silk-workers to\\nthe English labor market gave her a prestige in that\\nmanufacture which she has never lost.\\nThe manipulation of silk had been hitherto carried\\non in the dwellings of the operatives, as it is still in\\nmost of the continental cities. The first silk-mill in\\nEngland was built in 1718-19, on an island in the\\nDerwent, at Derby, by John Lombe, who periled his\\nlife in attempting to steal from Italy the secret of the\\nmachines used in the silk-works of that country.*\\nThe English operatives in the course of time became\\nsuch a power that they were able to dictate to Parlia-\\nment, and in 1765 secured legislation prohibiting the\\nimportation of foreign manufactures of .silk. This\\nprohibition was continued for sixty years, during\\nwhich time the silk manufactures of the country in-\\ncreased 336 per cent. Even when this prohibition\\nwas removed a tariff of 30 per cent, was substituted,\\nwhile the duty on raw silk was reduced from five\\nshillings and sixpence to the pound to threepence,\\nand ultimately to one penny. No wonder that the\\nEnglish silk manufacture became thoroughly estab-\\nlished in that country after sixty years of absolute\\nmonopoly. But it seems inconsistent for English\\nmanufacturers to protest against the American tariff\\nafter they have reaped the advantages of still more\\nprotective legislation for so long a period.\\nFrom the time that Columbus returned to Euroi)e\\nwith the announcement that he had discovered India\\nby sailing to the west, most of the projects for the\\ncolonizing of the new country were coupled with\\nplans for sericulture. As early as 1608, King James\\nI., who had a horror of tobacco, wrote a letter to the\\nLondon Company urging it to encourage the raising\\nof silk-worms in Virginia. The coronation robe of\\nCharles II. in 1660 was woven of silk grown in that\\ncolony, and in 1735 Queen Caroline wore on a great\\nstate occasion a robe made from Georgia silk. Efforts\\nhad been made from the first settlement of the latter\\ncolony to raise silk, and from 1758 to 1766 from ten\\nthousand to fifteen thousand pounds of cocoons were\\ndelivered annually to a silk establishment in Savan-\\nCowdin, 6.\\nWhite s Memoir of Slater, p. 414.\\nBonnechaser s History of France, 400; Weiss History of the French\\nProtestant Refugees, i. 159, 191, 205, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0.i90-291, 350; ii. 118-125, 187 Smith s\\nWealth of Nations, ii. 181 Cowdin, 7, 29.\\n6 White s filemoir of Slater, 412 Cowdin, 30.\\nI May s Constitutional History of England, ii. 125 Blackstone s Com-\\nmentaries, iv. 159, 160 Charter of the Nations, by Henry Dunckley,\\nLondon, 1854, 107.\\n1 Dunckley, ut supra, 108.\\nII White s Slater, 413 Cowdin, 7.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0795.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "464\\nHISTOKY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIG COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nnah, and the annual export of raw silk ranged from\\nfive hiiudrcd to one tliousand pouuds in New Jersey.\\nConsiderable iuaiitilii-s of sillc were raised before tiie\\nRevolution under the stimulii.s of bountie.s granted\\nby the Legislature and continued for a short period.\\nIt was the same in other States, especially in New\\nEngland. The action of the Spitalfields (England)\\nsilk-weavers resulted in legislation (in 1765), already\\nreferred to, which was hostile to the development of\\nthe silk industry in America, and thereafter it drooped\\nand finally died. From the early part of the present\\ncentury desultory eflbrts were made to revive it by\\nenthusiastic persons or sanguine speculators, but they\\nhad too many difficulties to encounter to win success.\\nIt first secured a firm foothold in Connecticut, es-\\npecially at Manstield, where it had flourished before\\nthe Revolution, subsequently virtually dying out, t\u00c2\u00ab\\nbe re-established half a century ago. In 183t) there\\nwere two small silk-factories at Mansfield, with one\\nhundred and fifty-two spindles and three looms. In\\n1839 they consumed five tons of raw material in the\\nmanufacture of sewing-silks. This brings us down\\nto the date of the introduction of the silk industry\\ninto I aterson.\\nBefore proceeding to this, however, a brief explana-\\ntion of the various processes silk has to undergo be-\\nfore it is sent upon the market in the shape of dress\\ngoods, ribbons, or handkerihiefs may be accejitable\\nto the general reader. The matured cocoon of the\\nsilk-worm is placed in warm water to soften it, and\\nthen the silk-thread spun by the worm is reeled off\\nby women and children, who in China and Italy are\\npaid but two or three cents a day. Thus reeled and\\nmade up into hanks, it is imi)orted into the I nitcd\\nStates free of duty, in bales weighing from ninety to\\ntwo hundred and twenty-five jiounds, and is worth\\nfrom $.j.oO to $7.50 per pound. The Italian silk is\\nthe finest. Once at the silk-mill, it is sorted by the\\neye to classify the sizes, the finer thread being jtlaced\\nby itself The silk is still enoa-sed in the natural gum\\nwith which the worm liius coated every thread, resem-\\nbling under the microscope gelatine. It could not\\nbe worked with this, and so the silk is now soaked in\\nwarm water with a little soap for twelve hours or\\nmore, by which time the gum him been pretty well\\nseparati d from it, ami the silk is ready to be wound\\nupon spools or bobbins, which is ne.\\\\t done. Its des-\\ntination thereafter now depends upon what its tiiial\\nstate is to be; if it is for onjiiminr, wliicii is the warp\\nof the woven fabric, it goes to the mills to be\\ntwisted to strengthen the silk, and after being given\\nIViwillii, |i| H, U; R\u00c2\u00abT. lisurgK Whlt nolil i Juiirunl, 1741, p. 4.\\nCowdln, 10; Allln i ir I.\u00c2\u00bbwii of Noiv .lonwy, ril. 1778, p. 2SI.\\nllftrlM^r ii lllKtoHcJil rollo ;tluti\u00c2\u00bb of Coiiiioctlciit. At ttio rlvk of IwlDg\\noliKriieil Willi ftn alTrrUtloD of peiUntr) tlio MrrH4.r liiu Rlvoii numoroiu\\nriir\u00c2\u00abroii ;ra to \u00c2\u00bbork\u00c2\u00bb In hU own llhnrjr, from whicli tlio ron KoliiK tntci.\\nniiint\u00c2\u00ab Imvi I O in c ni|illc il in rolntlon to tlm orl\u00c2\u00abl \u00c2\u00bbnil growth of the\\nlllk tndilatry.iu guide to any one (lr\u00c2\u00ablr1ng to pnrvilo llio mibject. S\u00c2\u00abt.\\nKiml \u00e2\u0096\u00a0iiKliil trratlM* hHa tnton pnbllilltKl of Ut\u00c2\u00ab, tint tho wrIMr hu\\nnot Mvn thvin.\\nthe first twist it is doubled, either two or three threads\\ntogether, and is again twisted on the spinners to twist\\nthe three threads into one. It is then reeled into\\nskeins of uniform length on a machine which rings a\\nbell when the desired length has been reeled ofl\\nusually one thousand yards. These skeins go to the\\ndrachming room, where they are weighed on deli-\\ncate scales, and as all the skeins are of the same\\nlength, it is apparent that the lighter skeins must\\ncontain the finer silk, so the one-drachm skeins are\\nhung on a peg by themselves, and the two-drachm on\\nanother and so on then the skeins of the several\\ngrades are put together in hanks by themselves, a\\nnumber of skeins being twisted together to make a\\nroll, and bundles are made of several of them.\\nl( trmn is wanted, the woof or tilling of the woven\\nfabric, after the raw silk ha.\u00c2\u00ab been taken ofl the\\nwinders it goes directly to the doublers, from two to\\nfour threads being there doubled together then it\\ngoes to the mills, where it is spun once over with a\\nmuch slacker twist than organzine it next goes to the\\nreel, to be made into skeins of uniform lengths; then\\nto the drachiuing-room, after which it is packed up\\nin bundles. The Irani and the orgamine are now\\nall through the various processes comprised in what\\nis known as throwing, and the manufacturer who\\ndoes this work is called a throwster. .\\\\fler the\\nsilk has been thrown it goes to the dyers, and on\\nits return it is once more wound upon spools. The\\norganzine next goes to the warpers, who place the\\nrequisite number of threads upon the bobbins, so\\nmany to the inch, the greater the number the finer\\nthe woven article then they go to the loom, and are\\npassed through the harness, and also through the\\nfront reed. It now waits only for the weaver to start\\nup his loom. The tram after being dyed and spooleil\\ngoes to the cleaners, who carefully remove every visi-\\nble iin| erfection to insure a smooth surface on the\\nfinished fabric. It is next doubled to whatever size\\nis re(|ulred to make the rib or web of the ribbon or\\nother fabric to be woven it next goes on ipiills or\\nvery small spools, which are placed in the shuttle of\\nthe loom, .\\\\fter the fabric is woven it goes to the\\npickers to have the weavers knots and other rough\\nprojections removed by little tweezers; then it goes\\nto the cylinder, which is filled with steam, and is\\npa.ssed rapidly around it, while a formidable-looking\\nroller full of knives passes over it, pressing it and\\ngiving it a final glo.ss. Ribbons are then passed on\\nto the blockers, to be wound on blocks, after which\\nthey are packed in boxes and sent to market. For-\\nmerly they were placarde l with the name of some\\nreal or suppositious French or Italian silk manufar-\\nturcr, and then suld readily to buyers who would not so\\nmuch a.s look at American silk. Hut that is all changed\\nnow, and every Paterson manufacturer put-s his own\\nname on his own goods, and finds it a help rather\\nthan a hindrance in securing a sale for his goods. If\\nthe worm is allowetl to fecundate the cocoon is pierced.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0796.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n465\\nand thus the silk thread of which it is composed is\\ncut up into innumerable short threads; these pierced\\ncocoons are then chopped up and torn to pieces, and\\nthe short fibres are carded like wool, twisted together,\\nand spun. The product is spun silk. The waste\\nmade in the other manipulations of silk is also carded\\nand made into spun silk. Sewing-silk is given\\na coarser twist than the other, and fringe-silk is\\nmade with a coarser twist still, and often from spun\\nsilk.i\\nChristopher Colt. This was a young gentleman, son\\nof Elisha Colt, of Connecticut, who was president of\\nthe Connecticut Silk Company. Christopher obtained\\nsome insight into the silk manufacture under his\\nfather, and then took charge of a mill at Dedham,\\nMass. The factory burning down, he arranged for\\nthe purchase of the machinery, and finding New\\nYork capitalists to back him up, he removed it to\\nPaterson, where he set it up in the fourth .story of the\\nGun Mill, in which his brother, Samuel Colt, was\\ninterested. He added some new machinery, which he\\nhad bought elsewhere. Altogether he had about 1000\\nspindles, 200 or 300 doubling spindles, and 500 or UOO\\nwinding spindles. His machinery occupied less than\\nhalf of the floor he had leased, extending down only\\none side of the room, and not filling even that one\\nside. It was probably in the early part of 1839 that\\nColt began operations in Paterson and started the\\nfirst silk-mill, from which small beginning has grown\\nup the mighty industry that now permeates the whole\\ncity and gives employment to nearly fifteen thousand\\nmen, women, and children. He does not appear to\\nhave run the place more than two or three months.\\nHe made sewing-silks exclusively, buying his raw\\nsilk, and employed twenty-five or thirty hands. He\\nhad hardly got his mill well under way before he\\nclosed the place, locked the door, and went to New\\nYork, where he sold out the whole establishment to\\nGeorge W. Murray.^\\nGeorge W. Murray/. Mr. Murray was an English-\\nman who had long been settled in New York with\\nhis brother as shipping merchants. During the sum-\\nmer of 1839 he had been greatly interested in the\\nrunning of a silk-mill at Northampton, N. H., where\\nJohn Ryle was superintendent. That mill having\\nshut down, Mr. Rylo came to New York, and there\\nhe was met by Mr. Murray, who, learning that he was\\nno longer at Northampton, after some conversation\\nproposed to buy out Mr. Colt s silk-mill at Paterson,\\nif Mr. Ryle should think well of it after inspection\\nand agree to run it. Mr. Ryle was willing, and having\\nvisited the Gun Mill and examined the silk ma-\\nchinery there, advised its purchase, which was con-\\nThe writer is ilidebteil tu Mr. William Strange for tlie foregoing con-\\ncise description of the manipulation of silk into the various products\\nhereinafter alluded to.\\nFor the foregoing particulars, and for the subsequent account of\\nGeorge W. Murray, and of Mr. Ryle s own early efforts in building up\\nthe silk industry, the writer is indebted to Mr. Jolin Ryle.\\nsummated by Mr. Murray in October or November,\\n1830. Mr. Ryle lost no time in getting the machinery\\nin running order and in securing some experienced\\nhands from New York, and in teaching others. He\\nbegan with six or eight hands in all, but as rapidly\\nas possible took on others and extended the busi-\\nness.\\nMr. Murray took a wonderful interest in the enter-\\nprise, and removed with his wife to Paterson in order\\nto give it more of his personal attention. Mr. Ryle\\ndevoted the whole of his time to building up and de-\\nveloping the business, usually staying at the mill till\\nten or eleven o clock at night, and getting there by\\nsix in the morning, or before daylight, summer and\\nwinter. In the course of time the whole of the floor,\\nforty by one hundred feet, which Colt had leased was\\nfilled with machinery. In 1842, Mr. Ryle received a\\nsilver medal from the American Institute for ball\\ntwist and sewing-silk exhibited at the Institute fair.\\nThis was the principal product of the mill. About\\n1842-43, Mn. Murray leased the attic of the Gun W\\\\\\\\\\\\\\nand had it fitted up into a fine room for manufactur-\\ning purposes. In that room he set up fifteen or twenty\\nlooms. Mr. Ryle says these were the first silk-looms\\nin the United States that had ever amounted to any-\\nthing. They sent one thousand yards of silk dress\\ngoods, woven on those looms, to Philadelphia. It\\nwas the first time such a quantity had ever been woven\\nand .shipped in one consignment in America. These\\nlooms were run for two or three years weaving dress\\ngoods and handkerchiefs, but the other branch of the\\nbusiness was so much more profitable and stable that\\nthey abandoned the weaving and devoted themselves\\nexclusivel} to the manufacture of sewing-silks and\\ntrams and organzines for other manufacturers, filling\\nthe attic with their spinning-frames and removing\\nthe looms.\\nJohn Ryle. In 1846, William Ryle, a brother of\\nJohn, came over from Macclesfield and visited the\\nGun Mill. He declared that the hands trained by\\nJohn were the best silk hands he had ever seen. He\\naided John in buying out Mr. Murray, and then Mr.\\nJohn Ryle began running the mill on his own ac-\\ncount. He was ceaselessly experimenting for the\\nimprovement and development of the industry, and\\nwas untiring in his efforts to get it properly recog-\\nnized by Congre.ss. As early as 1842 he began wait-\\ning on the sessions of that body to urgg the members\\nto sustain the infant manufacture by adequate protec-\\ntion, but it was twenty years ere his views prevailed\\nin Washington. He now began experimenting with\\npower-looms, back in the forties, as he expresses\\nit, but his efforts did not succeed. The World s Fair\\ncoming on at New York in 1852, he set about weav-\\ning an American flag of silk, and produced a mag-\\nnificent banner about twenty by forty feet, which\\nfloated for many months over the Crystal Palace in\\nNew York, and was a never-failing object of admira-\\ntion to patriotic Americans. It was the first time the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0797.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "166\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nnational ensign had ever been produced from Amer-\\nican silk-looms. Of course. Mr. Ryle received a\\nmedal and unbounded praise from the inanajicrs and\\nfrom the public in general, but it put little money in\\nhis pocket. In 1835 he began the erection of a new\\nmill, which he called, after his old patron, the Mur-\\nray Mill. It was on Mill Street, west side, nearly\\nopposite Ward Street, seventy-three by two hundred\\nfeet, two stories high, with slate roof. This mill was\\nbuilt for the purpose of making sewing-silks by hand\\nwith hand-wheels. The late John Jackson Scott was\\nsuperintendent. Before the building was finished\\nthere was held in it a great Republican meeting, the\\nfirst in Paterson, which was addressed by Henry\\nWilson, atterwards Vice-President of the United\\nStates.\\nIn 18ot -57, Mr. Ryle was running both the old Gun\\nMill and the Murray Mill he occupied the two\\nlower floors of the former, besides a small shop by i\\nthe river. He was then employing five hundred to\\nsi.v hundred hands, and used twenty-five or thirty\\nbales of raw silk weekly, a production that was not\\nexceeded by any mill in Paterson for ten or fifteen\\nyears afterwards. About 1860-61 he began weaving\\nonce more on the second floor of the Murray Mill,\\nand a year or two later removed from the (inn Mill\\nand concentrated all his business in the Murray Mill.\\nAt this time the breaking out of the war had greatly\\ninjured the silk manufacture, and the production was\\nnow almost entirely used in the making of fringes. The\\nenactment of the protective tariff in 1862-64 and the\\nhigh rate of exchange gave the American silk in-\\ndustry an impetus which it had long needed, and\\nMr. Ryle e.xperienccd the benefits in common with\\nothers. In 1868 he added a third story to his mill\\nand enlarged his production, making trams and or-\\nganzines, spun silks, and embroidery silks. No\\nweaving was carried on in the enlarge l mill. Four\\nor five hundred hands were employed. While thus\\nembarked on the full tide of prosperity a fire broke\\nout in the mill on the afternoon of May 10, 1860, and\\nwithin an hour the entire splendid structure lay a\\nsmoking mass of ruins, and ;!^00,()(lll worth of prop-\\nerty had been swept out of existence. There was not\\na dollar of insurance, so that Mr. Ryle s loss* w;is total\\nand irremediable. It was enough to have cnished\\nany ordinary man, but .Mr. Ryle was not of that kind,\\nand without ynneccssary delay he set about the erec-\\ntion of a new Murray Mill. This wimon a new plan.\\nIt was of brick, but only one story high, lighted only\\nfrom the roof by skylights with a imrtliern ex|(Osure,\\nthe ililFerent rooms separaleil by solid brick partitions,\\nand many of the fioiirs laid with bluestone flagging.\\nThe Fiuilding covers an acre and a half of ground,\\nand, it will be seen, is virtually fire-proof, besides\\nbeing far more convenient and much safer than if\\nseveral stories high.\\nAt the present time the principal business is throw-\\ning, making trams and organ/ine on commission, be-\\nsides there are many power-looms, both for weaving\\nhandkerchiefs, ribbons, and dress goods: among the\\nlooms are many Jacquards for the weaving of fancy\\ndesigns. Mo.st of the goods are dyctl on the premises.\\nFrom 250 to 300 hands are employed, whose wages\\namount to from l?100,0(KI to $12. ,000 yearly. The\\nmill is now run by the Pioneer Silk Company, of\\nwhich Mr. Ryle is the presiilent and manager. As\\nalready remarked, Mr. Ryle has always been experi-\\nmenting to discover and apply improved methods in\\nthe manipulation of silk. He invented the process\\nof re-reeling silk, now in general use. He has long\\nbeen the senior silk-manufacturer in Paterson, whence\\nhe has been very ajipropriately termed the father of\\nthe silk industry in Paterson. He has been its lather\\nin another sense. For many years there was scarcely\\na silk-mill started in the city unless it was owned or\\nsuperintended by men whom he had taught the bu.si-\\nness, and, as a rule, most of the hands for the new\\nmills were those whom he had brought up in his es-\\ntablishment. He has not got over this habit of teach-\\ning, and to this day declares that he can do anything\\nthat requires to be done in his mill, in any and every\\ndepartment. A book could be written of his recol-\\nlections of the early struggles of the silk-manufactu-\\nrers of America, and a most interesting volume it\\nwould be.\\nHe was born in the village of Bollington. nejir\\nMacclesfield, Cheshire, England, on Oct. 22. 1817.\\nHis parents were Peter and Sarah (Brunt) Ryle, his\\nmother being a native of Statibrdshire. His father\\nwas a machinist by trade. Out of a lamily of seventeen\\nchildren but five grew to years of maturity, namely,\\nReuben, William, John, Sarah (widow of Thomas\\nRowson, of Paterson), and Peter. Reuben and Wil-\\nliam became prominent silk manufacturersat Maccles-\\nfield, England, the firm of R. W. Ryle being widely\\nknown in the tra le, and supplying the London and\\nManchester markets. Reuben was the father of John\\nC. Ryle, of Paterson, and William of the late Wil-\\nliam Ryle. of the same city. Peter also engaged in\\nthe manufacture of silk in Paterxon, and dieil in that\\nplace.\\nIn 1820, .John Ryle s parent.s moved from Boiling-\\nton to Macclesfield, where his father died in \\\\X 2-i and\\nhis mother about 1828. Thus early in life was the\\nsubject of this sketeh launched alone upon the sea\\nof life. He never enjoyed any schooling advantages,\\nand imbibed all his book education at the Sabbath-\\nschool alone. Remarkable though it may seem, he\\nwiLs placed in a silk-mill at the tender age of five\\nyears, an l thus was veritably cradled in the midst of\\nan industry that largely through his fostering care\\nand intelligent labor has become one of the most\\nimportant of the United States.\\n.Mr. Ryle worked in vari ms silk-mills at Mucdes-\\nfielil unlil IX. JO. At that time, althoii);li superintend-\\ning in a satisfactory and succes-sful manner the large\\nbusiness of his brotherx, R. iV W. Ryle, he determined", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0798.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "CITY OP PATERSON.\\n467\\nto embark for the New World, to seek his fortune\\namong strangers in a strange land. His brothers\\nwere unable to dissuade him from what appeared in\\na youtli of his years and in experience a suicidal and\\ndisastrous course, and on March 1, 1839, he sailed\\nfrom Liverpool in the ship Marion, commanded\\nby gruff old Capt. Bonyman, and after a voyage of\\nforty-nine days landed in New York City. His chief\\ncapital at that time was a pair of ready hands, a\\nstrong will, and an ambitious desire to succeed in\\nlife, and so he was compelled to seek employment at\\nonce. He first went to Northampton, Mass., where\\nhe worked on a ribbon-loom in the employ of Samuel\\nWhitmarsh. The following September he returned\\nto New York, and estalilished the silk importing\\nbusiness in a small way on the corner of JIaiden\\nLane and William Streets. His brothers in England\\nfurnished him with his stock in trade, consisting of\\nsilk handkerchiefs. He continued in this business\\nbut a few mouths, when fate made him acquainted\\nwith a person with whom he was afterwards associ-\\nated for years in the person of George W. Murray. Mr.\\nMurray contemplated establishing the silk business\\nin Paterson, and at his solicitation Mr. Ryle visited\\nthat city for the purpose of examining the old Gun\\nMill of Samuel Colt with a view of its appropria-\\ntion for the uses of silk manufacture. Up to this\\ntime no -silk had been manufactured in Paterson,\\nalthough Christopher Colt had made the attempt\\nwithout satisfactory results.\\nMr. Murray purchased the Old Gun Mill on Mr.\\nRyle s suggestion, and at once started the manufac-\\nture of silk, with the latter in full charge. After\\nthree years Mr. Ryle was taken into partnership by\\nMr. Murray, and the firm of Murray Ryle did a\\nflourishing business in the manufacture of sewing-silk\\nand twist until 1846, when, with the assistance of his\\nbrother William, Mr. Ryle purchased Mr. Murray s\\ninterest, and continued business alone. In 1853 he\\nmade the elegant silk flag that floated over the cen-\\ntral dome of the Crystal Palace at the World s Fair\\nof that year. In 1857 the firm of John Ryle\\nNephew was organized, with the late William Ryle\\nas junior partner. After about two years the latter\\nwithdrew, and Mr. Ryle continued business alone for\\nseveral years. About 1864 the firm of John Ryle\\nCo. was organized, consisting of John Ryle and his\\nnephew, John C. Ryle, and a large and successful\\nbusiness was carried on in the Old Murray Mill,\\nwhich building Mr. Ryle had erected and owned in-\\ndividually.\\nOn March 10, 1869, this magnificent structure, with\\nall its valuable machinery and stock, the whole val-\\nued at $400,000, was burned to the ground without a\\ndollar of insurance upon it. Mr. Ryle had alrcadv\\nlost half a million of dollars during the financial\\ncrisis of 1857, and now another fortune was swept\\naway from him. Few men have endured so many\\ndisasters with so brave a heart. The mill was rebuilt\\nunder the auspice.s of the Ryle Silk Manufacturing\\nCompany, of which Mr. Ryle became president, and\\nthe old veteran was once more set to work at his\\nchosen avocation. The RyleSilk Manufacturing Com-\\npany was succeeded about four years ago by the Pio-\\nneer Silk Company, of which Mr. Ryle is now the\\npresident. The company are chiefly engaged in\\nthrowing silk and in weaving ribbons and broad\\nsilks.\\nFew men are more highly respected in the city than\\nold John Ryle, as he is familiarly known. With\\nno educational advantages, reared amid the clash and\\nclamor of moving machinery, coming when a mere\\nyouth to a strange land, embarking alone in an un-\\ntried and uninviting line of manufacture in America,\\nhe became one of the pillars of the silk trade of the\\nUnited States, and his name a household word among\\nthe laborers in that industry. He was one of the most\\nactive in the movement to cause the duty to be re-\\nmoved from raw silk, and a proper protective tarifl!\\nexacted on the manufactured article, and has always\\ndone his part in fostering and encouraging the silk\\nindustry. He is a member of the Silk Industry As-\\nsociation of Paterson, and of the Silk Industrial\\nAssociation of New York.\\nFew men have been pursued by a more malignant\\nfate than Mr. Ryle, and his courageous bearing under\\nthe heaviest of disasters has but increased the respect\\nand esteem of his friends for him. He has been long\\nrecognized as one of the public benefactors of Pater-\\nson, and has ever been a liberal contributor to the\\nvarious movements calculated to develop its resources\\nand elevate the tone of society in Paterson. He was\\nthe practical builder of the Paterson Water- Works,\\nsubscribing for .s75,000 of the $100,000 of stock issued,\\nand owned the works for many years. He adorned the\\ngrounds around the Cottage on the Cliff at his own\\nexpense, and threw them open to the public, receiving\\nthe grateful recognition of the working population of\\nthe city for the bestowment of so great a boon upon\\nthem. He has assisted many of his friends in their\\nefforts to establish business in Paterson, and is pos-\\nsessed of the most liberal and enterprising spirit, a\\ngenial nature, and is hospitable and kind to all. His\\nstrict integrity and high sense of honor have long\\nchallenged the admiration of his friends. He has\\nnever been an aspirant after public position, and has\\nheld himself studiously aloof from political aff airs.\\nHe wiis mayor of the city of Paterson in 1869 and\\n1870.\\nMr. Ryle was married in 1841 to Miss Sarah Morfitt,\\nof Paterson. The children who reached years of ma-\\nturity were Reuben, who is in business in Montreal;\\nWilliam, superintendent of the Paterson Water-\\nWorks; John, who resides in Chicago; Thomas, en-\\ngaged in the factory with his father; and Jemima.\\nHis first wife died in 1867, and three years later Mr.\\nRyle married his present wife, Lucy W. Raymond,\\nwidow of William W. B. Lindley, a former silk-manu-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0799.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "468\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfacturer of Winchester, Mass. Mr. Ryle is well pre- I\\nserved, possessed of a remarkable memory, and is still\\nactively engaged in silk manufacture.\\nGiles Van Xeis. In December, 1844, Giles Van\\nNe. .s began making tassels of cotton and worsted in i\\na small shop back of his dwelling, in Hamburg\\nAvenue, between Water and Matlock Streets. Within\\na few weeks, perha|)s the same month, he bought one\\npound of black tram from George Murray, and made\\nit up into cloak tassels. Then he began coating balls\\nfor parasols with sewing-silk. Very little girls were\\nemployed in tiiese operations, and some of them be-\\ncame so expert that they would cover four gross of\\nbuttons or balls with silk in a day. Within a few\\nweeks after beginning business he got two or three\\nlooms for making silk fringe, trimmings, gimp, and\\nbroad gimp. In the course of two years ampler ac-\\ncommodations were needed, and he leased a lot on\\nWater Street, one door east of Northwest Street,\\nwhereon he built a two-story frame shop, fifteen by\\nninety feet, and removed his business there. He then\\nemployed from twenty-five to thirty hands, and iiad\\neight looms, and an engine-loom with eight shuttles\\nthat would make sixteen pieces at once. Of course\\nall the looms were hand-looms, and the wheels were\\nturned by hand also. The machinery was bought in\\nNew York, whence most of the skilled hands were\\nlikewise brought, for at first the |)rocess was jealously\\nguarded as a profound secret by tho.se who understood\\nit, and it was only by the exercise of Mrs. Van Ness\\nwomanly tact and perseverance that she and her bus- j\\nband were able to acquire any knowledge of the busi-\\nness. In fact, it was Mrs. Van Ness who suggested\\nthe idea to her husband, and it was she who first\\nlearned the art, and attcrwanls virtually conducted the\\nbusiness. For many years all the ladies in I aterson\\nhad to get their silk trimmings, buttons, gimp, etc.,\\nfrom Mrs. Van Ness, and to this day her hand has\\nnot forgotten its cunning in this delicate work. Mr.\\nVan Nejjs die l in 18t)4.\\nCkr mtopher (hll, Cull A- Co., EdiranI A. liedloe.\\nThe next silk-mill in I atcrson wasstarU d by Chris-\\ntopher Colt, who had started the first. After his re-\\nmoval from Paterson in 1830, Mr. Colt continued his\\nconnection in a more or less desultory way with the\\nsilk business, and in the summer or fall of 1S47 he\\nreturned to I atcrson and took the third fioor of the\\nNightingale Mill, which he soon filled with silk ma-\\nchinery for winding, doubling, spinning, and throw-\\ning generally. He employed 50 or t 0 hands at this\\ntime. In 1848 he as.sociated with himself Kdward A.\\nBedloe, then a clerk at Delnionico s dining-rooms in\\nNew York, a connection of the family that once\\nowned liedioe s Island in New York Hay. The lirm\\nwas then C. Colt Co. It was probably in 184!t that\\nMr. Colt once more left Paterson, this time perma-\\nnently, disposing of his mill to his partner, Edward\\nA. Itedlop. The latter appears to have continued the\\nbusiness until the latter part of 1852 or early in 18. )3.\\nWhen Mr. Colt first came to Paterson he was about\\nthirty years of age.\\nJohn C Benson. In January or February, 18i)l,\\nJohn C. Benson, a New England man, who came to\\nPaterson in 1X43, and for seven years carried on a\\ncotton-mill, began the erection of a brick silk-mill on\\nBridge Street, between Division and Godwin Streets.\\nHe had all his machinery made by Todd, Mackey\\nCo., who also had built his boiler and engine, for his\\nmill was run by steam-power, and was the first silk-\\nmill so operated, and, in fact, was one of the first mills\\nof any kind in the town using steam-power. By\\nsummer he was able to set his machinery in (yiera-\\ntion. He made sewing-silk, thrown silk, trams and\\norgan/.ines, fringes, etc. He did no weaving. He\\nemployed GO or 70 hands at first, and afterwards in-\\ncreased to 10(1. He utilized the water of the brook\\nwhich passed through his ground for dyeing pur-\\nposes, not only dyeing his own silk, but for John\\nRyle, Hamil Booth, and other parties in Paterson\\nand New York. He dammed up the brook and sunk\\na large well or tank in which to store the water,\\nwhich seemed jieculiarly adapted for dyeing. He\\ncontinued the business until about IStJO, when he\\nconcluded to retire from active work, and then he\\nsold out to his son-in-law, Daniel Kerapton. The\\nlatter carried it on but a short time, and in turn dis-\\nposed of the mill to the Leonard Brothers i George D.,\\nJohn N., and O. W., the last named being succeeded\\nby James), who ran it for a few years, but failed to\\nmake a success of the enterprise, and the property\\nreverted to Mr. Benson, who then sold it to Thomas\\nD. Hoxsey and David B. Beam. The old building\\nstill stands, and possesses a eculiar interest from the\\nfact that it wits the first, after Van Ness erecte l in\\nPaterson for a silk-mill. It is now occupied by the\\nPaterson Keed and Harness Compaqy, who make\\nreeds and harness for silk-weavers.\\nJanus WatthaU, Sfelle d- WaUhall, Lewis J{. StdU,\\netc. In October, 1853, James Walthall, who had pre-\\nviously had long experience in the silk manufacture\\nin Philadelphia, started to make sewing-silks in the\\nlower floor of a long, low, two-story building in the\\nrear of the Nightingale Mill, in Van Honten Street.\\nJohn Kyle had previously occupied the room to twist\\nsilk by hand. Seven of his own children assisted\\nhim, anil he had five more hands, making twelve in\\nall. lie macle itil kinds of sewing-silks and some em-\\nbroidery silk !is well, nothing else. In the summer or\\nfall of 1854 he removed to the third floor of the Ma-\\nchinists Association building, occupying half of the\\nfloor. He then employed filly or sixty hands, and\\nhail eight winding-frame-s and from two to three tliou-\\n.sand spindles; he also wound sofl silk for New York\\nparties. In 18.5(3, Lewis K. Stelle, till then publisher\\nof the Pnlerson Guardian newspaper, sold out the\\npaper and embarked his capital in the silk business\\nwith Mr. Walthall, when the firm became Stelle A\\nWalthall. With the increiuscd means the new firm", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0800.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0801.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "-^c t//", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0802.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n469\\nspread out materially, taking the whole of the third\\nfloor of the building. They did a good business until\\nthe breaking out of the war, when Mr. Walthall pa-\\ntriotically enlisted with his old militia company, the\\nCity Blues, and sold out his interest in the silk-\\nmill to Mr. Stelle. The latter continued it for some\\nyears alone, and then took in his sons, J. Lawrence\\nand Alexander D., the firm being L. R. Stelle Sons.\\nThey carried it on until about 1873, when Mr. Stelle\\naccepted what he considered an advantageous offer to\\nestablish his silk-mill in a town in the interior of\\nNew York State, whither he removed his machinery.\\nIn 1868 they made about three hundred pounds of\\ntram and fringe weekly.\\nThe PhcEnir Silk-Mills. Some account ha-s been\\ngiven under another head of the origin and progress\\nof the Phcpnix Mill, first as a cotton- and then as a\\ncotton- and flax-mill, and then again as a cotton-mill.\\nIts transformation into the vast silk establishment\\nthat it has become apjiears to have been a purely for-\\ntuitous circumstance. About 1854, John Birchenough\\nstarted in the silk business in a small way in the\\nStar Mill, the Machinists Association building, at\\nthe corner of Broadway and Prospect Streets. In\\n1859 he had removed to the Beaver Mill, and the fol-\\nlowing year found him occupying the third floor of\\nthe main Pha?nix Mill, a room forty-eight by one hun-\\ndred and seventy feet in area, where he was employ-\\ning fifty or sixty hands in making sewing-silk, em-\\nbroidery-silk, and saddlers silk. He was doing this\\nwork on commission for Benjamin B. Tilt, of Boston,\\nwho had supplied him with money and material to\\ncarry on the business. Birchenough could not make\\nthe advances good, and Mr. Tilt had to take his ma-\\nchinery and stock to save himself. This was how the.\\nTilts came to Paterson. Once here, and with capital\\nat his command, Mr. Tilt soon found the business\\ngrowing on his hands. In the course of a year, or in\\n1861-62, he removed to the Watson Works, on Rail-\\nroad Avenue, at the corner of Grand Street. About\\n1868 he leased two floors of the Beaver Mill, and in\\nthe course of another year returned to the Pho?nix\\nMill, where he concentrated his whole establishment,\\nhaving iheanwhile taken first one floor and then\\nanother floor of that building. In 1865 he bought\\na controlling interest in the Phoenix Manufacturing\\nCompany, and thenceforth had the entire premises,\\nwhich he gradually filled with throwing machinery\\nas the business increased. His son Albert was now\\ntaken into partnership, and the firm was B. B. Tilt\\nSon. About 1868, Mr. Tilt began experimenting\\nin the weaving of silk goods, in which he had been\\nlargely engaged before coming to Paterson. He\\nstarted with a single loom, and the products were sold\\ndirectly from the mill, instead of going through their\\nj Kew York store, as did their other goods. The fab-\\nI rics found a ready sale, and more looms were put on,\\nand by 1870 the market for the goods was so well e.s-\\nI tablished that they began selling them through their\\nNew York store, where they speedily attracted wide\\nattention. The first work was done on hand-looms,\\nand as the demand for the woven fabrics increased\\nwith great rajiidity, a large number of weavers soon\\nfound employment at very high wages, some of them\\nearning from sixty to eighty dollars per fortnight.\\nThen the trade unions undertook to regulate the\\nproduction and management of the mill, and adopted\\nrules that no weaver should weave more than a cer-\\ntain quantity of goods per day, and in other ways\\ntried to restrict the production. But the demand was\\nnot stopped by this course, and the firm of Tilt\\nSon soon found that they must either control their\\nown production to meet the demand or their cus-\\ntomers would go where they could be supplied. So\\nthey began experimenting with power-looms, and as\\nthe demands of the trade unions became more and\\nmore exacting and troublesome, they were forced\\neither to introduce power-looms or else give up weav-\\ning altogether. They chose the former alternative,\\nalthough it was the general opinion at the time that\\nsuch looms could not equal the hand-woven goods in\\nfineness or evenness, but they have been steadily im-\\nproved since that time, and now the principal pro-\\nduction of the mill is on power-looms which a boy or\\ngirl of fair intelligence can learn to run in a few\\nweeks. Those conversant with the facts have often\\ndeclared that but for the ill-advised action of the\\nunions referred to there would be five times as many\\nweavers employed in Paterson to-day as there are,\\nwhose places have been taken by the power-looms.\\nFrom the first it was the aim of the Tilts to create a\\nmarket for American silk goods by the production of\\nnovelties of original design, instead of merely imita-\\nting the English or French designs as they were im-\\nported. Again and again they have made decided\\nhits in this way. During the Centennial Exhibi-\\ntion they were the only firm to have a silk-loom in\\noperation in the Main Building at Philadelphia, and\\nit was an unceasing object of interest to the hundreds\\nof thousands of visitors who had never before seen how\\nsilk goods of fancy designs were woven. Thousands\\nand tens of thousands of silk handkerchiefs were\\nwoven and sold there as souvenirs of the exhibition,\\nbearing an appropriate legend on them. The firm\\ncleared something like forty thousand dollars by that\\nexhibit. During the same year they got up beautiful\\nlittle silk badges with portraits of the respective can-\\ndidates for President and Vice-President on them,\\nsuitably inscribed, the portraits and inscriptions being\\nall woven in the fabric in several colors. At the Pat-\\nerson Light-Guard annual ball in January, 1882, the\\nbadges of the committees were all woven for the occa-\\nsion by Mr. Tilt. They also produced several styles\\nof book-marks of exquisite patterns, among them one\\nwith the words and music of the Star-Spangled\\nBanner, another with a portrait of Washington, and\\nanother with a portrait of Lincoln. At the Paris\\nExposition of 1878 they made an exhibit that aston-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0805.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "47 t\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NKW JKRSKY.\\nished the foreign silk-manufacturers, and that went\\nfar to establish the excellency of the American silk\\nmanufactures in the eyes of incredulous foreigners.\\nIn l^f71 they hegan weaving dress goods, silk ties,\\nbroad scarfs, etc. In the spring of 1873 they erected\\na large three-story frame budding, forty by one hun-\\ndred and twenty-five feet, back of the main mill, for\\nhand-looms exclusively.\\nIn 1875 they builta fine brick mill, fifty by one hun-\\ndred and seventy-five feet, two, three, and four stories\\nhigh, for another weave-shop, and soon had it running\\nbusily. In the latter part of 1881 the ancient-looking,\\nlow, two-story brick building along the raceway was\\ntorn down tf) make way for an elegant new brick edifice,\\nof attractive design and superior character in every\\nrespect two lofty stories in height and one hundred\\nand sixty by thirty feet in area, with an extension\\nfifty by fifty on the lower floor. A sumptuous suite\\nof oflices has been fitted up. For several years the\\nfirm have done most of tlieir re] airing and made\\nmost of their machinery on their own |)remi.ses, even\\nto making the necessary castings. Their foundry is\\nsixty-five by thirty feet. In the mills at Paterson\\nfrom 80(1 to 900 hands are employed, who receive\\nabout \u00c2\u00a7300,(100 of wages yearly, and who work up\\n125,000 pounds of raw silk in that time. There are\\n312 looms running, 205 power, 75 hand, and 32\\nribbon. In the summer of 1881 the Pho iiix Com-\\npany were given a lease on very favorable terms of a\\nmagnificent new mill at Allentown, Pa., which, in\\nhonor of Mrs. Albert Tilt, hiis been christened the\\nAdelaide Mill. It is a handsome l)rick structure,\\nfour stories high, fifty by two hundred and seventy-\\nfive feet in area, with extension, and is fitted up in\\nthe finest style. It was erected by citizens of Allen-\\ntown in order to provide labor for the women and\\nchildren of the town who desire employment. On\\nNov. 17, 1881, the mill was formally dedicated,\\nthe occasion being one that will long be remend)ered\\nby tliiise who attcncK il. A i rerious souvenir of the\\nafiair was the ex(|uisitely beautiful invitations, woven\\non silk, with a perfect picture of the new mill, and\\nthe coat\u00c2\u00ab of arms of New Jersey and Pennsylvania,\\nas other appropriate designs. The new mill was\\nintendc l to be used exclusively for throwing silk,\\nas there has hmg been a scarcity of liel|) in that de-\\npartment in Paterson. Rut tlie top floor has been\\nfitted up with looms, and the whole process of throw-\\ning and weaving is now carried on by about five hun-\\ndred hands. The mill, therefore, forms a very im-\\nportant aniu x to the Plicrnix Mills at Paterson.\\nMr. Itenjatnin H. Tilt died Sejit. 30, 1H79, since which\\ntime his son, AlliiTt Tilt, has been president of the\\nPhrcnix Manufacturing Company, its well its treas-\\nurer; John R. Curran is secrctiirj Samuel Thorji is\\n\u00c2\u00bbuperint -ndent the eai ital is ^(t(\u00c2\u00bb,0(K\u00c2\u00bb. The charter\\nof the company is irrepealable. and not subject to\\namendment without their con.sent.\\nHi:xJA.\\\\iiN It. iii,T was born at Coventry, England,\\nin the year 1807. He had but limited* opportunities\\nfor obtaining a thorough book education, and wiis set\\nto work as an a|)i rentice in a silk-mill at an early\\nage. He became a thorough and skilled workman,\\nand being ambitious to secure a place for himself in\\nlife, in common with many young men of his ac-\\nquaintance, determined to seek a broader field for the\\nexerci.se of his talents and skill in the United .States.\\nHe sailed from England in 1835, reaching this coun-\\ntry soon after. His earlier attempts to obtain em-\\nployment were very di-scouraging, the silk business\\nbeing then in its infancy in America, and the oppor-\\ntunities for securing remunerative employment being\\ncomparatively limited. After several unsuccessful\\natteiiijits he finally obtained a position with a silk-\\nmanufacturer in New York City named McCrary, an\\nold friend and schoolmate of his uncle s. Here he\\nremained some time, faithfully working at his trade,\\nassisting meanwhile a friend named Hall, who had\\ncome over on the same ship with himself, but who\\nhad not been successful in securing a place to work.\\nWhile employed in New York Mr. Tilt became ac-\\nquainted with a Boston gentleman by the name of\\nDowell, with whom he arranged a partnershij). and\\nthe two, under the firm-name of Tilt Dowell,\\nbegan the manufacture of silk in Boston about 1838\\nor 1839. The enterprise at first was a small one. but\\ngradually cxi)ande(l, and in a sliort time became an\\nimportant and successful manufacturing concern.\\nThey acquired a wide reputation for the quality of\\ntheir goods, and received from the Mechanics Asso-\\nciation of Boston a silver medal in recognition of\\nthat fact. Mr. Dowell having died, a new i)artner\\nwas admitted to the concern, and the business w:is\\ncarried on umler the name of B. B. Tilt iV: Co. until\\n1847, when it was changed to Tilt Dexter. In 1849,\\nowing to the necessity for larger commercial facilities,\\na store was established in New York, at which the\\nproducts of the concern were sold. In 1855, Mr. Dex-\\nter and others purchased Mr. Tilt s interest in the\\nbusiness, an l organized the firm of Dexter, Lambert\\nCo., which is elsewhere referred to in this work.\\nAfter disposing of his interest in the manufactory\\nat Boston, Mr. Tilt engaged in the silk commission\\nbusiness in New York for several years, and in l.stJO\\ncame to Paterson, where he began the manul aclnrfi\\nof silk on the top floor of the Phienix .Mill, which\\nwas then mainly employed for cotton manufacture.\\nHe still kept uji his New York store, but his nuinu-\\nfacturing business grew so rapidly that he was not\\nonly compelled to add to his facilities for manutaeture\\nby the purchase of further machinery and the leasing\\nof other rooms, but to give up the New York hous\u00c2\u00ab\\naltogether. He now concentnited all his energy and\\nskill on the manufacture of silk, for which he had a\\ngreat liking, and in which he was eminently fitted for\\nsuccess. In I8()2, upon attaining his majority. Al-\\nbert Tilt, his son, was admitted to a artnership, the\\nfirm-name being changed to B. B. Tilt A: Bon. The", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0806.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "CITl OF PATERSON.\\n471\\nenterprise continued so successful, and tlie scope of\\nthe business expanded so rapidly, that the firm were\\nobliged to seek still further manufacturing facilities,\\nand in 18i)3-t)4 occupied wholly or in part the Phce-\\nnix, the Beaver, and the old Watson Mills. In 1865\\nthe Messrs. Tilt obtained a controlling interest in the\\nPhoenix Manufacturing Company, which had been\\nengaged in the manufacture of cotton, and the product\\nwas changed from cotton to silk. Mr. Tilt, the elder,\\nbecame the president of the company. The Phienix\\nMill was enlarged from time to time, and was not only\\nmade to include every branch of silk manufacture, but\\nthe building of the machinery itself, some of the best\\nlooms and machinery in use being built on the prem-\\nises. In 187(), during the heavy business depression\\nthat fell upon the country, the concern experienced\\nmany reverses, but still continued their manufactur-\\ning operations and maintained their place among the\\nleading silk-manufacturers of the United States. In\\nthat year the products of the concern took a promi-\\nnent place at the American Centennial Exposition,\\nand afterwards at the World s Fair in Paris. They\\nreceived numerous medals in recognition of the excel-\\nlence of their products during this time, among them\\nbeing medals of bronze, silver, and gold at the Ameri-\\ncan Institute Fair, of bronze and silver at Paris, and\\na medal and highest report at the Centennial Exposi-\\ntion.\\nMr. Tilt sufliered a paralytic stroke in 1876, during\\nthe mental and physical strain that occurred on ac-\\ncount of the business difficulties of that year, and\\nfrom that time on continued steadily to decline in\\nhealth until his death on Sept. 30, 1879. For several\\nyeai s prior to that event his son Albert had been the\\nvirtual head of the concern, and now succeeded to\\nthe presidency of the Phcenix Manufacturing Com-\\npany, a position that he occupies in 1882. He is\\nfollowing out the same line of manufacture in which\\nhis father engaged, and is at the head of one of the\\nlargest and most successful concerns of its kind in the\\nUnited States.\\nA large and handsome mill has recently been\\nerected by the company at Allendale, Pa., where an\\nimportant branch of their manufacture is carried on.\\nThe special characteristics of Benjamin B. Tilt were\\nthe po.ssession of an ambitious and aspiring spirit,\\nuntiring industry, a bright, intelligent mind, and\\nsuperior taste in regard to colors, texture, and designs.\\nHe was born a silk-manufacturer, and was fitted by\\nnature to attain the prominent place in that industry-\\nthat he occupied. He was of a genial and social\\nnature, in close sympathy with the feelings and opin-\\nions of laboring men, and strictly honorable in all\\nthe tran-sactions of life. He was no public man,\\nneither aspired to nor accepted political office, but\\nduringtlie twenty years passed in Paterson was closely\\nidentified with the silk industry of the city, and did\\nmuch in adding to its importance. He wa-s a liberal\\ncontributor to the support of the institutions of Pat-\\nerson, and co-operated cheerfully in all worthy public\\nenterprises.\\nIliimild- Booth. Robert Hamil was foreman of the\\nfinishing-room in the Murray Mill in 1854, and being\\nabout to engage in other business recommended Mr.\\nEyle to employ James Booth in his place. In April,\\n1855, Mr. Booth started in the silk business for him-\\nself in the top floor of the Beaver Mill, with about\\ntwenty hands, where he spun sewing-silk. About two\\nmonths later Robert Hamil joined him, and the firm\\nof Hamil Booth wa.s formed. After a while they\\nadded the making of fringe-silk. In the course of a\\nyear and a half they removed to the Star Mill, op-\\nposite, taking the second floor. They now employed\\nsixty to seventy hands in the same line of production.\\nIn 1858 they took the second floor of the Murray\\nMill, seventy-three by two hundred feet. They now\\nenlarged their business, and had one hundred and fifty\\nhands working for them. At this time they began\\nthrowing tram and organzine. In the spring of 1862\\nthey bought the property on Ward Street, north side,\\nnext to Railroad Avenue, paying twelve thousand dol-\\nlars for it. There was a silk-mill, brick, two stories\\nand attic, forty-five by one hundred and thirty feet,\\non the property, which had been erected during the\\nwinter of 1858-59 by Dwight B. Fuller and Joseph\\nC. Fuller, who had come from New York to start the\\nbusiness, which they carried on as Fuller Brothers.\\nOne of them afterwards patented Fuller s ^Erated\\nBread, in which he doubtless made more money\\nthan in the silk-mill at Paterson. They had consid-\\nerable machinery for throwing silk, including some\\nrailroad machines, which took off the silk after it\\nwas spun and doubled it together. It was not a suc-\\ncess, however, and Hamil Booth discarded it. They\\nused the other machinery of Fuller Brothers and\\nbought more, in addition to what they already had.\\nThe firm still kept on at their original business of\\nthrowing until 1868, when they began experimenting\\nin weaving. This proved to be a success, and in 1870\\nthey engaged in it quite extensively, weaving cut-\\nups, twilled silks for neck-wear. Meantime they\\nhad widened their old mill by twenty feet. When\\nthey began weaving, in 1870, they erected a frame\\nbuilding, twenty-five by one hundred feet, two\\nstories high. In 1873 their present office was put\\nup, of brick, thirty-five by forty-five feet, three\\nstories high. In 1874-75 they made another addi-\\ntion, brick, three stories, forty-five by seventy-five\\nfeet. But the most important single addition was\\nthe purchase, in 1872, of the large brick mill at the\\nnorthwest corner of Market and Mill Streets, fifty-\\nseven by one hundred and eighty feet, formerly run\\nas a cotton-mill by A. Prall Co. In honor of the\\nsenior member of the firm the new purchase was\\ncalled the Hamil Mill. It was fitted up in 1873\\nwith spinning machinery on the first and second\\nfloors. After a while the third floor was filled with\\nlooms for broad silks, but they were afterwards", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0807.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "472\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nchanged to ribbons. The firm was in a measure\\nforced into tiie weaving buiiiiiess at the outset, but\\nhaving once started tliey coiuluded to go ahead, and\\nnow stand in the front rank of producers of woven\\nfabrics, and of tiie choicest designs.\\nFrom having a few liand-looms they liave Ijept on\\nsteadily increasing until now they have about 350\\nlooms, nearly all run by power. Their tli rowing depart-\\nment is still very large, embracing about 25,O((0 spin-\\ndles. The annual production amounts to $1,250,(1(10,\\nto make which 120,000 pounds of raw silk are used\\nin the course of a year. The number of hands em-\\nployed ranges from 800 to 1000, whose wages foot up\\n$200,000 to $250,000 yearly. They now weave hand-\\nkerchiefs, dress goods, trimmings, summer silks, mil-\\nlinery silks, grenadines, ribbons, figured brocades,\\nplain and figured satins, figured gros grain, etc.\\nDuring 1881 they turned out 40,000 to 45,000 yards\\nof broad silks monthly, or about half a million yards\\nin the year. Their production of ribbons was 10,000\\nto 12,0(10 pieces monthly, each piece containing ten or\\ntwelve yards. These ribbons would make a festoon\\nalong the railway from New York to Chicago, nine\\nhundred miles. In 1880 they began weaving silk\\nplush lor ladies hats, cloakings, etc. They have also\\nmade some very fine velvet. Both branches will\\ndoubtless bo extended in the near future. The raw-\\nsilk is brought to the mill in bales just as it comes\\nfrom abroad, and is put througii all the ])rocesses on\\nthe premises, except the dyeing. For several years\\nit has been the aim of the firm to achieve originality\\nof design in their productions. This has necessitated\\nthe very greatest alertness in watching the n\\\\arkets.\\nAs soon as they find their designs imitated they\\nswitch off upon something new, and thus are con-\\ntinually surprising the buyers. The association of\\nladies which has been recently urging the growing\\nof American silk as a new and desirable industry for\\nthe women and children in agricultural districts,\\nhaving collected a large (piantity of silk grown and\\nrcel( (l ill Pennsylvania, New .Jersey, I tah, and else-\\nwhere in this country, sent it to Hamil Ac liooth in\\nFebruary, 1S82, to be made into a dress for Mrs. Gar-\\nfielil, the willow of the late President. Some of this\\nsilk, raised by Italians at Vineland, N. J., and else-\\nwhere, was of a very choice grade, and if all the\\nsilk grown and reeled in America were equally fine\\nit would afford great encouragement to these ladies\\nin their patriotic endeavors. The dress pattern wits\\nwoven according to a special design originated for\\nthis occasion, and look many weeks to perfect it and\\nadapt a loom for the purpose. The ilesign nujy lie\\nbriefly di srribed im an alternate stripe of siitin and\\nlace, a grai eful spray of delicate flowers being strewn\\nover both stripes. The effect is as exquisite as it is\\nnovel. Technically it is what Is called a brocade of\\nsatin ground, a rich count, extra i|uality of goods,\\nan extra number of fine threads to the warp. It is\\nblack, of course. Mr. llaiiiil died Sept. 11, 1880.\\nSince then the business has been continued by his\\nrepresentatives and Mr. Booth, under the old firm-\\nname. Mr. Booth attends to the New York store\\nand the outside business generally, giving a general\\nsupervision over the entire establishment, while Mr.\\nPeter Bannigan, a nephew of Mr. Hamil, superin-\\ntends the mill. No operator in the employ of the\\nfirm makes longer hours than Mr. Booth himself.\\nHe quits his elegant Broadway mansion every morn-\\ning at lialf-])iLst six o clock, no matter what the\\nweather may be, and regularly puts in twelve hours\\nor more of steady and engrossing work of the most\\nlaborious kind. But he says he enjoys it.\\nRonKRT Hamil was born in County Antrim, near\\nLisburn, Irelaml, on March 17, 1818. His jiarents\\nwere James and Mary Hamil, the former being a\\nsmall farmer, who also engaged in the weaving of\\nlinen. He was the fifth of a family of six children,\\nthe others, Henry, Arthur, John, James, and Mary,\\nall emigrating to this country and locating in or near\\nthe city of Paterson with the exception of Henry.\\nMr. Hamil received only the rongli riidiment-s of a\\nconimoni lace English education, and was set to work\\nas an assistant to his father at an early age. He emi-\\ngrated to this country in 1844, and labored first in\\nthe white-lead works at Belleville, N. J. .\\\\fter a\\nshort time he came to Paterson, and worked at difler-\\nent occupations until about 1S4 when, at the age of\\ntwenty-three or twenty-four, he applied to John Ryle,\\nthe founder of the silk interest in Paterson, for a\\nposition in his mill. His request was granted, and he\\nat once entered upon his apprenticeship in the manu-\\nfacture of silk. Previous to this time he knew noth-\\ning of the business. He proved a faithful and intel-\\nligent workman, and remained with Mr. Kyle for eight\\nyears. During all of this time it is said that he\\nnever lost a day s time for any purpose, was always\\none of the first at the mill in the morning and the\\nlast to leave at night, and was the very model of an\\nearnest, faithful, anil intelligent mechanic. He rose\\nto the |)osilion of superintendent of the hard silk\\ndepartment.\\nIn June, 18- 4, he resigned his position in the mill,\\nand engaged in the coopering business on Ward Street,\\nPaterson, with a branch establishment in Laight\\nStreet, New York City, for a few months.\\nIn IH. i. i, having a thorough knowledge of the silk\\nbusiness, and having by tliritl and economy accumu-\\nlated a small cajiilal, he determined to return to his\\nregular trade, and formed a copartnership with James\\nBooth, a practical silk-worker, formerly superintend-\\nent of the finishing department at the Gun Mill\\nof .lolin I{yle, to engage in the manufacture of silk.\\nMr. Hooth had already established the business in a\\nsmall way in what was known as the Heaver Mill.\\nThe new firm began as throwsters, employing twenty\\noperatives. The enterprise was attended by a fair\\ndegree of success, and they subsequently leased two\\nrooms in the Machinists AH.sociation building and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0808.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0810.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0811.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0812.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n473\\nenlarged the scope of their business. They continued\\nat this location until 1859, and then rented the top\\nfloor of the Murray Mill, where they remained until\\n1862, when they purchased the Passaic Mill, on Ward\\nStreet, near Railroad Avenue, which had been built i\\nabout 1858 by Fuller Brothers, of New York, for a\\nspecific line of manufacture. Hamil Booth at once\\nenlarged the mill, which by successive additions has\\nbeen made one of the finest in the city, and is still\\nowned and operated by the firm. In 1872 they pur-\\nchased the old Godwin Cotton-Mill, on the corner\\nof Mill and Market Streets, which was named the\\nHamil Mill, and is still successfully operated by\\nMr. Booth and the representatives of the Hamil estate.\\nFrom a small beginning the business has become one\\nof the largest in the city, all varieties of standard silk i\\nmanufacture being engaged in. Mr. Hamil acted as\\nthe etficient head of the concern until Sept. 11, 1880,\\nwhen he was taken suddenly ill, and was called away\\nfrom the scenes of life.\\nIn many respects the career of Robert Hamil was\\na remarkable one. Coming to this country when a\\nyoung man, having neither the advantages of wealth\\nor of education, he was thrown in his early experi-\\nences into associations calculated rather to drag a\\nman down than to elevate and enlarge his character;\\nyet so steadfast was he in the pursuit of an honor-\\nable ambition, so fixed and resolute was his will, that\\nhe pressed successfully forward and made himself an\\nimportant factor in the development of the silk in-\\ndustry in America. Doubtless much of his stability\\nof character and purity of life were derived from the i\\nreligious influences which attended his early home-\\nlife, both of his parents being zealous adherents of\\nthe Roman Catholic faith. One of his oldest and\\nclosest friends has informed us that he was just such\\na man as was calculated to establish the silk interest\\nin the United States. He was truthful to a proverb,\\nindustrious and faithful as a mechanic, sober, reliable,\\nand could have been trusted with untold gold.\\nThis story is told, not by one who was associated\\nwith him in the profits of business, but by one from\\nwhom he derived his first lessons in silk manufac-\\nture, and whose successful rival he became; and when\\nsuch a one, in discoursing upon the perfect symmetry\\nof Mr. Hamil s character, speaks of him as a solid\\nblock of marble without a flaw, something of the\\ntrue value of the man can be learned. Not alone in\\nthe silk business was his influence recognized and\\nfelt, but in all the institutions of the city, and in\\nevery good work that was undertaken for the public\\ngood. He was one of the most active in advocating\\nthe removal of the duty from raw silk, and the placing\\nof a competent tarifl on manufactured goods was a\\nmember of the Silk Industrial Association of New\\nYork, and was for years, and .at the time of his death,\\npresident of the Silk Industrial Association of Pater-\\nson. For a time he was president of the Paterson\\nSavings Institution, but was compelled to resign by\\nthe pressure of his private business. He was also one\\nof the directors of the Second National Bank of Pat-\\nerson, and one of the founders of the Old Ladies\\nHome, of which, as well as of other of the eleemosy-\\nnary institutions of the city, he was a liberal sup-\\nporter. His early religious training seemed to color\\nhis entire life, and for years he was one of the trus-\\ntees and a zealous member of St. John s Roman\\nCatholic Church of Paterson. He was genial and\\nhospitable in character, but a close home-man, and\\nloved to entertain his friends at his pleasant home on\\nBroadway, where he presided as the host. He was\\nextremely temperate in his habits, and seldom visit-\\ning the hotels and drinking-placfis of the city. He\\nleft to his family at his death a large estate, besides\\nliberal bequests to several local institutions.\\nThe following resolutions were passed by the Pat-\\nerson Board of Trade, of which he was a member,\\nupon the occasion of his demise\\nResolved, That the loss we have thereby sustained is no common one,\\nwhether we consider our departed fiiend in the light of a genial associ-\\nate, an honored citizen, or a faithful member of this board from its or-\\nganization.\\nHesolved, That the life and character of Robert Hamil afford one of\\nthe brightest examples our city has furnished of the power of strict in-\\ntegrity, resolute will, and an honorable ambition to excel in true nobil-\\nity of ;isefulness to raise a man from an humble position to one exert-\\ning a wide influence for gO(jd, and serving as a constant incentive to\\nothers to follow the path so adorned by the achievements of a faithful\\nlife.\\nMr. Hamil married the only daughter of Peter and\\nCatharine Bannigan. The former was one of the\\nearly coopers of the city. He did a large business,\\nand besides supplying the local demand for hardware\\ncasks and other branches of his trade, did a large\\nSouthern business. He was one of the stanch old\\nfathers of the city, a gentleman of the old school,\\nplain, hospitable, genial, and one of the best-known\\nand popular men of his time. Mrs. Hamil occupies\\nthe handsome homestead of her husband on Broad-\\nway, and has no children.\\nJ. If. Booth Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1858, James Tumblety and\\nRobert Singleton, both young men, embarked in the\\nmanufacture of sewing-silk, fringes, twist, etc., in a\\nsmall room in the rear of the building which is now\\nthe most southeasterly of the Pha-nix Mills, on Van\\nHouten Street, the site being then occupied by Jolin\\nE. Van Winkle s machine-shop. They had twelve\\nhands at work, their machinery consisting of four\\nwinding-frames, two doubling-frames, four spinners,\\none twister, and one reel. They did throwing for B.\\nB. Tilt, in New York and Boston. At the end of a\\nyear s trial they sold out to Stephen Van Winkle.\\n(It may be remarked here that Tumblety still lives\\nSingleton died in March, 1877.) At the time Mr.\\nVan Winkle bought out the concern he was in the\\nshoe business with James N. Harper, employing a\\ngoodly number of hands. He put several thousand\\ndollars in his new venture, losing it all in six months.\\nHe began with thirteen hands and three hundred\\nspindles, making fringe-silk, used for trimmings. In", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0813.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "474\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n1862 he removed to Beaver Mill, where he occupied I\\nthe third floor, and now had thirty handfi at work.\\nIn 1865, John H. Booth, of Brooklyn, and Albert\\nHoblay, of Willianishurgh, hocanie interested in the\\nbusiness, wliicli since then has been conducted in the\\nname of J. H. Booth Co. The firm now bought\\nthe Union Works, at the northeast corner of Spruce\\nand Market Streets, and extended their business, em-\\nploying 50 hands and about 1000 spindles. Their\\npay-roll foot.s u|) $20,000 yeiirly. In 1879 the other\\npartners bought out Mr. Hoblay. They now make\\n45,000 pounds of raw silk annually into tram and or-\\nganzine, sewing- and floss-silk for the weaving and\\nladies trimming trade, coverings, tassels, cords, etc.\\nThey have 4000 spindles, and employ 90 hands. In\\none room, forty by one hundred and twelve feet, spin-\\nning and some winding is carried on in another,\\nfourteen by ninety, doubling; in another, thirty -si.\\\\\\nby forty, spinning; in another, fifteen by twenty, the\\nsilk is drachmed, or separated into skeins of certain\\nweights spinning is done in still another room, thirty-\\nsix by forty feet there is also a soaping- and steam-\\ningroom, an oflicc, etc. A striking evidence of the\\nvicissitudes of the silk industry in I aterson is found\\nin the fact that of the hundreds who have engaged in\\nthe business in the last twenty-five years in this city\\nthere remain not more than two or three who have\\nbeen employers longer than Mr. Van Winkle, who is\\nhimself but a young man.\\nBetween 1858 and 18t 0 several parties engaged in\\nthe silk manufacture, among them the following:\\nFord McNab, Edward Ford and Thomas\\nMcXab, who occupied a portion of the Union Works\\nfor a year or two.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lame.s Inglis, Sr., who carried on the spinning of\\nsilk ill the Beaver Mill for about a year.\\nPolhamus Scott,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Aaron I olhamus and John\\nJackson Scott, over the present tirant Works. After\\nrunning it for a year or two they sold out to Edwin\\nU. Saunders, who continued the business there and\\nat other places in I aterson until about 1874-75, when\\nhe removed the machinery to Massachusetts, where\\nhe had a tempting ofler of water-power. The move\\nwas not a success, and the machinery was subse-\\npiei\\\\tly sold, most of it coming back to I aterson.\\nMr. Scott on selling out returned to the employ of\\nJohn Kyle, and some years later again started in the\\nbusiness on his own account in the Union Works,\\nand then about where he bail made his beginning,\\ncontinuing in the last place until his death in Octo-\\nber, 1881.\\nThomiu N. Dak (h., Dale Manufacturing Company,\\nFrolrrick S. DnU.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\\\n 1862, Thomas N. Dale Co.\\n(.lohn K. Harris, (Jeorge Rii-hmond, Joseph H.\\nBrown) started in the manufacture of button-hole\\ntwist and sewing-silk for tailors use, in a room sixty-\\nfive by one hundred and seventy feet, over the (irant\\nLocomotive-Works. They employed about one hun-\\ndred hands. In 1865 they were chartered as the\\nDale Manufiicturing Company, and built the fine\\nDale Mill, on Railroad Avenue, opposite the Erie\\nDepot. It was then the finest mill of any kind in\\nI aterson, and cost ^100,000. It is two hundred and\\nseventy-five by forty-four feet, with a wing at each\\nend extending thirty-one feet back of the main build-\\ning, and an extension in the rear of the centre one\\nhundred feet deep the height is four stories. It is\\nabout equivalent to a building four hundred by forty-\\nfive feet. Here the company continued the manufac-\\nture of sewing-silk and machine-twist, braid, cut\\nlinings and cut trimmings. In IStit! Mr. Dale secured\\nthe entire control of the company and the mill, and\\nkept on in the same business until 1877, when he be-\\ncame financially embarra-ssed, and in April, 1880,\\nthe property was sold to John D. Cutter, of Newark.\\nMost of the machinery passed into the ])os.se.ssion ot\\nFrederick .S. Dale, the son of Thomas N. Dale, and\\nin the spring of 1878 he began manufacturing on his\\nown account, carrying on the same businciss as his\\nfather and ctmimission throwing. He makes sup-\\nlie8 for hatters, ladies trimmings, tailors trimmings,\\nwatch-guards, etc. He has 80,000 braiding spindles,\\nand GOUO spindles for spinning raw silk 200 hands\\nare employed, to whom he pays $\u00c2\u00ab50,000 wages yearly.\\nHe occupies a part of the first floor, half of the\\nsecond, and all of the fourth. He works up about\\n;f2. )0,000 worth of silk for his own and others use,\\nhis own annual products being worth about $100,000.\\nGrorr/e Friift il Siiiik. George Frost began soft-\\nsilk winding in I8()(), in the mill in Ward Street, on\\nthe south side, between Railroad Avenue and Prince\\nStreet. He removed thence to Dunkerley s, corner of\\nGrand and Spruce Streets, and next to the Beaver\\nMill, where he remained for eight years, until in\\n1875 he removed to Dnnlop s Mill, on Morton .Street\\nat .Straight. In the Beaver Mill he began throwing\\nsilk with 120 spindles. In 1880 lie built a substantial\\nbrick mill, which he calls the Albion, on Madison\\nStreet, west side, between Essex and Morton, one\\nhumlred by forty-five feet, three stories high, with\\nengine-house annexed. He took pos.session of his\\nnew home in November, 1880. In April, 1881, he\\ntook his sons I Frank and Harry) into partnership\\nwith him, and the firm has since been George Frost\\nSons. They d(t c(mimission throwing and soft-silk\\nwinding, employing 175 hands, and turning out 7o(i\\npounds of tram and likeamount oforgan/.ine weekly.\\nDunlop it- Mnlrnlni, Joliii Diin/o/i. Abimt ISliO,\\nJohn Dunlop and William S. Malcolm started making\\nsewing-silks at the Union Silk-Works, in Straight\\nStreet. Mr. Malcolm died several years ago, but Mr.\\nDunlop still carries on the business at the northeast\\ncorner of Straight and Morton .Streets, where he occu-\\npies the (irst lloor, fitly by (me hundred and fifty feet,\\nemploying l2o hands; he makes 500 or (iOO pounds\\nweekly of tram and organzine and machine-twist, the\\nbusiness having doubled during the past year or two.\\nMr. Dunlop owns the building and a fine brick mill", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0814.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0815.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "m m\\nm m", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0816.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n475\\nadjoining, which he leases to other silk-manufac-\\nturers.\\nDexter, Lambert d- Co. In 1853, Alison Dexter,\\nwho had been for some years associated with Benja-\\nmin B. Tilt in the manufacture of silk at Boston,\\nMass., under the firm-name of Tilt Dexter, bought\\nout liis partner, and took into the business Catholina\\nLambert and Charles Barton, both of whom liad been\\nin his employ. Thus was established the firm of\\nDexter, Lambert Co. They occupied a small two-\\nstory frame building, fifty by one hundred and twenty\\nfeet, on Coventry Street, so named by Mr. Tilt after\\nthe famous ribbon-weaving town in England, a name\\nit still retains. They made ladies dress trimmings,\\nmillinery trimmings, hatters and furriers trimmings,\\nupholstering and other trimmings, cords, braids, etc.\\nDuring the late war they made enormous quantities\\nof military braids. Tilt Dexter had attempted, but\\nunsuceessfully, to weave ribbons as early as 1848;\\nthe new firm tried their hands at it, and after varying\\nsuccess gradually established a ribbon business, which\\nhas steadily increased until it is one of the largest in\\nthe country. In 1856 the firm built a larger mill on\\nLenox Street, Boston, fifty by one hundred and sixty\\nfeet, three stories high, of brick. At this time Mr.\\nBarton visited Europe, and there bought additional\\nribbon-looms from Coventry. In 1861, Mr. Dexter\\nwithdrew from the concern, but at his request the\\nfirm-name was retained. His son, George R. Dexter,\\nand William Nelson Lambert, a brother of Mr. C.\\nLambert, were admitted into the firm. William N.\\nLambert died a few months later, in South America,\\nwhither he had gone for his health. George R. Dex-\\nter remained in the concern until 1873, and died\\nabout three years subsequently. The business was\\ncarried on in the Lenox Street mill from 1856 until\\n1866, when the establishment was removed to Pater-\\nson, where Mr. Lambert had become agreeably ac-\\nquainted and somewhat interested in various ways,\\nand in fact had taken up his residence there. More-\\nover, the firm had drawn its supplies from Paterson, j\\nand it seemed desirable to settle down in that place, j\\nThey erected a brick mill, three stories high, two\\nhundred and twenty by fifty feet, on Straight Street,\\neast side, just north of Clay, with dye-house and en-\\ngine-house attached. During the ten years preceding\\nthis removal the operations of the firm had grown\\ngreatly, until they had stores for the sale of their\\ngoods and large stocks in New York, Philadelphia,\\nBoston, and San Francisco. On removing to Pater-\\nson the business was concentrated in New York City.\\nAs with other silk-manufacturers, they have been\\nconstrained to change their manufacture from time to\\ntime to accommodate the changing market, and to\\ncompete successfully with their rivals. Originally\\nthey merely made tram and organzine for other man-\\nufacturers of woven goods then the weaving of rib-\\nbons was begun and kept up, until the production is\\nmeasured by miles every day. In 1873 they bought\\nsome broad-silk looms, and began weaving that class\\nof fabrics, at the same time discontinuing their trim-\\nming department, and now they are among the most\\nextensive broad-silk weavers in America. As an in-\\ndication of the magnitude of their production in these\\ntwo lines, it may be noted that in 1881 they turned\\nout something like three thousand miles of ribbons,\\nand about three hundred and fifty miles of broad\\nsilks. In 1878 the ribbon-looms of Soleliac Brothers,\\nwjio had been largely in the business, were bought by\\nDexter, Lambert Co., and the machinery of Ryle,\\nSterrett Murphy was added in 1879.\\nIn the latter year they bought a plot of two acres\\non the opposite side of Straight Street, and proceeded\\nto erect thereon one of the finest mills in the city,\\ncovering the whole area. In front it is two stories\\nhigh, seventy-five by one hundred and twenty-five\\nfeet, the private offices, counting-room, and general\\noflices of the mill occupying spacious quarters on the\\nClay Street side, while in the rear is a one-story\\nweaving-room, doubtless the largest single room in\\nNew Jersey devoted to manufacturing purposes,\\nbeing one hundred and twenty-five feet in front and\\none hundred and eighty-five in the rear, and two\\nhundred feet long, the ceiling thirty-five feet high,\\nwith great numbers of windows on the sides and in\\nthe roof It is full of ribbon-looms. This mill has\\nbeen recently christened the Dexter Mill, while\\nthe old one is now called the Lambert Mill.\\nW^hen the new structure was erected a handsome\\naddition of fine brick was made to the front of the\\nother, and a beautiful, graceful bridge was thrown\\nacross Straight Street from one to the other, and an\\nilluminated clock was placed in front of the Dexter\\nMill. A tunnel was also constructed under the\\nstreet to connect the two mills. The traveler ap-\\nproaching the city from New Y ork on the Erie\\nRailway is agreeably impressed with this view of\\none of the handsomest mills in the city. In 1878, H.\\nB. Wilson was admitted to the firm, and in 1879 Mr.\\nBarton withdrew, after a quarter of a century of pleas-\\nant and profitable intercourse with his genial partner,\\nMr. Lambert. Their relations were always of the most\\nagreeable character. The bu.siness of the firm in 1857\\nwas about $150,000 yearly. Now it has grown to up-\\nwards of a million dollars. About 1000 hands are\\nemployed in the Lambert and Dexter Mills, who are\\npaid in wages more than .$300,000 yearly. These two\\nmills are under the superintendence of Charles N.\\nSterrett, who has been in the silk manufacture for\\nseveral years. Even the extensive additions just de-\\nscribed did not suflice for the rapidly-growing busi-\\nness of the firm, and within the past two years Mr.\\nLambert has been pushing the erection of an immense\\nmill at Hawley, Pa., where there is a magnificent\\nwater-power. The new mill the Bellemont was\\ndedicated during the fall of 1881, when a special train\\ncarried some hundreds of invited guests thither from\\nNew York, Paterson, and other places. The structure", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0819.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "47 tj\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nis three hundred and twenty by fifty feet, with a cen-\\ntral [irojec tion of eighty feet more. It is three stories\\nhigh on one end and five on the other, where the\\nground descends abruptly. It is built of a sort of\\ngriinite found on the spot. It was designed for\\ntlirowing only, and is expected to turn out about\\nfour thousand pounds weekly of thrown silk. But\\nsome weaving will also be carried on there. A frame\\nbuilding adjoining has likewise been fitted up for a\\nmill, and is known, in memory of Mr. Lambert s\\nyoung brother, as the Nelson Mill. It is filled\\nwith ribbon-looms and soft-silk machinery. The\\nfirm have for years aimed to produce only the finest\\nipialities of goods, and to that end are very particu-\\nlar about the grade of raw silk used, buying only the\\nfinest Italian silk. Messrs. Catholina Lambert and\\nH. B. Wilson constitute the firm, Mr. Wilson having\\ncharge of the New York store, while Mr. Lambert\\nexercises a general supervision over the outside\\nbusiness.\\nWm. Strange d Co. E. B. Strange and Albert B.\\nStrange, under the style of Strange Brother, were\\nfor thirty years silk importers in New York, and\\nfinding difficulty often in satisfying the demands of\\ntheir customers for certain colors which happened to\\nbe p()|)ular, they estalilislied (in 1SG3) a small factory\\nat Williamsburgh, in order that they might the more\\nreadily supply any deficiency in their imported stocks.\\nNeither of them had any practical knowledge of the\\nsilk manufacture, and the mill was placed in charge\\nof .John Day, a man of rare skill in that line, who\\nafterwards engaged largely in tlie silk business in\\nPaterson, where he is still manufacturing, though in\\na smaller way. They bought their tram and organ-\\nzine. and had about forty looms. They had no idea\\nof making money out of the mill, except as it enabled\\nthem to satisfy their customers in filling all orders\\nthat came in. The enactment of the high tariff on\\nimported silk and the high rate of exchange, which\\nacted virtually as a prohibitory tarifl for some years,\\nencouraged them to engage in the manufacture on a\\nlarger scale, and in 18tJS they removed to I aterson.\\nAt this time E. B. Strange retired to attend strictly\\nto the importing business, and Mr. A. B. Strange\\nturned thcr business over to his son, the new firm iieing\\nWm. Strange Co. (A. B. Strange). Mr. William\\nStrange then devoted liimself to the management of\\nthe liusiness, which under his intelligent and sagacious\\ndirection has grown to be one of the most extensive\\nin the country. Much clitruiilly had been experienced\\nby the old firm in getting tram and iirgan7.ine of\\nproper and uniform fineness and as promptly as de-\\nsired. Accordingly it was determined to do their\\nown throwing, and machinery for that purpose wag\\npurchased from a mill in Kngland. The new firm\\nIcaseil the sec md anci third floors of the (trcp| o Mill,\\non the northwest corner of Slater Street and Dale\\nAvenue, two hundred by fifty feet in area. They re-\\nmoved their forty looms from Williamsburgh to Pat-\\narson, and filled the rest of the space with throwing\\nmachinery. This was in the spring of 1868. About\\nthree hundred hands were employed. The business\\nwas continued on about the same scale, with a slow but\\nsteady increase, for three or fouryears, when they leased\\nthe first floor of the mill and increased the throwing\\ndepartment. In 1873, Mr. Greppo built a wing on\\nDale Avenue, ninety by fifty feet, three stories, and\\nthe firm leased the whole of it, extending their ribbon-\\nweaving, and the other branches in proportion. This\\nmet the demand for more room for a short time, but\\nin the next year, 1874, they were obliged to extend\\nstill more, and this time bought the old velvet-mill\\non Essex, Madison, and Beech Streets, two hundred\\nby forty-five feet, three stories high, of brick. One\\nfloor of this mill was devoted to the weaving, and one\\nfor winding, etc. Hitherto the business of the firm\\nhad been exclusively ribbon-weaving.\\nWhen they moved into the velvet-mill, in 1874,\\nthey introduced a few broad-silk looms on the first\\nfloor, by way of experiment, but did not attempt to\\n]iusli this manufacture for .several years. In 1877-78\\nthey enlarged the velvet-mill, or rather built several\\nadditional mills adjoining it, on each end, and con-\\nnected these again by another, until the mill now\\nforms a square, two hundred feet each way, with a\\ndepth of forty-five feet on Essex Street, forty feet on\\nMadison Street, forty-five feet on Beech Street, and\\nfifty feet on the north. A spacious quadrangle is in-\\nclosed by this block of buildings, in the centre of\\nwhich is a pretty fountain, which in summer throws\\naloft cooling si)rays of water, and in summer the mill-\\nhands sit about in the shadow and eat their lunches\\nin the grateful shade on every side. The building is\\nfour stories high on the north side, and three stories\\non the other sides. It is more abundantly lighted\\nthan most silk-mills, there being innumerable win-\\ndows on every side. The building is complete in\\nevery respect which ert;)ins to the comfort and con-\\nvenience of the operatives. Everything is scrupu-\\nlously neat and clean, not only in every room, but in\\nthe cimrt-yard as well. Not a speck of dirt or waste\\nwill be .seen anywhere on the spacious floors, and the\\nmost perfect order is maintained in every part of the\\nimmense structure, an l among tlie 12iiO hands em-\\nployed within its walls. The entire business was con-\\ncentrated in this mill in 1878, but since then it has\\nagain grown beyond its bounds, and the firm occupy\\nthe third flcKir, fitly by one hinulred and fifty feet, of\\nthe Arkwright Mill, on the o[ posite side of Beech\\nStreet. One floor of the nniin building is lighted up\\nwith the electric light as an experiment, but silk-\\nnuinufacturers are not yet entirely satisfied with elec-\\ntricity as an illuminating agent; it is objected that\\nthe light is too much ditfused, and not sufficiently\\nconcentrated upon the p.irticular work in hand.\\nThis is especially objectionable in the case of weav-\\ning, whore the weaver wants to see every thread\\nand every speck in his warp. About 1880 the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0820.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0823.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0824.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0825.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0826.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n477\\nfirm engaged extensively in tlie weaving of broad\\nsilks, and now have 168 broad-silk looms, making\\ndress goods, millinery silks, ties, scarfs, grenadines,\\nand broad goods generally. They run 162 looms on\\nrlblions. In these munufactures 12((,000 pounds of\\nraw silk are used yearly. Every process of tlie man-\\nufacture is carried on upon the premises except the\\ndyeing of blacks. The firm even make their own\\nblocks for blocking the ribbons. The pay-roll foots\\nup !?350,000 in the course of a year, and the annual\\nproduction is $1,500,000. An apparently inexhausti-\\nble well lias been sunk in the court-yard, from which\\nfive thousand gallons of deliciously pure, cool water\\nis ]iiimped daily to tanks in the roof, whence it runs\\nthrough pipes to all parts of the building, supplying\\nthe operatives with a wholesome and grateful bever-\\nage during the warm days.\\nGriinshaw Brothers. In the early part of 1872,\\nJames, George, Jr., John, and David H. Grimshaw\\nstarted in the silk manufacture in a small way at Nos.\\n30 and 32 Pearl Street, under the firm-name of Grim-\\nshaw Brothei s. They came from Macclesfield, Eng-\\nland, where two or three of them had been educated\\nin the technical schools of that place in the art of\\ndesigning and other branches of the manipulation of\\nsilk. Having a thorough knowledge of every process\\nthrough which silk has to be passed, from the raw state\\nuntil it is ready to be sent to market, rich and glossy,\\nha.s been of invaluable service to them. They began\\nwith ten looms, and employed fifteen or twenty hands.\\nThey made piece goods, broad silks, and tie silks.\\nAfter working in this modest way for six months, it\\nwas ajiparent that the venture was a success, and the\\nmachinery was removed to the Union Works, where\\ntwo rooms were occupied, and another room was filled\\nat Dunkerley s, corner of Grand and Spruce Streets.\\nFifty looms were now run, and about 100 hands were\\nemployed. They now carried on every branch of the\\nbusiness except the hard silk and the dyeing. James\\nwithdrew from the firm, which was continued by the\\nother brothers. In 1877 the business was removed to\\nthe Arkwright Mill, in Beech Street, the second and\\nthird rtoors and part of the first being leased. The\\nnumber of looms was now increased to 150, and 250\\nhands were employed. In May, 1879, they were for-\\ntunate enough to buy the Greppo Mill at a very low\\ncost, and in August the machinery was removed thither\\nfrom the Arkwright Mill. As already stated, this mill\\nis two liundrcd by fifty feet on Slater Street, and ninety\\nby fifty feet on Dale Avenue, three stories high. A\\nfull set of throwing machinery was now added from\\nthe Danforth Works, and every department of the silk\\nmanufacture except the dyeing has since been carried\\non. They make all kinds of novelties, dama.sse silks,\\nfancy silks, tie silks, linings, handkerchiefs, etc. They\\nare about engaging in the weaving of fine velvets on\\na double-pile loom, built specially for them by the in-\\nventor, Samuel Holt. They now have 300 looms, and\\nemploy 700 hands. They use about 1400 pounds of\\n31\\nraw silk weekly, in addition to what they buy thrown.\\nThey put their annual production at nearly $1,000,000.\\nPelgram d- Meyer. This firm, started Jan. 1, 1873,\\nhas in nine years gone straight up into the front rank\\nof American silk-manufacturers, standing second\\nhardly to any in the magnitude of its operations, al-\\nthough the youngest of the large Paterson concerns.\\nCharles R. Pelgram was for years the superintendent\\nof Strange s great mill, and in Germany had acquired\\na large experience in ribbon and other weaving, so\\nthat he was admirably qualified to start and run suc-\\ncessfully a mill of the largest size. Oscar R. Meyer\\nwas a business man of much tact, and well fitted to\\ntake charge of the sales department. On the date\\nmentioned these two gentlemen organized the firm of\\nPelgram Meyer. They leased the mill in Ward\\nStreet, opposite Hamil Booth s, and put in about\\nfilty ribbon-looms and some spinning machinery for\\ntheir own use. From one hundred and filty to two\\nhundred hands were employed at the outset. The\\nmill was gradually filled up with throwing machinery,\\nand the number of looms was increased to some ex-\\ntent. In the fall of 1875 they bought the old Heath-\\ncote Cotton-Mill, brick, fifty by one hundred feet,\\nthree stories high, at the northwest corner of Temple\\nand Matlock Streets, which had been standing idle\\nfor years, and was at this time quite dilajjidated.\\nHowever, they fitted it up in good shape and filled it\\nwith their throwing machinery, the Ward Street\\nbuilding being devoted almost exclusively to weaving.\\nDuring the year 1876, when business generally was in\\na state of deep depression, although the silk trade did\\nnot share in it as much as some other trades, Messrs.\\nPelgram Meyer built a new ribbon-mill on Matlock.\\nStreet, adjoining the old mill the new structure was\\nof brick, one hundred and sixty by fifty feet, four\\nstories high, with a spacious and comfortable base-\\nment under it, which they fitted up with every appli-\\nance for a first-class machine-shop for making their\\nrepairs and much of their machinery. One hundred\\nribbon-looms were set up in this new mill. On Jan, 1,\\n1877, the entire works were concentrated in the build-\\nings on Temple and Matlock Streets, the Ward Street\\nmill Ijeing vacated. But the new quarters soon proved\\nto be still inadequate lor the constantly increasing\\nbusiness of the firm, and during 1877 the old mill was\\nenlarged by the addition of a fourth story, to make\\nroom for more ribbon-looms. A dye-house, of frame,\\none story high, one hundred and seventy by forty\\nfeet, was also built the same year. In 1878 another\\nmill was erected on Temple Street, adjoining the orig-\\ninal purchase, and also of brick, four stories high,\\none hundred by fifty feet in area, to provide additional\\nfacilities for the spinning department. The follow-\\ning year, 1879, still another building was put up, in\\nthe rear of the others, also of brick, one hundred by\\nfilty feet, four stories in height. This wa.s erected for\\nthe weaving of piece goods and dress silks, which was\\na new departure for the firm, as they had liitherto", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0827.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "478\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nconfined themselves to ribbons almost exclusively.\\nThese extensive series of buildings are run by a two\\nhundred horse-power steam-engine.\\nIn 188(1, owing to theditliculty of securing sufficient\\nhelp in Paterson lor the tlirowing departments, tiiey\\nventured on a new experiment, and leased a mill at\\nBoonlon, Morris Co., one hundred and eighty by forty\\nfeet in area, two stories high, which they tilled with\\nspinning maehinery. Then young hands were hired\\nfrom the families in the town, where there had l een\\nno employment formerly for children, and these were\\ntaught the mysteries of spinning silk into tram and\\norganzine, heathenish words to them before. The\\nexperiment worked so well that in 1881 the firm built\\na large mill especially for the purpose in Boonton,\\ntwo hundred by fifty feet, four stories high, for throw-\\ning, and another one story high, one hundred and\\nsixty by fifty feet, also for spinning. Two other build-\\nings, one story high, each forty by eighty feet, were\\nerected, for engine-house, gas-house, machine-shop,\\netc. Most of the throwing department of their Pat-\\nerson mills was removed during the year to Boonton\\nit is expected that the rest will be carried tliitlier be-\\nfore the close of 1882. Tlie first mill leased will also\\nbe retained, in addition to the new buildings they\\nhave put up. Mr. Pelgram regret*; very much that\\nthis step had to be taken, and admits that it is still\\nin a measure an e.xperiment, but says it was a matter\\nof necessity when it was undertaken. The firm now\\ncarry on every department of the silk manufacture,\\nincluding the dyeing. They weave ribbons and dress\\nsilks, broad goods, millinery goods, plain and fancy\\ndress silks. During the fall of 1881 they began the\\nmaking of silk plush, meeting with gratifying success\\nin their experiments. They have recently imported\\ngome special looms from Crefclt, Germany, wiiich will\\nweave sixteen yards of plush per day. Their ven-\\ntures in the weaving of velvet have been likewise\\nsuccessful. In all their mills they now February,\\n1882 have 270 looms and 22,0(M) spindles, using\\n20,00(1 pounds of raw silk anmially. There are\\n1200 names on their pay-rolls, and it takes ii?8((00 to\\n$10,000 every week to pay their hands, or nearly\\nhalf a million dollars in the course of a year. The\\nvalue of the production for 1882 is ex|)ected to reach\\n$1 i0O,0O0. .\\\\n immense well forty feet in diameter,\\nanil as deep, has been sunk on the remise.s, and ap-\\npcarn to be supplied by an underground water-course,\\nas it bears tlie pumping out of it of sixty thousand\\ngallons of water daily, which is principally used in the\\ndye-house. It is also pumped through the buildings,\\nand alfordsadrink that is ice-colil on the hottest days\\nin summer, and is enjoyed by the upenitives far more\\nthan ice-water. The mills are all under the nutnage-\\nment of Mr. Pelgram, while Mr. Meyer attends to the\\nNew York store.\\nDnhfrty li Wadtworth. This firm presents one of\\nthe most remarkable instances of recent success in\\nthe silk manufacture of any in the business. Uenry\\nDoherty had been weaving on his own account for a\\nshort time when he formed a partnership with Joseph\\nWadsworth, and the firm leased an upper room, about\\ntwenty-five by sixty feet, on the third floor over the\\nSecond National Bank, in Market Street near Colt.\\nThis was in October, 187y, and their machinery con-\\nsisted of just one loom. In the course of a few weeks\\nthey had got up to seven or eight. On Jan. 1, 1880,\\nthey removed to the second floor of the Arkwright\\nMill, in Beech .Street, a room fifty by one hundred\\nand fifty feet, where they still had only their eight\\nlooms for some time. Then they increased the num-\\nber gradually as circumstances seemed to justify that\\nI step, until the room was well filled with looms. In\\nthe ensuing summer they leased half of the first floor\\nand added winding machinery. In June, 1881, they\\nt )k the rest of the first floor, which is fifty by two\\nhundred feet in area. They now have 142 looms,\\nI weaving broad silks, dress goods, handkerchiefs, mil-\\nlinery goods, scarfs, grenadines, etc. Their specialty\\nis grenadines, of which they claim to produce more\\nthan all the other mills in Paterson. The variety of\\ndesigns they weave in these delicate fabrics is fairly\\nbewildering, the patterns being of the most exquisite\\n1 descriptions. Laces and satins and brocades are min-\\ngled in the most beautiful combinations, and in\\nnever-ending variety. The success achieved by the\\nfirm ill this chiss of goods is most gratifying, for it is\\na tribute to the excellence of American manufactures\\nwhich few who are not familiar with the subject\\ni could believe it possible to be att4tined in this coun-\\ntry, where the industry is still in its infancy. About\\n2. J0 hands are em|)loyed, their wages amounting to\\n$150,000 to $200,00(1 per annum. The pro.luction\\nfor 1881 wa.s nearly 5^ )(M),00o, and that for 1882 is\\nexpected to reach fully $C00,(i(MI. They use the elec-\\ntric light on the first floor of the mill,^the Fuller\\nlight, the machine being of eight-light power, and\\nrequiring six or eight horse-power to run it. They\\ncarry on every de|)artment of the business pertaining\\nto their goods, except the throwing and the dyeing.\\nEven the finishing is done in the mill. Their goods\\nare sold through their own store in New York.\\nJ. Chapin came to Paterson from New England\\nin September, 1880, and began weaving broad silks\\nin the Arkwright Mill. Alter a short lime he re-\\nmoved to Dunlop s Mill, at Straight and Morton\\nStreets, where he now occupies three floors, one hun-\\ndred and seventy by forty feet each, and employs 200\\nhands. He does all the manufacturing except throw-\\ning and dyeing.\\n./-/Ah C. Ifi/lr if- (5,.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 From 1864 to 1872, Mr. Kyle\\nwas in partnership with his uncle, John C. Kyle, in\\nthe Murray Mill. In the fall of 187. he formed a part-\\nnership with John P. McKay, and carried on silk-\\nweaving for a year. In the fall of 1875 he started in\\nthe business of commission throwing on his own ac-\\ncount, on the first floor of the .Vdily Mill, on Water\\nStreet, em| loying fifteen hands. By May, 1879,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0828.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "S ILK WORKS OP FELGEAM MEYE\\n\u00c2\u00ab:!.5V,\\njCr-~ -!-:.i.y}j\\n-^^u/Mi^^^. ^^i^?^a^/^-\\n^f-.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0831.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0832.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0833.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "s\\ni\\nr-1 n;", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0834.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n479\\nthe business had increased beyond the capacity of\\nthe room, and he leased the Byard Market build-\\ning, on Ellison and Van Houten Streets, which is\\nthree hundred feet long, and has an average width of\\nabout sixty feet. It is brick, one story high. He put\\na large amount of throwing machinery in this build-\\ning, and in July of the same year removed his entire\\nestablishment thither. He now employs about 150\\nhands, paying them about $40,000 in wages yearly,\\nand on his 7000 spindles spins about 60,000 pounds\\nof raw silk annually. His son-in-law, George G. Til-\\nlotson, is now as.sociated with him in the business,\\nthe firm-name being John C. Ryle Co.\\nOrescent Mil/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 About 1870, Eugene Walther, a Chi-\\ncago merchant, formed a partnership with Frederick\\nBaer, of Paterson, as E. Walther Co., to manufac-\\nture silk ribbons in Paterson. They hired a part of\\nHuntoon s Mills, in Broadway, opposite Bridge Street,\\nand in the course of 1871 or 1872 erected a brick mill\\non Rip Van Winkle Avenue, near Cliff Street, two\\nstories high, and about forty by one hundred I eet in\\narea. About 1875 the mill passed into the possession\\nof Sterrett, Ryle Murphy (Charles N. Sterrett, Reu-\\nben Ryle, and Boethius Murphy), who continued the\\nweaving of ribbons until 1878, when they sold most\\nof their looms to Dexter, Lambert Co. After a\\nwhile the Crescent Manufacturing Company took the\\nmill, and they now employ 50 or 60 hands in throwing\\nraw silk, paying $10,000 or .\u00c2\u00a715,000 yearly in wages,\\nand working up about 20,000 pounds of silk in the\\ncourse of a year. Gerrit Planten, Jr., and Peter Ryle\\nare the principal owners of the concern.\\nHoieell .i- Seholfa. Jerome Vacher has been weav-\\ning silk in Paterson for many years in the Watson\\nmachine-shop building, on Railroad Avenue, in the\\nGun Mill, and in 1878 in the old duck-mill on Van\\nHouten Street, oi posite Mill, where he had sixty-five\\nlooms, weaving piece goods and chenille. In 1881 he\\nsold out to Howell Scholes, to whom he had become\\nindebted, and moved to the Jlerrill building, on River\\nStreet, where he now runs 15 broad-silk looms. How-\\nell Scholes have extended the business in the duck-\\nmill, and now employ about 100 hands, weaving hand-\\nkerchiefs and broad goods. They also have about 1400\\nspindles to do their ow u throwing.\\nGeorge Sp ingenmac/ier. Charles S. Auer started in\\nthe silk business in Paterson about the year 1870,\\ncarrying it on in a small way in several difierent\\nplaces in or near the city, being one time at Haledon.\\nIn 1880, George Spangenmacher went into partnership\\nwith him, and they Iciused half of the one-story brick\\nbuilding along the raceway, in front of the Hope Mill,\\nand in this place and in a large one-story addition to\\nit they carried on the silk manufacture until Septem-\\nber, 1881, when Auer sold out his interest to his\\npartner, but took all the machinery away, removing\\nto Connecticut. Spangenmacher then proceeded to\\nfit up the premises with new machinery, all looms.\\nThe building is forty-five by one hundred and twenty\\nfeet, and contains 70 hand-looms, on which are woven\\nbroad silks, grenadines, satin brocades, plain satin,\\nhandkerchiefs, and goods of a like character. There\\nare about 100 hands employed, who work up 120\\npounds of organzine and 200 pounds of tram weekly,\\nand receive wages amounting to ?f35,000 to !;50,U00\\nyearly. In February, 1882, Mr. Auer returned to\\nPaterson and resumed his former connection with\\nMr. Spangenmacher.\\nFreeman Small wood. In 1873, John H. Small-\\nwood started business in a modest way in a little\\nroom in the rear of No. 110 Straight Street, weaving\\ncut-ups or broad silks on two or three looms. In\\n1875, Henry H. Freeman bought an interest in the\\nbusiness, and the firm of Freeman Smallwood was\\nformed, continuing the business at the same place\\nwith six hand-looms. Having more capital they soon\\nremoved to Dunlop s frame mill, at the northeast\\ncorner of Straight and Morton Streets, where they\\noccupied the upper floor, forty by one hundred and\\nsixty feet, and employed fifty to seventy-five hands.\\nTheir business was now extended to include handker-\\nchiefs, veils, grenadines, etc. In February, 1880,\\nthey began the erection. of a silk-mill on a plot of\\nthirty-two lots, on Front and Rockland Streets, being\\nthe first mill erected for the purpose of manufacturing\\nsilk by steam-power in Totowa. This fact and its\\nconspicuous position, it crowning the height to the\\nnorthwest of the Falls, give it special prominence.\\nThe new building was to be completed in October,\\n1880, but as a matter of fact was not ready for occu-\\npancy until April, 1881, when the firm removed\\nthither. The mill is forty-two by one hundred and\\ntwenty feet, the first story of stone and brick, and the\\ntwo upper stories of frame. Power is supplied by a\\nfifteen horse-power engine. Water is pumped from\\na well on the premises to the top of the mill for\\nvarious uses. From 125 to 150 hands are employed\\nin the manufacture of broad silks, dress silks, grena-\\ndines, handkerchiefs, etc., their wages amounting to\\n$40,000 to !ii!50,000 yearly, and the finished goods to\\n$125,000. During the year 1882 it is, expected that\\nanother mill, of brick, four stories high, forty-two by\\none hundred and twenty feet, will be erected on the\\nadjoining lots by the firm for the extension of their\\nbusiness in the same lines as at present carried on.\\nA,Mey Bailey. Dwight Ashley and Peter Bailey\\nbegan business in the early part of 1873 in a small\\nbuilding on Tyler Street, where they had four looms\\nrunning. In the course of nine months they re-\\nmoved to a larger room in Straight Street, op])osite\\nTyler, and there set fifteen looms in operation. In\\n1875 or 1876 they took the top floor of the JaMray\\nMill, in Market Street, opposite Pine, a room forty-\\nfive by eighty feet, and there greatly extended their\\nbusiness, running forty looms. In January, 1880, they\\nbuilt a mill of their own on Warren Street, next to the\\nErie Railway, forty by one hundred and sixty feet\\nin area, three stories high, occupying the second and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0835.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "480\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthird floors. In June of the same year a fierce hurri-\\ncane swept over that part of the city and lifted off the\\nroof and tlie greater part of the upper story, causing\\na loss estimated at $40,0(MJ. The mill was rebuilt,\\ntwo stories in iieight, witli an addition in front, forty-\\nfive by forty feet, tlirec stories hijrh. Tiie tirui now\\noccupy the whole of this addition and the upper\\nfloor of the rest of the mill. They have M power\\nand 24 hand-looms, and make broad silks, handker-\\nchiefs, tie-silks, scarfs, etc. They throw their own\\nsilk at another mill at Fort Plain, N. V., using about\\n10,000 pounds of raw silk yearly. In the Paterson\\nmill from 175 to 200 hands find eniplojnnent, and re-\\nceive about $80,000 wages yearly at Fort Plain 50\\nhands are at work, wlio are paid about $800(\u00c2\u00bb w.iges\\n]ier year.\\nJd/in PhiZ/i/i J/cA Mr. McKay has been closely\\nidentified with the silk industry of Paterson for nearly\\ntwenty years. For most of that time lie has done val-\\nuable service as secretary of the Paterson Silk Asso-\\nciation. Coming to America from Macclesfield, where\\nhe worked all his life in and about silk, he was for\\ntwo years with the late William Kyle in the silk im-\\n]K)rting trade in New York City. Two years later he\\ncame to Paterson to take a responsible position in\\nthe Murray Mill, which he held until 1872. In 1869\\nhe became interested in the Baare Manufacturing\\noni|)any, which o|ierated the Upper Murray Mill\\nuntil 1872. In the fall of the following year he\\nentered into partnersliip with John C. Kyle, the firm-\\nname being J.. P. McKay Co. They occupied two\\nfloors of the brick mill of George Addj in Water\\nStreet, between Hamburg and Totowa Avenues, each\\nfloor being about forty-five by ninety feet, where\\nthey carried on silk-weaving. This partnership was\\ndis. iolvcd at the end of one year. Mr. McKay con-\\ntinued the bu.siness on hisown account on the third\\nfloor of the same mill, employing about 20 hands, and\\nrunning a dozen looms on specialties,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 handkerchiefs,\\nties, warfs, grenadines, veiling, etc. He got along\\nfinely, and began branching out iminciliately. In\\n1875 he commenced working on c(ininiis.sion, and\\nthen leased the second floor of the smne l uililing,\\nand in the summer of 1879 took possession of the\\nfirst floor, which had just been vacated. In the fall\\nof ISSO, Mr. .Vddy completed a new wing to his mill\\nalong the river-bank, on the west side of the first\\nstructure, of brick, three stories high and Itasement,\\nforly-twi by one hundred and twenty feet, and Mr.\\nMcKay leased it and soon filled it with machinery\\nfor a general extension of his business, all of which\\nhe had in operation by the 1st of January following.\\nIn .lanuarv, 1KK2, he began throwing silk on his own\\naci ount. lie now has 150 looms, power and hand in\\nequal niimberH, and throwing machinery in propor-\\ntion. .Mioul. iOO hands are employed, and it takes\\nttlMiul $150,000 to $175,000 to pay them all luring a\\nveiir. About -10,(WMI poun U of raw silk are worked\\nup in a twelvemonth into all sorts of beautiful falirics,\\nafter designs made in the mill,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 specialties: handker-\\nchiefs, grenadines, veilings, dress goods, etc., the\\nvalue of which amounts to half a million dollars yearly.\\nThe machinery is run by a forty horse-power steam-\\nengine, and by two turbine-wheels of fifteen horse-\\nj)ower eacli. Some of Mr. McKay s specialties pro-\\nduced in 1881 created a decided furore in the trade,\\nso novel and beautiful were the designs and so excel-\\nlent was the finishing, which, by the way, was all\\ndone in his mill. He now carries on every process\\nexcejit dyeing. He even cuts his own cards, which\\nare placed in the Jacquard looms to work out the de-\\nsign in tlie woven fabric. During the winter of 1.S81-\\n82 he made some experiments in the weaving of a\\npeculiarly rich and heavy silk plush, which may some\\nday become an important feature of his business.\\n(ieory Siiiijletiiii. Mr. Singleton s first operations\\nas a silk-manufacturer were in the Watson Works, on\\nKailroad .Vvenue and Grand Street. He w:is burned\\nout there with heavy loss in 1875, when he removed\\nin July of that year to the Jaft ray Mill, in Market\\nStreet near Spruce. In May, 187! he returned to\\nthe Wat.son Works, leasing the second floor of the\\nbuilding, two hundred by fifty-six feet, with an L\\nI orty-two by sixty feet, and another room fitty-four\\nby seventy-five feet. His business is the manufacture\\nof machine-twist, sewing-silks, embroideries, trams,\\nand organ/.incs. He dyes and finishes his machine-\\ntwist and sewing-silks on his own premisi-s, all ready\\nfor the market. From I. IO to 140 hands are employed.\\nMr. Singleton has combined the doubling and the\\ntwisting of machine-twist silk on the one umchine, to\\nsome extent giving the threads a slight twist while\\nthey are being doubled. The process is found to be\\na decided improvement over the old way, giving the\\ntwisted thread more uniformity and strength than\\nformerly. Mr. Singleton has a large mill at Dover,\\nI N. J., whither he contemplate.s removing.\\nBarnes l- Pee/. In 1874, David A. Barnes and\\nJohn T. Peel formed a partnership as Barnes iV:\\nI Peel, and took two floors of the olil Beaver .Mill and\\nI the long, low building in the yard, for the nmnufac-\\nturc of silk braids and bindings, silk serges and\\nsleeve linings, and trams and organzines. Their\\nI business proved a complete success, and in the course\\nj of time they oecupie l the whole of the Beaver Mill\\nI three stories, biLsetnent. and attic and the third lloor\\nof the Machinists Association building opposite, and\\ngave employment to one hundred hands, whom they\\npaid thirty thousand dollars a year in wages. In\\nJanuary, 18X1, owing to the great expansion of their\\nbusiness, they removed to the Garret Rock Mill, just\\nerected by the Harbours mi firand Street, west of\\nSpruce, leasing the secon l and third floors of that\\nimmense structure, each floor being fifty by four liun-\\ndrc l and five feet in area. They now employ 200\\nhands, who.se wages will amount to from $60, Mmi i,\\n$70,(MiO per annum, and they produce goods (o the\\nvalue of ?mMi,oiMl to \u00e2\u0096\u00a0.00,000 yearly, princi|mlly", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0836.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0837.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0838.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0841.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0842.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0843.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": ".,|5\\nI", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0844.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n481\\ntailors trimmings. Tlie firm stands easily first in\\nthe United States in the magnitude of its production\\nin this peculiar line of goods, no other coming any-\\nwhere near it. Their machinery is run by steam-\\npower.\\nXUlhtiiiqale Brnihers. These young men Jolin\\nand Joseph Nightingale come of a family experi-\\nenced for many years, if not for generations, in the\\nsilk manufacture, so that it came natural to them, as\\nit were, to be in the business themselves. Their\\nfather, James Nightingale, Sr., was brought up to the\\nbusiness in England, and his sons learned it at an\\nearly age. Coming to this country, they worked for a\\nwhile in various mills, and in 1875 concluded to set\\nup for themselves. Their success has been really\\nwonderful in the time that has since elapsed. They\\nbegan in a small room in tlie Washington Market,\\nwith a single loom. That and their skill and untiring\\nindustry constituted their capital, and these have\\nproved a sufBcieucy, as the event has shown. Each\\nbeing so perfectly familiar with the manufacture in\\nall its details, they were able to make a class of goods\\nthat readily found a market, and consequently their\\nbusiness rapidly increased, so that by 1878-79 they\\nhad to secure more spacious quarters. These they\\nfound in the upper floor of the old Boudinot .Mill, at\\nthe northwest corner of Straight and Ellison Streets.\\nThis was sixty-five by eighty feet in area. Here they\\nbranched out on a more extensive scale, and in a\\nshort time not only filled it with machinery, but hired\\na large frame shoj) on Pearl Street near Straight,\\nforty by sixty feet, three stories in height, which they\\nfilled with hand-looms entirely. During 1881 they\\nalso leased the second and third floors of a new mill\\nnext north of their Straight Street mill, eacli floor\\nbeing forty by eighty-eight feet in area, where the\\nwinding and warping machinery was concentrated.\\nIn November, 1881, the Boudinot Mill was bought,\\nand immediately prepared for a further extension of\\ntheir business. The entire building was thoroughly\\noverhauled, and without delay both floors were com-\\npletely filled with new and improved machinery, the\\nother premises previously leased being also retained.\\nThey now have about 170 power-looms and 30 hand-\\nlooms, and about 3000 spindles. The raw silk is\\ntaken into the mill and put through every process ex-\\ncept the dyeing. A splendid new eiglity horse-power\\nsteam-engine sup|)lies the motive-power for the Bou-\\ndinot Mill. About 400 hands are employed by the\\nfirm, and from 700 to 800 pounds of raw silk are used\\nweekly, or from 3.5,000 to 40,000 pounds yearly, the\\nvalue of which is from \u00c2\u00a7200,000 to $250,000. The\\nfirm make all kinds of silk fabrics, dress goods,\\nhandkerchiefs, etc., but their handkerchiefs have been\\na specialty with them, and they have produced some\\nof the finest grades in Paterson. They employ no\\nagents and have no commission-house, selling their\\nown goods directly through their New York store,\\nNo. 339 Broadway, New York.\\nLouM Franke. Mr. Franke started in the silk busi-\\nness on Jan. 1, 1876, or immediately thereafter, his\\nlease of the Pope Mill on the river-bank dating from\\nthat time. This building is one hundred by forty-five\\nfeet in area, three stories high. He used but one\\nfloor at first, having 150 hands engaged in making\\ntram and organzine, fringes, twist, etc. In the course\\nof a short time he had filled the whole mill with his\\nthrowing machinery, and had found the business so\\nremunerative that he felt justified in providing him-\\nself with permanent quarters more spacious in their\\nextent. He accordingly bought ground on River\\nStreet, extending back to the river, and immediately\\nadjoining the Bridge Street bridge on the east. The\\nland was partly covered with old buildings, and the\\nearth sloped down to the river, the whole apjiearance\\nof the property being anything but attractive. With\\nthe aid of an architect and skillful mechanii S all this\\nhas been changed, and the corner is now one of the\\nfinest in the city. A massive wall was first built all\\nalong the river-front and carried up a trifle above\\nthe street-level, then the foundations for a mill were\\nlaid, and the earth filled in all around. The mill it-\\nself was then carried up. It is one of the hand-\\nsomest in the city, the exterior being exceedingly at-\\ntractive in its appearance. It is two hundred feet\\nlong, fifty feet deep, three stories high, with project-\\ning wings, forty by fifty feet. The interior is fitted\\nup with every appliance that science could suggest\\nand money provide for the comfort and convenience\\nof the employes. Special attention has been paid to\\nthe heating and ventilation, the arrangements to that\\nend being of the most elaborate and ingenious char-\\nacter. The entire mill is occupied by Mr. Franke in\\ncarrying on the same business as formerly. When\\nbusy about 350 hands are employed, and it takes\\n.SK500 per week to pay them. Henry W. Struss is a\\npartner of Mr. Franke in the business, but the mill is\\nrun in the name of Louis Franke alone.\\nR. H. Adams. Some account has been given\\nheretofore of the cotton manufacture carried on by\\nR. H. Adams at the Harmony Mill. In 1875 this\\nfirm engaged in the silk business, starting with about\\n4000 spindles, 26 ribbon-looms, and 25 handkerchief-\\nlooms, and employing 225 hands. Thus it was a large\\nsilk establishment from the first, being exceeded by\\nnot more than four or five in the city at the time.\\nThe firm did a general silk manufacturing business,\\ntaking the raw silk and turning it out as finished rib-\\nbons or broad-silk dress-goods. They did all the\\nwork except the dyeing. In 1879, Henry Adams,\\nthen the sole owner, began enlarging the business,\\nand on Nov. 1, 1881, he had 1400 winding spindles,\\n2500 spinners, GOO doublers, 1900 last-time-overs, and\\n500 tram-mil! spindles running in his mills, with 36\\nribbon-looms and 40 broad-silk looms, using 800\\npounds of raw silk weekly, and employing about 350\\nhands, whose wages footed up $100,000 and more per\\nyear. Mr. Adams has a certain advantage in com-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0847.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "482\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nbilling the silk manufacture with his cotton business.\\nEverywhere the mosquito-netting, buckrams, etc., of\\nR. H. Adams are known, anil when a drummer\\ncannot sell one cla.ss of tlie firm s productions he can\\ngenerally sell the other, and thus there is always\\na market found for one or the other productions of\\nthese mills.\\nOeorge Briinmhall began weaving handkerchiefs for\\nhis own account in a small frame building in front of\\nthe Gun Mill in .Tune, 1878, having twelve hands\\nworking for him and si.x looms running. In Novem-\\nber he took the second floor of the building, where\\nhe put in some winding machinery and four hand-\\nlooms, and added another band-loom down-stairs.\\nIn February, 1880, he removed to Ashley Bailey s\\nmill, on Warren Street, leasing the first floor, forty\\nby one hundred and si.xty feet. He now has the\\nwhole floor filled with machinery for weaving, wind-\\ning, and warping, there being sixty power-looms. He\\nemploys one hundred and twenty-five hands, paying\\nout about $45,000 to $.50,000 in wages yearly. He\\nuses about 20,000 to 2.5,000 pounds of tram and organ-\\nzine annually. The production consists of handker-\\nchiefs, figured piece goods, dress goods, and scarfs;\\nthere is a capacity for turning out six hundred dozen\\nof handkerchiefs weekly, or one hundred dozen a\\nday.\\nAnI/iony Pncochard started weaving silk on his own\\naccount in the fall of 1877, in Smith Street, with three\\nlooms. In 1879 he removed to the third floor of No.\\n177 Market Street, and has since extended his room,\\nuntil he has a shop fifty by seventy feet, and runs\\ntwenty-one hand- and six power-looms, employing\\nthirty hands in the weaving of broad silks, dress-\\ngoods, etc.\\nBen I III ill Ciir/ i/ has been since 1878-70 engaged in\\nthe manufacture of silk watch-guards, fish-lines, eye-\\nglass cords, and silk braids. He has a room, thirty-\\nsix by forty feet, in the upper story of the Union\\nWorks, corner of Market and Spruce Streets, where\\nbe employs five or six hands. It is a peculiar and\\ninteresting branch of the silk industry.\\nJlie Winfield M lnu/iic/iirini/ Coiiipnnij carries on the\\nsame business on a larger scale at Weavertown, Al-\\nbert D. Winfield, the president, having been engaged\\nin that braiuh of the silk manufacture for several\\nyears.\\nJniiifK Mr.WiMrr began throwing silk on commis-\\nsion in 187M, and now employs forty to sixty hands,\\nin the upper floor of the mill at the corner of Jack-\\nson and (ireene Streets. He works up about four\\nhundred pounds of silk weekly.\\nUnjiper Srotl. This firm started business in the\\nspring of 187tt. The members are .lohn II. lIopiXT\\nand Robert Scott. Mr. Hopper had previously had\\nno experience in silk manufacture, but Mr. Scott\\nwas an old hand at it. He was brought from Con-\\nnecticut to Paterson by Mr. John Ryle to start up a\\npower-loom for weaving silk, having been familiar\\nwith that kind of work before. In April, 1860, he\\nexperimented on a loom which had been used for\\nweaving cotton-duck in Passaic Mill, No. 2, now\\nknown as Harbour s PiLssaic Flax-Mill, on Spruce\\nStreet opposite Oliver. He tested it for two or three\\ndays, |iutting on a warp and woof, and actually wove\\nseveral yards of excellent silk cloth by power, being\\nthe first to succeed in the attempt in Paterson. But\\nhe found the loom too heavy and cumbersome for the\\nwork, and advised Mr. Ryle not to persevere with\\nthat kind of loom, as it would not be i)rofitable. He\\nremained some time in Mr. Ryle s employ, then spent\\nten years with Hamil Booth, and seven years more\\nwith John Dunlop from the fall of 1871. On leaving\\nhim he entered into partnership with Mr. Hopper.\\nHopper .Scott first leased the third floor of the\\nHope Mill, on Mill Street opposite Passaic, a room\\nthirty-eight by ninety-six feet, starting with twenty-\\nfive hands in throwing tram and organzine on com-\\nmission. In six months they found it nece.ssan, to\\nlease the second floor of the same building, and they\\nnow occupy them both, and are contemplating the\\naddition of still more room. They employ tJO hands\\nexclusively in throwing, and pay them !(\u00c2\u00bb,0(\u00c2\u00bb0 of\\nwages yearly. They use oOO to GOO pounds of raw\\nsilk weekly, taking it in the bale and making it into\\nthread ready for weaving. They have been among\\nthe most successful of new firms in Paterson.\\nR. Ad im\u00c2\u00bb A- Co. In 1880, Robert Adams (formerly\\nof the firm of R. H. Adams) and James Hunter\\nformed a partnership as R. Adams Co., and bought\\nthe Hamilton Mill, then just rebuilt after the fire\\nwhich hail destroyed the old mill. The new building\\nwas of brick, seventy-five by forty feet, four stories\\nhigh. The firm started the silk busines-s, buying the\\nraw silk and weaving it into ribboiiii, handkerchiefs,\\ndress-goods, and in brief carried on a general silk\\nbusiness in all its branches except dyeing. Their\\nbusiness soon extended so rapidly that they had to\\nlease the lower floor of the Ho] e Mill and half of\\nits office, next to the Hamilton Mill, besides a por-\\ntion of the Franklin Mill. Not having room enough\\neven yet, they set about the erection of an immense\\naddition to the Hamilton Mill, so that the enlarged\\nmill is shaped something like the letter H. Tin\\nnarrow neck is fifty by forty-six feet, and the extension\\nbeyond that is ninety-six by forty-six feet, all four\\nstories high, so that the new mill is one of the lar^n -t\\nin Paterson. Before this was built the firm employed\\nfrom 100 to 150 hands, paying them from |30,(KK) to\\n$40,000 wagt-s yearly. When the entire new mill\\ngets in operation, which will be some time in the\\nspring or early summer of 1882, it is expected that\\nabout 400 hands will be employed.\\nJarnen H. Rof,erH.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\\\n the fall of 1880, Mr. Rogers,\\na young lawyer of Paterson, look the silk machinery\\nformerly of Ekings Birsfelder, in the Hope Mill,\\nand removed it to the I pper Murray Mill, in Mill\\nStreet opposite Ward. Since then he has more than", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0848.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n483\\ndoubled the machinery and the business. He occu-\\npies a room sixty by one hundred feet, one story high,\\nwith 70 looms, 45 power and 25 hand, employing\\nabout 100 hands, paying them about $50,000 yearly in\\nwages. The annual production is about $150,000, and\\nconsists of handkerchiefs and dress-goods. In Feb-\\nruary, LSSl, he had but five looms. William Grim-\\nsliaw is superintendent.\\nDale Mill. In this great building there are several\\nsilk manufacturers besides Mr. Frederick S. Dale.\\nIn December, 1880, Joseph Bamford began the busi-\\nness at the corner of Grand and Spruce Streets, but in\\nMarch, 1881, removed to the Dale Mill, where he oc-\\ncupies two rooms on the first floor and another on the\\nthird -floor; he has 2G looms weaving handkerchiefs,\\nand employs 30 hands, paying them 812,000 or $15,000\\nyearly. His products are about $100,000 per annum.\\nHis principal weaving-room was lighted during the\\nwinter of 1881-82 by electricity. On the first floor,\\nalso, James Nightingale, Jr., weaves handkerchiefs\\nand dress-goods with about 20 looms. John Locket\\nhas 20 hand-looms on the same floor, and 15 power-\\nlooms weaving handkerchiefs. On the same floor,\\nalso, Philip Dorgeval weaves dress-goods, gros grains,\\netc., with 50 looms. He also builds looms. On the\\nsecond floor Paul Crawford weaves handkerchiefs and\\ndress-goods, running 80 looms. Eugene Vogelsang\\nweaves tie silks, scarfs, etc., on 15 box- or tissue-looms\\nfor weaving three or four colors at a time. He occu-\\npies a room one hundred by forty-four feet, and em-\\nploys about 25 hands. He represents an immense\\nestablishment at Crefeldt, Germany, where 1000 hands\\nare emi)loyed on this class of goods; he is in America\\nto supply special demands for their goods. Third\\nfloor: Samuel Greenwood throws silk on commission,\\nand employs about 75 hands. Frederick Alcock\\nbought the machinery of Edward B. Penrose in the\\nspring of 1881, and has added largely to it since for\\nweaving handkerchiefs and dress-goods. He employs\\n75 hands, and occupies a room one hundred and\\ntwenty-five by forty-four feet. Mr. Alcock was for\\nmany years designer in the Phnenix Mill, and has a\\nthorough knowledge of the silk business in all its\\nbranches.\\nIn February, 1882, Pfeffer Wells leased the Pope\\nMill, on the north side of the river, formerly occupied\\nby Louis Franke, and set up imported machinery for\\nmaking spun silk, from which velvet is woven. Mc-\\nCulloch Gregson have been in the same business for\\ntwo or three years at No. 42 Van Houten Street.\\nThe foregoing is far from a full list of the silk firms\\nof Paterson, but the accounts given in the preceding\\npages of the several manufacturers sufliciently illus-\\ntrate the growth of this mighty and beautiful industry\\nin Paterson.\\nA few statistics by way of summary may be of in-\\nteres here: In 1870 the silk manufactures of the\\nUnited States amounted to $12,000,000; in 1880 to\\n$34,000,000. In 1870 there were 12,000 hands em-\\nployed; in 1880 34,000. In 1870 the wages paid\\namounted to $3,000,000 in 1880 to $9,000,000. Al-\\nmost half of the total product of the country was\\nmade in Paterson, there being 1,400,000 pounds of\\nraw silk used in New Jersey, more than half the total\\nimports. In 1880 there were 12,680 persons employed\\nin New Jersey silk-mills, to whom $4,168,000 was paid\\nin wages. Paterson has about 90 per cent, of the\\nsilk manufactures of the State, so that the foregoing\\nstatistics would closely approximate the condition of\\nthe industry in Paterson in February, 1882.\\nCHAPTER LXV.\\nCITY OF PATERSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (CoiidHi/erf).\\nVelvet, Silk Plush, etc. There are two meth-\\nods of weaving velvet, plush, etc. One, the old-fash-\\n1 ioned way, is by the use of wires, and the other is by\\nusing a very ingenious machine, said to be the iuven-\\nj tion of Samuel Holt, now of Paterson, by which two\\nI piles of velvet are woven at once, and separated by a\\nknife just as they issue from the loom.\\nAbout 1859 the first hat-plush was woven in Pater-\\nson by a Frenchman, who seems to have got discour-\\naged before he finished his first warp. The plush\\nwas not a success for the purpose for which it was in-\\ntended, as it failed to stand the hatter s iron, but it\\nmade up into fine vestings.\\nDoubtless the first velvet woven in Paterson was\\nthe product of John Fletcher, who wove it on a loom\\nwith wires, in his own house. No. 106 Straight Street,\\nabout 1860-61. He wove twenty or thirty yards of\\nit, twenty-two inches wide, but velvet was not in\\nfashion just then, and the sale of it was so slow that\\nhe did not attempt to weave more than the one piece.\\nIt was an excellent article, and lasted a long time\\nwhen made up into vests, as some of it was.\\nIn 1880, Mr. Fletcher started the making of silk\\nplush for millinery goods in a small frame mill in the\\nrear of 110 Straight Street, the building being forty-\\nfive by twenty-four feet, two stories high. Associated\\nwith him was his son William and his brother Wil-\\nliam. They had four looms, and wove a very fine\\narticle, for wdiich they were ottered a higher price\\nthan the imported article of the same grade com-\\nmanded in the New York market. It was the finest\\nin the market. All they made found ready sale as\\nlong as there was any demand for silk plush during\\n1880 and 1881. They attribute their success largely\\nto the peculiar style of looms they use, they having\\nmade their own looms. At the present writing they\\nare preparing for a considerable enlargement of their\\nbusiness in 1882.\\nThe American Velvet Company. In 1851, Samuel\\nHolt, already mentioned in connection with the man-\\nufacture of Turkish towels, invented a machine for", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0849.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "484\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nweaving silk plush ou power-looms, which also wove\\ntwo piles at once anJ cut them apart at the same time.\\nIt is not easy to describe the machine, but the web as\\nit comes through the loom is precisely as if two pieces\\nof velvet were woven together, face to face, and then\\nseparated by a sharp knife. Tliat is |)rcci.scly the\\nmanner in which velvet and plush are woven on this\\nmachine invented by Mr. Holt. Uuriug the late war\\nvelvet was very costly in America, on account of the\\nduty and the high rate of exchange, and some gentle-\\nmen from the United States made an arrangement\\nwith Mr. Holt to come to tiiis country and introduce\\nthe weaving of velvet iiere on his patent looms. He\\narrived here in August, 1804, with twenty or thirty\\nexperienced hands, and started oi)crations in Newark.\\nIn 1865 the parties who had induced him to come,\\nhaving fornied the American Velvet Company, bought\\na tract of land on Kssex, Madison, and Beech Streets,\\nin Paterson, and proceeded to erect thereon a hand-\\nsome three-story lirick mill, two hundred by forty-tive\\nfeet, fronting on E^ex Street. In February, 1866 or\\n1867, Mr. Holt removed the machinery from Newark\\nto the new building in Paterson. About forty looms\\nwere put in operation and about one hundred hands\\nemployed. They wove and finished several thousand\\nyards of velvet and plush, having a capacity for pro-\\nducing three thousand yards weekly, and the goods\\nwere sold readily in the New York market, being\\nscarcely surpassed for fineness of quality. The com-\\npany also imported some machinery for tearing up,\\ncarding, and spinning the silk from |)ierce(l cocoons,\\nand a ferocious-looking machine the Devil was.\\nBut the stockholders were by no means harmonious,\\nand in 1869 the mill was closed. The machinery was\\nsubsequently sold off at a great sacrifice, and some of\\nthe looms are to this day stored away at Manliattan-\\nville, where they have lain for years, the owner re-\\nfusing to sell them.\\nSii.k-Dyeino. In the early years of the silk manu-\\nfacture in Paterson one drawback was the lack of\\nproper facilities for dyeing the silk on an extensive\\nscale and with unilbrm etfcct*. There were many\\ndyers, it is true, iiut they had only small shops, and\\ncould not fill large orders as |)romptly as was often\\ndesired. One of the first to start a dye-house on the\\nEuropean ]dan was\\nC iiitle (irr/ipri, who in 18( 7 or 1868 erected a large\\nbrick silk-mill and dye-house on Sinter and Prince\\nStreets and Dale Avenue. Thr dye-house is one hun-\\ndred by forty-eight feel, one story high, on Prince\\nStreet, with atiolher building fifty feel front on Prince\\nStreet and Dale Avenue, and two hundred feet deep;\\nanother building, of frame, is forty-eight by one hun-\\ndred and tidy feet. He inlroducetl the most improved\\nmachinery, and spared no pains to dye and finish silk\\ngoods as finely as rould be done anywhere in the\\nworld. There is no doubt that his ctlorts in this direc-\\ntion were of great value in stimulating the silk manu-\\nfacture in PatefHon. In 1877 he went into partner-\\nship with Jacob Weidmann, but in the course of a\\nyear again set up for himself, or with some capitalists\\nestablished the Paterson Silk-Dyeing and Finishing\\nAssociation, which has since been spreading out in\\nits operations, and now has the largest works of the\\nkind in the city, and among the largest in the country,\\nat Riverside, where the entire business is to be con-\\ncentrated during the year 1882. Mr. Greppo has re-\\ncently imported some very costly machinery for dye-\\ning and finishing velvet.\\nllie Wiiilmnnii Sitk-l yein(j Compauy. Jacoli eid-\\nmann started in the business in a small way about ten\\nyears ago in the Dale Mill, removing in a short time\\nto the corner of Paterson and Ellison Streets, where\\nJohn O Neill formerly spun and dyed silk. The\\nbusiness has grown to immense pro|)ortions, and now\\ntakes in a series of buildings on the corner mentioned,\\ncovering about two hundred feet square, and from one\\nto three stories in height. A few years ago Mr. Weid-\\nmann bought on the west side of Paterson Street,\\nnearly opposite his works, and there put up a spacious\\nbuilding with ornate front, twenty-five by one hun-\\ndred feet, two stories and basement back of that a\\ndye-house with very high roof, one hundred by sixty\\nin area, and back of that an engine-luiuse, etc. He\\nacquired subsequently another brick buihling, extend-\\ning from the engine-house to Ellison Street, twenty-\\nfive by one hundred and twenty-five feet. Mr. Weid-\\nmann was not only a skillful dyer, but he had a\\nbrother who was a chemist of high repute in France\\nand Gernuiny, and whose knowledge was freely con-\\ntributed to enable the Paterson works to turn out the\\nmost brilliant specimens of dyeing. All sorts of\\nimproved machinery have been used in the establish-\\nment, which .sometimes employs lus many as HOO or\\n4 M) hands. In January, 1882, the concern was turned\\ninto a stock company, the Weidmann Silk- Dyeing\\nC m)pany; Jacob Wel lmann president, .lolm East-\\nwood treiuiurer. Mr. lOastwood is a wealthy manufac-\\nturer of dye-stufts at Belleville, N. J.\\nSee if- Shechaii .started in the silk-dyeing business\\nseveral years ago in Paterson Street near Ellison,\\nand have won much success.\\n(iinrije M irlnl was for many years the dyer for the\\nCheneys, the eminent silk numnfaclurers at South\\nManchest r, tJonn. About ten years ago he formed\\na artnersliip with Jacob Stettheinier and Samuel\\nNordinger, the two latter being New York moneyed\\nmen, under the firm-name of Morlot, Stcltlu imer\\nCo. They bought some buildings which hail been\\nerect !d for the manufacture of nitro-glycerine on the\\nriver-bank near the foot of East Tenth Street, where\\na spring of fine water wius at hand and a large brook.\\nIn the course of time Mr. Morlot became the owner\\nof the whole business, which he still carries on at the\\nsame place. His works have been greatly enlarged\\nsince he began.\\nThe American SiU- Fiiii\u00c2\u00bbhiii(] f oi;i/vnHy occupies the\\nlower lloor, fitly by one hundred and twenty-five feet,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0850.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n485\\nof the old cotton-mill on Greene Street between Jack-\\nson and Spring. They finish silks ready for the mar-\\nket, and have made some preparations for finishing\\nvelvets and plushes.\\nThere are half a dozen other smaller establishments\\nin various parts of the city devoted to dyeing and\\nfinishing silks.\\nChemical- Works. The dyeing of silks requires\\nthe use of a great variety of dye-stuffs, and for thirty\\nyears George Barnes has been making pyroligneous\\nacid and other dye-stutfs at West Paterson. He has\\nextensive works at that place, and does a widely-ex-\\ntended business.\\nAndrew Elvin has been in tlie same business for\\nmany years, occupying some frame buildings on Kip\\nVan Winkle Avenue until the latter part of 18S1,\\nwhen he took possession of some fine new brick build-\\nings he had just erected at Riverside, at the foot of\\nEast Eighteenth Street, one, one hundred by si.xty\\nfeet another, one liundred by seventy another, one\\nhundred by twenty-five. He employs 30 hands, and\\nturns out 20 barrels daily of pyroligneous acid, and\\n10 of nitrate of iron, besides tin liquors, crystals, etc.\\nSilk Machinery. When the manufacture of silk\\nwas begun in Paterson all the machinery required\\nhad to be imported from England and France. It\\nwas a long time ere there was sufficient demand for it\\nto jiwtify its manufacture on any considerable scale\\nhere. Then the large machine-shops took hold of the\\nmatter, and soon began to turn out very creditable\\nmachinery, which found ready sale in this country.\\nSome of these large shops have been mentioned in\\nother connections. Within a few years there have\\ngrown up shops devoted exclusively to the manufac-\\nture of silk machinery and supplies. One of the old-\\nest of these is that of\\nChristian Koh/haas. In 1863, 3Ir. Kolilhass began\\nmaking ribbon-looms and doing all kinds of jobbing\\non silk machinery, having learned the trade in Ger-\\nmany. He had a small shop in the Franklin Mill,\\nwhere he remained until burned out in 1871, when he\\nremoved to the old duck-mill. Three years later,\\nhis business having grown materially, he was obliged\\nto seek roomier (juarters, and he leased the first floor\\nof an old stone l)uihliug along the river-bank, below\\nthe Gun Mill, the room being forty by eighty feet.\\nWith the enormous growth of the silk industry in\\nPaterson his business has kept pace, especially as he\\nand his two sons have constantly shown a remarkable\\nmechanical ingenuity in devising and improving all\\nkinds of machines, with all sorts of odd motions. Some\\nyears ago they invented a loom which wove a cartridge-\\nbelt of canvas, with as many cartridge pockets as might\\nbe desired, woven in with the belt with a scarcely\\nperceptible seam. It was the first time this sort of\\nweaving had ever been successfully attempted, and it\\nhas not been [)erfectly imitated since. In March,\\n1881, they invented a circular-motion shuttle, which\\nplaces one-third more shuttles in the same space than\\nthe old style of shuttle-motion. It is an extremely odd\\natl air, and works to a charm. They also make Jac-\\nquard machines adapted to any loom, ribbon-looms,\\nsott-silk winders, blocking-machines, ribbon-calenders,\\nsilk machinery generally, and do all sorts of jobbing\\nin connection with the silk business. Mr. Kohlhaas\\nemploys about 20 hands, whose wages toot up 4^13,000\\nyearly.\\nJarne^ Jackson. Mr. Jackson served his time with\\nhis uncle, William Stubbs, who was superintendent\\nof a silk-mill in England, and thus acquired a perfect\\nknowledge not only of the mechanism of silk ma-\\nchinery, hut also of the various processes of the man-\\nipulati(ui of silk from its raw state to the finished\\nproduct. He was thus amply equipped to set uji for\\nhimself in the manufacture of silk machinery when\\nhe began it in the fall of 1873 in a small frame build-\\ning, one story high, twenty by sixteen feet, in the rear\\nof his dwelling. No. 41 Sherman Avenue. Besides\\nhimself he had one of his sons and another man\\nworking in the shop. The panic coming on retarded\\nthe growth of his enterprise, but nevertheless in tlie\\ncourse of six months he had another hand at work,\\nand at the end of the first year there were four hands\\nunder him. His principal product was Jac(iuard\\nlooms, and he also made compass-boards. He was\\nabout the first in Paterson to engage in the manufac-\\nture of the Jacquard loom, which up to that time had\\nbeen imported into this country. Mr. Jackson em-\\nbodied some of his own ideas in these looms, among\\nother things reversing the working of tlie baton,\\nan idea which has since been adopted by most other\\nloom-builders. His great object was to simplify the\\nJacquard as far as possible, and in this he has suc-\\nceeded to the satisfaction of all who use his looms.\\nIn the fall of 1875 he began to extend his business,\\nand he then occupied part of the cellar of his house.\\nThis did not suffice to accommodate his expanding\\ntrade, and in September, 1877, he built a frame mill,\\nthirty by twenty-two feet, two stories and a half in\\nheight, at No. 20 Albion Avenue, on land bought for\\nthe purpose. He now employed twelve men. Still\\nhis accommodations did not keep pace with the ex-\\npansion of his business, and a year later he was com-\\npelled to enlarge his mill to twice its former size,\\nmaking it twenty-two by sixty feet and of the same\\nheight. He now had eighteen men in his employ. In\\nthe spring of 1879 he put-, on another addition in\\nfront, thirty by thirty feet, three and a half stories\\nhigh. Wheu he began he used to turn out one loom\\nevery two or three weeks. He has gradually invented\\nand perfected machinery to facilitate the manufacture\\nof his looms, until in l+ 80 he finished 800, about the\\nsame number in 1881, and in 1882 expects to show a\\nrecord of 1000 finished looms, while his shop has a\\ncapacity of 1500 if they should be actually recpiired.\\nIn 1873 a 400-Jac(iuard cost the mill-owner forty\\ndollars to import now Mr. Jackson makes and sells\\nthem for twentv-six dollars. Other sizes sell for from", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0851.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "486\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthirty-five to forty-five dollars each. Thus it appears\\nthat Mr. Jackson has been a benefactor to the Pater-\\nson silk-inanuracturers, enabling thein to fill their\\nmills with better looms than the imported at a cheaper\\nrate than before he engaged in the manufacture. He\\nalso makes compass-boards, warping-uiills, both for\\nhand and power; also beaming-frames, and silk\\nmachinery in general. His annual products are\\nabout $25,000. Twenty-five hands are employed, who\\nare paid about $13,(X)0 yearly.\\nRobert Atherton. Mr. Atherton was for many years\\nsuperintendent of the Van Riper Manufacturing\\nCompany s shops. In November, 1879, he set up for\\nhimself in a room twenty-five by seventy-five feet, on\\nthe first Hoor of the brick building on River Street,\\nnorth side, near Main Street, where he began making\\nsilk machinery, winders, doublers, and filling-ma-\\nchines. In May, 1880, he moved to the brick building\\non Mill Street next south of tlie Esse.K Mill, occupy-\\ning one rtoor with his machine-shop, employing\\ntwelve or fifteen men. In May, 1881, he leased the\\ntwo-story frame building, thirty by forty feet, on the\\nfront of the Gun Mill lot, taking both Hoors for his\\nwork. He makes the various kinds of silk machinery\\nmentioned, and does jobbing and general repairing.\\nMany of his machines are running in New York and\\nPhiladelphia, but most of it is for the Paterson Mills.\\nHe employs twelve or fifteen men when busy, and\\npays out from $3000 to $(5000 per year for wages.\\nChrMian Bndiler began making hand-looms for\\nweaving broad-silk goods in a little slianty back of\\nhis house. No. .jii iSheridan Avenue, in 187o, the room\\nbeing only big enough for one man to work in. He\\nnext moved into the basement of his house, which\\nwas large enough for his business for two or three\\nyears, when he was obliged to build a shop eighteen\\nby thirty-five feet in area, two stories high, of frame,\\nback of his house, and there he now employs six to\\nten men making silk machinery in general, his power\\nbeing supplied by a six-horse steam-engine. The\\nmen s wagw amount to about .*3000 yearly, and his\\nannual production is worth about !!l(l,0(i((.\\nJiihii Wrii/iri/ (I- ,Si n. John W rigley started a small\\nmachine-shop in 1848 on the Nightingale -Mill lot.\\nHe afterwards went into partnership with his brother\\nThomas, and continued with him until 18o9, when he\\nquit the business. Three years later he resumed his\\nolil business of making comb-plates, wa-shcrs, etc., at\\nthe corner of (Jraiid and Spruce Streets, whence he\\nsoon removed to the foot of West Street, where he\\nremaine l until about 187( when he built a fine large\\nmachine-shop next to his dwelling, at No. 120 Madi-\\n8 in Street, and with his son began to turn his atten-\\ntion to the buililing of silk-looms as a specialtv.\\nThey speedily built U| a large business in this line,\\ntheir work meeting with much favor among silk-manu-\\nfacturers. They met with some heavy losses, owing\\nto the failure of some buycr.- of their machinery, in\\n1880-81, which cripple l them temporarily, but they\\nhave a fine shop, are equipped with first-rate tools,\\nhave established a good reputation, and will doubt-\\nless get their share of patronage in the future, as\\nheretofore.\\nlien /inn in Eastu-ond set up in the making of silk\\nand other machinery in 1873 in a very modest way\\nin the rearof McCullnch s brass-shop, on Van Houten\\nStreet, removing next year to the Beaver Mill, and\\nthence in due course to a fine set of buildings which\\nhe had erected on Ramapo Avenue. He has a foundry\\nand blacksmith-shfip thirty-five by one hundred feet,\\nand a machine-shop thirty-five by one hundred feet,\\ntwo stories high. About 60 hands are employed,\\nearning $;}0,000 of wages yearly. Mr. Eastwood\\ncarries on a general machine-shop, but latterly has\\nbeen making a specialty of silk machinery, some of\\nwhich he builds on patents of his own, which have\\nfound favor with the silk-manufacturers.\\nI .^PKK Boxes. The growth of the silk industry\\nhas created a great demand for paper boxes for pack-\\ning the finished silk good.s.\\nRobert BInekburn started the making of paper-\\nboxes in 1805 at No. 67 Broadway, on the upper\\nfloor. He soon moved to the northeast corner of\\nMarket and Paterson Streets, then to the Smith\\nJackson block, and in 1876-77 built a factory for his\\nown use, thirty by .seventy-five feet, of brick, three\\nstories high, on Railroad Avenue, next south of the\\nDale Mill. He employs 35 to 40 hands, paying them\\n$7000 or $800o every year. About fifty tons of straw\\nboard are required to make the boxes he turns out in\\nthe course of a twelvemonth, and four hundred reams\\nof glazed paper. Most of his boxes are for the silk-\\nmills, but many of them are used by the shirt manu-\\nfacturers and confectioners. He turns out about 2000\\ndaily, of all sizes.\\nI-Yrileri -i- Jlnriting began the same business in 1874,\\nnext to the corner of Ellison and Summer Streets,\\ntaking on three or four hands. In 1880-81 he built\\na fine brick factory in Straight Street, west side, just\\nnorth of Ellison, forty by eighty-eight feet in size,\\ntlirec stories high. He occupies the first floor, where\\nhe employs about 20 hands, and turns out LWo boxes\\ndaily, cutting up three or four tons of straw boards\\nmonthly, and about twenty-five reams of glazed\\npaper. His pay-roll amounts to $5lKM) annually, and\\nhis production to about #20,000.\\nHoiiiiiN-TfUNKKs. The demands of the cotton-\\nand (lax-mills gave rise at an early day to the estab-\\nlishment of shops devoted to the business of turning\\nbobbins. In 1824, Chauncey Andrews employed two\\nor three hands to assist him in chair-making and turn-\\ning bobbins. In 1827 he employed three hands, and\\nJames Morris, William .Jacobs, and Thomas Van\\nRiper were in the business. Samuel Ensign, from\\nMatteawan, N. Y., in 1827 as-socialed himself with\\nAbraham Carter, and the firm of Ensign Carter\\ncarried on the turning business for several years on\\nthe Ucaver Mill lot. John Cutler made bobbins for", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0852.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PAT^:RSON.\\n487\\nabout fifteen years, part of the time in the rear of the\\nGun Mill.\\nVan Riper Manufaffuriiip Compniii/. Thomas Van\\nRiper began the manufacture of bobbins at Cedar\\nGrove, N. J., about 1825, removing to Paterson about\\n1827, locating on the river-bank, in the rear of Van\\nWinkle s mill, on Boudinot Street. He died in 18. M,\\nand was succeeded in the business by his son, Peter\\nV. H. Van Riper. The mill was burned down, then\\nrebuilt, next it was washed away bodily by a freshet,\\nand having been again replaced, was once more\\nburned down. Mr. Van Riper then removed to\\nMarket Street, between Mill and Cross, running by\\nsteam-power. About 1845 he built a shop at the\\ncorner of Clinton and Water Streets, where the busi-\\nness was carried on until 1870, employing about forty\\nhands towards the latter date. In 1866, George P.\\nVan Riper, son of Peter, was taken into partnership,\\nand in 1869 the concern was reorganized under a\\nspecial charter as the Van Riper Manufacturing Com-\\npany. In the latter year the senior Mr. Van Riper\\ndied. During his life he had introduced many im-\\nprovements in the machinery for making bobbins.\\nIn the fall of 1870 the company built a frame mill,\\nfifty by one hundred feet, four stories high, at Park\\nRidge, Bergen County, whither the entire bobbin-\\nturning business was removed. Fifty-five hands were\\nemployed at the new^ mill. It was burned down in\\nthe fall of 1875, after which the business was carried\\non in the handsome new building erected by the con-\\ncern in the spring ot 1867, and which is brick and\\niron in front, being fifty by fifty-five feet in area, four\\nstories high and basement, with brick extension forty-\\nfive by twenty feet, and other sheds besides for storage\\npurposes. The company now employ about 30 hands\\nin making bobbins, using the very best macliinery.\\nSilk- and cotton-mills are supplied all over the coun-\\ntry, especially in the East and South. Bobbins are\\nmade principally from dogwood and beech, though\\nsugar-maple is also used. The company has a capi-\\ntal of S62,000. President and Treasurer, George P.\\nVan Riper; Secretary, William J. Atkinson.\\nScull Co., Diiggers d- Row, John R. Daggers. In\\n1865, Isaac Scull and Ellen Durie carried on the\\nbusiness of bol)bin-turning in Boudinot (now Van\\nHouten) Street. In 1858, Mrs. Durie retired, and\\nJohn R. Daggers and William Row entered the\\nfirm, which was continued under the old title of Scull\\nCo., in the Broomhead building, at the foot of\\nWest Street, for a year or two, and then in the\\nrear of Todd Rafferty s works. Mr. Scull retired in\\n1860, when the firm-name became Daggers Row,\\nunder which title the turning business was kept up\\nuntil 1880, when Mr. Row sold out to Mr. Daggers.\\nSince 1865 the shop has been at the northeast cor-\\nner of River and Mulberry Streets. Judge Daggers\\nemploys about 25 hands, doing all kinds of wood-\\nturning, bobbins, spools, etc.\\nJ. Atkinson Co. In 1865, James Atkinson, Sam-\\nuel Brooks, and John Reynolds formed a partnership\\nto carry on wood-turning in all its branches, but es-\\npecially for spinning-machinery. The firm-name\\nwas Atkinson, Brooks Co. They took a shop on\\nRiver Street, nearly opposite Washington, but were\\nburned out in the course of eight months after start-\\ning in the business. They thereupon bought the prem-\\nises Nos. 95 and 97 River Street, fifty by one hundred\\nfeet, with brick buildings three stories high and fifty\\nfeet deep. Mr. Brooks remained in the firm but two\\nyears since then the firm-name has been J. Atkinson\\nCo. Mr. Atkinson is the practical man of the busi-\\nness, and works as hard as any of his employes.\\nThey make bobbins and spools, and do job turning of\\nevery kind in wood. The whole building is occupied\\nby the firm, either in manufacturing or in the storage\\nof stock, of which they carry a large amount con-\\nstantly, the better to supply any and all demands\\nwhich may be made upon them. Their bobbins and\\nspools are sold mainly to the silk-mills, but large\\nquantities also go to cotton-mills, flax-mills, rope-\\nwalks, etc. Of late years they have done a large\\nbusiness in the turning of the wooden rollers for par-\\nlor skates, which they have furnished to the skate-\\nmanufacturers by the hundred thousand at a time.\\nAbout 25 hands are employed, their wages being about\\n$10,000 altogether during the year. The value of the\\nannual production is about $25,000 to #30,000.\\nDaniel Brown began in 1867 to make quills for silk-\\nweavers, occupying a part of the front building of the\\nFranklin Mill and a small building in the rear. The\\nlatter was rebuilt after the fire in 1871, and Mr. Brown\\nhas since occupied it; it is two stories, twenty-eight\\nby thirty feet. He employs 5 hands and very inge-\\nnious machinery in making risers, mill-nuts, pulleys\\nfor ribbon-looms, swifts for winding silk from the\\nhanks of spools, and all sorts of odds and ends in the\\nway of wood-turning.\\nLeather Bcl/ing.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Xhout 1850, Peter V. H. Van\\nRiper and John I. Goetschius began making leather\\nbelts for machinery in the bobbin-shop of Mr. Van\\nRiper, at the corner of Water and Clinton Streets.\\nMr. Goetschius retired from the firm in two or three\\nyears, and Mr. Van Riper then removed the business\\nto a small shop in Jlarket Street, between Jlill and\\nCross. About 1863 he bought out the bobbin-shop of\\nMessrs. Brooks Blauvelt, on Boudinot Street, on the\\nNightingale lot, and occupied the premises for his\\nleather belting business, which had been growing\\nsteadily since he began. In the spring of 1867 he\\nremoved the business once more to the building now\\noccupied by the Van Riper Manufacturing Company,\\nwhich company now carries on the business. The\\norigin of this company has been described under the\\nhead of bobbin-turners. Ten or twelve hands are\\nemployed in the business, and belts are supplied to\\nmany of the mills in Paterson and elsewhere. Among\\nthe largest belts finished at this shop was one forty\\ninches wide, one hundred feet long, two-ply another,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0853.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "4 8\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthree-ply, twenty-eight inches wide, and more than chine- Works, to the manufacture of army shirts and\\none hundred feet lonp; others thirty-incli, three-ply, other army clothing. The making of shirts was car-\\nand thirty-six-iucli, tliree-ply. A machine is used to ried on liere for some years, one Imndred or more\\nscour and set out the leather which does tlie work of sewing-machines being run and huiidre li of hands\\nseveral men. employed. So#n afti-r the war the business was\\nEdward C. May, who for many years had a harness- abandoned,\\nshop in an old-fa.-*hioncil friiiiie building on the site Mniihatlnii Shlrl-Mills. About 18 Messrs. Stur-\\nof what is now No. 74 Main Street, engaged in the gis, Perkins cS: Wilson, from Connecticut, started the\\nmanufacture of leather belting about 1861, and kept manufacture of shirts in a small brick building, forty\\nit up for five or six years. As it was subsidiary to\\nhis other business, he did not go into it extensively,\\nand did not make many large belts, not having the\\nfacilities in his cramped quarters. What he did make,\\nhowever, were of excellent character, as he was thor-\\nough and painstaking in whatever he undertook.\\nby forty, two stories high with cellar, on River\\nStreet, north side, opposite the foot of Patcrson\\nStreet. In the fall of 18 57, Jacob Levi, who had\\nbeen carrying on the same business since 18o. in\\nNew York, bought out the old firm and took pos-\\nsession of their mill. He took into partnership with\\nWhen Peter V. H. Van Riper made his first leather him Morris Price, and in 1869 his brother, Louis\\nbelt he was assisted bv Cornelius C. Van Houtcn, i Levi, became a member of the firm of Levi Rrotliers\\nwho had been an apprentice and journeyman for him\\nfor years. In the year 1866, Mr. Van Houten started\\nin the same busine-ss for himself, in connection with\\nLouis Messenger, the firm being Van Houten Mes-\\nsenger. They began operations in a two-story frame\\nbuilding. No. 37 Van Houten Street, about twenty-\\nfive by thirty-five feet, with extension twelve by fifteen\\nfeet. The business luis been carried on there ever\\nsince. Mr. Messenger withdrew in April, 1874, since\\nwhich time the firm-name hiis been C. C. Van Houten\\nCo., Walter Van Houten, a son of the senior mem-\\nit Price. In the spring of 1868 the firm built an ex-\\ntension in the rear to the old mill, twenty-five by\\none hundred feet, two stories and basement, for laun-\\ndry purposes. In 1874, Mr. Price withdrew from the\\nconcern, which was then carried on by Levi Brothers.\\nIn the same year a fine large building was erected on\\nRiver Street, adjoining the other on the wejst, thirty\\nby one hundred and twenty-five feet, four stories\\nhigh, for cutting, machine-work, and general manu-\\nfacturing, .luty 1, 1881, Jacob Levi leased his mills\\nand the business to Louis Levi and Benjamin Wechs-\\nber, having an interest in the concern. About half ler, who for years had been the New York agents of\\nof their belts are made for Paterson mills; others are the Manlnittan Mills. The lease was for two years\\nsent to other parts of New Jersey, and to New York and a half During the winter of 18K1-S2. Mr. Levi\\nand other States, and they have sent some to Mexico erected another addition, forty by fifty feet, four\\nand South America. Among their largest belts have I stories high, adjoining the principal mill of the con-\\nbeen the following one three-ply, thirty-inch, ninety eern. to be used by the concern if needed. The Man-\\nfeet long, worth $1000; one two-ply, thirty-inch, ninety hattan !^liirt-Mills make dress-shirts of all grades and\\nfeet long; one two-ply, twenty-fonr-incli. two hundreil fineness, of white and printed goods, soiling from six\\nfeet long, worth 5 1100. They use oak leather, tanned lollars to fifteen dollars, and even more, per dozen,\\nin cold liquors. Two men are employed besides the j They employ on the premises about IJoo hands when\\nMessrs. Van Houten. 1 busy, besides large numbers outside, who are paid\\nlu 1875, John Me.ssenger and Sigmond Dringer from six to ten dollars, and sometimes fifteen dollars\\nbegan the business of making leather belting in the\\nframe building, twenty-live by fifty feet, two stories\\nhigh, at the northeast corner of Van Hcmten and\\nProspect Streets, up-stairs, and soon succeeded in es-\\ntablishing a good reputation. The largest belt they\\nproduced wjis two-ply, twenty-nine-inch, one hundred\\nand fifteen feet long; another was four-ply, twenty-\\nfour-inch, one hundred and eighty feet long, being\\none of the very largest belts ever made in Paterson.\\nIn the fall of 18.S1, Mr. Messenger withdrew from the\\nfirm, and the business liius since been carried on by\\nMr. Dringer in the same place. Two or three hands\\narc emploved. Mr. Dringer hits belts of his manu-\\nfacture in some of the largest mills in Paterson, and\\nhas always sought to produce the best ela.ss of work.\\nSmitT MANfKA -n;KK. During the late war the\\ndcnumd for army supplies le l E. S. .lafl ray, the well-\\nknown New York merchant, to devote his extensive\\nmill, next west of the Dauforth Locomotive and Ma-\\nper week, the pay-roll footing up the very neat sum of\\n$f)(),oo or 5=100,000 yearly. They turn out one hun-\\ndred dozen shirts diiily. and during 1S.S0_81 they fre-\\nquently produced looo dozen per week. The value of\\nthe annual production is about S!2. )0,000 to .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0s.ioo.iioo.\\nSince withdrawing from the Manhattan Shirt-Mills,\\nMr. .lacob Levi has started the business of making\\nrtannel shirts, wliieli under his management bids fair\\nto assume very respectable (iroportions in a short\\ntime.\\nM. Price /MyMtv.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Morris Price having with-\\ndrawn from the firm of Levi Brothers Co. in 1874,\\nimmediately formed a partnership with .Vdolph\\nMarkewilz, leasing a brick buililing, forty by sixty\\nfeet, three stories high with cellar, in Broadway,\\nnearly oj posite Bridge Street, and adjoining llun-\\ntoon s codee- anil spice-mills on the east. Soon after\\nthey leaned the adjoining brick building, twenty-five\\nby eighty feet, four stories high, also belonging to", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0854.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n489\\nMr. J. P. Huntoon, and subsequently, as their busi-\\nness continued to grow, they also leased the second\\nfloor of the coffee- and spice-mill, twenty-five by\\neighty feet. In 1878, Mr. Price bought out Mr.\\nMarkewitz, and in June, 1880, took into the firm his\\nbrother, Joseph C. Price. They make fancy and dress\\nshirts, from muslins, cretonnes, percales, Dover cloth,\\ncambrics, and cheviot.s, white and colored. They take\\nthe bleached and printed goods direct from the man-\\nufacturers, and having passed them through fifty dif-\\nferent stages of manufacture, turn them out fiuished\\nand packed up iu boxes ready for the salesroom.\\nFrom forty-eight to sixty thicknesses of muslin or\\ncalico are cut out at once, the goods being laid in\\nthick layers, then marked with fixed patterns, the\\nlines of which are followed by a man with a keen\\nlittle knife that goes through the pile with a clean\\ncut. Then one hundred bright-looking young women\\nsew the |)ieces together on as many sewing-machines,\\nrun by steam-power, whereby they earn six, eight,\\nten, and as high as fifteen dollars a week, working by\\nthe piece. The collars, cuffs, bosoms, gussets, and the\\nlike are put on by farmers wives and daughters and\\nothers in the country, and then the garments are jiut,\\ntwenty-four dozen at a time, into two huge wooden\\nwheels, which are revolved with considerable rapid-\\nity, being filled at the same time with hot water, soap,\\netc., from which the boiled shirts emerge white as\\nsnow. They are then carefully examined to see that\\nthey are spotless, after which they are starched, prin-\\ncipally by vicious-looking little machines with fero-\\ncious teeth that grind and gnaw at the fabric with\\nno more baneful eft ect than to saturate it thoroughly\\nwith starch. The shirts next pass into the drying-\\nroom, where steam dries them quickly for the hun-\\ndred ironers, chiefly men, who work very hard to put\\non that gloss which so delights the fancy of the well-\\ndressed young man. Mr. Price says there is no secret\\nabout tliis gloss. It is the result of thorough starch-\\ning and ironing, and that is all there is about it. The\\ncuffs and collars are ironed by a machine, and alter\\nyears of experimenting a machine has been invented\\nwhich bids fair to successfully iron bosoms on the\\nshirts. One of these has been introduced into these\\nmills on trial. The ironing was formerly done by\\nChinamen, but they quickly forsook the mills when\\nthey learned that they could earn three times as\\nmuch in their own laundries about town. Such is a\\nrough outline of the many processes through which a\\nshirt passes in the course of its development from the\\nraw material to the indispensable article of every\\ngentleman s attire. There are 250 hands em)\u00c2\u00bbloyed\\nin the mills, and 1000 outside, in various charitable\\nand reformatory institutions in Newark, New York,\\nBrooklyn, and elsewhere, with scores of women in\\nand about Paterson. The weekly production is be-\\ntween 600 and 800 dozen shirts, the annual produc-\\ntion being valued atS-250,000. The hands in the mill\\nreceive from $100,000 to $120,000 yearly, besides\\n$75,000 paid to the wives and daughters of farmers in\\nthe vicinity. The mills have not been stopped for\\nlack of work for a single day since they were started.\\nJacob Levi has recently started the manufacture of\\nflannel shirts on a large scale in the extension erected\\nin 1881 to his shirt-mill in River Street.\\nWood-Type and Pkinters Furniture. In\\n1827, Darius Wells, a practical printer, invented the\\nwood-type now so commonly used in printing posters,\\netc. He also invented what he called a routing\\nmachine, for cutting away the superfluous wood from\\naround the letter. About 18.39 he removed to Paterson\\nand opened a shop on the site of the present Addy\\nMill, iu Water Street, near Matlock. Ebenezer Rus-\\nsell Webb entered into partnership with him at this\\ntime,- and had charge of the Paterson factory for three\\nyears, while Wells attended to their factory in New\\nYork then Mr. Wells superintended the Paterson\\nshop. In 1844 they removed to an old building farther\\ndown the river, which they enlarged from time to time\\nto meet the increasing demands of their business. In\\n1867 the whole factory was burned down. At that\\ntime they were doing all their work in Paterson ex-\\ncept the finishing of engravers blocks. A fine new\\nbrick building, one hundred and six by thirty feet,\\nthree stories high, was erected in place of the old one\\nby the owner, Samuel Pope, and leased by the firm,\\nwho have since carried on their work at that place.\\nThey did not replace their wood-type machinery, how-\\never, in this mill, but do all that work in their New\\nYork factory. The [irincii)al business in Paterson is\\nthe making of printers furniture, stands, etc. They\\nalso prepare the wood for type-making and for en-\\ngravers blocks, the rest of the work being done in\\nNew York. Fourteen hands are employed. The\\nwood-type is made from sugar-maple; the engravers\\nblocks are mostly made of boxwood, though maple\\nis often used. Darius Wells sold out to Webb in 18r)6,\\nwho carried on the business for some years in various\\nnames. In 1804 he died, and the property was sold to\\nAlexander Vanderburgh, Heber Wells, and Henry M.\\nLow, when the firm became known as Vanderburgh,\\nWells Co. Mr. Low died in 1865, but his widow\\nretains his interest in the business, and the firm-name\\nremains unchanged.\\nIt has not been the writer s aim in the foregoing\\npages to give a complete history of all the manufac-\\ntures that have been or are now carried on in Pater-\\nson. The object rather has been to outline in a gen-\\neral way their origin and development. It has seemed\\nto him that this could be best done by taking individ-\\nual instances of the struggles of early manufacturers,\\nand to indicate some of the difficulties they had to en-\\ncounter in winning their way to success, which, after\\nall, comparatively few achieved. It will be observed\\nthat those who did succeed generally made their way\\nby patient, persistent toil from the humblest begin-\\nnings, and despite obstacles at least as great as any\\nwhich have to be overcome at this dav bv those who", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0855.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "49(1\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nmay wish to imitate them. The examples of sturdy\\nindependence set by these men who have conquered\\nsuccess is full of encourugenieut to every arnliitious\\nyouth.\\nAs tending more fully to illustrate the rise and prog-\\nress of Paterson s manufactures, the writer has been\\nsomewhat particular in setting out tlie first eflbrt.-* to\\nestablish in the town various industries, some of which\\nhave vanished and others of which have flourished\\nbeyond the wildest dreams of the citizens of half or\\neven a quarter of a century ago. Perhaps the\\nthouglitful reader on pondering these pages and\\nlooking about him may see indications of tlie devel-\\nopment of new manufacturing interests in Paterson\\nwhich are destined to eclipse in magnitude any of\\nwhich the city is now so proud. Who knows?\\nThe Passaic Falls. We add here a cut of the\\nPa.- saic Falls. liicli, at Paterson, furnishes the mag-\\nnificent water-power for most of the industries wliicli\\nhave been described, as well as the supply of water\\nfor the city. Both of these practical utilities contrast\\nsomewhat strikingly with the fancies of Wimhington\\nIrving in the accompanying poem.\\nPASSAIC l-ALL.-^, I .VTtllSU.N, N. J.\\nTIIK rAI.I^ OF THE PASSAIC.\\nIn vIM, Intnqull ralr, tlinKoil wllli fcnTnti of (nxili,\\nWl n\u00c2\u00bbliiri bad fiisliloOMl a Mifl, p Itaii Hceiic,\\nT)i rclriMil if Uio ringHluTc, U)\u00c2\u00bb liaiinl of tlir tippr,\\nI lunalc 111 alienee nillri] i^ntle anil rleAr.\\nNil gnuidnir iif pru pert utonlthiMl the aiKtit.\\nN.I nliniprnfMtiilillnin mlnfcl ^l awe wUli ilellKht;\\nllerr tin- Willi nowirel lilo\u00c2\u00abi nie l, tlio elm priillillv w\u00c2\u00bbvrd,\\nAiitl pure WM Uio rurrent the green l\u00c2\u00abnli UiftI UtmI.\\nBat Ibe iplrit tbiit ruled o er the tblck taocled wood,\\n.\\\\nd de\u00c2\u00abp in Iff i;1oodi flxe l his murky almde,\\nUliu loved the wild ecene that the vrhirlwindu defunu.\\nAnd gloried In thunder and lightning and eturm\\nAll flushed from the tumult of Imttlc ho came.\\nWhere the re l men encountered the children of flame,\\nWhile the nole\u00c2\u00ab of the war.whiNjp utill rang in his eaia.\\nAnd the fresh (deeding iicalp tut a trophy he bean*.\\nWith a glance of disgust, he the landscape surveyed,\\nWith its fragrant wild-tluwers, its wide-waving shade,\\nWhere l*a\u00c2\u00absaic meanders through nwrglus of green.\\nSo transparent its waters. Its surface serene.\\nHe rived the green hills, the wild woods he laid low;\\nHe taught the pure stream in rough channels to flow\\nHe rent the rude rock, the sleep precipice gave.\\nAnd burled down the chasm the thundering wave.\\nCountless moons have since rolli-d in the loug la|iae of time.\\nCultivation has softened those features sublime;\\nThe axe of the white man bos lightened the shade.\\nAnd dispelled the deep glmim of the thicketed glade.\\nHut the stranger still gazos, with wondering eye,\\nOn the rock^ rudely toru, and groves mounted on high\\nStill loves on the clifl^s dizzy t i rdera to ronm.\\nWhere the torrent leaps headlong, enilioeomed in fooci.\\nCHAPTER LXVI.\\nriTY OF PATEK.SON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I (V\u00e2\u0080\u009e,ii\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab,rf).\\nEcclesiastical History.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Reformep Churches.\\nThe lirst settlers cit what is now Passaic County\\nbeing Dutch Protestants, tlie first religious organiza-\\ntions in the county were of the Reformed Dutch de-\\nnomination. For more than half a century the\\npeople attended the Acquackauonk Church, but in\\ncourse of time, as the population of the several neigh-\\nborhoods increased, tliere Wius a demand for additional\\naccommodation. The residents in and almut the\\npresent city of Patersun took measures to secure\\n])reacliing in their vicinity, and it is probable that\\nfor some years the dominie settled at Acquackauonk\\nwas accustomed to hold service and to catechise and\\nbaptize at the houses of those who were able to ac-\\ncommodate the people. In 1755 the church-niembers\\nin the neighborhood mentioned appear to have secured\\nleave to erect a church edifice on land belonging to\\nHenry Brockholst, of Pompton, the lot being situated\\non what is now known as Water Street, on the east\\nside, within one hundred feet of Matlock Street. It\\nwas a quaint stone building, the roof rising steeply\\nfrom all four sides to a point in the centre, whereon\\nwas perched a square cupola, this being in turn sur-\\nmounted by a gilded weather-cock. The are* of the\\nhouse was about thirty by forty feet, the walls being\\neighteen or twenty feet high, the cornice overhanging\\nthem by two or three feet. On various stones in the\\nwalls were rudely carved the initials of some of the\\ncontributors and masons cmploye l in the work. The\\ndoorway was in the middle of the front, a huge win-\\ndow on each side, and above, in the centre, was a", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0856.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n491\\nstone set diamond-wise in the wall, bearing the in-\\nscription, Het huius dex Heeren, 1755, The house\\nof the Lord, 1755. The door opened directly into\\nthe auditorium, which was divided off into two rows of\\npews, a gallery on each side. The pulpit was very\\nhigh and very odd, and overhung by a huge sound-\\ning-board. Before the pulpit was a special pew for\\nthe voorlezer, who led the singing, there was no\\nchoir in those days, and in the absence of the dom-\\ninie conducted the service himself, and doubtless, if\\nthe truth were known, believed the congregation\\nmissed nothing by the exchange. Tliere was no\\narrangement for heating the building; instead of one\\nstove for that purpose, everybody carried his or her\\nown private foot-stove, or else froze patiently while\\nthe dominie deliberately plodded along to his seven-\\nteenthly and his twentiethly. The church having\\nbeen completed, the Totowa people petitioned for a\\nportion of the time of the preacher stationed at Ac-\\nijuackanonk, and agreed that the two churches should\\nbe governed by the one consistory. But this did not\\nseem to be favorably regarded on maturer considera-\\ntion, and in February, 1756, permission was given for\\nthe organization of a consistory for the Totowa\\nChurch, which was done, and then a new call was\\nmade out for Dominie Marinus, who had hitherto\\npreached regularly at Acquackanonk and Pompton\\nPlains, and who doubtless had been the first to hold\\npreaching service at Totowa. The new call provided\\nthat the dominie should preach half the time at Ac-\\nquackanonk, one-fourth of the time at Totua, and\\none-fourth at Pompton, for which Acquackanonk was\\nto pay him \u00c2\u00a358, and each of the other places \u00c2\u00a329,\\nbesides house, barn, well, garden, and six acres of\\nland near the Acquackanonk Church, probably the\\npresent parsonage of the First Church at Passaic.\\nThe members of the first consistory at Totowa were\\nas follows Simeon Van Winkle, Jacob Van Houten,\\nJohanuis Ryerson, and Jacobus Post, elders Dierck\\nVan Gieson, Helmich Van Houten, .Tohannis Van\\nHouten, and Frans Post, deacons. Prior to this time\\nMarinus had lived on what is now Totowa Avenue,\\nnear Jasper Street.\\nAlthough the church was erected in 1755, it was\\nnot until 1762 that the trustees got a deed for the\\nproperty from Henry Brockholst, the only considera-\\ntion being the good will I owe and the regard I have\\nfor the progress of the Christian Religion, and espe-\\ncially the Manner of Worship of the low duch Re-\\nformed Church of Holland, and in consideration\\nof four seats in pew No. 1 this pew, by the way, has\\nbeen always reserved for the accommodation of Mr.\\nBrockholst and his legal representatives in the three\\nditterent edifices in which the congregation have wor-\\nshiped in the last one hundred and twenty-seven\\nyears, but not within the memory of man has it been\\noccupied by any of its rightful owners. The trustees\\nof the church to whom this deed was made out were\\nCornelius Kip, Robert Van Houten, Cornelius Wester-\\nvelt, Johannis Van Blarcom, and Cornelius Gerretse.\\nThe lot was an acre in extent; about 1795 a plot on\\nthe southwest side of Water Street was added for a\\nburying-ground, wherein at one time lay the ashes of\\nmany of Paterson s best citizens. In 1762 a party in\\nthe Reformed Dutch denomination, known as the\\nConferentie, got control of the Totowa Church, and\\nunited with Fairfield and Montville in calling the\\nRev. Cornelius Blauw, who remained only about five\\nyears, when he removed to Hackensack. In 1772\\nTotowa united with Pompton in calling the Rev.\\nHermanns Meyer, D.D., who was one of the ablest\\npreachers in the denomination, a man of great erudi-\\ntion and piety. In 178-1 he was appointed Professor\\nof Hebrew, and in 1786 lector or assistant to the Pro-\\nfessor of Divinity in Rutgers College. He died at\\nTwo Bridges in 1791. Totowa thereupon dissolved\\nits connection with Pompton, and renewed its early\\nassociation with Acquackanonk, securing from the\\nlatter one-third of the time of its pastor, the Rev.\\nHenry Schoonmaker, who labored with much success\\nin this field until 1816, when advancing age con-\\nstrained him to resign his charge. He preached only\\nin Dutch. Upon his resignation the Totowa people\\nconcluded that they were able and willing to pay for\\nhalf a preacher s time, and so notified the Acquacka-\\nnonk consistory. But the latter were not willing, and\\nthe former soon after secured the services of the Rev.\\nWilhelmus Eltinge, of Paramus, to preach for them\\non twenty-two Sundays, besides on two holidays, for\\nthree hundred dollars per year. Further, and this\\nwas a great victory for the younger element in the\\nchurch, although sadly deplored by their elders, he\\nwas to preach in English. Meanwhile the old church\\nhad been thoroughly overhauled and refitted inter-\\nnally, and when Dominie Eltinge preached his first\\nsermon in English, on July 14, 1816, it was in a quite\\nattractive building. The pews were sold at this time,\\nfetching S2056. In the course of the next ten years\\nthe congregation prospered, and matters .seem to have\\ngone on quietly. In 1817 there were 130 families\\nand 67 members in communion in 1826 there\\nwere 180 families, 1150 persons, and 129 members.\\nOn March 26, 1827, shortly before noon, a man pass-\\ning by the church fired a gun at a bird on the cupola,\\nand the burning wad catching in the dry shingles set\\nfire to the roof Within half an hour the woodwork\\nof the ancient and sacred edifice was in ruins, to the\\ngreat consternation and unbounded grief of the mem-\\nbers, whose fathers and grandfathers had worshiped\\nwithin those walls during seventy years. For some\\ntime previous to this event there had been a senti-\\nment in certain quarters favorable to the removal of\\nthe church to tlie south side of the river.\\nFive days after the fire the consistory called a meet-\\ning of the congregation, to get their views relative\\nto the building of a new church, when and where.\\nThe congregation having met, resolved to proceed at\\nonce with the erection of a new structure, to be fifty", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0857.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "492\\nHISTORY OF BKIIGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JEHSHY.\\nby sixty-five feet, with a steeple at one end, the front\\nWilli and steeple to be of brick, the rest of stone.\\nThere was n strenuous opposition to the removal of\\nthe cliurcli from its ancient site, but on June 23d the\\nmale meml)ers of the coiigresration votod, 20 to 18, to\\nbuild at the corner of Ellison and Ilaniilton Streets.\\nThereupon the dissatisfied members decided to with-\\ndraw and organize a new church. This embarrassed\\nthe others for a while, but on Nov. 12, 1827, the old\\ncongregation voted to build on Main Street, near El-\\nlison, and in February, 1828, gave out a contract to\\nPeter E. Jlerselis for the carpenter-work for ?!24 l0,\\nand ilecided to have the masonry done by day s work.\\nOn March 15, 1829, the new church was opened and\\ndedicated by Rev. Mr. Eltinge, who preached from\\nPsalm l.xxxiv. 1 How amiable are thy tabernacles,\\nO Lord of hosts! The next day pews were sold to\\nthe amount of \u00c2\u00a78000. The site of the old church on\\nWater Street was dis])osed of, but the old burying-\\nground was not, and unfortunately it lias been sadly\\nneglected, so that for many years it has been an eye-\\nsore. Dominie Eltinge remained with the Totowa\\nChurch until Dec. 10, 18:53, when he withdrew, and\\nthereafter devoted his time to the I aranius Church\\nuntil his death in 1852, liaving been pastor at Para-\\nmus for fifty-one years. He was succeeded in the\\nchurch at Paterson by the Rev. John C. Vandervoort,\\nwho remained from 1834 to 1837, when lie wiis called\\nto Kinderhook, N. Y. He was greatly esteemed, and\\ngratifyingly successful while in Paterson. The Rev.\\nEberifzer Wiggins, who had just been graduated from\\nthe New Brunswick Theological Seminary, was called\\nto Paterson in 1837, and remained here for nineteen\\nyears. He was of the straightest sect of orthodox\\npreachers, and therein was highly acceptable to the\\nold people. His successor was the Rev. I hilip Peltz,\\nwho came here in 1857, and labored with excellent\\nsuccess for three years, when he was chosen corres-\\nponding secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of\\nthe denomination. In the summer of 1860 the Rev.\\nAlexander McKelvey was cjilled, who remained until\\n18fi5, and soon after went to I oxsackie, N. Y. The\\nnext pastor was the Rev. Jcdin Steele, who was called\\nin the fall of the .same year, and who for twelve years\\nfilled the pulpit to the entire satisfaction of the con-\\ngregation. It was during his ministry that fire for\\nthe second time visited the society, and on the night\\nof Dec. 14, 1871, once more destroyed their place of\\nworship. Again there was dissension among the\\nmembers aa to the expediency of changing the loca-\\ntion, but at last the party of removal carried the ilay,\\nand the present fine edifice was erected in Division\\nHtre -t, north side, between .Straight and Auburn, at a\\ncost of about ?70,000, most of which was defrayed by\\nthe proceed.s of the sale of the old site on .Main Street\\nami the insurance on the burned buililing. There was\\na commodious lecture-room ami Sunday-school build-\\ning on the corner of Main an l Ellison Streets, which\\nwas raised bv the new owner nnd converted into the\\nadmirable business building it now is. Dr. Steele\\nhaving accepted a call to Cohoes, N. Y., with the\\nutmost reluctance the congregation agreed, on June 25,\\n1877, to the dis-solution of the jiastoral relation. The\\npulpit was vacant until 187!l, when the Rev. A. A.\\nRaymond, a young man of marked eloquence, waa\\ncalled, who filled it accejitably until the spring of\\n1881, when he accepted a call to Plainfield, N. J.\\nThe Rev. J. Le Moyne Danner was installed i)astor\\nNov. 1, 1881. About 1.50 active members are enrolled.\\nWhen the congregation of the old Totowa Church\\nvoted to rebuild on the south side of the P.issaic River,\\nthose who preferred the former location decided to\\norganize a new church, and Messrs. G. Van Houten,\\nJohn J. Blauvelt, Martinus I. Hogeneamp, Adrian\\nR. Van Houten, Cornelius S. Van Wagoner, David\\nBensen, and Cornelius G. Hopper notified the con-\\nsistory that they would apply to the next meeting of\\nthe Chtssis of Paramus for that purpose. This was\\ndone, and Oct. 14, 1S27, the Classis agreed to organ-\\nize the Second Reformed Dutch Church of Totowa.\\nThe new society at once set about the erection of a\\nsuitable place of worship at the northwest corner of\\nTemple and Water Streets, which was o] ened Sunday,\\nJune 8, 1K28, the Rev. Jacob T. Field having been\\ncalled from Pompton to the pastorate in the preced-\\ning Ai)ril. There were forty-eight members in the\\ncongregation, and they worshiped meantime in St.\\nPaul s E[)iscopal Church. When Mr. Field left, in\\nSeptember, 1832, the congregation numbered 110\\nfamilies and eighty members. In .January. 1S33, the\\nRev. Isaac Cole was installed pa-slor, remaining until\\nthe end of the year. The Rev. John A. Liddell was\\ncalled in July, 18.34, remaining until Septend)cr, 1838.\\nIn February, 1839, the Rev. John H. Duryea, then\\nstationed at Wawarsing, N. Y., came to the pulpit of\\nthis church, the membership being then 130. He hius\\nserved his people for a lifetime, and is now the patri-\\narch among the Paterson clergy, none being more\\ngenerally esteemed and beloved than he. During\\nhis pastorate the church has prospered exceedingly\\nanil in every respect. In l. 58 the edifice wa* ex-\\ntcniled eighteen feet, arid in 18()7 it was newly roofed,\\nprovided with furnaces, new carpels and cushions.\\nIn 1872 a hand.some new lecture-room and Sunday-\\nschool building wius erected in the rear of the church\\nat a cost of about $(jO(W. The church has no debt.\\nThe present niendiership is about 3(Hl. Dr. Dur-\\nyea preached his fortieth anniversary sermon in\\n1879, in the course of which he gave some very\\ninteresting statistics of the growth of the congrega-\\ntion and of his own work. This sketch is chietly\\nfrom data given by Dr. Duryea in that and other\\nsermons. I p to 1879 he had delivered more than\\n2oO discourses, had baptized 740 eliililren, and mar-\\nried 90 couples. In the live hundred eliurehes of\\n1 Tlip forpguliig ikptcli conileniv l fnmi iinrle* uf nrtlclM compiled\\nfn.m orlKlDnl iiri-o\u00c2\u00ab tlio wrK .r liprrof, Hinl piiMlthed In a PfttonuD\\nnewB|iap .r iH TemI yoitn ngi", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0858.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0859.jp2"}, "747": {"fulltext": "l(n/w^ JC J) ivi Y\\nu", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0860.jp2"}, "748": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n493\\nI\\nthe denomination there are not more than two or\\nthree, if there are so many, which have been min-\\nistered unto by one pastor so long as the Second Re-\\nformed Church of Paterson. It is safe to say that\\nnone has been ministered unto more faithfully.\\nRev. John H. Dukyea, D.D. The family repre-\\nsented by the subject of this sketch is directly de-\\nscended from one of those fearless and pious men who\\nwere forced to leave the sunny confines of France\\nafter the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1682,\\nand for God and conscience sake to seek an asylum\\nand an abiding-place in other lands. The history of\\nthe Frencli Huguenots is the history of the triumph\\nof truth and faith over the sinister machinations of\\nmen, and of the planting of the seeds of a true and\\nindependent religion in a soil on its face uninviting,\\nbut afterwards rich in spiritual productiveness.\\nThe original ancestor of the Duryea family in this\\ncountry settled on Long Island. Yost, or George, the\\ngreat-grandfather of our subject, emigrated from Ja-\\nmaica, L. I., at an early period, and planted the family\\nname in Orange County, N. Y^., where the representa-\\ntives of the family are numerous to this day. He\\nlocated in the township of Blooming Grove, situated\\nin the centre of a rich and productive region, where\\nhe was one of the pioneers of the country. He died\\nin 1760, and was buried at Greycourt. He had three\\nchildren,^ George, Garret, and Hannah.\\nGarret was the grandfather of Rev. Dr. Duryea,\\nand was a farmer by occujjation. A man possessed of\\nstrong characteristics, full of energy, thrown by the\\naccidents of birth into a wild and undeveloped section\\nof the country, he proved a valuable factor in the\\npioneer development of his section, and a useful and\\nesteemed citizen. During the trying scenes of the\\nAmerican Revolution he performed active service in\\nthe cavalry department of the Continental army, re-\\nmaining true to that spirit of independence and in-\\ntolerance of oppression which had transplanted his\\nfamily from the soil of monarchical France to that of\\nfree America. He married Hannah Hudson, of\\nGoshen, whose father came from New London, Conn.,\\nand was the first sheriff of Orange County, N. Y\\nand bad a family of five sons and four daughters, viz.\\nGeorge, John, Henry, Garret, Hudson, Hannah, who\\nmarried Cornelius Decker, of Montgomery township,\\nN. Y. Dolly, who became the wife of John Rosa, of\\nSullivan County, N. Y. Betsey, who married Pier-\\nson Geming, of Blooming Grove and Mitte, who\\nnever married. Mr. Duryea lived to the ripe age of\\neighty -six years, and at his death, in 1832, was buried\\non the homestead upon which his years of toil had\\nbeen pa.ssed.\\nJohn Duryea, the father of our subject, was born\\nat the ancestral seat of the family in Blooming Grove,\\nwhere he was reared, on Dec. 29, 1778, and his ediica-\\ntional opportunities were such only as the district\\nschools of his day afforded. In early life he learned\\ntlie trade of a blacksmith. On Feb. 18, 1800, he mar-\\n32\\nried Mary, daughter of Samuel and Jeannette (Mc-\\nCurdy) Crawford, of Montgomery township (born\\nMay 12, 1778), and the same year removed to Wall-\\nkill township, in Orange County, and settled upon a\\nfarm about two miles east of Bloomingburgb, where\\nhe passed his life as a farmer. He was a man of\\nplain parts, modest and reserved in both thought and\\ndeed, and held himself aloof from public affairs, per-\\nforming the part only of a good and useful citizen.\\nHe died Jan. 21, 1859, and his wife Nov. 27, 1857.\\nThe children were Nancy, who married Daniel Brush,\\nof Bloomingburgb, and subsequently a farmer in\\nCrawford township, N. Y. .Teannette, who became\\nthe wife of Horace Mills, of Bloomingburgb; Han-\\nnah, who married James G. Thompson, of Craigville,\\nN. Y. Mary A., who resides in Middletown, N. Y.\\nJohn H. Samuel, who is a farmer in Crawford town-\\nship and Jonathan, who for many years occupied\\nhis father s homestead, but who now lives in Middle-\\ntown. Two other children died in their youth.\\nRev. Dr. Duryea was born on the paternal farm,\\nnear Bloomingburgb, N. Y on Nov. 28, 1810. His\\ntirst educational training was had in the district\\nschool of the neighborhood, but he subsequently at-\\ntended the academy at Bloomingburgb, where he was\\nprepared for admission to college. He entered the\\njunior class of Rutgers College, N. J., in 1832, and\\nwas graduated the year following. Among his class-\\nmates were Rev. J. F. Mesick, D.D., present pastor of\\nthe Second Reformed Church of Somerville, N. J.\\nRev. W. J. Polman, late missionary to China; Rev.\\nTalbot Chambers, D.D., of the Collegiate Church,\\nN. Y. and Rev. John T. Demarest, author of the\\ncommentaries on the minor epistles, and at present\\npastor of the church at Pine Bush, Orange Co.\\nAfter leaving college, Dr. Duryea at once entered\\nthe theological seminary at New Brunswick, N. J.,\\nwith a view of preparing himself for the gospel min-\\nistry. It had always been his cherished intention to\\nlabor in that field. At the age of sixteen he had ex-\\nperienced conviction of sin, and had connected him-\\nself with the Reformed Church of Blnoniingburgh,\\nthen under the pastoral care of Rev. Samuel Van\\nVechten. After three years in the seminary he was\\ngraduated in 1837, and the same year was licensed by\\nthe Classis of Orange. In the autumn of 1837 he\\nwas called to an old and venerable church in the\\ntownship of Wawarsing, LTlster Co., N. Y., known as\\nthe Reformed Church of Wawarsing, having bis resi-\\ndence at Napanock. He remained in that difficult\\nfield, striving to cover the territory and perform the\\n1 work which now fills the hands of four ministers\\n1 of the Reformed Church, for a period of eighteen\\nj months, when he received an invitation to preach as\\na candidate for the Second Reformed Church of To-\\ntowa, at Paterson, N. J. His first sermon was deliv-\\nered in that church on the second Sabbath of Janu-\\nary, 1839, and was followed by a call to become the\\nregular pastor of the church. The Classis of Orange", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0861.jp2"}, "749": {"fulltext": "494\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nhaving dissolved his conoection with the church at\\nWawarsing, Dr. Duryea occupied the pulpit of the\\nchurch over whicli he has since presided so long for\\nthe first time a.s pastor on the third Sabbath of Febru-\\nary, 18. {9. For nearly forty-tliree years lie has been the\\nfaithful pastor of tlie church, a length of time tiiat\\nhas not been exceeded by but one of tiie jjresent pa.s-\\ntors of the five hundred churches of the denomination,\\nRev. Dr. James Brownley, of Staten Island.\\nThe statement of this fact, coupled with a retro-\\nspective view of the growth and development of his\\nchurch up to the influential one of to-day, furnishes\\nits own commentary on the fidelity and ethciency of\\nDr. Duryea s labors. In a plain, modest, yet ener-\\ngetic and substantial manner; he has performed the\\ndual labors of both pastor and preacher, constantly\\npromoting the temporal and spiritual welfare of his\\nchurch, and working in harmony with its constituted\\nofficers. So long hsis he filled the pulpit of the Second\\nReformed Church that but few are left of those who\\nstrengthened his hands and imparted confidence to\\nhis soul in the earlier days of his ministry. One by\\none they have crossed the silent river and been laid\\nto rest with their fathers, yet he labors on, enjoying\\nthe respect and esteem of not only his own congrega-\\ntion but of the entire community.\\nDr. Duryea has confined his life-work almost en-\\ntirely to the care of his church, and has found but\\nlittle time to engage in outside matters or to contrib-\\nute many papers to the i)eri (lical literature of the\\nday. Several pamphlets, however, have been jtrinted\\ncontaining sermons and addresses delivered by him,\\nand still others have been printed in the local press\\nof the city. lie has taken a lively interest in the\\ngrowth and development of the institutions of I atcr-\\nson, and tor twenty years was one of the examiners\\nof teachers for the public .schools. He was also su-\\nperintendent of public schools of Manchester town-\\nship (North Paterson) for a number of years. He\\nhas l)een for years a member of the Board of Domes-\\ntic Missions of his denomination, and a member of\\nthe executive committee of that body, an l has en-\\njoyed a wide influence in the councils of the Re-\\nformed Church. It is likely that his entire ministe-\\nrial life will be pa.ssed in the field in which he has\\nbeen so long. Old in years, but strong in faith and\\ndevotion to the Master s cause, he maintains his place\\namong the active piLstors of Paterson, performing all\\nliis pastoral work in an energetic and elficicnt nuiii-\\nner. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity\\nfrom Rutgers College in 1871.\\nDr. Duryea has been three timea married. His\\nfirst wife, to whom he was united on Sept. .1, 18. ?7,\\nwas Sophia, daughter of Nial Townslcy. ol llloom-\\ningi urgli, who died five years later. His second\\nwife was Mrs. lCli/,abcth Thompson Wallace, of Craw-\\nford township. Orange Co., the marriage occurring\\nApril 10, 1844. The issue of this union was four\\nchildren, viz. John, Mary, Elizabeth, and Robert\\nI Duryea. The first two reside at home, the others\\ni having died in early life. Mrs. Duryea passed away\\non Feb. 21, 1852, and on Dec. 12, 1854, Dr. Duryea\\nmarried his present wife, nte Sarah Jane, daughter of\\nJohn and Sarah Hurhans, of Paterson.\\nIn November, 1804, fifty-five members of the First\\nReformed Church were at their request organized into\\na separate society by the Chissis of Paramus, and\\nhaving decided to build on Broadway, the new con-\\ngregation was called the Broadway Reformed\\nChurch. They worshiped for some time in Odd-\\nFellows Hall. Their first ])astor was the Rev. Wil-\\nliam W. Halloway, under whose ministry they grew\\napace, and in July, 1867, they erected their present\\nneat chapel near the northeast corner of Broadway\\nand Paterson Street, at a cost of about $8000. The\\nexj)ectation was that a fine church edifice would be\\nbuilt in a few years immediately adjoining the chajiel\\non the west, but unforeseen circumstances have so far\\nfrustrated the execution of this project. Mr. Hallo-\\nway was succeeded in May, 1872, by the Rev. W illiam\\nH. Clark, who soon became one of the best-known\\nand generally liked pastors in the city. His depart-\\nure in the summer of 1S81 for a field that promised\\ngreater results in the future was deeply regretted in\\nPaterson. The Rev. Nathaniel Hicks Van Arsdale\\nwas installed as his successor on Nov. 3, 1881. The\\nchurch has been quite successful. Its growth of late\\nhas been somewhat hampered by the location in its\\nimmediate neighborhood of the First Church. The\\nsociety has 237 members. The Sunday-school has 29\\nofficers and teachers and loO pupils.\\nIn 1856 a number of Hollanders thought their\\npeople sufficiently numerous in Paterson to support\\na church in which the rea(hing should be in their\\nown language, and at their request the Classis of\\nParamus organized them into a church. They held\\ntheir services in the consistory- room of the Second\\nChurch, the Rev. Jacobus de Roy serving as their\\npastor, by consent of Classis, although he was not\\nregularly ordained. In 18. 0-GO the congregation\\nbuilt the large brick church at the southeast corner\\nof River and Bridge Streets, and about the same time,\\nunder the persuasion of the jiastor, withdrew from\\nthe Reformed Dutch denomination, and, while pre-\\nserving an independent organization as the Holland\\nRefornu d (Jhurch, affiliated to some extent with the\\nTrue Reformed Dutch I hnrch, commonly called\\nthe Seceder hurch. Mr. De Roy returned to\\nHolland in 18t and was succeeded by the Rev. H.\\nBechtold, but in 1865 the officers closed the church to\\nhim, his views being too liberal for them, and they\\ncalled the Rev. W illiam Van Leenwen, who was suc-\\nceeded in 1875 by the Rev. Le iiniril Rietdyk. In\\n1.S81 tlicy placed themselves under the care of the\\nMichigan Holland Synod. Their building seats eight\\nhundred persons, but they have more than that num-\\nber of members, and contemplate enlarging their\\nhouse or forming a new church.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0862.jp2"}, "750": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n495\\nWhen the doors were closed to Dominie Bechtold,\\nabout one hundred members withdrew from the\\nchurch, and, applying to the Classis of Paramus, were\\norganized into the Second Holland Reformed Dutch\\nChurch, in October, 1860, meeting in Monumental\\nHall, No. 199 Main Street, until the summer of 1869.\\nThe Rev. A. K. Kasse was chosen pastor in 1868, and\\nserved some time. The organization was ultimately\\ndisbanded about 1878.\\nThe secession of Dominie De Roy and his flock\\nfrom the denomination which had first recognized him\\nand them led to the organization of another church by\\nthe dissatisfied members, and in 1862 they were or-\\nganized by Classis as the First Holland Reformed\\nDutch Church, calling the Rev. James Huyssoon as\\npastor, and in the following November a. isembling in\\ntheir own building in Clinton Street, the funds for\\nwhich had been collected mainly through tlie energetic\\nexertions of Mr. Huyssoon. In 1865 he accepted a\\ncall to Michigan, and during the ensuing year the\\ncongregation was torn by dissensions, ending in a\\ndivision those remaining called the Rev. P. B. Bah-\\nler, who remained until the spring of 1868, when they\\nrecalled the Rev. James Huyssoon, who lias since\\nlabored with them. The church lias about two hun-\\ndred members. In consequence of the dissensions\\nin 1866, many of the members, led by the Rev. J. M.\\nRutte, a student who was supplying the pulpit, got\\nthe Classis of Passaic to organize them into the\\nSixth Holland Reformed Dutch Church in the\\nspring of 1867, they holding service in the old Bap-\\ntist Church in Broadway, north side, between West\\nand Mulberry Streets. They subsequently built in\\nGodwin Street near Paterson, and called the Rev.\\nWm. Houbott, who was succeeded in 1879 by the\\npresent pastor, the Rev. H. R. Koopman. About\\nfive hundred members are enrolled. In 1880 the\\nUnion Holland Reformed Church was organized, and\\nthe society forthwith erected a neat frame edifice on\\nthe southwest corner of Auburn and Tyler Streets,\\nwith a parsonage adjoining, at a cost of about S5000.\\nThe pastor is the Rev. Helraus Elizaus Nies. The\\nchurch, young as it is, already musters something like\\nthree hundred members.\\nPresbyterian Churches. While there had been\\noccasional preaching by Presbyterian clergymen in\\nPaterson from a very early day in the history of the\\ntown, it was not until 1811 that steps were taken to\\nsecure regular services under the auspices of the\\ndenominational authorities. In the spring of 1812\\nsupplies were sent hither by Presbytery, and the\\nRev. Hooper Cumming, of the Second Presbyterian\\nChurch, Newark, occasionally visited Paterson. When\\nhe came here to preach one Sunday in June, 1812, he\\nwas accompanied by his young wife, then but .six\\nweeks a bride. On Monday morning he took her to\\nsee the Falls, and after viewing the wonder from\\nvarious points of view, they paused on the brink of\\nthe precipice that overlooks the basin below the Falls.\\nAfter gazing down the sheer wall for some moments\\nhe remarked that it was time to go, and turned away.\\nLooking back, as he stepped over a narrow cleft in\\nthe rocks, to his horror he observed that he was alone\\nHis wife had disappeared. She had fallen over the\\nprecipice ninety feet into the basin below. The town\\nwas alarmed, and the following day the body was re-\\ncovered and removed to Newark, where there was an\\nimmense concourse assembled at the funeral. Mr.\\nCumming never seemed to be the same man after\\nthat terrible event. Other supplies were sent hither\\nwith some regularity for two years. In August, 1813,\\nthe little band of Presbyterians felt themselves strong\\nenough to maintain a formal organization with a set-\\ntled minister, and accordingly met and formed a new\\nchurch. At this meeting vSamuel Colt, Brown King,\\nOshea Wilder, Alvan Wilcox, John R. Gould, David\\nAuchinvole, and John Colt were elected trustees.\\nEfforts were at once made to secure a subscription for\\nthe support of a pa.stor, and in June, 1814, the Rev.\\nSamuel Fisher, of Morristown, was installed pastor of\\nthe First Presbyterian Church of Paterson. The con-\\ngregation had been worshiping hitherto in the old\\nDutch Church at Totowa, but they now set about\\ngetting a house of their own. The Society for Es-\\ntablishing Useful Manufactures generously gave them\\nthe site now occupied, bounded by Main, Ward,\\nCross, and Oliver Streets, and on this handsome plot\\nthey erected a large and far from ornamental brick\\nstructure facing Oliver Street. It was one of the first\\nbrick buildings in the town, and consequently the\\nchurch came to be known, by way of distinction, as\\nthe Brick Church, an appellation which has always\\nclung to it, with the characteristic conservatism of\\nPaterson, although it has for many years lost its dis-\\ntinctiveness. The congregation was extremely for-\\ntunate in its first pastor. Dr. Fisher was a man of\\nremarkable energy, took a deep interest in affairs,\\nand was interested in everything that pertained to\\nthe welfare of the town. He was foremost in all\\npublic enterprises for the advancement of Paterson,\\nand being a man of ability, came to be regarded\\nhighly by all in the place. He even took the trouble\\nto make a thorough census of the town in 1824, again\\nin 1825, 1827, 1829, and in 1832, setting down the\\nnames of all the heads of families by streets, the\\nnumber of each sex in each family, their occupations,\\netc., with full statistics of the manufactures. His\\nmanuscript census for each of the years named is now\\nin the possession of the writer hereof, and they have\\nbeen frequently referred to for facts and figures given\\nin this sketch of Paterson. Under his ministrations\\nthe church grew exceedingly, and being the first in\\nPaterson, south of the river, and the first in which\\nthe services were held in English, it naturally came\\nto be emphatically the First Church in most respects.\\n1 Fuueral sermon on the death of Mrs. Cumming, 1812 Minutes of\\nthe Synod of Albany, N. Y., 1820.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0863.jp2"}, "751": {"fulltext": "496\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nStill, it was in a chronic state of impecuniosity, each\\nnew obligation being paid by giving a note, and\\nwhen the note came due a committee would be ap-\\npointed to devise ways and means of meeting it,\\nwhidi generally ended in giving another note.\\nIn 1834, Dr. Fisher felt con.-^trained, by reason of\\nfailing health, to resign his charge here, and con-\\ncluded to enter upon the work of an evangelist at the\\nRaniapo Iron-Works, and to the sore regret of the\\nchurch he left Paterson to engage in this new field of\\nlabor. The Rev. Sylvester Eaton, of IJuffalo, N. Y.,\\nwas called to the pul])it soon after, at a salary of 5-900\\nyearly. At this time there were 291 communicants\\nin the church. The society did not prosper, but ran\\ncontinually behind in every way, and in 1S36 had a\\ndebt of $i5000 to carry. At the end of the year Mr.\\nEaton resigned. The ne.xt pa.stor wa.s the Rev. John\\nF. Clark. During his mitiistry the Presbytery of\\nNewark withdrew from the Synod ol New Jersey, to\\njoin the New School body of the denomination this\\nchurch elected to cast its lot with the Old School\\nbody, and therefore withdrew from the Presbytery of\\nNewark and joined the Presbytery of Elizabeth, with\\nwhich it reiiiuincil until the reunion in 1869. In this\\naction the pitstor took an active part. One conse-\\nquence of the step was the withdrawal from the\\nchurch of a large and influential membership to form\\na new cliurch. The society was much weakened, anil\\nthe following winter voted to reduce the salary of the\\npastor to $800, which le l him to resign in the follow-\\ning May. The pulpit wiis subse iuently filled by the\\nRev. Matthew Allison, and by the former pastor, the\\nRev. Mr. Eaton. The health of the latter failing, the\\nRev. William H. Hornblower, then a young man of\\ntweiity-tlin C years, a licentiate of the Presbytery of\\nNew lirunswick. was engaged t i assist the |)astor, and\\ncame to Paterson in November, 1844, and the fol-\\nlowing month. Dr. Eaton having concluded that his\\nhealth would no longer justify him in officiating in\\nthe pulpit, Mr. Hornblower was unanimously elected\\npastor. Under his ministry the society at once took a\\nnew U lLse of life, and in a short time the entire ilebt\\nwas cancelled, a lecture-room was built on the church\\ngrounds, and steps were t^tken to repair and improve\\nthe church edifice. While a tinner was at work on\\nthe roof in the fall of October, IS-IO, his charcoal-\\nfurnace was upset, the roof caught fire, and in a short\\ntime the building was destroyed. The congregation\\nimmediately set about rebuilding, when the present\\nedifice was erected, and dedicated Nov. 10, 18. )2.\\nThere was preaching by the Rev. Nicholas Murray,\\nD.I)., of Elizabeth, at three l-.M., the Rev. Dr. Fisher\\nand the Rev. John F. Olark, former pastors, being\\npresent, and in the evening the Rev. Dr. David\\nMagie, of Elizabeth, preached from the text: A\\nlittle leaven Icaveneth the whole lump. Dr. Horn-\\nblower remained with the church, more and more\\nbeloved by his congregation and respected by the\\nwhole community, until the summer of 1S7I, when he\\nreceived a call from the Western Theological Sem-\\ninary at Allegheny City, Pa., to fill the newly-en-\\ndowed chair of Sacred Rhetoric, Pa.storal Theology,\\nand Church Government in that seminary. At his\\nurgent request, but with the utmost reluctance, the\\nsociety consented to the lissolution of the pastoral\\nrelation, and on Oct. 1,1871, Dr. Hornblower ])rcached\\nhis farewell. Before he left some of his people made\\nup a purse of more than $2000, which they presented\\nto him as a arting gift. He still occupies the chair\\nto which he went from Paterson.\\nThe congregation met on Jan. 4, 1872. and unani-\\nmously agreed to call to the vacant pulpit the Rev.\\nDr. David Magie, of Penn Yan, N. Y., the son of the\\neminent and venerable divine of the same name who\\nhad preached twenty years before at the dedication\\nof the rebuilt church. Dr. Magie has exercised a\\nmarked influence for good in the chnrch during the\\nten years of his ministry here, and particularly in the\\nway of stimulating the members to active work in\\nthe cause of religion. He has labored especially\\namong the poor, and largely through his ctiort.s a\\nmission school was established, which has grown\\nalmost into an independent church, while help has\\nbeen often extendcil to other needy congregations.\\nA debt of $7000 and more which had remained on\\nthe parsonage for many years has been removed\\nthrough the earnest efforts of the ladies of the\\nchurch, aided by generous members, and upwanls of\\nle!lll,(l(M( has been exi)cnded in the iniprovemrnt of\\nthe church edifice, the lecture-room, and the grounds.\\nThe annual income of the society is now about j4 Ml.\\nThere are 450 members of the church and .300 pupils\\nenrolled in the Sunday-school. The .Session coiisista\\nof the Rev. Dr. Magie, moderator, and Messrs. Abram\\n(iould, Henry Muzzy, Henry Williams, Andrew\\nDerrom, Francis Van Dyk, Samuel Mcllroy.\\nWhen the First Church cimcluded to ca.st its lot\\nwith the Old School body of the denomination, in\\n1840, twenty-seven of the members witlnlrew, and in\\nMay following were organized as the i^econd Pres-\\nbyterian Church of Paterson. They met in a Meth-\\nodist Church at the corner of Smith and Hotel\\nStreets, where they were ministered unto by the Rev.\\nElias I. Richards, of Newark, who remained two\\nyears, when he removed to Philadelphia, much to\\nthe regret r)f his congregation. Two years later he\\nwent to Reailing, Pa., where he died in 1H72. In\\nthe fall of 1841 the congregation bought for $17. 0\\nthe old Methiidi.st Church in Prospect Street, between\\nEllison and Van Houteei, where they worshiped for\\nfour or five years. Mr. Richards was succeeded by\\nthe Rev. (Jeorge R. H. Shumway, who remained only\\nabout a year, accepting a call to Newark, N. Y. .\\\\l\\nthis time tln atfairs of the society were in a very low\\nstate, and many of the members thought it inadvis-\\nable to struggle longer against what seemed to be\\ninsurmountable obstacles. Uut other counsels pre-\\nvailed, anil it was decided to call the Rev. Thomas", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0864.jp2"}, "752": {"fulltext": "CIT^ OF PATERSON.\\n497\\nH. Skinner, Jr., a recent graduate from the Union\\nTheological Seminary, his father being the pastor of\\nthe Mercer Street Presbyterian Church in New York.\\nAid was promised I rom the Home Missionary So-\\nciety, and the Mercer Street congregation were lib-\\neral towards the son of their pastor, raising $1500\\ntowards the erection of a new and better place of\\nworship, which was a small frame building on the\\nsite of the present church, at the southeast corner of\\nChurch and Ellison Streets. The new building was\\nopened for public service in November, 1845, the\\nProspect Street property liaving been sold a few\\nmonths previous to the Methodist Episcopal congre-\\ngation which now owns it. A few months after oc-\\ncupying the new house of worship the Rev. Mr. Skin-\\nner accepted a call to New York City. A month\\nlater the Rev. Michael F. Liebenau, of New Paltz,\\nN. Y., was called, who preached with favorable re-\\nsults for three or four years, the Rev. Stephen D.\\nWard succeeding him in 1850. With the ending of\\nthe year 1852 his ministry here ceased. The church\\nwas uow again weakened and somewhat discouraged,\\nand no pastor was secured for several months. The\\nRev. Robert W. Landis occupied the pulpit for\\nnearly three years, and while he was here a base-\\nment was fitted up under the church, in the spring\\nof 1855. Some months after his departure a call was\\nextended to the Rev. Ebenezer Cheever, of Bloom-\\nfield, who came in August, 1856, remaining for eight\\nyears, when he resigned on account of failing health.\\nHis ministry is remembered with great pleasure, and\\nduring his stay the society prospered greatly. In\\n1860 the building was greatly enlarged to accommo-\\ndate the growing congregation.\\nIn June, 18()2, the Rev. Charles D. Shaw, who had\\nbeen graduated but a short time before from the Union\\nTheological Seminary, was engaged to supply the\\npulpit, which he did until regularly called to the\\npastorate, in which he was installed in the ensuing\\nNovember. The salary was then but $800, but so\\ngreatly did the church prosper under him that within\\ntwo years the congregation voluntarily raised the\\nsalary to $1400. In 1863 a debt of .^TOO was paid, an\\norgan was bought at a cost of $1500; in 1865 the pres-\\nent parsonage was bought for $5500, and in 1867 the\\nbasement of the church was enlarged and much im-\\nproved. In August of the last-named year Mr. Shaw-\\naccepted a call to Wilmington, Del. He was suc-\\nceeded by the Rev. Isaiah B. Hopwood, from Park-\\nville, L. I., who conducted a very successful ministry\\nin Paterson until the summer of 1874. He was a\\npastor of much energy, great good nature, and was\\ngenerally esteemed. In 1869 the basement wa.s again\\nenlarged, and in 1873 the auditorium of the church\\nwas thoroughly overhauled and improved. Upon the\\ndeparture of Mr. Hopwood to a growing church in\\nNewark, the congregation extended a call to their\\nformer pastor, the Rev. Charles D. Shaw, who was\\ninstalled May 5, 1875. On Saturday night, March 18,\\n1876, the church caught fire from a defective flue, and\\nwas much damaged. Although it was by no means\\nruined and could have been restored at a cost of a\\nfew thoustmd dollars, the congregation by a very de-\\ncided vote concluded to replace the building with an\\nedifice which should be an ornament to the city and\\nan evidence of their zeal in the cause of religion.\\nThe corner-stone was laid Sept. 21, 1876, and the work\\nprosecuted with such vigor that by the following Feb-\\nruary the basement was ready for occupancy, and the\\nmain auditorium June 3, 1877. The building, of\\nbrick, is very striking and attractive; it is fifty by\\none hundred and three feet in size, and seats 720 per-\\nsons, the floor sloping upward from the platform, back\\nof which is a splendid organ. Soon after the church\\nwas completed a severe storm sent the steeple whirl-\\ning over against the residence of Mr. Edward Os-\\nborne, on the opposite side of Ellison Street, a re-\\nmarkable accident. The new building cost $30,000,\\nall of which was paid as the work progressed, except\\n$5000, which has been paid since. The members\\nnumber nearly 350, and the Sunday-school, under the\\nzealous superintendence of Mr. Watts Cooke, attained\\na membership of nearlj- 700. During the summer of\\n1881 the congregation with great cordiality gave their\\npastor a vacation that he might visit Europe, con-\\ntinuing his salary and supplying the pulpit mean-\\ntime. In his absence the degree of D.D. was con-\\nferred on him. His ministry has been remarkably\\nblessed in many ways, and there is a deep attachment\\nbetween pastor and congregation. The church has\\n370 members, and the Sunday-school 640, with an\\naverage attendance of 450. The Session is thus com-\\nprised Moderator, the Rev. Dr. Shaw Elders, Jona-\\nthan Johnson, David Stewart, John Johnson, W.\\nOakley Fayerweather, Daniel Miller.\\nAbout 1827 a number of Presbyterians from Scot-\\nland and the north of Ireland who were then living\\nin Paterson thought it would be well to organize a\\nchurch more in sympathy with the old-country Pres-\\nbyterianism than the First Church. They affiliated\\nwith the Reformed Presbyterian body, but were com-\\nmonly called Calvinists, or Scotch Covenanters. They\\ncalled the Rev. William J. Gibson to be their pastor,\\nand in 1828 built a small frame house of worship in\\nChurch Street, near Broadway. But they did not\\nagree among themselves, and in the course of five or\\nsix years were obliged tO relinquish their property\\nand to abandon their organization. They were very\\nstrict and exacting in all that pertained to creed and\\ndeed. Mr. Gibson taught school to eke out his\\nmeagre and uncertain salary as pastor.\\nIn 1852 a congregation was formed in connection\\nwith the Reformed Presbyterian denomination, and\\nhad preaching by supplies furnished by that body\\nuntil 1854; then the Rev. Robert Hill was called,\\n1 Most of the foregoiug information regarding the Second Presbyte-\\nrian Church is taken from the Manual of the church, principaUy\\ncompiled by the Rev. Dr. Shaw,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0865.jp2"}, "753": {"fulltext": "498\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUxNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nwho remained until I806, when trouble arose in the\\ncongregation, some of whom concluded to leave the\\nReforiiu d Presbyterian body and join the Associate\\nPresbyterian Church, which was done, and in ISo?\\nthey called the Rev. Hugh W. Todd, wlio labored\\nzealously with them until the summer of 1869, when\\nhe accepted a call elsewhere. Meantime the society\\noccupied a neat frame church at the corner of Smith\\nand Hotel Streets, and in 1858 had sold that property\\nand built a commodious brick edifice, one story high,\\non Smith Street, nearly opposite Union. The Rev.\\nR. D. Williamson came to the jiulpit in May, 1870,\\nand was succeeded two years later by the Rev. John\\nTeas, who remained until May, 1877. During his\\nministry the church grew exceedingly, and the con-\\ngregation felt encouraged to raise tlieir place of wor-\\nship another story and make other iniprovement.s, at\\na cost of about $10,00o, or more than the cost of the\\noriginal building. It is now forty-three by eighty\\nfeet, and seats six hundred persons. The Rev. Alex-\\nander Smith, who succeeded Mr. Teas in November,\\n1877, is the present pastor. The church has a mem-\\nbership of 120 in good standing, and a Sunday-school\\nunder the superintendence of J. G. Patton, having\\n120 scholars and 15 teachers. The elders are James\\nMoore, ordained in 1861, and William Brown and 1\\nJoseph Beggs, ordained in 1874 Trustees, J. G. Pat-\\nton, William Brown, William A. Arnold, Jolin Mul-\\nhoUand, and James Barr they are elected annually.\\nThe pastor is president of the board ix officio. In\\n1858 the union took place between the Associate and\\nthe Associate Presbyterian Churches, the two forming\\nthe United Pre-sbyterian denomination. May 1,\\n1881, the congregation had a debt of $6000, which\\nwas reduced during the year to $4500, and is to be\\nall paid by May, 1883, the whole of it having been\\npledged.\\nIn August, 1869, about ninety members of the\\nUnited Presbyterian Church withdrew and organ-\\nized the Third Pre-sbytcrian Church. They were al-\\nlowed to worship in the lecture-room iif the First\\nPresbyterian Church, and Hcv. David Winters, a\\nyoung man of much ])romise from Canada, preached\\nto them for a year or more, when he was formally\\ncalled to be their pastor. In the summer of 1871\\nthey set about providing a house of tlieir own, and\\nbought a site at the northwest corner of (irand and\\nPrince Streets, whereon they erected a handsome\\nframe edifice, which cost them twice as much iis it\\nought to have done, or in the neighborhood of $30,000,\\nincluding the site. This was far beyond the uieAns of\\na new church, mainly composed of jjcople who earned\\ntheir bread by daily hard work, and when the trying\\nfinancial pressure of 1873 came on, soon after the\\nchurch was completed, the heavy debt hampered\\nthem sorely. Mr. Winters had the faculty of attract-\\ning large congregations, and of making remarkable\\nadditions to the congregation, while he won many\\nwarm friends; but even these perceived when too\\nlate that he had not managed the building fund as\\nprudently as could have been desired. In 1874, Mr.\\nWinters accepted a call to Philadelphia, where he\\nstill preaches to a large church. At\\\\er a considerable\\ndelay he was succeeded by the Rev. John Reid, a\\nyoung preacher of much force, who remained for\\nabout two years. After another interval the i)ulpit\\nwas occupied by the Rev. James H. Clark. During\\nhis ]ia.storate the aflairs of the church came to a crisis,\\nand the property was sold under foreclosure, being\\nbought in by the Presbyterian Board of Church Ex-\\ntension, with the aid of generous friends in Paterson.\\nMr. Clark remained for a year or two, when he Wiis\\nsucceeded by the Rev. Joshua B. Galloway, in 1880,\\nunder whose energetic ministry its condition has\\ngreatly im])roved. The general prosperity of the city\\nhas had something to do with this, and the removal\\nof the heavy load of debt under which the congrega-\\ntion formerly staggered. There are 40 members, and\\n250 pupils enrolled in the Sunday-school.\\nAbout 1875 the Lake View Baptist Church was\\nsold to the Presbyterians of that place, who formed\\nthe Fourth Presbyterian Church of Paterson. The\\npopulation of the neighborhood has been scant, and\\nthe society has not grown. The Rev. George C. Megie\\nI was pastor for a short time and died there. The Rev.\\nJames H. Clark hsis been preaching for them for the\\npiist year or two. The membership numbers about\\n25, with 80 children enrolled in the Sunday-school.\\nThe Westminster Chapel, which is situated on the\\ncorner of Spring and Weiss Streets, originated in a\\nSunday-school which held its first session Sept. 21,\\n1873, in the basement of the house 568 Main Street,\\nwith 50 children in attendance. Mr. John Ramage\\nwas superintendent. On the th of October the first\\nprayer-meeting was held. On Sunday. November\\ni)th, the attendance of scholars was 132, which\\ncrowded the room so that no teaching could be done.\\nThe next week two lots were purchased on Si)ring\\nStreet, and the week following a building was begun,\\nand the first session of the Sunday-school was held\\nin it on Christnuis morning, 1873. The first jirayer-\\nmeeting was held here on Jan. 8, 1874. An en-\\nlargement became necessary during the following\\nyear, and in 1876 the addition to the building was\\ncompleted. The second addition, which brought the\\nchapel to its present proportions, was finished Jan.\\n2(t, ISSO.\\nDuring the year 1874 jjreaching services were held\\nupon the Sabbath at irregular intervals, the Rev.\\nDavid Magic, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian\\nChurch, and others otficiating. On Dec. 18, 1874,\\nthe Rev. W. H. Mcgie wa.s engaged to work among\\nthe people, which he did for six months, when regular\\n|)reaching services were iliscontiinied. In May, 1876,\\nMr. Willard Scott, then a student in Union Theo-\\nlogical Seminary, was engaged, and he remained until\\nMay 31, 1877. The interval between Mr. Scott s res-\\nignation and the Rev. J.C. WyckolPs term of service,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0866.jp2"}, "754": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n499\\nwhich began June 7, 1878, was filled by Dr. Magie\\nand the Rev. Mr. Woodbridge, of Princeton Theo-\\nlogical Seminary, who died shortly after coming to\\nPaterson. The Rev. J. C. Wyckoff resigned in June,\\n1880.\\nMr. L. L. Overman, of Princeton Seminary,\\npreached during the summer vacation, wlien Dr.\\nMagie again preached once upon the Sabbath at the\\nchapel until Feb. 1, 1881, when the Rev. Laurens T.\\nShuler was called. Since March, 1881, two services\\nupon the Sabbath have been sustained in addition to\\nthe Sabbath-school and the weekly day meetings. In\\nJune, 1881, a provisional organization was effected, by\\nwhich the Session of the chapel consists of the elders\\nof the First Presbyterian Church and the pastor of\\nthe chapel. Since that time communion services\\nhave been observed every three months. The num-\\nber of communicants at the close of 1881 was 37\\nthe number on the Sabbath-school roll, 380.\\nIn June, 1880, some of the residents of the East\\nSide met at the house of Mr. George J. Coulsen, on\\nVreeland Avenue, to talk over the feasibility of hav-\\ning Sunday-school and weekly religious services in\\ntheir own vicinity. It was concluded to hold weekly\\nprayer-meetings from house to house in the neighbor-\\nhood, and to proceed at once with the erection of a\\nchapel. They bought six lots at the northwest corner\\nof Willis and East Twenty-ninth Street, and had\\nerected on two of the lots on East Twenty-ninth\\nStreet one of the most charming little church edifices\\nin Paterson. It is about thirty-six by eighty feet in\\narea, with an outside tower and vestibule at the south-\\neast corner. The side walls are low, and the roof\\nrises very steeply. The windows are richly stained\\nglass. The interior is beautifully and richly furnished\\nwith semi-circular seats of black walnut, which have a\\ncosy appearance. The cost of the chapel was about\\n$6000, and is all paid for. The site cost $3000, which\\nwas assumed by Messrs. Watts Cooke and George\\nCoulsen and one or two others. The weekly meet-\\nings were largely attended as soon as the chapel was\\nthrown open for use, which was on the second Sun-\\nday in January, 1881, when a Sunday-school was or-\\nganized, with Watts Cooke as superintendent. Start-\\ning with about 70 pupils, in February, 1882, the roll\\nhad been swelled to 150, with an average attendance\\nfor the first year of 110. The weekly meetings are\\nconducted by Mr. Coulsen, who is president of the\\nEast Side Presbyterian Association. It is believed\\nthat this is the nucleus of a flourishing church to be\\norganized at no distant day.\\nThe German Presbyterians of Paterson used to\\nhold religious services many years ago, in what was\\nformerly Military and is now Druid Hall, at the -south-\\neast corner of Cross and Ellison Streets. There they\\nhad preaching more or less regularly for several\\nyears, until in 1848 they organized the First Ger-\\nman Presbyterian Church of Paterson. The first\\npastor w.is named Lichtenstein. The church met in\\nthe infant-school in Elm Street until 1852, when it\\nwas proposed to build on Bridge Street, but other\\ncounsels prevailed, and it was determined to erect a\\nbrick edifice on the site of the old school, to which\\nthey were given title by the First Presliyterian\\nChurch and the Society for Establishing Useful Man-\\nufactures. While the building was going up they\\nheld their services in the church then standing on\\nthe corner of Smith and Hotel Streets. The new\\nchurch was a small aftair, and about 1860 was\\ngreatly enlarged to its present size. Mr. Lichten-\\nstein was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Rosenthal, who\\nserved the people for about eight years. The next\\npastor was the Rev. Edward M. Weiss, who began\\npreaching for them in 1858, and was called in 1859.\\nHe resigned in 1866-66, and soon after the Rev.\\nJacob Wahrenberger was called. He stayed here\\nuntil his death, about 1878, which was very sudden.\\nThe Rev. P. A. Schwarz succeeded him. There are\\nabout 150 members of the church, and 170 children\\nin the Sunday-school.\\nAbout 1857 a second German Presbyterian Church\\nwas formed, the Rev. G. C. Goehring, pastor. The\\nsociety met for a year or two in the consistory-room\\nof the First Reformed Church, at the southeast cor-\\nner of Main and Ellison Streets, and then bought\\nthe old Baptist Church property on Broadway, where\\nthey still worship. Mr. Goehring remained for ten\\nyears, and has been succeeded by Carl Berns for\\nthree years; Charles Steinhauer, from about 1870 to\\n1873; Jacob Heberle until 1S75, who was succeeded\\nby August C. Stange, and he in turn by Frederick\\nE. Vogelin. The church has about 100 members,\\nand the Sunday-school 120 pupils.\\nIn this connection, though not directly connected,\\nit might be noted that about 1866-67 a German\\nEvangelical Lutheran Church was formed. They met\\nfor a time in Derrom s Hall, in West Street, then\\nin Van Houten Street, until in 1870 they erected\\na very neat little house of worship in Van Houten\\nStreet, south side, near Prospect. The congregation\\nis called St. Paul s Evangelical Lutheran. Heinrich\\nWalker was the pastor until 1 S74, when Alexander\\nBroemmer was called. The present pastor is the\\nRev. Hermann Stecholz.\\nMethodist Episcopal Churches. Within the\\nfirst two or three years of the present century occa-\\nsional circuit-riders of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch would stop at Paterson and give a brief ex-\\nhortation whenever there was an opportunity. About\\n1804-5 they began to hold services with something\\nlike regularity in the old Essex Mill, in Mill Street,\\nnear Van Houten. About 1812 they removed to an\\nold carpenter-shop of John Clark, on Broadway, near\\nMulberry Street, which they occupied for some years.\\nSubsequently services were held in the old academy,\\nin a building in Van Houten Street, and at the corner\\nof Main Street and Broadway. About 1817 Paterson\\nwas established as a station where regular preaching", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0867.jp2"}, "755": {"fulltext": "500\\nmSTOHY OF BEKGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nshould be held by the circuit-rider. This encouraged\\nthe little stru{;gliug band of Methodists, and they set\\nabout securing a place of worship that they could call\\ntheir own. Three years later they accomplished this\\nand built a very niode. t little frame structure in Pros-\\npect Street, east side, between Ellison and Van Houten\\nStreets. They were still too poor to support a sta-\\ntioned preacher, and were obliged to continue to rely\\non the circuit-riders or some local preacher, the latter\\nbeing a dependence that turned out badly for the\\nchurch, at leiist in one instance. In 1825 the Confer-\\nence assigned a regular preacher here for the first time,\\nin the person of the Rev. John Creamer. He was\\nwell liked, and worked earnestly and as arduously as\\nhis strength would permit, but the congregation profited\\nby his labors less than a year, as he died in May,\\n1826. His widow married Deacon Horatio Moses,\\nwho figured for many years as one of the most promi-\\nnent characters of Paterson in many respects. The\\nsign of the brass kettle, which is still to be seen in Van\\nHouten Street, just around the corner from the\\nchurch of which he was such an active member for\\nmany years, continues to be a reminder to the older\\ncitizens of the business which Deacon Moses carried\\non in that location. In those early days the itinerant\\nsystem was in full operation in the Methodist Churches,\\nand every year a new reacher was allotted to Pater-\\nson. The church was poor and could not pay much\\nsalary, and indeed the clergymen of that denomina-\\ntion did not exj)ect, as a general thing, to receive any-\\nwhere more than the barest subsistence, and often iiad\\na hard time to get that. They were e-xpected to have\\na profound faith in Providence, and frequently that\\nwas all they had to live on. To enable the pastor to\\nearn .something more than the poor pittance they were\\nable to pay him, the congregation built a small house\\nadjoining the church, with living rooms in front and\\na large room in the back, which they designed for a\\ndwelling and school-room for the pastor, and this\\nbuilding was dignified with the name of the Meth-\\nodist Academy. Despite many difficulties which we\\nof the present day can hardly appreciate, and in fact\\nencouraged by those very dilRculties, wliicli they re-\\ngarded as so many incentives to adilitional labor, the\\nsociety steadily grew, inspired with an unflagging\\nzeal, and in 183(! decided to eregt a new building for\\nthe accommodation of the members in a more prom-\\nising and convenient location for all concerneil. That\\npart of the city in the neighborhood of Mill and\\nMarket Streets had recently been ileveloping ra| idly,\\nand it was therefore decided to locate at the northwest\\ncorner of Cross and Elm Street*. A plot seventy-\\nfive feet square wan bought for $.3000, and the erection\\nof the new house of worship prosecuted with such\\nenergy that by the following May, lM;t7, the ba-scment\\nwas ready for occupancy, and the congregation began\\nto hold services therein. The room was also rented\\nto the county for the holding of the county courto,\\nwhereby the revenue of the society was increased by\\nthe munificent sum of $60 per year, an addition that\\nwas highly acceptable at the time. In October the\\nchurch was dedicated, and the congregation imme-\\ndiately almost doubled.\\nMi untime, in 1820, the society bad become incor-\\nporated under the laws of the State, William Jacobs,\\nJoseph Law, and David Martin being the first trus-\\ntees. A Sunday-school had been organized within a\\nfew years after the erection of the first church, and\\nin 1827 there were 150 .scholars enrolled, with an at-\\ntendance of about 115. Some of the early records\\nof the Sunday-school now in the )iossession of the\\nwriter are extremely interesting from the quaint\\nsimplicity of the entries of the evidently anxious and\\nzealous superintendents, while they might also be\\nvaluable to the meteorologist, as each entry notes the\\nstate of the weather at every session of the school,\\nwhich, by the way, met morning and afternoon, a cus-\\ntom that was kept up till as late as 1850. About\\n1840-41 there was a great revival in the church in\\nCross Street, which perhai s doubled its membership,\\nand created a profound sensation throughout the whole\\ntown for a long time. It is still remembered by the\\nolder members as one of the most remarkable visita-\\ntions the church has ever experienced, and they have\\nbeen many. As the congregation increased it became\\ntoo large for the old house to hold them all, and from\\ntime to time new churches were organized, so that\\nold Cross Street came to be spoken of as The Hee-\\nIlive of Methodism in Paterson. t\u00c2\u00abtill, a large num-\\nber stood by the old clitirch, notwitlistamling its loca-\\ntion had long ceiised to lie as attractive lus when it was\\nfirst erected.\\nAlthough there had been for years a party in the\\ncongregation which favored a removal to a more de-\\nsirable neighborhood, it wtis not until the ministry\\nof the Kev. Daniel Iv. Lowrie that this movement\\ntook a definiU. shape. He pushed it vigorously, and\\nsecured large subscriptions towards the erection of a\\nnew edifice on Smith Street, south side, between Main\\nand Maitland Streets. Here a plot was purchased,\\nand the cellar walls built for a building which would\\nhave cost not far from ?^0,000. Hut by the time\\nthe work had progressed thus far the movement\\nlost strength, ,Mr. Lowrie was transferred to another\\nstation, the .society found itself heavily in debt, and\\nsoon after the panic of 1873 occurred, and the project\\nof abamloning the old church, alioiit which cmwded\\nso numy rich a.ssociations, was definitely given yp.\\nIt was some years ere the society recovered from the\\nsacrifices this unsuccessful scheme had necessitated.\\nI Since that time, however, the church has been con-\\nsiderably renovated, tin- pulpit recess has been en-\\nlarged, a hand.Home organ hiLs been put in, and in\\nother respects the society has shown that Cross Street,\\ntlxiugh the oldest, is by no means the lea-st vigorous\\nof the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Paterson.\\nAmong the recent pastors have been Isaac N. Felch,\\nC. A. Lippincott, David Graves, R. B. Lockwood, D.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0868.jp2"}, "756": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n501\\nR. Lowrie, George F. Dickinson, Jonathan F. Crane,\\nD.D., Alexander Craig, and J. I. Boswell.\\nIn 1844 a number of members of the First Church\\nthought it was about time there was another Metho-\\ndist Church in aterson, and tliey organized the\\nSecond Methodist Church. The old church prop-\\nerty in Prospect Street, which meantime had been\\noccupied by the Second Presbyterian Church, was\\nrented for a while, and then bought in 1845 for $1700,\\nthough not paid for until some years later. There\\nwere eight members in the new society. Their first\\npastor was the Rev. Lewis T. Maps, who came hither\\nin the spring of 1845, being then but twenty-five\\nyears of age. He was a young man of much bril-\\nliancy of mind, close habits of study, and faithful-\\nness in all departments of his work. There was an\\ninteresting revival during his ministry, in the course\\nof which he preached seventy sermons in ten weeks.\\nHe died in July, 1846, just when his people s hopes\\nwere raised highest in regard to their prospective\\nprosperity under him. The little band grew ra)iidly,\\nand in the course of five years felt able to build\\na new, larger, and finer place of worship. The\\nresult was the erection (in 1851 1 of the present brick\\nedifice with its extensions in the rear, used for Sun-\\nday-school, lecture-room, and class meeting-rooms.\\nIt was then the largest building in the city devoted\\nto religious purposes, and was a remarkable under-\\ntaking for so young a society. But there were many\\nzealous men in the congregation, and they spared\\nneither time nor effort nor means to promote the\\nsuccess of the cause they had .so much at heart. Re-\\nvival after revival was inaugurated and prosecuted\\nwith zealous vigor, until the new society bade fair to\\noutstrip the old in size. But the large and costly\\nbuilding was a heav} load on the congregation, and\\nwhen seasons of financial depression came they had\\na hard struggle to save their property. Through it\\nall stood together, and when good times came they\\nrejoiced in company even as they had suffered. Some\\nthought the old church did not assist its young off-\\nspring as generously as it might have done, but the\\nvery sacrifices the members had to make knit them\\ntogether all the more strongly, and to-day there exists\\nthe warmest kind of feeling among those who for so\\nmany years labored like members of one family in\\nthe old Prospect Street Church, even though their\\nfootsteps for many years have been turned in other\\ndirections. The church building h;is been altered\\nand improved from time to time, the latest work of\\nthis character being effected in the fall of 1881, when\\nthe house was repainted throughout, the windows of\\ndark stained-glass replaced by lighter ground-glass,\\ntwo new heaters put in, and other improvements made\\nat a cost of about $1000, greatly enhancing the at-\\ntractiveness of the interior. Prof Henry A. Buttz,\\nnow president of Drew Theological Seminarj was\\none of the ablest and most beloved of the pastors\\nwho have been stationed at Prospect Street Church.\\nOther pastors were Thomas H. Smith, John O. Win-\\nner, Ralph S. Arnat, George B. Day, R. Vanhorne,\\nH. D. Opdyke, T. E. Gordon, J. S. Gilbert, T. Wal-\\nters, S. N. Bebout.\\nIn 1859 a new Methodi.st Church was organized,\\nchiefly from the members of the Cross Street society,\\nalthough some of the Second Church also joined in the\\nmovement. .The new congregation worshiped for a\\nwhile in Continental Hall, then the principal hall in\\nthe town. But they lost no time in preparing for the\\nerection of a suitable house of their own, and this re-\\nsulted in the building of the Market Street Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church, which when finished was one of\\nthe most pretentious church edifices in Paterson.\\nServices were held for several months in the base-\\nment, the society being unable to complete the build-\\ning as soon as they would have desired. The church\\nwas dedicated in April, 1861, at a time when the\\nwhole country was in a state of profound excitement\\nover the attack on Fort Sumter. The Rev. George\\nW. Batchelder, a young man of but twenty-five years,\\nwho had been just assigned to New Brunswick,\\npreached the dedication sermon, which was an ex-\\nceedingly eloquent production. The first pastor was\\nthe Rev. William Tunison, who preached in Conti-\\nnental Hall, and afterwards in the new edifice; he\\nw-as just the man to push along the building enter-\\nprise. He was succeeded by the Rev. J. K. Burr, one\\nof the best-known clergymen in the Newark Confer-\\nence. The subsequent pastors were James A. Free-\\nman, C. S. Van Cleve, J. L. Hurlbut, Lewis R. Dunn,\\nWilliam Nelson Searles, James A. Monroe, Jonathan\\nH. Daly, appointed in April, 1881. For many years\\nafter the church was built it remained without a\\nbelfry or steeple, presenting a squatty appearance from\\nthe street. In 1871 the congregation set about im-\\nproving the building in this respect, and raised a\\nlarge subscription for the purpose, when the present\\nelegant and graceful spire, designed by E. J. M. Der-\\nrick, was placed upon the church. The cost was\\nabout $4000. No bell has been provided yet.\\nIn 1873 another large sum was raised, wherewith\\nthey purchased the handsome parsonage in Ward\\nStreet, which is surpassed by none in the city among\\nthe Protestant Churches. The church has made steady\\nprogress, and is now regarded as the wealthiest in the\\nMethodist denomination in Paterson, as it is one of\\nthe largest and healthiest.\\nIn 1866 the Paterson Land Improvement Company,\\nwhich owned large tracts of land in Totowa, offered\\na plot for the erection of a Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch at the southwest corner of Totowa and Pat-\\nerson Avenues. The Methodist residents in Totowa\\norganized a new society, which took the name Pat-\\nerson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and\\nConference assigned the Rev. I. W. Cole to the pas-\\ntorate. He was an earnest worker, and under his min-\\nistry the little congregation grew to respectable pro-\\nportions. They erected a modest frame building on the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0869.jp2"}, "757": {"fulltext": "502\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nplot named, and their house was literally founded\\non a rock. They worshiped in the upper story,\\nwhich was reached by a long and disagreeable Hight\\nof steps, extending in part over a huge projection of\\ntrap. In 1878 they excavate l in the rock and built\\na fine basement, wherein their Sunday-school meets\\nand week -night services are held. A convenient par-\\nsonage was also erected, and now the church is one of\\nthe completest in all its appointments of any of the\\nMethodist Churches in l ater.son. The society is es-\\ntablished ou a firm basis, and has every prospect of\\nlong continuing i)rosperity. The pa.\u00c2\u00abtors have been\\nI. W. Cole, S. D. Jones, W. H. Dickerson, Albert H.\\nBrown, John L. Hays, John Gutteridge.\\nThe growth of Methodism continued apace in Pat-\\nerson, and stimulated by the success of the other col-\\nonies whicli had swarmed out of the old Bee-hive,\\nin 1870 another swarming took |)lace, this time from\\nall three of the churches on the south side of the\\nriver. The new society took the name Grace Jleth-\\nodist Episcopal Church, and speedily set about pro-\\nviding themselves with a neat little frame building\\non High Street, their lot extending to Water Street,\\nthe intention being to erect a costly permanent struc-\\nture on the Water Street front of the lot when their\\nmeans should justify that step. Almost before they\\nwere well settled in their new quarters the society\\ngrew so rapidly that an enlargement of the building\\nbecame an immediate necessity, and the mortar was\\nscarcely lry on the walls of the addition ere an ex-\\ntension had to be put on. So within six or eight\\nyears the church was nearly quadrupled in size, and\\nthe congregation had grown to something like 400\\nmembers, while the Sunday-school was still larger.\\nThe congregation had only got fairly settled down in\\ntheir completed church, as it were, when the entire\\nbuilding wius set on fire one night in .May, 1880, and\\nwithin an hour was merely a heap of smouldering\\nruins. Coming as it did while the people of the\\ncountry were still sufl ering from the ellects of the\\npanic of 1873, this wa.s a severe disaster, but the con-\\ngregation lost no time in erecting another building\\non the old site. Thev have not lost heart by their\\nmisfortune, but are patiently biding the time when\\nthey shall be able to carry into execution their origi-\\nnal plan of erecting one of the finest churches in the\\ncity. Grace worketh patience. Pastors, James\\nN. Fitzgerald, C. S. Coit, Robert Harcourt, S. B.\\nRooney, J. A. Hammond.\\nIn 187. Jorl874 a number of the colored .Methodistti\\nof the city organized the Sixth Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, and hired Monumental Hall, No. 2!). Main\\nStreet, for their place of worMhi| William Holland\\nwan appointed to preach for them. The Rev. S. W.\\nDecker supplied the pulpit for three years, anil then\\nthe name of the church was changed to St. Philip s\\nMetho Iist Episcopal Church. The Rev. William (J.\\nWiggins has supplie l the pulpit since.\\nA Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was organ-\\nized in Paterson as early as 1845, and for some years\\nworshiped in a school-house adjoining the Prospect\\nStreet Church. They then built a church on Godwin\\nStreet, north side, near Bridge, where they still wor-\\nship, under the name of the Zion Methodist Episco-\\npal Church, affiliating with the Zion .Methodist Epis-\\ncopal connection. Some of the pastors in the last\\ntwenty-five years have been Peter Lee, Moses Man-\\nning, John Taylor, John Robinson, Samuel J. Bern,-,\\nJaseph P. Thompson, .John H. Hector.\\nAnother Colored Clnirch was formed about 1865,\\nwhich for some years held services in the public\\nschool-house in Clinton Street, at the base of the hill.\\nIn 1874 the society built a neat little frame church on\\nNorth First Street, about forty by fiflj- feet in size,\\nand have worshiped there since. The pastors have\\nbeen Albert J. Dudley, tiabriel Rice, Henry Mat-\\nthews, Walter Thompson, James T. Rex, Tur-\\nner, R. H. Coleman, .Vnthony G. Lane, William H.\\nRogers. The church has 27 members, and about UK)\\nattendants. It belongs to the African Methodist\\nEpiscopal connection.\\nThe first statistics oHicially published of Methodism\\nin Paterson were reported to the Philadelphia Con-\\nference in 1821), that Conference embracing New Jer-\\nsey, Delaware, and part of Pennsylvania. In that\\nyear Paterson reported 185 members. The statistics\\nfor 1881 were as follows: Cross Street, 417 members,\\n(134 pupils in Sunday-school Prospect Street, 1()9\\nmembers, 220 iiui ils Market Street, 488 members,\\n870 pupils, including Embury Mission, 142 Beech\\nStreet; Paterson Avenue, 144 members, 210 pupils;\\ntirace, 446 members, 750 pupils; St. Philip s, 18\\nmembers, 30 pupils. Total membership, 1682, to whom\\nshould be adde l about 200 joined during the year.\\nTotal pupils, 2714.\\nRomas C.\\\\tiioi,ic 1 iiir(He.s. Many of the first\\nemployfe in the Paterson mills were Irishmen be-\\nlonging to the Catholic Church. They were obliged\\nto travel all the way to New York to confession or\\nto see a priest, and this they di l fur years. Occasion-\\nally a priest passing through the ^tate would stop in\\nPaterson and give the people instruction. About 1805\\nor 1807 the Catholics took steps to secure regular\\nministrations, and a room was fitted up in a dwelling-\\nhouse on Broadway, near Mulberry Street, as a chapel,\\nwith the proper ap|)iirtenances, and thereat^er ser-\\nvices were held in this room with tolerable regularity.\\nFather Langton was among the first priests who used\\nthis modest chapel. The room was large enough to\\naccommodate all who desired to attend for several\\nyears. .\\\\bout 1820, the Rev. Richard Bulger being\\npriest, the congregation began to grow too large for\\nthe limited |uarters, and a movement was made to-\\nwards securing a more spacious and permanetit place\\nof worship. At this juncture the Society for Estab-\\n1 GommiinlcttteO to tlia wriUr by tha Ul\u00c2\u00ab Darn*/ HcNamM ati l\\nolhoni; iNst alwi flUtorjr of the C\u00c2\u00abthoUc Church In Now York, bjr tin.\\nUl Ancliblihop Daxlojr, p. DT.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0870.jp2"}, "758": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n503\\nlishing Useful Manufactures came forward and offered\\nto give the congregation a plot of land at the south-\\nwest corner of Congress now Market Street and\\nMill Street, for the purpose of erecting, maintain-\\ning, and keeping a building or house for the public\\nworship of God. This was in 1821. The gift of the\\nsociety was gratefully accepted, and subscriptions\\nwere raised for the building of the new chapel. A\\nvery small house was built, scarcely more than\\ntwenty-five by thirty feet in size, one story high. It\\nprobably cost barely more than $1000. In 1822 the\\ntrustees were incorporated as The Catholic Chapel\\nof St. John. Having once a settled habitation and\\na name among religious bodies, the Catholic congre-\\ngation of Paterson rapidly increased, so that the little\\nchapel had to be enlarged, and in the course of twelve\\nyears they felt themselves strong enough to move into\\na more aristocratic part of the town and to erect a\\nmuch larger church of stone. In 1833 they bought a\\nlarge plot of land in Oliver Street, opposite Cross\\nStreet, and soon after set about building a house of\\nworship that should eclipse anything of the kind in\\nPaterson. There had been a project on foot to enlarge\\nthe old chapel on Market Street, but finally it was\\ndecided to sell the old property and build a fine house\\non the new site. It seemed a mighty undertaking\\nfor the small and very poor congregation, but, nothing\\ndaunted by its magnitude, they set about it with a\\nright good will tliat stopped at nothing. The foun-\\ndation was laid for a church to be fifty feet front and\\ntwice that in depth, all of stone, and of suitable\\nheight for the other proportions. The old chapel\\nwas sold for iSl()2o, and this was about the only cash\\ncapital wherewith to begin the erection of the im-\\nmense new church. By the time the foundation was\\nlaid the funds gave out, and more moderate counsels\\nprevailed. It was then decided to erect only the\\nfront half of the projected building, and this was\\ndone. James Galbraith being the mason. Father\\nDuffy was the priest in charge at the time. He was\\nsucceeded in 1837 by the Rev. Father O Reilly, from\\nWest Point, who was a large stout man of command-\\ning presence, of an extremely sociable character, so\\nthat he did much to popularize a church that had to\\nencounter a hostile prejudice on the part of the first\\nsettlers. Innumerable stories are told to this day\\nabout Father O Reilly, his acts, his sayings, his ver-\\nsatile accomplishments, and his genial qualities. In\\n1847 the rear half of the building was completed upon\\nthe foundation as originally laid, and a gallery put\\naround the inside, when the church had a seating\\ncapacity of 1300. It is said that the whole building\\ncost little, if anything, more than $15,000. The\\nfront was surmounted by a neat spire covered with\\nshingles, painted yellow, so that often when the rays\\nof the setting sun shone upon the steeple they seemed\\nThe details of the erection of the church in Oliver Street were kindly\\nfornisbed to the writer by Charles O Neill.\\nto bathe it in a glow of golden light that was won-\\ndrously beautiful.\\nVarious clergymen succeeded Father O Reilly\\nFather Quinn, Father D. Senez, whose assistant in\\n1857-59 was Father G. McMahon Father Victor\\nBeaudeven, in 1860, his assistant being Father J.\\nSchandel. Father Beaudeven was followed (in Oc-\\ntober, 1863) by the Rev. William McNulty, who has\\n(?Poi^-c^c6L,\\nremained longer than any of his predecessors. Under\\nhis supervision the church has grown with unex-\\nampled rapidity and branched out until instead of a\\nsingle congregation there are now in Paterson five of\\nthis denomination, all growing and prospering. He\\nhas been from the first an earnest and unflinching\\nenemy to intemperance in every form, and by his firm\\nstand and energetic measures to check that evil has\\ndone incalculable good in Paterson. At an early\\nstage in his pastorate here he conceived the idea of\\nbuilding a new church, the old one being too small\\nand inconvenient for the proper accommodation of\\nthe constantly-growing congregation. In this, as in\\nevery other work which he undertook, his people were\\nwith him. In 1864 a site was bought at the northeast\\ncorner of Main and Grand Streets, at a cost of !?1 0,000,\\nwhich was paid within two months, and designs were\\nsecured from a competent New York architect, P. C.\\nKeely, for an edifice which at that time was unequaled\\nin New Jersey. Willing volunteers were found in\\nthe congregation to do the excavation stone was con-\\ntributed freely, and in September, 1865, the founda-\\ntion was completed, and the corner-stone was laid\\nwith solemn pomp by Archbishop Bayley, of Newark.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0871.jp2"}, "759": {"fulltext": "504\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThen the work of erecting the walls was begun. The\\npeople stinted themselves to contribute liberally to-\\nwards the building, and monthly collections for that\\npurpose were taken up, often amounting to upwards\\nof 10,000. Slowly but steadily the structure grew\\ninto shape, until at last it was inclosed, and then for\\nanother year or two the artisans were engaged on the\\ninterior before it was ready for dedication. That im-\\nposing ceremony was celebrated in 1870, by Arch-\\nbishop Wood, of Philadelphia, the bishop of the\\ndiocese being in Europe at the time. The building\\nis in the Gothic style; it is eighty-eight feet front by\\none hundred and eighty-eight feet dee|); twin turrets\\nrise on each side of the front to the height of the\\npeak, ninety feet, but are to be carried thirty feet\\nhigher; on the Grand Street side there is a square\\ntower, about one hundred feet high at present; it is\\nto be adorned with a spire rising to the lieight of two\\nhundred and twenty-five feet from the ground. The\\nluuin entrance is on Main Street, througli a fine door-\\nway, the arch of which is about thirty feet high. The\\nroof is supported on the interior by graceful trefoil\\nstone columns, sixty feet high, from which spring\\nstout arches of wood painted to resemble stone. The\\nceilings and walls are decorated in the niedia-val style\\nby two cclebrate l artists from Munich, Messrs. Lang\\nand Kirkeln. Symbolic paintings on the side walls\\ndepict the twelve Stations, upon a background of\\ngold flecked with blue. The windows are of stained-\\nglass, each contributed by some member of the con-\\ngregation. The stone was brought from Little Falls\\nby canal and road, and dressed upon the grounrl as\\nrc(|uired. The Rev. Father McNulty was indefati-\\ngable in his devotion to the supervision of the erec-\\ntion, which was done mostly by day s work, and he\\nwas jissisted in this by Charles O Neill, Robert Hamil,\\nWilliam G. Wat.son, and some others, who acted as an\\nadvisory building committee. The cutting of the fine\\nwork the doors, windows, columns, corbals, etc.\\ncost more than $25,000. The slate for the roof was\\nimported from England. The interior decorations\\ncost $70 Mt the organ, one of the largest in the Slate,\\n$10,il(t(l; the main altar, also in the Gothic style, and\\ndesigned by the architect of the church, $2(M)(i; the\\nwindows, all gifts, ils before stated, $8000. The work\\nprogressed through fourteen years, so that it is diffi-\\ncult to give the exact cost of the entire building, but\\nit has been usually placcil at about $2fMt,0(MI. Sev-\\neral years ago a handsome stone parsonage wiuh built\\non Grand Street, next to the church, at a cost of\\nabout $70(10. The entire debt on the church and\\nparsonage is now about $27,000.\\nDuring all the time that this great church wius in\\nprocess of construction the people were not idle in\\nother directions, but a large hospital w;is bought and\\npaid for, school-houses have been provided for about\\nnine hundred children, an orphan asylum wherein\\none hundred little girls are supported, two new\\nchurches have been started, a cemetery tract of\\nI twenty-three acres on Haledon Avenue, which is not\\nI used, and another of seventy acres, inclu ling orphan\\nasylum property, near Lincoln Bridge. The annual\\nreceipts of the church from all sources are about\\n$30,000, which barely suffices to meet all the numer-\\nous and large demands upon the treasury. The old\\nchurch property on Oliver Street wsis retained, and\\nj the former church was refitted into a hall, known as\\nSt. John s Hall, for public meetings, lectures, enter-\\ntainments, and school purposes. A large school-\\nliouse adjoins it. The chime of bells, the only one\\nin the city, which once hung in the tower of St.\\nJohn s Church has been transferred to the new edi-\\nfice. A neat little chapel at the northesist corner of the\\nchurch was fitted up some time before the main build-\\nI ing was ready for occupancy, and is still used for\\nconfessional and other purposes. The number of\\nCatholics in the city is estimated at about 18,000,\\none-half of whom belong to St. Jolin the Baptist s\\nChurch. This building will seat 1700 or 1800 persons.\\nI In 1859 a plot one hundred feet square was bought\\nby the Catholics of Paterson, at the southeast corner\\nof Main and Slater Streets, and in the course of the\\nnext year a neat little brick building was erected\\nthereon for a German Catholic Church, which was\\nformally incorporated in 18t)4 as St. Boniface s Cath-\\nolic Church. The Rev. J. J. Schandel was the first\\npriest, and remained in charge for several years, until\\n1871-72, when he was transferred to other fields of\\nlabor; he is now at Passaic. His succes,sor was Rev.\\nNicholas Hens, a man of great energy. During the\\npiLst ten years the church ha.s been greatly enlarged,\\na new school-house has been erected, a large house\\nhas been provided on Jackson Street, in the rear of\\nthe church, for a religious sisterhood, who are ex-\\ntremely active in attending to the schools and other\\nwork connected with the churcli, and the congrega-\\ntion has greatly increased in membership. The church\\nhas a seating capacity for about 700 or 800 persons.\\nThe German Catholic population of Paterson has in-\\ncreased very much of late years through immigration.\\nAbout 1X07, St. John s Church bought a Irai-t of\\nland on Broadway, near East Eighteenth Street, and\\nextending back to Fair Street, whereon a large frame\\nbuilding was erected for a church, in the rear of the\\nplot, and a seminary for young ladies was provided\\non the Broailway front. St. .Vgnes Institute enjoyed\\na fair degree of prosperity for some years. The\\nchurch grew quite rapidly. Father .McNulty kept\\ncharge of it, and had regular .services held there, to\\nthe great satisfaction of the many people in the\\nvicinity, who had long felt the want of a church of\\ntheir own faith in that neighborhood. In 1 (7. these\\nthoughc the time had come to have an independent\\norganiiiation, and St. .loseph s Parish was created.\\nThe Hev. Nicholas Molloy wilh the first priest, but\\nill less than a year he bought a site on the northwest\\ncorner of Market and Carroll Streets, at a cost of about\\n$2300, and proceeded to erect thereon a large frame", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0872.jp2"}, "760": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n505\\nbuilding for a school and church, and St. Joseph s\\ncongregation thenceforward worshiped in the new\\nlocation, much to the regret of large numbers of the\\nmembers residing in the eastern portion of the city.\\nTlie church has a seating capacity of about 600.\\nFather Molloy was constrained to leave Paterson in\\nthe summer of 1880 on account of illness, which\\ncaused his death in New York shortly after. He was\\nvery greatly esteemed by a large circle of acquaint-\\nances. The Rev. Dr. Smith, a clergyman of unusual\\nscholarslup, was his successor, and is still with the\\ncongregation.\\nIn 1872, Father McNulty bought another parcel\\nof land, this time on Totowa, for another Catholic\\nChurch. The site was on Sherman Avenue, a short\\ndistance west or noith of Union Avenue, and ex-\\nteniled through to Wayne Avenue, comprising eight\\nlots. On this a neat and substantial brick chapel was\\nbuilt, forty by ninety feet, two stories high, for chapel\\nand school. It was speedily attended by a large num-\\nber of residents of the neighborhood and their chil-\\ndren, and continued to grow steadily until in the\\nsummer of 1880 it was set off into a separate parish\\n(St. Mary s), in charge of Father Curran, who re-\\nmains there. Since that time a fine large parsonage,\\nof brick, two stories high, has been erected on the\\nWayne Avenue front of the property. The church\\nseats about iOO persons.\\nAbout 1872-73 three Carmelite friars, whose order\\nhad been driven out of Germany by the decree of\\nBisnuirck, came to Paterson and built a very plain\\nlittle two-story brick house at the corner of West\\nFifteenth and West Twenty-ninth Streets, Stony\\nroad. They had a little chapel on the first floor, and\\nthe cells of their monastery on the upper floor. They\\nwere recalled to Europe, and the property soon after\\npassed into the hands of some Franciscan friars, who\\nhad also been driven out of Germany. In a short\\ntime they began holding religious services regularly,\\nand then commenced the erection of a large brick\\nchurch, called significantly St. Bonaventura, which\\nbeing completed mass was first celebrated in it on\\nPentecost Sunday, 1879. It will hold 800 or 900 per-\\nsons, and is very creditable in appearance. Father\\nAlbert was in charge of the monastery and church\\nuntil January, 1882, when he was sent elsewhere, to\\nthe great regret of his people. The friars are very\\nactive in every work pertaining to their denomina-\\ntion, not confining themselves to their own church bv\\nany means. Father Francis is the present priest.\\nFor some time there had been a strong desire on the\\npart of many Holland Catholics to have a church of\\ntheir own. Accordingly, in February, 1882, Father\\nMcNulty and Father Hens repurchased the building\\nin which St. Joseph s Church had formerly wor-\\nshiped, and w hich had been sold, with the other\\nproperty on Broadway, in 1881, to William Strange,\\nthe silk-manufacturer. They also secured a site on\\nRiver Street, south side, just east of the Erie Railway\\ncrossing, whereon to place the old church, for the ac-\\ncommodation of the Holland Catholics, who in the\\ncourse of time will be formed into a church and par-\\nish of their own.\\nProtestant Eplscopal Chukches. The first\\nservices of the Protestant Episcopal Church were\\nheld in Paterson in 1817, by the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard,\\nrector of Trinity Church, Newark, N. J., who came\\ntwice during the summer of that year. In the same\\nyear Mark W. Collet was admitted to the diocesan con-\\nvention as a representative of the unincorporated con-\\ngregation at Paterson. Bishop Croes paid an epis-\\ncopal visitation to the town on Oct. 19, 1817, and\\nofficiated at two services. The congregation met in\\nthe old Totowa Church for some time, also in the old\\nacademy, and in other places. Among those who\\nofticiated at these early services were the Rev. Benja-\\nmin T. Onderdonk, afterwards Bishop of Long Island\\nthe Rev. F. H. Cuming, the Rev. John M. Ward, the\\nRev. Dr. Milnor, the Rev. Dr. Berrian, the Rev. John\\nGrigg, and the Rev. John Croes, Jr., the son of Bishop\\nCroes. Mr. Croes took uj) his abode in Paterson in\\n1824, and prosecuted his ministry with such energy\\nthat the movement which had been pending since\\n1822 for the erection of a permanent house of worship\\nimmediately took definite shape, and subscriptions\\nwere solicited from all their friends in Paterson and\\nelsewhere towards that end.- On A|)ril 29, 1825, St.\\nPaul s Protestant Episcopal Church was incorporated,\\nand the following w^ardens and vestrymen elected\\nWardens, Timothy B. Crane, Thomas Parker; Ves-\\ntrymen, Daniel Holsman, Philemon Dickerson, Mark\\nW. Collet, John Travers, Elias B. D. Ogden, John\\nFlood, Warren Haight, Andrew Parsons, David Cogan,\\nCharles Voung, Cornelius Blauvelt, Robert Morrell.\\nMr. Croes was directly formally called to be rector of\\nthe new parish, and accepted. Contracts were awarded\\nwithout delay for the erection of a church to Henry\\nA. Hopper for the carpenter-work, and to John Wal-\\nker for the masonry. The corner-stone was laid on\\nAug. 5, 1825, by Bishop Croes, who consecrated the\\ncompleted edifice on Sept. 13, 1826, and preached the\\nsermon on the occasion the Rev. Clarkson Dunn read\\nthe lessons, and the Rev. John M. Ward read the\\nprayers. The building was of wood, and far from\\nbeautiful in point of architecture. It had a square\\ntower and belfry. The rector was guaranteed the\\nmunificent salary of $350 per annum. He remained\\nuntil 1830, when he resigned. He was followed by\\nthe Rev. Frederick W. Beasley, who remained but for\\nten months. The congregation at this time was poor\\nand in debt, and it was seriously proposed to abandon\\nthe organization and close the church, but the society\\nkept along in a feeble sort of way, and in 1835 called\\nthe Rev. Samuel Ashton Warner, under whom aflairs\\nbegan to brighten. He kept up the work for seven\\n1 The Days of Old, a centenuial discourse delivered in Trinity Clmrcli,\\nNewark, Feb. 22, 1746, by tlie Rev. Mallhew H. Henderson, p. 41.\\nThe original subscription-list is in the author s poasession.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0873.jp2"}, "761": {"fulltext": "506\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nyears, when he resigned, to the sorrow of his congre-\\ngation. The pulpit was supplied for a year or two,\\nand in 1844 the Rev. J. Elliot Thompson was called.\\nDuring the ensuing two years the edifice was over-\\nhauled and refitted, at a cost of about $30(10, and then\\nthe people sat down to en joy a season of quiet pros-\\nperity under their able and popular rector. On the\\nnight of June 26, 1848, the building wsw destroyed\\nby fire, communicated from the Paterson Machine\\nCompany s Works, where the flames had broken out,\\non the opposite side of Market Street. What added\\nto the sadness of the circumstance was the loss of life\\nwith which it was attended. One of the members of\\nthe church was e.\\\\ceedingly active in his efforts to\\nsave property he plunged into the burning edifice\\nand brought out some books, and again rushed in,\\nhoping to save the organ, when the building fell and\\nhe Wius buried beneath the ruins. In their affliction\\nthe congregation found many comforters, and oflers\\nof aid came in from every direction.\\nFor a time services were held in Odd-Fellow.s Hall.\\nMeantime the people made preparations for the erec-\\ntion of the present neat stone building, wherein they\\nnow worshi| which was placed on the site of the old\\nstructure, on Hamilton Square, the front on Market\\nStreet, between Colt and Hamilton. Its cost was\\nabout $9000. On Jan. 25, 1851, the new edifice was\\nconsecrated by Bishop Doane, of New Jersey. Two\\nyears later a fine organ was placed in the church, at\\na cost of ?;800. In May, 1854, Mr. Thompson ilied,\\nin Paterson, after a lingering illness, and about the\\nsame time Mr. Warner, the former rector, died in An-\\ntigua, in the West Indies. In September of the same\\nyear the Rev. Edward O. Flagg came to Paterson,\\nresigning in November, 18.56. In the following Feb-\\nruary the Rev. .lolin Kelly was instituted in the rec-\\ntorship, remaining for seven years. The Rev. Jo-\\nseph M. Waite was rector for the ne.xt four years,\\nbeing succeeded by the Rev. .Mason Gallagher, who\\nofficiated as rector from July, 1868, until November,\\n186! subsequently entering the Reforiiie l Ejiiscopal\\nChurch, where he immediately took a pniniinent part.\\nIn February, 1X70, the Rev. John M. HeUernan en-\\ntered upon the duties of the rectorship, and served\\nhis people with great faithfulness until his death, at\\nCharleston, S. C, whither he had gone for his failing\\nhealth, on March 21, 1877. During his ministry the\\nchureb bought a lot at the southwest curner of Elli-\\nson and (Jliurch Streets, and erected thereon a com-\\nmodious ^unday-schoid building, at a total cost of\\nabout $10,IMM). Through his entliusiaslic etl orta the\\nchurch celebrated itji semi-centennial on April 29,\\n1875, with great i -clat. (Jn that occaiion he delivered\\nan historical discourse, replete with interesting laeLs\\nconcerning the early history of the cliurili. The fore-\\ngoing sketch has been principally compiled fnun that\\ndiscourae. -Mr. Hell ernan s succe.ssor was the Rev.\\nThomas A. Htarkey, who being chosen bishop of the\\ndiocese of Northern New Jersey, left the people for\\na time without a rector. They then called the Rev.\\nE. B. Russell, who remains in charge of the parish,\\nand is one of the most popular and esteemed pastors\\nin the city.\\nIn February, 1856, a new Episcopal Church was\\norganized in I aterson, on the free-seat principle. It\\nwas under the charge of the Rev. John Grigg for\\nabout a year, he being succeeded by the Rev. Samuel\\nJ. Evans, who labored zealously in the promotion of\\nthe enterprise. The new society took the name of\\nSt. John s Ei)iscopal Church. They met for some time\\nin Crane s Monumental Hall, No. 295 Main Street, and\\nin 1857 appear to have been in a prosperous condi-\\ntion, with a growing Sunday-school. Mr. Evans re-\\nmained about two years, when the society began to\\ndwindle away. In 1861 the Rev. Charles E. Beards-\\nley a.ssumed the rectorship, remaining for a year or\\ntwo, |)erhaps, when the enterprise was discontinued.\\nIn the spring of IStiG about a dozen persons met and\\ndecided to start anew a church on the same principle\\nthat St. John s had been founded to inaugurate, and\\nfor convenience sake they concluded to revive the or-\\nganization of the old church. This was done, and in\\nJuly, 1806, the first services were held in the upper\\nroom of Andrew J. Sandford s law building, No. 269\\nMain Street. F ifty or si.xty persons were present.\\nThe Rev. Charles M. A. Hewes was called to be rec-\\ntor, and assumed charge without delay. In 1868 the\\nname of the society was changed to The Church of\\nthe Holy Communion. In .lanuary, 1X69, they occu-\\n|)ied the old Congregational Church, in Market\\nStreet, opposite Pros])ect, their former room being\\ninsufficient for the growing congregation. In 1870 a\\nsite was bought at the southeast corner oi Carroll and\\nPearl Streets, and on May 20, 1871, the corner-stone\\nof a new church edifice wjis laid by Bishop )ileii-\\nheirner. The building was constructed of bluestone\\nfrom the neighborhood of Paterson, with a tower and\\nlow spire. The interior dimensions were thirty-five\\nby eighty-five feet, with accommodations for about\\nfour hundred persons. An arch wiis built in the wall\\nfor the chancel, in order that it might be extended\\nsome distance when there shouM be funds at com-\\nmand for the pur]iose, which unfortunately hit-i not yet\\nbeen the case. The building is quaint and attractive\\nou the outside, and very neatly fitted up inside. The\\ncost was somewhat above $20,tM)0. The church was\\nopened lor public worship in February, 1872, and has\\nsince been occupied by the congregation. Mr. Hewes\\nlabored with remarkable energy and zeal for his\\npeople during a period of twelve years or m ire, when\\nhe was taken away by death in the midst of his use-\\nfulne.KS. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him.\\nThe present rector is the Rev. Charles Pelletreau.\\nIn 1X72 the C liurcli of the Holy Communion started\\na mission Sunday -.school at Riverside, ami in the fall\\nof that year built a neat little chapel on East Eigh-\\nteenth Street, near Fifth Avenue. It was kept up for\\neight or nine years.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0874.jp2"}, "762": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n507\\nIn the fall of 1881 Trinity Chapel was organized\\non Totowa, and one of the neatest little ecclesiastical\\nedifices in the city erected on Totowa Avenue, at the\\ncorner of Marion Street. It is in the Queen Anne\\nstyle, and seats about 8 l0 jiersons. The corner-stone\\nwas laid Oct. 20, 1881, by Bishop Starkey. The chapel\\nis under the charge of the Rev. Mr. Russell, of St.\\nPaul s Church, but there is some probability that in\\na few months the people connected with it will be\\nable to support a rector of their own.\\nBaptist Churches. The story of the beginnings\\nof the Baptist Churches of Patersou has been told in\\nan interesting manner by the venerable Alfred Stout-\\nenborough, Sr., on the occasion of the semi-centennial\\ncelebration of the organization of the First Baptist\\nChurch in this city. The following particulars of the\\nearlier history are niainlj from his address read on\\nthat occasion: During the year 1823 the Rev. Joseph\\nW. Griffith, of Rockland County, a Baptist clergyman,\\ncame to Paterson to spend a Sunday with a young\\nman named James Moore, and in the evening preached\\nby request for the Rev. Dr. Fisher, in the First Pres-\\nbyterian Church. Having stated incidentally that\\nhe was a Baptist, at the close of the services seven\\npersons in the congregation came forward and in-\\nformed him that they were of the same denomina-\\ntion as himself. Thus encouraged by their numbers,\\nthese and others began to hold meetings at the house\\nof Mr. Moore, and at the residences of others in the\\ntown, the interest and attendance constantly increas-\\ning. In the fall of 1823 the Rev. William Parkinson,\\nof the First Baptist Church of New York, baptized\\ntwo persons Thomas Coombs and Catharine, his wife\\nin the river near the foot of Mulberry Street. This\\nwas the first immersion of the kind in Paterson, and\\nnaturally attracted a large crowd of spectators. In\\nDecember four more persons were immersed. On Jan.\\n1, 1824, a council was held to organize a Baptist Church\\nin Paterson. The meeting for the purpose was held\\nin the academy, and the First Particular Baptist\\nChurch of Paterson was then and there constituted,\\nwith the following members Thomas Coombs, George\\nDamerel, David Cole, John Hallet, Uriah Everson,\\nJohn Cole, Jr., Mary Jackson, Esther Curial, Isabel\\nH. Franks, Elizabeth Coombs, Deborah Bates, Sarah\\nAckerman, Elizabeth Cole, Catharine Everson, Alfred\\nStoutenborough, William House, Maria House. The\\nRev. William House was called to be the first pastor,\\nJames Moore was chosen clerk and treasurer, and\\nGeorge Damerel and Thomas Coombs were elected\\ndeacons. For a year or more the congregation wor-\\nshiped in a private school-room in the upper floor of\\nan old yellow building which had formerly been used\\nas a tavern, and which stood on Broadway, opposite\\nthe Washington Market, or almost on the site of the\\npresent First Baptist Church edifice. An outside stair-\\nway led to the room.\\nIn 1825 or 1826 the congregation erected a build-\\ning of their own on the north side f)f Broadway, be-\\ntween Mulberry and West Streets, forty-eight feet\\nfront on Broadway and thirty-six feet deep, the de-\\nsign being to extend it deeper when necessity re-\\nquired, whicli was the case about ten years later,\\nwhen the church was nearly doubled in size. After\\na two years ministry the Rev. Mr. House was suc-\\nceeded by the Rev. Daniel D. Lewis, who remained\\nseven years, being followed by the Rev. Zelotes\\nGrenell, from Orange County, N. Y., who has been\\nlong regarded as the father of the Baptist Church\\nin this part of the country. During five years he\\nbaptized no less than 145 converts. The Rev. Charles\\nW. Dennison (installed Sept. 4, 1839) occupied the\\npulpit for a year, and then came the Rev. George\\nYoung, in whose time there was a marked revival,\\nso that in two years he baptized 87 persons. The\\nRev. Richard Thompson came next, remaining a\\nyear and a half, and then the Rev. Charles H. Hos-\\nkin, who served the people nearly three years, to\\ntheir edification. The Rev. Mr. Grenell was then\\nrecalled, officiating this time for more than four\\nyears, and with much success. The Rev. Stiles S.\\nParker succeeded him, and in 1855 gave way to the\\nRev. Dr. Rufus Babeock, who remained for a little\\nmore than eight years, resigning in January, 1864,\\nhaving baptized 158 converts during his ministry.\\nHe was a man of much ability and of great energy.\\nHe started the movement for the building of a new\\nchurch in 1859-GO, and the work was prosecuted\\nwith such vigor that the present handsome and com-\\nmodious edifice on Van Houten Street, north side,\\nbetween Washington and Church Streets, was en-\\ntirely completed and paid for by the spring of 1861,\\nat a cost of almost exactly $23,000. At that time\\nthere was no thoroughfare where Washington\\nStreet now extends from Broadway to Van Houten\\nStreet, and where Van Houten Street now connects\\nWashington Street and Main Street there were a\\nnumber of buildings. The only approach to the\\nfront of the new church was by way of Van Houten\\nStreet from Church, or by way of what was then\\ncalled Mansion Street, now Washington, from Elli-\\nson Street. The rear of the building was towards\\nBroadway. There was a beautiful lawn, shaded by\\ntwo venerable pear-trees, extending from the north\\nend of the church to Broadway, and a pathway\\nthrough this lawn was the favorite route of the\\ncongregation until, in 1870-71, the land was filled\\nup with the present elegant block of stores on\\nBroadway. This was done with a view to placing\\nthe church on a sound financial basis, and to give\\nit a permanent income from the rents of the stores.\\nThe panic of 1873 came on before this expectation\\ncould be realized, and the venture proved a losing\\none for the church, burdening it for years with a\\nheavy debt. In 1867 the streets referred to were\\ncut through as they now are, greatly improving the\\ndesirability of the location of the new edifice.\\nDr. Babeock was followed by the Rev. Samuel J.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0875.jp2"}, "763": {"fulltext": "508\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nKnapp, a preacher who was extremely popular with\\nthe masses, and who drew hirge congregations, and\\nwas instrumental in exciting several revivals during\\nthe two years of his ministry, resulting in the addi-\\ntion of 91 members by baptism. When he accepted\\na call to New York there were few in the congrega-\\ntion who did not regard his departure as a serious\\nloss to Paterson. In October, 1865, the Rev. Dr.\\nJoseph Banvard was called from Worcester, Mass.\\nHe was the most scholarly pastor the church has ever\\nenjoyed, and was a valuable acquisition to the city.\\nHe was an indefatigable worker, a voluminous author\\non historical, scientific, and religious topics, several\\nof his works being translated into Asiatic languages\\nby the Baptist Missionary Board, and he was familiar\\nwith geology, mineralogy, conchology and other\\nbranches of science, often illustrating his sermons by\\napt comparisons drawn from the book of nature. He\\nwas largely instrumental in founding the Pa.ssaic\\nCounty Historical Society, of which he was president\\nand the most active member. Large numbers were\\nadded to the church during his stay here. In 1870 he\\naccepted a call to New England, a more congenial\\natmosphere to one of his tastes than Paterson. The\\npuli)it was vacant for some time, when (in April, 1877)\\nthe Kev. Albert 11. Burlingham was secured, remain-\\ning until February, 1878. The Rev. Frank Fletcher\\nfollowed in April, resigning in January, 1880. The I\\nRev. E. Arthur Wood, the present pastor, came in\\nMay, 1880. The churtli suffered severely from the\\npanic, but is now once more on a good basis. This\\nresult is dut- in no small clegree to the eflbrts of the\\nyoung people of the congregation, who did much to\\npromote and restore good feeling among all the mem-\\nbers, and by various means contributed to relieve the\\nchuri h from its temporary financial embarrassment.\\nDuring the fall of 1881 a public reading-room Wiis\\nfitted up and o|pened in the basement of the church.\\nDuring the past twenty years the church has raised\\nupwards of $130,000. There are 400 members on the\\nroll.\\nIn the spring of 1840 upwards of fifty members of\\nthe First Church prayed to be dismissed, owing to\\nunhajipy disagreements which had occurred in the\\nmother-congregation. They formed a Second Bap-\\ntist Church, which flourished apace for a while. Its\\nSunilay-school numbered 100 scholars when opened,\\nand a year later ha l ItiO pupils. The inenibership\\nof the church grew to 120, and then began to fall oil\\nuntil it mustered but few more than there had been\\nat the start, and in the course of two or three years\\nthe society disbanded, most of the members return-\\ning to the old church.\\nIn 185f) the parent church decided to start a mis-\\nsion at San ly Hill, as the section east of the Erie\\nRailway was callcil, there being no church or Siinday-\\nHchool in all that locality. A lot was bought on the\\neast side of Straight Street, between Market and\\nWillia, and a little frame building one ittory high was\\nerected about twenty-five by thirty-six feet in area.\\nIn August it was opened for a Sunday-school, and soon\\nwas filled to overflowing. Alfred Stoutcnborough,Sr.\\nwas superintendent for two months then James Stiles\\nfor six years, and he was followed by Abram Croys-\\ndale for sixteen years, or until 1876. In 1861 the\\nbuilding was enlarged. Soon after the Rev. Sanjuel\\nJ. Knapp left the First Church, a number of his\\nfriends and admirers thought it would be well to have\\nhim back in Paterson once more, so they set about\\norganizing a new Baptist Church, which was not a\\ndifficult thing to do with the ])rosperous Sandy Hill\\nChapel as a nucleus. But the project Wiis managed\\nin a way previously unexampled in Baptist annals,\\nand with few precedents in the history of other de-\\nnominations. A number of gentlemen interested in\\nthe enterprise James McNab, Dr. A. W. Rogers,\\nJohn Byard, John J. Brown, Henry B. Crosby, James\\nCrooks, and Abram Croysdale associated themselves\\ntfigether to see the project carried out to a successful\\nissue. Messrs. McNab, Crooks, Crosby, and David\\nB. Beam each gave one thousand dollars to start it\\nwith, and Messrs. Rogers, Byard, Brown, and Croys-\\ndale each gave five hundred dollars, while all of them\\ngave of their time and additional money besides. Six\\nlots, four on Willis Street and two on Mechanic Street,\\niu the rear, were bought in Mr. Croysdale s name, and\\nthe erection of the Willis Street Baptist Church was\\nbegun in 1808. The building is of brick, about sixty\\nby eighty-live feet in area, with ba.scmcnt. and all the\\nconveniences requisite for the comfort of the congre-\\ngation. The organ put in was at the time one of the\\nfinest in the city. The lots cost ij^^JOOO, and the edi-\\nfice $26,000 more, for all of which the gentlemen first\\nnamed became personally responsible, Mr. Croys-\\ndale even more than the rest, as all the purchases\\nand contracts were made in his name. What money\\nwas needed in addition to the cash subscriptions was\\nobtained on notes made by the gentlemen already\\nmentioned. The ba.sement was occupied in the spring\\nof 1860, and the main audience-room in the ensuing\\nfall, when it was fully liirriished throughout, organ and\\niill. All this work had been acconiplishc l without\\nan organization and without a pastor. The building\\nbeing entirely completed a church society was orgiui-\\nized by the election of tru.stees, to whom Mr. Croys-\\ndale then deeded the property as it stood.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Knap| was now called to the pas-\\ntorate, and by liis peculiar, popular style of i reacliiiig\\nspeedily filled the large building to overflowing, and\\nswelled the membership until at one time it was as\\nhigh as 600 or 700. The debt of the society was\\nsteadily le.*iened too, and everything bade lair for a\\nlong era of prosperity. The financial revulsion of\\nlS7;t all ected some of its principjil su|q orlers very\\nseriously. The pastor, too, began to feel the inces-\\nsant strain upon his nervous system, and was advised\\nby his physicians that he must give up work, or his\\nbrain woulil give out. Still his people clung to him,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0876.jp2"}, "764": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n509\\nand would not accept his resignation, hoping that a\\nlong rest would restore him to his wonted vigor. For\\na year or more he was able to preach hut little, and\\nat last he insisted upon giving up the pulpit, in\\nMarch, 1877. The Rev. Walter Gallant was engaged\\nfor one year, but after preaching a few weeks he re-\\nsigned. The Rev. M. Clarence Lockwood was called\\nto the vacancy June 1, 1877, remaining three years,\\nwhen he accepted a call to a leading church at Al-\\nbany, N. Y. He was a young man of much independ-\\nence of thought and action, by no means tolerant of\\nstagnation, and his ministry stirred up the congrega-\\ntion not a little. The present pastor, the Rev. Shad-\\ndegg Washington, was called to the pulpit Sept. 1,\\n1880.\\nIn 186G a mission was organized on Totowa, a plot\\nof land being given for the purpose by the Pater-\\nson Land Improvement Company, on Totowa Avenue,\\nnorth side, near Albion Avenue. A very neat little\\nbuilding was erected thereon, wherein a Sunday-\\nschool was held, which grew rapidly, soon necessi-\\ntating the enlargement of the building. In the\\ncourse of a few years preaching was held occasion-\\nally there in the evenings, and on July 29, 1873, fif-\\nteen members were dismissed from the First Church\\nto form the Union Avenue Baptist Church. The\\nRev. P. S. Vreeland was called to the pulpit, and\\npreached very acceptably for several years. He was\\nsucceeded by the Rev. Z. Grenell, who remained two\\nor three years, and then the Rev. J. B. McQuillan,\\nthe present pastor, was called. The church has\\nabout 200 members.\\nAbout 18(56 a mission-school was started under the\\ncare of the Willis Street Church, at East Eighteenth\\nStreet (formerly York Avenue), Weavertown. It has\\nenjoyed a varying degree of prosperity.\\nAnother Baptist mission was started at Lake View\\nabout 1868 or 1870, and a pretty little chapel was\\nbuilt on Lake Avenue, near Knickerbocker Avenue.\\nOwing to financial difficulties the attempt to establish\\na regular church organization was abandoned by the\\nBaptists, and the property was sold in May, 1873, to\\nthe Presbyterians of the neighborhood, who have since\\norganized a Fourth Presbyterian Church.\\nWhen the Rev. Walter Gallant withdrew from the\\nWillis Street Church; a number of the members fol-\\nlowed him and organized the Fourth Baptist\\nChurch. They worshiped for a time in the Auburn\\nStreet Church (then at Riverside), and latterly in the\\nlecture-room of the Second Reformed Church, in\\nTemple Street. The rite of baptism was administered\\nseveral times in the Passaic River, near the Midland\\nbridge, at Hawthorne. There are about 30 members\\nattached to the society.\\nNon-Episcopal Methodist Chtjeches. About\\n1833, Mrs. Sarah Cocker, then recently from England,\\nwhere she had belonged to the body known as Primi-\\ntive Methodists, a non-Episcopalian body, was living\\nat the northwest corner of Prospect Street and ^Vhite\\n33\\nAlley, and being desirous of worshiping as she had\\nbeen accustomed to in the old country, she invited a\\nfew of her friends to meet at her house, where they\\ncould hold informal services in their own way. Soon\\na regular class was organized, which met statedly\\nevery Saturday night, the Rev. Mr. Rains, a mission-\\nary from Newark, conducting the class and occasion-\\nally preaching. In a few weeks the house became\\ntoo small to accommodate all who desired to attend,\\nand a congregation was formed, called the American\\nPrimitive Methodist Society of Paterson, the old\\nacademy being hired for their use. In the course of\\nfour or five years the academy was insufficient to hold\\nthe growing congregation, and the third floor of the\\nNew Market, in Cross Street, west side, between\\nPassaic and Ellison, was leased. After a time the\\nsecond floor was taken, and here the society met until\\n1845, when they raised money enough to build a\\nchurch in Division Street, north side, between Bridge\\nand Washington, on a lot fifty by one hundred feet,\\ngiven for the purpose by the Society for Establishing\\nUseful JIanufactures. The building was forty by\\nsixty feet, one story high, and was placed flush with\\nthe line of the street. It cost !51800, of which .sHOO\\nwas paid the rest was beyond the means of the con-\\ngregation to meet. About 1850 dissensions arose in\\nthe congregation, growing out of their relations with\\nthe Conference.\\nThe latter body failed to send them a pastor whom\\nthey wanted, and the church withdrew Irom the Con-\\nference, a local preacher named John Pilling acting\\nas their pastor for a time. A lawsuit followed for\\nthe control of the property, and the pecuniary and\\nspiritual interests of the congregation surt ered greatly.\\nOne Sunday a handsome and eloquent young Irish-\\nman, just arrived in the country, and then on his way\\nto Canada, where he intended to settle, visited the\\nchurch with a friend from New York, in the expec-\\ntation of hearing a sermon by an eminent divine of\\nthe Primitive Methodist connection. The young\\nstranger was prevailed upon to preach himself in the\\nmorning, and again in the evening consented to make\\na few remarks. 4ft6r the service the congregation\\neagerly gathered about him and strenuously urged\\nhim to come and be their pastor. They were too\\npoor, they said, to pay him mucli salary, but if he\\nwould stay with them, they would pay his board and\\nallow him \u00c2\u00a7100 a year. He smilingly told them that\\nhis plans called him to Canada, but he would remain\\nwith them a month, if it would be any accommoda-\\ntion, and their terms would be ample remuneration\\nfor the length of time he should stay. That was in\\n1852, and the Rev. John H. Robinson has remained\\never since In 1856-57 the building was rai.sed six\\nfeet, and set back twenty feet from the street, while\\nanother story was placed under it for a lecture-room\\nand living apartments for the sexton. The Division\\nStreet Methodist Church now has about 120 members,\\nand a Sunday-school of about 175 children. The", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0877.jp2"}, "765": {"fulltext": "510\\nHISTORY OF HERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\ntrustees of the church are Robert Lenning, president\\nJohn Fiirlow, William Mills, William McLane, John\\nDyson, Nicholas Cooper, John Me^rginson.\\nIn 1837 a Methodist Protestant Church was formed,\\nand erected a frame house of worship at the south-\\neast corner of Smith and Hotel Streets. It appears\\nto have been unfavorably atiecteil by the prosperity\\nof the Primitive Methodist Church, and in 18. 2 the\\nproperty was sold to the congregation now known as\\nthe United Presbyterian body.\\nIn 1840 there was formed the First Congregational\\nMethodist Church, which met for a short time in the\\nold building first occupied by the Methodist Episco-\\npal Church, in Prospect Street. The society does not\\nappear to have long survived.\\nWhen Mr. Robinson was called to the pastorate of\\nthe Division Street Church, the Rev. John Pilling and\\nsome of his friends were disappointed and oH ended\\nand withdrew, forming the Wesleyan Methodist\\nChurch, under a different connection. They secured\\na lot on Marshall Street, near Clay, and built a very\\nsmall church edifice, where they worshiped a few\\nyears. The Rev. Mr. Pilling preached for them until\\n1860, when .\\\\brahani Butterworth, a local preacher,\\nwho hail previously acted a-s sexton, occupied the\\npulpit for about a year. The congregation were not\\nable to pay for their property, and it passed out of\\ntheir possession. They soon after disbanded, about\\n18\u00c2\u00ab2.\\nAbout 1868 a movement was made towards organ-\\nizing a new Methodist Church in the southern part of\\nthe city. In the spring of 186 .i a site was bimght on\\nMain Street, east side, a short distance south of Hlater,\\nand the foundation was begun for a large building.\\nThe congregation called the Rev. William Lord, a\\nyoung preacher, with whom they were much plca.sed,\\nbut who turned out badly, and wa.s comiiclled to quit\\nthe citv ignominiously. This checked their growth\\nfor a time, but they subsequently pushecl ahead, ami\\nfinally erected the present building, with stores in\\nfront, where they have since worshiped. Previously\\ntheir meetings were held in the court-house. They\\nwere unable to meet the interest on the indebtedness\\nincurred by Mr. Lord in the erection of their lumse,\\nand the properly was solii at sheriff s sale, and bought\\nin by the Rev. J. H. Robinson, who still holds the\\ntitle, but allows the congregation to occupy it until\\nthey shall be able to reimburse him for his outlay.\\nThe pastors following Mr. Lord have been John\\nDwyer, James R. Laupblin, James M. Herrian. i. K.\\nWoodward, R. M. Ofl nrd. Alfred Milliiigton, Daniel\\nH. Leitli, and W. S. Hanks, appointed in November,\\n1881.\\nCoNOREOATIONAl,. In 1837 a number of members\\nof the First Presbyterian Church formed a new\\nsociety, inteniling to erect a building in which the\\nseats shiMild be free. They appliol to Presbytery\\nto be recognized as a society in connection with\\nthat IxMly, but their retjuCMl was refu.sed, the then\\npastor of the First Church opposing it. They were\\nbitterly liisappointed, and proceeded to form the\\nFirst Free Independent Presbyterian Church,\\niu February, 1837. They met for two years in\\nthe upper part of the Centre Market, in Cross\\nStreet, between Ellison and Pa-ssaic Streets. Having\\nbought a site in Market Street, opposite Prospect,\\nthey proceeded to erect thereon a fine frame buililing,\\nwith a spire in front. The corner-stone was laid on\\nthe Fourth of July, 1839, and the edifice dedicated In\\nJanuary, 1841. The Rev. R. J. Jute was installed\\npastor in the ensuing November. The new church\\nhad a precarious existence for some time, and after\\na few years joined the Congregational Association.\\nThe society was small and not always harmonious, so\\nthat frequently it was without a settled pastor. In 18.59\\nNewell A. Prince f)ccupied the jnilpit; then followed\\nthe Rev. Charles Bulkley, the Rev. Frank Rutler\\n(afterwards chaplain of the Twenty-fifth New Jer-\\nsey Regiment, and killed May .S, 18G:l, at the battle\\nof Suffolk, Va. the Rev. George B. Day (previously\\nof the Prospect Street Methodist Episcopal Church,\\nand who soon afterward withdrew from all connection\\nwith any religious body), the Rev. George Pierce, Jr.\\nThe last named was an energetic, pushing man, and\\nspeedily pressed forward a movement to change the\\nlocation of the church. Under him the jiroject was\\ncarried into execution, a very large building of brick\\nbeing erected at the southeast corner of .Vuburn and\\nVan Houten Streets, at a cost of something like\\n$40,(100. The load was too heavy for the small congre-\\ngation to carry, and Mr. Pierce witliilrew fnim Pater-\\nson. For some time the |)ulpit was supplied; then\\nthe Rev. S. Miller Hagenian, a young num of great\\npromise, was called, remaining, however, but a short\\ntime. He was followed in l. ^T^J- y by the Rev. Thomas\\nHeywood, formerly a Parliamentary reporter in Lon-\\ndon. In lS7. -7t the Rev. S. Bourne succeeded him.\\nBy the kindness of the mortgagees the congregation\\ncontinued to occupy the property until 1878, when\\nthe church was sold at sherifi s sale and bought in by\\nthe insurance company which had advanced most of\\nthe money to buihi it. Since then the members have\\nworshiped in a large roon\\\\ under the Washington\\nMarket on Broadway, wherefore they call the |)lace\\nthe Broadway Tabernacle. Mr. Bourne remains\\nwith them. There is still a possibility that they may\\nregain pos.session of their old chvirch on .\\\\nburn\\nStreet.\\nHkhiikw Sy.v.v ;i)(;i-k. It was probably about\\n184. i that the Hebrews in Paterson began to feel the\\nwant of regular provision in this neighborhood for\\nholding services according to the practice of their\\nfathers. Meetings were held for some time in private\\nhouses, and in 1847 a formal organization wils made of\\nthe Congregation of B Nai Jeshurun. .\\\\bout 1860\\nthey bought a private residence in Mulberry Street,\\neast side, an l fitted it up as a synagogue, wherein\\ntherealler they had readings and prayers for seventeen", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0878.jp2"}, "766": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n511\\nor eighteen years. The movement did not at first have\\nthe sympathy of the wealthier Hebrews, who had\\nformed and preferred to retain tlieir connection with\\nNew Yorlv synagogues, and the attendance was seldom\\nlarge, and often the synagogue was allowed to remain\\nwithout a rabbi. Among the rabbis of late years\\nwere Hermann Bleichrode, Ja*ob S. .Tacobson, Solo-\\nmon Bergman, A. Brasch, Max Molle. In 1877-78\\nthey bought a commodious and more ])leasantly lo-\\ncated house at Xo. 124 Van Houten Street, which\\nhad been built for, and occupied for some years by,\\nthe Society of Independents, led by Mr. George\\nB. Day. Tlie services have been better attended since\\nthe removal to this place, and the congregation is on\\nan excellent financial footing. A school is conducted\\nin connection with the synagogue by the rabbi for\\ninstruction in German and Hebrew.\\nAbout ten years ago an effort was made to organize\\na Reformed Jewish congregation or synagogue, but\\nit was not successful, one of the prime movers dying\\nere it was carried into execution.\\nSwEDEKBOKGlAN.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 18(34 some of the believers\\nin the teachings and revelations of Emanuel Sweden-\\nborg formed a New Jerusalem Church, and in\\nSeptember of that year bought a lot on the north\\nside of Division Street, about one hundred feet east\\nof Washington, and thereon erected a very neat little\\nchapel. They have never attempted to secure the\\nwhole time of any pastor or teacher, but occasionally\\nhave a series of lectures given by some eminent\\nmember of the denomination. In 1872, 73, 74,\\nSamuel Beswick preached or lectured for them with\\nsome regularity, and by his discourses on secular sub-\\njects of a recondite character attracted much atten-\\ntion in the community. He appeared to be a man of\\nremarkable attainments on scientific topics, and on\\ntheology as well, and some of his discourses of a con-\\ntroversial nature were greatly enjoyed by those who\\nheard them. During the winter of 1881-82, Albert\\nSchaack delivered several lectures on the tenets of\\nSwedenborg.\\nCHAPTER LXVII.\\nCITY OF PATERSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (ro,i(/.,\u00c2\u00aberf).\\nHistory of Schools in Paterson.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 It is probable\\nthat a school-house was built at Wesel, near the north-\\nern approach to the present Market Street bridge\\nacross the river, nearly a century ago. This was the\\nfirst school within the present limits of the city of\\nPaterson, and for that reason the following somewhat\\nextended notice may not be without interest\\nThe buiUUng was altout furt.v feet long, running from east to west,\\nand twenty or twenty-five feet wide ttie walls jierhaps eight feet higli,\\nof stone laid up in cliiy mortar, supporting a sliingle roof. The liouse\\nwas tlius 1-trge, because designed for a double purpose, for a school, and\\nfor the dwelling of the teacher and his family. Do you wonder where\\nwere his dining-room, sitting-room, parlor, and bedroom They were\\nall comprised in a space of twenty feet square. Perhaps he divided that\\ninto two rooms, for three-quarters of a century ago the Jersey Dutch in\\nthe niral districts were scarcely a-s fastidious 03 we are now, and the al-\\nmost universal practice of bundling a whole family into one room, if\\nnot into one bed, was a wonderful economy of space, whatever may be\\nsaid of it in other respects. Under the teacher s quarters was a cellar\\nunder the other half of the building none. A vast fileplace at ouch\\nend of the house was all the beating and ventilating aliparatns pro-\\nvided for many years. They answered the purpose of ventilation ad-\\nmirably, but for beating were not particularly successful, although con-\\nsuming vast quantities of cordwood provided from time to time by the\\nparents. By the yearlS il the clay mortar had fallen out from between\\nthe stones, and the walls were so full of air-holes that the old school-\\nhouse was familiarly termed the Bellows. When the wind was from\\nthe northwest you might pile cords of wood on the tire, and the tre-\\nmendous draught would almost carry the entire building out tiirongh the\\nchimney. About 1825 the trustees pnt in a box-stove, which was more\\ncomfortable, and afforded the boys intense amusement in expectorating\\non the cast-iron and he;tring the curious sizz, and enjoying the con-\\nsequent annoyance of the master. As for furniture, a plank ten or twelve\\nfeet long, Willi frequent legs, answered for half a dozen children, and a\\nlike plank, with a slight slope, supported by longer niirights, formed a\\ndesk that was substantial if not ornamental. Comfortable chairs, fitted\\nto support every part of the body, and handsome desks, with lids or\\ndrawere, book-racks, ink-wells, etc were all undreamed of for the school-\\nroom, and would have been regarded as tlie designs of a fit candidate\\nfor the insane asylnni,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 had there been such an institution in those ilays.\\nThe boys and girls sat on opposite sides of the lootn, on the nortli and\\nsouth respectively, and were abontequal in numbers. Each pu|iil brought\\nhis or her own books, slates, pencils, pens, and ink-bottles, jirovided by\\ntheir parents. The school held two sessions daily, three hoiii-s in the\\nDiorniug and three in the afternoon,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 there being a half-holiday every\\nSaturday afternoon, subsequently changed to a whole holiday every other\\nSaturday. Stated vacationswere unknown, hut the frequent changes of\\nteachers, who were about as uncertain as are church choirs, afforded the\\nchildren plenty of play-days through the year. The rales for school-\\ning ranged from Bi.\\\\ to twelve shillings per quarter, while a few of the\\nvery oldest pupils, who stmlied unusual branches, occasionally paid two\\ndollars per ipiarter but that was an extravagance in which few parents\\nthought of indulging their children. About 1S2II the teacher was paid\\ntwelve shilliiigs per pupil per quarter if ho found himself, or ten shil-\\nlings if he boarded round. l\\nThe school-house had fallen into such decay by\\n1835 that it was torn down, and replaced by a frame\\nbuilding that stood until about 1875, when the school\\nwas given up.\\nThe first teacher there of whom the writer has\\nheard was William Jenner, who had charge of the\\nschool in 1798. Joseph Henderson taught the chil-\\ndren in 1802, and about 1806-7, Bernard Sheridan,\\non whose tombstone, in the First Reformed church-\\nyard, at Passaic, is this flattering tribute to his un-\\ndoubted worth\\nHere lies an honest man at rest\\nAs ever God in his image blest,\\nA friend of man, a friend of truth,\\nA friend of age, a guide of youth.\\nIf there s another world he lives in bliss,\\nIf there s none, he made the best of this,\\nAmong other teachers were Thomas Gould, about\\n1820, Jacob Goetschius, and Bryant Sheys. Sbevs\\nwas an Irishman, who retained a rich brogue to the\\nlast. He was a political exile, it is said, and came to\\nAmerica about a century ago, settling at Taunton,\\nMass., where he taught school during the Revolution.\\nOf the incidents of the times that tried men s souls\\n1 Historical Sketch of Schools in Paterson, by William Nelson 1877\\npp. 9, 10.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0879.jp2"}, "767": {"fulltext": "512\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nhe was very fond of talking, especially when his tongue\\nwas loosened (and it was ever quite limber) by a glass\\nor two. He used to say he always liked the Baptists,\\nbecause he never knew a Baptist who was a Tory dur-\\ning tlif Revolution. He came to Paterson i)revious\\nto 1800, and kept tavern in Oliver Street, adjoining\\nSt. John s Roman Catholic Church, and being some-\\nwhat of an antiquarian, accumulated a valuable col-\\nlection of local curiosities. He sold his tavern in\\n1R02 to Judge Charles Kinsey (who occupied it as a\\ndwelling), and took charge of the Wesel School for\\na short time. He was a Protestant, and married a\\nfarmer s daughter near Clifton, it is said, and when\\nhe resumed his sway at the old school-house in 1822,\\nhis wife, his son James B. (afterwards a New York\\nlawyer who achieved quite a reputation), and his\\ndaughter Harriet lived with him. Sheys was short\\nand stout in build, was a man of tine parts, an excel-\\nlent scholar, frank and generous, and his only fault\\nwas an overfondness for a social glass, which unfor-\\ntunately grew upon him in his later years. He taught\\nat Wesel till 1828, and died soon after.\\nFiR.-sT Schools ix the Tows of Paterson.\\nWhen Peter Colt came to Paterson he was imn\\\\edi-\\nately impressed with the importance of providing*\\nfor the education of the children, and at his request\\nthe Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures au-\\nthorized him to employ a school Master to teach the\\nchildren of the Factory on Sundays, and that the\\ncompensation of the Master shall not exceed ten\\nshillings jier week.\\nMeantime, Mr. Colt s daughter, the late Miss\\nSarah Colt, began in April, 1794, to teach some of\\nthe factory hands on Sunday in tlie b.isement of her\\nfather s residence. This Suiiday-sehool was preceded\\nby but one or two in America. The youthful teacher\\nwas but twelve years of age. It is jirobable that, act-\\ning under the above authority, Mr. Colt built a small\\nschool-house at the southeast corner of Broadway and\\nProspect Street, where one John Wright taught at\\nthe expense of the society. One Smith followed him,\\nand, in 1802, Joseph Sherburne. Bryant Sheys and\\nThomas Wills also taught there, the hilter about\\n1820. He was one of the best-known of the early\\nteachers, having swayed the rod in and about Pater-\\nson for nearly thirty years. He died in 1823.\\nThe house occupied as a residence by Peter Colt\\nin 171I4, in Market Street (where Masonic Mall now\\nis), was used iv a sidiool-hduse for many years. In\\n1805, Joseph Henderson lived there; David Steven-\\nson had a school in the house in 1806; Thoma.s Wills\\nand .\\\\bruliani Willis also had schools in tlie same\\nbuilding and from ISIO to 1812, Joseph Sherburne\\n.\\\\l\u00c2\u00bbiut 1H09 a frame school-house was built back nf\\nthe nld Tototta Church. Anmng the teachers were\\nRichard Todrl, one Thompson, John W. House, and\\nCharles Upson.\\nIIliilur7 of Pntenion 8ch(M\u00c2\u00bblii, ul ni/irti, 1:i.\\nIn the upper room of a long building on Broadway,\\nopposite the Wa-shington Market, a school was car-\\nried on for many years by Otis Wilmarth, Mrs.\\nPhofbe Fairchild, John W. Woodward, and Bradford\\nW. Lyon, all prior to 182S.\\nIn 18.31, Isaac Sewen opened a school in the base-\\nment of the First Reformed Church on Main Street.\\nIn 1825-30 the Rev. John Croes, Jr., had a classi-\\ncal school of a high grade on Market Street.\\nThere were several schools for girls at a very early\\nday. Even in 1799 the Rev. John Phillips and wife\\nstarted a public boarding-school for young ladies and\\ngentlemen; the girls school was kept in the Old\\nHotel, on Market Street, between Hotel and Union.\\nThe institution was discontinued in the spring of\\n1803.\\nIn 182fi, Mrs. Wilde taught a young ladies school\\nin the old Peter Colt house: a Miss Bennett and a\\nMiss Collis also ha l schools, where young ladies were\\ntaught the ordinary branches and various accomplish-\\nments, particularly drawing and painting, painting\\non velvet, lace- and embroidery-work. In 1828, Mrs.\\nConover opened a young ladies school on Broadway,\\nbetween Wjishington and Bridge Streets. )ne of the\\nmost select schools for young ladies was conducted for\\nsome time by the Misses Inilay, from Trenton, on El-\\nlison Street near Church.\\nThe Paterson and other Acapemies. It was\\ndoubtless in ftirtherance of the early project of the\\n.society to jiromote the cause of popular education in\\nthe town that in 1X11 a site was given for the erection\\nof a larger school-house at the southeast corner of\\nMarket and Union Streets, and Paterson .Vcademy\\nwas incorporated with the following trustees Abra-\\nham Van Houten, Charles Kinsey. John Parke. Sam-\\nuel Colt, William Ellison. The building was frame,\\ntwo stories high, about forty feet front, and twenty-\\nfive feet deep. Bradford W. Lyon taught there, prob-\\nably about 1820. James W. King and a Mr. Ware\\nalso taught in the academy. In 1823, William S.\\nDavis was in charge. Dr. Lambert Sythotf had the\\nbuilding in lS2o-2(), and filled the school with pupils.\\nMoses E. De Witt followed, and in 1H29 the Rev.\\nWilliam .1. (iibson opened a school in the lower room,\\nand Bradford W. Lyon up-stairs. Henry White and\\na Mr. Collins had the building in 1K.30. Mr. White\\nsub.seqnently erected a small school-house in the rear\\nof his re. idenee on Broadway, near Church Streii\\nwhere he taught until 18i 4-0. About ISMtJ iIm\\nacademy was renioveil to the northwest corner of\\nSmith and Union Streets, when it was remodeled and\\ncontinued in use until 1846.\\nThough it scarcely realized all the hopes indulged\\nin by its founders, the academy in its day exerted a\\nmoral intluence not eiusily estimate l. While it stood,\\n.science had a home peculiarly her own. New church\\nsoeietiiw met there till they were strong enough to\\nbuild for themselves; the first |iermanent Sunday-\\nschool in Paterson (the First Presbyterian) was or-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0880.jp2"}, "768": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n513\\nganized there it was the popular lyceum and indeed I\\nfor fifteen or twenty years the academy was the\\nheadquarters of nearly every movement for the sjjir-\\nitual, moral, intellectual, social, or physical improve-\\nment of the town, so naturally do men turn to the\\nschool-house as the proper starting-point for any good\\nwork they may have in hand.\\nDuring the winter of 1824-25 the Methodists erected\\na small frame building on the south side of their\\nchurch, in Prospect Street, fitting up the front for a\\ndwelling, and the rest for school purposes. In .Tanu-\\nary, 1825, Uzal W. Freeman opened the Methodist j\\nAcademy. He had seventy pupils that summer.\\nHe left in July, 182G, when Zetus Searle took charge,\\nremaining for two or three years. His succe.ssor was\\none Briggs, about 1830-31. I\\nThe Manchester Academy was opened in 1829 i\\nby the Rev. Jacob T. Field, pastor of the Second Re-\\nformed Church, in a large building erected by him\\nfor the purpose. He taught the classical branches,\\nand had assistants in the English department. Mr.\\nField sold out in 1831.\\nIn the spring of 1829 the Jeffei son Institute was\\nformed by some of the Paterson admirers of Fanny\\nWright, an atheistic lecturer of the day, for the\\navowed object of establishing a public school free\\nfrom sectarian bias. They carried on a school for\\nseveral months in St. John s Hall on Broadway.\\nThe Elm Street Ixfamt School. During the\\nwinter of 1826-27 a number of benevolent ladies of\\nthe town took steps towards providing a free school\\nfor poor children between three and eight years. At\\nthe town-meeting in 1827 a tax was levied for the\\npurpose of supporting free public schools. These\\nladies having first agitated the subject, and so having\\nbeen instrumental, as they believed, in securing the\\nlevying of the tax, thought they ought to have re-\\nceived a part of the public moneys for the support of\\ntheir projected school, but being disappointed never-\\ntheless went ahead with their enterprise. They met\\non May 11, 1827, in the lecture-room of the Baptist\\nChurch, and organized the Infant School Society,\\nwitli the following officers: Mrs. Fisher, first direct-\\nress Mrs. E. Berry, second directress Miss C. Colt,\\nsecretary; Miss E.Colt, treasurer; Mrs. P. Sythoff,\\nMrs. E. Catlin, Miss M. Godwin, Miss Sarah Colt,\\nMrs. Elizabeth Speer, Mrs. Eveline Godwin, Miss\\nJane Van Houten, managers. Mrs. Catharine Inslee\\n(daughter of Abraham Willis) was employed as\\nteacher at \u00c2\u00a785 for the first year. The school was\\nopened August 1st, and during the year ninety-two\\nchildren were enrolled. In 1828 a school-house was\\nbuilt, the site being now occupied by the Elm Street\\nGerman Presbyterian Church. The school was kept\\nup for twenty or thirty yeare, doing a noble work.\\nFiR.sT Free Schools. A public meeting was held\\nat the academy on Saturday, April 7, 1827, at which\\nMark W. Collet, Dr. James Warren, and Abraham\\nGodwin, Jr., were appointed a committee to draw up\\na memorial to be presented for the consideration of\\nthe voters at the town-meeting the next Monday, rec-\\nommending the raising by tax of \u00c2\u00a7400 for school\\npurposes in Acquackanonk township, to be ex-\\npended by the town committee, agreeable to the act\\nof 1820, in the education of poor children of the town-\\nship. This recommendation was almost unanimously\\nadopted by the voters at the town-meeting. In June\\nthe town committee met and allotted $275 to Paterson\\nand $125 to the rest of the township, a committee of\\nprominent citizens being appointed to take charge\\nand select such children whose parents were not able\\nto pay for their education, and employ teachers and\\napportion the amount of money equally amongst them\\nfor their education. The Paterson committee were\\nthe Rev. Samuel Fisher (Presbyterian), the Rev. John\\nCroes, Jr. (Episcopalian), the Rev. Francis O Don-\\noghue (Roman Catholic), the Rev. John Kennaday\\n(Methodist Episcopal), the Rev. Daniel D. Lewis\\n(Baptist), the Rev. Wm. J. Gibson (Covenanter), and\\nMr. Caleb Munson Godwin. The Paterson committee\\nengaged the Rev. Mr. Gibson, a graduate of Washing-\\nton College, Pennsylvania, at $75 per quarter, he to\\nfind his own fuel. They also hired the lower room of\\nthe Academy, at $7.50 per quarter, and the first free\\nschool in Passaic Counit/ was opened there July 2,\\n1827. During the year one .hundred and thirty-four\\nscholars were enrolled, seventy or eighty of whom be-\\ngan with the alphabet. The average attendance was\\nabout eighty. The school was visited at least once a\\nweek by some member of the committee.\\nThe experiment was so successful that at the next\\ntown-meeting, in April, 1828, the sum of $500 was\\nvoted for school purposes, of which the town commit-\\ntee thus apportioned to Paterson $340. Committee,\\nthe Rev. Messrs. Fisher, O Donoghue, Gibson, Wig-\\ngins (Reformed Dutch), Croes, Lewis, and Adrian\\nVan Houten. The Paterson committee held their\\nschool in the room under the Baptist (now Second\\nGerman Presbyterian) Church edifice on Broadway,\\nnear Mulberry Street. The Rev. Mr. Gibson declined\\na re-engagement at the old rates, and started a school\\nof his own in Mr. Goetschius building, so the com-\\nmittee employed a Mr. Childs, a graduate of Union\\nCollege, New York, at a salary of $300, he to find his\\nown fuel. He remained but two quarters, when Mr.\\nGibson took charge once more. The number of schol-\\nars this year was one hundred and fifty-seven, with an\\naverage attendance of eighty.\\nIn 1829 $500 was voted, and appropriated as in\\n1828, the committee for Paterson being John W.\\nBerry, David Reid, and John Strong.\\nThe township of Paterson having been incorporated\\nin 1831, in that year the inhabitants voted a tax of\\n$300, to be appropriated for a free school of all de-\\nnominations, and elected the Rev. James Richards,\\nJohn Brown, and Henry Whitely a school committee.\\nThe sum of $203.50 was also received from the State.\\nIn 1832, 33, 34, $300 was voted. In 1835 it was", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0881.jp2"}, "769": {"fulltext": "514\\nHISTOUY OF BEKGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIKS, iNEW JERSEY.\\nUttoUtd, That nollilog bs raiKd thU jr\u00c2\u00bbr for wiiport of tne Khoolt,\\nInasmuch as the law will not allow th^ school muney to he appropriated\\nfor the exclusive U*nefit of poor children un i the town-nieetinfc reconi-\\nmend the school committee, in hehilf of the inhnliitants of Paterson, to\\npetition the LeKlplature of llie Stiite of New Jersey to nller or amend\\nthe law, that each townsltip can have it in their ix wer to appropriate\\ntheir school money for one or more schools.\\nAccordingly, .Jan. 2(), 18:56, the Legislature piissed\\nan act which made it the duty of the school trustees\\nto estahlish one or more public school.s within the\\ntownsliip of Paterson. and provide, as far Ss the means\\nmay extend, for the education of a/t children in the\\nsaid townsliij not otherwise provided for, whethcrsuch\\nchildren he or be not the proper object.s of gratuitous\\neducation. The trustees were also authorized to\\nrequire of the pupils jeceived into the schools under\\ntheir charge a moderate compensation adapted to the\\nability of the parents of such children. No child\\nwas to be denied the benefit of said public school\\non the ground of inability to pay for the same, but\\nshould at all times be freely received and educated\\nby the said trustees. The trustees were authorized,\\nwith the approval of the town committee, to acquire\\nand dispose of real school property.\\nThe township school tax in 18. t6 was only $200; in\\n1837, 38, $.500; in 1839, iiothimj in 1840, 41, 5^500;\\nin 1842, 43, $300; in 1844, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, $600;\\nin 1850, no lux.\\nIn 1847 a superintendent of |iublic schools was\\nelected for the first time (the office having been cre-\\nated under the general school law of 1840), Silas D.\\nCanfield being cho.sen. In 1848 there was none ap-\\npointed. In 1849, John K. Flood was elected.\\nThe designation free schools for the poor was I\\ndropped after 1836, and they were known as free\\nschools or public schools, open to all classes and\\ncreeds.\\nThe school accommodations in the days of the\\ntownship eilucational system were rude and tem-\\nporary. In 1835-36 the school was held in the Me-\\nchanics Institute. In 1837-38 the committee hired\\nthe basement of the Cross Street Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, and the school was carried on there lor two\\nyears. The first term of the Passaic County courts\\nwas held in the same premises in the spring of 1837,\\nthe school taking a brief vacation meanwhile, or oc-\\ncupying a building in the rear of the church. The\\nschool was next held for several years in the basement\\nof the Kaptist Church (then on Broadway, near Mul-\\nberry Street) then in the old ncademy until the par-\\ntial destruction of that building by lire in 184(i again,\\nt^-mporarily, in the Cross Street Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, when two hundred children were crowded\\ninto two small rooms. It was next held in a private\\nH -hool-rooni in the rear of No. 90 Ellison Street.\\nSoMiiTow.ssim Sciiooi.-TKAciiicKS. The teacher\\nof the publii- school in 18,3.5-37 was John D. Kcily.\\nHe was an Irishman who had been educati d in\\nFrance for a priest, but he joined the Methodist\\nChurch in Paterson. He had about one hundred\\nchildren in bis charge, and is remembered as an ex-\\ncellent instructor and disciplinarian. He removed a\\nfew years later to Virginia, and for many years past\\nhas been one of the leading citizens of Petersburg,\\nwhere he has been president of the Relief As.sociati(m\\nfor a long time. One of his sons, born in Paterson,\\nCol. A. M. Keily, is one of the most prominent law-\\nyers of the Sttite. Miss Mary Wylie had charge of\\nthe infant class while the public school was held at\\nthe Cross Street Church. Joseph Perry was the\\nteacher of the free school in 1839. He was fol-\\nlowed by Sampson W. BulTum, from New Hampshire,\\nwho was brutally severe in his discipline. Isaac\\nHamilton and then L. I). Williams taught the school,\\nand in 1846, Samuel B. Brands, who still remains in\\nthe public service. His father, David I. Brands,\\nhad charge in the winter of 1847-48, and was suc-\\nceeded by the ])resent Dr. Sherburne R. Merrill,\\nformerly from Deerfield, Mass. He and James Stiles\\nbought a small house and lot on the north side of\\nEllison Street, about one hundred and twenty feet\\nwest of Main, and built a two-story frame school-\\nhouse, thirty by forty feet, in the rear of the dwelling,\\nand in September, 1848, the public school Wius opened\\non the ujiper floor, while Mr. Stiles had a rivate\\nschool on the floor below. Mr. Merrill introduced\\nmany valuable improvements in the organization and\\nregulation of the school.\\nPaterson City Schooi^. The city having been\\nincorjmrated in 1851, a larger .school appropriation\\nwas made, and Merrill iS: Stiles entire building was\\nhired, Mr. S. H. Merrill teaching on the upper floor,\\nand his brother, Samuel C, on the lower floor. The\\nfirst public evening school was held in that building\\nin the winter of 1851-52. Another ptiblic school was\\nopened in Division Street, near Washington, where\\nthe Swedenborgian Church now stands, and another\\nin the infant school building on Elm Street. In\\n1854 three school committeemen were elected from\\neach of the four wards of the city, East, West, South,\\nand North, who were empowered by law to buy land\\nand build school-houses, with the approval of the City\\nCouncil. The latter body appointed .Vndrew Dcr-\\nrom to be school superiiitemlent, and he, with the\\nenergy which always characterized him, immediately\\ncalled a meeting of all the school coinmittecnien to\\ntake steps towards the formation of a system of city\\nschools. They met April 15, 18.54, organized as a\\njoint committee, and delegated to Dr. Charles Inglis,\\nJr., Cornelius T. Vandervoort, Robirl Miller, and\\nIsaac D. Blauvelt the work of drafting a series of\\nschool regulations, which were prepared by Dr. Ing-\\nlis and itdopted May 22d, forming the basis of the\\nregulations still in force. They had the merit of\\nbeing very brief and simple. The same month the\\nWest Ward committee bought of Messrs. Merrill i\\nStiles their Ellison Street school, which with mollifi-\\ncations from time to time continued in use until\\n1872. In August, 1854, the East Ward committee", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0882.jp2"}, "770": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0885.jp2"}, "771": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0886.jp2"}, "772": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATEKSON.\\n515\\nbought a plot on Van Houten Street, and erected the\\nbrick school-house now known as School No. 1. It\\nwas formally dedicated on Monday, Sept. 3, 1855, the\\noccasion being one of great rejoicing in the town.\\nIn September, 1854, the South Ward committee\\nbought a site on Main Street, on which the present\\nSchool No. 3 was built, being dedicated June 15,\\n1857. In June, 1856, the site of School No. 4, on the\\nnortheast corner of Temple and Matlock Streets, was\\nbought, and the present structure erected thereon,\\nbeing dedicated Feb. 9, 1857. In 1856 all the school\\nproperty was transferred to the mayor and aldermen\\nof the city.\\nIn 1855 the several schools were consolidated under\\none management, and it was decided that the East\\nWard school should be the grammar school for the\\nwhole city, all the others to be primary. Mr. Hosford\\nwas appointed principal, at a salary of S900 Miss\\nTanner, vice-principal of the female department, at\\n$350; and Miss Eliza Stitt, of the primary depart-\\nment, at $300. Miss Mary Stitt was principal of No.\\n2, in Ellison Street, at S300 Miss Elizabeth Cox, of\\nNo. 3, in Elm Street, at $275 Miss Mary Wiley, of\\nNo. 4, in Marshall Street, at $250; Miss Charlotte\\nDonkersley, of Intermediate, No. 1, in Elm Street, at\\n$285 Miss C. G. Tuttle, of No. 5, in Clinton Street,\\nat $300 Miss Ford, of No. 6, probably in the same\\nbuilding, $250 Miss E. R. Geroe, of No. 7, in North-\\nwest Street, at $200; Miss Eliza M. Halsted, of the\\ncolored school, at $350. In all there were twenty-six\\nteachers, their salaries ranging as low as $75. Male\\nteachers were dispensed with. Among them was\\nCharles O. Hurlbut, from the spring of 1854, principal\\nof the South Ward school In Elm Street.\\nAt this time, and for some years after, there were\\nmale and female departments in the larger schools,\\nbut for a long while past there has been no distinc-\\ntion on account of sex in making up the schools and\\nclasses, and the present plan works so satisfactflrily\\nthat it is likely to be permanent.\\nWhen the Main Street school-house was occupied\\na grammar department was established there, Miss\\nCox being principal, with brief interregna, until 1865,\\nwhen Alfred H. Decker was appointed, who was fol-\\nlowed by Samuel B. Brands. The Temple Street\\nschool was first in charge of Miss Osborn, with Miss\\nFord as assistant; Peter A. Youngblood (1861) and\\nOrestes M. Brands were the successive male princi-\\npals.\\nMale assistants were soon employed in the male\\ndepartment of the East Ward grammar school. C.\\nM. Harrison was the first; then Robert De Hart, who\\nbeing transferred to the charge of the South Ward\\nschool, was succeeded by C. M. Myers, and later by\\nEdward S. Ellis, now superintendent of the Trenton\\npublic schools.\\nIn January, 1855, a school for colored children was\\nestablished. It met for a few months in the Godwin\\nStreet Colored Church, then in the Division Street\\nschool, and in September, 1857, it was removed to a\\nsmall building on Clinton Street, at the foot of the\\nhill, erected in 1848 by the Manchester Literary As-\\nsociation for school purposes. In December, 1872,\\nall the colored children of the city were allowed to\\nattend any of the public schools, and as most of them\\nattended those in their immediate neighborhood, the\\nClinton Street school was ordered disbanded on May\\n30, 1873. Miss Eliza M. Halsted was the teacher\\nthroughout its existence.\\nA normal school had been authorized by the regu-\\nlations of 1854, but it was not opened until the fall of\\n1855. It met on Wednesday evenings, then on Tues-\\nday and Thursday evenings, and then on Saturday\\nmornings. It has had a varied and somewhat irregu-\\nlar existence since.\\nIn 1862 a model training-school was opened by the\\nboard in the basement of the Second Presbyterian\\nChurch, and the system of object-teaching was ex-\\nplained by accomplished experts. The school was\\nkept up for a year.\\nThus it will be seen that twenty and thirty years\\nago the school authorities of Paterson were alive to\\nthe desirability of testing the latest experiments in\\npedagogism, and were decidedly progressive and intel-\\nligent in their action.\\nIn 1856 the board of education was given the power\\nof electing the superintendent, and he was to preside\\nover that body. A member wa.s elected secretary,\\nand another acted as financial secretary. Andrew\\nDerrom was elected superintendent in 1856-57 in\\n1858-60, Cornelius S. Van Wagoner was chosen in\\n1861, William Swinburne. In 1862, for the first time,\\na member of the board was elected to the position,\\nDr. Ezra S. McClellan. The Legislature of 1863 pro-\\nvided that the board should elect one of its members\\nto be president, and another person to be secretary\\nand superintendent. Dr. McClellan was a candidate\\nfor the latter office, and for six months the board was\\nunable to agree on the subject, and then elected Mr.\\nHosford for the rest of the year. In 1864-70, Wm.\\nSwinburne filled the office. In May, 1871, Samuel\\nC. Hosford was appointed he resigned in September,\\n1873, to give way to John Laird, who held the office\\none year. William J. Rogers was then superintend-\\nent until June, 1880, when the present incumbent,\\nEsmond V. De Graft was ai)pointed.\\nOn Monday, June 3, 1861, the Sandy Hill school\\nwas opened in the Baptist chapel, a long, low frame\\nbuilding, then standing on Straight Street, between\\nMarket and Willis. There were forty children in\\nattendance when it opened, and within three days\\nthe number swelled to two hundred and fifteen. Miss\\nSusan H. Rathburn was the first principal, succeeded\\nin June, 1862, by Miss Jennie Andrews. In March,\\n1869, the building changed hands, and the school was\\nremoved (pending the completion of No. 6) to an old\\nbuilding in Dickerson Street, previously used as an\\norphan asylum.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0887.jp2"}, "773": {"fulltext": "518\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nincreased by the end of the year to $256,000. The\\nstockliolders voted on December 27th, to increase the\\ncapital to $2. 0,00(l. In 1867 the capital wa.s increased\\nto $3. M,000, and in 1870 $.50,000 nvore was added,\\nbringing the total up to $400,000, the present amount.\\nUntil Feb. 1, 18t!(j, the bank ocwupied the parlors of\\na fine brick house. No. 240 Main Street, since raised\\none story. The bank was next located on the oppo-\\nsite side of the street, in the premises now used by the\\nPaterson Savings Institution. In January, 1809, steps\\nwere taken for the erection of a suitable banking-\\nhou.se, which should be commodious and creditable\\nto the city. It was not until Feb. 21, 1870, that\\nground was broken at the northeast corner of Ellison\\nand Washington Streets. The corner-stone was laid\\nAugust Oth, following. The building was occupied\\nApril 27, 1S71, having cost, including site, furniture,\\nand all appurtenances, $120,000. j\\nIt was one of the most striking-looking structures\\nin the city is of iron, three stories high, all the ceil-\\nings being very high, and there is a lofty Mansard\\nroof above all. In the attic story several Masonic\\nlodges held their meetings for ten years. The bank-\\ning-rooms are on the first floor, which is reached liy\\nea.sy steps from the sidewalk. The main room is ele-\\ngantly fitted up. The clerks desks rest upon a sup-\\nport of variegated marble, surmounted by plate-glass.\\nThe corridor is paved with tiles, and the whole in-\\nterior is bright, airy, and beautiful. The president and\\ncashier have desks in an adjoining room, comniaiiiling\\na view of the employfo. The directors room is fitted\\nup with quiet elegance. In the ba.sement, fronting on\\nEllison and Washington Streets, is the post-office, and\\nnext to it, on the eiLst, is the office of the Western\\nUnion Telegraph Company. Thus tliree institutions\\nof indispensable |)ublic utility arc grouped in the one\\nbuilding, tending to make it a centre of public in-\\nterest. On theflo irabove thebanking-roomsareofl[ices\\nfor lawyers. Owing to the subsequent depreciation\\nin real estate, the property is rated on the books of the\\nbank to-day at only 0,000, which is considerably\\nbelow its actual cash value. With the incresise of\\nthe stock from time to time a corriisponding increase\\nwiLs made in the circulation, which at last stood at\\n$;t(i(),0OO, the full amount allowed on a capital of\\n$4 KI,(K)0. In 1877, in view of the approach of specie\\npayments, the circulation was reduced to $270,000, at\\nwhich figure it still stands, though it is not unlikely\\nthat it will be still further curtailed as the six per\\ncent, bonds arc called in. All during the trying days\\nof the financial depression following the dark days of\\n1873 the officers of the bank stood firm, and having\\ntaken every precaution against danger, never wavere l.\\nTheir confidence ami the evident care they hail taken\\nimpressed the community with a sense of safety and\\nconfidence, so that there was scarcely the first symp-\\ntom of a scare in Paterson. Thnmgh that ordeal\\nthe bank came out with the smalh st poasible loss,\\nthat did not even interfere with the declaration of tlie\\nusual five per cent, semi-annual dividend. The re-\\nduction of the legal rate of interest in 1878 to six per\\ncent., and the natural shrinkage in business and\\nprofits since the panic, has of course lessened the earn-\\nings of banks, as well as of other persons, and the later\\ndividends have been at the rate of four per cent, for\\nthe six months but on the 1st of January, 1882, the\\nFirst National returned to its old figure of five per\\ncent, for the actual net income of the jirevious half\\nyear. The statement for that day showed a line of\\nindividual deposits looting up $l,021,lt )S, loans and\\ndiscounts of $l,20it,009, a surplus fund of $100,000,\\nand other undivided profits of $18,0oo. The bank has\\nloaned about $50,000,000 since it began business, and\\nin all that time has lost only about $50,000, an average\\nof less than one per cent, per annum on the capital em-\\nployed in the last seventeen years. In that time about\\ni 40,000 notes have been discounted. No more signifi-\\ncant comment could be made upon the rare good man-\\nagement of the institution by the ofl[icers and directors\\nwho have been in charge of its affairs. Mr. Hrown\\nhas been i resident from the beginning, an l the wis-\\ndom of that choice has never been doubted. Mr.\\nBell remained cashier until the close of 1874, when he\\nretired to engage in other business. He was an in-\\nvaluable coadjutor of the pre.sident in the active man-\\nagement. John Swinburne was his successor, and\\nstill retains the (losition, although during the winter\\nof 1881-82 his health com|iclled him to absent him-\\nself from the city. Mr. Christie was vice-i)rcsident\\nuntil 1870, when he resigned John Cooke has since\\nheld the office. Mr. Gledhill was counsel until his\\ndeath, in December, 1869; Henry A. Williams has\\nbeen counsel from that period.\\nIn 1869 the Paterson Savings Institution was incor-\\nporated by the Legislature with a capital of $100,000.\\nIt began business promptly, with an excellent board\\nof managers, who had the confidence of the people.\\nRobert Haniil was president, .Vndrew Derrom vice-\\npresident, and E. Theodore Hell the secretary and\\ntreasurer. Its business wiusconduetetl at No. 122 Mar-\\nket Street. For several years the management was\\nclosely connected with that of the First National\\nKank, but latterly this relation has not been quite .so\\nintimate, though several directors of the latter bank\\nare managers of the savings in.stitution. Mr. Hamil\\nresigned several years ago, and was succeeded by\\nJcdm Reynolds, the incumbent. Mr. Hell gave way\\nto Edo I. Merselis, the present treiusurer. The bank\\nhas been wonderfully successful. Its deposits have\\nsteadily increased in a progressive ratio, until they\\nnow amount to about $2,OiMi,ooo, having nearly\\ndoubled in two years. Two or three times there have\\nbeen slight runs, but each time the bank made\\nmoney by the loss of interest to the withdrawing de-\\npositors, and the security of the institution was each\\ntime made more apparent. There are but four or five\\nstock savings-banks in New Jersey, but there is no\\nsavings institution in the i?tatc which can make a", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0888.jp2"}, "774": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0891.jp2"}, "775": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0892.jp2"}, "776": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n519\\nbetter showing. The stockholders have paid in only\\n$10,000 on their subscriptions, but the earnings placed\\nto the credit of tlie stock account have increased the\\namount of paid-up capital to $55,000, which is so\\nmuch additional security for the depositors. Six per\\ncent, interest was formerly paid the rate has been re-\\nduced, first to five and then to four per cent., and a\\nfurther reduction is anticipated.\\nEncouraged by the marvelous success of the above\\nenterprise, some other Patersonians secured a charter\\nfor the Passaic County Savings-Bank, which was\\nopened in May, 1872, with a nominally paid-up capi-\\ntal of 815,000. The deposits ran up to nearly $200,000,\\nwhen the bank was closed, in December, 1877, it being\\nfound that the president and the principal member of\\nthe finance committee had borrowed nearly twice the\\namount of the paid-up capital and were not able to\\nreimburse the bank in cash. The stockholders have\\nnever got their money back yet.\\nThe Merchants Loan and Trust Company was\\nchartered in 1S72. It was a bank authorized to lend\\nmoney, not only upon the usual collaterals, but upon\\nmerchandise and manufactured goods. Some silk-\\nmanufacturers were of the opinion that it would be a\\nhelp to that industry, enabling a man to borrow\\nmoney upon his finished product, which had a fixed\\nvalue. The bank was opened in the fall, in a build-\\ning liandsomely fitted u[) for the purpose at the\\nsoutheast corner of Market and Hotel Streets. Wil-\\nliam Ryle was president, and J. F. Preston, of Hart-\\nford, Conn., was treasurer. Mr. Preston and his\\nfriends took a majority of the stock. A savings-bank\\ndepartment was opened, seven per cent, interest being\\nallowed on deposits. For a time the enterprise\\nseemed to prosper, and handsome dividends were\\npaid to the stockholders. But when the panic of\\n1873 came the institution had not taken suflScient\\nroot to weather the storm, and thenceforth it seemed\\nto fall away gradually in tlie popular esteem. Then\\nsome men got into the management who were not\\ntrusted bad practices were adopted, and in the spring\\nof 1876 it transpired that the city had been defrauded\\nout of the taxes due from the bank. Mr. Ryle re-\\nsigned when he learned of the loose way the business\\nwas conducted. Efforts were made to bolster up the\\ninstitution by changes in the official board, but all\\nwould not do, and in July, 1877, it was closed. Then\\nfollowed disclosures concerning the internal affairs\\nthat resulted in the consignment of the cashier to the\\nState prison.\\nThe banking capital of Paterson to-day is less than\\n$700,000, exclusive of the money in the savings institu-\\ntion. It seems remarkable that a city with such im-\\nmense and varied business interests should have so\\nsmall an amount of available banking capital. The\\nunfortunate experience of so many banking concerns,\\nbriefly outlined above, is doubtless one explanation.\\nAnother is the fact that all the large mills have their\\nprincipal oflBces in New York City, and are obliged, for\\nthe convenient transaction of their business, to keep\\naccounts in metropolitan banks.\\nPassaic Water Company.^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This company was in-\\ncorporated by the Legislature in 1849, with a capital\\nof $100,000, since increased materially. A small reser-\\nvoir was constructed on the Falls grounds, and sup-\\nI ply pipes were laid through such portions of the city\\nI as seemed to promise best for returns. The pipes\\nwere of sheet-iron, coated thickly with cement, and\\nwere for the most part four inches in diameter. It\\nmight not seem reasonable that pipes of such a char-\\nacter would stand the pressure to which they were\\nnecessarily subjected of more than one hundred feet\\nhead, but there has never been the slightest difficulty\\non that score when they were properly laid. The\\nengineering work was done by the late Gen. Thomas\\nD. Hoxsey, who for many years was the president of\\nthe company William Ryle was treasurer, Thomas\\nThorp secretary, and George Vanden hoof superinten-\\ndent, a position he held for nearly thirty years. John\\nRyle, Peter Ryle, and John J. Brown, with Jlessrs.\\nHoxsey, Thorp, and William Ryle constituted the\\nboard of directors. The company did not make much\\nprogress with their scheme for a time, as the project\\nwas mooted of establishing a city water-works. This\\nwas voted upon by the citizens in 1852, when they\\ndecided, by a vote of 710 to 233, against the city s own-\\ning water-works. The company was thus encouraged\\nto extend its system, which it did quite rapidly. John\\nRyle was really the most interested in the company,\\nand was continually experimenting to get a better\\nand more efficient source of supply. A wheel-house\\nwas erected at the east end of the Falls precipice, and\\na wheel put in, turned by the falling cataract, which\\npumped w-ater up a short distance into the reservoir.\\nIn 1868 new arrangements were made with the Society\\nfor Establishing L seful Manufactures, and with Gen.\\nHoxsey, by which additional water privileges were\\nsecured. Soon after a large reservoir was constructed,\\nforty feet higher than the old one. and holding five\\ntimes as much water, or about 15,000,000 gallons.\\nSome years later, owing to the rapid growth of the\\nTotowa neighborhood, a still higher reservoir was\\nconstructed of masonry.\\nWithin the last two or three years great improve-\\nments have been made in the pumping facilities,\\npowerful steam-engines having been put in, to be used\\nwhen there is not sufficient water to run the turbine-\\nwheels. Very many other improvements have been\\nmade to render the system of supply as effective as\\npossible. The water is unusually pure, there being\\nno city in the State better off in this respect than\\nPaterson. In 1871 the company offered to .sell its\\nW orks and the Falls property to the city for $750,000.\\nThe matter was submitted to a popular vote, and the\\noffer was rejected by more than 2000 majority. The\\ncompany subsequently bought the Franklin Lake,\\nwith the idea of utilizing that as a source of supply,\\nwith little or no pumping, but it has not proved avail-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0893.jp2"}, "777": {"fulltext": "522\\nHISTORY OK 15KRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nState to form a lodge of that order, but by some mis-\\nunderstanding they were numbered 2 instead of No.\\n1. BeiK vok-nt Lodge, No. 2, is really the )lde.st lodge\\nin the State. At an early stage in its career it suc-\\nceeded in getting a house of its own, Odd-Fellows\\nHall being erected in 1848, at a cost of about ten\\nthousanij dollars, by the Odd-Fellows Hall Associa-\\ntion, a considerable portion of the stock in which is\\nheld by the lodge. Many of the leading citizens of the\\ntown have been enrolled among its members, and it\\nhas always ranked high in the estimation of the public.\\nIndustry Encampment, No. 1, was organized many\\nyears ago. Passaic Lodge. No. 33, was formed about\\nten years since by the younger members of the order.\\nIt has enjoyed an excellent degree of prosperity.\\nPalo Alto Lodge, No. (J, of the tjrder of Druids,\\nwas formed in Paterson in 1846. It disbanded after\\nsome years. Germania Grove, No. 7, i? now in exist-\\nence; it is made up of Germans almost exclusively.\\nThe Knights of Pythias liave been remarkably suc-\\nce-ssful since the organization of their first lodge, Fa-\\nbiola. No. 57, ten years ago. They now have a second\\nlodge, Zeno, and number about five hundred\\nmembers.\\nThere are four or five tribes or camps of Red\\nMen, one of Germans.\\nThe Order of United Americans had a flourishing\\nexistence twenty-five years ago, and about ten years\\nsince the order of United American Mechanics en-\\nrolled nearly a thousand members and had some fine\\nlodges. It has not been quite so popular of late.\\nThere is scarcely a secret society of any kind or\\ndescription in the country that Iuls not a lodge,\\ncouncil, chapter, tribe, grove, Ibre.sl,\\ntent, conclave, commandery, encampment,\\ndivision, court, or post in Paterson, where\\nsuch lUHsociations appear to flourish to an unusual\\ndegree.\\nCemeteries. As the grave is the end of all things\\nhere below, so it seems not out of place to conclude\\nthis sketch of Paterson with some notice of its bury-\\ning-places. Unlike most towns, it has never been the\\ncustom in Paterson since the town was founded to\\nhave the graveyard next to the church. That was\\nthe case witli the olil Totowa Church, long before Pat-\\nerson was dreamed of, but no church erected within\\nthe present limits of Paterson in the bust hundred\\nyears has followed that precedent. It was usual with\\nsome of the old families to have burying-plots on\\ntheir farms, or sometimes a vault. One of the latter\\nreceptacles of the dead is preserved in good order on\\nKa.st Eighteenlli Street near Seventh Avenue. The\\nfirst cemetery was provided in 1K14 hy the First Pres-\\nbyterian Church, who obtained from the Society for\\nthe Promotion of Useful Manufactures a triangular\\nplot of half an acre on Market Street just east of\\nVine. People of all dcnomiiiallons were buried\\nthere, Protcstjint and Catholic. In 1S24 the Meth-\\nodists bought a plot of two acres on Willis Street,\\nand in the same year St. John s Chapel bought,\\nthrough .John Kear, a small plot on the opposite side\\nof Willis Street. Meantime the State of New Jersey\\nhad come into possession of large tracts of sandy\\nwaste land on the south side of Market Street, and it\\nbeing considered good for nothing else, sold it off for\\nburying-grounds at the rate of fifty dollars per acre.\\nThe Presbyterians bought of the State three acres in\\n1826, adjoining their old cemetery in 183. the society\\nsold to the Fir.-t Reformed Church two acres on Willis\\nStreet, next to the Methodists in the same year the\\nState sold to St. Paul s Church five acres on the south\\nside of Market Street; and in 1839, three acres to St.\\nJohn s Roman Catholic Church, next to the former;\\nand in 1844 three acres to the Baptist Church, next to\\nthe last two. In 1851 the Methodists extended their\\ncemetery by purchase from the society, and in 1854\\nthe Presbyterians bought from the society a new plot\\non the north side of Market Street, adjoining those\\non the Willis Street siile of the block. Altogether,\\nthe cemeteries above enumerated contain twenty-two\\nacres, divided into 4500 lots, in which there have been\\nmade about 15,000 interments. The growth of the\\ncity in the neighborhood has convinced most people\\nthat in time these graveyards must be removed. In\\n187() a bill was proposed in the Legislature providing\\nthat the reversionary interest of the State should be\\nvested in the city; that any church might ctmvey to\\nthe city its interest in the lots unsold, and that six\\nmonths thereafter all interments in such cemetery\\nshould be unlawful that the city might improve and\\nIjcautify the grounds, without removing any bodies,\\nunless with the consent of the lot-owners. The belief\\nof the frauier of the bill was that in this way the city\\nmight in time secure a beautiful public park in the\\nvery heart of the city, and at little cost. It was also\\nhis belief that unless some such action should be taken\\nin time the grounds would be converted to other use-\\nand built up. Apparently in confirmation of this\\nview, an act was passed by the Legislature in 1882\\nproviding lor vesting in the Ladies Hospital Associa-\\ntion of Paterson the feeof the Baptist cemetery, the ul-\\ntinuite object being to erect thereon a permanent hos-\\npital luiilding. Their SaMdy llilT eemetery lieingall\\ntilled, ill ISiK) tile aulhorilics of St. John the Baptist s\\nCliurcli lioiight a tract of twenty-five acres on llaledon\\nAvenue for a cemetery, hut its use was prohibited by\\nthe Legislature, and in 18G7 the church bought sev-\\nenty-three acres on Totowa, near the Lincoln Bridge,\\npart of which they laid out as the Cemetery of the\\nHoly Sepulchre. It contains a great many graves,\\nand some fine monuments ami tombs.\\nIn 1st;. Mes.-rs. Thomas 1), Hoxsey and David B,\\nBeam secured a charter for the Cedar Cliff Ceme-\\ntery Company, intemling to establish a cemetery on\\nthe side of the Preakness .Mountain, between Pat-\\nerson and Hiilediin. They sold out in 18l (3 to other\\ngentlemen, who hail concluded that the hest location\\nwould be on the hillside above Dundee Lake, alon^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0894.jp2"}, "778": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0895.jp2"}, "779": {"fulltext": "^v\\nn", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0896.jp2"}, "780": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n523\\nthe Wesel road, and in October, 1866, the company\\nwas organized, with F. C. Beckwith, Tliomas Barbour,\\nThomas D. Hoxsey, Adam Carr, Henry B. Crosby,\\nWilliam S. Kinch, and James Croolcs as directors,\\nwho elected Mr. Beckwith president, and Mr. Carr\\nsecretary and treasurer. John J. Brown and Socra-\\ntes Tuttle were soon after added to the board. Gen.\\nEgbert L. Viele was employed to lay out the grounds,\\nwhich he did in the most approved style. In 1867\\nthe name of the company was changed to Cedar\\nLawn, and that is the name their beautiful cemetery\\nnow bears. On Sept. 19, 1867, the cemetery was dedi-\\ncated, the occasion being one of general public in-\\nterest, in which hundreds of citizens participated.\\nThe grounds are. admirably situated in every respect\\nfor their purpose, and have been laid out and beauti-\\nfied with much care and good taste. They are con-\\nvenient of approach, and at the same time are so\\nlocated that there is not the slightest probability that\\nthey will ever be disturbed by the onward march of\\nimprovement. The first interment was made the\\nweek after the dedication, and from that time to Jan.\\n1, 1882, 6538 interments had been made, about 1500\\nbeing removals from the Sandy Hill graveyards.\\nIt is estimated that the cemetery is capacious enough\\nfor a population of one hundred thousand within the\\nlimits of that city of the dead. Upwards of a\\nmillion dollars have been laid out in monuments,\\ntombs, and other adornment of its sacred precincts\\nby lot-owners, and the company has expended a\\nquarter of a million more on the land and in various\\nimprovements. This heavy investment is justly re-\\ngarded as an assurance of the permanence of the\\ncemetery. As this fact has become more and more\\nsettled, almost every day the asheij of some of Pater-\\nson s earlier citizens who have helped to make the his-\\ntory so imperfectly outlined in the foregoing pages are\\nremoved from other places, where the growing city is\\nimpatiently throbbing and bustling about them, and\\nare tenderly deposited at Cedar Lawn, where, with\\nthe eternal hills on the one hand and the gently-\\nflowing river on the other, they may rest in peace\\nuntil the archangel s trump shall sound.\\nCHAPTER LXX.\\nCITY OF PATERSON\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Co/KjiiiieiO.\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nJames Booth, the surviving member of the large\\nsilk-manufacturing firm of Hamil Booth, was born\\nat Doddiugton, Cheshire, England, on Jan. 1, 1833.\\n1 Mr. Brown and Mr. Crosby have remained in the board ever since.\\nMr. Crosby is president; J. H. Tindle, vice-president; G. A. Hobart,\\ntreasurer.\\nThe foregoing sketch of Paterson cemeteries is condensed from\\nHistory and Description of Cedar Lawn Cemetery, etc., 1S76, by\\nWm. Nelson.\\nHis parents were Joseph and Ann (Turner) Booth,\\nhoth of whom were natives of Staftbrdshire. His\\nfather, Joseph, second son of Joseph Booth, was left\\nin good circumstances in life, and engaged in the\\ndry-goods trade during the earlier years of his busi-\\nness career. He removed to Staffordshire in 1837,\\nwhere he engaged in agricultural juij-suits until his\\ndeath about 1852 his wife died six months later.\\nNeither of them came to this country. They had a\\nfamily of six children, of whom four grew to years of\\nmaturity, namely, William T. Ann, who married\\nJoseph Dodds James and Mary, who became the\\nwife of Charles Ford, of Warwickshire.\\nJames Booth received a good village education at\\nHilderstone, Staffordshire, and when about fourteen\\nyears of age attended the academy of Chalmers\\nCritchley, at Stafford, where he completed his aca-\\ndemic course. When sixteen years of age he left\\nschool and went to Leak, where he became an ap-\\nprentice of Thomas Carr Co., silk-manufacturers of\\nthat city. He remained at that place until he at-\\ntained his majority, and learned all the details of\\nsilk-manufacture, including hand-throwing and the\\nmaking of braids.\\nIn 1854, having become impressed with the idea\\nthat the United States afforded a better opportunity\\nfor the exercise of his trade, he set sail for that coun-\\ntry from Liverpool in the ship Sarah Sands, and\\nlanded at Portland, Me., on April 17th of that year,\\nafter a voyage of .seventeen days.\\nThe third day after arriving in this country he se-\\ncured a position as clerk in the employ of a dry-goods\\nmerchant named Billings, in New York City, where\\nhe remained for a short time. In June, 1854, learn-\\ning that Paterson was the chief centre of silk manu-\\nfacture in America, he visited that city, and secured\\na position as under-foreman in the winding depart-\\nment with John Eyle, who was manufacturing silk\\nin the Murray Mill. Robert Hamil was then foreman\\nof the finishing department of the same mill, but re-\\nsigned two weeks later, and was succeeded by Mr.\\nBooth, who occupied the place for about a year,\\nduring which time he commanded attention as an in-\\ndustrious, hard-working, and successful mechanic.\\nAt the expiration of that time Mr. Booth withdrew\\nfrom the employ of Mr. Ryle, and in May, 1855, be-\\ngan the manufacture of tailors sewing-silk in the\\nBeaver Mill. He started at first with about fifteen\\nmen and three thousand dollars worth of machinery,\\nand was joined two months later by Robert Hamil,\\nthe two carrying on the business together. Owing to\\nthe gradual growth of the business, the enterpri.se was\\nsubsequently removed to the Machinists Association\\nbuilding, where two rooms were leased. In 1859 the\\nfirm of Hamil Booth rented the top floor of the\\nMurray Mill, where they engaged in business until\\n1862, at which time they purchased the Passaic Mill,\\non Ward Street, enlarged it, and which they continue\\nto operate. In 1872 they purcha.sed the old Godwin", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0899.jp2"}, "781": {"fulltext": "5J4\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCotton-M ill, on the corner of Mill and Market Streets,\\nwhicli was named the Haniil Mill, and wliich is\\nstill operated by Mr. Booth and the legal successors\\nof Mr. Hamil. The latter died on Sept. 11, 1880, and\\nthe extensive business of the concern is now carried\\non by Mr. Booth and Peter M. Banni(;uM, who rep-\\nresents the Hamil interest, and has i)roven an efficient\\nand valuable coailjutor in the management of the in-\\nterests of the establishment. Mr. Booth has suc-\\nceeded to the management of the financial and com-\\nmercial affairs of the concern since Mr. Hamil s death,\\nhaving his office at the New York salesrooms. No. 96\\nand !t8 Grand Street. Mr. Bannigan has charge of\\nmatters at the factories, a duty which Mr. Booth for-\\nmerly perlornicd. The enterprise which they repre-\\nsent is one of the largest and most successful of its\\nkind in the country, and is treated of in detail else-\\nwhere in this work.\\nMr. Booth has resided in Paterson since his first\\ncoming in 18 and occupies a handsome residence\\non the corner of Broadway and Auburn Streets, in\\nthat city, which he erected in 1869. He belongs to a\\nclass of self-made and successful men of Paterson\\nwho have raised themselves by their own exertions\\nfrom humble positions to places of honor and influ-\\nence in the community, and who, while illustrating\\nthe true nobility of labor, have acquired han Isome\\ncompetencies. He has never participated in political\\natfairs, but confined himself closely to his business of\\nsilk manufacture. He has nevertheless been identi-\\nfied with the local institutions of the city, and held a\\nnumber of jiositious of importance. In connection\\nwith .lames ,Jack~on, .Tohn Dunlop, John Shaw, Peter\\nDorenius, A. B. Woodrutf, Francis C. Van Dyk, and\\nWilliam Watson, he was one of the organizers of the\\nPassaic County Savings Institution in 1870, and was\\nelected vice-president of that institution. Upon the\\nwithdrawal of llic president, Mr. Watson, Mr. Booth\\nbecame acting presiilent, and a lministered that oflicc\\nwith ability until the institution went into voluntary\\nliquidation. The affairs of the concern were closed\\nup in an honorable and legitimate manner, and the\\nclaims of the depositors were paid in full out of the\\njirivate funds of the directors, some of the securities\\nheld by the institution not yet being realized on.\\nThe honorable closing of the affairs of the bank in-\\nured greatly to the benefit of the other financial\\ninstitutions of the city, ami probably jirevented a\\nmoiK-tary panic.\\n.Mr. Booth is a nieniber of the Paterson Board of\\nTrade, of the Silk Industrial .Vssociiilioii of that city,\\nand is a director of the Silk Industrial .\\\\s,sociation of\\nNew York City. He is a regular attendant of the\\nFirst Presliytcrian Church of Paterson, and a inein-\\nIht of the boanl of trustees. He has been an active\\ncontributor to the support of the Old Ladie.s Home\\nof that I itv, and is now one of the directors of the\\ninstitution.\\nMr. Booth was married on May 15, 1860, to Addie,\\ndaughter of John D. and Mary Shorrock, of Paterson,\\nand has had si.x children, five sons and a daughter,\\nof whom the former are living, viz. Charles Ells-\\nworth, who has been thoroughly educated in the silk\\nbusiness and is a designer in the mill of his father\\nFrederick Mortimer, who is a book-keeper in the\\nNew York store; William Turner, who while se-\\ncuring a good education is also learning the silk\\nbusiness; Hurry Sliorrock, and John Morgan Booth.\\nAbraham H. Godwin.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Godwin family is one\\nof the oldest of Pa-^saic County. Long prior to the\\nRevolutionary war Abraham Godwin was born upon\\nthe ocean, while his parents were en rou/r from Eng-\\nland to America. The family settlement wius made\\nat Totowa, and here the Abraham above referred to\\nlived throughout his life. He was the great-great-\\ngrandfather of the subject of this sketch, and was\\nsucceeded by his son Abraham, who also lived and\\ndied in that locality. The latter had a large family\\nof children, among whom were Henry, .\\\\braham. and\\nDavid, each of whom ]ierformed active service in the\\nRevolutionary war. Henry established an early news-\\npaper at Newburgh, N. Y., small in dimensions but\\npatriotic in spirit, and edited it with ability during\\nthe greater portion of the war in behalf of our\\nnational independence. He wiis a captain in the\\npatriot army, and was taken prisoner at West Point,\\nand died in the hands of the enemy. David settled\\nat Peekskill, N. Y., after the war, and sub.sequently\\nresided at Hoboken, N. J. Abraham was the grand-\\nfather of our subject. He married a Miss Monson,\\nof Morris County, X. J., and had children, Phebe,\\nwho marrie l Peter (i. Van Winkle, a mitiveof Pater-\\nson, and leading merchant in New York; Henry;\\nSusan, who married John Davis, of Philadelphia;\\nCaleb Monson Abraham, father of Parke Godwin,\\nof the New York Kvniiiiri Paul; Elizabeth, who be-\\ncame the wife of Ira Miinn, of Orange, N. J.; Mar-\\ngaret, who marrieil Robert R. Taylor, of Paterson\\nand Maria, who married Halmegh Van Houten, of\\nTotowa. Abraham Godwin died Oct. 6, 1835, in his\\nseventy-fourth year. His son Henry was born at\\nMorristown, N. .1., and was one of the early merchantis\\nof Paterson. During the years 1S1;{, 1814, anil 181.\\nhe also engaged in the manufacture of cotton in that\\ncity. He died in 1814 or I81. i. His wife wius Mary,\\ndaughter of Edo and Eleanor Marselis, of Little Falls\\ntownship, and the children five in number, of whom\\nfour attained matureycars, viz. Abraham H., Eleanor,\\nwidow of .Vbraham Prall, of Paterson Jane M., who\\njiiarrieil .lohn Campbell, of Mobile, Ala.; and Phebe.\\n.Vbraham H. (lodwin was born on the Little Falls\\nturnpike, near Paterson, on Jlay 2, 1807. He re-\\nceived only a common-school e lucation, and when\\nabout eighteen years of age started u store near the\\nold Totowa brlilge. in Paterson, opposite the Pa.ssaii\\nHotel, where his lather had traded as early as 1812.\\nAlter one year he worked a.s a clerk in the employ\\nsuccessivelv of Aaron .V. Van Houten and Peter", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0900.jp2"}, "782": {"fulltext": "-^^5^^.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0901.jp2"}, "783": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0902.jp2"}, "784": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0903.jp2"}, "785": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0904.jp2"}, "786": {"fulltext": "CITY OP PATERSON.\\n525\\nJackson, merchants of Acquackanonk township, and\\nafter a few months returned to Paterson and assisted\\nhis grandfatlier, Abraham Godwin, in keeping tlie\\nold Passaic Hotel. Two years later he engaged in\\nthe manufacture of cotton yarn on the lower raceway\\nin Paterson as a member of the firm of Post God-\\nwin, and then formed a copartnership w ith his cousin,\\nPeter G. Van Winkle, and engaged in the grocery\\ntrade for several years.\\nAbout the year 1834, Mr. Godwin went to Mobile,\\nAla., and shortly after entered into the cotton-broker-\\nage business at that place. By close attention to his\\naffairs he became recognized as one of the leading\\nbrokers of the South, and did business for some of\\nthe heaviest European purchasing houses. His busi-\\nness attained such large proportions that he was\\nfinally compelled to take in a partner in the person\\nof John G. Davis, of Philadelphia, the firm of God-\\nwin Davis doing a successful business down to near\\nthe opening of the late war, when the enterprise was\\ngiven up. While in active business in Mobile, Mr.\\nGodwin was jironiinently identified with the growing\\ninterests of the locality. He w-as one of the first\\nstockholders and an early director of the steamship\\nline between New Orleans and New York. In 1843\\nhe returned to Paterson, and while still maintaining\\nhis interests at Mobile, entered upon the manufacture\\nof cotton yarns in connection with Abraham Prall,\\nHenry M. Low, and Maj. John Edwards, and subse-\\nquently pursued that business with his sister, Mrs.\\nPrall, as partner for several years. The enterprise\\nwas successfully prosecuted during the war, the mill\\noccupied at present by Haniil Booth having been\\nerected for the purpose by Mr. Godwin and his sister.\\nSoon after the war the mill was sold to the latter firm\\nand the machinery to other parties, and Mr. Godwin\\nwithdrew from active business. He has lived in re-\\ntirement at Paterson since, being recognized as one\\nof the .-ubstantial residents of the city, and enjoying\\nthat freedom from business annoyances which his\\nsuccessful commercial career entitles him to. He\\nIkis never taken special interest in politics, nor aspired\\nto public position. He was at one time a member of\\nthe board of directors of the Manufiicturers National\\nBank of Brooklyn, and is now a director in the Far-\\nragut Fire Insurance Company of New York. He\\nhas enjoyed an extended acquaintance with the lead-\\ning business men of the United States, and been fav-\\norably known as a man of enterprise, integrity, and\\nmoral |)rineii)le. His wife was Miss Ann E. Park, of\\nPliiludeliihia, and has had no children.\\nPeter Adams was born in Forfarshire, Scotland,\\non Feb. 2, 1807. His parents were George and Louisa\\n(Sutherland) Adam, the former a native of Aberdeen-\\nshire, and the latter of Caithness-shire. The family-\\nseat of the Adam family was about fifteen miles north\\nof Aberdeen, where Peter Adam, the grandfather of\\nthe subject of this sketch, resided. It was not until\\nthe emigration of Peter Adams to this country, in\\n34\\n1827, that the final s was added to the family pat-\\nronymic by himself (ieorge Adam was a gardener\\nby occupation, a calling which in the mother-country\\nsignifies something, and after a liusy and industrious\\nlife died in 1812. After his death his widow married\\nHenry Travis. By the first marriage were born six\\nchildren, of whom only three reached mature age.\\nviz. Jeannette, who married Robert Kerr; Peter, our\\nsubject; and Ann, who married John Thomson, of\\nWhippany, N. J. The only issue of the second mar-\\nriage was Sarah, who came to this country with her\\nmother and half-sister, Ann, in 1840, and who is the\\nwidow of Lewis Schaeffer, of Jersey City, and resides\\nthere. She and Peter Adams are the only children\\nliving, Mrs. Travis having died on Oct. 24, 1856.\\nAt the age of eight years Peter Adams began a life\\nof labor by entering the paper-mill of Robert Tullis\\nCo., in Fifeshire, Scotland, of which his uncle,\\nJohn Craig, was superintendent, and where he re-\\nmained two years, working during the day in the\\nmill, and receiving the only book education he ever\\nenjoyed by attending the night-school of the locality.\\nHe then returned to Aberdeen, and until he was sev-\\nenteen years of age worked in a fiax-mill and a cot-\\nton-mill at that place. At that time he became an\\napprentice to the trade of paper-making with his\\nuncle, John Craig, the paper at that time being made\\nby hand. He remained in Fifeshire for three years,\\nand when nearly twenty-one years of age became a\\njourneyman at the trade. Soon after he determined\\nto emigrate to the United States, where the oppor-\\ntunities for work and development in his business\\nwere greater, and on Aug. 26, 1827, he set sail from\\nGreenock, Scotland, on the vessel Samuel Robin-\\nson, Capt. Shotwell, and landed in New York on\\nOctober 4th of the same year. He went at once to\\nSaugerties, Ulster Co., N. Y., and began work on\\nOctober 24th, in the paper-mill that was started by\\nHenry Barclay at that time, and whose modern suc-\\ncessor is now operated by J. B. Sheflield Son.\\nUpon beginning work in this pioneer paper-mill, Mr.\\nAdams was one of four Scotchmen the others being\\nThomas Lindsay, Alexander White, and David Grieve\\nto start the first Fourdrinier paper-machine in this\\ncountry. He remained in Saugerties, working stead-\\nily at his trade, until September, 1835, when he re-\\nmoved to Morristown, N. J., and assumed the man-\\nagement of the paper-mill of William Knight. In\\nOctober, 1837, he removed to Paterson, N. J., and on\\nNovember 22d of that year became foreman of H. V.\\nButler Co. s Passaic Paper-Mill, of that city. He\\nremained in that position until May 11, 1859, and\\nthen retired from ])aper manufacture for a time. In\\n1854 he established Adams New York and Paterson\\nExpress, and placing it in charge of his sons, did a\\nsuccessful business until Nov. 23, 1869, wdien he dis-\\nposed of it to James Fisk, Jr., of New York. It is\\nnow known as Fuller s Paterson and New York Ex-\\npress.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0907.jp2"}, "787": {"fulltext": "526\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nIn 1863, Mr. Adams determined to engage in the\\nmaking of paper on lii^; own account, and taking with\\nliim John Kauiagc, who liad succeeded him as fore-\\nman for H. V. Hutler Co., he went to the village of\\nBuckland, Conn., and purchasing the mill formerly\\noperated by Godwin Sheldon at that place, began\\nmanufacturing on Jan. 1. 1864.\\nThe firm of Adams it Kamage continued to do a\\n8ucce. sful bnsine.-s until Jan. 1, 1860, when the latter\\nwithdrew, and Mr. Adams hiis continued to operate\\nthe mill to this day. During a portion of this time\\nthe deceased son of Mr. Adams, Peter C. Adams, was\\nin partnership with his father, the business being\\ncarried on under the firm-name of Peter Adams\\nSon. The capacity of the mill is six tons of chronic\\nand plate paper a day. In 1866, finding that liis\\nbusiness was expanding verj rapidly, Mr. Adams, in\\nconnection with Dr. Garvis Prince, purchased the\\nIsaac Oakley paper-mill, at Newburgh, X. Y., and\\nsince that time has continued to manufacture fine\\nhook-paper there. Dr. Prince withdrew from the\\nfirm after one year. William Bishop, a nephew of\\nMr. Adams, was admitted as a partner in this enter-\\nprise in 1872, the firm of Adams Bishop turning\\nout about three and a half tons of fine paper daily at\\nthe present time.\\nMr. .^(lams is now at the head of a large enterprise,\\nand is recognized us one of the oldest and most suc-\\ncessful paper-manufacturers in the United States.\\nThe i roduct of his mills goes all over the world, and\\nstands at the head of the market for excellence in\\n(|ualily and finish. He made the paper on which was\\nprinted the catalogue of the World s Fair at Paris in\\n1870, and received a bronze medal in recognition of\\nthe superiority of his productions. He has also re-\\nceived, within a few days, a beautiful silver medal,\\nawarded by the Melbourne International Exhibition\\nof .Vuslralia for paper that had been made and sold\\nin the regular coui-se of trade, and which he did not\\nknow was to be placed on exhibition. The extensive\\nsalesrooms of the concern are at No. 57 Murray Street,\\nNew York.\\nMr. Adams was connected with Mr. Butler, of\\nPatcrson, in the making of paper for twenty-two\\nyears, during which time the Ivanhoe Mill was\\nerected under his supervision. He has since devoted\\nhimself closely to his own personal business, and has\\nled an active, industrious, and sober life, which has\\nbeen crowned by the acquisition of a handsome com-\\npetency, and by the building up of a good name. He\\nhas resided in Patcrson since 18;i7, and in the house\\nwhich he now occupies since 1842, when it was erected\\nby himself, but lias since been remodeled. He has\\nnot sought political j)rominence nor personal popu-\\nlarity, but devoted him.- clf strictly to the manage-\\nment of his own private affairs. He is n member of\\nthe New York Hoard of Trade, and a liberal supporter\\nof the progre-Hsive enterprises of his day. He is a\\nregular attendant of the First Presbyterian Church\\nof Paterson, and is a man of unblemished reputation.\\nHe was married on July 16, 1831, to Hannah Schaef-\\nfer, widow of Calvin Floyd. Mrs. .\\\\dams died on\\nJuly 7, 1868. An only daughter is all that is left of\\nthe six children born of the union. In 1860, Mr.\\nAdams visited the place of his birth and childhood,\\nand while in Scotland assisted in laying to rest the\\nremains of his uncle, John Craig, from whom he had\\nderived his first lessons in pajier-making. The Craig\\nfamily is still engaged in the manufacture of paper in\\nS(X)tlaii(l.\\nLouis Franke was born on Sept. 7, 1827, in\\nSchkeuditz, Prussia. His father, Karl Friedrich\\nFranke, was a manufacturer of leather gloves and\\nsimilar articles at that place during his life. Both\\nhe and his wife died on successive days of the\\ncholera in 1848. They had a family of seven chil-\\ndren, of whom only two came to this country, viz.,\\nLouis and Ernst, the latter of whom is employed in\\nhis brother s silk-mill in Paterson.\\nThe earlier career of Louis Franke was a rather\\ncheckered one, and he engaged in many occupations\\nand encountered many obstacles before he finally\\nachieved success. Until he wsis fifteen years of age\\nhe remained at home and attended the city school,\\nand then went to Leipsic, where he became an ap-\\nprentice in the wholesale and retail dry-goods store\\nof J. H. Meyer for five years, without pay, in order\\nto learn the business. Remaining a year longer as\\nclerk, he then went to Berlin, where he entered the\\nemploy of Herman Gerson, a large wholesale and\\nretail dry-goods dealer, who engaged largely in the\\nmanufacture of cloaks and mantillas, in which de-\\npartuient Mr. Franke served for two years, during\\nwhich time he cultivated his titste and skill in de-\\nsigning and making the above articles, and in conse-\\nquence receiving from A. Selchow, of the same city,\\nan offer to manage his cloak- and mantilla-factory at\\na liberal salary, which he accepted. While there he\\nmade frc(iueiit trijis to Paris to get the newest fash-\\nions, and afterwards alter the same to suit the tasti\\nI of the different German countries.\\nIn 1852 he was ersuaded by a friend to go to\\nAmerica, landing at Galveston, Texas, from where he\\nwent to the interior of the State, in the fall of tin\\nsame year going to New Orleans, l.,a., where In-\\nI clerked in the dry-goods store of Moses Loeb for a\\nfew months. Here he made up his mind to re-\\nturn to Germany, as the chances of success in lil i-\\nseemed very slim to him, and after visiting all tin\\ncities in the Mississippi Valley and San .luan, Nica\\nragua, Havana, and Charl tton, finally landed ai\\nNew York, where he attended the World s Fair :il\\nthe Crystal I alace in ISfy.i.\\nHe then suileil on board the City of Manchester\\nfrom Pliiladel|diia to Liverpool. A few ilays before\\nreaching Liverpool they had one of the most exciting\\nand perilous piL\u00c2\u00absages through innumerable and large\\nicebergs, lasting from daybreak till about three o clock", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0908.jp2"}, "788": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0910.jp2"}, "789": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0911.jp2"}, "790": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0912.jp2"}, "791": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0913.jp2"}, "792": {"fulltext": "C. (il .Kl l O.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0914.jp2"}, "793": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n527\\nin the afternoon, and about an hour later saw the ill-\\nfated steamer Cit\\\\- of Glasgow, which was never\\nseen again.\\nUpon returning to Berlin he took his old position\\nagain with Mr. Selchow, and working with renewed\\nvigor, gained great success for the above house. The\\nAmerican panic of 1857 having a disheartening eflect\\non Germany, Mr. Franke, in the spring of 1858, came\\nback to the United States, going to Cincinnati, where\\nhe became connected with the silk-importing house of\\nWalter Kahn. A year later he went to New Orleans,\\nwhere he made a contract with Moses Loeb to buy dry-\\ngoods for him at auction in New York and ship them\\nto New Orleans. This connection was stopped by\\ntlie breaking out of the war, which put an end to\\nall commercial transactions between the North and\\nSouth. It was about this time that the turn in the\\ntide of Mr. Franke s affairs occurred. In 1862 he\\nbegan the manufacture on a small scale of dress and\\ncloak trimmings on the corner of Broome Street and\\nBroadway, in New York City, and soon gained a\\nreputation for the manufacture of a superior quality\\nof goods, and deserves credit for breaking the exist-\\ning prejudice in favor of foreign goods by making the\\nworkmanship and designs as good as the French, but\\nusing better material than they and taking more care\\nin tlie finish, a fact that became generally acknowl-\\nedged by the trade. He was the first one to manu-\\nfacture the celebrated Angora goat-hair fringes in the\\nUnited States, and afterwards to introduce the equally\\nwell-known braid fringes, which he manufactured on\\na large scale and in large varieties. His business ex-\\npanded so rapidly that he was compelled to enlarge\\nhis facilities continually, until he occupied eight large\\nlofts at Broome Street and Broadway.\\nAbout this time, January, 1873, Mr. Henry W.\\nStruss, who had been in his employ in various posi-\\ntions, from office-boy to book-keeper, was takeu into\\npartnership, the business being carried on under the\\nsole name of Louis Franke, which ha.s become widely\\nknown in the trade.\\nThey had obtained their silk for the purposes of\\nmanufacture from the best throwsters, but having, by\\nbuying large quantities aud selling again to smaller\\nmanufacturers, established quite a trade in thrown\\nsilks, they conceived the idea of throwing their own\\nsilk, and in December, 1875, hired the newly-built\\nmill belonging to Mr. Samuel Pope, at Paterson, re-\\nmoved to it their braiding machinery from the factory\\nin Greene Street, New York, that had been established\\na number of years, and putting in new and suitable\\nmachinery, commenced throwing silk on their own\\naccount. The business increased so rapidly that they\\ndisposed of their dress and cloak trimming manufac-\\nturing business in New York to Schmadike Under-\\nbill, on Jan. 1, 1880, and have since devoted their\\nwhole energies to the importing and sale of raw silk,\\nand the manufacture of thrown silks to supply manu-\\nfacturers of trimmings, ribbons, piece-goods, etc.\\nFinding their ([uarters at the Pope Mill too small,\\nthey purchased a piece of property at the corner of\\nBridge and River Streets, Paterson, and erected\\nthereon the commodious and handsome mill which\\nwas finished in January, 1881, and is a model of its\\nkind. It is three stories in height, the main floors\\nbeing each fifty by two hundred feet, with a wing at\\neach end of about thirty by thirty leet, besides the\\nengine- and boiler-houses, which are separate from\\nthe main building.\\nThe mill is filled with the bpst machinery, employs\\nover three hundred hands, and has a productive\\ncapacity of from three thousand five hundred to four\\nthousand pounds per week. It is almost fire-proof,\\nhaving solid floors of six and a quarter inches thick-\\nness, in three layers of plank crossing each other\\ndiagonally and resting on heavy girders.\\nIt is warmed and ventilated by mechanical means,\\nthus insuring pure air and perfect health to the em-\\nployes, who no doubt appreciate the interest taken in\\ntheir welfare. During the summer fresh air, and\\nduring the winter air that has been heated in a large\\nchamber over the engine-room, is forced by means of\\na powerful blower through a system of flumes and\\ntubes to every part of the large establishment; at the\\nsame time every bit of foul air and offensive smells\\nare drawn out by another system of flues, and thus\\nthe air completely changed in the rooms in the course\\nof about every forty-four minutes. The building is\\nlighted by gas, all the jets on a floor being lit instan-\\ntaneously by means of electricity, thus avoiding all\\nrisk by the use of matches and other means of light-\\ning. The motive-power is transmitted y a one hun-\\ndred and fifty horse-power Corliss engine, made by\\nWatts, Campbell Co., of Newark, N. J., driven by\\nsteam generated by two Babcock Willson patent\\nsafety boilers.\\nThe firm is carrying on a large business, and is now\\none of the largest manufacturers in their line in the\\nUnited States.\\nMr. Franke resides on Lexington Avenue, in New\\nYork City, but is a firm believer in Paterson and its\\ninstitutions. He is a member of the Paterson Board\\nof Trade, and of the Silk Association of America.\\nHe married, about 1863, Miss Auguste WoUenhaupt,\\na sister of the celebrated composer, Hermann Wol-\\nlenhaupt, and has one daughter, Anna Emilie, who\\nresides at home.\\nClaude Greppo was born at Charnay, about fifteen\\nmiles from Lvfns, France, on Dec. 29, 1834. His\\nparents are Antoine and Louise (Burnand) Greppo,\\nthe former of whom is a wine-grower by occupation,\\nand owns a tract of land devoted to that purpose. In\\nthis pursuit the subject of this sketch was reared.\\nHis first education was derived at a boarding-school at\\nAlix, and at the age of fifteen he entered the Normal\\nSchool of the department, and at seventeen took the\\nfirst prize in the school, consisting of a Dictionary\\nof Universal History and Geography, which is still", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0915.jp2"}, "794": {"fulltext": "528\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nin his possession. He did not receive a diploma from\\nthe institution, because he had not reached the retpii-\\nsite age of eighteen.\\nAfter leaving school he went to Lyons, France,\\nwhere his unt-le, Burnand, was a prominent dyer of\\nsilks, and became an apprentice to the trade of silk\\nmanufacture. In 18.54 and 1855 he engaged in the\\nsilk commission business in Paris as a clerk, and sub-\\nsequently went to London for the purpose of learning\\nthe ICnglish language. On Sept. 7, 1857, with a view\\nof establishing business for himself, and on the special\\ninstigation of a friend, he sailed from Liverpool for\\nthe United States, and landing in New York, started\\nthe silk-importing business at No. 57 5Iurruy Street,\\nwhere he remained until 1867. In the mean time he\\nbegan the manufacture of silk braids at Craiiford,\\nN. J., where he purchased and enlarged a factory for\\nthe purpose. In 1867 the conditions of the importing\\nbusiness having changed, he determined to devote all\\nhis attention to the manufacture of silk, and removed\\nhis business from Cranford to the city of Palerson,\\nwhere he built a mill fifty by two hundred feet in\\nsize and three stories high, on the corner of Slater\\nand Prince Streets. A portion of the mill he rented\\nto William Strange Co., who occupied it for the\\npurposes of silk nianufacture until 1877. The other\\nportion Mr. (ireppo used himself, and besides manu-\\nfacturing silk, was accustomed to do his own dyeing.\\nBy degrees he did the dyeing for Strange Co., and\\ngradually found himself running naturally into the\\nbusiness of dyeing altogether as successive den)ands\\nwere made upon him for that purpose by other man-\\nufacturers. He is now one of the leading dyers of\\nsilk in this country, and h.ts a wide reputation for the\\nquality and superior finish of his work. All the light\\nshades of colors and the most difficult tints are pro-\\nducetl by him with perfect success, and in the art of\\nmaking a uniform, brilliant, and permanent black\\nackiiowletlged to be the most dltlicult of nil no one\\nis more successful. .Mr. Greppo has largely outgrown\\nhis own mill, and is finishing his goods in the Old\\nOun Mill, and doing his dyeing at the old site.\\nMeantime he has in process of erection several large\\nmills on the corner of Railroad Avenue and Pns.saie\\nRiver, which will cover several acres of ground when\\ncompleted, and bring together, all the iletails of his\\nextensive business. He dyes his skein-silk under his\\nown imme, but piece-goods of every description, silk\\nand mi.xed goods and cotton velvets, in the name of\\ntill I atcrson Dyeing and Finishing Company, which\\nwas orgaiii/ed .June 15, 1S77, ami of which he is the\\npresident and sole owner. He has a large line of pat-\\nronage outside of the city of Paterson, and is known as\\na successful dyer throughout the United States. His\\nNew York office is at No. 27 Mercer Street. He is a\\nmember of (he I alcrson Board of Trade, has resided\\nin that city since l. ^ti7, and is held in high esteem by\\na large circle of aci|Uaintances. He was marrieil in\\n1860, to Ellen Douglas Bateman, a native of Balti-\\nmore, and has five children, viz. Claudia, Theodore,\\nUolicrt, Ellen B,. and Francis.\\nJames Jackson was born at Caton, England, on\\nApril 8, 1826. His father, Wm. Jackson, spent his\\nlife as a silk-dresser in Caton, and died in 1876, aged\\n.seventy-five years. His mother was Hannah, daugh-\\nter of James Stubbs, a master-carder at Caton. She\\ndied in 1854, aged fifty-one. The children were\\nJohn, who is an engineer at Oldham, England;\\nJames; William, who is foreman of the gas-works at\\nLancaster, England Rachel and Joseph, deceased.\\nJames Jackson enjoyed limited educational oppor-\\ntunities at the private schools of his locality, and at\\nthirteen years of age began to learn the trade of a\\nmachinist and the manufacture of spun silk. When\\ntwenty-one years of age he worked as a ma.ster-\\nmechauic in the Forge cotton-mill at Caton for three\\nyears, and then became its superintendent, a position\\nhe held for seven years longer. He then removed to\\nOldham, where he acted a.s superintendent of the\\ncoltonmill of Moore A Simmons for twelve years.\\nIn the spring of 1869, desiring to better his condition\\nin life, he emigrated to the United States, and after\\nspending seven mouths in the city of Philadelphia re-\\nmoved to Paterson, N. J., where he worked as a ma-\\nchinist in the works of the Rogers Locomotive and\\nMachine Company for four years. In 1873 he estab-\\nlished himself at No. 41 Sherman .V venue, Paterson.\\nand began the making of Jacquard machines for silk\\nmanufacture. After one year he erected his present\\nfactory, ninety-eight by twenty-two feel, three and a\\nhalf tories high in front, and two and a half in the\\nrear, on Albion Avenue. By cli se application to\\nbusiness and the judicious management of his allairs\\nhe succeeded in securing a wide reputation for the\\nmanufacture of Jacquard and other machinery, and\\nthe products of his skill are in large demand through-\\nout Ihel Miteil Slates. He includes among his |iatrons\\nthe IciKling silk-manufacturers of Paterson, and many\\nof his machines are shipped to Canada. Starting in\\nlife without capital, he luu* by industry, persever-\\nance, and economy succeeded in acquiring a fair\\nconi|)etency, and ranks among the most intelligent\\nand trustworthy mechanics of Paterson. He was\\neh cted alilerman of the Second WanI, Paterson, in\\n1880. Me w:is married in 1846 to Jane, daughter of\\nEdward and Mary Di.Kon, of Caton. England, who\\nwas born in 1825. His chihlren arc William, who is\\nconnected in business with his father, and is a local\\npreacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church Ed-\\nward, who resides at Oldham, Entiland Jidin, who\\nis loom-overlooker in the mills of the Pho ni. c Man-\\nufacturing Company of Paterson; Hannah, wife of\\nJames Cocker, of Paterson Mary A., wife of Robert\\nSwinley, of the same city; Rachel, wife of Thomas\\nClark, of Paterson; and Janie--* Stubbs, who is also\\nasscH i;i(i i| willi his (:illicr in business.\\nSamuel A. Van Satin was horn .Vug. 22, 1802, at\\nTot4)wa, then in the county of Bergen, now Piuwair.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0916.jp2"}, "795": {"fulltext": "Jtn^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0919.jp2"}, "796": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0920.jp2"}, "797": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0921.jp2"}, "798": {"fulltext": "^^Lo/.m ^./^^t^^^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0922.jp2"}, "799": {"fulltext": "^-J-^/,/ ^^^/f f^Q^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0923.jp2"}, "800": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0924.jp2"}, "801": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n529\\nN. J. His ancestors, both on the paternal and ma-\\nternal side, came to this country from Holland at\\na very early period.\\nHis great-grand liither, Isaac Van Saun, then known\\nas Van Zandt, settled in the neighborhood of Hack-\\nensack, Bergen Co., and was probably the first repre-\\nsentative of the Van Saun family who came from\\nAmsterdam.\\nHis grandfather, Samuel Van Saun, was born in\\nthis country, and resided for many years in the same\\nplace, and died at Totowa. He married in the Za-\\nbriskie family.\\nHis father, Albert Van Saun, the second son of\\nSamuel Van Saun, resided at Totowa during the\\ngreater part of his life, and died in Paterson in 1837\\nin his sixty-ninth year. His mother was the daughter\\nof Adrian and Elizabeth Van Houten, of Paterson,\\nand died in 185(5 in her eighty-first year. They had\\nfive children, only two of whom are now living,\\nJohn, who resides in tlie city of New York, and\\nSamuel A., the subject of this sketch.\\nThe boyhood of Samuel A. Van Saun was passed\\nupon his father s farm at Totowa. His early educa-\\ntion was such as the schools at that time afforded.\\nWhen only nine years old he was accustomed to walk\\ndaily to and from the district school, three miles dis-\\ntant afterwards he attended the academy at Pater-\\nson, and received a good business education.\\nIn 1826 he married Anna, daughter of Casparus\\nand Natia Wessels, of Paterson. The issue of this\\nmarriage was five children, Sopiiia D., who died in\\ninfancy; Elizabeth V. H., wife of Henry Muzzy, of\\nPaterson, who died a few years since Mary Louisa,\\nwife of ex-Senator Henry A. Williams, of Paterson;\\nJane A., wife of William Williams, of Hackensack\\nand Albert Van Saun, of Paterson. His wife, a\\nwoman of strong will and devoted piety, died in 1844.\\nIn 1857 he married an estimable lady, Abigail\\nOakley, widow of John S. Fayerweatlier.\\nFor nearly half a century, from 1826 to 1874, he\\nwas engaged in mercantile pursuits in Paterson. In\\n1847 he erected the brick building on the corner of\\nMain and Ellison Streets, and there established the\\nbusiness of agricultural implements, seeds, painters\\nsupplies, etc., which has been so successfully carried\\non there since. In 1874 he retired from active busi-\\nness, and was succeedetl by his son, Albert Van Saun.\\nand grandson, S. V. S. Muzzy.\\nIn politics he is conservative, and was a Whig of\\nthe Henry Clay school as long as that party existed.\\nIn 1844 lie was chosen on a Union ticket to represent\\nPassaic County in the I^egislature. He served as\\njudge of the Court of Common Pleas of Passaic\\nCounty for the term of five years. In 1860 he was a\\ndelegate from this State to the National Convention\\nat Baltimore which nominated Bell and Everett.\\nUpon the breaking out of the Rebellion he became\\nidentified politically with the Republican party, and\\nwas a firm supporter of the Federal government.\\nJudge Van Saun has now attained the age of sev-\\nenty-nine years. He is the oldest living merchant of\\nPaterson, and nearly the last representative of a class\\nwhich is fast passing away. His life has been closely\\nconnected with the history of Paterson from the time\\nit was a hamlet of a few hundreds to its present more\\nthan fifty thousand inhabitants. He is a man of plain\\nhabits and retiring disposition, genial and kind-\\nhearted. His life-work has been confined chiefiy to\\nprivate business, in which he has ever been active\\nand energetic, though always performing cheerfully\\nsuch public duties as were required of him as a citizen.\\nHe has accumulated an ample fortune, the result of\\nan active and industrious business life. He and his\\nancestors have always been identified with the Re-\\nformed Dutch Church, and for many years he has\\nbeen officially connected with the Second Reformed\\nDutch Church of Totowa at Paterson, both as deacon\\nand elder.\\nJoseph Gledhill was born at Greetland, York-\\nshire, England, on Nov. 16, 1796, and was one of the\\nten children of John and Sarah Thwait Gledhill.\\nHis father was a manufacturer of woolen textures.\\nJoseph received an ordinary English education at\\nthe common school of his parish, and at fifteen years\\nof age commenced to learn the trade of shoemaking\\nat Greetland. He worked at this business in Liver-\\npool until April, 1819, when he set sail in the ship\\nAmity, Capt. Maxwell, to seek his fortune in the\\nNew World. After a voyage of twenty-one days he\\nlanded in New York City, and came directly to Pat-\\nerson, W here he soon after established a shoe-store on\\nPark Street, now the lower portion of Main Street.\\nAfter spending a little over a year in that locality he\\nremoved to near the corner of Van Houten and Main\\nStreets, and continued business there for several years.\\nHe then moved to the west end of Van Houten Street,\\nnear the race, where he lesised a tract of land for thirty\\nyears and erected a house and shop of his own. At\\nthis point he continued for eighteen years, laboring\\nindustriously and faithfully at his trade, and gradu-\\nally extending the scope of his business. At the end\\nof that time, owing to failing health, he sold his\\nproperty to Jonathan Taylor, and after a few years\\npurchased the Andrew Parsons farm, consisting of\\nabout forty acres, in Acquackanonk township, near the\\ncanal, where he engaged in agricultural i)ursuits for\\nabout eighteen years longer, when, owing to the loss\\nof his wife, he disposed of his farm and moved into\\nPaterson to reside. Since that time he has not en-\\ngaged in active business, although he has operated to\\nsome extent in real estate. He is now one of the\\noldest residents of the city, has led a retired, modest,\\nand industrious life, and by judicious management\\nhas accumulated considerable property. He has never\\nbeen a seeker after public position, although he filled\\nthe office of county collector of Passaic County for\\ntwo years, and served as a member of the board of\\nchosen freeholders of the same county.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0925.jp2"}, "802": {"fulltext": "530\\nHISTORY OF BKKGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIKS. NKW .lEUSMY.\\nMr. Gledhill is the only living reiiresfiuutive oi a\\nlarge family of children. Besides hinit-elf, a brother\\nJames and sister Sarah came to this county, the latter\\nof whom married John Collins, of Croton Falls, N. Y.,\\nand the former engaged in woolen manufacture at\\nNew London, Conn., and at Garretsville, Otsego Co.,\\nN. Y where some of his descendants still reside.\\nOur subject has been twice married, first on Sept. 1.5,\\n1821, to Eliza Davis, of Paterson, who was born April\\n20, 1804, and who died about the opening of the late\\nwar; and secondly to his present wife {nre Ann Staf-\\nford), widow of John Carsley. Of the first marriage\\nwere born four children, viz. William, a prominent\\nlawyer of Paterson in his day Sarah, who married\\nRobert T. Creamer Robert .Ydams; and John, who\\ndied in infancy. Robert A. Gledhill, of Paterson, is\\nthe imly one of the diildren living.\\nCharles O Neill. Among the old citizens of Pat-\\nerson, whose portrait will be recognized by many, is\\nthat of Charles O Neill, who was born in County\\nDerry, township of Cranney, and parish of Dessart-\\nmartin, Ireland, in May, 1S03. The ancestor of the\\nfamily was one of the County Antrim O Neills. His\\ngrandfather was Peter O Neill, who lived near Des-\\nsartmartin Village, and engaged in hackling flax. He\\nhad four children, Charles, John, Martha, and\\nHenry. Of these, John was tlie father of our subject,\\nand came to this country about 18.34, engaging in\\nshocmaking at Paterson. He married Su.san Mc-\\nGeoghan, who came with him to this country. The\\nchildren were Mary, who married David Russell\\nMartha, who became the wife of Edward Mellen\\nCharles; Susan, who marrieil Jlichail McHride;\\nHenry Ellen, who married Paul Martin John, and\\nBernard.\\nThe early life of Charles O Neill was passed in Ire-\\nland, where he received a plain English education in\\nthe private schools. He subsequently learne l the trade\\nof a shoemaker, and workeil at that business, and on the\\nfarm, in connection with his father. On Oct. 27, 1824,\\nhe married Margaret Carrigan, and in 182 with his\\nwife and an infant son, embarked in the brig Rose-\\nbank. under Capt. Bain, for the shores of the New\\nWorld. After a voyage of eight weeks and two days\\nthey lamleil at (Quebec, Canada, where Mr. O Neill\\nremained threi months, plying his traile of shoe-\\nmaking. He subse(|Uently located at Charlotte, Vt.,\\nwhere he worked at his trade in the winter season,\\nand on the neighboring farms in the summer. In the\\nmonth of April, 1828, he removed to New Y ork City,\\nand for six months ran a boot and shoe store on Chap-\\npel Street (now EiLst Bmadway) for his bnithcr-in-\\nlaw, David Russell. Having a great numy friends in\\nPaterson, he removed to that city on Oct. 27, 1828,\\nwhere he has since resided.\\nUpon his first locating in Paterson, Mr. O Neill\\nstarted a shoe-store on Prospect Street, near Ellison,\\nwhere he labored faithfully at his traile until the fol-\\nlowing spring, when he built a shop on the jtrescnl\\nsite ol .No. ;i engine-house, where he remained until\\n1837 or 1838. His health now failing him, he was\\ncompelled, under medical advice, to seek a less seden-\\ntary occupation, and in 18.3(J he established the coal\\nbusiness on the corner of Prospect and Van Houten\\nStreets, on a tract of land that he still owns. About\\nthe same time he established his present yard, at 238\\nMill Street, where he has engaged in almost continu-\\nous trade for the past forty-five years. During that\\nlong period he hjis sold over two hunilro l ami fifty\\nthousand tons of coal from his yard, and filled out,\\nj mostly with his own hand, a million and a half de-\\nlivery tickets. He still stands at the head of the en-\\nterprise, and at the ripe age of seventy-eight has a\\nclear head and retentive memory, and writes a clear,\\nbold hand. Besid s engaging in the sale of coal, he\\nalso deals extensively in building materials.\\nMr. O Neill is regarded as one of the successful, self-\\nmade citizens of Paterson, who by a long life of in-\\ndustry and judicious business management li.a-s accu-\\nmulated a handsome competency, and proven himself\\nworthy of the confidence and respect of all. He has\\nnever been a seeker after public position, but has\\nI voted for every Democratic candidate for the Presi-\\ndency from Jack.son to Hancock. He was a member\\nof the town school committee of Paterson in 184; and\\n18.50, and in 18. J2 representeil the South Ward in the\\nboard of education. He hits been a member of St.\\nJohn s Roman Catholic Church of Paterson since\\nhis first coming to the city, and a member of the\\nboard of trustees of that body for many years, partici-\\npating actively in the building of the present imposing\\nchurch edifice, and making many sacrifices in behalf\\nof the institutions of the church.\\nMrs. O Neill is still living, in the enjoyment of\\ngood health, and still performs her regular functions\\nas the head of her household. ChiMren to the num-\\nber of seventeen have been born to this venerable\\ncouple, nearly all of whom have received excellent\\neducations, and a number of whom have become\\nprominent in church and society. The celebration\\nof the golden wedding of their aged parents in 1874\\nwas an occasion of gladsome reunion in .so large a\\nfamily, and many useful and valuable gifts were be-\\nstowed upon the bride an l groom of fifty years before.\\nThe names of the children are Patrick, born in\\nIreland, Oct. 15, 182. died in Georgia, .May, IKXO;\\nMary, born in Charlotte, Vt., Dec. 7, 1826, married\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lolin Donavan, of Paterson John, born in Char-\\nlotte, March 1828, died Aug. 4, 1865, represented\\nthe old South Ward of Paterson in the board of alder-\\nmen for several terms; Charles Henry, born Sept. l.\\n1820, in Paterson, a prominent resilient of Jersey\\nCity, and mayor for a number of terms; Susan, born\\nApril 6, 1832, wife of John Agnew, of Paterson;\\nCatharine J., horn Jan. 2, 18,34, widow of Patrick\\nSharkey, of Mauch Chunk Margaret .Vnn, born\\nAugust, 1837, filed Nov. 1S77, a leading teacher and\\nSister of Charity at .St. Elizabeth s Academy, Madi-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0926.jp2"}, "803": {"fulltext": "n.i^^ -e ^^Ut.//", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0929.jp2"}, "804": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0930.jp2"}, "805": {"fulltext": "(yy^ ^Jrc", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0933.jp2"}, "806": {"fulltext": "4", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0934.jp2"}, "807": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0935.jp2"}, "808": {"fulltext": "^n", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0936.jp2"}, "809": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n531\\nson, N. J., known as Sister Mary Agnes Ellen, born\\nJune 2, 1838; Martha and Theresa, born Aug. 6,\\n1840, the former the wife of Dr. John I. Kane, of Pater-\\nson, and the latter the Lady Superioress of a branch\\nof St. Elizabeth s Academy, at New Brunswick, N. J.\\nEsther, born Oct. 3, 1843; Agnes, born Aug. 1, 1844,\\ndied March 2, 1857; Thomas Edward, born Aug. 25,\\n1846, died June, 1847 three died young and Thomas\\nEdward, born July 27, 1853, educated at Seton Hall,\\nin business with his father. All the girls, except\\nMary and Susan, were educated at ^Nlouut St. Vin-\\ncent Seminary.\\nJohn O Neill, who for many years stood at the\\nhead of the shoe trade of Patereon, and who at the\\ntime of his death was the oldest of its active business\\nmen, was born in the County Derry, township of\\nCranney, and parish of Dessartmartin, Ireland, on\\nSept. 20, 1815. His grandfather was Peter O Neill,\\nwho engaged in hackling flax near the village of Des-\\nsartmartin, and his father John O Neill, a shoemaker\\nby trade, and also a small farmer, who emigrated to\\n1 this country about 1834, and located in Paterson,\\n^yhere he worked at his trade.\\nJohn O Neill, our subject, was the seventh of the\\neight children of John and Susan (McGcoghan)\\nO Neill. Previous to coming to this country he\\nworked at shoemaking in connection with his father\\nin Ireland, and enjoyed only limited educational ad-\\nvantages. In 1834 he arrived in Paterson with other\\nmembers of the family, and immediately began to\\nlabor at his trade. He commenced on a very small\\ncapital, but by close application to business and\\nfrugal and industrious habits gradually enlarged the\\nscope of his business, and acquired a reputation for\\nthe manufacture of goods of a superior character.\\nThis reputation he maintained throughout the re-\\nmainder of a long business life in Paterson. He first\\nlocated on Market Street near Cross, in a building\\nwhich he subsequently owned, and after leaving there\\noccupied different locations in the city. For a por-\\ntion of the time he was in partnership with his\\nbrother Charles, on Prospect Street, and finally es-\\ntablished himself on Main Street near Van Houten,\\nwhere he remained a good many years. He then re-\\nmoved to the Van Houten building, within a few\\ndoors of the present location of the store of his widow,\\nand finally purchased the latter store of the James\\nKing estate, where he traded until his death on Jan.\\n119, 1881, having been continuously engaged in the\\nnianufactuie and sale of shoes since November, 1834.\\nHe died suddenly of pneumonia, after only a few\\ndays illness, and while still in the enjoyment of good\\nhealth, and in the performance of the active duties of\\nlife. He was thoroughly devoted to family and busi-\\nness, and one of the most extensive manufacturers of\\ncustom-shoes in Paterson. The other shoe-stores of\\nthe city closed on the day of his funeral as a mark of\\nthe high esteem in which he was held, not only by\\nmembers of the trade but by the community in gen-\\neral. For many years he made it a custom to do\\nbusiness strictly for cash, a valuable rule that is still\\nfollowed by his widow and sons. He led a plain,\\nmodest life, attending strictly to business, and neither\\naspired to nor accepted political place. He was a de-\\nvoted member of St. John s Roman Catholic Church,\\nand contributed liberally to the support of its institu-\\ntions. On March 26, 1837, he married Isabella Brad-\\nley, a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, and left seven\\nchildren living, viz. Susan B., wife of William Ryan,\\nof Brooklyn Claude, who with his youngest brother,\\nJohn, carries on the shoe-store in behalf of their\\nmother; Mary Ann, wife of Timothy Hogan, a grocer\\nof Paterson Charles B., who is in a wholesale shoe-\\nstore in New York City Joseph B., who also assists\\nin the store at Paterson and Isabella.\\nSamuel Pope. The Pope family in this country is\\ndescended from four members of the family who\\ncame from Scotland about the opening of the\\neighteenth century and located on a tract of land\\nseven miles square near Elizabethtown, N. J. Their\\nrepresentatives subsequently spread throughout the\\nUnited States.\\nJeremiah Pope, grandfather of the subject of this\\nsketch, was the son of one of these emigrants. He\\nresided at Hackensack, N. J., at the time of the Rev-\\nolutionary war, and while serving in the patriot army\\nwas wounded by the British with seven buckshot and a\\nball while on a foray. He was nursed by Polly Van\\nEmburgh, daughter of old Dr. Van Emburgh, of\\nHackensack, and subsequently made her his wife.\\nAfter the close of the Revolutionary war he removed\\nto Western New York, between Cayuga and Seneca\\nLakes, where he engaged in farming. As a member\\nof the famous Silver Grays he served under Gen.\\nScott in the war of 1812, and fought atLundy s Lane.\\nHis children were Samuel Betsey, who married John\\nVan Iderstine, of Paterson; Peggy, who married\\nHenry Phillips, of the same place; Mary, who became\\nthe wife of John Beya and Sally, who married Ben-\\njamin March. His son Samuel was born at Hacken-\\nsack, and when about fifteen years of age removed to\\nWestern New York with his father, whom he assisted\\nin his farming operations. He also fought atLundy s\\nLane, having been drafted for service in the army,\\nhis father, however, insisting upon going in his place.\\nUnknown to the father, the son stood near him in the\\nthickest of the fight. Both escaped injury, but were\\nseized with the dreaded camp-fever soon after and\\ndied. Jeremiah Pope s widow subsequently drew a\\npension of three thousand six hundred dollars.\\nSamuel married Elizabeth Edwards, a native of\\nNew England, and had two children, John and Sam-\\nuel. The first died about thirty years ago. He mar-\\nried a Miss Onderdonk, and had two children, both of\\nwhom have since died.\\nSamuel Pope, our subject, was born in Western\\nNew York, on Oct. 9, 1811. After the death of his\\nfather and grandfather his grandmother removed the", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0939.jp2"}, "810": {"fulltext": "532\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND I ASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfamily to tlie city of Paterson, Samuel being tlien an\\ninfant of two years. At tlie sige often he entered the\\nfactory of John Colt, engaged in the manufacture of\\nflax and cotton-duck, with whom he remained several\\nyears. He then entered the employ of John Trav-\\nerse, who was engasred in the same line of manufac-\\nture, and while working in his factory had the fingers\\nof his left hand cut almost entirely olf. During the\\ntime that he was convalescing from this accident he\\nreceived the only book education he ever enjoyed,\\nconsisting of two (|uarters schooling. He next joined\\nWilliam Jacobs, an old Methodist minister, to learn\\nthe traileof wood-turning; but this connection proved\\nunsatisfactory, anil Jacobs not paying him for his\\nservices, the lad sued him, employing Judge Ogden\\nas his coflnsel, and paying him by his personal labor.\\nThus early in life did Mr. Pope manifest a disposition\\nthat h:is clung to him through the long years of his\\nbusy life, namely, to maintain his rights even at the\\nexpense of force and litigation.\\nAfter leaving Jacobs, young Pope engaged in\\ndriving stage from Paterson to New York for about\\neight years. He also helped to build the turnpike to\\nNew York, the Jlorris Canal, and the I aterson and\\nNew York liailroad, working daily on these siriietures\\nwith his horses and carts. AftiT the completion of i\\nthe railroad, the cars on which were drawn by horses,\\nMr. Pope drove on the road, and attended to the bag-\\ngage for a time, and (hen entered theeniploy of John,\\nRobert, and Edward Stevens, of Hobokeii, and ran\\ntheir opposition line of stages to New York. About\\n1834 or lS3i) three locomotive-engines were brought\\nfrom England and placed on the Paterson and New-\\nYork road, of which Judge Ogden was then presi-\\ndent. Mr. Pope was called upon and a-ssisted in\\nsetting up the first locomr)tive that was run on the\\nroad, and ran on it as fireman for about eight months.\\nA new president having been elected for the road,\\nMr. Pope then left, and started an opposition stage-\\nline of four stjiges, the fare to New York being two\\nshillings and sixpence. He ran his line successfully,\\nso far as the time made was concerned, for one season,\\nan l about the year IW37 turned his attention to the\\nwood busine.ss. He cut ofl about three thousand\\nacres of wood and sold it to the Now York and Erie\\nRailroad, which had then leased the obi Paterson\\nroad, and to others. He engaged in this underlaking\\nwith success for a number of years, and gradually\\nextending it, made it the principal Itusiness of his\\nlife. One .xecret of his success hits been that he has\\nnever felt above any kind of labor that was honest\\nand remunerative, and so, besides his wood specula-\\ntion, he built niillit, opened and developed ijuarries,\\nand did mason- and carpenter-work, having as many\\nUS seventeen journeymen carpenters working (or him\\nat one lime. His business gradimlly a.ssume l large\\nproportions, and he became recognized as one of the\\nmost Huccessful and clear-headeil men of enterprise\\nin Paterson. In connection with Abram S. Hewitt\\nand Edward Cooper, he owned the half of Wynockie\\na few years ago, and now owns three mills in Pater-\\nson, a number of houses and public places, a mile of\\nquarries, and has recently purchased the fine (piarry\\nat Haledon. Without an education, starting in life\\nwithout either a father s or a mother s support, and\\nunder the most adverse circumstances, his hardy\\nScotch nature and honest toil have brought him\\nthrough, and marked bim as one of the most success-\\nful of the self-made citizens of Paterson. He is now\\nseventy-one years of age, stands six feet six and a\\nhalf inches high, and attends daily to his extensive\\nbusiness matters. Posses-sed of a good heart and\\nkindly nature, he is at once the truest of friends and\\nthe most bitter of enemies, and he who once does\\nhim an injury must beware of his revenge. At the\\nsame time his enemy once punished, he is the first to\\nextend him a friendly hand.\\nMr. Pope has been an adherent of the Democratic\\nl)arty through life, and has filled a number of posi-\\ntions of prominence and influence. He was first\\nelected to the office of constable without bis consent,\\nand paid a fine of fifteen dollai s because of his re-\\nfusal to qualify. He served as superintendent of\\nstreets for a number of years, and in KS. il ami l. ^.j2\\nrepresented the Fifth and South Wards in the board\\nof aldermen. While an incumbent of the latter office\\nbe was elected city treasurer, and served in that posi-\\ntion for one year, giving security bonds to the amount\\nof si.xty thousand dollars, receiving a salary of only\\ntwo hundred dollars a year, and paying his own \u00e2\u0096\u00a0fVice\\nrent and his book-keeper a -salary of three hundred\\ndollars besides. In 1857 he was elected to represent\\nthe South and Fifth Wards and Acquackanonk town-\\nship in the State Legislature, and was successively\\nre-elected for five terms. As a member of the Legis-\\nlature he enjoyed a commanding influence, repri--\\nsented the Stevens road from Hoboken to Newark\\nwith ability, fought the old New Jersey road with\\nsuccess, being elected in spite of the latter sending\\nthree thousand dollars to his district to defeat him,\\nand amid all this clashing of interests maintained a\\nreputation for boni^sty and fair ilealing. He would\\naccept no office after his retirement from the Legisla-\\nture. He has assisted the various churches of the city\\nby generous contributions, and recognizes the right\\nof each person to select his own route to heaven. He\\nmarried, in ISIiil, Eliza Rose, of Haverstraw, N. Y.,\\nwho is still living, but has bad no children. In l 72 he\\nanil his wife were bound while in bed by eight masked\\nburglars, who entered their handsome resilience on\\nBroadway, and succeeded in obtaining about thirteen\\nthousiind dollars in bonds and money. He loaned the\\nNew York and Lake Erie Railroad the money with\\nwhich were constructed their depots and freight -houses\\nat i aterson, and has been a character in that city for\\nmany years.\\nPatrick Magennis was born in Dublin, Ireland,\\n.\\\\pril 4, lhU2, and died at his residence in Paterson,\\nV -T.,, u i f~-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0940.jp2"}, "811": {"fulltext": "f l^^^l", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0943.jp2"}, "812": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0944.jp2"}, "813": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0946.jp2"}, "814": {"fulltext": "6cCur^Ay.J2/- QfcJA/r\\nThe Clark family has been identified with the growth, history,\\nand development of the city of Paterson from its first settle-\\nment to the present time. John Clark, the progenitor of the\\nfamily, was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, on Jlay 21. 1763,\\nand being a machinist by trade, and a personal friend of Hon.\\nAlexander Hamilton, emigrated, with a wife and two children,\\nto America in 1794, and located at Paterson, where he was em-\\nployed by the Society for Establishing Useful jNIanufactures, of\\nwhich Mr. Hamilton was an earnest patron. A certificate,\\nwritten and signed by Peter Colt, superintendent of the first\\ncotton-mill established at Paterson by the society, and dated\\nAug. 22, 1817, testifies that he (Mr. Clark) made, in company\\nwith a partner who worked in iron and brass, all the valuable\\nmachinery worked in the first cotton-mill that was ever erected\\nin this part of the country, and the first (as I believe) that was\\nworked in America. Further, that Mr. Clark has been a\\nresident in this town ever since the period first mentioned\\n(1794), and has always carried un the business of making ma-\\nchines for spinning both cotton and the wool of sheej), and is\\na very able mechanic and an industrious citizen. A long\\nitemized account against the society, furnished by Jlcllivham\\nk Chirke, on Mnrch 18, 1794, shows that the services first ren-\\ndered amounted to \u00c2\u00a32101 2iL Mr. Clark continued hi;: resi-\\ndence in Paterson until his death, on Oct. 12, IS^iO. Besides\\nmanufacturing machinery for cotton and woolen-mills, he en-\\ngaged prominently in the manufacture of woolen fabrics for a\\nlong time, and may be classed among the founders of the in-\\ndustrial interests of the city. He was not a public man, and\\nattained to no prominent jtolitical position. His wife, whose\\nmaiden name was Jane Slater, was born in Sterlingshire, Scot-\\nland, on May 1, 17fiS. and died in Paterson, May 30, 1838.\\nThe children were Jane, born Oct. 5, 1791, in Renfrewshire, mar-\\nried Robert Cunningham, a machinist of Paterson. died Aug.\\n6. 1853; John. Jr.. born March 4. 1793, in Renfrewshire, died\\nat Patersou, April 3. 1841 AVilliam L., born in Paterson, Oct.\\n3. 1795. died Nov. 9. 18:)9; Robert, born Sept. 22, 1798, died\\nMarch It, 1869: Elisha B., born May 30, 1801, died Mnrch 1,\\n1842; Alexander, horn Oct. 17, 1803, died at Paterson: Henry,\\nborn Feb. 14, 1807, died Aug. 11, 1875.; and Edward, twin\\nbrother of Henry, died May 15, 1875.\\nAll of these children attained to years of maturity and passed\\ntheir lives in the city of Paterson. John was for many years\\na prominent manufacturer of the city, and a member of the\\nfirm of Clark Rogers (Thomas), who in 1819 began the\\nmanufacture of cotton-looms in the Beaver Mill, which\\nJohn Clark, the elder, had erected many years before. He\\ncontinued in active business throughout the greater part of his\\nlife. William L. Clark managed the store connected with Peter\\nColt s cotton-factory for some time, and subsequently kept the\\nbooks of Rogers, Ketehum Grosvenor, locomotive builders.\\nElisha B. Clark was a member of the firm of Clark Robin-\\nson, cotton-sjpinners. who occupied the present site of the Ivan-\\nhoe Paper-I\\\\lill. He was a man of influence and prominence,\\nheld several local offices of importance, and represented his\\ndistrict in the State Legislature.\\nEdward Clark, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, was\\nfor many years a substantial business man of Paterson, and\\nwas identified throughout a long life with the growth and de-\\nvelopment of the city. He received only a common-school\\neducation, and was thoroughly trained in the trade of a ma-\\nchinist in the shops of his brother John. He subsequently as-\\nsisted his brother, William L. Clark, in the Colt store for a\\nshort time, and in 1826 established an iron foundry on the cor-\\nner of Mulberry and River Streets. In 1829, in company with\\nhis brother Henry, he started the hardware business on the cor-\\nner of Main and Ellison Streets, and subsequently moved next\\ndoor, where he continued in active trade until his death, on May\\n15, 1875. Mr. Clark was a gentleman of refined tastes and\\nmodest instincts, and mingled little in the turmoil of public\\naffairs. Upon the incorporation of the city he was elected a\\nmember of the first council from the East Ward, and was\\nchairman of the finance committee. He was thoroughly de-\\nvoted to his business, bore himself with dignity and reserve in\\nthe management of his aff airs, and sustained the reputation in\\nthe community of an upright and honorable man. He was a\\nregular attendant of the First Presbyterian Church of Paterson,\\nand contributed freely to the support of the institutions of the\\ncity. He married, on Nov. 8. IS28. Ann, daughter of John and\\nMary Mclntyre. of New York City. She was born May 26,\\n1812, and dieil Dec. 7, 186S. The issue of the union were\\nMorton Clark, who succeeded his uncle Henry in the hardware\\nbusiness. June 1, 1S75, and is now trading at the old stand, and\\nLivingston, born April 22, 1841, died Oct. 14, 1857.\\nHenry Clark was the close friend and business partner of his\\nbrother Edward for forty-six years. He was a man of exemplary\\ncharacter, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Paterson,\\nand died only a few months after the demise of him with whose\\nlife, from birth to old age, he had been so closely identified.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0947.jp2"}, "815": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0948.jp2"}, "816": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0949.jp2"}, "817": {"fulltext": "M\\n(cr/^-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0950.jp2"}, "818": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n533\\nN. J., Jan. 15, 1882. Arthur Magennis, fatlipr of\\nPatrick, was a wealtliy manufacturer in Dublin, was\\na leading jKitriot during the rebellion there, and\\ntherefore was obliged to leave Ireland. He accord-\\ningly placed his family in England, and set sail for\\nAmerica, landing at Baltimore in 1810, where he en-\\ngaged in manufacturing cotton and velveteen. He\\nwent to Hudson, N. Y., in 1S12, where he again en-\\ngaged in manufacturing cotton goods and velveteen;\\nthence to Matteawan, N. Y., where he manufactured\\nall kinds of fancy cotton goods. He finally gave up\\nbusiness to his son, and died in Paterson, N. J., at the\\nage of eighty. By his second marriage to Catharine\\nMagonnis he had one daughter, Eleanor, Mrs. James\\nBrett, now living at Matteawan, and Patrick, subject\\nof this sketch.\\nPatrick Magennis received an academical educa-\\ntion at Hudson, N. Y., as his father, who was a grad-\\nuate of Trinity College, Dublin, took great interest in\\nthe early education of his children.\\nPatrick came to Paterson about LS.So, and began\\nmaiiulacturing cotton goods, in partnership with\\nSamuel (_i. Wheeler, at the Beaver Mills, which they\\nowned. Mr. Magennis owned also the Beaver Mill\\nHouse, where he resided. After the dissolution of\\nthe partnership with Mr. Wheeler, he added to his\\nbusiness dyeing and printing, and subsequently built\\nthe Grant Locomotive- Works, and continued build-\\ning locomotives for several years.\\nFrom tliat time until nearly the time of his decease\\nhe was among the foremost iji building up the inter-\\nests of Paterson and contributing to its material growth.\\nHe possessed an ingenious mind, and obtained a patent,\\nhimsell as patentee, dated April 21. 1838, entitled\\nImprovement in the art of dyeing cloth by machin-\\nery by one process. Mr. Magennis was comptroller\\nof Paterson for two years, was one of the first alder-\\nmen, and president of the board for a number of\\nyears, and one of its principal citizens in incorpor-\\nating Paterson as a city. He retired from manufac-\\nturing bleaching and dyeing before he became\\ncom|)troller, and never resumed the business again.\\nFor two years he was a member of the State Legisla-\\nture, where he discharged the duties incumbent upon\\nliim with credit to himself and honor to his constit-\\nuents. He was a man of remarkable energy, keen\\nperception, strict integrity, and correct habits, and\\nesteemed by his fellow-citizens for his uprightness of\\ncharacter in all his dealings and business relations.\\nIn early manhood Mr. Magennis took an active\\npart in military matters. He became a member of\\nthe Light Infantry, One Hundred and Forty-ninth\\nRegiment New York State Militia, Oct. 8, 1824; was\\ncommissioned ensign of it by Governor De Witt\\nClinton on May 26, 1826; was appointed lieutenant\\nl y Governor E. T. Throop, with commission dated\\nJan. 11, 18;?2, John A. Dix being then adjutant-\\ngeneral and he was appointed captain of the same\\nregiment April 80, 1834, by Governor W. L. Marcy.\\nHe was once the actuary of St. Paul s Church,\\nPaterson, and warden, and during his active business\\nlife was a liberal supporter of church and kindred in-\\nterests. For a long time prior to his death he was\\nafiiicted with rheuniatism, and much of the time a\\nconstant sufferer and confined to his bed.\\nHis wife, Ann, a daughter of James and Mary Cun-\\nningham, and a native of New York City, survives him.\\nTheir children are George, was city clerk of Paterson\\nfor several years, and died while the incumbent of that\\noffice. He was formerly an editor of one of the lead-\\ning journals of Pater.son. He left a widow and four\\nchildren. The only daughter is Catherine, widow of\\nthe late Sanford C. Brown, son of Judge Nehemiah\\nBrown, who now resides on Broadway, in Paterson,\\nwhere her father died, and is a lady of culture and\\nChristian excel lejice.\\nJames Nighting ale. His father, John Nightin-\\ngale, was born near Chorley, England, Nov. 25, 1783,\\nand with his wife, Mary Fallis, and three children\\nemigrated to this country in 1818. They landed in\\nNew York City after a tedious passage of nine weeks,\\nand being a weaver by trade, Mr. Nightingale located\\nat Paterson, then a small manufacturing city. About\\nthe year 1820 he removed to Lake View, where he\\nkept a public-house, attended the toll-gate on the New\\nYork turnpike, and carried on the business of weav-\\ning on the premises. Jn 1825 he located at Wesel,\\nnear Paterson Landing (Passaic), where he purchased\\ntwelve and a half acres of land, on which stood a\\nsaw- and grist-mill. These latter he converted into a\\nbleachcry, which he placed in charge of a friend from\\nEngland. After a few years, the latter not proving\\nsuccessful, Mr. Nightingale assumed control of the\\nbusiness, and successfully carried it on until 1828,\\nwhen, in connection with Judge Pliileniou Dickerson,\\nhe purchased a cotton-mill on Boudinot Street (now\\nVanHouten). This they leased out for a few years, but\\nMr. Nightingale finally succeeded to the business, and\\ncarried on the spinning and weaving of cotton on his\\nown account until 184!t, when he leased the property\\nto William and J. Watson and retired from active\\nlife. He died March 17, 1859. He was ever of a\\ngenial and social nature, courteous towards all, a good\\nentertainer, and being possessed of a fine voice and\\nsu](erior musical talent, made himself a welcome\\nguest in many homes. He composed a number of\\nthe most popular political songs of his day. His first\\nwife died Jan. 2, 1822, aged thirty-four years. The\\nchildren who grew up were Ann, born in England,\\nNov. 20, 1807, widow of Thomas Slater, a weaver of\\nPaterson Joseph, born in England in 1814, died in\\nPaterson, Jan. 1, 1825 Ellen, born in England, July\\n13, 1817, married, first, Alexander Lacklison, and\\nsecondly, Richard Booth, and who now resides in San\\nFranci-sco, Cal., and James, our subject. Mr. Night-\\ningale married for a second wife Eliza Sullivan, who\\nbore him several children, of whom only two grew to\\nmaturity, viz. John, who has resided in San Fran-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0951.jp2"}, "819": {"fulltext": "634\\nHISTOUY OF liERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCisco since 1849, and Joseph, who died Dec. 19,\\n18.\\nJames Kiglitingale was born Aug. 11, 1821. He\\nreceived only a coninion-school education, and at the\\nage of seventeen entered upon the study of medicine\\nwitli Dr. E. J. Marsh, of Paterson. He attended\\nIccture-x at the College of Physicians and Surgeons,\\nNi w York City, and wils graduated in 1841. Dr.\\nLewis A. Sayre, of New York, was one of his class-\\nmates. After graduating as a physician, Mr. Night-\\ningale felt compelled by the exigencies of his father s\\nbusiness to abandon the practice of medicine and\\nenter into business life. He accepted an interest in\\nthe business with his brother John at Paterson, and\\nopened an office at 156 Pearl Street, New York, where\\nhe sold the yarns, warps, and fillings manufactured\\nat tlie factory in Paterson for a few years. In 1849\\nhis brother removed to San Francisco, and James\\nsettled up tlie business of the concern. In 18.58 he\\nand his father placed new machinery in the Night-\\ningale Mills and began cotton-spinning again. The\\nlatter died in 1859, and the son continued the busi-\\nness until 1864, when he sold the machinery, rented\\nthe property, and retired. For a number of years\\nthereafter he did business tus a fire insurance agent,\\nbut has now withilrawn from active business life.\\nDuring his long residence in Paterson he has al-\\nways been interested in all matters pertaining to its\\ngrowth and development, and been favorably known\\nas one of the live, enterprising residents of tiie city.\\nHe filled the office of city clerk for one year in 1873,\\nthough a Republican, was appointed assessor at large\\nby a Democratic mayor, and held the position of\\ndeputy collector of internal revenue under Boyd\\nHeadley, for the Fourth District of New Jersey, for\\nseveral years. He represented the old West Ward\\nin the Common Council for several years.\\nMr. Nightingale was married, in 1844, to Mary L.,\\ndaughter of William Cobb, president of the Ful-\\nton Insurance Company of New York. The children\\nare Emily, wife of (Irant Boyd, a merchant at San\\nFrancisco; Mary, wife of A. K. Shepherd, of New\\nYork; and .lamesC, a clerk in the Manufacturers\\nNiiti(in:i1 I .Miik- of Brooklyn.\\nJohn Agnew. His father, Patrick Agnew, was a\\nnative of the city and county of Armagh, Ireland,\\nand came to this country about the year 1820, when\\nhe was about twenty-one years of age. He was a\\nweaver by tradr, and located at Paterson, N. J., where\\nthe weaving of duck wils then a leading industry. He\\nsubsei|uently started a liquor-store on Cross Street,\\ncorner of John (now Ellison) Street, and later estab-\\nlisheil the grocery and li |Uor business at No. .53 Cross\\nStreet, where he engaged in traile for a nund)er of\\nyears. He retired from buHineH.H alxmt 1.1. )2, an l clied\\nin .\\\\pril, l.%5, while filling the position of lussociate\\njustice of the Court of Common I leas. He was a\\nDennK-rat in politics, and a member of St. .John s\\nRoman Catholic Church of Paterson. His wife was\\nJane Fielton, and four of his children attained adult\\nage, viz.: John, our subject Margaret, wife of Hon.\\nCharles H. O Neill, ex-mayor of Jersey City Luke,\\ndece.ised and Thomas, who is engaged in the real\\nestate and insurance business in San Francisco.\\nJohn Agnew wits liorn at Paterson on ^ov. 1, 1831.\\nHis earlier education was obtained at ditVerent private\\nschools in the city, supplemented by a three years\\ncourse at Montreal, Canada. After leaving school he\\nentered the employ of Ins father, and served him as\\nclerk for eight years, and then established a store of\\nhis own on the corner of (Jrand and Marshall Streets,\\nwhere he engaged in trade until 18t In that year\\nhe entered the coal trade on Mill Street, where he\\nremained three years, and then changed his location\\nto the corner of Slater and Prince Streets, where he\\nhas since remained. He hiis enlarged the scope of\\nliis business, and is not only one of the leading coal\\nmerchants of the city, but deals extensively in lime\\nand bluestone, and in the sale of masons materials\\ngenerally.\\nMr. Agnew is one of the oldest and best known of\\nthe native business men of Paterson. He has at-\\ntended strictly to his private business atl airs, and, while\\nan active supporter of Democratic jirinciples, has not\\nbeen an aspirant after political position. He served\\nas school commissioner for some time from the South\\nWard, arid represented the same ward in the Common\\nCouncil in 1858 and 1859. He is a member of St.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0lohn s Roman Catholic Church, and a man of integ-\\nrity and moral principle. He was married on .Vpril\\n31, 1855, to Susan, daughter of Charles and Margaret\\nO Neill, of Paterson, and has had fourteen children,\\nof whom seven survive, viz. Charles, Mary Agnes,\\n.Tohn. Maruarct. Francis, Susan, and .lennie.\\nJosiah p. Hlintoon. .\\\\mong the old residents of\\nPaters(m, whose venerable fiico ami form have been\\nfiiniiliar to its citizens for nearly half a century, and\\nwho has during that time become intimately identi-\\nfied with the growth and development of the city, is\\nJosiah P. Huntoon.\\nHis ancestry can be traced back to a remote date,\\nwhen Philip Huntoon was abducted from the island\\nof Guernsey, on the western coast of France, and\\nbrought to Exeter, N. II., where he was sold to pay\\nhis passage. This was about the year 1640, when\\nPhilip Huntoon was a mere lad. His descendants\\nare known to have participated in the taking of\\ntiuebcc uniler Oen. Wolfe, in 17.59, and in all the\\nsubsequent wars with the French and English down\\nto the close of the Revolution, (^ne of these, Charles\\nHuntoon, the great-grandfatherof our subject, settled\\non a wilderness farm on one of the bleak hills of\\nUnity, Sullivan Co., N. H., where lie dosed his life,\\nengaged in the arduous agricultural operations of\\nthose pioneer ilays. Here were born .losiah, grand-\\nfather of our subject, and IJemsley, his father. The\\nlatter in early manhood left his native county and\\nlocated at Berlin, Washington Co., Vt., where he", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0952.jp2"}, "820": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0953.jp2"}, "821": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0954.jp2"}, "822": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0955.jp2"}, "823": {"fulltext": "Ife^-.\\njt^/.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0956.jp2"}, "824": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n535\\nmarried Florinda Nye, wlio bore him a family of ton\\nchildren, of whom Josiah P. Huntoon was the oldest.\\nThe family subsequently resided at Montpelier, Vt.,\\nand at Ogdensburgh, N. Y.\\nJosiah P. Huntoon was born at Montpelier, Vt.,\\non July 16, 1813. His early educational advantages\\nwere very limited, and in 1828, at the tender age of\\nfifteen, he left the paternal roof at Ogdensburgh,\\nwithout other capital than the supporting strength of\\na mother s prayers and a strong and resolute will, to\\nenter alone into the battle of life. He landed in\\nNew York City, friendless and penniless, in June of\\nthat year, and soon secured a position as clerk in a\\nbook-store. For several years thereafter he filled the\\nsame position with success in various branches of\\ntrade in New York. In 1835 he commenced the\\nroasting and grinding of coffee for the grocery trade\\non his own account, and successfully followed that\\nbusiness until compelled to suspend during the terri-\\nble financial crash of 1830. About this time Mr.\\nHuntoon married his first wife. Miss Bowlsby, of\\nMorris Count} N. J., and removed to that locality soon\\nafter, where he undertook the management of her\\nhomestead farm. He continued in that pursuit for\\nseveral years, during which time he taught the neigh-\\nboring district school with great acceptance, and in\\nthe spring of 1841 went on a prospecting tour to the\\nWest with a view of settling in that section. Not\\nfinding a desirable opening he returned to New Jer-\\nsey, and in the fall of 1841 removed to Paterson,\\nwhere he established the coffee and spice business in\\na small way, and without either capital or friends.\\nFor years Mr. Huntoon struggled on, devoting all of\\nhis time and energies to the development of a branch\\nof business of which he was the pioneer in Paterson,\\nmeeting many discouragements, but finally achieving\\nmarked success. From a small beginning the busi-\\nness which he had established attained an annual\\nproduction of $300,000 or $400,000, and the commod-\\nities which he manufactured were in constant and\\nincreasing demand. Until 1872, Mr. Huntoon con-\\nducted his business affairs in a profitable and pros-\\nperous manner, but subsequent years of disaster and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2shrinkage told heavily upon his resources, and on\\nJan. 1, 1879, he withdrew from the management of\\nthe business, and separated himself from the cares\\nand annoyances of an active business life. His suc-\\ncessors, Messrs. Huntoon, Paige Co., occupy the\\nsubstantial brick factory on Broadway he erected in\\n1855, and are doing a large and successful business.\\nMr. Huntoon is a man of great individuality of\\ncharacter, original both in the conception of his plans\\nand in the method of carrying them out, and pos-\\nsessed of great energy and force. In the transactions\\nof daily life he ever manifests a jocund good humor,\\nand is courteous, kind, and forbearing towards all.\\nIn all of his affairs he has always exercised the\\nstrictest integrity, and his personal honor has never\\nbeen questioned.\\nIn politics Mr. Huntoon was first a Whig and then\\na Republican, holding extreme anti-slavery views,\\nand voting for James G. Birney in 1844, and for\\nHorace Greeley in 1872. In early life he took an\\nactive part in local politics, and was elected to various\\noffices of trust and responsibility. He was president\\nof the board of chosen freeholders of Passaic County\\nfor several years, and also president of the board of\\neducation. He has been identified with various local\\norganizations of Paterson throughout his long resi-\\ndence in that city, and was a member of the board of\\ntrustees of the Paterson Savings Institution from\\nthe time of its organization until a recent date. He\\nhas been a member of the board of directors of the\\nFirst National Bank of Paterson since its organiza-\\ntion in 1843. Mr. Huntoon s first wife died in 1864,\\nand he subsequently married Miss Sarah M. Doremus,\\nof Morris Co., N. J., who is his present wife. Of his\\neleven children seven are living, -viz., Ada, wife\\nof Henry I. Clark, a banker and broker of New York\\nCity James and Walter, members of the firm of\\nHuntoon, Paige Co., of Paterson Bertha and\\nJennie, residing at home; and Masters Edward and\\nLouis Huntoon.\\nHenry Barrett Crosby. The Crosby family in\\nthis county are of English descent, the name being\\ntraceable as far back as the year 1204, the sixth in\\nthe reign of King John. The etymology of the word\\nis town of the cross, the termination by in Eng-\\nlish towns being a Danish form of burgh, burg,\\nor borough. The towns so called are found in\\ngreat numbers where the Danes formed their settle-\\nments, principally along the sea-coasts of the north\\nof England. It was common with the Northmen to\\nerect a cross where the settlement was made.\\nThe original ancestor of the family in the United\\nStates was Simon Crosby, who emigrated to this coun-\\ntry in 1635 and settled in Massachusetts.\\nWatson Crosby, father of the subject of this sketch,\\nwas born at Cape Cod, Nov. 7, 1776. His mother was\\nleft a widow with seven small children, of whom he\\nwas the eldest. Having lost a brother at sea, she\\ndreaded the effect of its fascination upon her boys, as\\nit offered the only means of support on those barren\\nshores. She therefore removed with her family to\\nBrattleboro Vt., where she bought a few acres of\\nland and made her home, and where Watson grew up\\nand lived until some years after bis marriage. On\\nNov. 4, 1804, he married Desire Bangs, daughter of\\nDeacon Joseph Bangs, of Hawley, Mass., a represen-\\ntative of an old New England family, whose ancestors\\ncan be traced back to the historic May fiower. Their\\nchildren were Olive, Ruth, Abigail, Miranda, Joseph\\nB., Henry B., Jeremiah M., Charles H., and Frances\\nCrosby. Mr. Crosby was engaged in farming and\\nmanufacturing shoes. He was a plain, hard-working\\nman, performing his duties faithfully, and achieved\\nthe reputation of an upright, honorable citizen. He\\naccumulated only a moderate com[)etency, but lived", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0957.jp2"}, "825": {"fulltext": "536\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JKKSKV.\\nto sec all his children grow to manhood and wonian-\\nliood and enter into useful and honorable ijositioiis\\nin the world. He died Sept. 24, 1859, at the advanced\\nage of eijrhty-tliree.\\nHenry Barrett Crosby; the subject of this sketch,\\nwaa born in Brattleboro Vt., April 13, 1815, where\\nhe spent his earliest years and attended the district\\nschool. The family being large and their circum-\\nstances moderate, his advantages for education were\\nlimited. He was early impressed with the necessity\\nof earning liis own living, and at ten years of age\\nworked on the adjoining farm of Deacon Russell\\nHayes, an uncle of e.x-President Hayes, attending\\nschool only in winter. About lJSl 7 the family moved\\nto Springfield, where young Crosby worked in a cot-\\nton-factory at Chicopee Falls, near that city, for about\\ntwo years. He then entered the employ of Ames\\nBrothers, of Springfield, with tlie view of learning\\nthe business of jiaper-making, which at that time was\\ncarried on extensively by hand but the introduction\\nof machinery for that purpose put a stop to his con-\\ntinuing at that trade.\\nThe family returning to Brattleboro he wits thrown\\nentirely upon his own resources, and went to work\\nupon a farm in the outskirts of Springfield, receiving\\nfifteen dollars a month fi)r his services. A farm-life\\nwas unsuited to his mechanical taste, and in the au-\\ntumn he went to Woonsocket Falls, R. I., where he\\nworked in Cook Grant s machine-shop. It was\\ncommon at that time for apprentices to spend three\\nyears learning a trade, but young Crosby was unwil-\\nling to take so much time before being entitled to\\nwages, and as especial favor made arrangements\\nto work six months for his board. Uosea Ballou, i\\nmanufacturer of looms in the same village, employed\\nhim the following eight months at one lollar per\\nday. At the expiration of this time he rcliiriicd to\\nChicopee Falls, and worked in a machine-shop at\\nmaking flyers for spinning-frames for one year In\\nJune, 1.S34, he returned to his old home at Brattle-\\nboro where he attended the academy for six months\\nanil completed his limited education. Before leav-\\ning home again he purchased his minority of his\\nfather fiir two hundred and twenty lollars, gave his\\nnote for the amount, and in due time paid it with\\ninterest. He next went to Ware, Mass., where he\\nworked in the machine-shop of the Ham|ishire Man-\\nufacturing ompany, which was un ler the superin-\\ntendence of I liny Lowton, Mr. Crosby and CJeorge\\nHitchcock taking a contract to build tlyers for the\\ncompany s new cotton-mill. Here he renuiined three\\nyearx. In May, 188(), Mr. Crosby felt a desire to visit\\nthe West. He crossed over to Albany, N. Y., by\\nstage, and reailied Ulica by way of the Erie Canal,\\nremaining only lung enough, however, to pay i-urreiit\\nexpi iises. Keturniiig, he was taken very ill with\\nfiver at West Troy, which cletjiineil him several\\nweeks, reducing his strength and his resources to the\\nlowest ebb. When sullicientlv rei-overed he went\\ndown the river to IVmghkeepsie. where his first work\\nwiis the building of two engines designed for driving\\nspiles in constructing a Southern railroad. This was\\nin the winter of 1S36-37, when the busine.ss capacity\\nof the country had been expanded to the utmost and\\nthe final coUap.-iC was wellnigh at hand. The busi-\\nness be was engaged in especially felt the reaction,\\nand in the spring he determined to return to\\nSpringfield, among old acquaintances. On board\\nthe steamer, near Hartford, he met his old friend,\\nSuperintendent Lowton, who persuaded Mr. Crosby\\nto accompany him to I aterson, N. J., to engage in\\nthe manufacture of revolving guns and pistols, first\\nintroduced by Colt s patent about that time.\\nThis seeming accident proved to be the turning-\\npoint in his life, and Paterson became his permanent\\nresidence. He arrived there on April 23, 1S37, and\\non the 2t;th began work under Mr. Samuel Colt in\\nthe old Gun Mill, and took a contract fi r making\\nportions of the lock-work. He performed his work to\\nthe entire satisfaction of his employer, and even ac-\\ncompanied Mr. Colt to Washington and other places\\nfor the |uirpose of having his gun tested and accepted\\nby the United States government, but owing to the\\nfailure of the enterprise, elsewhere described in this\\nwork, he was comjielled to seek other employment.\\nBeing broken in health he spent one summer at Capo\\nMay, N. .1., and in 1842 returned to Paterson with\\nrestored health. He determined to sUirt a small\\ngrocery busine.ss temporarily. He reasoned that as\\nthere were no remnants of tea and sugar, or getting\\nout of fashion to groceries, he con hi sell out at any\\ntime, and when the prosperity of business would ad-\\nmit of it he could return to his former occujiation.\\nTaking the few hundred dollars which he had saved,\\nhe purclia.- ed his stock, and o|ieneil a store on Main\\nStreet, near Broadway, on May (J, 1st:}. His knowl-\\nedge of trade w:is limited, and he employed Mr. Lewis\\nL. Conklin, father of the present postmater of Pater-\\nson, to assist him. Notwithstanding the gloomy\\nprophecies of bis friends, who predicted failure unless\\nhe should add the sale of liquors to that of groceries,\\nMr. Crosby achieved success from the beginning in\\nhis new enterprise, and in two years was compelled to\\nseek more commodious quarters, which he obtained\\nin the old Van Blarcom property, corner of Broailway\\nand Main Street.s. He made extensive alterations at\\nthat place, and continued in active trade there fiir the\\nperiod of ten years. At the expiration of that time\\nbe puri ba.sed of David Roe the Main Street portion\\nof his present store, and subsequently bought the\\nproperty directly in the rear, and facing on Wiu-ihing-\\nton Street, where he established his wholesale ilepart-\\nment. He liius since continued to carry on one of the\\nlargest wholesale and retail grocery enterpriso in\\nthe State, and is recognized by all as /arile jirhirept\\namong the dealers in groceries of the city of Pater-\\nson. In 18U7 he took into partnership his son. .1.\\nHenry Crosby, the firm being now known as II. 15.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0958.jp2"}, "826": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0961.jp2"}, "827": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0962.jp2"}, "828": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0963.jp2"}, "829": {"fulltext": "tttN\\nL^\\n^^-t^ T Z", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0964.jp2"}, "830": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n537\\nCrosby Son. Mr. Crosby has done the largest mer-\\ncantile business in the city or county (or more than a\\nquarter of a century, and at no time in nearly forty\\nyears bu.siness has he had a note protested, check\\ndishonored, or failed to meet a payment the hour it\\nwas due, and during all the panics of those years\\nhe never paid less than one hundred cents on the\\ndollar to meet all of his obligations.\\nWe have thus traced in a plain way the upward\\ncareer of one who, starting from an humble station in\\nlife, has raised himself, by great persistency of pur-\\npose, close application to business, and the intelligent\\nand judicious management of his affairs, to a leading\\nplace among the business men of Paterson. It has\\nbeen our intention to present only a truthful account\\nof the early struggles and later successes of Mr.\\nCrosby, as an incentive and example to the young in\\ntreading the devious pathway of life. It will be\\nobserved that the prominent qualities that have\\nenabled him to succeed have been a willingness to\\nwork at any honest vocation, however humble, a\\nsteady persistency in life, and the manifestation of\\nthat fertility of invention and of resource which is\\ninherent in people of New England birth and an-\\ncestry. Mr. Crosby has confined himself closely to\\nhis business, and with the exception of an extended\\ntour in Europe in 1869 with his family and eight\\nmonths in California, he has seldom absented himself\\nfrom his store for any length of time. He is method-\\nical and exact in business, at once exacting and for-\\nbearing towards his employes, and has a settled habit\\nof buying only when the market is low and for cash.\\nHe has kept out of politics, and refused to be nomi-\\nnated for public office. He has acted in close accord\\nwitli the Republican party, and was one of the dele-\\ngates from New Jersey on the occasion of the first\\nnomination at Chicago of Lincoln for the Presi-\\ndency. He is in active sympathy with all worthy\\nlocal enterprises, and has been closely identified with\\na number of the institutions of the city. He has\\nbeen one of the largest stockholders and a director of\\nthe First National Bank of Paterson since the organ-\\nization of that institution, is a member of the board\\nof trustees of the Paterson Savings Institution, one\\nof the board of government of the Paterson Board of\\nTrade, and a member of the New York Produce Ex-\\nchange and Butter and Cheese Exchange of New\\nYork. In church affiliations he adheres to the Bap-\\ntist denomination, and is a member of the First Bap-\\ntist Church of Paterson. He has been president of\\nthe building association connected with that body\\nsince its organization, and he is one of the trustees of\\nthe church, and was a member of the building com-\\nmittee at the time of the erection of the ])resent\\nchurch edifice. He was actively interested in the\\nlaying out of the Cedar Lawn Cemetery, and besides\\nowning a handsome lot there, has been president of\\nthe association connected therewith for a number of\\nyears. He is also president of the East Side Land\\nCompany, and for many years held the same relation\\nto the Passaic Land Improvement Company at Lake\\nView, and lal)ored hard in laying out streets, buililing\\nhouses, and advancing the general interests of the\\nenterprise. He was one of the first in the city to\\nadopt the modern style of architecture, as distin-\\nguished from the old Dutch style, in the erection of\\ndwelling-houses, and in 1853 built his present hand-\\nsome residence on the corner of Broadway and Pater-\\nson Streets. He moved into it on Sept. 15, 1853. In\\nall his undertakings he manifests a spirit of enterprise\\nthat is worthy the emulation of all, and brings to the\\ndischarge of the duties of life a degree of force that\\nfew are able to command.\\nMr. Crosby was married on Feb. 27, 1840, to Pau-\\nlina F., youngest daughter of Thomas W. Hathorn,\\nof Paterson, who died in January, 1872. She was a\\nwoman of excellent judgment, and a good counselor\\nfor her husband. Her grandfather was Gen. Ha-\\nthorn, a w-arm patriot during the struggle for national\\nindependence, and a member of the first American\\nCongress.\\nThe children were Josephine, widow of Samuel C.\\nM. Allen, a former New York merchant and manu-\\nfacturer and popular resident of Paterson John\\nHenry, in partnership with his father in the grocery\\nbusiness, married Mary, oldest daughter of Hon.\\nJoseph T. Crowell, of Railway, N. J. Anne Louise,\\nwife of Isaac Newton, Jr., of New York City and\\nIsabel Stewart. Mr. Crosby s present wife, Har-\\nriet E., daughter of Noah and Catharine (Clark)\\nRogers, of Cornwall, Conn., is of New England birth,\\nand a descendant on the paternal side of old Puritan\\nstock, and on the maternal of Frencli Huguenot an-\\ncestry. The issue of the present marriage are Henry\\nBarret Crosby, Jr., and Florence Lyon Crosby.\\nHis married children are settled and living near\\nhim, and when the families are called together on\\njoyous occasions he can look with pride and pleasure\\nupon eleven promising grandchildren.\\nWiUiam Crossett was born in County London-\\nderry, ])arish of Dessartlin, Ireland, March 21, 1797,\\nand was the only child of William Crossett, a farmer\\nby occupation, who lived to the advanced age of\\nninety-nine years, and of his wife, Mary Cunning-\\nham. His grandfather was John Crossett, who re-\\nsided in the same locality.\\nMr. Crossett was educated at the private schools of\\nDessartlin Parish, and in 1819 came to this country\\nto seek a place for himself in life. He landed at East-\\nport, Me., after a six-weeks voyage, and soon after,\\nin connection with ninety others, engaged Capt.\\nLovett to transport them to Philadelphia. The cap-\\ntain proved, however, to be the same one who piloted\\nthe British into Portlantl, Me., during the war of\\n1812, and upon reaching that port he was assaulted\\nby the populace. The vessel then started for New\\nYork, but owing to some misunderstanding the pas-\\nsengers attempted to seize the vessel. They were ac-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0967.jp2"}, "831": {"fulltext": "538\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIKS, NEW JERSEY.\\ncordiiigly carried into Townsend, Me., and delivered\\nup as priMiuers for trying to capture the vessel, but\\nthe charge was there dismissed by the justice before\\nwhom it was brought. Mr. Crossett and others were\\nthen carried by another vessel to Boston, from which\\nplace he walked to New York, where he tarried for a\\nshort time. He subsequently located near Blooming-\\nburgh, N. Y., where he worked on a farm for two or\\nthree months. In the fall of 1819 he came to Pater-\\nson, and entered the employ of David Reed as an\\napprentice to the carpenter trade. Having become a\\njourneyman to that business, he followed it for the\\ngreater part of thirty years, first by day s work, and\\nafterwards as contractor and builder. During that\\ntime he worked as a millwright for Hogg Paul for\\nthree years, and for eight years made a specialty of\\nrepairing the wood portion of the machinery of Col-\\nlett Smith. After leaving the employ of the latter\\nfirm, Mr. Crossett entered the Colt gun-factory, first\\nas a pattern-maker, and finally at making stocks for\\nthe guns. He was very expert at this, and made the\\nstock for the gun that received the gold medal at the\\nAmerican Institute Fair, New York. After several\\nyears he again engaged in the regular carpenter busi-\\nness, in which he continued until 1S50. In that year\\nhis health failed him, and he revisited his native\\ncountry of Ireland for a few months. Since his\\nreturn his only business occupation has been the\\nmanagement and control of the real estate which he\\nowns in Paterson. He has never sought political\\nplace, but filled only the minor offices of the city.\\nHe has been a member of the First Presbyterian\\nChurch for many years, and was for some time a\\nmember of the board of trustees.\\nMr. Crossett married on July 10, 1823, Ann, daugh-\\nter of Robert and .Vnn (Morel Johnson, of Pater-\\nson (natives of County Tyrone, Ireland). She is still\\nliving, but has no children. Mr. Crossett is now\\neighty-four years of age, and has led a useful, indus-\\ntrious, and faithful life, achieving a handsome com-\\npetency, and maintaining the respect and confidence\\nof his friends ami ncighlxjrs.\\nJohn E. Van Winkle is the son of Edo and Jane\\nVan Houten Van Winkle, and was born in Pater-\\nson, N. J., Feb. 2^, 1814, his present home being\\nlocated on the corner of Broadway and Carroll\\nStreets, the exact site of the old homestead. He\\nrepresents the seventh generation in the line of de-\\nscent from Jacob Van Winkle, who emigrated from\\nAmsterdam, Holland, in lt;84, and settled in Bergen\\nCounty.\\nMr. Van Winkle ha-s always resided in Paterson,\\nhis home being upon ground which has, with the ex-\\nception of a brief interval, been in the family for a\\nperiod of nearly two centuries. At the final settle-\\nment of the estate of E lo Van Winkle, his son pur-\\nchased in l v. 4 several large tracts of his father s\\nfarm, which were held until the speculation of 1808,\\nwhen he sold and erei-ted his present home. John K.\\nVan Winkle was in 1838 married to Miss Rebecca,\\ndaughter of John G. Oldis, a representative of one of\\nthe oldest families of Bergen County. To this mar-\\nriage were born six children, Edward, a machine-\\nmanufacturer, of Atlanta, Ga. John A., a hardwar\\nmerchant in Paterson Henr superintendent of tin\\nPhienix Manufacturing Company; Franklin, Pr i-\\nfessor of Mechanical Engineering at the State Col-\\nlege of Texas and two daughters.\\nMr. Van Winkle may in an eminent degree be re-\\ngarded as a self-made man, whose energy and me-\\nchanical skill have rendered his career a successful\\none. At an early age he w:is apprenticed as a ma-\\nchinist to Messrs. Plunkett Thompson, of Pater-\\nson, N. J., who retired from business before his tradi\\nwas acquired, and necessitated its completion in thi\\nRogers Works. After becoming of age he served for\\nsome years as a journeyman, and in 1848 establishi l\\nhimself as a machinist in a frame building adjoiniii.\\nthe old Beaver Mill I now Wiley estate property\\nThe demands upon his skill were so great as to render\\nmore space necessary, and two floors of the old Beaver\\nMill were leased and devoted to purposes of manu-\\nfacture. In 1857 a mill-site w:is purchased on the\\npresent Van Houten Street, upon which were erected\\na foundry, machine-shops, and a blacksmith depart-\\nment. Business was successfully conducted here un-\\ntil 1868, when the buildings were entirely consumed\\nby fire. With his accustomed energy Mr. Van Win-\\nkle at once rebuilt, and in 187-5, just after he h^d ex-\\necuted an engagement with the Phienix Manufactur-\\ning Company for the .sale of the property, it was again\\ndestroyed by fire. By a subsequent transfer it became\\nand is now a portion of the Pha nix Manufacturing\\nCompany s works.\\nThe inventive genius of Mr. Van Winkle has\\nfound exprassion in many valuable improvements in\\nmachinery, which are i)rotected by iiatents.\\nIn 18ti3 he invented and |)atented a cotton-open r.\\nor cotton-willow, which has since been further im-\\nproved. This macliine has proved eminently success-\\nful, and has found general favor in all the cotton-mil 1-\\nthroughout the I nited States, Canada, South .\\\\nii i\\nica, and Mexico. During the war of the Rebelli ii:\\nthe deman l for ilieni was so great as to render tli\\nfilling of orders an impos-sibility, and premiums wer^\\noffered in many cases for a speedy execution of t i.\\nwork. In 1880 a caveat was filed for improvement nu\\nthis machine. Mr. Van Winkle has been able, not\\nwithstanding the arduous demands upon his time, t\\ndevote some attention to public and ofticial life. He\\nwas elected tax-collector in 1840\u00e2\u0080\u009444 for one-half the\\nthen town of Paterson, and in 18l 0 was chosen school\\ncommissioner. He was in 1873 appointed by Presi-\\ndent Grant commissioner to the Vienna Exposition.\\nhut failing health necessitated his ileclining tli.\\nhonor. He was in early life an GUI-Line Whig, bui\\nleft the parly to support Van Buren lus the Free-Soil\\ncandidate for llii Prp^idencv. He was a member of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0968.jp2"}, "832": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0969.jp2"}, "833": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0970.jp2"}, "834": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0971.jp2"}, "835": {"fulltext": "err y i^ r-\\nC cv- -5^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 i!^ t/ Xi\u00c2\u00a3", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0972.jp2"}, "836": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n539\\nthe first Republican convention at the organization\\nof the party, and has since endorsed its platform. Mr.\\nVan Winkle has never been an aspirant for official\\nhonors, and on repeated occasions declined such dis-\\ntinctions.\\nIn early life he became a member of the First Pres-\\nbyterian Church of Paterson, in the prosperity of\\nwhich he was greatly interested. In 1839, together\\nwith many others, he withdrew from that church\\n(then the Old School) and founded the Second Pres-\\nliyteriaii Church (New School), of which he is .still a\\nmember.\\nHe has ever been active in the I urtherance of its\\ninterests, and has served for many years as elder and\\nSabbath-school superintendent. He has also been a\\nprominent delegate at meetings of the Presbytery,\\nSynod, and General Assembly.\\nThough time has to some extent imjiaired the vigor\\nand activity of Mr. Van Winkle, he still manifests a\\nlively interest in public afl airs, and devotes a portion\\nof his time to the subjects that have employed his en-\\nergies during a long and to some extent eventful life.\\nFrancis C. Van Dyk. This gentleman traces his\\ndescent to Johannes Cornelius Van Dyk, who held\\nthe important otfice of commodore in the Holland\\nnavy during the Napoleonic wars, and who was killed\\nby a French captain in an engagement with the en-\\nemy. He married Anna Catharina Peters, of the Cape\\nof Good Hope, and had three children, viz.: Johannes\\nCornelius, George Augustus, and Harry Stowe Van\\nDyk.\\nThe second of these was the father of the subject of\\nthis sketch, and was born in 1798. Early in life he\\nentered upon the study of medicine and surgery under\\nthe celebrated Sir Astley Cooper, in London, and\\nwhen twenty-one years of age was graduated with\\ndistinction. He gave special attention to the study of\\nanatomy and practical surgery, and in his subsequent\\npractice was recognized as one of the most skillful\\nsurgeons of his day. His father owned two planta-\\ntions in British Guiana, South America, and here\\nDr. Van Dyk first located in the practice of his pro-\\nfession. He was very successful in the treatment of\\nhis cases, and three years later located at Porto Rico,\\nwhere he enjoyed an extensive practice. His useful\\nlife was cut short in 1840 at Santiago de Cuba, where\\nhe had resided from July 21, 1837, as physician to\\nthose operating the copper-mines at that place under\\nthe direction of the British government. He received\\na large salary from government, and had charge of\\nthe hospital at Santiago also, performing a large\\nnumber of important surgical operations, and adding\\nto his reputation as a surgeon. His .services were also\\nhighly valued in the treatment of disease among the\\nslaves on the plantations. Dr. Van Dyk married in\\nFebruary, 1833, Maria E., daughter of Hcrmanus and\\nAnna (De Groot) Funtman, her father being a native\\nof London and her mother of Amsterdam, and each\\nbeing descended from Huguenot families who tied\\nfrom France after the revocation of the Edict of\\nNantes in 1682. The family resided for a time in\\nBritish Guiana, where Mr. Funtman labored in a\\nclerical capacity in the court-house. Mrs. Van Dyk\\nwas born in Holland, and had three children, viz.\\nGeorge, who died at Porto Rico at the age of five\\nHarry, who resides in Paterson, and is employed by\\nthe Danforth Locomotive and Machine Company;\\nand Francis Cornelius Van Dyk.\\nThe latter was born at San Juan, the capital of the\\nisland of Porto Rico, on Sept. 2(1, 1837. His early\\neducation was imparted by his mother and grand-\\nmother, both ladies of intelligence and culture. After\\nthe settlement of his father at Santiago de Cuba, the\\nremaining members of the family resided at Porto\\nRico for a few months, and then sailed for America,\\nwhere Dr. Van Dyk expected soon to follow them,\\narriving at Philadelphia on July 21, 1838. They\\nfirst took up their residence at Elizabeth, N. J., with\\nMrs. Van Dyk s mother, who had married for a sec-\\nond husband Jean M. De Ciplet, a native of Brussels,\\nand subsequently lived at Newark for a few years,\\nduring which time the sad intelligence of the death\\nof Dr. Van Dyk, who was daily expected to join his\\nfamily, was received. In 1842 they removed to New\\nYork City, where Mrs. Van Dyk established a young\\nladies private seminary, and was assisted in teaching\\nby her mother, Mrs. De Ciplet, a highly-educated and\\nvery talented lady.\\nFrom ten to thirteen years of age the subject of\\nthis sketch was under the instruction of Henry W.\\nDunshee, principal of the Collegiate School of the\\nReformed Dutch Church, which was established by\\nPetrus Stuyvesant, director-general of New Nether-\\nlands (New York) from 1047 to 1664, nearly two\\nhundred and fifty years ago. At the age of thirteen,\\nalthough offered a scholarship in Rutgers College,\\nN. J., by S. B. Schieffelin, of New York, Mr. Van\\nDyk, during a school vacation, went to New Bruns-\\nwick, N. J., and entered the dry-goods store of his\\nuncle, Henry Towle, as a clerk, where he remained\\nnearly nine years. In March, 1860, he formed a part-\\nnership with Mr. Towle, and established a dry-goods\\nstore at No. 228 Main Street, Paterson, N. J., the\\nfirm-name being Towle Van Dyk. The business\\nwas attended with success from the beginning, and\\nfive years later Mr. Van Dyk purchased his uncle s\\ninterest in the concern, and carried on the business\\nalone from 1865 until 1872. In 1870 he purchased a\\ndesirable tract of land, and soon after began the\\nerection of a new store, known as No. 298 Main\\nStreet, which he occupied in 1872. During the later\\nyears of his dry-goods business he had built up a\\nlarge trade in carpets, oil-cloths, and mattings, and\\nhe gradually formed the idea of adding the sale of\\nfurniture to these lines and abandoning the general\\ndry-goods trade. The new store was built expressly\\nto accommodate this business, and was the first build-\\ning in Paterson erected for a specific line of trade", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0975.jp2"}, "837": {"fulltext": "54U\\nHISTORY OF BEilGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JEUSEY.\\nwhich was used exclusively for business purposes.\\nMr. Van Dyk admitted .lolin B. Van Saun and\\nAlfred H. Post, two young men who had been with\\nhim many years, as partners in the new business,\\nand the tirm of F. C. Van Dyk Co. was organized.\\nMr. Van Saun died on Dec. 19, 1880, and the firm\\nhas since consisted of the two remaining members.\\nThe new enterprise met with good success, and the\\nbusiness was being constantly enlarged until Dec. 24,\\n1880. when the building caught fire from a defective\\nflue and was burned, involving a total loss of thirty\\nthousand dollars, jtartially insured, besides the loss\\nof trade at the busiest season of the year. As soon\\nas the losses were adjusted the rebuilding of the store\\nwas commenced, and the present commodious build-\\ning was completed on June 15, 1881, and immedi-\\nately occupied. The firm are now doing a large and\\nsuccessful business, and occujiy the front rank among\\nthe houses of tlieir line in Patcrson.\\nMr. Van Dyk is still in the prime of life, and is at\\nthe head of one of the successful enterprises of the\\ncity. He has never taken any special iuterest in\\npolitics, but confined his whole attention to his busi-\\nness affairs. He feels a lively interest in the institu-\\ntions of the city, and is identified with the various\\nbenevolent and progressive movements of Paterson.\\nHe is a member of the Board of Trade, a director\\nand vice-president of the Second National Bank of\\nPaterson, and a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian\\nChurch of that city. He wius a member of the board\\nof trustees of that body for about ten years, and\\ntreasurer of the church for the same period of time.\\nHe has also taken an active interest in the Sab-\\nbath-school cause, and been superintendent of the\\nschool of his church since 1873. He was married\\non Sept. 3, 1862, to Lida C, daughter of James D.\\nand Jcrusha (Larue) Stryker, of Lamberlville, N. J.,\\nand has had three children, of wlioni two arc living,\\nnamely, Misse-s Bertha and IFclcii Van Dyk. Mr-.\\nVan Dyk died on June i ISfiS.\\nJoseph C. Todd was born in Bridgewater township,\\ni^omersct Co., N. J., March 2, 1817. His father. John\\nTodd, engaged in agricultural pursuits iluring liis\\nlife in that locality, wits a man of character and stand-\\ning, and one of the lay judges of the county for sev-\\neral years. His mother, whose maiden name was\\nAnn Castncr, wa-s born near Somerville, N. J. Seven\\nchildren were born of the marriage, viz. Ste|)hen\\nCatharine, who married Lewis Harrison, of Somer-\\nville; .fciscph C, .lames, John Augustus, and\\nRachel Ann, wife of .lolin Van Nnstrand, of Kumu-\\nlus, N. V. Stephen resides at Dunellen, N. J., where\\nhe is a large property-owner James has been suc-\\ncessfully engaged in the dry-goods business in New\\nYork City for many years John is a inlni.ster of\\nthe Dutch Keformed denomination, aixl pastor of the\\nchurch at Tarrytown, N. Y. Augustus is also a min-\\nister of that denomination, and pastor of the church\\nat Schoharie, N. Y.\\nThe earlier years of Jacob C. Todd s life were passed\\nin his native county, where he received a good com-\\nmon-school education. At the age of sixteen he left\\nhome to learn the trade of a carpenter with his uncle,\\nJames Castner, of Somerville, where he remained\\nthree years. He then went to New York City, where\\nhe worked at his trade as a journeyman for a few\\nmonths, and when nineteen years of age came to Pat-\\nerson, where he worked in the employ of David Reeil\\nfor a short time, laboring, among other things, on the\\nCross Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after\\nhe secured employment in the machine-shop of God-\\nwin, Clark tSc Co., where he remained about a year,\\nand meantime learned how to make patterns for\\nmachinery. He next entered the machine-shops\\nof Rogers, Ketchum Grosvenor, and was there\\nemployed when the first locomotive-engine, the\\nSandusky, was built in 1S3C-37. He at first made\\nthe wooden frames to put around the locomotives,\\nbut when William Swinburne was romoted to the\\n8U|ierintendency, succeeded him as a pattern-maker,\\nand worked in that department in connection with\\nWatts Cooke, the elder, and John Cooke. He re-\\nmained in that position for four or five years at a dol-\\nlar a ilay compensation, and then established a sash\\nand blinds manufactory, which he soon gave up. He\\nnext occupied the position of head pattern-maker in\\nthe Oldham machine-shops for a few years, and while\\nthere devised the first successful hemp spinning ma-\\nchine that was ever built, making several improve-\\nments in the original plan of construction. He has\\nsince maile a specialty of manufacturing hemp and\\nflax machinery, and has taken out several different\\npatents upon them in this country and in Furope, the\\nlatest on May lo, 1880.\\nIn 1844, in company with Daniel Mackey. he en-\\ngaged in the manufacture of hemp and Max ma-\\nchinery in the James Nightengale mill, on the lower\\nraceway, and met with so much success that two\\nyears later they were compelled to seek more commo-\\ndious rooms in the Bradley Mill, which stood on the\\npresent site of the Machinist.s* A.ssociation Building.\\nThree years later, needing both more capital and\\nmore room to meet the demands of their rapidly-in-\\ncreasing business, Philip Rafl erty was admitted to the\\nconcern, and in ISod the firm of Todd, Mackey Co.\\nwas organized. The new firm at once purchased of\\nthe estate of Daniel S. Holsman the property on the\\nlower raceway that has since been occupied by the ex-\\ntensive machine-j^liopsof the concern, and commenced\\nthe manufacture of machinery on a large scale. In\\nIS. .Mr. .Mackey withdrew, and the enterprise was\\ncarried on under the name of Todd and Rafl erty,\\nuntil April, 1872, when it became the Todd Raf-\\nferty hieliine Company, with Mr. Tmld as president\\nand Mr. RallVrty treasurer. The latter clied on July\\n30, 1S72, ami the business has since been conducted\\nby Mr. Todd aloiu I pon securing the present loca-\\ntiou in \\\\x^ till- I oncern began the manufacture of", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0976.jp2"}, "838": {"fulltext": "-ty CcaE.Permc S w\\nI\\nt^.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0979.jp2"}, "839": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0980.jp2"}, "840": {"fulltext": "t", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0981.jp2"}, "841": {"fulltext": "-^/i ^7^^^/^^^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0982.jp2"}, "842": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n541\\nsteam-engines, and gradually ran into the making of\\nhemp, flax, silk, jute, and bagging-machinery of dif-\\nferent kinds. The products of the works have been\\nsold all over the world, and the machinery for not less\\nthan a dozen factories in England and Scotland has\\nbeen designed, built, and put up by the concern. Mr.\\nTood has been the mechanic of the enterprise througli-\\nout the entire term of its existence, and his skill and\\nability in that direction have contributed very largely\\nto its success. He has visited Europe three times on\\nbusiness for the firm in 1859, 1860, 1862, and 1863.\\nBesides engaging in the making of machinery, he has\\nalso been actively connected with other manufactur-\\ning enterprises, in which he has achieved great suc-\\ncess. For ten years he has been engaged in the man-\\nufacture of jute-bagging for covering cotton on tlie\\ncorner of Taylor Jackson Streets, in Paterson, the\\nmill being now successfully operated by J. C. Todd\\nCo. The i)artuer in the concern is Michael Ritchie.\\nNew mills were erected by the concern in 1873, and\\nthe capacity of the works is six thousand yards of\\nbagging a day, about ninety men being employed.\\nMr. Todd is also half-owner of the Excelsior Rubber\\nCompany, Wheeler Co., proprietors, of New Ro-\\nchelle, N. Y., the concern turning out six hundred\\ngarments for men and women per day. He is also chief\\nowner of a silver-mine in Colorado, and the largest\\nstockiiolderin the Davenport Consolidated Miningand\\nSmelting Company of Mineral City, in that State.\\nHe has never been a public man, nor engaged in\\npolitical matters, although he was city treasurer of\\nPaterson ibr three or lour years, and alderman for a\\nnumber of years from the Sixth Ward of that city.\\nHe has been a large stockholder in the Mechanics\\nand Traders (now the First National) Bank of Jersey\\nCity from the time of its organization. He was mar-\\nried in 1836 to Miss Emeline Bogardus, of Paterson,\\nand has two daughters, Harriet and Anna Todd.\\nPhilip Rafferty. His was a name associated with\\neverything tliat was genial and generous. It is a\\nname deeply rooted in the affections of the masses.\\nLiving, he was idolized by the political party of\\nwhich he was the chief, and when he died his mem-\\nory was cherished still, and the lapse of time has not\\nobliterated the love which still lives for the gentle\\nsoul of one not to be forgotten whilst a cotempora-\\nneous life remains. There are those whose gratitude\\nand prayers go with him in the spirit, and there are\\nmany who remember his kind words and generous\\nhand, his hospitality, his disinterested acts, and his\\nboundless charity. Of him it can be said, Here\\nwas A MAN.\\nIn this brief introductory no better insight can we\\nhave of Philip Rafferty than the love children bore\\nhim, and from the incident that when he was a can-\\ndidate for office, upon every Saturday afternoon these\\nwould gather and form processions, and with their\\nlittle drums and banners would march out to his\\nresidence, and, entering the garden-gate, would go in\\n35\\norder around his home so as to halt in front and\\ncheer for Philip Rafferty. These were not or-\\nganized and uniformed partisans, but impromptu pro-\\ncessions of the little ones in the town in which he\\nlived. He was a man whom children loved.\\nThe subject of this sketch, whom we have thus in-\\ntroduced, was born in Danville, Montrose Co., Pa.,\\nwhere his father, John Rafferty, resided. When\\nPhilip was but six years old his father died, and at\\nthis early age the boy may be said to have been\\nthrown upon his own resource.s. His mother, with\\nher little family, came to Paterson, where Philip\\ncommenced work at six shillings a week. On this\\nscanty allowance he thus early began to contribute\\nto the support of his mother and sister. At the age\\noften he obtained a situation in a store, earning the\\napprobation of his employer and the esteem and good\\nwill of the customers. Even as a boy his genial and\\nkindly nature encompassed him with friends.\\nA few years later we find Philip had apprenticed\\nhimself to a carriage manufacturer of Newark. He\\nremained there until thrown out by the failure of his\\nemployer. With a capital of thirty dollars, the\\namount saved out of his hard-earned wages, he then\\nformed the resolution of starting a store in Paterson,\\nand going to New York to inirchase his stock for that\\npurpose, by his candor and frankness he excited the\\ninterest of Mr. Burkhalter, the proprietor of a well-\\nknown business house on the west side, who at once\\ngave him a credit of fifteen hundred dolhirs without\\nreference or security save his promise to pay. The\\nnotes given were promptly met, and the store thus\\nstarted proved a success from the first, and of no\\npersonal matter was Mr. Rafferty ever heard to boast\\nsave of the fact that he had always paid a hundred\\ncents to the dollar and owed no man anything, and\\nthat his name had never been dishonored.\\nAfter accumulating ten or fifteen thousand dollars,\\nMr. Ratterty retired from business; but soon realized\\nthat an active life was necessary to his nature, and\\nwithin a year he joined his fortunes with those of\\nMessrs. Todd Mackey (machinists), and contributed\\nto the concern capital, ability, and business experience.\\nThus was laid the foundation of a factory for the\\nbuilding of machinery which offered employment to\\nmany hundreds of expert mechanics and others, and\\nestablished a business which gave to his town a repu-\\ntation for building machinery which was of great and\\nlasting public benefit. The concern was for many\\nyears the largest and most succeJssful, and after Mr.\\nMackey withdrew it was incorjjorated under the name\\nof the Todd Rafferty Machine Company, with\\nMr. Todd as president and Mr. Rafierty a.s treasurer,\\nand so continued until the demise of Mr. Rafferty on\\nthe 21st of July, 1872.\\nIn the fall of 1852, Mr. Rafierty was elected to the\\nNew Jersey House of Assembly, at a time when its\\nmembership was of a high order. His colleagues\\nfrom this county were J. V. R. Van Blarcom and", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0983.jp2"}, "843": {"fulltext": "642\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCornelius Van Winkle, with De Mott (then of Hud-\\nson) and Robbins, of Middlesex, and men of that\\nstanding in the Lower House. Xevertlieless, we find\\ntliat Mr. Ratferty became a leading member, and as\\nehairman of the Committee on State Prison Aecounts\\nand the Joint Companies, he proved of great service.\\nHe was also chairman on claims and pensions, and\\nduring the session introduced fifteen bills that were\\npassed by the House, and the record shows that he\\nled in opposition to all the important bills that were\\ndefeated. He was a friend of the newspapers of his\\nState, and earnestly advocated the law fixing the rates\\nfor legal advertising, and when this measure was\\nbeing defeated, voted against it for the purpose of\\nmoving a reconsideration, and finally psissed it by just\\nthe necessary number of votes, thirty-one. He pro-\\nposed the bill whereby the ballot was given to the\\nupper townships of his county at the spring elections,\\na privilege they did not have theretofore; he further\\nbenefited those townships by advocating as a free\\nway the Paterson and Hamburg toll-road. He was\\non the side of the people in their ell ort to destroy the\\nmill-dams which had made Rahway so unhealthy,\\nand he rendered .service in giving a free flow to the\\nRahway River, thus making healthful a large section\\nof the State. He helped to establish the width of\\ndraw-bridges over navigable waters, and passed other\\nmeasures by his influence and votes, too numerous to\\nmention. But he was chiefly noted for his opposition\\nto the recharter of old or the chartering of new special\\nbanks, and for favoring the ;/eiicrii/ banking law.\\nUntil that time a monopoly possessed the sole right\\nof psissenger traffic across the State. This exclusive\\nprivilege of the Caimlen and Amboy Company had\\nbecome an op|)robrium upon the people of New Jer-\\nsey. Philip Kalferty made the first motion for the\\nappointment of the first committee to devise measures\\nto extinguish tho.sc exclusive privileges in order that\\ncom] etitive roads might be constructed. The motion\\nwas carried, and Mr. Rafl erty was appointed chair-\\nman, and his comniitlcc reported accordingly, and no\\neffort was spared on his part to wipe out a blot which\\nhad so long rendered odious our little commonwealth.\\nAt the next .session he was re-elected by a largely\\nincreased vote, and so wise had been the policy pur-\\nsued l y the Legislature of the previous year and tor\\nwhich Mr. Hafferty was greatly responsible in the\\nleadership of his party in the As.sembly that his politi-\\ncal friends carried 44 members into the House against\\n16 of the op|(osing party. His is the first and the last\\nname printi d in the minutes of that session. At the\\norganization he was nameil to conduct the Speaker-\\nelect to the chair, and he offered the resolutions\\nwhereby the rules governing the As.sembly fnmi that\\nday to this, with slight amendments, have been adopted\\nby Hucccssivc Legislatures. Despite the large Demo-\\ncratic majority, party spirit ran high, and at the out-\\nset and for the first time in the history of the State\\nthe election of the Governor wiut contested on the\\nground that he was ineligible, and charges and speci-\\nfications were at once presented against him. The ac-\\ntion of the As.sembly was dignified, and this vexation\\nwas soon removed.\\nWe find Mr. Raff erty, who.se services had been\\nacknowledged and appreciated the previous year, now\\nappointed as chairman on corporations, the most\\nimportant of all the committees. He was also re-\\najipointed on State Prison Accounts, a positiem\\nwherein, as an expert accountant, he had rendered the\\nState great service the previous year.\\nMr. Raff erty was no truckler in his policy, and\\nhaving been appointed chairman of a committee to\\nwhom was referred that portion of the Governor s\\nmessage which called for an increase of the salaries\\nof .State officers, he boldly presented a report flatly\\nagainst any increase whatever, save in the case of the\\nattorney-general, whose duties he proposed to in-\\ncrease, and the oflSce of whom he proposed to change\\nthe character of very materially, and he asked leave\\nto bring in a bill for that purpose. The re|)ort was\\nadopted without dissent, and (he House directed him\\nto bring in such a bill. He did it wius passed, and\\nto this day the attorney-general s office is regulated\\nby its provisions.\\nI p to this period there was no encouragement in\\nour State for the construction of any synagogue or\\nplace of Jewish worship. His love of religious\\nliberty was made manifest in his advocacy of a bill\\nto permit the erection of a place of worship by the\\nJews in the city of Newark. In this Mr. Rafl erty only\\ncarried out his principles, as evinced in his donations\\nat home to every sect and to any needy congregation.\\nFor his city he did niueli, and he had the Paterson\\nFiremen Association incorporated. He pjussed the\\nbill to relieve the members of the Paterson military\\ncompanies from jury duty, and to unite the village of\\nManchester (now the First and Second Wards) with\\nPaterson. He introduced the bill to unite the Pater-\\nson and Hudson River and Paterson and Raniapo\\nRailroads with the Erie, in order to insure to bis town\\nmore frequent trains, and also introduced a meiusure\\ncalculated to protect the public from excessive rates\\nof fare and freight charges on railroads. He also\\npa.s.scd at this session a general law to enable gas\\ncompanies to be organized, which law broke up the\\nmonopolies which till then hindered opfiosition gas\\nconi))anies from organizing in any place where a\\ncompany already existed.\\nAt this time the Know-Nothing craze was at its\\nheight, and a measure was introduced by a Newark\\nmember to prevent paupers and criminals from for-\\neign countries from entering that city. Mr. Rafl erty\\nhad been appointed upon the Joint Committee on\\nthe Naturalization Laws, and this effort to class\\npauper* with criminals and to interdict poor persons\\nfrom entering a free city of our State, received his\\nmost bilt T denunciation lus un-American; and the\\nbill fell dead.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0984.jp2"}, "844": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n54a\\nOn national matters Mr. Rafferty was a statesman. I\\nWe find him chairman of the committee upon the\\nNebrasica question, then a political matter agitating\\nthe country. We also find him presenting a series of\\nresolutions against the sequestration of any more of\\nthe public domain for the benefit of corporations.\\nThe resolutions were passed unanimously, and fore-\\ntold with a remarkable foresight all that has since I\\noccurred from the mistaken policy then and there\\ndenounced.\\nBut in State matters he was an enemy of monopoly\\nand all exclusive privileges. The determination\\nwhich caused him to stick to it as his bill to per-\\nmit free gas companies to organize was defeated\\n(when he got the bill reconsidered and finally passed),\\nnerved him in the fight against special and in favor\\nof the free banking system. He fought ofl the spe-\\ncial charters of a large number of banks to the end,\\nand although, as chairman of the committee, he pre-\\nsented a report showing the great danger of special\\nbanks and the greater security of the free, yet he\\ndid not favor stifling bills in committee, and there-\\nfore rejiorted all fairly to the House. But at the\\nend of the session he had their further consideration\\npostponed to the next session, virtually defeating\\nthem separately, one by one, on his motion in every\\ncase.\\nBut his crowning work at this session was his re-\\nintroduction of measures to extinguish the exclusive\\nprivileges of the joint companies, an action on his\\npart which finally resulted in the overthrow of the\\nCamden and Amboy monopoly and the establishment I\\nof the principle of free railroads across the State of\\nNew Jersey.\\nIn the fifty-two years of Philip Rafferty s life had\\nbeen crowded a deal of toil and results. In establish-\\ning the first orphan asylum in this section of the State,\\nwhilst a trustee of St. John s Catholic Church, Mr.\\nRafferty was most generous and active. The Hospital\\nof St. Joseph, for years our only place of refuge for\\nthe .suffering, is greatly indebted to him for zealous\\nsup|)ort and liberal contributions, and the grounds,\\nvaluable and extensive, now fortunately belonging to\\nit, in the heart of the city, were secured mainly\\nthrought the advice, foresight, and courage of Mr.\\nRafferty, aided by a few of his friends. In all matters\\nin which he was concerned he was an acknowledged\\nleader and chief spirit, having a logical and practical\\nmind, and never on any occasion neglecting his duty\\nin any position to which he was called. Whoever\\nmight be absent, punctually at the time of every ap-\\npointment Mr. Rafferty would be there.\\nAs a prompt and clear-headed man of business, he\\nwas appreciated, and held for many years and till his\\ndeath his position as director of the Mechanics and\\nTraders Bank of Jersey City. Upon the failure of\\nthe Cataract City Bank of Paterson he was appointed\\nreceiver, and settled up its affairs with his character-\\nistic promptitude and so wisely that the bills at first\\nconsidered worthless were finally redeemed at par.\\nHe procured the charter of another banking institu-\\ntion, but on his death it fell into other hands.\\nWhen the Paterson Opcra-House, having caused\\nthe failure of its owner, was about to be turned into a\\nplumbing-shop, it was Rafferty who associated him-\\nself with others in the effort to save it for his fellow-\\ncitizens, and as president of the association, succeeded\\nin perfecting it as a delightful place for tlie comfort\\nand pleasure of the public. He was one of those\\nwiio went to the expense of erecting the derricks and\\nboring five hundred feet down in the island, through\\nthe red sandstone, as he expressed it, to know\\nwhat sort of foundation Paterson rested upon. In\\nfact, whilst he lived nothing was ever done for the\\npublic satisfaction that Philip RaflTerty neglected to\\naid.\\nHe filled many local positions of trust, and when\\ntreasurer of the city of Paterson at once systematized\\nitsaccounts. Personally Philip Rafferty had a splendid\\nphysique, and was a magnetic speaker, and had a\\nnatural and graceful gesticulation. His speeches\\nwere brief and pertinent, and he never spoke unless he\\nhad something to say. Mr. Rafferty was twice nomi-\\nnated by the Democratic party of his district to Con-\\ngress, and to this day those who voted for him main-\\ntain that he was elected on the first occasion. But\\npolitics ran high, and the most desperate means were\\nused, and whilst his majorities were at once announced\\nand published, no returns were made public for sev-\\neral days in many of the country towns of Essex and\\nMorris (then in his district), until at last it was an-\\nnounced that he had, by final counts, been defeated\\nby a few votes. On the second occasion the opposing\\nl)arty, owing to the war question at the time, swept\\nthe country for the administration, and his party was\\nfairly defeated here as generally elsewhere. We are\\nsorry to add, however, that in both of what are still\\nknown as the Rafferty campaigns, a most reprehen-\\nsible effort was made to defeat him because of his\\nreverence for the faith of his father and his devotion\\nto that religion in the blessed !io]ie of which the\\nmother he loved had died.\\nIt was after the wearisome and thankless political\\ncampaigns that Mr. Ratt erty began to suff er from a\\nsciatic complaint which caused him great distress,\\nand ended in a complication of diseases which baffled\\nthe skill of the best physicians, and finally clo.sed his\\nuseful life.\\nCol. Rafferty was twice married. His first wife was\\nJoanna, daughter of Joseph and Catharine Warren, of\\nPaterson, of whom two children are living at the time\\nof writing this sketch (1882). His second wife, who\\nsurvived him, was Maria Teresa, daughter of Hugh\\nand Mary (Griffith) Brady, of Paterson, of whom\\nthree sons are living. As a father and husband he was\\nloving, kind, and indulgent, as a friend he was faith-\\nful to the end, and to assist those in sickness and dis-\\ntress was to him a comfort to his last hours; and when", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0985.jp2"}, "845": {"fulltext": "544\\nHISTOKY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nhis own poor frame was wracked with unceasing tor-,\\nture he had constant thouglit of others who were suf-\\nfering, and whilst prostrated on his own bed of death\\nwas devising means to relieve them. Such was Philip\\nRafferty and of such, we believe, is the Kingdom.\\nIn the weariness, perhaps loneliness, of old age,\\nwhen life and its tasks and duties have crushed out\\nthe vitality of sterner years, and when one after an-\\nother of the friends of earlier days have faded away\\ninto the twilight of eternity, death comes, and is met\\nungrudgingly, nay, sometimes even thankfully. But\\nwhen, day after day, the tide of life ebbs slowly but\\nsurely away from a man striving in the pride of the\\nyears of his prime, when the ties that bind him to dar-\\nlings, to loved ones, to hosts of friends, nay, to life in\\nits ripest, most useful, and cheeriest form, are sunder-\\ning and parting like the ligatures of his own heart, then\\nthe ailvunt of the Angel of Death is doubly sad and\\nmournful. Thus in the meridian of his days the lamp\\nof life wasted, and Rafl erty died in the acme of his\\nusefulness and at the height of his worldly prosperity,\\nforgiving his enemies and at peace with his God.\\nAmong his last acts was that of literally forgiv-\\ning his debtors, annulling all the little notes of in-\\ndebtedness from individuals to whom he had loaned\\nsmall amounts and who could not easily repay and\\nas he saw these obligations destroyed it seemed to do\\nhim a great deal of good. A few days more of suffer-\\ning, and the news was spread through the city that\\nRafl erty wjts dead 1\\nThe following editorial extracts from the local\\npapers of the date of Mr. Rallerty s funeral conclude\\nour reference to him, and will be of interest here:\\nThere was no ceremony. The body wa-s placed in\\nthe centre of the large jiarlor and was soon covered\\nwith crowns, crosses, and wreaths of flowers contrib-\\nuted by friends, .\\\\fter all had viewed the remains\\nthe casket was closed, and eight carriers, accompanied\\nby the eight pall-bearers, carried the genial Rafl erty\\nout of his earthly mansion to the hearse, and the large\\nprocession wendcil its way to the new cathedral, the\\nI eople gathering silently in crowds along the entire\\nroute to look upon liis colfin. At the church the peo-\\nple had already filled the building, as the body was\\ncarried in an l placed in front of the altar at the foot\\nof the cro-ss, where it rested during the solemn high\\nina.s.s, celebrated by Fathers McNulty, Morris, and\\nSenez, the latter in kindly remarks bearing evidence\\nto the hnnosty ami integrity of the deceased and of\\nthe blessed ho|ie in which his last days were spent.\\nOn reaching the vault, it wits found to have been\\ntrimmed with vines and Howers, which festooned and\\ndecorated the last earthly resting-place of the dead,\\nand the body waa deposited beside those of his daugh-\\nter and her mother, whose coffins also bad been\\ncovered with croiwes anil flowers. It was the most his\\nfriends could do, n\u00c2\u00bb it had been Col. Ralferty s oft-\\nrepeated request that his funeral should be devoid of\\nall display, that the obsequie.- should be without\\nostentation, and that the bearers should walk from\\nthe church to the cemetery.\\nPerhaps no funeral in Paterson has bo gener-\\nally excited the sympathy of all chusses. The high\\nand low, the rich and poor, and men of every faith\\nand party -seemed grieved. Never ha-s a public-\\nspirited citizen died whose lo.ss has been more sin-\\ncerely deplored by all classes. With the creak of\\nthe hinges and the turn of the lock of the vault in\\nthe hillside the last act in the drama of Philip Raf-\\nferty s life closed forever, but the remembrance he\\nhas lefl among us will be like the green sward that\\ncrowns the summit of his last resting-place.\\nIn the quick, almost dashing, existence of this age\\nthe remembrance of any man fades fast and flits fitfully\\naway. Monuments of marble and granite, towering\\nhigh in our graveyards, tell in strong terms of the vir-\\ntues of the dead who sleep beneath them, yet not\\nmany of these have left, like Philip Rafl erty, their\\nbest monument in the heart,s of their friends. Many\\na poor man and woman in Paterson to-day will re-\\nmember for years to come the hand and heart that\\nsilently and unostentatiously saved them from the\\nhorrors of poverty and this cold world s mi.sery and\\nthis will be Philip Rafl erty s best monument, this\\nand the unfading remembrance of myriads of friends\\nto- lay stricken, mourning, yet not forgetful.\\nJames Peel was born at Klland, Yorkshire, Eng-\\nhiiid, on 8ept. 29, 1817. His parents were James and\\nAnn (Akroyd) Peel. The former, whose father was\\nWilliam Peel, was by trade a manufacturer of woolen\\nfabrics, an l came to this country in 1S30, remaining\\nin New York Uity for two years, and locating in Pat-\\nerson in 1832, finding employment with Jidin Mor-\\nrow. He died about 1870. Thebalanccof his family,\\nconsisting of his wile and five children, came to this\\ncountry in 18. il. .lames is the subject of this sketch\\nElizabeth is the wife of .lohn Myers, of Poughkeepsie,\\n1 N. Y. Samuel A. is a machinist of New York City\\nOrinda married Thomsis Sykes, of Paterson; and\\nLemira is the wife of Dr. C. E. G. Robertson, of the\\nsame city. The mother died about 1874.\\nJames Peel came to this country with his mother in\\n1831. About 1834 he became an apprentice to tin-\\nj machinist s trade with Benjamin ISlundel, of Oldham,\\nnow Ilalcdon, near Paterson, and remained with him\\nnearly four years. In 1838 he entered the employ of\\nthe .Mattcawan Machine Company, Matteawan, N. Y..\\nwhere he remained nine months. He subsequently\\nworked at his trade at Newburgh, N. Y., Lowell and\\nFall River, Mass., and about 1847 went to work in\\nthe Rogers Machine-Works at Paterson, and after-\\nwards worked for Charles Dan forth in his works for\\neight years. In .June, IS.Il, in eonnection with John\\nII. Kiersted, William Senior, Elias Morehouse, .lame.*\\nGillespie, .Jacob Wylie, and William lloldcn, he be-\\ncame a member of the firm of llolden. Wylie it Co..\\nFnjtii the l\\\\tltT\u00c2\u00bbon Thiiln Outtrdian of July H, l^72.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0986.jp2"}, "846": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0987.jp2"}, "847": {"fulltext": "Ife,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0988.jp2"}, "848": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0991.jp2"}, "849": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0992.jp2"}, "850": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0993.jp2"}, "851": {"fulltext": "^^^^^ic^ ^m^^^^.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0994.jp2"}, "852": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n545\\nand began the manufacture of macliinery. The pro-\\nmoters of this enterprise were all practical machinists,\\nand the object of their association was so to combine\\ntheir labor as to make it conduce directly to their\\nown profit and advantage, rather than to those for\\nwhom they might work. After about two years Mr.\\nIlolden withdrew from the firm, and the other six\\nmembers organized as the Machinist s Association,\\nwith James Gillespie as president and James Peel\\nsecretary and treasurer. A few years later Mr. Peel\\nwas chosen president, and has since held that position\\nalso. The concern is now owned by him and Elias\\nMorehouse, and is doing a successful business, employ-\\ning from seventy-five to eighty men in the manufac-\\nture of general machinery, principally silk and cotton\\nmachinery, and millwright-work. The large factory\\noccupied by the association was built in 1853.\\nMr. Peel s entire life has been passed in working\\nclosely at his trade, and he is a good type of the hard-\\nworking, industrious, and successful mechanics of the\\ncity. After long years of toil he has reached a posi-\\ntion where he can enjoy some degree of respite from\\nmanual labor, aud where he can appreciate the sub-\\nstantial advantages of a hard-earned competency.\\nHe has never participated in political affairs, but led\\na retired, modest, and faithful life. He is a member\\nof the Market Street Methodist Church, and a mem-\\nber of the board of trustees. He was married twenty-\\nfive years ago to Elizabeth Mickens, a native of West\\nMil ford township, and has had two children, Joseph\\nWilliam, who died at the age of fifteen, and John\\nThomas, a member of the silk-firm of Barnes Peel,\\nof Paterson.\\nJames Atkinson. His father, Thomas Atkinson,\\nresided at llipponden. Parish Halifax, county of York,\\nEngland, where he spent his life, engaged in the manu-\\nfacture of woolen fabrics, and there died about 1852,\\naged seventy -two years. His mother, Mary Crossley,\\ndied about 1850, aged sixty-six years. Their children\\nwho grew to manhood and wonxanhood were William,\\nJames, Peter, Samuel, Martha, Mary, and Jane. Of\\nthese James, subject of this sketch, was born July 13,\\n1818, and like most boys in thatcountry, after a limited\\ntime spent at school, at the early age of eight years\\nbegan work with his father, where he continued during\\nmost of his minority, l^pon reaching his majority,\\nwith others, he engaged in the manufacture of cotton\\nwarps on his own account, which he continued for\\nnine years. In 1848, thinking to have a better oppor-\\ntunity for the employment of limited capital, he em-\\nbarked for America, and after a voyage of nine weeks\\nlanded in New York City. Mr. Atkinson at once set-\\ntled at Paterson, where, as a mechanic, he was en-\\ngaged for several years in the Rogers Locomotive-\\nWorks, and in the machine-shops of Benjamin Buck-\\nley. In 1865, in partnership with John Reynolds and\\nSamuel Brooks, he began the manufacture of bobbins\\nand spools, used in silk, cotton, woolen, and fiax-\\nmills, on River Street, in Paterson. Mr. Brooks soon\\nI withdrew from the concern, since which time the\\nbusiness firm has been known as James Atkinson\\nCo., with Mr. Atkinson as manager of the business.\\nj This firm supply largely the mills in Paterson, aud\\ni their goods are in large demand in New York and\\nBrooklyn, and reach the manufacturing places in\\nvarious parts of the United States.\\nSince his residence in Paterson, Mr. Atkinson has\\nbeen interested in local matters of the city, and was\\namong the largest contributors in the erection of the\\nProspect Street Methodist Church edifice, with which\\nhe has been officially connected, and his integrity and\\njudicious and successful management of business af-\\nfairs has given him a place as one of the board of\\ndirectors of the Paterson Savings Institution. His\\nfirst wife, Susan Hamer, died in England in 1848,\\nleaving two children, Benjamin, now of Brooklyn,\\nN. Y., and Anne, wife of Elias Thornley, of Law-\\nrence, Mass., both of whom came to this country soon\\nafter their father. His present wife is Elizabeth H.\\nFoss, of Maine, by whom he has had one child, Emma\\nK., widow of the late Robert McCarthy, of Paterson.\\nJohn Bentley, who for many years has operated\\nthe Paterson Flour-Mills, and is one of the old and\\nwell-known residents of the city, was born at Man-\\nchester, England, on Nov. 15, 1810. His parents\\nwere Luke and Mary (Dunsford) Bentley, the former\\na cotton -spinuer by trade. But four of the thirteen\\nchildren attained mature age, namely, James, an\\narchitect and machinist, who died in the City of\\nMexico in 1873; John, our subject; Ann, wife of\\nThomas Candy, of Philadelphia; and Sarah, widow\\nof D. D. Field, late of Detroit, Mich. Luke Bentley\\nemigrated to this country in 181(), his wife following\\ntwo years later with the four children. Being pos-\\nsessed of but slender means, he commenced life in\\nAmerica by retailing small wares from New York\\nCity, and subsequently removed to Chester, N. J.,\\nwhere he established a large wholesale and retail\\ncountry store. After a number of years spent in\\ntrade he purchased a cotton-mill at Mendham, N. J.,,\\nwhere he engaged in manufacturing for some time,\\nbut met with business reverses, and was compelled to\\nrelinquish the business. He subsequently acted as\\nsuperintendent of cotton-mills at Paterson, N. J., and\\nat different points in Pennsylvania. He died at Bran-\\ndywine, Pa.,in 1825, and his wife at Lancaster, in the\\nsame State, the year previous.\\nJohn Bentley came to this country with his mother\\nin 1818. His educational advantages were very lim-\\nited, and early in life he was set at work in his father s\\ncotton-factory at Mendham to learn spinning. He\\nworked at this trade for several years in connection\\nwith his father, not only in Mendham, but in Pater-\\nson and in Pennsylvania. Soon after the death of\\nhis father he located at Paterson, and at seventeen\\nyears of age began to learn the trade of a machinist\\nwith Plunket Thompson, of that city. He remained\\nin their employ until about 1835, and then became", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0995.jp2"}, "853": {"fulltext": "546\\nHISTOKY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nsuperintendent of the two cotton-factories of the\\nHuinilton Manufucturing Company, situated at the\\nhead of Passaic Street, where he continued until 18:17.\\nHe then went to Mexico to operate a cotton-factory\\nin the State of Durango, and after two years returned\\nto Paterson and opened a grocery -store, first at the\\nfoot of Main Street, and tlien on the corner of Con-\\ngress and Main Streets. Two years later lie returned\\nagain to Mexico, and superintende l the liuilding of a\\ncotton-factory at Saltillo, which he operated for seven\\nyears. He then returned to Paterson, and started the\\nmilling husineiM in the Little Beaver Mill, in the rear\\nof his present mill, and six years later purclia-sed the\\npresent building, where he has remained for the past\\nthirty years. During that long period he has en-\\ngaged in no other occupation, but has confined him- i\\nself strictly to his vocation. He is widely known i\\nthroughout the locality sis a plain, substantial citizen,\\nof strict integrity, and one of the oldest residents of\\nPaterson. He is a regular attendant of the First\\nPresbyterian Church, and has always been a liberal\\ncontributor to all evangelical and benevolent pur-\\nposes. He is a member of the Paterson Hoard of i\\nTrade, has been no politician, but served sis the first\\nmarshal of the city immediately after its incorpora-\\ntion in I80I.\\nMr. Bentley married for his first wife Ann, daugh-\\nter of Abraham and Lydia Rutan, who died without\\nissue in June, 1873. His present wife was Miss Mar-\\ntha, daughter of John G. and Maria Ackcrman, of\\nAllendale, N. J., an l widow of Heiijamin Davis, of\\nRochester, N. Y. The .Xckernian family is one of\\nthe oldest of Bergen County. Mrs. Bcntley s grand-\\nfather and grandmother, Garrett and Charity Acker-\\nman, arc buried at Paramus, and her father is living\\nat the advanced age of eighty-eight years.\\nThomas Beveridge w:is born at Ainlrie, Leiinox-\\nshiff. ^coiIiiimI, on .Ian. 21, 1818. His father, Thomas\\nF. Beveridge, Jr., was a contra tor for coal and iron\\nore at Airdric during his lifetime, and was a man of\\nplain parts and modest worth, devoting his time solely\\nto the management of importiint business interests,\\nand holding himself aloof from public affairs. He\\nwas a native of Dunfermline, Fifesliirr, Scotland,\\nwhere his brother Richard engaged in the same line\\nof business as himself, and where their father, Thomas\\nF. Beveridge, engaged in farming operations through-\\nout a long life.\\nThe subject of this sketch was the fourth child of\\nThomius F. Beveridge, Jr., and of his wife, Margaret\\nStrong. The otlier children were Jane. .Margaret,\\nJcnnnette, and John. The latter is a farmer in De\\nKalb County, III., he and Thomas being the only\\nmembers of the family who left the old country.\\nThe latter received only a common-school education,\\nand fora few yearsengaged in business with his father\\nnt Air lrie. In 18.S8 he came to the I niteil States,\\nand li ettted at Schenectady, N. Y., where he became\\na fireman on one of the first railroads constructed in\\nthe T nited States. Railroading in those days was a.\\nvery did erent thing Irom what it is to-day, and after\\nthe expiration of a year Mr. Beveridge removed to\\nWhitestown, Uneida Co., N. Y., and entered the em-\\nploy of Walcott Campbell, extensive cotton-manu-\\nfacturers. He assisted in the construction of the\\nlarge dams at that place used by the firm, and also\\njierformed the duties of night-watchman for a few\\nyears. He subsciiuently engaged in farming near the\\nvillage of Florence, in the same county, but was 8oon\\ninvited by Messrs. Walcott Campbell to fill the\\nposition of superintendent of their mills at Whites-\\ntown. He accepted the |iosition,an I for eleven consec-\\nutive years managed their large business with great\\nacceptance. He wils in the employ of this firm for\\ntwenty years, a fact that bears ample testimony to the\\nfidelity, good judgment, and ability which he mani-\\nfested in the discharge of his duties.\\nIn 18t)3, desiring to enter into business on his own\\naccount, be reinoveil to Paterson, N. .1., and estab-\\nlished a large lumber-yard at No. 223 Ellison Street,\\nthe extent of land covered by the yard at that time\\ncomprising several acres. At this point he pa.ssed his\\nbusiness life in Paterson until the spring of 1881,\\nwhen, having by a life of industry and economy ac-\\ncumulated considerable property, he disposed of his\\nbusiness U) his son-in-law, E. M. Stiles, who is now\\ndoing a successful and |)rofitable business.\\nMr. Beveridge has now retired from active business\\nlife, yet represents in a worthy manner one of the\\nimportant business enterprises of Paterson. He has\\nduring his residence in the city done his part cheer-\\nfully in sustaining the local institutions of Paterson,\\nand performed the part of a substantial and useful\\ncitizen. He has uniformly refused to accept public\\nposition of any kind, but has devoted all of his en-\\nergies to the management of his own private concerns.\\nHe is a member of the Second I resbyterian Church\\nof Paterson, and one of the trustees of that body.\\nHe was married on April 10, 1837, to Helen Hastie,\\nof Airdrie, Scotland, who came with him to this\\ncountry in 18.38, and is still the valued helpmeet of\\nhis home. The children have been seven in number,\\nof whom only five are living, namely, Jennie, wife of\\n,Iohn Dunlop, silk-manufacturer of Paterson; Thomas\\nF. (the third representative of the family bearing that\\nname), who is engaged in the coal business in Pater-\\nson Helen, wife of E. JI. Stiles, above referred to;\\nNettie wife of Dr. .1. A. Dingman, of Spring Val-\\nley, N. Y. and John D., who resides with his father.\\nThomas Gould. The Gould family is descended\\nfrom three brothers, ,/iihii, Thomas, and Robert, who\\nleft Dartmouth, a town in Devonshire, in Wales, in\\nthe year lli64, an l arrived in America the same year.\\nThey were all young men, and brought no property\\nwith them. One of them settled in the statt of .Ma.s-\\nsachusetts, one on Long Island, and Jolni in Connec-\\nticut, where he marrie l a girl by the name of Sarah\\nExtel. He was a tailor bv trade. From Connecticut", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0996.jp2"}, "854": {"fulltext": "m^\\na ^p", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0997.jp2"}, "855": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0998.jp2"}, "856": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_0999.jp2"}, "857": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1000.jp2"}, "858": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n547\\nhe moved to Long Island, where he lived a few years,\\nand then removed to Elizabetlitown, N. J., where he\\nspent the remainder of his life. He had six children,\\nviz. John, Thomas, Hannah, Sarah, Mary, and Abi-\\ngail. John married a widow by the name of Martha\\nFrazer,and had five children, Robert, John, Thomas,\\nMartha, and Sarah. Of these John was the great-\\ngrandfather of the subject of this sketch, and was\\nborn Sept. 2, 1708. He married Abigail Woodruff,\\nborn Sept. 12, 1712, and resided at Caldwell, N. J.\\nTheir children were John, Joseph, Sarah, Stephen, and\\nSamuel. Joseph, grandfather of our subject, was\\nborn July 16, 1737, and died in December, 1810, in\\nthe seventy-fourth year of his age. He married Re-\\nbecca Paxton, born Dec. 16, 1738, c|ied March 4,\\n1816, and had eleven children, namely, Daniel, born 1\\nFeb. 12, 1762, died in his third year; Abigail, born\\nOct. 5, 1763, married Cornelius Jacobus, died Oct.\\n23, 1836 Sarah, born July 30, 1765, married Peter\\nJacobus; John, born Dec. 3, 1767, died Jan. 5, 1839;\\nThomas, born April 13, 1770, died Dec. 7, 1802;\\nWilliam, born June 12, 1772; Anthony, born Oct.\\n22, 1774; Stephen, born June 30, 1777, died May 20,\\n1839 a son who died unnamed Joseph, born June\\n12, 1782; and Mary, born Sept. 28, 1785, died Sept.\\n22. 1836.\\nJohn Gould was born and reared upon the home-\\nfarm in Caldwell, receiving only a common-school\\neducation. He married Sophia Van Gieson, and in\\n1812 purchased about one hundred and twenty\\nacres of land on the old New York turnpike, near\\nPaterson, where he spent the remainder of his life\\nengaged in farming. He was a representative man\\nof his class, clear-headed, enterprising, and sagacious,\\nand filled the office of justice of the peace for the\\ngreater part of his life. He was associate justice of\\nthe Court of Common Pleas for a number of years,\\nand administered a great many estates. He was\\nstrictly honest in all of his transactions, and main-\\ntained a leading position in the society of his early\\nday. His wife died in 1857, aged ninety-five years.\\nThe children, of whom Thomas is the only one living, 1\\nwere seven in number, viz. Lydia, who married\\nJacob Post; Lemuel, who died in infancy Jane, who\\nmarried Caleb Harrison Thomas, who died in in-\\nfancy Rebecca, who married Moses E. Gould\\nThomas, and Anthony. The latter lived and died at\\nAlbany, where he engaged in the publication of law\\nbooks, as did also his uncles, William and Stephen\\nGould, the family being widely known in this country\\nin connection with that interest.\\nThomas Gould was born at Fairfield, Caldwell\\ntownship, on Jan. 8, 1800. He enjoyed only a com-\\nmon-school education, and when eleven years of age\\ncame to Paterson, where he commenced to learn the\\nweavers trade with James Boon. The invention of\\npower-looms about this time, and their adoption for\\nthe purposes of manufacture, put a stop to his busi-\\nness, and he then learned the blacksmith s trade in\\nBloomfield, N. J., with Caleb Harrison, where he re-\\nmained four years. He then taught the Weasel Dis-\\ntrict school, near Paterson, for eighteen months, and\\nsubsequently clerked for Gould Banks in their law-\\nbook store in New York for about six months. Not\\nliking the business, he in 1821 moved upon his\\nfather s farm on the New York turnpike, and worked\\nit in connection with his lather until the death of the\\nlatter in 1839, when it became his by inheritance.\\nHe continued at this point engaged in fiirming opera-\\ntions for many years. After the rapid growth of the\\ncity of Paterson had brought his farm within the\\nmunicipal confines, he disposed of the greater part of\\nit to the South Side Improvement Company, and re-\\nserving several acres for himself, built his present\\nhandsome residence thereon in 1871. It stands on\\nthe same site where his father erected his farm-house\\nin 1812. The latter building, still in a good state of\\npreservation, stands near its more modern successor.\\nBesides his farming pursuits, Mr. Gould has led a\\nbusy and energetic life, and through many years has\\nmaintained an influential place in society. Owing to\\nthe large public business done by his father, he fell,\\nas it were, heir to a large portion of it, and was drawn\\nunconsciously into public affairs. For nearly twenty\\nyears he filled the office of justice of the peace, and\\nperformed its varied functions with uniform courtesy\\nand fidelity. It was not an uncommon thing in the\\nearlier days of his justiceship for him to hear causes\\nin the field where he was plowing. He has admin-\\nistered many estates, drawn a great many wills and\\npapers, and acted as the adviser and counselor of\\nlarge numbers of friends. For five years he filled the\\nposition of associate justice of the Court of Common\\nPleas of Passaic County. He has also filled the oflice\\nof collector of Acquackanonk township, been a mem-\\nber of the school board of the same township, and\\nserved as overseer of the poor.\\nHaving now attained the ripe old age of eighty-\\ntwo years, Squire Gould lives in retirement, enjoying\\nthe fruits of a long life of industry and devotion to\\nthe performance of duty. He is a member of the\\nFirst Presbyterian Church of Paterson, contributed\\nboth money and labor towards the erection of the\\nchurch edifice in 1814, and although he did not make\\na profession of religion until he was seventy years of\\nage, has always been a liberal supporter of church\\nand kindred institutions. He was married on March\\n17, 1841, to Jane C, daughter of Nathaniel and Abby\\n(Harrison) Bruen, of Bloomfield, N. J., and grand-\\ndaughter of Timothy Bruen, one of the early settlers\\nof Essex County. Mrs. Gould was born July 17,\\n1813, is also a member of the First Presbyterian\\nChurch of Paterson, and a lady of refinement and\\ntrue Christian worth. Nathaniel Bruen, her father,\\nwas born in 1769, and during the earlier portion of\\nhis life was a school-teacher in Belleville, Bloomfield,\\nOrange, and Essex County. He was subsequently a\\nmerchant, and died at Bloomfield in 1829. While a", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1003.jp2"}, "859": {"fulltext": "548\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nresident of Orange he was an elder in the Presbyte-\\nrian Church of that place. His children were Wil-\\nliam, George W., Isaac H., and Jane C. Briien. Mrs.\\nBruen was a daugiiter of Capt. George Harrison, who\\nserveil during the Kcvoliitionary war a.-* a member of\\nthe home-guard. His father, Caleb Harrison, was\\nalso an early settler of Esse. c County, and portions of\\nthe family homestead can still be seen on the road\\nbetween Bloonifield and Newark.\\nAlthough no children have been born to Mr. and\\nMrs. Gould, they have raised several children and\\nstarted them in life. Two of these .\\\\nlhony G.\\nPost, a grandson of Mr. Gould s sister, and Albert A.\\nBruen, a nephew of Mrs. Gould were reared from a\\ntender age. The former enlisted as a Union soldier\\nduring the late Rebellion, and died of fever at Fred-\\nericksliUTL :i. The latter is fanning in Iowa.\\nCornelius H. Post, now residing on Water Street,\\nPaterson, is said to be the oldest living native resi-\\ndent of the city, and was born June 24, 1800.\\nThe Post homestead is owned in 1881 by John\\nTerhnne, and contained one hundred and fifty acres\\nof land, lying oti the Passaic River, reaching to the\\nmountain licyond, now a |)art of the city of Paterson.\\nHis grandfatluT, Henry H. Post, was born on the\\nhomestead about 1760, and resided there his whole\\nlife, dying about 1820. His grandmother, Jane Vree-\\nland, died in middle life, leaving children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Margaret,\\nwife of Adrian Post; Ilartman, was a farmer near\\nthe city Eliziibctb, wife of John Spear; Isabella,\\nwife of HarmanuH Van Bussum and Henry H.,\\nfather of our subject. By a second marriage he had\\ntwo sons, John, a merchant, first in New York, and\\nafterwards in New Orleans, where ho died, and Ben-\\njamin, wlio was a farmer here for a lime, but removed\\nto Seneca County, N. Y., wher c- lie died.\\nHenry II. Post, father of Cornelius H., also resided\\non the homestead near Cedar Lawn, and died in Oc-\\ntober, 1808, aged about thirty-one years. His wife,\\nJane, daughter of Cornelius and Ellen Van Houten,\\nof Bergen County, died in 18. )4, aged seventy-one,\\nand by her first marriage to Mr. Post had children,\\nJane, Cornelius H., Henry H., who died at Williams-\\nburgh, N. Y., and Ellen, wife of William Ridgeway,\\nof Paterson. By her second marriage to Edo Van\\nWinkle she had four children.\\nHenry H. I ost and his wife were attendants of the\\nReformed (Dutch) Church at Passaic, and she became\\na member of the Presbyterian Church in Paterson\\nafter her first husband s decease.\\nC ornelius H. Post attended the district school in\\nthe vicinity of his birth|dace during his boyhood.\\nAt the age of fifteen he began work on the farm, and\\nat the age of seventei-n he conimence l learning the\\ntrade of a wheelwright, at which he conlinued until\\nthe ape of twenty-one. In 1822 he was employed in\\nthe Phipnix Mills, Paterson, as a millwright, and to\\nkeep the machinery in order, in which, after four\\nyears, he wilh cho.seii superintendent, and held that\\nresponsible position, discharging his duties faithfully\\nand satisfactorily, until 1856, when he retired from\\nactive business. During the thirty-four years he was\\nconnected with the Phtenix Mills he was known as a\\nman of strict integrity, vigilant, and a judicious man-\\nager of its biisine-ss, and his social and genial disposi-\\ntion won him friends in all the business circles of\\nPaterson.\\nHe married, Dec. 3, 182. Rebecca, daughter of\\nDavid Benson and Elizabeth Van Houten, who re-\\nsided on Water Street, Paterson, in the brown stone\\nfarm-house now standing, wliieh lier father purchiused\\nwith twenty-two acres of land in 1807. Her father\\ndied here in 1862, aged ninety-seven years, and her\\nmother died in 1839. Her grandfather, John Benson,\\nresided near Old Tappan, Bergen Co., during the\\nRevolutionary war, and with his son John served in\\nthe struggle for the independence of the colonies.\\nMrs. Post was born Sept. 4, 1S04. and has resided\\nin the viciuity of her birth her whole life. The fitty-\\nsixth anniversary of the marriage of this esteemed\\nand venerable couple was celebrated by their two\\nsurviving children, Henry and Ellen, wife of Leander\\nCox, eight grandchildren, and eight great-grandchil-\\ndren. One daughter, Elizabeth, who was the wife\\nof John Stagg, died in 1854, leaving three children,\\ntwo of whom still survive, Cornelius Henry and\\nKitty.\\nHon. John J. Brown, president of the First\\nNalioniil Hank c.C ralerson, N. J., was born in the\\nyear 1817 in the city of New York. When he was five\\nyears old his parents were compelled to leave New\\nYork owing to an epidemic of yellow fever, and they\\nremoved to New Jersey, settling in Paterson, which\\nthen was but a mere village. They at first intended\\nto relurii to New York, but finally deciiled to remain,\\nand his father engageil in the grocery business. John\\nattended school until he was thirteen years old, when\\nhe withdrew, and became a clerk in a dry -goods store,\\nwhere he remained about four years. In 1834 he\\nwent to New York, where he effected an engagement\\nas clerk with James La Tourette, at that time a noteil\\nmaiinfaetnrer of furs and cloth caps, in whose em-\\nploy he continued for .some three years. In this em-\\nployment he passed the winter of 1836-,S7 in the city\\nof New Orleans. Returning to New York in May,\\n1837, he found his employer had failed, having gone\\ndown in the great financial storm of that year, which\\ncarried with it the United states and many other\\nbanks, together with many of the large and small\\nestablishments of that day. This failure prevented him\\nfrom entering into business for himself, as he other-\\nwise would have done, and he accordingly returned\\nto Paterson. He then found employment as clerk in\\na dry goods store, and a few years later succeeded to\\nhis father s grocery busine-ss. He carried the latter\\non until 1844, when he changed his vocation and\\nembarked in the dry-goods business. This venture\\nproved a very successful one, and he continued it for", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1004.jp2"}, "860": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1005.jp2"}, "861": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1006.jp2"}, "862": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1007.jp2"}, "863": {"fulltext": "y\\n^t II", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1008.jp2"}, "864": {"fulltext": "CITV OF PATEKSON.\\n549\\ntwenty-three years, retiring in 18G7. At the close of\\nhis mercantile career he had a large estahlisliment nn\\nMain Street, and had built up the most extensive\\nbusiness of the kind in the city. During this time he\\nalso became much interested in the purchase and im-\\nprovement of real estate.\\nThe First National Bank of Paterson was estab-\\nlished in April, 1864, but from various causes it did\\nnot prosper, and during the summer of that year ap-\\nplication had been made to the proper authorities to i\\nclose the institution and surrender the franchises and\\ncirculating notes, which had been received but not\\nissued. About this time, however, Mr. Brown s at-\\ntention was called to the matter, when he stepped\\nforward and saved the charter. With some efibrt tlie\\nsum of one hundred thousand dollars of new capital\\nwas obtained, a first-class board of directors selected,\\nand the bank was reorganized in September, 1864, by\\nthe choice of Mr. Brown as president. He has held\\nthat position up to the present time (1S82), and since\\nhe withdrew from mercantile pursuit.s the most of his\\ntime and talents have been devoted to the interest of\\nthe bank. In three months from the time the bank\\ncommenced business its capital was increased to two\\nhundred and fifty thousand dollars, and on Jan. 1,\\n1868, another sum of one hundred thousand dollars\\nwas added. It has a large surplus fund in addition\\nto its present capital of four hundred thousand dollars,\\nand pays with unfailing regularity a handsome divi-\\ndend semi-annually to its stockholders.\\nFor a long time prior to 1869 there had been felt a\\nneed for a savings-bank in the city of Paterson. No\\nencouragement could be given for savings in small\\nsums, for there was no place of deposit where interest\\nwas paid. While this want was acknowledged, there\\nwere many reasons for a reluctance to take measures\\nfor the establishment of such an institution, the prin-\\ncipal ones being of course the care and responsibility\\ngrowing out of the business, and the further fact that\\na lack of success had attended former efforts of this\\nkind.\\nAt this period, Mr. Brown conceived the plan of\\nestablishing a savings institution, based upon the\\nprimary element of security by a capital stock, car-\\nrying with it also the liability attaching to stock-\\nholders, as provided for under the act of Congress\\ncreating national l)anks. Being joined in this oftbrt\\nby Mr. F,. T. Ball, then cashier of the First National\\nBank, a charter was obtained from the Legislature,\\nembracing the usual safeguards and limitations of\\nordinary savings-banks, with also the added guaran-\\ntee capital and liability as before named. The capital\\nwas obtained, trustees elected, being essentially the\\nsame as in the management of the First National\\nBank, and business was commenced May 1, 1809, just\\none month after the passage of the act authorizing the\\nbank. This was the tirst institution with these pro-\\nvisions ever established. It has never ceased to have\\nthe confidence of the community, and has been one\\nof the most beneficent as well as successful institu-\\ntions in the State.\\nWith the Passaic Water-Works Company Mr.\\nBrown has been identified from its organization. As\\na director always, and as its treasurer for most of the\\ntime, this corporation has been greatly indebted to\\nhim for the earnest thought, labor, and sacrifices which\\nthis great work demanded. In large part through his\\nmanagement the financial difficulties which ever at-\\ntend improvements of this nature have been over-\\ncome, and the works have proved a complete success,\\nnot only financially but in all other respects.\\nMr. Brown has also been largely interested in the\\nCedar Lawn Cemetery. In conjunction with a num-\\nber of other gentlemen, about one hundred acres of\\nland were purchased and laid out as a cemetery in\\n1866-67, and dedicated in September, 1867. It is sit-\\nuate on the bank of the Passaic River, within the city\\nlimits, but about two miles from the centre of the city.\\nFor a number of years he w as its president, and is still\\none of its directors.\\nAt almost the very organization of Paterson as a\\ncity, Mr. Brown was chosen one of the board of alder-\\nmen, and while absent in Europe was again elected\\nto that ofiice. While occupying this position, Col.\\nDerrom, then the president of the Council, and Mr.\\nBrown proposed to the Council to have taken a census\\nof the city, embracing both the inhabitants and the\\nmanufacturing industries. They agreed to have it\\ndone in one day, after the mode of taking the census\\nin England. By reason of neglect on the part of a\\nfew marshals, it was not completed till the second\\nday, but essentially the work was done as promised\\nin one day.\\nIn 1854, Mr. Brown was elected as the first mayor\\n(by that title) of the municipality, but after he had\\nserved his term he persistently declined any further\\nnominations. During his mayoralty he projected\\nand carried out the measure for paving the sidewalks,\\nwhich before this time had been almost entirely ne-\\nglected. It was also during his connection with the\\ncity government that the first sewer was built.\\nIn 1856 he was induced to become a nominee for\\nthe Legislature of the then new Republican party,\\nand was elected. He served in the Lower House for\\none year, but since that period has invariably declined\\nall oftices which have been tendered to him.\\nIn carrying on the great contest (so far as the city\\nof Paterson was concerned), first for the principles\\nof human liberty, and then for the preservation of\\nthe Union, Mr. Brown united with several other gen-\\ntlemen in erecting, for the use of the Republican\\nparty, the well-known Wigwam. This popular\\nplace for meetings called together for years large\\naudiences of both men and women to listen to the\\nbest speakers in the Union. It is conceded that its\\ninfluence was the means of a political education among\\nthe people which was far beyond what was usual in\\nmost communities. The great occasion for such a", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1011.jp2"}, "865": {"fulltext": "55(1\\nHISTOKV OF HEUGE-N AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nplace of iiiectiiig lias happily pa-ssed away, ami willi\\nit the Wigwam itself.\\nIn 1859 and 1860, Mr. IJrown was much interested\\nin the erection of the First Baptist Church, then and\\nstill the largest Protestant church building in the city.\\nBesides contributing very liberally to the cost of erec-\\ntion, he was both chairman and treasurer of the build-\\ning committee during it.s erection.\\nMr. Brown is a gentleman of very active, energetic\\ntemperament, systematic and practical in everything\\nthat he does, courteous and polite in demeanor to all,\\nand as a business man and bank director has no su-\\nperior. His earnest spirit and good sense in execu-\\ntive management make him invaluable as a co-worker\\nin all enterprises. Me avoids ostentation in every\\nparticular, and is as discreet and practical in all his\\ntastes as he is reliable in his character. Socially he\\nis noted for his genial traits, kindness of heart, and\\nsteadfastness in the discharge of all moral and re-\\nliirious duties.\\nJolui H. Berdan. The Berdan family traces its\\nde.scent to an original ancestor who fled from France\\nafter the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1082,\\nand came to this country with a wife and son named\\nJohn, in connection with the persecuted Huguenots.\\nHe purchased a tract of land on which the city of\\nBrooklyn now stands, where he cultivated the soil and\\npiLs.sed the remainder of his days. His son John .set-\\ntled at Hackensack, N. J., where he was one of the\\nearliest settlers. His descendants have since been\\nnumerous in Pa.s.saic and Bergen Counties.\\nJohn H. Berdan was born at Paterson, N. J., on\\nNov. 15, 18. J2. His parents were David and Eliza-\\nbeth (Schooiimaker) Berdan, the former of whom\\nwas a carpenter by trade. He pa.ssed the greater part\\nof his life in Paterson, and died on April 27, 1843,\\naged forty-six years; his wife ilied on Aug. 15, 1870,\\naged about si.xty-three. Of the three children the\\nsubject of this sketch is the only son. He grew up in\\nthe city of Paterson, and was educated at the public\\nschools of the city, graduating at the High School\\nwhen he wa.s about fourteen years of age. At that\\ntime he became a clerk in the shoe-store of Jolin\\nO Neill, on Congre.ss Street, where he remained three\\nyears. He then entered the employ of Brown Van\\nEmburgh, dry-goods merchants, in the old Pho uix\\nBuilding on Main Street, where he lilled the |iosition\\nof clerk for about three years more. He then went to\\nNew York City, where he clerked in the dry-goods\\nstore of J. T. liea, on Broadway, for one year, at\\nThin In no pUco for nil rxtrmlpil nntlcp of tliU fnnioiiii plarn, whort\\nmany lh\u00c2\u00ab* Rroal nii^n of Iho iiKtlon ilellKlilnl to \u00c2\u00ab|ienk on lliv |NiUtlral\\niMam *t1 ttie liny, Ixit to iitve noiiio perDmiiont rrcurU of It ww give tho\\nliinrrlplloii on tho plctiiro oftlie ImlMIng:\\nTlip WlKwnni, rntnnH ii, N. J., diHilicnod anil \u00e2\u0080\u00a2rtictcil liy Col. Andrew\\nDcrrom. In the \u00c2\u00abniniiier of 1X04, on Iota Nihi. 2(1, 28, M, :t i Itroailwny, at\\nan riiK niHi of Hl\u00c2\u00bbin, conlrllxilrcl liy .Tolin J. Ilrown, J. H. ClirUllo, C. M.\\nK. rniillaon, Ailnm I arr. F. r. nivk\u00c2\u00bbitli, llnnry M. I.u\u00c2\u00bb. Wllllnm lilnl-\\nhlll, II. .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0illmaoti, Kzm Oaliorii, David R. n^ ani, J I lliihl.xoi, fur tlie\\nu*\u00c2\u00ab- or tlio Ropttll -nn party nt tlin Prc\u00c2\u00abldr till\u00c2\u00abl campaign Id that voar.\\nthe termination of which time he entered the Pater-\\nson office of the Paterson and Hudson Kiver Railroad\\nCompany. He first became a clerk in the office, and\\nwas then promoted to the position of ticket-agent, and\\nfinally to that of freight superintendent at Paterson.\\nHe continued to hold the latter position until Nov.\\n23, 1869, when he became the agent for Fuller s Pat-\\nerson and New York Express, which was at that time\\ncontrolled by James Fisk, Jr., of the Erie Railway\\nCompany. On April 18, 1872. in connection with\\nGustavus A. Fuller, Eugene W. Guindon, and John\\nW. Peck, he purchased the express business from the\\nErie Railway Company. Mr. Peck subsequently\\nwithdrew from the concern, and the business is now\\nowned by the remaining |)artners. Mr. Berdan has\\nthe entire management of the Paterson business, and\\nthrough close attention to his duties and the intelli-\\ngent direction of the aft airs of the concern has suc-\\nceeded in building up a large and successful business.\\nThe contract with the Erie Railway requires the com-\\npany to handle one hundred tons of freight a day, but\\nfifty tons more per day are actually bandied by the\\nconcern, and tlie annual amount paiil to the Erie\\nCompany is about forty-five thousand or fifty thou-\\nsand dollars. The goods of the company are carried\\nin special pipe-cars, with steam brakes, eight trains a\\nlay being received from New York, and two going to\\nNew York. Twelve teams of horses are kept busy in\\nPaterson carrying the freight handled by the com-\\npany.\\nMr. Berdan is still in the iirime of life, and at the\\nhead of a large and successful enterprise. He is\\nclosely identified witli the institutions of his native\\ncity, and sustains a good reputation in the community.\\nHe was one of the first to join the Paterson Light-\\nGuard, and resigned the office of first lieutenant of\\nCompany A about a year ago. He was formerly a\\nmember of the old City Blues, under Capt. George\\nCiriffith. He has never been an aspirant after politi-\\ncal position, but soon after the incorporation of the\\ncity he was elected collector of the East Ward, and\\nheld the position for two years. He is a member of\\nthe Paterson Board of Trade, and of .loppa Lodge,\\nNo. 29, F. and M. He married Margaret E.,\\ndaughter of Aaron and Nancy .lacobns, of New York,\\nami has two sons, William and John H. Berilan, both\\nof whom are engaged in the express business with\\ntheir father.\\nGarret I. Blanvelt is a son of John Joseph Blau-\\nvelt, a native of Orangelown, Rockland Co., N. Y.,\\nwhere his father i ursueil the calling of a farmer.\\nJohn J. Blauvelt removed to Totowa, Pa.ssaic Co., N.\\nJ., in 18111, and engaged in agricultural pursuits near\\nthe present location of the Catholic Orphan Asylum.\\nHe died about the year 1854. He was twice married\\nliis first wife was Rachel Van Orden, who bore him a\\nfamily of seven children, viz.: Joseph, James, .lohn.\\nGarret I., Hannah, who married Eilo Van Saun,\\nCornelius, and Thomas, who died in earlv manhood.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1012.jp2"}, "866": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1013.jp2"}, "867": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1014.jp2"}, "868": {"fulltext": "John Avison was born in Saddleworth,\\nYorkshire, England, on May 17, 1805. His\\nparents were John and Annis (Broadbent) Avi-\\nson, and their children were Mary, who mar-\\nried Tiiomas Hurst; John, Thomas, Joseph,\\nJonathan, Elizabeth, who married Charles Fos-\\nter, of Jersey City Sarah, wife of Robert Lisle,\\nof Jersey City and David, who is in California.\\nAll the children came to this country, except\\nThomas and Jonathan.\\nJohn Avison, father of our subject, emigrated\\nto this country in 1826, the year in which his\\nwife died, and locatetl at Paterson. He worked\\nat his trade of shoemaking for a few months,\\nand died in 1827. His son John received an\\nordinary Englisii education, and learned the\\ntrade of a shoemaker with his fatiier. In 1827\\nhe came to this country and worked, in the em-\\nploy of Joseph Gledhill, at shoemaking for a\\nshort time. Soon after he started a shop of his\\nown in Congress (now Market) Street, where he\\ncontinued industriously at work until 1856. In\\nthe year 1855 he was elected a justice of the\\npeace, and he now devotes his entire time in ful-\\nfilling the duties of his office. He has con-\\ntinued ever since to hold the position of justice,\\nand to discharge tiie functions of the office in\\nan intelligent and capable manner.\\nSquire Avison is widely known in Paterson\\nas one of the oldest justices of the city, and as\\none who, while transacting a large amount of\\nbusiness, has maintained a reputation for integ-\\nrity and honorable dealing. He has acted as\\nadministrator and executor of a large number of\\nestates, and held a number of positions of im-\\nportance in the city. He was a member of tlie\\nschool board for three years, overseer of the\\npoor for a number of terms, poormaster in 1851\\n-52 under the city government, and filled the\\noffice of police justice from 1856 until the estab-\\nlishment of the Recorder s Court.\\nHe has always taken an active interest in\\nreligious matters, and was for many years a\\nmember of the Cross Street Methodist Episco-\\npal Church, and president and treasurer of the\\nboard of trustees. He was one of the found-\\ners of the Market Street Church, and filled the\\nimportant position of president and treasurer of\\nthe board of trustees of that body during the\\nbuilding of the church edifice now in use.\\nHe was married in 1827 to Esther Bentley,\\nwho came with him to this country. She died\\nin December, 188U. Of the twelve children\\nbut three are living, namely Elizabeth, widow\\nof Robert W. Crawford; Emma; and Susan,\\nwii e of Harmon Goetschius.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1017.jp2"}, "869": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1018.jp2"}, "870": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1019.jp2"}, "871": {"fulltext": "(Sa^y^ r ^duo.^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1020.jp2"}, "872": {"fulltext": "CITY OF PATERSON.\\n551\\nOur subject is the last-remaining member of Ids\\nfamily. Cornelius was a worthy pastor of the Dutch\\nReformed denomination, preached for fourteen or\\nfifteen years at Schraalenburgh, Bergen Co., and at\\nother points, and died in the spring of 1881, while in\\nthe discharge of the active duties of the pastorate at\\nLiiilithgo, N. Y. The mother died in 1836, in her\\nsixty -second year. In his old age Mr. Blauvelt mar-\\nried for a companion Sarah, widow of Isaac Blau-\\nvelt.\\nGarret I. Blauvelt was born in Rockland County,\\nN. Y., March 18, 1807. His educational advantages\\nwere very limited. At the age of three years he was\\nbrought by his i)arents to Totowa, and was reared on\\nhis father s farm. On Nov. 28, 1834, he married\\nAnn, daughter of Isaac and Catherine (Marselis) Van\\nSaun, of Preakne-ss, Passaic Co. She was born July\\n25, 1809. Three years after their marriage Mr. Blau-\\nvelt divided his farm at Totowa among his four chil-\\ndren, James, John, Hannah, and Garret I., and the\\nlatter engaged in farming and gardening on his own\\naccount. He erected a residence and outbuildings on\\nhis portion of the estate in 1836, and continued at that\\npoint until July, 1855, when he disposed of his farm\\nand stock and removed to the city of Paterson. A\\nfew years prior to his locating in Paterson he had\\npurchased the old bank property on Main Street, and\\nhe now erected thereon five substantial stores, three\\nstories high, with a frontage of one hundred and\\nthree feet. Two of these those occupied by Free-\\nland Cook and John Green he still owns, the\\nother three having been sold to Charles Feder.\\nSince his residence in Paterson Mr. Blauvelt has\\nengaged in no business other than to lease and super-\\nintend his Main Street property. He has neverthe-\\nless taken an active interest in all matters calculated\\nto promote the welfare and prosperity of the city, and\\nwas one of the charter members of the Paterson Or-\\nphan Asylum in 1864, and has been president of the\\nboard of trustees since that time. He has also been\\none of the most liberal contributors to the support of\\nthat institution. The institution is located on Mar-\\nket Street near Madison Avenue, and has been the\\nmeans of doing much good during the seventeen years\\nof its existence. Mr. Blauvelt has also been a mem-\\nber for many years of the Second Reformed Church\\nof Paterson, and has been oflicially connected with\\nthat body as elder for a number of years. He is a\\nmember of the executive committee of the Passaic\\nCounty Bible Society, and was for nine years a mem-\\nber of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed\\nChurch. He is a member of the board of directors of\\nthe Second National Bank of Paterson, and has been\\nsince the organization of that institution. He has\\nnever been an aspirant after public position, and has\\nled an industrious, modest, and faithful life. His\\naged wife is still his companion in his declining years,\\nand as they have lived, it is probable they will soon\\ngo down to the grave together. No children have\\nblessed their union, though considerable property has\\nbeen accumulated by industry and thrift. Mr. Blau-\\nvelt erected his substantial residence on Division\\nStreet in 1871.\\nDr. Miles Davenport. Probably no profession in\\nthe world has made such rapid strides during the last\\nquarter of a century than has that of dentistry. Prior\\nto that period the study and care of the teeth was\\nlimited to those who made the study of anatomy and\\nphysiology a specialty, and to the members of the\\nmedical profession, very much as blood-letting and\\ntooth-drawing were once included among the func-\\ntions of a barber. Many persons are still living\\nwho can distinctly remember when the scalpel and\\nforceps were as necessary instruments in a barber-\\nshop as a pair of shears or a razor. The first dental\\ncollege in the world was established in Baltimore in\\nthe year 1839. Since that time the science of dentistry\\nhas developed, until it now ranks among the most\\nuseful and artistic of the professions, and includes\\namong its representatives men of education, culture,\\nand high social standing. The development of the\\nscience has been rapid, and a profession that is the\\noflspring of the nineteenth century has not proven\\ntenacious of old ideas nor unfitted itself for growth\\nand improvement by a blind devotion to the errors of\\nthe past, so that the science of dentistry as it exists\\nto-day is the exact antipodes of that which received\\nthe attention of its professors but a few years ago.\\nThe most rapid improvement has been made in oper-\\native dentistry, in which there has been almost an\\nentire revolution. The highest point at first attainable\\nwas to fill such teeth as were slightly decayed, where-\\nas by the aid of the various improved dental instru-\\nments, together with medical treatment of the teeth,\\nthe profession are not only enabled to preserve teeth\\nslightly decayed, but to restore and preserve them\\nfor many years. The early practice advocated smooth-\\npointed instruments for use in filling and non-cohesive\\ngold, whereas serrated instruments and cohesive gold\\nare now recognized as the proper thing.\\nArtificial teeth were in use as early as Washing-\\nton s time, and he himself is alleged to have worn\\nIhem but at that early day they were carved out of\\nsolid pieces of ivory, and involved great labor and\\nexpen.se. The later improvements made in this direc-\\ntion and their introduction into general use have\\nadded largely to both the attractions and difficulties\\nof the profession, and drawn to it many possessed of\\nsuperior mechanical skill.\\nFormerly the plates in which the teeth are set\\nwere made only of gold and silver, which nece.ssarily\\nmade them both heavy and costly, whereas now\\nplates are made not only of gold and silver, but also\\nof platinum, rubber, and celluloid. Rubber plates\\nwere not introduced until about 1854, and celluloid\\nmuch more recently. The filling of artificial teeth is\\nalso a leading branch of the science, requiring both\\nskill, judgment, and delicacy when properly done.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1023.jp2"}, "873": {"fulltext": "552\\nHISTOIIY 01\u00c2\u00ab liEllGEN AND PASSAIC COUiNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThe city of Paterson hits a number of representa-\\ntive dentists, who attend assiduously to their pro-\\nfession and reflect credit upon it. Prominent among\\nthese is Dr. Miles Davenport, who was born on June\\n19, 1831, in the town of Mount Hope, Orange Co.,\\nN. Y. His parents were Samuel and 8usan (Dunlop)\\nDavenport, and their children five in number, four\\nsons and a daughter. Tlie early education of Dr.\\nDavenport was derived at the district schools of his\\nlocality, and he subsequently attended the State Nor-\\nmal School at Albany, X. Y., where he concluded his\\nstudios at the age of nineteen. Alter leaving school\\nhe taught for two years in the village of Goshen,\\nInd., and then returned to Orange County, where he\\nentered as a student of dentistry with Pease, Graham\\nRoyce, who had offices at both Middletown and\\nGoshen. Dr. Royce was one of the first graduates of\\nthe Baltimore College. Dr. Davenport served his\\napprmticeshii) at Goshen for three years, becoming\\nfully conversant with all branches of the business,\\nand then took up his residence at Haverstraw, N. Y.,\\nwhere be established an office, and also one at Nyack,\\nin the same State. He removed to the city of Pater-\\nson as the successor of Dr. John Lum, the oldest\\npractitioner here at that time, in the fall of ISGo, but i\\nretained his offices at Haverstraw and Nyack until a\\nlew years ago, when he disposed of the former to Dr.\\nRice and the latter to Dr. Lamb.\\nDr. Davenport has been engaged in the practice of\\nhis profession in Paterson since the period mentioned,\\nand for four years past has occupied the commodious\\nand attractive offices on the corner of Main and Elli-\\nson Streets. He is recognized as one of the most\\nskillful and successful practitioners in the city, and\\ndoes a large business. He has confined himself closely\\nto his profession, keeping pace with the changes and\\nimprovements made in it, and constantly adding to\\nhis knowledge and ac(|uiring skill by his extended\\npractice. He was one of the first to utilize Good-\\nyear s patent rubber-plate, and purchiused the exclu-\\nsive right to its use in Rockland County, N. Y. He\\nWHS also the first in Paterson to successfully use\\nnitrous oxide gas for the extraction of teeth, and still\\nemploys it largely in his practice. He also nses a\\ngreat many of Allen s patent continuous-gum plates,\\nmounted on platinum (said to be the most cleanly,\\nhealthy, and life-like of any plates nuide), and is the\\nonly dentist in Paterson who makes them. He is a\\ngood mechanic, docs a neat cla.ss of work, and li:us\\nbeen eiiablcd through long experience to make a\\nnuiid)er of valuable improvements and changes. He\\nis popular in the community, of strict integrity in all\\nhis business relations, and enjoys the confidence of\\nmany friends.\\nDr. Davenport was married in February, 1857, to\\nEllen, daughter of Nicliolius C Hlauvelt, of Spring\\nValley, N. Y. His only .son, Willis Davenport,\\nstudied dentistry with him, attended lectures at the\\nPhiladelphia Dentnl College, from which he was\\ngraduated in the spring of 1882, and is now prac-\\nticing his profession at Paterson in connection with\\nhis father.\\nIsaac D. Blauvelt. The RIauvelt family resided\\nin Rockland County, N. Y., at an early day. Thomas\\nBlauvelt, the great-grandfather of the subject of this\\nsketch, was a justice of the peace in that county for\\nmany years, and transacted a large amount of public\\nbusiness. He removed ko Porapton, Passaic Co.,\\nN. J., at an early period, where he operated a grist-\\nmill and engaged in agricultural pursuits. His son\\nDaniel succeeded him at the same place and followed\\nthe .same line of business.\\nIsaac D. Blauvelt was born on Sept. 6, 1827. His\\nparents were Isaac D. and Lsabella (Patterson) Blau-\\nvelt, and he was the only child. The former was a\\nshoemaker by trade, and followed that pursuit in the\\ncity of Newark for several years, dying at the age of\\ntwenty-eight. Jlr. Blauvelt received only an ordinary\\nEnglish education, and at the age of sixteen began to\\nlearn the trade of carriage-nuiking with Isaac Riker,\\nof Little Falls, Passaic Co. After about a year he\\nentered the em|)loy of Deacon John Gardner, of\\nNewark, and a short time after of John D. Hogan,\\nof Paterson, with whom he finished his apprentice-\\nship and remained two years. He then went to work\\nin the car-shops of the Paterson and Hudson River\\nRailroad, which stood on the present site of St. John s\\nRoman Catholic Church, where he remained two\\nyears in the wood-work department. He was then\\nprostrated by the smallpox for three months, and\\nupon his recovery established the carriage business\\nin a small way in Arch Street, near North .Main,\\nwithout capital and in a weak bodily condition. He\\nremained at this point for about four years, and suc-\\nceeded by close application to business in building\\nup considerable trade, and in making a reputation for\\nhimself in connection with the manufacture of car-\\nriages. Owing to the necessity for increased facilities\\nfor numufacture, he removed his establishment to\\nRiver Street, nearly opposite the Passaic Hotel, where\\nhe remained for a innnber of years. In l} ti() he re-\\nmoved to the corner of Market and Prince Streets,\\nand continued at thai i\u00c2\u00bb)int until IStl. i, when he was\\nburned out, and having no insurance, sulfered a loss\\nof about seven thousand dollars. The same year he\\npurcha.sed of the Society for the Encouragement of\\nUseful Manufactures the site of his present factory\\non Paterson Street and erected the building. He has\\nbeen since engaged in the general manufacture of\\ncarriages and sleighs of all kinds at that point, and\\nhas the largest establishment of the kind in Pa.s.saic\\nCounty. He does a good class of work, and is carry-\\ning on a large and successful business.\\n.Mr. Blauvelt has confined his labors closely to his\\nbusiness, and engaged but little in public alfairs. At\\nthe same time, while no as|)irant after |iolitical pre-\\nferment, he has been called by his fellow-citizens to\\nfill several positions of importance. He represented", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1024.jp2"}, "874": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1025.jp2"}, "875": {"fulltext": "=995^\u00c2\u00bb-^^|^^V", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1026.jp2"}, "876": {"fulltext": "(iy^^j2^^\u00c2\u00abu^^ ^iZ%^^i^^.6At;^^", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1029.jp2"}, "877": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1030.jp2"}, "878": {"fulltext": "WAYNE.\\n553\\nthe Nortii Ward in the board of education for three\\nyears, and was a member of the board when the pres-\\nent school system was organized. He was alderman\\nfrom the same ward for two years, and filled that posi-\\ntion at the breaking out of the war. He also repre-\\nsented the Tiiird District of Passaic County, consist-\\ning of the North Ward and the townships of Little\\nFalls, Manchester, Wayne, Pompton, and West Mil-\\nford, in the State Legislature for two years. He takes\\nan active interest in local affairs, and is a member of\\nthe Paterson Board of Trade, and of Ivanhoe Lodge,\\nNo. 88, A. F. and A. M., of Paterson. He is also a\\nmember of the New Church (Swedenborgian), on\\nDivision Street, and was one of the trustees of that\\nbody for a number of years, and reader to the society\\nfor seven or eight years. His first wife was Abbie,\\ndaughter of John and Jane Winans, of Paterson, who\\ndied in 1866. None of the five children attained adult\\nage. His present wife, whom he married in 1868, was\\nElizabeth Flitcroft, of Paterson. Of the two children,\\nMary D. is the only one living.\\nCHAPTER LXXI.\\nWAYNE.\\nThi3 township of Wayne in point of antiquity of set-\\ntlement may be regarded as the second in the county.\\nIt was chosen as a residence by the most distinguished\\npioneers of the county, Capt. Arent Scliuyler and Maj.\\nAnthony Brockholst, as early as 1697, two years after\\nthe purchase of the land had been effected, and long\\nbefore adjacent portions of the county were inhabited\\nby other than the wandering tribes of Indians who peo-\\npled the valley. Though it is probable that portions\\nof the Revolutionary army were encamped within the\\nborders of the township, and that Gen. Wayne found\\nthis a convenient temporary abiding-place, no inci-\\ndents of especial moment transpired, and no engage-\\nments of importance occurred here. The ground\\nwas, however, repeatedly traversed by bodies of troops\\nfrom both armies. Though the township has some\\nmanufacturing interests of importance, it is princi-\\npally an agricultural district, and abounds in well-\\ntilled and productive farms.\\nThere are two portions of the township, known\\nrespectively as Preakness and Pacquanack. These\\nare simply localities or districts, and represent no\\ndistinctive or commercial importance. Preakness\\nlies on the eastern side, while Pacquanack embraces\\na large portion of the western boundary of Wayne.\\nTwo railroads pass through the southern portion\\nof the township, the Delaware, Lackawanna and\\nWestern Railroad, with a station at Mountain View,\\na hamlet in the southwest portion of the township,\\nand the Mont Clair and Greenwood Lake, with a\\ndepot at Wayne Station and one at Singac.\\nThe Morris Canal also traverses the township, and\\naffords additional facilities of transportation.\\nThe value of real estate in Wayne is $656,680, and\\nof personal property $87,500. The total amount\\nraised by tax for the past year was \u00c2\u00a710,000, which\\nwas apportioned as follows: State and county tax,\\n$5358 township tax, \u00c2\u00a71190 road tax, $3100. The\\nrate per cent, is $l. iO per hundred.\\nNatural Features. The soil of Wayne is com-\\nposed princijially of sand and trap-rock, the northern\\n))ortion being rocky and broken, and frequently mixed\\nwith a gravelly loam. The eastern border abounds\\nin clay loam with a formation of trap-rock, which\\nis apparent at many points. The central portion,\\nespecially -along the valley of the Singac stream, is\\nvery fertile, and displays a land that I or productive-\\nness is unsurpassed in the township. The southern\\npart is low-, and abounds principally in beds of clay,\\nwhich are utilized in brick-making. Two ranges of\\nmountains are apparent in the township, that an the\\neastern side being generally designated as the Second\\nRange, and that in the centre as the Third Range.\\nThe Pequannock River flows along the western\\nborder of the township, and the Singac Brook rises\\nin the north portion of Wayne, flows southwesterly,\\nand pours its waters into the Passaic River above\\nLittle Falls. It affords a water-power for two grist-\\nmills and the same number of saw-mills.\\nThere is some valuable stone in the township,\\nthere being one quarry on lands of James Graham,\\nand another on lands of the Pom| ton Iron and Steel\\nCompany, which are not being at [iresent developed.\\nEarly Settlements. The second settlement in the\\ncounty of Passaic was made by Maj. Anthony Brock-\\nhoist and Capt. Arent Schuyler in 1695, and included\\nwhat is now the greater part of Wayne township.\\nDuring this period Indians were very numerous, and\\nmany of the white inhabitants who soon after popu-\\nlated the region learned their language, and made it\\nthe medium of conversation when they met for ex-\\nchange and barter. Tradition says that the red men\\nhad at this time a few acres planted near what is\\nknown as the Schuyler Basin, and that there existed\\nan Indian orchard at Pacquanack, near the present\\nresidence of ex-Sherift Ryer^on. Associated with\\nSchuyler and Brockholst in the purchase of land\\nwere Samuel Byard, George Ryerson, John Mead,\\nSamuel Berrie, and David and Hendrick JIandeville,\\nwho mutually agreed to purchase five thousand five\\nhundred acres of land of the proprietors of East\\nJersey. The Indians having claimed the whole\\nvalley, it was found necessary to purchase their\\nright, for the purpose of making good the title. This\\nwas effected on the 6th of June, 1695, by Arent\\nSchuyler in behalf of his associates, for merchandise,\\nwampum, etc., to the value of two hundred and fifty\\npounds. This included not only the area mentioned,\\nbut all the tract lying between the Passaic on the\\nsouth, Pompton on the north, and between the foot", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1031.jp2"}, "879": {"fulltext": "551\\nHISTORY OF BKRGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nof the hills on the east and west. The patent fnini\\ntlie proprietors for five thousand five hundred acres\\nto Brockliolst, Schuyler, and tiicir associates bore\\ndate Nov. 11, Itj .i;), and the land lay upon the east\\nside of the I equannock River.\\nThis purchase was divided into three patents. The\\nfirst was designated as the Lower Pacquauac patent,\\nand began at what was called the deep gully and run\\nof water just above the lowlands, named Pequannock.\\nand extended south to the Pa.ssaie River, about three\\nmiles in length and one and a half in breadth, contain-\\ning two thousand seven hundred and fifty acres. Of this\\npatent, Brockholst sold a third part to Nicholas Byard.\\nThe tract wsis then divided equally between the two\\nparties, Brockholst, Schuyler, and Byard forming the\\nfirst party, and Mead, Berry, Ryerson, and the Man-\\ndevilles the second party, it being decided by lot that\\nthe last-named party should have the southern part\\nanil the first three the northern half of this tract.\\nThe second patent, known as the Upper Pacqua-\\nnac patent, extended from the deep gully and ran\\nto a line running east from the mouth of the Pompton\\nRiver, or what is now kin)wn as the Hainapo River,\\nand contained twelve hundred and sixty acres.\\nThe one-third of this patent was also sold to Nich-\\nolas Byard. It remained intact until 1755, when it\\nwas divided between Harry Brockholst, Philip Schuy-\\nler, and the four .sons of Samuel Byard, descendants\\nand heirs of the original owners.\\nThe third was known as the Pompton patent.\\nIt extended from the mouth of the Pompton or\\nRamapo River up the Pequannock to the foot of the\\nhills, about one and a half miles, and ran back from\\nthe river eiust nearly the same distance, containing\\ntwelve hundred and fifty acres. Of this Brockholst\\nand Schuyler also sold one-third of their right to\\nNichola-s Byard. It was then divided between the\\ntwo parties in the same way as the Lower Pacquanac\\npatent, in this case the southern part falling to the\\nthree and the northern to the five.\\nThe party of five concerned in the first and liiird\\npatents thus pos.Heflsed two thousand acres, which came\\nto them in the division, and for which they i)aid the\\nproprietors of Eiust .Jersey two hundred pounds.\\nAfter this general division it is probable that the\\nrespective parties dividetl in an equitable manner the\\ntracts and converted them into farms. Some of this\\nland has been owned by successive generations, ami\\nis still in pos-session of the family.\\nIn the year 1097, Anthony Brockholst and Arent\\nSchuyler settled in what is now the township of\\nWayne, the former on the bind now occupiecl by the\\nfamily of the late Maj. William (!olfax, and the lat-\\nter on the site of the residence of Dr. William (Colfax.\\nThey may therefore be considered not only as the\\npioneers of the township, but of the immediate vi-\\ncinity.\\nMaj. Brockholst had one son, Henry, and four\\ndaughters, Mary, who became, so far as laii lie de-\\ntermined, the wife of Adrian Verplanck Janette,\\nwho married Col. Fre leriek Phillipse, of Westchester\\nCounty, N. Y. Susannah, who became Mrs. French;\\nand .Judith.\\nHe died in the summer of 1723, leaving his prop-\\nerty to his wife, and after her death to his children.\\nHis son Henry married Maria Verplanck, and lell no\\nissue. The name thus became extinct in the county.\\nArent Schuyler was born in 1662, in Albany, N. Y^.,\\nwas twice nuirried, and remained in Wayne township\\nuntil 171(1, when he removed to New Barbadoes,\\nBergen Co., and developed the valuable copper-mines\\nfouud on his property. He had eight children, and\\nmay be regarded as the progenitor of the Schuyler\\nfamily in New Jersey. His death occurre l in 1732.\\nGeorge Ryerson, who purchased, in connection with\\nother parties, a portion of the patents above named,\\nprobably followed as a settler soon after the advent of\\nBrockholst and Schuyler. He had a son George,\\nwhose son Abraham married Sarah Mandeville.\\nThey had seven children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abram, Peter, Nicholas,\\nand four daughters, .\\\\brani married Sarah Bush, of\\nEssex County, and ha l children, (ieorge A., Anna,\\nAlfred, John A., and .Sarah Louisa (Mrs. Wm. An-\\nderson). Of this number Alfred and the widow and\\nchildren of George A. reside in the township. Among\\nother representatives of the Ryerson family in Wayne\\nare Wm. F. Ryerson, Abram M., Lucas, .Vbram N.,\\n(iillium, and the sons of Nicholas, Hu.sel, and Zadoc.\\nMembers of the family are also found elsewhere in\\nthe county.\\nThe Jacobus family are among the earliest settlers,\\nthough none of the name are now residents of the\\ntownship. The first who settled in Wayne was\\nobus .Jacobus, who purclia.sed the trai t now occu-\\npied by his great-grandsons, Thomas and Nicholas J.\\nDorenius. He had one son, Ritlph, who occupied the\\nproperty during the Revolutionary period, and mar-\\nried Jane They had a daughter Susan, who\\nbecame the wife of Peter Dorenius, when the name\\nbecame extinct, and the property jiassed to the latter\\nfamily.\\nThe Doremus family were not among the original\\nsettlers here, and the name of the forefather in this\\ncountry cannot be stated, but, as far as can be ascer-\\ntained, they came from Middleburg. on the island of\\n/Zealand, in Holland, about the year I6S5, and settled\\nat Acquackanonk. Tliere appear lo have been four\\nbrothers, Johannes, Thomas, Hendriek, and Josis.\\n.Tohannes wius born in Holland, and the others in this\\ncountry, at .\\\\cquackanonk. He married, Aug. 9, 1710,\\nElizabeth .Vckeriiian ThomiLs married, Oct. 4, 1712,\\nAnncke .Vbrahamse Ackernian Hendriek married,\\nApril H, 1714, .\\\\nnctie Essels Josis nuirried, March\\n16, 1717, .Maritze Berdan. Johannes lived at Preak-\\nness, and died between 17.54-58, leaving a son Corne-\\nlius, who is probably the one that lived at Parsip-\\njiany, and from whom the greater part of that mime\\nin this valley are descended.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1032.jp2"}, "880": {"fulltext": "WAYNE.\\n555\\nThis Cornelius, who probably spent his life in Mor-\\nris County, had among his children Thomas and\\nJohn, both residents of Morris County, while a third\\nson located in Bergen County. Thomas married Ra-\\nchel Peer, and had children, Cornelius, Peter, Benja-\\nmin, John, Francis, and one daughter, who died in\\nyouth. Peter removed from Morris County, in Wayne\\ntownship, then a portion of Bergen County, and\\nmarried Susan Jacobus. Their children were Ralph,\\nNicholas J., Thomas, Francis, Cornelius, and one\\ndaughter, Rachel. Peter spent his lifetime and died\\nupon the land uow owned by his sons. Among other\\nmembers of the Doremus family in the township are\\nJohn, George, Abram, and Cornelius, residing at\\nPreakness.\\nThe Mandeville family are descended from Giles\\nJansen Mandeville, who fled from Normandy, in\\nFrance, to Holland, there married a Dutchwoman,\\nElsje Hendricks, and coming from Guelderland to\\nNew York in 1647, lived in what was called Thap-\\npaneconck, near what is now the foot of Twelfth\\nStreet. His son Hendrick married first, on July 18,\\n1()80, Anetje Pieterse Scholl, and lived some time at\\nHempstead, L. I., and on her death married the\\nsecond time, April 21, 1099, Elizabeth Jane Berry,\\nand about this time removed to and settled at Pac-\\nquanac. He died between 1709 and 1714, and left\\nsons, by the first wife, David and by the second,\\nHendrick, Johannes, and Giles. The second wife of\\nHendrick after his death married Brand Jacobus,\\nand had two sons, James and Abraham, the fore-\\nfathers of the Jacobus family in this section.\\nTheunis Dey, a relative of the Ryerson family, was\\namong the earliest arrivals, and remained for some\\nyears. He ultimately removed with his family to\\nNew York, and became an influential citizen.\\nThe De Bow family came from New York about\\n1727, as in that year, on the 23d of May, Garret De\\nBow married Maria, the second daughter of Paulus\\nVan Derbeek, and probably soon after settled in the\\nvicinity.\\nA portion of the family settled at Pompton Plains, i\\nJohn, one of the descendants, liad among his chil-\\ndren John, William, Sarah, Catherine, and Maria.\\nJohn, of this number, married Hester Jacobus, and\\nbecame a resident of Wayne township. His death\\noccurred, leaving nine children, of whom Theodore\\nand Catherine (Mrs. Berdan) reside in the township.\\nThe Colfax family are connected with the early\\nhistory of the township. They were originally from\\nConnecticut, and first represented in the county by\\nGen. William Colfax, commander of Washington\\nLife-Guards during the Revolution. While at the\\nhouse of Casparus Schuyler, in company with the\\ngeneral-in-chief and his staft he met tlic only daugh-\\nter of his host, Hester, whom he married in 178.3,\\nafter which he made the county his residence. His\\nsons were Schuyler, father of the ex-Vice-President,\\nDr. William, and George W. The last two were resi-\\ndents of the township. Maj. William W. Colfax, son of\\nGeorge W., was for many years a prominent and use-\\nful citizen of Wayne township. His death, which\\noccurred in 1878, was the occasion of sincere mourn-\\ning throughout the towniihip, not more as a conse-\\nquence of his acknowledged ability than because of\\nhis integrity, high .sense of honor, and kindly nature.\\nHis family and that of Dr. Colfax still reside in the\\ntownship.\\nThe Jones family are among the oldest in the town-\\nship, Thomas Jones having come from Long Island\\nin 1750, and settled at Pacquanack. He married\\nElizabeth, daughter of Solomon Poole, in 1749, to\\nwhom were born children, Edward, Mary, Wil-\\nliam, William (2), Sarah, Elizabeth, Margaret, and\\nNicholas. Edward married Elizabeth Kip, and had\\nchildren, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Nicholas. The\\nlatter settled on the homestead, married Hannah\\nJohnston, of Wayne township, and had children,\\nElizabeth, Mary, Edward N., William, Johu, James,\\nNicholas, Lavinia, and Thomas, of whom the last\\nnamed resides on the ancestral land, and is the only\\nrepresentative of the family in the township.\\nThe Merselis family are of Holland ancestry, and\\nfirst settled in Bergen County, from whence Edo re-\\nmoved to Wayne township, on the farm now owned\\nby. his grandson, Peter G. Merselis. Edo had four\\nsons, Edo, Garret, John, and Peter. John and\\nGarret settled in the township, the latter having mar-\\nried Ellen De Gray, to whom were born children,\\nEdo, John, Peter G., Mary (Mrs. Van Riper), Jane\\n(Mrs. Benson), Ann (Mrs. J. I. Hopper), and a child\\nwho died in infancy. The only survivor of this number\\nis Peter G., who lives at the homestead. John, a son\\nof John above named, also resides in the township.\\nJames Berdan, the earliest member of the family\\nrecalled in the township of Wayne, was born in 1746,\\nand was the great-grandfather of James, who now\\noccupies the homestead. He married Rebecca Ryer-\\nson, born in 1746, and had children, among whom\\nwas Albert, whose birth occurred in 1767. He married\\nMary Ackerman, born in 1771, and had children,\\nJacob, born in 1790 Christina, whose birth occurred\\nin 1793 and Rebecca, born in 1801. Albert died in\\n1837, aged seventy years. His son Jacob married\\nCatherine Demarest, and had children, Sarah, Maria,\\nAlbert, Caroline, Margaret, John, Rebecca, James D.,\\nand William. The death of Jacob Berdan took place\\nin 1875. Mrs. Garret Berdan is a daughter of Albert\\nabove mentioned.\\nAnother Jacob of the Berdan family removed from\\nSlauter Dam to the township, where he died. His\\nsons were Richard, Jacob, John, and Garret, all of\\nwhom settled in Wayne. .Tohn later removed to\\nPassaic, and now resides in Manchester, wdiile Garret\\noccupies the homestead.\\nThe Van Riper family were, so far as is remem-\\nbered, first represented by Richard, whose son Uriah\\nsettled on land now occupied by Andrew P. Hopper.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1033.jp2"}, "881": {"fulltext": "556\\nHISTORY OF BEKGRN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nHe had children, Jacob and Elizabeth (Mrs. Dewitt).\\nJacob married Mary Van Riper, of Belleville, N. J.,\\nand had children, Uriah, Leah Ann, and Mary\\nElizjibeth. Uriah is deceaseil, and his widow and\\ntwo ilaughters re|iresent the family in the township.\\nAndrew, who sprang from another branch of the\\nfamily, also resitles in tlie towu.ship.\\nNicholas Kip loc\u00c2\u00abted in Lower Preakness, on prop-\\nerty now owned by Traphapen Dorenuis. Among\\nhis children were Cornelius Kip and a daughter\\nElizabeth, who married Edward Jones. Cornelius\\nhad among his children Nicholas and John and sev-\\neral daughters, among whom was Rachel, who mar-\\nried Martin Berry, whose son, Henry K. Berry, now\\nresides in the township. John Kip lelt two sons and\\none daughter. The name of Kip has become extinct\\nin Wayne township.\\nThe Ackerson family resided at Nyack-on-tht-\\nHudson. John Ackerson married with the V andcr-\\nbilt family, and had four sons and two daughters.\\nBy a second union he had two sons. His .son Corne-\\nlius removed to the township in 17S8, and married\\nJane Van Orden. They had two sons, John and\\nAndrew, the former of whom resides in Morris\\nCounty, and the latter on the homestead.\\nThe Doremus family was represented by Richard\\nDoremus, who wa.s for many years a resident of the\\ntownship, but in 1833 removed from the vicinity,\\nsince which time the name has not appeared upon\\ntin- roll ot the township s older citizens.\\nSchools. Schools existed at a very early day in\\nthe townshii of Wayne, but of a very primitive char-\\nacter. The first ellbrt, according to cherished tradi-\\ntion, to collect the children of the neighborhood for\\npurposes of instruction occurred in 177t), in a dug-out\\non the south side of the hill northeast of Mead s\\nBasin. This school-house, if such it may be called,\\nwas adorned with a substantial roof, and wits used as a\\nstable by Gen. Wayne during the Revolutionary war\\nwhile stationed in the vicinity. To this spot children\\ncame a distance of four miles. In 177!i a stone struc-\\nture was erected on the side of the same bill, its gen-\\neral appearance being more that of a fort than a school-\\nliousc. The earliest teacher recollecteil is James C.\\nFallon. In 1812 was formed the Franklin .School\\nAs.socialion, the members who ellccted it-s incorpora-\\ntion being A. Ryerson, Jr., Jacob K. Mead, Simeon\\nDoremus, and Lucas Ryer.son. The school territory\\nof the township is now divided into five districts, as\\nfollows: Franklin, No. 13, Jefferson, No. 14, I reak-\\nne\u00c2\u00bbs, No. 15, WiLshlngton, No. IG, and Lafayette, No.\\n17. The district clerks are: For No. 13, C. D. Rich-\\nards; for No. 11, Albert Tcrhune; for No. \\\\r R. M.\\nTorbet for No. 10, L. 1). Ryerson; and for No. 17,\\nGeorge W. Colfax. The total value of school prop-\\nerty i\u00c2\u00bb 18400, and the number of children in the town-\\nship i47. The total amount received from all sources\\nfor school purposes is $2()3(i.38.\\nEarly Highways.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Many of the highways of\\nWayne township were surveyed at a very early date,\\nand are as.sociated with the period of the Revolution.\\nThe Pacquanack road began at Hoboken, and en-\\ntering the county pas.scd through Paterson and Little\\nFalls. It then followed the western border of the\\ntownship, nearly parallel with the Pequannock River\\nuntil it.s arrival at Pompton, where it crossed the\\nriver, and continuing on to Sussex County, entered\\nNew York State.\\nThis highway wa.s intimately associated with some\\nof the scenes of the Revolution, and was traversed con-\\nstantly by army-wagons and soldiers. The Preakness\\nroad, also a Revolutionary highway, and the scene of\\nmuch activity at an early day from the great amount\\nof produce transported over it, passed through Ac-\\nquackanonk, now Pas-saic, and on to Paterson, from\\nwhich it-s line was surveyed through Preakness to\\nPompton and on to Sussex County. Both these roads\\nwere highways of great importance during the last\\ncentury, and have been since intersected by other\\nroads, which were found necessary to the development\\nof the country.\\nThe road territory of the township is now divided\\ninto fifteen districts, over which preside the following\\noverseers\\nNo.\\nI*e|pr Biiilfv.\\n..Ili iir n \u00c2\u00abT\\n..J(*ri-iiitiili K. iVnlan.\\n..Genrffc It. llcnlHli.\\n..CHi-n-t Iti tilalt, Jr.\\n..H..iiry V.iil.\\n..\\\\ViilliTl ..|)er.\\nK.J. Uiiiilu.\\nDistrict.\\nNu. 0....niarlnS| lni1ler.\\nin... \\\\v. I .iir\u00c2\u00abx\\n11 ...CilllHni llM iK.n\\nVi lnlm-\u00c2\u00bb B M\\\\Jitn.\\nM ...ri-l.rC r..t\\nI 10.. .H..\u00c2\u00bb-kinli Hinddock.\\n17....Kliu Osljvi u.\\nCivil List. At a town-meeting held at the house\\nof Henry Ca.sey, at Preakness, in the township of\\nWayne, on the 12th of April, a.d. 1847, pursuant\\nto the fourth section of vhe act entitled An act to\\ndivide the township of Manchester, in the county of\\nPassaic, and to establish a new township, to be called\\nthe township of Wayne, .Jacob Berdnn was chosen\\nmoderator, and William S. Hogencamp clerk.\\nThe moilerator having been iluly sworn, and the\\nclerk having taken and subscribed to the oath re-\\nquired by law, it was on motion unanimously resolved\\nthat this town-meeting vote by ballot, whereupon the\\nmoderator proceeded to receive the ballots offered, and\\nupon an estimate and canvass of all the votes received,\\nthe following-named persons were foiiiid to be elected\\nto the odices prefixeil to their respective names:\\nJudge of Election, George W. Colfax Town Clerk,\\nGeorge Ryerson; Assessor, William Sickles; Col-\\nlector, Nicholas Kipp; Chosen Freeholders, Henry\\nUoremiis, Isaac .Schuyler; Purveyor of Highways,\\nU. (i. Van Riper, N. J. Doremus; Township Com-\\nmittee, William S. Hogencamp, J. M. Demarest, Wil-\\nliam W. Colfax, (lerret Berdan, (tcorge G. Ryerson\\nJudges of Appeal, D. D. Demarest, John D. Ryerson,\\nJacob B. Van Riper Superintendent of Schools,\\nJohn A. Ryersr)n Constables, Nicholas Kipp, John\\nReston.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1034.jp2"}, "882": {"fulltext": "WAYNE.\\n557\\nThe remaining more important township officers to\\nthe present date are as follows\\nFreeholders.\\n1S71-72, Dnvid Bensen 1873-74, 1877-80, James D. Berdan 1860, 1856-\\n57, 18S9-6(), William olfax 1861, James M. Demarest; 185U, Juhii\\nM. Deuiarest; 1854-55, 1861-H:i, Nicholas J, Doremus; 1868-69, I e-\\nter Hopper; 1862-64, CoroeUus J. Jacobus; 1851-53, Nicholas Kip,\\nHenry I. Mead; 1868, Albert V. Meeks; 1866-67, Peter G. Morse-\\nlis; 187(i, John P. Quackenbush; 1875-76, Abram M. Ryorson\\n1864-65, John D. Ryersou 1S47-49, Isaac Schuyler; 1850-60, John\\nJ. Traphagen 1858, Uriah J. Van Riper; 1854-56, 1866-67, Corne-\\nlius D. Vreelau l; 1881, Peter J. Doremus.\\nTo\\\\VN8Hip Clerks.\\n1848-69, George A. Hyerson; 1859-75, Robert M. Torbet 1875-81, R. J.\\nBanta; 1881, Abraham Ryetson.\\nAssessors.\\n1848-49, VVm. S. Hogencanip; 1S60-51, George G. Ryersou 1852, Wra.\\nC. Stratton; 1854-55, John I. Traphagen; 1866-57, John Stagg;\\n1858-59, James M.Demarest; lS60-fi3, John D. Ryerson 1864, Philip\\nSchuyler; 1865-78, Uriah J. Van Riper; 1879-81, R. M. Torbet.\\nCollectors.\\n1848, David Shurte; 1849, Andrew Ackerson 1850-61, N. J. Doremus;\\nISS J-M, 1856, Cornelius Kipp; 1857-66, Alfred Ryerson; 1807-69,\\n1871-72, Thomas Jones 1868, George G. Ryerson 1870, Garret H.\\nDoremus; 1873-81, G. W. Colfax.\\nTownship Committee.\\n1848-50, Heury I. Meade 1848-60, J. M. Demarest 1848-49, 1867, Wil-\\nliam W. Colfax 1848-60, Gerret Berdan 1848-49, l,s65-66, George\\nG. Ryerson; 1849-51, John I. Traphagen; 1850-52, Uriah J. Van\\nRiper; 1850-63, 1858-.59, Isaac Schuyler; lS51-. )2, Albert B. Voor-\\nheis; 1851-53, Edo Van Saun 1852-54, John E. Van Ness; 1853,\\n1856, Thomas P. Doremus; 1853-55, Richard Colfax; 1854-55, D. D.\\nDemarest, Thomas P. Demarest 1864, James Ilincliman lSo5-57,\\nDavid Tompkins; 1855-59, Peter G. Mersclis; 1856-57, l^avid Shuart;\\n1856-57, 1864-66, 1874-76, William O. Rote 1857, 1861-63, Jacob G.\\nBerdan 1858-69, 1862-63, Andrew Ackereou 18.68-59, C. R. Jacobus\\n1868-61, Israel Tompkins; 1860-61, Paul F. Ryerson 1860-62, Fred-\\nerick Petrie; 1862, Garret Smith; 1S63, Peter Van Allen, Gerret\\nSmith, John Van Winkle; 1864-69, 1872, James D. Berdan; 1865,\\n1868, J. J. Van Winkle 1860-62, William H. Traphagen 1864, Is-\\nrael Budd, Alexander Morrow 1865-66, Nicholas J. Doremus 18G6,\\n1870, 1872, Jacob R. Berdan; 1866-67, Peter Hopper; 1867, James\\nW. Monks; 1867-69, 1871, Samuel C. Geroe; 1808-70,1876-77,1880\\n-81, David Benson; 1868-70,1872, 1878-79, 1881, Gilbert F. Merselis;\\n1869, 1871, William B. Jacobus: 1870, Abraham M. Ryerson; 1870\\n-71, John D. Ryei-son 1871, Luther Casey, John Mei-selis; 1872-73,\\nAlbert Benson; 1872, Peter J. Doremus; 1873-74, Richard J. Banta;\\n1873-76, Theodore F. Cox; 1873, William Islierwood, Peter G. Mer-\\nselis; 1874-75, Henry Vail; 1874-70, James Graham; 1875, 1880,\\nAustin L. Stanley 1876, Allen H. Adams, Robert Martin, Jr., Isiuic\\nW. Blaiue; 1877-78, Robert M. Torbet, Thomas Jones, J. S. P. Clark\\n1877-79, Jeremiah R. Berdau 1870-81, George W. Decker; 1880,\\nJohn F. Sisco; 1881, Charles W. Van Ness.\\nSuperintendents of Schools.\\n1848-51, John A. Staats; 1852-65, William C. Stratton; 1856-63, George\\n(3. Ryerson 1804, Thomas F. Hoxie 1865, Jonathan B. Webb 1806,\\nCharles H. Musk.\\nJuSTicts OF tue Peace.\\n1849-61, 1856-57, 1862, 1872, 1877, George A. Ryereon; 1850, 1866, 1360,\\nJoho Stagg; 1861,. Jonathan B. Webb; 1806, 1871, William 0. Rote.\\nManufacturing Interests. The Laflin Rand\\nPowder Company was formed a number of years\\nsince by the consolidation of various interests, and\\nhas mills located at the following points: Orange\\nMills, Newburgh, N. Y. Empire Mills, Esopus,\\nN. Y. Pa-ssaic Mills, Wayne, N. J. Cressona Mills,\\nCressona, Pa. Moosic Mills, Moosic, Pa. Rushdale\\nMills, Jermyn, Pa.; Platteville Mills, Platteville,\\n30\\nWis.; Schaghticoke Mills, Schaghticoke, N. Y., the\\nfirst of these works having been established in Orange\\nand Ulster Counties. Those in Wayne township were\\nfirst begun in 1869, but not comjileted until some\\nyears later. They are constructed of both brick and\\nwood, and in all embrace fifteen buildings and an ex-\\ntensive area of land, the powder being stored in large\\nmagazines some distance from the works. The capac-\\nity of these works is six hundred kegs per day. Five\\nsteam-eugines are employed, which are connected by\\nshafts with the main portions of the establisliment.\\nOf the saltpetre and charcoal, which arc the im-\\nportant ingredients in the manufacture of powder,\\nthe former is manufactured here, while the charcoal\\nis procured in Sullivan County.\\nMost of the powder is manufactured from nitrate\\ni of soda, and known as soda powder. The soda un-\\ndergoes a proce-ss of refining, after which it is dried\\nand ground. It is then bolted, and after being mixed\\nwith pulverized brimstone and charcoal, is run under\\neight-ton wheels for two hours.\\nIt is then pressed by a screw-press for two hours,\\nwhich has a capacity equal to about one hundred kegs.\\nThis pressure transforms it into cakes, tlie dimensions\\nof which are two feet square by one incli in thickness.\\nFrom this process it passes into the corning-mill and\\nis ground between rollers, some of which are smooth\\nwhile others are provided with teeth, for jrurposes of\\ncrushing or^rinding the cakes. It then jiasses into\\nthe drying-room, and is placed in huge barrels con-\\ntaining one hundred kegs each, through which hot\\nair is forced. The final process is that of the glaze-\\nmill, where it is again confined in barrels and run\\nwith lead, by which it acquires a polish. It is after-\\nwards packed and deposited in the magazines, the\\nkegs used in packing being all manufactured at the\\nfactory of the company on the grounds. There are\\nseveral extensive magazines for the reception of pow-\\nder along the Hudson River, and large vessels along\\nthe coast also receive it until finally disposed of for\\nuse.\\nIt is .entirely sold through agencies established in\\nvarious portions of the country, the principal ones\\nbeing at St. Louis, Chicago, Dubuque, Rufialo, Balti-\\nmore, Boston, and Philadelphia. Connected with\\nthis establishment are works for the manufacture\\nof an electric blasting apparatus.\\nThe blasting-machine which has the greatest sale\\nat the present time is a magneto-electric instrument\\nof small size, weighing only about sixteen pounds,\\noccupying considerably less than one-half a cubic\\nfoot of space, and sold at twenty-five dollars.\\nIt is constructed on the Wheatstone and Siemen s\\nprinciple, having a magnet of the horseshoe charac-\\nter of iron, wound about with coils of insulated cop-\\nper wire lietween the poles of the magnet there is\\nfitted to revolve an armature of cylindrical construc-\\ntion, carrying in its body other insulated wire coiled\\n1 longitudinally as to the cylinder.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1035.jp2"}, "883": {"fulltext": "558\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nThe rapid revolution of the iirnmture by suitable\\nniean\u00c2\u00bb: generates and sustains in the machine an ac-\\ncumulative current of voltaic electricity of great\\npower, which at the nionient of its muxiniuni in-\\ntensity is prai-ticiilly switched off to the outside\\ncircuit, in which are the fuzes, and in the interior of\\neach fuze the ignition is accomplished instantly.\\nThe machines made by this company have been in-\\nventions by Mr. 11. Julius Smith, whose services were,\\nseveral years since, engaged wholly for this company.\\nAll the machines are protected by patents, covering\\nsome important and indispensable parts.\\nThe president of the LaHin Hand Powder Com-\\npany is Salmon Turck. The superintendent of the\\nworks in Wayne township is W. A. Gay.\\nJ. R. Hand .t Co. also have located in the township\\nan establishment for the manufacture of high ex| l()-\\nsive powder, which has recently begun operations.\\nMouxTAix ViKW BiticK-MAxrFAcTUKixi; Com-\\npany. This company, of which J. S. P. Clark is gen-\\neral manager, wjis formed in 1879, with a capital of\\n$2(1,000, and is located at the hamlet of Mountain\\nView, in the southwest part of the township. The\\ncompany owns in this locality a valuable tract, em-\\nbracing one hundred and ten acres of clay and sand.\\nA twenty-five horse-power engine is provided, and\\nsteam is used in all the processes of grinding and\\nmi.ving the material and moulding the brick. It is\\npossible to burn a kiln numbering 1,(M)0,(IOO bricks,\\nthe whole of which is covered by a substantial shed.\\nThree machines are used with a capacity of .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0).5,II00\\nper day, and about 3,000,000 bricks per year are made.\\nThe wood which sup|)lies the kilns is obtained in the\\nimmediate vicinity and transported by canal. The\\nmarket is found in Paler.son, where the demand is\\ngreatly in exce.ss of the sujtply.\\nRobert licattie has a brick-yard in the township,\\nwith a capacity of about :5 ),000 per day, and which\\nis furnished with steam-power for all the processes of\\nmanufacturing. The foreman is Patrick Moore.\\nllealy .S: Voorhis have a brick-yard adjacent, with\\na capacity of about iO.OOd per day. It is equipped\\nwith steam-power, and with the material for manufac-\\n.ture at convenient distance from the works.\\nJohn M. Powers has a yard which is operated by\\nhorse-power, and has a capacity of 20,000 por day.\\nPreakness Reformed i Dutch Church. This\\ncliiircli WHS (irgiiiii/ril as eiiily as 17 .t^. ami the same\\nyear, .so far as can be determined, the first church\\nedifice was erected. Services, however, were for a\\nperiod from 1801 to 1824 irregular, and held at inter-\\nvals by the neighboring ministers. Among the latter\\nwere Revs. John Uemarest and Peter Dewitt, who\\nserved Preakness with the other points of their\\nwidely-extcniled charge, which ineluiletl both Ponds\\nand Wyckotl in IJergen County. After them came\\nRev. .Jacob T. Field, of Pompton, who supplied\\nPreakncsa in connection with that charge, and fol-\\nlowing him came Rev. Ava Neal, of I nmpton Plains,\\nwho adiled this field to his regular labor. In 1825,\\nZ. H. Kuypers came to the Ponds and Wyckofl\\ncharge, and Preakness seems also to have been a\\nportion of his territory. He began holding .services\\nonce in three weeks, but, owing to severe weather,\\nthe long ride, aii l advanced age, it is stated by mem-\\nbers of liis flock still living that he fre |Uently failed\\nto arrive, when for six weeks no service was held, and\\nthe people became nearly discouraged. Mr. Kuypers\\nretired from active labor in 1841, and two years later\\nRev. John .V. Staats came as pastor of Preakness\\nChurch alone. The people were anxious to have\\nservices for themselves, and though poor, were very\\nwilling to make the eflbrt necessary to secure it.\\nMr. Staats proved just the man, and remained from\\n1843 until 18G1. In his ministry the church was\\ngreatly blessed. He gathered many of the people to\\nthe Sabbath services, helped the congregation to build\\na jiarsonage, and in lK. i2 aided in the rebuilding of\\nthe church itself, which had become old and dilap-\\nidated. Many were added to the membership under\\nhis ministry, which was successful to an eminent\\ndegree. Following him came Rev. C. B. Durand,\\nwho remained from 18(12 until 1808, after which Rev.\\nS.T.Cole was called, who began his ministry in 18(58\\nand ended it in 1872. Rev. A. A. Zabriskie became\\npastor in 1872, and officiated until 1878, when the\\npresent pastor. Rev. H. V. D. WyckofT, accepted a call.\\nThe eilifice is a substantial brick structure on one of\\nthe most coniniaiiding sites in the valley. The church\\nbus one hundred and two names upon its membership\\nroll, and its officers for 1882 are: Elders, Peter G.\\nMerselis, David Hensen, ,\\\\lbert Bensen, Albert Ter-\\nhune Deacons, John G. Merselis, .lames D. Berdan,\\nRicharil Bensen, Peter Smith.\\nConnected with the church are two Sunday-schools,\\none in the Up])er and the other in the Lower Preak-\\nness District. The officers of the Upper school are:\\nSuperintendent, J. F. Day Assistant Superintend-\\nent, Rev. B. V. D. Wyckolf; Librarians, James D.\\nBerdan, .lohn Bensen. The following are the officers\\nof the Lower schocd Superintendent :ind Secretary,\\nIsaac W. Blain Treasurer and Librarian, Pett-r J.\\nDoremus.\\nConnected with the church is a Ladies Tract Soci-\\nety, which circulates tracts every month to all the\\nfamilies who attend service regularly and to about\\nfifty others who never worship in this or any church.\\nAdjoining the church is a burial-ground of some\\nantirjuity, the tablets being inscribed with many of\\nthe earliest names in this portion of the county.\\nOrganization. The following is substantiallr the\\nact wliicb ire li d Wayne as an independent town-\\nship\\ni*# U enarUft f\u00c2\u00bby lA* Smult imfl Omeriil .lurmh/y n/ tkr Stntt of AVir\\nJrrtf^t Tlint nil Utal purt iif tho titwiialil^t iif Blalirlitwt\u00c2\u00abr, ill Ui\u00c2\u00ab uiuiily\\nuf PlUM iir, l lliK wvnterljr iif (In* fulli\u00c2\u00bbwlll{( Hnp\u00c2\u00ab, to u It bft[iiiiilng Bt tlii*\\na(|U -dilL t itcnnw tlio I ltMuilr Klvor Bt tlip Ltlllo KuUd; ttionc njlilillig In\\nB Rlt^K it llix t\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb till* tup of tlie TittnWB MoiiiitMin, wlirrp the OlxIrnlitlik\\nHMul IntenMclii tlio hmkI IcBtlliiK frtiin PrBaklM-M tu l*Bt\u00c2\u00abrBuii theiicA", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1036.jp2"}, "884": {"fulltext": "Francis Torbet, the father of the subject of this\\nbiographical sketch, was of Scotch descent, and resided\\nat Stony Wood, near Aberdeen, Scotland. He was\\nunited in marriage to Miss Jane Martin, of the same\\nhamlet, to whom were born nine children, Andrew\\nM. (now a clergyman and residing in Minnesota),\\nJames M., David R., Francis R., Walker 6., Robert\\nM., George M., Jane M. (now Mrs. James Duncan,\\nof Paterson), and Christina (Mrs. Robert Edwards).\\nMr. Torbet emigrated to America in 1 836, and set-\\ntled first at Morristown, and later at Paterson. He\\nengaged in mechanical pursuit.s in the latter city,\\nand was the first machine tender in the extensive\\nPaterson Paper Mills. In 18-12 he removed to the\\ntownship of Wayne, where his death occurred in\\nApril, 1879.\\nHis son Robert was born at Stony Wood, April 23,\\n1834, and emigrated with his parents to America\\nwhen but two years of age. He spent his early life\\nupon the farm he now occupies, which was purchased\\nby his father soon after his advent in Passaic County.\\nRobert, when a lad, availed himself of the limited\\nadvantages afforded by the schools of the district, and\\nalso lent a helping hand to the cultivation of the farm,\\nwhere later he became an invaluable aid to his parents.\\nHe was in 1859 married to Miss Mary A., daughter\\nof Deacon Charle-s Tentle, of Morris County, N. J.,\\nand became the parent of two children, Mary F.\\nand Frank T., both residing with their parents. Mr.\\nTorbet subsequently purchased the farm of his father,\\nand has since devoted himself principally to the dairy\\nindustry. His political afiiliations have been with the\\nRepublican party, of which he has long been an ardent\\nsupporter. His devotion to the party, together with\\nhis known capacity and integrity, caused him to be\\nchosen on frequent occasions to fill responsible offices.\\nHe was for five years clerk of the township of Wayne,\\nand was in 1871-72 representative of his district in\\nthe State Legislature. His fidelity to the public good\\ninsured his re-election in 1875. His deep interest in\\neducational projects enabled him to fill with accept-\\nance the chairmanship of the Committee on Education\\nin 1872, when he was instrumental in the passage of\\nseveral important bills. He has also been for a period\\nof fifteen years a member of the board of trustees of\\nthe township, and for three years the assessor of the\\ntownship of Wayne.\\nMr. Torbet in his religious views is a Baptist, and\\na devout and zealous member of the First Baptist\\nChurch of the city of Paterson.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1037.jp2"}, "885": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1038.jp2"}, "886": {"fulltext": "MANCHESTER.\\n569\\nwith tlie course of said mountain to a large single rock ou said ntoun-\\ntaiii east of the house of Peter Zeliflf; thence alons said mountain to the\\nPaterson and Hamburg turnpike east of the Buckley House; thence in\\na straight line to the top of the High Mountain; thence with the course\\nof said High Mountain to the line of Franklin township, shall be and\\nthe same is hereby set off from the township oi Manchester, and is\\nhereby established into a new township, to be known by the name of\\nthe township of Wayne.\\nAwl be U enacted. That the inhabitants of the said township of\\nWayne sluill be and they aie hereby constituted a body politic and cor-\\nporate, and shall be styled and known as The Inhabitants of the town-\\nsliip of Wayne, in the county of Passaic, and shall be entitled to all the\\nrights, powers, authority, privileges, and advantages, and subject to the\\nsame regulations, government, and liabilities as the inhabitants of the\\nother townahips in the said county of Passaic are or may be entitled\\nand subject to by the laws of this State.\\nJjirf he il enailed, That the inhabitants of the said township of\\nWayno shall hold their first annual town-meeting at the house now oc-\\ncupied by Henry Casey, in the township of Wayne, on the day appointed\\nby law for holding the annual town-meetings in the other townships in\\ntlie county of Passaic.\\nAnd be U enacted^ That the township committees of the townships\\nof Manchester and Wayne shall meet on the Blouday uest after their\\nfirst annual town-meeting at the house now occupied by Henry Casey,\\nill thetownsliipof Wayne, at ten o clock in the forenoon, and .shall there\\nand then proceed by writing, signed by a majority of the members of\\neach committee, to allot and divide between the townships al! the prop-\\ncity or moneys on hand or due or to become due, in proportion to the\\ntaxable property and ratables as valued and assessed by the assessore\\nwithin the respective limits of said townships at the last assessment, and\\nmay adjourn the said meeting from time to time until such time and\\nplace ;ui a majority of those present may thiuk proper, and the township\\nof Wayne tihall be liable to pay a just proportion of the debts, if any there\\nbe; and if any of the members of the said tuwusliip committees shall\\nneglect to meet as aforesaid, those present may proceed to make such\\ndivision, and their division or a division of a majority of them shall be\\nfinal and conclusive.\\nAnd be U enacted, That this act shall take effect on the day of hold-\\ning Ilie first annual town-meeting of the said township of Wayne.\\nApproved Feb. 10, 1847.\\nCHAPTER LXXII.\\nMANCHESTER.\\nThe township of Manchester is bounded north by\\nBergen County, south by the township of Little Falls,\\neast by Little Falls and the city of Paterson and Ber-\\ngen County, and west by the township of Wayne. It\\nwas formerly a part of Saddle River township of the\\nabove county, and in its organization is conteni])orary\\nwith the formation of Passaic County. The first set-\\ntlement was made as early as 1706, and for a period\\nof nuiny years the lands remained in the possession\\nof families who were the first purchasers from the In-\\ndians. Very little, however, is known of the settlors\\nof these early times, and aside from the fact that the\\nRversons, Westervelt-s, and Van Houtens were pio-\\nneers and large land-owners, the historian is able to\\natibrd no facts of especial value.\\nThe village of Totowa, located upon the Pa.ssaic,\\nwith many residences, a number of manufacturing\\nestablishments, and a population in 1845 of sixteen\\nhundred inhabitants, was formerly included within\\nthe limits of this township, but now forms a part of\\nthe city of Paterson. The southern portion of Man-\\nchester, lying west of Little Falls, is, however, still\\ndesignated as Totowa. The township has one village,\\nof small proportions, with some manufacturing inter-\\nests, and is traversed by the New Jersey Midland\\nRailroad in the northwest, and the Delaware, Lack-\\nawanna and Western Railroad in the south. The\\ntotal number of acres is 61 2t!, the value of real estate\\n86,725, and of personal property $58,750. The\\nState and county tax for the present year is $4229.08,\\nthe township tax is $520, the road tax $1500, the fund\\nfor the support of schools ftlM70, and the poll-tax\\n$350. The township is free from debt, and has a\\nsurplus in the treasury.\\nNatural Features. The surface of Manchester\\nvaries greatly, the centre and southern portion being\\nundulating, with many stretches of level and fertile\\nground, while the north and northwest abounds in\\nranges of high hills, known by the Dutch as the Deer\\nHill, a name doubtless first given them by the earliest\\ninhabitants, the Indians. The soil is composed of\\ngravel, sand, and clay, the former two abounding in\\nTotowa, while more clay is observable farther north.\\nThere are a number of small streams meandering\\nthrough the township, and the Passaic River flows\\nalong the eastern border. The timber is various,\\nthough not abundant, much of it having been cleared.\\nWhite-oak, hickory, maple, ash, red oak, and chest-\\nnut find here a congenial soil.\\nEarly Settlements. A deed for propertv in this\\ntownship was early given by the proprietors to Maryen\\nCaniblo, Marian Campbell, and by her transferred\\nto Blandina, wife of Petrus Bayard, in 1697. The\\nsame tract was, Nov. 2, 1706, conveyed to George\\nRyerson, of Pompton, Ryer Ryerson, and Francis\\nRyerson, of New York, for one hundred and forty-\\nfive pounds sterling. This property embraced an\\narea of six hundred acres, and was located on the\\nPassaic River. Three years later Francis and George\\nRyerson and Uriah Westervelt secured from the In-\\ndians a tract embracing fourteen hundred and twenty-\\nfive acres of land, including nearly the western half\\nof Manchester and about all the First Ward of the\\ncity of Paterson, reserving in this purchase the burial-\\nground of their tribe. The patent for this tract bears\\ndate 1717, and is still in possession of the Ryerson\\nfamily, as is also a portion of the land.\\nThe western part of Manchester was originally\\npatented to George Willocks, one of the proprietors,\\nand subsequently became the property of Anthony\\nBrockholts, Helmegh Roelofse, and Raelef Hel-\\nmeghse, who at the present day may be designated\\nas Halmagh Van Houten and Ralph Van Houten.\\nThis was called the Totowa patent, and was divided\\nafter the purchase, made prior to 1710, into three par-\\ncels, namely, lots Nos. 1, 2, and 3. The Van Hou-\\ntens took No. 1, and in 1724, No. 2. In 1768 the\\nheirs of Brockholts sold what remained of No. 3 to\\nAbraham Godwin, Holnier Van Houten, Marte Ry-\\nerse, and Garrabrant Van Houten, a portion of it", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1039.jp2"}, "887": {"fulltext": "560\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nhaving previously been disposed of to another party.\\nThe Totowii Van Houtens seem first to liave settled\\nin Berjren County, and were men of mucli enterprise,\\nhaving lieen foremost in all projects of a pid)lic char-\\nacter. They intermarried at an early date with the\\nRyerson family, and the two families were for years\\na power in ])olitical and religious aH airs.\\nThe VVcstervelt family are of Holland ancestry,\\nand on their advent to America settled in Bergen\\nCounty, from whence they came to Manchester as\\npurcha-sers of land. Nothing is known of the chil-\\ndren of the original settlers. Of the later branches\\nJudge Peter Westervelt resided in Bergen County\\nand marrie l into the Wanaraaker family. His four\\nchildren were Ralph, Peter, Abrani, and a daughter.\\nOf this number Peter removed from Paramus to the\\ntownship, married Miss Catharine, daughter of Sam-\\nuel and Margaret Burhaus. He had ten children, of\\nwhom Mrs. A. M. Fenner and Miss Mary Westervelt\\nare residents of Manchester.\\nAs nearly as can be determined, among the ])ioueers\\nof the Van Houten family was a brother Richard,\\nwho emigrated from Holland, and after a residence\\nof some years in Bergen located in Passaic County.\\nHis line of descent cannot be readily traced, but\\namong his descendants was Richard, who had chil-\\ndren, ,\\\\drian, Oarrabrant, Abraham, Elizabeth,\\nMary, Charity, Ann, and Jane. Adrian, of this num-\\nber, married Margaret Doremus, and had children,\\nten in number, none of whom are now living in the\\ntownship. Three sons Adrian R., Richard, and\\nWilliam are residents of Paterson. Abraham, the\\nson of Richard above named, married Catharine Si]),\\nand bad children, Richard and three daughters, all\\ndeceased.\\nAnother branch of the family was represented by\\nRnloff Van Houten, who resided upon inherited land,\\nnow occupied by George Van Houten. He married\\nCiitherinc Van Hontin, and had sons, Halniiigh,\\nwho married a daughter of (ten. (lodwin, and died\\nmany vears since, and John, who was united to Miss\\nSarah Mandeville, and had children, Henry, Cath-\\nerine, and Halmagli, of whom the latter is the only\\nsurvivor and reside-s in the township. He, together\\nwith bis sons and the children of Henry, are the only\\nnieriiliers of the family who perpetuate the name in\\nManchester. They are, however, more numerous in\\nPaterson.\\nThe Van Winkle family are among the oldest in\\nthe township, though the date of their advent is in-\\nvolved in uncertainty. It is probable that the Passaic\\n(Vuinty branch, a.s well as those from Bergen tlonnty,\\nsprang from a common ancestry. Simeon Van\\nWinkle, born in 1749, resided at Riverside, near\\nI atcrson. He married, in July, 1778, Clau.she Gar-\\nret^o, and had children, Klizabeth, born in 1781, and\\nJohn S., born in 1784. FJi/.abelh became Mrs. John\\nA. Post,, and died in I HOI, aged nineteen years.\\nSimeon Van Winkle died in 1828, in his seventy- i\\nninth year, the death of his wife, Claushe, having\\noccurred in 1803. Tradition has not preserved the\\nnames of the parentis of Simeon, but it is probable\\nthey were John and Jane. John S., above immed,\\nmarried Jane Kip in 180 and had children, Cor-\\nnelius and Peter. Cornelius married Catherine L.\\nVan Dean, of Midland, Bergen Co., and had chil-\\ndren, John Henry, Simon Peter, and Ann Eliza-\\nbeth (Mrs. Hclme* Romaine). Simon Peter and Mrs.\\nRomaine survive and reside in Paterson.\\nThe De Gray family are of Scotch ancestry, and\\nprobably removed to Bergen County soon after their\\nemigration. John, one of their number, came to\\nManchester before the war of the Revolution and\\nlocated upon the lace now occupied by Adam Free-\\nman, on the Goffle road. He married into the\\nRyerson family, and had children, John, Richard,\\nand a daughter, Mrs. John Berry. These sons re-\\nmained in the township, John occupying the home-\\nstead, and Richard the farm now owned by Richard\\nDe Gray, which was purchased by him duriig the\\nbeginning of the present century. Here he conducted\\nan extensive business, having had a grist-mill, a\\npotash-works, a saw-mill, a factory for the manufac-\\nture of heading and staves, and a store. Richard was\\nmarried to Miss Ann Schuyler, of Pompton. and had\\nchildren, John and Rebecca iMrs. Joseph Baldwin),\\nwho still survives in her ninety -second year. John\\nhad two daughters, who are yet living. John De\\nGray, the son of Richard first mentioned, married\\nMary Garrison, and had one son, Richard I., who now\\nresides on the old homestead of his grandfather.\\nThe Burhans family are of Holland descent, and\\nearly settled on the Hudson River, in New York\\nState, from whence Samuel Burhans came to New\\nJersey at the close of the Revolutionary war, in\\nwhich he participated. He was united in marriage\\nto Miss Margaret Jorolcman, of Manchester, to whom\\nwere born children, John, Samuel, Catherine, and\\nJames, who die l in infancy. Mr. Burhans did not\\nattain an advanced age, and his children, John and\\nCatherine, after his death continued their residence\\nin the township. John married Sally, daughter of\\nCapt. John Hopper, of Bergen County, and hail five\\nchildren, .John H., James, Samuel, Maria (Mrs.\\n.T. .T. /abriskie), and Jane (Mrs. Dr. Duryca). The\\nchililren of John H. aixi Samuel are still living in\\nthe township, some of whom occupy the homestead.\\nThe name is now perpetuated by William, Charles,\\nand .lohn, sons of John H. liurhans.\\nThe Mercelis family are of Holland descent, Peter,\\nthe earliejit representative, having in early life be-\\ncome an American citizen. He had five sons Cor-\\nnelius, (tarret, .lolin, ImIo, Peter and one daughter,\\nall of whom resided in New Jersey, in the vicinity of\\ntheir early home in Manchester. Edo nmrried Miss\\nEllen Van Houten, of Totowa, and had childr \u00c2\u00abii,\\nAriana, .Iiuie. Mary, Edo, Cornelius, ami Peter, all\\nof whom located near their former residence. Cor-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1040.jp2"}, "888": {"fulltext": "MANCHESTER.\\n561\\nnelius married Miss Cornelia Van Saun, and had\\nthree children, Ellen, Jane, and Edo. Ellen be-\\ncame Mrs. Samuel Burhans, Jane Mrs. Thomas\\nMandeville, and Edo is a resident of the township.\\nThe Van Sauns may claim antiquity in point of\\nsettlement, though Albert is the earliest one recalled,\\nand resided in that portion of the township now em-\\nbraced in the city of Paterson. He married Jane Van\\nHouten, and had children, Samuel Aaron, John,\\nMaria (Mrs. Joseph Blauvelt), and Elizabeth (Mrs.\\nCornelius Mercelis). Aaron removed to Bergen\\nCounty, John to New York, and Samuel resides in\\nPaterson.\\nJohn P. Van Allen, born in 1769, resided upon the\\nfarm now owned by Mrs. Margaret Garretson. He mar-\\nried Agnes Bogert, born in 1776, and had children,\\nJames, Catherine, Peter I., and John, of whom Peter\\nI. inherited the homestead. He married JIargaret\\nWestervelt, and had one son, John, who married\\nSusan Van Blarcom, and had a daughter, Margaret,\\nwho became Mrs. Ralph Garretson, the present owner\\nof the ancestral property.\\nOne of the descendants of the family of Ryersons\\nwas George, who resided in Manchester, where his\\nbirth occurred. His cliildrcn were John and two\\ndaughters, Mrs. Berdan and Mrs. Alyea. John re-\\nmained upon the homestead and married Leah Wes-\\ntervelt, to whom was born one son, George I. He re-\\nsided upon the family pro))erty and married Helen,\\ndaughter of Garrabrant Van Houten, of Paterson.\\nHis three sons were John, Henry, and Garrabrant.\\nJohn is a citizen of Passaic, Garrabrant of Paterson,\\nand Henry is deceased. The homestead is now occu-\\npied by Cornelius G., son of Garrabrant, above\\nnamed. Another branch of the family is represented\\nby John Ryerson, who resided for years near Haw-\\nthorne, and whose daughter, Mrs. John Berdan, is a\\nresident of Paterson. The history of other members\\nof the Ryerson family is not accessible to the his-\\ntorian.\\nThe foregoing facts are all that it is possible to\\nobtain regarding the early settlement of Manchester,\\nmany families having passed from the recollection of\\nthe present residents.\\nSchools. The township is devoid of any facts of\\ninterest regarding the early schools of the locality.\\nSelect schools, or gatherings of the children without\\nspecial character of system, were in existence at an\\nearly day, but the first school that assumed dignity\\nor order was opened by John \\\\V. House in 1822. He\\ncontinued his labors for four years, and was succeeded\\nby his son, a youth of seventeen. After a lapse of\\nhalf a century Mr. House still meets not only his\\npupils but their .children and grandchildren. He\\nalso taught at Small Lots, Red Mills, Paramus, Ho-\\nhokus, and Campgaw, in Bergen County. The one\\nschool has since become five, with 471 children, and\\nschool property valued at $7200. Manchester has\\nfive school districts, as follows Totowa, No. 9, Haw-\\nthorne, No. 10, Goffle, No. 11, Haledon, No. 12,\\nHaledon Village, No. 36. The following clerks pre-\\nside over these districts No. 9, Wm. D. Berdan No.\\n10, William De Gray; No. 11, Reuben McFarlane;\\nNo. 12, William J. Ellis; and No. 36, John C. Roe.\\nThe total amount received for school purposes from\\nall sources is S3659.65, which is apportioned as fol-\\nlows: State fund, $142.44; two-mill tax, $1705..55;\\nspecial tax, 8318.66; and district tax, $1493.\\nEarly Highways. The information at command\\nregarding the earliest roads is derived from one of\\nthe venerable residents of the township, and not very\\nexplicit in character.\\nA vfery early highway was known as the Goffle\\nroad, which was much frequented by the Indians,\\nand thus christened by them. It ran from Paterson\\nthrough the northern portion of the township, ending\\nat the foot of the Goffle Hill, where it intersected\\nwith a road leading to Pompton. This highway has\\nrecently been converted into a macadamized road.\\nThe Wagara road ran east and west through the\\ntownship, and intersected with the Goffle road. It\\nwas originally an Indian trail, and a prominent\\nthoroughfare during the Revolutionary period. A\\nhighway, formerly known as the Oldham road, led\\nfrom the Goffle road to Preakness and Pompton,\\npassing en route through Haledon. It is now desig-\\nnated as Haledon Avenue.\\nThe road territory of Manchester is now divided\\ninto sixteen districts, over whom jireside the follow-\\ning officers\\nDistrict.\\nNo. l...John Wriglit.\\n2. ..John L. Wilson.\\n3...Wm. F. Heins.\\n4. ..Richard I. De Gray.\\n5. ..Garret Hopper.\\n6. ..Garret Plauten.\\n7. John D. Van Blarcom.\\nS...N. A. Halbert.\\nDistrict.\\nNo. 9. ..Jacob Mowerson.\\n10. ...Cornelius Van Derclock.\\n11. ..Robert Bridge.\\n12...John W. Campbell.\\n13...Kichard Van Riper.\\n14. ..Michel Reinhart.\\n15. ..Thomas Butterworth.\\n16. ..Cornelius G. Rverson.\\nCivil List. The civil list of the township is very\\nincomplete. The only years that have been found\\nintact are those embraced in the period from 1837 to\\n1847 and 1879-80 and 1881. It is currently reported\\nthat the records of the township were for years kept\\non bits of paper, and never transferred to a book de-\\nvoted to the purpose. These were eventually lost,\\nand as a consequence the archives of the township\\nfor a long series of years are not preserved. The\\nfollowing list is as complete as it is possible to\\nmake it:\\n1837. Freeholdei-s, Cornelius I. Westervelt, John F. Ryerson; Township\\nClerk, Giles Van Ness.\\n1838. Freeholders, Cornelius I. Westervelt, John F. Ryerson; Township\\nClerk, Giles Van Ness; Assessor, Benjamin Geroe; Collector, Peter\\nQuackenbush Township Committee, Garret I. Blauvelt, D. D. Ack-\\nerman, Thomas P. Doremus, J. I. Traphagen, C. W. Campbell,\\n1839. Freeholders, Nathaniel Wilson, Jacob Van Houteu Township\\nClerk, Giles Van NVss; Assessor, Benjamin Geroe; Collector, Peter\\nQuackenbush; Township Committee, John I. Traphagen, C. W.\\nCampbell, Isaac H. Mead, Cornelius P. Hopper, Isaac I. Stagg.\\n1840. Freeholders, Jacob Van Houten, William S. Hogencamp; Town-\\nship Clerk, J. I. Blauvelt; Assessor, John Slagg Collector, Barney\\nI. Spear; Township Committee, Isaiic I. Stagg, Cornelius P. Hopper,\\nIsaac H. Mead, Edo Van Saun, C. S. Van Wagoner.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1041.jp2"}, "889": {"fulltext": "562\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\n1^1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FroeholJers, WillUm S. Ilugvnniiiip, Tcregrine Suiiford Town*\\nahip Cl\u00c2\u00abrk, L4 wl8 L.Conklin; AaHCMur. Wfllium W. Colfax; Col-\\nlector. Barney I. Spt-ar; TowiiBhIp Conimiitptr. E\u00c2\u00bblo Van Sniin, C. 8.\\nVan WAizuiieriTliuRiHa P. Durtmiua, llenjaniin Oen e, G. I. Blaiivolt.\\n1842.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frt-ehuldent, AJriiiu Van Houton, Feregrinu Siuirunl Towuntilp\\nClprk, Lfwlu L. (\\\\mkliii; Aa*t\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abor, All-ert Van VUn; \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lIortMr,\\nJmIiii V. K -cr\u00c2\u00bbon Townaliip Ciunmiltee, Th\u00c2\u00bbmaA V. Durrmus, Gar-\\nret I. BlaUTolt, Slartin Van Winkle, Albert P. Alyen, CliarleB H.\\nMaj.\\n1843.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FnwholilerM. Henry DoreoiiiH, Willinni I.Stagg; Tuwnahip Clerk,\\nGiles Van Ness; A\u00c2\u00bbw*\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbr. John M.Denmrent; Collector, John V,\\nRyereon Township O^mniittee, Marliri Van Winkle, Teregrine\\nSanfonl, Wllliiitn S. Uogoncatnp, John I. HIanvelt, C. W. Ounpbell.\\n1844. FreelniMwrs, Willinni I.StJiKg, Henry IXirenniB Tuwntihip CU-rk,\\nGIlea Van Nesa: AiMesM r, John M. Demurest; Collo .-ior, William T.\\nBlAnvelt; Township ConiniittH Willinni S. Hogent-amp, John I.\\nBInuveltf C W. Campbell, Jacob Van Honten, Barney Dvniaietiit.\\n1846. FreehoMora, David Shuart, I uregrine Sunfonl Towimliip Clerk,\\nAlfred W\u00c2\u00bb-(terfleId; Assessor, Wiltinm Sickle; Collector, Jacob M.\\nMyers; Township Comuiiltet John I. Bluitvelt, Jacob Van Houton,\\nBarney Demurest, John H. Doremns, Giles Van Sem.\\n1846.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freehuldt-rs, Peregrine Saufonl. David tihuHrt; Tuwuship Clerk,\\nAlfred Westerfield Aiisessor, William Sickles; fA llector, Jacob 91.\\nMyent; Township C-onimitlco, Jnhu I. BliinTelt, Barney Deniareat,\\nJacob Van Houten, John H. DorcniiA, Gili\u00c2\u00ab Van Netw.\\n1847. Freeholders, George 1. Kyenton, Garret II, Deinarest Township\\nClerk, George ZnhriHkie Awesstir, Jacob M. Myers Collector, Cor-\\nnelius A. Hop[ er Towntihip duimittee, William I. Stngg, Benja-\\nmin Geroo. Peter Wittson, Peter (^nockenbush, Lewis L. Conklhi.\\n1848-49.~Freuholdei-8, George I. Kyerson, Garret II. Demurest.\\n18641. George I. Ryerson, I origiine Sxndford.\\n1851. George I. Kyerson, George Petry.\\n186a.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph Smith, George Petry.\\n1863.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Stephen Allen, William Deyo.\\n1864. Adnan K. Van llouten, George I. Kyeraon.\\n185. -68, Ge^irgu I. Ryei-mm, John II. Doremns.\\n1869-63.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ;eorgo I. Uyerson, Ralph P. Weatorvelt.\\n18G4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George I. Ryerson, Peter I. Sturr.\\n186 -6ti\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John 11. Garrison, John R. Dorenius.\\n1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin K Kinitoll, William De Gray.\\n1868.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William De Gray, Honr}- Smith.\\n1869-70.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry Smith.\\n1871.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Oerri Planten.\\n1872-75.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Lolthouse.\\n1H76-77.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Halmagb Van Houten.\\n1879.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, Halmagh Van Houton; Townxhlp Clerk, Henry G.\\nRyerson; AiMesnor, William l). Benlan; Colloctur, Jauiei Martin;\\nTownship Committee, William De Gray, Chiirles Lofthouse, John\\nC. Rim*.\\n1K80\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, Ilnlniagh Van Houten; Township (Herk, John C.\\nKoe; Af-^oMor, William D. Benlan (V llector. James Martin Town-\\nship Committee, John Van Houten, William Do Gray, Kdo K. Vr\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab-\\nland.\\nI A81.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, Hnlmagh Van Houten; Tnwnnhip Clerk, John C.\\nRoe; Asses or, William D. Berdan Collwlor, Jnmea Martin Town-\\naliip Comniltt^ t!. I-Mo K. Vreelaud, Abmni Hnrrin, John Van lloulen.\\nVillages and Hamlets. -Ihc iaiMi od which the\\nvillage of iluledon is located waa originally owned\\nby John Burlian?, and a larpe portion of this, together\\nwith other property adjacrnt, was ptirchimed of the\\nheirs of his estate by Williuin itnindred. The latter\\ngentleman soon after his advent to the neighhorhood\\nerected a foundry on the Oldham stream, about one-\\nfourth of a mile from the village,\\nCharles and William Hodges later purcliased and\\nenlarge*! the buiUling, and converted it into a woolen-\\nand hosiery-mill. They alwo ere *ti d twelve dwellings\\non the site (tf the vilhige, which forincfl the nucleus\\naround which grew a coiisideralde hamlet. The lirm\\nberoming embarrasse*! the busines8 was abandoned,\\nand the faetorv for some time remained idle. It was\\nnext operated by M. II. Cliapin, who manufactured\\ntape and binding. The property ultimately fell into\\nthe possession of the Passaic Water Company, who\\nare now the owners, and lease to the partits occupy-\\ning it.\\nilalcdon Ikuj two stores, kept by J. Martin and\\nMrs. Walton; three hotels, over whom preside Mrs.\\nMangold, David Thompson, and John Hough; one\\nblacksmith-shop, kept by A. Harris; a church and a\\nschool building.\\nHaledou is accessibly located, is connei-ted with\\nPaterson by a lineof hoi-se-cars making regular trips,\\nand possesses every natural advantage for increased\\ngrowth and t-nterprise.\\nBurial-Places. On the present farm of Richard\\nI. De Gray is a very old burial-ground, the land of\\nwhich was given by John Ryerson as a place of inter-\\nment. Many representatives of the old families ot\\nManchester are buried here, and the spot is still used\\nas a place of interment, though many of the inhabit-\\nants are owners of lots in the Cedar Lawn Cemetery\\nat Paterson. Here are several graves marked by\\nrude field-stones, bearing the following inscriptions:\\nA R 1751 1753-ER 1753 M R 17t :i J. N.\\nD. 17()(J D. R.\\nAmong the legends are the following:\\nId the memory of John De Gray, who died Oct. 12, 1834, age t K2ye\u00c2\u00abrB,\\n1 month, jri days.\\nMy tieah shall slumber In the ground\\nTill th\u00c2\u00ab last trumjiet s Joyful \u00c2\u00abound,\\nThen burst tin- cbflinit with sweet surprise.\\nAnd in my Sax tour s image rise.\\nId memory of Mary, wife of John D\u00c2\u00ab Gray, who died Blarch U, 1K)B,\\nmgtd S7 years, 4 months, and days.\\nFarewell, vain world, I m ^oing home.\\nMy Saviour smile* and bide me come,\\nKind auifclH beckon me swhv\\nTo sing GoiPs praise in mdlfM day.\\nId memory of William Mile^ who deitarled this life Jan. 24, 1826,\\naged 31 years, 6 months, and 19 days.\\nA sickness ire long time I Iwre,\\nAll aria and nuMllcineit were vain.\\nTill G^hI did please to f^ivr me ease\\nAnil rid me of my pain.\\nIn memory of Mar Jacobuw, wife of John T. Van Blarcom. who de-\\nparted thh life Sept. 3. 1831, aged 81 years, 3 days.\\nReceive, Karlh. this faileil form,\\nIn thy c dd bosom let It lie;\\nSaff let U rest fn m eTery atorm.\\nSoon muat It rise no nu re lu die.\\nIn memory of Peter lllnion, whodefiartetl Ihia life July 24, IrtJil, aged\\n43 years, 1 1 dayn.\\nThe world iii vain and full of pain.\\nWith grief mid truulde aure\\nBut they are bU^si d who are at rest\\nWith Christ for eTW more.\\nIn meninry of llassnl Piiramun, who depnrleil this life Oct. 24, 1801,\\nagml TH yean, 3 months, kikI 14 duys.\\nIn memory of Gaalah Weatervell, wife of llassal iKinuliua, who do-\\niwrtod this life April 13, 1812. SKe^l HC yenni, 11 months, 21 daya.\\nIn memor} of Vroutrle, wifo of John lUntii, who departed this life\\nOct 2fi, |f*23, agwl K4 years. 1 ni..nth. iiml 2. daya.\\nIn memory u( John lUnnton l i\u00c2\u00bbremna. who deparleil this life Oct. 17,\\n1Se3, agvd 23 yean, 9 mouths, and daya.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1042.jp2"}, "890": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1043.jp2"}, "891": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1044.jp2"}, "892": {"fulltext": "MANCHESTER.\\n563\\nIn memory of Albert Terlmne, born April 12, 1771, died Oct. 26, 1831,\\nttgedGO years, 6 moiitlis, and 14 daya.\\nJesus, to this dear faithful friend\\nMy naked soul I trust;\\nMy flesh shall wait for thy command.\\nAnd drop into my dust.\\nIn memory of Ann, wife of Albert Terhune, who died May 27, 1848,\\naged 75 yeara, 3 months, and 5 days.\\nMy dearest friends they dwell above,\\nThem will I go to see.\\nAnd all my friends in Christ below\\nWill soon come after me.\\nIn memory of Jane McPherson, wife of Abel MclMierson, who de-\\nparted this life in 1797, aged 54 yeara.\\nManufacturings Interests.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. W. Knight, Man-\\nufacturer OF Domestic anii Woohex Toys.\\nThis enterprise was established by the proprietor in\\n1875 for the manufacture of toys. Wood is the only\\nmaterial used, which is converted into small carts,\\nwheel-barrows, sleighs, wagons, etc., the stock being\\nprincipally purchased in Pennsylvania, and consist-\\ning of beech, oak, pine, and similar woods. The\\nmarket for the wares of this estalilishment is found\\nin every portion of the United States. Both steam-\\nand water-power are used in the process of manufac-\\nturing, and an average number of thirty men are\\nregularly employed. Mr. Knight is about adding to\\nhis business the manufacture of surgical and micro-\\nscopical instrument cases and similar articles in use\\namong physicians. All the modern machinery for\\nworking in wood is made available.\\nA. Gazzara, Commission Silk-Throwster.\\nThis manufacturing interest was established in 1875,\\nunder the firm-name of Gannetti Gazzara, and the\\ncopartnership having expired in 1880, Mr. Gazzara\\nhas since conducted the business alone. Both organ-\\nzine and tram are produced from the raw material,\\nwhich is received from manufacturers and worked on\\ncommission. Employment is given to thirty hands,\\nthe machinery consisting of five winding-frames, two\\ncleaning-frames, two first-time twisters, one doubling-\\nmachine, one second-time twister, two fr.ames for tram,\\nand three reel-frames. Tlie capacity of the establish-\\nment is one hundred and fifty pounds of organzine per\\nweek. Both water- and steam-power are employed.\\nJute-Print Works of Henry L. Butler,\\nThese works were established at Paterson in 1867,\\nand removed to Manchester in 1879. They occupy a\\nportion of the extensive building near Haledon\\nowned by the Passaic Water Company. Eight men\\nare employed, and principally engaged in the va-\\nrious processes connected with the printing of jute\\ncarpets. The method adopted is known as block-\\nprinting. The material is jute, which forms the basis\\nof the carpet, and is stamped with blocks in various\\ndesigns and colors. Both steam- and water-power are\\nemployed. Six hundred yards of carpeting per day\\ncan be produced, a market for which is found in New\\nYork. The material is to a great extent imported\\nfrom Dundee, Scotland.\\nTheodore Leonhard, Wax-Bleacher.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr.\\nLeonhard established his business near the village of\\nHaledon as early as 1856, having removed from\\nHastings, Westchester Co., N. Y. The material used,\\nwhich is wax in a crude form, is purchased in New\\nYork, and comes originally from the Southern States.\\nIt first goes through a bleaching process requiring\\nseveral weeks, after which it is transformed into\\nsheet-wax, or made into various other forms for\\nspecial uses. Both water and steam are employed\\nin the process of manufacture, and the articles pro-\\nduced are tapers, wax crayons, sheet-wax, etc. Brass\\nmoulds are also manufiictured by the proprietor.\\nThe market is found in New York and other large\\ncities of the Union. The two sons of Mr. Leonhard\\nare associated with him in the business.\\nOrganization.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The act which erected the town-\\nship of Manchester as an independent township wa\u00c2\u00bb\\npassed Feb. 7, 1837, and is entitled An act to\\nerect parts of the counties of Essex and Bergen into\\na new county, to be called the county of Passaic, etc.\\nThat portion relating to Jlanchester is embraced\\nin Sections 4 and 10, and reads as follows\\nSeo. 4. Atidhei macled, Thut the said county of Passaic shiill be\\ndivided into five townships, namely, the present township of Aquacka-\\nuonk, and such part of the townships of Paterson, Ponipton, and West\\nMilford, and such part of the township of Saddle River u,s is comprised\\nwithin the limits of the said county of Passaic, to be called the town-\\nship of Manchester, said towushili to be called the townships of Aquack-\\nanouk, Paterson, Pomplon. West Milford, and Manchester, and that the-\\ninhabitants of each and every of the said townships be and they are\\nhereby constituted a body corporate and politic in law by the following\\nnames: that is to say, that the inhabitantsof the township of Aquacka-\\nnonk shall be styled and known by the name of The inhabitants of the\\ntownship of Aqoackauonk, in the couuty of Passaic that the inhabit-\\nants of the township of Paterson shall be styled and known by the\\nname of The inhabitants of the township of Patereon, etc.; that the\\ninhabitants of Pompton be styled and known as The inhabitants of\\nthe township of Pompton, etc. that the inhabitants of the township of\\nI West Milford be styled and known by the name of The inhabitants of\\nthe township of West Milford, etc. and that the inhabitants of Man-\\nchester be styled and known as The inhabitants of the township of\\nManchester, in the county of Passaic and that the inhabitants of each\\nand every of the said townships respectively shall be and they are here-\\nby vested with, entitled to, and authorized to exercise and enjoy all the\\nfranchises, powel-s, privileges, immunities, and authorities, and shall be\\nand hereby are made subject to all the rules, regulations, and govern-\\nment which the inhabitantsof the other townships of this State by law\\nare entitled and subject to; and that the inhabitanis of that part of th\u00c2\u00bb\\ntownship of Saddle River lying east of the middle of Goetschius road or\\nlane be and they and their successors are hereby constituted a body po-\\nlitic and corporate by the name of The inhabitants of the township of\\nSaddle River, in the county of Bergen, and shall hold their first town-\\nmeeting at the tavern now kept by Albert Alyea at the Small Lots, and\\nafterward where the said inhabitants shall determine.\\nSec. 10. And be it enacled, Tliat the fii st township-meetings hereafter\\nto be held in the several siid townships of the county of Passaic shall be-\\nheld at the times and places that they would have been held had they\\ncontinued in the counties of Essex and Bergen, and that they shall here-\\nafter be held annually at such places in the said townships of the re-\\nspective counties as the electors thereof from time to time shall direct\\nand appoint under and by virtue of the existing laws of this State.\\nGerrit Planten.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Planlen family are of Hol-\\nland lineage, Gerrit, the grandfather of the subject of\\nthis biography, having been a native of Amsterdam,\\nwhere he was employed as clerk of the Bureau of\\nVital Statistics of that city. He was twice married,", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1047.jp2"}, "893": {"fulltext": "564\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY.\\nand had by the first marriage three children, Jo-\\nhanuu, Aiitje, and Herinanus. The latter, who is the\\nfather of Gerrit, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, on\\nthe 28th of December, 1795, and atler a period of\\nsome years devoted to study engaged in mercantile\\npursuits. His wife wiis Petronella Rutgina, daughter\\nof John K. Kuhn, of Amsterdam, and one of a family\\nof eight children. To .Mr. and Mrs. Planten were\\nborn two sons, Gerrit and John Kutgert. The war\\nbetween the United Provinces in 1830 had greatly af-\\nfected business enterprises, and this faet induced Mr.\\nPlanten to seek the New World a.s a more promising\\nfield of activity. He arrived in Haltiniorc in 1836,\\nand alter a brief sojourn in that city repaired to New\\nYork, where he engaged in the business of drugs and\\nmedicines. This led to his later embarking in manu-\\nfacturing enterprises, in which he was eminently suc-\\ncessful. Mr. Planten s family followed him to America\\nin IS-HJ, and madi- New York their permanent resi-\\ndence. His death occurred Aug. 11, 1875. Gerrit,\\nhis son, whose life is here briefly sketched, was born\\nin Amsterdam, June 26, 1834, where his early boy-\\nhood was spent at school. He came with his family\\nto America wlien twelve years of age, and entered the\\nColumbia College Grammar School, where three years\\nwere spent in study. In 1850 lie returned to Holland,\\nbecame a |)upil of the agricultural college at Gron-\\ningeii, and remained until 18.53. He had determined,\\nhowever, upon America ius a permanent abiding-place,\\nand the same year found him again a resident of New\\nY ork. He during 1854 removed to Passaic County\\nand engaged in agricultural employments, this life\\nbeing particularly congenial to his tastes. Mr. Plan-\\nten was in March, 1857, married to Miss Catherine,\\ndaughter of Peter Perrine, of Wayne township, Pas-\\nsaic Co., to whom were born seven children,\\nHerman, Martha Ann, Peter, Petronella Rutgina,\\nRachel I deceased), Ida, and Edward Sylvester, all of\\nwhom with the exception of the eldest are residents\\nof the paternal home. Mr. Planten in 18-59 em-\\nbarked in the manufacture of varnishes in New York\\nCity, and in 1864 became interesteil with his father.\\nHe is now identified with his brother in manufactur-\\ning in the city of IJrooklyn. Mr. Planten has during\\nhis residence in New Jersey been a man of much\\npublic spirit and ever active in the advancement of\\nthe community s interests. He was a Democrat until\\n1872, when he was led upon conviction to change his\\nviews, anil now affiliate s with the Kcpiiblicjin party.\\nHe ha.s l)een for years actively identified with the\\npolitics of the county and township of his resilience,\\nand has on three successive occasions been the candi-\\ndate of his party for a seat in the legislative halls of\\nthe State. He was freeholder of the township of\\nManchester in 1871, and has also filled the oUiees of\\nassessor and collector for five years, and of truster ami\\nclerk of the school district. Uoth Mr. and Mrs. Plan-\\nten and four children are members of the First Re-\\nformed (Dutch) Church of Paterson, of which the\\nformer is an elder, and participated actively in the\\nremoval and rebuildingof the edifice alter it had been\\nconsumed by fire in 1871.\\nCHAPTER LXXIII.\\nLITTLE FALLS.\\nThe township of Little Falls is in dimensions the\\nleast of the townships of the county, though in point\\nof industry and enterprise it far surpa.sses some of its\\nmore expansive neighbors, having a thriving village\\nand many manufacturing interests withiq its borders.\\nIt is bounded on the north by the city of Paterson\\nand Manchester township, south by Essex County,\\neast by Acquackanonk township, and we.st by the\\nPassaic River. Its first settlement was made in 1711,\\nby residents of the adjoining townships, who pur-\\nchased the land for agricultural purposes. Verj- few\\nnames among these early settlers have been perpetu-\\nated, and the subsequent development of business in-\\nterests was principally a result of later arrivals. Two\\nrailroads the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western\\nRailroad and the Montdair and (ireeinvood Lake\\nRailroad ])a.ss through the township, and afford su-\\nperior advantages both to travel and shipment, while\\nthe Morris and Essex Canal also traverses the centre\\nof the township.\\nLittle Falls embraces an area of 3185 acres, the real\\nestate valuation being $352,375, and the personal\\n54,620. The county tax for the last year was ?s362.70,\\nthe State school tax $2947.62, the poor tax $700,\\nthe road tax $l(tO0, and the tax for the construction\\nof new roads $5000. The rate per cent, is $1.63 per\\nhunilrcd.\\nNatural Features. The soil of the township is a\\nmixture of sandy loam and clay, the former i revailing\\nin localities, though in most lands that are tillable a\\ndistribution of both is apparent. In the vicinity of\\nLittle Falls extensive i|uarries of brownstone are\\nfound, which are valuable for building purposes.\\nIn the southern portion of the townshiji is a limited\\narea of swampy land. Timber of various kinds\\nabounds, oak, hickory, chestnut, birch, and cedar\\nbeing the prevalent wood. The township is well\\nwatered, the Pa-ssaic River flowing along the western\\nborder, and the Peckanien stream more nearly through\\nthe centre, both afi ording an excellent water-power.\\nJThe southern portion of the township is traversed by\\nmountains, through which is a gap or notch, afford-\\ning a pas.sage for the Montdair and Greenwood Lake\\nRailnu.l.\\nEarly Settlements. Probably no township in the\\ncounty is so devoid of facts regarding its early fami-\\nlies aa Little Falls, and the presence of descendants\\nof the first settlers is exceptionally rare. A few of\\nthe pioneers to Acquackanonk found it advantageous", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1048.jp2"}, "894": {"fulltext": "LITTLE FALLS.\\n565\\nto seek a more extended field, and in 1711 Francis\\nPost, John Sip, Harnianus Garretse, or Garretson,\\nas now spelled, Thomas Juriance (now Van Riper),\\nChristopher Stynmets, Cornelius Doremus, Peter Pou-\\nlosse, and Hessel Pieterse, all Acquackanonk farmers,\\nbought of the proprietors for six hundred and sixty\\npounds sterling a tract of two thousand eight hundred\\nacres, extending from the Great Falls up the river to\\nPechaman River, and over to the summit of Garret\\nMountain. The purchase having been consummated,\\nthe land was divided into tracts or farms ten chains in\\nbreadth, and extending from river to mountain. At\\nthis period occurred the first settlement in Little Falls\\ntownship. In 1732, Cornelius Board bought one hun-\\ndred and fifty -seven acres near the Little Falls, prob-\\nably with a view to the location of some manufactur-\\ning enterprise. After the lapse of a few years he\\nbecame a resident of Pompton. The Van Ness family\\ncame early during the last century, and about the\\nyear 1765 the Brower family were settlers, John\\nBrower having erected a saw-mill, and David Brower\\na grist-mill, on the Peckamen stream.\\nIsaac Riker the same year (probably 1707) became\\nthe hospitable landlord of the neighborhood.\\nThe Van Ness family of this section are descended\\nfrom Simon Van Ness. His first wife was probably\\nRachel Van Deusen, and they were living at Schenec-\\ntady, N. Y., as early as 1(589-90, when that place was\\ndestroyed by the Indians, and the same night had a\\nchild born, named Arfnetje, who subsequently married\\nJames .lacobus and lived to be nearly one hundred\\nyears of age. On the death of his first wife Mr. Van\\nNess married, Dec. 19, 1700, Hesther De Lachater, and\\nabout the date of his second marriage he settled at\\nFairfield, N. J. He had sons, Hendrick, who settled\\non Pompton Plains; Isaac, at Fairfield; Simon, at\\nPompton; and Evert, at Little Falls. The latter\\nproliably had among his sons Evert, who was married\\nto Caroline, daughter of Jacob Smith, and had chil-\\ndren, Henry, Sophia, Rachel, Jacob S., William,\\nJames. Francis, and Elias. The death of Evert oc-\\ncurred Aug. 27, 1862. His son James is the only one\\nof the children now residing in the township, which\\nhas been his home, with the exception of a brief in-\\nterval, since his birth. Another branch of the family\\nis represented by Henry R. Van Ness, of Singac, who\\nis the grandson of Hendrick, who married a Sanford,\\nand had children, William, Robert, Isaac, Evert, and\\nHenry, all of whom are deceased. Robert was united\\nto Mary Jacobus, and had children, Henry R., John,\\nand Jane (Mrs. Simon S. Van Ness). Henry R. of\\nthis number is the only resident of the township.\\nFrancis, the son of Henry, also resides in Little Falls.\\nThe Dey family, settling opposite Little Falls, ac-\\nquired much property, and had one or more grist-\\nmills on the river. The Cranes were former residents\\nof Newark or Morris County, and located here about\\nthe year 1760, while at nearly the same date came\\nHendrick Francisco. Hendrick Masker (then spelled\\nMesseke) and Peter Sandford came as early as 1775,\\nand the Spiers, another old family, also left Acquack-\\nanonk and located in the valley below the Falls.\\nDavid and John Brower have already been men-\\ntioned as early settlers. Among their descendants\\nwas Garret, who resided near the village of Little\\nFalls, and had three sons, Abram, ,Iohn, and Garret.\\nThey each had farms within the boundaries of the\\ntownship, upon which they lived and died.\\nAbram Smith may also be mentioned as an early\\nresident and a successful farmer, while from Acquack-\\nanonk came the Dimmock family, who are at present\\nrepresented in the township by David Dimmock.\\nGarret Freeland was also a comparatively early set-\\ntler, and had sons, Abram, Elias, and Lsaac, who all\\nlocated in Little Falls, and are since deceased. Peter\\nand John, sons of Elias, are among the township s\\npresent residents.\\nThe Merselis family were also represented here as\\nin other portions of the county.\\nScliools. Tradition reveals the fact that the chil-\\ndren of Little Falls during the early period of its set-\\ntlement were educated in much simplicity, the iirst\\nschool having been convened under an apple-tree,\\nwhose far-extending branches afforded shelter from\\nthe sun and rain. The trunk, which was five feet in\\ndiameter and hollow, afforded ample conveniences as\\na cloak-room. After the primitive edifice had suc-\\ncumbed to the ravages of time, the little ones gath-\\nered in an old building formerly used as a distillery,\\nnear the present residence of Rev. J. C. Cruikshank,\\nand were instructed by James C. Fallowfield. At a\\nlater period a school was opened in the village of\\nLittle Falls, in a room seven feet by twelve in dimen-\\nsions, on the site of the present barber-shop. This\\nbuilding having been consumed by fire, the school\\nwas removed to the house now occupied by Henry\\nRiker, below the canal. Then came the union of the\\nchurch and school, which proved a fruitful cause of\\ndispute and difference. In 1850 the township em-\\nbraced but one school district. The territory is now\\ndivided into three districts, as follows Little Falls,\\nNo. 6, Southwest, No. 7, and Passaic Valley, No. 8\\nthe respective district clerks being, for District No. 6,\\nC. G. Yorks; for No. 7, Robert Seattle, Jr.; and for\\nNo. 8, James Whittaker. There are 424 school chil-\\ndren in the township, and the school property is val-\\nued at $6000.\\nThe school funds are apportioned to Little Falls as\\nfollows: Of the State fund she receives $128.22; of\\nthe two-mill tax .?151.3.49; and of the district tax\\n$374.50 the total amount from all sources for school\\npurposes being i*2016.21.\\nEarly Highways. Previous to the year 1797 no\\npublic highways were found connecting Little Falls\\nwith the business centre of the county. Farm-roads\\nand wood-roads, following the south side of the river,\\nwere in general use. During that year the present\\nStony road was projected.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1049.jp2"}, "895": {"fulltext": "56\u00c2\u00ab\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JEKSEV.\\nAn old road passed H-ingr\\na foatherly course entrr- --^-(i on\\nthrough the Notch and CentreTille to Paasaic. This\\ni: still in general ase.\\nAnother early road ran, as nearly as can be de-\\nscribed, parallel in its course with the Morris and Es-\\nsex Canal, though used before the proje*.Uon or survey\\nof the latter.\\nCivil List. The first meeting held for the election\\nof township officers occurred at the house of William\\nSmith, on the 13th day of April, 186$. The following\\nis a list of the township officers for that and succeed-\\ning years:\\nlEe\u00c2\u00bb.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FrerboMen, Kobm Murba, Oarid OkUum; Towmhip Ocrk,\\nr. W. Vu X a; A\u00e2\u0080\u0094 il.Joha J. Stags (MlKtor. Locm R. Ved\\nSeat; TowmUf Coaimtut^ Miatmr Sptmi, B\u00c2\u00ab rrt Bottia, Jr, John\\nBdge, CbariM Crmae, George Tovolfr; Sorre;on a( HisfawajK,\\nAtrem A. GuTmVrmnts, Cliriftopher T. Studle.\\nISM. FrateMer. Botvrt Bemtlie; Tovnship Clrrti, FnuKU W. Tu\\nXcm; ABMwr, moca Tu Xns: Collector, Laoa B. Tan Stm;\\nTownibip ComaiittrF, Jaaiea WUhDore, EUaa Tas Xrs. Bolwrt Be-\\natlie, Edward Fnad\u00c2\u00abo, CbarlM XcNiel; Sorrcj^n of Hi^vajt,\\nA. A. Gambnst. C. T. Sndle.\\nlg\u00c2\u00bb.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 rreebcMar, Bobert Battle, Sr. Tovuhtp Clerfc, Jnbn H. Stao-\\nle7; A Jia a u r, ttytrnx Sftiu; Collertor, L. B. Tan Xcea; Townahip\\nCoOHinee, Edvard rraDOKO. B. Beattir. Jr.. Eliju Van Xcaa, Jamea\\nWaiBure. Jobn Edge Svrrejorv of Hicbwmj-a, A. .V. Garrabnnt,\\nC. T. Siadle.\\nurn.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 rrackoMer. Bdswd FkvKiaca: Towiubip CVik, John H. Stu-\\nleTi AaMiBor, Bjroeu Spear; Collector, L. K Tan Nr\u00c2\u00bb: Tuvostaip\\nCovKitbe, Eliv Tan Xaa, Jame Willmore, Wm. X. Bottic, Edo\\nMenvlli*. Cliaric* Cmtt Sarrerorf of Higfawaja, Cbriatopbcr T.\\nSiBdIe. A. Garrabraat.\\n1(T2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, Babeft Betttie, Jr. Towiahlp Clert, John B. SUa-\\nler; Aaenaor, BrDcar Spear Collfclor, F.M. Van Neoi: Tuanibip\\nComminee. Eliaa Vaa Kev. Fraada Tan ea^ L. B. Van Xca, S\\nBadcUa, Jamee Garride Sarreron of Highwaja, C T. Sodle, A. A.\\nGarrabraaL\\nim\u00e2\u0080\u0094 F n i hi i UL f. Edward Fraaeiaoo; Townabip Clerk. John B. Sp ar;\\nAaeaaor, B/o mr Speer; Collector. F. W. Tan ea; To\u00c2\u00abn^ip Com-\\nmitter, Eliaa Tan Xne. S. Tan Neaa, L. B. Van \u00c2\u00abe. Jamc* Garaide,\\nCoxse Lamb; Sorreyora of Uigbvara, C. T. SindJe. A. A, Garra-\\n1(T4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Townahip Oerk, John B. Speer; Aiaeaaor. B.rncar Speer Town-\\nahip CoaadtlM. C G. Torka, Sqnire BadcllS. Jamaa Garaide, Eliaa\\nVaa Seat, JaaorKdge; Bfumyvn of BlKhwaya, John B.tker, Bea-\\nten baaiela.\\n1*75.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 F lt bu 4der, Edward FtanrlKw: Townabip Clerk, C. M. Stanley;\\ni,W\u00c2\u00bb.S.Borti-;;rollector. F. W.Taa Xeaa; TowublpCom-\\nBiMac, Bnh ir t Baattia, Jr., Chailea Cnaa, Bobert Gow, Jobo C.\\nC^ai k aha ak Jame* B. Saxoa Sarrexom of Hichwaja, Wm. H. Tea\\nNaaa, B. J. Craar.\\n18TC\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Townabip Clerk. C. N. SUtiley Aaaemar. Wm. X. Borlic Oollec-\\nlor, F. W. Tan Seaa; Townabip Committee, Robert Bnttie, Jr.,\\nBobart Ovw. J. C. Craikahank, B. J. Crane. J. B. Saxon.\\nIS^ Freeboldar, Loeaa B. Tan Baa; Townabip Clerk, C. M. Stanley;\\nAmeaaor, Wm. 5. Battle: Oollector, F. W. Tan Nat; Townabip\\nCommlttae, Boberl Beattie, Jr, Jamea B ifuon. Martin Crawford.\\nTkavaa Edge. Joba C. Cnikjkaak Sarteyore of Hlghwaya, W. II.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00bcaa Xoi^ B J. CraaaL\\nIS^ Towaahip Clerk, C. M. Stanley Amamor. Wm. X. Bortk Collec-\\ntor, F. W. Tan Xam Townabip Coamiltee, Robert Beattie, Jr, Ed-\\nward Fraacia- kahank. BHaa Van Xaaa,TViaw Uca;\\nSarreyora al I 0 Briaa.a O. Tort.\\nIfT*.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fraeboider :iaa TowBablpa -rk, J MphTac(art\\nImiaiiii. F. W. an y wt; Collertor, Jaam C. Stanley; Tnrnahlp\\nCoaiBlltae. Robert Baattl Jr, Tkomaa Edge, John B. Saxon Snr-\\neeyon af HIgbwaya. Wm O Bclaa. C. G. Torkai\\nIMd.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Towaahlp Clerk. Cbarlea E. Chaleriin lln iiii. F. W. Vaa Xem;\\nCollector, J. C.Stanley. Tuwniblp Committee. R Baaltie, Jr. Jamea\\nB. Saxoa, DaeM Hawtbora Sarreyota of HIgbwaya. CtarWopber\\naia\u00c2\u00aba, Wm. O Brtaa.\\nIS81.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, Edward Francten; Towiabip aerk, C M. Stanley\\nCollector, J. C. Stanley; Aaaeaaor, Cbarlea Crane; Tvwn^hip Com-\\nmittee. B. Beattie, Jr., I avld Hawthorn. Jamc* B. Suon Sorreyon\\nat HIgbwaya, Chtlalopbar Oadle, Wia. CBrian, Coeneliaa H. Torka.\\nVillages and Hamlets. The earliest effort towards\\nbu:?iiiess enterprise at Little Falls was made, so far as\\nis known, by Capt. James Gray, who in 1772 ere ted\\na foundrj- and mill on the present site of Beattie s\\ncarpet-factory. He also built a dam on the river,\\nwhich provoked the Legislature of the same year to\\npass an act for lowering the dam, though with a|\u00c2\u00bb-\\nparently but slight etfect. But little is known of the\\nhamlet for a period of some years after this event.\\nThe next owner and pioneer in the development of\\nthe site now occupied by this village was Rev. John\\nDurye who was born in 1760, and having adopted\\nthe ministry as a profession studied with Dr. Living-\\nston, and was licensed to preach in 1784. He was\\ncalled to Raritan in 1783. where he remaine l until\\n1799. In 18\u00c2\u00ab 1 he settled at Fairfield, Essex Co.,\\nwhich charge then embraced Little Falls, and re-\\nmained until 1817, when he removed to Little Falls,\\nand probably renained there until l Ci6, when his\\ndeath occurred. After he had relinquished his charge\\nhe traveled on horseback and held service throughout\\nthe country at the various houses at which he received\\nhospitality. On these occasions a cellection was in-\\nvariably taken either for the dominie or (he horse.\\nMr. Duryea seems not only to have been a godly\\nman, but a citizen of much business capacity. He\\nowned the mills at this point, which after being suc-\\ncessfully conducted were sold to the Miller Bri s.,\\nof whom there were four, William, Ezekiel, John,\\nand Isaac. In connection with their milling enter-\\nprise they owned and managed a store. Ax a later\\ndate Samuel Bridge leased the water-| owcrand erected\\na factor which was successfully conducted for some\\nyears, but finally burned. Robert Beattie later be-\\ncame owner of the site, and at present carriers on an\\nextensive manufacturing interest, elsewhere described.\\nThe Van Ness Bnithers were also early merchants.\\nThe canal p s. ed through the village in 1829, and\\ngave an additional impetas to mercantile enterprise.\\nLittle Falls now has a public school, two churches,\\nand numerous stores and warehouses, representing\\nvarious departments of business.\\nThe hamlet of Singac, located in the extreme north-\\nwest corner of the township, was, as nearly as can be\\ndetermined, settled by John Riker, who was the\\nowner of most of the land in the immediate vicinity.\\nHis children were a son, Isaac, and three daughters,\\namong whom his property was divided, the sod having\\nthe southwest side of the turnpike, and the daughters\\nthe northeast. Isaac had three sons, John, Saniucl,\\nand Isaac, of whom John became owner of the prop-\\nerty. It was by him bojueathed to his daughters,\\nMrs. Henry Stanley, Mrs. John Van I elt, Mrs.\\nThomas Morrell, and Mrs. A. A. Garrabraut, who\\nnow own it. At this point was located the gate-", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1050.jp2"}, "896": {"fulltext": "LITTLE FALLS.\\n567\\nhouse of the Newark and Ponipton Turnpike Com-\\npany, the keeper of whom established the first store\\nat this place. In 1820, Spear Van Ness opened a\\nstore, and two years after Henry R. Van Ness as-\\nsumed an interest, and later became sole proprietor.\\nHe is still engaged in business with his son. Another\\nstore is kept by Winslow Schoonmaker, who is also\\nthe village postmaster. There are in addition a wheel-\\nwright-shop, a blacksmith-shop, and a hotel, the latter\\nbeing kept by Thomas llorrell.\\nChurches. The Reformed Church at Little Falls\\nwas organized by the Classisof Bergen on the 17th of\\nOctober, 1837, a committee having been appointed for\\nthe purpose, consisting of Revs. J. S. De Mund, Rans-\\nford Wells, A. H. Warner, and A. Bronson. Its earliest\\nofficers embraced the following individuals: Elders,\\nWilliam M. Miller, Isaac I. Jacobus, John Bowman,\\nJacob S. Van Ness; Deacons, John Brown, William\\nReynolds, Benjamin Bell, Hugh Irvin. The earliest\\nsupply was Rev. A. Bronson, who ministered to the\\nlittle flock until April, 1838, when Rev. Reuben Porter\\nfollowed, and supplied the pulpit until July 23, 1838.\\nRev. Joseph Wilson was then called, in conjunction\\nwith the church at Fairfield, and installed. He re-\\nsigned the pastorate in 1843, when Rev. Edwin\\nVedder accepted a call, and was the first pastor who\\ngave his full lime to the church. He was installed\\nin 1844, and remained until 1849.\\nDuring the month of February, 1850, Rev. J. C.\\nCruikshank was called from the Classis of Ulster, N.\\nY., and was installed by the Classis of Passaic. His\\nministry was one of much success. The congregation\\nwas freed from a burdensome debt, and many names\\nadded to the roll of membership. Mr. Cruikshank\\nresigned in April, 1867, but continued his residence\\namong his people, having been appointed by the State\\nBoard of Education superintendent of schools for the\\ncounty, which office he still fills.\\nRev. George J. Van Neste was called to the pastorate\\nin May, 1869, and remained until September, 1875.\\nwhen Rev. William H. Smith began his pastoral\\nlabors, and continued them until May, 1878. In June\\nof the same year Rev. W. L. Moore was installed, and\\nresigned in May, 1881, after which a call was extended\\nto Rev. Philip Furbeck, who is the present incumbent,\\nand came Nov. 22, 1881.\\nServices were fii st held at Little Falls by clergymen\\nof the Methodist Episcopal Church during the year\\n1825. A school-house then stood on the site of the\\npresent Reformed (Dutch) Church, and there being no\\nchurch building in the place at this early date, the\\npeople of the neighborhood convened here for wor-\\nship. Little Falls, however, soon became a regular\\nappointment, and was connected with Cedar Grove,\\nParsippany, Pine Brook, and Fairfield. The society,\\nsmall in numbers, continued to occupy the school-\\nhouse until 1839, when the present church building\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2as, through the enterprise of members of the con-\\negation, erected. Rev. Mr. Robertson was at this\\ntime pastor, and Henry Parrot, Jacob Demmetts, and\\nLucus Crane were among the leading spirits in com-\\npleting the work.\\nThe church remained connected with the appoint-\\nment above named until 1860, when it became a pas-\\ntoral charge. It has at present a membership of one\\nhundred and twenty-five, with a flourishing Sabbath-\\nschool of one hundred and fifty scholars and teachers.\\nThe absence of records renders a list of the successive\\npastors impossible to obtain.\\nThe present officers are Rev. M. C. Reed, pastor;\\nI Thomas C. Belding, Sabbath-school superintendent\\nStewards and Trustees, Joseph Bowden, Edward\\nDemmitts, John Van Houten, William Vaness,\\nStephen Sindle, Reuben Daniels, Cornelius G. Yorks,\\nWilliam Berdan, .John Wilson.\\nManufactures. Robert Beattie Soxs Car-\\npet- Axu WooLES-MiLLS. Mr. Beattie, the senior\\nmember of the firm of Robert Beattie Sons, first\\nengaged in the manufecture of carpet.s in New York\\nCity in 1837. He w.is induced in 1842 to remove to\\nLittle Falls, where he at once leased the mills of the\\nNew Jersey and Little Falls Carpet Company, which\\nwere located on the Passaic River. This company\\nwas organized in 1822 in New York, and at a subse-\\nquent date embarked in business at Little Falls. In\\n1846, Mr. Beattie removed to his present site, having\\nfirst erected a building of wood, to which his ma-\\nchinery was transferred. The demands of an in-\\ncreasing trade rendering more room a necessity, he\\nin 1858 constructed a capacious mill of brownstone,\\nfour stories in height. To this was added in 1876 a\\nbuilding of brick. The machinery is propelled by\\nwater, though steam is used in the various processes\\nof dyeing, printing, and drying. The establishment\\ngives employment to 300 hands in its various depart-\\nments. Foreign wool is used entirely, and the grade\\nI of goods produced at these mills finds a ready market.\\nThe firm have a warehouse at 85 White Street, New\\nYork, through which all sales are effected.\\nLittle Falls Mills of George Jacksox.\\nThese mills were established by Mr. Jackson in 1850,\\nwho was formerly foreman in the dye- and felt-mills\\nof Benjamin Nathan at Little Falls. Mr. Jackson\\npurchased and removed all the machinery and all the\\nstone and wood-work belonging to the former mill to\\nits present site, where he at once rebuilt and began\\noperations. He manufactures all kinds of hair- and\\nwool-felt and carpeting. The factory is located upon\\nwhat is known as Peckamen s stream, and employs\\nboth water- and steam-power. It has two engines,\\nrepresenting one hundred and fifty horse-power, four\\nsteam boilers, and two turbine water-wheels.\\nThe factory is equipped with the most complete\\nmachinery for the manufacture of a fine grade of felt\\ngoods, and employs in its various departments one\\nhundred and fifty men. About 1500 pounds of ma-\\nterial per day is worked up, and the total business of\\nthe year reaches the sum of S300,000.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1051.jp2"}, "897": {"fulltext": "568\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY,\\nThe atrenUof tlie faitorv are located in New York,\\nand find a ready market for its wares in Philadelphia,\\nNew York, and other large cities.\\nMr. Jackson add(.Mi to his other business in 1877 a\\nfactor)- for the manufacture of silk and mohair braids,\\nwatcli-jruards, etc. This is also equipped with bf\u00c2\u00bbth\\nsteam- and water-jjower and all the requisite ma-\\nchines for producing the most perfect work. The\\nabsorbing demands of the felt-works have rendered it\\nimpossible to run the latter establishment to its full\\ncapacity.\\nJames Edge, Manttfacttrer of Bolts, Nuts,\\nWashers, Chaixs, Err. This business was estab-\\nlished by Thomas Edge in 1846, on the Peckamen s\\nstream, near Little Falls. The manufacture of\\nwashers was the earliest industry, after which the\\nworks were extended and bolts and other articles were\\nmade. Mr. Edge first began his lab()rs upon the farm,\\nand wa.** induced by the extended demand to erect the\\npresent factory, which is now owned by his son\\nJames, who succeeded to the firm of Thomas Edge\\nSons, The extra power needed in the factory\\nis su| plied by a twelve horse-power engine. The\\nwares made by this estiiblishment arc principally used\\nin the machine-shops in various portions of the State\\nand in New York City. The iron used is mainly\\nsupplied by the Passaic Rolling-Mills, at Paterson.\\nVan Ness Sinple, Felt-Mill.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This mill was\\nerected in 1877 by the present firm for the manufac-\\nture of a species of hair-felt used in boiler covering.\\nThe capacity of the mill is equivalent to the working\\nof one ton of hair per day. It is run by both water-\\nand steam-power, and employs ten men in the various\\nstages of manufacture. The mill is equipped with all\\nthe modern machinery fi r making hair-felt, for which\\na market is found in New York and I*hiladelphia.\\nAdjoining this establishment is the flouring-mill of\\nC. S. Sindle, erected in 1856,\\nLittle Falls Brom nstone Quarries. The\\nvalue of these quarries was first developed by an\\narchitect in search of stone for the erectitm of Trinilv\\nChurch, New York, the riginal owners having been\\nthe New Jersey and Little Falls Manufacturing Com-\\npany. They were by them leased for a jiercentagc to\\nthe Trinity Church corporation, and by them worked\\nfor a period of five years. It was then leaseil by\\nMntehcs Clark, and later by William If. Harris,\\nwho organized a company and introducetl machinery\\nfor working the quarries, sawing the stone, etc.\\nRobert Heattie, by purchase, then became owner,\\nearried on its further development, and furnished\\nmuch stone for the constmction of the bridge-s of the\\nDelaware and Lackawanna Railroad Company. Mr.\\nBcattie is still owner, and J. C. Stanley the present\\nlessee. The Mtone has in several instances proved\\nValuable to the scnlpt(\u00c2\u00bbr.\\nAct of Organization.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The following act of the\\nState Legislature erected Little Falls as nn independ-\\nent township\\nAm A(T to Mi of from tht towiuhip n/ Ac^achmonk, im IA\u00c2\u00ab evunl^ of\\nPoMtaie, a itcir U/unsliip^ to be ctiUed the (oim\u00c2\u00abAip o/ IMU\u00c2\u00ab fWb.\\nBe it macted by tht Senate and Genfral A\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bbetnbl^ o/(A\u00c2\u00ab SOiU o/ AViD\\nJeney, TliM all th\u00c2\u00abt j^nrt of tlic lowuship of Acquackanonk, in the\\ncounty of PHmalc, lying wcsttrly of the line ninning fmin the Unr of\\nthe city of Patorson, along the steep n cke and niuuntAlns, loulherly\\nto the line ul Ihu county vf Kwex, being tlie same linu known ua part of\\nthe westerly line of the oM Acquackunuiik jtatent, h\u00c2\u00ab doecribe*] in an in-\\ndenture made by the lords proprirton of the province of East New Jer-\\nsey to Han* niiilerick lUiduthensdaleil Murch nrte\u00c2\u00abnth, sixteen hnndn-d\\nand eighty*fuur, and rvcordi-d in the offlca of the Socretary of State of\\nKew Jersey, in Lilnir A of Dee*! page one hundred and sixty-four, tthall\\nbe and is hereby set off front the said titwnship of Acquuckanonk, and\\nmade a new and separate ti\u00c2\u00bb\\\\\\\\ lothlp, to be known by the name of the\\ntowuBbip of Little Falls.\\n2. And be U enuitfd. That the inhabitants of the said township of\\nliittle Fulls l e and they are heieby made and cont^tlluted a body politic\\nand corporate in law, and ^lllill bt* known by the name of The Inhab-\\nitants of the township of Little Falls, in the county of Faasaic and shall\\nbe entitled to all the rights, powers, authority, privile res, and adran-\\ntages^nnd aliall \\\\te subject to the Kinu i emulations, goveruiuent, and lia-\\nbilities an tlir Inhabitants of the pre ent township of Acquackanonk\\nare or may be entitled to by the exiatini: lawn of this State.\\n3. And be U tiiacUd, That tlii Itihubitants of the township of Ac-\\nquackanonk, as remaining nttei the i H8Bage of this act, )\u00c2\u00abha)l hold their\\nnext township election at the hotel of John V, Ryvr*\u00c2\u00bbon, and afterward\\nin each year at such place lui shall be deuignnted at their prcceiling an-\\nnual township election, at the time fixed by law; and at the said flret\\ntownship election John J. McCleeeo, John H. Couenho% en, and Daniel\\nH. Schof^mtiiaker shall txci ai* judges, and Henry P. Simmonn shall act aa\\nclerk of thesai l tlrvt elt ciion.\\n4. And be U enucteti^ That the inbnbilantsof the township of Little\\nFallti shall hold their first township election at Smith s hotel at Little\\nFalls, Hnd itfterwitrds in each year at Nni.li plai. as the inhabitants of\\nsaid township Hbull at their preceding annual townshipincetlng deter-\\nmine, at the time tixed by law for the annual town^liip election^ in the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2aid township of Acquackanonk and at the said flri t tDwimhip elec-\\ntion William M. Morrell, Charles T. Van Winkle, and Fnincis Van\\nKess shall act tu) judgetn, and Francis W. Van Ness as lerk of said\\nelection.\\nb. And be it enacted. That the township ommiittee of said to\u00c2\u00ab-niihl|i\u00c2\u00ab\\nof Acquackanonk and Lilth- Fulls elected at thf said (irst i-lectiou re-\\nspectively, shall meet on the fourth Monday of April next, at the hotel\\ni f Henry F. Palget, at the Notch, at ten o clock in the formoon, and\\nafterwards, if n(.-C( Asary, at such tinifs und places as the tuajoniy of\\nthose present may determine, ami then and there, by writing, signed by\\na miO *0 **f conimitttH B, allot und divide b\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bbtwcfn naid townshi|w\\nsuch pniperly, ff any, us may he owuimI by the present township of Ac-\\nquackanonk, and also such moneys and assets as may l e on hand or due\\nor to become duo to said tuwnshi|i\u00c2\u00bb, in proportion to the taxable pn\\nerty and ratables in said townships, rt^spectively.as shall be detennlned\\nby the lost oneasmonl of tazet of the said funner township of Acqua k-\\niinonk,and each of thesuld townnhlpK shall be and remain liable to pay\\nIts just proiHtrtion of the debts und obligations of the present township\\nof AcqUHcksnonk, according to said last asseesment, as tlie aid debts\\nand oldigntions shall exist at the next annual town*nieeting, until the\\nsame are fully imid apd discharged, such pni|K rtlon of said indebt\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbd-\\nness tu be aa (^a\u00e2\u0096\u00a0e\u00c2\u00abl on the inhabttivnis of said township, nwpectivoly, tu\\naccordance with the laws now applicable thereto, and each of said towu-\\nshipH shall supp(\u00c2\u00bbrt the paupers whose settlemi nt Is or may be within\\nthrir bounds, respectively, and If any of the erson\u00c2\u00ab composing idtlier\\nof the said township committeeM shall refuse or neglect to meet ns afure-\\nsaidf those assmibled may pn ccrtl lo make nurli division, and the de-\\ncision of n nii\\\\jorlty of thmv presi-nt nliull l e final ami tonclusivo.\\n**6, ^riri be it runrted. That nothing in this act contained shall Im* ron-\\nstmed ao as to Interfere with or im|Niir the Ciimmiaslons of the justices\\nof the \u00c2\u00abace or of the commlssltuiera for taking the acknowledgment\\nand pn of of deetls until they shall expire by their own limitation, or so\\nas to Impair the rIghU of the snid township of IJtUe Falls in and to iU\\njust and Irga) pM|\u00c2\u00bbiirtlon of the surplus revenut of the genenU gorern-\\nment or the intereet due or l econiing \u00c2\u00ablne thereon.\\n7. And he it r^uu-teti. That tht sHid township of Littlu Falls shall form\\na part of th\u00c2\u00ab First Assembly District of the county of PaMaic, as here-\\ntofore.\\n8. And beUenaatedy That this act shall take effect immediately.*\\nApproved April 2, 1868.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1052.jp2"}, "898": {"fulltext": "POMPTON.\\n569\\nNotes and Incidents. The following description\\nof the quarrifs at Little Falls is taken from the Ge-\\nologj of New Jersey, published in 1868, and will be\\nof 1 interest to the reader\\nBelow the village on the left bank of the river\\n(Passaic) there are several old quarries. The stone is\\na dark-red freestone, and lies in thick beds with shaly\\nlayers over it, and trap resting on the latter. The\\ndrop is about 10\u00c2\u00b0 to the northwest. On the other side\\nof the river the rock is now quarried and shipped\\nvia, Morris Canal to various points in and around\\nPaterson, Newark, and New York. All these quar-\\nries are owned by Robert Beattie. At the Little Falls\\nquarry, last mentioned, there is about ten feet of red\\nshale drift covering the rock. The color of the stone\\nis from alight gray to a red. It occurs in thick beds,\\nand stones seventeen by twelve by four feet are often\\ngot out. Most of it is very fine-grained, and styled by\\nthe workmen liver rock. This quarry has furnished\\nstone for several fine brownstone .structures in New\\nYork and adjacent cities. For agricultural purposes\\nit is a superior article, and ha.s been successfully used\\nin sculpture.\\nCHAPTER LXXIV.\\nPOMPTON.\\nPhysical Features. Nearly the whole of this\\ntownship, from its northeastern border, on the State\\nline between New Jersey and New York, to its south-\\nwestern boundary along the Wanaque River, is one\\ncontinuous range of mountains. Their .summits are\\ngenerally covered with barren rocks, and considera-\\nble portions of this mountainous region are treeless and\\nwithout vegetation. But the valleys of the Ringwood\\nand Wanaque Rivers, extending the whole length of\\nthe township, from north to .south, and the occasional\\nfertile portions along their many tributaries, compen-\\nsate for all this barrenness of the higher regions.\\nMany portions of the township are rich in mineral\\nwealth, of iron ore of the most superior quality,\\nlead, lime, sandstone, and slate.\\nThe. Wanaque Valley frequently widens into alluvial\\nflats and uplands of great fertility. In the valley and\\nupon the hills more favored in soil and less exposed\\nto the elements than the contiguous mountain ranges,\\noak and chestnut, beech and maple, and occasionally\\npine and hemlock, with many other varieties of vege-\\ntation, have a thrifty growth. The Wanaque is one\\nof the most beautiful and picturesque valleys in the\\nState. It opens into the famous Pompton Plains,\\nwhere much of the scenery is no more enchanting.\\nBut the almost countless resources of wealth in this\\ntownship are its iron-mines, which produce the richest\\nquality of ore. From the mines of Pompton came\\nthe cannon-balls which did good battle for us in the\\nRevolution, and for neai-ly two hundred years capi-\\ntalists have had investments in these mountain re-\\ngions, barren and rocky, but which appear to have\\nlocked up in their fastnesses resources of ine.xliausti-\\nble treasure.\\nEarly Settlements.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The early settlements in this\\nI section were induced by the rich mines of iron ore\\ndiscovered in the early part of the eighteenth cen-\\ntury. John Jacob Faesch, a native of Hesse-Cassel,\\ncame to this country in the service of the London\\nCompany, who owned extensive tracts of land at\\nRingwood, Long Pond, and Charlotteburg, at each of\\nwhich places furnaces and forges had been erected\\nprior to 17(36. These had been built and managed\\nby a German named Hasenclever, who had brought\\nto this country many Germans, and among them\\ni Faesch, who for a time assisted, and then superseded\\nHasenclever about 1766. As early as 1771 or 72,\\nMr. Robert Erskine, of Scotland, succeeded in the\\nmanagement of these mines. Ringwood was the\\nheadquarters of the London Company. As early as\\n1740, Cornelius Board sold to Josiah Ogden, John\\nOgden, Jr., David Ogden, Sr., David Ogden, Jr., and\\nUsal Ogden, all then residents of Newark, composing\\nthe Ringwood Company, sixteen acres of land at\\nRingwood for sixty-three pounds. Feb. 1, 1764,\\nJoseph Board sold to Nicholas Governeur, of New\\nYork, and David Ogden, Sr., six acres and one-half,\\nfor six pounds, ten shillings. The same day Joseph\\nBoard conveyed to the company a tract of laud sit-\\nuate, lying, and being at Ringwood, near the old forge\\nand dwelling-house of Walter Erwin. July 5, 1764,\\nthe Ringwood Company sold to Peter Hasenclever,\\nlate of London, merchant, for five thousand pounds,\\nall the company s lands at Ringwood, then in Bergen,\\nand now in Passaic County.\\nThere were then erected on the property a furnace,\\ntwo forges, and several dwelling-houses. Hasen-\\nclever also purchased of Joseph Wilcox, Walter\\nErwin, and one Delancy large tracts of land in the\\nvicinity, portions of which were sold at the rate of\\nthirty pounds per hundred acres.\\nOf course all this activity at that early day in\\npurchasing land in this then remote region was on\\naccount of the rich iron-mines, which to this day are\\nof untold value. Tlie Revolution came and interfered\\nwith the operations of any foreign company on Amer-\\nican soil but many of the operatives in these mines,\\nand especially Mr. Robert Erskine, the superintend-\\nent, became adherents of the American cause and\\nremained permanently in this country. Mr. Erskine\\nfigured prominently in the war of the Revolution,\\nand is said to have organized the first militia com-\\npany in the State. He died at Ringwood in 1780.\\nHis grave may be found about one-fourth of a mile\\nfrom the ruins of the old Ringwood furnace, near the\\nroad leading from Ringwood to West Milford. There\\nare two graves side by side, that of Mr. Erskine and\\nof his former clerk, Robert Monteath. The monu-\\nment is of gray marble, supported by a brick wall", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1053.jp2"}, "899": {"fulltext": "670\\nHISTORY OF BERGKN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nabout one foot high, and the inscription shows Mr.\\nErskine to have been no onlinary person, either in\\nthe land of bis nativity or of his adoption. It reads\\nas follows:\\nIn Meniory of\\nB\u00c2\u00bbl \u00c2\u00abrt Enkiue, F.B.S.,\\nGeographer und Sunreyur-Geutral\\nTo llif Amiy o(\\nThe Uiillcxl Suilti.\\nSon of tbe R\u00c2\u00abT. Ralpli Enkinr,\\nLftte Minister uf Diinfenuline,\\n111 Scotland,\\nBurn\\nSept. 7th, 17.W,\\nDied\\nOctober 2, 1780,\\n.\\\\ged 45 years\\n.\\\\nd25d\u00c2\u00ab3\u00c2\u00ab.\\nEnough has been given here to afford some idea of\\nthe early settlements about Rinjrwood. Philip Schuy-\\nler was the proprietor of lands about the present vil-\\nlages of Pompton and Blooniingdale, purchasing a\\ntract of two thousand acres there about 1760. Gil-\\nliam Bartolf located two hundred and eighty acres\\nwest of Schuyler s tract. Georjre Ryerson located\\nseveral tracts in the same vicinity about the same\\ntime. Abram Ogden located several lots, about 177ii,\\nalong the Pequannock and Wanaque for manufactur-\\ning purposes.\\nThe Charlotte tract was returned or surveyed to\\nOliver De Lancy, Henry Cuyler, and Walter Ruther-\\nford in 1711.1, of 647-1 acres, and the Van Houteus and\\nRichard Ashtield were proprietors here in \\\\7 M. The\\nRyerson family, of which Martin J. Ryerson is the\\npresent representive, has always been a prominent\\nfamily in this township since its earliest existence as\\na civilized community. Martin Ryerson, the progen-\\nitor of this family, came from .\\\\msterdam, in Holland,\\nin l()4(i, and was from a Huguenot family. He mar-\\nried Anetie Rapplcje, May 14, IfjtiS. Roger Ryerson,\\nhis third son, married Rebecca Van Der Shines in\\n\\\\69^ Johannes, the fourth son of Roger, was born\\nNov. 11, 171( and married Catalyna Rerry, Jan. 13,\\n1741. Martin, the fifth child of .roliannes, was born\\nNov. 14, 1751, and married Vrouche Van Winkle, .Vng.\\n16, 1778. The portraits of Martin and Vrouche are\\npreserved, and adorn the walls of the present resi-\\ndence of their descendant, Martin John Ryerson, at\\nHlooniingdale. The dignified old gentleman of the\\nthe piL\u00c2\u00abt and bis proud, stately dame look down\\nU| on von in kindly adnionilion of what they were\\nand of what their dcscendanLs should be in every gen-\\nerntion. Among the other interesting relics of the\\npast in this same re.si lenec is a tail and beautifully en-\\nca-sed cloi k, brought from Holland by Ha.sencleve,\\nand which was subsoiuently the property of (ten.\\nKrskine in bis mansion at Ringwooil, where the\\npresent Martin John Ryerson was born, and which\\nhas been ticking accurate time for more than one\\nhundred and fifty years. John M. Ryerson, third\\nchild of Martin Ryerson, wn-s born Doc. 1, 1732, and\\nmarried Clarissa Van Winkle, March 2, 1806. Mar-\\ntin John Ryerson, third i-hild of John M., was born\\nOct. 31, 1814, and married Mary Ann Conklin, Sept.\\n26, 1843. She dying Sept. IS, I860, he married Anna\\nC. Wo.wlward. Oct. 2, 1862. Andrew Zabriskie, first\\nchild of Martin .lohn, Wiis born July 24, 1844, and\\nmarried Georgia Ann Sinen, Oct. 24, 1871, and Mary\\nIsabel Ryerson, the last in this line of the generations,\\nwas born May 6, 1873. Sometimes it is family pride\\nand sometimes it is family worth passing down from\\ngeneration to generation.\\nPhilij) Schuyler settled at Pompton in 1688. He\\nmarried Hester Kingsland, daughter of Isaac Kings-\\nland. His eldest son was Aurent, born Feb. 2. 171/).\\nHe married Elizabeth Bogert, and had three sons,\\nPhilip, Garret, and Adoiiijah, and died Sept. 6,\\n1839. His daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler, married\\nJohn A. Boyd in 181.5. Philip Schuyler was a gen-\\ntleman of large means, wiis connected with the cele-\\nbrated family of that name in New York, owned a\\nlarge tract of land on the Ramapo River, on the\\nwest side of what is now called Long Pond, where he\\nbuilt a spacious residence, now in the pos,se8sion\\nof his descendants, and occupied by them, together\\nwith a large tract of land also in pos.sessiou of the\\nfamily.\\nAdam Boyd lived in Pompton, on the Bartram\\nfarm, in sight of the Schuyler property. He was\\nborn in Windam mow in Morris County), March 21,\\n1746. Probably his father s name was John Boyd,\\nwho\u00c2\u00ab;as born in Scotland, and settletl in Mendham as\\nearly as 1710. He may have settled on the Bartram\\nfarm, in Pompton township, about 1720. At all\\nevents it is certain his son Adam owned this farm,\\nand lived there many years prior to 1776. The foun-\\ndation-walls and the walls of the cellar of the old\\nfarni-liouse of Aibim Hoyil, on tbe Bartram farm, are\\nstill standing by an ancient lilac-bush, near the road\\nin going from the Ponds Church to Pompton Furnace.\\n.\\\\dam Boyd married Elsie Van Cleve. He had one\\nson (.Iidin Boyd and one daughter (I atharine).\\nHe died after a distinguished career in the Revolu-\\ntion and in the Congre-ss of the I mted Stales, Aug.\\n15, 1835. John A. Boyd was a prominent lawyer\\nat Haekensack, and ilied Feb. 21, 1828, aged fifty-\\nthree years. His sister Catbatine died May 14, 1846,\\naged seventy-four. .lohii married Elizabeth Schuyler,\\ndaughter of Adoiiijah Schuyler. She Wiis born Jan.\\n1789. They had eight children, among whom are\\nthe present .\\\\dani and Schuyler Boyd, of Bergeu\\nCounty.\\nCivil Organization. Pompton has varied much\\nin its civil mid pnlilical rclalions since the early set-\\ntlement. It was first a part of New Barbadoi s, in\\nl sex County then of Saddle River and Franklin,\\nanil in the county of Es.se.x from 1682 to 17i\u00c2\u00bb!t; then\\nin the county of Bergen from that date till it became\\npart of Pa\u00c2\u00ab.saic County in 1837. The act of incor-\\nporation reads as follows:", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1054.jp2"}, "900": {"fulltext": "POMPTON.\\n571\\nAn Act to incorporate itUo a toimiship a part of the towiuthip of SndilU\\nRiver and Franklin^ in the coitiUy of Bergen^ poised the HOt of Feb-\\nritonj, 1797.\\nPreaihbli A niimberof the inhabitants of the townsliip of Saddle River\\nHn i Franklin, in the connty of Bergen, have l y their petition set fortil\\nthat tliey have long labored under tmtitii diJTfCulties by reason uf the length\\nof said townships, for remedy whereof be it enacted by the Council and\\nGeneral Assenildy of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the atlthor-\\nity of the same, that all that part of the tciwnship of Saddle River and\\nFranklin lyinfr within the following line: beginning on the line that\\ndivides the States of New York and New Jersey, where the said lino\\nstriked the lirst pond of the Rainapongh Mountiiin, from thence on a\\ndirect line until it strikes the division line of said townships, at the\\nnorthwest corner of John Ryerson s land; thence along said line until\\nit stiikes the Ramapough River; thence along said river until it meets\\nthe Pe iuanMck River; thence up said river until it meets the line that\\ndivides the counties of Bergen and Sussex; and thence along said line\\nuntil it meets the line that divides the States of New York and New\\nJers.-y f hence along said line to the i)lace of beginlung, shall be and\\nis hereby set off from the said township of Saddle River and Franklin,\\nanil made a separate township, to be called by the name of the town-\\nship of Pompton. j\\nThe township belonged to the undisputed property\\nof the Indians till the discovery by Hendrick Hud-\\nson thence to Holland till it came under the British\\ncrown, and afterwards to the folate of New Jersey,\\nand subject to the smaller municipal or township di-\\nvisions, already stated. The word Pompton is of\\nIndian derivation, and is the name of one of the\\nprominent tribes in this part of New Jersey before\\nthe ingress of civilization. The word is said to mean\\ncrooked mouthed, as applied to the entrance of\\nthe Ringwood and Ramapo Rivers as tributaries of\\nthe Pompton in their winding and circuitous courses.\\nThe name was applied to the locality now known as\\nPompton Villiigelong before the township was organ-\\nized, and even long before the Revolution. In other\\nparts of this history will be found an account of the\\nearly mining operations in this section of country in-\\nviting settlements, early even in the last century, up\\nthe Pequanack and Wanaque Valleys, as they were\\nthen called. A further recital here of these early\\nevents is therefore unnecessary. When Pompton\\ncommenced it.s municipal career in the county of\\nBergen, its civil governmeiit began with Adonijah\\nSclmyler and Peter 81utt as its first freeholders.\\nEach township at that time was represented by two\\nmembers in the board, the reduction to one member\\nnot occurring till many years afterwards.\\nThe following are the chosen freeholders for\\nPompton from it\u00c2\u00ab organization as a township in\\nBergen County till it passed into Passaic County in\\n1837:\\n1797-9S, 1824-28, Adonijah Schuyler; 1797, 18(1.5-7, Peter Slutt; 1798,\\n1800-1, Simeon Mead; 1799, Joseph Board; 1799-1 Sell, 1829, 1831-36,\\nNathaniel Board; ISO^-l.!, 1815-2. Adrian Post; 1802-24, Anthony\\nC.Beam; 182. -29. John A. Post; 18.10-35, Peter M.Ryerson; 1830,\\nCornelius Van Wagoner.\\nIt will be seeu that Anthony C. Beam was free-\\nholder continuously for twenty-three years, from 1802\\nto 1824, inclusive, and that Adrian Post was free-\\nholder for eighteen years con.secutively from 1802,\\nexcepting 1814. The freeholders for Pompton from\\n1837, when the township passed into Passaic County,\\nare as follows\\n1837^2, Peter M.Ryerson, Nathaniel Board; 184.3-49, John V. Beam;\\n18.56, Joseph B. Beam; 1851-52, Josiah Beam; 1843-49, Jacob M.\\nRyersou; 1860, 1855-66, Conrad Beam; 1857-58, 1865, George W.\\nMonks 1853-54, Chandler D. Norton 18.5U-53, 1860-61, 1864, Martin\\nJ. Ryerson; 1869, Peter H. Whitenour; 18.59, 1865, 1868, Henry S.\\nVan Ness; 1800-62,1866-67, Conrad Tice; 1871-72, Daniel lihine-\\nsmith: 187:1-74, James C. Vreeland; 1857-58, Charles F. Johnson;\\n1863, 1868-711, 1877, Philip R. Groye.\\nTwo freeholders were elected from each township\\nand ward till 1858, when there were two from each\\ntownship and one from each ward for the next ten\\nyears, when in 1868 two were chosen from each town-\\nship and ward but in 18G9 the number was reduced\\nto one freeholder from each township and ward, and\\nso it remains to the present. Mr. John V. Beam,\\nfrom Pompton, was chosen director of the board for\\n1849, and Martin J. Ryerson, from Pompton, was also\\nchosen director for IS.iO-.\\nPlaces of Historical Interest. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The village of\\nPompton is the most historical locality in the town-\\nship. In the winter of 1780 a portion of the Jersey\\ntroops were stationed, at Pompton. The Pennsyl-\\nvania line had been successful in a mutiny at Morris-\\ntown, which encouraged a portion of the Jersey\\ntroops, chiefly foreigners, to attempt a like meeting\\nat Pompton on the night of the 20th of .January,\\n1781 but by the prompt action of Washington,\\nthrough Gen. Howe, his subordinate in command,\\nthis mutiny was summarily brought to an end by\\nthe execution of two of the criminals and the pun-\\nishment of a few others. Near the Pequannock\\nRiver, on an elevation, just above where the road\\ncrosses the river in going from Pompton to Bloom-\\ningdale, stood an old fort, erected in the Revolution\\nto guard against the possible invasion of the valley\\nby the British and long before this period, in 1735, a\\nlog church was erected on the east bank of the Pomp-\\nton River, a little below where what was then called\\nthe Pompton River emptied into the Pequannock,\\non lands formerly lielonging to the Schuyler family.\\nIt was dedicated April 7, 1736, and taken down about\\n1770. This historical spot is now in an open field.\\nDuring the Revolution, in 1780, Washington and\\nhis army retired for a short time into the Pompton\\nValley, and had his headquarters in what is now\\ncalled the Ryerson mansion, just across the river,\\nnear the old fort we have mentioned. This stately\\nstructure is still standing, and, together with several\\nacres of adjoining land, is owned and occupied by\\nMr. Mills. The house is in a most excellent state of\\n.preservation.\\nVillages and Hamlets.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pompton and Blooming-\\ndale, partly in Morris and Passaic Counties, are the\\nonly villages in the township, although at Ringwood\\nand through the Wanaque Valley are several small\\nhamlets and thickly-settled neighborhoods. Pomp-\\nton and Bloomingdale are pleasantly situated along\\nthe banks of the Wanaque and Pequannock, just at", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1055.jp2"}, "901": {"fulltext": "572\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nthe terminus of the mountain range, and at the be-\\nginning of the Pompton Plain*.\\nThe two railroads the Mont Clair and the Mid-\\nland cross each other in the vicinity in pa sing up.\\nthe former the Wanaque Valley, and the latter the\\nPequannock. There are some small mills, a church\\nat Pompton, and the extensive steel-works in the\\nlower part of Pompton, and a small Episcopal chapel\\nthere, with some ))leasant residences in all directions,\\nbut quite remote from each other; and while the\\nwhole locality is thickly settled, no portion of it ap-\\npears like a densely-populated town. The portion of\\nBlooniingdale on the east side of Pequannock River\\nand in Passaic County is more densely occu|)ied with\\nhouses, stores, and shops, hut the main part of this\\nthrivinj; village is in Morris County.\\nSchools. The last school census shows the town-\\nship of Pompton to have 803 school children, and\\nthe school property is valued at $7000, and its appro-\\npriation of school moneys is $3767.60. The largest\\nschool is at Blofimingdale. An academy was formerly\\nmaintained at this place, which was started about\\n1844. Martin J. Ryerson, who resides near here,\\ngave the land for this structure. An academic\\ncourse was maintained here for some years, and the\\ninstitution has since become one of the public schools\\nof the county.\\nChurches. Mr. Ryerson also gave the land for\\nthe Methodist Cliureli established at Blooniingdale\\nabout 1840. The Methodist Church there has main-\\ntained itself since that time. The Baptists also\\nhave a church there, which was established about\\n1846. I\\nThe oldest church in this locality is the Reformed\\n(Dutch) Church at Pompton. This church .dates\\nback its own separate history to 1812. Before that\\ndate the people in the vicinity had worshiped at the\\nchurch at Pompton Plains. Steps were taken at that\\ndate, a subscription list circulated, and seventy-five\\nsubscribers obtained in the sum of $1932 to erect a\\nchurch upon an acre of land donated by Judge Martin\\nJ. Ryerson. On the 20th of February, 1812, the sub-\\nscribers met at the house or hotel then ke])t by Mar-\\ntin Ryerson, and chose Martin J. Ryerson, Robert\\nColfax, .Vdrian Post, Anthony C. Beam, and John\\nBeam trustc\u00c2\u00bb-s to superintend the building of the\\nchurch. On the 8th of June following a certificate\\nof incorporation of the Pompton and Wanaque\\nChurch was filed in the office of the county clerk at\\nHackensack, in Liber H, No. 2 of Deeds, page 12. (Jn\\nthe 17th of February, 1817, the name was changed to\\nThe Pompton Church, as will appear by the cer-\\ntificate file l in the same ollice, in Liber No. 2 of\\nDee ls, page 30!t, March 2. 1817. On the 24th day\\nof December, 1814, Martin J. Ryerson, Robert Col-\\nfax, Nathaniel Board, Anthony C. Beam, and John\\nD. Piatt were chosen tnistees, and Marcus Douglas,\\nTunis Ryerson, and Garret Ilaulenbeeh were ap-\\n[lointed a committee to settle the account of the trus-\\ntees. The pastoral service extended over this church\\nand the church at Pompton Plains jointly till 1S1.5.\\nIn this relation Rev. J. T. Field was the first pastor.\\nWhen the Pompton and Wanaque District became\\na separate organization its first chosen elders were\\nThomas Blauvelt, Martin J. Ryerson, Philip J.\\nSchuyler, and Nathaniel Douglas, and its first\\ndeacons were Adrian Post, Abram Sines, Johnson N.\\nGould, and Peter Van Pelt. When the members of\\nthe consistory took their oath of office, in ISlj, they\\nwere sworn to support the Constitution of the United\\nStates and of the State of New Jersey. The commo-\\ndious parsonage belonging to this church was built in\\n1817. Mr. Field s pastorate continued twelve and one-\\nhalf years, terminating by mutual consent April 10,\\n1827.\\nRev. R. C. Shiraeall became the next pastor for the\\nshortperiodof nine months, from Sept. 16, 1828, to May,\\n1829. Rev. I.S. Demond followed for nearly nineyears,\\nto June, 1839, when Rev. H. Doolittle became pastor\\nfrom 1840 to 1852, when Rev. John Gaston became\\nthe next pastor, just having graduated from the theo-\\nlogical seminary at New Brunswick in 1852. Li 18o4\\nthe connection between Boardville and this church\\nwas amicably dissolved. In 1859 the commodious\\nlecture-room was built by this church at Wanaque at\\nthe cost of $14 X\u00c2\u00bb, mainly through the persevering\\nelforts of the ladies of the congregation. Mr. Gaston s\\npjislorate ended July, 1M62. It was a jirosperous\\nperiod for the church, and very reluctantly could the\\npeople consent to let him go elsewhere. He wjis fol-\\nlowed by the present pastor. Rev. John N. Jausen,\\non the 17th day of December, 1863. Mr. Jansen has\\nbeen honored with the longest i)astoral service in this\\nchurch. He is a graduate of Rutgers College and\\nSeminary, and is an able and faithful minister.\\nAt a meeting of consistory, April 2, 1816, a memo-\\nrial was presented from a number of the iuhabitants\\nof the Wanaque and Ringwood District of the Pomp-\\nton congregation for permission to build a church\\nnear Col. Board s now Boardville), which was granted.\\nArrangements were at once made, a lot was deeded by\\nCol. Board, and the erection of said church was com-\\nmenced, which was completed in December, 1817,\\nbut the inhabitantsof that district still retaiiie l their\\nconnection with the Pompton Church until March,\\n18.54, when the union between Boardville and the\\nPoni|)ton Church was amicably dissolved by the cor-\\ndial consent of both parties. The congregation of\\nPompton agreed to pay th\u00c2\u00ab church at Boardville four\\nhundred dollars for their interest in the church prop-\\nerty at Pompton. This church was supplied previ-\\nous to l 54 by the Classis of Passaic until .Vpril. IS.Mi,\\nwhen Rev. James E. Bernart Wiis apjiointol regular\\npastor, and continued until 1877, and on May 22.\\n1877, a committee organized the class with twenty-\\neight members, as follows: John Harty, Mrs. John\\nJLirly, Miss Lydia Ann Harty, .John .\\\\kers, Mrs.\\nJohn Akers, John L. Decker, John W. Ricker, Miss", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1056.jp2"}, "902": {"fulltext": "POMPTON.\\n573\\nS. Ricker, John Stone, John Conklin, Catharine Ann\\nLewis, Mrs. Anna M. Tise, Mrs. John II. Brown, E.\\nJ. Brown, John Henrj- Brown, Mary J. Jlontonya,\\nCatherine Whritnour, Martha J. oatllerwalk, Hester\\nJ. Van Natter, Alminia M. Freelantl, Sarah C. Ricker,\\nMargaret A. Coons, Maria B. Bernard, M. M. Pellet,\\nMary A. Whritnour, Mr. John Board, Rev. J. E. Ber-\\nnart, Mrs. Thomas Duttey. The first elders were\\nJohn Akers, E. .1. Brown, John W. Ricker. The first\\ndeacons were John Harty and John Henry Brown.\\nThe relation of Rev. Mr. Bernart continued until\\nMay, 1881 since that time the church has been sup-\\nplied by Rev. John N. Jansen, pastor of the Pomp-\\nton Church, he preaching every alternate Sunday.\\nPresent membership, thirteen.\\nTradition shows that Episcopal services were held\\nat Pompton as early as 1785, but there are no records\\nthat will throw any light on the early organization of\\nthis church previous to 1867, when a plot of land was\\ndonated by J. Horner Co., and the erection of a\\nchurch edifice was commenced. This church was\\nnot consecrated until May 22, 1876, by Bishop Oden-\\nheimer, of New Jersey. The first wardens were\\nAbraham Jackson and J. W. Mackavoy, previous to\\n1881. The society was in charge of the clergy at\\nPaterson, N. J., and was supplied by lay-readers from\\nthe theological seminary of New York, and in 1880\\nthe church was organized with a few families, John\\nMakavoy and family, James Ludlow and family,\\nGeorge Markell and family, Abraham Jackson.\\nThe first regular pastor was Rev. Frederick Greaves,\\ninstalled 1881, and is the present rector.\\nThe church is of wood and located at the Pompton\\nSteel-Works. The present wardens are J. W. Mack-\\navoy and Richard Wright.\\nThe present vestrymen are C. W. Douglass, J. W.\\nMackavoy, Richard Wright, George Decker, Thomas\\nWright, Henry Lawrence, Charles Preston. Present\\nmembership, thirty.\\nMethodist services were first held at Bloomingdale\\nprevious to 1840, in an old woolen-mill, until 1842,\\nwhen a lot was deeded to the congregation for the\\nerection of a church by M. J. Ryerson, and steps\\nwere taken to erect a house of worship, which is\\nlocated on Main Street, about three quarters of a mile\\nfrom the depot. The church is of wood, and built at\\na cost of one thousand dollars, size thirty by sixty\\nfeet, and in 1842 the church was completed, and dedi-\\ncated in the fall by Rev. Mr. McCarl, of Hoboken.\\nThe first members were Elizabeth Cooper, Sophia\\nHalien, Mrs. Gertrude Langrough, Richard Sloan,\\nHenry Wrighnour, and others; the first stewards,\\nPeter P. Maby first trustees, John Siscoe, Peter P.\\nMaby, Richard Sloan, Heniy P. Wrighnour, and\\nHenry Drew, and services were held regularly in the\\nold church until 1880, when it was renovated and re-\\nopened in the fall of 1880. The present value of the\\nchurch is three thousand dollars. Membership, two\\nhundred and twenty-five. Present stewards, Robert\\n37\\nHaycock, James White, and Richard Sloan present\\ntrustees, Richard Sloan, Philip Nixon, P. Francisco,\\nRobert Haycock, J. H. Vreeland, Edward Mead, and\\nPeter Haycock. The first pastor of whom we have\\nany knowledge is Rev. S. W. Decker, who was followed\\nby Rev. Henry Mauze, Rev. Mr. Hitchens, Rev. W.\\nS. Wiggans, Rev. Enoch Green, Rev. Richard Van\\nHome, Rev. Mr. Maby, Rev. Reuben Van Sickle, Rev.\\nCharles Coyt, Rev. Edmund Cook, Rev. Mr. Treat,\\nRev. Ambrose Compton, Rev. C. W. Cole, Rev. C.\\nM. Reed, Rev. Mr. Dodd, Rev. James Robinson.\\nPreaching was first held at Midvale, in private\\nliouses, as early as 1850, by Rev. Samuel Switzer.\\nSometimes they were held in school-houses until 1856,\\nwhen steps were taken to build a house of worship,\\nwhich was completed in the fiill of 1856. This church\\nis located at the head of the Wanaque Valley, and is\\na wooden structure thirty by forty-five feet, cost about\\none thousand dollars. This church belongs to the\\nBloomingdale and Midvale charge, and is supplied\\nby the pastors of the Methodist Episcopal Church of\\nBloomingdale. The present pastor is Rev. James Rob-\\ninson present membership, fifty-eight. The present\\nstewards are Daniel Wrighnour, Daniel Rhinesmith,\\nW. F. Vandine. The trustees are Uri Drew, W. F.\\nVandine, Henry Morris, Isaac McKinon, Daniel\\nWrighnour, Edward Sloat, Peter Sloat.\\nMethodist services were first held in Pompton at\\nthe house of Thomas B. Steele for a period of five\\nyears by Rev. Mr. Anderson, a local preacher, and\\nafter the erection of the school-house meetings were\\ncarried on by Rev. Moses Morris, a colored preacher,\\nand in 1872 the congregation grew and it was evident\\nthat some means had to be provided for the congi ega-\\ntion. A lot was deeded to the society by Mr. William\\nH. Graves, and a church edifice was erected. The\\nchurch is in Pompton Village, near the Pompton Steel-\\norks, on the Hamburg turnpike. The church is\\nof wood and cost $4000. The corner-stone was laid\\nby Rev. R. J. Van Horn, assisted by the pastor. Rev.\\nM. C. Reed, and in March, 1872, it was dedicated by\\nRev. William H. Tunison and William C. Dickinson.\\nThe church was organized in 1871 with eleven mem-\\nbers, Joseph J. Van Ness, Mrs. May Cox, David\\nDrew, R. V. Roat, Conrad Haycock, Mrs. Elizabeth\\nHaycock, David B. Steel, Mr. R. V. Roat, Mrs. J. J.\\nVan Ness, Mrs. David Drew, Mrs. Eliza Nevens.\\nThe first trustees were J. J. Van Ness, R. V. Roat,\\nDavid Drew, John Cox, W. C. Steele Steward, David\\nDrew. Previous to 1 872 there was no regular pastor\\nthe church was supplied by local preachers. The\\nfirst pastor was Rev. McReed, who was stationed at\\nBloomingdale and preached every alternate Sunday.\\nHe came in 1872. Rev. J. W. Cole in 1874, Rev. James\\nRobinson, 1877, the present pastor. The present board\\nof trustees are Cornelius Degraw, Frederick Jacobus,\\nCalvin McCoy, Albert Doremus, Henry Miller, and\\nJohn Everett; Steward, Henry C. Miller.\\nMethodist services were first held in private houses", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1057.jp2"}, "903": {"fulltext": "574\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nfor a number of years, and in 1854 Mr. Wrighnour\\ngave a plot of ground for the erection of a Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church, and work was at once commenced,\\nand the cliurch soon erected, which is of wood, twenty-\\ntwo by thirty-four feet in size, and cost one tliousand\\ndollars. This church is located at Stonetown, on the\\nroad leading from Midvule to Monksville, and in\\nApril, 1881, tiie cliurch Wiu? rebuilt, and dedicated\\nJan. 22, 18S2, by Rev. U. H. Lowry, of lloboken. Tlic\\npresent membership is twenty-two. The stewards are\\nWilliam Colfax and Silas Rhinesmith. The trustees\\nare Peter Wrighnour, William Colfax, Smith Patter-\\nson, Silas Rhinesmith, and John Dutfey. This church\\nis also under the charge of tlic Uloomiiigdiilc and\\nMidvale Circuit, and is supi)liod by tlie Blooniiiigdale\\ncharge. Present pastor is James Robinson.\\nPrevious to 1838 Baptist services were held at\\nBlooraingdale in an old school-house, and from thence\\nto an old woolen-mill until 1843, when the congrega-\\ntion grew and the erection of a church was found nec-\\nessary, and a lot was jiurchascd at a cost of three hun-\\ndred dollars, and a church edifice was erected, which\\nwas of wood, at a cost of one thousand dollars, the size\\nbeing thirty by fifty feet, and services were held in\\nthe church until 18G1, when the old church wiis found\\ntoo small to accommodate the congregation, and it\\nwas enlarged and renovated in 18G1. The first pastor\\nto hold services in the old church was Rev. J. B. Case\\nin 1843, and was succeeded by Revs. Lewis Steil, Mr.\\nHalley, Mr. Brinkerhoof, Mr. Morris, J. M. Carpenter,\\nJ. L. Benedict, and J. G. Kntrekins.\\nThe church has been supplied since 1881, there\\nbeing no regular pastor. The church was rc lcdic:ited\\nin 18C2. Value of cliurch property, sixteen hundred\\ndollars; present membership, sixty. The present\\ndeacons are Jacob Tintle, Andrew Ilenion, with R.\\nF. Tintle, treasurer, and K. K. Ball, secretary and\\nclerk.\\nRev. Conrad Vreeland w;is the first to hold Baptist\\nservice in Stonetown, and in 1880 he organized a\\nchurch with a few members, as follows Jacob Monks\\nand family, Silas Pellinpton and family, John Car-\\nrigan and family. Mr. Silas I cllington gave a lot for\\nthe erection of a church, and in 1881 a cliurdi edifice\\nwas erected by Rev. Conrad Vreeland, an l in June,\\n1881, the church was completed, and dedicated by Rev.\\nJ. H. Burlinghani, assisted by Rev. C. Vreeland. The\\nchurch is built of wood, with slate roof, at a cost of\\nseven liuiidrc cl dnllurs, size being thirty l)y fifty feet.\\nI rcsctil niciiib( rslii|i about forty.\\nIndustries. The most extensive industries in this\\ntownship arc the mining and smelting of iron ore by\\nCooper Hewitt. The distinguished Peter Cooper,\\nof New York City, and his no less distinguished son-\\nin-law, Abram S. Hewitt, at present member of Con-\\ngress from New York City, compose this firm. The\\nfirm owns large tracts of land in the northern part of\\nthe township, at Ringwood and vicinity, and has ex-\\npended at least one million of dollars in purchases\\nand improvements in the vicinity. The ore from\\nthese mines is sent chiefly to the smelting-works of\\nthis firm in Pennsylvania.\\nMartin J. Ryerson has also a considerable interest\\nin iron-mines at Bloomingdale and vicinity. Mr.\\nLudlum, at Pompton, is extensively engaged in mak-\\ning steel, and in the manufacture of railroad materials\\nat Pompton Furnace.\\nComparative View. .V comparative view of the\\njiniyrtss of this township will be suggested by the\\ngeneral condition of Pompton forty years ago with its\\ncondition to-day. In 1840 it had 8 forges, 1 furnace,\\n3 grist-mills, 6 saw-mills, 5 schools, 186 scholars, and\\na population of 1437. Ryerson s, on the Pequannock\\nRiver, the jtresent Bloomingdale and Pomjiton, had 2\\nstores, 3 grist-mills, and one Reformed Dutch Church,\\none academy, already mentioned, and twenty dwell-\\nings considerably scattered. Ringwood, Boardville,\\nand Wanaque, on the Ringwood River, also had\\nforges. The township has now over two thousand in-\\nhabitants and nearly nine hundred scliool children,\\nand an assessable property valuation of nearly one\\nmillion of dollars. Pompton, owing to the mineral\\nwealth locked up in its mountains, may yet become\\nproi)ortionately one of tlie richest townships in Pa.s-\\nsaic County. It attracted the attention of the Old\\nWorld in the richness of its iron-mines before the\\nRevolution it furnished many men-of-war under\\nthe command of Cen. Krskine, during that great con-\\ntest for our independence, and its mines of wealth\\nhave drawn thither the energy, the means, and the\\nenterprise of great capitalists ever since. Its moun-\\ntains and its mines, its valleys and its plains, and,\\nabove all, its energetic and enterprising people will\\nalways form an interesting part in this great fabric of\\nthese .\\\\niorioan States.\\nRev. John N. Jansen. Thomas Janscn, the grand-\\nfather of the subject of this biographical sketch, was\\na resident of Marblctown, Ulster Co., N. Y., during\\nhis lifetime. He was married to Annetje Dubois, to\\nwhom were born four chiklrcn, Henry T., Dr. John\\nT., Garret Dubois, and Margaret (Mrs. Nathaniel Le\\nFevre).\\nThe birth of his son, Henry T., occurred at Mar-\\nblctown, where his boyhood was spent, and where\\nlater he settled upon the family estate. He followed\\nthe pursuits of an agriculturist was a man of thought-\\nful habits of mind, and of superior attainments, hav-\\ning been particularly skillful jis a surveyor. lU- was\\nan active worker in the church, aii l foremost in ad-\\nvancing the interests of Christianity. Mr. Janscn\\nwas united in marriage to Miss Lenah, daughter of\\nPeter Klmondorf, of Kingston. Their nine children\\nwere Margaret Dubois, Ellen Dewitt, Thomas Henry,\\nPeter Kdmiind, Jane Magdalene, John Nathiinicl,\\nAndrew Klmondorf, Clarissa Marria, and Kmlicl De-\\nwitt, who died in early childhood. Of this niimlicr\\nsix are still living. The death of Mr. Jansen occurred\\nin May, 1867.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1058.jp2"}, "904": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1061.jp2"}, "905": {"fulltext": ";i", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1062.jp2"}, "906": {"fulltext": "1 S r wT r etown, March\\n1, 182/, where h,s early years were spent, firs in at\\nt ndance at the public school of the distri t and lato\\ni S.S? Y^ ended tl^lc^lLl\\nlllt^ZrcT ^enteredthesophon.ore\\n1 e og,eaI seminary at New Brunswick in Ltob\\nof the same year, and finished his studies in 851\\nlaS.r. fT w ,i v t v\\nTl, I oi^ew Brunswick- V T\\nThey have had children,-Elenor Vail, bo n De! 2\\ni 5oo, who died March 7S iS7c i^r\\nwhose birth occurred Ma 26 Lr T\\nOct. 1, 1863 ^n^l lier death\\nmany noble ntitt n endowments and\\ni-er death to be In^L^lylXd\\nScSfti^i^f -T^*^^ P ^e\\nSchuyler, who Lgratd C?^ ff\\nin 1650, and settled HbanT N Y h\\nMargritta Slechtenhorst To t bV;\\nten children amnno- ge were born\\noccurred i;:![z; j;;: 7e;,^^^ t-^\\nfi-t pioneer of the t^New JeTsevI\\ntied at Pompton in 1M7 *et-\\nbadoes in mo K f ^ew Bar-\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i ildren, among whom wi Ph ifn\\n\u00c2\u00abn l married to RrT f..^ P ^om about 1688,\\ni d- :;:s Aitb^n rim^^^T\\nI l on land no,,- ^^bo located\\nt of this b ^^T: e daughters of the sub-\\ndeln \\\\tTt t direct line\\nMarch 5 m .t ^T- i tb occurred\\nKli-beth,Aar;nlTr V ^elen,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Schuyler ;cc; red Sept 6 ^8 f Vl\\nMarch 16, 18^1 The! n e\\n30 1795 \u00e2\u0080\u009e:t Cornelius was born April\\na; Se^Tn tostririrr ^^-^^i^\\n-buyler-s first cu Iyf ft H\\nvi 3 spent in the onC ^^o e\\nthe qu,et pursuits of a country gentle-\\nPOMPTON.\\nM\u00c2\u00bb A\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e. \u00c2\u00a3;2\u00c2\u00ab, :h1 pr^-cr\\n.l.o.e b\u00c2\u00ab|, \u00e2\u0080\u009eeeu,r.d Oct. 4, ,798. TI,. ThiM\u00e2\u0084\u00a2\\n^07^J^.eyUu4\\nSrrss:t:;^i;------^.of\\nHarriet. The grandsons are Corneli I S c\\nand WiUiam Henry, sons of Mrs or is Z\\nSchuyler s death occurred May 1 1S7S\\nMr. Schuyler Sept. 14 ISfiO ^He f\\nlifetime a character for tl bis\\nand in all th?:etti :i: :;;r r^tSi^-er\\nand honorable gentleman. He was brraT r\\nsympathies and generous in VZ\\nand oppressed evprfi np\u00c2\u00bbl\u00c2\u00abes, the poor\\nand frie^r H Ir Sf,-::, iper\\n^espouse theprinSeSSl^I^SS^^I^lIJ;;\\nwhich were in harmony with his views In Ir\\nbe supported the Beformed (Dutlh Churc), m\\nl^n^yler and her daughters, ir^^i^,;^:^-^^\\nDu cTiS Tt f P ^eformS\\nl,.\u00e2\u0080\u009e.o ^eli, in the advancement of which thev\\nbave always manifested a deep interest.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1063.jp2"}, "907": {"fulltext": "576\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.\\nCHAPTER LXXV.\\nWEST MILFORD.\\nPhysical Features. This township is located in\\nthe most nrrth western part of Passaic County, and\\nborders on the State line. It is a rough, rugged,\\nhilly, and n some parts a mountainous section of\\ncountrj-. Portions of the township are elevated at\\nleast one thousand feet above the level of the sea.\\nThe valley of the Pequaniiock bounds the township\\non the southwest, from Smith s Mills to Stockholm,\\na distance, in a straight line, of about ten miles,\\nwhile the mean length, from the northea-*t to the\\nsouthwest, is about si-^cteen miles, making the terri-\\ntory of the township like an unevenly shaped paral-\\nlelogram. The valley of the Pequannock from\\nSmith s Mills, in the extreme southwestern corner of\\nthe township, northwestwardly to New Foundland, is\\nvery narrow, with the hills on both sides shooting up\\nabruptly from the river, in most places a massive pile\\nof rocks. Here the river makes a most rapid de-\\nscent. In some places there is a fall of from fifty to\\nseventy-five feet in running only a few rods, affording\\nimmeimc advantages for water-power. This section\\nis rich in limestone and iron-mines of the very richest\\nquality. The valley from New Foundland to Stock-\\nholm affords a better farming country, though there\\nare but few acres of flat land here or in other parts of\\nthe township. It is nearly all of it an upland, roll-\\ning, or mountainous country. The land is generally\\nwell watered with i ure, rapid-running mountain\\nstre;ims. Bunker, Cedar, Black s, and Hawk s Ponds\\nand Echo and Greenwood Lakes are beautiful bodies\\nof water, the ponds and Echo Lake being located\\nnear the northwestern borders, and Greenwood Lake\\nextending several miles from the northeastern border\\nof the township into the State of New York, being\\nnine miles long by about one mile in width. The\\nWanaque River, running south through Pompton\\ntownship, is the outlet of this lake. The soil in West\\nMilforil is well adapted to grass and pasturage.\\nSheep and cattle thrive on the hills, and produce the\\nbeat samples of their kind. Here hard and patient\\ntoil will always secure to the farmer all the comforts\\nof life. The township is almost wholly devoted to\\nagricultural pursuits, with small farms averaging\\nfrom eovcnty-five to one hundred acres each.\\nEarly Settlements.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early settlers came into this\\nsectifiM lung before the Revolution from Germany and\\nother European countries, having been first called here\\non account of the extensive iron-mines, sf)me of which\\nhad been worked early in the eighteenth century.\\nThe .Strubels, Schulsters, Vrcelnnds, and the Ka-\\nnousc families were early settlers within the present\\nterritory of this township. .lohn George Kanouse,\\nthe ancestor of this family, came from Holland about\\nthe year 1720, paying for his passage thither by sell-\\ning his time and labor for about two years after his\\narrival. He afterwards owned a thirty-acre tract near\\nthe present residence of John P. Brown, in Nut\\nFoundland. His son, Jacob Kanouse, was born in\\n1762, and his daughter Elizabeth, now living, is the\\nmother of John P. Brown, the proprietor of the\\nfamous hotel or tavern at New Foundland.\\nPeter P. Brown, father, and John P. Brown, his son,\\nhave kept a hotel here, just on the edge of West Mil-\\nford township, for more than sixty -five years. Half\\na century ago this tavern was known far and near.\\nTravelers from two and three hundred miles away,\\nthen remote parts of the country, from Pennsylvania\\nand the southern range of counties in the State of\\nNew York, making their long journeys in private\\nconveyances, before the advent of railroads, journeyed\\nlong and late to reach this favorite stopping-place.\\nHunters and pleasure-seekers resorted thither, and\\nmany are the stories of the good cheer with mine\\nhost in the olden time.\\nCivil History. West Milford is the offspring of\\nPompton township. Its people will therefore learn\\nthrough what municipal changes the territory of their\\ntownship had passed prior to its separate organization\\nby reading the history of New Barbadoes, S.iddle\\nRiver, Franklin, and Pompton townships in this vol-\\nume. West Milford was organized in 1834 by the\\nfollowing act:\\n.\\\\N ACT to filnltUh a neic townthip tn (Ae county of Btrffen^poMfd Feb-\\nnuir) 23, lSt4.\\nSllcTlos I. Be it macled hy Uie Council and General Attemblff of ijti\u00c2\u00bb\\nifiate, aud it i* Uerrht/ enttcttil by tUe anthoTilg of the tame, ^TIiAt nil tliat pur!\\nor tlitf tuwiislilp of Pompton. in the coiint of Bergvii, wliicb lli-* williiii\\nthe huuuijjiries and ilrscrliilions fuUoHing, to wit: i c^lnhiiig \u00c2\u00bbt tlie\\nIriilge cruuing tlie Pequanuc Itiver, on tlie Ptilcrsou \u00c2\u00abud llnmhurg\\ntarnpllce n .n(l, h ffw riHls east of Cook*\u00c2\u00ab Hill, so called, and ou the Mor-\\nris Oiunty line thence a dirert couiae northerljr and easterly to mouth\\nof a ntad a few nitla e:t8t of the boose latcl/ occupied by Itichard G. Rjr-\\ner^on, nintiiiiK ^nth Mai l road a northerly coum* to tlir Nt-w Y -ik Stat\u00c2\u00ab\\nline Iheiicc westwanlly as fur as ui tlie Snasex line and thence ninnlns\\nEkiiithnardl) along said line an fur as the Moriis Coniitj line; Ihenc*\\neast^ardly along said Murris County line until it readies the btidga\\nUdow Cook s nill, being the |dtice of tieginning, shall It and the same\\nis hereby set olT from tlie township afotvsaid aud estaldished a sepantle\\nItiwnship, to ba called and known by the name of tlio township of West\\nMilford.\\nThe act in the next section provides for the first\\ntown-meeting to be held at the inn of Peter Dera-\\narest, at New Foundland, in said township. West\\nMilford, therefore, commenced its career in the coun v\\nof Bergen but three years afterwards, on the h of\\nFebruary, 1837, it became part of Passaic t ounty.\\nFirst it was part of Essex from 16.S2 to irfi!*, then of\\nBergen from 1709 to 1837, and lastly of Passaic from\\n1837. Its first chosen freeholders were James L.\\nDickerson and Isaac P. Cooley, for the year 1834, and\\nwere followed by William Spripg and Jeremiah Wil-\\nliams for 18.35, and by Williams and Jetur R. Riggs\\nfor 1836, when the township passed into Passaic\\nCounty, and the names of the succeeding freeholder-\\nare as follows\\n1837-38, ll .rac* i.aroe; 1S.C-.1S, Peter S. Demaresl; 1S.19. Henry M.\\nBrown; 1840, Joseph J. FllageralH; 1839. 1S41:-1C, Jetur R. Ki|!K\u00c2\u00bb.\\nISHO, Garret W. Van Wen 1841, Jidin Vnu Hiusen 1847, Peter B.", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1064.jp2"}, "908": {"fulltext": "WEST MILFORD.\\n5Ti\\nBrown; 1843, Jercmfiih Williams; 18C8-G0, Kichard H. Colfax;\\n18M-51. 180V-58, 18C2-GC, BcnjnmiQ Coolcy; 1841-42, 1S4S-46, Isaac\\nP. Coolfv; 1S44, Cliilioll F. DeCimp; 1840-50, Edward Do Camp;\\nlSn5, P. Decker; 1850-57, 1859-01. 18C8-70, 1875-77, Tlioma3 B.\\nVroeland; 1847-49, Samuel D. Mead; 1800-07, Chilion Laroe;\\n185C, 1858-01,. lolm .1. Laroe; 1851-,55, Stephen Terhuno; 187:i-74,\\nOscar F. Sniitli; 1852-54, Peter Eutan 1803-04, 1871-72, William\\nWickhani 1605, Jacob C. McConnell 1807, Samuel Gregory 1802,\\nWilliam Eckliart.\\nHistoric Places and Events.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 There are no lo-\\ncalities of special liistorical intere.st in this township;\\nbut this section was famous for the patriotic fervor of\\nits people during the Revolution. Robert Erskine, in\\n1776. organized one of the first companies of the New\\nJersey militia from some of the hardy mountaineers\\nof this section.\\nVillages and Hamlets.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 There are no large vil-\\nlages in the township. Charlotteburg, New Found-\\nland, Stockholm, and AVest Milford are small ham-\\nlets, not averaging three hundred inhabitants each\\nbut the West Milford Valley from New Foundland\\nto Greenwood Lake is thickly settled, and so are\\nmany other sections in the vicinity of Echo I^.ake, and\\nto the northwest of it in going to West Milford and\\nwest of Greenwood Lake, near the border of the\\ntownship.\\nSchools.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 West Milford in 1881 had 908 school\\nchildren, showing a falling off from the previous year\\nof 10 children. Its school property is valued at $6500.\\nThe schools, especially at New Foundland and at\\nWest Milford Village, arc oil attended, and great\\ninterest is felt in these primary schools, which in this\\nsection constitute almost the only source of education\\nfor the young.\\nChurches, One of the oldest if not the oldest\\nchurch in the township is the church established by\\nthe Catholics in the vicinity of Echo Lake. Many of\\nthe people in this locality are descended from Ger-\\nman Catholics and other European settlers, who came\\nhere early in the eighteenth century, as we have\\nalready stated. This church was established soon\\nafter the Revolution. It has had no stilted pastor\\nfor years, but priests from other congregations have\\nfaithfully ministered to this church since its organi-\\nzation. There is also a Baptist Church in this vi-\\ncinity, built about five years ago.\\nA Presbyterian Church h.is long been established\\nat the village of West Milford. Rev. Mr. Tuttle was\\nan eaily pastor, and was succeeded by Rev. Joseph\\nJloore, who was followed by Rev. Mr. Godwin, who\\nwas the pastor for more than twelve years, and was\\nsucceeded by Kev. Mr. Osier, the present pastor.\\nThis church is in a prosperous condition.\\nThere has been a M?thodist Church there for many\\nyears, and their new edifice was built about two years\\nsince. There is also a Presbyterian Church at New\\nFoundland. Its first pastor, more than seventy years\\nago, was Rev. Edward Allen. He was ordained\\nCapt. Martin Brown s barn in the vicinity. He\\nsucceeded by Rev. Edward Osborne, nearly\\nyears ago. Rev. George Kanouse, a descend-\\nant of the early settler of that name, already men-\\ntioned in this history, became the next pastor, and\\nleft about forty years since. He was a most able and\\nfaithful preacher. Mr. Osborne again returned for a\\nshort time, and was followed by Rev. Mr. Wadsworth\\nabout thirty years ago. He was pastor for about\\ntwenty years, and was followed by Rev. Mr. Layton\\nfor a short time, and was succeeded by Rev. R. R.\\nThompson, the present pastor. Nearly all of the re-\\nligious denominations mentioned herein hold services\\nin different parts of the township as occasion may re-\\nquire. Many Sabbath-schools are connected with\\nthese several churches, and the children in these\\nmountain homes are brought up to reverence and\\nhonor the institutions of Christianity.\\nIndustries, The industries in this township are\\nmostly agricultural. The ruins of many old iron-\\nforges are to be found along the Pequannock and in\\nother parts of the township, which were in active op-\\neration before and since the Revolution but except-\\ning a few grist-mills and the iron-works at Charlotte-\\nburg, manual labor here is almost entirely confined\\nto fiirming pursuit.s.\\nThe New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail-\\nroad runs in and out of the township three times in\\npassing up the Pequannock Valley, its longest running\\ndistance in the township being from a point a little\\nabove New Foundland to a point nearly in the north-\\nwestern corner of the township. The Mont Clair\\nand Greenwood Lake Railway also enters the town-\\nship in passing up the Winokie Valley, in the extreme\\nsoutheastern part of the township, terminating at\\nGreenwood Lake.\\nThe railroad facilities within the last ten years\\nhave afforded the farming community great advan-\\ntages in shipping their products to a ready market.\\nRemoteness from any market before the ingress of\\nrailroads embarrassed and at times greatly discour-\\naged the farmers of West Milford. Immense quan-\\ntities of milk are now shipped daily by rail to New\\nYork City.\\nA comparative view of this township during the\\nlast forty years, covering nearly the period of its\\nexistence, shows that in 1840 it had 10 forges, 2 tan-\\nneries, 2 grist-mills, 5 saw-mills, 11 schools, 408 schol-\\nars, and a population of 2108, and to-day it has as\\nmany forges, but not any of them in active, continu-\\nous operation, and as many other mills, as many\\nschools, but, with a more accurate census probably,\\nit now has 90S school children, but with a population\\nto-day not much exceeding 2500. The area of the\\ntownship in acres is 41,369, at a valuation of $556,371.\\nThe area was the same forty years ago, but the valua-\\ntion then would not exceed $200,000. It is a rural\\ntownship, but it feeds cities, not only with food, but\\nwith hardy men and women, for whom the exhausting\\ntoil of cities creates a constant demand. West Mil-\\nford does not confine its progress within itself, but\\nextends it abroad all over the county.\\ny", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1065.jp2"}, "909": {"fulltext": "I\\n:s^y^\\n1", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1066.jp2"}, "910": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "2043", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1067.jp2"}, "911": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3034", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenp00clay_1068.jp2"}}