{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3624", "width": "2293", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class.\\nBook\\nSMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT", "height": "3359", "width": "2069", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "2069", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "s\\nLYON S\\nllitittff I MUtmtm\\nON BOONTON", "height": "3447", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "2069", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "HISTORICAL DISCOURSE\\nON BOONTON,\\nDELIVERED BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF BOONTON, AT\\nWASHINGTON MALL, ON THE EVENINGS OF\\nSEPTEMBER 21 AND 28, AND OCTOBER 5, 1887,\\nJiV\\nISAAC S. LYON, Ex-Cartman.\\nfr/tii\\nPRINTED FOP. THE AUTHOR, AND FOR SALE BY IILM\\nONLY, AT HIS STORE IN BROOK STREET, BOONTON\\nPRICE, 0 OETNI S.\\nIJtaVJKt, 3t.\\nPBINTBD AT THE DAILY JO UKNAL OFFICE, 184 JlABXBT STBEETj\\n18 73.", "height": "3447", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "DEDICATION.\\nTo the future Inhabitants of Boonton, who, I doubt not, will more fully\\nappreciate the value of the information contained in these pages, than do\\nthe people of Boonton, of the present day, this Discourse is respectfully\\ninscribed by,\\nTHE AUTHOR.\\nV\\nA", "height": "3447", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nINTRODUCTORY AND EXPLANATORY.\\nThe larger portion of the following His-\\ntorical Discourse on Boonton was written dur-\\ning the year 1850, and was first delivered be-\\nfore the citizens of said town on the evening\\nof October -id of that year. Shortly after\\nits delivery I obtained a considerable amount\\not new and interesting information relating\\nto the early history of Old Boonton and lor\\nthe purpose of introducing it into its proper\\nplace and connection I found that it would\\nbe necessary to rewrite and rearrange the\\nwhole discourse. This tedious and laborious\\ntask was performed during the year 18G0,\\nwith the intention of redelivering it at that\\ntime but, owing to the then distracted con-\\ndition of our country, its delivery was de-\\nferred until the year 18G7, at which time it\\nwas redelivered as it now Btands. It was\\noriginally written in three parts, under the\\ncaption of B ronton Past, Present and Fu-\\nture. I now present it exactly as it was de-\\nlivered in 1807, divided under tho three fol-\\nlowing headings Part First\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Old Boonton\\nPart Second\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Boonton Part Third Miscel-\\nlaneous Facts and Speculations.\\nAt the first d-elivery of tbis discourse, in\\n1839, there was a large and appreciative au-\\ndience present, and parts one and two were\\nwell received but part three, the Future,\\nwas pretty sharply criticised and ridiculed by\\nu few of the gentlemen then preBent. The\\nvisual organs of those gentlemen were not\\nthen quite keen enough to see things as yet\\nunseen, and they denounced many of my\\nwell-planned visions of the future as alto-\\ngether improbable, if not absolutely impossi-\\nble. Tis true that many of the great events\\nthen just beginning to assume form and shape\\nin tho mighty womb of the future were then\\nseen, if seen at all, as through a glass dark-\\nly but, now that many of those predic-\\ntions have been fully verified, those self-same\\ngentlemen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the scales having fallen from their\\neyes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 can now see those then unseen thin^e\\nquite distinctly\u00e2\u0080\u0094 yea, even in the full blazs of\\nunclouded sunshine But this is not all, for\\nthose self-same Rip Van Winkles now havo\\nthe r.ssuranco to boldly exclaim, Didn t 1\\ntell you so Many of the events that were\\npredicted on that occasion (1859), and which\\nwere sneered at as the senseless fictions of a\\ndistempered lniagimition, have already be-\\ncome matters of history, and can now be seen\\nby all. I was juBt then beginning to wear\\nglasses myself; but Btill I thought, as 1\\nglanced my old spectacled eyes along down\\nthe bright vibta of the future, that I could\\nvery clearly discern in the distance a vaet\\nsign-board, on which was very distinctly in\\nscribed these cheering words\\nBoonton a bound to go ahead\\nAnd now the important fact occurs to my\\nmind that of all the aged persons of whom I\\nobtained valuable information at that time\\nnot one of them is at present living. Rip9 in\\nyears and honors, those venerable old chroni-\\nclers have all passed away and had these re-\\nsearches into our past history been deferred\\nuntil the present time, much that has been\\nrescued from the oblivious past would have\\nb?en lost to us and our posterity forever.\\nIt was not my intention that this discoursa\\nshould have been published during my own\\nlifetime, fori very well know that the present\\nage is not capable of appreciating such a\\nproduction; but I feel quite confident that\\nthe Boontonians of the luture will, and that\\nthey will thank me for the performance of\\nthe difficult task, rudely and imperfectly as\\nit has been done. I now submit it for publi-\\ncation, in the hope that by multiplying its\\nnumbers it may be preserved and perpetuated\\nuntil the facts which it contains shall be rec-\\nognized and appreciated.\\nBoonton, N. J., March, 187*", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3447", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PART FIRST,\\nOLD BOONTON\\nSeptember 21, 1867.\\nLadies and Gentlemen It has been\\ntruly said that history is the great magic\\nmirror in winch the histoiian, the mightiest\\nof magicians, coDJures up the scenea and in-\\ncidents of the past for the instruction of pres-\\nent and future generation?. Only about one\\ncentury has elapsed since the first known set-\\ntlement of this section of country, and but\\none generation haB passed away tince the\\nfirst permanent settlement of this now beau-\\ntiful village, and yet it is already a difficult\\nmatter to obtain any correct knowledge\\nrespecting the early history of either,\\nand in a few short years more the\\nlittle that is now known would pass from\\nthe memory of our aged inhabitants and be\\nentirely forgotten if left in its present unre-\\ncorded state. It is in this view of the sub-\\nject the hope of benefiting the people of\\nfuture ages, more than for the enlightenment\\nof the present\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that I have undertaken the\\nlaborious tatk which I have thus voluntarily\\nimposed upon myself, without the most dis-\\ntant hope of pecuniary reward.\\nThe origin and early history of many of\\nthe great empires and cities of antiquity have\\nbeen wholly lost to the modern world merely\\nbecause there were no observing chroniclers\\npresent to record them. The early history of\\nthe once mighty empires of Egypt and\\nGreece, of Arabia and Persia, in the Eastern\\nworld, and of the great Aztec and Allegke-\\nnian races, whose arts and intelligence ence\\nextended the line of civilization along the\\nshores of the Western World, now lie buried\\nbeneath the accumulated rubbish of past ages.\\nThe names and character of tho people who\\nreared the grand old cities of Troy and Car-\\nthage, of Balbec and Palmyra, of Nineveh\\nand Persipolis, of Thebes and Memphis, have\\nall passed away, and the date of their origin\\nhas long since been forgotten. And thus\\nmight it have been in regard to much rare\\nand valuable information relating to the early\\nhistory of those two great modern cities,\\nLondon and New York, but for the industry\\nand perseverance of those two rare old chron-\\niclers, Stow and Denton. In the reign of Eliz-\\nabeth one John Stow, as he was sometimes\\ncalled, a citizen of London, aud a tailor by\\ntrade, made a personal survey of every Btreet\\nand lane in every ward in that famous old\\ncity, and in his scarce old book, entitled A\\nSurvey of London, he has left us datailed\\ndescriptions of all the old landmark* that\\nexisted at that time. And the same may bo\\nsaid of the little book of Daniel Denton, in\\nwhich he gives a vivid description of New\\nYork in 1670. Although not near so large and\\nlearned a work as Stow s, still it constitutes\\nthe starting point from which all subsequent\\nhistorians have derived most of their infor-\\nmation of the early days of the now greai\\nAmerican metropolis. I am not vain enough,\\nhowever, to suppose that this little village of\\nBoonton will ever rival either of those great\\ncities, or that this imperfect and hastily writ-\\nten little sketch will in any way compare\\nwith the deeply interesting productions ol\\neither of those quaint old authors. In pre-\\nparing this discourse my highest ambition", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6\\nlias been to collect all the facts, great and\\nsmall, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2within my reach, in any way apper-\\ntaining to the local history of this village\\nand its suburbs, and compiling them together\\nin the best form and manner of which I am\\ncapable. These facts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 many of them simple\\nin themselves, tis true I now place upon\\nrecord for the benefit of the future historian,\\nwho will know well enough what to do with\\nthem.\\nIt is quite impossible at the present time to\\nascertain the exact date when the first settle-\\nment of this section of Morria county was\\nmade, or by whom made. I have made dili-\\ngent inquiry on this point in various direc-\\ntions with but little success, for there do\\nnot appear to have been any written records\\nmade upon this subject. All the old land-\\nmarks, and all the written records of the past,\\nif any were ever made, seem to have been\\nswept away and destroyed, and clouds of\\nmisty obscurity now envelop most of the\\nscenes and incidents connected with our early\\nhistory. In a description of the Province of\\nNew Jersey, published in the Gentleman s\\nMagazine, in London, in the year 1755, no\\nmention whatever is made of Morris county.\\nAll that section of country lying north and\\nwest of the Passaic river is described as tub-\\nknown lands but we know that this state-\\nment is not true, for there are plenty of au-\\nthentic records still extant that go to prove\\nthe contrary, of which I uhall have more to\\nsay as we proceed.\\nAmong the places in this section of Morris\\ncounty known to have been settled at an early\\nday are those of Bever-Wyck and what is\\nnow known as Old Boonton. It is a well-\\nknown fact that the first named place was\\noccupied by a wealthy planter of the name\\nof Lucas Von Beaverhoudt, who emigrated\\nhere from the Island of St. Thomas some-\\nwhere between the years 1745 and 1750. TLe\\nold manor of Bever-Wyck included many\\nthousand acres, and was under cultivation\\nwhen Mr. Von Beaverhoudt first settled there,\\nlie brought with him from the Island of St.\\nThomas, when he emigrated to New Jersey,\\na large number of negro slaves to work bis\\nplantation, and in my youthful days I have\\noften heard old persons say that they had\\nseen several hundreds of these slaves working\\ntogether in the same field. The old Bever-\\nWyck manor is situated a little east of the\\nvillage of Troy, on the turnpike road leading\\nfrom Parsippany to Caldwell. One hundred\\nyears ago it was one of the largest and best\\ncultivated plantations in New Jersey. It was\\nstill in its glory when I was a boy of ten\\nyears old but now it is shorn of much of its\\nformer greatness and splendor. It was called\\nthe Red Barracks during the Revolution,\\non account of the numerous red huts that\\nhad been erected there for the accommodation\\nof the slaves, and was much visited during\\ntLat period by Washington and the principal\\nofficers of the American army. It has been\\nrelated to me as a historical fact, by Dr. R.\\nV. W. Fairchild, who had it from his grand-\\nmother, the late Mrs. G. D. Brinkerhoof, who\\ndied in 1818, at the advanced age of 95 years,\\nthat Washington, Hamilton and Andre 11\\nonce slept under the hospitable roof of the\\nold Bever-Wyck mansion on the same night.\\nIt appears that Major Andre had long been\\non terms of intimacy with the family of Mr.\\nVon Beaverhoudt Bever-Wyck being con-\\nsidered as neutral ground by both par-\\nties during the Revolution and having\\noften expressed a strong desire to see\\nGeneral Washington, the great champion\\nof rebellion, it was so arranged between\\nthem that he might be there on the same\\nnight that Washington and Hamilton were\\nexpected to be present. The interview, how-\\never, was not mutual, but was obtained on\\nthe part of Andre by concealing himself in\\nan adjoining room and peeking tlirough a\\ncrack in the door. His cariosity was fully\\ngratified but he saw Washington again\\nshortly after, in a less attractive light, at Tar-\\nrytown.\\nI regret very much that I have not been\\nable to fix the exact date of the first settle-\\nment of Old Boonton but, after all my re-\\nsearches for information on this important\\npoint, I have not been successful in tracing\\nout anything of a decisive character upon\\nthe subject. As remarked by Rev. Peter Ka-\\nnouse, who is now about 80 years of tge, in a\\nlate letter addressed to me, in reply to a letter to\\nhim, soliciting information upon this particu-\\nlar point, These researches have been de-\\nlayed too long by at least one generation.\\nBut, happily for posterity, if not for our-\\nselves, we have not been left wholly in the\\ndark upon the subject of our early history.\\nThanks to the virtues of old-time parchment,", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "and the retentive memory of a few aged m\\ndividuals who still remain amongst us, all U\\nnot yet lost There are still in existence an\\nold map and deed of the Boonton tract, which\\nthrow considerable light upon the fust set-\\nLlementa made in this vicinity. And there\\nlikewise yet remain in our midst a few living\\nrelics of the past\u00e2\u0080\u0094 aged men and women, in\\nwhose fading memories still float many shad-\\nowy visions of the far-off olden time\\naged men and women, who have already\\npHs-ed the prescribed limits allotted to hu-\\nman existence, and whose snow-crowned\\nheads still loom up amid the solitudes of\\nTime, constituting the only existing links\\nthat now connect the living with the dead,\\nthe present with the past. It is from these\\nliving chronicles of a by-gone age\u00e2\u0080\u0094 these\\naged men and women, who have breasted the\\nBtorms of life and withstood the prostrating\\nhand of Time for more than three-score years\\nand ten\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that I have obtained most of my\\nfacts and information respecting the early\\nhistory of Old Boonton. But theso aged men\\nand women, in whose flickering memories are\\nnow garnered up these golden treasures of\\nthe past, and whose faltering tongues alone\\ncau give them utterance, will too soon be laid\\nlow in the cold and icy grasp of death. This,\\nand this alone\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the hope of rescuing some of\\nthese facts and incidents from their down-\\nward pilgrimage to oblivion and the grave,\\nlor the enlightenment of those who shall\\ncome after us has prompted me to attempt\\nthis difficult and laborious undertaking.\\nIn order to fully understand our present\\nsituation it will be necessary to take a brief\\nsurrey of the history of New Jersey. New\\nYork and New Jersey were both Grst settled\\nby the Dutch about the year 1614, both prov-\\ninces remaining in peaceful poseesfion of the\\nsame during a period of just fifty years. In\\nthe year 1664 Charles Second, of England,\\nwith a liberality worthy his high station\\nthough he had not even the shadow of a title to\\nback him\u00e2\u0080\u0094 concluded to oust the honest\\nDutchman from his possessions and appropri-\\nate them to himself. In pursuance of this\\npurpose a royal charter, dated 20th of March,\\n1G64, was executed in favor of the Duke of\\nYork, containing a grant of the whole region\\nof country extending from the western bank\\nof the Connscticnt river to the eastern shore\\nof the Delaware. The royal Duke beiDg at\\nthat time considerably involved in his pe-\\ncuniary transactions, soon thereafter conveyed\\nto Lord Berkley and Sir George Carteret all\\nthat portion of territory which forms tho\\npresent state of New Jersey. Shortly after\\nCol. Nichols, with an armament consisting\\nof three ships, with 180 guns and GOO men,\\nwere sent over to take possession, peaceably\\nif he could, forcibly if he must but the\\nquiet and peace-loving Dutchman yieided up\\nthe prize without resistance, and the English\\nat once became masters of the situation. The\\nprovince was then divided into East and\\nWest Jersey, Oirteret assuming the govern\\nment of tho former, and Berkley that of the\\nlatter. Sir George Carteret and his brother\\nPhilip retained possession of East Jersey un-\\ntil about the end of the year 1G81, when the\\nprovince was transferred to other hands.\\nEmigrants now began to flock in from all\\nquarters, and the country soon began to fill\\nup with hardy and industrious settlers. Some.\\nof them purchased their land of the Proprie-\\ntors, and others purchased from the Indians,\\nthe rightful owners of tho soil, but which\\nwas contrary to the laws promulgated by the\\nKiug of England. Affairs remained in this\\nwild state of confusion and bewilderment\\nuntil the year 1702, at which time the Propri-\\netors surrendered the government of the Jer-\\neies to the Crown, and the two provinces\\nwere united into one. The same Governor\\nruled over both New York and New Jersey\\nuntil the year 1738, at which time a separate\\nGovernor was appointed over the latter prov-\\nince.\\nThe earliest account we have of the extin-\\nguishment of the Indian title to the land\\nupon which Boonton now stands extends\\nback about two hundred years. A short time\\nbefore the news of the grant made by Charles\\nSecond to the Duke of York reached here a\\nnumber of companies had been organized for\\nthe purpose of purchasing lands of the In-\\ndians, with a view of establishing new settle-\\nments. On the 28th of October, 1GG4, John\\nBailey, Daniel Denton and Luke Watson, of\\nJamaica, on Long Island, purchased of cer-\\ntain Indian chiefs of Staten Island large\\ntracts of wild lands in East Jersey. These\\ntracts were four in number, and were subse-\\nquently known as the Elizabeth, the Moun-\\ntain, the Horse Neck and the Van Gison.\\nThese four tracts were estimated to contain", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nabout 400,000 acres, and embraced moat of the\\nlauds included within the present limits of\\nEssex and Morris counties. The considera-\\ntion given the Indians for these immense\\ntracts of land was thirty-six pounds fourteen\\nshillings sterling, payable in Indian trinkets\\nat four times their real value, being less than\\nhalf a mill an acre, and less than the price of\\nan ordinary building lot in Boonton at the\\npresent day. Daniel Denton soon thereafter\\nsold out his share of the purchase to one\\nOapt. John Baker, of New York, and John Og-\\nden, of Northampton. The Proprietors of\\nFist Jersey resisted their claim to these lands\\nunder the Indian title, and a long and almost\\ninterminable suit in Chancery was the conse-\\nquence. After years of litigation the case\\nwas finally decided in favor of the Proprie-\\ntors, and all those who had purchased lands\\nof Bayley Co. had to either throw up their\\nclaim or repurchase of th9 old Proprietors.\\nSuch is generally the power of might over\\nright.\\nI now come to speak more particularly cf\\nwhat has long been known as the Boonton\\nTract, and of the first settlement of what we\\nnow term Old Boonton. I obtain the fol-\\nlowing facts from the original deed from\\nSamuel Ogden and his wife to John Jacob\\nand Richard B. Faish. This deed bears date\\nOct. 8th, 1805, and is signed by Samuel Og-\\nden and Euphemia, his wife, as convey-\\nancers, and is witnessed by William Mere-\\ndith and Lewis Morris Ogden. The amount\\nof land conveyed at this time was two thou-\\nsand five hundred and one acres and fifty-\\nfour-hundredth of an acre, and the price paid\\nfor it was $10,000. This deed is written on\\nthree folio sheets of parchment, and in it\\nmention is made of all the lands that had\\nbeen sold from the tract up to that date. The\\noriginal Boonton tract contained four thou-\\nsand and sixty-six acres and thirty-eight hun-\\ndredths of an acre. It extended along on\\nboth sides of the Rockaway river, but mostly\\non the west bank, commencing some distance\\nbelow Old Boonton, and extending up the\\neaid river to the Rockaway valley, embracing\\nwithin its limits not only Old and New Boon-\\nton and Powerville, but also portions of the\\npresent villages of Montville, Taylortown\\nand Denville. The oldest transfer of title\\nreferred to in this deed makes reference to a\\ntract of about nine acres, lying on the west\\nbank of the Rockaway river, about one mile\\nabove the Boonton Iron Works/ conveyed to\\none Fanny Thomas before 1719. This, no\\ndoubt, is the same tract that is now termed\\nthe Fanny Place, situated on the back road\\n-leading from Old Boonton to Powerville.\\nThere is a small tract of land, corresponding\\nwith this location, marked on the map re-\\nferred to as having been deeded to Fanny\\nThomas, but no date is given. Reference is\\nalso made on this map to a tract of land con-\\ntaining one hundred and fifty acres, conveyed\\nby George Ryerson to Frederick Demouth by\\na deed dated January, 174G. It is judged\\nfrom its location that the tavern house at\\nPowerville now stands on a part of this tract.\\nBetween the years 1766 and 1800 David Og-\\nden and his son Samuel sold land in various\\nquantities to the following named persons\\nall names very well known in this section of\\nMorris county Abraham Van Winkle, Elias\\nVan Winkle, Jaoob Kanouse, Conradt Ka-\\nnouse, Conradt Hoppler. John Tucker, Nicho-\\nlas Husk, Charles Norway, Christian Lowrer,\\nDaniel Peer, Abraham Peer, Lemuel Cobb,\\nJames Van Duyne, Edmund, Joseph and\\nIsaac Kingsland. Considerable quantities of\\nthese lands still remain in possession of the\\ndescendants of the original purchasers, but\\nmost of them have passed into other hands.\\nWe will now pass to the consideration of\\nthe early history of Old Boonton, or to such\\nportions of it as we have been able to trace\\nout. And here permit me to remark that I\\napproach the investigation of the subject\\nwith feelings somewhat akin to those of the\\nman who attempts to seek oat the graves of\\nhis ancestors in an old burying ground in\\nwhiclTno monuments had been erected. The\\nhistory of Old Boonton is so deeply shrouded\\nin doubt and mystery that it is a difficult mat-\\nter to arrive at any important conclusions\\nwith certainty but still 1 hope to be able to\\ndisentomb some of its long buried remains,\\nand expose to the light of day some of its\\nlong hidden secrets. But the exact time when\\nand by whom Old Boonton was first settled\\nis a secret that, probably, will never be made\\nknown to us but that it was settled prior to\\nthe year 1700\u00e2\u0080\u0094 probably as early at 1685\\nthere are some very good reasons for believ-\\ning, as I shall presently show. The only au-\\nthentic information I have been able to ob-\\ntain upon the subject places the Boontor", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "tract in possession of David Ogden as early as\\n1759 but the exact time at which the title\\nto this property came into his possession is\\nnot known neither is it known of whom he\\nobtained it, nor the manner in which it was\\nacquired. Possibly he might have inherited\\nit through relationship to (ht John Ogden\\nwho purchased the Denton claim; or, what is\\nstill more likely, he might have obiaiued it\\nof the Proprietors as a compensation for the\\nservices which he rendered them in the gtent\\nChancery Buit, in which they were plaintiffs,\\nthe issue of which was determined in their\\nfavor at about the time that it is supposed to\\nhave first come into his possession.\\nBut perhaps it would be well before pro-\\nceeding any further on this point to try and\\nascertain the time, way aud manner in which\\nthe name of Boonton originated. This is a\\nhard puzzle to unriddle, but I shall try it.\\nSome half a century ago the name was spelled\\nwith an e, thus: Boone-Town, but whence\\nderived is rather uncertain. The Rev. Peter\\nKanouse is o f ihe iuiurrsjion that the name\\nwas derived rom a small town in England of\\nthe same name, and Thomas (J. Willis is of\\nthe opinion that it was named after a place of\\nthat name in Holland but I think that both\\nof these gentlemen are laboring under a\\nwrong impression. I have examined very\\ncritioally maps of both these countries, pub-\\nlished in 176o but I cannot find the name\\nof aoy place in either of those countries that\\nbears any resemblance whatever to it. There\\nis an old legend currrent among several old\\npersons in this section of country that runs\\naway back into pre-historic times, to this ef-\\nfect. They Bay that they have heard tueir\\nfathers say that one Winter, shortly after the\\nfirst settlement of the place, flour was so\\nhcrtrce in the neighborhood that all the peo-\\nple then residing there had to subsist entirely\\nou meat for several mouths. The men who\\nworked in the iron works it appears, then,\\nthat there were iron works there at that early\\nday\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all lived in a little circle of log huts,\\nfrom the doors of which they all threw their\\nbones into the centre of the open circle after\\nthey had been thoroughly picked. These\\nbones soon reared themselves into a small\\npyramid, as a matter of course. In the Spring\\na stranger visited the settlement for the pur-\\npose of spending a few days with a friend\\nwho worked there. On returning from the\\nworks to their huts one dark night the stran\\nger, not being familiar with the waihs stumbled\\nover the pile of bones and braised is ll\\nOn regaining his foet he inquired, What s\\nthe name of this miserable plao It\\nhasn t, got any ruuno replied his friend.\\nWell, then, responded the stranger, shrag\\ngintf his shoulders and rubbing his l r\\nshins, Idar-I in v .-ye*, if I don t. Dam\\nBom i Booh is the spirit, if not the\\nexact letter, of the dim and shadowy old le\\n{fend, as related by bouio of the aged men of\\nthe present day.\\nBut there is another vi-w to bo taken upon\\nthe subject which is eutith-d t, our consider\\nation. The Hon. W. A. Whitehead, of New-\\nark, writes me that he thinks it is possible.\\ntoe name of Boonton may have been derived\\nfrom that of Gov. Boone, aud this, I am in-\\nclined to think, is the most probable solution\\nof the mystery. As I before stated, our ear-\\nliest correct information upon the suoject\\nplaces the individual ownership of the Boon-\\nton tract in possession of David Ogden, Esq\\nan eminent lawyer of Newurk, as early as\\n1759 Thomas Boone, a gentleman of con-\\nsiderable note in those days, was Governor of\\nthe Province of New Jersey during the years\\n1760-61 and 62. It is not, therefore, at all\\nimprobable but that Mr. Otrden was person-\\nally acquainted with Gov. Boone, and per-\\nhaps he was on terms of intimacy with him.\\nHaving juet come into the possession of a\\nltrge landed estate, with a small village on\\nit, situated in New Jersey, it would have been\\nnatural enough for Mr. Ogden to name it after\\nhis distinguished friend, the Governor of the\\nProvince, especially when, even admi\\nthe old bone legend to be true, he would only\\nLave to add a single o to the name to trans-\\nform it into the shape and form desired. And\\nthus we have the Dame Boone-Towu.as it was\\noriginally written and I rather incline to\\nthe opinion that thie is the way in which the\\nname of Boonton originated. It was quite\\ncustomary in those days for the owner of a\\nnew settlement to name it after some distin-\\nguished man of the time as a mark of es-\\nteem aDd respect for Buch characters. The\\nnames of Morristown, Peterson, Livingston,\\nFranklin and many others originated in ibis\\nway.\\nAnd now I must candidly confess that I\\nhave been able to trace out but little of a", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\npositive character respecting the first settle- I\\nment of Old Boonton but still I have traced\\nout enough information of a reliable charac-\\nter to satisfy myself that it is a much older\\nsettled place than we have generally been\\nled to believe, and that it was a much larger\\nand more flourishing place one hundred years\\nago than it is now. To the best of my infor-\\nmation and belief, Old Boonton was first set-\\ntled at least one hundred and fifty years ago,\\nand probably one hundred and seventy -five.\\nTo the best of my information and belief, the\\nfirst dam ever thrown across the Rockaway\\nriver for manufacturing purposes was at Old\\nBoonton and, to the best of my information\\nand belief, one of the first\u00e2\u0080\u0094 if not the very\\nji rs t iron works ever established in America\\nwas at Old Boonton Now, to some of you,\\nperhaps, tnese startling assertions may ap-\\npear somewhat bold, if not visionary but\\nstill I believe that they are nevertheless true.\\nI believe that the secret forge fires and fur-\\nnaces of Old Boonton blazed, and that her\\nponderous trip-hammers resounded through\\nthe primitive forests, waking the slumbering\\nechoes of the surrounding hills, years before\\nthe watchful agents of the British Govern-\\nment even dreamed of the existence of any\\nsuch works in this country.\\nHaving made theae astounding assertions,\\nnow for the proof and arguments in support\\nof the truth of the position I have taken. It\\nis a faot well known to the historical reader\\nthat Hunterdon county originally embraced\\nwithin its limits the whole of our present\\nMorris and Sussex counties, and also parts of\\nWarren and Mercer. Morris county was in-\\ncorporated by an act of the Provincial Legis-\\nlature of New Jersey, bearing date March\\n15th, 1739. It was called Morris county in\\nhonor of Lewis Morris, who was then Gov-\\nernor of the Province- Acccording to the\\nfirst census, taken in 1745, Morris county\\ncontained a population of 4,436 inhabitants,\\nwhich was a large number for that early day.\\nThe New Jersey Historical Collections, made\\nby Barber and Howe, inform us that Hanover\\ntownship was the first place settled by white\\ninhabitants in Morris county. This event oc-\\ncurred about the year 1685, the first settlers\\nbeing from Newark, Elizabethtown, Long\\nIsland, Old and New England. This much\\nis certain but it quite possible that some por-\\ntions of the county might have been settled\\nat a Btill earlier day. They soon after erecte\\nseveral forges so says the record and com-\\nmenced manufacturing considerable quanti-\\nties of iron and even at that early day the\\nnews of their existence got spread abroad,\\nuntil the place of their location became\\nknown as the locality of old forges. Now,\\nthey being denominated old forges, the\\nnatural and logical inference is that they had\\nbeen established there some considerable time\\nprevious. But the identical spot where this\\nlocality was is a question still left open for\\nthe investigation of the curious. Authori-\\nties and opinions differ considerably in regard\\nto the time when and the place where iron\\nwas first made in America. It is a well known\\nfact that the British Government encouraged\\nthe manufacture of iron in the colonies at a\\nvery early day but this encouragement,\\nhowever, was confined to the making of pig\\nand bar iron only. Even as late as 1750 Par-\\nliament prohibited the erection or continu-\\nance of any mill or other engine for rolling\\nor slitting iron in the colonies, under a pen-\\nalty of two hundred pounds and soon after\\nanother act waB passed prohibiting the ex-\\nportation from England to this country of\\ntools to make iron. But, notwithstanding\\nall these British prohibitions, Salmon, a dis-\\ntinguished English author, writing in 1765,\\ninforms us that Early in the last century\\nmany contraband goods were manufactured\\nin the colonies and smuggled into the Span-\\nish Islands.\\nAnd, again, Chalmer, a quaint old historian\\nof those days, writing in 1673, says There\\nbe five iron works in New England which\\ncast no guns. Now it should be borne in\\nmind that the New England of those days\\nincluded New Jersey within its bounds and\\nit is quite li ely that some of the iron works\\nhere alluded to had reference, in part at\\nleast, to those which are known to have been\\nestablished in the Province of East Jersey at\\nabout that time. In the year 1682 the Pro-\\nprietors of East Jersey published to the world\\na brief statement of their affairs at that time.\\nAmong other statements then made for the\\npurpose of inducing emigrants to settle upon\\ntheir lands is the following There is al-\\nready a smelting furnace and forge set up in\\nthis colony, where is made good iron, fec.\\nGordon, in his history of New Jersey, under\\ndate of same year, informs us that Lewis", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "11\\nMorris, of Barbadoes, bad iron works and\\notber considerable improvements at Shrews-\\nbury, Monmoutb county. Tbo kind of iron\\nworks bere referrad to is not stated but tbey\\nwere probably the same iron works men-\\ntioned by tbe Proprietors in their address to\\ntbe public of that year. Thomas, in biH his-\\ntory of Pennsylvania, published in 1698, says\\nthat Preparations were in progress for mak-\\ning iron in Pennsylvania that year. Crump,\\nin his World in a Pocket-Book, says that\\nIron was first made in America, in tbe Prov-\\nince of Virginia, in 171o but he is \\\\ery\\nwide of his mark, in hid knowledge on this\\nsubject, at least.\\nWe will now return again to tbe considera-\\ntion of the first settlement of Old Boonton.\\nEbenezer F. Smith, Esq., of Troy, who is now\\nupward of 70 years of age, says that he has\\nno particular recollection of ever having\\nheard it mentioned at what precise time the\\niron works at Old Boonton were first estab-\\nlished but he believes that they were among\\nthe very first established in New Jersey.\\nWhen a boy, however, about sixty years ago,\\nhe recollects distinctly having heard his\\nfather say that the forge at Troy, of which\\nhe was part owner, had been located there\\nabout one hundred years before, and that he\\nsupposed that the forges at Old Boonton and\\nWhippany had been established at about the\\nsame time, if not earlier. This would fix\\nthe dete of these old forges at about the year\\n1700. Barber and Howe, however, in their\\nHistorical Collections of New Jersey, fix the\\ndate of the first iron works in Hanover town-\\nship some twelve or fifteen years earlier than\\n1700, but, unfortunately, do not state the\\nexact location but, as regards dates, I hold\\nthat they are nearly correct. The same au-\\nthority states that the iron mine at Succa-\\nsunna is the first mine from which iron ore\\nwas taken in Morris county, but do not give\\nthe precise date when it was first opened.\\nBut it is further stated that prior to the\\nyear 1717 the ore was free to all comers\\nand also that it was customary in those\\nearly times to carry the ore to Morristown,\\nHanover and Essex county in leathern bags\\non the backs of horses; and, when manu-\\nfactured, the iron was transported in the\\nsame manner over the Orange Mountains to\\nNewark. This manner of transporting ore\\nfrom the distant mines was still in vogue,\\naud practiced to a considerable extent, within\\nthe memory of persons still living, and the\\nprincipal reason for so doing was that they\\ncould not reach the mines with any other\\nkind of conveyance. The land in the vicin-\\nity of the Succasunna mine was first taken\\nup in 1717 by Joseph Kirkbridge, and siuce\\nthen those who have used the ore have had\\nto pay for it.\\nNow, would it be at all unreasonable to\\nsuppose that the old forge at what we now\\nterm Old Boonton was one of the forges\\nnamed, to which the ore of the Succasunna\\nmine was carried in leathern bags on the\\nbacks of horses to be manufactured V And,\\nif this be true, then the forge must have been\\nestablished there at least one hundred and\\nfifty years ago. Judging from its retired lo-\\ncality, its commodious water power and its\\nnearness to the mine, I am led to believe that\\nthe forge at Old Boonton was the very first\\nplace where iron was made in Morris oounty\\nand also that this forge and those located at\\nTroy and Whippany at about the same time\\nconstituted what wa3 formerly known as the\\nlocality of the old forges. This is about\\nthe best solution that I am able to offer in\\nunriddling the almost impenetrable mystery\\nthat shrouds the early history of Old Boon-\\nton, which, I fear, is buried in the grave of\\nthe past, too deep to ever hope for a resurrec\\ntion.\\nLeaving the further consideration of this\\nintricate subject to the investigation of some\\nfuture antiquarian, I shall now proceed to\\ndiscourse upon what may not inappropriately\\nbo denominated the historical era of Old\\nBoonton. The facts wbich immediately fol-\\nlow were furnished me by Hon. William A.\\nWhitehead, of Newark, who obtained them of\\nHon. James Parker, of Perth Amboy. Mr.\\nParker is one of New Jersey s retired, hon-\\nored veteran statesmen, now over 81 yearn of\\nage. He married a daughter of Col. Ogdeu,\\nwho was born at Old Boonton and Mr.\\nWhitehead married a daughter of Mr Par-\\nker, and consequently a granddaughter of\\nCol. Ogden. Some of Mr Parker s testimony\\nis very strong in favor of the point I have\\nbeen endeavoring to establish, viz that the\\niron works at Old Boonton were among the\\nearliest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 if not tin wry first ever erected in\\nAmerica.\\nWe have already shown that the Boonton", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\ntract was in possessisn of David Ogden, one of\\nthe most eminent New Jersey lawyers of his\\nday, as early as 1759. The earliest informa-\\ntion that Mr. Parker is able to furnish ex-\\ntends back to about the year 1765, whioh we\\nmay consider ae authentic. At about that\\ndate David Ogden presented the Boonton\\ntract to his son Samuel, then a mere youth of\\nsome nineteen or twenty yenrs of age. The\\nCol. Samuel Ogden of later times was then\\n(1765J a student in Kings College, in New\\nYork city after the Revolution Columbia\\nCollege and, being then in poor healtb,\\nhis physician advised his removal to the\\ncountry, and his engagement in some active\\nbusiness. Continuing his remarks upon this\\nsubject, Mr. Parker says His fa her gave\\nhim the Boonton property on condition of\\nhis removal there and carrying on the works.\\nThe proposition was accepted, and the son,\\nyet a youth, removed to BooDton, probably,\\nat first, to learn tbe business. The time of\\nthe son s removal there must have been prior\\nto 1767, for it is known that he was there at\\nthat date, and that he was shortly after spoken\\nof as Col. Ogden, a title which he bore with\\nhim to the grave. The title of Colonel was\\nprobably bestowed upon him by his friends\\nas a mark of the honor and esteem in which\\nhe was held by them for it is not known\\nthat he was ever engaged in any military ser-\\nvice.\\nAs we have already seen, Col. Ogden came\\nto Old Boonton about the year 1766 or 1767\\nbut what is still more worthy of particular\\nnotice is the fact that at the time of his first\\ncoming there iron works had already been\\nestablished on the property. In reply to one\\nof my queries aB to the date of the first es-\\ntablishment of these works Mr. Parker an-\\nswers in the following terms: How early\\nthe iron works at Boonton were established\\nis not known they were in operation when\\nCol. Ogd en went there, and it is probable\\nfro a thpir location that they were among the\\nearliest establishments of the kind. And\\ndoes not this evidence go far toward confirm-\\ning the opiuion advanced that the iron\\nworks at Old Boonton constituted a portion\\nof those early settlements which in 1685 was\\ndenominated the locality of the old\\nforges? But again Mr. Parker remarks\\nThe iron works at Boonton were established\\nlong before the Revolution, but were con-\\nfined to the manufacture of pig and bar\\niron. So, then, it appears that there waa\\nonce a blast furnace at Old Boonton, and\\nthat, too, long before the Revolution, for it is\\nfrom a blast furnace only, I believe, that pig\\niron is made. That blast furnace must have\\nbeen erected there a long time ago, for all\\ntraces of it have entirely disappeared. There\\nis not a single person now living in this sec-\\ntion of country who has any recollection\\nwhatever of any such establishment ever hav-\\ning existed there. Who can now tell but\\nthis was the same identical smelting fur-\\nnace and forge set up in this coloney in\\nwhich is made good iron, referred to by the\\nProprietors of East Jersey in their publication\\nmade in 1682 That those establishments re-\\nferred to by Mr. Parker, in which pig and\\nbar iron were made when Col. Ogden first\\ncame there, were small and insignificant af-\\nfairs, we have but little reason for doubting,\\nmore especially when we take into considera\\ntion the fact that all the ore used at those\\nold forges was transported in leathern\\nbags on the backs of horses from the distant\\nmines. The locality of Old Boonton at that\\ntime was admirably calculated for carrying\\non secret operations of this description and\\nI have but little doubt, in my own mind that\\nall the works referred to in this discourse,\\nand perhaps many other branches, of which\\nwe know nothing and probably never shall,\\nwere in successful operation there at a much\\nearlier period of our history than any of us\\nhave ever even dreamed of.\\nBut, despite the Parliamentary prohibition\\nand the heavy penalty attached to its viola-\\ntion, it is now a well ascertained fact that\\nshortly after he came to Old Boonton Col.\\nOgden erected a rolling-mill aud a slitting-\\ninill, and at once commenced the illegal busi-\\nness of rolling and slitting iron. The plot of\\nground upon which they stood is in the form\\nof a triangle, is situated on the easterly bank\\nof the Rockaway river, contains six acres,\\nand was purchased by Col. Ogden of Tnomas\\nPeer by deed bearing date August 6th, 1770.\\nThe price paid for it was one pound of tea\\nat least so I have been informed by Mr. Abra-\\nham Peer, a graudson of the Thomas afore-\\nsaid. At the time this conveyance was made\\nthere was foot-bridge across the river near\\nthose mills, and this was the only bridge of\\nany description across the river at Old Boon-\\nton at that time.", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "13\\nThe slitting-mill here referred to was built\\nfor Col. Ogden by an Englishman named\\nThomas Cutnson, and I think that I him safe\\nin Buying that it was the first mill f the kind\\never erected on the American continent. Thin\\nmill, however, did not work well at first, and\\nMr. Cnmson was dispatohed to England for\\nthe purpose of ascertaining wherein the de-\\nficiency existed. On his arrival there he vis-\\nited several establishments of the kind and\\nmade the important discovery but, the ob-\\nject of his mission being suspected, his move-\\nments were closely watched and, fearing\\nthat it was the design of the Government to\\narrest him, he was compelled to disguise him-\\nself and hasten his return to this country.\\nThe important secret which he crossed the\\nAtlantic to discover consisted in the applica-\\ntion of a little soft suet to the slitting saw\\nShortly after his return to this country Mr.\\nCumson left Old Boonton for the purpose of\\nconstructing similar works in Maryland\\nbut, the Americau Revolution breaking out\\nat about this time, it is doubtlul it he accom-\\nplished his object at that time.\\nThe rolling and slitting business being so\\nstrongly prohibited by Great Britain, opera-\\ntions of the kind had to be carried on with\\ngreat caution and secrecy. On this point Mr.\\nParker thus good-naturedly remarks I\\nhave heard Col. O^den mention the fact of\\nsome gentlemen British officials, no doubt\\nbeing at Boonton and viewing the works,\\nwho did not s^e the slitting mill, which was\\nkept very private. My impression is that\\nthe gentlemen shut their eyes intentionally.\\nTradition informs us that Col. Ogden was a\\nshrewd man, and what is termed a good\\nliver; and it was.no doubt, owing to his\\nprincely hospitality that he escaped arrest on\\nihe occasion referred to. Rov. Joseph F.\\nTuttle, ot Rockaway, in reply to one of my\\nqueries on this point, refers to the old slitting-\\nniill in the following language The slit-\\nting-mill was carried on with great secrecy.\\nThe upper part was said to be a small grist-\\nmill, which was put in operation to blind the\\neyes of the suspicious. This corresponds\\nexactly with the acouut given by Mr. Par-\\nker, and is probably as near the truth as it is\\nnow possible to get at it. Tne pame gentle-\\nman informs me that Gov. William Frank-\\nlin once visited Old Boonton. Gov. Frank-\\nlin was the degenerate son of a noble sire,\\nand the laRt Colonial Governor of New Jer-\\nsey. What his business was at Old Boon-\\nMr. Tuttle does not state but it is quito\\nprobable that be whs there for the purpose of\\nenjoying the splendid hospitality ol Col. Og-\\ndin, and of prying out the secrets by which\\nhe made an honest living. Perhaps that be\\nwas one of the gentlemen who shut their\\neyes intentionally to avoid seeing the old\\nslitting mill. At any rate, it appears that\\nall those gentlemen who came there to spy\\nout the fruitf ulness of the land left Old Boon-\\nton no iciser, if any better men, than they\\nwere when they first came there. But let\\nthat pass.\\nThat Old Boonton was a busy, bustling\\nbusiness place while Col. Ogden resided there\\nwe may well believe, for he was a thorough-\\ngoing business man himself, and intimately\\nconnected with the first families of the coun-\\ntry and, seeing that his name is more inti-\\nmately associated with the place than any\\nother during its early history, I deem it ap-\\npropriate now and here to give a somewhat\\ndetailed account of himself and family. The\\nOgden family have been celebrated in the\\nhistory of both New York and New Jersey\\nfor a period of more than two hundred years.\\nPersons of that name emigrated from Hol-\\nland to New York at a very early day. In\\n1642 John and Richard Ogden were engaged to\\nbuild the first church edifice ever erected in\\nNew York. The building was constructed of\\nstone, was 52x72 feet in its dimensions, 10\\nfeet in height, and cost $2,088. In the year\\n1G0-4 this same John Ogden probably pur-\\nchased of Daniel Denton his share of the In-\\ndian title to an immense tract of land in East\\nJersey, upon a part of which Boonton now\\nstands. In the year 17G3 Hannah Ogden,\\ndaughter of John Ogden, Esq of Newark,\\nwas united in marriage to Rev. James Cald-\\nwell, a distinguished martyr in the caase of\\nAmerican Liberty. It was the usual custom\\nof this true and zealous patriot during the\\nRevolution to preach patriotism to his con-\\ngregation from his pulpit in Elizabethtown,\\nwith a loaded pistol lying on each side of his\\nBible. He was finally murdered by the Brit-\\nish while visiting at the house of a friend in\\nSpringfiVld. Hon. David Ogden was one of the\\nmost eminent lawyers of his time, and his name\\nis honorably connected with some of the great-\\nest contested law-suits that occurred in New", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nJersey prior to the Revolution. He had his\\nlaw office in Newark in 1748, and stood at the\\nhead of the New Jersey bar at that time.\\nHon. Richard Stockton, father of our Com-\\nmodore R. F. Stockton, a signer of the Decla-\\nration of Independence, and one of the emi-\\nnent men of the Revolution, studied law in\\nNewark with Mr. Ogden. The great David\\nOgden had three sons, Isaac, Abraham and\\nSamuel, all men of note in their day. Each\\nof these sons named one of their sons alter\\ntheir father, as follows David Ogden, Jr.,\\nDavid A. Ogden and David Boonton Ogden.\\nDavid B. Ogden was the eldest son of our\\nSamuel Ogden, owner of the Boonton tract\\nin 1766. Robert Ogden, Esq., was Speaker\\not the House of Assembly of the Province of\\nNew Jersey in 1766. Isaac Ogden, Esq., was\\none of the deputies from Essex county to the\\nProvincial Congres during May, June and\\nAugust, 1775, and Lewis Ogden, Esq., of the\\nsame county, was elected a deputy to the\\nsame body in September, 1775.\\nOn the fifth day of February, 1775, Colonel\\nSamuel Ogden was married to Miss Euphemia\\nMorris, a daughter of Hon. Lewis MorriB,\\none of the signers of the Declaration of In-\\ndependence, and afterward an officer in the\\nContinental army. The late Hon. David B.\\nOgden, the eldest child of Col. Ogden, was\\nborn at Morrissania, WestcheBter county, N.\\nY., at the residence of Lewis Morris, his\\ngrandfather. The Colonel then, says Mr.\\nParker, ,c made Boonton his permanent\\nresidence, and his five next children were\\nborn there. The Hon. David B. Ogden,\\nwhose middle name Boonton was given\\nhim in honor of his father s residence, stood\\nat the head of the New York bar at the time\\nof his death. He died suddenly of the chol-\\nera at his residence on Staten Island in the\\nSummer of 1851, at the advanced age of 75\\nyears. Gertrude, one of the daughters of\\nCol. Ogden, was married to a geutleman\\nnamed Meredith, who belonged to one of the\\noldest and most respectable families of Phila-\\ndelphia and Catharine, another of the\\ndaughters, was married to the Hon. James\\nParker, the gentleman to whom I am in-\\ndebted for much of the valuable information\\ncontained in this discourse. Mr. and Mrs.\\nP xrker now reside in Perth Amboy, in this\\nState, and are aged respectively 84 and 81\\nyears. Of the other three children of Col.\\nOgden, Sarah, Euphemia and Lewis Morris\\nall born at Old Boonton I know nothing\\nfurther than their names Mrs. Parker, I\\nbelieve, is the only child of Col. Ogden s now\\nliving. The Colonel and his family contin-\\nued to reside at Old Boonton until the year\\n1783, at which time he removed to New\\nYork. In the year 1787 he removed thence\\nto Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and in the\\nyear 1792 he removed thence to Newark,\\nNew Jersey, at which place he died in\\n18:0, aged 64 years. The old mansion-house\\nat Old Boonton one of the most costly and\\nmagnificent in Morris county at that time in\\nwhich he entertained with unbounded hospi-\\ntality b\u00c2\u00abth friend and foe, still remains there,\\na sad and melancholy monument of its former\\ngreatness and splendor.\\nWhen Col. Ogden removed to New York\\nin 1783 he left the management of the Old\\nBoonton works in oharge of John Jacob\\nFaish, Sr., who acted in that capacity until\\nhis death, which occurred in 1799. After\\nhis death his two sons John Jacob, Jr., and\\nRichard B. took charge of the works until\\nthe year 1805, when they became the joint\\nowners of the property. The Faishes were\\nall men of mark in their day, and, as their\\nhiBtory is more or less blended with that of\\nOld Boonton, I deem it proper in this con-\\nnection to give a brief sketch of the family.\\nMost of the following details were furnished\\nme by Doctor R. V. W. Fairchild, of Parsip-\\npany, who is a distant relative of the family.\\nThe Doctor instructs me to spell the name\\nFaesch but I have adopted a different\\ncourse, being fully impressed with the belief\\nthat I am correct. I have in my possession\\nan old copy of the Laws of New Jersey, for-\\nmerly belonging to the elder Faish, upon the\\noutside of which is inscribed the name J.\\nJ. Faish, Esquire, which I presume to be in\\nhis own handwriting.\\nJohn Jacob Faish, Sr., came from the can-\\nton of Basil, in Switzerland, to this country\\nin the year 1764. He came over for the pur-\\npose of superintending the iron works of the\\nLondon company, which were located at\\nRingwood, Mount Hope and Hibernia. Short-\\nly after his arrival here he married Miss\\nBrinkerhoof, a sister of the late George D.\\nBrinkerhoof, of Parsippany. On the 1st of\\nFebruary, 1773, he purchased the Mount\\nHope works, and commenced doing business", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\non hie own account but, the war of the\\nRevolution breaking out soon after, be be-\\ncame embarrassed in bis business operations,\\nand bad to sell out. In 1783, however, wu\\nfind him at Old Boonton, superintending tbe\\nworks tbere for Col. Otfden. His wife died\\nin 1788, and be hiuiBelf died in 17UD, leaving\\ntbreo children, two sons aud one daughter.\\nHis two Bona then succeeded him in the man-\\nagement of the works at Old Boonton, re\\nmaining in that capacity until 1805, when\\nthey themselves became the joint owners of\\nthe works located there. John Jacob Faisb,\\nJr. died in 1809, and Richard B. Faisb died\\nin 1820. I can traoe out but little respecting\\nthe career of the daughter of old John Jacob\\nbat my impression is that she was not con-\\nsidered sound of mind, and that she died\\nquite young and unmarried. All the Faishes\\nwere buried in the old Presbyterian burying\\nground ai Morristown. Judge Cobb, of Par-\\nsi ppany, informs me that John Jacob, Jr.,\\nwas a gentleman of fine intellectual endow-\\nments, and that he was the first regularly ed-\\nucated lawyer in Morris county. Richard B.\\nwas also a gentleman of liberal education,\\nand waB one of the judges of Morris county\\nat the time of bis death. He was, as I recol-\\nlect him, a very social and gentlemanly man\\nin his conversation and manners was what\\nwe term a fast liver, and died insolvent.\\nDoctor Grimes, of this place, informs me that\\nhis. body was arrested on an execution for\\ndebt on its way to burial.\\nThe following reminiscences of Old Boon-\\nton were furnished me by Thomas C. Willis,\\nEsq., of Powerville. Mr. Willis is now\\n70 years of age, and was born at Old Boon-\\nton. This is his description of tbe works\\ncarried on there about the year 1800, as he\\nrecollects them At that time there were\\na rolling-mill, a slitting mill and a saw-mill,\\nall standing in the woods on the easterly\\nbank of the river. The iron used in these\\nmills was taken from the heating furnaces,\\nrolled and slitted on a single heat. Mr. Wil-\\nlis s father was superintendent of this depart-\\nment of the works for a long number of\\nyears, extending back several years prior to\\nthat date. On the westerly bank of the\\nriver, near the bend, was a large potash\\nfactory, a nail-cutting factory, a grist-\\nmill and a blacksmith shop. On the\\nsame side of the river, nearly opposite\\nthu slitting-mill, stood a largo bloomory, con\\ntainiug four forge fi reB and two trip-hummers.\\nA large buildiDg, containing eight refining\\nfurnaces, stood upon tbe spot where the lorge\\nnow stands. The pig iron made at thu Mount\\nHope and llibernia blast furnaces whh brought\\ndown there, rolled, slit into nail rods, and\\nmanufactured into nails, or sent in the rods\\nto the New York market. Mr. Willis in-\\nclines to the opinion that the Boonton, Mount\\nHope and Hiberuia works all belonged to the\\nsame company at that time. There were\\nthen three dams across the river a Old Boon-\\nton, and upon what are now termed the\\nBoonton Flats were located some twelve\\nor fifteen dwelling-houses. Most of the 1oi b\\nused at the saw-mill were cut in the Rocka-\\nway valley, and floated down the river during\\nthe high freshets. There was a small church\\naud a schoolhouse standing on the rising\\nground on the easterly side of the road, and\\ndirectly in front of the eld mansion house.\\nIt is generally believed by old eettlers that\\nthis church and schoolhouse were built by\\nCol. Ogden shortly before the Revolution.\\nThis church was torn down in 1816, and the\\ntimber of which it was composed was used\\nin the construction of the first chuich erected\\nin Montville. This church was also torn\\ndown a few years ago, and some of the tim-\\nber of which it was composed, after passing\\nthrough two churches, is now doing duty in\\nour new United States Hotel. There was\\na great freshet in the Rockaway river about\\nsixty years ago, which o*rried away all the\\ndams and moat of the dwelling-houses located\\non the Flats. It is not at all improbable\\nbut that this great flood may likewise have\\nswept away all the remaining monuments of\\nthe old blast furnace, which was in full blant\\nat Old Boonton long before Col. Ogden came\\nthere. There has been no blast furnace there\\nwithin the memory of Mr. Willis, and he is\\nfirm in his belief that no auch establishment\\never existed there but then, again, we have\\nthe positive evidence of Mr. Parker that bar\\nand pig iron was made there long prior to\\nCol. Ogden a day.\\nHappening accidentally to come acroas a\\nbundle of old letters from officera of the\\nUnited States Army, directed to the late Col.\\nJohn Scott, at the Boone-Toicn Post Office,\\nduring the years 1812- 13- 14- 15, I very nat-\\nurally came to the conclusion that there must", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nhave been a post office at Old Boonton at that\\ntime. I immediately made inquiries of sev-\\neral very old persons in the neighborhood as\\nto their knowledge of such an institution;\\nbut not one of them could throw any light\\nupon the subject. I even applied to a gen-\\ntleman who had written one of the letters\\nreferred to; but he positively disclaimed all\\nknowledge of such an establishment. Think-\\ning that it would be downright folly for a\\nperson to direct a letter to an office where no\\nsuch office existed, I made up my mind that I\\nwould thoroughly investigate the matter.\\nWith this purpose in view, I addressed a\\nnote of inquire to the Postmaster General of\\nthe United States, and the following is his\\nreply\\nPost Office Department,\\nAugust 9th, 1859. J\\nSir In answer to your note of 27th July I have to\\ninform you that, fiom the fire in 1 830 which con-\\nsumed the General Post Office, three of the oldest\\nrecord boots in the Department were destroyed,\\nwhich renders it very difficult to determine the exact\\ndate of the establishment of most of the oldest\\noffices; but on referring to the books in the Audit-\\nor s office it appears that quarterly returns were\\nmade lrom the Boonton office as early as July, 1795,\\nand that Rodolphus Kpnt was the first postmaster,\\nwho was succeeded by Richard B. Faish some time\\nin the Spring of 1793. On the 3d of February, 1817,\\nthe name of the office was changed to Parsippan\\nwhich is still in operation. So it appears in the early\\nhistory of Boonton that an office by this name was es-\\ntablished during the Spring of 1795, and continued in\\noperation under Mr. Kent and Mr. Paish till the 3d\\nof February, 1817, when the name was changed to\\nParsippany.\\nTrusting that the foregoing information will be of\\nsome avail to you In the work you have in progress,\\nI remain very respectfully,\\nJohn B. L. Skinner,\\nActing First Ass t P. M. General.\\nIn addition to the facts furnished by Mr.\\nWillis, Mr. Abraham Peer communicates the\\nfollowing. Mr. Peer is now about 85 years\\nof age, and when a young man used to work\\nat Old Boonton. He was well acquainted\\nwith Ccl. Ogden and all the Faishes. He\\ndoes not recollect the exact date, but he says\\nthat nails cut by a machine and headed by\\nhand were made at Oid Boonton before the\\nyear 1800, and that there was a tin and sheet\\niron manufactory in operation in the upper\\npart of the nail factory. He was informed at\\nthe time he first went there to work, shortly\\nafter the Revolution, that the tin and sheet\\niron business had been commenced there a\\ngreat many years before. He is quite certain\\nthat Col. Ogden built the mansion house, the\\nchurch, the schoolhouse, and most of the\\nother buildings that still remain, shortly after\\nhe came there. A very large building, used\\nfor a storehouse (which I recollect perfectly\\nw dl having seen there when a small boy),\\nstood on a portion of the dooryard, a few\\nrods below the mansion house, and directly\\nopposite the present bridge the old bridge\\nhaving stood a little lover down the river.\\nThe post offici which he had entirely forgot-\\nten until I reminded bim of it was kept in\\nthe store, and it was the first and only estab-\\nlishment of the kind that he had ever seen or\\nheard of up to that time. Mr. Peer has no\\nrecollection whatever of ever having heard\\nthat a blast furnace had been in operation at\\nOld Boonton, but thinks it highly probable\\nthat such might have been the case for even\\nat that early day the place presented many\\nevidences of being on the decline. About\\nthirty years ago one Thomas Hood, an Eng-\\nlishman, erected a kind of cupola furnace\\nthere for the late Capt. William Scott for the\\npurpose of refining pig and scrap iron. It\\nhad a very tall chimney, and was nicknamed\\nThe Wren s Nest but, seeipg that it did\\nnot answer the purpose for which it had\\nbeen erected, it was soon after demolished.\\nThe first blacksmith shop that Mr, Peer ever\\nsaw was located at Old Boonton it was under\\nthe management of one Daniel Thomas, who\\nhad the reputation of .being a very superior\\nworkman.\\nIt is believed by some of our oldest inhab-\\nitants that there was once a pin factory at\\nOid Boonton, and there are some very good\\ngrounds for entertaining euch a belief.\\nSome fifty years and more ago an old resi-\\ndent of the name of Peer discovered near the\\nlocation of the old blacksmith shop what\\nmight very properly be denominated a pin\\nmine. These pins were of the old style, brass\\nwire, ring head, English manufacture, and\\nwere found by Mr. Peer scattered around on\\ntop of the ground in wild profusion, It is\\nsaid thit Mr. Peer supplied his family with\\nabundance of pins from this mine for quite a\\nnumber of years, and that, too, at a time\\nwhen pins were much scarcer and dearer than\\nthey are now. Such being the fact, the\\ngreat question to decide is, how and when\\ndid such large quantities of pins find their\\nroad to this out-of-the-way place Probably", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nthe moat reasonable answer to this qaeatlon\\nwould be tbat they were made tbere, else\\nhow should they have been found tbere in\\nsuch large quantities, and in one particular\\nplace only Within my own memory pins\\nwere a luxury not to be indulged in to any\\nexteut by poor people. It was still the cus-\\ntom when I was a small boy, among young\\nladies of respectability, to fasten their\\ndresses and paper up their curls with common\\nthorns of no pigmy dimensions. Pins were\\nthen sold at from three to Jive cents a row,\\nand w*re deemed too expensive to use\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ex-\\ncept on Sundays and holidays especially by\\nfull-grown girls, who had to spin ten hours a\\nday for a single York shilling. The manu\\nfacture of pins as a regular business was first\\nintroduced into England about the year 1026,\\nand it is within the bounds of possibility thst\\nsome enterprising Englishman, for the pur-\\npose of avoiding the heavy duty imposed\\nupon the manufacture of pins in Eugland,\\nmight have emigrated to America and estab-\\nlisbed a small pin factory at Old Boonton\\nwhile the country was yet in a wilderness\\nstate. The pinmaking business at tbat time\\nrequired but a small capital, and by evading\\nthe English duty they might have been\\nsmuggled into the Spanish Islands with a\\nprincely profit to the manufacturer. The\\nlarge quantities of pins found at Old Boonton\\nwould naturally lead us to believe that, in\\ncose a pin factory ever existed there, it must\\nhave t een burned down many years ago,\\neither by accident or to avoid detection.\\nThere is a tradition current about here,\\nwhich is fully believed by many old persons,\\nthat camp kettles and other munitions of war\\nwere manufactured at Old Boonton for the\\nuse of the Continental army during the Rev-\\nolution a fact of which I have no doubt in\\nmy own mind. When we take into consid-\\nration its location, and the character of the\\nworks which we know were secretly carried\\non there, we have but little cause to doubt\\nthat such was the fact. Dr. Fairchild in-\\nforms me that he has often heard bis grand-\\nmother Brinkerhoof talk about these thing!\\nas matters of secret family history at that\\ntime; but Mr. Parker, in treating upon the\\nsubject, seems to think it rather an improb-\\nable story. Morristown and Pompton were\\nboth military stations at various periods dur-\\ning the Revolution and, seeing that Old\\nBoonton is situated about midway between\\nthe two places on the main thoroughfare by\\nwhich they were connected at tbat time,\\nmakes the supposition that such articles were\\nmanufactured there seem more than proba-\\nble. Besides, and in furtherance of the con-\\nfirmation of this tradition, Mr. Willis in-\\nforms me that about twenty-five years ago\\nhe resided for a short time in the old Boonton\\nmansion. And he further informs me tbat at\\ntlie time he resided tbere there were lying in\\nthe open garret of the house large bundles\\nof old letters and other manuscript docu-\\nments, containing the signatures of Wash-\\nington, Hamilton, Oreene, Lafayette, Ster-\\nling, and many other distinguished ffioers\\nof the Revolution, directed to Col. Ogden and\\nJohn Jacob Faisb, Sr. He spent many pleas-\\nant hours in perusing tbtse old docuim-nte,\\nand now deeply regrets that he had not taken\\nmeasures to preserve them. Most of these\\nold letters w. re of a purely business charac-\\nter, and he distinctly remembers tbat many\\nof them contained orders and proposals for\\nfamishing the army with camp kettles, can-\\nnon balls, horse shoes and other munitions of\\nwar and he is decided in his belie tbat suoh\\narticles were furnished by Col. Ogden from\\nthe works at Old Boenton. Could I bave had\\naccess to those invaluable old documents,\\nwhich are now irretrievably lost, I doubt not\\nbut that I should be able to throw much\\nmore light upon the early history of Old\\nBoonton, and perhaps add a few more bright\\npages to the secret history of the American\\nRevolution.\\nAlthough I have never seen any statement\\nof the circumstance in an authentic form,\\nthe opinion has generally obtained belief in\\nthis section of country that, during his differ-\\nent encampments at Morristown, Washington\\nwas in the habit of occasionally visiting Col.\\nOgden at Old Boonton. Having questioned\\nMr. Parker upon the subject, he returLed me\\nthe following brief reply Mrs. Parker\\nhas heard her father and mother speak of\\nvisits to Boonton by Gen. Washington and\\nMrs. Washington. This, then, sets the\\nquestion forever at rest, and this fact of it-\\nself goes far towards strengthening us in the\\nbelief that Old Boonton, under the manage\\nment of Col. Ogden, was true to the cause of\\nAmerican Liberty, and that she furnished\\nmunitions of war for the Continental army", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18\\ndaring the dark days of the Revolution.\\nAnd is not this something of which we\\nshould all feel proud, to know that Washing-\\nion, whose fame shall continue to brighten\\nthe pages of the world s history through all\\nthe coming centuries, until ocean tides shall\\ncease to ebb and flow, was once an honored\\nguest of our venerable mother, Old Boonton\\nAny spot upon American soil that has ever\\nbeen visited by the august presence of that\\ngreat and good man should ever be looked\\nupon by the student of American history as\\nclassic ground, and be held in everlasting re-\\nmembrance, and loved and honored by us all.\\nWould to God that the walls of that old\\nBoonton mansion could again become instinct\\nwith its hoarded old memories, and had a\\ntongue of fire wherewith to blaze forth to\\nthe world the hidden secrets which have so\\nlong laid buried beneath its venerable roof.\\nWould to God that the disembodied spirit of\\nsome one of those old patriots who were ac-\\ncustomed to assemble around the hearthstone\\nof that ancient and time-stained old mansion\\nin the days that tried men s souls could\\nagain revisit its earthly abodes and detail to\\nus the history of the secret transactions\\nwhich transpired at Old Boonton between\\nthe years 1776 and 1783. Who can now tell\\nhow many plans of battles, lost and won,\\nhow many plots and counter-plots to\\nachieve our independence had their origin\\nbeneath the friendly roof of the grand old\\nmansion Old Boonton being located in the\\nmidst of a dark, dense forest, far removed\\nfrom the pride and pomp of city life, no\\nplace could have heen found more admirably\\nlifted for secret consultations of this kind.\\nHere the man of deep thought and war strat-\\nagems might concoct plots and brew trea-\\nson without any fear of being suddenly dis-\\nturbed; and that such important consulta-\\ntions were occasionally held in that historic\\nold mansion I do most candi ily believe.\\nWashington was always a clear, cool-headed,\\nthoughtful man, always husbanding his lim-\\nited resources until he Baw a chance of strik-\\ning a decisive blow with hopes of certain suc-\\ncess and it is quite possible that he might\\nhave had the rugged and heavily wooded hills\\nof Old Boonton in his eye as a place of re-\\ntreat in case he should had been attacked by\\na superior force and had to evacuate his po-\\nsition at Morristown.\\nThe ancient rustic burying ground at Old\\nBoonton must not be forgotten in this dis-\\ncourse. This ancient burial place, containing\\nthe dead of Old Boonton, is situated on the\\nhillside, in the southerly corner of the old\\norchard adjoining the County House farm.\\nThis ground bears evidence of many persons\\nhaving been interred there in times long\\npast, but how long probably will never be\\nknown. The spot is now thickly overgrown\\nwith large trees and underbrush, and but few\\nsigns donating the character of the place now\\nremain. Bough, unhewn stones, ot various\\nsizes, indicate the presence of some forty or\\nfifty graves; but whose ashes slumber be-\\nneath the now sunken clods will only be\\nknown when the last trumpet sounds and the\\ngraves give up their dead. One single,\\nsolitary lettered tombstone now marks the\\nlong neglected spot, and probably none\\nothers were ever erected there. This stone\\nis erected in memory of Hannah, wife ot\\nIsaac Legget, who died in 1782. Many of\\nthe other graves bear strong evidence of hav-\\ning been made at a much earlier period,\\nand the reasonable probability is that this\\nground was first used as a burial place con-\\nsiderably over one hundred years ago. The\\nfact of a tombstone being erected there\\nmore than seventy-five years ago may be ac-\\ncepted as pretty conclusive evidence that the\\nperson to whose memory it was erected was a\\nperson of some considerable distinction, for\\na handsome brown stone tombstone was\\nquite an expensive article in those days. And\\ndoes not this single fact of itself the fact of\\nthere being such a large number of old un-\\nknown graves there and there may have\\nbeen twice the number that I have mentioned\\nprove beyond the Bhadow of a doubt that\\nOld Boonton must have beeu settled at a\\nvery early period in our country s history\\nA few words respecting the old mansion-\\nhouse and I have done with this branch of\\nmy discourse. This unique old pile must\\nhave been erected nearly a hundred years\\nago, for the memory of man runneth not to\\nthe contrary of the time of its standing there.\\nAt any rate it is a very old building, and its\\nroof has given shelter to some of the great-\\nest men that have ever blessed the world\\nwith their presence. What were its condi-\\ntion and appearance at the time Col. Ogden\\nresided there I have not been able to learn", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nbut that the grounds around it were greatly\\nbeautified and improved by the Faiehes is a\\nmatter of certainty. My first visit to Old\\nBoontOO occurred some forty odd years ago,\\nand I can truly say that I was greatly do-\\nlighted with its appearance. Richard B\\nFaisb, Erq., a gentleman whom I have often\\nseen, then resided there. To my youthful\\nand inexperienced eyes the scene spread out\\nbefore me seemeu a perfect paradise. It wan\\ncertaiDly the most charming aud enrapturing\\nsight that I had ever witnessed, for i\\nthing was in the lull bloom of early Summer\\ntime. Even the old mansion-house, which\\nhad just been decked with a new coat of\\npaint, looked fresh and new. Serpentine\\npleasure walks, studded on either Bide with\\nv-rdani. and aromatic shrubbery, extended\\nalong the hillside, even up to the main road.\\nThe gardens, which were extensive and hand-\\nsomely laid out, were filled with choice fruit\\ntrees and flowering shrubbery. The outbuild-\\nings were numerous and in good condition,\\nand everything looked bright aud cheerlul.\\nGushing fountains aud vine-clad arbors were\\ninterspersed here and there throughout all\\nthose richly embellished grounds, giving to\\nthe whole enchanting scene a novel and fairy,\\nlike appearance. The whole magnificent\\nscene still remains pictured upon my memory\\nlike a beautiful vision coniured up in the\\nland of dreams as if witnessed yesterday.\\nBjit Time, the great destroyer of human\\nhopes and earthly joys, has at last performed\\nits work of ruin and desolation, and the fairy\\nscene witnessed nearly half a century ago has\\nfled, never more to return. Most of ttie out-\\nbuildings have entirely disappeared, and the\\nvenerable and weather-beaten old mansion it-\\nself now looks like a banquet hall desert-\\ned. Well may the thoughtful visitor, as\\nhe roams through the dilapidated halls of\\nthis once sumptuous and magnificent abode,\\nexclaim, Bit ti n.8it gloria mundi\\nShortly after the death of Richard B. Faish,\\nin 1820, the Old Boonton property passed\\ninto the hands of Israel Crane, of rane-\\ntowD, and Captain William Scott, o; Power-\\nville. During its possession by them great\\nimprovements were attempted there but\\nwhen the magnilicent dam across the river,\\nwhich had been constructed by them at an\\nexpense of 20,000, was destroyed by a de-\\nstructive freshet i hey ceased further Improve-\\nment* there. Mr. Crane dying shortly after,\\nthe Old Boonton property, such as it\\npitsswd into the possession of the late John\\nKighter. It now belongs to Mr. Charles A.\\nRighter, that is, the old mansion-house and\\nabout two hundred acres of land, and the\\nworkB at present carried on there consist of\\nan old dilapidated forge aud a good grist-\\nmill.\\nIt will thus be seen that Old Boonton led\\nthe van iu the cause, of civilisation and im-\\nprovement in this section of the country; that\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0he had her church and sclioolhouse near-\\nly a century ago that she enjoyed\\nthe benefits of a poBt-olfice established\\nunder the administration of Washing-\\nton fir tmenty-two yearn without any one\\nat tho premnl lav ever knowing it. We are\\nall very anxious to enjoy the prosperous pres-\\nand Btill more impatient to behold the\\nbrighter future but there are but few\\namong us who are willing to spend their\\nprecious time in turning back to view the\\npoint from which we started. The scenes and\\nincidents of the grand old past have but few\\ncharms for the eye of our popular Mr. Mod-\\nern Improvements.\\nAnd, now, what are the deductions to be\\ndrawn from the foregoing testimony respect-\\ning the former glories of Old Boonton, im-\\nperfect as it is In summing up our cause it\\nwould be difficult for us to arrive at any other\\nthan the following conclusions That Old\\nBoonton was one of the first places settled in\\nMorris country that the first dam ever\\nthrown across the Rockaway river was at\\nOld Boonton, and that one of the first if not\\nthe very fir at iron works ever established in\\nthe British colonies in America was at Old\\nBoonton. Or, in other words, that the first\\nforge, the firBt blast furnace, the first rolling-\\nmill, the first slitting-mill, the first iron re-\\nfinery, the first tin and sheet iron works, the\\nfirst nail factory, the first grist-mill, the first\\nsaw-mill, the first potash works, the first\\nchurch, the first schoolhouse, the first post\\noffice, and possibly the first pin factory ever\\nlocated in this section of Morris county, were\\nlocated at Old Boonton. Surely this is glory,\\nenough for any little spot to boast of, and\\nfor one I say all honor and glory, fame and\\nrenown, to our good ol i mother, now, hence-\\nforth and forevermore As her children, we\\nought to feel proud of our lineage, and grate-\\nful for the inheritance of a familv name\\naround whose old homestead cluster such a\\nLos, of thrilling old memories. Henceforth,\\nthen, let us look upon Old Boonton as we\\nwould upon the grave of an old and valued\\nfriend, aud whenever we tread upon her old\\nhistoric soil, now strewn with the ruins of\\nher departed greatness, let us feel that we\\nBtaud upon classic ground yea, even upon\\nground once hallowed by the footprints of\\nthe Uod-given Father of his Country", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "PART SECOND.\\nBO O N TO N.\\nSeptember 28, 1867.\\nLadies and Gentlemen You have\\nbeen invited to assemble here this evening\\nfor the purpose of listening to a somewhat\\ndetailed historical sketch of Boonton to\\nruminate over its past struggles and rejoice\\nover its present prosperity. Always curious\\nin all matters relating to my native State, I\\nhave long entertained a strong desire to make\\nmyself more familiar than I have been with\\nthe past and present history of the beautiful\\nand renowned little village in whioh we\\ndwell. To any man of an intelligent and in-\\nquiring mind I know of no one thing more\\nto be desired than a correct knowledge of the\\nrise and progress of the place in wbich he\\nhas reared his earthly habitation, and which\\nhe designs shall become the abode of his\\nchildren in future times. That some of you\\nwill smile at my simplicity when I attempt\\nto delineate to yon the history of a village\\nwhose rapid growth is familiar to most or.\\nyou I have no doubt but still I trust that\\nbefore I have concluded this imperfect dis-\\ncourse I shall have convinced a few of you,\\nat least, that the annals of this beautiful and\\nromantic little hillside village are not en-\\ntirely devoid of inteiest. Although scarcely\\nyet out of her teens, Boonton already pre-\\nsents to the eye of the oareful observer many\\nof the natural and healthful developments of\\nmatronly grace and dignity and why should\\nnot her many attractions be chronicled be-\\nfore they shall have passed forever into ob-\\nlivion\\nOn last Saturday evening I tried to enter-\\ntain you with a protracted historical iketch\\nof Old Boonton. To-night I come to speak\\nto you about Boonton the Boonton in which\\nwe dwell, and in which lie centred all our\\nhopes of future happiness and advancement.\\nOnly thirty-six short years ago, and the\\nground upon which Boonton now stands was\\na dense and almost impenetrable forest. It\\nwas then called Boonton Falls, to distinguish\\nit from Boonton, the Old Boonton of the\\npresent day. At that time the ground upon\\nwhich Boonton now stands contained but one\\nsolitary log house, which stood near the spot\\nnow occupied by the residence of Mr. James\\nHolmes, superintendent of the upper nail\\nfactory, now the corner of Main and Church\\nstreets. This house (the old log house) was\\nthen occupied by a poor family of the name\\nof Fredricks. Some of the fruit trees plant-\\ned there at that time are still in existence,\\nand are yet good fruit bearers. The only public\\nthoroughfare then running through the\\nplace was an old mountain road, whioh wound\\nits serpentine course up from the house of\\nthe late Tunis Peer to the old Fredricks\\nmansion, thence along up by the Presbyte-\\nrian church, the Methodist church, the old\\nNorway place, and thence up over the hills\\nthrough what was called the Dark Woods\\nto the road leading from Powerville to Tay-\\nlortown. Some traces of this road still re-\\nmained near my own residence at the time of\\nmy return here in 1855, but they have now all\\ndisappeared.\\nBoonton was then (1830) one of the wild-\\nest, rockiest, briariest and most romantic\\nplaces that the mind of man could imagine\\nand could a man have been found foolhardy", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\nenough to have prophesied that it would\\never have become the place that it is even\\nnow, he would have been pronounced a lu-\\nnatic of the most incurable kind, and hurried\\noff to a madhouse with all possible dispatch.\\nThen the solemn stillness of nature was sel-\\ndom broken by the sound of human voice,\\nand many a wild tiower budded, bloodied and\\ndied unseen. The impetuous old Itockaway\\ndashed along over its rocky bed, sinking the\\nsame wild Boug it had been accustomed to\\nsing thousands of years before, and from\\nmany a tangled thicket along itBmoBsy banks,\\nwhere erst the red man B prayer of supplica-\\ntion ascended to the Great Spirit, broke forth\\nthe evening vespers ot the feathered choir.\\nThe sportive little squirrel chirruped from\\ntree to tree through all the livelong day the\\nferocious wolf made night hideous with\\nits incessant bowlings, the echoes of which\\ndied away among the distant mountains, and\\nno one came to molest or make him afraid.\\nThroughout all this wild and picturesque re-\\ngion but few tracer, of civilization appeared,\\nand they were of the rudest and most un-\\nsightly description. The sharp crack ot the\\nhuntsman s lifl the booming sound of the\\ndistant forge hammer, the occasional strokes\\nof the woodchopper e ax, the gentle tinkling\\nof the musical old cow-bell, the loud aud\\nboisterous song of the lonely and benighted\\nmuleteer, and the ever hymning voice of the\\nadjacent water fall these were the only\\nhumanizing sounds that disturbed the solemn\\netilluess of nature.\\nBut I must hasten on with my facts and\\nfigures, for I have many of them yet in store\\nfor the present occasion. As the poet has\\ntruly remarked,\\nGreat oafes from little acorne grow\\nand the simplest and most insignificant causes\\noftentimes produced the most startling and\\nsublime effects. The falling of an apple led\\nNewton to inveotigate the laws of attraction\\nand repulsion, and even this great American\\nContinent was discovered by the merest ac\\ncident. But few of you, I presume, are even\\nacquainted with the name of the gentleman\\nto whose genius aud exertions this pleasant\\nand prosperous little village is indebted for\\nits existence for, in this go-ahead age of\\nbustle and strife, but few give themselves the\\ntrouble to trace out the laws and affinities\\nthat join cause and effect.\\nId the year 1831 George P. M Cullock,\\nErq a prominent citizen of MorriBtown, was\\nthe man who tirnt conceived the bold and\\noriginal design of constructing the Morris\\ncanal. The plausibility of achieving this\\ngreat work manifested itself to his far-seeing\\nvislOD, while himself and a party of gentle-\\nmen were enjoying a fishing excursion at\\nHopatcong Lake, more generally known as\\nBrooklyn Pond. The idea of executing this\\ngrand and novel enterprise had been no\\nsooner conceived by Mr. McCullock than he\\nset all his intellectual energies at work to\\nhave his plans carried into execution. He\\nimmediately applied to the State for aid. and\\nby an act of the Legislature of New Jersey,\\npassed November 22d, 1822, G. P. M Cullock,\\nCharles Kinsey and Thomas Capner, Erqs.,\\nwere appointed commissioners and fully cm-\\npowered to examine into the plausibility of\\nthe -undertaking. They were authorized to\\nemploy a scientific engineer aud surveyor\\nto explore, survey and level the moBt prac-\\nticable route tor tl,i* canal. These commis-\\nsioners made a favorable repor- in 1823, and\\non the 31st of December, 1824, an act was\\npassed incorporating a private company, with\\na capital of $1,000,000, to carry out the pro-\\nject. The work was soon after commenced,\\nand the canal was completed to Newark in\\nAugust, 1831. Shortly after granting the\\ncanal charter the New Jersey Iron Company\\nwas incorporated, and having purchased this\\nportion of the Boonton property, with all its\\nrights and water privileges (as well as cer-\\ntain water privileges of the canal company),\\nthe company soon thereafter commenced the\\nerection of very extensive iron works here\\nThey began their manufacturing operations\\nat about the time the canal was completed.\\nNow, it is quite certain and plain to be\\nseen that, had there been no Morris canal,\\nthere would have been no iron works located\\nhere by the New Jersey Iron Company, and if\\nthese works had never been established here\\nthe ground upon which Boonton now stands\\nwould, in all human probability, have still\\nremained in its old primeval state. Hence\\nit will at once be seen that Mr. M Cullock s\\nfar-seeing vision was the indirect cause of\\nthe first settlement of this place. His pleas-\\nure-seeking fishing excursion to Brooklyn\\nPond was the cuuse, and the beautiful and\\nthriving village of Boonton is the efft .t.", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nThe village of Boonton is situated on a\\nrocky hillside eminence, on the easterly side\\nof the Rockaway river, about one mile north\\nof Old Boonton. The ground upon which it\\nstands is very uneven, rising abruptly to the\\nheight of some 150 to 200 feet above the\\nlevel of the river. Like a city standing upon\\na high hill, its beauties cannot be hid. Stand-\\ning upon its upper heights, and looking south\\nand east, the eye of the delighted beholder\\ntakes in at a single sweep one o the most\\ncharming and picturesque landscapes im-\\naginable. Outspread before his enraptured\\ngaze he beholds a most beautiful and varie-\\ngated panorama of town and hamlet, hill and\\ndale, mountain and plain, field and forest,\\nriver and streamlet the whole of which,\\nwhen blended together, constitutes a grand\\nand magnificent picture of rural splendor,\\nmore bewitching to the eye of the lover of\\nnature than city dome or monumental pile.\\nThis grand, this noble and sublime scene lies\\nconstantly exposed to our view and it costs\\nus nothing to gaze upon its beauties and\\nyet are there not many in our midst who\\nhave never witnessed its grandeur, or, to say\\nthe least, have never fully appreciated its\\nsterling beautieB or experienced its magic\\npower to charm. In approaching Boonton\\nfrom the south or east the village presents a\\nmost beautiful and imposing appearance but\\nwhen approached from the north or west it iB\\nnot visible at all until you arrive in its very\\nmidst.\\nMy own personal recollections of Boonton\\nextend back about twenty-eight years. I re-\\nsiaed here most of the time during the years\\n1832-33 and 34 but the Boonton of these\\ndays was a very small and insignificant affair,\\nindeed, as compared with the Boonton of the\\npresent day. In entering the place from any\\ndirection at that time you could not see any\\nvillage at all nothing but rocks and trees,\\nand these were neither few nor far be-\\ntween. Thf Boonton of 1832 consisted of\\nthe iron works, two stores, and about twenty\\nsmall dwelling-houses, all of which were lo-\\ncated under the hill in what is now known\\nas Plane street. The inhabitants numbered\\nabout 300, all told, not more than ten of whom\\nwere natives of New Jersey. The whole\\nvillage, with the exception of one Btore and\\ntwo or three dwelling-houses, belonged exclu-\\nsively to the company. Excluding the old\\nroad already mentioned, there was no public\\nj thoroughfare through the place, except by\\nthe road under the hill, and he that under-\\ntook to drive a team in any other direction\\ndid so at the risk of life and limb, both to\\nhimself and animals. I recollect very well\\nthat, during the year 1834, one dark night, I\\ncame very near breaking my own ntck in\\nclambering over the rocks up to the house in\\nwhich old Mr. Beekley then resided, at that\\ntime in the woods away out of town, but now\\nin Church street, near Main, being a part of\\nthe same house at present owned and occu-\\npied by Mr. Samuel C. Tibbals. This house,\\ntwo others on the same side of Churcu street,\\nfurther up the hill, the one in which Mr. La-\\nthrop now resides, two others near it in Main\\nstreet, and one on the corner of Main and\\nBrook streets, built by T. C. Willis, Esq, and\\nnow owned and occupied by Mrs. Cook all\\nof which are still standing were the only\\nbuildings that exis^d above the road (Plane\\nstreet) at the time I left Boonton, in 1834,\\nand they were all located in the woods, and\\nalmost inaccessible to man or beast. At taat\\ntime quite a stream of water coursed its way\\ndown among the rocks in the centre of our\\npresent Brook and Liberty streets.\\nI have seen in the fine arts gallery of R.\\nH. Winslow, Esq., in New York, a fine pic-\\nture of Boonton, sketched and painted in\\n1833, which conveys a very fair and faithful\\nrepresentation of the place at that time, as I\\nrecollect it. Col. Trumbull, the great Amer-\\nican historical painter, and several other gen-\\ntlemen of note, visited Boonton during my\\nfirst residence here. The Colonel made a\\nnumber of sketches of scenery in the neigh-\\nborhood, of the Falls, but whether he ever\\ncommitted any of them to canvas or not I\\nam unable to state. The old schoolhouse,\\nwhich is still standing on the corner of Lib-\\nerty and Cedar streets, but now used as a\\ndwelling, was erected by the company in\\n1831 and the First Presbyterian church,\\nwhich also is still standing, but us^d for\\nother purposes, was built in the Fall of 1832.\\nDuring my first sojourn here the works\\nwere visited by vast numbers of stran-\\ngers from all parts of the surrounding\\ncountry but a bull-dog watch was kept\\nover them, and you could only gain admis-\\nsion into them by first obtaining a per-\\nmit from the company s office. I also recol", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "J 3\\nlect that during the Summer of 1833 a num-\\nber of dashing young bloods sons of some\\nof the English stoekh lders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 cauie over to\\nthis country, and coming out to Boonton\\nkicked up iuite a dust among our rustic\\nniountaiueers. Warn I left here, in 1884,\\nthe number of dwelling-houses had increased\\nto about forty, and the inhabitants were esti-\\nmated at about tour hundred. My last em-\\nployment here was that of teaching the\\nideas of our young Boontonians M how to\\nshoot in the old schoolhousein the woods on\\nthe hill. 1 have a kind of an indistinct recol-\\nlection that, a number of the larger boys\\nnow among our most solid and substantial\\ncitizens one Saturday forenoon attempted to\\nforce me out of the school-room but I have\\na very distinct recollection that they did not\\nquite make it out.\\nAt that time moat of the iron works were\\ncarried on under the same roof. They con-\\nsisted of a rolling-mill, a number of puddling\\nand heating furnaces, an old-fashioned trip-\\nhammer, a slitting machine and a small\\nfoundry. They were principally engaged in\\nthe manufacture of sheet, hoop and bar iron,\\nand turned out what was denominated first-\\nclaes work. There was also a refinery, which\\nstood down on the bank of the river, near\\nthe spot where the pattern shop now stands.\\nI recollect that one day, just before going to\\ndinner, the workmen placed a large old can-\\nnon in the furnace of the refinery, with the\\nbreech downward, which, happening to be\\nheavily loaded with gunpowder, soon alter\\nexploded with a great noise, blowing the\\nbuilding into atoms, and scattering the frag-\\nments far and wide in every direction but,\\nas good luck would have it, no one was in-\\njured thereby. There was likewise a small\\nblast furnace, built in the Summer of 1833,\\nwhich stood in front of the present machine\\nshop, near the old belfry, which was first\\nlighted by the ladies residing at the ageui s\\nhouse on the aiternoon of Feb. 27tu, 1834.\\nTh*re were then but two tradesmen in the\\nplace who were disconnected with the works,\\nthe one a shoemaker and the other a tailor.\\nThe Bhoe shop was located in our present\\nMain street, near Brook street, and was car-\\nried on by Mr. Edson Hoyt, who likewise\\nkept a boarding-house where Mr. E. K. Sargent\\nnow lives. The tailoring business was trans-\\nacted on a small scale by one Edward Mor-\\nrisoy, who had hiH shop in a room in Mr To\\nnis Peer s dwelling-house, near the canal\\nbridge. At that time the only public convey-\\nance between this place and New York was\\nby staye, three titMSa week, said stage being\\nowned and driven by Mr. Ezra Estler, of\\nrville, who is still living. All our mail\\nmatter had to be obtained from the post office\\nat Parsippauy, miles distant, which had a\\ntri-weekly mail. The company used to diB-\\npatch a wagon to meet each mail, with or-\\nders to brinj; over all the letters and papers\\nfor this place to tlu-ir store, from wlieuce\\nthey were delivered to their owners when\\ncalled for.\\nThe works here have undergone many\\ngreat and important changes since their first\\nestablishment. Railroad axles were being\\nmade here when I left in 1834, and since then\\nconsiderable quantities of railroad iron have\\nbeen manufactured. From the year 1842 un-\\ntil 1847 four furnaces were engaged in the\\nmanufacture of bloomed iron but, charcoal\\nbecoming scarce and dear, the manufacture\\nof this description of iron was abandoned,\\nla the year 1849 Mr. S. S. Sailers, of New-\\nark, had erected at the Boonton works a fur-\\nnace of his own invention lor the cheap and\\nspeedy manufacture of malleable iron, direct-\\nly from the ore, at a single heat. The fur-\\nnace was divided into three chambers, the\\none above the other, and connected together\\nby flues. The ore and coal the ore being\\nfirst ground were placed in the upper cham-\\nber, whence the metal, when melted, lowered\\nitself down through the flues to the lower\\nchambei, where it went through the process\\nof puddling, and thence to the rolls. The\\nwhole operation of each heat occupied about\\nthree hours. The iron made in this way was\\nvery highly commended by the best judges\\nat the Fair of the American Institute in 1850.\\nI am not aware of the cause of the discon-\\ntinuance of its manufacture, but the proba-\\nbility is that it did not pay.\\nOn the 8th of November, 1833, was organ-\\nized the first literary society ever instituted\\nin this place. It was called the Boonton\\nDebating Society, and held its meetings\\nweekly in the old schoolhouse in the woods\\non the hill. Samuel Oakley, Esq., wsb its\\nfirst President, and Doctor Silas Cook was\\nits first Secretary. Mr. Oakley was the then\\nagent of the company, and a gentleman of", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nfine literary tastes, an animated and eloquent\\ndebater, a logical reasoner and an accom-\\nplished belles lettres scholar. This society was\\nstill in existence when I left Boonton, but in\\na rather drooping condition. The constitu-\\ntion was originally subscribed by the follow-\\ning named gentlemen Samuel Oakley, John\\nGrimes, Silas Cook, Jr., James H. Woodhull,\\nRobert P. Williams, John L. Kanouse, Rich-\\nard Dudding, Sherman Miller, Thomas C. J.\\nVan Winkle, ABher Ayres, Edson Hoyt and\\nIsaac S. Lyon. Messrs. Qrimes and Cook\\nwere doctors Messrs. Woodhull, Williams\\nand Ayres managed the company s store\\nMessrs. Van Winkle, Dudding and Miller\\nwere clerks in the company s office Mr. Ka-\\nnouse was a merchant Mr. Hoyt was a shoe-\\nmaker, and Mr. Lyon was a clerk in the sec-\\nond store in the place, owned by Quinby\\nDe Dart, situate on the Old Boonton road,\\njust across the canal bridge.\\nOn the afternoon of November 20th, 1833,\\na canal-boat, heavily loaded with coal, the\\nchain breaking, ran down the inclined plane\\nat a furious rate, jumped the towpath, and\\nlanded among the rocks some twenty feet be-\\nlow, wrecking the boat beyond repair. There\\nwas a woman and six children on board the\\nboat at the time but, strange to Bay, they all\\nescaped uninjured. The breaking of the cbain\\nwas of frequent occurrence in those days, and\\nmuch damage anddelay was occasioned there-\\nby. On another occasion a horse and wagon,\\nwith a woman in it, were standing in front of\\nthe company s store, whild the driver waB in\\nside making a small purchase. In the mean-\\ntime the horse suddenly became lrightened,\\nand starting down the road at a sp^ed that\\nwould have done honor to a modern race-\\ncourse ran off the bridge into the canal, car-\\nrying with him the lower railing of the\\nbridge, burying the woman in the bottom of\\nthe canal beneath the general wreck. The\\nneighbors hastened to the scene of disaster,\\nand soon succeeded in rescuing the whole\\nconcern from the watery elements. The wo-\\nman was insensible and supposed to be dead\\nwhen Bhe was taken out. She was terribly\\nbruised and mangled but, a doctor being\\ncalled to her relief, she was sufficiently re-\\nstored to return home the same afternoon.\\nBoth of these escapes border Bomewhat on\\nthe marvelous. The 17th day of December,\\n1833, was the darkest and stormiest ever\\nknown in this section of country, and it was\\nabsolutely necessary to keep lights burning\\nall day. I recollect this very distinctly, for\\nold Granny Peer was greatly alarmed, and\\nassured me that the world was coming to an\\nend. On the 22d of February, 1834, the\\nBoonton Debating Society celebrated Wash-\\nington s Birthday ia the Presbyterian church\\nin this place. An oration was delivered by\\nSamuel Oakley, Esq., and Washington s Fare-\\nwell Address to the People of the United\\nStates was read by Mr. Richard Dudding.\\nThe church was crowded almoBt to suffoca-\\ntion, and many had to go away without gain-\\ning admission. The oration was an eloquent\\nand fiery political harangue from beginning\\nto end, disappointing the just expectations of\\na highly intelligent audience but the Fare-\\nwell Address was read in a masterly manner\\nby Mr. Dudding. Mr. Oakley was frequently\\nhissed during the delivery of his address, and\\nafterwards greatly regretted the course which\\nhe bad taaen^\\nIt would be an easy matter for me to go on\\nand enlarge upon this part of my discourse did\\ntime permit but I must hasten on to the con-\\nsideration of the B jonton of the present day.\\nA great and noticeable change in the aspect\\nof Boonton has taken place, even within the\\nlast ten years, and the curtain now rises upon\\nthe most interesting spectacle in this perform-\\nance the Boonton of 1860. Still gnz ng\\nfrom the standpoint of 1834 we look abroad\\nupon the opening scene, but everything looks\\nnew and strange. The old familiar hills and\\nstreams are still to be seen but many of the\\nrocks and trees have entirely disappeared, and\\nin their stead now rise up before our view\\nnumerous streetB, studded with neat and com-\\nfortable human habitations, which mystify\\nthe gaze with their bewildering presence. At\\nevery point we behold the fresh footprints of\\nprogress at every turn we witness the march\\nof civilization and refinement, and upon every\\nside the eye is startled by the development of\\nthe arts of modern invention. Increased ac-\\ntivity in every department of business sur-\\nrounds us in every direction, the whole scene\\nappearing to our wondering gaze more like a\\nvision of the imagination than the truthful-\\nness of stern reality. The blazing furnaces\\nthe busy hum of the machine shop the cease-\\nless whirr of rolls and water-wheels the\\never-buzzing saw-mill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the incessant rattling", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nof the copper-shop, and the sharp clicking of\\nmore than a hundred nail uiaohines, tell us\\nplainly enough that the man of the nineteenth\\ncentury has been amoDg us. We now not\\nonly believe, but we also begin to see and feel\\nthat Boonton a bound to go ahead! Un-\\nlike the beautiful but baseless and fleeting\\nvisions which we so often conjure up in our\\ndreams, the beautiful and enchanting ecene\\nthat lieB outspread before us is one of living\\nreality and composed of solid substances. The\\nhand of progress and improvement has been\\nbusily at work, and a cheerful and smiling\\nvillage of more than two thousand inhabit-\\nants now marks the result.\\nAnd, now, what has caused all this sudden\\nand startling change? To this inquiry but\\none truthful answer can be given, and it is\\nthis: The iron works established here by\\nthe New Jersey Iron Company, and now in\\nsuccessful operation under the ownership of\\nMessrs. Fnller Lord and the energetic man-\\nagement of the enterprising William G. La-\\nthrop, Esq. This is the Aladdin s Lamp that\\nhas transformed a once barren and howling\\nwilderness into one of the most active and\\nprosperous manufacturing villages in New\\nJersey, and given a name to Boonton that is\\nalmost worldwide.\\nThe great problem has at length been\\nsolved, and Boonton has now obtained a foot-\\nhold from which no ordinary convulsions of\\ntrade or commerce can uproot her. The old\\nfiction that Boonton could not extend herself\\nbeyond certain fixed limits has been\\nexploded by the historical fact that she has\\nalready passed those prescribed limits, and\\nthat her future course will ever be onward\\nand upward. A city that is set on a hill can-\\nnot be hid and Boonton is not one of those\\nkind of know-nothings that expects to illu-\\nminate the surrounding country by hiding\\nher light under a bushel. As soon as we\\nhave fy direct lallroad communication with\\nNew York ci y and that time is not distant\\nshe will then tuke a new start in her on-\\nward march, and no human obstacle will be\\nable to restrain her rapid advancement.\\nIn a description of Boonton at the present\\nday the iron works located here claim our\\nfirst notice, for without them this would be a\\ndull and cheerless place. The Boonton iron\\nworks have been greatly ehauged and en-\\nlarged since 1834, and the change and en-\\n4\\nlargement is still going on. The different\\nworks now cover about five acres of ground,\\nand are at present divided under the follow-\\ning heads The large mill, occupied by the\\npuddlers, heaters and rollers the blast fur-\\nnace, the two nail factories, the foundry, the\\nmachine shop, the saw-mill, the cooper shop,\\nthe blacksmith shop, the pattern shop, and a\\nnumber of smaller establishments of one\\nkind and another. Although somewhat com-\\nplicated and immense in extent, order and\\nBystem reign supreme throughout all the di-\\nvisions and subdivisions of all these various\\ndepartments, and all have the appearance of\\nclockwork in their movements. Nothing is\\nwasted, nothing is lost, and nothing can re-\\nmain unaccounted for.\\nBut perhaps it would be as well, before\\ngoiog into these details, to give a short t-ketch\\nof tilese works as a whole. The facts tbat\\nfollow were obtained from personal inspection\\nand other authentic sources, and may be re-\\nlied upon as correct. The New Jersey Iron\\nCompany was ohartered by an act of the\\nLegislature, bearing date Nov. 7th, 1829, and\\nmany of the original Btnckholde s were Eng-\\nlish gentlemen. The affairs of the company\\nwere at first managed by Messrs. Green\\nWetmore, large iron dealers in New York,\\nThere was no material change made in the\\nownership of these works uutil 1852; but in\\nJune of that year their ownership passed\\ninto the hands of D. B. Fuller Co and in\\nSeptember of the same year the firm was\\nchanged into that of Fuller Lord Dudley\\nB. Fuller and James C. Lord\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the present\\nproprietors. The tract of land originally\\npurchased for the use of the New Jersey Iron\\nCompany consisted of two hundred acres, and\\nwas a part of the Old Boonton tract. It was\\npurchased in the name of David W. Wet-\\nmore of the late Captain William Scott, of\\nPowerville, for the sum of $5,1)00, and iu was\\nthought at that time that it had been well\\nsold. The whole amount of money expend-\\ned in the construction of these works up to\\n1859 was over half a million dollars, and\\nsince then Beveral thousand dollars more\\nhave been expended in the erection of addi-\\ntional buildings and machinery. A new iron\\nwheel of the most solid construction and fin-\\nished workmanship, twenty-seven feet in di-\\nameter said to be the largest wheel of the\\nkind in the State has been added to the", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "2 i\\nworks during the present year at an expense\\nof about $30,000. The number of hands\\noriginally employed here was about one hun-\\ndted the number employed at present is be-\\ntween 600 and 700. The amount of money\\npaid out by the company for labor here is\\nabout $25,000 per month. The number of\\ntons of coal annually consumed at these\\nworks is 23,000 tons, and the number of tons\\nof ore of different kinds is 15,000 tons. Large\\nquantities of lime and soapstone are also used\\nin the different furnaces, of which I have not\\nbeen able to obtain any particular account.\\nThe number of tons of iron annually man-\\nufactured here is about 8,500, most of\\nwhich is cut into nails of various kinds and\\nshipped down the canal to the company s\\nwarehouse in New York. The original stock-\\nholders of this company lost every dollar of\\ntheir capital, but honorably paid every cent\\nof their liabilities toothers. This, no doubt,\\nwas very pleasing to their consciences as\\nmen, but could not have been very satisfac-\\ntory to their pockets as a business transac-\\ntion.\\nWe will now examine these works and de-\\nscribe them a little more in detail. They are\\nlocated in a deep, rocky, narrow valley, be-\\ntween the river and canal, and stand some\\nSO feet below the river above the dam, which\\nis about an eighth of a mile distant. All the\\nwater used at these works is taken from the\\ncanal at the head of the inclined plane, the\\nriver connecting with the canal at the dam,\\nand a small quantity of water is made to\\nperform an immense amount of work. The\\nhills on either side of these works rise ab-\\nruptly to the height of 150 or 200 feet, which\\ngives to the whole scene grand and roman-\\ntic appearance. The large mill generally\\ntermed the rolling-mill being the first built,\\ndemands our first notice. This immense edi-\\nfice, which covers nearly an acre of ground,\\nis in length about 375 feet, by 275 feet in\\nwidth, the roof of which is supported by a\\nlarge number of heavy cast-iron columns,\\nall of which were cabt here. The following\\nare the principal branches of work carried on\\nunder the roof of this vast structure, viz.:\\nTen puddling furnaces, which give employ-\\nment to 80 men 1 scrap furnace, employing\\n4 men 3 trains of rolls, containing 7 sets,\\nemploying 14 men 2 squeezers, one rotary\\nand the other the old style jaw squeezer, em-\\nploying 4 men 3 nut machines, employing 6\\nmen 1 bolt and 1 nut thread cutting ma-\\nchine, each employing 2 men. In the eame\\nbuilding there are 8 or 10 large spike ma-\\nchines, a furnace for heating their plate, and\\nother furnaces for heating the iron for the\\nnut and bolt machines. Oiher parts of this\\nbuilding are used for storing nails, iron and\\nother materials ueed in this department.\\nThe hands in this mill, with the exception of\\nthose who work the nut, spike and bolt ma-\\nchines, -work day and night, off and on turns\\nof 10 hours each, about ten months in each\\nyear. There are quite a number of superin\\ntendents and overseers in this building, some\\nof whom command high salaries. A large,\\nsplendid, ornamental cast iron fountain cast\\nhere is located near the centre of this vast\\nedifice, the cooling and purifying influences\\nof which are very sensibly felt by the numer-\\nous workmen during the torrid heats of Sum\\nmer. The nut machines in operation in this\\nmill were invented and patented by P. H.\\nCole, Esq., of St. Louis, in 1855, with new\\nimprovements up to 1857. The bolt machine\\nand the nut thread-cutting machine were\\nalso invented by Mr. Cole. I have been in-\\nformed that the Boonton company have pur-\\nchased of the inventor the sole right to make,\\nuse and vend these machines on all this side\\nof the Alleghany mountains. The first nut\\nmachine in operation here was brought on\\nfrom St. Louis by the inventor but the sec-\\nond and third were made here, and others\\nare now in course of construction. The in-\\ntroduction of the manufacture of bolts and\\nnuts at this establishment has not only added\\nconsiderably to the business of the place, but\\nhas also, as I understand, proved very profit-\\nable to the interests of the company. The\\nrotary squeezer, now iu use here, is likewise\\na new invention, and I have been informed\\nthat this company have secured the exclusive\\nright to make and vend them in the United\\nStates. Large cast-iron water pipes, connect-\\ning with the canal at the head of the inclined\\nplane, encircle this and most of the other\\nbuildings and, in caBe of fire breaking out,\\nby attaching hose to the hydrants, which are\\nplaoed in commanding positions, almost every\\none of the buildings can be flooded in a lew\\nminutes. This mill was totally destroyed by\\nAre some eight or nine years ago but It was\\nimmediately rebuilt, and has since been en-\\nlarged to its present dimensions,", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\nThe nail factories ootne next in order. The\\nupper nail factory is located on the west bank\\nof the oanal, at the head of the inolined plane.\\nThe dimensions of this building are 50x150\\nfret, and it is two stories in height. It was\\nerected during the years 1 849-50, and com-\\nmenced operations in August, 1851. It con-\\ntains 79 naii machines, giving employment\\nto 38 nailers and 48 or 50 feeders. The whole\\nnumber of hands employed in this factory is\\n118, including plate-cutters, packers, pilers\\nand furnace men. The largest number of\\nkegs of nails cut in this factory in any one\\nweek ie 3,142, in May, 1858; the largest\\nnumber cut in any one month is 14,021, in\\nMarch, 1856. The usual number of kegs of\\nnails out in this factory in one year ranges\\nfrom 90,000 to 125,000, and the average work-\\ning time is about 10 months in each year,\\n*Dd there is seldom any supsension of opera-\\ntions on account of hard times. The nails\\nmade at this establishment are now sought as\\nA No. 1 article in every market. Mr. James\\nHolmes has the chief management of this\\nfactory, and has had since its commencement.\\nThe lower nail factory is located in the up-\\nper part of the saw-mill, which stands on the\\nlower bank of the branch canal. The follow-\\ning details were furnished me by Mr. Andrew\\nF. Kirby, one of the nailers This factory\\ncommenced operations in 1855, contains 25\\nnail machines, and employs about 30 hands,\\nmen and boys, all told. The nails cut here\\nare all of the smaller kind, but are equally as\\ngood as those cut at the upper factory. The\\nnumber of kegs of nails cut in the course of\\neach year average about 10,000. This factory\\nis under the charge of Mr. Nathaniel Jones,\\nauu works about 10 months in each year.\\nThe saw-mill is quite a busy place, and is\\nunder the management of Mr. George M.\\nGage, of whom I have the following details:\\nThe first saw-mill established here was in\\nOctober, 1850, in the old building now used\\nfor a machine shop. The present large and\\ncommodious establishment commenced ope-\\nrations in 1854, and furnishes constant em-\\nployment to from 18 to 20 hands. This saw-\\nmill consumes about 1,000 cords of chestnut\\ntimber annually, which is sawed into staves,\\nand about 10,008 feet of whitewood logs,\\nwhich, when sawed into boards, makes about\\n70,000 feet of keg heading. The Btave timber\\ncosts from $5 to $5.75 per cord, according to\\nquality. The usual number of staves turned\\nout daily amounts to from 12,000 to 13,000\\nIn addition to the 70,000 feet of whitewood\\nboards about 200,000 feet of 1 1 inch plank\\nare used for heading purposes. This, when\\nslit in twain, will make about 400,000 keg\\nheads, being about the number generally\\nused each year. The hands employed in this\\nmill work, on an average, about 275 to 280\\ndayB each year.\\nThe cooper shop comes next in order. I\\nhave the following details from Mr. A. Bur-\\nroughs, superintendent thereof This, too,\\nis likewise an extensive and stirring depart-\\nment. The first cooper shop was established\\nin 1851, in an old building since demolished.\\nThe present shop, together with several other\\nextensive buildings used for drying and stor-\\nage purposes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all built of brick, with slate\\nroofs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 were mostly built in 1854. The num-\\nber of staves annually used in this shop\\namounts to about 2,184,880, and the number\\nof kegs turned out annually average about\\n146,000. Eighty kegs is considered a fair\\nday s work for one man, but Mr. Sawyer has\\nmade as high as 125 kegs in 10 hours. Any\\nperson who can witness the daring, almost\\nreckless manner in which he fits a hoop, with-\\nout shuddering, must be either more or less\\nthan man. The number of men employed in\\nthis shop is 14, who work about 46 weeks in\\neach year.\\nThere has been a small foundry attached to\\nthese works since their first establishment\\nbut the new building erected for this purpose\\nin 1857 is the only one deserving particular\\nnotice. The new foundry is located between\\nthe machine shop and the blast f urnaoe, is 50\\nfeet wide and 60 feet in length, and is con-\\nstructed of brick in the most substantial\\nmanner. It gives employment to 10 men,\\nand turns out about 400 tons of castings in\\nthe course of a year, but it is capable of doing\\ndouble that amount of business when de-\\nmanded. It now makes all the castings used\\nabout the works, and always stands ready to\\ncontract for outside orders whenever they are\\noffered. The largest casting that has yet\\nbeen made at this foundry is 15,500 pounds,\\nbut a much larger one can.be made^when\\nwanted. Mr. Paul Glover has been acting as\\nsuperintendent of thiB establishment for quite\\na number of years.", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nPrevious to the year 1853 the larger portion\\nofrthe machinery used at these works was\\nmade at Newark and Rockaway but in June\\nof that year the present machine shop was\\nestablished here. It is now carried on in an\\nold building, formerly occupied as a saw-mill,\\nlocated between the rolliDg-mill and tbe\\nfoundry. Since its establishment this shop\\nhas manufactured all the machinery (except\\nnail machines) required by the works, to-\\ngether with all the necessary repairs, with an\\noccasional outside job. It employs 8 men,\\nall of whom generally make lull time the\\nyear round. This shop is now, and has been\\nsince its first establishment, under the Buper-\\nintendency of Captain Edwin Bishop.\\nOf the present blast furnace I have rot\\nbeen able to obtain any correct particulars.\\nIt was, however, erected some 12 or 14 years,\\nago, employs from 25 to 80 hands, and turns\\nout about, 20 tons of pig iron every 24 hours.\\nIt works night and day, weekdays and Sun-\\ndays, and indulges in a general blow-out\\nabout once every three years. It i.3 at present\\nunder the management of Mr. George Jen-\\nkins.\\nThere is also a large blacksmith shop con-\\nnected with these works, and has been from\\nthe beginning. This shop was formerly car-\\nried on in an old building in the rear of the\\nrolling-mill but, this building having been\\ndestroyed by fire in 1856, the shop was re-\\nmoved into the westerly corner of that mill.\\nThe present blacksmith shop, built of brick\\nin 1850, stands on the left hand side, at the\\nmain entrance to said mill. This shop and\\nits branches now employ 15 bauds, who gen-\\nerally make full time the year round. It\\ndoes ail the blacksmithing required about the\\nworks, and occasionally contracts for aa oat-\\nside job. This shop is divided into a number\\nof different branches, each of which is under\\nthe direction of a separate foreman. There\\nare also a carpenter shop, a pattern shop and a\\nplumber s shop connected with these works;\\nbut as they employ only from 2 to 5 hands\\neach I have not thought it important to enter\\ninto their details.\\nThis company own extensive ore mines a\\nshort distance up the canal, and during the\\nboating season keep in constant employment\\nsome 20 boats, which are engaged in stock-\\ning the works with ore, coal and other mate-\\nrials, and conveying tbe nails and finished\\niron to the New York market. This oompany\\npay off all their workmen in cash, once every\\nfour weeks, but alwayB retaining two weeks\\nwages in the office.\\nAnthracite coal has been in common use in\\nthese works during the last 18 years, and with-\\nout it at the present time it would be impossible\\nto keep them in operation one month in a\\nyear. Tbe disoovery of this important secret\\nconstitutes one of the great events of modern\\ntimes, and I am strongly impressed with the\\nbelief that the Boonton Company were the\\nfirst that introduced this kind of coal into\\nsuccessful use for puddling purposes. I have\\ntried hard to trace out the truth of this im-\\nportant i-tct, and to ascertain the name of the\\ndiscoverer, but nobody seems to have taken\\nany note of it. Every person with whom I\\nhave oon versed upon the Bubjeot is of the\\nsame opinion as myself, but as yet I have not\\nbeen able to substantiate the fact. If it really\\nis true, as I believe that it is, then the old\\nBoonton Company deserve great praise for\\ntheir enterprise, and the name of the discov-\\nerer should be traced out and a monument be\\nreared to his memory that shall stand while\\nBoonton stands. Other important discoveries\\nhave been made here by gentlemen connected\\nwith these works, but I find it a very difficult\\nmatter to trace out anything correctly respect-\\ning the past. Mr. Stephen Pear, one of our\\nmost ingenious mechanics, has made soma\\nimportant improvements in the stave-sawing\\ndepartment, and Mr. John Gould has invented\\na self feeding apparatus, attachable to a nail\\nmachine, which, it is said, is a very desirable\\nand useful inventioB. Mr. John Wootton, a\\ngentleman of rare inventive genius, has late-\\nly invented a very curious and ingenious ma-\\nchine for cutting horseshoe nails, the model\\nof which was unfortunately destroyed at the\\nburning of the New York Crystal Palace.\\nI very much doubt if there is in the whole\\nUnited States another establishment of the\\nkind so thoroughly organized in every re-\\nspect, and so abiy conducted in all its various\\ndepartments, as are these Bjonton works. A\\nmore thoroughly independent and self-reliant\\ncompany could not well exist, for they rely\\nwholly upon themselves for everything that\\ntheir business demands, which it is reasonably\\npossible for them to control and it is cur-\\nrently reported here that they can and do\\nmanufacture naile at a less cost than at any", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a220\\nother establishment of the kind in the world.\\nIt is, perhaps, owing to the watohful and sys-\\ntematic manner in which every branch of\\ntheir business is conduoted that they have\\nbeen enabled to keep the furnaces of Boonton\\nin full blast and their 700 men and boys in\\nfull employment while bankruptcy and ruin\\nhave been stalking like ghosts of disembodied\\nspeculators over all the rest of the country.\\nWe will now look about us a little and see\\nwhat the villnge itt-elf is composed of. Boon-\\nton is now regularly laid out into streets\\nfifty feet wide, which crosg each other at\\nright aogles. Tue village was very hand-\\nsomely mapped by Mr. Thomas Hughes in\\n1867, at which time it contained about 1,600\\ninhabitants but many fine improvements\\nhave been made since that time. The num-\\nber of streets at present laid oat are twenty-\\nfour, about five miles of which have been\\nopened and built upon. From a personal sur-\\nvey, made in July. 1859, I am enabled to\\nmake the following statement in detail, which\\nI believe is strictly correct: Of dwelling\\nhouses there were 268; halls and hotels, 2;\\nchurches, 4 Btorehouees, 7 carpenter shops,\\n8 shoe shops, 2 blackscith shops, 4 tailor\\nshops, 2 steam mills, 1 academies, 1 pest\\noffices, 1 barns, 43 total of buildings of\\nall descriptions, 338. The dwelling houses\\nare located as follows Canal street, 11\\nDivision street, 10 Mechanic street, 2 Wil-\\nliam street, 15; Cornelia street, 12 Church\\nstreet, 24 Brook street, 44 Liberty street,\\n28 Green street, 16 Oak street, 9 Plane\\nstreet, 11 Main street, 29 Birch street, 21\\nCedar street, 11 Spruce street, 2 scattering,\\n23. Of these buildings, including United\\nStates Hotel and Liberty Hall. 6 are 3 stories\\nin height, 122 2 stones, and 141 1 story. Of\\nthe 268 dwelling houses about 100 have been\\nbuilt since my return here in 1855. In the\\nvillage are 4 brick buildings the academy,\\ntwo storehouses and one dwelling 8 of stone\\nand cement the hotel and two dwelling\\nhouses all the rest are wooden building?,\\nbuilt in different styles of architecture. But\\nit should be borne in mind that many of the\\ndwelling hous s are large, double buildings,\\nin the occupancy of from two to four lots\\nbut in all cases I have rated all such buildings\\nas a single house. The uniform size of all\\nour village lots is 50x100 to 125 feet, and they\\nare valued at from $50 to $1,000 each. I esti\\nmate the population of Boonton at the pres-\\nent time (18?0) at something over 2,000.\\nIn July, 1860, one year later, I again took\\na Burvey of the business operations of the\\nplace, and the following details embraoe the\\nresult of my investigations. There were\\nthen engaged in business operations in the\\nplace 10 stores for the Bale of general mer-\\nchandise, 4 stores for the sale of small wares\\nand fancy goods 6 merchant tailors, 8 drug\\nstores, 2 stove and tinware establishments, 4\\nblacksmith shops, 5 boot and shoe Bhops, 8\\ncarpenter shops, 2 wheelwright shops, 2 har-\\nness makers shops, 2 paint shops, I hotel, 1\\nlivery stable, 1 lumber yard, 3 coal yards, 1\\nsteam mill, 1 grist mill, 1 oider mill, 2 watch\\nmakers, 1 baker, 1 cabinet maker, 1 sash and\\nblind maker, 1 barber, 1 news office, and quite\\na number of smaller establishments of vari.\\nous kinds, including a large number of beer\\nshops. MoBt of the large stores are kept well\\nstocked, an i all appear to be doing a living\\nbusiness, the sales of a few of them being\\nimmense for the Bi ze of the place. Thefle\\nseveral establishments employ an active cash\\ncapital of not less than $100,000, and give\\nemployment to about 100 p^rsone, and from\\n50 to 60 horses, all told. The real business\\ntransacted at these various establishments\\nmust amount to something like $1,000 per\\nditm.\\nAnd now, my friends, when we compare\\nthe Boonton of 1860 with the Boonton of\\n1834, may we not justly boast of our progress\\nand achievements, and at the rapid advance-\\nment which we have made in every depart-\\nment of trade and manufactures in the brief\\nspace of 26 years Look at Boonton then,\\nwith her 400 inhabitants, her 100 workmen,\\nher 40 dwelling houses, her solitary church\\nand schooihouse, her 2 small stores and 2 me-\\nchanics, and then look upon what she is now.\\nWe may, however, look upon what has al-\\nready been accomplished as a mere nothing\\nin comparison with what we have every rea-\\nson to believe will be done by our children\\nduring the next twenty-six years for Boon-\\nton haB but just waked up, as it were, to a\\nsense of her position in view of the good\\ntime coming.\\nA brief description of a lew of the most\\nprominent objects that contribute to our\\nmoral and social enjoyment, and I shall have\\ndone with this part of my discourse. I be-", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "s$\\ngin with the churches, ae they are generally\\nlooked upom by all as the best regulators of\\nsociety in every civilized community. The\\nSi st building ever erected in this place for\\nthe purpose of religious instruction was the\\nold Presbyterian church, located on the cor-\\nner of Church and Birch streets. This build-\\ning was erected in 1832\u00e2\u0080\u0094 size 35x55 feet, and\\ncost about $2, 00. A new church edifice,\\n86x72 feet, containing a fine steeple, was\\nerected on the site of the old ohuich in 1859,\\nat a cost of about $6,000. independently of\\nits interior decorations, which cost some $1,-\\n500. In that year this church contained 156\\nmembers, and about 130 Sunday school schol-\\nars, who have a library numbering between\\n200 and 300 volumes. The Rev. D. E. Megie\\nis now, and has been for many years, pastor of\\nthis church.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal ohurch comes\\nnext in order. This church is located in Ce-\\ndar, near Liberty street, is 40 feet square, and\\nwas erected in 1854, at a cost of $1,600. The\\nlot upon which it stands is 100x104 feet, upon\\na portion of which a parsonage house has\\nlately been erected at a cost of $1,800. In\\n1859 this church contained 143 members and\\n50 probationers has a Sunday school at-\\ntached to it, containing 180 soholars, 22\\nteachers, and a library of 200 volumes. Pre-\\nvious to the erection of this building the\\nMethodist congregation held their services in\\nthe old Free church on Main street since\\nchanged ioto the drug store now occupied by\\nMr. William McGarty.\\nA small Soman Catholio churoh was erected\\nhere some nine or ten years since. It stands\\nin Birch street, near Green, and has a bury-\\ning ground on the same lot. This building\\nbeing found too small to accommodate a rap-\\nidly increasing congregation, the trustees\\nhave recently decided upon the ereotion of a\\nnew edifice. The new church, now in course\\nof erection, when completed, will be a hand-\\nsome structure and an ornament to our thriv-\\ning village. The new building will be 40x80\\nftet, with a tower 65 feet in height, and\\nstained glass windows, built of hewn stone in\\nthe most substantial manner. It etands di-\\nrectly opposite the old church, and it is ex-\\npected that it will be completed duriDg the\\ncoming year, its estimated cost being $12,000.\\nThis church claims to have between 600 and\\n700 members and a large Sunday school but\\nit should be borne in mind that many mem-\\nbers of this, as well as of all the other\\nchurches, reside without the village.\\nA Free Congregational church was estab\\nlished here some years ago but I have not.\\nbeen able to learn anything respecting its\\nhistory further than that it was located in\\nMain street, in the building now occupied as a\\ndrug store by Mr. McCarty.\\nThe Protestant Episcopal is the latest on\\nthe list of churches established here. The\\nservices of this denomination were first held\\nhere in the Fall of 1856, in the old Free\\nohurch just referred to but at present they\\nhold their regular services in the old Sessions\\nbuilding formerly attached to the Presbyte-\\nrian church, afterward known as Musical\\nHall, in Church street. An addition has\\nbeen attached to the original building, which\\nis now fitted up into a very neat and commo.\\ndious place of religious worship. The pres\\nent number of its resident members is about 25,\\nSunday school scholars 98, teachers 14, vol-\\numes in library 200. This church has lately\\nbeen incorporated, according to the ruleB pre-\\nscribed by that denomination, and is now act-\\ning as a self-governing organization. Messrs\\nFuller Lord have donated to this congrega-\\ntion a fine lot of grouod on the corner of\\nCedar and Cornelia streets, and measures are\\nnow In progress for erecting a handsome new\\nchurch edifice thereon during the coming\\nyear.\\n1 he Boonton Free Academy is an institu-\\ntion of which our citizens may justly feel\\nproud. It is beautifully located on Academy\\ngreen, and commands a noble and extended\\nview of the village and surrounding country\\nThis edifice is constructed of brick, is two\\nstories in height, and of respectable dimen.\\nsions on the ground. It was built during the\\nyears 1852-53, at a cost of about $4,000, and\\nwas dedicated on the Fourth of July of the\\nlatter year. In 1859 the average number of\\nsoholars attending this institution was about\\n200, the highest number in attendance at any\\none time being 250. It employs at present 4\\nteachers, one male and three females, the to-\\ntal o: whose salaries amounts to $1,400 per\\nannum. It is governed by a board of three\\ntrustees, one of whom is chosen by the citi-\\nzens annually. The higher branches taught\\nhere are philosophy, history, algebra and\\nmathematics.", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "SI\\nOur new United States Hotel In the first\\nestablishment of the kind that has ever been\\nopened in this place, and its beneficial effects\\nto business generally hare already been very\\nsensibly felt and appreciated by this com-\\nmunity. Previous to its erection there ex-\\nisted nowhere in the village a place at which\\na stranger might obtain a meal ot victuals or\\ndemand a night s lodging. The United\\nStates is a first-class building of the kind,\\nand is well conducted and patronized. Its\\nerection was commenced in 1857, and com-\\npleted in 1858, being about one year in build-\\ning. It was first opened for the reception of\\nthe public on November 3d, 1858, at which\\ntime it underwent a pretty good warming.\\nThe walls of this building are constructed of\\nstone and cement, are 40x86 feet in their di-\\nmensions, 3^ stories in height, the whole\\nbuilt at a cost of some $8,000 or $9,000. It\\ncontains 42 rooms in all, the two largest of\\nwhich are 22x40 feet, and is capable of ac-\\ncommodating comfortably about fifty gueBts.\\nIt is located on the corner of Main and Di-\\nvision streets a not very desirable location\\nand when fully completed will contain a\\nhandsome cupola on its top and a spacious\\npiazza on each street. Mr. C. P. Chamberlain,\\nits gentlemanly landlord, is at present enjoy.\\ning a liberal share of patronage from both\\nthe local and traveling public.\\nBut little can be said in commendation of\\nany other of our public buildings the new\\nUnion Building, corner of Brook and Birch\\nstreets, alone excepted, which constitutes the\\nfinest improvement yet made in that section\\nof the village. The dimensions of this build-\\ning are 50x60 feet, three stories in height,\\nerected more particularly for the accommoda-\\ntion of the Booonton Protective Union Com-\\npany s store, but not wholly so. It is con-\\nstructed of wood, has a fire-proof composi-\\ntion roof, is highly ornamental in its outward\\nappearance, and is said to be the largest and\\nhandsomest building of the kind in Morris\\ncounty. The whole of the firBt story, to-\\ngether with the cellar, is now occupied by\\nthe Boonton Protective Union Company\\nfor store-keeping purposes the second Btory\\nhas been divided into small apartments, to be\\nlet either for offices or dwellings, and the\\nthird story has been finished into two spa-\\ncious halls, the one being used for literary\\nand the other for public purposes of various\\nkinds. This fine building was erected by an\\nenterprising private company during the\\nSummer of 1859 at a cost of about $7,000.\\nOur so-oalled Old Liberty Hall, built und\\nowned by Dr. John Grimes, is the oldest pub-\\nlic hall in the village, and for many years\\nwas the only one. This renowned old hall\\nstands on Main, near Liberty street, and when\\nfilled to its utmost oapaoity will hold about\\n400 persons. The fame of this grand old\\nhall is widespread yea, almost world-wi e\\nand its doors have been entered by most of\\nthe people of Boonton and the surrounding\\ncountry. It has been used at one time and\\nanother for almost every conceivable pur-\\npose, both of a public and pri\\\\ ate character.\\nIt well deserves to be called Liberty Hall,\\nfor within its walls almost every description\\nof performances have been enacted. Song\\nand dance feast and frolio wedding and\\nfuneral show and concert music and re-\\njoicing history and the drama farce and\\ntragedy debate and disputation upon thing3\\nseen and unseen literature and science\\nslavery and anti-slavery republicanism and\\ndemocracy whigism, know-nothingism, and\\nall the other isms ever heard of or dreamed\\nof politics and religion patriotism and\\nfree-soilism spirit rappings and vegetarian-\\nism woman s rights aud woman s wroDgs,\\nin all their various phases and ramifications\\nfree suppers, free Bpeech and free every-\\nthing\u00e2\u0080\u0094all have been enacted, seen, heard and\\nlistened to time and again within its venera\\nble and time-hallowed walls. Long may the\\nflag of the free and brave float in iriuuiph\\nfrom the battlements of our famous old Lib-\\nerty Hall 1 May its foundations endure for a\\nthousand years yet to come, and may its\\nshadows never be less than they are at the\\npresent moment\\nIndependence Hall is quite a large room,\\nlocated over the store of Messrs. Peer fe Da-\\nvis, in Main street. This hall was formerly\\noccupied by the Boonton Temperance Society,\\nand latterly by the National Guard as an ar-\\nmory and drill room, but at present it is not\\noccupied permanently for any purpose. The\\nold Presbyterian church building has lately\\nbeen purchased by a number of gentlemen,\\nwho have had it removed to the opposite side\\nof the street and fitted up as a place for hold-\\ning exhibitions and public meetings. It is\\nnow known as Washington Hall/ and is", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6the largest building of the kind at present\\nin the village. This hall is quite large enongh\\nto meet the present wants of onr citizens but\\nit will, no doubt, soon be superseded by some-\\nthing more elegant and commodious. There\\nare quite a number of elegant private resi-\\ndences scattered round in different parts of\\nthe village, but I dare not particularize any\\nof them. Taking everything into considera-\\ntion the newness of the place and the oner-\\nous expense of clearing a lot and building\\nthereon bo Boontonian need be ashamed of\\ntaking a stranger by the hand and showing\\nhim round our little rock-bound village,\\nyoung and unpretending as she is.\\nBoonton has long been noted for the mu-\\nsical attainments of her citizens, and I hesi-\\ntate not in saying that there is not another\\nplace of its sizs in the civilized world that\\ncan turn out more musicians of one kind and\\nanother. The fact is, and there ia no use in\\ntrying to conceal it, we are emphatically a\\nmusical community. Old and young, great\\nand small, men, women and children in-\\nfants of the smallest dimensions and tiniest\\nvoices included all seem to have more or\\nless music in their souls; and, what is\\nstill more to the purpose, most of tbem have\\na happy knack of letting their neighbors\\nknow it. There have been at various times\\nno less than three military bands organized\\nin this village but of the whole number\\nthere is but one of them in existence at the\\npresent time 1860\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Washington oor-\\nnet band. This band was organized under\\nthe leadership of Mr. Joseph Mills June 26th,\\n1851, at which time it contained only six\\nmembers It was then called the Boonton\\nbraes band. On the 8d of January, 1852,\\nMr. Mills withdrew from the leadship of this\\nband but the remaining members immedi-\\nately reorganized themselves under the name\\nof the Boonton temperance brass band,\\nwith Mr. Charles Raaieey as their leader.\\nOn the 1st of April, 1857, Mr. Eamsey with-\\ndrew from the band, and Mr. Joseph Fitzpat-\\nrick wa j chosen leader, at whioh time the\\nname of the band was again changed to that\\nof the Washington cornet band, which\\nname it still retains. Toe band at present\\nconsists of the following named members\\nCharles Ramsey, leader (having been again\\nchosen leader August 14th, 1858), Joseph\\nFitzpatrick, Enoch Hammonds, Joseph Par-\\nker, William Grubb, Joseph Hammonds,\\nThomas Hammonds, Daniel Mains, Nathaniel\\nA. Myers, James King, James Myers, Squire\\nGage, Edward Fitzpatrick, William Bever-\\ncombe and Smith G. Gage 15 members all\\ntold At present this band holds its meetings\\nin one of the large rooms of the United States\\nHotel.\\nThe Excelsior band was organized by\\nMr. Joseph Mills January 10th, 1852. Mr.\\nMil s waB its first leader, but it obtained its\\nhighest renown under the leadership of Mr.\\nWilliam A. Sterenton. This band was com-\\nposed entirely of young men, and its last\\nleader was Mr. George F. Teush. It consisted\\nof ten members at the time of its disband-\\nment, a few months sinoe, the names of whom\\nwere as follows George F. Teush, leader,\\nAdam Trumbor, George Hessey, Joseph Ste-\\nventon, Joseph Beardmore, John Lepard,\\nSamuel Rubadou, Joseph Lemear, Richard\\nMansell and Stacy P. Hopper. Both of these\\nbands have had calls to play in different\\nparts of the State, and they have always done\\nthemselves and the place they hailed from\\ngreat credit by their splendid performances.\\nA fine military company has been organized\\nhere during the present year (1859) but I\\nhave not been able to obtajn much informa.\\ntion in regard to its movements. It is called\\nthe First Company, National Guard, of Boon-\\nton, and is under command of our enter-\\nprising fellow-citizen, Captain Edwin Bishop,\\nan ex-member of the famous New York Sev-\\nenth regiment. The company has its armory\\nand drill-room in Independence Hall, and at\\nthe present time numbers about forty mus-\\nkets. There are plenty of good raw mate-\\nrials in this village, sufficient to increase the\\nnumber of this company to at least 100 mem-\\nbers, rar k and file, and I trust that Captain\\nBishop will succeed in getting that number\\ninto line between this time and the coming\\nFourth of July.\\nWishing to plaoe the date of the first es-\\ntablishment of a post office in this place on\\nrecord in this discourse, and rinding it a diffi-\\ncult matter to obi ain any correct account of\\nit here, I di patched a note to the Postmaster\\nGeneral, soliciting information upon the sub-\\nject. This application was made under date\\nof July 27, 1859, and on the 10th of August\\nfollowing I received the ollowing reply, un-\\nder the seal of the Post Office Department", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nProm the 3d of February, 1817, till the th of\\nJuly, 1846, there was no office by theuame of Boon-\\nton but, on that day the office at Montville waa\\nchanged to Boonton- including a change of Bite\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and\\nEdmund K.Sargent was appointed postmaster, who\\ncontinued to aet till the 27th of November 1849, when\\nJohn Hill was appointed, who held the Office till the\\n24th of May, 1853, when Edmund K. Sargent was re-\\nappointed, and who is the present incumbent. This,\\nit is be ieved, covers all the information the popart-\\nmenl can furnish as to the history of this office.\\nVery respect fully,\\nJohn B. L. Skinner,\\nActing First Ass t, P. M. General.\\nThe iirst news office ever established in\\nBoonton, was opened by Edward E. Lynn on\\nthe corner of Main and Brook streets in the\\nFallot 1857, and although there was but lit-\\ntle encouiagement held out at the time, I\\nbelieve that it is now doing a good paying\\nbusiness, with a fair prospect of a gradual in-\\ncrease.\\nThe Boonton Cemetery is a burial place\\nof which our citizens need not feel ashamed.\\nThe land which it occupies was donated by\\nthe company here at the first settlement of the\\nplace, which has since been greatly improved\\nand beautified by those burying there. The\\noldest tombstone I have been aide to discover\\nthere bears date of 1832. At that time it was\\nmore or less surrounded by woods on every\\nside, and entirely disconnected with and out\\nof sight of the village. It is now surrounded\\nby a substantial concrete wall, and the lots\\nhave nearly all been taken up.\\nThere have been cprite a number of public\\nsocieties of one kind and another established\\nat various times in this village but most of\\nthem have already run their course and been\\nforgotten. There are only three that profess\\nto have an existence at the present time the\\nMinerva Literary Society, the Boonton\\nTemperance Society and the Band of\\nHope, the latter of which is composed of chil-\\ndren exclusively. None of these societies,\\nhowever, are now in a very healthfull or\\nflourishing condition, but possibly they may\\nrevive again during the coming Winter. The\\nMinerva was established about three years\\nago, and at one time contained over a hun-\\ndred members. Its meetings are held in Lib-\\nerty Hall, and are always open free to the\\npublic. It owns a small but select library of\\nstandard works, by the best authors, which, at\\none time, were very generally read by its\\nmembers. The time was when this society\\nentertained its huge audiences with literary\\nperformances of a high character but it can\\nhardly be said of if now that it still lives,\\nfor its meetings are few and far between.\\nIt is a great pity that such is the case, for it\\nis a well-known fact that during its more\\nprosperous days, our numerous beer shops were\\nvery little visited on its meeting nights.\\nThere are too many cliques and clans in our\\nmidst to expect any association composed of\\nour mixed population to harmonize together\\nfor any length of time. It is greatly to be\\nregretted that such is the case, for in a large\\nand intelligent place like Boonton, there\\nshould be a permanent literary institution of\\nsome kind, where all classes of our citizens\\nmight meet on a common level for the pur-\\npose of social enjoyment and literary improve-\\nment.\\nOf the natural scenery in and around Boon-\\nton I shall have but little to say. It requires\\nno flourish of trumpets on my part to herald\\nforth its sublime beauties to the world, for it\\nis fully capable of singing its own praises and\\ntelling its own story. Gordon, in his Gazet-\\nteer of New Jersey, says that Boonton is the\\nmost romantic place in the State; and he\\nmight have added, with much truthfulness,\\nthat there are few places more so out of it.\\nMany of our fashionable sightseers have trav-\\neled thousands of miles, and expended thou-\\nsands of dollars, to gaze upon foreign scenes\\nnot half so lovely and enchanting as those of\\nBoonton when seen by moonlight. It is all\\nwell enough for those who have plenty of\\nmoney to spend to see as much as they can of\\nthis beautiful world of ours and its many nat-\\nural attractions but would it not be quite as\\nwell for them to first visit the historical loca-\\ntions of their own country, and gaze upon its\\nunrivalled natural scenery, before they wander\\noft to the Old World to view the musty and\\ncrumbling ruins of past ages? If some of\\nour native embryo artists, who are now eking\\nout a precarious existence in Broadway gar-\\nrets by copying the old masters at fifty\\ncents a copy, would come out to Boonton, and\\ncould succeed in catching the inspiration of\\nthe place, and transfer the life of our noble\\nmountain scenery to their canvas, they might\\ntill their empty purses, immortalize their\\nnames and transmit them down to posterity\\namong the great master spirits of their age and\\ncountry.", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34\\nSituated as Boonton is, upon a hard, dry,\\nrocky soil, some fiOO feet above the level of\\nthe sea, with a climate famed for the salubrity\\nof its atmosphere, what is there in the way to\\nprevent her from being one of the healthiest\\nlocations in the wide world Securely out of\\nthe reach of most of those diseases that rav-\\nage our large cities, man has nothing here to\\nfear save the vengeance of an offended God\\nand the upbraidings of his own guiltj 7 con-\\nscience. Instead, therefore, of hankering af-\\nter the forbidden fleshpots of Egypt, and\\nmaking ourselves miserable because the world\\nis not all our own, we ought to thank God that\\nwe are what we are, and that our lot has fallen\\nupon sueh a healthful and pleasant spot.\\nAnd now, my friends, what more need be\\nsaid about Boonton, either past or present\\nHer past struggles and her present triumphs\\nhave been passed in review before you and\\ndoes not her present prosperity plainly indicate\\na still more glorious future Boonton now\\nhas the ring of the true metal, and with a pop-\\nulation of more than 2,000 souls, what can\\nvent her from going ahead There are but\\nfew drones in our common hive no favored\\nfew to look sneeringly on while the many do\\nall the labor, as in most places no painted\\nbutterflies to hum about our heads and sip the\\nhoneyed dew from flowers planted for common\\nuse. We all work and obtain our bread by the\\nlabor of our own hands, and it is this common\\ndivision of labor among all classes that makes\\nlabor itself honorable.\\nBut while we prosper and flourish like a\\ngreen bay tree, we behold our venerable moth-\\ner, Old Boone-Town, stricken in years, and\\nfeeble and palsied with age. This, however,\\nis but the fulfillment of a law of nature, which\\nis just as fixed and certain as that which leads\\nthe man of tottering footsteps and snowy locks\\nwith irrevocable certainty to the grave. We\\nalso behold her young and blooming daughter,\\nBoonton, now full of life and vigor, just burst-\\ning into early womanhood, and proud to encir-\\ncle her brow with the good old family name.\\nAnd God grant that she may always hold the\\ncherished old homestead in filial love and ven-\\neration, and adopt as her future model the en-\\nterprising spirit of her good old mother, and\\nas the mother was among the first to light up\\nthe forge-fires in the wilderness of America,\\nso may the daughter be among the last that\\nshall put them out", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "PART THIRD.\\nMISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND SPECULATIONS.\\nOctober 5, 1867.\\nLadies and Gentlemen In collecting\\nmaterials for this discourse quite a number\\nof facts and traditions respecting the early\\nhistory of Old Boonton came into my posses-\\nsion which I found it inconvenient to intro-\\nduce into my sketch of that place at the time\\nit was written. Besides this I notice the en-\\ntire omission of a few facts which I intended\\nto insert in Part First, which were accident-\\nally overlooked on that occasion. Other in-\\nteresting incidents have since been obtained,\\nall of which I have thrown together without\\nany regularity of form or arrangement, which\\nI shall now introduce to you as Miscella-\\nneous Facts and ^Speculations, under the\\nheading of Part Third. It will, however, be\\nnoticed, as I proceed, that that some of these\\nfacts and incidents, which are well worth\\nknowing and remembering, have no particular\\nconnection with the main subject of this dis-\\ncourse. But I trust that, in view of the time\\nand labor I have expended in making this\\ncollection, you will justify their introduction\\nin this connection for, although not imme-\\ndiately connected with the subject under dis-\\ncussion, still they will be found useful in il-\\nlustrating some of the positions I have as-\\nsumed in discussing Part First.\\nThe question of who owned the Boonton\\ntract prior to its coming into possession of\\nDavid Ogden, has given me more trouble than\\nany other. It is barely possible that Mr.\\nOgden might have purchased it of different\\nparties, in various quantities, at several dif-\\nferent times. I shall submit all the informa-\\ntion I have obtained relating to the subject,\\nand leave you to draw your own conclusions.\\nMr. Parker says that Col. Ogden s father pur\\nchased the property and gave it to his son on\\ncondition that he should remove there and\\ncarry on the iron works, which were already\\nestablished there. It is quite certain that\\nCol. Lemuel Cobb, father of Judge A. B.\\nCobb, did most of the surveying on the\\nproperty after it came into possession of the\\nOgdens. While engaged with Judge Cobb\\nin looking over some of his father s old pa-\\npers a few years ago, we came across an old\\ndocument which was very badly defaced,\\nwhich seemed to have some bearing upon\\nthis subject. As near as we could get at the\\nsubstance of this old document it purported\\nto be an agreement between Courtland Skin-\\nner and one Burnet (first name entirely ob-\\nliterated), and David Ogden, by which the\\nformer parties agreed to sell to the latter\\nnamed party, certain lands in Morris county\\nbut it was impossible for us to decipher out\\nthe location of these lands, or the amount of\\nthe consideration money that was to be paid\\nfor them. This document bore date 17.~\\nwhich corresponds with the time named by\\nMr. Parker when the Boonton property first\\ncame into possession of David Ogden but\\nstill all this is a matter of uncertainty, and\\nnot to be relied on. However, I have but lit-\\ntle doubt in my own mind that the lands here\\nreferred to constituted, if not the whole of\\nthe Boonton tract, at least that portion of it\\nupon which the iron works were located. It\\nis a well-known fact that the Skinners and\\nBurnets owned large tracts of land in tins\\nsection of country at about that time.\\nIn an old volume now in my possession,\\nformerly the property of i; J. J. Faish, Esq.,", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nf Old Boonton, published in 1784, containing\\nthe Acts of the New Jersey Legislature be-\\ntween the years 177(i and 1783, I find an-\\nother little scrap of information which may\\npossibly throw some light upon this obscure\\nsubject. In the index of this old volume (the\\nbulk of which has been used as a scrap-book)\\nI find the following An act passed by the\\nNew Jersey Legislature, vesting in Richard\\nMorris, Esquire, the power, authority, title\\nand estate of certain lands in New Jersey,\\ngiven unto David Ogden and Richard Morris,\\nby the last will and testament of Robert Hun-\\nter, Esquire, deceased. The Robert Hunter\\nhere alluded to was Governor of the Province\\nof New Jersey from the year 1710 to 1720,\\nand the natural presumption would be that\\nthe lands bequeathed by him to Messrs.\\nOgden and Morris were not of very limited\\ndimensions. At any rate it is a pretty well\\nascertained fact that both Ogden and Morris\\nowned large tracts of land in Morris county\\nprevious to the Revolution and it is within\\nthe bounds of possibility that the Boonton\\ntract might have been a portion of the lands\\nbequeathed to Ogden by the last will and testa-\\nment of Gov. Hunter.\\nThis trying to trace out old titles to land, is,\\nno doubt, a dry subject of discussion to most\\nof you but, as I feel greatly interested in\\nthe question myself, I shall tax your patience\\na little further by placing upon record all the\\nfacts that have come to my knowledge in any\\nway relating to the original ownership of the\\nBoonton tract.\\nI have now in my possession, presented to\\nme by Judge Cobb, an original deed, dated\\nMay 9th, 1774, from David Ogden, Esquire,\\nof New-Ark, to Simeon Van Winkle, of Han-\\nover, for a tract of land containing 124 60-\\n100 acres, the consideration sum for which\\nwas Two Pounds current Proclamation\\nmoney of New Jersey. This deed has never\\nbeen recorded, and probably was never deliv-\\nered, as the two pounds current proclama-\\ntion money was, perhaps, not forthcoming.\\nThe preamble to this curious old deed read\\nas follows Whereas, Samuel Stephenson,\\nEldest son and Heir of his Father, Thomas\\nStephenson, and his Mother, Sarah Stephen-\\nson, by Deed bearing date the Nineteenth\\nDay of May, in the Year One Thousand Seven\\nHundred and Sixty Seven, did grant, Release,\\nand forever quit claim unto the said David\\nOgden, c. This deed conveyed to Mr. Og-\\nden a tract of 1,2.50 acres, and lay at or near\\nRockaway river. It would probably be a\\nhard matter to determine the exact location\\nof this land at the present day but, accord-\\ning to the map of the Boonton tract, this\\nland constituted a portion thereof, and this\\nmixes things worse than they were before.\\nThe deed to Van Winkle is signed by Mr.\\nOgden in a hand shaky enough to indicate\\nthat he was a hundred years old at the time.\\nI have also now in my possession, also pre-\\nsented to me by Judge Cobb, an autograph\\nletter of David B. Ogden to Lemuel Cobb,\\nEsquire, requesting him in the name of his\\nfather (Col Samuel Ogden) to lay off one\\nhundred and twenty-five acres of the New-\\nfoundland tract, which his father has agreed\\nto sell to John Dow and Jacob Riker, at such\\nplace as you shall conceive to be reasonable.\\nThis act of discretion on the part of the Og-\\ndens to Sir. Cobb, certainly shows that they\\nplaced the utmost reliance in his integrity and\\ngood judgement yes, considerably more so\\nthan we should expect one man to place in\\nthe discretion of another at the present day.\\nThis letter is dated Newark, January 24th,\\n1801.\\nI have likewise an autograph letter, also\\npresented to me by Judge Cobb, of Col. Sam-\\nuel Ogden to Lemuel Cobb, Esquire, dated\\nNewark, May 6th, 1802, of which the follow-\\ning is an exact copy\\nDear Sir\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Do, I pray you, forward me immediately\\nthe survey for Kingsland. I want it very much. I\\nam your friend, Sam*l Ogden.\\nIndependently of all the immense landed\\nestates owned by the Ogdens in New Jersey,\\nCol. Ogden, in the year 1790, owned one-third\\nof what was then known as the Phelps and\\nGorham Purchase, iu the State of New\\nYork. This tract contained several millions\\nof acres, and was then valued at $1,000, io.\\nShortly after it came into his possessson Col.\\nOgden sold his share to the celebrated Robert\\nMoiris, of Philadelphia, and he soon after\\nsold it to the Holland Land Company. All\\nthese immense transactions in real estate\\nprove pretty clearly that the Ogdens were\\nvery wealthy, and that they were all active and\\ninfluential men.\\nThe principal object which the British Gov-\\nernment had in view in colonizing the newly\\ndiscovered American continent was to furnish", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\na market for her surplus manufactures; and\\nto this end Parliament shaped all its lej\\ntion, and all attempts made by the col is\\nto counteract this design were at once forced\\ndown by stringent legislation on the part of\\nthe mother country. As early as the year\\nL699 Parliament passed an act declaring that\\nnone of the articles manufactured in the col-\\nonies should be shipped thence, or even\\nladen, in order to be transported to any place\\nwhatever. This, as I take it, was rather a\\nstringent enactment, and not to be borne qui-\\netly. True, under this arrangement, a wo-\\nman might knit a pair of stockings for her-\\nself or for any one of her own family but\\nwoe bo unto her if she attempt to knit and\\nsell a pair to anyone else. In 1737 Parlia-\\nment directed the Board of Trade to in-\\nquire and report on the different manufac-\\ntures carried on in their colonies. The next\\nyear the Board made their report, and among\\nother things they state that there had been\\nerected six forges (one of which was in\\nSouth Carolina) and nineteen furnaces and\\nalso that New York and New Jersey manu-\\nfactured great quantities of hats, of which\\nthe company of hatters in London com-\\nplained. An act had already been passed by\\nParliament in 1732 prohibiting the exporta-\\ntion of hats from the colonies. It will thus\\nbe seen what a host of difficulties the early\\nmanufacturers had to contend with but in\\nthe face of all these unjust and cruel prohi-\\nbitions we have seen that not less than twenty-\\nfive iron works and there might have been\\ntwice that number for aught we know to the\\ncontrary, for it will be borne in mind that\\nsome of them were carried on with great\\nsecrecy were established in the colonies\\neven at that early day. That a large number\\nof the iron works here referred to were lo-\\ncated in different parts of New Jersey is a\\nquestion that will not admit of discussion;\\nand that the iron works at Old Boonton\\nwere among the number scarcely admits of a\\ndoubt.\\nIn the year 1830 there were located in New\\nJersey the following iron works, of various\\ndescriptions One hundred and eight forges,\\ntwelve blast furnaces, sixteen cupola furnaces,\\nand ten rolling and slitting mills\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one hun-\\ndred and forty in all. I doubt if there are\\none-tenth of that number of forges in ope-\\nration in the State at the present time, the\\nmain cause of the dimunition being caused\\nby the scarcity of charcoal. By the report of\\nthe committee of the Tariff Convention, held\\nin New York in October, L831, it appears that\\nthe iron manufactured at these several works\\nwas as follows: Pig iron, 1,(171 tons; bai\\niron, 3,000 tons castings, 5,615 Ions; total\\n10,286 tons. This embraced tin whole amount\\nof iron manufactures turned out in New Jer-\\nsey during the year 183\u00c2\u00a9, the par value of\\nwhich was estimated at $1,000,000. From\\n(his statement it will be seen thai the whole\\namount of iron manufactured in the Stab al\\nlhal time was but a tiille more than was\\nmade at the Boonton works alone in 1859.\\nI shall now introduce a few facts having\\nreference to the first settlements made in\\nMorris county, which, though not directly\\nconnected with the subject now under con-\\nsideration, tend to illustrate some of the po-\\nsitions which I have taken respecting the\\nearly settlement of Old Boonton. The infor-\\nmation which follows has all been obtained\\nfrom authentic sources, and consequently may\\nbe relied on.\\nThe township of Hanover was first organ\\nized about the year 1700, by the name of\\nWhippinong, after the name of the tribe of\\nIndians by whom it was originally inhabited.\\nThe name of Hanover was substituted about\\nthe year 1746.\\nThe first church (Presbyterian) in Morris\\ncounty was built at Whippany in 1718. The\\ncongregation at that time was composed of\\nthe inhabitants of Morristown, Madison, Chat-\\nham, Hanover and Parsippany. The first\\nclergyman that preached there was Rev. Na-\\nthaniel Hubbel. It will thus be seen that\\nParsippany was settled at least L50 years ago,\\nand why not Old Boonton (which probably\\nwas a part of Parsippany at that time) have\\nbeen settled at the same time, if not sooner.\\nThe first church (Presbyterian) in Morris-\\ntown was erected in the year 1740; and the\\nfirst court house in Morris county was erected\\nin the year 1\\nThe first church (Presbyterian) in Mend-\\nham was erected a little prior to the year L7 10,\\nand the first minister located there was Rev.\\nEliab Byram.\\nThe first church (Presbyterian) in Madison\\nwas erected in the year 17 is, and the first\\nminister was the Rev. Azariah Horton, who\\ndied March 27th, 1777.", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "88\\nThe first church (Presbyterian) in Parsip-\\npany was erected in the year 17. and the\\nfirst minister was Kev. Jacob Green.\\nThe first church (Presbyterian) in Rocka-\\nway was built in the year 1752, and the lust\\npermanent minister was the Kev. James Tut-\\ntle, who was installed in 1768. There was a\\nforge, grist-mill and saw-mill established\\nthere before the Revolution, and a post-office\\nwas in operation there in 1 791. The name of\\nRoekaway was derived from the Rockawaek\\ntribe of Indians.\\nIn the year 17 .\u00c2\u00bb2 Dover contained but four\\ndwelling-houses and a forge. During that\\nyear a rolling mill was erected there by Israel\\nCanfield and Jacob Losey. The first post\\noffice was established there in the year\\n1820.\\nThere was a small store and grist mill at\\nMontvillo before the Revolution.\\nThe Indian tribes residing in Morris county\\nat the time of its first settlement by the\\nwhites were known as the Whippinongs, the\\nParsippinongs, the Pomptons, the Pequon-\\nnocks and the Rockawacks, All these tribes\\nare supposed to have been offshoots of the\\nonce powerful and Warlike tribe of Dela-\\nwares. They had nearly all left this section\\nof country and moved off toward the Dela-\\nware river some years prior to the Revolu-\\ntion, although they frequently returned to\\npay the first settlers a friendly visit.\\nA brief account of the old Peer tract may\\nnot, perhaps, be out of place in this connec-\\ntion. I have the following information from\\nWilliam M. Dixon, Esq., and the venerable\\nMr. Abraham Peer. This tract lay on the\\neasterly bank of the Roekaway river, extend-\\ning up from Old Boonton to the base of the\\nhill upon which the village of Boonton now\\nstands, and running thence along the base of\\nthe hill in a northerly direction up to the foot\\nof what is termed Hog mountain. It was esti-\\nmated to contain 1,000 acres, but when sur-\\nveyed was found to contain nearly 1,100 acres.\\nIt was first surveyed by George Ryerson, the\\nfirst professional surveyor known in the an-\\nnals of Morris county. It was first taken up\\nin the year 1714 by one John Scot, who was\\nan extensive speculator in East Jersey lands,\\nof whom it was said that he was born to\\nmake trouble wherever he went, It was\\npurchased of Scot s heirs in 1740 by Mr.\\nPeer s grandfather and his brother, and the\\nprice paid for it was one shilling an acre.\\nQuite a large portion of this tract still re-\\nmains in possession of the Peer family. The\\nold stone house on this property, formerly oc-\\ncupied by the late Daniel T. Peer, was built\\nbefore the Revolution. Mr. Peer s grand-\\nfather died at a very advanced age his father\\ndied at the age of 112 years, and he himself\\nis now in his 87th year. Shortly after the\\nRevolution Jacob Miller erected a saw-mill\\non this property, on the west bank of the\\nRoekaway river, near the bridge, on the old\\nroad leading from Montville to Old Boonton.\\nSome detached fragments of the foundation\\nwalls of this old mill are still visible there.\\nMr. Peer also informed me that during the\\nWinter of 1780 81 detachments of the Con-\\ntinental army were encamped at Pompton\\nand Montville, and that, falling short of\\nprovender for their horses, Gen. Washington\\nused to ride out among the farmers in search\\nof hay and oats. And whenever he found a\\nfarmer who had more hay and oats than he\\nneeded for his own use not otherwise he\\nordered the surplus carried into camp, where\\na fair compensation was always rendered for\\nit. Mr. Peer said that he recollects distinctly\\nhaving seen Washington at his father s house,\\non several occasions, and he spoke of him as\\nhaving been the most noble and godlike look-\\ning person he ever saw in his life. Mr. Peer\\nfurther informed me that, boy as he was, he\\nrecollects perfectly well having stood upon\\none of the Boonton hills and witnessed the\\npassage of the Patriot army, as he called it,\\nwhen it marched through Old Boonton in the\\nSpring of 1781 on its way to attack Cornwal-\\nlis at the South. He said the army was nearly\\nthree days in passing, and that it made a\\nsplendid and imposing appearance. Yes, my\\nfriends, the time will soon come when to have\\nseen a man who had seen Washington, will be\\nsomething worth boasting of.\\nThere was a substantial beaver dam across\\nthe Roekaway river at the bend, directly in\\nthe rear of Mr. Kanouse s store, within the\\npresent century, but it has long since entirely\\ndisappeared. The plot of ground on the\\neast bank of the river, about midway be-\\ntween here and Old Boonton, and for a long\\ntime known as the old witch ground, has\\nnever been known to contain anything in the\\nshape of tree or shrub, although, when first\\ndiscovered, it was surrounded by a dense for-", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "est on every side. In the olden time 1 this\\nstrange and unnatural looking plol of ground\\nused to be regarded with superstitious dread\\nby all classes, but it has never been known to\\ndo anybody harm. Mr. Peer informed me\\nthat it used to be as smooth and hard as a barn\\nfloor and perfectly level, and thai it bore every\\nvisible evidence of having been frequently\\nlu a\\\\ ily trampled upon by somebody, or s\\nthing else, probably by tin Indians. There\\nused to stand near by a large oak tree, with\\ncuriously crotched limbs, upon which it was\\nbelieved by some of the old grannies that sev-\\neral young devils sat and fiddled, while the frol-\\nicsome old witches used to trip it on the light\\nfantastic toe on the ground beneath. Bui\\nthe age of witchcraft having long since passed\\naway, this old dancing ground has not attracted\\nmuch attention of late years, and is now sel-\\ndom visited except by a few old fogies like\\nmyself.\\nPowerville and Rockaway Valley were both\\nsettled before the Revolution. I have the fol-\\nlowing facts and traditions from Mr. Fred-\\nerick Miller, who had most of them from his\\ngrandmother, who was a sister of Mr. Abra-\\nham Peer. The dates of some of them are\\nnot, I presume, quite so correct as they might\\nbe, but still the facts related are worth re-\\nmembering. Mr. Miller informed me that\\nhis great-grandfather, Frederick Miller, who\\nwas a native of Holland, was one of the first\\nsettlers of Rockaway Valley. He came over\\nto this country previous to 1760, but the exact\\ndate he does not remember. The spot where\\nhe first located was a small Indian clearing,\\ndirectly opposite the place where the Meth-\\nodist church now stands. The whole sur-\\nrounding country at that time was still in a\\nstate of nature, and friendly Indians were his\\nonly neighbors. At the time of his first\\ncoming there there was an old Indian\\nburying ground on the hill side on the east\\nbank of the Rockaway river, near the mouth\\nof Beaver brook. The late Captain William\\nScott disinterred large quantities of bones at\\nthis spot while engaged in making brick in\\nthe neighborhood some years ago. Some\\nseventy-five years ago a man named Van Ri-\\nper, in digging a well in the upper part of\\nthe valley, found a large oak imbedded in the\\nearth at a distance of over twenty feet below\\nthe surface. This log was about two feet in\\ndiameter, and as sound in every part as\\nthough it had just heen deposited there\\nSmei the valley was first settled it is known\\nto have contained a heayj growth of both\\npine and oak timber. Toward the close of\\nthe Revolution Conrad Floppier built the first\\nbridge across the Rockaway river at Power-\\nville. It Stood a. little above the spot where\\nthe upper bridge now stands, for the con-\\nstruction of which he received UnU, hilslnls\\nof salt. The bridge was of rude workman-\\nship, and sail at that time was worth from $8\\nto $10 a bushel. Shortly after the Revolu-\\ntion this same Floppier buiU a dam across thi\\nriver just above the bridge, and erected a\\nsmall grist-mill on the west bank of the\\nriver, a few rods below the bridge, flu\\nthe first mill of any description erected in\\nPowerville. About the year l si iii there stood\\na large log house upon the spot where the\\nhouse that Mrs. Munn now resides in now\\nstands, and directly in its rear was quite an\\nextensive tannery, owned and carried on by\\nthis same Hoppler. The first iron works es-\\ntablished at Powerville was a forge, estab-\\nlished thereby the late Joseph Scott, about\\nthe year 1812. A grist-mill and a saw-mill\\nwere in operation there at a much earlier date.\\nAbout the year 1806 there was a rude dam\\nacross the outlet of Rattlesnake Meadow brook.\\nIt is said that it was placed there by the\\nFaishes for the purpose of raising the water\\nsulliciently high to kill the brush and bogs in\\nthe swamp.\\nMr. Miller also informed me that his grand-\\nmother, when a girl, used to live with her\\nmother in the old stone house formerly occu-\\npied by the late Daniel T. Peer, and that, be-\\ning left alone one night during the Revolu-\\ntion, she built a large tire on the hearth and\\nthen retired to rest in a bed in the same\\nroom. In the middle of the night she was\\nsuddenly awakened by hearing a noise in the\\nroom, and rising up in her bed and looking\\naround she beheld some haif-dozen Indians\\nstretched out upon the floor with their feet\\npointing toward the lire. Becoming consid-\\nerably alarmed at the scene she began to\\nlook around for a loophole through which she\\nmight escape; but she was soon quieted by\\nthe friendly salutation of a venerable old\\nchief, who bade her banish her fear as no\\nharm was intended her. She then laid down\\nagain and composed herself to sleep, leav-\\ning the friendly sons of the forest to enjoy", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nthemselves after their own fashion. The last\\nIndian seen in Boonton paddled his own ca-\\nnoe through here on the Morris canal in the\\nSummer of 1833, and my recollection of him\\nis, that with his bow and arrows, he knocked\\nthe pennies out of a split stick, in which they\\nwere placed edgewise, at a distance of twenty\\nyards, about as fast as half-a-dozen boys could\\npick them up.\\nThe Ball tract adjoins the Boonton line on\\nthe west, and came into the possession of\\nthat family something over a century ago.\\nThe old deeds show that portions of it were\\nobtained of the Stephenson family, who were\\nlarge owners of real estate in this section of\\ncountry in early times. This tract was orig-\\ninally surveyed by Thomas Millage, Esq.,\\none of the deputy surveyers under the Crown\\nfor Morris county before the Revolution.\\nWilliam M. Dixon, Esq., informed me a short\\ntime since, that he had just been making a re-\\nsurvey of a portion of this tract, and that he\\nhad no difficulty iu finding the marks and\\ncorners that were made by Mr. Millage more\\nthan a hundred years ago. He pronounces\\nhim one of the most correct and scientific\\nsurveyors that he ever surveyed after, and\\nsays that he must have understood his pro-\\nfession thoroughly. The brief history of Mr.\\nMillage that has come down to us represents\\nhim as having been a most intelligent, amia-\\nble and kind-hearted man but he was a true\\nloyalist, and conscienciously believed it to be\\nhis duty to stand by his King and Govern-\\nment. He resided in Hanover township, and\\nin addition to the office of deputy surveyor,\\nhe held a commission under the crown as one\\nof the justices of the peace for Morris coun-\\nty. He was the owner of large landed es-\\ntates in New Jersey, and highly respected by\\nthe public generally. At the breaking out of\\nthe Revolution he joined the King s forces,\\nand was honored with a major s commission\\nin the British army. When peace was de-\\nclared, in ITS:;, and the independence of the\\nUnited States acknowledged, he fled with his\\nfamily to Nova Scotia. As a matter of course\\nall his valuable estates were confiscated and\\nsold for the benefit of the new government.\\nOne of his sons, Thomas Millage Jr., returned\\nhere shortly after the war, and lived and died\\nin Hanover township. He was very poor in\\nthis world s goods, and had a large family de-\\npendent upon him for support. He resided\\nin Parsippany when I was a boy, worked out\\nat day s work for a living, and was generally\\nregarded as a quiet, inoffensive and industri-\\nous man. But still I have more than once\\nheard it thrown into his face that his father\\nwas a tory, and that he was not a whit bet-\\nter, and that both ought to have been hung\\nfor their crimes. So much for being the hon-\\nest and well-meaning son of a loyal father,\\nboth of whom were beggared by the mis-\\nguided conduct of the father. Such are the\\nvicissitudes of human life, and it ill becomes\\nthe more fortunate to rejoice over the misfor-\\ntunes of his fellow-man.\\nFor a long time I was unable to trace out\\nthe character of the business that Colonel\\nOgden was engaged in after he left Old\\nBoonton, but I have finally succeeded in trac-\\ning it out. There is no other chronicle like\\nthe files of an old newspaper to enlighten\\nup respecting many of the fleeting incidents\\nof the past. While engaged a short time since\\nin looking over the columns of a copy of the\\nNew York Packet, published Nov. 17th, 1785,\\nI accidentally came across the following adver-\\ntisement, which solves the problem without\\nfurther debate.\\nSamuel Ogden, at his Store, No. 14 Water street,\\nhas for Sale, a very complete assortment of the fol-\\nlowing articles, which he will se .l low for Cash or\\nCountry Produce, New Jersey money of the year\\nirs: j and all kinds of Public Securities at their value\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Bar Iron, of all sizes Round Iron, of all sizes\\nSweeds, Waggon, Cart and Sleigh tire, neatly drawn,\\nand warranted of good quality.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Audover Iron, of\\ndiflerent sizes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Booneton and other Refined Iron\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBloomery Bar Iron. Spike Rod lion, and Batsto Pig\\nIron. Also, a complete assortment of Hollow Ware\\nand Stoves of different sizes and patterns. He has\\nalso on Hand an excellent assortment of coarse and\\nfine Cloths fit for the season\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sheetings, Dowlas, Cor-\\nduroys, Velvets, Moreens, Tammies, Durants, Calli-\\ncamancoes, Camblets, Sattinets, Lasting?, Callicoes,\\nChintzes, Threads, Worsted Stuff Silk, Worsted\\nand Cotton Hose, and sundry other articles And\\nNew York Rum of (he first quality. All orders for\\nwrought or cast iron will be executed with neatness\\nand dispatch.\\nThere you have it all sorts of iron and\\nhollow-ware, dry goods with unheard-of\\nnames, together with silk, worsted and cot-\\nton hose, and New York Rum of the jir. f\\nquality to wash them down all for sale low\\nfor cash or country produce. Has Stewart\\never offered for sale a greater variety of goods\\nat any price or upon any conditions than are\\nenumerated in this grand old advertisement\\nAnd so it would seem from this advertise-", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "41\\nmeet that refined iron was manufactured at\\nOld Booueton soon after the Revolution, if\\nnot before and also that Col. Ogden was\\nlargely engaged, not only in the manufactur-\\ning but likewise in the mercantile business\\nin fact, most extensively so for a man in those\\nearly days. And does not this evidence of it-\\nself go far toward establishing as a fact the\\nsupposition of Mr. Willis that Col. Ogden\\nwaB more or less connected with most of the\\niron works located in this section of couutry\\nat that time I have lately been informed\\nthat Miss Scott, of Powervillt*, has now in\\nher possession one of the old account books\\nof Col. O^den, kept at Baonton during and\\nsubsequent to the Revolution, in which goods\\nare charged to nearly all the iron works\\nknown to exist in the vicini y at that time.\\nIt strikes me as something very strange that\\nthe Ogden family have been so negligent in\\nomitting to keep a record of the doings aud\\ntransactions at Old Boonton in thoea days.\\nThe Rev. Peter Kanouse, a native ol Old\\nBoonton, and now about 80 years of age, com\\nmunicates some very ii_ cresting reminis-\\ncences respecting the early history of that\\nplace. His memory ex ands back to about\\nthe year 1792, and he says that at about that\\nperiod I rode behind my father to the\\nchurch at Old Boonton, and wept with cold\\nhands and feet, and shivered during service\\nin the .pen church without a stove. This is\\nabout as early as I remember anything con-\\ncerning the house of worship. The old school-\\nhouse was then there. If I may be allowed\\nto conjecture who were the main men in\\nbuilding the church aud schoolhouse I should\\nsay J. J. Faish, Beaverhout and Brinker-\\nhoof.\\nNow I think that Mr Kanouse is badly mis\\ntaken in his conjectures as to the men who\\nbuilt the old church and schoolhouse, for Mr.\\nPeer is positive in his belief that they were\\nboth built before the Revolution. If Mr\\nPeer is Tight and I think he is\u00e2\u0080\u0094 it is not at\\nall likely that either of the gentlemen named\\nhad any hand in building them. There is not\\na particle of evidence to show that Mr. Faish\\nhad auything to do with Old Boonton until\\nafter the Revolution Mr. Beaverhout lived\\nsome tour miles distant, and within one mile\\nof the church at Pataippany, and Mr. Briuk-\\nerhoof did not reside in this vicinity until\\nthe year 1787, and, like Beaverhout, he was\\nmuch nearer the church at Parsippany than\\nat Old Boonton. The common sense view of\\nthe subject would be that both of theee build-\\nings were erected by Col. Ogden soon after he\\ncame there.\\nMr. Kanouse again remarks: The cut\\nnail was then unknown in this region, but the\\nslitting of iron into nail rods, rolling it into\\nplates, hoops, c, waB a great business. It\\nwas often said that this was the first rolling-\\nmill in America, and, at that time, the only\\none, but of the trulh of the latter assertion I\\nshould doubt.\\nThat the first rolling-mill ever established\\nin America was located at Old Boonton I\\nthink X have pretty clearly demonstrated\\nbut that there waB no other rolling-mill in the\\ncountry at the time referred to (1792) I think\\nis not at all probable for we have already\\nseen that, shortly after having erected the\\nrolling and slitting-mill at Old Boonton, some\\ntwenty years befoie, Mr. CumBon left here for\\nthe purpose of erecting a similar establish-\\nment in Maryland.\\nMr. Kanouse seems to incline to the belief\\nthat there was but little republicanism among\\nthe leading men at Old Boonton either during\\nor immediately subsequent to the Revolution\\nand he also appears to be a little skeptical on\\nthe point of Washington ever having visited\\nthere. But I think that upon both of these\\npoints I have most fully and conclusively\\nproven the reverse to be the fact.\\nAnd now for a word or two on the Bubject\\nof nail-making by machinery, which, I trust,\\nwill prove somewhat interesting to a Boonton\\naudience, more especially as nails out by ma-\\nchinery constitute the principal article man-\\nufactured here at the present time. The ex-\\nact date when cutting nails by machinery was\\nfirst introduced into the world \u00c2\u00b0ib now some-\\nwhat enveloped in doubt aud uncertainty\\nbut I shall give you all the information I have\\nbeen able to obtain upon the subject. Ha?en,\\nin his Panorama of Professions and\\nTrades, says that the first machine for\\nmaking nails was invented in Massachusetts\\nabout the year 1806 by a Mr. Odion, and soon\\nafterwards another was contrived by a Mr.\\nReed, of the same State. Now, notwith-\\nstanling that Mr. Hazen may be considered\\ngood authority on most subjects, I find that\\nhe is not altogether correct in his statements\\non this. Qract Thorburn, a Sootchman by", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nbirth, but an American in his feelings and\\nsympathies a man with a memory that never\\nfaltered\u00e2\u0080\u0094 came to this country in the year\\n1794. He was a nailer by trade, and he in-\\nforms us that the first question he asked on\\nhis arrival here was whether there was any\\nemployment for nailers in New York This\\nquestion was put to a man who came on\\nboard the ship before he left it, and the re-\\nsponse was that a machine for cutting nails\\nhad just then been invented in this country,\\nand that most of the old hand nailers were\\nthrown out of employment. This was bad\\nnews for young Grant, for he had only a shil-\\nling or two in his pocket. But he was full\\nof manly enterprise, and strongly impressed\\nwith the truth of the maxim that Fortune\\nnever deserts the brave, he went on shore\\nand commenced strolling round the city. The\\nold City Hotel, in Broadway, was then in\\nconrse of erection. This building was to\\ncontain a slate roof, the first of the kind ever\\nplaced upon a building in the United States.\\nA peculiar kind of nail is required to fasten\\non a roof of this description, but on inquiry\\nnot a pound of such nails could be found in\\nthe whole city. It coming to the ears of those\\nhaving the work in charge that a young\\nScotch nailer had just arrived in the city, Mr.\\nThorburn was traced out and applied to. The\\nkind of nails wanted were described to him,\\nand he was asked if he could make them.\\nHe replied that he could was at once engaged\\nto do the job, which he executed to the satis-\\nfaction of all the parties concerned. When\\nthe City Hotel was demolished, in 1844, Mr.\\nThorburn was present, and secured, as a keep-\\nsake, a small quantity of the nails which he\\nhad made just fifty years before.\\nI was personally acquainted with Mr. Thor-\\nburn twenty years ago, and frequently used\\nto have short chats with him. I assisted him\\nin transporting his plants from his old place\\nin John street when he was removing thern\\nto his new hot-houses put at Astoria. After\\nthat he frequently called to see me on my\\nstand, when, taking a seat with me on the\\ntail of my cart, he would light his pipe, and\\nsit and smoke with me against time, his\\ntongue running liKe a water-wheel all the\\nwhile. He was the most comical looking man\\nand the gossipiest that I ever saw in my life.\\nHe stood about four feet six inches in his\\nstockings, wore a long, dark drab surtout\\ncoat, with hat in color to match, and sported\\na pair of boots that would have been looked\\nupon by a giant as large in size. One of his\\nlegs was a trifle shorter than the other, and\\nit was a pleasant sight to see him, with a\\nsunny smile on his countenance, as, with his\\nshort, quick step, he went bobbing up and\\ndown Broadway, bowing to nearly every per-\\nson he mtt. Old Grant was an original\\ngenius in every sense of the word, comical in\\nhis looks and actions, keen in his criticisms\\nof men and manners, and sociable beyond ex-\\npression. He always knew the truth of what\\nhe said, always said what he meant, and al-\\nways meant what he said and he says that\\nthe nail cutting machine was invented the\\nyear before he came here.\\nAs confirmative evidence to prove that, as\\nregards dates, Thorburn is right and Hazen\\nwrong, I here quote an advertisement from\\nan old newspaper, a kind of documentary evi-\\ndence that cannot lie. The paper I quote\\nfrom is a copy of the Aurora Gazette, pub-\\nlished at the village of Aurora, Cayuga coun-\\nty, N. Y., dated Nov. 13, 1805\\nNail Factory.\\nThe subscilber makes and oflers for Sale all Kinds\\nof Cut Nails, ana Brads, at the following reduced\\nprices per Pound Is M. to Merchant?, or to those\\nwho buy to Keti.il Is. \\\\d. to any person who may pur-\\nchase 20 Pounds Is. Od. for any quantity under 20\\npounds. Aaron Ingai.?.\\nAuroba, July 10th, 1805.\\nNow, it does not look to me as at all likely\\nthat cut nails would be made at a small vil-\\nlage away out in Cayuga county, N. Y., one\\nwhole year before the machine by which they\\nwere made was invented in Mapsachusetts\\nfor, I take it for granted, juding from the\\nprice at which they were sold, that they were\\ncut by machinery, that is, by one of the ma-\\nchines invented by either Odion or Reed in\\n1793. The first cut nails that I ever saw-\\nabout the year 1816 cut by one of those ma-\\nchines, were of a large size, and cost thirty\\ncents a pound. I therefore take it for granted*\\nthat the modern nail cutting machine was in-\\nvented about the year 1793, instead of in\\n1806, aB stated by Hazen but it is possible\\nthat I may be mistaken on this point after all\\nfor there was a nail in the market called a\\ncut nail long before 1793, but it was mostly\\nmade by hand. However this may be, Mr.\\nThorburn says plain enough that a nail cut-\\nting machine, which had destioyed the busi-", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nnees of the old nailers, bad just been invented\\nwhen he arrived here, audcertainlj this must\\nhave been something entirely new to him, or\\nhe would not have noticed it.\\nHenry Clay, in his great speeoh on the\\ntariff in 1832, says that but few nails of any\\ndescription were made in the British colonies\\nprevious to 1750, and that at that time near-\\nly half the iron manufactures exported to thi\u00c2\u00ab\\ncountry consisted of nails. Previous to tbe\\nintroduction of the nail cutting machines in-\\nvented by Odion and Keedsome rude attempts\\nat cutting nails partially by machinery had\\nbeen made in this country. The process was\\nsomething like the lullowing, which was a\\nrather prosy kind of operation The iron\\nwas first rolled into thio. plates, and then cut\\ninto narrow strips, corresponding with the\\nlength of the nail to be made, the same as\\nat the present day. These strips of plate\\nwere then cut iDto wedge-like pieces by an\\ninstrument which acted on the principle of\\nthe shears, and these were aftewards headed,\\none by one, with a hammer in a vice. It is\\nknown that nails were made after this man-\\nner in Urge quantities at the Old Boonton\\nworks during the latter part of the last cen-\\ntury and at the commencement of the pres-\\nent. To my own certain knowledge one Rob-\\nert Bowles, an Irishman of considerable in-\\ntelligence, but of dissipated habits, made\\nnails of this kind at Old Boonton more than\\nfi ty years ago. Mr. B jwles, according to his\\nown story, was an intimate friend of the la-\\nmented Emmet, and a leadiDg member of that\\nsecret revolutionary association styled the\\nUnited Irishmen. He was a man of con-\\nsiderable wealth and influence in his own\\nc mntry but, having associated himself with\\nthat revolutionary band, a hue and cry was\\nraised against him, and for a time he was\\ncompelled to secrete himself in barns and out-\\nhouses until he could find means to escape from\\nthe country. I have often heard him relate\\nthe story, while discussing the merits of a\\nmug of hard cider, that, having disposed of\\nhis property, he obtained a fine, fleet, high-\\nbred charger, and a brace of horse pis-\\ntols, and, with a bag well filled with guineas,\\nhe attempted to gain a seaport for the pur-\\npose of embarking for the United States\\nhow he started off one Gne morning on his\\nventuresome j urney, and how he was hotly\\npursued by couple of British dragoons, one\\nof whom he shot but in trying to abstract\\nthe other pistol from his holster he lost his\\nbag of golden guineas. The pursuit contin-\\nued for some distance further j but, possessing\\nthe fleeter animal of the two, he finally suc-\\nceeded in making his escape, with just about\\nmoney enough in his pockets to pay his pas-\\nsage to this country. He reached New York\\nin safety, and soon after found his way out to\\nOld Boonton, in which neighborhood he lived\\nfor ma\u00c2\u00bby years.\\nThe name of Gnorge P. McCulloch, Esq.,\\nthe projector of the Morris canal, and conse-\\nquently indirectly the founder of this village,\\ndeserves at least a passing notice in this dis-\\ncourse. Mr. McCulloch was born in Bombay,\\nEast Indies, in the year 1775. During the\\nyears of his early manhood he was employed\\nby Bonaparte in various financial negotia-\\ntions for the East India Company. He came\\nto New York in the year 18 and soon after\\ntook up his permanent residence at M rris\\ntown, in this county. He was a gentleman of\\nwealth and education, was very benevolent in\\nhis disposition, and was engaged in most of\\nthe local enterprises of his day. He died at\\nhis own residence at Morristown June 1st,\\n1858, at the advanced age of 83 years. His\\nchildren mairied and intermarried into the\\noldest and best families in the vicinity.\\nThe earliest settlement known to have been\\nmade upon lands now properly included with-\\nin the limits of this village was about the\\nyear 170G. In that year David Ogden con-\\nveyed to Christian Lowrer a tract of land\\ncontaining 58 65-100 acres, and it is presumed\\nthat the old house still standing on this prop-\\nerty was erected thereon shortly after. This\\ntract of land is pleasantly situated on the\\nwestern slope of Sheep Hill, and has long\\nbeen known as the old Lowrer place. It\\nbelongs at present to the heirs of the late\\nDauiel T. Peer, and probably will soon be\\nbrought into market for building lots.\\nThe farm long known as the old Norway\\nplace, containing G5 60-100 acres, was con-\\nveyed by Col. Ogden to Charles Norway, March\\n21th, 179-4. This tract joins the Lowrer tract\\non the southwest, and lies immediately ad-\\njoining the line of the Boonton Iron Compa-\\nny s tract on the northwest. The life-right\\nof Joseph Scott to this property is now vested\\nin the heirs of the late John Iiighter, of Par-\\nsippany. This, too, will no doubt soon be\\nbrought into market for building lots.", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nThe plot of ground at Powerville, contain-\\ning 15 74-100 acres, now occupied, as it is\\nsupposed, by the Scott mansion and brick\\nstorehouse, was conveyed by Col. Ogden to\\nElias Van Winkle N\u00c2\u00bbv. 14th, 1786. It be\\nlongs at present to the heirs of the late Capt.\\nWilliam Scott.\\nSheep Hill and the Tourne are both located\\non portions of the original Boonton tract.\\nSheep Hill was so named from the fact that\\nsome forty years ago a whole flock of sheep\\nwere massacred upon its top by dogs, all in\\none night. These hills perhaps I should\\nsay mountains both rise several hundred\\nfeet above the surrounding country, and from\\nthe Tourne in particular a very beautiful and\\nextended view may be obtained. Standing\\nupon its highest elevation, the spectator may\\nsurvey at a glance nearly the whole of Mor-\\nris and parts of several other count. 68, and if\\nhe looks down upon tho far-extending plains\\nand valleys which lie outspread before him\\nhe may trace with naked eye the various\\nrivers and brooks which intersect with each\\nother in every direction, which in appearance\\npresent to the view a groundwork of emerald\\ninterlaced with threads of silver. Indeed, I\\nknow of no other place in Morris county where\\na more charming and delightful, a more ro-\\nmantic and sublime view may be obtained.\\nThe Great Boiling Spring, situated at the\\nbase of the hill, on the west bank of the\\nRockaway river, directly abreast of the iron\\nworks, is one of the largest of the kind in\\nthis section of country. It is a never failing\\nfountain, and discharges an abundant supply\\nof the purest and most pleasant drinking wa-\\nter for all comers indeed, the mcst so of any\\nother similar spring in this region. In warm\\nweather the workmen in the different mills\\nand factories keep constantly in em pi oy a\\nnumber of boys, who are engaged in bringing\\nwater from this famous spring into those\\nplaces, where it is daily drank by the pailful.\\nThe water from this noble and ever bubbling\\nfountain is certainly a more desirable and\\nhealthful beverage for the human stomach\\nthan the nauseous and lung-destroying rot-\\ngut that is so freely dealt out with a willing\\nhand by the keepers of the numerous grog-\\nshops which are too thickly scattered around\\nour beautiful village, and which is freely im\\nbibed by too many of our otherwise respected\\nand respectable fellow-citizens. My advice\\nto all such topers and tipplers is, drop and\\ndiscard the rotgut at once, and patronize\\nmore frequently the health-giving old Boil-\\ning Spring, where you may freely indulge in\\nNature s choicest and purest nectar to your\\nheart s content yea, even without money and\\nwithout price.\\nB ;ats on the Morris canal pass through this\\nplace on an inclined plane, which separates\\nthe village from the works. This plane is\\none of the two longest on this canal, being\\n800 feet in length, with a lilt of 80 feet,\\nwhich elevates the boats from the plain be-\\nlow up to the level of the river above the\\nFalls. The planes originally used on this\\ncanal were invented by Professor JiitneB Ren-\\nwick, of Columbia College, New York city\\nbut most of those of his invention have been\\nremoved, and otherB of an entirely new and\\nimproved construction have been substituted\\nin their place. The planes now in use on the\\nMorris canal transfer two boatB at one trip\\nfrom one level to another much more Bafely\\nand speedily than tuose formerly employed\\ndid one. This canal was the first in all the\\nworld upon which this style of inclined planes\\nwas introduced for the purpose of transfer-\\nring boats over high elevations of ground\\nfrom one level to another on dry land.\\nAnd now it comes to my mind that one of\\nthe most interesting features of B onton is\\nthe fact that a large maj rity of its inhabit-\\nants have long resided here and dwell in their\\nown houses and, further, that most of them\\nhave acquired the means for paying for them\\nsince they resided here. This fact alone ar-\\ngues strongly in Livor of the industrious\\nhabits of our people, and of the solid and\\nhealthful business character of the place.\\nTaking into consideration the mixed charac-\\nter of our population, there is not, perhaps,\\nin the whole country another manufacturing\\nvillage of its size that contains a better char-\\nactered class of citizens generally than Boon-\\nton can boast of. On this point I will only\\nadd that, as a general thing, our Boontonians\\nare very dressy, passably polite and moder-\\nately intelligent but, as regards temperance,\\nthere is yet a wide field open before us for\\nimprovement. But still, greatly the larger\\nnumber of them may be set down as strictly\\ntemperate and honest at least, about as\\nmuch bo as our modern improvements will\\nadmit of.", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "45\\nI have now, I believe, introduced bsfore\\nyou about all the iacts and information that\\nhave come to my knowledge respecting the\\npast and present history of Boonton and its\\nsuburbs. Although I have not been as suc-\\ncessful in clearing up many of the seeming\\nmysteries in our past history as I could have\\nwished, still I flatter myself that 1 have suc-\\nceeded in tracing out many facts and much\\nuseful information which was in a lair way\\nof soou bung irrevocably lost. This long\\nrecord of 1 actB and incidents, rude and un-\\npolished as it is, will, I trust, be of some\\navail to the future historian of Boonton when\\nthe time for writing a standard history of\\nthe place shall have arrived. Other interest-\\ning documents may possibly be brought to\\nlight at some not distant day which may en-\\nlighten coming generations upon subjects\\nwhich to us look dark and unintelligible but\\nI greatly fear that much valuable and curious\\ninformation respecting the first settlement of\\nOld Boonton has already been buried in the\\ngrave of oblivion, too deep to hope that it\\nwill ever be disentombed an*, brought to the\\nlight of day.\\nA few reflective and speculative remarks\\nupoj the natural curiosities and physical ge-\\nography of this section of country, and I\\nshall retire from the discustion of this sub\\nject forever. Having now, as I humbly con-\\nceive, established a starting point, from\\nwhence a future pursuit may be commenced,\\nI leave the subject for some abler pen than\\nmine to prosecute to a more satisfactory ter-\\nmination.\\nTlie whole country in and around Boonton\\nformB a fit theme for man s study and inves-\\ntigation. All the hills and valleys in this re-\\ngion bear certain unmistakable evidences of\\nhaving undergone many great physical\\nchanges at some remote period in the world s\\nhistory. All the great mountain ranges in\\nthis section run in lines nearly parallel to\\neach other from east to west, and it requires\\nbut a small outlay of the imagination to pic-\\nture to the eye the time when all the deep\\nvalleys lying between these mountain ranges\\nwere submerged by the watery elements.\\nFrom numerous evidences, which amount\\nalmost to demonstration, I am led to believe\\nthat the time was when all those valleys\\nlying between the Hulson river and Brook-\\nlyn pond were covered with water, forming a\\nsuccession of large lakes, extending from the\\ntide waters of the Atlantic to the highest\\nmouutains in New Jersey. I feel quite con-\\nfident in my own mind that the time was\\nwhen the falls at this place were considera-\\nbly lower down the river, and much more\\nelevuted in their position than they are at the\\npresent time. I believe that at some indtii\\nnitely remote period in times that are past\\nthe narrow passage way between tbe rocks\\nthrough which the river now precipitates it-\\nself into the valley below was firmly joined\\ntogether by a solid embankment of earth and\\nrocks, nearly on a level wi:h the hills on\\neither side, thus damming back an immense\\nbody of water upon what is at present termed\\nthe Rockaway valley. Let any person whose\\nmind is of a moderately philosophical turn\\npost himself upon the high rock* just above\\nthe blast furnace, and, looking around him\\nfrom his elevated position, let him determine\\ndifferently if he can. A moment s examina-\\ntion aid reflection will convince him at once\\nthat a great and wonderful change in the\\nprimitive physical formation of the dark,\\nnarrow, rocky gl\u00c2\u00abn that yawns beneath his\\nfeet has already taken place, and that things\\nare not now as they were in the beginning.\\nNow, admitting this supposition to have\\nbeen true, how is the present appearance of\\nthings to be accounted for There can be\\nbut one sensible answer given to this ques-\\ntion, and it is this These old barriers must\\nhave been swept away by some mighty con-\\nvulsion of nature, the exact time when no\\nhuman wisdom can ever determine. My own\\ntheory of that grand and terrible event is\\nthis, and I submit it for j ust what it is worth,\\nnothing more. The old barriers that dammed\\nback the waters of the upper, and perhaps\\nthe greater lake, probably gave way first, and,\\nprecipitating its contents into the lesser lakes\\nbelow, swept everything before them until\\nthey discharged themselves into the ocean.\\nHence we may account for the sudden drain-\\nage of these ancient lakes and the establish-\\nment of our present water courses, most of\\nwhich run from west to east, and which,\\nafter winding their zig-zig way through the\\nnarrow openings in the hills and mountains,\\n[*Note.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The rock here alluded to Las since been\\ncut down and transformed into bla urnace No. 2,\\nto make room for the railroad track, ich now runs\\nup to within a few feet of the.F llu.]", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\ncontinue on over the plains uutil they finally\\nall mingle with the waters of the Passaic at\\nPaterson. Thus may we derive the origin of\\ntbe water falls at Boonton, Little Falls and\\nPaterson, all of which are fed by waters flow-\\ning from the same streams, all of which\\nwere, no doubt, produced by the same causes.\\nThe fact of a large log having been found\\ntmbedled in the earth twenty feet below the\\npresent surface in the llockaway valley some\\nseventy years ago confirms the supposition al-\\nready advanced that a deep lake once existed\\nthere is not a wild chimera of the brain and\\nwholly unworthy of belief. The new science\\nof geology, which is still in its infancy, may\\nat some future day engage in the investiga-\\ntion of this subject, when the trutb or falsity\\nol the position I have here assumed will be\\nsatisfactorily explained and determined. I\\nhave here thrown out these few rude sugges-\\ntions upon a subject of which I profess to\\nknow little or nothing, mainly to furnish food\\nfor future thought, and for the purpose of\\nengaging abler pens than mine in its discus-\\nsion.\\nThe Fossil Fish Quarry, situated on the\\neast b nk of the R ckaway river, about half\\na mile below Old Boonton, is the most won-\\nderful curiosity ever discovered in this sec-\\ntion of country. The fishes found in this\\nquarry lie in regular layers, firmly imbedded\\nin ledges of slate stone formation, some ten\\nor twelve feet below the present surface of\\nthe soil. They all lie upon their sides, and it\\nrequires great skill and patience to get them\\nout whole and undefaced. The ledge of slate\\nstone in which these fishes are found deposit-\\ned ranges from twelve to twenty incheB in\\nthickness, and lieB nearly on a level with the\\nbed of the river but I imagine that the fu-\\nture explorer will find them increase in thick-\\nness, and to penetrate downward as they re-\\ncede from tbe river. What may be the ex-\\ntent of these deposits it would be difficult to\\ndetermine but they may, and probably do,\\nextend for miles in every direction. The\\nfishes thus far taken from this quarry have\\nall been small, and mostly of the same species\\nas those which now inhabit our streams but\\na few have been found which are supposed to\\nhave belonged to a race now entirely ex-\\ntinct. Our State Geologist, with a gang of la\\nborers, spent several days here a few years\\nago in disentombing these little wonders.\\nHe obtained many fine specimens, which he\\ndistributed among the public institutions of\\nour countiy but he left the quarry in a\\nshape that makes it almost impossible for\\nothers to get at them. I have myself assisted\\nin taking out a few very fair specimens, and\\nI can bear personal testimony to the fact that\\nthey are not easily obtained. I leave the\\nquestion to the future geologist to determine\\nhow many millions of years have elapsed\\nsince they were deposited there.\\nMr. Nathan Hopkins, an intelligent gentle-\\nman of th s village, has shown me a fine\\nspecimen of plumbago, which he found on\\nthe side of one of our Boonton hil s. Its\\nweight is between two and three pounds, and\\nits character is of the finest quality, being\\nentirely free from all foreign substances. The\\nsame gentleman also exhibited to me a small\\ncluster of petrified marine shells, which he\\nlately picked up on the top of Sheep Hill.\\nHe styles this natural curiosity f a collection\\nof marine shells of ant -dil avian formation\\nA great number of natural curiosities of dif-\\nferent kinds have been discovered in the\\nlimestone quarry at Montville, but I have not\\nbeen able to obtain any reliable information\\nrelating to them. I have, however, now in my\\npossession a small piece of petrified whitewood\\ntimber, which bears indubitable evidence of\\nhaving been cleft with an ax or some other\\nsharp instrument. This specimen was taken\\nout of this quarry by mysel from the solid\\nlimestone rock, full twelve feet below the\\nsurface of the top soil, and is as solid and\\nhard as the rock itself. Recently, while dig-\\nging the cellar for Mr. Thomas Hodkins new\\nhouse in Main street, a iittle above Brook\\nstreet, the workmen came across a rock of\\nconsiderable size, which, on being unearthed,\\nwas easily broken into several pieces. In the\\nseams and cavities of this rock several clus-\\nters of large clamshells were found imbed-\\nded. The spot upon which this rock was\\ndiscovered must have been at least one hun-\\ndred feet above the level of the river oppo-\\nsite, and the earth in which it was deposited\\nwas of a gravelly formation. The fact is, the\\nface of the whole country around here bears\\nstrong indications of having, at some former\\ntime, undergone great physical change* in\\nits formation. I have no doubt in my own\\nmind but that there are mines of mineral\\ntreasures of one kind and another imbedded", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "47\\nn tLe numerous hills in and around Boon-\\ntoD, and that the day is not distant when\\ntheir now hidden treasures will be discovered\\nand brought to light.\\n[Note.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Since the foregoing was written several\\nvery rich and valuable mines of iron ore have been\\ndiscovered in the immediate vicinity of Boon ton,\\nwhich are now being worked with large pr. (Its to\\ntheir lucky owners\\nAnd now, my friends, in closing this pro-\\nlonged and exhaustive discourse, permit me\\nto pay a passing tribute of respect to the\\nmemory of the humble and unpretentious\\nfounders of this beautiful and romantic vil-\\nlage. Bcenton was first settled mostly by\\nemigrants from foreign lands, men and wo-\\nmen of iron nerves, who forsook home and\\nnative land, crossed the rolling billows of the\\nstormy Atlantic and came here to build up for\\nthemselves and their children new homes in\\na strange land. Many of them came from\\nthe land of Shakespeare and Milton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 some\\nfrom the birthplace of Scott and Burns-\\nothers from the Green Isle of the Ocean,\\na land rendered famous the world over by the\\neloquence of her Grattane, her Philllpses and\\nher Currans. In the full vigor of their early\\nmanhood they packed up their little all and\\nembarked upon their yet uncertain venture.\\nHaving bade a last farewell to kindred and\\nfriends, they turned their backs upon the\\nland of their birth, the sunny homes of their\\ninfancy, and the green graves of their\\nsires; and, casting one last, long, linger-\\ning look behind them, they proceed on their\\nvoyage to the New World. Their main ob-\\nject in coming here was to better their world-\\nly condition, to act the part of men among\\nmen, to build up new homes for themselves\\nand their children in the land of their adop-\\ntion\u00e2\u0080\u0094not to barter away their native dignity\\nand manhood in exohange for a royal smile.\\nThey had left home and country and all their\\nnatural endearments far behind them, and,\\nlike the Pilgrims of old, they tied here to es-\\ncape the tyranny and persecutions of a gov-\\nernment whose policy it was to oppress in-\\nstead of protect them. They came here full\\nof hopeful expectations to enjoy life and that\\nfreedom of thought and action which had\\nbeen denied them in their native country\\nnot to become the slaves of new masters in\\na distant land. They came here to found a\\nnew village in the wilds of America, and rear\\nup their children to become intelligent men\\nand women in this free and happy land not\\nto ravage and destroy the homes of their\\nneighbors. Having escaped the dangers at-\\ntendant upon a long voyage across the ocean,\\nthey arrived here in safety, and greatly as-\\nsisted in laying the foundations of this now\\nthriving village. And may we not now in-\\ndulge the fond hope that those of our chil\\ndren who are natives of the soil and to the\\nmanor born may appreciate their honorable\\nposition, and feel proud in styling themselves\\nAmerican citizens\\nWhenever I traverse the streets of this\\nnow populous village, whenever I look around\\nupon this respected audience, I look in vain\\nfor the old familiar forms and faces of 1834,\\nfor but few of them now are anywhere visi-\\nble. And this sad fact alone reminds me very\\nforcibly that one generation of our ancestors\\nhave already passed away\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBach in his narrow cell forever laid,\\nThe rude forelathers of the humlet sleep.\\nThe graves of some of them now dot the\\nsloping hillsides of our beautiful rural village\\ncemetery others have wandered off, no one\\nknows whither, to die among strangers in\\ndistant lands. Like the sear and yellow\\nleaves of the autumnal forest, they have\\nfallen to the ground and disappeared forever.\\nAnother generation has already succeeded\\nthem, and now fill the places which they once\\nfilled but let it always be borne in mind\\nthat we owe to our hardy and frugal ances-\\ntors that debt of love and gratitude which is\\nalways justly due to the memory of all first\\nsettlers. They felled the old primeval forests,\\ncleared away the unsightly rocks and rub-\\nbish, and made smooth and pleasant the ver-\\ndant hillsides upon which we now dwell.\\nThey laid firm and deep the foundation stones\\nof our present prosperity it remains for us\\nto complete the superstructure, and for our\\nchildren to place the capstone upon the tow-\\nering edifice of our future city of Boonton.\\nCompared with their hard lot we may h tru!y\\nsay that our lines have fallen upon sweet and\\npleasant places, for we are now just begin\\n*ning to enjoy the first ripe fruits of their toil\\nand unwearied perseverance. In our head-\\nlong pursuit ht er something new we are\\ntoo apt to forget the instructive lessons taught\\nus by the past but, let what will come, the\\nmemo.y of our brave old pioneers must not\\nbe forgotten.", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nAnd 3 here let ua pause for a moment to\\nmuse and moralize upon the frailty and un-\\ncertainty of all human things. It has been\\ntruly said that there is no such thing as a\\nstandstill in nature. The events and transac-\\ntions of the present will soon become themes\\nfor the discussion of the future historian.\\nGod alone is immortal and immutable every-\\nthing else in nature, whether animate or in-\\nanimate, is liable to change and perish. Like\\nthe ever-surging waves of ocean, one genera-\\ntion succeeds another and king and beggar\\nalike sink down together into the bosom of\\ntheir common mother, Earth, and are soon\\nlorgotten. The very ground beneath our feet\\nis instinct with the dust of those who once\\nlived and loved and struggled through the\\nworld in pursuit of fame and fortune and\\nwith us, too, life s fitful fever will soon be\\nover. The most delicate and highly per-\\nfumed flowers bloom and blossom but for a\\nday, and the lordliest oak of the forest bends\\nand falls before the desolating march of the\\nunchained winds. The loveliest and most\\nloved, the most gifted and cherished of hu-\\nman beings, oft sink into an early grave,\\nleaving an aching void in many a warm,\\ngushing heart which no other loved being\\ncan ever fill. Age, with its blight and mil-\\ndew, soon robs youth of its wonted vigor and\\nelasticity, and dims and wrinkles the flushed\\nbrow of beauty. The man of mightiest in-\\ntellect, whose giant mind has directed the\\ncourse of empire, and whose name is lisped\\nby every tongue, dies, and the order-bespan-\\ngled hero of an hundred battle fields, after\\nhaving hewn his way to fame and fortune at\\nthe cannon s mouth, at last sinks down into\\nthe tomb, leaving only a name behind him.\\nThe tongue of impassioned eloquence, upon\\nwhose inspiring accents entranced millions\\nhave so oft enraptured hung, soon loses its\\npower to charm and delight mankind and\\neven\\nPoets themselves mast fall like those they sint?.\\nThe most valued and admired works of gen-\\nius and art soon lose their original freshness\\nand beauty, and the most solid and durable\\nof human structures soon gray with age, and\\ncrumble into dust and nothingness. Nations,\\nalso, like individuals, have their rise and fall,\\nand having performed the part allotted them\\nin the great drama of the world s history they,\\ntoo, disappear from the stage of human action\\nforever.\\nThe wheels of Time roll swiftly on,\\nTie coming and tis past\\nThis glorious day will soon be gone,\\nAnd life is fketing fast.\\nOf all the unnumbered millions of human\\nbeings who lived and breathed and made this\\nbeautiful world their home at the time of the\\nfirst settlement of this romantic village, how\\nvery few now remain. We, too, shall die and\\nbe gathered to our fathers but, though we\\nknow that our bodies are destined to die and\\nperish, we would like to have our memories\\nlive. Let us, then, as we hope to have our\\nown names honored and remembered by our\\nposterity, endeavor to cherish and perpetuate\\nthe memory of those brave old pioneers who\\npenetrated the dark defiles of the forest, and\\nlaid deep the foundation stones of this now\\nbeautiful and flourishing village. And let us\\nalso unite together in pushing on the column\\nof right and justice, of patriotism and civili-\\nzation, and so perform the duties allotted us\\nin our day and generation that our children\\nmay not be ashamed to stand up boldly in\\nthe presence of coming cen turies and justify\\nthe acts and deeds performed in their good\\nold forefathers day.", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nThe following boinespun song, inanufac\\ntured expressly for the occasion, was sung by\\ntbe writer in bis exceedingly fascinating\\nstyle immediately after tbe delivery of this\\ndiscourse in 185!) and be is pretty strongly\\nimpressed witb tbe belief tbat be is about\\nthe only person on tbe face of tbe earth who\\ncould sing at all\\nBOONTON S BOUND TO GO AHEAD\\nPART FIRiT.\\nA BRAN NEW LOCAL SONG.\\n[To be said or sung to any tuue that suns it, for this\\nnight ouly.J\\nSome one and thirty years or so ago,\\nBy skillful engineering onward led.\\nThe old pioneers began to blast and blow,\\nAnd 9iug tLe good old tune\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoonton s bound to go ahead\\n2.\\nThey dug and delved among the rocks,\\nAnd felled the tall old forest trees\\nThe wolves and panthers quickly fled\\nAb tbe shout still rose upon the breeze\\nBoonton s bound to go ahead\\n3.\\nWith zeal they plied the as. and spade,\\nAnd soon aruoDg the trees an opening made\\nThe millwrights then began to hew and plane,\\nAnd shout and sins with m ght and main\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoonton s bound to go ahead\\n4.\\nAnd now the work goes bravely on\\nThe village, too, begins to grow and spread.\\nAt length the Stati i\u00c2\u00abnill completed stands,\\nAnd LIU and vallej now proclaim\\nBoonton s bound togo ahead!\\nTbe old Rockaway, dam d above the Falls,\\nKolls down the canal in d loud applause\\nThe impatient wheels salute the rapid stream,\\nAnd, whirling round with rapture, scream\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nB jonton s bound to g ahead\\nThe forges now with fiery lustre glow\\nThe rolls and hammers all begin 10 go\\nThe sturdy workmen, too, are there, I trow,\\nAnd all the furnaces begin to puff and blow\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoonton s bound to go ahead\\n7.\\nAnd now springs up the tapering spire,\\nAud many strange and curious isms dire.\\nBut no great harm can e er belall us\\nWhile the old schoolhouse stands to tell us\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoonton s bound to go ahead\\n8.\\nBut all old things have pissed away,\\nAnd something new s now the order of tbe day\\nBut while the Union* brags and the Empire*\\nblows,\\nAnd old Liberty Hall remains free to her foes\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoonton s bound to go ahead\\n9.\\nThe United States too s now In the held,\\nWith its creature comforts not a lew\\nAnd, while its massive walls protection yield.\\nAnd its old wines remain bo petter ash netv\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoonton s bound to go ah*ad\\n10.\\nMessrs. Fuller and Lord now reign supreme,\\nWith Mr. Go-ahead Lathrop, who s a whole team,\\nAnd, with their enterprise and steam\\nAnd our present railroad prospects\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoonton s bound to go ahead\\n11.\\nSoon you ll hear the snorting locomotive\\nThundering along its iron road\\nThen will come the New York millionaire,\\nAud join us round the festive board\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50\\n12.\\nThen all our verdant hills and valleys\\nWith splendid country seats will shine\\nOar streets with fine equipages will glitter,\\nAnd our sidewalks with rustling hoops and crino-\\nline\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n13.\\nSheep Hill will then contain our City Hall,\\nAnd politicians, hard and soft, will thither call\\nWhile on the Tourne will stand a noble college\\npile,\\nAnd load along its halls will ring the students cry\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoonton s bound to go ahead\\n14.\\nGreat patriots then like bees will swarm,\\nAll anxious their dear country to serve some\\nBut, though they may each other harm,\\nThey can t dissolve this great and gloi ions Union\\nFor Uncle Sam s bound to go ahead\\n15.\\nAnd when we have reared our City Hill,\\nAnd have our Aldermen and Council chamber.\\nWho knoivs but this child may have a loud call\\nTo act the part of flr -t Lord Mayor\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n16.\\nAnd when Boonton county obtains a charter,\\nAnd Mornstown becomes a Boonton suburb,\\nThen we ll begin to trade and barter,\\nAnd give Old Gotham itself a hard rub\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n17.\\nAnd should old Johnny Bull again come o er the\\nseas,\\nOur wives aod Yankee rights to plunder.\\nWe ll send our valiant Captain Bishop and his N.\\nG.s,\\nWith orders to give him a little particular thunder-\\nFox Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n18.\\nMusic hath charms to soothe the savage breast,\\nAnd so hath the Boonton Temperance Band\\nNearly all the State it s had a call to play for,\\nAnd when -not at home they gladly accept the Ex-\\ncelsior\\nFor both are bound to go ahead\\n19.\\nNew Jersey now commands the highway peace\\nBetween the haughty States of York and Penu\\nAnd, it they do not soon their bragging cease.\\nFrom crossing our State we ll sure be stopping them\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Little Jersey s bound to go ahead\\n20.\\nOur little State, in its own affairs, is well schooled,\\nAnd that s the reason why our sister States all bate\\nus\\nBut when they find that we by them can be no longer\\nfooled,\\nThey ll then be glad enough to again United Slates\\nus\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n21.\\nWe then shall have our banks and money changers\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOur Peter Funks and Bulls and Bears\\nLikewise our brown stone fronts and penny pa-\\npeis\\nOur splendid theatres and lots of city fairs\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n22\\nAnd when our city cousins come out to cut their\\npranks,\\nAnd make us long and pleasant calls,\\nWe ll take them to our splendid Fossil Fishing\\nBanks,\\nAnd serenade them nightly with the music of our\\ndashing Falls\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Buonton s bjund to go ahead\\n23.\\nOur future motto, then, shall Onward onward be.\\nSpread tar and wide the great and glorious news\\nAnd by our enterprise we ll let our neighbors see\\nTlut we well deserve the name ot Jersey Blues\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n24.\\nHo then, ye solemn, snarling, eauting croakers\\nGo hide your small, diminished heads\\nFor, when we are dead and in our graves\\nOur children will rise up and bless us with their\\npraise\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n25.\\nAnd now a health to our good old mother, Boone-\\nTown,\\nAnd to the memory of Ogden and McCulloch\\nAnd three times three to the venerable old mansion\\nWhose ancient roof once sheltered the head of Wash-\\nington\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n2G.\\nAnd now, my loving friends aud neighbors,\\nRemember the debt we all owe to the cause 0! right\\nAnd, having finished now my present labors,\\nI wish you one and all a very good night\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead I\\n27.\\nMay all your coming dreauas be sweet aud pleasant,\\nAnd your mture pathway bloom with flowers;\\nMay health and happiness with us be ever present,\\nAnd peace and plenty be the lot of us aid ours\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n2S.\\nI ve finished now my long and homely ditty\\nSo let the co 1 aud sparkling bowl move round.\\nHere s a health to our future Boontun City,\\nAnd to oar lamous old Brooklyn Pond\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor both are und to go ahead I\\n29.\\nAnd now I ve sung my song aud said my say.\\nAnd don t you think There s a good time coming,\\nboys?\\nThen hurry up the cakes and clear the way,\\nFor we re the boys who fear no noise\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nF. r Boonton s bound to go ahead 1", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "51\\n[*The names of two rival stores\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the one bragging\\nand the other blowing about their cheap goods.]\\nThe following right lively Bong, manufac-\\ntured by the same machine, was sung by the\\nsame aoDgster in his charming and inimita-\\nble manner at the close of ibis discourse as\\ndelivered in 1867 and, as it was sung as no\\nother man can sing it, he Hatters himself tliat\\neverybody was pleased and captivated by his\\nunequaled performance\\nBOONTON S BOUND TO GO AHEAD\\nTART SECOND.\\nA SPAN BRAN NEW LOCAL COMIC SONG.\\nTo be said or snng to the tune of Here She Goes\\nand There She Goes with variations\u00e2\u0080\u0094 on\\nthis particular occasion only.\\nI.\\nAnd now our brave old pioneers have passed forever\\naway.\\nMay their names and fame endure forever more\\nSt am and gas, and even thing fast, is now the order\\nof the day\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nA change which none but a few old fogies deplore\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFur Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n2\\nOur Boomon town, like ghost of old John Brown, is\\nmarchlni: on,\\nAnd all the predictions made in fifty-nine will soon\\ncome true.\\nThen let us shout and sing and hail the good time\\ncome,\\nNo matter if our canting, croaking tribe looks blue\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n3.\\nOur good old township (1), with its brave old Indian\\nnam\\nIn three divisions now march up to pay our soldiers\\nbounty\\nAnd, blow and bluster as we will, surely that same\\nOr some other magic power will soon give us a new\\ncounty\\nFor Boonton county s bound to go ahead\\n4.\\nAnd now we have our long-desired town incorpora-\\ntion (2)\\nIt is a stubborn, sterling fact\u00e2\u0080\u0094 deny it if you can\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nAnd Boonton town will soon becom e a midway sta-\\ntion\\nOn the coming railroad from England to Japan\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n5.\\nOur good old corporation fathers now are sail-\\ning hi^h,\\nTheir heads wtll filled with nove s and romances;\\nAnd ye gods, how our marshals make the rowdi s\\nflyl\\nAnd both man and beast obey our corporation ordi-\\nnances\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n6.\\nFast hold they seize upon our naughty swimmer\\nbojs (4),\\nAnd gobble up our drunken, in\u00c2\u00b0ane brawlers\\nAnd should you stop along our stieets to gaze or gos-\\nsip, (5)\\nTen to one you ll find youiself safe in our corporation\\nlock-u\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead I\\n7.\\nOur watchful marshals, too, a terror are to all evil-\\ndoers,\\nAnd, though tbey f port no glittering stars or crosses,\\nThey seize and fine alike both great and small mls-\\nrioers,\\nAnd seldom let escape cur furious riders (6) of fast\\nhorses\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead I\\n8.\\nAnd our new commissioner of streets, as I ve been\\ntold\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSo runs the startling rnmor round the town-\\nlias pledged himself to pave our streets with solid\\ngold!\\nBelieve it\u00e2\u0080\u0094 if you are green but, if you do, you ll\\neuiely be done Brown\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead 1\\n9.\\nToo long knowing ones have kept us in the dark\\nBut now we know we soon shall have our model\\nBoonton park\\nAnd, when our daily toil and task is done,\\nWe ll hie across the river and enjoy a little fun\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to so ahead\\n10.\\nThe park the park All hail our splendid Ogden\\npark (8)\\nTis there we ll spend our holidays and have a jolly\\nlark.\\nTis there we ll dance and sirg and have a merry\\nrout,\\nAnd no old gouty millionaire shall dare to drive us\\nout\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n11.\\nAnd,ob, I wish I had a pocket full of California\\nrocks\\nOr any other kind of stocks, the payment of which I\\nmight rely on.\\nI d haste and buy me one of our new park lots.\\nAnd open one very fast Le Grand Hotel de Lyon\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n12.\\nAnd now another wondrous change hath come\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe battle for the Union has been fought and won.\\nThe great rebellion s dead and in its gory grave,\\nAnd Recession e standard bark hath sunk beneath the\\nUnion wave-\\nBut Boonton goes ahead 1", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52\\n13.\\nAnd now lei s build the soldiers monument.\\nIn grateful memory ol the brave and true\\nThen bear a willing hand, and sure you ll not re-\\npent\\nThis monument to the memory of our boys in\\nblue\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n14.\\nOur heroes dead to them rear high the marine\\nshrine\\nNor in the good work let your kindly efforts lag\\nFor, In their early, hopeful manhood s prime,\\nThey nobly rallied round the good old flag\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n15.\\nOur country, too May she once more united stand,\\nAnd peace and harmony with us again abide\\nGod bless and prosper this our native land\\nBut woe betide the man who would consent to let\\nthe TJi ion slide\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahtad\\n16.\\nTis true I might prolong this lively comic song\\nUntil your tea and toast gets cold and gritty\\nBut I luar our railroad (9) goug ringiug its last ding-\\ndong.\\nAnd I am off from Boonton town to New York city\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor our Boonton Branch is bound to go ahead\\n17.\\nAnd there, among the rich old Bulls and Bears,\\nWith the growing beauties of om park their ears I ll\\nstun;\\nAnd publish far and wide among the gay old million-\\naires,\\nAnd they will come and still the cry will be, They\\ncome\\nAnd then our Ogden park will go ahead\\n18.\\nWe then shall have our specie-paying bank sand board\\nof brokers.\\nAnd our good old town and park with Eden tints will\\nbloom.\\nAway then, up Salt river, with all our discontented\\ncroakers (10),\\nAnd for for our coming solid men make room\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n19.\\nAnd now the iron horse comes snorting o er the dis.\\ntant plains\\nAnd, lo it nearer comes, loud welcomed by the peo-\\nple s cheer\\nBy Jove I tis one of the long-expected California\\ntrains,\\nAnd on it comes John Chinaman, with us to drink a\\nglass of lager-bier\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n20.\\nThen don t be afraid Take all the greenbacks you\\ncan borrow or steal,\\nAnd invest them in Boonton chattels, either personal\\nor real.\\nFor mv prediction is\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and I wish you well to mark\\nit-\\nNo discount will there be on Boonton stocks In this\\nor any other market\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n21.\\nWhere now is Mrs. Grundy, with all her odd whims\\nand fancies\\nAnd where on earth is Chapman f Why in thunder\\ndon t he crow\\nAnd where are all our addle-brained Ml-s Nancys,\\nWith their sage prognostics of And didn t 1 told\\nyon so\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n22.\\nAnd now three minutes more I have of town clock\\ntime,\\nAnd thiee rude verses more to shape and form.\\nAttention, then, along the good old Union line,\\nAnd cheerfully your several parts perform\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n23.\\nHo, then, ye sturdy iron-working men of Boonton\\nBlow all your fiery furnaces both loud and shrill\\nFor, surely, If you retain your present powers of lo-\\ncomotion,\\nYou will live to see our future city on a hill\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahrad (11)\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n24.\\nAnd, should you live to see that sight of sights,\\nAnd hear the little ones with Grandpa! make the\\nparlors ring,\\nIt will cheer your heart of hearts to tell them of this\\nnight of nights.\\nWhen you heard the old prophet spout and sing\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\n25.\\nAnd now I ve told yon all I d like to have you\\nknow,\\nAnd more, in fact, than I agreed to tell.\\nThen all that remains for m; to do before I rom you\\ngo\\nIs to tbank you for your kindly greeting and bid you\\nall larewell\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor Boonton s bound to go ahead\\nNOTES ON SONG\u00e2\u0080\u0094 rART SECOND.\\n1. Peqnannock township lately divided inlo three\\nparts for political purposes.\\n2. Town of Boonton chartered last Winter (1867)\\nagainst the wishes ol a majority of the people.\\n3. Trustees of the town of Boonton have passed\\nsome very childish ordinances.\\n4. Refers to boys arrested (or swimming in the\\nMorris canal, contrary to a town ordina ce.\\n5. Refers to an ordinance prohioiting persons from\\ncongregating on the corners of streets to gossip.\\n6. Two of our young bloods, arrested and fined for\\nriding faster than the law allows.\\n7. Peter H. Brown, commissioner of streets, and a\\ngreat blower.\\n8. Suggested in honor ol the memory ol David Og-\\nden, the first known owner of the Boonton tract.\\n9. Boonton Branch of Morris Essex railroad\\ncommenced running September 5th, 1867.", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "53\\n10. Refers to persons who sneered at the piedic-\\ntlons made in 1859.\\n11. The city ou a hill is now on exhibition for\\nany one who wishes to see It, it having come a little\\nsooner than was expected.\\nFIRST PUINTING 1 HESS IN BOONTON.\\nAbout the year 1839 our venerable towns-\\nman, Dr. John Grimes, had constructed, upon\\nhis own premises (corner of Main and Lib-\\nerty streets), aDd under his own personal su-\\npervision, the first printing press ever intro-\\nduced into Boonton. The press was small\\nin dimensions, and of rude workmanship\\nintended mainly for the printing of his own\\ncards and labels. It worked well, and upon\\nit he turned out some very fair specimens of\\nprinting in a small way such as cards, la-\\nbels, billheads and handbills. Everything\\nturned out from this press was set up and\\nprinted by his own hands. And here let it\\nbe recorded that this was the first perma-\\nnently established printing press in Morris\\ncounty outside of Morristown.\\nFIRST BOOK PRINTED IN BOONTON.\\nI copy the following from a card attached\\nto a copy of this book at the time it was pre-\\nsented to me by the Doctor in person\\nA Great Curiosity This Pamphlet is the very\\nfirst thing of any length ever printed in\\nBoonton. It was printed on a small hand Press,\\nwholly and in every part, by Doctor John Grimes\\nhimself. It was published in his own house, oh a\\nPress constructed upon his own premises\u00e2\u0080\u0094 mostly\\nby himself\u00e2\u0080\u0094 at the time oi its date, 1840. It is now\\nvery scarce indeed, only a lew copies haviug been\\nprinted. Presented to me by the Doctor himself,\\nNov. 1st, 1867. N. B.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Let it be carefully preserved\\nfor the edification of posterity. I. t Lyon.\\nThe pamphlet here alluded to contains forty-\\neight duodecimo pages, and is entitled Eight\\nand Wrong in Boonton, No. 1. The sub-\\nstance of this pamphlet consists of the report\\nof a committee appointed at a meeting of\\nAbolitionists, held at the house of Mr. Con-\\ndit on the 14th of March, 1840. The report\\nitself bears date May 24, 1840, and it was\\nprinted shortly after. There was considera-\\nble trouble here at that time between the\\nchurch people and the Abolitionists, and\\nmany hard blows were given and received on\\nboth Bides. This pamphlet is very fairly and\\ncorrectly printed, and is the only publication\\nof equal length that has ever been published\\nin Morris county outside of Morristown up to\\nthis date, 1872.\\nFIRST NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN BOONTON.\\nI have a file of this publication now lying\\nbefore me. It is entitled The New Jersey\\nFreeman. In size its dimensions are 11x15\\ninches published monthly by John rimes,\\nBoonton, Morris county, New Jersey. Terms,\\nsingle copies 25 cents per annum. The first\\nnumber bears date June, 1844, and the last\\nMarch, I8o0, being fifty-two numbers in all,\\nand all that were ever published. These pa\\npers were published on an entirely new\\npress, of considerably larger dimensions than\\nthe first, which was also constructed upon his\\npremises under the superintendence of the\\nDoctor. I transcribe the following explana-\\ntory card, placed in the volume at the time it\\ncame into my possession. The volume is\\nneatly bound and lettered and in good condi-\\ntion\\nThis is the greatest and most valuable literary cu-\\nriosity appertaiuii g to the history of the town ol\\nBoonton\\nThis Volume of Newspapers, entitled The New\\nJersey Freeman, contains a copy of the first, last,\\nand all the newspapers that have been published in\\nBoonton up to this date, 1867\u00e2\u0080\u0094 fifty-two numbers in\\nall. The Freeman was published month y during\\na period ol portions oi six years, commencing in\\n1814 and ei diug in 1S50. It was edited and published\\nfrom beginning to end by Doctor John Grimes him-\\neelt, assisted occasionally by his son Malcolm L., a\\nlad s mc 12 or 15 years of age and printed on a\\nPress mostly of his own construction he h iving a\\nlarge and extensive practice as a physician during\\nthe whole time. It was published and circulated al-\\nmost wholly at the Doctor s expense\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a copy of\\nevery number of which is contained in this volume.\\nI lcok upon this volume as the most valuable literary\\nrelic that Boonton can ever pofsoss. The D ctor as-\\nsures me that there are not above five full and com-\\nplete copies of this publication in existence at the\\npresent time. Presented to me this day, November\\n1st, 1837, as a very special favor, by Doctor Grimes\\nhimself, under the pledge that I would do everything\\nin my power to transmit it down to the latest po\u00c2\u00ab-\\nterity and I herewith solemnly enjoin it upon those\\nwho shall come after mc to see to it that my pledge\\nto the Doctor is laithfully lulfillcd. I. S. Lyon\\nAs would naturally be inferred, the Free-\\nman was an anti-slavery publication through-\\nout, always firm and unyielding, but never\\nabusive. In a recent conversation with the\\nold Doctor (December, 1872) he informed me\\nthat both the presses here referred to are\\nstill in his possession, but not in working or-\\nder.\\nTHE BOONTON WEEKLY BULLETIN.\\nDecember 8th, 1870. The first number of\\nthe Weekly Bulletin made its appearance\\nhere to-day Neal Co., publishers, and Rev.\\nR, B. Yard, associate editor. This number", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nwas published at Washington, N. J., but it ia\\nexpected that a press will be established here\\nshortly. This is the second attempt made to\\nestablish a newspaper in Boonton.\\nMarch 3d, 1871 \u00e2\u0080\u0094This day the Weekly\\nBulletin was printed in Boonton for the first\\ntime. A few weeks later it made its appear-\\nance witli the imprint A. A. Neal, Editor\\nand Proprietor. It thus continued with\\nwaning success until August, 1872, when it\\npassed into other hands, not, however, until\\nits publication had betn suspended for a few\\nweeks.\\nAugust IJOth, 1872 \u00e2\u0080\u0094To-day the Bulletin\\nayain made its appearance in a new dress,\\nand somewhat enlarged, under the manage-\\nment of Dawson Garrison, publishers S.\\nL. Garrison, editor. Under the new manage-\\nment the paper has been greatly improved,\\nand it is now on the high road to prosperity\\nand success. It is Republican in politics, and\\nis tolerably well patronized.\\nLATE ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS.\\nIn Part Third of this discourse\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Fu-\\nture of Boonton as written and delivered in\\n1859, it was predicted by the writer that many\\ngreat and important additions and improve-\\nments would take place here within the next\\nfifteen years or, in other words, tha^ Boon-\\nton was bound to go ahead From my\\ndiary of noticeable events occurring in Boon-\\nton I transcribe a few of the more important\\nof them, with such comments thereon as may\\nseem necessary to their full identification. If\\nuseful for no other purpose they will assist\\nour posterity in comprehending the doings of\\nour times\\nMay 12th, I860.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The new Presbyt rian church of\\nBoonton was dedicated this day. It stands upon the\\nsame lot that the old one did. Cost, $7,000. This\\nchurch has been greatly enlarged and improved since\\nthat time.\\nJuly 15th, I860.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Hill s new Empiro Branch\\nstore, corner ot Brook aid Ceda streets, opened this\\nday with cheap goods.\\nSept. 16th, 1800.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The corner-stone of the new Cath-\\nolic church was laid to-day.\\nOct. 10th, 1860.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Boonton Protective Union\\ncommenced doing business in their new store (corner\\nol Brook and Birch streets) this day. They have\\none of the largest aud best arranged stores in Morris\\ncounty. This association has long since been dis-\\nsolved.\\n1861.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The bridge across the pond above the Falls\\nwas built during the Autumn of this yeur. It is\\ngenerally known ae the New Biloge, and cost about\\n$1,600.\\nMarch 9tb, 1863.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Mechanics Library Asso-\\nciation of Boouton was organized at Washington\\nHall this evening. The following are the names of\\nthe officers ot the association elected for the ensuing\\nyear: Wm. G. Laihrop, President; Edwiu Bishop,\\nVice President; Francis D. Canficld, Corresponding\\nSecretary Henry C. Jenkins, Recording Secretary\\nDavid C. Ely, Treasurer George W. Es-len, Samuel\\nC. Looker and John Woolton, Standing Committee\\nIsaac S. Lvon. Lewis Estler and James S. Norris,\\nLibrary Committee. This association commenced\\nwith seventy-live members, and soon after increased\\nto one hundred and ten, aud yet it died even in its\\ninfancy. Yes it died from the want of proper at-\\ntention and nourishment before it was two years\\nold.\\nJuly 8th, 1863.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The corner-stone of St. John s\\nchurch (Episcoral) was laid this day.\\nOct. 13th, I860.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 St. John s church was dedicated\\nat 10 o clock this morning with quite imposing cere-\\nmonies. Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jersey, and\\nquite a number of other clergymen were present.\\nThe main building of this church is 24x58 lect, with\\ntwo wings on the rear, which leaves it in the form of\\na cross. The total cost of church and fixtures foots\\nup about $3,500\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kev. Francis D. Canfield, pastor.\\nDec. 21st i863 Sieain was first used as a motive\\npower at the Boonton Works at about this date. The\\nengine Is located at the northerly co ner 01 the roll-\\ning-mill, and drives the lans to the puddling and\\nheating furnaces.\\nFeb. 22d, 1866.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This day ground was first broken\\non the Boonton Branch of the Mo.ris E-eex\\nrailroad at Eenville.\\nSept. 5th, 1 867. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The cars on the Boonton Branch\\nof the Morris Essex railroad, carrying passengers\\nand the mails, made their first trip from here this\\nmorning at 6:45 for New York.\\nSept. 19th, 1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The first coal train on the Boon-\\nton Branch came in this morLlng and landed their\\ncoals near the trestle-work bridge, south Oi the roll-\\ning mill.\\nNov. 22J, 1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A locomotive on the Boonton\\nBranch came up to and past the blast furnace, up to\\nwithin a few feet of the Falls, for the first time to-\\nday.\\nDec. 8th, 1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Public services of the Dutch Re-\\nformed church were held for the first time in Boontou\\nat Washington Hall at 3 o clock P. M. to-day, Rev.\\nMr. Conkting and Rev. Mr. DeBann, of Montville, of-\\nficiating.\\n1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Town of Boonton was incorporate.)\\nby an act of the legislature of New Jersey during\\nthe Winter ot this year, contrary to the wishes of a\\nmnjority ol its inhabitants. During the session of\\nthe last Legislature (Spring of 1872) our town was\\nsupplemented into a city without consulting our\\npeople, and before scarcely any one Of us knew that\\nsuch a thing was in contemplation.\\n1867.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The first house in our new park\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that of\\nGeorge Fuller, Esq.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was erected duriDg this year.\\n1867- 63 The bridge across the Rockaway river,\\nbelow the iron works, was built during these yeais\\nat a cost of over $1,000.\\n1867- 68. -Blast lurnace No. 2, 16 leet in the bosh,\\nwas erected during these years. No. 1, 14 feet in the", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "bosh, was built in the year 1848. This latter named\\nInrnaoe has run a blast of 260 weeks, being the long-\\nest blast on record. A powerlut steam engine, lo\\ncated between these furnaces, now furnishes sulli-\\ncient blast lor both. By nuans ol a branch railroad\\ntrack cars now damp materials for the nse of these\\ntuniacee directly at their base. These two furnaces\\nmake use of 100 tone of coal, 130 tons of ore, and\\nlarge quantities of limestone, every twenty-lour\\nlimns, and turn out about 450 tons of pig iron every\\nweek.\\nAugust 15th, 1S68.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The corner-stone of the new\\nMetuodist church in Main street was laid tins day\\nsize ol church, 52x90 feet.\\n1868.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Dutch Reformed church, located In\\nWashington street the new machine shop, located\\non the site of the old one, and the second large iron\\nwheel in the rolling-mill, were all built this year.\\n1861).\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Boonton Iron Company s new cement\\nwarehouse, located a little below the upper nail lac-\\nlory, was built this year. This building is 70x100\\nlest, five stories in height, with Mansard roof, all\\nconstructed of the be6t materials and in the most\\nsubstantial mauner,.with a capacity lor storing 1,00\\n000 kegs of nails, erected at a cost of $25,000.\\nlS69- 70.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Boonton, Paterson New York\\nBranch of the Morris Essex railroad was construct-\\ned daring these years. One of the predictions made\\nby the writer in 1859 was that within the next lineen\\nyears we should have a direct railroad communica-\\ntion with New York, by which pissengers from boon-\\nton would reach that city in one hour s time, but he\\nwas only laughed at for his folly. The last time 1\\nwas down to New York I came up an thj express\\ntrain ol the Delaware, Lackawanna Western rail-\\nroad, lrom depot to depot, in juBt one hour to a\\nminute, including a st oppage of three minutes at the\\nmouth of the tunnel, and two at Paterson, the run-\\nning time being only 55 minutes.\\nKept, loth, 1870.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Coal trains commenced running\\non the new railroad lrom Buontou, via Paterson to\\nNew York at abi ut this date.\\nNov. 2lst, 1870.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The bridge across the Rockaway\\nriver, above the dam, rebuilt and completed this day.\\nIt stands four leet higher than the old one, and cost\\nabout $2,900.\\nDec. 14th, 1^70.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Passenger curs commenced run-\\nning on the new Kranch railroad, via Paterson, to\\nNew York to-diy.\\nMarch 6th. 1S71 \u00e2\u0080\u0094The nuiils were Irasporled o\\\\er\\nthe new Branch railroad lor the Urst time to-day.\\nMODKKN IMPROVEMENTS.\\nAt the time this discourse was first written\\n(1859) the village of Boonton was confined al-\\nmost wholly to the original purchase of the\\nBoonton Iron Company. At that time the\\nonly bridge across the Rockaway river be-\\ntween Powerville and Old Boonton was an\\noldricketty foot-bridge leading from the roll-\\ning-mill to the Boiling Spring. That portion\\nof our city lying on the west side of the\\nriver, now styled the Park, was then lit-\\nerally a dense and howling wilderness, al-\\nmost impenetrable to man or beast. Now\\n(January 1st, 1\u00c2\u00ab7:J) the river is spauned by\\ntwo railroad bridges, three road bridges and\\none elegant new lout bridge. The wilder-\\nness is now penetrated by numerous well-\\ngraded streets aud avenues, several of which\\nare occupied by the splendid private resi-\\ndences of our most wealthy and ashionahla\\ncitizens. But these are not all the improve-\\nments that have been made. The Hawkins\\nplace (on the west side of the river), the\\nLowrer place, the Peer farm, the Cookerow\\nfarm, and a portion of the Jacobus property,\\nhave been transformed into building lots,\\nand hundreds of fine new buildings have\\nbeen erected thereon, and the end is not yet\\ncome.\\nBUSINESS STATISTICS, JANUARY 1ST, 1H73.\\nPopulation, 3,500 dwelling houses, about\\n700 families, about 775 churches, 5 stores,\\nshops of various kinds, 8 drug stores,\\ni shoe stores, 4 clothiers, 4 stove and tin-\\nware, 2 watches and jewelry, 2 hardware,\\n1 hats and furs, 1 butchers, 6 bakers, 3\\nbarbers, 2 paints, 2 news offices, 1 milk-\\nmen, 3 hotels, 1 oyster saloons, 3 licensed\\nbeer saloons, 10 doctors, 5 dentists, 1 pho-\\ntographers, 1 lawyers, none\u00e2\u0080\u0094 several of\\nthem have attempted to establish themselves\\nhere, but they have all departed. We have\\na telegraph office, a printing office, numerous\\npassenger trains on railroads running in\\nevery direction, and all the other fixtures of a\\nfirst-class city. Twelve mails are now han-\\ndled in our post office every day six arrivals\\nand six departures. The Boonton Company\\nnow work 12 double puddling furnaces, 11\\nheating furnaces, G trains of rolls, 4 nut ma\\nchines, 2 bolt machines, 2 washer machines\\nand 138 nail inachiues, which turn out 100\\nkegs of nails per hour. The title of the li m\\nis Fuller, Lord Co., composed of the execu-\\ntors of 1). 15. Fuller and J. C. Lord, deceased\\nGeorge Fuller, Esq., general superintendent!\\nand Win. (J. Lathrop, Eeq., agent.\\nCITY GOVERNMENT.\\nWm. Q. Lathrop, K-hj., Mayoi Edwin C.\\nBloxliam, Uiles H. Mauderville, Nathan L.\\nBriggs, Charles F. Hopkins, Wm. Grubb,\\nArchibald 1). Ureen and Wm. E. Davenport,\\nCouncilmen E. C. Bloxhana, President ol the\\nBoard E. C. Bloxham, Police Justice; N. S.\\nVanduyue, Clerk John Juries, Superintend-\\nent of Streets A. J. Kosse, Surveyor; Giles\\nPtomine, Marshal, and Charles Myers, Assist-\\nant Marshal.", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nBOONTON CORNET BAND.\\nGeorge Hessey, leader Jolin Green, Wm.\\nBuchanan, Joseph Parker, John Kirkpatrick,\\nHorace Bell, Squire Gage, Wm. Oliver, Geo.\\nJones, Samuel Kirkpatrick and J. M. Smith.\\nOLD BOONTON ONCE MORE.\\nDuring the last half-dozen years several\\ntrashy articles have been going the rounds of\\nthe newspaper press predicated upon facts\\nswindled from this discourse under false pre-\\ntences by a parcel of brainless literary Bohe-\\nmians, whose souls are more diminutive than\\na sneak thief s. The false deductions drawn\\nfrom these facts are well calculated to de-\\nceive and mislead an unthinking public,\\naud I feel that it is my duty to expose them\\nnow and here. I Belect a few of them, which\\nare to the following effect That Colonel\\nOgden owned Old Boonton and the surround-\\ning country by inheritance that Colonel\\n0 fden built a nail-mill there in 1770, in\\nwhich he manufactured nails in large quan-\\ntities that these nails were sawed out of\\nplates, which were previously saw- d out of\\nbars that a detachment of soldiers were\\nsent there to ferret out and break up the\\nmill that you can read on the headstones\\nsuch dates as 1737, and that the writer of\\nthis discourse has letters in his possession\\nbearing the postmark Boonetown, 1797.\\nNow, all this senseless twaddle about Col.\\nOgden and Old Boonton is sheer romance-\\nperfect bosh\u00e2\u0080\u0094 indeed, only such stuff as\\ndreams are made of. The Old Boonton\\nproperty was given to Col. Ogden by his\\nfather many years before his death. The\\nnail-mill said to have been built by Col. Og-\\nden at Old Boonton in 1770 was a slitting-mill\\nfor making, not nails, but nail rods. It\\nwould seem that these learned Thebans\\ndon t know the difference between a slitting-\\nmill and a nail factory, or between a nail and\\na nail rod. I am of the opinion that there\\nwere no nails made at Old Boonton until\\nalter the year 1790 for this and other reasons\\nIn his advertisement, published in the New\\nYork Packet in 1785, Col. Ogden makes no\\nmention whatever of nails of any kind,\\nwhich, I think, he would have done provided\\nhe had a nail lactory of his own making them\\nin large quantities. And that these nails\\nshould have been sawed out of iron bars\\nseems quite funny to our modern nailers. I\\nhave now in my possession a specimen of the\\nnails made at Old Boonton about Beventy\\nyears ago, but they don t look a bit aB though\\nthey had been sawed out. As to the foo-foo\\nstory about the detachment of soldiers\\nsent to Old Boonton to pry out the secrets of\\nthe place, there is not a particle of truth in\\nit. It is not on any authentic record of Amer-\\nican history that a British soldier ever trod\\nthe soil of Old Boonton at any time or upon\\nany occasion. That you can read on the\\nheadstones such dates as 1737 is not possi-\\nble, for there is but one such stone there, and\\nthat bears date 1782. The letters bearing\\nthe postmark Boonetown, 1797, exist only in\\nthe dazed imaginations of these wilfully mis-\\nrepresenting Bohemians.\\nFictions to please should wear the face of truth.\\nBut these do not, so let them pass.\\nVALEDICTORY REMARKS.\\nAnd now, my friends, let me say to you, in\\nconclusion, don t be afraid to invest your sur-\\nplus greenbacks in Boonton property. The\\niron and nail making business is now too\\ndeeply rooted here to be up-torn by any ordi-\\nnary convulsions of trade or commerce. We\\nshall, no doubt, witness our ups and downs\\nof prosperity and adversity the same as other\\nplaces do but when the wheels of the Boon-\\nton Iron Company stand still you will look in\\nvain for bustle and activity elsewhere. Capi-\\ntal, skill, enterprise and foresight are all\\nbusily at work for our good. Let us, then,\\nhave faith and confidence in the management\\nof the powers that be, and the good\\nworks will follow as a matter of courBe. The\\nCity of Boonton and its suburbs now afford\\none of the most healthful and delightful\\nSummer resorts to be found anywliere in the\\nState of New Jersey and the time is not far\\ndistant when the wealthy inhabitants of our\\nneighboring cities will find it out. Our new\\npark, containing over two hundred acres, will\\nfurnish elegant and commodious building\\nsites for at least two hundred magnificent\\ncountry seats, and the time will soon come\\nwhen they will be occupied for such purposes.\\nYes the New Yorkers, with their fast horses\\nand long purses, will come, and they will dig\\ndown, and they will build up, and go on beau\\ntifying our craggy old hillsides until they\\nshall bloom and blossom with all the living\\nsplendors of a new Edan. We will then\\nkick poor old sleepy-headed Morriatown out", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "57\\nof our path and go on our way rejoicing and\\nwe are bound to do it, too, if we don t burst\\nour boilers in the attempt. Then don t be\\nafraid to invest your surplus greenbacks in\\nlocal enterprises, for there will be no dis-\\ncount on Boonton stocks in this or any other\\nmarket. The future of Boonton is now se-\\ncured, for she can t go back upon herself if\\nthe would.\\nAn i now, my friends, let us keep cool and\\nnot get frightened at any of our advanced\\nmovements. The enterprising spirit of our\\nold mother, Old Boone-Town, still lives in\\nthe eoul of her blooming, go-ahead daughter,\\nBoonton. Then don t be afraid. All that we\\nhave to do is to stand firm and erect, hold up\\nour heads and keep off the track when the\\nlocomotive Young America comes dashing\\ninto our midst. All that I have ever pre-\\ndicted, and a great deal more that I dare not\\ntalk about at the present times, will most ae-\\nsuredly take place beforo the year nineteen\\nhundred shall have rolled round. Many of\\nyou will yet live to see the day when the rich\\nproduct* of China and Japan will pass over\\nthe great Pacific railroad and its branches\\nvia San Francisco, the City of Boonton and\\nNew York on their way to London and Paris\\nand other European marts. Some of you,\\nperhaps, will lau h at this prediction, the\\nsame as did your illustrious predecessors\\nat ome of those made in 1859 but when the\\nExtra Morning Oracle of Boonton is laid\\nupon your table beside your toast and coffee,\\nannouncing the safe arrival of the East In\\ndia Express train in five days from San\\nFrancisco, you will then be compelled to be-\\nlieve the startling fact. You, don t believe\\nit Well, I tell you this now, but you can t\\nsee it of course not but when the event\\nhas actually taken place then will spring up\\na mighty prophet in our midst, who will cry\\nout with a great flourish of trumpets, This\\nis just exactly what /predicted years ago\\nWell, perhaps he did, but forgot to have it\\nacknowledged and recorded and this im-\\nportant omission will place his prediction in\\na very equivocal position, to say the least of it.\\nBat, come weal or come wop,\\nMark well all that s been eaid,\\nFor, blow high or blow low,\\nBoonion s bound to go atatad I\\nGREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.\\nThis association was first organized about\\ntwo years ago, since which time the cemetery\\ngrounds have been under improvement. Last\\nWinter the association was fully incorporat-\\ned by a special act of the Legislature of New\\nJersey, with the names of the following gen-\\ntlemen as incorporators Enoch Hammonds,\\nJacob L. Hutt, Victor Thibou, Joseph Mil-\\nner, Senr., James H. Wootton, Nathaniel A.\\nMyers, James G. Simms, Thomas Byard,\\nThomas Hammonds, Samuel Hammonds,\\nJohn Maxfield and Richard S. James. At\\ntheir first meeting Mr. Enoch Hammonds was\\nchosen president. The plot of ground select-\\ned by the association contains about eight\\nacres, and is beautifully located on the brow\\nof the hill a little north of Old Boonton, be-\\ning about midway between that ancient place\\nand the modern city of Boonton. The plot is\\nabout 250 feet wide, front and rear, and in\\nlength it extends from the road leading from\\nBoonton to Old Boonton back to Washington\\nstreet. The only carriage entrance to the\\ncemetery grounds at present is on the Old\\nBoo-iton road but when Washington street\\nshall have been opened (which is now in con-\\ntemplation) it is proposed that the main en-\\ntrance shall be from that street. Already\\nthese grounds have been nicely fenced, grad-\\ned, surveyed and handsomely laid out into\\ncarriage drives, paths and burial lots. These\\nlots are 9x20 feet in size, and number about\\n1,800 In all, some fifty of which have been\\nsold, and several burials have already been\\nmade thereon. The price of lots ranges from\\n$20 to $4J each, according to location. Num-\\nerous trees of various kinds have been set out,\\nall of which appear to be a healthy condition\\nand, judging from present appearances, Green-\\nwood Cemetery of Boonton is destined to soon\\nbecome one of the most beautiful and attrac-\\ntive homes of the dead in Morris county.\\nThe grounds of this cemetery are at present\\nsurrounded mostly on three sides by a dense\\nf ores t but the time is not distant when these\\nold forest trees, which now intercept the view,\\nwill be cut down and removed to make room\\nfor the habitations of our rapidly increasing\\npopulation. Then the thoughtful spectator,\\nstanding in the midst of this beautiful\\ncity of Boonton s dead, looking south\\nwill have a fine view of the classic ruins\\nof Old Boonton, which lie outspread be-\\nfore his vision in the narrow valley be-\\nneath his feet while on the other hand,\\ngazing in a northerly direction a still more\\nenc 1 anting vision will burst upon his enrap-", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58\\ntured view the modern city of Boonton tow-\\nering np like a scene of enchantment on the\\nsloping hillside in the distance.\\nPOSTSCRIPT.\\nCOL. OGDEN ONCE MOKE.\\nThe Rev. Peter Kanouse has given it as his\\nbelief that there was but little republicanism\\namong the leading men of Old Boonton either\\nduring or immediately subsequent to the\\nRevolution. I have heard one or two aged\\npersons in this vicinity express the same\\nopinion, which they no doubt believed to be\\nthe truth. I have always been greatly in-\\nterested in tracing out every fact touching\\nupon this point. Since commencing the pub-\\nlication of this discourse in the Journal, I\\nhave been favored by Senator Cutler, of Mor-\\nristown, with a set of what are termed the\\nOld New Jersey Records, published from\\nthe original manuscripts by order of the Leg-\\nislature of New Jersey last Winter. In the\\nvolume entitled Minutes of the Council of\\nSafety of New Jersey, 1777, on page 73,\\nunder date Morristown, July 1, 1777, I\\nfind the following\\nSamuel Ogden appeared before the Board, pursuant\\nto citation, and took and subscribed the oaths oi ab-\\njuration and allegiance, agreeably to law.\\nAgain, on page 214, under date Trenton,\\nMarch 17, 1778, I find the following entry\\nAgreed that Col. Hathaway receive from Mr. Og-\\nden, at Boontown. the 20,000 flints sent or to be sent\\ninto this State by Mr. Archibald Mercer from BostoD,\\n(first paying to Ogden, at Boontown, for the cartage),\\nand to be accountable for them when properly called\\nupon.\\nThere are many curious and important\\nfacts brought to the light of day for the first\\ntime by the publication of these old records\\nand among them all, there are none more in-\\nteresting to the writer, than the fact, that Col.\\nOgden was a true man and engaged in the\\nservice of his country at a time when to ac-\\nknowledge himself to be such was to endan-\\nger his own life. The above are facts that\\ncannot be reasoned away, and they prove\\nclearly to my mind that Col. Ogden was the\\ntrue patriot, and the firm and devoted friend\\nto his country that he has been represented\\nto be in part first of this discourse.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0FINIS.-\\nL4 1574", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3437", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3467", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3587", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "historicaldiscou00lyon_0068.jp2"}}