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Map of Jersey City, N.J.
Jersey City And Its Historic Sites
BY HARRIET PHILLIPS EATON PUBLISHED BY THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF JERSEY CITY
"Perhaps a remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure". "These who have insured their remembrance by their deserts."—Virgil.
To the Citizens of Jersey City, this book is most cordially dedicated by the Author and Publishers.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1899, By Harriet Phillips Eaton, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PRESS OF A. V. HAIGHT, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.
CONTENTS
SHEYICHBI AND ITS PEOPLE.9
THE LENNI LENAPE AND THEIR CUSTOMS.10
ARRIVAL OF THE DUTCH.13
WAMPUM.14
THE RELATIONS OF THE DELAWARES WITH THE WHITES.16
INDIAN NAMES OF LOCALITIES.16
PAVONIA.18
MASSACRE OF INDIANS.19
INDIAN TROUBLES.20
COMMUNIPAW.22
THE FIRST FERRY.23
THE FIRST ROADS.24
BERGEN.25
BERGEN COURT.27
THE FIRST SCHOOLMASTER.27
SCHOOL HOUSES.28
EARLY MINISTERS.30
THE FIRST CHURCH.31
THE FIRST PALL.33
THE FIRST COMMUNION SET.33
THE SECOND AND THIRD CHURCHES.35
EARLY CHURCH CUSTOMS.35
THE VOORLEEZER.37
CHURCH FUNDS.38
MARRIAGES—TOWN POOR.40
BURIAL CUSTOMS.41
CEMETERIES.44
PAULUS HOOK.47
PAULUS HOOK FERRY.47
REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.50
BATTLE OF PAULUS HOOK.53
LAFAYETTE IN BERGEN.57
SERGEANT CHAMPE.60
BERGEN PATRIOTS.61
EARLY CUSTOMS.64
NEW YEARS.64
GENERAL TRAINING.65
EARLY DUTCH RECIPES.67
COOKING BY OPEN FIRES.69
SPINNING AND WEAVING.71
CANDLEMAKING.72
SLAVERY.74
LOTTERIES.74
JERSEY CITY.75
MUNICIPAL CHANGES.75
FORMING THE CITY.77
NEWARK TURNPIKE.78
ROBERT FULTON.80
THE FERRIES.81
EDGE'S WINDMILL.85
CITY HALL AND SCHOOLS.87
PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 1.88
SCHOLARSHIPS.89
POST OFFICE.91
CHURCHES.92
BUSINESS INTERESTS.94
JERSEY CITY POTTERY95
FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.99
HUDSON COUNTY BAR.99
STREET LIGHTING.100
RAILROADS AND STEAMSHIPS.101
STREET RAILWAYS.103
WATER WORKS.105
WAR RECORDS: ARMY107
NAVY.110
MILITIA.111
HOSPITALS AND CHARITIES.117
THE CLUBS.120
ODD VOLUMES.122
JERSEY CITY WOMAN'S CLUB.123
BOAT CLUBS.124
GUN CLUBS.127
SOCIAL CLUBS.129
POLITICAL CLUBS.129
LIBRARIES.130
PARKS.133
JERSEY CITY OF THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.135
THE OLD HOUSES.136
THE CITY OF THE FUTURE.143
From the Minutes of the Literature Committee of the Woman's Club of Jersey City.
At a meeting of the Committee January 5th, 1898, one of the subjects for the day was "Jersey City's Old Landmarks." In the discussion that followed, Miss M. Louise Edge moved that Mrs. Eaton be requested to write a short history of Jersey City, to be published by the Club: the proceeds of which to be used to erect memorial tablets on historic sites of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods.
At the meeting of October 12th, 1898, Mrs. Eaton made the following report:
Madam Chairman and Ladies of the Literature Committee:
I take pleasure in reporting that in accordance with the request of this Committee embodied in the motion made by Miss M. Louise Edge upon January 5th, 1898, I have prepared the story of Jersey City. My authorities have been: Winfield's History of Hudson County, The Jersey City Journal's History of Jersey City, Colonial and City Records, Versteeg's Translation of the Deacons Accounts of the Bergen Church, Taylor's Annals of the Classis and Township of Bergen, and numerous descendants of the old colonial families,—the Van Reypens, Van Horns, Van Winkles, Sips, Newkirks and many others, to all of whom I am greatly indebted. Also to Dr. Brett, who has kindly assisted me with his great store of historic data.
I wish particularly to express my great indebtedness to Mr. C. C. Van Reypen, who, with his wonderful memory and knowledge of Bergen, has been of invaluable assistance to me.
Respectfully submitted, Harriet Phillip Eaton