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First History of Bayonne, New Jersey

 By Royden Page Whitcomb

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Staten Island, THOMAS BRADY, History of Bayonne
18
Bayonne, Bergen Point, Morris Canal
32
41
Newark Bay, Elizabethtown, Jersey Journal
60
Centreville, old Plank Road, Newark
66
Henry Meigs, Avenue D, Frederick G
77
Macadamized, postmaster, Constable's Hook
83
Fifty-sixth Street, NEWARK BAY, per million
92
four rooms, Luke's Hospital, asphalt
98
Refunded Assessment bonds, Road Construction bonds, Bonds Sinking Fund
105
Newark Bay, horse car, old Plank Road
118
Utrecht, Marriages, Methodist

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Boy and secures him so that his master may have him again, shall have Three Pounds Reward and reasonable Charges paid By Moses Gombauld. - Page 39

Teeth drawn and old broken Stumps taken out very safely and with much ease, by James Mills, who was instructed in that art by the late James Reading, deceased, so fam'd for drawing of teeth. He is to be spoke with at his shop in the house of the Deceased near the Old Slip Market. - Page 30

Land above a mile over, from the Bay on the East •side of the neck that leads to New York, to that on the west that goes to Hackensack and... - Page 26

Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Honorable John Witherspoon, Abraham Clark, Nathaniel Scudder, and Elias Boudinot, Esquires, delegates representing this state in the Congress of the United States... - Page 53

To goe back to the South part of Berghen neck that is opposite to •Staten Island, where is but a narrow passage of water, which ebbs and flows between the said Island and Berghen Point, called Constable* Hook. - Page 26

Seven gentlemen, who were travelling, met together by chance at a certain inn upon the road, where they were so well pleased with their host, and each other's company, that in a frolic they offered him... - Page 54

The lands, they told us, were as pleasant with grasse and flowers and goodly trees as ever they had scene, and very sweet smells came from them. So they went in two leagues and saw an open sea, and returned; and as they came backe, they were set upon by two canoes, the one having twelve, the other fourteene men. - Page 18

A gentleman a chaise did buy, A horse and harness, too; They cost the sum of three score pounds, Upon my word 'tis true. - Page 53

... make no considerable alteration, he being but one, imagined that he should make a good bargain, and readily (for the sake of a good dinner and better company) entered into an agreement with them, and so made himself the eighth person. I demand... - Page 54

That every negro, mulatto, or mestee, within this state, who at the time of the passing of this act, is a slave, for his or her life, shall continue such, for and during his or her life, unless he or she, shall be manumitted or set free, in the manner prescribed in and by this act, or in some future law of this state. - Page 53

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First History of Bayonne, New Jersey

First History of Bayonne, New Jersey

by Royden Page Whitcomb - Bayonne (N.J.) - 1904 - 123 pages