LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       SHEYICHBI AND ITS PEOPLE.

       ARRIVAL OF THE DUTCH.

       PAVONIA.

       COMMUNIPAW.

       BERGEN.

       BERGEN COURT.

       THE FIRST CHURCH.

       THE FIRST PALL.

       THE SECOND AND THIRD CHURCHES.

       THE VOORLEEZER.

       MARRIAGES—TOWN POOR.

       BURIAL CUSTOMS.

       CEMETERIES.

       PAULUS HOOK.

       REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.

       BATTLE OF PAULUS HOOK.

       LAFAYETTE IN BERGEN.

       SERGEANT CHAMPE.

       BERGEN PATRIOTS.

       EARLY CUSTOMS.

       JERSEY CITY.

       MUNICIPAL CHANGES.

       FORMING THE CITY.

       THE FERRIES.

       EDGE'S WINDMILL.

       CITY HALL AND SCHOOLS.

       PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 1.

       SCHOLARSHIPS.

       POST OFFICE.

       CHURCHES.

       BUSINESS INTERESTS.

       FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

       RAILROADS AND STEAMSHIPS.

       STREET RAILWAYS.

       WATER WORKS.

       WAR RECORDS.

       HOSPITALS AND CHARITIES.

       THE CLUBS.

       ODD VOLUMES.

       JERSEY CITY WOMAN'S CLUB.

       BOAT CLUBS.

       GUN CLUBS.

       SOCIAL CLUBS.

       POLITICAL CLUBS.

       LIBRARIES.

       PARKS.

       JERSEY CITY OF THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.

      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

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