New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . 128Stuyvesants Bowery house. IllStuyvesants home, The Whitehall 95 Stuyvesants pear tree 94 Tankard, an ancient 301 Tavern, a country 293 Tavern yard, an early 234 Tea set, colonial 274 Thirteen colonies, flag 161Thirteen colonies, map 26Title-page of De Vriess Journal 107 Title-page of Van der Doncks Journal 3bS Totemic signatures, Indian. 62Tusk, mammoth or mastodon 49Usselinx, Willem, autograph 88Van der Doncks Journal, title-page of 36S Van Twiller, Wouter, auto-graph 110 Van Vorst homestead at Ahasimu


New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . 128Stuyvesants Bowery house. IllStuyvesants home, The Whitehall 95 Stuyvesants pear tree 94 Tankard, an ancient 301 Tavern, a country 293 Tavern yard, an early 234 Tea set, colonial 274 Thirteen colonies, flag 161Thirteen colonies, map 26Title-page of De Vriess Journal 107 Title-page of Van der Doncks Journal 3bS Totemic signatures, Indian. 62Tusk, mammoth or mastodon 49Usselinx, Willem, autograph 88Van der Doncks Journal, title-page of 36S Van Twiller, Wouter, auto-graph 110 Van Vorst homestead at Ahasimus 114 Vase 3S1 Vernon, Admiral, medal for Porto-Bello 372 Views ....101, 186, 194, 205, 206,269, 271, 283, 284, 287, 288, 376, 382 Wampum belt 241 West and East Jersey in 1677 (map) 154 West house near Matawan .. 152West India Companys flag 93West India Companys house 116West India Companys store-house 126 West Jersey, seal of 149 Whitehall, Stuyvesants home 95 Wigwam, Indian 57 William III 166 Winthrop, John, of Connec-ticut 139 Winthrop, John, of Massa-chusetts 91. THE ORIGINAL THIRTEEN COLONIES. CHAPTER I The Antiquity of Man in the DblaavakeValley Coutributed by Dr. Clmrles C. Abbott THE claim of satisfactory evidence ofthe extreme antiquity of man inthe valley of the Delaware Riverhas been soberly discussed andintemperately ridiculed, but thisis no valid reason why the truth should notbe ascertained. If man in a paleolithic stageof culture did exist on the Atlantic seaboardof North America, then we have a basis uponwhich to build—a tangible starting point fromwhich to date a history of human activitieson this continent. Shutting out all offeredevidence of paleolithic man, we have but animmense array of facts, largely unrelated, andthe greater portion sadly distorted and mis-leading because of the reckless theories set forthwith them by their discoverers, and undoubtedlythere never has been, in the whole range of scien-tific agitation of a simple question, as great a vol-


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