New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . e near by,In Rahway of old age did die,And here intombd in earth must lie,Till Christ, ye dead calls from on high. Around Springfield were the Denmans, the VanWinckles, and the Whiteheads, and about West-field the Bakers, Marshes, Piersons, Robinsons,Yeomans, Corys, Cranes, Meekers, Hatfields, andLittells. At Newark were many notable men residentupon Broad Street. On the east side of that greatthoroughfare were Judge Elisha Boudinot, Johnson, the Ogden mansion near MarketStreet, the home of John Noble Cumming, theC
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . e near by,In Rahway of old age did die,And here intombd in earth must lie,Till Christ, ye dead calls from on high. Around Springfield were the Denmans, the VanWinckles, and the Whiteheads, and about West-field the Bakers, Marshes, Piersons, Robinsons,Yeomans, Corys, Cranes, Meekers, Hatfields, andLittells. At Newark were many notable men residentupon Broad Street. On the east side of that greatthoroughfare were Judge Elisha Boudinot, Johnson, the Ogden mansion near MarketStreet, the home of John Noble Cumming, theCrane and Hayes houses, and the mansion of JudgeWilliam Burnet, while upon the west side werethe home of the Rev. Dr. Ogden, the Sayresmansion, the parsonage of the PresbyterianChurch, occupied by the Rev. Dr. Macwhorter,where Vice-President Aaron Burr was born, andthe home of Peter J. Van Beckel, minister fromHolland to the United States. Here were the of-fices of the Centinel of Freedom and WoodssGazette, the taverns of Gifford and of Sayre, andthe old jail. ?:WB. idy y HOTTSE OF THE FOUR CHIMNEYS. D crribed by Washington Irving in his Knickerbocker Tales. Bnilt by theVan Home family in ISOl, at Oommunipaw, and still Ptanding.) ONY AND AS A STATE 75 In Orange were the homes of Senator John Con-dict and Dr. Isaac Pierson, while at Bellevillewere the old houses of Colonel John Schuyler andhis irascible pastor, Rev. Gerardus Haugevort, andnear the mines the home of Colonel Peter Schuy-ler, near whom lived Josiah Hornblower, the ar-tisan-scientist. In this region people still remem-ber the famous garden of Colonel Peter Schuylerwhich so attracted the attention of Rev, AndrewBurnaby, vicar of Greenwich, an observant Eng-lishman, who travelled through New Jersey aboutthe middle of the eighteenth century. Burnabywas impressed, as, indeed he might be, withSchuylers rare collections of tropical plants, cit-rons, oranges, limes, lemons, balsams of Peru,aloes, and pomegranates, while nea
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