. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . r of manufactories,including those of locomotives, machinery,glass, pyrotechnics, porcelain ware, its many churches probably thefinest once stood in Wall street. New York, j and was removed, stone by stone, and rebuilthere. It has several seminaries, and a highschool enjoying a distinguished banks and
. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . r of manufactories,including those of locomotives, machinery,glass, pyrotechnics, porcelain ware, its many churches probably thefinest once stood in Wall street. New York, j and was removed, stone by stone, and rebuilthere. It has several seminaries, and a highschool enjoying a distinguished banks and savings institutions are numer-ous and substantial, and its hotels areexcellent. The first settlements were made on thepresent site of the city about 1623, by theDutch, who claimed the territory now em-braced in New Jersey as being within thelimits of New Netherlands. During theRevolutionary war it was held by the Britishforces, who then occupied New York, andin August, 1779, w-as the scene of a gallantadventure, thus described in Sparks Lifeof Washington:—Major Harry Lee, atthe head of three hundred men and a troopof dismounted dragoons, surprised theenemys post at Paulus Hook, opposite NewYork, and took one hundred and fifty-nine 44 THE PENNSYLVANIA prisoners, having twoonly of his party slainand three plan originatedwith Major Lee, andgreat praise was be-stowed upon him forthe address and brav-ery with which it wasexecuted. A medalof gold, commemo-rative of the event,was ordered by Con-gress to be struck andpresented to him. It was incorpora-ted as a city, with itspresent title, in 1820,at which time it wasin Bergen township,Bergen county, andcomprised all thatportion of the town-ship of Bergen ownedby the Jersey Associ-ates, formerlv calledPaulus Hook. Thec o m J) a n y callingitself the Jersey As-sociates was char-tered November I oth,1804, for the sole pur-pose of purchasingthe place from Cor-nelius Van Vorst, theformer City cont
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