Annals of the classis of Bergen, of the Reformed Dutch church, and of the churches under its care: including, the civil history of the ancient township of Bergen, in New Jersey . vernment of the officers ofthe church, cannot now be certainly ascertained. On the site of the present stone edifice, known asthe old Academy, there must have stood at least one,and perhaps two school houses, previous to the exist-ing one. Tliis is a large edifice of brown stone,erected A. D., 1790, two stories high, surmounted bya cupola. An act of incorporation had been obtained, bywhich the style and title of the s
Annals of the classis of Bergen, of the Reformed Dutch church, and of the churches under its care: including, the civil history of the ancient township of Bergen, in New Jersey . vernment of the officers ofthe church, cannot now be certainly ascertained. On the site of the present stone edifice, known asthe old Academy, there must have stood at least one,and perhaps two school houses, previous to the exist-ing one. Tliis is a large edifice of brown stone,erected A. D., 1790, two stories high, surmounted bya cupola. An act of incorporation had been obtained, bywhich the style and title of the school was The Ber-gen Columhia AcademyP The board of trustees con-sisted of seven persons duly chosen according to trustees laid claim to, and took possession of,certain lands, which by the commissioners appointedyears before, had been allotted and designated on thefield books, as For the Free ScJwol of the town ofBergen^^ being three tracts or lots. The first markedon the map of the commissioners as ISo. 177, was tlielot in the town whereon the school house nowstands. The second was a pastuie lot, No. 178, ly-ing Southwesterly from, and near to the town of Ber-. Bergex Columbia Academy. Erected 1790 THE HISTOEY OF BEEGEK. 103 gen. The third was a lot of pasture ground, lyingl^orth-easterly from, and near to the town, markedJSo. 179. The descriptions of these lands are veryaccurately given in the held book. Nearly all of the second and third of these lots hadbeen sold and conveyed by the trustees of Tlie Ber-gen Columbia Academy, to sundry persons, andthey invested the proceeds of these sales so as toderive an available revenue from them, which revenuewas applied to the support of the school in its two de-partments, the one for classical, the other for elemen-tary instruction. In process of time, however, The Trustees of theFreeholders, Inhabitants of the township of Bergen,claimed, and pressed their claim to these lands, and tothe monies arising from such of them as
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