. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings. d produces large quantities of vege-tables for the New York market. North Bergen is a scattered settlement, on the summit of theridge north of the New Jersey railroad, 2 miles west of JerseyCity, containing about 60 dwellings. Secaucus is an island, ormore properly a strip of firm land, surround
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings. d produces large quantities of vege-tables for the New York market. North Bergen is a scattered settlement, on the summit of theridge north of the New Jersey railroad, 2 miles west of JerseyCity, containing about 60 dwellings. Secaucus is an island, ormore properly a strip of firm land, surrounded by a marsh, in theNW. part of the township. There is at that place a Baptist church. ao 234 HUDSON COUNTY. New Durham, 4 miles north of Hoboken, on the Hackensack turn-pike, has 1 Reformed Dutch and 1 Baptist church, and about 50dwellings. West Hoboken is a recent settlement, handsomely laidout on the brow of an eminence, about 2 miles from Hobokenlanding. Hoboken, supposed anciently to be called Hoebuck, lieson the Hudson, 1 mile from New York, with which constant com-munication is had by ferry-boats. It contains an Episcopal church,and from 50 to 70 dwellings. The pleasant and shady retreats,delightfully situated at this place, on the banks of the river, havelong made it a favorite Duelling-Ground and Hamiltons Monument. A short distance above Weehawken, and about three miles aboveHoboken, overhung by the Palisades, on the bank of the Hudson,is the spot famous as the duelling-ground Here several havepaid the forfeit of their lives to a custom at which humanity shudders,and which all laws, divine and human, condemn. Here it was thatGen. Alexander Hamilton fell in a duel with Col. Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, July 11th, 1804; an event at whicha nation mourned. A monument was erected to the memory ofHamilton on the spot where he fell, by a society in New York, ofwhich the annexed view, taken many years since, by J. C. Ward,Esq., is a representatio
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