. 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. not known,) sailed for New York, (then New Amsterdam,)about the year 1620 ; the vessel was stranded at Sandy Hook; the crew got ashore, andmarched towards the said New York ; but Penelopes (for that was her name) husbandbeing hurt in the wreck, could not march with them; therefore, he and the wi
. 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. not known,) sailed for New York, (then New Amsterdam,)about the year 1620 ; the vessel was stranded at Sandy Hook; the crew got ashore, andmarched towards the said New York ; but Penelopes (for that was her name) husbandbeing hurt in the wreck, could not march with them; therefore, he and the wife tarriedin the woods ; they had not been long in the place, before the Indians killed them both,(as they thought) and stripped them to the skin ; however, Penelope came to, though her 260 MERCER COUNTY. tons, and Merrils, in the northern part, and the Burroughs, Harts,Hunts, Mershons, Drakes, Baldwins, Tituses, Phillipses, Moores,Brooks, Smiths, Stephensons, Bakers, Temples, Bollens, HofFs, Well-ings, and Cains, in the southern and middle parts of the , the ancestor of the Stouts, came here from Middletown inthis state, in the year 1706; his family was one of the first threewhich settled on the tract now called Hopewell. The place, then,was a wilderness, and full of Pennington Male Seminary. The viilage of Pennington is 8 m. N. of Trenton, on the greatroad to Flemington, and the NW. part of the state. The villagecontains 2 churches, 1 Methodist and 1 Presbyterian, 2 seminaries,1 male and 1 female, and about 60 dwellings. The Penningtonmale seminary, represented in the engraving, is built of brick, 88feet long and 44 wid-e. It was erected by the stock subscriptionsof persons principally residing in the village and its vicinity, at anexpense of about $15,000. It was opened for the reception of stu-dents in 1840, and is under the patronage of the New Jersey an-nual conference of the M. E. chureh. It has a choice library, a skull was fractured, and her
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