. Industries of New e the Hoeck a starting-point of travel to the South, and the war, which soon followed, was ; give it a prominent and enduring place in the annals uf the country. In March, 1776, Lord Stirlingfortified it. The occupation wasfrom New York in force andout the patriot garrison, tooktions and held the place untilwere of the utmost impor-believed by many to be thethe British. The battle ofnificance and its loss deeplydeplored. For many years afterits evacuation by theBritish, PaulusHook was al-most a forgottenpoint in history, BATTLE OF PAULUS HOOK., with a
. Industries of New e the Hoeck a starting-point of travel to the South, and the war, which soon followed, was ; give it a prominent and enduring place in the annals uf the country. In March, 1776, Lord Stirlingfortified it. The occupation wasfrom New York in force andout the patriot garrison, tooktions and held the place untilwere of the utmost impor-believed by many to be thethe British. The battle ofnificance and its loss deeplydeplored. For many years afterits evacuation by theBritish, PaulusHook was al-most a forgottenpoint in history, BATTLE OF PAULUS HOOK., with a small Federal force, took possession of Paulus Hook and partiallyof short duration, for in September following the British crossed overwith the assistance of three heavily armed ships, drovepossession, and subsequently strengthened the fortifica-783. Small as the fortifications were at this point, theytance to the American troops, and werekey to the recapture of New York from?>•- Paulus Hook was therefore of much sig-. and there was nothingto attract notice, unlessit was the passengers be-tween New York andPhiladelphia who fre-quented the ferry. Itwas not until about thebeginning of the presentcentury that it took up-on itself the slightestevidence of growth. Acarefully taken censusof the inhabitants of theplace in 1802 disclosedthe fact that the entireresident population numbered thirteen souls—Major David Hunt, of the Ferry Hotel; a man named Murphy, proprietor of ashanty for the disbursement of • refreshments for the traveler, with their families, and an unplaced indi-vidual named Joseph Bryant. 8oo STATE OF NEW JERSEY. The map on the preceding page, showing the battle-fiehi of Paulus Hook, will give the reader thecondition of the land at the beginning of the present century upon which Jersey City was afterward wide extent of marsh shown doubtless deterred the settler, and to this fact, nu re than any other,the very slow growth of the town in its early his
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