Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey: Containing a General Collection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Etc. Relating to Its History and Antiquities, with Geographical Descriptions of Every Township in the State : Illustrated by 120 EngravingsS. Tuttle, 1846 - 512 pagina's |
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Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey: Containing a General ... John Warner Barber,Henry Howe Volledige weergave - 1868 |
Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey: Containing a General ... John Warner Barber,Henry Howe Volledige weergave - 1844 |
Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey: Containing a General ... John Warner Barber,Henry Howe Volledige weergave - 1861 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 17 - The concessions and agreements of the proprietors, freeholders and inhabitants of the province of West New Jersey in America.
Pagina 128 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Pagina 73 - ... of our troops went over the bridge, the rest over the ferry, except some which passed at a mill on a small creek, between the bridge and the ferry, and made their way through some marshy grounds up to the town of Hackensack, and there passed the river. We brought off as much baggage as the wagons could contain, the rest was lost. The simple object was to bring off the garrison...
Pagina 183 - DONE in Convention by the unanimous consent of the States present the 17th day of September in the year of our Lord 1787, and of the Independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Pagina 100 - Twas early day, as poets say, Just when the sun was rising, A soldier stood on a log of wood, And saw a thing surprising.
Pagina 114 - I felt that rise which prepares the creature to stand like a trumpet through which the Lord speaks to his flock.
Pagina 368 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Pagina 148 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. " Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Pagina 13 - Island, and bounded on the east part by the main sea and part by Hudson's River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Pagina 299 - The defender of the mothers will be the protector of the daughters.