Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1899,
By Harriet Phillips Eaton,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
PRESS OF A. V. HAIGHT, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.

CONTENTS

[SHEYICHBI AND ITS PEOPLE.]9
[THE LENNI LENAPE AND THEIR CUSTOMS.]10
[ARRIVAL OF THE DUTCH.]13
[WAMPUM.]14
[THE RELATIONS OF THE DELAWARES WITH THE WHITES.]16
[INDIAN NAMES OF LOCALITIES.]16
[PAVONIA.]18
[MASSACRE OF INDIANS.]19
[INDIAN TROUBLES.]20
[COMMUNIPAW.]22
[THE FIRST FERRY.]23
[THE FIRST ROADS.]24
[BERGEN.]25
[BERGEN COURT.]27
[THE FIRST SCHOOLMASTER.]27
[SCHOOL HOUSES.]28
[EARLY MINISTERS.]30
[THE FIRST CHURCH.]31
[THE FIRST PALL.]33
[THE FIRST COMMUNION SET.]33
[THE SECOND AND THIRD CHURCHES.]35
[EARLY CHURCH CUSTOMS.]35
[THE VOORLEEZER.]37
[CHURCH FUNDS.]38
[MARRIAGES—TOWN POOR.]40
[BURIAL CUSTOMS.]41
[CEMETERIES.]44
[PAULUS HOOK.]47
[PAULUS HOOK FERRY.]47
[REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.]50
[BATTLE OF PAULUS HOOK.]53
[LAFAYETTE IN BERGEN.]57
[SERGEANT CHAMPE.]60
[BERGEN PATRIOTS.]61
[EARLY CUSTOMS.]64
[NEW YEARS.]64
[GENERAL TRAINING.]65
[EARLY DUTCH RECIPES.]67
[COOKING BY OPEN FIRES.]69
[SPINNING AND WEAVING.]71
[CANDLEMAKING.]72
[SLAVERY.]74
[LOTTERIES.]74
[JERSEY CITY.]75
[MUNICIPAL CHANGES.]75
[FORMING THE CITY.]77
[NEWARK TURNPIKE.]78
[ROBERT FULTON.]80
[THE FERRIES.]81
[EDGE'S WINDMILL.]85
[CITY HALL AND SCHOOLS.]87
[PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 1.]88
[SCHOLARSHIPS.]89
[POST OFFICE.]91
[CHURCHES.]92
[BUSINESS INTERESTS.]94
[JERSEY CITY POTTERY]95
[FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.]99
[HUDSON COUNTY BAR.]99
[STREET LIGHTING.]100
[RAILROADS AND STEAMSHIPS.]101
[STREET RAILWAYS.]103
[WATER WORKS.]105
[WAR RECORDS: ARMY]107
[NAVY.]110
[MILITIA.]111
[HOSPITALS AND CHARITIES.]117
[THE CLUBS.]120
[ODD VOLUMES.]122
[JERSEY CITY WOMAN'S CLUB.]123
[BOAT CLUBS.]124
[GUN CLUBS.]127
[SOCIAL CLUBS.]129
[POLITICAL CLUBS.]129
[LIBRARIES.]130
[PARKS.]133
[JERSEY CITY OF THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.]135
[THE OLD HOUSES.]136
[THE CITY OF THE FUTURE.]143

From the Minutes of the Literature Committee of the Woman's Club of Jersey City.

At a meeting of the Committee January 5th, 1898, one of the subjects for the day was "Jersey City's Old Landmarks." In the discussion that followed, Miss M. Louise Edge moved that Mrs. Eaton be requested to write a short history of Jersey City, to be published by the Club: the proceeds of which to be used to erect memorial tablets on historic sites of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods.

At the meeting of October 12th, 1898, Mrs. Eaton made the following report:

Madam Chairman and Ladies of the Literature Committee: