The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-17
THE PRICE OF THE CITY.
Big Indyuns Sold Their
Land for Wampun and
Brass Kettles.
THIRTEEN EARLY SETTLERS.
More Facts From the Old Directory
How Jersey City Grew
and Thrived.


Jersey City has to-day thirteen mem
bers Of the Board OF Aldermen. In 1902
the city had but thirteen inhabitants.
They were Mayor Hunt and family, John
Murphy and wife, and Joseph Bryant.
These were the only inhabitants Of Pau
lus Hook, now jersey City.
| The city then was not as large as it is
at present. 1t consisted of one house and
several small auxiliary buildings. There
/ was no trouble in those days IN selecting
| officers TO govern the population. and the
harmony was so perfect that the settle
ment was a perfect paradise, except on
che occasions of short but energetic visits
OF the Iroquois Indians who generally CAR
ried away few scalps Joe Carroll was
not appointed on the police till few
months later, or the Indians might not
have been SO venturesome.
In 1873 the settlement had grown so
much that it had lis taxable inhabi-
tants, but only thirty-six of them
| possessed real estate. Four years later
the Rev. u. d. Barry, who was possessed
with desire TO form two baseball clubs.
counted the noses In the settlement and
was delighted to find that notwithstand-
ing the front hair industry as p-acticed
by the Indians there were 557 males. 4gs
| females-a total of 1.025 persons IN the
settlement. OF these $40 were old enough
TO carry night keys and get married
These early settlers were energetic and
| by proper perseverance In all things for
the good of the community they increased
| the population 10 II. 473 In 1850 in Jerse v
| City aud Harsimus. Strange as it ~ az
| seem, OF this number there were sis N ore
females than males. From this date the
population and offlceholders have iu-
creased with commen1able speed. and to-
III l0ss- h Ma
of1ceholders-an other inhabitants, and
it is safe to say that Paddy Sheeran, Mar.
tin Ward, John Craven and jim Braun,
early patriots, will live to see the 200, 600
notch reached.
A QUEER OLD DOCUMENT.
Nearly every one knows that Jersey
City was purchased from the Indians
when our honest forefathers found they
/ could not steal it without a few being
| roasted at the stake and the balance los
! ing their nair where the scalp-lock
/ sprouts, and this Is the decd
From the present date hereof. the IN
/ derwritten did appeare before the noble
Lord Director General PETER Stuyve-
| SAINT and Council of New Netherlandt, in
| the Council Chamber in the Fort Am
sterdam in New Netherlandt Therinuues,
| Wappappekack, Sach Row. Ragkenip,
| Bomokan, Memenockau, Sames. Wewen-
alto Sawee. for their selves and out the
| names and power Of Makopes, Pepechgon,
Parsochques, and from ali others whose
ever is concerned In the uuder mentioned
land and lands, which doe declare to be
the right owners of the land and lands
| lying upon the west side Of the North
I river or the Manhattan Islandt-
beginning from the great Clip about
| Wtehacken, and FROM there right through
the land until above the IslnRdt Sik0r-
kes, and there from thence TO the XII Van
| Cui and so alonght to the Constabies hoeck
I nd inc tn ssf1 lin. of.< ~.
| hackep. With all the lands. islands, and
cricks, and all the meadows therein com
/ pretended, so as the aforesaid PARCEL of
| land and lands, with the North River,
alias Heitson's river, the XII Van Kohl,
/ and further upon straight lyme from
\ Island Srehakes and there separated by
| the kill and all what lit surround the
same, which land and lands, they doe alb
salutely offer to sell to the aforesaid
Lords Director General and Council.
Therefore. the Lords Director General
| ana Council of the one part, and the
aforesaid Indyans of the other part for
themselves; as for other being absent,
/ are agreed upon in in general as fol-
loweth; and so on presence of the afore-
mentioned witnesses, Christians and
Indyans.
! WHAT IT COST.
"The aforesaid Indyans do acknowledge
| to have sould, delivered and transported
SO as they doe by this presents, sell. de-
| liver and transport the said mentioned
Lord Director General and Council, and
| to their successors tor eighty fathum of
wampon, twenty fathum OF cloth, twelve
brass kettles, six gums, two blankets,
one dubbell brass kettle. and one half
/ Darrell of strong beer, all the land aud
lands, with all the rivers and crieks afore-
mentioned TO the aforementioned, which
goods they doe acknowledge before have
1o{
ceiyed all their satisfaction aad convene
ment," &c. &c Likewise lit is agreed
and bargained that the aforesaid Indyans
shall remove themselves, and not dwell
upon the aforesaid PARCEL of lands with
the first opportunity, that presents,
neither none of their nation shall con-
tinue to dwell or TO cone without consent
or fore knowledge of the Lord General
\ send Council
Datum In the Fort Amsterdam in New
Netherland and signed by the Indyans
with their marks; after that their cargo
bands this 30th day Of January a. D.
1858.
WAS underseribed).
The marke of Terrucques, of his Dune
hand
The marke OF Saghkow.
The marke Of Sames.
The marke Of Raghkennip.
Warimus Cowwer.
The marke of Bomokam.
The uarke of Wewenatsokever
The marke of Memewokan.
The fBarke of Wappekack-
The marke of Serves alias called Job as
witness
ION the part Of the Dutch tins instru-
ment was signed by Peter Stuyvesant,
| the Council. and astesfed by the clerk,
"Cornelis Van Ruyben.9
how WE GREW.
Paulus Hook was on September 10. 1893.
conveyed by the heirs OF Abraham Isaac
| sen Plank to lido Cornelisse Van Worst.
whose descendants held it until 1904.
W hen it was convened 70 Anthony
Dey. The price paid was an an
| nuity of 5000, but a few years
later all right andfclaim was disposed of
| for $40, oe0 The land during the year
| 1904 passed into the hands Of the ..Asso-
ciates of the Jersey Company who laid
ont the city in blocks and streets. From
| this date the growth Of the city was
| rapid. When the act to incorporate the
city was introduced in 1920 the name in
| the articles was The City OF jersey but
l wise Judgment prevailed and this horrible
/ cognomen was eliminated and Jersey
| City, was substituted tn 1870 when the
county of Hudson was created the city
| was fiourishing and IN 1853 it and Van
/ Worst was consolidated
| The old directory which contains these
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