The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-19
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| Oyster" Island follows. Great Oyster Is
land is now what is known as Bedlows Is
ad and its description a. gXsWR n an
there is a certain island within this gov
ernm't lying & being. in Hudson Ryver 1,
Nutten Island & ye Maine & about
south west from this fort com only caii+ ,aan+
| ed & knowne by We name OF ye erreM. ~
three small Islands which lye there re
neare or adjacent one to Another 70
wch. sd. Island there appears not TO pe
any particular Lawful owner ertner Ma
on December "a, 1867, this island was
transferred to Isaak Bedlow from whoih
II 'ooA The RI s'sst5d, BOUNDARY LINE. -
Among the exhibits is another letter
complaining of the setting on Oh Mem Ntam
Jersey from New York. This was written eI,
| by Samuel Mavericke to Lord Arlington
and is dated New Yorke, in America
| August 26, 166s.'' Their bounds it says,
! referring to the grant to Carteret ana
| Berkeley reach from the east siqe OF
| the Delaware to the west side OF the fud- @
sons River, including vast traet is Pnya1i Pt lns
| Highness his patent. 1t hath taken aWay
some Dutch villages formerly belonging M
this Place and ba not e aeoHe batb left of his
| patent nothing to the west of New York
| and to the east upon the mayne ABOUT
whereon is but one poore village. Long
siderable, and beside the city
Sopus and Albany which lye up north
on Hudson's River" Then follows the
| same grant from James, Duke of York,
! deed dividing the estate and the lease of
| the part known as East Jersey to the
first twelve Proprietors OF East jersey.
| In 1852 New Jersey was divided into four
| counties. of which Bergen was to con-
| tain 'tall the settlements between Hud-
sons River and Hackensack River, be
| ginning at ConStables Hook and so to
| extend to the uppermoSt bound of the
Provence northward between the said
EARLY JEALOUSY IN NEW YORK.
! A letter from the Duke of York to
Colonel Dongan, Governor of New York,
dated WindspT 18th Abg4fsfIi feIiow 1854 bs Is
letter deals with some. rumors I have
NETT with as if some of yor neighbors-
s o new M hss aoFk end Gbany e think
| in fit to recomend that to you in. an
especial manner that you may not suffer
any innovac'o on that river but any goods
| to passe up it but what shall have paid
! the duties at New York; and if you find
that ye inhabitants of East Jersey have
| any other way of tradeing with the In
| dians there by the river. of N. YorlSe
| that you will use your endeavors to pre-
| vent It."
From this letter it will be seen that
New York's jealousy of New Jersey be-
gan in the very beginning of the coun-
The exhibits which follow are the vari-
gus acts for dividing the counties into
townships and the charter for the Town
g Of nn Sa5gen Jannary mnon vas R % rRs by
| charter sfor erecting the Principal in
habitants of the Town of Perth Anrboy
| body corporate and politique by the name
| of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and
| Commonahty of the City of Perth Am
| THAT the said Town of Perth Amboy
| is not only the best situation for a
place of trade in our said provence of
New Jersey and has harbour for ship
| ping preferable to those in the Provinces
| adJoyning. but that 1t is also the only
Gus Customs in the @ EASTERN eei5j DiVson on oof of
our said Province of New Jersey, that the
said town hath many years languished
prevent its Growth to the Loss and Detre-
ment of the Province until the Govern
ment happily Fen under the care of our
In the description of this City Of Amboy
the easily line, is Low water Mark on
the East side thereof which gave Perth
mark on the Staten Island shore.
This charter % was recorded May q, 171s,
charter wherein the west line of the city
is stated to be the low water mark on the
yes, yes5 ,l2T5 bank Of Gz the HUDSON 1f4 River
giving New York City Jurisdiction up to
the low water mark on the Jersey bank
| jurisdiction to the low water mark on the
Staten Island shore was this: At that
time New. York was the principal city in
| this vicinity. Where Jersey City is there
was nothing but trees and marshes, with
here and there "a habitation, and no indi-
cation whatever that there would ever
merce which now crowns the west bank
of the Hudson. So New York was made
On the other hand, md 'f@ Perth iaI xmboy slN was
then Hour1shfng. town with considerable
cS91mmderce comm da, Ms She , was port of entry.
trade and prosperity. and many an old
Knickerbocker feared that she would
finally outstrip. their, city, There was
would ever amount to anything COM
mercially, and SO Perth Amboy was
given jurisdiction over the waters up to
After exhibiting the documents relating
to their charters the company offered the
determining the rights to the common
lan1s of the township of Bergen and for
making a petition thereof in tlst and
shall be adjudged by the said commits
sioners to be entitled to the same. Then
follows the act of September. %. 1772,
between New York and New Jersey on
the north of this. State. and then comes
the section Of the New York eonstitu-
of land north in this State made BY the
King of Great Britain or persons acting
uiutr MS dulHOf1ly dIler OcLODer IA,
creating the North Ward of Perth
Arnboy and part of the township of
Woodbridge into city is next shown
together with an act for dividing New
Jerseyinto counties, passed March Z, 1778
and an act to confirm the charter rights
and privileges of the borough of Eliza
beth. passed November 2S, 1889. Several
other acts of a similar character passed
from time to time by the Legislatures
of both States are then set forth, after
which comes an important act of the
New York Legislature.
NEW YORK CLAIMS EVERYTHING.
AS Jersey City and that section of the
State now embraced in Hudson county
grew in Importance. New York's claim of
jurisdiction up to low water mark be-
people. In 1906 the State appointed com
missioners TO meet like commissioners
from New York, and endeavor to have
the much-vexed boundary question set
tied. The New Jersey commissioners
claimed jurisdiction over the river to the
would not concede ,and the conference
broke up without accomplishing any
| thing On April g. 1908, New York passed
an act setting forth the circumstances
of the failure of the commission assert
ing New York's right to the low water
mark and providing that ''if any person
shall within the said territory oppose,
this State in the execution of his office,
CIR do any other unlawful act as under
the authority of the State of New Jersey,
or by color or pretext that the place
where such act was DONE was not within
the jurisdiction of this State, any person
so offending shall be deemed guilty of a
high crime and misdemeanor against this
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