The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-21

CAPSULE y u "
- uRING the latter part If the Rev. Aaron urs pastorate the rule Of
the church in temporal affairs hnany ended, 1t had been a long time In
coming, this separation, but 1t a worth waiting for, particularly .
those planters who were lot members. of the church and had been forced tic do
a thinking part the matter OF governing the town. The final decision M COM
pke act II divorce between things civil an hose ecclesiastical came June
1853 On that day the First Presbyterian Church secured a distinct act Of incer.
'poraton granted by Governor elcher
About this time. it is recorded. the prosperity Il the " was without preos-
dent Everything vs o. the boom Infant industries were growing SO fast that
it is dincun to understand how they were ever later to feeit the need of protes
ton. New settlers were moving in, and altogether. conditions were worthy Of
anything he author of he most anutng and imaginative real estate pamphlet Of
today might have said about them.
In 1856 Newark ws the seat of a great deal of mixed and assorted troubs
owe titles Ii that early day title guaranty companies had not been invented,
and when a pernct strans ear forward with what seemed to bs a good ens
to the old homestead and insisted upon taking possession right away. something
had to drop Most of the descendants of he early settlers had the titles which
had been secured drecth iron the original owners, the Indians IN which had
low tic them hom their fathers ant grandfsthes Others appeared,
showing titles to the same plots iron the ProprietOrs who had obtained the
entire province in a grant ron ,he King The New@k~s who were thus set
upon could nts see these title. from he Propriaors with held-siasses and wers
very rusque n frank ant open in saying just what they thought about them
Much litigation ensued an s0m warrants were served When a batch of cid-
would b. safely landed in jail thert friends and neshbns were accustomed
to assemble. institute a riot Freak in the doors IF the jail and free them. This
might have been all right If it had only happened once but it became a matter
of such regular occurrence that the Propndors grew very restless and obtained
the pest legal talent hat could be secured in the province
The different standard Of real estate values which obtained with tn. Indians
and the Proprietors had much to do with the acrimony which characterized the
dispute It seems hat choice building lots could be obtained from this Indians
in that enighted day for ten or fifteen pence per hundred acres. while the
agents of the Propnetors were asking as high as ten o. fifteen shhhnss n acr'
With UGH a tremendous discrepancy existing between these W scales OF prices
a real estate exchange wheret they might have been made uniform was Of
the question. This series Of disputes, eliminating in repeated riots rosen eve
to thata dignity wher ehistory might record a decision although the Horton Law
vas still in te dim dhtant future The courts Of the M were filled with the
and cases, and lawyers waxed fat and prosperous through them
Even in that early day possession seems to a acquired the habit of being
nfneytenths of the law. n few of the decisions worked fragrant or even the
mlder brands of injustice =