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TitleNotice of Intent to Appoint Surveyors for Roads in New Barbadoes, 1835
Date Created1835
DescriptionPublic notice that freeholders of Bergen County intend to submit application to Superior Court of Common Pleas for permission to hire six surveyors to lay out five new roads in New Barbadoes Township....
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleInvitation to Participate in Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Founding of Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Bergen
Date Created1910
DescriptionInvitation from church officers, made out to Frank H. Van Winkle, to participate in services commemorating anniversary of church. Services at church were part of larger celebration of founding of...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleNotice of Sale of Pew in Bergen Reformed Church, 1854
Date Created1854
DescriptionPublic notice posted August 21, 1854, of sale of pew "on the floor of the RD Church at Bergen - South Side" by the executors of the estate of John Van Horne. Sale to take place at "the store of Jacob...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleWill of Marytie Garrabrance, 1793
Date Created1793
DescriptionCopy of will of in which a widow "being much weak and sickly in body but yet of a sound mind and understanding" bequeaths her estate to her sister, nieces and friends, listing items to be given to...
Time PeriodRevolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)
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TitleInvitation and Program for the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Village of Bergen, October 16-23, 1910
Date Created1910
DescriptionCard with printed invitation on the front, designed to look like an old document with corporation seal and anniversary ribbon depicted. Back of card lists events and activities at various locations,...
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TitleGertrude Van Cleef of Bergen Avenue, wife of Abraham Britton of Communipaw
Date Created1867
DescriptionPortrait of Gertrude Van Cleef. The format of the caption shows how the Dutch custom of women keeping their birth names persisted well into the 19th century, and also that their marriage connected the...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleUnification of the Towns into Jersey City, as Depicted by Schoolchildren, 1910
Date Created1910
DescriptionYoung women hold shields with the names of the towns that became part of Jersey City, including the old Dutch settlements of Paulus Hook, Van Vorst and Bergen, and the later (largely German) Hudson...
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TitleTown Hall, School and Jail
Date Created1910
DescriptionDrawing of the building that served as Town Hall, School, and Jail for the City of Jersey City, built in 1838 during the term of its first Mayor, Dudley S. Gregory. The city was at that time consisted...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930), Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleCommunipaw Ferry
Date Created1910
DescriptionOn the site of the Native American village of Gemoenepaen, Communipaw was the site of one of the first houses built by the Dutch, in 1633. The Communipaw ferry brought goods to and from the capital...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleRelease and Receipts, Settlement of Estate of John Van Winkle, 1844-1851
Date Created1844-1851
DescriptionDocument closing the settlement of the estate of John Van Winkle, and receipts of payments to heirs from sale of two properties. Two of the six heirs sign with an "X" mark, indicating the level of...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)