DescriptionLast days in Jersey City of a house that was occupied by the same Dutch family from 1699 to 1926. It is believed to have been built by Nicholas Varleth (or Varlett) and/or Balthazar Bayard in 1664, shortly after the founding of the village of Bergen where it stood at the corner of Bergen Avenue and Newkirk Street. In 1699 it was purchased by Jan Arianse Sip and occupied by his descendants for over 200 years. In 1776 Major General Cornwallis spent the night here as he pursued General Washington. By the 1920s the area had changed drastically, and when the street was to be widened in 1926, Richard Garret Sip arranged for the house to be moved to the Wychwood section of Westfield, N.J., where it still stands at 5 Cherry Lane.
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