Book/Printed Material The history of Cape May County, New Jersey : from the aboriginal times to the present day Copy 1
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Image 1 of Copy 1- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 4 of Copy 1- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 5 of Copy 1- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
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Image 6 of Copy 1- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
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Image 7 of Copy 1- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
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Image 8 of Copy 1- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
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Image 9 of Copy 1- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
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Image 10 of Copy 1- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
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Image 11 of Copy 1 THE HISTORY Cape lay County, NEW JERSEY, KKOM THE ABORIGINAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY, EM K RACING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ABORIGINES; THE DUTCH IN DELAWARE BAY- i, THE SETTLEMENT OK…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 12 of Copy 1 Entered according to act of Congress, in 1897, by LEWIS T. STEVENS, In the office of the Librarian of (Congress, at Washington. D. C. k PRESS OF THa STAK OF THE CAPE…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 13 of Copy 1 PREFACE. The History of Cape May County is the result of many years of research, and the author hopes that it will meet with the approbation of the public. Some ten years…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 14 of Copy 1 ODE TO CAPE MAY. By Theophilus T. Price, M. D. Tune: Dearest May. (Revised by the author for this work.) Dear land of my nativity! And scene of childhood s play, I…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 15 of Copy 1 J liy dauglilcrs praise truth j;la(ll\ sjnaks, While fond emotions rise; The glow of beauty gilds their checks And sparkles in their eyes; And hearts of love and tcndernes.-. W ithin their…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 16 of Copy 1 Contents. Chapter 1 The Indians and the D^itch Explorers.... 9 Chapter II Pioneers and Whaling 2J Chapter III The Settlers and Their New Homes.... 36 Chapter IV Life Early in the Eighteenth…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 17 of Copy 1 I liajtcr XXX 1 The iSoroughs 445 Appendix A Members of the Legislature 450 Appendix Hoards of Freeliolders 4:^:5 AppiMidix C County )fficials 46:; Appendix E Munieipal )ffieers 4-2 Appendix I) Postmasters…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 18 of Copy 1 Illustrations. Cold Si)ria,i I li sbyleiian Cliuvdi Frontispiece Maj) of Cap* May County I77 Tovvuseud C iat of Anns 37 SteamUoat Lainliuw. Ca]t May Point, iu 185!) 189 Con;;-ivjss Hall, Gape Island,…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 19 of Copy 1 HISTORY OF CAPE MAY COUNTY. CHAPTER I. THE INDIANS AND THE DUTCH EXPLUKiUS, The first inhabitants of what is now the county of Cape May, as far as history teaches us, were…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 20 of Copy 1 10 Hi SI OH V oi CAPr: may cotxty. most peaceable. The name of the particular tribe inhabiting Cape May county, living; at Cape May Point, was the Kech- ■emeches. The Delaware…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 21 of Copy 1 •niK IMHA.NS AM» IIIK IM TCII li:Xl*L( MlTIItS. 11 l)ones bore uiiniistakable evidences of syi)liilis, one of the fruits presented them by their Christian civiHzers. A skull was exhumed whicli must liave…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 22 of Copy 1 12 IIIS iJKY OF CATE MAY COUNTY. soon destroyed by its influence, or compelled to e33aiginafe to other regions to prolong for a while the doom affix£.d ia- his name and nation.…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 23 of Copy 1 THF, INDIANS ANI Till: Dl TCIl EX I Ll )l!i:i:S. 13 xounded the Cajx- in tlic sprin.L^- of 1524 in the J )()li)liin. The county was in tlic territon- clainud I)y errazani…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 24 of Copy 1 14 HISTORY OF CAPE MAY (OINTY. failures of their explorers, abandoned the then prevailing: idea of a northwest route to India, and left this question tO the English and Danes for settlement.…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 25 of Copy 1 Till IM 1A.\S AM) ri lK DITCH EXI LOKKItS. 15 ture to explore it. The craft then sailed north and into North river, which has since taken the name of its explorer,…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 26 of Copy 1 16 HISTORY OF CAPE MAY fOT XTY. cecded to examine the coast where Hendrick Hudson had preceded him fourteen years earHer. Mey encountered the French, who had attempted to take possession, and…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 27 of Copy 1 IHK INDIANS AM) 11 1 K DT I dl KX I l.l KKKS. 17 L pon the voyages and discoveries of lludson and Mey the name of New N etlierlands was apphed…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 28 of Copy 1 18 HISTORY OF CAl E MAY COL NTY. torial acquisitions. These directors sent out from Amster- dam three ships, and the whole management of the afifair on this side of the Atlantic…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 29 of Copy 1 THK INDIANS ANI TIIK Dl ICII K\ 1 1.( tUKKS. 19 qualities, to liavc transporttd, ccckcl and conveyed as law- ful, unalienable and free property by virtue and title of sale and…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 30 of Copy 1 20 HISTOUY OF CATE MAY COUNTY. signature and our seal appended thereto. Done on the aforesaid Island of Manhattan, at Fort Amsterdam, the 3d of June, A. D. 1631. The above patent…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 31 of Copy 1 THIO INDIANS AM) THE DrTCH KX I lAHlKKS. 2\ ^stablisli a whale and seal fishery. )f de Vries it is said that he was wise in counsel, that he conciliated the Indians…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 32 of Copy 1 22 HISTORY OF CAPE MAY COUNTY. ernor, Printz Tinicum. This conveyance included all land from Cape May to Narriticon, or Raccoon Creek. Campanius, a Swedish minister, who resided in New Sweden, on…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 33 of Copy 1 CHAPTER II. THE inONEEKS AND WHALlNd. Whaling in the Delaware bay was noted as a considcr- ,-able industry about this time. English colonists frora ?n Haven and emigrants from Long Island, who…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 34 of Copy 1 24 HISTOKY OF CAFE MAY tOT NTY. plore the bay in 1632, by Governor Harvey, of irginia» who were killed by the Indians. Evelyn s letter reads: I thought good to write…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 35 of Copy 1 THE PIONEERS AM) WHAI.INT;. y^ 25 actually saw them. Dr. Beesley says of tlie n/uiei ^niaclc to the Kechemeches: Now where it was the king of Kecycmeches with his fifty men held…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 36 of Copy 1 20 H[STr)RY OF CAPE MAY COT NTY. Concerning the Swedes who may have settled hi Cape May county Dr. Beesley says: As history throws no hght on the original occupiers of -the…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 37 of Copy 1 THH IMO.NKKUS AM WIIAI-IN*;. 27 ^east side of this river are residinj^ from l^n.^lish among- the jNIaiito savag;es; they arrived in a small boat in the neigh- borhood of Cape May about…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 38 of Copy 1 28 HISTORY OF CATP: MAY COUNTY. of New Netherlands, including the country as far south as Cape May, was restored to Holland. But in the next year the whole territory was receded…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 39 of Copy 1 THE riOXEERS AND WIIAl.l.Nd. 29 mission to prescribe rules for the land settlements. The surveyor was required to measure the Delaware front from Assunpink Creek to Cape May and to find a…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897
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Image 40 of Copy 1 30 HISTORY OF CAPE MAY Cor.NTV. knowledge. The records of the whalemen, which appear in New Haven, show that there was no permanent removal from that place to Cape May until 1685.…- Contributor: Stevens, Lewis Townsend
- Date: 1897