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[edit] Clutter

To date, I have added most or all entries to this article. To make it comprehensible (readable), I remove all computer-generated/Wikipedia-regulated notations to that fact.86.80.116.183 (talk) 03:06, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chronology

The chronology presented in the very early stages of this article is to establish the concept for it, and intended to give a view of where it might go. It offers an opportunity to gather information and make sense of the variety of sources from which it has been collected.Djflem (talk) 21:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

  • 1524-Verrazano explores USA's East Coast, including Upper New York Bay
  • 1609-(09/1609)-Henry Hudson, sailing for Dutch East India Company (VOC), anchors at Weehawken Cove and Harsimus Cove
  • 1610-1614-explorations of US northeast coast, including the Maritius River, later known as the North River, and finally the Hudson River
  • 1621-(06/03/1621)-Dutch West India Company (WIC) founded[1].
  • 1624-settlement at Noten Eylant (Governor's Island)
  • 1625-establishment of New Amsterdam (Lower Manhattan)
  • 1629-concept of patroonships established by Dutch West India Company
  • 1630-Micheal Pauw purchases two tracts of land: July 13th at "Hopoghan Hackingh" (Hoboken) and Nov 22 at "Ahasimus" (Harismus) and names the contiguous area Pavonia (Hudson County)
  • 1633-1638-trading post/ferry established at Paulus Hook, and later homesteads there and at Communipaw, Harsimus, and Hobuk
  • 1638-Oratam, sagamore of Hackensack Indians, deeds large tract to Sarah Kiersted at "Achinigeu-hach" (or "Ackingsah-sack")(Hackensack River Valley/Meadowlands)
  • 1640-David de Vries establishes Vriessendael (sometimes called Tappan) (Edgewater)
  • 1642-Myndert Myndertsen contracts to build farm Achter Col Colony (Bogota)
    • Whiskey War, in which New Netherlanders and Hackensack engage in hostilities
  • 1643
  • 1645-(08/30/1645)-truce agreed with united Lenape, Wappinger, Mohawk, and Mohegan
  • 1646-land patent at Constable Hook to New Amsterdam's chief constable, Jacob Jacobsen Roy, who declines to settle it[2].
  • 1647-(05/11/1647]]-Maryn Andriansen receives land patent (of 169 acres) at Awiehaken (Weehawken)
  • 1654-series of land patents at Pavonia/Communipaw extending to Achter Col (Newark Bay)
  • 1655-Peach Tree War
  • 1658-(01/30/1658)-Peter Stuyvesant "re-purchases" land encompassing all land on the Hudson Penisula "by the great rock above Wiehacken"[3]
  • 1660- village established at contemporary Bergen Square
  • 1661-Communipaw becomes "distinct and separate".
    • (09/05/1661)-automoous court of justice granted to Bergen, establishing oldest municipality in New Jersey
    • (22/12/1661)-charter for ferry between Communipaw/Bergen, and Manhattan[4]
  • 1662
    • (02/09/1662)-ordinance regarding common well for Bergen[5]
  • 1663
    • (11/15/1663)-ordinance regarding security and protection of Bergen, requiring construction of palisaded garrison[6]
  • 1664
    • (08/27/1664)-British enter upper New York Bay, and New Netherland is soon surrendered to them
    • (10/28/1664)-Elizabethtown Tract
  • 1665-land grant to Nicolas Verlet at Hobuk (Hoboken)
  • 1667-(07/31/1667)-Treaty of Breda, in which Dutch decline return of New Netherland
  • 1668-(04/07/1668)-"Towne and Corporation of Bergen" granted.[7]
  • 1673
    • (08/08/1673)-Dutch "recapture" New Netherland [8]
    • (11/18/1673)-Assembly held at Elzabethtown enacting "Laws and Ordinances" for towns Achter Col [9]
    • (12/18/1673)-"Freedoms and Exemptions" granted to towns Achter Col[10]
  • 1674-(02/19/1674)-Treaty of Westminster and final surrender of New Netherland to British.[11]
  • 1676-(07/01/1676)-Quintipartite Deed-formalizes East Jersey and West Jersey border
  • 1680-(09/22/1680)-charter for village at Bergen acknowledged
  • 1682-development of Perth Amboy as the capital of the province East Jersey
  • 1683-(03/07/1683)-East Jersey divided into four counties, including Bergen with county seat atBergen Township
  • 1693-encampment/trading post at Hackensack
  • 1702-New Jersey becomes royal, rather than proprietary, colony
  • 1710-Bergen County expanded and county seat moved to Hackensack
  • 1714-(01/04/1714)-Bergen Township given royal charter
  • 1738-New Jersey granted its own governor
  • 1798-Bergen, New Barbadoes, and Hackensack Townships
  • 1840-Hudson County created
  • 1843-Bergen Township split, creating Township of North Bergen (North Hudson)

[edit] Maps

380px Map from 1898 showing New Nederland in 1656 and large holdings of the Colonie van de heer van Nederhorst
380px Map from 1898 showing New Nederland in 1656 and large holdings of the Colonie van de heer van Nederhorst

The Manatus Map is often cited to have been drawn in 1639 There are two versions of it, and have been later re-produced (and updated?) as late as 1670. The one shown here with a numbered key listing land-holdings, though fairly accurate, does not necessarily correspond with other documente and dates:

  • 27. Bouwerie van van Vorst-1634
  • 28. v [sic] could this be land at Hoboken leased by van Vorst-1643?
  • 29. Bouwerie van Jan Evertsen--1633
  • 30. Plantage op de Latzer Hoeck-could this Plantation on the Last Hook correpsond to Constable Hook-1646?
  • 31. Vrije Plantage op Powles Hoeck-1638-These "free" plantattion received as land patent as opposed to other property owned by WIC
  • 32. Plantage van Maerytensen-likely refers to the Meyndertsz settlement which was located on the western slope (cuesta) of the Palisades the east of the Hackensack River (Achter Col)

The Blau map (circa 1635) does cite Meynderts holding prior to construction Achter Col, though it is not shown on the detail included in this article. The "colonie van de Heer van Nederhorst", as he was known, is shown to include all of northern New Jersey into rockland and Orange Counties, New York.The structures shown along the Hudson, may or may not actually represent the farms/plantation at time but could be Communipaw, Paulus Hook, and Pavonia.

Interestingly, the Visscher Map (based on the Blau Map (not shown in this article)) is cited to be circa 1656. Both Bergen and Milfort (which was the name first given to the settlement at Newark in 1666) are located somewhere in the middle of the state very close to each other. It's likely the map was updated after the creation of the two towns as oppposed to the places receiving there names before settlement.

[edit] Pavonia<>Hudson-Bergen Line<>Vriessendael<>Hackensack<>Tappan Territory

Though there appears to be documentation for Pauw's purchases of land at Harsimus and Hoboken, there is also mention in some sources that his holdings also included part Staten Island. According to the parameters set out in the original concept of patroonships it would seem that his claim would have included all of the Hudson County penisula. It is approximately eight miles from Bergen Point to the county line, which seems an arbitrary place to create a border as there no geograghical features which would determine it. Stuyvesant's re-purchase seems also to correspond to this land area as well. De Vries'holdings seem to correspond to the southern boundry of Tappan Indian activity QUESTION: Why the Hudson/Bergen border is where it is? Could it be possible that the border could also represent the division of territory between the Hackensack (who circulated on Bergen Neck and Hackensack Valley) and the Tappan ( who moved along/atop the Palisades)?

[edit] Sara Kiersted?

In 1638, for her work as an emissary and tolk, Sarah Kiersted was deeded a large tract at Achinigeu-hach (or "Ackingsah-sack") (Hackensack River) by Oratam, a shrewd and sage sagamore of Hackensack Indians, though she declined to exploit it. [12] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.80.116.183 (talk) 01:17, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Johan van Hartskamp, De Westindische Compangnie en haar Belangen in Niuew-Nederland, een overzicht (1621-1664)http://stuyvesant.library.uu.nl
  2. ^ Joan F. Doherty, Hudson County The Left Bank, ISBN 0-89781-172-0 (Windsor Publications, Inc., 1986)
  3. ^ History of the County of Hudson, New Jersey, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, p. 62
  4. ^ Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland 1638-1674, compiled and translated by E.B.Callaghan, 1868
  5. ^ Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland 1638-1674, compiled and translated by E.B.Callaghan,1868
  6. ^ Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland 1638-1674, compiled and translated by E.B.Callaghan, 1868
  7. ^ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njhudson/genhistory_hudson_bergen_2.html
  8. ^ http://stuyvesant.library.uu.nl/kaarten/zeeuwseexpeditie2.htm
  9. ^ Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland 1638-1674, compiled and translated by E.B.Callaghan, 1868
  10. ^ Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland 1638-1674, compiled and translated by E.B.Callaghan, 1868
  11. ^ http://stuyvesant.library.uu.nl/kaarten/zeeuwseexpeditie2.htm
  12. ^ http://www.BogotaOnLine.org

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