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... Raritan river , just where Peapack brook loses itself in that stream . This sturdy dwelling - seen with the eyes of memory - has a wealth of old - fashioned accessories , and 21 PREFACE . its surroundings are in perfect keeping with its ...
... Raritan river , just where Peapack brook loses itself in that stream . This sturdy dwelling - seen with the eyes of memory - has a wealth of old - fashioned accessories , and 21 PREFACE . its surroundings are in perfect keeping with its ...
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... RARITAN VALLEY IN 1752 , 169-181 . Somerset's Oldest Settlement - Indian Corn Grounds - How Bound Brook Derived its ... Raritan Valley - Country More Thickly Settled - English and Dutch Residents - Raritan Landing and its Industries ...
... RARITAN VALLEY IN 1752 , 169-181 . Somerset's Oldest Settlement - Indian Corn Grounds - How Bound Brook Derived its ... Raritan Valley - Country More Thickly Settled - English and Dutch Residents - Raritan Landing and its Industries ...
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... RARITAN VALLEY - THE BUILDING OF BEDMINSTER CHURCH . 247-265 . Johannes in his Old Age - He and His Wife Die in 1763 - Aaron Succeeds Him in the " Stone House " -Changes in Bedminster - Settlement on the Axtell Tract - Jacobus Van Doren ...
... RARITAN VALLEY - THE BUILDING OF BEDMINSTER CHURCH . 247-265 . Johannes in his Old Age - He and His Wife Die in 1763 - Aaron Succeeds Him in the " Stone House " -Changes in Bedminster - Settlement on the Axtell Tract - Jacobus Van Doren ...
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... Raritan - The Beginning of Things for the United States of America - The Condition , Area and Population of the Country in 1776 . CHAPTER XXII . THE TURBULENT SEA OF THE REVOLUTION - THE SOLDIERS OF SOMERSET -WILLIAM ALEXANDER , LORD ...
... Raritan - The Beginning of Things for the United States of America - The Condition , Area and Population of the Country in 1776 . CHAPTER XXII . THE TURBULENT SEA OF THE REVOLUTION - THE SOLDIERS OF SOMERSET -WILLIAM ALEXANDER , LORD ...
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... RARITAN VALLEY . 493-510 . Wedding Festivities at Basking Ridge - Civic and Military Guests - How Lord Stirling Lost His New Jersey Property - Princeton College Has Its First Commencement Since the Outbreak of the War - Nassau Hall and ...
... RARITAN VALLEY . 493-510 . Wedding Festivities at Basking Ridge - Civic and Military Guests - How Lord Stirling Lost His New Jersey Property - Princeton College Has Its First Commencement Since the Outbreak of the War - Nassau Hall and ...
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Page 623 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 344 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
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