Identifier: historicalcoll00barb (find matches)
Title: Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
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Publisher: Newark, N.J. : B. Olds, for J.H. Bradley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n this region were Mr. Samuel Green andfamily, from Long Island. He was the first surveyor employed inthis vicinity, and came here about the commencement of the Frenchand Indian wars. The family were on friendly terms with theIndians, who, being grateful for their kindness, warned them of theapproach of hostilities, so that they temporarily removed until thew^,r was over. The annexed engraving shows the appearance of the village ofHope, as seen from the Jenny Jump mountain, an elevation of 600Or 800 feet. The notch or depression in the distant mountainis the Delaware Water Gap, distant 12 miles. The village is 16miles from Newton, and 9 from Belvidere. It contains 1 Methodist,1 Christ-ian, and 1 Episcopal church, 7 stores, many mechanic shops, 492 WARREN COUNTY. and about 60 dwellings. The churches and many of the otherbuildings are constructed of blue limestone. The Episcopal church,erected in 1832, is one of the most elegant specimens of the Gothicstyle of architecture in the state.
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Hope, from Jenny Jump Mountain. Some years since an act of incorporation was obtained for anassociation called the Warren County Mining Company. Theycommenced operations at a locality in the mountain about 3 milesfrom the village. A shaft 100 feet in length was sunk at an angleof 45 degrees. After working it, at various times, at considerableexpense, it was abandoned. It seems they were deceived by ironpyrites in that locality, a substance which, from its resemblance togold, has often misled those unacquainted with mineralogy. In 1769, the Moravians from Bethlehem, Penn., purchased a tractof about 1,000 acres at this place of Mr. Green, who lived in a loghouse on the hill, a few rods from the Christ-ian church. TheMoravians who removed here were remarkably honest in all theirdealings ; but by trusting too much to the honesty of those withwhom they had business, suffered in their pecuniary affairs. In1805 or 6 they returned to their settlements at Bethlehem andNazareth. While here, the

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