History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 107

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466

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2 Am. Archives, as cited, 1072, 1342, 1376.

3 Ib., 1188-9.

4 Hist. of the War, 225.

" Die deutschen Hülfstruppen, u. s. w., I. Theil, 183.

determination to drive the invaders from their shores.1 It made them the more resolved, also, to force the Tories to seek shelter with the British, with whom they sympathized, and scores of Loyalists were driven from their homes and compelled to find a refuge in New York city. Residents of the latter city were shown scant courtesy beyond its limits. "The country people will have the Yorkers to be in town," writes the Moravian pastor2 in New York, and hence some of them on a visit to Second River had to return. Capt. Abraham Godwin, of Totowa Bridge, reported his sus- picions about "Bro. Wilson," a Moravian, at Second River, and he had to clear himself of the charge of disaffection. 3 This order for the expulsion of British sympathizers and their families was executed with ruthless severity, husbands and wives, parents and children, often being separated.

Those were, indeed, "the times that tried men's souls !"

GEN. LEE'S MARCH TIIROUGII RINGWOOD AND POMPTON.

While Washington was in the most desperate straits, for want of reinforcements, Gen. Charles Lee, whom he had repeatedly begged, entreated and positively ordered to hasten to his relief, after three weeks of inexcusable delay began his leisurely march toward the Delaware on Decem- ber 5, on which day he left Haverstraw with "an army of five thousand good troops in spirits."# He reached Ring- wood Iron Works on December 6,5 and Pompton on the 7th, pausing at the latter place to write a long letter in which he indites the aphorism, "Theory joined to practice, or a heaven-born genius, can alone constitute a General."6 He meant Charles Lee; but by a curious irony of fate, as he would have said, or, rather, by the hand of an overrul- ing Providence, within three weeks he was a prisoner of the British, through his own stupidity, or by his treasonable connivance, and Washington, whom he sought to under- mine, was the admiration of the world, and proved that he exactly met either of Lee's criteria as to what constituted a General. On December 8 Gen. Lee reached Morristown, 7 inarching from Pompton through Lower Preakness, with three thousand ill-shod men. 8 This was the first time that an army had been seen west of Totowa. It was destined to be a familiar spectacle in that region during the next four years. The progress of Gen. Lee's army is described in this homely language and quaint orthography by one of his soldiers:

5 [December, 1776] Tbis Day we marchd to Clove and staid at Night

6 This Morning we set off Very Arely and Marchd about 5 miles to Ring Wood and Drawd 3 Days provisions & Coock It Then we marchd to Pomton and Staid at Night.

7 This Morning a party Commanded by Coln. Chester Ware Drawd out to march To Hack mesack1 and we marchd to tbe Perammus and Staid In the Stone Church at Night

1 Works of John Adams, III., 56; IX., 425, 499; N. J. Archives, 2d Series, I., passim ; Journals of Congress, 1776, 1777, passim ; Journals of the N. J. Provincial Congress, etc. , passim ; Correspondence of the N. J. Executive, 1776-1786, pp. 26-27 ; The Crisis, No. II.

2 Tbe Rev. Gustavus Shewkirk.

3 Memoirs L. I. Hist. Soc., III., Docs., p. III.

4 Lee Papers, II., 330. 5 Ib., 331.

6 Ib., 332. 7 Ih., 336.

8 Ib., 337, 338, 345.

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SOME MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN 1777.

8 This Morning at Day Brake We marchd Down to Hackmesack1 And got all the Horses there Then we Come back to the Perammus and Stop't at Night

9 'This morning we Come to Pomton and Drawd provisions And Cook it Then we marchd To Macquanac2 Staid at Night there

1776 Dec 10 This Morning we Drawd Two Day Provisions and Cookd It all. Then we marchd To Morristown Stopt There at Night.3

Writing from Morristown on December II, to Gen. Heath, whom he expected to follow him, Gen. Lee says, with a somewhat hazy notion of local topography: "I would recommend to you, if you are at Ramapouch or Pompton, to take your route either by the Great or Little Falls; if by the Great Falls, you may come by Hachquacknock. If by the Little Falls, you may inquire for Newark Mountains, and come a route at a small distance from the river."4 Three of Heath's regiments, from Ticonderoga, reached Morristown about two weeks later,5 marching via Paramus, Totowa and Little Falls.

ACQUACKANONK IN DECEMBER, 1776.

On December 12 that zealous patriot, the Rev. James Caldwell, then a fugitive from Elizabethtown, wrote to Gen. Lee that there were no British troops at Hackensack, nor thence to Elizabethtown.6 Gen. IIeath, who, after a brilliant movement on Hackensack on December 13, had marched to Paramus, reported on December 18 that he heard of movements of the enemy at Second River, New- ark, Hackensack, etc., and three days later that "a body of the enemy are said to be at Aquackanuck, said to be from two hundred and fifty to four hundred, with two pieces of cannon."7

SOME MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN 1777.

The British reverses at Trenton and at Princeton caused a withdrawal of their forces from Newark and Hackensack, so that the Moravian preacher in New York regretfully re- marked (January, 1777) that "the rebels were again in those places."8 Gen. Washington ordered Gen. Lincoln to cross the Hudson and join him at Morristown, which he did in February, 9 probably marching via Ringwood and Pomp- ton. On Feb. 19, 1777, Washington wrote from Morris- town that he had been informed "that many of the Inhab- itants near the Passaick Falls, are busily employed in re- moving their stock Provision & Forage within the Enemy's reach with a design of supplying them."10 Let us hope that he was misinformed respecting this alleged unpatriotic conduct.

Gen. Nathaniel IIeard had a body of the Jersey militia at Pompton in May, where he threw up defensive works, 11 be-

2 Pacquanac.

1 Hackensack.

3 Diary of David How, Morrisania, 1865, 38-39.

4 Lee Papers, Il., 344. 5 Sparks, IV., 239. 6 Lee Papers, II., 346.

7 Am. Archives, 5th Series, III., 1278, 1344.

8 L. I. Hist. Soc. Memoirs, III., Docs. p. 124.

9 Sparks, IV., 263, 280, 306, 322.

10 N. Y. Hist. MSS., Revolutionary, I., 639.

11 Sparks, IV., 414, 423. "I stayed at my mother's [at Elizabethtown] waiting for the Company till Friday ; then set off on foot and travelled

tween Pompton and Slater's mills, one of the forts in the latter region being known thirty years later as "Federal Hill," doubtless in commemoration of its inilitary use in the Revolution. These works were precautionary, to de- * fend the approaches from the North River, either by Smith's Clove and the Ramapo valley, by Paramus or by Ringwood. Pompton not only commanded these several roads towards Morristown, but was important on account of the iron fur- naces and forges, and the shops where cannon balls were made for the American army, in a long, low building al- most directly opposite the present Norton House. These munitions of war were carted by a circuitous route through the Ramapo valley or Paramus, and hence locally known to this day as "the Cannon Ball road."1 Gen. Heard kept a sharp lookout for Tories and British soldiers on every hand,2 but in view of the arrival, June 2, of additional mer- cenaries from Hesse-Cassel, etc , 3 and threatened advances of the enemy, Washington directed him, May 24, to "move down part of his militia towards Aquackanoc."4 We liave no account of this march, but on June 25 Gen. Washington requested Gen. Philemon Dickinson, in command of the New Jersey militia, to "send up Gen. Heard with about 500 men to Pompton, to take his old station."5 Under the orders of the ever-vigilant commander-in-chief, detach- ments of his armies frequently marched to and fro through Pompton, as the exigencies of the situation demanded. 6 Capt. William Beatty tells us how he rejoined his regiment

to Pompton, where I waited for the men till Saturday night, when they came in. I then took charge of them ; this being the 17th of May. We continued at Pompton, at Mr. Bartoff's [Bertholf's], having had our Company and Captain Mccullough's joined into a party, until May 27th, when we were ordered down to Paramus."-Diary Joseph Clark, N. J. Hist. Proc., VII., 95.

1 A very difficult old wood-road leads on top of the mountain direct- ly north of the Pompton Lakes railroad station northerly to Ringwood, and local tradition says that this was used during the Revolution by the Ryersons, great iron-masters, for the secret transportation of cannon halls to the British. In answer to this it may he noted that while this section of five or six miles of road might serve for secret transporta- tion, there would remain twenty miles or more of open country through which to cart the cannon halls. Secondly, the Ryersons did not own the iron mines during the Revolution. Thirdly, the story had its origin during the War of 1812. In 1821 Jacob M. Ryerson, who then owned the mining property, traced the report to two well known citi- zens, and compelled them to acknowledge, in a Newark newspaper of the day, over their own signatures, that they did not believe there was any basis for the rumor.

2 On June 17, 1777, he arrested several persons, charged with unlaw- fully taking near 400 lbs. of tea, stored at Paramus .- Cor. N. J. Execu- tive, 69. For his arrests of Tories, see Minutes Provincial Council of Safety, May 15, June 5, 1777.

3 v. Eelking, Theil I., 177. 4 Sparks, IV., 432.

5 Cor. N. J. Executive, 74. He was still at Pompton on June 10, and probably until June 26, or even later .- Proc. N. J. Hist. Soc., VII., 95-6.

6 Sparks, IV., 483. "July 11. The whole army marched from Motris- town to Pompton Plains, ahout seventeen miles. . . . July 12. A rainy day. . . . 13th, the same. . . 14th, marched to Van Au- . len's, a mile east of Pond Church ; 15th, to Sovereign [Suffern's] tavern near the entrance to Smith's Clove. . .. 23d. Returned from the Clove to Ramapo. 25th. Marched to Pompton ; 26th, to Morristown." -Journal of Col. Timothy Pickering. See also Drake's Life of Gen. Henry Knox, 43.

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"at Lincoln's Gap, the 29th June. In two or 3 days after Our Division March'd towards Pumpton Smith's Cove [Clove] & newbern [Newburgh]."1 Washington took the same route a few days later, being at Pompton Plains on July 12, at the Clove on the 15th, and Ramapo the 25th, whence he hastened back to the Delaware a day or two after.2 The Maryland troops, with others, being ordered to return to New Jersey at the same time, arrived at Paramus on July 29. Capt. Beatty's narrative from this point has a special local interest :

Wednesday 30th We began our march very early this morning & made a halt about 10, o'clock at the Pasayac river about a Mile below the falls. Curiosity led me to see them they are a curiou Worth Seeing the Water Some Small distance before it falls passes between two rocks about six feet from each Other then falls about 30 feet & passes between the same rocks for about 30 yards Which Widen gradually till they are near 30 feet apart at the end of these rocks the Water makes a very large pond, Wbat makes the place of halting this day more remarkable happining in a House near Whare the troops Halted, the owners of which had a child they said was 23 years of age ; the Head of this Child Was Larger than a Half Bushell ; the body about the Size of a Child 7 or 8 years Old its Hands & Feet Were useless to it the Skin as White as Milk notwithstanding it had Never been able to Walk Or set its Parents have taut it to read & it Would answer almost any Scriptural Quota- tions that Were askt it, The neighbours told me that the Father & Mother Were fonder of this child than any they had, altho they had Sev- eral beside that were not Deform'd.3 About 2, o'clock We proceeded On Our march about 3 Miles below acquackanack Bridge on the 2d river.4 The Whole of this days March Was about 19 miles, Thursday 3Ist This morning about the time the troops began to March One of the In- habitants Were taken up for assisting some of our Deserters over the Second River about a mile after passing through New-Ark the troops Halted a Court Martial being immediately Ordered for the tryal of the Tory taken in the Morning, The Court passed Sentence of Death on him which Genl Debore Ordered to be put in Execution by Hanging the poor fellow On tbe limb a Sycamore Bush close on the side of the road.5

The tragic incident just described is thus reported in James Rivington's Royalist paper, the New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, of August II, 1777:

New-York, August 11. A poor Farmer, named Andrew Innis, was the Week before last, hanged by order of one of the rebel Generals, near his own Home at Second River, on Suspicion of being privy to the Desertion of some of the Soldiers, as they passed that Way, on their Rout to the Southard.

There is a local tradition to the effect that Innis (or Ennis) was charged with having guided the British army through the ford at Lyndhurst.6 There is no reason to be- lieve that any army ever forded the Passaic at that point. Another version is that he was hanged by the British. The account given above, by Beatty and the New York Gazette, is undoubtedly the correct one. Local tradition, however, differs from Beatty's narrative and agrees with the New

1 Hist. Mag., Feb. 1867, 80.

2 Sparks, IV., 488-9, 492, 505 ; V., 6, 7, 20. "Tbe whole of Washing- . ton's Army tbat marched from the Clove by Second River last Week for Philadelphia, amounted to about 4500 Men, with four Pieces of Cannon ; the Remainder took the upper road thro' Morris Town."-N. V. Gazette and Weekly Mercury, Aug. 4, 1777.

3 This child-man has been already described, on p. 100.

4 The Passaic was frequently called the "Second river."

5 Hist. Mag., Feb. 1867, 80-81.

6 Communication by the late John Jacob Morris, in the Paterson Daily Press, Feb. 2, 1885.

York paper in saying that Ennis was hanged on a hill near his own house. This was probably near the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad bridge, two or three miles north of Second River.

In July and August, 1777, Capt. William Chambers, of the Third Battalion, Sussex militia, was stationed at Pompton. 1

The most important military operation in this vicinity, in 1777, was the sudden and well-planned invasion of New Jersey from New York, under the command of Sir Henry Clinton, on the night of September II, his object being partly to create a diversion in favor of the British army at Philadelphia, partly to surprise and carry off any stray body of American troops, but mainly to strip the country of cattle. The invaders were divided into four columns. The first, under Brig. Gen. John Campbell, made up of the 7th, 26th and 52d Regiments, the Ansbach and Waldeck (Ger- man) Grenadiers, and 300 of the Provincials (New Jersey Loyalists), landed at Elizabethtown Point at 4 o'clock in the morning of September 12. The second column was commanded by Sir Henry Clinton in person, and consisted of two pieces of cannon, 250 recruits of the 7Ist regiment, Bayard's corps, some convalescents, and a battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers (Loyalists), 250 strong, the whole detachment being led by Capt. Robert Drummond, the erstwhile patriot merchant of Acquackanonk. This column sailed up the Hackensack river on the morning of Septem- ber 12, to Schuyler's Ferry, and thence marched across the Neck to Schuyler's, at the Passaic, opposite Second River, where they found Captain Sutherland, with 250 men, who had been there some time. The cannon were put in posi- tion on the Schuyler heights, back from the river, so as to command the road on the Second River side of the stream. The third column, led by Major General Vaughan, and comprising Capt. Emmerich's chasseurs, five companies of grenadiers and light infantry, the 57th, 63d and Prince Charles's regiments, and five pieces of very light- artillery, effected a landing at Fort Lee, and marched to New Bridge, where a battalion with two pieces of cannon re- mained, to cover that important pass; the rest of the corps proceeded to Hackensack, leaving a post there, while the main body marched down to Slooterdam, to receive and co- operate with the two columns which had landed at Eliza- beth town Point and at Schuyler's Ferry, and which were to advance from those points to Acquackanonk. The fourth column, under Lieut. Col. Campbell, crossed at Tappan, there being 200 Provincials and 40 marines in this party; he was to remain at Tappan, but being pressed fell down to New Bridge.

Gen. Campbell met with much success at Elizabethtown Point and vicinity, and marched northward to Newark and thence to Second River, which he reached in the night of Friday, Sept. 12, with large droves of cattle, gathered on the way. By direction of Sir Henry Clinton he halted there until morning. On Saturday, Sept. 13, the Americans had rallied in considerable force, and had three pieces of

1 Minutes Council of Safety, 1777, P. III.

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artillery in position on the heights west of the river. There was a brisk skirmish during the day, between Col. Van Buskirk's battalion of New Jersey Volunteers, and the patriot militia, comprising part of Col. Philip Van Cort- landt's regiment and other companies, under command of Gen. William Winds, of Morris county. The country was becoming so thoroughly aroused that Clinton deemed it prudent to move on, and at daybreak of Sunday, Sept. 14, the invaders started northward, proceeding through the Third River neighborhood and Acquackanonk to Slooter- dam, wliere Gen. Vaughan was in waiting. Needless to say, the whole country was scoured for cattle and plunder of every kind. Having assembled his little army and the cat- tle, Clinton directed Gen. Vaughan to march to New Bridge, and Gen. Campbell towards Hackensack, and thence to New Bridge, where botli columns assembled on Monday, Sept. 15th, and thence retired (Sept. 16) to New York, having lost eight men killed, eighteen wounded, ten missing, and five taken prisoners. They carried off 400 cattle, 400 sheep, and a few horses. 1

Peter Garritse, on the Wesel road, lost by this raid "2 Yoke of Oxen, £50; I Negro Man, 25 Years old, £So; I Large Gun, £3."

Henry Garritse, on the Wesel road, was despoiled of "I Bay Horse 15 hands high 4 Years old, £35; 2 Waggon Horses, 8 Years old, £40; I Mare 5 Years old & Colt, £25; I Do 15 hands high 10 years old, £15; 2 Horses, £25; I Sad- dle & Saddle bags, bridle & Whip, £5; I Gun & bayonet, £3; I Barrel of beer, 30s .; } Gross bottles, £1, 15s .; 2 Fat Cows at &7."2

James Linkfoot, of the Third River neighborhood, lost on this occasion "I Horse Saddle & bridle, £12; I Broad Cloth Coat, £3; Waistcoat & breeclies Velvet, £4; I Mus- ket, 20s. ; Quadrant & Scale, £2; Feather Bed, bolster & Pillows, £6; I Gold diamond Ring, £2;3 I Silk Handker- chief, 8s .; I Castor hat, £1, 12s." Total, £32.

From Michael Vreeland they took "I Yoke of Oxen, £18; 2 Fat Cows, £12; I Horse 14 hands 3 Inches 3 Years old, £25."

John Vreeland, also on the Wesel road, was robbed of "3 Horses at £10 each; 4 Fat Cows at £6; 150 Chestnut rails at 40s. pr hun'd; 30 Posts at 8d., £I."

Dr. Nicholas Roche, who seems to have lived on the Wesel road, near Paul Powleson (now the Richard Kip

1 Sir Henry Clinton's Report, in N. Y. Gazette and Weekly Mercury, Feb. 9, 1778, and in Almon's Remembrancer, 1777, V., 420; Kemble's Journal, I., 132 ; Gordon's Hist. N. J., 252 ; Sedgwick's Livingston, 244; Essex County Records, 1780 ; Tuttle Revolutionary MSS., N. J. Hist. Soc. William Matthews, of Newark, a member of Col. Van Cortlandt's regiment, was dangerously wounded by the enemy in the fight of Sept. 13 ; tbey afterwards fractured his skull and left him for dead. Clinton fails to enumerate, in his report, the wearing apparel, household goods, etc., carried off by his soldiers. Col. Aaron Burr won no little éclat on this occasion by the address, energy and vigilance with which he checked tbe enemy's advance west of Hackensack. See Davis's Memoirs of Burr, I., 112-116 ; Parton's Life of Aaron Burr, 100.

2 His inventory gives the date as November, 1777 ; but it was doubt- less in this September raid.

3 {2, about equal to $5, was a modest valuation for a "gold diamond ring."

farm), had his premises thoroughly pillaged in this Sep- tember raid. The list of his losses indicates the style in which he was wont to dress, and the character of his pro- fessional equipment in the way of instruments:

1 Teakettle 24S.

I Scarlet short Cloak 30s. & 8 Fine linen sbeets -

8 Coarse linen sheets

12 Pair of Pillow Cases

3 Bags gs. 3 Silk Handkerchiefs 18s.

5 Pair of Stockings 2

Case of Amputating & trepanning instruments? of the best quality 24

2 Cases of incission instruments

Suit of Superfine Broad Cloath Clotbes Superfine White Broad Cloth Waistcoat with? Silver lace

Medicines of all sorts

I Large trunk

I Medicine Chest

7 Ruffled Shirts of fine linen

4 Cambric Stocks 17s. 6d.

6 Pair of Worsted & linen Stockings

I Superfine Broad Clotb Coat

I Silver Mounted Sword

24 Geese at 2S. 6d.

£119

Attested to by Ann Roche & Paul Powleson.

John Wanshair had property taken and destroyed as fol- lows:

I Horse 4 Years old quarter English, {25; t Mare 4 Years old, £25; I Do 5 Years old With foal, £17; I Stallion 4 Years old, 618 ; I Mare 3 Years old very likely, £20; 4 Working horses between 14 & 15 hands bigh & between 5 & 6 Years old, 648 ; 12 Sheep at 15s., 69 ; 2 Calves at I2S., {1, 4S .; I Long Scarlet Cloak, 65; 2 Short Scarlet Cloaks at 3os. pr Clk ; I New Cloth Surtout £3 & Black Velvet Waist Coat, £4, IOS .; I Pair of Velvet breeches, 30S .; 17 Shirts of fine linen at 16s. pr Shirt, £13, 12S .; 2 Chintz Gowns, 64, 2S .; 2 Black Aprons, 62; 4 Lawn Aprons, 65; 4 Lawn Handkerchiefs, 63, 4S .; 6 Cambric Caps, 48s .; 6 New Sbeets & 6 Pillow Cases, 65, 9s .; 2 Cotton Petticoats, £3 ; One Woollen Do, 20S .; I Pin Cushion with Silver chain & band, {1, 4S .; 10 Pair of Stockings, 63, Ios .; 1 Pair Silver buckels, 25s .; Coverlet, 30S .; 5 Milk Cows, 630 ; I Yoke of Oxen 6 Years old, £20 ; 18 Young Cattle the Youngest 2 Years old, 654; 15 Sheep at 15s. pr sheep, fII, 5s.

The plunder obtained from Marinus Gerritse on this raid consisted of "I Yoke of Oxen, £25; I Horse, £15; I New Coat & Scarlet Vest, £4, Ios .; 6 Shirts at Ios .; 3 Pair Stockings, 15s." Total, £48, 5s.

John Cadmus, of Slooterdam, lost 33 sheep and five horses, worth £140, 5s. From Thomas Van Rypen they took, on September 12, 6 horses, 10 sheep, a wagon, 4 calves, 250 panel of fence, silver teaspoons, knee-buckles, two gold ear- rings, a dozen silver buttons, a silver snuff-box, a side of upper-leather, a pair of shoes, 42 ells of linen, 6 shirts, 5 white handkerchiefs, 4 quilted petticoats, a dozen pewter plates, half-a-dozen pewter dishes, a silk handkerchief, a pair of buckskin breeches, a tea kettle, a negro man worth £85, another worth £77, and a negro wench worth £70. His house was badly damaged and windows broken, so that his total loss was estimated at £298.

Adrian Post, the miller, of Slooterdam, was again visited, September 12-15, and plundered of these articles: "103 Quarters of wheat flower, £1, 12s .; 300 & a Half of Rye meal, £2, 2s .; A sorrel horse Saddle and Bridle, £28; an

I Gun 63 8 Shifts & Sbirts £4

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Extraordinary good gun, £3, Ios .; A Wagon But Little the worse for ware, £16; one good axe, 7s. 6d .; one Neagro man About 34 years old, £85."

On September 15, Henry Van Houten, also of Slooter- dam, was robbed of "one horse 7 years old 13} hands high, £12." Cornelius I. Van Houten subsequently swore that he had "seen the horse of Henry Van Houten in the Posis- tion of the Enemy." He himself had a horse worth £12 taken on September 13.

The theatre of military operations was now transferred to the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and both armies were hastened thither, the American troops from the North River marching via Pompton, Morristown, etc. Col. Aaron Burr took the same route with his regiment from Pa- ramus. Gen. I. Varnum wrote him, Oct. I, 1777, that he feared the enemy intended marching via the Clove to Fort' Montgomery, and he accordingly directed him to "keep a good lookout towards Newark, Elizabeth town, &c., or those places from whence they can march into Pumpton. Should you be in danger of being interrupted there, throw your party across the river in Pumpton, and defend the bridge, if practicable."1

1778.

The enemy's incursions in September, 1777, having shown the need of some system of alarming the country, the New Jersey Council of Safety requested the Rev. James Caldwell to set up one or two beacons "to the Northward of New Ark, and that he be requested to appoint proper per- sons to take the care of & attend them & that the person so provided, Shall be exempted, when known, from Military duty -- "2 There is a somewhat vague local tradition to the effect that one of these beacons was on that summit or peak of the First or Wesel mountain on the north side of the Great Notch.

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History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 107

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914 Publication date: 1901 Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 466

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466