History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 97

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

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III. Henry, b. Oct. 22, 1840; m. Mary A. (b. Oct. 9, 1843, dau. of Henry) Goulding, of Paterson, March, 1863. He is a carpenter, and has always lived in Paterson.

IV. Rachel Ann, m. Lewis Hawser, of New York; d. s. p.

V. Cornelia (Matilda), b. Oct. 12, 1853; m. Hiram C. Perry (b. July 5, 1849), April 24, 1868. Issue: I. William B., b. Jan. 22, 1869; 2. Ifiram C., b. Sept. 6, 1873; 3. Henry D., b. Jan. 19, 1875; d. April 28, 1875; 4. Lewis Hawser, b. March 27, 1876; 5. John (twin), b. March 27, 1876; d. March 27, 1876; 6. Mary Lane, b. March 2, 1879; 7. Alexander, b. Nov. 20, 1881; 8. Maggie, b. March 15, 1884; 9. Lillie Doremus, b. June 18, 1887; 10. Annie Black, b. Aug. 15, 1889; II. Lizzie, b. Dec. 15, 1892; d. June 12, 1893.

John -- Henderic -- Joris-Hendrick-Joris-Cornelis Doremus and Emma Irvine had children:

I. George Washington, d. Feb. 21, 1883, aged 21 yrs., unm.

II. Henry Irvine, m. Myrtle, dau. of Michael Traver, of Staatsburgh, Dutchess county, N. Y.

III. Emily Rebecca, m. William H., son of James Dunkerley, of Paterson. Issue: I. William; 2. Arthur; 3. James.

IV. Anna Augusta, d. aged about 23 yrs., unm.

V. William Russell, b. June 15, 1862; m. Ada, dau. of Frank Conklin, April 7, 1896.

John -- Hendrick -- Jan -- Hendrick -- Joris-Cornelis Doremus and Sarah Catharine Schoonmaker had children:

I. Ella, b. Jan. 25, 1853; d. June 14, 1854.

II. Harry, b. Aug. 18, 1845; m. Jennie Philips; d. Jan. 25, 1892, s. p.

III. Leonard, b. Nov. 9, 1856; m. Ida, dau. of Harmon Smith. Issue: I. Walter, b. May 17, 1878; 2. Martha; b. Feb. 18, 1881; 3. Leonard; 4. Edith, b. March 7, 1887; 5. Ida, b. Oct. 5, 1888.

IV. Walter, b. May 6, 1859; d. Aug. 10, 1860.

V. Cornelius, b. Sept. 29, 1860; d. Aug. 31, 1870, of hydrophobia.

VI. Mattie, b. Feb. 19, 1863; m. Hudson Parmley. Issue: I. John; 2. Harry; 3. Sarah; all dec.

VII. Annie, b. July 2, 1870; m. Charles H. Scribner, M. D. Ch., Eleanor.

John-Abraham-Hendrick-Hendrik-Joris-Cornelis Dore- mus and Caroline L. Burton had children:

I. Avery Richards, b. Nov. 3, 1863; m. Wilhelmina Pries, Feb. 11, 1891. Ch., Wilhelmina, b. Feb. 10, 1892.

II. Elizabeth Ann, b. Nov. 17, 1866; m. Edgar Ather- ton.

Hendrick-Cornelius-Hendrick-Cornelis-Hendrick-Corne- lis Doremus and Jane Garabrants had children (all born in Paterson):

I. Cornelius, m. Ist, Elizabeth White, July 4, 1845; 2d, Elizabeth -, at Newton. He is a carpenter, liv- ing in Orange.

II. Hester, b. Dec. 18, 1832; m. Richard Fairclough, Jan. I, 1857.

III. Garret, m. Jane Snyder. He is a farmer, living on the Notch road. Ch., Annie, d. aged 14 yrs.

IV. Ellen, m. Henry Fairclough. Issue: I. Jane; 2. Henry; 3. Reuben; 4. Anne, m. - Crooks; 5. Mary, - m. James Beckett; 6. Bertha.

V. John, m. Ist, Ellen Paxton; 2d, Barrett. He lives in Orange county, N. Y.

VI. Henry, m. Ist, Elizabeth Kriger; 2d, Anna C. Hansen (dau. of Edward Hansen and Ann Topham), Jan. 18, 1873; 3d, Mary Cook, May 24, 1878; she d. April 24, 1891, aged 31 yrs. He is a carpenter, in Paterson.

Cornelius-Cornelius-Hendrick-Cornelis-Hendrick-Corne- lis Doremus and Eliza Post had children:

I. Henry, b. Jan. 10, 1830; d. Feb. 27, 1839.

II. Richard, b. Sept. 21, 1831; d. Jan. 8, 1833.

III. Nancy, b. Oct. 10, 1833; d. Oct. 25, 1835.

IV. Richard, b. Jan. 2, 1836; d. July 28, 1892, unm.

V. Mary Jane, b. Dec. 14, 1839; m. Charles Webster, Jan. 1, 1859. Issue: I. Emma, b. Sept. 30, 1859; m. Sam- uel Lair, jun., Nov. 24, 18So; 2. Carrie, b. Nov. 2, 1861; m. William HI. (son of George) Crooks, June 8, 1881.

Cornelius -- Albert -- Hendrick-Cornelis-Hendrick-Cornelis Doremus and Maria Cadmus had children:

I. Albert, b. Nov. 29, 1839; m. Ist, Annie Tibby, June 12, 1864; she d. Jan. 8, 1880, aged 38 yrs .; he m. 2d, Rachel Ann Demarest (dau. of Peter S. Demarest and Sa- rah Myers), of Oakland, Oct. 24, 1885. He is a carpenter, in Paterson. He was a member of Co. C, 13th N. J. Vols.

II. Thomas, b. June II, 1843; m. Eveanna Jenkins, June 29, 1865. He served in Co. C., 13th N. J. Vols. Af- ter the War he removed to Conestoga, N. Y.

III. Cornelius, b. Oct. 30, 1845; m. Mary Harrison, June 2, 1867; d. Sept. 15: 1874.

IV. Mary Jane, b. May 28, 1849; d. Dec. 9, 1850.

V. Abraham, b. Nov. 19, 1851; d. Dec. 13, 1851.

VI. Sarah, b. July 30, 1855; d. Aug. 7, 1870.

John -- Hessel-Hendrick-Hessel-Hendrick-Cornelis Dore- mus had children:

By his first wife (Catharine Hopper):

I. Philip Henry, b. Aug. 17, 1829; m. Mary L. Mar- shall (b. April 10, 1830, wid. of Peter Post, of Yonkers, N. Y.), March 8, 1859. For many years he kept a livery sta- ble in Hamilton street, between Market and Ellison streets; he retired from business in 1895. Issue: I. Annie A., b. Sept. 7, 1851; 2. Kate, b. June 7, 1860; 3. Ida E., b. Oct. 21, 1862.

II. Andrew, b. March 23, 1834; m. Ist, Hannah Ack- erman. He removed to Florida, where he m. a second time. He now lives in Georgia.

III. Peter, b. Jan. 31, 1836; d. in inf.

IV. Ann, b. Nov. 3, 1837; m. Bethuel W. Perry, Oct. 23, 1865.

V. Peter, b. July 19, 1839. He enlisted in the Sev- enth New Jersey Volunteers, in the late War, and was fatal- ly, wounded at the battle of Petersburg, Va., June 17, 1864, dying July 6, 1864, unm.

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By his third wife (Rachel Zabriskie):

VI. John Newton, b. April 7, 1855; m. Ist, Isabella Donaldson; she d. Jan. 1, 1887; he m. 2d, Anna Catherine Titus. He is a machinist, and lives at Pompton. Issue: Anna E., m. Irvin Titus; 2. Emma; 3. John Newton.

Eighth Generation.

Peter-Hendrick-Pieter-Hendricus-Cornelis-Thomas-Cor- nelis Doremus and Anna Van Houten had children:

I. Henry, b. Aug. 20, 1845; m. Ist, Rachel R. Ter- hune; she d. Oct. 11, 1872, aged 26 yrs., one mo., 26 days; he m. 2d, her sister, Nettie Terhune; she d. Oct. 27, 1879, aged 29 yrs., 9 mos., 27 days; lie m. 3d, Alice Still. He is cashier of the Chatham National Bank, New York, and re- sides in that city.

II. Aaron Van Houten, b. May 25, 1852; m. Maggie Hopper, March 16, 1875; d. Dec. 29, 1888. He was Major of the Paterson Light Guard, and was one of the most pop- ular men in that favorite organization. Issue: I. Anna S. Van Houten, b. Jan. 5, 1877; 2. Ella A., b. March 26, 1878; 3. Alice M., b. Aug. 21, 1884; d. March 29, 1887.

III. Cornelius, b. May 25, 1859; m. Kittie, dau. of Cor- nelius Z. Terhune, Sept. II, 1878; d. Jan. 14, 1883; she m. 2d, Cyrus W. Baldwin, City Treasurer of Paterson; d. Aug. 22, 1891. Ch., Peter, b. May 21, 1879; d. May 25, 1879.

IV. Garret Merselis (Sela), b. Aug. 15, 1870; m. Em- ma, dau. of Edo Cadmus. Issue: I. Peter H., b. July 20, 1892; 2. Kittie Stagg, b. Nov. 24, 1893; 3. Harvey, b. March 2, 1895.

Henry -- Ralph-Peter-Thomas-Cornelis-Thomas-Cornelis Doremus and Ann Eliza Banta had children:

I. Catherine Jane, b. Oct. 29, 1851; d. Sept. 4, 1853.

II. Anna Gertrude, b. May 5, 1856; m. Frank Din- widdie Vreeland, M. D., of Paterson, Nov. 3, 1881; d. July 8, 1892. He was a son of Remus-John-Jacob-Johan- nis-Jacob-Elias-Michiel Jansen Vreeland and Sarah Nich- ols. He graduated from Rochester (N. Y.) University, in 1876, and in 1879 from the Homeopathic Medical College in New York, having studied medicine with Dr. Bassett. After building up an excellent general practice, he took a special course in surgery, in the New York Post-Graduate Medical College, in 1893-94-95-96, being assistant to Dr. J. R. Nilsen in his clinics. Dr. Vreeland is now a specialist in gynæcology, in Paterson. Ch., Ralph Doremus, b. Sept. 18, 1883.

III. Salome Williams, b. July 13, 1862; m. William Nelson, July 25, 1889. He was b. Feb. 10, 1847; was edu- cated in the public schools of Newark, graduating from the High School in 1862; has resided in Paterson since June 19, 1865.

Peter -- Nicholas-Peter-Thomas-Cornelis-Thomas-Corne- lis Doremus and Maria Traphagen had children:

I. John Traphagen, b. April 23, 1863; m. Helen W. (Metta) Dunkersley (dau. of William Dunkersley and Ann Stephens), Nov. 4, 1891.

II. Fanny Fowler, b. Jan. 25, 1865.

III. Elizabeth Herring, b. Dec. 28, 1867; m. Edwin C. Morse, Oct. 31, 1894. Ch., Viola.

IV. Jacob R. Wortendyke, b. Feb. 16, 1869.

V. Martha Sickles, b. April 8, 1870.

VI. William Sickles, bap. Sept. 6, 1873; d. Oct. - , 1874

CHAPTER X. LIFE IN OLD ACQUACKANONK.

We level that lift, to pass and continue beyond. . Ages, precedents, poems, have long been accumulating undirected materials, America brings builders, and brings its own styles.

" Leaves of Grass."-Walt Whitman.

The family histories given in the preceding chapters abound in incidents throwing a vivid light on the people, the manners and customs of the former days. Let us frankly accept the fact that the original settlers of Acquackanonk were plain, hardworking people-sturdy tillers of the soil, or artisans in such lines as were most likely to find a foot- ing in so primitive a neighborhood-weavers, blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, or workers in leather. There was no room for idlers or mere "gentlemen," in a settlement of this character. Too much of the sternest toil was needed to subdue the virgin forest and the untamed soil. Trees were to be felled and hewn into logs wherewith to build the first shelters of the pioneer settlers. Forests were to be cleared and the ground broken up for the first crops. Roads had to be made for the passage of such rude vehicles as were abso- lutely necessary in the farm work. Taken as a whole, the soil of the Acquackanonk Patent was far from fertile. For the most part, it was either sand, marsh or clay-black, yellow or blue. This was particularly true of that portion of the Patent embraced within what is now Paterson. Only by the most unremitting exertion was it possible to extract a sustenance from such land, and as the new settlers had no capital but their own strong arms and stout hearts-despite the vague traditions that have come down to our day of for- tunes left by the emigrants in the Vaderland-it is not to be wondered at that their manner of living was the very sim- plest. Withal there was a certain fascination about life in what was then a wilderness-so utterly different was it in every respect from what they had known in the dike-en- closed fields of Holland, or along the shores of the stately Hudson.

REMINISCENCES OF "DE WITTE HUIS."

How interesting it must have been for the succeeding generation to gather about the fireside, for instance, of old Simeon van Winkel, of de Witte Huis,1 the son of the last

1 The "White House," on the river bank at the foot of Willis street. See p. 95.

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survivor of the historic fourteen patentees of Acquackanonk, and hear him tell the story over and over again, as it had been told to him by his father, of that first voyage from Bergen throngh the Kil van Kol, across the Achter Kol bay,1 and up the Passaic river to the new country which they had selected for the future home; of the long and perilous .. trips they took occasionally in periaugers down the river and across the bay to New York, to Long Island, or even as far as Albany-a voyage that occupied a week or two of fair weather; of the long and lonely rides in the saddle to New- ark, to discuss some dispute about the vexed boundary be- tween the two towns; or to Elizabethtown, to meet the Gov- ernor and Council on matters of state;2 or even to Perth Amboy, to get a deed or will recorded.3 Few ever took so long a journey as this last, and when one had it in contem- plation it was generally kept in that state for such a length of time as to allow everybody in the settlement to learn the fact, and then all who had like business deputed the ventu- rous traveler to attend to it while transacting his own.

And old Simeon might tell of the glorious sport they used to have when the Indian Summer cast its witching glamour o'er the land, in sallying forth with dog and gun out into the wilderness of Totowa, or even as far as Preakness, or the Harteberg, or the Gaffel, or beyond to the Kaalberg, 4 and occasionally the most daring would hazard a trip among thie Indians of Pompton and Pequannock, in search of the larger game. And he would narrate the hairbreadth escapes they would have in the Groenbos,5 whose lofty trees have long

1 Kil van Kol: Kil, "a channel," particularly in a shallow place; Kol, an old Dutch word for witch. Hence, Kil van Kol, the "witcb's channel." The word kil was also applied to creeks and rivers, such as the Hackensack. Achter Kol, "behind the Kol." The writer inclines to the belief that the word Kol, used in this connection, refers to the In- dian superstitions attaching to Snake Hill, as the dwelling place of a be- ing of supernatural powers. The first mentions of Achter Kol or Coll" refer to the vicinity of Hackensack. Later, the name was applied in general to that part of New Jersey near New York, even as far south as Shrewsbury. See N. Y. Col. Docs., I., 173; II., 579, etc .; N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d Series, I., 140. Egbert Benson, in his Memoir on place- names, read before the N. Y. Historical Society, Dec. 31, 1816, says the Dutcb called Newark Bay " Het Achter Cul, literally the Back Bay; Cul, borrowed from the French Cul de sac, and also in use with the Dutch to signify a bay." The writer has found no authority for this state- ment.

2 Elizabethtown was for many years tbe capital or seat of govern- ment of East Jersey.

3 For more than a century after the English occupation of New Jer- sey, all deeds, wills, road returns, official commissions and other- doc- uments relating to East Jersey were required to be recorded in tbe office of the Register of East Jersey, at Perth Amboy: Similar records relating to West Jersey were required to be recorded at Burlington. In 1795 these records were removed to Trenton, where they are now kept in the office of the Secretary of State. Since 1790 deeds have been recorded only in the offices of the several county clerks. Since 1804 wills have been recorded in the offices of the several surrogates for each county, but the original wills are still filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

4 Kaalberg, etc. See Index, for references to these places, and the meaning of the names.

5 Groenbos-Greenbush-the name applied by the Dutch to much of the present Paterson, as in the vicinity of Vreeland avenue and Willis street, and particularly the Falls neighborbood, owing to the prevalence of evergreen trees.

ago been replaced by a forest of chimneys of Paterson's great mills. Of how the Indians were wont to surround the deer then browsing over Watchung, 1 and having hemmed them in would stampede them, and drive them terror-strick- en to the point of rocks now overlooking the raceway at the southern end of Spruce street, and compel them in their flight to leap to certain death from the precipice, which hence was long known as "The Deer's Leap."2 Or perhaps his theme would be the fierce fight some bold fellow had with a bear in the thick brush then covering the origin of the Donker Val,3 near where the Dwars Lijn of the Bogt passed through, and where the Paterson Iron Works and the Passaic Rolling Mill now spread out their ever-extend- ing area, 4

Here "Case" Doremus interrupts to tell how he and his neighbors had been troubled of late by wolves, which had the temerity to come up to the houses and carry off the car- cases of deer or hogs left hanging out of doors; and how they had captured a big wolf the other night, in a trap, and had pinned his head up ou a post as a warning to his cruel and treacherous tribe to keep at a safe distance from the abodes of men. 5 And being in a reminiscent mood he laughs over his own recent exploit in bringing down. a dozen wild ducks at a single shot, on the island in the river almost opposite his house. 6

1 Now Garret Mountain.

2 Conversation with John Colt, Aug. 8, 1873. See, also, p. 26, ante.

3 Donker Val-the Dutch for "Dark Brook," a notable stream which rose in the marsh in the vicinity of Madison and Twenty-first or Twen- ty-second avenues. Perhaps on account of its origin, or because its course was generally through a bed of black muck, its water seemed dark. It flowed quite directly south, nearly parallel to the present line of the Erie railroad, to the vicinity of Grand street, where it passed un- der the railroad to the west side of Railroad avenue, and there was joined near Ward street by the "Railroad spring brook" (having its ori- gin in a powerful spring near the corner of Grand and Spring streets). Tbe united stream ran under the present Dale mill and the Hamil mills, crossed Market street just west of Paterson street, thence in quite a direct course to Broadway just east of Bridge street, and thence south- easterly to the river, which it entered some distance east of Straight street. It was diverted into a sewer in 1868 and 1869.

4 About 1874, the late Cornelius H. Post informed the writer that when he was a boy of ten years or so, he was out driving with his grand- father one day, and as they passed by the spot referred to in the text, tbe old man told him that when he was a young man, be had killed a bear in the brush there. This was probably about 1770.

5 As late as 1825 a huge wolf was caught in a trap by one of the resi- dents on the Wesel road, near the Cedar Lawn cemetery. The wolf had come after a hog that had been just killed and hung on a post near tbe house. Even in 1836 the inhabitants of Paterson township voted to offer a bounty of one dollar for the capture of foxes within the township. In 1819 the inhabitants of Saddle River township (then including the First and Second wards of Paterson, Manchester and Wayne) somewhat ambiguously "Resolffed that if any Wholleff is Chased and Killed in the said township is to Receive ten Dollars from the Treasher of the Poor." In 1820 the bounty was reduced to $5. In 1837 bounties were paid for eight foxes killed in the township.

6 Formerly there was a large island in the river, about opposite Ce- dar Lawn cemetery; it was submerged by the raising of the river, causcd by increasing the height of the Dundee dam in 1828, and again in 1858. This island was a famous nesting place for wild ducks, and fabulous stories are told of the incredible number of ducks that have been shot . there at a single discharge of a fowling piece.

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And that reminds Simeon van Winkel again of certain of his own successes in bagging some fine wild turkeys at the Kalkoenberg,1 where that savory bird was wont to breed most plentifully, and he chuckles as he reminds his good wife Annetje how she and her daughters adorned themselves for many a day with the gay bronze feathers from those same turkeys.

Then Annetje takes up the story, and tells how many a time she had stood at nightfall, with her heart in her throat, awaiting anxiously the homecoming of her "man" from some of those hunting expeditions to far-off Totowa and farther Preakness, fearful lest he might have fallen a prey to some monster of the wilderness. And she would speak of the troubles they had to get their children baptized, frequently waiting for months e'er some Dutch Dominie from New York, Long Island, Kingston or elsewhere would journey through the country, baptizing and administering spiritual consolation as he went, until Hackensack and Acquacka- nonk united to call a Dominie of their own. She would tell, moreover, of the formidable preparations the people made to venture down to their former home at Bergen twice a year to partake of the communion in the old church there. Of the pains all the women and maids took to get themselves up in their best gowns and finery when the trip to Bergen had to be made, and what feastings and family reunions they enjoyed on such important and rare occasions. And something she would say, perchance, of the lonely lives the women lived at first, and of how some of them pined away in the dreary waste, of sheer homesickness, when for thirty years after they came there was no white family north of the Passaic river; of how, when the men were far away in the fields, the women would sometimes be startled at seeing a little band of Red Men stealing noiselessly along their an- cient " path," which was not replaced by a formally-laid road until 1707. And then Simeon would laugh at his wife's old-time fears, and would recall with pleasure the friendly relations which had always existed between him and the dusky Sons of the Forest; and he would remind his wife that when the few remaining Indians in this part of New Jersey had come for the last time to revisit their ancient bu- rying-place in Passaic, and were bidding farewell to the land of their fathers, as they passed mournfully along the river bank opposite his house, on their way to the Western coun- try, they waved their hands to him as he stood at his door, and called across the river to him, in a voice that was a _wail, "Adieu, Simeon," and as they disappeared in the far distance, so vanished the last of their race from Acquack- anonk ! 2

THE FIRST DWELLINGS.

It is not difficult to conceive a birdseye view of the

1 Kalkoenberg-Dutch for " Turkey Hill;" about where the Paterson Orphan Asylum and the Paterson General Hospital are now located.

2 This touching incident was often described by a black woman who had been a slave for nearly a century in the White House. She died about 1830, in the family of Edo Van Winkle, at the northwest corner of Broadway and Carroll street. She was believed to be considerably more than one hundred years old at the time of her death. The story was related to the writer many years ago by the late John-Edo Van Winkle, who had heard the aged slave woman tell it countless times.

new settlement-a dozen rude log huts scattered along the river, from the Yantecaw to the present city limits of Pas- saic, at intervals of about an eighth of a mile; next north, a cluster of another dozen houses, of somewhat better con- struction, as they were of a later period; then, in turn, the Goutum, Wesel and Bogt neighborhoods, the last-named being occupied at an interval of perhaps forty years from the first settlement at Acquackanonk. Tradition has come down telling us that the hillsides along the river were grad- ually denuded of their lofty trees, which when felled were rolled down into the river, and floated to market. It may be that some of the earliest comers constructed rude dug- outs in those same hillsides, and therein passed the first year or two of their residence in Acquackanonk. Certain it is, that the log cabin was not a rarity within the present limits of the city of Paterson so late as 1830. At that date there was at least one on the Wesel road, where Cedar Lawn now is; another within a stone's throw of the Barclay street bridge; three or four on Totowa, and one or two near Riverside. Its successor in natural sequence was the stone house .. This was built of the red sandstone of the country, usually taken out of some outcropping ledge, supplemented by weather-worn fieldstone of the same material, or the Green Pond conglomerate scattered by prehistoric glaciers far and wide over the land. It is not probable that any quarry of sandstone was regularly worked in this region be- fore the Revolution. At first, the stone was laid up in clay, plastered also thickly inside and out in the interstices, as had been the custom in building log huts. It is a favor- ite belief that the "old people" built more substantially than do their degenerate descendants, but the facts do not warrant this faith. Stone walls laid up in clay naturally yielded to the elements soon, unless kept in constant repair, and none of those first houses remain to this day. In time, as the people acquired more means, and could afford it, they built their stone dwellings with the aid of mortar, sending to. Albany, and later to New York or to Newark, for their lime. Several houses so built in the last century are still standing in Paterson-the Doremus house in Water street, the Van Winkle house in River street near Mulberry, the Fairclough house in Hazel street, the Van Houten house near the West Side park, and others that will be mentioned hereafter. We may readily believe that the first houses. were of but one room, with perhaps a loft, reached by a ladder. With increasing families room after room was. added, so that the prevailing style of stone houses was a long, low structure, usually about forty feet in length, and thirty feet in depth, a wide hall running through from front to rear, with two rooms on each side of the hall, and an open attic above. A broad stoop at the front door afforded a comfortable resting place, and this was sometimes ex- panded into a porch running along the whole front of the house, the low, projecting eaves affording a roof for this porch. The doors usually had an upper and a lower sec- tion, and the upper being open, the lower was a favorite lounging place for the young people, even as "leaning o'er the gate" is said to have taken its place in modern days. The roof sloped steeply from a very high peak, to within

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History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 97

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