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"The 1st of August came. The course was firni, a large concourse of people were in attendance, and the odds were two to one on Dutchman when we brought him out and stripped him. At six o'clock in the evening he was sad- dled, and I mounted, feeling fully confident that the feat set would be done with much ease. We were allowed a running horse to keep company, and I had a nice blood-like mare, she being under my brother Isaac. We went off at a moderate jog, gradually increasing the pace, but conversing part of the way at our ease. The mile was accomplished in 2:34}, and Dutchman never was really extended. Now occurred a circumstance which must be related, because it was curious in itself and had its effect on time. Mr. Harrison, the backer of Dutch- man, had sent his watch to a friend and was not keeping time of the horses himself as they went round. As we came by the stand some bystander, who had a mistake in timing, told him that the time of the mile was 2:38, which was a losing average. He therefore called ont to me as I passed him to go along, and go along I did. Dutchman struck a great pace on the back stretch, and established such a fine stroke that the running mare was no longer able to live with him. My brother Isaac got alarmed and sung ont to me that I was going too fast. I replied that I had been told to go along. It was not my con- viction that the horse was going too fast even then, for if ever there was one that I could feel of and that felt all over strong and capable of maintaining the rate, Dutchman did then. Nevertheless I took a pull for Isaac, and allowed him to come up and keep company for the balance of the mile. It was per-
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Dutchman, Washington, Sept. 29, 1840: 2 miles ; 5:173, 5:17, 5:24.
Lady Suffolk, Americus, Oct. 5, 1843 ; 2 miles ; 5:19, 5:20, 5:22, 5:29.
Fairy Queen, Cayuga Chief, May 6, 1844; 1 mile ; 2:39, 2:39.
Calhoun, July 8, 1844; 1 mile; 2:34, 2:31.
Greenwich Maid, Dutchman, June 21, 1838; 2 miles ; 5:20, 5:22. Hector, Kate Horn, May 14, 1842 ; 1 mile; 2:41, 2:41, 2:42, 2:36. Snaffle, Pleasure Boy, Sept. 21, 1842 ; 2 miles; 5:18}, 5:143.
John C. Calhoun, Fairy Queen, Oct. 31, 1844 ; 1 mile ; 2:32, 2:36. Lady Clinton, Chancellor, Brooklyn Maid, Brandywine, Bnck- skin, Hector (1 dis.), Sept. 29, 1841 ; 1 mile ; 2:41, 2:40, 2:413, 2:41.
Lady Suffolk, Lady Victory, Black Hawk (1 dis.), Cato (1 dis.), Sarah Paff (1 dis.), June 22, 1838 ; 2 miles ; 5:15, 5:17. Apollo (1 dis.), April 26, 1839 ; 2 miles ; 5:21. Cato (1 dis.), July 3, 1839 ; 2 miles ; 5:39.
.. Henry, Celeste, Cato (3 dis.), Oct. 3, 1839 ; 2 miles ; 5:28, 5:28, 5:26.
formed in 2:28 very handily. The third mile we kept the same relative posi- tions, Dutchman being under good pull all the way, and able to have left the running mare had he been called upon so to do. The rate was now very even, and it was maintained until we were within about two hundred yards of the stand, when I was notified to check up and come home at a more moderate gait. I therefore crossed the score at a jog-trot, and Dutchman was at a walk within fifteen yards of it. The last mile was 2:30, the whole being 7:32}. Great as this performance was thought at the time, long as it has stood unequaled, and great and deserved as has been and is the fame of those who have endeavored to surpass it, I declare that it is not by any means all that Dutchman could have done that day. I am positive that if I had been called upon to do so, he could have trotted the three miles in 7:27 or better. This is no light opinion of mine, taken up years afterward on inadequate grounds, and when those who might be opposed to it have gone from among us. It was the judgment of those who saw him in the feat, observed him all through and noticed how he finished. It has always been my conviction, and will remain so to my dying day, that Dutch- man could have done the last mile in 2:26, and I even hold to the opinion that he could have done it in 2:25. The people who witnessed the race thought so too."
Dutchman's time was beaten by Huntress at Prospect Park Sept. 21, 1872.
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Lady Suffolk, Don Juan, Oct. 23, 1839; 2 miles ; 5:16, 5:24. Aaron Burr, Sept. 21, 1840; 2 miles; 5:22, 5:21, 5:35.
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Ripton, July 6, 1841 ; 1 mile ; 2:35, 2:373.
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Awful, July 22, 1841 ; 2 miles ; 5:263, 5:23, 5:24.
Oneida Chief (1 dis.), July 27, 1841 ; 2 miles ; 5:05.
66 Beppo, Independence, July 4, 1843 ; 1 mile ; 2:28}, 2:28, 2:28, 2:29, 2:32.
66 Beppo, Oneida Chief, July 12, 1843 ; 1 mile ; 2:26}, 2:27, 2:27.
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Beppo, July 25, 1843; 1 mile ; 2:303, 2:423, 2:28. Confidence, Sept. 14, 1843 ; 1 mile ; 2:38, 2:39, 2:41. Americns, Ripton, May 21; 1844; 2 miles ; 5:17, 5:19, 5:18.
Duchess, Washington, Sept. 9, 1844; 1 mile ; 2,38, 2:334, 2:34, 2:37.
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John C. Calhoun, Fairy Queen (4 dis.), Oct. 7, 1844 ; 1 mile ; 2:39, 2:31, 2:28, 2:29, 2:30.
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Moscow, Oct. 13, 1845 ; 1 mile ; 2:34, 2:293, 2:31, 2:34, 2:36.
Lady Tompkins, Amina, Oct. 17, 1844 ; 1 mile ; 2:37, 2:36, 2:39, 2:38.
Moscow, Reality, Oct. 6, 1845 ; 1 mile ; 2:393, 2:44.
66 Lady Suffolk, Oct. 16, 1845 ; 1 mile ; 2:333, 2:313, 2:40, 2:35.
Oneida Chief, Miss Saratoga, June 19, 1838 ; 2 miles ; 5:14, 5:093.
Awful, June 17, 1840; 3 miles ; 8:17, 8:20g.
66 Lady Suffolk, Nov. 1, 1841 ; 3 miles ; 7:50, 8:04. 66 Ang. 14, 1843 ; 3 miles ; 7:44, 7:52. (3 dis.). July 4, 1838 ; 2 miles ; 5:29, 5:17, 5:40.
Rattler,
Dutchman, Lady Suffolk (1 dis.), Oct. 1, 1838; 2 miles ; 5:17, 5:133.
Ripton, Brandywine, Don Juan, JJune 22, 1841; 2 miles; 5:21, 5:143. 66 Post Boy, Sept. 21, 1841 ; 2 miles ; 5:32, 5:24.
66 Quaker, Duchess, Nov. 1, 1841 ; 2 miles ; 5:13, 5,20.
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Ripton, Lady Suffolk. Confidence, Ang. 1, 1842 ; 3 miles : 8:00, 7:563.
Americus, Oct. 26, 1842 : 3 miles ; 8:03, 8:01, 8:04.
Lady Suffolk, Confidence, May 7, 1842; 2 miles ; 5:10}, 5:123.
Americus. May 15, 1843 : 3 miles ; 7:53, 8:03.
. . 6. May 22. 1843 ; 2 miles ; 5:12, 5:12, 5:17.
Confidence. June 15, 1844 : 1 mile : 2:40, 2:41, 2:38, 2:423, 2:40.
Sir William. Ajax, Jersey Blue (3 dis.). Oct. 8, 1844; 3 miles ; 8:044, 8:09, 8:061.
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Hector, Oct. 31, 1844 : 2 miles ; 5:26, 5:27.
Snaffle, Brooklyn Maid, Hector, Oct. 17. 1842 ; 2 miles : 5:26, 5:27.
" Rifle, Tom Benton, Sorrel Billy (2 dis.), May 16, 1844 : 2 miles: 5:233, 5:20.
Soldier Bob, Spangle, Cayuga Chief, Awful, Oct. 18, 1843; 1 mile : 2:354. 2:38, 2:393, 2:41, 2:46, 2:47.
Unknown, Fairy Queen (1 dis.), Ang. 2. 1844: 1 mile; 2:23.
Volcano, Stranger. Waterman (1 dis.). June 28, 1841; 1 mile ; 2:39, 2:313, 2:343, 2:383.
Volcano, Drover. Waterman (1 dis.), Seneca Chief (1 dis.), July 5, 1841; 1 mile : 2:32, 2:35, 2:38.
Washington. Greenwich Maid, Dutchman, Rattler, June 22, 1838 : 2 miles : 5:19, 5:17.
Dutchman, Greenwich Maid, July 4, 1838 ; 2 miles ; 5:22, 5:17. Cayuga Chief (2 dis.), Nov. 2, 1840 ; 2 miles ; 5:37, 5:193. Duchess. Rifle. May 23, 1844 : 2 miles ; 5:174. 5:20.
The people in the vicinity grew weary of the races and the character of the visitors. It was presented by the grand jury as a " nuisance to the public" in 1845. It was shortly afterward abandoned.
In 186- the Hudson County Agricultural Society, for the pur- pose of developing a superior species of pumpkin, constructed a race course on Secaucus. It was kept up for some time with
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great spirit, but after the lapse of two or three years the racing was abandoned. The land belonging to the company was sold to Bishop Bayley, Dec. 14, 1870. It is not yet turned to relig- ious nses. It has in part relapsed to its former condition ; per- haps it would be proper to say its last state is worse than the first, for it is now devoted to " scrub " racing, Indian exhibitions and other amusements of an equally inferior character.
Township of' Weehawken was set off from the city of Hoboken March 15, 1859.
Township of' Union was set off from the township of North Bergen Feb. 28, 1861.
Township of West Hoboken was set off from the township of North Bergen Feb. 28, 1861.
Township of' Bayonne was set off from the town of Bergen March 15, 1861, and incorporated as a city March 10, 1869.
Township of Greenville was set off from the town of Bergen March 18, 1863, and consolidated with Jersey City in 1873.
Town of' Union was set off from the township of Union March 29, 1864.
Township of Kearney was set off from the township of Harri- son March 14, 1867.
Considering the rapid absorption of adjacent territory by Jer- sey City, it is perhaps proper that the names and location of vil- lages and hamlets, as they have existed and do now exist, should be given for preservation. Beginning at Bergen Point, we go northward.
Centreville is a small village about two miles north of Bergen Point.
Bayonne is a small village about three-quarters of a mile north of Centreville.
Pamrepo is a village in the northerly part of the city of Bay- onne, formerly known as Salterville. All of these places are within the city of Bayonne, and the New Jersey Central Rail- road Company has a station at each place.
Greenville was a small, poorly constructed village about three miles from the Jersey City ferry, on the old road leading to Ber-
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gen Point, settled mostly by Germans. It finally gave its name to a township, which was annexed to Jersey City in 1873.
Claremont was a name given more to a tract of land that was mapped out for sale than to a village. It lies on the heights, north and south of the Newark and New York Railroad.
Lafayette was the name given by the owners of the land to that portion of Jersey City which lies south of the Morris canal, in the vicinity of Pacific and Communipaw avenues.
Centre Hill, like Claremont and Lafayette, was a name which grew out of a land speculation. It is now quite thickly settled. It lies in the upper part of Jersey City, a little south of the Pat- erson plank road.
West Hoboken is a thriving village, which has given its name to a township. It lies upon the heights. adjoining the north boundary of Jersey City.
Union Hill is quite a large town on the heights, east of the Hackensack plank road, and about two miles north of Hoboken. It was settled and built up almost exclusively by Germans.
New Durham is a small hamlet lying at the northerly foot of Weehawken hill, on the Hackensack plank road.
Guttenberg is a small village on the heights, a little south of Bull's Ferry, settled and built up by Germans. The name
was applied to a tract of land mapped for sale. Incorporated March 9, 1859.
West New York lies on the westerly brow of the hill back of Guttenberg.
CHAPTER XI.
Organization of the county-Its officers-Vote for location of Court House- Laying corner stone-Address of Chief Justice Hornblower-Represent - atives in the Legislature-List of Freeholders-List of Judges.
THE act to set off the county of Hudson from Bergen county passed the Legislature February 22, 1840, by a vote of twenty- seven to twenty-three in the Assembly, and nine to seven in the Conneil. This large negative vote was the result of political considerations. The county then comprised the town of Jersey and townships of Bergen and Harrison. East of the Hacken- sack its boundaries were identical with the old township of Bergen. West of the Hackensack it included not only the present townships of Harrison and Kearney, but the township of Union in the county of Bergen. This last named township was then included within the township of Harrison, and was set off into Bergen county February 19, 1852.
At a joint meeting of the Legislature, February 27, 1840, the following appointments of county officers were made :
Robert Gilchrist, Clerk.
Edmund W. Kingsland, Surrogate.
Lewis D. Hardenberg, Prosecutor of the Pleas.
Stephen Garretson, Cornelius V. V. Kingsland, Judges.
The first term of the County Court began April 14, 1840, at Lyceum Hall, in Grand street, Jersey City.
Joseph C. Hornblower, Chief Justice, presiding.
Cornelius Van Winkle, Henry Sonthmayd, Stephen Garretson, George C. De Kay, Judges.
George H. Brinkerhoff, Sheriff.
Archer G. Welsh,1 Abraham Van Winkle, Oliver H. P. Kil- burne, Thomas Marinus, Constables.
Nathaniel Ellis, Marshal.
1 Crier of the Court from this time until October Term, 1870 ; died November 332
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THE COURTS ORGANIZED).
Grand Jury.
John Lovett, Garret G. Newkirk, John I. Speer, Isaac Q. Underhill, Michael Fisher, Benjamin Mills, John Bunce, Lorenzo Jacquins, Cornelius Van Vorst, Charles F. Durant, Rodman M. Price, John F. Ellis, John Griffith, James Drake, James Devoe, John C. Morgan, Merselis Parks, John Brinkerhoff, Joshua J. Benson, Jacob Vreeland, Jacob D. Van Winkle. John G. Speer,1 Richard Outwater, William Seeley.1
Petit Jurors.
Morris Smith, Jacob M. Vreeland, Henry Van Horn, John Garretson, Nathaniel II. Carpenter, C'alvin Tompkins, George De Mott, Charles Gardner, Henry Osborn, James W. Higgins. Daniel Crane, Henry Drayton, John P. Hill, Mindert Vreeland. Albert M. Zabriskie, B. Van Schaiek, Garret Ackerman, William C. Kingsland, John G. McLoughlin. Walter Woods, Charles B. (. Bacot, Joseph Danielson, George W. Edge, Joseph Stone, Abraham (. Van Boskerck, Jacob Van Horn, John Gilbert. James Lott, Smith Benedict, Peter Van Horn, James Malone, Joshua Heustis, James Tahnan, Garret Van Vorst, Dudley S. Gregory, John P. Morgan, Henry Van Embergh, Paul Salter, Garret Newkirk, Arent H. Schuyler.
The courts continued to be held in the Lyceum Hall from that time until September 19, 1843, when the Board of Chosen Free- holders having accepted the " Newkirk House," at the Five Corners, as a Court House, the courts were opened there Sep- tember 20, 1843. Here the courts were held until March 11. 1845, when the present Court House was completed.
The location of the Court House was a subject of considerable interest to the people. Each district was offered as the desirable spot. The following places were put in nomination :
1. Washington square in Jersey City.
7, 1870. He was succeeded by his nephew, John Wesley Welsh, who yet " cries aloud."
' Did not appear.
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2. The Publie Grounds in Harsimns.
3. Bergen square.
4. Publie Grounds in Hoboken.
5. West Hoboken.
6. East Newark.
7. The Five Corners.
8. Near Depot, Paterson Railroad (West End).
9. Bergen Ridge, from road to Communipaw to West Hoboken.
10. Communipaw.
11. Secaucus.
12. Bergen Point.
13. New Durham.
14. Weehawken.
Centre of the county, Pondrette Company, on Hacken- sack river !
As an inducement to have the Court House located in Jersey ('ity, that municipality offered to donate to the county land worth $10,000 and $8,000 in money.
The vote upon the question was taken June 2, 1840, with the following result :
Vote in Bergen. 506
For Bergen. -
Rejected. -
2
Whole number of votes. - 508
Vote in Jersey City. 20
For Bergen.
" Jersey City, 281
" Harrison, -
2
Rejected,
Whole No. of votes, 304
Vote in Harrison. -
For Bergen, -
54
" Jersey City,
Whole No. of votes, - 56
2
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After the above vote there was much delay in deciding on the locality for the building, and it was not until December 5, 1843, that the contract for the building of the Court House was given to Thomas Thomas, Carpenter, and William Brown, Mason, for $14,000, which was the lowest bid. Ground was broken for the building May 1, 1844, and the corner stone laid October 17, 1844, with great ceremony. A procession was formed at Dray- ton's Hotel, at the Five Corners, in the following order :
1. Architect, Superintendent and Builder.
2. Mechanics and laborers employed on the building, about 100 in number.
3. A noble band of music from the U. S. Ship North. Carolina.
4. Committee of Arrangements.
5. Board of Chosen Freeholders.
6. Clergy.
7. Chief Justice of the State of New Jersey.
8. Members of the Bar.
9. Judges and Justices of the county.
10. Clerk and Surrogate.
11. Sheriff and Constables.
12. Mayor and Common Council of Jersey City.
13. Trustees of the Freeholders Inhabitants of the Township of Bergen.
14. Strangers.
15. Citizens on foot.
16. Citizens on horseback and in carriages.
Prayer by Rev. B. C. Taylor, D.D. ; corner stone laid by John Tonele, jr., Director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
In the stone were deposited the newspapers of the day, pub- lished in New York, Jersey City, Newark, Trenton, &c., Reports on Education, School Fund and Finances of the State and county, several coins, a parchment roll containing a list of all the county officers, the Governor, State officers, the President of the United States, and other officers of the General Government.
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Chief Justice Hornblower made an address, and Rev. Mr. Ballard pronounced the Benediction.
The following is a copy of a paper on file in the clerk's office, which shows the situation of the Court House :
"Latitude and Longitude of Hudson County Court House, North Bergen, New Jersey :
" Latitude, 40° 43' 50" N.
“ Longitude in time, - - 4h 56m 14sec 7t 3
14 48 44 1 5
74 03 40 5
"West from Greenwich.
" Variation of compass in 1841, 5º 52'.
" W. C. W ETMORE, 1
" U. S. Navy.
"July 7, 1846.'
The first session in the new Court House was opened March 11, 1845, with Prayer by Rev. B. C. Taylor, D.D., and the fol- lowing address by the Chief Justice :
" Gentlemen, Members of' the Board of' Chosen Freeholders, of the Grand Jury, and my Fellow Citizens at large of the County of Hudson :
" Assembled, as we are, for the first time within this beautiful building, which has been erected by your patriotism and liber- ality, whose corner stone was laid in prayer, and in prayer fervent, appropriate and eloquent, has just been dedicated to the administration of justice, I feel it my pleasure, my privilege, to address you in words of congratulation as well as in the language of official advice and judicial instruction. Since the frailty, not. to say the depravity of our nature, renders it necessary to estab-
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lish and maintain courts of justice, to settle the rights of indi- viduals, to punish the guilty and protect the innocent, it is desirable and becoming that the public should provide convenient and suitable buildings in which to discharge that high and responsible duty. You, my fellow citizens, have met that demand with a noble and generous spirit. In the erection of this edifice you have manifested your attachment to the institu- tions of your country, and your readiness to sustain the adminis- trators of public justice in the execution and discharge of their duty. Accept. therefore, I pray you, from me, in behalf of myself and of every member of the court, and of those who may soon succeed me and my associates in the seats we now occupy, unfeigned thanks for the convenient and elegant apartments you have provided for the accommodation of courts and their officers. When you first conceived the plan of being erected into a sepa- rate county, it met with my approbation and secured my support. from no sinister motive. I remembered the old town of Bergen. when it had very few inhabitants except old-fashioned, honest Dutchmen, and very few houses except those not built for show. but for domestic comfort and convenience ; long, low and unpre- tending in appearance, but durable in materials, and opening upon the streets some two or three hospitable doors, into which the friend and stranger might enter and find a welcome, and from which they might retire and leave a blessing behind them. Hoboken then consisted of little else besides a well-kept public house, and a beautiful retreat from the noise and bustle of the neighboring metropolis. No Jersey City then adorned your shores-nothing but a large, long ferry house, occupied succes- sively by an Ellsworth, a Smith, and a Hunt, with here and there a boatman's or a fisherman's cabin, stood upon the heap of sand called Powles' Hook : your settlements were sparse, your occu- pations agricultural and industrial. and your population small, but healthy, peaceful and honest : you needed, for many years within my recollection, but one physician to administer to your physical necessities, but one man of God to supply your spiritual want, and not even one lawyer to satisfy your litigious propensi- ties, for you had none to be satisfied. Peace reigned throughout
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your borders-simplicity of life and manners and honesty of pur- pose were the prevailing characteristics of the good old Dutch, who almost exclusively occupied the soil of your county in the days of my boyhood. A court at Hackensack and a few Dutch justices at home were all you wanted to punish the few offenders and settle the few lawsuits that troubled yon in those days. But. alas ! we fear those good old days have gone by, never to return ! The rapidly increasing population of our country, the vast in- provements in science and the arts, and the enterprising spirit of the age in which we live, have wrought a mighty change within the period even of my memory. The facilities of steamboats and railroad cars, and the increasing spirit of trade and commerce and manufactures and the arts, have brought the good old town of Bergen into contact with the world, ent up her territory into small localities, studded her shores with splendid buildings, turned her farms into pleasure seats, her cabbage ground into pleasure gardens, and her dwelling places into workshops and manufactories. Such, in fact, has been the change in appearance and population of that part of the old county of Bergen which now constitutes the county of Hudson, that I can scarcely retrace the footsteps of my boyhood when, in my visits to friends here or in the city of New York, I used to traverse these hills. When, therefore, you first contemplated the formation of a new county, I favored the object, because I was satisfied that, if not then absolutely necessary, the time was rapidly approaching when the increased number of inhabitants, the diversified charac- ter of your population, the rapidly extending trade and commerce with the city of New York and other places, the consequent in- crease of bargains and contracts, of litigation and of crime, would call for a stronger police, for increased vigilance on the part of magistrates and peace officers, and for a seat of justice nearer your own doors. I rejoiced, therefore, in the consummation of your wishes, and was the more gratified from the reflection that your courts would be held within my judicial district, and thus give me an opportunity of meeting more frequently than I other- wise should with my respected friends and fellow citizens of the county of Hudson. I have long since marked it down in the
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chronicle of those events, the memory of which I cherish, and which I desire to be transmitted to and remembered by my chil- dren, that I had the honor of presiding at the first court ever held in Hudson County. To that I have since been permitted to add the interesting fact that I was privileged to act a conspicuous part in the solemn and imposing ceremony of laying the founda- tion stone of this edifice, and now shall have the pleasure of adding to this history the gratifying circumstance that I have been spared by a kind Providence to preside at the first court and address the first Grand Jury that ever assembled within these walls. For this privilege I feel thankful, and I invite you all to unite with me in rendering thanksgiving and praise to Him who is Judge over all, and in whose hands our lives are, that through His kind and protecting care this edifice has been reared from its foundation to its superstructure without any fatal acci- dent or the slightest injury to any of the worthy and industrious mechanics and laborers who have been employed in its erection.
" May the same all-wise and merciful Providence ever preside over the councils and the deliberations of judges and jurors within these walls : may the ermine of justice, by whomsoever it may be worn after we shall have gone to our final account, ever be kept pure and unspotted here, and this sanctuary of justice never be desecrated by bribery or corruption-never be an arena for the indulgence of prejudice, partiality or unhallowed passions of any sort ; but may the unadulterated stream of public and private justice ever flow from this sacred hall, and from the pure fountain of eternal truth and righteousness."
The Chief Justice then addressed the Grand Jurors upon their duties.
The following Justices of the Supreme Court have presided over the courts in Hudson County, being regularly assigned to this circuit: Chief Justice Josiah Hornblower.
Henry W. Green. Associate Justice Elias B. D. Ogden.1 .6 Joseph D. Bedle. -1-
1 Died Feb. 24, 1865.
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Sheriff's.
George H. Brinkerhoff, 1840, appointed by Joint Meeting ; Henry Newkirk, 1840-2: John Garretson, 1843; Abraham Van Winkle, 1844-6; Lorenzo Jaquins, 1847-9 ; Jacob M. Mer-
JACOB M. MERSELES.
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