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William Burnet Kinney, like Crowell, the founder of the Eagle, came of Revolutionary stock, his grandfather on the maternal side being none other than the distinguished Dr. William Burnet, a member of the Continental Congress and President of the Newark Committee of Safety, during the Revolution. His mother was a lady of great beauty and distinction in her day-the founder of the first charitable society in Newark, and prominently identified with benevolent institutions in Cincinnati also, whither she went to reside for several years. Before entering journalism permanently Mr. Kinney was a student in New York, and by advising with them regarding the selection of Mss. rendered valuable services to the then rising house of Harper Brothers, of New York. He was liberally educated and possessed literary talents of a superior order. Under his conduct the Advertiser steadily continued to prosper. Among those whose pens enriched the columns of the Advertiser during Kinney's editorship were the late Rev. James W. Alexander, who, under the nom de plume of " Charles Quill," wrote a series of very interesting papers on American Mechanics and American Workingmen; and Mr. Samuel K. Gardner-" Decius." Joseph P. Bradley, now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, may be said to have begun active life as the Trenton correspondent of the Advertiser. From the Advertiser office there have also graduated men who have become quite distinguished as clergymen, jurists, financiers and railroad managers. The paper continued faithful to the fortunes of the Whig party, and gave an unqualified but vain support to the Harrison and Granger ticket, in 1836.
It had its own opinions of public men and their acts, and did not hesitate to express them, as witness the following from its issue of January 3d, 1839-conveying suggestions that might still be profitably considered by executive officers and others :
The New York Legislature was duly organized on Monday. Gov. SEWARD, following in that respect in the footsteps of his predecessor, inflicted an almost interminable Message upon them at the usual time-the document extending to the unconscionable length of 6 or 7 large newspaper columns, close print. Justly, indeed, have our American writers been charged with the heinous sin of prolixity; usually "beginning" as they do " with an - account of the general deluge, and ending with one of their own." Gov. SEWARD might have gone on writing for a fortnight, and still have found something more to say about the public and private interests of his State. And we venture to say that he might have discharged his whole duty in a communication of two columns. If this vice is to go on without rebuke from year to year, the American people will soon have no other alternative but to overlook public documents altogether, or give up every other species of reading. It is a monstrous folly, and in most instances great presumption to hoot.
In 1851, on June 19th, after occupying the editorial tripod of the Advertiser during a period of eighteen years, William B. Kinney entered on a season of well-earned rest, having been appointed United States Minister to Sardinia, by President Zachary Taylor. The Advertiser had now been established on a firm basis, and during the quarter of a century following it has steadily improved in worth and influence. During the best part of the latter period the paper has been most successfully conducted by Thomas T. Kinney, son of William B., who has had the sagacity to secure eminent editorial assistance. After the death of the Whig party the Advertiser espoused the Republican cause. For a decade it has been properly regarded as one of the
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THE PRESS OF NEWARK.
most ardent advocates of the Republican party as opposed to the Democracy. It is no dispar- agement to other active and vigilant presses in the State to say that the Advertiser continues to be what it has been from the first, the most influential journal published in the State. In local and State affairs it has long spoken with the voice of one having authority-almost with the effect of a lawgiver; and it is not without influence in the consideration of national questions.
A few years before the Advertiser was started, there sprang into the arena of Newark journal- ism a paper called the Newark Intelligencer. It was cdited by a Universalist clergyman-Rev. William Hagadorn, who appears to have been somewhat of a newspaper Ishmaelite. His hand was against the Sentinel and the Eagle, and their hands werc against the Intelligencer. Haga- dorn's especial antipathy, however, was a campaign shcet published during the Summer of 1828, called the Anti-Jacksonian. Hagadorn was an ardent supporter of Jackson and Calhoun. According to his Intelligencer, the Anti-Jacksonian was " a paper perfectly irresponsible, printed in two offices, and neither office accountable for its contents-a paper got up avowedly, as its title proves, for the purpose of swelling the tide of defamation and slander against the bravest of our citizens, and the truest of our patriots-a paper which, having no sponsors to be ashamed of its profligate contents, unblushingly persists in reiterating assertions which bear upon their very outside the mark of falsehood, and which have been proved false by the direct testimony of Thomas Jefferson." In its issue of August 27th, 1828, the Intelligencer contained a mock adver- tisement in the form of " Proposals for publishing in Newark, N. J., a weakly Paper to be called the Anti-Facksonian or Anti-Patriot. The " Anti," the Intelligencer went on to say, would be "devoted exclusively to the publication and re-publication of all the refuted slanders against Jackson and his wife, which have hitherto graced the columns of the Eagle and Sentinel ; because the publishers well know the efficacy of a lie well told and strongly persisted in. In short, the Anti shall contain the quintessence of Binns, Hammond, Armstrong and Arnold.
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"To sum up all, the Anti-facksonian will engage to prove to the full satisfaction of every man who will take care to read nothing else, that Gen. Jackson can neither read nor write-that he was born in Ireland, of Hottentot parents, and that, since his residence in this country, he has done little else than fight cocks, race horses, and cut off men's ears as ornaments for Peale's Museum." Hagadorn soon exhausted himself and the Intelligencer and retired to New York.
In the early part of the year 1829 a fierce anti-masonic paper was started in Newark called the Newark Monitor. It had for a motto the following: " It must be obvious that the whole machinery of the Masonic Institution is adapted for political intrigue." The Monitor was published weekly by S. L. B. Baldwin. It is believed to have stopped publication about the end of the year 1831 or beginning of 1832. There was a Temperance Advocate published in Newark about the year 1840. It was conducted by an Englishman named Cox. The Tariff Advocate, a lively Henry Clay, high tariff, anti-Democratic paper, was published for about a year prior to the close of the Clay and Frelinghuysen campaign of 1844, the editor being Samuel Hull, the founder of the Morris Jerseyman. The Tariff Advocate was a daily morning paper. Another morning daily published in Newark about this same period was the Morning Post. The Post was as strongly Democratic as the Advocate was Whig and High Tariff. It was edited by Dr. Samuel G. Arnold, and published by Aaron Guest. Among those particularly interested in the Post were General John S. Darcy and Elias Van Arsdale. Arnold, though not a trained journalist, was a powerful writer, and developed great aptitude in the management of a newspaper. The Post is said to have displayed, at least on one occasion, a degree of enterprise such as is rarely excelled in modern journalism, alive, active and ener- getic though it be. On the night of May Ist, 1843, an appalling tragedy took place at a place called Changewater, near Port Colden, in Warren County. John Castner, his wife, their child and John P. Parke, Mrs. Castner's father, were foully murdered, the motive being lust of property. Joseph Carter, jr., Abner Parke and Peter Parke, sons of the murdered Parkc, were accused of complicity in the quadruple crime. Because of the many curious phases of the case, no less than the startling character of the tragedy, the deepest interest was felt in the trial
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even at this distance-some sixty odd miles away. According to our authority-a surviving Newark journalist who used to set type on the Post-this interest was seized hold of by the Post; a pony express was established, and reports of the trial were printed daily in that paper. The reporter would have his "copy" ready almost as soon as the court adjourned each afternoon, and it would be started off at once from Belvidere. At Morristown a fresh pony would be ready, and by four or five o'clock in the morning John C. Webster, the rider, would come dashing into town with the Post dispatches, and the paper with the report would be printed in a few hours.
There are traces of a paper called the Chronicle having been published about the time the Daily Advertiser started, but by whom is unknown.
As already referred to incidentally, the Newark Mercury was published a number of years before the breaking out of the war. It was a vigorous Republican paper, and made itself felt in the community and outside, especially while under the editorship of Mr. H. N. Congar, a political writer of great pungency, who exercised for many years a powerful influence in shaping the public polity of New Jersey, and who afterwards rose to distinction in political and official life-he became Secretary of State of New Jersey. It ceased publication after 1862. In 1866 the Newark Evening Courierwas started by F. F. Patterson. It was an advanced Republican paper. It ceased publication in the latter part of 1877. The Newark Morning Register was started in 1870 by R. Watson Gilder and R. Newton Crane. It still lives, having passed through many changes and vicissitudes. The first Sunday paper published in Newark was the Sunday Call, which was started in 1872. In spite of the hard times the paper has steadily prospered. The Essex County Press was established in 1873.
[For a sketch of the German press of Newark the reader is referred to chapter VII., page 210.]
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STATISTICS OF NEWARK-POPULATION-NATIVITIES. .
STATISTICS OF NEWARK.
POPULATION.
1666 estimated
200
1842
18,800
1861. . ...
73,000
1682 estimated.
400
1843
20,200
I862.
70,000
1759 estimated.
800
1844-
23,187
1863 ..
68,000
1776 estimated.
1,000
1845 City Census
25,433
1864-
70,000
1800 estimated
4,500
1846.
26,000
1865 City Census
87,428
1810 U. S. Census.
6,000
1847-
28,000
1866.
94,800
x826 City Census.
8,017
1848.
30,000
I867.
101,100
1830
10,995
1849
32,000
1868.
105,000
I831
12,500
1850 U. S. Census
38,894
1869
113,000
1832 Cholera .:
14,000
1851.
40,000
1870 U. S. Census
105,542
1833
15,000
1852
44,000
1871
110,000
1834
16,500
1853.
48,000
1872.
115,000
1835 First Directory pub.
18,201
1854-
54,000
1873- 118,000
1836 City Census.
19,732
1855 City Census
53,500
1874.
120,000
1837
20,079
1856.
57,000
1875 City Census.
123,310
1838 Hard times
16,128
1857
64,000
1876 estimated. Hard times 123,000
I839
17,268
1858
63,744
1877 estimated.
122,500
1840 U. S. Census
17,202
1859.
66,000
1878 estimated.
121,500
I841
18,720
1860 U. S. Census
71,94I
POPULATION BY WARDS-CITY CENSUS, 1875.
Ward I .. ..
7,000
Ward 4 .. . . . 6,216
Ward 7. . . 8,14I
Ward Io. .. . 10,655
Ward 13 ... 15,713
46
3. · · · · · · 5,77I
6 .-
- 13,394
9. . . - - 6,192
12. . . . 11,858
15. . . . 6,347
NATIVITIES-FROM THE U. S. CENSUS, 1870.
Natives of the United States, 70,175; foreign born, 35,884. The foreign born population is distributed by the
Census as follows :
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Oldenburg
15
5
England
4,040
Prussia.
2,788
Holland.
102
Ireland
12,481
Saxony
1,010
Hungary.
30
Scotland.
870
Wurtemburg.
2,402
Italy.
29
Great Britain unspecified.
I
Germany, not specified
1,557
Luxemburg.
2
Mexico.
2
Total Gt. Britain & Ireland, 17,456
GERMANY.
OTHER NATIONALITIES.
Portugal
2
Baden.
3,III
Austria
26I
Bavaria
2,473
Belgium.
45
Brunswick
Bohemia.
184
Hamburg.
69
Canada.
258
Hanover.
363
British America.
296
Hessen
1,891
China.
3
Lubeck.
2
Cuba ..
3
Mecklenburg.
81
Denmark
41
Nassau
75
France.
710
Total other Nationalities, 2,784
2 .. . . .
8,010
5
4.950
8. . . . . 10,343
..
II .... 5.080
..
14 ....
3.173
Weimar.
27
India. .
4
Wales
64
Total Germany
15,873
Norway
II
Poland ..
78
Russia ..
I6
South America.
8
Spain
5
Sweden.
44
Switzerland
613
West Indies,
23
At Sea ..
9
Greece.
NOTE .- The 35,884 foreigners do not include, of course, the children born here of alien parents. It is customary, however, to include their progeny in the estimate of the foreigners, and therefore, to estimate the non-native population at about twice the figures given by the Census. The Germans themselves claim about 35,000, and the Irish nearly, if not quite, as many.
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ESSEX CO. POPULATION-MANUFACTURING STATISTICS.
ESSEX COUNTY POPULATION.
1870.
1860.
1850.
Total.
Native.
Foreign.
White.
Colored.
White.
Colored.
White.
Colored.
Belleville
3,644
2,534
I,IIO
3,574
70
3,867
102
3,418
96
Bloomfield.
4,580
3,366
1,214
4,457
123
4,697
93
3,289
96
Caldwell
2,727
2,416
3II
2,698
29
2,669
19
2,354
23
Clinton.
2,240
1,734
506
2,204
36
3,601
58
2,464
44
East Orange.
4,315
3,458
857
4,240
75
Elizabeth
5,387
196
Livingston-
1,157
978
179
1,149
8
1,3IO
I3
1,138
I3
Millburn
1,675
1,157
518
1,664
II
1,614
I6
Montclair
2,853
2,049
804
2,817
36
Newark
105,059
69, 175
35,884
103,267
1, 789
70,654
1,287
37,664
1,230
Ist ward.
9,599
7,584
2,015
9,404
195
6,939
59
2d ward.
7,334
5,058
2,276
7,087
245
7,402
297
3d ward.
7,624
5,885
1,739
7,478
146
6,186
92
4th ward ..
5,890
3,882
2,008
5,786
104
7,028
151
5th ward.
8,77I
5,692
3,079
8,717
. 54
6,746
43
6th ward
10,240
6,018
4,222
10, 119
I2I
10,732
150
7th ward.
11,987
7,443
4,544
11,874
IT3
8, 142
II6
8th ward.
6,840
4,558
2,282
6,743
96
3,719
I44
9th ward.
5,458
4,39I
1,067
5,344
II4
· 4,889
79
Ioth ward.
9,229
6,455
2,774
9,039
190
4,716
TI4
IIth ward
3,677
2,393
1,284
3,651
26
1,717
40
12th ward
4,582
2,416
2,166
4,564
I8
2,438
2
13th ward.
13,828
7,400
6,428
13,461
367
New Providence
Orange ..
9,348
6,117
3,231
9,116
23I
8,708
I69
IIO
Ist ward
2,482
1,733|
749
2,389
93
2,998
32
2d ward
2,821
1,928
893
2,746
75
2,44I
74
3d ward
4,045
2,456
1, 589
3,981
63
3,269
63
2,339
IO8
Rahway
3, II5
I91
South Orange
2,963
2,157
806
2,93I
32
Springfield
1,908
37
Union .
1,580|
82
Westfield
1,481
96
West Orange
2, 106
1,457
649
2,059
47
Woodside
1,172
906
266
1,120
52
MANUFACTURING STATISTICS.
A careful estimate of the manufactures of Newark, made just before the panic of 1873 set in, and when the industries of Newark had just begun to feel the then approaching general depres- sion, was compiled as follows :
FACTORIES.
No. of
No. of
Employes
Weekly
Wages
Annum.
Annual
Production
Manufactures in Iron
IO0
3,759
$45,210
$2,350,920
$7,062.000
66
Leather
8I
6,415
73,310
3,812,120
14,977,000
Metals other than Iron.
8I
2,685
38,8II
2,018,172
14,289,500
Wood ..
3I
1,107
15.745
808,740
2,459,000
66
Iron and Wood
I2
620
7,535
391,820
990,000
Celluloid
3
105
1,150
59,800
250,000
Estimated value of Beer, Hats, Caps, Silk and Jewelry unspecified
4,246, 171
Grand Total
409
19,97I
$237,285
$12,328,820
$59,242,671
IOI
5,280
55,524
2,887,248
14,969,000
Miscellaneous Branches.
Factories.
Wages.
Paid per
.
1,204 4,275
12
Plainfield
330
MANUFACTURING STATISTICS. (CONTINUED.)
INDUSTRIES OF ESSEX COUNTY.
The following table of industries for the County of Essex is taken from the United States Census of 1870, and is undoubtedly an under rather than an over-estimate :
ARTICLES.
Establishments.
Hands employed.
Capital.
Wages.
Materials.
Products.
Agricultural Implements.
2
58
$22,700
$36,800
$42,412
$93,800
Awnings and Tents
2
13
10,250
2,598
8,350
14,691
Bagging ..
I
72
50,000
25,000
90,000
130 000
Belting and hose (leather).
I
5
4,000
3,120
11,700
16,000
Bookbinding. .
3
2I
11,000
9,260
38,279
55.371
Boots and shoes.
30
1.248
422,500
719, 192
902,842
1,946,585
Boxes, Cigar ..
I
8
500
4,000
4,000
10 000
Packing.
2
39
80,000
19,000
308.500
347.000
Paper.
6
66
23,550
18,190
28,832
63,400
Wooden
I
22
30,000
9.360
10,000
25.000
Brass founding and finishing.
46
25,000
23,696
36,656
78,800
Ornaments
4
I7I
61,900
68.400
23,013
123,800
Rolled
5
42
122,300
20,524
190 415
222,714
Bread and other bakery products.
37
151
123,450
59,464
257.864
385,568
Brushes
6
67
33,500
24,441
18.310
57,694
Buttons
230
33,800
76,467
75,073
184,885
Carpets, rag
8
15
1,850
4,559
7,547
16,402
Carriages and sleds, children's.
I
30
21,000
13,000
15,900
40.000
30
499
493,300
285,653
279,037
756,805
Cement
I
31
30,000
20,000
17,675
60.534
Clothing, men's.
35
823
580,800
303,172
1,055,268
1,648,388
Coal-oil, rectified
4
22
60,000
10,300
115,579
169,000
Coffee and spices, ground.
I
IC
40,000
7.500
62.120
85.800
Confectionery
5
29
14,000
15,050
23,736
75.400
Cooperage. .
7
54
52,660
22,470
46,650
79.050
Copper, rolled.
43
150,000
35,000
300,000
500,000
3
9
3,300
2,469
4.962
10,332
Cotton goods (not specified).
1
188
75,000
50,000
100,000
160,000
Cutlery
5
59
21,800
23,840
26,567
59,540
Drugs and chemicals.
2
21
40,000
9,740
57,150
76,800
Edge-tools and axes.
6
8
69,500
54 700
40,70I
120.400
Enameling
5
195
330,000
88, 114
641,946
899, 333
Fancy articles.
2
28
3,550
2,486
5, 190
12,500
Fertilizers.
161
115,000
96,210
239,700
380,000
Files.
5
49
38,100
26,900
10, 190
50,600
Fire-arms, small arms
I
50
40,000
35,000
6,000
50,000
Flouring-mill products
7
6I
360,800
20.210
921,992
991,875
Frames, mirror and picture
2
20
10,000
8,500
8.550
22,000
Furniture
214
218,750
104,600
121,000
281,410
Gas ..
2
79
700,000
63,806
119,40I
375.200
Glass, stained
2
27
72,000
- 22,061
28,527
65.900
Globes, celestial and terrestrial.
1
7
50,000
3.750
3,750
10,000
Glue ..
3
59
87,000
29,000
39-425
110,000
Gold and silver, reduced, &c.
I
45
61,000
21,000
19 800
50,000
Hair-cloth
3
96
10.500
19,842
26,901
53,440
Hardware
37
973
800,200
512,403
446,963
1,225,310
Saddlery
30
609
347,000
323,637
204,843
721,460 162.750
59
2,753
.541,850
1,404.754
2,449,979
4,970,570
Heating-apparatus.
I
7,000
6,656
12,960
28,000
3
27
3,250
5.300
10,560
19.400
I
I62
70,000
40,000
45.000
90,000
Hubs and wagon material ...
7
95
116,000
50,600
76,200
150,000
India rubber and elastic goods.
3
70
90,200
29,000
145,810
221,900
Ink, printing ..
1
I2
30,000
6,000
18,000
30,000
Instruments, professional, &c
8
4,500
7,500
2,300
12.500
Iron, rolled and forged.
17
14,000
7,000
5,605
15,000
Castings
Ig
494
530,000
278,650
331,460
757,627
Japanned ware.
2
34
50,400
17,900
22,500
67,500
Jewelry.
32
1,182
1.564,900
770.955
1,405,603
2,822,820
Lamps and lanterns
2
34
33,000
23,900
18,672
52,000
Lapidary work
3
33
8,000
13,000
10,934
33,000
Lasts
I
IO
8,000
4,900
1,508
12,000
Leather, tanned.
25
488
994,287
304,464
2, 179,966
2.736.47I
Curried
21
210
524,400
200,939
2,177,009
2,602,820
Morocco, tanned, &c.
5
II7
199,500
82,500
328,635
525,949
Patent and enameled
15
285
548,000
188,465
2.312,956
2.738,914
I
Cordage and twine.
Thread, twine and yarn
4
878
778,000
264.500
291,400
1, 113,960
2
Hat materials.
6
148
102,010
53.892
88,012
Hats and caps
Hoop-skirts and corsets
Hosiery.
1
I
7
Wagons
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SCHOOL CENSUS OF NEWARK-MAYORS OF NEWARK.
INDUSTRIES OF ESSEX COUNTY. (CONTINUED.)
ARTICLES.
Establishments.
Hands employed.
Capital.
Wages.
Materials.
Products.
Lime
2
37
50,000
23,219
40,088
83 400
Liquors, malt ..
26
382
2,274,800
246,814
1,307,88I
2 587,795
Lumber, planed
4
30
101,600
13 280
212.170
260,452
Sawed
5
34
127.500
18 200
91,600
124,000
Machinery (not specified)
20
399
461,850
230.749
225 595
610,045
Cotton and woolen.
2
52
80.000
28.000
47.223
103,000
Engines and boilers
7
369
691,000
230,615
264,100
600,000
Malt ..
I
14
150,000
13,000
140,500
164,000
Marble and stone work (not specified) Tombstones
2
20
13,000
19 000
11.300
34,300
Masonry, brick and stone.
Ig
160
43.500
102,052
113 575
259 784
Mineral and soda waters
5
39
31,000
15.660
36,675
74 000
Musical instruments, pianos
3
93
33,000
70,500
61.585
154.500
Oil, lubricating
I
3
200
200
14,000
20.000
Floor Cloth
2
50
57.000
28,000
71,603
126,000
Paints
3
261
1,015.000
154,350
386.865
686,440
Paper
3
47
125,000
21,337
74,394
110,100
Patterns and models
6
I6
4.475
7,300
2,980
2I 200
Plaster and plaster work
3
37
40,250
23,000
28,c80
79,832
Plated ware
6
43
100,200
33 376
194,497
260,402
Printing of cloths
I
40
20,000
16,000
I55.500
212,500
6
129
195.50C
88, 100
115,918
310.986
2
I2
14,000
4.140 2 850
5 800
15,000
Saddlery and harness
35
849
481.650
367.799
675,631
I 324,778
Sand and emery paper cloth
I
3
3,000
1,200
6.100
10,000
Sash, doors and blinds
15
490
460,300
318.584
326.555
798, 108
Saws ..
2
15
3,500
8, 100
18,100
36,660
Scales and balances.
H I
I3
3.200
5.700
28 210
45,000
Ship building and repairing
2
16
22.800
9,025
8,070
25,807
H I
9
3,000
3.500 50.600
8,000
17,000
Silverware
I
6
30.000
5.382
96.949
106,430
Soap and candles
4
22
30,000
8.140
74,250
109.550
I
40
100.000
25,000
87.500
175,000
Tin, copper and sheet-iron ware.
20
I19
IIO.750
62,470
73 155
182,775
2
I34
240,000
47.850
231,802
356,800
Tobacco and cigars Cigars
6c
207
152,255
60,087
95,877
244,170
Trunks, valises and satchels
I 3
1,350
757.400
771,150
I.575-305
3,783 c00
Upholstery.
7
27
8.300
7.750
25,054
46.540
Varnish.
I5
7I
399.8co
38,065
454.216
682.419
Watches
I
89
200,000
50,000
3,700
82 800
Wire.
I
36
60,000
19,000
41,000
69,000
Work
I
44
60,000
21,000
44,600
75,000
Wood, turned and carved
7
34
10,700
12.280
17.420
42,000
Woolen goods.
4
363
435,000
117.600
496 760|
835,500
SCHOOL CENSUS OF NEWARK.
The canvass of the school children of the city of Newark, made by the City Assessors, for the years 1877 and 1876, resulted as follows :-
WARDS.
1877
1876
WARDS.
1877
1876 2,564 decrease.
13-
.. 6,239
6,221 increase.
2 ..
.1,529
1,682
=
8 - 2,707
2,612 increase.
14-
805
822 decrease
3. -. - 1,937
1,953
9 -1,343
1,384 decrease.
15-
- 1,728
1,703 increase.
4.
. 1,637
1, 509 increase.
IO. · 3,424
5,534
. 1,489
1,525 decrease.
II ..
- 1,755
1,562 increase.
6.
4,566
4,842
12
4,014
3,727
MAYORS OF NEWARK.
William Halsey .... . 1836, one year.
Isaac Baldwin. ... _ 1845, one year.
Theo. Frelinghuysen 1837, two
Beach Vanderpool .. 1846, two
Theodore Runyon. 1864, two years. Thomas B. Peddie. 1866, four
James Miller. ...... 1839, one
James Miller .. . .. .. 1843, three "
Oliver S. Halsted ... 1840, one
James M. Quinby. . 1851, thrce
Horace J. Poinier __ 1854, three "
Stephen Dod. - 1844, one
Moses Bigelow .. ..* 1857, seven "
* Term changed to two years.
2
32
15,000
15,500
10.952
48.000
Stone and earthen ware
4
I36
176.000
69,697
131,086
258,779
Silk goods (not specified). Sewing and twist
2
214
101,000
193,350
253 500
Newspaper Job_
·
12,500
21,680
Roofing-materials
2
IO
4,000
45,429
49,920
- 110,150
9
82
41,800
WARDS. 1877
1876
I.
- 1, 500
1,566 decrease.
7
2,560
37,265 37,206
5-
William Wright ..... 1841, three "
Fred'k W. Ricord .. 1870, four Nehemiah Perry. .. 1874, two Henry J. Yates. ... 1876, four
Steel, cast Springs
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FIRST CHURCH BUILDING FUND.
As an interesting memorial of the First Presbyterian Church and the town at the time the foundations of the present cdifice were laid, a roll of pious generosity is introduced here-the list of subscribers to the building fund, transcribed from the musty records of the church, bearing date of September, 1786, and now printed for the first time, it is believed :
s.
& s.
Joseph Baldwin
100 0
Dorcas Baldwin
5 0
William Burnct.
100
O
Ebenczer Smith
15
0
Caleb Wheeler
100 O
David Phillips.
3
O
Jeremiah Bruen and family
100
Joseph Camp. IO
O
Isaac Alling
100 0
Isaac Crane.
30
Samuel Curry 70
Ichabod Sayres 0
4
Stephen Baldwin
4C
O
John Smith. 12
Robert Nichols and Sons
100
o
George Harrison. 20
David Stephenson 12
Moses Farrand. 50
Joseph Brown,
60
O
Joseph Davis.
50
Mathias Ward ..
50
O
James Thompson
25
.0
Daniel Crane.
8
Hannah McChesney
2
Nathaniel Beach.
50
O
Ephraim Morris. 30
Stephen Hayes.
9
David Morris. IC
Moses Newel Combs.
50 O
James Farrand. 12
Moses Tichenor.
15
O
Enos Farrand 12
Stephen Crane.
20
O
Thomas Pierson. 20
Elias Baldwin
50
O
Joseph Crane.
5
Isaac Davis.
30
O
David Taylor. 3
William P. Smith
30
Stephen Ward. 0
3
Uzal Sayres
20 C
Isaac Mayer. IO
Sylvanus Baldwin
15
Eleazcr Bruen
20
Sylvanus Baldwin, jr
5
O
Moses Baldwin 25
O
Ebenezer Baldwin.
3º
Daniel Ball. O
I6
Caleb Bruen
30
David Crowell O
6
O
Daniel Colman.
6
0
Arthur Perry.
6
Zephaniah Grant
15
O
James Aiken.
5
O
Timothy Andruss
50
O
Isaac Johnson
25
Abiel Canfield.
40
O
Edward Earl. 15
David Banks. ot
O
John Brant. 5
O
Israel Beach.
40
O Jonathan Lyon 15
David Crane sen. & jr.
60
0 John Clark.
5
O
James Ward.
15
O
John Lloyd. 4
O
Phineas Baldwin
20 O Jesse Roberts. 15
O
John P. Crane.
IO
C John Baldwin
4
0
Joseph Ball. 2
Benjaman Coe 100 O
Joseph Banks.
40 O
Joseph Brown, sen
60
Abner Ward
50
Simeon Riggs O
3
333
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FIRST CHURCH BUILDING FUND.
4
s.
& s.
David James.
IO
O
Thomas Donnington 5 0
Alexander Eagles.
50
O
Eleazer Brown. 6 0
Abraham Ward.
2C
o
Jabez Bruen. 3
O
James Hedden
15 O
Johnson Ward. 20
C
Nathan Sherman
I5 0
John Bruen. 15
O
Samuel Nichols.
5
O
Andrew Mason. 5
O
Hannah Dwight.
20 C
Moses Nichols I2
0
Samuel Huntington
30 o
Johanna Cook. 7
0
Phebe Camp.
20
O
Thomas Sidman 6
O
Zebulon Jones.
30 O
James Bruen I5
O
Thomas Poole.
15
O
George Price. 6
Daniel Whittaker.
25 O
Jonathan Keen 4
O
Daniel Baldwin.
5
0
Joseph Clisbie 20
O
David E. Crane.
IO
O
Mary Wood & Son. IO
0
James Crane.
IO
O
Jonathan Dodd. 8
6
John Cross.
15
0
Samuel Stivers 2
C
Nathaniel Andruss
35
0
John Stivers.
I
C
Ichabod Grummon
IO
0
Benjamin Birdsall.
IO
O
David Hayes
20
0
Abram Stivers. 3
0
David Hayes, jr
20
O John Cadmus
4
0
Josiah Tichenor.
I5
0
Simeon Stivers. 3 IO
John Hedden.
2
o
Jonathan Campfield. 3
0
James Clizbie.
20 o
Joshua Crossman. 2
0
James Camp IO
0
Jonathan Baldwin. I2
0
. Amos Roberts.
IO
O
Luther Baldwin. I3
0
Moses Roberts & Sons
40
O
Elizabeth Pierson I5
0
Elisha Boudinot
100
0
Abraham Harrison 3
O
Caleb Camp & Son
IOO
O
Adonijah Harrison 2
O
Thomas Eagles.
20 O
Col. Samuel Hay IO
0
Joseph Woodruff.
5
O
George Ogilvie. I2
0
Jacob Ward.
15
Thomas Cadmus, jr
5
0
Samuel Ward.
I5
C
Jasper Ten Broeck. IO
C
Timothy Crane
5
Joseph Hornblower. 0
5
O
Ichabod Osborn.
3
John Collins 3
4
Thomas Canfield & Son.
50
O
John Gifford. 3
0
Nathaniel Camp.
20
0
Abraham Ogden 20
20
0
William Burnet, jr.
50
Philip Cortlandt. C
IO
0
Joseph Kimball
6
O
Robert Kimball IO
0
David Grummon.
II
0
James H. Maxwell.
20
O
John Ward.
I5
O
Moses Ogden.
5
0
Lewis Baldwin.
6
0
Dr. Uzal Johnson. I6
0
Moses Johnson. 5
John Crane. 60
O
Thomas Corey. I6
Timothy Johnson 25
0 Joseph Harrison
I IO
Jesse Baldwin .
30
O John Force.
8
John Smith.
20 0 John Corbee.
I IO
Aaron Roberts
IO
O William Corbee
8
Elisha and Daniel Johnson. 100
O Isaac Gouverneur
I9
4
Esther Baldwin
20 O
Israel Crane 15
Jothanı Johnson 50 O
Isaac Plume. I25
Samuel Hayes
20 O
Ellot Ward. 25
Isaac Hayes
IC
Nicholas Gouverneur 0
Ebenezer Ward. 5 0
334 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FIRST CHURCH BUILDING FUND.
s.
& s.
John Johnson
50
O
Samuel Crane.
5 0
Aaron Day.
IC
Robert Gould. O
2 IO
Samuel Clizbie.
25 O Silas Baldwin I IO
Nehemiah Hedden
15 O
Abram Noe.
I IO
Jeffrey T. Baldwin.
8
O
John Personnet.
2 0
Jane Clizbie.
IC
0
Joseph Campbell
IO
Job Foster.
20 O
William Burnet.
IO
Mary Lyon.
IO
O Elijah Dodd. 2 IO
Joseph Camp.
15
o
Joseph Gould, jr.
2 0
David Brown.
30
Joseph Ward. O
David Tiehenor
15 0
Samuel Tompkins. IO
John Tichenor.
IO O
William Gould. 2 0
Zedadiah Tiehenor
IC
O
Jonathan Crane. 2 10
Jonathan Day & Son.
25
0
John Gould.
I
O
Joseph Beach.
25 0
William Baldwin
I 5
Jeremiah Baldwin
15
O
Isaac Ward.
IO
Nathaniel Camp, jr.
50 O
Abijah Williams
8
William Johnson
IO
O
William Morehouse
I IO
Samuel Crane.
6
0
Timothy Gould.
2 IO
Aaron Baldwin.
I5
0 Thomas Gould.
I IO
[NOTE .- Many of the subseribers added liberally to the amounts set opposite their names when it beeame manifest that the whole sum subscribed was little more than half sufficient to complete the work.]
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