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Woodside, the North End of Newark, N. J. INTRODUCTION. PART I.

GENERAL HISTORY.

THE FIRST BOUNDARIES OF WOODSIDE. AN INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY. WOODSIDE SUBMERGED. THE OLD ROADS OF WOODSIDE. HOW WE ARE TO PROCEED.

THE RIVER ROAD.

THE GULLY ROAD. A GULLY ROAD GHOST. INDIAN RELICS FOUND IN THE GULLY ROAD. OLD MOLL DE GROW. BODY SNATCHING. THE DEVIL IN THE GULLY ROAD. A LOVER’S LANE. GHOST OF A BRITISH SPY. HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. THE HARE AND TORTOISE. THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE. EARLIER DWELLERS SOUTH OF THE GULLY ROAD. GREEN ISLAND. OF FISH AND FISHING. THE SMELT OF THE PASSAIC RIVER. THE POINT HOUSE. PHŒBE KING AND THE POINT HOUSE. THE POINT HOUSE WORKS FOR A LIVING. THE FLOATING PALACE. OLD BLACK TOM. THE KING PROPERTY. A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT. BURIED TREASURE. WHEN BRITON MET BRITON. THORNHILL. THE TERHUNE PLACE. SANDFORD. POLLY VAN WINKLE. MUNN. THE MELIUS HOUSE. STIMIS FAMILY TRADITIONS. HESSIANS BURY LOOT. OLD TWO BOTTLES. THE ALEXANDER PLACE. THE LIME KILN. HOUSES ABOVE GRAFTON AVENUE. COEYMAN GENEALOGY. EXTENT OF THE COEYMAN POSSESSIONS. A COEYMAN REMINISCENCE. WASHINGTON MARCHES DOWN THE RIVER ROAD. STEPHEN VAN CORTLANDT AT SECOND RIVER. THE OLD VAN CORTLANDT HOUSE. NOTES ON THE VAN CORTLANDT PLACE. ADVICE TO GIRLS WHO WOULD MARRY. JOHN VAN RENSSELAER II. WHAT AN OLD MAP SHOWS. CANNON BALLS FROM THE RIVER. COEYMAN BURIAL GROUND. INDIAN RELICS. A MYSTERY SOLVED. ADDITIONAL ON THE VAN CORTLANDT HOME.

DIVISION ROAD. BACK ROAD.

THE “STRAWBERRY” LOT. RIVERSIDE ATHLETIC CLUB. A MILLERITE. NAMES OF SOME EARLY OWNERS. A LESSON IN MANNERS. MR. MILES I’ANSON AND PREVIOUS OWNERS OF HIS PROPERTY. THE PHILLIPS FARM. A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT. THE PEROU TRACT. THE ANTHONY WAYNE CAMP GROUND. A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT. PHILLIPS FARM HOUSE. THE BRITISH ON WOODSIDE SOIL. THE MAGAZINE HOUSE. EARLY LANES. THE HAUNT OF THE HIGHWAYMAN. NOT A CHRISTMAS CARROLL. THE WOODS OF THE OLD BACK ROAD. JESSE C. BENNETT. THE CALICO PRINT WORKS. A FLESH AND BLOOD GHOST. WASHINGTON RESTS AT SECOND RIVER.

THE OLD BLOOMFIELD ROAD.

LORENZO DOW. THE OLD ROAD A HIGHWAY. ADRIAN SCHARFF. THE “WHITE-HOUSE” SMITHS. LAND VALUES BEFORE THE PANIC OF ’73. WHERE JOHN MORRIS LIVED. KEEN FAMILY TRADITION. THE “BRICK-HOUSE” SMITHS. THE SIDMANS OF OTHER DAYS. FOREST HILL BEFORE MORRISTOWN. A KEEN HOMESTEAD. THE FARRAND FAMILY.

MURPHY’S LANE.

THE VAN RIPER FLOWER GARDEN. BIRD’S WOODS. NAMES OF FORMER DWELLERS ON MURPHY’S LANE. THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL IN WOODSIDE. AN EASY WAY TO DIVIDE EVEN. WAUTERS—WAUTERSE. POLLY VAN WINKLE AGAIN. MURPHYTOWN. THE GYPSIES DO BUSINESS. THE BENNETT PROPERTY. PETER COOPER OWNS LAND HERE. DR. GRENVILLE M. WEEKS COMES ON THE SCENE. MR. JAS. YEREANCE A RESIDENT. DR. WEEKS AND THE MONITOR. DR. THEODORE RUGGLES TIMBY. MR. HORACE ABBOTT MAKES THE MONITOR A POSSIBILITY. THE MONITOR GOES TO HAMPTON ROADS. TALE OF THE MERRIMAC’S ENGINEER. DR. WEEKS TRANSFERRED TO THE MONITOR. CAPTAIN BANKHEAD IN COMMAND. SINKING OF THE MONITOR. NOTES ON THE CRANE FAMILY.

PART II.

C. C. HINE AND HIS TIMES.

CHARLES COLE HINE. MR. HINE IN SEARCH OF A HOME. MR. HINE FIRST VISITS WOODSIDE. THE FIRST HOUSES ERECTED ON WASHINGTON AVENUE. THE FIRST HOUSES ERECTED ON LINCOLN AVENUE. HOUSES ERECTED IN 1866-7. HOMES OF AN EARLIER PERIOD. INTRODUCING MR. ANANIAS. ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. A WOODSIDE MOLASSES JAR. CAPT. KIDD IN THE WINSER BACK YARD. MORRISON & BRIGGS. THE SAD FATE OF THE WINSER HORSE. THE OPENING OF WASHINGTON AVENUE. ONE DOLLAR EACH. REMINISCENCES BY MR. SWINNERTON. THE WOODSIDE OF 1867. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL OF JUNE 16, 1867. A CHURCH BELL IS PROCURED. FAIRS, CAKE SALES AND LECTURES. THE RETREAT FROM BELLEVILLE. THE ERIE RAILROAD. THE MAKING OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL. A “BEFORE-THE-WAR” STORY. THE MAKING OF A CHURCH. THE FIRST CHURCH OF WOODSIDE. MR. HINE’S HOUSE THE FIRST CHURCH BUILDING. A SPLIT IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION. A PARTISAN. PIONEERING IN WOODSIDE. PASTORS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE ELLIOTT STREET SCHOOLHOUSE. FORMATION OF CHRIST CHURCH OF WOODSIDE. DR. MACAULEY THE FIRST PASTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH. DR. JOHN M. MACAULEY. TWO UNMENTIONABLES. REV. ISAAC VAN WART SCHENCK. REV. HENRY MERLE MELLEN. INCIDENTS OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH CHOIR. WOODSIDE, 1868-9. WOODSIDE TOWNSHIP. A WOODSIDE TRAGEDY. WOODSIDE AND THE STREET CAR. NOTES ON MR. HINE’S CHARACTER. MRS. MARY HAZARD AVERY HINE. THE ZENANA MISSION BAND. MISS JANE A. AVERY. MR. HORACE H. NICHOLS. REMINISCENCES OF MR. HENRY J. WINSER. MR. JAMES SWINNERTON. MR. ALBERT BEACH. GEN. GILBERT W. CUMMING. MR. JOHN MORRIS PHILLIPS. MR. DAVID MACLURE. COL. SAMUEL L. BUCK. MR. DANIEL F. TOMPKINS. JOHN F. DRYDEN. THE “COUNT”. LIEUT.-COL. W. E. BLEWETT. MR. THOMAS W. KINSEY. DR. J. E. JANES. MR. PETER WEILER. BELLARS. BOATING DAYS ON THE PASSAIC. CANOEING RECOLLECTIONS. A LAST WORD IN REGARD TO MR. HINE.

PART III.

C. C. HINE—PERSONAL.

WHAT OTHERS THOUGHT OF MR. HINE. Y. M. C. A. IN 1855. THE PATRIARCH RAISES HIS VOICE IN SONG. AFTER THE BANQUET WAS OVER. YE PATRIARCH AS A HOOSIER.

APPENDIX.

REPORT OF THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WOODSIDE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DISTRICT CLERK OF TOWNSHIP OF WOODSIDE

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