Historic Themes and Resources Within the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail: Southern New Jersey and the Delaware Bay : Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem Counties

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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, 1991 - 193 páginas
 

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Página 134 - The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public schools, wherein all the children of this Commonwealth, above the age of six years, may be educated, and shall appropriate at least one million dollars each year for that purpose.
Página 80 - The GLASS MANUFACTORY in Salem County West Jersey is for sale with 1500 Acres of Land adjoining. It contains two Furnaces with all the necessary Ovens for cooling the Glass, drying Wood, etc. Contiguous to the Manufactory are two...
Página 41 - ... do them no harm, but are a very kind and loving people ; the men do nothing but hunt, and the women they plant Corn, and work at home : they come and trade among the Christians with skins or Venison, or Corn, or Pork, And in the summer time, they and their Wives come down the Rivers in their Canoes, which they make themselves of a piece of a great tree, like a little Boat, and there they Fish and take Oysters.
Página 80 - Philadelphia, eight miles from the county seat of Salem and half a mile from a good mill. There are about 250 Acres of cleared Land within fence 100 whereof is mowable meadow, which produces hay and pasturage sufficient for the large stock of Cattle and Horses employed by the Manufactory. There is Stabling sufficient for 60 head of Cattle with a large Barn, Granery and Waggon House.
Página 80 - Made at the subscriber's Glass Works between 300 and 400 boxes of Window glass consisting of common sizes 10 X 12, 9 X 11, 8 X 10, 7 X 9, 6 X 8. Lamp glasses or any uncommon sizes under 16 X 18 are cut on short notice. Most sort of bottles, gallon, % gallon, and quart, full measure % gallon cafe bottles, snuff and mustard bottles also electrofying globes and tubes &c.
Página 80 - A Glass House was erected about Twenty years ago in Salem County, which makes Bottles, and a very coarse Green Glass for windows used only in some of the houses of the poorer Sort of People.
Página 148 - Albion and Leonidas Dodson, eds., Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal, 1775-1776 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1934), 14-15, 30; Freeman H.
Página 94 - Robert Lettis Hooper. — The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 28, 1753. No. 1279. To be Sold. The Iron-works at Cohansie, in Cumberland county, with 1000 acres of land, well timber'd; the forge house is 40 feet long and 30 feet wide, with one fireplace already built, and a good head of water. Any person inclining to purchase the same, may apply to Samuel Barnes, living on the premises. — The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 28, 1753.
Página 80 - ... Mill, a rolling Mill for the preparing of Clay for making of Pots; and at a suitable distance are ten Dwelling houses for the Workmen; as likewise a large Mansion-house, containing six Rooms on a Floor, with Bake-house and Washhouse: Also a convenient Store-house, where a well assorted retail Shop has been kept above 30 years; is as good a stand for the sale of goods as any in the county, being situated one mile and half from 2 navigable creeks where shallops load for Philadelphia, eight miles...
Página 64 - October, annually, at which all persons were at liberty to buy and sell all manner of lawful goods, wares, and merchandise, and also were to be free from arrest for the two fair days, and for two days before and two days after the fair. But after some time this privilege came to be abused, — so much so, that a town meeting was held on the 15th April, 1698 : " It being then taken into consideration, that since fairs have...

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