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Historical Booklet of Bernards Township NJ The Bicentennial 1760-1960
Historical Booklet of Bernards Township NJ The Bicentennial 1760-1960
Soft Cover stapled
86 pages + Telepages Map
Copyright May 1960
CONTENTS
Patent for Bernardston Township
Geology is Real Ancient History
Moggy Hollow, Partner of a Glacier, a Sight to Still Behold
Lake Passaic
Main Indian Trails Surrounding Bernards Township
Local Indian Artifacts
Our First Inhabitants
Original Land Purchases
Twice the Cost of Manhatten
First Settlers
Kirkpatrick Family Sailed from Scotland
Annin Family Settled at Liberty Corner
Baskin on the Ridge
The Mary Kinnan Story
Bernards During the Revolution
A general Named Lee
Lord Stirling
The Buildings
Drums Around Bernards
Lady Kitty Stirling
Lord Stirlings Raid on Staten Island
Lord Stirling at the Battle of Long Island
The Parade of French Soldiers
Excerpts from the French Observations
1781 Map of Route from Whippany to Bullions Tavern Liberty Corner
Villages, Hamlets and Crossroads
Ye Old Log Meeting-House
The Great Awakening
Stage-Lines and Mailmen
Slavery in Bernards
It Wasnt Loaded
Epitaphs from Under the Old Oak 1760
Map of Bernard
Topographical Map of Somerset Co New Jersey
Map of Basking Ridge
Map of Liberty Corner
Map of Bernardsville, Business Notices
The Three Rs
The Old Academy
Board $1.50 per week
The Community Drinking Cup
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The Presbyterian Church of Basking Ridge
The Presbyterian Church of Liberty Corner
Bishop Janes Methodist Church
St Marks Episcopal Church Basking Ridge
St James Church Basking Ridge
Fellowship Deaconry Inc Liberty Corner
Somerset Hills Lutheran Church Basking Ridge
The Millington Baptist Church of West Millington
POST CARD ALBUM
Lo! And Behold!
Wide Open Spaces
The Old Ox Road
The Mills here still
The Old Opry House
Yesterdays Confectionary & Todays Corner Cupboard
Before Face Lifting
The Presbyterian Manse at its old location
Before the Kids Raised the Roof
Watering Place for the Horsey Set
Main to Finley Mud to Paving
It was a Beauty Then
Firehouse Mouse School
Normal Sunday Traffic
All Rock, No Roll
And Still Going
Old Mt Prospect School at its old location
Old LC School
Old LC Manse
Still there but Changed
Still the Far Hills PO
Mine Brook School
An Old Liberty Corner Shop
In the Old Days called Vealtown
Carnival Days
Forges Mines Quarries Bernards Township Farms Mills Railroads
Bernards Industries
Lime Burning
Building Stone
Iron in the Hills
The Van Dorn Mill
The McMurtry Sawmill
The Bunn Mill
The Bernardsville Mill
Rails to Bernards
Asa Packer
Farms in Bernards
A Madisonville Factory
Other Mills
The Stone Crusher
A Tour Through Bernards Basking Ridge
Some of the Older Houses
A Tour Through Bernards Liberty Corner
Basking Ridge Fire Company No 1
School Saved
The White Elephant
Basking Ridge Fire Co No 1
50th Anniversary
Liberty Corner Fire Company
Water Shortage
Liberty Corner Fire Co
The First Aid and Rescue Squad of the Basking Ridge Fire Co No 1
Before Bernards Had Firemen
The Womans Club of Bernardsville
The Basking Ridge Historical Society
Boy Scouts of America
Basking Ridge Garden Club
Visiting Nurse Association
Girl Scouts
The Rotary Club
Veterans Administration at Lyons
League of Women Voters of Bernards Township
The Parent-Teacher Associations
The Womens Auxiliary of Liberty Corner Fire Co
Basking Ridge Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
Country Hills Garden Club of Somerset County
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Basking Ridge Fire Co No 1
The Kiwanis Club
Somerset Hills YMCA
Neill-Card Post #114 American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary Neill Card Unit #114
The Basking Ridge Library
Bernards Taxes Collectors Notice 1899
Photographs Odds & Ends
Airmail Terminal
The Ku Klux Klan Invades Basking Ridge
A United Community Comes into Being 1760
PATENT FOR BERNARDSTON TOWNSHIP
George the second by the grace of God of Great Brittain, France and Ireland, King defender of the faith. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting know ye - that we of our special grace certain knowledge and mere motion have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant for us our heirs and successors to the habitants of the northerly part of Somerset County in our province of New Jersey withinthe following boundarys, to witt, bounded northerly on Morris County, easterly by Essex County, southerly by Bridgewater Township and westerly by the Township of Bedminster to be and remain a perpetual township and community in word and in deed to be called none but the Township of Bernardston, saving to the Borough of Elizabeth their rights respecting town matters where the bounds of said borough incloses any part of the Township hereby erected except the assessing and levying of provintial taxes and we further grant to the said inhabitants of the Township aforesaid and their successors to choose annually a constable, overseers of the poor and overseers of the highways for the Township aforesaid, and to enjoy all the rights, libertys and immunitys that any other township in our said province do or may of right enjoy and these inhabitants are hereby constituted and appointed in the manner aforesaid. To have, hold, and enjoy the privilidges aforesaid to them and their successors forever, saving and excepting as aforesaid. In Testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent and the great seal of our said province of New Jersey to be here-unto affixed.
Witness our trusty and well beloved Francis Bernard, Esq., our captain general and governor in chief of our said province of New Jersey and territories thereon depending in America Chancellor and Vice-admiral in the same at our city of Perth - Amboy in our said province the twenty-forth day of May in the thirty third year of our reign and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty.
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