Collections Author:New Jersey Historical Society Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I. A HISTORICAL MEMOIR OP THE CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO AND CONNECTED WITH SETTLEMENT OF NEWARK, MA.Y, 166O, ' BY W. A. WHITEHEAD. MEMOIR.... more » Two Hundred Years! The words are uttered with so little effort, so readily does the ear receive them, that the mind fails to realize, at once, their full significance. Two hundred years! Although in the long procession of the ages, during which the Universe has been moving onward in its mysterious circuit, the period may be scarcely appreciable—a mere point in the pathway of the untold centuries—yet who can estimate its vast proportions when regarded through the long vista of the every-day occurrences, and the individual experiences which have marked its passage ; the joys and sorrows, the hopes and fears, the disappointments and successes, the trials, the projects of living, throbbing hearts; all the conflicting, yet strangely harmonizing, concomitants of the earthly existence of all those who have been born and lived and died during its continuance? Such an occasion as this, therefore, is fraught with unusual interest, for we commemorate this day an event, which, two hundred years ago, like a stone dropped in an unruffled lake, setin motion in the great ocean of Time, the circling eddies of never ending results that, in their unbroken, never-ceasing undulations onward, have evolved, and now surround us here, to-day, with all we see of civilization andprosperity, and whose ultimate effects we can neither realize nor imagine. It is well, therefore, that we should turn our attention, for a brief period to the circumstances which preceded what was of such momentous import. It was in the Spring of 1666 that two or more diminutive vessels, after carefully passing from the harbor of New York through the Kill van Kull,...« less