Author: Frances A. Johnson Westervelt
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Category : Bergen County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: David C. Major
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838641521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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David Demarest or des Marets married Marie Sohier in 1643 in Middleburg the Netherlands. They emigrated in about 1663 and settled first in New York and later in New Jersey.

Author: Alan J. Karcher
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813525662
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Alan J. Karcher takes a critical look at how and why the boundary lines of New Jersey's 566 municipalities were drawn, pointing to the irrationality of these excessive divisions.

Author: James M. Van Valen
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Category : Bergen County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 770

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Author: Rick Geffken
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467146676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Dutch and English settlers brought the first enslaved people to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. By the time of the Revolutionary War, slavery was an established practice on labor-intensive farms throughout what became known as the Garden State. The progenitor of the influential Morris family, Lewis Morris, brought Barbadian slaves to toil on his estate of Tinton Manor in Monmouth County. "Colonel Tye," an escaped slave from Shrewsbury, joined the British "Ethiopian Regiment" during the Revolutionary War and led raids throughout the towns and villages near his former home. Charles Reeves and Hannah Van Clief married soon after their emancipation in 1850 and became prominent citizens of Lincroft, as did their next four generations. Author Rick Geffken reveals stories from New Jersey's dark history of slavery.

Author: William Starr Myers
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806350369
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1344

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Author: Bergen County (N.J.). Justices and Freeholders
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Category : Bergen County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: William H. Shaw
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Category : Essex County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Category : Bergen County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Scott M. Deitche
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442267305
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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The Mafia in the United States might be a shadow of its former self, but in the New York/New Jersey metro area, there are still wiseguys and wannabes working scams, extorting businesses, running gambling, selling drugs, and branching out into white collar crimes. And they are continuing a tradition that’s over 100 years old. Some of the most powerful mobsters on a national level were from New Jersey, and they spread their tentacles down to Florida, across the Atlantic, and out to California. And many of the stories have never been told. Deitche weaves his narrative through significant, as well as some lesser-known, mob figures who were vital components in the underworld machine. New Jersey’s organized crime history has been one of the most colorful in the country, serving as the home of some of the most powerful, as well as below-the-radar, mobsters in the Country. And though overshadowed by the emphasis on New York City, the mob and New Jersey have, over the years, become synonymous, in both pop culture and in law enforcement. But for all the press that has been dedicated to the mob and New Jersey, for all the law enforcement activity against the mob, and for all the pop culture references, there has never truly been an examination of the rise of the mob in New Jersey from a historical perspective. Until now. In Garden State Gangland, Scott M. Deitche sets the historical record straight by providing the first overall history of the mob in New Jersey, from the early turn of the century Black Hand gangs to the present, and looks at how influential they were was, not only to goings-on the Garden State but across the New York metro region and the country as a whole.