^ .\^ ^■ * ' . \ s 'f ^ r ■-0 L-' ^ VI, .0^ • .I'D * _r-S-W^ ^' O "^^ "^ .0 SI ^ ^0 - ^m o 0^ ^ "^^^ < 9: " /■ ^..^ .-x^ •< '■"^. " r'o ^" a6 ^ -; J^ -^ ^ - - ' -^^-^ -^o. : .,%*% 0' X X^^^, ^'' ^ "^ « ». V ^ oo^ cc^ -n^. k"^ 'X^ -^.o. -J ^7 ,* OO^ "t. V^ ^0°^, ^ ^^,.-v n\^ .^ -n^. V^^^. '^./. * 9 . v>\ ^■- \ T^v- PRESS OF DELEEUW & OPPENHEIMER, 231 WILLIAM ST., N. Y ^inwRm V" ^V.^» iljjin.*' "I^MK; New Jersey Coast AND Pines. AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE-BOOK (WITH ROAD-MAPS). BY ^ ''A -iiery good land to fall in ivith^ and a pleasant land to sec^^ — Log-Book OF THE Half" Moon, Sept. 2, i6og. ( A' 271889 ^71889 Co pvKiGHT, 18 89. '^-^AsHmGio^^ SHORT HILLS, N. J. 1889. GUSTAV KOBB^. fee- tv ,m:mtMfr>' »YiWU, a jl HtlJ M W W " j^^'^r' . 't if? Wit- '^WT'- V^f'r^'^- * p ■ \ a)i o o z o w H OQ A U m If v.-.TC'TOa^^t ^f*^ ' ^ ' "^ '*' " ' "' ' ""^ -7 0^ PREFACE. THIS aims to be an accurate descriptive guide-book to the Jersey Coast— from Sandy Hook to At- lantic Cit}' — and to the Jersey Pine Plains. New York City is taken as the starting-point, and the Sandy Hook and Jersey Southern routes as those respectively to the Coast and Pines ; although one chapter, for the sake of completeness, describes the all-rail route via the N. Y. and Long Branch R. P., whose rates of fare are also included in the table of railroad fares in the Introduction. The illustrations, many of them from photographs by the author, and the maps, the first four of which are road-maps and almost in themselves a guide-book, were made especially for this work. Two fonts of type were adopted, in order to bring into sharp contrast the description of the Coast as it is and the historical portions which refer to the Coast as it was. Many historical incidents, some of them the result of original research, have been introduced ; and doubtless not a few people who considered them- selves familiar with the Coast and Pines will be surjirised to discover how much romantic interest is attached to many of the places herein described. The author will esteem it a favor if any one dis- covering errors of commission or omission will call his attention to them. RATES OF RAILROAD FARE. (Commutation, Single Thip and Excuusion.) l^KW Y^OR-K AT*{0 I^0:NG BRAT^CH R. R. NEW YOUK 1 Mo. Sewareu Perth Am boy, $9 50 10 50 South Amboy Morgau Cliffvvood Matawan ... . Hazlet Middletown. . Red liank 13 00 14 00 15 00 15 00 16 00 17 00 18 00 Little Silver . . Branchport. . . Long Branch 23 00 25 00 25 00 West End Elberon. Deal Beach North Asbury Park — Ocean Grove and ( Asbury Park ( Key East Ocean Beach Como Spring Lake Sea Girt Manasquan Brielle Point Pleasant 25 00 27 00 29 00 30 00 30 00 33 00 33 00 35 00 35 00 36 00 38 00 39 00 40 00 2 Mos. $18 50 18 50 23 70 23 70 27 34 28 90 30 00 81 00 33 00 38 00 42 00 42 00 42 00 44 00 47 00 49 00 49 00 52 00 52 00 55 00 55 00 56 00 58 00 59 00 59 00 3 Mos. $2:^00 24 00 31 80 31 00 37 26 39 GO 42 00 43 00 45 00 50 00 54 00 54 00 6 Mos. 12 Mos. $42 00 $77 50 42 00 77 50 57 00 57 60 60 00 60 00 62 00 64 00 67 00 85 00 87 00 90 00 90 00 93 00 95 00 100 00 73 00,110 00 77 00 115 00 77 00 115 00 54 00 57 00 59 00 62 00 62 00 65 00 65 00 70 00 70 00 71 00 73 00 73 00 73 00 77 00 81 00 85 00 115 00 122 00 129 00 90 00 137 00 90 00 137 00 96 00 96 00 102 00 102 00 102 00 104 00 104 00 104 00 145 00 145 00 1.55 00 155 00 1.55 00 158 00 158 00 158 00 Single Trip. $0 52 CO 70 70 70 70 75 85 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 10 1 20 1 20 1 50 1 50 1 50 NEMT JKRSEY SOVXHE^RX R. R. Tickets Good only via Sandy Hook and Boat. NEW YORK TO Atlantic Highlands.. Sandy Hook Highland Beach Navesink Beach Normandie Rumson Beach Sea Bright Low Moor Galilee Monmouth Beach . . . North Long Branch. Long Branch. N. J. S. Branchport. Oceanport . . Eatontown . Lakewood. . 1 Mo. $21 21 21 21 21 21 23 24 24 24 25 25 25 00 25 00 25 00 39 00 2 Mos. 3 Mos. 54 00 54 00 54 00 72 00 6 Mos. $67 67 67 67 67 67 70 74 74 74 77 77 77 00 77 00 77 00 100 00 12 Mos. 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 105 00 110 00 no 00 110 00 115 00 115 00 Siuirle Trip. 115 00 1 115 00 1 115 00 1 1.50 00 1 3 =* m 1 Oit 1 00 1 00 1 45 9( Single Trip and Excursion Kates to other places: Toms River, ^_._ 3.00 ; Barnegat Park, $2.00, 3.25 ; Cedar Creek, $2.10, 3.35 ; Forked Rivei $2.20. 3.45 ; Waretovv^n, $2.25, 3.65 ; Barnegat, $2.35, 3.80 ; Atlantic Cit $3.25, 4.75 ; Viueland, $3.25, 4.75 ; Bridgeton, $3.25, 5.25. i^SlJ-i-^^^^;y^; B/iu/hton (T6m_p*fcins ¥4, ifbn ^ ' /+ tA • , /".No. as 1.5 *'Fj' ^ : I • .Upper ^"^ • I \ No. 1^1 --feo-* I .-^9 — ..^ '■"!^1— —J?-^' A /U0.9 |art. This was neccessary when the roads were sandy and were worn into well-defined ruts. The whole subject of road-laws is, at this writing, before the New Jersey Legisla- ture, and it is probable that obsolete laws will be repealed and a new law passed, one of whose important provisions will place important roads under the jurisdiction of the county, to be maintained and kept in good oi der by it. Where rates of bathing, boat and carriage hire are officially regu- lated, they are given in their proper place in the body of the book. Information concerning the sport to be had on Barnegat Bay will be found on p. 34. The principal sport north of the bay is ocean fishing from surf-boats. The best grounds are the Shrewsbury rocks (hardened marl) off Sea Bright (p. 17) ; but fishermen put off from all along the coast. The chai'ges at Sea Bright for a morning's fishing vary from $5 to $20, the higher charge being made when the fishing is very good, when, indeed, it is difficult to get a fishei'man to take you out at any price. At the resorts further south, better bargains may be driven, "and. at Asbury Park, sail boats lie off shore, ready to take passengers fishing, for SI each ; or sailing, for 50 cents each. The Game and Fish Laws of New Jersey may be found in " Fur, Fin and Feather," a pamphlet to be had of dealers in sporting goods. Life-Saving Service.— The following is taken chiefly from an article contributed by the author to Harper's Weeklrj (January 21, 1888) : Our coasts are as thoroughly sentinelled from Septeml)er 1st to May 1st as is a fortress in time of war. Through the icy blast of a winter's tempest, through snow and sleet, the life-saver patrols the shore, peering into the darkness beyond the roaring surf. The outlines of a vessel barely to be seen in the "mirk," the booming of a gun, a cry for help, mean for him a perilous conflict with the sea for lives it would claim its victims. The signal which he flashes through the storm revives hope in those who had given themselves up for lost, and inspires them to hold out in their struggle for life until their rescue can be at- tempted. Their peril is known to men sti'ong of frame, stout of heart, The natural history of the State will be treated of in the filial report f I'lof. (Jcor^re II. Co<»k, tlic State Cieolojiist. of New Mi-niiswick, N. J. lie pulilications of tlie Survey can usually he oht;iiiie(i hy ihose who re suttieiently interested in the siihjeets covered by it to ai)i)ly to tlie tate (Jeoloffi.st. Climate. — The chniate of the Jersey coast is cooler in Summer and lilder in Winter tlian tliat of the Middle and New i'^nylaiid States, anci lie weather anioiii;- the pines in Winter is delijilitfully modei-ate aiul ((uuhle. In tlu; Winter months the proximity of tlie (Julf Stream has he effect of elevatin;; tlie temperature in tlie vicinity of the ocean: ^'hile in Summer the effect is reversed, tliis Ixmuk' due to a cold euri-ent unniniJ: southward between the coast and the Gulf Stream. Tlie sea ree/.es which render the Jersey coast such a cool retreat from the heat f the city and the interior are caused by the uiu'qual heatiny of the md and water surfaces. The air over the land is heated and expands •ivini; rise to ascending;' currents, when the cooler air over the water h)ws toward the land. This movement begins with the heating; of the and toward noon (about 11a. m.); reaches its Tuaximum v(docity about : p. >[., then lessens as the land cools and ceases about nijilit-fall. The thermometric record does not show clearly why the Jersevcoast s a pleasant place of residence in Winter ; for the differences in tem- lerature between New York and New England and this coast ajipear to )e slight. " Still it must be stated," says Prof. Cook, "that as yet our neteorological observatories cannot analyze, as it were, the air, and loti^ small fractional percentage of constituents which may be in the lir, and of which the consumption, in the course of a seaside visit is, in he aggregate, comparatively potent in its effect upon the human system. These uiimeasurable or rarely-noted factors may enliance the infiuence )f a slightly milder and more eqiuible temperature in Winter. To per- lons coming from New England and New York, or from the colder Northwest, these seashore places appear warm and i)leasant, and even :o the residents of our large cities, whose \\'inter temi)cratm'es are not nuch lower and whose climates are not greatly diffei-ent, the effect of )ut-of-door life at the seaside is tonic." These facts are bec(miing gen- jraily recognized and the time may not be distant when Sea Bright, Long Branch, Asbiu-y Park and the shores of Uarnegat Bay will be re- ported to in Winter almost as much as in Summer. History.— August 28, KiOi), Henry Hudson, in the employ of the Fast India Company of Amsterdam, entered Delaware IJay in tlu; Ihilf Moon. Having explored the Pay, he sailed northward, and on the 3d of Sep- tember aiKihored in Sandy Hook Pay, where he remained until Septem- ber I-^th, when h(> jiassed through tin; NTirrows into New York P>ay and liscovered thiM-iver which hears his name. Not long after Hudson "s etarii to Holland, the Amsterdam Licensed Trading West India Com- pany fitted out five shii)s. In oni; of these ('apt. Cornelius Jacobsen Mey explored and traced out the shores and channels of Pelaware Pay. C;ap»^ May was named in his honor. In 1()-,*1 the various Dutch exploring companies were merged into the Dutch West India Company, and two of its directors, Uodyn and Pioemart. i)nrchased of the Indians the i>c- ninsula of Cape May and a considerable jiart of Cumbei-land County. When, howev(!r, De Viies visited Capt^ May in 1G30, he found that the colonists had either pei'ished or gone el.sewhei'c. In March, lG(i4, (;liarles II, King of Knglainl, totally disregarding the rights of the Dutch in New Netherlands, granted the whole i-egion ex- tending from the w(>stern bank of the Connecticut to the eastern bank of the I)elawar*% together with Long Island, to Ids biv>ther . lames. Duke of York, and Kichard Nicolls, who was despatched with a licet to New Amsterdam, compelled the surrender of New Nethei-lands by I'eter Stuyvesant to England, April IT. l(i()5. Nicolls, by a deed now known as the Monmouth Patent, granted unto certain patentees and their associ- ates a goodly portion of wliat is now Monnioiith County. .Meanwhile, the Duke of York liad granted to Lord Perkeley and Sir (ieorge Cartci-et all that yiiwt of his grant between the Hudson and Delaware Pivers.and south of 41° 40' uorth latitude, said territory to be called New Jersey, in X honor of Sil- George, who, as Governor of the Island of Jersey, had held, it for the king in his contest with Parliament. Berkeley and Carteret sent out Philip Carteret as Governor of New Jersey, and he, on May 28, 1672, confirmed the Nicolls Patent unto "James Grover, John Bownc. Richard Hartshorne, Jonathan Holmes, patentees, and James Ashon and John Hanse, associates, impowered by the patentees and associates of the towns of Middlttown and Shrewsbury," which had been estab- lished under the Nicolis patent. In March, 1673, Berkeley sold his share of the proprietorship to John Fenwick and Edward Byllinge, Quakers. In July, 1673, the Dutch recaptured New York. New Jersey, which they called Achter Kol ("Beyoud-the-Hills "), also fell into their hands. Their sway was brief. New Jersey reverting to England by treaty in 1674. July'l, 1676, in adjustment of claims by those holding under Ber- keley and those holding under Carteret, New Jersey was divided by a line drawn from Little Kgg Harbor Inlet to a point on the Delaware, in latitude 41*^ north, into East and West Jersey, the former remaining subject to Sir George Carteret. Numerous dissensions among the pro- prietors in West Jersey led them, in 1702, to surrender the rights of government to the crown, and the Jerseys were reunited by Queen Anne, who appointed Lord Cornbury Governor of New York and New Jersey. In 1708 New Jersey obtained an administration distinct from that of New York, and Lewis Morris was appointed governor. The last royal governor was William Franklin, the natural son of Benjamin Franklin. New Jersey's Revolutionary governor was William Living- ^ ston. The battle of Monmouth was fought within the territory covered |j by this book, and the coast and Pines were the scene of many exciting incidents. These and other historical data will be found in their proper place in the body of the work. Since the Revolution, the history of the State has been that of its agricultural and industrial development. Indian History.— The aborigines whom the white settlers found in New Jersey were a portion of the Delaware Nation. They were so called by the whites, but were known among themselves as the Lenni Lenape Nation. The Jersey coast and the Pines were inhabited by two branches of the Lenni Lenape— the Unamis or Turtles and the Una- lachtos or Turkeys These branches in turn comprised numerous tribes, among them the Navesinks, Assanpinks, Matas, Shackamaxons, Chi- chequaas (Cheesequakes), Raritans, Nanticokes and Tutelos. There were two Indian paths from the interior to the coast which in the early days were used by the whites as highways— the Minisink and Burlington paths. The former, starting at Minisink, on the upper Dela- ware, passed through Sussex, Morris, Union and Middlesex counties, crossed the Raritan by a ford about three miles above its mouth, and ran through the village of Middletown to Clay Pit Creek on the Nave- sink, and tlience to the mouth of that river. The Burlington path started from Crosswicks, at a junction of two paths, i-espectively from Trenton and Burlington; ran to Freehold, whose main street is on the old path, and thence toward Middletown, near which place it joined the Minisink path. A branch from below Freehold led through Tinton Falls to Long Branch. The only Indian settlements whose sites have been identified are that at Crosswicks and one not far from the Nave- sink ford on the Raritan. George Fox and John Burnyeate, distin- guished members of the Society of Friends, crossed the State in March, 1672. "Toward evening we got to an Indian town," says Burnyeale in his journal, " and went to the Indian King's house, who received us very kindly, and showed us very civil respect. But, alas! he was so poorly provided, having got so little that day, that most of us could neither get to eat nor to drink in his wigwain; but it was because he had it not — so we lay, as well as he, upon the ground— only a mat under us, and a piece of wood or any such thing under our heads." The government of the province always recognized the title of the | Indians to the lands, and always insisted on a fair purchase of lands j from them. For this reason the white settlers never had trouble with \ the aborigines. In 1758, most of the Indians having sold their land agreed to the extinguishment of most of their titles, except the right to XVI and quick of thought, ready to risk their lives to save the lives of i others. This patrol of the coast distinguishes our Life-Saving Service from that of any other country. That it is an important feature of the service is self-evident. Many rescues have been effected off the coast of the United States in instances w^hen those succored would v^dthouB a doubt have perished had their peril not been discovered by the lift - saving patrol. Our service was cradled in a hut put up at Cohasset, Mass. — the first life-boat station on our coast— by the Massachusetts Humane Society . The first step taken by Congress in the direction of a National Life- Saving Service was the designation, in 1837, of certain revenue cutters to cruise along our coast in stormy weather. The first appropriatioji for the building of life-saving stations was secured for the New Jersey coast in 1848. It was not, however, until June. 1878, that Congress- passed the bill which made the present efficient organization ot the coast possible. The ma.iority of the surfmen employed by the service on the Jersej beach are sons of fishermen, and even" while still children aided in thoS launching and beaching of boats through the surf. Sometimes a crew" may have to stand on the beacli an hour, with hand on the gunwale and muscles strained, waiting for the keeper's command to launch. During' that hour the words " shove her in" would have been the dcntli-warrant of keeper and crew. When the command comes some sudden conflux of breakers and undertow may for the moment have smoothed a patli- way over which the launch can be effected. Surfmen Nos. 1 and 2 leap, into the bow, and with their o&vs hold it steadily seaward. With tlie mighty effort of the other four stalwart surfmen and the keeper the. boat is pushed off the beach. Asthesm"f boils around them the men vault over the gunwale, and seizing the oars, pull out to sea, while the keeper with the steering-oar— a rudder would be as useless as a piece of paper in such seas— pilots the little craft through the breakers, gauging: every wave as it approaches, so as to ride the boat safely over it. Be- sides the life-boat, the life-line and breeches-buoy are often brought ^ into requisition, a line being shot out to the vessel, whose crew makesl it fast, when a hawser, over which runs a "traveler," to which ai breeches-buoy is attached, can be hauled out to the ship. The firing of the line, and a rescue effected by this method are shown in the illus- tration. There are 41 stations on the Jersey coast, which is the Fourth Dis- trict, and the drills which are held daily after September 1st are alwa\ s watched with great interest by hotel guests and cottagers. The stations are about five miles apart. Two surfmen from each station go on patrol in opposite directions until each meets ri>si)(>ctively the patrol from the next stations, north and south. The surfmen exchange checks, which are delivered to the captains of the crews as evidence that the patrol was faithfully carried out. The night is divided into three patrols at sundown, 8 r. m., midnight, and 4 a. m. Each surfman carries a Costcju flash signal with which to warn vessels off shore or to notify vess<'ls in distress that they have been discovered. A handy little book, descriptive of the methods of the service, printed in English, German and French, by Lieutenant C. H. McLellan, U. S. R. M., is widely dis- tributed among masters of vessels, and has in many instances enabled them to intelligently assist the life-savers, whose "noble efforts were formerly not infrequently frustrated l)y the ignorance of those they were trying to sav(\ During the year covered by th(^ last report of tlie service vessels and cargoes valued at $7. 17j2,58() were in peril, and through the efforts of the service $5,881,735 worth of this imperilled j property was saved. r R^ A T m^,:H ^aV" \ ^^ V „ \ Sayrevil f.-^/ ^ ^ «->>-Ern3ton Lor^; an 5 A ' /C^r ■i^ 'Brook ' '-' ^ ^ ' V, mwA'i 207 IBrown !L '^^ ■■^\'- Wtxck ^^r^ I 5238 fills c / 7V / / ^L^-, y/ ) 141 \ ,1 N HILL ^"-fi ^208 kBrade^lt •f' 'ergen MiUs / 75 7 ; / llachJiIill [Oi.i f^'^^^/ /Vr> "V972 hp^^^V'^ ^ / o "s^'it^t qwdl JSta> i»^/ /^/ ^-^ -i^-^ CORRECTIO.N--THE STEAMER ROUTE SHOULD CONTINU V E It B A TU|„ Scale of Statute Miles. Rand.McNally 4- Co.,Ilngrave>-iU ; "- " -• 5.ri'. s. StaX?) : ^ V ^ ■ '^WKonnaudic IK TO ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS. NOT TO HIGHLANDS L. H. CHAPTER i. SANDY HOOK TO BAY HEAD. SANDY HOOK is a beach, five miles long and from one-half to one mile broad, joined to tlie mainland by a strip of sand running south to Monmouth Beach, with the Atlantic beating against it on the east and the swift tide of the Navesink glid- ing past it on the west. By far its greater portion preserves for ns the aspect of this coast centuries ago. For it is a primeval wilderness — within short sailing distance from New York — a dreary waste of sand, here heaped up in dunes, there scooped out into hollows by the wind, with storm-twisted cedars and coarse salt grasses, bidding .defiance to 3,000 miles of ocean, which of a winter's storm hurls its water in crash- ing confusion against this solitary outpost of the main- land. An indescribable sense of desolation occasionally comes over one while tramping through this wilderness. Fantastic trees, hirsute with streaming mosses, and the thick, soft layer under foot, formed by centuries' sheddingof needles and leaves, and deadening one's footsteps so that the muttering of the surf and the cries of hawks and gulls are heard with startling distinctness, give a touch of the weird to this remnant of our coast as it was in its savage state. Many a noble ship has been flung upon this desolate beach, and many a corpse washed ashore; and with a grim regard for the decencies of death the storm following a disaster begins heaping up sand around and over the victims of its predecessor; storm after storm lending a helping hand at the interment of ship and crew, until all evi- dence of the catastrophe has been covered up. This process is going on continuously. If, on the sea-beach, the ribs of a vessel are barely protruding from the sand, here is a yet unfin- islied grave. Sometimes one storm will ghoulishly disinter the remains that previous storms have buried. This occurred in the case of the ship Clydey which, on her first voyage, was wrecked on the Hook. Long after the sand had been heaped over the remains it was blown off again, and the ghastly wreck once more exposed. Sandy Hook has quadrupled in size since 1685, when it was first surveyed. The " Old Hook " is the undulating cedar-cov- I ored area now bounded north, northeast, and southeast of tlie N. J. S. R. R. pier in the Horseshoe by salt marshes. The sea-front, one-quarter to one-half mile wide and one mile to the north is new beach, formed by a current flowing north from the vicinity of Long Branch between False Hook (shoal) and the shore, which deposits along the Hook matter it has- taken into suspension on the way. The site of Sandy Hook light was in 1764, almost on the point of the Hook; since then the point has made to the northwest nearly a mile. The " Old Hook " is covered with a dense forest of cedars some of them four feet in circumference. The new formation is covered with a similar growth but on a smaller scale. Previous to 1778, Sandy Hook was connected with the Highlands of Nave- sink by a narrow isthmus or bar, and the Navesinkand Shrews- bury rivers were open to the ocean on the east through the Shrewsbury Inlet, there being no beach for about three miles north of what is now Seabright. Between 1777-78 a passage was broken through the isthmus; and tidal currents flowing through this channel allowed the waves to build up a sand reef which, by 1810, had closed the old Shrewsbury Inlet so that the river flowed through its present outlet until 1830 or 1831 when a second inlet was made by a break in the sand reef, and a bar, 50 yards wide, formed, again connecting Sandy Hook with the mainland by way of Island Beach, an island in the NavesiuK. About 1835, a ditch was cut through this bar, and the outlet into Sandy Hook Bay gradually re-opened. This resulted in the closing of the Shrewsbury Inlet; l)ut it opened again, and until 1848, when it closed, there were two inlets. These changes took place on the beach extending from the site of the present Normandie to a point one and one-half miles north of Highland Beach, the Shrewsbury Inlet having moved one mile northeast before it closed in 1848. The beach has shown a wear of 300 feet in forty years, and about one and one-half miles north of Highland Beach is only 50 yards wide. Its average width is 150 yards. Of latter years, bulkheads built by the railroad and property owners have decreased the wear. Sandy Hook was discovered by Henry Hudson v^^ho, September 4, 1609, anchored the Half Moon in the Horseslioe, Sandy Hook Bay. He found the Indians friendly. " This day the people of the country came aboard of us and seemed verj^ glad of our coming, and brought green tobacco leaves and gave us of it for knives and beads. They go in deer skins loose and w^ell dressed" (From the log-book of thQ Half Moon). Sun- day, September 6, John Coleman, one of Hudson's crew, started v^'ith four companif>ns in a small boat to explore the main coast, which they did, to Newark Bay. On their way back they were attacked by Indians, and Coleman was fatally wounded in the neck with an arrow. Cole- man's burial place cannot be identified. His shipmates called the spot Coleman's Point, but no such locality is now known. Some think it was on Sandy Hook, others on Point Comfort on the west shore of Sandy Hook Bay. The first wreck on Sandy Hook, of which we have record, wa s that of a Dutch vessel in 1620. Among the passengers was a Dutch woman and her husband, whose name is not known. The woman's maiden name was Penelope VanPrincis, born in Amsterdam in 1602. The crew and othor passeiif^ers got away to >;ew York, but Penelope's husband, having be