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O F THE O LD PR E SBYTERIAN CO NGRE GATIO N O F “ THE PEO PLE O F M AIDE NHEA D AND HO PEWE L L ” , M O R E ESPECIALL Y O F THE irzt rezb ieria n a rch n u ewell g y , P E NNINGT N NE E R SE Y O , W J , ’ DELIV ERED AT TH E P ASTO R S RE$ U EST, a b a h M o r n i n J u l 2 d 1 8 7 6 O n S b t g , y , , BY TH E AL E E R E E D . D . R . O G é V G , , AT A T R F HE H R H L ELY P S O O T C U C . P H I L A D E L P H I A R E S O F H E R A H E A P S N Y B . S M D , No 102 04 T T s 1 11 SAN M E . SO S RE 1876. Th e foll o w i n g co r re sp o nde nce w ill e xpla in t h e a pp e a ra nce in p r int of thi s His t or i c a l Di sco u rs e : l P E xxl xc r ox, Ju y 5, 1876. E v B. E HA R . D G E O GE LE — D EAH BROTH ER Pl e a s e a cc e pt o u r s ince re th a nk s fo r t h e inte re s ting a n d e la bo a e se r m o e e e i n o u r c u c J u 2d 1876 so a o r a e t o t h e Ge e r t n d liv r d h r h ly , , ppr p i t nt n a e a o f o u r a o W e w e a r e a fi e t o k o w h a s h a l fi n d a sa e ni l y r n ti n . hil g r ti d n t t it l f a ce t h e a ch e s of t h e P s b e r a H s o r c a Soc e w e a s k t h e r e e of pl in r iv re yt i n i t i l i ty, p ivil g h a v u b s e a w e m a h a e o u r ome s a n d e e t o t h e ma ing it p li h d, th t y v it in h xt nd it ny c o se a e t o o u r Ch u ch w os e h s o r i s a a ce u r o e h a o u r a o a l ly lli d r , h i t y h lf nt y ld r t n n ti n l e xi s te nce . T a s t or . DA E L R . F S ER P NI O , E L DE BS. F S OH . H N Y . I J S E B U R D D A L C . T xr t s E R B E RR E , , e , , r x AM . K E T HA x E xO CH A . T i c s XA T H . H A R T S U EL B C , JO A S , , ‘ . S M H HA R T BS S VA S VE OHN . M UTHHE TD J T JO . CL E J G I , , , W S R A Z A m A H HO ST G EORG E O O E Y JOH E . B U D , LS , , A P H E E T V E S THA S S . HA T R L G . PE ER . D . SCH SCK , JO A E , A W . D ANI . a s N T V . L ELL EL C JO A HAN B CK , R AL P H E O E . P E xs xxc r ox Ju 6 1876. , ly , . O T a n d h e To R E V DANIEL R . F ER S , t E e s D e a co s a n d T r u s e e s O f Pe t o Ch u ch . ld r , n t nning n r — BE LO V ED BE E T HE E x z I che e r fu lly co mply w ith t h e re q u e s t co nta in e d in you rs of h 5 h s s o r bl a o . t e t . a n d a c e t h e sc ou e ou h a s f u c in t , pl di r in y r nd p i ti n W s ce e e a s o u s e e ith in r r g rd , y r v r, GE O R GE HAL E . A t t h e m e e o f t h e G e e a A s se mb of t h e P e s b e r a n Ch u ch h e M a ting n r l ly r yt i r , ld y , 1875 C e e a h o t h e ol o w i e so u o s w e e a do e , in l v l nd, O i , f l ng r l ti n r pt d ' Th a t h e fi s a u l 18 6 de s i a e a o 1. S bba J 7 b e n t d a s da f h a k s t r t th in y, , g y t n g iving a n d a s e t o Go d for t h e ma o b e s si s w w He h a s o w u s pr i , nif ld l ng ith hich cr n e d a s a p e o pl e . “ ‘ 2. Th a t h e a s o o f e a c ch u c h e e a sco u s e o n a da i f n o t r e t p t r h r d liv r di r th t y , p ” s vi o u sl o e o n t h e H o of h i s C h u c . y d n , i t ry r h I E HISTO RICAL D SCO URS . T LL E YO U CH ILD N AND E YO U CHI LD N T LL TH I E Y R RE OF IT , L T R RE E E R — 3 l . CHI N TH I CHILD N AN TH N ATI N . oe L DR O G R O J . E , AND E R RE ER E E i IT is just t w o hundred yea rs yesterday since t h e oldP r ovi n ce L i n e Ne w , the division line between East fi x e d—a Jersey and West New Jersey, was compromise of vast importance t o the peace and prosperity of New w a s Jersey . This concluded by a deed between George Carteret Of the on e part and the trustees of 1 Edward Billinge on the other . July , 2 1 4 I 0 66 I . n Already, March , , Charles , Ki g of Great t n n Britain , had , by royal charter, made an ex e sive gra t of territory in America to his brother James , the Duke f 2 f o . 3 d o York On the June , in the same year, James conveyed to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkley the section which was then for the first time named New Jersey, with boundaries corresponding exactly with the present limits of this State . Sir George Carteret sold t out his right in the part, which subsequently bore he of Fe n w i ck e fo r name West Jersey , to John , as trustee t Edward Billinge and others . This sec ion having been divided into one hundred parts and distributed among the proprietors , the tract called the thirty thousand 6 acres above the Falls of the D elaware fell to the lo t of w h o on 20t h Thomas Sadler and Edward Billinge , , the 1685 ou t of October, , sold their title and interest to Dr . Daniel Cox , Of London . This is the original town of of ship Hopewell, the first accurate survey which 103 extant is to be found in the Book of Surveys , page , f of in the o fice the Secretary of State at Trenton , hav “ ing the marginal note R e -survey of Hopewell tract Col . CO X for , P T M B 1 S 0 . E E ER , 7 7 Resurveyed then for Coll . Daniel Cox , his tract of land called Hope well , beginning at the upper corner of the same by the river Delaware , lo w at a whit e oak corner in the land , and runs thence East South East c fourty hain to a markt maple and hickory for a corner , then east three hundred and one chain to a white oak for a corner , then north by west one hundred and sixty five chain to a white oak corner , then East two hundred sixty four chain to a white oak corner , then again East two hundred and fourty chains to a white oak corner in a line Called the n Scotch line , or line of partitio between East and West Jersey , then along the said line neare South South West four miles and thirty two o a k chains to a white corner in the line of Maidenhead Indian purchase , a then alonge the s id line , south west and south south west to the head O f Sh a b b a con ck a creek called little , then south west to a creek called Sh a b b a kon k fi ve t Great , then down by the same y six chaine to a tree for markt a corner on the south west side thereof, the south west eighty h li i cke r two c ain to a y corner to land surveyed to Thomas Hutchinson , then by the same North West two hundred eighty five chaines to a hick ' r r n e r e y co by the land surveyed to Pope and Wetherill , then bounded by the same by a line North East seventy three chains and East by f E le a ve n South ourty nine chaine , and South chaine and East by South fi ve t y six chaine , and North by East one hundred and three chaines and f a hal e , and west sixty four chains , and South West by West one hundred h i k e r De lla w a r f and ninety eight chaine to a c y corner at the a oresaid , and so bounded up by the said river to the .