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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Murphy , Henry Cruse 1810 -1882 (search)
Murphy, Henry Cruse 1810-1882
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 5, 1810; graduated at Columbia College in 1830; admitted to the bar in 1833; elected to Congress in 1843 and 1846; was United States minister to Holland in 1857-61.
Throughout his life he was interested in the study of history, especially that pertaining to the period of Dutch ascendency in New York.
He translated and added notes to Voyage from Holland to America; Broad advice to the New Netherlands; The first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in the United States; Henry Hudson in Holland; An inquiry into the origin and objects of the voyage which led to the discovery of the Hudson River; Anthology of the New Netherlands, or translations from the early Dutch poets of New York, with memoirs of their lives.
He was the author of The voyage of Verrazano; and a Memoir of Hermann Ernst Ludewig.
He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1882.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
New Jersey,
One of the middle Atlantic States of the United States of America, lies between lat. 38° 56′ and 41° 21′ N., and long.
73° 53' 51″ and 75° 33′ W. It is bounded on the north by New York, east by New York and Atlantic Ocean, south by Delaware Bay, and west by Delaware and Pennsylvania, from which it is separated by the Delaware River.
Area, 8,715 square miles, in twenty-one counties.
Population in 1890, 1,444,933; 1900, 1,883,669.
Capital, Trenton.
Henry Hudson, in the ship Half Moon, enters Delaware Bay, Aug. 28, 1609, and coasts the eastern shore of New Jersey on his way to Sandy Hook, where he anchors......Sept. 3, 1609
First Dutch settlement on the Delaware is made near Gloucester, N. J., where Fort Nassau is built......1623
Capt. Thomas Young, receiving a commission from Charles I., sails up the Delaware River to Trenton Falls......Sept. 1, 1634
Number of English families settle on Salem Creek, at a place called by the Indians Asamohaking......164