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Hudson (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry pavonia
Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name.
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry pavonia
Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name.
Staten Island (New York, United States) (search for this): entry pavonia
Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name.
Hoboken (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry pavonia
Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name.
Pavonia (search for this): entry pavonia
Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name. Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name.
Michael Pauw (search for this): entry pavonia
Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name.
1630 AD (search for this): entry pavonia
Pavonia. Michael Pauw, one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, bought of the Indians (1630) a large tract of land in the present limits of New Jersey, including what are now Jersey City and Hoboken, to which he presently added, by purchase, Staten Island and neighboring districts, and became a patroon. This region was called Pavonia, and one of the ferries to New York City now bears that name.