Stevens Institute of Technology - Link Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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Stevens-From the Beginning A Sketch N the log of the Half Moon, that staunch little ship of Henry Hudson and his daring crew, we find the earliest record of C'astle Point. Due to an en- counter with the Indians of Manhattan Island, Hudson was. in the year 1609, forced to anchor in 1Yeehawken Cove. The serpentine rocks of an adjacent cliff made such an impression on Robert Juet, the mate, that he wrote an account of it in his logbook, attributing the color to the presence of a Copper or Silver Myne. The island from which this cliff jutted,was well known to the Indians long before Hudson's time and was called by them Hopoghan Ii2ll'lilllgl1N or Land of the Pipe Bowl, as it was there that they secured the stone from which they fash- ioned their pipe bowls. It was by transforming this name that the Dutch arrived at the present name of Hoboken. The territory of Hoebuck was, in 1680, transferred by the Indians to Michael l'auw, Burgomaster of Amsterdam. Ownership changed many times. due both to political reasons and to the depredations of the moody Indians, although it may be said that the Indians had good cause for their attacks on the Dutch. It is inter- esting to note that the first brewery in America was built in Hoboken in 16-1-0. Even though it was the only one ever built here, Hoboken soon acquired, and held for many years, a most envied reputation in the consumption of the foamy drink. The career of the island was varied and tumultuous through the time of the Revolution. At the beginning of the Revolution the island was owned by 1Yilliam Bayard who had built a mansion and many barns and planted large orchards. His sympathies were for the Colonists for a time, but when New York fell in 1775. he became a Tory. Thus it was that his land became subject to raids by both armies. Before the end of the war his buildings had been razed, his orchards destroyed, and his livestock driven away. As he had taken arms against his country, Bayard's estate at Hoebuck was confiscated by the State of New Jersey and sold at public T-uwrly-four