West Side High School - Lamp Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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wrapping up three Important events often prove a time to take inventory of accomplishments and shortcomings. This year our city will wrap up its two hundredth and ninety-ninth year of working for liberty, peace and prosperity. If one could follow the story of our city from its humble beginning to the present day, he would appreciate the dignity and opportunity of Ye Towne on Ye Pesayak. Newark has blessed its people with opportunity, from the time of the Pilgrims until our own time. As our city pauses on the threshold of the tri-centenarv year, it is fitting that its future citizens review the history of Newark. One could buy Newark in 1666 for fifty double hands of powder, one hundred bars of lead, 20 axes, 20 coatcs, 10 guns, 20 pistols, 10 kettles, 10 swords, 4 blankets, four barrells of beer, 10 pairs of breeches, 50 knives, 20 bowes, 850 fathem of warn pen, 2 ankors of licqucrs and 3 troopes coates. On July 11, 1667, thirty Puritan families from Connecticut under the leadership of Robert Treat purchased from the Hackensack Indians our home town. Tin's tract of land from the mountains to the Passaic River was a wilderness cut by Indian trails which the natives used to travel from Delaware, their K66-I96S

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centuries of progress i — J e Black ntemlftaarnt represent r is Heme. Lets of Ute wJuLbitemts from, ©rd-, and Oit Open forrti futures thr , oft x mJuxhuanXJ n. Brwi ford mthe order u tr+ush they-are named, on rnqee U1 and bS. o Early Map of Newark showing the distribution of Home Lots