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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
The STATUE OF PETER STUYVESANT, NE. corner of Bergen Sq., stands in front of Public School IX. The figure of the irascible, wooden-legged last Dutch Governor was sculptured by Massey Rhind. An inscription notes the establishment in Bergen of the first organized church and the first school in New Jersey. The first teacher and voorleser, Engelbert Steenhuysen, was licensed in 1662 and allowed 250 gilders in wampum annually and "some other stipulations beside the school money ..."
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