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24 of 1660 had conveyed to the inhabitants "the lands with the meadows thereto annexed situated on the west side of the North River in Pavonia, in the same manner as the same was by us purchased of the Indians." Thus the freeholders of Bergen held all of what is now known as Hudson County.

The Schout and the Schepens soon had their hands full. The placid Dutchman had a placid way of insisting stubbornly