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Novelist Frank R. Stockton in Stories of New Jersey sets out in narrativeform the history of Garden State beginning with the meetings in the CouncilHouse of the Lenape or Grandfather Tribe the landing of Henry Hudson atBergen Point and the colonymaking efforts of the West India Company ofHolland.On his way toward modern times Stockton stops to take in the most interestingand colorful tales from city and country such as that of Penelope Stoutshipwrecked and then attacked by a party of natives who then manages tosurvive within a hollowedout tree or that of the schoolmaster who discovershis oneroom schoolhouse is turning into a gambling house in the dead of nightStockton who lived from 1834 to 1902 was author of such other popular worksas Rudder Grange and John Gaythers Garden. «
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