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Print book : Biography : English Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2014 190 pages ; 23 cm ISBN 9781626196209 1626196206 Contents: Foreword / by Richard Veit, PhD -- 1. New Jersey's Birth Certificate : The Original 1664 Deed -- 2. Children as Chattel : The Putting Out of Francis Jackson's Children -- 3. Guns and Ankers for Land : Native American Land Transfers -- 4. Colonial Currency and the Land Bank : The Birth of the Modern Land Recording System -- 5. African American Landownership : How Caesar Abrahams Outwitted the Slave Codes of 1714 -- 6. Fair Haven Was a Safe Haven : Jacob Brown's Dream -- 7. Property Owning Property : The Jobes Homestead in Fairhaven -- 8. Hoboken : The Last Attainder -- 9. Scandalous Speeches and Insinuations : The Assault Against the Body of Aleha Prest -- 10. Other Good and Valuable Consideration : The Stamps of War -- 11. No Justice for Mr. Glenn -- 12. The Silk King's Treasure : Catholina Lambert -- 13. New Jersey to Delaware : Crossing the State Line without Getting Your Feet Wet -- 14. Why Doesn't New Jersey Dump Its Garbage on Staten Island? -- 15. Public Burials on Private Lands : Lost Gravestones in the English Neighborhood -- Appendix: Important Dates in New Jersey Land Title History -- Abstract: "New Jersey's land records and deeds are unlikely sources for a thrilling tale but reveal little-known, fascinating history. A detailed story of the founding of the Garden State 350 years ago is preserved in these papers. The state's boundaries were drawn in such documents centuries ago, even if the authors never stepped foot in North America. The archives hide heroes, like the freed African Americans who fought for their right to own their piece of the state. And of course, there are the bizarre and mysterious tales, like the silk baron's castle and the assault against a sixteen-year-old maiden during the throes of the American Revolution. Join land title expert Joseph Grabas as he combs through these all-but-forgotten stories of the pursuit of happiness and property in early New Jersey"-- Glossary of Land Title Terms.

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