. Scannell's New Jersey prima cittadini : biografie e ritratti di notevole vivono gli uomini e le donne del New Jersey con informazione scorci nello stato della storia e degli affari a ention whichNew Jersey ratificato la Costituzione statiuniti nel 1789. Col.John Stevens, nato nel 1749, washimself m American Armyand Tesoriere della nuova Jerseyduring la maggior parte della guerra theRevolutionary. Il suo cancelliere sistermarried Robert Liv-ingston, un celebre giurista di NewYork; e sua figlia divenne la moglie di Robert Fulton, che nella storia,è raffigurato come il pioniere Steam Boat uomo del paese. Col. Jo

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. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. ention at whichNew Jersey ratified the UnitedStates Constitution in 1789. Col.John Stevens, born in 1749, washimself m the American Armyand Treasurer of New Jerseyduring the greater part of theRevolutionary War. His sistermarried Chancellor Robert Liv-ingston, a famous Jurist of NewYork; and her daughter became the wife of Robert Fulton, who, in history, is pictured as the pioneer steam boat man of the country. Col. JohnStevens erected at Castle Point a mansion that was his summer home from1786 to 1814 and after that his home all the year around. The buildingstood until 1854, when it gave way to the present castle, begun by his son, Robert Livingston, and finished by the latters brother. Edwin Augustus. Interested in steam as a motive power. Col. John Stevens really ante-dated Fulton as a steam navigator on the Hudson. In 1804 he had an im-proved boat fitted with double screws which ran on the river. The leadingpart he took in the passage of the first patent law of the United States, in. Stevens 475 1790, was undertaken for the protection of his steam motor inventions.Through the influence of Chancellor Livingston however, Robert Fultonsecured a monopoly of steam navigation on the river, and the Stevens fam-ily were prevented from numing on the river, there. As a seciuence theirnext boat, the Phoenix was navigated under steam to the Delaware River. Col. John Stevenss interest ui steam propulsion was not confined tomarine enterprises. He was quite as large a figure in the early railroadhistory of the country as in the history of its navigation. The first railroadcharter issued in America was obtained by him in 1817 for a railroad fromthe Delaware to the Raritan. In 1S2S he built a steam locomotive which heoperated on a circular track at fifteen miles an hour on his property in Ho-boken. This f

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