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PAVONIA.
On July 12th, 1630, Mr. Michael Pauw, Burgomaster of
Amsterdam and Lord of Achtienhover, near Utrecht, obtained
through the Directors and Councillors of New Netherlands, a
deed from the Indians to the land called Hopoghan Hackingh,
this being the first deed recorded in New Netherlands. On
November 22nd, of the same year, the same parties procured
from the Indians a deed to Mr. Pauw of Ahasimus and Aresick
(burying-ground), the peninsula later called Paulus Hook. These
were the first conveyance by deed of any land in East Jersey.
To these tracts Pauw gave the name Pavonia from the
Latinized form of his own name, Pauw in the Dutch and Pavo
in Latin meaning Peacock. When the first settlement was,
formed or the first house- built is unknown. In May, 1633,
Michael Poulaz or Paulusson, an officer in the service of the
Company, was living at Pavonia. He probably occupied a hut
on the Point which received from him the name of Paulus
Hook. In the latter part of 1633, two houses thatched with
reeds were built, one at Ahasimus, near what is now the corner
of Fourth and Henderson streets, and the other at
Communipaw. So far as is known, these were the first regular
buildings in this county.
Paulusson had charge of the trade with the Indians
and was Superintendent of Pavonia. He was succeeded
in 1634 by Jan Evertsen Bout, who selected the house
at Communipaw for his home, and was the first white
resident there ; this farm which Bout leased after Pauw
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