The Shark River District, Monmouth County, New Jersey

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Excerpt from The Shark River District, Monmouth County, New Jersey: And Genealogies of Chambers, Corlies Drummond, Morris, Potter, Shafto Webley and White "This is a very good land to fall in with and a pleasant land to see. - From the log of the "Half Moon." Sir Henry Hudson, in the "Half Moon, " in the latter part of August, 1 609, left Delaware bay, and on Sept. 2 passed Barnegat inlet, then unnamed, and anchored for the night along the Jersey coast, probably off the site of the present Asbury Park. "At 5 o'clock we anchored, being light wind, and rode in eight fathoms of water, the night was fair. This night I found the land to have the compass eight degrees. Far to the northward we saw high hills, for the day before we found not above two degrees of variation." - Log of the Half Moon, " dated Sept. 2, 1609. The high hills referred to were probably the Highlands, or they might have been the sand hills behind Asbury Park. The "Half Moon" arrived off the Narrows the next day at 3 o'clock. There is no doubt but that the anchorage referred to was between Asbury Park and Long Branch, and it is more than likely that it was at or near the former place, for, the Highlands would not be so "far to the northward" from Long Branch, and they may be plainly seen from the deck of a vessel off the beach at As-bury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.