Editing Hoboken, New Jersey (section)

===Early-European arrival and colonial period===
[[File:HudsonRiverJerseyCity1890.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Hudson River]] during the 1880s offshore from Hoboken and [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]]]]
Hoboken was originally an island which was surrounded by the [[Hudson River]] on the east and tidal lands at the foot of the [[New Jersey Palisades]] on the west. It was a seasonal campsite in the territory of the [[Hackensack (Native Americans)|Hackensack]], a [[phratry]] of the [[Lenape|Lenni Lenape]], who used the serpentine rock found there to carve pipes.<ref name=HobokenMuseum/>

The first recorded European to lay claim to the area was [[Henry Hudson]], an Englishman sailing for the [[Dutch East India Company]], who anchored his ship the ''[[Halve Maen]]'' (''Half Moon'') at [[Weehawken Cove]] on October 2, 1609.<ref name="Hoboken Museum">[https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/history/short-history-of-hoboken Short History of Hoboken] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501133722/https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/history/short-history-of-hoboken |date=May 1, 2015 }}, Hoboken Historical Museum. Accessed September 1, 2015.</ref> An entry made in the journal of Hudson's mate, Robert Juet, on that date, is the earliest known reference to the area today known as Hoboken, and would be the last known such reference until twenty years later.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=I: First Owners of West Hoboken.|title=History of West Hoboken, NJ: 1609 - 1903|date=1903|author=W.H. Drescher, Jr.|publisher=Lehne & Drescher|page=7}}</ref> Soon after the area became part of the province of [[New Netherland]].{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

In 1630, [[Michael Reyniersz Pauw]], a burgemeester (mayor) of [[Amsterdam]] and a director of the [[Dutch West India Company]], received a land grant as [[patroon]] on the condition that he would plant a colony of not fewer than fifty persons within four years on the west bank of what had been named the [[North River (New York-New Jersey)|North River]]. Three Lenape sold the land that became Hoboken and part of Jersey City for 80 fathoms (146 m) of [[wampum]], 20 fathoms (37 m) of cloth, 12 kettles, six guns, two blankets, one double kettle, and half a barrel of beer.<ref name="Hoboken Museum"/> These transactions, variously dated as July 12, 1630 and November 22, 1630, represent the earliest known conveyance for the area. Pauw, whose Latinized name is [[Pavonia, New Netherland|Pavonia]], failed to settle the land, and he was obliged to sell his holdings back to the company in 1633.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

It was later acquired by Hendrick Van Vorst, who leased part of the land to Aert Van Putten, a farmer. In 1643, north of what would be later known as Castle Point, Van Putten built a house and a brewery, North America's first. In [[Kieft's War|series of Indian and Dutch raids and reprisals]], Van Putten was killed and his buildings destroyed, and all residents of Pavonia, as the colony was then known, were ordered back to New Amsterdam.<ref>{{cite web|last1=King|first1=Rebecca|title=An ill-fated brewery in Hoboken was America's oldest|url=https://www.northjersey.com/story/food/beer/2022/08/23/america-first-brewery-van-putten-hoboken-nj/65379079007/|website=[[NorthJersey.com]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=August 23, 2022|access-date=July 29, 2023|archive-date=January 18, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230118232130/https://www.northjersey.com/story/food/beer/2022/08/23/america-first-brewery-van-putten-hoboken-nj/65379079007/}}</ref>

In 1664, the English took possession of [[New Amsterdam]] with little to no resistance, and in 1668 they confirmed a previous land patent by Nicolas Verlett. In 1674–1675, the area became part of [[East Jersey]], and the province was divided into four administrative districts, Hoboken becoming part of [[Bergen County, New Jersey|Bergen County]], where it remained until the creation of [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County]] on February 22, 1840. English-speaking settlers (some relocating from New England) interspersed with the Dutch, but it remained sparsely populated and agrarian.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

Eventually, the land came into the possession of William [[Bayard family|Bayard]], who originally supported the revolutionary cause, but became a [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalist Tory]] after the fall of New York in 1776 when the city and surrounding areas, including the west bank of the renamed Hudson River, were occupied by the British. At the end of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]], Bayard's property was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government of New Jersey. In 1784, the land described as "William Bayard's farm at Hoebuck" was bought at auction by Colonel [[John Stevens (inventor, born 1749)|John Stevens]] for £18,360 (then $90,000).<ref name="Hoboken Museum"/>