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At a very large meeting of the inhabitants of Jersey City held pursuant to Public Notice at the long room in Buck's Hotel on
Saturday evening, January 13th, 1838, the charter as amended was discussed and recommendations made for its adoption and urging its
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experienced what was likely a heart attack while on a ferry to New York City. Friends placed Revere in the hotel, where he died on April 20, 1880.
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as secretary. The selectmen discussed the needs of the town. A few days later, they did so again; an 1838 report describes:
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plant, which was built alongside the hotel in 1874. In 1911, the
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