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coast of New Jersey sixteen
A beach of the sea coast of New Jersey, sixteen miles southwest of Little Egg Harbor.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

capital of New Jersey State
Trenton (73), capital of New Jersey State, on the Delaware River, 57 m. SW. of New York; divided into two portions by Assanpink Creek, and handsomely laid out in broad, regular streets; public buildings include a state-house, federal buildings, &c.; is the great emporium in the United States of crockery and pottery manufactures.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

complication of national jealousy suggesting
In the Gaboon, also, there is a complication of national jealousy, suggesting the mastiff and the poodle.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

cottage of Nurse Johnson stood
Half hidden by lilac bushes and trellised grape-vines the cottage of Nurse Johnson stood in Nicholson Street.
— from Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

coast of New Jersey sixteen
Absecon , a beach of the sea coast of New Jersey, sixteen miles south-west of Little Egg Harbor.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Collections of New Jersey states
Barber, in his “Historical Collections of New Jersey,” states that there is a tradition to the effect that, about eighty years before the date of the writing (which would give us the date of the great countermove at New London), some of the Rogerenes of Schooley’s Mountain came into a neighboring meeting-house, bringing work and interrupting the minister.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles


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