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Penn's Neck, which is one of the noted regions of the river, the ancient
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Manor of Pennsbury. This was Penn's country home, originally a tract of over eight thousand acres, the Indian domain of
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Sepessing. His house, which he occupied in 1700-01, was then the finest on the river, but it long ago fell into decay, and the manor was all sold away from his descendants during the eighteenth century. At the eastern extremity of
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Penn's Neck, on the New Jersey shore, is White Hill, with the village of Bordentown beyond, up Crosswick's Creek. Here is a region redolent with historical associations. The old buildings along the river bank were the railway shops of the famous
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Camden and Amboy, whose line, coming along the Delaware shore, goes off up Crosswick's Creek to cross New Jersey on the route to New York. Above is the dense foliage of Bonaparte Park, now largely occupied by the Convent and Academy of St. Joseph. Bordentown was a growth of the railway, having been previously little more than a ferry, originally started by Joseph Borden. Its most distinguished townsman was Admiral Charles Stewart,
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Old Ironsides of the American navy, a relic of the early wars of the country, his crowning achievement being the command of the frigate
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Constitution when she captured the two British vessels,
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Cyane and
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Levant. He was the
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Senior Flag Officer