My home town. And it doesn’t matter where I live after that, Perth Amboy will always be home.

@pynxthegoat5593

2 жыл бұрын

fr doe wanna hang out ? im at downtown

Born and raised in Perth Amboy, HS class of 1983. Even though I live in CA. now, try to come back yearly to vist family and friends and always take time to drive the "old" neighborhood to remember where I came from. Amboy Strong!

I LOVE IT. What a great service you perform for the citizens of Perth Amboy - THANK YOU!

Born and raised in Perth Amboy.. 1956.. When I was a little tyke we used to go to the water front to walk in the water.. back then the water was pretty polluted .. it is so much cleaner now.. Last year the family had a dinner at The Barge for one of my cousins who passed.. I love these videos on Perth Amboy I have been founding.. thank you for this

I. live. here and this was on my recommenced this was very informative nice.

Born and raised in Perth Amboy. Very nice work on the city’s notable legacy.

Thank you!! Beautiful...

Very well done! Looking forward to visiting it in the spring!

Great material, thanks!

My home town....what a wonderful video. I enjoyed it very much..

My home for many years. I know of all the history behind Amboy and have many friends who have dedicated their time, passion and love to preserve all the beauty and history it has to offer. This was very informative. Thank you! Nonetheless, many community members who dedicated so much to this town, including myself have moved away with heavy hearts because of so many un pleasant changes that have taken place for quite sometime now. Hopefully thinks WILL get better, but it will require a lot of effort and willingness. Good luck!

Brilliant. This was amazing.

My sister Nancy's husband was born and raised in Perth Amboy. It has always been a fine city, even in spite of the factories and refineries that detracted from it. Benjamin Franklin's son William was the colonial royal Governor before independence. Bill of Rights signed here, George Washington met with the signers of Declaration if Independent at times here, a bastion of American history is Perth Amboy. And it always had close ties with New York City as well, with trade and culture as well. And Perth Amboy always had close ties with Staten island as We, with Tottenville being just across the Arthur Kill. A center of fine art and sculpture by fine artists. One of the oldest cities in America, Perth Amboy is still a treasure this day. I went to Catholic school here in 1960. It's a great town.

@tommcconville4270

3 жыл бұрын

Boy, I am messing up words like crazy with my lousy typing. Please excuse these errors, I'm really embarrassed by this.

@prettiewings

3 жыл бұрын

So you don’t know about it being the cradle of the slave trade. It’s history is so beautiful because you all left out that from 1684 - 1860 Perth Amboy was the biggest slave ship port? The barracks on water and smith housed the slaves. Market Square is where they auctioned people off? They offered the colonists 60 acres for every one slave they owned as incentives.

@tommcconville4270

3 жыл бұрын

@@prettiewings It also became a way of passage for runaway slaves during the Civil War era; no one condones the slave trade in any way, shape or form, particularly myself! But if the citizens of Perth Amboy forsook their sinful ways by helping African Americans on a journey to freedom, there is a sense of redemption. So as Perth Amboy was originally a center of slave trade, it's atonement 200 years later became a beacon of hope when abolitionists, people of Faith and conscience, helped African Americans journey to safety. Through the port of Perth Amboy. May you have a blessed day.

@prettiewings

3 жыл бұрын

@@tommcconville4270 Actually only one family remained slave free by the end of the period. The only Black history that is known in this town is the one man buried here who was the first Black man to vote why is the whole Slave trade and ports left out of its own history information. You actually have to read this information from periodicals published outside of this city.

@prettiewings

3 жыл бұрын

@@tommcconville4270 Perth Amboy wasn’t part of the Underground Railroad because they were part of the creation of the strict enforcement of the slave laws.

Wonderful. My home town. Thank you!

Precious History ! Proud to be Great-Great-Great-Great grandson of Dr. Solomon Andrews. Thank You !

John, this video, and all of the others you have made, is excellent, in content and quality. It's nice to see such comprehensive material on a subject, a city, which, I think has been overlooked for too many years. I am happy to see that you are presenting a positive side of a city which I grew up looking at, across Raritan Bay, from my home in Keyport, N.J. I was born in So. Amboy, but my family has been in Monmouth County for centuries. I am an avid genealogist. I have not made the connection yet, but I think I am related to the John Collins/Collings, ferryman, who gave bond for the marriage of James Letts and Sarah Sheppard. Many families of the Perth Amboy area moved to Mon Co., including Thomas Warne (Matawan), the Kearney family (1715, where Keyport is today), the Gordons, etc. So, I think the Collinses of the Amboys were my kin. Research will reveal the facts. Keep up the wonderful work. Joe Collins

Still my home. So cool and informative!!!

That was soo cool , very proud.

Awesome video! Proud son of Amboy!

Great video.

Un pueblo hermoso no ay duda

Thenkyou nice information.

Yay my home town!

Wow this is amazing! I would love to visit the historic Perth Amboy one day. I wonder what it's like today. Probably so beautiful and peaceful! So much history, I bet it's residents have SO much to say and so many memories to share! I can't wait to go to this amazing beautiful city one day I'm sure I won't be disappointed! 😃 (hahaha if you know you know)

@lizBiekes1

3 жыл бұрын

Night and day!

@eloisajimenez5595

3 жыл бұрын

My cousin lives there and I've visited them, it is a pretty nice place

@bstceltics4

3 жыл бұрын

Depends where you go lol

@roseannschweikert2960

3 жыл бұрын

I suggest you don't go after dark

Thank You for the effort in making the short film possible. I live here, but I guess according to you it stopped making history a LONG time ago.

@ralphgenova5309

3 жыл бұрын

The description introducing the video says that it's about the origins of Perth Amboy, not Perth Amboy's recent history.

@milostodorovic69

3 жыл бұрын

Yes if you look at it now it's a zoo and should be avoided at all costs

This was my home

08861❤️

Born in Perth Amboy!

Yes thanks watched video

My cousin lives in Perth Amboy yet this appeared in my recommendeds KZread, stop following me everywhere

Hi New Jersey

Didn't know perth Amboy had so much history. Most of the towns near me are pretty boring

Watched video from nj hi nj

I used to live there and it’s a ghetto, very few places have nice houses. Streets are always dirty 🤢🤢🤢 thank God I moved out.

It was not “goods” sold in Market Square. It was people. Look it up

@groot7776

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was they were good people hard working

@prettiewings

3 жыл бұрын

@@groot7776 don’t be racist

@groot7776

3 жыл бұрын

@@prettiewings sorry I apologize and may you know I am not racist even though my comment says other wise please do accept my apologies

@markgeyer1838

3 жыл бұрын

Never know it by the look,s of the people who live there today.

@joanstatema776

3 жыл бұрын

@@groot7776 the

Hi New Jersey