Maisland

[3] A Dutch settler named Caspar Stienmets, the judge for court in Bergen,[4] purchased the town lot which amounted to nearly 100 acres (400,000 m2), which included meadowlands and woodlands.

[5] The official proceeding allotted the area in the statement: ... between Dunne Hermansen and Hendricke DeBracken.

[6] What arose from the annual meeting was the creation of several districts, which remain today somewhat as distinct neighborhoods or cities; some of which were Bergen Woods, Bulls Ferry, Sekakes and Wehauk along with Maisland,[7] and upon the freeholders' decision, an overseer for each district was appointed.

[10] Maisland today constitutes the same area as New Durham did, which is bounded roughly by the beginning of Union Turnpike, Bergen Turnpike, and the Tonnelle Avenue Station of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail.

This garden in Maisland, which later became Machpelah Cemetery,[14] was the early source for Lombardy poplar Populus nigra, which spread across the United States.