After his resignation from the State Senate, he moved to Jersey City where he devoted much of his time to the completion of the Morris Canal.
It is the location of the end of the Morris Canal and there is still a segment of this basin surrounded by Liberty State Park.
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While the original Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway tracks, New Jersey Route 185, New Jersey Turnpike Newark Bay Extension (I-78) create a physical boundary and de facto border with Bayonne the actual city cuts diagonally across the neighborhood along the route of the Morris Canal.