Goodspeed Welcome to Goodspeed Histories, a website for Hunterdon County history, early West Jersey history, and the history of my home town, Delaware Township.

Tavern Lot 1797

The Tavern Lot & A Scoundrel

Part 8 of the County House Series It is time to return to the Tavern Lot north of the Courthouse, and its owner George Alexander. My previous article (Part Seven, Stockton & Anderson, continued) was an epilogue for the lives of Lucius W. Stockton and Jacob Anderson, two men who did not own the County […]

1797 Election law, heading

Stockton & Anderson, continued

County House series, Part Seven Part Six ended with an Epilogue describing the last years of people involved in the election of Jacob Anderson as Hunterdon County Sheriff in 1794 and his legal troubles in 1795: John Anderson and William Lowrey; also Anderson’s successor as sheriff, Elias Phillips. The Epilogue did not include the two […]

LW Stockton

Anderson v. Stockton

County House, Part Six Political Animosity in the 1790s Part Five concluded with the election of October 1794 when Jacob Anderson was chosen as Sheriff, despite being attacked by his opponent William Lowrey. In addition to maligning Anderson, William Lowrey had actually taken him to court, claiming he was not a qualified freeholder. The court […]

Goodspeed Welcome to Goodspeed Histories, a website for Hunterdon County history, early West Jersey history, and the history of my home town, Delaware Township. 
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In recognition of our 250th anniversary, I recently updated and revised my article The Jubilee of 1826. The way that July 4th was celebrated only 50 years after the Declaration was signed tells us so much about what kind of country we are citizens of.After an absence of some years, I have returned to study an interesting area of the old Village of Flemington–the property bordering Main Street on the west side, running from the Courthouse on the south to the Post Office on the north.

These articles come under the heading of The County House, an old hotel located in the middle of this block on Main Street, that in the process of researching, turned out to be a Revolutionary War-era tavern. See County House Series.

As my research continues, I am discovering more and more surprising things about the County Seat of Hunterdon.

—Marfy Goodspeed