I am not ready to write at length about Gen. Daniel Bray. But in order to write about his son Andrew, something must be said of the father.
Locktown
LOCKTOWN was once a very busy place, with two churches, a school, a tavern, a creamery and grange, store and post office, as well as a blacksmith shop. Three Locktown roads intersect here: the Locktown-Sergeantsville Road, the Locktown-Kingwood Road, and the Locktown-Flemington Road. The earliest family to settle here was the Heath family.
What It Takes To Raise A Village, Pt 2
19th Century Villages in Delaware Township
This is another long post; it is the rest of a talk I gave in 1997 on Delaware Township villages (part one can be read here). Part two focuses on the villages in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is far more to say about them, which I will attempt to do in future posts. Currently I have been researching the history of Raven Rock, which you can read about here and here.
Mary Fox and Malakiah Bonham
Mary Fox, born about 1738 in Kingwood Twp., was the second daughter and sixth child of George Fox (iii) and his wife Mary. Her older sister was Anchor Fox who married Uriah Bonham. We know very little about Mary, except that when she was about 18 years old, in 1756, she got into trouble. Sad to say, this story is more about the man who got her into trouble than it is about Mary. Historical records are woefully silent when it comes to women.