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 House tavern lot but spent a lot of time in the Flemington courthouse and were very significant to the history and politics of Flemington in the 1790s and early 1800s.
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 most important people in that story, Lucius W. Stockton and Jacob Anderson himself. Part Seven is reserved for them.
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 affirmed Anderson’s standing, but the case is especially interesting because of the people who backed Lowrey’s claim and because opposition to Anderson was rooted in political differences.
