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The Deremer-Wilson Farm

August 17, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Deremer, Dilts Corner, Sandy Ridge, Wilson Tags: architecture, Daniel Coxe, early settlers, houses, land titles, maps, portraits, proprietors

or Dilts Farm Revisited, part two

Part one focused on the family of Judson Rittenhouse and Martha Bodine, who lived on the farm now known as the Sarah Dilts Farm Park in Delaware Township for most of their lives. The farm was purchased by Judson’s father, Wilson Bray Rittenhouse, in 1844. This article will first describe Wilson and his family, and then will trace the history of this property back to the first European owner.

The Rittenhouse-Dilts Farm

August 3, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Dilts, Dilts Corner, Rittenhouse Tags: farming, Going, houses, portraits, roads

or Dilts Farm, Revisited

This is a return to an article I wrote in 2012 about the family that used to own what is known today as the Sarah Dilts Farm Park. Some wonderful photographs have come my way that have inspired me to take a second look.

Buchanan Family Tree

July 31, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Buchanan, Families Tags: family trees

The Buchanan family begins in Hunterdon County with the Scottish immigrants, Samuel and Jane or Janet Buchanan, whose name was frequently spelled “Bohannon.” It is not known whether they had any more than one child. But one was enough–their son John left a family with a long history.

Shrinking Township, part 2

July 19, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, East Amwell, Hunterdon County Tags: early legislation, land titles, local government, politics, roads

In my previous post (A Shrinking Township, part one), I wrote about a petition in 1896 to take a large chunk out of Delaware Township and give it to East Amwell Township. That petition was signed by two East Amwell residents, William H. Manners and Simpson Sked Stout. This post will describe these two, as well as the journey the bill took through the legislature, and the property owners who were affected by it.

A Shrinking Township

July 6, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, East Amwell, Headquarters Tags: early legislation, politics

On November 18, 1896, two gentlemen from East Amwell Township announced in the Hunterdon Republican newspaper that they would petition the state legislature to change the boundary between East Amwell and Delaware Townships. It was a fairly radical change they were proposing, in which Delaware Township yielded to East Amwell a large chunk from its eastern border and Delaware got nothing in return. On April 17, 1897, the State Legislature followed through and passed a bill to make that happen.

Haines Farm, part two

June 22, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bowne Station, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Fulper, Haines, Headquarters, Historians Revisited Tags: maps, roads

This article is a continuation of The Haines Farm, part one.

The Haines farm has a pretty remarkable history, as Mr. Bush wrote:

From the first Isaac Haines the property descended to his son, the second Joseph; from this Joseph to his son, the second Isaac; and from him to his son, the third Joseph, the present owner, to whom it was conveyed by his father and mother, March 10, 1920.

The Haines Farm

June 1, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, East Amwell, Haines, Historians Revisited, Moore Tags: early settlers, land titles

This post returns to an article by Egbert T. Bush titled “Old Farms in Old Hunterdon,” published in 1931. I published large parts of this article before, in “The Moore Family,” in 2016. As the introduction to that article mentioned, two families were discussed in Bush’s article, the Moores and the Haines. Having discussed the Moore family at length, it is time to focus on the Haines family and their farm on the east side of Haines Road in East Amwell. This will conclude my study of some (but not all) of the farms located in the original proprietary tract of John Dennis.

The Haines Family

June 1, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Haines Tags: family trees

The Haines Family in America date back to the Quaker family that settled in Burlington County in the 1680s. By the early 1700s, one of them had found his way to Hunterdon County. His son bought a farm shortly after the Revolution on which the next four generations of Haines lived and thrived. Unfortunately, I was unable to make a direct connection between the Hunterdon Haines and the settlers of Burlington. I’m sure it can be done, though, with more research. I begin this tree with the first Haines in Hunterdon County.

The Two Farms of Gideon Moore

May 18, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Carrell, Delaware Township, Headquarters, Moore, Sandbrook

My most recent article was the first part of a history of the owners of adjacent farms surrounding the old Hart-Taylor Cemetery. Part One ended with the person who owned both farms, Gideon Moore, Sr., who died in 1840, after bequeathing his two farms separately to two of his sons, William H. Moore and Jacob D. Moore.

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