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Point Tavern

May 7, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, E. T. Bush, Raritan Township Tags: early settlers, land titles, maps, taverns

or “Peter Cherry’s Inn”
on the Klinesville-Cherryville Road,
in Raritan Township

“Point Tavern” is surely one of the oddest names for a tavern. When Egbert T. Bush wrote his article, Klinesville Once Had A Tavern, he pointed out (sorry) that

. . it was a place of note in its day, and reference was made to the old “Pint Tavern” and to some of the doings there, long after it had fallen into disuse. The name is said to have been given because of its location on the point. But everybody called it the “Pint Tavern,” and as such it is remembered.

Klinesville Tavern(s)

April 15, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in E. T. Bush, Featured, Historians Revisited, Hunterdon County, Kuhl, Raritan Township Tags: Daniel Coxe, maps, roads, taverns

This article by Egbert T. Bush describes a particular neighborhood, not far northwest of Flemington, at the intersection of today’s Thatcher’s Hill Road and Sand Hill Road.

Klinesville People

April 15, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Everitt, Families, Franklin Township, Hunterdon County, Kline, Raritan Township

In preparing to publish Mr. Bush’s article on the Klinesville neighborhood, I found so many interesting people and places that it became too difficult to add all my comments as asides to the Bush article. So, I’ve collected some of them in a separate article. They are listed here in the order in which Mr. Bush mentioned them in Klinesville Once Had A Tavern.

Hopewell’s Buildings

March 18, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Flemington, Hunterdon County Tags: architecture, Downtown Flemington, maps, stores

Today I am returning to the buildings on the east side of Flemington’s Main Street that feature an arch along the front of their roofs, in particular, the two buildings constructed by John C. Hopewell, one on either side of the bank building that he put up in 1866 (See Flemington’s First Bank).

Tomlinson Family Tree

February 27, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Tomlinson Tags: family trees

First Generation:

(1) Thomas Tomlinson (~1690 – ) & Joan Walsley
It is thought that the Tomlinsons came to Kingwood Township in Hunterdon County from Byberry in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Johnson’s Tavern

February 27, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Barber, E. T. Bush, Families, Featured, Historians Revisited, Johnson, Kingwood Township, Wolverton Tags: land titles, proprietors, roads, taverns

In my research I have often come across references to Johnson’s Tavern as a landmark. Deeds refer to it when identifying roads, like “the road from Swamp Meeting House (Locktown) to Johnson’s Tavern” or “the road from Rittenhouse Tavern (Rosemont) to Johnson’s Tavern.” And sometimes it is just “the great road to Johnson’s Tavern,” which is today’s Route 519 through Kingwood Township.

Fulper Family Tree

February 10, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Fulper Tags: family trees

I think this is the first time I’ve prepared a tree and not found any second marriages. Given the mortality of young women in the 19^th century, this is quite a surprise, and I suspect I am missing someone.

Fulper’s Store

February 10, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Anderson, Flemington, Fulper, Hunterdon County Tags: architecture, Civil War, land titles, maps, old ways, portraits, stores

or The Gilded Age on Main Street

By the time of the Civil War, Flemington had grown considerably, but the war had dampened commercial spirits and citizens were eager for a comeback. This was demonstrated by an item from the editor of the Hunterdon Republican, on Nov. 1, 1865:

The Swamp Meeting House Tavern

January 22, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Dalrymple, Gordon, Heath, Locktown, Rittenhouse, Robins, Servis, Sine, Warford Tags: maps, roads, taverns

I have written about Locktown’s tavern before—in my article on the life of Daniel Rittenhouse. At the time that I wrote it, I thought he had established the original tavern. That turns out to be not true.

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or “Peter Cherry’s Inn” on the Klinesville-Cherryville Road, in Raritan Township

First Generation:

or The Gilded Age on Main Street

or “Peter Cherry’s Inn”
on the Klinesville-Cherryville Road,
in Raritan Township