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Some Controversial Baptist Ministers

March 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Historians Revisited, J. M. Hoppock, Kingwood Township, Locktown, Sutton Tags: churches

My original intention was to publish an article by Jonathan M. Hoppock on the history of the Baptist Church in Locktown. And that is what I will do here, but after reading his article, I discovered that some of the ministers he listed had troubled careers, and that, of course, makes them interesting. But first, here is Mr. Hoppock’s history of the Church.

Query: Rosemont Methodist Church

March 18, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Rosemont Tags: churches, Queries

I got a letter today from Joan Verity of Frenchtown who wondered about the history of the Methodist Church in Rosemont. It was built in 1860, but only lasted about 20 years.

Charles Cane purchased the building in 1948 and renovated it to serve as housing for his employees. Phil Cane still has a news article about the work that was done, and the bell that once hung in the church steeple can now be seen in the Cane Farm parking lot.

The Sergeantsville Inn

March 14, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Fisher, Gordon, Lake, Sergeantsville, Thatcher Tags: stores

The original version of this post, published on March 14, 2015, has been significantly revised because of new information I have received. Most of these revisions concern Jonas Thatcher, Jr. Consider this Chapter One of the History of the Sergeantsville Inn.

Query: Trout Farm?

March 11, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township Tags: Queries

Lora Olsen, clerk of West Amwell Township, got in touch with me recently to see if I knew where this farm was located. She had some reason to think it might have been the farm once owned by George Trout. The Trout family lived on the farm just south of the tract of land owned first by the Robins, and later by the Buchanan family. I wrote about the location of that farm here.

How Locktown Got Its Name

March 6, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Families, Heath, Historians Revisited, Lair, Locktown, Rittenhouse, Sutton, Warford, Williamson Tags: alcohol, churches, schools, taverns

Back in February, I published an article on the cemetery connected with the Locktown Baptist church. Previously I have written about the Baptist congregation here as well as the Locktown Christian Church and its Cemetery. It seems appropriate now to include Mr. Bush’s own history of this neighborhood, which was published in the Hunterdon Democrat, on May 22, 1930. Along with the churches, Mr. Bush discusses the school house, the distillery and the Locktown Hotel, which began its life as a humble tavern, and also some of the old families, like the Chamberlins, Heaths, Lairs, Rittenhouses, Smiths and Suttons. Photographs in this article were provided by Paul Kurzenberger.

Johnson, Lair, Snyder

March 5, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Lair, Snyder Tags: Queries

Query from Janice Earliene Carr, March 3, 2015:

My husband is descended from the SNYDER FAMILY of Hunterdon, County, N.J., which I will get to later!

My husband James William Carr of Washington, D.C.,
his father is James Entwisle Carr of same; his Mother, Olive Ida SNYDER of Ridgewood, N.J.. (dau. Of Gardiner JOHNSON SNYDER & Elizabeth “Lizzie” Amy LAIR; – dau. Of John LAIR & Mary HANN, which both died young

The Supreme School

February 27, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Families, Historians Revisited, Kingwood Township, Lair, Rockafellar, Rosemont, Williamson, Wolverton Tags: maps, schools

Having published Mr. Bush’s article, “The ‘Oregon’ and Other Schools,” and then a follow-up on Duck’s Flat, I thought I was done with this neighborhood for now. But I recently found another article by Mr. Bush continuing the story of Ducks’ Flat school. This article has allowed me to identify the mystery school I referred to previously, located down the road from the Ducks’ Flat school that Mr. Bush was familiar with. But I’ll wait until Mr. Bush has concluded before explaining.

Articles by J. M. Hoppock

February 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Historians Revisited, J. M. Hoppock

Jonathan M. Hoppock, known as ‘Jonty,’ was born Sep. 20, 1838 to Henry J. Hoppock and Lydia Wolverton. The family lived on a farm near Sand Brook in Delaware Township. Hoppock became a school teacher and developed a love of local history. Late in his life, the Democrat-Advertiser published articles he submitted about the places he knew best, nearly all of them in Delaware Township.

The Locktown Baptist Cemetery

February 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bonham, Bray, Dalrymple, Delaware Township, Families, Heath, Kingwood Township, Lair, Locktown, Myers, Opdycke, Rittenhouse, Sutton, Williamson Tags: cemeteries, early settlers

There has been a Baptist Church in Locktown since the early 19th century, and a cemetery associated with it. The church and the cemetery were located on land belonging to Daniel Rittenhouse, whose home was a short distance west of Locktown on the Kingwood-Locktown Road. Most of the names in this cemetery are of families that lived nearby in Kingwood and Delaware Townships, many of them descendants of original German immigrants. Many of the original stones are now missing, even ones that were inventoried in the 1940s. Old cemeteries are hard to preserve.

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