First Landowners of Hunterdon County

September 2, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Green, Hunterdon Tags: early settlers, land titles, proprietors, surveying, thoughts

Edward Kemp

When I first began my blog in 2009, I thought I would use it as a way to discover more about the life of my ancestor Samuel Green. So I began hunting for traces of him in the earliest days of the Province of West New Jersey. But the history of that place became so interesting in itself, that I began to follow its development year by year, thinking that eventually I would get to 1695 when Samuel Green first shows up. (For an index of stories on West New Jersey, go to my About page.)

Boarshead Tavern in the 18th Century

August 25, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Hunterdon, Raritan Township, Thatcher Tags: maps, roads, taverns

A follow-up to Egbert T. Bush’s article, “Boarshead Tavern One of the Earliest to be Established”

In 1896, Egbert T. Bush presented a paper to the Hunterdon County Historical Society titled “Croton and Vicinity.”¹ As part of his survey, Mr. Bush gave a brief history of the Boarshead Tavern.

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Delilah Buchanan’s Tavern License Application

August 13, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Hunterdon Tags: Buchanan's Tavern, taverns

I sometimes lose track of the information I have collected in my researches. Today I stumbled across these photographs I took of Delilah Buchanan’s 1829 tavern license application, on file at the Hunterdon County Archives. Delilah Buchanan got a lot of my attention while researching Buchanan’s Tavern. (The series of articles can be found by clicking on the topic in the right-hand column.)

Boarshead Tavern

August 9, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in E. T. Bush, Families, Heath, Historians Revisited, Lair, Lake, Moore, Raritan Township, Rittenhouse, Robins, Thatcher, Warford Tags: early settlers, land titles, taverns

Boarshead Tavern One of the Earliest to be Established
Efforts to Find How Long It Has Stood Have Been In Vain
Dr. Pyatt’s Varied Career

By Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, N.J.

Samuel G. Opdycke Esq., continued

August 3, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Flemington, Hunterdon, Opdycke Tags: crime and punishment, debt

For the first part of this story, please visit Samuel G. Opdycke Esq.

Samuel G. Opdycke was a young man of promise. Thanks to the Opdycke Genealogy, we have a description of what he looked like, and, even better, we have a portrait:

Samuel Green Opdycke Esq.

July 13, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Flemington, Hunterdon, Opdycke Tags: debt, Downtown Flemington, politics

“Ascending!

FINDING the room on the first floor of the Court House rather too much confined for an office, and the passage too much obstructed by lockage for the free ingress and egress of clients, I have selected, for a summer office, a beautiful airy chamber in the extreme front of the building. This pleasant apartment is situated immediately over the portico of this lofty edifice, and overlooks the main street of the village; After rising three inclined planes, clients will arrive at the summit level of my office; the door opens toward the east between two windows; No toll demanded until they arrive at the summit. – Passage back, free of expense; Samuel G. Opdycke, Flemington, May 19, 1830.”¹

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The Jubilee Continues

July 3, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Flemington, Hunterdon, Lambertville Tags: politics, taverns, The Revolution

Now the fun begins–the 1826 Celebration of the Fourth of July in Flemington, NJ. (Part Two of the reprint of my article in the Hunterdon Historical Newsletter, Spring 2006. You can read Part One here.)

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The Jubilee of 1826

July 2, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Flemington, Hunterdon Tags: politics, taverns, The Revolution

In celebration of this year’s Fourth of July, it seems appropriate to reprint (in two parts, and slightly updated) my article published in the Hunterdon Historical Newsletter, in the Spring issue of 2006 (pp. 981, 983-87).

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Going Going Gone (3)

June 28, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Fulper, Trout Tags: architecture, early settlers, Going, houses, land titles

The Fulper House on Biser Road

First published in 2013, revised and greatly expanded in 2025.

This house is just about gone. It won’t be long. This past March, I wandered through the honeysuckle and multiflora to try to get some decent pictures, but wasn’t very successful. Sleeping Beauty would never be wakened in that place, it so well guarded by weeds and fallen trees. Sadly, what is probably the oldest part of the house has already caved in. If I could have gotten closer, I might have been able to see some of the old woodwork inside, but that just wasn’t possible.

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