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Farewell, Relic of Another Age

January 9, 2016 By Marfy Goodspeed in E. T. Bush, East Amwell, Historians Revisited, Moore Tags: Going, houses

Burning of the Old Wagner Homestead Prompts
Mr. Bush to Cite Its History
Was Prized By Its Owners

by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, N.J.
published in the Hunterdon Co. Democrat, January 19, 1933

Note: This article was published two years after Mr. Bush’s previous article on the Moore homestead plantation, “Old Farms in Old Hunterdon.”

The Moore Family

January 9, 2016 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, East Amwell, Historians Revisited, Kitchen, Moore Tags: churches, early settlers, houses, Indians, The Revolution

I have written a few articles recently concerning the neighborhood of Bowne Station (“The Daybooks of Dr. Bowne,” “The Bowne Homestead,” “Bowne Station” and “The Bosenbury and Taylor Graveyards”), and have frequently come across references to the first settlers in that area, one Jacob Moore and his wife, Apolonia Amy Moret. Just when I thought I had published all articles by Egbert T. Bush and Jonathan M. Hoppock pertaining to the early history of the Moore family in Amwell, another one turned up. Actually, two articles, “Old Farms in Old Hunterdon” and “Farewell Relic of Another Age.”

Favorite Articles from 2015

December 30, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Uncategorized Tags: thoughts

The Writing Master by Thomas Eakins, 1882

Time for some reflection. Here are the ten posts from the past year that I am most pleased with, listed chronologically, because I could not possibly rank them from 1 to 10.

The Bosenbury and Taylor Graveyards

December 18, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bowne Station, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Kitchen, Sandy Ridge, Taylor Tags: cemeteries

This post is published in conjunction with a recent article on Bowne Station, because in that article Mr. Bush recalled the Bosenbury family, and the trouble they had burying old Cornelius Bosenbury. In this article, Mr. Bush went looking for that cemetery.

Bowne Station

December 4, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Barber, Bowne Station, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Historians Revisited Tags: early occupations, early settlers, old ways, slavery

This article by Egbert T. Bush answers some questions about the Bowne farm that were raised in the previous post, “Dr. Bowne’s Homestead.“¹ Lora Olsen had pointed out that there were two houses on the property, one quite old, and one built in the mid 19th century. But it turns out there was a third house—one built for the slaves that lived on the farm.

Dr. Bowne’s Homestead

November 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Bowne Station, Historians Revisited, Hunterdon County, J. M. Hoppock

This article is meant as a companion to the article by Egbert T. Bush, “The Daybooks of Dr. Bowne.” In this article, Mr. Hoppock goes on at some length about the first owner of the Bowne farm being Jacob Moore. Unfortunately, he was mistaken. As Mr. Bush wrote, Jacob Moore settled on what later became known as the Wagner farm (at Haines and Wagner Roads). The Bowne farm was first settled by Peter Moore, but Mr. Bush does not say when he settled there. It was certainly early, because Peter Moore’s executors (his three sons) sold the farm to Dr. Bowne in 1795.

The Daybooks of Dr. Bowne

November 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Barber, Bowne Station, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Historians Revisited, Hunterdon County Tags: early occupations, early settlers, maps, old ways

Recently I attended a workshop given by archivist Don Cornelius on the holdings of the Hunterdon County Historical Society. They are extensive, far more than I realized. Among them are the original daybooks of Dr. John Bowne of old Amwell Township, filled with the names of his patients and their treatment. These Daybooks are so important to genealogists that someone at the Historical Society has gone to the considerable effort of indexing the names into a card catalog, and—primitive as it may seem to be today—it’s a very useful genealogical tool for the time period of 1791 through 1857.

The ‘Wickcheoche’ Tribe of Red Men

November 13, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Flemington, Hunterdon County, Kitchen, Larison, Sergeantsville Tags: Indians, The Revolution

Many years ago, Bob Dilts wrote an article entitled “Sergeantsville’s a Nicer Name.”¹ While describing George Fisher’s harness shop (pictured below), on the southeast corner of the main intersection, Dilts wrote a paragraph that really caught my attention:

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Burning of the Old Wagner Homestead Prompts Mr. Bush to Cite Its History Was Prized By Its Owners

Burning of the Old Wagner Homestead Prompts
Mr. Bush to Cite Its History
Was Prized By Its Owners