Richard and Elizabeth Green

By in Amwell Township, Delaware Township, Families, Green, Hunterdon, Opdycke Tags: , , , , , ,

This is a continuation of a series of articles on the history of the Pauch Farm in Delaware Township. To see the previous articles, click on the topic “Pauch Farm” on the right.

Signature of Richard Green, 1737, on Hunterdon County Loan Office application
Signature of Richard Green, 1737, on Hunterdon County Loan Office application

Richard Green was born about 1712 in Amwell Township. He was the only son of Samuel Green and Sarah Bull, and the third of four children. Around the time he reached adulthood, his mother had died and his father was exploring the unsettled lands in the north of New Jersey. By the late 1730s, Samuel Green was preparing to relocate to Sussex County (still part of Morris County), despite his high standing in Hunterdon County.

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Old Records Throw Light on the Ways of Past Ages

By in Amwell Township, E. T. Bush, Hopewell Township, Reading Tags: , , ,

Law Once Compelled Every Town
to Have a Drinking Place

How “Amwell” Originated

by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, NJ
published in the Hunterdon County Democrat, May 7, 1931

Sundry notes from old histories and other sources though jotted down in a haphazard way may serve to awaken thought or to throw light upon the ways of the past.

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The Greens of Amwell

By in Amwell Township, Bull, Delaware Township, Families, Green, Hunterdon, Opdycke Tags: , , , , , ,

This is a continuation of my research into the history of the Pauch farm in Delaware Township. This was once the property of Samuel Green, which is why I am publishing it here on my website. It was Samuel Green who got me started on this blog, back in 2009. Apologies to those of my readers who were interested in what I wrote 4 and 5 years ago for taking so long to return to Samuel Green’s life.

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How New Jersey Began

By in West New Jersey Tags: , , , ,

It is already January 26, in this 350th year of the existence of New Jersey. I think it is time to publish a short history of New Jersey, the sort of preamble I generally use for my house histories. It glides breezily over some very complicated proceedings, but sometimes a shorthand version is useful. (This little essay is not meant for those who make a study of New Jersey’s convoluted history.)

So—without more ado—How New Jersey Began.

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Harmony School Rightly Named

By in E. T. Bush, Historians Revisited, Hunterdon, Kitchen, Raritan Township, Robins Tags: , ,

Reunion Revives Interest in Old-Time Folks of That Neighborhood
Many Trimmers in Vicinity

by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, N.J.
Hunterdon County Democrat, August 21, 1930

Note: In the summer of 1930, the former students of Harmony School in Raritan Township held a reunion. It was a great success and was written about at length in the Hunterdon Democrat. The school was located on Route 579, north of Harmony School Road, at the junction of 579 and Stone Signpost Road, and had been in existence since at least 1810, and probably earlier.

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Richard Bull, Surveyor

By in Bull, Families, Gloucester County, Green, Hunterdon, Reading, West New Jersey Tags: , , , ,

The second in the series Hunterdon’s First Settlers

Technically, I should not include Richard Bull in the series “First Settlers of Hunterdon County,” since he never actually lived in Hunterdon, but he certainly qualifies as one of the first landowners. And he surveyed many of the first proprietary tracts here and even further north in Warren and Sussex Counties.

Richard Bull was a land owner in Hunterdon County, well before the county was created. Surprisingly, by the 20th century, even an accomplished student of Hunterdon history like Egbert T. Bush did not know exactly who he was. Bush wrote:1

“. . .  “Bool’s Island” {was} the name of a famous long and narrow island opposite {Raven Rock}, which is said to have taken name from one Bool, who owned the island and much land ashore.”

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