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What It Takes To Raise A Village, Pt 2

March 16, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Barber, Bowne Station, Croton, Delaware Township, Dilts Corner, Headquarters, Locktown, Raven Rock-Saxtonville, Rosemont, Sandbrook, Sergeantsville Tags: Bull's Island, early occupations

19th Century Villages in Delaware Township

This is another long post; it is the rest of a talk I gave in 1997 on Delaware Township villages (part one can be read here). Part two focuses on the villages in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is far more to say about them, which I will attempt to do in future posts. Currently I have been researching the history of Raven Rock, which you can read about here and here.

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Saxton’s Saxtonville

March 14, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Families, Holcombe, Raven Rock-Saxtonville Tags: Bull's Island, ferries, maps, mills, Nathaniel Saxton, roads

Recap

In March and May, 1808, Nathaniel Saxton and George Holcombe bought the two moieties or half shares in the 10-acre mill lot and the 30-acre lot that consisted of the southern half of Bull’s Island. Previous articles about the mill property can be read here and here.

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Holcombe’s Mill And Thereabout

March 10, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bray, E. T. Bush, Families, Historians Revisited, Holcombe, Myers, Rittenhouse Tags: alcohol, mills

This article by Egbert T. Bush describes an old sawmill on the Wickecheoke located on a perilous little road, known appropriately as Old Mill Road in Delaware Township.

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Thomas Jones v. David Johnes

February 27, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Bowne Station, Bray, Headquarters, Hunterdon Tags: The Revolution

Who Collected The Boats?

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

I must begin by congratulating all those who worked so hard to save the Christopher Vought house in Clinton Township. The building is a living reminder of the passions that so profoundly moved Americans of all persuasions during the Revolutionary War. To lose that building would have been a tragic loss through demolition by neglect.

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Home of Capt. David Jones

February 27, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Township, Bowne Station, Bray, Headquarters, Historians Revisited, Hunterdon, J. M. Hoppock Tags: The Revolution

by Jonathan M. Hoppock
published August 31, 1905
in the Democrat Advertiser, Flemington, NJ

The article was written by Mr. Hoppock. The footnotes are mine.

Article on Capt. Johnes captures the front page in 1905
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The Bull’s Island Bridge

February 22, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Raven Rock-Saxtonville Tags: bridges, Bucks County, Bull's Island, early legislation, Nathaniel Saxton, politics, roads

In a recent post I mentioned that I found two items at the Hunterdon County Historical Society that explained what Nathaniel Saxton was doing during the years 1808-1815. Besides investing in Raven Rock and a couple properties in other locations, and becoming an active supporter of the Federalists, Saxton was thinking of infrastructure, in particular, construction of a bridge between Bull’s Island and Lumberville.

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What It Takes To Raise A Village, Part One

February 13, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Families, Headquarters, Howell, Kitchen, Lambert, Lambertville, Opdycke, Prallsville, Rosemont, Sandbrook, Sergeant, Sergeantsville, Stockton Tags: early occupations, early settlers, Indians, land titles, mills, post offices, roads, stores

The following is an update of a speech I delivered at the Locktown Stone Church in May 1997. I thought it would be a good idea to archive the speech here on my website, especially since it makes a nice short history of Delaware Township. When I gave the speech, I had two large maps showing locations of mills, taverns, ferries, the oldest roads. One map showed the 18th century version of Delaware Township, and one showed the 19th century version. Whatever happened to those maps?  If I find them, I’ll turn them over to Marilyn Cummings who has been working hard on just such a map project, one that can be seen on Google Earth.

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Saxton’s Politics

February 11, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Hunterdon Tags: Nathaniel Saxton, politics

As a researcher, there’s one thing I keep learning over and over–if you go looking for an answer to a question, you might not find it, but chances are you will find answers to questions you never thought of.

That was definitely my experience today when I went to the Hunterdon Co. Historical Society, hoping to find some mention of Nathaniel Saxton in Saxtonville between 1808 and 1815, and most of all, some record of who might have been running the Saxtonville Tavern for him while he carried on his legal career in Flemington. No luck.

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