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The Locktown Baptist Cemetery

February 20, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bonham, Bray, Dalrymple, Delaware Twp, Families, Heath, Kingwood Twp, 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.

Return to Raven Rock

February 13, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bull, Delaware Twp, Kingwood Twp, Quinby, Raven Rock, Reading Tags: maps, surveying

In 2011, I began a series of articles on the history of Bull’s Island, Raven Rock, and Saxtonville. (For the original post, please visit “Raven Rock and the Saxtonville Tavern,” where you will learn something of how the name Raven Rock began to be used.) Recently three documents turned up to shed more light on this subject–a deed of 1722, and two survey maps, one of them made in 1819 showing the original proprietary tracts. It is time to return to Raven Rock for another look.

Rev. Joshua Primer

February 7, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, J. M. Hoppock, Sergeantsville

by J. M. Hoppock, March 24, 1904
published in the Democrat-Advertiser

This is an obituary, for Rev. Joshua Primmer, who died on March 18, 1904. I wrote about Rev. Primmer in May 2014, in my article “From Primmer to Pauch.” At that time, I had forgotten my intention to eventually publish all of J. M. Hoppock’s articles with annotations. So today I am making up for that oversight. If you check the very end of the page “Index of Articles,” you will see a complete list of those articles, separated into those that have been published here, and those as yet unpublished.

It is odd that Mr. Hoppock consistently wrote the name as “Primer.” I wonder if he pronounced the name that way. Apparently that is the way his grandfather wrote it, but it is not the way Rev. Primmer wrote it.