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Baptists Divided, or

February 21, 2014 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bray, Families, Hunterdon, Kingwood Twp, Lair, Locktown, Rittenhouse Tags: architecture, churches

Pediment over a door to the Locktown Stone Church

Who Put the Lock in Locktown?

The Kingwood Baptist Church and the Second Great Awakening

This article is based on an article published many years ago in “Friends Report,” the newsletter of the Friends of the Locktown Stone Church. I have added information and made some major corrections.

The Swamp Meeting House

In the village of Locktown, in Delaware Township, there is a handsome stone church constructed in 1819 in the federal style.

Richard and Elizabeth Green

February 14, 2014 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Delaware Twp, Families, Green, Hunterdon, Opdycke Tags: early settlers, houses, land titles, Pauch Farm, proprietors, slavery, surveying

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

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.

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.

Old Records Throw Light on the Ways of Past Ages

February 7, 2014 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, E. T. Bush, Hopewell Twp, Reading Tags: crime, early settlers, Indians, legislation

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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