Anderson’s Tavern

By in Amwell Twp, Anderson, Hunterdon, Larison Tags: , , ,

Recently I had the pleasure of visiting the old John Anderson tavern on Route 31 south of Ringoes. The building is inconspicuous with its tall evergreen hedge along the road, but inside one can see it was once a fine 18th century building.

The owners (New Jersey Barn Co.) are lovingly and very carefully restoring it to the period of John Anderson’s tenure as innkeeper during the Revolutionary War. He did not build the house, however. There is reason to think it might have been built around 1740 or earlier.1

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Harmony School Rightly Named

By in E. T. Bush, Historians, Hunterdon, Kitchen, Raritan Twp, 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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