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Samuel Green Opdycke Esq.

July 13, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Flemington, Hunterdon, Opdycke Tags: debt, Downtown Flemington, politics

“Ascending!

FINDING the room on the first floor of the Court House rather too much confined for an office, and the passage too much obstructed by lockage for the free ingress and egress of clients, I have selected, for a summer office, a beautiful airy chamber in the extreme front of the building. This pleasant apartment is situated immediately over the portico of this lofty edifice, and overlooks the main street of the village; After rising three inclined planes, clients will arrive at the summit level of my office; the door opens toward the east between two windows; No toll demanded until they arrive at the summit. – Passage back, free of expense; Samuel G. Opdycke, Flemington, May 19, 1830.”¹

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The Jubilee of 1826

July 2, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Featured, Flemington, Hunterdon, Lambertville Tags: politics, taverns, The Revolution

In celebration of this year’s Fourth of July, it seems appropriate to take another look at the articles I wrote back in 2006 and 2013 on how the Fourth was celebrated in Flemington and Lambertville 50 years after the Declaration was signed.¹ Today I am republishing the two articles together, refreshed and with a few updates.

Going Going Gone (3)

June 28, 2013 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, Fulper, Trout Tags: architecture, early settlers, Going, houses, land titles

The Fulper House on Biser Road

First published in 2013, revised and greatly expanded in 2025.

This house is just about gone. It won’t be long. This past March, I wandered through the honeysuckle and multiflora to try to get some decent pictures, but wasn’t very successful. Sleeping Beauty would never be wakened in that place, it so well guarded by weeds and fallen trees. Sadly, what is probably the oldest part of the house has already caved in. If I could have gotten closer, I might have been able to see some of the old woodwork inside, but that just wasn’t possible.