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Andrew Bray and Sarah Rittenhouse

April 9, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bray, Delaware Twp, Families, Locktown, Rittenhouse Tags: churches, portraits, roads, schools, The Revolution

I am not ready to write at length about Gen. Daniel Bray. But in order to write about his son Andrew, something must be said of the father.

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Hunterdon’s Oldest School House

April 9, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Bray, Delaware Twp, Families, Gordon, Heath, Historians, Hoppock, Hunterdon, J. M. Hoppock, Lair, Opdycke, Rittenhouse, Sergeant, Williamson Tags: early settlers, schools

by Jonathan M. Hoppock
published in The Democrat Advertiser, January 25, 1906

This article was written by J. M. Hoppock. I have added corrections and additions in footnotes. Mr. Hoppock’s very specific description of this building, which was demolished long ago, is invaluable to students of the township’s history and early architecture.

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Anderson Bray Farm and The Pyatt Family

March 31, 2012 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Bray, E. T. Bush, Families, Historians, Hunterdon, Rittenhouse Tags: farming, land titles, portraits, taverns

Mr. Bush Traces Ownership of Place Long Owned
by Bray Descendants
The Bray Family Portraits

by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, N.J.
published by the Hunterdon Co. Democrat, April 19, 1934

The following article was written by Mr. Bush about a farm many people think of as the Chet Huntley farm or the Douglas Knight farm. I have added footnotes to flesh out the story. 

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