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A Rockafellar Homestead Divided

October 3, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Copper Hill, Raritan Twp, Rockafellar Tags: early settlers, land titles, proprietors, roads

RockDiv-detail

Some time ago, I began to write about a road in Raritan Township that originated as a private lane used by the Carman and Hoagland families to get from their farms to the main road from Flemington to Ringoes. That private road eventually became Johanna Farms Road. In my previous article, I had gotten to the point where the farm on the south side of Johanna Farms Road was owned by Cornelius Voorhees in 1852 (see Hoagland’s Road, part one). Voorhees bought the farm in 1840 from the assignees of John S. Rockafellow.

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Postscript to The Heaths of Locktown

September 26, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, Heath, Hockenbury, Kingwood Twp, Locktown

EM-RT Dealers

Shortly after publishing last week’s article, the Heaths of Locktown, David Sherman sent me four very interesting documents from his collection of Heath & Sherman memorabilia. They shed new light on the lives of Edward M. Heath and his son Robert, as well as their friend Lester B. Sherman, and his wife Fayetta Reep’s family.

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The Heaths of Locktown

September 20, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, Heath, Locktown Tags: Civil War, early settlers, land titles, schools

Heath house copy

The Heath family turns up fairly often in my articles without ever getting the attention it is due. They were ‘fruitful and multiplied’ and owned quite a lot of land in various parts of the county.1

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