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A Shrinking Township

July 6, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, East Amwell, Headquarters Tags: legislation, politics

On November 18, 1896, two gentlemen from East Amwell Township announced in the Hunterdon Republican newspaper that they would petition the state legislature to change the boundary between East Amwell and Delaware Townships. It was a fairly radical change they were proposing, in which Delaware Township yielded to East Amwell a large chunk from its eastern border and Delaware got nothing in return. On April 17, 1897, the State Legislature followed through and passed a bill to make that happen.

Haines Farm, part two

June 22, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bowne Station, Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Fulper, Haines, Headquarters, Historians Tags: maps, roads

This article is a continuation of The Haines Farm, part one.

The Haines farm has a pretty remarkable history, as Mr. Bush wrote:

From the first Isaac Haines the property descended to his son, the second Joseph; from this Joseph to his son, the second Isaac; and from him to his son, the third Joseph, the present owner, to whom it was conveyed by his father and mother, March 10, 1920.

The Haines Farm

June 1, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, East Amwell, Haines, Historians, Moore Tags: early settlers, land titles

This post returns to an article by Egbert T. Bush titled “Old Farms in Old Hunterdon,” published in 1931. I published large parts of this article before, in “The Moore Family,” in 2016. As the introduction to that article mentioned, two families were discussed in Bush’s article, the Moores and the Haines. Having discussed the Moore family at length, it is time to focus on the Haines family and their farm on the east side of Haines Road in East Amwell. This will conclude my study of some (but not all) of the farms located in the original proprietary tract of John Dennis.