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Owners of the Hart-Taylor Cemetery

May 4, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, Fisher, Headquarters, Moore Tags: early settlers, land titles, proprietors

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There are two ways of writing about a cemetery. One is to portray the people buried there, which I attempted to do in my previous article. The other is to relate how the cemetery came to be—in other words, the history of the property where the cemetery is located. It usually makes sense to focus on the place since many of its early owners were buried in the cemetery. At first I thought that in this case, none of them were. But, research has changed my mind.

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A Fisher Family Tree

May 4, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Fisher Tags: family trees

A Fisher Family Tree

Some time ago, I published a family tree for the Fishers of Amwell, because they figured in my article on the Hart-Taylor Cemetery. Then I began researching the area that was taken from Delaware Township and given to East Amwell Township in 1896 (A Shrinking Township, parts 1 and 2), and learned that a large part of that area was owned by the Fisher family.

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The Hart-Taylor Cemetery

April 20, 2019 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Headquarters, Historians, Lambert, Taylor Tags: cemeteries

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Twice in his career, Egbert T. Bush wrote about a small family burying ground in Delaware Township. The first time was in 1911, in a paper presented to the Hunterdon County Historical Society which was later published in the Hunterdon County Democrat. This was many years before Mr. Bush became a regular contributor to the Democrat.1

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