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The Barns-Bearder Farm

December 9, 2017 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bearder, Delaware Twp, Fulper, Kitchen, Raritan Twp, Robins, Rounsavell Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, houses, roads

My previous article discussed the Bearder family and the home of Andrew Bearder, Sr. on the Locktown Flemington Road. Just east of this farm was another tract that Bearder shared with his son Jacob, but whose ownership goes back much further.

Andrew Bearder, Sr.’s homestead farm was part of Jacob Snyder’s plantation. But the farm next to it on the east was part of the 700 acres first sold by the Haddons to Daniel Robins. (For background on the Haddons, see The Haddon Tract, part one.)

Pysong & Peartree

December 1, 2017 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Bearder, Delaware Twp Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, houses, roads, The Revolution

This is part two of a series on some of the properties created in the Haddon Tract of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County.

Jacob Peter Sniter and Nicholas Sayn jointly purchased 1300 acres in Amwell Township from Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh in 1748. The two men sold off several lots and then divided the land remaining between them. Part One dealt with Nicholas Sayn/Sine, who acquired the southern half. This article deals with Jacob Peter Sniter who got the northern half.

Haddon Tract, part one

November 11, 2017 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Hunterdon, Rounsavell, Sine, West New Jersey Tags: early settlers, Haddon Tract, land titles, maps, proprietors

I have recently finished reading a book titled Elizabeth Haddon Estaugh, 1680-1762, Building the Quaker Community of Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1701-1762, by Jeffery M. Dorwart and Elizabeth A. Lyons.

It is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the life of one of West New Jersey’s early settlers—a young woman who came to the Province on her own in 1701.