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The Pittstown Roads

February 26, 2016 By Marfy Goodspeed in Franklin Twp, Hunterdon, In My Library Tags: roads, The Revolution

In My Library: “All Roads Lead to Pittstown” by Stephanie B. Stevens

Better late than never. I’ve finally read Stephanie Stevens’ book All Roads Lead to Pittstown, published by the Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission. What a fascinating story she has to tell. I was dimly aware of Pittstown’s role in the Revolution, but what Stephanie has found adds enormously to our knowledge of the time. She managed to find references to Pittstown (specifically the mills of Moore Furman) in the letters of George Washington, the pension application of William Anderson, and the journal of James Parker, whose farm was located on Route 513 between Clinton and Pittstown.

The German Baptist Church in Amwell

February 19, 2016 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Families, Historians, J. M. Hoppock, Moore, Sandbrook Tags: cemeteries, churches

Here are two versions of the history of the Amwell Church of the Brethren in Hunterdon County. The first was written by Jonathan M. Hoppock and published in the Democrat-Advertiser on October 17, 1901. Short and sweet. The second one, a little bit longer, was written by Egbert T. Bush and published in the Hunterdon County Democrat on March 26, 1931. Mr. Bush’s ‘history’ is truncated, and as he put it— “it is not the intent to give here anything more than the merest sketch of church history, an indispensable part in any sketch of the community.” He was always more interested in the members of a community than institutional histories, and so he spends more time on those who were buried in the three cemeteries associated with the church members.

A Stroll Through The Moore Cemetery

February 5, 2016 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, Families, Lair, Moore, Sutton Tags: cemeteries

There are three ways to write about the graves in a cemetery. First, a straight alphabetical list; second, chronologically by when people died, perhaps linked to who owned the cemetery at the time; and third, by the layout of the graves.